The Bridgehampton School administration has planned a second community forum to discuss its proposed expansion plans with residents.  Scheduled for Saturday at 9 a.m. at the school, the forum will include a tour of the building and a discussion of the district’s safety and educational needs.

“We will share all that has been accomplished in maximizing the current school layout, provide a rationale for adding to the building, and ideas on how to do so,” the district said in an announcement that was posted on its website and mailed to homeowners.

The school has been discussing a $25 million expansion, which would require a bond referendum vote, since the summer, although no formal plans have been set. Its first community forum on the topic, held in September, drew about 25 residents.

Administrators have said that those who are unable to attend can provide feedback by clicking on the “Let’s Talk” link on the district’s website, bridgehampton.k12.ny.us. 

Free at the Y.M.C.A.

On Saturdays this month and next, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter will have free activities for families from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. If a bounce house, an inflatable slide, and a rock wall are not enough to keep kids busy, there will also be arts and crafts, a petting zoo, an obstacle course, snacks, a fitness challenge, basketball shootouts, and a reading circle. The fun is open to both members and nonmembers.

CMEE Says Thanks

The Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton will say thank you to the people who support it with a member-appreciation gathering on Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon that will include games, crafts, food, and music. The event is free for members. Membership is $110 per year for families, including two adults and their children; for $165 families get yearlong access for themselves, plus two adult guests and an additional child guest.

Pink Chicken Celebrates

Pink Chicken, a children’s clothing store in Amagansett Square, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Sunday with treats, live music, glitter pumpkin decorating, discounts, and giveaways from 1 to 3 p.m.

Fall Festival

A petting zoo, a hay bale maze, and a bouncy castle are just some of what will be on hand when Groundworks @Hren’s holds its fall festival this weekend at its headquarters on Montauk Highway in East Hampton. The fun will happen from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

Music and Movement

Music Together by the Dunes is offering an eight-week music and movement class for young children and their adults starting on Oct. 19 at the Dancehampton studio in East Hampton. Classes will run from 10:15 to 11 a.m. on Wednesdays. Tuition is $235, plus a one-time registration fee of $15 for new families, and includes all music materials. In addition, those who register for the East Hampton class can attend two extra class sessions at another Music Together by the Dunes location.

Registration is with Ina Ferrara, the program’s director, at 631-680-1392 or online at mtbythedunes.com. Dancehampton is on Lumber Lane.

Teen Dance, Ceramics, Hoops

Space is still available in after-school and weekend classes for teenagers at the Ross School in East Hampton. The list includes a funk, hip-hop, and jazz dance workshop on Saturdays starting this week from 1:30 to 3 p.m. The class, which costs $250, will run for five weeks.

Two-week intensive ceramics classes for ages 14 and up will be given on Oct. 22 and 29, Nov. 5 and 12, and Dec. 3 and 10. The cost is $125 for each session.

Three classes have already begun, but may still have space. Basketball skills with the New York Knicks’ coaches Jamaal Smith and Brandon Pettaway is being offered on Sundays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for ages 9 through 13 and from noon to 2 p.m. for ages 13 to 19. The cost is $585. Also on Sunday, Benny Bonaventura is teaching a strength-and-conditioning class for ages 13 and up from noon to 2 p.m. for $315. Both Sunday classes will run through Dec. 4. And a modern dance class is being given on Mondays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. for ages 13 and up. It will run through Dec. 12. The cost is $245.

Registration information can be found is online at ross.org/community or by calling 631-907-5555.

If a poll were to be taken gauging the average age of a professional art juror, the answer would probably be far removed from middle school. But Celina Jones, who performed that role over the summer for a show at the gallery at East End Arts in Riverhead, is 12 years old and an eighth grader at the East Hampton Middle School.

In the organization’s recent competitive art show, titled “The Gallerist, the Artist, the Critic, and the Kid,” Celina was, of course, “the Kid,” having been chosen by lottery out of a group of artistically talented students from East End public schools.

“Her name was submitted by her art teacher . . . who thought she had the maturity and focus to fulfill the assignment,” Jane Kirkwood, the East End Arts gallery director, said in an email. “He was right. She did a wonderful job.”

Celina herself said she had a great time judging the artwork, which involved evaluating about 730 entries and choosing her own show of 50 works. She joined Peter Marcelle, “the Gallerist,” who owns the Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton, Eric Ernst, “the Artist,” who happens to be the grandson of Max Ernst, the famous painter, and Joyce Beckenstein, “the Critic,” who is a contributing art editor for The New York Times and many arts publications.

“It was an accomplishment because I’ve always liked art, but I’ve never had the chance to do something big like that,” Celina said. “I learned how different people from different places do different styles and different things.”

She is a fan of Vincent van Gogh, so she chose pieces that reminded her of his work, and she also likes sunflowers, so she chose paintings of flowers and nature scenes. She said the experience of being a juror “changed the way I look at art,” giving her a better appreciation of it. The pieces she chose can be seen in a YouTube video about the entire exhibition at youtube.com/watch?v3ZmV-pqejgw.

Celina was chosen as the middle school’s artist of the week two weeks ago, an honor she has received every year since sixth grade.

“She’s always asked advanced questions and is always bringing in her sketch book from home,” Brian D’Andrea, the school’s art teacher, said. “She’s very serious, which is good, and she’s an overall nice and respectful kid.”

Voters in the Sag Harbor School District approved the John Jermain Memorial Library’s 2017 budget last Thursday with a final count of 159 votes in favor and 17 in opposition.

The approximately $2.6 million spending plan will increase the library tax by about $11 per household for the year.

Catherine Creedon, the library director, thanked the Sag Harbor voters in an email to the community following the counting of the votes.

“It seems fitting that this year’s vote was held during Banned Book Week, the annual celebration of libraries’ unwavering commitment to protecting intellectual freedom for the communities we serve,” Ms. Creedon wrote. “It was our first public vote in the restored building, and a day of very moving moments, including the sight of our teen writers coming in to vote after school.”

The library board had voted to override the tax cap this year, producing a tax levy increase of about 2.4 percent that then needed a simple majority of voter approval to pass. The budget includes more money to pay custodians, who are now caring for a larger building, which recently reopened to the public after several years of renovations and an expansion. The budget will also fund additional employee hours to run more programs and staff a library that has been busier than in past years, Ms. Creedon has said.

Three library board trustee candidates ran unopposed. Two incumbents, Nick Gazzolo and Alison Bond, retained their seats, and a newcomer, Dan Glass, was elected.

Fifth graders at the John M. Marshall Elementary School will soon become some of the South Fork’s youngest filmmakers when the school launches its first film club, inspired by the Hamptons International Film Festival’s screening there earlier this year in which East Hampton Middle School students’ short films were shown and those students made a red-carpet entrance.

Through the film festival’s partnership with the United Nations, local high school students will once again experience a slate of short films made by youth around the world, chosen to provoke thought about issues including human rights, migrant integration, diversity, and acceptance, and will take part in a panel discussion with representatives from the U.N., the International Organization for Migration, and others.

And when middle schoolers from East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and the Ross School pack Guild Hall today for a similar lineup of short films, two will be surprised to learn that their own original work will be screened for their peers.

While the festival has been said to have an impact on fall tourism and the arts community here, leaders from local schools say it has benefited education, too.

“The film festival is a wonderful opportunity for our middle schoolers to be exposed to a major arts and cultural event right in our own backyard, and our teachers find creative ways to play into the festival’s programming,” Charles Soriano, the principal of the East Hampton Middle School, said.

Some of his staff, including Cara Nelson, Rita Greene, and Meg Ryan-Metz, who teach social studies, English, and special education for seventh graders, respectively, have gone all-in when it comes time for the film festival. After last year’s, the teachers combined their classes for two weeks and tasked their students with making their own short films, some of which were later screened at John Marshall. They plan to do it again this year.

The three teachers’ project reads, in part, “We recognize that our youth are powerful agents of social change in a world too often characterized by intolerance and division. . . . Students will have opportunities to share ideas about complex international realities while generating awareness of and inspiration from youth whose lives demand resilience and resourcefulness in the face of struggle.”

The festival’s partnership with the United Nations has been particularly meaningful, according to Elizabeth Reveiz, who heads East Hampton’s English as a new language and bilingual programs.

“It brings [students] closer to the global community and makes them feel that they are not alone in their plights,” Ms. Reveiz said. “Whether it’s basic growing pains or more deeply rooted issues, those few minutes give them a different perspective into the human condition and let them see that we are all more similar than we are different. Hopefully it will also allow them to embrace compassion and have a greater respect for individuality, choice, and culture.”

At John Marshall, Erin Abran and Jamie Tulp, who teach fourth and third grade, respectively, will lead the new film club. They met with Linda Biscardi Fuller, a retired East Hampton teacher who serves on the festival’s board of directors, and Marissa Friedes Cangiolosi, the festival administrator, to ramp up the program. They hope to use LTV resources and ask high school and middle school students to volunteer with the club, which is for fifth graders.

“We are excited to tie it in to what we value in our school: good character,” Ms. Abran said. “We plan on incorporating the idea of how respect is shown across our school into a final presentation at the end of the year — part documentary, part script-story filming — to the school.”

Ms. Fuller said her goal has been to have the film festival “in some way impact the kids’ lives in a creative, artistic way through media literacy.”  “You’re going to see inspiration right in the making,” she said.

Teachers at the Montauk School will receive a new contract from the district after working without one since June 2015. Negotiations have been ongoing for more than a year.

The new agreement awards them raises but phases out longevity pay, increases their share of health insurance costs, and adjusts the payouts they get for unused sick days when they retire.

The school board approved the contract during its Sept. 13 meeting, dating it retroactively to July 1, 2015.

“This agreement will serve the best interests of our teachers, students, community, and school,” Laura Schilling, president of the Montauk Teachers Association, said in an email to The Star. “We look forward to a positive new school year.”

Teachers will get a 1.25-percent pay increase for last year, which will cost the district $142,873, and will receive a .75- percent pay increase this year, for a total of $129,831. As always, incremental raises will be awarded depending on years of service.

Longevity pay, for those who have worked at least 23 years at the school, will stop at the end of the 2018-19 school year, when the new contract ends. Jack Perna, the district superintendent, explained in an email, however, that contract negotiations would begin again before that point. In theory, then, longevity pay could be brought back. The district has 12 teachers in this category.

Teachers will also pay a slightly larger share of their health and dental insurance costs, rising by half a percent each year, from 10 percent in 2015-16 to 11.5 percent in 2018-19. “However, beginning January 2017, we are changing from East End Health Plan to New York State Health Insurance Plan, and all costs will go down because it is a less expensive plan,” Mr. Perna said. “So, while their share goes up, total costs for health insurance will go down.”

With regard to payouts for unused sick days upon retirement, the new contract divides teachers into two categories: those hired before July 2015 who retire with at least 15 years’ service, and those hired after July 2015 who retire with at least 20 years’ service. The former group will be compensated at a rate of 40 percent for up to 200 unused sick days; the latter, at a rate of 35 percent.

“As I have said many times, the teachers have continued to work even though their contract had not yet been settled,” Mr. Perna said. “The students would not have and did not see any difference. I am very happy that the agreement has been reached to both parties’ satisfaction.”

Field Day in Montauk

As of Wednesday, the weather forecast for Sunday and Montauk Youth’s annual Field Day was not good, but a kid can hope. Weather permitting, there will be a bounce house, an inflatable obstacle course, games, face painting, live music, and pony rides at Montauk County Park’s Third House from noon to 4 p.m., all free, with food and drinks available for purchase. In case of rain, the fun will be rescheduled to Oct. 16.

Jump-Rope World Champ

Erica Dantzler, a former world champion double-dutch jump-roper, will introduce kids to the sport on Saturday at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. Three sessions are planned: from 10 to 10:45 for grades one and two, from 11 to 11:45 for grades three and four, and from noon to 1 for grades 5 and up. Registration in advance and appropriate shoes are required.

On Sunday at the library, kids 6 to 10 will make leaf pressings in clay in a program that begins at 2 p.m. Advance sign-up is a must for this one, too.

Teens and Books

There is a lot happening for teens this week at the East Hampton Library. On Saturday, high schoolers who want to take part in the countywide Battle of the Books trivia contest in March will learn the titles at 3:30 p.m. They will read all the books and gather for weekly practice sessions at the library.

The library’s Knit Lit program, in which teens knit and talk about what they are reading, is also an opportunity for community service credits, as participants will make things for people and animals in need. The first Knit Lit session of the school year will be on Monday at 4 p.m.

Finally, on Wednesday, teen book lovers will get a space to themselves to chat about books they are reading now or that have made a big impression on them. The library calls it the Any Book Club, and it will meet from 4 to 5 p.m.

A Call for Cub Scouts

Parents of boys in first through fifth grade who are interested in Cub Scouts have been invited to a registration meeting tonight at 6 in the Springs School’s library. Boys need not be residents of Springs to sign up. Parent leaders and assistants are also being sought. Chris Buckhout can be called for more information at 516-901-8616.

Open Gym for Hoops

The gym at the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton will be open on Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. for basketball players in grades two through eight. All players in that age range will be welcomed. More details can be had by emailing [email protected] or [email protected].

While the physical building at the Springs School is being tested by a burgeoning student population, it became clear at a Sept. 19 round-table discussion by a group of teachers representing various grades and subject matter that negative comments had also become an issue.

“There are teachers here that buy their kids sneakers, buy their kids lunch. Our job is to showcase our children, not showcase us,” Jessica Vickers, who teaches reading classes, said. “We don’t need to have a pat on the back each time we do this . . . but when you’re attacking a faculty member who works so hard for each individual student, it’s hard not to take it personally. We don’t take it personally the first few shots, but after a few times, it hurts.”

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The district has come under fire for allegedly not providing enough support for parents who do not speak English. However, Margaret Garsetti, who teaches English as a new language, said the district was working extremely hard to support Latino families and children. “I think the community really should be proud of the staff and how we have embraced the changing demographics. We as a school hold all cultures . . . with the highest regard,” she said.

Lisa Seff, a science and enrichment teacher, said teachers teach “from the heart. Many people working in this building live in Springs and we’ve had our children come through,” she said. “As a group, we don’t feel separate from the community. We are part of it. That’s an important message that needs to get out.

Election Day at Wharf Shop

Finding it hard to translate all the presidential election banter into a kinder language your young children might understand? The Wharf Shop in Sag Harbor is holding its own election on Saturday to give kids an idea of what the word means and how a winner is selected.

No Electoral College or superdelegates here (because hardly anyone can understand that, let alone a 7-year-old), just a bubble-blowing teddy bear that needs a name. Voters will cast ballots for one of four: Oliver, Arthur, Henderson, or Oscar.

Fall Sports a-Go-Go

The East Hampton Town Department of Parks and Recreation has put out the word about still more fall clinics and sports programs for kids this week.

The Poxabogue Golf Center in Sagaponack will have an after-school junior golf program for kids 10 and older on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. It started this week and will continue through the end of October. The cost is $40 and registration is with Joe Munzer, the P.G.A. head professional at the golf center, at 631-537-0025.

Eight-week flag football, volleyball, inline skating, roller hockey, and soccer clinics at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett also begin this week, but there is still time to join up. Flag football for ages 6 to 12 is offered on Mondays from 5 to 6 p.m. Volleyball for 11 to 16-year-olds is on Mondays from 6 to 7. On Tuesdays there’s inline skating for ages 4 to 9 from 5 to 6 p.m. and roller hockey for ages 6 to 12 from 6 to 7. The fall soccer program will begin on Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. The cost for each clinic is $125. Registration is at the arena on Abraham’s Path.

Turtle Talk

Kids may be more familiar with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than they are with real ones, but the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton hopes to teach them a little about the actual turtles in their midst during a program on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Children 6 and older will learn facts about turtles such as Long Island’s eastern box turtle and their place in the food web.

A family program on Saturday at 11 will have people learning how to harvest their own sea salt and how it can be used for body scrubs, beauty products, and other household mixtures. Those who participate have been asked to take a bucket or other vessel to collect water in. That evening at 6:30, families can join the museum in an exploration of Fresh Pond in Amagansett and the creatures that live there.

A family walk on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. will focus on animals that are herbivores and the benefits, environmental and otherwise, of adopting vegetarian diets. A vegetarian snack will be served. Advance registration has been requested for all programs.

Apples and Honey

Apples and honey are a traditional combination to usher in the Jewish New Year each fall, a symbol of hope for a sweet year ahead. On Sunday, the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton and Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will host an apples and honey program at the museum from 10 a.m. to noon. Visitors will get to taste a variety of local apples and local honey, make apple crafts, and sing songs from different cultures around the world. The cost is $12 including museum admission. Members get in free.

Neo-Political Tweens

Kate Mueth and Susan Stout of the Neo-Political Cowgirls are leading a new program for girls 8 to 12 with a focus on the environment. Neo-Political Young Cowgirls Examine the Environment will be offered at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. through Oct. 20. The cost is $230, $220 for Guild Hall members. The first class was on Tuesday.

The program will include journaling, theater games, conversation, and directing and performing exercises. Registration is at 631-324-4051 or [email protected].

Open Mike for Kids

Kids in 5th through 12th grades will showcase their talents at an open mike night tomorrow at 7 at Bay Burger in Sag Harbor, and families have been invited to join the audience. The restaurant’s burgers, hot dogs, ice cream, and other menu items will be available for purchase during the performances.

Opposition to the East Hampton School District’s preliminary plan to build a bus maintenance depot and refueling facility on the Cedar Street side of its high school campus has begun to emerge.

Several residents spoke up during Tuesday’s school board meeting to object to the chosen location. There is no specific blueprint as yet.

“I’m one of many local residents very concerned about the proposed bus depot on Cedar Street,” said Ellen Collins, a resident of the street, one of a group of neighbors who gathered recently to come up with other suggestions. “The traffic and safety issues that would arise from the proposed moving of the transportation and equipment to Cedar Street is our primary concern, and in particular the daily mobilization of a fleet of buses pouring out onto an already busy street,” Ms. Collins said.

She continued, “We would like to be involved in the planning. We want to work with the district to help the district meet its goals while at the same time address the concerns of the residents. . . . It is our hope that you as a district will be good neighbors to us.”

Lorne Singh, a resident of Old Northwest Road, said she was “appalled” to learn the school board had chosen the Cedar Street side of the high school campus for the transportation depot.

“This facility would pose enormous amounts of danger to the community,” she said. “On top of that, it would devalue homeowners’ properties significantly. The proposed location on Long Lane makes infinitely more sense, because that’s already a commercial street. . . . It’s wide, it handles traffic well, it is much safer, it doesn’t impact residential areas. As a facility for the community, it would have the least impact on residents.”

Encie Peters stressed that Cedar Street is heavily used by emergency vehicles. With added bus traffic, she said, “it would be a mess.”

J.P. Foster, the school board president, pledged to work with the residents as much as possible. “If we don’t have the community support, it’s not going to happen,” he said. “We have to do what’s best for the community, and we have to do it together. We value the public’s input. . . . We have to make it work, and we’re willing to make it work.”