A Medford man who spent nearly four years in prison for his part in a 2008 fatal attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue — a hate crime that made international headlines — is back in police custody this week following an arrest in Montauk. 

East Hampton Town police accused the man, Nicholas A. Hausch, 26, of driving while intoxicated. Officers stopped his car at about 2 a.m. on Saturday on South Edison Street, near Montauk Highway, after it ran a stop sign, they said. The driver reportedly failed all field sobriety tests.

During a search of the car, the officers allegedly found cocaine weighing over 500 milligrams, along with packaging material — six individual plastic bags.

In addition to the misdemeanor D.W.I. charge, Mr. Hausch faces charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. He was also charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor. His license was suspended on April 4 for failure to answer a summons in Patchogue.

Mr. Hausch was one of seven teenagers charged in the stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero on Nov. 9, 2008, and the only defendant to cooperate with investigators, Newsday reported at his 2010 sentencing. Mr. Hausch had identified Jeffrey Conroy as the man who stabbed the 37-year-old Mr. Lucero after the group went out looking for Latinos to attack. 

Mr. Hausch pleaded guilty to gang assault and conspiracy in the death of Mr. Lucero, as well as assault and attempted assault, also hate crimes, in connection with attacks on two other Latino men. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2010, and was released in July 2014.

  East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana set bail at $250,000 cash or a $500,000 bond at his arraignment on Saturday. Unable to make bail, he is being held at the county jail in Riverside. 

Mr. Conroy, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime, is serving 25 years in prison.

In other arrests this week, a Bridgehampton resident was charged Friday with inappropriately touching a teenage girl while both were on line waiting to pay at the Hampton Market on Race Lane in East Hampton Village.

Jose Francisco Bonilla, 36, allegedly “smacked her buttocks two times at different locations,” at about 9:30 a.m., according to his arrest report. Village police said an officer caught up with him right after he left, at the intersection of Race Lane and Railroad Avenue. The girl identified Mr. Bonilla as the man who touched her, and he was arrested. 

He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, forcible touching, and second-degree harassment, all misdemeanors, and was held overnight for a morning arraignment. Bail was set at $2,500, which was posted.

East Hampton Town police charged Vakhtangi Imedashvili of Brooklyn, 23, with misdemeanor criminal possession of marijuana on Monday at about 1:25 a.m. Police said he was in front of 695 Montauk Highway in Montauk, smoking a cigarette that later tested positive for the presence of marijuana. He was released on a $150 appearance ticket.

A pedestrian was seriously injured in Montauk just after midnight on Friday after being hit by a car driven by an allegedly drunken driver.

East Hampton Town Police Officer Raymond Rau was on foot patrol on Main Street at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend when he saw a 2016 Ford van headed west on the stretch of road that is part of Montauk Highway. Sofia Pitt of New York City, 26, was crossing Main Street, near South Embassy Street, when she was struck. She hit the windshield and fell back onto the street, suffering a head contusion among other injuries, according to the police report. The driver fled.

Dwayne Denton, a fire marshal on duty in Montauk that night, provided a description of the vehicle. Police quickly located it and pulled it over. Jose Romero-Flores, 33, of Corona, Queens, who was behind the wheel with a passenger, Liana Palma, 27, in the car, was charged with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident. The van, owned by Todaro Brothers a catering company in Manhattan, was impounded. 

Montauk Fire Department ambulance personnel treated Ms. Pitt and took her to meet a medevac helicopter, which airlifted her to Stony Brook University Hospital.

Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned Mr. Romero-Flores later on Saturday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court. He was released on $1,500 bail. 

Also in Montauk, in the early morning hours on Sunday, police said they stopped a 2018 Tesla driven by Antonello T. Paganuzzi, 48, of Davie, Fla., for speeding, and found him to be intoxicated. Officer Robert P. Greene said he saw the Tesla, with California plates, driving north on West Lake Drive near Star Island Drive at 87 miles per hour in a 45 m.p.h. zone. The driver performed poorly on all field sobriety tests, the officer reported.

Mr. Paganuzzi was arrested on a misdemeanor D.W.I. charge, as well as a charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a felony. His license in the State of New York was found to have been suspended twice; once for failure to pay a driver responsibility assessment, then for a charge of driving while ability impaired by alcohol.

Justice Steven Tekulsky released Mr. Paganuzzi on $1,500 bail following arraignment. 

Anthony D. Sosinski of Montauk, 50, was charged with misdemeanor D.W.I. on Friday at about 8:15 p.m. Police said Mr. Sosinski, driving a 1988 Toyota, crossed the double yellow lines to pass two vehicles on Flamingo Avenue near Falcon Place, then reportedly drove slowly for several miles, failing to pull over for a police car’s lights and siren. He turned east onto Culloden Place, then onto Blackberry Place, all without signaling properly, according to the report. On Gannet Drive he failed to keep right before finally coming to a stop. Police said he appeared intoxicated and performed poorly on the road tests. 

He was held overnight for arraignment in Justice Court on Saturday. Justice Rana released him on $2,500 bail.

Miguel A. Uzhca Carchipulla, 30, of East Hampton was also charged with misdemeanor D.W.I. over the holiday weekend. On Saturday at midnight, police said they found him sitting in the parking lot of the Speedway gas station, on Montauk Highway in Wainscott, behind the wheel of a 2006 Nissan Murano with the engine running. He performed poorly on all road tests, they said, and was taken into custody at 12:30 a.m. 

Justice Rana released him on $250 bail. 

Early on the morning of May 23, Juan Felipe Castillo-Forero, 28, of Northport was charged in Montauk with misdemeanor D.W.I. Police stopped his 2016 Chevrolet Camaro after he allegedly made an unsafe and improper turn onto South Eaton Street, swerved on Montauk Highway near South Eaton, and then drove over the pavement markings. While trying to park, the report said, he drove into a wood stanchion, damaging it. 

Mr. Castillo-Forero was arraigned in the morning by Justice Rana, who released him on $250 bail.

Michael T. Scafuro, 31, of East Falmouth, Mass., was charged with misdemeanor aggravated D.W.I. on May 18 at about 1:30 a.m. He was headed south on West Lake Drive in Montauk near Flamingo Avenue, in a 2007 Jeep Liberty, with his view obstructed and no working plate lights, according to police.

A breath test at headquarters reportedly showed his blood-alcohol level to be above .18 of 1 percent.

He was released on $500 bail following a morning arraignment before Justice Tekulsky. All those charged are expected back in Justice Court in the future.

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Rona Klopman, a member of the East Hampton Democratic Committee and candidate for chairwoman, seeking to determine the committee's "true current membership," which Ms. Klopman charged has been manipulated. She had demanded that election of a new leader be conducted on the basis of that membership.

After hearing oral arguments, Justice Joseph A. Santorelli denied Ms. Klopman's motion for an injunction and lifted a May 14 temporary restraining order forbidding the committee from conducting a vote before its June 20 meeting. The dismissal was announced Wednesday.

Ms. Klopman, whose attorney promised an appeal of the decision, had charged that Jeanne Frankl, the committee's present chairwoman, had improperly revised the list of current committee members, established in 2016. Ms. Frankl, she said, also moved committee members from one election district to another without their consent, the implication being an effort to manipulate the election by giving greater weight to some committee members' votes and less to others, based on the number of Democrats in each district who voted in the last gubernatorial election. Ms. Klopman further charged that Ms. Frankl had illegally terminated members from the committee, according to the action.

"We are gratified today that the court recognized the pettiness of the claims in this lawsuit and the procedural irregularities of the Klopman effort," Ms. Frankl said in a statement issued Wednesday. Ms. Klopman's arguments, she said, "were confused and overly general and did not acknowledge the reality of the East Hampton Democratic Committee."

"We were able to rebut their arguments on the facts and the law," Ms. Frankl said. "They didn't seem to know the rules well and we were able to submit letters of resignation and affidavits that disproved all their arguments."

The committee will notice a formal meeting for the selection of a new chair "shortly," according to the statement.

But Jonathan Wallace, Ms. Klopman's attorney, complained that the dismissal was premature, that the motion to dismiss "was not even pending . . . that it wasn't supposed to be before the judge until June 15. He replied, in so many words, that he did not care and was dismissing it anyway." Denying his client an opportunity to respond "indicated to me the judge was trying to get rid of the case by any means possible," he said.

"We are arguing that Jeanne Frankl, or any chair of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee, does not have a right to call a member and say, 'You're out of this election district and in another,' or 'You're off the committee, and I might put you back on later.' "

Mr. Wallace suggested that an additional Article 78 action could be forthcoming. "I assume they will hold an election," he said of the committee. "If they do that and we feel the result is unfair, we will be right back in court challenging the membership list under which it was conducted."

Wednesday was a setback, he said, "but not a fair setback, and we will absolutely continue to exercise all rights, and continue pursuing this until we can reach some resolution in the committee that assures business will be conducted fairly. People will not be moved without consent, or fired without any kind of process." 

Nearly two months after a delivery driver was killed in a hit-and-run on County Road 39 in Southampton, police arrested the man they say was responsible.

Chace Quinn, 19, of Southampton was charged with vehicular manslaughter in the first degree and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death, both felonies. He is being held on $1 million cash bail or $2 million bond.

Southampton Town police said Mr. Quinn was behind the wheel of a 2013 Jeep Wrangler when he hit Joseph Lynn McAlla, who was making a delivery to Southampton Masonry. The driver left the scene and Mr. McAlla, 63, of Clifford, Pa., was found dead in the roadway on County Road 39 at about 2:30 a.m. on April 5.

A joint investigation ensued, with town police, the New York State Police accident reconstruction unit, the State Police investigative unit, taking part with and assistance from the United States Marshall Service, the Suffolk County Police Department, and the district attorney's office.

Police had reportedly been looking for Mr. Quinn for some time.

State police apprehended him during a traffic stop on Sunrise Highway on Monday at 2:30 a.m. It was unclear where he had been.

Mr. Quinn also faces additional charges from other incidents. He was charged with second-degree gang assault, a felony, stemming from a March 31 incident. Southampton Village police also charged him with obstruction of governmental administration in the second degree, a misdemeanor, in connection with a Dec. 4, 2017, incident. And this year, state police charged him with menacing in the second degree, a misdemeanor, regarding an incident that occurred on March 16.

Newsday reported that Mr. Quinn was also charged with witness intimidation related to an incident on Saturday on the Shinnecock Reservation in which he allegedly placed a gun on the lap of a witness who was going to talk to police about the April accident.

The investigation into that accident is continuing. Southampton Town Police's detective division has asked that anyone with information contact detectives at 631-702-2230.

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman announced his candidacy for Suffolk County comptroller on Tuesday. 

Mr. Schneiderman, who is six months into his second term as the town supervisor, is seeking the Democratic nomination to run against Republican Comptroller John M. Kennedy in November. It is a four-year term.

“This is an unprecedented time in the history of Suffolk County. Our finances are in critical condition and Suffolk County residents need a comptroller who will help get the county back to fiscal health," Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement Tuesday morning. 

Running against an incumbent is always challenging, he said by phone Tuesday. Mr. Kennedy has served since 2014, and was previously a county legislator for 10 years.

"I have the support of the leadership. I have the support of the county executive. I have the support of the governor," Mr. Schneiderman said. "I wouldn't do it if I didn't think I had a reasonable shot of winning."

Mr. Schneiderman, a former Republican, won election as Southampton's supervisor as a member of the Independence Party with support from the Democratic Party. In the midst of his campaign for a second term in October 2017, he filed paperwork to switch his political affiliation to Democrat. He had been a registered Democrat in the past, but has never been elected as one.

In a county with 1.5 million residents, Mr. Schneiderman said, "it's never been easy for East End people to win countywide, so it's going to be a challenge." 

However, he said he thinks he has the right background for the position. He served as the supervisor of East Hampton until 2003, before becoming a county legislator and the Legislature's deputy presiding officer. After moving from Montauk to Southampton, he was elected Southampton Town supervisor in 2015. The town has since gained a AAA bond rating. He was re-elected in 2017.

"I will be an independent voice and vigilant fiscal watchdog for the taxpayers of Suffolk," he said.

"Year after year the county’s expenditures greatly exceed its revenues, to the point where we now borrow nearly half a billion dollars from the following year’s revenues just to get through the current year. The practice is unsustainable and must change," he said. "I will work with the Legislature and the executive branch to develop a plan to establish a structurally balanced budget. I will participate in regular meetings of the county’s audit committee, and work with all the stakeholders to identify areas where we can save taxpayer dollars. I have the experience of delivering 18 consecutive years of not raising property taxes."

If he were to win the race in November, he would continue to serve as supervisor until the end of the year. Then, Deputy Supervisor Frank Zappone would run the meetings until a special election could be held, probably in March of 2019. The winner would serve the remainder of Mr. Schneiderman's term. A regular election would be held in November 2019 for the two-year term.

If he is not successful in his bid for county comptroller, he said is "quite happy running the Town of Southampton." He also said he would run again for supervisor in November 2019 if he is not serving as county comptroller. 

The supervisor also said that the campaign would not effect his ability to run the town.

Police will be out in force on the East End this Memorial Day weekend, making sure those celebrating the unofficial start of summer are doing so responsibly. 

The East End D.W.I. Task Force of the Suffolk County district attorney’s office will be stepping up enforcement in the hope of deterring drivers from getting behind the wheel under the influence of drugs or alcohol over the holiday weekend. 

“The members of the district attorney’s office do not want to see you in court Saturday, Sunday, or Monday morning for an arraignment; we want you to be home with your families,” Suffolk District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said during a press conference on Friday. “If you’re going to be out having drinks, please make a plan to get home safe and make the right decisions. It’s simply not worth your life or the lives of others.”

The task force will send officers to several D.W.I. checkpoints "at strategic locations in high-traffic areas," a press release said.

Officers use breathalyzers to conduct field sobriety tests if they suspect a driver is under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 

The task force, which was formed in 2012, is made up of law enforcement officers from the New York State Police, the Suffolk County sheriff’s office, and the Suffolk County, East Hampton Town, East Hampton Village, Quogue Village, Riverhead, Sag Harbor, Shelter Island, Southampton Town, Southampton Village, Southold Town, and Westhampton Beach Police Departments.

“These officers will be out in force this weekend sending a clear message to residents and visitors to our East End that drinking and driving is not tolerated here," Mr. Sini said. 

The task force is deployed on holidays or other times when the population increases. 

Last year, a Memorial Day weekend dragnet yielded 16 arrests, the D.A.'s office said. The task force has made approximately 600 drunken driving arrests throughout the year. 

At the press conference Friday, the district attorney also deputized 30 police officers from the participating agencies to the task force in a swearing-in ceremony, which gives them the right to police outside their usual jurisdictions. 

“The police departments here on the East End do a tremendous job keeping all the residents and visitors safe, which is a particularly complex task,” Mr. Sini said. “They have certain year-round populations and those populations spike during the summer months. The East End D.W.I. Task Force will allow for the pooling of our resources, working together to ensure that our roadways are safe.”

With the Suffolk County Water Authority’s chief executive officer and general counsel on hand, the East Hampton Town Board followed through Monday on a plan to create a water supply district in Wainscott, where private wells were found to be contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, last year.

The district is to encompass much of the hamlet south of East Hampton Airport, from Industrial Road on the north to Town Line Road to the west, Daniel’s Hole Road and Georgica Pond to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. 

At an ad hoc board meeting, Jeffrey Szabo, the water authority’s C.E.O., summarized a plan to connect about 520 properties south of Industrial Road that are  served by private wells to public water. 

Beginning this summer, existing water mains will be extended, along with service lines to connect them to residential and commercial properties, and existing private wells will be disconnected from internal plumbing systems, Mr. Szabo said. The project will take four to five months to complete.

The water authority will begin making individual connections based on the configuration of existing mains, said Timothy Hopkins, its general counsel. “We will start from those water mains and then move out into areas based on what is the most logical construction schedule.” The authority will require homeowners’ cooperation to schedule the installation of private service lines, as that will require access to residences, he said. “As soon as the first main gets put into service, then we’ll start taking calls, coordinating.” The Water Authority will focus on residents whose wells tested positive for PFC contamination, he said, “so we can try to prioritize them along those stretches of main” already in service.

The town will issue bonds to pay for the project, estimated at $24.3 million. The water authority and the town are jointly pursuing an intermunicipal application, through the State Environmental Facilities Corporation, for a grant of up to $10 million to offset the cost.

The cost of extending the water mains will be repaid by property taxes on parcels townwide, excluding the villages. The portion of debt attributed to the cost of connecting individual residences will ultimately be borne by the particular property owner. Charges apportioned to the specific cost of connecting each house will be added to Wainscott residents’ tax bills, to be amortized over the expected 20-year life of the bond. 

“When the project is completed, you’ll have a water supply that meets all drinking-water standards,” Mr. Szabo said. 

The well fields that serve the affected area are generally north and east of the airport and adjacent industrial zone, the chemicals’ suspected points of origin, Mr. Szabo said. As groundwater generally flows to the south, “it’s not anticipated that the wells will be impacted by any of these contaminants,” he said. The water authority’s wells are also generally deeper than private wells. 

Monday’s action follows last week’s declaration of a state of emergency for the hamlet in order to direct $400,000 to residents whose wells have been found to be contaminated. The money will come in the form of rebates of up to 90 percent of the cost of a point-of-entry water treatment system, to a maximum of $3,000. The filtration systems are a short-term measure to ensure the safety of drinking water while the water authority completes its extension of mains and connects them to residences and businesses, which may not be completed before year’s end.

East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys, who was appointed to the town board in January, on Sunday announced his intention to stand for election in November.

The announcement came against a backdrop of clearing skies at the Montauket restaurant and bar on Fort Pond Bay, with East Hampton Town Democratic officials, including former Supervisor Larry Cantwell, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, and some prominent members of the town's Democratic Committee, there to support him. Mr. Lys's fellow board members were also on hand.

"In 1648, East Hampton's colonial forefathers came to the East End with dreams and solid vision," Mr. Lys said to the large gathering. "They saw a place in the New World that was complete with natural beauty, environmental purity, and full of bounties from both the land and the sea. They saw a new home where they would be able to lay down roots and work hard, fulfill their commitments to their families, and provide a safe and productive home."

"Three hundred and seventy years later, I still see those same visions in my birthplace and hometown of East Hampton," he continued. Though some come to East Hampton to enjoy its bounties without giving back to the fabric of society, "I am not that person," said Mr. Lys, a former member of the town's zoning board of appeals. He was a founder of Citizens for Access Rights and is president of the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Society. "I have been steadfast in protection of East Hampton's traditions and continued protection of public access. I have demonstrated the desire to tirelessly volunteer my time" to protect East Hampton's history, he said.

"It is this desire to protect my hometown that charges me to be the best town councilman that I can be. . . . And it is this continued desire to protect and lead my hometown that led me to make the decision that I am going to run to retain my town council seat in this upcoming November's election," he said to cheers.

Town officials must continue to work toward protection of the environment, beaches, and groundwater, Mr. Lys said. He asked those assembled for their support and advice, and asked that they "pass the word on the street that I am the person that you respect and that you would recommend for town council. And most importantly, I need your vote."

Election Day is Nov. 6, "but there's also the possibility of a primary on Sept. 13. It is extremely important that you show up and participate in your civic duties on those days," he said.

Following his announcement, Mr. Van Scoyoc, a former councilman whose seat was filled by Mr. Lys upon his election to the supervisor's position, told the crowd that the board had "searched high and low" for a candidate to fill the seat. In Mr. Lys, "I think we made a great choice, and I ask you to continue to support that choice and to support David," he said. "He's just been wonderful to have on the board. He's so energetic, he contributes so much knowledge and background, having lived his whole life here, and he's a great asset to this town. We'd be very proud to have him back on the board after the November election."

In an interview minutes after the announcement, Mr. Lys said that affordable housing is a top priority. "I think we also have to make sure to increase the amount of recreational opportunities we provide for younger adults and children, to keep them off of opioids and drugs -- even for adults too," he said.

He wants to help in shaping decisions on the South Fork Wind Farm, which a Rhode Island company has proposed to construct approximately 35 miles off Montauk, and the hamlet studies that will inform future planning and development, he said. "I look forward to taking those on too, because I feel they're all within my wheelhouse right now."

Mr. Lys will run on the Democratic Party line. He told The Star that his prior Republican Party registration stemmed from his father's instruction to check that box when he obtained his driver's license. "I never took any political action, never went to any events, any parties, any fund-raisers," he said. "Finally, when I had the opportunity to go to the town board . . . I went to the websites of both parties, and found myself having to make a choice. The choice . . . was that I align myself more to Democratic values. And that was an easy decision for me."

Mr. Lys's appointment had been a point of contention on the Democratic Committee, which has been locked in a battle over the party's leadership since early this year and has put out the call for candidates interested in running this fall for the board seat Mr. Lys occupies. Nevertheless, the outgoing chairwoman, Jeanne Frankl; Betty Mazur, the longtime chairwoman of the party's nominating committee, and Christopher Kelley, longtime chairman of the Democrats' campaign committee, were all on hand to hear Mr. Lys's announcement at the Montauket on Sunday.  

A Friday driving-while-intoxicated arrest could lead to the deportation of a Mexican citizen who worked at Cittanuova restaurant in East Hampton.

East Hampton Village police said Francisco L. Mones-Tonacatl of East Hampton was drunk when he was seen speeding on Pantigo Road in a 2015 Nissan Altima at 2:20 a.m. on Friday. After his vehicle was brought to a stop, police said, Mr. Mones-Tonacatl, 44, appeared intoxicated and failed roadside sobriety checks. He also was unable to provide a driver’s license or another form of identification.

Police said that Mr. Mones-Tonacatl told them he had earlier consumed two beers and a margarita. A half-full glass of margarita remained in the sedan’s cup holder, according to the official report. Both a roadside breath test and a formal one administered at headquarters indicated that Mr. Mones-Tonacatl had indeed been drinking, police said.

Because he had been convicted on a D.W.I. charge in 2008 in East Hampton Town Court, Mr. Mones-Tonacatl was charged with three felonies: aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, driving while intoxicated, and aggravated driving while intoxicated, as well as four violations. Police impounded Mr. Mones-Tonacatl’s Nissan due to the severity of the charges. 

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana set bail at $5,000 with a June court date, but because Mr. Mones-Tonacatl had a warrant for his arrest from the Department of Homeland Security, he was held until agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement could pick him up, which they did later on Friday.

Another driving-while-intoxicated arrest was made when Burgess J. Abdallah neglected to signal soon enough as he turned his car from Montauk Highway near Lincoln Road in Montauk at about 1:50 a.m. on May 8, according to East Hampton Town police.

Mr. Abdallah, 31, appeared to the arresting officer to have been drinking and displayed signs of intoxication. He was charged with misdemeanor D.W.I. and released later that day without bail by Justice Rana. It was Mr. Abdallah’s first drinking and driving arrest, police said.

That night, at about 8:30, another town officer noticed a vehicle on Montauk Highway traveling without headlights. Armando Carmona-Romero, 45, of Springs was behind the wheel. Police said he appeared intoxicated and arrested him. After a positive breath test for alcohol, police held Mr. Carmona-Romero overnight. He was released by Justice Rana on $500 bail in the morning.

Being in the driver’s seat in a car moving at 64 miles per hour in a 40-miles-per-hour zone on Flamingo Road in Montauk proved unwise for Joshua M. Fazeli, 32, of Brooklyn in the early hours Sunday. Town police said they observed Mr. Fazeli’s 2016 Mazda swerving to both sides of the road and crossing over hazard markings on the pavement.

After being stopped, Mr. Fazeli was said to smell strongly of alcohol, to appear drunk, and to perform poorly on roadside sobriety tests. 

He was released without bail on a first-offense misdemeanor charge by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky later that morning.­

Mark Poitras did not get into emergency medical services for the awards, but he has certainly been racking them up recently. 

A volunteer critical-care technician with the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps and a Suffolk County E.M.S. instructor, Mr. Poitras received not one but two awards on Friday night alone. The Southampton Town E.M.S. Advisory Committee surprised him with the Nancy Makson Award of Excellence and the Ralph Oswald Distinction for Inspirational Leadership at its annual dinner. All the agencies that serve throughout the town nominate members for the awards. 

The dinner came just a month after Mr. Poitras learned he had been named the Suffolk County Regional Emergency Medical Services Committee’s 2017 E.M.S. Educator of Excellence, an award that also memorializes Mr. Oswald. He is the ambulance corps’ member of the year as well. 

He first became an emergency medical technician in 2004 and quickly moved on to become an E.M.T.-C.C.. He has been a county instructor since 2006. With Mary Mott of East Hampton, he teaches the only E.M.T. class east of the Shinnecock Canal, held yearly in Sag Harbor starting in September and lasting nearly seven months. He does this on top of his full-time job as a certified financial planner and raising a family.

“We enjoy the benefits of having a great instructor right in our district, and it’s great to share this member with everyone on the East End,” Stacy McGowin, chief of the corps, wrote in her nomination of Mr. Poitras. 

At Friday night’s dinner, held at the Coast Grill in Southampton, a half-dozen of his students who are members of other agencies were in the room by chance. He estimates he has helped teach 200 students over the years.

“I like to be able to teach people and see them out using it, which is pretty cool. That’s the motivation to keep doing it,” he said. “The main driver is that you get to see other people get out there and do good that way.”

The pat on the back for the years of hard work was a nice surprise, he said. Receiving an award named after Ralph Oswald, whom he knew, “was really an honor,” Mr. Poitras said. 

Mr. Oswald was a county instructor and a paramedic with the Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance Corps who had a heart attack and died in 2015, while on a cardiac arrest call. He was 64 years old. 

“Ralph started teaching about the same time I did, as far as being a lead instructor. We did have some nice camaraderie,” Mr. Poitras said. “Certainly his dedication in E.M.S. was apparent.” 

His other award is named for Nancy Makson, a founding member of the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance, who died in 2009.

The Bridgehampton Fire Department nominated Harry Halsey, a firefighter who has been an ambulance driver for 12 years. Mr. Halsey, a Sagaponack resident, responds to over 200 E.M.S calls per year, on top of his firefighting responsibilities.