Now that a slim majority of Sag Harbor School District voters rejected the district’s proposal to buy five wooded lots on Marsden Street for future school expansion, the community has a tall task ahead of it: mending the wounds from the bitter, nine-month battle over the controversial plan.

A new mixed-use proposal for the Amagansett Historic District, centering on a 112-spot parking lot, was unanimously panned last week at a meeting of the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

The new owners of the Springs General Store had hoped to be open in time for this summer, but “I realized this was a much bigger project than I originally thought,” one said this week. Now they are targeting a June 2024 reopening.

Tapping into meditation techniques and other practices, the Center for Compassionate Leadership, founded by Laura Berland and Evan Harrel of Montauk, trains change-makers in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. People in the workplace, Mr. Harrel said, “want clarity, equity, purpose, and direction, and they want to be treated with respect, listened to, and treated as a fellow human being. All of those are elements of a compassionate leader.

On a “Big Day,” birding is just about numbers. It is spent, dawn to dusk, in search of birds; the goal to see as many different species as possible. May 13 was Global Big Day. The goal is always to find 100 species: We’ve never gotten there.

“We’re going to have to regroup,” Francis Bock, clerk of the trustees, said of their dock inventory effort, “figure out exactly what got done last year, what needs to get done this year, and make it a priority. We have to complete it this year.”

The East Hampton Town Board set June 15 as the date of a public hearing on amendments to the town code regarding attached and detached affordable accessory apartments.

On May 1, as part of its mosquito control program, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works began to spray biological and chemical pesticides in some tidal marsh and wetland areas here, but county residents can opt out through a “no-spray” registry.

Jacqui Leader, who has spent 30 years as the creative director of the East End Special Players, was honored by State Senator Anthony Palumbo in Albany last week as his district’s Woman of Distinction.

The East Hampton Historical Society and the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society have planned 20 collaborative events, starting next week and running through September, to highlight the area's history, with destinations including the Brooks-Park property in Springs, the Leisurama houses in Montauk, and the D’Amico Studio and Archives at Lazy Point.

The Accabonac Protection Committee will host its first forum of 2023, in which researchers will provide updates on their work to slow water-quality degradation in Accabonac Harbor, next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Baldwin Family Lecture Room at the East Hampton Library and via Zoom.

Montauk’s Westlake Marina, a family-owned and operated business for nearly 60 years, has been sold to Hildreth Real Estate Advisors, which according to the Traded NY platform paid $14 million. In Amagansett, Hildreth Real Estate Advisors previously acquired the 136 Main Street and contiguous 11 Indian Wells Highway parcels in Amagansett’s commercial district.

Marcos Baladron, the East Hampton Village administrator, unveiled the village’s nearly $28 million 2024 budget at last Friday’s village board meeting. While budgets are never truly exciting, residents can be pleased that for the second year in a row taxes will be lower — for the first time in the village’s history, according to Mr. Baladron.

Kites will soar above Main Beach on Saturday in a “fun-raiser” for the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center from 2 to 5 p.m. Plus: Teen community service opportunities, drum-making for kids, story time, and more.

The East Hampton War Memorial seen here, installed for Veterans Day in 1924 adjoining the North End Cemetery, is traditionally decorated as part of the village’s Memorial Day observances.

The fire marshal was summoned on the morning of May 16 when a 35-year-old woman got stuck in the elevator at a commercial building on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village. No problem. He turned the system off, then switched it on again. The elevator sprang to life, and the woman was able to exit safely.

For the first time in over three years, Sag Harbor Village police assisted the State Police Department’s commercial vehicle enforcement unit with an inspection checkpoint in the village.

East Hampton Town and Village police reported three accidents involving injuries this week.

A Riverhead man is facing drunken driving charges for the third time in 10 years, making his latest charge, levied by East Hampton Town police on May 7, a felony.

Gary Lidell Bowen, a television director and longtime member of the Directors Guild of America, died on May 10 in Malibu, Calif., where he lived with his wife, Ruth Preven, and their dog, Kimba.