Deepwater One, a proposed offshore wind farm to be located on 256 square miles of federal waters approximately 30 miles east of Montauk, would result in some 300 direct jobs on Long Island throughout its multiyear construction process, according to its developer’s chief executive.

At a meeting in Hauppauge on Tuesday, Jeffrey Grybowski of Deepwater Wind announced his firm’s partnership with the Nassau-Suffolk Building and Construction Trades Council and the Long Island Federation of Labor to develop a local offshore wind industry. Mr. Grybowski was joined at the meeting by the presidents of each group as well as Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

“Deepwater Wind has agreed to have a project labor agreement in place for some of the construction elements of the project that would be here on Long Island,” Mr. Grybowski said. “We anticipate about 300 folks from Long Island will be employed on the Island for the project when we do construction. We’re working with organized labor to make sure we find the right people to do that work. We’re excited about it. We believe offshore wind has the potential to start a new clean-energy industry on the Island.”

Mr. Grybowski said that construction of the offshore wind farm, which could begin supplying more than 200 megawatts of power in 2018, would require skilled workers such as welders, carpenters, crane operators, and other equipment operators. The project’s preconstruction phase would also create a significant number of jobs, according to a release issued by Deepwater Wind, with hiring starting as early as next year and accelerating over the course of its development.

Long Island, Mr. Grybowski said, can become a hub and leader in a nascent offshore-wind industry. Last week, he met with representatives of a trade delegation of Danish offshore wind companies that was visiting the U.S. to explore the investment potential of the domestic offshore wind market.

“It was instructive for people here to meet people who are involved in this big industry in Europe,” he said. “Denmark is the place where offshore wind started. They were here to say that this is big business in Europe; they employ lots of people. There were conversations about what it would take to replicate that here.”

While the federal government awarded Deepwater Wind a 30-year lease to develop the project last year, Deepwater One’s development remains contingent on approval by the Long Island Power Authority. LIPA issued a request for proposals last year for an agreement to purchase up to 280 megawatts of renewable energy.

A decision could come as soon as next month. LIPA, said Mr. Grybowski, “has indicated that on Dec. 17 they intend to discuss this at their board meeting. They might be making a decision then. So pretty much the entire focus on the project now is waiting for LIPA’s decision, whether they give it a green light. If they do, we’ll start moving fast.”

“We’re very excited and optimistic,” Mr. Grybowski said. “We’re on the verge of big things here on Long Island. With a green light from LIPA, we’re full speed ahead.”

A funeral today in East Hampton for Thomas A. Twomey, a lawyer and community leader who died on Sunday, was attended by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton, who was among those who gave tributes to Mr. Twomey, described what she said was his "political genius" and said that his deep concern for others and involvement in a range of causes was "uniquely American."

Recalling her time running for United States Senate, Mrs. Clinton spoke about how Mr. Twomey had taken her to get to know the "real people" of the East End of Long Island — meeting North Fork farmers and sitting down to dinner with Montauk fishermen.

Also attending the funeral at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in East Hampton Village were Representative Tim Bishop, East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Flemming, and many others. An overflow crowd filled St. Luke's adjacent Hoie Hall, where the service was shown on a video feed.

Among the other speakers were Ruth Appelhof, the executive director of Guild Hall, of which Mr. Twomey had been a board member, and former East Hampton Town Supervisor Bruce Collins.

One of Mr. Twomey's law partners, John Shea, said that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had sent a U.S. flag that she had asked to be flown over the Capitol on Friday.

Southampton Town police are investigating the cause of an accident on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton Monday morning that involved two cars and a truck, leaving one of the cars engulfed in flames and four people in Southampton Hospital, where they were treated for what Bridgehampton Fire Chief Gary Horsburgh described as minor injuries.

The accident happened a little before 7:30 a.m. Monday by Halsey Lane near Citarella. When Chief Horsburgh arrived, what appeared to be an old Chevy Suburban was essentially a ball of fire that was beginning to spread to a second car. With two engines on the scene, Chief Horsburgh's department covered the burning wreck with foam to smother it, while a hose was turned on the second vehicle, to prevent the fire from spreading.

"It took about 30 to 45 minutes. It kept going out and reigniting," the chief said. The chief surmised that the driver had just filled the gas tank, which had been ruptured in the crash, providing a steady source of fuel for the fire.

By the time the chief arrived, the four occupants of the vehicles, including the burning one, had been pulled to safety by quick-acting good Samaritans. According to the chief, Rick Ostenberg, an East Hampton Fire Department chief, was in the area and was the first firefighter on the scene. He turned an extinguisher on the burning car, but the fire was already beyond control.

Cautioning that police were still investigating the details, Chief Horsburgh said it appears that two cars were involved in the main collision, while a Citarella truck was also involved secondarily. 

Montauk Highway was closed for an hour and 15 minutes.

When Thomas A. Twomey, a well-known East End lawyer, died of an apparent heart attack at home in East Hampton on Nov. 16, it was during 1 of 10 times since May that East Hampton Village’s paid first responder program had gone unmanned, prompting questions about whether the outcome for him might have been different if someone had been on duty.



In mid-May, the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association joined Amagansett, Montauk, and other agencies on the South Fork in moving from a volunteer-only system to a partially paid system to help deal with the increasing 911 call volume. Every day, from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., a paid advanced life support provider, which includes certified critical care technicians and paramedics who provide a higher level of care, is supposed to be at the ready to answer calls within the association’s coverage area, which extends past the village into Northwest Woods, areas of Wainscott, and areas east to the Amagansett district line.



But on the morning of Nov. 16, “No one was available to work that shift,” said Village Police Chief Gerard Larsen, who helped set up and oversees the program. The provider scheduled to work had a family emergency and called in before his shift, according to Lt. Tony Long, who said other providers were called and emailed in an effort to get the shift covered to no avail.



About 45 minutes into that vacant shift, at 6:44 a.m., the East Hampton Village Communications Department received a call for help from Mr. Twomey’s wife, Judith Hope, Chief Larsen said. A minute later, the ambulance crew was summoned for an adult male experiencing chest pain on Two Holes of Water Road in Northwest Woods.



It would be 21 minutes before the ambulance arrived at 7:06 a.m.



Because the town police and the emergency medical services throughout the town are dispatched by separate agencies, police and E.M.S. might be dispatched at different times. Often police are notified about a medical emergency a minute or so after a call for an ambulance. According to town records, police dispatchers were notified at 6:46 a.m., and dispatched an officer a minute later. He arrived within five minutes, and found that Mr. Twomey was not breathing. (While Two Holes of Water is in the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association’s coverage area it is outside of East Hampton Village police jurisdiction.)



Meanwhile, the volunteers were assembling a crew. They confirmed a crew, but without any advanced life support, in eight minutes. At 6:57 a.m., 12 minutes after Ms. Hope’s call for help, the ambulance was on its way.



Back at Mr. Twomey’s house, the town officer had started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and used an automated external defibrillator, which police carry in their vehicles since they are often the first to arrive on scene. Over the next 15 minutes that the officer performed CPR alone, two shocks were administered to Mr. Twomey in an attempt to re-establish a heartbeat. The portable electronic machine reads the heart’s rhythms and will indicate that a shock is needed to establish a life-sustaining beat only for patients with two types of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. After that, no further shocks were advised.



The officer did not radio in that CPR was in progress until 7:05 a.m., according to village records. The ambulance pulled up at the house one minute later.



At 7:09 a.m., a volunteer certified in advanced life support — who was unaware there was no paid provider on duty that day — signed on. The provider made haste, arriving eight minutes later, though it was 32 minutes after the 911 call. The provider met the ambulance as it was pulling out of the driveway on its way to Southampton Hospital, where Mr. Twomey would be pronounced dead.



Diane O’Donnell, the chief of the village ambulance association, said it was unfortunate the call happened during one of the times a paid advanced life support provider was unavailable. Asked if she felt it would have made a difference she said, “I don’t know how. He was already in cardiac arrest. The first thing the A.L.S. provider has to do is make sure there’s good [basic life support] CPR going on,” she said. “It’s a process, no matter how you look at it.”



“The most important component of the whole thing was CPR and that was already being provided. A provider who could have gotten there between three or four minutes sooner than the rest of the people, he would still have had to do basic CPR before he started any interventions,” such as intubation or more detailed cardiac monitoring, she said.



Still, the program administrators had been aware that they needed to find more help to ensure all shifts get covered. “We had already done interviews to hire four more people to make sure we didn’t have holes in the schedule,” Ms. O’Donnell said, adding that four were officially added to the ranks of part-time providers at a village board meeting on Friday.



“Even though we do have paid people 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., then it’s back to volunteer,” Ms. O’Donnell said. There are three advanced life support providers who volunteer with the association, answering calls when they are available and on squads in the evening hours. “It can happen any time. It’s unfortunate that it happened during a time that people expected a provider to be there, but the crew that handled the call did everything they had to do.” Aside from good care, she pointed to the fact that they got Mr. Twomey into the ambulance in 10 minutes.



Chief Larsen, who is in charge of scheduling and personnel in the paid A.L.S. program, said adding more people to the pool of providers does not guarantee shifts will be covered. “The only way to fix the problem is to have full-time employees,” with a provider on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year round, he said.



“There’s no way of knowing if it would have made a difference, but it certainly couldn’t have hurt,” the chief said.



Though he said it is not a criticism of the volunteers, “Twenty-one minutes is not a reasonable response time for someone having a heart attack,” he said. Longer response times also burden dispatchers, who are often are fielding multiple emergency calls at once, especially when mutual aid is being requested from neighboring agencies.



East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said his department is also reviewing the incident. “Obviously, there is a delay here and we have to look at why this happened,” he said.  



The officer “did everything right” except letting dispatchers know earlier that CPR was in progress. He said there was an expectation that a paid A.L.S. provider would have arrived before the ambulance. “Our officers really rely on the help of E.M.S., and we have a great working relationship. We do anticipate the idea that if there’s a paid paramedic, to hand the call off to them,” he said. “That’s disappointing to put that much time and effort into this program not to fill the gaps.”    



Barbara Borsack, the village’s acting mayor and a longtime volunteer with the ambulance association, said she reviewed the call with the chiefs, but is not sure it would have made any difference for Mr. Twomey had there been a paid provider on duty. He was defibrillated right away, she said, and the officer was performing CPR.



“I think the gap is in informing the ambulance people that the paid provider wasn’t on that day. I think that’s the gap that we have to address,” she said, calling the program a work in progress. “Short of having full paid staff all the time, what is the answer? I’m not sure people are ready for that yet. I’m not sure they’re ready for the tax implication yet.”



The village board will continue to look at the issues, she said, but added, “We are generally pleased with the way the new program is working and hope we can constantly be improving. That’s the first step, to make sure the volunteers know when nobody is on duty.”

Two partners at the law firm Bainton Lynch, which has offices in East Hampton, Manhattan, Queens, and Garden City, have received professional accolades this month.

The managing partner, Kyle Lynch of East Hampton, was named a rising star in the area of business litigation in the 2014 New York Metro Super Lawyers magazine. Super Lawyers is a rating service; rising stars candidates are 40 or younger. This is the second time Mr. Lynch has made the list.

Also recognized this month was Carl Irace of East Hampton, a partner at the firm who was awarded a Leadership in Law Award from Long Island Business News. The award honors “individuals whose leadership, both in the legal profession and in the community, has had a positive impact on Long Island,” according to the Business News website. The selection committee considers an array of criteria such as candidates’ work on behalf of their clients, their participation in professional associations, encouragement of high standards of ethics, and volunteer or pro bono service. Mr. Irace joined Bainton Lynch in 2012. He has done pro bono work for the Retreat and the Amagansett Life-Saving Station.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton was filled to capacity for the funeral on Saturday afternoon of Thomas A. Twomey, an East Hampton resident who in some 40 years as an attorney and civic leader had a broad salutary effect on the East End community. Mr. Twomey died at his house on Two Holes of Water Road on Nov. 16, of an apparent heart attack. He was 68 years old, and his death was unexpected.

Extra chairs had been brought into the church to accommodate an estimated 350 mourners, while another group was seated in the church’s small chapel in Hoie Hall, where they were able to watch the proceedings on a live TV feed.

Admiration and affection for Mr. Twomey was evident as family members, legal partners, and community leaders testified to Mr. Twomey’s effect on them as individuals and as representatives of local institutions. They cited his efforts to preserve the land and the history of the East End and his leading role in protecting the environment from nuclear plants planned for Jamesport and Shoreham.

Notable among those offering tributes was Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state. That she and former President Bill Clinton were to attend the service, and the reception that followed at East Hampton Point, a restaurant on Three Mile Harbor Road, had not been known until that morning even to members of the Twomey legal firm.

Speaking extemporaneously, Mrs. Clinton called Mr. Twomey “a public servant in every sense of that term.” She recalled her run for the Senate and, calling Mr. Twomey a “political genius,” said he had insisted she get to know the “real people” of the East End by arranging a meeting of North Fork farmers and having her sit down to dinner with Montauk fishermen. His concern for others and commitment to a range of causes were “uniquely American,” she said. Sprinkling her remarks with personal comments about Mr. Twomey’s “gusto” and “joy,” she said he knew “members of communities” were who made things happen in this country. “He knew how to find common ground and he knew how to stand his ground,” she said.

Heard repeatedly as others spoke were the accolades “kind” and “magnificent.” Stephen A. Latham, Mr. Twomey’s first legal partner, and John Shea, another longtime partner in the Riverhead firm, Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quatararo, were among the first speakers, with Mr. Latham recalling that Mr. Twomey had in one legal case used a painting by the late Sheridan Lord of Sagaponack to underscore the importance of saving the East End’s farmland vistas. Mr. Latham said he “could only imagine what the East End would have been like had Tom not settled here.”

Mr. Twomey’s devotion to local history and his skill in shepherding two additions to the East Hampton Library, including the recently completed children’s wing, were praised by Bruce Collins, a former East Hampton Town supervisor and library trustee who had worked with Mr. Twomey on the celebration of the town’s 350th anniversary. Ruth Appelhof, executive director of Guild Hall, praised Mr. Twomey, a trustee, for astute advice over the years and in connection with its major fund-raising campaigns for renovations.

A brother-in-law, Jim Cope of East Marion, described Mr. Twomey as a youngster, surmising that his love of the East End went back to time spent with his family in Mattituck, where he salvaged a derelict boat and rowed off among the seagulls, which, Mr. Cope said, had prompted his becoming a pilot and “looking beyond the horizon.” The phrase was a metaphor for many of the accomplishments Mr. Twomey’s legal partners described, all of which involved thinking ahead when others couldn’t, whether in building up the firm or its physical building, computer technology, or successful battles in the public interest.

Also attending the funeral were numerous officials, including Representative Tim Bishop, Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, Southampton Councilwoman Bridget Fleming, and East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, who was M.C. later at the gathering at East Hampton Point. It was announced that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had sent the family a United States flag that she had arranged to be flown over the Capitol on Friday.

Among family members who spoke or read at the service were Soren Hope, Mr. Twomey’s granddaughter, and Nisse and Erling Hope, his stepchildren. Toward the conclusion of the service, Nisse Hope read “The White Birds” by William Butler Yeats, a poem she said was her mother and stepfather’s favorite.

Although it had closed for the season, Bonnie and Ben Krupinski, owners of East Hampton Point, reopened it for the reception, providing food and drink for the more than 300 who attended. Mr. Krupinski said it had taken days to find the staff, some of whom had to be rounded up on the golf course.

A bus had been chartered to bring many of the 55 members of the Twomey firm to the reception. They nodded in recognition when one of the partners, David Dubin, who also had taken part in the church service, counted off the long years many had been with the firm. Janice Olsen, Mr. Twomey’s assistant, received an ovation when he announced that she had worked with Mr. Twomey for more than 40 years, longer than anyone else. Mr. Dubin said Mr. Twomey was a gifted leader, who not only tossed projects to his partners but encouraged them to work independently. He praised Mr. Twomey for being a good listener, commenting that you could not say that about all lawyers.

The assembled also applauded, and shouted approval, when Gerard Boleis, a longtime colleague who had co-owned one of Mr. Twomey’s first planes, cited the names of other municipal airports and said East Hampton’s should be named in his honor.

Others who spoke at the reception praised Mr. Twomey for having helped them or the cause they had worked for. They included Stuart Vorpahl, a bayman and local historian, Tom Clavin, who said he had been working on a screenplay about Captain Kidd with Mr. Twomey, and Karl Grossman, who told a funny story about how Mr. Twomey wrangled a private interview with then Gov. Hugh Carey by calling out the name of a Catholic priest both knew.

Erling Hope also spoke at the reception, saying he and his sister were difficult preteens when Judith and Tom married, and describing his stepfather as supportive and loving through thick and thin.

At the end of the reception Judith Hope, who had not intended to speak, went to the microphone and asked those who had gathered not to grieve for her. “I am the luckiest woman in the world,” she said, citing all the time she and her husband had shared and their love. She thanked everyone who had come out and remarked that her husband had been able to work with others regardless of whether they agreed on the issues.

“We were passionate about our disagreements and fights,” she said, “but when the chips were down we got together.”

After several attempts to continue operating the Montauk Movie Theater and subsequent Cinema Cycle classes, Montauk’s only movie theater will close its doors for good on Monday. The building will be available for lease.

A few years ago when movie theater owners all over were investing in new digital projection equipment, the Rutkowski family considered it, even though the costs were exorbitant. About 18 months ago they came up with the idea of offering Cinema Cycle spin classes, which, though popular, were not profitable enough to keep running on their own.

“We’ve enjoyed every minute of bringing movies and then cinema cycling to Montauk,” the Rutkowskis said in a release. “When we started cinema cycling we were confident but not completely sure what to expect and were pleasantly surprised by its success.”

Dave Rutkowski said on Tuesday that he looked at his financial records over the last 10 years and profits have dropped dramatically. “After 31 years, it’s so sad but so time to move on,” he said, adding that the number of people watching movies in theaters is dropping significantly.

The morning spin classes will continue until Monday, but the theater will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. On Saturday two final movies will be shown as a fund-raiser for the East Hampton High School girls softball team — “Elf” at 7 p.m. and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at 9. Admission is $5, and refreshments will be sold.

After that everything else in the building will be put up for sale, including bike equipment and cycling shoes, theater seats, popcorn and ice machines, and movie reels. Anyone interested in purchasing any of the items can email Mr. Rutkowski at [email protected].   

As December arrives and construction by the Army Corps of Engineers of a reinforced sand dune to stabilize the downtown Montauk beach comes closer, the East Hampton Town Board has granted the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation “lead agency” status for environmental review of the project even though questions are still being raised about potential damage to the beach. The state issued an initial finding this week that no further review would be required, but is accepting public comment.

According to a timeline designed for completion of the $8.9 million project before the summer season, the federal agency is to begin seeking bids before the end of the year on the approximately 16-foot sand dune along 3,100 feet of beach, which will be reinforced with 14,000 sand-filled geotextile bags. Designated an emergency measure following Hurricane Sandy, it would be paid for entirely by the Army Corps.

The town board unanimously approved three resolutions at its meeting last Thursday that moved the project forward even though Carl Irace, an attorney with Bainton Lynch of East Hampton, which represents the Eastern Long Island Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, and Jeremy Samuelson, executive director of Concerned Citizens of Montauk, raised questions about doing so.

Mr. Irace said that based on opinions of coastal experts, the Surfrider Foundation believes the project “is going to destroy our beach.” The organization and its members have repeatedly asserted that the planned reinforced dune would have the same effect as a hard structure, such as a rock wall, and accelerate erosion.

“I don’t believe that the net result is negative,” Town Supervisor Larry Cant­well said when asked about these comments on Tuesday. “I don’t believe that the geotextile sand-filled tubes are a permanent structure that’s going to harm the beach.” He added that he “would feel differently” if a permanent rock structure were proposed.

As the Army Corps envisions a more extensive and long-awaited beach reconstruction project as part of what is called the Fire Island to Montauk Point reformulation study, the geotextile-reinforced sand dune is “nothing more than a short-term-to-interim measure,” Mr. Cantwell said.

Speaking at last Thursday’s meeting, Mr. Samuelson reiterated a recommendation his group had made last year, that the town hire an independent coastal engineering firm to provide insight and represent the town’s interests throughout the process.

“We have very little input into the engineering of the project,” Supervisor  Cantwell said Tuesday. “It’s pretty much being dictated by the Army Corps.”

“I think the town has a responsibility . . . to ensure that we’ve done due diligence,” Mr. Samuelson said, “and not just take the D.E.C.’s and the Army Corps’ word for it.”

Mr. Cantwell said Mr. Samuelson’s point was well taken. However, although he said that he “would be more comfortable” having such an adviser, he said that given the project’s timeline it may not be a realistic goal.

“We’re at the 12th hour here; the goal is to try to get this project done between now and April,” he said.

Mr. Cantwell noted that Kim Shaw, the town’s natural resources director, had sought opinions from several experts who volunteered their services throughout the process. Nonetheless, he said, an independent engineer might be advisable to provide oversight for the town during the construction.

The supervisor said that long-term planning for all of the town’s coastal shores was the highest priority. “I’m doing all I can to get grant money to look at all our coastal issues townwide,” he said, “so we can plan how to rebuild, in advance of an emergency.”

“We have to anticipate damage,” he said, and make decisions based on the specifics of particular areas as to the proper response to damaged shores. “Those are the larger, looming questions that we should be asking ourselves now,” he said.

Mr. Irace questioned several resolutions on the board’s agenda last Thursday, which he said bypassed “important processes” under local and state law that are designed to protect the beach.

One designated the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation as the lead agency on the project, which authorizes that agency to approve required environmental impact review. The resolutions also state that, as local sponsor of the project, the town will assume all legal liability and financial responsibility, with the help of Suffolk County, for maintenance of the reinforced dune, and grant easements to the Army Corps over public lands to construct the project.

In a letter to the board, Mr. Irace asserted that the project contravenes the town’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, a state-approved coastal policy that regulates coastal erosion structures. But Mr. Cantwell said this week that  matter had been settled by an opinion from the state.

Mr. Irace wrote in his memo that review of the environmental impacts of the construction would be best overseen by local experts rather than the D.E.C. “The [State Environmental Quality Review] process ensures review by the people affected,” he said. “We ask the town board to avoid the mistake of ceding our local expertise on local issues to a state agency up in Albany.”

“This assures that our community standards and values are applied in the manner that reflects our community’s priorities,” Mr. Irace wrote.

The D.E.C. will rely on an environmental assessment prepared for the Army Corps under the federal National Environmental Policy Act, said Elizabeth Vail, the town attorney, at last week’s meeting.

The case of the People of the State of New York v. Jason Lee, the former Goldman Sachs managing director charged with raping an Irish student in in his summer rental house in East Hampton last year, will go to trial in January, with pretrial motions to be heard on Jan. 27. According to comments by the prosecutor, Kim Shalvey, and Andrew Lankler, an attorney for the defense, jury selection will begin soon after. The two sides met on Monday for a final conference, during which State Supreme Court Justice Barbara R. Kahn set the January date.

Ms. Shalvey was asked, as she walked down the corridor of the Cromarty Criminal Courts building in Riverside, whether the victim, identified to the media only by her first initial, D., would return from Ireland to testify against Mr. Lee. The answer was an emphatic yes.

In addition to the rape charge, which carries a minimum of five years in state prison, Mr. Lee faces two misdemeanor charges, assault and sexual misconduct. The assault charge, while classed as a misdemeanor, may be key in this case because, according to statements made previously by Ms. Shalvey, as well as by the office of District Attorney Thomas Spota, the nature of the injuries the then-20-year-old suffered corroborate the violent nature of the encounter.

Mr. Lee’s attorneys have said that the sex was consensual, and that the young woman’s injuries predated the alleged rape, a claim Ms. Shalvey vehemently contested in open court in May.

The woman was one of several Irish students at Georgica restaurant in Wainscott who were celebrating the end of the summer season and their imminent return home — part of the annual influx from Ireland of young people who work in various seasonal jobs on the East Coast. The alleged victim was said by sources close to the investigation to have worked for the summer in New England, and to have come to Montauk to be with her brother before returning home.

At the restaurant, they met Mr. Lee and his friend Rene Duncan, who were celebrating Mr. Lee’s 37th birthday. At closing time, the party moved to Mr. Lee’s Clover Leaf Lane house, which he and his wife had rented for the season. Ms. Lee, who is a financial advisor with Goldman-Sachs, was in the city that day.

Mr. Duncan has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

Back at the house as the party continued, the revelers began bathing in a hot tub in the yard, as well as in a pool. They were reportedly drinking alcohol throughout.

Mr. Lee is accused of following D. into the house, forcing his way into the bathroom she was using, and raping her, using his forearm to press her to the ground.

Meanwhile Mr. Duncan, who thought one of the students had stolen his vehicle, called police to the house. When Mr. Lee realized police were at the scene he reportedly hid in the back seat of his Range Rover, which had tinted windows.

With police investigating a possible stolen car, the alleged victim’s brother pulled a female officer aside and directed her to his sister, who was sobbing. After interviewing the woman, police began to look for Mr. Lee, who was eventually found, according to the district attorney’s office, after a prolonged search of the grounds.

“We are looking forward to our case going to trial,” Mr. Lankler said Monday, declining to comment further. Though Ms. Shalvey said little as she left the courtroom, she seemed equally confident. Accused and accuser are about to get their day in court.

Thomas A. Twomey, a lawyer, civic leader, and chairman of the East Hampton Library’s board of trustees, died of a heart attack early Sunday morning after collapsing at his house in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods. He was 68 and had no history of heart disease.

Mr. Twomey was the founder, in 1973, of the Riverhead firm that is now Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quartararo. In its first decade, the firm became known for taking on often controversial public-interest cases. Today, the firm has 26 attorneys who work in a broad range of legal fields, and some 55 staff members. State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle is of counsel.

One of Mr. Twomey’s first successful public efforts was stopping the extension of the Sunrise Highway to the South Fork as head of an environmental group called Halt the Highway. Later, representing the Long Island Farm Bureau, he was able to stop the Long Island Lighting Company from building two power plants in Jamesport and was active in the successful fight against its nuclear plant at Shoreham.

In the last 20 years, Mr. Twomey had served on numerous state agencies, including the Energy Council, the Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board, the Long Island Power Authority, and the East End Economic and Environmental Task Force, which he chaired. 

Earlier in his career, he was an assistant Southampton Town attorney, and at various times was special counsel for Riverhead, Southold, Shelter Island, Brookhaven, Smithtown, and Babylon as well East Hampton Towns. He also was instrumental in the passage of the Suffolk County farmland preservation program. Closer to home, he was a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of Guild Hall. He ran for Congress in New York’s First Congressional District in 1980, losing to the incumbent Republican, William Carney.

Although the list of Mr. Twomey’s civic and governmental accomplishments is long, his tenure as president and chairman of the East Hampton Library is perhaps most notable here. He chaired the committee that raised $3.6 million for the library’s renovation in 1997, and, in 2004, began a long campaign to overcome obstacles and raise $6.5 million for a new children’s room and lecture hall, which was dedicated this summer.

In a statement released on Monday Dennis Fabiszak, the library’s director, said Mr. Twomey was “an extraordinary leader who was dedicated to making this one of the greatest small libraries in America.”

Donations in Mr. Twomey’s memory have been suggested for the library, whose address is 159 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Mr. Twomey’s deep interest in local history led to the expansion of the library’s Long Island Collection and its publication of five scholarly books about East Hampton, Gardiner’s Island, and Montauk. He also served as the East Hampton Town historian in 1999, and chaired the committee for the town’s 350th anniversary celebration.

A recreational pilot who kept aircraft at East Hampton Airport, he was active both professionally and personally in advocating on behalf of airport interests and also served on a recently established town airport planning committee.

Thomas Aloysuis Twomey was born on Dec. 8, 1945, the son of Aloysuis Twomey and the former Mary Maloney. He grew up in Queens, and his family spent summers in Mattituck, which was his introduction to the East End. He graduated from Archbishop Molly High School in Queens, received a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College in 1967, and studied law at the University of Virginia before transferring to the Columbia University School of Law, from which he received a juris doctor in 1970.

He and Judith Hope, who was first elected East Hampton Town supervisor in 1974, were friends and associates before they married. They would have celebrated their 35th anniversary on Dec. 15.

Speaking yesterday of their courtship, during which she learned he was a pilot when he invited her to fly with him to Nantucket for brunch, Ms. Hope said, “I feel like the luckiest woman on the face of this earth. I said to him last week, ‘I am as much in love with you as the day I married you.’ I feel so fortunate to have spent so much of my life in his company.” Nantucket eventually became their second home.

Ms. Hope described her husband as a great family man who was loving and supportive of his stepchildren, Nisse Hope of East Hampton and Erling Hope of Sag Harbor, who survive, as do Mr. Hope’s three children. He had planned to treat his granddaughter to a European vacation in June, Ms. Hope said, and had already bought tickets.

Mr. Twomey’s law partners also spoke of him in glowing terms. Stephen A. Latham, Mr. Twomey’s first partner, said yesterday that he had “preached independence,” was a phenomenal businessman, and had a genius for thinking ahead, even on matters of technology. “He taught us very well. We’re going to make him proud for many years to come.”

Janice Olsen, who had been Mr. Twomey’s assistant for 40 years, noted that many others had stayed with the firm for years. “A great leader,” she said yesterday, “is someone who can help others achieve their best. He did that for me.”

In addition to his wife, stepchildren, and grandchildren, Mr. Twomey is survived by two sisters, Mary Claire Vrtodusic of Oakdale and Florence Cope of East Marion.

Visiting hours at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton are tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. His funeral will be on Saturday at 1 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. A reception will follow at East Hampton Point restaurant on Three Mile Harbor Road.