Sag Harbor resident Robert Hooke is a sculptor, gallery owner and former Navy captain, who has single handedly sailed across the Atlantic Ocean several times and participated in an around-the world trans-ocean sailing event in 1991.
But what many people may not know about “Captain” Hooke is that he is also a treasure hunter.
The John Jermain [...]

Last year, Sag Harbor’s Bay Burger restaurant debuted its lobster roll to the delight of both regular customers and tourists alike, although year round patrons bemoaned the loss of the popular summer sandwich from the eatery’s menu once fall arrived.
This year, for a select handful, patrons will say adieu to another summer and the East [...]

One day before massive cuts to classes and residency at Stony Brook Southampton was set to take place, and just as Stony Brook Southampton student and Sag Harbor native Katie Osiecki began to matriculate at the university’s main campus, she received a phone call from New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr.
“The first sentence [...]

By Claire Wala
But—you ask—how can something be both wild and tame?
To find out, stop at the Whaling Museum in Sag Harbor on Sep. 4, where the Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons (WRC) and the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation (SASF) will join forces to make this strange dichotomy come to life for their first ever [...]

Crowded around a lunch table on a Friday afternoon last fall, men and women displayed the smiles of young children, licking a luscious chocolate sauce from their fingertips while enjoying the crisp, creamy flavor of homemade profiteroles in honor of Quail Hill Farm director and organic farmer Scott Chaskey, whose birthday was the cause for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Ellen Frankman
The commercial lure of seine fishing takes a back seat this weekend, as local fisherman Al “Big Time” Daniels and the South Fork Nature Center team up to expose both kids and their parents to the creatures we share our waters with daily.
Seining is a technique practiced in its earliest time thousands of [...]

“Emily and I and some of the farmers view this as the lost town square,” Michael Denslow remarked of the Community Farmers’ Market at the Hayground School. Denslow and his wife Emily started the market last season. The market has quickly flourished beyond its original intent into a place where people can listen to [...]

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 [...]