By Annette Hinkle
For the last 14 years, the YARD program has provided Sag Harbor’s teens a place to go after school where they can do homework, play games or just socialize with their peers. YARD (which stands for Youth Advocacy Resource Development) also offers a “Safe Summer Beach Program” with students ages 12 to 18 [...]

By Annette Hinkle
Thirty five years ago last week, ABC aired a groundbreaking mini-series that kept millions of Americans glued to their television sets over eight consecutive nights.
The series, of course, was “Roots: Saga of an American Family,” David Wolper’s film based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel. The series was groundbreaking not only because the viewership [...]

Trace Duryea has led the East Hampton Town Republican Committee through two elections that secured a Republican majority on the town board as well as in the town trustees. But this week Duryea announced she would step down from the helm of the committee and hand the reins over to Kurt Kappel.
A Springs resident, who [...]

By Annette Hinkle
Despite their industrious nature and the fact that their pollination efforts are responsible for providing us with 95 percent of the fresh fruits and vegetables we enjoy on a regular basis, bees, it seems, get a bad rap.
Maybe it dates back to our collective memory of the elementary school playground and that one [...]

By Annette Hinkle
Take 55 Pierson middle schoolers, add some leather jackets and flouncy skirts, a liberal dose of doo-wop, plus a sock hop — and you’ve got “Grease,” that quintessential musical ode to life and love in a 1950s high school.
Ipana Toothpaste, Ricky Nelson and drive-in movies are hardly household terms for this generation of [...]

By Deborah Skinner
Last year, we had had 35+ inches of snow by this date. This year, we have had none. You may not be sledding but there is still a full January/ February calendar with plenty to do.
How about a ski trip? There is still time to reserve a seat for a ski and snowboard [...]

While professing a devotion to staying in the Village of Sag Harbor, in the same breath Bay Street Theatre administrators and board members made it clear Thursday night that a move to what will soon be the former Parrish Art Museum in Southampton Village may be the best option in the wake of the theater’s [...]

By Claire Walla
When the East End said goodbye to on-site landfills more than a decade ago, dumping habits inevitably changed. Instead of carting materials to a central location locally where they were either recycled or put into the ground, transfer stations were set up to collect residents’ unwanted debris and truck it elsewhere.
According to a [...]

By Annette Hinkle
This is the time of the year when the football season heads into the highlight zone. As the final four teams vying to win the Superbowl gear up to play their division championship games this weekend, many fans will gather around the flat screen to watch the action with friends and plenty [...]

By Annette Hinkle
In the depths of winter — even mild ones like this — it’s easy for East End residents to forget where they live. Shorter days and longer hours at work or school often conspire to keep year rounders from getting out of the house to remind themselves of why most of them moved [...]