Gen. Michael Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, was the guest speaker at Monday’s Memorial Day parade and services in East Hampton. Mr. Hayden, a retired Air Force four-star general, began his speech by mentioning his father, who will be 93 in 10 days, and whom he called “the real veteran in the Hayden family.”

One of the “real treats” in his 40-year-long military career, General Hayden said, was being able to visit many of the places his father had been deployed during his service. He went on to recount his many experiences overseas in which people had shown “remarkable, subtle gratitude for what Americans had done.”

He mentioned a small village near Krakow, Poland, where an American aircraft was shot down in 1944 and was later turned into a monument by the people who lived there. The monument reads, in both Polish and English, “Here died 11 American airmen in a battle for Polish freedom.”

General Hayden also spoke about a friend of his, Gen. Chuck Boyd, who had been a prisoner of war for seven years in Vietnam. General Hayden said, “Imagine what the nation asked of him, and what he gave in response, during all that time. Of course, more recent veterans are out here, veterans of wars in South Asia and Southwest Asia, Gulf war one, Gulf war two, the global war on terrorism.” He then mentioned Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter of Sag Harbor, who died saving his comrades in Ramadi, Iraq. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary bravery. Of Corporal Haerter’s actions he said, “Those of you who are veterans understand that we all freely fight for our country, but we die for our friends.” In regard to Corporal Haerter’s family and the families of other veterans and soldiers, General Hayden said, “We really need to think about the families who supported and endured while men and women went forward into harm’s way.”

General Hayden spoke about how he felt when awarding a Purple Heart to one soldier. “I was at a loss; what do you say awarding the Purple Heart to someone? Congratulations on being wounded? Thanks for taking a bullet for the country? . . . And then it struck me. As heroic as the man I was honoring was, his family was more heroic still.” He then went on to say to all the veterans in the crowd at the Hook Mill green, “You know when you’re in danger, you know when you’re not in danger. . . . The people back home don’t know that and they are on high concern about you from the time you step aboard that aircraft until you come back. So we need to memorialize our families as well.”

He concluded with an anecdote about Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He told the crowd about the plight of many people living in East Germany who were trying to escape, and recounted how many refugees went through Prague and were put on trains in the middle of the night, to be secreted away to West Germany with the promise of freedom. The story goes that, “in one of those trains, as the sun came up, one of the refugees had enough courage to raise the curtain.”

What he saw when he looked outside, the general said, was a mounted patrol of the seventh armored cavalry regiment of the United States Army. Apparently, he turned to the other people in the train car and said, “Look, there are the Americans; we’re free.”

“That equation of American arms with human freedom is what you veterans have created. All of us thank you for that,” General Hayden said.

The parade was sponsored this year by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 

    Larry Zimmerman of Springy Banks Road and Ellen Zimmerman of Sherrill Road, both in East Hampton, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Marti Laran Zimmerman, to Stephen Kenneth Lynch Jr. He is a son of Stephen K. and Regina Lynch of East Hampton.

    Ms. Zimmerman graduated from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., and is a manager at the Gap in Bridgehampton. Mr. Lynch, a 2001 East Hampton High School graduate, became a partner in the family contracting business after high school. His father is now head of the East Hampton Town Highway Department. 

    A fall 2015 wedding is planned.

    The Amagansett Fire Department’s annual Classic Car Show will have a special purpose this year. Proceeds from the event, which happens on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will benefit a July 12 parade that will mark the department’s 100th anniversary. The rain date is Sunday.

    Twelve trophies, including one for a people’s choice award, will be conferred upon the winning vehicles in various categories, said Steve Graboski, a member of the fire department and chairman of the car show. Nat Raynor III, also of the department, will head the panel of judges.

    The popular event will also feature live music by the East End All Stars, a bouncy castle and other activities for children, and food for purchase including hamburgers, hot dogs, cotton candy, popcorn, ice cream, and soft drinks. There will also be a 50-50 raffle.

    Admission is $5 per person. Children under 12 will be admitted free. For those wishing to enter the friendly competition, the entry fee for a show car with driver and one passenger is $20; each additional passenger costs $5.

    The department’s July 12 parade will begin at 11 a.m. and proceed down Main Street. At noon, an anniversary celebration at the firehouse will include presentations, proclamations, and the awarding of parade participation trophies. Refreshments, rides, music, and games will also be on hand.

    An antique fire vehicle display and antique pumping and bucket brigade competitions will happen at 1 p.m. Trophies for the competitions will be awarded at 4 p.m.

    The department welcomes community participation. Those interested in contributing a marching band or float to the parade have been asked to contact the department via its website, AmagansettFD.org, and complete the registration forms by May 31.   

As expected, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals voted on Friday to grant variances and a special permit for AT&T to install 12 antennas on a 44-foot-tall oil storage tank at the P.C. Schenck and Sons facility on Newtown Lane. The hearing had stretched over several months during which neighbors had voiced concern about noise and potential health impacts of radio frequency emissions. 

The board granted its approvals based on modifications the applicant agreed to make. Noise being the primary concern, the applicant agreed to both move the site of a concrete pad on which equipment cabinets are to be placed and include a 12-foot-high sound barrier around them.

Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, said the board had concluded that the AT&T equipment and antennas would not have a significant environmental impact, which meant the applicant did not have to submit an analysis under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. He urged those interested to read a full summary of the proceedings prepared by Linda Riley, the village attorney, which is on file at Village Hall.

The variances and special permit also have been granted on two conditions. One is site plan approval from the design review board. The other is a demonstration, to the satisfaction of the village’s consulting engineer, Drew Bennett, that the actual noise levels after installation of the sound barrier are consistent with those predicted in a report from the applicant’s consultant Tectonic Engineering.

Benjamin Roberts, AT&T’s director of public affairs, said on Monday that he expected a building permit to be issued next month. Construction would begin in July and last four to five months.

The board also held several hearings on Friday, including one for Elizabeth and Julien Eisenstein of 10 Georgica Road seeking partial replacement of the foundation of a 1,018-square-foot, two-story garage that contains an apartment. The garage, which is sinking on one side, is considered nonconforming, said Elizabeth Schmid, an attorney representing the applicants, because it serves as a second residence on a single lot, which is now prohibited by the village code, although nonconforming structures are legal if they predate the code.

To that end, Ms. Schmid provided the board with an affidavit from Frank Tillinghast, a lifelong East Hampton resident, stating that he had visited the apartment as far back as 1947. “It was . . . constructed similarly to the house and I would guess that it was there for decades before I played there,” Mr. Tillinghast attested.

Tom Rosko, a contractor, told the board that the locust posts holding up the structure had rotted, causing one side to sink. The garage is to be lifted and made level, and a new foundation constructed. “It’s just a matter of correcting the existing situation so it doesn’t become hazardous to anyone to stay in there,” Mr. Rosko said. “It was like a funhouse,” Lys Marigold, the board’s vice chairwoman, said of a site visit.

 “We appreciated your affidavit,” Mr. Newbold told Ms. Schmid, calling it “a glimpse into old East Hampton.” The hearing was closed and a determination is expected at the board’s next meeting, on May 23.

East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. presented a tentative  budgetof almost $20.3 million for the fiscal year, which begins on Aug. 1, at a village board meeting last Thursday, which would pierce the state-imposed 2-percent increase in property taxes. If the budget is approved by the board after a public hearing on June 20, spending would increase by 2.75 percent, or $542,870.

The proposed spending increase is almost .5 percent less than in the prior two fiscal years, the mayor said. He said a paid emergency medical services professional and a deer sterilization program had contributed to the increase. “As it relates to the potential for the E.M.S. paid program to mesh with our wonderful volunteer ambulance cadre, if that was not included, and the deer program . . . we would fall below the tax cap,” he said, pointing out that $30,000 had been allocated for deer management. “We feel as a responsible body that we have to put these into the budget.”

The village tax rate, which has increased at an average annual rate of 2.1 percent over the last seven years, is proposed to go up 2.28 percent next year, the mayor said. “The Village of East Hampton has been fortunate to maintain a healthy financial outlook while seeking to provide the level of services expected by its residents and while keeping spending at an appropriate level,” the mayor said, reading from prepared remarks.

Other increases in spending were for snow removal — a consequence of the recent harsh winter — and Workers Compensation insurance premiums. Needed equipment for the Public Works Department, roadwork, roof repairs to the village-owned Sea Spray cottages, and drainage work at the Emergency Services Building also accounted for additional spending.

The village’s debt service and contributions to the state retirement system, which covers employees, will decrease in the coming year, however, and refinancing of two outstanding bonds will yield more savings in the future, the mayor said. A $142,861 increase in mortgage recording tax revenue, more money from sales of beach parking permits, increased building permits, and rentals of village property were also in the budget.

The board heard from Olivia Brooks and Ann Roberts of the Ladies Village Improvement Society at the meeting, who said that some business owners and landlords were not doing their part to clean up litter. “I think we need a short, bold letter to the owners of the building: clean up your act,” Ms. Roberts said. Ms. Brooks named shops on Main Street and Newtown Lane that she said were not doing their part. Windblown magazines and pamphlets, she said, are also a problem.

Mayor Rickenbach suggested sending a letter to all businesses. “Part of that would be a paragraph where we salute those that are taking responsibility, but at the same time we need to just relate to those where it’s lacking,” he said. The letter is to be shown to the L.V.I.S. for approval, he said.

Scott Fithian, the superintendent of public works, who had been tasked with suggesting improvements to parking in the village lots, also addressed the board. He proposed a 30-minute limit for five spaces adjacent to the Waldbaum’s supermarket in the Reutershan lot and for five spaces in the Barns Schenck lot. With the exception of designated 15-minute parking along the sidewalk in the Reutershan lot, a two-hour limit has been in effect in both lots from May 1 through Dec. 31, and the board recently voted to extend that limit to Fridays, Saturdays, and federal holidays between Jan. 1 and April 30.

Linda Riley, the village attorney, said signs would have to be put up and the village code amended. “We’ll codify and bring it for a public hearing,” the mayor said.

Members of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee let it be known on Monday that they are not too happy with the fix the Army Corps of Engineers announced April 23 to curb erosion on downtown beaches. 

The Corps offered only one option: a $6 million project to place 14,000 sand-filled geotexile bags along 3,100 feet of downtown shoreline, including the vulnerable stretch near the Royal Atlantic Motel, and to cover them with 45,000 cubic yards of sand. The plan had been downsized from more expensive ones described earlier in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

“We’re very disappointed. It all falls short. They were very promising in the beginning and now it’s an interim fix, East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc said, adding that the 15-year life span of the latest proposal doesn’t offer a lot of protection. “But it doesn’t make sense for us to turn down free sand,” he said.

At an earlier meeting with Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Legislator Jay Schneiderman, Steve Kalimnios, the owner of the Royal Atlantic, who said he has spent $2 million dumping sand on the beach there, had called the Corps plan “minuscule.”

The councilman noted that the East Hampton Town Board is to create a coastal erosion committee to study poststorm conditions and long-term planning. “Geologically. if you see what’s happening and we’re under water, we need to think this through. Building on higher ground is not realistic. We should be looking at larger stabilization.” Mr. Van Scoyoc said it was time for the town to put more money aside for storm remediation. “Taxpayers have to understand that money is needed for sand. It’s part of our economy,” he said.

Chris Poli, a surfer who often attends the committee’s meetings, said that while no one wants higher taxes it might be the only way to preserve the beach. “We’re going to need a lot of cooperation,” he said.

Moving on, Mr. Van Scoyoc gave the committee an update on plans for the Kirk Park parking lot. He said the vegetated islands that have been used to delineate parking spaces will soon be removed to create more. A new entrance will be added on South Eagle Street to the west of the lot for easier access. Vehicles exiting will use the existing access on the south side of the lot, across the street from the ocean beach.

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Richard Malik Atkinson, 20, became an Eagle Scout, the highest award in scouting, at a ceremony on Sunday at the Montauk Firehouse.

Boy Scouts who reach that level must create a project that will benefit the community. Mr. Atkinson built and erected 20 bat houses, which could mean fewer bothersome insects in Montauk this summer. Bats catch mosquitos, spiders, flies, and other insects.

The houses were placed throughout the hamlet, mostly near wetlands, including Stanley’s Pond in Culloden Shores, Montauk County Park at Third House, and Deep Hollow Ranch, where mosquitos thrive.

Although it was Mr. Atkinson’s project, his entire Troop 136 helped to put the bat houses together. Local businesses donated funding to buy the needed supplies, and Jim Grimes of Fort Pond Native Plants supplied the posts, some of which are 20 feet high.

The houses were installed with the help of parent volunteers and Shawn Tyrell, the assistant scout leader.

The new Eagle Scout has been in scouting since he was 6 years old, when he became a tiger cub, as the younger ones are called.

On Sunday, he received a badge and a medal, signifying his new status.

The Rev. Robert Stuart, pastor emeritus of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, will be honored on the occasion of his 80th birthday on Sunday following the 11 a.m. worship service. The Rev. Steven Howarth, the church’s present pastor, has invited Mr. Stuart to preach in the pulpit.

Mr. Stuart served as pastor in Amagansett for 17 years, retiring in 1998. Born in Minneapolis and raised in suburban St. Louis, he earned a master’s degree in American history at the University of Wisconsin before graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1962.

Prior to attending seminary, he was drafted; as a conscientious objector, he served for two years in the psychiatric ward of a Kansas City, Kan., hospital. The experience was a turning point, he told The Star in a 2012 interview coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his ordination. “As a result of that, I decided to change career direction and go into the ministry,” he said.

Mr. Stuart served as pastor in Wheeling, W.Va., Ringwood, N.J., and, as an interim pastor, Bellingham, Wash., before arriving in Amagansett. “It was just the perfect move, it was just wonderful,” he said in 2012.

Always a proponent of a church that is active in the community, Mr. Stuart had been involved in President Lyndon Johnson’s antipoverty programs in the 1960s and ’70s. In 1989 in Amagansett, he began a healing service for people with H.I.V./AIDS and their families and caregivers, which he continued until his retirement. He also served as chaplain for the Long Island Association for AIDS Care.

“That’s been pervasive throughout my ministry,” he said in 2012, “this strong sense of calling by God to be involved in the world in some kind of redemptive way, through a pastoral ministry.”

At present, Mr. Stuart serves on the Cuba Work Group of the Presbytery of Long Island, and has made 12 mission visits to the Guines Presbyterian Church there. He has served with the Town of East Hampton Clericus and the town board of ethics. He is also a longtime member of the Ashawagh Hall Writers Workshop in Springs. “Similar to Fire,” a book of his poems, was published by Canio’s Editions.

The National Association of Letter Carriers will hold its annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive on Saturday, and “participation couldn’t be easier,” the president of the association said on its website.

Postal patrons have been asked to do their part by placing bags of nonperishable food by their mailboxes before their letter carriers’ scheduled pickup time on Saturday. The bags will be collected and delivered to food distribution charities. This is the 22nd year for the food drive, and letter carriers across the country are taking part.

When Grace Lightcap attended a Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy conference in February, it revved up her mama bear instincts. Ms. Lightcap, whose 20-year-old son, Terence Lightcap, has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, realized that aside from her monthly donations to the advocacy group, she has not done anything lately on a larger scale to raise money for research into the disease.

She decided to hold a community yard sale on Memorial Day weekend to raise money to help speed approval for therapies that could help her son and others with Duchenne.

Terence was diagnosed with the disease when he was 7. He no longer walks, but is able to get around on a motorized scooter. The family has lots of support in Montauk: More than 60 family members live in the hamlet. Some of them have run marathons or participated in other events in his name to raise money for research.

Terence’s mother, who is the Montauk School’s district clerk, attended the February conference with her sister Julia Stavola.

There are several ongoing trials of medications that could help Terence, but they can take three to five years and are sometimes abandoned in the middle, according to one of his doctors. The Parent Project believes the federal Food and Drug Administration could be more responsive to the experiences and preferences of Duchenne families.

“We will not rest until the F.D.A. has all of the tools it needs to accelerate its review of Duchenne therapies so effective treatments can be delivered to our children,” said Pat Furlong, the founding president of the Parent Project, who has lost two sons to the disease and is the driving force behind the group.

“She is an amazing woman,” Ms. Lightcap said, and she inspired her to do more. When a friend mentioned that Joan Lycke was no longer running an annual Memorial Day weekend yard sale to benefit a scholarship fund in her own daughter’s name, Ms. Lightcap asked and received Ms. Lycke’s blessing to take it over.

Now she is looking for donations to make it a success. Those who wish to donate can contact her at the Montauk School or at 327-4248 to arrange for drop-off or pickup.

The yard sale, scheduled for May 24, will include a 50/50 raffle and a refreshment table that should be tantalizing.

Ed Lightcap, Terence’s father, is a longtime chef at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton.