Police
The Southampton Town Board didn’t even consider looking for another candidate. Members said they knew they wanted to appoint James Kiernan the chief of the Town Police Department, Supervisor Jay Schneiderman told a packed house at Town Hall on hand for the new chief’s official swearing-in on Thursday, December 8. Kiernan had been helming the department for months since his predecessor, Chief Steven Skrynecki, fell ill. Skrynecki died of cancer...
Editorials
Remember the hole in the ozone layer? Some smug anti-environmentalists have been known to cite the concern in the 1980s as an example of how...
Letters
Your Seat AwaitsIt was Bay Street Theater’s hope that 2023 would see the launch of a campaign to support the generous development plans of “Friends of Bay Street,” which had acquired 22 Long Island Avenue in the heart of Sag Harbor’s business district with an eye toward securing a permanent home for the theater and ensuring its stability for the next generation. Now, if that growth is to eventually take place, it will no longer be accomplished with Friends of Bay Street,...
Ghost TownThere are two great fallacies in popular thought on the South Fork. First is that there’s never any parking in Sag Harbor. There is. I park there every day and never am I farther than 500 feet from my destination. The second fallacy is that there is a lack of affordable housing. Let’s be clear: Is there a lack of shoddy clapboard apartments strewn along thoroughfares, marked up and rented to unsuspecting young families trying to start a life? Yeah....
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