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Amos Goodman, a financial consultant who lives in Springs, has strong local and county support in his bid to become the Republican candidate for Suffolk County legislator in the Second District.

Firefighters found flames near the roof on one side of the building near a kitchen at Perry B. Duryea & Son Inc., which dates back to the 1930s.

One person was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital after a car was struck on the driver's side by a pickup truck at difficult intersection in East Hampton Village.

Oversized basements that extend beyond the footprint of the house they are beneath are raising questions for East Hampton Village officials about how to regulate the trend toward well-appointed lower levels.

The year-round curfew, from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., would affect all flights into or out of the airport and extend from 8 p.m. to 9 a.m. for aircraft defined as "noisy," based on metrics used by the Federal Aviation Administration and international regulatory agencies.

After noticing children wading through snowdrifts and deep puddles, three Springs mothers took it upon themselves to clear the sidewalks near the school on Monday morning.

With snow, ice, and freezing temperatures in the forecast, school officials are already predicting a hazardous morning commute and will again institute two-hour delays.

The National Weather Service issued a flash freeze warning for all of Long Island, after the mix of snow, rain, freezing rain, and sleet left the roads slushy.

A truck out plowing the snow and sanding the roads early Monday morning was destroyed when it caught fire on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk.

The actor's house, at Stony Hill Farm in Amagansett, dates to the early-18th century.

The snowstorm that crippled the South Fork this week has left damage in its wake, including the collapse of the roof on the former East Hampton Bowl building in East Hampton Village. 

Part of the vacant building's barrel vaulted roof caved in Wednesday night, and it will likely be condemned, according to Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., who had spoken with Ken Collum, the village code enforcement officer. Mr. Collum made sure that all the power to the building is off so that it is not a further hazard. A fence already surrounded the property to keep people away from it. 

East Hampton Town remains in a state of emergency, and officials are asking residents to stay at home if they can so highway workers can clear the roads without additional traffic.

A travel restriction remains in place in East Hampton Town for Wednesday, while the highway departments work to clear snow of the nearly two feet dumped during the blizzard.

A blizzard that dumped approximately 15 inches of snow on the South Fork may bring another foot more by late Tuesday.

Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell declared a state of emergency to begin at 4 p.m. on Monday.

The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard watch for much of the Northeast for a low-pressure system that is moving slowly eastward. It said that the first bands of snow associated with the "potentially historic winter storm” would begin to be felt along the East Coast on Monday afternoon.

East Hampton High School’s auditorium was the place to be Tuesday night, as upwards of 75 parents and residents turned out to air their grievances at a school board meeting and subsequent athletic forum.

While a single vote separated the two candidates in last month's election, a revote Tuesday night resulted with John O'Brien of Sagaponack winning the Bridgehampton fire district commissioner seat over Philip Cammann.

A Suffolk County legislator, Al Krupski, whose district includes the North Fork, is voicing his renewed opposition to the Army Corps of Engineers project in Montauk.

Police said Thomas Gilbert, a 70-year-old part-time East Hampton Town resident, was killed by a single shot to the head in a bedroom in his apartment on Beekman Place on Sunday afternoon.

A New York hedge fund founder with a house in East Hampton's Georgica Association was shot dead in his apartment Manhattan Sunday afternoon.

Populations of 186 mammals, birds, fish, shellfish, and amphibians were described as likely to drop to critical levels unless urgent conservation action is taken.

David Osiecki, whose mental competency has been in question since his arrest for allegedly setting a fire at a Bridgehampton house in April, is also accused of trying to burn down a bar in Patchogue five months earlier.

An Army Corps of Engineers plan to place thousands of sand bags on the threatened downtown oceanfront will be delayed. Officials say the scale and anticipated price tag for the work has sharply increased.

Amid the heaviest turnout in 10 years, Dick Monahan's win is being seen as a strong endorsement of 24-hour paid paramedic service.

The Amagansett Fire Department fought a smoky basement fire in a Barnes Landing House early Sunday. Damage was limited, and there were no reports of injuries.

A fire that started in the basement of a house at 124 Old West Lake Drive in Montauk on Saturday morning did extensive damage to the two-story building, then reignited three hours later.

John D. Re admitted to wire fraud in federal court on Monday in a case that centered on almost $2.5 million in sales of paintings that he attributed to Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and in which he had falsely implicated an East Hampton family as their source.

When Thomas A. Twomey, a well-known East End lawyer, died of an apparent heart attack at home in East Hampton on Nov. 16, it was during 1 of 10 times since May that East Hampton Village’s paid first responder program had gone unmanned.

Well-known model and restaurateur B. Smith revealed earlier this year she has Alzheimer's disease.