Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library scored a victory on Tuesday night in front of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board and was granted permission for a waiver to undergo site plan approval for a temporary library space on West Water Street, effectively giving the library permission to relocate to another site this fall without [...]

A proposed 37-lot subdivision on 48.6 acres in Bridgehampton will be back in front of the Southampton Town Planning Board this Thursday, with a public hearing slated for 7 p.m. on the preliminary subdivision application and a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed project.
The project – located west of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, south [...]

Richard Blumenthal, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate vying for incumbent New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr.’s seat this November charged last week that the Sag Harbor native risks a conflict of interest in serving both as the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees’ village attorney and as a state assemblyman.
Thiele, a former [...]

On Tuesday night, members of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board said they favored Elizabeth Dow’s proposal to convert the former Sag Harbor United Methodist Church on Madison Street into a center for textile design, retail and education, but asked for permission to tour Dow’s Amagansett studio before sending a formal letter of support to [...]

This week the slate of candidates seeking election to the John Jermain Memorial Library Board of Trustees was announced and with just three residents of the library district running for four open seats on the board, a write-in candidate will likely fill the unexpired one-year term of former board member Theresa Ameres.
Current trustees Carl Peterson [...]

Having already assembled a planning reform advisory group, this week Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst promised members of the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee that she will strive towards creating a more public planning process, where residents can weigh in on development plans and even planned development districts before they get too far down the pike, [...]

Sag Harbor Village’s harbors and docks have seen a growth in revenues this season, while enforcement of basic waterfront laws has also increased under the leadership of Harbor Master Bob Bori, hired last year by the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees after the resignation of Ed Swenson last October.
According to village records, revenues for [...]

Sag Harbor Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board Chairman Cee Scott Brown has watched over the years as historic homes in the village have been altered, without a permit, their owners either oblivious to the responsibility inherent when owning a residence in the historic district of Sag Harbor, or trying avoid the often costly nature [...]

After growing up on his family’s farm in Ames, Iowa, where Dale Haubrich began his career as an organic farmer in 1978, the world had a dramatically different food culture, with only one state — California — certifying organic produce.
“I took crops to the grocery store in Ames, Iowa and was told it couldn’t be [...]

Since 2008, a small group of children have gathered at the Ludlow Farm in Mecox, spending their days enthralled in a summer camp focused on the outdoors, art, imaginative free play and gathering together engaged in simple rituals like making vegetable soup and homemade bread for snack time.
Directed by Lisa Bono, a certified and experienced [...]