Villages

   The board of trustees of the Amagansett Library will conduct a study to determine how the library can continue to meet the community’s needs, and has asked the public to attend focus groups, held by an outside facilitator, on Saturday and Wednesday.

    The board seeks input as to whether it is providing the community with good value, adequate staffing, resources, services, and space, and if it is meeting expectations, among other questions.

    In a Sept. 21 wedding at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, Meghan Anne Ryan and Nicolas Michael Finazzo were married. The Rev. Michael Rieder of St. Therese officiated.

    Mr. Finazzo is a son of Rori Butterfield of Montauk and Michael Finazzo of Boca Raton, Fla. He is a math teacher at the East Hampton Middle School. He received an undergraduate degree from St. Joseph’s College in 2009 and is in the master’s program in special and elementary education at Touro College on Long Island.

    September was “an ideal late-summer month,” Richard G. Hendrickson wrote in his monthly weather report from Bridgehampton.       

     Mr. Hendrickson, a United States Cooperative weather observer, recorded daytime highs in the 70s during the first half of the month and mainly in the 60s in the second half. Nights began mainly in the 60s, then dropped mostly into the 40s by month’s end.

    The hottest day last month was Sept. 11, when it was 85 degrees. The coldest temperature of the month was 38 degrees on the 18th.

     The Montauk Chamber of Commerce will host its annual fall festival this weekend in the downtown area, with music, food, a 30-horse carousel, inflatable rides, crab races, pony rides, face painting, pumpkin decorating, raffles, and more, much more.

    The top brass of the East Hampton Town Police Department visited a meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday to address speeding and other concerns on Second House Road in the hamlet.

    Chief Edward V. Ecker Jr., Capt. Mike Sarlo, who will take over as chief in late December, and Lt. Chris Hatch, the Montauk precinct commander, told the group that enforcement of existing speed limits would be the key to solving the problems that residents are having.

    Representatives of a village civic group asked the Sag Harbor Village Board on Tuesday to create a citizens advisory committee that would be charged with studying and recommending traffic calming measures.

    It was tuxedos and Croc sandals for David A. Steckowski and Adisorn Chaikhram, who were married in an evening ceremony on the bay beach in Amagansett on Sept. 19.

    The couple gathered before a group of family and friends, with their dogs, at the Cross Highway house of Mr. Steckowski’s grandmother Charlotte Hallock as the sun set and the moon came up over distant Napeague.

    Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s 11th-hour veto of a bill that would have smoothed the Montaukett Indian Nation’s path toward state recognition will not be the last word on the tribe’s effort to reclaim its identity, according to State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Chief Robert Pharaoh.

    In his veto message, the governor said the bill would require New York State to adopt the lengthy and thorough federal process for recognizing Indian tribes. Mr. Cuomo said that would be too costly for the state.

    An archaeology festival sponsored by the Montauk Historical Society will be held on the grounds of the Second House Museum on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    The festival, now in its second year, is held to raise awareness of a proposed Montauk Indian Museum to be established in a cottage owned by the Town of East Hampton on the north side of the Second House property. A future addition to the building is planned.

    An active approach to health for older residents will be the subject of a morning forum Saturday, sponsored by the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation. Rethinking Aging will be held at the Emergency Services Building at 1 Cedar Street from 9 a.m. to noon. Free coffee and a light breakfast will be served at 8:30.

    The East Hampton Town Trustees will hold the 23rd Largest Clam Contest on Sunday at noon at the Donald Lamb Building in Amagansett.

    The annual event will include a clam chowder competition, judged by writers from The Star and featuring both Manhattan and New England-style variations on the delicacy, chowder and clams on the half shell for all, and a display of the Dongan Patent, the 1686 document that created the trustees and granted them authority over the Town of East Hampton.

    The Concerned Citizens of Montauk will hold its annual meeting at the Montauk Firehouse on Saturday at 3 p.m. After a brief meeting, “Beaches or Boulders: Montauk’s Future Shoreline” will be discussed by guest speakers including Orrin H. Pilkey, a James B. Duke professor emeritus of earth and ocean sciences at Duke University. A pre-eminent marine and coastal geologist, Mr. Pilkey specializes in the study of ocean beaches and coastal policy, particularly in resort communities.

    Doreen M. Petrillo and Eric Drew of East Hampton were engaged on May 3, the future bride’s birthday, although they first met 26 years ago while working at Gurney’s Inn. At that time, Ms. Petrillo was a spa receptionist and Mr. Drew was a lifeguard there.

    The East Hampton Village Board will host a roundtable discussion on deer management at the Emergency Services Building on Monday at 1 p.m. Representatives from the Village Preservation Society, the Ladies Village Improvement Society, the Town of East Hampton, the East Hampton Group for Wildlife, the Garden Club of East Hampton, and the Maidstone Club are expected to participate, and input from residents will be welcomed.

    Registered East Hampton, Springs, and Wainscott School District voters approved the East Hampton Library’s 2014 budget on Saturday. The vote was 162 to 43 in favor of a $2.1 million budget, representing an increase of $141,000 over this year. Next year’s budget will result in an average tax increase of $7.76 for homeowners.

    The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will hold its annual budget vote and trustee election on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

    Residents of the Bridgehampton and Sagaponack School Districts will weigh in on a $1.55 million spending plan for 2014, which includes a debt service of $560,000. Total spending is up $29,100 over this year’s budget, and taxpayers will be asked to contribute an additional $30,100 next year. The library expects to raise $10,500 through fines and fees and $13,600 in investment income.

    A new police officer was introduced at a brief meeting of the East Hampton Village board on Friday, and the Long Island Power Authority’s application for an excavation permit to upgrade its transmission grid was discussed.

    “We are going to welcome into the ranks of the East Hampton Village Police Department our newest member,” Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., standing at the lectern with Richard Lawler, a trustee, told the assembled.

    The Montauk Seafood Festival is set to happen on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. under a tent in the parking lot of the Montauk Marine Basin, near Lynn’s Hula Hut.

    There will be nonstop music by the 3Bs, Timmy Fee, and Remember September. Fish races, a snapper derby, fish-print demonstrations, T-shirt airbrushing, and coloring contests will keep the kids busy.

    Seaside sights, sounds, and tastes will bring the masses to the 24th annual Greenport Maritime Festival this weekend to benefit the East End Seaport and Marine Foundation and to celebrate the village’s 175th year. Over 40,000 people have attended the event in the past, whether for a glimpse of visiting tall ships, maritime demonstrations, or offerings from local artisans.

    The John Jermain Memorial Library’s budget vote and trustee election will be held on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and is open to all registered voters in the Sag Harbor School District.

    The proposed 2014 budget is just under $2.29 million, an increase of $71,633 over this year’s approved budget, with $60,450 of that increase to be covered by taxpayers. That represents a difference of about $5 per year for the average homeowner, according to the library.

    On Saturday, registered voters in the East Hampton, Springs, and Wainscott school districts can vote on the East Hampton Library’s proposed 2014 budget. Those eligible can vote between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the library.

    Estimated expenses total $2.1 million, up $141,000 over this year. Staff salaries and benefits, and facilities expenses, including custodial supplies and services, building repair, furnishings, computer software and hardware, and landscape maintenance, at $106,000 and $20,500 respectively, account for most of the increase.

    The Sag Harbor American Music Festival is finalizing the schedule for its annual village-wide music celebration Friday, Sept. 27, and Sept. 28. The festival will include indoor and outdoor music at galleries, restaurants, and retail shops.

    Genres will be as diverse as venues. BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet, the Grammy Award-winning Cajun and folk band, is set to headline the kickoff fund-raising concert on Friday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m. Tickets to the opening show at the Old Whalers Church start at $25 and are available on the festival’s Web site, sagharbormusic.org.

    Virginia and Tom Hessler of McGuirk Street in East Hampton were alarmed when they saw a Long Island Power Authority stake on their front lawn. Rumor had it, so said their neighbors, that a pole was to be installed there.

    Several residents of Second House Road in Montauk are calling for East Hampton Town to lower the speed limit on the two-lane artery and consider making it a no-through zone.

    For more than a year now, since Ruschmeyer’s and Solé East have become popular nightspots for a younger crowd, residents have been complaining about speeding cars and commercial work trucks in the residential area, which also includes a school zone.

   The East Hampton High School class of 1973 will hold its 40th reunion on Oct. 12 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Fairway Restaurant at the Poxabogue Golf Center in Sagaponack.

   A light buffet and open bar will be provided for $35 per person. Class members wishing to attend have been asked to e-mail Wendy Leese Mott at lazys@ opton­line.net or Kim Friedah Brown at kimfbrown@gmail. com.

    Drs. Robert J. Marshall and Simone Verniere Marshall of East Hampton and New York City celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and her 89th birthday at a lunch on Saturday at the Amagansett house of their daughter and son-in-law Annette and Jacques Franey. Their other daughter and son-in-law, Drs. Gabrielle Salomon and Amir Salomon of Summit, N.J., co-hosted the celebration.

   A motorcycle ride to benefit the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund, in conjunction with the Red Knights, will take place on Sunday. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Fire Department, and the ride, heading east to Montauk Point, starts at 11.

   At the conclusion, there will be a stop for food, beverages, and a 50-50 raffle at Cyril’s Fish House on Napeague. Registration is $30 per rider.

    During a weekend that was full of celebration for the couple and their families and friends, Haley Cunningham Grant and Eric James Weaver were married on Aug. 25 on the beach at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk.

    Labor Day may have passed, but big plans are still in store for Shelter Island, and for good cause. The Rock’s annual fund-raising Beach Blast is set for Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday morning, it’s the charitable bicycle Spur Ride.

    The blast and barbecue is all-important this year to the Island Gift of Life, with last year’s event called off due to strong winds and a storm threat.

    With a deadline nearing in two weeks, the East Hampton Town Board must make a final decision about what it wants the Army Corps of Engineers to do about the Montauk Harbor inlet.

    The corps is set to dredge the inlet to provide safer navigation, but there are several options as to how to proceed. Federal funds would fully cover the least ambitious plan — to maintain the status quo by dredging to a 12-foot depth and 150-foot width in the channel, with a 50-foot wide “deposition basin” at the east side, to collect sand that would otherwise cause shoaling.