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Hundreds gathered for a peaceful protest in Bridgehampton on Tuesday, and additional demonstrations are planned for Friday in Sag Harbor and Sunday in East Hampton.

On Saturday East Hampton Town police charged Scott A. McKallip with third-degree arson. The 56-year-old East Hampton Village man had violated an order of protection brought against him by the owners of the tennis club within hours of the fire.

Two men armed with guns tied up a man inside his house in Springs and demanded cash early on Thursday, East Hampton Town police said.

A 56-year-old Sag Harbor man was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexually abusing a child in Springs in November, East Hampton Town police said.

The Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday saw beautiful weather and, according to East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo, a calm crowd.

Nearly 40 local musicians and owners of music venues told the East Hampton Town Board Thursday that proposed amendments to the town code governing music entertainment permits are draconian and mean-spirited, but Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said many of their concerns "may not be founded."

In January, seven months after a small-plane crash off Amagansett took the lives of four people, the partial remains of one of the passengers, William Maerov, washed up on shore. They were identified earlier this month through D.N.A. analysis.

Bruce Lewin, the owner of 690 Hampton Road in Southampton Village — the building in which the Spur, a co-working space, is developing its flagship — is seeking to remove the company as a tenant.

PSEG Long Island officials insist that land has not been purchased nor a location for a new electrical substation determined, but Montauk residents appealed to the East Hampton Town Board to keep Flamingo Avenue off limits.

Members of the winter 2019 Teen Leadership Project, sponsored by the Retreat, will help lead a workshop Thursday night at the East Hampton Library that includes exercises like Choose Your Own Ending, which asks attendees to imagine different scenarios that can head off teen dating violence.

"We are doing all we are able to do to get the support of the local community to support our Montauk Coast Guard,” said one woman who started a drive in East Hampton last week.

The East Hampton Town Board is moving forward on enacting a ban on the intentional release of balloons, citing hazards to wildlife, particularly marine life.

At a meeting on Monday, Amagansett residents and business owners decried what they called a public health emergency created by dust that has blown off the dry farm fields north of Main Street, blanketing the commercial core, and making its way indoors, sickening employees of Main Street's businesses.

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center, the Children's Museum of the East Hampton, the Spur, and the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery were among the recipients of the millions awarded locally by the state’s Regional Economic Development Council.

Making a quick stay at the Kathryn Markel space in Bridgehampton through Sunday is the Neoteric Project’s group show “In the Cloud,” featuring work selected by Scott Bluedorn.

Dan Farnham, who recently was named as the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s male athlete of the year, winces when you repeat to him Caroline Cashin’s declaration that he is the best mountain biker out here.

Detectives are investigating a “suspicious” fire that broke out in an office building in the East Hampton Indoor Tennis complex on Saturday morning — the second one at the complex this year — during a weekend in which several other strange incidents occurred there.

If there is one constant about Santa Claus this time of year, it’s that he tends to get around.

A 21-year-old Springs man was arrested on animal cruelty charges after a dog's badly mutilated body was found Monday morning in a wooded area at the end of Breeze Hill Road in East Hampton.

A Nov. 7 prediction by Barley Dunne, the executive director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, as to this year’s bay scallop harvest in town waters has proven accurate.

Sleeping guests at the American Hotel, which is on Main Street, were awakened in the early morning hours and asked to leave their rooms for a time as a precaution as the hotel was evacuated.

Marshall Prado is 73 — or, as he says, old enough to remember when Montauk had only 50 or so families living there year round and everyone relied on everyone because life in such a remote place wasn’t easy.

Officials of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee are calling for the resignation of Amos Goodman, its chairman, in the wake of an investigation by the Public Integrity Bureau of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

The restoration was made possible by the late Ben and Bonnie Krupinski, whose promise of labor to complete the work was fulfilled by Ray Harden and Stratton Schellinger when they took over Ben Krupinski Builder after the Krupinskis died in a plane crash in June.

A teenager who pleaded guilty to raping a young woman he knew in the parking lot at the Springs School earlier this year was sentenced to six months behind bars and 10 years of probation.

The current practice of letting each municipality set its own agenda on deer management obviously complicates the process.

A crowd of over 100, concerned about losing their tiny library in the heart of Springs, thronged the Springs Presbyterian Church’s Parish Hall Sunday afternoon in a show of support that left the library’s board of governors surprised but highly gratified.

Based on its latest rounds of water testing last week, Concerned Citizens of Montauk is again urging people to avoid contact with the water in Fort Pond, where a blue-green algae bloom persists.

"All Good" and "Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes" were two of the big winners announced by the Hamptons International Film Festival on Monday.

Schenck Fuels Services, a family-owned East Hampton company that has provided oil supply and home heating services to residents of the town since 1902, was sold on Friday to the Star Group, a publicly traded corporation based in Stamford, Conn.