By Bryan Boyhan
After 50 years in journalism, what have you learned?
My specialty has been investigative reporting, and what I’ve learned is what I picked up way back, when I was an intern at the Cleveland Press. The Press was a hot bed of investigative reporting. It was founded by E.W. Scripps, who was a leader [...]

How are our local waters?
They’re pretty good, scallops are on the rebound. There has been lots of talk about bugs, and we have high hopes for this year. We do a scallop sanctuary project and seed heavily. We broadcast the spawners and keep them pretty dense; the closer together they are the more likely they [...]

Sag Harbor Express staff traveled to Saratoga Springs, New York, this past weekend for the annual New York Press Association’s convention and Better Newspaper Contest. The Express returned with 32 awards, including the Stuart Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence, the state association’s highest award for weekly community newspapers.
In all, 158 newspapers competed in the contest, [...]

When it comes to sports, a group of local parents wants to make sure that no child is left behind in the intense competition of school athletics where not everyone who wants to play always makes the team.
All children benefit from the exercise, self-confidence, and sense of sportsmanship and team effort that goes along with [...]

In their search for a Long Island Class C Championship, the Pierson Whalers boys varsity basketball team came within just one game. Faced with the tough interior game and up-tempo style of play of the East Rockaway Rocks, Pierson fell in a landslide, 63-25, loss.
This game, played on the night of Tuesday, March 6 at [...]

By Claire Walla

A blazing fire last Friday, February 10 in Wainscott claimed the life of William Bauer, 78, according to the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad.
The Bridgehampton Fire Department was called out to the Cozy Cottages Complex at 395 Montauk Highway in Wainscott to respond to a fire at Unit 11 shortly after 6 p.m. [...]

By Bryan Boyhan

At its height, CONPOSH — the Coalition of Neighborhoods for the Preservation of Sag Harbor — was such an influential organization that prospective developers would come before them to see if the group — with representatives from nearly two dozen neighborhoods — planned to fight their application.
In the end, there was not even a handful left on [...]

The musician and organizer of the November 10 All That Jazz benefit concert at Bay Street Theatre on Sag Harbor’s music scene, jamming on Thursdays and musicians who crash and burn.

How did the benefit concert come about?
It actually came about in April of this year, and we were initially shooting for a May benefit. [...]

A New Jersey man visiting a family member’s Sag Harbor summer home with his fiancée last weekend, tumbled off the end of Long Wharf Saturday night and drowned.
Suffolk County Homicide Detectives identified the man as Christopher Valentine, 56, of Parsippany, N.J. There was no evidence of criminality, a spokesperson for the county homicide department said, [...]

The former owner of an 18th century — and presumed haunted — building on Main Street talks about believing in ghosts and what might be hereafter.

So, do you believe in ghosts?
Unequivocally.

Why is that?
From personal experiences. There are two that have made their presence known to me.

Oh, where?
For many years I owned the building at 125 Main Street, [...]