By Annette Hinkle Beyond the black curtain on the stage at the Bridgehampton Community House lies a new theatrical venue. A small wooden staircase leads up onto the stage, and a quick parting of the curtains reveals an unexpected surprise — a fully functional 60-seat black box theater, just like the kind you might see [...]

by Annette Hinkle Perhaps you hadn’t realized it, but the John Jermain Memorial Library officially turns 100 this year — in October to be exact. While library staff and board members will spend much of the year focused on a temporary move followed by an long-overdue renovation of the building, library program director Martha Potter [...]

This week, the Sag Harbor School Board looked at making some tough cuts in the 2010-‘11 school budget in order to avoid walloping homeowners with a huge tax increase. Many parents showed up at Monday’s board meeting pleading with the administration to reconsider cuts to their favorite programs. So we thought we’d add our own [...]

Noyac residents have waited six years to have a traffic calming plan in place in front of Cromer’s Market, and have suffered much longer with a roadway which has become increasingly dangerous. Two fatalities and a number of accidents in the vicinity the past year alone should flag this stretch as a priority for the [...]

by Julie Penny I saw one of my doctors a couple months ago, a specialist. He’s not accepting certain insurers anymore. One of them is mine. This allows him to earn more, and to free up time he otherwise wasted on paperwork that insurers use to drown doctors in—the capricious, redundant kind of paperwork meant [...]

Diane Gorodnitzki Diane Gorodnitzki, 60, of Shelter Island passed away quietly at home in the early morning of January 24, 2010. She is deeply missed by her devoted husband, Kenton, and son, Alexander Gorodnitzki. Her quiet passing after a courageous, 17-year struggle with cancer remains a memorial to her love of life, her loyalty to [...]

By Jesse Rosenthal Returning for her second season as Pierson’s varsity softball coach, Melissa Edwards has high hopes for her Lady Whalers. With a variety of weapons at her disposal both on the field and in the batter’s box and a coaching philosophy rooted in hard work, fundamentals and unity, optimism may end up becoming [...]

by Marissa Maier Anticipating a rare turnout, the Sag Harbor school board switched the venue from the library to the auditorium in the days leading up to Monday’s board meeting. Hundreds of parents, teachers and community members poured in to discuss roughly $1.877 million in proposed budget cuts for the 2010-2011 school year. One week [...]

Bridget Fleming, a Sag Harbor-based lawyer and Noyac resident, won the vacant council seat on the town board last Tuesday, March 9, in a special election. Fleming will be the second non-Republican voice on the board serving with Republican council members Chris Nuzzi, Jim Malone and Nancy Graboski. Before she is sworn in next Tuesday, [...]

Former Bridgehampton High School basketball star Charles Maurice Manning, a.k.a “Mo,” was among five men arrested this week for allegedly operating a crack cocaine network throughout the East End. According to Southampton Town Police, town narcotics investigators and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents launched an investigation of the operation in January 2009. Manning, 29, of [...]