With a $24.7 million bond referendum for a renovation and expansion project at the Bridgehampton School looming, the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee invited school district officials to its meeting Monday night seeking more information.

Residents of the hamlet will be asked on Dec. 13 to float a bond to renovate the current school building, built in the 1930s, and construct an addition, which would not only replace 40-year-old portable trailers that have been used for classrooms but also provide space for a full gym, a stage, updated science rooms, a cafe, and a fitness center.

Jenice Delano, a member of the advisory committee, estimated that about 60 percent of the proposal related to the sixth through 12th grades. The figure was not refuted. “You wouldn’t need all this,” Ms. Delano said, if high school students were sent, through tuition, to other schools. A new gym, for example, would be unnecessary, she suggested. 

“Pre-K through eighth grade need a viable gym” even if the high school were closed in the future, Lois Favre, the school superintendent, responded. “I still believe in a viable school now.” 

There are 211 students as of Monday, Ms. Favre said. When she arrived in 2010, there were 155. Expansion is “long overdue,” she said. “A real need for space, quality space, for our learners is what has brought the board to move to make the decision to go out for the bond vote.” She added later that safety was equally important.

When the subject of closing the high school was raised, Ron White, the school board president, protested that “with all due respect, we came here today to speak about the capital project.” He mentioned the 2009 school board election, when three candidates who favored closing at least parts of the school were defeated. Many residents of the hamlet have said they see that as a mandate for keeping the high school open. 

 “Our school, our community members have not pushed in that realm. Yes, there are pockets of us who have considered that. I, myself, considered it,” Mr. White said. He told the audience he had had “chills” recently while listening to Bill Stavropoulos, an alumnus who became chief executive officer of the Dow Chemical Company, speak at the Bridgehampton School’s inaugural Hall of Fame ceremony about the school’s important role in his success.

Pamela Harwood, the chairwoman of the advisory committee, asked Ms. Favre to explain why the vote was being held in mid-December, a time of year that had troubled committee members because many people are away or busy with the holidays. The superintendent answered that Memorial Day through Labor Day was a hectic time, not just for the community, but for administrators getting ready for the school year. By November, she said, they are starting to plan next year’s budget. “Any date chosen isn’t going to be a good date,” Ms. Favre said.

Absentee ballots have been available through the district clerk’s office since Nov. 1. If those ballots are to be returned by mail, the district needs completed applications by Tuesday at 4 p.m. If they are to be delivered by hand, the deadline is extended until Dec. 12 at 4.

 “This is not anything we rushed to go into,” Dr. Favre assured the committee. “You’re a board that does wonderful things for the community. Not everybody in Bridgehampton knows exactly what you’re doing, but we trust that what you’re doing is in the best interest of the town. You elect your [school] board members to represent the community, and you have to know they are truly diligent and have been diligent in vetting this project.” She said it had been an 11-year process, documented in board minutes and newsletters. In 2007, she noted, her predecessor attended an advisory committee meeting proposing an addition. 

In answer to a question about the project’s cost to individual taxpayers, Robert Hauser, the school district’s assistant superintendent for finance and facilities, said that a house assessed at $3 million would pay about $701 per year, or $14,019 over the life of the 20-year bond, with an estimated interest rate of 3.5 percent. The average non-waterfront home in Bridgehampton is assessed at $2.8 million, he said.

According to a newsletter mailed to voters earlier this month, on a home valued at $1 million, with a 3.5-percent interest rate over 20 years, the tax impact would be about $241 per year, or $4,820 over the life of the bond

A member asked how much the district had spent on the project so far. The two major expenditures, Mr. Hauser said, were for a demographic enrollment facilities analysis, done by Suffolk BOCES for $5,450, and a state-required environmental impact study that cost $7,500. 

As for architectural fees to date, John Grillo, the project’s architect, said, “I haven’t billed a penny. I promised the board I wouldn’t bill a penny before the bond passes.” If the referendum fails, he said, he would not receive any money.

Mr. Grillo was also questioned about different aspects of the design, ranging from the sanitary system to the solar panels. The committee wanted to know why a nitrogen-removing septic system had not been included. The architect answered that the district would need a variance from the county to install such a system, adding that it was not needed and would not work well in a building where it is not in continuous use, 24 hours a day, year-round. 

Julie Burmeister, a member of the advisory group who also serves on the town’s sustainability committee, suggested that the county health department sets the bar low and improvements were on the horizon. Mr. Grillo said that if a new requirement is in place before work begins in the summer of 2018, it could be included in the project, with funding coming from the 18 percent contingency line. 

Peter Wilson, a committee member who is also an architect, said after the meeting that it had covered a lot of ground and had persuaded him to vote in favor of the bond. “This school system is more than just the physical plant, it’s a symbol of this community,” he said. “We’re a very wealthy community — not all of us are, but many of us are — I think we are can afford this, to do this. To me, it’s not money here. To me, it’s community pride. I think on that level alone, if none other, having a school plant that is up-to-date, works, and we can be proud of it, is a very important thing.” 

Tony Lambert, another member who formerly served on the Bridgehampton School Board, put it this way: “If you don’t build, and you keep it like a ‘Little House on the Prairie’ school, and everything around you is 21st century, you’re not competing.”

An 18th-century East Hampton building that the historic preservationist Robert Hefner classifies as a typical timber-frame saltbox of the period was the focus of a hearing Tuesday night before the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals. Whether the 942-square-foot house, which sits on the edge of property at 57 Cedar Street, will be torn down or maintained on the lot as an accessory structure was the question. 

Gary and Elizabeth Wohl have sold the one-acre lot for nearly $3 million to a limited liability company, AJCJ, but the sale is contingent upon the status of the historic structure, according to Christopher Kelley, the buyer’s representative. The couple built a much larger house on the site in 2004, and converted the little old building, which dates from about the same time as the Issac Miller House on East Hampton Main Street, into an artist’s studio — the only type of accessory structure allowed to exceed 600 square feet, under the zoning code. Ms. Wohl, described by Mr. Kelley as an amateur photographer, used it as such, he told the board, and the East Hampton Town Board awarded it formal designation as an artist’s studio at the time.

The new owners are not artists, Mr. Kelley told the zoning board, and do not want to maintain the building as a studio. They offered to give it away free if it were removed, but found no takers, he said. They are now seeking an area variance to allow the historic house, which has no plumbing and is used only for storage, to remain, despite being 342 square feet larger than allowed. Otherwise, Mr. Kelley said, it will have to be demolished, in order to obtain a certificate of occupancy that will allow the sale to go through.

The board was clearly supportive of the applicant’s predicament. John Whelan, the chairman, asked whether, when the time comes, the new owners could replace what is now an asphalt roof with period shingle. Mr. Kelley said that would not be a problem. Mr. Whelan also asked that any remaining plumbing lines be sealed off, which Mr. Kelley was agreeable to. 

Roy Dalene asked about a quirk in the building, what looks like a tiny extension on one side. That was part of its charm, Mr. Kelley suggested. “It’s kind of cool,” he said, to step inside and look up at the rafters. 

Two neighbors supported the variance request, though the board did receive one letter in opposition, from David Buda, a Springs resident. He argued that since the town board had designated the building an artist’s studio, the town board should also determine its fate.

Zoning board members voted to close the hearing, and now have 62 days to vote on the application.

Also on Tuesday, the board voted to deny one application, that of Constantine Clemente, who was seeking permission to restore a bluff face on his property at 78 Louse Point Road, using tiers of coconut-fiber blocks to stabilize 270 cubic yards of sediment, which would be placed seaward of the bluff. The application had been amended, following an August hearing, to include stabilizing the bluff with steel poles.

Mr. Clemente was one of four owners of contiguous properties on Louse Point Road to request variances needed to build a rock revetment. That request was denied in May 2015.

One of the problems with the current application, as pointed out in a memo to the board by Brian Frank, chief environmentalist for the town, is that the drainage on Mr. Clemente’s roughly two-acre property goes right down over the bluff, exacerbating its deterioration. This is largely because of excessive clearing, Mr. Whelan wrote, noting that “rain water is coming down from the lawn.”

That is a self-created hardship, in the board’s eyes, and not the recipe for the granting of a variance. In addition, “the current structure is not in imminent peril,” David Lys said.

Inserting steel poles into a bluff is not a method used anyplace on Long Island, Mr. Frank pointed out in his follow-up memo. The board voted 5-0 to deny the application.

A 55-foot dragger that ran aground at sunrise Sunday on Navy Beach in Montauk was still stranded on the sands off Fort Pond Bay yesterday afternoon, tilted toward its portside with a hole in the hull. The 1,200 gallons of fuel oil that were in its tanks when it grounded were pumped out into a tanker truck on Tuesday.

According to Lt. William Stewart of the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Detachment, based in Coram, work on the vessel, home-ported in New London, Conn., was canceled yesterday because of bad weather predictions from the south. The rains are expected to have passed by this morning, and a salvage company was scheduled to be brought in at dawn. “There is a 10-by-6-inch hole portside,” Lieutenant Stewart said, “more forward than aft.” 

The steel-hulled dragger, the Miss Scarlett, is expected to be towed off the sand and back in New London by tomorrow, provided the hole is successfully patched. The extra day is needed, the lieutenant said, to make sure the boat stays afloat. Also, the Coast Guard does not want the towing operation to take place in the dark. 

If the patch does not take, the removal effort will have to be reconsidered.

“Why is it here, right? That is the question,” Rob Morsch, a partner in Consolidated Marine, the company that owns the craft, asked rhetorically on Tuesday morning as he assessed the damage. The Miss Scarlett had left New London around midnight Saturday. “The boat was very, very far off course,” he said. Asked where it was heading, he said, “Maybe Montauk Point. New London is there.” He pointed across the Sound. “They should have gone there,” he added, pointing east. “There is a 20-mile error. It makes me think that there was. . . .” He trailed off, before wondering, more to himself than any bystander, whether any member of the crew was awake at the helm when the boat went up on the sand.

“There is an ongoing investigation into the cause,” Lieutenant Stewart said yesterday. Right now, he said, all signs point to the men being asleep at the time of the accident.

“We had to hire people to guard the boat because people want to steal,” Mr. Morsch said of the stranded vessel. “True colors come out. They know who I am and that I grew up as a fisherman. I lived here. I ran Kevin McGuire’s boat for seven years. I moved away about five years ago.”

The Miss Scarlett is named for his daughter, he said.

Patching the hole in the hull had been impossible before today, because the boat listed onto the side the hole is on. “You really need to get under it,” Mr. Morsch said. They had attempted to patch from the inside. “We tried to use two pieces of wood because of some pipe in the way. We were down there with a torch, cutting out, but we still couldn’t get in there.” Tugboats will not touch a craft to right it if it is taking on water, he said. “They’re afraid of getting sued.” 

The company appeared to be in a catch-22 situation on Tuesday, unable, without a tugboat, to right the Miss Scarlett in order to repair the hull, but with no tugboat willing to help.

Yesterday, however, Lieutenant Ste­w­art said enough sand had been cleared to allow a patch to be slid into place and secured from inside the vessel.

Are there more holes? “It is not an exact science. We do the assessment the best we can,” the lieutenant said. At one point, he said, a diver was able to patch the hole temporarily, and as the water was pumped out of the vessel it seemed inclined to float. That did not last, however. If another hole appears after the obvious one is patched, the reassessment will begin.

The Coast Guard had officers on hand Tuesday, watching as Miller Environmental Services pumped out the oil after placing a boom around the boat. By the end of the day, the oil was gone but the Miss Scarlett remained. There were no signs that oil had leaked into Fort Pond Bay. 

The winds were blowing from the northwest at nearly 20 knots when the boat went aground. There were no injuries reported, and the crew was removed from the craft around noon on Sunday.

The 38-year-old Miss Scarlett was purchased by Consolidated Marine within the past couple of years and rechristened. It had done service for many years out of Montauk, Mr. Morsch said, along with two other boats owned by the partnership.

The Sag Harbor School District’s PTA and Parent Teacher Student Association will hold a community forum today on the artificial turf field issue, but the school district has also planned a forum of its own, set for Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the elementary school gym.

Residents in the Sag Harbor School District will head to the polls on Dec. 14 to vote on a proposition to allow the district to use an additional $365,000 from its capital reserve fund to install an artificial turf field on school property. Voters initially approved the project in 2013 with a successful bond referendum in the amount of $1.62 million, but the design and approval process took more than two years, the projected costs rose, and bids came in over budget. The district’s architects have since scaled down the project, but school officials have said additional money is still needed, and turning to the capital reserve fund requires approval from the community.

In the time since the initial vote, a growing number of parents and community members began to question the possible health risks of such a field and its impact on the environment. Support ers say it will give the district more options for sports, gym classes, and recreation, and result in savings on upkeep.

While the PTA and P.T.S.A. event will feature presentations by school officials and an outside environmental expert, the school district-sponsored event will offer information from school officials only, and there will be an opportunity for community members to weigh in with their opinions. 

“Primarily, the goal is to educate the public about what will be on the ballot, as well as next steps if the proposition passes, and, alternatively, next steps if the proposition fails,” said Diana Kolhoff, the school board president. “A second goal is to offer a platform for community members to voice their opinions on the issue and the opportunity to hear others’ perspectives as well. The last side benefit of the forum is simply to raise awareness about the vote in an effort to increase community involvement and voter turnout.”

The district will hold a voter registration day on Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Absentee ballots are available as well.

The Maidstone Club’s plan to build a 352-foot-long wooden bridge across the inland section of Hook Pond known as the Hook Pond Dreen has drawn increasing opposition since the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals first reviewed the proposal in October.

Two East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society committees have spoken out against the bridge, and it drew scrutiny from the East Hampton Town Trustees, who at a meeting on Monday expressed concern about its environmental impact as well as skepticism about its necessity. 

The private club’s officials argue that the bridge, which would connect the second tee with its fairway, is essential to safety because golfers and golf carts now share an existing stone bridge on Dunemere Lane with motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians. The L.V.I.S. landmarks and nature trail committees, as well as environmental activists and others, have cited its potential negative impact on wildlife habitats and the area’s scenic vista. 

The club is seeking variances from the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals. The State Environmental Conservation has already determined the construction would not require a study under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. The proposal also requires Design Review Board review.

 The Z.B.A. has discussed the proposal at two meetings, with its formal public hearing scheduled to continue on Friday, Dec. 9. At issue are variances from required setbacks from residential property and a village-owned reserve, as well as a freshwater wetlands permit. 

On Monday, Richard Whalen, the trustees’ attorney, discussed the matter of trustee ownership. The trustees own the bottomlands of most waterways in town on behalf of the public and clearly own the major part of Hook Pond. But Mr. Whalen referred to maps and deeds from the 19th and 20th centuries, which purportedly show the club acquired the land on the north side of Dunemere Lane, where the bridge is to be constructed, via a 1915 deed. Mr. Whalen suggested the trustees may nevertheless have a claim to the bottomland, where the club would install 42 footings for the bridge, which would be 140 feet north of Dunemere Lane.

“Maidstone is claiming they own to the centerline of the pond,” he said. “The 1915 deed would support that. What I want to know is . . . did the land title run to the water, or to the centerline?” 

Regardless of ownership, the trustees decided on Monday that as adjacent property owners they should issue an opinion on the proposed bridge, whose use would be exclusive to golfers, golf carts, and vehicles used by the club’s maintenance crew. The club would have to apply to the trustees for approval were they to claim actual ownership. 

Jim Grimes, a trustee, noting that the project would result in further fragmentation of the wetlands system and disruption to its wildlife, said, “We are downstream adjacent property owners. Anything that goes on here directly impacts us.” The club, he said, should reconsider the bridge’s location and ensure a minimal environmental impact from any construction. 

Tyler Armstrong, another member of the panel, said the 42 pilings would create “a lot of disturbance to the waterway” and collect sediment in a water body that has no tidal flushing and little flow. Introducing structures “will cause increased sedimentation problems. A private infrastructure that could affect public land — I’m not in favor of it,” he said. 

The trustees’ clerk, or presiding officer, Francis Bock, also spoke against the bridge. “I see this area all the time. I see wildlife activity, I’d hate to see it disrupted,” he said. 

Mr. Whalen was to draft a letter detailing the trustees’ concerns, which is to be forwarded to the zoning board. 

Also at the meeting, the trustees heard from Kevin McAllister, the former Peconic Baykeeper and founder of the environmental advocacy organization Defend H2O. On Nov. 14, he had asked the trustees to reiterate their opposition to the aerial application of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, by Suffolk County. The Suffolk Legislature is finalizing its 2017 schedules, and the county’s Council on Environmental Quality voted on Oct. 19 to include the use of methoprene to control mosquitoes, a vector for the West Nile virus and other diseases, again this year. 

Mr. McAllister addressed the Legislature’s Public Works, Transportation, and Energy Committee on Monday, he told the trustees, to warn of the hazard he said methoprene poses to nontarget species, including lobsters and crabs. At the recommendation of Legislator Bridget Fleming, a former Southampton Town Councilwoman who represents the South Fork, as well as Shelter Island and part of Brookhaven, the Legislature tabled the discussion.

  “To Legislator Fleming’s credit, she convinced her colleagues to table this for two weeks,” Mr. McAllister said. “She knows public sentiment within her district.” The committee will reconsider the 2017 plan on Dec. 12, with the Legislature scheduled to vote on Dec. 20. 

“One of the things I’ve tried to do since I was sworn in is to try to get a better communication between local officials and county officials,” Ms. Fleming said yesterday. “The trustees are obviously front and center when it comes to water quality. At the very least, they need to get a full hearing before that plan is adopted. I feel there is a lot of room between continuing what the program has been for many years, and something else that will still address the problem of mosquitoes.” 

Mr. McAllister reminded the trustees that methoprene has been prohibited in Connecticut’s coastal areas since 2013, except in the event of a declared health emergency — “And the sky is not falling,” he said. The county’s Public Works Department, he said, is motivated more by nuisance control than a threat to public health. “As a semi-rural region on the East End, where we prioritize our fisheries, our water lifestyle, this has no place here,” he said. “Collectively, if we come together and bring some pressure to bear, hopefully we could persuade the Legislature to excise methoprene.”

A Springs woman was charged with drunken driving on Wednesday evening after crashing into a car in the lane opposite the one on which she was driving. The collision occurred on Springs Fireplace Road, the intersection of Fort Pond Boulevard. The driver of the other car was taken to Southampton Hospital, complaining of back pain.

Alexandra Moret, 47, was driving south in a 2016 Volkswagen when she allegedly veered into the opposite lane at about 5:11 p.m., where a 2012 Chevrolet being driven by Wendy Verity of Springs was waiting to turn. Both vehicles were badly damaged and were towed away.

Police said that when an officer arrived, Ms. Moret was out of her car. "I had one glass of wine," she allegedly told the officer. She failed the roadside sobriety tests administered at the site and refused to take a breath test, both on the side of the road and at police headquarters. Besides the driving while intoxicated charge, she was charged with making an unsafe lane change.

Two ambulances were called to the scene, but Ms. Moret declined medical attention. Ms. Verity was treated at Southampton Hospital and released. The report indicated that she was conscious when police arrived.

After being held overnight, Ms. Moret was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Thursday by Justice Lisa R. Rana. Ms. Moret's attorney, Edward Burke Jr., entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, telling the court that his client had been returning from a trip out of town at the time of the accident. Ms. Moret began crying when the arraignment was over.

Rudy Migliore Jr., from the district attorney's office, acknowledged that Ms. Moret had never been in trouble with the law but pointed out the serious nature of the incident, asking that bail be set at $1,000, an amount Mr. Burke said Ms. Moret was ready to post through a sister who was in the courtroom.

Justice Rana told Ms. Moret, whose job is in sales, which normally requires driving, that she was not eligible for a hardship license because of her alleged breath test refusal at headquarters. The judge warned the defendant that she could not drive while the charges were pending. A hearing at the Department of Motor Vehicles over refusal to take the test is scheduled for next Thursday. Depending on the decision of the administrative judge who hears her case, Ms. Moret's license could be suspended for at least a year.

Hook Pond has a hook in it, from top to bottom, from east to west. It could have just as easily been called boot pond or sock pond, but its shape is more like a leaning S. The name Hook Pond is at least 176 years old because that’s how it appears on a United States Coastal Survey map of 1838 showing most of East Hampton Village. The pond is divided by three west-to-east crossings, two of which are well maintained, the most northern one being a dirt road. This road separates the pond into two almost separate water bodies — the southern one, which is 83 acres in size, and the northern one, readily seen from Dunemere Road, only 2.5 acres in size. Both are owned by the East Hampton Town Trustees.

It is a shallow pond that used to be opened to the Atlantic Ocean each year the way that Georgica Pond still is today, twice a year. Since the early 1930s its dreen to the Atlantic Ocean has been blocked, and for almost as long it has been served by a one-way pipe to the sea. This pipe (now two pipes) has been replaced from time to time by East Hampton Village. During the annual openings, when it became tidal for a week or so, marine fishes, among them alewives and white perch, would leave and enter. Very large coastal storms — hurricanes and northeasters — from time to time would push ocean water up over the weir by way of the pipe, and the pond would become a bit saline for a while.

A study of the fishes in Hook Pond conducted some 40 years ago at the behest of the Hook Pond Association revealed largemouth bass, pumpkinseeds, carp, white perch, eels, and a few alewives. It is still more than likely that baby eels, or elvers, make it up the culvert into the pond each spring after making that long trip north from their birthing spot in the Caribbean Sea more than 1,000 miles away.

The pond receives rainwater runoff from the houses on surrounding parcels and beyond, as well as from the nexus of Cedar Street and North Main Street, which flows into the Nature Trail stream via a culvert under Pantigo Road, as well as from Town Pond, which has a culvert outlet at its south end that runs easterly under James Lane then into a dreen, which then makes its way to the west side of Hook Pond. Consequently, over the years the pond has received a lot of runoff sediments, as well as a host of nitrogenous products, phosphates, and minerals from fertilizers applied upgradient. The waste excretions from hundreds of waterfowl also help foul its waters, especially between the end of fall migration and the beginning of spring migration.

Miraculously, Hook Pond has yet to go belly-up, but it is not far from achieving such a fate. Let’s say it is still somewhat eutrophic, or rich in nutrients, but is rapidly becoming dystrophic, or lacking in nutrients. 

It was never oligotrophic as the very deep lakes — Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tahoe between Nevada and California — have been for decades. There is a very thick layer of silt in some spots in Hook Pond, not unlike the thick layers of silt at the north end of Accabonac Harbor. In recent times, because of excessive nutrition, the amount of fouling vegetation on the surface has overwhelmed the water celery and other pondweeds rooted in the bottom.

Yet Hook Pond is still quite scenic, especially for the golfers who play on either side of it and walk over it, and for those with houses along its western edges. There is a little bit of Hook, hardly an acre in size, on the north side of Dunemere Lane with a tiny sedge island in its middle. The connection between it and the part of the pond on the south side used to be more than 20 feet wide, but now is less than 15 feet wide and the two parts are now connected only by an opening under the road. The northern segment is not much better off than its southern counterpart, but is very rarely roiled up by sea breezes and so its water is much less turbid than the water in the larger part of the pond.

The best freshwater wetlands in terms of variety, health, and native-ness are those bordering each side of this northern spur. A few house lots border the northern spur, which eventually becomes the Hook stream that feeds the wonderful parkland it runs through, beginning on the north at Fithian Lane just south of the East Hampton Post Office. This wonderful little village park is occupied by a host of waterfowl all year around, as well as muskrats, deer, lots of songbirds, and other wild creatures and also some rare native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees. 

This Eden of East Hampton has been recently described in text and photos in the wonderful little book by the same name by naturalist Dell Cullum. The Nature Trail is owned by the Village of East Hampton and is wonderfully maintained by the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society.

East Hampton Village owns almost all of the stream and wetlands, amounting to 36 acres. However, the only riparian emergent wetland along the entire corridor, just north of the Dunemere bridge, is owned by the Maidstone Club. On the west and east sides of the northern spur of Hook Pond are 50 and 30-feet-wide swaths of sedges, reeds, and other diminutive wetland plants including the ladies’ tresses orchid and other rare wildflowers. The club has kept this area from growing up into the phragmites admixture that dominates 90 percent of Hook Pond’s eastern and western edges by cutting it each year.

It has done a good job of preserving these two little strips of wetland plants, but now this same club wants to desecrate it by building a 7-foot-wide, 353-foot-long golf cart bridge mounted on 42 steel pilings, anchored 11 feet deep into the bottom from one side to the other. The little sedge island where swans and other waterfowl have nested in the past is not to be spared. 

Heavy equipment would be used to install this monstrosity, which will certainly stir up the bottom and shade a large portion of the wetlands. And for what purpose? So golfers playing the hole that is on one side with the tee-off spot on the other will not have to drive or walk on Dunemere Road to reach each side.

Desecrating this little pond-wetland area makes no sense as there has never been an accident to a golfer by a motorist recorded at this spot in the many years that the Maidstone Club has been in use. East of there, there are portions of the golf course on the north and south sides of Further Lane, the east side of Egypt Lane, and east and west of Old Beach Lane. Does that also mean that there would need to be special crosswalks to protect the golfers as they go from one side of these roads to the other? 

And how is it that the northern part of Hook Pond is not owned by the East Hampton Town Trustees? Before Dunemere Lane was constructed, the northern and southern parts were contiguous. The golf course and its clubhouse may be owned by the Maidstone Club, but the waters and their contents, flora and fauna, belong to the Freeholders and Commonalty of East Hampton. Granted, some of those Freeholders are club members, but the very large majority are not.

Members of the East Hampton Village Police Department, emergency medical technicians, and an employee of the Maidstone Club were recognized by the village board on Friday for their role in saving a life. 

Around 3 p.m. on Sept. 25, police received a 911 call after Jan Roosenburg collapsed on the third tee of the Maidstone Club, on Dunemere Lane, Chief Gerard Larsen said. Sgt. Richard Mamay and Officers Steven Niggles and Matt Kochanasz were the first to arrive, and started to work on Mr. Roosenburg, who had no pulse and was not breathing. The officers used a defibrillator to deliver a single, controlled electric shock, and Mr. Roosenburg started to breathe before an ambulance arrived and took him to Southampton Hospital, where he remained for six days.

Thanks to the officers, emergency personnel, and Miguel Quiroz, a caddy at the Maidstone, “Mr. Roosenburg is alive today,” the chief said.

In addition to Sergeant Mamay, Officers Niggles and Kochanasz, and Mr. Quiroz, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. commended Pablo Betancur, Donna Collins, Ian Hoyt, and Mary Ellen McGuire of the village ambulance association, and Kyle McGuinness, a paramedic. “Because of your swift actions, a life was saved,” he said. “We’re proud of you, the community is proud of you.” 

“What a great conclusion to a tough situation,” said Ken Koch, the club’s general manager. “In many cases like this it doesn’t end this well. I’m so thrilled with the actions of the police and E.M.T.s and Miguel. On behalf of the Maidstone Club, I just thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.” 

Mr. Roosenburg’s daughter Kimberly Roosenburg-Landrigan also addressed the gathering. “We are incredibly grateful for your quick response and lifesaving action,” she said. “My dad is not only alive, he’s totally fine.” She read a statement in which her father thanked all who assisted him. He remembered nothing of the incident, he wrote. “ ‘However, very importantly, I got back to East Hampton just in time for the celebration of our youngest daughter’s wedding and was thrilled to be able to attend it all.’ ” He said he was “incredibly lucky” for the care he received “by very professional people.” Ms. Roosenburg-Landrigan presented the mayor with a contribution from her family to the ambulance association. 

Also at the meeting, the board held hearings on four code amendments, three of them related to beaches. One clarifies requirements for resident beach-parking permits, which are free, by making individuals who are “residential shareholders in a housing cooperative,” and those “related by blood or marriage to residential property owners,” eligible for the permits. Domestic employees residing on village properties will no longer be eligible.

It also increases the number of nonresident parking permits from 3,000 to 3,100, and the number of daily parking spaces for non-permit holders at Main Beach from 40 to 60 vehicles, and sets the fees at $400 and $30 respectively. 

Two of the amendments set the restriction periods on prohibited conduct and vehicles on beaches at May 15 to Sept. 15. Previously, restrictions were in place from the second Sunday in May through Sept. 30. 

The fourth amendment clarifies filming permit requirements and changes the application fee from $250 to an amount fixed by resolution of the board. The board set the fee at $500.

With no public comment, the amendments were quickly adopted. 

The board scheduled additional public hearings on proposed code amendments for its Dec. 16 meeting. One would limit parking to one hour in designated spaces on Pleasant Lane near Newtown Lane. The other would prohibit left turns from Pleasant Lane onto Newtown Lane. 

Board members also voted to approve a lease agreement with the East Hampton Food Pantry allowing for the storage of equipment at the Public Works Department yard at 172 Accabonac Road, for a fee of $10. The lease terminates on July 31, 2017.

“The pantry was extremely grateful to receive that space,” the mayor said to Scott Fithian, superintendent of public works.

Update, Nov. 28, 4:20 p.m.: The New London, Conn., dragger that ran aground on Navy Beach in Montauk on Sunday morning and has been taking on water since then has at least one hole in its hull, a man on the boat told the Coast Guard on Monday.

According to the Coast Guard, the 38-year-old Miss Scarlett, which is owned by Consolidated Marine, has 1,800 gallons of fuel oil onboard. Some or all of it will likely have to be pumped out before the 55-foot steel-hulled dragger can be towed back to New London.

The boat had left New London around midnight on Saturday and ran aground at Navy Beach around 6 a.m. on Sunday.

“The cause is under investigation,” Boatswain’s Mate First Class Ryan O’Hare said Monday. “The owner is trying to repair and salvage it,” the officer said. “There are no signs of any pollution or leaks. . . . It’s pretty sturdy.”

A crew from Miller Environmental Services, a company specializing in containing potential oil spills, has spread a boom around the hull. The owner of Consolidated Marine has been on the vessel since Sunday morning, but would not respond to a request for comment.

Original, Nov. 27, 4:01 p.m.: A 55-foot commercial a commercial fishing dragger, the Miss Scarlett, based in New London, Conn., ran aground on the beach along Navy Road in Montauk at about 6 a.m. Sunday near high tide.

There were no injuries reported. The crew of the Miss Scarlett remained onboard the stranded vessel until they were picked up by a skiff from another boat around noon.

The stranded vessel, which was located just west of the Port Royal, became a destination for families who flocked to the beach to take pictures of it throughout the morning.

According to the Coast Guard, the boat will be pulled off the beach by salvage vessels if found sound enough once the turbulent waters subside.

The Coast Guard will not comment further on the incident until it completes its investigation.

The winds were blowing from the northwest at nearly 20 knots all Sunday. Those winds caused a higher tide than normal throughout the weekend. They are not expected to drop into single digits until Monday afternoon.

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Correction: The update of this story published on Nov. 28 incorrectly stated that a salvage company was on the Miss Scarlett. That is not the case. 

David Lee, the owner of Cove Jewelers in Sag Harbor for may years who was an active member of the East Hampton and Sag Harbor communities and the longtime president of the Sag Harbor Community Band, died early Tuesday. He was 88.

A funeral service will be held at Temple Adas Israel in the village on Thursday at noon, with interment following at the Chevra Kodetia cemetery. The temple announced his death on Tuesday, describing him as "our beloved guiding light, former president, and 68-year member." 

Shiva will be observed at Mr. Lee's home in East Hampton on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m., and on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m., with a Shiva services at 6 p.m. on both evenings. A memorial service is being planned for December. 

Since Mr. Lee moved from England in 1948, Sag Harbor became his adopted home. He served as the president and treasurer of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, known then as the Merchants Association, in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a longtime promoter of tourism on the East End and in the old whaling port in the years after factories like Grumman and Bulova closed, and he was a founding member and past chairman of the Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau, often lobbying in Albany and Washington, D.C. 

Mr. Lee was also involved in local government, serving on the Sag Harbor School Board in the 1960s, and later on the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals. He was active in the Republican Club of East Hampton and was the chairman of the East Hampton Housing Authority and the East Hampton Citizens Advisory Committee, after moving to East Hampton. 

He was the president of the Sag Harbor Community Band for 25 years — he played the snare drum — and the band, which formed in 1957 and he joined in 1958, still performs Tuesday-night concerts at the American Legion in the summer.  

An obituary will appear in The Star in the future.