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“It wasn’t a hard decision to make. If more people knew that afterward you could go back to your normal life, maybe more people would donate,” Sag Harbor resident Diana Howard said of donating a kidney to her best friend, Ethna Sinisi.

Climate scientists are saying July is on track to be the warmest month ever recorded on Earth due to record-breaking global temperatures. That means storms like hurricanes can be more intense and destructive when they make landfall. “That will be such a monumental record broken,” said Sag Harbor native and NBC Meteorologist Chris Gloninger, who will speak about The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 on Friday, July 26, at 5 p.m. at the Annie Cooper Boyd House in Sag Harbor. “This is something that is encompassing the entire planet.”

For all the parents out there, Anita Boyer and Joe Pallister have date night under control.

Lucette Lagnado, an award-winning author and longtime journalist at The Wall Street Journal, died on Wednesday, July 10, in New York.

JoAnn Lyles, the mother of U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Jordan C. Haerter, who was killed in combat in 2008, was surprised by an invitation to partake in one of this year’s “Salute to Service” NFL games.

The National Park Service on July 10 officially added the SANS neighborhood of Sag Harbor — the three historically African-American adjacent communities on the east side of the village called Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah — to the National Register of Historic Places, completing a process that community volunteers, led by Renee Simons, launched in 2016.

On Sunday, large crowds gathered in Sag Harbor to participate in the town’s second annual Interdependence Walk.

The Sag Harbor House Tour on Friday, July 19, offers a walk through Sag Harbor history, from the Revolutionary War era to today.

At the Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor on July 3, Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, or OLA—a nonprofit Latino advocacy agency—hosted a gathering to encourage community members to act locally to support immigrants right here.

Sag Harbor Historical Society will hold what newly elected president Nancy French Achenbach called “probably the biggest fundraiser we’ve ever given” on Friday, July 5.

The Sag Harbor Yacht Club will sponsor the John A. Ward Independence Day Fireworks on Saturday, July 6, at approximately 9:30 p.m.

“Being a rabbi is imprinted in his DNA,” said his wife, LuAnne “Lu” Geffen, who is also a Jewish educator and serves as the director of community engagement at Temple Adas Israel. “It’s been so a part of his milieu his entire life.”

Armed with shovels, trowels and screens, a team of researchers led by Dr. Stephen Mrozowski from the University of Massachusetts Boston last month began...

Lucille Claire Covell, formerly of Bridgehampton, died June 29, 2019, in hospice care in Florida.

The Pierson High School senior graduating class of 2019 was presented to the students, faculty, family and friends at the Sag Harbor Elementary School...