Villages

Guests at an East Hampton Shellfish Education and Enhancement Directive fund-raiser at Bay Kitchen Bar on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. will have the opportunity to learn about growing oysters and have a bunch of them on the half shell, if they are so inclined.

No nominating petitions from others, who might be considering opposing them, had come in by press time, although they can be filed through Tuesday.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons annual Pet Celebration Day will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the ARF Adoption Center, 91 Daniels Hole Road in Wainscott. Leashed dogs and cats in carriers will be welcomed, along with their owners, for treats, contests, and no-cost microchip identification tags (for the animals).

The Suffolk County Planning Commission has asked East Hampton Town to investigate the impact of potential traffic generated by a proposed bowling alley and miniature golf course at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club on Daniel’s Hole Road.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals pondered a multifaceted application from the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post on Montauk Highway on Friday.

Those up for re-election in the Village of Sag Harbor hope to stay put come June.

The carcass of a dead humpback whale that ran aground in Gardiner's Bay off Napeague has been towed to Little Albert's Landing Beach and will be removed sometime on Wednesday.

A dead whale has run aground in Gardiner's Bay, leaving East Hampton Town officials trying to figure out what to do about it.

If it’s Earth Day, it’s time for citizens with gloved hands and comfortable shoes to prowl the South Fork sands in search of garbage.

Despite the East Hampton Village Design Review Board’s approval in August, and apparent compliance with the village code, lighting at the recently renovated Newtown Lane branch of Capital One Bank is being called excessive and hazardous.

Saturday will be a PRFECT Earth Day in Springs, when the Perfect Earth Project, in collaboration with the Accabonac Protection Committee, presents a lineup of free events from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. designed to highlight the health and environmental benefits of a toxin-free approach to landscaping.

When the Ocean Institute opened last spring at the Montauk Lighthouse the focus was mainly on the history of surfing. The one-room building was constructed in 1897 to house a fog siren, and later housed a World War II fire control tower, but in recent years it has been used only for storage.  Its restoration had to be in keeping with the original design, as the Montauk Lighthouse is a National Historic Landmark.

Sag Harbor Village’s budget will pierce the state-mandated tax levy cap for the 2016-17 fiscal year, which begins in June.

Though the larger issue of ownership of the beach remains, the East Hampton Town Trustees have lost a battle in their lawsuit against a West End Road property owner who constructed a rock revetment in 2013 and ’14.

Parking remained a sticking point as the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals continued on Friday to review an application from owners of the property at 52, 54, 56, and 58 McGuirk Street.

Compared with previous Sag Harbor Village Board meetings and discussions of the proposed residential zoning code revisions in the village, Tuesday night’s hearing was relatively quick and calm.

Shortly after the sculpture by Steve Zaluski was erected outside the new Mannix Studio of Art, code enforcement officials informed Karyn Mannix, an East Hampton artist and gallerist, that if she did not remove it she would face a fine.

In a brief and quiet work session last Thursday, the East Hampton Village Board designated the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street as the polling place for the June 21 village election.

The Tom Twomey Series of programs will begin on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

Anyone who rents out a house must fill out a form, pay a $100 fee, and verify that a certificate of occupancy is on file with the building department.

Sag Harbor residents can air their concerns or voice their support for proposed village zoning code changes during two public hearings slated for Tuesday.

The program, hosted by the trustees, will also include a talk by Barley Dunne, director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, on its efforts to seed waterways with native shellfish. An interactive dialogue will follow.

The East Hampton Village Design Review Board will decide on Wednesday whether or not a silver sculpture situated outside a recently opened art studio on Gingerbread Lane will have to come down.

Kalie Encie Peters and Justin E. Burkle were married on Jan. 16 in Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.

A workshop in basic video production will be held on Mondays in April, at 7 p.m. at the LTV public access television studio on Industrial Road in Wainscott.

The program is a first step toward becoming involved with local television, via directing, camera operation, and producing. The first class, an orientation, will include a tour of the facility as well as an explanation of LTV’s production process and paperwork.

Mike Tremblay can be phoned at 537-2777 to sign up. Inquiries by email are welcomed as well, to [email protected].

The Montauk Library has made changes that, once seen, should have the little ones begging to go there.

The ongoing upgrade of the electricity transmission line at the Long Island Power Authority’s Amagansett substation continues to rankle residents of the hamlet.

Relatives of Fran Silipo, the former Springs School District clerk who had a stroke in October, have set up a fund-raising page via the website GoFundMe.com to help her with medical costs and day-to-day expenses.

Coastal Living magazine has included Main Beach in East Hampton Village in its first March Madness Beach Bracket, modeled after the college basketball playoff brackets, in a competition called the Best Beach in America 2016. Voting is open at coastalliving. com/beachbracket.

Each playoff round is an online vote, with a beach’s right to advance to the next round determined by votes garnered during that voting period. The winning beach will earn the title of Coastal Living’s Best Beach in America 2016 and will be featured in its June 2016 issue and on its website.

The village board will meet with its attorneys and consultants tomorrow at 3 p.m. to introduce the draft law, and a public hearing will be scheduled on April 12, when the board next meets.