In the summer of 1985, Tom Rickenbach, a recent graduate of the University of Delaware, stopped into the Sag Harbor Savings Bank at the corner of Main and Spring streets in Sag Harbor to make his first student loan payment. Ethyl McAree, the executive secretary to the bank’s president, Thomas Gaines, told him there was an opening for a teller’s position. “I’m not dressed for a job interview,” Rickenbach said he replied, remembering that he ...
Editorials
Since his swearing-in in January 2023, U.S. Representative Nick LaLota hasn’t faced a series of votes that rivaled the recent domestic spending package, which he...
Letters
Fight BackAs we approach July Fourth, let’s remember that America has suffered through dark and divisive times before. It appears as if we are there again. While there are always those who capitulate, our history shows that we remember those Americans who exhibit the will and courage to fight back. Most recently, Columbia University conceded when the Trump administration made unreasonable and unlawful demands of them. Harvard didn’t — they sued. Law firm Paul Weiss immediately consented to the unlawful and...
Time for ChangeRegarding your editorial, “Dangerous Liberty” [June 26]: We are of like minds on some issues — government overreach, the founding fathers’ understanding of the dangers of democratic process and of the dichotomy created by a two-party system. It seems important to me that it be clearly understood that the “No Kings” protest was not organized or supported by either party. It may be that more people labeled “Democrat” showed up, but it was organized by Indivisible and its affiliates. Indivisible...
After finishing as runner-up at last year’s Firecracker 8K, Jonny Wilson returned to the 34th ....
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Read More Sag Harbor SportsJackson Pollock, the Abstract Expressionist painter who spent years on the East End, once quipped…
