Villages

An application from the Jewish Center of the Hamptons for variances and permission to convert a garage into classrooms and legalize existing accessory structures, including a shed and a tent, was discussed at the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on Friday.

They gathered shortly after noon Sunday at their meeting place at the Chase Bank on Main Street in East Hampton, and for the next 45 minutes as they made their way to Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, neither the rain nor sleet nor gray skies dampened their enthusiasm.

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

Kenneth Schwenk and his family seek to develop nine house lots clustered in the southwest corner of the property, which would also contain nearly 27 acres of agricultural reserve.

East Hampton Village will hold a referendum on Tuesday increase the Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP) benefits for active volunteer ambulance members.

The last of five public hearings for the Town of East Hampton’s hamlet studies will happen at the town board’s meeting next Thursday and will focus on Montauk. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room at Town Hall.

With plans to return the historic Dominy clock and woodworking shops to their original location on North Main Street, the East Hampton Village Board accepted a bid on Friday from John Hummel and Associates to restore the structures and construct a timber-frame house as an adjacent exhibition space.

The Sag Harbor Village Board’s decision to use a site adjacent to the Long Pond Greenbelt for a vehicle impound yard drew an onslaught of criticism during a public hearing on Nov. 13 and prompted Aidan Corish, a trustee, to make a forceful plea for another location. The greenbelt is part of an ecosystem of coastal plain ponds.

The Hedges Inn will not be allowed to hold outdoor events, even in tents, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals decided on Friday. The decision corroborates opinions of the village administrator and building inspector, who, in March, denied four permits for the inn, a frequent wedding venue, on the grounds that outdoor dining is not a permitted use of the pre-existing, nonconforming commercial property, which is in a residential zone. The pertinent village law took effect on Oct. 1.

After 20 years together, Philip Edward Judson and James David Maloney of East Hampton were married at the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas on Oct. 4.

The Parrish Art Museum has changed up its permanent collection galleries and is in a mood to celebrate this weekend. Its new exhibition, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” opens to the public on Sunday with a free community day at the museum from noon to 3 p.m.

The lawsuit filed by Jerry Larsen, a former East Hampton Village police chief, against Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., Richard Lawler, a village trustee, and the village in general was dismissed by a federal judge on Sept. 24 on the basis of the statute of limitations.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Armistice Day, which evolved into Veterans Day. Armistice Day remembered the anniversary of the peace treaty with Germany that ended World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. It’s hard to think of a more appropriate item for this week than John Calvin Hadder’s compilation on East Hampton in World War I.

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

Strategies for protecting the health of the East End’s drinking water supply, among them replacing outdated septic systems, reducing the use of pesticides, and increasing land preservation, were presented Tuesday, at a forum hosted by the Accabonac Protection Committee.

The Bonac Amateur Radio Club will hold its monthly meeting tonight from 6 to 8 at the Amagansett Library. The group meets on the fourth Thursday of every month and promotes amateur radio on the South Fork.

Nighttime Tours

If a group slowly roaming the South End Burying Ground startles drivers on Main Street or James Lane Tuesday evening, they need not worry; it will be Hugh King, director of Home, Sweet Home Museum, leading a flashlight tour with stories about the notable figures buried there.

The one-hour outing will begin at Home, Sweet Home at 5 p.m. It has been organized by the East Hampton Historical Society, which is taking required reservations by phone at 631-324-6850 or at easthamptonhistory.org. The cost is $15, and participants will be limited to 18.

Montauk Notes from the Oct. 25 print issue.

Sag Harbor Note from the Oct. 25 print issue.

Andre Goy and Jeffrey Brice Ornstein were married on Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, with the Very Rev. Denis Brunelle officiating. A reception followed at the Maidstone Club.

A plan to merge two vacant lots at 20 and 24 West End Road and build a single-family residence in excess of 10,000 square feet, plus a detached garage and accessory structures, was the subject of a lengthy discussion at the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

Based on its latest rounds of water testing last week, Concerned Citizens of Montauk again urged people to avoid contact with the water in Fort Pond, where a blue-green algae bloom persisted.

Anthony Charles Daunt and Erica Jeanne Silich of Springs are “huge baseball fans” whose hearts belong not only to each other but also to the Mets, so it makes sense that they chose to be married in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Seeking to bring order to the piles of free magazines that clutter the doorways of shops in the commercial district, particularly during the summer months, the East Hampton Village Board passed a law last Thursday that limits the distribution of such printed matter.

If you consider yourself a map aficionado, then you will be excited to learn that the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection acquired two new maps last month.

As part of the East End Mental Health Awareness Initiative, two free events will take place in Bridgehampton and Southampton next week sponsored by East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

“Despite living only five minutes away from each other in Northwest Woods” in East Hampton, Timothy Robert Miller and Lisa Ann Lakeman, “have college to thank for bringing them together,” they wrote. “Six years and a bunch of Sam’s pizza dates later,” they were engaged overlooking “the very same beaches” they had grown up on.

David John Cataletto and Elizabeth Catherine Marchisella of East Hampton were married on June 30 at Sacred Hearts Basilica in Southampton, with a large reception and dancing under the stars following at the Castle Barn at Nova’s Ark Project in Bridgehampton.

Seeking to honor the work being done to restore local historical buildings, the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton handed out its inaugural preservation awards during its annual meeting on Saturday.

Two dead whales washed ashore this week, one in Amagansett on Monday, and the other in East Hampton Village yesterday, where a dead dolphin also was found at around the same time. Both whales, awash in the surf, were badly decomposed and seemed to be part of an “unusual mortality event” for whales along the Atlantic Coast.