Teenagers to Speak Out

Speak Out, an opportunity for Sag Harbor community leaders to hear from teenagers about activities and resources they would like the village to provide, will take place Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Bay Street Theater. The event is free, refreshments will be provided, and, because the program is recommended for young people in eighth grade and above, parents will not be admitted to the theater.

Sponsored by the Sag Harbor Coalition, the Youth Resource Center of Sag Harbor, and the Sag Harbor Youth Committee, the event will have on its panel Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, and Sag Harbor Village Mayor Brian Gilbride.

Similar events were held in 1997 and 2000, when adults learned that local teenagers were unhappy about a lack of activities for them in the village. Those forums resulted in the Safe Summer Beach Program at Long Beach and several others initiated for teenagers at the John Jermain Memorial Library and Bay Street Theater.

Eric Bramoff, who is the athletic director of the Bridgehampton School and a Pierson graduate, will moderate the discussion. Other panelists will include Tracy Mitchell, executive director of Bay Street; Diane Patrizio, director of human services for East Hampton Town; Catherine Creedon, director of John Jermain; Gregg Schiavoni, board president of Mashashimuet Park; Lisa Field, president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Kathryn Menu, co-publisher of The Sag Harbor Express; Tom Fabiano, chief of the village’s Police Department; Nancy Lynott, director of the Southampton Town Youth Bureau, and from the Sag Harbor School District either Katy Graves, the superintendent, or Jeff Nichols, the middle-high school principal.