Category Archives: Our Town

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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A Tale of Two Sundays

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Saltbox

Two Sundays ago my wife and I were in Richmond, a city of approximately 200,000 people, and the capital of the State of Virginia. We were visiting friends, and as it was our first time in the city, they offered to take us on a quick tour of some of the main attractions. We soon discovered three things about Richmond: …
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Where are the Japanese/Korean Car Dealers?

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Saltbox

This is an actual and honest question. If anyone knows the answer, please let the rest of us know by posting a comment.

The question is: Why are there no Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi or Hyundai dealers anywhere in Sag Hampton? Don’t tell me they’re in Riverhead, that’s 50 minutes away when there’s no traffic. We have Ford, …
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The Five Things I Like Best About Sag Harbor, and the Five I Like Least

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Saltbox

I Like

  1. The Community. Sag Harbor is still largely a community of people who live here year-round and care about the town, its institutions and each other. There are lots of groups and organizations to get involved with — school, fire department, historical society, library, theater, museums, chamber of commerce, churches, synagogue and more. And, whether you choose to get involved …
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The Ghost in the House

Posted on February 11, 2007 by Saltbox

Our house sits on a half-acre lot, in a neighborhood of half-acre lots located just south of the Village line. It’s a modest neighborhood by Sag Hampton standards. It’s not in the historic district, in fact the neighborhood is so not historic that it didn’t even exist before 1987, give or take a year. Before then it was just woods. …
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