Villages

Georgica Pond in East Hampton, which the town trustees have closed to the harvesting of crabs for part of the last two years due to dense blooms of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, was opened to the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 7.

Diane McNally, the trustees’ clerk, announced that the pond had been opened to the ocean at the group’s meeting on Tuesday. “It’s running well,” Sean McCaffrey, a trustee who had been on site, said of the channel created between the pond and ocean. “It did what it’s supposed to.” The high salinity of the ocean water will kill the algal bloom.

The East Hampton High School class of 1966 is planning a reunion for next year.

Zoning code amendments adopted by the East Hampton Village Board in June, which added graduated formulas for lot coverage and maximum floor areas of structures for parcels larger than one acre, caused a number of construction plans to become noncompliant and led to the revocation of several building permits.

One such instance brought the president of Discovery Communications and his wife back to the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday, where their attorney once again sought variances to allow renovations and additions to their oceanfront house at 26 Drew Lane.

Members of the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation visited the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday to unveil the foundation’s latest plan for the building’s aquatic and cultural centers.

When Dell Cullum was asked to assume leadership of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife in August, he did so with the understanding that a potential opportunity could mean an abrupt resignation.

Nine months after business owners and their representatives expressed displeasure at proposed amendments to the East Hampton Village lighting code, prompting the village board to table them, the board took up the amendments at a work session last Thursday.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 25th annual Largest Clam Contest, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday at the American Legion Post 419 in Amagansett, has been postponed.

Diane McNally, the trustees’ clerk, said yesterday that, with Hurricane Joaquin intensifying in the Atlantic Ocean, the potential for shellfishing areas to be closed by today meant that participants would not be able to harvest clams to enter the contest.

A swimming pool in the ecologically stressed Hook Pond watershed and what was called the “poster child for non-self-created difficulties” were before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

The Montauk Village Association got a bit of unexpected help on Tuesday from about 50 volunteers from the digital media group of Reader’s Digest Home and Garden magazine, who worked with it to clean up several small landscaped areas on the west side of the downtown business district.

Lester Forbell, known as Zeke to most, is generous with his friends and family, particularly with his automotive skills. “If anybody has car problems, he’s there to help people out,” Jamie Bennett, the mother of his two grandchildren, said.

Diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer this summer and unable to work while undergoing aggressive treatments, Mr. Forbell, 60, now finds himself the one in need of help.

Massive wastewater treatment and water quality improvement plans for Hook and Town Ponds were described at an East Hampton Village Board meeting.

East Hampton Village in 1657 was, needless to say, a very different place from what it is now, but even so, a series of events in February that year that alarmed and aroused residents — a strange case of alleged witchcraft — still holds fascination today.

Perry Duryea III was thanked by the Fighting Chance cancer organization and presented with a portrait of himself painted by Paul Davis, a well-known artist and friend of Fighting Chance’s founder, Duncan Darrow.

Grappling with how to balance increased need for emergency medical services with the costs, the Springs Board of Fire Commissioners is seriously considering a paid program to supplement its volunteer ambulance crew.

The East Hampton Library could hardly have found a more suitable incarnation of local history than the old waterman Bruce Collins to close out its inaugural Tom Twomey lecture series on Saturday.

A number of the South Fork’s leading yoga teachers will be joined by nationally known instructors for the Hamptons Yoga Festival from tomorrow evening through Sunday at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton.

Seventeen months after applying to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals for permits and variances for a construction project, representatives for Loida Lewis, the widow of the first African-American billionaire, returned to make their case anew.

The Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee voted to recommend against reinstating a fee for the Kirk Park parking lot on Monday after a discussion elicited differing opinions.

A dense bloom of cyanobacteria has appeared in Hook Pond and East Hampton Village officials are warning against exposure.

People from across East Hampton on Friday joined local police officers, volunteer firefighters, and emergency medical technicians in remembering the events of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The East Hampton Village Board considered expanding the requirements for large groups to obtain permits for events on public property, including beaches, at a work session last Thursday, focusing on litter and suggestions from the village beach manager and town trustees.

A proposal to allow vendors to sell food and beverages at two East Hampton Village beaches has been abandoned.

In month two of the six-month moratorium on new construction and major renovations of most single-family houses in Sag Harbor, the village board heard four requests for exemptions and granted two.

Ahead of its Sept. 19 budget vote, the East Hampton Library will hold a hearing tomorrow at 3 p.m. to present its $2.3 million spending plan to the community.

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services scheduled on the South Fork.

Two men escaped injury on Thursday when the 50-foot, 3,300-horsepower racing catamaran in which they were attempting to set a new record for circling Long Island, struck a buoy while going 148 miles per hour.

When Laurie Cancellieri called this newspaper on Monday to report that a memorial plaque in honor of her son on a teak bench at the eastern Ditch Plain Beach was missing and presumably stolen, she had no idea the plaque would be returned before the issue went to print. But she did have a clue.

Decrying what she called a “mini-Versailles” and increased “paverization,” Lys Marigold, vice chairwoman of the village’s zoning board of appeals, spoke for her colleagues about an application for extensive landscaping and the addition of multiple structures at a property on West End Road bordering Georgica Pond.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced last week that he had introduced legislation to support a water quality protection project for Hook Pond in East Hampton. The $92,000 project will protect the pond from stormwater runoff and enhance water quality in the watershed.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has moved to protect horseshoe crabs, which have experienced a decline, by giving the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation extended authority for two years to limit the harvesting of females, those at beaches where shorebirds feed on their eggs, and those that are mating, a prevalent practice.