By Marissa Maier
On Monday, March 8, a hush fell over the audience at the Sag Harbor Board of Education meeting as director of business operations Janet Verneuille revealed a grim fiscal outlook for the 2010-2011 school budget.
Before proposing close to $1 million in cuts, Verneuille presented a total budget of $32,593,356 with a proposed tax [...]

by Marianna Levine
James Dwoskin, a commercial real estate developer and Sag Harbor resident, has just come back from another eight-day trip to Nicaragua. This voyage, like the ones before, weren’t motivated by sea and sun, but rather by a desire to make a difference in the Western Hemisphere’s second poorest country. Of the nation’s 5.6 [...]

By Marianna Levine

After February’s lively Bridgehampton school board meeting concerning district staffing, last Wednesday’s board workshop was much quieter, open and unusually short with no executive session following it as well. The workshop focused on the possibility of tuitioning in students from other school districts. As noted during the last meeting, discussion of the school’s [...]

By Marissa Maier
Before the special election on March 9, Southampton Town Board candidates William Hughes and Bridget Fleming duked it out in a final debate last Wednesday, February 24, at the Southampton Cultural Center. The pair are vying for a vacant council seat on the town board, left empty by Anna Throne-Holst, who was [...]

Having already been cited by the Village of Sag Harbor, in a court case yet to be determined, on Monday night attorney Edward Burke, Jr. and his wife Patricia approached the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board to change the use of a historic building they recently converted into office spaces, in an effort to legalize [...]

The John Jermain Memorial Library this week cleared its first obstacle in the Sag Harbor Planning Board’s review of its 7000-square-foot expansion and restoration plan, moving a step closer to public review and examination by the historic preservation and architectural review board and the village zoning board of appeals.
On Monday, March 1, the planning board [...]

by Marissa Maier
On Saturday, February 28, the Sag Harbor School Board, the leadership of the Teacher’s Association of Sag Harbor and their respective representatives holed themselves up in Pierson for close to 12 hours. From 10:30 in the morning to the late hours of the evening, the group attempted to settle a new teacher’s work [...]

By Marissa Maier
Southampton Town Councilman Chris Nuzzi disclosed this weekend that he is the latest to mull over a run for U.S. Congress against incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop of Southampton.
“It would be an overstatement to say that I am jumping into the race,” noted Nuzzi on Monday. “[But] for a variety of reasons I am [...]

By Marissa Maier
In November 2009, Hidden Cove Marina sought an expedited review of their application to install a 4,000 gallon fuel tank at their Pine Neck Avenue property in Noyac. Since then, over a dozen neighbors have sent letters to the Southampton Town Planning Board complaining about the project and demanding a public hearing to [...]

The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad Cold Case detective are asking for the public’s help in identifying of a body that wash up on the shores of Plum Island on January 14. The deceased is described as an “black male, 5 feet 10 inches, between 160 to 190 pounds, [and] between 50 to 70 years [...]