Almost a year after the Village of Sag Harbor formally legalized the keeping of chickens, the artist, educator and mother who championed the cause and helped draft the law came before the Sag Harbor Planning Board on Tuesday with the first official application for a chicken coop.
Grand Street resident Mare Dianora appeared before the planning [...]

Late Tuesday afternoon, after months of uncertainty about its future, the board of the Bay Street Theatre announced it had inked a new lease with landlord Patrick Malloy III to remain in its Long Wharf home in Sag Harbor.
According to Bay Street Theatre Board of Directors President Frank Filipo, Malloy has given the theatre a [...]

William Lester was born in 1900 and as soon as he was old enough to walk he was fishing. A bayman like his father before him, William passed the skill and tradition to his own son, who in turn shared it with his children, Daniel and Paul, brothers who now work nets in Accabonac Harbor [...]

Last Wednesday, the Bridgehampton School Board of Education formally adopted a $10,696,364 budget for the 2012-2013 school year. The budget represents a 1.1-percent or $119,650 increase over last year’s budget and falls below the New York State imposed two-percent tax cap.
The tax levy, or the amount of money the school district will seek to raise [...]

An antique store for an antique house?
That was the question the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board considered on Tuesday night. While the discussion was preliminary and brief, members warmed to the idea that the historic Gingerbread House on Main Street could be preserved while hosting La Maisonette on the first floor and a second floor [...]

The Larry Rivers sculpture “Legs” was given walking papers at the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on Tuesday. The board denied an application by Janet Lehr and Ruth Vered to legalize the 16-foot sculpture, which was erected three years ago next to their Madison Street home.
According to Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board [...]

Three years ago, Lillian Tyree-Johnson, Doug DeGroot and Ronald White battled through a contentious school board race which revolved largely around the question of whether or not the Bridgehampton School District should allow students to go to high school elsewhere. The concept sparked emotional debates and ultimately united a community intent on supporting its school [...]

Around Memorial Day, people passing through Montauk Highway in Wainscott will have a new seasonal business offering a variety of local produce and perhaps even fish in a farm stand setting.
This kind of establishment is traditional on the East End — except in this case the store being opened is organic food market giant Whole [...]

By Kathryn G. Menu

A proposal to launch a passenger ferry service between Greenport and Sag Harbor has earned favorable marks from a majority of the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees. The main problem as Memorial Day draws near? It is unequivocally illegal to operate any kind of ferry service in the Village of Sag [...]

By Kathryn G. Menu

The Village of Sag Harbor is poised to adopt an $8,056,311 budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. If a public hearing held last Friday is any indication, no one is protesting the 2.78-percent increase in spending.
Under New York State’s mandated two-percent tax cap, the village is allowed to raise its levy — [...]