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Seeking to add a fire pit, patios, walkways, and other accessory structures to the 25 Fithian Lane property where they are building a house, George E. Doty Jr. and his wife, Le-Ellen Spelman, requested variances from the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.     

The timing was perfect. Last Thursday’s full moon, backed by a strong wind, finally brought in a great low tide. It had been at least nine months since I’d witnessed one of such magnitude. Its significance also prompted me to head over to one of my favorite sand flats to dig up some steamer clams.

The first Montauk Christmas Bird Count was in 1938, and though there were a couple of wartime years when it did not take place, it is one of the oldest annual bird counts still running, according to Brent Bomkamp, one of the coordinators of this year’s event on Saturday.  

The intersection of James Lane and Mill Road, where there have been three accidents since 2016, was the main topic of discussion at last Thursday’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Board.

The plan, which moves the tennis courts and softball field around to make room for a regulation-size football field, was also a hit with almost everyone who heard about it at a public meeting of the board in the East Hampton Middle School auditorium last Thursday.

Meeting at the Montauk Firehouse, the board and the consultant Lisa Liquori of Fine Arts and Sciences, a former town planning director, honed language in a draft plan, which was not accessible to those attending the meeting, prompting one to complain that it was difficult to follow the deliberations.

This year, the East Hampton Kiwanis Club’s toy drive is in memory of Renee Alversa, a longtime Montauk resident who died on Nov. 1 at the age of 61.

The Wainscott C.A.C. on Saturday announced that this year's business awards recognize Michael Del Piero Good Design and Wainscott Main Wines and Spirits for aesthetic and community-minded accomplishments.

Anthony Lombardo was in the Army in 1952, stationed in Germany and sitting in a restaurant with a friend, when they overheard the people at the next table discussing Verdi’s “Otello.”

Mr. Lombardo, who was 87 on Nov. 23, remembers it well. “I never felt stupid in my life,” he said, “but — opera? Shakespeare? And I said, ‘What are they talking about?’ And my friend said, ‘Aah, they’re just being pedantic.’ And I said, ‘What’s that mean?’ ”

Two brown pelicans that were likely borne from points south on a strong southeast gale in October were rescued in Montauk this week and taken to the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays.

Christmas festivities will abound in East Hampton Village on Saturday.

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The East Hampton Village Board will unveil a plan for a redesign of Herrick Park that features more formalized entrances, reconfigured ball fields, and new pathways and children's play areas next Thursday morning. Later that day, the public will get a chance to weigh in on the proposal at a special 5:30 p.m. hearing to be held at the East Hampton Middle School auditorium.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of East Hampton Village, there will be a series of events in 2020, beginning in January with the unveiling of a new village seal and culminating with a centennial parade and other festivities on Sept. 26.

There are rules of etiquette, experts say, when hosting or attending a holiday dinner party, or a dinner party for any occasion, really.

Bob and Liz Pucci of East Hampton have announced the engagement of their son Joseph Robert Pucci to Kathyrn Eileen Markey, a daughter of Jay and Kerry Markey of Chelmsford, Mass.

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For the last 150 years, the Wainscott Chapel has been the charge of the Wainscott Sewing Society to manage and care for the building — from the war memorial out front to the privy out back, and everything inside the walls in between.

Decades ago, the times were different — along with the cost of food, long-distance phone calls, rug cleaning, and table settings.

The East Hampton Village Board has authorized a law firm to file suit on its behalf against opioid manufacturers and distributors.

A small minke whale was found stranded in Northwest Creek in East Hampton Thursday morning and later died just as rescuers arrived to help it.  

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The owner of Petit Bleu, a children’s store in East Hampton Village, who was cited by code enforcement earlier this month for placing a stuffed golden retriever at the entrance to her shop, wants the business community to band together to change the village’s onerous regulations.

Alex Miller was heading home think-ing about dinner on the evening of May 14 when he decided to stop at Stuart’s Seafood Market, an Amagansett fa-vorite. He bought some cedar plank salmon and coleslaw. As an afterthought, he said, “Why don’t you give me a dozen littleneck clams — medium-sized little-necks?” 

At home in Springs, he shucked them— half the quahogs were from the shell-fish hatchery and the other half from the wild (he could tell by the striped pattern on the shell). On the 11th wild clam, something he thought was a marble fell out.

A humpback whale was found dead in the surf at Halsey Neck Lane in Southampton Village on Thursday morning. 

The East Hampton Village Board, meeting last Thursday, considered proposals to hold an outdoor Christmas market on Newtown Lane in December, and to install high-tech ticket dispensers in village parking lots.

As neighbors get buried lines in East Hampton Village, this couple will lose their "only piece of blue sky."

An application from the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio for variances and permissions to allow retail sales, hold events for more than 50 people, install path lighting, and for an additional parking area came before the Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

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