While there were winners at the East Hampton Town Trustees’ 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest — for clam chowder and for the largest clams harvested from Lake Montauk and Napeague Harbor — the day also ended with a cliffhanger because three of the five water bodies from which clams could be harvested were closed to shellfishing after heavy rains.

The Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees proposed a new law on Tuesday, which would create an overlay district in what the board called its “historically black beachfront communities.” Before the proposed amendment to the village code can take effect, however, it will have to go through a public hearing, on Nov. 8.

First light in Sag Harbor during autumn and the place belongs to the fish crows. They show up all at once, 100 landing in the big tree at M&T bank. As the day brightens, they spread out across the village into smaller groups. For a bird whose diet ranges from piping plover eggs to candy bars, Sag Harbor is a perfect foraging ground.

Ever since he first appeared on the political scene, Lee Zeldin, the long-shot Republican nominee facing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in the November election, has consistently pointed to his military record among his qualifications.

Two teenagers were shot on Sunday near the Shirley residence of Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District while he was campaigning in the Bronx. His teenage daughters were home, and he said later that a bullet was found about 30 feet from where they had been sitting.

East Hampton Town’s 2023 budget, still in its tentative form, continued to take shape this week, with minor adjustments to funding for community organizations and for the Marine Patrol, Highway, and Land Acquisition and Management Departments among the tweaks being considered.

East Hampton Town’s Aquaculture Department has been busy in recent months seeding local waters with oysters, overseeing a pilot program growing sugar kelp in Three Mile and Accabonac Harbors, and shepherding the town's oyster-gardening program, and its getting some help from high school interns working with the nonprofit South Fork Sea Farmers.

Wireless communication in Springs will be the hot topic at three meetings this week. There's an East Hampton Town Planning Board hearing on an application for a 185-foot-tall tower at Camp Blue Bay; the town board will discuss the subject at its work session on Tuesday, and the lobbying group Accabonac Strategies will update people that evening on its advocacy for activation of the 150-foot-tall tower on Springs Firehouse grounds.