Villages

A vote on a modest budget increase for the East Hampton Library will be held there on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registered residents of the East Hampton, Wainscott, and Springs School Districts can cast ballots on the proposed $104,000 tax hike for 2018.

The summertime shuttle bus in Montauk, organized by East Hampton Town and provided by the Hampton Hopper bus service, carried about 1,600 passengers in its first week early in the season.

Residents who spoke at Tuesday’s Sag Harbor Village Board meeting were concerned over possible deletions in the village code having to do with the board of historic preservation and architectural review and the posting of notices.

The seventh annual ride with the Red Knights’ Chapter 25 to raise money for the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund will take place on Sunday.

In its first meeting after Labor Day, the East Hampton Village Board addressed public safety and issues that affect the quality of life in a 30-minute work session on Thursday.

An expansion of the paid paramedic program,  the use and misuse of air-conditioning, and the scourge of gas-powered leaf blowers were topics, along with the construction of a roundabout on Buell Lane, for which a bid was accepted. The rescue of a person in distress at Georgica Beach, covered in a separate story on this page, also was discussed.  

LTV will hold an orientation workshop, open to any resident interested in producing a show at the studio or learning the ins and outs of video production, on Monday, at its headquarters on Industrial Road in Wainscott.

Just as organizations throughout the country assisted Long Islanders in the 2012 aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a Montauk-based nonprofit has partnered with a national organization to assist victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. East End Cares has joined Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that deploys military veterans and first responders to the heart of disaster-stricken areas to help provide emergency services in Houston.  

A modest budget increase facing the East Hampton Library in 2018 has prompted its board of managers to seek voter approval for a $104,000 tax hike.

East Hampton Village launch­ed a new website on Friday.

On Monday, the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, emergency responders and the public will gather once again to remember those who lost their lives at the Memorial Green at Hook Mill. The ceremony will start at 6 p.m.

To help with rescue efforts in the battered area around Houston and southeast Texas, the nonprofit East End Cares has partnered with Team Rubicon, a nationwide nongovernment organization that unites military veterans with first responders for rapid emergency responses.

An application to resolve the illegal conversion of an attic to habitable space was finally closed on Friday, with members of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals expressing regret for subjecting the property owners to what the building inspector had likened to a Ping-Pong match.

This is the first time ARF has housed blind and deaf siblings.

For anyone who has not seen the exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculpture by South Fork artists that opened at the Jackson Carriage House in Amagansett on Aug. 5, the next few days offer a last chance.

Work has begun to restore the mill cottage on the 1648 Lion Gardiner home lot, on James Lane in East Hampton, to its appearance in the 1880s.

A new energy company is offering East Hampton customers an alternative to purchasing their electricity and gas from PSEG-Long Island.

An American flag missing from the flagpole at the Founders Monument in Bridgehampton since early August soon will be gloriously waving once again.

This year’s piping plover chicks have fledged, adding 35 young plovers to the limited population of the endangered birds after a protective watch and efforts to keep people, vehicles, dogs, and other predators away from them.

Fire up the ovens, get the chickens primped and pretty, and keep practicing those tricks with Fido — the Springs Agricultural Fair takes place on Saturday, with all kinds of contests to enter and prizes to win.

A new impound yard for vehicles and objects obtained by the police was approved by the Sag Harbor Village Board on Aug. 8, but while initial steps were taken, the difficulty of getting projects underway, like those for Long Wharf and a waterfront park named for John Steinbeck, may not bode well for how long this one will take.

Saturday offers a chance to properly dispose of household hazardous waste, as the Town of Southampton will hold a STOP day — for Stop Throwing Out Pollutants — at the Sag Harbor transfer station on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In an effort to detect whether northern long-eared bats, a threatened species, live in East Hampton, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has asked town officials for permission to set up a dozen monitoring stations on vacant town-owned land in Montauk and East Hampton for three nights in upcoming weeks.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has completed the first three years of data collection on birds and marine mammals via aerial surveys over a 16,000-square-mile area.

In what Frank Newbold, the chairman, said was probably a record, it took the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals just nine minutes to complete its meeting on Friday.

Get ready for some fishy business: The 85th annual Fisherman’s Fair benefiting Ashawagh Hall is coming to Springs on Saturday.

It is not just the ground coffee beans that are in hot water at SagTown Coffee. The business, which reopened nearly two weeks ago following the fire that destroyed the coffee shop in December, has been cited for violating Sag Harbor Village code.

Historical houses throughout East Hampton could be designated as landmarks, protecting them from demolition or substantial change, through a program being considered by the East Hampton Town Board that would also give their owners the right to build a second residence on their properties.

For a change of scenery, you might want to ferry over to Shelter Island on Friday, Aug. 18, for a cocktail party from 6 to 8 p.m. benefiting the restoration of the windmill at Sylvester Manor.

Boats will no longer be able to obtain fuel on Long Wharf or at any other Sag Harbor Village facility, including its A-Dock, B-Dock, and Marine Park.

Three exhibitions inspired by Sag Harbor’s maritime history will be on view at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum from Saturday through Sept. 10. A reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. will feature Scott Schwartz, Bay Street Theater’s artistic director, reading the preface Jacques Cousteau wrote for a collector’s edition of “Moby-Dick” that was published in 1975 by Steve Abramson, a Water Mill resident.