Villages

Representatives of the Maidstone Club continued to press the contention that constructing a wooden bridge spanning a narrow section of Hook Pond north of Dunemere Lane is essential to public safety when the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals met on Friday.

Historic structures were afforded greater protection when the East Hampton Village Board adopted a code amendment on Friday, and two long-serving members of the community were honored.

In a July 10 wedding held in the Lyons Farmette garden near Boulder, Colo., Perry Santanachote and Alistair Coy Wallace, a Manhattan couple who spend many weekends in East Hampton, were married.

Bryan Staubitser, a son of Thomas and Marlene Staubitser of Montauk, and Miken Souza were married on Oct. 1 at the Hui No’eau Cultural Arts Center in Makawao, Maui. Rennette Pacheco Bishaw of Hilo, Hawaii, known as Aunti Rae, a kahu, or Hawaiian minister, officiated. 

The bride is a daughter of Kennethy and Mike Souza of Wailuku, Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands. 

Family and friends from Maui, Oahu, Molokai, and the Big Island, as well as New York, Maine, California, Minnesota, Florida, and Costa Rica, joined the couple for their celebration. 

The East Hampton Food Pantry is moving to the Hampton Country Day Camp at 191 Buckskill Road in East Hampton.

Joseph Malik-Atkinson and Olivia Stevens of Montauk were married on Sept. 17 at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk.

Gregory Alvin Burns and Kelsey Rebecca Edwardes were married on Sept. 17 at the Montauk Lighthouse, in an intimate ceremony for family and close friends. Their friend Christian Karolus officiated.

White’s Apothecary announced on Friday that it is sponsoring a new, mobile “big red med drug disposal box,” in which people can discard unused or unwanted leftover medications, for use by local law enforcement agencies at community events.

Need to get rid of the leftover paint from that project five years ago? Out-of-date solvent? Mercury-containing compact fluorescent lightbulbs? Rusty cans of what-was-this-stuff-anyway?

A free workshop on sustainable practices for house and garden will be held on Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Nature Conservancy on Route 114 in East Hampton.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation granting the Village of Sag Harbor authority over waterways beyond the present 1,500-foot boundary, expanding its jurisdictional reach into an additional area in East Hampton Town waters.

Voters in the Sag Harbor School District approved the John Jermain Memorial Library’s 2017 budget last Thursday with a final count of 159 votes in favor and 17 in opposition.

Nathan Aldred of East Hampton and Charlene Cohen of Colorado were married on Sept. 9 in a traditional Hawaiian wedding ceremony in the village of Waimanalo, Oahu.

East Hampton Village’s zoning board of appeals is likely to grant a freshwater wetlands permit to the East Hampton Town Trustees allowing the trustees to use village-owned property at the end of Cove Hollow Road for access, staging, and dewatering the spoil from a proposed dredging of the Georgica Cove portion of Georgica Pond.

Courtney Matson Edwards, a daughter of Barbara Lord Edwards and James C. Edwards Jr. of East Hampton, was married here on June 11 to Matthew Powell Kahn.

Voters in Bridgehampton and Sagaponack on Saturday approved the Hampton Library’s 2017 budget of approximately $1.67 million. The final tally from Bridgehampton voters was 40 to 3 in favor, while those in Sagaponack approved it 17 to 0.

East Hampton Meals on Wheels is looking for volunteers to pack meals and make deliveries to homebound residents in Montauk, Amagansett, Sag Harbor, East Hampton Village, Springs, Wainscott, and Northwest Woods.

The proposed renovation of a historic timber-frame house opposite Town Pond drew mostly praise from members of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

Lovers of clams and clam competitions take note: The East Hampton Town Trustees will host their annual Largest Clam Contest on Oct. 2 at noon at the Donald Lamb Building on Bluff Road in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Library’s 2017 budget, a $2.46 million spending plan that includes a 6.9-percent year-over-year spending increase, passed Saturday with a final tally of 93 to 16.

Edwina von Gal of the Perfect Earth Project, a Springs organization that promotes toxin-free landscaping, addressed the board and proposed a partnership in which Perfect Earth would cite the village as a toxin-free municipality.

Voters in the Sag Harbor School District and Bridgehampton and Saga­ponack School Districts will decide the fate of the proposed 2017 budgets for the John Jermain Memorial Library and Hampton Library, respectively, during budget votes coming up in the next week.

The Sag Harbor Village Board will allow two houses larger than 4,000 square feet to move forward in the planning process, members decided on Tuesday night.

Last month, the board said it would green-light the application for a house with a gross floor area of 5,263 square feet house at 48 Lincoln Street in Ninevah Beach, making it the first special-permit request the board had granted since it adopted new gross floor area limits in March. Any proposals over 4,000 square feet require an exemption from the board to be reviewed.

In a ceremony on Saturday at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth Talley and James King were married, accompanied by Mr. King’s children, Emily and Evan.

The owners of 34 Jermain Avenue in Sag Harbor have filed a lawsuit against a contractor who they claim defrauded them out of more than $1 million.

A consortium of developers, environmental groups, and others have formed the New York Offshore Wind Alliance to pressure state officials to make a long-term, large-scale commitment to offshore wind power.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals appears likely to grant a variance allowing the owner of adjacent properties to construct a tennis court, retaining wall, and steps on a parcel that does not have a principal building, which the village code requires.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ attempt to open Georgica Pond to the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday was abandoned for the time being.

Staff at the Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge in Noyac and the Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge have thanked visitors for respecting the beach closures.

A planning study of the commercial areas in each of East Hampton Town’s hamlets will continue this month with a focus on Montauk, both the harbor area and downtown.