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7 Trump Visits Fallen airman’s dad, Zeldin among greeters; visit protested.

21 New Bishop Implicated Bishop John Barres allegedly covered up pedophile scandal.

27 Montauk Drug Bust D.A. says ring distributed cocaine in bars and restaurants.

29 Celebrity Chef Charged Maurizio Marfoglia, of Dopo La Spiaggia, arrested after crash.

38 Anthony Baratta Interior design expert celebrates four decades of iconic style.

41 Murf's On The Market The Sag Harbor tavern is listed at $3.5 million.

8 Sacred Hills Skeletal remains and glass flask unearthed at construction site.

22 Deer Fence Moratorium Residents worry about losing scenic vistas.

28 Hit-and-Run Woodhaven man faces three felonies after victim hospitalized.

31 Riverside Shooter Arrested Shot teen in car with him.

41 Changes at Elliman Adam Hofer will set up shop at Elliman's Southampton office.

42 Deeds Featured listings above $3 million and below $1 million.

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55 Thinking Outside The Box 2018 Box Art Auction to benefit East End Hospice.

59 Mandy Gonzalez The Hamilton star performs singles from her debut album.

80 Red Bar Brasserie Chef Jacob’s French-inspired cuisine continues restaurant’s legacy.

82 Scallops With Pomelo Purée Recipe by Chef Joe Cipro.

88 Writers Beat Artists An annual tradition, the 70th game was held at Herrick Park.

90 Strides For Life More Than $350K raised for lung cancer research.

58 BAYLi at Surf Lodge Brooklyn's rising star singer is “out for love.”

61 Penn Pens Horse Book Mare’s story of hurricanes, wildfires, and polo.

81 Art, Oysters, & Champagne The New Suffolk Waterfront Fund hosts event.

83 ‘Ssam’ Pork Belly Guest-worthy recipe by Steve Song.

89 Ellen’s Run Annual charity race draws hundreds.

94 Indy Fit Long Island Sports Park has day of zen at inaugural Zenscape yoga fest.

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Supporters greeted President Donald Trump at Francis S. Gabreski Airport, while protesters lined up outside and near the fundraiser he attended in Southampton last Friday, August 17.

Supporters, Critics Greet Trump At Gabreski Fallen airman’s dad, Zeldin among throng; visit protested

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com President Donald Trump made an entrance not soon to be forgotten on the East End. The commander-in-chief was greeted by supporters and critics alike after Air Force One touched its wheels down fashionably late last Friday, August 17, at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton and further afield in Southampton Village outside the Halsey Neck Lane home of hot dog king Howard Lorber, who was hosting a fundraiser for him.

The father of fallen Air National Guardsman Master Sergeant Christopher Raguso, who was among seven 106th Rescue Wing servicemen killed in Iraq in March, was among the throng of 150 supporters to greet Trump. The

president, who was visiting the East End to attend a fundraiser for his campaign and the Republican National Committee, exited Air Force One to cheers, waved, and then gritted his teeth and gave the crowd of servicemen and women of the Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing, their families, and friends, a big fist pump.

As he reached the bottom of the stairs rolled out to his plane, he was greeted by John Raguso, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), Westhampton Beach Mayor Maria Moore, and Brookhaven National Laboratory director Doon Gibbs. Others in attendance were Suffolk County GOP chairman John Jay LaValle and student leader Quintin Palifka from Rocky Point.

Raguso rode along with the others in a guest limo to the fundraiser at the home of Lorber, a former campaign advisor and executive chairman of Nathan’s Famous and chairman of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. They stayed at the fundraiser for about an hour before returning to the airport to see the president off.

“I think my deceased son would have had a smile from ear to ear to see me hanging out with the president,” said Raguso, who lives in Jamesport.

Raguso said he had a special moment with the president during his visit, in which he presented him with a special cap in memory of his son, a firefighter, by his colleagues in the Fire Department of New York, as well as patches with the insignia of the FDNY, the FDNY Pipe and Drum Band, and the Commack Fire Department, where he also volunteered. Trump told him that he would place them in a “very special place” to remember his son.

The president also wrote a letter of condolence to his son’s wife, Raguso said, adding, “I thanked him from the bottom of my heart.”

Supporters — some wearing “Make America Great Again” hats or touting similar banners — clamored to shake hands or exchange high fives

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with Trump, and snapped photos as he greeted them. After about 10 minutes, the president gave another wave and a thumbs-up sign before being whisked away in his famously fortified armored limo, known as “The Beast.”

Master Sergeant Adam Shene was one of the dozens of airmen who lined up inside a barricade waiting for the president to arrive in a show of support.

“He is making things happen for everybody,” he said, noting that he believes the president has given people of all walks of life a hope for a new beginning. “I just think he has made huge strides and he really makes me feel like he is doing something.”

Not everyone was pleased with Trump’s visit, though. Protestors gathered across the street in front the airport and down the street from the luncheon, which was expected to generate about $3 million for his campaign coffers. Critics armed with signs challenging Trump’s immigration policies picketed across the street from the airport and were countered by supporters, some carrying American flags.

One person had a lifesize cutout of Trump’s likeness holding a sign referring to his 2016 campaign with the Continued On Page 36.

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Suffolk County Homicide Squad detectives are investigating human remains that were unearthed by construction workers in Shinnecock Hills on Monday, August 13. Independent/Courtesy Lance Gumbs

A Reveal In ‘Sacred Hills’ Skeletal remains and glass flask unearthed at construction site

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

A wooden staff wrapped in cloth and adorned with feathers, sage leaves, and bags of tobacco and cedar loomed at edge of a partially excavated lot at 10 Hawthorne Road in Shinnecock Hills Saturday morning, August 18. As a small group of Shinnecock Indian Nation tribal members gathered at the site, crime scene tape flapped in the breeze, and the bucket of a digger was buried in the soil from when the call to halt was last given.

Then, Rebecca Genia burnt a bundle of sage, moving her hand in the air to clear the air of negative energy.

“The staff represents the connec-

tion between us and the creator, the physical world and the spiritual world,” said Genia, a graves protection warrior and member of the tribe’s Inter-tribal Preservation Task Force, in an interview after the ceremony. The tobacco provides guidance, wisdom, and love; the feathers, a space for good energy; and sage cleanses.

“It’s almost like putting something out into the universe and seeing what positivity comes back. That is why we burn the sage — to clear any of the negativity,” said Genia, adding, cedar will help the spirits “find their way.”

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A skull and a blue glass flask — believed to be 300 years old — unearthed by a digger excavating the soil of the undeveloped lot on Monday, August 13, caused the tribe concern an ancestor had been disturbed. It prompted discussion about preserving the property.

“It doesn’t matter to us. These are our sacred hills,” said Genia, noting that regardless lab of test results, whether the remains are that of a Native-American or a European settler, they should be honored. “We have a bond and we are going to respect that bond,” she added.

Genia said the sage cleansing will be repeated at the site because of all the negative energy that has accumulated over the past 100 years or so. The tribe lost much of its ancestral lands across the south shore of Southampton in a bad land deal in 1859. Much of what the tribe considered sacred land has been developed over the years, most notably Shinnecock Hills Golf Club nearby.

The remains, including the skull and what appeared to be a femur, were reported to the tribe, which has a reservation about five minutes away, almost

immediately by the builder. Then, members notified Southampton Town Police. But, tribal members say the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives who were called in to investigate — a standard protocol when human remains are found — were less than gentle with their handling of the scene.

Inadvertently Disturbed “It was clear it was not a crime scene, even to a rookie,” said Tribal Trustee Lance Gumbs, noting that the skull looked very old. At least three investigators were standing in the excavation area using various implements, including shovels, rakes, and sifters. “For anyone who has done any archaeological digging, this is a no-no,” he added.

Gumbs said he had gone to the scene, which, he says, is close to another area where a burial ground was previously found, after receiving a call from other tribal members. He asked the police to stop. However, he was informed by investigators that they could not oblige him until they determined the area was not a crime scene.

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Southampton Town Police Lieutenant Susan Ralph declined to comment, citing protocol that the county’s homicide squad, which investigates all unattended deaths, had taken over the investigation. A Suffolk police spokeswoman said detectives are waiting on a determination from the Suffolk County Office of the Medical Examiner as to whether or not foul play was involved in the person’s death and also if the remains will be analyzed for their historical value. She was unable to say if the department had consulted with the tribe about the find.

In a statement released by its Public Information Section, the agency had this to say: “When police arrived, portions of the remains had been excavated by construction machinery. There was

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no option to preserve the remains as they had already been inadvertently disturbed. The determination was made to collect all parts of the remains to properly examine them in a laboratory setting.”

An anthropologist from the Office of the medical examiner's office examined the remains at the lab and made a “preliminary determination” that they had been buried at the site for at least 50 years, according to a police spokeswoman.

Preliminary findings by a forensic anthropologist were inconclusive because, while Native American characteristics were identified in the remains, so were Caucasian characteristics.

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A Push To Preserve The Past Shinnecock seek grave protection protocol

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com Construction has been halted at the Hawthorne Road site due to an amenable property owner — the property is protected for the time being — but that’s not to say remains won’t be unearthed at another site without protection. This is causing concern among the Shinnecock tribe.

In the event that human remains are discovered during the course of archaeological investigations of the project site or during project construction, the state Historic Preservation Office recommends developers follow its Human Remains Discovery Protocol, according to Kelly Dennis, a tribal attorney.

“At all times, discovered human remains must be treated with the utmost dignity and respect. Human remains and associated materials must not be collected or removed until the developer has consulted with the [state] and other appropriate parties and the parties have developed a plan of action to avoid or remove the remains or materials,” Dennis said.

There is no way of knowing who is following the protocol at the local level, some tribal members say.

Rebecca Genia, a graves protection warrior and member of the tribe’s Inter-tribal Historic Preservation Task Force, said the tribe has sought a graves protocol for the better part of

15 years and prepared legislation for the Town of Southampton that will ensure the protection of any grave — Native-American or colonial. To them, it makes no difference whose grave is being preserved. “It’s our sacred hills,” she said.

Tribal Trustee Lance Gumbs said the tribe has requested the town work with them on a protocol for builders to turn over remains without any questions asked and also for repatriating remains to Shinnecock land, however, they have been “repeatedly ignored.”

Not having a procedure in place to repatriate remains has become frustrating for the tribe, as development continues throughout the south shore and more remains are found, Gumbs said.

“These things are continuing to happen,” he said.

The last time Native American remains were found was on Shelter Island in 2013 and they have since been repatriated, but in some cases, builders might just find remains and continue to build without any ramifications, said Gumbs, adding, “You don’t do things [like that] against the ancestor.”

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said the town is working with the tribe on a protocol for the discovery of Native American remains. “I think that is an ongoing conversation,” he added.

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Serious Problem To the Editor,

Thank you for the in-depth article about the proposed Deepwater Wind Project. As this has been a heated topic in the area for the past year, I have a much better understanding of the pros and cons of this issue after reading your piece.

My only critique would be the accuracy of the statement towards the end of the article; “Natural Gas is 50 percent cleaner than oil, but it’s still not clean.”

This is an overly optimistic spin that has been propagated by the Natural Gas industry. It doesn’t take into account the complete life-cycle footprint of getting that gas out of the ground to the utility plant where THEN it can then be burned more cleanly. Most natural gas in the U.S. is derived from fracking, where each well requires thousands of heavy truck trips to deliver mostly water (which is then polluted and can only be cleaned at a great cost), sand, and a toxic brew of chemicals that all drillers try to keep secret.

Moreover, along the natural gas production and transportation cycle, methane is released from venting the wells when production first begins, and then leaks occur along the millions of miles of pipelines that run through our country. One should remember that methane released today has been judged to trap 72 times more heat in the atmosphere in its first 20 years than carbon dioxide. While methane dissipates quicker and makes up a smaller percentage of greenhouse gases, its impact on Global Warming is still four to five times that of carbon dioxide over most periods of time.

Obviously, we face a serious problem and wind power will be part of solution. However, if the politicians and utility executives wanted to use the most cost-effective source of renewable energy, that would be solar. It is just a matter of finding the space for it before it is too late.

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Has His Way Dear Rick:

In a recent article you wrote, “Chris Kelley’s name is synonymous with [Democratic] ‘Party Boss’ in East Hampton Town . . . just ask any of the insiders who have witnessed him rule for 30 years. It is Kelley who controls the [Democratic] party’s purse strings and has the final word on appointees to the planning and zoning boards. And it is Kelley who usually has his way when it is time to choose who gets to run for the town board . . .”

People should understand that party bossism and cronyism exact a price from the public. For example, just a few days ago, the town board attempted to make an illegal gift of town-owned real estate, an unim-

proved road, to a client of Kelley’s law firm, a multimillionaire, who wants a bigger building lot. They were stopped only because David Buda came to the hearing armed with documents that made clear what the town board was up to.

You can be sure that the little bit the public can see is just the tip of the iceberg.

The East Hampton Reform Democrats were organized to put a stop to bossism and cronyism in the Democratic party. Our slate of candidates for the Democratic committee and our town board candidate, David Gruber, are completely independent of Chris Kelley and his handpicked Democratic committee.

Democrats can cast a vote for honest government in the Democratic primary election, Thursday, September 13.

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Political Machine Dear Rick:

Insight into why Democrats lost the election to Donald Trump might be found right here in the Hamptons.

To start, Democrats (and many Republicans) have overlooked the fact that Republicans who address quality of life issues with a realistic economic agenda often get elected and remain popular in overwhelmingly Democratic regions. Michael Bloomberg of New York and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts are two examples.

In East Hampton, Republican Highway Superintendent Steve Lynch also has been successful in a predominantly Democratic town.

Until recently, Southampton voted Republican.

However, Democrats made inroads in large part due to a successful marketing campaign that consisted of placing Democratic Party operatives on civic associations, writing group letters to editors co-signed by Democratic Party volunteers from different hamlets, and publishing stories about the activities and hobbies of Democrats. I especially like the stories quoting women who are proud to be married to Democrats: “He’s no pig.” “He makes me laugh.” “He knows everything.”

While the marketing campaign attempts to portray Democratic candidates as unbiased and modern, much of what is published is opinion. And in my opinion, the political machine that supports Southampton Supervisor, Democrat Jay Schneiderman, isn’t much different from the biased personalities that Democrats allege to deplore.

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Whose Island Is It, Anyway?

An Amagansett man says the Cartwright Shoal is public property

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

An Amagansett man is taking his grievance to City Hall. Or, in this case, East Hampton Town Hall, where Roderic Richardson has addressed both the town trustees and the town board in recent days regarding the status of Cartwright Island or Shoal, which is located south of Gardiners Island in Gardiners Bay. According to Richardson, the shoal, which becomes a beach every low tide, is public property.

Richardson was issued an appearance ticket July 25, and arraigned August 9. He was charged with a violation count of trespassing, as well as a misdemeanor count of criminal tampering. According to East Hampton Marine Patrol officers, they had received a complaint from Norman Tripp, a security guard who patrols the waters off of Gardiners Island, apparently at the behest of the Goelet Family Trust, the owners of Gardiners Island.

Tripp told police that, while on patrol, he was ordered by his boss, Jim Webber, to go to the shoal. There, Tripp said, he found Richardson and about 8 to 10 other people, including members of his family, on the shoal. Tripp said he warned them that they were on private property. Richardson challenged that statement, Tripp said, demanding to see a deed or document proving that the shoal belongs to the Goelet trust.

Tripp said that Richardson then pulled out two “No Trespassing” signs form the sand, “and threw them onto the beach.” He said that Richardson then waved one sign in his direction, taunting him, while the others began shouting. Webber shot video of Richardson and the boat he was using as they pulled away from the shoal.

Richardson had quite a different take on the confrontation. When he spoke to the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday, he told it that Tripp had approached his 12 year-old

daughter, who was on the shoal, which is why he confronted Tripp to begin with. “My daughter had gone ahead to the foreshore to rest, parked her paddle board, and got off. And the security boat came screaming over towards her. I got off on the shore and ran up because I didn’t want my daughter intimidated or threatened,” Richardson said.

He told the town board that, in the past, when he has asked security guards manning the patrol boats for proof that the Goelet trust has legal control over the shoal, he has been told that there is a 17th century royal grant. “They told me that the Gardiners own Gardiners Island all the way into the water as far as an ox can walk up to its belly without getting its belly wet. Something I have heard in the past from these security guys. I have always asked them for a deed in the past. They have never been able to produce it. Something that shows me this language that they are telling the public.” He called the ox belly explanation “a fairytale.”

An additional problem with the Goelet trust claiming the shoal is that it has a different tax map number with the county than Gardiners Island, according to Richardson and David Buda, who also addressed the board.

He said that, if he is shown proof that the shoal is, in fact, under control of the trust, he will never return to the island or shoal again.

Richardson may finally get his way: East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky, during Richardson’s arraignment August 9, ordered both the district attorney’s office and Richardson to complete the discovery process

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A New Curate At St. Luke’s In East Hampton In a tumultuous time, Reverend Leandra Lambert sees light and hope

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

“We live in hope,” Reverend Leandra Lambert said. Born in Brooklyn to an immigrant family from Curacao in the Caribbean, the new curate of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, Lambert, sat down with The Independent last week. She was asked what the word “curate” means.

“It is one of those fancy church words for assistant,” she answered, laughing gently.

Her family attended church regularly when she was growing up. “I attended St. Mark’s Day School, an Episcopal School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn,” she said. “From there, I went to prep school in Southern Virginia before my undergraduate and graduate studies at Wellesley College.”

She studied abroad in Greece at a time when that country’s economic crisis was at its worst. She found herself asking spiritual questions.

Politically minded and active, Lambert spent a summer at the Episcopal Church office of government relations in Washington, DC, where she worked on immigration and refugee policy matters. She was exploring “life at the intersection of faith and politics.”

She then decided to attend Harvard Divinity School. “I figured out my first year that I was asking much larger questions. I wanted to know more about my life and what is the purpose?

What is God calling me to do?” She began discussing her feelings with people who knew her well, including professors, classmates, and family members.

It was through their input that she found her calling. “Yes, you are interested in religion and politics, but you really have a heart for the ministry,” she was told by loved ones.

The responsibility of being a newly ordained priest “is very daunting.

There is an expectation that you are always going to be there with your parishioners and walk with them through those sublime moments of human existence,” she said. “That, in and of itself, is also a gift because I recognized my own limitations. So much of what

I do is dependent on the Holy Spirit to come and to show up and to be present with me and with people, and to see how is it that we are experiencing God in our lives. And to feel empowered to tell that story to other people.”

She was assigned to East Hampton by Bishop Lawrence Provenzano.

Why does she think she was assigned to East Hampton, in particular? “I don’t have an exact answer to that question.

I think the longer I am here, and the more that I engage, not just with the parish here at St. Luke’s and at St. Peter’s but also with the broader community, then I will have a better sense of exactly why,” she said.

God will show her the way, she said, adding that Father Dennis Brunelle “has a good reputation as being a faithful servant to God, and a good mentor to new priests and new clergy. I am delighted and honored to be working alongside him.”

Lambert gave her first sermons at St. Luke’s and at St. Peter’s in Springs on August 5. “I focused on a passage from Ephesians in which Paul is writing to the community, encouraging them to walk worthy of their calling. He tells them that they ought to live peaceably, and that we are called to one body, one spirit, one hope in our calling. Part of living in a community and being part of a community is that there are joys and challenges,” she said. “In my time at St. Luke’s, we are going to experience that, but at the heart of who we are, we are one in Christ and that is what we need to work towards.”

The first interview with Lambert took place on the one-year anniversary of the confrontation in Charlottesville.

How should one deal with bigotry and hatred? “You name it. Where there is hate, you speak against it. It is as simple as that,” she said.

She was asked about the scandal unfolding in the Catholic Church after the release of a grand jury report in Pennsylvania last week that revealed allegations that possibly thousands of young people had been sexually abused by priests over the years. “My heart

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aches,” she said. “It’s indefensible. I am not a Roman Catholic, but as Christians, we are all members of the Body of Christ — ‘If one member suffers, all suffer together,’” she said, quoting from Corinthians.

“While God is merciful, God is also just. I think of the words of the prophet Amos: ‘Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-rolling stream.’ The alleged perpetrators and those who had a hand in covering this up need to be held accountable for their actions.”

Lambert recognizes that we live in a deeply divided world. “People appreciate authenticity. President Trump, his presidency is so unusual to how we have understood the American democracy for generations. It is important that we don’t normalize him. And that we don’t normalize his presidency. In situations where we encounter him and people who support what he represents, we need to speak honestly, speak truthfully, and to speak the message of

love,” she added.

A curate serves a two-year term.

“The curacy is very important because it is a formative time in your growth as a priest,” Lambert said. “You acquire everything that you can in this time.

And then you can go off into the world and make your own mistakes and lead a congregation. Ministry is very interesting in that not everyone is specifically in a parish context. There are chaplains, professors, you name it.”

Right now, for her, “It is parish ministry, but that might change. That might change. I approach everything with openness.” She was asked if she was saying, essentially, that the guy upstairs would show her the way. “That’s right,” she said, laughing.

“We live in hope. We know that, as bad as things are right now, this is not the end. It cannot be the end. So, we just do what we can in our part of the world, wherever we find ourselves, to be light, to do good, and, to live love,” she said.

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Georgica Pond Warning Issued Bacteria identified in water can kill animals

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

An alert for Georgica Pond in East Hampton has been issued. Independent / Rick Murphy

Toxic bacteria found in Georgica Pond in East Hampton and Sagg Pond in Sagaponack have prompted officials to warn the public against any water contact. High levels of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, were discovered by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation in the ponds on August 17. Cyanobacteria can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, skin, eye, or throat irritation, allergic reactions, or breathing difficulties.

In 2012, a dog died after it lapped up water from Georgica Pond. A toxic algae bloom was the suspected culprit.

Cyanobacteria has also been detected in Lake Agawam in Southampton, Fresh Pond on Shelter Island, Mill Pond in Water Mill, Roth Pond at SUNY Stony Brook, Laurel Lake in Laurel, Maratooka Lake in Mattituck, and Wainscott Pond, according to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services.

The photosynthetic bacteria naturally occur in freshwater and brackish lakes, ponds, and streams, but temperature spikes and other environmental factors can lead to their sudden multiplication. Water bodies in which the cyanobacteria levels are high can be green, blue-green, yellow, or red. Sometimes the water appears as if paint has been spread on it. Not all forms are a human or animal health risk, but many can produce toxins, some have as many

as three separate toxins.

According to the University of California Museum of Paleontology, cyanobacteria fossils are the oldest known, dating back 3.5 billion years.

To report a suspected blue-green algae bloom other than at a Suffolk County-permitted bathing beach, contact the Division of Water at New York State DEC at 518-402-8179 between 8 AM and 4 PM or anytime via email to habsinfo@dec.ny.gov.

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Southampton and Riverhead officials marked the groundbreaking of a medical building at the former Howard Johnson’s in Riverside last Thursday, August 16.

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Breaking Ground In Two Ways Shovels in ground make way for Riverside medical complex

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

The memory of the smell of fried clam strips and hot fudge sundaes was resurrected Thursday morning, August 16, as about 30 government officials and members of the community gathered at the former Howard Johnson across from the traffic circle in Riverside to celebrate breaking ground on a medical complex planned for the site.

Considered an eyesore for the past 15 years, though once a beloved part of Southampton Town — the highlight of downtown Riverhead visits for many a child growing up — the property has been tapped for redevelopment into a medical complex that could contain retail and apartment space in the future.

“It’s altogether appropriate that revitalization starts here,” said state

Assemblyman Fred Thiele, reminiscing about how when he was growing up, he would look forward to eating ice cream on the long drive from Sag Harbor to visit Riverhead with his parents.

Other revitalization plans for the Riverside area that are in the works now include a boutique motel at the site of the former Peconic Paddler, upgrades for Ludlam Avenue Park, and the David W. Crohan Community Center. A park is also planned for an undeveloped parcel of land near McDonald’s. It will feature a boardwalk spanning the length of the Peconic River to Route 104.

“It’s the moment we’ve been waiting for — forward progress in an area that we love in Riverside. We’ve been

dreaming of revitalization of this area and we have been putting the pieces together for a long time to make this happen,” said Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman. Before being torn down last month, the building at the Ho-Jo’s site served as the home of the Riverboat Diner and, more recently, an Italian restaurant.

The dilapidated building had been unoccupied for the past 15 years. It was boarded up to cover broken windows and graffiti, and over the years had morphed from a family eatery into a nuisance, often the bane of local police for drawing the attention of prostitutes and drug dealers.

Riverhead Town Supervisor Laura Jens–Smith said she believes that most people don’t know whether the parcel of land is part of Southampton or Riverhead, when they drive past it.

“And, that is the way that it should be.

I think that Southampton’s success is our success, and I think that the success for both of these areas is a success for the community. So, I am very proud to be here and standing with Southampton as they begin this project,” she said, noting the parcel has been longconsidered a blight to the area.

“It really does begin the new chapter in what we are looking forward to as we develop our communities,” she said. “This is just the beginning and I am really excited to see what is to come.”

Residents will soon see workers digging a foundation, then raising steel beams at the site, which will support a three-story building with a parking area located to the rear. Once complete, only two floors will be used. The addition of a sewage treatment plant nearby in the town’s Enterprise Zone in Flanders would allow for retail uses of the building, as well as the possibility of apartments on the third floor, Schneiderman said.

“We are working really hard to get sewering into this area. That will get us past some of the restrictions of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, and allow a little bit more development,” he said.

Owner Paul Pawlowski, who was able to obtain a Restore New York grant to fund the demolition of the building, said it was a “blessing” that allowed him to focus on constructing a nicer building than he originally envisioned for the site. He credited the serendipity of the scenario to both community members and government officials for their vision.

For lack of better words, he explained, all stakeholders involved “rolled out the red carpet.”

“From the get-go, both sides had the same vision, and that’s always really helpful, but just with the planning everyone really jumped in and got to work, instead of thinking about this, just got it done,” he said.

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Clergy Group To Sponsor Candidates Forum Gershon to attend, while Zeldin declines invitation Compiled By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com Perry Gershon, the Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, will attend a nonpartisan forum on ethical and moral convictions sponsored by an interfaith group in Sag Harbor on Sunday, August 27. Zeldin has declined the invitation, the group said.

The event will be held from 7 to 8:30 PM at Christ Episcopal Church at the corner of Main and Union streets.

The group is made up of clergy members from seven houses of worship from Southampton to East Hampton.

In a press release, the group said the impetus for the event was the clergy members’ “sense that core ques-

when a final date was set.

“I am disturbed that Representative Zeldin will not speak in front of his constituents on the East End. I am sad that he has left us to wonder how he makes informed moral decisions,” said the Reverend Karen Ann Campbell, the rector of Christ Episcopal Church.

Others expressed hope the congressman would change his mind. “The

door remains wide open for Congressman Zeldin to participate, and we sincerely hope he will,” said the Reverend Peter Sulyok of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Priority for attendance will be given to members of the sponsoring houses of worship. Those who wish to attend can register online at www. eventbrite.com. A video of the event will be made public afterward.

CPF Rises Compiled By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

tions of morality, ethics, and character are an essential aspect of healthy political discourse, but are increasingly sidelined.”

“Our roles as clergy give us both the responsibility and opportunity to maintain focus on issues of morality and personal character — that’s a key part of each of our jobs,” said Rabbi Jan Uhrbach of the Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons, the initiator of the event, in a release.

The group said when it invited the candidates to participate and offer a choice of dates, Gershon responded immediately, while Zeldin’s camp did not, and only declined to participate

The Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund, a tax on most real estate transactions on the East End, rose slightly for the first half of 2018.

The total, $50.17 million, was 1.8 percent more than the previous year. The funds are divvied up in proportion to where the real estate sale took place.

Cumulatively, the CPF has collected a total of $1.333 billion since the law was passed in 1998 and implemented the following year.

“The CPF has generated $96.78 million in the last 12 months," said Assemblyman Fred Thiele, one of the architects of the tax. “It has been widely reported that real estate sales and prices are down

on the East End in the second quarter, in the wake of the federal tax changes at the end of 2017. However, the market is a complicated one. The level of CPF revenues is largely driven by the high end of the market, especially on the South Fork.

It is clear that the high end of the market continues to be strong.”

East Hampton Town took in a robust $16.77 million, up 27.8 percent from a year earlier. Riverhead took in $2.05 million, a 34-percent increase. Southold, with $3.88 million, was up almost nine percent. Market laggards included Shelter Island, where revenue was down 41 percent ($0.6 million), and Southampton Town, down 10.6 percent to $26.88 million.

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More than a dozen elected officials and representatives of Suffolk County and the Suffolk County Water Authority gathered at the corner of Two Rod Highway and Windsor Lane in Wainscott Monday morning, August 20, to celebrate the beginning of a project to lay 45,000 feet — about eight-and-ahalf miles — of new water mains in the hamlet.

The $24 million project will allow residents whose private wells are in an area polluted by perfluorinated chemicals to hook up to public water.

East Hampton Town has bonded the $24 million for the project, with half slated to be paid for residents who live in a newly created Wainscott water district, and the other half by town taxpayers. The town and the water authority have applied for funding under New York State’s $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act. If approved, the funds would be used to offset a portion of the cost.

New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele and Senator Kenneth LaValle have sponsored legislation that would allow East Hampton to use

money from its Community Preservation Fund to help cover the cost of the project.

“This is a very important day for the residents of Wainscott,” said Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc. “It is the fruition of many months of work.”

The water authority’s chairman, James Gaughran, said the authority often gets requests from municipalities to bring in public water, “but never to this scale.”

Thiele said it was a great example of different branches of government working together to swiftly solve a problem and pointed out that Wainscott is one of only five areas on the South Fork with contaminated drinking water.

“As a mom, I can say I can’t imagine anything quite as frightening as wondering whether the water that is coming out of your tap, and you are taking care of your family with, is safe to drink,” said County Legislator Bridget Fleming, who encouraged all Wainscott residents who are given the option to hook up to public water.

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‘Jolly 51’ Crew Inspires IPA, Fundraising Drive Kegs for brew named for fallen airmen tapped at two events

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

It’s like a toast that never ended.

The Sand City Brewing Company in Northport named a special beer in honor of Master Sergeant Christopher Raguso — The Sixth Wave — because his favorite beer was its Second Wave, and he died on his sixth tour of duty with six teammates from the 106th Rescue Wing of the Air National Guard.

Then, the Sweet Water Brewing Company decided to brew a special craft beer in honor of not only Raguso, but his crew from the “Jolly 51,” as the HH60 Pave Hawk Helicopter was nicknamed.

“It’s not going to be brewed again right now,” said Raguso’s brother, Marc, who specializes in craft and import beer for Manhattan Beer Distributors. “It’s almost tapped out.”

The beer was sold on a limited basis, with kegs tapped at two joint fundraisers, one in Northport, the other in Atlanta, to support the men’s families.

The crew might have served as the inspiration for the limited-edition craft brew, Jolly Green IPA, a beer affixed with a label containing a green giant wearing clothes formed out of hops.

But, that fundraising drive sparked a larger one, in which Sweet Water agreed to donate money from beer sold at military bases until the end of summer. The money will be donated to the families of the seven crew members

from the Jolly 51.

In the spring, Marc was visiting Atlanta and in a conversation with Sweet Water’s chairman of the board, Freddy Bensch, told him how he was feeling down because he had lost his brother, and Bensch suggested they collaborate on a brew in honor of the crew. On the heels of that success, Bensch decided to dedicate $5 from every roughly $32 24-pack of beer sold at military bases.

“I think that my brother would be honored to think that this guy did this not only for him, but his crew,” Raguso said.

Raguso, who was a Fire Department of New York firefighter from Commack, along with Staff Sergeant Dashan Briggs, a volunteer firefighter from Westhampton Beach who grew up in Riverhead, Captain Andres O’Keefe of Center Moriches, and Captain Christopher Zanetis of Long Island City, were four of seven local airmen to die in March. Additional crew members, Sergeant William Posch and Staff Sergeant Carl Enis were from Florida, and Captain Mark Weber was from Colorado.

A fundraiser for the men will held by the FDNY Foundation on September 22 at the Boardy Barn in Hampton Bays, but don’t look for the special craft beer “Jolly Green IPA” to be there. There are only two kegs left

A green giant adorns the label of Jolly Green IPA in honor of the Jolly 51 helicopter crew that died in Iraq in March. Independent/Courtesy Marc Raguso

from the original batch. Those looking for a taste might have to wait until next year’s Goose Fest 2019, which will be held on May 19 at the Hoyt Farm in

Commack. There, a keg might just be cracked open in honor of Raguso, who served in Commack as a volunteer firefighter when he was off-duty.

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New Diocese Head Implicated By Grand Jury Bishop John Barres allegedly covered up priest pedophile scandal

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

The Diocese of Rockville Centre hoped to further distance itself from the pedophile priest scandal that shook the very foundation of the Catholic Church when it when Bishop John Barres was named to replace the retiring Archbishop William Murphy.

Instead, fresh wounds have opened and the church is under the gun again with revelations that Barres, like Murphy, covered up pedophile crimes committed by priests and protected the accused.

Though Barres said August 15 that a grand jury report issued in Allentown, PA contained “factual errors,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro

countered that the report is true.

Bishop Murphy was a central figure in the Boston church pedophile scandal — the story was told in The Spotlight, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2016.

Newsday reported Murphy, as Cardinal Bernard Law’s top deputy in Boston for almost eight years, was involved in almost one-third of the priest sexual abuse cases at the heart of the scandal there. “Not only did Murphy supervise the assignment of priests, he was privy to all confidential records on accusers’ complaints, treatment, and settlements.

He also took care of accused priests’ legal bills and helped arrange housing

and jobs for them,” Newsday continued.

The bishop arrived in Rockville Centre in 2001 and made waves by spending more than $5 million on renovations for St. Agnes Cathedral that included a palatial residence for himself — uprooting six Dominican sisters in the process.

Murphy was roundly criticized for being hesitant to confront the pedophile problem, weed out the guilty priests, and reach out to victims after he arrived in Rockville Centre. But in recent years, especially after the movie was released, the diocese has taken positive steps to move on from the scandal. Most notable was the formation of the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, which allows victims to file for damages and draw from a pool of money contributed by the church. However, laymen conduct the interviews and distribute the funds with no input from the church.

The evaluation of the claims and any award of money will be made by Kenneth Feinberg (who oversaw the 9/11 compensation fund) and Camille Biros. According to the IRCP program rules, the diocese will not have a say in the compensation decisions.

Barres, on paper, seemed the perfect choice to move the diocese beyond the scandal-plagued years. Barres, 57, was born in Larchmont, NY and edu-

cated at Princeton, New York University, and Catholic University. He served in Allentown for almost 10 years.

But the bombshell report, issued last week, details extensive sexual abuse and cover-ups in Pennsylvania, including Allentown, during Barres’ tenure there. Although he was not accused of molesting any children, the grand jury report alleges he covered up the molestation of two boys, ages 12 and 13, by the same priest, Rev. Michael Lawrence.

Lawrence, according to the report, acknowledged he abused a 12-year-old boy in 1982, yet he was allowed to continue working with children for more than two decades.

The report, based on an 18-month investigation, determined that more than 300 priests across Pennsylvania sexually abused at least 1000 children over seven decades.

Barres recommended to the Vatican in 2014 that Lawrence remain in retired status and not be removed from the priesthood, despite a second allegation of sexually abusing a boy, according to the grand jury report. That meant the disgraced priest would remain under the church umbrella and be provided with a residence, meals, health care, and be given a monthly cash stipend for the rest of his life.

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Some Sagaponack residents object to allowing deer fencing around farmland, complaining it will ruin the scenic vista. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

Sagaponack Eyes Deer Fence Moratorium Some worry about losing scenic vistas

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

The Sagaponack Village Board is dealing with a thorny issue: whether to allow deer fencing to be erected around a 34-acre farm.

Neighbors fear it will be the beginning of the end for one of the premier farm vistas on Long Island if granted.

The debate has become high profile

because Sagaponack, one of the most expensive zip codes in the country, houses a lot of bold-faced names. Jimmy Fallon lives down the road from the property. “The Tonight Show” host has not checked in on the matter, but numerous neighbors went on record opposing deer fencing not only at the

location in question but anywhere.

The board is mulling a six-month moratorium, which would allow officials a chance to study the matter further and assess the impact of deer fencing on the vistas. More to the point, the village will also take a hard look at the deer population, perhaps with an eye on a deer control management program.

The owner of the land in question, Kim Lippman, is the wife of noted hedge-fund tycoon Greg Lippman — the shrewd investor played by Ryan Gosling in The Big Short. The couple owns a home adjacent to the property.

Part of the lot in question, an agricultural reserve, is currently leased out

by Lippman to Peter Dankowski, who grows oats and corn.

“They live in Brooklyn. The kids go to school there. The husband is a Wall Street guy,” said one neighbor, Prudential/Elliman real estate agent

Paul Brennan. He called Kim Lippman’s plan to have an organic farm “dreams of grandeur, a hobby,” and one that, if left unchecked, will ruin the vistas forever.

“What happens if the next guy wants a deer fence, and then the next guy, and then the next guy?” Brennan asked.

Rhodi Winchell, the Clerk Treasurer of Sagaponack Village, said there are currently four agricultural reserve lots that have deer fencing on their perimeters. “We’ve never given permission to a residential property,” to erect deer fencing, Winchell said. That’s one reason why the deer population is thriving in the village, she added.

A decision on an application was expected at the board’s August 13 meeting but was postponed until August 23 or until an updated survey is submitted. But the village board may well decide to declare a moratorium that day, which will effectively freeze the application, Winchell said.

The application, under 129 Parsonage Lane LLC, indicated plans to grow berries and fruits on the parcel.

There are also chickens and goats on the property. Village Mayor Donald Louchheim said the application was sent back to Lippman because he wanted to see a survey, and there might be some “encroachments” on the property, perhaps restricting its use.

Several neighbors suggested a smaller electric fence would be more effective at preventing deer from going on the property. Lippman, as owner, would also have a green light to shoot trespassing deer.

The village could initiate a controlled shoot to cull the deer herd.

John v. H. Halsey, founder of the Peconic Land Trust, said the law is quite clear that working farms may have deer fencing around their perimeters.

The Lippmans reportedly paid $15 million for their eight-bedroom spread complete with the requisite Sagaponack toys — tennis, heated pool, garage, and even a putting green. There is a barn on the ag reserve lot.

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Tell It To The Judge Independence Party petitions challenged

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Who — if anyone — runs for East Hampton Town Board on the Independence Party line is in the hands of a Suffolk County Supreme Court judge.

Last week, as expected, the Suffolk County Board of Elections certified David Gruber as the party’s nominee, though a number of signatures on his petitions were challenged.

That proceeding, though, was considered a formality because BOE commissioners, one Democrat and one Republican, review the technical aspects of the petition without necessarily examining the signatures for possible forgery.

Judge Carol MacKenzie presided over the first hearing on August 16.

“We had our first hearing. Lots of procedural stuff. Several witnesses testified that they didn’t sign. Nobody from the party came, despite being subpoenaed, although Gruber was there in the afternoon,” related Amos Goodman, the East Hampton Town Republican leader.

Elaine Jones, the East Hampton Independence Party leader, said she was in he hospital but will attend the next session, on August 24.

The issue is whether Gruber — and only Gruber — submitted faulty signatures. If 11 or more are deemed to be forged, Gruber will be removed from the ballot.

Jones said Goodman also submit-

ted fraudulent signatures on the Republican Party petitions he helped gather for Manny Vilar. But she acknowledged that since she didn’t file a formal objection, Vilar will undoubtedly be the Republican Party candidate. That is not to say she won’t take some kind of action.

“I could go to the district attorney,” she said, adding she believed some of the Republican signatures had been forged.

As for the Independence Party, only two scenarios exist. Judge MacKenzie will decide Gruber’s petitions are valid and he will be on the ballot, or she will disallow enough signatures to invalidate his petitions and derail his candidacy. In that case, the Independence Party ballot will be blank.

Gruber, though, has another option. He is mounting a primary bid against Davis Lys for the Democratic Party line. Lys, an incumbent town board member, is filling the seat vacated by Peter van Scoyoc, who was elected town supervisor.

There is only one year left on the unfulfilled term, which means the seat will be open again come Election Day 2019. In an interesting twist, Lys, though running on the Democratic Party line, is a registered Republican.

He intends to switch his registration after the election.

Judge MacKenzie’s decision will be posted online at www.indyeastend. com as soon as it available.

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The Enemy Of The People

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Chocolate: Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate?

Leonard Pack I like them both. But I like milk chocolate to eat as candy, and I like dark chocolate to cook or bake with. So, I guess that makes me bichocolate.

Beatrice Nieves Definitely dark chocolate. And my favorite is a cup of dark chocolate ice cream.

Maeve Cahill I say dark chocolate! It just tastes richer.

Maggie Burton Milk chocolate. That’s the way to go. Dark Chocolate is too rich. It’s too thick. It has too much chocolate flavor. I guess it has too much cocoa in it.

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These are simply differences of opinion, differences that can be debated and even settled through a spirit of compromise. But in a country that currently finds itself sharply divided, with both camps wary of the motives of the other, having a leader in the White House who has waged war on the free press is dangerous because it undermines the exchange of ideas that is essential to a functioning democracy.

President Donald Trump has made it a cornerstone of his administration to not only criticize the free press, but to attack journalists at every turn as “the enemy of the people” who trade in “fake news.”

This week, The Boston Globe asked editorial boards from across the country to join it in standing up against Trump’s relentless attacks on the free press. We proudly raise our voices along with theirs.

It would not be so bad if the president directed his scorn at all members of the media. After all, most presidents grow tired of the criticism they face as they try to do their jobs. But the president has repeatedly singled out only those media outlets that publish or air stories that disagree with his administration’s policies or challenge the outright lies he tells on an almost daily basis.

The problem is that many of the president’s most ardent supporters — who believed just about any damaging story about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama — now take at face value the president’s specious claims that that the press is nothing but a pack of liars trying to undermine his administration, as it reports on everything from the Mueller probe of possible Russian collusion in the 2016 election to the impact of steel tariffs on the economy.

In fact, a recent poll found that 26 percent of all Americans — and 43 percent of all Republicans — think that the president should have the authority to shut down “news outlets engaged in bad behavior.” That’s a scary thought, because shutting down the free press is typically one of the first steps of any authoritarian regime.

That’s not to say that the press is never wrong. It is, and when it is, it must be held accountable. But when the press is merely doing its job by probing whether the administration’s claims are accurate or not, it is performing a role that is vital to our democracy’s health. And if you don’t believe us, trust the founding fathers. They thought a free press was so important they included it among those rights protected by the First Amendment.

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A Historical Monument An A+ For AAA Credit Amagansett’s Coast Guard station is a national site

East Hampton Town maintains top rating

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

The Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station is now listed as a National Historical Site. It received a New York State historic designation in June. Being listed on the state and national registries can assist property owners in maintaining and restoring historic sites. These programs include making the site eligible for public preservation services, such as matching state grants and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits.

The Coast Guard Station played an important role in East Hampton Town’s maritime history. The building is also dedicated to all who served at the Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving & Coast Guard Station from 1902 to 1944.

The station is now a museum and it was successfully restored to its original appearance and returned to its original site several years ago.

The Amagansett station was constructed on Atlantic Avenue and operated alongside 30 other life-saving stations on the south shore of Long Island. If the crew discovered a ship in

distress, the life savers would perform a rescue by launching their surfboat or by firing a line to the ship and taking people off with a breeches buoy. From 1902 to 1937, the crew of the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, most of who were experienced local fishermen and shore whalers, kept watch over the area, rescuing sailors and passengers from several shipwrecks.

The station also played a role in World War II, when a coastguardsman came upon Nazi saboteurs who had come ashore from a U-boat, buried boxes of explosives on the beach, and tried to make their way to New York City before being apprehended. This incident led to the establishment of the Coast Guard Beach Patrol, which would eventually grow to include 24,000 men. The patrol would play an important role in defending the coast during the war.

For more information on the nominations, visit the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation’s website at parks.ny.gov/shpo/nationalregister/nominations.aspx.

On Saturday, August 18, Congressman Lee Zeldin was awarded the Peconic River Sportsman’s Club Senator Owen Johnson Man of the Year Award to recognize his leadership in environmental conservation and wildlife preservation.

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East Hampton Town has maintained its top-tier, AAA credit rating since 2017, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s confirmation was released before a $16.5 million sale of general obligation bonds for the town on August 15.

The bonds will finance a variety of projects such as the town-wide emergency communications system upgrade, a new records management system, a new airport fuel facility, and structural improvements to the East Hampton RECenter.

In its credit analysis, Moody’s attributed the town’s AAA credit rating to factors such as its “conservative budgeting and proactive financial manage-

ment practices” as well as its “modest debt burden” and “sizeable tax base.”

Moody’s also took note of the town’s ability to build reserves while lowering overall debt.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said he was pleased

by Moody’s findings. “It is very satisfying to have Moody’s acknowledge through our AAA rating the town’s strong financial position as well as the work we have been doing to maintain that strength,” he said.

“Our substantial financial reserves and surplus were particularly noted

by Moody’s as factors that have allowed us to maintain the highest rating possible.”

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Some of the defendants who were arraigned on drug trafficking charges in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Thursday, August 16. Independent/Justin Meinken

Alleged Montauk Drug Kingpins Indicted Cash and drugs flowed through the post office and restaurant kitchens across Montauk

By T.E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Assistant District Attorney Rudy Migliore announced in East Hampton Town Justice Court late Monday, August 20, afternoon the indictment of the major players in the alleged Montauk drug ring who were arrested last week. The district attorney’s office had until the end of day Monday to obtain the indictments, or release them as per law regarding defendants being held on felony charges.

The five who were indicted are Gilbertos Quintana Crespo, William Crespo Duran, Elvin Silva-Ruiz, Antonio Ramirez Gonzalez, and Geraldo Jose Vargas-Munoz. They will now all be held without the possibility of bail until the indictments are unsealed in district court in the coming days.

Assistant District Attorney Brad McGill spoke during the arraignments on August 16 in East Hampton Town

Justice Court of 13 of the men who were arrested last week, describing the mechanics of the alleged operation.

Ten men thus far have been charged with felonies, including conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and the sale of narcotics, with eight of those charged with felonies being arraigned last Thursday. A ninth was arraigned the following day on felony charges. A tenth was arraigned at his bedside in

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital last week.

For East Hampton Town police, the arrests were years in the making.

Police said they have suspected, but have been unable to prove, that a drug ring run by a group from Puerto Rico was fueling cocaine and Oxycodone traffic in Montauk. The individuals would take jobs in restaurant kitchens across Montauk, from the dock area, to downtown. These jobs were for menial salaries, the police believed. Frequently, the leaders would work as dishwashers and prep cooks, according to police.

They often would use post office boxes in Montauk to distribute drugs and cash.

The arrests followed a joint effort by town police, the East End Drug Task Force, and two federal agencies, the U.S Postal Inspection Service, and the Drug Enforcement Agency. “Traffickers who send narcotics through the mail and distributed within restaurants and bars endanger every person and community along the way. It’s time that these defendants are held accountable for their brazen actions,” said DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge James Hunt at a press conference led by District Attorney Tim Sini Thursday afternoon.

“A multi-agency investigation beginning in March 2018 revealed evidence of an alleged conspiracy by the defendants to sell narcotics, including cocaine and oxycodone, to patrons in bars and restaurants in the Montauk area,” the district attorney said in a press release. “The commercial establishments include Swallow East, 668 the Gig Shack, Shagwong Tavern, The Liar’s Saloon, and O’Murphy’s Pub & Restaurant.” Some of those arrested worked at The Surf Lodge, as well, including one of those identified as a leader of the group.

One of several being arraigned, John Demilio, was charged with felony conspiracy. “This investigation utilized undercover police officers and detectives, electronic surveillance, and court authorized eavesdropping. . . of the co-conspirators in this criminal enterprise,” McGill said. “During the course of this investigation, the defendant conspired with other members of this organization, including the following: Continued On Page 32.

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Alleged Memorial Day Weekend Hit-And-Run Driver Indicted Woodhaven man faces three felonies after victim hospitalized

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

A Woodhaven man who police say was drunk when the van he was driving over Memorial Day weekend struck and severely injured a Manhattan woman, has been indicted by a grand jury on three felony charges.

Jose Romero-Flores, 33, kept driving, East Hampton Town police charged, despite hitting Sophia Pitt, 26, hard enough to injure her badly. The accident happened early morning May 26 on Montauk Main Street, where crowds routinely gather between the Point Bar and the Memory Motel.

Pitt, a line producer for CNBC, was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital’s trauma center, where she remained for about 10 days before being discharged. Romero-Flores was

pulled over by police a short distance west of the accident; although his attorney, Carl Irace, said on Monday, August 20, that his client had already pulled over when police caught up with him.

One of the felonies charged indicates that Romero-Flores has previously been convicted of leaving the scene of an accident. Due to this prior conviction, the second incident is charged at the felony level. He is also charged with two counts of felony vehicular assault, and two counts of driving while intoxicated as misdemeanors.

The indictment will be officially unsealed in the Central Islip Courtroom of New York Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho on August 23.

Jose Romero-Flores, leaving court, is facing three felony charges after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident in which police say he was drunk. Independent/Justin Meinken

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Celebrity Chef Charged With DWI In East Hampton Maurizio Marfoglia, chef-owner of Dopo La Spiaggia, arrested after crash

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The head chef and partner of Dopo La Spiaggia in Sag Harbor and East Hampton was arrested by East Hampton Town police on drunken driving charges early Monday, August 20, morning. Maurizio Marfoglia, 52, of Bay Point near Sag Harbor, was headed north on Route 114 when he fell asleep behind the wheel of a 2017 Ford, police said, and veered off the road, striking a mailbox, before crashing into a telephone pole. The vehicle came to a stop in the northbound shoulder of the road, facing south.

When police arrived, they said Marfoglia was standing outside his car and admitted to having two glasses of wine. They said he was driving alone and did not require medical attention.

Failing sobriety tests, he was placed under arrest, charged with drunken driving. At police headquarters, his breath test allegedly produced a reading of 0.24 of one percent, three times the 0.08 reading that defines intoxication, and over 0.18, meaning the charge was elevated to aggravated driving while intoxicated.

Represented by Edward Burke Jr., Marfoglia was arraigned before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky later Monday morning. Burke said his client has strong ties to the community, and was not a flight risk. Justice Tekulsky agreed, and released him

without bail, but with a warning not to drive after he suspended his license.

Burke said he would apply to the court for a hardship license, which will allow Marfoglia to drive back and forth between his two restaurants and his Sunset Drive home, but only at predetermined times.

Patricia Kern, 37, of Sag Harbor was arrested Friday night, also on a misdemeanor aggravated DWI charge.

Police said she was driving a 2018 BMW on Stephen Hands Path near Bull Path when she crossed the double yellow lines, nearly striking an oncoming vehicle, leading to a traffic stop and her arrest. She was released the next day without bail, due to her ties to the community.

Brian Kelly, 49, of Mattituck was seated behind the wheel of a 2015 Nissan in the Amagansett Main Street parking lot early Saturday morning.

Police said he was throwing up at the time, and that his car keys were on his lap. Because he was behind the wheel with the car keys, police considered him to be operating the vehicle, and placed him under arrest.

As they were interviewing Kelly, according to the police, his companion, Rory Knight, of East Hampton, approached the officer several times, despite being warned to stay back. He then reached into the car and grabbed a set

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When he returned, he was charged with a misdemeanor, obstruction of government administration. Both men were released later that morning without bail.

Also arrested Friday night was Peter Seals, 48, of Sunnyside. Police said he was in a 2018 Volkswagen that was in a minor accident on Carl Fisher Plaza in Montauk. Police said Seals left the scene but was pulled over nearby on South Essex Street. He posted $250 bail the next morning.

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Sag Harbor: EH Man Facing Felony DWI Charges Early Saturday afternoon accident leads to arrest

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

A traffic accident on Hampton Street Saturday, August 18, a little after noon resulted in Sag Harbor Village police arresting an East Hampton resident on felony drunken and unlicensed driving charges.

According to the police, Carlos Guatama Mejia, 25, was driving a 2007 Honda Civic north when he struck another car. Failing roadside sobriety tests, he was placed under arrest. In addition to the felony charges, he also was charged with a misdemeanor for driving a car lacking an interlock ignition, which prevents a car from starting if the driver is intoxicated.

At headquarters, his breath test resulted in an alleged .16 of one percent blood alcohol content, twice the .08 reading that defines intoxication.

Guatama Mejia’s legal predicament is perilous. He was convicted on a misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge just this past November in East Hampton. That conviction caused the new charges to be raised to the felony level, as well as the need for the ignition interlock. In addition, he is facing possible jail time for violating the terms of his probation.

Bail was set at $10,000 Sunday morning. Initially, in tears, Guatama Mejia told Justice Lisa Rana he would not be able to make the bail. She responded that the police would allow him to make whatever calls he needed to make before he would be taken to county jail. Bail was eventually posted.

Shari Frank, 50, who has residences in Manhattan and Wainscott,

Train Kills Man Police: Victim likely fell asleep, was struck on tracks

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

A 28-year-old man died Monday, August 20, after he was struck by a train near the Long Island Rail Road Station in Southampton Village after police there say he fell asleep on the tracks.

Southampton Village police said they responded to 911 call that a pedestrian was struck on the LIRR’s Montauk line tracks, about 200 feet west of David White’s Lane between Elm and Plant streets just before 2 AM. Officers found Andrew Busque unconscious with both of his arms severed and he was treated at the scene by Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance, police said. Busque was then medevacced to Stony Brook University Hospital Medical Center, where, authorities said, he died later.

The investigation by Metropolitan Transportation Authority police is ongoing, according to a LIRR spokeswoman.

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Search On For Calverton Gunman Police: Officer saw shot fired at crowd

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

Carlos Guatama Mejia, shown here being brought to court for his arraignment Sunday, is facing felony charges. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

as well as one in Massachusetts, and Jacques Vaney, 55, of Sag Harbor, were both arrested over the weekend by Sag Harbor Village police on drunken driving charges. Vaney was arraigned Saturday morning, and Frank, Sunday. Both were released without having to post bail.

Riverhead Town Police are on the lookout for a gunman who they say fired a handgun into a crowd in Calverton on Sunday, August 19, before being scared away by an officer shining a flood light on the area.

An officer on routine patrol came upon a group of about 20 people in the roadway at the corner of Kay Road and Calverton Court at about 8:10 PM and it appeared the group was about to engage in a fight when a male from the group pulled out a handgun, pointed it toward the group, and then fired a round into

the roadway, police said.

The officer activated his overhead lights, which caused the group to begin dispersing, and chased the gunman behind a residence on Kay Road, but eventually lost sight of him, according to police. Additional officers responded to the area, which included a K-9 unit, to search for the gunman, but he remains at large, police said.

No injuries were reported during this incident. It is still under investigation and anyone with information is asked to call the Riverhead Police Department at 631-727-4500.

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Riverside Shooter Arrested Police: Man discharged weapon, shot teen in car with him

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

be immediately reached by deadline, did not have an attorney of record listed with the court. He is due back in court on October 10.

The shooting took place just down the road from Phillips Avenue Elementary School and Ludlam Avenue Park.

The elementary school was placed on lockout for a period of time and a school resource officer remained on scene while police conducted their investigation. A number of community members outraged with the shooting flocked to the Flanders Riverside Northampton Civic Association’s monthly meeting, which was days after the incident, to

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hear police Chief Steven Skrynecki speak on the issue, as well as law enforcement initiatives he was taking to combat crime in the area. The meeting was also attended by Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman and Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera.

“We’re relieved every day the police department solves a crime and gets a perpetrator off of the street,” FRNCA president Ron Fisher said.

Police said the shooting is an ongoing investigation and anyone with information regarding the case can call the detective division at 631-702-2230.

Southampton Police Charge A Dozen Several arrested at sobriety checkpoint in Bridgehampton

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

Roland Miles has been arrested in the May 9 Shooting of a 15-year-old. Independent/Courtesy of STPD

A 43-year-old man was arrested last weekend for the shooting of the 15-year-old passenger in his car in May, Southampton Town police announced.

Roland Miles, of Riverhead, was arrested at USA Gas Station in Flanders at about 7:26 PM on Friday, August 17, and was charged with the May 9 shooting, which took place at 20 Brown Street, according to police. Police said Miles fired a handgun from his car and his 15-year-old passenger was struck by a bullet.

Police initially reported they were called to the location of Brown Street and Goodrich Avenue at about 10 AM after receiving multiple 911 calls of shots fired. They could not locate anyone who was hurt, but the teenager

later sought treatment for a superficial foot wound at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was treated and released. No further details about Miles’s arrest or the shooting were immediately released.

At the time of his arrest on Friday, Miles was found to be in possession of both crack and powder cocaine. He was charged with firstdegree reckless endangerment, a felony, and misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court in Hampton Bays on Saturday, August 18, and was released without bail. Miles, who could not

One dozen people were arrested last week on varying charges of drunken and drug-impaired driving — some at a sobriety checkpoint on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton over the weekend, Southampton Town police said.

In the first incident, a 21-year-old Dudley, MA man was arrested following a car crash in Bridgehampton on Friday, August 17, police said. Ryan Berg was involved in a two-car crash on Scuttlehole Road just before 2 AM and was charged with driving while intoxicated, as well as violations including failing to use the designated lane and speeding, police said. On Saturday, August 18, Brad Silver, 51, of Water Mill, was arrested in Bridgehampton and was charged with driving while intoxicated. Police said Silver was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint and was found to be under the influence of alcohol at about 1:20 AM.

A 64-year-old Stuart, FL man was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs in Bridgehampton on Sunday, August 19, according to town police.

When Arthur Lawall entered a sobriety checkpoint on Montauk Highway at about 1:11 AM, officers could smell marijuana coming from the back of his car, and he told them he had taken a few “tokes” of a marijuana joint after finishing work, then discarded it when he saw the checkpoint. He was charged

with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and was cited for not operating a registered vehicle, police said.

A 29-year-old Denver, CO man was arrested in Bridgehampton after police said he was found with pot. Kenneth Faried Lewis was a passenger in a car, which was stopped on Montauk Highway at about 1:30 AM, and had more than two ounces of pot on him, police said. Due to the “circumstances,” police said his money was seized and his bail was set at $500. He was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. No further information was available from police.

Derek Grabner, 30, of New York was arrested in Bridgehampton on Sunday on drug possession charges, police said. Cops say he was found on Montauk Highway at about 3:15 AM with four types of prescription pills, all controlled substances, without a prescription for them, and concentrated cannabis vaporizer cartridges.

He was charged with five counts of misdemeanor seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of possession of a controlled substance in a non-original container, a violation.

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clearly marked and bundled in different denominations.” With RamirezGonzalez, McGill asked that any bail being presented be the subject of a court hearing to ensure that the money being proffered was not the product of the criminal enterprise. Bail was set for him at $100,000.

In addition, several men were arrested on lesser charges, mostly at the misdemeanor possession level, after apparently being scooped up during the early morning raids. Those arraigned on the misdemeanor charges last Thursday afternoon included Nawar Abdul Hasan Qanbar, 32, Louis Madariaga-Medina, 31, Israel Padilla-Rosas, 33, Alex Joel Tirado-Rivera, 32, and Bracklie Vargas-Gonzalez, 24. All those charged with misdemeanors were freed after posting bail in amounts ranging from $250 to $500.

Another man charged at the most serious A-felony level was Elvin Silva-Ruiz, also known as Pito. He was charged with selling narcotics, with police saying he sold over a half ounce in cocaine in one sale to an undercover agent. He was arraigned in Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by Southampton Justice Barbara Wilson Thursday.

The police did not disclose the reason for Silva-Ruiz’s hospitalization, but he remained there as of August 20.

Another Montauk year-round resident was arraigned in East Hampton Friday on related charges. Police said John Valentin Doherty made seven sales of cocaine to undercover agents between July of last year, when he was working at Salivar’s in the dock area of Montauk, and July of this year. Police said he was working in the kitchen at Shagwong on Main Street in downtown Montauk when he made his most recent sales to undercover agents. His bail of $10,000 was posted by a family member.

East Hampton Town police Captain Chris Anderson said that the investigation was still open and ongoing, and that other arrests could follow.

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Geraldo Vargas Munoz, Elvin SilvaRuiz, Gilbertos Quintana Crespo, and Antonio Ramirez-Gonzalez through the interception of communications of these co-conspirators’ cell phones.” He said that DeMilio, along with the others charged with conspiracy, were using the group as the “source of supplies for his own sales of narcotics.”

Police seized “approximately $100,000 cash, about 650 grams of cocaine, marijuana, various pills, including alprazolam and hydrocodone, and assorted drug paraphernalia, including a kilo press, cutting agents, cell phones, and packaging materials,” according to the District Attorney’s office.

The most serious charges were against Geraldo Jose Vargas-Munoz, also known as Celo, 37, of Rincon, Puerto Rico, and Montauk, who was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree, an A-1 felony, and William Crespo-Duran, also known as Flaco, 35, of Montauk and Rincon, who was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree, an A-II felony.

Police said they found over four ounces of cocaine in a plastic bag in Crespo-Duran’s room at 14 Gates Avenue. Vargas-Munoz, who worked in the kitchen at Swallow East in the dock area, had over eight ounces of cocaine in his room, police said. Because of the serious nature of the crimes of which they were accused, Vargas-Munoz and Crespo-Duran were not eligible to have bail set at the local level, and were remanded to county jail.

Six men were charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics. Kevin Becker, 30, and John H. DeMelio, 32, both year-round Montauk residents, were released after their families posted bail.

Several other men charged with conspiracy gave Montauk as their summer address, with Puerto Rico being their year-round home. They include Antonio Ramirez-Gonzalez, also known as Tete, 30, Bryan Ruiz Sanchez, 22, and Gilbertos Quintana Crespo, also known as Jimmy, 32. Eric Mendez, 38, who has a year-round New York City address, has been working in Montauk as a chef for several years.

As Antonio Ramirez-Gonzalez was arraigned, McGill called him the “gatekeeper for the ill-gotten proceeds of the largest narcotics distribution system in and around the area of Montauk.” He said that Ramirez-Gonzalez had in his room on West Lake Drive “approximately $26,000 cash that was

District erected a badly needed emergency communications tower. After the tower was built, David Kelley, Chris Kelley’s brother, applied to the zoning board of appeals to have the fire department’s building permits revoked. The communications tower is closer to Kelley’s property than he would like.

With then ZBA members Cate Rogers, now Kelley’s handpicked Democratic committee chair, and David Lys, now Kelley’s handpicked town councilman, both voting in favor, the ZBA revoked the fire department’s building permits after the fact! Kelley’s people know what they have to do in return for his patronage. Because of the ZBA action in favor of David Kelley, the Springs Fire District has had to sue the town’s ZBA and is still in court. The tower remains unused.

There was a recent scare at the Springs School due to poor coverage by existing communications equipment. The town board, where Lys now sits, has always had the power to fix this with an amendment to the zoning code. It has done nothing. The town board could have grandfathered in the fire department’s emergency communications tower built in reliance upon building permits issued by the town itself. This board’s inaction is inexcusable. But Councilman Lys, Supervisor Van Scoyoc, and Councilwomen Overby and Burke-Gonzalez all depend on the political patronage of Democratic party boss Chris Kelley and his election machine.

The East Hampton Reform Democrats’ candidate for town board, David Gruber, and our slate of candidates for Democratic committee seats are completely independent of the Democratic committee machine controlled by Kelley. The Democratic primary election is on Thursday, September 13. Remember to get out and vote!

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Inaction Inexcusable To the Editor, Two weeks ago, your article hit the nail on the head, calling out the chokehold of Democratic party boss Chris Kelley on Democratic party nominations and appointments to town boards, such as the planning and zoning boards.

In Springs, Democratic party cronyism threatens public safety, including in the Springs School.

Three years ago, the Springs Fire

Flanders was also arrested on Sunday in Bridgehampton and was charged with driving while intoxicated. Police said he was stopped in a sobriety checkpoint and was found to be drunk.

And west of the Shinnecock Canal, Williams Hynes, 20, of Flanders, was arrested in Riverside on Saturday on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Police said he was stopped for speeding and changing lanes unsafely, for which he was additionally issued traffic violations, at about 1:15 AM. On the same day, Brian O’Connor, 24, of Hampton Bays was arrested in Hampton Bays and was charged with driving

while intoxicated after being involved in a crash on Wakeman Road at about 4 AM.

A man and woman from Nassau County were arrested Sunday, August 19, after they were caught with cocaine at the Boardy Barn in Hampton Bays, police said.

Chad Poole, 29, of Massapequa was seen being handed a plastic baggie with cocaine by Cara Kelly, 24, of Long Beach. He then opened the bag to dip a key inside and allow her to snort some off the key, police said. Poole was arrested holding the bag of cocaine, according to police. Both were charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and were issued appearance tickets to appear in court at a later date.

There were also arrests earlier In the week. Ellen Castro, 23, of Calverton, was arrested in Flanders on August 14, and was charged with two counts of driving while intoxicated. Police said Castro had been speeding on Flanders Road, then drove in the center lane and passed three cars at about 3:40 AM. She was additionally cited for not having a valid driver’s license, and other traffic violations including speeding, moving from a lane in an unsafe manner, and driving to the left of pavement markings.

On August 15, Oscar Gonzalez, 48, of Loxahatchee, FL was arrested in Bridgehampton and was charged with driving while intoxicated. Police said Gonzalez was initially pulled over because the car he was driving was swerving. He was additionally cited for traffic violations, including driving without a license, failing to use the designated lane, and moving from a lane unsafely.

Jose Giraldo, 55, of Hampton Bays was arrested in Hampton Bays on Friday, August 17, for having stolen property from East Hampton Town, Southampton Town police said. He was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. No further information was available from police.

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Riverhead Board Greenlights Art In The Park The event features light and reflective surfaces at Grangebel Park

By Jade Eckardt jade@indyeastend.com Art and light were fused together earlier this month during “Reflexions: Art in the Park,” a temporary art installation in Riverhead’s Grangebel Park featuring a walkable, interactive experience for visitors. The outdoor exhibit combined a daytime component with standalone art displays that were not illuminated, with a nighttime component showing lighted displays.

“It was a transformation for the park, absolutely gorgeous and really impressive. There was so many people saying they’ve never wandered through the park and didn’t realize what we have in the community here,” Supervisor Laura Jens-Smith said to event cofounder Bryan DeLuca at an August 16 Riverhead Town Board work session.

“I really thank you for that and all your work bringing it together, it was really fantastic.”

The installation featured assorted elements of light, based on artist interpretations and designs that came to fruition in a tangible exhibit. Elements of light in the exhibit included LED, incandescent, laser, fire, black light, Day-Glo, and photo luminescent displays. Curated by light artist Clayton Orehek, the exhibit showcased nautical and freeform reflective sculptures alongside the Peconic River during the day, before the flick of a switch at 7 PM transformed these professional artists’ creations with projections and moving lights.

“We really set out to create a cer-

tain vibe and get community involvement in the park, which we accomplished. The feedback was tremendous,” said DeLuca.

DeLuca, president of East End Tourism and executive director of the Long Island Aquarium, co-founded the event with Bob Kern, president of the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce. He attended the work session and requested that a resolution be passed to allow him to apply for a $5000 grant from the Huntington Arts Council to further the evolution of Art in the Park.

His request was successful.

“There’s a lot more we can do, a lot more in our vision and on the horizon.

Funding is of course always a challenge and today I’m here to ask for a resolution to be passed to apply for a small grant,” DeLuca said. “It’s part in kind, part match, and I think we’re pretty good on the match side of things.”

DeLuca said the first installation became a reality thanks to sponsorships and grants from numerous community organizations, including a grant of $11,250 from PSEG Long Island. Support also came from other community groups, including the Riverhead Improvement District, I Love New York, the East End Tourism Alliance, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch, and the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce.

“Timothy Hill helped tremendously. They brought the kids out and it was really nice, from a community

standpoint, to see them in their own community, contributing to their community, and then come back to view and break down and see what they helped create,” DeLuca said.

“I’m very happy to see new events adding interest and appeal to our Main Street district. This beautiful light festival, in particular, really serves as a reflection of all the great things happening in Riverhead,” Jens-Smith said.

“Reflexions: Art in the Park” will return on September 15 and October 20. Both events will feature craft beverages served at the park’s brick pumphouse. The art shows will be on display from 9 AM to 10 PM, and the light show will be illuminated from 7 to 10 PM.

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Greenport Home Invasion Two occupants of a Greenport home were assaulted by three armed suspects wearing masks on August 10, just before 5 AM. The occupants were treated for injuries at local hospitals and released.

The suspects have not been found. Police are waiting for DNA and fingerprint test results from inside the home.

Girl Scout Builds Cat House Girl Scout Faith Ann Shipman, 13, of Cutchogue, has constructed a two-story feral cat house for the North Fork Animal Welfare League in Peconic.

She created the cat home as her Girl Scout Silver Award Project, the highest honor a Girl Scout can aspire to.

The project required a minimum of 50 hours of work, but Shipman dedicated approximately 78 hours from start to finish, including design, research, and

construction.

Shipman is a member of Girl Scout Troop 1474 and has a place in her heart for the NFAWL because that’s where her family adopted Gibbs, the family dog.

The cat house has two openings and two separate living spaces for feral cats.

Library Dedication The Mattituck-Laurel Library has created and dedicated a new toddler section called Claire’s Corner in memory of Claire Ann Lincoln, a local toddler who passed away over a year ago.

On August 9, community members, along with Claire’s parents and brother, gathered at the library for a ribbon-cutting ceremony opening the new room to local toddlers. The area had been completed approximately two weeks before the ceremony, and local toddlers had begun to enjoy it.

The project was made possible, thanks to numerous donations from the community, along with a GoFundMe campaign that contributed $11,000 to the room. The area offers toys and books for toddlers to enjoy, and boasts

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Local Sculptor’s Work Chosen For Central Park Shelter Island-raised sculptor and artist Meredith Bergmann’s design has been chosen for the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument in Central Park in New York City.

“I’m honored and delighted to announce that my design was chosen,” said Bergmann. She has been given two years to complete the sculpture featuring the two suffragettes. It will be unveiled on August 26, 2020, on the Literary Walk on the Mall in Central Park.

Bergmann is an acclaimed sculptor whose work re-creates historical figures, including presidents and first ladies.

A small cast of the statue was unveiled at the New York Historical Society, where the model was on view until the end of July. Bergmann, whose works include the Boston Women’s Memorial and the FDR Hope Memorial on Roosevelt Island, beat out 90 candidates for the historic assignment.

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Earlier this year, parents were stunned to learn that McGannMercy High School in Riverhead was closing at the end of the spring term. It was the only Catholic high school on the East End.

A group of parents formed, hopeful they could raise enough funds to keep the school open or even buy the campus. As it turns out, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rockville Centre’s Bishop John Barres indicated the diocese has received an offer for the building, at 1225 Ostrander Avenue.

It was assumed at the time the closing of the school was announced that Peconic Bay Medical Center next door would likely buy it. As it turns out though, a spokesman for PBMC said the hospital was not in negotiations to buy the Mercy building and wasn’t even aware it had been put on the market. Church officials declined to identify the potential suitor.

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While Trump was in town, motorists experienced a slight hiccup in traffic, with roughly five-minute delays on roadways, according to Southampton Town Police, and airspace and mail delivery was reportedly restricted for a period of time as preventative security measures.

Continued From Page 7. phrase, “Get over it, snowflake.” Protesters, meanwhile, chanted “Dump Trump” and “Not Our President,” and also chided Zeldin, who is up for reelection this November, as the president’s motorcade made its way to the venue.

East Quogue resident Julie Sheehan, who attended the Westhampton protest, said she turned out to the event because she is appalled at the president’s policies and wanted to make her voice heard. The two opposing groups had a “moment” where they both chanted the same phrase — “USA, USA, USA.” Despite the two groups’ differing views, Sheehan said, “I felt like we were all one as a country.”

The Southampton Village protest, which also drew counter protesters supporting Trump, drew about 150 people — between both groups — to the intersection of Hill Street and Halsey Neck Lane, according to Southampton Village police. The event was peaceful and went off without incident, police said.

Zeldin’s support of Trump drew further criticism from Democrats, who have set their sights on his seat since earlier this year. Democratic challenger Perry Gershon took a pot shot at the sophomore congressman.

“Lee Zeldin and President Trump showering themselves with rich people’s money is a reminder that Zeldin is working for the interests of the corporations those people run,” said Gershon in a statement. Gershon went on to say that his campaign is getting overwhelming support with an average contribution of $85 and that while Zeldin “attends fancy parties,” he is traveling all over the 1st Congressional District listening to working Long Islanders. Gershon said he plans to “fight for in Washington to guarantee access to healthcare and restore property tax deductions.”

In response to the protests, Zeldin campaign spokesman Chris Boyle said it would be “critically important to note that there were exponentially more people lined up along the motorcade route in support compared to those opposed.” He continued by saying that while Zeldin is “willing to work with the president and anyone else on either side of the aisle to defeat MS-13, combat the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, secure our borders, and so much more, it is greatly unfortunate that some have chosen the path of obstructing, resisting, impeaching, and opposing everything and anything.”

“That is not the best path forward for our country,” he added.

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Barres is contacting Shapiro to correct “the errors” in the report, spokesman for the diocese Sean Dolan told Newsday. He did not return an email from The Independent by press time.

“Every bishop inherits the history of his diocese. It falls to him to shoulder any failings from the past, to apologize, to ask forgiveness, to promote healing, and to do what he can to prevent recurrence,” said Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert. “The grand jury report is a sad and humbling account of the priesthood used for evil purposes. The victims and survivors of clergy sexual abuse have suffered terribly, and it is my sincere hope that the report is an important step in their healing and recovery.”

Barres said allegations that the diocese “discredited abuse victims” were “absolutely” untrue. “The 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report contains certain statements concerning how Bishop Barres and the Diocese handled the case of a priest removed from ministry named Michael Lawrence. The Report is materially incorrect on these points,” read a letter posted on the diocese website on August 17. “Bishop Barres has spent many years talking to and counseling the survivors of abuse (including the survivors of abuse elsewhere in society who should not be forgotten) and is aware of how devastating it can be to survivors and their families,” read a statement on the Rockville Centre website.

“The Holy See condemns unequivocally the sexual abuse of minors,” said a statement issued by the Vatican on Thursday.

“Regarding the report made public in Pennsylvania, there are two words that can express the feelings faced with these horrible crimes: shame and sorrow,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke wrote on behalf of Pope Francis.

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Continued From Page 10. part of the skull’s facial bones, and roots growing in the bones, made a definitive determination difficult, according to Gumbs. An anthropologist from the

state Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation has now been called in to consult on the remains, which appear to be male, and will also examine which way the bones were facing at the time of burial, he said.

An inquiry to Medical Examiner Michael Caplan was not answered by deadline. The ethnicity of the remains has not been determined, according to a Suffolk police.

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman spent an hour and a half at the site Wednesday morning meeting with Gumbs and other members of the tribe, as well as the site’s builder and Chief Building Inspector Michael Benincasa. “There are a lot of unanswered questions at this point,” Schneiderman said.

Once a determination is made regarding the ethnicity of the person who was buried at the site, there will be a clearer picture as to what will happen with the property, whether construction will resume, or whether it will be halted and the remains reinterred there, according to Schneiderman.

Culturally Significant An option for the property is preservation using Community Preservation Fund money because the site could be deemed “culturally significant,” as in a similar case where the property was preserved in Bridgehampton, Schneiderman explained. An archaeologist will now have to examine the site to determine if it is a “lone burial or a burial site,” he said.

“I cannot rule out preservation,” said Schneiderman, adding the remains could be a European settler, a Native American, or a person with both heritages.

In a letter to Schneiderman state park office unit coordinator Nancy Herter recommended all construction on the project be halted until it is determined if there are any other remains on the property.

“The high number of indigenous archeological sites near Hawthorne Road, as well as the glass bottle found, suggest that the remains are Native American. Glass bottles, like the one recovered, have been found at other indigenous burials on Long Island. I would encourage the town to consult with the Shinnecock Nation on any archaeological studies the Town of Southampton may require and on the repatriation of the human remains,” Herter wrote in the August 16 letter.

Excavation at the construction site has halted since the discovery.

“Out of respect — you can’t just plow over someone. It’s the right thing to do,” said Southampton builder Michael White, whose business partner

owns the land.

Workers from KB Building of Southampton were digging a foundation for a house when the bones appeared from underneath the soil at about 1 PM, according to White. He then notified members of the tribe to come down to the site because he has a good relationship with them, he added. “[The bones] fell out of the upper dirt. The body was probably about four or five feet deep in the ground,” he said, speculating about the original burial.

White willingly stopped construction in order to obtain more information about how to proceed. “It’s somebody’s remains,” he added. He believes the town should consider preserving the property under the CPF, whether or not the remains are determined Native American.

Archaeologist Jo-Ann McClean, who viewed the site with the tribe on Saturday, said she was on hand to advise what the next steps would be for the tribe. If the site is determined a Shinnecock grave site, the tribe has to decide whether to take the dig further, or to preserve the site without further disturbing it, she said.

“As a pseudo-scientist, I want more information, but it’s not my call,” she said.

The Shinnecock originally wanted to obtain a court injunction to stop the disturbance of the site, but that notion was dropped and plans are now to wait on the medical examiner’s final determination, Gumbs said.

“We are going to determine where to go from there,” he added.

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Anthony Baratta Expands Design Portfolio Interior design expert celebrates four decades of iconic style

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

August 22, 2018

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nthony Baratta is a diamond among gems in the interior design industry.

How rare it is to realize a passion so early in life, pursue it, and then cultivate it into a multifaceted company?

Baratta started working at the Metropolitan Museum while attending Fordham University, where he studied art history and architectural history. Fascinated by the archives, he felt a calling into the design world.

After he met William Diamond, a New York designer popular for his colorful interiors, Diamond Baratta Design was born. Now Baratta has his own firm, and in the nearly 40 years of transforming ordinary spaces into the extraordinary, Anthony Baratta Design has expanded into rugs, bedding, furniture, and beyond.

Called a design icon by Traditional Homes and awarded a coveted “Hue Award” for lifetime achievement in design by Benjamin Moore, he works across Long Island, the New York metropolitan area, upstate New York, Connecticut, California, and even Utah.

How do you approach a new project?

I always go into a space and study the architecture first. Right away I know what direction the decorating should go in. I look at the volume and the light to determine if it’s a right fit.

After this, the client and I go over ideas, and we see if they will be receptive to the vision I have in mind.

How do you incorporate sustainable practices into your designs?

In many of our projects, we end up reusing existing furniture and reimagining it to look new and fresh. We always try to incorporate antiques in the work as well because they always give a space that extra “oomph” and it’s important to not let them disappear from the world.

The incredible craftspeople from across the U.S. that we use are an integral part of our design as well. We urge them to use natural materials and Made in the USA is totally us.

We also do our best to make the houses energy efficient and as updated/modern as possible.

How does it feel to be called a “design icon?”

It feels like an honor! I feel like people respect what I have accomplished in my career and it makes the work fun.

I hope that young designers look up to me, just as I looked up to my predecessors.

What industry experts have you admired?

Kenneth DeAngelis — upholsterer — taught us a rare specialty that not many people are aware of and that made our work so unique and different; Thomas Newman — master cabinetmaker — how to use beautiful materials and make beautiful furniture and continues to do so; Alberto Pinto — designer — he was very

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influential to me because of his strong hand and grand sweeping gestures. I still look at his work for inspiration to this very day.

What’re some of the details of your new furniture collection?

I love our collection. It has clean lines, simple form, and they pack a punch with the scale and the detailing.

They’re so signature of our work. Slightly inspired by ’40s French furniture but in a super American way.

How did you collaborate with Wildcat Territory on your signature bedding collection?

We paired with Wildcat through Thomasville, actually.

During furniture market, we helped to decorate our showroom at Thomasville and a staff member thought that we would make a great team with Wildcat to dress our new beds from the collection.

What rooms are essential for a good rug design?

Definitely the living room and the bedroom.

We usually start a project with the living room rug.

After that, everything else follows. Fabrics, paint colors, accessories, artwork.

With your hand in so many design fields, what’s your key to keeping the balance?

I never stop thinking about design. Everything I do or see inspires me for the next big thing.

Keeping busy and continuing to do good and fun work keeps me balanced.

Your designs are bursting with color. What’s your favorite color combination and what two colors clash the most?

I lean towards classic color combinations like red, white, and blue, greens and reds, blue and yellow. A variation on these classics makes it easy to expand upon, and I keep finding new and inventive ways to play off of them. Red and green means Christmas to a lot of people, but to me it means Gucci, which is chic.

What really clashes to me is when a hue is off. For example, if a yellow goes too green, it can throw the whole room off. Just like music, color must be pitch perfect. When something is off, everyone can hear/see it!

How does it feel to be in the industry for as long as you have?

For the past 38 years, I’ve been very lucky to work on these magnificent homes and we aim for happiness, comfort, and creativity for our clients and I still enjoy doing it, so that says a lot!

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Hip Sag Harbor Pad On Market A hip summer rental in Sag Harbor Village is now on the market and Town & Country Real Estate has the listing.

This pristine, circa 1920 Main Street residence was recently renovated and decorated in a Hamptons chic style, with a nod to the historic nature of Sag Harbor’s charm.

The 3000-square-foot traditional home comes with quite a legendary history. As with most tall tales that come out of Sag Harbor, it’s said that in the 1920s a Sag Harbor resident built a modern stucco home on the generous .63-acre site. The gentleman, a true entrepreneur in the times of prohibition, was rumored to be into “rum-running” and had a three-bay garage built on the property for that purpose. Rumor has it that he made quite a fortune supplying Southampton and East Hampton with spirits during the Roaring Twenties. One can only imagine him zipping up and down the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike to make his midnight deliveries.

Offering a spacious living room with fireplace, paneled dining room, large, top-of-the-line kitchen with center island and breakfast area, Kangen

alkaline water filter, five bedrooms, and four bathrooms, the home is built for entertaining. Manicured grounds set the stage for a heated gunite pool and luxurious cabana complete the easy summer vibes. A detached two-car garage completes the site to perfection.

Located in the heart of the historic district, this truly unique house is a true Sag Harbor landmark on Main Street, just a few blocks to shops, restaurants, galleries, Pilates, yoga, marina, and everything else the waterfront village has to offer.

Murf ’s On The Market Time was when you could go into the quaint little tavern behind Main Street in Sag Harbor and meet Murf the owner, get served by Murphy the bartender, and sit next to you know who.

Jay Hamel, the current owner of Murf’s Tavern, is reportedly listing the bar for a cool $3.5 million. The broker, Lee Minetree at Saunders & Associates, has the listing. The establishment, which functioned quite nicely for 40 years, has gotten into hot water with the State Liquor Authority of late, a peculiar development considering the late night crowds and rowdiness at some of the other local watering holes.

Joan Meyer was promoted to Assistant Manager of Douglas Elliman’s Southampton office. Independent/Courtesy Douglas Elliman

Personnel Changes At Douglas Elliman Adam Hofer, a lifelong East End resident, will set up shop at Elliman’s Southampton office. The veteran sales professional brings two decades of luxury buyer and service experience, most recently as an executive with Land Rover. Reach him at 631-283-4343.

Joan Meyer was promoted to Assistant Manager of Douglas Elliman’s Southampton office this summer. An exemplary employee, her professionalism and positive attitude have been a tremendous asset to the busy office, according to the company. Meyer had previously worked as Administrative Assistant for the past seven years.

Douglas Elliman welcomes Adam Hofer to its Southampton office. Independent/Courtesy Douglas Elliman

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Grace Schulman Springs writer and teacher shares her experiences

By Valerie Bando-Meinken valerie@indyeastend.com

Above: Jerome and Grace Schulman on their wedding day.

Top right: Grace Schulman playing her guitar in Washington Square Park.

Bottom left: Grace and Jerry Schulman.

Photos Courtesy Grace Schulman

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wanted to be a newspaper reporter,” Grace Schulman said. “My first job was with The Alexandria Gazette in Virginia in the 1950s.

I covered the Supreme Court Integration decision. I was in the South, and I was the one covering stories from the police and federal court. I was one of the few women reporters at the time. I was alone in a newsroom with guys. It was kind of a rickety newsroom where you had to stand on line for a typewriter,” she recalled.

“When I came back to New York, I absolutely could not find a job with the newspapers.

So, I started writing for magazines like Glamour,” she added.

An only child, Schulman was born in New York City to Marcella and Bernard Waldman in 1935. Her father was an immigrant from Poland and studied at University College in London. Her mother, an American, was schooled in Portugal. Schulman grew up in New York City on West 86th Street. Even as a child, Schulman enjoyed writing. She wrote her first poems when she was between six and seven years old. “My mother and father, especially my mother, always encouraged me,” she said. “My mother kept all my poems.”

She attended Bard College and earned her BA from American University in 1955 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1971. It was in 1957 when Schulman met her future husband, Jerome. A physician and research scientist, he was from Brooklyn, born to Polish immigrant parents in 1927. Shulman remembers fondly when they first met.

“I was playing the guitar in Washington Square Park, and he came down to hear the music. We started talking. Two years later, we were married. But when he first asked me to marry him, I put him off for two years. Although I loved him very much, I wanted a career. I didn’t want to be cut off from my work. I was unsure. I needed time to think,” Schulman said.

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“My father had just won a trip. He gave it to me and I went to Spain. I saw the sculptures, visited Barcelona and where Chopin lived. I was there for two weeks. When I came back, I told Jerry I was ready. We talked about our careers and he assured me and encouraged me. He thought I was silly to think he would prevent me from pursuing my dreams,” she said.

A poet, editor, and writer, Schulman said, “Although I continued to write, I just couldn’t work on newspapers and magazines anymore. I wanted to teach and write. I wrote letters to 20 to 30 places. I remember I was in London giving a poetry reading when I received a call from Baruch College. Jerry was so supportive. He met me at the airport and took me to the interview. We were dedicated to each other’s careers. I took the position with Baruch and have been a distinguished professor of English since 1973.”

In 1978, the Schulmans purchased a home in the Clearwater Beach area of Springs. Already an area abundant with artists and writers, East Hampton became their retreat and favorite place to enjoy the beauty of the natural areas surrounding the Gardiners Bay area. The couple were known by friends and neighbors to regularly go down to the beach to catch the sunset over the water.

During this time, Jerome continued his work as research scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. His 45 years of research identified, characterized, and isolated various viral strains of influenza with the goal of the development of a universal vaccine. Grace continued her work as the poetry editor of the weekly magazine, The Nation. She held the position from 1972 to 2006, and also directed the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center from 1973 to 1985.

Having become a well renowned poet and writer, Schulman has published seven collections of her poetry and has many awards and recognitions. In 2016, she received the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime

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Achievement in American Poetry, which was awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Other awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has also won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily.

Her most recent book, which just hit the shelves this month, is a memoir, Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage. According to Schulman, this book reflects on her life. Losing her husband to a long illness in the summer of 2016, she admits that she still struggles with the loss. “We loved each other with a great passion. I look back at the memories we made together,” she said.

One of her favorite memories, she says, was their honeymoon. “We were both working, but we took two weeks and walked all over Greece, Italy, France, England, and Ireland. We had a recorder and everywhere we went, we asked people to sing songs for us. They loved doing it. We have hours of recordings of the local songs from everywhere we went. It was a 75,000mile dash. We’d get on a plane, go to the next place, take our backpacks, and walk some more. We were young and strong and had long legs,” she concluded with a smile.

If you would like to hear some of Schulman’s work, she will be doing a reading at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Sunday September 16, at 3 PM. In addition, she will be doing a book signing on September 29 at 5 PM at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor.

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Horses Changing Lives Sebonack Golf Club event benefits therapeutic riding center

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Center for Therapeutic Riding of the East End will host its annual Horses Changing Lives benefit on Thursday, August 23, from 6 to 9 PM at Sebonack Golf Club.

It is the leading fundraising event for CTREE, a not-for-profit organization operating out of Wölffer Estate Stables in Sagaponack. CTREE provides the East End with therapeutic riding lessons and equine assisted activities, available to anyone with cognitive, physical, or emotional disabilities.

Amanda Ross founded the therapeutic riding center in 2009 with only two horses and two participants. In the nine years since, CTREE has grown to

50 to 60 participants annually, with 25 to 30 volunteers, and four therapeutic horses. Programs include special equine assistance for veterans, known as CTREE Patriots, and assisted learning with local schools for special needs or at-risk students.

Tami Maines, event co-chair and a board member for CTREE, stated, “I believe in the work of CTREE and Therapeutic Riding. We are lucky to have such an amazing program like CTREE in the Hamptons to assist families with their loved ones who have disabilities. Horses are very empathetic animals. You don’t have to say anything and the horse feels your emotions. It’s

wonderful seeing our students thrive, learn new skills, improve their communication skills, build trust, improve their physical strength, overcome their fears, and smile when they are around the horses.”

Becky Gaynor, CTREE’s board president, attested to horses’ healing qualities. “They comfort me and are my best friends. They teach patience, empathy, cause and effect. And they know all my secrets. They are one of the greatest creatures on this Earth and I couldn’t live without them.”

As the only Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International Premier Accredited Center in Suffolk County, the center only operates 36 weeks out of the year, making it especially important for those with needs to take advantage of the services offered. CTREE retains five part-time employees, 12 active directors, and six advisory board directors, who actively seek to help as many as possible.

“I have been part of the CTREE family since the beginning in 2009, serving as a volunteer, board director, officer, and now co-chair of its most important fundraiser,” said Diana Shiel, Horses Changing Lives co-chair and member of CTREE’s board of directors. “One of the most gratifying and rewarding jobs is being a lesson

volunteer. It has changed me into a better, more compassionate, appreciative, and patient individual. The greatest gift is hearing a child speak for the first time, or a rider’s parent say, ‘This is the best part of my child’s day.’”

The Latin-themed evening of Horses Changing Lives will feature Brazilian Bossa Nova music by Ludmilla Brazil, signature cocktails sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka, food stations, passed hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and live auction with winemaker and auctioneer Roman Roth from Wölffer Estate.

This year’s silent auction debuted online a week prior, allowing guests and those who cannot otherwise attend the benefit the opportunity to preview “the best of the Hamptons” services, art, restaurants, unique experiences, and more. The silent auction will go live at 9 AM the day of event. Guests will also have the opportunity to purchase a $100 raffle ticket on site for a chance at winning an Hermes Birkin handbag.

Tickets for the benefit start at $250 each, with all proceeds benefitting CTREE. Sebonack Golf Club is located at 405 Sebonack Road in Southampton. Visit www.ctreeny.org or call 631-779-2835 for more information. All lessons are held at 41 Narrow Lane in Sagaponack.

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Sweet Charities

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

CTREE at Sebonack Horses Changing Lives, the annual CTREE at Sebonack fundraiser, will be held on Thursday, August 23, at Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton.

CTREE, the Center For Therapeutic Riding of the East End, provides therapeutic riding lessons and equine assisted activities to children, young adults, and veterans with disabilities.

The event will be held from 6 to 9 PM. Event chairs are Tami Maines and Diana Shiel. Enjoy cocktails, silent and live auctions, and Brazilian bossa nova

by Ludmilla Brazil. For tickets and more info, visit www.ctreeny.org.

Box Art Auction The annual Box Art Auction benefiting East End Hospice will be held on

Saturday, August 25, at St. Luke’s Church Hoie Hall in East Hampton.

Eighty-five artists take a small, unadorned box and create a unique work of art that is put up for auction.

The silent auction will begin at 4:30 PM and the live auction at 5:45 PM. Wine and hors d’oeuvres are included in the $75 ticket price.

Leading up to the benefit, the boxes can be previewed at Hoie Hall on Wednesday, August 22, and Thursday, August 23, from 10 AM to 4 PM. On Wednesday, August 22, the public is invited to a meet the artists reception.

For tickets and more, visit www.eeh. org.

Backyard Talent Show A Backyard Talent Show to benefit The

Scarlett Fund will be held on Saturday, August 25, from 3 to 5:30 PM in Bridgehampton. Join for an afternoon of performances and summer fun. The event is hosted by Jennifer and Robert James. Registration for performers is now open. The talent show is limited to 25 one to two minute acts. Tickets are $250 per performer. Spectator tickets are available for $50 per child, $75 per adult, and $200 for a family package.

To register visit www.thescarlettfund. com/summer-events. For more info email info@thescarlettfund.com.

Prostate Cancer Foundation

Prostate Cancer Foundation presents its annual Gala in the Hamptons on Saturday, August 25, from 6:30 to 11 PM at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

There will be dinner, dancing, and a special performance by John Fogerty.

For more info, visit www.pcf.org.

SummerFest Southampton Arts Center will host its fifth annual SummerFest benefit on Thursday, August 30, from 6 to 10 PM. The event is the center’s final major fundraising event of the summer season.

SummerFest is SAC’s premiere annual event, raising nearly a half-million

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dollars, to support world-class exhibitions and 200-plus programs annually, many of which are free of charge.

Attendees will enjoy signature dishes from the most celebrated chefs on the East End plus DJ and dancing under the stars on the historic grounds of 25 Jobs Lane.

Tickets for SummerFest start at $500 for individuals, with VIP tables starting at $10,000, and can be reserved online at southamptonartscenter.org, by calling Southampton Arts Center at 631-283-0967 ext. 13, or by emailing Advancement Coordinator Molly Bishop at mbishop@southamptoncenter.org.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Life Lessons: Lug Nuts, Laundry, And Letting Go

Ryan had driven his son Rory to school every morning since first grade.

In May he drove his son home from high school for the last time, calculating that they’d driven together some 2100 mornings to elementary school and high school across the years as Rory grew from little boy to the edge of manhood.

Today on the 26th day of August on a glorious morning of 73 degrees with the sun spilling from a blue sky dotted with whipped cream clouds they jolted north toward the Hudson Valley on the Sprain Parkway.

“I wonder why they call it the Sprain instead of the Fracture Parkway,” Ryan said.

“That joke doesn’t have a leg to stand on,” Rory replied in their usual shorthand banter.

They chuckled to ease the rasp of unspoken words jammed in the backs of their throats like paper in a printer.

Then a loud rumble filled the void as Ryan gazed in his rearview and side mirrors for the motorcycle he was certain was overtaking him. He didn’t see one.

“That’s your car, Dad.” “Mine?”

“Yeah, it’s shaking like crazy.”

“Oh.” Ryan veered to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped past as fast as the years that took them from pre-K to this detour on the road to his son’s independence. Ryan clicked on his hazards, they climbed out, and saw the left rear tire was flat.

They both uttered the same curse that son had learned from father.

“It’s not so bad,” Ryan said.

“Why?” “It’s only flat on the bottom.”

“Unlike that joke which is flat top to bottom.”

They laughed, unpacking half the new stuff for his dorm room onto the shoulder of the road so that they could dig out the buried spare tire, jack, and tire iron.

Ryan realized he’d never taught his kid how to change a tire and so this was literally one last father/son life lesson for the road. Ryan loosened the lug nuts with the tire iron then twirled the old-fashioned hand jack, showing his kid how to remove the lug nuts and the tire in mid-air, replacing it with the smaller spare tire that father told son was called a “donut” because it looks like it came from an Entenmann’s box.

“Uh huh,” Rory said, frowning.

When Ryan lowered the car and finished tightening the lug nuts on the donut, Rory gently took the tire iron from his father and the kid who could out-lift his old man by almost 100 pounds in the gym tightened the lug nuts another full turn each.

Father and son climbed back in the car and drove north to the sprawling green campus on the glittering Hudson where 1000 other freshmen were unloading their gear in a designated parking lot. Rory joined a group of pals from high school who were also dorming on campus. They stood eyeing and talking about a group of teenage freshman girls who stood glancing at and talking about them.

Suddenly from the point of view of these young people “leaving home” didn’t look so bad.

Ryan thought it was like Stage II of a journey as the capsule disengaged from the booster rocket.

Ryan and Rory trekked across the campus carrying a TV and computer as a campus truck service delivered individual loads to designated dorm rooms.

The living quarters were cramped but clean and efficient, and as they un-

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packed the emotions started to rise in Ryan. Unlike every other school dropoff, Little League game, and friend’s party, on this trip his kid would not be returning home with him.

“It’s nice,” Rory said looking around his room, after meeting his roommate and four other suite mates.

“Yeah.”

They had a bag of wet laundry that they didn’t have time to dry at home and so Ryan led Rory to the laundry room, teaching his kid how to use the washers and dryers. After grabbing a last burger together Rory received a text that the freshmen had to gather in the gym for a group photo of “the Class of 2021.”

“I gotta go, Dad. Sorry…”

Ryan opened his arms. His son embraced him. Ryan slapped Rory’s broad back.

Rory whispered, “Thanks.”

“For what, kiddo?”

“For everything you ever did for me. Especially this opportunity.”

Ryan looked in the baby blue eyes of his son who would be 18 in a week, still gripping his kid’s shoulders.

“Don’t blow it.”

“I promise I won’t.”

They exchanged “I love yous” and then Ryan let go of his son like a dangling man letting go of a window ledge.

After driving his son to school for the very last time, Ryan drove south. He glanced at the passenger seat.

It was empty.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

A Dinner Party With Female Infidelity As The Main Course Untrue author Martin explores taboo subject on Authors Night kissandtellhb@gmail.com It’s not often at a formal Hamptons’ dinner party you see a large visual aid of female reproductive organs, or to the point of the evening, I should refer to them as female pleasure centers.

As part of Authors Night, the fantastic fundraiser for East Hampton Library, I had the literary pleasure of attending the dinner held for Wednesday Martin (best-selling author of Primates of Park Avenue) in honor of her soonto-be released book Untrue: Why nearly everything we believe about women, lust, and infidelity is wrong and how the new science can set us free. Martin is a dynamic, smart, extremely well-educated teacher and researcher with a fascinating and liberating story to tell. Ditch the scarlet letter for a scarlet bustier, and let’s talk science.

Martin set out to question a deeply ingrained cultural myth, even in 2018, that men want sex while women want intimacy and connection. But monogamy sounding a lot like monotony is not exclusive to men’s nature. Women who are “untrue” as Martin points out, “have dared to do something we have been told is immoral, antisocial, and a violation of our deepest notions of how women naturally are and ‘should be.’”

The party line that men have stronger libidos, it’s only testosterone that drives sex, and women just want a cuddle and Häagen Daaz, is not true according to anthropological and clinical studies. However, to acknowledge women’s deep desire for novelty outside her relationship is still socially taboo. Cue Don Draper walking on Anna Karenina’s grave.

Martin also explores what would happen to couples who ditch the deception and try to set ground rules on outside paramours, which quickly become problematic: You can only see the person once. Sex but no kissing. He/

she does NOT get to meet the dog.

Some statistics on cheating show women’s numbers rising. Martin points to research and clinical experience that the institutionalization of roles and the familiarity of a spouse is especially challenging for female desire. It’s not that she doesn’t have desire, it’s that the same old sex with the same old man isn’t interesting.

Another study found that women who were otherwise happily partnered or married who had affairs were not looking for a new husband or exit strategy. They also weren’t looking for emotional connection or companionship. Their sole focus was their own pleasure. “That’s very different from all the other relationships in her life,” observed the researcher.

Women of a certain age really get hit hard with the just dry up and call it a booty call day stick. Our culture assumes it’s men-oh-pause for these women. They are told their hormones are shifting and it’s natural not to have any sex drive. Is every woman older than 50 just having a thyroid issue?

Men’s hormones are also changing but the prescription they walk out with is Viagra.

A fascinating point Martin makes in terms of measuring a woman’s desire for an affair is the importance of context. It’s not sex with a stranger. It’s if he’s not a jerk and great in bed and it’s safe sex and he won’t make disparaging remarks about your body and texts you or doesn’t text you depending on what you want, and your mother will never know . . . It’s a whole other way to check a box.

You also can’t divorce the subject of cheating from divorce. One report in the book found that divorced women had assets valued at 90 percent less than their married peers. Women are

Heather Buchanan with Wednesday Martin

no fools, as Martin notes. But in partnerships where the women have their own financial security, commitment is shifting.

So, you can only imagine how to-

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tally fascinating the conversation was at that dinner party. What Martin created was permission to be open and honest, even among strangers. Safe space in a world of silent shame.

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August 22, 2018

RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Heaven And Hell A look at punishment and time served for elementary school sins rmurphy@indyeastend.com

We spent a lot of time at St. Francis of Assisi elementary school going over the nuances of Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell.

We discussed Limbo as well, but that was more like an elective course, whereas our bread and butter was the Big Three, and with good reason: virtually every human who ever died resides in one of those places.

When we were little kids, our main focus was on Purgatory. A typical nineyear old, after all, is hardly capable of a sin heinous enough to warrant a one-way trip to Hell. I mean, I didn’t know how to “covet a neighbor’s wife” so even if I did want to do it with Mrs. Buonciello next door, I wouldn’t know where to start.

We would ask, for example, how long in Purgatory for stealing a Milky Way candy bar? Sister Anne once told us 1000 years. Ouch! That’s a lot of time. “My Uncle Vito broke his parole officer’s neck and he only got five years probation,” Louis Gianelli pointed out.

“A thousand years!” I exclaimed. “I can hardly wait for Christmas and it’s only two months away.”

The message was clear, Sister

Anne told us: don’t steal, and you won’t have to worry about going to Purgatory. “So, we’ll go to heaven!” We all cheered and clapped.

Well, no, Sister Anne cautioned, wagging her finger. There was that little matter of cursing and using God’s name in vain. I did a lot of that. To hone my tough guy persona at age nine, I would wear my belt buckle on my hip, comb my hair into a pompadour, carry a comb in my back pocket visible for all to see, and spit freely wherever I went, including the rectory and (God forgive me) church.

I also cursed, and as I was destined to be a writer, I had a rich, full, vibrant vocabulary of disgusting verbiage suitable for all occasions. “That’s five years for each curse,” Sister Anne said after hearing one of my schoolyard tirades. The math was so tough I lost count, but it would have been a lot of years for sure.

By the time we were teenagers, we had graduated from petty crime to the big stuff. Put another way, we would have gladly signed on for Purgatory right then and there. It’s kind of like in court when the judge offers you a

plea bargain and you accept 20 years because it’s preferable to the electric chair.

Most of my sins (besides Grand Theft Auto) could be traced to those two cursed words: Impure Thoughts.

As surely as pot leads to heroin, Impure Thoughts lead to Impure Deeds and that, ladies and gentlemen, will land you in Hell every time.

To facilitate this grim fate, the devil comes to Earth to help us along. I’m pretty sure of that, because the devil must have been hiding inside Mary Beth Sweeney, who was in the PS 92 schoolyard every time I happened to be passing through at dusk on my way home.

She would whisper temptations.

I gave in and coveted her once, if the word means what I think it does.

From that moment on, I was a Walking Dead. Should an accident befall me, my body would be whisked directly to Hell. There wouldn’t even be a wake at The Francisco Medaglio Funeral Parlor. The only way out was to get to Confession, and get there quick.

There were at least 12 confessions booths at St. Francis Asissi Church but they were all darkened every day I went. The only time there was any activity was between two and four on Saturday afternoon when the light was on like it was an occupied tollbooth on the New York State Thruway. No one ever saw a priest walk in or leave. Frankie Federico said they come up through the floor and can send us down the same way if our sins are bad enough.

I recited the usual, “lied to my brother three times, took God’s name in vain once, coveted Patti Page once,” and then I blurted out the whole truth.

I could barely make out the whisper but I swear he said, “The Sweeney girl, eh?” He then issued my punishment: say three Hail Marys. “But I’ll need you to walk over to Nostrand Av-

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“That’s it?” I nodded and ran all the way. The clerk smiled slightly when I ran into the store, and then whispered, “The Sweeney girl, eh?”

As for Limbo, that’s where you go if you have a spotless soul but don’t qualify for heaven. The nuns would use a newborn baby as an example: if a baby came into the world and then passed on before it was baptized, it would go to Limbo. That didn’t seem very fair. Limbo, we were assured, was just like heaven except you didn’t get to be with God. That’s like going to see The Stones with no Mick Jagger.

“What if the infant had impure thoughts?” I asked Sister Anne. She took God’s name in vain and hit me with a ruler. “You’re gonna do time for that,” I informed her.

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

My Perfect Day: Westhampton jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Sydney’s “Taylor” Made Cuisine

Brunetti Pizza

My perfect day in Westhampton would start with a coffee at Beach Bakery Cafe on Main Street. This cafe is right in the heart of Westhampton Beach and offers a wonderful selection of pastries and coffee.

After, I would do a little shopping, making a few stops along Main Street.

Gloria Jewel is a Hamptons standard.

In addition to shops in Amagansett, Bridgehampton, and East Hampton, owner Megan Leary also has a spot in Westhampton Beach. The shop is named after Leary’s two grandmothers, Gloria and Jewel. Leary handpicks the pieces for all of her stores and offers an array of diverse styles for every woman.

I would also stop by Good Westhampton, a modern-day general store that offers a perfect selection of gift and home items.

For lunch, it would be off to Brunetti Pizza, a small pizza bar on Main Street. This brick oven pizza spot, which also has a location in the West

Village, prides itself on “fresh ingredients, family recipes, and a whole lot of passion.”

Just like most Hamptons towns, one of the best activities is to head down to the ocean. Westhampton is home to many beautiful ocean beaches on Dune Road. And also, one of the most happening beach clubs around, Dune Deck. Although it’s a membersonly club, it’s safe to say it’s the place to be in Westhampton. So, if you can snag an invite, you probably want to try it out (on my perfect day I would have one).

But whether you enjoy Westhampton’s pristine ocean beaches from a swanky beach club or while packing a picnic on a public beach, you really can’t go wrong with either situation.

For an afternoon treat, I would head over to Sydney’s “Taylor” Made Cuisine. The treats, like macaroons and flourless chocolate cake, rival those of the finest patisserie in Paris.

The sunroom and front porch of this

Sydney’s “Taylor” Made Cuisine

1860s refurbished farmhouse offer dining options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, also in the heart of the village, is celebrating 20 years this year. The space opened as a movie theater in 1932. Now, it serves the community as a year-round arts organization that presents world-class arts, music, dance, comedy, and cinema. I would end my night with a visit.

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MARKET PAGE

By Zachary Weiss

Diamonds In The Rough We round up Westhampton’s delicious treats and designer delights

When it comes to Westhampton, there’s more than meets the eye. With its quaint winding roads, the tucked away shops won’t jump out on their own. Here, we’ve selected some of the best from the town’s local purveyors of delicious treats, decorative goods, and designer delights.

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TOP: Gloria Jewel Sundry “Bonjour” Large Pouch with Pom Poms, $67 RIGHT: Hampton Chocolate Factory “Hampton 6 Chocolate Bar Collection,” $45 CENTER: Good Westhampton “Best Day Ever” Ceramic Catch-All, Price Upon Request LEFT: Hampton Coffee Company “Hampton Classic Blend,” $14.99

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By Norah Bradford

The Fear Of Missing Out

Prostate Cancer Foundation annual Hamptons Gala on Saturday, August 25 at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The gala is also the culmination of the Charles Evans PCF Pro-Am Tennis Tournament. www.pcf.org

Norah Bradford gathers an ‘end of summer’ to-do list

This week — The Fear Of Missing Out (or FOMO) edition. As Labor Day starts to loom, the inevitable question arises: “Did we do everything we should have this summer?”

In order to avoid any regrets this fall, here are the people you should know, experiences you should seek, and those essentials you need at your fingertips . . .

Pearson’s skills as an acclaimed art director at CBS and Harper’s Bazaar can help you achieve the interior you have dreamed of. Her skills as a realtor with Douglas Elliman can also help you find that place to call home. www.nancypearsonltd.com

PEOPLE TO KNOW

Allen Dalton. Allen Dalton Entertainment Group is a production company that brings the magic to an event. Dalton has worked with brands including Veuve Clicquot, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Fete Group. His events are known for adding unique elements for a memorable experience — think magicians and mini trains. www. allendalton.com

EXPERIENCES TO SEEK Enjoy a five-star clambake on the beach with The Art of Eating. Cheryl Stair and John Kowalenko differentiate their business with a focus on local ingredients for a fresh dining experience popular with many including celebrities such as Alec Baldwin. www.hamptonsartofeating.com

David Brod. Gold Coast Bank, a top community bank for Long Island, helps people and businesses. The bank prides itself on providing entrepreneurs, businesses, and high net-worth individuals with exceptional personalized lending and banking services and Brod is one to know. www.gcbny.com Nancy Pearson. She is the woman who can help you find the ideal space and the ideal look to turn it into a home.

Mingle with the billionaires and listen to music legend John Fogerty while supporting Michael Milken’s

Taste the Lobster Club at Silver’s restaurant. Go to Main Street, Southampton and although Silver’s is closing, the taste of its phenomenal lobster club will endure in your memory. If you find you cannot live without Silver’s and have $6 million to spare, you could possibly be the white knight and ride to the rescue of this Southampton institution.

THE ESSENTIALS

Meet Natali Yura, actress. Hamptons resident and star of movie, The Row, Natali Yura is an actress and singer whose path to acting began with a scholarship granted by Anna Strasberg of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. A star on the rise, Yura has already worked on movie projects involving Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, and Bruce Willis. www.nataliyura.com Stay year round at the Southampton Inn. Your staple home away from home in Southampton is the Southampton

Don and Katrina Peebles’ event.

Attend real estate and philanthropic power house couple Don and Katrina Peebles’ summer soiree for charity, Giveback for Special Equestrians. They will be hosting the fundraiser on August 30, with guest of honor Georgina Bloomberg, at their Bridgehampton estate. www.giveabuckeq.org Ever wanted to live in a home that had a unique owner? Why not buy yourself a Hamptons residence belonging to relative of supermodel Linda and owner of restaurant Sotto Sopra in Amagansett, Rose Evangelista. Her 1.8acre, 3000-square-foot home offers the idea location from which to explore the Hamptons season after season. www. sottosopra.com

Allen Dalton, Patrick McMullan, Grieve Winery, johnfogerty.com, Getty Images, Rob Rich/www.SocietyAllure.com, Southampton Inn

Pamela Morgan. The culinary and entertaining expert, Morgan sees food as flirtation — a little sexy, provocative, and mysterious. Morgan seeks to show us how to develop the skills and passion for cooking in her own inimitable style through her cooking parties, online videos, and recipes. www.flirtingwithflavors.com

Savor Grieve Sauvignon Blanc 2015 from the Lovall Valley in Napa Valley, where owner David Grieve believes the some of the best Sauvignon Blanc in America is grown. As wine expert Catherine Larsen notes, the 2015 vintage has the aromatics and style of a white Bordeaux, offering layers of complexity and sophistication, with an abundance of spectacular fruit, energy, and crisp acidity. www.grievewinery.com

Inn. Located in town close to the boutiques, dining, and cultural attractions, the inn combines good accommodations with facilities such as a swimming pool, close proximity to Coopers Beach, and the award-winning restaurant, Claude’s. www.southamptoninn. com

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Box by Leif Hope.

Thinking Outside (And Inside) The Box 2018 Box Art Auction to benefit East End Hospice

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

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It was 18 years ago that supporters of the East End Hospice first asked 100 well-known area artists to take a small, unadorned box and create a unique work of art that could be put up for auction to benefit Hospice. This year,

the charity tradition continues.

Randy Rosenthal, a local artist famed for carving his realism art out of a single piece of wood, has created a piece that looks like it has a torn yellow pad on top of a cigar box, with a

drawing of a cigar box on top of it.

Fulvio Massi’s box has birds’ nests in it. Giancarlo Impiglia’s box features his famed faceless colorful “beautiful people,” while Tracy Jamar’s is embroidered, like a sampler, with the words “Mud Thrown is Ground Lost.”

All of these, and more than 70 more, are part of the East End Hospice’s box art auction, which begins with a preview on Wednesday and Thursday, August 22 and 23, from 10 to 4 PM at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s Hoie Hall, 18 James Lane, East Hampton, continues with a “Meet the Artists” preview reception on Wednesday night from 5 to 7 PM, and concludes with the auction itself on Saturday, August 25. The silent auction begins at 4:30 PM, with the live auction at 5:45, with Lucas Hunt as auctioneer.

“So many artists on the East End have once again contributed their time, talent, and singular creativity to produce these unique works of portable art for this most worthy cause,” said Arlene Bujese, who is curating the Box Art Auction for the 14th year.

The brainchild of the late East End artist David Porter, and his wife, Marion, artists are given small donated cigar and wine boxes, and are asked to use the box inside and out as a canvas or base. With styles ranging from traditional landscapes to abstract art, the art forms incorporated this year are ceramics, sculpture, painting, collage, assemblage, and needlework on fabric.

Tickets for the wine-and-horsd’oeuvres-heavy benefit are $75, not a big price in the tony Hamptons, but the auction prices can go high. Bujese remembers a box by Leif Hope, which incorporated dozens of tiny paintings inside, going for around $6000. Hope has another box in this auction, with a similar theme.

Reverend Denis Brunelle, Rector of St. Luke’s Church, will receive East

End Hospice’s 2018 Spirit of Community Award for “his forceful work to ensure the dignity and respect for of all people in the East Hampton community, exemplifying a singular generosity of spirit,” according to EEH.

Bujese, who is not only the curator but also the event’s chair, reports that among the 85 artists who have answered the call to create memorable boxes for this year’s auction are 10 artists who have participated every year since the event’s inception, and 10 others who are participating for the first time. This year’s artists include: Alice Hope, Carol Hunt, Dennis Leri, Christa Maiwald, Fulvio Massi, Daniel Pollera, Gabriele Raacke, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Dan Welden, and Frank Wimberley.

Van de Bovenkamp’s reason for participating is personal. “What love I experienced when my wife, Siv Cedering, was in the last stages of Parkinson’s disease,” he said. “Total strangers who came to attend to her became temporarily a family of love. For the past 15 years or so, it has been a joy to donate art and contribute to such a compassionate cause. I learned a lot from the total experience. It changed my life.”

All proceeds will benefit East End Hospice, which provides care for terminally ill patients, and their families and loved ones living on the North and South Forks of Long Island, as well as Brookhaven township.

The 2018 benefit’s Honorary Committee includes Ruth Appelhof, Michael Cinque, Theodore B. Conklin III, April Gornik, Sheldon & Margery Harnick, Jack Lenor Larsen, Barbara Layton, Dan Rattiner, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach, Jr., Cantor/Rabbi Debra Stein, Donald Sussis, Sandra Wagenfeld, and Susan Kennedy Zeller.

More information about East End Hospice, the box art auction, and tickets, can be found on EEH’s website at www.eeh.org.

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CTREE At Sebonack Two Photographers — Thursday, August 23, 6 to 9 PM Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton — Horses Changing Lives, the annual CTREE at Sebonack fundraiser takes place in Southampton. CTREE, the Center For Therapeutic Riding of the East End, provides therapeutic riding lessons and equine assisted activities to children, young adults, and veterans with disabilities.

— Saturday, August 25, 6 to 8 PM Elizabeth Down Home, East Hampton — Elizabeth Down Home in East Hampton presents an opening reception featuring works by Robin Rice and John Smith. Sara De Luca, director of Ille Arts Gallery curates the two photographers’ exhibition.

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A Place For Us

give me any love,” BAYLi said. “Everyone is too distracted by what’s on their phones or their work, and everyone else is taken. I want viewers to just know that even though the world feels like it’s falling apart, love yourself and give love!”

The mixtape also includes previously released tracks “MYOB: Or Whatever,” “Right Now,” and “Underneath.”

On Saturday she opens for Ravyn Lenae at Surf Lodge, starting at 5 PM. For more info, visit www.baylimusic.com.

— Sunday, August 26, 6 PM Pierson High School, Sag Harbor — Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center presents the Artists Love Movies series with My Art, hosted by Laurie Simmons, an acclaimed artist and photographer making her directorial debut, at the Pierson High School auditorium.

— Tuesday, August 28, 5 PM BookHampton, East Hampton — BookHampton in East Hampton presents Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place For Us, in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker, moderated by BookHampton owner Carolyn Brody.

Brooklyn’s Rising Star BAYLi At Surf Lodge Singer is “out for love”

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Brooklyn’s rising star BAYLi will take the stage at The Surf Lodge in Montauk on Saturday, August 25. Her debut Summer mixtape is set for release on August 31.

Summer highlights the artist’s new music, with themes of break-ups, parties, love, and facing deep-rooted insecurities.

“They’re out for blood, but we’re out for love,” BAYLi sings in her chorus of her new track “Out For Love.” Co-

written and produced by Justin Tranter (Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez), Sasha Sloan (Charli XCX, John Legend), and Alex Hope (Troye Sivan, Tove Lo), the song features psychedelic vocals and a message championing love.

The “Out For Love” video, which stars Adrian Grenier and includes visuals that represent an early-2000’s romcom, shows BAYLi fighting for attention, to no avail.

“It seems like no one wants to

Arts & Entertainment

August 22, 2018

Mandy Gonzalez Comes To Bay Street

“Mandy Gonzalez: Fearless!” showcasing songs from her new debut album.

Gonzalez has graced Broadway stages in Aida (2003-2004) and Wicked (2010-2011), but is most known for her starring role as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, which she took on in September 2016. In addition to Hamilton, Gonzalez currently lends her talents to the CBS TV series “Madam Secretary,” in the role of Lucy Knox.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and former star of Hamilton, referred to Gonzalez as “one of the greatest singers on Earth,” which explains why he also casted her in his first Broadway musical In the Heights, as Nina. She will

The Hamilton star performs singles from her debut album

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents actress and singer Mandy Gonzalez on Monday, August 27, at 8

PM. As part of Bay Street’s Music Monday series, Gonzalez will bring her talents to the stage in a new cabaret show

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perform her signature song, from this first musical, “Breathe,” that Miranda wrote for her.

Guests can also expect a performance of new songs and renditions of classics, like her cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”

To go along with the “Fearless” title, a Fearless Female Choir will showcase local talents of kids and adults that will join Gonzalez on the stage for a few songs. One of these local singers is Reilly Rose Schombs, from Pierson High School.

To purchase tickets, visit www. baystreet.org or call the box office at 631-725-9500.

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How do you incorporate quantum physics into your work?

Quantum mechanics, the particle matter and below atoms, stuff that makes up the universe, that’s what I like to make work from, the fundamentals.

I think it’s important for society to know who you are and where you came from, your makeup and how we interact with the environment.

In what ways does music influence your work?

Brian Farrell. Independent/Jenna Mackin

Brian Farrell Imparts Art Knowledge Grenning Gallery offered interactive day for families

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Grenning Gallery of Sag Harbor hosted Southampton native artist Brian Farrell on Sunday, August 19, at Parrish Art Museum’s Summer Family Party.

Farrell said he fell in love with Parrish’s “modern, contemporary architecture,” with collections in line with his artistic aesthetic after being introduced to the museum through friends Andrea and Cristina Geeven.

An event unlike others, families had a hands-on opportunity to work directly with Farrell, continuing Parrish’s mission of education. The day was filled with interactive creations and visual experiences geared towards children.

From participating in the event, what message do you want to impart to the next generation of artists?

Art is not about quickly making something from a stencil or a tracing from the use of a projector. It’s work. It’s thought. It should teach and gain awareness of a certain subject matter.

It should capture one’s imagination, scramble their mind, hold space, provoke an emotion or a sensation.

Your choice as an artist is not to copy what another is doing because it may be successful, not to copy work from the past. Let that work be. It had its moment in so-called time. Be influenced by it but move forward and do

your own thing in present time.

Your purpose, as in science, is to help humanity move forward from what has already been discovered, created. If you can’t, then it’s not for you.

Adaptation is key. Learn, observe and evolve.

What was your first painting?

Speaking of “copying,” it was a primitive, not so well done, landscape, influenced by Monet and Van Gogh. It was oil on canvas of a garden I had designed. So, it was still my creation, just not very good.

It was a self-taught piece. It sold for $950. Ha. Not bad for a starter.

Why did attending New York Academy of Art change your style?

Attending this fine academy not only changed my style, I actually learned to draw and paint. It was my first, real, true lesson/education in art. Before that, I’m not certain I knew what I was doing. It was like guessing how expansive the universe is.

It brought out my artistic tools and helped me to become a much better organized renderer, painter, artist.

I could do any type of work from the fundamentals I learned at the academy.

It is a figurative school, but you do not necessarily have to stick with that.

The academy gives you the proper tools to move on and develop/enhance your own voice, your own style, your own you.

It’s developed over time. In the past, I listened to a much more aggressive type of music, that’s where my energy was at — Metallica, Tool, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana. [The music was] energetic, anxious, negative a lot of the time, and it drove what I was creating. Oddly enough, you can see the work at that time has an aggressive undertone to it, a darkness.

When you sit in a room with music, at a microlevel, you don’t even realize how it interacts with what you produce. Then I listened to electric: Deadmau5, Kaskade, Avicii, Armin Van Buuren. Now it’s space ambient, with an electric type beat behind it.

Is there a particular issue plaguing society today that resonates with you?

There are two. I’m most passionate about the environment, especially the pollution of our oceans from millions of tons of plastic, harmful overfishing, and senseless destruction of marine life. The more complex issue is the chaos and/or confusion from misinterpretation of text, speech, and language.

I am currently working on a piece that the subject is entropy and it’s a “maze runner” game. There is a start point of equilibrium and an end point of chaos. The state of equilibrium is a word, phrase, or code. It doesn’t really matter because it is represented as a sphere. The object is to get through the maze on parallel sides and maintain that equilibrium. I offer a code that you follow to get through and find that state is not maintained upon exiting.

This piece illustrates “fake news,” speech, or the written word being lost, misunderstood, misinterpreted, resulting in a host of issues under the heading of chaos.

Grenning Gallery is located at 17 Washington Street in Sag Harbor. It is open Thursday through Monday beginning at 11 AM, or visit www.grenninggallery. com. Brian Farrell's website is www. brianfarrellart.com or follow him @brianfarrellart.

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Penn Pens Book From Horse’s Point Of View Mare’s story of hurricanes, wildfires, and polo

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Amy Phillips Penn began her career as assistant to the world-renowned society/fashion columnist, Eugenia Sheppard. After Sheppard’s death, Penn continued her former boss’s “Around The Town” society column for the New York Post under her own byline. The column was syndicated in the Palm Beach Daily News.

As a Palm Beacher, she continued her coverage of society for several Palm Beach publications, until she convinced an editor that she could cover a polo clinic by riding through it. Emerging intact, she became obsessed with polo, not an uncommon reaction for a first-time player.

Dismounted, she writes for many national magazines, both equestrian and not. She also authored Elaine’s: The Rise of One of New York’s Most Legendary Restaurants from Those Who Were There, a tribute to legendary restaurateur Elaine Kaufman and her renowned Manhattan creative melting pot.

But Penn self-published Diosa: One Mare’s Odyssey on the Planet Earth (as whispered to Amy Phillips Penn) as a labor of love, to help animals in distress.

“After spending three Wellington hurricanes in my bathroom with my golden retriever, Holly, worrying about my horses (they were safe), I became

all too aware of how much we need to do a better job for our animals in emergencies,” Penn said. “There were few, if any, shelters in the area that would allow for dogs, so we sat in the bathroom with a transistor radio, candles, and prayers.”

Her polo pony, Diosa, was at one stable; Max, her hunter, at another.

They were eventually moved, but the memory stayed with her. “After the third hurricane, I moved to Santa Barbara, animals in tow,” Penn continued.

A visit to San Diego for polo, after a series of California fires, moved her.

“I was impressed by the way that San Diego reached out to protect animals.

Horses, dogs, cats, even emus were welcomed at the nearby fairgrounds.”

“The obvious had spoken,” she said. “We need to protect the planet and our animals in emergencies.”

But it was when David Lominska, “a phenomenal polo photographer,” took pictures of Diosa on the beach that an idea was born. “I wrote Diosa’s story in her voice,” Penn said of her black mare. The idea was to show the experience of living through hurricanes, wildfires, and polo from an animal’s point of view.

“And I felt so strongly about this,

that I wanted to take Diosa’s plea to the big screen.” Penn has collaborated on a screenplay with writer Matthew Wilder, and the film is being shopped.

“We’re looking to team up with the best producers and studio,” Penn said.

“Requirements: must love the planet, animals, and life.”

Penn began her love of horses as a child on the East End. Her parents owned a house in East Hampton, and she began to ride in the summers.

“I’ve always been horse crazy,” she said. “I showed in the Southampton Horse Show, the less glamorous younger sister of the Hampton Classic, in the early 1960s. The grounds were bare, dusty, and for horse lovers only,” she continued.

“I showed a pony named Happy Days. I’d barely practiced, so when my trainer gave me sage advice, I paid attention. ‘Never stay in a crowd of horses. Cut across and stand out on your own, so that the judge will notice you.’”

“To my amazement, Happy Days was pinned with a yellow ribbon,” she remembered. “And the accuracy of my trainer’s advice has remained a wellembraced metaphor for life. I recommend it highly. The worst that can happen is that you get dusty.”

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Gyllenhaal, Everett, And More At HIFF The Kindergarten Teacher starring Maggie Gyllenhaal will open this year’s festival

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com The 26th annual Hamptons International Film Festival, held this October, presents The Kindergarten Teacher as its opening night film. The film is written and directed by Sara Colangelo and will screen on Thursday, October 4, at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

The film stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, and Gael García Bernal. In the film Gyllenhaal portrays a Staten Island kindergarten

teacher who yearns to live a life of art and intellectualism. Gyllenhaal and Colangelo both plan to attend the festival. Colangelo is a 2013 alumna of HIFF’s annual Screenwriters Lab.

“We are elated to kick off our 26th edition of the festival with a film from one of our Screenwriters Lab alumna and to also announce an eclectic and intriguing first group of films with narratives and themes that are sure to res-

onate with our audiences,” said David Nugent, artistic director of HIFF.

The festival will also feature works from two additional HIFF Screenwriters Lab alumna. The 2015 Lab participant, Ísold Uggadóttir, will present the film And Breathe Normally, about the blossoming relationship between two women in Iceland. The 2016 Lab participant, Cathy Yan, presents Dead Pigs about the interwoven lives of five individuals in Shanghai.

“To be able to include so many completed feature films from our prestigious Screenwriters Lab is truly a dream come true, especially for our opening night,” said Anne Chaisson, executive director of HIFF. “For 18 years our lab has mentored over 75 screenwriters, and these three films from female directors offer diverse perspectives and have all garnered critical acclaim this year.”

Additional films showing at the festival will be the U.S. premiere of Eva Trobisch’s All Good, starring Aenne

Schwarz, and Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince, starring Everett (who will also be in attendance), Colin Firth, and Emily Watson — a biopic about the final years of Oscar Wilde’s life.

Also screening is Capernaum, a jury prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival directed by Nadine Labaki. Ali Abbasi’s Border, starring Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff, is also in the line up.

The Views from Long Island section will feature Michael Dweck’s documentary The Last Race, about a Long Island stock car racetrack trying to maintain the tradition and history of the sport. There is also Sasha Friedlander and Cynthia Wade’s documentary Grit.

Passes and packages to this year’s HIFF — which takes place over Columbus Day Weekend, October 4 to 8 — will go on sale Wednesday, September 5, and individual tickets will go on sale on Monday, September 24.

For more info visit www.hamptonsfilmfest.org.

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Robert B. Parker’s Colorblind By Reed Farrel Coleman Coleman continues Parker’s Jesse Stone Between them, Robert B. Parker and Reed Farrel Coleman could likely claim the world’s record for most prestigious awards for best-selling crime fiction. Parker, who earned a Ph.D. in English (he died in 2010) and wrote more than 70 books, was reputed to be the “dean” of the genre, though he also excelled in westerns, his dissertation being on violent heroes. What’s more, his numerous serial and stand-alone novels often found their way to TV, among them, as Tom Selleck fans know, the “Jesse Stone” series on CBS. Since 2014, poet and novelist Coleman, called the “king of Long Island noir” (he lives in Lake Grove), with the blessing of Parker’s estate, has taken on the Jesse Stone novels, and in Colorblind, the 17th in the series, has produced an exciting plot that nicely integrates exposition about Jesse’s past — as a minor league baseball player, one step away from the majors, and his life as a cop, then LAPD detective — that presents timely new problems for Stone, who is now a recovering alcoholic.

Coleman also shows off his cred as a descriptive writer, such as when

Stone muses on the differences between “the stark desert allure of his Tucson youth, the reductive hypnotic blue of the Pacific, and the rocky, white chop of the Maine Coast.”

In command of the elements of fiction, Coleman wastes no time drawing the reader in by way of a heartpounding opening chapter — a young black woman is fleeing a second gang rape and brutalization on the beach.

Stone, now chief of police in Swan Harbor, an upscale suburb north of Paradise, MA, a town that “wore its Pilgrim roots like a neon sign,” is called in to investigate soon after the coma-stricken woman is admitted to the local hospital. He finds himself pulled into a crime with wider, disturbing resonance.

It turns out that a neo-Nazi movement, The Saviors of Society, has established itself in Paradise in order to foment a race revolution. The savage assault on the young woman coincides with the arrival in town of a bunch of toughs on bikes. As Stone says, nothing tops macho behavior like a motorcycle gang, “Not even a sports locker compared.”

It also turns out that Stone’s

deputy chief, a young black woman, is being set up to take the fall for shooting an unarmed man. Stone had hired Alisha against political opposition and his reputation is on the line. A man of the law, he is also a man with a heart, and it is to Coleman’s credit as it is to Parker’s that women and minorities are given presence in their series.

Subplots deepen what readers learn about Stone. For one, he’s now a member of AA. For another, he responds with compassion to an angry young man who shows up in town one day, bent on getting himself repeatedly arrested. Who is he and why does Stone intuitively befriend him?

No spoiler alert because Coleman has provided an epigraph from 18th Century poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller: “It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

Stone’s not just caring, however. He’s politically savvy. Though he clearly despises The Saviors of Society, Coleman doesn’t hesitate to mock black activist types like the old Rev. Al Sharpton who lent himself to Tawana Brawley’s false accusations.

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evidence, and fairness to succumb to stereotypes, and he also appreciates real politik: “Nobody loved The United States more than Jesse, but there were times he wished the framers had done a little more tweaking of the first two amendments . . . there were pretty ugly aspects of freedom of speech.

Mix those ugly aspects with guns and you could have a real problem on your hands.” Does he ever!

At the end, a reader may wonder about Stone’s fortitude to prevail under extraordinary circumstances, but Coleman, in effect, trusts to a willing suspension of disbelief as he crafts a neat police procedural. As Stone says to himself, “What people misunderstand about police work was that it was reactive. Cops rode the wave or followed the wave onto the beach. It wasn’t the job to get ahead of it. Cops were really like the guys who followed the parade with brooms and shovels, cleaning up the mess the horses and spectators left behind.”

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Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Rice is taking a break from her gallery in New York City to show her own work in the exhibit. Smith will be exhibiting large prints from his Tirreno Series, including never shown prints of the Mediterranean Sea surrounding Capri.

Out Of The Box

The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton Opening: Saturday, August 25, from 6 to 8 PM

150 Years of Parties & Picnics

ably curated vignettes of costumes, and never before seen objects, including amazing textiles, and images. The show runs through October 7.

Clinton Academy Museum, East Hampton Through October 7

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“150 Years of Parties & Picnics in East Hampton” at the Clinton Academy Museum in East Hampton explores the celebratory exploits of the East End hamlet, from Main Street promenades, simple date nights at the cinema, to family weekends at the beach.

The fabled summer happenings of East Hampton are brought to life through a rare collection of fashion-

Elizabeth Down Home, East Hampton Opening: Saturday, August 25, from 6 to 8 PM Elizabeth Down Home in East Hampton presents an opening reception featuring works by Robin Rice and John Smith on Saturday, August 25, from 6 to 8 PM. Sara De Luca, director of Ille Arts Gallery curates the two photographers’ exhibition.

The White Room Gallery in East Hampton presents “Out Of The Box,” with works by Steve Cohen, Jackie Fuchs, Karen Kirshner, and Donna Bernstein. The colorful and unique exhibit offers a diverse mix of collage and paintings with varying degrees of abstraction. The show will be on view through September 10.

Ben Fenske Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor Opening: Saturday, August 25, from 6:30 to 8 PM The opening reception of Ben Fenske’s Solo Show will be held on Saturday August 25, from 6:30 to 8 PM at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor. This

exhibition will be hung on August 23 and hangs until September 16.

Art – A Family Affair Eastville Community Historical Society, Sag Harbor Through September 30 The Eastville Community Historical Society presents “Art – A Family Affair,” a unique look at the deep creativity of a Sag Harbor family: Joan Ruffins, Lynn Ruffins Cave, and Reynold Ruffins. Reynold Ruffins’s present paintings and drawings are preceded by a career as an illustrator and designer.

Teamed with Whoopie Goldberg and jazz musician Herbie Hancock, Ruffins’s brilliant illustrations produced a highly praised video for children. He has illustrated more than 15 children’s books. This exhibition will feature both Ruffins’s current paintings, brilliantly colored, often jazz-inspired work.

The society also presents work by Joan Ruffins, a multi-talented artist.

This show exhibits her excellent command of media, paint and pastel.

In addition, Joan and Reynold’s daughter, Lynn Ruffins Cave, will also have work in the exhibit. The show runs through September 30.

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The Hampton Bays Community Center presents Comic Extravaganza, hosted by Nancy Silberkleit, coCEO of Archie Comics.

She will discuss the hit TV Show "Riverdale."

Entertainment

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Southampton Arts Center continues the Summer of Spielberg series with a screening of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

It free and open to the public, and held indoors.

Chef Lynn Saturday, August 25, at 6:30 PM www.guildhall.org All singing, all dancing? Readings, stagings, and slams? We can’t print it if we don’t know about it. Send your entertainment events to nicole@indyeastend.com

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Comedy Goat On A Boat Saturday, August 25, at 11 AM www.baystreet.org The Comedians is an Italian theatrical tradition mixing drama, music, and puppetry. Harlequin, Pantalone, and Capitano star in funny episodes of puppet theater with a universal language, mainly mimic, a lot of music, and a few words in Italian.

Join in the fun at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Film Five Seasons

The 10th Anniversary of the Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDocs Series concludes with Chef Lynn at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Wednesday, August 22, at 6:30 PM www.madoo.org

My Art

The Madoo Conservancy and Hamptons International Film Festival present Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, a film by Thomas Piper, followed by a talk with Declan Blackmore, Hannah Parker, Thomas Piper, and Edwina von Gal.

Madoo and HIFF members, $20; non-members $25.

Summer Of Spielberg Friday, August 24, at 7 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

Sunday, August 26, at 6 PM www.sagharborcinema.org Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center presents the Artists Love Movies series with My Art, hosted by Laurie Simmons, an acclaimed artist and photographer making her directorial debut, at the Pierson High School auditorium.

Take Every Wave Monday, August 27, at 6 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org Southampton Arts Center presents

with React to Film a screening of Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton.

It’s $10.

Music Stephen Talkhouse www.stephentalkhouse.com Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will have a live performance by Leslie Mendelson on Wednesday, August 22 at 8 PM. On Thursday, August 23, see Chapter Lucky Chops at 8 PM, followed by The Brooklyn Hits at 10 PM.

Friday, August 24, see Patty Smyth & Scandal at 8 PM and Rubix Kube at 10 PM. Saturday, August 25, will be Black & Sparrow at 7 PM and Roctopus at 9 PM.

Sunday, August 26, at 10 PM will be Dollarman and The Easy Skanking Band. Monday, August 27, see Raph Odell Shapiro at 8 PM. Then, Tuesday, August 28, see Ricky and The Rockets, featuring G.E. Smith at 8 PM, and LHT at 10 PM.

Telly Tunes Wednesday, August 22, at 5 PM The Clam Bar at Napeague features

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weekly live music. This week will be Telly.

musical service with drum circle followed by a BYO-picnic.

It is held every Friday in August at Havens Beach.

Farm Chic Thursday, August 23, at 7 PM www.hamptonsfarms.com Farm Chic kicks it up a notch with live music every Thursday at 7 PM at Hamptons Farms in East Quogue. Free and open to the public.

Hamptons Farms also features an all-night happy hour at the outdoor and indoor bars, along with nightly farm fresh cuisine specials.

Gazebo On The Green Thursday, August 23, at 7:30 PM Westhampton Beach’s Gazebo on the Green will feature Ed Brennan, Sue Conklin, Bethany Dellapolla, Valeria diLorenzo, Julienne Penza-Boone, and Jack Seabury, with musical director Amanda Borsack Jones. The performance is free to the public.

DJ Spins All Night Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 9 PM www.324events.com The 324 Lounge in East Hampton hosts live music Thursday through Saturday. Local favorite DJ K-Alert spins all night.

Shabbat By The Bay Friday, August 24, at 6 PM 516-690-7742 Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor presents Shabbat by the Bay, an all-ages

BBQ And Beats Friday, August 24, at 6 PM www.townlinebbq.com Townline BBQ in Sagaponack hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM.

Piano Bar Friday, August 24, at 8 PM www.joespub.com Joe’s Pub SoundView in Greenport presents a concert by Kaylyn Marie in the piano bar.

The Smithereens Friday, August 24, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents The Smithereens with their special guest vocalist Marshall Crenshaw.

Rock The Lighthouse Saturday, August 25, at 5 PM www.montaukmusicfestival.com Montauk Music Festival Rocks the Lighthouse with Montauk’s own Kate Usher & The Sturdy Souls, in from Tennessee, Tuatha Dea, and back from touring in Europe, Jessica Lynn. Admission is $35.

Springs Tavern Saturday, August 25, at 8 PM

631-527-7800 The Springs Tavern will host karaoke night every Saturday beginning at 9 PM. No cover, just bring your best singing voice.

There’s also open mic every Sunday 2 PM to 6 PM.

Taj Mahal Trio Saturday, August 25, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents three-time Grammy winner and Blues Hall of Fame legend, Taj Mahal.

Jazz On The Steps Sunday, August 26, at 2 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org Southampton Arts Center, along with The Jam Session, brings back Jazz on the Steps with Bill Smith on piano and Morris Goldberg on sax/penny whistle.

It is free and open to the public.

Italian Trio Sunday, August 26, at 6 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

Theater EVITA Through August 26 www.baystreet.org Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents EVITA through August 26. The show’s lyrics are by Tim Rice and music

by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Cabaret At Claude’s Thursday, August 23, at 7 PM RSVP: 631-283-6500 Southampton Cultural Center presents Cabaret At Claude’s 2018 Series at the Southampton Inn featuring Konstantin Soukhovetski every Thursday night through August 23 with a prix fixe dinner at 7 PM and show starting at 9 PM.

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Wednesday, August 22, at 5 PM Thursday, August 23, at 5 PM Friday, August 24, at 11 AM Saturday, August 25, at 5 PM Tuesday, August 28, at 5 PM www.bookhampton.com

Saturday, August 26, at 8 PM www.whbpac.org John Hiatt & the Goners perform at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, featuring Sonny Landreth.

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Southampton Arts Center presents a celebratory free outdoor concert with Italy’s Madaus trio: Aurora Pacchi, Antonella Gualandri, and David Dainelli.

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on Thursday, August 23; Chelsea Clinton with She Persisted Around the World book signing on Friday, August 24; Admiral James Stavridis and Sea Power on Saturday, August 25; Fatima Farheen Mirza A Place for Us, in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker, moderated

by BookHampton owner Carolyn Brod on Tuesday, August 28.

Parrish Road Show Thursday, August 23, at 5 PM www.parrishart.org The Parrish Road Show will present artists Jeremy Dennis and Esly Escobar conversation with Corinne Erni, Parrish’s senior curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects. They will discuss their practice and their off-site exhibitions currently on view. Tickets are $12, free for members.

New York Academy of Art Thursday, August 23 at 7 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org Southampton Arts Center presents New York Academy of Art Talks with

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NYAA President David Kratz, actress Brooke Shields, and artist Eric Fischl.

Tickets are $15.

Fridays At Five Friday, August 24, at 5 PM 631-537-0015 or info@hamptonlibrary.org Hampton Library in Bridgehampton continues its Fridays at Five author series with Min Jin Lee, with Bill McCuddy presenting Pachinko. Admission is $25.

Inter-Sections Friday, August 24, at 6 PM www.parrishart.org The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents “Inter-Sections: The Architect in Conversation,” with architect Juergen Riehm, a co-founder of 1100 Architect, and Suzanne Stephens, the Deputy Editor of Architectural Record and an adjunct professor of architectural history at Barnard and Columbia College. Tickets are $12, free for members.

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Laurie Anderson Saturday, August 25, at 4 PM www.guildhall.org In All the Things I Lost in the Flood, author Laurie Anderson continues to explore the power and perils of language and storytelling in a presentation that mines the personal archive of her 40year body of work.

Marders Sunday, August 26, at 10 AM www.marders.com Marders in Bridgehampton presents garden lectures each week. This week, the subject is “Vole, Vole, Go Away.”

All lectures are free. Email info@ marders.com for more information.

Comic Extravaganza Saturday, August 25, at 11:30 AM www.southamptontownny.gov The Hampton Bays Community Center presents Comic Extravaganza, spon-

BookHampton presents Chelsea Clinton.

sored by The Southampton Youth Bureau & Rise Above Social Issues Foundation Inc. It’s free and open to all ages.

The event will be held from 11:30 AM to 4 PM.

Prizes will be awarded for best costume. The event is hosted by Nancy Silberkleit, co-CEO of Archie Comics. She will discuss the hit TV Show "Riverdale." Merchandise will be available from artists and vendors.

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Photos by Jenna Mackin & Richard Lewin The United Negro College Fund hosted its seventh annual “A Mind Is . . .”

Hamptons Summer Benefit weekend on Saturday, August 18, and Sunday, August 19. The weekend began on Saturday with a reception and program at a private residence in East Hampton.

On Sunday, a brunch was held at Bay Kitchen Bar in East Hampton.

UNCF is the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization. Funds raised at the Hamptons event will be used for student scholarships on the East End.

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Empower Africa Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com The Southampton Arts Center and Empower Africa, a non-profit that supports programs in the areas of human empowerment, wildlife protection, and land conservation in Africa, presented Elephant Documentary Shorts on Sunday, August 12.

The screening was followed by a Q&A and reception.

The Bookshop Photo by Jenna Mackin The Hamptons International Film Festival hosted a book signing with Emily Mortimer and Isabel Coixet for the book The Bookshop at BookHampton in East Hampton on Sunday, August 19. The book is now a motion picture starring Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.

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Bow Wow Meow Ball Photos by Nicole Teitler The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons hosted its annual Bow Wow Meow Ball on Saturday, August 18, at the ARF adoption center in East Hampton.

This year, the event introduced arfITECTURE, unique cat and dog houses created by top architects and builders, auctioned at the event. This summer’s ball honored event designer David Monn with the Champion of Animals Award.

Artistic Dreams Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com Artistic Dreams International hosted a summer cocktail party with special guest Guy Stanley Philoche at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead on Wednesday, August 15. ADI is an arts education non-profit dedicated to providing intensive arts programs in public schools in Harlem and Mexico.

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Surf Lodge Pop-Up Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com Mommy influencers and celebrities came out to the Surf Lodge in Montauk on Sunday, August 12, to enjoy a pop-up by children’s clothing brand Monica and Andy, hosted by Candice Miller of Mama & Tata.

Popular baby brands like Jetblack, a members-only and text-based concierge shopping service available in NYC and the Hamptons, along with Cybex, Smallbirds, Babyganics, Little Spoon, and Nibble & Squeak came out to host kids stations and activities while the little ones danced and learned to scratch records with a Baby DJ class.

Howard Schultz Photos by Richard Lewin The Tom Twomey Series of talks is usually held in the Baldwin Family Lecture Room at the East Hampton Library. However, due to the popularity of Starbucks Founder and Chairman Emeritus Howard Schultz, Library Director Dennis Fabiszak decided to move the event, called “Building a Better Company,” to the larger Children’s Room, which has the capacity for more than 300 people.

At the August 17 event, Schultz told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and CNBC the story of his humble beginnings in Brooklyn public housing to growing Starbucks into an $84 billion business.

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Montauk Art Show Photos by Richard Lewin Once again, the Montauk Artists Association gathered talented artists from all over the country on The Green in Montauk, for its 24th Annual Juried Fine Art Show.

On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, everyone was welcome, free of charge, to meet creators of ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, photographs, prints, and drawings from all over the United States, and to purchase their work.

Nathan Turner Photo by Jenna Mackin A brunch event with interior designer turned author Nathan Turner was held at the Serena & Lily Beach Market in Wainscott on Sunday, August 19.

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Ferrari And Maserati Photos by Jenna Mackin A private afternoon with Ferrari and Maserati of Long Island, benefiting the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, was held on Saturday, August 18, at a private estate in Bridgehampton.

An Evening With David Spade Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com Animal lover extraordinaire Beth Stern hosted “Beth Stern Presents: An Evening With David Spade” with special musical guests Joshua Radin and Charlotte Lawrence at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Saturday, August 18. All of the event’s proceeds went to benefit Bianca’s Furry Friends Feline Adoption Center, under construction at North Shore Animal League America.

Among those in attendance at the ultra-exclusive, sold-out fundraiser were Stern’s partner in life (and fostering) Howard Stern, his producer, Gary Dell’Abate, Carole Radziwell, Zach Braff, Jon Bon Jovi, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, Brooke Shields, Katie Lee, Bobby Flay, and Ali Wentworth.

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Hilaria Baldwin Talk Photos by Richard Lewin There could not have been a more fitting location on the evening of August 15 than The Baldwin Family Lecture Room at the East Hampton Library, as Hilaria Baldwin, author and creator of The Living Clearly Method, and Dr. Linda Mayes, Director of the Yale University Child Study Center, shared their views about parenting in the 21st Century.

The discussion was presented by the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, whose Judith Schneider moderated. Hilaria’s husband Alec Baldwin made a special introduction and participated in the Q&A portion.

Circus Soiree Photos by Rob Rich/www.societyallure.com B Floral invited guests to a Circus Soiree on August 16. Guests joined B Floral’s Bronwen Smith, Carole Radziwill, and “The Today Show”’s Lilliana Vazquez.

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Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming with artist April Gornik, Lulu Bouvier, and Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman at a fundraiser held for Fleming on Wednesday, August 15, at a private home in Noyac.

Summer Family Party Photos by Jenna Mackin The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presented its Summer Family Party on Sunday, August 19.

Attendees were able to create masterpieces working directly with artists Monica Banks, Eric Dever, Brian Farrell, Paton Miller, Bastienne Schmidt, and Almond Zigmund.

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Red Bar Brasserie Celebrates 20 Years Chef Jacob’s French-inspired cuisine continues restaurant’s legacy

By Hannah Selinger

If you’re wondering how 1998 could possibly have been 20 years ago, well, you aren’t alone (says the woman who graduated from high school that very year). But, here we are. Twenty years ago, southern attorney-turned-restaurateur Kirk Basnight opened Southampton’s Red Bar Brasserie, a restaurant inspired by both French and local dining traditions. Two decades later, the restaurant is an established part of the South Fork’s dining scene.

Before Red Bar moved in at the Hampton Road space, another established restaurant lived there. Balzarini’s occupied 201 Hampton Road for 68 years, from 1923 to 1997. The original restaurant was an uncool Italian joint, deemed, by the New York Times, “an unpretentious Italian food outpost.”

“At a time when cold modernity is commonplace on the East End, the warm, homey, family-run Balzarini’s, with its unapologetically old-fashioned Italian Riviera atmosphere, looks much as it did 73 years ago,” Richard Jay Scholem wrote in a 1996 review.

The “uncool” factor aside, Balzarini’s had a long and successful run, one not guaranteed to its successors. In fact, if anything, the restaurant’s location — slightly removed from town, and hardly Southampton’s most picturesque spot — ensured that building a following would bring forth its own set of challenges.

Basnight — along with now-legendary Hamptons restaurateur David Loewenberg, who has since sold his share of the restaurant — was willing to give it a shot. The restaurant took off, and continues to compel return customers. At the time, Loewenberg had experience managing the thenpopular (and since defunct) 95 School Street, while Basnight was still new to the area.

Red Bar was a hit, compelling some of the longest wait times in the Hamptons and eventually spurring the opening of a sibling restaurant. That property, Little Red, a more casual version of the relatively formal brasserie, opened on Southampton’s Jobs Lane in 2011 and has remained consistently busy ever since.

After 20 years, it can be said the restaurant has stood the test of time, but not without a few updates. In 2016, the restaurant closed for renovations, reopening with new flooring, wicker chairs, and banquettes sourced from the Carlyle Hotel. The restaurant also expanded its dining options, adding an outdoor seating area, which had never before existed.

The menu is expansive and, by some turns, expensive, offering such colorful appetizer options as local oysters on the half shell, grilled Spanish octopus with fingerling potatoes, homemade terrine of foie gras with

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kumquats, and a chef’s selection of farmstead cheeses.

A roasted half Long Island duckling, served with sautéed greens, a sweet potato purée, and sour cherry glaze remains a tried-and-true favorite for East End natives, though the local striped bass — served grilled over wild spinach and quinoa and with a yuzu vinaigrette — is a worthy competitor. (Some may argue, however, that the restaurant’s crackling pork shank, accompanied by sauerkraut, apples, bacon, and beer mustard, is truly Red Bar’s signature dish, but that’s a matter of personal debate.)

Dishes, on the restaurant’s nightly menu are meant to highlight the seasonality of the region, while nodding to

classic French techniques.

Chef Todd Jacobs, who took over the Red Bar kitchen in 2016, is a Long Island native who graduated from the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center, or ICC) in the mid-1980s. Prior to joining the kitchen at Red Bar, Jacobs worked at Bridgehampton’s Fresh Hamptons (now Salt Drift Farm), Westhampton Beach’s Tierra Mar, Long Beach’s Atlantica, and Sag Harbor’s American Hotel.

David Loewenberg’s defection notwithstanding, Red Bar Brasserie remains a place to see and be seen, and a place where one can order reliably delicious food with classic notes and a local bent.

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Art, Oysters, & Champagne

ter shipping barrels. By the 1940s, it became a restaurant. For decades, the building saw its ups and downs, becoming a decrepit reminder of the past.

Then, in 2009, NSWF purchased the New Suffolk property, aiming to restore Galley Ho to its former glory.

While efforts were postponed due to delays in funding and the impacts of Superstorm Sandy, Galley Ho finally re-opened its doors as a casual waterside restaurant, bridging the gap between yesteryear and modern-day North Fork.

One oyster company participating in Arts, Oysters, & Champagne is nextdoor neighbor Peeko Oysters, whose owner, Peter Stein, farms oysters out of Peconic Bay.

“It’s exciting for us that his boat is on a dock right off of our property line,” said Patricia Lowry, chair of the Waterfront Fund. “We’re serving oysters coming directly from that farm, and this the first year we’re able to serve them.”

The New Suffolk Waterfront Fund hosts 10th annual event

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The New Suffolk Waterfront Fund will host its 10th annual Art, Oysters, & Champagne event on Sunday, September 2, from 5 to 7 PM. Guests will enjoy fresh, local oysters, delicious hors d’oeuvres, North Fork sparkling wines, and a local artwork auction, all while overlooking the Peconic Bay. The Waterfront provides some exciting history. From 1897 to 1905, it served as a base for the first U.S. Navy

submarine trials.

Aiming to preserve its historic placement on the North Fork and fight large developers, the Peconic Land Trust bought the two-and-a-half-acre property in 2005.

The building and centerpiece to the Waterfront, Galley Ho, is a former marina shed built circa 1900. In its heyday, it was owned by Radell Oyster Company, a manufacturer of oys-

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The North Fork is a creative hub for artists, so it makes sense to have the event combine oyster shucking with art, said event chair Jack Armo. He noted, “The local oyster suppliers have been incredibly generous. And South Street Gallery in Greenport has been helping us recruit new talent for our art auction.”

To date, some of the art for auction has been donated by Nancy Ness, Amy Worth, Hans Gelb, Cecil Gregory, Enid Hatton, Frankie Neptune, Ron Barron, Helen Weinstein, Charles Winheld, Steve Berger, and Jean Betancourt. Also included in the auction is a one-week stay at Villa Tripoli in Umbra, Italy.

This is a rain or shine, tented event. Tickets are $85 in advance or $95 at the door, if available. Capacity is 150. Boat slips are available. Call 631566-0806 to reserve a spot. The New Suffolk Waterfront Fund is located at 650 First Street in New Suffolk. Visit www.newsuffolkwaterfront.org.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Scallops With Pomelo Purée, Baby Radish And Carrot Salad Ingredients (serves 4) 12 large sea scallops 2 grapefruit 1 lime 1 orange 8 baby carrots 10 baby radishes 10 mint leaves (chiffonade)

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1 c sugar 1 c olive oil Sea salt and fresh cracked pepper

Directions Start by peeling the skin from the two grapefruit and half the orange, being careful to remove all of the white pith.

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Juice and zest all the fruit. Make the simple syrup by heating one cup of water with one cup of sugar over medium heat, stirring often.

When the sugar is melted into the water, take off the heat and set aside for later. Once these steps are complete, begin your purée by filling a small sauce pot with cold water and the peelings from the two grapefruit and the half orange. Bring the water to a boil, then bail the water from the pot, and repeat this process five times.

While you wait for the water to boil each time, wash the carrots and radish. Take off the leafy top and set aside. Carefully start to slice the vegetables paper thin on your mandolin.

At this point, you have brought the peels to a boil starting in cold water five times. Finish cooking the peels in the simple syrup over medium low heat until the peels appear translucent. This will take 30 to 45 minutes.

Remove the peels from the simple

syrup and place in a blender with half the grapefruit juice and all the orange juice and blend on high. When the purée begins to become smooth, finish by drizzling in a half cup of olive oil.

Place the warm purée in the fridge to cool. Wash the scallops with cold water and remove the muscle on the side. Slice them into quarter-inch-thick coins.

Assemble your dish by making a quick dressing with the other half cup of olive oil, the lime juice, the mint, and one teaspoon of the simple syrup used to cook the citrus peels from the purée.

Mix the shaved carrots and radish in two tablespoons of this dressing.

Spread the purée artfully on the plate. Shingle the scallop coins in a line through the purée. Place the carrot and radish salad around the plate. Finish with sea salt and cracked pepper and garnish with some of the dressed vegetable tops.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Steve Song ‘Ssam’ Pork Belly and Avocado Lettuce Pockets

By Zachary Weiss

WHO: Chef Steve Song, Executive Chef of Noted Tribeca

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CHEF SONG’S GUESTWORTHY RECIPE:

Slow cook pork belly and place each piece on top of avocado puree inside of a butter lettuce leaf.

Top with soy garlic sauce, fresh lemon juice, and pickled serrano pepper, and garnish with scallions and watermelon radish.

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Where to Wine

Southold Slim strums his guitar on the patio from 6 to 9 PM on Friday, August 24. Then on Saturday, August 25, it’s Freddy Monday. Looking ahead, Jeff LeBlanc will play from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM on September 1.

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mer, on Wednesday, August 29. There will be music, a local food truck, and wine from 6 to 9 PM. There will also be a Wine Glass Paint and Sip with Wine of a Kind artist Maggie Carine starting at 7 PM. Reservations are suggested.

Tickets are $35 to $40.

Looking ahead, the vineyard’s annual stomp party is September 9 from 1 to 5 PM. There will be live music and food, and tickets are $105 per person for VIPs. VIP admission includes inside access to the Manor House, a private hour of stomping, a complimentary glass of wine, and food options.

General admission is from 2 to 5 PM at $65 per person for wine club members and $75 for all others. Admission includes a complimentary glass of wine. For more information, visit www. marthaclaravineyards.com.

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Nina et Cetera will play from 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Friday, August 24. TJ Brown will take the stage from 1:30 to 5:30 PM on Saturday, August 25, and at the same times on Sunday, August 26, it’s Acoustic Mike T. For more vineyard news, go to www.jasonsvineyard.com.

Alberto Bengolea plays from 5 to 8 PM on Friday, August 24. Ahmad Ali plays from 1 to 5 PM on Saturday, August 25. If you are looking for a bite to eat, the Elegant Eats Food Truck drops by starting at 1:30 PM. For more information, go to www. palmervineyards.com.

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Jen Kane plays on the Wisteria Deck from 6 to 8 PM on Friday, August 24,

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Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard Craig Rose croons some tunes on “Twilight Thursday,” August 23, from 5 to 9 PM. There will be $5 cheese plates, and drink specials — including 10 percent off bottles of wine, $8 glasses of wine, $5 glasses of beer, and $7 wineritas.

Craig Rose will also play from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, followed by The Wild Honey Band from 2 to 6 PM on Saturday, August 25. On Sunday, August 26, it’s Dakota Rose from 2 to 6 PM. For more events, go to www.baitinghollowfarmvineyard.com.

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for “Sunset Fridays.” There will also be a paint and sip party from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Don’t forget to check out the coalfired pizza while you are there.

On Saturday, August 25, from 1 to 7 PM, there will be fashion, wine, and art. There will be an “open air daytime island” day of talented musicians, artists, pop-up shops, food, and wellness, according to organizers. The event will feature music by Samantha Pearl. Tickets are $75 and $135 for VIP access.

They can be purchased off of EventBrite. On Sunday, August 26, George Barry plays from 1 to 5 PM. The vineyard offers summer winery tours, which make a run at 2 PM on Friday, 12 and 2 PM on Saturday, and 2 PM on Sunday. They are $20 per person, $15 for wine club members.

And, don’t forget to partake of some Summer Sangria with Sweet Scarlett before the summer is over. It’s $8 per 16-ounce cup.

Wölffer Estate Diego Campo plays “Twilight Thursdays” — this week Thursday, August 23. Savor wines by the bottle, and enjoy cheese and charcuterie plates while you listen to his music.

For Sunset Fridays and Saturdays, Hopefully Forgiven and Clinton Curtis take the stage, on Friday, August 25, and Saturday, August 26, respectively.

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everyone does farm-to-table and dock-to-dish but what happens in between makes the difference.

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Food & Beverage Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Restaurant Week The tri-annual and award-winning Long Island Restaurant Week will kick off its Fall 2018 campaign on Sunday, November 4, for eight days, ending on Sunday, November 11. Participating restaurants will offer a three-course prix fixe menu for $29.95 all night, every night they are open except Saturday, when the menu may only be offered until 7 PM. Restaurants — spanning Long Island’s 118 miles — will each serve a unique menu with a minimum choice of three appetizers, three entrées, and three desserts. A full participant list will be available at www.longislandrestaurantweek.com.

Long Island Restaurant Week is a win-win for participants and consumers. Consumers can save money while dining at restaurants they might not otherwise try. The event was designed to help restaurants garner positive publicity and additional business during a traditionally sluggish period.

“It is expected that the campaign this fall will garner more than 160 participants,” said Steve Haweeli, president of Long Island Restaurant & Marketing Hospitality Group, a division of WordHampton Public Relations.

Restaurateurs may sign up online to participate. To view the current list of participants or for more information, visit www.longislandrestaurantweek.com.

The Springs Tavern The Springs Tavern has added several new dishes to its summer menu. The menu, crafted by Executive Chef Sean Rafferty, focuses on local and seasonal ingredients. New menu items, subject to change, include seared tuna, bruschetta, Capri salad, lobster salad, classic lobster roll, chicken Milanese, and a BBQ combo plate.

The Springs Tavern serves dinner

Sunday through Thursday from 4 to 10 PM, and Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10:30 PM. Lunch is served every Saturday beginning at noon and brunch is served Sunday from 11 AM to 3 PM. The bar is open daily from 3 PM to 2 AM.

Fresno Fresno in East Hampton has introduced a variety of new items to the menu. Executive Chef Gretchen Menser’s New American menu is infused with local bounty. Selections of new items include charred Spanish octopus, watermelon salad, black bean falafel, and grilled Duroc pork chop.

Plain-T Plain-T, the acclaimed Hamptons whole-leaf tea company in Southampton, has launched the Hamptons’ first and only Matcha and Iced Tea MiniMobile unit. The mobile mini-bar is the first phase in a new line of mobile PlainT units, with a larger unit planned for release in the coming year.

The Mini-Mobile unit will soon be stationed at various Hamptons restaurants, hotels, and retailers. It will also be available for private party rentals and special events.

Founders Tathiana and Alessandro Teixeira, both former professional athletes, learned from an early age that a healthy balance in both body and mind was required for them to thrive in the demanding disciplines of ballet and tennis. The pair found that whole leaf tea was a great tool for maintaining that balance.

Years later, and armed with indepth knowledge about premium tea, business degrees, and entrepreneurial spirits, the duo founded Plain-T to bring the finest specialty, whole-leaf and hand-picked teas to the Hamptons. Visit www.plain-t.com for more info.

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The Lin Beach House in Greenport is hosting a special three-night pop-up dinner event featuring East Hampton based Chef Meg Huylo.

Each night from August 29 to 31, she will cook up a six-course meal, paired with botanical blended cocktails

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Writers Beat Artists In Benefit Softball Game An annual tradition, the 70th game was held at Herrick Park

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Under gray skies and a threat of rain, the 70th Annual Artists and Writers Celebrity Softball Game managed to go the full nine innings in Herrick Park in East Hampton on Saturday, August 18.

In a close and exciting match, the Writers pulled ahead to beat the Artists by a 12–8 score. Great efforts by both sides entertained spectators and included

some memorable diving efforts to catch fly balls.

The full day of events began with a softball clinic for future artists and writers, with a home run challenge and batting practice to allow the players to warm up for the game. The player roster was filled with celebrities on both sides and included names such as Lon-

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nie Quinn on the Artists side and Carl Bernstein on the opposing Writers team.

This year’s game was played to benefit four local charities: East End Hospice, the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, Phoenix House Academy of Long Island, and The Retreat. “Proceeds from admission tickets, food sales, and merchandise like t-shirts and hats, as well as any donations received during the event will all go to the four charities,” said Pauline Nicholls, one of the main organizers of the event this year.

The Artists and Writers game began in 1948 as a picnic on Sundays.

Everyone brought food and drinks and they met at artist Wilfrid Zogbaum’s home to play softball in his front yard.

Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Philip Pavia, Jackson Pollock, and Joan Mitchell were some of the first artists to participate. The picnics gave them a

chance to discuss their work. Many had moved to Springs for its affordability and the prospect of being able to have larger studios.

According to Nicholls, “The game turned into a fundraising event during the civil rights movement when there was an artist arrested 70 years ago for campaigning for civil rights.

They didn’t have enough money to bail their friend out of jail, so they started the game to raise the bail out money.

There lies the origins of the game and Leif Hope has been organizing it for more than 50 years. He’s an amazing 92-year-old gentleman. Leif Hope and Ronnette Riley are the co-captains of the Artists team. Riley was the first woman to ever build a skyscraper in New York City.”

Syndicated Daily News sports writer Mike Lupica, and The New Yorker writer and author, Ken Auletta, were the co-captains for the Writers team.

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Ellen’s Run Benefits Breast Cancer Patients Annual charity race draws hundreds

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Ellen’s Run held its annual charity race on Sunday morning, August 19. The race is a fundraiser for The Ellen Her-

manson Foundation and its ongoing fight against breast cancer. The starting line and finish line were positioned

right in front of Southampton Hospital’s Parrish Memorial Hall, where hundreds of participants gathered. The 5K track went all the way around the hospital and onto Southampton Main Street.

For race result recording purposes, runners were divided into groups by age and gender, with several cancer survivors in the running. The overall winners in the men’s category were Erik Engstrom, in first, with a time of 15:39:97; Dylan Fine, in second, with 15:57:78; and Carter Weaver, in third, with 17:12:10.

For the women’s category, Paige Duca earned fourth place overall,

with a time of 17:18:09; Anne Tschida Gomberg came in fifth by an inch with 17:18:14; and Marielle Quintana earned 11th place, with a final time of 18:27:89.

Also, Debbie Merrick was the first cancer survivor to finish the race, and her final time was 20:54:02.

Ellen’s Run raised tens of thousands of dollars for the foundation with this year’s race alone. The Ellen Hermanson Foundation will be hosting many more benefit events in the future.

For more information about the foundation and its associated fundraisers or to donate, visit www.ellenhermanson.org.

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More Than $350K Raised Strides for Life benefits lung cancer research

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

More than $350,000 was raised to fund lung cancer research at the Lung Cancer Research Foundation’s 13th annual Strides for Life Run/Walk on August 12. More than 500 walkers and runners circled Lake Agawam in Southampton Village.

“The community’s support of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation has been incredible,” said Dr. Brendon Stiles, LCRF’s chairman of the board.

“Strides for Life is an inspiring event that brings together the entire lung cancer community — patients, survi-

vors, families, caregivers, and supporters — all of us united behind the goal to fund critical lung cancer research.

To date, Strides for Life has raised more than $5 million.”

Omar Leon was first over the finish line in the three-mile run, with a time of 17:23. The top female finisher was Tara Farrell, who covered the course in 18:19. Joey Feliciano, competing in the boys under 17 category, finished in 18:22, while the top female finisher under 17 was Kaitlyn Deyulio, who completed the race in 23:23.

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The Hampton Cup’s youngest participants in action. Independent/Justin Meinken

Hampton Cup Tourney Benefits Project MOST Hampton Racquet Club hosted family fun event on Saturday

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

The high humidity and early rain didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the 57 junior tennis players competing in Hampton Racquet Club’s annual Hampton Cup tennis tournament on Saturday, August 18. Players aged four to 12, on all levels, had the opportunity to both learn and play in the tournament.

According to executive director and co-owner of Hampton Racquet,

John Graham, “We have two things going on in the tournament. The youngest kids get a chance to play in a tournament for fun and the older ones can get their first taste of a real-style competition in a non-threatening way from a tennis standpoint.”

The family fun event, which included a bouncy castle, dunk tank, an arcade, face painting, an obstacle

course, and barbecue benefitted Project MOST. Project MOST’s development director Susan Hanley said, “Both John Graham and his sister Monica, the owners of Hampton Racquet, have always been huge supporters of Project MOST. John started this program and he believes so strongly in what we do for the children. He has always done events to help support us. He’s a hero to us at Project MOST.”

Graham said he views the event as a way of bringing the community together. “There are a lot of summer communities and local communities here. I’m a big supporter of Project MOST. We do camps with them and help them with a lot of things. Now I’m trying to bring them into the tennis program.”

He added, “I’ve given a lot of scholarships to the Project MOST kids to enable them to come to our camp. I want to bring tennis into their program.

I hope with this event will bring awareness to the summer communities that there is a local community here that

has some needs. All of the entry fees will go to benefit Project MOST and [The Racquet Club] usually double and sometimes triple match what is collected.”

Victor Eddy Diaz, a Springs student, said he has participated in Project MOST for five years. “I started when I was in kindergarten. It’s a good program. I really like it.”

His mother, Arely Castillo, couldn’t agree more. “Project MOST is the best program. It helps parents and the community and it really helps working parents. The children can get help with their homework and they make sure that it gets done. They also provide a safe place for the children to play and be able to be with friends.”

The tournament concluded with an awards ceremony, and the top four players in each age group received a medal and a trophy. “It was a fun day for everyone,” said Cosmo Bardan, one of the head coaches. “Everyone tried hard and a few of the little ones even beat John Graham!”

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Establishing boat ownership with the USCG has its benefits

All of us are familiar with registering our vessels with the State Department of Motor Vehicles. As with your car, DMV wants to know her horsepower, fuel type (gas or diesel), and the Hull Identification Number, or HIN#. This is the on-the-water equivalent of a car’s VIN#. You are required to display on each side of the bow the state registration numbers, followed by the expiration sticker itself. But is your boat eligible for documenting with the U.S. Coast Guard, and, if so, should you?

Whither the HIN?

The HIN is the unique 12-digit identification number of the vessel. It is emblazoned on the starboard side of the transom and it is, as you would expect, illegal to alter it, paint over it, obscure it, or in any way make it seem like you’re trying to make it look like a different HIN#! This number indicates the boat manufacturer, its serial number, and the month and year of production.

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Documentation numbers need to be permanently attached to a structural portion of the hull, and the vessel’s name and home port need to be listed on the hull — usually the transom. Recreational vessels must have the name and hailing port listed in four-inch letters. Commercial vessels must do the same, but they must also have the name on both sides of the bow.

So, if the boat is already registered with the state, why do skippers have their vessels federally documented — or registered — with the U.S. Coast Guard? Documentation has several advantages, but its primary uses are to provide a “paper trail” that establishes ownership of a vessel, and documentation is often necessary to travel overseas. Remember that HIN# discrepancy I postulated above? What if someone sold you a stolen boat? Think about it.

Tons, Tonnes, and Tuns Tons come in many shapes and sizes — short tons, long tons, metric tonnes,

gross tons, net tons, displacement tons, deadweight tons, register tons, U.S. and international regulatory tons — and tuns. A tun, going back in history, was a wooden cask full of wine. To be precise, it had to hold four “hogsheads” of wine — which is 252 gallons. Vessels were measured and taxed by how many tuns of wine that they could transport.

Guess what a tun of wine weighs.?

About 2200 pounds. And this is where it starts to get interesting or complicated, depending on how your brain works.

The “ton” we all learned about in school is 2000 pounds. In maritime parlance, this is a “short ton,” with a “long ton” being — yup, about 2200 pounds. It is 2240 pounds to be precise or just about what a tun of wine weighs. Of course, most of the world is on the metric system so a metric ton — or a tonne — is 2205 pounds but, as best as I can determine, this is coincidentally about what a tun of wine weighs. The reason that they are so close is because the metric ton, or tonne for short, is the weight of 1000 liters of fresh water — and wine is mostly fresh water! Displacement tons and deadweight tons can come in all three flavors — short, long, and metric. Suffice it to say, it is complicated.

One last tidbit. Above, I referenced that tuns were used to measure and tax vessels “back in the day” of sailing ships and bootleggers. The agency that Alexander Hamilton created to police these policies on U.S. waters was the Revenue Cutter Service. This service became, over the centuries, what we now know as the United States Coast Guard.

By the way, if you are interested in being part of the USCG forces, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go directly to the D1SR human Resources Department, which is in charge of new members matters at DSO-HR and we will help you “get into this thing.”

Sports

August 22, 2018

CHIP SHOTS

By Bob Bubka

History At Pebble Beach Hovland becomes first Norwegian to win U.S. Amateur Championship bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com

This past week marked the playing of the oldest golf tournament in the United States: the U.S. Amateur Championship. This event is regarded as the most prestigious amateur event in the world, first played in 1895, one day before our first U.S. Open was contested.

This 118th edition was played at one of the world’s most iconic 18-golf holes in the world, the Pebble Beach Golf Links.

The newly crowned champion hails from Oslo, Norway. Norwegian

athletes have won international medals in a wide variety of sports, including cross-country skiing, sled dog racing, ski jumping, and weightlifting, to name just a few. Now, a new sport can be added to the list of accomplishments by gifted Norwegian sportsmen and women — golf. Twenty-yearold Viktor Hovland became the first player ever from Norway to win the U.S. Am. Over the years, a lot of great things have taken place on the shores of the Pacific Ocean at Pebble Beach.

This can now be added to the list.

The 2019 U.S. Open Championship will be the 13th USGA event to be held at Pebble Beach. It has played host to some of the all-time great U.S. Opens. In 1972, at the 72nd U.S. Open, 32-year-old Jack Nicklaus won his third title. It was on the long par three 17th hole that Nicklaus drilled a one iron inches from the cup. Many make the argument that it was the greatest one iron ever hit. And then a pair of Toms won the ’82 and ’92 U.S. Opens at Pebble: Watson and Kite, respectively.

Pebble Beach takes up quite a bit of space in my memory bank. Two of my fondest memories took place in 2000. That’s when Tiger Woods put on the greatest display of dominance and won by a whopping 15 shots, and it’s where Nicklaus made his last appearance as a competitor in a U.S. Open Championship.

After the second round on Friday, it was evident that Nicklaus wasn’t going to make the cut. My assignment that day was to be at the 18th green to interview him when he finished. After two massive shots on the 18th hole, Nicklaus reached the green in two and he was pumped up, to say the least.

I was but a few feet away when the emotional moment got to him. He did three-putt, but the roar for the par putt

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was as loud as if he had made an eagle.

What a great hole to end a great run on the par five 18th at Pebble Beach.

The pounding of the surf, the tears in the eyes of Nicklaus, and the appreciation of the thousands surrounding the green will forever be a moment I cherish. That evening, there was a reception held in Nicklaus’s honor. In attendance was Kathleen Crosby, widow of one of the all-time greats, Bing Crosby. Kathleen was wearing Bing’s green velvet hat, the famous fedora. I asked her if she would let me try it on.

Much to my surprise, she said yes. Not to my surprise, it didn’t help my singing at all!

Also after that Sunday’s round, I was placed in a van where I was to wait for Tiger to join me so I could interview him on his amazing 15-stroke record-setting winning margin before he was ushered into the winner’s press conference. As I sat there patiently rehearsing the questions in my mind, Tiger got into the van, but he was talking on his cell phone. Much to my surprise, Tiger wrapped up his phone call with the words, “Thank you, Mr. President . . .Now, what do you need, Bobby?” I really was speechless.

I am sure that is exactly how Viktor Hovland felt as he was presented with the most prestigious trophy in all of amateur golf.

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This past Saturday, August 18, yoga mats took over Long Island Sports Park in Calverton, as the pew-pew sounds of paintballers continued in the background. It was the inaugural Zenscape Festival, a daylong dedication to yoga.

Typically, namaste out of anything having to do with yoga — it just isn’t for me. However, when my friend Joe asked me to help him as a vendor

for his new t-shirt line, Inner Strength Apparel, a curiosity took over and my adversarial wall dropped. “I’ll expand my horizon. How bad could it be?” I thought.

“Hello, my name is Rick, from Earth,” someone introduced himself to me upon arrival. I immediately turned to Joe, since he was a vendor for the day, and asked “What company is Earth?”

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“So, you’re telling me that guy just . . .”

“Yes, he did.”

And so, my day began.

Zenscape classes and workshops ran from 9 AM until a torrential downpour kicked in, with a mobile meditation van ready at all times for those who needed it (to meditate, not escape from the rain). Offerings included Dharma Yoga Wheel with Dov Vargas and Raquel Vamos; Acro Yoga with Gene Feis, Nick Viscovich, AudreyRose Luciano, Donna Squires and Regina McGowan; SUP Yoga with Rita Marie Krepela; Yogability with Amanda Loevner; Pranayama Yoga with Angela WilliamsJones and, my personal favorite, Aerial Yoga with Kelly Hinshaw.

There were even art installations, sound baths, aromatherapy, essential oils, Green Living, and hula hooping!

At 10 AM, I was peacefully stretching, cocooning, flipping upside down, and eventually flying with Hinshaw in an aerial hammock. I’d done aerial fitness before and separate silks, but never the actual “aerial yoga.” This kind of class I could get behind, a bit more focused on upper body strength with the benefits of stretching, meditating, and, of course, feeling like part acrobat (emphasis on the “bat”). Best of all, Hinshaw amused with quirky comments all throughout the 45-minute session.

If you’re driving up island, check her out at Emerge Yoga Wellness in Massapequa.

By 11 AM, to escape the heat, I was enjoying the magical inflatable unicorn spraying water. Eventually, dozens of festival-goers partook.

Headlining the debut event, cofounded by Jennifer Eagen and Dean Del Prete, was NFL All-Pro athlete, Keith Mitchell. Although I wish he had a pigskin in hand for a casual game of touch football, Mitchell was there to guide guests through a two-hour, midday Unity Yoga to break up the session of “oms.” While I opted to stay by the vendor table, along with getting a new henna tattoo, the atmosphere was enlightening.

Observing a group class of roughly 75 people out of the 250 attendees partake in the same meditative experience in unity filled the air with a tangible sense of positivity and acceptance.

“We’re elated to share this light,” said Eagen, who owns her own company Pop Up Prana Yoga. “Our intention was to move, touch and inspire. We look forward to inspiring others on the path of personal development,” she added.

My observance as an outsider revealed the healing powers of yoga.

I might not join a class, unless it’s in a hammock, but I believe in the good that the yoga community inspires. It inspired me, and I can’t wait to see Zenscape grow into the next moving yoga festival on the East End. To learn more about Zenscape Festival visit www.zenscapefest.com or @zenscapefest.

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The reef is still producing plenty of seabass with many, many shorts and an occasional keeper. A few fluke and porgies are here too. Some of the local pieces are also holding some triggerfish. Drifted live baits have produced a few keeper bass around the bridge and in the inlet.

The Shinnecock inlet has porgies to 18-inch coming up on the east jetty.

The fluke are here too, but not in huge numbers. A few bass have taken bucktails on the night tides. Ocean beaches both east and west of the inlet continue to see schoolie bass with a rare 28-inch fish reported. The Shinnecock canal has porgies, snappers, and small seabass. Most of the local creeks are loaded with snappers.

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This Week In Indy The August 19, 1998 issue reported troubles at Southampton Hospital

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Our cover story for The Independent’s August 19, 1998 issue, was the controversy regarding the administration for Southampton Hospital. The hospital’s financial management, and general management for that matter, had been on the decline for several months.

The medical staff, and community members overall, were more than unhappy with the state of the hospital, and many began to question its leadership. President and CEO John Ferry resigned from his position as these questions became more prevalent, however, his resignation was fully supported by the hospital’s management.

A press conference was later held by the Southampton Hospital Chairman, J. Peter Sullivan, the vice chairman, Donald Louchheim, and the new acting CEO and president, Thomas Doolan. The three explained that Ferry would be leaving his hospital-owned residence shortly, and that Ferry had said that he “wants to get on with his life.” The board also indicated that Ferry’s severance package was “smaller”

than the amount originally listed in his contract.

In other news, Connecticut’s Millstone nuclear power plant was temporarily shut down after a leak was found in one of its backup valves. The pipe was leaking at a rate of one pint per minute, which was low enough to go undetected by normal surveying systems of the time. Although the valve was replaced, Long Island’s dense population and geographical location made many members of the community concerned over the threat of radiation contamination.

This was not the first serious malfunction to occur at Millstone, and it would not be the last. In fact, last week, Millstone experienced another temporary shutdown when a leak was discovered in an underground drainage pipe at the facility. Fortunately, the leakage was repaired and it was determined to pose no danger to the public. However, many are still not convinced of the leak's full impacts and it further illustrates this controversy, even decades later.

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