At one point on Sunday evening, Bay Street Theatre managing director Gary Hygom found himself surrounded in the booth by would-be Oscar viewers, desperately trying to help Hygom find a live feed able to broadcast the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
“Everyone had said, you can get it on ABC, you can get it on Hulu,” said [...]

As the Village of Sag Harbor moves closer to establishing its own justice court, this week the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees unveiled a draft budget for the court, and after matching those figures with projected revenues, said it should break even at the very least, and may even make the village close to [...]

By Marissa Maier
 
After an unsuccessful bid for Southampton Town Council in the November general election followed by months on a grueling campaign trail, Bridget Fleming received some good news on Tuesday evening. At around 10 p.m., Fleming learned she had won the special election to fill the vacant seat on the Southampton Town Board, left [...]

By Marissa Maier
On Monday, March 8, a hush fell over the audience at the Sag Harbor Board of Education meeting as director of business operations Janet Verneuille revealed a grim fiscal outlook for the 2010-2011 school budget.
Before proposing close to $1 million in cuts, Verneuille presented a total budget of $32,593,356 with a proposed tax [...]

Mirroring a similar debate at Southampton Town Hall – one that will likely be resolved by this week’s election – last week Sag Harbor Citizen Advisory Committee members Eric Cohen and Bill Collins entered a heated discussion about whether the town should utilize available grant monies and create a sustainability coordinator position.
On February 23, the [...]

Temperatures soared this week and as residents of the East End became wistful of spring’s near arrival, trickles of second homeowners came out to enjoy the Hamptons’ natural beauty, and of course, its main streets.
For many business owners, this was the beginning of the end of a harsh winter marked by blizzards and quiet streets.
While [...]

by Marianna Levine
James Dwoskin, a commercial real estate developer and Sag Harbor resident, has just come back from another eight-day trip to Nicaragua. This voyage, like the ones before, weren’t motivated by sea and sun, but rather by a desire to make a difference in the Western Hemisphere’s second poorest country. Of the nation’s 5.6 [...]

By Marianna Levine

After February’s lively Bridgehampton school board meeting concerning district staffing, last Wednesday’s board workshop was much quieter, open and unusually short with no executive session following it as well. The workshop focused on the possibility of tuitioning in students from other school districts. As noted during the last meeting, discussion of the school’s [...]

By Marissa Maier
Before the special election on March 9, Southampton Town Board candidates William Hughes and Bridget Fleming duked it out in a final debate last Wednesday, February 24, at the Southampton Cultural Center. The pair are vying for a vacant council seat on the town board, left empty by Anna Throne-Holst, who was [...]

Having already been cited by the Village of Sag Harbor, in a court case yet to be determined, on Monday night attorney Edward Burke, Jr. and his wife Patricia approached the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board to change the use of a historic building they recently converted into office spaces, in an effort to legalize [...]