The school cafeteria has had many incarnations in its history. Over fifty years ago, pupils were still skipping home for an afternoon recess to eat a meal at home. With a majority of professions still closed to women, mothers and female caretakers were relegated to the house and kitchen making their homes and children or [...]

When the United Methodist Church was sold in 2008 by a congregation no longer able to care financially for their aging, historic church in dire need of repair, it was a sad day for the whole of Sag Harbor as we watched a celebrated building fall into private hands then fall further into disrepair.
While not [...]

Congratulations to the group of community members who have begun to make a dream into a reality. Conceiving of something like an Eco Walk shows there are great ideas for expanding our understanding of where sources of education can come from. Making that idea come to life demonstrates that, in Sag Harbor at least, a [...]

Founded in 1963 by Long Island University, the current Stony Brook Southampton campus was once Southampton College, an institution that produced 34 Fulbright scholars and boasted Kermit the Frog as its commencement speaker one year. From the early 1990s on, the college’s officials made a conscious decision to focus on the sciences and creating writing, [...]

Water Woes
The Suffolk County Water Authority has put the East End on notice. Officials maintain water usage hasn’t yet reached full blown crisis proportions, but the public’s reaction to their efforts is telling. It is interesting that rates of use remained unabated despite a vigorous campaign on SCWA’s part. We doubt that this most recent [...]

A half century or more ago in Sag Harbor, boarding houses were a way of life. They attracted young people looking for a place to live when they were new to the village, refugees escaping the heat of the city for a summer, or traveling salesmen spending just a few days here before moving on.
But [...]

There seems to be a problem in this village with doors being shut long after the horse has fled the barn. Or more specifically, fences being installed that block the water views and bear no resemblance to what the village boards have specifically approved in the first place.
Attention developers: rulings by these boards are not [...]

This week, we were happy to see Southampton Town act swiftly in the case of a rental property just outside Sag Harbor Village that had recently gotten out of hand. For too many seasons, we’ve seen residents forced to deal with rental houses that were allowed to operate far too long before action was taken. [...]

There was this dead rat, rolled over on its side baking on the blacktop in the early Monday morning sun; flies buzzing around its glassy eyes. A few feet away torn plastic garbage bags floated like seedy little clouds and a half-eaten roast beef sandwich, Styrofoam boxes, an empty bottle of Miller and a tightly [...]

Art objects have always existed in a somewhat gray area when it comes to matters of taste, to say nothing of municipal zoning. What one person views as a masterpiece, another could claim assaults their eyes. And when subjective taste is involved in crafting or enforcing everything from village code to federal decency standards, it [...]