Update, July 4, 2 p.m.: The search continues Tuesday afternoon for a missing fisherman believed to have fallen overboard from the Miss Shauna about 25 to 30 miles south of Montauk on Monday afternoon. The Coast Guard said in an update midday on Tuesday that more than 4,000 square miles have been searched. The Coast Guard has received assistance from 10 fishing vessels. 

Among the Coast Guard assets involved in the search are 47-foot motor lifeboats from Coast Guard Station Montauk and Station Shinnecock, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and an HC-144 Ocean Sentry plane from Air Station Cape Cod,  an HC-130 Hercules plane from Air Station Elizabeth City in North Carolina, and the Coast Guard cutters Shrike and Juniper from New Jersey and Rhode Island. 

Updated, July 4, 9:36 a.m.: On Tuesday morning, 17 hours after a missing fisherman was last seen aboard the Miss Shauna, a rescue mission continues in the Atlantic Ocean, Coast Guard officials said. 

"Still out there searching, from the air and from the sea," Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, said just after 9 a.m.

The last time he was given an update, eight commercial fishing vessels from the area were assisting the Coast Guard in the search for the 55-year-old crewmember of the Miss Shauna, who was reported missing Monday at about 4:30 p.m. He did not report for watch on the 51-foot boat, could not be found on board, and was presumed overboard. He was last seen Monday at 4 p.m. The boat was about 30 miles south of Montauk.

The "fisher-rescue coordinators" widened the search area overnight — though the Coast Guard has not said how big an area is involved. "The search box gets a little bit larger as the time goes on, usually larger in one direction because of the direction of the current," Officer Strohmaier said.

Asked how long the Coast Guard will keep up the search or when a determination is made to switch from a search and rescue mission to a recovery effort, the officer said it is up to the rescue coordinators, "once we've used all the assets and exhausted all our resources . . .  as of right now we will continue." 

John Aldridge, a Montauk lobsterman, fell overboard in July of 2013 while 40 miles offshore, and was found alive after 12 hours at sea. Wearing no life vest, he used his boots to keep him afloat. He and the boat captain, Anthony Sosinski, penned a book, "A Speck in the Sea," which has also inspired a movie.

Updated, July 3, 10:20 p.m.: The search for a missing fisherman "presumed to be overboard" is still under way Monday night, a spokesman for the Coast Guard said. 

Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier said at about 10 p.m. that an additional air unit was brought in to search for the 55-year-old crewmember who went missing from the Miss Shauna, a 51-foot commercial fishing vessel, which he confirmed is based out of New Bedford, Mass. The Miss Shauna was 30 miles south of Montauk when the man failed to report for watch duty and could not be found on the boat.

He was last seen aboard the boat at 4 p.m. and was reported missing a half-hour later. The Coast Guard has not released the crewmember's name yet.

As of about 9 p.m., seven fishing vessels from the surrounding area, including Montauk, were assisting the Coast Guard in the search from the water, along with the aerial search, the officer said. 

"They will continue the search into the night," he said. 

The officer did not know the approximate radius involved in the search, but said it was somewhat confined based on the time between when the man went missing and the time he was last seen. He said it will be expanded as time goes on.

Originally, July 3, 6:36 p.m.: A search was underway Monday evening for a fisherman who went missing from a fishing vessel 30 miles south of Montauk. 

The Coast Guard said the man was a 55-year old crewmember of the Miss Shauna, but it did not immediately identify him or say where he was from. A Coast Guard spokesman said officers were notifying his family. 

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound were notified by VHF radio at about 4:30 p.m. from the Miss Shauna that the crewmember had not reported for his watch and could not be located aboard the boat. The fisherman was last seen at 4 p.m. on Monday.

The Miss Shauna is a 51-foot commercial fishing vessel, believed to be out of New Bedford, Mass., but the Coast Guard could not immediately confirm the boat's home port. 

Sector watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and launched several Coast Guard assets, including a crew from Coast Guard Station Montauk and Coast Guard Station Shinnecock. A crew from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod was performing an aerial search. 

The incident was reminiscent of the search for John Aldridge, who fell off the Anna Mary, a 44-foot lobster boat out of Montauk, in July of 2013. Mr. Aldridge was found alive after an extensive search and 12 hours in the water.

The Coast Guard is developing search patterns, according to Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier. Since the time between when the crewmemeber was last seen and when he was noticed missing is only a half-hour, the search area can be narrowed down, the officer said.  

The fishing fleet from Montauk is assisting in the search, Officer Stohmaier said. With only a few more hours of daylight, the search would continue into the night if necessary, he said.

Check back for more information as it becomes available. 

This is not Ed Deyermond’s first time leaving the Sag Harbor Village Board — even he has lost track of how many — but he swears it is his last. A member of the board on and off for nearly 15 years, not including a stint in the mid-’90s, he did not run for another term in this election and will step down in July.

“I served with a lot of good people in my home village,” Mr. Deyermond said this week. “I’ll certainly miss them, it’s just time for me to go.”

While his involvement in village government may be ending, his nearly 40-year public service career is not quite over. He remains the North Haven Village clerk-administrator, an appointed position.

Since 1978, Mr. Deyermond has been a presence in local government, starting as an assessor in East Hampton Town. In 1989, he attained the highest certification granted by the New York State Assessors Association, one of only 270 assessors in the state, out of several thousand,  certified. He later became the sole assessor in Southampton Town, serving from 1990 to 2001 and again from 2006 to 2010.

Mr. Deyermond first joined the village board in 1994, when he and Brian Gilbride challenged incumbents over a heated fire department issue. He was elected mayor in 2003, and served until 2006, when, he said, he got an offer from Southampton he couldn’t refuse, to return to the assessor’s job. He rejoined the Sag Harbor Village Board in 2008, stepped down again, and was re-elected in 2013 and 2015.

At the board meeting on June 13, Mayor Sandra Schroeder acknowledged Mr. Deyermond’s impending departure. “We will miss his many years of experience, knowledge, and insight,” she said, before presenting Mr. Deyermond with a certificate of appreciation citing “his ability to work effectively with mayors, clerks, and board members in our own community and neighboring jurisdictions alike.”

“Ed has been a tremendous asset to Sag Harbor throughout his career,” said Greg Ferraris, who served on the village board when Mr. Deyermond was mayor, and later, with Mr. Deyermond’s encouragement, became mayor himself.

Their roles are reversed now, but Mayor Schroeder also worked with Mr. Deyermond when he was mayor; she was the village clerk in Sag Harbor at the time. “He is the go-to guy for any issue, and if he doesn’t have the answer right away, he will get back to you and tell you,” she said by phone. “He is completely dedicated to our village. He has worked to help everyone.”

While Mr. Deyermond’s track record may suggest that he will soon return to a local government position, he promises he will not. “It’s not the Sag Harbor that I came to, years and years and years ago. I put my time in, and I think I did a good job. History will be the judge of that,” he said. He wished the new administration all the best, and said he was grateful to all those who helped in the beginning of his career.

People who worked with him more recently are grateful too, for his many years of service. “Anyone lucky enough to call this man a friend is fortunate indeed,” Mayor Schroeder said. “There is no one I know that needed help that he didn’t help. That’s the way he lives.”

Unusually high numbers of emaciated great shearwaters, which spend most of their time far out at sea, have been spotted on Long Island beaches in the past week. A member of the Procellaridae family and the largest of the Puffinus genus, shearwaters have distinctive dark-brown caps, white throats and necks, and are between 16 and 20 inches long.

Pauline Rosen, a volunteer at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays, reported seeing 48 washed-up shearwaters while walking along Montauk and Napeague beaches. The Wildlife Rescue Center had found 28 dead birds, making 76 in all.

“We alerted the D.E.C. that we were getting calls about the mass numbers of dead birds, but we don’t know the cause,” Amanda Daley, an assistant at the center said. “They were not coming in with any injuries, they were coming in ill.”

Mike Bottini, the head lifeguard at East Hampton’s Main Beach and a wildlife biologist, reported finding about 12 dead great shearwaters between Georgica and Two Mile Hollow beaches in the last 10 days. In addition, more than a dozen in various states of decomposition have been found mixed with seaweed at the high tide line at Ditch Plain. Officials in the Town of Hempstead found 20 dead shearwaters and also sent them to the D.E.C. for testing.

Although a definitive explanation of why so many shearwaters have been washing up on Long Island is unclear, mass die-offs have occurred in the past. According to a 2013 study, in 12 separate mortality events from 1993 to 2011, 4,961 dead great shearwaters were documented along the East Coast. Researchers found 58 percent emaciated and that the gastrointestinal tracts of 82 percent contained at least one plastic bead.

Great shearwaters come ashore in other parts of the world to excavate burrows in grasses or woodlands where a single egg is laid about three feet underground, they do not come ashore here under normal circumstances. Since they are rarely seen on land except when breeding, their simultaneous deaths on Long Island are perplexing.

Great shearwaters breed only on four islands in the South Atlantic, but they are common in other parts of the Atlantic and are known to follow a circular migration route. They begin along the eastern coast of South America, then head north along the East Coast of this country. After wintering along coastlines of the Arctic Circle, they return south and travel to the coast of Africa.

According to Joe Okoniewski, a wildlife pathologist at the State Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany, malnutrition seems to be the culprit of those found dead on Long Island. The D.E.C. received 20 birds from the western part of the Nassau County shoreline. “They have no fat, have reduced musculature, and are in a poor nutritional state,” Mr. Okoniewski said. “They are immature birds that were probably migrating from the Southern Hemisphere, and somewhere along the way they had food shortages.”

Most of the birds brought in were less than a year old, but Mr. Okoniewski nevertheless found plastic in some of their stomachs, which is in line with the 2013 study. “I’ve looked at seven, two of which had plastic in their stomachs, one with a significant amount,” he said. He does not believe plastic was the significant cause of their deaths.

A phenomenon that researchers have been debating is the effect of weather. Because great shearwaters are a pelagic species that spends most of its time on the ocean, some dismiss theories that heavy winds could disrupt them. While they are accustomed to foul weather, Mr. Okoniewski noted there were unusally heavy southeast winds last week that could have disrupted already weak and young birds.

The Town of East Hampton learned on Monday that the United States Supreme Court will not review a lower court decision that struck down three 2015 laws restricting access to the East Hampton Airport in order to reduce aircraft noise.

East Hampton had submitted a petition to the Supreme Court early this year in the hopes that it would review and uphold the laws: a once-a-week limit on takeoffs and landings at the municipal airport by planes that fall into a "noisy" category, and two overnight curfews, one with extended hours encompassing the noisy planes.

But on the Supreme Court's last day in session until the fall, amidst announcements regarding cases about which the justices will deliberate, East Hampton learned its airport case would not be on the docket.

The central question is whether local airport owners such as the town can exert control over airport use, in light of Federal Aviation Administration authority over general aviation airports — of which there are varying degrees depending on whether federal airport grants have been accepted. And if local owners can restrict use, under what conditions and how much?

Municipalities may apply for F.A.A. permission to institute limits on flights in order to reduce the impact of noise on surrounding areas through an application procedure called a Part 161 process, but East Hampton had argued unsuccessfully that it was exempt from that process based on a decision to forego new federal airport grants and on the expiration of contractual agreements with the F.A.A. that were imposed when previous grants were accepted.

Nonetheless, while waiting to learn what the Supreme Court might do, the town board recently hired Morrison Foerster, a law firm, to begin preparing a Part 161 application.

Aviation interests had sued the town after the curfew and restricted-access laws were adopted in the spring of 2015. The curfews were allowed to be instituted during the high summer season but the once-a-week limit was precluded by the court. However, an appeals court ruled against all three laws last fall.

Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said in a press release that the town board "is deeply disappointed" in the Supreme Court's decision. He noted, however, that the high court "gave serious consideration" to the petition, ordering the submission of a response from the aviation plaintiffs, a request made in only a small number of cases.

"Despite the outcome of this litigation, the town board will continue its efforts to find solutions to the problem of airport noise in our community, both through our elected representatives in Congress and through the onerous F.A.A. Part 161 process," Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the town board's liaison to the airport, said in the press release.

"We will not and cannot stop fighting to regain local control of our municipal airport. The federal government, and in particular the F.A.A., is incapable of managing the airport in the best interests of our community," she said. "We need local control in order to bring the much needed relief from aircraft noise."

In its own press release on Monday, Say No to KHTO, a local group formed to advocate for the closure of East Hampton Airport (called KHTO in aeronautical abbreviation), said that the Supreme Court decision leaves "only one practical option to gain local control over the airport . . . by closing it." Through its co-founder, Barry Raebeck, the group reissued its call to repurpose the 600-plus-acre airport for uses that will benefit the entire community.

Gaining the ability to control flights through the Part 161 process "has low odds of a favorable income," Mr. Raebeck said. "The residents and taxpayers of the East End (as well as beleaguered people from N.Y.C. to Orient Point) need to have our voices heard, need to have our rights defended, need to have our air, groundwater, skies, and habitats protected, and need to close the hazardous waste dump that is East Hampton Airport," he wrote in the release.

Meanwhile, the State Legislature this week passed legislation that would make future long-term financial agreements between the East Hampton Town Board and the F.A.A., such as the acceptance of airport grants and their accompanying "grant assurances," subject to a permissive referendum. The legislation was sponsored by East Hampton's state representatives, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, and will go to the governor's office to be signed.

"Federal aviation grants can last up to 20 years, resulting in a long-term impact on the community when they are accepted," Mr. Thiele and Mr. LaValle said in a joint press release.

The legislation allows the East Hampton Town Board to hold a permissive referendum when considering state or federal assistance for the airport, and gives residents the right to petition the town for a referendum should the board plan to accept an airport grant without first putting it to a public vote. The petition must be signed by at least 5 percent of residents who voted in the last gubernatorial election, and must be submitted within 30 days of a board vote to accept an airport grant.

The law "puts some of the decision-making power back into the hands of the community," Assemblyman Thiele said in the press release. "Town board members, who negotiate financing for the town airport, have terms that last only two years. Therefore, it's important that voters also have a say on these abiding agreements that will impact them for years to come."

"I fully support East Hampton's efforts to make decisions concerning their own airport," Senator LaValle said in the release.

The future of development in the Montauk Shores Condominiums was front and center Tuesday night during a series of hearings before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals.

The evening’s least controversial proposal, which was in the leadoff spot, demonstrated the hurdles owners may face in seeking to replace aging trailers with modern prefabricated structures.

Steven Cronley has owned the 600-square-foot trailer at 739 East End Drive for many years, he told the board, and now he wants to demolish it and replace it with a bigger one of 916 square feet, along with a deck.

It was clear from Lisa D’Andrea, a senior planner for the town, and questions from board members as well, that the park’s sanitary system is a major obstacle.

The aging system is designed to handle about 26,500 gallons of waste per day, Ms. D’Andrea said. The potential flow from the site’s existing units, according to her calculations and those of Kim Shaw, the town’s natural resources director, is around 43,000 gallons per day. Because of the shortfall — about 16,900 gallons — the Suffolk County Health Department rejected the park’s proposal in December to add two bathrooms to its recreation center.

“It is imperative that we do not have antiquated, overtaxed, or failing sanitary systems contributing further to the degradation of our ground and surface waters,” Ms. D’Andrea told the board.

“They are going to have to install a new sanitary system,” John Whelan, the chairman, said. Board members agreed that if they were to approve Mr. Cronley’s application they would require proof that the sanitary system is up to date and capable of handling the sewage generated by the residents.

Because of the sanitary issues, as well as the fact that many trailers are in a flood zone under Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations, there is currently an effective moratorium on building in the park. The FEMA hurdle was next up at Tuesday meeting.

Eric Cole owns a modern house facing the ocean on Edgewater Drive, built in 2014 where once a trailer stood, with variances granted by the zoning board, despite the fact that no one — not the board, not the builder, not the Building Department itself — considered that the house was in a major flood zone. Any structure built there would have to be raised 16 feet above grade to allow flood waters to pass underneath. Mr. Cole’s house is only four and a half feet above grade, according to the builder, George Thamsen.

“We followed the code or the rules at the time,” Mr. Thamsen told the board.

“We were not made aware of the FEMA requirements.” That argument fell on deaf ears, particularly Mr. Whelan’s and Roy Dalene’s, both old hands in the building industry. Residents of Montauk Shores “are going to have to get used to it,” Mr. Whelan said of the FEMA regulations.

“There are no exceptions for mobile homes,” Ms. D’Andrea said. “It is the homeowner’s responsibility to meet all codes,” Mr. Dalene said. “You are responsible.” Cate Rogers pointed out that flood insurance rates for the entire town would rise if the board granted variances from FEMA regulations.

Two of the three applicants who followed Mr. Cole have structures that conform to the FEMA laws, with the exception of their central air systems. It was clear from the board’s discussion that Jim and Kim Welsch and Anthony and Janice Paratore will have to find a way to raise the equipment off the ground to become compliant.

The final application was from James and Susan Wandzilak. They too will have to raise their unit to meet FEMA regulations. As with Mr. Cole, their parcel is on Edgewater, requiring a 16-foot elevation.

Mr. Wandzilak told the board his family started going to the park almost 60 years ago, staying in a tent. “I love this place,” he said. “Now I’m looking at 20 to 30 thousand dollars,” he said, estimating the cost of raising the structure. “I understand what you are saying, but it is killing me.”

While most of the applicants were likely not humming a cheerful tune when they left Town Hall Tuesday night, one Ditch Plain owner may have broken out the bubbly if she were watching the session on LTV. The board indicated that it would approve an application from the designer Cynthia Rowley to tear down and replace a house on Seaside Avenue, on the western edge of Ditch. Ms. Rowley’s was the only open application discussed that night.

The aerial application of mosquito larvicide over marshlands in East Hampton Town could be reduced if a proposed new protocol demonstrates less need for it.

The East Hampton Town Trustees and Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming are working to persuade vector control officials at the Suffolk Department of Public Works to reduce or eliminate the use of methoprene, a larvicide the county insists is safe but many believe harms non-target species, including crustaceans. A trial ban on methoprene had been proposed for a portion of Accabonac Harbor in Springs; the new protocol would replace that plan.

At the trustees' meeting on Monday, however, Francis Bock, their clerk, told his colleagues of a new plan, under which county officials would train interns from Stony Brook University or staff from the East Hampton Town Natural Resources Department to collect samples from the harbor. The county would provide the necessary equipment, analyze the collected samples for mosquito larvae, and treat the area based on that analysis.

"It's not going to eliminate spraying of methoprene," Mr. Bock said. "What they want to do is multiple testings per week . . . The idea is that more testing, on a regular basis, will give them more accurate information as to what's going on." Should conditions allow it, he said, "they can spray less often, theoretically; they can target where they spray more accurately, and they may be able to use a lower dose of the methoprene in the process." The Nature Conservancy, which owns land around Accabonac Harbor, will allow the program on its property, Mr. Bock said.

Details are yet to be determined, but Mr. Bock asked his colleagues if they would agree to shoulder part of the cost, which he said could be between $5,000 and $10,000. The trustees were generally supportive, pending more details of the proposal.

Ms. Fleming credited Tom Iwanejko, who recently took over as director of the Vector Control Division, with the more flexible approach. "From my perspective, you need to do what Director Iwanejko has done, which is to listen to the folks on the ground," she said yesterday, "and bring his expertise in terms of controlling the vectors, and the natural environment, into this conversation, and then listening to what the trustees are saying about what they know on the ground. That combination of knowledge leads to a solution that no one at the start could have outlined. You've got to keep adjusting to the field conditions, with the common goal of reducing or eliminating the application of larvicide to the extent it's possible."

The Department of Public Works does not have adequate staff to conduct the sampling itself, Ms. Fleming said. "That's why it's such an important partnership. We need to marshal all these resources to meet that need. Vector Control folks are delighted we have these resources to provide that data and then they can make the adjustment."

The program is unlikely to resolve the debate over methoprene's effect on non-target species, but that is unnecessary in the short term, Ms. Fleming said. "Everyone agrees it just makes good sense to reduce any chemical application to the extent you can," she said.

"We would like the testing to be done in an effort to reduce the methoprene spraying," said Bill Taylor, a deputy clerk of the trustees, "with the hope that it eventually proves that it's safe to stop the spraying."

Clifford Hedges Foster, the patriarch of a farming family that runs one of the largest remaining agricultural operations on the South Fork and an advocate for farming and farm interests on Long Island for decades, died on Sunday at home in Sagaponack.

He was 78 and had been in declining health since having a stroke a few years ago.

Mr. Foster was a longtime member and former president of the Long Island Farm Bureau, and also served as the bureau’s state representative. “He had good ideas and was a good, strong leader,” said John L. Halsey, a friend and fellow farmer, who added that Mr. Foster was a passionate “supporter of the role of agriculture in our society.”

Mr. Foster had been active in the bureau’s fight against a proposed nuclear power plant in Jamesport and was proud that the plans never came to fruition, said his wife, Lee Foster. “They fought it because the transmission lines were going to go across farmland,” she recalled on Tuesday. “He and his fellow farmers, they were a force.”

He was also on the board of the Long Island Cauliflower Association.

“Clifford was a leader in his time in the farming community on the South Fork,” said Mr. Halsey, who owns Whitecap Farm on Mecox Bay and the Milk Pail in Water Mill. He was “strongly opinionated, and very free with his opinions,” but always fair and a good listener, Mr. Halsey said.

A progressive farmer, “he always had up-to-date equipment and was very ingenious at adapting equipment to different jobs,” Mr. Halsey said.

“We’re so far from everything, that farmers here on the Island have to improvise,” Mr. Foster told The Star in 1999.

When it came to other farmers or neighbors, Mr. Foster was generous with both his time and his guidance, qualities that earned him deep respect among his peers.

Mr. Foster grew up in Sagaponack and raised his family on the farm established by his great-grandfather Josiah Foster, who had been a whaler before leaving the water for the land. His ancestors had been in Sagaponack since the 1600s, and he was a proud and active member of the local community, also serving on the Sagaponack School Board, as a Bridgehampton firefighter, and as a Bridgehampton fire commissioner.

“He was extraordinarily good at figuring something out and solving it,” said Jeff White, the chief of the Bridgehampton Fire Department and a neighbor of the Foster Farm. “If something could be better, he’d figure out a way to make it better, and then he’d figure out a way to fabricate something to make it better.”

Potatoes were the family’s primary crop, with most of them being sold wholesale to the Puerto Rican market for many years. They also grew field corn, cauliflower, and grain, at one point farming many hundreds of acres, both owned and leased, in Sagaponack, Amagansett, Bridgehampton, and East Hampton. As development pressures grew, the farm’s acreage decreased, but Mr. Foster and his family were nevertheless able to reassemble the core farm in Sagaponack that his great-grandfather had worked, buying land from his father’s brother and his family. “Cliff and I decided that we had to bring it back together,” his wife said.

Mr. Foster was born in Southampton on Jan. 29, 1939, to Charles Halsey Foster and the former Anne Parson Hedges. He graduated from the Sagaponack School and from East Hampton High School, and knew from an early age that he wanted to continue in the family business. “I was more interested in the farm than in school,” he told The Star. But his education by no means ended when he finished high school. On a farm, he said, “You’re never done learning. . . . It’s a different gig every day, every week, every season. . . . You’ve got to be very flexible.”

He met his future wife, the former Lee Beattie, in Sagaponack. She was from Maplewood, N.J., but her family had “a shack on the beach.”

“He was very shy. He didn’t know how to dance,” she remembered. “He was a big guy” — at 6-foot-4 — and “was a hunk, as they say.”

“One of our first dates, he picked me up before dawn, and we went to a field where the ducks were coming in. It was a fall weekend.”

They were married on June 22, 1963, and he did learn to dance, if only to keep her company. “We had very different backgrounds, but we made a life,” she said. They had three children, Robin Ann, Dean, and Marilee. Dean Foster and Marilee Foster followed their father into the fields.

Mr. Foster was an able mechanic. He collected and restored antique tractors and engines that had been used to power older farm equipment, running them at events held by the Long Island Antique Power Association, of which he was a member.

“He was just a solid guy, the foundation of so much that is good in a person,” his wife said. She described him as generous, persevering, and grounding.

In addition to his wife and children, Dean Foster and Marilee Foster of Sagaponack and Robin Ann Foster of Bridgehampton, Mr. Foster is survived by a sister, Julia Mumford of Waverly, Pa.

Mr. Foster was cremated. A celebration of his life is planned for July 8 at 3 p.m. at the family farm on Sagg Main Street.

The family has suggested contributions to the Long Island Farm Bureau, 104 Edwards Avenue, Suite 3, Calverton 11933, the Bridgehampton Fire Department, P.O. Box 958, Bridgehampton 11932, or the Long Island Antique Power Association, P.O. Box 1134, Riverhead 11901.

The future class of 2030 graduated Friday morning from the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton. The students were the 20th class to graduate from the center.

Donning white caps and gowns, 58 pint-size graduates sang songs, much to the delight of family members as well as town and school officials, including East Hampton Town Board members Sylvia Overby and Peter Van Scoyoc, and New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. Smiles were in abundance among the attendees, who erupted into applause when the rising kindergartners sang with gusto, “Kindergarten, here we come, here we come!”

East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. congratulated the youngsters and declared, “The world is truly their oyster. As a community, we support them and hope they will achieve their every goal.”

Diplomas and red carnations were handed out by Richard Burns, the East Hampton School District superintendent, and Beth Doyle, the principal at the John M. Marshall Elementary School, where many of the graduates will begin kindergarten in September.

The nonprofit center provides the full-day prekindergarten program for children in the East Hampton School District and also offers early education programs for children from 18 months to 3 years old.

The geranium planters that line Bridgehampton’s Main Street come spring and the Christmas trees that light up over the holidays are the handiwork of the Bridgehampton Village Improvement Association. Members were also behind landscaping at the Bridgehampton train station in recent years.

The organization’s new chairman, Richard Bruce, thinks the association can do more to enhance Bridgehampton’s beauty. In that regard, he went to a meeting of the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday looking to drum up some suggestions for what else the B.V.I.S. should put its touch on. “If you had a magic wand, what would you like to see change?” he asked.

Some members of the advisory committee did not know the B.V.I.S. existed, although it dates back to 1898. His description of their work was simple: “We do things the town won’t do, is unable to do, or will take forever to do.”

However, he said — and many agreed — the Town of Southampton should do more for Bridgehampton. He claimed the assessed value of Bridgehampton properties came in at over $7 billion last year and that $26 million was paid in taxes that year. And he said there was no downside to making Bridgehampton nicer.

One suggestion given was to fix the roundabout on Scuttlehole Road, perhaps by putting up a flagpole. Suggestions he had mentioned in a recent email were to identify eyesores and put a plan in place to clean them up, hire a worker to monitor and clean up the overflow of garbage at beaches, hire someone to clean up around the hamlet on weekends during the summer season, place benches at bus stops, plant trees where old ones have been removed, and improve the appearance of the public bathroom near the Golden Pear on Main Street.

The members of the citizens committee said they would think about the suggestions and get back to Mr. Bruce. “We do have money, by the way,” Mr. Bruce said. It has about $52,000 in the bank.

In acknowledging the current state of the world and the political arena in which we are living, the CNN news anchor and journalist Don Lemon addressed Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School class of 2017 on Saturday about the freedom of expression.

“Right now, as a journalist, I feel even more compelled to talk to you about the freedom of expression, in part because of what is going on in the world, and because of some people who are trying to limit us,” Mr. Lemon said. “But mainly I feel compelled to talk to you about it because you are about to embark on the most fantastic and wonderful journey of self-discovery, whether you realize it or not.”

As the sun beamed down on the front lawn -- something that seemed unlikely with the morning’s heavy rain -- Mr. Lemon spoke to the graduates about being open and expressing themselves respectfully. By sharing his experiences at Louisiana State University, and his many since then, he encouraged students to understand the true meaning of the First Amendment.

“In a few short months you will be grateful for that freedom,” Mr. Lemon said. “That freedom to petition, that freedom to protest, the freedom to form your own thoughts, your own opinions, and your own beliefs in your own space. You’re going to appreciate that more than you know, the freedom to become you.”

While imparting advice about dos and don’ts, Mr. Lemon stressed that the freedom to express yourself also allows others -- “even if you don’t share their beliefs” -- the same right.

“We cannot just allow to be said what we love; we must also allow to be said what we hate,” Mr. Lemon said. “By allowing it to be said, it allows it to be contemplated, it allows it to be dissected, and either proved or disproved.”

Throughout his speech, Mr. Lemon highlighted principles of decency and respect, something that left an impression on the graduates.

“I felt like everything he said resonated with all of us,” said Ella Parker, the salutatorian, who will attend University of California at Berkeley, in the fall. “He wove in a lot of words of wisdom, but he drove home freedom of expression, and he stressed that with his experiences.”

After urging the graduating class to be open to new ways of thinking, new people, different cultures, and other points of view, Mr. Lemon said his best piece of advice was this: “Instead of judging someone, be curious about why this person believes what they believe,” he said. “The question is, why do they think that? Or, more personally, why do you think that?”

There are 53 students in Pierson’s graduating class this year; 50 plan to attend college in the fall.