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You’re in the Hamptons for the summer! Awesome, right? Except you need to get a job and your options are retail or restaurants. You choose food service because you have a masochistic streak as well as a stunning lack of common sense. Welcome to the family.

A three-car crash on the Napeague stretch of Montauk Highway around 3 a.m. Sunday morning resulted in two of the drivers being sent to the hospital while under arrest on the charge of driving while intoxicated, according to East Hampton Town police.

The town beach at Ditch Plain in Montauk will remain closed to swimmers, with no lifeguards on duty, for the foreseeable future.

In a unanimous vote, the East Hampton Village Board approved a controversial change to its existing regulations, setting a 600-foot no-roam zone.

Two East Hampton Town Board meetings this week went from contentious to hostile, with heated exchanges

The developer proposing to build 89 condominium units targeting affluent baby boomers on 24 acres of open farmland in Amagansett told the East Hampton Town Planning Board on May 15 that he was there to listen. He got an earful.

The Dunes East Hampton, an exclusive drug treatment facility on Bull Run in Northwest Woods, will need to undergo a full site plan review before the East Hampton Town Planning Board if it is to stay in business

An erosion-control project at the Montauk Shores Condominiums, an oceanfront mobile home park, is under investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

The most prevalent tick this year so far has been the lone star type, which can bring on an allergy to red meat.

Starting July 1 all dogs on East Hampton Village beaches will have to be kept on leashes while they are within 300 feet of parking lots and road ends.

Cops turn out in force Tuesday to decry a layoff of one of their own

The allegation of a possible irregularity concerns one Springs staff member and one student

The nomination of Zachary Cohen for East Hampton Town councilman from the floor at the Democrats’ nominating convention Wednesday night made for some tense moments for Job Potter and Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the candidates favored by the party’s screening committee.

The three men vying for two openings on the Springs School Board made their opinions known during a meet-the-candidates forum Tuesday

In East Hampton on Monday night, about 50 audience members sat through a 90-minute meet-the-candidates forum at the John M. Marshall Elementary School to hear from five newcomers and one incumbent

Planners critique Gansett baby-boomer development

Wind and storms, beginning with Hurricane Sandy last fall, have stripped the beach of sand,exposing hazardous, formerly buried, chunks of concrete, and replacing the soft sand at the surf line and undersea with piles of large stones.

District turned over information to the State Education Department just days after one administrator's sudden resignation and principal's sick leave.

A new budget, a new village administrator, a new lighted crosswalk, and a new source of fuel at the Emergency Services Building were topics of discussion

Misdemeanor charges for a pistol-toting dad who said he was concerned about an open school door and showed officials a New York police ID, which he had claimed was stolen from him about seven years ago.

Resorts report that concern over the loss of sand and dunes caused by Hurricane Sandy and the string of northeasters that followed has sparked increased interest in Montauk as a summer destination.

Neighbor’s complaint convinces inspector new variances are needed

The question of whether a manager or administrator is appropriate and advisable for the Town of East Hampton was the subject of a lively debate at the village’s Emergency Services Building on Saturday.

A new budget, a new village administrator, a new lighted crosswalk, and a new source of fuel at the Emergency Services Building were topics of discussion at an East Hampton Village Board work session last Thursday.

With swimming season set to begin soon, a question remains about whether the public should be warned against taking a dip in Lake Montauk

A plan to buy jackets with a town logo for every full-time East Hampton Town employee has not been universally well received at Town Hall

East Hampton Town’s chief building inspector, Tom Preiato, will determine soon whether a private club being run at the Montauk Beach House is an accessory to the hotel’s main business or is considered a separate use.

Beating the major parties to the punch, the East Hampton Independence Party announced its 2013 slate on Tuesday, naming Larry Cantwell as its supervisor candidate

An Amagansett man was arrested on April 24 and charged with forging Hampton Jitney tickets.

Culinary arts is an important part of school curriculum, and it’s lunch, too