Above: School Board Candidate Tom Gleeson (top, far left) waits to hear the results of Tuesday’s election.
Coming as no surprise to the small crowd gathered in the Pierson Middle/High School gymnasium Tuesday, May 15, the Sag Harbor School District’s proposed $34,182,256 million budget passed by a landslide, with 892 votes for the budget versus only [...]

by Claire Walla

Until last week, you might not have known there was any opposition to Proposition #2.
This bond measure, which will be on the Sag Harbor School District ballot this Tuesday, May 15, would allow the district to spend $575,000 to purchase six new buses, a move the district argues would save up to $1 [...]

By Claire Walla

Keeping high-fructose corn syrup at bay, the Sag Harbor School Board says the Wellness Policy stays as is.
The Sag Harbor Board of Education faced outrage from some parents at its last meeting in April regarding proposed changes to the district’s newly adopted Wellness Policy. The proposal, which would have amended the policy to [...]

The race for two seats on the Sag Harbor School Board has three contestants: the veteran, the local and the experienced newcomer. All candidates met inside the Pierson auditorium last Thursday, May 3 for the annual “Meet the Candidates” debate run by the Sag Harbor Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and moderated by Bryan Boyhan, publisher [...]

by Claire Walla

As many in the biking community are well aware, BikeHampton, Sag Harbor’s only bike shop, is no more.
And some know this better than others.
When the shop’s owner, Dave Krum, moved to Florida and the store closed its doors in December 2011, it also effectively closed off access to dozens of bicycles, leaving many [...]

Around 1:30 p.m. this afternoon, Trevor Perry of Chem Dry, a carpet-cleaning service, was nearly halfway through cleaning the carpets of a two-story home on Sylvan Drive in Noyac, when he noticed the carpet cleaner he was using started to lose suction.
When he stepped outside to check on the exhaust—located inside the company van, which [...]

Charles Edwards, 56, of Calverton whose leg was partially severed following a head-on collision with a tree in North Haven yesterday afternoon has died, according to Southampton Town Police.
Edwards was driving an Isuzu boxtruck delivery truck for Helen’s Greenhouse and Flower Farm in Aquebogue when he veered across the opposite lane and hit the tree. [...]

By Claire Walla

So, you wanna be part of the Cash Mob? Here’s all you gotta to know:
You’re going to spend $20.
So will dozens of your friends.
You don’t know where you’re going to spend this money.
And you won’t know until minutes before you actually do.
Capiche?
Ok, despite how it may sound, Cash Mob is actually a concept [...]

By Claire Walla

If you lease a mooring space from Sag Harbor Village, and you only use it part-time, why not rent it out to transient boaters rather than let it sit vacant?
That’s the theory behind Ken Deeg’s business, which he has run out of the Sag Harbor for the past seven years. However, things are [...]

Above: Pierson Senior Ronald Aucapina and his award.
By Claire Walla

Last month, Pierson High School senior Ronald Aucapina was issued an award for stellar academic achievement.
“Across the board, Ronald was recognized by the faculty as being a successful student,” said Pierson High School Vice Principal Gary Kalish, who added that Aucapina currently maintains a grade point [...]