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Suffolk County issued a warning Friday that a dramatic bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, has been detected in Town Pond in East Hampton Village.

The Parrish Art Museum board has chosen Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who was educated in Spain and Mexico, and most recently ran an art museum at Michigan State University. She will take the place of Kelly Taxter, who resigned in December after less than a year on the job. 

Following expressions of concern from the public, Guild Hall's leadership announced Wednesday night that it had decided to “pause and reflect” on its planned theater upgrades.  

The Pierson and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams won county classification titles Wednesday at Westhampton Beach High School, the Whalers over Greenport and the Bees over Smithtown Christian.

Following a county title, Peter Solow's soccer squad added a Long Island championship to its laurels by defeating Carle Place 1-0 on Tuesday, meriting a Sag Harbor Fire Department parade later in the day.

The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center announced on Tuesday that its acting director, Genevieve Villaflor, will become its executive director.

Less than a year after Jack Lenor Larsen's passing, there have been shakeups and bad feelings between board members and some of the donors and staff of the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, which Larsen founded and intended to be his legacy.

Social media posts by East Hampton High School students and others containing racist content and offensive language are under investigation by school officials.

A dead humpback whale washed ashore at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Sunday morning. It had no signs of external injuries.

A small plane overshot the end of a runway at East Hampton Airport on Saturday afternoon, knocking down a section of fence and crossing a road. There were no reports of injuries.

Private golf clubs, while still deemed nonessential, have been allowed to reopen to their members, the governor said, with restrictions.

Ruth Appelhof, the director at Guild Hall from 1999 to 2016 and an art history scholar, died on Thursday at home in Springs after living two years with leukemia.

For the first eight months of 2019, revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund are down by nearly 21 percent from the same period last year.

Neighbors questioned a proposal to buy a 2.5-acre parcel outside Sag Harbor on which to build housing, but following that public hearing last Thursday the East Hampton Town Board unanimously approved the $890,000 purchase.

As if to underscore the validity of her words, Greta Thunberg twice interrupted her remarks to call for heat-related medical attention for one of the youthful mass gathered under the late-summer sun in Manhattan's Battery Park on Friday afternoon, the 16-year-old climate activist's appearance the culmination of the Youth Climate Strike that drew tens of thousands of students, some of them from East Hampton. 

A proposal from AT&T to build a freestanding 50-foot-high structure at St. Peter’s Chapel on Old Stone Highway in Springs, to house cellphone antennas and associated equipment, was discussed at a meeting of the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

"There is nothing we can do now but hope we get justice," Rolando Garces, a brother of the victim, said after Joseph A. Grippo's indictment on second-degree murder charges was unsealed Friday morning.

Gavin Menu and Kathryn Menu of The Express will share publishing duties at the merged entity, with the Press's publisher, Joseph Louchheim, giving up his position after a transition period. The merger will consist primarily of pooling editorial resources rather than dissolving into one paper, they said.

For the second time this year, the New York State comptroller's office has come down hard on the Wainscott Common School District in an audit that school officials questioned as flawed.

Early education gave daycare center alums a leg up.

The East Hampton School District plans to offer a dual-language program in English and Spanish to native speakers of either language starting in kindergarten in the 2019-20 school year.

The EH Fusion Party, a new hybrid, has filed a nominating petition for a ballot line in the Nov. 5 general election, ahead of the deadline.

About three dozen people gathered on the platform at the Long Island Rail Road station in Hampton Bays Tuesday morning to wait for the 6:35 eastbound commuter train.

Kathleen Mulcahy called for a village administrator position for Sag Harbor, improved communication between the mayor and the public, and more long-term planning.

The East Hampton Library’s grandfather clock, with its imposing presence and beautiful bell-like tones, takes us back to another time, but not much seems to have been known about it until just a few years ago.

What started last year as a Sag Harbor athlete’s cross-country bike trip in memory of friends who died from opioid overdoses has grown into a full-fledged nonprofit that promotes physical fitness as a way to reach natural highs instead of using drugs.

Workers made haste, and the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s new electronic billboards — at least the one on the eastbound shoulder of the Sunrise Highway — were up and running by last Thursday evening.

It was May 1779 off the Connecticut coastline. Edward Conkling, the captain of the privateer sloop Eagle was cruising off Stonington, perhaps looking for another ship to capture to aid the rebel patriots’ war effort, when the Eagle was taken by a Loyalist ship.

School budget votes and board elections take place on Tuesday, with races in five of the eight school districts between Bridgehampton and Montauk. Proposed budgets in all but one, Wainscott, come in under the state-mandated tax cap.

Two incumbents, J.P. Foster, the board president, and Wendy Geehreng, are both seeking re-election, while Sandra Vorpahl, who previously served six years on the board, and Jeff Erickson, who ran last year, are also looking for a seat.