James Netter Sprayregen and Rachel Diane Kritchman were married on Saturday at the groom’s grandmother Alice Netter’s house in East Hampton’s Georgica neighborhood. Cantor-Rabbi Debra Stein of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons officiated.

The couple had lived within two blocks of each other in New York City for over two years when a mutual friend flew into town from Los Angeles and introduced them at a dinner over the holiday weekend of Martin Luther King’s Birthday in 2014. The bride had grown up with him in Louisville, Ky.; he and the groom were best friends in college at Indiana University.

“The other two dinner guests were completely ignored for the remainder of the evening,” the bride wrote.

The bride and groom’s first trip as a couple was to East Hampton, and it was here that they “truly fell in love,” the bride wrote. Mr. Sprayregen proposed at Georgica Beach. 

The bride’s maid of honor was Dale Sprayregen of New York City, the groom’s sister. Sam Schwarz of Brooklyn was the best man. 

The groom’s parents, Laurie and Philip Sprayregen, have been coming to East Hampton since the 1970s and have a house on Hand’s Creek Road. They were married at the same property in Georgica in 1986. The bride’s parents are Lori and Brian Kritchman of Boca Raton, Fla.

The groom is an account executive at PVH Corp., a global apparel company, and holds a bachelor’s degree in public affairs from Indiana University. The bride graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University with a degree in business administration. She is director of public relations for the French cosmetics company Sisley Paris.

They live on East 29th Street in Manhattan and will be honeymooning in the south of Italy.

Samuel Pierson Glinn and Lindsey Kikyo Kawamura were married on Saturday at a small ceremony in Nina Gillman’s garden on Windmill Lane in Amagansett.

William Menaker, newly ordained in the Universal Life Church Ministries, conducted the ceremony, and Paul Ukena, the groom’s godfather, provided accompaniment on guitar. The couple had written their own vows, and as a few raindrops fell, the bride delivered hers through tears.

Ms. Kawamura, 34, head of production at Kara, a New York City handbag company, wore a dress of soft tiers of voile in an asymmetrical cut that she designed herself. She was attended by her maid of honor, Anna de Castro, and her bridesmaids, Christine Fan Wang and Laura Hong. Flowers were by Flowers by Beth of Amagansett. The two-part ring, a gray diamond, was designed by Bliss of N.Y. based on the bride’s specifications. 

Seiji Kawamura of Fremont, Calif., a retired physics and chemistry teacher, walked his daughter down the allée of flowers. Ms. Kawamura’s brother, Matthew Kawamura, accompanied the couple’s dog, a shiba inu named Kona, down the aisle. Ms. Kawamura’s mother, Candice Kawamura, is retired after a career as a project manager at Stanford University.

Mr. Glinn, a co-owner of and chef at OTB, a bar and restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was escorted down the allée by his mother, Elena Prohaska Glinn, and his godmother, Rima Vargas-Vetter. He is the son of the late Burt Glinn, who was a renowned photographer with Magnum Photos. His best man was Rudi Hanja; his groomsmen were Charles Iulo and Michael Flowers.

Following the ceremony, the guests had dinner, beginning with a raw bar by Lobster Limo of Sagaponack and going on to a family-style dinner provided by Joachim Baca, a chef and longtime friend and colleague of Mr. Glinn’s. Alla Lapushchik, a co-owner of OTB, provided special drinks in honor of the couple. The wedding cake, glowing with sparklers, was by Carissa Waechter of Carissa’s Bakery in East Hampton.

The couple will live on Spencer Street in Brooklyn.

Three East Hampton Village assistant beach managers resigned in protest last Thursday, the day a report on female lifeguards allegations of sexual harassment was made public in The East Hampton Star. 

The allegations, in a letter written by the lifeguards and confirmed by Becky Molinaro Hansen, the village administrator, stemmed from incidents in which the beach managers had asked the women to model bikinis chosen as new uniforms, and in one instance to pose for a photo to determine whether the suits were too skimpy. Ms. Hansen’s report concluded that the managers’ conduct had not risen to the level of sexual harassment.

In a joint interview on Sunday, James Nicoletti, Robert Barber, and Ed McDonald, the managers, said there had been no inappropriate conduct on their part during the swimsuit selection process. The catalyst for their resignations, they said, were statements by Ms. Hansen that blamed the beach managers for the controversy rather than criticizing the village board, which had insisted on changing the bathing suits against their advice.

“We really do feel like we have been made the scapegoats for a decision that was made without proper thought,” Mr. McDonald said. “We were demanded to do this, and ended up the victims of it.” 

Mr. Nicoletti, an assistant manager for 10 years, said on Sunday that he sympathized with the lifeguards’ resistance to changing uniforms. “We may think the bathing suits are smaller than they should be. However, they are the same bathing suits they’ve worn for the last three years, they’re the same ones that basically every other female lifeguard in the country wears, and now to tell them all your colleagues in East Hampton Town can wear these, but you have to wear these other things. I get it,” he said.

Richard Lawler, a village trustee and deputy mayor, said on Tuesday that he had conveyed a village board directive, which was based on complaints from two residents that the female lifeguards’ swimsuits were inappropriate. “From the board’s perspective, it was a simple request to change a uniform,” he said. “That’s all that it ever was, and that’s all that it should have been.”

At the beginning of the season, Mr. McDonald, who has worked at Main Beach both as a lifeguard and a manager for 36 years, said he told Mr. Lawler that the board should refrain from asking for the change because it would have a negative impact on morale. “Lifeguards are a difficult group to manage, and I knew this issue would be difficult,” he said.

At the end of July, after bikinis with more coverage arrived and the female lifeguards said they disliked them, Mr. Nicoletti said he and Mr. McDonald tried once again to dissuade the board from making the change this season. “Ed and I got in my truck, went up to Village Hall, met with the village administrator, and made one last plea,” he said. “Please talk to the trustees and get them to back off on this policy. Let’s wait until next year. Let’s get this right.”

“The guards were angry about this whole thing,” Mr. McDonald added. “You could feel the tension in the air; we were kind of losing control a little bit.” 

Nevertheless, the request for the change persisted.

“The village administrator told us, ‘No, this is what the board wants, this policy is to go forward,’ ” Mr. Nicoletti said. “My regret is that at that meeting I didn’t resign, because I was leaving at the end of the year anyway.”

Mr. McDonald said he too had planned to retire after this summer, but Mr. Barber said he made the decision to quit only after The Star published some of Ms. Hansen’s report, which said the swimsuit selection process “should have been handled better” by the beach managers. All three men were dismayed by the village board’s response to the controversy.

“It would have been nice if, at the culmination of the investigation, they could have shared that with us, before the publication of their findings,” Mr. Barber said. “That is where you might have had a chance to comment instead of being blindsided.”

Mr. Nicoletti said he felt “thrown under the bus” by the report. “I fully expected a comment from Village Hall to be something along the lines of, ‘We directed the beach managers to get new swimsuits for our female lifeguards. They complied with our wishes. They did absolutely nothing inappropriate.’ Done,” he said. 

The day the Star article was published, the managers asked Ms. Hansen to meet them at Main Beach. “I wanted Village Hall to say, ‘We’re sorry this came out the way it did,’ and ‘We value you guys so much, we know you didn’t do anything inappropriate,’ ” Mr. Nicoletti said. “Instead we got Becky not coming down to talk, and one trustee showing up basically with an attitude.”  

Mr. McDonald said the Main Beach staff’s whole summer had been ruined because the village board decided on a new swimsuit policy based on the complaints of just two people. “The village board made a mistake, and they tried to cover their butt and blame it on mismanagement,” he said.

With just a few permits to secure, work on the long hoped for expansion of the Montauk Playhouse Community Center could begin this winter. The $8.5 million undertaking is to include two swimming pools, classrooms, and fitness and performance spaces. 

The project got a major boost this week when it met an anonymous $250,000  challenge grant on the way toward the best-ever summer of donations, totaling more than $575,000. The cultural arts and aquatic center project is now more than 75 percent funded, enough to break ground  sometime this winter. The timeline for opening is spring 2020.

“We had an incredible month and what is exciting to me is that support came from both the year-round and summer community,” Susan Henkin, the Montauk Playhouse Community Center executive director, said.

 Ms. Henkin said the expanded playhouse would be a resource both for Montauk and the entire Town of East Hampton. She said donor support grew rapidly once the playhouse committee made revisions to the plan based on concerns from the public. The development of a sustainable business model for the center’s operation also was key, she said. Support from East Hampton Town, most notably a $3 million infusion of capital last year, was also a positive signal to potential donors.

“The fact that the town got behind it really, really helped,” Ms. Henkin said. The $250,000 challenge from Sarah and Maurice Iudicone, part-time Montauk residents, ignited the playhouse board of directors to get out and seek additional contributions, large and small. Ms. Iudicone is a member of the board.

Securing the last few approvals should not present difficulties, Ms. Henkin said. The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals gave its okay in August. No exterior changes to the look of the 1920s mock-Tudor building are planned, and the final go-aheads could be in hand by January, she said.

In a statement from the Playhouse Foundation this week, Perry B. Duryea, the president, expressed optimism that the remaining $2 million budgeted for construction will be raised. “When people see the shovel go in the ground, I think you will see more private money come forward,” he said in an interview.

For Mr. Duryea, who is known as Chip, motivation to become involved with the playhouse grew out of his sense that Montauk was changing, and not always for the better. He said that once the playhouse is completed, it could help maintain a feeling of community identity. 

“We need this so that Montauk remains Montauk,” he said.

“I’ve heard many people ask, ‘When are they going to build that pool?’ It’s not they. It’s us. It’s everyone who feels that the citizens of Montauk, young and old, deserve a vibrant community center. We’re the ones who are going to build the pool. And as for when? The answer, with your help, is now,” Mr. Duryea said.

The Montauk Playhouse already serves a wide range of residents’ needs. It houses  child-care and senior-citizens nutrition and care programs, a town clerk’s office, physical therapists, workout classes, a gymnasium, and an outdoor playground. Several Montauk School sports teams either train or compete there as well. And most activities are free.

The playhouse was opened in 1927 as an indoor tennis stadium by Carl Fisher, whose Miami Beach Bay Shore Company developed the first 3,500 acres of previously uninhabited mangrove swamp on Biscayne Bay in South Florida. Fisher’s vision was summed up in his new company’s slogan, “Miami Beach in the Winter; Montauk in the Summer.” 

The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1929, a boxing match drew more than 1,500 spectators there to see Rene De Vos, a European middleweight champion, defeat Babe McGorgary of Oklahoma. 

Fisher’s plans ran up against the Great Depression, with the result that many of the Montauk Beach Company’s assets were sold. The Navy took over the building during World Way II and used it for drills and lectures.

By 1959, Fisher’s tennis stadium was a shambles, overgrown with shrubs, every window broken, and a leaking roof, according to The East Hampton Star. 

A 600-seat theater run by Edward Pospisil Jr. was the next tenant, with red wall-to-wall carpet, showing movies and live productions. It was Mr. Pospisil who apparently first called the building the Montauk Playhouse. 

The actress Myrna Loy ventured east from where she was staying at the Sea Spray Inn in East Hampton to see “From the Terrace” there in 1960, The Star reported. In 1963, a plan by the Montauk Beach Company to convert the playhouse into a supply yard for pre-fabricated “Leisurama” houses was approved by the town despite community opposition. 

Films were shown there to an audience seated in uncomfortable canvas folding chairs until the early 1970s. Mr. Duryea said that he recalled seeing Bruce Brown’s classic surf movie “Endless Summer” there in about 1966 or ’67.

Much later, but before the property came into town ownership, there was an abortive plan for a private affordable housing project there.

The playhouse community center opened in 2006. With the addition of the swimming pools and performance spaces, the playhouse foundation plans to make the operation self-sustainable with money from memberships, admission fees for events, and rentals. 

One of the two pools planned will be for laps, and one for casual use. The interior will be large enough for conferences. Performances by the Music for Montauk series might take place in the 240-seat theater, where movable risers would allow for trade shows or business meetings.

This story has been updated with the correct spelling of Sarah and Maurice Iudicone's surname.

Late last month, the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection acquired a curious item from an upstate antiques dealer. The item, an old scrapbook titled “Garden Record Book,” looks like a throw-away. It is tattered and well used, with most of its pages separated from the binding, containing old photographs, magazine clippings, scenic postcards, and other ephemera. The book belonged to Georgiana Erdmann, the wife of Dr. John Frederick Erdmann, who owned a summer cottage on Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton known as Coxwould.

Coxwould, named for the Cotswolds region in south-central England, was designed by Harrie T. Lindeberg of the New York architectural firm Albro & Lindeberg. Built in 1913, it is one of only four houses built by the firm in East Hampton, all of which are located along Lily Pond Lane. An outstanding feature on the house was the roof, which possessed an artificial thatch design that was the architect’s trademark. Unfortunately, the roof caught fire in 1927 and was later replaced.

Another outstanding feature of the house was the garden, which was noted for its topiaries fancifully shaped to represent each member of the Erdmann family. Mrs. Erdmann’s garden record book contains a photograph of this, as well as a meticulous layout of the flowerbeds with a corresponding numerical chart, indicating what was planted where. The chart included over 90 varieties of flowers, trees, and shrubs, ranging from parrot tulips and yellow hollyhocks to English primroses and weeping cherry trees.

The garden truly must have been a sight to behold. However, planning the garden wasn’t just a passing interest for Mrs. Erdmann; it was a passion. 

The book continues beyond 1913 into the 1930s, with catalogs from Hicks Nursery in Westbury, instructions on plant care, and receipts for transporting plants from New York. Mrs. Erdmann pasted images of pink roses onto her scrapbook pages, and included images of other gardens that surely served as inspiration.

Gina Piastuck is the department head of the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection.

A horse stabled in Water Mill has died of the West Nile virus, Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. James Tomarken announced Friday evening. 

The 5-year-old mare was seen by a veterinarian on Aug. 20 and died the following day, the Health Department said, adding the mare had not been immunized. 

“Experimental studies have concluded that horses are dead-end hosts for West Nile virus, so this finding does not necessarily indicate an increased human risk for West Nile virus,” Dr. Tomarken said. “Health Department staff is monitoring the Water Mill area for mosquito activity and will report any finding of positive results for West Nile virus."

The Health Department said horse owners should vaccinate horses for West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis virus, an infection that is often fatal. Other recommendations include stabling horses inside from dusk to dawn, which are feeding times for mosquitoes, and using insecticide and repellents recommended by veterinarians. The statement also suggested that fly sheets be used when horses are turned out in paddocks.

The announcement comes as four more mosquito samples tested positive for West Nile virus on Aug. 21 and Aug. 23. The mosquitoes were found in Lindenhurst, Rocky Point, Aquebogue, and Jamesport. In total this summer, the county has reported 93 mosquito samples, and nine birds have tested positive for West Nile virus, in addition to the horse. Two of the mosquitos that tested positive were found in East Hampton, while one was found in Bridgehampton.

There are no human cases of West Nile virus in Suffolk County. The virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. 

Dead birds may indicate the presence of West Nile virus. To report dead birds, the Public Health Information Line in Suffolk County can be called at 631-852-5999 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Residents are encouraged to take a photograph of any bird in question.

To report mosquito problems or stagnant pools of water, call the Department of Public Works’ Vector Control Division at 631-852-4270.

A bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, has been confirmed in Fort Pond in Montauk. Sampling conducted by Concerned Citizens of Montauk on Wednesday confirmed a bloom in the pond's southern portion. The bloom, composed of the cyanobacteria Aphanizomenon and Anabaena, is being tested today for levels of the toxin microcystin. An alert about the bloom is to be listed on Friday on the State Department of Environmental Conservation's harmful algae bloom notifications page.

Following the finding Wednesday, East Hampton Town officials are to post signs cautioning individuals to keep children and pets away from the bloom area and to avoid contact with the water. In addition, the northern end of the pond shows elevated risk of a bloom, therefore the entire pond should be avoided until the bloom has cleared, according to a statement issued by C.C.O.M.

In May, C.C.O.M. and Dr. Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences announced a new partnership on a harmful algal bloom monitoring program in Fort Pond, following the cyanobacteria blooms that were detected during the summers of 2015 and 2017. Samples were initially collected biweekly. Weekly sampling began in June and is to continue at least through this month. The last four weeks showed elevated risk of a bloom at both the north and south sampling locations.

C.C.O.M.'s funding, sourced through grants and donations, cover the costs of the sampling and transportation to Dr. Gobler's lab; the State Department of Environmental Conservation pays for the samples to be processed.

Outside of Montauk, Dr. Gobler has been monitoring water under jurisdiction of the town trustees for five years, with a particular focus on Georgica Pond in East Hampton, which has experienced toxic blooms of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in each of the last several summers. His lab also analyzes water collected from lakes, ponds, and other water bodies on Long Island and in New York City for the D.E.C.

In addition to Ford Pond, cyanobacteria have bloomed this summer in Georgica Pond, Wainscott Pond, Lake Agawam in Southampton, Mill Pond in Water Mill, Roth Pond in Stony Brook, Laurel Lake in Laurel, Maratooka Lake in Mattituck, and Fresh Pond on Shelter Island.

Though blue-green algae are naturally present in lakes and streams in low numbers, they can become abundant, forming blooms in shades of green, blue-green, yellow, brown, or red. They may produce floating scums on the surface of the water or may cause the water to take on paint-like appearance.

Harmful algal blooms are typically fueled by increased nutrient loadings from septic systems and stormwater runoff. Mitigating direct discharges of stormwater, avoiding the use of fertilizers, and replacing outdated and ineffective cesspools and septic systems with new innovative systems, which utilize nitrogen treatment technologies, can help remedy the problem. Suffolk County and the Town of East Hampton offer financial assistance for septic system replacement.

Robert S. Chaloner, the head of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, will be the keynote speaker at a forum Saturday on the future of health care.

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation is the organizer of the 9 a.m. to noon event, to be held at the East Hampton Library. Dr. Samuel Ryu, a professor of radiation oncology and neurosurgery at Stony Brook University Hospital, will talk about cancer care on Long Island.

Dr. Hal Skopicki, chief of cardiology at the Stony Brook University Heart Institute, will follow, speaking about cardiac care at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Wrapping up the morning, Dr. Darin G. Wiggins, vice chairman and service chief of emergency medicine at Stony Brook Southampton, will discuss the future of emergency care in East Hampton Town.

The symposium will provide health care information for individuals, caregivers, families, and health care professionals. There is no charge to attend, but registration in advance with the library has been recommended.

Three of East Hampton Village's assistant beach managers resigned their posts on Thursday, the same day that a report detailing female lifeguards' allegations of sexual harassment became public.

On Friday, Becky Molinaro Hansen, the village administrator, confirmed the resignations of Robert Barber, Ed McDonald, and James Nicoletti, but had no comment on the reasons the men had given for resigning. Mr. Nicoletti said Friday that he would be providing details on the matter in an upcoming letter to the editor in The Star. Neither Mr. Barber nor Mr. McDonald could be reached for comment.

The lifeguards' allegations relate to how beach administrators handled the selection of new uniforms for female lifeguards, a process that female guards said made them uncomfortable and ultimately contributed to a hostile work environment and poor morale. 

Plans to improve the crosswalks in Bridgehampton’s business district will include the addition of a stoplight in front of the Candy Kitchen, at the intersection of Main Street, Corwith Avenue, and School Street. That intersection currently features a flashing caution light.

There has been a history of pedestrians hit by cars on the hamlet’s Main Street, and the state’s Department of Transportation has been working with  Southampton Town to improve the crosswalks. At a meeting of the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday, Thomas Neely, the town’s director of public transportation and traffic safety, and Christine Fetten, the director of municipal works, also presented proposals for improvements on sections of Montauk Highway at Butter Lane, the war monument just west of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, the post office, Thayer’s Hardware, and at the Bridgehampton School.

Other changes to the intersection in front of the Candy Kitchen will include the construction of three new crosswalks with countdown timers, handicapped-accessible ramps, and audible pedestrian indications. Two crosswalks will span Main Street on either side of School Street, and the other will head east to west across School Street. A crosswalk on Corwith Avenue will also be upgraded. 

Three new crosswalks would be installed at the war monument just west of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike; one across Montauk Highway and the others on sections of Ocean Avenue. The proposal calls for enlarging the island on which the monument stands and relocating the existing flagpole to make room for the crosswalks. 

New crosswalks with countdown timers would be installed on the north, south, and east sides of the intersection of Butter Lane and Montauk Highway, and an existing one on the west side would be upgraded with ramps and improved pedestrian indications. 

A new crosswalk would be installed across a forked section of Church Lane south of the highway, and upgrades made to the existing crosswalks in front of the post office, at the Bridgehampton School, and in front of Thayer’s.