In the last few years, e-bikes have exploded in popularity, and the surge has caused some safety issues. Many municipalities, East Hampton Town among them, intend to implement new laws to keep up.

Rising temperature and chlorophyll, decreasing salinity, high nitrogen levels, dense blooms of Alexandrium and Dinophysis, blue-green algal blooms, and some fecal contamination characterized town water bodies in 2025, according to Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University.

An East Hampton man was charged late last week with multiple counts of rape in what police say was child abuse involving a girl who was 10 years old when it began.