During Monday’s meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee, Eric Schantz, East Hampton Town’s director of housing, gave community members the opportunity to weigh in on affordable housing — and the apparent lack of it in their hamlet.

As Sag Harbor gears up for Harborfest weekend, work behind the scenes has focused on the popular whaleboat races. “There was a tremendous community effort to rebuild the whaleboats,” Ellen Dioguardi, the president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, said. A weekend of fun lies ahead.

Art and history at the farm museum, movies for kids and teens, a Lego challenge, a Y.A. author reading, and open play time at Hub 44 are all in the family activity lineup this week.

The application to install a pool and hot tub at the historic Huntting Inn, parts of which date to 1699, has been in front of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals in one form or another for more than three years. On Friday, it is expected the owner, Tilman Fertitta wíll make a new appeal to the board.