An oceanfront property owned by the chief executive officer of the Starbucks coffeehouse chain and his wife, which has been the subject of several applications to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, was once again a topic when that board met on Friday. Although the board was familiar with the application, this time a lawsuit that had been brought by a neighbor was noted.

Howard Schultz, who plans to resign as chief executive officer of Starbucks next month, and his wife, Sheri Kersch Schultz, seek variances and a coastal erosion hazard area permit to allow almost 1,000 square feet more coverage than legally pre-exists and to construct outdoor amenities and relocate a propane tank on their 4.9-acre property at 14 Gracie Lane. Approval would be necessary for a walkway, reflecting pool, garden bench, and a 317-square-foot brick patio within required side-yard setbacks, and the patio also would be seaward of the coastal erosion hazard line.

Leonard Ackerman, an attorney representing the owners, told the board the patio was intended as an amenity for guest rooms in the Schultz house. The nearest neighbor, to the east, has no objection, he said, adding, “I suspect there is no one else that would have any objection to this in terms of impact, noise, lighting, and the like.”

However, Brian Matthews, an attorney representing the owner of adjacent Lily Pond Lane property, told the board that his client has easement rights over a portion of the property and would like to see revised plans before taking a position. “It may be okay; it may not,” he said. “We’d like an opportunity to vet those further.”

Mr. Matthews’s client, who was not named, has a legal right of way to the ocean and took the Schultzes to court arguing that improvements made over the years in that area were detrimental to his access. The court case was decided in the Schultzes’ favor, but the neighbor continues to seek changes in his deeded path.

“I’m not happy,” Mr. Ackerman said, “because, first of all, you’re getting into 10-year-old litigation over someone’s rights, and you shouldn’t be doing that.” Second, he continued, further delay would hinder preparations for a wedding planned on the property in June.

Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, told Mr. Ackerman that any variance relief should be the minimum necessary. Noting the increase sought in coverage, he asked, “Why couldn’t the terrace be smaller than it is and still accomplish the desired effect?” In response, Ian Hanbach of LaGuardia Design Landscape Architecture, who is charge of the project, said, “I suppose it could be reduced.”

 “It seems like this property is getting heavy on the eastern side of it,” said Lys Marigold, the board’s vice chairwoman, “with a new water feature, walkways, and whatever.” Like most oceanfront houses, “it has a big wooden deck, a swimming pool, pavers, and everything else we granted the last time.” She said the board would be granting relief not only to the Schultzes but to future owners of the property.

“It’s about the space that you see within those guest rooms,” Mr. Hanbach said, noting the rooms’ floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors. “It’s a component of the overall concept.”

Mr. Ackerman then proposed reducing the patio by 128 square feet. Citing the wedding, he asked the board to act expeditiously. “We’re prepared to reduce the coverage. We’re prepared to give you everything you asked for,” he said.

Mr. Newbold, however, said standard procedure “is to see the final plan before we have a final discussion. In that time period, if the neighbor wishes to comment, he’s certainly entitled to comment. But we can’t just give you parameters today and close the hearing.” Mr. Ackerman and Mr. Hanbach agreed to revise the landscape plan showing a smaller guest patio farther from the side property line. The hearing will continue at the board’s next meeting, on Friday, March 10.

In one board decision announced at the meeting, Pierre Casimir-Lambert was granted a wetlands permit to allow removal of phragmites at 15 Chauncey Close. His 3.8-acre property is on Georgica Cove, and the phragmites is part of a bottleneck that restricts water flow between the cove and the rest of the pond. It is also within a portion of a scenic easement granted to the village in 1978. Plans include hand-cutting the invasive reed over several years, as well as vegetating two areas within the scenic easement that had been cleared.

The adoption of amendments to East Hampton Village’s zoning code has been postponed for a second time, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. said at Friday’s meeting of the village board, pending a full vetting.

The proposed code changes have three primary objectives. One would create separate side and rear-yard setback requirements for accessory buildings that are less restrictive than those for a principal building. Setbacks would be doubled, however, for accessory buildings and structures deemed “noisemakers,” such as playing courts, swimming pools, pool equipment, and pool houses. 

On the recommendation of the planning and zoning committee, the amendments would also create a new method of calculating setbacks for narrow and shallow lots, which would not only make the calculation easier but also yield more consistent results. The existing formula is particularly complicated, Bob Hefner, the village’s director of historic services, told the board last month.

The committee had determined that current alternative setback regulations may be widely interpreted, are difficult for the average resident to calculate, and artificially reduce the width and depth of properties, allowing too much relief for the construction of principal buildings.

The amendments would also exempt from principal residential setbacks the parts of a house that do not contribute to its mass, instead making them subject to the new accessory structure setbacks. With this change, window wells, cellar stairs, Bilco doors, exterior chimneys, stoops, and open porches could extend beyond the principal structure’s setbacks. 

On Friday, the board closed the public hearing on one of the proposed amendments, which largely makes changes and additions to the definitions section of the code. The hearing on the other was left open, however, after an attorney who often appears before the Zoning Board of Appeals asked that the proposal to double setback requirements for “noise-making” structures be reconsidered. 

“There’s an illogic to it, in my mind,” the attorney, Andy Goldstein, told the board. Some property owners would benefit, he said, while others would be penalized. 

“What I would ask is that you simply require those structures to adhere to the setback provision for the particular lot,” he said. “It seems to me that there’s no reason to give them any relief, and in many instances no reason to impede the property owner in how he wants to develop the property.” Mr. Goldstein is a former chairman of the zoning board.

The mayor said the board would seek the counsel of Billy Hajek, the village planner, and Ken Collum, the code enforcement officer, as to the setback provisions for noise-making structures before voting on the amendment. “As elected representatives, we want to get it right, make sure we listen to everybody,” he said. “I think we’ll have a complete definition at the work session in March,” which will take place next Thursday. 

The board also received an update on a proposed street fair from Steven Ringel, executive director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, who had suggested on Feb. 2 that a fair be held on Newtown Lane on May 20. The board had several questions at that meeting and asked for more details.

All the merchants he has spoken with are in favor of the idea, Mr. Ringel said, and plans have been made and funding secured for parking, shuttle service, and garbage collection. 

The board members Richard Lawler and Barbara Borsack, who met with Mr. Ringel to discuss the proposal, called the meeting positive. “Barbara and I made it clear at that time that we wanted to make sure we had support of the business community before we went ahead with this,” Mr. Lawler said. “I think we need to have a little more discussion about some of the village ordinances we may need relief from . . . but it sounds like he’s got support from a good portion of the business community.” 

“My impression was that things had been thought out well,” Ms. Borsack said. “It seems to me like they’ve done their homework.”

The mayor asked for at least one more discussion between Mr. Ringel, the board members, Becky Molinaro, the village administrator, and representatives from the school district and the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, both of which would accommodate parking.

Mr. Ringel agreed. “We want it to be extremely well organized and planned and carefully done,” he said, “so that it can be something we’re all proud of, and a success.”

This wasn’t just any old Facebook jibber-jabber. It had to do with feminism, with Sag Harbor School District residents divided about President Trump, with so-called pussy hats being renamed cat hats, and with First Amendment rights and social media zeal. And before Sag Harborites could say grab ’em by the cat, a communal mud-slinging campaign broke loose on Facebook, with “she-said, she-said” details that made it from local and regional newspapers all the way to NBC4, News 12, and NPR.

As with any hot topic, there are two sides. Which one is good and which one is bad depends on whom you speak with. Or, whose Facebook page you visit.

Feminists United is an after-school club started by a group of high school students at Pierson Middle-High School. On Feb. 13, they held a fund-raiser at the school selling the ubiquitous anti-Trump pink hats to benefit the Retreat, a  shelter for victims of domestic violence in East Hampton. The group had already replaced the word “pussy” with the more demure “cat” to satisfy school administrators, who apparently felt it necessary to shield the middle schoolers who share the building.

The brouhaha began when a Pierson parent, Janice D’Angelo, protested, on Facebook, the sale of the hats at the school, saying politics should not enter the classroom. Furthermore, she said, she was irked because, despite the new name, the hats would forever be linked with a vulgarity. Ms. D’Angelo, whose Facebook page has a “Vote Trump” image on it, said the hats represented very negative political ideology.

The president of Feminists United, Natalie Sepp, a 16-year-old, responded with an Instagram post deriding Ms. Angelo’s opinion and using a few vulgar words of her own. Pandemonium ensued on Facebook. 

Ms. D’Angelo and her supporters attacked the 16-year-old, her club, and her motives, and continued to voice strong opposition to politics being taken into school. Furthermore, in a phone interview, Ms. D’Angelo alleged that the girls in Feminists United were unable to have conceived of the idea to sell the hats on their own.

 “They were clearly brainwashed and indoctrinated by their parents’ political views,” Ms. D’Angelo said. She also posted on Facebook that the girls’ “vile” reaction to heroutspokenness and opinion was proof that “groups like these . . . spew hatred, divisiveness, and community destruction.”

“Agree with you 1,000 percent . . . ,” posted one Facebook friend of Ms. D’Angelo’s. Another wrote, “They will always and automatically try and point the finger in another direction. . . . I believe it starts w/the upbringing.”

In the other camp is Laura Perrotti, the mother of the 16-year-old at the center of the feud. According to Ms. Perrotti, “the girls never had a political agenda. All they wanted to do was raise money for charity. Their club tackles many female-related issues, L.G.B.T. rights, and domestic and sexual abuse.” She called Feminists United an apolitical group.

Supporting Ms. Perrotti is another Pierson parent who posted on Facebook, “I watched with pride as [the girls] wore their pussy hats (on NBC4!) in clear defiance of the ignorance that surrounds us in this country and in our town of Sag Harbor.”

Ultimately, the members of Feminists United did not want to politicize their cause and agreed, after consulting the school principal, to stop selling the hats at school. Despite confirmation from the district superintendent, Katy Graves, that the girls decided to stop selling the hats at school on their own, certain First Amendment issues remained murky.

In a recent interview on NPR, the authors of “The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education,” Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy, advocate for an educational environment in which young people learn to deliberate about political questions. Ms. Hess is dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ms. McAvoy is the program director of the Center for Ethics and Education there, following a career as a social studies teacher. 

In the interview, the authors acknowledged that “introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas.” Yet they believe schools are and ought to be political places, though not partisan ones.

All this is easier said than done. In today’s highly polarized society, and with the minefield of social media at one’s fingertips, students and parents more often than not seem to find it difficult to express their views respectfully. Personal missives, in 140 characters or less, are emanating from the highest office so it follows that they are happening in small towns as well.

Reconciliation between the Sag Harbor factions seems a long way off. Both sides have reported receiving threats. Ms. D’Angelo said she had an anonymous phone call warning that her Main Street business would be “destroyed.” 

Ms. Perrotti said she received such a barrage of nasty texts and late night phone calls that she has notified the police and hired a lawyer. She said she is becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of her family, adding, “These people continue to attack my daughter’s character. She’s a good person and was only trying to help those less fortunate.”

If you get to tag your high school musical production with “From the creator of Hamilton,” you have pretty much got the winning lottery ticket. And, according to the hip-hop lyrics of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” — East Hampton High School’s musical this year — winning the lottery makes you “richer than Nina’s daddy/Donald Trump and I on the links/and he’s my caddy.”

The predecessor to “Hamilton,” the 2008 Broadway hit “In the Heights,” Mr. Miranda’s first musical, was nominated for 13 Tony Awards. It won four: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations. It was also nominated for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won an Olivier for outstanding achievement in music.

Such an abundance of accolades could easily produce stage fright among any teenage ensemble. Yet it only seems to have galvanized this East Hampton troupe. At a recent dress rehearsal, the 38-member-strong cast, under the direction of Laura Sisco, attacked the material with exuberance and ease.

Exuberance is a good thing in this play. The story is a teeming slice of life set in the Latino barrio of Washington Heights, a nosebleed section of Manhattan and a neighborhood on the brink of change in the 1980s. At the center of this tight-knit community and its many colorful residents is Usnavi, a first-generation Dominican-American bodega owner, played on Broadway by Mr. Miranda himself. Usnavi struggles to keep his business afloat in a corner of the city where creeping gentrification (an issue that has hardly gone away) and subsequent challenges scar and shape the lives of the denizens. The real brilliance, however, lies in the score, with its blend of rap, hip-hop, and salsa, and in its choreography. It is an intoxicating mix — and, done right, the show could generate enough energy to fuel a power grid.

Alfredo Chavez, a freshman at East Hampton High, plays Usnavi. “At first, I was so happy when I got the part,” said the 14-year-old. “Then I realized I’m going to be playing a role that Lin-Manuel Miranda once played, and I got really nervous.” Having to fill the breeches of the Bard of Broadway, however, only made Alfredo work even harder, and it appears to have paid off. 

The other day he rapped and rhymed his way through razor-sharp lyrics, peppered with sassy Spanish phrases. Alfredo, whose first language was Spanish, made it seem as if singing and dancing about the barrio were the most natural form of expression for him: “ ’Cuz my parents came with nothing, they got a little more/And sure, we’re poor, but yo, at least we got the store/And it’s all about the legacy they left with me, it’s destiny./And one day I’ll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me.”

There’s something great about a high school production that mines the immigrant experience, especially today, and especially in a school district with a burgeoning Latin-American population. Not only do Latin-American students get to play Spanish-speaking roles other than those in “West Side Story,” but the musical brings to the forefront challenges faced by immigrants not only on the East End but across the nation.

Usnavi’s love interest, Vanessa (Ciara Bowen, a senior), lacks the credit rating to move downtown from the Heights; Nina (Talia Albukrek, a sophomore), the bright daughter of a cab company owner, had to drop out of Stanford because working two jobs took a toll on her grades; Benny (Brandon Daige, a senior) works as dispatcher at the company but longs to open his own business, and Sonny (Vincenzo Salsedo, a sophomore), Usnavi’s younger cousin, has no future other than working in the bodega. And then there’s the elderly Abuela Claudia (Hannah Rosario, a senior), a kindly grandmother/godmother to all.

Ms. Sisco, herself an E.H.H.S. graduate, insists she did not choose “In the Heights” to make a statement but simply because she knew it would appeal universally. Producing an unconventional play such as “Heights” is part of her mission to take the school’s theater department to the next level, she said.

The move from traditional musicals to more contemporary offerings began last year when the school performed “Rent.” The play tackles issues of homosexuality, H.I.V., drugs, and alcohol, which some deemed inappropriate for high school students. But Ms. Sisco, who directed it — her first show at the school — said she felt “it was time to revamp the program.” 

“In the Heights” had a different set of challenges. Karen Hochstedler, the play’s vocal director, called the score “extremely complex.” She has been working with the performers every day since November.

Brian Niggles, another East Hampton alumnus, is the set and lighting director. Together with a contractor, who happens to be the director’s father, he spent over 60 hours building a detailed version of the bustling barrio. “It was really tricky,” said Mr. Niggles, “as it all takes place outdoors, on a busy street, so getting the scale of buildings right was difficult. Having to light it for different times of the day wasn’t easy either.” 

Show times are Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m., and  Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m. Tickets, which are $15 for adults and $10 for children under 12, are available for purchase only at the door. Doors open 30 minutes before show time.

Amber Waves Farm, a not-for-profit educational farm that runs a 150-member community supported agriculture program in Amagansett, has purchased the farmland on which it has operated for the last eight years, as well as the attached Amagansett Farmers Market, from Margaret de Cuevas. The transaction follows several years of collaboration and cooperation among the farm, the de Cuevas family, the Peconic Land Trust, and the Town of East Hampton. 

The 9.33-acre land sale includes the donation of an enhanced easement by Ms. de Cuevas. The easement includes provisions to ensure the land is actively farmed in perpetuity. 

Ms. de Cuevas, officials of the trust, and Amber Waves’ principals, Katie Baldwin and Amanda Merrow, held lengthy and productive discussions that led to the transaction, Ms. Baldwin said on Tuesday. 

“We are thrilled,” she said. “The enhanced easement we chose is the first in East Hampton, so we wanted to get that right. Maggie has a long history of land stewardship in Amagansett, and we wanted this to really signify her legacy.” 

Discussions, she said, were “also about figuring how this purchase would benefit us as farmers. We shared the importance of that, and of the long-term vision we’ve had since we started the farm, with the land trust and Maggie. Our vision can now be realized, essentially, because of the land security. It’s phase two of our farm and business, and it opens a lot of new possibilities and opportunities for us.” 

The acquisition of the farmers market is one such opportunity, which Ms. Baldwin described as “an avenue for us to create long-term financial sustainability for the farm, to feed back into our education programming.” 

While Amber Waves is “primarily a C.S.A. farm” and its produce is also sold to local restaurants, “the underpinning is the farm-based education.” That effort is accomplished through on-farm and in-classroom lessons with schools, after-school groups, and summer programs. The farm also manages an apprenticeship program that trains farmers through a season-long intensive course in farm work. 

The farmers market was opened in 1954 by Ellen (Pat) Struk. In 2008, the Peconic Land Trust, a nonprofit organization that works to conserve working farms and natural land, announced an agreement under which it would lease the property from Ms. de Cuevas, who had purchased it from Ms. Struk. 

The 3,000-square-foot market was run for the past two seasons by the Amagansett Food Institute, of which Amber Waves Farm is a member. 

“We wanted to serve the community in a way that people will want to come there as a social gathering place, a place to learn about food — a ‘food campus’ — and a place for the farm to sell the goods we grow and those of the solid-food partners that we work with,” Ms. Baldwin said. The strategy, she said, will be to “start small and make it a fun, enjoyable place for people to gather.” 

The market will be open by Memorial Day weekend, she said.

The fears of undocumented immigrants on the East End because of the increasing federal focus on enforcement under President Trump were thrown into sharp relief at East Hampton Town Hall last Thursday, when dozens of residents concerned about neighbors and friends described how uncertainty is taking a toll on individuals and families, who are afraid of being deported in immigration sweeps or after being arrested for even minor infractions. 

President Trump on Tuesday announced an aggressive crackdown on all undocumented immigrants, but their advocates were happy last week to hear that East Hampton does not intend to participate in a program through which local law enforcement officers would be granted federal powers. The president signed an executive order last month encouraging police to participate in the longstanding program, which was again emphasized this week in policy memos issued by the Department of Homeland Security.

Supervisor Larry Cantwell’s word last Thursday that the town would not enter into an agreement through which its officers could be trained and deputized drew applause from the crowded meeting room. East Hampton Town is not going to change its approach to residents from other countries who may or may not be documented immigrants, Supervisor Cantwell said. “We do not seek out illegal immigrants in the process of law enforcement,” he said. In a follow-up on Friday, he noted, “We do cooperate with all other jurisdictions and will continue to do so under the law.”

The new immigration policies unveiled by the White House this week could have an impact on that scenario, however. While it is still unclear how the president’s tougher policies would be enforced, they would lower the bar for deportation, subjecting any undocumented immigrant to removal from the country regardless of whether a serious crime had been committed and allowing immigration authorities to initiate deportation proceedings based on their own judgment that an immigrant represents a risk to public safety or national security.

“I’m worried about the atmosphere that is sweeping the country,” a speaker told the town board last week. 

The East Hampton Town Police Department does not take a person’s immigration status into account when someone is arrested and charged with a crime unless their name is found on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement list of those for whom deportation orders have been issued, Chief Michael Sarlo said in emails this week. He also had said ICE only places holds on illegal immigrants if they have been convicted of a crime or face “serious criminal charges for which they have failed to appear in court.” Otherwise, defendants are pro­cessed according to standard procedures. 

The immigration status of those who report or are witnesses to crimes is not a factor, the chief said, addressing local concerns. He recently told The Star that “reporting a crime, being involved in an accident, being the victim of theft, etc., does not trigger our agency checking immigration status or running a person through the federal database.” The East Hampton Village Police Department operates the same way.

In the weeks since Mr. Trump’s inauguration, and particularly after new steps to crack down on illegal immigration were announced and a ban on immigrants and visitors from several Muslim-majority countries was put in place, at least temporarily, there has been a “palpable increase” in anxiety among her patients, Julia Chachere, a midwife practitioner at the Hudson River Health Care clinic in Southampton, said at the board meeting. Two patients were suicidal and others are afraid to come in for care, she said. “You’re going to start seeing mass fear and panic very quickly,” she told the board. 

 Speaking in both Spanish and English, Dan Hartnett, a social worker in the East Hampton schools, said at the meeting that students who are American citizens but have parents who may have entered the country illegally are arriving “with ever-increasing anxiety and sadness to school because they are afraid to leave their homes in the morning.” He said they were unsure their parents would be there when they got home. 

Mr. Hartnett said he is helping families put together “family preparedness packets” with plans for children should their parents be deported and with information about designating powers of attorney. 

John Leonard, a Sag Harbor attorney, is helping clients make similar plans. “I’ve had mothers cry in my office,” he said last Thursday, “concerned about what will happen to their American children should they be deported, or their husbands deported.”

“A family asked me to be their point person,” Christine Sciuli of Amagansett said. Their daughter had been told what she might expect, “and now this girl’s afraid to go to school. And it affects the other kids in the classroom.” 

According to a social worker at the Southampton clinic, who also spoke at the meeting, a client who had been repeatedly traumatized and targeted in her home country and had applied for political asylum was so distraught about being called in to meet with immigration officials, and being told to bring her passport, that she apparently thought of  drinking poison before the appointment.

Robert Brody, who teaches English as a Second Language classes in Wainscott, said his students were “too frightened to come” to speak directly to the town board. 

“I am concerned when I hear that people who are living here are afraid to participate,” Mr. Cantwell said. There is a “significant downside” for the community and for law enforcement when people “go underground,” he said. 

A number of people asked the town board to be proactive in providing information to the immigrant population. “Help us to bring down the levels of fear,” said Minerva Perez of the  advocacy group Organizacion Latino-Americana, “that your good, hardworking, family-loving, faith-abiding residents of East Hampton are being crushed by. These are documented, not-yet documented, and natural-born citizens. These good people of our community want only to get back to their lives — which mostly consist of helping to make sure this resort town runs smoothly in the summer.“

“The rupture of trust that vulnerable members of this community could have with law enforcement and the town is a breach of trust for us all,” Ms. Perez said. “When victims and witnesses begin to fear calling for help, we are all living in a community that doesn’t resemble the diverse, imperfect but peaceful community we knew only a few months ago.” 

Mr. Cantwell responded, saying the town was “evaluating impacts on people who live and work here.” He noted that his own family had been Italian immigrants. “I think all of us feel an obligation to the community. All of us as individuals have a responsibility to reassure people that we know that it’s going to be okay, that we’re going to help them. . . . We understand how the immigrant community is an important part of our economy and our culture, and we intend to respect that.”

Along with his pledge to deport undocumented immigrants, President Trump has vowed to strip federal funding from so-called “sanctuary cities,” those that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. 

  “East Hampton has always been a town of good neighbors,” said Betty Mazur, an Amagansett resident, last Thursday. “Perhaps we can call this, in an official way, a ‘good neighbor town,’ ” she said. She suggested the town board issue a statement “to indicate to our good neighbors what it is they can expect from the town and from all of us as good neighbors.”

At least one nearby municipality is considering such a step. At a meeting this week, the Greenport Village Board is expected to discuss a symbolic resolution declaring it a “Welcoming City.” The resolution was sponsored by two trustees, Doug Roberts and Jack Martilotta.

Meanwhile, although the Suffolk County sheriff recently announced that he would, even without a warrant, detain immigrants who may be subject to deportation for up to 48 hours so that ICE could take them into custody, New York’s governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, has spoken out against the president’s policies targeting immigrants and unrolled a “We Are All Immigrants” initiative. “. . . If there is a move to deport immigrants, I say then start with me,” he wrote on Twitter.

The Democratic majority in the State Assembly recently passed legislation that, among other protections, would prohibit local law enforcement agencies from questioning or arresting a person based on immigration status.

Mr. Cantwell said that town officials were consulting federal and state officials, including Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, about immigration policy.  Mr. Schneiderman has said his office had issued guidelines for local governments, explaining how to resist federal immigration enforcement. 

“We ask for a separation of immigration enforcement from local law enforcement in all ways possible based on current practices,” Ms. Perez of OLA told the town board last week. That would include, she said, avoiding taking fingerprints when possible, and not acting on 48-hour hold requests from federal  authorities without a warrant.

Chief Sarlo said this week that his department was “not taking a political or philosophical stance,” and he noted that, in alignment with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, “most local police departments feel it is important for there to be a separation of federal and local law enforcement efforts, and the federal government should not dictate policy to local municipal departments.”

“Federal agents are not tasked with routine patrol of a community and responsible for building trust and cooperation from all members of the community. Local policing is very different from federal enforcement,” he said.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a hearing on Tuesday on an application from Adam Lindemann to build a 450-square-foot pool, a patio, and a pergola on the more than five-acre compound in Montauk that once belonged to Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. The work requires Z.B.A. approval, including a variance to build closer than 100 feet to wetlands, the minimum distance prescribed by town code.

Mr. Lindemann, who bought the property from the chief executive officer of J. Crew, Mickey Drexler, is an art collector who is reported to have sold a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at a Sotheby’s auction last year for a record $57.3 million.

The property’s history is legendary. The site, known as Eothen, was developed by the Church family, founding partners of the Arm & Hammer company. Accessed via Cliff Drive, near Deep Hollow Ranch, the structures on it, built before town zoning was adopted, are connected via a long circular driveway. 

A certificate of occupancy issued to Dorothy E. Church in 1971 shows four cottages, a three-bedroom house, a stable, and a three-car garage. Warhol, the famed Pop Art artist, and his filmmaking colleague bought the property in 1972. In a feature in Variety magazine their guests over the years were said to have included Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Lee Radziwell, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Halston, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards. 

“The property is iconic, not only for the cottages and their environmental and visual setting within the environment, but also for its history of ownership,” Brian Frank, the chief environmentalist with the East Hampton Town Planning Department, wrote in a memo. The department does not oppose the project, per se, but apparently wants to make sure the changes are in keeping with the overall aspect of the property.

The file for the application can be found at the Z.B.A. office on Pantigo Road prior to the hearing, which will be held at Town Hall at 7:10 p.m.

The Star has received word of the death on Wednesday of Edward Francis Drohan of Noyac. Mr. Drohan, who was 82, was a member of the Sag Harbor School Board from 2010 to 2013.

Viewing will take place at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral Mass will be held at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Sag Harbor on Monday morning at 10, followed by burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Yonkers, N.Y.

Update, Feb. 21, 9:19 a.m.: The former president of the Sag Harbor School Board, who has been accused of allowing teens to drink alcohol at her North Haven house, should never have been charged, her attorney, Daniel G. Rodgers of Southampton, said Sunday.

Susan E. Guinchard Kinsella, 54, was arrested by Southampton Town police on Friday after a three-week investigation into a party held by her daughter at their Barclay Drive residence on Jan. 27. According to police, they could see youths inside the house consuming beverages when they arrived that night, but Ms. Guinchard Kinsella did not allow them to enter it.

Police reported that they stayed in the area and interviewed teens as they exited the house. The arrest occurred after a follow-up investigation. Ms. Guinchard Kinsella was charged with a misdemeanor under the Suffolk County Social Host Law, which prohibits any adult who "controls a private residence to knowingly allow the consumption of alcohol or alcoholic beverages by any minor."

Mr. Rodgers said the word "knowingly" was key to a misdemeanor charge. "To establish or suggest a violation of the Social Host law," he said, "they have to prove that the defendant had knowledge" that alcohol was being consumed. "This came as a complete shock to her."

"This is a woman who cares deeply about young people," he said, noting that his client also is a former head of the Sag Harbor PTA. "Her service to her community ends up being a negative, rather than a plus," he said, asking whether her status in the area influenced the charge.

She is due to be arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court on March 10.

Originally, Feb. 18, 12:42 p.m.: Police, tipped off by an anonymous call about a party at which teens allegedly were drinking alcohol, have charged Susan E. Guinchard Kinsella with violating the Suffolk County Social Host Law, which holds adults accountable if they knowingly allow underage drinking.

According to Southampton Town police, on Jan. 27, when they arrived at the residence on Barclay Drive to which state police had referred them, they saw teens consuming alcoholic beverages "within the residence." When Ms. Guinchard Kinsella came to the door, "she denied there was a party, and subsequently locked the police out of the residence," the police report says. Officers, however, stayed in the area to investigate.

The investigation took several weeks. She was arrested at her home on Friday. She was issued an appearance ticket, and will be arraigned March 10 at Southampton Town Justice Court, Sgt. Carl Schottenhamel said Saturday.

Ms. Guinchard Kinsella is the former president of the Sag Harbor School Board. She did not respond to a message requesting comment.

Barclay Drive is in a gated community known as West Banks. The call to state police came in on an anonymous tip line, 866-UNDER21, set up to encourage reporting of events at which minors are thought to be consuming drugs and alcohol.

The tip about drinking at the Barclay Drive residence was received two days before a party at a Neck Path house in Springs where an 18- year-old former East Hampton High School student, Jordan Johnson, overdosed. He survived but is paralyzed and undergoing rehabilitation in Manhattan.

Capt. Chris Anderson of the East Hampton Town Police Department has said an active investigation is underway to determine what happened that night, while at the same time East Hampton parents have met to explore solutions.

The owner of the house in which an East Hampton teenager overdosed last month was arrested last Thursday on unrelated charges. It has been alleged that the young man’s condition was ignored for the next 12 hours.

Jefferson Davis Eames, who owns the house at 151 Neck Path in Springs where Jordan Johnson, 18, overdosed on Jan. 29, was arrested as he was appearing in East Hampton Town Justice Court in answer to numerous charges stemming from previous arrests, all within the last few months. Town police said they had checked video footage of a Feb. 7 incident in the parking lot of Barnes Country Market in Springs, showing a vehicle leaving the lot after striking another car, and determined that Mr. Eames was the driver of the vehicle, who fled. He is to be arraigned on the latest charge today.

Mr. Eames’s teenage daughter was picked up by Suffolk County Child Protective Services on Friday night, according to a source who requested anonymity but said the girl’s mother had told her of it. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Mr. Eames himself wrote that his daughter “is in a girls’ home. I’m trying to get her out.” Local parents allege the girl organized the party at which Mr. Johnson overdosed. His right side remains paralyzed, the result of a condition known as toxic leukoencephalopathy.

His mother, Christine Moran, said Tuesday that the drug responsible was morphine. In addition to the paralysis, Mr. Johnson has lost motor skills throughout his body, she said. He is at the Rusk Rehabilitation Institute at New York University-Langone Medical Center in Manhattan. 

A three-hour fund-raiser in support of his rehabilitation, which his mother said could take six months or longer, is to be held at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on March 19. Ms. Moran described his progress to date as “awesome.”

Mr. Eames’s recent string of arrests began on Sept. 22, when he was charged with operating an uninsured, unregistered vehicle. On Nov. 22, he was charged with D.W.A.I., driving with ability impaired by drugs, as well as unlicensed driving. Twelve days later, he was hit with another misdemeanor charge of unlicensed driving. Then, on New Year’s Day, the same officer who arrested him on the drug-related charge reportedly spotted him driving again. Knowing his license was suspended, she tried to pull him over, but he sped off, police said, leading to a pursuit at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. He was charged in the end with fleeing a police officer, unlicensed driving, and reckless driving, along with at least two dozen moving violations.

Other charges against Mr. Eames remain open in Riverhead Town Justice Court, where they were moved after both East Hampton justices recused themselves. That case alleges crimes stemming from a 2015 road rage incident that involved the wife of an East Hampton town police officer. 

Mr. Eames, in turn, has sued both the town and the police in federal court, alleging violations of his constitutional rights stemming from that arrest, as well as an earlier one also involving road rage. The federal case will likely not be heard until the Riverhead case is decided.