Sag Harbor News

Sag Harbor has always been a community of differing views and a population that loves hashing disparities out in public and private ways.

I write this letter with rain falling outside, and rain on my mind, as it has sometimes been since our home was flooded by an unprecedented rainfall in 2005.

Surely Charles Dickens was correct when he famously wrote, "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as hilarity," which explains why we are experiencing an epidemic of laughter at the Bay Street Theatre this summer.

Some people believe "the season" in Sag Harbor starts on Memorial Day and stops on Labor Day.

That is what patrons attempting to walk towards the West Water Street, Sag Harbor business were told Monday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Watchcase, a new condominium complex that's under construction in Sag Harbor, is like no other property in the Hamptons.

When we banked toward Brooklyn, the only thing below was the water. Straight ahead on its side, like us, was the Williamsburg Bridge.

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Tutto Il Giorno, an Italian restaurant with locations in Southampton and Sag Harbor, is opening in TriBeCa at 114 Franklin St. The dining room at the Sag Harbor location of Tutto Il Giorno.

Surely Charles Dickens was correct when he famously wrote, "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as hilarity," which explains why we are experiencing an epidemic of laughter at the Bay Street Theatre this summer.

Assemb. Fred Thiele Jr. sponsored a bill that would create a pathway for the Montaukett Indian Nation to once again become a New York State-recognized tribe.

I t was the affair that put the yoga world in a twist. Rodney Yee, yogi to the stars, who'd told People magazine that his practice was the 'backbone' of his marriage, left his wife of 24 years after becoming involved with one of his students, Colleen Saidman.

How to make the Village of East Hampton safer for bicyclists and pedestrians was the primary topic at a village board work session last Thursday, when Paul Fiondella and Howard Lebwith, who had made a presentation at the board's April 4 work session, returned to make the case for bike-friendly streets.

A group of residents from the Garden, Spring and Howard streets in Sag Harbor approached both the village's harbor committee and the board of trustees this week.

Houses on the low end of the market, like this one in Southampton offered for $289,000, can be found but usually need a lot of work.

It's not that village officials don't like having them around. It's more that the animals won't go away.

Each summer there are at least a few stories on the East End about the dog left too long in an unvented car on a hot summer's day, panting to survive in the face of oven-like conditions.

While North Haven Village's election is not nearly as heated as across the bridge in Sag Harbor Village, it is still a contested race pitting an incumbent trustee and longtime member of the planning board against a longtime resident and attorney hoping to bring new perspective to the board.

The John Jermain Memorial Library's scaffolding came down earlier this year, revealing restored exterior of brick, mortar and limestone - Sag Harbor's historic library revealed in all her glory, its copper dome shining and visible from Main Street.

A head-on collision around 8 a.m. on Monday morning resulted in a truck being propelled down an embankment on Long Beach Road in Noyac with the driver of another vehicle airlifted to Stony Brook Medical Center while traffic was rerouted around what is a heavily used commuter path during the morning hours.