Eight months after dozens of amateur and professional musicians crowded East Hampton Town Hall to protest proposed changes to the music entertainment permit required of commercial establishments, the town board on Tuesday considered a new set of revisions recommended by its business advisory committee.

AMAGANSETT LIBRARY
215 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3810
Reading with Valentino, an American Kennel Club-certified Canine Good Citizen, for all ages, Saturday, 11 a.m. Advance registration is required for most programs.

Students in the East Hampton, Springs, Montauk, Sag Harbor, and Amagansett School Districts scored higher on state standardized tests, on average, than their peers throughout New York, data released by the state show.

What started out as a time-traveling biography concept has morphed into “A Dream for the Future,” in which three children dream that their heroes visit them and give them practical advice.

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.

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

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.