Lynn Novick, a documentary filmmaker, was in Sag Harbor for a preview at Bay Street Theater of her most recent project, “College Behind Bars,” a four-hour series that will premiere on PBS in November.
Term limits are great talking points during political campaigns, but after getting elected, most officials lose interest in them. National Democratic strategists looking to push Representative Lee Zeldin out of office have seized on his 2014 victory over the incumbent, Tim Bishop, as evidence of just such a flip-flop.
A proposal to force New York private schools to report more than their local boards of education now require is circulating in Albany and has some educators and parents worried.
And just like that, the tropical Atlantic came alive. After an August with minimal swell and no hurricanes, two named storms popped up, one as we went to press Wednesday threatening to make a first landfall in already battered Puerto Rico and projected to arrive as Hurricane Dorian in northern Florida on Monday. At the same time, but less of a threat to shore, another storm developed off the Carolina coast but was to move away into the open ocean by the end of the week.
