By Marissa Maier
A visitor to Sagaponack Village might believe the one-room schoolhouse on Main Street has remained untouched since it was built in 1885. Pint-sized students sit on old-fashioned wooden desks with inkwells and a cast-iron stove located at the front of the classroom keeps them warm. Though everything seems sleepy enough, changes are [...]
By Marissa Maier
In 1597, Sir Francis Bacon wrote in the Religious Meditation of Heresies, “Knowledge is power.” Nearly four centuries later, the ubiquitous quote is applied to many different situations including the formation of the Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) of the East End. For Cynthia McKelvey, co-founder of SEPTA and a [...]
By Marissa Maier
As a child, Gini Booth effortlessly tread between two disparate worlds. By day, Booth could be found on the streets of New York City and its environs protesting racial prejudices and socioeconomic injustices with her father, Judge William Henry Booth, an African-American New York City Criminal Court Judge and Chairman of [...]
By Marissa Maier
The 2010 U.S. Census is kicking off in March and this week the Express sat down with U.S. Census Long Island Regional Manager William Harfmann to talk about why the census matters and what it could mean to the 2012 presidential election.
Why does the census matter?
The census is a [...]
East End businesses have struggled under the weight of a nationwide recession – cutting back on employees and reorganizing their business models to conform to a more frugal clientele, even on the affluent East End of Long Island.
“I don’t think we are at the end of the recession,” said Greg Ferraris, a certified public [...]
