by Marissa Maier
Anticipating a rare turnout, the Sag Harbor school board switched the venue from the library to the auditorium in the days leading up to Monday’s board meeting. Hundreds of parents, teachers and community members poured in to discuss roughly $1.877 million in proposed budget cuts for the 2010-2011 school year. One week ago, [...]

Former Bridgehampton High School basketball star Charles Maurice Manning, a.k.a “Mo,” was among five men arrested this week for allegedly operating a crack cocaine network throughout the East End. According to Southampton Town Police, town narcotics investigators and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents launched an investigation of the operation in January 2009.
Manning, 29, of Huntington [...]

Julie Resnick and her daughters Mae and Chloe, and Joyce Shulman with daughter Maddie enjoy the Dreamlike Puppet Theatre’s “Three Bears and Three Pigs” at Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre last Saturday.
As a parent, Joyce Shulman experienced first-hand the necessity for parents of young children to find community.
“I think we were built to live [...]

Sag Harbor Village recently inked a deal with Suffolk County to develop affordable housing at a Hempstead Street property, likely using both the Long Island Housing Partnership and the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust to administer and develop the housing, according to village Mayor Brian Gilbride.
Earlier this month, the village was contacted by Suffolk County’s [...]

Plugging the wish lists of the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees and those of all the department heads into the next year’s draft budget would result in a six percent spending increase over last year’s approved budget, according to village treasurer Eileen Touhy.
But following a worksession on Friday, Sag Harbor Mayor Brian Gilbride said [...]

By Marissa Maier
Support for solar panels is gaining traction throughout the country. On March 1, New York State Governor David Paterson joined in these efforts by distributing $888,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act monies to energy conservation projects in Sag Harbor, Southampton and East Hampton villages. According to Jennifer Mesiano, who helps draft grant [...]

By Marianna Levine
Rich Decker of Studio 89, a personal training facility in Sag Harbor, has recently been hired by the Hamptons Gym Corporation (owned by Alexis and Martha Stewart) to manage all three of their East End facilities. Decker, a personal trainer and fitness facility manager for over 23 years, was employed earlier this month [...]

The future of the Southampton Town leaf and brush pickup program will be the subject of a special forum next week, and the newly-elected superintendent of highways, Alex Gregor, hopes changes could save his department money.
Gregor told the Noyac Civic Council Tuesday night his department spends well over a million dollars each year to pick [...]

By Georgia Suter
Promising more open governments and  more aggressive planning for the future, the newly elected supervisors for Southampton and East Hampton towns addressed a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons on Monday evening. Centrally located for both towns at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse on the Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Turnpike, the [...]

A narcotics investigation that started in January, 2009 in which Southampton Town Police Narcotics Investigators teamed up with Federal DEA Agents culminated today with the arrest of five local men charged with selling crack cocaine on the East End.
Arrested were: Charles Maurice Manning, aka “Mo”, age 29, of  Huntington Crossway, Bridgehampton, and of Lincoln Avenue, [...]