Sag Harbor Partnership executive director John Shaka reads a proclamation from the Southampton Town Board at a reception honoring Diane Schiavoni with the partnership’s Community Service Award on Thursday, October 21. STEPHEN J. KOTZ
Diane Schiavoni, center, received the Sag Harbor Partnership’s 2021 Community Service from the organization’s co-chairwomen, Susan Mead, left, and Carol Ostrow as executive director John Shaka and Alison Bond look on. STEPHEN J. KOTZ
Sag Harbor Partnership executive director John Shaka reads a proclamation from the Southampton Town Board at a reception honoring Diane Schiavoni with the partnership’s Community Service Award on Thursday, October 21. STEPHEN J. KOTZ
Diane Schiavoni, center, received the Sag Harbor Partnership’s 2021 Community Service from the organization’s co-chairwomen, Susan Mead, left, and Carol Ostrow as executive director John Shaka and Alison Bond look on. STEPHEN J. KOTZ
Stephen J. Kotz on Oct 26, 2021
Diane Schiavoni, who has lived her entire life in Sag Harbor and dedicated herself to improving her home town, was honored by the Sag Harbor Partnership on Thursday, October 21,... more
With nary a comment from the public, the Southampton Town Board last week approved a new law aimed at protecting graves and other culturally significant sites in town, particularly those in Shinnecock Hills and other areas inhabited by the Shinnecock Nation. The measure follows the board’s passage of a graves protection act in September 2020, two years after workers at a construction site on Hawthorne Road in Shinnecock Hills disturbed a Shinnecock grave. That discovery gave new energy to a longstanding effort by members of the tribe to convince the town to become more serious about protecting graves and other ... by Stephen J. Kotz
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Stephen J. Kotz on Oct 26, 2021