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In board discussions on Aug. 14 and on Tuesday, both Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and Councilwoman Theresa Quigley suggested that the town should divest itself of the airport.

About 80 people wearing red T-shirts emblazoned with the American flag and the slogan, “Tunited We Stand,” rallied in front of the Sloppy Tuna club in Montauk on Tuesday before arriving en masse at a town board meeting.

On Friday, Aug. 24, Vice President Joe Biden will have the spotlight at an East End for Obama campaign fund-raiser.

Gregg Saunders, a 55-year-old real estate entrepreneur who lived in Sagaponack, was killed in a head-on collision on Montauk Highway in East Hampton shortly before noon last Thursday.

Late Tuesday afternoon, a lifeguard at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk was knocked from his surfboard close to shore by a shark estimated to have been between five and six feet long.

A plea about the “degeneration of quality of life from construction work” in the village.

Although a traditional first Sunday in August boat party was effectively shut out of Sag Harbor Village waters last month, the party took place on its usual day, 1,600 feet outside the village’s jurisdiction, with over 100 boats gathered

Rian White responded to an East Hampton Town citation about peeling paint on his house by inviting passers-by to help decorate it in whatever fashion moves them.

The project was undertaken as a long-sought fix to severe flooding in adjacent neighborhoods from water running off the farm fields, which stretch between Route 114 and Long Lane.

A political stalemate has developed over the fate of East Hampton Town’s sewage plant on Springs-Fireplace Road.

Visitor From Virginia killed, three injured

Dr. Dempsey is now participating in an international research study of Lyme disease.

The East Hampton Town Trustees keep saying, regulations that protect the beaches and bottomlands, which they own and manage on behalf of the public, are not being enforced.

The saga of the Montauk Beach House is headed to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals

No interest in public purchase, but pilots may want to buy it themselves

    A plan to divide a 43,000-square-foot Ditch Plain parcel into two lots, one of 20,000 square feet and the other of 23,000, was broached for the first time at an East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting on July 25. Judging from board members’ reactions, it could provoke divisive debate.

A head-on crash between a pickup truck and a Volvo on Route 114 south of Sag Harbor claimed the life of the Volvo driver, Douglas Foster Schneiderman, 51, of Maclean, Va., and left his two passengers and the driver of the pickup hospitalized with serious injuries.

Mr. Gaines described his run for the East Hampton Town Board as the guest of honor at the Hamptons Sara Chapter of Hadassah’s annual summer lunch Friday at East Hampton Point restaurant.

Several residents who have roosters living in their neighborhoods appealed to the East Hampton Town Board last week to regulate the birds.

The East Hampton Town Planning Department reported a dramatic drop in the number of the endangered and carefully protected shore bird hatchlings that lived long enough to fledge.

‘I hate East Hampton,’ says wife of Brazilian attorney in court next morning

Justice John J.J. Jones Jr. found that the town had followed proper procedures in adopting the plan, an accompanying airport layout plan, which is a list of projects for which the town could seek Federal Aviation Administration funding.

Less than a month after air traffic controllers set up shop at East Hampton Airport, the impact of the control tower and motivation for its construction are being debated.

Lee Hnetinka, the alleged party-house scammer, was charged with 59 infringements of the Southampton Town Code.

A three-day August music and fashion festival at Solé East in Montauk has not received approval from the Town of East Hampton and one of the hotel's partners has distanced himself from the plan.

Pointing to Navy Beach, Solé East, and Ruschmeyer’s as popular nightspots, residents have been meeting with East Hampton Town Police to discuss a strategy.

If you order a dozen oysters anywhere between Montauk and New York City these days, there’s a good chance they will be Montauk Pearls, grown in Lake Montauk.

A Springs woman watched in horror last Thursday as her beloved Shih Tzu lapdog was killed by a neighbor’s pit bull.

Operation Nightcap swept through East Hampton Town and Village, Sag Harbor, and Shelter Island on Saturday

An annual party billed as Shark Attack Sounds drew between 2,000 and 3,000 people, depending on who is doing the estimating, to Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Cafe