Can Police Cover? Dear Editor, In reference to articles in the Sag Harbor Express and Southampton Press “Village Budget Nixes Two Cop Positions.” Not having expertise in being a Village Mayor or being a Village Board Trustee but happen to be a Sag Harbor Village Taxpayer, will someone explain how nine cops will man the [...]

By Amanda Wyatt With golf season on the horizon, the Poxabogue Golf Center — one of the few public courses on the South Fork — is set to change hands. After a few months of review by a special selection committee, the Southampton Town Board accepted a bid last week from Third Rock Management Company [...]

February is upon us and we have had a more normal winter as far as weather goes. The skaters had two or three days of pond ice and then it melted. It looks like the extended forecast is for daytime temps in the 30′s, which is normal for this time of the year. We are [...]

By Claire Walla When it comes to triathlons, “the biggest mistake people make is jumping in without being prepared,” said triathlete Richard Izzo. He should know. The 21-year veteran who coordinates two well-attended races each year, speaks from experience. “I made all the mistakes you could possibly make,” he said of his first triathlon in [...]

Paying Respect The funeral went badly. Six people came for the free food. Four from guilt. It rained hard. The grave diggers cursed and covered the coffin. -Frank Ackley   Submit your story.

By Claire Walla   There’s a certain type of person that comes to the Hamptons. He or she bears a certain type of je ne sais quoi, a demeanor so difficult to pin down by adjectives and clearly defined labels, this person is best conveyed by anecdotes: The man who offers a relative stranger a [...]

There’s a new show at the Museum of Natural History running through December 2 called, “Spiders Alive!” Where the innovative, sadistic curators have combined real, live (the kind that will make you real dead), polycarbonate-reinforced glass-encased spiders — with sculptural interpretations. Like one of a male, golden-orb spider, 70 times life size, orbing from the [...]

A small crowd gathered in Sag Harbor’s Marine Park on Friday morning to dedicate a bench to Dolores Mulvihill Zebrowski. Zebrowski has been a long time supporter of the Southampton Trails Preservation Society and has personally donated property to the Society. She was also notable for allowing members of the public to hike on her [...]

By Amanda Wyatt What was a few weeks ago a smattering of voices urging the Sag Harbor School Board to elect, rather than appoint, its new member, is now something resembling a movement. For slightly over a week now, a petition to hold elections for the vacant school board seat left by Walter Wilcoxen’s resignation [...]

In this wealthy community of lavish parties, high profile people, over-sized houses, and over-priced almost everything else, it’s encouraging to learn about another affordable housing complex being built. By November 2012, St. Michaels Housing complex in Amagansett, a 40 unit affordable housing project, paid for with HUD funds and property sold by Amagansett’s St. Michaels [...]