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Extermination Plan Dear Editor, We are writing regarding your article concerning St. Michaels Housing, October 24, 2018.

First it should be said that St Michaels Housing is a private corporation run by a volunteer board of directors and the Town of East Hampton has nothing to do with the management of the complex.

The board of St. Michaels works very hard and takes great pride in providing our seniors with a clean, safe environment to live and fully supports Gerry Mooney, Kathy Byrnes, and all of our staff who work at St. Michaels.

We also know that in the course of the day-to-day operations of an establishment like St. Michaels, it is understandable that there can be an occasion when a person or persons have a grievance they want heard.

We understand that, however, what is unclear is why these folks chose to go The Independent instead of us to air their grievances. Be that as it may, we are at this point now, and we feel it is our duty and responsibility to address some of the points in your article of October 24, 2018 regarding St. Michaels Housing.

• Hallways — We know it is our responsibility to keep them clean but the tenants are required to keep them free from clutter and personal items.

• Staff is abusive to the point that the residents are frightened and has no representation at board meetings — We completely disagree that our staff is abusive or disrespectful. If a rule or regulation is broken, there is a process in place for a verbal warning and if that is ignored, we put it in writing as a lease violation. Our policies and regulations are all approved by The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Tenants have the right to meet and form a Tenant Association and elect a representative to be on the board of directors. Windmill I and II have tenant representatives on the board. St. Michaels had a representative, but due to personal issues, she had to resign.

• Rent Increase — Every three years, we are allowed to apply for a rent increase. The rent increase is submitted and reviewed by HUD to make sure the increase is necessary. We justify the increase by providing the previous year’s expenses. If we get a rent increase, it DOES NOT affect the tenant’s portion; the tenant always pays 30 percent of their income.

• Entering the unit — In the lease, which the tenant signs every year, #13(e) states that the tenant agrees to permit the landlord or any representative of any holder of the mortgage on the property or when authorized by the LANDLORD, the employees of any contractor, utility company, municipal agency or others to enter the premises for the purpose of making reasonable inspections and replacements.

• Exterminating — We have an extermination plan in place but the tenants need to be proactive and notify us immediately to avoid an infestation.

• Community Room hours — This room is open every day from 8 AM to 9 PM for all residents. If a resident

would like to use it for a private event (i.e: birthday parties, anniversaries, etc. for the tenants and their families), they can contact the office in writing to request this.

We strongly urge that you come and meet with us and take a tour of our facility. Our phone number is 631-324-7195.

Sincerely, The St. Michaels Board of Directors Patrick Bistrian Jr., Edward Ecker Jr, Margaret Harvey, Thomas Scott, Joseph Lacarrubba, Christopher Tucci, & Pastor George Dietrich

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When ingested or absorbed through the exoskeleton, methoprene causes developmental abnormality, reducing survival. In basic terms, it artificially stunts the insects’ growth, making it impossible for it to mature into an adult.

Insects and crustaceans (shrimps, lobsters, crabs) are physiologically similar organisms, as they both belong to the larger group Arthropoda. Consequently, non-target aquatic insects and crustaceans inhabiting salt marshes are susceptible to chemical effects of methoprene. Methoprene is also sprayed on freshwater marshes, and is toxic to frogs, toads, and salamanders.

Suffolk County’s Department of Public Works, through the implementation of its Annual Plan of Work, regularly broadcast-sprays methoprene in salt marshes by helicopter on over 15,000 to 30,000 acres annually, or 23 to 46 square miles! Suffolk County must at last end its practice of spraying methoprene on our wetlands.

The reasons to end the spraying of methoprene are myriad and unequivocal as outlined in From the Source to the Sea, Defending Clean Water and the Coastal Zone.

By all reason, Suffolk County needs to join Connecticut, Rhode Island, NYC, and USFWS and rely exclusively on Bti to avoid collateral damage to marsh ecology. It boggles the mind that the county continues to stubbornly cling to this destructive practice of spraying methoprene when other jurisdictions are banning it, and when a safer alternative is available.

Our coastal waters are under extreme duress, largely because of past failures to acknowledge the threats and adopt protective measures. Suffolk County once led the nation by instituting a voluntary suspension of DDT use in 1967. Fifty years later, we’re calling on Suffolk County to demonstrate similar resolve. Eliminate methoprene from the 2019 Annual Continued On Page 15.

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News & Opinion Forced To Start Over At Age 92 Andy Malone lost everything he owned

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Andy Malone was once one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party in New York State, yet he recently found himself unable to attend church because he didn’t have a suit or a pair of shoes that matched.

The shortfall was not poverty driven: Malone is known to be debonair dresser and always wears his Sunday best to services at the Calvary Baptist Church.

That is, until everything he owned was thrown away because his apartment at the Windmill II Affordable Housing complex was infested with bed bugs. Among his belongings was a jigsaw puzzle put together by Willem de Kooning’s daughter and signed by the artist himself.

Malone said it took a month before the problem was adequately addressed, and it not only cost him his wardrobe and other belongings but his health and his dignity.

“You should see his legs . . . he’s been eaten raw,” said a friend who accompanied Malone to The Independent on Thursday, November 1.

Part of the problem, said residents, was the tepid, unprofessional response to the problem in the days after the infestation, which was apparently limited to the five or so apartments in Building Six.

Not true, said Gerry Mooney, a manager at the complex. “Andy gets inspected every year . . . the whole place does. Malone’s apartment had a significant bed bug infestation.”

Two people with first-hand knowledge of what occurred next said Windmill managers sent in untrained workers — “friends and cousins” of the staff maintenance crew to deal with the bugs. “They showed up with painter’s masks and began bagging up his belongings,” one resident said.

“We told him everything had to go,” said Michelle Rothman, a social worker employed by Windmill.

Mooney said Windmill hired a professional exterminator, Premier.

“They said it was one of the worst cases they have ever seen,” he said.

Along with Linda Norris from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Arthur Burns from Suffolk County Protective Services, Malone was clearly made aware of what was to follow.

“We told him everything had to go,” said Michelle Rothman, a social worker employed by Windmill. She said Malone was on board with the cleanup and the fact he would temporarily be put out.

“They threw my stuff away and left my bed turned upside down. Soon I started noticing little red splotches on the rug,” Malone related.

Mooney said Malone was given a temporary bed. “The new one is supposed to be delivered today,” he said on Monday, November 5.

“They were going to send Andy back in three hours after spraying,” recalled a friend, Rona Klopman. “I said, ‘Are you nuts?’”

Everything else in the apartment was taken for “safekeeping” — even pictures off the walls. The de Kooning

Andy Malone was left without a suit to wear to church after a bed bug epidemic at Windmill II, the senior affordable housing project on Accabonac Road in East Hampton.

was valued at over $25,000, Malone said. He’s never seen it again, and he believes it was stolen. He was in the process of filing a police report, as of Monday. “I never hear of it,” Mooney said. I’ve never seen it.” Mooney said Malone never told anyone about it, “because it’s very expensive.”

Premier told the Windmill officials about the extent of the problem.

Malone and the other tenants were told not to return to their apartments but no temporary housing was suggested or offered. Malone said his car was deemed off limits as well. Mooney said the Lutheran church chipped in $5000 while they waited for a stipend from Suffolk County to buy furniture and clothes for Malone.

He was given one pair of mismatched shoes after he complained he had nothing to wear on his feet, he said.

Malone didn’t even have underwear — a Windmill staffer brought him a pack.

Mooney took Malone to the LVIS Thrift Shop to buy a suit. Klopman was there.

“Gerry made a big deal of it. He made

sure people knew he was doing it. Andy got a jacket, two shirts, and one pair of underwear,” she said. Malone was walking around with the price tag on it — $40. “I cut it off. I told him he didn’t have to keep it on there,” Klopman related.

The whole thing was humiliating to a man who was once one of the most prominent Democrats in the state; he was one of the only black men from Long Island to be selected to represent Suffolk County at the National Democratic Convention. He also served as a delegate for George McGovern at the 1972 Democratic Primary in Miami.

He’s been a local party committeeman ever since.

Still, Klopman said a lot of the residents of Windmill and St. Michaels speak highly of the living conditions. “I hear a lot of stories.”

“We have a good staff here. I’ve known Andy for 30 years,” Mooney added. “You develop relationships.

But when they fail inspection, they become disgruntled. Mostly, it’s a friendly atmosphere.”

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Eviction Notice Served To Whistleblower Senior citizen being kicked out for criticizing managers

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com A tenant who spoke out about deplorable conditions at the St. Michaels Senior Citizen Housing Center received an eviction notice a few days after an article about it appeared in The Independent.

Mario (Matt) Stutterheim, asked by neighbors to act as a tenant representative, has been ordered out of the Amagansett premises no later than November 30.

It will leave the senior citizen, who like the other residents depends on subsidies from federal Section VIII program, homeless.

Keith Kevan, Pat Knight, and Stutterheim came to The Independent to sound off about an infestation of roaches in Building B, as well as a pattern of what they said was abusive behavior by staff members. Other residents inter-

viewed concurred, one stating they were “treated like inmates.”

Kathy Byrnes, a manager of the facility, countered her staff was “very respectful to all the tenants” and that “complaints were handled promptly.”

The Board of Directors, in a letter published in this issue, wrote, “Our policies and regulations are all approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Tenants have the right to meet and form a Tenant Association and elect a representative to be on the Board of Directors.”

Byrnes acknowledged St. Michaels has not had a tenant rep at board meetings but said the rep in place became ill and was not replaced. “St. Michaels had a representative, but due to personal issues she had to resign,” the board wrote.

Stutterheim said Byrnes asked him to be tenant representative a year and a half ago but she said that he never turned in the paperwork. “She never gave me any paperwork and she never said I needed it,” he said. The board has been meeting without a rep since the other resigned, which is against U.S. Department of Health and Urban Development guidelines. The HUD guidelines also prohibit retaliation and specifically protects whistleblowers from eviction.

HUD has been less than helpful, said Stutterheim. He said he hasn’t been able to reach a representative to inform the federal agency that the St. Michaels board was threatening him. HUD had not returned a half-dozen phone calls from The Independent.

Call the Shots A similar situation occurred at Windmill Village in East Hampton five years ago.

The board, seven community members who don’t earn salaries and are seldom on the scene, ostensibly refused to let Joan Holden, a resident and the chosen tenant representative, attend meetings.

But the management team of Byrnes, her husband, Brian, and Gerry Mooney, another manager, call the shots, several residents said.

When Holden protested and went public in this newspaper, Holden’s lease

was terminated and she was evicted.

Windmill argued she had stopped living there fulltime; Holden countered she had been driven out by the mold and mildew.

Holden filed a civil rights suit and her case is wending through the court system. Her attorney, Lawrence Kelly, said this week the system is geared toward protecting the landlord and getting rid of the whistleblower. “They designate one of their colleagues as a hearing officer. They limit the evidence and they get rid of the nuisance.”

It is yet another indication that though Section 8 is due to those who qualify as lower-income, the system often treats recipients like second class citizens, according to Kelly. “The pigs get fat and the hogs get slaughtered,” he said. “That does not protect them from the First Amendment case.”

Stutterheim is meeting with an attorney toward that end, but has already met with a representative from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office at the recommendation of an attorney.

Kevan, Knight, and Stutterheim told The Independent last week that residents are routinely threatened with eviction and they displayed warning letters they had received, signed by Byrnes.

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East Hampton House, also known as Journey East Hampton, is seeking permit for a bar to serve customers on a poolside deck, and in the backyard. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

East Hampton Bar Needs Special Permit Old Dutch Motel/Inn now upscale, wants bar for 200

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

The management of East Hampton House — also known as Journey East Hampton, and as Hostway Inn, which has already been granted numerous modifications to a 16-year-old site plan without a public hearing — is back for more. Now, it wants to put in a bar on the property, which combines the old Dutch Motel and Inn at East Hampton sites on Pantigo Road.

This time, however, management will need more than just approval from the East Hampton Town Planning Board. Instead, it will probably need a public hearing, in order to get

a special permit which would allow a bar on the property.

The East Hampton Town approval process is one that the management group, Bridgeton Holdings, should know well by now. Bridgeton Holdings is the same company that runs Hero Beach Resort in Montauk, formerly known as Oceanside, or the Smiley Face motel. As with Hero Beach, it appears that Bridgeton has already put the bar in question in place, without obtaining a building permit from the from the town's building department.

And, as with Hero Beach, while the bar

itself appears to be an innocuous amenity, the liquor license already obtained for both locations from the New York State Liquor Authority provides a much more expansive narrative.

The Independent obtained the liquor licenses from David Buda, a frequent observer and sometime critic of the Town government. Buda obtained the licenses from the SLA via a Freedom of Information Act request.

Concern over the current practice of grandfathering in parking at sites such as Hero Beach, then allowing owners to open up a bar or restaurant with only half the additional parking spaces required if the bar or restaurant was a new, stand-alone business, has prompted the East Hampton Town Board to craft a code amendment to address such situations.

The license for Hero Beach allows Bridgeton Holdings to serve up to 499 customers on the property at any one time. Live music and dancing are allowed, which holds true for East Hampton House’s license. At East Hampton House, or Journey East, under its liquor license, customers will be on a deck around a pool holding up to

200 people at a time, as well as in the backyard. According to a memo from JoAnne Pahwul, assistant planning director for East Hampton, addressed to planning board members, the deck and pool was approved by the board for the site this past August as a modification of a 2002 site plan.

Photographs included in Pahwul’s memo show firepits, Adirondack and deck chairs, and tables where people can gather.

Pahwul writes that the last certificate of occupancy for that site was issued October 2, 1998. The 1998 CO does not appear to reflect the current layout on the property.

The deck around the pool, which is described in the SLA application as a pool house, has 24 tables and 63 seats.

On the questionnaire attached to the application to the SLA for East Hampton House, or Journey East Hampton, the question is asked, with the following capitalized letters also in bold face on the form: “If applying for an on-premises license, does the premises have a VALID CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY and ALL appropriate permits?” The yes box to Continued On Page 46.

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Amagansett Hamlet Hearing: Take It Slow ACAC: Not in our Amagansett backyard

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com A reconfiguration of the intersection by the Long Island Rail Road station is one proposal in the hamlet study all seem to agree on. Independent/ T. E. McMorrow

The East Hampton Town Board held the third of five public hearings last Thursday, November 1, concerning the town’s hamlet studies, this one focusing primarily on Amagansett. Unlike the prior two hearings, which focused on Wainscott and East Hampton, with many members of the public embracing the need for change to deal with major problems coming down the pike, the message from the few residents from Amagansett who addressed the board seemed clear: Don’t change much, please.

“This master plan focuses on two of the commercial areas, the historic center and the eastern corridor,” the study stated.

James MacMillan, chairman of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, presented the town board with a list of points made in the 66-page hamlet study that ACAC opposed.

For example, the study says, “One of the ongoing economic issues in Amagansett is the lack of affordable

worker housing near the commercial centers. Even many of the business owners in these commercial areas are increasingly unable to afford real estate in the hamlet. Providing lowercost housing in the hamlet is therefore linked to the long-term viability of these businesses.”

According to MacMillan, however, “The lack of affordable housing has been addressed in Amagansett.” He pointed to the East Hampton Housing Authority’s plan for about 37 apartments to cover the now-open field at 531 Montauk Highway at the eastern end of Main Street, and the already built St. Michaels housing for the elderly, across the highway from IGA. Plans for the future, MacMillan said, should be devoted to preserving open space.

One solution to the lack of affordable housing could take place in the historic district, according to the study.

“Many of the one-story commercial buildings in the downtown area could

EH Town Budget Headed For Approval Town maintains its AAA credit rating from Moody’s

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

A public hearing was held concerning the East Hampton Town budget for 2019 on November 1 at Town Hall.

The final budget, at $80,717,380 is slightly over, by $55,000, what was originally proposed.

“We got the seal of approval from the state comptroller,” Len Bernard, who heads the town’s division of finance, told the board. He added that the town’s strong credit rating, AAA from Moody’s, will continue.

The budget needs to get final ap-

proval from the board by November 20, under state law. The East Hampton Town Board is expected to pass a final budget at its November 15 meeting.

The board voted to approve a motion by Kathee Burke-Gonzalez to add $5000 to the budget for the East End Special Players, a group dedicated to “enhancing the lives of learning-disabled adults through the theater arts,” according to its website. The increase brings the town’s contributions to the group for 2019 up to $15,000.

be expanded with second-story affordable apartments,” it states. Not so fast, said MacMillan, as he told the board that the ACAC does not want any more second-floor apartments built over businesses in the historic district.

“In the Central Business District on the east end of Amagansett (including the Post Office and IGA) there is more room for expansion under the current zoning.” The idea of building new businesses won’t pass muster with the ACAC, according to MacMillan.

“The committee absolutely does not want new mixed-use structures along street frontage,” MacMillan said.

“Brick and mortar stores across the country remain vacant due to online shopping,” he reasoned. “Most of the members like Amagansett just the way it is.”

Tina Piette said she is also a member of ACAC, but disagreed about not building second-floor apartments for affordable housing in the historic district.

One item in the proposed longterm plan, which will be modified by the East Hampton Planning Department following the public hearings and become part of the town’s comprehensive plan for Amagansett, that the ACAC does agree with, concerns the complicated, dangerous intersection of Abrahams Landing Road with Montauk Highway, Old Stone Highway, and the Long Island Rail Road track.

“Ideas for this intersection focused on realignment of roads to provide simpler, right-angle intersections between roads and improved turning lane configurations to improve traffic flow,” the report reads, an idea MacMillan gave

an ACAC thumbs-up to. The report shows the point at which Old Stone Highway intersects with Abrahams Landing Road moved further north on Old Stone Highway, an expanded parking area in the train station, and safer turns onto Montauk Highway.

Krae Van Sickle from Springs picked up where he left off October 18, when he spoke during the East Hampton hamlet hearing, again warning that it is imperative for all of us to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels within the next 11 years or face true devastation to our eco-systems. He said that the Amagansett Fire Department is a perfect site for a project using batteries to augment solar and wind turbinegenerated power. The department, he said, “already has a windmill, it already has solar panels.” Right now, he told the board, PSEG is pushing fossil fuel-run generators to augment those times “when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.” He called the installation of batteries to store power at the Fire Department “a great opportunity that is right under our nose.”

Averill Geus, East Hampton Town’ historian, said she visits Amagansett at least once a week, and that it is almost impossible to drive through on Montauk Highway during the summer season. She suggested making Bluff Road and Town Lane one-way streets, in opposite directions, to help with the traffic flow. She also said that something needs to be done about big trucks in East Hampton.

The third and final member of the ACAC to speak, Joan Tulp, seemed to Continued On Page 46.

Correction In the October 31 print edition of The Independent, in an article called “Rescued Horses Hoping for Home in Wainscott,” a statement that was supposed to be attributed to the applicant’s attorney, Brian DeSesa, was instead attributed to East Hampton Town Planning board member Kathleen Cunningham.

It should have read “‘It is definitely blocking open space,’ [Cunningham] said. DeSesa said on Monday that the property has never been cited for a violation, and believes the hedges fit in under the language of the easement.”

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Southampton To Rein In CACs New rules intended to make groups more inclusive

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman discusses the new ways in which citizen advisory committees will be interacting with the town board, and the new rules they’re being asked to abide by. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Just about every hamlet in Southampton Town has its own citizens advisory committee, with some playing a more active role in community affairs than others. On Thursday, November 1, the town board agreed to make some changes in the way they operate that the sponsor, Councilwoman Julie Lofstad, said “would make them more inclusive and representative of the community.”

“The way it has been now and in the past is a CAC group will meet to discuss something they feel strongly about and take a vote to support or not support a certain issue and send it to the town board or other appointed boards,” she said. “But there are a lot of people working two jobs, or they have to take the kids to soccer practice.

Not everyone can attend the meetings.

But if you did attend and you wanted to have your voice heard, you couldn’t because you’d be a guest and couldn’t vote,” Lofstad noted.

Starting with the new year, CACs will no longer be able to simply pass a resolution, voicing a thumbs down or thumbs up opinion. Instead, they must provide a public comment period

and take detailed minutes, reflecting the opinions of all in attendance who weigh in on a given issue, and submit those minutes to the town board for it to review.

The board also agreed it would remind CACs that the purpose of the committees is to serve as links between the community and the town board and that they should limit their discussions to town board-related items, said assistant town attorney Richard Harris.

He said requiring these committees to provide minutes of their meetings that include the comments made by non-members would allow the groups to present a broader range of opinions that more accurately reflects the opinions of the community.

The new rules will clarify that elected officials are not allowed to serve on CACs to avoid potential conflicts of interest. The board will also request that committees send a list of potential new members or those seeking reappointment to the town board before the end of the calendar year.

Committees will also be required to set up an annual meeting schedule at the beginning of the year and provide

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agendas to committee members at least 48 hours before a meeting.

Supervisor Jay Schneiderman in the past has been critical of some CACs for overstepping their bounds by holding candidate forums or even privately interviewing people running for town office. “They shouldn’t be involved in partisan politics. They should never be interviewing candidates,” he said. “They are supposed to be advising the town board, not discussing who should be on it.”

Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said he was concerned about CACs taking formal positions for or against applications before the zoning board of appeals or the planning board. As a former member of the ZBA, he said there were times when an attorney would cite a CAC’s position or lack of one on an application as representative of the broader community’s position.

“As advisory boards, we felt they shouldn’t be doing that,” said Lofstad.

She added that committee members have the right to support or oppose applications as individuals, just as any other member of the public would.

“Not everyone can attend the meetings. But if you did attend and you wanted to have your voice heard, you couldn't.”

- Julie Lofstad Deputy Supervisor Frank Zappone said in the past, town board members would meet informally with CAC chairs several times a year to receive their input. He volunteered to coordinate similar meetings in the future.

Lofstad said she wanted to finalize the rules and present them to the various committees before the end of the year.

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Halloween Celebrations Photos by T.E. McMorrow, Stephen J. Kotz, and Justin Meinken The towns of the South Fork were alive with costumed ghouls, ghosts, and monsters of every ilk — plus cute creatures as well — on October 31, as Halloween was celebrated on the main streets in East Hampton, Montauk, and Sag Harbor.

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Sand Broken At Ponquogue Beach Town begins Hampton Bays renovations with ceremony

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Members of the Southampton Town Board broke ground on the renovation of the pavilion at Ponquogue Beach on October 30. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

The new pavilion at Ponquogue Beach in Hampton Bays will include new siding and roofing, an updated and expanded deck, bathroom renovations, and an additional shower. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

Southampton Town Board members broke ground last week on renovation construction at Ponquogue Beach.

The $3.3 million Hampton Bays project includes new and expanded IPE wood decking and railings; updated

siding, roofing, and cupolas; new interior hardware and finishes; an additional shower; completely renovated restrooms; a new main entrance with an attendance booth; and parking lot improvements.

“I walked around the pavilion last

summer, inspected it, and it wasn’t a matter of if, but when, it’s going to be replaced,” Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said. “It needs to happen.”

The construction contracts were awarded to three separate contractors: Construction Consultants, LLC for the general construction, Plumbwell Services for plumbing, and NY Trenchless for electrical work.

Hundreds of residents provided input on the renovation process through polling and community meetings. The current beach pavilion, built in the 1960s, has weathered many storms but as one

community member put it, the facility is “in need of some love.”

“It’s one of the highest-used beaches in the town and the pavilion is in really bad shape,” Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said in a previous interview. “I think it’s something that will strengthen property values and is a good investment.”

During the construction, there will be no public access to the facility or parking lot. The demolition, use and storage of construction equipment and materials, and parking lot work will require the entire site to be secured.

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Source Of Quogue Water Contamination Unclear Schneiderman says airport may be linked to landfill water-testing results

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Jay Schneiderman isn’t convinced of the source of water contamination in Quogue.

The Southampton Town supervisor called for a deeper investigation to be done November 1, looking into water flow tables and test results at locations near the Damascus Road landfill to determine if it, or other areas, are the source of high levels of perfluorooctanesulfonic and perfluorooctanoic acid. These chemicals, known more commonly as PFOS and PFOA, are linked to health concerns like impaired fetal growth and damage to the liver, kidneys, and pancreas.

In February, the state Department of Environmental Conservation found levels of PFOS 150 times the federal health

advisory level at the former Damascus Road landfill in East Quogue. The testing was conducted as part of a broader state investigation into how pollution from closed landfills affects groundwater.

The town provided bottled water to residents after further testing revealed PFOS was detected in 45 private wells within the area. Point-of-entry treatment systems were installed at two wells to treat hot and cold water through the main water line, where water first enters a home. The DEC listed the parcel as a problem or Class “P” site, or possible Superfund site, and the town was ordered to begin an investigation.

Superfund allows the EPA to clean Continued On Page 18.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation conducted testing in February at the Damascus Road landfill that found high levels of contamination in East Quogue’s groundwater. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman is not convinced that the Damascus Road landfill is the source of toxic chemical pollution in Quogue’s groundwater, saying the contamination may stem from Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach. Independent/Desirée Keegan

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Community Holds Vigil For Shooting Victims Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life congregants honored in East Hampton Photos by Justin Meinken

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons on Woods Lane was packed on the evening of Thursday, November 1, with people of every faith, age, color, and political affiliation. They held a vigil to honor the lives of the 11 people murdered in Pittsburgh, PA at The Tree of Life Synagogue.

“They are not numbers or means for political fodder,” Rabbi Joshua Franklin told the crowd. “They were human beings whose lives were extinguished solely for the fact that they were Jews.”

Clerics from other local congregations, including Sag Harbor’s Temple Adas Israel, also led the service.

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Honoring Veterans South Fork hosts commemorative parades and services

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Ceremonies honoring and celebrating our U.S. veterans will begin on Sunday, November 11, in honor of Veterans Day. First, Sag Harbor will host its annual Veterans Day Parade down Main Street. The parade will begin at 10 AM and conclude at the Civil War Monument at the intersection of Main and Madison Streets. A reception will follow at the American Legion Hall on Bay Street.

Next is the East Hampton Veterans Day Parade and a special ceremony to honor Patrick Flynn, an East Hampton native who died in Vietnam. These events are being sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Post 555 and the American Legion Post 419 and the ceremony for Flynn will held inside the American Legion at 11 AM on November 11. The parade will begin in the East Hampton Village in

front of London Jewelers at noon and the parade will continue down to the Memorial on the Green for a ceremony at 12:15 PM. The parade will then continue down North Main Street to the Patrick Flynn Monument, directly across from Collins Avenue. The monument’s dedication ceremony will begin at 12:30 PM. Finally, Southampton will have its annual Veterans Day Parade on Monday, November 12, with participants gathering at the First Presbyterian Church parking lot by 10 AM. The parade will then continue down Jobs Lane to Agawam Park for a service at Agawam Park at 11 AM. All veterans are welcome to participate in the parade and cars will be available for veterans who are no longer able to march in the parade. A reception will follow in the Veterans Memorial Hall.

CPF Coffers Replenished Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund revenues are running 2.3 percent higher versus the same ninemonth period a year ago.

The total revenue over the first three quarters of 2018, is $72.96 million, and comes from a tax: two percent of most real estate transactions, paid by the seller. Assemblyman Fred Thiele, one of the architects of the legislation, noted that since its inception in 1999, about $1.36 bil-

Eviction

Continued From Page 6. have thus far been given the cold shoulder, they said. Since HUD subsidizes their rent, eviction would be detrimental. According to HUD guidelines, they would be ineligible for further financial assistance for three to five years, a death blow to many residents who are ill or elderly. The tenants said they go to the newspapers because otherwise their complaints are ignored.

But the residents have rights. According to the HUD manual, “Managers must give prompt consideration to all valid resident complaints and resolve them as quickly as possible.”

Residents also “have a right to or-

lion has been raised for land conservation and related uses.

Here are revenues by town for the first nine months of 2018 compared with 2017: East Hampton, $24.1 million, up almost 25 percent; Riverhead, $3.6 million, up 47 percent; Shelter Island, $0.9 million, down 30.2 percent; Southampton $39 million, down nine percent, and Southold, $5.35 million, up 2.3 percent.

R.M. ganize and participate in the decisions regarding the well-being of the project and their home,” which Stutterheim said he is being punished for doing.

“If eviction isn’t retaliation, I don’t know what is,” Knight said.

Town board member Jeff Bragman did not return four phone calls.

Peter Bistrian, the president of the St. Michaels board, did not return a phone call. In an accompanying article, The Independent examines the travails of Andy Malone, a 92-year-old resident of Windmill II, a senior affordable housing complex run by the same management team as St. Michaels. All his belongings were thrown away after an infestation, leaving him literally with the clothes on his back and nothing else.

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DEDICATION OF A MONUMENT Acknowledging the Sacrifice of Patrick Flynn An East Hampton Native who Died in Vietnam

When: Sunday, November 11th 2018 We will start at the American Legion Post 419 in Amagansett for their 11:00 AM ceremony.

Then we will Form up for the Parade at the old VFW building (now London Jewelers) and at 12:00 Noon march to the Memorial on the Green for a short ceremony at 12:15 PM We will then march on North Main Street to the Patrick Flynn Monument (across from Collins Avenue ) for the Dedication at 12:30 PM

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Letters

bugs, roaches, mold etc. come with the territory of public housing. Sometimes the causes are tenant based, sometimes structural, and sometimes manufactured. The management works consistently to resolve the problems. That’s a big part of the job. I know and have worked with one of the board members, Pat Bistrian, Eddie Ecker, and Tom Scott. They are all versed in management and organizational skills and it’s hard to imagine that they would allow for tenants to be abused by the staff.

I’m also familiar with Joan Holden and Keith Cavan and I think you might have looked a bit more deeply enough into their motivations before you cited the legitimacy of their complaints. In truth, the story is shoddy, incompetent reporting, and does a disservice to The Independent as well as everyone associated with St. Michaels and Windmill I and II. Neil Hausig Chairperson, Whale Village

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Plan of Work.

The County Legislature will vote on this, first on 11/16 at 2 PM by the Legislature’s DPW Committee, then on 11/20 by the full Legislature.

Both votes will take place in The Legislative Auditorium, located at 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, Smithtown.

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Who Knows Squat?

Rick, Your article on Senior Housing last week threw me for a loop. I’ve worked in affordable housing out here for the past 25 years and am quite familiar with the senior projects. I’ve known and worked with Gerry Mooney and Kathy Byrnes for most of the time and they are considered to be the smartest, most dedicated, most empathetic people in the business. They might not be perfect but they are pretty close to it.

I could go down the list of the issues you cited but I think that a more general evaluation would do the trick.

You seem not to know who operates these programs, who hires staff, how the rules are made, etc. In truth, you know squat about them. The problems of bed

The Ultimate Gift Dear Editor, Few American adults and less than one percent of children meet the American Heart Association’s definition of ideal cardiovascular health due to health factors like poor diet, inadequate physical

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activity, and being overweight or obese.

Most U.S. adults and children are not eating the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. More education and resources are needed for all to help increase our intake of healthy foods.

The American Heart Association’s Healthy for Good movement celebrates Eat Smart Month this November with recipes and science-backed tips to help you to “Be The Best You” — at your peak — this holiday season and all year round.

While eating smart and maintaining a healthy weight is key, an overall healthy lifestyle that also includes getting at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity and not smoking, will help lead to the ultimate gift — healthy holidays for years to come.

Start today with these four tips and stay Healthy for Good:

Balance is key. Enjoy splurging every now and then but don’t overdo it. If you miss a workout, take the stairs or park farther away from the entrance and walk.

Add color to Your plate. Practice choosing colorful foods to ensure you are getting enough fruits and vegetables!

Sip smarter. Replace sugary drinks like soda with water or seltzer to avoid excess calories.

Keep the family active. Pick activities the whole family will love and get active together while you have fun!

For more resources to help you eat smart and to learn more, visit heart. org/eatsmartmonth.

Respectfully, Russell Schiff, MD, FAAP, FACC, FASE, FAHA

Oh, Hugh!

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I would also enjoy reading The Independent since your management took over. Thanks.

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Appreciation Hi Steve and Rick, Just wanted to thank Steve so much for attending the LWV NYS Senate and Assembly debates on October 25 and writing such comprehensive articles, that were laid out so well on the pages, too!

With much appreciation for your coverage, on behalf of the LWV and the voters, Arlene Hinkemeyer, LWV

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South Fork News Compiled by Justin Meinken and Bridget LeRoy justin@indyeastend.com bridget@indyeastend.com

November Chamber Networking The Springs Tavern is hosting a networking mixer for the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce during happy hour on Thursday, November 8. This event will run from 5:30 PM to 7 PM at 15 Fort Pond Boulevard in Springs.

Owners Charlene and Dan DeSmet will welcome all chamber members and the rest of the community.

“Lite bites” and happy hour beverages will be served and the chamber’s executive director, Steve Ringel, will update all on several projects in the planning stages for late fall and winter, including the annual Santa Parade, to be held on Saturday, December 1. Admission is free to members and $10 for non-members.

How To Save A Life Give the gift of life this Thanksgiving season by donating blood at any one of these upcoming blood drives.

First, the Southold Fire Department will have a walk-in clinic for all blood donors on Wednesday, November 7, from 2:15 to 8:15 PM. Next is the annual South Fork Drive on Thursday, November 8.

This will be held in the Westhampton Beach High School from 7:30 AM to 1:30

This displays the common species of Spotted Lanternflies that are damaging the environment.

Independent/Courtesy Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons

PM. The Peconic Bay Medical Center will also have a blood drive in its secondfloor conference rooms on Tuesday, November 13, from 7 AM to 6 PM.

Finally, the American Red Cross is holding many blood drives between November 16 and November 30. Stony Brook’s will be first, on November 20 at Stony Brook University, from 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM. The blood drives in Center Moriches and Riverhead will be occurring simultaneously on November 24, from 10 AM to 3 PM. The Center Moriches blood drive will be at Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck’s Chapman Hall and the Riverhead blood drive will be at Seventh Day Adventist Church.

For more information, call 1-800-7332767 or visit www.RedCrossBlood.org.

Strictly Business Compiled by Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Green Energy Grant

Suffolk County Community College will be awarded a $1 million grant as part of the Energy to Lead Competition, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week. The competition challenges New York colleges and universities across the state to develop plans for local clean energy projects on

campus and in their communities as New York seeks innovative solutions to combat climate change.

“Through the ‘Energy to Lead’ competition, New York is fostering clean energy innovation to help fight climate change and protect our environment,” Governor Cuomo said. The Energy to Lead Competition, created

Invasive Species Found The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons announced a quarantine started last month to restrict certain goods traveling between New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in an effort to stop the spread of Spotted Lanternflies. The Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive species and it has begun to damage our local ecosystems.

In other HAH news, on Saturday, November 10, there will be a public meeting at 10 AM to discuss blooming camellias and how they have fared. On Sunday, November 11, at 2 PM, Jane Garmey will present “A Sense of Place.”

The final meeting date will be on Tuesday, November 13. At 10 AM, help maintain the HAH Marie Donnelly Garden.

All three meetings will be held at the Bridgehampton Community House.

For the full event listing and additional information, visit www.HAHGarden.org or call 631-537-2223.

Chabad Honors Pittsburgh Victims

Chabad of East Hampton will be hosting a community dinner on Saturday, November 10, to pay tribute to the 11 victims of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, PM and to mark the 70-year anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Renowned author and historian, Max Wallace, will tell the story of the unlikely trio who ended the Nazi killing machine in Auschwitz.

“We are still shocked by the gruesome tragedy in Pittsburgh,” said Rabbi Leibel Baumgarten, director of the Chabad Center. “We urge the community to come together in unity to memorialize the holy souls lost, and add warmth and light into the world.”

by Governor Cuomo in 2015, is part of the REV Campus Challenge, which recognizes and supports colleges and universities in New York State that strive to meet their financial, environmental, academic and community goals through clean energy solutions.

Suffolk County Community College will implement net-zero energy components during construction of its Renewable Energy & Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Center, including ground source heat pumps and solar. The project design will focus on reducing building thermal loads and serves as a replicable approach to energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy. It will showcase clean energy technologies to the broader community and will integrate curricula to develop a qualified workforce required to support the growing clean energy industry. The project is expected to result in the avoidance of 227 metric tons of

Water Views Festival Postponed Due to unforeseen circumstances, The Independent’s Water Views Festival, which was to take place on Sunday, November 11, is being postponed. The event will be rescheduled for early May, and an announcement will be made when that date is finalized. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Melaveh Malka (a Saturday night dinner by which Shabbat is escorted into the week) will take place on Saturday at 7:30 PM at Chabad of East Hampton, 13 Woods Lane. For more information and reservations, call 631-329-5800 ext. 2.

LVIS Scholarship for Women The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society of East Hampton is offering the Madelon DeVoe Talley Scholarship for $3000.

This offer is for a woman who is at least 25 years of age and is currently enrolled or plans to enroll in a college undergraduate program. The applicant must have been a resident of East Hampton Town (from Montauk to Sagaponack) for at least the last two years.

Applications for the scholarship are available in the LVIS office. The application must be completed and returned by Friday, November 16, to: LVIS/Madelon DeVoeTalley Scholarship, 95 Main Street, East Hampton, NY, 11937. Applications are also available online at www.lvis.org under “Scholarships.”

Suffolk County Community College will implement net-zero energy components greenhouse gas emissions annually.

Suffolk County Community College President Dr. Shaun McKay said, “Suffolk County Community College is committed to advancing and demonstrating clean energy and innovative initiatives on campus, in the classroom, and in our communities.”

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WLNG Gets New Owner Sag Harbor's oldies station is expected to retain its format

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

Gary Sapiane, WLNG’s president and general manager. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

WLNG, the Sag Harbor radio station known for its chatty disc jockeys, corny jingles, and oldies format, has been sold.

Gary Sapiane, WLNG’s station’s president and general manager, said on October 30 that the station has been sold to Bark Out Loud Dogs Media, LLC for $3.9 million, pending approval from the Federal Communications Commission.

Bark Out Loud is owned by Sandra Foschi, a physical therapist and the wife of Bill Evans, who has been a meteorologist with ABC NY for nearly 30 years.

WLNG has been owned for the last eight years by a family trust of the

late Robert King, the former owner who purchased the station in 1969. “It couldn’t remain in a trust forever,” said Sapiane. “We were just waiting for the right person to come along.”

Sapiane said Foschi, who owns a home in Sag Harbor, approached him last summer about buying the station, and a deal was soon struck.

He said Foschi had assured him the station would remain pretty much the same, with the same staff and format.

“They appreciate it,” he said of Foschi and her husband.

Although Foschi not have a radio

background. She owns a physical therapy practice, Health SOS Physical Therapy, which has locations in New York, Long Island, and Connecticut.

She could not be reached for comment.

Sapiane confirmed published reports that said Foschi would pay approximately $3.2 million for WLNG’s studio on Redwood Road in Sag Harbor, $125,000 for the station’s tower on Millstone Road in Noyac, and another $525,000 for its broadcasting license.

WLNG was launched by Fitzgerald Smith in August 1963. He sold the sta-

tion six years later to King, who lived in Montauk and also owned Montauk Caribbean Airlines.

Over the decades, the station has become a staple of Sag Harbor life, with live broadcasts from its mobile station (a converted bus), extensive storm coverage, a host of disc jockeys with distinct personalities, and a heavy dose of reverb.

Besides its oldies format, the station is known for giving out cheerful birthday greetings, homemade public service announcements, postings of lost and found pets, and the on-air rummage sale, “Swap and Shop.”

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board November 1. His conclusion listed the parcel as a possible Superfund site, but more a brownfield site, meaning an area with a potential presence of hazardous substance that is looking to be redeveloped or expanded.

“The site is more rightly described as a brownfield site than a ‘P’ site, and we should advance the case to move in that direction, which gives us more options for the land use in the future,” Town Deputy Supervisor Frank Zappone said.

“There’s also some funding that would help any remediation that we want to bring to the site.”

He also said the town is part of what is known as a “solar mapping project” that the county, Sierra Club and a few other agencies are involved in, trying to find municipally-owned, large, vacant parcels of land that could be suitable for energy-related development. Zappone suggested this could be part of the redevelopment plan presented to the DEC. But Schneiderman said he’d like to see a water-mapping table developed to see if the flow of water could be carrying the contamination from other sources to the former landfill.

“We wanted to take leadership in this investigation, coordinating with the DEC and making sure we’re providing them with the information that they needed,” Schneiderman said. “But we

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up contaminated sites. It also forces the parties responsible for the contamination to either perform cleanups or reimburse the government for EPA-led cleanup work. When there is no viable responsible party, Superfund gives EPA the funds and authority to clean up contaminated sites.

During the DEC’s original testing, 11,200 parts per trillion of PFAS and 424 parts per trillion of PFOA were detected.

Health advisories limit the contaminants to a combined 70 parts per trillion. When the wells were tested again in August by Eric Weinstock, from engineering company Wood Group, formerly known as Amec Foster Wheeler, 4050 parts per trillion of PFOS and 96 parts per trillion of PFOA were found.

“We still found the same type of ratio, although it was a relatively rainy summer, so that might be able to explain some of the difference,” Weinstock said.

“Anything you do from here into the future is a big decision, so you should be dealing with data that you have a lot of confidence in. Reproducing a value from a well sample twice and getting reproduction is the best way to verify that.”

The 30-year hydrogeologist and his team presented findings to the town

don’t really have a lot of answers on that at this point.”

He said the northern end of the main runway at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, a nearby explosive storage facility, and what he called a “mysterious” one-acre site on which nothing seems to grow could be clues affecting the results at Damascus Road.

Schneiderman said it is possible explosives testing was conducted on the acre parcel in the 1950s and 60s, and said that in the 1990s a plane crashed at the end of the airport strip and burst into flames, and fire-suppressant foam was used to snuff the blaze. PFOA and PFOS act as surfactants to improve the effectiveness of firefighting foams in extinguishing petroleum and other fires. The county is currently testing wells at the airport, and findings are expected to be presented in the next week or two. Weinstock said PFAS is also used in stain-repellent fabrics, polishes and waxes, and is also used in some health-care products like shampoo, dental floss, and eye makeup, saying some low background levels may be ambient to the area because it’s serviced by a septic system.

“The airport had the foam. Did they test it? Discharge it? Where did they dispose of it?” the supervisor asked. “I think we’re a long way from determining that this particular landfill

is a source of this contamination.”

Water flows northwest in the East Quogue area, from the end of the airport strip to Damascus Road.

“There’s a foredrawn conclusion in the draft report that it’s one or the other, and I’m just not sure it is at this point,” the councilman said of declaring the former landfill site a Superfund or brownfield. “I don’t believe that this is actually a Superfund site. We have to go through more studies, but I’m not willing to jump to the conclusion that we are even contributing to the problem there. It could be, that’s why we’re doing additional investigation, but I think there are other factors we need to look at.”

Councilman John Bouvier also said he’d like to see offsite investigation continue.

“We need to widen our search for the source of the contamination,” he said. “A lot of this is anecdotal. We want to separate fact from fiction. Let’s talk to the manager of airport and get to the truth of the matter about fire suppressant and gain an aerial view of this.”

The town will be submitting its test results to the DEC while waiting for the results of the water table and Gabreski Airport well studies. Once complete, the draft report will be amended and signed off on by Schneiderman before being submitted to the DEC.

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By Karen Fredericks

Boo Who?

Tread Lightly With CACs

The Southampton Town Board’s announcement last week that it would adopt new rules prohibiting its various citizens advisory committees from passing formal resolutions taking stances on issues before the town board is a bit puzzling.

After all, the town board established the committees nearly 30 years ago with the express intention of having them serve as a bridge between the broader community and elected officials. Apparently, the board feels that over the years, some CACs have come to represent an increasingly narrow segment of the community and not reflect broad-based public opinion.

To counter those concerns, the board now wants CACs to keep detailed minutes of their meetings that reflect the comments made by both the committee and members of the general public in attendance. Those comments will then be submitted to the town board in the place of a resolution.

That is certainly not the end of the world, but an easier solution, it seems, would be to allow all residents present to vote on resolutions adopted by the CAC. The board could still require the CACs to submit detailed minutes, and any town board member who wanted to parse them would be entitled to do so.

The town board has also grown wary of CACs commenting on applications before the planning, zoning, conservation, and architectural review boards. The argument goes that CACs were established to advise the town board, and because the town board is prohibited from trying to influence the deliberations of those regulatory boards, CACs should be too.

The problem, though, is that much of what comes before the average CAC — and draws the most public interest — involves land-use issues such as whether a shopping center should be expanded or a historic house razed.

Again, a simpler solution might be to tweak the charter governing CACs to allow them to advise both the town board and any of its regulatory boards. Preventing CACs from formally weighing in on such applications may undercut their very usefulness and discourage people from wanting to participate at all.

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Police Thomas Gilbert Jr. Murder Trial In New Year “I am moving the case to trial,” judge warns former Wainscott man

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

Thomas Gilbert Jr., who allegedly murdered his father, then staged the scene to make it look as though he had killed himself, will be going on trial come the new year, four years after the crime, New York State Justice Melissa Jackson said in her Manhattan courtroom last week.

She spoke to Gilbert directly during a roughly seven-minute-long court session October 30.

Gilbert, a Princeton grad whose family had a house in Georgica Association in East Hampton, and were members of the Maidstone Club, allegedly murdered his father after sending his mother, Shelly Gilbert, out on an errand the afternoon of January 4, 2015, the New York Police Department reported. Gilbert has been held on Rikers Island without the possibility of bail since his arrest the day after the murder.

Gilbert has refused to talk to either his lawyer, Arthur Levine, or to the psychologists assigned to determine if he is mentally fit to stand trial.

“We are here today, mostly, because I want to speak with you, sir,” Justice

Jackson said after Gilbert was brought into the courtroom from a holding cell.

She told Gilbert she was aware that he was not speaking to Levine. “I advise you, sir, that it is in your best interest to cooperate with your attorney. Do you understand me?” Gilbert nodded yes, several times. “I see you’re nodding. If you prefer not to speak with me orally, on the record, and you would prefer head gestures, I understand it. So, I am glad you understand what I am doing.”

She told Gilbert he had the right not to talk to Levine if he so chose, but that Levine was an excellent attorney, “one of the best in this courthouse, and he would give you a very effective defense in this case.”

Justice Jackson then told Gilbert, “I am moving the case to trial. I know it has been a long time for you.” She told him that it was important that he understand that whether he talks to his lawyer or not, “the court is going to put this case on.

You understand me? I see you’re nodding your head.”

Gilbert has had well over four doz-

en court dates, including several hearings handled by his first attorney, Alex Spiro. He also has been the subject of several psychiatric exams, since the beginning of 2015. Spiro had a previous legal relationship with Gilbert before he was charged with murder, having represented him when he was accused of assaulting a former friend and roommate in Brooklyn. But earlier this year, Spiro changed law firms, and Levine was retained by Gilbert’s family. Gilbert’s mother, Shelly Gilbert, who was the one who discovered that her husband had been murdered, has been at each and every court appearance.

Justice Jackson told Gilbert that he has the right, if he so chooses, not to be present during the trial, but that the trial would go on, regardless, and that he could be convicted and sentenced even if not present.

Craig Ortner, the lead prosecutor on the case, said that the onus for the long delay before going to trial, including the latest delay, was on the defense.

“This entire period of delay is due solely to the clinic’s inability to furnish a report on the mental competency as requested by the defense,” he said. He added that the vast majority of delays over the past four years have been due “to the defense requests, particularly requests for competency evaluations.”

Justice Jackson again spoke directly to the defendant. She told Gilbert that she was aware that he has repeatedly refused to speak with the doctors assigned to him, adding that Gilbert was within his rights to do so. She followed that with a warning about the latest competency exam, which she or-

Craig Ortner, lead prosecutor in the Thomas Gilbert murder case in Manhattan, leaving court last week after blaming the defense for what will be a four-year wait by the time the case goes to trial. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

dered several months ago. “I do want you to know that if you don’t want to speak with them, if you don’t want to do so, this case will continue. If there is no report for this court, this court will continue, and the trial will commence.”

Justice Jackson then asked, “So, do you understand me, Mr. Gilbert? I see you are nodding. So you do understand.”

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A man was sent to jail last week from East Hampton Town Justice Court after the Suffolk County Probation Department sent the judge a scathing review of his conduct. Peter Gruoe, 25, formerly of Oakdale, was charged with violating probation, leading to his court appearance last Thursday before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky.

Gruoe was first arrested East

Hampton Town police in January 2016 on a drunken driving charge. One year later, he pleaded guilty, and was ordered to do two years’ probation. In early 2018, he stopped seeing his probation officer and was ordered to enter a long-term drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic. Instead, according to the probation department, the GPS ankle bracelet he had been ordered to wear

began showing him frequenting bars in Montauk, such as Liar’s Saloon and The Point Bar and Grill. He was also charged with stealing beer from the 7-Eleven in Montauk.

He also allowed the GPS battery to completely drain, so he could not be tracked, the probation department said. In September of this year, Gruoe entered a treatment program in Quincy, MA, from which he was discharged after allegedly assaulting a fellow resident. He then entered a treatment program in Hampton Bays, which he left before completing the program. He was found, the department’s report stated, in a nearby bar. The probation department sent a letter to Justice Tekulsky, asking that Gruoe’s “probation be revoked and he be sentenced to a period of incarceration as prescribed by law,” likely six months in jail.

A similar case involved Matthew Kopoulos, who appeared before Justice Lisa Rana on October 25. He is not in jail, yet, but could be facing time after the

Domestic Fights Lead To Arrests Defendant angered when ordered held on $2500 bail

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

Three domestic disputes over the weekend led to arrests on misdemeanor charges: one in Springs, one in Amagansett, and one in Sag Harbor Village.

The Springs man arrested was Mortimer Rubin, 35, of Sherwood Lane. Rubin has a history of run-ins with the police.

In June 2013, he was charged with drunken driving and resisting arrest by East Hampton Town police. He was confrontational with the arresting officer, then tried to fight three other officers before he was subdued with a Taser gun. He ultimately pleaded guilty to both charges, and paid a fine in excess of $1800.

Then, in October 2017, police were called to Rubin’s home on a report of a domestic dispute. After police separated the domestic combatants, they reportedly agreed to take Rubin to the East Hampton train station, and placed him in the back of a patrol car. While in the car, police said, Rubin destroyed the antenna of a Kustom Signals radar unit, leading to a felony charge of criminal mischief.

According to comments made in

court by attorney Edward Burke Jr., Rubin has “declined all offers on the case” from the DA’s office. Thursday, November 8 was supposed to be the day a trial date would be set for Rubin, Burke said.

However, on Saturday night, police were back on Sherwood Lane to respond to another report of domestic violence.

According to the police, Rubin shoved a woman, injuring her, then grabbed a cell phone away from her to prevent her from calling police. He was charged with criminal mischief as a misdemeanor, as well as a violation charge of harassment.

It is at least the sixth time in his life he has been arrested.

He was represented during his arraignment Sunday before East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana by Burke.

“Good to see you again,” Justice Rana said to Rubin, not smiling. When he was arraigned by Justice Rana following last year’s arrest, he told her he is a licensed, armed security guard in Florida, a fact Burke repeated.

Justice Rana issued an order com-

Mortimer Rubin is shown here being brought into East Hampton Town Justice Court to be arraigned Sunday morning. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

manding Rubin to stay away from the alleged victim. Burke tried to argue for a low bail amount, but Justice Rana said that, beyond his multiple arrests, Rubin has a history of not showing up for court, and set bail at $2500. “There is no way I’m going to make that bail,” Rubin said.

Justice Rana reminded him to address the court through Burke, but Rubin said, again, “I’m just saying, there is no way I’m going to make that bail.”

He began walking away from the judge, when an officer told him to stand still.

probation department sent a letter to the court recommending incarceration.

Kopoulos’s alleged crimes involve misdemeanor drug charges. He is on probation after having pleaded guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine two years ago.

According to the probation department, despite being in a drug treatment program, he continually tests positive for the presence of marijuana in his system.

“You have two cases open here in front of me,” Justice Rana told Kopoulos. “Right now, probation is asking for incarceration. I think they are done with you.” Justice Rana warned that she might also be done with Kopoulos, as well. She said that Kopoulos was wasting the time of drug treatment councilors and employees “who are very overworked.” She added, “Somebody else isn’t getting service because of you.” She set his next court date for December 6. “If I get a report, and it is not stellar, you are going to jail,” the judge told him.

“What are you going to do, beat me up?” Rubin asked.

“I’m very, very, very close to finding you in contempt of court,” Justice Rana warned. He was taken back to the prisoner’s bench.

Rubin did not make bail and remained in county jail as of Tuesday morning, November 6.

There was another arraignment on Sunday morning in East Hampton. B.J. Barry Bistrian, 54, of Amagansett, was also represented by Burke.

Police had been called Saturday evening to Bistrian’s residence, where he had allegedly grabbed a 12-gauge shotgun while in a heated argument with a relative. He was charged with menacing with a weapon. Under arrest, he was taken to headquarters, where he was searched. Police said they found one and a half tablets of hydrocodone in Bistrian’s pants pocket.

Burke said Bistrian had a prescription for the drug, which is considered a controlled substance. Rana agreed with Burke’s argument that Bistrian was not a flight risk, and freed him without bail.

The third arrest this weekend following a domestic dispute was that of Lydia Florio, 23, of Sag Harbor. She also was accused of shoving and hurting a relative during an altercation, as well as damaging a cell phone to prevent the woman from dialing 911, leading to a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge and harassment violation. She was arrested after police were called to the Madison Street residence where Florio lives with the alleged victim. Florio was released later that morning without bail, but with a future date on the Sag Harbor Village criminal calendar.

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Police Seek Public’s Help In Hit-and-Run Also, car swerves to avoid deer Friday, crashes in Montauk

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

Local police departments worked together to track two would-be armed robbers on Halloween. Independent/ James J. Mackin

No Treat For Halloween Thieves Would-be armed robbers were spotted making getaway

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

They wore the perfect disguises.

Two men wearing Halloween masks entered Escobar’s Auto Repair Shop in Quogue on Halloween shortly after 2 PM with robbery on their mind.

They made two big mistakes: They were met with resistance from the victims, and they were spotted entering a getaway car.

That’s when the manhunt began.

According to the Quogue Village Police Department, Jason Huston, 33, and Shaun Worthington, 19, were later identified as the larceny-minded trick or treaters.

Officers responding to a call for help arrived at the shop shortly before 3 PM and located two victims, one injured. They had descriptions of the intruders and an important piece of in-

The East Hampton Town police are still asking for the public’s help in tracking down the vehicle and driver that struck a 17-year-old East Hampton teen on Queens Lane October 30, shortly after sunset. Captain Chris Anderson asks that “anybody who has any information” to contact detectives at 631-5377575. The teen, Dylan Salcedo, lives near the site of the accident by Stuart’s Lane, the captain said. He was flown to the Stony Brook University trauma center, where he was treated and released.

According to the police, Salcedo was walking with his back to traffic on the narrow but busy Queens Lane when he was struck. Neither he nor his female companion could identify the vehicle.

Captain Anderson said that the identity of any caller with information will be kept confidential.

There was a serious accident on another narrow road in the town early Friday morning, November 2. According to Captain Anderson, 19-year-old Alexander Selivanova of Brooklyn was driving a 2017 Chrysler on Old Montauk Highway near Tara Road in Montauk at about 5:30 AM when he swerved to avoid a deer. Selivanova lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a LIPA utility pole, taking it down, the captain said. All airbags deployed in the vehicle.

Selivanova suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to Southampton Hospital. The car suffered extensive front-end damage.

Old Montauk Highway was closed in the area of the crash for a couple of hours.

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Sentencing In Deportation Case Reveals Prior Rape Crime Restaurant worker entered the country illegally five times in 15 years

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com A Mexican who illegally entered the United States at least five times over the past 15 years raped a woman in Southampton in 2016, according to a sentencing handed down in a U.S. District Court proceeding last week.

Rogelio Mendez, 37, whose home address was listed as Jackson Heights, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he re-entered the U.S. after being deported.

But the admission was just a small part of the story. According to testimony and court documents, the federal prison sentence is in addition to a 30-month sentence that Mendez is

currently finishing in state prison for a 2016 rape in Southampton.

The violent attacks at a co-worker’s house left the victim in a permanent state of distress, according to published reports. At the court hearing, the victim publicly chastised U.S. immigration policy for the lax border security that allowed Mendez to repeatedly re-enter the country

“Mendez was first deported from the United States in 2004 after he served two years in state prison for criminal possession of a loaded firearm in Queens, papers filed by federal prosecutors said,” according to QNS reporter Emily Davenport. Eastern Dis-

Forged Check Sinks Mt. Sinai Woman Riverhead Police said she went to a check cashing service

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Nicole Guida of Mount Sinai, 23, was sitting on some hot paper, Riverhead Town Police said.

On March 12, Guida allegedly walked into the Frank and Ross Payroll Service at 190 Old Country Road in Riverhead and tried to convert it into cash.

The camera whirled, though, and she was filmed during the act. The footage proved her undoing.

On Thursday, November 1, police said they found their woman after they said an investigation revealed her identity. Guida was taken into custody and charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument second degree.

The Citgo Gas Station at Osborn Avenue and Route 58 in Riverhead, was broken into early Saturday, November 3.

Police said in a press release that an officer on patrol discovered a broken window on the east side of the gas station.

Someone apparently broke a window, got

inside, an made an unsuccessful attempt to steal cash from the ATM machine. The intruder left before police arrived.

On the North Fork, Southold Town Police received a call around 1:24 AM on Saturday, November 3, from a man reporting a disturbance involving a woman.

Estefanny Ramales, 25, of Greenport was attempting to back out of the driveway. Police allege when they confronted her, the smell of alcohol permeated the air and that she subsequently failed sobriety tests.

The previous night, shortly before 9:30, police responded to an accident scene on Route 48. Yehinson Palaez, 24, of Laurel, one of the drivers, was arrested after responding officers determined she was intoxicated.

Troopers Nab Drunk Drivers NY State Troopers reported three arrests for allegedly driving while intoxicated.

dez followed her and sought to rape her again, despite the fact she was furiously kicking and beating him.

“Ms. Doe told the defendant to stop and then fought for her safety, throwing punches at the defendant,” the court papers said.

Rogelio Mendez is finishing a sentence for raping a woman in Southampton in 2016.

trict prosecutor Bradley King said that Mendez first entered the country illegally in 1993 when he was 14 years old.

Mendez illegally re-entered the United States in 2005, and “was again deported in March of 2009,” court papers said. He once again found his way back in the United States a year later and made his way to Southampton.

A restaurant here employed him despite his undocumented status. The employer was never revealed in court papers.

On September 11, 2016, Mendez and a co-worker went to a house after work where other seasonal workers lived, including the victim and her girlfriend, who knew Mendez’s friend.

The victim fell asleep and woke up when Mendez forced himself on her, she told police. She tried to stop the attack and eventually broke free, seeking sanctuary in another room, but Men On Friday, November 2, at approximately 8:15 AM, Diego Segarra, 26, of Mastic was driving westbound on Sunrise Highway, east of exit 64 in East Quogue, and was stopped for speeding and moving from his lane unsafely. Cops said that upon further investigation, Segarra was found to be intoxicated, with a blood alcohol content of .12 percent. Segarra was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and was issued an appearance ticket returnable on November 29 in Southampton Town Court.

The next day, at approximately 3 AM, Paula Chacon, 38, of Southampton was parked on the shoulder of Sunrise Highway eastbound, east of exit 65.

Upon further investigation, Chacon was found to be intoxicated with a BAC of .17 percent, according to police. Chacon was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and was released on an appearance ticket returnable on November 19 in Southampton Town Court.

On November 4 at approximately 3:33 AM, Maria Nerio, 44, of Islandia was parked on pavement at Montauk Highway and Canoe Place Road in Hampton Bays. Upon further investigation, Nerio was found to be impaired, with a BAC of .07, according to police. Nerio was arrested and charged with driving while ability impaired by alcohol and was issued an appearance ticket returnable on November 12 in Southampton Town Court.

U.S. District Judge Sandra Feuerstein slapped a 55-month sentence onto the 30 months he is in the midst of serving. They will run concurrently.

The victim described her life as an “an ongoing living hell and nightmare.” She has trouble sleeping to this day, she said in a written court statement. “It hurts physically to even make it to work in the morning. I try not to shake with fear.”

According to a report of court proceedings furnished by Newsday she said her case was “an example of how immigration laws allow the employment of people” like the defendant. The Independent is investigating this case in search of more information, including where in Southampton Mendez was employed, and why local newspapers apparently were never given information about his arrest.

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She set the next court date for December 11, and concluded by saying, “Hopefully we will have a trial date.”

“I think there will be a final report,” Levine said outside the courthouse.

“The question is, will the final report say that they cannot reach a conclusion?”

He said that Gilbert never speaks to him.

“Once in a while, he will nod, but I can’t get any information out of him.”

Levine expressed concern that, without a definitive report, Justice Jackson will “go with the presumption of competency or not, her own observations, and her own findings in the past.”

Justice Jackson previously found, in December 2015, Gilbert to be mentally competent to stand trial and to aid and assist in his own defense if he so chooses. She did so after receiving conflicting reports from several doctors.

“I have a good idea of what she thinks as to whether this is due to mental illness or he is just being difficult, obstructionist. I think it is a result of his mental illness,” Levine said. “But those who don’t go to see him in the jail, and who haven’t talked to his mother in some way, and haven’t gone through all his records, or have their own agenda of just trying to get a conviction and the case through” could come to a very different conclusion, Levine said.

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McDarrah’s Shots Tell A Story Intimate look at famed local artists in Water Mill

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By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

ith its soaring ceilings, massive exhibition space, and hushed hallways, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill has proven its aptitude in bringing to the public installations that might not fit in a smaller venue (namely, all of them) on the East End. Large, awe-inspiring works grace the walls and floors and even hang from the rafters at the Parrish. It hardly seems likely that such a place would host an intimate display of famed artists in casual photographs, shot by Fred McDarrah, juxtaposed with small works by those same artists, in a cozy room where visitors can examine the pieces up close and personal.

And yet that’s exactly what the Parrish has set out to do and accomplished with its new permanent collection exhibition “Every Picture Tells A Story,” which brings to the area 27 photos by McDarrah featuring local artists — ones with names like de Kooning and Ossorio and Kline and Krasner — and works by those artists from the same time period as the photos. The duos play as duets, each bringing life to the other — the artistic works made more meaningful by the portraits of the artists and vice versa.

The exhibition officially opens on Sunday, November 11, and explores how images carry narrative meaning, with — in addition to the McDarrah work — new acquisitions of works by David Salle, Louisa Chase, and Fairfield Porter.

“We were invited by the McDarrah estate to select a body of work by this extraordinary, iconic photographer from their archives, so we essentially had our choice of images,” said Alicia Longwell, Ph.D. the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator. “I was delighted to see that many of the artists

he shot had either lived or spent time on the East End and that their work was part of the Parrish collection. I immediately thought that would make a fascinating exhibition. More than a dozen additional works by the artists depicted are shown in an adjacent gallery.”

For more than 50 years, photographer McDarrah, who died in 2007, told the story of artists and writers who made New York the center of post-war culture through his images published in The Village Voice. The mostly candid photographs show artists at storied New York gathering places, at exhibition openings, and in their studios as well as well as on the East End, where McDarrah and many of his subjects lived and worked. Dating from 1959 to 1979, the images depict artists who contributed to the rich creative legacy of this area including Norman Bluhm, James Brooks, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Motherwell, all of whom are represented in the Parrish permanent collection.

“The photos reveal the extent of the relationship between McDarrah and these renowned artists throughout the decades,” Longwell continued. “He knew and spent time with so many of them and gained an intimate look into their personal, professional, and creative lives. McDarrah and his subjects went to the same gallery openings, performances, and social gatherings both in Greenwich Village and in the Hamptons, where he and his wife Gloria spent many summers. He visited the artists in their studios, capturing them often in the midst of their creative process and always surrounded by their work. In this way, McDarrah has created an incredible historic legacy of American art,” she said.

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Alfonso Ossorio creates a piece in this photograph by Fred McDarrah (right); Ossorio’s finished works are also on view in a new collection at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. Independent/Courtesy Parrish Art Museum

pleasure of unveiling special ‘miniexhibitions’ drawn from the collection that introduce new acquisitions and offers new ways of seeing and experiencing artists’ visual voices,” noted Museum Director Terrie Sultan. “It is thrilling to see how these paintings, works on paper, and sculpture can come together to speak to visitors on so many levels about so many different topics.”

There is a common theme to the

permanent collection and the miniexhibitions, said Longwell. “The theme for the entire exhibition is ‘Every Picture Tells a Story,’ and that is borne out though all of the ‘mini-exhibitions.’

Fairfield Porter’s works tell the story of an artist’s creative process; David Salle’s paintings are a contemporary narrative based on the Sistine Chapel; the William Merritt Chase paintings with archival photos of Shinnecock

men and women reveal the unexpected interactions between the artist and his students and the Shinnecock Nation.”

And, unlike museums in metropolitan areas, the Parrish is rarely bustling. Within its peaceful setting, visitors can take their time communing with each piece, reading the descriptions and wandering through the halls without being jostled.

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that they wouldn’t see anywhere else — international artists who lived and worked in our own backyard in their studios and with their colleagues,” said Longwell. “That in itself is compelling, but when you add the artworks they created, largely from the same period of the photos, it becomes as rich a museum experience as one could hope for.” For more information, visit www. parrishart.org.

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Guild Hall Presents Visionaries Luncheon

helps you manage daily tasks like dry cleaning, grocery shopping, and cleaning — she has worked to redefine urban living.

“Visual design and aesthetics play a big part in how I approach building a hospitality and technology company focused on evolving our homes and other built spaces we inhabit,” said Sapone. “I’m excited to talk about how we can redesign the home and the urban living experience to be more human-centric, more hospitable, and more sustainable,” she continued.

Sapone explained that through Hello Alfred, she is “helping people find more time and space in their lives to do great things.” She is also an advocate for pro-human, pro-labor policies. As a thought leader, Sapone has worked with the Brookings Institute, the Secretary of Labor, and the White House under the Obama Administration.

Cardoso is the owner of the Surf Lodge in Montauk. She has also been a partner in New York City venues like Cain, Gold Bar, and Lavo. Cardoso, a native of Brazil, came to New York 23 years ago to study at Rutgers University. According to a press release, she

Marcela Sapone, Zoë Buckman, and Jayma Cardoso in panel discussion

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Guild Hall in East Hampton presents its annual Visionaries Luncheon, returning on Thursday, November 15, at Tom Colicchio’s culinary destination, Riverpark NYC. The panel includes creative visionaries Zoë Buckman, Jayma Cardoso, and Marcela Sapone.

The event will feature compelling sto-

ries from these three artistic innovators who are at the forefront of ideas in art, lifestyle, business, and design. The panel will be moderated by Guild Hall’s Executive Director Andrea Grover.

Sapone is the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alfred. Through Alfred — a digital in-home concierge service that

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Buckman is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography. She explores the themes of feminism, mortality, and equality. Her work has been shown across the globe and she has had solo exhibits including “Heavy Rag,” at Albertz Benda in New York and “Let Her Rave” at Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles. In February, Buckman unveiled her first public sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The large-scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ will rotate on the strip for a year.

The event begins at 11:30 AM. Patron tickets are $275 and $250 for Members. Sponsor tickets are $500.

For tickets and more information, contact Guild Hall special events at 631324-0806 or visit www.guildhall.org.

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— Opening: Friday, November 9, 4 to 6 PM Levitas Center for the Arts, Southampton — The Southampton Artists Association Fall Art Show will feature photography, paintings, drawings, and sculpture. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 9, from 4 to 6 PM.

— Friday, November 9, at 6 PM Southampton Arts Center — Southampton Arts Center presents Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire which inspired Francis Ford Coppola to become a director.

— Friday, November 9 through Sunday, November 11 — Organización Latino-Americana presents the 15th annual Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons from Friday, November 9 through Sunday, November 11. Films from Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States will be shown at venues across the East End.

— Saturday, November 10, 8 PM Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center — Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents comedian Howie Mandel. For more info visit www.whbpac. org.

Bay Street Hosts Hamptons Doc Fest Thirty films selected for viewing

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

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The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival has re-launched as Hamptons Doc Fest — a shortened, more succinct name edited to reflect its passion for documentary film. The festival will be held November 29 through December 3.

Highlights include the opening night film Every Act Of Life, directed by Jeff Kaufman, screened on Thursday, November 29, at 8 PM. The film pays

loving tribute to Terrence McNally, who will participate in a Q & A. McNally is a four-time Tony winning playwright and fighter for LGBTQ rights.

The Spotlight Film, co-presented by the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, is Carmine Street Guitars. The film is a documentary about the Greenwich Village guitar shop, where custom guitar maker Rick Kelly and his apprentice

Cindy Hulej build handcrafted guitars out of reclaimed wood. The guitars have been embraced by the likes of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. A conversation with director Ron Mann and Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, artistic director of Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, will follow the screening.

On Saturday, December 1, at 7 PM, the Hamptons Doc Fest Gala will honor

Sheila Nevins, the former president of HBO Documentary films. There will be a conversation with Nevins and awardwinning filmmaker Marc Levin.

All in all, 30 films have been selected for viewing. All Hamptons Doc Fest events will be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

For more info and tickets, visit www.hamptonsdocfest.com.

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GV: It’s a symbolic representational language (like mandalas, yantra paintings, hieroglyphics, etc.) that I resonate with and experience in my spiritual ancient tradition-philosophy meditation studies, practices. For example, my artwork at the White Room Gallery now with the word “Love,” has certain energy-vibration meaning. When I was doing the paintings, I felt such a pleasure in my being. I really did love writing that word.

Joss, you’ve recently taken up photography again. How does that working in that medium differ creatively from painting?

Joss Parker: There isn’t that much different between the two mediums. In essence, they’re both about capturing moments.

[With photography,] I’m free from too much thought, I can truly go with feel, and let the camera do the work. I find it liberating to break from my usual studio work. I began painting plein air oil landscapes, and photography helps me to pursue my passion for nature without lugging around an easel and the rest of the tools.

You grew up during the '80’s pop culture, what was your favorite part about the culture, art aside?

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Pop Goes The Easel Four distinct artists capture pop culture at White Room Gallery

Gabriele, in what ways do you practice spirituality on the East End?

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com On view now through November 25 at The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton is “HyperPOPism.” Featuring the works of Gabriele Vigorelli, Joss Parker, Joe Currie, and Seek One, the exhibit brings together four unique

of work follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, through architectural landscapes; Seek One began graffiti work at only 15 years old. His photography and graffiti express a mixed media style

styles of color and palette in a seamlessly stylistic blending of pop art.

Vigorelli’s work is of geometric shapes and spherical symbols; Parker is a contemporary artist with a focus on celebrity portraits; Currie's body

Gabriele Vigorelli: The East End gives me a great opportunity to be in nature, silence, and meditation, which is vital for my creative process, in order to reach into my consciousness and to go beyond individual mistaken perception.

JP: I’m probably more than a little biased in my view having grown up in the '80s, but even in hindsight, I find it to be one of the most iconic decades of the last century. The music, the movies, the art, etc.

However, my favorite moments and highlights were from the sports and fashion worlds. In particular, the extreme sports. I raced AMA motocross, I surfed, skated, along with playing the more established team sports. The fashions and cultures that went hand-inhand with those sports were very crucial to my overall development. Between the lessons learned, the color palettes, the athletes themselves, and the use of TV as well as print to market all of it. It was fun to grow up immersed in.

Joe, is there a particular drive, or open road journey, that resonates with you as inspiration?

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Robert Smithson’s land art piece Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. His art and writings have always inspired me.

And any journey into the sunset for a surf is always a good one.

Drives are typically accompanied by music.

Either in real life, or metaphorically speaking in your work, what type of music would you associate with your landscapes?

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Latino Film Festival Brings Diverse Lineup ‘Social stories’ from Central and South America featured

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Organización Latino-Americana presents the 15th annual Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons from Friday, November 9 through Sunday, November 11. Films from Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States will be shown at venues across the East End. The films will include English subtitles.

The festival began at the Parrish Art Museum's prior location in Southampton Village, and has grown to include four venues in Water Mill, East Hampton, Greenport, and Sag Harbor. Executive Director Minerva Perez said the intention of the festival is to bring in lower budget filmmakers from around the world, giving a voice to stories that would otherwise be silent. For those filmmakers on the lower end of the budget spectrum, in making a stronger effort to bring in diversity, OLA sometimes waives the $25 to $45

application fee. Perez continued, “We want to make sure that we’re not going to miss the storytelling that’s coming from far off languages because of their lack of connections.”

Kicking off the festival on Friday will be A Fantastic Woman, a Chilean drama and winner of the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film about a transgender woman working as a waitress, moonlighting as a nightclub singer, and distraught over the death of her boyfriend. It will start at 7 PM at Parrish Art Museum with a reception beforehand. Audience members will be joined, via Skype, by producer Juan de Dios Larrain for a Q&A after the film.

The festival gives the public a chance to see beyond stereotypes. Isabel Sepulveda, co-founder and president of the OLA board added, “OLA’s film festival is the best way to build

bridges and break stereotypes. Through images, people can travel through our streets and our culture.”

On Saturday, Guild Hall in East Hampton will show La Palabra de Pablo, at 7 PM. This seductive thriller from El Salvador, loosely inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello, follows a Salvadoran family struggling with jealousy and revenge.

“It’s inspired by the character, Iago. Also, I left the drama that jealousy and insecurity bring in the classic,” said director Arturo Menendez, who will be flown in to join a post-show Q&A with actor Carlos Aylagas. “We are still trying to walk,” added Menendez, comparing Hollywood to Salvadoran films.

“We are trying to follow the steps of how efficient production the U.S. industry is, mostly in the independent film industry.”

Greenport High School auditorium will show the family film Coco, on Sunday at 2:30 PM, the story of a 12-year-old boy who accidentally gets transported to the Land of the Dead. A short film from Mexico, My Fear, will also be shown, alongside an art exhibit showcasing Greenport students’ talent inspired by the Day of the Dead tradition. Concluding the festival on Sunday at 6 PM at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will be Before I Forget, about a man living his golden years to the fullest.

“We are concerned about social justice for our entire community, living together peacefully. Art has the ability to transcend all of those things and give you that meaning, that story.

These films we chose because they brought other social stories to bare,” Perez concluded.

For tickets and information, visit www.olaofeasternlongisland.org.

JC: The soundtrack to my artwork would be a mix of '70s/'80s good and bad rock to modern electronics. Led Zeppelin to Jon Hopkins, with a little bit of Van Halen in between the Brian Eno pauses.

Seek One, you were raised in the graffiti scene and even faced vandalism charges. What is your view on how graffiti has become mainstream with Banksy, Bradley Theodore, Goldcrown, etc.? How have you seen it change the most?

Seek One: I think it was inevitable.

Graffiti has been a part of urban environments for years. It was only a matter of time until it reached the walls of galleries and museums. I consider myself fairly young to be in the art scene where I have found myself, yet I have come up in a time where this style has exploded. Each year there are new styles of “street art” emerging.

I would say the biggest transition is the notoriety street art is receiving from collectors and art auctions. For example, Basquiat selling for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s. This helps set a new standard in the art world, verifying street art as a legitimate style of fine art.

What do you miss most about graffiti that canvas painting just can’t convey?

SO: The biggest difference I notice between painting in the streets verse canvas is the thrill. There’s something about painting in the streets and finding new walls which gives you a rush.

Painting in the studio is great, but it is a very controlled environment. In the streets, anything can happen.

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Twenty-Four Hours In The Windy City Chicago: It’s my kind of town jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Art at SOFA by Xevi Vilaro

The Windy City, Chi-Town, Second City, or however you like to refer to it, it’s my kind of town. This weekend my husband Joe and I took a trip to Chicago. The quick flight makes it the perfect destination for a weekend getaway from New York. The city is a culinary and art destination, and an all-around good time. We packed a lot into a 24hour period.

Our day started with a stop at SOFA, the Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design Fair, which was being held all weekend on Navy Pier. The fair focuses on three-di-

mensional art and design, and is put together by Urban Expositions, a company which has also produced ArtHamptons. The fair, which began in 1994, crosses the boundaries of decorative art, fine art, and design, and includes approximately 80 dealers from around the world. Each year, the event brings together these dealers with 35,000 attendees. Sales at the fair include one-of-a-kind masterworks. We had a wonderful morning browsing the exceptional display of art and design.

Next, a stop at The Drake, a

historic 1920s hotel in the heart of downtown. We sat for lunch and a libation at the Coq D’or bar lounge.

The venue is Chicago’s second establishment to obtain a liquor license. It opened in 1933 following the repeal of prohibition. It was also featured in the film Risky Business. The lounge, complete with rich wood paneling and rouge banquettes, offers a nostalgic feel and a glimpse into old world Chicago.

Since The Drake is located at the top of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, after lunch it was time for shopping.

The Magnificent Mile, a section of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, provides some of the best shopping in the city.

You’ll find everything from Chanel and Gucci, to Ralph Lauren’s largest store in the world. We made stops along the way until we ended up at the Chicago River, which offers a magnificent view of the city.

For dinner we had to try Girl & the Goat, Chef Stephanie Izard’s powerhouse of a restaurant, and one of the top culinary destinations in the country. Izard was also the first female chef to win Bravo’s “Top Chef,” propelling her to culinary stardom. The West Loop restaurant offers a family-style shared dining experience. The dishes contain bold flavors and a global influence. From the Hamachi crudo to the smoked apple pierogies, each dish was better than the last.

Following dinner, with no real plans, we stumbled upon The Allis at Soho House Chicago, a cocktail bar a few blocks from Girl & the Goat. Another historic spot, The Allis is named after the family that commissioned the building in 1907. For a cocktail, we tried the Eastern Standard, made with Grey Goose with lime, sugar, cucumber, and mint. Like the city of Chicago, it was delightful.

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By Heather Buchanan

Behind The Voting Curtain Women’s votes important in mid-term elections kissandtellhb@gmail.com

Before housewives were “Desperate” or “Real,” they were just quietly performing the job of mother and wife and organizer of all things domestic. Over the decades they have been peppered with subservient advice such as don’t talk first or complain when your husband comes home, or fix a lackluster marriage by lying wrapped in Saran Wrap under the dining room table to

greet him.

They have usurped their identities by being identified as Mrs. Edward Smith, been stereotyped as mini-vandriving soccer moms, or epitomized as the scary but perfect Stepford Wife.

Their personal opinions were often overshadowed by their husband, community, place of worship, or school. After all, “Father Knows Best.”

So now in this mid-term election, political pundits predict that the deciding factor may very well be the suburban women vote. All of a sudden, reporters are in local coffee shops and malls putting a microphone in front of these women and asking them what they think. What issues are important to them? What do they want for the future of this country?

It is not so very long ago that women were not even allowed to vote, let alone possibly shift the balance of power in Congress. We actually are coming up on the 100-year mark of the women’s right to vote in 2020 and it is worth remembering what the suffragettes suffered to give us this incredibly important opportunity in democracy.

The divide is at an all-time high and the chasm is one thing across parties or Facebook friends but another thing across the marital bed. Political pillow talk is downright dangerous.

Unlike the 1956 election studies, the evidence of similarity in voting behavior between married couples is out the research window. She may be a she before she is a we.

So, when these suburban women in key states are behind that voting curtain, what does their conscience tell them to do? It would be a mistake to think that this is a monolithic group.

Not every suburban woman has a pink knitted cap in her closet. Also, she may be the breadwinner, or she may be single or divorced. Some voting behavior studies in the past found single women voted more on women’s issues as a whole, while married women might look to what was best for their husband economically.

But this time it feels like something bigger. It feels like as women we have more in common than not. There is more that unites us than divides us.

And thank you Susan B, we have the right to express that at the polls.

Pamphlets against women’s right to vote included arguments that 90 percent of women do not want it or do not care. It then went on to give hints on spot removers. It seems in this election that women do care and voting might just be the best way to get rid of a stain ever.

It feels like as women we have more in common than not.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

God Help Me Heavenly father has venting session with his right-hand man rmurphy@indyeastend.com

My mom gets mad at me. The nuns get mad at me — one in particular calls me up to remind me my soul is perched precipitously between heaven and hell and that God will not tolerate much more of my hanky panky.

John in Noyac gets really mad. I shudder to think he has stopped praying for me. Being a Catholic school kid, I grew up believing I could ask God for help in my time of need, but I’ve become jaded. Maybe I expect too much.

That’s why I’m turning over a new leaf. Yes, I used to blame the guy upstairs when things didn’t go my way.

Who among us hasn’t? How do you think the Big Guy feels when we incessantly yell, “Goddamn it!” at him? Does it hurt his feelings? Who then, does he yell at to let off steam? I would guess Jesus.

God: Jesus Christ In Heaven!

Jesus: “What’s up, Dad?” God: “Murphy called. He bet on the wrong team again Sunday and lost all his mortgage money and now it’s all my fault. I told you not to go down there. I begged you: Forget those 12 goofy friends of yours, and stay home.

Don’t go out on Earth. I warned you they would get you in trouble, but NOOOOOOO! Now I have to take crap from everyone because you got liquored up and made wine out of bread!”

Jesus: I made, um wine out of water, Pop. God: Let me straighten you out, Mr. Know-It-All. Jesus: I inherited that from you.

God: What?

Jesus: You know. The know it all thing.

God: You told them you would die for their sins and they figured that meant everything would go their way. Who in God’s name told you to tell them that?

Jesus: Um, you did.

God: Are you sure it wasn’t your brother?

Jesus (laughing): You mean Fredo?

God: The Holy Ghost.

Jesus: Come on Pop, look at him. He dresses like Dracula. No one pays attention to him. You’re the one who told me to go live on Earth for a while. You said it would be good to spend some time with my mother.

God: She’s very clingy.

Jesus: May God forgive her.

God: I do. Almighty!

Jesus: Yes? I’m listening.

God: Okay, here is what I want you to do. Go see Murphy. Tell him we’re sorry about the Ram’s game. Tell him we’ll have a nice parlay for him this Sunday — but only if he goes to church. Understand?

Jesus: Understood.

God: OK, bring the car around and tell your brother we’re going to the game.

Jesus: Does he have to come? Can’t my friends come instead?

God: Like who?

Jesus: James, son of Zebedee.

God: Never liked that kid. I didn’t like the old man, either. I hate Rap music.

Jesus: How about Saint Peter?

God: He’s NOT a saint! He’s a saint when I say he’s a saint! I know St. Francis of Assisi! He was a saint! I know St. John the Baptist! Now HE was a saint!

In fact, you tell Peter if you see him, tell him STAY AWAY FROM MY GATE!!!

God damn him!

Jesus: Awright already. Don’t blow a gasket.

God: Like Judas? Everyone saw you kiss him, you know. Friends don’t kiss other friends in front of the emperor.

Jesus: It’s a new dawn, pop.

God: Heaven help us.

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Jesus: One question, dad. Can we really fix the football games?

God: We’re omnipresent. We’re infallible. We can walk on water. But we can’t fix football games for Murphy. It will turn into greed, and avarice, and he’ll make unwise career choices.

Jesus: Like kissing Judas?

God: Like writing this stupid column.

Rick Murphy is a six-time winner of the New York Press Association Best Column award as well as the winner of first place awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Suburban Newspaper Association of America and a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Yes, I used to blame the guy upstairs when things didn’t go my way.

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Art by Kathy Hernandez at Suffolk County Community College's Student Art Exhibit.

Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

North Fork Art Collective, Greenport North Fork Art Collective in Greenport presents its Fall Community Show, opening November 9 with a reception from 6 to 8 PM.

Intrigue Student Art Exhibit

Fall Art Show

Opening: Wednesday, November 14, 4 to 6 PM The Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead

Opening: Friday, November 9, 4 to 6 PM Levitas Center for the Arts, Southampton

The fall Eastern Campus Student Art Exhibit highlighting exceptional work created by Suffolk County Community College students in the applied arts programs on the college’s Eastern Campus in Riverhead will be presented from November 9 to December 15. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, November 14, from 4 to 6 PM.

On display in The Lyceum Gallery will be more than 60 student works in a variety of media and sizes created in photography, graphic design, computer art, and interior design courses. The exhibit provides prospective students with a unique opportunity to see the high proficiency attained by students in Suffolk’s Eastern Campus art department.

The Southampton Artists Association Fall Art Show will feature photography, paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The show will run November 7 through November 18 at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 9, from 4 to 6 PM. A closing reception will be held on Friday, November 16, from 4 to 6 PM.

Fall Community Show Opening: Friday, November 9, 6 to 8 PM

Talk: Saturday, November 10, 2 to 4 PM William Ris Gallery, Jamesport The William Ris Gallery in Jamesport presents “Intrigue” featuring the artwork of five printmakers — Dan Welden, Chris Ann Ambery, Annie Wildey, Justin Greenwald, and Lorena Salcedo Watson — as well as sculpture by Jonathan Pearlman, through November 18.

The innovative and highly evolved printmaking artwork featured in the show skirts the perimeters of the abstract and actual, of fantasy and reality.

There will be an artist talk by master printmaker Dan Welden.

Promised Land Remembered Amagansett Library “Promised Land Remembered,” organized by The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, will travel to the Amagansett Library

and be on display through November 30. The show consists of early tempera on paper paintings by Mabel D’Amico dating circa 1939 through the 1940s, accompanied by a brief historical narrative about Promised Land. Promised Land is illustrated with selected period photographs including Mabel’s own found in the D’Amico Archive.

Light Of The Ocean Southampton Arts Center Southampton Arts Center presents the exhibit “Light Of The Ocean” by Francisco Alvarado-Juárez. The show will run through the rest of the year, closing on Monday, December 31. The exhibit is a dynamic, site-specific installation

by Alvarado-Juárez, a New York-based American artist born in Honduras.

With the help of community volunteers and experts from Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program, the two main galleries are turned into a magical marine environment with pathways through sand, seashells, and other organic materials indigenous to the East End, plus video projections of water and marine life, approximately 30 of Francisco’s largescale acrylic paintings, and thousands of repurposed painted paper bags. The smell of the sea and sounds of whales enveloping the viewer’s senses will make for a transformative gallery visit.

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The Great Gatsby at Bay Street. Independent/Lenny Stucker/ lennystucker.com.

Entertainment

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents a National Theatre Live Screening of King Lear by William Shakespeare.

Amber Ferrari

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Friday, November 9, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com

Jam Session 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

by Thursday at noon.

Comedy Howie Mandel Saturday, November 10, at 8 PM www.whbpac.org Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents comedian Howie Mandel.

wwwparrishart.org Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill kicks off OLA’s Latino Film Festival with the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman. See the story on the festival in this week’s Arts & Entertainment section for details.

A Streetcar Named Desire Friday, November 9, at 6 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

Film

Southampton Arts Center presents Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire which inspired Francis Ford Coppola to become a director.

A Fantastic Woman

King Lear

Friday, November 9, at 5:30 PM

Friday, November 9, at 7 PM

phis Crawl, and Student Body at 7 PM followed by LHT at 10 PM.

Thursday, November 8, at 7 PM www.unioncantina.net Union Cantina in Southampton presents The Jam Session Inc every Thursday with a concert at 7 PM followed by a jam session.

Hamptons Farms Fridays, from 5 to 8 PM www.hamptonsfarms.com Hamptons Farms in East Quogue hosts live music by Brian Dyer.

Stephen Talkhouse www.stephentalkhouse.com Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will feature a live performance on Saturday, November 10, by Jack Marshall, Mem-

The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents Amber Ferrari performing the music of Janis Joplin.

Theater A Comedy of Tenors Now through November 11 www.hamptontheatre.org Hampton Theatre Company presents A Comedy of Tenors by Ken Ludwig, directed by Diana Marbury.

Muhly’s Marnie Saturday, November 10, at 1 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents “The Met: Live in HD” Muhly’s Marnie.

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Saturday, November 10, at 7:30 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org Southampton Arts Center presents Valerie DiLorenzo in “An Evening of Stephen Sondheim.”

The Great Gatsby Opening November 10 at 7 PM Bay Street Theater presents its “Literature Live!” production of The Great Gatsby through Nov. 25. Visit www. baystreet.org for more information.

Words Book & Bottle Thursday, November 8, at 6 PM www.suffolkcountyhistoricalsociety.org Suffolk County Historical Society Mu-

seum in Riverhead continues its “Book & Bottle” series with Richard F. Welch, author of Long Island and World War I.

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Parrish Water Mill Locale Turns Six

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Benefit cocktail party previews ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Chef's Dinner Parrish Art Museum will host its Fresh Look 2018 Benefit Cocktail Party to celebrate the sixth anniversary at its Water Mill location, on Saturday, November 10, from 6 to 8 PM.

Guests will view its newest installation, “Every Picture Tells A Story.”

The night starts with a champagne toast with artist David Salle at 5 PM for those at the Supporter level and up.

Attendees can enjoy hors d’oeuvres, sip cocktails, enjoy live music, and mingle with more than 30 Parrish collection artists. Salle will discuss his works inspired by the Sistine Chapel commissioned for Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, never before seen in the United States.

This year has proven successful for Parrish exhibitions, with shows including “Keith Sonnier: Until Today,” “Platform: Bathelemy Toguo,” and “Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture.”

Terrie Sultan, director of Parrish Art Museum, said, “For the remainder of the year, we’re very excited about our new exhibition ‘Every Picture Tells a Story,’ drawn from our own collection.

Nearly all of the artists in this show lived, worked, and/or visited this area.

They were part of the international art

world and at the same time, part of our community.” The exhibition draws from the museum’s permanent collection of more than 3000 works. Parrish prides itself as a “center for cultural engagement and inspiration for the community, region, and the world,” said Sultan.

“Every Picture Tells a Story” opens to the general public on Sunday, November 11. (See our article about the exhibit on page B-1.)

Money raised from the event will go toward funding the museum’s events. Sandy Perlbinder, Parrish Art Museum trustee and Fresh Look host committee member, said, “As a member of the museum’s board and the education committee, I’m grateful to our supporters, and gratified that the funds will be used to further the museum’s mission.”

Tickets are $200, $150 for Parrish members, and are $500 for Supporter, $1000 for Sponsor, and $2500 for Benefactor. The museum is located at 279 Montauk Highway in Water Mill.

Visit www.parrishart.org or call 631283-2118 for more information.

The Parrish will also host a free community day on Sunday from noon to 3 PM.

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A Chef's Dinner to benefit Project MOST will be held on Saturday, November 10, at 6:30 PM at Scoville Hall in Amagnasett. The evening will be presented by Executive Chefs Jeff Purrazzi and Adam Kelinson from Around The Fire. Project MOST offers after school programming in East Hampton.

Fall Ladies Night A Fall Ladies Night benefiting the Children’s Museum of the East End will be held on Wednesday, November 14, from 6 to 8 PM at Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton, presented by The Shed. Enjoy wines, hors d’oeuvres, prizes, and a silent auction. Tickets start at $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Contact Lara Sweeney at lara@cmee.org or call 631-537-8250.

Steak And Cigar Dinner The East End Disability Associates presents a steak and cigar dinner on Thursday, November 15, at 7 PM at Hotel Indigo’s Bistro 72 in Riverhead.

The event includes dinner and a cigar.

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Maureen’s Haven Maureen’s Haven homeless outreach will host its winter benefit on Saturday, December 1, from 6 to 9 PM at Seasons of Southampton. The event is being held to raise awareness of East End homelessness. The event will include wine, small bites, dancing, and auction items. Tickets are $50 per person. Visit www.winterbenefit.brownpapertickets.com.

Ugly Sweater Party The Southampton History Museum presents “Hearthside Cheer: An Ugly Sweater Party!” on Saturday, December 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Rogers Mansion in Southampton. There will be food, drinks, music, and surprises.

Make sure you wear your ugliest, most original holiday sweater to celebrate the pleasures of the holiday season at the Gilded Age Rogers Mansion. The cost is $65 in advance and $85 day of, or $35 in advance and $45 day of for those ages 21 to 35. Visit www.southamptonhistory.org.

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Sunset Barn Party Photos by Richard Lewin The Bridgehampton Museum held its annual Sunset Barn Party at the historic Galban Barn on Hedges Lane in Sagaponack on Saturday, November 3. The museum’s executive director John Eilertsen, curator/archivist Julie Greene, president Walter Miller, and board members hosted the celebration of the last sunset before the end of Daylight Saving Time.

Sokolow At Spur Photo by Alexis Graf The Spur, Southampton’s private coworking space for innovators and entrepreneurs, hosted “Exploring Infinity with Alec Sokolow” on October 29.

The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Toy Story, and host of “Sundays on the East End” on 88.3 FM WPPB, Sokolow offered an enlightening and entertaining discussion on the interstitial relationship between technology and storytelling for visitors of all ages.

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Light Of The Ocean Photos by Nicole Teitler Southampton Arts Center presents the exhibit “Light Of The Ocean,” with artwork by Francisco Alvarado-Juárez.

The show opened with a reception on Friday, November 2. The show is a dynamic, site-specific installation by Alvarado-Juárez, a New York-based American artist born in Honduras.

With the help of community volunteers and experts from Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program, the two main galleries have been turned into a magical marine environment with pathways through sand, seashells, and other organic materials indigenous to the East End, plus video projections of water and marine life, approximately 30 large-scale acrylic paintings, and thousands of repurposed painted paper bags.

Pamela Morgan, Flirting With Flavors Photo by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com Lifestyle and entertaining expert Pamela Morgan of Flirting with Flavors produced her annual end-of-summer celebration at her home in Water Mill in September. Displaying her design savvy and culinary expertise as a chef and cookbook author, the party brought a close to the summer and start to the fall season, welcoming Morgan’s dearest friends to celebrate this year’s theme of “Fiesta Mexicana.”

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READING OUR REGION

By Joan Baum

The Caregiver Park’s novel both mysterious and meditative

The Caregiver by Samuel Park, who died last year from stomach cancer at the age of 41, turns out to be mysterious in exciting wonder, suspense, and meditation, with an ending that defies expectations but is psychologically the richer for it. This is the kind of story that haunts as it informs about a culture and history many Americans know little about — Rio, beyond Carnival and its exotic “glorious, bohemian past,” now “erased by constant violence and muggings.” Here’s a country in freefall from hyperinflation, military dictatorship, and endemic corruption.

Park was born in Brazil but raised in Los Angeles. He lived in Chicago for a while, where he taught English and creative writing at the university level (he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California). Not incidentally, the book ends with a reprint of a January 2017 essay — “I Had a 9 Percent Chance. Plus Hope” — Park wrote that appeared in The New York Times Sunday Review section. It’s a kind of coda to the novel and well worth reading. And rereading. Cancer figures in the tale, though not essentially, even if it’s obvious that Park knew his way around its etiology, treatment, and social effects.

The Caretaker centers on the bond between a mother and daughter in the Copacabana section of Rio, their fierce love for each other — the mother, Ana, ferociously protective of her out-ofwedlock child, and the child, Mara, lonely, frightened, totally dependent on her mother. Their mutual need is heartbreakingly evoked with descriptions from all five senses but touch and smell are particularly effective. Secondary characters along the way, a sweep of 14 years, offer care and compassion, but they serve mainly to reflect the extraordinary attachment of mother and daughter.

Park confidently relies on small telling details to propel his narrative, moving back and forth between Copacabana in the 1980s and Bel Air, CA later on. The sections on Rio when mother and daughter lived in the favela (lowincome slum) show the country rife with military violence and poverty. Ana works as much as she can as a voiceover actress, dubbing American films into Portuguese. One day, however, she reluctantly accepts a real-life acting job for student revolutionaries who engage her to deceive the police chief, a man known for brutality and torture.

While she diverts him, they will spring

their compatriots from prison. What happens, though, becomes the defining event of the relationship between mother and daughter, but Mara does not learn the full truth until she is an adult in America, long after her mother, from whom she was estranged, has died from heart disease.

In a prologue that’s set in Bel Air in the early 1990s, Mara, now 26, is working as a caregiver for a 40-something wealthy woman who has cancer.

Tidbits of class and culture emerge as telling asides, as when Mara notes that she’s just seen her employer’s ex-husband putting on his shoes, which “back in my native Brazil was either an afterthought or a non-issue.”

Park presents America by way of showing Mara’s new land as an immigrant experience. Though she’s been in the country 10 years (undocumented), she still can’t get over how much in America is free — doggie bags at restaurants, clothing catalogues, public bathrooms. She also takes in stride the racist road-rage of a stranger, eager “to screen any brown person he deemed unworthy of sharing his home.” He

demands her name. She says “Lucille.

Lucille Ball,” and drives away.

Toward the end of the novel a theme emerges: that life is a party.

Mara’s seen the cliché on a greeting card. The irony is — and here Mara may be speaking for Park — it’s true.

Life is indeed like a party: “Some people had to leave in the beginning.

Some people left in the middle. Some people got to stay until the end. But everyone got to be in it, at least for a part of it, and wasn’t that what mattered?” With “stamina and genetics and luck,” you could stay to the end, but even if you didn’t, “you got a chance to taste its flavors, to mingle with its strange creatures, to try out new tricks.”

The Caregiver fascinates in what it shows of Rio and of America by way of America’s main export, pop culture, but the heart of the novel is an exploration of the human heart — what it gives and needs to give, the impulse to care, to take care. The achievement of The Caregiver is to suggest that love may be more important than truth. Think about it.

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Dining Hampton Maid: FamilyRun For Six Decades Need a power breakfast? Come to this bastion in the Bays

By Hannah Selinger

Here’s an East End secret: One of the best breakfasts — served every day from April to early November — requires a short drive over the Canal.

There, you’ll encounter the Hampton Maid, which has been running a quiet, dedicated operation since 1959.

Nearly 60 years ago, John and Marion Poulakis headed to Eastern Long Island, in search of a new home.

A small hilltop motel, with sweeping views of the Shinnecock Bay, caught their attention. Shortly thereafter, a star — the Hampton Maid — was born. The original restaurant was the Sail Inn, a dilapidated motel in need of some TLC. Marion Poulakis, a graphic designer, drew a picture of the now famous maid on a cocktail napkin, her vision for the space developing. The pair moved their family to the property, where they lived in hotel rooms during the Maid’s early years. Eventually, the family built their own home on the property, and, slowly, the concept of a restaurant (billed first as a mere coffee shop)

began to evolve.

Marion Poulakis died in 2004, and the operation has since expanded to include various members of the Poulakis family. The restaurant is now run, largely, by second-generation family member Steve Poulakis, who touts the importance of fresh, seasonal ingredients and cooking toorder meals for his guests. Steve Poulakis’s wife runs operations for the 29 guest rooms, while John and Marion’s daughter, Leslie Bellows, shares a partnership in the Maid. So, too, does nearly family member Albert Bellows, the line cook who began his relationship with the Maid while working as a milk delivery man for Sherry’s Dairy, his family’s now-defunct Southampton-based creamery.

Three generations have since contributed to the Maid’s success, and the restaurant continues to be family-run and operated, an impressive feat in today’s world of eat-or-be-eaten corporate conglomerates. Twelve wateradjacent acres include flowering gar-

dens and the cool respite of a seasonal swimming pool.

When it comes to room rates, a plethora of options are available, including single and double standards and junior and senior suites which tread the line between Hamptons and non-Hamptons prices. In season, during a holiday, one can expect to pay upwards of $400 for a room, though less in-demand weekends are appreciably less (the going rate hovers around $200). In the off-season, when the motel and restaurant close, the property undergoes updates and maintenance, in preparation for the next year’s hustle.

The rooms are nice, of course, but what you’re really coming for is breakfast, one of the finest available on the East End. It’s elevated diner fare: fresh juices, seasonal fruits, plate-sized pancakes, omelets, French toast, and more.

On Sundays and holidays, the restaurant offers a prix fixe menu for $24.50 per person, one of the better deals on the East End (if there is such a thing as

a “deal” out East). Food is served on a covered porch that is sunny and pleasant in summer and cozy and inviting in the cooler months. In addition to the typical breakfast go-tos, Josh Poulakis, the founders’ grandson, expanded the rotation with evolving specials, which feature local produce and inventive takes on classic preparations. Part of this evolution has to do with the changing needs of the Maid’s guests, who, in 2018, now desire a fresher, cleaner approach to breakfast.

The restaurant does not accept reservations, meaning that there is almost always a wait, especially in summer. Buzzers alert eager diners that their time in queue has finally expired.

A gift shop located near the reservation desk provides just enough distraction for those with small children (though it can be a dangerous, wallet-emptying pursuit).

Here’s what’s not dangerous, though: tossing your hat in the ring for breakfast at the Hampton Maid, a pursuit you’re guaranteed not to regret.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

thankSgiving Menu

Smoked Thanksgiving Turkey

Ingredients 1 gallon hot water 3 c kosher salt 4 lemons (cut in half) 3 bay leaves 2 Tbsp black peppercorn 1 c honey 5 lb bag of ice 1 bunch of thyme 1 bunch of sage 4 cloves of garlic 2 c hickory wood chips (soaked in warm water for 30 minutes just before cooking) 15 lb turkey 1/2 c canola oil 3 Tbsp paprika 3 Tbsp cracked black pepper

Directions Start by bringing a gallon of water to a boil. When the water boils, shut off the heat and add the salt, bay leaves, garlic, herbs, peppercorn, and honey. Allow all of these ingredients to steep in the hot water for 15 minutes.

Pour the mixture into a large deep container. A five-gallon plastic bucket works very well. Add the five pounds of ice and submerge the turkey in the brine for at least 12 hours.

Early the following day, heat your grill, whether it be gas or charcoal. 350 degrees is a good tempera-

ture to work with.

Remove the turkey from the brine and dry it completely. Rub it with the canola oil and the paprika/black pepper seasoning mixture. Make a smoke bomb using two large sheets of aluminum foil.

Place one cup of the soaked hickory chips in the center of the foil. Crimp the foil creating a small pouch with an opening at the top for the smoke to escape.

Place the aluminum pouch directly on the charcoal or on the metal bar above the flame of a gas grill. You will want to place the turkey on a baking sheet with a wire rack so that it’s not sitting on direct heat.

Close the lid and cook for an hour.

After an hour, change out the old wood chips with the other cup of soaked chips and check to see if the skin has browned. If so, cover loosely with aluminum foil and continue to cook until the thickest part of the turkey breast reaches a 160-degree internal temperature. Check this by simply inserting a thermometer into the thickest part of the breast periodically.

When the bird reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees, remove it from the grill, cover it in foil, and allow it to rest for an hour. Carve and enjoy a twist on a Thanksgiving classic.

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Hampton Bays Welcomes Hampton Gyro Grill offers affordable Greek-American cuisine

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Yassou! There’s a new neighbor in town. Hampton Bays welcomes Hampton Gyro and Grill, filling the need for affordable, authentic Greek cuisine.

Located in the same shopping center as Wild By Nature and Planet Fitness, Hampton Gyro retains a casual feel, akin to walking into a modern pizzeria or deli, with the menu written large on the wall. Patrons walking through the doors will be transported to Greece, or at least Astoria, Queens, as traditional Greek music plays throughout the restaurant.

Open since September, the ‘fast and casual’ Greek-American spot prides itself on serving food for a variety of tastes. American classics include mozzarella sticks, wings, hot dogs, chili cheese dogs, burgers, chicken sandwiches, and grilled cheese sandwiches.

It also has a plethora of Greek options.

Upon glancing over the menu, my eyes widened when reading about the moussaka (layers of eggplant, potato, and ground beef topped with béchamel sauce), a traditional dish and one of my absolute favorites. Despite an immedi-

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Each bite proved more filling then the last. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel with classic meals and Hampton Gyro stayed true to expectation.

The menu also includes spreads with warm pita chips such as hummus, tzatziki sauce, and whipped feta, spinach pie, falafel, souvlaki, salads, and wraps. For those looking to branch out, try Greek Nachos with whipped feta,

olives, and tomato over pita chips, a Buffalo Chicken Gyro, or Pastichio (another traditional dish). Top off the meal with dessert of baklava or ice cream and order some house wine — rosé, red, or white, or a domestic or an imported beer — if you need more than a fountain drink.

You’ll leave feeling Greek in no time, minus the plate breaking.

Hampton Gyro is located at 2521 West Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays. Call 631-856-4101 or visit online at www.hamptongyro.com.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Chef Seamus Mullen Spanish “Tarta Santiago”

By Zachary Weiss

Who: Chef Seamus Mullen

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Chef Mullen's Guest-Worthy Recipe: Spanish “Tarta Santiago” — olive oil and almond cake, citrus cream, cherries, sea salt

Why? “Tarta Santiago is a Spanish almond cake that is simple, rustic, and easy to make. Made with almond, citrus cream, cherries, and sea salt, the cake is a perfect end to any meal. I like to add olive oil from Spain to my recipe as it has so many health benefits, from its anti-oxidant properties, to its naturally

anti-inflammatory qualities. It is also a fundamental ingredient in the healthy kitchen and it is incredibly delicious!”

Ingredients: (Makes one 10” tart) 2 c confectioner’s sugar 2 ¾ c almond flour 1 c coarsely chopped Marcona almonds 1/4 c Arbequina olive oil Zest of 1 lemon 4 eggs 1 pinch cinnamon 1 c cherries, cut in half, pit removed 2 Tbsp Arbequina olive oil

2 c citrus Chantilly cream

Directions: Mix sugar and almond flour. Whip eggs, lemon zest, olive oil, and cinnamon.

Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and work until smooth. Fold in the chopped Marcona almonds.

Grease a tart mold with butter and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, until golden and the center is moist but set.

Serve with a dollop of Chantilly cream, cherries dressed in olive oil, and a sprinkle of coarse sea salt.

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Highway Restaurant & Bar Highway Restaurant & Bar in East Hampton offers Asian Inspired Nights.

Once a month, Highway will offer a specialty menu centered around the art of Asian cuisine.

On Thursday, November 8, Chef Justin Finney will showcase fresh new creations that have been inspired by Thai, Singaporean, and Chinese influences, among others. Diners can choose a la carte options including pork dumplings with sesame chili dipping sauce, crispy Long Island duck with hoisin sauce and moo shu pancakes, and Thai ribs with sticky rice and scallions.

The restaurant also offers chicken pot pies on Mondays nights, and a Sunday brunch from 11 AM to 3 PM, featuring creative cuisine in a simple setting.

For more information and menus, visit www.highwayrestaurant.com.

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School News Compiled by Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

The boys soccer team is undefeated so far. They’ve won their first two games.

Congrats, boys.

Riverhead Schools

Pictured are essay winners Brooke Andresen, Christopher Rodriguez, Zuleika Herrera Rodriquez, and Dean Redmond. Independent/Courtesy Riverhead Central School District

Hampton Bays In recognition of October as National Bullying Prevention Month, Hampton Bays Elementary School students took part in a variety of kindness activities.

The month’s character education initiatives kicked off with “The Me I Want to Be,” a schoolwide assembly.

Students were then inspired to be kind to one another through a “Caught Being Kind” program. In the same vein of kindness, they were introduced to the school’s new buddy bench, which provides an opportunity for students to make new friends. The school also held an antibullying poster contest, naming a winner in each grade level.

The members of the Hampton

Bays Elementary School service organization K-Kids recently donated $400 to the American Cancer Society as part of their 14th annual Denim Day fundraiser.

Springs School Students held a bake sale last week to raise money for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. It was organized by Brynly Lys, Hailey Rigby, Paige Daniels, and Colleen Mckee. These girls previously held a bake sale for ARF last year.

They had raised about $400.

The Yearbook Club is also selling Turkey Trot t-shirts to raise money for the yearbooks so that each eighth grader can receive a book for free. There’s a link on the school website to order a t-shirt.

They cost $20 each.

Four Pulaski Street School sixth-graders in the Riverhead Central School District were recently recognized as winners of the 14th annual Hometown Heroes Essay Contest. The writing competition was held by the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in memory of Vietnam War veteran Garfield M. Langhorn Jr. The winners — Brooke Andresen, Zuleika Herrera Rodriquez, Dean Redmond, and Christopher Rodriguez — were presented with their awards at a ceremony on October 19 at Pulaski Street Elementary School.

The Suffolk School Library Media Association has awarded a $500 grant for project-based learning and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) initiatives to the Pulaski Street School library in the Riverhead Central School District.

More than 50 Riverhead High School juniors and seniors learned about a wide range of colleges and universities when they attended the annual National Hispanic College Fair at Molloy College on October 10.

Riverhead High School student Taliyah Moore was honored

by Transformative Educational Development Services with an AABLE Award, presented during an awards ceremony at the Bellport Country Club on October 27.

“We nominated Taliyah for her outstanding attitude, dedication to community service and leadership skills,” said Eileen Manitta, director of special education for the Riverhead Central School District. “She is hardworking, fun-loving, and a caring young lady.” Outside of school, Moore spends much of her time volunteering at her local church, where she is involved in two choirs. She is also a junior volunteer for Riverhead’s Butterfly Effect Project, a nonprofit organization.

Southampton Schools Southampton High School senior Megan Robinson has been recognized by the Lions Club of Southampton as its Student of the Month for September.

Robinson earned the honor for her dedication to her studies and school

community. She is a member of the National and Spanish honor societies and serves as co-president of the student council. She is also an athlete and participates in spring track. Outside of school, she is captain of the North Sea Fire Department Juniors program and works at North Sea Farms.

Southampton Intermediate School conducted a Red Ribbon Week, starting October 22, to raise awareness of harmful influences such as drugs and alcohol. The school’s guidance department planned a number of activities for students throughout the week, which carried the theme, “Life is a journey, travel drug-free.”

Among them were a presentation

by Southampton Village police officer Tiffany Lubold, a homeroom door decorating contest, and theme days where students dressed for success and wore their favorite college sweatshirts. Students also signed an anti-drug pledge during their lunch periods.

The Southampton School District’s athletic department showcased its physical education, wellness, and family and consumer sciences programs during its first Wellness Night, held October 29 at Southampton High School. The event, held in partnership with the Southampton Youth Bureau, gave families a chance to experience some of the same physical fitness and wellness activities that students engage in during the school year. Attendees also learned more about the district’s family and consumer sciences curriculum and sampled recipes that students have been learning to make. The evening featured more than 20 informational booths related to health, as well.

Westhampton Schools Westhampton Beach High School students participated in several Red Ribbon Week activities, organized by the school’s Youth to Youth Club, during the week of October 29.

All activities were based on the themes of saying no to drugs, making positive choices and team building.

Youth to Youth members shared awareness messages with their peers, held theme days, designed posters, created a haunted hallway and decorated trees outside the school with red ribbons. In addition, all students signed a banner pledging to stay drug- and alcohol-free.

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Leslie And Robert Black Proprietors of Old Orchard Farm store reflect on Orient heritage

By Valerie Bando-Meinken valerie@indyeastend.com Above: The original Van Nostrand family home.

Top right: The Green Market in New York City.

Bottom left: Leslie and Robert Black were married in 1983.

Photos: Courtesy of Leslie Black

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Where we are sitting, is one of the landmark buildings here in Orient,” said Robert Black. “It used to be a courthouse. The building was built in 1910 and the judge used to sit here with his gavel to hear cases. It had outhouses and a hand pump for the sink. Then in the 1920s, it was converted to an A&P supermarket, and after that it became a meeting spot for the Girl Scouts from the 1950s to 1960s.”

When the landmark building became available for rent, Robert and Leslie Black, who were dating at the time, saw it as an opportunity to expand on their personal hobbies and as an outlet for Leslie’s mother, Mary, to sell some of her specialty herbs from their family-owned farm, the Old Orchard Farm. In deference to the 18-acre farm owned by Mary and Leslie’s stepfather, Robert Van Nostrand, the Blacks named their shop the Old Orchard Farm Store.

Then, in 1983, just before the Blacks were married, they were given the opportunity to purchase the landmark building which housed their store on Village Lane. “We had greeting cards, gifts, flowers, potpourri, handmade thyme wreaths, candles, hippie-ish types of things that went with the times. Leslie’s mother was running the store for many years and she would also have some potted herbs here as well,” Robert said.

According to Leslie, the Van Nostrand farm’s crop was primarily cauliflower. “It was my mother who convinced my stepfather to start growing specialty herbs and vegetables, and before long, he was getting up at four in the morning and driving into New York City to the Green Market by Union Square, where he sold the specialty herbs and vegetables out of his truck.”

“He was one of the founding members of the 14th Street Green Market and also used to go to the Green Market at the World Trade Center. He also supplied the Dean and DeLuca food store and several other renowned restaurants in the city. But it was a tough life for them,” said Leslie. “They would dig the herbs by hand.” After several years, Van Nostrand leased out 10 acres of the farm, keeping eight to continue his own farming. “The farm was finally sold over 15 years ago for retirement purposes and is now a tree farm nursery,” Leslie said.

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Love Sparked At The Starlington

Robert Black recalled meeting his wife, Leslie, in 1979 in Greenport at the Starlington Hotel. “Leslie was a teacher and always worked, even when she was off for the summers,” he said. A teacher in Queens at the time, Leslie was working weekends as a waitress at the hotel.

“My folks kept a sailboat in Orient for decades.

We always sailed out here. My mother had never been to a bar. The joke in the family was that we were going to take her to The Starlington because back in the 1980s, everyone was playing darts and she was asking about it so much that we said we were going to take her, sit her at the bar, and have her play darts. That’s when I met Les.”

Having just gotten off from work, Leslie said she was having a drink and talking with her girlfriend when she met Robert. “We started talking and he said he was living in Ridgewood, Queens and I was teaching in Middle Village, which was a stone’s throw away.

We had some common ground and we hit it off.”

Married for 35 years, the Blacks are proud parents of a daughter, Catherine, a varsity rowing medalist and a nurse practitioner in a private practice in Pennsylvania.

“Our heritage is very important to us. Being able to be part of passing things down from generation to generation means a lot,” Robert Black said. “Leslie’s grandparents, Elizabeth and Leslie Van Nostrand, were the first settlers of the Van Nostrand family in Orient. They summered in Orient for many years and then, in 1929, they bought a home. Her mother was born in 1926 and later worked at Eastern Long Island Hospital, Preston’s Marine Supplies and retired from Long Island Oyster Farms. Her family home withstood both the hurricanes of 1938 and 1954. Living close to the water, the family home was always under threat of flooding. After the 1954 hurricane, the home was lifted and moved back on the property line,

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leaving an expansive backyard but one that still afforded a view of the harbor.” It is in this family home where the Blacks currently reside, and have been renovating and updating it with Catherine in mind.

Off the Radar

After Robert and Leslie married, they moved to Pennsylvania to start a family and pursued their own careers, leaving Leslie’s mother to run the Old Orchard Farm Store. “We meant to come back sooner, but 30 years went by before we returned to Orient. We returned in 2015 with the thought that we would try to run the store before retiring. It was a labor of love and a hobby. We learned a lot and educated ourselves when we were away and over the course of the years, we changed the store to add more vintage art, especially art that was done on the East End. But sometimes in the summer when people are just walking around and come in, they think we are a farm stand and selling food. They are really surprised when they walk in. It’s because of the store’s name.”

Robert said that the store has been successful, and is open nine months out of the year. “Even after Labor Day, there is still a lot of things going on out here,” Robert said. “I also think being off the radar really helps.

That means [customers] have to go out of the way to find us and that means that they spend some time to get to know us. We develop a relationship and that’s the fun part of it. It’s not just the store. They will stay and sit and talk and just enjoy the atmosphere.”

With the assistance of Terry Wallace, author and owner of The Wallace Gallery in East Hampton, the Blacks are hosting an art show at the Old Orchard Farm Store until December 1. The show exhibits Peconic Bay Impressionists and vintage Long Island paintings. For more information, visit www.oldorchardfarmstore.com.

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North Fork

Majors Harbor. Independent/Courtesy Jeremy Samuelson

North Fork News

community. Visit www.peconichealingcenter.com for more information.

Compiled by Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

The Mattituck-Laurel Library is hosting three new events this week. On Friday, November 9, Robert Dell’Amore will serve up healthy Indian entrées.

The dinner will begin at 6 PM with a fee of $5 per person.

A Library Board of Trustees Meeting will be open to the public on Monday, November 12, at 6 PM.

Finally, kindergarteners and first graders will get the chance to build and design their very own candy corn catapults. Build it and let it fly at 4 PM on Tuesday, November 13.

All events require registration, except for the library board meeting. For a full event list, go to www.mattlibrary. org or call 631-298-4134.

Owl Prowl The Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island is hosting an Owl Prowl on Saturday, November 10, from 4:30 to 6 PM. Owls are most active and vocal at sundown. Join Tom Damiani in the search for these elusive creatures. All are welcome and binoculars and flashlights are encouraged. Note that preregistration is required for all Mashomack events. Call 631-749-4219 or www.nature.org/mashomack.

Lunch and Learn The Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead continues its Lunch and Learn series, on Wednesday, November 7, with a nutritional management meeting for those struggling with diabetes. The

meeting will be in conference rooms A and B on the second floor, beginning at noon. The hospital will also host its annual Caregivers Retreat on Tuesday, November 20, from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Call 631-548-6395 to register for both events or visit www.pbmchealth.org.

Peconic Healing Center The Peconic Healing Center had its ribbon cutting ceremony on October 10 and it is taking a holistic approach to treatment. The center is on 125 East Main Street in Riverhead, and can be found online at www.peconichealingcenter. com. The center hopes to provide superior alternative therapeutic healing services, guidance in nutritional knowledge, and creating a healthier and happier

A Day at the Library

Art Classes The East End Arts School is hosting a variety of art classes this fall, varying in both style and medium. The curriculum includes multi-media, landscapes, and abstract painting, among others. To find out more or to register, visit www.eastendarts.org or call 631-369-2171.

Peconic Estuary Meeting The Peconic Estuary Technical Advisory Committee will meet in Riverhead

on Tuesday, November 14, from 10 AM to 12:30 PM. The committee advises the Peconic Estuary Program and its partners on technical and scientific issues, provides technical and scientific feedback on projects, plans, and initiatives, and assists the program in research. Call 631-852-5750 for more information, or visit www.peconicestuary.org.

Health and Wellness If you are a proprietor looking to improve your business, then join the Health and Wellness Evolution at Hotel Indigo at 1830 West Main Street in Riverhead. Learn how to improve the health of your employees while increasing your bottom line. The presentation will include speeches by Gene Hamilton of the Peconic Health Center, Solnste’s Hot Yoga and Barre Studios’ Ina Visich, and TERRA Wellness Advocate and Holistic Chef, Carol Galanty. The class will be held Thursday, November 8, from 7:30 to 9:30 AM, and you can register at www.riverheadchamber.com.

Helicopter Noise Meeting The FAA is organizing a public meeting for local residents to voice opinions on the issue of helicopter noise. The meeting will be held in Riverhead Middle School at 600 Harrison Avenue on Wednesday, November 14, from 7 to 9 PM.

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Tess Parker, a creative arts therapist at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, has painted a mural in the hospital’s Behavioral Health Center. Independent/Courtesy Eastern Long Island Hospital

Art Therapist Leaves Her Mark ELIH behavioral health center gets new mural

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

Theresa “Tess” Parker, a creative arts therapist at Eastern Long Island Hospital’s Behavioral Health Center, has left her own artistic mark on the hospital’s walls in the form of a recently completed mural.

Parker, who joined the Greenport hospital’s staff in January, has created an immersive environment of serenity with her floor-to-ceiling, nature-themed mural in the center’s “Comfort Room.”

Featuring familiar images of a beautiful shoreline, graceful birds in flight, and a lush forest scene, the mural evokes an unmistakable sense of peace

that has proven to be highly conducive to patient recovery.

The mural took Parker approximately 75 hours to complete. “They were fully supportive of it,” she said of the hospital’s administration.

Parker graduated from Hofstra University with a master’s degree in creative arts therapy. “Everything that I put in, down to specific flowers, color usage, everything has either some sort of symbolism or metaphor within it that is theorized to benefit the patients and to relax them,” she said.

The mural adds something invaluable to ELIH’s Behavioral Health Center

of Excellence, and any addition of “comfort” is welcome in such an environment.

“Unfortunately, there’s so much stigma in society attached with mental health and addiction. I think it’s important for patients to work through and say you know what, I’m going to work through all of the negative emotions, I’m going to work on me. I think a huge part of that is insight and mindfulness,” Parker said.

So far, Parker said she’s received very positive feedback from staff and patients alike. “It’s part of their patient rights to have a place to go to reflect on this and feel grounded,” she said. “That’s the reason why I did the roots so boldly, to show there’s a strong foundation there. You know, they’re in such a vulnerable state, so I want to make sure that I’m really playing on the theme of it being a comfort room in inpatient psych.”

Now that her first project is complete, the hospital’s staff is looking forward to seeing more of Parker’s works.

“You point, and I’ll paint,” she said.

Eastern Long Island Hospital is home to several highly regarded behavioral health programs in Suffolk County, and its Behavioral Health Center of

The mural evokes an unmistakable sense of peace that has proven to be highly conducive to patient recovery.

Excellence employs a number of board certified physicians, licensed nurses, credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselors, licensed social workers, and recreational therapists.

ELIH’s Behavioral Health Center is a place where compassionate professionals work to maintain a nurturing environment that enables patients to stabilize, recover, and transition back into the community. For more information, visit www.elih.org.

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By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Amagansett Inn The Gansett Green Manor on Main Street in Amagansett, restored in all its glory, is on the market for just south of $7 million, and given the package of residence, inn outbuildings, and a generous almost two-acre lot, it figures to sell quickly.

This beautiful, iconic retreat is traditional yet updated, and includes manicured grounds, a private farmhouse, an inn suitable for weddings and lavish parties, and is a short walk to the Jitney. It checks all the boxes.

Dana Forbes (516-639-1867) has the listing for Daniel Gale Sotheby’s.

BHS Concurs: Not So Good The Brown Harris Stevens quarterly report is out and like the other major players, the interpretation of third quarter sales figures confirms the East End market slumped. The total

number of third quarter South Fork sales dipped 15.7 percent compared to the same quarter in 2017 (344 in 2018 vs. 408 in 2017), and the total dollar volume decreased 17 percent to $598 billion.

The third quarter average sales price in the Hamptons declined 2.5 percent to $1.74 million while the median price increased 14.8 percent to $1.03 million.

The number of sales on the North Fork decreased 27.8 percent (to 143) in Q3 2018 compared to the previous year.

One encouraging sign: The average North Fork sale price for the quarter increased 7.4 percent to $583,444 and the median price remained the same as last year at $480,000.

‘Tis The Season Saunders & Associates will hold its fourth annual Thanksgiving food drive

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Sports Chapeton, Amaza Each Score Twice Greenport reaches regional final for first time since 2005

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Greenport head coach Sean Charters sent out a group text to his boys soccer team the morning of the regional semifinal October 30 to pump up the Porters, asking if they were ready to play. Senior co-captain William Chapeton responded with, “I’m hangry.”

Charters replied with a Free Willy emoji, which proved fitting.

That’s because with eight minutes remaining in the first half of what was at the time a 0-0 matchup at Diamond

in the Pines, the midfielder leapt up to catch a through-ball from Jason Cruz, and grazed it with the top of his head, knocking it above the Solomon Schechter goalkeeper and into the net. He scored again to open the second half in what ended up a 5-1 win.

“We joke around telling him he has a vertical jump of two inches,” Charters said, laughing. “We freed Willy today.”

Things didn’t stay funny for long though. Cruz collided with the goal-

keeper midway through the final 40 minutes, and the Porters’ leading goal scorer ended up breaking his leg.

Cruz handed his captain’s armband to classmate Mateo Arias, who led the Porters in shouting “for Jason, for Jason,” before finally getting back on the field after 20 minutes.

“I was a little worried at first, hoping we didn’t lose momentum because the score was only 2-0 at the time — that’s two through-balls over the top, tie game,” Charters said. “For these guys to stick together, and be fit enough to take this to the end was great.”

It took some time to shake off the feelings, but sophomore striker Kevin Azama scored twice, sandwiching a David Pineda goal for a 5-0 advantage.

“When I scored the first one I was so happy, because it got the team moving again,” Azama said, as his team dominated the time of possession from start to finish. “We wanted to possess the ball, pass, and get into the right position to create chances — just shoot whenever we were open — and I think we were successful in that.”

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The Greenport boys soccer team won the regional semifinal for the first time since 2005 with a 5-1 win over Solomon Schechter. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Greenport’s Jason Cruz moves the ball through midfield. Independent/Desirée Keegan

shotless in the first half, and senior goalkeeper Miguel Torres had to make just one save in the second.

Ethan Sidelsky got Solomon Schechter (6-9) on the board with 1:37 left.

The Porters advanced to take on SS Seward in the regional final Nov. 1 at Middleton High School. Greenport battled through two scoreless halves, keeping the tradition going by dominating time of possession and controlling the game’s tempo. Although Greenport managed to keep Seward on defense through most of the game, Matt Stam managed to sprint past two Porters defenders shading him on the inside. He tapped the ball forward with his right foot and flicked it into the goal with his left 2:45 into sudden-death overtime for a 1-0 win. Seward goalkeeper Jake Phillips blocked 13 shots. Greenport hadn’t reached the regional final since 2005.

“We’ve all strived for this,” Azama said of reaching the pinnacle of success for his school. “We’ve been working hard and are planning to take this further. We’re one of the best teams in Greenport history.”

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MSG Shut Out In LIC ‘B’ Final Girls soccer team reflects on first season combining schools

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The wind wasn’t blowing Mattituck/ Southold/Greenport’s way in the Long Island Class B final Saturday. But the girls know they’ve moved in a positive direction from the start of the season, even after a 2-0 loss to Wheatley November 3.

“We used to kick the ball up and down the field and we’ve come a long way with possessing the ball,” Mattituck senior right midfielder Francesca Vasile-Cozzo said. “The first game, we were so, so bad. But we weren’t giving up for anything.”

With a dump-and-chase mentality, MSG lost its first six games of the season mainly to Class A teams. All but

one, a 3-2 loss to West Babylon September 20, were shutouts.

After winning the next three games, one being a 7-0 shutout of Amityville that broke the losing streak, MSG lost two of the next three before going on a five-game tear leading into the Long Island championship.

“We’ve come so far as a team,” said Southold senior Jillian Golden, who scored all three regulation goals, the last with 32 seconds left, to send the Suffolk County final game into overtime. Vasile-Cozzo eventually won the game with her penalty kick in the shootout to help the team advance.

MSG struggled to get the ball

through midfield at Islip High School Saturday, but was able to make some passes and got to goal twice, where West Babylon's Cecilia Jozef was up to the task. Some would-be shots also rolled across the box as wind gusts knocked the ball out of bounds throughout the afternoon.

It’s the first time the three schools combined to make a soccer team. Golden said she thinks the combination created an environment for athletes to thrive, working on using skill to get the team as far as it did. MSG finished the season 9-9.

“I’m so incredibly proud of everyone,” goalkeeper Sarah Santacroce said.

“We made history by making this team.

We made history by making the playoffs.

We made history winning the county finals, and we made history making it to the Long Island championship. We’re history-makers across the board.”

The Mattituck junior made six stops through the first half and into the second, giving up one goal at 1:48. After Wheatley’s Jozef made a breakaway save less than three minutes into the second half, Isa Rios went on her own breakaway five minutes later, beating Santacroce before a combination of the wind and Saira Bachez’s defense cleared

MSG junior co-captain Claire Gatz moves the ball through midfield. Independent/Desirée Keegan

the ball from the goal line. Rebecca Sparacio put Wheatley on the board off a cross from Rios, and the pair connected for the final goal with 14:59 left to play, when Rios had another breakaway chance off a pass from Sparacio, and this time converted her opportunity, scoring off her own rebound.

Wheatley advances to its second state semifinal in three years. Southold senior goalkeeper Krissy Worysz came in midway through the second half and made two saves.

Whalers Fall In LIC Game Field hockey team’s loss comes days after county win

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Pierson’s field hockey team celebrates its fourth-straight Suffolk County Class C championship win. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Pierson field hockey’s Suffolk County victory didn’t surprise many October 30, but a last-minute attempt to tie by Port Jefferson did startle senior Charlotte Johnson. The all-star goalkeeper was up to task though, having never lost a coun-

ty Class C final match in her career. She made her third and final save for a 1-0 shutout of Port Jefferson at PatchogueMedford High School to secure the title.

“We rely on her, no doubt about it,” head coach Kim Hannigan said of

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Johnson. “You saw those last couple of saves — she steps up for the occasion.”

Pierson (5-9) took the lead on junior Mahlia Hemby’s goal off a corner, one of 19 in the game, with 8:17 left in the first half. The Whalers controlled the ball through most of the match until Port Jefferson (7-8) tried to rally late.

“I was watching my opponent racing toward me, trying to get the ball back, and I just pushed it to the cage hoping it would go in,” Hemby said.

“Thankfully it went through the defender’s legs and rolled in.”

While the Whalers are less experienced than in years past, boasting seven freshmen and three eighth-graders on a roster of 18, Hemby said the goal helped.

“It got our heads in the game,” she said. “We were looking to dominate from whistle to whistle, controlling the speed and the tempo and keeping the ball on their side, and until those last few minutes we did that.”

Senior co-captain Paige Schaefer said she, like Johnson, is excited to keep their school’s tradition alive.

“We kept the hustle up, realized what we were doing wrong and fixed it, and I’m proud of these girls,” the center midfielder said. “Especially being a younger team, it’s nice to see this trickling down to the younger girls.”

Unfortunately the team’s youth couldn’t counter a tough Carle Place team in the Class C Long Island championship November 3. The Whalers fell victim to a 7-0 shutout despite Johnson’s 22 saves. The Long Island title was the third straight for Carle Place, which won behind Skylar Reed’s three goals.

“Carle Place had great, strong players returning, so Charlotte had her work cut out for her,” Hannigan said.

“She comes through when she’s needed, but we’re super, super young, so I think that played a role — I think their nerves took over.”

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Westhampton's Clarke Lewis tries to slip a tackler as teammate Liam McIntyre looks to throw a block.

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McIntyre Makes More With Less Senior scores 3 TDs in first round

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Westhampton scored early and often, and racked up 28 unanswered points in the second half as the No. 1 Hurricanes football team blew past No. 8 Comsewogue 41-13 in the qualifying round of the Suffolk County Division III playoffs November 2.

“We came out strong and never took our foot off the pedal,” junior Jaden AlfanoStJohn said. “Our defense was playing lights out and our offense had huge plays.”

AlfanoStJohn, who gained 104 yards on 14 carries and also had an interception, a sack, and five tackles, opened the scoring with a 55-yard run. Liam McIntrye found the end zone the next three times for Westhampton between the second and third quarters, as the Hurricanes were only briefly interrupted by Comsewogue's first touchdown in the second. The senior ran 14 times for 90 yards and had 10 tackles.

“I grew up with a lot of these guys and have gone through so much with them, so to be in the position we’re in and be recognized as one of the top three teams in New York State

and have a shot at back-to-back Long Island championships is really incredible,” McIntyre said. “Not many people get opportunities like this.”

Senior Clarke Lewis carried an interception, Westhampton’s third of the day, 25 yards for the final points of the third quarter. Senior Tyler Nolan rushed for 104 yards on 10 carries and collected the Hurricanes’ final touchdown of the game on a two-yard run.

“The community really rallied behinds us and supports us, which is really cool,” Lewis said. “Our coaches make sure we are properly prepared every week, and our offensive line is playing very well right now — the linemen are the ones doing the work up front to control the game and open up the holes.”

Westhampton will host No. 4 Kings Park in the semifinals Friday, November 9, at a time to be decided.

If the Hurricanes win, they’ll face the winner of the No. 2 Half Hollow Hills West-No. 3 Sayville matchup in the Division III final November 17 at Stony Brook University at 4 PM.

Harkin Kills It For Mattituck Senior’s 29 slams help volleyball team to Class C county title

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Outside hitter Viki Harkin is what is referred to in volleyball as a five-tool player. The senior can spike, pass, set, serve, and even tip. On Monday, her 29 kills and four aces helped her Mattituck girls volleyball team to a 3-2 win over last year’s Long Island

championship-winning Pierson for the Suffolk County Class C title.

What motived Harkin was a story head coach Frank Massa told the girls about his 2004 11-1 league championship-winning Tuckers, who Continued On Page 41.

Viki Harkin, Rachel Janis, and Emily McKillop hoist p the Suffolk County Class C championship plaque after their Mattituck team topped Pierson in five sets. Independent/Desirée Keegan

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The East Hampton girls’ volleyball team looked to be a title contender and perhaps even advance to the elusive New York State Final Four tournament.

Winners of 13 straight (12-0 in League VI), the Lady Bonackers needed only to dispense with Kings Park Monday, November 5, to remain undefeated and continue what seemed to be the inevitable march toward the Suffolk County Class A title.

The Lady Kingsmen had other plans, and, as evidenced by their 10-2 record in League V (13-4 overall) were not to be taken lightly.

As it turned out the visitors wanted it more, coming out of the gate to win the first two sets and then withstanding a furious Bonacker comeback that evened the match, 25-23, 25-17, 19-25, 25-13. The

rally, though, left Kathryn McGeehan’s charges spent, and Kings Park finished off the home team convincingly, 25-13 to move into the semifinals.

East Hampton beat Westhampton 3-0 and Kings Point lost to that rival 3-0, making the upset even more surprising. Further, the Bonackers hadn’t lost a set in over a month and only lost three all season.

Mary McDonald, Elle Johnson, Ella Gurney Madyson Neff, Nicole Realmuto, Connie Chan, Claire Hopkins, Erin Decker, and Julia Kearney played their final game for East Hampton.

Kings Park will play Westhampton beach in the semifinals on Wednesday, November 6. The final will be held on the following day at Suffolk Community College Brentwood at 5 PM.

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I must begin by giving a big shout out to my friend Brandel Chamblee at Golf Channel for the reminder that I was part of an amazing chain of events at the four biggest championships in golf. What is amazing about these events is they involve the two greatest players of all time, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. Four stories, four locations, all with the same result. So improbable that it reads like a low budget, unbelievable four-chapter Hollywood script.

I assume most of you know that Jack Nicklaus still holds the record for winning the most major titles, with an incredible tally of 18 combined with 19 second-place finishes. Another stat that further defines Jack’s greatness is that from the 1967 U.S. Open to the 1998 U.S.

Open, he competed in 154 consecutive major championships for which he was eligible. Over that span, he finished in the top ten 73 times.

Chapter One unfolded at one of the most iconic golf venues in the world on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Pebble Beach Golf Links. When Nicklaus let it be known that the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble would be his last, no one was surprised. He had won four U.S. Open Championships, including one at Pebble Beach back in 1972, but in the 2000 version, with Nicklaus having no chance to make the cut, huge crowds gathered to witness him finish the 18th hole for the last time in a U.S. Open. Strange but true, Jack reached the par five in two but was so overwhelmed with emotion that

he three-putted for a par. Needless to say, my interview with Jack just behind the 18th green was an emotional one . . . for both of us. NOTE: Tiger went on to victory.

Chapter Two finds us at the 2000 PGA Championship at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, KY. Nicklaus was in the field but had announced this would be his last PGA Championship. As Nicklaus walked up to his 36th hole, he knew he needed to eagle the 18th to make the cut. He missed that eagle just by inches and the five-time PGA Champion’s competitive days had come to an end. And, you guessed it, another emotional interview behind the 18th green. NOTE: Tiger Woods went on to win after a dramatic playoff with Bob May.

Chapter Three. The Masters. Nicklaus had always said that saying farewell to the Masters, as a competitor, would be difficult. The Golden Bear’s first Masters took place in 1959 when he was only 19. In his Master’s debut, he missed the cut by only one shot and then went on to play three Masters as an amateur.

In his incredible career, Nicklaus won a record-setting six Green Jackets, the first of which was in 1963 and the last, 23 years later, in 1986. As you can imagine, Jack was welcomed by a standing ovation as he arrived at every green on that April Friday in 2005. And yes, you guessed it: I was the first member of the media to interview Nicklaus in 1986 and once again had the privilege in his farewell Masters in 2005. NOTE: Tiger won

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sure after Pierson won the third and fourth sets to force a decisive fifth, the Tuckers’ first of the year. “It was nerve-wracking, but we had some amazing saves and everyone was hustling to the ball.”

Mattituck, which won 25-17, 2515, 15-25, 23-25, 25-12, also felt the pressure coming in as undefeated League VIII champs (12-0). Junior libero Jordan Osler (17 digs and four

aces), whose sister was on last year’s team that lost to Elwood-John Glenn 3-0 in the Class B final, drew her own inspiration.

“I know she wanted it so badly, we all did,” Osler said. “I had her in the back of my mind the entire time because my sister is the one who got me into volleyball, she’s the one who made me the player that I am today.

Volleyball is my favorite thing in the

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lost to Port Jefferson in the county final after beating their opponent 3-0 during the regular season.

“I had that in the back of my head like, ‘We can’t be that team. We have to push above that team,’ and we did, and it feels really good,” Harkin said smiling, adding she felt the pres-

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the 2005 Masters.

For Chapter Four, we crossed the Atlantic to the Home of Golf, St. Andrews. As Jack approached the 18th green in 2005 for the final time, the scene was electrifying. Thousands of fans and every player possible participated in the loudest standing ovation I had ever heard. As I was standing green side and had already talked to Jack’s wife, Barbara, and their oldest son, Jackie, on our live talkSPORT broadcast, I could see that Jack was clearly overwhelmed with emotion as he prepared to putt. So, what happened next? Naturally, a storybook ending . . . the greatest player of all time gathered himself and just knocked in his 10-ft. downhill, side hill putt for birdie.

I swear the entire village of St Andrews was on hand to cheer this great golfer.

NOTE: It was Tiger who took home the Claret Jug.

So, as Nicklaus said his goodbyes from Pebble Beach to Louisville, Augusta, and St Andrews, there were three constants. Golf fans had a chance to show their appreciation for Jack, Tiger showed he was ready to assume his role as heir apparent in the world of major championships, and I was privileged to interview Jack after each one.

As Jack was saying four emotional goodbyes in the majors as a competitor, Tiger was quietly saying hello by winning all four. Tiger’s major count currently stands at 14 and counting now that he’s healthy again. world. I love being there out on the court, especially with these girls. This couldn’t get any better.”

Mattituck will face the winner of Nassau County’s No. 1 East RockawayNo. 2 Oyster Bay matchup in the Long Island championship November 11 at Farmingdale State College at 1 PM.

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Preservation Fund Begins — The Town of East Hampton began the road toward establishing an Environmental Preservation Fund in an attempt to continue acquiring and preserving open space areas, farmland, wildlife habitats, wetlands, and historic sites.

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Asleep At Wolfie’s — Vincent Wolfe, owner of Wolfie’s Tavern on Fort Pond Boulevard, let a man come in to get warm at 6 AM on Saturday. The man left an hour later, but when Wolfe returned, a screen window was missing, and the man was asleep on the barroom floor. Also, $194 was missing from behind the bar.

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Continued From Page 8. sum up the night’s mood last Thursday when she said, “Please don’t make too many changes to Amagansett.”

The hamlet studies were done for East Hampton Town by a team of consulting firms, headed by Dodson & Flinker, Inc., Community Design and Rural Preservation Specialists, together with subcontractors LK McLean Associates P.C., Consulting Engineers, Fine Arts & Sciences LLC, Environmental and Community Planning Consultants and RKG Associates, Economic, Planning and Real Estate Consultants.

Springs will be the headline hamlet at the next public hearing November 15, with Montauk starring in the finale December 6.

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“Felix” was rescued from a mobile home park in Riverhead, where he was abandoned. He is a black & white male, has medium/long hair and approx. 8 years young.

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