Lately, I can’t help but wonder why some of our local school boards have been acting so strangely. It seems almost every week there’s something worth questioning going on.

Last week it was the Miller Place Board of Education, which waited until the 24-hour deadline to post notice of their meeting, which was held on a different day of the week, at an earlier time of day than usual, and in a location where they don’t normally meet.

The meeting agenda was never posted prior to the meeting, and four days later is still not available online. When a Sun reporter contacted a pair of board members to ask what was being discussed at the meeting, they said only that they were voting on contracts. It turns out they were voting on $3 million worth of construction contracts for the new administrative building, a plan that has been met with some opposition from the community.

So how many members of the general public showed up to the meeting? Zero. How could they, when they don’t know about the meeting?

I understand the work needs to get started during the summer months, when kids are out of school, but the bottom line is the vote to approve the building was nearly 18 months ago. Clearly, this vote on contracts could have been scheduled better, and handled in a more transparent manner.

So far, three different local school districts have scheduled “emergency” meetings since the organizational sessions earlier this month. This sort of meeting should be very rare and scheduled only under the most dire circumstances.

I believe our local school board members are mostly fair-minded people who volunteer with their heads and hearts in the right place. I just wish some of their actions would stop giving us reasons to question otherwise.

• Speaking of controversial school board actions, have any of you been paying attention to what’s going on in Riverhead? Mike White, Vera Chinese and I have been talking a lot about the Riverhead Board of Education and other school boards in recent weeks on our Thursday morning radio spot with Bruce Tria of WRIV. Check it out at 8 a.m. on Thursdays by clicking on this link and please phone in to be a part of the conversation.

•  I couldn’t help but feel a little moved by Samantha Brix’s coverage of Sunday’s gay weddings at Brookhaven Town Hall. As someone who’s used these opinion pages several times over the years to advocate for marriage equality in New York State, it felt like a real victory seeing gay and lesbian couples marry for the first time here.

Anyone who complained about Town Hall opening up on a Sunday so the services could be performed needs to understand there are plenty of other expenses on Bald Hill to worry about. Spending several hundred dollars to wed same-sex couples that have waited decades for a right bestowed on the rest of us at birth is worth every penny.

• I was glad to see Newsday picked up on Riverhead Town’s — and now Senator Charles Schumer’s — calls for summer dredging and to find a permanent solution to shoaling problem at Wading River Creek. Local, state and federal governments need to get on board and craft a plan that permanently solves this problem, which interferes with the ability of emergency responders to launch rescue boats into the Sound.

That could even mean closing the mouth of the creek and redirecting the waterway to the power plant property, then rehabilitating the boat ramp there. Everything should be on the table because the current system of paying tens of thousands of dollars each December, only to have winter storms reverse the work, is a waste of time and a huge waste of money.

I understand the need to protect nesting piping plover and winter flounder. But at what expense?