Safe Harbor Retreat, a California company that operates the Dunes, an in-house treatment center in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods for persons recovering from drug or alcohol addiction, has asked the United States Supreme Court to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision rejecting its lawsuit claiming the Town of East Hampton has violated the federal Fair Housing Act.

Joseph Campolo of Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, a Long Island firm with an office in Bridgehampton, said on Tuesday that the town’s actions against the Dunes are discriminatory because as recovering addicts its residents are considered disabled, a protected class. The Second Circuit ruling is out of step, he said, with decisions by other circuit courts.

The treatment center is on Bull Run in a neighborhood zoned for residential use. The town contends it needs a special permit to operate there, and an application for a permit is now working its way through the site review process in the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

According to Mr. Campolo, site plan review  should not be necessary. “We haven’t even gotten to the merits. We are very confident, once we get to that point, we will prevail,” he said.

The Dunes had previously asked the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals to overturn a 2010 decision by Tom Preiato, then chief building inspector, that the treatment center needed a permit to operate in a residential area. Its appeal was turned down in June of 2013 by a 4-to-1 vote.

Safe Harbor then sued the town in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District, which dismissed the case in March 2015 saying it was “unripe” in that the company had not pursued all administrative remedies.

The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that ruling, stating Safe Harbor “had failed to apply for the special permit as a semi-public facility notwithstanding the building inspector’s and zoning board’s invitations that it do so.”

Mr. Campolo’s appeal to the Supreme Court states that having different sets of standards in circuit courts sets up situations that could dictate where a handicapped person resides. It also cites  as well precedent from other circuit courts, in which group homes were granted single family status. “The Fair Housing Act is a federal law requiring uniform interpretation,” according to the appeal. It also cites the need for such a facility.

On the phone Tuesday, Mr. Campolo bristled at a suggestion that because of the high cost of treatment at the Dunes, reported to be about $45,000 a month, the facility serves only the rich. He said the Dunes has provided services worth more than $2 million, in scholarships to East Hampton residents.

Mr. Campolo complained that the town was acting in response to political pressure from neighbors of the facility, who had been “fear-mongering.” The Dunes, which was opened in 2009, had operated for ten months without a hitch, he said, until The New York Post published an article that year revealing its existence.

Mr. Campolo said he believed the Supreme Court would decide whether to hear Safe Harbor’s appeal by the start of its next term this fall.

Two Montauk bars, one old, one relatively new, were the backdrop early Saturday morning for the arrest of Gustavo Bonilla-Bonilla, 41, on felony charges of cocaine possession.

Grace Peterson, an 11-year veteran of the East Hampton Town Police Department who previously served 13 years with the New York Police Department, pulled into the parking lot of Liar’s Saloon on West Lake Drive early Saturday morning after a dispatcher took a call from the bar. The call proved to be unfounded, and the officer returned to her marked car, which was parked behind a 1997 green Toyota Camry. As she recorded the call on her pad, she noticed an unusual amount of foot traffic between the bar and the Toyota in front of her. “The location is known for drug activity both in and around the establishment,” the officer later noted in her report.

She stopped writing and watched as a man left Liar’s and walked over to the Toyota, getting into the passenger seat. Three or four minutes later, according to the report, he returned to the bar. A second man paid a similar short visit to the Camry. When a third man began traveling the same path from Liar’s, Officer Peterson stepped out of her car. Upon seeing her, he swerved from his path.

“The officer then made inquiry,” Capt. Chris Anderson said Monday, “as to what the occupant of the Toyota’s business was.” Mr. Bonilla’s business, the officer determined, was selling cocaine, in small orange plastic packets.

Officer Peterson did a test on one of the packets, which was in plain sight on the top of the middle console. “Field-tested positive for the presence of cocaine,” she noted in her report.

She searched the car and reported finding 17 more packets. Mr. Bonilla was placed under arrest, charged with possessing over a half ounce of the narcotic and with possession with intent to sell.

“Good police work,” Captain Anderson said.

At police headquarters in Wainscott Mr. Bonilla told detectives how he came to be in possession of the cocaine. It began, he said, on Main Street in downtown Montauk last Thursday night.

“I walked into the bathroom at the Gig Shack and saw a few guys doing cocaine,” he stated. “I said I wanted some, and this guy [ . . . ] sold me a bag for $20.”

On Friday afternoon, he said, he ran into the man again, this time on Carl Fisher Plaza. The man offered to sell him all his packaged cocaine. “I’ll give you a good price, because I am headed to Florida tomorrow and I can’t travel with it,” Mr. Bonilla said he was told.

The two arranged to meet at the docks, where Mr. Bonilla said he paid the man $280 for 14 packets of cocaine.

 At his arraignment Saturday after noon, though he had given police an address of 8 Duryea Road, Montauk, as his residence, he told Justice Steven Tekulsky that he was homeless. Justice Tekulsky set bail at $50,000, which had not been met as of Tuesday. Mr. Bonilla is to be brought back to East Hampton from the county jail in Riverside today, to await further court action.

Board members of the Amagansett Village Improvement Society, which has been working for the past year on an ambitious plan to upgrade and beautify the Amagansett train station, had a cordial meeting Saturday with representatives of PSEG-Long Island, which is set to begin landscaping its as-yet-unfinished electrical substation in the fall.

Cooperative interaction between the society and the utility was the goal.

A chain fence separates the substation from the railroad tracks. PSEG owns the land up to 10 feet from the fence, explained Bob Parkinson, project manager. Beyond that is Long Island Rail Road property, up to the parking area, which is owned by East Hampton Town.

The society’s plan, which was designed by Groundworks@Hren’s, would provide more parking spaces, with separate areas for motorcycles and scooters, small cars, bicycles, and an electric car section with a charging station. The plan, which would redirect the flow of traffic toward the Amagansett Firehouse, calls for repaving the parking area and installing “beach-type” plantings.

PSEG’s plan, meanwhile, is expected to hide much of the unsightly transmission grid installed in the past year at the corner of Old Stone Highway and Abram’s Landing Road. Larry Ferendez, senior forester, said the utility would plant “a mixed variety of evergreens against the fence, and lower-growing shrubs, both evergreen and flowering, in front.” The original idea was to plant a hedgerow in a single line around the substation, he said, but the landscaping was revised after town officials and A.V.I.S. asked that it be “more naturalistic” and less “like foundation plants in suburbia.” All the plantings except for some deer-resistant evergreens will be native to the region, Mr. Ferendez said, with the trees generally 8 to 10 feet tall and the shrubs about 18 to 36 inches. Drip irrigation, using public water on a timer system, will keep the new plantings healthy.

Ms. Peacock asked if the society could tap into the PSEG irrigation, but the answer was no. “We can’t run a water line over the railroad tracks,” Vincent Frigeria, district manager for external affairs, said. “Anything south of the railroad tracks has no bearing on us.” Both the A.V.I.S. directors and the utility officials agreed that the railroad was unlikely to be helpful as a source of irrigation, and Mr. Ferendez, shaking his head, called it an “insurmountable problem.”

The board members — Ms. Peacock, Barbara Borg, Joan Tulp, Michael Cinque, and Victor Gelb — suggested that PSEG, which has a grant program, might be able to help A.V.I.S. in other ways, perhaps by contributing to the redevelopment of the train station. On that note the meeting ended.

The former Stella Maris Regional School will remain a school after voters in Sag Harbor on Tuesday gave the Sag Harbor School District the go-ahead to purchase and renovate the building for use as a center for early childhood and special education services.

The tally was 736 to 595, or about 55.3 percent, in favor of a $10.23 million bond referendum that will allow the district to buy, update, and outfit the building. The proposal also includes a plan to move some of the administrative offices at Pierson Middle-High School to Stella Maris, lease some of the space in the Stella Maris building to a local day care facility, and use the newly freed-up space at Pierson to create a dedicated middle school wing.

Also approved was the district’s $38.77 million budget, which received 75.2 percent voter approval in a 997-to-328 vote. Katy Graves, the superintendent, said the budget preserves all current programs, staff, and services for the students.

In the contested school board race that saw four people run for two open seats, the community elected Susan Lamontagne, a newcomer, and re-elected Chris Tice, the school board’s current vice president. Ms. Lamontagne received 645 votes, just four more than Susan Kinsella, the other incumbent candidate and current school board president, and Ms. Tice received 738. Roxanne Briggs, the fourth candidate, received 478 votes. Overall voter turnout was up about 37 percent over last year’s total of 966 voters.

The affirmative vote on Stella Maris was the culmination of several months of work by Ms. Graves, the school business administrator, Jennifer Buscemi, and the school board, which had met behind closed doors numerous times since last summer to discuss the building’s real estate appraisal, price negotiations, and potential uses. The administrators prepared and oversaw a survey effort to gauge how the community felt about buying the Stella Maris property, evaluated the cost estimates of all of the possible options, and held several public meetings on the topic.

After the results came in on Tuesday, Ms. Graves thanked the community for its support and said, “the best is yet to come.”

“Our board of education did something very brave by bringing the Stella Maris proposition to the community, and I think the community had the opportunity and took it to come to the polls in significant numbers tonight to be heard,” Ms. Graves said. “We saw that they do want this project and we’re going to see what opportunities can come now and change the landscape for the Sag Harbor community and the Sag Harbor School District.”

Sag Harbor school officials recently came under fire from residents who alleged some of the executive sessions were improper. The administrators of the community Facebook page Sag Harbor Education Best Practices Group said they did not support the purchase of Stella Maris. In the days leading up to the vote, anonymous letters circulated in the community making claims aimed at swaying the vote.

“I really believe that some of that was just confusion at the last minute,” Ms. Graves said. “We worked hard to put out the information that we really don’t believe this will be a burden to our taxpayers.”

As the balloting progressed, some voters expressed support for the proposition. Mary and Joseph Lane, who are 20-year residents of Noyac, both voted for it.

“I think we need to support education,” Ms. Lane said. “I think it’s a great opportunity. I like the fact that they are supporting special education for the very youngest, particularly since the Child Development Center of the Hamptons is closing.”

But Jason Schommer, a 16-year resident of North Haven, voted no to Stella Maris. “We already spend a lot on school taxes,” he said. “There is no way this district should be spending that amount of money on that. They should use the resources they have.”

Lisa Kiss, an eight-year resident of the village, voted for the proposition despite some concerns over the cost, but said she thinks it will preserve the character of the village. “It’s a good investment,” she said. “I do feel better about the school owning it than anyone else.”

The Dunes, a center for recovering drug addicts on Bull Run in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods, came under an East Hampton Town Planning Board spotlight on May 11, as members considered the center’s application for a special permit as a semi-public facility.

Safe Harbor Retreat, which is headed by Joe McKinsey, leases, with an option to buy, the almost-four-acre property. It has operated the Dunes there since 2011 in a neighborhood zoned for residences, and a certificate of occupancy had been issued for the building as a residence in 2006.

“When you are asking for a special permit, we have to take special care,” Ian Calder-Piedmonte, a member of the board, said. “You’re in a residential area. We have to take that into account. You have a little uphill battle,” he warned Mr. McKinsey’s lawyer, Patrick McCormick.

The status of the Dunes has been clouded by past negotiations with town officials and a lawsuit the facility brought against the town, which was dismissed.

Mr. McKinsey reported, in a 2013 interview, that his company received intial approval from then-Supervisor Bill Wilkinson, former Police Chief Edward V. Ecker, and then-town attorney John Jilnicki, all of whom, on July 9, 2011, signed a letter indicating support. Mr. Jilnicki now has the title of senior assistant town attorney, and frequently advises the planning board.

What apparently happened next was that Tom Preiato, the top town building inspector at the time, found that the residence was, despite the somewhat transient nature of its tenants, operating as a single-family unit, making it allowable under residential zoning. But, in September 2011, Mr. Preiato reversed course. In a letter to Mr. McKinsey, he said, “It is now clear that such an operation is not permitted in a residential zone without site plan approval.” Mr. McKinsey took the case to the zoning board of appeals in 2012, asking that Mr. Preiato’s determination be reversed. When the appeals board declined to do so, the Dunes sued the town.

“They launched a federal lawsuit, alleging discrimination,” Jeffrey Bragman, an attorney representing disgruntled Northwest Woods neighbors, told the planning board last week. “The lawsuit was denied as not being ripe,” he said. That is, the court found that the Dunes had not exhausted its options at the planning board and zoning board levels.

Despite legal rejection, Mr. McCormick said on May 11, the Dunes stands by the belief that the residents are a “protected class of individuals” as recovering drug addicts. The board, however, focused on the numbers of residents, the duration of stays, and the number of employees. Mr. McCormick told the board that the ideal stay was 11 months to assure recovery. That number was not realistic, Mr. Bragman responded, saying stays were much shorter, due in part to the cost, which he said was $45,000 a month. Mr. Bragman also said residents received three meals a day. “They have three chefs there, and a sous chef,” Mr. Bragman said, along with three maids. According to a memo prepared for the planning board by Eric Schantz, senior town planner, the Dunes indicated that up to 16 residents could be there at any one time.

“The Dunes has dramatically underestimated occupants in the house,” Mr. Bragman alleged, along with the number of attending employees, which he said was three for each resident.  Mr. McCormick challenged Mr. Bragman’s numbers, accusing him of cherry-picking them from different documents.

“I was there today myself. I did count eight cars in the front, and four in the back,” Kathleen Cunningham, a member of the planning board, said.”If you have 10 people a day, being served 30 meals a day, you are really running a mini-restaurant,” Diana Weir, another board member, said.

 The intensity of use of the septic system was an ongoing theme throughout the discussion. The site is in a water recharge district, and appears to have been over-cleared, Mr. Schantz told the board.

While Reed Jones, the board’s chairman, commended the attempt by the Dunes to help the addicted, he said, “I wonder if this property is large enough for the specific use. I’m not sure it is.”

Several neighbors spoke in opposition to the site plan as well, with Mr. McCormick responding.  “What is going on is NIMBYism. We are happy to respond to any question. We are not retreating from anything. We don’t retreat. I want to make it clear,” he said.

Even with a special permit from the planning board, the Dunes would have to apply to the Z.B.A. for setback variances, among others. Board members agreed that when the applicant makes that application, they would send comments to the Z.B.A. They did not discuss what those comments might be.

Another hot-button issue on the agenda May 11 was a site plan for 12 new cellphone antenna panels to go on the existing monopole at the East Hampton Town Recycling Center. The pole already holds equipment from Sprint and T-Mobile, whose leases run out between 2021 and 2022, and Lisa A. Covert of the Amato Group, representing Verizon, attended the session.

Another application with regard to cellphone equipment, to be considered by the board in coming weeks, is from AT&T, Mr. Schantz said. It is proposing a new pole at the location, which would eventually host all four companies. Because of that, Mr. Schantz told the planners they should consider limiting the lease for Verizon on the existing pole to five years, an idea Ms. Covert chafed at.

“The future of the AT&T pole is uncertain,” she said. She went on to tell the board that, at the heart of the urgency felt by her corporate client is that Cablevision is not renewing leases for cellphone companies on its tower at Springs-Fireplace Road and Abraham’s Path. Verizon needs a longer commitment than five years, she said. “There may be a significant gap in service if that doesn’t happen.”

Board members discussed the possibility of making the lease renewable in case the new tower doesn’t materialize. A public hearing on the proposal was to be scheduled last night.

It's a good thing Greg Drossel has a background as a naturalist. The Ross School's assistant dean of students, along with maintenance crew members at the Upper School campus in East Hampton, on Thursday rescued a great horned owl that had become tangled in a soccer net.

"It had been out probably most of the night, because they are nocturnal," Mr. Drossel, who ran the Long Island Game Farm for 18 years before joining Ross as a naturalist, said on Thursday. "It was tangled up in the lower part of one of the soccer nets, which would lead me to believe it came down over the field hunting to grab dinner, which would usually be a small rodent, and got tangled up in the net."

The owl was discovered around 8 a.m. that morning as the maintenance crew was mowing the soccer field. Jose Flores said he saw "something jumping in the net." He thought it was a wild turkey, but when he saw it was an owl, he alerted Mr. Drossel.

With help from Tauk Tarrant, another member of the maintenance crew, Mr. Drossel freed the owl from the net. It was hanging by a wing and showing other signs of stress, so they took it to Mr. Drossel's office, placed it in a box, and called the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays.

Mr. Drossel, who is in his 20th year at Ross and runs nature programs there in addition to his administrative duties, described the owl as a young male with a wingspan of between two and a half and three feet. "They're very common throughout the U.S. and Canada," he said. "When people think of the wise old owl, they're thinking of a great horned owl."

On Friday morning, Jim Hunter, president of the wildlife rescue center's board of directors, said the owl was doing well.

"He was a little bit under weight. He'll be here for the next few days," Mr. Hunter said. "He will be released where he came from, someplace around the Ross School, as soon as he is at a normal weight."

A bicyclist was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital on Friday afternoon following an accident in which he was ticketed for what East Hampton Village police said was failure to follow traffic rules.

The bicyclist, whose name and age police have not released, was heading east on Main Street in slow traffic conditions. According to Chief Gerard Larsen, witnesses said the bicyclist was passing cars on the right side while traveling faster than the other traffic. Just before 12:30 p.m., Chief Larsen said, the bicyclist struck a light-colored Mercedes-Benz that was making a right turn onto Fithian Lane from Main Street.

The extent of the bicyclist's injuries was not immediately clear. Chief Larsen said a paramedic on scene requested that he be taken by medevac helicopter to Stony Brook. “He was conscious, but he took a pretty good fall,” Chief Larsen said.

The driver of the car, whose name was also not released, will not be charged, the chief said.

Update 1:11 p.m.: Sag Harbor Village Police Chief Austin McGuire confirmed Monday afternoon that the anonymous threat called in to Pierson Middle and High School was a bomb threat, and Katy Graves, the district superintendent, said it came in the form of a recorded message.

Chief McGuire declined to comment further on the message, saying the matter is still under investigation.

Firefighters from the Sag Harbor Fire Department responded with Sag Harbor Village police but kept their trucks on standby at headquarters along with the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps. School administrators assisted the officers and the firefighters in checking the building.

“It's unfortunate that someone did call in a bomb threat, but I can say that all the parts worked well together,” Chief McGuire said. “We followed the response plan by the book, and it went really well.”

A recorded bomb threat was made to the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton on March 16, resulting in the evacuation of the school, but nothing dangerous was found upon an inspection. On that day, a school in Portland, Me., received the same recorded threat from the same phone number. 

Update, 12:25 p.m.: Pierson Middle and High School and Sag Harbor Elementary School have reopened after an emergency evacuation at 10:47 a.m. on Monday. 

Police searched the building following an anonymous threat and gave the okay for students to return to the buildings shortly after noon.  

Katy Graves, the district superintendent, commended the staff for "their professionalism and our students for their cooperation and good behavior," which, she said, "enabled the evacuation process to go smoothly." 

Original, 11:57 a.m.: Pierson Middle and High School and Sag Harbor Elementary School were evacuated Monday morning following an anonymous threat that was called into Pierson's main office at about 10:46 a.m.

“The police were immediately contacted and are currently on site conducting an investigation,” Katy Graves, the district's superintendent, said in a statement issued at 11:47 a.m.

The nature of the threat was not immediately clear. Ms. Graves said police are conducting a search of the building. “All students and staff are safe and we request that parents do not come to the building at this time,” Ms. Graves said.

Check back for more information as it becomes available.

A motorcyclist was injured in an accident on Butter Lane in Bridgehampton on Monday afternoon.

Bridgehampton Fire Chief Jeff White said the motorcyclist hit the windshield of a small utility van after it made a right turn in front of him around noon near 60 Butter Lane, about 1,000 feet from Montauk Highway.

The motorcyclist was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, a level one trauma center, for his injuries. The driver of the van was not injured, the chief said.

Southampton Town police had a portion of Butter Lane closed Monday afternoon as the accident was investigated. Police did not immediately return a call for more information.  

Voters from Bridgehampton to Montauk reacted favorably on Tuesday to their school districts’ proposed 2016-17 spending plans, easily passing all eight budgets, including two that pierced the state-imposed cap on tax levy increases.

The Bridgehampton and Amagansett School Districts achieved the supermajority of voter approval they both needed to exceed the state tax levy cap, with Bridgehampton’s $13.78 million budget surpassing 67 percent voter approval and Amagansett’s $10.47 million budget approved by 63 percent of voters.

This was the second time in three years that Bridgehampton attempted to override the tax cap; it needed two tries to pass the 2014-15 school budget, but passed it on the first try this time around. The result of the 161-to-78 vote, school officials say, is the preservation of current programs, staffing, and services at the Bridgehampton School. Those include the after-school ASPIRE program, field trips, career and technical education programs, driver’s education, and more, which had been identified as potential cuts while the budget was being developed, but were considered too critical to spare.

It was not a sure bet, though, as taxpayers like Karl Nitzl, a four-year resident of Bridgehampton, said the district “needs to try harder. I don’t think there’s any reason to exceed the cap.”

The school also saw many alumni return to vote in favor of the budget. Among them were Hayley Lund, the 2015 valedictorian, who said, “We did a lot of really cool stuff with the school, and with a little more budget I think they can keep doing all these great things and move on to even better things, too.”

Thanking the community, Lois Favre, Bridgehampton’s superintendent, said, “We’re looking forward to doing good things here.”

Running unopposed for two seats on the Bridgehampton School Board, Jennifer Vinski and Michael Gomberg received 215 and 189 votes, respectively. The 239 total ballots cast for the budget on Tuesday represented a 54 percent increase over last year’s turnout of 155 voters. There are 1,203 registered voters in the school district.

In Amagansett, where the official budget tally was 121 to 70, school officials also expected to maintain all current programs and services next year. “We’re really delighted and very thankful to the community for supporting the budget,” said Eleanor Tritt, the district’s superintendent.

Tuesday’s vote in Amagansett brought out 191 voters, surpassing last year’s turnout of 178. Kristen V. Peterson and Hank Muchnic, who were running unopposed for two open school board seats, received 151 and 139 votes, respectively. There were six write-in votes cast, including for Mary Lownes, a former member of the school board, Kieran and Ted Cruz, also received one write-in vote each. The Amagansett Library budget, a $995,223 proposal, passed by 165 to 28.

The East Hampton School District’s $66.72 million budget proposal, which school officials say kept expenses mostly level and stayed at the tax cap, was approved on Tuesday by a vote of 440 to 86. Turnout was 526, higher than last year’s 513 votes. For the three open seats on the East Hampton School Board, the incumbents James Foster, Wendy Geehreng, and Richard C. Wilson emerged the winners. Mr. Foster received 416 votes, Ms. Geehreng 397 votes, and Mr. Wilson took in 362 votes, while Alison Anderson received 224.

In Springs, a $27.63 million budget proposal, which officials had described as cut “to the bone,” passed 314 to 127. Also approved, 289 to 147, was a separate proposition to enter a three-year financing agreement for the purchase of a 66-passenger school bus for about $121,000. In the contested school board race, for which there were three candidates and two available seats, David Conlon and Amy Rivera emerged the winners, knocking Adam Wilson out of office, with 335 and 333 votes respectively. Mr. Wilson took in 131 votes.

In Montauk, where school officials had proposed an $18.98 million budget that showed a slight tax levy decrease from the current year’s figure, voters approved the budget 184 to 34. Patti Leber, an incumbent school board candidate, was re-elected after running unopposed to retain her seat, but in the contested race for the seat that will become available in July after Jason Biondo’s resignation becomes effective, Tom Flight defeated Cynthia Ibrahim, 163 to 53.

The Wainscott and Sagaponack School Districts also proposed tax levy decreases. Wainscott easily won approval for its 2016-17 school budget of just over $3 million, with a 49-0 vote.

Its two propositions, a tuition contract with Sag Harbor Elementary and another with Pierson Middle-High School, which would give Wainscott families the choice of attending Sag Harbor or East Hampton schools after finishing the third grade at Wainscott, passed with 48 votes and 49 votes, respectively. This is the district’s fifth consecutive budget in which spending decreased and the fourth in which the tax levy dropped. William Babinski Jr., the lone candidate for one seat on the school board, was re-elected with 49 votes.

Sagaponack voters passed the school’s $1.77 million budget proposal with 16 votes. No one voted against it, and it looks as though a new playground is on the way at the Sagaponack School, as the budget includes $37,000 for new playground equipment to supplement community donations received for that purpose. Cathy Hatgistavrou, the only candidate running for one seat on the school board, was re-elected with all 16 votes.

In Sag Harbor, the budget passed and voters approved a bond referendum for the purchase of the former Stella Maris Regional School. The results are covered separately in this issue.