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Several hundred people attended an East Hampton Town Board meeting in Montauk on Tuesday morning to ask for a halt to the construction of a downtown beach sandbag seawall by the Army Corps of Engineers, after ongoing protests and civil disobedience since Friday.

A team of East End residents is preparing for a trip to the Greek island of Lesbos at the end of this month, where they will volunteer time and energy to the crowds of refugees fleeing war-torn Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.

East Hampton Democrats' strong showing in the Tuesday election carried over to the town trustees contest.

A fire ripped through an unoccupied building at Hartman's Briney Breezes Motel in Montauk early Friday morning.

Late-hour contributions to an aviation-industry political action committee campaigning on behalf of the East Hampton Republican Party's candidates for supervisor and town board have pushed the total 2015 take to more than half a million dollars.

Eighteen candidates are vying to become East Hampton Town Trustees, whose nine members manage common lands on behalf of the public by virtue of the Dongan Patent of 1686. Those elected will serve a two-year term.

Steven Lee, the manager of the Poxabogue Golf Center, was arrested Wednesday on charges that he photographed a girl's genital area through a window.

While many people who work in the schools were enjoying their final days of summer vacation, Daniel Hartnett, a bilingual social worker at the East Hampton Middle School, spent the first days of September helping immigrant women and children detained at the United States-Mexico border.

With the construction of a wall of sandbags across the downtown Montauk ocean shore pending, the United States Army Corps of Engineers told a judge it is reassessing the area.

Anna Pump, who was nationally known for her “Loaves and Fishes Cookbook” and its successors, as well as her Sagaponack gourmet food shop of the same name, was remembered this week after being struck by a truck on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton on Monday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Springs woman early Tuesday, charging her with being part of a scheme that used local banks and local addresses to defraud seven elderly people across the country.

The Free Life balloon took off from a Springs field along Accabonac Harbor 45 years ago with three passengers aboard in an attempt to make a trans-Atlantic crossing. The three died when the craft went down in a storm.

Work is set to begin in three weeks on an $8.9 million artificial dune that will largely cover the width of the Montauk downtown beach between the dune and the ocean from South Emery Street at the western edge to the Atlantic Terrace motel near Surfside Place on the east.

Sean P. Ludwick, the New York real estate developer accused of being drunk at 2 a.m. on Sunday when his 2013 Porsche convertible crashed into a utility pole, killing his passenger, Paul Hansen of Noyac, appeared in Southampton Town Justice Court on Friday.

Luly Duke, an East Hampton resident who left Cuba as a girl in 1960, was on hand as the American flag was raised over the reopened U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday.

East Hampton Town police are investigating a Friday morning motor vehicle accident in which an assistant manager at the Montauk 7-Eleven was critically injured while crossing the street near the store.

The Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre, which has occupied the lower level of the Christ Episcopal Church parish house in Sag Harbor since 2001, will move to Bay Street Theater this fall.

Fires on the beaches in East Hampton Town will have to be built inside of metal containers rather than directly on the sand according to a new law approved by the town board on Thursday.

Chess in the Schools was established in 1986, and since then has involved more than half a million children in its various instructional programs and tournaments.

In response to the recent uprising by residents against what they describe as an unruly and rowdy environment this summer in Montauk, East Hampton Town officials are taking a multi-pronged approach to deal with issues.

East Hampton Town today appealed a federal court injunction that barred the implementation of a law adopted in April that would have restricted the noisiest aircraft to one trip per week at East Hampton Airport.

Stop & Shop will be taking over the Waldbaum's stores in East Hampton and Southampton Villages as part of a $146 million deal.

Instagram posts show partygoers undeterred by brushfire, ambulance call at a Bridgehampton house owned by Kevin Sorbo, the actor best known as Hercules.

Anti-hedge fund, pro-labor advocates plan to "take the Hamptons" on Saturday in protest of Gov. Andrew M. Coumo's fund-raiser at the East Hampton residence of Daniel Loeb, a hedge fund manager.

The 21 Uber drivers facing misdemeanor charges of operating a car for hire without being licensed by the Town of East Hampton agreed Monday to pay fines of $400 each in return for the town lowering the charges to simple violations.

Child’s burn points to buried-fire problem.

The driver of a car that crashed on Main Street in East Hampton swatted at a spider she spotted in her car, causing her to lose control of it and crash into a pole and a tree.

Ana Nunez is leaving the East Hampton School District to pursue a new career, one that has been inspired by the East Hampton school community itself.

East Hampton Town’s efforts to enact restrictions on the use of East Hampton Airport in order to reduce aircraft noise have a backer in Representative Lee Zeldin.

In the seven New York State parks in Montauk, there simply will not be enough officers to answer calls, shifting the burden to local police.