By Joan Baum   There’s nothing academic about the “academy,” the exhibit that for the last couple of years has been the season opener at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor. But in using a word which resonates as a centuries-old art training institute or masters society dedicated to realistic painting with certain ideas about [...]

By Gavin Menu   Wind gusts pushed temperatures below freezing at Mashashimuet Park Monday afternoon, but Colman Vila came out on fire regardless. The Whalers’ lefty ace struck out 15 batters and allowed just two hits as Pierson blanked visiting Smithtown Christian, 1-0, to open the 2013 campaign. Junior catcher Aaron Schiavoni drove in Vila [...]

By Gavin Menu The East Hampton boys lacrosse team, which boasts a handful of players from Pierson High School, lost two tough road games to start the season, falling 14-9 to North Babylon on March 22 before dropping their Division II opener, 15-7, to Bayport-Blue Point on Monday. The Bonackers played both games shorthanded, which [...]

by Al “Big Time” Daniels The last storm was just a little rain and wind. It seems like spring is finally in the air. The first alewives are here making their run to freshwater and I have heard my first few peepers. Believe me it doesn’t feel like spring but as the temps climb into [...]

By Gavin Menu   Ed Luke sat perched in a familiar spot on the edge of the Pierson dugout as cold winds swirled around the baseball diamond at Mashashimuet Park on Monday afternoon. Luke held five sharpened pencils in one hand and an impeccably kept scorebook in the other. It seems these days that where [...]

By Bryan Boyhan Snow may have cancelled a few events from last month’s HarborFrost celebration, but at least two have been rescheduled to make this holiday weekend a bit more eventful. On Saturday morning beginning at 10 a.m., the local Coast Guard Auxiliary will welcome Mark Chanski of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection [...]

Catherine Boss  passed away on March 23, 2013, at the home of her daughter, Virginia, in Fairfield, Conn. She was 97 years old, living in complete independence until she died. Born Katerina Lamberta on June 24, 1915 of Italian immigrants, she was both mother and sister to her three younger brothers after the death of [...]

Defensive Voices Dear Bryan, Walter Tice in his letter (“Don’t Be Distracted,” The Sag Harbor Express, March 21, 2013) charged that your paper’s reporting on Gregg Schiavoni’s recent resignation from the school board was deficient. He wrote that because of this ”there is a danger that the general public will be led to question the quality [...]

Earlier this week, Southampton Village presented an ambitious plan for the property at 25 Job’s Lane. Most people recognize this as the site of the Parrish Art Museum, which occupied the building for a century before relocating to a new, state-of-the-art facility in Water Mill in November. It left behind a beautiful and historic building [...]

Gregg Schiavoni’s resignation from the Sag Harbor School Board has had a resounding effect on the school community in Sag Harbor, and rather than this be a divisive moment we have hopes it can evolve into a constructive one. The reality is we do have a wonderful school district. People are literally moving into Sag [...]