The East Hampton Town Board moved forward Tuesday on a plan to relocate the town’s shellfish hatchery from Fort Pond Bay in Montauk to a property at the corner of Gann Road and Babe’s Lane in Springs that was acquired for $2.1 million last year.

The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing next Thursday on proposed legislation that would require the planting of a cover crop on agricultural fields. 

East Hampton Town police first pulled over a 2005 Dodge Neon driven by Milton G. Anguisaca-Buestan of Springs on Cedar Ridge Drive near Woodcock Lane Friday night. While police took him to headquarters in Wainscott for booking, his older brother, Claudio R. Anguisaca-Buestan, got behind the wheel of the Neon and drove off.

Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee was almost entirely taken up by PowerPoint presentations on Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind’s proposed South Fork wind farm. 

The structures at 81 Ocean Avenue in East Hampton Village, a one-acre parcel bordering Hook Pond and the Main Beach parking lot, are being demolished this week before East Hampton Town buys the property for $4.8 million.

Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. formally announced his resignation as East Hampton Village Mayor at the village board’s organizational meeting on July 3. His resignation will take effect on Dec. 31, more than six months before his term is to expire.

An East Hampton man arrested earlier this year on felony drug charges is now facing four misdemeanor charges, three of them drug-related, following a traffic stop in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee re-elected the group’s executive board to two-year terms at its 2019 organizational meeting on Friday. 

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on July 3 announced $55 million for commercial and residential energy storage projects on Long Island. 

Chalking tires to know when a vehicle has overstayed its allotted time in a parking spot is a legal and ongoing method of local law enforcement, East Hampton Village Chief of Police Michael Tracey said last Thursday. 

At the request of the East Hampton Town Trustees, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has engaged consultants to evaluate existing studies of potential effects of electromagnetic fields on fish species as part of its environmental studies program. That evaluation could lead to a field study, a trustee reported to his colleagues on Monday. 

Parents and community members called upon the Sag Harbor School Board on July 1 to weigh “diversity and inclusion” among the criteria when seeking out the district’s next superintendent.

One person involved in a brawl on Folkstone Drive in Springs on the Fourth of July pulled out a machete, according to an East Hampton Town police report. 

Dennis R. Walker Jr. of East Hampton has been charged with a felony for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender, his second such offense since a sexual abuse conviction in 2008. 

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

The Clamshell Foundation’s Great Bonac Fireworks Show will be set off over Three Mile Harbor at 9 on Saturday. 

Good spots to watch the show include the head of the harbor, Maidstone Park beach, Sammy’s Beach, Gann Road, or beaches on the west side of the harbor. Boaters head into the harbor early for a good viewing spot. 

The rain date is Sunday.

For those interested in learning what home schooling entails, an informational session called Homeschooling 101 will take place at the East Hampton Library on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. 

Amagansett

Someone stole a shopping bag from under a table at Organic Krush on the afternoon of July 3. Nina Beth Roth of Manhattan said she put the bag, with a $500 black cashmere cardigan from Community, in Amagansett Square, inside, under the table while she was having lunch from 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

East Hampton

Guild Hall’s KidFest summer series of performances and workshops will begin on Wednesday at 5 p.m. when Teatro SEA presents “La Cucarachita Martina,” a bilingual puppet show about a little roach looking for love. Described as a “live-action Latin puppet show rock ’n’ roll musical mash-up,” it is appropriate for children of all ages.

Albert S. Hedges, whose more than 50 years of active service to the Bridgehampton Fire Department also included time as captain and as a Fire District Commissioner, died on June 24 at the Peconic Bay Medical Center’s Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Riverhead, surrounded by family. He was 84 years old and had congestive heart failure.