Villages

It was May 1779 off the Connecticut coastline. Edward Conkling, the captain of the privateer sloop Eagle was cruising off Stonington, perhaps looking for another ship to capture to aid the rebel patriots’ war effort, when the Eagle was taken by a Loyalist ship.

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The waters off Havens Beach in Sag Harbor Village contained the highest amount of enterococcus bacteria of any East End bathing beach sampled on May 6 by the Surfrider Foundation.

The East Hampton Library will open the fifth annual Tom Twomey Series of conversations on topics of local and national interest with “Bioswales: A New Vision for East Hampton’s Village Green” on Saturday at 6 p.m. Subsequent talks will range from politics to oysters to the cartoonist Charles Addams.

Residents of the Tuthill Road Association have launched a GoFundMe campaign that they say is necessary to protect the neighborhood’s character and quality of life from activities associated with Duryea’s Lobster Deck, purchased in 2014 by Marc Rowan.

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Montauk School District voters will have an opportunity to vote on a nearly $7.5 million expansion and renovation project next week.

PSEG Long Island announced this week that it will explore the possibility of building a modernized Long Island Power Authority substation on parkland north of the former Montauk landfill.

A long-held plan to improve the westbound bus stop in Amagansett recently came to fruition when a flat brick surface was installed on Main Street in front of Gansett Green Manor. Two new benches accommodate waiting passengers.

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, the creative husband and wife behind such television shows as “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Gilmore Girls,” asked the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday for permission to renovate all the structures on their property at 132 Main Street.

Alex Miller was heading home thinking about dinner on the evening of May 14 when he decided to stop at Stuart’s Seafood Market, an Amagansett fa-vorite. He bought some cedar plank salmon and coleslaw. As an afterthought, he said, “Why don’t you give me a dozen littleneck clams — medium-sized little-necks?” 

At home in Springs, he shucked them — half the quahogs were from the shell-fish hatchery and the other half from the wild (he could tell by the striped pattern on the shell). On the 11th wild clam, something he thought was a marble fell out.

The East Hampton Village Board, which is seeking to hire a firm to help tackle challenges in the village’s commercial district, discussed the details last week.

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The Hedges-Edwards Barn, dating from around 1770, was originally located on the west side of Main Street in East Hampton, where the library now stands. E.J. Edwards first moved it around 1910 to his nearby property on Edwards Lane.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons will host a special book-and-author reception and talk with Steve Israel, a former Long Island congressman, on April 4 at 5:30 p.m. at Seasons of Southampton. Tim Bishop, a former congressman from Southampton, will serve as M.C. for a question-and-answer session.

A law requiring low-nitrogen septic systems for all new residences, for existing buildings — including commercial ones — that expand their floor area by 25 percent, and for nonresidential properties that require site plan review was adopted by the Sag Harbor Village Board on March 12.

Carol Marie Salomonson and Kevin Guthrie Santacroce of Sag Harbor were married on Saturday afternoon at the Breakwater Yacht Club in that village. Stake President Barrett L. Richards of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officiated.

Nothing less than “an incredible impact” on iconic oceanfront residences is at stake in a hearing before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, board members were told as they considered an application for a third time on Friday. But a largely skeptical board called that characterization extreme, and with an environmental report from a consultant to the village still pending, the application will be considered for a fourth time next month.

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The project would give the library another 5,000 square feet of space, but increase its footprint by less than 1,600 square feet.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals will consider a controversial construction project in Montauk’s Hither Hills neighborhood when it meets on March 19 and 26, one that its critics say will set a dangerous precedent if completed according to plans.

Alana Leland of East Hampton is one of three finalists in a “Today” show recipe contest, Joy’s Wine Country Cook-Off. During a taping of the show yesterday she was to find out if she won. The segment will air at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Two Latino graduates of South Fork schools — one at law school, the other taking a gap semester — are lending a hand to Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, the group announced this week.

Friends of Havens Beach, an advocacy group seeking to prod Sag Harbor Village officials into improving the condition of the village’s only bathing beach, listed the detritus recently found in the sand there at a public forum at the John Jermain Memorial Library on Sunday.

A proposed law that would require updated wastewater treatment systems for all new residences and for existing ones that expand by 25 percent or increase the number of bedrooms was praised by environmental advocates at an East Hampton Village Board public hearing on Friday. There was no opposition.

The replacement of the railroad trestles that cross North Main Street and Accabonac Road in East Hampton Village, which had been scheduled for next month, will happen in October or November, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said yesterday.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals discussed an application Friday from the Maidstone Club, which is seeking permission to install drainage pipes, sump pumps, dry wells, and a swale on its golf course.

Twice last week, the dust blowing off the dry farm field just north of Main Street created thick clouds of particulate that swirled over the hamlet.

Second House, the oldest structure in Montauk, will benefit from a $450,000 restoration project, the East Hampton Town Board announced at the close of its business in 2018.

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