Yearly Archives: 2006

The Good (Next: The Bad and maybe The Ugly)

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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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* …
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