Sag Harbor Village residents weighed in on Bay Street Theater's plan for a new theater, the departure of the 7-Eleven, and proposed restrictions on waterfront development at a public hearing held in John Steinbeck Waterfront Park last week. "We cannot control who can buy what, we can't control who can sell what, but what we can do is control the use, the size, the scale, and most importantly, the character of what is put on any property," said Mayor Kathleen Mulcahy.

Two hundred and thirty-eight years ago, on April 25, 1783, the Rev. Samuel Buell (1716-1798) reflected on the popular demand for his recent publication, which was actually a funeral sermon he preached for his daughter Jerusha Buell Gardiner Conkling.

After graduating from U.C.L.A., where he majored in philosophy, Alvin Novak moved to New York in 1957 with no intention of becoming a professional musician, despite having been a precocious pianist as a child. Things took a turn, however, when he resumed his piano studies and was encouraged by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, a well-known American two-piano ensemble.