A gunman opened fire Saturday in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., about 1,200 miles from here, but the grief in the aftermath of the mass shooting has resonated around the country, including on the South Fork.

"It just hit so hard. . . . It could have been us," said Tom House, a Bridgehampton School teacher who organized peaceful demonstrations in support of the victims of the Orlando shooting on Sunday and Tuesday in Bridgehampton.

According to news reports, Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Fla., killed 49 people and wounded 53 more at the Pulse nightclub before police fatally shot him. He used a gun that has been described as an "assault-type rifle," which he obtained legally despite being the subject of two Federal Bureau of Investigation inquires into possible ties to Islamic State militants. His attack, authorities say, was the worst mass shooting in United States history.

On Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Water Mill Community House, the East Hampton and Southampton Town Democrats will co-sponsor a rally to ban assault weapons. People have been asked to take their own signs to the rain-or-shine demonstration.

Tuesday's event in Bridgehampton, a traveling candlelight vigil, began at the school with a group of about 75 people of all ages, some carrying signs with slogans like "We Stand With Orlando," "No More Guns," and "Somos Orlando" (We are Orlando). Holding lights of all kinds — wax candles, electric candles, flashlights, glowing plastic tubes of flashing rainbow lights — the crowd swelled to nearly 100 by the time it paused in front of the Hampton Library to sing "This Little Light of Mine." Along the way, the group received applause from patrons at Almond Restaurant and Bobby Van's. Participants walked down to the Bridgehampton Community House, paused for photographs, and made their way back to the school, where students reflected on the tragedy.

"I don't think it's fair that innocent people were killed. I hope the violence stops and never happens again," said Estefany Bonilla, a seventh grader who helped Mr. House make a large banner that said, "Bees Stand With Orlando."

Another student, Alanah Johnson, an eighth grader, called the shooting cruel and said she hopes Tuesday's vigil, and others like it around the country, showed that change is needed. "If you want people to do something, you have to take a stand," she said.

For some, Tuesday's vigil was a place to grieve. Carlos Martinez of Sag Harbor, who is gay, said he was devastated by the shooting. When he woke up on Sunday and heard the news, he said the hair on his arms stood up and he got emotional.

"It's our community," he said. "It's not easy for the gay community to live free. People come to the U.S. to feel free and to have a better life. This is so terrible."

Tuesday's vigil was also an opportunity to call for action. "I just think there's no reason for anyone to have a machine gun. They should be outlawed," Bette Lacina of Sag Harbor said. "We need to get Congress back to a Democratic majority. That would help. We've got to have everyone come out to vote. I'm afraid there are so many people who are so irrational. They keep quoting the right to bear arms, but an assault weapon should be illegal."

The Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson, the minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, recalled the words of Cornel West, the prominent Democratic socialist activist and author.

"He said, 'Justice is what love looks like in public,' " Ms. Johnson said. "It's not enough for us to just love our families, our friends, our schools, our churches. . . . What love looks like in public is taking all of our hurt and pain from the corners of our lives and coming together to make us stronger."

After finishing its work on the downtown Montauk beach, where a line of buried sandbags was installed as a protective measure against storm surge, tides the Army Corps of Engineers has turned its sights to three other Montauk locations.

The federal agency is moving forward on plans to bolster the stone revetment around Montauk Point and to dredge the Lake Montauk inlet, as well as taking steps to reverse and stem the erosion on the Block Island Sound-front beaches to its west.

At Camp Hero, beginning next week, the Army Corps will take another look at what is left over from former military use of the site to see if more cleanup is needed.

A public comment period ends tomorrow on the latest draft of a plan to repair the rock revetment armoring Montauk Point around the Lighthouse.

The addition of boulders around the bluffs to protect the Lighthouse, a National Historic Landmark that is owned and operated by the Montauk Historical Society, has been a matter of debate for years.

A federal project costing an estimated $14.6 million was originally authorized in 2006 and was funded by Congress in a post-Sandy disaster relief act.

The Army Corps originally installed a 700-foot revetment around the bluffs at the point in 1946. That revetment was replaced after it failed, and repairs and additions were made over the years as the stone armoring was undermined or damaged by coastal forces.

According to the Surfrider Foundation, which is preparing comments on the Army Corps plan, moving the Lighthouse back from the edge of the bluff and allowing the shoreline to erode and accrete naturally is a better course of action that will be more economical in the long run.

The coastal ebb and flow is a source of sand migrating to beaches to the west of the point, John Weber, the Surfrider Foundation’s Mid-Atlantic manager, said Tuesday. Another concern about armoring the point, he said, is its potential impact on nearby surf breaks.

The Army Corps’s current plan is a result of a project re-evaluation after Hurricane Sandy. Rather than replacing the entire revetment, it calls for the addition of 15-ton boulders on top of the existing stones along 840 feet of shore in order, according to an Army Corps document, to provide “protection for the most vulnerable portion of the bluff that would directly endanger the Lighthouse complex should it fail.”

The structure would extend out 38 feet from the existing stones. While the previous plan had called for the excavation of 32,000 cubic yards of material from the ocean bottom to bury the toe of the stone structure, the revised plan eliminates that burial and would displace only 4,200 cubic yards of bottomland.

The Army Corps requires a local sponsor for the project and has aked the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation to sign on. While the Lighthouse and most of the surrounding land belong to the Montauk Historical Society, which took ownership from the Coast Guard in 1996, the area also includes state parkland, and sponsorship by a public agency, versus a private nonprofit such as the historical society, is apparently needed.

A bill sponsored by Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, which has passed the Senate, would authorize the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to take necessary action to protect national historic landmarks such as the Lighthouse from shore erosion, allowing it to partner with nonprofits like the historical society.

Maintenance of the revetment, once it is rebuilt, would become the responsibility of the local sponsor. East Hampton Town is not involved in the matter, Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said yesterday.

According to the Army Corps, there is an urgent need to reinforce the revetment “to protect the historic Lighthouse complex and other natural, cultural, and recreational resources,” as it is continuing to degrade.

Comments may be emailed to [email protected].

An effort to address severe erosion along the Soundview Drive shore west of the Montauk jetties has also been under discussion for several years, and in April, the Army Corps of Engineers presented its final study and recommended plan for a project that would combine dredging of the harbor inlet with a coastal storm risk management project targeting the Soundview beaches.

The agency proposed using dredged sand to create a 10-foot-wide beach, and installing perpendicular groins made of sand-filled geotextile bags at intervals along the beach to contain it.

But town officials, with the backing of the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, recently informed the Army Corps that installing the groins contravenes coastal policy, as outlined in the Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, a municipal document that has state and federal backing.

According to the Army Corps, an acceptable alternative could be analyzed, but would require the town to contribute more toward the cost.

That scenario would eliminate the groins and see the beach rebuilt to a width of 70 feet using sand dredge from offshore. The channel would be dredged every 10 years and that sand would be added to the beach.

At Camp Hero, the Army Corps will start an effort next week to determine if there is anything remaining from the military use of the site that needs to be cleaned up.

The base was used for military training during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II, and became a coastal defense installation. Anti-aircraft artillery used the site as a firing range, and in 1952, a portion of it became the Montauk Air Force Station.

The majority of the former camp is now a state park, while a town-owned portion includes affordable housing.

During a cleanup effort in the early to mid-1990s, the Army Corps removed underground storage tanks, demolished old buildings, and examined the site for potential spills or hazardous materials, Gregory Goephert, the project manager, said this week. Now, they will be taking another look. A detailed work plan for the initial survey is available for public review at the Montauk Library.

Once the review is complete, a report will be issued with recommended actions, if any are needed, on which the public may comment.

In the meantime, according to its policies, the Army Corps is assessing the public’s interest in establishing a restoration advisory board, that could weigh in on its work at Camp Hero and discuss the most efficient and productive means of cleanup.

 If at least 50 citizens petition for the formation of such a board before the end of July — 60 days from the May 26 publication of a notice about the opportunity — the board will be created.­

Much of a piece of pre-gentrified Montauk came tumbling down Friday, as a wrecking crew began demolishing the iconic East Deck Motel. By quitting time, half of the L-shaped structure that had stood along DeForest Road was gone, leaving only the portion on the road that leads to the beach access still standing.

By Monday afternoon, that will be gone, too. Also gone is the swimming pool on the property, as well as any accessory structures that once stood there. Soon, the motel, which was a favored haunt of surfers over many generations, could be replaced by four multimillion-dollar beachfront houses.

It is owned by a limited liability company headed by J. Darius Bikoff, one of the founding partners of Vitamin Water, and is flanked on either end by dilapidated jetties that the L.L.C. also owns. The western jetty, shooting out into the Atlantic, is familiar to tourists and residents alike, who crowd the popular Ditch Plain beach. The eastern jetty was covered long ago by sand. Town law prevents either jetty being reconstructed or refurbished.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board approved the necessary variances needed to create four new lots out of the property. There may be much wrangling in the future in front of the Z.B.A, as well as the town’s planning board, in terms of what the owners who buy the properties from the L.L.C., are allowed to build on the lots, which are highly constricted due to dimensions and proximity to wetlands and dunes.

The property was purchased by the L.L.C. in 2013 for about $15 million. The owners originally proposed a massive private club sitting adjacent to one of the most popular surfing beaches on the East Coast. That created a firestorm of opposition, and the plan was soon scuttled. They then put the site on the market for a reported $25 million. East Hampton Town officials, who negotiated for a town purchase, decided the price was too rich for its pockets.

In February, at the owners' request, the East Hampton Town Board changed the zoning of the property from resort to half-acre residential, in keeping with the surrounding area. That allowed owners of the property, renamed Montauk Colony, to pursue their current plan.  

The Suffolk County Department of Health confirmed on Monday that testing had detected a cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, bloom in Wainscott Pond, the first this year in East Hampton Town.

Health Department officials have warned residents not to wade or swim in waters with cyanobacteria blooms and to keep pets and children away from them as well. Those who come in contact with affected waters should rinse with clean water immediately and seek medical attention if they experience nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, breathing difficulties, allergic reactions, or skin, eye, or throat irritations.

Last year there were harmful blue-green algal blooms in Fort Pond in Montauk, Wainscott Pond, Hook Pond, and Georgica Pond, as well as in Agawam Lake, Wickapogue Pond, and Mill Pond in Southampton. The East Hampton Town Trustees closed Georgica Pond to crabbing last August because of the bloom there.

Cyanobacteria at low levels is naturally present in lakes, streams, and ponds, but warm water and a lack of tidal flushing can cause an overabundance of it and lead to the harmful blooms that have become all too common in recent years on the South Fork. One indication of these blooms is floating scum on the water’s surface “that may cause the water to take on a paint-like appearance,” according to the Health Department.

The bloom in Wainscott Pond and another in Wickapogue Pond were confirmed after sampling by Stony Brook University. Follow-up sampling indicated that the bloom in Wickapogue Pond had ended, according to a release from the Health Department on Monday.

Suspected cyanobacteria blooms at any Suffolk County-permitted bathing beach can be reported to the Health Department’s office of ecology at 631-852-5760. Suspected blooms at other bodies of water should be reported to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at 518-402-8179.

A memorial plaque donated by the Police Benevolent Association of East Hampton Village in honor of the late Anna Mirabai Lytton, a 14-year-old Springs School student, will be dedicated at a ceremony at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the third anniversary of her death.

Ms. Lytton died after a car ran into her bicycle on Pantigo Road in East Hampton, near the intersection of Gay Road in front of the CVS store, where the dedication will take place.

Officer Jack Bartelme, who, with Officer Eben Ball, was first on the scene of the accident, suggested the memorial. He said this week that he had noticed the continuing addition of flowers, letters, garlands, and other mementos at the accident site, and suggested that the P.B.A. install a plaque.

The memorial became a group effort, he said, with donation of a kousa dogwood tree by Robert Pucci of Whitmore’s Landscaping, permission granted by Leonard Ackerman, who owns the property, to plant it in a spot where it will thrive, and the installation of a memorial stone donated by Seven Sons Masonry of Montauk.

Along with East Hampton Village Police Chief Gerard Larsen, Officers Bartelme and Ball will be on hand at the ceremony, as will Ms. Lytton’s parents, Kate Rabinowitz and Rameshwar Das. The public has been invited to attend.

Last Sept. 14, which happened to be their 30th anniversary, Tony and Patty Sales went to work in different places, he to the Goldberg’s Bagels in Bridgehampton, she to the one in East Hampton. Ms. Sales, who would as soon crack a joke as breathe, told one and all that after two daughters and three decades of marriage, she and Tony had separated.

Their many friends were appalled, until she explained. Their anniversary was the first day they did not work together, she said on Friday, laughing.

The Saleses hold a round-the-clock togetherness record that would be hard to match. It dates from 1984, when Ms. Sales, an East Hampton native who was born Patricia Collins, was hostessing at the old Rocking Wells restaurant off Main Street in East Hampton Village, now the site of John Papas. When the restaurant’s owners bought a new place on Pantigo Road, the Buoy, they took her along. Mr. Sales, who was living in Northport, was hired as manager and chef.

Whether it was love at first sight is their secret, but it took just a year before the chef and the hostess combined forces to buy the former Newtown Cafe in the village (now the Golden Pear), and soon after combined their lives, marrying on Sept. 14, 1985.

“Sept. 14, 1957,” Mr. Sales said wickedly on Friday at the new Goldberg’s on Montauk Highway in Wainscott, where Once Upon a Bagel used to be and where the pair, after about eight months’ parting of the working ways, are back together again. “Oh, stop it!” said his wife, with an affectionate poke.

The Wainscott Goldberg’s is the latest link in an expanding chain owned by Mark Goldberg and Paul Wayne, first cousins who have established something of a bagel lock on the East End, with branches in East Quogue, Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Napeague, Montauk, Mattituck, and Riverhead, all of them doing business 365 days a year. Blow-up photos of the cousins and their kids occupy center stage on the walls in Wainscott, along with a big TV set tuned to Channel 12 Long Island (no sound, just the news ticker). The screen is thoughtfully positioned right in the line of sight of people waiting to pay.

“All the comforts of home!” Ms. Sales said, beaming from behind the cash register.

All their married lives, her husband has been the man behind the scenes and she the welcoming face. (As she put it, “He helms the back and I helm the front.”) The other day, he was putting together “one of the specials that I’ve made popular over the years at different places,” roast turkey with cranberry mayo and Granny Smith apples on grilled 12-grain bread. “My Pilgrim sandwich,” he said.

Meanwhile, even at 10:30 in the morning, a relatively in-between time, Ms. Sales was bantering with a steady stream of customers. One man was paying for three sandwiches, for himself and his brothers, he said. “I don’t even like my brothers,” he told her, smiling to show he didn’t mean it.

“You can keep your brothers,” she shot back. “I’ll keep my sisters.”

The Saleses and their two daughters live in the house where she was born. “My sisters all had houses, and after my dad died my mom said, ‘You get the house. I come, too.’ ” Mrs. Collins is gone now, and the mother-in-law apartment where she lived is temporary digs for Molly Sales and her fiancé, Nick Kochanasz, who will be married in October and are building a house in Springs. Molly works at Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson as a recreational therapist; the Saleses’ younger daughter, Becca, teaches nursery school at the Neighborhood House in East Hampton. “Molly is engaged, Becca is engaging,” said their irrepressible mother.

In 1991, the Saleses sold the Newtown Cafe and went to work at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett. He was the head chef there and she the maitre d’ for the next 17 years, their longest stint anywhere so far. After that, they held those same jobs at Indian Wells Tavern, also in Amagansett, and finally, for five years, at the Star Island Grill in Montauk.

Star Island was “12 to 15 hours a day and it was Montauk ‘off the hook.’ It was too much,” Ms. Sales said. “Tony talked to Mark Goldberg.”

“We wanted something more year- round and a little calmer — more humane,” her husband said. “We couldn’t remember the last summer we had nights off.”

Now they have “dinner with the kids, and we all watch ‘Jeopardy,’ ” Ms. Sales said. “We used to talk about work when we had to take it home with us, now we don’t. We discuss wedding plans! Now we have a more normal lifestyle — whatever normal is.”

A dispute over a tennis court at 127 Main Street, the former Gardiner estate, landed in the court of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

In 2014, the owner of the 5.4-acre property, Shahab Karmely, a real estate developer, had sought and received setback variances to construct a court at the rear of the parcel, a deep lot that runs from Main Street to the John M. Marshall Elementary School’s playing fields. The court had to be placed in a north-south configuration, he said, because sunlight would make an east-west layout unplayable for most of the day.

Kenneth Kuchin, who owns 121 Main Street, was worried about noise, given the proposed court’s proximity to a cottage he uses for meditation. Another possible location, midway between the main house and the rear property line, drew objection from Thomas Osborne, who owns vacant land on the other side. The court could have been built elsewhere, in a conforming location, but that would have necessitated the removal of large specimen trees and a historic boxwood allee.

The zoning board accepted the original proposal and approved the application, but required that Mr. Karmely sink the court four feet below grade, install a Har-Tru surface, which is quieter than a hard surface, and buffer it with mature landscaping.

When the Building Department inspected the property to issue a certificate of occupancy, however, the landscaping was found not in accordance with the 2014 approval. Inspectors also discovered that Mr. Karmely had added a viewing area that was not in the original plans.

Both properties are listed for sale, Mr. Karmely’s for $26 million and Mr. Kuchin’s for $11.95 million.

Friday saw a lengthy volley between board members and Mr. Karmely’s lawyer, Andy Hammer. The landscaping plan submitted in 2014 was “a boilerplate plan,” said Mr. Hammer, explaining that his client saw no need for additional landscaping because the property is already bordered by 30-foot-high trees. “What we’re essentially asking is that the board approve the court as it was built, which is quite a lovely court,” the lawyer said.

But it is not four feet below grade as stipulated in the approval, said Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman. It is closer to two feet, he said, and the excavated soil was used to create an approximately two-foot-high berm around its perimeter. The original sketches, Mr. Newbold said, showed a set of steps on either side, but the court as built includes a 10-by-20-foot paved viewing area, a larger staircase, a buffet area with refrigerator, and a storage box, apparently housing irrigation equipment.

“When we approved it, we were trying so hard to make it palatable to the neighbors,” said Lys Marigold, the board’s vice chairwoman. “Now there’s, like, a party area,” she said, despite the emphasis on toning down noise. “We gave substantial relief . . . you submitted plans, and the plans were to be followed.” 

Mr. Hammer said he would consult with the court’s builder, but pointed out that “you could build a court on this property more or less as of right if you just orient it in the other direction” — something Mr. Karmely, in 2014, warned the board would happen if his request was denied.

The board, Mr. Newbold replied, had granted substantial variance relief, reducing the side-yard setbacks by roughly half. The application, he repeated, had been carefully vetted to minimize noise, and restrictions were added.

Mr. Hammer offered his recollection that the chairman had called the proposal the most beautiful tennis court he had seen. “I don’t play tennis,” Mr. Newbold shot back.

Mr. Kuchin, the neighbor, then spoke. “The noise is terrible,” he said. “I don’t know what I can do.” Mr. Newbold encouraged him to consult with the village’s code enforcement officers. The hearing was left open and is scheduled to continue on Friday, June 10.

Also at the meeting, the board announced five determinations. Keith and Anne Cynar of 52, 54, and 56 McGuirk Street were granted variances to allow 50 square feet of lot coverage over the maximum permitted and to install a swimming pool. Their property, which was developed before zoning laws were enacted, has three separate buildings, one of which contains two residential units. The variances were granted on the condition that the Cynars extend driveways to accommodate multiple vehicles, as the pool will occupy space previously used for parking.

Dexter Goei of 207 Lily Pond Lane was granted freshwater wetlands variances to allow modifications, alterations, and additions to structures previously approved. These include the driveway’s reconfiguration and the addition of retaining walls, patios, walkways, a pool house, a garage, and a sanitary system within the required wetlands setback. All plantings within 125 feet of the wetlands boundary must be native vegetation, and there can be no use of fertilizers within that zone. The driveway must be permeable gravel, and project-limiting fencing must be installed and maintained throughout the course of construction.

Bradford Peck’s request to legalize habitable space and plumbing on the second floor of a garage at 5 Jericho Lane was denied, but he was allowed to keep a basketball hoop and an air-conditioning unit in place and to relocate a shed, all within required setbacks. He was also granted variances to permit 360 square feet of coverage over the maximum permitted by code.

The board granted Michael LaRocca of 100 Dayton Lane variances to reconstruct a swimming pool within required setbacks and replace a garage door within a pre-existing sideyard setback with a larger door.

And, at 116 Apaquogue Road, a wetlands permit and variances will allow Gerald Breslauer to install children’s play equipment within the required 150-foot wetlands setback.

Senior pranks gone too far at East Hampton High School have resulted in about 50 students losing the privilege of attending their senior banquet on June 24, school officials said this week.

According to a letter posted yesterday by Richard Burns, the district superintendent, “the most serious transgression was that some seniors entered a building without permission through a locked door. Damage to school property was at a minimum.”

Also according to the letter, senior prank day “always occurred with adult supervision,” but that was not the case this year. Mr. Burns later said by phone that the district is reviewing its tradition of allowing a supervised senior prank.

As rumors of various acts of vandalism and mischief swirled, school officials initially would not confirm or deny any of them, although Mr. Burns did say last week that no animals had been harmed. Yesterday, he debunked some of the rumors: A fake giraffe had not been thrown onto the school’s roof, an old trophy wasn’t destroyed but merely moved, and small holes drilled in the school’s roof did not invalidate the warranty on the work done there.

“Most of what happened were things being moved around, like desks from the cafeteria put out on the lawn,” Mr. Burns said yesterday. “There was Pam sprayed on the lockers. It was just a matter of cleaning.”

“There’s a certain relationship between the building’s administration and the students,” he continued. “When I said how disheartening it was to them, it was because they just go so above and beyond with everything. This is a very special place, and the students broke that trust.”

In an email to parents on Tuesday, Adam Fine, the high school principal, said students were “well aware” that the pranks “went beyond acceptable student behavior.”

“At this point, all of the students who participated in that incident have been addressed, and appropriate consequences have been assigned,” Mr. Fine said. “It is very clear to the high school administration that none of these students intended do harm to our school. By no means should this incident define the class of 2016. It is now time for us to move forward.”

Calls for police assistance over the Memorial Day weekend were up from last year’s, although Chief Michael Sarlo of the East Hampton Town Police Department said the overall tenor and tone in the streets was calmer.

This year, there were 401 calls listed in the police event log between 8 a.m. Friday, May 27, and 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 31. During the same holiday window last year, May 22 to May 26, there were 360 such calls. The number of noise complaints in residential neighborhoods was 35, about twice what it was in 2015, accounting for at least some of the increase.

The leading residential offender, judging by the call log, was in Amagansett, at 68 Fresh Pond Road, where police were sent three times over the weekend, with a fourth visit on the same street listed as 70 Fresh Pond Road.

Noise complaints against businesses, in contrast, dropped significantly this year. There were only three of them in the entire town over the holiday weekend, according to the log, with two of the three, against Sole East in Montauk, coming on Saturday afternoon.

Many of the bars that were once hot spots for code enforcement have changed management teams, among them Sloppy Tuna in downtown Montauk; Harbor, a nightclub in the dock area that has been converted into a restaurant called Gray Lady, and Ciao by the Beach, now called Arbor, located by the Montauk railroad station. Jeff Capri, the general manager of Sloppy Tuna, said Saturday that the bar is now closing earlier, at about 1:30 or 2 a.m. In the past, it shut down at 3 or later, after which patrons would stream over to the Memory Motel or the Point on Main Street. Last year, police responded to several noise complaints concerning Sloppy Tuna; there were none last weekend.

The bar-hopping scene in downtown Montauk appeared quieter as well. “It was a calmer atmosphere,” Chief Sarlo said. He himself spent a good amount of time in the easternmost hamlet over the three days and said that the bar-hoppers were “not hooting and hollering, just going to the next place.”

The chief believes that bars are keeping a careful watch now on their patrons. “They feel the weight of needing to bear responsibility themselves, not allowing over-capacity or serving someone too much,” he said. He singled out the Point, where, he said, management is making sure that customers causing problems are not let back in.

This can sometimes lead to arrests outside the bar. Such was the case, police said, with Shane A. McGovern, 24, of Huntington, who had been ejected from the Point. After police told him he was “not allowed into the establishment,” he reportedly tried to get back in past an officer, and spit on him. Police said he then refused to be handcuffed, leading to a charge of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, as well as harassment and disorderly conduct, violations.

Townwide, arrests were up slightly this year, from 19 in 2015 to 21, but that number is skewed by the fact that 5 of the 21 involved warrants. Arrests on drunken driving charges were down this year, to five, from nine last year.

One concern, said Chief Sarlo, was a sharp rise in the number of vehicular accidents across the town. He said there were some 27 this year, as opposed to 15 in 2014.

Going forward, the chief said, an important concern is the taxi industry. He said there are simply too many cars, companies, and drivers flooding the town, particularly in Montauk. Most of the drivers are hard-working people trying to make a living, he said, “although there are one or two bad apples out there.” In the big picture, however, the pressure to make money, to book that extra fare or two, has some drivers making illegal U-turns or stopping in the middle of the road to discharge or pick up passengers.

Officers will be cracking down on cabbies who park their vehicles, particularly in places designated as taxi stands, and then walk into crowds outside hot night spots, fishing for high-paying fares. The chief said the department intends to obtain contact information from the town clerk’s office and then set up meetings with owners of the many companies operating here this summer, to help bring their drivers into compliance.

Emergency medical personnel, meanwhile, had a busy weekend, responding to 57 calls between Friday and Monday, according to East Hampton Village Police Chief Gerard Larsen, who oversees the dispatching for the five agencies. The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, which answers calls in the village, Northwest Woods, and areas of Wainscott, answered 21 calls, 12 on Sunday alone. The Montauk Fire Department answered the second most number of E.M.S. calls with 18, 9 of them Sunday.

All in all, Chief Sarlo said, it was a good start to the season. “It’s summer. It’s the beach. There’s going to be a party,” he said, but added, “We’re headed in the right direction.”

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Correction: An earlier version of this story that appeared online and in print incorrectly stated the name of the business that received noise complaints over the weekend. It was not Ruschmeyer's but Sole East.

In a dispute with Sandpebble Builders that dates back to 2006, the East Hampton School District has spent more than $3 million in legal fees, but with a New York State Supreme Court decision last week, the costly dispute appears to finally be nearing its end.

Last Thursday, a jury concluded that the school district should pay Sandpebble Builders about $750,750. The company, which had originally been hired to manage the multimillion-dollar renovation of all three district buildings, had been seeking damages of $3.7 million plus accrued interest in a sued alleging that East Hampton had wrongfully terminated its contract.

Sandpebble sued after the school administration signed a new contract with a different construction company when the scope of the work increased dramatically. The district eventually countered with a lawsuit of its own to limit the damages that Sandpebble could collect. After many years of delays, jury selection began on May 9; the trial began the following day.

Mr. Burns announced the outcome in press release on Friday. He later said by email East Hampton does not plan to appeal the decision and that there is sufficient money available as encumbered funds in the school’s budget to pay Sandpebble the sum that the jury determined the district owes. The district may also have to pay accrued interest, the amount of which will be determined in a conference with Justice Jerry Garguilo “to discuss the details of the decision by the jury,” Mr. Burns said.

Isabel Madison, the district’s assistant superintendent for business, said in an email yesterday that East Hampton has paid about $3.12 million to its attorneys since the Southampton construction company sued in 2006. East Hampton is represented by Steven G. Pinks of the Hauppauge firm Pinks, Arbeit & Nemeth, which it hired in 2011 to replace a previous law firm.

Before yesterday’s figure, Richard Burns, East Hampton’s superintendent, said in January that legal fees had approached $2.8 million.