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Puppets, Banjos & Balls, Oh My!

Posted on 18 March 2010

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 [...]

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Sag Harbor Embarks on First Affordable Housing Project

Posted on 18 March 2010

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 [...]

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Before Cuts, Sag Harbor Village Budget Up Six Percent

Posted on 18 March 2010

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 [...]

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Dispute Over Roadway Tops Agenda

Posted on 18 March 2010

After close to an hour of discussion on three different variances for the construction of a summer home for Matthew and Sarah Hastings on Notre Dame Road, the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals tabled the application after learning a dispute over a sliver of adjacent property was ongoing with the Sag Harbor Board of [...]

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Eating in With Steve Haweeli

Posted on 18 March 2010

By Kathryn G. Menu
Some might imagine dinner at home with Steve Haweeli, the founder of Hamptons Restaurant Week, to be a three-course affair, mirroring the detail and occasional decadence found in his client’s kitchens. But the WordHampton Public Relations President stays true to his New England roots, preferring simple, fresh and often classic cuisine he [...]

The Scramble for the Oscars

Posted on 12 March 2010

At one point on Sunday evening, Bay Street Theatre managing director Gary Hygom found himself surrounded in the booth by would-be Oscar viewers, desperately trying to help Hygom find a live feed able to broadcast the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
“Everyone had said, you can get it on ABC, you can get it on Hulu,” said [...]

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Sag Harbor Village Officials Say Justice Court Will Likely Cost Nothing

Posted on 12 March 2010

As the Village of Sag Harbor moves closer to establishing its own justice court, this week the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees unveiled a draft budget for the court, and after matching those figures with projected revenues, said it should break even at the very least, and may even make the village close to [...]

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Sustainability Coordinator Sparks Debate at CAC

Posted on 11 March 2010

Mirroring a similar debate at Southampton Town Hall – one that will likely be resolved by this week’s election – last week Sag Harbor Citizen Advisory Committee members Eric Cohen and Bill Collins entered a heated discussion about whether the town should utilize available grant monies and create a sustainability coordinator position.
On February 23, the [...]

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Staying Busy in the Warm & Cold

Posted on 11 March 2010

Temperatures soared this week and as residents of the East End became wistful of spring’s near arrival, trickles of second homeowners came out to enjoy the Hamptons’ natural beauty, and of course, its main streets.
For many business owners, this was the beginning of the end of a harsh winter marked by blizzards and quiet streets.
While [...]

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Stephen Tettelbach

Posted on 05 March 2010

The Long Island University professor, who is slated to give the lecture “The Long Road Back: Restoration of Peconic Bay Scallops” this Friday at Stony Brook-Southampton, talks about the challenges the bay scallop population has faced in recent years, the success of his team’s county-funded restoration project and his favorite way to cook the delicate [...]

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