Driven to Relocate   Dear Bryan, I would like to thank Patricia Currie for her letter last week … and also all the members of the Quiet Skies Coalition for trying to bring some sanity back to our lives. We all know we live in a resort community and what that involves. When traffic was [...]

Not in My Air Space   Dear Editor, For decades East Hampton airport has been directing its noisy airport operations over other towns, yet nothing has been done to stop them; from last July, 80 percent of air traffic in and out of East Hampton airport has been directed over residents in other communities, not [...]

Look Forward to Change Dear Editor: At the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals meeting of April 16, the lawyer representing the developers of Harbor Heights gas station indicated that the project would be redesigned. This is good news. The earlier designs, which we opposed, significantly exceeded multiple requirements of the village code, and threatened [...]

Can Police Cover? Dear Editor, In reference to articles in the Sag Harbor Express and Southampton Press “Village Budget Nixes Two Cop Positions.” Not having expertise in being a Village Mayor or being a Village Board Trustee but happen to be a Sag Harbor Village Taxpayer, will someone explain how nine cops will man the [...]

Board Has Best Interests at Heart Dear Sag Harbor Express, I was recently invited to sign a petition asking the Sag Harbor School Board to focus on issues of governance, process and respect. My initial reaction was, “Of course!” These are all important and admirable goals for any board. Who wouldn’t want to sign this? [...]

IB More Highly Regarded   To the Editor: Mr. Thomas M. Jones  (“A Step Backwards,” The Sag Harbor Express, March 21, 2013) makes an argument in favor of AP courses over the IB program entirely on financial grounds by stating that students can reduce their college tuition by earning AP credits. Parents should realize that [...]

Defensive Voices Dear Bryan, Walter Tice in his letter (“Don’t Be Distracted,” The Sag Harbor Express, March 21, 2013) charged that your paper’s reporting on Gregg Schiavoni’s recent resignation from the school board was deficient. He wrote that because of this ”there is a danger that the general public will be led to question the quality [...]

Don’t Be Distracted   Dear Editor: Last week’s edition of The Express contained a front-page story, an editorial and four letters-to-the-editor about the recent resignation of a member of the board of education. As a former Sag Harbor Board of Ed member and president of the board, I am concerned by the nature of your [...]

Expect Professionalism Dear Bryan, It is disappointing but not surprising that school board member Gregg Schiavoni felt the only option left to him was to resign from the Sag Harbor School Board. When the board is dysfunctional and not fulfilling its responsibilities to the community it represents, problems only multiply which corrode performance and negatively impact [...]

Need Safe Plan   Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the editorial entitled “Get Moving” from February 14. This editorial seems to say that people in Noyac are opposed to finding a solution to the traffic problem by the Whalebone/Cromers Market area. That is NOT the case! What we DO have a problem [...]