Sag Harbor News

As a decision on whether to allow the expansion of the Harbor Heights service station on Hampton Street looms, literally hundreds of residents of Sag Harbor and surrounding communities sent letters to the village zoning board of appeals over the course of the last two months, a majority opposing the development after three years of review.

A dispute between the parents of a 6-month-old baby in a trailer park in Montauk ended early last Thursday morning with the mother under arrest for allegedly stabbing the father in the leg with a paring knife.

It's become an annual tradition on the Avram Theater stage at Stony Brook Southampton - the presentation of a series of one act plays written by local high school students as the culmination of the university's Young Artists and Writers Project High School Playwriting Program.

Lucy Cosme Vera danced the role of Clara last weekend when the Conservatory of Ballet and Danse Arts of Bridgehampton presented "The Nutcracker" at Southampton High School.

The art of Reynold Ruffins is unmistakable. An illustrator by trade, a painter by passion, Ruffins was the artist behind the often quirky and always iconic imagery used in literature and posters advertising events for the now defunct organization CONPOSH .

Sag Harbor Village Police released a sketch this week of a man they say is a third suspect wanted for questioning in connection to a November 19 armed robbery of The Corner Closet on Main Street in Sag Harbor.

While her classmates were asking for iPads and Xboxes, there was only one thing on the young girl's list: a Christmas tree.

Mary Mott, right, was honored by the East Hampton Ambulance Association. With her were the outgoing chief, Mary Ellen McGuire, left, and the incoming chief, Diane O'Donnell.

Sag Harbor Village Trustees are looking at over 30 amendments to the village zoning code, including whether or not to create a mechanism to allow restaurants to expand seating and reducing the required office size in the office district.

A Conversation with Erica Lynn Huberty who reads from her latest work, "Watchwork, A Tale in Time" at Canio's Books this Friday with proceeds from book sales benefiting Peconic Habitat for Humanity.

Left: Canio's owner Maryann Calendrille at last week's Cash Mob supporting the long time bookstore and gathering place on Sag Harbor's Main Street.

This year's scallop season opened November 4, and if you ask a local bayman or recreational scalloper how the season is going so far, chances are you'll here a little bit of good news and an awful lot of bad news.

With the first phase of a three-part plan to renovate and restore the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum nearly complete, necessary additional repairs - and fundraising efforts - are on the rise.

In response to state-mandated changes in school security regulations and increased safety awareness nationwide, the Sag Harbor School District is continuing implementation of new safety standards and measures at the Sag Harbor Elementary School and Pierson Middle/High School.

Sag Harbor Village Police released a sketch this week of a man they say is a third suspect wanted for questioning in connection to a November 19 armed robbery of The Corner Closet on Main Street in Sag Harbor.

A look back at the week's most read headlines: 1. Mass Casualties Avoided in Shinnecock Hills Fire, Town Officials Say The house at 18 Greenfield Road was cited by code enforcement for health and safety hazards, including 20 illegal tenants, some of whom lived in the basement.

Twenty-four panes to be exact - thin, spider web-like cracks weaving their way through the undulating historic glass in John Krug's Church Street home - the Captain David Hand House, one of the oldest residences still standing on the South Fork.

Questions have been swirling on the North Fork about an observatory unearthed in New Suffolk in recent years - and whether or not Albert Einstein could have spent time inside.

Anyone living in East Hampton for any length of time probably drives right past the big blue gas ball on Railroad Avenue and Fresno Place in East Hampton Village without batting an eye.

Film buffs, from the obsessive to the casual, are in for a treat this weekend when 22 documentary films will be screened in Sag Harbor.