Republican candidates may be facing political headwinds nationally, but here on Long Island polls suggest the two G.O.P. congressional incumbents will win re-election, and that goes for the two Democratic incumbents, too.

The director of Common Cause New York and election experts and voting rights advocates said last week that while this year has seen “an unprecedented effort to mess with our elections and scare and confuse people about the voting process,” a statewide effort to train and organize volunteers will ensure that New York voters can vote with ease and confidence.

As the leaves began to fall, a dozen East Hampton Town residents appeared at a town board meeting to call, once again, for a year-round ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.

“You can use this for the next 10 years and beyond, hopefully, to start to check off some of the things that are priorities for the community,” Noah Levine of BFJ Planning told the East Hampton Village Board as it reviewed a draft comprehensive plan.