The Amagansett branch of Capital One, at 100 Montauk Highway just west of the hamlet’s retail district, will close on April 24.     The bank’s customers were informed of the closing in a letter dated Jan. 21. The letter explained that accounts will be transferred to the Capital One branch at 40 Newtown Lane in East Hampton, with no change to accounts or account numbers.

Customers “will continue to receive the same level of high quality service at any of our nearly 900 branches,” Julie Rakes of the bank’s media relations wrote in an email. Ms. Rakes did not respond to an inquiry about why the branch is closing, except to say that the decision was “part of its regular business review to ensure Capital One is operating as efficiently as possible while continuing to provide quality services and products to its customers.”

Three employees’ positions will be eliminated upon the branch’s closing. They were given more than 90 days’ notice, Ms. Rakes said, and the bank has offered them assistance in applying for positions within the company. Should they be unsuccessful, they would be eligible for severance packages including retraining and outplacement services. “We are committed to doing all that we can to support our associates through this transition,” she said.

Representatives at the Amagansett branch would not comment on the closing, referring inquiries to the bank’s media relations department.

The Sag Harbor Village Board voted on Tuesday evening to extend a temporary moratorium on reviews of wetland variances as it prepares for a hearing on April 14 to consider revisions to its wetlands permit regulations.

Mayor Brian Gilbride said that a draft of the proposed changes is ready, but that the board wanted just a bit more time to review it. In the meantime, a six-month moratorium on consideration of wetland variance requests for single-family lots has been extended another three months, until June 1.

Among the amendments to the code under consideration, the harbor committee would have sole discretion over wetland permits. Under the current code, there is a two-tier system in place in which the village zoning board of appeals reviews an application first and grants variances, before the harbor committee reviews the wetland permit requests.

“It just made it too complicated,” said Denise Schoen, a village attorney who worked on strengthening the wetlands code with the committee and Rich Warren of InterScience, a village consultant. The harbor committee felt “pigeon-holed” by the decisions of the Z.B.A., a board that is less experienced with wetlands laws.

The revision also puts the burden on the applicants when they request variances from wetlands setbacks. Applicants will have to show that there are no practical alternatives. “It’s not enough to say I need a 6,000-square-foot house, a pool, and a jacuzzi. You really have to show you can’t live with something smaller and push something back,” Ms. Schoen said.

Buffer systems have been outlined better in the legislative findings to show how important they are, she said. Also, the bluff-dune setbacks have been reduced to 50 feet because few lots in the Village of Sag Harbor can meet the 100-foot setback.

The village board is expected to adopt the changes next month. Once the revision is filed with the state the moratorium would end. Ms. Schoen said residents can likely expect the village to be processing wetland applications at the end of April.

The moratorium was intended to give the village some breathing room during what has been a building boom in the village. An exemption procedure has been in place, and the board has allowed several applications to go before the village’s harbor committee for review.

In other news from Tuesday’s meeting, single-use plastic bags were back on the agenda. The board, which is in the process of joining the rest of the South Fork in passing a plastic bag ban, agreed that the ban would have no negative environmental impacts. It hopes to pass the prohibition next month, in time for Earth Day. It would go into effect on June 1, a “fair deadline,” Mayor Gilbride said. The board had taken into consideration comments from local business owners who said they had a lot of plastic bags still in stock that would go to waste.

Lastly, Mayor Gilbride promised business owners that the village would take action in response to complaints about the parking situation around Washington Street. Heidi Walters, the owner of Ruby Beets on that street, said that contractors working on the redevelopment of the former Bulova watchcase factory park on the street all day along, making it impossible for customers to find parking — a violation of the original site plan approval. “The vans and the cars are insane,” Ms. Walters said. “Please, help us.”

Ms. Schoen confirmed that the site plan approval stipulated that workers were to park in the St. Andrew’s Catholic Church parking lot or be shuttled in from elsewhere, Ms. Schoen confirmed.

“You are absolutely right,” Mr. Gilbride told Ms. Walters. “We’ll be on the phone with them tomorrow.”

Ms. Walters said the business owners had complained last year, but that nothing had been done. Ms. Schoen said Sag Development Partners did received notices of violation for having three uncovered Dumpsters and a trailer parked at Sage and Washington Streets without a permit.

“We did try to rattle them a little bit, maybe not enough,” Mr. Gilbride said. Ms. Schoen said parking citations will be issued to anyone violating parking regulations, but that Tom Preiato, the building inspector, or Keith Payne, the code enforcement officer, could issue a notice of site plan violations if need be.

Correction: The hearing on the wetland code changes will take place on April 14, not April 17 as originally reported.

Long-awaited improvement in the water at 27 houses at Montauk’s Camp Hero will be in sight at a public hearing at  East HamptonTown Hall tonight on the reconstruction of the water system there at a cost of $200,000.

Residents of Camp Hero, a former Air Force Base transferred to the town in 1984, have coped with brownish, undrinkable water and stained clothing for years. At one point, the water was found to be contaminated and daily deliveries became necessary. Even now, homeowners are advised to run cold water for at least three minutes each morning before using it.

Relief will come at a cost to homeowners, who will be responsible through a special taxing district for the debt service on bonds the town expects to authorize for the work following the hearing.

East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc said in an email this week that the cost to households on a debt of $200,000 for 20 years at 2.5-percent interest would be about $480 per year. However, he said his figures were estimates and the cost could be lower, or $330 per year, if the term of the bonds was 30 years.

The work planned includes reconstruction of the the facility’s upper and lower pump stations, its leaching pools, other furnishings or equipment as found necessary, and related engineering and other costs.

The Suffolk Water Authority monitors the site daily, having taken it over from the town on the condition that the system be updated. Lombardo Associates subsequently designed the project, which is an unlisted action under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, based on an evaluation that the environmental impact on the area, which is about a mile west of the Montauk Lighthouse, will be negligible.

 “It has had continuing problems that will now be addressed through this bond authorization,” East Hampton Town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby said in a message yesterday.

Finally, after years of confusion at the intersection in Montauk’s harbor area where West Lake Drive meets Flamingo Avenue, signs have been posted notifying drivers heading north and south that cross traffic from the east and west does not stop.

Suffolk County workers posted the signs earlier this month after Legislator Jay Schneiderman, a Montauk resident, visited a meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee and heard concerns about confusion at the intersection. Drivers unfamiliar with the route seemed unaware that those heading east to west had the right of way while north-to-south drivers were required to stop, committee members said at the meeting, held in the fall.

Also at that meeting, Lt. Chris Hatch of the East Hampton Town police said that in addition to a slew of accidents at the site over the years, there had been many near misses.

Years ago Henry Uihlein of the nearby Uihlein’s Marina rallied residents for a traffic circle at the intersection, but county officials at the time said it wasn’t feasible and that the area was not wide enough for one.

Although the new signs should help, Mr. Schneiderman said on Tuesday that what he would really like to see there is a one-way loop in which cars would turn right near the Montauk Marine Basin from West Lake Drive and exit by looping around Soundview Drive through the north side of the intersection. Drivers would still be able to enter the harbor area from the south, as is currently possible.

“Then we wouldn’t have as much traffic at the intersection and there’d be only three points of egress,” he said.

If that were to happen, Mr. Schneiderman said, it would allow for additional head-in, on-street parking on the north side of the road near Gaviola’s Market and Uihlein’s Marina, which is needed more than ever since several new and successful businesses have opened in the harbor area.

Speak Out, an opportunity for Sag Harbor community leaders to hear from teenagers about activities and resources they would like the village to provide, will take place Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Bay Street Theater. The event is free, refreshments will be provided, and, because the program is recommended for young people in eighth grade and above, parents will not be admitted to the theater.

Sponsored by the Sag Harbor Coalition, the Youth Resource Center of Sag Harbor, and the Sag Harbor Youth Committee, the event will have on its panel Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, and Sag Harbor Village Mayor Brian Gilbride.

Similar events were held in 1997 and 2000, when adults learned that local teenagers were unhappy about a lack of activities for them in the village. Those forums resulted in the Safe Summer Beach Program at Long Beach and several others initiated for teenagers at the John Jermain Memorial Library and Bay Street Theater.

Eric Bramoff, who is the athletic director of the Bridgehampton School and a Pierson graduate, will moderate the discussion. Other panelists will include Tracy Mitchell, executive director of Bay Street; Diane Patrizio, director of human services for East Hampton Town; Catherine Creedon, director of John Jermain; Gregg Schiavoni, board president of Mashashimuet Park; Lisa Field, president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Kathryn Menu, co-publisher of The Sag Harbor Express; Tom Fabiano, chief of the village’s Police Department; Nancy Lynott, director of the Southampton Town Youth Bureau, and from the Sag Harbor School District either Katy Graves, the superintendent, or Jeff Nichols, the middle-high school principal.

Which East Hampton Village Board member founded the Guild Hall Players in 1931? (Hint: He also acted and built the sets.) This and many other facts will be revealed Friday at 7 p.m. at Clinton Academy when the East Hampton Historical Society presents “Stagestruck: We’ve Got a Barn, Let’s Put On a Show.”

The second of four in the society’s Winter Lecture Series, the evening will feature Hugh King, the village historian, and Barbara Borsack, the village’s deputy mayor, in a look at the history of theater in East Hampton and Amagansett during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Variety shows, plays, pageants, and minstrel shows will be examined.

“Believe it or not, there was theater in the 1880s in Amagansett,” Mr. King said on Friday. Joseph Jefferson, the American actor known for his portrayals of Rip Van Winkle, appeared at Pioneer Hall, for instance. A play inspired by the antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was also staged at the hall, located above what is now Hamptons Realty Group on Main Street, he said.

Miankoma Hall, “built by the Ladies Society of Busy Workers in 1902,” Mr. King said, was also a prominent place for theatrical performances. The dancer Isadora Duncan performed there, and the hall was used for dinners, dances, and fund-raising events. Decades later Tsuya Matsuki taught piano to generations of students at Miankoma Hall, where she lived. Scoville Hall, on Meeting House Lane, and the Amagansett School on Main Street were also sites for amateur theater.

The Rollins School of Acting, which was on Huntting Lane in East Hampton, will also be recalled, Mr. King said, as will the “Village Vanities,” an annual show that ran on Labor Day weekend from 1953 to 1964. The troupe comprised “a combination of the Maidstone summer crowd and local people,” he said, though “only the ‘upstreet’ local people took part.”

“Stagestruck” is free and open to the public. Refreshments and cookies will be served at 6 p.m., and the program will start at 7.

Laura Michele Mastandrea and Paul Jason Novack, both of Sag Harbor, were married on Oct. 4 at the Oceanside Beach Resort in Montauk. Southampton Town Justice Edward Burke Sr. officiated. A reception followed the ceremony under a tent.

The wedding took place on the 50th anniversary of the bride’s parents, Vincent and Rosemary Mastandrea of East Meadow. The groom’s mother, Jeannette Novack of Montauk, and the bride’s grandmother, Irene Ambrosino of Rockville Centre, helped them all to celebrate.

The groom, who has been surfing Montauk waves for over 35 years, has worked at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor for 18 years. He holds a bachelor of science degree in food service management and an associate’s degree in culinary arts from Johnson and Wales University. He has also worked at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan and locally at Dave’s Grill, Shagwong, and World Pie restaurants. The couple met at World Pie, in Bridgehampton, in March 2011.

The bride, who will keep her name professionally and will otherwise be known as Ms. Mastandrea Novack, is an independent real estate broker on the South Fork. She is also the director of the Montauk Seafood Festival, a radio co-host on Peconic Public Broadcasting WPPB 88.3FM, and a Samba Boom! drummer. She graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Florida State University.

She wore a white strapless Sincerity mermaid gown and carried a bouquet of white calla lilies and yellow daisies. Patricia Duffy Elliott of Seaford, a friend for over 25 years, was her maid of honor. Townley Cozad of Fairfax, Va., Kathie Mullin of Sag Harbor, Laura Scurro of Commack, Kathy Duffy of Chicago, and Laura Thimm of Hampton Bays were bridesmaids. They wore navy blue Sangria boutique gowns.

Bruce Mueller of East Islip, a friend of Mr. Novack’s from childhood, was his best man. The groomsmen were Jimmy Red Colbert of Sag Harbor, Irish Chris Maxwell of Montauk, and the bride’s brother, Sam Mastandrea, of Brooklyn.

The Town of East Hampton Anti-Bias Task Force has invited members of the public to two free movie nights in the coming weeks. Both center on the civil rights movement and will be shown at LTV Studios in Wainscott at 7 p.m.

At each screening, the winning entries in a short-film contest sponsored by the task force will also be shown.

On Friday, Feb. 27, the feature will be “Mighty Times: The Children’s March,” an Academy Award-winning documentary. It tells the story of young people in Birmingham, Ala., who braved arrest, fire hoses, and police dogs during a 1963 march for justice.

On March 6, “A Time for Justice” will be screened. Also the recipient of an Academy Award for documentary film, it offers a history of the civil rights movement, told through historical footage and narration by Julian Bond, a leader of the movement, and Representative John Lewis, who was also involved.

Following each of the screenings, the Rev. Katrina Foster of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett will lead a panel discussion on the issues portrayed in the films and their relationship to today’s society. Home-baked treats and other refreshments will be served.

The midwinter doldrums can be shaken off, at least temporarily, tomorrow night when the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett roars back to life to host the sixth annual Mr. Amagansett Pageant, a fund-raiser for the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund.

The event traditionally showcases the good, the bad, and the downright weird in a lighthearted competition to benefit the fund named for a former East Hampton Town chief building inspector who died in 2009. The fund benefits the community in myriad ways, including financial assistance to families in need, a scholarship, and donations to fire departments. It also makes an annual donation to the Wounded Warrior Project, the veterans-care organization that has been the beneficiary of many fund-raising events held by Talkhouse employees and patrons.

In a twist on previous years’ pageants, the contestants, numbering at least eight, will face a panel of male judges. Also new this year is a silent auction with more than 30 prizes, including a private plane ride over East Hampton, a two-night stay in New York City, gift certificates to some of the South Fork’s finest restaurants, and sewing, tennis, and golf lessons.

“I’m proud to be a part of it, proud that the community has continued to keep his memory alive,” Nick Kraus, a promoter at the Talkhouse, said. Mr. Sharkey, he said, was “bigger than life in life, so it’s nice to keep him in our thoughts. Good things are happening around town even without him here any longer.”

Mr. Kraus, a former winner of the pageant, is ineligible to be crowned again, “but for some odd reason I’m allowed to enter again.” He promised to continue a tradition of competing via video, presenting “a winter version of the Showtime show ‘The Affair,’ ” he confided.

Other contestants will include Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, last year’s winner; Gordon Ryan, who previously performed as part of a duo called Boo Bonac and the Plague but promised an all-new act, and, said Tina Piette, one of the event’s organizers, “a local character” sponsored by American Legion Post 419.

“It’s going to be the event of the winter,” said Britton Bistrian, another organizer. “Some regulars, some new blood, much laughter.”

The Talkhouse will open at 6 p.m. tomorrow, with the pageant beginning at 7:30. The cost to compete or to sponsor a contestant is $250. Admission is $20.

Approximately 1,400 of the 3,000 nonresident parking permits for East Hampton Village beaches had been sold as of Monday, one week after they went on sale. The permits, which cost $375 for the season, are available on a first-come-first-served basis for nonresidents. Permits are free for village residents. They must be displayed on vehicles that park at Georgica, Main, Wiborg’s, Egypt, and Two Mile Hollow Beaches between May 15 and Sept. 15.

Nonresident permits can be purchased between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Village Hall, by mail (attention Sue Dayton), or online at easthampton.permits.basgov.com. Starting Memorial Day and on weekends through June, and daily thereafter, remaining permits will be sold between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Main Beach office.

To obtain a permit, residents and nonresidents alike must provide a valid vehicle registration, a telephone number, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope if applying by mail. Residents must also provide a street address, proof of residency, and the name of the owner of the property as listed on tax bills. Nonresidents, who can pay by check or money order, must provide a copy of the driver’s license of the person writing the check or buying the money order.

Parking by the day at Main and Two Mile Hollow Beaches costs $25 and can be paid for only at the entrance to the Main Beach parking lot. Daily parking tickets are available every day but are limited to 40 on weekends and holidays.

Valid parking permits must be displayed in order to park at East Hampton Town beaches, with nonresident permits available, as they are in the village, for $375. The town has no limit, however, on the number of nonresident permits, which must be purchased annually. Beachgoers can pay by the day at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on weekdays only, excluding holidays. The cost is $20.

Town parking permits are available in person between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Town Hall, or by mail, addressed to the town clerk. Residents and nonresidents alike must provide a copy of a valid vehicle registration, a copy of their driver’s license, a telephone number, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope if applying by mail. Residents must also provide the street address and owner of the property as listed on a tax bill, as well as proof of residency. Year-round renters must be registered to vote or have their local street address on their vehicle registration.