Joseph Malik-Atkinson and Olivia Stevens of Montauk were married on Sept. 17 at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk. The Rev. Sarah Margaret of Mattituck, an interfaith minister, officiated, and a reception followed at Montauk Downs.

Mr. Malik-Atkinson is a son of Dorothy Malik-Atkinson and Steve Atkinson of Montauk. The bride is a daughter of Roberta and Richardson Bass of East Hampton and of Jeanne Stevens of East Hampton and the late Jeffery Stevens.

The couple grew up together in Montauk, began dating in high school, and went on to attend Alfred State College together, where he earned a heavy truck and diesel degree and she earned a degree in agriculture business.

Mr. Malik-Atkinson works at Mickey’s Carting, and his bride works at White’s Liquors, both in Montauk.

The matron of honor was the bride’s sister, Jessica Carlson of Hampton Bays. She was also attended by Taylor Kronuch of East Hampton, Retta Leaver Hess of Indiana, Brittany Cocuzza of North Carolina, and Lianne Macarthy of Montauk. Her nieces, Lilliana and Mckayla Carlson, were flower girls.

Mr. Malik-Atkinson’s best men were C.J. Fisher of East Hampton, and his dog, Ratchet. The groomsmen were his brothers, Richard Malik-Atkinson and Patrick Malik-Atkinson of Montauk, Kevin Roussell of Hampton Bays, and James McGroarty and Jason Carey, both of Montauk.

The couple are back at home in Montauk after a honeymoon to the Forks in Maine.

Need to get rid of the leftover paint from that project five years ago? Out-of-date solvent? Mercury-containing compact fluorescent lightbulbs? Rusty cans of what-was-this-stuff-anyway?

Household hazardous materials will be accepted for disposal at the Montauk transfer station from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, which is one of two STOP days each year in East Hampton Town. The acronym stands for Stop Throwing Out Pollutants, and the goal of the program is to offer residents a safe way to toss materials that should not be thrown in a landfill or poured down the drain. 

Among the pollutants accepted are oil-based paints, pesticides, stale fuel, aerosols, chemicals, and other flammables. Commercial waste will not be accepted.

Nathan Aldred of East Hampton and Charlene Cohen of Colorado were married on Sept. 9 in a traditional Hawaiian wedding ceremony in the village of Waimanalo, Oahu. Their families and many friends celebrated the event.

Morgan Nixon, also from East Hampton and now living on Oahu, provided the music, and several of their friends sang and performed traditional hula dances.

After a honeymoon camping trip to Big Sur, Calif., the couple will live in San Francisco, where they met.

White’s Apothecary announced on Friday that it is sponsoring a new, mobile “big red med drug disposal box,” in which people can discard unused or unwanted leftover medications, for use by local law enforcement agencies at community events.

“Now, when we have special events in the future, we can bring this disposal box with us,” Officer Kenneth Alversa of the East Hampton Town Police Department said.

White’s Apothecary already has such drug disposal boxes placed permanently at its East Hampton and Southampton stores, but Diana Dolling-Ross, the owner, said she felt it was important to sponsor another “to raise awareness, help protect the environment, and prevent drug abuse.”

The disposal box was created by Tom McAbee, a retired banker who lives on the South Fork and whose wife is a physician at Southampton Hospital. 

Gregory Alvin Burns and Kelsey Rebecca Edwardes were married on Sept. 17 at the Montauk Lighthouse, in an intimate ceremony for family and close friends. Their friend Christian Karolus officiated. 

Mr. Burns is a son of Richard and Sharon Burns of Springs. The bride’s parents are Rebecca and Thomas Edwardes of Montauk. 

The bride wore a vintage 1950s handmade lace and tulle gown and vintage-inspired cobalt peep-toes as her “something blue,” and then changed into a tea-length strapless Allison Paris dress with a full tulle skirt for the reception. 

She was attended by her daughter, Skylar Hand, as the ring bearer and maid of honor. Her best friend, Melissa Drumm-Flaherty of Springs, was another maid of honor, and her niece, Lila Edwardes, was the flower girl. Skylar and Lila wore matching white dresses with blush sashes; Ms. Drumm-Flaherty wore a blush maxi-dress.

Mr. Burns’s best men were his brothers, Ryan and Matthew Burns of Springs. The groom and groomsmen wore navy pants with navy suspenders, blue button-down shirts with blush and navy-checked bowties, and Sperry sneakers: blush for the groom and gray and navy for his brothers.

The site of the wedding holds special significance for the bride, whose family has been in Montauk since the 1930s. Many family photographs are displayed in the museum there. 

Before exchanging their vows, the couple made vows to the bride’s daughter, “promising to love and cherish her and to create a home for her filled with love, guidance, friendship, and laughter.”

Kate Hirschman of Sag Harbor played Beatles songs on acoustic guitar. The wedding party walked to “And I Love Her,” and the bride walked down the aisle with her father to “Here, There, and Everywhere.” 

Dinner followed at a private residence on Lake Montauk, where guests were able to watch the harvest moon rise. The wedding cake was prepared by Ms. Drumm-Flaherty, who runs Sweet Melissa’s. 

Mr. Burns graduated from Ithaca College in 2004 with a degree in communications. He is a real estate agent for Compass in East Hampton. She earned a degree in speech language pathology from St. Joseph’s College in 2014 and is pursing a master’s degree in the same while working as the indoor membership director at East Hampton Indoor Tennis. 

The two had many mutual friends but finally met and began dating in Montauk over Memorial Day weekend 2014, after Mr. Burns had moved back to the South Fork from New York City. 

They live in East Hampton and are planning a honeymoon in the spring. 

Work toward a better future and remembrance of the past were on the agenda when the East Hampton Village Board met on Friday.

Edwina von Gal of the Perfect Earth Project, a Springs organization that promotes toxin-free landscaping, addressed the board and proposed a partnership in which Perfect Earth would cite the village as a toxin-free municipality. She asked that the village designate a liaison to the organization, suggesting Billy Hajek, the village planner, and post its commitment to toxin-free landscapes on its website.

In return, Ms. von Gal pledged to develop a strategy for maintaining village properties without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, while also extending those practices into commercial and private properties that are part of the village’s watershed. The Perfect Earth Project would also collaborate with the Ladies Village Improvement Society and the Garden Club of East Hampton to ensure a consistent approach and community engagement, and would incorporate the village into its educational events, promote the village’s commitment to toxin-free landscaping, and use it as a model to share with other municipalities across the country.

In the United States, 255 million pounds of lawn chemicals enter waterways every year, Ms. von Gal said. “If we all got together, we could make a big difference,” she said.

The village adopted a policy in 2002 requiring organic maintenance of public parks, greens, and lawns, and prohibiting the use of pesticides and herbicides on village-owned property, which Ms. von Gal called “a remarkably visionary commitment.”

The partnership she proposed would foster “a more comprehensive and conscious project” in which residents “recognize the spaces that are safe for themselves, their family, and their children, and also to encourage them to participate and help with the amount of fertilizer and pesticides that are running off into your waterways, which I know is of tremendous concern.”

The village is presently constructing bioswales to trap pollutants at two locations. That project is covered elsewhere on this page.

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. called Perfect Earth Project’s work “a magnanimous undertaking” and pledged the board’s support.

In other business, the mayor presented a certificate of appreciation to David McMaster of Bartlett Tree Experts, a tree and shrub care company with an office in Southampton, for the donation and care of a Callery pear tree that was planted at the North End Common last summer.

Known as a “survivor tree,” the pear tree was grown from a seedling harvested from one that endured the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center in Manhattan. It was discovered, badly damaged but standing, at the World Trade Center site, removed from the rubble, and turned over to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation for rehabilitation. In 2010, it was returned to the site, now the September 11 Memorial and Museum, and serves as a living reminder of resilience, survival, and rebirth.

Bartlett Tree Experts, in partnership with the memorial and museum, donated it to the village. A dedication ceremony was held in July.

“It is hoped that this gifting of this magnificent tree to our village will bring people together and create a living, lasting memorial for all the victims of 9/11, their families, communities, and our country,” the mayor said.

Mr. McMaster, a longtime resident of East Hampton, said that the tree was the most significant of the many he has donated to memorials. His company, he said, will submit renderings depicting additional landscaping around the survivor tree to the village as well as to the L.V.I.S. and the Garden Club, the intention being to “memorialize the area in a special way” that will adhere to the area’s character. “I’m very pleased to be here today and very humbled by this recognition,” he said.

Mayor Rickenbach’s daughter, Karen Rickenbach Mesiha, was one of the last to exit the north tower of the World Trade Center before its collapse. Soon afterward, she began experiencing medical issues. Ms. Mesiha died in December.

“This is a humbling moment for us,” the mayor said on Friday. He asked those attending to take advantage of the memorial “for a little bit of meditation and reflection on our lives.”

In other news from the meeting, the board voted unanimously to amend the village code so that annual license fees for services such as taxi and livery cabs, garbage removal, and cesspool maintenance will be fixed by resolution of the board rather than by amendments to village law. The current fee for licenses under this code is $100 per year, which is unchanged since 1994.

Courtney Matson Edwards, a daughter of Barbara Lord Edwards and James C. Edwards Jr. of East Hampton, was married here on June 11 to Matthew Powell Kahn.

Mr. Kahn is the son of Jean Horrell of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Dr. James Kahn of Healdsburg, Calif. The Very Rev. Denis Brunelle performed the ceremony at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. A reception followed at the Maidstone Club, where the bride’s late paternal grandfather, James C. Edwards, had been president.

The bride is a founding dramatic arts teacher at the Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts in New York City. She graduated from the Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn., in 2006, and earned a bachelor’s degree in theater and government from Franklin and Marshall College, graduating cum laude in 2010.

The groom graduated magna cum laude from Bentley University in Boston and is a senior consultant with Deloitte and Touche in New York City.

The couple met at a Christmas Party at the Union League Club in New York City, where Mr. Kahn is a member. He saw her across the room “and immediately walked over and introduced himself,” they wrote. “Within minutes, he was twirling her around the room and they were the only couple on the dance floor.”

On her wedding day the bride wore an Oscar de la Renta white ball gown with a floral lace bodice, illusion neckline, and long white taffeta skirt and pale pink Manolo Blahnik heels. She carried white roses with pink peonies and was accessorized with a pearl broach that had belonged to her grandmother Barbara Hartley Lord.

She was attended by her sisters, Lorrie Edwards and Caroline Edwards, as maids of honor. Her bridesmaids were Lauren Conheeney, Emily Martin, Samantha Yates, Anna Simonds Glennon, Kiki Kazickas, and her godsister, Julia Laughlin. They wore Jennifer Yoo by BHLDN floor-length pale pink and gray dresses and carried peonies, garden roses, and green hydrangeas.

The best man was Shane Sigel. The groomsmen were Max Klietmann, Matthew Bride, Brodie Mailer-Howat, William Connell, Randy Gretz, Cameron Tomkins-Bergh, and Christopher Spinello.

Flowers at the reception were arranged in golf trophies won by her late maternal grandfather, James Couper Lord, and her late uncle, James Couper Lord Jr. There were readings by Momina Sibtain, a friend of the bride’s from Pakistan, and Autumn Kent-Hower, a friend of the groom’s from college.

The couple honeymooned in France and Italy, traveling by plane and train as they explored the two countries.

They live on 85th Street in Manhattan.

Voters in the Sag Harbor School District and Bridgehampton and Saga­ponack School Districts will decide the fate of the proposed 2017 budgets for the John Jermain Memorial Library and Hampton Library, respectively, during budget votes coming up in the next week.

The Hampton Library vote is planned for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Bridgehampton and Sagaponack voters will be voting to fund separate portions of the library budget. Bridgehampton’s share of the tax levy is $1,003,300, an increase of $15,880 over last year’s budget, and Sagaponack’s share of the tax levy is $663,800, an increase of $15,103 over last year.

Kelly Harris, the library’s director, said the average tax increase works out to $2.76 per household for the entire year. She said the biggest area of growth in spending is on personnel costs, about $26,500, which includes a “modest raise” for employees. The library would spend $7,000 more on programs and operations, and $1,000 more on materials.

“I would like to point out that thanks to the completion of our new heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system, we’re seeing a decrease in our buildings and grounds line,” Ms. Harris said. “We’re seeing some savings there and adding quite a bit of money into programming — educational, entertaining, interesting — for patrons of all ages.”

The John Jermain Memorial Library vote is planned for next Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. On the table is a $2,596,069 spending plan that carries a year-over-year tax levy increase of 2.4 percent. Because the library board voted to override the tax cap, the budget will need a simple majority vote from the community to pass. The average tax increase would be about $11 per household for the year.

The budget includes more money for custodial hours to care for the larger building, which recently reopened to the public after several years of renovations and an expansion. The proposed budget also includes additional employee hours to run more programs and staff a library that has been busier than in past years, according to Catherine Creedon, John Jermain’s director.

“The budget increase is lower both in terms of dollars and percentage than what was approved by the voters last year,” she said. “We are still learning how our beautiful building operates, and are aware that the months ahead hold some unknowns, but we were also committed to keeping the increase as low as possible.”

When it comes to elections, four seats are open on the Hampton Library board and three are open on the John Jermain board. Candidates running for those seats are all unopposed. For the Hampton Library, Sandra Ferguson and Matthew Rojano would represent Bridgehampton, and Tom White would represent Sagaponack. Sarah Stenn is running to represent Sagaponack, though her campaign is a write-in one because her nominating petition came in late.

For John Jermain, Nicholas Gazzolo, the current board president, is running to retain his seat, as is Alison Bond. Daniel Glass is stepping up to run as a new member.

East Hampton Meals on Wheels needs helping hands. The organization is looking for volunteers to pack meals and make deliveries to homebound residents in Montauk, Amagansett, Sag Harbor, East Hampton Village, Springs, Wainscott, and Northwest Woods.

People are needed for two-hour weekday morning slots putting the meals together, as well as to serve as substitutes for the group’s regular drivers. Meals on Wheels has about 45 clients here. A volunteer application can be found at ehmealsonwheels.org. Additional information is available by phone at 631-329-1669.

The East Hampton Library’s 2017 budget, a $2.46 million spending plan that includes a 6.9-percent year-over-year spending increase, passed Saturday with a final tally of 93 to 16.

“The importance of the East Hampton Library as a community resource and center of education is confirmed by the fact that the library’s budget vote passed once again,” Sheila Rogers, the president of the library’s board of trustees, said in a statement.

Of the $158,243 increase in the budget, a little more than half, or $83,800, will come from tax increases from each of the three school districts whose residents collectively vote to approve the budget. East Hampton district residents voted 72 to 15 to approve the budget, while Springs residents voted 16 to 1 in favor, and five Wainscott residents all voted yes. The tax increase works out to about $5.32 more per household for the year. The rest of the revenue will come from increased donations, state aid, library fines and fees, and other sources.

The library will spend about $78,000 more on staff salaries, benefits, Social Security payments, and taxes next year. Also included in the budget is $4,000 more for books, movie DVDs, music CDs, and other materials; $7,500 more for classes, lectures, children’s story time sessions, and other such programs, and $8,000 more in expenses related to its physical facilities. The library will also spend $13,500 more on fund-raising, which is expected to yield more than $300,000 in revenue next year and has amounted to nearly $20 million since 1995.

“We are looking forward to a great year that will include new programs, services, and materials, and even some great new library space for our local residents to enjoy,” Dennis Fabiszak, the library’s director, said in an email. C.S.