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Yearly Archives: 2008
Knowing When to Say Maybe
I recently received an e-mail advising me of a meeting to discuss possible developments, including a convenience store, at the Harbor Heights Mobil station on Rt. 114 in Sag Harbor. This e-mail was the first I’d heard of this possibility, and I have not tried to verify any of the information in the message. For all I know the whole thing may be a rumor …
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Posted in Development, Local Businesses
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Blog Action Day, Oct. 15
Do you have a blog? If so, you may want to join the blog action day campaign, which will take place on October 15th. This year’s theme is poverty. (Last year’s was the environment.) The idea is to focus the conversation in as many blogs, video blogs and podcasts as possible on that day on the subject of poverty. So, for example, I’ll be writing a post about some aspect of poverty as it relates to Sag Hampton. The Blog Action Day organizers explain their motivation thusly:
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Posted in Blog Stuff, Values
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Save Sag Harbor (Cinema)
Yikes! This is serious. The Sag Harbor Cinema is for sale. There’s nothing more iconic in Sag Harbor than the Sag Harbor Cinema, the art-house theater that’s been a part of the local scene for decades. Just look at all the fuss that arose when my fellow Sag Harborites thought they were losing the theater’s sign! Now, it seems, we may be in danger of losing the entire theater and …
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Posted in Development, Historic Preservation, Local Businesses, Our Town
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Not Every Good Idea Is…Well, a Good Idea
Sometimes I get an idea, and at first blush it seems like a world beater. Fortunately, I’m a bit of a procrastinator, so I usually don’t act on these brilliant insights immediately. Usually, over the next few days, I’ll share this idea with friends or colleagues, and they gently (or sometimes not so gently) point out the the things I’ve …
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Posted in Historic Preservation, Libraries
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Sag Harbor: Alive, Well and Still Kickin’
Observed in and around Sag Harbor recently:
- More Priuses per block than anywhere else I’ve been;
- Tibetan Monks running programs at the Unitarian Universalist Church and North Haven Village Hall;
- Heavy trunout for meetings of the various Village Boards;
- A rejuvenated public library with more visitors, circulation, programs and joi de vive than ever;
- An Alternative Energy Fair at the Whaling Museum, which also seems pretty spry…
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