By Claire Walla One powerful Texas businessman. Five members of a long-time Hamptons farm family. And 57 acres of highly valued oceanfront property. It’s an all-too-familiar equation. In recent years, acres of East End farmland have been sub-divided and developed by wealthy individuals seeking seaside solace from the big, bustling city. A village originally named [...]

By Annette Hinkle For as long as there have been children, there have been dolls. From homemade varieties to figures that reflect current fads, what a child plays with says a lot — not only about children — but society as well. This weekend the Eastville Community Historical Society opens an exhibit of vintage and [...]

By Claire Walla Georgette Grier-Key, an East End painter, arts administrator and cultural historian who’s now putting her skills to work as the first ever director of the Eastville Community Historical Society. What originally brought you to Sag Harbor? I am an artist first. So, naturally I gravitated to the East End because this is [...]

By Claire Walla The closing Sunday night performance of Darrell Hammond’s one-man show “Tru” at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor was cancelled in the wake of a car accident this past weekend involving the 55-year-old actor. According to reports from Bay Street, Hammond was traveling in the passenger’s seat of a friend’s vehicle [...]

By Claire Walla Ken Dorph remembers being here 32 years ago. It was 1969, just after the Stonewall riots which sparked the beginning of the gay pride movement in the United States. Back then, Dorph said the Gay Pride Parade drew just a few dozen participants. This year, it was much different. Last Sunday, June [...]

By Claire Walla Providing some hope for Sag Harbor and Noyac residents publicly outraged that Southampton Town would restrict parking on a town-owned road, the Southampton Town Board voted last Tuesday, June 28 to adopt a resolution that would allow up to 100 feet of concrete on the south side of Noyac Bay Avenue to [...]

Whether or not a sandpit on Middle Line Highway in Noyac on the border of Bridgehampton is operating legally is an issue still being debated in court and in the Town of Southampton. The property includes several buildings constructed without building permits as well as cement and wood grinding, mulching and compost services neighbors say [...]

North Haven artist April Gornik is drawn to beauty, which is one of the many reasons she lives on the East End. She considers Sag Harbor Village, a community that embraces and strongly protects its waterfront and historic aesthetic, her true home. Which is why, as a member of the community concerned with protecting the [...]

Whether or not local developer James Giorgio will be able to demolish the building at 125 Main Street in Sag Harbor, and rebuild with historic materials including some salvaged from the structure that dates back to the 1750s, will remain solely in the hands of the Sag Harbor Village Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board, [...]

While the Sag Harbor Planning Board will lead the environmental review of a proposed expansion of the Harbor Heights Gas Station, the public has been encouraged to share concerns or support for the plan through the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals. On Tuesday night, the planning board acknowledged that the plan’s success depends [...]