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The East Hampton community reacted with shock and dismay this week when word spread of the apparent suicide of a 16-year-old East Hampton High School student on Saturday.

Graffiti whales painted by an anonymous vandal have appeared around Sag Harbor, including on the Schiavoni plumbing building, in front of the WLNG radio station, and the rear of the Getty station.

This year, the Hamptons International Film Festival is two decades old and exhibiting the kind of swagger that comes with age, showcasing a number of high-profile films and events in addition to its regular programs.

Happy World was the name of a Unification Church tuna fishing and shipping business, which began in Gloucester, and was a presence at the Montauk docks.

Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Fleming defeated Jennifer Maertz by a wide margin in a Democratic primary on Thursday to determine who will represent the party in a bid to unseat State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle in November.

The pilot and passenger of a single-engine Mooney airplane that crashed in the woods by East Hampton Airport early Sunday evening were helped to safety by three good Samaritans.

As fall semesters loom, the annual exodus of college students from the South Fork has begun. For the area’s businesses, particularly restaurants and resorts, this presents a yearly challenge

The Maidstone Club has two golf courses — an 18-hole west course and a 9-hole east course — whose tees and greens are watered by an irrigation system installed in 1979. The club would like to also add irrigation to all 27 fairways and is planning a complete overhaul of the existing irrigation system.

Police have identified a man killed Thursday morning in a head-on crash as Gregg Saunders, 55, of Sagaponack, a real estate developer, recently involved in the opening of a Whole Foods market in Wainscott.

The few oceanfront homeowners in one of Montauk’s most exclusive neighborhoods say the work of art has ruined the dramatic panorama that stretches down the hoodoo-sculpted bluffs out onto the Atlantic Ocean to the horizon

Police have identified a man killed Thursday morning in a head-on crash as Greg Saunders, 55, of Sagaponack, a real estate developer, recently involved in the opening of a Whole Foods market in Wainscott.

The site meets seven of eight criteria listed in the town code for designation as a nature preserve.

The property is agricultural land for which the county owns the development rights.

Beach driving, the East Hampton Town Trustees told the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday in no uncertain terms, is in the trustees’ jurisdiction.

Indian Wells, a residents-parking-only beach, has apparently been taken over on weekends since mid-June by happy hordes of beer-chugging partyers.

Hostility between baymen and sportfishermen had been building up for close to 10 years, beginning in 1985, when striped bass were banned from the marketplace after fish spawned in the Hudson River were found to contain dangerous levels of P.C.B.s.

Planning board favors a town buy to head off Oakview Highway subdivision

A near drowning that occurred Sunday in front of the Driftwood Motel on Napeague underscored what East Hampton Town lifeguards and ocean rescue volunteers say is a dangerous gap in their ability to protect the public.

The Dunes has drawn the ire of neighbors, who object to what they say is a commercial operation on a residential parcel of land.

Maria Beaulieu described the January drowning of her husband, John McWhinnie. She said she wanted the story told as a warning to swimmers, especially those unfamiliar with dangerous currents.

Petitions declared invalid by the town clerk, prompting a lawsuit by a group that helped collect the 644 voters’ signatures.

Board of Appeals voted to deny Janet Lehr and Vered’s application to keep a pair of 16-foot-tall “Legs”

Whole Foods Market has signed a short-term lease to rent the former Plitt Ford dealership on Montauk Highway in Wainscott for the summer.

Nat Miller was elected to serve as a town trustee in November. He recently spoke about the importance of the 350-year-old government body in the age of sea-level rise.

Mick Hargreaves, a singing, songwriting bass player and band leader, was beaten with a crowbar and left with life-threatening injuries, including a fractured skull.

Reasons for combining all the public schools on the South Fork into one consolidated district were described at a meeting of the East Hampton School Board Tuesday night.

A town law limiting the number of people allowed to congregate outside restaurants and bars could be put in place by the summer.

Local regulations restricting chain or “formula” stores are becoming a topic of discussion.

In conjunction with seeking the new F.A.A. grant for the airport fence, the town board has embarked on a multipronged plan to mitigate airport noise

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. has proposed revising a local law to limit real estate signs to a modest one and a half square feet.