Police are asking for the public's help regarding the theft of two all-terrain vehicles in Sag Harbor this summer, and are offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest.

Two lime green children's A.T.V.s were stolen from a property on Denise Street, outside the village, in the early part of August. The A.T.V.s were hidden in a wooded area nearby and taken by three men in a new-style four-door, bright blue Ford F-150 pickup truck, according to police. 

The A.T.V.s are described as a 2017 lime green Kawasaki quad VIN# RGSWE07A2HBC10134 and a 2015 gime green Kawasaki quad VIN# RGSWE07A1FB100542.

The case is being handled by Southampton Town police detectives. Police did not provide a value for the vehicles, but new youth A.T.V.s retail for between $2,000 and $3,000.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

With the Hamptons International Film Festival in town this week filling the East Hampton Cinema with a full schedule of screenings in its 25th anniversary year, a rumor began to circulate that the theater would close right after the festival.

Over the weekend, people began to post their outrage at the news on social media. What would it mean for East Hampton businesses? Children? The film festival?

One woman posting on the cinema's Facebook page asked whether it was closing — "Please say it's not true!" — but her question went unanswered.

Cue the dramatic music.

Moviegoers can rejoice after all. The United Artists East Hampton Cinema 6 is staying put. This week, a manager for the Regal Cinemas movie theater, and a spokeswoman for the landlord, emphatically denied the rumors.

"There is no basis for that thought or rumor," according to Alice McGillion, a spokeswoman for Donald Zucker, a Manhattan real estate mogul who owns the theater building and dozens of other properties in East Hampton and Sag Harbor.

"The movie theater actually still has two years left on its lease and four different options" to renew, she said, adding that the owner understands that the theater is vital to East Hampton Village. She said the building is not for sale.

Nicole Foster, a manager at the cinema, also dispelled the rumor. "A couple of people have asked us. We don't know how that got started, but we're not closing." A message left with Regal Cinema's media office was not returned.

"We heard the rumor as well and are glad to hear it is being denied," said David Nugent, the artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival, which begins today. "We as a film festival wouldn't survive without those screens and we really value the role that the cinema itself plays furthering the love and appreciation for cinema out here on the East End."

A 1925 advertisement from The East Hampton Star for the Edwards Theatre, a precursor to the United Artists-Regal Cinema on Main Street.

Anne Chaisson, the festival's executive director, agreed and said she recognized the cinema's vital role in the community.

"As a year-round resident, being able to see the best in cinema at the Regal at any time is paramount to my Hamptons experience."

While Steven Ringel, the executive director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, had not heard the rumor this week, he said he had driven by the cinema a few weeks ago when the marquis was blank. "I thought, 'That's odd that they would be changing all six movies at once.' It made me a little nervous for a few minutes," he recalled, but when he drove by later that day, movie titles again were posted.

He was glad to hear the theater was not closing. "I think that would be a disaster for our local economy," he said.

"The survival and thriving of our village economy depends on foot traffic and people in the village. We need businesses and events that keep people on the sidewalk and keep activity in the village alive. . . . The movie theater is something that brings people to the village." The movie theater is part of a building at 36 Main Street that includes three separate businesses, according to the East Hampton Town assessor's office. The listed owner is Frog Company L.L.C.

The Edwards Theatre began showing movies nearby on East Hampton's Main Street around 1919, and constructed a 1,000-seat theater on the cinema's current site in 1926. It burned down in 1964. Construction on a new building began the following year. A second and third screen were added in 1976, with three more following in the succeeding decades.

“Here we go again,” as Mel Allen used to say, when the Yankees were homering the opposition to death. This time it’s not about baseball but about swans, mute swans. 

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo are back on the bandwagon and the bandwagon is out to eliminate once and for all Cygnus olor from New York State waters. Their reasons: It scares people kayaking and canoeing, it picks on native ducks and geese, it befouls the water, and threatens swimmers and walkers along pond shores and rivers.

Hokum, hokum, hokum. While the state is so intent on doing away with a creature as elegant as the mute swan, which has been here since the 1880s, I don’t see it doing a thing about the other interlopers: mallard ducks, starlings, house finches, parakeets, great black-backed gulls, carp, Italian wall lizards, house sparrows, cattle egrets, and many more. The list goes on and on.

Most of the state’s mute swans are here on Long Island. Why aren’t the Island’s various Audubon clubs solidly taking up the state’s hue and cry? Because they know better than the bureaucrats who govern our fish and wildlife and make up the silly rules concerning them in order to stay on the payroll and keep the ruling politicians on their side. Are mute swans really that evil that they deserve to be erased from the state’s flora and fauna lists?

Take Canada geese, for instance. They aren’t native, are they? They outnumber the local duck species, they crap on golf courses and public open spaces. Shall we eliminate them, too? How about the national birds, the bald eagles, that are beginning to nest on Long Island after a long absence? They rob ospreys of their catches and steal their young if the osprey’s nest is left unguarded. Shall we do them in before they really get out of hand? Are the native white-tailed deer really the number-one culprits behind the spread of tick diseases? If you do away with all of the deer will Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, and babesiosis go away? Not really.

The D.E.C. and other state conservation departments have a spotty past with respect to what is allowed to stay, what goes, and what should be hunted to excess. After all, the D.E.C. is that same department that introduced various foreign plants, say, the Japanese pine, the Russian olive, and several others from out of the country in the interest of re-landscaping dunes and other “barren” formations on Long Island.

How did grass carp get established in parts of the United States? How did the non-native multiflora rose become such a nuisance in our wooded ecotones? Why did the foreign reed subspecies of Phragmites australis take over our marshes and other spots to the chagrin of the our native Phragmites subspecies, which has become very rare and probably completely extirpated from New York State, including all of Long Island?

How did West Coast salmon species get into our Great Lakes in the late 1900s? Yes, you guessed it, they were introduced on purpose. The fish crow from the south is becoming a nuisance in our upper East Coast villages and cities. Shall we outlaw it, as well? 

The list of malfeasances and counter-malfeasances is extensive.

But, before we do them in because of a few bad acts in the past, let’s also defend the D.E.C. and its sister organizations around the country for all the good they do and have done. There was once a time when we filled in or ditched wetlands for this or that reason: mosquito control, drainage, building, and the like. Wetlands are now almost universally protected in New York State and throughout the rest of the United States. The California condor was down to fewer than 20 individuals; now it is making a superlative comeback because of the efforts of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and California Fish and Game. Similarly, the whooping crane was almost gone but it is slowly increasing its numbers in the west.

Hawks of all kinds were once shot on sight. Now in New York and most other states they are completely protected. In the last 20 years peregrine falcons, sharp-shinned hawks, and Cooper’s hawks have returned to breed on Long Island, and now the bald eagle has joined them. And just this month, the state banned the taking of diamondback terrapins, those turtles that inhabit our estuarine waters and come ashore to breed on coastal uplands every June and July. 

On the other hand, the state and federal agencies that have been largely responsible for the return of this or that almost extinct species and considerable habitat protection, could not have done it alone. They needed help and support from volunteer private individuals, private clubs and the many not-for-profit organizations such as the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the various bluebird clubs, Ducks Unlimited, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the National Parks Conservation Association, the American Littoral Society, the Audubon Society, the American Forestry Association, the Garden Club of America, and so many more left unnamed.

But in this case, most of those organizations are not for sticking it to the mute swan the way New York State is planning on doing. Governor Cuomo, I beg of you, please don’t pick on the swans. They were here in America before you and all the rest of us humans alive today. They’ve survived through various epidemics, they tend to be monogamous, they protect and train their young the way we humans do. In other words, they are almost perfect models for us to follow, not to obliterate. The majority of Long Islanders and upstate New Yorkers like them. Enough said.

Larry Penny can be reached via email at [email protected].

For those with a competitive spirit, the fall season is prime time in Montauk to take part in a number of fishing contests, especially if you are one to ply your skills from the beach. How the surf fishing will be for the next few months is very hard to predict, but ever since Superstorm Sandy hit the New York area nearly five years ago, the fall fishing patterns, especially for striped bass, have been significantly altered as the fish have consistently bypassed the Montauk area by the time we reach the middle of October. The much sought-after stripers did not disappear, but rather, they have decided to set up feeding on large schools of baitfish and bunker well to the west of Montauk. Boats and casters out of Shinnecock, Captree, and all the way to the New York Bight, have witnessed their fortunes turn for the better the past few years with excellent action going well past Thanksgiving, while Montauk remained unusually quiet with very few bass caught.

The uncertainty of what this fall will bring continues with the recent spell of strong winds and long-period swells that were the result of several hurricanes traveling off to the east of our shoreline. We hope that with the passing of Hurricane Maria this week, things will return to normal and we’ll have a better sense of what the next two months or so will bring. Fingers crossed. 

That said, the first major contest of the fall season took place this past weekend in Montauk. Sponsored by Long Island state parks and The Fisherman magazine, the Montauk Surf Fishing Classic witnessed a large turnout of casters but rather slow fishing. “Fishing was a bit tough despite the great, warm weather,” said Paul Aspostolides, owner of Paulie’s Tackle Shop in downtown Montauk. The largest bass landed, a 28-pound fish, was by German Caceres, while the top bluefish, taken by Tony (Two Plug) Crisostomo, came in at 14 pounds. Apostolides felt that the action from the beach should pick up this weekend with some cooler temperatures backed by a northeast wind. 

As for other events, the Montauk SurfMasters Fall classic got underway on Sept. 15 and will conclude on Nov. 25. The popular, 10-week tournament has five divisions: adult wader, wetsuit, women, youth (12 to 17), and kids (7 to 11). This fall, the contest for the first time will have a catch-and-release division open to all adults (wader, wetsuit, and women). Non-cash prizes will be awarded to the top three spots for catch-and-release. Applications and weigh-ins are at Paulie’s Tackle Shop. For more information, check out montauksurfmasters.com. 

Also at Paulie’s Tackle Shop, Apostolides will once again conduct his annual striped bass surf contest this weekend starting tomorrow. The entry fee is $25 and you can sign up at the shop. 

Boaters, too, will have their chance to get involved in a tournament. Over Columbus Day weekend, the Star Island Yacht Club will hold its eighth annual striped bass and bluefish tournament on Oct. 8. A captains meeting will be held on Saturday evening prior to the day of fishing. Categories are divided for both recreational and charter boats. More details are available at 631-668-5052.

Beyond the tourney game, action started to improve for those fishing from a boat as the northerly breezes diminished. “We got blown out for several days last week with the wind, but by the weekend, the conditions were much improved and the stripers showed up in good numbers at the Point,” said Capt. Michael Potts of the Montauk charter boat Bluefin IV. “And we did well with sea bass in New York waters too.” Despite the good action, Potts has put down the fishing rod and embarked on a two-week trip to the Greek Islands. “So beautiful there, and the food, especially the seafood, is so fresh and good,” he said before departing on Tuesday. “The fish prices are cheap too, but the fresh octopus is actually very expensive.” 

Over at the Lazy Bones, the half-day boat starting diamond jigging on Sunday after the week of windy weather, and was rewarded with excellent striped bass action. “We caught more keeper bass on our first two days than we did all of last fall,” said Capt. Michael Vegessi. “Let’s hope it continues.” 

“As the winds dropped off, fishing for snappers, porgies, and blowfish has been very good the past few days,” said Sebastian Gorgone, the owner of Mrs. Sam’s Bait and Tackle in East Hampton. “I also heard some rumors of some weakfish being caught outside Three Mile Harbor, too.” The weakfish bite continues to stay strong in Noyac Bay as evidenced by several nice-size fish taken by David Sherwood and his wife, Michelle, of North Haven on Sunday afternoon. Dinner was delicious, he reported on Monday morning. 

“Striped bass and bluefish are around, but the recent rough surf has kept angler participation on the low side of late,” said Harvey Bennett, proprietor of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett, who is also having a special sale on select clam rakes. “And false albacore fishing continues to be the best I’ve seen in a number of years. Deadly Dicks have been the hot lure of late to catch them,” he said. Bennett also confirmed the great snapper, blowfish, and porgy action in Three Mile Harbor, as well as good sea bass catches coming from the east side of Gardiner’s Island.  

A side note on sea bass: Despite an overabundance of the tasty and popular fish just about everywhere, fishermen who enjoy dropping a line in federal waters (more than three miles offshore) as well in the waters of Rhode Island should note that the sea bass fishery closed on Friday and will not reopen until Oct. 22. 

While sea bass remain fair game in New York State waters within three miles of shore, the closure of the other grounds will put a temporary crimp in plans for those in the pursuit of larger sea bass as they migrate offshore to deeper waters for the winter. Popular spots like the Appletree Grounds south of Block Island, as well as the new wind farm nearby, are off limits. These areas have historically been very popular for charter and party boat captains this time of the year, as a nice mix of codfish could also be found with the sea bass. And from what I’ve heard over the past few weeks, there has been plenty of law enforcement action by Rhode Island and New York State marine conservation officers on the water in many areas off Montauk and Block Island looking for a variety of fish infractions. You have been duly warned. 

We welcome your fishing tips, observations, and photographs at [email protected]. You can find the “On the Water” column on Twitter at @ehstarfishing.

A 19-year-old who has been living in Montauk since March was charged on Monday with two felony counts of burglary.

East Hampton Town police said Luis Baldayac broke a window at Montauk’s Lido Motel on Sunday night and entered two rooms, where he stole various items including an Xbox gaming console, an Apple watch, a number of cellphones, an iPad mini, headphones, and $850 in cash. 

During his arraignment Tuesday morning, Wendy Grace Russo of the Legal Aid Society told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana that Mr. Baldayac had a right to be at the motel, because his friends who live there had refused to pay him back money he had lent them over the summer. 

“I don’t see it as a burglary situation, with a knife,” Ms. Russo said. “They were not strangers; he was there because they refused to pay him back.”

When questioned by police, Mr. Baldayac reportedly admitted to the thefts, giving the same explanation.

He told the court he had been living in New Jersey, and that this past summer was his first in Montauk. He had been working at Gurney’s Resort, he said, from March up until a few weeks ago, when he was told his contract, which he did not know was seasonal, was over. Since then, he said, he has been working at the Montauk 7-Eleven, making far less money, about $400 a week. 

“Mr. Baldayac has only been living on eastern Long Island for a few months, has no family out here, and caused a dispute with money,” Justice Rana said. She set bail at $10,000, calling the felony charges “very serious.” He will have a Legal Aid attorney at his side when he returns to court today.

Town police also made two arrests on drug charges over the week. Scott R. Smith of Springs, 42, was allegedly found with cocaine and a small amount of marijuana on Sept. 20, during a 3:45 a.m. traffic stop on Fort Pond Boulevard in Springs. Police said they first found a plant-like material in a plastic bag in his car, which tested positive for marijuana. Then, they said, they found a clear plastic bag and a small black plastic bag in the pockets of his shorts, both containing a white powder. The powder reportedly tested positive for cocaine. 

Officers also discovered two packages labeled “California medicated edibles” in his car, said to be concentrated cannabis. Mr. Smith, who was charged with three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana, was released on an appearance ticket with a date to be in Justice Court. 

On Sept. 18 at 9:45 a.m., Juan C. Candelaria Bonilla of Montauk, 28, was arrested after police allegedly found prescription medication and a small amount of marijuana in his car, parked in a lot at 35 South Erie Avenue. According to the report, officers found half of a “round blue pill,” later identified as Alprazolam, and a fragment of an unknown white pill, in a plastic container in the center console, as well as a green, leafy, plant-like material, which proved to be marijuana, concealed in a box of Newport cigarettes.

Mr. Bonilla was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released on $100 bail, and will return to court at a later date. 

On Sunday police lodged a felony charge against an East Hampton man, saying he had disobeyed an order of protection and tried to strangle its holder, a woman whose name was not released.

Cristian E. Carvajal-Herrera, 22, who lives in an apartment on North Main Street, was at a house on Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton, at about 1 a.m. when, police said, he pushed, punched, and kicked the woman and put his hands around her throat. A Suffolk County Family Court judge had granted her the order of protection in February. 

In addition to the felony criminal contempt charge, Mr. Carvajal-Herrera was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor. Justice Rana set bail at $500, which was posted.

On Monday, a group of grumpy seventh graders in Cara Nelson’s social studies class, Rita Green’s English language arts class, and Meg Ryan-Metz’s special education class walked from the East Hampton Middle School to the high school, and back, each carrying two one-gallon bottles of water in their arms, or on their shoulders, and huffing and puffing during the approximately 30-minute round trip. 

“This is so stupid,” one student said. Another curled her upper lip and rolled her eyes. They returned to school evidently exhausted. Asked to describe on a chalkboard in Ms. Nelson’s classroom how they felt during the exercise, scrawled descriptions read: “Abused,” “deceased,” “never want to do it again,” and “felt like army training.” 

Seventh graders had just received a lesson in experiential learning. The next day they began reading “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. The short novel is based on the true story of a 12-year-old Sudanese girl who walks two hours each way, twice daily, to retrieve water from the nearest pond. After reading only the title, a lightbulb went off for some, Ms. Green said, and suddenly it clicked.  

By taking the learners outside their comfort zone — the classroom — for a memorable lesson, the students had been offered a chance to reflect on what they were being taught from firsthand experience.

The three teachers are pushing the boundaries of traditional techniques in other ways as well. They have championed a linked-teaching model connecting the seventh grade social studies unit on migration to E.L.A. topics on identity and global cultures. 

“We tried to find organic connections between the two subjects,” Ms. Ryan-Metz, who teaches both social studies and E.L.A. to special education pupils, said. “And the connections are endless.” She said that Charles Soriano, the middle school principal, is entirely on board with the integrated method, which is now in its fourth year. 

The flexibility to deliver core subjects in ways that engage students outside of the classroom is seen by many educators as a key to their becoming lifelong learners. By introducing more projects into the curriculum, in which students gain knowledge and skills through actively investigating and partici pating in a certain challenge, teachers become guides and students develop critical thinking. “This really puts learning into the kids’ hands. This is not a teacher-centered way of teaching,” Ms. Nelson said.

The East Hampton teachers have introduced yet another outside-the-classroom learning opportunity. Beginning four years ago in conjunction with the Hamptons International Film Festival, East Hampton’s seventh graders have created short videos. Working in small groups, they chose a topic related to E.L.A. or social studies, such as migration, diversity, refugees, immigration, identity, global issues, and animal rights, and are creating a two to five-minute film in any format — live action, stop motion, animation, or slide shows. Each year, films are submitted to a junior offshoot of the festival, and the strongest are selected for a screening and panel discussion at the John M. Marshall Elementary School in May.

Next Thursday, the first day of this year’s festival, the entire middle school, along with students from neighboring schools, will attend a screening of short films by young filmmakers from Italy, Bangladesh, Belgium, and Slovenia, among other countries, which were chosen in conjunction with the Plural+ Film Festival, a joint venture of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the International Organization for Migration. The narrative themes featured this year are diversity, migration, and social inclusion. 

As a surprise, a few films made by last year’s seventh graders who worked with Ms. Nelson, Ms. Green, and Ms. Ryan-Metz will be shown at the event, providing ample inspiration for this year’s new filmmakers.

Wastewater contamination, water quality, and Montauk beach erosion were the most serious concerns of 200 residents who responded to a telephone survey initiated by a Republican candidate for the East Hampton Town Board, while noise from East Hampton Airport was the least important. 

On Monday, Paul Giardina, who is also on the Conservative and Reform Party tickets in November, discussed the results of the survey, which was conducted between Aug. 22 and 30 at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett.

Mr. Giardina, who until his retirement was a longtime federal official at the Environmental Protection Agency, spoke about several of 13 issues that were ranked in order of importance, as determined by the survey. 

Replacing the aging and inefficient septic systems from which nitrogen and phosphorous are leaching into groundwater and waterways will cost between $100 million and $200 million, Mr. Giardina said. But, he said,  appropriating up to 20 percent of community preservation fund money for water quality projects, which voters approved last year, was inadequate since it would provide just $5 million a year.

“My running mates and I have worked with our federal and state colleagues to design a plan that will provide enough funding to solve our septic problems” without tapping the community preservation fund, he said, reading from his prepared analysis of the survey.

According to Mr. Giardina the town could obtain money from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, a federal-state partnership that provides municipalities with low-interest financing for water quality infrastructure. “No East End town has ever made an application” for money from that fund, he said. 

  With regard to airport noise, Mr. Giardina reported that 26.5 percent of residents surveyed think it is a serious concern, with the same number calling it a slight concern. Rather, he said, the airport is most often called an important asset in listening sessions with voters, particularly so in the event of medical emergencies or disasters.

 “I think some of the noise problems that people incur around the airport are really bad,” he told a questioner, but he said the Part 161 procedure, under which municipalities apply to the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to implement restrictions to reduce noise, was the appropriate mechanism to resolve the issue. 

“There is a path forward, albeit it’s going to be slow,” he said of the process, which is expected to take two to three years. Instead, he said, the town had spent more than $2.5 million on unsuccessful litigation. He also suggested that money may eventually have to be repaid not from airport user fees but from the  town budget. 

“East Hampton is filled with a lot of special interest groups. I want to listen to everybody, but in the end somebody’s got to call the shot, and 26 percent isn’t where I’m going to put my money and time in this campaign.” 

Government ethics placed fifth in importance in the survey, and Mr. Giar­dina used its prominence to attack local Democrats, including Julia Prince, a former town councilwoman, for serving as the Montauk manager and fisheries representative of Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company that intends to construct a 15-turbine wind farm approximately 30 miles off Montauk, which commercial fishermen oppose. (The wind farm’s impact itself placed ninth among the 13 issues cited.)

Ms. Prince is among the Democrats who, he said, are “eager to sell off Montauk’s maritime heritage and the serene surroundings of Gardiner’s Bay.” Instead, he said, the town could meet its energy needs through solar power “rather than tear up our ocean to generate electricity.” 

Affordable housing ranked seventh among the issues. However, Mr. Giardina said that personally he thinks it is a serious concern and has proposed a public-private partnership “that will bring together bankers and builders, designers and real estate agents, to come up with creative solutions that will allow our residents’ children and elders” to live here. He also suggested that those solutions might warrant zoning changes to allow increased population density and multifamily development. 

“What’s really missing” from town government, Mr. Giardina said, “is leadership — a willingness to take a clear stand and use your powers of persuasion to bring the community around to your point of view.” He pledged that, if elected, he would provide it. “We need leadership, not bullying,” he said.

The chairman of the Town of East Hampton’s fisheries advisory committee told the town trustees on Monday that the committee has raised $35,000 toward the $100,000 cost of an analysis of the socioeconomic importance of fisheries to the town, and asked that the trustees consider making a contribution of their own. 

Brad Loewen, a bayman and a former town councilman, told the trustees that the State Industrial Development Agencies has awarded a $25,000 grant toward the study, which would be conducted by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and cover the commercial and for-hire recreational fishing industries as well as aquaculture interests. The town, to which Mr. Loewen had appealed in the spring, has agreed to provide $10,000. 

The town board recognizes the importance of these industries, Mr. Loewen said, but the state and federal governments “seem to have some bias in not recognizing we’re an industry.” The committee would like a study to be completed as quickly as possible, he said, “because none exists. There are data, statistics, various things that management and we and you guys could look at if you have questions about fisheries, but nothing comprehensive. We don’t even know how many people work in our industry, or what it’s worth, in a scientific way.”

Initially focusing on East Hampton, the committee decided to expand the scope of the proposed study to cover the five East End towns, Mr. Loewen said. The committee has asked for contributions from the Towns of Southampton and Southold, which he said agreed that a study would be valuable but have yet to make a commitment. “When we make grant applications . . . everybody says it has to be more regional to be considered,” he said. 

“ ‘Regional’ is the new government buzzword,” said Bill Taylor, a deputy clerk of the trustees. 

Mr. Loewen said that he was personally apprehensive about expanding the scope to cover the five East End towns for fear of diluting its focus on concerns specific to the fisheries advisory committee. “If we take their money we will have to agree to some of their criteria. I’m not saying that’s bad, I’m just trying to make a point that this is an East Hampton project.” 

The trustees, however, encouraged him to look at it differently. “I can see where it probably would be advantageous to make this study more comprehensive, have it encompass the local towns,” said Jim Grimes. “Everybody shares from that benefit. . . . You’d be a much stronger voice than you would be as single East Hampton.” The present $65,000 shortfall toward the study’s cost is another reason to include the other towns, he said. 

“If you can get five towns and three boards of trustees to put in something like $10,000 or $12,000 each,” Mr. Taylor said, “you’re there.”

Mr. Grimes suggested dedicating a meeting of the trustees’ harbor management committee to a closer examination of the study and how to finance it. 

Rick Drew, who heads that committee, said the proposal could be further vetted there, helping the fisheries advisory committee “establish a foothold where the trustees could be part of the process moving forward.” The trustees’ formal support would strengthen outreach efforts to other towns and trustee boards, he predicted. “Ultimately, you want to effect political change,” he said. “That means numbers. The more government bodies behind you, the greater your strength.”

A Springs man was among those injured in an accident involving a United States Army Reserve Humvee at a festival in Farmingville on Saturday. The Humvee was on display, parked on an incline, and unoccupied when it rolled into a crowd of people.

Suffolk County Police Sixth Squad detectives are investigating what caused the accident at the Long Island Bacon Bash at the Pennysaver Amphitheater at about 5:10 p.m. The Humvee somehow slipped out of gear and rolled approximately 30 feet and struck a woman. Suzette Lamonica, 46, of Brookhaven was pinned between the vehicle and a food trailer. She was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was admitted for treatment of what police said were serious leg and arm injuries.  

The Springs man, Richard Gherardi, was inside the food trailer. The 30-year-old was burned by cooking oil, police said. He was also taken to Stony Brook for treatment, but police did not release the extent of his injuries.

Two women experienced minor injuries and refused medical attention at the scene, according to police.

The Humvee was impounded for a safety check. Detectives are asking anyone with information about this incident to call the Sixth Squad at 631-854-8652. 

Police in Southampton Village are asking beachgoers to think twice before going into the water due to the recent storm activities.

Over the past week, Southampton Village police received three 911 calls for swimmers in distress at the beaches, including one that ended in the drowning of a 46-year-old man. Earlier in the week, a police officer saved a swimmer in distress at Cooper's Beach.

On Sept. 16, about 12:30 p.m., village police received a 911 call that there were two swimmers struggling in the ocean off Cooper's Beach. The female swimmer made it back to the beach, but the male swimmer did not. A group of beachgoers went into the water and pulled the man, Timothy Allen Osborne of Singapore, out. Police performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him and he was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 1:21 p.m. 

There is a high-surf advisory in effect for Long Island through 6 Wednesday night at the very least, and a high rip current risk remains in effect through late Tuesday night, the National Weather Service said. Surf height is 6 to 10 feet.