Volunteer firefighters on Thursday helped remove a live deer that had been trapped in a generator pit on an East Hampton Village property.

A large doe was found in the 10-foot-deep hole, according to Cheryl Steinhauer at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays, which was called by police at around 6:45 p.m. Police also called in the East Hampton Fire Department to help remove the deer, which did not appear to be injured, out of the pit.

Officials declined to identify the property's owner, but tax records indicated that it belonged to the director Steven Spielberg.

Volunteers with the wildlife center arrived quickly. Mickey and Jeannette Caputo of Springs brought a tranquilizer gun, and Ms. Caputo successfully darted the doe. However, the doe "still did not fully succumb to the sedation," so it could be lifted out of the hole, the rescuers said.

The Caputos went into the pit to cover the doe with a quilt and administer more tranquilizer, and then Mr. Caputo and Chris Plock of East Hampton bound its legs and gauze covered its eyes with gauze. Betty Lou Fletcher and Molly Plock were also among the volunteers.

"All the while the East Hampton Fire Department was waiting patiently for her to be ready to be lifted out of the hole," Ms. Steinhauer said. The firefighters lowered two ladders into the pit, followed by a Stokes basket, a plastic litter typically used to move patients in rescue operations. The doe, which weighed about 130 to 150 pounds, was strapped in and they lifted it out.

East Hampton Fire Chief Richard Osterberg Jr. said Monday that after the deer was hit with the tranquilizers it took about 15 to 20 minutes to remove it from the pit, which was about 10 to 15 feet wide and 20 feet long. They used ropes and passed the basket from one firefighter to the next to get her up and out, he said. About 30 firefighters from the department's heavy rescue squad and the Hook & Ladder engine company were there.

"She was not fully asleep and one of the firefighters held her head to steady it," Ms. Steinhauer said. "After a couple of small hiccups, they were able to lift her over the ladders and release her. She immediately staggered away."

"It was something we had never done before," Chief Osterberg said, adding that they have occasionally been called when deer get stuck in fences or in pools.

Ms. Steinhauer said her organization was happy the police called them in instead of shooting the deer. "It was heartwarming for me that they waited for us," she said.

On Monday morning, a deer was found caught in a metal fence at 75 Woods Lane. Tax records show that property is owned by Lisa M. Jordan and Thomas F. Helms Jr. The wildlife center volunteers cut it out of the fence, and it ran off, Ms. Steinhauer said. "She could have been severely injured if she had tried to get out of the fence, or if it had taken longer for us to get there to help her," she said.

A widely decried proposal to require landlords to register with East Hampton Town before renting will be registered in the “no-go” column after the town board heard loud and clear from numerous residents who disagreed with the draft law.

During two lengthy discussions — in East Hampton last month and in Montauk last week — speakers told the board that the rental registry was invasive, that it would punish law-abiding landlords by imposing onerous regulations, and that the housing code violations the registry was designed to help eliminate could be addressed by more effectively enforcing current laws. 

Editorial: Short-Term Rental Headaches

Board members agreed at a work session on Tuesday to have Michael Sendlenski, a town attorney who drafted the rental registry legislation, identify elements of the law that could be incorporated into, and strengthen, the existing code, without establishing the registry itself.

An increase in fines for violations of the codes barring overcrowding, “grouper” rentals, and more than two short-term rentals of two weeks or less every six months is likely to be one measure that will be adopted. “The penalties don’t dissuade anyone. . . .” said Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc on Tuesday.

Mr. Van Scoyoc had pressed Mr. Sendlenski last week to describe “what specifically a registry would do to [better] allow code enforcement to enforce the laws we already have.”

The enforcement of most housing code issues would not be significantly affected by the existence of a rental registry, the attorney said. “Most of those things will be dealt with through other aspects of the code,” he said.

The one area where the registry would be a help, he said, would be in the prosecution of short-term rentals. Under the draft law, landlords would be required to register anew each time a rental occurred, or tenancy changed, so the town would have a record of how many separate rentals take place — provided a property owner has registered. Those who failed to obtain a town registry number would be fined.

Should a third, illegal, rental occur within six months, the violation could be prosecuted, Mr. Sendlenski said, without the effort of having code enforcement officers visiting a property to document the number of rentals, or of obtaining affidavits from tenants, or having them appear in court should the matter move to trial.

While a handful of speakers at both board sessions focusing on the registry idea, which mirrored a similar law in Southampton Town, described it as an additional, needed tool to help ordinance enforcement officers crack down on violators of all stripes, the majority at both meetings was vehemently against the proposal. Applause broke out often after comments made at a standing-room-only session at the Montauk Firehouse on Nov. 12.

“I don’t know that there’s going to beenough support in the community for a rental registry law,” Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said then, citing not only the comments of those at the board’s two meetings, but also emails and other conversations he has had with constituents. “I think there’s a serious lack of support for this.”

Board members and many speakers at the recent meetings — both for and against the registry — have acknowledged, however, the growing problems associated with violations of the town housing code and their impacts on neighborhoods and the community as a whole.

“There are too many people here; we must stop this somehow,” said Dan Briganti, a Montauk resident and supporter of the registry.

Bill Akin of Montauk said that, although the number of Montauk motels has remained static, and not too many new houses have been built, the hamlet has “become extremely crowded” over the last decade. A short perusal of the websites where ads for short-term rentals can be posted, such as AirBnB, turned up 1,415 properties offered, Mr. Akin said. “These are de facto motels,” he said, that operate without oversight by the fire marshal or the Health Department. “The technology has leapfrogged the town’s ability to govern,” he said.

“I pay taxes to live in a residential neighborhood, and I live in a motel zone,” he said.

The explosion in short-term rentals not only affects neighbors of those with disruptive tenants but has an overall effect on the rental market for locals and the seasonal workforce by reducing available housing, Mr. Akin said.

“This year was devastating to my family,” said Mike Martinsen, a founder of the Montauk Shellfish Company. He learned from his landlord in May that he had to move out as the property was to be used for short-term rentals during the summer. “Basically I ended up homeless with four children,” he said, adding that the family “had good tents.” Now, he said, he has a winter rental but fears he will be in the same position when that rental ends. “These people are using their homes as commercial entities,” Mr. Martinsen said.

In Springs, complaints have focused on overcrowded and substandard housing.

The problem, said Fred Weinberg, a resident of the hamlet, “is so entrenched that it’s going to take everything at our disposal.”

“We can’t have 10 people living in a basement in makeshift rooms with deadbolts, no egress, and septic systems that don’t work, where it’s gotten so bad in some of these homes that the landlords supply them with spackle buckets to take to the town dump. It’s a tool; we need the tool,” he said of the registry.

But overwhelmingly, the town board heard criticism of the proposed law.

Stuart Vorpahl, an outspoken and often colorful longtime resident of East Hampton, was perhaps the most pointed and direct in his criticism of the rental registry at last week’s meeting.

The registry proposal “kicks our founding fathers right in the teeth,” he said. “It’s onerous beyond description.”

He read quotes penned by Thomas Jefferson and from a book on the Declaration of Independence about the “danger posed to personal freedom by excessive government regulations.”

Mr. Vorpahl, and others, said that imposing a requirement on all landlords to register would be tantamount to punishing the many for the violations of a few. “You’ve got a dozen mosquitoes flying around your house,” he said. “You don’t take a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot them.”

“It’s become so expensive to live out here, our taxes are so high that a lot of us have been forced to rent our homes to subsidize our income to live here,” another speaker said. The board, she said, should look into how enforcement of existing codes could be beefed up, “and not to prevent us from renting our homes and just trying to make ends meet.”

The law would have required homeowners to certify that their houses were compliant with building codes, or submit to a town inspection. Certain conditions not up to current codes would be “grandfathered,” while other improvements could be required before a rental registry number would be issued — an unfair burden, speakers said. Criminal penalties outlined in the law would rope in unsuspecting landlords who did not intend to rent to groups, for instance, but who would have to follow lengthy legal proceedings to evict problematic tenants, others said.

Michael Griffith, an attorney, said that requiring landlords to provide details of rentals to the town is an “abuse of power.” After conversing with other local attorneys, he said that the town should expect legal challenges to a registry law, if enacted.

Several speakers in the real estate business suggested that the limits on short-term rentals should be lifted.

The market for seasonal, and even monthly rentals, “hardly exists,” Alexander Peters said. Short-term rentals are “what people can afford,” he said, to scattered applause. “Are you applauding to support weekly rentals?” Mr. Cantwell asked the people. “Yes,” they said.

Sarah Minardi, a broker with Saunders Real Estate, agreed. “It’s become a really big part of our community out here,” she said. “We rely on those people.”

Mr. Van Scoyoc expressed satisfaction with the discussion at its close last week. “I think the founding fathers would be proud,” he said. “Public discourse on topics that are important to the public — and we are happy to hear it.”

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.

East Hampton Town’s community housing opportunity fund committee has assessed affordable housing needs here and recommended housing initiatives to the town board on Tuesday after presenting its report.

The committee analyzed and updated East Hampton Town demographic data, reviewed the affordable housing initiatives outlined in the most recently adopted version of the town housing plan, from 2004, and looked at their outcomes.

The only Suffolk County town with a higher poverty rate than East Hampton is Riverhead, Tom Ruhle, the town’s housing director, said Tuesday.

According to the committee’s report, there is a waiting list of 128 tenants seeking assistance with rents through the federal Section Eight program; applications were last accepted in early 2012. As of last spring, there were 185 people on waiting lists for three affordable housing complexes operated by the East Hampton Housing Authority; 265 senior citizens hoping for placement at the Windmill I and St. Michael’s housing complexes, and 216 people seeking affordable apartments at the town’s Whalebone Village. Some people may be on more than one list, according to the report, or may no longer be eligible.

Of 105 applicants on a list of people hoping to buy a house through a town affordable housing program, which dates to 2009, about 20 have gotten into their own houses with the town’s help.

Existing programs that should continue or be expanded, the committee says in its report, include subsidized homeownership programs, the Section Eight rental assistance program, underwritten by federal funds but administered by the town, and the town’s acquisition of parcels owned by the county for tax default, for use as affordable housing lots.

To address a need for rental units, especially for middle-income residents, the committee suggests creating a multifamily zoning classification, where apartments could be created. They would be only for year-round tenants, who would be subject to a maximum income cap. At present, said Mr. Ruhle, the town’s affordable housing zoning, where more density is allowed than in other zones, is for residents who earn up to 80 percent of the median income for the area, as determined by federal standards. The group recommends increasing that maximum income to 120 percent of the median income, or from $84,100 to $136,630 for a family of four. That would help the town to provide “year-round, middle-class apartments,” he said.

The group says that there is a “clear need” for zoning that allows seasonal housing, as was proposed in the 2005 comprehensive plan. Though legislation was discussed under a previous town administration, it was never enacted. Dormitories would be permitted, and en suite single or double-occupancy rooms, and communal cooking facilities have been recommended. That would help meet housing needs for the summer work force, the committee report says, “in a legal and safe way.”

Existing laws that allow apartments in single-family residences “have neither succeeded in dramatically creating more apartments nor resulted in the swamping of the neighborhoods,” according to the housing committee. The group suggests allowing apartments in detached structures on residential lots, provided they meet the required setbacks, and allowing apartments in basements provided they can meet all fire and safety standards. While under the present law, a homeowner must live in the main part of the house, if renting an accessory apartment, the committee suggests allowing the owner to rent the house and live in the apartment. Such a change would facilitate multi-generational housing, such as when an older resident may choose to live in the smaller space and rent out the remainder of the house, Mr. Ruhle said. Apartments larger than those currently permitted should be allowed, the committee suggests, if contained within an existing house.

Other new initiatives the group has suggested include establishing a down payment assistance program for first-time home buyers, and increasing the use of development credits banked after the town buys and preserves land to spur the construction of affordable apartments on commercial properties, by allowing additional septic flow to occur on those sites in a trade-off.

The committee also advocates state legislation that would allow towns to use a portion of the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund proceeds from a real estate transfer tax to build affordable housing. The purchase and preservation by the town of property has impacted the availability and cost of developable land, Mr. Ruhle said on Tuesday.

In addition, the committee report says the town should establish a new mechanism similar to the transfer tax to “fund a meaningful purchase program of open market properties” for affordable housing.

“Progressive ideas,” such as public-private sector partnerships in housing initiatives, and, perhaps, joint preservation and affordable housing programs, under the C.P.F. program, should be considered, according to the committee.

Representative Tim Bishop may have lost his bid for re-election by a decisive margin last week, but vote tallies in the Town of East Hampton indicate his continued popularity here.

In his second attempt to unseat the six-term Democratic congressman, State Senator Lee Zeldin defeated Mr. Bishop by 55 to 45 percent. But in a Congressional district in which slightly under 37 percent of eligible voters turned out to choose their representative in the United States Congress, Mr. Bishop carried East Hampton by a sizable margin: The unofficial tally had him receiving 3,661 votes, or 62.4 percent, to Mr. Zeldin’s 2,205. In East Hampton, Mr. Zeldin won only in districts 10 and 18, both in Montauk, by 8 and 5 votes, respectively.

Mr. Bishop also carried Southampton, his hometown, with 52.6 percent of the vote, and Shelter Island, where he won 57 percent. But Mr. Zeldin, who is from Shirley, carried Brookhaven, Islip, Riverhead, Smithtown, and Southold.

On Monday Mr. Zeldin described a “very gracious” election night telephone call from Mr. Bishop in which the outgoing and future representatives discussed the transition. “As far as open constituent cases and open high-profile issues he was working on for the South Fork,” Mr. Zeldin said, “it’s going to be very helpful to have that transition and hear his top priorities and up-to-date status on various initiatives.”

Mr. Zeldin was referring in part, he said, to Hurricane Sandy-related recovery projects. “That’s going to be the important next step, learning where each of those projects are in the timeline and determining what advocacy efforts are necessary to ensure these projects are completed in a timely fashion.”

He also said that he would support the town government’s decisions relating to East Hampton Airport. Several binding agreements, called grant assurances, with the Federal Aviation Administration will expire at the end of 2014. Should the town opt not to renew them, it would regain greater control over airport operations and could impose increased flight restrictions and regulation.

“My goal,” Mr. Zeldin said, “is to spend this next month and a half ensuring that I am completely caught up on everything so we can hit the ground running on day one.”

Mr. Bishop said on Monday that hisand Mr. Zeldin’s district office directors were scheduled to meet today to begin the transition. “I said both privately to Lee on election night and publicly that I will pledge myself and my staff to do everything possible to see to it that the transition is as seamless as possible,” he said.

“I have told my staff that I want to sprint to the end,” Mr. Bishop said. “I want to do the job as well as it needs to be done until the last day I’m in office, and my staff is determined to do the same thing. We are going to continue to work at the very high level we’ve worked for the 12 years we’ve been here.”

The 113th Congress will meet for another 14 days before the 114th is sworn in on Jan. 5. What it will address, if anything, remains to be determined.

“That’s up to the House Republican leadership and what they will choose to do,” Mr. Bishop said. “Whether we try to tackle some things that are pending, like immigration reform, which I highly doubt; finalizing an appropriation level for the balance of the year, or whether or not we deal with authorization for the use of military force in the Middle East to validate what’s going on there now — that’s a debate I believe the Congress needs to have. . . . I will say, as I said throughout the campaign, this is one of the least productive Congresses on record, and I don’t believe that all of a sudden it’s going to become hyper-productive between now and Jan. 5.”

When pressed, Mr. Bishop bemoaned the increasingly partisan and uncooperative atmosphere in Congress. “I said this during the campaign: The only behavior we each control is our own. Each individual member has to be willing to make a commitment to find common ground and to do so in a fashion characterized by civility and respect,” he said. “I believe I conducted myself at all times in that way, but a great many members would do well to adopt that approach.”

He has made no plans for the future, he said. “My focus right now is on making sure that all of my staff have a place to land, and I am working hard on that and with some success. I’ll worry about myself later.”

A new nonprofit group, the East Hampton Deer and Tick Management Foundation, would like East Hampton Town to begin a program to reduce the incidence of tick-borne diseases here by treating deer, which are a key host, with a tick-killing pesticide at eight feeding stations in Springs.

Known as the four-poster system, it has been used successfully on Shelter Island for seven years, according to Randy Parsons, a former town councilman who is a founder and board member of the new organization, which will hold an information session at 7 p.m. tonight at Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

The stations are baited with corn, and deer that visit them come in contact with rollers that treat their ears, faces, heads, necks, and shoulders with perethrin. According to a press release from the new group, the system could reduce the tick population in a given area by more than 90 percent.

 A three-year pilot project is estimated to cost $4,500 per year for each feeding station. Additional money would be needed for employees to stock, maintain, and monitor the stations. Mr. Parsons said that the new nonprofit group, of which he and two other residents, Ron Brack and Alex Miller, comprise the board, aims to raise $50,000 by the end of the year to pay for the installation of the feeding stations and the necessary personnel. The group hopes to convince East Hampton Town officials not only to allow the stations on public land, but to use donated money to carry out the program. The stations would be baited from mid-March through mid-December; Mr. Parsons said the goal is to have them installed by March.

Mr. Parsons explained that he was prompted to act by an increasing number of fellow Springs residents who told him they no longer go out onto the marshes or into the woods during the seasons when ticks are active. Noting that “eastern Long Island has experienced a dramatic increase in tick populations and tick-related diseases,” the press release said there is “growing support for measures to control tick populations on both public and private lands and to protect the public use and enjoyment of thousands of acres of preserved public lands here.”

In addition, Mr. Parsons said, “the deer suffer enormously from the ticks.” The four-poster system on Shelter Island was supported, Mr. Parsons said, by animal rights activists who oppose a proposed North Fork deer cull, which has been challenged in court, as well as hunting.

The East Hampton Town Board has withdrawn support for a program in which professional sharpshooters werebrought here, while the village has accepted a $100,000 donation for a program to spay deer and to cull them if necessary. “We are trying to do something that is not so controversial and contentious,” Mr. Parsons said.

Permits from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation are required for feeding stations, and they can be issued to municipalities or private property owners. Stations would be allowed only on tracts of at least 40 acres. Mr. Parsons said an area of Springs between Three Mile Harbor and Fireplace Roads could potentially qualify, as could a section of the Bell Estate. If the program were found to be successful, it could be duplicated in other parts of town, he said.

 Participation in the program by the Girl Scouts of Nassau County, which owns Blue Bay, a 170-acre summer camp in Springs, would be a “key component” in the program’s success, Mr. Parsons said. Scout representatives are expected to attend tonight’s meeting, as are town officials and staffers.

In an email this week, Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said he would be on hand to learn more about the Shelter Island program. “I know firsthand of the serious health hazard of tick-borne disease, having once contracted Lyme disease requiring six weeks of I.V. treatments to overcome,” Mr. Cantwell said. He surmised that the four-poster system might be appropriate in densely populated areas like Springs where other methods of deer control might not be. He added that community support would be needed.

Also on hand tonight will be Mike Scheibel, a wildlife biologist who has run the Shelter Island program for the last seven years, Joshua Stiller, a D.E.C. deer biologist, and Ed Shillingburg, a lawyer who helped set up the East Hampton nonprofit as well as the Shelter Island Deer and Tick Management Foundation. Mr. Parsons said the latter organization had raised $1 million for the program.

A three-year, Cornell University study of four-poster programs on Shelter Island, Fire Island, and North Haven showed no adverse impacts, Mr. Parsons said, and its findings could eliminate the need for East Hampton Town to make the case the other municipalities had to make in applying to the D.E.C.

 The Cornell study, which included pilot projects at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Robert Moses State Park, showed that tick populations can be reduced in a 40-to-100-acre area surrounding a four-poster by between 77 and more than 90 percent after several years of treatment, according to the press release from the East Hampton group.

Because of an effort by State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle and other legislators, the state budget contains $500,000 to help local governments pay the capital costs for four-poster programs, and the new group has suggested that the town pursue state funding.

A suggestion to allow money for four-poster deer tick control from the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund, which is collected from a tax on real estate transfers, was shot down by the fund’s advisory opinions bureau last year.

An area of about 71 acres zoned for commercial-industrial use in Wainscott, which runs from north of the Montauk Highway all the way to the Long Island Rail Road tracks, is before the East Hampton Town Planning Board as the Tintle family, which owns it, seek preliminary site-plan approvals for three lots in connection with a settlement reached in August in Town Justice Court. The family had been cited for multiple violations of the town code.

The property, bordered by Wainscott Northwest Road to the west and Hedges Lane to the east, is the site of a defunct sand mine and an existing cement factory. According to JoAnne Pahwul, assistant director of the Planning Department, the mining operation was abandoned at least a generation ago. At a planning board meeting on Nov. 5, she reviewed the property’s zoning, which predates the code, and several applications for other uses that had been proposed but denied over the years.

The Tintle ownership group is operated by John Tintle, whose father, the late William Tintle, founded the business and ran it, along with other sand mines, for many years. He had once proposed dividing the property into 16 lots. Then, in 1997, he presented the board with a plan to use part of the property for a drive-in movie theater with parking for 1,400 cars. Both proposals were turned down.

Eventually, however, the board approved subdividing the property into six lots, which are said to have a crazy-quilt pattern, each with a different size and shape. At issue now are three of those lots, which are owned by distinct family corporations, with Wainscott Hamlet Center on the largest parcel of the three, at almost 40 acres, and Wainscott Industrial Center and Wainscott Commercial Center on the other two.

 There is a two-story, over 1,500-square-foot office building with a deck on one of the parcels, apparently built without a permit, an approximately 3,000-square-foot storage shed that has been converted into a repair garage, and a landscaping business that needed, but doesn’t have, a separate permit.

The family is represented by Brian E. Matthews of Eagan and Matthews of East Hampton, who said the family wants to clear up the violations and expand parking as well as get site plan approvals.

Ms. Pahwul complained about the lack of details on the application. It appeared, when she visited the site, that there were multiple businesses operating on single lots, with some seeming to sprawl across lot lines. For example, on the largest parcel, she said, besides a cement factory there also were a repair garage and a maritime construction company. Only two business uses are allowed on a single lot under the code, unless the property has a multiple industrial complex permit, which Ms. Pahwul suggested the applicant and the board consider.

Bob Schaeffer, a longtime Wainscott resident and member of the board, agreed with Ms. Pahwul, and urged the board to follow her suggestion. He asked Mr. Matthews if the owners would agree to obtain such a permit.

Mr. Matthews told the board he did not believe the applicant would go along with combining the applications into one site plan, and questioned Ms. Pahwul’s assertion that there were multiple uses on single lots. “These are separate properties,” he said. “When you look at the aerial, they look like one property, but they’re not.”

Mr. Schaeffer turned the conversation to three structures that sit on the border of two of the lots. “You have not addressed lot line modification,” he said, “and a use that hasn’t even been addressed in here is the marine construction company.”

Mr. Matthews told the board that he had not been aware of the presence of that company until he read Ms. Pahwul’s analysis. She reported that the maritime construction business had replaced a portable toilet business at that location. “It’s a revolving door,” she said.

Ian Calder-Piedmonte, a board member, agreed with Mr. Matthews that the owners had a right to have the properties reviewed one by one, but added, “If we are going to talk, we should talk about how they all relate to each other.” Job Potter, another member, also agreed, saying, “The owner needs to use these properties as if they were separate lots.”

“You have some homework to do,” Reed Jones, the chairman of the board, said to Mr. Matthews, who agreed to meet with the Planning Department before returning to the board with a revised plan.

Besides the Wainscott site, the Tintle family owns two other sand mines in Suffolk County, one in East Quogue, and one in Noyac. Both apparently have had their share of controversy.

 The 50-acre Noyac mine, called Sand Land and on Middle Line Highway, is also approaching the end of its life as a mine. John Tintle applied to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation in August for a permit to allow the mine to expand by five acres and to be allowed to dig 45 feet deeper.

Earlier this year, David Eagan, of Eagan and Matthews, won a judgment in State Supreme Court reversing a 2012 decision by the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals. The board had ruled that mulching being done at Sand Land, which is now in a residential district having been rezoned from industrial use in 1972, was an expansion of use. State Supreme Court Justice Gerard J. Asher found otherwise, ruling that mulching had been going on since before the code was changed, making it an allowed use.

The Tintle-owned East Quogue mine, operating as East Coast Mines, which also does mulching as well as sand mining, was the scene of a fatal accident in February. Declan J. Boland of Riverhead, who had worked for the company for 12 years, was killed when an 80-foot-tall slope of reclaimed loam and mulch collapsed as he was climbing it, burying him alive. The federal Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration found, after an investigation, that “the accident occurred due to the management’s failure to establish methods to maintain the slope stability at the reclamation dump site.”

Information regarding consequences of the ruling, if any, was not readily available.

At its meeting on Monday the Springs School Board again grappled with increasing enrollment and what the influx of students will likely mean for the coming budget season.

Over the past decade, the school has seen enrollment soar by almost 200, from 555 students in 2004 to 736 as of last week. Districtwide, in grades pre-K to 12, Springs now enrolls 1,100 students.

“We’re at 101 percent capacity,” said Eric Casale, the principal, who led a presentation on scheduling and enrollment. “Every space is being used creatively — and then some.”

Mr. Casale also said that the district sends 31 students to the Child Development Center of the Hamptons, a charter school with open enrollment. Many families, he explained, see its full-day pre-K program as a particular draw, with some opting to continue there for kindergarten and beyond. Currently, Springs offers only a half-day pre-K program.

If the children currently attending C.D.C.H. were to suddenly enroll at the Springs School, class sizes, particularly among the youngest grades, could easily swell to as large as 35 or 36, predicted Mr. Casale.

“It’s now my fourth time standing here talking about space. I want to make sure the community hears it loud and clear,” the principal said. “We’re really stretched with what we can do here. We’re being very creative. But there’s a limit to how much you can stretch.”

John Finello, the district superintendent, said the district faced not only increasing enrollment, but an expanded state-mandated curriculum that makes scheduling, and use of space, difficult.

During public comments, Tracey Frazier, a teacher, spoke of “so many little and big bodies in this building,” all jostling for space, with crowded conditions in the hallways and not enough bathrooms, lockers, or places in the computer labs.

“In two years, we’re going to have classes running around on buses,” urged Mary Jane Arceri, a Springs resident and former teacher. “There are 12 of us here, but we really need to start educating the rest of the public so the community can know how crowded we are and how dire these needs are.”

In other news, Lisa Matz, the PTA president, informed the audience that a “turkey trot” is planned for Nov. 24, beginning at 9 a.m. Students in grades kindergarten to 8 can walk, run, or trot over an established course, with parents and community members pledging however much they wish for each lap covered. All the proceeds will benefit the school’s swimming and ice-skating programs. The school’s booster club has donated an elaborate finish line, valued at $950, and organizers hope to make the event an annual happening. The Hamptons Marathon will donate a pallet of water.

Fourth graders, meanwhile, are gearing up for the 18th annual Springs Opera. In that connection, the school board approved stipends for seven teachers on Monday, with expenses totaling $13,568.

The school board will meet next on Dec. 8, at 7 p.m.

Vinnie Grimes is one of the few people who can say he was born in Montauk — not at Southampton Hospital, but at home in the hamlet on Sept. 17, 1928.

Now 86, Mr. Grimes is credited with bringing several large fund-raisers to Montauk, including the annual Blessing of the Fleet. He first saw one when he was stationed with the Navy in California, and he thought the Montauk fishing fleet could use a little help from the man above. Another fund-raiser was the now-defunct horse show that ran for 38 years.

From his home on Second House Road, on the banks of Fort Pond, Mr. Grimes pointed out a wall of plaques and proclamations he has received over the years, one of which is a Good Deed award that he received from the Boy Scout Council of Suffolk County. He started in scouting when he was 11 and went on to be a scout leader for many years.

When he received the phone call in August that informed him that the Montauk Chamber of Commerce was honoring him as person of the year, Mr. Grimes thought they had the wrong Grimes. His son James Grimes was honored by the Montauk Village Association as its man of the year in August, hence the confusion.

But chamber members told him that they had the right Grimes and that it had been a unanimous decision among board members. He has given a lifetime of service to Montauk, a release said. It also said that it was heartwarming to see that a man who has lived here all his life and raised his family here still had time to give so much back to the community.

“It was the right thing to do for the Montauk Chamber of Commerce to honor such a man who has been doing the right thing all his life,” the release said.

The chamber’s end-of-season party will be on Saturday at East by Northeast restaurant, starting with cocktails and an open bar from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. There will be dinner and dancing until 11. Tickets cost $80 per person and can be purchased at the chamber or at the door if available.