Government

Cultivation of edible seaweed is coming to Gardiner’s and Peconic Bays.

Last week, the New York State Assembly and Senate passed legislation authorizing Suffolk County to allow bottomlands in those bays to be used for a pilot program to research and assess the feasibility of cultivating seaweed. Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle sponsored the legislation, which will be delivered to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for his signature.

Improving crosswalks and searching for a police chief in the Town of Southampton.

A proposed East Hampton Town law that would allow downtown Montauk restaurants to have legal sidewalk dining will be the subject of a hearing tonight at 6:30 at Town Hall.

A long hoped-for local shuttle-transport service, involving light diesel trains that would coordinate with buses and taxis, may be in place as soon as next year.

Town officials are preparing for a vote in the fall on whether to let a portion of the community preservation fund, now earmarked for land purchases only, be used for water quality improvement projects.

Residents of a neighborhood surrounding a sand-mining pit off Middle Highway in East Hampton asked the town board last week to investigate dumping they said was taking place there.

In their ongoing effort to resolve the dispute over the ownership of stretches of the ocean beach on Napeague, East Hampton Town officials moved ahead this week with eminent domain proceedings.

The commercial areas of Amagansett and East Hampton outside the incorporated village were in the spotlight when residents met in discussion and hands-on design sessions with planning consultants last week.

A lawsuit aimed at keeping vehicles off a 4,000-foot stretch of ocean beach on Napeague began on Monday with the presentation of an edited video showing a beach crowded with vehicles, people, and dogs on a summer weekend in 2014.

As the beat of the summer season begins this Memorial Day, live bands that have been booked for performances this season at many an East Hampton Town restaurant and bar could be silenced, depending on the outcome of a systematic license review being conducted by the town.

A comprehensive financial audit of LTV, the nonprofit organization that provides public access cable TV in East Hampton and is funded largely by the town, found no misappropriation of funds but pinpointed 19 financial practices that fell short.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has honored Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences for his research on Long Island’s water quality problems.

East Hampton Town officials are discussing changes to the town code aimed at encouraging homeowners to create rental apartments to add to the town’s stock of affordable housing.

Seven years after twice seizing cars and other belongings from a property on Navy Road in Montauk, the East Hampton Town Board has settled a civil rights lawsuit brought by the homeowner.

A State Supreme Court Justice has rejected a lawsuit brought by the owners of a Montauk Shores Condominium trailer against the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals.

The Long Island Commercial Fishing Association has joined the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in the latter group’s motion to oppose the designation of an offshore marine monument in the Northeast Atlantic, which environmental groups support.

Southampton Town

C.S.E.A. Grievance

Four days of what are expected to be intensive public sessions, called charettes, will get underway in earnest next week in each of East Hampton Town’s hamlets in a process intended to result in plans for the business centers of each hamlet.

Guilty on zoning charges, Cyril’s begins to remodel.

Carter Burwell, a composer of cinema scores, and his wife, Christine Sciulli, an artist, were rejected for the second time since 2013 in an attempt to expand their house at 39 Marine Boulevard in Amagansett and to add an accessory structure to the property as a working studio for Mr. Burwell.

The East Hampton Business Alliance will host a breakfast and symposium on affordable housing and implications for the business community at Cittanuova restaurant in East Hampton on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.

At a Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee Monday night, the hamlet’s perennial need for seasonal employee housing was a focus of discussion

Local Government Notes

With little fanfare, the Sag Harbor Village Board approved long-discussed, highly controversial revisions to the village’s residential zone code last Thursday.

East Hampton Town, which took a pledge in 2009 to become a state-designated “climate smart community” and has been taking various actions in relation to climate change and sea level rise, has been certified under the state program, the first of more than 170 participating communities to achieve that designation.

A sign erected on the beach at Barnes Landing in Amagansett is misleading, the East Hampton Town Trustees agreed at their meeting on Monday, and should be modified.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals seemed to be navigating through a foggy sea regarding businesses in residential districts Tuesday night, after a public hearing on an unusual Wainscott proposal.

A Southampton Town Highway Department employee was suspended and new laws for Uber in Southampton.

Plans are moving forward to replace East Hampton Town’s senior citizen center on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton with a new, larger building on the same site.

Despite its many nature trails through preserved tracts of woods, East Hampton Town lacks even one for people who need a smooth, flat surface — the wheelchair-bound, the elderly, those who are injured or less agile — can enjoy the outdoors, Mario Bladuell, an East Hampton resident, told the town board this week.