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.

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board that one component of his clients’ application, to build a detached garage in a nonconforming location, had been withdrawn.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.

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. noted, as the East Hampton Village Board gathered on Friday, that spring would officially begin that evening. With yet another snowstorm looming, however, the few members present read through a quick agenda.

An unfinished new house on the Gardiner home lot, at 36 James Lane, drew attention as the board agreed to advertise for bids on its relocation or demolition. The house is behind the timber-frame house that was built in 1750. Bids will be opened on April 13 at 2 p.m. at Village Hall.

After a request from the village board, the town purchased the Gardiner home lot last year from Olney Mairs Gardiner, using money from the community preservation fund. The parcel also contains the historic Gardiner Windmill, which dates to 1804.

“It was always the intent to remove that new building,” Robert Hefner, a historic preservation consultant, wrote in an email, “in order to restore the agricultural land and setting of the mill and mill cottage.” The hope, he said, is that someone will move it offsite. Failing that, it is hoped that its windows, doors, and other usable components will be recycled prior to demolition.

The board also announced public hearings to be held at its April 17 meeting that would amend sections of the village code by instituting new fees for violations. Fines pertaining to beaches, garage sales, noise, peace and good order, peddling and soliciting, solid waste, streets and sidewalks, and zoning would increase after failure to pay for 30, 60, and 90 days.

The amendments, said Rebecca Molinaro, the village administrator, would also allow the village to prosecute a summons in instances when someone failed to appear in court; it would previously have been dismissed. This, Ms. Molinaro said, would provide the village with the ability to follow up on unpaid summonses, which it cannot do now. The proposed fee structure and procedure is identical to that followed by the town, she said.

While there were no outward indications of the spring to which the mayor had referred, one sign of warmer weather appeared in a budget item on the agenda. The purchase, for $11,495, of tickets for the machines in the Robert G. Reutershan and Barns Schenck parking lots was unanimously approved. Parking between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the two lots is limited to two hours from May 1 through Dec. 31.

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.

Approximately 1,400 of the 3,000 nonresident parking permits for East Hampton Village beaches had been sold as of Monday, one week after they went on sale. The permits, which cost $375 for the season, are available on a first-come-first-served basis for nonresidents. Permits are free for village residents. They must be displayed on vehicles that park at Georgica, Main, Wiborg’s, Egypt, and Two Mile Hollow Beaches between May 15 and Sept. 15.

Nonresident permits can be purchased between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Village Hall, by mail (attention Sue Dayton), or online at easthampton.permits.basgov.com. Starting Memorial Day and on weekends through June, and daily thereafter, remaining permits will be sold between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Main Beach office.

To obtain a permit, residents and nonresidents alike must provide a valid vehicle registration, a telephone number, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope if applying by mail. Residents must also provide a street address, proof of residency, and the name of the owner of the property as listed on tax bills. Nonresidents, who can pay by check or money order, must provide a copy of the driver’s license of the person writing the check or buying the money order.

Parking by the day at Main and Two Mile Hollow Beaches costs $25 and can be paid for only at the entrance to the Main Beach parking lot. Daily parking tickets are available every day but are limited to 40 on weekends and holidays.

Valid parking permits must be displayed in order to park at East Hampton Town beaches, with nonresident permits available, as they are in the village, for $375. The town has no limit, however, on the number of nonresident permits, which must be purchased annually. Beachgoers can pay by the day at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on weekdays only, excluding holidays. The cost is $20.

Town parking permits are available in person between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Town Hall, or by mail, addressed to the town clerk. Residents and nonresidents alike must provide a copy of a valid vehicle registration, a copy of their driver’s license, a telephone number, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope if applying by mail. Residents must also provide the street address and owner of the property as listed on a tax bill, as well as proof of residency. Year-round renters must be registered to vote or have their local street address on their vehicle registration.

Which East Hampton Village Board member founded the Guild Hall Players in 1931? (Hint: He also acted and built the sets.) This and many other facts will be revealed Friday at 7 p.m. at Clinton Academy when the East Hampton Historical Society presents “Stagestruck: We’ve Got a Barn, Let’s Put On a Show.”

The second of four in the society’s Winter Lecture Series, the evening will feature Hugh King, the village historian, and Barbara Borsack, the village’s deputy mayor, in a look at the history of theater in East Hampton and Amagansett during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Variety shows, plays, pageants, and minstrel shows will be examined.

“Believe it or not, there was theater in the 1880s in Amagansett,” Mr. King said on Friday. Joseph Jefferson, the American actor known for his portrayals of Rip Van Winkle, appeared at Pioneer Hall, for instance. A play inspired by the antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was also staged at the hall, located above what is now Hamptons Realty Group on Main Street, he said.

Miankoma Hall, “built by the Ladies Society of Busy Workers in 1902,” Mr. King said, was also a prominent place for theatrical performances. The dancer Isadora Duncan performed there, and the hall was used for dinners, dances, and fund-raising events. Decades later Tsuya Matsuki taught piano to generations of students at Miankoma Hall, where she lived. Scoville Hall, on Meeting House Lane, and the Amagansett School on Main Street were also sites for amateur theater.

The Rollins School of Acting, which was on Huntting Lane in East Hampton, will also be recalled, Mr. King said, as will the “Village Vanities,” an annual show that ran on Labor Day weekend from 1953 to 1964. The troupe comprised “a combination of the Maidstone summer crowd and local people,” he said, though “only the ‘upstreet’ local people took part.”

“Stagestruck” is free and open to the public. Refreshments and cookies will be served at 6 p.m., and the program will start at 7.

The Town of East Hampton Anti-Bias Task Force has invited members of the public to two free movie nights in the coming weeks. Both center on the civil rights movement and will be shown at LTV Studios in Wainscott at 7 p.m.

At each screening, the winning entries in a short-film contest sponsored by the task force will also be shown.

On Friday, Feb. 27, the feature will be “Mighty Times: The Children’s March,” an Academy Award-winning documentary. It tells the story of young people in Birmingham, Ala., who braved arrest, fire hoses, and police dogs during a 1963 march for justice.

On March 6, “A Time for Justice” will be screened. Also the recipient of an Academy Award for documentary film, it offers a history of the civil rights movement, told through historical footage and narration by Julian Bond, a leader of the movement, and Representative John Lewis, who was also involved.

Following each of the screenings, the Rev. Katrina Foster of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett will lead a panel discussion on the issues portrayed in the films and their relationship to today’s society. Home-baked treats and other refreshments will be served.

Speak Out, an opportunity for Sag Harbor community leaders to hear from teenagers about activities and resources they would like the village to provide, will take place Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Bay Street Theater. The event is free, refreshments will be provided, and, because the program is recommended for young people in eighth grade and above, parents will not be admitted to the theater.

Sponsored by the Sag Harbor Coalition, the Youth Resource Center of Sag Harbor, and the Sag Harbor Youth Committee, the event will have on its panel Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, and Sag Harbor Village Mayor Brian Gilbride.

Similar events were held in 1997 and 2000, when adults learned that local teenagers were unhappy about a lack of activities for them in the village. Those forums resulted in the Safe Summer Beach Program at Long Beach and several others initiated for teenagers at the John Jermain Memorial Library and Bay Street Theater.

Eric Bramoff, who is the athletic director of the Bridgehampton School and a Pierson graduate, will moderate the discussion. Other panelists will include Tracy Mitchell, executive director of Bay Street; Diane Patrizio, director of human services for East Hampton Town; Catherine Creedon, director of John Jermain; Gregg Schiavoni, board president of Mashashimuet Park; Lisa Field, president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Kathryn Menu, co-publisher of The Sag Harbor Express; Tom Fabiano, chief of the village’s Police Department; Nancy Lynott, director of the Southampton Town Youth Bureau, and from the Sag Harbor School District either Katy Graves, the superintendent, or Jeff Nichols, the middle-high school principal.

The midwinter doldrums can be shaken off, at least temporarily, tomorrow night when the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett roars back to life to host the sixth annual Mr. Amagansett Pageant, a fund-raiser for the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund.

The event traditionally showcases the good, the bad, and the downright weird in a lighthearted competition to benefit the fund named for a former East Hampton Town chief building inspector who died in 2009. The fund benefits the community in myriad ways, including financial assistance to families in need, a scholarship, and donations to fire departments. It also makes an annual donation to the Wounded Warrior Project, the veterans-care organization that has been the beneficiary of many fund-raising events held by Talkhouse employees and patrons.

In a twist on previous years’ pageants, the contestants, numbering at least eight, will face a panel of male judges. Also new this year is a silent auction with more than 30 prizes, including a private plane ride over East Hampton, a two-night stay in New York City, gift certificates to some of the South Fork’s finest restaurants, and sewing, tennis, and golf lessons.

“I’m proud to be a part of it, proud that the community has continued to keep his memory alive,” Nick Kraus, a promoter at the Talkhouse, said. Mr. Sharkey, he said, was “bigger than life in life, so it’s nice to keep him in our thoughts. Good things are happening around town even without him here any longer.”

Mr. Kraus, a former winner of the pageant, is ineligible to be crowned again, “but for some odd reason I’m allowed to enter again.” He promised to continue a tradition of competing via video, presenting “a winter version of the Showtime show ‘The Affair,’ ” he confided.

Other contestants will include Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, last year’s winner; Gordon Ryan, who previously performed as part of a duo called Boo Bonac and the Plague but promised an all-new act, and, said Tina Piette, one of the event’s organizers, “a local character” sponsored by American Legion Post 419.

“It’s going to be the event of the winter,” said Britton Bistrian, another organizer. “Some regulars, some new blood, much laughter.”

The Talkhouse will open at 6 p.m. tomorrow, with the pageant beginning at 7:30. The cost to compete or to sponsor a contestant is $250. Admission is $20.

With an application in the works by East Hampton Town for a state permit to install four-poster deer feeding stations, the East Hampton Deer and Tick Management Foundation will hold a forum on the stations on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Babette’s restaurant in East Hampton. Refreshments will be served.

The stations treat deer for ticks with a pesticide in order to reduce the ticks’ overall number. They have been used successfully on Shelter Island for the last six years, according to Cornell University and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Mike Scheibel, a wildlife biologist, will outline their use at the event.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who is expected to attend, has, along with Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, made the five East End towns eligible for up to $100,000 in state funds earmarked for four-poster stations. Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell will also attend.

The foundation has proposed a partnership between East Hampton Town and the state for a pilot program this spring on land in Northwest Woods and Springs and is seeking private donations to help get it going. The stations would be purchased with public funds but donations would be needed to cover the approximately $3,500 a year it would cost to stock them with corn, provide the pesticides, and maintain each unit.

Although the stations can be placed on public lands, private property owners or associations with control of tracts of at least 40 acres — the minimum size needed to establish a deer feeding and treatment program, according to the D.E.C. — can request a feeding station on their land provided they are willing to underwrite the operating costs. Possible locations for this year’s four-poster program can be added to the town’s application for another few weeks.

Reservations are required to attend the Sunday event, as seating is limited. They can be made by calling Randy Parsons at 329-8239. More information can be obtained by writing the foundation, c/o Randy Parsons, P.O. Box 480, East Hampton 11937.