Villages

       After three years reviewing an application to expand the Harbor Heights gas station on Route 114, the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals last week denied the majority of the variances that John Leonard had asked for to expand the gas station and establish a convenience store.

       The figures are both impressive and disheartening. Twenty-and-one-half miles of shoreline and 84 volunteers in the former category. In the latter, 3,510 pounds of mixed debris collected and removed.

       After harsh weather conditions twice postponed Shoreline Sweep 2014, volunteers took advantage of Saturday’s bright sunshine and mild temperatures to clean the ocean coastline between Georgica Beach in East Hampton and Montauk Point.

      Although plans for a deer cull in East Hampton Town and Village were effectively abandoned at the end of last month, it was not until Friday that the village board formally rescinded the resolution it had adopted in December authorizing participation in the program.

While Robbie Badkin recovers from a severe blood infection, his friends and family are planning a renovation project at his house the week of March 10, but they need helping hands.

The Peconic Estuary Program has invited the public to an informative workshop on March 8, at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead, about protecting and restoring the Peconic waterways. Community members will learn about water quality projects, beach cleaning, native plants, and removing invasive species. There is no charge to attend the 9 a.m. to noon session, but registration in advance has been asked. Questions can be directed to [email protected] or 765-6450.

       The East Hampton School District will begin offering continuing education courses in a range of subjects from Pilates, to drawing, to technology, bridge, and even sewing in early March.

      About half the 3,000 nonresident parking permits for East Hampton Village beaches — which cost $375 for the season — had been sold as of yesterday, about two weeks since Feb. 3, when they went on sale. Permits, which are free for village residents, are available on a first-come-first-served basis for nonresidents. They must be displayed on vehicles that park at Georgica, Main, Wiborg, Egypt, and Two Mile Hollow Beaches between May 15 and Sept. 15.

       Friday’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals was notable mostly for its brevity. Five of seven scheduled hearings were adjourned, and the board’s remaining business was covered in about 30 minutes, a sharp contrast to the crowded agendas and hours-long deliberations that have characterized recent meetings.

       A hearing held open at the board’s Jan. 24 meeting, on an application for 174 Further Lane proposing to construct a 3,600 square-foot accessory structure that was labeled a garage, was resumed Friday.

While nearby Sag Harbor Village was bustling with activity during HarborFrost, scores of firefighters, divers, and emergency medical service personnel descended on Noyac Bay. Onlookers, who had gone to the bay to take photos, called 911 after hearing a dog yelping and then spotting it trying to stay afloat about 150 feet or so out, where there was a break in the ice.

    Paul Monte, the general manager of Gurney’s Inn, has been chosen as the next grand marshal of the Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day parade, to be held this year on March 23 starting at 11:30 a.m.

    The announcement was made at a pub quiz hosted by the Friends on Jan. 24, fittingly at Gurney’s Inn. Cheers filled the room when his name was called.

    Eight of the nine East Hampton Town Trustees voted to approve the repair of a rock revetment on the beach in front of 7 West End Road in East Hampton Village at a special meeting on Tuesday.

    Anthony Manheim, the owner, submitted plans for the proposed revetment to the trustees in August. The proposal had been the subject of some dissent on the board. Deborah Klughers, a trustee, was unable to attend Tuesday’s meeting but asked that her letter opposing  the repair be read into the record.

      A New York State Department of Environmental Conservation representative reported this week that the agency is negotiating with Montauk Shores Condominiums, which runs an oceanfront trailer park at Ditch Plain, in an effort to settle alleged violations in connection with a massive rock revetment built there last spring. The negotiations would determine if any monetary penalties would be applied, Aphrodite Montalvo of the D.E.C. said.

Organizers of the Hamptons Marathon have been on the go this month, handing out $75,000 of their 2013 marathon and half-marathon proceeds to local nonprofits, including the after-school program Project MOST and Southampton Hospital.

Amanda Moszkowski and Diane Weinberger, founders of the marathon, presented $30,000 checks last week to both Project MOST and the hospital.

       Plans to renovate and expand the Harbor Heights service station on Route 114 in Sag Harbor were dealt a blow by the village zoning board of appeals last Thursday when its members, in a straw poll, said they would deny three of the four variances the project in its current configuration requires.

       The Z.B.A. had planned to issue a written decision on the application of John Leonard’s Petroleum Ventures L.L.C. on Tuesday night, but the meeting was postponed until next month because of the snowstorm that hit the East End that afternoon and evening.

       Deer management and the noise of leaf blowers dominated the conversation at the East Hampton Village Board’s first meeting of 2014 on Friday. A good report on village finances and a conservation easement were also on the agenda.

       On what the bride’s mother described as “a glorious October day with aspens still golden on the hillside” and the “Rockies covered in snow in the background,” Jenna K. Brill and Gary Cadwell were married on Oct. 26 at Devil’s Thumb Ranch in Tabernash, Colo.

       Ms. Brill, who will keep her name, is the daughter of Jean Cowen of Sag Harbor and the late Jeffrey Brill. Mr. Cadwell’s parents are Floyd Cadwell and Mary Cadwell, both of Albuquerque.

       When a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? You bet it does, when it happens in environmentally friendly Montauk.

       PSEG Long Island, the company that took over from the Long Island Power Authority on Jan. 1, has started what it calls an “aggressive” project to remove trees and branches that could obstruct power lines across 2,600 miles of Long Island.

       The ongoing work to upgrade electricity transmission lines at the Long Island Power Authority’s Amagansett substation has residents upset about the aesthetic character of the facility near the hamlet’s Long Island Rail Road station.

       The upgrade project, intended to improve service reliability by making the transmission grid more resilient to extreme weather, necessitated the removal of much of the vegetation on and around the 2.34-acre site, leaving it and a chainlink fence that now rings 20,130 square feet of it highly visible to passers-by. 

       Kristin Laura Andrews, the daughter of Carol and John Andrews of Sag Harbor, was married on Sept. 15 in Lake Placid, N.Y., to Christopher Alvaro Lemos. Mr. Lemos is the son of Nancy D. Lemos of North Bethesda, Md., and Emilio Alvaro Lemos of Pontevedra, Spain.

       The ceremony took place at the Adirondack Community Church with the Rev. John Martin officiating. A reception, with music by Talking Machine, followed at the Lake Placid Club.

       Money that will be earmarked to provide work force housing for Sag Harbor residents can now be deposited with the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust. The village board took the necessary steps on Tuesday to allow the trust to receive money now that substantial progress is being made on the transformation of the former Bulova building into upscale condominiums.

December’s weather brought “no ice-skating, no sledding, no snowballs or snowmen. Sorry, but that is weather,” Richard G. Hendrickson, the United States Cooperative weather observer in Bridgehampton, wrote at the close of last month.

That was soon to change, and he knew it. He wrote: “From now on there should be the snow for the children and some ice-skating. Our wind should be from the northwest; 40 m.p.h. and higher is not unusual for January. Maybe Mecox could freeze for a few days for ice-boating.”

       Kiley Sabatino wants you to be healthy in the new year. That’s why the former social worker has organized Hamptons Wellness Week, a weeklong community celebration of health and wellness. The event will take place from Jan. 12 to 17, from Westhampton to Montauk, to “kick the new year off on the right foot, a win-win for both local folks and businesses alike,” said Ms. Sabatino, whose website onehealthyhamptons.com is described as “a destination for all things healthy and happy in the Hamptons.”

       As of New Year’s Day, the task of providing Long Island and the Rockaways with electricity has been assumed by PSEG Long Island.

The construction of a rock revetment at Georgica Beach remains in limbo pending resolution of the East Hampton Town Trustees’ lawsuit against Mollie Zweig

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell and Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc received a warm welcome, and an earful, from the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday

       Renee Ann Forsberg and Roberto Angel Salomon were married on Sept. 15 at the Montauk Point Lighthouse. Former East Hampton Town Justice James R. Ketcham performed the ceremony, and a reception followed at the Navy Beach restaurant in Montauk.

       Unless someone steps up to the plate, Montauk could be a little less merry and bright next Christmas.

       After decorating the 70 small pines that run on both sides of Montauk Highway in downtown Montauk for the last 12 to 15 years, Jimmy Daunt, an owner of the Albatross Motel, and his crew of employees that includes his brother Richie Daunt, his cousin Joseph Horton, and his office manager, Cindy Dess, have decided it is time to step down from the project that was started 20 years ago by John Keeshan when the old-fashioned light posts were installed.

       The results of a survey conducted by the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation says that the majority of the 800 Montauk households that answered want a pool — and soon!

       The survey was sent out to more than 1,600 households in early fall. It was put together by several board members, including Tom and Helene Griffin and Wendy and Jeff Samuelson, all of whom have worked in marketing and for other not-for-profit projects.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals has  announced that a revised draft environmental impact statement submitted by the Maidstone Club for a new irrigation system is complete and ready for public review. A copy will be available at Village Hall and online at easthamptonvillage.org.

       After distributing 363 meals for Thanksgiving at its East Hampton and Amagansett locations, the East Hampton Food Pantry on Tuesday was estimating that it would distribute 400 food parcels to its clients for Christmas dinners.

       Reached that afternoon, Gabrielle Scarpaci, the pantry’s executive director, said that the pantry, which was running short of money as Thanksgiving approached, is starting to receive donations in response to its annual appeal letter.