Patchita Tennant, who worked in East Hampton, has been charged with two felonies in the shooting of her 3-year-old child's father in Flanders.

Police have released a photo and are asking for the public's help in identifying the person who placed screws in Daniel's Lane and Potato Road, leading to half a dozen flat tires in June and July.  

The owners of nearly six acres of reserved land in Amagansett, who were stopped from cutting down trees there after the Peconic Land Trust won a temporary restraining order last month, insisted they have the legal right to clear the land for agricultural use, and filed a motion to have the restraining order dismissed on Friday.

Given a recent spike in cyberattacks on municipal governments and school districts across the country, local officials are on high alert about the security of their computer systems.

Given a recent spike in cyberattacks on municipal governments and school districts across the country, local officials are on high alert about the security of their computer systems.

James Froehlich never got to know his maternal grandfather, John P. Babinski, who died in 1998 when he was only 2 years old. But he feels closer to him when he cranks the flywheel to start the 1937 John Deere that his grandfather worked the fields with for several decades, and then hops in to ride it up and down Sagg Main Street.

East End school superintendents will meet on Sept. 18 to discuss, among other things, sending a joint letter to the Suffolk County Board of Elections demanding that it stop using schools as polling sites.

A 66-year-old paperback called “The World of Li’l Abner,” with a cover price of 35 cents, turned up recently in a pile of old books destined for an Amagansett yard sale, and if the owner, who declined to be identified, hadn’t noticed the name of John Steinbeck on the cover, it would have been sold by now for a nickel.

East Hampton Town is moving toward modifications to its rebate program for septic system replacements in an effort to spur residents to replace aging or failing sanitary systems with new, low-nitrogen models and improve ecologically degraded waterways in the process.

On Aug. 28, Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio brought his long-shot bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president to East Hampton, where for around two hours he spoke on topics both conventional and esoteric.

East Hampton firefighters saved two dogs from inside a house Sunday afternoon after fire broke out on the deck, causing heavy smoke as it spread into the house. The fire began after renters lit two citronella candles and left them sitting on deck furniture while they were out, according to David “Buzzy” Browne, the chief East Hampton Town fire marshal.

East Hampton Town Hall will be the site of two upcoming forums on community choice aggregation, a model that replaces the utility as the default, monopolistic supplier of electricity or natural gas and gives municipalities the opportunity to seek lower prices from alternative suppliers.

Nominations are being accepted for the Bridgehampton School's Hall of Fame, which honors notable alumni, faculty, administrators, scholars, athletes, coaches, and community members.

Decrying “this headache called politics,” Dell Cullum, an East Hampton Town Trustee who was elected in 2017 on the Democratic Party line but was not chosen by the party to be on its slate this year, said this week that he would not run for re-election.

The East Hampton Town Board, having authorized a payout last month of $188,375.40 to Marguerite Wolffsohn, the planning director who retired at the end of July, voted to amend that resolution on Tuesday, citing an adjustment of her accrued vacation time based on the town’s department head employment policy.

A 59-year-old Hampton Bays man was charged with driving while intoxicated Monday night after he attempted to pass cars on Napeague in a no-passing zone. East Hampton Town police said Joseph W. Sinclair’s 2014 Jeep, heading west

The story of the Robert Southgate Bowne house, seen in this postcard, begins with a death notice recorded in The East Hampton Star on March 20, 1886.

A Bellport man was arrested in Amagansett Monday morning at 10 on a felony criminal mischief charge after he allegedly scratched the paint on the side of a 2019 Ford rental car. Police charged Felipe Zamora Luna, 38, with felony criminal mischief, but did not offer a reason why he vandalized the Hertz rental vehicle, only saying that the damage exceeded $1,500.

Someone threw a handful of sand at Harry Ellis on Friday evening, knocking his glasses into the water near his East Lake Drive house.

There’s much more to Priscila Ortega than simply her status under a federal immigration program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA.