Villages

The Parrish Art Museum has changed up its permanent collection galleries and is in a mood to celebrate this weekend. Its new exhibition, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” opens to the public on Sunday with a free community day at the museum from noon to 3 p.m.

The lawsuit filed by Jerry Larsen, a former East Hampton Village police chief, against Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., Richard Lawler, a village trustee, and the village in general was dismissed by a federal judge on Sept. 24 on the basis of the statute of limitations.

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

Strategies for protecting the health of the East End’s drinking water supply, among them replacing outdated septic systems, reducing the use of pesticides, and increasing land preservation, were presented Tuesday, at a forum hosted by the Accabonac Protection Committee.

Nighttime Tours

If a group slowly roaming the South End Burying Ground startles drivers on Main Street or James Lane Tuesday evening, they need not worry; it will be Hugh King, director of Home, Sweet Home Museum, leading a flashlight tour with stories about the notable figures buried there.

The one-hour outing will begin at Home, Sweet Home at 5 p.m. It has been organized by the East Hampton Historical Society, which is taking required reservations by phone at 631-324-6850 or at easthamptonhistory.org. The cost is $15, and participants will be limited to 18.

Montauk Notes from the Oct. 25 print issue.

Sag Harbor Note from the Oct. 25 print issue.

The Bonac Amateur Radio Club will hold its monthly meeting tonight from 6 to 8 at the Amagansett Library. The group meets on the fourth Thursday of every month and promotes amateur radio on the South Fork.

Based on its latest rounds of water testing last week, Concerned Citizens of Montauk again urged people to avoid contact with the water in Fort Pond, where a blue-green algae bloom persisted.

Andre Goy and Jeffrey Brice Ornstein were married on Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, with the Very Rev. Denis Brunelle officiating. A reception followed at the Maidstone Club.

A plan to merge two vacant lots at 20 and 24 West End Road and build a single-family residence in excess of 10,000 square feet, plus a detached garage and accessory structures, was the subject of a lengthy discussion at the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

Seeking to bring order to the piles of free magazines that clutter the doorways of shops in the commercial district, particularly during the summer months, the East Hampton Village Board passed a law last Thursday that limits the distribution of such printed matter.

Anthony Charles Daunt and Erica Jeanne Silich of Springs are “huge baseball fans” whose hearts belong not only to each other but also to the Mets, so it makes sense that they chose to be married in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

If you consider yourself a map aficionado, then you will be excited to learn that the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection acquired two new maps last month.

“Despite living only five minutes away from each other in Northwest Woods” in East Hampton, Timothy Robert Miller and Lisa Ann Lakeman, “have college to thank for bringing them together,” they wrote. “Six years and a bunch of Sam’s pizza dates later,” they were engaged overlooking “the very same beaches” they had grown up on.

As part of the East End Mental Health Awareness Initiative, two free events will take place in Bridgehampton and Southampton next week sponsored by East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

Seeking to honor the work being done to restore local historical buildings, the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton handed out its inaugural preservation awards during its annual meeting on Saturday.

David John Cataletto and Elizabeth Catherine Marchisella of East Hampton were married on June 30 at Sacred Hearts Basilica in Southampton, with a large reception and dancing under the stars following at the Castle Barn at Nova’s Ark Project in Bridgehampton.

Two dead whales washed ashore this week, one in Amagansett on Monday, and the other in East Hampton Village yesterday, where a dead dolphin also was found at around the same time. Both whales, awash in the surf, were badly decomposed and seemed to be part of an “unusual mortality event” for whales along the Atlantic Coast.

Hard clams harvested from Lake Montauk, Napeague Harbor, Accabonac Harbor, and Three Mile Harbor are eligible.

Lisa Madeleine Lawler and Peter Armon of East Hampton were married on Aug. 18 at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk. The groom’s friend Michael Koestner of Syosset officiated. A reception followed at Montauk Downs.

Seeking to remove phragmites, an invasive plant, from a section of Georgica Pond, the owner of a pond-front residence at 94 Apaquogue Road asked the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday for a freshwater wetlands permit. The owner, David Gallo, was represented at the meeting by Charles Bowman of Land Use Ecological Services, a company that oversees wetland restorations.

A special events law to take effect in East Hampton Village on Oct. 1 will require permits for gatherings of 50 or more people at a private residence and prevent pre-existing businesses in residential neighborhoods, such as the Hedges Inn, from having events outdoors or in tents.

The Town of East Hampton’s push to meet 100 percent of its energy needs through renewable sources will get a ­publicity boost on Saturday, when TEDxShinnecockHills, the South Fork’s first public TEDx event, happens from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center. It will feature a number of talks broadly focusing on sustainability and environmentalism.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk on Friday confirmed a new bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in the northern part of Montauk’s Fort Pond, and has urged people to avoid contact with the water and to keep their pets away from it “due to potential health concerns.”

The East Hampton Village Board grappled with drafting laws that would require septic system upgrades and restrict the use of gas-powered leaf blowers at a work session last Thursday.

James Netter Sprayregen and Rachel Diane Kritchman were married on Saturday at the groom’s grandmother Alice Netter’s house in East Hampton’s Georgica neighborhood. Cantor-Rabbi Debra Stein of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons officiated.

A proposed Sagaponack Village law that would impose a 90-day moratorium on the installation of deer fencing will be the subject of a public hearing on Monday at 3 p.m. at Village Hall.

Samuel Pierson Glinn and Lindsey Kikyo Kawamura were married on Saturday at a small ceremony in Nina Gillman’s garden on Windmill Lane in Amagansett.

Robert S. Chaloner, the head of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, will be the keynote speaker at a forum Saturday on the future of health care.