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Relations between officials of East Hampton Village and the East Hampton Town Trustees, which have been strained by disagreements over garbage cans on the village’s ocean beaches, have been mended.

East Hampton Town’s deer management advisory committee has recommended increased deer hunting on town lands here in order to thin the deer herd.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to arrive at East Hampton Airport in plenty of time for a Saturday fund-raiser, the first of four events in the Hamptons.

A Napeague resident has sued the town to prevent parking across the street from his house on Dolphin Drive, alongside a town-owned nature preserve.

Jonathan Wallace is among a number of neighborhood residents who have come out strongly against the adoption of a management plan for the 37-acre South Flora Preserve. The plan calls for public parking along Dolphin Drive.

The owner of a house at 49 Gannet Drive in Montauk, Eileen Alvaliotis of Massapequa, has received citations from East Hampton Town alleging overcrowding and excessive turnover. She was in Town Justice Court Monday to be arraigned on a total of 27 charges.

A proposed subdivision at 10 Roberts Lane in East Hampton appeared to die a quick death on Aug. 5, during a preliminary review before the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

A hearing on a longstanding proposal to put a canopy over the Citgo station pumps on Montauk Main Street happens Thursday at 6 p.m.

Two applications before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals brought out strong opposition during public hearings on Aug. 4, in a session that seemed to raise questions that remained unanswered.

A lawsuit against the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG Long Island, filed by a group of East Hampton residents who claim the installation of a high-voltage transmission line through their neighborhoods is harmful to property values and their health and safety, will move forward on several fronts, in keeping with a July 23 court decision.

East Hampton Town’s proposed purchase of two waterfront lots on Squaw Road in Springs, 1.6 acres in all, and the removal of two houses there so that the land can be returned to its natural condition, has aroused opposition.

An 18-year-old former counselor at Hampton Country Day Camp who stayed in the Ocean Boulevard house that was raided last week described on Monday the conditions she lived in.

The tangled issues of a public restroom, the scarcity of parking, a hamlet study, a proposed rental registry, and the creation of a transportation hub occupied the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee at its meeting on Monday.

As a clampdown on what Montauk residents have described as out-of-control partying in their hamlet continues this summer, Drew Doscher, an owner of the Sloppy Tuna in Montauk, a focus of numerous complaints, has sued East Hampton Town and Thomas Baker, a town fire marshal, for $2 million in damages.

In an effort to address a dangerous situation caused by patrons of the Surf Lodge parking along South Edgemere Street and then walking alongside and sometimes in the road, the East Hampton Town Board voted Thursday to ban parking on the west side of the road from north of the club to Elwell Street.

State lawmakers have approved a bill that would extend the life of the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund and would allow the five East End towns to seek approval from voters to use a portion of it for water quality improvement projects.

Twenty-one citations for violating East Hampton Town’s new curfew on nighttime landings at East Hampton Airport have been issued since the law went into effect earlier this summer.

Less than a month after two dogs that swam in Fort Pond in Montauk experienced gastrointestinal illness, the State Department of Environmental Conservation reported a persistent bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in the pond and cautioned against swimming or wading in it. Pets and children should also be kept away from the water, according to the D.E.C.

The idea of allowing cars from outside the area to park along streets in their neighborhood continues to rankle residents of the area, a small square of streets bordered by Montauk Highway and the Atlantic Ocean on Napeague.

After a Wednesday raid, East Hampton Town officials alleged that the Hampton Country Day Camp stuffed 25 counselors into a legally four-bedroom house amid squalid conditions.

Village representatives defend their work to maintain state of the beaches.

Two issues related to the reinforced dune to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers along the downtown Montauk beach appeared to have been resolved this week after discussions

East Hampton Town has appealed a federal court injunction barring implementation of a law that would have restricted the noisiest aircraft using East Hampton Airport to one round trip per week.

David King, the Springs fire chief, keeps a tight watch on the department’s Facebook page, especially after an unexpected post implied poor conduct.

A reader once uploaded a photo of a fireman on the scene without turnout gear, the necessary suit and equipment to combat fires. Chief King surmised the picture could have been taken hours after the fire was extinguished, but out of context it evoked sloppy protocol and unprepared firemen.

Republican candidates for office gathered at East Hampton Point restaurant last Thursday, promising if elected to deliver the effective leadership they said is now in short supply.

Word has been received that the so-called 2-percent cap on how much the town may increase property taxes will be less than 1 percent next year unless a majority of the town board votes to pierce it.

Responding to concerns about burning embers left under the sand and the debris left behind after nighttime beach fires, the town board has proposed a new requirement that all beach fires be built in metal containers.

Complaints about garbage cans and trash on the beaches brought East Hampton Village officials to a meeting of the town trustees on Tuesday, with the village beach manager defending Main Beach, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s finest, and one of the trustees defending her unilateral action to tag cans on the beaches for removal.

An incident early this month in which two dogs that swam in Fort Pond in Montauk experienced subsequent gastrointestinal illness is raising questions about the water body’s ecological wellness and whether or not a monitoring program should be implemented.

East Hampton Town’s Public Safety Division reported last week that the Ordinance Enforcement Department had opened cases on 1,076 alleged code violations during the first half of 2015, up from 621 cases opened during the first six months of 2014.

According to Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, who commented in a press release, the department’s half-year report depicts a “notable increase in enforcement activity in the Town of East Hampton, highlighting the town’s continued improvement in enforcing the town code, to the benefit of all East Hampton residents.”

The East Hampton Town Republican Party will launch its campaign for the Nov. 3 election at a party from 6:30 to 9 tonight at East Hampton Point restaurant.

Tom Knobel, the G.O.P. candidate for supervisor, Lisa Mulhern Larsen and Margaret Turner, candidates for the town board, Stephen Lynch, the incumbent highway superintendent, and candidates for town justice, assessor, and trustees are expected to attend.

Tickets, which are $100, can be purchased at the door or online at eventbrite.com or ehnygop.com.