What started as Helene Leonard’s tribute to her late father, and her family’s legacy of love of the arts, has grown into a tradition on the East End.

Though his name does not appear anywhere on the EH Fusion Party ballot line, David Gruber, a former Democratic Committee chairman running for East Hampton Town supervisor, is by far the splinter group’s largest supporter.

New ideas and new management will birth a new culture at LTV, said Michael Clark, the public-access broadcaster’s new executive director.

Waters under jurisdiction of the East Hampton Town Trustees will open for scalloping on Nov. 10, the governing body agreed on Friday.