As wind and cold settled over East Hampton last Thursday, Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez delivered a positive 2025 State of the Town Address at the annual organizational meeting, and also appointed chairmen to the town’s advisory boards, naming a new one for the planning board and reappointing the chairmen of the zoning board of appeals and architectural review board.

Looking ahead to the problem of summer traffic, David and Stacey Brodsky of Wainscott have a plan that they believe will alleviate the burden created by cars using some of the hamlet’s back roads to bypass Montauk Highway.

Everybody wants a raise, including members of the East Hampton Village Board. “I don’t think a seasonal lifeguard should make more than the board of trustees and mayor,” Marcos Baladron, the village administrator, said at the board’s December meeting.