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Preparing for Hurricane Earl: LIRR Service Suspended, Tropical Conditions Expected

Posted on 02 September 2010

On Thursday, the day before Hurricane Earl is predicted to pass off the coast of Montauk Point, official and individuals around Sag Harbor Village and the East End made preparations for the storm. Citing Earl, the Long Island Rail Road canceled service east of Speonk and Ronkonkoma on Friday. Even though the hurricane is expected [...]

Two for the Road: Hegedus and Pennebaker Muse on Subject and Story

Posted on 02 September 2010

Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker tend to let the subjects of their documentaries find them.
“They almost always come to us. It’s very Zen. Zen [Buddhism] says ‘never look, never refuse,’” Pennebaker remarked leaning back in a wooden chair at his kitchen table in Sag Harbor on a warm weekend morning.
Above: George Stephanopoulos [...]

Radio 88.3 Gets a Three Day Reprieve

Posted on 01 September 2010

By Claire Walla
It’s the stuff heart-warming movies are made of: grassroots company forms in an effort to save community radio station from private interests, while struggling to raise nearly a million dollars in less than a year.
Only this tale is true, and we’re still not sure about the Hollywood ending.
On Tuesday, August 31, Long Island [...]

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After 60 Years, Long Beach Dedicated to Man Who Molded Its Image

Posted on 31 August 2010

Clifford Foster, a Sagaponack farmer, a President of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank and last private owner of Long Beach, had a clear vision for his 13-acre property which connected Noyac to North Haven. Seven years after his death in 1943, Foster’s sons Charles and Everett deeded the stretch of shoreline to Southampton Town. As [...]

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Town Plans for Deluge

Posted on 31 August 2010

Southampton Town Superintendent of Highways Alex Gregor believes the rain storm of March 29, 2010 will go down in the history books as the most catastrophic weather event of the year. The title is no small feat in a 12-month period that experienced blizzards and heatwaves.
“That rain did more damage than all of the [...]

Cocaine on Main: Police make downtown bust

Posted on 31 August 2010

To the untrained eye, it was an average Saturday evening in Sag Harbor on August 21. The northern end of Main Street was teeming with children balancing overloaded ice cream cones, adults chatting, and the familiar blare of horns navigating the confusing intersection by the flag pole. In the midst of this ordinary scene was [...]

Library Gets Okay for Temporary Home on West Water Street

Posted on 27 August 2010

Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library scored a victory on Tuesday night in front of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board and was granted permission for a waiver to undergo site plan approval for a temporary library space on West Water Street, effectively giving the library permission to relocate to another site this fall without [...]

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Vintage Vines Back on Southampton Town Planning Agenda

Posted on 27 August 2010

A proposed 37-lot subdivision on 48.6 acres in Bridgehampton will be back in front of the Southampton Town Planning Board this Thursday, with a public hearing slated for 7 p.m. on the preliminary subdivision application and a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed project.
The project – located west of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, south [...]

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Thiele Deflects Conflict Charge from Opposition

Posted on 27 August 2010

Richard Blumenthal, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate vying for incumbent New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr.’s seat this November charged last week that the Sag Harbor native risks a conflict of interest in serving both as the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees’ village attorney and as a state assemblyman.
Thiele, a former [...]

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Sag Harbor Planners Warm to Textile Studio at Former Church

Posted on 27 August 2010

On Tuesday night, members of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board said they favored Elizabeth Dow’s proposal to convert the former Sag Harbor United Methodist Church on Madison Street into a center for textile design, retail and education, but asked for permission to tour Dow’s Amagansett studio before sending a formal letter of support to [...]

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