With the East End frost-free date about a month away, for gardeners now is seed-starting time. Resources for experienced, casual, and beginner growers include free "seed libraries" at most local libraries.

In an email sent late Monday night to the Sag Harbor School District, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman pitched the idea of using C.P.F. money to buy development rights at Mashashimuet Park, which would then — in theory — be spent on renovations at the park.

Legislation introduced at last week’s East Hampton Village Board to create a standalone Ambulance Department “to provide a municipal paid and volunteer general ambulance service in the village and contracted-for areas of the Town of East Hampton” so alarmed a faction of the ambulance corps that it scheduled an emergency meeting. The law will be the subject of a public hearing on March 17.

Three weeks after the East Hampton Town Board heard from residents urging it to opt out of the May turkey hunting season announced last year by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, some 30 people were in the main meeting room at Town Hall Tuesday, many of them applauding speakers who urged the board to opt in.

Owners of one of the two dozen 1700-1850 timber-frame landmarks in East Hampton Village have been called to task after making renovations affecting protected aspects of the structure. “It’s egregious, and they knew what they were doing, that’s the most upsetting aspect of this," the mayor said.

The school district is cutting to the chase in its search for a new principal, with applications due by the end of the day on Tuesday — just two weeks after the Springs School Board accepted the resignations of both Christine Cleary, the current principal, and Josh Odom, the assistant principal, effective June 30.

It’s part community service, part environmental initiative: A new children’s clothing swap effort at the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center will be available to the public starting tomorrow. Anyone in need of clothes for their kids, sizes 2T to 7, can stop by the center on Friday afternoons or by appointment to choose from the overflowing racks and tables of shirts, sweaters, pants, jackets, hats, and mittens in good condition.

The long-planned improvement to the navigational channel in Montauk Harbor remains on track for completion this fall, representatives of the federal Army Corps of Engineers told the East Hampton Town Board, but a delay to fall 2024 is possible.

With names sounding like something from a cool animated TV show, the Springs School’s two robotics teams — the Lightning Bots and the Thunder Bots — have had a banner year in competition.

The East Hampton Village Board is seeking ideas for the future management of the 13 Sea Spray Cottages at Main Beach, and has already received several submissions, including one from a West Palm Beach, Fla., company, and others from current tenants.