Children of all ages were dealt a crushing blow when, on May 21, after 146 years, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus gave its last-ever performance, at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale.

Like the essentially defunct Cole Bros. Circus, which once erected the big top on the grounds of the Southampton Elks Lodge in the summer, the Greatest Show on Earth fell victim to declining ticket sales, particularly after the circus, under pressure from animal rights activists, eliminated elephants from its performances last year. The modern world’s seemingly limitless entertainment choices didn’t help: Young people are more likely to be engrossed in online gaming than gazing in wonder at a ring of snarling lions or trapeze artists high overhead.

For Donald Horowitz, a co-owner of Wittendale’s Florist and Greenhouses on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, May 21 was particularly bittersweet. With like-minded friends, he attended the last performance, one of hundreds he had witnessed.

“The audience was so enthusiastic,” Mr. Horowitz, who is from North Woodmere, said on Tuesday. “The circus has always been part of peoples’ lives. I saw young kids and thought, ‘They’re not going to have the opportunity anymore, their younger brother or sister will never have the opportunity.’ It’s a void, and I feel for the public and the little kids that will not see it.”

But the show must go on, and just as Gettysburg is to the Civil War, the Al. Ringling Mansion, in Baraboo, Wis., is to the Greatest Show on Earth, Mr. Horowitz offered. Which is why Mr. Horowitz and two longtime Ringling Brothers employees, Joe and Carmen Colossa, purchased it in 2013.

It was built in 1905 — boom times for the circus — by C. August Albrecht Ring­ling, the eldest of five brothers.

“By the 1900s, the brothers had a very successful show and started to build homes in Baraboo, their hometown and winter quarters,” Mr. Horowitz said. “Al built a very opulent home.”

The mansion offers tours, weddings and receptions, banquet facilities, and will soon feature a bed-and-breakfast. Now, more than ever before, it will preserve the circus as an integral component of American culture. “That’s become the new focus within my hobby,” Mr. Horowitz said.

The long and winding road to the East Hampton resident’s ownership of a mansion in Baraboo started early. “I guess it goes back to when I was in junior high school,” Mr. Horowitz said, and an interest in the logistics of traveling tent circuses. “I read everything I could find on the subject from the public library,” he said. “I saw a few shows, here and there, in high school.”

Attending college in Farmingdale, a circus came to town and sought students to help set up and load equipment, and Mr. Horowitz moved to live out every boy’s dream. “I thought I would never finish school,” he said. “But I needed to go to college.”

Years later, as an owner of Wittendale’s in the mid-1980s, “I drove by the Elks Lodge one day and saw the Cole Brothers circus setting up its tent.” Watching the goings-on, “everything I remembered reading was coming to life. Here it was on a smaller scale, even though Cole was large for a modern show: tents, trucks, equipment, electric, the big top, elephants, the cookhouse. That was the modern hook, almost like a magnet.”

The rekindled interest led Mr. Horowitz to discover and join the Circus Fans Association of America. “Then I discovered more people like myself. They have a national convention every year, and you get to meet other people. Through some good friends, I got to meet circus people.” He befriended many performers and crewmembers.

Mr. Colossa, a trainmaster, was with Ringling Brothers for about 14 years, Mr. Horowitz said. With her brothers, Ms. Colossa was part of a troupe of motorcyclists that spun at death-defying speed within a steel globe. “I was the best man at their wedding,” Mr. Horowitz said of the couple. “Through our friendship, it developed that we bought the Al. Ringling mansion in Baraboo, a circus community of sorts.” The city served as headquarters for Ringling Brothers and other circuses from 1884 to 1917. The Circus World Museum, the International Clown Hall of Fame, and the Al. Ringling Theatre are also in Baraboo.

The partners are restoring the mansion, which had been acquired by the Baraboo Elks Club in 1936, to the splendor of its heyday, Mr. Horowitz said. “The Elks lodge added very large ballrooms, so we’re in the wedding business as well, and host other parties that need space. We’ve had comedy events there, a battle of the bands. Joe’s hobby is the Titanic, so he’s created a ‘Titanic’ dinner with people in black tie and gowns, and actors that portray others from the ship.”

The bed-and-breakfast will open with two guestrooms in the fall, Mr. Horowitz said, and will ultimately offer five. The mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the partners have created the Friends of the Al. Ringling Mansion, a nonprofit organization to which people can donate toward its restoration and acquisition of circus artifacts.

Mr. Horowitz visits the mansion approximately six times per year, and plans to attend an upcoming circus parade and Ringling Brothers reunion in Baraboo. “They’re expecting people that worked for Ringling for many years,” he said.

The demise of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus “put a real void in my activities,” Mr. Horowitz said. “When the show was nearby, I would keep track. As it went west, I lost track of where they were each week, but had friends on the show. I’d ask ‘Where are you this week?’ It was always a comfortable feeling knowing the show was out there, somewhere in America, and if not out there, in Florida, rehearsing for a new performance.”

Among the community of circus performers and crew, “It was always, ‘See you down the road,’ ” Mr. Horowitz remembered, “maybe the following year, or with another circus. Sooner or later they would resurface somewhere, but now with Cole Brothers and especially Ringling gone, it won’t be as easy.”

A handful of smaller circuses remains, Mr. Horowitz said, along with the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which includes a circus museum, in Sarasota, Fla. “And the mansion in Baraboo,” where circus aficionados can meet two longtime Ringling Bros. employees. “People who lived it,” he said.

Relatives, friends, board members, and congregants of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, at least 200 altogether, overflowed the center’s sun-filled sanctuary on Saturday to bid a fond farewell to Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, who is leaving East Hampton after 10 years to return to Dallas, where he will lecture in the department of Jewish studies at Southern Methodist University.

Rabbi Zimmerman, formerly senior rabbi of a Dallas temple with one of the largest Jewish congregations in North America, comes from a rabbinical family going back many generations. He is an 11th-generation rabbi, and his son, Brian, who is senior rabbi of a synagogue in Fort Worth, Tex., is following in his footsteps.

In a commemorative booklet published by the Jewish Center for the occasion, three past and present presidents of the center, Linda Heller Kamm, Michael Salzhauer, and Harry A. Katz, recalled that “at the time of Rabbi Zimmerman’s arrival 10 years ago, the Jewish Center was facing serious challenges.” (The former rabbi had left amid dissension, and the center lost about a third of its membership in the aftermath.)

“We sought a leader to bring a fractious community together and renew our sense of our common purpose,” they wrote. “To our great fortune we found a leader, healer, scholar, and teacher. Shelly restored a sense of common mission and joy to our community. . . . His legacy is indelible in our congregation and in the broader East Hampton community.” Among other undertakings, Rabbi Zimmerman served on the East Hampton Town Ethics Committee, led the Jewish Center’s outreach to the homeless and hungry, and had a leading role in the East Hampton Clericus. Members of the Clericus who were present on Saturday included Msgr. Donald Hansen of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, the Very Rev. Denis Brunelle of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Gerardo Romo-Garcia, of St. Luke’s East End Latino ministry.

State and local officials were in the pews as well, among them Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., and East Hampton Town Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez. Mr. Thiele presented Rabbi Zimmerman with a proclamation from New York State, and Ms. Burke-Gonzalez, representing Supervisor Larry Cantwell, who could not attend, gave him one from the town. Finally, on behalf of Representative Lee Zeldin, the rabbi was presented with the American flag that had flown over the Capitol on his 75th birthday, Feb. 21, 2017.

The center’s new rabbi, Joshua Franklin, is 31 years old. Hired following a wide-ranging search, he graduated magna cum laude from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and also earned a master’s in history from Clark. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College and served as assistant rabbi for four years at a temple in Wellesley, Mass., before coming here. He is married to Stephanie Whitehorn, and they have a young daughter, Lilah.

Rabbi Franklin has “a passion for music, technology, and creative forms of Jewish education,” according to the center, and also enjoys “golf, cycling, snowboarding, photography, wine-tasting, beer-brewing, and cooking with his wife.” He and his family are living in East Hampton.

Like an ostracized adolescent in need of reinvention, the Common Core, federal standards adopted as guidelines for kindergarten through  12th-grade education, is expected to be revamped in New York State and to return to school in September with a new name and more likable personality.

At least that is what the New York State education commissioner, Mary­Ellen Elia, is hoping will occur when the state adopts the Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards. The new standards and name, which grew out of a lengthy process of revising the Common Core, will be voted on in June by the State Board of Regents. Approval is expected.

The Common Core was first applied in 2010 as a unified set of educational standards, and was adopted, at one point, by 45 states. It drew praise from educators who saw its potential to correct the inequities caused by ZIP code or economic status, and $330 million was poured into its federal funding.

Detractors, however, saw the Common Core as little more than federal coercion. The apparently high-stakes Common Core testing that followed ignited opposition. Teachers argued that the tests were being used to punish those whose students did not perform up to the standards. Before long the Common Core became synonymous with high-anxiety testing and monotonous test-prep drills. A widespread testing boycott — known as the “opt-out” movement — began, with parents refusing to let their children take the tests.

By 2015, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the state’s education framework had become “problematic, to say the least,” and he assembled a diverse commission to recommend changes. In December that year, the New York Board of Regents voted to suspend the use of state standardized test scores in teacher evaluations until 2019. But this did not stop the opt-out movement.

Long Island emerged as the epicenter of the movement in the state, with over 50 percent of students in grades three to eight refusing to take the tests. This year in Suffolk County, 56 percent of students opted out with the Comsewogue School District registering refusals at 87 percent. Locally, the Bridgehampton School had the highest opt-out rate, at 57.5 percent, while East Hampton had the lowest, 7.4 percent. Other rates were 30 percent in Springs, 29 percent in Montauk, and 24.1 percent in Amagansett.

Even Common Core supporters conceded that at the very least a name change was needed. The Next Generation was unveiled at a Board of Regents meeting in early May, along with a broad series of tweaks and changes.

The new standards evolved out of identifying some of the Common Core’s flaws and replacing them with so-called “lost standards,” a series of benchmarks that were being crafted by educators before they were scrapped in favor of the Common Core. They had used literature versus informational texts, with emphasis on teacher training and their role in test development, as well as clearly defined support strategies for English language learners.

“The result will be improved teaching and learning in New York’s classrooms, with a greater emphasis on supporting English-language learners, students with disabilities, and other special populations. These standards are rigorous and will help equip children to lead successful lives in the 21st century,” the Regents chancellor, Betty Rosa, said. 

 Reactions from local school professionals, who will actually have the task of implementing the rebooted program, range from concern to uncertainty. Debra Winter, the superintendent of the Springs School, said she was concerned that the changes would not change parent attitude.

“We have to educate our parents that we need to have some measure that educators are doing their jobs. I believe we need prescriptive assessments that tell us what a student is deficit in, or what gaps we, as educators, have in our instruction. It is my hope that computer-based testing will give us immediate feedback to assist us in educating our students,” she said.

Beth Doyle, the principal of the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton, agreed, saying, “The standards are great but parents have forgotten that there’s a difference between the standards and the tests. All they think about are the tests.”    

According to Eleanor Tritt, the superintendent of the Amagansett School District, who spoke of the new standards at a school board meeting last week, “We need more than a name change. We need the Board of Regents to make some serious considerations about the value of these tests.”

Eric Casale, the principal of the Springs School, expressed hope, however. “With more involvement from educators, I think these standards will eventually reflect the true potential of what teachers and students can achieve when they work together,” he said this week.

Regardless of how the standards are changed and what they are called, more thoughtful implementation of the Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards will be crucial for lasting success. Whether the rebranding will make a dent in the boycott movement remains to be seen

It’s bit premature to start talking about bay scallops. After all, the season doesn’t get underway until Nov. 6 in state waters. But at about this time of the year, last season’s scallops that were too small for harvesting — scallops must be at least two and a quarter inches in length from midhinge to midbill and have an annual growth ring — are getting ready to have some fun in the bays and will begin to spawn (they will do the dirty deed again in September). And those offspring, more commonly known as “bugs,” that survive and grow to maturity will be the ones that can be harvested in November of 2018, as a scallop has a very short lifespan of just 18 months. 

Our bay scallops, which many chefs and gourmets cherish as the most succulent and the sweetest in the world, are a commodity that can fluctuate wildly. They are very delicate and sensitive creatures that are subject to a wide variety of predators and conditions that can easily disrupt their supply from year to year. Enormous fluctuations in the New York State annual harvest have been the norm — 168,674 pounds in 1973 followed by 678,417 pounds the next year. But starting in the early 1980s, repeated brown tides and algae blooms significantly decreased the harvest, and catches have never returned to their historically high levels.

A particularly long-lasting, dark brown tide during the summer of 1996 suffocated just about every scallop and by 1997 the state recorded a scallop harvest of zero. Last season’s statistics are not in yet, but by all accounts, it was a big dud. Harvests were scarce just about everywhere and prices soared to upward of $45 a pound in some local fish markets when they were even available. As the season dragged into winter until its close at the end of March, very few boats could be seen plying our East End bays to dredge up a bushel or two for a hard day’s pay. 

But last season did provide a glimmer of hope for the upcoming season, as hordes of bugs were seen in many locations on the East End, in particular in the Peconics. And the few dozen of those little guys I transplanted and sprinkled around my boat slip last November also seemed to have survived the winter in good condition. However, whether Mother Nature will cooperate over the next few months to ensure they survive remains to be seen. A lot can happen between now and November that will ultimately determine whether we will witness an improved scallop harvest later this fall and signs of hope for the season after that.

Here’s to a successful spawn and clean water this summer so that we can continue to savor this treasured shellfish that we are so fortunate to have in our backyard. Only time will tell.

Changing from shellfish to finfish, fishing improved sharply on several fronts, especially for those targeting striped bass. Big stripers were the talk of the town, especially inside the Peconics, where fish over 40 pounds were landed. Those sharpies fishing at night had the edge on the larger fish, which have been suckers for drifted live bunker or large swimming plugs trolled slowly.

“Big stripers are around from Cedar Point westward to the ferry slip and Jessup’s,” said Ken Morse of Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor. “Tom Federico weighed in a nice 38-pounder and I’ve heard that some even larger fish have been landed.” Morse remarked that the local fluke action remains spotty, but that weakfish catches have been consistent in Noyac Bay. Blowfish, or bottlefish as they are sometimes called — one of our most underrated local species — can be had casting from shore at Long Beach on Noyac Bay. Try a piece of clam or squid on a small hook to catch a tasty dinner. As a bonus, blue-claw crabs are making an early season surprise in some of the back cove areas.

By all accounts, striped bass fishing at Montauk has been very consistent for trollers and jiggers alike. Fluke fishing has been a pick, while the porgy bite off Gardiner’s remains strong, with fish of mixed sizes. Also, some cod can be found on some of the deepwater ledges and rock piles south and east of the Lighthouse. For those with strong arms and plenty of line on their reel, the Viking Star went out on a four-day, long-range offshore trip last week. Catches were mixed between an assortment of deepwater denizens, including tilefish, wreckfish, barrelfish, and white hake. The largest fish taken was a 48-pound tilefish caught by Jason Kudo of Brooklyn. Some good eats there.

Action on striped bass and blues in and along Gerard Drive and Accabonac Harbor continues, according to Sebastian Gorgone, proprietor of Mrs. Sam’s Bait and Tackle in East Hampton. Porgies are still residing in Cherry Harbor and small stripers can be had off the ocean sand beaches. Three Mile Harbor has small stripers, and a few kingfish and blowfish, too, for good measure.

Fishing action, according to Harvey Bennett of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett, remains solid on several species, especially supersize bluefish. “There are hordes of horrendously big bluefish being landed,” Bennett said. “One customer pulled an 18-pounder out of the surf the other day.” Beware of those teeth. He also said that fluking remains red hot near the entrance to Accabonac Harbor and that the porgy bite continues in Cherry Harbor. 

Bennett, a big baseball fan, is also in the process of collecting used baseball gloves, or, as he likes to call them, mitts. As part of the Amagansett Sportfishing Association, he hopes to ship a box of the leather goods to underprivileged children in the Dominican Republic, which has a long history of producing many big leaguers. “It’s such a poor country, but even a used mitt can bring so much happiness there,” he said. Check the back of your closet or the corner of your basement. That glove or mitt can have a second life. 

On a final note, it seems that scallops are not the only marine species in the amorous mood lately. On Friday morning, several members of the Star staff witnessed a large number of carp frolicking on the surface of Hook Pond. The commotion in the pond was intense. So focused were the fish on their task at hand that they could easily be netted standing at the edge of the pond, if so desired. Love is in the air, it seems.  

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

Lobsters in lounge chairs, a grizzly bear driving a Tesla, and squirrels eating off a barbecue. 

While this sounds like plausible satire to describe Hamptons summer antics, this storefront window is just a mere glimpse into the fairyland within Stevenson’s Toys in East Hampton. 

Though many toy stores are disappearing with the prevalence of online shopping, the owners of Stevenson’s, Roy and Polly Stevenson, are expanding. After 16 years at the Southampton Village location, the Stevensons turned their vision of opening a second store into a reality. Their new store opened last month at 66 Newtown Lane. 

It was a plan that had always been in the back of their minds, but they first wanted to make sure that the Southampton store did well. When the opportunity presented itself this summer, the decision was not hard; many of their customers live east of Southampton. 

The couple are balancing their time between their eastern and western stores. 

“Roy tries to come to East Hampton every day and Polly and him are here every Saturday and Sunday,” said Illisa Appel-Timmermann, who works at the shop. “They share the love of both locations.”

Until Stevenson’s opened, there was just one other small toy shop in the village, Steph’s Stuff. “There hasn’t been a large-sized toy store here for years and the Stevensons just had this fabulous vision of opening an additional store,” Ms. Appel-Timmermann said.

Though smaller than the Southampton location, the two-floor Stevenson’s in East Hampton has aisles and walls stocked with toys and games from all over the world and dating back to every generation. 

Stevenson’s was founded in 2001 after Mr. Stevenson parted ways with a corporate career and moved his family from Georgia to Southampton. As coincidence would have it, Lillywhite’s toy store, which was a favorite of Mr. Stevenson’s as a boy, was for sale. 

“That store had been there for nearly 100 years,” Mr. Stevenson said. “I thought, ‘How dumb would I be to pass that up? . . . It can’t be that hard to run a toy store.’ ”

While running a toy store may have been more work than Mr. Stevenson originally thought, he and his wife have learned the tricks of the trade. Not only is their selection wide — books, puzzles, trampolines, Nerf guns, pool floats, Ping-Pong tables, mermaid swim tails, and more — but Stevenson’s is a fit for everyone’s budget. 

It has top-notch toys, like a mini electric Tesla that retails for $895, and it also carries a variety of toys that range in price. “It’s not one of those designer toy stores where you feel like you can’t bring your kid in,” said Colleen Moeller, who also works at the shop. “A little girl came in the other day and said, ‘I only have $5,’ and we found some stuff [for her].”

On Saturday, 10 intrepid East Hampton High School sophomores braved the elements by spending the night in cardboard boxes on the lawn of the school, all for a good cause.

Organized by Girl Scout Troop 1768 with help from its leader, Linda Blowe, and Annette Hinkle and Adam Flax, who are parents, the cardboard campout was inspired by a similar event held annually at Shelter Island High School, designed to raise awareness of the issue of homelessness and to raise money for Habitat for Humanity.

The U.P.S. store in East Hampton donated more than a dozen cardboard wardrobe boxes that served as home overnight. The students decorated them by adding windows and drawings or tagging them with personal graffiti. After a pizza dinner, the campers enjoyed a few rounds of manhunt, played games around a fire pit, and roasted s’mores for dessert.

According to Ms. Hinkle, the temperature plummeted around 11 p.m., and then the complaints began. But the big crisis, she said, came as the campers were settling into their boxes for the night and a couple of spiders and a slug were spotted nearby. The girls prevailed, however.

In the weeks ahead, the campers will set out to raise $1,000 for Habitat for Humanity, which will earn them a “build day” during which they will work on a house under construction by Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk County.

The East Hampton I.G.A. and Cook Maran and Associates also donated toward the campout.

Memorial Day weekend this year brought the return of a restored Civil War-era cannon to the green at Ashawagh Hall, where it sits atop the stone war memorial inscribed with the names of veterans from Springs. The cannon was removed two years ago and restored by James DeMartis, a Springs resident, metal sculptor, and blacksmith with a shop on Springs-Fireplace Road.

The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial on the Ashawagh Hall green was dedicated on May 30, 1925, to commemorate Springs residents who served in the Civil War and in World War I. On the speakers’ platform that day were Cornelius King and Israel Quaw, the hamlet’s only two surviving veterans of the Civil War. George Sid Miller chaired the memorial committee, and Barns Brothers of East Hampton did the masonry work on the monument.

Dennistoun Bell, whose property was in the area still known as the Bell Estate, toward Amagansett along Gardiner’s Bay, made a generous donation to help pay for the construction costs. The cannon was obtained from the federal government and transported to Springs at a cost of $16.28; the entire monument cost approximately $500.

The cannon and war monument had been restored in 1988 and 1989 by the Montauk Coast Guard at a cost of $6,000.

The Springs Improvement Society, which owns Ashawagh Hall, raised the money for that work. It was supervised by Ed Michels, an improvement society board member who was then with the Coast Guard. The flagpole, installed the same year as the memorial, also got some attention at that time — it was straightened, painted, and had its lines replaced.

With an effort by Heather Anderson, who is still involved in the Springs Historical Society and its Springs Library, a plaque was added to the monument with the names of Korean and Vietnam War veterans who were living in the hamlet when they entered the service.

By 2015, the supports for the barrel of the approximately one-ton cannon had rusted “to the point of collapse,” Mr. DeMartis said. Once he began the work, he noticed other parts of the steel structure that had rusted or even disintegrated.

With a little research, he found schematic drawings of identical cannons made in 1885 and was able to identify and reconstruct the missing parts.

The cannon, he saw, is a type called a “field rifle,” or “field cannon,” which originally was several feet longer and was carted onto the battlefield on a wagon, along with an ammunition cart and a portable forge for repairs.

It took almost two years for Mr. DeMartis and his crew to complete the restoration. The Springs Improvement Society paid for materials, but the metalsmith donated his labor.

On May 18, Glenn Bennett, a Springs resident and owner of Bennett Marine, using a flatbed truck and a crane hoist, replaced the cannon on its monument. With a small ceremony on Sunday, the refurbished memorial was once again dedicated to those it commemorates, the onetime Springs residents who served in our country’s armed forces.

A brawl at the Montauk 7-Eleven early Sunday morning led to police issuing one appearance ticket at the scene and an arrest on felony and misdemeanor charges Wednesday morning. The felony charge, attempted assault, was brought against Fernando Mateo-Brito, 36, of Montauk. Police said he was seen on the store’s surveillance video picking up an object and swinging it at Rick A. McFarland. Mr. Mateo-Brito was also charged with misdemeanor menacing and criminal mischief.

Cynthia Darrell of the Legal Aid Society represented Mr. Mateo-Brito at his arraignment in East Hampton Town Justice Court yesterday. She argued that the alleged incident seemed “to be over-charged,” and said, “There is some suggestion that he was acting in self-defense.” Blythe C. Miller, the prosecuting attorney, saw things differently, asking that bail be set at $5,000.

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana said the video provided good reason to grant the prosecution’s bail request, and she did so. She also said that Mr. Mateo-Brito had been in the Town of East Hampton for less than two years, and that as a foreign citizen he had slim ties to the area. If Mr. Mateo-Brito is not indicted by Monday afternoon, he would be released as required by law unless he already made bail.

The fight was a hot topic on social media, with a video of it briefly being posted on Facebook, then taken down.

Ray Overton, a former town trustee, has been chosen by the Southampton Town Republican Committee to challenge Supervisor Jay Schneiderman in November. Mr. Schneiderman, who is completing his first term, had previously announced his candidacy, and the Democratic Party made it official this week as both parties announced their picks for many town posts.

Mr. Overton, a Westhampton resident, is the former director of operations at the Ross School, where he oversaw maintenance, security, boarding houses, and capital improvements, among other responsibilities. He was unsuccessful in a bid for re-election as a trustee two years ago, but is familiar with the larger issues that face the town, according to Damon Hagan, the G.O.P. chairman.

One of the biggest problems with the current administration, Mr. Hagan said, is “mixed messages coming out of the supervisor’s office.” For example, he said that during his campaign, Mr. Schneiderman had said he was against planned development districts. “Now, here we are, two years later, and nothing has changed.”

A moratorium on P.D.D.s has been in place since last year, while a committee was formed to reconsider the law. Mr. Schneiderman has proposed repealing it and its repeal will go to a hearing later this month.

Nevertheless, Mr. Hagan said the current administration had failed to act on current P.D.D.s. “You don’t just drag out these projects endlessly. That’s exactly what the Democrats have done. We intend on holding them accountable to their past promises.”

Mr. Schneiderman did not return a call for comment this week.

In addition to the supervisor’s position, two town board seats will be contested in November. Councilman Stan Glinka, a Republican, and Councilwoman Julie Lofstad, a Democrat, are running for re-election, with Mr. Glinka seeking his second term.

Joining Mr. Glinka on the Republican ticket is Thea Dombrowski-Fry, a political newcomer who is a teaching assistant in the Southampton School District. Like her running mate, she is a Hampton Bays resident. Mr. Hagan said she has a long history of involvement with the community, and “wanted to step up and become more involved in it.”

Ms. Lofstad, who is also a Hampton Bays resident, was elected to the board in a special election in January of 2016 to fill the vacancy created when Councilman Brad Bender was arrested on drug-related charges. She is seeking her first full four-year term. She ran unsuccessfully with Mr. Schneiderman and Councilman John Bouvier in 2015. The Democratic Committee nominated Tommy John Schiavoni to run for town board with Ms. Lofstad.

Mr. Schiavoni, a North Haven resident, was appointed to the South­ampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals by Mr. Schneiderman in 2016. He is vice president of the Sag Harbor School Board, having joined that board in 2014, and a former member of the North Haven Village Board and village zoning board. He is a social studies teacher in the Center Moriches School District. His wife, Andrea Schiavoni, is a Southampton Town Justice.

Beyond the town board, another race could heat up in November. Alex Gregor is seeking his third four-year term as highway superintendent on the Democratic ticket and will be challenged by Lance Alrich, who used to work under Mr. Gregor.

Mr. Aldrich had been the deputy highway superintendent under Bill Masterson, the former superintendent. When Mr. Gregor took office in 2010, Mr. Aldrich became the department’s general foreman and remained in the position for six years until it was eliminated at Mr. Gregor’s request. Mr. Gregor, a member of the In­de­pendence Party, is from East Quogue. Mr. Aldrich, a North Sea resident, does private consulting, but also works part time for the town as a land steward/ maintenance mechanic in the Com­munity Preservation Fund De­partment.

The Southampton Town Indepen­dence Party’s recommendations to the county chairman are expected by the end of the week. Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., the Southampton chairman, said all the candidates were screened two weeks ago, but that decisions had not yet been made. ˇ

All five Southampton Town Trustee positions are up in November. Four incumbents are seeking re-election, while the fifth, Eric Schultz, has chosen to step down. The incumbents are Bill Pell IV of Southampton, an Independence Party member who is the only one so far to be cross-endorsed, Edward J. Warner Jr., Bruce Stafford, and Scott Horowitz. The latter three have Republican nods, along with Don Law, a newcomer. The Democratic Party has chosen Gary Glanz and Camden Ackerman as its trustee candidates.

“We have a number of other potential candidates for trustee and we’ll be making a decision on the other two soon, said Gordon Herr, the chairman of the Southampton Democratic Committee.

The town clerk and town justices have all received cross endorsements. Sundy Schermeyer, a Republican first elected in 2006, is seeking her fourth four-year term as clerk. Deborah Kooperstein, a Democrat, and Barbara Wilson, a Republican, are the incumbent justices.

A resident of Hamilton Street in Sag Harbor told police there on Friday that many thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry, last seen on April 13, was gone a month later, stolen from an upstairs bedroom dresser.

Tanya Zaben gave police a long list of missing items, with a total value of more than $10,000. She said she had had workers in the house from several contractors during that time period. An investigation is continuing.