The Sag Harbor Village Board was receptive to a pitch on Tuesday to reduce single-use plastics, which the Surfrider Foundation says constitute the bulk of litter found at its beach cleanup efforts. 

The crowds began to gather in front of Town Hall in East Hampton and at Steinbeck Park in Sag Harbor around 11:45 on Saturday morning as part of the Hands Off! rallies held concurrently across the country and in Mexico to protest the actions of the new Trump administration.

On March 14, President Trump signed an executive order that would strip the Institute of Museum and Library Services, established in 1996 and the only source of federal funds for the state library, to its bones. The state library is the sole conduit through which state and federal aid flows, providing support services to libraries across the state and reducing redundancies.

Five years after an eight-acre parcel comprising four lots, across from the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sag­aponack, was purchased for agricultural use with money from the South­ampton Town Community Preservation Fund, it remains fallow, and Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt are now asking the Southampton Town Board to switch the parcel’s use to protect Poxabogue Pond, which the land borders.