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The new year, it is often hoped, will bring many new things. As 2016 begins, one of them is medical marijuana, which research has shown can provide respite from pain, seizures, and anxiety for those struggling with debilitating diseases.

New York State’s Compassionate Care Act, which goes into effect tomorrow, legalizes marijuana for patients with certain serious conditions and allows licensed physicians to write prescriptions for it. New York joins 22 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing medical marijuana use.

The Bridgehampton School’s thriving educational garden may itself grow soon, thanks to a free three-year lease of a small piece of land from the Hampton Classic.

Daisy C. Bowe, who had a positive impact on hundreds of students at the Bridgehampton School over her 30-year career, died on Tuesday.

Bruce Negrycz II, 68, has dementia, East Hampton Town police said.

A 40-unit housing complex proposed to be constructed at 531 Montauk Highway in Amagansett would add an estimated 37 students to the Amagansett School District.

Last night at this time it was 33.3 degrees, but never dipped further. That’s the coldest it’s been here in Noyac on the north edge of the moraine since last March. What’s happening?

Changes at the federal and state levels to the standards, testing, and teacher evaluations associated with the Common Core have drawn positive, although cautious, responses from educators across the South Fork.

Through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training, Michael Davis will participate in the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend next month. Not only is he running the 26.2-mile marathon, but he has added a half-marathon challenge the day before, in honor of his godfather, who is fighting cancer.

A Sag Harbor man celebrating his 19th birthday in East Hampton Monday night is out on bail this week on multiple drug possession charges, including two felonies involving cocaine.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has invited public comment on a draft environmental assessment called White-tailed Deer Damage Management in New York.

Between Main Street and Newtown Lane, more than a dozen businesses had empty storefronts. Such shuttered businesses, when strung together and nestled side-by side, echoed an eerie quiet during an otherwise festive and frenzied time of the year.

The indictment was unsealed Monday in the Central Islip courtroom of New York State Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho.

Thomas Gilbert Jr. of New York and Wainscott, who is accused of murdering his father in Manhattan in January, is mentally competent to stand trial, New York State Supreme Court Justice Melissa C. Jackson ruled Monday.

Two people were taken to Southampton Hospital for minor injuries after their Lexus was hit head-on by a Whitmore's Landscaping truck on the west end of East Hampton Village on Friday.

Beer trucks are unloading again on East Hampton’s Pantigo Place in front of the former Peconic Beverage East, soon to be called Hampton Beverage East.

A Hall of Fame at Bridgehampton School won't just be for standout athletes.

The Panoramic View Resort in Montauk has been sold by the federal government to the management firm that owns Gurney’s Resort and Spa next door.

Sean P. Ludwick, who is accused of being drunk when he crashed his Porsche in Noyac on Aug. 30, killing his passenger, Paul Hansen, was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday on 13 criminal charges, including vehicular homicide, manslaughter, and drunken driving in a fatal accident.

Most local school districts have been finding substitute teachers in short supply, administrators said this week, with geography and overlapping needs among the districts seen as principal factors.

The East Hampton High School dance club was founded in 2002, though this is the first year that its competition team members are to receive varsity letters.

About nine months after a fire destroyed the historic West End Road house owned by Peter Morton, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals considered a plan to recreate it.

The new law, vigorously debated for some time, will require property owners to file with the town Building Department before advertising or entering into leases.

Like many people around the holidays, Austin Handler and his family want to get into the true spirit of the season.

A complaint alleging that those engaged by East Hampton Village to sterilize deer were not licensed to practice veterinary medicine in New York State has been referred to the state attorney general’s office, it was learned this week.

The screech of packing tape being stretched across the flaps of a cardboard box could be heard through the door of Kathryn Bermudez’s studio apartment in East Hampton on a recent Wednesday night.

Santa Claus is due to arrive soon, and children and adults alike who hope to find drones under the tree will have no restrictions on flying them in the Village of Sag Harbor, at least until after the new year.

The space at 171 Main Street in Amagansett that for many years housed LaCarrubba’s clothing store and was most recently occupied by Flowers by Beth is being divided.

The community has been invited to stop by the Wainscott studio Thursday and Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to tell their holiday-related stories.

On Dec. 1, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals held a public hearing that the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre would have appreciated.

Mid-Atlantic fishermen and their advocates told four members of Congress on Monday that inaccurate stock assessments needlessly limit their catch and endanger their livelihood.