Despite the approach of winter, the East Hampton Village Board turned its attention to Main Beach and summer recreation issues at its Nov. 4 work session.

Jonathan Baker (1853-1923) was born to Capt. Edward M. Baker and Rosalie Miller Baker three years before his father died in 1856. In October 1920, he became the newly incorporated East Hampton Village’s first board president, a role later known as mayor, serving until 1922.

Residents of Sag Harbor’s historically Black neighborhoods, Azurest, Ninevah, and Sag Harbor Hills, showed up in force at a village board meeting Tuesday night for a public hearing on whether to create an overlay district for those neighborhoods, as a means of preserving their character in the face of recent development trends.

In a procedural, but consequential, step, the Sag Harbor Village Board issued a “positive declaration” Tuesday on the mixed retail and housing development proposed by Adam Potter and Conifer Realty. When a positive declaration is made, it means a project could have a significant environmental impact and must undergo a lengthy public review.