The first people in line to get one of the 1,600 coveted nonresident East Hampton Village beach passes made available to town residents at an in-person sale Tuesday arrived at 5:45 a.m. “It’s like an event, and we look forward to it every year,” one woman said.

They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but if so, no one told County Supreme Court Justice Paul Hensley. Just days after 84 Wainscott Hollow Road L.L.C. submitted a lawsuit against the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board seeking an annulment of the board’s Dec. 12 denial of its application, the judge granted the petition “in all respects.”

In a sort of reintroduction to a largely new planning board, the East Hampton Town Planning Department gave a short recap of what has happened since a 2023 hearing on the Wainscott Commercial Center, the largest development proposal in the town, at a 70.4-acre former sand mine.

With plans to remodel her father’s 35-year-old Hampton Auto Collision shop on Springs-Fireplace Road next door to Springs Pizza, Lindsay Reichart and her partner, Gunnar Burke, quickly won over the East Hampton Town Planning Board with their idea for “a year-round location for people to socialize.”