A rendering of the planned new Stony Brook Southampton Hospital satellite emergency room facility in East Hampton.
A rendering of the planned new Stony Brook Southampton Hospital satellite emergency room facility in East Hampton.
Michelle Trauring on Nov 10, 2022
Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital had big, multi-million-dollar plans that would have changed the landscape of East End health care for good. According... more
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — An attempt was made to defraud the art center on Madison Street known as The Church. The organization was working on a transaction that involved $15,000 when someone attempted to defraud it by intercepting the transaction and directing it toward a bank account different from where it was supposed to go to. The transaction was flagged by the bank, and money never exchanged hands. Village Police are investigating. SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — On Labor Day afternoon, a woman reported to Village Police that she had left her Prada tote bag with several valuable items inside of ...
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The house fire in August 2022 that killed two young women in Noyac is a terrible tragedy for everyone involved — there’s no ignoring that, along with the lives lost, so many lives were forever changed that awful night. If there is anything to take away from the tragedy, it is the lesson that while code enforcement is often derided as “Big Government” overreaching, and mandatory inspections and permits are considered mere bureaucratic harassment, those rules and that oversight save lives. Every single year. Uncounted lives, because they were protected by safe environments. Absolutely nobody would ever want to be ...
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It was just over four months ago when a segment of the Sag Harbor community — mostly longtime locals — gathered upstairs at Baron’s Cove, with the goal of ultimately rescuing and restoring the historic whaleboats used for HarborFest. The fundraiser came on the heels of last year’s festival, when competitors stepped into the 60-year-old vessels and into a few inches of water covering creaky old floorboards. Not exactly a confidence-boosting experience. The boats were purchased in the early 1960s by the original festival committee, which included the novelist John Steinbeck and a band of friends who wanted to honor ...
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