“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen,” said celebrated author John Steinbeck — and it appears... more
Thank you for the excellent coverage of my announcement about running for mayor of North Haven [“Roberts Will Challenge Fiore in North Haven Mayoral Race,” 27east.com, April 30]. As you reported, it was a spontaneous decision after attending the April trustees meeting. I am happy to report that, in the two weeks that I had to secure signatures to go on the June 18 ballot, my supporters and I collected signatures that surpassed the requirement by 70 percent and far exceeded the number collected by my opponent. Residents agree with me that decisions are being made that are not consistent ...
20 May 2024 by Staff Writer
Here is what I would say to Edgar Papazian [“A Tourist Trinket,” Letters, May 16] if we chatted about it some more, and I hope we do. I think privileging one type of conversation over the other is reductive. The fact that we are having multiple conversations about Sag Harbor’s future is a feature, not a bug. Conversations about intractable issues being worked out in real-time in a community will take many shapes — including circular. The shape of a conversation has no bearing on its importance. Joe Shaw did an excellent job guiding the discussion at the Express Sessions ...
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Today, I received an email from Congressman Nick LaLota telling me that he recently returned from his fourth trip to America’s southwest border. He went on to say that the border situation is a mess and that President Joe Biden can help secure the border by issuing executive orders. I have a few questions for Representative LaLota: Why didn’t you support the recent bipartisan immigration legislation that would have improved the situation at the border? Did you not support the aforementioned bipartisan legislation because Donald Trump told Republican members of Congress not to support it? (Trump said it because it ...
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The Southampton Press article on rules of conduct for the advisory committees [“Southampton Town Board Tables Vote on Advisory Committee Rules of Conduct,” 27east.com, May 15], stating that all members agree to be respectful of each other, etc., and failure of a committee member to abide by such rules shall be grounds for removal of said member — interesting, it’s only for citizens advisory committee members and not politicians. New York State Senator Kevin Parker had to be restrained after he flipped out and shoved a lobbyist in a committee room on May 15. I wonder if he will be ...
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June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 11th federal holiday. The House of Representatives voted, 415-14, to send the bill to Biden, while the Senate passed the bill unanimously the day before, making Juneteenth the first to obtain legal observance as a federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983. But let’s start from the beginning. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of a bloody Civil War. The proclamation declared “that all persons ...
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Thank you, Celeste, for your beautiful Letter to the Editor [“Life Is Beautiful,” Letters, March 16]. I’m with you 100 percent. Life is precious and truly begins at conception. Keep spreading pro-life conviction. Mym Tuma East Moriches
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After reading “District May Drop Class Ranking” [May 16], I found it surprising that though they are considering a change, no one spoke out on why, and what it means to the academic success of students. Change for the sake of change is never good. Tell us why we need this change and how it makes for greater academic success, not less. Though it has become a popular trend (removing class ranking), there does seem to be a pause. Many colleges are now requiring standardized test scores for admission. MIT, Yale, Dartmouth College and Brown are among the most recent. ...
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Last week was the final Express Sessions event of the season; a dozen live events brought together panelists and community members to discuss a variety of topics of importance to the community. As the break for a busy summer arrives, the question arises: Does it make a difference? The topic for the event last week in Sag Harbor focused on that village’s readiness for climate change and the perils it will bring — but, like other topics from throughout the fall, winter and spring, it was relevant for other villages and hamlets on the South Fork. Rising waters and worsening ...
15 May 2024 by Editorial Board
I learned today that the Sag Harbor Ladies Village Improvement Society has closed up shop. This brings back so many memories of my mother, Jane Mulvihill, and her good friend Gertie Payne, who were very active members in the 1950s and 1960s organizing house tours and raising money for, among other things, scholarships, establishing Marine Park, and planting trees throughout the village. I remember riding around with Charlie Whitmore as he and Mom scouted locations for the trees. I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. I have a photo of my sister Mary (8) and me (6) in the ...
14 May 2024 by Staff Writer
This is to any future historians of Sag Harbor who happen to be combing back issues of The Express for clues to the downfall of this formerly quaint village on the East End, with its storied whaling and manufacturing history. It turns out that four teams of bright fifth-year architecture students from the New York Institute of Technology, led by professor Dong-Sei Kim, optimistically and trenchantly plotted the future of Sag Harbor with their circumspect designs for improvements to the village, which they presented to a mostly empty Sage Hall at the Sag Harbor Learning Center on May 10. This ...
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