Tim Ferriss credits his schoolteachers for helping him to love reading and writing, recalling in particular his first-grade teacher at the Springs School. Kathleen Vinski, who explained to him “why the alphabet was important.”

Mr. Ferriss, now the best-selling author of “The 4-Hour Work Week” and other titles, jumped on board a March 10 philanthropic campaign for the crowd-funding website DonorsChoose. org, funding, all by himself, no fewer than 145 school projects across Long Island that teachers had posted over the past four months. In an interview this week, Mr. Ferriss said he felt it was his “karmic duty” to support educational causes, and supporting teachers was key.

“When you put them all together it helped to steer the ship of my life in a positive direction, where it could have easily gone in a different direction,” he said. “I want to try to facilitate that happening for more kids. It’s very easy to go down the wrong path. I had the right teachers at the right time.”

The “flash funding” campaign, dubbed #BestSchoolDay, was started last spring by the TV personality Stephen Colbert, a board member of DonorsChoose.org, who funded all the projects in his home state of South Carolina. This time around, more than 50 celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs, including Ashton Kutcher, Elon Musk, Serena Williams, and Bill and Melinda Gates, took part. Mr. Ferriss funded not only all of Long Island’s projects, but all of them in New Hampshire and in Sacramento, Calif., the three places he considers “home.”

Their combined efforts totaled more than $14 million in donations to fund about 12,000 educational projects. Since then, according to Katie Bisbee, DonorsChoose.org’s chief marketing officer, others have stepped up to fund 8,000 more, totaling about $2 million. The projects themselves vary widely in scope, from classroom supplies to field trips to science lab equipment.

Mr. Ferriss encouraged people to follow his lead. “If you want to fix several dozen or several hundred problems at once, including cycles of poverty, investing in teachers and education is where you get the most disproportionate return on investment,” he said. “The heroes are the teachers themselves. What they do with students is truly life and world changing.”

Renewable Energy Long Island, a nonprofit organization that advocates a transition from fossil fuels, will host a forum on wind energy on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the East Hampton Middle School.

The forum is intended to introduce the town’s residents to offshore wind energy, cover topics concerning environmental protection, and answer questions.

Gordian Raacke, Renewable Energy Long Island’s executive director, will be a featured speaker at the forum along with John Sousa-Botos of the town’s Natural Resources Department and Clint Plummer, the vice president of development for Deepwater Wind, a Rhode Island company that has proposed a wind farm approximately 30 miles off Montauk. Mr. Plummer will present the latest information on his company’s proposal, Mr. Raacke said on Monday.

Deepwater Wind’s proposal includes 15 offshore wind turbines and battery energy storage facilities in Montauk and Wainscott. The project, if approved, could generate 90 megawatts of electricity upon completion. The company is at present constructing the country’s first offshore wind farm, a 30-megawatt, five-turbine installation that is expected to supply most of Block Island’s electricity needs.

The project was among the proposals received last year by PSEG Long Island, which manages the Island’s electrical grid on behalf of the Long Island Power Authority. The utility’s request sought an additional 63 megawatts of electricity to be installed between 2017 and 2019 to meet demand on the South Fork that has far outpaced the rest of Long Island, with particularly high usage in the summer and on weekends and holidays.

In December 2014, LIPA rejected a previous proposal by Deepwater Wind, but Mr. Raacke said that he is cautiously optimistic about the company’s latest pitch. “They were debriefed, called in afterward,” he said, “where LIPA folks told them why they did not select the project. Based on that, they redesigned it to meet whatever objections they must have had.”

The proposal was designed to meet the South Fork’s peak energy demand, he said, and not that of the entire Island as in the previous proposal. He called the proposal’s battery-storage element “a clear indication that it was designed to alleviate the problems PSEG is worried about on the South Fork in terms of peak demand.”

PSEG and LIPA are reviewing the proposals, with LIPA scheduled to announce a decision in May. Mr. Raacke said he would attend LIPA’s board of trustees meeting in Uniondale on Monday, “to let the board know what we want.” While Deepwater Wind’s proposal for the South Fork would not be completed before 2022, “It’s not a shot in the dark anymore,” Mr. Raacke said.

The Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day festivities start tomorrow with a lunch for the grand marshal, Capt. Paul Forsberg of the Viking Fleet. It will be held this year for the first time at the Montauk Yacht Club instead of Gurney’s Inn, where it has been held for many years. Mr. Forsberg will receive his top hat, sash, and shillelagh at the lunch, and the grand marshal will be roasted with a bit of gentle ribbing during dessert.

Hosted by the grand marshal of 2011, Joan Lycke, the lunch starts at noon and includes a multiple-course meal and a cash bar. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Montauk Laundromat for $50, and those doing so can reserve tables for their parties. Tickets will cost $55 at the door.

On Saturday, the Friends of Erin will host its annual cocktail party at Gurney’s Inn from 4 to 8 p.m. Billy and the Barfights will get the guests up and dancing. The tickets cost $80 at the door but can be purchased in advance for $65 at the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and Becker’s Home Center or by emailing [email protected]. There will be hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, and a buffet.

At the cocktail party, the winning tickets for the Friends’ Pot of Gold raffle will be drawn. Tickets can be purchased for $100 right up until the drawing. The first-place prize is $10,000, second is $1,000, and third and fourth, $500.

On Sunday at 10 a.m., before the parade, the chamber of commerce will sell soup donated by local restaurants to warm up the crowd. The parade will start at the Montauk Firehouse at 11:30 a.m. It will head south on Edgemere Road, turn left near the Montauk Post Office, and then head onto Main Street to march past a viewing stand with judges declaring the best floats and fire department bands. It will end at the Montauk I.G.A.

Law enforcement officers including East Hampton Town police and New York State park police will be on the lookout for open containers of alcohol, with stiff fines possible.

Despite the unwillingness of the owners to sell the properties on Ferry Road, Sag Harbor Village officials are moving forward with plans for a waterfront park they want to see next to the bridge to North Haven. The John Steinbeck Memorial Park, named after the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who lived in Sag Harbor for many years, would provide opportunities for recreation and ecological improvement as well as a nod to the village’s whaling and literary history.

“It’s a great vision on the part of the village to see what this could be,” said Edmund D. Hollander, the landscape architect who came up with the conceptual drawings the village unveiled on Friday. A village resident, he also presented the plan to residents at the village board’s regular meeting Tuesday night. Maryann Connolly, a landscape architect and vice president of Hollander Design who lives just outside the village, also worked on the park plan.

The village has a big hurdle to cross first. It wants to buy the properties and, with the Town of Southampton, approached the owners about purchasing the two and a half acres with money from the community preservation fund. But the owners, developers who have had longstanding plans for condominiums on the four parcels they own there, have made it clear they do not intend to sell. The village has been considering another option — acquiring the properties through condemnation.

“I have nothing against condominiums, but I think the opportunity that is presented here is something that comes along very, very rarely,” Mr. Hollander told the audience Tuesday. “To create an area that could so dramatically change the entrance into Sag Harbor across the bridge here and provide so many recreational opportunities for so many different people and so many different uses in this area.”

The idea is to combine five parcels with an adjacent village-owned property to create a park that would allow for beach access, recreation, and more parking. The parcels are 1, 3, and 5 Ferry Road, where the vacant Harborview Professional Building stands, plus a small right of way that used to be owned by the Long Island Rail Road and a contiguous lot at 2 West Water Street, where the 1-800-LAWYER building, known for the business of its previous owner, stands.

Greystone Property Development, aManhattan real estate company, has submitted an application to build 11 condos, 8 on the Ferry Road parcels and 3 on neighboring West Water Street.

Plans show the park with two sandy beaches, a fishing and small-boat pier, and a pedestrian walkway under the Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge that would connect it to Windmill Park. Among other amenities, there would be public restrooms with a solar-paneled roof, three trails celebrating the ecology and history of the village, a weather station, osprey nest stands, a “young whalers” playground, and a band shell or some sort of amphitheater, Mr. Hollander said, where the community could gather.

“We’re even discussing as a possibility the idea of replanting oyster beds in Sag Harbor Cove, which will help to filter any storm runoff,” he said. The larger goal is to improve water quality in the cove.

Because it is named after John Steinbeck, the park would include a literary trail with plaques about his work. “I think it’s wonderful Steinbeck wrote ‘The Winter of Our Discontent’ in Sag Harbor. Clearly, he’d never been on Main Street in the summer or he’d have renamed the book,” Mr. Hollander joked.

Village officials have been discussing the idea of a park since August. “Public response to the Steinbeck Park has been overwhelming,” Mayor Sandra Schroeder said in a statement on Friday. “I cannot tell you how many people have expressed their very strong support for this plan. Many see it as our last chance to get it right and save our historic waterfront. The village does not need or want more condominiums. What we want and need is a transformative park plan that will build on our maritime heritage and protect it for our children, their children, and their children’s children into the future.”

By phone Friday afternoon the mayor said she would prefer to buy the properties directly, using C.P.F. money, to which village taxpayers have contributed millions of dollars through real estate transaction fees, but, she said, “If we have to we’re going the condemnation route.”

The village board has retained an attorney, Saul R. Fenchel of Garden City, who specializes in condemnation proceedings. State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who also works as the village attorney, said on Friday that the preparation for condemnation was well under way. He expects the village to make a decision about whether to start legal proceedings for condemnation in the next few months. A public hearing would follow.

Since only towns administer C.P.F. money, the village asked Southampton to put the properties on its acquisition list back in October, a move that allowed the town to obtain an appraisal, which was completed recently, according to Mr. Thiele. The figure has not been made public to allow for negotiations with the property owners, he said.

A month after being fired from his position at the Suffolk County Board of Elections and four months after a resounding defeat in his campaign for East Hampton Town supervisor, Tom Knobel has resigned his position as chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee. Reg Cornelia, the Republican Committee’s vice chairman, delivered Mr. Knobel’s resignation letter on Monday.

Mr. Cornelia, a member of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee and a former member of the hamlet’s school board, will serve as chairman at least until the party’s meeting next month. He was elected vice chairman in January 2014, shortly after Mr. Knobel became chairman.

“Tommy was my friend before I got into politics,” Mr. Cornelia said yesterday. “He’s a Boy Scout, a straight shooter. He’s always been loyal to me and to the party. . . . Whatever happened between him and the county, I don’t know.” He said that he hoped Mr. Knobel, who did not return calls seeking comment, would remain on the Republican Committee. “But now he’s figuring out what he’s doing,” he said.

Mr. Knobel had served for 16 years at the board of elections. Nicholas LaLota, the Republican elections commissioner,  did not return a call seeking comment. John J. LaValle, the county’s Republican chairman, said yesterday that the party does not comment on personnel matters.

The town Republican Committee was to meet last night and planned to discuss the election of a new chairman, Mr. Cornelia said. An election could not be held last night because a five-day advance notice is required. “I’m thinking along the lines of staying on for the rest of the term,” Mr. Cornelia said. “There are one or two other people who are probably interested, but this is all just shaking out now.”

Mr. Knobel’s abrupt resignation followed lopsided losses for the party in November, when Supervisor Larry Cantwell was re-elected by a 2-to-1 margin over his challenger. Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc and Councilwoman Sylvia Overby were also re-elected, defeating their Republican challengers, Lisa Mulhern-Larsen and Margaret Turner, by wide margins. Republicans also suffered a significant loss on the town trustee board, where Democrats now hold a 6-to-3 majority.

Town board-enacted regulations at the East Hampton Airport and an infusion of political donations by aviation interests dominated the campaign. “The airport was certainly part of it,” Mr. Cornelia said of Republicans’ election losses. “But this town . . . we’re outnumbered 2 to 1, probably more than that,” he said of residents’ party affiliation. “People moving out here tend to be Democrats. We have to find a way to convince New York City Democrats that they should at least consider us.”

Last time around, “our issues didn’t catch on, and I think people decided to give them another shot,” Mr. Cornelia said of the re-elected Democrats. “We didn’t have anything that really caught the public’s attention.” He praised Fred Overton, who is not a Republican but ran and won on that line in 2013, and said that he hoped Mr. Overton would seek re-election. “We’re going to have to search for good candidates. Unfortunately, Margaret and Lisa came on board kind of late in the process. We didn’t get off to a rolling start.”

The party would regroup, starting at last night’s meeting, Mr. Cornelia said. “We just took a drubbing, but we have to remain a loyal opposition, and a viable opposition. Democrats,” he said, “get giddy when they see a big pile of taxpayer money.”

Southampton Hospital will receive a $10 million state grant toward construction of a satellite emergency room and health care center in East Hampton, money that will jump-start a project long advocated by East Hampton Town officials.

The facility, which will provide residents with faster access to critical care, could include laboratory and other services such as radiology, as well as doctors’ offices, Marsha Kenny, Southampton Hospital’s director of marketing and public affairs, said yesterday.

Planning is in its earliest stages and no timeline has been announced. “We would like to do it as quickly as possible,” Ms. Kenny said. The total cost of the facility could be as much as $30 million, however, and a lot more money will need to be raised.

Led by Town Supervisor Larry Cant­well, town staffers have been considering town-owned and private properties that might be an appropriate site for the center and have had discussions with hospital officials on the subject, according to Alex Walter, the supervisor’s assistant.

A study being conducted for the hospital by a design firm is to review what would be needed at the facility, and how much space would be required. Then, said Mr. Walter on Tuesday, potential locations would be vetted to find one “that makes sense for everybody.” No matter where the new medical facility ends up, it will benefit residents of the town, he said, “all the people that have been for years, in the Town of East Hampton, trying to get over to the hospital as soon as possible.”

In summer traffic, an ambulance ride from Montauk to the existing hospital site in Southampton can be as long as an hour and a half, Mr. Walter noted. With the hospital’s plans to move to the Stony Brook Southampton campus, west of its present location in Southampton Village, that ride will become even longer.

“It’s huge for the ambulances, and it’s huge for the community members to receive that care as quickly as possible,” Mr. Walter said. In addition to a speedier round trip for ambulances, an East Hampton emergency room could alleviate the strain on local ambulance companies, he said, assuming that many patients will be driven privately to the new health care center once it is closer to home.

Mr. Walter said that Mr. Cantwell, who was out of town this week, has been advocating for an East Hampton E.R. facility since taking office. The promised state grant “is a great first step,” he said. “We’re real excited about this.”

“Southampton Hospital believes that early intervention and care closer to home will ultimately lead to better health care outcomes and a lower-cost delivery system. As a result, we have been diligent in bringing more resources to all our communities,” Robert Chaloner, the Southampton Hospital president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

“For some time, we have been concerned that the distance between Southampton and the easternmost communities becomes longer still during the summer when traffic is choking the local roads. This grant will enable us to take a major, innovative step toward our goal of bringing exceptional health care services to the people we serve in Wainscott, East Hampton, Amagansett, and Montauk.”

  The $10 million state grant is among a total of $112 million for 16 projects to improve health care on Long Island, part of a $1.5 billion funding package for projects across the state.

The Nov. 30 shutdown of Health Republic Insurance of New York, a nonprofit cooperative established in connection with the Affordable Care Act, left policyholders scrambling to find new coverage and health care providers short millions of dollars. And it spurred an investigation into its practices and calls for legislation to protect providers and consumers.

 On Monday, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced that he had co-sponsored a bill that would do exactly that by enabling policyholders of a bankrupt insurer to continue receiving care from their own doctors and hospitals and creating a fund to reimburse providers for uncompensated care in the event of a health insurance company’s insolvency or failure.

Because of the low rates Health Republic offered, it was one of the most popular insurance options in the health care exchange established under the Affordable Care Act. But despite $265 million in federal loans, Health Republic’s business model proved unsustainable: It lost more than $77 million in 2014 and more than $52 million in the first half of last year. In September, believing the cooperative was heading for insolvency, state authorities ordered it to wind down and stop writing new policies.

Health Republic had more than 200,000 customers, including more than 40,000 in Suffolk County. Statewide, losses to health care providers may be as high as $185 million, said Robert Chaloner, the president and chief executive officer of Southampton Hospital, with much of that concentrated on Long Island and in New York City.

“It happened very, very quickly,” Mr. Chaloner said. “We started hearing rumors in September. By the end of October, we heard it was going out.” Consequently, the hospital, which was required to continue to see patients covered by Health Republic through November, has incurred approximately $2 million in losses, he said.

The Health Insurance Consumer Protection Bill Mr. Thiele co-sponsored follows Representative Lee Zeldin’s move to investigate Health Republic’s collapse. In December, Mr. Zeldin, who represents the First Congressional District, called on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to open a criminal investigation into multiple aspects of Health Republic, including its creation, operation, and failure.

In a Dec. 7 letter to Ms. Lynch, the congressman alleged that Health Republic may have filed false financial reports, improperly denied benefits to policyholders, and knowingly sent checks to providers with insufficient funds to cover them. The Department of Justice referred his request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month.

Despite the relatively small percentage of patient revenues lost to Health Republic’s failure, which Mr. Chaloner estimated at 2 percent, “$2 million is still $2 million,” with the loss coming not just on very short notice but also during a particularly inopportune period. “We, like most businesses here, are seasonal. In the winter months we have to tighten our belts anyway. To suddenly learn about $2 million was tough.” The hospital had no choice but to implement a freeze on both capital expenses and hiring, he said.

For Rachel Lys, a physical therapist who owns East Hampton Physical Therapy, a private clinic in Montauk, the loss will be harder to absorb. “We were told by Health Republic that they were going under in December,” Dr. Lys said yesterday, and she continued to treat patients insured by the cooperative, which she said accounted for 30 percent of her clientele.

But Health Republic stopped making payments on Nov. 4, well before termination of its policies, she said. “I treated hundreds of patients for free for 30 days,” she said, and consequently lost approximately $20,000, “a large sum for a little person.”

On the consumer side, Health Republic’s failure resulted in “mass pandemonium on Long Island,” Anthony Cardona of Cardona and Company, an insurance broker in Water Mill, said. “It really put everyone in a tough spot.” For him, the cooperative’s abrupt departure meant that “for four to six weeks we were working around the clock to get people onto other plans. No one was necessarily happy because all plans were 35 percent higher. It didn’t leave people with a lot of options.”

“Health Republic was one of the last reasonably priced plans,” Mr. Chaloner said, “which is probably why they got into trouble. But it’s hard for year-round folks here to find affordable insurance.”

The state legislation, co-sponsored by Richard Gottfried, chairman of the Assembly’s health committee, would prohibit insurers from passing on assessments to policyholders. The fund would be financed by a one-time, temporary assessment on existing health insurers. New York, according to Mr. Thiele, is the only state in the country that does not have a system to protect health care providers and health insurance customers.

A guaranteed fund for health care providers “certainly would help,” Mr. Chaloner said, citing the failure of MDNY Healthcare, which the State Supreme Court ordered dissolved in 2008. “I absolutely hope Mr. Thiele and his colleagues are successful.”

There is, however, a downside to such a fund, said George Yates of the Dayton, Ritz, and Osborne insurance brokerage in East Hampton. “Insolvency funds add to the cost everybody else is paying,” he said, “because obviously somebody’s got to pay for it. If you do an insolvency fund, you would think solvent insurance carriers are going to have to raise their rates — somebody’s got to pay.”

Mr. Cardona agreed. “Ultimately, it’s not a horrible idea,” he said. “It’s insurance for insurance. But also, people’s premiums will have to go up.”

Southampton Hospital and other health care providers may recover at least some of their losses, Mr. Chaloner said. The Greater New York Hospital Association has been consulting with the state but firm plans have yet to materialize.

“The bigger guys,” Dr. Lys said, “have a chance to recover some of it. But people like me don’t have the likelihood of recouping. It’s such a deceitful practice. If any of us took out a credit card and never had an intention of paying the bill, we’d never get away with it. They insured these patients so they could take in money, but knew they’d never have the means” to fulfill their obligations.

Mr. Zeldin has voted with his colleagues in the Republican majority in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act. While the failure of a not-for-profit cooperative established under it “doesn’t speak highly of it,” Mr. Cardona said, “there are definitely pros and cons. It was able to get coverage for people who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to. But on the other side, our country spends too much on health care and not enough on health insurance premiums. We spend so much on health care, premiums have to be a little more than that. It’s simple business.”

Mr. Chaloner argued, however, that the failure of Health Republic was not an indication of the Affordable Care Act’s failure. “I think it’s positive movement forward,” he said. “We had a lot of people uninsured. That was certainly untenable.” Although he agreed with Mr. Cardona that the federal act has negative as well as positive attributes, he said, “I would hope the government keeps tweaking it and working out some of these problems. By no means should the current law be viewed as a finished piece of work.”

Update, 1:20 p.m.: Thomas Pazera, 49, of Sag Harbor was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Tuesday morning after being charged with aggravated drunken driving at the misdemeanor level following an early morning accident on Route 114. According to the police, Mr. Pazera was headed north at a "high rate speed" in a 2013 Jeep when he failed to negotiate a sharp curve near Plank Road. The Jeep veered off the road, plowing into a telephone pole, which fell onto the road.

When an officer arrived, Mr. Pazera, who did not require medical attention, could not recall what had led to the accident. As he was being given roadside sobriety tests, he reportedly said, "I just want to tell you I am drunk."

The vehicle sustained major front-end and frame damage and was towed away.

After being arrested, Mr. Pazera was taken to police headquarters, where he initially refused to take a breath test, reportedly saying, "I don't want to take the test. I will fail." He consented on the third request. Police recorded a .26 blood alcohol percentage. That reading is over three times the legal limit, as well as being considerably higher than the .18 reading that triggers a raised charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

He was released after his father posted the $500 bail set by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana.

Update, 11:15 a.m.: Route 114 in East Hampton has been reopened and power has been restored in the area, according to East Hampton Town police. It had been closed between Goodfriend Drive and Whooping Hollow Road since about 12:30 a.m.

Originally, 8:55 a.m.: A portion of Route 114 in East Hampton remains closed Tuesday morning while crews remove and replace a downed utility pole blocking both lanes of traffic after an alleged drunken-driving accident overnight. Route 114 is closed from Goodfriend Drive to Whooping Hollow Road, and town police warned drivers to expect long delays during the morning commute. 

The pole cracked at the base and fell across Route 114, just north of Plank Road, after a Jeep struck it around 12:30 a.m., according to East Hampton Fire Chief Richard Osterberg Jr., who responded to the call. The Jeep was not occupied when he got there, but the driver was found nearby a short time later. It was unclear whether the driver was injured. 

Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said the driver was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated and will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Tuesday morning. The driver was the only occupant in the vehicle at the time, the chief said.

Meanwhile, PSEG-Long Island is working on getting another pole up and having utilities restored in the area. However, there is no timetable on reopening the road yet, the chief said.

This article will be updated as more information is made available.

A driver lost control of her Jeep Grand Cherokee coming around a curve on Three Mile Harbor Road at Woodbine Drive in Springs Wednesday morning, causing her to crash into the woods, Springs Fire Chief Peter Grimes said. 

The sport utility vehicle rolled over onto its side at about 8:45 a.m., but the driver had only a minor injury.  An East Hampton ambulance transported her to Southampton Hospital. Chief Grimes said the Springs Fire Department was alread out on for an earlier call. A Springs engine responded, though no heavy rescue was required, as the woman got out of the S.U.V. on her own. 

The driver, whose name was not immediately available, was the only occupant of the vehicle and no other cars were involved, the chief said. The driver told fire officials she was heading down Three Mile Harbor Road toward East Hampton when she lost control around the curve.

No arrests were made, according to Town Police Capt. Chris Anderson.

Update, 11:50 a.m.: A search of the John M. Marshall Elementary School found nothing suspicious following a bomb threat that was phoned into the school on Wednesday morning. Students and staff  have been allowed to reenter. 

"We feel comfortable at this time," Chief Gerard Larsen said. The phone number the threat was made from was traced  to an Internet phone in Chincoteague Island, Va. The same number appears to have made the same call to a school in Portland, Me., he said. The threat was a recorded message and did not identify either school specifically, using only the phrase "your school." The threat had been phoned in to the main line at John Marsahll at 10:59 a.m. "It looks like it may have been a hoax," the chief said.

Police in Virginia have been contacted. 

The school sent an additional email to parents at 11:42 a.m. informing them that class was resuming after police had given the all clear. 

Originally, 11:32 a.m.: The John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton Village has been evacuated after the school received a bomb threat on Wednesday morning. 

East Hampton Village Police Chief Gerard Larsen said the school received a recorded message that did not specifically identify the school by name just after 11 a.m. The students were taken out of the school, and village police are conducting a search of the school building with the help of the East Hampton Fire Department. 

"There's no reason to think there is a bomb inside," the chief said. 

The school sent an email to parents in English and Spanish notifying them of the phone threat. "The building has been evacuated. All children are safe. We are waiting for the police to give us the all clear to enter the building," the email said.