The Montauk Seafood Festival is set to happen on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. under a tent in the parking lot of the Montauk Marine Basin, near Lynn’s Hula Hut.

    There will be nonstop music by the 3Bs, Timmy Fee, and Remember September. Fish races, a snapper derby, fish-print demonstrations, T-shirt airbrushing, and coloring contests will keep the kids busy.

    More than a dozen local restaurants will offer (mostly seafood) tastings from their menus, with dishes including ahi tuna sliders, sushi, lobster rolls, clam chowder, fish tacos, seafood wontons, steamed seafood bags, seafood crepes, oysters and clams, and sea scallops with cheese grits.    Montauk fishing legends such as Carl Darenberg, Ricky Etzel, Kenny Bouse, Stuart Vorpahl, and Barley Dunne from the fish hatchery will give hourly talks about the good old days when the hamlet was all about the fishing.

    The hosts are the Montauk Friends of Erin and the East Hampton Kiwanis Club, and proceeds will benefit Toys for Tots, pediatric trauma care, the Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day parade, and local scholarships. The food vendors have paid $500 per space and will donate $1 from the sale of each food item back to the festival.

    The seafood festival is also being held in an attempt to extend the season and attract people to the harbor area. Since Montauk has become such a hot spot lately, most visitors tend to congregate in the downtown clubs and at ocean beaches, leaving the docks quiet, especially in the afternoons when people used to gather to see what the boats brought in.

    The event’s sponsors are The Montauk Sun, Despatch Self Storage, and My Earth Water, which has donated 50 cases of water that will be sold throughout the two-day event. In addition to tropical and specialty drinks from the Hula Hut, there will be beer from the Montauk Brewing Company and wines from Pindar and Duck Walk Vineyards. Admission is free.

    Drs. Robert J. Marshall and Simone Verniere Marshall of East Hampton and New York City celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and her 89th birthday at a lunch on Saturday at the Amagansett house of their daughter and son-in-law Annette and Jacques Franey. Their other daughter and son-in-law, Drs. Gabrielle Salomon and Amir Salomon of Summit, N.J., co-hosted the celebration.

    The Marshalls were married on Sept. 13, 1953. The two have dedicated their professional lives to the practice of psychology and psychoanalysis and co-wrote the book “The Transference-Countertransference Matrix,” published by Columbia University Press. Simone Marshall, born in Paris, graduated from the Sorbonne in 1949, entered Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship in 1951, and earned her Ph.D. in 1959. She trained at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology, graduating in 1970, and had a career as a psychologist and psychoanalyst.

    Her husband, an educator and lecturer, has served on the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies for over 30 years and written more than 35 articles and chapters on such subjects as milieu therapy, juvenile delinquency, psychoanalytic theory and technique, and supervision. According to his family, he “is known for his use of humor and creativity in psychotherapy.”

    At the party on Saturday, he entertained guests with a skit he called “Surviving 60 Years of Marital Bliss,” which included sentimental and humorous songs. The Marshalls’ three grandchildren then surprised them with “their own original musical caricature of their grandparents.”

    During a weekend that was full of celebration for the couple and their families and friends, Haley Cunningham Grant and Eric James Weaver were married on Aug. 25 on the beach at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk.

    On the Friday before their wedding, Ms. Grant and Mr. Weaver welcomed guests for music, wine, and a sunset view at the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack. On Saturday, there was beach volleyball at South Edison Beach in Montauk and pre-wedding Sunday-morning yoga. A reception at Gurney’s followed the wedding ceremony, which was performed by Alison Caiolla, an interfaith minister from New York City.

    Ms. Grant is a daughter of Patia Cunningham and Jack Grant of East Hampton. She graduated from East Hampton High School in 2003 and from the University of Delaware in 2007. She works for Momentum Worldwide in Chicago as a producer.

    Mr. Weaver is the son of James Weaver of Woodstock, Ill., and the late Christine Weiss. He attended Crystal Lake High School and graduated from Illinois State University. He works as an account manager for Shire Regenerative Medicine in Chicago.

    Caitlin Grant was the maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Corinne Weaver, Meagan Martino, Winter Canavan, and Alison Harrington Scott. The groomsmen were Fei Wang, Chad Seabold, Edward Wells, Mark Cornwell, and Ryan Walker.

    The couple live in Chicago.

   A motorcycle ride to benefit the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund, in conjunction with the Red Knights, will take place on Sunday. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Fire Department, and the ride, heading east to Montauk Point, starts at 11.

   At the conclusion, there will be a stop for food, beverages, and a 50-50 raffle at Cyril’s Fish House on Napeague. Registration is $30 per rider.

   The East Hampton High School class of 1973 will hold its 40th reunion on Oct. 12 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Fairway Restaurant at the Poxabogue Golf Center in Sagaponack.

   A light buffet and open bar will be provided for $35 per person. Class members wishing to attend have been asked to e-mail Wendy Leese Mott at lazys@ opton­line.net or Kim Friedah Brown at kimfbrown@gmail. com.

    The Montauk Seafood Festival will have its inaugural launch on the weekend of Sept. 21 at the Montauk Marine Basin on West Lake Drive from noon to 5 p.m.

    The two-day event will be held under a tent near the Hula Hut and have nonstop music by three bands, food from at least 12 local restaurants, a snapper derby, goldfish races, and fish printing and airbrush painting on T-shirts and hats. In addition to seafood there will be burgers and hot dogs for the landlubbers.

    The event was the brainchild of Joe Bloecker, the president of the Montauk Friends of Erin, who invited the East Hampton Kiwanis to get on board. A group of planners started meeting about three months ago. They brought in Laura Mastandrea, who has helped out at other charitable events, to organize the festival and line up sponsors. “The response has been good,” she said.

    Food vendors pay a fee of $500 for a space. Visitors will pay a small fee to try various restaurants’ specialties, and $1 from each item purchased will be added to the festival’s proceeds, which will benefit other activities sponsored by the two civic groups throughout the rest of the year, such as Toys for Tots, pediatric trauma care, the Montauk St. Patrick’s Day parade, and scholarships.

    Another goal of the festival is to attract people to Montauk’s harbor area, said Carl Darenberg, one of the planners and the owner of the Montauk Marine Basin. “There’s a harbor out here and people aren’t aware of it. We’re trying to pull visitors from the downtown area,” he said. “Montauk is supposed to be the fishing capital of the world, and lately it’s been very quiet on the docks.”

    It seemed appropriate that the organizers met on a windy, rain-swept dock at the marine basin to go over their plans Tuesday afternoon. Lynn Calvo of the Hula Hut said she would be making her signature fruit infusion and “shark bite” drinks, Mr. Bloecker will be shucking clams, and Mr. Darenberg was reminded that he will be one of the living fishing legends giving hourly talks to groups about the heady days of fishing in the hamlet.

    Ken Giustino, another planner and the publisher of The Montauk Sun, said the festival will help extend the season, similar to the Montauk Music Festival, which he started several years ago to kick off the season a few weeks before Memorial Day. Mr. Giustino is also one of the sponsors, as is My Earth Water, whose products will be sold at the festival, and Despatch Self Storage.

    Some of the food that will be served, in addition to clams, burgers, and dogs, are lobster rolls, ahi tuna slides, ceviche, fish tacos, crab cakes, oysters, and seafood crepes. “I told them to do something you can do fast and something you do well,” Mr. Bloecker said of the participating restaurants.

    For the kids, the snapper derby will take place right on the dock at the marine basin, where Mr. Darenberg said the snappers have been plentiful and as big as bluefish lately. Admission is free, and the festival will be held rain or shine.

    With a deadline nearing in two weeks, the East Hampton Town Board must make a final decision about what it wants the Army Corps of Engineers to do about the Montauk Harbor inlet.

    The corps is set to dredge the inlet to provide safer navigation, but there are several options as to how to proceed. Federal funds would fully cover the least ambitious plan — to maintain the status quo by dredging to a 12-foot depth and 150-foot width in the channel, with a 50-foot wide “deposition basin” at the east side, to collect sand that would otherwise cause shoaling.

    Two other alternatives would require the town to kick in money, but would result in sand being added to areas west of the inlet to help rebuild beaches.

    An “enhanced navigation” option would see the inlet deepened to 17 or even 19 feet, with a larger deposition basin and an estimated 130,000 cubic yards of sand deposited on the West Lake Drive beach to the west of the inlet. Eighty percent of the cost would be covered with federal dollars, while the town would be responsible for the rest.

    Although Brian Frank, an environmental analyst for the town, did not provide an updated cost estimate during a presentation to the board on Tuesday, a projected $26 million total cost had been mentioned during a similar presentation last fall.

    The third option would require the town to obtain easements over private property along Soundview Drive, through purchase agreements or condemnation, and to establish a public beach.

     It could help to address severe erosion in that area through the addition of dredged sand; however, the Army Corps would also construct one to three groins along Soundview Drive or Captain Kidd’s Path in an effort to contain that sand. Initially, they would be constructed of nonpermanent geotextile tubes, which would be replaced after a decade with permanent steel, rock, or concrete structures.

    East Hampton would be responsible for up to 30 percent of the cost, with the Army Corps paying for 70 percent, although some additional money from Hurricane Sandy relief funding could be available for the project.

    The third option, said Mr. Frank on Tuesday, “has some environmental concerns associated with it,” because of “the impacts of groins.”

    “Shore-perpendicular structures like a groin seem to have the greatest shadow effect” as far as erosion on nearby beaches, he said.

    However, board members noted, the Soundview shore area is largely armored, and the area is identified in the town’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program Plan as one where shore hardening may be allowed.

    “So,” said Mr. Frank, as far as protecting public sandy beaches, “the natural resource, and the public resource — that horse left the barn a long time ago. The legacy of coastal decisions lasts for decades.”

    Property owners in that area have sued the town over alleged negative effects from the existing groins — another consideration in the town’s decision-making.

    Councilwoman Theresa Quigley said that, in light of the lawsuit, the town should choose the most aggressive course of action. But Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc disagreed, saying that the town would be most liable for damages if it does install the groins. “If they fail or they cause unforeseen impacts, we are in a much more responsible position,” he said.

    “I don’t believe we have the luxury of stepping away from legitimate actions because of fear,” Ms. Quigley said.

    Board members asked Mr. Frank to provide more details for another discussion at Tuesday’s work session at the Montauk Firehouse at 10 a.m.

    Sag Harbor’s HarborFest, which began 50 years ago as the Old Whalers Festival, will celebrate its golden anniversary this year with a three-day glorification of all things nautical, as well as tastes of Sag Harbor food, music, and history.

    Competitive whaleboat races, the festival’s claim to fame, will go on all weekend, launched from Windmill Beach, with the winner crowned there on Sunday afternoon.

    Long Wharf will be packed with vendors and more contests, including one to find the tastiest chowder and another for the fastest clam shucker. A program with details of activities, which include historical tours in the village, will be available at the windmill.

    The festivities will kick off at a benefit fiesta tomorrow night from 6 to 9 at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, where D.J. Mister Lama will provide the music. The Montaco truck will be on hand with Latin fare, beverages will be provided by the Montauk Brewing Company and Channing Daughters, and dessert will be ice cream from Sylvester and Company.

    The winner of a raffle to benefit the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, which organized the event, will receive a 14-karat gold whale pendant created by David Lee of Sag Harbor. Raffle tickets can be purchased at the windmill, the Wharf Shop, Sag Harbor Liquors, or the Sag Harbor Variety Store.

    An arts and crafts fair will also take place at Marine Park on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

    Labor Day may have passed, but big plans are still in store for Shelter Island, and for good cause. The Rock’s annual fund-raising Beach Blast is set for Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday morning, it’s the charitable bicycle Spur Ride.

    The blast and barbecue is all-important this year to the Island Gift of Life, with last year’s event called off due to strong winds and a storm threat.

    The Realm will headline the show this year, and as always, the band, which plays surf punk, ska, reggae covers, and originals, will donate its performance to increase the number of dollars raised for the cause.

    Local bands will take the stage from 3 p.m. till midnight, and they will include the Hoodoo Loungers, Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, Mamalee Rose and Friends, New Dawn, and Alfredo Merat’s Radio Europa. The Starlight Girls from Brooklyn will also play, and for the kids, there’s a 5 p.m. performance by Sag Harbor’s Goat in a Boat Puppet Theatre.

    A $20 donation will be collected at the beach to benefit East Enders in need due to life-threatening illnesses. Hamburgers, hot dogs, cookies, water, and soda will be available for purchase. In the event of rain, the Beach Blast will be held on Sunday from noon till 8 p.m.

    Sunday will bring the second annual bicycle ride organized in honor of Lt. Joseph J. Theinert of Shelter Island and Sag Harbor, a member of the 1-71 Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division who was killed in Afghanistan.

    As of Monday, over 180 riders were registered, choosing 12.5 or 25-mile scenic routes around the island. Proceeds will benefit the Joseph J. Theinert Memorial Fund, a nonprofit organization whose newest venture is the creation of a rehabilitative center for wounded warriors to be called Strongpoint Theinert.

    Registration costs $50 for cyclists or $25 for those under 16 and includes a souvenir T-shirt and admission to the post-race celebratory barbecue at SALT Waterfront Bar and Grill, where the Realm will again donate their musical talents for the occasion. Non-riders may join the party too, for a donation of $35 for adults or $15 for children.

    Online ride registration can be completed at shelterislandspurride13. eventbrite.com. There will also be on-site registration on Sunday morning beginning at 7 at the Island Boatyard on Menantic Road, with remarks at 8:30 a.m. and a 9 a.m. start.

    While temperatures topped 90 degrees on four days in July, August was “considerably on the cool side,” Richard G. Hendrickson reported from Bridgehampton. “In all my years of keeping weather records, this has been one of the coolest Augusts. There was only one day, on the 2nd, when it reached 91 degrees, the highest for the month. In fact, it was only 80 or higher on 14 days. A cool, cool August.”

    Mr. Hendrickson, who turned 101 on Monday, has been a United States Cooperative weather observer since he was a teenager.

    The temperature actually dropped to a chilly 47 degrees on Aug. 25, according to his records, but that was the only time it was lower than 50.

    August brought measurable rain on seven days, but the heaviest daily amount was only .61 inches, and the total for the month was just 1.25 inches. “This has been the driest August since 2005,” Mr. Hendrickson wrote. “Late melons, corn, tomatoes, and winter pumpkins need rains now, as well as the late potatoes.” They got plenty on Monday and Tuesday.

    Looking back to July, the highs for the first 13 days were only in the 70s and 80s, but on the 15th, it hit 91 and stayed there for four days. The highest temperature for the month was 95 on the 18th. Mr. Hendrickson’s lowest night readings in July were 59 on July 26 and 30.

    There was measurable rain on nine days in July, on the 1st, the 12th to the 14th, and the 22nd to the 26th, but always in scant amounts, with the heaviest being only .39 of an inch on July 13. The total for the month was 1.44 inches, “a long way from the at least three-inch long-term average.”

    In July, Mr. Hendrickson recorded wind from the southwest on 22 days and 22 days of clouds, “not a nice number for eastern Long Island summer folks or nature.