Next Monday, June 29, residents of the Sag Harbor School District will vote on whether to approve a close to $10 million renovation and expansion plan at the historic John Jermain Memorial Library (JJML), with almost 70 percent of the funding going towards repair of the building’s sagging façade, leaky roof and bringing the structure [...]

During the Village of Sag Harbor Planning Board meeting on Tuesday night, the board scheduled a public hearing for Monday, August 10 at 7 p.m. on a waterfront condominium project on Long Island Avenue known as Ferry Road, but not before the village attorney had sharp words for the developer’s attorney and planner.
Michael Maidan and [...]

Sag Harbor mayor-elect Brian Gilbride announced on Tuesday he intends to appoint child psychologist Dr. Robby Stein to fill his now vacant seat on the village’s board of trustees. The appointment will be made official at the board’s re-organizational meeting on Monday, July 6 at noon when Stein will join trustee elects Ed Gregory and [...]

On Sunday, June 21,  Lancha Dupont, 51, of Sag Harbor, driving a late model SUV in the early morning hours collided with a tree on Madison Street in front of the Corcoran Real Estate office in Sag Harbor. Police arrived around 1:49 a.m. and found the front end of the vehicle destroyed, and about 12 [...]

“Show me your cemeteries and I will tell you what kind of people you have,” said Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot, referencing a Benjamin Franklin quote, at a work session on Friday, June 19. In the audience, dozens of Shinnecock tribesmen and women nodded in agreement as Kabot recited Franklin’s words, but tensions still ran [...]

It appears the saga that is the Morpurgo house on Union Street, Sag Harbor continues, although this time the two sisters at the heart of the lore surrounding the historic structure are not a part of the most recent dispute regarding the residence. Rather, lenders for the couple who initially purchased the property are attempting [...]

Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot announced on Friday, June 19, that the town will hire a new external auditing firm, Nawrocki Smith, LLP, and is ending a five-year relationship with AVZ, or Albrecht, Viggiano and Zureck.
“I and other members of the town board have been calling for a second opinion . . . but what [...]

Brian Gilbride was elected mayor of Sag Harbor in the village’s first contested election in seven years on Tuesday night, earning almost twice the number of votes as candidates Michael Bromberg and Jim Henry in the race to lead the board of trustees.
Incumbent trustee Ed Gregory and political newcomer Tim Culver were elected to fill [...]

East Hampton Town’s former budget officer Edward “Ted” Hults was arraigned on seven felony charges and two misdemeanors Thursday morning after a months long investigation by Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota into alleged criminal mismanagement and fraud related to illegal transfers from the town’s Community Preservation Fund and misrepresentations allegedly made by Hults on [...]

By Andrew Rudansky
On April 17, a male gray seal was found lying stranded on the beach in Hampton Bays, the local authorities were called and the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research’s Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Rescue Program rescued the seal, bringing it back to the Riverhead Foundation’s hospital facility for further life saving treatment.
The [...]