Terry Watson will be the grand marshal leading Montauk’s 52nd St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday. The festivities will begin tomorrow, when she will be honored at the annual grand marshal lunch from noon to 3 p.m. at Gurney’s Inn. This year’s host is Joan Lycke, the 2011 grand marshal, who is taking over for John Behan, who had hosted the lunch for many years.

At the event, Ms. Watson, a member of the Montauk School Board from 1984 to 2013, will be given her top hat and shillelagh and will hear some good-natured teasing. Tickets cost $50 in advance or $55 at the door and can be purchased at the Montauk Laundromat or by calling 668-3381. Reservations have been suggested and can be made by emailing [email protected].

The annual cocktail party will be held at Gurney’s Inn on Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. Booga Sugar will provide the tunes for dancing. There will be a buffet dinner and open bar. Tickets, which cost $65 in advance, are available at the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, Becker’s Hardware, Atlantic Wines and Liquors in Amagansett, or online with a credit card at montaukfriendsoferin. com. They will cost $75 at the door.

The drawing for the Pot of Gold raffle will take place at the party, with remaining tickets sold right up until the winning stubs are pulled. The raffle tickets cost $100, and only 350 will be sold. The grand prize is $10,000, second prize is $1,000, and the third and fourth-place prizes are $500 each.

The St. Patrick’s Day parade will start on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. near the Montauk train station on Edgemere Road. It will end near the Montauk I.G.A. There will be more than 60 contingents, including marching bands, humorous floats, boy scouts and girl scouts, and fire departments.

Before the parade begins, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce will help warm the crowd with a soup sale starting at 11 a.m. Each commemorative cup will cost $8. A variety of soups donated by local restaurants will be available. The proceeds help defray the cost of the parade.

Officers from several police departments will be on hand and on the trains to monitor the crowds and enforce the open-container law, which if violated means a $250 fine.

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. noted, as the East Hampton Village Board gathered on Friday, that spring would officially begin that evening. With yet another snowstorm looming, however, the few members present read through a quick agenda.

An unfinished new house on the Gardiner home lot, at 36 James Lane, drew attention as the board agreed to advertise for bids on its relocation or demolition. The house is behind the timber-frame house that was built in 1750. Bids will be opened on April 13 at 2 p.m. at Village Hall.

After a request from the village board, the town purchased the Gardiner home lot last year from Olney Mairs Gardiner, using money from the community preservation fund. The parcel also contains the historic Gardiner Windmill, which dates to 1804.

“It was always the intent to remove that new building,” Robert Hefner, a historic preservation consultant, wrote in an email, “in order to restore the agricultural land and setting of the mill and mill cottage.” The hope, he said, is that someone will move it offsite. Failing that, it is hoped that its windows, doors, and other usable components will be recycled prior to demolition.

The board also announced public hearings to be held at its April 17 meeting that would amend sections of the village code by instituting new fees for violations. Fines pertaining to beaches, garage sales, noise, peace and good order, peddling and soliciting, solid waste, streets and sidewalks, and zoning would increase after failure to pay for 30, 60, and 90 days.

The amendments, said Rebecca Molinaro, the village administrator, would also allow the village to prosecute a summons in instances when someone failed to appear in court; it would previously have been dismissed. This, Ms. Molinaro said, would provide the village with the ability to follow up on unpaid summonses, which it cannot do now. The proposed fee structure and procedure is identical to that followed by the town, she said.

While there were no outward indications of the spring to which the mayor had referred, one sign of warmer weather appeared in a budget item on the agenda. The purchase, for $11,495, of tickets for the machines in the Robert G. Reutershan and Barns Schenck parking lots was unanimously approved. Parking between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the two lots is limited to two hours from May 1 through Dec. 31.

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.

Andy and Jane Graiser won a reprieve of sorts when the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals reopened the hearing on their application to add an eyebrow window to the roof of their house at 42 Mill Hill Lane, which is under construction. As indicated at prior meetings, however, there was no change of heart: The window cannot be installed.

Patrick Gunn, an attorney representing the Graisers, told the board that one component of his clients’ application, to build a detached garage in a nonconforming location, had been withdrawn. Though there has been no written determination or vote, the board, along with neighbors who testified in writing or in person, had looked unfavorably upon its proposed location.

Owing to a time-sensitive construction schedule, Mr. Gunn asked the board to vote on the eyebrow window, which he said it had “tentatively approved” though it does not comply with a section of code aimed at controlling the mass of the upper third of a house.

“This window is simply an aesthetic addition to the home,” Mr. Gunn said. “It doesn’t make the house any bigger, does not increase the gross floor area. The purpose is only to provide light to the attic.” There would be no detrimental impact on the neighborhood, he said, nor does it violate the spirit of the ordinance in question, which was added in 2012 to curtail “the expanded mass and bulk of the upper third of houses that have been built on smaller lots,” according to its legislative intent.

“It’s clear that the house is not liked by some,” Mr. Gunn said. “I ask the board not to punish the applicant for building a conforming home that’s unpopular, or to curtail their ability to get an aesthetic modification that might normally be granted just because this is an unpopular construction.”

But other residents of Mill Hill Lane, as well as board members, feel that the house is already imposing on the neighborhood. As she has at previous meetings, Mary Busch of 50 Mill Hill Lane referred to the “extra mass and bulk that was appearing in new construction in the village” that the 2012 ordinance intended to address. That part of the zoning code, she said, has been in effect “without any request to this board for relief. In fact, numerous new homes conforming to the code have been built and fit well into the small-lot neighborhoods” such as her own.

“If I could just add,” she said to Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, “I’m a little distressed that the comment could be made that this is a house that people on the street don’t like. It has nothing to do with whether we like the house or not. It has to do with the code that’s in place, what we’re trying to do with our streets in the village, and to guarantee that neighbors have a degree of privacy and can enjoy their homes.”

Mr. Newbold also read a letter from James Berlanti, an adjacent neighbor of the Graisers. “The roof design already has an imposing effect on the neighborhood as it is not in keeping with traditional roof styles,” he read. “The house and neighborhood would benefit from more simplified forms and help the house feel more contextual.”

Pam Bennett, the board’s deputy clerk, polled the board members sitting on the application. Mr. Newbold, along with John McGuirk, Craig Humphrey, and Christopher Minardi, were unanimous: There would be no eyebrow window. Linda Riley, the village’s attorney, said that she hoped to have a written determination for a formal vote at the board’s next meeting, on Friday, March 27.

The board also announced five determinations. Jeffrey Suchman, who owns the building at 71 Montauk Highway that housed East Hampton Bowl, was granted a variance to construct a 9,906-square-foot retail building and site improvements including parking spaces. This will result in coverage of 74.1 percent, where the maximum permitted is 60 percent, but it will reduce the coverage on the lot, which is 80.6 percent now.

The Watson family of 14 Huntting Lane was granted variances to allow additions to an existing dwelling that will result in gross floor area approximately 720 square feet above the allowable maximum, one of which will fall within a minimum required setback. They were also allowed lot coverage approximately 250 square feet in excess of the maximum permitted, provided the parking area at the front of the property is revegetated.

Noam Gottesman of 61 North Briar Patch Road received a freshwater wetlands permit to allow pool fencing approximately 10 feet landward of the edge of wetlands on the condition that there is no clearing of the natural vegetation in the adjacent area, and that he replace any lost or damaged vegetation caused by the fence’s installation.

Nasser J. Malik of 39 Mill Hill Lane was granted variances to allow a new step on the side of his house, conversion of a portion of a detached garage, and the construction of a fireplace with a chimney on the condition that he installs a six-foot stockade fence along the rear property line. Lastly, George W. Murphy of 36 Meadow Way was granted variances to keep a swimming pool, pool patio, pool equipment, liquid petroleum tanks, and a walkway, all built within minimum required setbacks.

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.

With an application in the works by East Hampton Town for a state permit to install four-poster deer feeding stations, the East Hampton Deer and Tick Management Foundation will hold a forum on the stations on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Babette’s restaurant in East Hampton. Refreshments will be served.

The stations treat deer for ticks with a pesticide in order to reduce the ticks’ overall number. They have been used successfully on Shelter Island for the last six years, according to Cornell University and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Mike Scheibel, a wildlife biologist, will outline their use at the event.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who is expected to attend, has, along with Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, made the five East End towns eligible for up to $100,000 in state funds earmarked for four-poster stations. Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell will also attend.

The foundation has proposed a partnership between East Hampton Town and the state for a pilot program this spring on land in Northwest Woods and Springs and is seeking private donations to help get it going. The stations would be purchased with public funds but donations would be needed to cover the approximately $3,500 a year it would cost to stock them with corn, provide the pesticides, and maintain each unit.

Although the stations can be placed on public lands, private property owners or associations with control of tracts of at least 40 acres — the minimum size needed to establish a deer feeding and treatment program, according to the D.E.C. — can request a feeding station on their land provided they are willing to underwrite the operating costs. Possible locations for this year’s four-poster program can be added to the town’s application for another few weeks.

Reservations are required to attend the Sunday event, as seating is limited. They can be made by calling Randy Parsons at 329-8239. More information can be obtained by writing the foundation, c/o Randy Parsons, P.O. Box 480, East Hampton 11937.

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.

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.

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.