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 [...]

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 Andrew Rudansky

The numbers are now in after the Sag Harbor Village Trustees unanimously adopted the general fund budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
Several work sessions were held by the trustees in February and March to put together the budget. It was ultimately passed this Tuesday, April 10.
According to village documents, Sag Harbor will operate [...]

by Andrew Rudansky

In a unanimous vote, the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees decided to honor John Ward by renaming the windmill on Long Wharf after the former mayor. Ward, a lifelong Sag Harbor native and member of the community, died on March 15, 2012 at the age of 90.
The trustees agreed to the renaming [...]

By Emily J. Weitz

You don’t hear much about alewife populations on sport-fishing boats in Montauk, and you don’t see alewives on the menu at Sen. These fish are not eaten by humans, so their health and numbers only impacts us in an indirect way. But they are excellent indicators of the overall health of our [...]

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 Emily J. Weitz

Urban Zen is a foundation begun by Donna Karan whose mission is to raise awareness and inspire change in the areas of well-being, preserving cultures and empowering children. One of the ongoing efforts of the Urban Zen Foundation is their committed work in Haiti. Next month, another group of local Urban Zen [...]

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 — [...]

Bulkhead, Municipal Building Repairs Move Forward
Keith Grimes has been awarded a $380,000 contract to construct a bulkhead on West Water Street for the Village of Sag Harbor.
Last Friday, the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees awarded Grimes the project, which was first proposed a year ago after a second winter battered the shoreline of village-owned [...]