North Sea News

A Shinnecock Hills couple pushing to build a controversial wind turbine on their waterfront property were sent back to the drawingKurt Hauquitz of North Sea addressing the Conservation Board on December 16.Photos by Will JamesBy Will James

Over 40 years ago, as Bob Freidah remembers it, Dan MacLean - " a member of the Sag Harbor Lions Club - " used to sell Christmas trees out of his gas station, located across the street from The Corner Bar near the old railroad bed.

Cap and trade carbon dioxide if you like, but A.P. Moller-Maersk wants to ship it.

With the temperature below zero and a light snow falling, it was easy to feel jealous of the protesters in chicken suits.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gazes at the world's largest offshore wind farm, 13 miles off the coast of Denmark.

Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard. Was coal a curse to Pittsburgh? Did cars destroy Detroit? Does the dominance of a single industry destroy the innovation and entrepreneurship of a region? If it does, then the economic crisis may have actually helped New York by enabling the city to avoid an over-concentration in finance.

On the precipice of the impending new year, our hearts beat with humble anticipation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' preliminary ruling on our status for becoming a federally recognized tribe, set to be delivered to tribal leaders next week.

A wrecker rights an SUV that flipped over near the intersection of Marya s Lane and North Sea Road on Friday night.

A Southampton man was charged with DWI after nearly causing a head-on collision with a Southampton Town Police cruiser early Sunday morning in North Sea, according to authorities.

Today we will meet at the flagpole at 5:30 p.m. for our third annual tree lighting ceremony.

Elections for fire commissioners in East End fire districts will be held on Tuesday, December 8. In the Southampton Fire District, Fire Commissioner David Price's five-year term is expiring.

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Two men were stabbed during a melee at 75 Main in Southampton Village early Sunday morning, though no arrests have been made yet, Southampton Village Police said Wednesday.

Despite a proposed 11.2-percent tax increase in East Hampton Town's proposed $72.1 million budget for 2010, most who spoke up at a budget hearing before the Town Board on Thursday, November 5, were more upset that funding for a wide range of community organizations has been eliminated.

Witnesses who testified in the murder trial of Anthony Oddone in the last week told the jury about the defendant's attempt to get away from the scene in a taxi after the fatal fight with Andrew Reister, a bouncer at the Southampton Publick House.

Seven candidates are seeking seats on the five-member Southampton Town Board of Trustees this year.

Several residents objected to proposed cuts to the Southampton Town Youth Bureau at a special Town Board meeting on Friday.

Despite the threatening night sky, nearly a dozen Southampton town civil service employees stood in the dark outside town hall on Tuesday evening, protesting 44 potential lay offs in the 2010 budget.

As the November 3 election approaches, Southampton Town, facing a toxic mix of multimillion-dollar debt and a weakened local economy, is in financial turmoil.

Jacqueline Rodriguez, 20, of Southampton was stopped by Southampton Town Police on Tyler Street at 6:44 p.m. on September 25 and charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor.