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Terrapins May Push Colgate Basin Dredging Off
In July, the Sag Harbor Harbor Committee gave permission to dredge the tiny Colgate basin off Redwood in Sag Harbor Cove. On Monday they began to reconsider that approval when they learned there may...
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Wharf to Embrace the “Mary E” Schooner?
Matthew Culen returned to the Sag Harbor Harbor Committee, on Monday, December 8, looking for a new home port for his 75-foot Schooner, “Mary E.” Culen hopes to permanently dock his boat on Long Wharf...
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East End Digest, January 15
Stony Brook Southampton Bay Street Co-Founders Create New Programs at Stony Brook Stony Brook Southampton’s MFA in Writing and Literature Program announced two new initiatives for 2009: a Playwriting...
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Harbor Committee Weighs In on New Code
Harbor committee meetings are usually relaxed, quiet affairs, but on Monday evening, members of the public and Sag Harbor’s planning consultant Richard Warren shared a charged conversation over the...
View ArticleHavens Beach Discussion Stalls
The village Harbor Committee stopped short of having a discussion on the results of water quality testing at Sag Harbor’s Havens Beach during its Monday night meeting, after chairman Bruce Tait...
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Sag Harbor Village Takes a Closer Look at Erosion on West Water Street
Sag Harbor Village Harbor Committee Chairman Bruce Tait and village environmental planning consultant Rich Warren examine the effects of erosion on West Water Street Monday evening. Photographs taken...
View ArticleHarbor Committee Approves a Limited Buffer
The most basic tool the Sag Harbor Village Harbor Committee has at its fingertips to improve water quality is to demand natural vegetative buffers to any wetlands when homeowners on the waterfront...
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Boat Party in Jeopardy
by David McCabe The Sag Harbor Village’s Harbor Committee discussed issues related to an annual boat party in Sag Harbor during its meeting on Monday, opening up the possibility that village...
View ArticleSag Harbor Village Harbor Committee Focuses on Water Quality
By Kathryn G. Menu The Sag Harbor Village Harbor Committee has been tasked with protecting the waterfront one addition, pool and dock at a time — imposing a wetlands buffer as each new project comes...
View ArticleSag Harbor to Weigh Moratorium
By Stephen J. Kotz The Sag Harbor Village Board will be asked to consider a moratorium on most developments requiring setback relief from wetlands, pending a revision of its wetlands law. Denise...
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Sag Harbor Yacht Yard Told to Shove Off
By Stephen J. Kotz Sag Harbor Village this week gave Lou Grignon, the owner of the Sag Harbor Yacht Yard, 30 days to vacate a parcel of village-owned waterfront land has used for the past 20 years as...
View ArticleHarbor Committee Meeting Dominated by Redwood Road Applications
By Stephen J. Kotz It was all Redwood all the time on Monday as the Sag Harbor Harbor Committee heard five applications for wetland permits in the neighborhood. Despite objections from two neighbors,...
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Sag Harbor Village Board Recognizes Policeman’s Long Career
Sag Harbor Village Police Sgt. Paul Fabiano will retire next month. Photo by Stephen J. Kotz. By Stephen J. Kotz The Sag Harbor Village Board on Tuesday wanted to take a minute to celebrate the long...
View ArticleSag Harbor ZBA Frets Over Project Near Bluff
By Stephen J. Kotz The application of Alan and Anita Sosne, who want to add a second-floor addition to their house, put in a pool and make other improvements to their property at 18 Cove Road, saw...
View ArticleHarbor Committee To Weigh In
The Sag Harbor Harbor Committee devoted half of a nearly two-hour-long work session on Tuesday to discussing the status of a lease between the village and the Sag Harbor Yacht Yard, before agreeing it...
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Great Street Honored
By Stephen J. Kotz Deborah Alaimo Lawlor, a member of the American Planning Association, the organization that named Sag Harbor’s Main Street one of the 10 “Great Streets in America” earlier this...
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Tait Steps Down From Harbor Committee
By Stephen J. Kotz Bruce Tait, a long-time member of the Harbor Committee, who was stripped of his chairmanship after an ongoing public dispute with Sag Harbor Mayor Gilbride and the Village Board,...
View ArticleHarbor Committee Has Questions About Fill
Questions about whether it should approve the unauthorized addition of fill to the waterside property of a house at 188 Redwood Road occupied the Sag Harbor Harbor Committee’s attention on Monday....
View ArticleHearing Set on Wetland Law
The Sag Harbor Village Board earlier this month voted to extend the moratorium on processing wetlands permits until June 1 and scheduled an April 14 hearing on its revised wetlands law. The new law...
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