by Marissa Maier
Anticipating a rare turnout, the Sag Harbor school board switched the venue from the library to the auditorium in the days leading up to Monday’s board meeting. Hundreds of parents, teachers and community members poured in to discuss roughly $1.877 million in proposed budget cuts for the 2010-2011 school year. One week ago, [...]

Former Bridgehampton High School basketball star Charles Maurice Manning, a.k.a “Mo,” was among five men arrested this week for allegedly operating a crack cocaine network throughout the East End. According to Southampton Town Police, town narcotics investigators and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents launched an investigation of the operation in January 2009.
Manning, 29, of Huntington [...]

Julie Resnick and her daughters Mae and Chloe, and Joyce Shulman with daughter Maddie enjoy the Dreamlike Puppet Theatre’s “Three Bears and Three Pigs” at Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre last Saturday.
As a parent, Joyce Shulman experienced first-hand the necessity for parents of young children to find community.
“I think we were built to live [...]

Sag Harbor Village recently inked a deal with Suffolk County to develop affordable housing at a Hempstead Street property, likely using both the Long Island Housing Partnership and the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust to administer and develop the housing, according to village Mayor Brian Gilbride.
Earlier this month, the village was contacted by Suffolk County’s [...]

Plugging the wish lists of the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees and those of all the department heads into the next year’s draft budget would result in a six percent spending increase over last year’s approved budget, according to village treasurer Eileen Touhy.
But following a worksession on Friday, Sag Harbor Mayor Brian Gilbride said [...]

By Georgia Suter
Promising more open governments and  more aggressive planning for the future, the newly elected supervisors for Southampton and East Hampton towns addressed a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons on Monday evening. Centrally located for both towns at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse on the Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Turnpike, the [...]

A narcotics investigation that started in January, 2009 in which Southampton Town Police Narcotics Investigators teamed up with Federal DEA Agents culminated today with the arrest of five local men charged with selling crack cocaine on the East End.
Arrested were: Charles Maurice Manning, aka “Mo”, age 29, of  Huntington Crossway, Bridgehampton, and of Lincoln Avenue, [...]

Nine East End residents, including two men from the Sag Harbor area, were arrested on Thursday, March 11, for their involvement in dealing cocaine throughout the South Fork. According to East Hampton Town Chief of Police ToddSarris, the roundup concluded a yearlong investigation conducted by town police in conjunction with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s [...]

By Marianna Levine
Last Saturday night, the term “Main drag” took on a whole new meaning in Sag Harbor. By 10 o’clock, it was standing room only at Blue Sky restaurant on Main Street where a wide range of people had turned out to see Danny Ximo’s “Raffa Show,” a cabaret in drag. Young, old, gay, [...]

By Marianna Levine

A proposal by one student to erect cost-saving solar panels on the school and a discussion of the benefits of foreign travel by another dominated the Bridgehampton School Board meeting on Monday night.
In addition, interim business administrator George Chesterton gave a brief update on the current proposed budget. The expected report on the [...]