by Lauren Chattman
When I moved to Sag Harbor 16 years ago, Java Nation had just opened for business. Not only was it a place to hang out with my infant daughter on days off from my restaurant job, it was a beacon of taste and a sign of good things to come. Before there was [...]

Ross Boys Basketball (5-4)
The Ross Cosmos boys varsity basketball team look playoff bound after coming off a string of victories this past week. On Saturday, January 28 the Cosmos beat the visiting Knox Falcons, 58-43, in a non-league match. Ross popped out to a 24-5 lead at the end of the first quarter, not trailing [...]

By Andrew Rudansky

The good news just keeps rolling in for the Pierson Whalers boys’ varsity basketball team, which clinched its Class C playoff berth this past week. Dominating on both sides of the ball, the Whalers first beat the Bridgehampton Killer Bees in a decisive 73-57 victory on Friday, January 27. The following Tuesday, January [...]

By Andrew Rudansky

In a game that had all the appearances of an upset, The Pierson/Bridgehampton Lady Whalers girls’ varsity basketball team slipped behind late and fell to the Shelter Island Indians, 37-30. Both team’s entered the Tuesday, January 31 contest with a 5-2 record, but the high scoring Indians and their star forward Kelsey McGayhey [...]

A complement of black artists make and exhibit whole.

By Emily J Weitz
On the East End, black history is as complex a topic as it is anywhere. That’s why, as the Southampton Cultural Center prepares its third annual art exhibition honoring Black History Month, Curator Arlene Bujese chose to select four African-American artists who express their [...]

Peter Price, 66, died unexpectedly at his home in Sag Harbor on January 24, 2012. Mr. Price was born in the Bronx, N.Y. on November 29, 1945 to Melvin and Paula Price. The family moved to Bayside, Queens where he grew up and attended school.
He completed a degree in architecture at Pratt Institute and was [...]

Alexander B. Brook died at his home in Newcastle, Maine on Monday, January 23 of a heart attack. Formerly of North Haven, he would have been 90 on June 20.
Mr. Brook was born in Woodstock, N.Y. in 1922 to the artist Alexander Brook and the former Peggy Bacon. He worked in Maine during summer vacations [...]

By Emily J Weitz
Sure, you’ve been to CMEE and SOFO and the playground and the beach, but have you and your kids checked out Hampton Pediatric Dental? Because for the past 18 years, Dr. Nancy Cosenza has been making kids’ trips to the dentist a pretty good time. With euphemistic names for dental instruments like [...]

As we were working through our stories this week, we were struck by a theme that seemed to come up more than once — the notion of partnership and collaboration.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times or maybe it’s the need to rally around community. In any case, we think it’s a good precedent and [...]

By Karl Grossman

More than a century ago, my father’s father came from Hungary to America and worked at the watchcase factory built by Joseph Fahys in Sag Harbor. Engraving was a major art among Hungarian Jews and Fahys and his agents would seek out Hungarian Jewish engravers when they arrived at Ellis Island and take [...]