Lisa Mulhern-Larsen, one of the East Hampton Republican Party's choices for town councilwoman, will also run on the Independence Party line following her victory in that party's primary on Thursday.

Ms. Mulhern-Larsen, a registered Independence Party member, forced a primary for the Independence nomination; the party had already given its nod to the incumbent Democratic candidates Peter Van Scoyoc and Sylvia Overby by the time Ms. Mulhern-Larsen entered the race. She won the most votes in Thursday's primary and will appear on the Independence ticket along with Mr. Van Scoyoc.

She won 80 votes, or 36 percent of those cast, to Mr. Van Scoyoc's 72, or 32 percent, according to the Suffolk County Board of Elections. Ms. Overby got 71 votes.

Ms. Mulhern-Larsen, a political newcomer who runs a security and property management business in East Hampton, was a late addition following the withdrawal of two candidates previously selected by the Republican Party.

Elaine Jones, chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Independence Party, said last week that her party's previous endorsements stand. "We have sent letters out supporting Sylvia Overby and Peter Van Scoyoc," she said. "They both have experience, and they both came to be screened" at the party's two-day screening event held in the spring. The Republicans selected Ms. Mulhern-Larsen in June.

People from across East Hampton joined police officers, volunteer firefighters, and emergency medical technicians on Friday in remembering the events of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The memorial ceremony, organized by the East Hampton Town Chiefs Association, drew a crowd of more than 200 to the memorial green at Hook Mill in East Hampton Village. There they heard remarks from Bruce Schiavoni, the president of the association and a chief in the Sag Harbor Fire Department, as well as East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell.

Many, like Dr. Consuelo Bossey of Springs, recounted the feelings of shock and disbelief felt that day across the country.

"I thought, 'This just doesn't happen in America,' " she said. "My eyes filled up, and again just talking about it now. What a horror."

Still others took a few moments to reflect on the events that followed Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't think we've come very far. We should have gone into Afghanistan instead of Iraq, and now we have [Islamic State militants]," another resident, Amelia Schirrippa, said. "It's a very sad day, but I'm very proud of everyone who helped that day at Ground Zero."

Margery Courtney of Springs said events such as Friday's ceremony are imperative. "I think this is very, very important. We should never forget. It should be in the minds of our young people. . . . The phrase 'lest we forget' is an important one," she said.

An attempt to set a new record for circumnavigating Long Island ended abruptly Thursday when a 50-foot-long racing catamaran crashed into a buoy south of Plum Island while moving at 148 miles per hour.

The two men aboard, Stuart Hayim and Joey Imprescia, were not hurt. They were seeking to break Mr. Hayim's own 2012 record for the 271-mile trip, which began at 7 a.m. at the Manhasset Bay Marina in Port Washington.

Reaching Plum Gut about a half-hour later and accompanied by a seaplane with medics and Mr. Hayim's wife and son aboard, the men noticed that it appeared cloudy ahead. Mr. Hayim radioed the plane, asking it to scout the route, but the fog instantly enveloped both it and the boat.

At about the same moment Mr. Imprescia spotted the rapidly approaching buoy and yelled a warning. Mr. Hayim turned the boat's wheel hard to starboard, avoiding a potentially fatal collision that would have split the twin hulls down the middle, he said.

Mr. Hayim said he took full responsibility for the crash.

The boat sustained damage to its port-side hull and was hauled out of the water after being towed to Ship Ashore Marina in Sag Harbor.

Mr. Hayim said that striking the buoy could have been a blessing in disguise, because other potiential obstructions, including the Ruins, a wrecked fort north of Gardiner's Island lay somewhere ahead in the fog.

His time for the Long Island trip in 2012 was two hours, 11 minutes, set in a 42-foot MTI catamaran that was powered by two 1,350-horsepower Mercury engines. Thursday's attempt was in a new MTI boat with twin Mercury 1,650-horsepower engines. Mr. Hayim's goal was a sub-two-hour time for completing the 271-mile route.

Mr. Hayim, a champion speedboat racer and Great Neck luxury auto dealer, had hoped to raise at least $250,000 for the Boomer Esiason and Don Monti foundations for medical research if he broke his old record, matching donors' pledges himself.

The boat was in Babylon on Friday getting cleaned up to be sent to Green Bay, Wisc., where its builder will decide whether to repair it or scrap it and build a newer and faster version, Gwen Wunderlich-Smith, a spokeswoman for Mr. Hayim, said.

Sean P. Ludwick, the New York real estate developer accused of being drunk at 2 a.m. on Sunday when his 2013 Porsche convertible crashed into a utility pole, killing his passenger, Paul Hansen of Noyac, appeared in Southampton Town Justice Court on Friday.

Mr. Ludwick, who was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, a felony, as well as misdemeanor drunken driving, sat in the back of the courtroom as his lawyer, Daniel J. Ollen, spoke with the prosecutor, Adriana Noyola, a Suffolk County assistant district attorney. At one point he pulled out a wad of cash, counting out the bills as he waited.

According to court documents, Mr. Ludwick is also charged with violating a restriction on his license requiring him to wear glasses or contacts when driving. Southampton Town police say he was not doing so at the time of the crash.

Mr. Hansen lived on Rolling Hill Court East, very near the crash site. Detective Sgt. Lisa Costa indicated Friday that Mr. Ludwick had driven past Mr.  Hansen's driveway into a cul-de-sac at the end of the road, then doubled back, missing the house again, just before the crash happened. He then drove off in his wrecked car, despite two flat tires. Police found him minutes later, a quarter-mile away.

Detective Costa would not comment specifically on a report that Mr. Ludwick had thrown his car keys into the woods. "He tossed several items from his car," she said, adding that a New York State police K-9 unit was called in recovered the items.

Detectives are still reconstructing the men's movements earlier that evening. Anyone with information has been asked to call (631) 728-5000.

When Southampton Town Justice Deborah E. Kooperstein called his name on Friday, Mr. Ludwick, who was released from the county jail in Riverside on Tuesday after posting a $1 million bond, stood, buttoned the jacket of his dark-gray suit, and stepped forward. His court session lasted about one minute, as the justice set a return date of Sept. 28.

Mr. Ludwick, hands clutched behind his back, left the courtroom behind his lawyer. They drove off in a silver Infiniti G37X, with Mr. Ollen at the wheel.

Mr. Ollen represented Mr. Ludwick in New York City last year when he was arrested on multiple charges. Police said he had entered an ex-girlfriend's apartment, defaced paintings he had given her, and thrown paint on the floor, as well as sending derogatory emails about her. According to the lawyer, Mr. Ludwick eventually pleaded guilty to a single count of harassment, a violation.

The year before, he was charged on Martha's Vineyard with assault with a deadly weapon, again involving a girlfriend. He was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge then as well.

A family member of Mr. Hansen's, along with Edward Burke Jr., a lawyer and a friend of the victim from childhood, arrived at the courthouse just after the proceedings ended. Mr. Hansen's funeral was on Thursday.

Mr. Ludwick's blood was drawn at Southampton Hospital after the crash. It is being examined for evidence of alcohol and/or drugs at the Suffolk County Crime Lab; the results have not yet been released.

The smell of smoke wafted through the air on the South Fork early Tuesday morning, traveling about 150 miles from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where a massive brush fire had broken out on Monday night. 

Fire department chiefs and captains from Southampton to Montauk got early wake-up calls when residents called 911 about the smell of smoke.

"The smell of smoke filled the air in most of Springs," said Steve Scholl, the first assistant chief of the Springs Fire Department, which received two calls about it around 4:15 a.m. Later, when he left for work, "I smelled it all the way to Montauk this morning — was pretty much gone once the sun came up," he said. 

More than 1,000 acres of the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest along Route 72 in Woodland Township in Burlington County were involved in the blaze, which later spread to Ocean County. No houses were in the fire's path, but only about half of the fire had been contained on Tuesday morning. 

The first report of an odor arriving on the South Fork began in Montauk at about 2 a.m. on Old Montauk Highway, according to Chief Joe Lenahan, who then got a second call at about 5 a.m. He smelled "a brush fire smell" near Glenmore Avenue. 

Southampton Chief Mike Kampf said "our entire village smelled like a big bonfire," which he noticed after he got up for a call in the area of South Main Street around 3:40 a.m. There was also a strong smell in Water Mill. "When I got down towards the water there was a bit of a haze. I have seen this once before when the winds were just right," he said.

There was a strong southwest wind this morning helping to carry the aroma from the New Jersey blaze to the South Fork of Long Island. According to chatter on the emergency radio frequencies early Tuesday morning, departments east of Center Moriches also received similar reports.

The Amagansett Fire Department received a call from a resident of Wolf Way off Red Dirt Road just before 6 a.m. "I could smell it as soon as I opened my front door on Neck Path," Chief Allen Bennett said, adding that it was a strong smell, almost as if plastic were burning. He checked the area and spoke to the resident who placed the call. 

In East Hampton, the smell was reported at around 5 a.m. from Further Lane and Stephen Hand's Path, between Route 114 and Montauk Highway, East Hampton Fire Chief Richard Osterberg Jr. said. He could smell it from his house, as well, and was already aware of what was happening in other districts, "so I canceled all smell-of-smoke calls until 7 a.m.," he said. On his way to Bridgehampton at around 5:30 a.m., he could still smell the odor. 

About an hour earlier, at 4 a.m., the Bridgehampton Fire Department was dispatched to Daniel's Lane in Sagaponack. Responding chiefs reported smelling smoke on the north side of Sagaponack and on the north side of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. They also found no fire. 

The wind direction seemed to have caused the smell to miss the Sag Harbor Fire District, according to Chief Tom Gardella, who said no calls were received. However, the department did respond to a  fire at the American Hotel around midnight Monday. A small blaze broke out in the landry room of the Main Street hotel and restaurant, but the sprinkler system extinguished most of it. The fire marshal was called to investigate the cause. 

Considering that Saturday’s league-opener with Port Jefferson had been “the first football game that’s been played here in two years,” East Hampton High School’s coach, Joe McKee, told his charges he liked what he’d seen.

“We were right there, it could have gone either way,” McKee said Monday. Inexperience obviously hurt, but the mistakes — missed blocking assignments among them — he thinks can be corrected.

One thing for sure: The spirit was there. No one hung his head, and, despite the 24-6 loss, most of the crowd, estimated at around 200 at gametime, stayed to watch.

Jordan Johnson, who has moved back here from Hampton Bays, showed flashes of brilliance at quarterback, but he could not do it all. As shifty as he is, he often wound up at the bottom of a pile of Port Jeff defenders.

 At times, however, it seemed as if Jordan’s first cousin, Brandon, who gained 100 yards that day and got off booming punts, up to 60 yards, could do it all. But in the end, it takes a team, and Port Jefferson was a very good one, McKee told his charges in the postgame huddle.

The first quarter was scoreless. East Hampton had the ball with fourth down and six to go at the visitors’ 11 when the second began, but couldn’t get it in.

A second-down razzle-dazzle handoff at midfield yielded 20 yards for the Royals, and two plays later Port Jeff was in the end zone as the result of a 20-yard off-tackle run by Garret Hiz, the senior fullback.

The quarterback, Nick Caltagirone, then punched the ball in for 2 extra points.

The visitors were to score once more before the half, Hiz capping a 59-yard, six-play drive with a 5-yard plunge, followed by Michael DiCalogero’s 2-point conversion.

A little more than a minute remained until the break. Jordan Johnson returned the ensuing kickoff to midfield, though incomplete passes and penalties resulted in the Bonackers having to punt from their 25 as the clock ran out.

Among the spectators was Dick Cooney, East Hampton’s former athletic director and varsity football coach, who in retirement divides his time between Hampton Bays and Hawaii.

“I’m very impressed, especially considering that there was no football team last year,” he said when questioned as to what he thought. “I’ve seen a lot of good things, things to build on. The mistakes have mostly been the result of inexperience, things that can, and I’m sure will, be corrected by Joey and his staff.”

“They know the fundamentals, on the line and at the skill positions. They need more work, but, frankly, I didn’t expect, because of the long lapse in the program, that they’d be as good as they are.”

Before he left to catch a train back to Hampton Bays, just before the third quarter began, Cooney said to Burke Gonzalez, East Hampton’s center, “You guys can do it.”

“I know, I know,” said Gonzalez.

East Hampton then proceeded, thanks largely to Brandon Johnson’s formidable ball-carrying, to drive following the visitors’ kickoff from the 40 down to a first-and-goal at the 8.

Axel Alanis bulled his way to the 5, but that was as far as the Bonackers were to get. Jordan Johnson was dropped for a 10-yard loss on the next play (he argued for a facemask call, to no avail). And two plays later, East Hampton’s quarterback was overtaken by five Port Jeff defenders at the 25.

The visitors made it 24-0 in the early minutes of the fourth, as the result of a 19-yard reception by Brian Mark, the tight end, and another conversion run by DiCalogero.

With Jordan Johnson having been replaced by Ty Olszewski, Bonac, which benefited initially from a fumbled punt at the visitors’ 20, got on the scoreboard with 2:51 remaining, thanks to a 1-yard plunge by Alanis that capped a five-play drive.

“You guys battled, you never quit,” McKee told his players afterward. “Life is a battle, that’s what football teaches you. . . . You should be proud — you’ve brought football back to East Hampton.”

This Saturday’s opponent, Wyandanch, which is coached by Dwight Singleton, who lives in Sag Harbor, will be dangerous, McKee said. “They lost to the North Fork team 16-12 on Friday, but the only difference was that they couldn’t convert their scores and Greenport-Southold-Mattituck did. Dwight’s done a good job with Wyandanch. They’ve got a lot of speed — they can break it at any time.”

East Hampton’s junior varsity lost 32-14 at Port Jefferson earlier on Saturday. “We need better blocking,” said the jayvee’s coach, Mike Ritsi, “though we were able to move the ball.”

To hear advocates of salt therapy tell it, regular sessions in a salt room or salt cave can help alleviate symptoms of asthma, Lyme disease, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or emphysema, stave off the flu, and improve skin conditions like eczema.

One thing Shannon Coppola, who opened the Montauk Salt Cave two weeks ago, can say for sure is that after she began taking her 4-year-old son, Oliver, for salt therapy in New Jersey last fall, he was able to sleep through the night for the first time in his life. He has a long list of environmental allergies and had suffered from a chronic cough since infancy.

“We had treated him for everything” in an attempt to help him breathe more easily and sleep in comfort, she said last week, even deciding to have his adenoids removed on the advice of a doctor, but nothing seemed to help. In researching potential cures, she learned about salt therapy, also called halotherapy, and took her son in for a session on a visit to her parents in New Jersey.

In Oliver’s case, it seemed to succeed where all other treatments had failed. He is still sleeping through the night some nine months later, “and he’s not medicated,” she said. Rather than continue trekking to New Jersey, she decided to build a salt cave of her own in Montauk, both for her son’s benefit and because she believed others could find similar relief.

Margaret Smiechowski, a homeopath who lives in Vermont and designs salt caves for clients around the country, helped her plan her cave when the space she had rented behind Finest Kind Wine was just an empty shell. Earlier this summer, three tons of pink Himalayan salt arrived by truck, and Ms. Coppola built the cave with help from Dr. Smiechowski. The pink salt comes from Pakistan by way of a New Jersey shipping company. It is “pure, untouched, untainted by the environment,” Ms. Coppola said.

The term “salt cave” might conjure images of a seaside grotto carved out of a cliff face, maybe an underground haven encrusted with salty crystals. That’s kind of what it feels like inside Ms. Coppola’s salt room. Pink salt blocks line the walls, there’s a salt “fireplace,” and the floor is covered with several inches of small salt crystals. Pharmaceutical-grade aerosol salt is pumped into the climate-controlled room. “You’re inhaling and breathing and ingesting all of the trace minerals found in the salt,” Ms. Coppola said.

“Climate control is key,” she said. “As long as the room maintains the same temperature the salt, because it is antimicrobial and antibacterial, won’t deteriorate.”

The sculpted ceiling is made to look like a cave and tiny fiber-optic lights convince you it must be dark outside even at high noon, but outside the room the airy reception area is anything but cavelike.

During 45-minute sessions offered at the top of each hour customers can lean back in a reclining chair and soak up the atmosphere as calming music plays, breathe in the purified salt air, maybe take a nap. “It’s a soothing room,” and for some, that’s reason enough to spend $40 for a session, health benefits not­withstanding.

Ms. Coppola took her 4-year-old to the cave every day in July, even before it opened to customers. Now, with the goldenrod in flower, normally an especially difficult time for him, he is doing better than ever.

The Montauk Salt Cave will be open year round. “It’s great for relaxing and kind of getting you out of seasonal depression,” Ms. Coppola said, adding that it is also “an alternative way of treating all the things that afflict us in the winter months,” from flu to the common cold to dry skin.

The cave is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sunday from 9 to 11. On weekdays at 4 p.m., a kids hour, an adult can accompany children for free. Sessions are 20 percent off for a set of 10, and 15 percent off for 5.

When the Greater East Hampton Education Foundation has its annual Drive to Educate golf outing on Wednesday it will also be starting its 10th official year helping children in local schools.

The foundation supplements programs in all the public schools in East Hampton Town as well as the Sagaponack School. It provides scho­lar­ships for high school seniors, including a $10,000 scholarship each year, and has given away more than $180,000 so far.

Teachers can apply for thousands of dollars in “mini grants” each year for projects that are not covered in school budgets, and through the foundation’s Author in Hand program every child in kindergarten through eighth grade is given a book of their own choice each year.

Among other projects, the foundation has supported the visiting scientist program and fourth-grade opera in Springs, the Harvard Model Congress in East Hampton, and access to Tutor.com through the East Hampton Library.

The organization had its origins with a former East Hampton superintendent, Ray Gualtieri. Teresa Talmage, the foundation’s president, said Mr. Gualteri, who served as East Hampton’s superintendent between 2003 and 2011, pitched the idea to a group of community members and educators who were immediately receptive. The organization incorporated as a nonprofit in 2005.

“It has become an absolutely amazing project for us,” Ms. Talmage, who joined the organization in 2006, said. “The community is thrilled with it. The children are delighted with their scholarships and it has made a huge impact on them. We’re always trying for more. . . . It’s a very rewarding foundation, I believe.”

In 2010, the foundation funded a new playground at the John M. Marshall Elementary School and last year it supported East Hampton High School’s Robotics Club.

“It’s a great, collaborative partnership that we’re very happy to be a part of,” Richard Burns, the East Hampton district superintendent, said. “We’re very appreciative of their support of worthwhile projects for our students. It’s a win-win for us, quite honestly.”

But challenges exist, most notably the foundation’s attempts to capture financial support from the seasonal community.

“The summer residents don’t seem to know about us,” Ms. Talmage said. “We would like them to know about us so maybe they could help us, too. We do our fund-raising and seem to reach the same people. It’s a very small community when it comes to something like that.”

“People out here are inundated with requests and solicitations. There are so many wonderful organizations that need support. . . . When you look at everything, we’re geographically isolated even though the Hamptons are so well known. But for schools it’s different. It’s even more difficult reaching those people,” Debbie Mansir, a former president of the group, said.

The golf outing will take place at the East Hampton Golf Club on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, starting with registration at 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch. Golfing starts at 1:30 p.m. and a two-hour, open-bar cocktail party with prizes and raffles follows at 5:30 p.m. The event costs $1,500 per foursome and includes the lunch, greens fees, caddies, and the cocktail party. Individual tickets to the cocktail party are $25.  

The golf outing is one of the two main fund-raisers; there is also a gala the first week in May, which is sponsored largely by a few local families, including the Bistrians and the Krupinskis. Ms. Talmage and Ms. Mansir said relatively few donations come in otherwise.

The organization is also seeking volunteers to help at these events. Information about how to get involved can be found at gehef.org.

When the next New York State legislative session begins in January, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. will once again propose a new fund for affordable housing on the East End.

Assemblyman Thiele discussed that proposal on Saturday with the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee, which has been grappling with the prospect of a 49-unit affordable housing complex that may be built in the hamlet. He said he will ask the Legislature to pass the Peconic Bay Region Workforce Housing Opportunity Act, which would allow towns to create community housing opportunity funds. That money would then be used to provide loans to first-time potential homeowners and support other possible housing projects.

According to the proposed legislation, “The demand of land for luxury and seasonal homes and seasonal rentals has left a short supply of housing opportunities for moderate-income and working-class local residents. The Peconic Bay region needs a balanced housing policy where there exists a variety of housing types and opportunities across the region’s economic spectrum.”

On Saturday, Assemblyman Thiele lauded East Hampton Town for its “leadership role . . . that has been bipartisan” when it comes to supporting affordable housing, but said more needs to be done.

The Peconic Bay Region Workforce Housing Opportunity Act would give towns the authority to create funds from which to offer no-interest loans of up to $250,000 — which would be flexible, based on the market — for first-time homebuyers who intend to live in those towns. The money to provide those loans would come from a fee imposed on new houses or renovations that are over a certain size relative to their lots.

“I don’t think there is one silver bullet for affordable housing,” Assemblyman Thiele said. “For young families and first-time homebuyers, the challenge is making that down payment.”

The housing fund would be similar to community preservation funds in that they are local options, he said. “It’s state legislation, but it would be up to the towns to decide whether they want to do it, and up to voters because it would be a mandatory referendum.”

Assemblyman Thiele said this approach might be preferable to towns because high-density affordable housing developments other than for senior citizens tend to face staunch opposition in many communities.

“It addresses the demographics of the community. . . . The focus wouldn’t be on building new housing, but on trying to make existing housing more affordable,” he said.

The East Hampton School District is blaming the United States Postal Service for a delay in mailing back-to-school packets, which school officials said had resulted in parents’ flooding school offices with panicked phone calls.

During an East Hampton School Board meeting Tuesday, Richard Burns, the superintendent, said a staff member had brought four separate bulk mailings to the East Hampton Post Office on Aug. 12 and 14 and Aug. 25 and 27. The district only learned on Monday of the delay in sending the packets out of the building for processing.

The result, Mr. Burns said, was that teacher assignments, schedules, and important forms had not been received. Complicating the situation was that the Parent Portal, East Hampton’s online student information system, was experiencing problems.

Mr. Burns called the failure to deliver the packets a critical mistake. “We were caught in an unfortunate dilemma. That really threw us for a loop.” He said the district was told by a Postal Service official that a staff shortage in East Hampton was to blame.

Reached by phone yesterday, Ed O’Shaughnessy, the East Hampton postmaster, said that “bulk mailings aren’t guaranteed to go out at a specific time.” He said he could not comment on whether there was a staff shortage. “The situation has been rectified,” he said. Indeed, at least some parents reported receiving the packets on Monday.

The three school principals, Adam Fine, Charles Soriano, and Beth Doyle, explained during Tuesday’s board meeting that those parents who had provided the district with email addresses previously were able to see their children’s teachers and schedules online.

Use of the Parent Portal is enabled after the district verifies an email address for a parent, which is done through an emergency contact form — one of the documents in the back-to-school packets. The form is also available on the district’s website. School officials said that some parents already had access to the portal because their email addresses were previously used in Google Groups email blasts.

Most mail and packages brought to the East Hampton Post Office are sent first to Riverhead and then to the Postal Service’s processing center in Melville. Mail is then stamped with bar codes and sorted into trays to be delivered back to individual post offices.

 “East Hampton’s district mail was sitting in boxes until my phone call” on Monday, Mr. Burns said. “We had been hustling to bring everything over there in a timely fashion.”

Critics of the Postal Service have suggested that post offices may be overwhelmed by the additional mail they receive since taking on delivery of Amazon packages in November of 2013. Bloomberg Business reported in July that first-class mail volume dropped by 3 percent to 64 million pieces from 2013 to 2014. However, the news source said, the  Postal Service’s volume of packages increased by 8 percent, bringing its total to 4 billion packages, during the same period.