School Board Says “Yea” To Student Accident Insurance, Mascot
By Claire Walla For the past year, Sag Harbor School District has not carried a supplemental form of insurance known as student accident insurance. For some members of the Sag Harbor School Board, the...
View ArticleJelly in a Jam at Pierson
By Claire Walla Before showing a Power Point presentation on unhealthy eating habits and the rise of obesity in the United States last Wednesday, Sag Harbor Elementary School parent Susan Lamontagne...
View ArticleBoard Votes to Keep Wellness Policy As Is
By Claire Walla Keeping high-fructose corn syrup at bay, the Sag Harbor School Board says the Wellness Policy stays as is. The Sag Harbor Board of Education faced outrage from some parents at its last...
View ArticleLandslide Victory For Sag Harbor Budget, Incumbents Reelected
Above: School Board Candidate Tom Gleeson (top, far left) waits to hear the results of Tuesday’s election. By Claire Walla Coming as no surprise to the small crowd gathered in the Pierson Middle/High...
View ArticleBoard Questions Operation of YARD Summer Beach Program
By Claire Walla The future of the Youth Advocacy and Resource Development (YARD) summer beach program is in flux. Again. And the Sag Harbor Board of Education remains at a standstill. Last year around...
View ArticleSag Harbor Students Plea to Save Their Prom
By Tessa Raebeck Speakers at the podium at Sag Harbor school board meetings are generally thrifty community members or concerned parents; rarely do students appear to express their views — except, of...
View ArticleCiting Exhausted High Schoolers, Sag Harbor Parents Ask for Later Start Times...
Susan Lamontagne addresses the Board of Education Monday, February 10. By Tessa Raebeck By 7:25 a.m. when many adults are either still asleep or just getting up, Sag Harbor teenagers are in class,...
View ArticleFour Candidates Announced in Race for Sag Harbor School Board
By Tessa Raebeck With three incumbents’ terms ending this summer, four candidates—two of them newcomers—have come forward to enter the race for the Sag Harbor School District Board of Education (BOE)....
View ArticleMeet the Candidates: Four Hopefuls for the Sag Harbor School Board
Moderator Bryan Boyhan (left) with the candidates for the Sag Harbor Board of Education: Incumbent Sandi Kruel, challenger Thomas Ré, challenger Diana Kolhoff and Incumbent Theresa Samot, at the Meet...
View ArticleSag Harbor Teachers Accept Minimal Salary Increases in New Contract
Art teacher Laurie DeVito in her classroom at Sag Harbor Elementary School. Photo by Michael Heller. By Tessa Raebeck In a surprise announcement last week, released with little fanfare, the Sag Harbor...
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