The contest for election to the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees in June officially become a race after Kevin Duchemin turned in a petition this week to seek office. Duchemin was the only resident to turn in a petition to run against incumbent trustees Bruce Stafford and Robby Stein, according to Sag Harbor Village [...]

Photo by Susan Wawryk
There were few surprises during Election Night at the Bridgehampton School with the community coming out in favor of a proposed $10.7 million budget for 2012-2013 by a two-to-one margin and incumbent school board members finding the same level of support.
The Bridgehampton School Board’s proposed $10,696,364 – a 1.13 percent increase in [...]

Geoffrey Lynch’s plan to test the viability of a Hampton Jitney run passenger ferry service between Sag Harbor and Greenport continued to find support last week. The Village of Greenport authorized Mayor David Nyce to draft a letter of consent to allow the service to dock and operate out of Greenport on a trial basis [...]

On Sunday, India Attias and the sixth grade girls competing in the under 14 rowing competition at the Long Island Junior Rowing Championships won their race. The girls proudly wore their medals during a Tuesday night Sag Harbor Village Board meeting where they were fighting a different kind of battle — to keep Sag Harbor [...]

The Peconic Baykeeper talks about water quality, what communities need to do to protect bays and why if we don’t start soon it could be too late.
It’s the start of the season and we have already discovered a case of biotoxin in shellfish meat in Sag Harbor Cove. Is this a grim foretelling of what [...]

It is now legal in Sag Harbor Village to apply for a permit to run a passenger ferry service.
That is for now, anyway.
At Tuesday night’s Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees meeting that board voted 4-to-1 to amend village code to allow passenger ferry service in the village between now and October 31. Under the [...]

On Tuesday morning, as rain swept across the East End, a high school botany class convened in the Bridgehampton School’s greenhouse. While Jacob Hochstedler pruned spinach and arugula leaves for the school cafeteria salad bar, Christian Figueroa and Brian Minchala carefully planted baby lettuces in rich, dark soil. Elsewhere, Joshua Hochstedler, Aditya Nugraha and Sammy [...]

Some business owners and community members at a Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce dinner on Tuesday night criticized a proposal by the Hampton Jitney to begin a ferry service between Sag Harbor and Greenport villages this summer. They questioned whether it would benefit Sag Harbor businesses and its clientele or if it would instead clog [...]

Photo courtesy of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Sag Harbor and Upper Sag Harbor Coves have been closed for the harvesting of shellfish until further notice. This news came after the state discovered a marine biotoxin in the coves last week. The toxin — saxitoxin — can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.
On Thursday, April [...]

The Sag Harbor Village Planning Board has not yet decided whether a proposal to expand the Harbor Heights Service Station on Route 114 has the potential to cause a significant environmental impact. So on Tuesday night, the board asked developers to provide more information. Specifically, they’d like to see more detail in terms of traffic, [...]