by Claire Walla

As many in the biking community are well aware, BikeHampton, Sag Harbor’s only bike shop, is no more.
And some know this better than others.
When the shop’s owner, Dave Krum, moved to Florida and the store closed its doors in December 2011, it also effectively closed off access to dozens of bicycles, leaving many [...]

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story misidentified Mark Schmidt as the former co-owner of Bike Hampton. He was never involved in the running of the store, though he invested in the business about 10 years ago.
When Bob Michaelson and his wife took their bicycles to BikeHampton for repairs last fall, they thought nothing [...]

By Claire Walla
In the span of about a month, two Audi’s were stolen in the greater Sag Harbor area, Southampton Town Police say.
One white 2011 A8 was reported missing from a residence in Noyac last week, and a blue 2006 A4 went missing in Bridgehampton sometime between late January and the middle of February, police [...]

This past January, four Sag Harbor youths were arrested and charged with making graffiti in the village.
But instead of attending Family Court and going through a routine probationary process, they went to Youth Court, where their cases will be heard not only by a jury of their peers, but by a bench of legal council [...]

By Claire Walla

Sag Harbor Village Police Detective Jeff Proctor made his way to the Pierson Middle/High School campus last Thursday, January 2 where he proceeded to Mrs. Duff’s second-floor classroom and stood face-to-face with 16 middle school students.
He wasn’t there to make an arrest, or investigate a case; he was there to educate the students [...]

After witnessing a “red glow” to the north of her residence, a Water Mill woman reported a house fire in Water Mill on Thursday night. Police and fire departments from throughout the region responded to the scene, according to a press release issued by the Southampton Town Police.
At  approximately 6:47 pm, a resident from Head of [...]

By Claire Walla

On Monday, November 21, the East Hampton Emergency Services (ES) team faced a dangerous situation: a man identified as being unemployed, despondent, intoxicated, suicidal and armed with a handgun had barricaded himself inside a waterfront home on Redwood Road, just outside Sag Harbor Village.
Nearly 20 ES officers — weighed down by heavy protective [...]

By Claire Walla

When they set out in their kayaks in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 29, the weather wasn’t exactly perfect. But, it certainly wasn’t as bad as it eventually became.
October 29 marked the day of that freak fall snowstorm, which blanketed much of New York and Connecticut with snow. While the East [...]

By Claire Walla

Southampton Town Police Chief Bill Wilson admitted last Friday, November 4 that his department has, in fact, spent $225,000 more than its allotted overtime funds due primarily to changes in the department that he implemented when he took office last May.
However, he said, those costs don’t represent the full story.
Though the overtime budget [...]

A New Jersey man visiting a family member’s Sag Harbor summer home with his fiancée last weekend, tumbled off the end of Long Wharf Saturday night and drowned.
Suffolk County Homicide Detectives identified the man as Christopher Valentine, 56, of Parsippany, N.J. There was no evidence of criminality, a spokesperson for the county homicide department said, [...]