Villages

With the Wainscott Sewing Society’s upcoming strawberry festival on June 16 at Wainscott Chapel, this ticket for the 1948 East Hampton Town Tercentenary Celebration’s Strawberry Festival left me wondering about the history of strawberry festivals locally.

Elizabeth Jackson Pearce and George Coombs Zoulias of Washington, D.C., were married on Saturday at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett. Timothy Wilson, who was the groom’s Army chaplain while the two were deployed in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005, officiated. A reception followed at the club.

The bride is a daughter of Jane Ely Pearce and John Inman Pearce of Amagansett and Washington, D.C. Her family has summered in Amagansett since her great-grandparents John Day and Rose Herrick Jackson bought their house on Indian Wells Highway in the 1920s.

Queen beds, down comforters, and a continental breakfast in the Cedar Point woods with a view all the way to Shelter Island. Electricity not included.

The Town of East Hampton’s financial condition is sound, its budget officer told the town board on Tuesday.

A complaint from an Montauk retailer echoed East Hampton Village shopkeepers' responses to a spring fair held on Newtown Lane in May.

“This is about us,” the speaker told a gathering in East Hampton last Thursday. “There’s a global issue, which we’re all aware of, but East Hampton is going to change dramatically if we don’t turn this around and start doing the right thing.”

The annual Blessing of the Fleet will start at 5 p.m. on Sunday in Montauk Harbor.

Local clergy will be posted at the town dock aboard the Ebb Tide, near the Dock restaurant, to bless those who work on and sail the waters. The ritual, which features gaily decorated boats of all kinds, can be seen from anywhere on the harbor area and the jetties.

Portions of East Hampton Airport and the surrounding area have been named to a state Superfund list in an ongoing crisis caused by chemical contamination of groundwater.

On Saturday evening, a crowd gathered on Main Street in Sag Harbor to witness the ceremonial relighting of the iconic “Sag Harbor” sign on the recently restored facade of the Sag Harbor Cinema.

Kathleen Mulcahy called for a village administrator position for Sag Harbor, improved communication between the mayor and the public, and more long-term planning.

Montauk voters overwhelmingly approved a $7.5 million renovation and expansion of the Montauk Library on Tuesday, voting 245 to 81 in favor of the library’s bond proposition.

As part of its mission to protect, enhance, and restore the ecological integrity of Accabonac Harbor and its watershed, the Accabonac Protection Committee will have three forums this summer, all at Ashawagh Hall in Springs.