Villages

The top guns of East Hampton Town government appeared Monday before the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee and a large group of residents to let them know what they are doing to combat the rowdiness that has taken over the hamlet since the Fourth of July weekend.

As the climate changes, the salt from rising sea levels is killing vegetation that grows near the coast.

The Montauk Chamber of Commerce has released a short video highlighting the traditional pleasures of the hamlet, even as party-hearty summer hordes continue to provide fodder for tabloid.

The Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s annual summer gala will be held on Saturday under a lighted tent on the playhouse grounds.

Vicki Littman, the proprietor of the Vicki’s Veggies farm stand in Amagansett, will launch this year’s “apple” fund-raiser to benefit the East Hampton Food Pantry on Saturday.

While the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals announced favorable determinations on nine applications at its meeting on Friday, it delayed until its next meeting a decision on an application from Michael Ostin.

Visitors to the Amagansett Presbyterian Church’s 102nd summer fair on Saturday may be surprised at the progress made in the rebuilding of the church’s Scoville Hall, which was destroyed by fire in 2011.

Montaukers’ unhappiness about the crowds, noisy parties, and illegal behavior overwashing their once-quiet hamlet this season has become prime summertime fodder for the metropolitan news media.

On Saturday, the ladies will don their white dresses and sun hats to host the 119th fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., as always on the last Saturday of July.

Chinese lanterns add yet another item to the list of destructive merriment caused by weekend partiers in the easternmost hamlet.

Though the tenant is still unknown, owners of the property received approval to build a new 9,982-square-foot, one-story retail building.

Celebrate the ongoing restoration of the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station with a lobster bake on Saturday evening.

Newer boats with bigger outboard motors are causing some changes down at the docks in the Village of Sag Harbor.

To experience summer on the South Fork is to witness the flaunting of materialism and, sometimes, unfathomable wealth. But if the efforts of Dan Lauter and Donna Soszynski-Lauter are successful, residents and visitors may one day experience treasures of an entirely different sort.

After reports of overcrowding and other problems at Harbor Raw Bar and Lounge near the Montauk docks, East Hampton Town got a judge last week to agree to put the clamps on the party.

In her decision, Acting Supreme Court Justice Denise F. Molia granted a temporary restraining order blocking the use of the restaurant as a nightclub. The owners could face criminal contempt charges if they allow the number of patrons to exceed the official occupancy limit of 68 guests, she wrote.

Laura Tuttle Traphagen and Catherine Ann Yelverton of Manhattan and East Hampton were married at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on July 2.

A preview of artwork that will be up for auction at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s summer fund-raiser on Aug. 1 is now available for viewing.

Former Representative Tim Bishop wasted no time at the East Hampton Library on Saturday in answering the question he had posed in the title of his talk — “The U.S. Congress: Is the Branch Still Broken?”

What began as an offhand late-night comment has given rise to an event that has raised millions for the Wounded Warrior Project.

A few key donors swept in in the final days to help the Montauk Chamber of Commerce meet fund-raising goals for its July 4 Stars Over Montauk fireworks display.

Barry Rosenstein, the founder of Jana Partners, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, who reportedly paid $147 million for properties on Further Lane in East Hampton Village, was granted variances from the village zoning code.

Among the many visitors to the South Fork this summer is a dangerous multicellular organism making an appearance along the shore.

The Portuguese man-of-war, a highly toxic warm-water creature that resembles and acts like a jellyfish, has been spotted over the past few weeks on Gibson Beach in Sagaponack, Georgica Beach in East Hampton Village, Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue Beaches in Amagansett, and South Edison and Ditch Plain Beaches in Montauk.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor continues to chug through its long, drawn-out construction phase with a completion date projected for the end of this year.

Jacqueline Bitonti, the new children’s librarian at the Montauk Library, is bursting with energy and full of ideas for the hamlet’s children and teenagers, a group she would like to get more involved with the library.

On Saturday during Soldier Ride the Hamptons, the grandson of Tom Collins, a Springs resident who played a crucial role as a cryptologist in World War II and died in 2011, will ride on Team Sam Scram, a group organized in Mr. Collins’s honor.

When the Great Bonac Fireworks show, a national-class Grucci Fireworks midsummer display, begins sparkling over Three Mile Harbor on Saturday night, Laura Sobieski will have a front-row seat.

The arrival of Suffolk County’s new area code on Saturday means residents need to start thinking twice when making local phone calls.

After receiving much support from village residents, the Sag Harbor Village Board unanimously passed a temporary moratorium on construction of most new single-family houses and major improvements on existing ones.

As all of the pre-summer frenzy was under way here this spring, slowly taking shape — stone by stone, row by concentric row — on a field of grass overlooking Fort Pond Bay in Montauk was a labyrinth, an ancient shape for a walking practice of contemplation and meditation.

Kathleen Loraine Kelly of Montauk and Manhasset and Francis Joseph Hurley of Ridgefield, Conn., were married on June 18 at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. They celebrated afterward at the Montauk Lake Club. Msgr. Kieran Harrington of the Diocese of Brooklyn officiated.