For the past few months we’ve been having some problems with our blog hosting company, which seems to be gradually going out of business. Today, with much help from our new blog host Blogharbor.com (nice coincidence, that!) we’re up and running again, so if you’ve been trying to visit Saghampton.com and were consistently getting error messages about “exceeded bandwidth,” rest …
Posts under ‘Dear Reader’
Where am I?
This post is only about Sag Harbor and the Hamptons in the most tenuous of ways. It’s certainly obvious that our region is under a lot of stress right now. Most folks I talk to either say we’re rapidly approaching, or have just passed a tipping point, and that the very natures of our communities are, or will soon be, irreversibly changed…and not for the better. Community groups are working overtime, to try to stave off this undesirable future. Politicians, and would-be politicians are promising to change things if only we help them get elected. New committees are forming every day, and I applaud (and often join) them. Save Sag Harbor! Stop CVS! Stop LIPA! Stop the condos! Support affordable housing! Support open space! Fix the traffic, goddammit!
Anyway, that’s not what I’m writing about. I’m writing about me, and how all that has affected me.
Our First Year: Taking Stock
It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been writing this blog for a year now. The first post was published on Saturday, May 20, 2006. Since then I’ve published 82 articles and received 101 reader comments. As near as I can tell, on average, about 15 people a day stop by. Some days, usually after an article has been republished in …
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry
I haven’t written anything in weeks. My apologies to my one or two regular readers (who clearly can no longer be called regular readers) and anyone else who stopped by looking for something that they obviously didn’t find. My only excuse is that my daughter Corinne, her friend Andre and I have been working hard [...]
Local Boy Makes Good (With Your Help)
Usually when I ask my readers (all three of you) to do something, it’s for the benefit of the Sag Hampton community in one way or another, whether it’s a reminder to attend a meeting, or an entreaty to write to our public officials about the issue du jour. But this post…this is shamless family [...]
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.
Help Wanted
I’m thinking about these things:
- Sag Harbor’s new mayor
- Southampton’s botched reassessment
- The condos are coming (and I’m scared)
- Affordable housing (Why not in the condos?)
- Church for sale
- The two-building plan for the John Jermain Library
- Getting control of the school budget
- The proposed renovations for the Pierson H.S. auditorium
- Historic preservation in Sag Harbor
- Sag Harbor’s changing demographics…
