The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons will present the Amazing Amagansett Adventure, a history and art tour, on Wednesday.

The day will begin at 11 a.m. with a tour of the East Hampton Town Marine Museum on Bluff Road. A tour of the East End Classic Boat Society’s Community Boat Shop, located behind the Marine Museum, follows at noon. At 12:20, Isabel Carmichael will speak at and about the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station, which is just around the corner on Atlantic Avenue. Her family moved the station and lived in it for many years before donating it to the town, which moved it back to its original site. The station played a small but significant role in America’s involvement in World War II.

A catered lunch at the Art Barge, at 110 Napeague Meadow Road, is set for 1 p.m., followed by a talk and tour led by Christopher Kohan, president of the Art Barge board. Mr. Kohan will talk about Victor D’Amico, founder of the Art Barge and a founding director of the education department at the Museum of Modern Art. Participants can then choose between a 2:30 tour of the Victor and Mabel D’Amico House at Lazy Point or a stroll and shop on Amagansett Main Street.

Those taking part in the Amazing Amagansett Adventure have been asked to mail a check in the amount of $40 made out to the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons to Gladys Remler, L.W.V. special events co-chairwoman, 180 Melody Court, Eastport 11941, or to call her at 288-9021. Checks should be mailed by tomorrow.

Registrants who include an email address will receive an itinerary of the day including directions. Maps will be provided, and carpooling has been encouraged.

The installation of a centralized wastewater system to serve properties in downtown Montauk will be the subject of a discussion on Monday night at the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee meeting. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the Montauk School.

For property owners who wish to discuss the details of their particular sites, engineers who have developed the proposal will be on hand at the school beginning at 5 p.m.

During the development of a townwide comprehensive wastewater management plan by consultants working closely with Kim Shaw, the town’s natural resources director, downtown Montauk was identified as an area that could benefit from a shared wastewater system. Numerous lots there have inadequate wastewater systems and lack the space needed to install better systems on site.

A waste system is considered to be malfunctioning if it requires a pump-out three or more times a year, according to Pio Lombardo, the principal of Lombardo Associates, the firm developing the wastewater plan.

The Montauk dock area and Ditch Plain were also identified as spots where state-of-the-art neighborhood wastewater treatment systems would be beneficial.

“Those properties can’t solve their problems with individual solutions,” Mr. Lombardo said at a meeting in Montauk earlier this year.

In the neighborhood systems, he said, pipes would collect and carry liquid waste from septic tanks at individual houses or businesses to a centralized underground treatment area.

Treated effluent could be used for irrigation.

The recommended underground system, Mr. Lombardo said, is air and watertight, eliminating odors. Besides eliminating nitrogen, it can also be configured to address “emerging contaminants” in the wastewater, such as the traces of pharmaceutical drugs increasingly being detected in groundwater.

Late last month, the town sent downtown property owners a letter about the community wastewater system proposal. An engineering assessment of each property was included, along with preliminary estimates of the annual cost to use the system based on various scenarios, such as whether grants can be obtained to cover portions of the project’s capital costs.

In an email this week, Mr. Lombardo stressed that the proposal and cost estimates are preliminary, and that, should a decision be made by the community to proceed with the downtown project, there would be “extensive public participation” as plans are developed to create a water quality improvement district. A planning study of the hamlet and its land use would be incorporated.

The development of East Hampton Town’s comprehensive wastewater management plan included an analysis of the conditions and wastewater management needs on each individual lot in the town and an overall analysis of conditions in the various watershed areas.

All of the data and reports prepared for the plan have been posted at a website, ehwaterrestore.com.

New York State parks officials have made having fun a little more interesting for children and adults at the two state parks in Montauk — one at Hither Hills and the other at the Montauk Point State Park, in the area surrounding the Montauk Point Lighthouse.

At Hither Hills the playground project is already complete and open for play. The colorful site was enlarged and more equipment was added to make it Americans With Disabilities Act-accessible, said Georgiana Marshen of the Long Island division of the State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.

The bigger playground at the campground was the first thing C.J. Olejnik noticed when his family from Baldwin arrived to camp at Hither Hills for the holiday weekend, his mother, Tina Olej­nik, said. “That’s all he wants to do now, is stay on the playground.” She said her family has summered at the campground for 26 years.

The Lighthouse playground, which will not be complete until the Fourth of July weekend, has been substantially landscaped and enlarged. It now has monkey bars and various types of slides and bounce equipment. Both playgrounds have picnic areas with tables and umbrellas. Close by there are picnic areas outside the playgrounds as well as restrooms. The restroom at the Lighthouse has been newly renovated.

For those arriving before 8 a.m. or after 4 p.m., parking is free at Hither Hills, but between those peak hours the cost is $10. Parking at the Lighthouse lot costs $8.

On April 21, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. issued a release stating that Hither Hills State Park would receive $1 million from the New York Parks 2020 Plan, a multiyear commitment to leverage a broad range of private and public funding to invest approximately $100 million in state parks to promote healthy and active outdoor recreation and to ensure that all people have an opportunity to use the parks.

Money from the plan also will be used to replace old and worn-out equipment at public facilities and infrastructure that have been neglected for too long, Mr. Thiele wrote. This year’s funding, at $71.7 million, will help pay for 88 major construction projects at 66 state parks and historic sites.

Proposed changes on the Drew Lane property owned by David Zaslav, the president of Discovery Communications, and his wife, Pam, had been reduced since the last time the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals looked at them, and the board closed its hearing on the matter on Friday. The oceanfront property was purchased from Jerry Della Femina for an estimated $25 million, and the application from the Zaslavs had been before the board since November.

Along with the renovation and expansion of the existing house, which was reported to have eight bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms at the time of the sale, the Zaslavs had initially sought to construct a new swimming pool and a new, 767-square-foot building to be used as a garage, storage area, and pool house on the 1.7-acre property. In addition, plans call for a new sanitary system, expanded driveway, and new drainage structures, stairways, and landscaping.

The property is entirely seaward of the coastal erosion hazard line as determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the plans require a coastal erosion permit and variances. The board had scrutinized the plans and worried aloud about the potential impact on the primary dune. The Zaslavs subsequently abandoned a new swimming pool, and on Friday, Richard A. Hammer, the Montauk attorney representing the couple, said they had made additional “very positive changes.”

In the most significant revision, Mr. Hammer said, no fill would be removed from the property as initially planned. Instead it would be used to bolster the dune in an area adjacent to the existing pool house, which is to be demolished. That area is at present a hollow that, in the event of a storm surge, could allow water to flow to inland properties, Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, said. The fill, he said, “will plug in that gap, and be a more natural dune-scape at the crest of the dune.”

Six decorative posts that were proposed for the ocean side of the house would be replaced by brackets, Mr. Hammer told the board, eliminating excavation farther into the dune setback and allaying another of the board’s concerns.

At the board’s request, Rob ­Herr­mann,­ a coastal management specialist, reviewed the applicants’ revised plans. On Friday, he said the Zaslavs’ decision to retain the existing swimming pool removed a potential for significant disturbance of the dune. Demolition of the legally pre-existing pool house, which sits atop the dune, was another positive, he said. “That is not nominal mitigation, to get rid of that building,” he said, calling its removal “a benefit to the dune crest and the village.”

Without this project, Mr. Herrmann said, there would be no dune reconstruction, restoration of dune vegetation, or removal of the old pool house. The board “is reaching the point now that you’re getting a reasonable tradeoff,” he said.

Nonetheless, Mr. Herrmann recommended that the board ask the applicants for a depiction of the proposed contours of the restored dune, calling it “the most significant part of the project in terms of a positive for the board” and “worth the applicants’ time” to provide it.

Mr. Hammer said his clients’ agreeing to renovate and expand the existing residence rather than demolish the house and build a new one was “a dramatic improvement.”

The board also announced several determinations. John Calicchio of 306 Georgica Road and David Gallo of 94 Apaquogue Road were granted freshwater wetlands permits to remove phragmites and other invasive plants and to replace them with native vegetation.

Arnold and Mildred Glimcher of 60 Georgica Close Road received a freshwater wetlands permit to allow the continued maintenance of air-conditioning units and the placement of a generator within wetlands setbacks. Andrew Anderson of 196 Cove Hollow Road was granted variances to allow the construction of a window well and placement of air-conditioning units within a required side-yard setback. And the estate of Joseph Kazickas at 140 Egypt Lane was granted a variance to allow a shed within required setbacks to remain.

The board announced that the artist Audrey Flack and her husband, H. Robert Marcus, had withdrawn their application for a proposed shed at 10 Cottage Avenue. Ms. Flack had sought a 432-square-foot shed with a height of 18 feet, 3 inches in which to store sculpture. But the code limits such structures to 250 square feet and 14 feet in height.

Julia Rose Thompson and Charles Monaco of Springs celebrated their engagement on Sunday with family and friends, at the 1770 House in East Hampton.

Ms. Thompson is the daughter of Steven Thompson of Springs and Michelle Macdonald of Tennessee. Mr. Monaco’s parents are Charles Monaco of New Mexico and Debbe Monaco of Nevada.

The future bride is the assistant general manager at Cittanuova restaurant in East Hampton. Mr. Monaco is the head bartender at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk. A fall 2016 wedding is planned.

Everywhere Lydell Margraf goes she takes Lulu, her little 9-year-old Pomeranian, with her, usually snuggled in her arms. So last week, when people saw her without her dog, they knew something was amiss.

According to Ms. Margraf, little Lulu caught a doggy case of spring fever and took off on a jaunt, crossing busy Second House Road, Montauk Highway, and Old Montauk Highway, where she was found four days later, on a weekend busy with music lovers in town for the Montauk Music Festival.

Lulu was let out from her house near the Montauk School on the afternoon of May 13. She usually runs to the end of the driveway but comes back quickly when Ms. Margraf calls her in. That afternoon, though, she didn’t return.

Ms. Margraf and her husband, Steve, called the police, the fire department, and put up signs all over. They talked to business owners, post office employees, neighbors, and anyone else they thought might have seen her. Every day they went out searching for the little dog, which weighs a bit under 10 pounds, if that.

But Lulu got lucky. She was found late Saturday near a beach off Old Montauk Highway by none other than Sally Nielsen Glogg, who, like her whole family, is a huge animal advocate.

Ms. Glogg called the Margrafs, and they immediately drove over to retrieve Lulu. Ms. Margraf said she could almost see the little dog let out a sigh of relief when she saw her mommy. She had a few ticks and was very tired and hungry, but considering her journey she wasn’t in bad shape.

“It’s just a miracle that she wasn’t run over by a car,” said Ms. Lydell yesterday, with Lulu back in her arms.

Nancy Keeshan, a member of the East Hampton Town Planning Board, has been fighting for three years to prevent the placement of a canopy over a Montauk gasoline station, and on May 6, during a contentious site plan review meeting at Town Hall, three other planning board members agreed with her.

All three had previously expressed unhappiness with the plan, but tentatively, uncertain whether their board had legal standing to prohibit the structure. The town attorney’s office had warned that aesthetics alone might not be sufficient grounds to deny it.

This time, however, John Jilnicki, the board’s lawyer, seemed to give the board “wiggle room,” as Reed Jones, its chairman, put it. He cited one passage in the town code that allows denial to protect scenic vistas, and another that empowers the board to consider “protection of the character of neighborhoods.”

The gas station in question is the westernmost of the three in the hamlet, now a Citgo station. Its owners were represented by a Montauk lawyer, Richard A. Hammer of Biondo and Hammer, who has had some preliminary skirmishing with Ms. Keeshan as the site plan has evolved, but May 6 became the main event.

The plans for the station, called Empire in the application, call for an additional pump to be added to the two already on site, as well as the canopy.

Kathleen Cunningham and Job Potter, who opposed the canopy, were not on the planning board when it first began considering the application, a point that pained Mr. Hammer. He complained that when Pat Schutte was on the board, he had the four votes needed to approve.

There were heated words between supporters and opponents after Mr. Jilnicki offered his citations from the code. “A scenic vista is compromised by a giant metal canopy,” said Ms. Keeshan, whose real estate office is in downtown Montauk. “I have never heard of a scenic vista in connection with downtown Montauk,” Mr. Hammer responded. “The scenic vista we are talking about is probably — on one side is John’s ­Drive-in.”

Mr. Hammer locked horns with Mr. Jones as well, complaining that the board had dragged out the process. Mr. Jones challenged him on the point. “You implied that this board has been jacking you around. Are you implying that the board voted for this and now has changed its mind?” he asked.

“We always come back to the same issue: Can we deny this canopy?” Mr. Hammer said.

“You haven’t answered my questions. Did this board at one time approve this canopy?” Mr. Jones responded.

Mr. Hammer then returned to the scenic vista issue. “Sending me to the Z.B.A., I think that is all part of an affirmation that this structure is on the path to approval,” he concluded. (The Town Zoning Board of Appeals needed to approve the project because of its proximity to wetlands, and did give it the needed variances.)

In the end, while board members opposed the application 4-3, they could not take a vote to deny it, since, as Mr. Jilnicki pointed out, no public hearing has been held. Mr. Hammer said he looked forward to a hearing. “That is what this is about: building a record for litigation.”

“We’ll see you at the hearing,” Ms. Keeshan retorted.

In fact, Mr. Hammer and the board saw each other much sooner. The Surf Lodge site plan was next on the agenda, and Mr. Hammer represents its owners.

The Surf Lodge, which sits on Fort Pond at the corners of Edgemere Street and Industrial Road in Montauk, is seeking site plan approval for an underground propane tank. Before approval can be granted, however, the establishment must get the okay for everything on the property that is not mentioned in its current certificate of occupancy, including such structures as decking or Dumpsters.

 The planning board applauded many of the changes put in place since new owners took over in 2013, such as replacing the asphalt driveway with a driveway of crushed shells. But the Surf Lodge may have to change its popular outdoor sand section, with day beds, a bar, and a barbecue. It is at the corner of the property, on the very edge of Fort Pond, and both board members and town planners see this as an expansion of use.

“It’s like putting a couch out and not expecting people to sit on it. You’re going to get more people,” Ms. Keeshan said.

 The Surf Lodge will have to obtain a series of variances and permits from the Z.B.A. The planning board will send its comments to that board.

Camp SoulGrow, a children’s camp, has been on the move in Montauk since last summer, but this week its founder, London Rosiere, announced that the camp has secured a permanent space in the west wing of Third House at the Montauk County Park. After lobbying enthusiastically for the space, Ms. Rosiere received final approval from Greg Dawson, the Suffolk County Parks Commissioner, last week.

Mr. Dawson said yesterday that Third House was one of the county’s highest priorities right now. The Department of Public Works is drawing up a plan for the park, he said, and funding is already in place for a sprinkler system for the expansive grounds.

Ms. Rosiere, a bundle of energy who threw off her sneakers in the rain to show a visitor her plans, will offer yoga and dance classes in one room and painting and music in another. Anything of interest to enough children will be added to the schedule, which will be posted monthly at campsoulgrow.org. She is hoping that by opening the “hub” of her camp at Third House, she can help revitalize the historic building.

Workshops will run daily, some consecutively, with many of them outdoors. “I want Montauk to be the classroom, and the people — community and business owners — the teachers,” she said. Shopowners have been very supportive, she added. SoulGrow, a 501c3 nonprofit, will gladly accept donations that will keep the camp free to all children ages 7 and up.

A certified personal trainer, Ms. Rosiere was in the fashion business in Manhattan in 2013, the year her mother died. She came out to Montauk to heal, she said, and found herself comforted by the community. “That’s what made me want to give back.” She said she has been using part of her inheritance to fund the workshops she has already hosted, among them pizza-making, an Easter event at Gurney’s Inn, painting parties, and a Mardi Gras party a few months ago at East by Northeast.

Her next fund-raiser will be at the Palm restaurant in East Hampton, with an open bar, complimentary menu, and raffles. Tickets, which cost $60, and more information about the camp are available on its website, campsoulgrow.org.

The L.G.B.T. Network, which advocates for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members of the Long Island and Queens communities, will hold two benefit events here this weekend. The first, a 2 p.m. Saturday barbecue, will be hosted by Edie Windsor at her house in Southampton. Ms. Windsor was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision overturning the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act in 2013.

At 6 p.m., the organization and its supporters will head for the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club on Mid-Ocean Drive for a summer kick-off party.

Tickets, available at lgbtnetwork.org, for the barbecue are $75, or $150 with an open-bar pass. Tickets to the evening party start at $300 and are also available on the website.

The L.G.B.T. Network’s next event in the Hamptons will be a July 25 party at the Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor. Among the organization’s programs is the Hamptons LGBT Center at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor.

If a legally pre-existing structure that does not conform to current zoning is moved and expanded, is it still legal? The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals spent some time on this question Friday despite the fact that the village code says such structures cannot be expanded.

Michael Ostin, a music executive (and son of Mo Ostin, a music-business mogul who signed artists like Frank Sinatra and Jimi Hendrix), bought property with two residences on it last year at 115 Montauk Highway, which extends to Cove Hollow Road.  The main house has been demolished, and a new, 6,193-square-foot house that meets all zoning requirements has been proposed. However, Mr. Ostin is seeking variances to relocate and expand the smaller building, a 507-square-foot, two-bedroom cottage. He proposes making it 958 square feet, with an additional bathroom and a half.

The village permits only one single-family residence on a property unless a second was built before the code was adopted. Andrew Goldstein, the applicant’s attorney, told the board Friday that the cottage in question had been on the property for 50 years. “You can barely swing a cat in that house, it’s so small,” he said.

 Frank Newbold, the chairman, however, said the cottage was in disrepair and “seems derelict,” which raised the question of whether its pre-existing nonconforming status had been abandoned. Under the village code, a nonconforming use that is discontinued or ceases to exist for a continuous period of a year is deemed abandoned and accordingly prohibited.

But nothing in the code says a structure has to be pristine and kept in good repair, Mr. Goldstein said. “It has to be capable of being used, and it was, albeit not with comfort.” The board asked for evidence, such as utility bills, that it had not been abandoned. Mr. Goldstein said he would comply.

Mr. Newbold noted that Mr. Goldstein had previously served on the zoning board. “You know,” he said, that “we’ve always taken very seriously any alterations” to pre-existing nonconforming structures. It’s true that the cottage is legal, he said, “But I doubt much can be saved from this. . . . Why wouldn’t every single resident in the village who has a cottage say, ‘I would like to move mine to a more convenient location and add 300, 400 square feet to it?’ ”

That question was “almost inappropriate,” Mr. Goldstein said. “You’re not supposed to speculate.” The board is wary of setting precedent, Mr. Newbold replied.

Board members remained skeptical. “I have a real problem,” said Lys Marigold, the vice chairwoman, “with . . . tearing it down, moving it to another location, and building what looks to be a house.” Board members agreed. With its proposed expansion, the cottage “looks like a three-story house,” she said. Nearly doubling the size of the cottage, Mr. Newbold said, would present “much more impact on the neighborhood.”

The hearing was left open, pending the receipt of a floor plan for the expanded cottage and evidence that it had not been abandoned. It is to be revisited at the board’s meeting on Friday, May 22.

The board also announced the denial of one application and several approvals.

Lawrence and Lisa Cohen’s application for approval of a studio and office with a bathroom and shower on the second floor of a garage at 207 Cove Hollow Road, not far from the Ostin property, was denied. It had been illegally converted from storage space. Their request to permit 1,693 square feet of finished floor area in the accessory structure, which was more than the maximum permitted, was also denied. However, they will be able to maintain two air-conditioning units and a trash bin within required setbacks.

Last month, board members had visited the two-story garage and found indications of habitation, including an alarm clock, end tables, and an outline of a bed on carpeting. 

Joseph P. Rose of 42 Hedges Lane, however, was granted a variance to allow a 8,932 square foot residence, already constructed, rather than the permitted 5,356 square feet. He also received other variances for a swimming pool, pool patio, trash bin, outdoor shower, and an air-conditioning unit, all of which are within required side and rear-yard setbacks. The determination included a condition that portions of the existing pool patio be removed. The board apparently granted these variances in connection with a building permit Mr. Rose had received previously to rebuild on the same foundation a nonconforming wing of the house that a prior owner had demolished.

Sheraton S. Kalouria of 11 Muchmore Lane was granted a variance to allow the construction of a single-family house 495 square feet larger than the maximum permitted, as well as a variance for a proposed window well area to be within the side-yard setback. The board conditioned approval on there being no structural connection between the residence and a detached garage.

The board also granted Ayse Kenmore of 152 Montauk Highway a variance to allow a finished third floor that is 577 square feet larger than the maximum permitted. The space is to be used for storage only. Ms. Kenmore was also allowed to maintain a patio and fountain within a setback.