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In a vote of 736 to 595, voters approved a referendum to buy the former Stella Maris school building and renovate it with a price tag of $10.23 million.

A fire that started in a Dumpster at a house under construction in Beach Hampton on Sunday afternoon was quickly extinguished despite strong winds.

Under the newly enacted gross floor area laws in Sag Harbor Village, the size of a house is tied to the size of its property — capped, for example, at 4,000 square feet on a 25,000-square-foot lot. However, larger houses on bigger lots can be built provided a special permit is granted by the village board. How to go about getting that permit remains a question.

Catch or release? That’s the question every angler must answer when a hooked fish is finally in hand.

The need for seasonal work-force housing is a crisis that only a multifaceted approach will resolve, according to those who spoke yesterday at a breakfast symposium organized by the East Hampton Business Alliance.

Citing financial constraints and continued declining enrollment, the Child Development Center of the Hamptons, the South Fork’s only charter school, formally announced on Tuesday that it will close at the end of the school year.

Sag Harbor Village officials are moving ahead with a plan to tear down the blighted, storied house at 6 Union Street. Following a renewed recommendation from the building inspector last month that the abandoned house be demolished, the board has scheduled a necessary public hearing for later this month.

Pleasant Lane is to remain a two-way, dead-end street after East Hampton Village officials said last Thursday they would abandon an idea to make it partly one-way and open it up to the village’s long-term parking lot, which sits on the other side of a fence, a few trees, and a sidewalk at the end of the street.

Tuesday night might as well have been Sag Harbor Village’s annual reorganizational meeting, what with all the resignations and hiring, even though the end of the village’s fiscal year is still a few weeks away and the village election is more than a month out.

The East Hampton Fire Department celebrated its first active member to reach 60 years of service at its annual inspection dinner at the Maidstone Club late last month.

An aquatic weed harvester that is to begin removing macroalgae from Georgica Pond this month is of concern to the East Hampton Town Trustees, who own and oversee many of the town’s waterways and bottomlands on behalf of the public.

East Hampton Town Police, along with code enforcement officers, raided a Springs-Fireplace Road residence on May 4 and arrested two men.

"The preference will be for East Hampton Town year-rounders, living here or working here full time," said Katy Casey, executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority, "with priority given to fire department volunteers, emergency medical technicians, and veterans."

The Sagaponack School's proposed 2016-17 budget includes funding for a new playground and more money for teachers' salaries, classroom supplies, library books, activities, and field trips, all while lowering the proposed tax levy.

The Child Development Center of the Hamptons in Wainscott, the South Fork's only charter school, will close at the end of this school year, a school representative said Monday.

A woman called East Hampton Village police to 121 Further Lane on Friday, insisting that President Obama was to blame for her gate code not working.

It was standing room only in the Southampton Town meeting room Tuesday night at a hearing on Bridgehampton Gateway, with an overflow crowd watching on television nearby.

A grace period to allow time for owners of rental properties to comply with a new town law requiring them to register with East Hampton Town and obtain a registry number expired on Sunday.

A classic 1968 Ford Mustang that crashed into the front of a Sag Harbor store last Thursday evening once belonged to the writer Truman Capote.

A car wash on Montauk Highway in Wainscott was one of several proposals before the East Hampton Town Planning Board on April 27. It is the second time a car wash has been proposed for the site.

While potential jurors were waiting in the halls of East Hampton Town Justice Court Tuesday morning, the town attorney’s office reached a deal with most of the co-defendants in the town’s criminal case against Clan-Fitz, et al, better known as Cyril’s Fish House.

Ted Stafford Jr., a longtime Sag Harbor Fire Department volunteer, died on Monday night after collapsing in the driveway of his village house.

Every angler has a favorite lure in his or her tackle box. For some it’s a simple bucktail jig. For others it’s a wood plug or a shiny tin. But for many anglers it’s a Rapala, the Original Floater, the classic balsa wood minnow imitation.

Voters will go to the polls on May 17 to choose new school board members or return incumbents to their posts. Here are brief biographies of candidates in the East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, Springs, and Amagansett School Districts.

East Hampton Village police stopped a man for talking on his cellphone while driving on Monday afternoon and soon discovered he was wanted in Brazil on drug trafficking charges.

A pedestrian was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital with a head injury Saturday night after being hit by a vehicle in Bridgehampton, Southampton Town police said Sunday.

Michael McCrum, 61, of Bridgehampton, was hit by a car at about 10:30 p.m. while he was crossing Main Street in front of Starbucks. He was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

On Sunday his condition was reported to be serious, according to a hospital representative.

The question may be when rather than if a 7-Eleven chain store will open in the long moribund Italian restaurant off the Montauk Highway in Amagansett.

In a 21-to-3 vote, the committee approved a resolution asking the town to “withdraw entirely from the plan it initiated to rezone” the land from highway business to a mixed-use planned development district.

The culprit, excessive nitrogen from septic waste, has been identified, and the course of correction is clear.

You will still be able to buy its signature drink, the B.B.C. (Banana Bailey’s Colada), at Cyril’s Fish House, the popular roadside bar and restaurant on Napeague, in the coming season, but you might want to arrive early.