Yearly Archives: 2006

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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.

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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 …
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