Villages

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.

A decade after its founding, the Wellness Foundation of East Hampton has guided thousands of East Enders through its six-week “wellness challenge” and created a posse of student “wellness warriors” who have participated in its Healthy Food for Life program.

Mindful of the density and scarcity of parking in the neighborhood, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals took a long look at a proposal to alter a pre-existing nonconforming residence and make several additions to a .3-acre parcel on Friday.

Keith and Anne Cynar own an undivided lot at 52, 54, and 56 McGuirk Street. They want to convert a two-apartment building at the rear of the property into a single-family residence while retaining two cottages that face the street.

At a very brief work session last Thursday, the East Hampton Village Board took a step toward meeting the coming onslaught of summer visitors.

The unmistakable signs of spring are stirring. The eighth annual Am O’Gansett Parade, which its organizers proclaim is the world’s shortest, will commence at noon on Saturday and conclude a few minutes later.

The actress Candice Bergen and her husband, the real estate magnate Marshall Rose, have owned a house at 72 Lily Pond Lane, which was featured in Architectural Digest, for years. On Friday, the attorney Thomas J. Osborne was before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on their behalf seeking to legalize changes that had been made to an accessory building on their property. It was the second go-round of a hearing that started in January.

An Oyster Bay man is facing criminal charges in East Hampton Town Justice Court after allegedly erecting a hard-rock revetment on Soundview Drive in Montauk without permits.

Members of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife delivered a withering appraisal of East Hampton Village’s deer-management activities and of White Buffalo, the Connecticut organization it hired to conduct a deer-sterilization program, at the village board’s meeting on Friday.

Two new crowdfunding campaigns that are local to the East Hampton area have the potential to expand access to healthy foods for families and children.

Minerva Perez has been named to the new position of executive director at Organizacion Latino-Americana of Long Island, or OLA.

Cynthia Young, the director of the Amagansett Library, which has been named grand marshal for the March 12 Am O’Gansett Parade.

An effort to improve traffic safety on James Lane, which runs along the east side of South End Cemetery, may necessitate in the elimination of about six parking spaces, the East Hampton Village Board concluded at a work session last Thursday.