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He has been open about the process, believing that sharing his story might help people understand and accept him and others in similar situations.

    When Frazer Dougherty built a 35,000-square-foot facility in the East Hampton Town industrial park in the late 1990s to house a sound stage, he pictured a bustling facility filled with production companies making movies and television shows that would boost widespread sectors of the local economy.

    The $5 million building was the second he had put up in the industrial park, which was designed for businesses that would generate local jobs. Mr. Dougherty had previously put up a building there for LTV, East Hampton’s public access television channel, which he founded.

Jason Lee, 37, of New York City, a financial services manager for Goldman Sachs since 1998, was arrested Wednesday morning by East Hampton Town police on the charge of first-degree rape.

   These are the lemonade commercial days of summer. Everything is hazy and golden like an old photograph. Children catch fireflies in jars and old women fan themselves as they gently push the porch swing back and forth with their toes.

    Yeah, right.

The gathering, billed on the Web as Electronic Beach, appeared to have violated a number of conditions of its town permit and drew complaints about noise from beachgoers and residents

About 100 Sagaponack residents appeared at the Village Hall on Saturday at an informational meeting on whether the village should establish its own police force, and the result was more questions than answers

An overflow crowd of members and guests filled the community room of the Amagansett Library on Monday night as the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee heard grim predictions from a former official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Trucks parked on the “baby beach” at Maidstone Park remain an eyesore and a hazard to children, according to three residents who addressed the East Hampton Town Trustees at their meeting on Tuesday night.

Fort Pond House, a building on Fort Pond in Montauk that was used by community groups before it was condemned, and the four acres on which it sits will be taken off the sale block and designated as a park to be named in honor of the late Carol Morrison

Scores on state elementary school tests landed with a thud on the South Fork last week, as they did throughout the region, with teachers and administrations left to grapple with failure rates that had, in some instances, more than doubled

A glance at the summer’s real estate transfers as recorded in the deeds of Sag Harbor Village might suggest that the number of sales in the quaint enclave has been going down

   “What was your first job in a restaurant?” I asked.

   “I was a hostess,” she answered. “I was 17. I didn’t even apply for the job.”

    Our waiter placed the appetizer, fried stuffed squash blossoms, in front of us.

    “Bon appetit,” he said in an accent that sounded authentically French.

As Cantwell retires after 32 years, his replacement, Molinaro, is sworn in

Beach parking permits and mass assembly permits will be the subjects of public hearings before the East Hampton Village Board on Friday, Aug. 16

A third attempt by East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc to get a board majority to take the town’s Fort Pond House property in Montauk off the market was suspended Tuesday when Councilman Dominick Stanzione requested more time

Numerous seasonal establishments, particularly in Montauk, have prompted complaints in recent summers from residents saying that the use of patios and lawns has drawn large and disruptive crowds

A report of a “suspicious person” on Sean Combs's street Friday led East Hampton police to arrest the man accused of stalking the music mogul for the second time in two years.

   My first job in food service was as a dishwasher at a deli-cafe-catering company. It was the summer of my junior year in high school.

Over the course of two hours Monday night, some 20 people stepped up to a lectern ticking off a litany of complaints they hope the Democratic candidates will address if elected

In East Hampton Town, campaign contributions and campaign spending so far this year may be most notable not for what there is to report on, but for what there is not

Amagansett residents told tales to the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday about groups sharing summer rentals in their once-peaceful beachside neighborhood

Is bigger better? Not if you’re a local official trying to restrict house sizes on the East End

Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst is not so sure that Sagaponack Village Mayor Donald Louchheim’s plan to establish a village police force will save the money he hopes it will

Vehicles parking on the beach at Maidstone Park have drawn the ire of some members of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee

The tac ambulance system went into effect on July 1, with Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Springs taking part

The Rev. Alison Cornish is stepping down as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton on Sunday.

Though clichés might suggest that neighbors are usually more at war than at peace, in a reversal of the Hatfield and McCoy paradigm, two neighbors in Montauk have joined forces to combine their properties and sell them as one

The mother of Mr. Wasserstein’s sixth child, Sky Wasserstein, has sued the older children for access to the estate, known as Cranberry Dune

backyard volleyball games, held primarily by Latino residents in Springs, draw large crowds every weekend, along with traffic, noise, and litter

Part-time is the new normal for most of the 100 or so employees at the Waldbaum’s supermarket on Newtown Lane in East Hampton