In month two of the six-month moratorium on new construction and major renovations of most single-family houses in Sag Harbor, the village board heard four requests for exemptions and granted two.

The board had unanimously passed a temporary moratorium to stop development while it reconsidered the building code. An exemption process was established to vet proposals in which applicants claimed it would be a hardship to wait six months to move forward.

Thomas Cooper, an East Hampton resident and builder, received an exemption for the renovation of a 1,606-square-foot house on an approximately 3,822-square-foot lot at 209 Division Street. He will now be able to add 184 square feet to the house.

Mr. Cooper said that the building inspector had said the house was unsafe and required repairs, which he will undertake. “I don’t think that this law is trying to prevent anybody from cleaning up and making things safer for this community,” he told the board.

In a letter to the board in July, he noted that his project fell into the moratorium, in part, because the cost of the addition will exceed 50 percent of the value of the existing house. However, he wrote, “the project should not be deemed a substantial improvement because the majority of the improvements . . . will correct existing code violations and significant health and safety issues.”  He will also replace a 75-year-old septic system, which predates current sanitary standards.

Noel and Gwendolyn Hankin’s request was also approved for their house at 27 Harding Terrace in Ninevah. The couple, who have recently retired there, plan an addition to their existing one-story, 1,040-square-foot house as well as a basement on the 13,425-square-foot lot. The addition would result in a two-story house with 3,482-square-feet, which Mr. Hankin told the board pales in comparison to the “humongous houses” in his neighborhood.

Several people in the audience muttered comments about why exemptions were being granted at all, and Gigi Morris went to the podium to pose that question. “I’m very confused . . . ,” she said. “I thought the point of the moratorium was to say, ‘Wait a minute, let’s regroup here.’”

She took particular exception to an application from Arnold Beau Baker and Susan Baker seeking to demolish a 1,300-square-foot, one-story house at 18 Howard Street, which is around the corner from her own house. The Bakers are in contract to buy the property from Richard Browngardt, and want to build a two-story, 2,929-square-foot house on the 9,600-square-foot lot. They received approvals before the moratorium but did not demolish the existing house in time, which triggered the review.

Tony Brandt, the chairman of the architectural review board, said the Bakers had worked with the board to come up with plans that it would be pleased with and that this particular house was not in a historic district. “There are houses in Sag Harbor you’re not sorry to see gone, and I think this is one of them,” he said.

At the close of the hearing, no one moved to approve the exemption, and Ken O’Donnell, a trustee, said he wouldn’t sign off on demolition because they, too, are prohibited during the moratorium.

The board ultimately held the hearing open until the next meeting, much to Mr. Baker’s displeasure. He apparently wanted to make an argument with regard to hardship, saying he was in jeopardy of losing a $150,000 deposit.

 “This moratorium has a purpose, and nothing I am doing is against the purpose of the moratorium. You’re trying to go by the letter of the law, but this law was made up in a hurry with a lot of flaws,” he said. “This doesn’t make any sense to me.” 

The board also tabled an application from 154 Redwood L.L.C. The plans include demolishing a 4,150-square-foot house on a 32,342-square-foot lot at that address and building a 6,252-square-foot house in its place. The new house would have one story visible from the street and two stories visible from the water.

Brian DeSessa, the attorney for the applicant, said the project required no relief from the code, but fell under the moratorium due to its size and the demolition.

“The prevailing point,” he told the board, was that the project came to a halt during the wetlands moratorium last year. It had since been revised and now fell into another moratorium. He called it “a moving target.”

Fred W. Thiele Jr., the village board’s attorney, said this was the most complicated application of the four and advised the board that it needed more time and more information. 

The Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons will hold Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, beginning Sunday at 6:30 p.m. with the Rosh Hashana evening service. On Monday and Tuesday, the New Year services, including the blowing of the shofar, will begin at 9 a.m., followed on Tuesday by a potluck lunch.

Tashlich, a service dedicated to the casting away of sins that takes place at a body of water, will be held at the Nature Center on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike following the Monday morning service.

Yom Kippur will begin on the evening of Sept. 22, with the Kol Nidre service at 6:45. Day services will take place Sept. 23 at 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., the latter followed by the blowing of the shofar at 7:30 and a community meal to celebrate the breaking of the fast.

All services will be led by Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Michael Boino, a rabbinic intern, and Anna Silverman, a cantatorial student from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will begin its Rosh Hashana evening service at 8 on Sunday. Monday’s 10 a.m. service will be followed at 11:30 by a “Birthday of the World Celebration” for children 8 and under. A family service will take place Monday at 4 p.m., and Tashlich will happen at Havens Beach at 5:15. Tuesday’s morning service at 10 will be followed by Kiddush.

For Yom Kippur, the Kol Nidre service is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 22. The 10 a.m. service on Sept. 23 will be followed by a service for children 8 and under at 11:30. Other services on the same day will include a family service at 2:30, an afternoon service at 4, memorial services at 5:45, and a concluding service at 6:30.

The final shofar blast will take place at 7:15, followed by Havdalah and the breaking of the fast.

Ahead of its Sept. 19 budget vote, the East Hampton Library will hold a hearing tomorrow at 3 p.m. to present its $2.3 million spending plan to the community.

If it is approved, the budget would increase by about $86,000, or 3.9 percent. The average taxpayer would spend $4.89 more on library taxes this year.

Among the items in the library’s proposed budget is an increase of $33,622, or 2.1 percent, to allow the library to hire three more part-time staff members. The total staffing costs would then amount to just under $1.6 million. Dennis Fabiszak, the library director, said the new employees will help the library offer more programs.

“We’re realizing different ways we can use the new space” in the Baldwin Family Lecture Room, a 60-seat facility that was completed about a year ago, he said.

The library will increase spending on books, music, periodicals, and other materials by about 4.5 percent, up to $145,000. Administrative costs such as auditing, telephone service, and postage would rise by about 5 percent, up to $139,800.

Facilities expenses, such as utilities, repairs, and equipment, are expected to drop by about 4.8 percent, down to $188,500. Mr. Fabiszak said the library anticipates spending less on heating and electricity, thanks to upgraded lighting fixtures and a new high-efficiency gas heating system that will replace four old oil furnaces.

“Our building is now energy efficient,” he said. “We think that will add up.”

The library relies on significant private support from donations, fund-raisers, grants, and Library Society memberships. Mr. Fabiszak said the library anticipates receiving $475,000 this year in private support, largely thanks to a successful Authors Night earlier this year. All of the library’s capital improvements, including the installation of the new heaters, are funded this way, which makes up between 30 and 35 percent of the total budget. In its budget statement, the library says that “generous members of the community and the library board have donated close to $19 million to the library” since 1995.

“Fund-raising helps us keep our expenses low and run a building of this size. It’s an old building, and it’s not small,” Mr. Fabiszak said. “A lot of public institutions would have to fund with taxes what we are able to pay for with private donations.”

Mr. Fabiszak said he is hoping for a larger turnout. The last few years’ budget votes have seen 300 or fewer voters.

The budget vote will be held on Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the library. Residents who are registered voters in the East Hampton, Springs, and Wainscott School Districts are eligible to cast ballots for the library budget. Absentee ballots must be requested from and returned to those schools’ district clerks.

A proposal to allow vendors to sell food and beverages at two East Hampton Village beaches has been abandoned. The idea, floated for the parking areas at Two Mile Hollow and Georgica Beaches by Barbara Borsack, the village’s deputy mayor, was presented at a village board hearing on Aug. 21 and criticized in several letters .

Given the public’s reception, Ms. Borsack said in an email Tuesday, “We all agreed it would not go further.”

The impetus, Ms. Borsack told a resident at the hearing, was the desire to maximize the use of Two Mile Hollow Beach, which she said is underutilized, as is its large parking lot. The Chowder Bowl snack bar serves food and drinks at the Main Beach Pavilion. “Perhaps if there was food available, like at Main Beach, it might be more used by families,” she said.

The hearing was left open through Friday for written comments, and several letters and emails were received, all in opposition. In one, Susan Gilmer, a village resident, worried about an increase in litter as well as increased traffic on beach access roads and its potential danger to pedestrians.

A reply to those who had commented was sent this week. After a review, it said, “the board of trustees has decided not to move forward with the proposal at this time.”

Decrying what she called a “mini-Versailles” and increased “paverization,” Lys Marigold, vice chairwoman of the village’s zoning board of appeals, spoke for her colleagues about an application for extensive landscaping and the addition of multiple structures at a property on West End Road bordering Georgica Pond.

Emilia Saint-Amand, the widow of H. Frederick Krimendahl II, a longtime Goldman Sachs executive who died last year, is seeking multiple variances and a freshwater wetlands permit for excavation, fill, grading, planting, and drainage, as well as fences, walls, walks, and other paved surfaces. Speaking on her behalf at the meeting, William J. Fleming said the property had been inundated by Hurricane Irene in 2011 and “battered again by Sandy” the following year.

The house had subsequently been elevated and is now five feet higher at its lowest point than before the storms, Mr. Fleming said. A new 3,500-square-foot septic field and other proposed changes would result in the lot’s coverage being 12,455 square feet, or 22 percent greater than the maximum permitted. Mr. Fleming said the additional coverage reflected the elevations of the residence.

Runoff would remain on the parcel, Mr. Fleming said, via catch basins that would be dug and filled with sand. Edmund Hollander, Ms. Saint-Amand’s landscape architect, said this was the best treatment for runoff.

But the property was “pretty much empty” before Hurricane Sandy, according to Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman. He expressed concern about the additional coverage proposed. Herringbone brick walkways and other structures are proposed “particularly close to the pond,” he said, noting a fence, walkway, steppingstones, and dry wells would be as close as 1.7 feet from wetlands, where the required setback is 150 feet. At least 15 dry wells on the property would feed into groundwater, he said, raising concern about drainage, fertilization, and irrigation that would affect the pond. Later in the meeting, he called the plans “way too elaborate for a very sensitive, narrow site.”

Ms. Marigold continued the critique. “I’m surprised that Ed Hollander, who has done other work on the pond, would create a mini-Versailles there,” she said. “You look at all the old houses, people walked on the grass. Nowadays, everything has to be connected with brick walkways, pavers, steppingstones. In 2015, with all the problems of Georgica, to put in this kind of landscaping plan . . . I was actually shocked.”

“I probably wouldn’t vote for this at all,” John McGuirk, a member of the board, said.

“I came here realizing I might have to come back. It’s starting to sink in that I may well be back here,” Mr. Fleming said. Mr. Newbold asked him to review the plans with his client and suggested they consider the pond’s ecological sensitivity.

The board approved a separate fresh water permit for the removal of phragmites and other invasive plants and closed that portion of the hearing. It was tentatively scheduled to resume at the board’s meeting on Friday, Sept. 11.

The board also announced three determinations. Over the dissenting vote of one member, Craig Humphrey, Michael Ostin, a music executive, was granted variances to allow the reconstruction of a pre-existing second house at 115 Montauk Highway. The code allows only one residence per lot.

The board attached conditions to the variance, requiring that Mr. Ostin use the 507-square-foot house only for family or nonpaying guests, put in and maintain a 6-foot-high fence and 8-foot-high evergreens along two boundary lines, and record covenants with the county clerk stating that the conditions were binding on all heirs or successors.

The other two decisions announced granted approval retroactively. Josh Resnick of 61 David’s Lane was granted a variance allowing the continued existence of 8,337 square feet of lot coverage, exceeding the maximum permitted by 1,239 square feet. The board found that Mr. Resnick had made improvements to the property without realizing that at-grade patios and walkways are included in lot coverage calculations. It found, however, that they caused no undesirable change to the character of the neighborhood. Larry Hillel cast a dissenting vote.

Thomas Piacentine and Kathleen Ryan of 10 Buell Lane Extension were granted variances to allow the continued maintenance of a swimming pool, pool equipment, patio, waterfall, trash bin, air-conditioning unit, accessory building, and slate walkway, all within required setbacks. The variances were conditioned on the removal of a shower from an accessory building and its use solely as a studio or pool house, with no sleeping or cooking. 

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced last week that he had introduced legislation to support a water quality protection project for Hook Pond in East Hampton. The $92,000 project will protect the pond from stormwater runoff and enhance water quality in the watershed.

The water quality of Hook Pond is poor, with dangerously low levels of dissolved oxygen, according to Pio Lombardo, principal of the firm that has conducted water quality studies for the town and village. Accumulated sediment, stormwater and wastewater discharge, and other sources including fertilizer, waterfowl waste, the deposit of pollutants from the atmosphere, and agricultural practices are responsible for elevated phosphorus and nitrogen, Mr. Lombardo told East Hampton Village officials in May. These conditions promote harmful algal growth, which in turn depletes dissolved oxygen.

Extensive stormwater runoff accumulates at the village green, which overflows into Town Pond and from there to a feeder stream of Hook Pond via a culvert.

The project calls for the excavation of approximately a quarter acre of land at the village green, to a depth of 12 to 18 inches, which would be replanted with turf grass in order to create micropools — shallow pools that remove pollutants from stormwater runoff — during wet and inclement weather. The design and implementation of a bioswale — a drainage course designed to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff — at the Hook Mill green is another component of the project. Both undertakings will address stormwater runoff into Hook and Town Ponds.

The village had applied for a $46,375 grant for the work under the county’s Water Quality Protection and Restoration Program. The funding was initially awarded in the spring, said Becky Molinaro, the village administrator, and is making its way through the County Legislature. The village included its 50-percent matching contribution in its 2015-16 budget.

“The village is extremely thankful for the support of the county executive, Legislator Jay Schneiderman, and the continuing work of our Hook Pond committee,” Ms. Molinaro said.

The Ocean Institute and Surf Museum, a new feature at the Montauk Lighthouse Museum, will have a formal opening tonight at 6:30.

The museum had its beginnings on a beach in 2013. Russell Drumm, a surfer and an East Hampton Star senior reporter; Bettina Stelle, a surfer who has curated exhibits for the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, and Jimmy Buffett, the singer and surfer, decided that Montauk needed an educational facility that would focus on the force of nature and how it affects the ocean, geography, geology, weather, and marine life.

The 1,000 square-foot building that is wedged just east between the lighthouse and a World War II fire station, built in 1897, was chosen as the site. The building was used in the past to house a fog horn siren, and later for storage. A few years ago, when a deck was constructed down a wide grassy hill from the Lighthouse Museum, Greg Donohue, Dick White, and Betsy White, members of that museum and of the Montauk Historical Society, talked about utilizing the awe-inspiring site for something more.

In February 2014, Mr. Drumm reached out to the historical society and the Montauk Lighthouse Committee, and all agreed the small building would be the perfect place for the something more. Mr. Donohue became the liaison between the two groups. As the lighthouse is a National Historic Landmark, any work done on it would have to stay within its original footprint.

A contractor was hired to replicate windows and doors, using the original plans that have been kept in storage at the lighthouse. The interior has received a fresh coat of white paint. The cement floors are a pale gray, mimicking the color of the surrounding Atlantic on a stormy day. On a day with waves, visitors can watch the surfers at Turtle Cove from the windows to the west.

Inside, a collection of surfboards dating back to the 1960s, on loan from Tony Caramanico and Charlie Bunger, both notable surfers, is on display, as is a simulated beach scene with a sandy floor, beach chairs, and male and female mannequins, the females in bikinis and the males in board shorts. A retro transistor radio is perched on beach towels strewn on a beach chair. Vintage soda bottles and a small movie camera help date the scene.

Track lighting has been added to the ceiling. On the walls hang plaques tracing the history of surfing in Montauk, some of which highlight long-ago plans by East Hampton Town officials to ban surfing in the hamlet and letters to local papers opposing the ban.

Eventually, when more money is raised, the Ocean Institute will have revolving exhibits, including a virtual sea aquarium that will allow visitors to see what is under the water right outside. Donations are still sought for the project, which is expected to cost up to $200,000. For now, the surf museum will be open limited hours when the Lighthouse Museum is open.

Tonight’s opening event will be held outdoors on the lawn overlooking Block Island Sound. Admission is $25 for adults, free for children. Martine and Juan are the D.J.s. Drinks have been donated by the Montauk Brewing Company and food will be available from the Sea Bean, a catering truck. There will be a screening at 9 p.m. of “Five Summer Stories,” a surf film.

Jarvis J. Slade Jr. and Tonia J. D’Angelo of East Hampton were married on Aug. 15 at the Slade estate on Middle Lane. They exchanged vows in a grove of old oak trees under an arbor made from bamboo growing in a back field on the property.

Jane Holmes officiated, and a reception followed in a field next to a barn dating from the 1800s. 

Both the bride and groom were previously married. All of their five children participated in the wedding. The bride was escorted down the aisle by her oldest son, Collin Kavanaugh, while Maxfield and Leo Panish played “The Secret Wedding” from “Braveheart” on violins.

Also attending the bride were her daughter, Kate Kavanaugh, 17, as maid of honor, and her son Cameron Kavanaugh, 15.

Mr. Slade’s daughter Ana Beatriz was in the wedding party and his 10-year-old, Sofia, was the flower girl. John Breen of East Hampton was his best man.

Mr. Slade is the son of Alice Patterson of McLean, Va., and Jarvis Slade Sr. of East Hampton. He is the chief executive officer of Stage Point Capital L.L.C., a privately held real estate investment fund, and has previously held senior executive positions at Christie’s International Real Estate, Abercrombie & Kent, and American Express Travel. He graduated from St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., and with honors and distinction from Stanford University.

The bride, the daughter of Laura Koupoulos of Hollywood, Fla., and the late Anthony D’Angelo, graduated from East Hampton High School and Stony Brook University. A yoga teacher, she is a founder of Tonia D’Angelo Yoga, Reiki, and Retreats.

On her wedding day Ms. D’Angelo Slade wore a dress from Anthropologie’s Beholden line and carried a bouquet of dark and light pink peonies, poppy pods, roses, and gerbera daisies, with a fresh gardenia in her hair. Her daughters were in cream chiffon strapless dresses and carried gerbera daisies, larkspur, freesia, and roses.

The groom’s daughter Sofia sang “A Thousand Years.” Wedding guests sat on hay bales covered with yoga blankets and pillows and danced the night away under an open-sided tent.

The couple are living on Town Lane in East Hampton. They plan a two-week yoga and hiking pilgrimage to India in October.

Mark Schryver, an interior designer whose work has been featured in The New York Times among other publications, has “a keen understanding of space planning,” according to his website, but the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals has nevertheless asked that he reduce his request to exceed the allowable floor area of his house at 35 Sherrill Road by 19 percent.

In a continuation of the hearing on Mr. Schryver’s request for variances for greater floor area than allowed by code and an expanded porch within the front-yard setback, Jon Tarbet, an attorney, told the board that his client had acted on its request to reduce the size of the proposed second story.

Most of the other houses on the village portion of Sherrill Road, which straddles the town and village, either have a front porch or fall within 14 feet of the property line, similar to Mr. Schryver’s proposed expanded porch, Mr. Tarbet said. Most also have two stories, he added, and his client’s revised plan, which eliminates a proposed closet and bathroom, would result in the second story receding an additional five feet from the street. The reduction “didn’t add up to a lot of G.F.A.,” he said, using the panel’s shorthand for gross floor area, “but now the second story will start 20 feet behind the front porch. We worked very hard on trying to find ways to diminish the second story.”

A significant constraint, Mr. Tarbet said, is an existing stairway to the basement, above which Mr. Schryver has proposed a stairway to the second story. “But because it’s a relatively small house,” he said, “the landing area for it takes up a large portion of the second floor. . . . If you want to do a second story, this is pretty much the best we can do as far as cutting it back.” The alternative, he said, would be to demolish the 1,180-square-foot house, which was constructed in 1920, and rebuild.

The house is 18 feet high, said Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, while the second story would make it 26. Mr. Schryver does not need a height variance, but Mr. Newbold said the plan “impacts the mass as seen from the street.” 

“I think we’re setting a real big precedent — every other house could use this,” said Larry Hillel, of the board.

“The purpose of the G.F.A. law,” Mr. Newbold told Mr. Tarbet, “was because the sense of the planners was that on small village lots, houses were getting too big. We’ve all seen it on small village streets, where you drive down and say, ‘How did that happen?’ It was to reduce mass to keep the small houses from being enlarged too much.” While he acknowledged that Mr. Schryver was designing the proposed expansion “in the most sensitive way he can,” the board thinks “it’s still a little too large for the lot,” he said. “The question is, do we ask the applicant to have one last look at the plans to see if there’s anywhere that something could be squeezed out?” A majority of his colleagues said yes.

Mr. Schryver told the board that he designed the expansion with the character of the neighborhood in mind. “We’re really restricted in what we can do, given the house is only 28 feet wide,” he said, “and when you subtract a hallway and walls, it doesn’t leave a whole lot of room. . . . I don’t think there’s anything we could do that would significantly reduce the G.F.A. and still allow us to have a second floor.” He agreed to try to further reduce the floor area, but asked for the board’s understanding. “I don’t think there’s any way to reduce this by 100 feet,” he said.

The hearing was left open and will be revisited at the board’s next meeting, Aug. 28.

The board announced one determination at its meeting. Eleanor Dejoux of 36 Apaquogue Road was granted area variances to permit the installation of a generator and to allow the continued maintenance of a garbage bin and window well, all within the required front-yard setback.

A determination on the application of Michael Ostin, who seeks to relocate and alter a dilapidated cottage at 189 Cove Hollow Road, was postponed because the board had not yet received a final survey and plans.

Mark Ripolone of Ditch Plains Taxi is tired of all the negativity coming out of Montauk this summer. He’s decided to put a positive spin on things and become a one-man fund-raiser by offering to donate all his fares from his two taxicabs on Wednesday between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. to the Montauk Playhouse Community Center.

Mr. Ripolone has owned the taxi business for four years and grew up working in the hamlet’s restaurants, fishing, and enjoying its beaches, he said. This summer, it seems, Montauk has turned from a family-oriented community to party central, he said.

He has witnessed firsthand, he said, how hard the East Hampton Town Board and Police Department and the Montauk Fire Department and ambulance squad have worked to get things under control and sustain the community. For that reason, he’ll donate his Wednesday fares.

“I am a firm believer that if we support one another in this community, the strength and overall presence of Montauk will remain a beautiful place,” he said.