A group of filmmakers, runners, walkers, and spectators will meet at Gubbins Perfect Fit in East Hampton Friday at 8 a.m. for a community 5K run and walk to Main Beach and back that is connected to the Hamptons International Film Festival screening of the documentary “Remaining Native.”

“I don’t feel like anybody can put me in a box,” said J.P. Foster, the sole Republican candidate for East Hampton Town Board this year. “I don’t feel like I fit in a Democrat or a Republican box. I fit in an East Hampton box. If there was an independent box, that’s where I’d be.”

The East Hampton Town Board was cautiously supportive this week of placing further restrictions on short-term rentals. “We are looking at commercial investments in our residential districts by investors who only seek to make profit and are not looking at being part of this community at all,” said Councilwoman Cate Rogers.

For the second straight year, the East Hampton Town budget will pierce the state-mandated 2-percent cap, shooting to nearly $110 million.