The Suffolk County Department of Public Works has three main objectives for the turnpike: improving pedestrian safety, repairing the pavement of the road itself, including asphalt resurfacing, and repairing and adding new drainage systems to improve the flooding conditions.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows Fire Department Chief John Faulhaber leaping from the Susan Jane after searching it for two teenagers.

Ditch Plain Beach will be more beach and less ditch this summer after a beach replenishment project that will bring approximately 200 truckloads of sand, about 1,000 cubic yards daily, began on Monday.

Jadiel Rodriguez, an East Hampton High School junior who has been acting in community theater and school musicals since the age of 9, played Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes" this year. His performance earned him a Teeny Award — the eastern Suffolk high school version of Broadway’s Tony Awards, sponsored by East End Arts.