The family of William Miller, an East Hampton native better known as Billy, is searching for information about his whereabouts following a rumor that he had died. He was homeless, living in a tent behind a cemetery in Hampton Bays most recently, and is suffering from cancer, for which he was not receiving treatment, his family said. They have not heard from him in a week.

Samantha Schreiber, his daughter, said the search began after she saw a Facebook post late Sunday night referencing her father's death. Ms. Schreiber, who is deaf and lives in Pennsylvania, said by Facebook Messenger that it was difficult news to read, but worse because she has not been able to determine if it is true.

The family has called the Southampton Town Police Department and found they had no record of his death; the last contact they had with him was in December, his niece, Faith Miller of Hampton Bays, said. They have also contacted the hospitals in Southampton, Riverhead, and Greenport, but came up empty. "We even went as far as calling the M.E. office in South Carolina, who does not have him," she said.

Mr. Miller, 57, could be anywhere, though. "The only thing we know for sure is that he made a phone call about two weeks ago from a South Carolina number to a family member," Ms. Miller said. His daughter said he phoned an uncle from a Piggly Wiggly in Columbia, S.C.

The two had not spoken in a while; it is difficult to communicate because she is deaf and cannot take his phone calls, she said. "It's been about a year since I've seen him. My husband was talking to him, but that was months ago." He usually makes contact through other family members who can text her or send messages over the internet.

"It's a very upsetting situation -- I just want him found," Ms. Schreiber said.

She has filed a missing person report with NamUs, the national missing and unidentified persons system, a database that holds thousands of cases, though his name was not listed there as of Wednesday. (Cases are reviewed before they are posted.) The information clearinghouse and resource center provide law enforcement, medical examiners, forensic professionals, and families of missing persons a free resource. It is funded by the National Institute of Justice and managed by the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Tex.

Anyone with information about Mr. Miller's whereabouts has been asked to contact Faith Miller and Ms. Schreiber via Facebook until the NamUs listing is posted.

Three of the five men accused of running the largest drug ring ever on the South Fork, allegedly raking in as much as $100,000 in three weeks last summer in Montauk, took plea deals this month in Suffolk County Criminal Court and are facing a range of prison sentences. 

William Crespo-Duran, described by the Suffolk district attorney’s office as a pivotal member of the organization, was one of 17 defendants named in a 33-count indictment in August. Most of the defendants, arrested as part of the narcotics distribution ring on Aug. 15 after a five-month investigation by the district attorney’s East End Drug Task Force, are from Puerto Rico. They worked at seasonal jobs in Montauk, mainly in restaurants, and would return to Puerto Rico in the winter. 

Mr. Crespo-Duran, 35, pleaded guilty on Feb. 20 to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree for allegedly possessing over four ounces of a narcotic, a top A felony. Two other felonies, criminal possession of a narcotic with intent to sell and first-degree conspiracy along with a misdemeanor for criminal use of drug paraphernalia, were covered by the plea. 

He is on State Justice Timothy Mazzei’s docket for sentencing on April 10. Known as Flaco, he was facing eight and one third to 25 years. He has been held on $1.5 million bond or $750,000 cash bail since August. 

Police used court-authorized eavesdropping and electronic surveillance as well as undercover drug buys in the investigation. Executing a search warrant at Mr. Crespo-Duran’s house on Gates Avenue in Montauk on Aug. 15, they found 200 grams of cocaine in a compartment in the floor under his bed, according to William Nash, an assistant district attorney with the county narcotics bureau. Police also reportedly found a scale and $18,000 in cash.

Antonio Ramirez-Gonzalez, 30, who had been referred to by the district attorney’s office as the “gatekeeper of the ill-gotten proceeds of the largest narcotics distribution ring in and around Montauk,” also recently changed his guilty plea. Known as Tete, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the first degree, a B felony, on Feb. 6. He will be sentenced on March 13. In his room on West Lake Drive in Montauk, investigators allegedly found $30,000 in cash, bundled in different denominations and clearly marked, as well as narcotics. He has also been held on bail. 

Gilberto Quintana-Crespo, a 32-year-old known as Jimmy, entered a guilty plea on Feb. 6 to fourth-degree conspiracy, an E felony. He had been referred to as a “key member” of the narcotics distribution ring who had a role in securing postal packages containing the drugs. 

He has been held on $500,000 cash or $1 million bond and will be sentenced on March 13. His Legal Aid Society attorney said at his arraignment that while he was facing as much as eight and a third to 25 years, he could get as little as one to three years.

On Monday, John Valentin-Doherty, 30, who had been facing 14 charges after the indictment, pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, a felony. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 24.

A fifth man, John DeMelio, 34, who was not indicted but appeared in the Superior Court information, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree conspiracy on Aug. 29 and was released on his own recognizance. Three other drug charges also were covered by the plea deal. His sentencing has been postponed twice, once in November and then in January, and he is due back in court on March 12. 

Meanwhile, the cases against Geraldo Vargas-Munoz, 37, whom the D.A.’s office described as the “largest purveyor” of cocaine and oxycodone in Montauk, and Elvin Silva-Ruiz, who allegedly had sold a half-ounce of cocaine to an undercover officer and arranged for the shipment of cocaine and oxycodone, are pending. 

Mr. Vargas-Munoz, known as Chelo, allegedly sold drugs out the back door of the kitchen at the restaurant Swallow East, where he was a chef, and also supplied others with narcotics to sell. He has pleaded not guilty on top of felony charges in a 33-count indictment, including operating as a major trafficker and conspiracy in the second degree. He faces 25 years in prison. 

Mr. Silva-Ruiz, known as Pito, was arrested in August while trying to board a plane at Kennedy Airport. The district attorney said he had $20,000 in cash in his pocket, which was meant to resupply the drug ring. 

Both men have been in the custody of the Suffolk County sheriff’s office since their arrests. Mr. Silva-Ruiz, 40, was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia and was on dialysis when he was arraigned in late August.  

The two men agreed to what was described in court records as pre-plea drug treatment in December. Mr. Vargas-Ruiz is due back before Justice Mazzei on March 11; Mr. Silva-Ruiz will be in the same courtroom two days later. 

Another man, Eric Mendez, who had been named in the 33-count indictment, was also listed in online court records as having opted for pre-plea drug treatment on Feb. 14. The 38-year-old is due back in court on April 4. 

Three other men picked up as part of the bust also pleaded guilty, though major charges were not brought against them. Kevin L. Becker, 30, is in the midst of a one-and-a-half to three-year stay in state prison. His attorney, Edward Burke Jr., had worked out a deal on a conspiracy charge when he was arrested in October. He was free on $10,000 bail and due for sentencing on Halloween, when he was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. (That charge was ultimately reduced in East Hampton Town Justice Court to driving while ability impaired, a violation.)  

The D.A.’s office came down harder on him because of an upstate prison sentence. His guilty plea of fourth-degree conspiracy, a felony, stood, and he entered the Willard Drug Treatment Center, a prison for drug-addicted convicts, on Jan. 3, according to online records. He is eligible for a parole hearing in December and could be released as early as April 2020, the record shows, though his release could be earlier upon successful completion of the program at Willard. 

Bryan Sanchez-Ruiz, 23, has finished serving his sentence on a conspiracy charge. Incarcerated since August, he was sentenced  to nine months in Suffolk County jail and released on Feb. 11, according to jail records. 

Louis Madariaga-Medina, who had been charged with two misdemeanor possession charges, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct, a violation, in East Hampton Town Justice Court in October. He was fined $375.

Federal authorities have criminally charged a former East Hampton man in an alleged scheme to defraud investors. The United States Attorney's office said he bilked investors in a digital currency company out of $6 million.

Randall Crater, 48,  the founder of My Big Coin Pay Inc., which billed itself as a cryptocurrency and virtual payment services company based in Las Vegas, allegedly sold virtual currency that did not exist and pocketed the money, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Mr. Crater's address is still listed in East Hampton, although it is not clear if he still lives here. 

He was charged with four counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering.

According to the indictment, Mr. Crater and others created the fraudulent virtual currency My Big Coins or Coins and marketed them to investors over social media, the internet, email, and text messages, between 2014 and 2017,  misrepresenting the nature and value of Coins. "Mr. Crater and his associates falsely claimed that Coins was a fully functioning cryptocurrency backed by valuable assets such as gold, oil, and other assets," a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office said. "They also falsely told investors that Coins could readily be exchanged for government-backed paper currency or other virtual currencies." 

Coins were never backed by gold or other assets and were not readily transferable, the U.S. Attorney's office said. 

In January 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission brought commodity fraud charges against Mr. Crater and My Big Coin Inc. The commission also filed civil charges against the John Roche, the chief executive officer of My Big Coin, and two of Mr. Crater’s associates, Mark Gillespie and Michael Kruger.

The commission filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Randall Crater, who, along with his wife, Erica Crater, was evicted from a Diane Drive residence in November of 2018, according to East Hampton Town Justice Court records. The businesses’ address was listed as 81 Newtown Lane in East Hampton, the location of a U.P.S. Store where Mr. Crater kept a mailbox.

Mr. Crater is facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, with three years of supervised released, and a fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss, on the wire fraud charges. On the money laundering charges, he is facing a 10-year prison sentence, plus another $250,000 fine, or twice the value of the criminally derived property. 

Mr. Crater was to appear Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida. A date for his appearance in the District of Massachusetts has not yet been scheduled.

It is subjective, of course, but rock ’n’ roll fans can measure the genre’s high-water mark spanning more than 15 years, from the Beatles’ touchdown at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 55 years ago this month, through the untimely demise of Led Zeppelin as an active band in 1980. 

In a discipline littered with casualties, not too many of rock ’n’ roll’s road warriors make it from start to finish. Paul McCartney is one who has: A global phenomenon from age 21, he celebrated, at 76, the release of his latest album, “Egypt Station,” with an epic performance at Grand Central Station on Sept. 7 last year. 

Another rock ’n’ roll veteran, one whose voice adorns an enduring hit from the mid-1960s and who performed alongside Mr. McCartney throughout the ’70s, will deliver a solo performance on Saturday at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. 

Though his name is not as familiar as his former band mate’s, Denny Laine is among the most vital of rock ’n’ roll’s myriad personalities. As vocalist and guitarist of the Moody Blues, it is Mr. Laine singing the plaintive “Go Now,” a number-one hit in England that reached top-10 status in America and sent the band on tour supporting Mr. McCartney’s Beatles. 

He left the Moodys in 1966 and formed the Electric String Band, which opened for Jimi Hendrix at London’s Saville Theatre in June 1967. In the audience at that epic performance, which opened with a rendition of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” a song that had been released just two days earlier, was Mr. McCartney. 

But by 1971, “penniless and sleeping on an old mattress in the back room of his manager Tony Secunda’s office,” according to Tom Doyle’s “Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s,” Mr. Laine “was about to get the call that would reroute the next ten years of his life.” 

Devastated by the Beatles’ breakup, Paul McCartney was rebuilding his life and career. On his post-Beatles debut, he played every instrument; for his next LP, “Ram,” he hired a handful of musicians. Where the former album is an at-turns brilliant and whimsical collection of meticulously crafted but somewhat lifeless recordings, the latter simply sounds like a band. Mr. McCartney, who clearly loved being a Beatle, apparently craved another collective. 

Enter Mr. Laine. He, Mr. McCartney, and the late Linda McCartney were the three constants in Wings, a band in which lead guitarists and drummers would come and go. The band started humbly, rehearsing at the McCartneys’ spartan hideaway. 

“We started off quietly in Scotland,” Mr. Laine remembered last week. “We didn’t want the press chasing us, criticizing. We started the way a normal band would: We just played until we got better, and went into the studio. It built from there. As we got better, we put another album out. That’s what I was happy about, more than anything.” Mr. McCartney “couldn’t follow the Beatles, and I couldn’t follow the Moodys. We had to do something different. It worked out, really.” 

It worked out and then some. As a quartet, Wings took flight with “Wild Life,” an underrated collection that saw Mr. McCartney working through the grief of his breakup with John Lennon and exploring new sounds and styles. Singles including the protest song “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” and the suggestive rocker “Hi Hi Hi,” both banned by some radio stations, followed. The veteran musicians also took a novel approach to building an audience, turning up unannounced at universities for impromptu gigs and asking nominal admission fees. 

Adding a fifth member, Wings hit its stride, the hits pouring from Mr. McCartney’s pen as they had with the Beatles. But when the second guitarist and drummer quit on the eve of a flight to Lagos, Nigeria, the McCartneysand Mr. Laine were left to record “Band on the Run,” a brilliant work that recalled the Beatles’ finale, “Abbey Road.” 

Once again a quintet in 1974, Wings built on that success. But for all its pop hits — “Listen to What the Man Said,” “Silly Love Songs,” and “With a Little Luck,” to name a few, Wings could rock with the best of them. Listen to “Rock Show,” “Jet,” “Live and Let Die,” “Let Me Roll It,” “Call Me Back Again,” “Getting Closer,” “Rockestra Theme,” or, perhaps above all, “Beware My Love” from 1976’s “Wings at the Speed of Sound,” and marvel not just at the exceptional songwriting but also the musicianship, Mr. Laine’s guitars very much included. “Wings Over America,” a three-disc document of the band’s 1976 American tour, demonstrates just how solid they were. 

“It was a tight band, there’s no getting away from that,” Mr. Laine said. “It’s what it’s all about. You have to be playing live to get tight. All those months on the road, that’s what that tour did for us.” 

But Mr. Laine contributed more than guitars and the occasional turn on bass. In a sense, he was charged with filling Lennon’s outsized role as Mr. McCartney’s creative partner. They co-wrote tracks including the huge hit “Mull of Kintyre,” the lovely rocker “No Words” from “Band on the Run,” and several tracks on 1978’s “London Town.” That’s Mr. Laine singing his own mournful “Time to Hide” on “Wings at the Speed of Sound” and “Again and Again and Again” on 1979’s “Back to the Egg.” 

“The more people compliment me on my songs, the better I feel,” he said. 

He is also the lead vocalist on several songs Mr. McCartney wrote for the band, contributing a memorable performance on “The Note You Never Wrote,” a standout track on “Speed of Sound.” “Paul wanted to have others singing, so he wrote for them,” he said. “It was about being a group more than just ‘Paul McCartney and Wings.’ ”

But all things must pass, as another ex-Beatle sang, and in January 1980 the latest iteration of Wings was derailed on arrival in Japan, a tour canceled after a customs agent discovered a stash of marijuana in Mr. McCartney’s suitcase. “If it hadn’t been for Japan, we would have gone other places,” Mr. Laine said. “That’s the shame about it.”

Mr. McCartney was further shaken by Lennon’s murder in December of that year, keeping a low profile for some time afterward. The core members of Wings briefly persevered, traveling to Montserrat in the West Indies to record new music, but the 1982 masterpiece “Tug of War” and the following year’s uneven “Pipes of Peace,” which feature cameo appearances by Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Stanley Clarke, were credited solely to Mr. McCartney. 

“We decided we wanted to do something with guests,” Mr. Laine said. “It was great to play with different people and have a whole other outlook, but I started drifting away, and then wanted to do my own thing.”

Mr. Laine, who between his tenure with the Moody Blues and Wings had learned flamenco guitar from Gypsies in Andalusia, Spain, has indeed done his own thing since then (check 2008’s “The Blue Musician,” an alluring exploration of the guitar, for one example). 

“You’re always learning, always seeing people playing,” he said. “You have to keep yourself in shape. It’s all down to your influences. Mine are broad — Gypsy jazz, classical, folk, reggae. You get your style. My style is my own, and that’s good enough. You don’t have to be the best guitar player in the world, but that’s where writing comes in as well, and Wings was all about writing.” 

Mr. Laine will perform songs from across his long career at Bay Street. “I do most of the stuff I did with Wings,” he said. “I like to do solo stuff because of that. You can go off the way you want to go, and talk about what you want to talk about and play what you want to play. I’m very much involved with the audience at a solo show.” 

Tickets for Denny Laine, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, are $35 in advance and $45 on the day of the show. They are available at baystreet.org, at the box office from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until showtime on Saturday, or by calling 631-725-9500.

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee’s top candidates for 2019, announced at its nominating convention on Saturday, are political newcomers but no strangers to Town Hall. Filling out the ticket are candidates of diverse political persuasions including incumbents who won election as Democrats and others aligned with the group known as the East Hampton Reform Democrats.

The committee also named Diane McNally, a former longtime clerk of the town trustees, as its vice chairwoman.

Richard P. Myers, a Republican from Wainscott, will run against Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, who is seeking his second term. Mr. Myers serves as the chairman of the town’s architectural review board, a term that is up at the end of 2020, and is a former chairman of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee. He has lived in Wainscott since 2003, and in Springs before that, since 1995. He works as a luxury travel agent and has a long history of leading various companies and organizations.

For town board, the Republican committee chose Bonnie Brady, a registered Democrat, and Elizabeth A. Bambrick, known as Betsy, a member of the Independence Party, to run for seats occupied by Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Councilman David Lys.

Ms. Brady, a Montauk resident, is the executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association. She has been a persistent critic of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm and of the Montauk hamlet study, which is one of several town commercial center studies that are nearing completion.

Ms. Bambrick, who lives in Springs, worked in town government for 28 years. She retired as the head of the Ordinance Enforcement Department in December of 2017, a position she had held since 2010. She was previously the chief animal control officer.

In a statement issued after their convention, the committee stressed unity among its diverse candidates, saying they are committed to environmental conservation, affordability, and quality of life for the town’s residents.

Along with Ms. Brady, several have publicly opposed the South Fork Wind Farm. “We believe not as Republicans or Democrats but rather as people that care and love our community that the government’s role is to enable our community to secure the benefits of society and help uplift those who are unable to do so,” Manny Vilar, the committee chairman, said in a statement issued by the committee.

In that same statement, Mr. Myers said that he offers “a balanced perspecthe reality of life and governance today” in the town. “My aesthetic and managerial experience as well as leadership was well honed with a background in business and the arts which extend to my efficiently having realistic goals as to the continued growth and change of the Town of East Hampton,” he said.

Ms. Brady said that she is seeking office because “I believe the well-being of the year-round community in East Hampton is being neglected by the town board and has been for as long as I can remember.” Except for two years serving in the Peace Corps, she has been a year-round resident since 1989, she said, “and the same issues from then are still here and have not been fixed.” She cited young adults who cannot afford to remain in their hometown and commercial fishermen who she said the town is not protecting against feared impacts of the proposed wind farm, among other issues. “Our town government has to serve the interests of all the people who live here, not just those who can afford to make political contributions,” she said.

Ms. Bambrick said in a statement that the present town board “does not respect viewpoints or voices that differ from their own,” as evidenced by “the push to industrialize our ocean,” a reference to the proposed wind farm, “and even our residential neighborhoods,” citing PSEG Long Island’s plans to relocate the Long Island Power Authority substation in Montauk, possibly to a wooded hillside on Flamingo Avenue, which has sparked opposition from the community. “As a 30-year public servant, I have witnessed and experienced firsthand the eroding trust in our elected officials,” she said. “I represent a fresh approach while bringing us back to the basics of good government.”

East Hampton’s Republicans have suffered lopsided losses in recent elections. Mr. Vilar lost a race for town board in November, and fell short in a bid for supervisor in 2017. Few of the party’s candidates prevailed in the 2017 election: Democrats hold a 5-to-0 supermajority on the town board and have a 7-to-2 advantage on the town trustees.

Susan Vorpahl and Jim Grimes, incumbent Republican trustees, are among the Republicans’ nominees for that nine-person body. Dell Cullum and Rick Drew, who were elected as trustees on the Democratic ticket in 2015 and 2017, respectively, are running on the Republican ticket this year. The Democrats endorsed Mr. Drew, but not Mr. Cullum, who said last week he had not decided whether to seek re-election.

The other G.O.P. candidates for trustee are Stephen Lester, a former trustee and a Democrat, who will be on the Republicans’ ticket but not on the Democrats’, Rona Klopman, a former Democratic candidate for trustee and a member of the Reform Democrats, Mike Havens, a former candidate for trustee, Fallon Ecker-Bloecker Nigro, the daughter of a former trustee, and Dave Talmage, a former Republican trustee.

The G.O.P. nominated Lisa R. Rana, the longtime town justice, for re-election and is again backing Highway Superintendent Stephen Lynch, who has been cross-endorsed by the Democrats. Justice Rana will run against Andrew Strong, the Democratic Committee’s nominee for town justice. He is an attorney who serves as general counsel to Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island.

Two longtime incumbent assessors, Jill Massa, a Republican, and Jeanne Nielsen, a Democrat, received the G.O.P. nod. They will run on the Democratic ticket as well.

A number of new committee members were named on Saturday, and the party also established a Young Republican Club to be led by Liz Jacobs. 

This article has been updated with the version that appeared in print on Feb. 28, 2019. 

East Hampton

Edna T. Trunzo contacted police on Feb. 13 after receiving a text message from a person claiming to be with something called Winners International who wanted to discuss a $1.5-million prize. The caller seemed to have information about Ms. Trunzo’s savings account. She spoke to her bank and no suspicious activity was reported.

East Hampton Village Police spoke to a man who was shoveling snow from the sidewalk onto the road on Newtown Lane on Feb. 12 at about 4:45 p.m. He was creating a hazard, police said. He agreed to move the snow to a different area.

The owner of a 1999 Isuzu was issued a village code violation when his car alarm sounded in the I.G.A. parking lot for multiple hours on Feb. 13.

A man on Buell Lane found a hose from his neighbor’s property through the fence between them that was draining onto his property and an adjoining one on Sunday at about 6:20 p.m. Police spoke to the hose owner, who shut off the pump immediately.

Montauk

Peter Mabanta arrived at his house on South Fairview Avenue after two days away on Feb. 7 to find his yard and lawn torn up and damage to a stockade fence. In all, Mr. Mabanta said it would cost over $1,500 to repair. The investigating police officer said tire tracks were made with a dually pickup truck based on how mud was wedged between two tires, leaving a pyramid-shaped line. The officer believed the damage was done on the night of Feb. 6 based on the water in the tire tracks.

A woman’s down jacket, worth $150, was reported stolen from the Shagwong restaurant on Montauk Highway in the early morning hours of Feb. 3. Lisa Brennan told police her daughter, Carrie, had worn the tan-green jacket with an orange interior that she bought in Ireland this fall. She left it in the first booth just after midnight.

Police also released an assault report this week that was filed on Dec. 7. Charlotte A. Morley of Ridgewood, N.J., contacted police about a prior assault that she said took place on July 1 at about 11:45 p.m. at the Memory Motel. She said a woman punched her repeatedly in the face in a bathroom there, causing facial injuries for which she sought medical attention in Connecticut on July 3. She now wanted to press charges.

Sag Harbor Village

Robert Brochu, the Sag Harbor postmaster, said a delivery truck struck the side door of a mail carrier’s vehicle parked on Long Island Avenue, causing damage, on Friday morning. The truck driver claimed to have hit only the side-view mirror.

Ben Sneed called police to Hillside Drive East on Friday to report illegal dumping across the street from his house. Police found a large pile of broken concrete had been left at 22 Hillside Drive East.

A Manhattan woman was arrested on an aggravated drunken-driving charge after the car she was driving hit two trees on the afternoon of Feb. 11.

Kathleen M. Beatty, 56, was driving a 2015 Jeep north on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton when she tried to make a left turn onto Shadom Lane at about 4 p.m.

The car went into a wooded area on the north side of Shadom Lane, hitting one tree on the passenger side and another on the front passenger side. She was not injured, police said. Police said Ms. Beatty appeared intoxicated. She was charged with aggravated D.W.I., a misdemeanor, thanks to a blood alcohol level above .18.

East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky released her on her own recognizance following arraignment the next morning.

Oscar J. Solis-Gutierrez, 41, of East Hampton was arrested on a misdemeanor D.W.I. charge in the early morning hours on Saturday. Police said he was driving a 2001 Chrysler van east on Montauk Highway, near Stephen Hand’s Path, when an officer said he failed to stay in his lane and made an unsafe left turn at about 2:50 a.m.

He appeared intoxicated when he was stopped, according to police. Justice Tekulsky released him on his own recognizance following arraignment.

If you ever wondered what the grandest house in East Hampton was a century ago, then Frank B. Wiborg’s the Dunes would be a top contender. The house once overlooked what is now called Wiborg’s Beach, making the name chosen for the summer home very appropriate.

But who was this Wiborg? Frank Bestow Wiborg was born in Cleveland in 1855 to a Norwegian immigrant named Henry Paulinus Wiborg and his wife, Susan Isidora Bestow. Frank attended the prestigious Chickering Scientific and Classical Institute and supported himself through school by selling newspapers. After graduation, he went to work for Levi Ault, who sold printing ink. Their relationship soon developed into a business partnership, and in 1878 they founded the Ault and Wiborg Company in Cincinnati, which would become a top producer and distributor of inks and lithograph supplies. By the time he was 40, Wiborg was a self-made millionaire with offices established across the country and around the world.

Originally summer vacationers, the Wiborg family rented rooms and cottages in Amagansett and East Hampton Village before purchasing property from Mrs. Marshall Smith in the spring of 1909. That summer, with the assistance of a prominent architect named Grosvenor Atterbury and George Eldredge, a builder, Wiborg had the pre-existing cottage overhauled and extended, making it possible for the family to move in by that September. However, construction would continue on the estate for the next few years.

Upon its completion, the Dunes, a 30-room stucco mansion, was considered the largest estate in East Hampton. It had a view of the ocean on one side and a view of the village on the other. The grounds also included a beautiful sunken Italian garden, stables, dairy barn, garages, a laundry house, and servants’ quarters.

In 1941, Sara Murphy — the Wiborgs’ eldest daughter, who had become famous in the 1920s as a literary inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald — found herself unable to sell or rent the mansion, and it was considered too expensive to maintain, so it was purposely burned down and demolished by the East Hampton Fire Department.

In 2012, papers were taken from Dune Flat (a.k.a. the Pink House), a former chauffeur’s cottage that was the last remaining structure of the Wiborg estate, and given to the Long Island Collection by the East Hampton Historical Society. Items from this collection are currently on display at the East Hampton Library, including postcards, correspondence, legal documents, invitations, and travel brochures.

Gina Piastuck is the department head of the Long Island Collection at the East Hampton Library.

The Town of East Hampton and Marc Rowan, the billionaire co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management who bought Perry B. Duryea & Son Inc., the wholesale-retail fish market with dining on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk, have settled a lawsuit that brings to an end several years of dispute over use on, and plans for, the property.

Mr. Rowan will apply to the town’s planning board for restaurant use, legalizing table service where it was technically disallowed, Michael Sendlenski, the town attorney, said yesterday, as well as installation of an innovative alternative septic system on the landward side of Tuthill Road that will reduce nitrogen loading to both Fort Pond and Tuthill Pond, also landward of Tuthill Road.

Mr. Rowan, who previously served on the board of Norwegian Cruise Lines, has agreed that no portion of the property will permit the landing of cruise ships or ferry services, according to terms of the settlement, putting to rest a persistent rumor. He has also agreed to donate the property at 120 Tuthill Point Road, along with half of the area of Tuthill Pond and its bottomlands, to the town or a qualified environmental organization, and contribute to a fund for road improvements to mitigate flooding at the intersection of Tuthill and Manor Roads.

The town will deliver a certificate of occupancy for structures on the property pertaining to the complex’s ice manufacture, sale, and storage facility; fish processing, preparation, and cleaning; fish market; wholesale and retail seafood shop with ancillary areas; an accessory dining patio; a cottage and garage, and outdoor decks, as well as a house and attached garage that was once the Duryea family’s residence.

A pending building permit application for renovation and reconstruction of an existing garage is to be issued no later than 20 days from the application’s completion, according to the settlement, and Mr. Rowan will not be precluded from applying for future alterations on the site.

The town will honor state patents granted to the Duryeas long ago, acknowledging that it has no jurisdiction over a pier repaired after Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Existence of the patents, Mr. Sendlenski said, are “not shocking or surprising, based on Duryea’s position in Albany.” Perry B. Duryea Sr. served as a state senator and state conservation commissioner. Perry B. Duryea Jr., who died in 2004, was a longtime assemblyman and the Republican candidate for governor in 1978.

Mr. Rowan bought the property at 65 and 66 Tuthill Road for $6.3 million in 2014, around 80 years after Perry Duryea Sr. bought into the business with a partner, Capt. E.B. Tuthill. The sale added to a growing trend of Montauk’s mom-and-pop businesses changing hands as investors flooded the hamlet with money over the last decade.

Food prices at Duryea’s skyrocketed: The menu listed on its website includes a $54 lobster Cobb salad, a two-pound lobster for $63, and a three-pound fluke at $125. A bottle of Dom Perignon 2004 Rosé is listed at $795.

The new owner’s 2015 proposal to remove all of the structures on the site and replace them with a 6,350-square-foot restaurant and an open deck with a total capacity of 353 patrons was tabled before the planning board could consider it.

In 2016, Mr. Rowan’s representatives took to the planning board a proposal to demolish four cottages built in 1960 at 80 Firestone Road, next to the Montauket, a property he acquired in 2015 for $2.2 million, and replace them with three much larger resort cottages, each with its own private pool and a share of the clifftop view of Fort Pond Bay. The town’s building inspector said Mr. Rowan would need variances from the zoning board of appeals to build close to what was determined to be a bluff crest perpendicular to the shoreline.

After Mr. Rowan’s appeal to the zoning board failed, he sued, and a state judge overruled the building inspector.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, and Councilman David Lys were among the candidates formally nominated by the East Hampton Democratic Committee at its Feb. 13 convention. The purpose of the convention is to select candidates for the Nov. 5 election.

The three incumbents hope to maintain the Democrats' 5-0 supermajority on the East Hampton Town Board. Mr. Van Scoyoc, a former board member, is seeking a second two-year term as supervisor. Before winning two elections to the town board, he served on the town's zoning board of appeals and planning board.

Ms. Overby is a two-term incumbent seeking a third four-year term. Mr. Lys, who was appointed to his seat in January 2018 following Mr. Van Scoyoc's election to supervisor in November 2017, fended off a primary challenge before winning election in November to complete Mr. Van Scoyoc’s unfinished term.

Five incumbents were nominated to run for town trustee, the terms of which are also two years: Francis Bock, the clerk; Bill Taylor, a deputy clerk; Susan McGraw-Keber; John Aldred, and Rick Drew will all seek re-election. The Democrats also endorsed Jim Grimes, a Republican incumbent who is the trustees' other deputy clerk.

The Democrats nominated Tim Garneau, Zach Cohen, and Mike Martinsen for the trustees' remaining three seats. Mr. Garneau is a member of the Democratic Committee. Mr. Martinsen is a fisherman and oyster farmer with Montauk Pearl Oysters. Mr. Cohen, also a member of the committee, has made unsuccessful bids for supervisor and trustee. He is chairman of the town's nature preserve committee.

Brian Byrnes, an incumbent trustee, will not seek re-election. "It's been really rewarding being a trustee," Mr. Byrnes, who is serving his third term, said last week. "I'm not a fan of long-term political jobs."

In a sign of an apparent schism between the Democratic committee and another incumbent Democrat, Dell Cullum, who is serving his first term as a trustee, Cate Rogers, the committee's chairwoman, said last week only that "I haven't heard from him." Responding to an inquiry as to his plans, Mr. Cullum said in an email on Monday that he has "no political aspirations" and that, "as of today, I have not decided whether to seek re-election or not."

Andrew Strong won the committee's nomination for town justice. Mr. Strong is an attorney who serves as general counsel to Organizaciùn Latino-Americana of Long Island, a nonprofit organization, commonly known as Ola, that promotes social, economic, cultural, and educational development for the region's Latino communities.

The committee also endorsed three incumbents: Steve Lynch, the highway superintendent, and Jeanne Nielsen and Jill Massa for tax assessor.

Almost 80 percent of the committee's 36 members cast votes for the full slate of candidates, Ms. Rogers said. In a statement last week, she pointed to the candidates' "proven track record of promoting renewable energy, affordable housing, and clean water."

To the Star, Ms Rogers said, "There's a new energy in the committee, and I think in this slate as well. It's wonderful to have a group of people that are so talented and have the ability to work collaboratively as a group."

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee extended its candidate search, deciding to interview candidates last Saturday and Sunday, the second weekend it had done so. The Republican committee also rescheduled its nominating convention to Saturday at 2 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett.

Elaine Jones, chairwoman of the East Hampton Independence Party, said that the Independents will screen candidates on March 1 and 2 at Ashawagh Hall in Springs.