Villages

Almost one out of every six people over the age of 65 has fallen at least once in the past three months, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and both the John Jermain Library in Sag Harbor and the East Hampton Library are planning free fall-prevention classes for older adults to reduce that statistic.

As of Tuesday, Southampton Hospital is part of Stony Brook University Medicine’s health system. The completed merger means Southampton Hospital will be providing care under Stony Brook’s New York State operating license.

Mary Lou Kaler now cares for four adopted Shires at the former Dune Alpin Farm in East Hampton.

While the results of an East Hampton Village questionnaire seeking residents’ opinions on deer management are not yet known, the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton, which helped pay for the village’s highly controversial deer sterilization program, has invited the public to a forum today on how deer affect human health.

East Hampton is set for an exciting Saturday, as the 121st annual Ladies Village Improvement Society summer fair comes to 95 Main Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Representatives of the Maidstone Club, the private club situated on more than 200 oceanfront acres in East Hampton Village, will ask the village’s zoning board of appeals for a special permit to construct a 300-square-foot chicken coop when the board meets tomorrow.

A benefit will be held on Monday at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett for James Pellow, a longtime bartender there and an East Hampton native. Mr. Pellow has been out of work all summer and faces an uncertain medical future after being diagnosed with heart failure and a blood clot in his heart.

Because East Hampton Village restricts the height of a garage to 20 feet, Jim and Gretchen Johnson, owners of a century-old house at 31 Old Beach Lane called Nid de Papillon, need a seven-foot variance for a garage.

Jenny Kate Sherman married Ryan Charles Siebenlist at Montauk’s Navy Beach restaurant on Saturday evening, with balmy weather and clear skies as a backdrop.

Citizens for Access Rights, which advocates for continued public access to East Hampton Town beaches, has released a video describing its mission.

After 25 years as life partners, Fredrick A. Becker and Jeffrey A. Tannenbaum were married on June 25 at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will have an adopt-a-thon when it takes its mobile van to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s annual summer fair on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regular adoption fees will apply.

Nicholas Dana Flickinger and Ashley Marisa Glazer were married on June 17 at the Mansion at Timber Point in Great River on Great South Bay. Rabbi Paul Swerdlow officiated, the bride and groom recited their own wedding vows, and a reception followed.

James Consiglio and Colette Clancy of East Hampton have announced the engagement of their daughter, Phelan Clancy, to John Michael Klett, the son of Eileen and John Klett of Sparta, N.J.

The East Hampton Village Board unanimously adopted a $21.6 million 2017-18 budget at its meeting on Friday.

The second annual South Fork 100-Percent Renewable Energy Forum will be held on Wednesday from 12:30 to 6:15 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

Peter Durst and Whitney Lucas were married in an intimate ceremony on May 20 at the Sunriver Resort in Bend, Ore.

East Hampton Village residents will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect a village board member to complete the final year of the late Elbert Edwards’s term.

At just over 30 minutes, Friday’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals was unusually crisp. Equally uncommon, four applications were heard and four applications were closed. The board, absent Frank Newbold, its chairman, and John McGuirk, also announced several determinations.

The Montauk Blessing of the Fleet, an annual tradition now in its 62nd year, will take place on Sunday by the Montauk inlet, with clergy posted near the town dock to bless those who work on and sail the local waters.

The ritual, which draws boats of all sizes and can be seen from just about anywhere in the harbor, is quite a spectacle. “It’s a lot of work to organize it, but it is well worth the effort,” said Capt. Frank Braddick, who has organized it for 27 years. Drawn to the event soon after arriving in Montauk, his passion for it remains steadfast.

Virginia Anna Haller and Ryan Royce Ehrensberger of Montauk were married on the beach at the Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort on Labrelotte Bay, Castries, St. Lucia, on May 5.

Three candidates running for two open Sag Harbor Village Board seats will gather for a forum at the John Jermain Memorial Library on Saturday morning from 9 to 10:30.

East Hampton Village is poised to expand Herrick Park, following an East Hampton Town Board public hearing last Thursday on the proposed purchase with community preservation fund money of three parcels, totaling 2.78 acres, at 14 and 16 Pleasant Lane and 25 Muchmore Lane.

The Village of East Hampton will be the recipient of a $16,000 rebate from the State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Municipal Zero-Emission Vehicle rebate program for the installation of an electric vehicle charging station in the long-term lot located off Lumber Lane.

Cyanobacteria, which is known as blue-green algae, has been confirmed at Mill Pond in Water Mill and in Roth Pond at the State University’s Stony Brook campus.

It has been a little over a year since The Star discussed dyslexia with Helen Roussel, a Sag Harbor resident, mother of an 11-year-old dyslexic boy, and an indefatigable campaigner for increased awareness and improved educational approaches for children who suffer from the disorder.

In the June 20 East Hampton Village election, two candidates are running for a single seat on the village board.

Philip O’Connell, who was appointed to the board after Elbert Edwards’s death in October, will try to keep the seat for the one remaining year in the term. Arthur Graham, a member of the village’s planning board and the East Hampton Historical Society and the secretary of the Thomas Moran Trust, is challenging him. 

“Every now and again we have a special day where a village employee is going to be recognized. That’s going to happen today,” Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. said at a brief East Hampton Village Board meeting on Friday.

Richard Lawler, a member of the board who serves as commissioner of the East Hampton Village Police Department, then joined the mayor at the lectern, announcing that P.J. Cantwell, a longtime dispatcher, would be promoted to supervisor. Michael Tracey, the acting chief of police, followed him.

Should your travels take you south of Montauk Highway, you no longer have to worry about detouring around the Sagg Bridge.

Mayor Sandra Schroeder is unopposed in seeking re-election, but there are three candidates for the two open seats on the board.