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This "Snapshot" was submitted by political cartoonist Ted Littleford. To submit your own "Snapshot," email Sag Harbor Express Editor and Co-Publisher Kathryn G. Menu at kmenu@sagharborexpress.com.
Question: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being apathetic and 10 being obsessed, how much of what is going on in Washington D.C. is weighing on your mind? Leslie Slavens: "I'm obsessed. I am not a fan of Trump as it is, but I am extremely traumatized by our pulling out of Syria and the place that that puts us. I think it jeapordizes our security and it is going to make other people reluctant to be our allies.
Hillary Offenberg: "Eleven. I'm a news junkie and it is like when you drive past an accident and you try not to look but you can't help but look ... I have to walk away because I want to beat somebody up or lash out -- it's brutal.
Ed Delaney: "Ten. The man is a threat to our democracy and I never expected such a thing in my lifetime. We've had bad presidents, weak presidents, some smarter than others, some facing tough choices, but this guy doesn't know what he is doing or care and that is a remarkable combination."
Name three improvements you would like to see in Sag Harbor Village. (They can be capital, health and safety, code/zoning revisions, infrastructure etc.)
• Code/zoning. If we don’t strengthen our code to protect the village against overdevelopment, there will be nothing left. Residential, commercial, waterfront.
• Parking garage behind IGA, purchase the lot next to the post office for parking, Add sidewalks around Sag Harbor schools.
• Improve roads, sewers and water quality.
• I would like to see the old falling down fence in front of the cemetery on Madison Street replaced. I realize it would be cost prohibitive to fix or replace with another fence but small neat bushes would be a huge improvement.
• Recycling bins, filtered water fountains, traffic circle at the end of Main Street where Madison comes in.
• Low-cost housing.
• Protection of historic trees. Stricter enforcement of zoning codes. Stop the almost guaranteed approval of zoning variances.
• Need more handicap parking spaces on Main Street. Cars park in handicap spaces for many hours past the allowed time since there very little enforcement
• Parking, green spaces, better styled and more trash receptacles on Main Street promoting recycling paper, plastic and glass and food scraps.
• No left turns coming from 7-Eleven exit by the [Lance Corporal Jordan C. Haerter Veterans Memorial] bridge. Make Sage Street one way from Madison Street to Division Street.
• Safer roads for biking, walking. Houses are too big in many cases. Perhaps there needs to be a differentiation between structures and pools/ patios which, because they are flat, are not as visually obstructing. Implement means to control the deer population.
• Infrastructure cannot continue to be ignored: expand the sewer district; repair the roads that have been destroyed by developers (they should be paying for that mess but no one made that happen so the taxpayers will); and deal with parking. Sort out the issue once and for all: parking garage or not. Improve that mess in back of village or not; variances or not, paid parking ... get on with it already. Stop with the tree legislation — there's nothing left and its a vicious waste of everyone's time.
• Parking, rent stability for small businesses, improved pedestrian sidewalks
• Safer traffic management at intersection of Main and Madison; need for family friendly restaurant; flood zone improvement behind Apple Bank & the Variety Store.
Staff Writer on Oct 22, 2019