Category Archives: Government

Saving Sag Harbor

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Saltbox

There’s a new and very active group in our community calling itself Save Sag Harbor. Its primary mission is to preserve Main Street’s traditional look and business mix — mostly small locally-owned stores and restaurants — by preventing national chains and big box stores like CVS from moving in and driving up commercial rents to the point where they are …
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So Where Were We?

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Saltbox

I’ve been on vacation, but now I’m back. So where were we?
Oh, yes…the Town of Southampton has approved a study, to be conducted by its planning department, of the gateway to Sag Harbor along the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. This has been a little slow getting off the ground, but in the interim, local hero Priscilla Ciccariello has spearheaded an effort by a group she calls “the coalition” to prepare a comprehensive document detailing the reasons the study needs to be done, what specifically needs to be studied, the areas of concern for the surrounding community, the hoped-for outcomes of the study, and the reasoning behind those hopes. It’s an amazing document
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Is This the Land of No?

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Saltbox

Sometime it feels like we’re living in the Land of No. There are quite a few things in recent memory to which one or another Sag Hampton group has said (or tried to say) NO!

Many folks said no to the NYS Department of Transportation a few years ago when they proposed a roundabout at the wharf end of Main …
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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Saltbox

No sooner had I posted the story about the proposed ski-resort in Riverhead, than the whole thing started to unravel.  Anthony of the Ozone blog drew my attention to this Newsday article, (thanks Anthony) in which the paper quotes Riverhead Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale as saying, “I would expect him to be chairman, because that’s how he signs his letters,” …
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Unbelievable

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Saltbox

File this under “Development/Crazy.” My jaw is on the floor. Could this be for real? The blog Ozone quotes from the Long Island Traveler-Watchman (part of the Independent chain of newspapers) that a 500 ft. tall ski resort is planned for Riverhead, and that Riverhead’s supervisor Phil Cardinale is already salivating over the prospect. The Traveler-Watchman quotes Cardinale as saying, …
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