Humayun Chaudhry, Commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health services, has issued an advisory against bathing at 64 county beaches, including Havens Beach in Sag Harbor, due to the heavy rainfall forecasted for Friday night and all day Saturday as a result of tropical storm Danny. The advisory was announced today and is based [...]

A year after 100-year-old Jessie Burke was shot to death in her quiet North Haven home while working on her crossword puzzle, police have yet to make an arrest in the case as neighbors in the sleepy community remain haunted by the incident. Jessie Margaret Burke was found dead in her home at 36 Payne [...]

Since the East End was first settled by Europeans, John Halsey’s family has been tilling the local land. An 11th generation farmer, Halsey started his own venture, the Milk Pail, in Water Mill in 1969 and it continues to operate today. For Halsey, his willingness to adapt to the agricultural market and measured estate planning [...]

On Friday, August 21, the Southampton Town board and members of the budget and finance committee were slated to discuss a half-year town budget report at a work session, but the conversation soon took a turn. As committee members pored over the dozens of pages showing revenues, expenses and deficits, some said they were astonished [...]

Last Saturday, former Sag Harbor police Lieutenant Tom Mackey planned to only take a jog down Long Beach, but ended up saving a man from drowning. In the afternoon, Mackey was running down the stretch of the shoreline near short beach road, when he saw two men wading through the water towards what looked like [...]

After receiving 150 applications from across the country and state, Sag Harbor resident Donna Denon was named the new assistant principal of Sag Harbor Elementary School by the district at a business meeting held Monday night. Denon is a veteran of the local education scene, having worked in the Southampton School District for 25 years. [...]

In the past year, the Sag Harbor School District’s lunch program dipped into red ink, according to district business manager Len Bernard. But, says Bernard, the cafeteria’s books will be brought into the black this year by raising food prices and utilizing better tracking and accounting systems. Over the course of the 2008-2009 school year, [...]

East End Health Alliance on Long Island and Empire BlueCross BlueShield announced today that they have reached agreement for MediBlue members of Empire BlueCross BlueShield. Details are being finalized, but the multi-year agreement will assure seniors with Empire Medicare Advantage “Mediblue” HMO and PPO products can continue accessing services at the three East End Health [...]

Sag Harbor Mayor Brian Gilbride has taken his battle to secure a sliver of waterfront property belonging to the Long Island Railroad to Governor David Paterson this week after receiving word the land would be sold to an adjacent property owner and not the village. On August 19, Gilbride penned a letter to the governor, [...]

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) has given Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library (JJML) the green light to move forward with plans to expand the historic Main Street building. During a JJML board of trustees meeting on Wednesday, August 19 JJML director Cathy Creedon announced the library had [...]