“I think he would like the fact that part of the land is being preserved,” John Tintle, the owner of the former sand mine in Wainscott that his father, William Tintle Jr., purchased in 1986, said of his dad. “I think he would just like that something’s happening, because it was frustrating for a long period of time, where there was nothing to talk about.”

The Springs Youth Association building and a new cafeteria program will appear on a special ballot in the Springs School District in December. 

Southampton Town may have insisted on gray for the exterior of the Bridgehampton Target, but there was a sea of red at the store’s V.I.P. opening event on Tuesday, when the retail giant rolled out an actual red carpet for red-shirted employees and their guests before opening the registers for the first time at 5 p.m.