By Marissa Maier Michael Minkoff is one step closer to purchasing Stephen Hadley’s building at 40 Madison Street in Sag Harbor. As members of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board were rounding out their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, Minkoff’s lawyer, Miles Anderson, lobbied for an exemption from the moratorium, approval of the site [...]

At a Southampton Town Board work session on Friday, board members gathered to talk about the discrepancies in the capital accounts. At last week’s work session, council members discovered that there was an approximate $19 million difference between the $16 million actual cash on hand and the $35 million the department heads thought they had [...]

  By Marissa Maier   When Robert Rust was younger, he would often visit his aunt, Lorraine Anderson, at her 55-acre North Haven estate. Rust recalls helping Anderson rig up her fishing boat to a dock in a little lagoon on the property. He spent time in the cozy two-story barn, which was built by [...]

Nearly 70 teachers, parents, administrators and community members packed a math classroom at Pierson High School last Thursday night to listen to teachers tell their side of what has been happening with teacher contract negotiations. The Teachers Association of Sag Harbor (TASH) gave a presentation to supply some history and contradict the presentation given by [...]

Next year, the Sag Harbor School District is hoping to give all students in the fifth and sixth grades a laptop that would stay “in school” and the technology department has a long-term plan on how to get computers on the laps of all Sag Harbor students from fifth through twelfth grade by 2013. At [...]

By Marissa Maier On Sunday, January 25, a noose was found hanging from a tree along a secluded hiking trial in Sagaponack near the Long Island Power Authority right-of-way. It is yet to be determined whether this incident is connected to the noose found in almost the same area in October 2008. The Suffolk County [...]

By Marissa Maier Since moving to the East End 25 years ago, Pastor Bill Grimbol has created a reputation for himself. Although Grimbol’s sermons are soul searching and he is involved in various community projects, he is most famous for his work with local adolescents. Generations of East End teenagers and adults refer to Grimbol [...]

One of the reasons people move to the East End is for our excellent school system. Our students have remarkable tests scores, and many of them go on to attend top level public and private institutions. These achievements are due, in no small part, to the amazing teachers in the Sag Harbor School District. We [...]

As computer technology becomes increasingly important in our daily lives—from emailing and Facebooking to researching and Photoshopping — we feel that the Sag Harbor School District is commendable in charging forward with their laptop program. Although most of us here graduated high school without the use of the Internet (some of us without computers at [...]

By Bobby Vacca It takes the soul of a poet to capture in a few words the historical significance of how the son of a man who grew up herding goats in a dusty African village has shaken off that dust to become the 44th President of the United States. As rapper Jay-Z so aptly [...]