Villages

No longer do people — hey, it’s not just women — looking to fight the aging process have to visit the plastic surgeon’s office, book appointments far in advance, or plan a trip into Manhattan. An injectable beauty bar on Bridgehampton’s Main Street saw a steady stream of clients for Botox and medical-grade skin care this summer.

Victoria Haller, the daughter of Dr. Eugene Z. Haller of Budapest and Margaret Wickers of Springs, was married to Phillip Marino on Sept. 13 on the concert meadow at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt.

A few months after the Wainscott Sewing Society’s annual rummage sale at the chapel in the summer of 2018, Hilary Osborn Malecki noticed that an important oil painting had disappeared.

East Hampton Village is in strong fiscal health, according to an annual review from Moody’s Investors Services, which gave the village an Aa1 bond rating, the company’s second highest, and one that is above the median rating for American cities.

Three historical sites in Amagansett will offer special events on Saturday for a formal observance of the hamlet’s maritime heritage.

Proposals to renovate the historical Beecher-Hand House, which now serves as East Hampton Village Hall, and to redesign the parking lot at Chase Bank on Main Street were discussed at the village board meeting last Thursday.

Todd and Darian Costello of Mon­tauk and West Islip have announced the engagement of their daughter, Carli Victoria Costello, to Brian Francis Allmen­dinger, the son of Brian and Marie Allmendinger of West Islip.

The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton, created and granted sole authority over the town by King James II through the Dongan Patent of 1686, will hold the 29th annual Largest Clam Contest on Sunday at noon.

The Long Island Rail Road will shut down train service between Southampton and Montauk from Tuesday through Nov. 10 to install new railroad trestles across North Main Street and Accabonac Road in East Hampton Village.

When the Long Island Rail Road shuts down train service between Southampton and Montauk from Oct. 15 to Nov. 10 to replace two trestles in East Hampton, East Hampton Town will provide bus service for commuters, Town Supervisor Peter Von Scoyoc announced on Thursday. 

"Field of Dreams" gave us the enduring phrase "If you build it they will come," Madonna's "Like a Prayer" was on the charts, and everyone was watching "The Wonder Years" on TV. Closer to home, Christopher Sarlo was the principal of East Hampton High School, Aubrey Peterson and Treacy Cotter were the homecoming king and queen, and Eugene Lester and Jeremy Trowbridge were the valedictorian and salutatorian. 

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

An operations and maintenance facility for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm will be sited adjacent to Inlet Seafood, just inside Montauk Harbor, the wind farm’s developers announced last week. But whether the facility represents a meeting of the minds or merely a business arrangement depends on whom you ask.

To honor the work being done to restore buildings of historical significance here, the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton presented awards to village and town officials for the Gardiner Mill Cottage in the village and the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station at the group’s annual meeting on Saturday.

Ten minutes after he walked through the door of Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor, Matthew Hunt had a job as a server. Next on his to-do list is finding a new place to live — which may or may not turn out to be a new sailboat. It’s a little up in the air right now.

On Thursday, Matthew Hunt, a 21-year-old from Arizona, ran into trouble in his newly purchased sailboat, the Vanna White. A maelstrom of low tides, changing winds, a failed engine, and strong ocean currents led to him running into rocks and beaching the boat near Shadmoor State Park, to the east of downtown Montauk.

Neighbors questioned a proposal to buy a 2.5-acre parcel outside Sag Harbor on which to build housing, but following that public hearing last Thursday the East Hampton Town Board unanimously approved the $890,000 purchase.

Two members of the East Hampton Village Police Department have been promoted and the village board’s longtime lawyer is retiring, it was announced at Friday’s meeting of the village board.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has co-sponsored a bill that would permit cities, towns, and villages to reduce maximum speed limits on local roads from 30 to 25 miles per hour.

Samuel Mulford was an early whaler, fisherman, militia captain, and member of the New York General Assembly who objected to Governor Hunter’s fishing licenses who traveled to London to present his case to Parliament and the king. -- Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

North Main Street in East Hampton Village will be closed between 6:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday as construction crews build a foundation for a new railroad bridge.

Raymond W. Bimson and Hanna Palamarchuk were married on Aug. 31 in Montauk in an outdoor ceremony at the home of the groom’s mother, Jane Bimson. Bruna DiBiase, a New York City judge, officiated.

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

Felicity Carmichael Sundlun and Eric Kavan Spencer were married on Saturday in the Amagansett garden of Nina Gillman, a family friend.

Last Thursday, State Supreme Court Judge William Ford denied a motion by the owners of nearly six acres of reserved land near Stony Hill Road in Amagansett to lift a temporary restraining order stopping them from cutting down trees or doing any other work there.

Cora Evelynn Wen and David Scott Gibbons were married at Wiborg’s Beach in East Hampton on Saturday morning in a brief ceremony attended by friends and family that was officiated by Wickham Boyle, an author and friend of the family who is ordained in the Universal Life Church. 

The Hampton Library’s annual bud­get vote and trustee election will happen on Tuesday, with voting from 2 to 9 p.m.

The newly restored Dominy woodworking shop began rising on Tuesday in its original location on North Main Street. The 18th-century structure was moved by truck, with a police escort, from Mulford Farm to a 5,400-square-foot parcel adjacent to the municipal parking lot.

The town-owned parking lot behind Amagansett Main Street will see some big changes in the near future, if the East Hampton Town Board accepts new recommendations from the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee. The lot was the center of attention Monday night at a well-attended meeting of the committee.

To mark this year’s 100th anniversary of the American Legion, members of Sag Harbor’s Chelberg and Battle Post 388 have created a remembrance journal to honor the service of village veterans. The book will be presented to members at a dinner celebrating the centennial on Tuesday, and then made available to the public.