It’s August! It’s crazy how the summer has flown by. 

There’s been a wide variety of events, and readers voted for the July 3 fireworks as their favorites. Beyond the Recreation Department’s events, the group has put on a lot of camps for children, including Park League. It was also the championships for the Summer Snaps flag football league this week.

While summer continues, make sure to check the beach testing results and be aware of mosquitos and the West Nile virus.

It was a big week for governmental meetings. The Swampscott Library Board of Trustees voted to approve new language for the Swampscott Public Library’s collection development policy.

The library’s collection development policy guides the selection, acquisition, licensing, organization and preservation of materials and resources. The policy has not been updated in roughly 20 years, according to Library Director Jonathan Nichols.

“This document has not been updated probably since the early 2000s,” Nichols said. “My goal is to streamline it because the other one was very granular, like it went into every department, every section, on how that collection should be developed. We don’t need this because formats change. We add new formats all the time. We really just needed more of a holistic approach to collections.”

The library also officially has concrete poured outside, as the construction project continues.

The Climate Action and Resilience Committee discussed Kleinfelder’s initial report to protect the town against rising sea levels, which examined the Fish House, private seawalls, and Whales and Eisman’s beaches.

The Select Board had a meeting on Tuesday. Town Administrator Nick Connors announced that Swampscott officials and attorneys from KP Law are reviewing the ongoing dispute with neighboring property owners over their claimed ownership of Whales Beach.

“We’re trying to take another close look at this to understand what access rights exist and what may need to be done,” Connors said. “There’s a disagreement over access and ownership.”

Connors also announced that Swampscott will begin charging $75 for parking tickets after town officials discovered that a Select Board-approved increase from last year was never implemented.

“It was 15 months of not charging correctly,” said Select Board Vice Chair Danielle Leonard. “That’s a performance issue.”

The Select Board voted 3-2 Tuesday to oppose residential development at the Hawthorne property, a move that could exclude housing from the site’s long-term request for proposals (RFP).

Leaders also are raising concerns around the Lynnway Corridor Multimodal Corridor Project and its potential impacts on residents. The project, which is being funded by a $20 million grant from the US Department of Transportation, is currently in the concept design phase, with construction estimated to start between 2028 and 2030.

Select Board Member Mary Ellen Fletcher said she has received a number of complaints from residents about how the project could affect their commutes to and from Boston. She raised the issue that there will also be construction for a new high school in Revere as well as work on one of the bridges.

In a bit happier news, the Select Board did appoint Michael Paquette to the Board of Registrars, as well as honored Heidi Whear, Israela Abrams and Glenn Bartram for their years of service to Swampscott as they head into retirement.