Julie Penny OUR TOWN The Sag Harbor Express January 8, 2011 By Julie Penny “The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either” – Benjamin Franklin During the holidays I drove to the airport feeling two parts defiance, one part dread, one part anxiety as I had no [...]

By Paige Patterson I am an excellent dreamer. I am a girl filled with imagination. I can see how things will be and picture them with utter and complete believability. So for me winter is a time filled with reckless color, and swathes of possibilities. I see how it will look when I scatter dahlias [...]

By Georgia Suter “I had thought about this idea a couple years ago,” says Scott Rubenstein, owner of East Hampton Indoor Tennis and inventor of the ever-growing child care play space at the facility, Hampton Kids. “Just hearing parents on the weekends that wanted to be able to play tennis. I heard one parent talking [...]

East End By Kathryn G. Menu As a pediatrician who has served the East End for decades, Dr. Gail Schonfeld said the release of a 1998 case study in the medical journal The Lancet suggesting there could be a link between autism and gastrointestinal problems in autistic children and the measles, mumps and rubella immunization [...]

By Claire Walla In between lunch periods, when the Pierson High School cafeteria was in a relative lull, three parent volunteers placed small plastic cups up in single-file lines on top of a folding table in a corner of the room. They then filled the bottoms of the cups with cherry lemonade and apple-grape-flavored juice, [...]

By Joan Baum Karma Kids, a non-profit charitable art initiative based in Sag Harbor, is holding a Karma Kids Dance Party on January 30 at the Ross School that it hopes will raise not just money but awareness. Though barely a year old, the organization, founded and directed by Ross School parent Samantha Christie, in [...]

By Benito Vila & Jacob Sisson It’d be easy to describe any basketball game in the Bridgehampton gym as a back and forth affair; the court, known as “the Hive”, is smaller that the one in the Sag Harbor Elementary school. Oftentimes the close confines are all the Killer Bees need to sting a visiting [...]

By Jacob Sisson The Pierson/Bridgehampton Lady Whalers (4-6, 4-0) pushed ahead with their undefeated Suffolk County League Eight record, routing the Port Jefferson Royals (0-5, 0-3) at home 67-19. Four Lady Whalers scored in double digits, led by senior forward Samantha James with 13. Nina Hemby followed closely with 11 points while Sarah Barrett and [...]

By Claire Walla Last Sunday, January 16 Sag Harbor Village Police arrested Richard Klein, 67, of East Hampton on five felony counts — including two counts of grand larceny in the third degree — and one misdemeanor charge related to a Scheme to Defraud his then employer, the Sag Harbor Express. Klein was arraigned in [...]

By Annette Hinkle Cardamom, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, tamarind and clove. These are the enticing flavors of Indian cooking — which, as aficionados of the cuisine know, is pretty much impossible to find here on the East End. But Pallavi Ghayalod is looking to change that, one cook at a time. Ghayalod, grew up near Mumbai, [...]