A new community organization, the North Fork Arts Center, is working to raise $1 million to turn the Greenport Theater into a non-profit community arts center, just as the historic theater on Front Street was put up for sale for $5.5 million earlier this January.
Steinbeck Home Preservation Could Come As Soon as Valentine's Day
The Sag Harbor home where Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck spent the later years of his life is on the brink of preservation this month, as Southampton Town, the Sag Harbor Partnership and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas work out the final details to make the property a place where writers can work for generations to come.
On Sunday, Jan. 29, the North Fork Polar Bears, a winter swim group of more than 80 members and growing, will host its inaugural Splash for CAST — a charitable cold water plunge at Truman Beach, at 19340 Main Road in East Marion.
This week on Behind The Headlines on 88.3 WLIW-FM, Beacon editor Beth Young joins a panel discussing a lawsuit filed against the Southampton Village mayor; the ongoing efforts to preserve the Steinbeck house in Sag Harbor; a heroic rescue at a fire in Polish Town; and efforts to save a theater in Greenport.
The Greenport Village Board will not vote on a potential moratorium on development in three downtown business districts until its Feb. 23 meeting, at the earliest, while the board incorporates suggestions made by the village’s planning board and by the Suffolk County Planning Commission, which is slated to discuss the moratorium at its Feb. 1 meeting.
On Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m., Hamptons Observatory will host a free, virtual lecture presented by renowned multi-disciplinary scientist, researcher, and explorer Prof. Paul A. Mayewski, who will speak about his remarkable adventures across the globe to discover how and why climate changes. For more info and free tickets visit journeyintoclimate.eventbrite.com.
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