Running unopposed, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. was re-elected to a four-year term in East Hampton Village’s election on Tuesday. Deputy Mayor Barbara Borsack and Richard Lawler of the village board were also re-elected without opposition.

Unofficial results released yesterday by Becky Molinaro, the village administrator, showed 53 machine votes cast at the Emergency Services Building. An additional 30 were cast by absentee ballot. Mayor Rickenbach received a total of 71 votes, with Ms. Borsack and Mr. Lawler each receiving 72.

Talk of challengers to the mayor and board members in the wake of last year’s zoning code amendment, which added restrictions to the maximum allowable gross floor area and lot coverage of residential properties and is the subject of a legal challenge, proved to be just that. The May 17 deadline for nominating petitions passed with no declarations of candidacy.

Nonetheless, Dell Cullum, a vocal critic of the village’s deer-sterilization effort, received two machine votes for mayor and “Bob” received one. Michael Elinski received two absentee votes.

Howard Harris received two votes for a position on the board, as did Scott Dinstman, the latter’s via absentee ballot. Also coming up short for a seat on the board were Sally Baier, “Tom,” and “Ed,” each of whom received one vote.

An application from the Everit Albert Herter Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which owns the property on Montauk Highway that the Highway Restaurant and Bar is on, drew a renewed warning from the East Hampton Village code enforcement officer when the zoning board of appeals met on Friday.

While the question of whether to allow three outdoor restaurant tables to be moved from a small slate patio on the west side of the building to a larger wooden deck on the easterly side drew debate, the board also had applications before it from Ronald Perelman, the investor and philanthropist who owns the estate on Georgica Pond called the Creeks, and Calvin Klein, the fashion designer who owns property at 75 West End Road. Both men are seeking freshwater wetlands permits to remove phragmites, an invasive plant.

The outdoor tables are a pre-existing legal use of the property, which is in a  residential district. The question is whether moving them to a larger area constitutes an expansion of that use, which would be prohibited. Ken Collum, the code enforcement officer, reiterated what he had told the board last month: approving the request would put an additional burden on his department during the hectic summer season.

In a recent visit to the site he said he found four tables rather than three on the patio, “so there is an expansion.” There are also string lights and benches around the larger deck, which he said were installed without approval of the village’s design review board.

Should the Z.B.A. grant the request, “You’re basically creating a code enforcement problem for us. You’re pushing it off onto us to constantly monitor and check this. We don’t need anything more on our plate right now,” he said.

In addition to the small patio, which Adam Lancashire, the restaurant’s manager, said is little used, Mr. Collum said the deck on the east side is used by smokers and those waiting for a table. “Now, it’s morphed into people waiting out there with their drinks. I don’t have a problem with that, but we need to keep the tiger in the box.”

Mr. Lancashire said that the fourth table had been an oversight and had been removed. “That’s the issue,” Mr. Collum said. “There are all these oversights that happen. I would like the board to be aware that our position is one of concern and enforcement.”

Andy Hammer, an attorney representing the applicant, said the deck would be a more desirable dining area, whereas the smaller patio, which is next to a driveway, is closer to the restaurant’s bar and more appropriate as a smoking area.

Lys Marigold, the board’s vice chairwoman, who presided in the absence of the chairman, Frank Newbold, asked the applicant to return with a plan for the proposed seating on the deck, with the benches removed. John McGuirk, a member of the board, added that the violations Mr. Collum referred to should be addressed. The hearing will resume at the board’s next meeting, on Friday, June 24. 

Bruce Horwith, a conservation biologist who is overseeing phragmites removal in several places around Georgica Pond, brought in four applications, three for Mr. Perelman, and one for Mr. Klein. The phragmites removal would also require permits from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation and the East Hampton Town Trustees. (The trustees approved Mr. Klein’s application on Monday.)

On Mr. Perelman’s nearly 59-acre parcel, at 291 Montauk Highway, he also plans a vegetative buffer using native species. The applications, Mr. Horwith said, are the first he has brought to the board seeking permission to use low ground pressure equipment to cut and dig out the invasive species. The machines, designed to operate in marsh environments, are approximately the size of a golf cart, he said.

But the board had just received a letter from Rob Herrmann, an environmental consultant, expressing reservations about the machinery. Mr. Herrmann wrote that the preferred alternative would be hand cutting, according to Billy Hajek, the village’s planner. “It’s a lot more work for the applicant,” Mr. Hajek said, “but less potential for impact.” 

Mr. Horwith was agreeable, but said “those types of equipment are almost definitely going to be needed at some parts of the pond, even if not at this property.” There will be required excavation, which “is a disturbance,” he said.

Mr. Klein’s application includes a request for a variance to permit an existing poolside deck to remain partly within the side-yard setback at the 5.5-acre property. The applicant erects a teepee on the deck, Mr. Horwith said. He also owns the adjoining property, so no neighbor would be affected by the variance.

“It seems very benign, and it’s tastefully done,” Ms. Marigold said. The hearing was closed.

The board also announced three determinations at the meeting. Jeffrey Gurciullo and Patrick Joggerst were granted a variance to retain 4,358 square feet of coverage at 11 Cooper Lane where the maximum by code is 3,483 square feet. The applicants had initially requested a variance for 4,820 square feet of coverage so that decks and wooden walkways could remain on the pre-existing nonconforming lot, but agreed to remove one deck and some of the walkways. 

The board granted Steven and Joan Bader a variance to allow an existing chimney and roof overhang to remain four feet within the required side-yard setback at 66 Toilsome Lane.

The Jacob Nuri Elghanayan 2008 Trust, at 156 Georgica Road, was granted variances to allow the conversion of a garage to a pool house that is within the front and rear-yard setbacks, and to allow the pool house to have a floor area of 327 square feet. Such accessory structures are restricted to 250 square feet under the code. The board attached two conditions: A door from the bathroom to the pool equipment room must be removed and walled off with sheetrock, with future access to the pool equipment room via an external door only; and the septic system on the property must be approved by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services.

Excavation has begun and signs have been approved for a new CVS Pharmacy at the 71 Montauk Highway site of East Hampton Bowl, which closed in 2013 and was demolished last year. Although construction has not begun, Jeffrey Suchman, the New York real estate investor and developer who owns the property, confirmed yesterday that “CVS is renting the building,” and that he hopes to turn it over “in the early New Year.”

“We haven’t heard anything” about a new location or what implications, if any, that would have, an employee of the existing CVS on Pantigo Road said yesterday. Leonard Ackerman, an East Hampton attorney who owns the building, speculated yesterday that CVS may be trying to pre-empt a competitor from taking the space.

The East Hampton Village Design Review Board approved a site plan last July for a 9,982-square-foot, single-tenant structure along with 50 parking spaces, lighting, and landscaping. The village approved Mr. Suchman’s permit for signs at the pharmacy in April.

The new building will be one-third smaller than the one that housed the bowling alley, a legally pre-existing structure that did not conform to zoning. The village’s zoning board of appeals granted a variance last year to allow coverage of the parcel to be 74.6 percent although the zoning code limits coverage in a commercial district to 60 percent. The coverage has been reduced from the bowling alley’s 80.6 percent and the new structure will be closer to Montauk Highway with most parking shifted behind it.

Four lighted signs are to go up. A 29.83-square-foot sign will be on the building’s facade, 18.5 feet above the ground at its highest point. A two-sided “monument” sign of 12 square feet on either side will be installed on metal posts one foot from the northern property line and perpendicular to Montauk Highway. It is to be eight feet high and lighted by in-ground LED fixtures.

A 2.42-square-foot plaque listing the store’s hours is to be installed next to the main entrance, and a fourth sign, of three square feet, will denote the building’s freight entrance. LED lighting to illuminate signs will be directed to ensure that no glare extends beyond the property lines, according to the application, and that it does not disturb the vision of passing motorists.

East Hampton Bowl hosted recreational and competitive bowling for 54 years. The building’s roof collapsed under the weight of heavy snowfall in January of 2015, prior to its demolition.

Many Amagansett residents, East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell among them, were out and about on Monday night, either at a history program on the Nazi submarine landing off Atlantic Avenue Beach or at the monthly meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, where at least a dozen extra chairs were commandeered to accommodate a good-sized crowd.

Unfortunately for the committee, the two events began just half an hour apart, and Mr. Cantwell, who is the committee’s town board liaison, resolved the conflict of interest in favor of history. That left committee members with an agenda calling for the supervisor to update them on the status of various topics of interest to the hamlet, but no supervisor. Instead, he emailed Vicki Littman, the chairwoman, with a brief summary.

The public bathrooms now under construction at the rear of the town parking lot behind Main Street are rising rapidly, but the work will stop on June 30 to make room for the inevitable summer crush of cars, and will resume after Labor Day. Workers will be on the job from Monday through Thursday for the next two weeks.

It took 9 or 10 town boards and nearly two decades of increasingly impassioned pleas from Main Street merchants and the Amagansett Library before the Suffolk County Department of Health finally okayed the plans for the privies. Mr. Cantwell had the official county document preserved for posterity in a faux-gold frame, as befitted the moment, and sent it over via the town’s chief harbormaster, Ed Michels, who unveiled it to loud applause. “It didn’t take that long to put up the space station,” Mr. Michels observed.

Mr. Michels was the evening’s guest speaker, there to talk about the town’s new beach fire regulation, which will be enforced as of June 27. The requirements that fires be in a metal container and that a two-gallon bucket of water be kept within 10 feet of the fire are likely to give Marine Patrol the most trouble, he indicated, particularly in Montauk, where “there are literally 100 fires burning every weekend — that’s what they do.” Visitors out there interpret “buckets” in all kinds of inventive ways, he said: “We’ve had them using kids’ sand pails.” The town board was to have met on Tuesday with hotel and motel owners to talk about the new rules.

Asked about past shenanigans on Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, Mr. Michels said, “I think that problem has passed,” adding that there are “not a lot of tickets being issued in Amagansett as a whole. Montauk is the hot spot.”

Townwide, however, the numbers are surging. Marine Patrol issued 796 summonses in 2013; 1,103 in 2014, and 2,253 last year, for everything from drunkenness to the misuse of fire lanterns. The paper lanterns “are fine, until they let the tether go,” the harbormaster said. “Then it becomes an ‘unattended fire on the beach.’ ”

A number of Beach Hampton families have asked that the 30-miles-per-hour speed limit on their narrow, child-crowded roads be lowered, and Mr. Cantwell reported in his email that the New York State Department of Transportation is considering it, starting with Atlantic Avenue, Bluff Road, and Indian Wells Highway. Whether the limit on those streets is reduced to 25 miles per hour will be known by the end of this month.

The supervisor had nothing new to say about the current studies of the town’s five hamlets, which are being led by consultants with a view toward future commercial development, but several members of the audience who had attended different Amagansett sessions reported that both groups had suggested moving the post office to the long-shuttered Villa Prince, the rumored site of a 7-Eleven. Both groups agreed, they said, that “nobody wanted development.”

The evening’s final business, the nomination and election of new officers for the coming year, was quickly dispatched. Rona Klopman was re-elected secretary, with Kammy Wolf, who has filled in for her on occasion, as co-secretary. Jim McMillan was re-elected vice chairman and Ms. Littman was re-elected chairwoman. There were no other nominations and all the votes were unanimous.

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will host a climate change symposium on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. “Working Together Toward Sustainability: Innovations and Expert Recommendations for Positive Change on the East End” will include a panel discussion and cocktail reception with environmental activists and legislators.

A donation has been asked for attendance, with proceeds benefiting the museum’s climate change programming, which launched last fall. Information about a suggested donation can be obtained by calling the museum or sending an email to [email protected] or [email protected].

This is the forum’s second year, and returning to speak are Peter Boyd, founder of the Time4Good Group and a senior adviser and climate lead for the B Team; Assemblyman Steve Englebright, who is also a member of the museum’s board, and Michael Gerrard, the Andrew Sabin professor of professional practice at Columbia Law School and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Joining them will be Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming, a former member of the Southampton Town Board; Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. of Sag Harbor; Nick Martin of Martin Architects of Sagaponack, and Edwina von Gal, a landscape designer and founder and president of the Perfect Earth Project.

Martin Architects and Dr. Fedorenko True Organic of Sag Harbor are the event’s sponsors.

East Hampton Town residents interested in producing a show at LTV, learning the ins and outs of video production, or becoming a local television producer have been encouraged to attend a free orientation session on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. The orientation will include a tour of the building and equipment, an explanation of process and paperwork, and a discussion of creative ideas.

LTV is East Hampton’s public access facility at 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott and has a huge studio space and equipment for the community’s use. The Monday program is a prerequisite for other training there, including a June 27 camera operation workshop and one on directing on July 11. Mike Tremblay, the production and education manager, can be emailed to sign up at [email protected] or reached by phone at 631-537-2777.

Renewable Energy Long Island, a not-for-profit organization that promotes clean, sustainable energy generation and use, will host an educational forum on building a renewable and resilient energy system for the South Fork on Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m., in Studio 3 at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

With the Long Island Power Authority expected to announce results of its request for proposals to address electricity needs next month, the forum is intended to convey the community’s views on meeting the South Fork’s growing energy demand, said Gordian Raacke, the organization’s executive director.

Along with Mr. Raacke, speakers will include East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, members of the Town of Southampton’s government and its sustainability committee, David Daly, president and chief operating officer of PSEG Long Island, which manages the island’s energy grid on LIPA’s behalf, and Clint Plummer of Deepwater Wind, an energy company that is vying to build a 90-megawatt offshore wind farm. 

Jeremy Samuelson of Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Dieter von Lehsten and Glorian Berk of Southampton’s sustainability committee, Bill Chaleff of Chaleff & Rogers Architects, and Frank Dalene of Telemark Builders will lead breakout sessions in which specific topics can be investigated in detail.

“It’s a new world,” said Mr. Raacke, “a new era in reforming the energy vision, in things being turned right side up, I would say. Decisions are now supposed to be made by the customers at the local level, not in the utility boardroom or in Albany.” Renewable Energy Long Island, he said, will film the event, compile a summary, and use social media to convey the community’s message to LIPA’s board of directors ahead of that body’s July 20 meeting in Uniondale.

Renewable energy sources, including solar and wind power, have grown in efficiency as their costs have fallen, and both are essential components of a clean energy future, Mr. Raacke said. “There is no single silver bullet when it comes to building the modern energy system, or any energy system. It’s a holistic exercise. It has to involve energy efficiency, and demand response programs” that allow consumers to reduce or shift their electricity usage during peak periods.

“We have to cut back on these excessive peak demand times in summer,” he said. “It has to involve retrofitting existing building stock. It involves renewable energy sources small and large, and anything in between, and community ownership, not just large corporate entities.”

Renewable energy advocates are optimistic that LIPA is seriously considering proposals including the offshore wind farm, battery-storage installations, and a microgrid, a system comprising distributed energy sources and loads capable of operating independently from the main power grid.

“We really want to encourage the community to be there,” Mr. Raacke said. “We realize this is not something we can just leave up to Albany or the PSEG-LIPA boardroom. It’s something we have to build from the ground up, right here, for the community.”

The forum’s sponsors, along with Renewable Energy Long Island, are the Town of East Hampton, the Town of Southampton’s sustainability committee, the East End Resilience Network, the East Hampton Environmental Coalition, and Concerned Citizens of Montauk. The event is free and open to the public, but those planning to attend have been asked to reserve a space online or by email to [email protected] or calling 631-329-8888.

A brief work session of the East Hampton Village Board last Thursday saw a return visit by a critic of the village’s efforts to reduce the white-tail deer population through sterilization.

The village’s proposed 2016-17 budget, the subject of a hearing at its meeting on Friday, June 17, includes $50,000 for deer management, and officials will soon decide whether to renew a contract with White Buffalo, the Connecticut nonprofit that has conducted the sterilization program over the last two winters. White Buffalo’s efforts have drawn criticism from both animal rights and hunting advocates, who have called the program cruel and ineffective.

Terry O’Riordan, a director of the East Hampton Sportsmen’s Alliance, read a statement to the board reiterating his group’s opposition to any sterilization program. “Ineffective and not cost-effective” was his assessment.

The village’s deer management policy, Mr. O’Riordan pointed out, is guided by concerns including tick-borne diseases and deer-vehicle collisions. Sterilization, he said, will have no impact. “These drugged, surgically treated deer are left alone in the middle of a freezing cold night, in a stupor, to fend for themselves without any aftercare or meaningful oversight, and the survivors of this ordeal can still provide a blood meal for human disease-carrying ticks and mosquitoes, and can still injure, cripple, and kill humans via interactions with cyclists and motor vehicles.”

Sterilized deer also continue to ravage the understory of private lands, woods, forests, and sanctuaries, he said. Further, drugs administered to sterilize deer could compromise the meat, thus denying state residents of “their right to harvest an animal to feed themselves.”

A responsibly implemented hunt addresses all of the aforementioned concerns at no cost to a municipality, Mr. O’Riordan told the board. 

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., referring to the upcoming budget hearing, responded that the sterilization program “is a work in progress. This body is extremely sensitive to the issues, and we certainly understand and respect your remarks.”

Also last Thursday, the board accepted a $96,359 bid from Gatz Landscaping of Mattituck to implement a project that will improve the water quality of Hook Pond. The company is to create “bioswales” — drainage courses designed to trap pollutants and silt, both of which plague Hook and Town Ponds — at the Village Green and the green at the Hook Mill and North Cemetery. The cost, said Becky Molinaro, the village administrator, will be offset by a $46,000 grant from the Suffolk County Water Quality Protection and Restoration Program.

The board authorized $35,458 for Lombardo Associates, a consultant previously contracted to design water quality improvement projects for the Hook Pond remediation effort. The firm will perform additional analysis of sediment collected and share its findings related to its reuse on land. “This is a private-public partnership,” the mayor said, referring to a private-sector commitment of $200,000. On behalf of private property owners, the Group for the East End recently provided $25,000, Ms. Molinaro said Tuesday.

She also told the board that the fuel facility that the town and village will share is under construction on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton and scheduled to be operational in August. The municipalities were awarded $400,000 from the state’s Local Government Efficiency Grant Program for the facility’s construction, she said. While the village’s share of construction costs is under 30 percent, additional work is adding about $25,000 to the overall expense, slightly increasing village costs.

Because Suffolk County’s new, additional area code, 934, goes into effect on June 18, residents will need to begin dialing 10 digits when they pick up their phones to make a call beginning that same day.

The New York State Public Service Commission sent out a reminder yesterday that while existing 631 phone numbers will not change, people should take note that seven-digit dialing will no longer work. Calls to area codes outside 631 and 934 will require a 1 plus the necessary 10 digits

The commission set up the new area code last year “to ensure a continuing supply of new telephone numbers” in Suffolk County. According to the announcement, “Customers in the 631 area code region requesting new service, an additional line, or in some cases moving their service may be assigned a number in the new 934 area code.”

More information can be found on the commission’s website at dps.ny.gov

A fund-raising effort has been set up to carry on the 35-year tradition of mid- July fireworks over Three Mile Harbor following the announcement last week by the Clamshell Foundation of East Hampton, sponsor of the Great Bonac Fireworks for the last several years, that its support of the show would be discontinued.

The show could go on, however, if $60,000 can be raised to cover its expenses within the next several weeks. As of yesterday morning, $8,106 had been pledged at a GoFundMe fund-raising page titled “The Great Bonac Fireworks Show."

Fund-raising efforts for the show had been falling short in recent years, the foundation announced recently, and its founder, Rossetti Perchik, had made up the difference. Mr. Perchik died last month, and the foundation planned to focus its efforts on raising money for its annual support of various community programs.

Fireworks by Grucci, which initiated the show originally in conjunction with the Boys Harbor camp, has been underwriting a large portion of its costs and has offered to continue to do so in honor of the late Anthony Drexel Duke, the founder of Boys Harbor, and Mr. Perchik.

The fund-raising is needed to cover costs not borne by the company, associated with the barge set up in the harbor as a launch site and other items