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School Approves Plans For $4.9 Million Bond Measure
By Claire Walla The Sag Harbor School Board is moving forward with plans to bring a $4.9 million bond measure to the public. The four base components of the seven-part capital project were unanimously...
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BOE Discusses Stadium Lighting
By Claire Walla The ongoing discussion revolving around proposed plans to implement a turf field and overhead lights on the Pierson Middle/High School campus — which now has a field composed of...
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Sag Harbor Schools Bring The Holiday Spirit Up North
By Claire Walla Above: (left to right) Veronica Baum, Lucy Beeton, Charlie Browning, Ryan Brown (all third graders); Hayley Schimmer, Sam Miller, Adrian Pickering, Emily Verneuille, Siena...
View ArticlePierson May Bring On the Dogs
By Claire Walla Before the end of this school year, it’s quite possible the Sag Harbor School District will bring drug-sniffing dogs onto the Pierson campus. “For years I was hesitant to pursue this...
View ArticleBoard Divided Over Supplemental Accident Insurance
By Claire Walla Ever since the need for student accident insurance was brought into question last year, it has been a hotly debated item among Sag Harbor School Board members. Last year, the board...
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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...
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Jelly 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...
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Board 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...
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Landslide 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...
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Sag 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...
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Citing 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,...
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Four 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)....
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Meet 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...
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Sag 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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