Police
The owner of a business on Main Street in Sag Harbor Village had racked up nearly $40,000 in unpaid parking tickets before she settled with the village in court on April 9. According to court observers, Leslie C. Slavens was unhappy with the lack of parking in the commercial district of Sag Harbor Village and saw the nonpayment of the summonses as a form of civil disobedience. The first parking...
Editorials
Let’s start with a clear message: The Eastville Community Historical Society is an incredibly valuable commodity for Sag Harbor, and its new request to the...
Letters
Keep Canio’sWe have learned that Sag Harbor’s gem, Canio’s Books, the best bookstore on Long Island and a fixture of Sag Harbor for more than 40 years, will be forced to move on September 30 [“Canio’s Books, Long a Sag Harbor Cultural Icon, Faces Uncertain Future as Lease Is Not Renewed,” 27east.com, March 20]. Failing that, it may have to close altogether. My wife and I have regularly driven the 70 miles from our home in Kings Park to events hosted...
Merry Little BandAs a longtime opponent of the wind turbine project offshore of Montauk, I appreciated the letter from R. George Arnold on April 4 [“Scary Things”]. I’m happy to join his “merry little band of citizens with common sense.” Building a major wind farm along the spectacular migratory freeway, the Atlantic Flyway, where we are blessed to live, is heartbreaking, shortsighted and disastrous for birds. We not only depend on pollinators for our global food supply but on birds, which consume...
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