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A Suffolk Planning Commission 11-to-2 vote against requests by the would-be developers of a 79-unit housing complex proposed for Amagansett has set the odds that the project could gain the approvals it needs at essentially zero.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival returns to the Bay Street Theatre this weekend with 11 features, 11 shorts, and programs devoted to the cinema verité pioneers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus and this year’s Filmmaker’s Choice Award winner, Lana Jokel. Faith Middleton will moderate a panel discussion.

Five years ago East Hampton Town was barreling toward financial disaster. Against that backdrop, a small group began holding informal meetings with the goal of improving the way the town was run

Unofficial results showed a tight race for town board. Councilman Dominick Stanzione does not win re-election.

The cartoons of Gahan Wilson are instantly recognizable for their black humor and bizarre and often grisly images.

The East Hampton Town Board’s two Democratic members balked last Thursday at approving the payment of consultants’ bills for work related to the East Hampton Airport

During Tuesday night’s East Hampton School Board meeting, members heard a plea from a parent to do something about drugs offered for sale at East Hampton High School and weighed whether to deploy drug-sniffing dogs through the school’s halls.

With beach erosion in Montauk now designated an emergency and the Army Corps of Engineers ready and willing to begin beach reconstruction here — and foot the bill for it — the project, which could have a long-lasting and wide-ranging impact on the nature of Montauk and its ocean shore, is at the fore for both town officials and the community

Three suicides have forced school officials and community members to confront the difficulty of ethnic assimilation. Particularly at many South Fork public schools, where the Latino population has risen considerably over the past decade, administrators are hoping to quickly bridge the divide.

In recent weeks, the East Hampton Town Police log has been peppered with “quality-of-life” weekend entries, minor and not so minor incidents occurring in and around downtown Montauk and, to a lesser extent, Amagansett’s popular night-time hotspots

Two former East Hampton Town fire marshals have come forward to question the authenticity of documents attributed to them that were used to justify the town’s seizure of cars and equipment from a Montauk mechanic in 2009.

Officials to ask Army Corps for $20 million

Pressure to rebuild Montauk’s downtown beaches is so great that East Hampton Town’s coastal erosion committee floated the idea of exporting sand from other parts of town.

The hope of several school administrators and parents is that the recent suicides will precipitate real change.

Garden idea planted; donations would be key.

At Tuesday’s East Hampton School Board meeting the first draft of the proposed budget for the 2013-14 school year was finally unveiled.

Twenty years ago this week, Katie Beers, who was kidnapped two days before her 10th birthday, was released from a macabre dungeon beneath a Bay Shore house where she had been held for 17 days by a family friend. She has now written a book about her life, which began anew thanks to a foster family in Springs.

The East Hampton Town Trustees have sued the town zoning board of appeals over its decision to allow a sea wall to be built in front of a house at Lazy Point, Amagansett.

Montauk’s oceanfront business district has become a testing ground, a sea-level stage on which a drama with the potential for environmental and financial ruin, competing philosophies, and the absence of a guiding light, is being played.

Three charity plunges into the chilly Atlantic Ocean are planned for New Year’s Day, about an hour apart, which means that the truly brave could triple-dip, if so moved.

Cyril’s Fish House, the traffic-stopping hotspot on Napeague, has been front and center at the East Hampton Town Planning Board’s last two meetings, as its members debated whether to recommend a change in its zoning status from residential to neighborhood business, under which a restaurant is allowed.

The unavoidable knowledge of Sandy’s havoc in the Rockaways and other hard-hit communities raises the question: What if?

For some affluent Chinese, owning property in the Hamptons makes sense, South Fork brokers said, calling the U.S. market more "safe and secure."

For owners of ocean and bayfront properties across Long Island, the nightmare storm that had always threatened from some distant future was on their doorstep, literally.

Hundreds of elderly people in areas of Queens struck hard by Hurricane Sandy are stuck in high-rise apartments without food and water. This is just the tip of an iceberg of hidden devastation.

It goes without saying that the shoreline suffered and was changed throughout, not only along the entire Long Island-Staten Island-New Jersey shore. It will take a lot of thinking and a lot of action to put the coastline back in reasonable shape.

John Judge, 61, was killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident on Main Street in Amagansett a little before 8 p.m. Tuesday night.

A $5,000 cash reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the driver whose vehicle struck John Judge, 61, on Tuesday evening.

Every seat was taken at a public hearing Monday in Sagaponack Village Hall as concerned residents, real estate agents, and developers had their say on a proposed amendment to lot coverage restrictions.

It’s that time of year again. The winter birds are beginning to show up, the ospreys have left, and the cormorants are lingering on their way south because the fishing is so good.