The New York State Department of Public Service will hold informational forums and public statement hearings on a component of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm on Tuesday at the Emergency Services Building in East Hampton.

Twelve candidates, one of them a Republican, will square off for the nine positions on the Democratic ticket in the primary election on June 25 to choose the Democratic slate for East Hampton Town Trustee.

The Town of East Hampton’s financial condition is sound, its budget officer told the town board on Tuesday.

A bird’s nest caught fire atop a PSEG-Long Island pole on Redwood Road Friday morning. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and removed the nest.

Lois H. Kleinberg’s cat woke her up at 5:45 a.m. and she smelled smoke. Through her window she saw flames shooting from her neighbor’s roof. When she and her husband ran outside, embers were landing on their roof and deck.

A 22-year-old from Manhattan was charged with drunken driving on the morning of Memorial Day after his 2008 Mini Cooper crashed into a tree on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.

This weeks happenings for kids.

With student safety in mind — and an eye on a conflict with an annual milestone event — the East Hampton School Board on Tuesday rejected a contract with the Suffolk County Board of Elections that would have allowed the John M. Marshall Elementary School to be used as a polling site for the June 25 local primaries.

Two candidates running for the Amagansett School Board this year finished in a tie, and a runoff vote to decide which one will serve the longer term will be held on Tuesday, June 25. The date coincides with the state primary vote for local elections.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has made an urgent request for money to help pay for a trial project to improve water quality in Fort Pond.

In Montauk last Thursday, a man threw rocks at a 1997 Ford pickup truck, shattering the windshield, East Hampton Town police said. Craig L. Carman, 59, who lives in the hamlet, was charged with criminal mischief in the third degree, a felony.

Teresa Eva Barsdis Boothe, who was born and raised in East Hampton, died on May 29 at Aurora Senior Living of Manokin in Princess Anne, Md. She was 90.

Patti S. Gleasner, a former model, died on May 19 of congestive heart failure at home in East Hampton, surrounded by family. She was 92.

Joe Perrella, a longtime Montauk resident, former New York City firefighter, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, died of lung cancer on May 29 in Chesterfield, Va., in hospice care.

Elizabeth Jackson Pearce and George Coombs Zoulias of Washington, D.C., were married on Saturday at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett. Timothy Wilson, who was the groom’s Army chaplain while the two were deployed in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005, officiated. A reception followed at the club.

“This is about us,” the speaker told a gathering in East Hampton last Thursday. “There’s a global issue, which we’re all aware of, but East Hampton is going to change dramatically if we don’t turn this around and start doing the right thing.”

The charms of Salt Cay, a small island in Turks and Caicos with hard-baked ground and little shade, hammered by hurricanes, and cut off from many of the conveniences of daily life, will not be immediately — or ever — apparent to some.

Portions of East Hampton Airport and the surrounding area have been named to a state Superfund list in an ongoing crisis caused by chemical contamination of groundwater.

Primaries are good for local democracy in that they get voters thinking about government well before the general election.

If you have been in a car almost anywhere in East Hampton during the past several weeks — and especially if you have been out and about on a bicycle — you will have noticed the abundance of signs that have blossomed on the roadside.