An event for people from 16 to 32 will be held at the Montauk Salt Cave on Monday at 6:30 p.m. Coordinated by the Family Service League, the idea for a community recreational event of a practical and therapeutic nature came out of a meeting of the East End Peer Network in Montauk over the summer.

Future activities may include music and art sessions, instruction in how to do your own oil change, and more. The Montauk Salt Cave is at 552 West Lake Drive.

On Friday morning, nearly 700 students at John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton walked to the grassy field next to the school carrying symbols of peace — pinwheels they had made during classes last week. Class by class, they lined up in the shape of a giant peace sign in recognition of International Peace Day, singing songs and holding their pinwheels high. Friday’s celebration marked the eighth year the school has recognized International Peace Day.

“Every day, we are exposed to either television images or newspaper articles that give importance to conflict,” said Beth Doyle, the school’s principal. “It is our hope that through the Pinwheels for Peace project, we can make a statement about our feelings about peace and tolerance. In today’s world, peace needs to be more than just a word.”

She quoted “The Peace Book” by Todd Parr, who wrote about ways peace can be represented. Just to name a few of Mr. Parr’s examples, Ms. Doyle said peace can be achieved by making new friends, by sharing a meal, by keeping the streets clean, by learning another language, and by “being different, feeling good about yourself, and helping others.”

Chess at CMEE

Aspiring chess players 4 to 9 and those already familiar with the game might want to set aside Thursday afternoons for Chess @ CMEE, an eight-week course at the Children’s Museum of the East End offered with Chess NYC. The first session is this afternoon from 4 to 5. The program costs $75 but is free for members of the museum. Advance registration has been requested.

Montauk Field Day

Given the forecast as of press time, Montauk Field Day, scheduled for Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at Montauk County Park, could well be rescheduled to its rain date, Oct. 18. If it’s not, Sunday will bring an afternoon of free fun and games hosted by Montauk Youth and the Concerned Citizens of Montauk. Among the day’s attractions are a bounce house, an obstacle course, food to purchase, a pie toss, sack races, and a tug-of-war.

To the Rescue

Kids can learn about the marine mammal and sea turtle rescue work of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library. The presentation will include pictures and artifacts.

On Sunday at 2 p.m. the library has invited kids to create a quilt square for a collaborative community quilt that is being made to commemorate the Amagansett Library’s 100th anniversary next year.

Two programs for preschoolers ages 3 and 4 resume this week: a story time on Mondays at 2:15 p.m. and Tot Hop, a game, movement, music, and rhyme program on Wednesdays at 2:15 p.m. These are in addition to the library’s ongoing Rhyme Time for toddlers up to 36 months on Mondays at 10:15 a.m., a First Story Time for tots on Tuesdays at the same time, and Shake, Rattle, and Roll on Fridays at 10 a.m.

From Movies to Movement

At the East Hampton Library, this week brings movies for kids and teens, stories and crafts for kids 4 and up, and a music and movement program for ages 1 to 3.

This afternoon’s family movie at 4:30 p.m. will be “Finding Nemo.” Disney’s “Planes” will be shown next Thursday at the same time. On Tuesdays at 5:30 starting this week, the library will resume its weekly Books on Screen program for teens, who will watch films based on young-adult books and then discuss how the movie and film were similar and how they differed.

Music With Miss Lori will have the little ones bopping tomorrow from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. On Tuesday at 4 p.m., kids 4 and up can listen to a story about cupcakes and then do a cupcake craft.

Music Together

The fall semester of Music Together by the Dunes, a family music and movement program for children from birth to age 5, begins this week with classes offered locally in East Hampton and Bridgehampton. Music Together is a “research-based music immersion” program that includes “singing, dancing, instrument play, parent education, rhythm patterns, tonal patterns, and vocal play for children and the adults who love them,” according to Ina Ferrara, the director of Music Together by the Dunes.

The program includes workshop activities and music, a CD, a DVD, and parent materials to continue the fun at home. The East Hampton session, held at Dancehampton on Lumber Lane, began yesterday and will continue on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. The Bridgehampton session will begin tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Children’s Museum of the East End. The cost for each is $235 plus a $15 registration fee for new families. Missed classes can be made up at other locations or in a subsequent semester. Parents can register online at mtbythedunes.com or by calling Ms. Ferrara at 631-680-1392.

The East End New Leaders, a group of politically active young adults based in Amagansett, continues to push for expanded spaces for youths at the Y.M.C.A.-East Hampton RECenter, even as administrators there have agreed to add more such amenities.

New Leaders has proposed downsizing the gym areas, which the group says dominate the facility. They want to add an “art zone” to the back of the first floor, with chalkboard and whiteboard walls and art supplies, and to make the second floor a youth lounge with sofas, flat-screen TVs, computers, board games, air hockey, and more, with space set aside on the third floor for snacks, drinks, and equipment for music activities. Outside the building, the group envisions a community garden for children.

To push for these changes, the East End New Leaders recently started a petition on the website change.org. It had just over 200 signatures by yesterday morning.

According to Walker Bragman, a member of the group’s executive board, the Y has agreed to add more art supplies and music equipment. A Sept. 22 update to the group’s online petition called it a “partial victory,” but Mr. Bragman said the additions stop short of reconfiguring the gym space.

East Hampton Town provides a portion of the RECenter’s funding, about $590,000 each year. Children under the age of 18 are eligible for free memberships.

“The town shouldn’t be subsidizing a gym,” said Mr. Bragman. “I think it’s a waste of taxpayer money.” He himself, he said, used to hang out at the RECenter before it became affiliated with the Y.M.C.A.

He said the East End New Leaders’ plan is ambitious, but added, “I think the kids deserve it. I think the kids in East Hampton are in crisis, and I think they need the town to be ambitious.”

Asked for a response to the campaign, Glenn Vickers, the RECenter’s executive director, provided a brochure detailing the facility’s youth programs and called the Y.M.C.A. RECenter “an industry leader in youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.”

“I couldn’t be prouder of the work from our staff, board, and volunteers that continue to tell our story and showcase our impact,” Mr. Vickers said in an email.

According to the brochure, the activities in progress this fall include dance classes, beginner karate, music for toddlers, art sessions, sports, and more. It mentions “learning labs” and video games. Recreational hours for teens and pre-teens are set up between 2:30 and 6 p.m. a few days each week; the brochure describes those sessions as “a safe and structured environment to socialize and explore their interests.”

To some degree, Mr. Bragman took issue with the “structured” component of the RECenter’s programming. Kids need “free play,” he said. “We’ve shown them studies that indicate what we’re asking for is necessary and a part of child development. Without free play, there’s a link to general anxiety and depression.”

Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the town board member who serves as the board’s liaison to the Y, said yesterday that the new group’s efforts were admirable. However, she said, the “big picture” needs to be considered.

“It’s a balancing act in terms of serving all of the needs of the community at the Y.M.C.A,” she said. “I think that the Y.M.C.A. leadership wants what’s best for our kids. They’re working to develop programming for our preteens and teens, and I have faith in their approach.”

East Hampton High School will inaugurate a program this year to provide internships for seniors at businesses, nonprofit organizations, and other community entities.

According to Debbie Mansir, East Hampton’s programs coordinator, the internships “will be quite a bit more intensive than something you do once or twice for an hour each week.” About 30 students are expected to participate in the test run.

“Our end goal is to have every senior, if possible, be involved in some form of internship,” Ms. Mansir said in an interview last week. “By that time, a lot of them have finished all their core requirements and have enough credits. This would allow them the opportunity to have that real-world experience in a field they think they might want to look at.”

Ms. Mansir said the program would be structured within the scope of the school day so it wouldn’t interfere with sports, after-school clubs, students’ part-time jobs, or other commitments. At the end of the year, she said, she envisions students making presentations about their experiences. A meeting will be planned in September for interested students and internships would begin after the Columbus Day weekend.

 Morgan Vaughan, the executive director of Local TV, which has already agreed to offer an internship, said they were incredibly valuable for students. In fact, she said, the public access TV provider’s previous executive director had been an intern.

“It’s important to be in a real, professional working environment, like an office, with people who are really doing the job so it isn’t just about having fun or doing whatever you like,” Ms. Vaughan said in an interview on Aug. 26. “This may sound strange, but I think it’s really, really good to figure out when you’re in high school what you don’t want to do. You might try it out and say, ‘I never want to have an office job,’ or ‘I never want to do videography.’ Those are good things to realize about yourself.”

LTV expects to offer its interns technical and production duties such as producing, recording, and editing video, designing graphics, and working with cameras. “They will leave with quite an impressive portfolio,” she said. “This is not a ‘you’ll be making coffee’ internship. You’ll be part of a team. That’s an important part of being in 12th grade — self-esteem and something to show in future work.”

Ms. Mansir said the internships would span law enforcement, education, hospitality, culinary arts, technical trades, health, business and finance, journalism, graphic design, engineering, environmental studies, and nonprofit fields, among others.

In addition to LTV, Ms. Mansir said the Meeting House restaurant in Amagansett, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, several departments of East Hampton town government, Meals on Wheels, and a number of doctors’ offices have signed up.

The start of the school year also brings the start of the fall semester for the Hampton Ballet Theatre School, which will begin classes on Wednesday at the Bridgehampton Community House and on Sept. 15 at Yoga Lila in Montauk.

The school, under the direction of Sara Jo Strickland, offers classical ballet and a new contemporary dance track for ages 3 to 18. Placement auditions for a fall workshop for “The Nutcracker” will be held on Sept. 26, with students appearing in a production on Dec. 11, 12, and 13 at Guild Hall in East Hampton. This year the school will also offer a new community class for boys 6 to 12.

The Bridgehampton Community House is on Main Street. Yoga Lila is at 12 South Etna Avenue. A full list of classes can be found at hamptonballetheatreschool.com. Registration is at 237-4810 or [email protected].

The East Hampton School District has hired a new liaison to the district’s Latino families. She is Teresita Winter, a Sag Harbor resident who has replaced Ana Nunez, who was the liaison for three years and resigned this summer with plans to go to law school. Ms. Winter and Ms. Nunez worked together for three days this summer to help make the transition a smooth one.

“I didn’t think it was possible to lose someone like Ana and seamlessly move ahead and actually expand the responsibilities of the position, and we’re able to do that,” Robert Tymann, East Hampton’s assistant superintendent, said in a recent interview.

Ms. Winter, 33, has a master’s degree in social work from Adelphi University and is also a licensed substance abuse and addiction counselor. She graduated from Pierson High School in 2000 and has two children, who are 2 and 3 years old. She previously was a social worker in the Riverhead and Southampton School Districts.

Many families here are already familiar with Ms. Winter. East Hampton tapped her last year for several Spanish-language workshops on substance abuse prevention in the middle and high schools.

“The goals will continue to be to make sure that the Spanish-speaking community has equal access to everything our education system provides,” Mr. Tymann said. He said Ms. Winter’s background “mirrors the experience of many of our students and parents.”

 “I moved here when I was 9 years old from South America with parents who spoke very little English,” Ms. Winter said. “I know how it is to go through the school system and have parents not able to participate as much as they would have liked to because of the lack of language.”

East Hampton has about 300 students from kindergarten through 12th grade whose first language is Spanish. The name of the program in which they are enrolled was recently changed to English as a new language from English as a second language.

Ms. Winter’s typical school day will be 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with quite a few evening meetings for parents, which is similar to the schedule Ms. Nunez had for the last few years. Her work will cover student orientation, report cards, the Common Core, and the college application process, among other topics.

“The families that we are working with are so willing and want the help and the information,” Ms. Winter said. “That always makes your job a little easier. It’s so great to be able to connect with them. . . . I want them to know that I am a resource here. They can always come through those doors and ask for me.”

The Sag Harbor School Board appears poised to reverse its policy against the video recording of public comments at its meetings.

On Monday, the school board took up its annual review of videotaping, and all seven members eventually said they would support what some have called “gavel to gavel” recording. The last time this came up for a vote, the board’s 4-to-3 vote fell against taping the public portion of meetings, based in part on concern that the district could get in legal trouble over what people might say.

 Chris Tice, the board vice president, was the first to advocate changing the policy. She called public comments a key part of the meeting and noted that  “there is very, very limited liability” resulting from potentially controversial comments made by members of the public.

“We’ve been told we can’t find any district that has been sued and lost a lawsuit in New York state based on having their meetings videotaped, which is much more common now than even two years ago when we started this discussion,” Ms. Tice said.

Tommy John Schiavoni, a board member who previously voted against videotaping the public sessions, said he supported the change. “Since we put the videotaping policy in place . . . people simply stopped coming to the meetings,” he said. He changed his mind, he said, “in order to lure people back to the meetings.”

Some board members appeared to have reservations. Sandi Kruel suggested the district’s business administrator should “give us the bill for the amount of time someone calls the attorney” regarding a potentially questionable comment. She also said she would support recording public comments “as long as we’re able to shut it down and use that gavel” in case the situation gets out of control. Elena Loreto, a resident of Sag Harbor, had advocated for the policy change at the start of the meeting. “How can you folks be held responsible for someone else’s speech? It really doesn’t make quite a lot of sense to me.”

The board may vote on the policy change as soon as its next meeting, which is set for Sept. 21. The modified policy would then go into effect for the following meeting, scheduled for Oct. 5.

Seek Committee Members

The board announced Monday that it is seeking parents and other residents to serve on several committees that have been charged with making recommendations to the school board this year. Included are committees on athletics; nutrition, wellness, health, and safety; communications; facilities planning, and for a Wall of Honor and the Community Coalition.

“Members of the community with the requisite knowledge may serve on a committee,” Susan Kinsella, the school board president, said in a letter dated Tuesday.

Those who are interested can write to Mary Adamczyk, the district clerk, by email at madamczyk@sagharborschools. org or by mail to the Sag Harbor Union Free School District, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor 11963. The deadline is Sept. 15.

Springs School fifth graders will have access to laptop computers, tablets, and interactive whiteboards this year, thanks to a state grant.

The grant, totaling $136,874, comes from the SMART Bonds Act, which helps schools to expand student access to technology. It will allow Springs to grow its one-to-one technology program, which put a Chromebook laptop into the hands of fourth graders during the 2014-15 school year. This year, the fifth graders will have them too.

SMART required school districts to hold public hearings to detail their plans for how the grant money would be used. At Springs’s hearing, on Aug. 24, Liz Mendelman, the school board president, said the one-to-one program had been extremely successful. She said the Chromebooks allowed teachers to adjust activities and lessons to the needs of their students, and encouraged students to spend more time working on homework and projects.

Ms. Mendelman also said the children took very good care of their laptops. “You’re always concerned about what’s going to happen to the computers. Are the kids going to break them? I was so pleased with the ownership that those kids took for their technology and how they used it.”

According to a description of its technology plan on the school’s website, “The staff will continue to integrate these technologies into every aspect of school life and model the appropriate use of technology so that the students develop exceptional levels of proficiency.”

With the start of school fast approaching, the Bridgehampton School has hired several new staff members, including a new athletic director and its first-ever full-time business teacher.

Michael Miller will be the school’s new gym teacher and athletic director, filling the role recently vacated when Eric Bramoff left to become the athletic director and facilities administrator in the Sag Harbor School District. Mr. Miller “comes highly recommended from Mattituck” schools, according to Lois Favre, Bridgehampton’s superintendent.

Mr. Miller taught health and physical education at Mattituck for five years, and prior to that taught in Center Moriches. Originally from Dolgeville, N.Y., a tiny hamlet upstate, Mr. Miller holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the State University at Cortland and an administrator’s certification from Stony Brook University. He played football, basketball, and baseball in high school and played basketball in college.

Reached by phone on Tuesday, Mr. Miller said, “The first thing I want to do is meet as many people as I can and introduce myself.”

He will teach gym classes in the mornings and work as the athletic director in the afternoons. He hopes to get as many students involved in athletics as he can and help them measure and improve their overall physical fitness; also to integrate technology into the health and gym curriculum and help build the respect, pride, and tradition that he said he has already observed at the Bridgehampton School.

Kameron Kaiser, who holds nine certifications — including business education, special education, and teaching English to speakers of other languages — as well as degrees from SUNY Cortland and Long Island University, has been appointed to a full-time business and marketing teaching position. Mr. Kaiser, a Southampton native, previously held leave replacement, teaching assistant, and substitute teaching positions in districts including Hampton Bays, Tuckahoe, and Amagansett.

“His certifications are so perfect for a small school district,” Ms. Favre said. “I’m really, really excited to have him on board.”

Christina Cassel has been appointed to the part-time position of family and consumer-science teacher. A resident of Sagaponack, Ms. Cassel holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Johnson and Wales University. She is not only a teacher, but “a chef extraordinaire,” Ms. Favre said. She has taught at East Providence Career and Technical Center, a high school in Rhode Island, and as a substitute in Bridgehampton, South­ampton, and East Hampton schools. Ms. Favre said it has been two years since Bridgehampton had a certified family and consumer-science teacher.

“It’s going to be an exciting year all around,” she said.