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As it counts down the days to a Dec. 13 referendum on its proposed school expansion, the Bridgehampton School District has upped its projected bond interest rate and extended the length of the potential bond from 15 to 20 years, resulting in a higher projected tax impact on homeowners.

Members of the East Hampton Village Police Department, emergency medical technicians, and an employee of the Maidstone Club were recognized by the village board on Friday for their role in saving a life.

It is hard to imagine Sag Harbor without the Intuition II, a 196-foot-long yacht. Owned by Patrick E. Malloy for 18 years and tied up at the dock at his marina south of Long Wharf, it has been up for sale for a year, and, with a recent price drop, may not be back next summer.

“I leave with only positive thoughts,” former Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst said on Friday, three days after her campaign to unseat Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District ended with a loss.

Opposition to the current proposal has risen to the point where the group of residents opposing it have a name: the Cedar Street Committee, with Jeff Bragman, an attorney, lending support.

I asked my son, Jon, if he wanted to go fishing with me. He demurred, claiming he had homework to do. Sure. I asked my daughter, Rebecca, if she wanted to go fishing with me. She replied, “Me on a boat? Unless I see a dead body it’s not interesting.” Someone has been watching way too much “Law and Order.” I beckoned my dogs Comet and Teddy to go fishing with me. They bolted out the back door. Clearly they are more doodle than Labra. So I grabbed a couple of spinning rods and headed over to my boat, solo.

A one-year moratorium on development in Wainscott is expected to be approved by the East Hampton Town Board, perhaps as early as at a meeting tonight, after an initial vote was delayed at the request of Councilman Fred Overton to make time for further discussion.

The moratorium, on properties in Wainscott zoned for central business or commercial-industrial uses and land in residential zones being used for nonresidential purposes, would ban approval of new construction or expansions of more than 25 percent of existing buildings that increase legal occupancy. 

A State Supreme Court Justice has ruled that the 4,000-foot-long strip of sand popularly known as Truck Beach does not belong to a group of nearby homeowners, nor does a nearby 1,500-foot stretch in front of the White Sands Resort Hotel.

East Hampton Town will take its effort to enact curfews and other restrictions at East Hampton Airport to the United States Supreme Court.

East Hampton Town police are investigating an accident early Sunday morning on Route 114 that ended with the driver suffering serious injuries.

A federal appeals court ruling on Friday striking down three 2015 East Hampton Town laws designed to reduce noise from aircraft using East Hampton Airport may well galvanize those negatively affected by aircraft noise, who had looked to the laws for relief, to rally behind the idea of closing the airport.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and when young Nicholas wanted to eat an apple but was frustrated by the sticky juice that got all over his hand, his mother, Debbie Blake-Frasca, got an idea.

East End voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a referendum to extend the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund through 2050 and to allow up to 20 percent of its future proceeds to be used for water quality initiatives.

Members of the village board learned that a traffic roundabout long planned for the intersection of Buell and Toilsome Lanes is likely to be constructed in the spring and heard plans to create a soft barrier at the south end of Town Pond to protect the Hedges Inn property.

Although a majority of Suffolk County broke for the Trump-Pence ticket at the polls on Tuesday, a closer look at district-by-district results shows that the Clinton-Kaine team came out on top in almost every one of the Election Districts between Tuckahoe and Montauk.

The East Hampton Library is a little more than a week away from unveiling the latest, and last, piece of the overhaul it began in June 2012.

When Michele Carlson heard heavy rain pounding down one day recently, she did not burrow into a cozy chair. Instead, she hurried to Pussy’s Pond along School Street in Springs to see which way the rainwater was flowing.

A former Sag Harbor man who recently moved to the Oakview Highway trailer park in East Hampton was arrested Tuesday afternoon on three rape charges.

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to suspend Bill Taylor, the town’s waterways management supervisor, for 30 days without pay.

Big night for incumbents: LaValle, Thiele re-elected.

In Suffolk, according to unofficial results from the county board of elections, 2016 voter turnout was up by 36,609 over the last presidential election.

Almost the entire North and South Fork economy is powered by the labor of Latin American workers; sudden changes in immigration policy could be catastrophic to the farming, construction, and hospitality sectors.

The atmosphere at LTV Studios in Wainscott, which the East Hampton Town Democrats rented Tuesday night for an election-watching celebration, was far from celebratory.

East Hampton Town police need the public's help in identifying a teenager who was struck by a pickup truck in Springs on Tuesday evening.

Representative Lee Zeldin, a first-term Republican serving New York’s First Congressional District, has won re-election over former Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst.

A federal appeals court has barred East Hampton Town from enforcing three laws aimed at addressing excessive aircraft noise at East Hampton Airport.

The Sagg Bridge will get the rehabilitation it so desperately needs starting later this month. Sagaponack Village officials announced Monday that the Bridge Lane structure will be closed to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic on Nov. 14 at 7 a.m. for the extensive repairs.

Coastal retreat, however politically unpopular it may be, is the only logical response to sea level rise, an environmental advocate told an audience at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday.

An alleged drunken driver crashed into five cars parked along a quarter-mile stretch of Main Street in Bridgehampton Wednesday evening, Southampton Town police said.

Citing recently reported results of tests on water from Suffolk County Water Authority wells throughout East Hampton Town, which showed the presence of chromium-6, a resident of Wainscott, where a well had the highest reading, is urging town officials to have tests done on drinking water from private wells.