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Publisher James J. Mackin Associate Publisher Jessica Mackin-Cipro Executive Editors Rick Murphy Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Sand Land Times 87

Main Street Marijuana

To the Editor, It’s ironic that in the week prior to March 22, World Water Day, Suffolk County Water Authority advised customers that it plans to spend over $1 billion to treat its water, passing on the costs to East End residents.

Only one week later, on the eve of World Water Day, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced that it extends Sand Land’s permit to continue operations for an additional eight years and is allowing them to dig an additional 40 feet lower, approaching the water table.

DEC Commissioner, Basil Seggos, goes on to state that the agency will continue aggressive on-the-ground oversight to ensure Sand Land complies with all rules and regulation, ensuring its operations do not threaten the environment.

Just hear me out. Sand Land pollutes our drinking water, SCWA drills new wells within a half-mile of Sand Land, and the DEC has the gall to purport they will continue aggressive oversight!

Are we stupid? Per the Sag Harbor Express’s reporting, the water under Sand Land has elevated levels of manganese, iron, thallium, sodium, ammonia, and other unhealthy contaminants. Also, Sand Land is not in compliance with NYS Environmental Law. EIGHTYSEVEN times the state’s maximum threshold for manganese! 87! Not twice the level or say four times the level. EIGHTY-SEVEN!

Suppose I drove 87 times the speed limit or drove a car while impaired at 87 times the maximum blood alcohol level. Try as hard as you may, it is inconceivable getting to 87 times a maximum of anything. But Sand Land has!

The only thing more ridiculous than granting a demonstrably egregious polluter an extended permit to operate, is to believe the NYS DEC is going to aggressively monitor them. Where were they in the first place? It took local politicians to force the DEC to even look into Sand Land’s operations. The DEC is required to monitor water quality. Didn’t 87 times permitted levels catch their attention?

It may well be that the way to get the DEC’s attention is to threaten to vote-out the political leaders they report to. So, here I go; Andrew Cuomo, the NYC DEC reports to you. If you ever seek another political office, I will not vote for you. To Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Lee Zeldin, you represent New Yorkers’ interest nationally. I’ll not vote for your reelection if you don’t bring power to bear and shut down Sand Land.

Fred Thiele, I truly applaud your anger at the DEC’s inconceivable decision. But, if you can’t cause the DEC to reverse their decision, sorry, I won’t again vote for you. Jay Schneiderman, sorry too, but you’ll never get my vote if that operation continues. To all, even though you have tried, you haven’t done your jobs. If you can’t shut down Sand Land now, I’m going to vote for someone who may.

Raymond Pride

To the Editor, I read with interest your cover story last week.

The Suffolk County legislator who is urging the county to “opt-out” of the coming legalization of marijuana for recreational use apparently has not read Gov. Cuomo’s task force commission report.

The report specifically refutes all of his arguments against. But as a retired detective I guess it’s hard to let go of the many years of lies and distortions. It really is incredible that he has the audacity to think that Suffolk County is somehow ahead of the curve on this.

And what a curve it is. When New York State does lift probation and if the county were to go lone wolf, we would literally be surrounded. On the state’s borders: Canada, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut (soon), New Jersey (very soon), and with Regulate Rhode Island about to claim victory, it will be just a quick ferry ride to Block Island.

Speaking of ferries, I could just head up to MA today and stay at a 420 B&B.

But I’ve decided to just wait till North Main Street Marijuana opens here soon. And when it does, I’ll peruse their menu on the net and look for my fave strain, Blue Dream. But no need for FedEx overnight. I’ll just “opt-out” on that one and make an “in-store” purchase.

See ya in six months!

Chip Dayton

Reflections On Leadership To the Editor, The current Southampton Town supervisor, in concert with his fellow Democratic council members, seems mired in indecision. Real leadership requires more than a photo op, a ribbon cutting, or a ceremonial groundbreaking. The acid test should be: Is this action in the best interest of Southampton taxpayers?

Any other consideration is misguided. A supervisor cannot look to his next election, his higher political ambitions, or what pleases the “up the island” power brokers. It is essential to do your research before making a decision. However, outside consultants, outside attorneys, and “experts” often allow a politician to continually kick the can down the road at great expense to the taxpayers. You were elected to make decisions, and not push them off to a more convenient time.

In the words of General George S. Patton, “Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.”

Greg Robins Republican candidate for Southampton Town supervisor Continued On Page 8.

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The appearance of the iconic Duryea's Dock complex will remain largely unchanged, according to new plans put forward by owner Marc Rowan. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

Marc Rowan’s Vision For Duryea’s, And Beyond No new buildings, but new septic system, permit on menu

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

Marc Rowan has a vision of the future for the Duryea’s Dock complex. “Being on Fort Pond Bay is kind of magical,” Rowan said in an exclusive interview March 30. “It is historic. It is beautiful.”

He spoke by phone from his Fifth Avenue residence, where he lives with his wife and daughter. The couple’s

three sons, all now 20 or older, are out of the house.

Rowan’s current vision for Duryea’s differs from the one he first presented to the East Hampton Town Planning Board less than a year after his 2014 purchase of the iconic Montauk property. The Duryea’s complex totals over nine acres

when the talk before the Birthright Israel The site straddles the private Tuthill Road.

In 2015, Rowan asked for a permit to demolish much of what was there, and create a new restaurant farther back from the water’s edge. That site plan was not well-received by the planning board, or by neighbors of Duryea’s, and Rowan soon withdrew the proposal.

If Rowan misread the mood of the community with that first proposal in 2015, it would not be the first time in the billionaire’s life that he had made a mistake, and then rebounded.

After he graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Rowan went to work for Drexel Burnham Lambert. In a 2009 talk before the Birthright Israel alumni community, the 56-year-old Rowan described his early days in the financial business world during the ’80s. “I think I was the only one in my class to go to work for Drexel,” he said. Six years later, Drexel filed for bankruptcy, done in by

the turmoil in the junk bond market.

In 1990, he founded, along with Leon Black and Joshua Harris, Apollo Global Management. They received generous backing of $800 million from the French Crédit Lyonnais Bank.

Rowan and his partners began turning a steady profit for Crédit Lyonnais, earning them $3 billion a year. Unfortunately, Rowan said during his 2009 talk, “that money went from New York to Paris. In the front door, and out the back door of the bank.”

And the French-owned institution was failing. When it collapsed in the mid-1990s, Rowan was, in a sense, again out of work. But, by that time, he and his partners at Apollo had built a strong reputation in the financial community. Today, Rowan’s net worth is estimated at over $3 billion, with Apollo seeing many times over that amount in assets.

Rowan said Saturday that he has been coming to Montauk for about 20 years, frequently driving from his Southampton residence with his Continued On Page 6.

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was that, while the land Rowan owns west of Tuthill Road is zoned for waterfront use, which allows for business operations, the land on the eastern side of Tuthill is zoned residential. Should a property zoned for residential use be used for a septic system and parking spaces for a neighboring commercial property?

It is a false question, Edward Burke Sr., one of Rowan’s attorneys, said on March 30. According to Burke, all nineplus acres of the Duryea’s complex are one property. He said that Perry Duryea had divided the properties “by deed,” and that such a subdivision is “procedurally improper and not binding.”

Rowan believes that much of the suspicion and opposition he has faced from neighbors and critics stems from property’s history. “The property has been the subject of zoning battles for many years,” Rowan said.

Duryea’s used to cater to a casual, “bring your own booze” crowd, who bought the prepared food and sat down on the dock to enjoy it. Duryea’s Lobster Deck now has a liquor license to sell wine and beer, eliminating the need to BYOB, and it still has a casual air, sitting as it does on Fort Pond Bay. But it also offers a world-class wine list, with many bottles going for several hundred dollars apiece. Town Councilman Jeffrey Bragman, a critic of the town’s settlement with Duryea’s, pointed out during one town board meeting that the Lobster Deck menu offered a family-sized side of French fries for $30.

Even with the expensive wine list, there still is a vestige of a BYOB feel: without waiters serving tables, when an expensive bottle of wine is purchased, Rowan said, “We pop the cork and put it back in.”

Rowan said that roughly half his seasonal clientele now come by sea, arriving by boat at one of the 11 slips designated as watery parking spaces by the town. During the summer season, a large number of yachts can be seen dropping anchor in Fort Pond Bay, meaning a lot of potential customers are just a few minutes away.

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mountain bike to ride the Hither Hills trails west of the recycling center.

‘What The Community Wanted’ Rowan’s new vision for the future of Duryea’s is, essentially, an old vision, with one major exception: a new, stateof-the-art septic system, to be installed across the street and up the hill on Tuthill Road. Otherwise, the new plans in place call for the current structures to remain, including the part of the complex known as Duryea’s Lobster Deck. According to the plans prepared

by Rowan’s representatives, there will be 90 seats on the deck area and 28 seats at tables indoors, with an additional 16 bar seats.

“There is no expansion. There is no change. This is what the community wanted,” Rowan said.

Rowan wants to be allowed to employ a waitstaff at Duryea’s Lobster Deck. The Lobster Deck and the entire dock sit in an area zoned “waterfront,” in which restaurants are allowed, but only after the owner has obtained a permit from the town.

In 2018, Rowan, through his attorneys, Michael Walsh, as well as the law firm of Burke & Sullivan, with Walsh being the litigator, took the Town of East Hampton and its building department to court in three separate lawsuits. This past January, the town’s lead attorney, Michael Sendlenski, signed off on a settlement of all three suits.

The agreement Sendlenski struck with Rowan mandated that the East Hampton Building Department issue a certificate of occupancy for the entire site. The word “restaurant” is not used in the certificate of occupancy mandated by the court stipulation between Rowan and the town. However, areas of food preparation and areas for dining are listed in the agreement.

More important, the agreement allows, going forward, “waitstaff service at the Duryea’s property,” while Rowan pursues an “expedited” site-plan review for a restaurant, and for a new septic system. With no new buildings planned, the new site plan covers the septic system and the permit needed to run a restaurant, though parking calculations still have to be ironed out.

Also, an agreement was struck for a building permit for renovations for a cottage just north of the dock. This cottage has a special place in Rowan’s heart.

The settlement set off a firestorm at East Hampton Town Hall, with critics questioning the reasoning behind the deal. One of opposing arguments

Facing The Challenges It has been a learning process in Montauk for Rowan. After purchasing Duryea’s, he bought two houses, one at 75 Firestone Road, the other at 75 Fleming Road, in order to house his seasonal staff. However, the town’s rental registry law makes that a difficult, if not impossible approach to the labor shortage in the town, Rowan said. Since then, he has purchased two motels, the Neptune on South Euclid Avenue in downtown Montauk, and Ann Breyer’s Cottages on West Lake Drive. The two houses

According to Marc Rowan, over half the customers at Duryea's arrive by skiff or boat, deboarding at the boat slips on the western end of the dock. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

Rowan originally purchased are now back on the market.

Resort towns all tend to share three problems, Rowan said. Septic flow is one. Resort towns tend to be environmentally beautiful, but fragile.

A new septic system at Duryea’s would check that issue off the list, he said, though, in the end, a state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant would be ideal.

Still, the system Rowan is proposing to install changes effluence into 95 percent pure water, he said.

Labor in seasonal resort communities is another challenge, one that Rowan has now overcome, with the Ann Breyer purchase.

The last obstacle most resort areas have to wrestle with is traffic. With customers coming by boat, there is a reduced density on the roads, though neighbors still say there is too much vehicular traffic on Tuthill Road.

When Rowan was in his buying mode in Montauk, he purchased the restaurant opposite the train station, and did a major upgrade, creating the casual but high-end restaurant, Arbor.

Arbor’s future, at least for the 2019 season, is still to be decided. Staffing two high-end eateries in Montauk at the same time may be a check too far, but Rowan will make that decision in the coming weeks.

Then there is the property at 80 Firestone Road, next to the Montauket, with a perfect view of Fort Pond Bay. It currently has four old cottages on it. Rowan brought in Viola Rouhani of Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects to redesign the property. Rouhani designed three cottages to replace the four currently standing, each with a small pool. One of the cottages was two stories. All three cottages were situated for maximum view of the bay.

The East Hampton Town Planning Department opposed the proposal,

based on the presence of what it thought was a landward bluff crest on the property. Rowan sued the town, and won in court. In the interim, however, accounting for a neighbor’s complaint about the proposed second floor blocking the view, as well as concern expressed about the swimming pools, Rowan asked Rouhani to again redesign. Now, there will be four small cottages, with hot tubs instead of pools, and no second floor. All will still offer unencumbered views of the bay.

They will be available to guests of Duryea’s. Rowan intends to brand them as Duryea’s Cottages.

Meantime, Rowan, who also owns Lulu Kitchen and Bar in Sag Harbor, is in the process of expanding to the North Fork, and is in negotiations with Bob Haase to purchase Orient by the Sea at Orient Point. When he bought Duryea’s, Rowan said, he made the deal while allowing Chip Duryea to stay on and run the place as long as he wanted. Rowan is looking at following that model with Haase and Orient by the Sea.

Eventually, Burke said, Orient by the Sea might fall under the Duryea flagship, and become Duryea’s Orient by the Sea.

Finally, there is that cottage on the Duryea property, overhanging Fort Pond Bay itself, for which — as part of the settlement with the town — a building permit was issued for renovations.

Currently a four-bedroom house, it is going to be converted to a one-bedroom structure. With their three sons now out of the house, and their daughter spending her summers at sleepaway camp, a one-bedroom house on Fort Pond Bay is the realization of a dream for the Rowans. Marc said he enjoys paddling out onto the water at daybreak.

A house right on the bay? “How could you have anything better than that?” Rowan asked.

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By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The library will be expanded to the east, with more floor space being created on the second floor as well. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

Business at the Montauk Library is booming. Annual book circulation is up 22 percent over the past five years, roughly the same percentage as the increase in the number of visitors to the building each year. In 2013, the library had 41,078 visits from members of the public. In 2018, there were almost 50,000.

Even though the current building, sitting high up on the hill just east of downtown Montauk, and offering one of the most spectacular ocean views in the village, is less than 30 years old, it is showing the wear and tear of its increase in visitors.

According to Denise DiPaolo, the library’s director, the children’s area of the library is woefully cramped, as is the library’s archive room. The windows leak, and are not hurricane rated.

The septic system is not up to date. In addition, there is an acoustical issue.

The library’s second floor is, essentially, an island, structurally floating over the first floor, with open areas between floors to the east, west, and south. While visually attractive, it allows sound to ricochet between floors.

Now, the library is proposing an expansion of the facility, to correct problems and to create new opportunities for education and research into Montauk’s past and present. According to DiPaolo, the first two community input sessions held at the library in recent weeks have produced positive feedback from Montauk residents for the proposed expansion, which is expected to cost nearly $7.5 million. The cost will be paid by 20-year bond. The cost to each home owner will be roughly $80 per year, based on a tax assessment on a property valued at $900,000.

The proposal calls for the first

floor to be expanded to the east, with a large space dedicated as a local history and fishermen’s center. On the second floor, that expansion will serve as a green terrace.

Green is the appropriate color in more ways than one, with solar panels proposed for the western roof. Vertical access wind turbines will be added to the facility, as well.

The open island design of the second floor will be closed, with the floors extended to the walls in each direction, adding needed floor space to the adult section. That expansion will allow the library to dedicate the first floor to children’s space, while still increasing the space dedicated to adults on the second floor. It will also create a terrace facing the ocean on the second floor, offering an even greater ocean view to the library’s adult users.

The expanded first floor to the east will also have a basement, which will contain offices, and an expanded archival space. In all, 5000 additional square feet of floor space will be added to the 9000 already present. A state-of-theart septic system will be added, as well.

The expansion bond vote will be held at the Montauk School on the same day as the school budget vote, Tuesday, May 21, from 2 to 8 PM.

Community input sessions for the proposal will be held at the library April 27 at 1 PM, May 1 at noon, May 7 at 3:30 PM, and May 15 at 10 AM.

The library is accepting donations from the public to reduce the cost of the project.

If the bond is approved by the community, the project will go out to bid this fall, with construction starting in December.

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rate the people, we minimize the enormity of the Holocaust. By showing our shared suffering, we are united as people in respect and human dignity.

Yes, we are our brother’s keeper.

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Addressing A School Safety Hazard

Getting the message to parents

He’s looking for police enforcewill be important, Clemensen said. ment the week the code change takes High school administration is eneffect. Police will be present for at couraging motorists to drop students least the first five days, which will be off on school property along the mentioned in a letter mailed to parschool driveway off Argonne Road, ents. Highway superintendent Alex which will take cars out to where Gregor said he spoke with Southampthe school busses queue. Gregor said ton Town Police Personnel Administhere’s enough space for one-way tration Lieutenant Michael Zarro and traffic to get through, and it’s a oneSpecial Operations Lieutenant James way outlet anyway.

Kiernan a month ago about patrolling Additional on-campus parking the area. He said they saw the logic has been created to help, Clemensen behind it. added, although there has been some

“Hopefully this is a very smooth spillover during major events. transition,” Moran said.

Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said Gregor added this is the first while Clemensen called the additional of multiple resolutions that will be parking adequate, there is opportunity to asked for on the topic. He’s hoping expand hidden parking along Wakeman for similar legislation on all townshould the district need it in the future. owned roads along schools to create to place a no-stopping restriction on

John Moran, director of school uniformity. The highway department Wakeman Road from the intersection safety and transportation and a forwill be reconstructing a long section of Argonne Road East to a point 930 mer Southampton Town Police ofof sidewalk on Central Avenue in East feet south to address the issue. ficer, is also hoping to stop a traffic Quogue that’s been missing for years,

“We got a good dean of students gridlock along Wakeman by promothe said, working on upping Ameriwho was marking kids tardy, so about ing the entrance onto school grounds cans with Disabilities Act compliance 90 seconds before the bell rings, you’ll through the loop off Argonne. at the elementary school there. Sigsee kids jumping out of cars and

“There’s also traffic along Arnage will be added in Hampton Bays sprinting to the building. It’s an ungonne for that 15-minute drop-off and at all future locations. safe situation, but they want to get to period,” Moran said. “The infrastruc “This is all for safety — we just school on time,” Superintendent Lars ture around all three schools was can’t have kids crossing the road at Clemensen said. “This is a practical built to accommodate 2000will, hurrying up; it can be chaotic,” Upholstery, Discounted Fabrics,never Slipcovers, Cushions, Pillows, Draperies, Valances, Cornices solution. We’re trying to get parents to plus students, and that’s the problem Gregor said. “We want to make school Installations, Pick up & Delivery,we’re Window Treatments by Hunter Douglasroads safer.” come five, six minutes earlier.” dealing with now.” $

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Burying Noyac Power Lines Town approves Bay Point residents’ petition to pay for project

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Nine utility poles on Long Beach Road will be removed and the power lines buried by 18 homeowners on Cliff Drive in Noyac. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

Bay Point residents on Cliff Drive are the first in Southampton Town to establish an underground utility improvement district.

The town board, with a 3-2 vote, approved a resolution allowing the Noyac residents to bury their wires.

Councilwomen Julie Lofstad and Christine Preston Scalera voted against the March 26 resolution despite 14 of 18 households filing a petition stating these residents are agreeing to foot the bill, according to Deputy Town Attorney Kathleen Murray.

She added that the petition is based on assessed value though, rather than by parcel. Eighty-one percent of the total assessed value of $23,339,900 had homeowners agreeing to undergrounding, where she said just over 50 percent approval was needed.

Nine utility poles along Long Beach Road will be buried across from homes 3 to 53 on Cliff Drive to improve reliability of electrical service during storms and improve community aesthetics.

“It’s one of the most beautiful vistas in Noyac — a 50-foot cliff overlooking Noyac Bay — and we want to restore the beauty that’s there,” said North Haven resident Jeff Sander, who owns two properties on Cliff Drive. “It was devastating to my family when the

power lines first went up.”

In October 2017, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation brought forth by Senator Kenneth LaValle and Assemblyman Fred Thiele enabling Southampton Town to create underground utility improvement districts.

Earlier that year, Public Service Enterprise Group officials announced improvements to the grid on the East End, including replacing wiring, poles, and switching equipment on NoyacLong Beach Road just south of Harbor Drive. The work was funded using Federal Emergency Management Agency money. Residents like Patricia Newman, a former town board member, wanted the lines buried then, but PSEG said the FEMA funds could not be used for that.

Newman said residents are enthusiastic about completing the project, citing the best part of the deal for the town is that the homeowners are willing to pay for it.

“I’m very old, and I would like to have those lines down before I die,” she said.

Stan Cohen, whose home is 30 feet up on the cliff, said looking out windows on both floors of his home, and even when standing in his backyard, the wires are all over.

“There’s what I call ‘world-class

sunsets,’ but when you try to take a photo, you have to frame it just right between the wires,” he said.

Lofstad and Preston Scalera took issue with aesthetics being the prime motivating factor to establishing the district.

“I don’t believe it’s in the public interest,” Lofstad said, citing the fourth resolve. “I believe this is in the interest of several people.”

Sander said there’s a safety aspect as well though, citing frequent power outages in an area exposed to high winds, and the poles not being far across the street from the houses if they were to come crashing down. One resident added that the utility poles are slanted and sway in the wind.

“I do believe it’s based more on the viewshed, not driving along and seeing it, which to me is more about the public benefit at large,” Preston Scalera said, adding her own power lines are buried underground and she still has power outages.

Sagaponack resident Koral Gregor spoke on behalf of her 87-year-old uncle Joseph Hennessy, who she said is against the proposal because of the associated cost.

“The poles have been there longer than I have. They don’t bother me, and I can’t afford it,” said Gregor, quoting her

uncle who she said has lived on Cliff Drive for nearly 50 years. “Primarily, he does not have the funds. He survives on his pension as a former New Jersey fireman,” she added.

Neighbors offered to help Hennessy pay for his portion, according to Sander, but Gregor said her uncle takes a lot of pride in his independence.

Town Attorney James Burke said a lien would be taken out on the house if he cannot pay the approximate $1421.19 per year on the maximum $420,000 bonded at four percent over a 20-year period.

“He doesn’t want charity,” Gregor said. “He’s a proud Korean War veteran.

But I’m not going to put my 87-year-old uncle out on his street. We’ll make sure his taxes are paid.”

Tiffany Gavin, who’s a newcomer to the area, said it’s also a hardship for her family, saving for her home since she was 14 years old.

“We are willing to pay this money because this is our future,” she said.

“It’s a valued investment we know will be returned. There is a natural beauty we’re all forgetting about in the world today. We have to protect it. We have to nurture it. We have an amazing opportunity here to make things better. We want to make it a safer, more beautiful place.”

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East Hampton Town Attorney Stepping Down After 20 years in government, Sendlenski entering private practice

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com East Hampton Town Attorney Michael Sendlenski announced that he is stepping down to enter private practice, effective May 3. John Jilnicki, longtime attorney with the town, who has also previously served as the town’s lead attorney, will fill the role until a new candidate for the job is approved by the town board.

Sendlenski said in a press release Monday, April 1, that, while there is a petition being circulated by friends and supporters to nominate him for the post of Suffolk County Family Court Justice, his immediate focus is to continue as an attorney, but in the private sector. He called the petition a “humbling honor,” adding that his desire is to go into private practice after almost 20 years of public service.

“The challenge of building something from the ground up,” he said of

the idea of opening his own law office, combined “with the potential to better provide for the financial needs of my family, is really appealing to me at this point in my career and life.”

Sendlenski joined the East Hampton Town Attorney’s office when Elizabeth Vail was lead attorney in 2013.

Sendlenski, a Southampton native, had worked alongside Vail as assistant town attorney in Southampton for seven years.

He was named lead attorney for the Town of East Hampton in January 2016.

As lead litigator for East Hampton, Sendlenski has stressed achieving compliance from defendants when prosecuting town zoning law violations.

Recently, during a town board meeting, Sendlenski had an argument with Councilman Jeffrey Bragman in

Michael Sendlenski, shown here at a recent East Hampton Town Board meeting, will be leaving his post as lead attorney as of May 3. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

which he threatened to resign. The dispute was over a settlement deal the town had struck with Marc Rowan, the owner of Duryea’s, over three separate suits he had brought against the town.

“I’ve indulged my interest in working in government for almost 20 years,” Sendlenski said.

During Sendlenski’s tenure in East Hampton Town, first as assistant town attorney, then as head of the office, the town has seen a significant decline in

code enforcement and quality of life violations.

"Michael Sendlenski has guided the town board through numerous complex and challenging legal situations, and his advice and leadership have been important and much appreciated," East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said Monday. "I wish him the best as he leaves East Hampton Town to seek new and different career opportunities."

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Singing Out With Parkinson’s Patients Music therapy program starts at Guild Hall

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com To classify Parkinson’s Disease simply as a degenerative nerve disorder is to ignore the auxiliary effects, including the loss of motor skills and frequently of the patient’s voice, which leads even further to the isolation, anxiety, and depression which come with any prognosis.

Now Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, in association with Guild Hall and the American Parkinson Disease Association, present Sing Out Loud, starting on Wednesday, April 3, a therapeutic choral group designed specifically for people living with Parkinson’s Disease and their care partners.

Singing may lead to improved muscle function, resulting in improved voice intensity, speech production, and respiratory function. The group format

specifically creates a social setting that fosters a sense of camaraderie and may improve mood, decrease stress, and alleviate symptoms of depression.

This lively eight-week workshop, led by Valerie diLorenzo, an award-winning vocalist and teaching artist, engages participants in singing-based therapy to address the vocal symptoms of Parkinson’s. The chorus also promotes social connections through the process of musical exploration. No prior singing experience required.

The Sing Out Loud therapeutic chorus is one of seven programs offered through the hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, whose mission is to provide fitness and cultural programming to people living with Parkinson Disease on the East End. Other class

offerings include Rock Steady Boxing in Hampton Bays and Sag Harbor, Dance for Parkinson’s in Bridgehampton, Paint the Parrish, offered in collaboration with the Parrish Art Museum, Explore SOFO at the South Fork History Museum, and yoga offered at the hospital.

The Sing Out Loud program launched last summer at the Southampton Arts Center, and has grown over the past year. In order to better meet the needs of participants, it’s now offered at the Riverhead Free Library (under the direction of Lee Morris and Renee Fabus).

Branching out to Guild Hall will help to serve the South Fork community as well.

“We all have skills, things we can do, and sometimes we are unsure as to just how much performing these skills (no pun intended) will affect other people and in what way,” said diLorenzo.

“When the wife of one of the participants in Sing Out Loud comes to me after class and says, ‘Thank you so much for not treating my husband like a patient,’ this is more rewarding to me than any amount of applause,” she continued.

“Yes, this is a program designed for those with Parkinson’s and their caregivers, but they sing without being measured or ‘medicalized’ in any way. That is the joy.

That is the reward.”

Sarah Cohen, program director of the hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, was named winner of the 2019 Degenerative Diseases Special Interest Group Service Award in recognition of her “tireless pursuit of improving the lives of individuals with Parkinson’s Disease who live on the East End of Long Island.”

“Sing Out Loud draws in people with diverse musical backgrounds — some with no experience and others who

Valerie diLorenzo. Independent/Courtesy Guild Hall

have been professional trained,” Cohen told The Independent. “But, for the hour and a half we spend together each week, we come together for the joy of creating and appreciating music,” she said.

“One of our participants at our Riverhead program mentioned there is nothing he would rather be doing than singing with Sing Out Loud on a Friday morning. I am incredibly grateful to the amazing team of music directors, collaborating partners, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, and the American Parkinson Disease Association — all of whom have made this program possible,” Cohen added.

Sing Out Loud runs from April 3 through May 22, from 1 to 2:30 PM at Guild Hall in East Hampton. To register, call the Ed and Phyllis Davis Wellness Institute at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, 631-726-8800. For more information about the hospital’s other programs, visit www.southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu.

Town Urged To Fight DEC Sand Land Ruling Opponents say state agency has failed to protect drinking water

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Opponents of the Sand Land facility in Noyac, upset over the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s recent decision to grant the company an eight-year extension of its mining permit, brought their case to the Southampton Town Board on March 26.

“Eastern Long Island has been abandoned by the DEC, the one body that is supposed to protect our environment,” said Elena Loreto, president of the Noyac Civic Council, which has been calling for the facility’s closure

for years. “Shocking.”

Loreto asked each town board member if they would commit “to sue the pants off the DEC,” condemn the permit extension, and take advantage of a new state law that would allow the town to oversee where monitoring wells are placed at the site.

One by one, board members agreed to her requests, although Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said the town, which has been involved in a multi-front legal Continued On Page 18.

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The SHED Relocates Women-only workspace will be open five days a week

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Starting next week, members of the allwomen coworking space won’t be saying “See you next Tuesday” anymore.

That’s because The SHED, which was open only on Tuesdays at Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor is relocating to a full-time venue.

The new space, just down the road at 1796 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, will provide members with a five-day-a-week workspace, featuring six desks that can be reserved ahead of time. Each desk is named after a pioneering woman who changed the course of history: Betty, Eleanor, Gloria, Michelle, Ruth, and Shirley.

The newly expanded workspace supports the woman who needs a space to work all day, Monday to Friday, as well as the woman who only needs to drop in for a few hours each week (and everyone in between). Mem-

bers will enjoy Wi-Fi, Nespresso coffee, charging stations, wireless printing and scanning courtesy of GeekHampton, flowers courtesy of Sag Harbor Florist, outdoor seating, access to a conference room that can be booked hourly, periodic yoga and meditation with Emily Weitz, artwork by Elizabeth Karsch, a SHED membership card to use for discounts at local businesses, and discounted access at regular networking events.

Last fall, The SHED started out as an experiment by its three founders — Sarah Cohen, Amanda MillnerFairbanks, and Liza Tremblay. At the end of last summer, the three SHED co-founders approached Estia’s owner Colin Ambrose with the idea of using his restaurant on Tuesdays, the one day of the week that Estia’s is closed to the public. Estia’s provided the perfect backdrop from which to launch.

The trio who started The SHED, in front of the new digs. Independent/Kimberly Eads

“Since launching The SHED Workspace six months ago, it’s become resoundingly clear that the year-round community on the East End needs — and can support — an all-women’s co-working space,” said Millner-Fairbanks. At Estia’s, just last week, we had 16 women working with laptops, iPads, and sketchbooks. After talking with and surveying our members, one day a week was not meeting their needs.”

Looking ahead, the two businesses will continue to work together on co-branded events.

More than 80 women (a combination of daily drop-in and monthly members) have stopped by Estia’s and worked at The SHED. Whether lawyers, designers, editors, writers, astrologers, or farmers, women of diverse backgrounds feel welcome, nurtured, and supported.

Starting Monday, April 8, The SHED will be open for business five days a week from 9 AM to 5 PM. To learn more, visit www.theshedworkspace.com or follow on Instagram @ theshedworkspace.

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Quietly Revving Engines Local companies test out electric equipment at Southampton Town Hall

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The sounds of buzzing, humming, and sputtering could only faintly be heard as local lawn maintenance companies tested new tools.

That’s because American Green Zone Alliance came to town, literally.

The global leader in quieter zero-emission sustainable grounds maintenance strategies is helping kick gas off local grass, and let town employees and 30plus members from local businesses test out electric-powered equipment outside Southampton Town Hall on March 29.

The “Go Electric” workshop introduced how battery-operated technology differs from internal combustion types, featured classroom training on environmental and human-health impacts, and went into operating safety and storage and charging procedures.

The workshop was put on by AGZA and Quiet Communities, a nonprofit working toward transitioning landscape maintenance to low noise, zero-emission practices with positive solutions to protect the health of workers, children, the public, and the environment, through the efforts of Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera.

Local companies like Jackson Dodds

Representativs of Mahoney Farm & Nursery check out Stihl electric chain saws and leaf blowers during a workshop at Southampton Town Hall. Independent/Desirée Keegan

& Company, Whitmores, and Mahoney Farm & Nursery tested out electricpowered equipment from GreenWorks, Stihl, and Oregon on Friday.

During the March 26 Southampton Town Board meeting prior to the workshop, the board unanimously approved Preston Scalera’s resolution to require the use of electric-powered handheld landscape maintenance equipment at municipal sites maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department. All board members signed on as co-sponsors.

Parks Director Kristen Duolos was also all for the idea. Under Preston Scalera’s leadership, tools like blowers, hedge trimmers, chain saws, and weed whackers were switched from gas to electric at the East Quogue Village Green and Town Hall over the past year.

“The green equipment totally eliminates any toxic or carcinogenic emissions. Our staff was a little skeptical at first what the performance of the equipment would be, and we’ve

Political Lines Blurred In East Hampton But Van Scoyoc assured of at least one spot on the ballot

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been very pleased with it,” Duolos said.

“They really like it because of the reduced noise and emissions, the maintenance is more efficient, plus, you don’t have to change out the oil, the gasoline.

And we’re coming up with criteria to move us into the future.”

After assessing 56 properties, AGZA estimates the town alone could reduce exhaust by 148,000 pounds of toxic carcinogens if it were to switch over its entire fleet to green equipment, and save roughly $41,000 a year by eliminating the need for gasoline. The company also estimates 1.5 million decibel hours of noise from all the town equipment used alone. Using green equipment reduces that by 45 to 70 percent.

Private companies could witness similar return on investment, basically “tripling the bottom line,” as Quiet Communities founder and Executive Director Jamie Banks put it, reducing noise, limiting harm to workers and others, and harm to the environment.

Because of the greatly reduced noise levels, businesses in California, which work with AGZA, have been able to extend their hours to work later in the day, without bothering patrons of businesses or neighbors whose lawns and yards the companies maintain.

Preston Scalera wanted the town to get on board with the idea first before opening the idea to the public. “We had some growing pains,” she said. “We wanted to experience the equipment first so we can work out the kinks, find out what works and what doesn’t, which machines work better than others.”

Councilman John Bouvier, who is co-executive officer with the councilwoman of the Sustainable Southampton Green Advisory Committee, applauded Preston Scalera’s leadership.

“We want to set an example,” Bouvier said. “As the technology becomes more mature, we’re going to continue to make this transition, and we hope others do too.”

The Working Families Party never sees many votes come Election Day, but a spot on its line might prove to be a critical factor come November 5.

So far, the WFP has endorsed only four candidates in East Hampton: three candidates for town trustee and incumbent Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc.

It is an important nod for Van Scoyoc, who potentially could otherwise have found himself without a ballot spot.

That’s because the reform Democratic Party will challenge Van Scoyoc with David Gruber under the Fusion Party banner. The winner of the primary will be listed on the Democratic Party Line.

Representatives for the Republican Party and the Independence Party said this week Richard Myers would be their standard bearer.

But The Independent has learned that Myers may have to back out due to a technicality. He can be removed from the ballot and replaced should that occur in a timely manner. He could also be challenged in a primary, though there doesn’t seem to be a movement underfoot.

Councilman Jeff Bragman, the Democratic Party maverick who won election to the town board in November, Continued On Page 24.

April 3, 2019

Editorial A Little Quiet, Please The days are getting longer, the temperature is getting warmer, and the annoying sound of leaf blowers and other yard equipment is getting louder.

Ask anyone who has watched an army of landscapers make their way across a neighbor’s near-perfect lawn, making sure every last dead leaf is blown out into the street, if they think some limits should be imposed on the noisemakers, and you are bound to hear a resounding “yes.” That is, if the landscapers aren’t working when you ask the question.

But there may be some relief in store for those fortunate enough to live in East Hampton Village, where a public hearing will be held next month on a new law that would pretty much ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers by commercial landscapers from June 1 through Labor Day and impose daily limits on when most other landscaping work could be done.

Village officials say their proposed law is a work-in-progress and promise it will be tweaked if needed. One place to start would be in extending the summertime ban to individuals, who would still be allowed to use the noisy — and polluting — equipment to their heart’s content even if the new measure is passed.

Speaking of pollution, kudos to Southampton Town, especially Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera, for working with commercial landscapers to encourage them to make the switch from gas-powered landscaping equipment to electric gear.

In recent years, the town has run pilot programs in which it has outfitted parks department maintenance workers with electric gear at the East Quogue Village Green and at Town Hall. It has also sponsored demonstrations, including one last week, with industry groups to answer the questions of local business owners, who are concerned about the cost and whether electric equipment is powerful enough to meet their needs.

The good news is that manufacturers are producing better electric tools all the time. The better news is they are not as noisy as their gas-powered counterparts, and the best news is they are nowhere near as polluting.

Yes, it’s true that somewhere, somehow electricity still has to be produced to power an electric leaf blower, but compared to typical gas machines, which are said to produce almost 500 times the pollution of an automobile, it’s a no-brainer to at least explore going electric.

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JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

With beach weather coming what do you do for exercise?

Khazdjanni O’Connor My friends and I are playing a game we made up called ball tag. It's like the game of tag but you play it with a ball and if you get hit by the ball, then, tag, you're it.

Danielle Talmage Now that it’s warmer, I’m riding my bike through the trails. I ride for about an hour or so. I usually ride with my boyfriend, so we keep going until one of us tuckers out.

Arianna Anderson I just had a baby three weeks ago. But I was in really good shape before I had the baby. I went to the gym pretty much every day.

Ashley Matteo I like to go walking on the beach. I love being by the ocean. I also play basketball on the school team.

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The Fashion Institute of Technology?

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South Fork News

By Genevieve M. Kotz gmkotz@indyeastend.com

Deacons Dinner The First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton will hold its annual Deacons Dinner, “Jazz and Jambalaya,” from 6 to 8 PM on Saturday, April 6. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door for adults and $10 in advance or $12 at the door for children 17 and under. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling the church office at 631-324-0711.

Wild By Design The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will host the lecture “Wild by Design: Promoting Life in the Designed Landscape” by Maggie Ruddick at the Bridgehampton Community House on Sunday, April 7, at 2 PM. Maggie Ruddick, a landscape designer and winner of the 2013 Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture, will talk about strategies for creating multilayered, rich landscapes featured in her book, “Wild by Design – Reinvention, Restoration, Conservation, Regeneration and Expression.” A book signing and re-

freshments will follow the lecture.

The lecture is free for members and $10 for non-members.

Recycling 101 Who doesn’t have questions about recycling? Exactly what types of tin and aluminum, plastics, and glass can be recycled? Do cereal boxes go with corrugated cardboard or with paper? What does the term “thin film plastic” include? How are co-mingled items separated and sold?

Did you know that the Town of Southampton has a complete guide to recycling? Find out what happens to your recyclables once you dispose of them, whether you take them to the transfer station yourself or have a carter collect them.

To have these questions answered and more, join the Hamptons League of Women Voters for a public forum titled “Recycling 101: With or Without a Carter” on Monday, April 8, 7 PM, at the Hampton Bays Community Center, located at 25 Ponquogue Avenue.

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Rogers Library Talks The Rogers Memorial Library and the Southampton History Museum will offer a talk, “The Tet Offensive: Lessons from the Vietnam War,” on Monday, April 8, at 5:30 PM at the library. Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of attacks across South Vietnam.

Tet, with its heavy casualties and shocking news coverage, played a vital part in weakening U.S. public support for the war. Historian Martin Levinson, Ph.D., will lead a discussion about this military operation and discuss the impact the war in Vietnam had on our nation. Register at www.myrml.org or call 631-283-0774, ext. 523.

The library and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital will offer “Healthcare on the East End: An Update,” on Thurs-

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battle with Sand Land for much of the past decade, would weigh its legal options to see if a suit with the DEC would be warranted.

Councilman John Bouvier said he was particularly upset that the DEC had agreed to allow Sand Land to hire a company of its own choosing to monitor the groundwater at the site. “I found that to be an outrageous part of that settlement,” he said.

Opponents of Sand Land, which is run by Wainscott Sand and Gravel, have long argued that other activities at the site, including composting and mulching and the recycling of construction debris, have polluted the groundwater.

They seized on a study by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services in 2018 that showed elevated levels of lead, manganese, and other pollutants in the groundwater at the 50-acre site to step up their effort to close the facility. That wish appeared to have been granted last September when the DEC announced that it would not renew Sand Land’s mining permit and had ordered the site to be reclaimed.

But on March 15, the DEC announced that it had reached a new agreement with Sand Land, one that would allow the company to continue mining for

day, April 11, at 5:30 PM at the library.

Advances in technology, access to specialists and clinical trials are new benefits the partnership with Stony Brook Medicine affords East End residents.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Chief Administrative Officer, Bob Chaloner, will explain how this collaboration works to cultivate a broader, stronger network of hospital services while retaining the compassionate care that a community hospital provides.

Register at www.myrml.org or call 631-283-0774, ext. 523.

The Lure Of The Moon Looking ahead, The Montauk Observatory will hold a free, educational event on April 12 from 7 to 8:30 PM at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton.

William Francis Taylor, a senior educator at the observatory and NASA Solar System Ambassador, will present the lecture, “The Lure of the Moon and the Legacy of Apollo.” At the end of the discussion, weather permitting, there will be an opportunity to view the moon with telescopes operated by Montauk Observatory astronomers.

The event is suitable for adults and children 10 years and older. It is free, but to register, call the museum at 631-5379735. eight more years and dig another 40 feet deeper for the sand that is a vital ingredient in concrete. The DEC also announced it would give the company 10 years to fully reclaim the site while promising that it would be required to install state-of-theart groundwater monitoring systems.

“This is madness. You have all have worked very hard on this issue. I just pray that you can continue to move on this,” said Robert DeLuca, president of Group for the East End, an environmental advocacy organization that has also targeted Sand Land for closure.

DeLuca said he was concerned because in the settlement, the DEC exaggerated the size of the mine and failed to include any prohibition against Sand Land requesting permission to expand the mine horizontally after it exhausts its current permit. He said he feared the company would expand the mine and then request retroactive approval from the DEC. DeLuca called on the town board to pass a resolution condemning the DEC’s decision and demanding that it hold a local hearing with DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos in attendance.

He urged the town to be willing to sue the DEC if it does not reconsider its decision. “It’s all in the best interest of the public, the groundwater, and what this board has stood for the past five years,” he said.

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Police EH Police: Two Charged With Felony DWI Both have prior EH convictions

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

Two men were arrested over the weekend by East Hampton Town police on felony driving while intoxicated charges. For one of the two, Juan Farez, the new felony charge complicates what is already a difficult legal predicament.

Farez, 34, of Springs was driving a 2017 Cadillac on Fort Pond Boulevard early Saturday morning, police said, going 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. He also is alleged to have run the stop sign at Springs Fireplace Road. After being pulled over at Springs Fireplace Road and Gardiners Avenue, police said, he failed sobriety tests, and was arrested on the DWI charge. It was charged at the felony level because he had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge four years ago in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

At headquarters, he refused to take a breath test, police said.

His legal woes are complicated greatly because he also has an open felony criminal mischief charge in East Hampton, after being arrested last August in the parking lot at Maidstone Park. According to the report, Farez

took a key to the exterior of a female acquaintance’s 2009 Jeep Liberty, which was parked there the evening of August 12, and repeatedly gouged the vehicle on both sides, as well as on the front grill and bumper. Police estimated the damage at the time to be in excess of $2000.

Farez was brought into the town’s justice court Saturday morning to be arraigned on his newest charges. When it came time to set bail, Farez told the court, “I don’t have any money. I have to pay child support, and my attorney in the other case. Please help me.”

He also said the owner of the Jeep he is alleged to have keyed is asking for $15,000 restitution, apparently the cost of a full paint job for the vehicle.

Justice Lisa Rana agreed to set bail at the amount Farez said he could post, $1000, but said to him, “These are really serious charges. You need to start helping yourself.” She pointed out that the speeding ticket was issued in a residential neighborhood, with narrow streets that frequently have no shoulders. “Somebody could have been walking on the side of the road,” she

Juan Farez, shown here being brought into East Hampton Town Justice Court on a felony drunken driving charge March 30, has an open felony charge in the same court. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

said.

Farez posted bail at police headquarters.

The other man charged with felony DWI was Angel Guillen, 39, of Amagansett. He was pulled over on Amagansett Main Street for allegedly speeding in a 2010 Jeep Sunday around 8 PM on Sunday. He was also charged at the felony level since he was convicted in East Hampton at the misdemeanor level in 2013. Besides the speeding ticket, and another for making an unsafe lane change, he was charged with a misdemeanor for reportedly not having an interlock device on the Jeep, required because of the prior conviction. He posted bail of $1000.

In addition to the two arrests on felony DWI charges, a Westhampton man was accused at the misdemeanor first-time offender level of drunken driving by East Hampton Town police this past weekend. Rene Saban-Tinti, 32, was pulled over a little after noon Saturday on Abraham’s Path after he swerved onto the grassy shoulder of the road, police said.

“I had five Coronas last night,” he reportedly told the arresting officer.

Failing sobriety tests, he was taken to headquarters, where a breath test produced a .14 reading, over the .08 mark that defines intoxication, police said.

He was released the next day without having to post bail.

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Felony Charges After High Speed Chase Riverhead police say driver was high, had infants in car

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

Dominque Scaggs, left, Alicia Descalzo Independent/Riverhead Town Police

Two women remained in custody Monday morning, April 1, charged with grand larceny. One of the women, Dominque Scaggs, allegedly led police on a highspeed chase, with her car crashing into a telephone pole and almost striking a house. The other woman, Alicia Descalzo, was a passenger.

According to Riverhead Town police, they received a call reporting the theft by the two women of more than $1000 worth of cosmetics from the CVS on Old Country Road late Saturday morning, March 30. An officer soon spotted the vehicle, a 2004 Chevrolet SUV, being driven by Scaggs, 29, of Calverton, and tried to pull her over, but Scaggs allegedly tried to evade police. Descalzo, 35,

has given police different home addresses over the years.

With police in pursuit, Scaggs lost control of her vehicle, and went off road after striking a parked car. Scaggs’s vehicle then bounced off a telephone pole, and plowed through a fence, stopping just short of the exterior of a house.

Police said that Scaggs was high on drugs at the time. In the backseat were Scaggs’s two infant children: a one year old, and a four month old. Police charged her with driving while high on drugs as a first-time misdemeanor, and two counts of driving with ability impaired by drugs with children in the car, felonies under Leandra’s Law. Per Leandra’s Law legislation —

No Bail Needed For Non-Violent Crimes Change coming to state justice courts

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Two East End attorneys well versed in criminal procedure law commented April 1 on the decision made by New York State legislature, along with Gov-

ernor Andrew Cuomo, to eliminate bail requirements for most defendants, as well as other changes.

The changes to the state’s judicial

which was named for Leandra Rosado, a child who died in a 2009 car crash involving a drunk driver — Skagg’s blood was drawn.

None of the occupants of the car were injured in the crash, according to police. The children were taken to Stony Brook University Hospital to be evaluated, and the county’s Child Protective Services was notified of the incident.

Scaggs was also charged with another felony, grand larceny, and seven misdemeanors, including endangering the welfare of a child, criminal possession of narcotics, reckless driving, unlawful fleeing of a police officer, and driving without a license.

Descalzo was charged with a single

count of grand larceny.

Bail was set during their arraignments in Riverhead Town Justice Court at $10,000 for Scaggs, and $750 for Descalzo. Scaggs posted bail on Monday.

Descalzo remained in custody Tuesday morning.

Descalzo has a long history of arrests, on charges such as larceny and drug possession. In 2010, Suffolk County police reported finding her passed out and high on drugs in a yard behind a church, with her three-year-old child nearby. The child was turned over at that time to CPS. The final outcome of that case is not known. She currently has an open grand larceny charge in county court stemming from an incident last December.

system are being passed through the budgetary process.

Currently, those arrested on misdemeanor or felony charges are usually held overnight and arraigned the following morning, when a bail determination is made by the judge. The need for bail for most crimes will be eliminated, with the exception being those felony crimes classified as violent, such as rape in the first degree, or assault with intent to kill.

“It is a greatly needed change,” Brian DeSesa of the Adam Miller Group said on Monday. DeSesa handles arraignments in East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village every other week-

end, part of a state program designed to ensure adequate representation at all points in the judicial process.

“Poor people should not be sitting in jail because they have no money,” DeSesa added. He called the current process “burdensome on taxpayers” and said the new law would “reduce the need for arraignments.”

Most defendants, going forward, will be eligible to be released by the police with an appearance ticket, to be arraigned at a future date.

One type of arrest, DeSesa cautioned, may still require police to hold Continued On Page 29.

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Arts & Entertainment Author Chronicles Mental Health Battles Steven Gaines is Almond's next ‘Artists & Writers night’ guest

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

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Steven Gaines is the best-selling author of 12 books — like his off-the-charts sizzling success “Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons,” along with his biographies of Halston, Calvin Klein, The Beach Boys, and The Beatles. But finally, it was time to turn the mirror on himself. And that’s what he does in his fascinating and poignant memoir, “One of These Things First,” which includes his suicide attempt at 15 and the ensuing decade of deep Freudian analysis he underwent to try to become heterosexual.

This might sound depressing, but when it comes from Gaines, who also co-founded the Hamptons International Film Festival, it’s not. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, and in his affable way, he makes every moment into such a fascinating snippet that his audience — whether a friend coming over for tea or a roomful of strangers — won’t want to miss a minute. And he will be reading those snippets when he is the host of the next “Artists & Writers Night” at Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton on Tuesday, April 9.

“I can be funny, but I didn’t see anything funny about it,” he said of his journey. “In fact, when I spoke about it,” at the East Hampton High School’s Gay Straight Alliance in 2013, “I was choking back tears. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in kids between the ages of 10 and 20, and it’s four times

that amount for gay kids, and one in 10 transgender children have tried to kill themselves. One in 10! So, I’ve been trying to write this story in all different variations, until it finally struck me that there were a lot of funny elements to it, so if I could tell it like David Sedaris, it would work.”

Up until the moment he tried to kill himself, Gaines was not what one would call a normal kid. He had severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and was regularly bullied, by adults as well as his peers. He also would spend hours hiding in a large corrugated box in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store in Bensonhurst, “furious with myself and thinking seriously about suicide.” His one respite was the movie house in his neighborhood, where he was able to go for free almost daily, because his grandmother supplied the owner’s diabetic wife with support hose.

When he ended up at Payne Whitney mental hospital, “this gorgeous place with views of the East River,” he met a cast of similarly semi-broken but infinitely interesting individuals, and experienced his first moments of feeling like he might actually belong somewhere. “I knew Marilyn Monroe had been there the year before,” he said.

“I was an adventuresome and nutty little kid. I was taken under the wing of Richard Halliday, who was married to Mary Martin and had produced ‘South

Steven Gaines will read excepts from his book "One of These Things First" at Almond on Tuesday, April 9.

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Pacific’ and ‘Peter Pan,’ and he really mentored me. Mary Martin would come and visit him on weekends, and they would talk to me and give me books to read, and he encouraged me to write. I still don’t know why he was there.”

He also had a “brilliant” psychologist, to whom Gaines finally confessed “that I was a homo. That’s what you said back then. We didn’t use words like ‘gay.’” His doctor offered him a way out, to become heterosexual. “Now if you’re a 15-year-old kid, it’s 1962, you come from Brooklyn and you don’t know anything, and a doctor says to you, ‘I can lift this curse,’ you say, ‘Yes. I’ll do anything.’ That’s what I’m going to be talking about at Almond, but in a very funny way. How I got there, and ‘the cure,’” he said.

The crew at Almond always ties its family-style dinner for the “Artists & Writers Night” into something salient

from the presentation.

So, what is on the menu when you grow up above your family’s bra and girdle shop in Bensonhurst?

“Chinese food,” Gaines said emphatically. “The store was directly across the street from The Great World Chinese restaurant. And whenever there was something bad in our family, an argument, we all raced across the street to get Chinese food. It was how we repaired everything.”

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RJD Gallery’s ‘Believe’ Fosters Hope 10th annual juried art show benefits The Retreat

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The 10th annual Hamptons juried art show “Believe” at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton will open with a public reception on Saturday, April 13, from 6 to 8 PM. The submission-based exhibit donates 100 percent of the fees collected to The Retreat, an East Hampton not-for-profit that provides support, shelter, and safety to victims of domestic abuse and violence.

The Independent caught up with three artists included in the show: Dana Hawk, a returning juried art show exhibitor, and Jacqueline Gordon and Larry Reinhart, both of whom are participating with the gallery for the first time.

What’s your connection to the East End? Jackie Gordon: The East End has been such a special and significant place for me. From escaping the hustle and bustle of the city each weekend, to getting engaged at Wölffer vineyard, and getting married at East Hampton Point, it has served as the backdrop to so many of my life’s biggest milestones.

Describe your artwork that will be featured in the show.

Dana Hawk: My small painting “If Found Please Call” was inspired by a tweet that I read during the wildfires in California last year. The fires were encroaching on properties so quickly that horse owners didn’t have time to trailer their horses for escape.

The tweet instructed people to remove any halters that could catch fire or hinder their movement, spray paint their phone numbers on the horses, and let them go. The reality of having to do this struck me and produced a visual of desperate survival that I

couldn’t get out of my head.

JG: My piece “Superstar” depicts my four-year-old daughter while aboard a boat (in Sag Harbor bay) and captures her in a moment where she appears aloof and somewhat unamused by the experience. Her curious gaze behind her star-shaped sunglasses playfully suggests a yearning for independence and maturity, while subtly blurring the line between childhood and adulthood.

Larry Reinhart: I’m showing one of my nautical paintings. The painting for this show depicts a dog with a yellow scarf riding in the bow of a boat.

This dog is accompanied by a younger pup. The painting is titled “Homeward Bound” and is about the feeling of traveling to our childhood home after we have been away for many years.

We naturally return home with more experiences, we are generally more dignified, we just know a bit more about the world than when we left. But, deep down inside, our bellies have butterflies because the kid in us just can’t wait to be back home and revisit all our old stomping grounds. This fleeting sense is what I am playing with in this painting.

What is your emotional tie to The Retreat?

DH: My undergrad degree is in Cell and Molecular Biology, which although was not focused on forensics, we did cover a fair amount of techniques. Because of this, I found the show “Forensic Files” to be compelling and have a watched quite a few episodes.

What I didn’t expect to learn is the frequency with which women are murdered trying to leave boyfriends or in the process of trying to divorce a husband. I now know that efforts of

Jackie Gordon's "Superstar."

organizations like The Retreat are not just about giving aid, but literally saving lives.

In what ways is artwork healing?

DH: I was a health care professional for over a decade, directly dealing in physical rehabilitation. The body and mind are absolutely connected and one. You can’t neglect the mind/spirit component of healing that art addresses and inspires. Good hospitals understand this and hire talented art directors.

JG: I believe the visual arts can elicit thoughts, memories, and different emotions and responses that are entirely unique to each person. The act of painting for me is personally cathartic, allowing me to create and enter a world that is solely mine.

LR: I think art heals in a variety of ways. Whether it’s the act of making it, viewing it, or being present with it around you, it changes you. Making art generally calms me, makes me more observant, and helps me bring focus to things I am dealing with.

Viewing art can transport me to new places I long to visit. It makes me remember old places I have been. It

reminds me to look at things from another’s perspective, and I often find a connection with others when we share our similar or abstracted views of various art works.

What does the word “believe” mean to you?

JG: The word “believe” symbolizes that there is hope. That with true conviction, perseverance, and optimism, there is always a new possibility and a new obtainable reality. The word alone elicits a positive, uplifting concept that we, as individuals, can play a role in what comes next in our future. With believing, we place a goal or vision of what can be, which is the first step in achieving our goals.

LR: “Believe” is to have trust, faith, and caring in something or someone. If I find myself depressed, I must trust that I can reverse my negative feelings. Believing in myself requires this. Believing in others requires the same.

RJD Gallery is located at 2385 Main Street in Bridgehampton; its website is www.rjdgallery.com. To support The Retreat, visit www.theretreatinc.org.

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Running To Remember Benefit 5K honors Katy Stewart

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com On Saturday, April 13, Sag Harbor will turn into a running course for a cause.

At the ninth annual Katy’s Courage 5K, sneakers will be hitting the pavement to honor and remember a 12-year-old who stole the community’s hearts, Katy Stewart, who died of a rare pediatric liver cancer.

“We look forward to the 5K every year,” said Brigid Collins, Katy’s mother. “This race is such a great way to kick off the spring season and see our community come together. We love seeing all the talented athletes and new faces year after year. It’s so heart-warming to see our friends, family, and supporters in attendance and coming together to support our cause. It’s a great course.”

Runners of all levels — and ages — are encouraged to participate, from competitive to casual.

Katy’s Courage is a not-for-profit organization that supports education, children bereavement counseling, and pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.

Partial proceeds from this year’s event will go towards college scholarships for seniors at Pierson and East Hampton High School. In addition, money raised will fund Katy’s Kids

at the Children’s Museum of the East End. Katy’s Kids is a dedicated group providing a healing environment for kids and their families who have recently lost a loved one to cancer. The open sessions take place on the first and third Wednesday of each month.

Katy’s father, Jim Stewart, also looks forward to the event ever year.

“After being inside all winter, it’s great to get out and see all our supporters, friends, and families participate in this heart-shaped 5K. We deeply appreciate all the camaraderie and love shown for a cause close to our hearts that honors the memory of our little girl, Katy.”

Registration and check-in takes place from 7 to 8:15 AM, with the race beginning at 8:30 AM. The race will head north from 21 West Water Street before making a right onto Main Street and another right onto Glover Street. A run through the Redwood section will finish back on Water Street.

“Most recently, we made a contribution in support of an initiative at Memorial Sloan Kettering designed to help fund a DNA sequencer and the genomic profiling it drives, helping patients get the earliest and most precise treatment possible. Each of these ini-

tiatives is in need of dollars to positively affect our community, and we continue to see first-hand the way in which they make a wonderful difference for the children and families who receive

assistance from them. We look forward to seeing everyone at the race!” Stewart concluded.

Visit www.katyscourage.org for race sign-up or to make a donation.

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Capturing The Moment New abstract paintings by Anne Raymond

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com “Capturing the Moment — New Abstract Paintings” opens at the Sara Nightingale Gallery, featuring the works of artist Anne Raymond. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Sag Harbor gallery.

“My goal as an artist is to create powerful images that invite the viewer to move away from certainty and experience something new,” said Raymond.

The show will feature large, bold oil paintings and monotypes and includes the recurring themes of sky, wa-

ter, and motion. Inspired by nature, the artist’s intention is to imply, not state, leaving the viewer’s imagination to explore capturing the moment.

Raymond’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. She has exhibited group and solo shows around the world.

“Capturing the Moment” opens on Saturday, April 6, with a reception from 6 to 8 PM. The exhibit will run through April 29.

Anne Raymond's "Cirrus Cadmuim III."

Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Grids And Touch Folioeast presents “Grids and Touch,” curated by Bastienne Schmidt. The show is on view through April 30 at Malia Mills in East Hampton. Artists include Louise Eastman, Sabra Moon Elliot, Philippe Cheng, Saskia Friedrich, Bastienne Schmidt, and Almond Zigmund. An opening reception will be held Saturday, April 6, from 6 to 8 PM. Visit www.folioeast.com.

Margot Carr & Melinda Hackett The SHED Workspace and Estia’s presents works by Margot Carr and Melinda Hackett on display at Estia’s Little Kitchen. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, April 7, from 3:30 to 5:30 PM.

Zen in Art The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton presents “Zen in Art and Art in Zen.” Artists include Joanne Handler, Nella Lush, Oz Van Rosen, and Adele Venter. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 6, from 5 to 7 PM.

Hybrid Resonance “Hybrid Resonance,” an exhibition and charity event for Venezuela, will be held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from April 5 to 7 to raise awareness of the instability, insecurity, critical food crisis, and general humanitarian needs currently experienced by millions. A preview event will be held on Friday, April 5, from 7 to 9 PM. An opening event will be held Saturday, April

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On Sunday, April 7, organizer Esperanza Leon will host a talk and tour discussing the art and the crisis in Venezuela. Also on Sunday beginning at 2 PM will be family fun time including a craft hour for children and Latin dancing with Natalia Poggi. All of the artists selected are East End residents that have a connection to Latin America. Artists include Gustavo Bonevardi, Aner Candelario, Darlene Charneco, Nadine Daskaloff, Dinorah Delfin, Sara Mejia Kriendler, Walt Lindveld, Mago, Dalton Portella, Maria Schon, E. Osbaldo Segura, Aurelio Torres, and Alex Vignoli.

Augustus Nazzaro The Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton present Augustus Nazzaro’s “Threshold.” The show runs through

April 28. See www.halseymckay.com.

Guild Hall Members Guild Hall’s 81st Artist Members Exhibition will run through April 6. The guest juror is Jocelyn Miller, the assistant curator at MoMA PS1. For more info, visit www.guildhall.org.

Forms & Figures The William Ris Gallery in Jamesport presents “Forms & Figures,” highlighting the creative energy of nine women artists — Chris Ann Ambery, Deborah Brisker Burk, Shawn Ehlers, Madison Fender, Jan Guarino, Jennifer Hannaford, Margaret Minardi, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, and Susan Saunders. The show runs through April 14. An artist talk will take place on Saturday, April 6, from 2 to 4 PM. See www.williamris.com for details.

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Sweet Charities

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tracts many from all walks of life.

Attendees will enjoy entertainment provided by DJ Terramoto, dancing by the SCC Dancers, Jaime Ruiz and World Salsa, Group Folklorico and Tenocgtitlan, and drumming with Mila Tina. The admission price is $10, and children under 15 are admitted free.

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Hampton Lifeguard Association will host a summer kick-off benefit party on Saturday, April 13.

Madoo In Manhattan The Madoo Conservancy presents “Enzo Enea: (De)Constructing Paradise” for the sixth annual Madoo in Manhattan Robert Dash Garden Design Lecture. The event will take place on Thursday, April 4, at 6:30 PM at a private club in Manhattan, with a reception to follow. Tickets and more information are available at www.madoo. org.

Casino Royal Two local charities, The Paul Koster Memorial Benefit and Have A Heart

Community Trust, present a Casino Royal Masquerade party on Saturday, April 6, at Seasons of Southampton.

For more info, call 631-283-3354.

Celebration Of Immigration Neighbors in Support of Immigrants and Corazon de Maria will sponsor a celebration for the fifth consecutive year at St. Rosalie’s Community Center in Hampton Bays on Sunday, April 7, from 5 to 8 PM. The event supports the contributions of immigrants and the East End’s legacy of being a destination to set down roots and a place that at-

Taste of Tuckahoe, benefiting the Tuckahoe School, will be held on Friday, April 12, from 7 to 10 PM at 230 Elm in Southampton, with a special VIP hour happening from 6 to 7 PM that includes live music by local talent Liam Meaney, open bar, and first access to all food and drinks, as well as the Chinese and silent auctions.

The event brings restaurants, bakeries, breweries, and wineries from the East End together under one roof to highlight their culinary talents and signature drinks for the community to enjoy. The event includes a photo booth, and music by DJ Chris Cenzoprano.

Participants currently include 230 Elm, Centro Trattoria & Bar, Edgewater Restaurant, The Golden Pear, Hampton Coffee Company, Hampton Farms, Katie Cakes & Confections, Krieg’s Bakery, North Sea Tavern & Raw Bar, Paul’s Italian Restaurant, Saaz, Twin Fork Beer Co., Montauk Brewing Co., and Union Cantina.

Ticket cost is $35 in advance, and $50 at the door for general admission, $75 for VIP and can be purchased at Southrifty Drug, from committee members, or via the website at www.

TasteofTuckahoe.com.

Winter Blue Cocktail On Friday, April 13, the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor will host a cocktail and raffle party from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. This celebration will feature a specialty Winter Blue Cocktail, sparkling pink champagne, and bites. Raffle tickets are $5 each, five for $20, and 30 for $100, and tickets for

the party are $20. Purchase tickets in advance at www.eastvillehistorical.org or at the door.

Katy’s Courage Katy’s Courage will host its ninth annual Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor on Saturday, April 13. Proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to local scholarships, as well as Katy’s Kids @ CMEE.

Katy’s Kids provides a safe and healing environment for children, teens, and their families as they grieve the death of a parent, sibling, close family member, or friend. Katy’s Courage is a not-for-profit organization honoring Katy Stewart, an inspirational 12-year-old girl who died from a rare form of liver cancer. The organization is dedicated to supporting education, children’s bereavement counseling, and pediatric cancer research.

On the day of the race, registration and check-ins will take place from 7 to 8:15 AM and the run will begin promptly at 8:30 AM. Runners will start at 21 West Water Street, head north and make a right onto Main Street, make a right onto Glover Street, run through the Redwood section of the course and finish back on Water Street. Visit www.katyscourage.org.

Hampton Lifeguard Hampton Lifeguard Association will host a summer kick-off benefit party on Saturday, April 13, from 7 to 11 PM at Harbor Bistro in Springs. The benefit will feature music by Josh Brussell, a cash bar, delicious food, and silent and Chinese auctions with items from travel destinations and gift baskets to restaurant gift certificates and spa treatments.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

A Hamptons Love Story The Pol and his toupee denishamill@gmail.com

I met The Pol and his girlfriend in the Hamptons 40-odd summers ago.

I was a Brooklyn kid who didn’t even know how to drive when a highprofile city politician we called The Pol invited my brother Brian and me to The Pol’s wealthy father’s estate in Southampton.

My idea of going to the beach was storied Coney Island, the Poor Man’s Paradise, the place where the working people who are the teeming city of New York went in sweltering summers to cool off, scarf hot dogs, guzzle draft beer, and ride the amusements, and where macho guys with tattoos played hammer and bell games to win their gals kewpie dolls.

I’d been to Rockaway a few times, also known as the Irish Riviera, but you had to pay a double subway fare to get there, so it was pretty much off limits for Brooklyn mugs.

When we were living large one summer, my mother rented a bungalow for a week in Keansburg, NJ, which was like winning a Hawaiian vacation on a TV game show.

I’d heard about The Hamptons, but to me it was some mythical gold coast on the edge of the world, out there on the ass end of what we called “The Eyeland.” The Long Island Rail Road was as exotic to me as The Orient Express.

But, in the heady 1970s, we befriended this hip, young, handsome politician who wore a toupee as obvious as a top hat who secretly loved smoking pot. We joked that if he ever got tossed, he could hide his joints under his obvious toupee.

He was a fun guy whose liberal politics matched ours in the day of civil rights struggle and anti-Vietnam War protests and sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.

He called us up and asked if we could score him some weed, a phone call riddled with coded words like a back-channel line to the Kremlin. We assured him we could get him some, and he invited us out to his father’s

house in Southampton.

When we reached Montauk Highway, driving through the small villages and towns under a massive blue sky, it was like we’d traveled to a foreign country. People drove brand new expensive cars, few people jaywalked, and the streets were so clean it made you want to take off your shoes before you walked on them.

We passed homes that looked like Hollywood sets, with long circular driveways, tennis courts, swimming pools, Jacuzzis, and guest houses, and the tallest hedges we’d ever seen — like castle walls of verdant foliage.

Then we arrived at The Pol’s father’s house I expected to see Jed Clampett, Granny, and Daisy Mae greet us at the door. My brother thought it was more Xanadu from “Citizen Kane” than “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

The Pol met us at the door with his smart, friendly, and beautiful girlfriend from a prominent family. The Pol invited us inside, showed us our guest rooms, and we gave him the grass that he couldn’t very well score himself the way we had on Hippie Hill in Prospect Park. We found the liquor cabinet on our own. Most of the scotch was older than us. Some of the wine was older than The Pol’s father.

The weekend was a glorious time of beer and weed — which I never liked because it made me paranoid — and delicious seafood prepared by a staff cook. We ate brunch in a high-end restaurant in town and later strolled the immaculate tan beach, talking politics and Watergate. We listened to live music at a deck party that night. We’d gone from the Poor Man’s Paradise of Coney Island to paradise itself.

Through it all, The Pol and his lady friend made a hand-holding, canoodling, loving couple. When she stripped to a bathing suit for a swim, The Pol declined. We joined her in the surf.

That weekend made me fall almost as fond of the Hamptons as that pair of beautiful people that seemed destined for the altar.

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After that, we’d come out a few times a month, taking drives through the other beach towns, all the way out to Montauk Point.

In the city, we’d run into The Pol and his gal at trendy Manhattan night spots. He never even changed the style of the toupee to trick people into thinking his hair might be real.

Then I moved to Los Angeles to work for a newspaper and lost touch with The Pol. In LA, I ran into The Pol’s girlfriend at a screening. I asked if she was with him. She said they’d broken up. I said I was sorry, that I always thought they’d get married.

She said she thought so too. Until one day on the beach in Southampton when she wanted to go for a swim. As usual, The Pol declined. She told me she swam out pretty far and then got caught in a rip current.

“I screamed for him,” she told me.

“I flailed my arms. I screamed his name again. He didn’t budge. I swam with the current as two other guys dove in and headed my way. But I kept calling his name.”

She said The Pol stood there on the shore and shook his head and pointed at his toupee. The two strangers rescued her, helping her to the shore.

She paused and said, “The man I was going to marry refused to dive in to save me because he didn’t want anyone else to see him without his toupee.”

I couldn’t help it. I burst out laughing. After a pause, so did she.

I think of that love story every year when spring comes to the Hamptons.

I’d heard about The Hamptons, but to me it was some mythical gold coast on the edge of the world, out there on the ass end of what we called “The Eyeland.”

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

An Ode To The Hampton Jitney Happy 45th birthday! jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

It’s the Hampton Jitney’s 45th birthday and it’s holding a story contest asking riders to share and be a part of its campaign. The quote used in the promotion is “I fell in love on the Hampton Jitney.”

The Hampton Jitney is basically my third residence as I shuffle each week between my apartment in Yorkville, my house in Hampton Bays, and the Indy office in East Hampton.

One of the main reasons I live where I live in Manhattan is because of the close proximity to the Hampton Jitney.

There’s a bus almost every hour and I take it at least once a week. The Jitney never fails to get me where I need to be in a timely fashion.

While I’ve never fallen in love on the Hampton Jitney — when I was 18 an attendant asked me on a date, but the relationship was short-lived — I do have stories.

For me, it’s not one story that sticks out but a handful of musings, if you will, of my time spent on the luxury motor coach over the years.

One day, after a Tuesday deadline at the paper, I rushed to catch the 2 PM. Since it was a crazy deadline day, I decided to skip lunch, thinking “I’ll be home in two hours.” Along came one of those out-of-nowhere snowstorms,

where commuters end up sleeping in their cars on the LIE. It took seven hours to get to Manhattan.

I hoarded Goldfish snacks and water thinking we might have to spend the night. If it weren’t for the driver keeping everyone calm and giving us minute-by-minute updates, there would have been a few nervous breakdowns (myself included). The driver was our biggest cheerleader that day: “We’re going to get through this,” he said multiple times. As we arrived in Manhattan, it was like an MTA apocalypse, with many NYC busses abandoned in the middle of Third Avenue. I jumped off that bus and took myself out to dinner and glass of wine at Dock’s before continuing my commute home in some of the most treacherous weather I’ve ever experienced.

I was on the Hamptons Ambassador and there was a man enjoying a croissant. He dropped it on the floor and it slid across the aisle. This included a good amount of floor time. It was definitely not your five-second-rule situation. The woman across from him kicked it back with her shoe — a shoe that had presumably touched a New York City sidewalk. The man picked up the croissant and continued to eat it

like nothing had happened.

While I can always appreciate someone’s love for a fine French pastry, when you’re riding a bus that serves unlimited snacks, you won’t go hungry.

Leave the croissant, take the party mix.

The average Hampton Jitney patron is a nice and respectful one. But I once encountered an extremely horrible woman on the Ambassador. She stood over me, screaming at me to get out of her seat. The attendant came and nicely pointed out that I was not in her seat, she had reserved the seat in front of me. She continued berating everyone around her, even calling the girl next to her “Eurotrash” after she bumped her arm. She later spilled her entire coffee on herself, in a little case of something I like to call karma.

There are unspoken rules on the Hampton Jitney, similar to those on an airplane. Keep to your space, keep conversation to minimum (unless of course you’re in the process of meeting your soulmate, then by all means chat away), and avoid food that smells (please opt for something other than tuna).

There are spoken rules as well. Do not try to use your cell phone on the Jitney. A few weeks ago I saw a woman verbally get her head chopped off by her surrounding seatmates for being on a conference call. She wasn’t following the rules, and I can’t say she didn’t deserve it. Last week I had a conference call of my own during my ride and had to whisper into the phone “I’m just going to listen in, I’m on the Hampton Jitney.” Everyone understood.

If you take the Jitney long enough, you begin to know all the tricks. I know that the seats with the most legroom are three-quarters of the way back. And I’ll share that secret, since I’m always the first one on the bus. Although now that I’m living in Hampton Bays, I’ve become one of the people who has to “switch busses in Manorville.” Many riders will pretend to sleep and spread

out to try to avoid sitting with someone (guilty as charged!). Now, to be on the receiving end of this, there’s nothing more unnerving than waking someone from a fake slumber to let them know their dreams of a sprawling double seat are just not going to come true.

For as long as I can remember, the Hampton Jitney has been a part of my life. When I was in school, we took field trips to the city on the Jitney. My mom would take me to Broadway shows on the Jitney. It took me to and from college when I would come home for vacations or weekends. The Hampton Jitney even shuttled our guests to and from our wedding. Many guests had way more fun knowing that they didn’t have to drive at the end of the night.

Basically, the Hampton Jitney made our wedding the most fun it could be.

So, to the Hampton Jitney, I’d like to say, thank you for the memories.

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April 3, 2019

KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

The Fantasy Female Retirement Commune Baby goats and Eames walkers kissandtellhb@gmail.com

I recently saw a story on PBS about Sailor’s Snug Harbor, one of the original retirement homes set up in 1833 by Robert Richard Randall to take care of “aged, decrepit, and worn-out” seamen. They had activities and good meals and called each other “Captain.”

I thought of this as today women who don’t have children or much family are wondering what they are going to do when they are aged and worn-out, if not decrepit. Could they find a safe haven and walk around calling each other “Tennille?” (If you don’t get the joke, you are probably not thinking about retirement.)

Muskrat love aside, I have heard many conversations from women who wouldn’t be caught dead in a nursing home (pun not unintended) but instead imagine creating a commune of aging female friends. Think “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” but with tummy control.

What would this senior ladies’ utopia look like?

It would be kind of like an inn, with a central gathering place for meals

or martinis, and individual cabins for privacy and I-need-to-be-alone time.

Of course, it should be in a place of natural beauty but not too far from a civilized pedicure. All of the pillowcases must be made of silk.

The food will be healthy but with a constant supply of coconut cupcakes because who wants celery juice to be your last meal?

Relatives can only visit, but senior dogs can stay. There must not be anything stronger than a 45-watt bulb in any light fixture, except for reading, and flattering candlelight is always acceptable with proper smoke detectors installed.

Selfies will be prohibited. There can be great camaraderie but what if a member has a senior “Mean Girls” moment? Should we set up something like “Survivor” and vote someone off the commune? You went through that sh** in high school, you shouldn’t have to deal with it when your bladder control is questionable. If hair is going to be blue, it should be neon to match your pool noodle.

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Tarot card readers can come who do not predict the future but instead explain the past. Bedtime stories can be piped in which never include Prince Charming, read with a British accent.

There should be a Rules Committee and a Breaking the Rules Committee.

The property will have an anger management room where everyone brings their underused crystal to satisfyingly smash it on a cement floor.

There should never, ever, be Bingo. Cards Against Humanity, however, is fine. Baby goats will visit every other Tuesday. All walking assistance must be stylish, whether it is a leopard print cane or Eames walker. Each full moon, a ritual will honor all the aspects of the female — maiden, mother, and crone, with an emphasis that crones have gotten a bad rap.

There will be copious amounts of non-addictive drugs to manage pain.

Each day will begin with a perfect cup of coffee and a Mary Oliver poem delivered to your door step. Non-denominational sunrise and sunset services will be offered every day.

Wednesdays will be Songs That Make You Cry night to allow women

to grieve losses real or perceived. Requests will be taken by the DJ. The commune must have a large garden for kitchen herbs, healing plants, and scented flowers, so when you raise a bouquet to your nose, you are not disappointed for the first time in decades. Since residents may be concerned about sunbathing, both for skin care and bikini shock horror, lounge chairs should be set out for moon bathing.

If a member is being harassed in any way from the outside world, a field trip will be organized to take the whole group, senior dogs, and baby goats (if it is a Tuesday) included, to the offender’s place of work to make clear that old ladies cannot be pushed around. They have each other’s slightly hunched backs.

Two tricky questions: driving and men. Maybe allow the first only during the day, the second only at night.

And when you simply have had enough, there will be a special room where angels do not fear to tread. Like the sailors, you know that being landlocked can be stifling when you are ready to return to the cosmic sea.

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Indy Snaps Seeding Workshop Photos by Stephanie Lewin Volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got dirty on Saturday, March 30, in Amagansett. Quail Hill Farm, which operates on land belonging to the Peconic Land Trust, hosted its annual seeding workshop under the early spring sunshine. Members of the farm’s team gave a demo on how to properly set the seeds in compost cells, then volunteers put their training to use. This year’s crops will live in the greenhouse until May 18, when everyone is invited back to transplant the seedlings into the field.

Guild Hall’s Game Night Photos by Justin Meinken It’s your move. Game Master Noah Salaway brings tabletop games to a new dimension at Guild Hall on Monday nights. Designed to cultivate social skills, creativity, and help the development of problem-solving techniques, Salaway selects newly developed games from different designers. He instructs and sets exciting timed challenges each week.

On March 25, a group of more than 20 players learned to play Monikers, a combination of charades and word games based around unique trivia cards. Open to ages 16 and older, the event schedule can be viewed at www.guildhall.org.

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Indy Snaps Ladles Of Love Photos by Richard Lewin On Friday, March 29, local politicians picked up their instruments at the Ladles of Love fundraiser at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, to benefit the East Hampton and Amagansett Food Pantries. G. E. Smith and a long list of local musicians also took their turn on stage. John Kowalenko and Cheryl Stair of Art of Eating organized the event.

South Fork Bakery Fundraiser Photos by Richard Lewin The mission of South Fork Bakery is to provide employment for adults with special needs. On Wednesday, March 27, SFB held a fundraiser at Dopo La Spiaggia in Sag Harbor to raise money for its 2019 kitchen rental. Founder and president Shirley Ruch thanked the guests, and spoke about the critical need for support of their cause.

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Indy Snaps Bay Street’s ‘All For Alabama’ Photos by Justin Meinken The Eagle River Band, Hopefully Forgiven, and Jay Schneiderman and Friends all rocked Bay Street on March 28 to benefit the tornado victims in Alabama. Proceeds from the “All for Alabama” relief concert were donated to the United Way of Alabama to assist those in the damaged areas.

All three groups played a variety of music ranging from The Eagles’ greatest hits, to new songs. At the end of the concert, The Eagle River Band and Jay Schneiderman and Friends performed “Sweet Home Alabama” together to thunderous applause.

In The Pink Photos by Lisa Tamburini The Ellen Hermanson Foundation hosted its “In The Pink” breast cancer benefit on Saturday, March 30, at 230 Elm in Southampton, co-sponsored

by The Independent. The event honored Rita Wasserman, a breast cancer survivor, for a lifetime of community service. There were chef tastings and a live auction with Angela LaGreca serving as auctioneer. Music was performed by The HooDoo Loungers.

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Indy Snaps Hair Of The Dog Photos by Nicole Teitler Throughout the month of March, the Montauk Brewing Company pledged to donate 25 percent of all sales of its Tail Ale beer to the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation. A closing event,“Hair of the Dog” was held on Saturday, March 30. There was a cornhole tournament and raffle items.

The event was sponsored by The Independent and organized by Nikki on the Daily.

Montauk Library Pot Luck Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday, March 30, the Friends of The Montauk Library held its annual Pot Luck Dinner at the Montauk Firehouse. Library board president Joan Lycke, library director Denise DiPaolo, and Friends president Sally Krush thanked the guests and gave an update on the library’s major expansion plans.

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Entertainment Guide

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Songwriters Share The fourth concert in the Songwriters Share Concert Series will be Fred Raimondo on Friday, April 5, at 7:30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

The Boneshakers FILM Terms of Endearment Hamptons International Film Festival presents “Terms of Endearment” with a talkback by Alec Baldwin at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Friday, April 5, at 6 PM. Visit www.baystreet. org.

The Sleeping Beauty Guild Hall in East Hampton will show “The Sleeping Beauty” on Friday, April 5 at 7 PM. See www.guildhall.org for more info.

Hale County Doc Southampton Arts Center screens the documentary “Hale County This Morning This Evening” on Friday, April 5, at 7 PM. See www.southamptonartscenter.org.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? East Hampton Library will have a film screening of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” on Tuesday, April 9, at 5 PM. Go to www.eastamptonlibrary.org.

WORDS Writers Speak Writers Amy Hempel and Julia Slavin will be the next guests at the Writers Speak series at Stony Brook Southampton on Wednesday, April 3, at 7 PM in the Duke Lecture Hall. Visit www. stonybrook.edu/mfa.

Steve Israel League of Women Voters of the Hamptons presents a book-and-author event with former Congressman Steve Israel and his book “Big Guns” on Thursday, April 4, at 5:30 PM at Seasons of Southampton. Visit www.lwvhamptons.org.

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in Conversation” on Friday, April 5, at 6 PM. See www.parrishart.org for details.

BookHampton Book Hampton in East Hampton welcomes Chris Babu as he reads “The Expedition” on Friday, April 5, at 4 PM, and hosts story time on Sunday, April 7, at 10:30 AM. Visit www.bookhampton. com.

Bedside Reading Southampton Inn welcomes “Once A Liar” author A.F. Brady on Friday, April 5, at 5 PM for a discussion and booksigning in Claude’s Restaurant. Visit www.southamptoninn.com.

Book & Bottle The Suffolk County Historical Society Museum in Riverhead welcomes Noel Gish in reading “A Penny Postcard View of Long Island” on Saturday, April 6, at 1 PM.

Poetry Workshop

Tennessee Walt East Hampton Library will host Tennessee Walt’s Riding with the Outlaws on Saturday, April 6, at 1 PM. Go to www.eastamptonlibrary.org.

Rising Stars Piano Series Southampton Cultural Center’s Rising Stars Piano Series presents Pianofest distinguished artist Mikael Darmanie on Saturday, April 6, at 6 PM. Visit www.scc-arts.org for details.

Don McLean Suffolk Theater in Riverhead welcomes Don McLean on Saturday, April 6, at 8 PM.

Townline BBQ in Sagaponack hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. On April 5, it’s the Joe Hampton Trio.

Greenport Harbor Brewery At the brewery’s Peconic location will be Garrett & Tamara on Friday, April 5, at 5 PM, Sonic Gumbo on Saturday, April 6, at 5 PM, and East End Trio on Sunday, April 7, at 3 PM. Visit www. greenportharborbrewing.com.

Hits Of The ’80s Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor brings to the stage Decadia, New York’s premier ’80s cover band on Saturday, April 6, at 8 PM. See www.baystreet. org.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett welcomes Four Way Street — The Music of CSNY on Friday, April 5, at 8 PM, followed by Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks at 10 PM. On Saturday, April 6, will be Jettykoon at 8 PM, and Faces For Radio at 10 PM. Visit www.stephentalkhouse.com for a full calendar.

Food & Beverage News Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

The Amagansett Free Library will host a poetry workshop on Saturday, April 6, at 1 PM, with Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan. Visit www.amaglibrary.org.

Twelve Angry Men Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents a free reading of Reginald Rose’s “Twelve Angry Men” performed by 12 impassioned women on Sunday, April 7, at 2 PM. See www.baystreet.org.

THEATER Man Of La Mancha Hampton Theatre Company debuts its first fully-staged musical. “Man Of La Mancha” at Quogue Community Hall through April 7. For tickets, go to www. hamptontheatre.org.

The Suffolk County Historical Society Museum in Riverhead will show a silent film program including a lecture, film, and musical performance by J.K. Hodge on Thursday, April 4, at 6 PM. Visit www.suffolkcountyhistoricalsociety.org.

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Parrish Art Museum in Southampton will host a screening of Sandy Perlbinder’s short “Home” and panel discussion with Paul Goldberger. The theme is “Intersections: The Architect

Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center welcomes Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers on Friday, April 5, at 8 PM. Get your tickets at www.whbpac. org.

Joe Hampton Trio

Open Mic Night New Moon Cafe in East Quogue presents open mic night every Thursday from 8 to 11 PM. Check www.newmooncafeeq.com.

Suffolk Theater in Riverhead jams out to Under The Streetlamp with the cast members of Jersey Boys on Thursday, April 4, at 7:30 PM. Get tix at www.suffolktheater.com.

The Springs Tavern The Springs Tavern is offering offer 25 percent off to all coaches and student athletes who show up to the restaurant wearing their uniform after a game.

The promotion is offered to all school districts in East Hampton town and Little League players. The 25 percent will only be offered to the students and coaches in uniform, other family members and guests will be required to pay the full amount for their meal.

Springs Tavern will also host an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April 20. Kids are welcome to decorate eggs at noon and the Easter egg hunt will begin at 1 PM. Breakfast will be offered for the kids and a special steak and eggs breakfast will be available for adults to enjoy. The Springs Tavern will also serve a special menu on Sunday, April 21, from 12 to 3 PM in celebration of Easter.

Call 631-527-7800 or visit online at www.thespringstavern.com.

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Dining ‘Every Day’s A Beach Day’ Westhampton Beach Brewing Company, a village ‘hoppening’

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

L to R: John Salvaggio, Kathleen Tedesco, Brian Sckipp, Nicole Teitler, Dave DeTurris.

Less than a quarter-mile away from the Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton, and under 10 minutes from Main Street, sits a blonde waiting to be greeted. I’m talking about the Beach Blonde Ale from Westhampton Beach Brewing Company on tap alongside seven others to try.

The brewery was established in 2016, with an official opening on July 1, 2018. Longtime friends Brian Sckipp and John Salvaggio teamed up with Kathleen Tedesco and their brewer Dave DeTurris. Sckipp and Salvaggio grew up together in Kings Park before working together in the wine business, where they met Tedesco, a customer at the time, and who later introduced them to DeTurris. It all ‘hoppened’ rather organically.

The brewery and tasting room sit in a 3500-square-foot industrial

building in the up-and-coming Hampton Business District, and includes an outdoor seating area for 45 people.

It’s situated away from any residential properties and off Route 27’s exit 63, near Riverhead, making it a convenient drive for both the North and South forks.

“I think the best part has been the welcome we received from the local people. We were open for maybe four weeks and every restaurant in town had us on tap,” said Sckipp. “Now that the South Fork and the North Fork are truly opening up, we feel like this is going to be a great opportunity for people to taste the beer and get to know who we are.”

Walk through the brewery company’s doors to sky-high ceilings and decor paying homage to both Westhampton’s beach life and aerodynamic

history. Unique airplane bar hooks and shelves, with a personalized autographed photo of Francis Gabreski himself during World War II, and bolted steel and leather couches, all surround the shiplap walls and bar. What sets the tone upon walking in is the logo, a surfboard stating “Every Day’s A Beach Day.”

Salvaggio said, “The beer industry lends itself to variety. Others who come to us love their favorites but they want to try our favorites too.” The company manages its distribution; each beer is canned on property with its own canning machine. Sckipp and Salvaggio do the sales themselves, knocking door to door. To date, they have successfully landed their hops in 100 locations between Montauk and Manhattan.

“We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from the people we’ve been deal-

ing with. The opportunity that presents itself we’ve been taking advantage and enjoying it,” added Salvaggio.

Notable tap options include a Hampton Pumpkin Ale, for those wanting pumpkin year-round, and an Irish Eyes Cream Stout made with Netties Country Bakery brownies. Be on the lookout in the next two weeks for the new German-Style Maibock and the company’s first New England Style IPA. Come summer will be a strawberry blonde ale sourced with local strawberries. Currently, the brewery makes approximately 1500 barrels annually but with plenty of room for growth; the company has a five to 10-year projection of 8000 to 9000 barrels.

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Hamptons Hawaiian Pops Up Bringing aloha to Sag Harbor on Wednesdays

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Amid the restaurants of Sag Harbor sits a new kind of cuisine, taking temporary hold in Dopo La Spiaggia — Hamptons Hawaiian. It’s a culinary experience for the diner seeking an all-day and late-night menu in the village. Formed roughly three years ago by friends, housemates, and now business partners Andrea Donnelly and Jessica Taccone, Hamptons Hawaiian is a savory sensation pop-up open every Wednesday.

Say the words “Hawaiian food” and surely the mind wanders to visions of Spam, a common misconception, or pineapples. That’s where this duo comes in, committed to opening the minds and broadening the palates of locals. Donnelly, going by the nickname, Drei (given to her by the rock star Meat Loaf) was born in Los Angeles with familial roots in Lana’i, Hawaii.

Her job working as a personal assistant to A-Listers on the West Coast eventually brought her to the East End where she hired Taccone in the kitchen for an event.

Taccone was no stranger to cooking. She's a former executive chef at The Maidstone, sous chef at Hamptons Farms, and pastry chef at East Hampton Point.

Entering through the doors of Dopo on a crisp Wednesday afternoon, it seems an inconspicuous location, only a small sign on the door mentions

what cuisine awaits inside. Dopo would otherwise be closed until Memorial Day weekend. A couple of women sitting in the corner were about to dig into their plate of fried wontons as Donnelly and Taccone greeted me. There's an immediate sense of camaraderie in the air.

A sample plate was placed in front of me in a snap. Inari age style musubi, rice stuffed in a sweetened bean corn pocket, reminded me of sushi without the fish but with the thickness of a burrito. As strange as that may sound, and as simple as it looked, I devoured the entire thing without putting it down.

Colorful puffs of shrimp chips awaited me next that were aesthetically pleasing. The furikake potato chips — house-made with Japanese seasoning — became more addictive with each bite. Next, a sample of the fried wontons, each handmade by Donnelly herself. Shrimp won the spot on my fork.

Uniquely created by Taccone, a broth sampler of shrimp, chicken, mushroom, and vegetable was served in espresso cups, a prelude to my next dish.

“Traditional saimin is basically Hawaiian ramen,” Donnelly explained.

“It was developed in the plantation fields in Hawaii in the early 1900s. Saimin became the islands’ ‘chicken soup’ as we know it today. The Chinese of-

A broth sampler at Hamptons Hawaiian. Independent/Nicole Teitler

fered noodles, Japanese offered broth, Hawaiians offered shrimp.” Each individual broth allowed the true flavors of predominant ingredients to blossom.

The shrimp broth is traditional and has a powerful flavor, wherein the vegetable broth was mild enough to drink on its own from a cup.

Finally, a spicy pork “bowl of awesomeness,” as Taccone refers to the saimin, arrived. Wheat egg noodles imported from Hawaii, bok choy, mushrooms, ginger, scallions, carrot, radish, and thinly sliced pork. Perfect for a cold day.

Taccone noted, “Food, in my family, was always a way to connect and to tell people you love them, and that passion was passed down generation to generation for as long as I can remember.” As the saimin warmed me up, I certainly felt the love.

Portuguese donuts concluded the meal, another influence on Hawaiian

culture. It had the consistency of a biscuit, crispy outside and warm center, the cinnamon sugar covered every inch, and perfectly paired with a cup of Kona coffee.

“My father and maternal grandmother taught me how to cook without recipes. I simply watched and listened beginning at four years old. Grandma, Trinidad Dalde, used to always say to me, ‘Taste it until there’s taste, Inday.’

And my father taught me the Hawaiian ways. Today, I cook for Hamptons Hawaiian with integrity and tradition,” she added.

The pop-up is located at Dopo La Spiaggia at 6 Bay Street in Sag Harbor.

It’s open every Wednesday from 11 AM to 11 PM; the bar opens at 5 PM. A Hawaiian Luau on May 22 will celebrate the closing of the restaurant until the fall, including live music, raffles, and dancing. Visit www.hamptonshawaiian.com to learn more.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Curried Chickpea Soup With Ginger & Coconut Ingredients (serves 4) 1 c dried chickpeas 3 1/2 c filtered water 1/2 c ginger, peeled & sliced thin 1 clove of garlic, peeled and smashed 1/3 c washed & chopped cilantro, stems too (lots of flavor) 1/2 c coconut milk 1 Tbsp curry powder 1 leek, sliced into rings 2 Tbsp sesame oil 1 tsp paprika 1-1/2 c canola oil Favorite herb for garnish (mint, cilantro, basil, or fennel) Salt to taste

Directions Soak the chickpeas in water overnight.

The following day, drain the chickpeas and place them in a medium pot with the filtered water, ginger, garlic, curry powder, half the cilantro, and two teaspoons of salt. Bring to a boil for two minutes, reduce to a simmer, and cook until the chickpeas are tender, about 35 to 40 minutes.

While the soup is cooking, place the sesame oil and paprika in a small saucepot and gently warm the mixture over a low flame until the oil begins to turn red. This should take roughly 10 minutes. Once finished, set aside to cool.

Now we’re going to very cautiously and carefully fry our leek rings.

If you have a table-top fryer at home, great — use that. Set it to 300 and fry the leeks until they are light brown.

If you don’t have a table-top fryer, you can use a pot that is roughly twice as large as you’d need for the amount of canola oil you’re cooking with. Heat the oil over a medium flame using a candy thermometer to monitor the temperature of the oil.

Fry the leeks until they are golden brown, remove them from the oil directly onto a paper towel, and season immediately with salt.

Once your chickpeas are cooked,

add the coconut milk and bring everything back to a boil for three minutes.

Then you’re going to remove half the ginger and the cooked cilantro. The rest can go right into a blender cup (blend in two batches if you need to). Add the other half of your fresh cilantro to the blender cup and blend this mixture on high until smooth. Serve with a drizzle of the sesame oil, a generous helping of crispy leeks, and your favorite fresh herb. Enjoy!

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Almond: French Flair, Local Fare Bridgehampton restaurant serves superlative food

By Hannah Selinger

It’s a good year to be Almond.

Last summer, the team behind the Bridgehampton restaurant, Eric Lemonides and Jason Weiner, opened a market in the space next door. That market, L & W Market, has taken off.

In March, it was featured (along with Lemonides himself) in an episode of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York.” Sag Harbor resident Luann de Lesseps and East Hampton resident Barbara Karovit used the market as the backdrop for a conversation about inviting (and disinviting) friends to an autumn clambake. In the background, Lemonides cast a long and important shadow, donned in a shirt that read “Friday Sweater.”

But to be longstanding in the Hamptons does not necessarily mean appearing on camera (though, by all accounts, the attention does not hurt).

Almond has maintained a reputation during its long tenure out east because of the food, which has been executed with a vision cultivated by Chef Weiner.

In mid-April, Weiner will appear at the acclaimed James Beard House in New York City, where he will cook a multi-course dinner, described as

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the “Spring Seafood Splash,” featuring items like fried Long Island oysters with yellow sriracha mayonnaise, Long Island porgy tartare with cured Amber Waves Farm duck yolks, and deviled Quail Hill Farm eggs with swordfish bacon.

The ethos of Weiner — and of Almond itself — is, and has always been, a local one, with a heavy emphasis on Long Island-sourced goods. A steadily rotating dinner menu (the restaurant is not open for lunch, but that’s what L & W is for, after all) is expressly dedicated to calling out the names of the farmers.

A recent menu item of “Marilee’s carrot salad” refers to Marilee Foster, the farmer and noted grower in Sagaponack, who recently created her own line of local vodka. Gibson’s pork ravioli?

That’s Gibson Campbell, of the North Fork’s Macari Vineyards. Holly’s chicken liver pâté? Thank Holly Browder of

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The menu acts as a character sketch, elevating dishes to set pieces.

It’s not just a plate of carrots; they’re Marilee’s carrots. They belong to a person, to a place, to a specific moment in time. And they’re delicious.

It should not be surprising, to anyone familiar with Almond’s place in restaurant culture, that its menu assumes a form of storytelling. The restaurant is also the home of “Artists & Writers Night,” a monthly event which will feature Steven Gaines on Tuesday, April 9. (See the story elsewhere in this week’s issue.) The event features a three-course, family-style meal, served with a glass of wine or beer, for $45 (tax and tip are extra). Recent writer-artist hosts have included Bastienne Schmidt, Meghan Boody, and food writer and editor Brian Halweil. Almond Zigmund, the restaurant’s namesake — and Weiner’s wife — is also a regularly

exhibiting fine artist and sculptor.

Of course, restaurants succeed — or don’t — based on the merits of their food, and, in that respect, Almond is a resounding success, rooting its menu in local parlance as well as traditional technique. Boundaries are pushed, new ingredients incorporated, yes, but one can also order a well-executed steak, or a plate of mussels and French fries.

The story, when it comes to Almond, is a package deal: A restaurant that serves superlative food that is both inventive and comfortable; a hallowed space in which artists and writers can feel free to congregate; an upmarket take on the contemporary French bistro; and a nod to localism and the bounty that supplies eastern Long Island. Wear your Friday sweater — or don’t. Here, there are no rules.

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The Scoop On Joe & Liza’s Ice Cream Local mother and son take over Sag biz

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Amy O’Donnell may be well-known around Sag Harbor; after all, she’s been a shareholder at Geekhampton for almost a dozen years “before there was a Geekhampton,” she said.

But her son, Sean O’Donnell, is huge. His @theseanodonnell Instagram account has over a million followers.

And now the mother and son duo are taking over and rebranding Joe & Liza’s Ice Cream — a Sag Harbor business opened by Joe and Liza Tremblay in 2012 a few years after Bay Burger — but keeping the product as fresh, locally-sourced, and preservative-free as their predecessors did.

“I love the community,” Amy O’Donnell said. “I moved here from

the North Fork four years ago.” Her children were all raised in the Southold area.

But computers to rich and creamy?

“It’s a big leap,” she acknowledged. But when she heard Bay Burger was for sale, “All of us at Geekhampton were like, ‘Oh my god, what’s going to happen to the ice cream?’” The ice cream business is separate from the Bay Burger restaurant.

She talked to Liza Tremblay, “thought about it for a couple of minutes,” and after a discussion with her husband, Tony Marr, and her kids, she took the aforementioned leap.

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with a tweak or new flavor here or there. “We have a lot of people asking for a CBD mint chip,” she said with a smile. The ice cream is offered on both forks and it’s very popular. “Balsam Farms goes through 200 ice cream sandwiches a week in the summer,” O’Donnell said.

They are looking “to work with all the local farms,” she said.

But with a partner and child who is an international influencer, things are bound to shift. “Joe and Liza Tremblay built this incredible business,” O’Donnell said. “Sean and I are looking forward to continuing what they started and growing as well.”

For now, information can still be found at www.joeandlizas.com.

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As the fanbase continues to grow, so does the inventive Mug Club. For a $100 annual fee, craft-beer lovers receive a 22-ounce, ocean-blue mug that can be used on property each time.

After 12 fill-ups, it essentially pays for itself and by the year’s end, makes a great keepsake of all the memories made, such as the $5 mugs every Tues-

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day and $1 off mugs every Sunday. The club plans to expand to involve social events that extend to bars and restaurants as a way to introduce members to new hospitality locations.

Westhampton Beach Brewing Company hosts live music on Saturdays 2 to 6 PM and is planning a first anniversary party for the first week of July.

It is located at 220 Roger’s Way Suite I in Westhampton Beach. Visit www.westhamptonbeachbrewingco. com.

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shley Farrell was ranked the first-place producer in the Westhampton Beach office for 2018 — and out of more than 50,000 agents, Farrell ranks in the top 1000 agents nationwide within the NRT enterprise. Since joining Corcoran in 2015, she has been a repeated Multimillion-Dollar Club Member every year. She has sold over $50 million worth of luxury property. We caught up with Farrell to learn how she accrued as much success as agents with decades more experience.

What do you attribute your success to?

I don’t believe there is any one thing that makes me successful, rather a combination of things. My parents instilled in me, from the youngest age, the importance of hard work. I credit my drive and ambition to them.

Beyond that inherent trait, I strive to provide excellent customer service. I am almost always reachable and if I’m missed, I try to get back to my clients at the very first opportunity. I’ve learned if you delay, a client will find someone else to work with.

Lastly, my age, which in the beginning many thought worked to my detriment, is a great advantage. Being newer in the business, I am not so set in my ways. I am much more open to change, to trying new strategies, and to pushing the envelope.

As I do continue in this business, hopefully for many, many years, I intend to remind myself not to get too comfortable. No company has ever been successful by refusing to evolve.

You’ve also produced over $1 million in rentals. How does your approach for a rental differ from a sale?

Probably the biggest difference between myself and other agents would be that I am happy to participate in rental deals.

Many agents, as their careers progress, decide that rentals will no longer be a part of their business models.

Obviously, sale commissions are larger than those on the rental side, but sales can take months (or more) to cross the finish line. If focusing on sales alone, there are times when weeks or months can go by without a pay check.

Not only do rental deals help bring a little more regularity to an agent’s income, the time spent on a rental deal

versus an agent’s earnings is usually a very good return on investment, especially if you look at it on a cost per hour basis. I love rentals. Bring ‘em on!

How does holding a degree in business management help you as a salesperson?

My education at Fairfield University prepared me seamlessly for the “real” world. The skills my professors taught me in the classroom translate to almost any business I could’ve chosen. I learned how to run a business, the importance of organization, dedication, customer service, ambition, and so much more.

Not only did my time at Fairfield assist me in jumpstarting a successful career, but the connections I made continue to aid me today. I keep in touch with multiple professors, and the Fairfield alumni network has also been a fantastic tool.

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Westhampton Beach.

My dad grew up here as well, and my grandfather was the chief of surgery at Peconic Bay Medical Center, Central Suffolk back then. My parents still own the same house my dad and I grew up in.

Are there any homes you’ve sold that you’re particularly proud of?

Just recently, I was a part of an off-market deal and it is hands-down one of my proudest moments. In 2017, I met my new clients for the first time. At the meeting, my buyers pulled up Google maps and pointed to what they referred to as their “dream property.” The house wasn’t on the market and had never been on the market, the owners had built it in the ‘80s.

Long story short, after sending a hand-written letter, the owner called me.

He was very leery but allowed my clients and I to view the home. Fast forward to 2019, my buyers are now the proud owners of what was once only a dream.

Do you have a favorite building on the East End? When I was a child, my mom and I used to put together a porcelain village every Christmas. We created this idyllic town.

Westhampton Beach’s Main Street has always reminded me of that utopia, specifically St. Mark’s Church and the Westhampton Beach Post Office.

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St. Mark’s is not only gorgeous on the outside, but it’s beautiful inside, and probably much smaller than most would realize. Stepping into the post office brings you back to another time.

Much of the early-1900s feel has been preserved and it’s not something we see often anymore. These two buildings, in my opinion, are the perfect bookends to Main Street.

Do you have advice for sellers and buyers?

As a seller, if you do nothing else, PLEASE declutter. No one wants to see your entire morning beauty regime proudly displayed on the bathroom counter. Put that stuff away!

To have the best shot at the highest price, sellers need to make their home feel like a hotel — remove all but one or two items off the counter tops, eliminate personal photos, allow buyers to really see the house and imagine their belongings in it. Don’t get me started on the sellers who leave beds unmade and dishes in the sink . . .

For buyers, it is important to narrow down what you want in a house, but try to be flexible. In your home search, determine what is truly a non-starter and what you might be able to work with. If you have more than five-to-seven non-starters, you are pigeonholing yourself. Narrow it down.

Best advice? If a home checks most of your boxes, go look at it. You might be surprised.

Any favorite trends our readers should know about?

I particularly enjoy homeowners choosing to install or convert to salt water pools. More often my buyers and renters are asking if the homes we are viewing have salt water pools. It’s becoming quite a popular feature.

In comparison to chlorine, the salt is less harsh on the hair, skin, and eyes. Have you ever seen those young blond kids

running around during the summer with green hair? Salt water can prevent that!

Are there any up-andcoming neighborhoods west of the canal we should know about?

I really believe Remsenburg is the most underrated neighborhood west of the canal (and not just because I live there).

It’s mere minutes from the hustle of Westhampton Beach, so close I often run to Main Street, yet far enough away that you’re not in the middle of all the summertime chaos.

In Remsenburg, buyers will find more property and more house for their money. The taxes are also quite low. The town has its own adorable elementary school which feeds into the WHB middle school and high school. Residents of Remsenburg are still eligible for beach passes to Rogers Beach and Jetty 4 (formally known as Lashley Beach).

Probably one of the biggest benefits of Remsenburg is the fact that it’s the closest “Hampton” to the city and has a decent train schedule to and from Penn Station. Remsenburg has a lot going for it.

How did you become a volunteer for the Bide-A-Wee animal shelter?

I’m an only child, so as a kid every time I would ask my parents for a sibling we got a dog — okay, not every time, but a few times. My mom is one of nine children, so there was no way she was willingly signing up for that pandemonium again.

Over my childhood, we had a total of five Labs and for a few years, we had three at once. My house was a place where dogs were always welcome. I kept our dogs as busy as they kept me.

That bond sparked my love of animals.

To reach Farrell or inquire about her properties, call 631-896-1592 or email ashley.farrell@corcoran.com.

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Real Estate News lages and hamlets have gotten a bump with more renters coming this summer, and which have been bumped down the list.

The latest report, which analyzes

Out East user search data, states that East Hampton stays in the top spot — no surprise there. Sag Harbor jumped from fifth place in 2018 to third place (knocking Southampton out of its place) with, get this, 650 full-summer rentals on the market, with a median price of $65,000.

Who’s new? Hampton Bays, which wasn’t even on the list last year, has jumped in at number seven. With a median asking price of $45,000, Hampton Bays is the darling of the T.J.

Maxx set, where you get the max for the minimum spend.

What place was removed from the Top 10 list this year? Quogue. And Shelter Island is in the 10th position.

So, if you’re looking for more peace and quiet, at least relatively speaking, those are probably the best bets.

Renters usually snatch up their summer cribs in April. For more information about the numbers, and to check out summer rentals, visit www. outeast.com.

board, the Republican committee chose Bonnie Brady, a registered Democrat, and Betsey Bambrick, a member of the Independence Party, to run for seats occupied by incumbent Democratic Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Councilman David Lys. Susan Vorpahl and Jim Grimes, incumbent Republican trustees, are among the Republicans’ nominees for that nine-person body.

Dell Cullum and Rick Drew, who were elected as trustees on the Democratic ticket in 2015 and 2017, respectively, are running on the Republican ticket this year. The other GOP candidates for trustee are Stephen Lester; Rona Klopman, a member of the Reform Democrats; Mike Havens, a former candidate; Fallon Ecker-Bloecker Nigro, the daughter of former Trustee Joe Bloecker; and

Dave Talmage, a former Republican.

Klopman said the Reform Dems have also gathered the necessary petitions.

Incidentally, Klopman was named to the Working Families ballot as a trustee candidate along with Francis Bock and Bill Taylor, who are both candidates on the Democratic line as well.

The GOP has nominated incumbent town justice Lisa Rana, while the Democrats have nominated Andrew Strong, an attorney who serves as general counsel to Organización LatinoAmericana of Eastern Long Island.

The Republicans have also once again nominated incumbent Highway Superintendent Stephen Lynch, who has been cross-endorsed by the Democrats.

Rana, who was cross-endorsed by the Democrats in the last election, can take Strong on not only in the general

election but in the primary as well. As a licensed attorney, she does not need a waiver from party leaders.

The Reform Democrats are offering a slate they call the Fusion Ticket that includes six Republicans, five Democrats, and one unaffiliated candidate. Brady, a Democrat, and Bambrick, who is unaffiliated with a political party, will represent the party in the race for town board.

For town trustee, the Independence Party nominated all nine of the candidates chosen by the Republicans. The Independence Party has also cross-endorsed Rana for town justice and Lynch for highway superintendent.

Two longtime incumbent assessors, Jill Massa, a Republican, and Jeanne Nielsen, a lifelong Democrat, received the Independence, Democratic, Republican, and Reform Democrats’ nods.

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could head as many as four ballot lines should he decide to buck the system. He would be given the GOP and Independence lines right off the bat, and he could challenge Van Scoyoc in a Democratic primary.

Gruber could make it a three-way primary or withdraw.

All petitions must be filed by Thursday, April 4, though the ballots can be changed for a week after that. As it stands, the former Democratic Party leader plans to run, and his supporters believe Van Scoyoc’s position supporting Deepwater Wind’s South Fork wind farm makes him vulnerable.

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Community Garden Grows With Union Help Rivers and Roots aided by Local 28

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com

Union workers from New York City headed east over the weekend of March 30 and 31 to aid local gardeners in rebuilding the beds at the River and Roots Community Garden on Main Street in Riverhead. The well-loved community garden, which boasts 34 beds — 14 of which are double-high to accommodate gardeners with physical limitations — uses the $25 it charges per bed per season to cover its insurance each year and has needed to rely on other organizations to continue its growth.

“We’re so fortunate because it’s town-owned land,” co-founder and

head gardener, Amy Davidson, said of the small plot south of Griffing Avenue, which is rented to River and Roots by Riverhead Town for free each year. “Everything you see here has been donated.”

Community donations — as well as labor provided through a Sheriff’s Department vocational training program for inmates — got the garden growing nine years ago with a fence that followed from a Cornell Cooperative Extension grant, but years later, the wood around the beds has begun to decompose. “They’re clearly rotting

and falling apart, but the only amount of money the garden takes in is what we charge for the beds and we need that to cover our insurance,” said Laurie Nigro, who founded the garden alongside Davidson and their husbands, Brian Nigro and Dan Kulp.

“My husband is in sheet metal workers’ Local 28, and they decided that they wanted to come in and donate all of the supplies, including wood from Riverhead Building Supply, and labor, so a bunch of the guys you see here today are from Local 28,” Nigro continued. “Their jurisdiction is all of New York City and Long Island — so they have jurisdiction here as well. They sent laborers and paid for all of this.”

Brian Nigro, whose solicitation of Sheet Metal Air Rail Transportation’s Local 28 resulted in the $3000 donation, appeared in his glory as he helped erect new beds beside both union and gardening brethren. “It’s a blending of two of my passions: this garden and my union,” said the man who first dug into the dirt alongside Amy Davidson nearly a decade ago.

“I like to grow things that annoy people,” Nigro joked. “Jerusalem artichokes are a native plant that are very, very invasive and I decided one day that we should grow Jerusalem artichokes in the garden. They grow about 18 feet tall. And ground cherries. I decided to plant ground cherries one year. It’s a delicious, fantastic fruit, but once it’s in your bed, you never get rid of it because once you plant it, the fruit falls to the ground and comes back again the next year, so everyone likes to make fun of me because I plant annoying plants.”

While Davidson had an eye-roll response to being asked how much she likes Jerusalem artichokes, the camaraderie between she and the others involved at River and Roots is more than evident. “We have fun and we do potlucks,” Davidson said with a smile.

There are currently three beds open at the community garden this season and interested can email riverandrootscg@gmail.com, call 631-384-6764, and visit its Facebook page at Rivers and Roots Community Garden.

April 3, 2019

Riverhead Cracks Down Downtown buildings inspected for first time in a decade

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

Riverhead Supervisor Laura JensSmith was joined by members of the Town Board, code enforcement agents, the fire marshal, and the town attorney in announcing on March 26 a major effort to bring downtown buildings up to code and make these properties safe.

More than 100 citations for alleged violations were issued to properties in the downtown area. It was the first time in 10 years that the buildings had been inspected.

“This is a safety issue, plain and simple. It is remarkable that these

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By Genevieve M. Kotz gmkotz@indyeastend.com

State of the Town Riverhead Supervisor Laura JensSmith will give the 2019 state of the town address on Monday, April 8, at 6:30 PM in Riverhead Town Hall. The public is encouraged to attend.

The library will also host “Easter Egg Art” on April 16 at 3 PM. Schoolage kids can design and decorate Easter eggs to take home. Registration is encouraged, as supplies are limited. Call 631-749-0042.

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The Shelter Island Library will host tai chi on Wednesday, April 3 and 10, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Denise Gillies will lead attendees in a moving meditation practice. Registration is required, and there is a $7 fee.

Looking ahead, the library will also screen Frederick Wiseman’s “Ex Libris” documentary on April 13 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM in celebration of National Library Week.

Eastern Long Island Hospital has opened its raffle for a foursome at the Hamptons Golf Club, which will be drawn at the 2019 Golf Classic on June 10.

The tickets are $100 each. For more information, call 631-477-5164.

Peconic Landing Accreditation The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities recently awarded

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buildings have been allowed to go uninspected for 10 years,” said JensSmith in a press release. “Especially as we are trying to revitalize our downtown, it is important that we know that there are safe buildings for businesses to move into. I want to thank the owners who have already acted to remedy the situation.

The town would like to work together with the property owners to come into compliance and we will be taking all necessary options to ensure that they do so. It is time that Riverhead reclaims its downtown.”

The effort was part of the supervisor’s code enforcement action strategy, undertaken to tackle code violations in a systematic way to the benefit of the community.

“All properties inspected received deficiency notices with ‘comply by’

dates,” said town investigator Rich Downs. “A handful of properties have already done work to remediate the deficiencies, others which have failed to remediate or communicate a plan have been sent ‘order to remedy notices.’”

“As our community works toward downtown revitalization, it is imperative that blighted properties come into compliance,” said Deputy Supervisor Catherine Kent. “Blighted, vacant properties have long plagued our Main Street. We would like potential businesses to feel confident and safe when they are thinking of investing in this beautiful town.”

The effort was the result of organized action, and bi-weekly meetings the supervisor holds with the town’s code enforcement department, fire marshal’s office, police chief, and town attorney’s office.

Peconic Landing five-year accreditation.

Peconic Landing in Greenport is the only CARF accredited continuing care retirement community on Long Island. The Shores, a full-service nursing center, was also awarded accreditation for personcentered care for the third time.

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Tickets can be bought in advance by contacting Walter Kruspki at 631298-8026 or by emailing robwalt@optonline.net. They are also available at the door.

Southold Rotary Pasta Dinner

The Suffolk County Historical Society will host a free opening reception for “When Women Wore Whales: The Story of How Whalebone Shaped 19thCentury Fashion” on April 13 from 1 to 3:30 PM. The exhibition, which will run through December 21, will look at how 19th-Century fashion was possible due to the whale’s baleen, which is used by the mammals to filter their food from water. It was used by clothing designers for corsets and other women’s wear. Curated by Richard Doctorow, the display features fashion magazine plates, whaling tools, corsets, parasols, and dresses showing the changes in fashion from 1820 to 1920.

Light refreshments will be served.

The Rotary Club of Southold will hold its annual fundraising “Pasta Dinner” on Monday, April 8, at Touch of Venice Restaurant in Cutchogue from noon until 8 PM. The meal will include salad, a choice of four entrees, and a dessert made by Chef Brian Pennacchia and his staff. The proceeds will go toward various Rotary projects, such as scholarships for Southold and Mattituck High School students, Maureen’s Haven, Laundry Love, Eastern Long Island Hospital, Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck, Southold Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, and more.

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Sports Pierson Suffers First Loss Of Season Whalers pitcher tosses 5Ks over five innings in 5-1 setback

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The Pierson Whalers left the bases loaded twice, but never gave up in a 5-1 loss at Class B Center Moriches Monday.

“We played OK, not our best,” Pierson head coach Jonathan Schwartz said after his 2018 Class C championship team gave the reigning state champions a run for their money. “We’re young, so it’s tough, but we have guys coming up, getting experience in every game. This is the third game, so they’re going to learn, grow, and get better with every game.”

Junior pitcher Matt Hall shined in his first appearance back on the mound, tossing five strikeouts over five innings.

“I just wanted to throw strikes, trust my fielders behind me,” he said.

“I think we played a great game. It just didn’t go our way.”

After losing five players to graduation last year, including his starting left-handed and right-handed pitchers, Schwartz was excited to have Hall back on the mound.

“Pitching was phenomenal,” the coach said. “He had some timely, great pitches, and really dragged us through the game.”

Hall picked up his second, third, and fourth strikeouts in the bottom of the second inning after giving up one run in the first on an RBI-single following a steal. Junior Pierce Summers

(1-for-2 with two walks and a stolen base) started the fourth with a hit, and Tucker Schiavoni (2-for-3 and a walk) doubled to right to put runners at first and third with one out, but a strikeout and groundout halted the threat. Harry Cowen hit a lead-off single in the fifth, and his next two teammates moved him over to third to bring up Hall with two outs. His RBI-single cut the Red Devils’ lead in half, 2-1.

The Whalers had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth and with two outs in the seventh, but came up empty both times.

“We had chances, just didn’t follow through,” Hall said. “It’s tough losing leaders, but we have young ones in the making. I liked the way we battled to the end, didn’t give up.”

Junior Nick Egbert finished 1-for-2 with two walks and a stolen base, and classmate Henry Brooks went 1-for-3 with a walk.

The Whalers hosted Center Moriches at home on Tuesday, April 2, but results were not available by press time. The team travels back to Center Moriches for the final game of the series on Friday, April 5, at 4:30 PM.

“I think we’ll be a little looser tomorrow back at home,” Schwartz said following the game, before looking even farther into the future. “We’re going to be right back where we were last year.

Henry Brooks throws home. Independent/Desirée Keegan

That’s what we expect, and that’s our goal.”

The returning Suffolk County champions started the season with 15-5 and 9-1 wins over Southold, the only other Class C school, but with a Section XI switch from nine leagues back

to eight, the Whalers will be competing against tough B schools all season, including Southampton, Mattituck, and Babylon.

“We weren’t afraid to go head-tohead with them,” Schwartz said. “The confidence was there.”

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Baymen’s Brochu Swings Hot Bat Sophomore scores three runs, collects three RBI in win over Pierson

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Tara Brochu belted a double and a triple, going 3-for-4 with three runs scored in Hampton Bays’ 16-4 League VI-opening win over Pierson Friday.

The sophomore, who has been playing ball since she was six, said she’s comfortable in big situations.

“I look for the gaps in the outfield, show a bunt to watch for players charging in, and see what happens,” said Brochu, who played first base for the Baymen March 29. “It felt great. We did everything we needed to today.”

The teams were tied 3-3 heading into the top of the fifth inning. Rebecca Heaney drew a walk before Brochu’s double moved her to third. Heaney was caught stealing home with Lily Candelaria at the plate, but Brochu advanced to third on a passed ball. On a

3-1 count, Candelaria smacked an RBIdouble for the go-ahead run, and three batters later, Shana Pierce brought her home for a 5-3 Hampton Bays lead.

“It was a little nerve-wracking,” Brochu said of the close score. “But we got our heads in the game, got fired up, got loud — that’s what drives us.”

Connecting with Candelaria, a three-year varsity player with a strong arm, for a double play with the bases loaded to end the bottom of the fifth did just that for the Baymen.

Hampton Bays head coach Rich Doulos said he thinks his sophomore currently sitting at the No. 3 spot in the lineup is going to be a special player for the next few years.

“She places the ball. She’ll pull the ball. She hits rockets,” he said. “I think

Lily Cendelaria working behind the plate. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Bail Law

Continued From Page 20. defendants until they can be arraigned the next day. That is of those charged with drunken driving.

Currently, as part of the arraignment process, those accused of drunken driving have their driving privilege in New York State suspended. This

suspension can only happen through a judge. If the police start releasing drunken driving suspects, the defendants will still have their license, and will still be able to drive, legally, at least until they are arraigned at a later date.

DeSesa believes the processing and arraigning of drunken driving defendants, even without the question of bail, will have to be addressed by various

Hampton Bays’ Tara Brochu keeps her eye on the ball. Independent/Desirée Keegan

we’ll be talking about her a lot.”

The Baymen stretched their lead on a five-run sixth inning and six-run seventh with the help of six Whalers errors. Brochu drove in two runs with her triple for a 9-4 lead in the top of the sixth, and had an RBI-single in the seventh that made it 12-4. Junior Emily Peyton tossed a complete game with seven strikeouts. Hampton Bays had 10 hits total.

“I love the hustle,” said Doulos, whose team graduated seven longtime starters last year. “Sometimes the instinct and the knowledge of the game isn’t quite there yet, and I think we all need to be a little more patient, but they want to do well and the attitude is there. We’ll put it together. We have to find our identity.”

Brochu said she thinks that’s coming along.

“We’re pretty young, but we’re bonding,” she said. “It’s exciting having a new team and starting fresh. We lost a lot of players, but we’re doing great; we’re working hard. These girls are busting their butts during practice.

They know what we need to do, and they get it done.”

Pierson was without what head coach Woody Kneeland believes is going to be his starting pitcher, who was away looking at colleges, but junior Kathryn Powell delivered a solid first few innings. Sophomore Brooke Esposito shined early, reaching second on a chase between the bases, and scored the same way for a 2-2 tie with one out in the bottom of the second.

She finished with three walks and two stolen bases. Katie Annicelli finished 3-for-3, Sam Cox added a hit and a run, and Meredith Spolarich drew two walks and scored.

“I’m proud of them, they fought hard,” said Kneeland, whose team consists mainly of juniors focused on other sports, although he only has three returning starters. “That’s all I can ask for from them. When we started practice and open gyms a couple of weeks before the season started there was a lot to catch up on. We’re just trying to get better as a program, and I think they did that today. Every at-bat, every inning, every play they’re learning something. We’re trying to improve, and we’re moving in the right direction.”

municipalities and their police departments and justice courts.

The point of bail is to ensure the defendant’s return to court. Carl Irace of the Carl Irace & Associates law firm, commented on how that aspect of the new rules would play out on the East End. Irace also handles arraignments in East Hampton and Sag Harbor. Like DeSesa, Irace has worked

previously as a prosecutor.

“In other places, where there are larger courthouses with more services and larger staff, there are pre-trial services that work to ensure that people are returning to court,” he said. “In smaller courts, like those throughout the East End, there are no agencies that offer anything like that. So, there are few alternatives to cash bail.”

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DeGroot Dominant In Team’s 5-2 Loss Bonackers come close in all matches to Hills East; Louchheim also sweeps

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Jonny DeGroot does it all, but his biggest weapons are his serve and volley.

Both were locked and loaded as he dominated Half Hollow Hills East’s Ishen Varma 6-2, 6-3 in East Hampton’s 5-2 nonleague loss to the Thunderbirds Wednesday.

“My serve was really on today,” said the Bridgehampton senior, whose team also pulls players from Pierson. “I was trying to get the early break and hold, and I pretty much shut him down today.”

Head coach Kevin McConville thought it was by far DeGroot’s best match of the season yet.

“He’s executing beautifully,” McConville said. “You have options with him. If things aren’t going well, he always has plans B and C, because he has a complete all-court game. He can rally from the baseline. He can get in. He can finesse people. He’s really fun to watch.”

Varma’s eyes widened as several aces whizzed past him, and he had little time to react to early drop shots.

“His coach gave him some information, told him I come in a lot, so he started lobbing me,” DeGroot said. “I probably shouldn’t have been coming in so close, but it’s just too tempting.”

The No. 1 singles player split sets in two matches this season, winning a super tiebreaker in one and dropping the other, and swept his ShorehamWading River opponent, but Hills East was the returning county finalist from last season, so he knew he needed to perform at his best.

“The last couple games I haven’t been utilizing my serve and volley enough, it’s just been lackluster, forcing me to take too long to finish up matches. So, today I came out on the court being aggressive,” DeGroot said. “I felt pretty good.”

Pierson freshman Luke Louchheim raked in the Bonackers’ second point at No. 3 singles with a 7-5, 6-4 sweep of Krithik Madisetty.

The rest of the team’s matches were closer than the final team score would indicate, especially a 6-4, 6-3 loss for No. 4 singles player Max Astilean, an East Hampton eighth grader; Bridgehampton senior Jamie Fairchild and classmate Brad Drubych’s 6-3, 1-6,

“They can win, especially after losing to such close competition,” McConville said. “These kids need to believe they can turn the tide.”

4-6 loss at No. 2 doubles; and Matt McGovern and Miles Clark’s 6-4, 7-5 loss at No. 3 doubles.

“The teams were so evenly matched. It was really good competition,” McConville said. “The doubles were disappointing, but they fought hard — all could have gone either way.”

Going by records, the Thunderbirds are currently the best team on Long Island.

“I knew they were going to be really good, and we were going to have to be really good to beat them, and I think that gets in their heads the first time,” McConville said of his players. “They get jittery thinking they’re going to play these amazing players that are so much better than them, and then their next go around they’re a little more competitive and have more confidence.”

DeGroot said he loves watching Louchheim play, standing behind the fence as his teammate finished up his match.

“When I was a sophomore, I played third singles, and I don’t think I would have beaten Luke,” he said, smiling. “For third singles, he’s probably the most solid on Long Island. He’s a really great player, especially for being so young.”

After Louchheim fell behind 4-1 to start the match, McConville said his

Jonny DeGroot volleys with his Half Hollow Hills East opponent. Independent/Desirée Keegan

freshman was frustrated, so he pulled him aside to talk about playing his opponent’s backhand, waiting for the short ball.

“He executed to perfection,” McConville said. “He settled in.”

DeGroot called the match an “eyeopener,” adding he believes his team might just have to switch some doubles teams around to find more chemistry.

His coach added the strategy is there, just not the execution, with some unforced errors like double faults and missed returns adding up to change the course of the match.

“We need to get that stuff cleaned up, but that’s stuff we can work on in practice,” McConville said.

The Bonackers will want to be at their best before facing last year’s county champion Commack at home April 5. Hills East edged the Cougars 4-3 March 25, but Commack was without key players. Two of East Hampton’s players were also under the weather, so if both teams are at full strength, the match could be another tossup.

“They can win, especially after losing to such close competition,” McConville said. “These kids need to believe they can turn the tide.”

Spur Spin Ping Pong Club

The Spur is now offering the Hamptons’ only ping pong club: Spur Spin.

The private club’s new East Hampton location, called Spur East, will be hosting matches every Friday night beginning at 5 PM for all community members.

The new location’s 5000-square-foot space includes a lounge area; co-working offices; a full bar; breakfast, lunch, and catering services; an outdoor patio; and 3000-square-feet of event space, larger than what is available at the current Southampton Village location, known as the Red Barn.

While Spur Spin is open to anyone, it is free for those with a Spur membership or $20 at the door for non-members. There will be music, cocktails, and snacks.

Spur East is located at 44 Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton. For more info, visit www.thespur.com.

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April 3, 2019

CHIP SHOTS

By Bob Bubka

Kisner And Bock Rock In Austin Victory at World Golf Championship bobthevoiceofgolf@gmail.com I know it’s hard to believe, but in just one week we’ll be talking about how the azaleas are blooming, how Rory McIlroy can add the Career Grand Slam to his resumé, and the possibility of Tiger winning his 15th major victory. We’ll be talking about the incredible breathtaking beauty of Augusta National and we’ll be listening to the roars from the patrons as they cascade through the Georgia pines.

Iced tea is the leading beverage consumed during Masters week, so it makes perfect sense to read the tea leaves from last week’s WGC–Dell Match Play Championship to identify who is most likely to add that elusive Green Jacket to their wardrobe.

Let’s begin with the number one player in the world, Dustin Johnson. D.J. left Austin Country Club after losing two

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of his first three matches, not The Masters confidence boost he was seeking. Then, in my opinion, the two names most talked about, Rory Mcllroy and Tiger Woods, both took a step backward.

After beating Rory in the sweet-16 round, Tiger scored some “major” points with me, and his chances for his 15th Major win were looking good, until he came up short on a clutch four-foot putt against the very talented but little known 27-yearold from Denmark who plays mostly on the European Tour, Lucas Bjerregaard. So, in my book, both Rory and Tiger left Austin with a minus on the confidence meter.

Local Austin favorite and former University of Texas standout, Jordan Spieth, who has dominated at The Masters with a win, two runner ups, and a third place, is struggling with his game, and just ap-

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A number of years ago, as I was doing a

to your grandchildren, ‘Quick, honey!

substantial yacht, I got to the part where I ask to see the life jackets. He pointed me to a locker, which I opened to find the life jackets, stowed under an anchor, chain, and additional rope. This column is about that.

locker. Which one of your grandchildren will be able to move this anchor to get to the life jackets — which are still in their wrappers, by the way.” He blanched.

No safety equipment is of any use if you can’t get to it. Or, no one knows where it is except you, the skipper, who is likely to be mighty busy just when safety equipment is needed. Talk about pressure!

ation call Jim Mackin @owner 631.324.2500 (free) vessel exam for the of a very Put on a life jacket!’ and you point to this

No Good If You Can’t Get To Them I promptly asked him, “Sir, do you have any grandchildren?” “Why, yes, I do. Five of them. Why do you ask?”

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pears to be lost right now. It’s imperative to have a hot putter on the tricky greens at Augusta and one of Spieth’s strengths has always been his ability to make 20 to 25foot putts, but right now, a five-footer has Jordan shaking in his boots.

At the end of 2018, his world ranking was #17 and as of today, it’s #32. Whether he admits it or not, he’s trending in the wrong direction. However, I’m looking for The Masters to turn his game around. I’m hoping that my tea leaf reading skills are lacking, otherwise it doesn’t look too good for some of the biggest names in the game to prevail down Magnolia Lane.

Meanwhile, a big congratulations to the winner of the World Golf Championships Dell Match Play, Kevin Kisner, who has strong ties to the East End. His trusty caddie is East Hampton’s Duane Bock. It was quite a week for Duane, both high and low. The high obviously came from the win, but the low came from the passing of a good friend from ALS shortly before the start of the Match Play. Duane paid tribute to his good friend by having his initials on his hat all week.

Kevin refers to himself as a grinder.

“Grinder” in the dictionary is described as an athlete who succeeds through hard work rather than exceptional ability, however, to beat 63 of the world’s top golfers takes exceptional ability, and it was certainly on display in Austin. This victory for Kisner was number three on PGA Tour and by far the biggest of his career. One

thing that makes this victory so amazing is that Kevin finished second a year ago in the same event on the same course, Austin Country Club, and he was determined to finish one better this year, and he did.

When Kevin graduated from Georgia, his goal was to play on the PGA Tour.

His Dad gave him $16,000 to chase his dream and to get his career started on the mini-tours, and he is very proud of the fact that he never had to ask for more. He made money in his first two events and won his third tournament. He certainly had his ups and downs since then, graduating to the Web.com Tour and then the PGA Tour, and now he is a World Golf Champion.

The $16,000 investment proved to be a good one. Winning the Dell Match Play, Kevin earned a whopping $1,745,000 and I’m pretty sure Duane will enjoy the traditional 10-percent payday.

The next mountain left to climb for Kevin is a major championship. Kisner said he felt comfortable at Austin Country Club and I’m sure he will feel just as comfortable at Augusta, just a 45-minute drive from his home in Aiken.

By the way, I’m on a pretty good roll predicting winners so far this year. Before The Players started, I predicted Rory would come out on top, and he did. On Friday of Match Play week, I predicted Kevin Kisner would come out on top, and he did. Now the question is . . . who do I pick for The Masters? You’ll find that out next week.

a crew, go through a check-list akin to a vessel exam. This includes, among many items, the location of:

The extra life jackets (we must have ours on at all times, which is an EXCELLENT idea, skipper)

The medical kit – and ensure that none of the perishable supplies have in fact perished due to the passage of time The “visual distress signals”, i.e., flares — and that they have not expired and are serviceable

The boat hook — a good tool for extending for retrieving something — or someone — that may be just out of reach

The Man Overboard “apparatus,” i.e., line and ring to throw to someone who has indeed fallen overboard

Fire extinguishers

This list is by no means exhaustive, but it represents some of the major categories of pending disaster that may befall a skipper. While you are dealing with the boat and how it needs to be used to respond to the emergency, your crew can be dealing with the crew’s response.

Whether it be a grounding, or far worse, a vessel sinking being dealt with, you as the skipper have a lot on your mind and a lot to deal with. Can you imagine yourself also having to stop dealing with the emergency at hand so that you can direct crew to emergency equip-

ment that will protect them and you from the effects of that emergency?

But Everyone Has a Pressure Point Beyond which, they start to crack. What do you do if the crew can’t handle the pressure as well as you are handling it?

Well, how about handing them a laminated layout of your boat with the location of all the equipment labeled? Seriously, of all the risks that you spend time and money in preparing for and against, have you thought about panic as a risk?

What then?

“Honey, hey, enough! Here, look at this — right now — and go get everybody in life jackets. Now!”

It is likely to reduce the panic because now the crew has something to focus on other than the water sloshing on the floor boards.

Oh, remember the comment about a (free) vessel exam at the start of this column? If you want one, email me below.

By the way, if you are interested in being part of USCG Forces, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go direct to the D1SR Human Resources department, who are in charge of new members matters, at DSOHR and we will help you “get in this thing.”

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INDY FIT

By Nicole Teitler

New Instructor Alert The East End welcomes Amy Kalaczynski nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily

There’s a new woman in town who is more than a fellow fitness enthusiast but also a colleague of mine at The Independent. Amy Kalaczynski moved to Amagansett only a month ago and is on the search for a studio to call home. As a private yoga (vinyasa and restorative) instructor, nutritionist, life coach, and guided relaxation leader, she’s excited to share her knowledge with the local community.

What made you decide to move to the East End? As much as I love Brooklyn I was getting worn down by the hustle and bustle and the masculinity of the city.

Trees, fresh air, and the water have always been my escape so it made sense to make that my every day. When I began my Vedic studies it became even more apparent that the city was not the place for me. Ultimately, I wanted to live in a more peaceful environment that was more conducive to my studies and current lifestyle.

What are the Vedas?

How did you get into that particular practice?

The Vedas are a 5000-year-old body

of wisdom. It is where the knowledge of yoga, ayurveda, and Vedic meditation come from. I was introduced to the asana practice (what we call yoga in the west) about 10 years ago, and it naturally developed into a spiritual practice. I was introduced to Vedic meditation three years ago and began my initiator training last month, which is an 18-month program.

Meditation is a beautiful thing because it can be done anywhere. Where is your go-to meditation spot?

You are absolutely correct. The beauty of this type of meditation is that you can do it anywhere at any time — in your car, at the office, the gym, a park. I meditate the recommended amount of time, which is two times daily for 20 minutes each. My morning meditation happens on my couch, and as much as I would love to find a beautiful place by the water for my afternoon meditation, it’s usually done wherever I can find a comfortable place to sit. Wherever you are, it’s important for your back to be supported so that your body can fully relax.

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I believe there is a time and place for Western medicine. However I also strongly believe in the body’s ability to heal itself. When a body is unbalanced you need to get to the root of the issue instead of putting a Band-Aid on it. To me Western medicine is a Band-Aid. With the proper food, rest, sunlight, body work, acupuncture, body movement, and detoxification processes (like an infrared sauna), so many issues can be resolved. So I believe in both — advanced technology is beneficial for testing to see where imbalance is occurring. However Eastern medicine must be incorporated to lead the body back to its natural state of health and to maintain it.

Are there any films/books that you encourage others to watch/read to become more in tune with your sort of practice?

I love to read, listen to podcasts, and take as many classes as I can on the subject of yoga, ayurveda, and Vedic meditation. A few of my favorite books are “Our Spiritual Heritage” by Lynn Napper and Vicki Napper; “Ayurveda, The Idiots’ Guide” by Sahara Rose Ketabi; “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu trans-

lated by Stephen Mitchell; “The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself” by Michael Singer; “Art of Attention” by Elana Brower and Erica Jago; and “Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself” by Joe Dispenza.

What inspires you on a daily basis when you’re feeling stressed?

Knowing that I can move and change the energy in my body at any time is what inspires me when I’m feeling stressed. For me that is dancing, asanas, inversions, laughing, and pranayama. Also, believing that my natural state, along with everyone else’s natural state, is love. When people are given the opportunity to tap into that natural state though meditation, the layers of stress peel away. It’s easier to discover who you are and the purpose of why you’re here. I try not to take things too seriously.

What else are you working on?

I will be launching Bambootyz, a sustainable yoga and meditation brand this spring. It will include a line of comfortable clothing, along with meditation rugs made from natural bamboo fabric.

Book by emailing amy.kalaczynski@ gmail.com or messaging her on Instagram @amy_kalaczynski.

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