As a licensed clinical social worker, Laraine Gordon knows it’s not always easy for teenagers to share their innermost feelings — particularly when they are connected to the death of a loved one. She also understands first hand what it’s like to deal with death at a young age. When she was 12 years old, [...]

By Benito Vila If it wasn’t enough that the sky seems to be falling financially around the world, I was cornered last week at a school event and at an athletic event and heard normally reasonable people reveling in a sort of panic that made me think everyone’s lost their minds. I listened politely to [...]

Those who have followed this paper with anything approaching regularity know that we have written many times over the years about the need to remember those who are less fortunate than ourselves as the holidays approach. It has always been an important message and a vital reminder in this playground of excess. After all, we [...]

Will Life Imitate Art?   Dear Editor: Just the other day I rented my favorite film of all time Cinema Paradiso. A poetic tribute to a little movie theater in an small village square in southern Italty. The theater was a refuge for all the towns people to escape into the fantasy of the screen. [...]

While some middle and high school kids planned their Thanksgiving vacations this past weekend, went to the movies or played video games, a group of teens in Sag Harbor were busy making pies — four kinds to be exact — for the local food pantry. In the basement of Stella Maris Regional School, members of [...]

Richard Novatka Richard Novatka, born September 20, 1949 and raised in Sag Harbor, died on November 8, 2008 in West Palm Beach where he had chosen to retire. On that sunny morning he was riding his bicycle when his heart gave out and the Lord called him home. “Those who remember Rich know he was [...]

At their last meeting, the Sag Harbor Board of Education was treated to a demonstration by Pierson High School Jeff Nichols, who showed the students’ achievement levels compared to others on a global scale. At this week’s board of education meeting, superintendent Dr. John Gratto talked about those achievements and proposed that the school look [...]

The “Sag Harbor” sign located on the Sag Harbor Cinema is what the Sag Harbor Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board would like to see preserved as a historic landmark, not the whole building or its façade as was discussed at a village board of trustees meeting last week. On Monday, November 24, the ARB [...]

The Sag Harbor Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board is not opposed to the village replacing the fence at the Old Burying Ground with another, antique replacement, if that proves more cost effective than restoring the ancient fence. On Monday, November 24, village clerk Sandra Schroeder approached the board to discuss options for the fence, [...]

With a topic as wide-ranging as “water,” the focus of a Coalition of Neighborhoods for the Preservation of Sag Harbor meeting turned to water quality for many in the crowd of over 30 who gathered at the First Presbyterian (Old Whalers’) Church on Sunday afternoon. Panelists invited to the event were as varied as the [...]