An olive branch extended by two members of the East Hampton Village Board was met with a combative reply at an East Hampton Town Trustees meeting on Tuesday. The issue is 16 garbage cans on the village’s ocean beaches.

The trustees, who manage the beaches on behalf of the public, insist that the receptacles encourage more litter, and have suggested they be placed in the parking lots. But village board members disagree.

“We felt like we were blindsided .  .  . with the immediate suggestion of how to take care of it before we knew there was a problem,” Barbara Borsack, the deputy mayor of the village, said. Ms. Borsack was referring to a letter the trustees sent asking that the receptacles be removed from the beaches. “We need a little time to discuss things,” she said. “We want to work with you, we’re all on the same team here.” 

The village board usually discusses the beaches at its October work session, after the summer season, Ms. Borsack said, and considers improvements for the following year. An additional, nighttime garbage pickup and closer scrutiny of beach parties have been discussed, she said.

Deborah Klugers, a trustee who has been particularly outspoken about litter, was unmoved. She complained that an answer to the trustees’ request that the cans be removed from the beaches  came via The Star’s July 2 issue, in which Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr.  stated that they would stay put.

“I don’t want this board to be looked upon as not wanting to participate in a dialog,” Ms. Klughers said. “We asked for the cans to be removed, and were told they’re staying. We asked that they be removed at night, and were told they’re staying. Now we’re being told they’re staying. If the pail is not on the beach and you put it in the parking lot, that’s where all this litter is going to accumulate,” she said.

“It’s regrettable,” said Richard Lawler, a village board member who was at the meeting with Ms. Borsack, “that this became such an adversarial situation from the get-go. I would hope that in the future you would contact us if you have an issue.”

The village has no immediate plans to move the receptacles, however. “We don’t subscribe to the premise that the cans are the problem. We started putting cans on the beach because there was a tremendous problem with garbage. It has improved dramatically,” Mr. Lawler said.

There are limits to the village’s budget and manpower, Ms. Borsack said, calling nightly removal of the receptacles, each of which weighs 80 pounds, unrealistic.

Photographs depicting litter, Mr. Lawler said, “reflect times when there is a problem. There are no pictures that reflect the overwhelming amount of times when there is no problem.” The village has not received a single complaint about the beaches, he said, reiterating previous statements.

Bill Taylor, a trustee and the town’s waterways management supervisor, defended the village. “It seems to me they’ve put a lot of thought and effort into it,” he said. “We should sit down and discuss it.”

Several trustees endorsed an additional, nighttime garbage pickup, while others called for a pilot program in which receptacles would be removed from one of the beaches. “If you give us a chance to have some discussion about it, we’ll let you know what our proposals are for next year,” Ms. Borsack said.

Diane McNally, the trustees’ clerk, agreed that she and Ms. Klughers should meet with village board representatives before the end of the summer, to which they agreed.

After reports of overcrowding and other problems at Harbor Raw Bar and Lounge near the Montauk docks, East Hampton Town got a judge last week to agree to put the clamps on the party.

In her decision, Acting Supreme Court Justice Denise F. Molia granted a temporary restraining order blocking the use of the restaurant as a nightclub. The owners could face criminal contempt charges if they allow the number of patrons to exceed the official occupancy limit of 68 guests, she wrote.

According to a statement issued by East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, Harbor had been cited on multiple occasions, with as many as 300 people on premises.

The restraining order is in place until next Thursday, when both sides are expected in court for a conference with Justice Molina.

Harbor was represented in the proceeding by Harvey Arnoff, a Riverhead lawyer.

Spiritoso L.L.C. paid $2.85 million when it bought the property, at 440 West Lake Drive in Montauk, on Jan. 30. The key management players are James Willis and Robert Hirsh, according to Whalebone Magazine. They brought in Ja Rule for a well-attended Memorial Day weekend rap performance.

In his statement, Mr. Cantwell said, “This is part of the Town of East Hampton’s effort to address those businesses that have turned their establishment into nightclubs without the requisite approvals and invited overcrowding without regard to the occupancy limits set forth in state law.”

He said that Harbor did not have a sprinkler system and that it had been issued citations on multiple occasions since May for overcrowding.

A second Montauk bar and restaurant, Ciao, will be the subject of a town board discussion, after the establishment received three summonses for violating the noise ordinance.

According to town law, the board may limit, suspend, or revoke the town permit that is required to play music, indoors or out, if an establishment receives three summonses for a noise violation in a year.

With a vote on Tuesday, the board scheduled an Aug. 18 hearing on Ciao’s permit, to be held during its regular work session at 10 a.m. at Town Hall. Members of the public who wish to comment can do so in person at the meeting, or submit written comments.

The Sloppy Tuna bar, also in Montauk, has been issued nine summonses for noise this summer, town officials said Tuesday. However, because of its zoning classification as both a restaurant and a nightclub, it is not required to hold a music entertainment permit. The town code states that the permits are only required of a “restaurant or bar/tavern.”

Several summers ago, the town asked a State Supreme Court judge to issue a restraining order to stop the club from playing music without a town permit, and to require compliance with a maximum occupancy limit of 99 delineated on the club’s certificate of occupancy. The request was denied.

With Reporting by Joanne Pilgrim

With the exterior renovation nearly complete, attention has turned to restoration of the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station’s interior. With that in mind, and to celebrate the recent acquisition of an original 1908 Beebe surfboat, the station’s restoration committee will host a lobster bake on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the station.

Bostwick’s, Balsam Farms, Gosman’s Dock, and Amagansett Wine and Spirits are among those providing food and beverages for the event, tickets for which cost $125 for adults and $75 for children 12 and younger. They are available at Amagansett Wine and Spirits, at the events page on the station’s website, amagansettlss.org, or by calling David Lys, president of the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Society, at 516-885-6454.

Lobster, hard and soft-shell clams, side dishes, beer, wine, and soft drinks will be offered at the “community clambake,” said Michael Cinque, co-chairman of the restoration committee. Those at the gathering can eat at picnic tables on the station’s grounds or take their meal home or to nearby Atlantic Avenue Beach, he said. Live music will be performed.

“It’s a little bit about awareness, and a little bit about making money,” Mr. Cinque said of the event, the latter to support the continued renovation of the 1902 structure. The lobster bake, he said, is also to “celebrate our new acquisition,” the surfboat. Built in Greenport, it is the last such boat known to exist. As an active rescue boat, it was stationed at the Coast Guard’s New Shoreham station on Block Island. Recently located in North Carolina and transported to the Amagansett station’s boat room, it is on loan from the National Park Service.

“It’s home, where it should be,” Mr. Lys said of the surfboat. “You can see the wear and tear that boat has. It tells a good story, and it’s a great acquisition for us.”

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Society recently became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. “That was a huge step,” Mr. Cinque said. “At some point, we hope to endow this place enough to have a director and give tours during the summer to kids, schools, any group that wants to visit.”

“We’re always looking for more donors,” he added.

This year’s Soldier Ride the Hamptons again honors Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter, a Sag Harbor Marine who was killed in 2008 in Iraq at age 19.

Starting at 7 a.m., participants will assemble at Amagansett Farm at 555 Montauk Highway in that hamlet. After an opening ceremony at 8:30, cyclists will depart for 30 and 60-mile rides at 9, followed by those participating in a 5-kilometer walk. A 5K walk will also depart from Marine Park in Sag Harbor at 9 a.m., following an opening ceremony at 8.

A tribute to Corporal Haerter is scheduled for 10:30 at Marine Park. A “lap of heroes,” in which wounded veterans will cycle up and down Sag Harbor’s Main Street, will follow at 11. Participants will return to Amagansett Farm for a community picnic at noon, to which the public has been invited. Those wishing to eat have been asked to make a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Wounded veterans will spend the afternoon doing beach activities in Amagansett, followed by dinner and a concert by Nancy Atlas in Amagansett Square at 6 p.m.

Registration for the 30 and 60-mile rides is $60, $35 for those 12 and under. Participation in the 5K walks costs $35. Online registration has ended, but participants can register on Saturday. Active-duty military personnel, their families, and students can receive a promotional code for registration at a discount by sending an email to [email protected]. Fund-raising incentives will be awarded to those raising $250, $1,000, and $2,500 who remit payment to the Wounded Warrior Project within 30 days of the event.

In 2004, Chris Carney, who owns Railroad Avenue Fitness in East Hampton, was working as a bartender when Peter Honerkamp, an owner of the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, organized a fund-raiser for John Fernandez, Ian Lennon, and Hector Delgado, Long Island residents who had been wounded in Iraq. “We raised a little bit of money,” Mr. Carney said, “but there was overhead.”

“It wasn’t selling very well,” Nick Kraus, a promoter who works at the Talkhouse, remembered. “For all the work we were putting into it, the payoff was going to be minor, especially split between three wounded warriors. That’s when Chris came up with the idea.”

After the concert, Mr. Carney said, “We were sitting around late at night. The week before, I had done a multiple-sclerosis ride in the city where they had thousands of people do a 60-mile ride. I said, ‘What if, instead of having thousands of riders do a short distance, one rider goes thousands of miles, and see if we can get the same type of sponsorship?’ I thought it was a far-fetched idea that would be laughed at and quickly dismissed. But Peter said, ‘Wait a second, that could work.’ He actually took me up on it.”

A donation jar was put at the Talkhouse entrance, and the expenses needed for the cross-country trip were quickly raised. “It was kind of scary,” Mr. Carney said, “because it went from being an idea to something I actually had to do.”

John Melia, a Green Beret who was in a helicopter that caught fire and exploded over the Red Sea off the coast of Somalia in 1992, “had a $10,000-a-year budget and a one-room office in Roanoke, Va.,” Mr. Carney said. He made regular visits to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he would distribute backpacks filled with “comfort items — stuff he wished he would have had when he was hurt. A pair of shorts, T-shirt, sweatpants — the most luxurious thing you would find would probably be an old-school Walkman. That was the Wounded Warrior Project.”

Mr. Fernandez had suggested the Wounded Warrior Project as Soldier Ride’s beneficiary. What began as Mr. Carney’s offhand late-night comment has given rise to an event that has raised millions for the Wounded Warrior Project, propelling a one-man venture to the nation’s top veterans’ care organization.

John Philip Jaxheimer, the son of Susan and John Jaxheimer of Amagansett and New York City, and Aimee Bridget Ruby were married on May 26. The Hon. Paul A. Crotty officiated at a civil ceremony in his chambers in New York. A second ceremony was held on June 13 on the beach at the privately owned Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands. Remar Sutton of Tortola, a family friend, officiated.

A reception followed with friends and family staying on the island.

The bride is the daughter of Lori and James Ruby of Douglasville, Ga. She is an international fashion model with a degree in fashion merchandising from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Mr. Jaxheimer is a creative director and photographer who earned a B.A. in art history from the University of Oregon. They were introduced by mutual friends and now live on West 20th Street in Manhattan.

They plan a belated honeymoon, but have not yet decided on a destination.

­The director of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, Glenn Vickers, on Tuesday told the town board that plans are in progress to revamp the center’s youth programs, but the ideas haven’t won unfettered approval.

According to the East End New Leaders, a group of politically active young adults that supports, among several platforms, the expansion of programs for kids and teenagers in the region, the RECenter needs to provide more space for activities other than working out at a gym.

Basically, kids need “a place to be kids” that’s unstructured and fun but also safe, according to Walker Bragman, a member of the group.

Mr. Bragman, who said he used to hang out at the RECenter before it became affiliated with the Y.M.C.A., has said the presence of the gym equipment is “overwhelming,” and the East End New Leaders want less of it there.

“It doesn’t seem to be for kids,” Mr. Bragman said. “We are happy with the new programs that Mr. Vickers is pushing for kids, but the program-based approach is only part of the equation. The real thing that kids need is a space to be kids, because they’re in programming from 7 a.m. to 3 in the afternoon. . . . It would be great for them to have a place for them to socialize. You can be creative in a space where someone’s not telling you what to do.”

In an interview Tuesday night, Mr. Vickers, who was appointed to head the RECenter in January, disputed the idea that the kids’ needs will not be met. Since January, he said, “we’ve been getting the entire infrastructure in line to be able to enhance all of our programs.” He declined to mention specific programs but said they include sports, arts, and robotics as well as workshops on leadership and self-esteem.

“We’re actually really excited about the updates and programs that have already started now and will be completed in September,” Mr. Vickers said. The East End New Leaders “came right in the middle of all these program changes that were taking place anyway. The feedback is all welcome. We’ve met with senior groups; we’ve met with aquatic groups. Everyone has their love and interest for the Y.M.C.A.”

In a presentation Tuesday morning to the town board, Mr. Vickers outlined one of the RECenter’s flagship programs, called Leaders and Lemonade, in which kids ages 12 to 14 meet with adult mentors for weekly workshops on real-world topics like communication, leadership, money, the environment, and more.

On Tuesday, as that group met in areas that were crammed with exercise equipment, Mr. Vickers cited safety and security as the reason for declining a reporter’s request to ask the children themselves what they would like to see in a youth program.

“This group is the kids being able to direct the ship in terms of what’s being added here,” he said. “They’ve come through the Y.M.C.A. program. The fun part is that everything we’re doing right now is exactly what they’re looking for, in terms of adults who can listen to them, who can help facilitate healthy conversation . . . self-confidence, self-esteem, anti-bullying.”

The RECenter sits on land donated by the Village of East Hampton and was originally constructed as a youth center largely funded with donations and grants raised by the now-defunct East Hampton Youth Alliance. The $4 million facility opened in 1999 and at the time was free for children to use. By 2001, it was on its fourth director. The town now owns the building and supports the RECenter in its budget, with other operating costs drawn from Y.M.C.A. membership fees.

Supervisor Larry Cantwell acknowledged that the Y.M.C.A. now “serves a much broader constituency in town,” but said he feels the RECenter is doing a good job.

“It’s not a question of what they should or shouldn’t be doing, or a criticism of the Y in any way. It’s just what evolved over time,” Mr. Cantwell said Tuesday afternoon. “What comes out of these discussions should have a positive impact on the community. This should not be a divisive issue.”

Councilwoman Sylvia Overby said yesterday that Mr. Vickers is “a breath of fresh air,” and she is confident that he will listen to the concerns of the community.

“I think that some of the kids, the older teens, feel a little left out right now,” she said. “I’m glad Mr. Vickers heard yesterday that there is concern in the community. . . . The kids really just want a place to socialize. I’m hopeful that the Y will come back to some of that.”

The water quality of Hook Pond and measures being considered to improve it will be addressed at an open meeting on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Village Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street.

Lombardo Associates, an environmental consulting and engineering firm, which conducted a study of the pond on behalf of the village, with partial funding from the town, will present its findings.

According to the study, the pond is eutrophic, meaning that its oxygen has been depleted. The average dissolved oxygen level was found to be significantly lower in 2014 than in the prior year, and below the minimum daily average set by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation necessary to support fish, shellfish, and wildlife propagation and survival. The study is posted on the village’s website, easthamptonvillage.org.

When Kate Mund visited her doctor in September experiencing flu-like symptoms, she had no idea that the consultation would be the start of an ordeal that would continue through the fall and include partial paralysis, neck surgery, and a still-uncertain diagnosis.

The lifelong East Hamptoner, a resident now of Amagansett’s Lazy Point, had been in good health, but then began to experience weakness and a lack of dexterity in her hands and legs.

A visit to a neurologist revealed a herniated disk in her neck, but after surgery and rehabilitation, the symptoms did not fully abate.

A self-employed seamstress and single mom, Ms. Mund has been unable to work or fully function on her own and must use a wheelchair. Her sister, Lauren Mund, moved back to her hometown, closing her acupuncture clinic in Delaware, to provide her with constant care.

Just before Christmas, Ms. Mund was admitted to Stony Brook University Hospital for a round of tests. Doctors ruled out a number of things, she said, but the question of what was happening still remained.

The low point came on Christmas Eve, when a doctor diagnosed Ms. Mund with a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known also as A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig’s disease), giving her a dire prognosis.

But that diagnosis is somewhat speculative, and Ms. Mund suspects her illness might be the result of a severe tick-borne disease. A visit later this month to an infectious-disease specialist is planned.

She has returned home and is feeling stronger, but daily life, and meeting mounting expenses, is hard. “My hope is to wake up from this nightmare and be able to return to life as it was before September 2014,” she wrote in a recent email.

Efforts are under way to raise money for Ms. Mund and her sister to cover medical and living costs; a page called the Kate Mund Medical Fund has been set up at GoFundMe.com, and a fund-raiser is planned.

Donations can be made at the GoFundMe site online, or sent directly to Ms. Mund at P.O. Box 1798, Amagansett 11930.

Richard and Karen Brown of Washington Avenue in Montauk have announced the engagement of their son, Richard Stuart Brown III, to Rebecca Lynn Harder. Ms. Harder’s parents are Dale and Sandra Harder of Sioux Falls, S.D.

 The couple met while working together at the Second House Tavern in Montauk. They live in Charleston, S.C., where they will be married on Nov. 6, 2015, at the Pepper Plantation.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 24th annual Largest Clam Contest is set for Sunday at noon at the Donald Lamb Building in Amagansett.

As at last year’s event, a clam chowder competition will be judged by a writer from The Star and trustee staffers and feature both Manhattan and New England styles, East Hampton Town Councilman Fred Overton will serve his famous Bonac chowder, and there will be chowder and clams on the half shell for all. The Dongan Patent, the 1686 document that created the trustees and granted them authority over the Town of East Hampton, will be on display.

A prize will be awarded to both the adult and child submitting the largest clam dug from each of four waterways: Lake Montauk, Accabonac Harbor, Three Mile Harbor, and Napeague Harbor. An additional prize awaits the holder of the largest overall quahog.

Through Saturday, contestants can take their entries to the Seafood Shop in Wainscott, Gosman’s Fish Market in Montauk, the Amagansett Seafood Shop, or Stuart’s Seafood Market, also in Amagansett. Documentation including the contestant’s name and the date and waterway from which the clam was harvested will be recorded. On Sunday, the trustees will weigh and measure each quahog. Following the competition, the bivalves will be returned to the waters whence they came.

Money raised by the $1 entry fee for the largest clam and chowder competitions will fund the Capt. William T. Rysam Fund, which the trustees oversee. Interest earned on the fund balance is used for a $500 scholarship awarded to a local student each year.

Representatives from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, the town’s Natural Resources and Sanitation Departments, the Girl Scouts, and the East End Classic Boat Society are also scheduled to attend.

Along with the recycling of every can or bottle of water and soda served at the event, the trustees would like all shells from the clams and oysters served to be saved for recycling and returned to the sea. “We take away all this calcium and biological material from the sea,” said Deborah Klughers, a trustee. Increasing acidification of the oceans, she said, means that “these organisms are having a tough time building their shells. It also creates habitat — substrate for oysters, scallops, little fish. Also, a true oyster reef can attenuate wave action and stop erosion. That’s big picture, but on a smaller scale, let nature have back what we’ve taken out.”

Last year’s event saw 42 contestants vying for largest clam honors. Urban Reininger took the prize for Three Mile Harbor, with Ethan Stillwachs winning the youth category. From Accabonac Harbor, Dennis Curles’s 1.85-pound clam was the winner, while Elizabeth Branche took the youth award.

Ryan and Laila Persan, a father-daughter team, swept the Lake Montauk competition, while Ed Hoff Jr. took the honors for both Napeague Harbor and overall largest clam. His son, Edward Hoff III, won the youth divisions over all with a bivalve discovered just a day before the competition.