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. 

A few days ago two photos of a large brown raptor taken in Montauk by Debbie Kuntz popped up on my smartphone. The bird had a fierce look, and its wingtip feathers were spread in flight the way an eagle’s primaries can be. Debbie thought bald eagle, and she was right. In fact, it was an immature bald eagle, and one missing a toe. According to an Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center spokesperson, it was the young eagle that the facility had let go on Napeague on Aug. 17 of this year after rescuing it in Montauk months earlier and caring for it at the Hampton Bays facility until it was ready for release.

In the last 10 years, bald eagles have become regulars on Long Island. At least four different pairs have built and tended four different nests and raised four sets of eaglets annually. Our national bird, whose population numbered in the hundreds only 40 years ago and which was listed as endangered, now numbers in the thousands, having made a wonderful comeback under the auspices of the federal Endangered Species Act.

Eagles in the Northeast are migratory, or at least semi-migratory. Mostly fish eaters, they retreat to the edges of open waters in the winter, which moves them south as far as they have to go to find them. They often gather in small over-wintering groups along major rivers feeding our larger estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay and the inland waterway farther to the south. But unlike a rival species, the osprey, which has also greatly benefited from the act, eagles can get by on other food sources, including mammals — both road kills and living — as well as large birds, turkeys, pheasants, and the like if need be. Ospreys, on the other hand, invariably survive on live-caught fish. 

So, while the bald eagle is a noble bird, aristocratic by American standards, it is also a member of the hoi polloi when the need arises. And it is not above stealing from ospreys and other species if the moment dictates. It will do anything to survive. However, it did not stand a chance during the age of widespread DDT use in the last century, and was an easy target for those indiscreet shotgun hunters who were out for sport more than for food.

Other hawks, as well as vultures, are nearly all migratory in eastern and middle America. Otherwise it would be a very dull time during the fall at Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania. At this high-up spot in the Appalachian range, hundreds, if not thousands, of raptors in the throes of migration soar by daily on their way south. At the same time, some raptors that breed on the tundra, like the rough-legged hawks, goshawks, and gyrfalcons, along with snowy owls, move down from subpolar areas and have the place all to themselves.

There are several strictly piscivorous bird species that breed in the north but migrate south in the winter when lakes, ponds, and rivers ice up and fish become scarce in the ocean and bays. The belted kingfisher is one of them. It feeds over open water. The cormorant is another. The double-crested cormorants go south. An occasional great cormorant, a bigger bird bred and raised in northern climes, is adapted to the cold; a few visit Long Island each winter where they eke out a living on the few fish available.

Diving waterfowl — the scoters, oldsquaws, mergansers, buffleheads, eiders, loons, and grebes — on the other hand, can make it in the unfrozen sea, where they fish for and feed on fish and other marine organisms. It may be raw and turbulent on the surface, but is generally calm and peaceful underwater. Such open water waterfowl are most commonly observed in the winter and rarely seen here in the summer.

Of course, global warming is changing the course and dimensions of annual migrations south. It can be more advantageous for some species to tough it out here than to face the rigors of a long flight and uncertain weather conditions. On the old continent, the European starling is frequently migratory, but here in North America it tends to stick around during the winter months. The movements of blue jays are driven more by feeding needs than by temperature. In this record oak nut year, blue jays are not likely to stray very far from the acorn. Two close blue jay relatives, our two local crow species, have opposite agendas. The fish crow migrates south early on; the common crow chooses to stay around and spend the night in large roosts such as the one up in the hills south of Noyac or on Barcelona east of Sag Harbor.

Then there is that member of the thrush family, almost as American as the bald eagle — the red-breasted robin — that comes bob, bob, bobbing along. On record it is a migratory species, but during the last 20 years, more and more robins tough it out on Long Island rather take their chances moving south. What keeps them here is certainly not earthworms, a warm-season mainstay. They feed on fruit, namely that of the winterberries, hollies, junipers, roses, privet, honeysuckle, and so on. The New York State bird, the eastern bluebird, another thrush, often sticks around too. Mockingbirds also hang around, feeding largely on rosehips of the multiflora rose.

The winter feeder birds — chickadees, nuthatches, titmice, woodpeckers, cardinals, juncos, white-throated sparrows, Carolina wrens, goldfinches, mourning doves, and the like — move from feeding station to feeding station, from woodlot to woodlot. Why exert all that energy flying south, when there are plentiful seeds and other goodies, replenished daily on “platters” on posts or in hanging baskets, or merely strewn on the ground?

Wild turkeys are adept at short-run flights and flying up into tree roosts come evening, but they are not good flyers for longer runs. They keep busy scratching up the leaf layers in the woods for acorns and other nuts and the like. Ring-necked pheasants and ruffed grouse survive the winter in similar fashion.

Finally, it would not be winter without a consortium of gulls, namely, herring, black-backed, and ring-billed gulls working the landfills, shopping plazas, and seacoasts. They spend as much time gliding as flapping their wings, both conserving energy and enjoying their long sails. They are always among the most numerous birds in the many Long Island bird counts that take place in December of each year. They might just be the most impervious to winter weather of them all!

Winter is almost upon us, take care, and enjoy the birds.

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

“I leave with only positive thoughts,” former Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst said on Friday, three days after her campaign to unseat Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District ended with a loss. Mr. Zeldin, a first-term Republican, easily prevailed over his challenger, winning 59 percent to Ms. Throne-Holst’s 41 percent of the vote.

Reflecting on the campaign, the Democratic candidate called it “an amazing process to be part of” and “an incredible privilege. I felt this very strong sense that this wasn’t me: I was just the body that spoke for and represented the people that cared about the issues that we cared about. You feel that responsibility very strongly. You hope you carry the message as well as you can and that it is truly reflective of the people you want it to be reflective of.”

Ms. Throne-Holst’s campaign work­ed to tie Mr. Zeldin to Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s controversial, and ultimately successful, nominee for president. The effort apparently did nothing for her campaign, with Mr. Trump winning more votes in Suffolk County than his opponent, Hillary Clinton, in his surprise victory. “This was one of his absolutely strongest districts,” she said of Mr. Trump. She called Mr. Zeldin “a well-liked guy by his base” who “also had the advantage of the Trump wave.”

“We need leaders who are clear that we need to understand there’s a new world order here,” she said of Mr. Trump’s election. “There is certainly a new paradigm in the world of public service and representation that is only beginning to become clear to us. Tuesday night laid it very bare. . . . If I can be of help there and in any way a positive force, I would welcome that. But most of all, understanding that whoever and whatever it is, it has to be reflective of a very new world order and a very new generation that does not look like what got elected on Tuesday.”

In a larger context, Mr. Trump’s election is part of a broader, even global trend, exemplified by the June referendum in which British citizens voted to exit the European Union and the rise of nationalist parties in much of Europe. This demands new thinking, Ms. Throne-Holst said. “Leadership has to rise to the top here, but what that looks like and how it leads is what has to come from a deep and deeply intellectual place. I do think that what did get elected on Tuesday lacks that intellectual depth and breadth of understanding for what did bring it, first of all, to victory, and how it is going to address what did bring it to victory.”

On the other hand, she said, “In adversity there is opportunity, and shame on us if we don’t understand that and also try to build from that. In this case, I think we have a very important job to do as a nation. I do think that those who won on Tuesday are also going to have to lead now; it’s going to be on their shoulders to actually govern and try to solve these problems.”

With that said, she was noncommittal as to future plans. “There are a lot of ways to be a public servant. Elected office is only one of them. . . . My dreams and aspirations have always been to be a public servant, to do good work, to be part of advocating for people who need advocacy. Building policy has always been interesting to me, too.” She is not, she said, “a serial candidate.” 

She will not miss the negative tone of the campaign, she said, and complained about “an element of dishonesty” that infects political campaigns. “My kids, for instance, were really upset when they saw some of these negative missiles launched at me that were not true. . . . But I hope we were able to help most people see that they may not have agreed with our policy positions or my ideological positions, but hope they know I was always honest and just wanted to put this side of the story out, put my best foot forward.”

  “That part of it is a relief to shut the door on, but other than that, it was an experience of a lifetime and truly a privilege. I felt really fortunate to have been given the opportunity.”

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, Jan Roosenburg collapsed on the third tee of the Maidstone Club's golf course, on Dunemere Lane, said Chief Gerard Larsen. Sgt. Richard Mamay and Officers Steven Niggles and Matt Kochanasz arrived, the chief said, and started to work on Mr. Roosenburg, who had no pulse. The officers used a defibrillator to deliver a single, controlled electric shock, and the man started to breathe before an ambulance arrived.

Thanks to the officers, emergency personnel, and Miguel Quiroz, a caddy at the Maidstone Club, "Mr. Roosenburg is alive today" following a six-day hospitalization, the chief said. 

In addition to Sgt. 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's ambulance association, and Kyle McGuinness, a paramedic, for their "valiant efforts" in saving the man.

"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 as 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 thank all of you from the bottom of my heart."

Mr. Roosenburg's daughter, Kimberly, addressed the gathering. "Dad is not only alive," she said. "He's totally fine." She read a statement in which her father thanked all who assisted him. He remembered nothing of the incident, he said. " 'However, I got back to East Hampton just in time for the celebration of our youngest daughter's wedding,' " Ms. Roosenburg read. In his statement, he called himself "incredibly lucky" for the care he received "by very special people."

Ms. Roosenburg presented the mayor with a contribution to the village's ambulance association.

Leaves are falling to the ground, there is a bite to the early morning air, the sky is dark before quitting time, and now there’s snow on the roof of my car. At least for me, the 2016 fishing season is over.

The season began on April 1 with flounder, and the results once again were dismal. Something radical has to be done to save this important local fishery. 

The striped bass season opened with a bang, with many large fish caught around Sag Harbor and Shelter Island. An abundance of small bass were found around Jessup’s and throughout Peconic Bay. When waters to the east finally warmed, fish moved into Plum Gut and the Race. However, anglers found few large stripers in these prime fishing spots.

Boating anglers enjoyed great striper fishing around Montauk Point during the summer, with a huge number of fish over 30 pounds crashing the docks. Surfcasters, on the other hand, had a largely disappointing summer, with catches of large striped bass rare and way too many bluefish in the mix. While strong northeast winds at times plagued boaters, they delivered fish to Montauk surfcasters willing to brave nasty conditions.  

The fall run has been disappointing for most surfcasters. The Montauk SurfMasters Fall Classic leaderboard has remained unchanged for nearly six weeks, which underscores the lack of large striped bass along our shores. Absent any last-minute heroics before the tourney’s end on Saturday, it looks like Ben McCarron will win the men’s wader division with a 55.14-pound fish, Mary Ellen Kane will win the women’s wader division with a 19.75-pound fish, and John Bruno will win the wetsuit division with a 37-pound fish.

Surf fishing has picked up lately, with schools of migrating bunker drawing stripers and bluefish close to the beach. Fish crashed the shore last weekend and there might be more arriving over the holiday from chilling waters to the west and north. Perhaps it’s wise to reserve a place next to the turkey for a platter of fresh striper. 

Fluke fishing was spotty in the bay with favorite spots including Greenlawns, the Ruins, and Napeague producing fewer quality fish than usual. Anglers had better luck in the north rips off Montauk Point and south of the radar tower and Frisbees.  

Weakfish angling was strong this year in Peconic Bay, which is great news for the fishery. Those targeting the species were rewarded with a robust bite and some large fish.

Porgy fishing has been exceptional in the bay and in the ocean. The fish have been huge and the action nonstop. It’s hard to imagine that any porgy angler has ended his or her day without a full cooler and a big grin. 

Sea bass fishing has been excellent too. Those fishing in the sound and ocean have been able to efficiently reach their daily limit. Nice sea bass can still be landed around Block Island.

Tautog fishing has been great. Fish have been taken north of Plum Island, around Fishers Island, south of Montauk, and just about anywhere one can find a nice pile of rocks. As the temperature drops, anglers will find slimmer pickings in their favorite spots as fish migrate to deep water for the winter. 

Bluefish, which remain the ocean’s toughest pound-for-pound fighter, were a consolation prize to surfcasters targeting stripers but a joy to light-tackle and fly fishermen looking for a brawl. Accabonac Harbor was the scene of some epic bluefish action for those casting for dinner.

Last but not least, the finicky false albacore came and uncharacteristically stayed through some terrible weather, though large schools rarely filled the waters surrounding Gardiner’s Island to one columnist’s dismay.

The offshore tuna and shark bite, from what I hear, has been relatively lackluster.

Blowfish continue their comeback, while snappers provided loads of fun to new anglers. 

A few surprises came our way this season. A small humpback whale washed up between Promised Land and the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett and a recreational fishing boat beached at Turtle Cove. We learned for better or worse that great white sharks breed just a short distance off Montauk, and were gifted a few deadly puffer fish by warm Gulf Stream waters. Bunker invaded our waters in numbers rarely seen in recent years and predators feasted upon them. A large black drum was caught at Hither Hills, and kingfish appeared in the bays. Blue claw crabs were plentiful along harbor shorelines, while the scallop harvest so far has been discouraging.  

Those who are not ready to retire their fishing gear can continue to take striped bass until Dec. 15, blackfish until Dec. 14, and sea bass and porgy until Dec. 31 in New York State waters. Those intending to fish in federal waters, which begin three miles offshore, are subject to federal fishing regulations. These are available on the FishRules app for your mobile device and online.

This is the last “On the Water” column of the season. Thanks to all who provided me with fishing reports, pictures, and good conversation over the last seven months, including Paul Apostolides, Harvey Bennett, Sebastian Gorgone, Ken Morse, T.J., Capt. Ken Rafferty, Capt. Merritt White, Kelly Lester, and Tom McDonald. 

It’s a long and quiet winter for our tackle shops. Please buy locally if you’re looking to buy or receive fishing equipment and gear this holiday season. 

Have a great winter. Flounder season opens in 128 days. 

Five years after it was destroyed by fire, Scoville Hall, the parish house of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, will reopen on Dec. 3, when it hosts a holiday fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

The building on Meeting House Lane, dedicated as the church’s parish house in 1925 and later named for the Rev. Clarence Beecher Scoville, who led the congregation from 1919 to 1943, was engulfed in flames in the early morning hours of Oct. 15, 2011. More than 100 firefighters from five districts fought the blaze. Its pastor, the Rev. Steven Howarth, who serves in the Amagansett Fire Department as chaplain and firefighter, was in Connecticut with his wife, on their way to a vacation in Massachusetts, when the building was destroyed.

A three-year dispute with Peerless Insurance, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance, followed. The disagreement drew the intervention of Barry Slotnick, an attorney who owns a house on Meeting House Lane in Amagansett. A settlement was finally reached in October 2014.

The new structure sits on the same footprint as the original. While the exterior recalls the original, the building’s interior reflects the church and the community’s current and future needs. The building, including its elevator, is wired so that a generator can power it. It will serve as a safe structure during extreme weather. 

The first floor houses meeting rooms, the minister’s study, and a reception room that opens to a terrace. It also includes the Kitchen for Liam, a commercial kitchen named for Liam Silhan, who died in 2014 at age 2. 

Also new at the rebuilt Scoville Hall are J and Courtney Silhan, Liam’s parents, who live in East Hampton. Along with Carolyn Stec, they will manage the property. “We are all hospitality-hotel professionals,” Mr. Silhan said on Friday. “We raised money to have the kitchen named after Liam, and become involved to manage the property. We wanted to make sure it was more than a building, that it was a living, breathing place that brought everybody together.” 

The Kitchen for Liam will serve farmers and artisans in the community, Mr. Silhan said. Among its features is a 122-by-100-inch stainless steel island, and a pizza oven will soon be installed. “We are getting licensed commercially,” he said. “We are going to have a couple of different farms and a lot of other producers making things that they will then be able to sell. A lot of the local farms and chefs are really excited to be able to have a commercial kitchen.” 

The property’s managers, who are also licensed food managers, will assist people renting the kitchen who are not licensed themselves, Mr. Silhan said. They will also offer classes for those interested in starting a food-related business, he said. 

Upstairs, the Mary and Pete Bistrian Great Room, featuring a cathedral ceiling, wooden beams, and chandeliers, will host weddings and other functions. Twelve-step groups and fraternal organizations have just begun using Scoville Hall again, Mr. Silhan said. 

Vendor spaces have sold out for the holiday fair, but those interested in being on the waiting list have been asked to call 631-318-0285. 

Heading into her first holiday season as the new owner of BookHampton in East Hampton, Carolyn Brody has planned a series of events intended, she said, “to share the spirit, bring people into the store, and build community.”

“We’re just trying to throw the doors open,” she said Monday.

Just as it did for many years before Ms. Brody bought the business, Book­Hampton will welcome Alec Baldwin, the actor, who lives in Amagansett, and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, for children’s literature readings on the day after Thanksgiving. 

He will read from the book “Black Beauty,” she from the Spanish-language book “Por Favor Senor Panda.” Their appearance is planned for 2 p.m., and the bookstore has room to accommodate about 100 guests on a first-come-first-served basis.

On Saturday, which has been dubbed Small Business Saturday in a nationwide campaign to encourage consumers to shop local, BookHampton will host Pat Kiernan, a morning television anchor with the station NY1, at 10 a.m. for a reading of his new children’s book, “Good Morning City.” Ina Garten will sign her new cookbook, “Cooking for Jeffrey,” from 3 to 4 p.m. that day.

On Dec. 3, BookHampton will hold an open house from noon to 4 p.m., including Christmas carolers and complimentary cookies and cider. Carrie Doyle, a local murder-mystery author whose titles include “Death on Windmill Way” and “Death on Lily Pond Lane,” will do a signing at 4 p.m. that day. 

Several children’s story time sessions, book signings, and other events have been planned for later in December as well.

Ms. Brody said the staff has carefully decorated the store for the holidays and filled it with merchandise and books that people will love.

“What’s the perfect book for all the people on your list?” she asked. “We think, somewhere in the store, we’ve got it.”

As it counts down the days to a Dec. 13 referendum on its proposed school expansion, the Bridgehampton School District has upped its projected bond interest rate and extended the length of the potential bond from 15 to 20 years, resulting in a higher projected tax impact on homeowners should the referendum pass. 

“At certain points, you get updated information from your attorneys, bond counsel, or municipal adviser,” Robert Hauser, the district’s assistant superintendent for finance and facilities, said during the Nov. 16 Bridgehampton School Board meeting.

While the estimated interest rate cited at the district’s Oct. 15 community forum was 2 percent, that scenario would have been dependent on the district going out immediately to borrow the money upon an affirmative vote in December, Mr. Hauser explained. However, pending a successful vote, “we would not be borrowing money until at least a year from now,” Mr. Hauser said. “Projecting the interest rate, it is probably more conservative to use a rate of 3.5 percent.” The total amount the district expects to borrow, $24.7 million, has not changed. 

The school district is asking residents to vote on a bond to build a large addition and renovate other parts of the building. The school, built in the 1930s, is the only one from Bridgehampton to Montauk that has never had a major expansion. School officials have said for the last several months that an expanded and updated facility is needed to support a growing student population.

Jeff Mansfield, a school board member, pointed out during the Nov. 16 meeting that the district has also extended the life of its proposed bond from 15 to 20 years. That, combined with a potentially higher interest rate, he said, could result in a significant increase in the tax impact. He said he had received an estimate that for an average, non-waterfront house valued at $2.8 million, taxes over the life of the bond would be more than $13,000, according to the more recent projection. That figure would have been about $11,000 under the October projection.

According to a newsletter mailed to Bridgehampton voters earlier this month, on a home valued at $1 million, with a 3.5-percent interest rate over 20 years, the tax impact of a $25 million bond would be about $241 per year, or $4,820 over the life of the bond. The lower interest rate projected in October, combined with a 15-year life of the bond, would have increased taxes by approximately $4,125 over the shorter life of the bond.

“These are all just projections, but as a board and as a district, you want these to be up front,” Mr. Mansfield said during the Nov. 16 meeting.

On Tuesday, Mr. Mansfield said the 3.5-percent interest rate was a “worst-case scenario” and that he felt confident the rate would probably wind up being less.

“We’ll be updating the projections for this project as we go along,” he said. “Interest rates change every day, hour to hour, depending on what’s going on around the world. What makes this even trickier is that it’s public funding. We’re not allowed to lock in a forward rate and we’re only allowed to borrow a certain amount of money at a time.”

Mr. Hauser said in an email Tuesday that should Southampton Town’s total assessed property values increase, as has happened for the past few years, the tax impact to Bridgehampton residents would decrease.

During the Nov. 16 meeting, Mr. Mansfield also asked Mr. Hauser whether it would be prudent to apply to Moody’s Investors Service for an upgraded credit rating, which would allow Bridgehampton to achieve a better interest rate when it borrows money. The district has a Moody’s credit rating of Aa1, which is just one step under the best rating in that system. Mr. Hauser said he would analyze the benefits and potential pitfalls of applying for the better credit rating, which costs $9,000.