While much of a close to $10 million referendum the John Jermain Memorial Library (JJML) has proposed to Sag Harbor School District residents will cover the cost to restore and renovate JJML, as well as bring the historic structure into compliance with state codes, the 7,000 square-foot, three-story addition will also enable the library to [...]

Next Monday, June 29, residents of the Sag Harbor School District will vote on whether to approve a close to $10 million renovation and expansion plan at the historic John Jermain Memorial Library (JJML), with almost 70 percent of the funding going towards repair of the building’s sagging façade, leaky roof and bringing the structure [...]

During the Village of Sag Harbor Planning Board meeting on Tuesday night, the board scheduled a public hearing for Monday, August 10 at 7 p.m. on a waterfront condominium project on Long Island Avenue known as Ferry Road, but not before the village attorney had sharp words for the developer’s attorney and planner. Michael Maidan [...]

Sag Harbor mayor-elect Brian Gilbride announced on Tuesday he intends to appoint child psychologist Dr. Robby Stein to fill his now vacant seat on the village’s board of trustees. The appointment will be made official at the board’s re-organizational meeting on Monday, July 6 at noon when Stein will join trustee elects Ed Gregory and [...]

The Sag Harbor Mayor, who will finish his final term with the board of trustees on July 1, talks about his hopes for the village’s future, challenges ahead and what he thinks is wrong with politics. Now that you are stepping aside from village government, what are your hopes for this new board of trustees [...]

In 2007, with rumors swirling about the imminent arrival of big box stores to the village, several residents formed Save Sag Harbor, an organization whose mission is to preserve the unique character of Main Street in the face of development pressures from beyond our borders. While the gloomy economy may have temporarily dampened enthusiasm for [...]

by Marianna Levine The large-scale prints of Jean Luc Mylayne featuring the landscape and avian inhabitants of Fort Davis, Texas, now on view at Parrish Art Museum, are part of the French photographer’s long-term project to capture or illustrate different notions of time. Time is quite an abstract and transient notion to display in a [...]

Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot announced on Friday, June 19, that the town will hire a new external auditing firm, Nawrocki Smith, LLP, and is ending a five-year relationship with AVZ, or Albrecht, Viggiano and Zureck. “I and other members of the town board have been calling for a second opinion … but what we [...]

On Sunday, June 21,  Lancha Dupont, 51, of Sag Harbor, driving a late model SUV in the early morning hours collided with a tree on Madison Street in front of the Corcoran Real Estate office in Sag Harbor. Police arrived around 1:49 a.m. and found the front end of the vehicle destroyed, and about 12 [...]