The low trestles crossing North Main Street and Accabonac Road in East Hampton Village, infamous for being struck by trucks, will be raised from 11 to 14 feet when new bridges are installed this fall, the Long Island Rail Road said.

East Hampton Town’s plan to build some form of affordable housing on Route 114 in the Wainscott School District is still in its infancy, but residents of the district found a flier in their mailboxes this week posing an ominous question: “Is the end in sight for the Wainscott School?”

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced on Tuesday that PSEG Long Island will abandon a proposed site in Montauk's Hither Woods and build a new electrical substation on a Long Island Power Authority-owned parcel on Shore Road, near the site of the present facility.

“We didn’t have to wait very long for our first call,” Robert Davis, the first captain, remembered. The members were down at the firehouse on New Year’s Day when it came over. “I don’t think we were there five minutes before the tones went off. And it happened to be my uncle. He had fallen.” 

The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously last Thursday to adopt measures aimed at moving the town closer to its goal of deriving 100 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources.

The State Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded a new permit to the Sand Land mine in Noyac after a State Supreme Court judge declined to grant a temporary restraining order that would have stopped the department from doing so.

A homeless man who fled after being surprised inside an East Hampton Village house on Friday night afterward broke in to a private beach cabana at the Maidstone Club, village police reported.

Jerry Larsen, a former East Hampton Village police chief who is running for village mayor in 2020, on Sunday introduced his running mate, Sandra Melendez, an attorney who is seeking to be the first Latina to serve on the village board.

Residents and business owners weigh­ed in Friday on a proposed East Hampton Village law that would prohibit professional landscapers from using gas-powered leaf blowers from June 1 to Labor Day. The proposed ban includes a provision allowing their use for cleanup after a major storm, or when responding to an emergency.

Fourth graders at the Springs School are sailing into the summer with their own mini-sailboats, thanks to the East End Classic Boat Society. On Monday, members of the society held an educational workshop at the school to help kids build sailboat models and get them excited about boating. The program, now in its second year, began at the Amagansett School and expanded to Springs.

The 17 members of Bridgehampton High School’s class of 2019 left “the Hive” in style on Sunday, with tears and cheers from family members, awards for all, words of encouragement and gratitude aplenty, and even, for one student, family members celebrating with posters of his face.

The East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s multitude of summer programs for kids, from swimming to sailing to basketball and tennis, begin this week at locations across the town.

In an effort to increase the inventory of affordable housing, the East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously to reduce the minimum required lot size for detached affordable accessory structures on a residential parcel from 40,000 to 30,000 square feet.

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to schedule a July 18 public hearing for consideration of a code amendment to prohibit parking on portions of Queens Lane and Sherrill Foster’s Path in East Hampton.

Kathleen Mulcahy, who will be sworn in as the new mayor of Sag Harbor Village on Monday, discussed plans for her first months in office, including increasing public participation in government, establishing a new environmental committee, and finding the money to create a village administrator position.

A discussion prior to the East Hampton Town Board’s unanimous vote last Thursday to authorize a $175,000 bond issue for design plans and specifications for a new shellfish hatchery on Gann Road in Springs quickly became heated when Councilman Jeff Bragman questioned the resolution.

A pair of companion bills passed in the New York State Assembly and Senate last week would allow the five East End towns to add .5 percent to the existing 2-percent real estate transfer tax to set up a pot of money for affordable housing programs. The Town Community Housing Fund legislation awaits a signature by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and would then be subject to a voter referendum.

The John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton and the Amagansett School are the only two South Fork schools to make the New York State Education Department’s list of 562 “high achieving and high progress” schools throughout the state, the department announced last week.

Anna Bernasek, who had previously been appointed to fill a vacant seat on the Amagansett School Board, was formally elected to a full three-year term in Tuesday’s run-off vote.

Ms. Bernasek edged out William (Hank) Muchnic by one vote, 17 to 16.

A 27-year-old Amagansett woman was charged with drunken driving at about 9 p.m. Saturday after she hit a utility pole on Industrial Road in Montauk, near Edgemere Street.