Sag Harbor News

The Sag Harbor Board of Education passed a revision to its public input policy Monday night, opting to remove a controversial sentence that would have given the board the right to suspend community members' privilege to speak if their behavior at meetings was deemed inappropriate.

Last month, members of the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals said they believed a 102-foot canopy meant to shelter an expanded gas pump island at the reimagined Harbor Heights Service Station on Hampton Road was a structure.

When it comes to supporting the Whaling Museum, many of Sag Harbor's most successful artists are eager to help out.

For a generation where Memorial Day seems to be more about barbecues than American flags, Hope for the Warriors keeps a light shining on the people who have sacrificed so much in the name of freedom.

Former Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot was unanimously endorsed Tuesday night by the Southampton Town Republican Party, setting the stage for a third supervisor's race between the Quogue resident and incumbent supervisor Anna Throne-Holst. "Certainly, I am excited about my candidacy as well as the well-qualified candidates I will be running ... (more)

Mac Griswold, whose new book "The Manor, Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island" tells the story of Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor, which was founded as a provisioning plantation in 1651 with slaves, Native Americans and the Quaker land-owners working side by side.

When clothing designer Tommy Wilkie first learned that "Hamptons Hoodies," the name he hoped to trademark for his new clothing line, was already taken, he had just one thing to say.

A fast acting crew aboard a South Ferry boat Sunday afternoon averted a crisis when a vehicle belonging to Josh Horton of Horton Dredge & Dock of Greenport caught fire about 2:30 p.m. The ferry was loading in North Haven when Eric Curko, who is a new South Ferry captain just completing his training, smelled smoke.

Enter Black Cat Books on North Ferry Road and be prepared to be immediately immersed in a sea of books, shelves, stacks of books, all shapes and sizes - at last count 20,000 books on every imaginable subject.

In the Sag Harbor School District Board of Education elections and budget vote Tuesday night, voters filled four seats on the board and passed the proposed budget and propositions by a wide margin.

East Hampton's library board chairman and former historian is helping to expand its online Long Island history collection containing many one-of-a-kind documents -- by donating all proceeds from his new book.

Amagansett A Stihl chainsaw and a Jaquelyne armchair were taken from a Surf Drive house early last month.

The results are in, and they confirm what some had already suspected: the rates of alcohol and drug use among Sag Harbor students are higher than average.

For at least the third time in the past 20 years a proposal has been floated to create a service bringing water-borne passengers into Sag Harbor and linking the village with ports elsewhere.

With little more than two weeks to go before their opening game, Shelter Island Bucks organizers are hustling to secure necessary housing for about half the 25 players and two coaches who still have no place to stay during June and July.

Sag Harbor's Village Hall was packed with police officers on Tuesday evening, there to accuse Mayor Brian Gilbride of having an unspecified personal agenda in connection with the layoff of Officer David Driscoll, the department's officer of the year in 2012.

Educators and business owners, lifetime locals and recent transplants, parents and grandparents, are all represented in the diverse pool of candidates vying for four spots on the Sag Harbor School Board.

Just days after the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation closed shell fishing in Sag Harbor Cove and Upper Sag Harbor Cove, Simon Harrison was approved by the village board to raise oysters on a fixed village dock next to the Breakwater Yacht Club on Bay Street.

Elections in North Haven Village will in fact be contested this year. With two village board seats available, incumbent Jeff Sander has announced he will run as part of the North Haven Party alongside architect Arthur "Jim" Laspesa.

In the Sag Harbor School District, voters will be asked to weigh in on an adopted $35.51 million budget for the 2013-14 school year.