Viva Sag Harbor

Dear Bryan,
Many thanks to Cheryl Bedini and the Elementary School PTA for organizing a truly wonderful Multi Cultural Feast last Friday night!  The evening of foods, music and dance from around the world was an amazing effort by countless cooks and performers!  Thank you all for this remarkable gift to our children and [...]

Board Should Resist Pressure

Dear Editor:
Please publish my address to the Sag Harbor School Board:
I would like to address the board this evening and wish the board success in arriving at a solution to Saturday’s scheduled contract negotiations, hopefully, by solving their differences, in the best interest of the entire community. In the last several BOE [...]

When it Snowed

Dear Bryan,
When I saw the December 24, 2009 issue of the Express with the great snow pictures, especially the front page color picture, I was going to write and tell Michael Heller how much I liked his photos. I also wanted to comment on Brian Gilbride’s statement, “I’ve lived here all my life [...]

Room to Grow

Dear Bryan,
My grandfather, Bill Trimpin, was a Sag Harbor Village Trustee for sixteen years before being elected Mayor in 1946. He died from a heart attack in 1951 when I was one year old. I only know him from photographs, family stories, and the comments of villagers. By all accounts he was “a [...]

No Poop Here

Dear Bryan
I just wanted to contact you about the doggie park and tell you that I must disagree completely with Bruce Tait’s comment in the paper on 14 January that one cannot walk in the field over there without stepping in dog poop. Quite honestly, I take my dog there nearly every day [...]

Will Sag Harbor Rise to the Challenge?

Dear Bryan,
The Teacher’s Association of Sag Harbor’s (TASH) website has a section titled, “How can parents help?” Their suggestions include: “ask questions, get the facts and make informed decisions.”
After TASH introduced the gray t-shirts pleading for parents and the community to get involved in this dispute, I did just [...]

Leave it to the Professionals

Dear Bryan,
While the Teachers Association of Sag Harbor applauds the efforts of parents investigating what is at the root of the dispute over contract negotiations, we are disheartened by the inaccurate reporting of information in Point of View by Susan Lamontagne (Sag Harbor Express, January 21)
Representatives of the Teachers Association met [...]

What Do Teachers Make?

Dear Editor:
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy 
A friend who sends me funny jokes, stories, chain [...]

Solving a Snowy Problem

Dear Bryan,
I’ve gotten some positive feedback from my CONPOSH New Year’s Day comments in last week’s Express regarding failure to shovel sidewalks after snowstorms. I did want to make clear that it is by no means only the Whaling Museum, Custom House, and (sometimes) Historical Society properties that aren’t cleared…many private houses [...]

Tee Shirts a Humbug

To the Editor:
“Bah, humbug” to the teachers of Sag Harbor for forcing our students to endure the teachers’ tee-shirts inside the classroom for the entire first half of the academic year. If the teachers’ intention is to garner support for their cause, they are failing. If their intention is to alienate the [...]