Mary McCaffrey, the Wainscott School's secretary and district clerk for 19 years, died on Monday. Services will be held on Friday and Saturday.

The East Hampton Village Board has authorized a law firm to file suit on its behalf against opioid manufacturers and distributors.

Some of the South Fork’s most prominent elected officials, a group of nine women who hold public office here, came together last Thursday for a bipartisan call to action. Their goal was to inspire a demographic that may not yet identify with a particular party line — high school girls — to someday run for office.

Members of the East Hampton Town Trustees disagreed among themselves on Friday on the merits of Suffolk County’s Shellfish Aquaculture Lease Program in Peconic Bay and Gardiner’s Bay, leaving John Aldred, the trustees’ representative to the county, uncertain as to what he should recommend to administrators conducting a 10-year review of the program.

In conversation together, Anita Boyer and Kasia Klimiuk have the sort of energy that sparks back-and-forth like a pinball machine fueled by lightning.

With little discussion, the East Hampton Town Board voted on Tuesday to approve the town’s 2020 operating budget.

The mystery of the EH Fusion Party’s robocall effort in the closing days of the campaign for East Hampton Town offices may not be resolved, but the consultancy responsible for disseminating the party’s final pitch to voters shed some light on that odd wrinkle in this year’s unusual election campaign.

Thomas (Tommy John) Schiavoni, a Southampton Town councilman who lives on North Haven, announced on Saturday that he is a candidate for the New York State Senate’s First District seat held by Kenneth P. LaValle.

The East Hampton Town Board will vote tonight on a resolution to request that the Long Island Rail Road reduce by $1 the South Fork Commuter Connection fare for passengers traveling between Speonk and Montauk.

Katy Graves, the Sag Harbor School District superintendent, stepped down over the weekend to have “immediate surgery” in New York City, the district announced Saturday.

Several parents and others in the Amagansett School community have expressed unhappiness with a recent decision by the school board to appoint a new member to a vacant seat without widely publicizing it.

The five companies holding leases in New England waters designated for offshore wind farms have announced a uniform turbine layout proposal to the United States Coast Guard that stipulates one-nautical-mile spacing between wind turbines.

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Another swastika, the second one found recently in East Hampton Town, has turned up, but police did not call it  a hate crime and say the two incidents do not appear to be related. This one takes aim at Democrats.

A 25-year-old woman arrested early at about 1:15 a.m. on Friday on a drunken-driving charge in Sag Harbor Village kicked an officer and was taken for a mental health evaluation after she threatened to kill herself while in police custody.

Police cited a 54-year-old village resident after a large smoky fire was reported in the area of Glover Street Saturday afternoon. The man had been burning beanbag chairs and other refuse on his front lawn.

Just over a month ago, the East Hampton School Board began prioritizing the building projects on the district’s to-do list.

The Children’s Museum of the East End will host a book swap in its lobby on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Mary Terry Briganti of Montauk, a former elementary school teacher, died of a chronic lung infection on Nov. 13 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Paul George Neff of Montauk, a former owner of O’Murphy’s Pub there, died of heart failure at home on Friday at the age of 87.