Villages

As the holidays approach, a fund-raising drive for Long Island Cares — The Harry Chapin Food Bank, its second such, has begun. This year’s drive honors the late Jack Morelli of Amagansett.

A True’s beaked whale, rare to the area, was found dead on Scott Cameron Beach in Bridgehampton last Thursday afternoon.

In “Refuge,” her most recent book, Nanci LaGarenne, an East Hampton author, has delved deeply into difficult issues faced by many women, including more than one might think here on the East End.

The historic Dominy clock and woodworking shops that were moved decades ago to the Further Lane property now owned by the investor Barry Rosenstein will soon begin a journey back to North Main Street, where they were constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sara Struble and Michael Ritsi got en­gaged at sunset on the beach in Montauk on Nov. 14.

Ms. Struble, a sales representative for The Southampton Press, is the daughter of Terry and Walter Struble of Springs. Mr. Ritsi is the sports program director at Sportime in Amagansett and coaches junior varsity football and varsity baseball at East Hampton High School. His parents are Joanne Roge of Montauk and Joseph Ritsi of Jacksonville, Fla.

They live in Montauk with their dog, Lilly, and are planning a September wedding in 2016 or 2017.

Gurney’s Inn has given guests and Montaukers another reason to stay active this winter. As of Nov. 1, the inn has an ice-skating rink on the flattop roof of its spa, which has one of the South Fork’s best views of the Atlantic.

The rink isn’t actually made of ice but a white polymer material that is used on rinks by the National Hockey League and large Broadway productions such as “Disney on Ice,” said Greer Brody, the inn’s senior publicist. It is oiled daily for smooth skating.

The extensive plans proposed by David Geffen, the music and film executive who purchased 26 and 30 West End Road for $50 million from Courtney Ross last year, represent a “very sensitive, soft-touch renovation,” his representative told the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

East Hampton Meals on Wheels said on Tuesday that it is “running at a significant deficit” and “may have to cut service to certain clients or reduce frequency of meals.”

Noisy clubs, illegal apartments, overcrowded houses, drunken driving, booze on the beach, cab drivers sleeping in cars overnight at the train station, and trash, trash everywhere.

A $700,000 New York State Community Capital Assistance Program grant was announced over a year ago, and construction of the roundabout was expected to begin in 2015

With the approach of the holidays, the annual fund-raising drive for Long Island Cares/The Harry Chapin Food Bank has begun.

Postponed from October due to Hurricane Joaquin, the East Hampton Town Trustees will hold their 25th annual Largest Clam Contest on Sunday at noon.

As a public hearing on a revised East Hampton Village lighting code approaches, the village board, meeting last Thursday, increased the proposed Kelvin limit, which measures the hue of a light source, from 3,000 to 3,500. The proposed code will be considered at the board’s meeting on Friday, Nov. 20.

The Tyler Project will hold a walk for awareness and the prevention of suicide next Thursday at 3:30 p.m. starting at East Hampton Middle School.

East Hampton residents interested in producing their own cable television programming have been invited to an orientation workshop at LTV Studios on Industrial Road in Wainscott on Monday at 7 p.m.

All veterans have been invited to march in a Veterans Day parade on Wednesday sponsored by the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 550. The parade will get under way at 10 a.m. on East Hampton’s Main Street in front of London Jewelers. Marchers will make their way to the Hook Mill memorial green, where there will be a brief ceremony to honor all veterans who have died in war.

A hearing at the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday to legalize fencing that does not comply with code briefly morphed into a debate about deer and residents’ efforts to shield their property from the animals.

In a brief meeting on Friday, the East Hampton Village Board gave notice of three upcoming public hearings, which are scheduled for Nov. 20 at the Emergency Services Building.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 25th annual Largest Clam Contest, a popular event that had been scheduled for Oct. 4 but was postponed due to inclement weather, has been rescheduled.

Georgica Pond in East Hampton, which the town trustees have closed to the harvesting of crabs for part of the last two years due to dense blooms of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, was opened to the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 7.

Diane McNally, the trustees’ clerk, announced that the pond had been opened to the ocean at the group’s meeting on Tuesday. “It’s running well,” Sean McCaffrey, a trustee who had been on site, said of the channel created between the pond and ocean. “It did what it’s supposed to.” The high salinity of the ocean water will kill the algal bloom.

The East Hampton High School class of 1966 is planning a reunion for next year.

Zoning code amendments adopted by the East Hampton Village Board in June, which added graduated formulas for lot coverage and maximum floor areas of structures for parcels larger than one acre, caused a number of construction plans to become noncompliant and led to the revocation of several building permits.

One such instance brought the president of Discovery Communications and his wife back to the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday, where their attorney once again sought variances to allow renovations and additions to their oceanfront house at 26 Drew Lane.

Members of the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation visited the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday to unveil the foundation’s latest plan for the building’s aquatic and cultural centers.

When Dell Cullum was asked to assume leadership of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife in August, he did so with the understanding that a potential opportunity could mean an abrupt resignation.

Nine months after business owners and their representatives expressed displeasure at proposed amendments to the East Hampton Village lighting code, prompting the village board to table them, the board took up the amendments at a work session last Thursday.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 25th annual Largest Clam Contest, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday at the American Legion Post 419 in Amagansett, has been postponed.

Diane McNally, the trustees’ clerk, said yesterday that, with Hurricane Joaquin intensifying in the Atlantic Ocean, the potential for shellfishing areas to be closed by today meant that participants would not be able to harvest clams to enter the contest.

A swimming pool in the ecologically stressed Hook Pond watershed and what was called the “poster child for non-self-created difficulties” were before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

The Montauk Village Association got a bit of unexpected help on Tuesday from about 50 volunteers from the digital media group of Reader’s Digest Home and Garden magazine, who worked with it to clean up several small landscaped areas on the west side of the downtown business district.

Lester Forbell, known as Zeke to most, is generous with his friends and family, particularly with his automotive skills. “If anybody has car problems, he’s there to help people out,” Jamie Bennett, the mother of his two grandchildren, said.

Diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer this summer and unable to work while undergoing aggressive treatments, Mr. Forbell, 60, now finds himself the one in need of help.

Massive wastewater treatment and water quality improvement plans for Hook and Town Ponds were described at an East Hampton Village Board meeting.