Villages

It wasn’t even a year after the end of Prohibition when boxes of grain alcohol that had mysteriously appeared on a Promised Land beach caused a near frenzy of scavenging. Then there was the question of what to do with it all as federal agents circled.

On Tuesday night, one month into a temporary moratorium on construction of most new single-family houses and major improvements on existing ones, the Sag Harbor Village Board heard some complaints, as well as four requests for exemptions.

An olive branch extended by two members of the East Hampton Village Board was met with a combative reply at an East Hampton Town Trustees meeting on Tuesday.

A dense bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, has developed in Georgica Pond for the second consecutive year, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is warning about the dangers of exposure.

What do you do when you’re selling your Hamptons house and downsizing? Have a yard sale, of course.

Meeting on Friday at the close of its fiscal year, the East Hampton Village Board authorized money to improve the quality of two highly visible and important bodies of water, Hook Pond and Town Pond.

Two Hedges Lane residents fight square-footage limits that the village board adopted in June.

The Springs Fisherman’s Fair, a tradition that traces its origins back over eight decades, happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the grounds of Ashawagh Hall.

As the climate changes, the salt from rising sea levels is killing vegetation that grows near the coast.

The top guns of East Hampton Town government appeared Monday before the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee and a large group of residents to let them know what they are doing to combat the rowdiness that has taken over the hamlet since the Fourth of July weekend.

The administration of the John M. Marshall Elementary School is changing the way its students in grades two to five will be dismissed at the end of the school day.

In response to concerns that the system was too time-consuming, too chaotic for the kids, and too much of a burden on teachers, Beth Doyle, the principal, and Dennis Sullivan, the assistant principal, devised a plan they unveiled during Tuesday’s meeting of the East Hampton School Board. It will be implemented beginning on the first day of school, Sept. 8.

Vicki Littman, the proprietor of the Vicki’s Veggies farm stand in Amagansett, will launch this year’s “apple” fund-raiser to benefit the East Hampton Food Pantry on Saturday.

The Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s annual summer gala will be held on Saturday under a lighted tent on the playhouse grounds.

Visitors to the Amagansett Presbyterian Church’s 102nd summer fair on Saturday may be surprised at the progress made in the rebuilding of the church’s Scoville Hall, which was destroyed by fire in 2011.

While the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals announced favorable determinations on nine applications at its meeting on Friday, it delayed until its next meeting a decision on an application from Michael Ostin.

The Montauk Chamber of Commerce has released a short video highlighting the traditional pleasures of the hamlet, even as party-hearty summer hordes continue to provide fodder for tabloid.

Montaukers’ unhappiness about the crowds, noisy parties, and illegal behavior overwashing their once-quiet hamlet this season has become prime summertime fodder for the metropolitan news media.

On Saturday, the ladies will don their white dresses and sun hats to host the 119th fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., as always on the last Saturday of July.

Celebrate the ongoing restoration of the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station with a lobster bake on Saturday evening.

Newer boats with bigger outboard motors are causing some changes down at the docks in the Village of Sag Harbor.

After reports of overcrowding and other problems at Harbor Raw Bar and Lounge near the Montauk docks, East Hampton Town got a judge last week to agree to put the clamps on the party.

In her decision, Acting Supreme Court Justice Denise F. Molia granted a temporary restraining order blocking the use of the restaurant as a nightclub. The owners could face criminal contempt charges if they allow the number of patrons to exceed the official occupancy limit of 68 guests, she wrote.

Though the tenant is still unknown, owners of the property received approval to build a new 9,982-square-foot, one-story retail building.

Chinese lanterns add yet another item to the list of destructive merriment caused by weekend partiers in the easternmost hamlet.

To experience summer on the South Fork is to witness the flaunting of materialism and, sometimes, unfathomable wealth. But if the efforts of Dan Lauter and Donna Soszynski-Lauter are successful, residents and visitors may one day experience treasures of an entirely different sort.

Jacqueline Bitonti, the new children’s librarian at the Montauk Library, is bursting with energy and full of ideas for the hamlet’s children and teenagers, a group she would like to get more involved with the library.

Laura Tuttle Traphagen and Catherine Ann Yelverton of Manhattan and East Hampton were married at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on July 2.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor continues to chug through its long, drawn-out construction phase with a completion date projected for the end of this year.

A preview of artwork that will be up for auction at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s summer fund-raiser on Aug. 1 is now available for viewing.

A few key donors swept in in the final days to help the Montauk Chamber of Commerce meet fund-raising goals for its July 4 Stars Over Montauk fireworks display.

Former Representative Tim Bishop wasted no time at the East Hampton Library on Saturday in answering the question he had posed in the title of his talk — “The U.S. Congress: Is the Branch Still Broken?”