Sag Harbor News

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.

A proposed revision on the public input policy for Sag Harbor School Board meetings, which board president Theresa Samot says aims to increase public participation, would also give the board the right to suspend community members' privilege to speak should their conduct be considered inappropriate.

It's official. The race for Sag Harbor Village mayor will feature four candidates, with just as many seeking the two seats up for grabs on the village board this June 18.

I've never eaten at Sen in Sag Harbor, the go-to sushi joint for sparkly Hamptons habituA©s like Calvin Klein, Kelly Ripa, Steven Spielberg and Paul McCartney.

Cemeteries are a treasure trove of historic information. Names, dates, relationships, professions, property can all be gleaned by studying the gravestones and death records of those who lived long ago.

Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton is centered in the Greek Revival mansion built for Abraham Topping Rose in 1842.

Shelter Islanders go to the polls Tuesday, May 21, with the fate of A proposed $10.047 million spending plan for school year 2013-14 in their hands.

When Therese Lindstrom, her husband Bill Kamaras and their new baby moved to Sag Harbor a few months ago, Therese knew she wanted to create a healing sanctuary accessible to everyone.

Chloe's Soft Serve Fruit Co. is returning to the Hamptons for another summer at both Hampton Coffee Company and Golden Pear.

A Conversation with Ken Dorph, Sag Harbor resident and authority on the Middle East and its economy, who will give a lecture "Seven Keys to Understanding the Arab Middle East" at the Rogers Memorial Library on July 6. I was actually pre-med as an undergraduate and I had this wonderful Egyptian woman teaching my anthropology course, and I remember ... (more)

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