The Great Bonac Fireworks Show is set for Saturday night, with a top-drawer display to be shot off by Fireworks by Grucci over Three Mile Harbor just after dark.

The show this year will be dedicated to Rossetti Perchik, a Springs resident who died in May. The founder of the Clamshell Foundation, Mr. Perchik stepped in several years ago to sponsor the annual midsummer fireworks display that had been a tradition for more than 30 years, initially as a fund-raiser for the Boys Harbor camp.

When the camp closed, the future of the popular fireworks show was in doubt, as it was again this year. Fund-raising for the cost of the show in recent years was inadequate, and Mr. Perchik had covered the shortfall from his own pocket.

This year, while an online GoFundMe campaign raised more than $16,000, it was a generous contribution from a community member who wished to remain anonymous that salvaged the show.

The Clamshell Foundation, a nonprofit whose main event — a sandcastle contest on Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach in August — raises money for the group’s contributions to local food pantries, scholarships to high-school graduates, and other causes, agreed to mount the show this year, but will not continue.

The group has promised to help a new sponsor learn the ropes, and Fireworks by Grucci has agreed to continue its help, by providing a national-class display at a reduced rate, in memory not only of Mr. Perchik but also of the late Tony Duke of Boys Harbor, and the late James Grucci, his friend, who is the father of the company’s current president, Phil Grucci.

While residents of the Driftwood Shores development in Springs who have crowded recent meetings of the East Hampton Town Trustees did not attend Monday’s meeting, Rick Whalen, the trustees’ attorney, described an attempt to find out, once and for all, if the trustees have a valid ownership claim to the beach there and with it public access rights above the mean high-water mark.

Driftwood Shores residents have complained that their traditional use of the beach there has been questioned by new owners of a bayfront house who insist the public does not have legal access to the beach above mean high water. The results of the research Mr. Whalen described could have far-reaching consequences.

The trustees do not dispute that current deeds to certain bayfront properties state that private ownership extends to the high-water mark, but Mr. Whalen suspects that demarcation was not in the original conveyances and may therefore be invalid. Fidelity National Title will search the title chain prior to 1958 or ’59 when the Driftwood Shores subdivision map was filed.

“They’re looking for the pre-file map, describing the property fronting on waters of Gardiner’s Bay, for the exact language of the boundary,” Mr. Whalen said. “Does it say to the high water mark, to the water, to the bank, to the cliff?” The chain and a map abstract go back to 1884, he said. “We want to find out, if you go back far enough, do you find that the early conveyances did not go to mean high water?”

The title search will cost $1,800 and take approximately two weeks, Mr. Whalen told the trustees, who voted unanimously for it to proceed. They also voted to allocate an additional $2,000 for a title search to determine if the public has access rights to Wainscott Pond. “Based on what I’m seeing, I’m not as optimistic it will give us an access over that road,” Mr. Whalen said of an unnamed road leading to the pond from the south end of Beach Lane.

“From everything I’ve ever heard, there is no access to the pond,” Francis Bock, the trustees’ clerk, said. “Why don’t we just find out once and for all?”

Otherwise, an update on the effort to combat harmful algal blooms in Georgica Pond was the focus of the unusually quiet meeting. Sara Davison, executive director of the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, a group of property owners, told the trustees that the aquatic weed harvester the group launched in May had removed four pickup-truck loads of macroalgae, blooms that have preceded outbreaks of the cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, which deplete dissolved oxygen and threaten human and animal health. The project is meant to determine if removing macroalgae is effective in combatting cyanobacteria, which has forced the trustees to close the pond to marine harvesting for three consecutive years.

Compared to the last two years, macroalgae growth in the pond has been very slow, Ms. Davison said. “This is a combination of different conditions,” she said, among them “the pond being much fuller, and cooler,” due to a cool spring. Another factor may be a bloom of dinoflagellate, a marine plankton, which has shaded the water, inhibiting photosynthesis, she said.

Landowners on the east and west sides of the pond have provided sites to offload the macroalgae, which is brought to the town’s recycling center for use as compost.

Brian Byrnes asked Ms. Davison if she could predict the project’s efficacy. Not yet, was the answer. “Is this effective in removing nitrogen and phosphorous from the pond? We’ll know at the end of the season” when Christopher Gobler, who the trustees and the Friends of Georgica Pond have engaged to monitor water quality, has completed an analysis. “We’ll report that to you right away,” she said.

Discussion turned to the trustees’ traditional biannual opening of the pond to the Atlantic Ocean, which serves to flush its waters and restore salinity, dissolving cyanobacteria blooms in the process. Jim Grimes said he was troubled that “every time we don’t let this pond, we’re doing an incredible disservice to this environment. I think we should be focusing on making every effort to breach this pond with as much frequency as we can.”

That effort, however, is complicated by federally protected piping plovers and least terns, which nest on nearby beaches, with several plover chicks now in protected areas.  “We want to open it as soon as possible,” Bill Taylor said, “and we want to make sure it’s open in March, before the plover establish themselves.”

The trustees’ task, Mr. Grimes said, is to balance protection of the plovers and terns with the urgent effort to restore the pond to health. To that end, an application to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation for a permit to dredge the pond is under way.

Another Saturday-night police dragnet to snare drunken drivers helped lead to the arrest of defendants from a wide variety of professions.

Marco A. Apude, 55, a theater productions manager, was stopped on Spring Close Highway in East Hampton after accelerating so quickly that the tires on his 2001 Honda burned rubber, according to East Hampton Town police. At headquarters, his breath test produced a reading of .16, police said. Rob Archer, an assistant district attorney, asked for bail of $300, and Justice Lisa R. Rana asked the defendant if he could post that amount.

“I don’t have my credit card with me here. It is in my house, which is two blocks away,” the Pantigo Road resident responded. “It’s a high reading, but you have ties in this community,” Justice Rana replied, setting him free without bail.

The late-model Volkswagen Eos driven by Ashley Navarro, a trainer of show horses and their riders, was clocked at 46 miles per hour on Main Street in East Hampton Village, where the speed limit is 30. Her breath test reportedly produced a .14 reading, and bail was set at $300, which was posted. Ms. Navarro told the court she was based in Annville, Pa., but was working in Southampton for the summer.

Two tradesmen were arrested during the sweep, which ran from 8 p.m. Saturday to 4 a.m. Sunday. One of them, Wilson H. Mendez Gordillo of Springs, 34, idled in the middle of Spruce Street, where he lives, for an extended period of time, police said, before his 1998 Ford pickup drove off on the wrong side of the road. The officer who followed, emergency lights flashing, reported that the pickup continued on anyway, making two turns without signaling before coming to a stop.

Because the defendant already had a conviction for drunken driving — just this past March, in front of Justice Rana — he was charged with a felony. Mr. Archer asked that bail be set at $3,000.

Justice Rana asked Mr. Mendez Gordillo if he had anything to say. “Can you make it lower?” he asked. “Actually, no, I’m going higher. Bail will be $5,000,” she said. Family members posted the amount later Sunday.

Christopher L. Cabrera, a landscaper, 20, driving a 2001 Jeep on Cedar Street in East Hampton, was pulled over after swerving across the double yellow line, police said. His charge was different from the rest; he was accused of driving while high on drugs. Back at headquarters, he consented to have his blood drawn; the results of the drug test will not be known until his next court appearance. He was released without bail.

Two white-collar workers had the lowest readings of the night. Erin E. Cullen of Brooklyn, 30, who works in digital advertising, was stopped in downtown Montauk early Sunday for driving without headlights, while Christopher M. Giarraputo, 46, who splits his time between New York and East Hampton and is in the construction industry, was stopped at a checkpoint set up by the task force on Napeague. Both had readings of .08, just high enough to justify a charge of driving while intoxicated. Each was freed without bail, but with a future date on Justice Rana’s very busy criminal calendar.

The arrest of Joseph Michael Giuntoli, founder and president of the Chelsea-based Joey Showroom, which hosts collections for leading designers in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami, was unrelated to the sweep. East Hampton Village police said his late-model Porsche had been clocked at 51 m.p.h. in a 30 m.p.h. stretch of Pantigo Road, near Accabonac Road, when he began making a series of turns without signaling, starting at Accabonac and ending up in front of police headquarters on Cedar Street. There, he consented to take the breath test, which police said produced a reading of .13.

Mr. Giuntoli, 43, was first up Sunday morning in Justice Rana’s crowded courtroom. After suspending his license, she began checking her calendar to set his next court date, while Mr. Giuntoli did the same. “I’m flying to L.A. on the 30th,” he told her, for a fashion show through Aug. 4. Justice Rana gave him a July 28 return date, warning him, “Do not drive.”

Finally, early Tuesday morning, a Shelter Island man, Benjamin Demarchelier, 34, was charged in Montauk. Town police recorded his breath test at .13. Mr. Demarchelier, who told Justice Rana he manages a restaurant in Montauk, was released without bail.

East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael D. Sarlo spoke about Saturday night’s task force effort on Monday. “A total of 15 officers from East End agencies participated,” he said. “Over all, it was a successful, safe, and productive effort. We appreciate the cooperation and continued support of the surrounding agencies in our efforts to keep our roadways safe during this extremely busy time.”

The Stop-D.W.I. task force is funded by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

News that John J. Finello, the Springs School superintendent, will step down at the end of 2016, about a year and a half before his contract was to end, made for a surprising Springs School Board meeting on Tuesday, for which the agenda had called for discussion of general organizational topics, as well as whether an ad hoc committee should be formed of predominantly Spanish-speaking parents who could tackle issues Latino children and families face.

Liz Mendelman, a board member who had served three times as board president, said Mr. Finello told the board that “he has some new things going on in his life, in his family.” She said the board respected his decision to spend more time with his family and hopes to have a new superintendent on hand by Jan. 1, 2017.

Mr. Finello had previously retired from a superintendent’s post in Huntington and first came to Springs in 2013 as a part-time administrator. He initially needed, and received, a New York State waiver to be able to work, and was eventually given a full-time contract in June 2015. It was to extend until July 2018. During recent school board meetings, a handful of community members had taken issue with his $215,000 salary and suggested he was not adhering to certain parts of his contract. The board and several faculty members defended Mr. Finello, and during the most recent budget cycle, he took a voluntary pay cut of $15,000.

Barbara Dayton, the newly elected school board president, said the board had met in executive session to discuss hiring a new superintendent. It was unclear whether the meeting was held in compliance with a requirement that such sessions are to be called in public with the subject announced beforehand. Mr. Finello did not comment during Tuesday’s board meeting and said yesterday by email that he is “retiring for personal reasons.”

The district is also seeking a successor to Carl Fraser, the interim school business administrator, who was hired last summer for one year. The board had extended his initial appointment through Aug. 31 and the district has posted the opening with the Online Application System for Educators seeking “an outstanding financial leader” with a minimum of three years’ experience and the appropriate certifications. The salary is in the $100,000 range, plus benefits.

After Ms. Mendelman pitched the idea of an ad hoc committee of Latino parents, a question emerged about whether such a committee would tear down walls or build a new one. The idea had a mixed reaction.

“I think we have a lot of parents in our community that want to be involved, and having a language barrier limits a lot of our parents to be involved and give input,” Ms. Mendelman said.

Tim Frazier, the board vice president, however, disagreed with Ms. Mendelman that an ad hoc committee was appropriate. “I see the site-based committee as a stronger way to advocate for all the members of our community,” he said, referring to the committee of parents, board members, and staff and administrators who discuss a wide variety of issues.

When Eric Casale, the Springs School principal, said the site-based committee meets only once or twice a year, Mr. Frazier simply suggested it meet more frequently. “Whether it’s talking about how we can improve our school, whether it’s with our Latino community, or overcrowding, or class sizes, or whatever, I think if we had something that met more than once or twice a year that’s a more appropriate process to go through than creating another committee right now,” he said.

Ms. Dayton also expressed doubt. “If you create a group for a people with a different language, they may think that is the only group they can be part of, and we want to make sure these parents are taking the opportunity to become involved in any committee or school activity they want.”

Amy Rivera, a new member of the board, agreed with Mr. Frazier and suggested Mr. Casale recruit Latinos to be members of the site-based committee.

Those familiar with the concerns of the Latino community in Springs, from which about half the student population emerges, are known to have said that families have had trouble registering students and understanding information sent out by the district.

One of those advocating for better communication is Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana of Long Island. Ms. Perez urged the district to create a separate committee.

“There has not been an organic path for your Latino parents to grow leadership from within, and leadership from within would be something that would ultimately aid all the children, not just the Latino children,” Ms. Perez said. “We need to hear their voices. It’s not a matter of just translation.”

Ms. Perez said that if the district did not form a Latino committee, parents themselves might form one of their own. “Then you have this sort of shadow of groups kind of doing their thing because you guys aren’t welcoming them to the table,” she said. ‘Welcome them to the table. What is the worst that’s going to happen? . . . It’s not going to go bad.”

The school board ultimately agreed to seek public opinion, and tabled further discussion until its next meeting, which will be on Aug. 29 at 7 p.m.

On Further Lane in East Hampton Saturday night, the driver of a classic 1985 Mercedes-Benz 230 coupe lost control and drove onto the eighth hole of the Maidstone Club golf course, where the car rolled over at least twice and came to rest on its roof. In the hours after the crash, police charged Kyle L. Rosko of Montauk, 33, with felony drunken driving.

East Hampton Town Police Officer Jack Bartelme, who was on patrol, came upon the accident within minutes after it happened. The tires on the upside-down Mercedes were still spinning, Chief Gerard Larsen said.

Mr. Rosko was trapped inside the mangled car. The East Hampton Fire Department’s heavy-rescue squad had to free him, which took about 10 minutes, according to Gerry Turza, the first assistant fire chief. No one else was in the car.

Unable to determine his injuries but taking into consideration the severity of the crash, East Hampton Village Ambulance Association personnel decided to have Mr. Rosko airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, the nearest level-one trauma center. The medevac helicopter landed on the golf course, near Egypt Lane, just as night fell. The last time that happened was back in the 1990s, emergency workers said. 

On his public Instagram page, Mr. Rosko posted numerous photos of the yellow coupe, which he called Paloma. It had been delivered to him just a few months ago, and still had its German license plates. Police said the car was traveling east on Dunemere Lane at a high rate of speed and failed to negotiate the turn to Further Lane. It became airborne and struck an elevated green, which contributed to the rollover. Police reported damage to the golf course, but gave no further details.

The charge against Mr. Rosko was classified a felony because he has a previous conviction for driving while intoxicated within the past 10 years. The charge was further elevated yesterday after police announced that blood tests, taken at the hospital, showed his blood-alcohol level to be over three times the legal limit of .08. He has now been charged with felony aggravated D.W.I.

Mr. Rosko, an agent with Douglas Elliman Real Estate, is expected to make a full recovery, his attorney, Colin Astarita, said in a statement on Sunday evening. Stony Brook listed him in fair condition yesterday morning, and Mr. Astarita said he would not be released in ti­me for his arraignment, which was to have been taken place today in East Hampton Town Justice Court. It will be adjourned.

On Sunday, the day after the crash, Mr. Astarita said his client maintained he was not intoxicated at the time. Asked for comment after the Suffolk County Crime Lab reported the results of the blood-alcohol test, the lawyer said, “We have not been provided with any results yet and therefore cannot comment on whether or not we will challenge the validity of the test.”

Village police reported that Mr. Rosko appeared intoxicated and told an officer that “I had a few.” 

Mr. Astarita had insisted from the start that police filed the charges prematurely. “Charges should be filed only when the investigation is completed so that the proper charges are filed and we can then respond accordingly,” he said in a statement on Sunday. “This is extremely unfair, as Kyle is a very well-known, well-liked, and hard-working young man whose reputation can be affected by this unnecessary rush to judgment.”

Asked about Mr. Rosko’s level of intoxication, Chief Larsen said, “He’s lucky he didn’t kill himself or anyone else.”

Mr. Rosko was issued an appearance ticket on the felony charge after he was admitted to the hospital. He was also ticketed for several traffic violations, including traveling at a speed not reasonable and prudent, not wearing a seatbelt, and driving an unregistered, uninspected, and uninsured motor vehicle.

The accident occurred just minutes after village police, joined by officers from several other local jurisdictions, began a townwide overnight anti-drunken-driving enforcement sweep that netted four other drivers, as reported elsewhere in this section.

A bomb scare Sunday morning aboard a westbound train from Montauk caused delays on the tracks that lasted throughout the day, as well as road closures, until a police search found all was safe. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority later attributed the report to a “misunderstanding.”

Sometime after the train pulled out of the Montauk station, stopped in Amagansett at 7:23 a.m., and arrived in East Hampton Village, M.T.A. police were alerted to a possible threat. Suffolk police reported a call from a teenaged girl that “her boyfriend had said something about a bomb on that train specifically,” according to Salvatore Arena, an M.T.A. spokesman. It was scheduled to depart East Hampton at 7:28 a.m., but was held at the station.

There were 65 people aboard the train, which was evacuated. M.T.A. police are not stationed locally, and at 7:50 a.m. the authority requested assistance from East Hampton Village police until officers could get to the South Fork.

Volunteers with the East Hampton Fire Department were asked to stand by at the firehouse, just in case. Chief Gerard Larsen said a few extra officers were called in.

For about two hours, passengers waited on the curb. Railroad Avenue was shut down. Some of the train cars extended onto the crossing at Newtown Lane, which was also shut down, from Osborne Lane north. Traffic congestion in the village continued for about two hours.

With only one track, train service was suspended east of Speonk.

M.T.A. police arrived with a bomb-sniffing dog. Nothing suspicious was found. The train was released just before 10 a.m., about the time it had been scheduled to arrive in Jamaica, Queens. Delays on the Long Island Rail Road’s Montauk line continued into the afternoon, Mr. Arena said.

The M.T.A. investigated the report further and ultimately concluded it had been a “misunderstanding,” he said. “There was no evidence that allowed them to arrest anyone.” While the incident may have caused some inconvenience, Mr. Arena said the M.T.A. had to “err on the side of caution” and investigate fully.

A long-awaited description of projects the Army Corps of Engineers proposes to undertake between Fire Island and Montauk Point, the so-called Fire Island to Montauk Point Reformulation Plan, or FIMP, does not include substantial restoration of the downtown Montauk beach, where the Corps recently completed a 3,100-foot-long sandbag wall.

Local officials had approved the sandbag project as a supposed stopgap to protect shorefront buildings until the Army Corps of Engineers proceeded with long-term efforts. Officials expected the Corps to call for full reconstruction of the Montauk beach by adding enough sand to make it, and keep it, 100 feet wide. But an executive summary of the draft, the release of which had been promised since last year and eagerly anticipated, excludes Montauk from the numerous south shore beaches where full restoration is planned.

Instead, it calls for adding 120,000 cubic yards of sand in front of the wall approximately every four years to offset erosion. Local officials expected the sandbags, which are covered with three feet of sand, would be removed and the beach fully restored.

The full draft plan is slated for release in mid-July, according to a press release last week from Representative Lee Zeldin, with an environmental review and comment period, including several public hearings, in August.

Residents opposed to the construction of the Montauk beach wall, a number of whom protested in front of bulldozers last fall, were told that the town board shared their vision of the ultimate goal. Officials had said the wall was needed to protect downtown buildings from storm surge until the Corps got to its larger projects. They apparently thought that because the wall was to be temporary it did not violate longstanding regulations about what could be constructed along the dunes. The wall was built at federal expense but the town and county will share the cost of keeping it covered with sand as well as other maintenance.

“It’s not what I think we were assured we would get,” East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said Tuesday. Besides the comprehensive beach nourishment project in downtown Montauk, town representatives had been lobbying for beach restoration at Ditch Plain. It is not included in the draft.

“We’re going to need our congress man’s help reminding the Corps what I thought they proposed to the community, what we thought — which is what we have now, and a major beach replenishment up to 100 feet wide,” Mr. Cantwell said. “We will continue to press,” he said, for reconstruction of Montauk’s downtown beach as well as the beach at Ditch Plain.

Federal funding for the Army Corps Fire Island to Montauk project, originally authorized at $600 million, has risen to $1.16 billion. The plan has been underway, with rounds of studies and revisions, since the 1950s. A re-evaluation process was undertaken after Hurricane Sandy hit Long Island in 2012, which prompted federal funds to be made available for projects such as the Montauk wall.

The complete Army Corps plan is to include what the agency terms “coastal storm risk management” projects along 83 miles along the Atlantic Ocean and 200 miles of bayfront and inlets. It also includes what are called retrofits, relocation, and acquisition of buildings within the floodplain, raising roadways, and dredging of the Fire Island, Moriches, and Shinnecock Inlets. Sand would also be added to the beach at Potato Road in Wainscott, contingent on implementation of a pond-opening plan for Georgica Pond, which traditionally has been done by the East Hampton Town Trustees. The final report is to be submitted to the chief of the Army Corps of Engineers for authorization at the end of the year.

In the press release, Mr. Zeldin said he had been “fighting hard to secure the many victories” for his congressional district under the Army Corps plan, and thanked the Corps for its “responsiveness and attention to detail in ensuring that the priorities of my constituents received the highest consideration.”

Kyle L. Rosco, 33, of Sag Harbor was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Friday morning on felony charges of drunken driving stemming from crash on Saturday evening in which his car rolled over and came to rest on the Maidstone Club's golf course.

His attorney, Colin Astarita, entered a denial to the felony charges, and Mr. Rosco pleaded not guilty to six violations, including driving an unregistered, uninsured, and uninspected vehicle. He is also charged with driving at an unsafe speed, making an unsafe lane change, and not wearing a seatbelt while driving. The drunken driving charges are at the felony level because Mr. Rosco has already been convicted of driving while intoxicated as a misdemeanor within the past 10 years.

The 1985 Mercedes-Benz he was driving was totaled. Mr. Rosco, who was alone in the vehicle, had to be extracted from it by emergency aid workers, and was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital, the nearest level-one trauma center.

Originally due in East Hampton Town Justice Court to be arraigned on Thursday, his arraignment was moved to Friday because he was not released from the hospital until Thursday night.

Mr. Rosco's parents sat silently in the second row of the courtroom.

Mr. Rosco, who was identified in previous reports as being a Montauk resident, told the court that he lives on Noyac Path in Noyac.

He spoke little during the proceedings. "Your driving privilege is suspended, based upon a reading of .25 [of 1 percent], which I have in my file. You cannot drive," Justice Lisa R. Rana said, then asked. "You understand that you cannot drive?"

"Yes, I understand," said Mr. Rosco, whose left arm was in a sling.

Mr. Astarita asked that his client be released without bail. Or, he said, "if your honor is considering bail, consider bail in the amount of $2,500. His parents are prepared to post that."

"I want to make a record as to why I am setting [this amount], given the serious circumstances," Justice Rana said. "I consider that to be a very reasonable bail, considering your prior record, considering this is a felony, [because] you do have substantial ties to this community. You did voluntarily appear today, you have retained counsel, and counsel has been very communicative with the court and did, in fact, contact the court yesterday as soon as he knew you were being released, making prompt arrangements for your appearing in court this morning. Considering all of that, I will set the bail at $2,500."

Mr. Astarita waived his client's right to a speedy trial, to allow for discussion about the case between himself and the district attorney's office. He agreed to a return date of Aug. 11, but indicated that he anticipates his client will be indicted by a grand jury on the felony charges by then, which would move the case to county court, either in Riverside or in Central Islip.

During the arraignment, Mr. Astarita told the court that his client is a real estate broker with Douglas Elliman. On Mr. Rosco's LinkedIn page, he identifies himself as a member of the Matthew Breitenbach Team, a sub-group of the real estate corporation, specializing in high-end properties in Manhattan and the Hampton's. However, in the past 48 hours, all mention of Mr. Rosco on the corporate giant's website appear to have been deleted, as has the "About Kyle Rosco" page.

This weekend's carnival in Bridgehampton isn't just an opportunity to ride the Ferris wheel and win a stuffed animal for your date. The carnival will also help to raise money for affordable housing in the Town of Southampton.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Southampton Community Housing and Development Corporation, a not-for-profit dedicated to identifying and developing affordable housing in the town.

Carol Konner donated the use of the property on Montauk Highway, next to Carvel, for the carnival -- property where she had planned to build affordable apartments above commercial and retail space as part of a proposed mixed-use planned development district that the town proposed. Faced with opposition from a community group, she withdrew her support for the project in late May, and the town-sponsored plan fell by the wayside. Housing advocates had been supportive, and many residents spoke at hearings in favor of the plan.

"She was very appreciative of the work we did," said Curtis Highsmith Jr., the managing director of the Southampton Town Housing Authority and executive director of the housing corporation. "She made a heartfelt proposition" to offer the land free of charge for the carnival, he said. "It says a lot of the character of person that she is."

Mr. Highsmith said the housing corporation has been looking for more creative ways to raise money for affordable housing projects. "Why should we constantly go through the state and through the town?"

While the fund-raiser through the carnival was a last minute decision, he said his group been working fast to have all the pieces fall into place.

The housing corporation is asking for volunteers to sell ride tickets and bracelets at the event, as well as to direct cars, manage the parking lot, and pick up litter. It is also selling banner space to commercial sponsors: a three-by-two-foot banner on the fence surrounding the carnival will go for $200. Those interested can contact Mr. Highsmith at the housing authority office in Hampton Bays.

The carnival will be held Friday through Sunday from 6 to 11 p.m. and again from Wednesday through Saturday, July 23, at the same hours. Bracelets allowing unlimited rides can be purchased for $30 Friday, Wednesday, next Thursday, and Friday, July 22. A $5 discount coupon is available and can be found at such locations as Panera and the Children's Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton.

"We pray this is not the last time," Mr. Highsmith said. "We're going to really take this grassroots, self-funding efforts to the next level. We're not looking for taxpayers to foot the bill, we're looking for you to invest back in your community."

An apparently homeless woman charged with two felonies, grand larceny and possession of stolen property, and two misdemeanors, false impersonation and unauthorized use of a vehicle, was sent to jail last Thursday after being accused of stealing an Oklahoma oilman’s Mercedes Benz from in front of his Ocean Avenue, East Hampton, property.

Most recently of the Bronx, the suspect was identified by police as Beverly Deperstein, 41. However, during arraignment on Friday morning, her Legal Aid Society attorney, Brian Francese, told the court her family name is DeLaverstine. The question of her identity was even more complicated because when initially questioned by police, she allegedly produced a driver’s license of a New York woman, Rosanna Segara.

The woman, whom police said is originally from Trinidad, was quoted telling them that she had come to East Hampton about two weeks earlier and been going door to door to “ask people if they wanted someone to clean their house or watch their kids.” On June 28, she reportedly said, she “was stopped by a policeman, who told me somebody had complained about me ringing their doorbell. He told me I can’t do that.”

She told police she was on Ocean Avenue when she saw a 2011 Mercedes Benz station wagon parked on the side of the road. The car belongs to Stephen J. Heyman, managing partner of Nadel and Gussman, an oil and gas drilling company based in Midland, Tex. He was not there at the time, police said.

“I opened the car door, just to peep inside,” she told police, explaining that, seeing the keys, she headed away from Ocean Avenue. She went on to explain that she was tired, the sun was setting, and she wanted to go to sleep, police said. “I was looking for a quiet, shady place, and I parked where you guys found me.”

The car was reported stolen the next day.

Police were able to find the car via its global positioning system, and they found her sleeping in it last Thursday morning behind a vacant building at 350 Pantigo Road, opposite Moby’s.

During her arraignment Friday morning, the question of bail was the main point of discussion between Town Justice Steven Tekulsky and Mr. Francese, who said his client was indigent and could not afford any bail. “I would ask the court for mercy and to release her on her own recognizance,” Mr. Francese said. “I will try to find a way to contact her.”

“I certainly understand if she is indigent, but besides the fact that she has, as a matter of law, no roots in the community and we have no way of getting in touch with her, that in and of itself is troubling to the court,” Justice Tekulsky responded. He went on to say “she has a rather extensive criminal history, including what appears to be at least one felony conviction, and she has at least two bench warrants, and the crimes that she has been involved with all concern larceny or burglary.” 

The district attorney’s office had asked bail to be set at $25,000; Mr. Tekulsky set it at $10,000, and heard her say she would not be able to post it. If no indictment was obtained by the end of yesterday, however, she was to have been released.

“So many things have happened,” the defendant said, softly, as she was being led away.