Villages

Ten minutes after he walked through the door of Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor, Matthew Hunt had a job as a server. Next on his to-do list is finding a new place to live — which may or may not turn out to be a new sailboat. It’s a little up in the air right now.

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

An operations and maintenance facility for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm will be sited adjacent to Inlet Seafood, just inside Montauk Harbor, the wind farm’s developers announced last week. But whether the facility represents a meeting of the minds or merely a business arrangement depends on whom you ask.

On Thursday, Matthew Hunt, a 21-year-old from Arizona, ran into trouble in his newly purchased sailboat, the Vanna White. A maelstrom of low tides, changing winds, a failed engine, and strong ocean currents led to him running into rocks and beaching the boat near Shadmoor State Park, to the east of downtown Montauk.

Samuel Mulford was an early whaler, fisherman, militia captain, and member of the New York General Assembly who objected to Governor Hunter’s fishing licenses who traveled to London to present his case to Parliament and the king. -- Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

Neighbors questioned a proposal to buy a 2.5-acre parcel outside Sag Harbor on which to build housing, but following that public hearing last Thursday the East Hampton Town Board unanimously approved the $890,000 purchase.

Two members of the East Hampton Village Police Department have been promoted and the village board’s longtime lawyer is retiring, it was announced at Friday’s meeting of the village board.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has co-sponsored a bill that would permit cities, towns, and villages to reduce maximum speed limits on local roads from 30 to 25 miles per hour.

North Main Street in East Hampton Village will be closed between 6:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday as construction crews build a foundation for a new railroad bridge.

Cora Evelynn Wen and David Scott Gibbons were married at Wiborg’s Beach in East Hampton on Saturday morning in a brief ceremony attended by friends and family that was officiated by Wickham Boyle, an author and friend of the family who is ordained in the Universal Life Church. 

The Hampton Library’s annual bud­get vote and trustee election will happen on Tuesday, with voting from 2 to 9 p.m.

Raymond W. Bimson and Hanna Palamarchuk were married on Aug. 31 in Montauk in an outdoor ceremony at the home of the groom’s mother, Jane Bimson. Bruna DiBiase, a New York City judge, officiated.