When the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees adopted a new policy earlier this year limiting public comment to the end of its monthly meeting — after board members have... more
The price tag will create the first response among Sag Harbor School District residents — $35 million to $40 million is a hefty figure, even though any substantial renovation of a school building can be expected to come in at that price — but here’s hoping they take a moment to look beyond the bottom line. Pierson High School is already an outstanding institution of learning: The quality of young people who are graduating and going on to bigger and better things is truly remarkable, and their accomplishments while in high school are head-turning. The district regularly gives students with ...
1 Oct 2025 by Editorial Board
Governor Kathy Hochul deserves credit for giving New York State residents a shot in the arm, figuratively and literally. The mess that is the federal Health Department has effectively muddied the waters on COVID vaccines. This is to be expected: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a vaccine critic and skeptic; he has stacked the department with like-minded pseudo-experts who are eager to look past most vaccines’ proven benefits to try to find hidden, lurking dangers. The damage is being done: Many people now are wary of vaccines, for themselves and their children, after trying to wade through the ...
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Visionary and groundbreaking legislation designed to protect commercial enterprises operating along the waterfront was signed into law, with deserved pomp and circumstance, by Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine earlier this week along the commercial docks in Greenport. The legislation sets aside an initial $9.5 million to purchase conservation easements on so-called “working waterfront” businesses, including commercial fisheries and marinas, protecting them form encroaching residential development. The easements would give the current business owners some breathing room in the face of eager developers who would turn the properties into sprawling waterfront McMansions. In an era of political divisiveness, it was refreshing ...
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I am writing to express my concerns regarding Donald Trump’s violent and cruel attacks on immigrants, migrants and American communities, which have escalated to attacks on our constitutional rights of freedom of speech, peaceful protest and due process, and to deploying the military against Americans. While American communities rally to protect their neighbors and families, the administration has stepped up brazen and violent attacks, focused on the city of Los Angeles. The brutal assault on peaceful residents of Los Angeles has reminded many of the deadly events from Kent State and Jackson State in 1970, when another divisive president pushed ...
30 Sep 2025 by Staff Writer
Having lived in Sagaponack for more than three decades, it has become increasingly clear how essential it is to protect not only our open spaces but also the agricultural heritage that defines this region. Over the years, many residents, including myself, have advocated for safeguarding our remaining farmlands, wetlands and native habitats, which are vital to both our ecosystem and local history. Recently, discussions around the future use of the Bauer property, also known as Poxabogue Field, have underscored the tension between maintaining agricultural designations and converting land to a general open space status [“Fate of Southampton Town-Owned Poxabogue Field, ...
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Today, I received Nick LaLota’s latest press release outlining the dreadful consequences of a government shutdown, followed by a one poll question: Do you think government shutdown should be used as a political tactic? Once again, ROFL … this from the party that used every dirty trick to stack the Supreme Court, who used and continues to use any trick to do whatever it considers “right,” claiming it’s all constitutional based on emergency rulings, who call the Democrats out for being spineless and blame them for shooting deaths while preventing gun control. Utter hypocrisy from a party that supports totally ...
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I grew up on Seafield Point in Westhampton Beach, surrounded by the waters I’ve loved all my life. My first job was lifeguarding at Rogers Beach when I was 17, and after graduating from Westhampton Beach High School in 1975 and Boston University in 1980, I built a career in advertising in Manhattan. October 4, 1992, almost exactly 33 years ago, I entered the Seafield Center, the drug and alcohol rehab on the very street I grew up on. That experience changed my life. I have been sober ever since, and I learned that community service must be my highest ...
29 Sep 2025 by Staff Writer
I had to struggle not to vomit as I watched the former head of the FBI, James Comey, virtue-signal the self-righteous victimhood he sought after his indictment for perjuring himself. He stood defiant and innocent of any responsibility for undermining the credibility of the FBI or his treasonous efforts to entrap newly elected President Donald Trump. Facts currently exposed by the current administration as the statute of limitations grew near reveal the effort by the intelligence community and the FBI to subvert the results of the election. Mr. Comey was indicted for contradictory testimony he delivered before Senators Ted Cruz ...
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14 years of stories 9-13-25 A lady of elegant beauty and grace For many years Beverly steadfastly brings her creative energy, wit and unwavering perseverance to Poets Rising Beverly has a way of bringing out in each of us our unique gifts as writers and storytellers. She has a philosophy that encouragement and praise gets the writer to feel safe to share. Giving us a choice, sometimes a topic or prompt suggested, games thrown in to keep it jovial Once a month we continue on, Knowing how time is precious and so is Beverly Dorothy Mato Hampton Bays
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While my mother wanted me to be a brain surgeon [“Questionable Motive,” Letters, September 18], I, at a young age, dreamed of becoming a rocket scientist. After graduating from high school, I enrolled in a college program that consisted of courses in mathematics, physics, fluid dynamics and a lot more, so that I would be prepared to enter the “Space Age.” Once again, at this point, you must be asking yourself: What does rocket science have to do with the selection of Southampton Town clerk in the November election? You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that ...
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