The future of the lease between the nonprofit Breakwater Yacht Club and Sag Harbor Village has been called into question by Mayor Brian Gilbride, who on Wednesday said he was concerned the village has not been generating enough revenue from the arrangement.

Sag Harbor Village took a step toward adopting a ban on most plastic shopping bags, as East Hampton and Southampton towns did last month, when the village board closed a public hearing on the matter on Tuesday.

Three of the five members of the Southampton Town Board have rejected their 2015 wage increases, requesting instead that the dollar amount of their 3-percent raises be returned to town funds.

In what they say is an effort to maintain continuity and increase efficiency in East Hampton town government, Supervisor Larry Cantwell and the other members of the Town Board are seriously considering the creation of a town manager position.

A scaled back plan to open a convenience store and relocate the fuel pump islands at the Harbor Heights gas station on Route 114 in Sag Harbor was approved by the Sag Harbor Planning Board at a December 23 meeting.

If all goes according to plan, by the time summer comes around, North Haven will have both a brand new playground and a smoother, safer road.

Several amendments to New York State hunting regulations have gone into effect this year in an effort to encourage recreational hunters to increase the deer harvest as one means of managing the expanding white-tailed deer population on the East End.

The year 2014 was a busy one for the East Hampton Town Board. It closed the scavenger waste facility, voted for a townwide ban on plastic bags, and accrued more Community Preservation Fund money than ever before. But according to Supervisor Larry Cantwell, 2015 has just as much in store.

The plan for a proposed offshore wind farm 30 miles east of Montauk Point, which could have produced 20 percent of the East End’s electricity needs, was rejected by the Long Island Power Authority Board of Trustees on December 18.

The days of choosing between paper and plastic are officially numbered here on the East End, as the town boards in both East Hampton and Southampton this week voted on Thursday, December 18, to ban single-use plastic bags by Earth Day of 2015.