By Kathryn G. Menu Dee Dee O’Connell first met Nada Barry 40 years ago when O’Connell’s mother decided it was time for her daughter to get a summer job. Dragged into Sag Harbor’s The Wharf Shop, O’Connell was hired by Barry, and has spent the better part of her life employed at the iconic toy [...]

An outdoor fest in February? And it was a success? Yup. It even rained. And yet, Sag Harbor’s first annual Harborfrost event garnered a crowd of up to 500 people for a long list of activities, from a belly-warming culinary stroll to a teeth-chattering polar plunge. The February event was organized by the Sag Harbor [...]

Anticipation was mounting. By late August, Hurricane Irene had ravaged the eastern seaboard and, mere days before she would eventually strike, maps created by the National Hurricane Center predicted her path would travel directly over the village of Sag Harbor. The village prepared for the worst: stores sold-out of batteries and hand-held radios, gas stations [...]

After 20 years, the Bay Street Theatre has almost become synonymous with Sag Harbor’s iconic Long Wharf; but by its 2013 season, the theater will no longer find its home there. According to Bay Street Theatre executive director Tracy Mitchell, after this summer season the theater will move on from Long Wharf and the space [...]

After 134 years, Stella Maris Regional School in Sag Harbor, the oldest Catholic school on Long Island, shut its doors at the end of the 2010-2011 school year, June 22. “We have no choice but to close our school at the end of this academic year,” Fr. Mike Rieder of St. Therese of Lisieux Parish [...]

Billed as a festival that would marry fashion and local cuisine with some of the biggest talents in the independent music scene, the MTK: Music to Know festival seemed to have it all, except for the crowds. After a year of planning and dodging residents who opposed the festival’s original location in Amagansett, just a [...]

After East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson spent his first term in office attempting to restore financial accountability in a town that at the end of the last administration was looking down the barrel of a $27 million deficit, his re-election to a second term almost seemed like a foregone conclusion. However, nothing could have [...]

The long neglected building and property in the center of Sag Harbor Village known as the Bulova Watchcase Factory is intrinsically linked to Sag Harbor’s industrial heritage. For years now, village residents have been left wondering whether a village-approved luxury condominium project would eventually replace the crumbling factory. This fall, residents finally got their answer. [...]

The last year has been somewhat of a whirlwind for artist and businesswoman Elizabeth Dow, who found a dream come true in the building that once housed the Sag Harbor United Methodist Church congregation. After securing a contract on the long-vacant property, Dow almost watched her dream slip through her fingers and into the hands [...]

After a relatively tumultuous back-and-forth between parents, administrators and members of the Sag Harbor Board of Education, the board voted on Wednesday, November 2, to approve a resolution that would allow the school district to implement the International Baccalaureate (IB) program for the 2012-2013 school year. (Board member Theresa Samot was absent.) Though Pierson High [...]