OK, so it’s the week before Christmas (Hanukkah’s already underway) and I’m pretty grumpy about how slowly grind the wheels of progress around here. But grumpy is just not an appropriate way to be feeling at this time of year. So, I’ve made myself a deal. Today, I’ll make a list of the positive developments in the Sag Hampton area in an attempt …
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Sag Harbor is a ___________ Town
Right now, I’m thinking “theater-lover’s”, thanks to the glorious reading that was given to Susan Merrell’s excellent new play Unused Characters at the Bay Street Theatre today. But, the blank in the sentence that is the title of this post could be completed in so many other ways.
Step Three
The Library Development Committee (LDC), of which I am a member, and the Board of Trustees of the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor held the third of a projected twelve public forums this evening. I think of it as step three of a twelve step program to win back the public’s trust. It was a very contentious meeting. Some of the people there, who are apparently opposed to the two …
Think Your Taxes are High? Think Again.
No one likes to pay taxes. I think it’s fair to say that an antipathy towards taxes is universal. Certainly, we’ve heard a lot about the unfairness of the recent reassessment in Southampton. That misguided undertaking caused a lot of economic pain, and the many homeowners who were treated unfairly were justified in their complaints. However, I’d like to focus …
Working Both Sides of the Street
In one of those ironic twists of fate, I noticed today that one of the renovated houses I was critical of in an earlier post is now appearing for sale in an ad on my blog. 168 Main Street appears frequently in rotation with other Google ads in the right hand column of this blog. Google places these ads – with my permission* …
Now Find Us at saghampton.com
To make it a little easier to remember and share Sag Hampton’s web address with friends and acquaintances we’ve added saghampton.com and www.saghampton.com to our original address, saghampton.eponym.com. You can now get here using any one of those addresses. They’ll all work just fine.
Local Hero, Part II (Again, apologies to Bill Forsyth)
There are three main ways to drive into Sag Harbor. You can come in on Route 114 from East Hampton, you can come over the bridge from North Haven, or you can come up the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from Bridgehampton. On each of these routes, there is a small area just before you enter the Village that is considered a gateway to Sag Harbor.
Local Hero, Part I (With aplogies to Bill Forsyth)
You may know that a group of twenty-odd people worked for about a year, trying to figure out how the John Jermain Memorial Library could expand so as to offer more and better services to the community. This group was known as the Community Library Committee (CLC), and was appointed by the Library’s Board of Trustees, after the defeat of …
An Inconvenient Truth (With apologies to Al Gore)
Are there things you love about Sag Hampton? Well, they’re about to change. What are you going to do about it?
“Are you talking to me?” you’re probably thinking in your best Robert De Niro Taxi Driver imitation.
Darn right, I’m talking to you.
Here’s another question: did you know that there are heroes here in Sag Hampton? There are — lots of them, but probably not enough.
Sag Hampton Is a Social Network
Blogs are interactive media. TV is the polar opposite: a passive medium. Even traditional websites are passive media. Here’s the difference. Passive media are one-way conversations. There’s a creator and a consumer. The creator creates, the consumer consumes what has been created. If you’re having trouble following this, substitute either the word “reads” or “watches” for the word “consumes” in …
