With appraisals in, authorizing resolutions adopted, and negotiations concluded, Southampton Town has become the owner of nine acres of land located on Old Sag Harbor Road in Noyac.
The property is comprised of two vacant parcels designated in the Eastern GEIS area of the Town’s Community Preservation Project Plan, which identifies target properties, and is bordered [...]

During the past year, citizen advisory committees and civic organizations across the South Fork united, sharing a common goal in urging the Town of Southampton to work — and if necessary — force the Long Island Power Authority to bury power lines they said were necessary to supply the region with adequate energy.
The success [...]

More than two dozen teachers filled the Pierson High School library at Monday night’s Sag Harbor Board of Education meeting. They were there to prove to the board they are serious about getting new contracts.
The teachers, wearing black shirts and buttons reading, “Wanted Teacher Contracts,” sat through a presentation by state assemblyman Fred W. Thiele [...]

A majority of residents in the Town of East Hampton are looking at an 18-percent tax increase, despite the fact that Supervisor Bill McGintee’s proposed spending plan for $67 million for the 2009 fiscal year represents an almost $8 million drop from the approved 2008 budget of $75 million. Residents in the Village of East [...]

“If I sound tired, it’s because I am tired,” Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot said on Monday. Last week Kabot was practically pulling all-nighters going over budget items and changing the previous language to a more legible version along with the town’s deputy supervisor, Richard Blowes, and town comptroller, Steve Brautigam.
Early Monday morning the Southampton [...]

The Sag Harbor Village Planning Board has had a fair amount of heavy lifting to contend with over the course of the last two years. In that time, it has engaged in a lengthy review of the now approved condominium projects at the former Bulova Watchcase Factory and at 21 West Water Street, as well [...]

With just a month left before East End residents hit voting booths on November 4, incumbent U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop, a Democrat, finds himself in a race for his seat in the House of Representatives against a 28-year-old attorney and Iraqi war veteran, Republican Lee Zeldin who has thrown his hat — and divergent opinions [...]

On Tuesday, October 7 at 6:30 a.m. Sag Harbor Village Police arrested Rosa Zhizhin, 33, of Sag Harbor on charges of assault in the second degree, a misdemeanor, after she allegedly threw a pot of hot water and oil on her boyfriend during a fight.
According to police, Zhizhin and her live-in boyfriend were involved in [...]

If adopted at the Sag Harbor Board of Trustee’s meeting on Tuesday, October 14 a new local law will hand over the granting authority for wetlands permits to the village harbor committee.
The board of trustees has traditionally had the final say in granting permits for the creation of docks and for dredging in the village, [...]

The  Teachers Association of Sag Harbor may have traded in black shirts for more subtle buttons,but the message is still the same: they want a new contract.  
Members of the Teachers Association of Sag Harbor (TASH) are in the middle of negotiating their contracts with the Sag Harbor school district’s board of education and superintendent. The [...]