A 54-year-old Sagaponack man, who was charged with setting an oceanfront Bridgehampton house on fire in April, has been indicted and arraigned on another charge of arson in the third degree for allgedly setting a Patchogue bar on fire in 2013, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced on Tuesday, December 29.

When Megan Beedenbender sings, everything in the room aside from her voice disappears. The listener becomes mesmerized, further enthralled with each captivating note.

Bridgehampton High School could become a local powerhouse in competitive cheerleading, if Athletic Director Eric Bramoff gets his wish. With its history of strong basketball and traditional cheerleading programs, the school may pursue hosting a competitive team on which girls would perform flips, mounts and other coordinated gymnastics-style moves on mats against other teams.

In October 2012, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban as she was riding home from school in a bus. It was no accident. The Pakistani girl, who lived in the Swat Valley, had garnered some media attention as an advocate of girls’ education and an outspoken critic of the Taliban’s drive to close girls’ schools through the use of terror and intimidation. But if their mission was to permanently silence the young woman, the Taliban failed miserably… because these days, she has the attention of the world.

You may not want to admit it, but everyone’s got them — most likely hidden in the dark recesses of a dresser drawer or suppressed between the pages of some sticky photo album from a bygone era. Unless, of course, you’re Mike Bender. In which case you’ve made a business — and more recently, an art form — out of them.

We all know fair-weather folks who think local beaches are only vibrant and full of life in the height of summer. But those of us willing to brave cold temperatures and brisk winds by venturing out on winter beaches know that we stand a pretty good chance of seeing the East End’s most intriguing off-season visitors. We’re talking seals — potentially lots of them.

The word “recycling” often conjures up images of separating paper, plastic, glass and cans before they’re shipped off to a faraway plant. For farmers, gardeners and gastronomes, however, composting provides a recycling experience that takes place right in the backyard.

To hear Raun Norquist tell it, “we live in a flush and forget world and nobody wants to pay attention to the problem.” Ms. Norquist, who now lives in Noyac not far from Sag Harbor Cove, in a house with an aging brick septic system built in the 1930s, has been paying attention to that problem—the treatment of wastewater—for the better part of two decades.

The family of Montauk resident Henry Sjoman has set up a social media fundraising page on Gofundme.com to help defray the cost of his medical care.

The plan for a proposed offshore wind farm 30 miles east of Montauk Point, which could have produced 20 percent of the East End’s electricity needs, was rejected by the Long Island Power Authority Board of Trustees on December 18.