With plans to remodel her father’s 35-year-old Hampton Auto Collision shop on Springs-Fireplace Road next door to Springs Pizza, Lindsay Reichart and her partner, Gunnar Burke, quickly won over the East Hampton Town Planning Board with their idea for “a year-round location for people to socialize.”

One of the first executive orders of the new Trump administration rescinded Biden administration policies that forbid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from conducting raids in “sensitive areas” such as schools and places of worship. With this dramatic policy change, local school officials and religious leaders are banding together in a call to protect the immigrant community.

“Our building ranges from 25 to 98 years old,” he said, “and it’s really starting to show its age,” the school's chief custodian told the school board.

Oyster survivorship in Georgica Pond over the last five years is 40 to 50 percent, which Stony Brook’s Gobler Lab deems “really quite amazing.”

The Cranberry Hole Road bridge in Amagansett, closed since July 2023, will remain closed for the foreseeable future, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed earlier this month.

This photo from the Hampton Library showcases the Bridgehampton house of Edwin Rose, Civil War veteran, Southampton Town supervisor, state legislator.

The East Hampton Level Playing Field Foundation on Monday announced the recipients of its 2025 scholarships to help defray the cost of college counseling, SAT prep courses, and college visits and applications for “high academically achieving sophomores and juniors.”

Their essays never fail to impress the English teacher Emily O’Reilly, the mastermind behind the annual project.

High school students who need (or want) community service hours have lots of opportunities to lend a hand this week at the East Hampton Library.

When a box with two vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana arrived at the doorstep of an Osborne Lane man, he reported it to police.

The East Hampton Town Police Department announced this week that it is now accepting applications for its 2025 Citizens Academy, which is intended to give residents insight into how local police departments operate.

Police made one felony-level arrest on a charge of aggravated drunken driving early on Monday morning, and another man was charged with violating an order of protection.

Harry E. Heller of Springs, who had careers in aviation engineering, advertising, and public opinion research, died on Dec. 29 in Philadelphia. He was 90.

Leroy Kayser of East Hampton, a former systems analyst for Federated Department Stores, died on Jan. 19 at the age of 99.

Patricia Smith, a speech pathologist and chairwoman of the committee on special education at the Bridgehampton School, died on Sunday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 74.

Eleanor Osborne Ratsep, the president of the East Hampton Library Board in the 1990s, died on Jan. 17 at the age of 93. A funeral service will be held at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Friday at 11 a.m.

Peter L. Rothholz, the founder of Peter Rothholz Associates, a public relations agency, died on Dec. 20. A former summertime resident of Springs, he was 95.

Ricky Schellinger, a maintenance man at the East Hampton mobile home park on Oakview Highway for two decades, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 70.

Visiting hours for Carolyn Cerchiai of East Hampton will be held Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Ms. Cerchiai, who was 80, died on Jan. 22.

Visiting hours for James Emmett Mabry of East Hampton will take place on Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, with a “home-going” service to follow at 1. Mr. Mabry died on Jan. 22 at the age of 75.