Villages

After losing his first bid, by just five votes, for a seat on the Sag Harbor Village Board in 2017, Thomas Gardella, the former chief of the village’s Fire Department, had a much happier election night on June 19 when he captured one of two seats on the board in an uncontested election.

The Montauk Playhouse Community Center foundation, which is hoping to renovate the west side of the playhouse, applied on Tuesday to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals for the variances necessary to begin construction.

In an uncharacteristically brief meeting on Friday, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals closed three continued hearings and all six new hearings on its agenda.

Concern about what has been described as an unusually large number of ticks this spring — and the potential for increased instances of Lyme disease — has given rise to a first-time fund-raising effort by stores and restaurants on the North and South Forks.

John Augustine Wick and Madeline Katherine Chiavini were married on the dock at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett on June 2. Rabbi Kyle Cotler, a friend of the couple, officiated, and a reception with dinner and dancing followed on the yacht club deck.

Founded in 1891, Shinnecock was designed as a 12-hole course by Willie Davis. In 1892, play began on the course for the first 44 members.

After 16 months of planning and fund-raising, the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center will begin its construction phase on Saturday at 2 p.m. with a groundbreaking ceremony to be held on the site of the village’s historic movie theater, which was destroyed by fire in December 2016.

A long-discussed plan to construct a fire department substation in Northwest Woods is moving forward.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has announced a series of talks in its ongoing effort to engage with and educate the community about the environmental challenges facing the hamlet.

East Hampton Village Hall, the historic Beecher-Hand House, needs renovation and repair, a consultant told the village board at a work session last Thursday.

A bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, has been detected in Mill Pond in Water Mill. The toxic algae also persist in Lake Agawam in Southampton, Roth Pond in Stony Brook, and Lake Ronkonkoma.

A statement posted on the social media pages of businesses belonging to Ben Krupinski and his wife, Bonnie Bistrian Krupinski, who were killed in a plane crash, along with their grandson and pilot, said the family is grateful for the community's support.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for the plane and its two missing occupants because of "rapidly deteriorating sea conditions," East Hampton Town police said Sunday afternoon.

The Long Island Community Foundation has given Concerned Citizens of Montauk $20,000 to help fund its work to improve the hamlet’s water quality.

Seeking support for its plan to use part of a 24-acre site off the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Southampton Town as an impound yard for vehicles seized by its Police Department, Sag Harbor Village dispatched Police Chief Austin J. McGuire and Charles Voorhis, an environmental consultant, to a public hearing before the town’s planning board last Thursday.

After two years without a pastor, the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton has a live one. And she’s a woman — a first in the church’s recently celebrated 94 years and a rarity in the Baptist church nationally.

Bernard Berger, a dermatologist who was at the forefront of scientific efforts to pinpoint the causes of Lyme disease, announced that after nearly 50 years of tending to the skin care of East End residents, he would be closing his Southampton practice on June 30.

Ricky Muller, master carpenter, has just finished a restoration of the Water Mill Museum, which is now open, with an exhibit detailing his work and a members art show.

The East Hampton Village Board will hold a hearing Friday on a proposed law that would allow retail stores in the commercial district to prepare and sell takeout food and beverages.

The roundabout being constructed at the intersection of Route 114 and Buell and Toilsome Lanes in East Hampton Village will not be finished by Memorial Day weekend as planned, Drew Bennett, the engineer overseeing the project, informed the village board on May 9.

The Tom Twomey Series of lectures on topics of local and national interest will return to the East Hampton Library for its fourth season on Saturday at 6 p.m., when Jim Rutenberg, a media columnist at The New York Times, addresses “Fake News, Real News, and Failing Upward at The New York Times.”

The second annual East Hampton Village spring street fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Newtown Lane. The street will be shut down to traffic to make way for approximately 50 booths, set up back to back and stretching from Main Street to Park Place.

A path for pedestrians and cyclists along Edgemere Street in Montauk, connecting the Long Island Rail Road station with the downtown area, is a possibility as the Town of East Hampton seeks to take advantage of a program under which it would be designed and financed by Suffolk County.

The East Hampton Village Board on Friday adopted a law setting strict guidelines for large gatherings at private residences and commercial properties. It will not go into effect until Oct. 1, and in the meantime, potential legal action is being considered.

Four months after Ronald Perelman’s sprawling application to legalize numerous zoning-code violations was considered, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday granted most of the billionaire investor and philanthropist’s variance requests for the Creeks, his estate on Georgica Pond.

The Deacon David Hedges house in Sagaponack, a farmhouse built in 1775 by a descendant of one of the founding families of East Hampton, was listed for sale last Wednesday for an asking price of $11.95 million.

In honor of Earth Day, which is Sunday, the musician Dan Zanes, a onetime rock ’n’ roller who is now the most recognized name in the family-music genre, will give a free concert at 3 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

A 39.2-acre portion of the more than 200-acre Maidstone Club property, which stretches along Dunemere and Old Beach Lanes, was the focus of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday when it reviewed an application for a 676-square-foot “warming hut” where its platform tennis courts and main clubhouse are located.

David E. Rattray

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Farm Museum Opens

The festivities will start at 10 a.m. Saturday when the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum opens for the season. A sale of antique farm tools and furnishings will take place until noon, and there will be tours of the house, barn, and collection of wagons and buggies until 4 p.m. 

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