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
It’s rare to see a large group of people in Sag Harbor agree on most anything, but last Tuesday, at Southampton Town Hall, more than two dozen speakers came out to support the town’s involvement in preserving the Sag Harbor home of author John Steinbeck, where he wrote “The Winter of Our Discontent” and, a year later, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his remarkable body of work. No one spoke against the purchase. The Southampton Town Board is considering using $11.2 million in Community Preservation Fund revenue to buy the development rights to the Bluff Point Lane ...
31 Jan 2023 by Editorial Board
I just attempted to order my high-strength reading glasses on Amazon, as I have done for over 15 years. I was surprised and angered when my order of five pairs of reading glasses, 6.0 strength, for $14.99 was rejected — with a notation that my order cannot be delivered to my address. I soon discovered that there is a law unique to New York that reading glasses with a strength over 2.75 cannot be shipped in New York State. This is outrageous. This 72-year-old senior citizen, instead of spending just $14.99 for five pairs of my essential reading glasses, will ...
30 Jan 2023 by Staff Writer
The Sag Harbor Booster Foundation would like to extend a special thank you to the following people: The Sag Harbor Fire Department, Sag Harbor Village Police, the security and custodial staff at Pierson High School, Suzanne Nicoletti (chorus teacher), Sag Harbor Youth Hoop (board, coaches and players), Fran Nill, Kevin Roode (math teacher and announcer), Coach Kneeland (both of them) and Coach Fujita, the high school class advisors, and the Pierson administrators, especially Assistant Dean Brian Tardif. On January 20, the Booster Foundation was excited to once again host Spirit Night, the first since 2020, a fun, family event at ...
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“The greenest home is the one that is already built” — Peconic Land Trust. What becomes possible when we shift our conversation to include the Lovelady Powell structures in our commitment to preservation [“Effort Underway To Save House on Lovelady Powell Property in North Haven,” 27east.com, January 11]? Rather than asking ourselves if there is value in maintaining, what if instead we ask ourselves: How? The advisory committee and the board of the North Haven Parks and Trails Association have agreed to consider viable proposals at their next joint meeting. If any ideas warrant further consideration, it could provide the ...
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A group of environmentally aware Hamptonites are again making an effort to encourage the Parrish Art Museum to install solar panels on the museum’s iconic roof. Such an enormous institution uses an enormous amount of energy, I am sure. I’ve been involved in environmental protection for the last 12 years, and I have an idea that might help the museum choose solar energy. I propose that the Parrish organize a competition asking artists to submit their ideas of what would be an example of “when art meets solar.” Let artists expand on their vision for how renewable energy can be ...
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I have never felt more unwanted as a member of this community than I did at Wednesday night’s Sag Harbor School Board community forum about Marsden Street. As a neighbor to Marsden, I am passionately against plans to purchase the property and attempt to create an athletic field. So, when I heard about this forum, I began to prepare. I went to their website to see the recent postings about Marsden, and the first thing you see is the results of the November 3 vote, where those in favor narrowly surpassed those against. There are some links to documents on ...
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My attention is normally more focused on national politics, but I find myself drawn into the local crusade to return our electrical utility back to home rule, so to speak [“Overwhelming Support To Make LIPA Public Entity at Southampton Hearing,” 27east.com, January 23]. I find this idea far from appealing, because, as I have observed, the quality of management delivered by PSEG has produced significant improvement over the slipshod grid that was the Long Island Lighting Company previously. The Long Island Power Authority employed a privately run company with decades of experience in New Jersey to wrestle with the mess ...
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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 science creates terrifying scenarios from time to time that get lots of media attention, only to forget about them when the next big thing comes along. Whatever happened to THAT, they laugh? Well, as it turns out, the scientists had it exactly right: In the mid-1980s, they found a dangerous thinning of the layer in the stratosphere that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun, mostly caused by the use of chemicals ...
26 Jan 2023 by Editorial Board
Are you aware that neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are dangerous neurotoxic pesticides linked to massive bee and insect losses throughout the world, which also affect our food supply, our water supply and our own health? In the United States, neonics have made agriculture 48 times more harmful to our vital pollinators since their introduction in the mid-1990s. Neonics are coated on corn, wheat, soy and barley seeds before planting, with few benefits. They are easily replaceable with safer alternatives, according to 2020 Cornell University research on more than 1,100 scientific studies on neonics. The newly reintroduced Birds and Bees Protection Act ...
23 Jan 2023 by Staff Writer
Traffic on the East End is an ongoing issue that is going to demand creative ideas to ease the throng of vehicles. The biggest problem is probably the morning/evening trade parade that clogs the entrance to the area. The obvious bottleneck is the Shinnecock Canal, with only three options to cross it. Two of those options, the Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway bridges, are stressed and over capacity. Two things could be done: Find a way to ease the demand on the overburdened bridges, and find a way to utilize the third crossing. The East End commuter train is an ...
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