Villages

No sooner had the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals denied an application on Friday for an expanded house at 44 Huntting Lane that would have violated a zoning amendment enacted last year, than it considered another request to overrule the amendment, which prohibits cellars from extending beyond a house’s ground-floor exterior walls.

A missing surfboard will be returned to its owner by way of North Carolina.

Befitting the quiet of a South Fork winter, the East Hampton Village Board’s meeting on Friday was brief.

The Sag Harbor Fire Department, which serves Noyac and North Haven as well as the village, is facing “almost a crisis situation with the apparatus we have,” Chief Tom Gardella told the village board last week.

It’s time again for the Great Bonac Chili Cook-Off, when home cooks and professional chefs throw their best versions of chili in the ring, to be tasted and rated by members of the public.

The public has been invited to a meeting on Wednesday for further explanation of the proposed Sag Harbor Village zoning code revisions.

“Happygram,” a feature-length documentary that explores the issue of breast cancers that mammograms failed to detect, will be screened on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Shelter Island High School. Admission is free.

The Village of East Hampton got an upbeat report on its fiscal health last Thursday.

Members of the Sag Harbor Village Board came under fire Tuesday night from residents angry over proposed new laws that they say will hurt their property values. Residents also questioned the validity of a moratorium on building that has been in effect while the legislation was being drawn up.

An application for a 10,561-square-foot house in the Huntting Lane Historic District is “exactly the type of project the village had in mind” last year when it enacted new limits on floor area and lot coverage, the chairman of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals said on Friday.

The local laws adopted on Friday that concluded the East Hampton Village Board’s business for 2015 were overshadowed by a moment of silence observed for Karen Rickenbach, the daughter of Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., who died on Dec. 12.

With its Toys for Tots program, now in its 30th year, the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton does its part to ease the stress on parents’ wallets and give children a brighter Christmas.

If you’ve already made a gingerbread house for the holidays, you might not want to take a bite of it just yet.

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.