Posted on 12 December 2008
The journalist, animal rights advocate and former volunteer at the Southampton Town Animal Shelter, on winning her first amendment case against the town, civil rights for volunteers and taking the heat as a journalist.
On December 2, for the second time in two years, a court sided with you over the Town of Southampton in a [...]
Tags: animal shelter, First Amendment, Southampton Town, volunteers
Posted on 04 December 2008
Over a month ago, under the cloak of night, a lone graffiti artist spray painted an homage to a 19-year-old Sag Harbor resident killed in the line of duty in Iraq. Two weeks later, the Sag Harbor-North Haven Bridge, under which the graffiti artist penned the red, white and blue, Captain America-themed tribute, was officially [...]
Tags: Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Hamptons, Jr., Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, Sag Harbor, Sag Harbor Village Police
Posted on 04 December 2008
After two serious car accidents involving a black oak on Jermain Avenue led Sag Harbor Village officials to level the historic tree this fall, some village residents cried foul, pointing instead to what they perceived as a dangerous roadway prone to speeding drivers and a need for traffic calming improvements.
While many may think drivers routinely [...]
Tags: Hamptons, New York State Department of Transportation, Sag Harbor
Posted on 04 December 2008
The developers of a controversial waterfront project in Sag Harbor approached the village planning board last week to ask why they should have to answer certain questions about the impact the project may have on water quality and shellfish in Sag Harbor Cove. They also asked for more specifics on how they should develop alternative [...]
Tags: Hamptons, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Sag Harbor, Sag Harbor Cove
Posted on 04 December 2008
As the architects hired by the John Jermain Memorial Library Board of Trustees try to decipher and then design a building plan for Sag Harbor’s public library that suits all of the community’s needs, this weekend they will begin a discussion on the possibility of splitting up library services between the historic Main Street building [...]
Tags: Hamptons, John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor
Posted on 04 December 2008
A conversation with Connor Vorhaus, Christopher Beroes-Haigis and Timothy Megna, students at the Pierson Middle-High School in Sag Harbor who are members of the newly formed Suffolk County Principal Orchestra of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, which will have the honor of performing at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan on June 7, 2009. (Listen and watch a [...]
Tags: Pierson Middle-High School, Suffolk County Principal Orchestra of the Metropolitan
Posted on 04 December 2008
A fire in the basement of a Main Street, Sag Harbor business on Wednesday, November 26 led to the arrest of a Sag Harbor man on charges of criminal trespass in the third degree and reckless endangerment, both misdemeanors, after he allegedly confessed to having a hand in the crime the following day.
According to Sag [...]
Tags: Sag Harbor Village Police, Southampton Town Police
Posted on 04 December 2008
Holiday Tea and Décor Light Up Cormaria
Over 100 people turned out for Cormaria Retreat House’s annual holiday tea and Christmas décor workshop on Saturday, November 29. Sister Ann Marino and her fellow sisters in the order opened the doors of the former captain’s mansion for an afternoon that featured a workshop in creating holiday table [...]
Tags: Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Cormaria, County Road 39, Governor David Paterson, Hallockville Museum Farm, Jr., Nature Conservancy, Pike Farm Stand, Sag Harbor, Sagaponack, Southampton Town
Posted on 26 November 2008
The “Sag Harbor” sign located on the Sag Harbor Cinema is what the Sag Harbor Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board would like to see preserved as a historic landmark, not the whole building or its façade as was discussed at a village board of trustees meeting last week.
On Monday, November 24, the ARB adopted [...]
Tags: Hamptons, Sag Harbor, Sag Harbor Cinema
Posted on 26 November 2008
The Sag Harbor Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board is not opposed to the village replacing the fence at the Old Burying Ground with another, antique replacement, if that proves more cost effective than restoring the ancient fence.
On Monday, November 24, village clerk Sandra Schroeder approached the board to discuss options for the fence, which [...]
Tags: Old Burying Ground, Sag Harbor