The East Hampton Village Board has authorized a law firm to file suit on its behalf against opioid manufacturers and distributors.

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

A small minke whale was found stranded in Northwest Creek in East Hampton Thursday morning and later died just as rescuers arrived to help it.  

The owner of Petit Bleu, a children’s store in East Hampton Village, who was cited by code enforcement earlier this month for placing a stuffed golden retriever at the entrance to her shop, wants the business community to band together to change the village’s onerous regulations.

A humpback whale was found dead in the surf at Halsey Neck Lane in Southampton Village on Thursday morning. 

As neighbors get buried lines in East Hampton Village, this couple will lose their "only piece of blue sky."

The East Hampton Village Board, meeting last Thursday, considered proposals to hold an outdoor Christmas market on Newtown Lane in December, and to install high-tech ticket dispensers in village parking lots.

An application from the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio for variances and permissions to allow retail sales, hold events for more than 50 people, install path lighting, and for an additional parking area came before the Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

Baymen and lovers of shellfish can hold on to hope that East Hampton waters will offer an abundant crop of bay scallops when they open to the annual harvest on Sunday, but if the first days’ harvest in state waters is an indication, they will be disappointed.

National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is a nonprofit organization that provides educational resources and encouragement in November as thousands of people across the world take on the challenge of writing a 50,000-word story in 30 days.

Will WNET, America’s flagship PBS station, acquire WPPB-FM, a National Public Radio member station based in Southampton? Maybe, and maybe not.