In the first meeting after three of its members were easily re-elected, the East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously last Thursday to amend the town’s zoning code to require that soil on agricultural land be protected from wind erosion by the planting of an overwinter cover crop.

Details are scant, but a meeting between developers of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm and the New York State Public Service Commission to begin negotiations on a settlement took place on Friday morning at East Hampton Town Hall.

The East Hampton Village Board, meeting last Thursday, considered proposals to hold an outdoor Christmas market on Newtown Lane in December, and to install high-tech ticket dispensers in village parking lots.

An application from the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio for variances and permissions to allow retail sales, hold events for more than 50 people, install path lighting, and for an additional parking area came before the Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to accept the donation of a park bench in memory of Stuart B. Vorpahl Jr., a fisherman, historian, town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and a descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families.

Evaluating and choosing from among as many as 18 candidates every two years is no easy task, and Francis Bock, the clerk of the East Hampton Town Trustees, is among those calling for staggered elections for the trustee board, so that fewer candidates will stand for re-election simultaneously.

Jason Warnick, who serves as the Ross School’s director of advancement and enrollment, has been appointed head of school at the Wayland Academy, an international boarding school in Beaver Dam, Wis.

An East Hampton woman crashed into the new CVS Pharmacy building on Montauk Highway Monday night and was charged afterward with driving while intoxicated, a felony due to a prior conviction.

In response to community complaints, East Hampton Town police went undercover on the afternoon of Nov. 3 and arrested a woman who was selling cigarettes in the town park at Abraham’s Path in Amagansett.

On Nov. 4 at about 12:30 a.m., officers assisted an East Hampton man in getting his 2017 Chevrolet Silverado off Wiborg’s Beach. The pickup truck was stuck on the beach close to the water line. After helping him, they ticketed him for driving on the beach without a permit.

Wally the dog will be at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Saturday morning to listen patiently to kids who are just getting comfortable reading out loud.

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Renee Genevieve Alversa, 61, a longtime Montauk resident who worked in hotel management there for many years, died at home in Calverton on Nov. 1. Her family did not yet know the cause of death.

Henry Charles Schwatzman of Bridgehampton, a former builder and crane operator who had helped set the steel on the old World Trade Center towers, died on Oct. 14 at the Oasis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Center Moriches following a stroke. He was 86.

Patricia Hally Mohlere of Sag Harbor, a former president of the Bridgehampton Association, died of lung cancer on Nov. 5 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She was 73.

William R. Anderson, a Marine Corps veteran who was actively involved in his Laureldale, Pa., community, died at his home there on Oct. 26. The former East Hampton resident was 76 years old and had kidney failure.

Far be it for a newspaper to encourage its readers often to turn on the television, but this is an extraordinary time in the history of the United States.

For the most part, the now-mandated low-nitrogen septic systems being installed on eastern Long Island work as promised. The big if is whether they will deliver on the environmental improvements.

In March, the swallows come back to the cliffs of Capistrano, and in November the scallops come back to the dredges in the Peconic Bays and the suppers of the salivating. Until they don’t.

An attentive group seemed surprisingly not bored on Tuesday when my daughter and I spoke about The East Hampton Star, and our magazine, East, at a gathering of a group called “Women in Conversation” at Peconic Landing, the retirement community in Greenport.