At the conclusion of last month’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, the owners of 33 Lily Pond Lane told the board they would abandon their plan to tear down the house there and build a new one on the property, which is in a coastal erosion hazard area. But now they've changed their minds.

On a recent Sunday morning, the Rev. Karen Ann Campbell of Sag Harbor’s Christ Episcopal Church delivered a sermon reminding her congregation that “we were all once strangers” so “we must therefore always welcome the stranger.”

Once again, for the third time since last October, East Hampton Town has sent a formal letter of protest to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation opposing expansion of the Sand Highway L.L.C. mine on Middle Highway in East Hampton.

The two candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District next year both support the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Meanwhile, Mr. Zeldin, who has been a steadfast ally of the president, has queried his constituents as to their support for the inquiry.

East Hampton Town’s tentative budget for 2020, unveiled on Tuesday, calls for $81.87 million of spending, representing an overall increase of about 1.42 percent. If adopted as is, the budget would remain slightly under the New York State-mandated tax levy cap.

Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource, which jointly plan to construct and operate the South Fork Wind Farm some 35 miles off Montauk, filed notice with the New York State Public Service Commission last week to begin settlement negotiations in the P.S.C.’s Article VII review of its application to install the wind farm’s export cable in state waters and on a subterranean path to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.

The Town of East Hampton has prohibited Analar Corporation, a New Jersey-based charter helicopter provider and management service for aircraft owners, from using East Hampton Airport for 90 days, citing multiple “unsafe and reckless” operations.

The East Hampton Group for Good Government, a nonpartisan organization that promotes awareness of local issues through public discussions of ideas, will host a first debate between candidates for East Hampton Town supervisor and town board on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

A woman who East Hampton Town police later said was intoxicated, driving a 2013 Toyota sedan, hit a man walking alongside Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton, at about 3:45 a.m. on Sunday.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Princeton graduate who was found guilty in June of murdering his father, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison for the crime. The family were longtime summer residents of the Georgica Association in Wainscott.

To honor the work being done to restore buildings of historical significance here, the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton presented awards to village and town officials for the Gardiner Mill Cottage in the village and the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station at the group’s annual meeting on Saturday.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons has invited the public to three candidate debates it will host this month for town and county elected offices.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has announced that New York’s growing clean energy economy employed nearly 159,000 workers in 2018, according to the state’s 2019 Clean Energy Industry Report. Since 2016, the state’s clean energy economy saw 8.9-percent employment growth, more than double that of the state’s overall economy.

Seeking to improve the condition of Route 114, one of the most heavily traveled roads on the East End, state and local government officials urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Department of Transportation on Friday to repave eight miles of the state highway, from Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton to the South Ferry stop on North Haven.

A cheerful, new seaside-theme mural in the front hallway of the school has added yet another educational element for the children, an Amagansett educator said this week.

A man living in a motel room in Montauk hit his roommate in the head with a baseball bat there, in the early morning hours of Sunday, according to East Hampton Town police. 

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

The East Hampton Fire Department’s annual Fire Prevention Open House is happening on Sunday, at the start of National Fire Prevention Week.

An 18-year-old hit a utility pole and a sign after she swerved to avoid hitting a deer on Route 114 in East Hampton early on Friday morning.

Zara S. Beard filed a trespass report with police after she found two strangers taking pictures with her father, Peter Beard, the well-known photographer, on their property on Sept. 20. He did not recall their names, she said. Ms. Beard said she does not want unknown people on their property.