It was on Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk that Shannon Luckey and Joe Guglielmo became engaged on Nov. 22. Ms. Luckey is a daughter of Tom and Joanne Luckey of Montauk and Wantagh. She teaches math at Discovery High School in the Bronx and is a graduate of Colgate University and New York University

Mr. Guglielmo is a guidance counselor at Xavier High School in Manhattan and graduated from Fordham University and Hofstra University. His parents are John and Claire Guglielmo of Wantagh.

Leftheri T. Syrianos, a son of Eleni Prieston of Sag Harbor, was awarded the Eagle Scout rank at a Court of Honor ceremony on Nov. 29 at the Breakwater Yacht Club. Mr. Syrianos joined the Cub Scouts at age 9 and now has achieved his Eagle Scout rank at 23. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which makes communication difficult, he reached his goal through hard work, discipline, and the encouragement and support of family and friends.

During the ceremony, Patrick Witty, his scoutmaster, and Doug Alnwick, his Eagle mentor and a Pierson High School shop teacher, praised Mr. Syrianos’s perseverance. He was “a kid who just kept coming back and coming back, until he was finished,” Mr. Alnwick said.

Mr. Syrianos’s project was the construction of three large planters placed outside the Senior Nutrition Center in Bridgehampton. He designed the planters so that they were approachable by wheelchair, to help provide the residents with “something to do instead of just something to look at,” in his words.

More than 60 people attended the ceremony, at which Mr. Syrianos thanked his mother and his brother, Damian.

Emily Christine Ward, the daughter of Christine and Mark Ward of East Hampton, and Michael Albert Bunce, a son of Joanne Bunce of Water Mill and Michael Bunce Sr. of Lady Lake, Fla., were married on Oct. 25 under a beautiful blue sky at Giorgio’s in Baiting Hollow.

The maid of honor was Kalie Peters of East Hampton. The bride’s cousins Lyndsay Ostrower of Melville and Amelia Ward of Bay Shore were bridesmaids, and the groom’s cousin, Georgia Bunce of East Hampton, was a junior bridesmaid. The bride wore an ivory gown of taffeta and lace; her attendants were in navy blue gowns.

Mr. Bunce’s best man was his brother, Christopher Bunce of Water Mill. His groomsmen were Kurt Rist and Ryan Wilson, both of Southampton.

The bride is an audiologist at ENT and Allergy Associates in Southampton. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at the State University at Geneseo and a doctorate in audiology from the State University at Buffalo. Her husband is a personal and group trainer and the director of CrossFit 11968 in Southampton. He is completing a degree at Adelphi University in Garden City.

The couple live in Water Mill and are planning a wedding trip to Hawaii in January.

An environmental engineering firm tasked with developing a water-quality management plan for the Hook Pond watershed area should be selected by next month. 

Becky Molinaro, the East Hampton Village administrator, delivered an update on the Hook Pond Water Quality Improvement Project to the village board at a brief work session last Thursday. The initiative is a collaboration with the town, the East Hampton Town Trustees, and community organizations.

The village, which appropriated $35,000 in its 2014-15 budget for the project, issued a request for qualifications in October. Ms. Molinaro told the board five replies were received. A selection committee including trustees, pond-front homeowners, representatives of the Nature Conservancy and the Group for the East End, and officials from the town’s natural resources department chose two of them as finalists. They are Nelson, Pope, and Voorhis, LLC, based in Melville, and Lombardo Associates of Newton, Mass. The latter firm recently drafted a comprehensive wastewater management plan for the town.

A third firm may also be named a finalist, Diane McNally, clerk of the trustees, said Tuesday.

Interviews with officials of those firms will be scheduled “within a week or two, hopefully,” Ms. Molinaro said, so that the committee can discuss and make a recommendation. “Hopefully, the village will decide by January,” she said.

Tests performed since 1981 have detected a range of conditions in the watershed area, which includes the central commercial district, the North Main Street commercial area, residential areas, and the Maidstone Club. In general, the village’s request for qualifications stated, nitrogen concentrations in Hook Pond exceed the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s eco-regional criteria, meaning that the pond contains an excessive richness of nutrients. Animals, primarily waterfowl, are cited as a significant source of nitrogen in the pond, though septic systems are also blamed for water-quality degradation. Excessive nitrogen depletes oxygen in the water, which can kill marine life.

The chosen engineering firm’s tasks will include the compilation and analysis of existing water quality and flow data to diagnose and identify data gaps; identification and analysis of the sources of problems; development, implementation, and analysis of a water-quality sampling plan, and a final report including an updated diagnosis of problems and recommendations for actions to protect and improve the pond’s water quality. Future funding mechanisms must also be identified, and the firm will have to conduct two community outreach meetings after the plan is developed to obtain feedback and refine its recommendations.

At its Nov. 21 meeting, the board approved a proposal from the FPM Group, an engineering and environmental science firm, to sample groundwater at the Emergency Services Building. That testing was performed on Dec. 3, a result of the discovery of pentachlorophenol, a wood preservative, in water from a basement sump in the building. Results of the testing are expected in a few weeks.

The utility poles that PSEG Long Island erected this year as part of an upgrade to its transmission infrastructure are treated with the preservative, commonly known as penta, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen by the E.P.A. The Emergency Services Building, on Cedar Street, is along the transmission route.

Bruce Tait, a longtime member of the Sag Harbor Village Harbor Committee, resigned from that committee, not because of his recent demotion from its chairmanship, he said, but because the committee isn’t focused on the issues he finds important.

In an email to Mayor Brian Gilbride and the village board on Nov. 5, Mr. Tait said he was stepping down due to personal and professional commitments. The board accepted his resignation at a meeting on Nov. 12.

Reached by phone on Tuesday, Mr. Tait said he has “great confidence” in Stephen L. Clarke, whom the mayor appointed as chairman in August, over Mr. Tait, who had led the harbor committee for several years and had served on it for about 15.

The board accepted his resignation with regret. “I think Bruce has done a great job. Him and I have sparred a little bit,” Mayor Gilbride said. “I think Bruce’s dedication to the waterfront is second to none.”

“The major lifting of the harbor committee is, right now, dealing with the very difficult and intricate job of wetlands permits,” Mr. Tait said. The committee is in the midst of working to amend the village’s wetlands code during a moratorium on wetlands permits for single-family house lots put into place in September for 180 days. The village is, however, considering an exemption to the wetlands moratorium for 10 Cove Road in the Redwood subdivision and will discuss the matter at its December meeting.

“I’m more concerned with harbor management and the direction the village is going in general,” Mr. Tait said, adding that there is “a lack of vision of how to deal with the harbor.” He had wanted the harbor committee to be included in discussions with the village board about how to better implement harbor management, better allocate mooring and dock slips — over all, a better management system, he said, for the village’s harbor.

“The trustees would never really bring us into that discussion,” Mr. Tait said, despite it being “a huge resource of revenue for the village.”

Meanwhile, the village will advertise for a replacement for Mr. Tait. The mayor said he had hoped Joseph Tremblay, an alternate who was appointed in August, would take the position, but he declined. “He will remain as an alternate and sit in while we’re looking,” the mayor said.

In other news, the village board will hold a hearing next month on a proposed law to prohibit the use of single-use plastic bags. The proposal is part of a movement on the East End to ban such bags in time for Earth Day 2015. East Hampton and Southampton Villages led the way, implementing bans in recent years. The hearing will be held at the village board meeting on Dec. 9 at 6 p.m.

David Zaslav, the president of Discovery Communications, and his wife, Pam, who purchased an oceanfront residence on Drew Lane, East Hampton, from the restaurateur and advertising executive Jerry Della Femina in 2012, have applied for a coastal erosion permit and variances to allow additions and renovations to the existing house. They also seek to construct a new swimming pool partially within the footprint of the existing pool, demolish the existing pool house, construct a new 767-square-foot building to be used as a garage, storage area, and pool house, install a new sanitary system, expand a driveway, and add drainage structures, two stairways, and landscaping. The stairways would be situated within required setbacks.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals scrutinized the application at its meeting on Friday. Richard Hammer, an attorney representing the Zaslavs, said his clients had considered demolishing the house, but concluded that additions would minimize disturbance to the dunes and surrounding area. A significant change in elevation at the property immediately to the west, he told the board, meant that “our additions would probably not be visible to them.”

The integrity of the primary dune is a concern for the village and the Zaslavs alike, Mr. Hammer said. He told the board that Lee Weishar, a senior scientist and coastal engineer at the Woods Hole Group, a Massachusetts environmental consulting firm, had determined that the proposed project would not have an impact on the dune’s stability. “Our proposal is to try not to excavate or disturb any area seaward of the existing residence. In fact, we might be providing volume to the dune,” he said.

Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, said that, while the application says there would be no excavation of the dune crest, the proposed swimming pool, at eight feet deep, would be three feet deeper than the existing pool, “so you will be digging into the dune to excavate it further down.” A member of Mr. Zaslav’s family had been injured diving into a pool, Mr. Hammer responded, hence his wish for a greater depth. Excavation, he said, would be “probably just beyond the existing fittings.”

“The plans show an indoor shower and two sinks in the pool house,” Mr. Newbold continued, noting that the former is prohibited. “Then there will be no indoor shower in the pool house,” Mr. Hammer replied. The accessory structure’s septic system, he said, would also comply with the requirement that it be situated at least 150 feet north of the contour line that represents a natural elevation of 15 feet above the mean high water mark.

The residence, Mr. Newbold said, would have to be “totally compliant with FEMA,” referring to a Federal Emergency Management Agency requirement for waterfront properties located in highest-risk flood zones. If the cost of a proposed renovation is more than 50 percent of the current construction value of the existing house, the entire new house must be FEMA-compliant, on pilings and with a breakaway foundation wall, among other requirements. If the renovation costs less than 50 percent of the house’s current construction value, the house is considered pre-existing nonconforming and can be modified with the appropriate permits and variances.

This, Mr. Hammer said, was the most difficult aspect of the project, but “we will be in the reconstructed 50-percent limit as required by code.” He promised to submit evidence confirming that compliance after the meeting.

As the property is “in the heart of the dune,” the construction protocol is important to the board, Mr. Newbold said. A 1988 variance granted to Mr. Della Femina specified that all work be done by hand, with no machinery permitted in the vicinity of the dune. Christopher Minardi, a board member, asked if the application should be shared with Rob Hermann, a coastal management specialist who has served as a consultant to the village. Mr. Newbold agreed, adding that information would also be forwarded to Drew Bennett, a consulting engineer to the village.

The hearing was left open and will continue at the board’s Dec. 12 meeting.

The board announced one determination. Matthew Foulds and Eleanor Jinks of 80 Pantigo Road were granted variances for the continued maintenance of an air-conditioning unit, a swimming pool, pool patio, pool equipment, slate pavers, and an outdoor shower within the rear and side-yard setbacks, and to permit the continued maintenance of 5,060 square feet of lot coverage where the maximum permitted by code is 4,391 square feet. The variances were granted on the condition that no beds or sleeping be permitted in the pool house, and that the applicants file a declaration of compliance with the condition authorizing an annual inspection on 24 hours’ notice.

With the departure of Dr. Anthony Knott from the Montauk office of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice, Dr. Lara DeSanti-Siska and Dr. Elizabeth White-Fricker of Meeting House Lane’s Wainscott office, will each work one day a week in Montauk until a full-time doctor is hired.

Jay Levine, a Montauk resident, Southampton Hospital board member, and health care consultant with ECG Management Consultants, issued a strategic plan for coverage in the office in the coming months.

The office will remain open full time, with medical assistance and prescription refills provided by Ken Dodge, the physicians assistant, who will himself retire on Dec. 31.

Starting in February, a full-time nurse practitioner will begin working in the Montauk office. And as of Jan. 1, Meeting House Lane will take over responsibility of the East Hampton Urgent Care Center on Montauk Highway, currently run by Dr. George Dempsey of East Hampton Family Medicine. Once that happens, all of the medical records of Montauk patients from Dr. Knott’s office will be electronically available to the attending physician there. The clinic assists patients on a walk-in basis.

The hospital’s board also issued a reminder that the Amagansett office of Dr. Charles J. DeFrai, also of Meeting House Lane Medial is available by appointment and has access to Montauk residents’ medical records. Several physician candidates are now being interviewed by hospital officials to take over the Montauk office on a full-time basis.

Roy and Lori Dalene of Woodbine Drive in Springs have announced the marriage of their daughter Jessica Sue Dalene to David Michael Weber of Erie, Pa., on Oct. 4.

The couple were married at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Nancy Howarth. They were attended by the bride’s sister, Amy Dalene of East Hampton and Santa Barbara, Calif., as maid of honor, and the groom’s cousin Daniel Weber of Santa Barbara as best man. The reception was held at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton.

Ms. Weber graduated from East Hampton High School and the Brooks Institute’s School of Photography in Montecito, Calif. Mr. Weber attended Erie Prep in Pennsylvania and studied international business at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from which he graduated in 2010.

The couple live in Santa Barbara, where they both work. They frequently travel to the East Coast.

The East Hampton Rotary will honor Doug Mercer, the founder of the East Hampton Wellness Foundation, as the club’s person of the year at a Dec. 1 dinner at East by Northeast restaurant in Montauk. Tickets are $30 and can be reserved by phoning Conrad Costanzo of Surfside Avenue in Montauk. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Mr. Mercer, who lives on Dunemere Lane in East Hampton, moved here full time in 1988 after 20 years at States Marine Lines, which his father had founded at the end of World War II. The Wellness Foundation, which he established about a decade ago, promotes health through nutrition, physical activity, and stress management. According to the Rotary Club, it has helped educate as many as 10,000 adults and children on the South Fork and has been the model for similar programs elsewhere.

It also runs public programs for adults and collaborates with restaurants about adding and promoting healthy menu options.

Mr. Mercer has said that he drew inspiration for the Wellness Foundation both from his father’s premature death, which was linked to strokes he first suffered at 62, and a boycott of unhealthy cafeteria food at the East Hampton Middle School in 2005.

The foundation runs several six-week Wellness Challenges a year. The next will begin the week of Jan. 19 with locations in Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Southampton, and Hampton Bays. Participants will learn to eat better to lose weight, lower their cholesterol, and reduce prescription drug use. The cost is $150. Further details can be requested by phone at the foundation’s office or by email at [email protected].

The new, taller utility poles through some residential neighborhoods erected by PSEG Long Island this year led the East Hampton Village Board at a meeting on Friday to approve a proposal from the FPM Group, an engineering and environmental science firm, to sample groundwater at the Emergency Services Building.

The utility poles have been treated with pentachlorophenol, a wood preservative that is restricted to use in utility poles and railroad ties in the United States although it is banned in other countries and classified as a probable human carcinogen by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Earlier this year water from a basement sump in the Emergency Services Building, which is along the transmission route, was found to contain the chemical.

With Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. on medical leave following knee surgery, Barbara Borsack, the deputy mayor, conducted the meeting during which the board adopted one amendment to the village code with regard to utility poles and postponed consideration of a related amendment.

The approved amendment requires utility companies to remove old or damaged poles, from which cables and other fixtures have been removed, if they are attached to or in close proximity of new ones. Adoption of a second amendment, which would require a public hearing prior to the issuance of a permit for the erection of new poles, was postponed so that Linda Riley, the village attorney, could reword it. Richard Lawler, a board member, had expressed concern that, as written, the law might require a public hearing any time a utility pole was struck by a vehicle or damaged in a storm, for example. The amendment will be revisited next month.

The board also adopted an amendment intended to allow use variances for nonconforming structures rather than special permits under certain circumstances. The amendment authorizes the zoning board to grant variances if changes render such a structure more conforming. That was apparently the Z.B.A. intent when it recently approved the conversion of a restaurant at 103 Montauk Highway to an office for a landscaping firm.

The board also amended the zoning code to clarify that “only one single-family residence is permitted on a lot.” The zoning board has heard several applications in recent years in which property owners have sought the continued existence of accessory buildings that contained cooking equipment and/or sleeping facilities. The village previously exempted a small number of properties that were designated as timber-frame landmarks from this regulation.

The board also scheduled public hearings on two proposed code amendments for Dec. 19. One would reduce the speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour on Dayton Lane. The board codified the same reduction for Mill Hill Lane and Meadow Way last month.

The other proposed amendment would update the code to reflect technological improvements in exterior lighting and reduce lighting deemed nonessential. The amendment would add to the law’s intent the preservation of the village’s rural character, wise energy use, conservation of natural resources, and a reduction of excessive illumination “which has been demonstrated to have a detrimental effect on the local flora and fauna that depend on the natural cycle of day and night.”

At the conclusion of the meeting, Ms. Borsack expressed irritation over complaints about the planned roundabout at the intersection of Route 114, Buell Lane, and Toilsome Lane. The village recently received a $700,000 state grant to help fund the construction.

Citing some 14 years of discussion and planning,  and other proposals by the State Department of Transportation to which village officials were opposed, as well as what she called scant cooperation and assistance from the D.O.T., Ms. Borsack said that neither she nor her colleagues had heard objections to any proposals since 2008.

“We’re here to do the bidding of the public. If the public doesn’t let us know what they’re thinking, it’s very difficult to do that.” The process has always been open and public, she said, “so it’s disheartening for us as elected officials to then get feedback from the public that ‘it’s a horrible idea and what are we thinking?’ ” She encouraged residents to follow reports in The Star and on LTV. “We want to do the job that you want us to do,” she said, “but it’s hard if we don’t know what you’re thinking.”