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, [...]

By Marianna Levine

A proposal by one student to erect cost-saving solar panels on the school and a discussion of the benefits of foreign travel by another dominated the Bridgehampton School Board meeting on Monday night.
In addition, interim business administrator George Chesterton gave a brief update on the current proposed budget. The expected report on the [...]

By Marissa Maier
In the past few weeks the Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton School Districts have been courting the Sagaponack School Board. The districts hoped to persuade Sagaponack parents to send their children to their respective schools once the Sagaponack program ends in fourth grade. Sagaponack School District has traditionally sent their students to East Hampton.
At [...]

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 [...]

By Marissa Maier
After unveiling a tentative 2010-2011 budget with a tax levy rate increase of around 13.5 percent, the Sag Harbor School Board is now wrestling with how to handle the $6.7 million facilities bond which was defeated in December.
At Monday’s meeting, board member Daniel Hartnett said he believed that in the minds of [...]

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
Sag Harbor Elementary School science teacher Kryn Olson celebrated the first harvest yielded from the school’s garden and greenhouse in 2008. Olson, however, had spent five years getting the agricultural project off the ground.
Above: A digital mock-up of the outdoor classroom proposed behind the Sag Harbor Elementary School Building.
On Monday evening, Olson [...]

By Marissa Maier
A visitor to Sagaponack Village might believe the one-room schoolhouse on Main Street has remained untouched since it was built in 1885. Pint-sized students sit on old-fashioned wooden desks with inkwells and a cast-iron stove located at the front of the classroom keeps them warm. Though everything seems sleepy enough, changes are afoot [...]

By Marissa Maier
In 1597, Sir Francis Bacon wrote in the Religious Meditation of Heresies, “Knowledge is power.” Nearly four centuries later, the ubiquitous quote is applied to many different situations including the formation of the Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) of the East End. For Cynthia McKelvey, co-founder of SEPTA and a Sag [...]

Growing up, Latisha J. Ellis has many fond memories, but as a girl she also remembers the awkward summer she had to switch from an undershirt to a D-cup bra seemingly overnight. At the same time she watched schoolmates become mothers over the course of a summer, pushing strollers instead of handling backpacks and preparing [...]