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The 14 East Hampton High School students who walked out of class on Friday morning were among more than 1.5 million around the world, all of them united by a motivation to call leaders to action on climate change.

Perhaps the greatest lesson, for students of all ages, is that one person really can make a difference.

Doug Kuntz, a photojournalist who turns his lens on populations in peril — from the dying days of the baymen culture of Bonac to neighborhoods ravaged by Superstorm Sandy to the “hell on earth” of Moria, the migrant camp on Lesbos, Greece — has returned recently from what might be his most harrowing, and awe-inspiring, artistic journey yet: documenting the voyage of a ship called the Sea Watch 3 as it rescued 47 migrants from a sinking rubber raft off the coast of Libya.

Homeowners in a Suffolk County grant program to defray the installation costs of nitrogen-reducing septic systems got an unwelcome surprise in recent weeks — 1099 forms to report it as income.

The Montauk Library is preparing for its first expansion and renovation since construction of its current building in 1991.

A fire at a small house on a Bridgehampton back street Thursday was largely contained to one room.

Some Montauk residents acknowledged positive recommendations in the ongoing hamlet study, while the town board agreed that a planned retreat and relocation of oceanfront structures requires further study.

The alewife, a herring species and one of the only fish named after a woman, will be back, but not nearly so widespread on the South Fork as the osprey or the spring peeper.

Guild Hall knows how to throw a party, and it showed that Monday with the 34th Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards dinner high above Manhattan at the Rainbow Room.

William Miller, an East Hampton native who has cancer, had been reported missing by his family last week.

A plan for a tree farm in Bridgehampton that would include housing for agricultural laborers has been met with fierce opposition from neighbors.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the 37-unit affordable housing complex to be built at 531 Montauk Highway in Amagansett will likely take place next month.