Category | A Conversation With

Sinead Fitzgibbon

Posted on 25 December 2008

The local bicycle advocate and physical therapist on her initiative to allow bikes on Main Street, finding safe routes through the village and the need for cars and bikes to exist peacefully.
 
When did you become a bike enthusiast?
I was a competitive swimmer in Ireland throughout my childhood and in college. When I went to [...]

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Lucette Lagnado

Posted on 18 December 2008

The Sag Harbor author and Wall Street Journal reporter on winning the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World,” the loss of a multi-cultural city and meeting ghosts from her past.
What exactly is the Sami [...]

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Patricia Lynch

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 [...]

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Connor Vorhaus, Christopher Beroes-Haigis and Timothy Megna

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 [...]

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Lillian Woudsma

Posted on 26 November 2008

The Director of the Sag Harbor Food Pantry, a not-for-profit dedicated to feeding those in the village in need of a helping hand, who talks about the rising number of families she sees on a weekly basis in the wake of the economic downturn and how the Sag Harbor community has stepped up its donations [...]

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Rusty Leaver

Posted on 20 November 2008

The Montauk local who brought collegiate baseball to Sag Harbor last summer, talks about the new teams in the newly formed Hamptons Division of the ACBL and how the community of Sag Harbor has taken the lead in fostering his dream of bringing high quality baseball to the area.
 
So you had a dream, to [...]

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Sister Angela Hearne

Posted on 13 November 2008

A conversation with Sister Angela Hearne, RSHM, The 95-year-old veteran teacher on 75 years at school, growing up in Ireland and going to the church’s retreat house in Tarrytown to lend a hand because “a lot of old people need help”
Sister Angela, could you tell me a little about your background, before you joined the [...]

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Taylor Montemarano

Posted on 06 November 2008

The Ross School senior talks about her experience in Africa, which inspired her to host a fundraiser for African Impact’s Happy Africa Foundation, whose goal is “to promote and advance community and conservation development on the continent of Africa.”
What was your inspiration for choosing this topic as your senior project?
Pretty much I was first inspired [...]

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John Musnicki

Posted on 30 October 2008

The website, logo, ad designer and master of pumpkin carving on the secrets to carving a great pumpkin, and why imperfect pumpkins are perfect.

We know that you have been a huge advocate for of the pumpkin carving contest of the lions club in Bridgehampton, When did you start getting really involved pumpkin carving?
I always liked [...]

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Robert Evjen

Posted on 23 October 2008

The Prudential Douglas Elliman real estate agent and President of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce who talks about the downturn in the economy and the effect on the real estate market and Main Street businesses.
By Kathryn G. Menu
Given your unique perspective with the chamber and as a real estate agent, what do you see [...]

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