Montaukers will soon have a new doctor to call their own. Southampton Hospital has announced that Michael Genereux, a doctor of osteopathy, will work out of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice’s offices on Montauk Main Street this summer, filling the vacancy left by the departure of Dr. Anthony Knott late last year.

Dr. Genereux will complete his residency in the Montauk office, working under Dr. Lara DeSanti-Siska, who is certified in family medicine, and Dr. Elizabeth White-Fricker, D.O., both from Meeting House Lane Medical’s office in Wainscott; they have been working in Montauk one day a week. Dr. Genereux will start full time on July 1. He is already familiar with patients in the Montauk office, having worked with Dr. Knott for two and a half years.

Dr. Knott, who practiced in Montauk for 10 years, left in November. A month later, Ken Dodge, a popular physician’s assistant, left the office as well.

The Meeting House Lane Medical Practice, an affiliate of Southampton Hospital, has offices in several locations on the South Fork. Its Montauk office is at 699 Montauk Highway.

East Hampton Village is soliciting bids from farmers interested in growing crops on the Gardiner home lot at 36 James Lane. The request for proposals, on two acres of the lot reserved for agriculture, stipulates a five-year commitment.

Proposals should be submitted to Robert Hefner, the village’s director of historic services, at Village Hall, 86 Main Street, East Hampton 11937, no later than April 28. Specifications can be obtained there from the village administrator’s office, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The village board will review the proposals and interview the candidates.

Last year, at the board’s request, the Town of East Hampton bought the Gardiner home lot, which Olney Mairs Gardiner had put up for sale. The lot had been in his family since 1648, when Lion Gardiner, the first of the line, acquired it. The property contains the 1804 Gardiner windmill, which was deeded to the village in 1996 and restored, and a mill cottage, which will also be restored.

Last month the village board asked for proposals to relocate or demolish an uncompleted house behind the mill cottage, which is to be removed in order to restore the agricultural land and setting of the mill and mill cottage. Bids will be opened at Village Hall on Monday.

The second annual Shoreline Sweep, a cleanup of ocean beaches from Montauk Point to Wainscott, is set for Saturday. Dell Cullum, a wildlife removal specialist and nature photographer who serves on East Hampton Town’s recycling and litter committee, has once again called for volunteers to help in the effort.

Mr. Cullum has asked that participants meet no later than 9 a.m. at any of 16 ocean beaches between Montauk Point and Beach Lane in Wainscott, west of Georgica Pond. He has also asked people to send an email to [email protected] listing their preferred beach, or to call him at 377-6555 on Saturday morning.

A map depicting the locations is at Mr. Cullum’s website, imaginationnature. com. He will provide updates at the website until the morning of the cleanup. The rain date is Sunday.

Volunteers have been asked to take their own gloves and two or three garbage bags, as well as pokers and grabbers, if possible. They should fill and tie the bags and leave them on the beach for pickup.

A gathering to thank participants for their efforts is planned later on Saturday at Hoie Hall, on the grounds of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Refreshments donated by local businesses will be served, and there will be live music.

Mr. Cullum is a longtime advocate for anti-litter initiatives. Last month he told the East Hampton Town Trustees, who oversee most of the beaches in town, that providing trash receptacles at beaches “gives lazy people more opportunity to be lazy,” and causes overflowing bins and more litter in the long run. “The year of the garbage can accommodating the trash fallout is history,” he said. “I hope we can be more attentive this year.”

The trustees have endorsed a pilot program, proposed by the litter committee, in which the town would remove the garbage receptacles from Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett and adopt a “carry in, carry out” policy there. The town board will discuss the proposal at its work session on Tuesday.

Terry Watson will be the grand marshal leading Montauk’s 52nd St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday. The festivities will begin tomorrow, when she will be honored at the annual grand marshal lunch from noon to 3 p.m. at Gurney’s Inn. This year’s host is Joan Lycke, the 2011 grand marshal, who is taking over for John Behan, who had hosted the lunch for many years.

At the event, Ms. Watson, a member of the Montauk School Board from 1984 to 2013, will be given her top hat and shillelagh and will hear some good-natured teasing. Tickets cost $50 in advance or $55 at the door and can be purchased at the Montauk Laundromat or by calling 668-3381. Reservations have been suggested and can be made by emailing [email protected].

The annual cocktail party will be held at Gurney’s Inn on Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. Booga Sugar will provide the tunes for dancing. There will be a buffet dinner and open bar. Tickets, which cost $65 in advance, are available at the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, Becker’s Hardware, Atlantic Wines and Liquors in Amagansett, or online with a credit card at montaukfriendsoferin. com. They will cost $75 at the door.

The drawing for the Pot of Gold raffle will take place at the party, with remaining tickets sold right up until the winning stubs are pulled. The raffle tickets cost $100, and only 350 will be sold. The grand prize is $10,000, second prize is $1,000, and the third and fourth-place prizes are $500 each.

The St. Patrick’s Day parade will start on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. near the Montauk train station on Edgemere Road. It will end near the Montauk I.G.A. There will be more than 60 contingents, including marching bands, humorous floats, boy scouts and girl scouts, and fire departments.

Before the parade begins, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce will help warm the crowd with a soup sale starting at 11 a.m. Each commemorative cup will cost $8. A variety of soups donated by local restaurants will be available. The proceeds help defray the cost of the parade.

Officers from several police departments will be on hand and on the trains to monitor the crowds and enforce the open-container law, which if violated means a $250 fine.

The Sag Harbor Village Board voted on Tuesday evening to extend a temporary moratorium on reviews of wetland variances as it prepares for a hearing on April 14 to consider revisions to its wetlands permit regulations.

Mayor Brian Gilbride said that a draft of the proposed changes is ready, but that the board wanted just a bit more time to review it. In the meantime, a six-month moratorium on consideration of wetland variance requests for single-family lots has been extended another three months, until June 1.

Among the amendments to the code under consideration, the harbor committee would have sole discretion over wetland permits. Under the current code, there is a two-tier system in place in which the village zoning board of appeals reviews an application first and grants variances, before the harbor committee reviews the wetland permit requests.

“It just made it too complicated,” said Denise Schoen, a village attorney who worked on strengthening the wetlands code with the committee and Rich Warren of InterScience, a village consultant. The harbor committee felt “pigeon-holed” by the decisions of the Z.B.A., a board that is less experienced with wetlands laws.

The revision also puts the burden on the applicants when they request variances from wetlands setbacks. Applicants will have to show that there are no practical alternatives. “It’s not enough to say I need a 6,000-square-foot house, a pool, and a jacuzzi. You really have to show you can’t live with something smaller and push something back,” Ms. Schoen said.

Buffer systems have been outlined better in the legislative findings to show how important they are, she said. Also, the bluff-dune setbacks have been reduced to 50 feet because few lots in the Village of Sag Harbor can meet the 100-foot setback.

The village board is expected to adopt the changes next month. Once the revision is filed with the state the moratorium would end. Ms. Schoen said residents can likely expect the village to be processing wetland applications at the end of April.

The moratorium was intended to give the village some breathing room during what has been a building boom in the village. An exemption procedure has been in place, and the board has allowed several applications to go before the village’s harbor committee for review.

In other news from Tuesday’s meeting, single-use plastic bags were back on the agenda. The board, which is in the process of joining the rest of the South Fork in passing a plastic bag ban, agreed that the ban would have no negative environmental impacts. It hopes to pass the prohibition next month, in time for Earth Day. It would go into effect on June 1, a “fair deadline,” Mayor Gilbride said. The board had taken into consideration comments from local business owners who said they had a lot of plastic bags still in stock that would go to waste.

Lastly, Mayor Gilbride promised business owners that the village would take action in response to complaints about the parking situation around Washington Street. Heidi Walters, the owner of Ruby Beets on that street, said that contractors working on the redevelopment of the former Bulova watchcase factory park on the street all day along, making it impossible for customers to find parking — a violation of the original site plan approval. “The vans and the cars are insane,” Ms. Walters said. “Please, help us.”

Ms. Schoen confirmed that the site plan approval stipulated that workers were to park in the St. Andrew’s Catholic Church parking lot or be shuttled in from elsewhere, Ms. Schoen confirmed.

“You are absolutely right,” Mr. Gilbride told Ms. Walters. “We’ll be on the phone with them tomorrow.”

Ms. Walters said the business owners had complained last year, but that nothing had been done. Ms. Schoen said Sag Development Partners did received notices of violation for having three uncovered Dumpsters and a trailer parked at Sage and Washington Streets without a permit.

“We did try to rattle them a little bit, maybe not enough,” Mr. Gilbride said. Ms. Schoen said parking citations will be issued to anyone violating parking regulations, but that Tom Preiato, the building inspector, or Keith Payne, the code enforcement officer, could issue a notice of site plan violations if need be.

Correction: The hearing on the wetland code changes will take place on April 14, not April 17 as originally reported.

The East Hampton Village Board is expected to grant Starbucks an easement so that the sanitary system at its Main Street location can be upgraded. A resolution to grant the easement may be voted on at the board’s meeting on April 17 and the work is likely to be done in the fall.

Like a number of other buildings along Main Street, Starbucks has a septic system under the Reutershan parking lot that “goes back decades, before the village acquired that property as a parking lot,” Linda Riley, the village attorney, said  yesterday. “There’s nothing in writing, but it’s been there forever.”

At a March 25 meeting at Village Hall, Starbucks representatives told Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and the board that because of planned interior modifications to increase storage space, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services is requiring a septic system upgrade. The interior work will not add to seating or the building’s maximum occupancy, but will allow for more efficient operation during the store’s peak summer season, the board was told.

The requirement that the company obtain an easement for the septic system has delayed the interior work, Ken Collum, the village code enforcement officer and fire marshal, told the board. A building permit for interior changes expired in December, he said, so the company must reapply.

The installation now has three leaching rings, but it is not covered by an easement, Ms. Riley said. Additional space would be allotted in the easement to allow a potential fourth ring, but such a ring would be subject to the board’s prior approval.

The company would be compelled to provide liability insurance naming the village as an insured party, Ms. Riley said, and would have to restore the area to the satisfaction of the superintendent of public works.

“We support Starbucks,” the mayor said, but “we just don’t want to see an encroachment or, somehow, further advancement of the retail footprint.”

Andy and Jane Graiser won a reprieve of sorts when the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals reopened the hearing on their application to add an eyebrow window to the roof of their house at 42 Mill Hill Lane, which is under construction. As indicated at prior meetings, however, there was no change of heart: The window cannot be installed.

Patrick Gunn, an attorney representing the Graisers, told the board that one component of his clients’ application, to build a detached garage in a nonconforming location, had been withdrawn. Though there has been no written determination or vote, the board, along with neighbors who testified in writing or in person, had looked unfavorably upon its proposed location.

Owing to a time-sensitive construction schedule, Mr. Gunn asked the board to vote on the eyebrow window, which he said it had “tentatively approved” though it does not comply with a section of code aimed at controlling the mass of the upper third of a house.

“This window is simply an aesthetic addition to the home,” Mr. Gunn said. “It doesn’t make the house any bigger, does not increase the gross floor area. The purpose is only to provide light to the attic.” There would be no detrimental impact on the neighborhood, he said, nor does it violate the spirit of the ordinance in question, which was added in 2012 to curtail “the expanded mass and bulk of the upper third of houses that have been built on smaller lots,” according to its legislative intent.

“It’s clear that the house is not liked by some,” Mr. Gunn said. “I ask the board not to punish the applicant for building a conforming home that’s unpopular, or to curtail their ability to get an aesthetic modification that might normally be granted just because this is an unpopular construction.”

But other residents of Mill Hill Lane, as well as board members, feel that the house is already imposing on the neighborhood. As she has at previous meetings, Mary Busch of 50 Mill Hill Lane referred to the “extra mass and bulk that was appearing in new construction in the village” that the 2012 ordinance intended to address. That part of the zoning code, she said, has been in effect “without any request to this board for relief. In fact, numerous new homes conforming to the code have been built and fit well into the small-lot neighborhoods” such as her own.

“If I could just add,” she said to Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, “I’m a little distressed that the comment could be made that this is a house that people on the street don’t like. It has nothing to do with whether we like the house or not. It has to do with the code that’s in place, what we’re trying to do with our streets in the village, and to guarantee that neighbors have a degree of privacy and can enjoy their homes.”

Mr. Newbold also read a letter from James Berlanti, an adjacent neighbor of the Graisers. “The roof design already has an imposing effect on the neighborhood as it is not in keeping with traditional roof styles,” he read. “The house and neighborhood would benefit from more simplified forms and help the house feel more contextual.”

Pam Bennett, the board’s deputy clerk, polled the board members sitting on the application. Mr. Newbold, along with John McGuirk, Craig Humphrey, and Christopher Minardi, were unanimous: There would be no eyebrow window. Linda Riley, the village’s attorney, said that she hoped to have a written determination for a formal vote at the board’s next meeting, on Friday, March 27.

The board also announced five determinations. Jeffrey Suchman, who owns the building at 71 Montauk Highway that housed East Hampton Bowl, was granted a variance to construct a 9,906-square-foot retail building and site improvements including parking spaces. This will result in coverage of 74.1 percent, where the maximum permitted is 60 percent, but it will reduce the coverage on the lot, which is 80.6 percent now.

The Watson family of 14 Huntting Lane was granted variances to allow additions to an existing dwelling that will result in gross floor area approximately 720 square feet above the allowable maximum, one of which will fall within a minimum required setback. They were also allowed lot coverage approximately 250 square feet in excess of the maximum permitted, provided the parking area at the front of the property is revegetated.

Noam Gottesman of 61 North Briar Patch Road received a freshwater wetlands permit to allow pool fencing approximately 10 feet landward of the edge of wetlands on the condition that there is no clearing of the natural vegetation in the adjacent area, and that he replace any lost or damaged vegetation caused by the fence’s installation.

Nasser J. Malik of 39 Mill Hill Lane was granted variances to allow a new step on the side of his house, conversion of a portion of a detached garage, and the construction of a fireplace with a chimney on the condition that he installs a six-foot stockade fence along the rear property line. Lastly, George W. Murphy of 36 Meadow Way was granted variances to keep a swimming pool, pool patio, pool equipment, liquid petroleum tanks, and a walkway, all built within minimum required setbacks.

On behalf of the East Hampton Village Board, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. sent a letter to East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell last week in which he commended the town board’s effort to address what he called “a long-standing and difficult issue,” that of the noise of air traffic on routes to and from the East Hampton Airport.

The mayor’s letter drew attention to the legislative intent of proposed restrictions on use of the airport, specifically a passage stating that the town board “is committed to balancing the need to address the impact of the aircraft noise on the town’s environment and the equally important need to maintain an economically viable and safe airport for East Hampton.” The village board, the mayor wrote, supports that commitment.

Additionally, the mayor recommended that a close review of any enacted legislation’s impact happen after the summer season, “to see if the anticipated goals were met and if any amendments are warranted either to ease restriction or impose more.”

The town board will resume discussion of airport regulations at its meeting next Thursday.

The Amagansett branch of Capital One, at 100 Montauk Highway just west of the hamlet’s retail district, will close on April 24.     The bank’s customers were informed of the closing in a letter dated Jan. 21. The letter explained that accounts will be transferred to the Capital One branch at 40 Newtown Lane in East Hampton, with no change to accounts or account numbers.

Customers “will continue to receive the same level of high quality service at any of our nearly 900 branches,” Julie Rakes of the bank’s media relations wrote in an email. Ms. Rakes did not respond to an inquiry about why the branch is closing, except to say that the decision was “part of its regular business review to ensure Capital One is operating as efficiently as possible while continuing to provide quality services and products to its customers.”

Three employees’ positions will be eliminated upon the branch’s closing. They were given more than 90 days’ notice, Ms. Rakes said, and the bank has offered them assistance in applying for positions within the company. Should they be unsuccessful, they would be eligible for severance packages including retraining and outplacement services. “We are committed to doing all that we can to support our associates through this transition,” she said.

Representatives at the Amagansett branch would not comment on the closing, referring inquiries to the bank’s media relations department.

Finally, after years of confusion at the intersection in Montauk’s harbor area where West Lake Drive meets Flamingo Avenue, signs have been posted notifying drivers heading north and south that cross traffic from the east and west does not stop.

Suffolk County workers posted the signs earlier this month after Legislator Jay Schneiderman, a Montauk resident, visited a meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee and heard concerns about confusion at the intersection. Drivers unfamiliar with the route seemed unaware that those heading east to west had the right of way while north-to-south drivers were required to stop, committee members said at the meeting, held in the fall.

Also at that meeting, Lt. Chris Hatch of the East Hampton Town police said that in addition to a slew of accidents at the site over the years, there had been many near misses.

Years ago Henry Uihlein of the nearby Uihlein’s Marina rallied residents for a traffic circle at the intersection, but county officials at the time said it wasn’t feasible and that the area was not wide enough for one.

Although the new signs should help, Mr. Schneiderman said on Tuesday that what he would really like to see there is a one-way loop in which cars would turn right near the Montauk Marine Basin from West Lake Drive and exit by looping around Soundview Drive through the north side of the intersection. Drivers would still be able to enter the harbor area from the south, as is currently possible.

“Then we wouldn’t have as much traffic at the intersection and there’d be only three points of egress,” he said.

If that were to happen, Mr. Schneiderman said, it would allow for additional head-in, on-street parking on the north side of the road near Gaviola’s Market and Uihlein’s Marina, which is needed more than ever since several new and successful businesses have opened in the harbor area.