On Wednesday, August 11, at around 2 p.m., Southampton Town Police received a 911 call that a man was found unconscious in the pool at a home in the private development of Meadows West in Bridgehampton. Police report a family member had returned home from running errands when they found the 35-year-old man unresponsive in [...]

The weather patterns in Sag Harbor Village on Wednesday, July 21, seemed more appropriate for the plains of Oklahoma than Main Street. The sky turned a grayish, green. Thunder crackled. And bolts of lightning flashed on land and sea. It was the perfect setting for an unlikely act of God.
Over in Upton, Long Island, Brandon [...]

After Pierson Middle School art instructor TJ Maher officially resigned in May, the Sag Harbor School Board broached the subject of evaluating the Pierson arts program at a board meeting two weeks ago instead of immediately filling the position.
At this meeting, many parents urged the board to find a replacement and not divide [...]

Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman knows first hand the devastation caused by a hurricane. In August of 1991 Hurricane Bob, a category two storm that barreled up the East Coast, left his family’s Montauk hotel without power for over a week.
“We lost a full week’s worth of revenue. We couldn’t really charge people for [...]

By Jesse Rosenthal
The Sag Harbor Whalers, our own summer league collegiate baseball team, kicked off the 2010 season last week with a win (4-2) against the Southampton Breakers on Friday and a loss (3-1) against the North Fork Ospreys on Saturday. This Tuesday the Whalers improved their record to 2-1 with an 11-5 victory in [...]

By Marissa Maier
June 1 marked North Haven Village trustee James Morrissey’s last village board meeting. After serving three terms on the board, Morrissey decided to step down due to an increasing workload with his medical consulting practice. Trustees George Butts and Jeff Sander were absent from Tuesday’s board meeting.
“I would like to thank everybody. [...]

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 [...]

John M. Ring
John M. Ring, a veteran of World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, died at his home in Noyac on Tuesday, February 2. He was 87 years old. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on March 16, 1922, he was the son of Alphonse G. and Marie (Mallon) Ring.
A graduate of St. Augustin’s and Fordham [...]

In the past week, both Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor school districts signed off on a program that may yield the districts thousands of dollars in grant money, but will require them to comply with a set of criteria. This competitive government grant is referred to as the “Race to the Top” (RTTT), and is [...]

More than a few kids around town are aware professional pitchers and catchers report in just over six weeks. Making sure those players’ far away dreams aren’t so far away, the 2010 Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Little League board has begun to set up its 2010 spring season.
Registration is already available online at sagharborlittleleague.org and mail-in registration [...]