Sag Harbor Village’s plan to use part of a 24-acre site off the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike as an impound yard for vehicles seized by its police department is receiving pushback from environmental and preservation groups, who say the proposal would endanger the nearby Long Pond Greenbelt, a unique ecosystem made up of coastal plain ponds. A public hearing will be held on the matter during a meeting of the Southampton Town Planning Board next Thursday. 

Elizabeth Vail, a lawyer representing Sag Harbor Village, appeared before the village planning board on April 26 to present the proposal, which entails paving an 80-by-60-foot area to create 20 parking spaces on an already-cleared portion of the site. For security purposes, a fence would be built around the lot and dark-sky-compliant lighting would be installed. Although Sag Harbor owns the land, it needs to receive zoning approval for the project from the town. 

The village currently keeps impounded cars in a yard at its Highway Department building. Space is running low in the yard, Ms. Vail said, because heavy equipment and E.M.T. vehicles are also stored there.

Ms. Vail was asked if there were any environmental concerns regarding the project. “Well, it’s already a disturbed site,” she replied.

For years, the village has used the parcel as a place to dump the leaves gathered during seasonal cleanups. It has also allowed the PSEG utility company to use the property as a temporary parking lot for its trucks, and Southampton Town leases another part of the land for its recycling center. 

After learning of the village’s plans for the impound yard, the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt advocacy group criticized the proposal in a May 3 letter to the public, pointing out that the property is surrounded by acreage that “Suffolk County, Southampton Town, and the Nature Conservancy have spent millions of dollars to preserve,” as protection for the greenbelt’s fragile ecosystem. The group also noted that the region is home to a breeding pond for the endangered eastern tiger salamander. “Frankly, we are shocked that anyone would consider anything other than preservation for this land,” they stated.

At a Sag Harbor Village Board meeting on May 8, a procession of people, including Dai Dayton, president of the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and Jayne Young, president of Save Sag Harbor, spoke out against the plan and in support of preserving the land. Mayor Sandra Schroeder and James Larocca, a trustee, were the only vocal defenders of the proposal, making a case that the impound yard would not be dissimilar to any previous uses of the site. 

Last week, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. weighed in on the debate, saying that although the state had no authority on the issue, he was opposed to “any expansion of current land uses or introduction of new land uses on the parcel beyond what already exists (recycling center/leaf composting).”

 The village has retained Nelson, Pope and Voorhis, an environmental planning firm, to conduct a study on the site. The firm intends to prepare an aerial map of the property, make an inventory of its current uses, and evaluate the “change in intensity” that an impound yard might exact on the property, based on such factors as the paving and other improvements, the length of construction time, and the hours and nature of use. 

Charles Voorhis, the firm’s managing partner, will attend next Thursday’s town planning board hearing.

The Sag Harbor Partnership is inching ever closer to applying for a building permit to construct the Sag Harbor Cinema Center, a cultural institution intended for the site of the Sag Harbor movie theater, which was destroyed by fire.

“We’re almost ready to file,” said April Gornik, the vice president of the group. “And with enough funding, we’ll be able to begin building soon.” Plans already have been approved by the village’s planning, zoning, and architectural review boards, although the partnership has yet to submit detailed construction drawings to the village’s Building Department, which is to make sure they are in accord with the conceptual drawings the village boards signed off on.

In the meantime, the group has been going gangbusters to raise money for the work, with $3 million by July 1 the fund-raising goal.

A cocktail party was held in April, and, despite bad weather, a yard sale benefit took place last weekend at Christ Episcopal Church.

“The yard sale was a success,” Susan Mead, the partnership’s treasurer, said. “And we also have a fund-raiser scheduled for June 18.”

That will be a food truck party at Estia’s Little Kitchen, featuring vendors such as Around the Fire Pizza, Joe & Liza’s Ice Cream, and the Plaza Cafe, as well as live music. The cinema will receive 25 percent of vendor sales. Entry will be $10 for adults, $5 for children. Ms. Mead said a few private benefit parties are in the works, although details were unconfirmed. Solidly on the schedule, however, is a reprise of the fund-raising extravaganza the partnership held last year.

The Big Tent: Party for the Cinema, on July 8 on Long Wharf, will feature an art auction and wine and food from local sources. The partnership expects to have tickets on sale soon.

Against a backdrop of Fort Pond’s tranquil blue water, officials of Concerned Citizens of Montauk announced a partnership with Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University on Monday, under which Dr. Gobler’s lab will analyze water samples taken from the pond by C.C.O.M. in order to monitor harmful algal blooms, which appeared in 2015 and last year. 

The announcement comes as the East Hampton Town Board moves toward creation of a wastewater treatment system, and a tax district to fund it, for Montauk’s densely developed downtown, acting on the belief that excessive nitrogen loading is behind the pond’s ecological woes. 

Starting this month, C.C.O.M. officials will collect water samples biweekly; from June through September, samples will be collected weekly. Dr. Gobler’s analysis of them will be the basis for posting public health advisories, if necessary, and tracking the onset and persistence of harmful algal blooms, Laura Tooman, C.C.O.M.’s president, said. 

“This information is not just important to signify that we have an environmental crisis,” she said. “It’s also to help notify the public for health and safety reasons.” 

Depending on sample analysis and conditions during the summer season, weekly testing may continue through October, or be reduced to biweekly, Ms. Tooman said. 

C.C.O.M.’s funding, sourced through grants and donations, will cover the costs of the sampling and transportation to Dr. Gobler’s lab; the State Department of Environmental Conservation will pay for the processing of the samples. 

Dr. Gobler has been monitoring water under the 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.

On Monday, Dr. Gobler and C.C.O.M. officials were joined, at Fort Pond House at Carol Morrison Park, by officials including Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, and Councilman David Lys of the town board; Peter Scully, the deputy county executive; County Legislator Bridget Fleming, and Carrie Meek-Gallagher, the D.E.C.’s regional director. Nearly all of them emphasized the importance of science and data-driven decision making as the impetus for Dr. Gobler’s hiring. 

Last summer, the swimming portion of the MightyMan Montauk Triathlon was canceled because of a dense blue-green algae bloom in Fort Pond. That, Dr. Gobler said, was “a sign that things are not as they should be.” Harmful algal blooms, he said, are a symptom of the misuse of land. 

“The big issue here is we know very little about what’s going on in Fort Pond,” Dr. Gobler said. “Not a lot of data has been collected. We’ve received samples on occasion over the last several years, but only a handful. To address the problem, we really need to get more information. This is step one.” 

By year’s end, “we’ll have a very robust data set,” he said, calling that “the first step toward turning this around and improving things.” 

Ms. Fleming noted that cyanobacteria were detected last week in Lake Agawam in Southampton, and in Shinnecock Bay shortly before that. “The attack is largely due to human activity,” she said. “This, in combination with climate change, means that unless it’s all hands on deck for a solution, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. . . . We at the legislative level, the county level, certainly at the state level, have said this is a crisis and we need to address it. But the only way that government can be effective is by partnering with academic institutions and environmental institutions, and particularly to ensure that our efforts are data-driven.” 

The county government, she said, is committed to “taking the science that you’re going to bring to us and doing what we can, working with the community, to try to resolve this problem. It’s a big deal, but we are in it until we win it.”

Mr. Scully, a former regional director of the D.E.C., said that while Long Island may be experiencing a water-quality crisis, “If we have one thing going for us, it’s the fact that we have tremendous academic and science-based institutions that are helping us to evaluate the situation.” The problem, he said, “did not occur overnight, it’s not going to be fixed overnight,” but Dr. Gobler’s engagement “is a huge step forward for us.” 

The discussion veered into related topics. “We have a fairly good idea that septic systems are a huge contributing factor to this,” Ms. Tooman said, with several officials talking about the importance of replacing primitive and failing septic systems with state-of-the-art systems that reduce nitrogen, and the programs to encourage homeowners to do that. A community oyster garden program has proven popular and, in its third year, will grow considerably, an effort to clean the water through natural processes, as oysters are filter-feeding organisms. And the town board, Mr. Van Scoyoc reminded those in attendance, is acting on a wastewater treatment district for the hamlet’s downtown. 

“It’s not just these isolated issues, it’s all tied into one bigger picture, which is that we really have to start paying more attention and take better care of the place where we live,” the supervisor said. “We can do that in small ways, we can do that in big ways, but we need to do all of it, as much of it as we can, now and into the future so we can ensure that what’s so beautiful about this place remains for all to enjoy.”

The East Hampton Village Board will hold a public hearing tomorrow at 11 a.m. on a proposed law that would allow retail stores in the commercial district to prepare and sell takeout food and beverages. 

The law would amend zoning code provisions adopted in 2008 that prohibited new retail stores from preparing food on site and then serving it in a ready-to-consume state in paper or plastic containers. The code drew a distinction between stores with no indoor seating (classifying them as “fast-food” establishments) and sit-down restaurants, which are welcome to provide takeout. 

Pre-existing sites, such as the one now occupied by Mary’s Marvelous, were not affected by the code change, but newly established stores in locations that had not previously offered takeout food were forbidden from selling to-go items prepared on site. 

The restriction has been burdensome to several retail businesses, said Becky Molinaro Hansen, the village administrator. The Juice Press, for instance, has been forced to have the juices it sells shipped to East Hampton prepackaged. Second Nature, the vitamin and herbal supplements shop, which makes freshly prepared juices and smoothies at its Southampton location, has been eager but unable to do the same in East Hampton. “People want to see you take the cucumber and squeeze it in front of them,” said Lisa Blinderman, the owner of Second Nature, who said that easing the code would be good for all village businesses. “Food is what brings people into town,” she said. 

The new law could also prove to be a boon to the owners of the Buoy One seafood market on Race Lane, who are looking to open a Hamptons Coffee Company store in the space next door to their shop.

In its announcement of the public hearing, the board noted that the initial intent of the 2008 code was to limit littering and to keep public trash receptacles from overflowing, but it acknowledged that, while those issues are still a concern, there is a growing consumer demand for takeout food and beverages.

Sag Harbor’s third annual Cultural Heritage Weekend will focus on the evolution of a diverse community over three centuries through a variety of events and programs presented from Friday through Sunday by the member organizations of the Sag Harbor Cultural District.

The Eastville Community Historical Society will open a new exhibition, “Black Leisure: Respite in Sag Harbor,” on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Featuring vintage photographs from the society’s Johnson Family Collection, the show will illuminate the Black Leisure Movement, a national phenomenon that was primarily a resistance to Jim Crow and found expression locally in the Eastville, Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah communities, which share 180 years of uninterrupted African-American ownership.

In addition, there will be a free walking tour of Eastville with Georgette Grier-Key, the society’s executive director, on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 3.

Programs at the Custom House Museum throughout the day on Saturday will include live music played on early colonial instruments, a demonstration of traditional boatbuilding techniques on the lawn, and “Surviving Political Turmoil,” a new guided tour of the Custom House that examines Henry Packer Dering’s 32 years as the village’s first customs agent.

John Steinbeck wrote “The Winter of Our Discontent,” his final novel, while living in Sag Harbor, and Canio’s Cultural Cafe will hold a marathon reading of that work, which is set in a village based on Sag Harbor, on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sunday from 11 to 3. Susan Shillinglaw, the director of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., will kick off the celebration with a talk at Canio’s Books tomorrow at 5 p.m., and an after-party and silent auction will follow Sunday’s reading.

“Sag Harbor Through Letters, Journalism, Costumes, Art, Photos, Scrapbooks, and Local Voices” will be on view at the Sag Harbor Historical Society’s Annie Cooper Boyd House on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition will include mannequins in vintage clothing, historical documents, early paintings of the village, and photographs by current residents. During the event, a videographer will be on hand to record attendees’ experiences and memories of life in Sag Harbor.

At “Sag Harbor: Past and Present,” an afternoon of rare film clips and slides on Sunday from 3 to 4:30 at the John Jermain Memorial Library, Jack Youngs, the president of the historical society, will discuss changes to the village’s architecture and population.

The library will host several other activities, including “Remember/Imagine,” an art workshop for children ages 7 to 11, on Saturday morning from 10:30 to 11 and “Record Your Sag Harbor Story,” an oral history recording booth that will be open from noon to 5 that day. Preregistration for both is required. An outdoor jazz concert by the musicians of the Jam Session at Bay Burger will also happen at the library on Saturday, from 2 to 4 p.m. In the event of rain, it will move inside.

The Whaling and Historical Museum will have “Our Town, Sag Harbor in Focus,” a free photography exhibition that sees life in Sag Harbor and on the East End through the eyes of Pierson High School students, open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.

At noon on Saturday, the Rev. Karen Ann Campbell will give a tour of Christ Episcopal Church that will focus on how changes in religious practice in Sag Harbor have followed the economic developments in the area, including the church’s heritage as the first Episcopal presence on the East End. Daniel Koontz will demonstrate the church’s organ at 12:30.

The Episcopal church’s lawn will be the site of Yard Sale for the Cinema: Clean for a Cause! on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hardcover books, new clothing and shoes, electronics, furniture, jewelry, purses, linens, kitchenware, small appliances, artwork, and new children’s toys are among the many items the sale of which will benefit the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center. The rain date is Sunday from noon to 2.

Rabbi Daniel N. Geffen of Temple Adas Israel will discuss the diverse customs and traditions that exist within Judaism as well as the diversity of the temple’s congregation tomorrow at 4 p.m. A tour of the temple will follow.

The roundabout being constructed at the intersection of Route 114 and Buell and Toilsome Lanes in East Hampton Village will not be finished by Memorial Day weekend as planned, Drew Bennett, the engineer overseeing the project, informed the village board on May 9. 

In February, Mr. Bennett had predicted that the roundabout would be completed by May 21, just in time for the onslaught of traffic the Memorial Day weekend would bring to the East End. However, in a letter updating the board on the status of the project, he stated that bad weather and a winter that lingered long into March had pushed the project back by at least four or five weeks.  

Still, Mr. Bennett said the site, which is currently chock-a-block with construction material, signs, and barriers marking off where crews are at work, will become easier to navigate before the holiday weekend thanks to the installation of splitter islands and a curb around the center circle, which he said would be finished by next Thursday. 

“This will reduce the orange safety barrel population on the site by about 50 percent and will improve circulation,” he wrote.

Although missing the Memorial Day deadline is a setback, Becky Molinaro Hansen, the village administrator, said the main goal now is to get the roundabout finished prior to June 22, “when school gets out and the season really goes into full swing.” To reach that deadline, Ms. Hansen said that crews would be toiling five days a week, but if traffic snarls become a problem the village will reduce the number of workdays to ease congestion. 

In his letter, Mr. Bennett estimated that the balance of the work remaining on the center island would be completed by June 21, although finishing the sidewalks and curbs in the area may take longer. “This will be a challenging deadline for this piece of work,” he wrote. “Therefore, this target completion date could shift out.”

The second annual East Hampton Village spring street fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Newtown Lane. The street will be shut down to traffic to make way for approximately 50 booths, set up back to back and stretching from Main Street to Park Place. 

Some booths will serve as showcases for the work of local artisans such as Nauti Gal soaps, Graced by the Bay jewelry, and Sag Harbor Glass. Others will be staffed by local businesses, community groups, and nonprofit organizations like Project Most, East Hampton Meals on Wheels, and the Springs Food Pantry. The Town of East Hampton will have an information booth touting the launch of its new Energize East Hampton initiative, which seeks to help make it more affordable for homeowners and businesses to transition to energy-efficient systems such as solar power. 

Given that the fair falls on the day before Mother’s Day, there will be a station set up in front of the Eileen Fisher store that will allow passers-by to design their own card for Mom free of charge. A slate of live musical acts will perform throughout the day, including a 45-minute set by the Tekulsky-Potter Band, featuring Justice Steven Tekulsky and Job Potter, the chairman of the town’s planning board. Also, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. will make a special proclamation at noon. 

A couple of new additions to the fair will be an area dedicated to serving a variety of food, including lobster rolls, beef jerky, and fried wontons, and the businesses in the commercial district have been invited to hold sidewalk sales during the event.

The Tom Twomey Series of lectures on topics of local and national interest will return to the East Hampton Library for its fourth season on Saturday at 6 p.m., when Jim Rutenberg, a media columnist at The New York Times, addresses “Fake News, Real News, and Failing Upward at The New York Times.” 

Brooke Kroeger, a journalism professor at New York University, will conduct the interview. A question-and-answer period will follow. 

Six subsequent programs, which will continue into October, will focus on the economy, life lessons, gardens, craft breweries, corporate culture, art, and estates. Each one-hour program includes a question-and-answer session.

Mr. Rutenberg recently shared a Pulitzer Prize with a team of colleagues put together by The Times, in the wake of its reporting on sexual harassment allegations against the Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, to investigate other men who had abused their power. He was among the group that reported on the film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long harassment and abuse of women. 

He has most recently been reporting on the allegations by a former Playboy model and a pornographic film actress of affairs with President Trump during his current marriage. The allegations, one of which involves a hush-money payment from the president’s personal attorney shortly before the 2016 election, have raised a host of questions for a president already the subject of an investigation probing Russian meddling in that election. 

Mr. Rutenberg, who has a house in Montauk, said that he enjoys events such as Saturday’s lecture, and has spoken about his work around the United States as well as in Europe. “I like getting different questions because it makes me think outside of my own box,” he said on Sunday. Because Mr. Trump’s presidency “is like nothing before,” he and his colleagues are in demand for speaking engagements. “People everywhere want to talk about this, and I think it’s a good thing to talk about, because we don’t have the answers yet. There’s been a ton of good thinking, and the questions from the crowd really help me as a reporter.” 

Every newspaper, he said, “should be doing as much of this as they can, because you tap in with what people’s concerns are, and what they want to know.”

It is a particularly strange time for media professionals: Reporters, publications, and truth itself are under withering assault from the president of the United States. “I’ve come under some attack,” Mr. Rutenberg, who co-led The Times’s coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign, said. “All my colleagues have. It was really bad during the campaign. I feel like now it’s, ‘Fake news, fake news, fake news,’ and we’re just doing our jobs and reporting. As you find things that are happening in an investigation and you have that established as fact, it’s strange now that a certain part of the country, and part of the media listenership and viewership and readership, just will not believe it, because they’re being told from the top that it’s not true. That’s kind of a new thing.” 

He also covered Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid, the administration of George W. Bush, and Mr. Bush’s 2000 campaign, “and in my time I’ve never seen it where, when you debunk something solidly, to some people it just doesn’t matter, because they don’t trust anything you say. . . . Not to say the press is perfect — we open ourselves up, at times, to it — but the campaign against the press is decades in the making. Now, here we are.”

But many journalists and newspapers are equal to the challenge, he said. “Active journalism is always rewarding, or I wouldn’t do it, but this is extraordinarily rewarding work. You unearth things that are true, it’s a spectacular story . . . and journalism is really succeeding in figuring things out through this haze.” 

It is important not to “overcommit” or make predictions, given, for example, the widespread belief that Hillary Clinton would defeat Mr. Trump in the 2016 election, he said. “We’re not here to have an argument with the president, we’re just here for the truth. That’s the key.” 

The Twomey series was named in memory of Tom Twomey, the former chairman of the library’s board of managers who died in 2014. Admission is free, but advance reservations have been requested and can be made at tomtwomeyseries.org or by calling the library’s reference desk.

A proposal to make Herrick Park the new site for the East Hampton Farmers Market and to reschedule it from Fridays to Saturdays was discussed at the East Hampton Village Board meeting on Friday, but the market’s vendors are reportedly not keen on the idea. 

Steven Ringel, the executive director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, told the board that he had been exploring relocating the market from the parking lot of Nick and Toni’s restaurant on North Main Street as part of his efforts to bring more activity to the village’s commercial district. For the past 12 years, the market has been held in the Nick and Toni’s lot on Fridays from mid-May to early September.

According to Kate Plumb, the coordinator of the farmers market, the main obstacles to uprooting and rescheduling it would be the village’s dearth of parking and an already jam-packed schedule of Saturday markets that includes ones in Springs, Sag Harbor, and Westhampton. 

“None of the vendors can move to Saturday, they’re all booked,” said Ms. Plumb. 

Art Ludlow, the owner of the Mecox Bay Dairy, who sells cheeses and other produce at several East End farmers markets, confirmed Ms. Plumb’s assessment later. “It’s problematic to have four farmers markets on the same day, I just don’t have the staff,” he said. Mr. Ludlow added that he had heard the same complaint from other vendors and said “usually the towns coordinate with each other on scheduling and I would hope that would continue.”

As for the parking problem, Ms. Plumb said she thought it would be impractical for the vendors to park in the village’s long-term parking lot and then cart their produce to Herrick Park. 

Since the East Hampton farmers market is getting ready to open on Friday, May 18, any change for this season doesn’t seem feasible, said Ms. Plumb. And even if the parking and scheduling issues could be resolved, the vendors would ultimately have to sign off on the move. “We’d have to have a majority agreement among the 21 vendors,” she said.

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. said that he too had been discussing the idea with Barbara Layton, the owner of Babette’s restaurant and one of the chamber’s board members. The mayor then tapped Barbara Borsack and Richard Lawler, his colleagues on the board, to oversee further discussions.

In other business, the board presented a preliminary 2018-19 operating budget for the village. The nearly $22.25 million budget marks a 2.48-percent increase over this year’s, which the mayor pointed out was largely due to higher health insurance costs and additional funding for future capital projects. A decision was made to go forward with reauthorizing an agreement to share information technology services with East Hampton Town, and to seek a bid on a construction project to extend the sidewalk on the west side of Toilsome Lane, connecting it to an existing wheelchair ramp opposite Meadow Way.

The mayor also led a moment of silence in memory of William O’Donnell, whom he referred to as “the beloved husband of Diane O’Donnell, a longtime member of the ambulance corps, and its former chief.”

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has reclassified 24 acres in Northwest Harbor in East Hampton and the Devon Yacht Club boat basin in Amagansett as uncertified year round, meaning the waterways are closed to shellfishing.

The D.E.C. took the action due to water quality surveys showing elevated levels of fecal coliform bacteria that do not meet the state's bacteriological standards for certified, or open, shellfish harvesting areas.

A D.E.C. spokesman said in an email that stormwater runoff and waste from wildlife are considered major contributing factors to increases in fecal coliform levels, and that areas that do not meet the certification standard must be closed to harvesting to protect public health. The water quality data is collected as part of the D.E.C.'s routine monitoring program for certification of shellfish lands for harvest.

The changes, which took effect as of the D.E.C.'s May 2 announcement, were part of a larger action in Suffolk and Nassau Counties.

Under the new restrictions, a 300-yard radius from the mouth of Alewife Pond in Northwest Harbor is now closed to shellfishing 12 months a year; previously the off-limited area had been smaller. The Devon boat basin had previously been classified as open from Oct. 15 to May 15 each year.

A seasonal closure period covering three acres in Cold Spring Pond in Southampton was extended by 60 days; 98 acres in West Creek, a tributary of Great Peconic Bay in the Town of Southold, are now closed year round; 44 acres in Orient Harbor and Oyster Ponds, also in Southold, will be closed from May 15 through Oct. 31 annually; 1,100 acres in Hempstead Bay were designated uncertified from Nov. 1 through April 30 annually, and eight acres in outer Hempstead Harbor were designated uncertified year round. 

The D.E.C. also moved to reopen a total of 1,168 acres to shellfishing in Southold and Hempstead. In Southold, 28 seasonally closed acres in Hallock Bay/Little Bay are now opened year round; 171 acres in Goose, Town, and Jockey Creeks, tributaries of Southold Bay, will have their current seasonally open periods extended by 46 days; 83 acres in Richmond Creek, a tributary of Little Peconic Bay, will have its seasonally open period extended by 30 days; 36 previously closed acres in Cutchogue Harbor will be open from Nov. 1 though May 14 annually, and 850 previously closed acres in Hempstead Bay are now open for harvest from May 1 through Oct. 31 annually. 

These areas were reopened or their certified periods extended after having been found to meet the D.E.C.'s standards for certified areas. 

Detailed descriptions of the new landmarks and boundaries for the newly closed and reopened areas, including the new dates of the seasonal closures, are available from the D.E.C. by calling 631-444-0492 and are posted on its website.