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Publisher James J. Mackin Associate Publisher Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Never Release Dear Editor, A recent article about the public hearing on the proposed balloon release ban in Southampton is very concerning.

The Balloon Council is “not opposed” to the outdoor release ban, in fact, we actively promote that all balloons should be weighted and tied to a string and never released into the environment.

However, subjecting those who release balloons to a $1000 fine and 15 days of jail time sends the wrong message about a joyful product and is excessive.

Even more unsettling is the reported “next step” statement by a Sustainability Committee member that “suggested tougher measures, including not selling balloons in the town.” This type of ban on the sale of balloons would be extremely harmful to local businesses and party decorators in Southampton who serve residents and visitors year-round.

TBC prefers education over legislation, teaching people about Smart Balloon Practices and the proper ways to use and dispose of balloons and keep our envi-

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In A Pickle?

Dear Editor, It’s time to assess Jay!

Can you realistically sell your home for the assessed value the town says it is worth?

Does the town turn a blind eye to the multi-family use of single-family homes impacting your school taxes?

Has Jay ever set foot in Flanders, Riverside, Northampton, or Wildwood Lake?

How many of the highest-paying town positions are held by people from outside Southampton Town? Do they really commute in town-owned vehicles?

Is there a lack of talent in Southampton, or does Jay just prefer outsiders like himself?

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Joseph Grippo being brought to court for arraignment on Friday, June 21. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

Alleged Montauk Murderer Has Long Prison Record DA: Joseph Grippo lured victim and attacked him with a pickaxe

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

The Montauk man who murdered a former friend in a jealous rage over a woman both were seeing, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s

office, has spent much of his adult life in New York State prisons, according to state records.

Joseph Grippo, 47, has been

charged with second-degree murder of Robert Casado, 38, also of Montauk. Casado was bludgeoned to death shortly after 7 AM on Thursday, June 6, on a narrow, shrouded path frequently used as a shortcut through Kirk Park, according to the police.

Grippo was remanded to county jail without the possibility of bail. According to District Attorney Tim Sini, Grippo used a pickaxe to murder Casado, both stabbing him with the pick repeatedly, as well as striking him in the head with the blunt side of the tool. According to papers filed in East Hampton Town Justice Court, Grippo also used a knife to kill Casado. Sini spoke minutes after Grippo was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Friday, June 21.

Sini said that Grippo used a pretext to lure Casado into a secluded sec-

tion of the path that connects Main Street and Second House Road and then turned on him and killed him.

Grippo was arrested on June 20 in Montauk by Suffolk County detectives, who had conducted a two-week-long investigation, working alongside East Hampton Town detectives.

His case was presented to a grand jury in Riverside, which returned a sealed indictment the same day Grippo was arraigned in East Hampton.

Grippo will be arraigned on the murder charges in county criminal court in Riverside on Friday, June 28.

In 1990, when Grippo was 18 years old, he was sentenced to up to four years in prison on an attempted robbery charge. He served two years at the Auburn facility upstate, before being paroled.

Then, six years later, in 1998, Grippo was convicted of armed robbery and assault with a weapon with intent to kill, along with several other felonies. His sentence at that time was a straight 15 years. He served his time at the Collins facility upstate, and was released in late December of 2012. He returned to Montauk, where he lived in his mother’s house on Old Montauk Highway and worked as a landscaper.

“We used to hang out every single day,” Edgar Ramirez said of Casado on Friday. Ramirez was one of many from the Latino community in Montauk who came to justice court that morning to show their support for the dead man and his family. Many of them were from the Dominican Republic, as was Casado. “I spent my whole winter with him.

He didn’t have a job,” Ramirez added.

“I helped him, with money and food.”

It is not unusual for laborers in the landscaping business to be unemployed during the winter.

At one point, Grippo had been friends with Casado and Ramirez, Ramirez said. “It is so, so sad,” he said.

Casado’s father, Benny Garces, an employee at Gurney’s Resort, arrived at the courthouse for the arraignment, being supported by friends. When the father left the courthouse, he nearly collapsed a couple of times. Overcome with emotion, he was helped to a car by a group of friends and family.

If convicted as charged, Grippo faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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Mayor-Elect Warren Is Youngest Yet 36-year-old edges out Southampton Village incumbent 450-405

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Jesse Warren’s smile was beaming ear to ear as friends, loved ones, and campaign members surrounded him after the Southampton Village election results were announced on Friday night, June 21. The 36-year-old beat out incumbent Michael Irving 450-405 to become the youngest mayor in village history.

“We had every party, every group, every age group come out to vote,” said Warren, who’s owned Tenet on Main Street since 2010, and is a member of the village Planning Commission. “Even Southampton High School students came out to vote today. We reached out to every single person in the community, we canvased every single street, and we tried to connect with everyone. This campaign was about being open to everybody and representing everybody, and that’s ex-

actly what I want to do.”

There will also be a slew of fresh new faces on the village board. Seeking their first two-year trustee terms were Mark Parash, Andrew Pilaro, and Joseph McLoughlin, looking to fill the shoes of longtime board members Nancy McGann and Bill Hattrick who had opted not to run again. Parash, a lifelong resident and owner of Sip ’n’ Soda luncheonette, won over voters with 643 backers, while Pilaro, the president of CAP Properties Limited, a family-operated investment firm, edged out McLoughlin 443-433 for the second seat. McLoughlin, also a lifelong resident, and the youngest of the group to run, at 29 years old, is also a member of the Planning Commission.

Irving, who had served as mayor the last two years, and was a trustee for

Village Fine-Tunes Leaf Blower Law Measure would ban commercial use from June 1 to Labor Day

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

The effort to curtail the use of gaspowered leaf blowers in East Hampton Village has been delayed once again as village officials again tweaked the language of a proposed code amendment on Friday, June 21.

Mayor Paul Rickenbach said the board wanted to get the law right before adopting it. “This is a quality-of-life issue for our residents and that is who we are responsible to,” the mayor told a handful of landscapers who were on hand to oppose the law.

“We realize we are taking a productive tool out of your hands,” added Trustee Arthur Graham, of the proposal that would ban the use of gas leaf blow-

ers by commercial landscapers from June 1 to Labor Day. “The residents of the village have told us in no uncertain terms that that is a tool they want taken out of your hands, at least for the summer period.”

The village board has paired the leaf blower prohibition with another measure requiring commercial landscapers to obtain a village license to work in the village.

This week, it agreed to hold off on adopting the laws until another hearing can be held on new language increasing fines to as much as $5000 for repeat offenders, but eliminating the possibility of a jail sentence, for violating the law. The

Jesse Warren is congratulated by family, friends, and campaign members following the announcement of his 450-405 win over incumbent Michael Irving for Southampton Village mayor. Independent/Desirée Keegan

over 10 years prior, said he can’t argue with what the people want.

“In any election, it’s the people of the community that are speaking, and they feel he can do a better job,” the incumbent said. “It’s been a lot of work — a tremendous amount of work — but it’s been an absolute honor to serve the village.”

He laughed when saying he’s looking forward to taking a break, adding the best part is he can now go to the grocery store without getting stopped in every aisle. Irving said he does not

plan to seek office in the future. For Warren though, it’s right to work.

“There’s a lot that needs to get done,” Warren said. “I feel extremely honored to be elected and honored to have the opportunity to serve every single resident and every single stakeholder and person in this village. I could not be happier. I’m looking forward to getting to work, working hard, and bringing forward some of the needed change to Southampton Village; working with everybody and being extremely inclusive to get that done.”

hearing will be held on July 31, but village attorney Linda Riley said the laws would not go into effect until next year.

Landscape business owners on Friday either opposed the law as unfair or said they would live with it, while residents said the leaf blower ban was needed to preserve tranquility in the village.

“There is a very good green alternative,” said one of those residents, Daniel Hays in support of the restrictions. “It’s called a rake and it has been used for years prior to leaf blowers.”

“It seems to me the leaf blowers are just such an invasion on the peacefulness of this village,” added John Cataletto, another village resident, who nonetheless said he understood the need for the equipment to be used for fall and spring cleanups.

The ban does not extend to private homeowners who have their own gas leaf blowers, although their use of the equipment would be limited to the hours of 8 AM to 6 PM weekdays and from 8 AM to 3 PM on weekends.

Nor will it extend to the Maidstone Club, the private golf club whose grounds cover more than 200 acres, or the village itself, although officials said the village would make a good-faith effort to comply with the restrictions.

Jim LaGarenne, representing Richard Sperber Landscaping, had concerns about both proposed village laws.

“Charge a fee that makes people have to get it and have enforcement,” he said of the proposed landscapers’ license. “If you don’t have the license, the fine has to be substantial.”

He opposed the seasonal ban on gas leaf blowers as “totally arbitrary and premature.”

“Arbitrary because there are so many other contractors of various types,” he continued, “so much other landscaping equipment that makes an equal amount of decibels.”

He said electric leaf blowers don’t hold a charge long enough to be effective and said they only produce slightly less noise than gas ones. He added that smaller businesses would not be able to afford the cost of buying the new gear.

Bill Fox, another commercial landscaper, said he would make do.

He said he had outfitted his crews with about $15,000 worth of electric gear to mixed results. “The leaf blowers go 20 minutes on a charge,” he said, noting that line trimmers and hedge trimmers run much longer. He added that both his crews and his customers have had positive responses because they are not as noisy.

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Two Familiar Newsstand Staples Join Forces Venerable newspapers will merge but retain identities

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

A lot has changed in Sag Harbor over time, but one constant has remained for 160 years: when you look on the newsstand, you will see The Sag Harbor Express.

The Southampton Press is a relative infant by comparison, with only 112 years on the stands. But its twin flagships, the Western and Eastern editions, along with The East Hampton Press, all under the Press News Group's banner, are highly regarded both locally and across the state.

But on Monday, June 24, The Express and Press announced they

would merge. The announcement caught onlookers by surprise and may signal a new strategy among weekly newspapers nationwide.

Sag Harbor Express co-pubiishers Gavin and Kathryn “Georgie” Menu will serve as co-publishers, while the Press News Group’s publisher, Joseph Louchheim, will remain on as a consultant for several years.

For Gavin Menu, it almost seems like a logical extension. He met Georgie, his wife, at The Independent when both worked here in 2004. Menu went

to work for The Southampton Press a year later, first as a reporter and later as an ad sales representative. In 2014, the couple took over the reins at The Express from publisher Bryan Boyhan.

“He’s a huge part of everything” Menu said of Boyhan. “He’ll be running the Sag Harbor office and designing the paper. It’s important to stay in touch with Sag Harbor.”

Gardner “Pat” Cowles purchased the Express in 1988. It had been owned by the Gardner family since 1920 and run by the publisher and columnist Vicki Gardner. Cowles brought Boyhan in as editor. He became publisher and part-owner in 2000, and sole owner in 2011.

“Pat Cowles’s generosity made all this possible,” Boyhan said on June 24. Boyhan intends to stay on board until the end of 2020.

Executive editor Joe Shaw, who runs the Press Group’s newsroom, will continue to serve under the Menus. “When I was hired, I said three to five years and it’s been 21,” he said. “I couldn’t be more excited. It makes sense in so many ways.”

Joe Louchheim, 55, took over as co-publisher with his father Donald Louchheim in 1997, the 100th anniversary of The Southampton Press.

“It was never about succession,” he

commented. “I never thought of this as a family business. I’ve been here 30 years. I’d like to pursue other interests.” Louchheim said for the foreseeable future, “I’m going to work my butt off to set up Georgie and Gavin.”

No one involved sees layoffs or cutbacks. There are some redundancies, Louchheim acknowledged: both papers cover the Bridgehampton School, Sag Harbor schools and village government, and overlap with some arts coverage, particularly Bay Street.

But both “have lost a few reporters” who were not replaced, in anticipation of the merger. The East Hampton Press office on Railroad Avenue will close, with the staff relocating to Sag Harbor.

The latest bit of news is another in a series of events that typify smalltown America and the interrelationship of the local residents. KathrynMenu’s stepfather, Jack Graves, has worked at The East Hampton Star for 52 years and is that paper’s longtime sports editor. His daughter took over as The Independent’s sports editor after her future husband left that position. Virginia Garrison, The East Hampton Press editor, was a former longtime editor for The Star; and Gavin Menu left The Press to join his wife and Boyhan at The Express.

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Mulcahy Sweeps To Victory In Sag Harbor Corish, Plumb also win easily to bring new majority to village board

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com Kathleen Mulcahy, a political neophyte, rolled to a decisive victory in the Sag Harbor mayoral race June 18. Mulcahy ousted two-term incumbent Mayor Sandra Schroeder by a better than 2-to1 margin, with 489 votes to Schroeder’s 197, to claim the village’s top job.

Mulcahy’s running mates, incumbent Trustee Aidan Corish and Bob Plumb, also won. Corish received 481 votes to win his second two-year term, while Plumb, a member of the village

zoning board of appeals, received 447 votes. They easily outpolled Jennifer Ponzini, who received 247 votes, and Silas Marder, who received 78, to claim the two open board seats.

“We worked really hard. I had a team of volunteers that was beyond amazing,” said Mulcahy. “Everybody worked, but also the village wanted change. I heard it every time I walked down the street.”

Mulcahy said voters were upset about many issues including the fouling of Havens Beach when the Suffolk County Department Of Public Works dumped spoil there after dredging the channel west of Long Wharf; the village’s controversial decision to press ahead with a police impound lot in the Long Pond Greenbelt, despite much public objection; and the way development has been handled in the village.

“There were so many decisions made without public input, without communication, without conversation, that the village was tired of it,” Mulcahy said.

About 50 supporters of the various candidates gathered at the Sag Harbor Firehouse shortly before the polls closed at 9 PM. They were in for a long wait.

Election workers spent well over an hour tallying the votes. After they had checked and rechecked their work, they wrote the results on a whiteboard in the

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Kathleen Mulcahy, second from left, exults after learning she had just been elected Sag Harbor mayor by a more than 2-to-1 margin over incumbent Sandra Schroeder June 18. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

far corner of the room out of sight of the crowd, before carrying it back to the near side of the room and turning it around.

The hush in the room was replaced by gasps and cheers, as Mulcahy and her family and friends celebrated.

Schroeder quietly congratulated Mulcahy before leaving the firehouse with her supporters.

“I think it is a remarkable result. It speaks for itself,” said Corish. “There was a definite movement for change out there.”

Plumb said he was also surprised by the strong showing. “I didn’t expect it to

be that much,” he said, before adding that results were indicative of the desire for change in the way the village is run.

Election Day had its share of controversy. An old fire truck, with several signs supporting the candidacy of Ponzini was parked directly across the street from the firehouse Tuesday afternoon. Some voters said it appeared the fire department itself was supporting her, which was not the case. Others complained it was parked too close to the firehouse entrance and violated the law.

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DA Working Two Cases In East Hampton Scrutiny the most intense since McGintee era

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

The Suffolk District Attorney’s Office has been an unusual presence in East Hampton of late, with two pending investigations.

Amos Goodman and Pat Mansir have been on the hot seat since December. Goodman, 35, of East Hampton, was the East Hampton Town Republican Party chairman when he allegedly submitted nominating petitions that contained at least 43 forgeries. He is

facing a dozen felony counts of possession of a forged instrument and related charges.

Mansir, 72, a former East Hampton Town councilwoman, served as the chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Independence Party last year when doctored petitions were allegedly turned in the Board of Elections. She also faces numerous felony counts.

Elaine Jones, the head of the East

Hampton Independence Party, said the party has hired attorney Steve Wilutis to represent Mansir and is hopeful her case will be resolved in the near future. Goodman’s case is more complicated because he is a licensed notary and swore to the validity of the petitions, she said. “Amos is in a little more trouble,” she said.

Last week Anthony Siviglia, a detective investigator, and Kevin Ward from the DA’s Public Integrity Office were in town, asking questions about another matter: an allegation that the office of the East Hampton Town Trustees had been bugged. In fact, a tape was distributed to local newspapers and others by an unidentified source purported to be culled from the clandestine recordings.

Jones said the DA is inquiring into who might have had access to the office to plant the bug and who had motive to do so. The conversation on those recordings also veered into a discussion about the controversial Duryea’s application in Montauk and the abrupt departure of former East Hampton Town Attorney Michael Sendlenski.

The attorney for the Town Trustees, Chris Carillo, explained that in New York State, a party to any conversation could tape it without the permission of others involved. In fact, any conversation can be

taped by a participant even if no one else in the room is aware of it.

“It’s called a one-party consent state,” Carillo said. “But the person needs to be in the room.” In other words, planting a bug in a room and leaving means the content of the tape is not admissible in court.

Though it’s been reported there were numerous bugs found in the trustees’ office since late last year, Carillo said he does not know if that is the case. It’s also been reported the tapes have been edited or spliced. “It’s possible. I haven’t heard them,” the attorney said. He did confirm the DA’s office met with “several” trustees last week. In 2007, the DA’s office launched a wideranging investigation into the spending practices of the East Hampton Town Board after nearly $30 million disappeared. Members town budget office were arrested and the town supervisor, Bill McGintee, was forced to resign in October 2009.

Sheila Kelly, a spokeswoman for the DA, did not return phone calls by press time.

The board of elections employees, William Mann, 60, of Cutchogue and Gregory Dickerson, 55, of Mattituck, are also accused of filing nominating petitions for Green Party judicial candidates containing forged signatures.

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Chalking Tires By TCOs Unconstitutional?

Manhattan/Bridgehampton resident taking on East Hampton Village

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

Tired of running to your car to avoid getting a parking ticket in East Hampton? Jay Goldberg, a well-known Manhattan attorney with a Bridgehampton residence, is challenging a parking ticket issued by an East Hampton Village traffic control officer earlier this month.

The ticket was issued after the TCO had chalked Goldberg’s vehicle’s tire, then returned and determined that the car had not been moved in the allotted amount of time. Goldberg’s challenge is based on a ruling by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that found that chalking tires is an unreasonable warrantless search, prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

The suit that the court, which covers the states of Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, ruled on was originally filed in the Federal Courthouse of the Eastern District of Michigan in 2017.

That federal suit was brought by a woman named Alison Taylor against the City of Saginaw, Michigan, after she received multiple tickets from a TCO who was chalking her tires.

Initially, Taylor’s suit was dismissed with the presiding judge ruling that, while chalking a tire by a TCO to determine how long a vehicle remains in a parking space is a warrantless search, it is a reasonable one.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in April of this year, disagreed, writing that chalking by TCOs, with a pun probably intended, “Because we chalk this practice up to a regulatory exercise, rather than a community-caretaking function, we REVERSE,” with the last word in all caps. The case was reinstated, and remanded back to the Eastern District Court of Michigan.

The ticket was issued earlier this

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Evelio Tualongo, a student at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead, has been chalking tires and writing tickets for the Town of East Hampton for the past three summers. The practice of drawing chalk lines on tires to determine which vehicles have stayed in a space too long, which is done in both the town and village, is facing a challenge from a prominent attorney. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

month. Rema Goldberg, Jay’s wife, said the couple had parked their 2019 Chevrolet in the handicapped spot (they have a handicapped sticker) in front of the movie theater in East Hampton Village on Main Street, and had gone in to watch “Rocket Man.” After the roughly two-hour long movie was over, they caught a quick bite to eat, and returned to their car, to find the ticket on their front window.

“Most people would just pay the

ticket and get a little more sunburned,” Jay Goldberg said. “I’m going all the way with this case.”

Goldberg is the author of a new book, “The Courtroom is My Theater,” which he will be talking about at the East Hampton Library next month. Goldberg has represented numerous celebrities in court including the musicians Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, and Waylon Jennings.

He also represented Donald Trump during the president’s divorces.

The East Hampton Library will continue its Tom Twomey Series with “Washington Update: A Conversation with CBS News’ Rita Braver and Attorney Robert Barnett” on Thursday, June 26, from 6 to 7 PM.

The husband-and-wife power duo will share their insider views of what’s happening in the nation’s capital. Braver is the national correspondent for the network’s “Sunday Morning” program, during which she reports on topics such as arts, culture, politics, and foreign policy.

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Rita Braver. Independent/Courtesy East Hampton Library

News & Opinion

June 26, 2019

East Hampton Town Mulls Rare Roundabout Intersection has ‘become quite dangerous,’ supervisor says

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

East Hampton Town Board members were well on their way to approving the installation of a roundabout on Stephen Hands Path on June 18 — until a dissident voice gave pause to ponder.

Highway Superintendent Steve Lynch told the board what members already know: the intersection of Long Lane, Two Holes of Water Road, and Stephen Hands Path is a traffic jam waiting to happen, especially during the summer.

“It’s become quite dangerous,” pointed out Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, who noted traffic can back up all the way to Route 114 on the west and Cedar Street to the east.

Lynch pointed out a portion of Stephen Hands Path near Route 114 frequently floods, exacerbating the situation further.

Planners had already researched the various kinds of traffic control measures available, including four-way stop signs, traffic lights, and more.

“Roundabouts are way safer,” said Planning Director Marguerite Wolffsohn, who suggested the town pony up some money for further study.

Robert Barnet. Independent/Courtesy East Hampton Library

Twomey Series

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Barnett is a senior partner in the Washington law firm Williams & Connolly, whose clients have included former

Lynch pointed out there is enough room without infringing on private property, and that large trucks would be able to maneuver through it.

Jeff Bragman, the board’s newest member, threw a wrench into the works.

He said he frequently comes upon the intersection, usually three times a day, and noted the farm vistas and rural view, which he called “breathtaking.”

Then there were the matters of due diligence under the state’s environmental laws and of examining alternatives.

What weighed heavily in his opinion, he said in an interview afterward, was the cost of the East Hampton Village roundabout on Route 114 near Long Lane, said to be $1.6 million. Called “the jug-handle,” it is by no means popular with local drivers.

“I’m not in favor of it,” he told the board, referring to the latest roundabout being discussed.

Van Scoyoc, though, persisted, and after discussing the speed limit — “no one pays attention to it” the supervisor said — the board agreed to allow Wolffsohn and Lynch to gather more info.

Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

A complimentary wine reception will precede the program at 5:30 PM.

The series will continue throughout the summer and fall with Anne Surchin, R.A. and Daniel Cohen, a researcher, discussing the Wiborg family on July 12 at 6 PM, and Roberta Sandenbergh, AIA and Jane Dillion, a realtor, discussing living better in small spaces on August 24 at 9:30 AM.

East Hampton Town Trustee John Aldred, John “Barley” Dunne, the director of East Hampton Shellfish Hatchery, and Pete Malinowski, the executive director of the Billion Oyster Project, will give a talk on oysters on September 8 at 6 PM. A talk on cartoonist Charles Addams, the creator of the Addams Family, will be given on October 19 at 6 PM.

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Some of the bees East Hampton beekeeper Deb Klughers tends to. Independent/Deb Klughers

Beekeeper Creates Buzz With Petition East Hampton business owner looking to protect honeybees

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

East Hampton beekeeper Deb Klughers said she’d had enough after finding out a swarm of honeybees had been poisoned in Amagansett. Wanting to do something about it, she called local politicians and received no response. So, she took matters into her own hands.

The Eastern Apiculture Society certified master beekeeper started a petition to enact a New York law protecting honeybee swarms and colonies from extermination.

“It was totally unnecessary, and it reminded me that something needs

to be done. This can’t keep going on,” Klughers said of the poisoning, adding that when she arrived on the scene two days after being told of the swarm, she found the bees still dying, covered in a black, sticky substance. “Honey bees are on the decline across America — across the world — and there’s no reason to be killing swarms,” she said.

“A swarm of honeybees is at its most gentle and vulnerable life phase. It’s when they leave their home. It’s like the birth of a whole new colony. They’re just looking for a new home.”

Honeybees are not protected under the Endangered Species Act, and there are no federal laws to prohibit people from killing them, but neighboring New Jersey has a law in place that protects honey bee swarms and honey bee colonies that are in structures or places where they are unwanted.

The New Jersey law requires exterminators to make a good-faith effort to move a nuisance hive or a hanging swarm. The state apiarist’s permission is required before a hive can be exterminated, and in the event that the apiarist is not available, exterminators are required to try to contact at least three local beekeepers for help in moving the colony.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. said help may be on the way. He is supporting a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright of Setauket that would prohibit the sale of some pesticides known to harm birds and bees, and require the state Department of Environmental Conservation to develop a strategy to create more pollinatorfriendly lands.

“Pollinators such as honeybees are a major portion of the food chain and a big part of the environment.

They’re under great stress, and not just with what we’ve seen here locally but across the globe,” Thiele said. “We’ve seen extremely adverse impacts from the uses of pesticides, whether it be to our drinking water, to public health in general, and also with regard to pollinators. The issue that Deborah has brought up with regard to the impact of pesticides on honey bees is real, and it needs to be addressed.”

Peak season to see or find honeybee swarms is May through June. They can contain tens of thousands of bees, but are harmless, according to Klughers, who has colonies in Montauk, a farm in Eastport, and manages bees in Stony Brook and Riverhead. She has a photo holding a swarm in her hands with a tank top on and zero protection to make her point, but said she does understand how those not knowing this may be frightened.

“I understand it is alarming,” she said. “It’s a giant swarm of thousands and thousands of bees. It’s a sight to see. It’s loud. It’s scary. But people reach for a poison to kill them.” Pumping poison into the wall of a house will not only kill the bees but also can kill mice and rats and create other issues, including odors and mold, she said.

Klughers’ Change.org petition already has more than 2650 signers.

Some are fellow beekeepers, and others, like East Hampton’s Roey Ficaro, just see the need to protect bees.

“I am a dedicated lover of honeybees and believe they need to be protected so they can thrive and we can continue to enjoy the healing therapeutic benefits of honey as well as continue pollination, which is crucial to our existence,” she said.

“Bees die, we die,” added Bridgehampton resident Anne Rosch. “It’s really that simple.”

Honeybees play a vital role in the ecosystem, according to Aman Nakagawa, the director of planning and research at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. While pollination is of the utmost importance, products of the beehive — honey, pollen, propolis, beeswax, and bee venom ­— are medicinal. “They support the growth of trees, flowers, and plants, which serve as food and shelter,” NaContinued On Page 55.

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Grant To Combat Invasive Species Southampton Town receives more funds for Riverside Park

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town has been awarded a $74,999 grant to combat invasive species at Riverside Park.

Southampton, which was chosen by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, is the only municipality on Long Island to receive this state grant.

“We’re cleaning up shorefront and restoring wetland to its natural configuration,” Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said. “It’s one step in the development of the park. There are many steps to go.

We have a number of applications in for grants for that property — some significant that we’re hoping for, but if you’re going to create a park, you want the landscape to be appropriate. You want it to be the way a natural shoreline should look.”

It comes at a time when the town is ready to award the bid for final design plans to build the park, and also comes close to coinciding with Invasive Species Awareness Week, July 7 to 13. It also follows two State DEC Environmental Justice grants of $50,000 each awarded to the Flanders, Riverside, Northampton Community Association to help design and construct the park. The town has also received two Local Water Revitalization Plan grants and an Empire State Development Grant totaling $285,000.

“This is a wonderful piece of the total cost for the shoreline restoration to make this a more natural riverside,” FRNCA President Vince Caldone said.

“This is also another sign from the state that they’re supporting the work we’re

A conceptual site plan design of Riverside Park done by Airys Designs. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

doing here. It’s all coming together — all these different agencies are supporting the different components of the project, and that means a lot.”

Finding Riverside on a map, you’ll see a river and bay and thousands of acres of preserved woodland in the Pine Barrens. But Caldone said if you live in Riverside, you have no access to any of the waterfront.

“You have to travel to another place, which is also different for some people in this community with limited incomes, maybe one car, maybe not,” he said. “So, it’s really critical to have this access to be able to experience the river, love it, and value it. The more people experience it, the more they want to protect it.”

Caldone added support from all different angles helps the project’s standing and position in competitions for future money.

“It’s a stamp of approval,” he said.

“And restoring the shoreline is most criti-

cal. It’s important for the rest of Peconic Bay. This kind of work needs to be done.”

Conceptual designs for the Riverside Park, which can be found at www.southamptontownny.gov, were presented to the town board last year.

They included a multi-phased construction plan proposal to incorporate a walking trail, fishing platforms, and other amenities along the Peconic River. The design plan was rendered following extensive community surveys. The supervisor said it’s going to take some time to do the engineering and specs, and said the park will most likely be done in phases, to ensure money is secured each step of the way.

“This is important to that community,” Schneiderman said. “I always thought a community called Riverside should be able to access the riverside.

They’re right there on the Peconic River and you wouldn’t know it.”

Mulcahy’s Victory

truck parked on private grounds,” she said. “I got a lot of negative comments about it from my constituents, but that was their right to do it.”

A ballot proposition to increase monthly pensions for volunteer emergency service workers from $20 to $30 for each year of service, also passed easily, and Village Justice Lisa Rana, who was running unopposed, was reelected with 471 votes, although President Donald Trump and the cartoon character Homer Simpson, who each received one vote apiece, were among a handful of write-ins for the justice position.

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by former Mayor Brian Gilbride, who had lent it to the Ponzini camp. Gilbride said that he knew the truck would have Ponzini signs on it, but he did not know where it would be parked. In the end, he said it was just a more demonstrative sign of support than the “hundreds of signs for every candidate that were spread around the block.”

With victory easily in hand, Mulcahy did not want to press the issue.

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Police From Surfer Bro To Psycho Killer?

Roommate describes on the stand the unraveling of Tommy Gilbert

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

“I knew of him since I was younger,” Peter Smith said about his ex-roommate Tommy Gilbert, at whose trial he was testifying last week. Their parents were members of the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, and the two had both gone to the same prep school, Buckley. But Tommy Gilbert, who has been charged with murdering his father, was two years

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“I tried to socialize with Tommy as much as possible,” Smith said, adding he tried to help Gilbert “crawl out of his shell a little bit.”

said, “He told me that he didn’t get along with his father, that he was overbearing.”

The two began splitting the $2800 monthly rent at Smith’s Meserole Avenue apartment. They spent most of their time together. “I tried to socialize with Tommy as much as possible,” Smith said, adding he tried to help Gilbert “crawl out of his shell a little bit.”

ahead of Smith at Buckley, and the two had never bonded.

That changed in the summer of 2011. “We ran into each other on the beach,” Smith told the jury. “I was about to go surfing and he asked to join me. I said sure, and we paddled out together and we started talking.”

They spoke about their living situations. “I had an extra room in my apartment, and he told me he was living with his parents,” Smith said. “I needed a roommate, so I suggested he move to Williamsburg.”

Smith was being questioned as a witness for the defense by Gilbert’s attorney, Arnold Levine. The defense is not contesting the idea that Thomas Gilbert Jr. shot his father at point blank range in the older man’s Beekman Place apartment January 4, 2015. Rather, the defense Levine is offering is that Tommy Gilbert was insane at the time of the crime.

Levine asked Smith how long it took for the two men to decide to become roommates after they first met, surfing.

“It was kind of a quick romance. I believe it was the same day,” Smith answered.

Levine said he didn’t know about surfing, and asked Smith to describe it.

“We sat in the line together,” Smith said.

“I normally surf alone, so it was nice to have company.” At another point, Smith

He said, “I surfed with him a lot. I took him to parties. Anytime I went to play music anywhere, I brought him along.”

He also made it a point of taking Gilbert to the drum circle at Sagg Main Beach.

“It is an organic kind of gathering that has been going on for the better part of a decade,” he said.

“There was a group of us that hung out together, in the city, and in the Hamptons,” Smith added.

But, surfing dominated their lives.

They would go surfing “pretty much anytime there were waves,” Smith said.

“I think at that point, Tommy was the happiest he had ever been.”

After living together for three or four months, the two went on a surfing trip in January 2012 with a group of friends, to the Dominican Tree House Village in the Dominican Republic. Gilbert’s behavior became quite odd, Smith testified. A manager at the resort asked Smith to not bring him to functions. Gilbert was seen with an underage prostitute, Smith said.

When Smith knocked on Gilbert’s door and asked about the prostitute, Gilbert denied it was him, and shut the door in Smith’s face. “I would say that was the first time we ever got into a fight,” he said.

At that point, Tommy Gilbert decided he wanted to do a surfing trip around the world and temporarily moved out of the Meserole Avenue apartment.

Refused To Leave Gilbert returned to Smith’s apartment

Thomas Gilbert during his trial in Manhattan.

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in March, 2012. Then, Smith began dating a girl. It became serious. Craig Ortner, prosecuting attorney, said during his cross-examination, that new relationship “in many ways, displaced the spot the defendant had occupied, right?”

“Yes,” Smith replied.

It was decided that Tommy would move out. “Once Laurel started paying rent, and Tommy refused to leave, then things started escalating,” he said.

Gilbert began accusing Smith of going into his room, of hacking into his computer and his bank account, “and messing with him.” He also accused Smith of trying to steal a woman Gilbert was seeing, Lizzy Fraser, from him.

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Crash In Montauk Leads To Arrest DWI in Montauk and Amagansett, plus one in Sag Harbor

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com There were three arrests this past weekend on misdemeanor drunken driving charges made by East Hampton Town Police, as well as one in Sag Harbor.

Abigail Rose Gawronski, 27, was charged with driving while intoxicated on the evening of Saturday, June 22, after crashing a 2007 Mazda into a utility pole on Industrial Road in Montauk,

according to the police. Gawronski told the court Sunday morning during her arraignment in front of East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky that she is living in Amagansett but gets her mail in East Hampton. She said she told the arresting officer that she had swerved to avoid striking a deer.

She showed signs of being intoxi-

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cated, police reported, and was placed under arrest. She was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where she was treated for an injured right arm, then was released back to the police. Before being released, however, she consented to have blood drawn to test her blood alcohol content. Tekulsky said he would hold off suspending her license, pending the results from that test.

Gawronski was released without bail to her mother, who was in the courtroom for the arraignment.

Paul Phelan, 57, was pulled over on Montauk Highway in Amagansett driving a 2016 Nissan early Sunday morning, June 23, with its headlights off, the police said. Phelan has a New Hampshire driver’s license but recently moved to Smithtown, he told Tekulsky during his Sunday arraignment. Tekulsky quizzed Phelan over prior arrests, outside of New York State, which appeared on Phelan’s

record. Phelan seemed reluctant to confirm that the prior arrests were alcoholrelated. Bail was set at $500, which was posted.

Police responding to a possible domestic dispute on Flamingo Avenue in Montauk late Sunday afternoon ended up arresting a Bronx man, Steven Hennessey, on a charge of DWI, as well as a violation charge of harassment. Hennessey was pulled over onto the side of the road in a 2010 Subaru, engine running, after getting into a dispute with another individual. He was released after being arraigned Monday.

A Springs woman was arrested on DWI charges in Sag Harbor early Friday morning, June 21. Felecia Mais, 30, was driving a 2015 Nissan when cops say she ran the stop sign at the intersection of Bay and Main Streets. She was released later that day without bail.

ensures that he will no longer be a threat to our community’s safety.”

Quinn, facing several charges, pleaded guilty on May 8 four felonies — aggravated vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an incident resulting in death, intimidating a witness, and driving while intoxicated — before Suffolk County Acting Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho.

The victim was identified as Joseph Lynn McAlla, 63, of Clifford, PA. McAlla had just completed a delivery of stone to Southampton Masonry and was crossing the roadway when he was struck and killed. The impact of the crash left debris spanning approximately 300 feet along the roadway. Police located the victim’s leg, which had been severed in the crash, approximately 70 feet away from his body.

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com A resident of the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton was sentenced to eight to 24 years in prison last week after he admitted to striking and killing a pedestrian and then driving away from the scene.

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said Chace Quinn, aka Chase Quinn, 20, was a member of the Bloods street gang.

Quinn was driving a 2013 Jeep Wrangler eastbound on County Road 39 in Southampton on April 5. Authorities maintain he was intoxicated. At approxi-

mately 2:30 AM the Southampton Town Police Department received reports of a man lying in the roadway on County Road 39. Investigators determined Quinn had struck the victim and left the scene without reporting the crash.

“This individual is a dangerous gang member and a career criminal,” Sini said.

“He showed no regard for human life when he callously left the victim to die on the side of the road, and continued throughout this case to show a blatant disregard for the law and for the consequences of his actions. Today’s sentence

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Stewart,” he said. While Tekulsky said that that amount requested by the DA was excessive, he said that some bail was in order, given the felony charges, setting it at $2000. He then warned Feder that if anyone, including Martha Stewart, were to post the bail, he must return to court.

Robert K. Futterman, the former Manhattan real estate mogul, was arrested twice by East Hampton Town police on a misdemeanor criminal charge in a 12-hour period in late May, at about the same time Newmark RKF was terminating its relationship with him. Newmark RKF came into existence after the commercial real estate giant Newmark Group purchased the company RKF, which was founded by Futterman, who was widely respected for his acumen in the Manhattan commercial real estate market. Futterman lives in Manhattan, and appears to have been, at the time of his arrest, staying in an Old Montauk Highway beachfront house that rents for $83,000 a month.

Futterman’s attorney, Edward Burke Jr. of Sag Harbor, said that the most serious charges brought by East Hampton Town police were based on flawed information from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles.

The most serious charges are for allegedly driving a rented, loaned, or leased vehicle that lacks an ignition interlock device, a misdemeanor. Such a device prevents the driver from starting the vehicle if his breath shows the presence of alcohol in his system.

The need for an interlock stemmed from Futterman’s conviction in 2012 on a felony charge of driving drunk with a child in the car. Futterman had been arrested in 2011 by Sag Harbor Village police on a driving while intoxicated charge.

That charge mushroomed into four felony charges, one for each of the four children police said were seated in the car at the time of the arrest.

Burke said the requirement for the interlock device was due to sunset after six months, yet was never expunged from

Cabana, nearby house hit; Manhattan real estate mogul also facing driving charges

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

A homeless man with a Bronx connection remained in Suffolk County jail Tuesday morning, June 25, charged by East Hampton Village police with two counts of burglary and criminal possession of stolen property. His targets were a house on Maidstone Lane and a cabana at the nearby Maidstone Club.

Village police said on the evening of Friday, June 21, Daniel Mark Feder, 56, entered a house on Maidstone Lane, and stole several items. The list of stolen items included a Maidstone Club vest, valued at $200, a pair of Vineyard Vines shorts, a pair of Lands’ End boxer shorts, a Vince Camuto women’s dress, a Velvet Heart blouse, and a luggage lock.

Feder fled when confronted by the homeowner, who was in the house when Feder allegedly entered it.

The next morning, the police said, he entered an unlocked cabana at the Maidstone Club, and made off with a duffel bag with some clothes in it. He was picked up by police almost immediately after that theft.

Police said they found Feder hiding in some bushes near the 17th hole on the Maidstone golf course.

It was not Feder’s first brush with village police. In January 2016, he was picked up for allegedly stealing a pair of sunglasses valued at $1300 from the Oli-

ver Peoples store on Newtown Lane. Unable to make bail at that time, he was held for five days before being released when a grand jury failed to indict him on the felony charge in a timely manner. Feder then vanished for the next three-plus years.

Earlier this month, he was picked up by East Hampton Town police, who held him after they discovered a bench warrant for his arrest had been issued out of East Hampton Town Justice Court when he failed to appear for his court dates related to his 2016 arrest.

Feder was ordered released once again on June 11 after being picked up on the warrant, with the understanding that he would report to his caretaker in the Bronx. That, apparently, did not happen, as the caretaker sent police a notice that Feder was missing.

Attorney Brian DeSesa represented Feder for his arraignment before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky on Saturday. DeSesa told the judge that any bail set would be tantamount to jail time, since Feder had no money nor means of raising any. Tekulsky said the district attorney’s office had asked bail to be set at $40,000, given the charges.

Tekulsky asked Feder what his connection to East Hampton was. Feder answered that he works in the entertainment field. “I do business with Martha

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the DMV abstract for Futterman.

The first of the recent arrests happened in Montauk on May 26 at 10:06 PM just east of where Montauk and Old Montauk Highways intersect. Futterman was said to have been driving a 2016 Land Rover. Police said he was pulled over for a multitude of infractions, including speeding, failure to keep right, failure to yield coming off of Old Montauk Highway onto Montauk Highway, failure to use the designated lane, and a charge of driving without holding onto the steering wheel.

When the arresting officer ran Futterman’s license, the requirement from DMV for an interlock device popped up.

On top of the moving violations, Futterman was hit with the misdemeanor charge. Futterman was taken to the Montauk precinct station, processed, and released with an East Hampton Town Justice Court appearance ticket.

When police searched Futterman after his arrest, they allegedly found a packet of marijuana on him, leading to a simple violation charge of possession.

He was released after the second arrest on May 27, when he was charged with driving the same car without an interlock device, after he posted $200 in station-house bail.

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Editorial

JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

Was restraint, after Iran shot down our unmanned drone, the right response?

A Win-Win Situation The Independent was one of the first publications in the state to support the proposal to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses, and we applaud all of the East End publications that did likewise.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has already signed the bill into law and registration can begin in December – bravo.

We are a bit surprised at some of the pushback, because the law is so firmly cemented in common sense that it would seem a no-brainer. Everyone benefits.

Most importantly, it is the humane thing to do. Regardless of how they got here, immigrants are finding work and plenty of it. Asking them to walk to and from jobs seems cruel; our public transportation system out here is basically nonexistent. This is why so many are forced to get behind the wheel of a vehicle without the proper qualifications, knowledge, or insurance.

The new law changes that. It will allow undocumented workers to obtain a license the same way we all do: by passing written and driving tests. Insurance and registration will be required to put a vehicle on the road. That means fewer accidents, fewer injuries, and fewer insurance claims.

Any immigrant who lives in New York without legal status will have to prove their age and identity with valid, foreign-issued documents.

The bill basically passed along party lines, with most Democrats in favor.

Some dissidents expressed fear that the new document would allow the undocumented worker a path to the election booth. However, if driver’s license applicants are also registering to vote, they have to sign an affidavit certifying they are a citizen. If they lie, they face a penalty of up to $5000 and up to four years in prison.

There are also fears federal immigration officials will find it easier to locate undocumented workers for the purpose of deportation, but proponents don’t expect a significant difference unless there is a policy shift in Washington, D.C. The bottom line is if you don’t break the law, deportation likely won’t come into play, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle is a deportation trigger.

It is important to accept the fact that there are two different issues at play here: There are millions of illegal immigrants in the country, and an argument can be made that the problems caused can only be reversed by aggressive deportation.

Conversely, since that clearly isn’t happening, allowing the immigrants to improve their plights while making our roads safer and our courts more effective makes it that much easier to cope with the issue.

There may come a day when our paths all intersect, and we become one people of many nationalities. There may come difficult times when federal policy becomes isolationist and deportation more aggressive. That will be decided in the voting booths across America.

Here’s to the American Women’s Soccer Team as they head into the World Cup!

Mary Tomanovich Of course it was the right decision.

Whenever it’s sensible and reasonable, restraint is always the better option.

Russ Calemmo The president made the right choice in this case. The idea of military aggression toward a foreign country, even though it’s very hostile at this time, is a bad idea. What’s it going to gain? It only opens up the possibility of aggression with other countries.

Joan Burkert I think it was the right decision at this time. Without a doubt.

Michael Odestick I’m not at all a fan of Donald Trump’s but in this case he made the right decision and I’m glad he did.

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Is it just me? © Karen Fredericks

Karen was chosen Best Cartoonist by the New York Press Association in 2017 and again in 2019. She’s the recipient of multiple awards for her illustration of the international bestseller How To Build Your Own Country, including the prestigious Silver Birch Award. Her work is part of the permanent artist’s book collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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Arts & Entertainment The Next Generation: Rufus, Roseanne, Teddy, & More Indy talks to Guild Hall’s summer lineup of legacy legends

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Is it nature or nurture? That was one of the questions that was posited to Guild Hall’s summer headliners who, coincidentally, come from famous performer parents, sometimes on both sides.

The Allman Betts Band, featuring Devon Allman and Duane Betts — sons of Gregg and Dickey — bring it on July 6, with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Allman Brothers Band featuring new tunes. Roseanne Cash — who is such a star in her own right that people sometimes forget that she is Johnny’s daughter — returns to East Hampton on July 7 with “She Remembers Everything,” her latest collection of soulful songs.

And if that weren’t enough — and it certainly is — August 31 brings three legacies to the stage together: Jenni Muldaur, daughter of Maria and Geoff Muldaur; Rufus Wainwright, son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle; and Teddy Thompson, son of Richard and Linda Thompson.

So, what gives with the second, or sometimes even third, generation of talent?

Is the talent, or even the inclination to perform on stage, more nature or nurture? “There are so many examples of each: great musicians who seem to have dropped from space into families with no history of musical talent, and those who are part of generations of musicians in one family,” answered Roseanne Cash. “I don’t think there’s a definitive answer; but I do know that if you have a gift, and you don’t nurture it, it will wither on the vine.”

Jenni Muldaur thinks it’s “a combo for sure. But when your parents sing you to sleep, it sends a message about the importance of song. I could feel how special it was.”

She recalled her parents singing her “Goodnight, Irene,” and “my dad would sing me this beautiful Jimmy Rogers song called ‘Prairie Lullaby,’” she continued. “I just knew from an early age that music was almost like medicine for the soul.”

When Otis Redding died, her parents put his likeness “atop the Christmas tree to honor his passing,” Muldaur said. “So clearly they worshipped music

Rufus Wainwright. Independent/Matthew Welch

and I just followed suit. And as far as talent is concerned, I’m sure being the child of two people who have the singing gene helps.”

Connections Run Deep Muldaur’s August 31 Guild Hall appearance, “Jenni Muldaur and Friends,” includes performances by Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson, two other “double winners” where both parents were musical. “I think Rufus, Teddy, and myself are lucky that way, in that both our parents did this,” she said. To her, it was “just taking up the family biz.

And really, I never had one moment in my life where I thought I would do anything other than something in music.

That being said,” she continued with a

laugh, “I want to buy the General Store in Springs. I have a great vision for that,” which, would, of course, include “a music night.”

Her costars of the evening, Thompson and Wainwright, also responded.

Thompson, son of Fairport Convention’s Richard Thompson and English folk rocker Linda Thompson believes it’s “a little of both. I think what’s really important is that I had the example and knew that music was a possible career.

I’d venture to say there are many kids with great talent that goes unrealized because they don’t see music as a viable means of making a living.”

Maria Muldaur covered songs by the McGarrigle Sisters, and when Rufus Continued On Page B7.

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CELEBRATE THE WONDERS OF THE WILD AT SOFO’s 30th ANNIVERSARY GALA BENEFIT 30 Years of Nature Conservation, Education & Exploration Empowering Families to become Responsible Stewards of Our Planet

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Cherishing Sag Harbor’s Spirit Historical Society summer gala honors Bay Street founders, among others

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Barbara Schwartz, treasurer; Linda Shapiro; and Nancy French Achenbach, president, at the Sag Harbor Historial Society's Annie Cooper Boyd House.

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Sag Harbor may have been incorporated in 1846, but its first Record dates back to 1709. Envision a world of horseback riding and sailing, dirt roads before street names. As time progresses, history often gets left behind.

Thanks to the Sag Harbor Historical Society, this village holds onto its past while boldly looking into the future.

On July 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, the Sag Harbor Historical Society’s summer gala will be hosted by Stuart and Marni Hersch at Point House. The house holds historical significance, built in 1806 in North Haven at 6 Fahys Road, making it a perfectly suitable place for such an event. Linda Shapiro, Sag Harbor resident and well-known event planner and philanthropist in the area, has put this event together along with Nancy French Achenbach, president of the Sag Harbor Historical Society.

The gala’s beginnings came when Shapiro walked into the Historical Society building last summer and fell in love with the history and the people involved. “I thought about all of these people who are buying homes and knocking them down without knowing any of the history,” she said. And so, an idea was born.

While the organization has been around since 1985, incorporated in 1989, not many are aware its existence.

French Achenbach said, “To me, the most important thing about the society right now, and through this benefit, is to get the word out that we have extensive archives. Photographs, maps, documents, family histories, anything we can get our hands on to file.”

As real estate agents continue to sell older, possibly historic, homes, they’re looking for the story behind a location. “As a fourth-generation Sag Harbor resident, it’s important to me to make our resources available in any way we can,” she continued. The organization is hoping for a program geared towards local children, so they may understand the deep history of the place they live.

Around 250 people are expected to attend, including the new owners of WLNG radio, Sandra Foschi and Bill Evans, who will serve as the honorary chairpersons.

Emma Walton Hamilton and Stephen Hamilton, founders of Bay Street Theater, will be honored. Bay Street first opened its doors in 1992, an opportunity for those who came to the East End to rest and work. “We envisioned the East End as a cultural destination — a place where each arts venue or experience enriches the other, and also brings business to the community at large, much like what’s happening now,” Emma Walton Hamilton said. Nearly 30 years ago, the two moved to the area full time, and have seen the East End culture community grow to become larger than ever. “We see Sag Harbor’s future as a diverse arts-based economy, in much the same way it used to be an industrial economy,” she added.

In addition, contractor/renovator of Point House, Steven Breitenbach, and Chris Denon and John Battle, who restored the Sag Harbor Cinema’s neon sign, will receive honorable mention.

The event will be catered by Silver Spoon Specialties with sweets by Tasker.

Troy Grindle will provide the music, and there will also be a silent auction with goods and services donated primarily from Sag Harbor proprietors. Money raised will go toward exhibitions, maintenance, fund a full-time staff member, roof maintenance, and more.

“We also cherish Sag Harbor’s independent spirit, and its commitment to a quality of life that includes protecting our town from big box/commercial development and preserving our natural, cultural, and community resources. We are both very touched by this

honor, and grateful to the Sag Harbor Historical Society for their recognition of our contribution to the community,” Walton Hamilton continued. “It’s truly heartening, not only to have the Historical Society acknowledge us in this way, but also as a reflection of the continuing importance of Bay Street Theater as a cultural destination and influencer, not just on the East End but in the performing arts industry at large.”

Tickets begin at $150. Visit www. sagharborhistorical.org for tickets and information.

Sweet Charities

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Get Wild The 13th annual Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center’s Get Wild benefit will be held on Saturday, June 29, from 5 to 7 PM. The event is hosted

by Joan and Bernard Carl in Southampton. Honorees include Dr. Scarlett Magda, DVM, and Carl Safina, Ph.D. Tickets start at $175. Visit www.wildliferescuecenter.org.

Summer Fête The Children’s Museum of the East End will host its annual Summer Fête fundraiser on Saturday, June 29, from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. Attendees of the festive cocktail reception and dance party will delight in grown-up versions of the games, activities, and mischievous fun that children regularly enjoy at the museum. All proceeds from the Fête will

go toward matching a grant from the Century Arts Foundation. This grant will allow the museum to expand its bilingual coding program to other underserved communities throughout the East End.

Tickets for the Fête start at $250.

Visit www.cmee.org.

An Evening In Positano

East End Hospice will hold its An Evening in Positano benefit at Saturday, June 29, from 7 to 11 PM at 40 Second Neck Lane in Quogue. The event will honor Sally Richardson.

The 20th annual Dorothy P. Savage Good Samaritan Award will go to Cristina and David Kepner. Master of ceremonies is Lucas Hunt. For more information and tickets, visit www. eeh.org.

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June 26, 2019

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Treasures From Chatsworth David Korins reveals hidden gems at Guild Hall

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The stately Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England holds a collection going back nearly 400 years of small jewelry, large tapestries, silverware, elegant clothing, sculptures, and more.

Inside the house live the Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Andrew Morny “Stoker” Cavendish, and his wife, Amanda Heywood-Lonsdale, who have had a long-standing relationship with the famed Sotheby’s.

As Sotheby’s prepares to open an exhibit at its New York City location, Guild Hall in East Hampton is preparing to welcome the duke himself in conversation with award-winning creative director, David Korins, on Saturday, June 29, at 4 PM. Korins took Indy through his own experience on going from York Avenue to Chatsworth.

the Chatsworth exhibition, we’re walking around in 360 degrees, whereas on a set you look at it from, in some cases, 30, or 50, or 75 feet away. You use different kinds of tricks to execute something that would feel different than at a long distance. Here, you can really understand them all the way around and get up very close.

The duke and duchess, Sotheby’s, and the Chatsworth house had a real idea of what it was they wanted to try to deliver to the New York audience, in the same way that Lin-Manuel Miranda with “Hamilton,” or the writers of “Dear Evan Hansen,” or the Academy Awards all have a real goal to accomplish. And I try and help them do that.

What can guests expect with this exhibit?

Obviously, if you’re looking at a Leonardo da Vinci sketch, we need to protect it and put it on a wall. But the sculptures that we have curated into the exhibition are for, as many times as we can, the 360-degree view. That is how life exists. It’s exciting. I think people are mostly used to seeing art of this caliber exhibited on white walls.

What we’ve tried to do is responsibly and loyally recreate the walls and the details of the places that are curated in the physical plan.

When the Rembrandt painting is at Chatsworth house, it’s in this beautiful room a couple of hundred years old.

It has embossed leather wallpaper that has been painted over by some duke or duchess from years gone by. We have recreated that wall, but supersized, so that you can see the molding, you can see the chair around the baseboard, really detailed. That’s extraordinary, to be able to look at the detail in that fine way.

They can expect some great highlights from one of the world’s most extraordinary art collections. And they can expect a varied look at the collection.

There’s sculpture, painting, tableware, silver, clothing, jewelry, there’s all sorts of things here. And they can expect it curated and installed and exhibited in a totally new and fresh way.

I realized very quickly, when I was at the Chatsworth house in England, there’d be no possible way to recreate the kind of profundity and the permanence of a physical plant that is hundreds of years old, and hundreds of acres large. But what we have done is take specific, pretty extraordinary details and blown them up to a profoundly large scale.

How is designing an art collection different than set design?

On a practical level, it’s not different.

What I do is I help brands and individuals and composers and lyricists and writers, and sometimes dukes, tell their stories. It is different in that, at

What about the art pieces?

The exhibit connects the past to the present. Is that how you envisioned it?

You can never view a sculpture or painting or anything without bringing to it who you are in 2019. Attracted

The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Independent/Simon Broadhead Courtesy Chatsworth House Trust

through your own personal experiences, how you feel about it, when you do something, is intrinsically connected to yourself. So that happened anyway.

I think the way that we have curated these things feels both incredibly interesting, cutting edge, and innovative.

But also, because we’re using actual architectural details from the Chatsworth house, I think it gets that classic feeling, which is completely appropriate because every single thing comes from the exact source material.

How did you connect with

the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire?

They had a long-standing relationship with Sotheby’s. So that was easy, since I have a long-standing relationship with Sotheby’s. I’m a collaborator of theirs and when they wanted to make some kind of exhibit, there are not that many people that do exhibition design at the level that we do it and I think it felt like a pretty great and easy connection to make.

Grab tickets to the event at www. guildhall.org.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Nick Pileggi: A Conversation ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘Casino,’ and a life of crime (reporting) denishamill@gmail.com Nick Pileggi, author of “Wiseguy” and “Casino,” started on the crime beat for the New York papers.

Independent/Courtesy Nick Pileggi

After his sophomore year at Long Island University studying Irish literature, a fellow reporter on the school newspaper asked Nick Pileggi what kind of work he would pursue.

Pileggi — who would later become one of the best crime reporters in America and the screenwriter of “Goodfellas” and “Casino” — told him he’d probably become a teacher.

The reporter clarified his question, asking what summer job Pileggi was chasing. Pileggi, born to immigrant parents from Calabria in working-class Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, didn’t have a clue.

“So, he told me the A&P was hiring and he gave me an address at 50 Rockefeller Center and the name of a guy in charge named Frank Kelleher,” said Pileggi. “So off I went on the subway to Rockefeller Center. But I don’t see a supermarket anywhere. I go into the lobby and see that there is an AP, for Associated Press, at that address. I went upstairs and Frank Kelleher was in charge of the mail room. He hired me.”

Thus began one of the best journalism stories ever to cross the Brooklyn Bridge.

For the next two years, Pileggi attended college by day and worked from 4 PM to midnight at the AP in the mail room, then a copy boy watching gritty “legmen” reporters who roamed the vast city phoning in stories to talented “rewritemen” who spun the details and quotes into solid stories picked up by the seven daily newspapers that then competed in New York City.

“When I wasn’t running for copy or coffee, I started listening to the details the legmen reported to the rewritemen and I’d sit down and type out my own versions of the stories to see how they compared when they went out on the AP wire,” Pileggi said. “Soon some the guys saw what I was doing

and they’d wave me over and ask to see what I’d written. They’d edit it, showing me how to make it better, how to sharpen the language and to move important details up higher in the story.

They would take me to P.J. Moriarity’s saloon after work and talk shop, teaching me the craft of journalism.”

Pileggi improved with each shift and by the time he received his college degree, AP’s city editor Joseph Nicholson asked him what he intended to do with his life.

“I guess I’ll go for my MA and teach English,” said Pileggi.

Tight Fraternity Of New York Journalists “Do you wanna be a reporter?” asked Nicholson.

Pileggi, who answered yes, was sent on his first assignment on January 6, 1956, covering a teamsters’ convention at the former Tammany Hall.

“I walked into this crazy scene filled with wise guys and union leaders and reporters and had absolutely no idea what I was doing,” he said. “I spotted a friendly looking guy with red hair taking notes and told him it was my first assignment and asked for help.” It was Murray Kempton, “one of the greatest New York columnists ever,” who introduced Pileggi to Abe Raskin of The New York Times, “the best labor writer in the country at the time.”

The first-time reporter asked Raskin if he could explain the story to him. Raskin gave his copy to Pileggi, and then rewrote his own piece for the Times “so that they didn’t look too similar. Kelleher called me into his office and said I did a good job, that the Times didn’t have anything that I didn’t have.”

Pileggi learned a lesson that day about the tight fraternity of New York journalism where although reporters competed fiercely they also treated

each other — especially the rookies — like brothers of the same noble guild.

They were not the enemy of the people. They reported on the enemy of the people to the people, as reporters still do today.

Later, when I was at the Village Voice and New York magazine, where I worked alongside Pileggi, he welcomed young reporters like me, Michael Daly, Marc Jacobson, and many others to use his personal clip files on politics, crime, the mob, poverty, the Vietnam War, and every major hot button topic of the age. He’d also share his Rolodex of contacts and sources. Pileggi’s good name opened doors and made your life as easy as Abe Raskin had made Pileggi’s on his first day on the job.

“Well, thank you for saying that, but I was just returning the same generosity I’d gotten as a young writer,” said Pileggi, who lives between his Manhattan home and a home in the East End he bought 34 years ago with his wife, the late Nora Ephron. “The only thing I ever asked other reporters was to return the clips the way you found them for the next guy or gal.”

Organized Crime Because he’d grown up in Bensonhurst, the Little Italy of Brooklyn, Pileggi was comfortable around cops, firemen, laborers, shop owners, and gangsters who in his time rarely preyed on “civilians” outside of their insular world.

“In Bensonhurst, the local hoods would never shake down working people like my father, who started as a musician in the orchestra pits of movie theaters and later owned a shoe store and later still, a clothes store,” said Pileggi. “Instead they’d tell you to make sure you always got a receipt when you paid your rent to the landlord. Because on rent day, they would rob the landlord. But you had a receipt to prove you paid your rent.”

Pileggi covered organized crime after it was exposed as a national scourge on November 14, 1957 at the raid on the meeting of the Five Mafia Families at the home of Joe “Joe the Barber” Barbara in Apalachin, NY. “Before that, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI wouldn’t even acknowledge that there was such a thing as organized crime in America,” Pileggi said.

“My first cousin, Gay Talese, was working for The New York Times, and he urged me to branch out and do feature magazine stories for Esquire Magazine and New York, which was then the Sunday magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune, edited by Clay Felker. Jimmy Breslin was writing for the Tribune back then, so were Tom Wolfe and a lot of great writers.”

In 1968, Felker made New York magazine into a standalone weekly news magazine. “I had been writing for the AP for 12 years,” says Pileggi. “Felker asked me if I wanted to come work on the New York Magazine staff with Breslin, Hamill, Gloria Steinem. I loved the AP, but he tempted me by saying I wouldn’t have to show up every day at work. I would just write feature stories and file them when they were ready.

That would give me the freedom to write longer pieces that I could expand into books.”

Pileggi’s book “Wiseguy” about mob rat Henry Hill was optioned for film, and he co-wrote the screenplay with director Martin Scorsese that has become a classic mob film.

The movie “Casino” was also adapted by Pileggi and Scorsese from another of Pileggi’s non-fiction books.

Movie Scripts Today, at age 86, Pileggi still has the instincts of a reporter but is too busy with a slew of movie and TV script assignments to be a journalist, although Continued On Page B7.

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Roseanne Cash. Independent/Courtesy Guild Hall

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Wainwright’s mother, Kate McGarrigle, died in 2010, the Thompsons coordinated the Meltdown Festival in her honor. The connection to parents and the friendship between the families runs deep. But Wainwright said, as far as nature or nurture, it’s a “tough question. I tend to go with the concept that it’s 10 percent talent and 90 percent work, so certainly growing up in a musical family where lots of time is spent concentrating on music helps tremendously, still,” he continued, “without that little spark it’s hard to make it. I’m going to play it on the safe side and say nurture.”

“I believe it is both,” Duane Betts said. “You have to nurture what is given to you. You could have an innate talent, but if you don’t put the time in to learn and expand it could go unfulfilled.”

Devon Allman responded, “We love music that moves our souls; music

Pileggi

Continued From Page B6. he reads the papers every day.

“I think the Times and Washington Post are doing some of the best national reporting I’ve ever seen in daily newspapers,” he said. “But local reporting has suffered because of the staff cuts. I miss the days of reading Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill and Murray Kempton three times a week.

There are no more cityside columnists, and that’s too bad because they helped put the city into focus with good reporting and great writing.”

Pileggi was deeply moved by

And how do these “next-gen” performers create their own voice in the industry, while still honoring the legacy of their iconic parents?

“It’s taken devotion and persistence,” Cash answered. “But every serious vocation requires devotion and persistence. I’m lucky that I have a beautiful legacy, and I also had to learn not to let it eclipse my own instincts.”

“To be honest, I don’t really separate it,” replied Muldaur. “It’s just one of those things. It would be harder to be the kid of more famous parents. Mine are rather obscure so I can appreciate when someone mentions them. My mother had a hit in the ’70s”— referring to Maria Muldaur’s top 10 “Midnight at

the Oasis” — “and it was life-changing for sure. I loved moving to Hollywood and watching it all happen around us.”

When her mom appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine when Jenni was about nine, “I remember thinking that was cool. And incidentally, she covered songs by the wonderful McGarrigle sisters, so our families have been linked for decades. I remember Rufus when he was a baby and spending time with Kate in L.A. and Woodstock. My parents were also friends with Teddy’s parents. So, it was nice to meet up with Teddy and Rufus in New York years later. We all definitely have a generational bond. And I will also add,” she said of her parents, “that they are my musical heroes. Both of them. Voices like butter.”

“I haven’t thought for one moment about my family legacy,” Teddy Thompson replied. “I just mosey along thinking only about myself,” he joked.

“It’s been a very satisfying chal-

lenge,” said Wainwright. “I have opera to thank for a lot of that process since it gave me a secret ingredient to work with, which is great, since the bar is so high concerning so many of my family members. Went out on some pretty dramatic classical limbs,” he said. Wainwright has penned two operas, “Hadrian” and “Prima Donna.”

Allman suggested that when folks listen to the Allman-Betts album, “That’s our voice. Nothing could be more honorable than finding and utilizing your own voice,” he said. “And that goes for any art form.”

“Anyone who creates art is creating ‘a voice,” Betts added. “You just have to be true to the values you hold as an artist. We ‘honor the legacy’ simply by doing what we do to the best of our ability every night.”

For more info about, and tickets to, the upcoming shows at Guild Hall, visit www.guildhall.org.

the HBO documentary “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” in which he also appears. “Not just because it’s about friends of mine, but because it was about a lost city, a lost time, and a great profession,” he said. “But it also made me feel damned lucky to have been part of it. Part of the greatest days of newspapers.”

Pileggi will be off to his East End home for the summer to write an American mob movie script based on a British TV series, “The Fear,” about a mob boss with Alzheimer’s. He’s also developing a TV series based on the Limelight disco in Manhattan.

“It all started with a fellow stu-

dent newspaper reporter sending me for what I thought was a summer job at an A&P supermarket,” says Pileggi. “I got to work at the AP instead, where we had talented rewritemen like Thomas Harris, the nicest, sweetest, kindest guy you ever met who was also writing a novel on the side called ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ and you wonder how the hell this sweet guy came up with Hannibal Lecter. But that’s the crazy business we come from. Speaking of which, that student reporter who sent me to the AP? He became an FBI agent and I later used him as a source on stories.”

If he could, would Pileggi have done anything differently?

“No way,” he said with a laugh. “I think if you’re a first-generation American like me, you owe it all to your immigrant parents who were brave enough to cross an ocean with nothing so that their kids would have a shot to have a better life. And if you had the kind of naiveté I had on my first day as a reporter and formed a bond with generous strangers in this business, you have to consider yourself blessed. I met the greatest group of people you’d ever want to meet in the newspaper and magazine business. The journalism led to books and the books to movies. It has been one helluva life. I would do it all over the same way again.”

that makes us forget about the darkness in the world, music that celebrates life. That’s what our fans are hungry for — the great escape. It doesn’t get more ‘natural’ than that,” he concluded.

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Read Into It Buy Warby sunnies and grab a free beach book

Warby Parker is coming to East Hampton. Set for a grand opening on Saturday, June 29, the store — affectionately known as Warby Parker Beach Reads — will offer the brand’s collection of must-have optical, sun, and kids’ frames, along with plenty of unique design details like illustrations by Gwendal Le Bec. But perhaps best of all,

the shop includes a book swap space where visitors can grab a beach read and return it when they’re done.

Here we’ve selected some of our favorite retro-inspired, tortoise Warby Parker styles, but don’t forget, the shop will also be serving up blue-sprinkled ice cream sandwiches, sold to benefit the nearby East Hampton Library.

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Coffee & Art Along with flowers, IndyLit, and Holiday House Hamptons jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze On Friday, I ventured out to Montauk to visit Coffee + Flowers, a stand that serves — you guessed it — coffee and flowers. Located on the side of Cynthia Rowley, this adorable stop is perfect for a cup of joe and a fresh bouquet.

Claire Chan, owner of The Elk and Bar Beau in Brooklyn, has partnered with Kelsie Hayes, founder of Popup Florist, and Cynthia Rowley to open the location.

Enjoy coffee as well as a selection of plants, local flowers, and dried flowers sourced from local farms, as well as local pastries, snacks, lifestyle items, and other beach essentials.

After a coffee fix, we headed over to the Montauk Beach House for an early dinner (look for my dining write-up in the coming weeks). Following dinner, we stayed for Roman Fine Art’s pop-up

exhibit “Summer Solstice,” with work by artist Lizzie Gill. The show is retroyet-futuristic and exhibits the artist’s mixed-media pieces, created with vintage-style imagery. You can see photos on our website from the opening and visit the show through July 1.

On Saturday, June 22, The Independent hosted a book signing and presentation at Southampton Inn for Rachel Nuwer’s book “Poached,” as part of our IndyLit series. Nuwer, a journalist for The New York Times and National Geographic, among others, has visited 72 countries to learn about illegal poaching of animals. An informative discussion on the topic was led

by The Independent’s managing editor Bridget LeRoy. Southampton Books was also on hand for the book signing that followed.

Plane Crash, Porn Shop Are Film Subjects HIFF’s SummerDocs kicks off June 29 at Guild Hall

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

This summer, the Hamptons International Film Festival welcomes three films for its SummerDocs series, presented in partnership with Guild Hall.

HIFF’s co-chair Alec Baldwin and HIFF’s artistic director David Nugent, interviewed here, will lead conversations with the filmmakers. SummerDocs kicks off this Saturday, June 29, at 7 PM with “Maiden,” directed by Alex Holmes.

views on life and the world in which we live. They can range from being journalistic in nature or more poetic and can introduce audiences to new worlds, ways of thoughts, stories, and people. Not only are the films important but also the filmmakers crafting these stories, and the series provides the opportunity for audiences to understand the process and thoughts behind the director’s decisions.

Why are documentaries so important?

How has the series changed and progressed?

Documentaries are a way for artists to present their ever-evolving

The mission of the series continues to remain the same, but we continue to

For Five Coffee Roasters opens at Hamptons Standard in Hampton Bays.

The opening party for Holiday House Hamptons was held on Saturday, June 22. The house, located at 90 Wild Goose Lane in Water Mill, boasts nine bedrooms, a free-floating staircase, cathedral ceilings, and an oversized eat-in kitchen, all within 12,500 square feet.

Hosted by interior designer and breast cancer survivor Iris Dankner, the designer showhouse features over 20 top interior designers. The house is open to the public through August 4 and proceeds from ticket sales benefit BCRF, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

On Sunday, I stopped by the opening of Hamptons Standard in Hampton Bays, brought to you by the team be-

hind Centro Trattoria & Bar. The new market/restaurant/bar/coffee shop is located in the previous Friendly’s location, and it’s beautiful. The restaurant offers a variety of snacks, salads, flatbreads, and entrees.

Being the part-time Hampton Bays resident that I am, I can’t even describe you how excited I am to have a yearround coffee spot that lives up to this coffee snob’s expectations. (I usually drive to Southampton to go to Golden Pear, Hampton Coffee, or Sant Ambroeus.)

For Five Coffee Roasters, which also has locations in Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, Manhasset, and Astoria has opened within Hamptons Standard for all of your espresso and cappuccino needs. And yes, they have oat milk — I checked!

find new audiences discovering new stories with these films and engaging more with this genre of filmmaking.

We also continue to attract some of the industry’s most exciting documentary filmmakers to discuss their films including Rory Kennedy, Louis Psihoyos, Morgan Neville, Steven James, Robert Gordon, Roger Ross Williams, Stevan Riley, and Marina Zenovich.

As for other series highlights, I’d say that our very first screening itself really kicked off the series with a bang. During the re-opening weekend of Guild Hall back on Memorial Day weekend of 2009, we screened “The Cove.” Its filmmakers and subject received a rapturous standing ovation and six months later, Alec co-hosted the Oscars on the night that it would go on to win Best Documentary.

We’ve also had some amazing musicians come through over the years from Tony Bennett and Billy Joel with films about them, and I’ll never forget watching Grammy winner Lisa Fischer walk through the aisles at Guild Hall and sing with our audience during the “20 Feet From Stardom” screening. And having Ethel Kennedy in the house for our screening of Rory Kennedy’s film about her mother was particularly moving.

Is there a specific film you think the audience will be especially moved by?

We love all three this year. They’re each wildly different, ranging from covering a women’s sailing team and their journey around the world, to an investigation surrounding a mysterious plane crash, to an in-depth look of a gay porn shop in Los Angeles. There’s something for everyone with this lineup.

Out of all the films you’ve shown cumulatively, is there one that stands out?

After screening the film “Searching For Sugarman,” we introduced the singer/ subject of the film Rodriguez and people went wild.

Future SummerDocs include “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” directed by Mads Brügger, Saturday, July 20, at 7 PM and “Circus of Books,” directed by Rachel Mason on Saturday, August 24, at 7 PM. All screenings and talks will take place at Guild Hall. Visit www. hamptonsfilmfest.org to learn more.

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Serendipitous Creativity On Sunday, June 30, from 5 to 7 PM, the Temple Adas Israel Gallery Space in Sag Harbor will host a wine and cheese opening reception for mixed media artist Michele Pulver Feldman and her exhibition, “Serendipitous Creativity.” Inspired by the likes of Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso, Monet, Tiffany, and Hockney, Feldman is best known for her images that portray modern Jewish life. The evening is free and open to the community. www.templeadasisrael.org.

display at the society’s museum complex. Each summer, the society opens the historic home of its founder, Ann Currie-Bell, within which a seasonal exhibition is curated. This year’s exhibition brings to life the lively history of Southold’s coastline through stories of workers, artists, industries, families, neighborhoods, and ecosystems. The hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 PM and Wednesdays by appointment from June 29 to September 22.

Visit www.southoldhistoricalsociety. org.

Eat The Night

Small Works

RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton presents an opening reception for “Eat The Night,” featuring new works by Alexander Klingspor. The reception will be held Saturday, June 29, from 6 to 8:30 PM.

Monika Olko Gallery

On The Waterfront

Beginning June 29, “On the Waterfront,” Southold Historical Society’s 2019 summer exhibition, will be on

The South Street Gallery in Greenport presents “Small Works From Big Hearts” with work by over sixty artists.

The show begins Friday, June 28, and runs through July 1.

The Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor presents work by Ray Gross and Gabriele Kraus. An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 28.

Spotlight On The East End Photographers Group “From the Window” by Sally Egbert.

Some Years Around the Sun The Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs presents “Sally Egbert: Some Years Around the Sun,” an exhibition of paintings and sculpture opening on June 29, and on view through Sunday, July 21. A reception will be held for the artist on Saturday, June 29, from 5 to 7 PM. “Some Years Around the Sun” will feature a selection of mixed media paintings, sculpture, and collage

by Egbert. The works in this exhibition span almost a decade and articulate the singular vocabulary this artist has developed in her 40 year career, most of which was spent on the East End.

The American West The East Hampton Historical Society, stewards of the Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, present the exhibition “Thomas Moran Discovers the American West,” on display from June 29 until November 9. This artful and historically curated exhibition details Moran’s adventurous participation in the 1871 Hayden Expedition to Wyoming, and explores its impact on both the art world and the National Parks Service. To learn more, visit www.easthamptonhistory.org.

Renate Aller: Shared History MM Fine Art in Southampton presents “Renate Aller: Shared History,” on view June 29 through July 14, with an opening reception on June 29, from 6 to 8

By Jessica Mackin-Cipr

PM. German born, and New York based photographer Aller is known for her exploration of man’s relationship to the natural world. The exhibition will be comprised of 10 stunning large-scale works, featuring sand, mountain, and ocean-scapes. Often blurring the line between abstraction and representation, Aller unveils relationships between profoundly different landscapes.

Visit www.mmfineart.com for more information.

Joel Sartore The National Geographic Photo Ark is a multiyear effort to raise awareness of and find solutions to some of the most pressing issues affecting wildlife and their habitats led by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore. An exhibition of the work is presented by Southampton Arts Center and the International Center of Photography. The show will open on Friday, June 28, with a reception from 6 to 8 PM, at SAC. www.southamptonartscenter.org.

Birdhouse Exhibition Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton presents its second Annual Birdhouse Exhibition and Auction, opening on June 29 and featuring the work of over 35 local artists for visitors to bid on.

The closing reception for the exhibition and auction will be on Saturday, August 17. Visit www.peconiclandtrust.org for more info.

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Sag Harbor Cinema presents a new series, Really Funny, with some of John Landis’s favorite comedies, to be performed at Pierson High School Auditorium in Sag Harbor. On Sunday, June 30, at 6 PM will be “The Awful Truth.” Go to www.sagharborcinema.org.

FILM Maiden Hamptons International Film Festival continues at Guild Hall in East Hampton presenting SummerDocs: “Maiden” on Saturday, June 29, at 7 PM. Visit www. guildhall.org for tickets.

WORDS Sparrow Beach Shelby Raebeck will do a dramatic reading of his book “Sparrow Beach” with actor Gerard Doyle at Canio’s in Sag Harbor on Thursday, June 27, at 6 PM.

Treasures From Chatsworth On Saturday, June 29, at 4 PM Guild Hall in East Hampton will host Collectors Speak: Sotheby’s presents Treasures from Chatsworth. Visit www.guildhall. org for tickets.

Tom Twomey Series On Saturday, June 29, at 6 PM, The East Hampton Library presents “Washington Update: A Conversation with CBS News’ Rita Braver and Attorney Robert Barnett” as part of the Tom Twomey Series. For more information, visit www.tomtwomeyseries.org.

BookHampton BookHampton in East Hampton welcomes Nina Ross, author of “Montauk Has a Very Hungry Shark” on Sunday, June 30, at 3 PM. Go to www.

Safe Space Opening Saturday, June 29, and running through July 21 Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will bring to the stage “Safe Space,” directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien and starring Tony and Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl. For tickets and times, go to www.baystreet.org.

Light Opera Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island brings “The World According to Gilbert & Sullivan” to Good Ground Park in Hampton Bays on Monday, July 1, at 7 PM. This free event can be found at www.southamptontownny.gov.

MUSIC The Clam Bar The Clam Bar at Napeague hosts live music every Wednesday starting at 4 PM, with Telly Karoussos this week.

Southampton Arts Center welcomes Combo Nuvo World Jazz with sax legend Tom Scott on Thursday, June 27, at 7 PM. The center will have a Photo Ark after party with DJ Lister Lama on Friday, June 28, at 8 PM, and an outdoor reggae concert with Winston Irie & Selective Security Band on Saturday, June 29, at 7 PM. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

Portraits GE Smith and Taylor Barton present “Portraits” featuring Loudon Wainwright III and Wesley Stace on Friday, June 28, at 8 PM at Guild Hall of East Hampton. Visit www.guildhall.org for tickets.

Jazz On The Terrace Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill welcomes Nilson Matta in Jazz on the Terrace on Friday, June 28, at 6 PM. Check out more at www.parrishart.org.

DJ Night Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett will have a DJ on Friday, June 28, at 11 PM. Check out more at www.indianwellstavern.com.

Art & Music Fest

Springs Tavern in East Hampton will have live music by Paul Gene every Thursday from 6 to 8 PM.

RGNY, formerly known as Martha Clara Vineyard in Riverhead presents music by Tina DeCara, Tmith, and Natalie & The Damn Shandies on Saturday, June 29, at 5:30PM. Learn more at www.maggiecarine.com.

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The Jam Session of The Hamptons will perform at Union Cantina in Southampton every Thursday at 7 PM. See more at www.thejamsession.org.

Pianofest in the Hamptons Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center welcomes Pianofest in the Hamptons on Thursday, June 27, at 7 PM. Hear more at www.whbpac.org.

Open Mic Night New Moon Cafe in East Quogue presents

At the Greenport Harbor Brewery’s Peconic location will be East End Trio on Friday, June 28, at 5 PM and Carrier & The Cats on Saturday, June 29, at 5 PM. Sunday, June 30, at 3 PM, Kerry Kearney will play. Go to www.greenportharborbrewing.com.

Westhampton Beach Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center welcomes John Sebastian on Friday, June 28, at 8 PM; The Smithereens with guest vocalist Marshall Crenshaw

on Saturday, June 29, at 8 PM; and The Doo Wop Project on Sunday, June 30, at 8 PM. Tickets are available at www.whbpac.org.

G. Love The Surf Lodge in Montauk brings to the stage G. Love on Sunday, June 30, at 6 PM. The Nancy Atlas Project performs every Wednesday. Check out www.thesurflodge.com.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, on Sunday, June 30, welcomes Chris Robinson Brotherhood at 7:30 PM. For tickets, go to www.suffolktheater.com.

Sondheim Sublime Guild Hall in East Hampton welcomes Broadway star Melissa Errico in “Sondheim Sublime” on Sunday, June 30, at 7 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org for tickets.

Concerts On The Green On Monday, July 1, Montauk Village Green free outdoor concerts continue with The Realm at 6:30 PM. Visit www. montaukchamber.com to learn more.

Music Mondays Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor welcomes Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker with special guest David Rasche in “Here I Go Again” for Music Mondays on July 1 at 8 PM. Visit www.baystreet.org.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett jams out to Big Karma on Wednesday, June 26, at 8 PM. On Thursday, June 27, Inda Eaton at 8 PM will be followed by The Hackensack Men & Trenton Horns at 10 PM. Friday, June 28, Lucky Chops goes on at 8 PM and then The Eleven Band at 11 PM. Saturday, June 29, will be Max Weinberg’s Jukebox at 7 PM and Rubix Cube at 11 PM. Sunday, June 30, Lynn Blue and Band play at 8 PM with Inner Roots at 10 PM. Monday, July 1, kicks off with The War and Treaty at 8 PM then on Tuesday, July 2, is Pure Prairie League at 8 PM and Hot Date Band at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

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By Heather Buchanan

The Piping Plover Procreation Problem Restricted areas protect the chicks . . . birds, that is kissandtellhb@gmail.com The first thing you face when going to the beach in the Hamptons is a dire warning: Restricted Area. No, it’s not about rip tides — this is the Piping Plover Nesting Area, and you may be arrested and fined for disturbing these small coastal birds. The species is procreationally challenged and listed as endangered, with only 4000 breeding pairs left worldwide. The baby piping plover also need to be protected and leave the nest in about 28 to 35 days (roughly the equivalent in human years of kids living at home).

Swaths of East End beaches are fenced off for the plovers’ nesting

grounds to try to increase reproduction rates. I don’t see why we can’t just give them some CBD oil and play a little Barry White to help them get it on. Vast resources and protection are given to the charadrius melodus. Yet in terms of endangered procreation, the piping plover have nothing on the 40-yearold single female, otherwise known as femalius lululemonus. Where is the DEC in terms of encouraging her safe nesting? Where are the fences around her and potential mates which keep out predators like Instagram influencers and roving herds of stiletto-wearing share house babes?

How is a woman of quality who would make an excellent mate supposed to stand out? If men her own age are flocking to much younger chicks, then she may be faced with the older man or the malius viagrus. While her potential reproductive challenges are blasted in every headline, the focus rarely turns to this male part of the species with its own range of infertility issues.

I have tried to research the particular value of the piping plover to the ecosystem and have come up with the fact they conduct beach cleaning by eating the insect and small crustacean populations. They would perhaps better serve by picking up deflated balloons and plastic straws. Our femalius lululemonus, unlike her younger counterpart chiquitas firmbuttus, has reached an age of maturity and stability to be able to offer her offspring the best possible start in life. For survival of the species, Darwinian logic would do well to have a woman at peak fertility at age 42.

It seems cruel that when she is in her 20s she is warned that she could get pregnant at any moment, then when she hits 40, there is about a 20-minute window each month where if there is not a McDonald’s with a bathroom that locks, she and her partner may be out of luck. Her budget will have to

cover a lot more than snow fencing and beach patrols to afford the IVF which may lead to a beautiful and much-loved child.

The piping plovers have environmental groups and the Audubon Society to support them and foster public education. The single female of a certain age is left with Soul Cycle and “Sex and The City” reruns. In a youth and beauty culture, her wisdom, nurturing, life experience, stability, and independence may be overlooked by biology or the male shaking his tail feathers.

Ultimately, for both the women and the plover it is about a few good eggs, not only for embryos but loyal mates.

In the meantime, I’m still going to bring some Barry White to play on the beach.

The piping plover have nothing on the 40-year-old single female.

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June 26, 2019

RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

The Little Hot Dog Boy Craved smoke and steaks like the big lugs rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Of course, I’m going to barbecue on July Fourth. I don’t particularly enjoy it, but regular readers know I’m all about keeping local traditions going.

I remember, when I was about five, how little kids were manipulated at multi-family July Fourth barbecues.

“Oh, and Little Rick will have a hot dog. Little Rick loves hot dogs! Don’t you honey? Right, honey?”

Actually, I hated them then and I don’t like them now. But everywhere I went for a dinner, I got a hot dog.

I didn’t take me long to realize the pecking order. The little kids would get hot dogs. That left Fat Uncle Ned and the other slobberin’ cousins garish amounts of steak to gnaw on. For

the business model to work, a certain number of us had to eat hot dogs in order to afford five cases of beer.

This same principle is at play when we go the prix fixe dinners or two-for-one nights with our friends.

(OK, when we used to have friends.)

The server comes over and asks if we want a cocktail.

To me, this is the beginning of the perfect three-course dinner. The second course is when they say, “Sir, can I get you another?” And the third when they ask, “Would you care for an afterdinner drink?”

I know I’ll love the drinks. The food, on the other hand, is a crapshoot.

I already know the prix fixe will be

soup or a Caesar salad (someone remind me exactly why Caesar liked his lettuce brown and wilted), either chicken, salmon, or a pasta, and a sliver of some two-day old cake, and/or coffee, as if coffee is a “course.”

I am most assuredly the nightmare friend from hell to invite to these affairs because I drinks a bit.

The way I figure it, the only way to swallow that dried-up salmon is by ordering wine, and plenty of it.

This habit of mine will put Karen in a precarious position. She’ll elbow me and whisper, “We were only going to have one drink each!” Let’s get this straight: “We,” that being the people at the table, decided to limit drinking for the evening and didn’t inform me, the only genuine alkie in the place.

Oops. I guess opting for the Perrier over the table water was a buzzkill, too. In the last few years, servers have taken to pushing $9 bottles of water on restaurant diners. The waiter will brighten up and say with an engaging smile, “Shall I bring a bottle of Perrier to the table?” And then his face will turn dark and sullen and his voice will change into something Satanesque.

“Or do you want poopy water?” he asks ominously. He leaves little choice. But I digress.

“Golly,” I said the other night between bites of the Chicken Surprise.

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“Don’t worry about the liquor bill. I already informed the maître d’ I would take care of it.”

This of course, was untrue. If for no other reason than this is the Hamptons — the maître d’ doesn’t speak English. But I played on. Yes, should we get a bottle of red AND a bottle of white?

Funny how the mood changed. All of a sudden, I had nine best friends. I let it soak in for a while until I reminded them that they were committed to a single glass each.

Back to the hot dogs. Never go to a Bring Your Own barbecue. If you are anything like me, you make a tray of antipasto and maybe some BBQ chicken breasts; Karen makes her signature dish Sardine Supreme that many of us discuss later on the bathroom line and remember not-so-fondly for a week.

Then Ned and the rest of the big lugs arrive carrying a pack of 99-cent hot dogs. They drink all their beer and eat your chicken. Maybe they are onto something.

On July Fourth, we celebrate life in America. You don’t have to choose between the soup and the salad. We are hated all over the world because of our perceived greed and selfishness. All of us are, to a certain extent, Uncle Ned. No one can stop us from eating steak.

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Indy Snaps Bridgehampton Inn Celebration Photos by Richard Lewin On Tuesday, June 18, the Bridgehampton Inn held a community book party to celebrate its 25th anniversary and the publication of Sybille van Kempen’s tome “2266: Bridgehampton Inn & Restaurant.” Sybille and her husband Gerrit, co-owners of the Inn and the Loaves & Fishes Cookshop, invited guests to enjoy food by Chef Brian Szostak, drinks by their son and mixologist Kyle Fengler, and the music of All Soul’d Out.

Navy SEAL Foundation Benefit Photos by Stephanie Lewin Navy Beach’s Navy SEAL Foundation seventh annual fundraiser was held on Saturday, June 22. The event at the Montauk hot spot, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, raises funds for the foundation to provide immediate and continual support to the Naval Special Warfare community and their families. Music from the Waylan Brothers, a silent auction, and guest speaker Tom Repinksi were highlights of the afternoon. Navy Beach will continue to support the Navy SEAL Foundation through Labor Day, building on the $150,000 raised since 2013.

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Indy Snaps Hamptons Heart Ball Photos by Lisa Tamburini American Heart Association’s 23rd Annual Hamptons Heart Ball was held at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday, June 22. This year’s event honored John Crean, MD, Nuclear Cardiology, East End Cardiology/ NYU/Winthrop and Mark Saporita, MD, FACC, Cardiology and Internal Medicine, East End Cardiology/NYU/ Winthrop with the Distinguished Service Award. Toby and Larry Milstein received the Humanitarians With Heart award.

Jazz For Jennings Photos by Lisa Tamburini The Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center held its annual Jazz For Jennings benefit on Sunday, June 23, at the Watermill Center. Now in its fifth year, Jazz For Jennings is named after the late news anchor, Peter Jennings, who passed away in August 2005 of lung cancer. This year’s event offered an afternoon of food, wine, and jazz by Evan Sherman & Friends featuring Ku-umba Frank Lacy.

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Indy Scene

By Norah Bradford

The Shutterbugs Have Arrived Who is that person taking my picture?

The Celebrity Snappers Who Chronicle The Hamptons Scene

knowledge. Founder of Society Allure, Rich can be found busy in the Hamptons and New York and elsewhere getting the job of chronicling the events that people care about captured. www. societyallure.com John Roca With his roots in photography for the major newspapers in NYC, Roca will be found on the beat this summer at all the key events, often shooting for Newsday, among others. www.johnrocaphotography.com

most beautiful women. His work can be seen adorning the walls of Southampton social staple, 75 Main. www. raphaelmazzucco.nyc

since 2012, the Parrish Art Museum purchased the land on which it is currently sited in 2005 and commissioned architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron, who came up with a design which both synthesized sky, light, and water and had the element of familiarity with the barns throughout the area. www. parrishart.org The Beaches

Patrick McMullan

Billy Farrell If you should find yourself at a fashionled event this summer season, chances are the photographer could well be the current doyen of event fashion photography, Billy Farrell. www.bfa.com

The original. Event photography’s OG, Patrick McMullan is sought after everywhere for his images and wit. Founder of his agency Patrick McMullan Company (www.patrickmcmullan.com), his work can also be seen on Getty Images.

If you cannot find McMullan and you know PMc snappers are around, look for one of my personal favorites, photographer Sean Zanni.

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Kevin Mazur With his roots in rock and roll photography (he landed his first major role with Rolling Stone without a portfolio, just simply his collection of photographs taken at concerts), he has gone on to co-found Wire Image and is one of the go-tos for a celebrity at concerts and private events. www.kevinmazurphotography.com Raphael Mazzucco Think Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and Mazzucco’s images, especially from the peak of the magazine’s supermodel popularity, will come into view.

His mixed-media art blends paint and object with some of the images of the

Antoine Verglas The Frenchman. Arriving in New York in the 1990s, an assignment for French Elle was the perfect assignment for Verglas, leading him to photograph and document the epoch of the supermodels, those beautiful women known by first names such as Elle, Claudia, Cindy. If those days return, Verglas will be surely ready behind the lens. www. antoineverglas.com

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Quintessential Hamptons Photo Backdrops Montauk Point Lighthouse

At the end of the road and Long Island is the lighthouse, commissioned

by George Washington. The Montauk Point Lighthouse was completed in 1796 and to this day is a not just an iconic backdrop to a Hamptons vacation photo album, but also provides views of Block Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean from the observation platform at the top. www.montauklighthouse.com The Hamptons local. Rich grew up in the Hamptons and went to Southampton College, making him the photographer to beat in terms of his local

The magical journey walking through the sand dunes and along the pathways to some of the more celebrated beaches in Long Island and America, Dr. Beach has over the years rated Coopers Beach in Southampton as one of the best in the country. Stay at the Southampton Inn and catch the courtesy bus and find out for yourself (and get some pictures). www.southamptonvillage.org

Parrish Art Museum Conceived in the late 19th Century and in its new post-modernist home

What could say “Hamptons vacation” more than horses and a bucolic country setting? Make a reservation now for the end of summer Hampton Classic show jumping event — one of the largest horse events on the East Coast — August 25 to September 1. www.hamptonclassic.com

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Dining Claudio’s Restaurant Same name, new vibe

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Now, it’s more than the ferry that connects the two forks. Claudio’s Restaurant of Greenport, an iconic and famed eatery for over 100 years, is now under the same management as Sag Harbor’s trusted establishment, Sen Restaurant, and the newly established K Pasa, coowned by Tora Matsuoka and business partner Stephen Loffredo of Seasoned Hospitality. The two oversaw the vision of the Claudio’s new owners Perry Weitz, David Weitz, Ian Behar, and Ryan Sasson.

“To us, Claudio’s is an American treasure,” said Sasson, CEO of Strategic Financial Solutions. “We feel a sense of responsibility to the people that have supported Claudio’s through its 149-year run and the Greenport community to keep the legacy alive and to help bring it forward. We all have deep ties and fantastic memories from time spent with our families at Claudio’s over the last 30 years.” The group of friends wasn’t looking for a property to invest in, but upon overhearing about the restaurant’s availability, they jumped on the opportunity.

The property feels completely transformed from the inside, thanks to architects Robert Brown and Tim Schollaert. The usual crew of bikers are welcome as the Harley-Davidson gang brings personality to the wharf, but the ambience is a bit more family friendly these days. Claudio’s restaurant freshened up with a completely renovated first floor with white interiors and the antique bar still intact. The second floor opens with a new bar and lounge, Upstairs at Claudio’s, fitting up to 75 guests with a focal point of a hand-carved ship, complemented by the original Prohibition and 1920s photography on the property.

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Claudio’s Restaurants, creates a menu that reinterprets classic dishes but takes a lighter approach with homegrown variations, showcasing the natural flavors of the area. “We have Oysters Claudio that takes the heart of flavor from Oysters Rockefeller but with less butter, cream, and a more brightening subtle cheese. A current favorite is our Seared Local Diver Scallops — this dish is simple in its ingredients, recognizable but full of flavor.

It includes local diver scallops, snap peas, garlic scapes, and mushrooms.”

While I didn’t have Oysters Claudio or the scallops, I did partake in a menu that was understated and exactly what I wanted on a warm spring day, at the revamped Claudio’s Waterfront, formerly Claudio’s Clam Bar. The retractable pergola is a beautiful addition to the new bar with rope hugging the exterior, adding nautical touches throughout.

Frozen drinks are $12. Choose from the Mudslide, Strawberry FroGoni, or a Dark & Stormy, my personal

choice. These certainly have a kick to them but are perfectly matched for the price point. From the Raw and Chilled section of the menu arrived peel and eat shrimp, $18, a half-dozen North Fork oysters for $15, and half-dozen little necks, $9. Each came with black pepper mignonette, cocktail sauce, and lemon. They were each great for sharing and fresh without too much of a saltwater taste.

A fun item on the menu was the watermelon feta salad, $12, with tomato, watermelon, feta, olive oil, and sea salt. There’s something very summery about a watermelon dish and this was flavorful, reminiscent of picnics on the beach.

Next was a crispy fish taco with local fish, corn tortilla, chipotle, spicy cabbage, that came as three for $12.

It wowed in flavor so much that I’m salivating, yet again, as I think about it.

The finale was a lobster roll, $28, with coleslaw and chips, Claudio’s style with tarragon mayo, Connecticut-style butter, and toasted bun. If you don’t

have a go-to spot for lobster rolls on the North Fork yet, I’d suggest giving this place a try.

If seafood isn’t your thing but you’re still hungry while exploring the area, there’s some good news. Ten-time world champion pizza maker, owner of Williamsburg Pizza, Nino Coniglio, opened Pizzeria Bacon, right in front of the waterfront. As we shook hands in passing, he reached into a giant pizza box and, without questioning, handed me a grandma slice.

“I hope you like pizza?” he said, wearing a “Pizza Is Happiness” shirt.

Without hesitation, I took a bite into possibly the best slice of pizza I have had in years. The crust somehow melted and crunched in my mouth at the same time.

“Want more? Sure, ya do. Hey, make sure she gets another slice of whatever she wants before she leaves,” he said. It was a great to-go snack for the ferry ride back, as if I weren’t full enough.

Claudio’s Restaurant is located at 111 Main Street in Greenport. See the full menu at www.claudios.com.

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EAST END TASTE

By Vanessa Gordon

My Favorite FamilyFriendly Hamptons Destinations Where to go for meals with the munchkins

kets, or inside at one of the small tables.

You may even catch the ice cream truck rolling through. We have seen them there on Friday late afternoons.

For a packed lunch on-the-go, we stop in at either L&W Market in Bridgehampton or Espresso da Asporto in Sag Harbor.

Lunch: Cittanuova, East Hampton We pop in and either sit at the front or on the back patio area and split a pizza.

My children love their Margherita and Funghi pizza and I am able to get my cappuccino. Easy and fun. They also have Wikki Stix activities that keep them occupied.

Mid Afternoon: The Clubhouse, East Hampton One of my daughter’s favorite places and also a great option for lunch and dinner with the whole family. We get in an hour of bowling, and then we will head to the arcade. My son loves to play around near the corn holes and I love to teach him how to toss and introduce him to the game. Mini golf is outside, and if we have extra time, we will play a round. For a snack, my children love to split their enormous pretzel served with a sweet mustard and melted cheese on the side.

Dinner: Zakura, Amagansett We have been dining at Zakura in Amagansett for many years and my children always love coming here, especially to sit in the booths or adjacent to its saltwater fish tank (my daughter has names for each of the fish). We order dumplings, sushi, and teriyaki. Zakura also sells Pocky snacks and Ramune soda, which are great treats. For dessert, we enjoy the fried ice cream and red bean ice cream. Stroller friendly on most occasions.

Dessert: Buddhaberry, Sag Harbor Some of the healthiest options for dessert are found at Buddhaberry. After being a regular customer for more than five years, I think it is about time I opened a house account here. Buddhaberry has endless creations to top off your soft serve frozen yogurt. Though my children go for simpler options such as French Vanilla or Mexican Chocolate with rainbow sprinkles, I get a scoop of the Fudgy Quinoa with an array of exotic toppings.

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Juggling two children five and under while experiencing the busy Hamptons’ summers is not any easy task. Take it from me, who has been doing this fulltime for many years. Even when my husband is home from work on select weekends, it can be tricky dining out, shopping, and participating in activities if they are not family friendly.

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Breakfast: Hampton Coffee Company, Water Mill With plenty of seating and healthy food options, I love to bring my children here before or after meetings in the area.

Both my son and daughter enjoy sharing

their scrambled eggs and sliced avocado on the side with fresh fruit and toast. I get my coffee and eggs, and everyone is happy. Remember to leave your stroller in the car. There is some room to store it inside, just not at your table.

Mid-Morning: Children’s Museum of the East End, Bridgehampton Let them have their time to run around, and so you can sit back and relax and watch them play. Time exclusively dedicated to them is important. My son loves the playroom and firetruck, whereas my daughter loves to play mini golf and create art. And if you so choose, enjoy a packed snack or lunch on-site either outside, sitting on one of the museum’s provided picnic blan-

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Blu Mar Parts Ways With Chef Brennan

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It was very difficult to get staff because at the beginning we didn’t even have housing for them; it was just a garde manger, a couple of dishwashers, and me. I never worked so hard in my life.

From what I understand, after Memorial Day there is a three-week lull; we have 200 seats and once July hits I was hoping to do 400 to 600 covers a night.’’

Both agree that the kitchen is now in great shape, with chefs trained at Il Mulino and Jose Andres restaurants.

“He has a strong staff in place,’’ said Brennan. “I’ve suspended services for now and I hope he works it out; if not, I wish him well.’’

Erdem says he is trying to honor their arrangement, and for now he will continue with the Brennan’s menu and staff. “He hired a great team and a has a wonderful concept, but the Hamptons is not for Michelin chefs,’’ he insisted. “Even Le Cirque didn’t make it here.’’

Michelin-starred chef Massimo Soto might disagree. He helped orchestrate the successful opening of Il Divo in Manhattan, and is back in the Hamptons this summer at Dopo La Spiaggia’s locations in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, where he’s expanded the menu. “I am adding more healthy

Michelin star status has mixed results at East End restaurants

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Terrance Brennan, who has been consulting since closing his Michelinstarred Manhattan restaurant Picholine in 2015, took the reins at the new Blu Mar in Southampton, owned by Zach Erdem of 75 Main fame, but their union seems to have hit a rough patch, and Brennan left the restaurant, at least temporarily.

“I was looking to do Mediterranean, and it was a great concept — Milos meets Marea meets Picholine,’’ said Brennan, rattling off two of the city’s most popular high-end dining rooms. “I like Zach but he is in breach of our contract.’’

Erdem says he paid the chef half

of his promised fee, but that Brennan had assured him his name would bring in massive business, and so far, things have been slow. “I liked him, he did amazing food but it’s the middle of summer and so far, nobody came for him, so I didn’t feel comfortable paying him. He told me his name was gold, but I didn’t see any gold.”

Brennan returns the personal compliment, but argues with Erdem’s timing. “I like Zach, but he is used to 75 Main which is open all year, and we opened without a liquor license and without a finished website — there weren’t even food photos up. A lot of other places chose not to open until

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“My two children have Celiac, so I am trying to focus on many without flour and I’m making gluten-free gnocchi with purple potato, rice flour, and agar agar; the sauce is a vegetable ragout with rosemary, which is an antioxidant. People love it,” said Soto.

“For a restaurant that had a signature dish of rigatoni with pork ragout, we are surprised at how well this is selling. I have also cancelled the butter from the kitchen.’’

Another chef interested in conscious dining is Jay Lippin, co-chair of the Chefs Alliance for Slow Food USA and on the board of Slow Food East End, who took over the stove at Baron’s Cove last summer. This year, he has introduced a grilled trumpet and farro bowl with heirloom roasted baby carrots; and espresso-crusted yellowfin tuna with frisée, lovage, pickled watermelon, pickled ginger, and feta; along with a 16-ounce bone-in Berkshire pork chop char-grilled with chimichurri sauce made with herbs from local farms.

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Rosie’s Is Riveting Amagansett eatery open for business

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, Amagansett welcomed a new neighbor with a very familiar taste. Rosie’s brings true farm-to-table freshness as Farmer Frank of Bhumi Farms shares his food philosophy with a team of like-minded individuals, including coowner Christina Isaly: Eat to nourish the body down to the cellular level with food that actually tastes good. Well, mission accomplished.

Farmer Frank alongside chefs Shaun Widger, Leo Mamaril, and Josh Cohen welcomed me and my colleague, Amy, as we entered the doors to a foodie adventure that awaited in a completely redesigned space with eye-catching blue marine tiles decorating the back wall. Tables lined the two walls in an L shape, a back area available for reservations awaited behind the blue tiles, an intimate setting for eight persons comfortably.

There are three menus to choose

from as the day progresses. A breakfast, served 7 AM to 3 PM, lunch, 11 AM to 3 PM, and “apres beach” 3 PM to close.

Each menu is switched out seasonally to optimize freshness.

“Christina Isaly and I wanted to create a strong connection to the kitchen and the chefs,” Frank expressed of the “Love of Fare” decal on the glass window facing the street. All of the staff, including the general managers Megan Kidd and Melanie Foreman, have visited the farm at some point.

“It’s a much more intimate relationship. The way you articulate the dish to the patrons is completely different. It’s not just about delivery, it’s something you actually feel inside you. It takes it from a transaction to a real experience.”

A group of us sat chatting about the environment, sustainable farming practices, and of course, cuisine from around the world. We dug into the sea-

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sonal local asparagus with blood orange, hazelnuts, and mint. An Aussie native, Chef Shaun came from Agern in Grand Central, a Michelin Star restaurant, and put his touch on the chicken salted French fries and grilled Haloumi with dukkah that was placed on the table. In Australia, they love chicken salt and the grilled Haloumi brought me back to my recent travels to the land down under in January. “It’s important to me to create a menu that tells a story,” Widger expressed.

Glancing throughout the room and at the menu, it’s hard to believe how quickly this project came together. A conversation that began in early December 2018 eventually led to the lease being signed on March 1, 2019 and opening the doors less than three months later.

The mains arrived. A Who Gives a Schnitz sandwich arrived with chicken schnitzel, black garlic mayo, and celery and scallion slaw (a lunch menu item only), and the Paccheri of maitake mushrooms, spring garlic, and egg yolk, on the lunch and dinner menu. I rarely like to choose favorites with food but can advise this: grab the schnitzel to split, a very hefty and flavorful sandwich. The Paccheri was an exotic blend of flavors brought out by the charred taste of the mushrooms, a flavor nod to bacon, and very simple garlic seasoning.

The restaurant will be starting a farm to feast program. By day, kids will harvest food and by night, that very

food will be presented in a culinary dish, Widger explained.

Dessert arrived, a Rosie’s Mess with dehydrated rhubarb, cream, and rose meringue. Next to it, oranges in caramelized honey with lemon thyme and olive oil. The honey is local, hit with red wine vinegar, a unique addition to the menu for those who want something sweet but not a traditional dessert.

As we concluded our final bites, a sort of family meal, I looked around. In a sea of highly qualified chefs and notable restaurants, it’s common to create a menu the public will enjoy. What makes Rosie’s stand out is the sense of care that goes into the food. It’s as though you’re eating passion in every bite.

Rosie’s is located at 195 Main Street in Amagansett. See the complete menu online at www.rosiesamagansett. com or call 631-604-5095.

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Raw Fish’s Flavor Comes Alive

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Dive into a plate of the Inlet’s sushi

By Hannah Selinger tenders for best in the category — both worthy opponents, to be clear — neither restaurant, for all its redeeming qualities, has this one thing that the Inlet has, and that’s the impeccable view.

Eating fish that has been snapped up from the ocean no more than a few miles away feels fortunate enough.

What’s even more fortunate is how good this particular fish is. While the Inlet serves lobster rolls (decadent, on brioche), seared scallops (over a Caesar salad? Count me in), and other assorted fishy fare, this restaurant’s long “best of” list lies in its sushi menu.

Fish is breathlessly fresh, rolls ambitious without skirting the line of inauthentic. Even a seaweed salad will leave you questioning yourself: Do most seaweed salads come with equal parts seaweed and julienned cucumber? The contrast of crunch is refreshing, and it gets to the heart of the matter that the

Consider this simple fact: Montauk, the final, eastern most hamlet on eastern Long Island, is surrounded by water on all sides. A walk through town obscures this fact, albeit temporarily, but take a trip down East Lake Drive and you’ll be reminded of the majesty of this place.

When the three-mile-long road empties out into the bay water of Gin Beach, a parking lot will emerge, along with the sun-worn siding of a restaurant worth visiting: Inlet Seafood Restaurant.

The restaurant is up one flight of stairs, permitting it a true diamond-inthe-rough view of the water. From the circular dining room, which is studded with windows, it feels as though you are floating in the middle of the sea. Which is the perfect place to be, really, when you dive into some of the best sushi Long Island has to offer. And although others may cite Sag Harbor’s Sen or Montauk’s Westlake Fish House as con-

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chefs at the Inlet understand completely: texture, when it comes to food, matters.

A pop of tobiko under the tongue?

That’s not a coincidence. Crunch tempered by something rich and fat? A balance made in heaven. How food tastes is one thing, but how it comes together in our mouths — how it comes alive — is another entirely. And while the Inlet may not be the finest restaurant out east, its dishes present a worthwhile study in texture. At the end of the day, they just know how to do it.

Get the FM Station Roll. It will prevent you from having to choose which fish you want, because it covers all the bases: salmon, tuna, and yellowtail, along with avocado on the inside, with red and black tobiko (fish roe) on the outside. If that roll feels too indecisive, go, instead, with the Lady Slipper, shrimp tempura for crunch, spicy tuna

for heat, and avocado for silkiness, all wrapped in pink soybean paper and served with sweet chili sauce. If you’re feeling spendy, the Spicy Lobster Konbu Roll with its spicy lobster and avocado, will be right up your alley.

Even the purist can find something to love on this menu, like the Blue Claw California Roll — blue claw crab, avocado, and rice. There is, too, sushi served by the piece. Octopus. Salmon. Yellowtail. Tuna. Fluke. Salmon roe. Flying fish roe. It’s all there, ripe for the picking.

Although the sushi maestro conducts his business in a dining roomadjacent space (you can still see him rolling, but there’s no sushi bar), and although the restaurant, as a whole, feels quite casual for such elevated food, do not let these facts deter you. At its best, the fish here is a revelation. At its worst?

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Real Realty Christopher Nuzzi: The Advantage Of Experience Advantage Title’s regional SVP explains how titles can make or break a deal

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Christopher Nuzzi: The Advantage Of Experience Advantage Title’s regional SVP explains how titles can make or break a deal

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

Title problems are more common than you think, and Christopher Nuzzi, SVP of Advantage Title, explained how to make that Hamptons dream home a reality without the headaches.

The firm is headquartered in multiple areas. Is the methodology for title insurance for these areas different?

While the methodology may be the same in all the regions we serve, understanding the geographic differences, local customs, and the nuances of how to close a transaction in an area like the Hamptons, the North Fork, and Shelter Island, is an integral part of our success.

Having a dedicated team of examiners who work in the county center, and five in-house counsel, makes the process seamless for our clients because we are focused on maintaining a local team of resources that understands how to close a transaction in this region.

What are we looking for in the title for residential properties?

The details of a transaction differ depending on where the transaction takes place. Residential transactions in Manhattan are entirely different than those on the East End. Out east, we find that surveys and survey readings become especially important, in particular as to how it relates to encroachments and areas that may be out of possession.

Restrictive covenants that limit the potential use of a property and things like easements to the water, or driveway easements, are also important items that can affect marketability.

What is the most important thing to look for inresidential property?

From a title perspective, breaks in ownership, outstanding liens and judgments, restrictive covenants, and severe encroachments are all vital.

Hiring great local counsel and real estate agents who are familiar with this area and understand the unique qualities that make it so desirable goes a long way toward ensuring a successful outcome.

What is the title company’s liability if something is missed?

Liability and the value of the policy equates to the value of the purchase.

As title insurance rates are regulated by New York State, it is the expertise and service provided by the title company that is the differentiating factor. This speaks to the importance of company depth and experience.

Advantage has been in business for over 30 years, and we’ve been fortunate to have many of our employees with us for 20 years or more. That continuity has enabled us to grow with our clients and with the regions we serve. It is crucial to have experienced examiners who understand the importance of accurate research and of searching back beyond the industry norm of 40 years.

Especially in areas of such high cost, restrictive covenants can affect marketability and value, outstanding liens can be significant, and knowing how to deal with encroachments and areas that could be out of possession becomes crucial in limiting any potential loss to our clients as well as any claim of the underwriter.

A significant part of my role is to be hands-on with regards to dealing directly with our clients. From working with the team of examiners to doing property inspections personally, we work together to minimize any potential risk.

What are good questions that a home shopper should be asking?

This is where we are fortunate to have

so many talented local real estate agents who not only know how to find the right home for someone but who also understand how to ensure that the property is free from any potential problems.

Local real estate agents are an integral part of a transaction and we work closely with them to identify potential issues up front, oftentimes before even listing a property, with the intent of solving them before they become obstacles to a closing. The same goes for the many attorneys, surveyors, appraisers, and other land use professionals who work hand in hand with all involved to get a deal to close.

Knowing about that easement to the water, whether or not the dock has appropriate permits, if that adjacent parcel of open space will remain as open space, or if there are any restrictive covenants limiting buildout of a property is vitally important in this highly valued market. Having a good working knowledge of the local zoning codes and regulatory processes has also given me the ability to assist potential buyers and their representatives with many of these questions.

Is the sale of the property usually contingent on the title results?

Oftentimes, yes. It’s the title report that shows legal ownership and any breaks in the chain, or uncovers judgments of any sort against the property owner.

This is where working closely with attorneys and real estate agents early on in the process is important, in an effort to identify any potential obstacles to closing and address them as early as possible.

How did you personally get involved with Advantage Title?

A mutual friend. I had worked in the title industry for quite a few years and was looking for a top company with depth that also understood the nuanced real estate practices on the East End, which are at times very different than other areas. Advantage’s base in Riverhead in proximity to the County Center (where the bulk of the title report comes from) and their client-based focus on service is what drives the company, and I was proud to offer my insights and experience. Together we have grown extensively and are very excited about our expansion with our new East Hampton office. special this place is.

To learn more about Advantage Title services, call 631-591-2267.

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Featured Sold 79 Sayres Path Wainscott $2,645,000 Buyer: Spelman, R Seller: Goldberg, M & B

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Bonac Amateur Radio Club Is On The Air Group communicates across the country for 24 hours, sans power

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Bonac Amateur Radio Club set up camp last week for its annual drill atop the highest point in Montauk.

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If a category 5 hurricane were to strike the East End, the Bonac Amateur Radio Club would be ready. The club held its annual drill last weekend, atop Prospect Hill, east of East Lake Drive.

As members of an organization called the American Radio Relay League, for 24 hours, from 2 PM Saturday, June 22 to the same time June 23, the Bonac Amateur Radio Club members relied not on the PSEG power grid, but on their own supply of power, as they communicated with other like-minded individuals across the North American continent.

Eddie Schnell, who also is in charge of the East Hampton Town’s drive to modernize its emergency communications system, is the head of BARC. “We all get out in an emergency-type setup,” he explained on Saturday, as he and his fellow club members were hooking up cables to an antenna.

They first arrived Friday, June 21, and set up their large former U.S. Army tent, donated by Jimmy Grimes, and deployed the main antenna using a bucket truck borrowed from the Village of East Hampton. The truck enabled them to

EH Emergency Com Towers Progressing Most on schedule, Montauk tower requires reconfigured access road

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

East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo gave the East Hampton Town Board an update on the town’s drive to modernize its emergency communications system June 18.

A new communications tower at police headquarters in Wainscott

should be up and running by the end of August, as will modifications on the main tower at the town hall complex on Pantigo Road, he said.

There have been slight work delays on the Amagansett tower, due to nesting ospreys, but the birds will naturally

get the antenna, which looks like a giant version of the television antennas that used to dot the roofs of homes across the country. “It’s the same concept, just much bigger. These will talk all around the world instead of just to the nearest city.”

“You take a 35-question test, and you get a license, which gives you a whole bunch of spectrum you can talk on,” Schnell said. Each member of the club has their own call letters.

Club member Marshall Helfand said that during Superstorm Sandy, gen-

erators in areas that lost power began running out of fuel. For the ham radio operators, that was not a problem. “We were on the air,” Helfand said. The radios can operate off of a standard car battery. The group has solar panels for power as well.

When it was all over, Schnell gave the resulting learning experience from the drill two thumbs up. “It was great,” he said. “We made over 2000 calls.”

BARC is ready, no matter what hand Mother Nature deals the East Hampton area.

leave their nests in coming months, and the work will be concluded.

“The way things are progressing,” the chief said, “we do expect to have all the sites fully operational, except for the Montauk tower.”

The new Montauk tower will be located on the western side of the access road to the Montauk recycling center.

At 300 feet, it will supplant the 150-foot towers at the same location, and enable Montauk to link to communication towers to the west.

Eddie Schnell, who is running the upgrade program, explained the slight delay in getting the Montauk tower up and running. The design of the Montauk tower’s base has been expanded, to structurally support what will be a 300-foot tower. Schnell said that in order to build the tower, the access road to the recycling center will have to be

reconfigured. The plan should be going out to bid shortly.

Two towers that are not part of the current plan but will eventually be added to complete emergency workers’ capability of reaching all points by radio in the town are those proposed for the hill east of East Lake Drive, and the Springs tower. The final decision is to whether to place the Springs tower at the fire station, where one has already been built, but not approved by the town, or at the Camp Blue Bay Girl Scout camp.

The East Lake Drive tower will be at the old Ground to Air Transition Radio, or GATR, site. The installation of a tower there will close the last gaps in emergency communications in Montauk. The GATR project and the Springs tower will have to be bonded by the town board.

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Celebration In Bridgehampton Photos by Justin Meinken The 17 members of the Bridgehampton High School Class of 2019 were joined by family and friends at a graduation ceremony on the school grounds on Sunday, June 23. Salutatorian Autumn Coffey, top left, and valedictorian James Fairchild, top right, addressed the assembly along with von Gal, lower right, the founder of the Perfect Earth Project.

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Jewish Center Of The Hamptons

June 29 • 1PM

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons kicks-off the summer Salon Series with a talk by Michael Musto and Rabbi Lyle Rothman on the Quality of Equality on Thursday, June 27, at 7 PM.

In honor of Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Michael Musto, a journalist and author, and Rabbi Lyle Rothman, the Jewish Chaplain at University of Miami Hillel, will have a conversation about being gay in today’s America.

The Thursday Night Salon series is free for JCOH members. Non-members can purchase a ticket in advance for $15.

For information, visit www.jcoh.org.

Festival Seeks Vendors

Bring a chair or a blanket and enjoy an old-fashioned day

The first East Hampton Summer Festival will take place on August 18 in Herrick Park. The chamber is seeking vendors for the event.

There will be live music all day, food and drink, a kid zone with free art projects, rides, an artisan village, craftspeople, and non-profit agencies.

For more information, visit www. easthamptonchamber.org.

Free SPF 30 Program The Town of Southampton held a ribboncutting ceremony for its new free SPF 30 sunscreen dispensers at Ponquogue Beach in Hampton Bays on June 25.

The program, which will run through Labor Day, will place sunscreen dispensers at many of the town’s parks and beaches. Sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, the program aims to help protect residents and visitors against the dangers of sun exposure while they enjoy the beaches, parks, and recreational facilities during the summer.

For information on where the dispensers are located, visit www.southamptontownny.gov.

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Rogers Memorial Library The first concert in the Rogers Memorial Library’s summer concert series will be held on Friday, June 27, at 6 PM. In celebration of the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, a quartet led by pianist and arranger Alexander Wu with soprano Rachel Elezi, Ben Kono on woodwinds, and Rex Benincasa on percussion, will present a selection of Bernstein’s songs and instrumental works. Reservations are recommended.

The library will host a Fourth of July

Patriotic Pinwheels and Pretzels for teens on Monday, July 1, from 4 to 5 PM. Participants can paint wooden pinwheels and decorate pretzels with red, white, and blue chocolate and sprinkles.

Rogers Memorial will offer a Jewelry Club for teens on Tuesday, July 2, from 4 to 5 PM, where participants can learn how to make their own jewelry.

For the July meeting, the workshop will make dangly star earrings for the Fourth of July. The craft will be available in the Teen Room until supplies run out.

The library will also host “Getting Ready to Babysit” on Wednesday, July 3, from 2 to 5 PM, which is designed to help teens develop the skills necessary for the responsibility of being a sitter, such as child safety, developmental stages of children, and how to plan activities that are age appropriate. Pizza lunch will be served.

For more information, visit www. myrml.org.

Westhampton Free Library As part of the “Lunch and Learn” series, the Westhampton Free Library will host “Images of the Edge of Spacetime” with Dom Pesce on Friday, June 28, at 12 PM.

Pesce, an alumnus of Westhampton Beach High School and former Westhampton Free Library employee, is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which obtained the first image of a black hole in April.

He will discuss the quest to assemble the Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth-sized network of dishes with resolution several thousand times stronger than the Hubble Space Telescope, and how it was used to take the first picture of a black hole.

The Westhampton Free Library will sponsor Mondays on Main this summer, which will run from July 1 through August 26 from 6 to 9 PM.

Mondays on Main will feature family-friendly activities, food, drinks, sidewalk sales, and movies on the Great Lawn.

Hampton Library The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will host a space-themed Book Bingo and the Galactic Race, in which duos will compete by scavenging items, sounds, and smells from around the East End. Races will be held every Saturday from July 6 through August 24. Attendees must sign up by 5 PM on Tuesday, July 2. The winning team will be awarded the grand prize at the library’s end-of-summer event on August 31 at 1 PM.

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Let’s All Go To The Movies Riverhead residents petition for local theater

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com The people of Riverhead have spoken.

What do they want? A major movie theater to come to town. Residents, 3100 of them, signed a petition circulated

by Calverton’s John Altadonna, who made his plea before the Riverhead Town Board on Tuesday, June 18, to a room filled nearly to capacity, dozens of whom seem to be on the same mission as Altadonna.

“If I had the time and the resources, I probably would have doubled that number,” he said of the petition, which asks the town board to forge a relationship with a major company to establish a local movie theater with an anchor restaurant.

The 74-year-old cited an attempt at bringing such a project to life at the former Walmart site on Route 58 within Riverhead Plaza, negotiations which town board member James Wooten said failed between Regal Cinemas and the plaza owners two years ago over

Dozens flooded the Riverhead Town Board meeting on June 18 to show support for a major movie theater in the area. Independent/Gianna Volpe

the price per square footage. “That deal fell through prior to me coming into office,” explained Supervisor Laura JensSmith. “The movie theater was not going to come in there. It was the choice of the movie chain itself.”

Altadonna said while the residents realized the town board could not force a retailer’s hand, it could “reach out and actively support a movie theater.

The town is big enough and deserves a movie theater in town.”

The town board members, including Jens-Smith, said they are in support of such a project, with Councilwoman Jodi Giglio pointing to actions taken in supporting the former Riverhead Plaza theater project.

“We had put zoning in place that said we would allow a drive-through restaurant, so we incentivized the movie theater to come to the Walmart site, but the square footage of the site exceeded what he was permitted to do with the restaurant by 8500 square feet, so he would have had to chop off 8500 square feet of the Walmart and the ceilings would have to be raised to accommodate a theater, but the zoning is still on the table to allow a drive-through restaurant at the Walmart site if they could negotiate the lease,” Giglio said.

“We didn’t adopt it because we were saying, ‘Show us the contract and show us the lease, then we’ll allow you to have the drive-through restaurant,’

which is why nothing has happened at that site,” the councilwoman explained.

Town board member Tim Hubbard asked Altadonna to provide the board with a copy of his petition for future communications with major theater retailers and while Jens-Smith said there has been difficulty attracting such a project with an industry-wide expansion downturn, board member James Wooten said there may be renewed interest should the Regal/UA Hampton Bays theater close its doors and become a CVS pharmacy.

“There may be more of a desire right now for companies to relocate because there’s not one eight miles away,” said Wooten.

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Addiction Medicine: A Talk With Dr. Jarid Pachter Specialist led lecture at Cutchogue Library

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com

Family medicine specialist Jarid Pachter led a lecture on Addiction Medicine at the Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library on June 20, sponsored by Eastern Long Island Hospital. Attendees were given a NARCAN kit with instructions on its use. Dr. Pachter has been practicing in Southold for more than a dozen years.

What is NARCAN? NARCAN is not a treatment for drug-use disorder. NARCAN is a treatment that brings someone back from the brink of death from an opioid overdose. The way this medication works is that you put it in a person’s nose and it removes the opiate from the parts of the brain that are controlling their breathing so they’re not in respiratory arrest anymore.

It’s my feeling that everyone should be given a NARCAN kit.

Is it effective for all opioidrelated overdoses?

The problem with NARCAN is that most heroin nowadays has fentanyl in it, so it takes more than one dose of NARCAN to revive that person because the fentanyl is so powerful.

Why is fentanyl put into heroin?

Drug dealers from multiple countries are competing with each other for business and fentanyl is not just a more potent drug, it’s also a hell of a lot cheaper, which means people can produce more of it and make more money off of it.

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Where do substance-abuse disorders stem from?

Substances have been around for thousands of years. When something has been around for that long, it actually has the ability to change your genetic makeup. There’s always a family history. The story is always the same with patients who I see in detox. There’s always a family history of that person — and not necessarily using substances. It could be gambling; it could be a sex addiction; it could be a body-building obsession or body dysmorphia, but there is mostly always a family history of addiction.

What is a common road toward heroin use?

Let’s pretend you got Vicodin because you got your wisdom tooth removed and that first time you took the Vicodin you loved it. It was amazing. The dentist was so nice he gave you 60 of them, which happens all the time. I don’t mean to pick on dentists, but they’re notorious for this. I can’t attest that much has changed with that since the prevalence of opiate use.

So he gives you the 60 pills and says you should take them in three or four weeks, but you went through them in three or four days, so you start going toward the doctor to get more pills, which aren’t going to make you feel the same way as the first one, but you start buying, crushing, and sniffing pills, which

Dr. Jarid Pachter led an addiction lecture at Cutchogue Library where all attendees were given a free NARCAN kit. Independent/Gianna Volpe

are expensive, and eventually you’ll run out of money and turn to heroin.

Everyone says, ‘Oh, I’ll never do heroin.’ Yeah, you will. It’s inevitable, so you start sniffing heroin and injecting heroin, but you’ll never again feel the same way as you did that first time.

What happens is, over time, dopamine isn’t getting released anymore and all the morphine or heroin or oxycodone is doing is keeping you from having withdrawal or not being sick, then you have to keep using in order to not be sick.

Calverton Unveils Memorial Trail Path honoring Vietnam Vets opens in July

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

On Monday, July 1, at 2 PM the Town of Riverhead Alternative Transportation Committee will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the official opening of its 9.2-mile Vietnam Veterans Memorial Trail, located around Calverton Enterprise Park.

Construction on the Memorial Trail began in 2008 with the help of state grant funding which included $100,000 from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.

Since then, Riverhead secured an additional $200,000 in funding from Suffolk County through Legislator Al Krupski.

Krupski said, “I am excited that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Trail has been completed and ready for the 2019

summer season. As traffic on the East End continues to grow, it is essential to provide the residents of Suffolk County off-road transportation alternatives where they can safely bike, roller blade, and hike.”

There was an additional $500,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Fund and $150,000 state funding from New York Dormitory Authority through New York State Senator Ken LaValle.

“I’m pleased the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Trail will now be the officially open to the public,” said LaValle. “This project illustrates that when state and local governments work together, we can accomplish great things. The Me-

Blue Duck Riverhead Closes The Riverhead Blue Duck Bakery Café on Main Street is closing its doors after seven years, according to owner Nancy Kouris, who will now be focusing efforts on the bakery’s Southold and Greenport locations, as well as its wholesale operations.

The Southampton location closed after Citarella Market bought morial Trail will be a well-utilized asset for the entire community and bring additional visitors to enjoy the outdoor beauty of eastern Long Island.”

The ceremony will be held across

the building last September.

While emotional for Kouris, who spent the bulk of her time running the Riverhead outpost with husband, Keith, she is focused on the 20 years Blue Duck has been baking as a beloved brand of choice for local artisanal bread.

GV from the Calverton National Cemetery at the informational kiosk. Parking will be available at the EPCAL parking lot, along the street of River Road near the DEC kiosk.

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Obituaries

Spink is survived by his two daughters, Margaret Hildreth-Williamson and Bonnie O’Brien; and his two grandchildren, Ethan and Theodore Williamson.

Funeral services were held at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on Monday, June 24.

Memorial donations may be made to the Sag Harbor Ambulance Corps, Box 2725, Sag Harbor, NY 11963.

Maureen Wikane, 71

Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Barnard, 90

Maureen Wikane died on June 18 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center in Quiogue. Wikane, who was 71, had suffered from pancreatic cancer for nine months.

A memorial service will be held at the Whitmore Center on Gingerbread Lane Extension in East Hampton on August 4.

A complete obituary will appear in next week’s issue.

David Spink, 62

Lifelong Sag Harbor resident David Spink died at Southampton Hospital on June 20 after a brief illness. He was 62.

Born in Southampton Hospital on June 11, 1957 to William Spink and

Maureen Wikane. Independent/Wikane family

Isabel Spink Norton, he was a self-employed painter and worked on various houses in the area. Spink was an avid chess player and loved playing pool. He was also a history buff.

SEASONED PROFESSIONALS

Gertrude “Trudy” Henrietta Barnard, a long-time resident of Bridgehampton, died on June 6, at the age of 90.

She was born on August 8, 1928 in McKenny, VA, to James and Ava Mason. On Christmas Day in 1948, she was married to Sisco Edward Sylvester Barnard Sr. The couple had six children.

She was baptized at a very early age and as a child became a member of the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton, where she sang in the church choir.

Barnard loved her family and opened her home to those in need and for many family cookouts. She loved to cook and made sure to prepare enough

for whoever came through the door.

Her family said she believed in helping people and was loved by many.

She attended the Bridgehampton Elementary School and High School.

She worked as a teacher’s aide at the school and later as an outreach aide for Migrant Health at the Riverhead County Center.

Barnard was predeceased by her husband and two sons, James Anthony Barnard and Gary Keith Barnard, her brother, George Mason, and sisters Helen Johnson and Winifred Johnson.

She leaves to cherish her memory four children, Sisco E.S. Barnard Jr. of Riverhead; Betty “Tara” Williams of Blackwood, NJ; Helen Darlene Barnard of Chesapeake, VA; Valerie Letcher of East Hampton; 15 grandchildren; 25 great grandchildren; and two great great grandchildren.

She also is survived by a sister, Alice Jacobs, of Queens; her sister-in-law Dorothy Mason (George) of the Bronx; her niece, Deborah Woods, of Southampton; her close friend, Linda Corbett, of East Hampton; and many other relatives and friends.

A funeral service was held June 14 at the First Baptist Church of Southampton. The Reverend Henry Faison Jr. officiated. Burial followed at Calverton National Cemetery.

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Continued From Page 25. as an office for his team of workers, with the understanding that it was to be used for work purposes only.

Gilbert began showing up, and sitting in on meetings. Smith said he caught him a couple of times, sneaking in and sleeping overnight.

One night, in September 2013, Smith was having a poker party. He had not invited Gilbert, but he showed up, anyway. With him was Lizzy Fraser and another woman. Smith’s dog, excited, knocked a glass over. The glass broke, and the dog began running around.

Smith grabbed the dog by the scruff of the neck to prevent it from hurting itself.

“Tommy got angry at me and yelled at me,” Smith said. “He told me I was the most violent person he had ever met and he was going to report me.”

Smith told Gilbert to leave. “You’re a loser,” Smith said in front of the group.

Later, he said he began getting calls and visits from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, checking on the welfare of his dog. Gilbert had called in multiple complaints.

‘He Was Coming For Me’ The day after the poker party, Gilbert came to the house while Smith was out,

went up to the second floor, and stole a flagpole from a balcony, the jury was told. The next day, Gilbert returned with the flagpole, minus the flag, and smashed it through the kitchen window.

It wasn’t the only window that was smashed that month. A car window was smashed. Smith said he knew it was Gilbert, because the car window was smashed with a can of Hawaiian Punch, “and Tommy was the only one I knew who drank Hawaiian Punch.”

The police were not called. “My father didn’t want to ruin his life, so no charges were pressed,” said Smith. The father eventually received a check from the Gilbert family as compensation.

Smith said Gilbert called him and told him he “was coming for me.”

On October 6, Gilbert began calling Smith repeatedly at his Meserole Avenue apartment. When Smith came outside, Gilbert was waiting for him. “He swung at me but missed. He grabbed the back of my head with both hands, he kneed me in the face about 18 to 20 times,” Smith testified. Smith suffered a broken nose.

Gilbert ran off when a Guardian Angel, who happened to be on patrol came upon them.

Gilbert was picked up by New York police and charged with assault as a misdemeanor. An order of protection was issued.

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Peter Smith, right, leaving court after testifying at the Thomas Gilbert murder trial. With Smith is his attorney, Kenneth Belkin. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

The two men had no contact until Labor Day, 2014. Smith was at a drum circle on Sagg Main Beach when Gilbert approached him. Gilbert told Smith that it was his last chance to “bury the hatchet.”

Smith spoke with his attorney, and it was decided not to press charges.

Two weeks later, on September 15, the house on Main Street burned down. At that point, Smith told Southampton detectives what had happened. Gilbert was picked up near his parents’ Geor-

gica Estates house. He contacted Alex Spiro, his attorney who had defended him after his various previous transgressions. Police questioned Gilbert, but he was eventually released on the charge of violating the order of protection without bail.

While the Southampton town police considered Gilbert a suspect, he was never charged.

A little more than three months later, Thomas Gilbert Sr. was dead.

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Jay and Leslie Cafiso Family business still going strong, 67 years later

By Valerie Bando-Meinken valerie@indyeastend.com

Above: Connie, Sr. (L), Jeffrey, Connie, Jr. and Jay (R) on a trip to Disney World in 1978.

Top right: Jay (L), Frank and Jeffrey (R) celebrate Frank’s retirement in 1995.

Bottom left: Jay and Leslie Cafiso at work at their store, North Main Street Cleaners in East Hampton.

Photos: Courtesy Jay and Leslie Cafiso

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“M

y grandfather, George Cafiso, was a tailor.

Clothing was a big thing to him. He would always be sitting at the table with fabric or he’d be fitting and pinning people,” recalled Jay Cafiso. “I remember that he would take me with him to the garment district in New York City. I was only four years old at the time and I’d come home with new suits, but my father would say that I looked like a little gangster!”

“In 1952, my grandfather rented a storefront and started North Main Street Tailors. My father, Frank Sr,. didn’t join the business until a few years later because he was serving in the army. When he came home from the army he started the dry cleaning business and the shop became the North Main Street Tailors and Cleaners,” Cafiso said. “The shop was originally located in another building; where Serafina’s is now.”

When the property where the shop is currently located on North Main Street in East Hampton became available, Cafiso’s father purchased it, opening their new shop on January 5, 1971.

“I was probably in seventh or eighth grade when I knew that I wanted to work in my father’s dry cleaning business,” Cafiso said. “So when I was in high school I took a lot of business courses like accounting and business law. My father taught me how to do the dry cleaning and I learned to be the clerk and deal with people and get their clothes while my father was pressing in the back. I joined my father in 1976, but I had already been working part time for three years.

We lived in Sag Harbor and I went to Pierson High School so I would get out of school and hitchhike or sometimes grab the bus and make my way to work.

That’s how I got my first car. My father said he was tired of me being late so he gave me my great grandmother’s car to use.”

In addition to working at the cleaners, Cafiso

held other jobs in his youth. “I delivered milk in the mornings. I would get picked up at 6 AM, and the truck would be fully stocked. I would deliver the bottled milk to the customers and then be dropped off to school by 8:20.” With a hearty laugh, Cafiso recounted being chased by the neighborhood dogs that seemed to “hate the sound of the bottles rattling when they were being carried.”

Cafiso also maintained a paper route for two years and served 76 customers. “I hated it. It was like doing penance for doing something bad. I’d get off from school, and it would be snowing and I really didn’t want to ride my bicycle in the snow so I would ask Dad for a ride. I’d sit on the back of his old Rambler station wagon and throw the papers in the yards. After two years, my sister Connie took over the route.”

Although Cafiso knew his wife Leslie Brewer when they they were children, he waited until he graduated from high school to ask her out on a date.

“I took her out on July 4, 1976 to the fireworks at the Devon Yacht Club. I was 17 and she was 15,” he said.

Leslie’s family lived in the house behind the shop.

“My brothers used to beat him up when we were children,” she said. “He was shy and he used to try to set me up with his friends, but I wanted to go out with him, not his friends.” After their first date, Jay and Leslie stayed together until they married on November 1, 1980. They have two children, Frankie and Genevieve, and a one grandson with another on the way in July.

In what was truly a family business, Jay and Leslie worked side by side with Jay’s mother and father until the elder Cafiso retired in 1995. “People don’t realize how labor intensive the dry cleaning business is. Each item is handled at least three to four times in the process,” he said. “Every piece has to be marked in, itemized on the ticket, goes into the machine to be dry cleaned and then pressed. It’s then placed on the

hanger and sorted to be put together with the ticket so that when a customer comes to pick up their clothing we can find it.”

“So, when my Dad was 62, I told him in a nice way that he had to retire. He was just sitting around the shop watching TV all day. I bought him an old pickup truck that he could use to go clamming with his friends and told him to go out there and have fun. So he hooked up with some friends, the Lucente brothers, and they would go clamming and do some catering and the money they made they would use to go to Foxwoods and just have fun. After a few years my mother and father moved to Port St. Lucie in Florida. My Dad passed away in 2012 on his anniversary, July 9.”

According to Cafiso, his family has a colorful history. His great uncle, Ernest Cafiso, did the first Italian/American radio show on Long Island, which hosted several famous people of Italian descent. “His stage name was Roger Wayne. I had another great uncle who was a captain and a rumrunner. He was put in jail but when the war broke out they told him if he piloted some boats he would be forgiven.”

Leslie’s great-great-grandfather was a whaling captain and rumrunner and her grandfather was the first to have a liquor license in Suffolk County. He opened Ruschmeyer’s and Shagwong in Montauk and the East Hampton Motel on Newtown Lane where Fierro’s Pizza is currently located. “You have to remember,” Cafiso said, “once the whaling industry came to an end, it became speakeasy and rumrunner country out here. The carriage house where Leslie lived was used for rum running. But things change. I grew up in Sag Harbor and basically East Hampton and I’ve seen so many changes in business ownerships. They’re mostly owned by corporations now. There are very few little Mom and Pop businesses anymore. They’ve been absorbed by corporations. I know things change,” Cafiso said, “but it’s sad.”

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Sports Smith Makes USA Lacrosse Roster Westhampton standout one of few high school players to make the cut

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Belle Smith has envisioned tossing the USA women’s lacrosse jersey over her shoulder for years.

In fact, it’s written on the Westhampton Beach girls lacrosse player’s bedroom wall, inside a room decked out in trophies, awards, medals, and those who’ve inspired her along the way.

“It’s an absolute dream come true,” the junior said of making the USA U19 team. “It’s such a different feeling from anything I’ve ever had before. I’m just so grateful. Ever since a young age my parents taught me to be goal-oriented — that if you want something you have to envision it — and that’s what I did. If I want something or believe I can achieve something I write it down, and by putting it on my wall, it reinforces it every day, and reminded me that that’s what I want. And if I want it, I have to go after it.”

Smith started out having catches in the backyard with her father and two older sisters before she even knew how.

She picked it up quickly, making the third-grade team as a first grader, and fifth-grade team by the time she reached third. In seventh grade, she was called up to the varsity team, and verbally committed to Boston College as an eighth grader.

The junior’s played club lacrosse for the Long Island Yellow Jackets travel team since fifth, winning a national championship with the team; represented Long Island during a school girls tournament; and competed in several Under Armour All-America games, being

named most valuable player in 2017.

“Her room is basically a vision board,” her mother Jen Smith said.

“Without a goal, you’re like a ship that leaves port going nowhere. It’s so inspiring as a mother to see your child take a vision and a dream and bring it into reality.

It’s so much more than just ‘I’m proud of her.’ This kid has got it.”

The road to the USA U19 team started with a pool of 500 applicants from across the country, 110 of which were asked to play in front of a coaching staff and evaluators. Smith took part in a 10-month process that included continuous cuts at each of the practices until the final roster of 18 was released June 17.

Only six of those girls are high school players, three juniors.

“I set this goal a few years ago — seeing a few other girls from Long Island make it inspired me,” Smith said.

“There’s no better feeling playing the game I love with the most amazing teammates and coaches, and at the same time playing for my country. Even just playing on Long Island, I compete against some of the best players in the country. It’s kind of the same with U.S.”

She added, “A bunch are older than me, girls I’ve looked up to, so to play with those girls is just so exciting.”

What’s making the opportunity to play for the USA team even more special for Smith is Eastport-South Manor senior Kasey Choma, a fellow Yellow Jackets travel team competitor and good

Belle Smith is one of six high school lacrosse players, three juniors, to make the USA U19 women’s lacrosse team.

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friend, also made the team.

“People call us twins. They say we look so much alike, play alike, act alike — we even went on vacation together a few months ago,” Smith said. “We just instantly connected. Kasey is such an amazing player. She’s someone I’ve always looked up to and to have her by my side through the process is great. I learn from her every day as a player and a person.”

A Deep Talent Pool The girls were chosen by Northwestern University head women’s coach Kelly Amonte Hiller, who’s won seven NCAA championships and will be leading the U19 team.

“They’re all unbelievable with great

attitudes and are just a joy to work with,” she said. “This was truly a very hard decision to make. We had a lot of considerations, including our style of play and how we could be successful with our choices. The depth of talent in the United States is unbelievable. It’s been really fun to work with all of them.”

Smith said through the process she’s started to appreciate everyone around her more, knowing it wouldn’t be possible without them, including her family, teammates, coaches she’s played for, and coaches and girls she’s competed against.

“My coaches are all so different, and I think each and every one of them had an impact on me,” the junior midfielder Continued On Page 48.

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Aviators Earn National Ranking Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League team remains atop standings

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Alex Brosnan is happy with where his Westhampton Aviators are.

And now, the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League team has a national ranking to go along with its No. 1 standing.

The Aviators (12-4-1) are ranked No. 22 according to Collegiate Summer Baseball rankings. It’s the fourth time in five years the team has earned a spot in the Top 25.

“I’m thrilled with the way the guys have performed,” said Brosnan, who was an assistant for the last two years before taking the helm this season. “They’re a great group of guys. They make my job very easy. I couldn’t be happier and couldn’t say more better things about the group of guys that I have.”

The team boasts just three returnees, and only gets two practices before the season starts, yet the Aviators remains dominant. Highlighting the returning players is Daniel Franchi, a Binghamton University’s starting left fielder who is playing center for the Aviators, and was a member of the 2016 and last Westhampton championship team.

“He leads by example. I can’t say enough good things about Daniel,” Brosnan said of his player who tied an Aviators record with three doubles during a June 20 8-5 win over the Riverhead Tomcats. “He does his job every day. He was one of the youngest guys on that 2016 team and now he’s one of the oldest. To see his transformation into the leader he’s become today is im-

pressive.”

Chaney Dodge, a Northwestern University infielder, is back to captain the team, and Nick Bottari, a former Wading River ballplayer who competes for Southeastern University, battled some injuries and returned to compete in Saturday’s 4-2 win over the Sag Harbor Whalers. The 2017 Hamptons League MVP finished the game with an RBI and a walk. Both were on the 2017 Aviators team that was upset as the No. 1 seed heading into the championship.

“We have guys who are hungry to get over that hump, bring that championship back to where it’s supposed to be,” Brosnan said.

Harrison Cohen of George Washington University started the June 22 game, striking out seven, walking one, and giving up three hits and no earned runs across seven innings.

“It felt good out there. I sequenced my fastball and slider,” he said.

He said Sag Harbor is a good hitting team. “I was just happy to go as long as I did. I thought my stuff was there and we got enough offense to help us go out to get a win. It’s a big win against these guys,” added Cohen.

Brosnan said he’s pleased with how his team has come together considering the circumstances.

“We don’t get a lot of time, but the guys are pretty much in shape because they just finished up their school seasons,” Brosnan said. “And now you’re starting to see they’re bonding well, be-

Chase Borowitz struck out three, walked one, and gave up one hit over five innings in a 5-0 shutout of the Long Island Road Warriors June 23. Independent/Courtesy Westhampton Aviators

coming a family.”

The Aviators picked up their 12th win of the season June 23 with a 5-0 shutout of the Long Island Road Warriors. Franchi went 2-for-5 with two runs and Dodge went 1-for-3 with a run and two walks.

Winning pitcher Chase Borowitz struck out three, walked one, and allowed one hit over five innings.

“I just got ahead of hitters, used my fastball, and just let my defense work behind me,” he said.

The team is tough to beat when the pitching is on, according to Brosnan. He added he thinks the group has an incredibly high ceiling, tossing more than 25 scoreless innings over the last four games. He considers Logan Verrino of Florida Southern College the best closer in the league, and setup man Ty Wilson of the University of North Carolina Wilmington leads the league in ERA (.93 over 9.2 innings pitched).

“Our arms give us a really good chance to win baseball games,” Brosnan said. “Every time we get dominant starts we’re very tough to beat.”

The coach is also relying on Michigan State University middle infielder

Bailey Peterson.

“He’s developed into a leader, he’s a stalwart in our lineup,” the coach said of Peterson, a rising senior and collegiate All-American who is batting .323, 21-for-65, with 12 runs, 15 RBI, and six stolen bases. “We can’t take him out of the lineup. He can play short, he can play second, he can DH, he can play anywhere on the field. He’s a coach’s dream. We’re very happy to have him.”

The team is balanced and playing to its strengths, according to Brosnan, by running the bases well — leading the league in stolen bases (60) — putting pressure on other teams, playing good defense, pitching ahead, and getting timely hits.

“The best part of my job is getting the guys to buy in and creating a culture where they’re playing relaxed and having fun,” Brosnan said. “You’ll meet different people from different walks of life during this summer ball league, you can pick the brains of other players, become friends, and no matter what in college baseball, it’s tough to win a championship. That’s our goal this summer. It keeps these guys hungry and working hard to get better.”

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INDY FIT

By Nicole Teitler

Live Energized Sound View gets salty nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily Never have I ever inhaled salt by the gram full — until now. Sound View in Greenport is the home of a halotherapy spa, Salt Live Energized, that pumps enough salt into the air that you can see it accumulating on surfaces. It’s enough white dust to make Tony Montana dart for the door. If that sounds intimidating — because who in their right mind would want to inhale the condiment equivalence of chalk? — the pink walls and view of the sound are guaranteed to ease any initial discomfort.

As I sat back in a chair that seemed tailored to my body, I had a welcome box of some tissues, a water bottle, BOSE headphones, and an iPod with soothing melodies. My 45-minute session flew by as the particles fell onto my skin and cleared my lungs. The waves crashed beyond the glass in front of me as I recalled the benefits: increased red blood cell production, cleaner air passages, better lung function, stimulates cell growth,

balanced skin pH, and reduction of inflammation, to name a few. Sure, the initial inhale was jarring as particles went up my nose and down my throat, but in the end, I left feeling better than when I first walked in. Which is the whole point, right?

Carlos Lamarche, founder of Salt Live Energized, found me on Instagram (power of the post, people!) and was wonderful enough to answer some key questions:

What year did you start this?

We started with the idea in 2017, and opened our first Salt Live Energized in Sound View Greenport as a pop-up to experiment. We are opening our spa in SoHo, NYC this August.

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CHIP SHOTS

By Bob Bubka

Winning Is Not Easy No superstar in trio bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com

What a strange week in the world of professional golf on all three Tours.

The PGA Tour, the LPGA, and the PGA Tour Champions all had winners, but there was not a superstar in the trio. Obviously, the winners are all solid players inside and outside the ropes, which is often even more important.

Let’s take a look at the LPGA first.

The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship was played at Hazeltine National Golf Club in golf-loving Chaska, MN, just outside Minneapolis. In her sophomore year on the LPGA Tour, the win was very popular and at the same

time, very unlikely. With all the best from around the world competing, it was somewhat of a surprise that the 22-year-old from Australia, Hannah Green, came out on top and secured her first major championship and her first win on the LPGA Tour.

Another very popular win went up on the board on the PGA Tour Champions in Madison, WI at the American Family Insurance Championship. In addition to the main event, there was a nine-hole celebrity scramble featuring just four players. Brett Favre, a member of the NFL Hall of Fame, partnered

and we truly consider it home. Two years ago, on a healthy living quest, we converted our pool to salt water. We could not believe the difference. It made us calmer, our skin smoother, and we slept better.

Totally by chance, the next day we saw an article in the New York Times on halotherapy, and then another in Vogue.

We did our research and learned quickly that many “salt caves” don’t actually do anything for you. Without adding dry salt to the air, the respiratory system doesn’t get any benefits whatsoever.

So, we set out to spread the word about real halotherapy and to upgrade the experience from a “salt cave” to a relaxing spa. Once we got started, we kept going. Later this summer, we’re launching our own line of salt body

scrubs and bath salts, in addition to the NYC location.

with golf legend Jack Nicklaus, while popular country-and-western singer Toby Keith partnered up with two-time U.S. Open Champion and Wisconsin native, Andy North.

It was amazing to watch 79-yearold Jack hit several quality golf shots, and what a treat it was for the 30,000plus spectators to see. Nicklaus was not the only thing the Wisconsin gallery had to cheer about. When Madison, WI’s very own Jerry Kelley survived a three-man playoff against another Wisconsin favorite, Steve Stricker, and former U.S. Open Champion and newly minted World Golf Hall of Fame Inductee, Retief Goosen, the pro-Wisconsin crowd left the course very happy.

Happy indeed, but probably nowhere as happy as the top two finishers in the Travelers Championship.

One of the best feel-good stories of the year so far involves a little-known PGA Tour player, Zach Sucher. Zach has had his share of injuries coupled with less-than-great play which led to less-than-great results. Over the last 17 months, he has played in only four events. For those at the bottom of the Tour ladder, overhead costs are a real

concern. Accommodation, travel, food, and caddie fees all add up quickly.

Zach and his wife, Courtney, decided to bet on their own abilities to succeed so they had just about maxed out all the credit cards when Zach got into the Travelers field. Of course, this reminds me of playing someone for $20 when I only had $10 in my pocket, which is definitely something Zach and Keegan Bradley don’t have to worry about as they both tied for second place and won $633,600 each.

Chez Reavie’s rookie year on the PGA Tour was 2008, 11 years ago, and it was also the year he won his first event, the RBC Canadian Open. Little did Reavie know it would take him another 258 events and 11 years to chalk up win number two and now he is the very deserving 2019 Travelers Champion.

As delighted as Reavie is with his win, I’m pretty sure Sucher feels betting on his own abilities was the right thing to do. He started out 2019 ranked 2006th in the world, steadily improved his ranking to 505th when the Travelers Championship started, is now ranked 147th, banked over $600,000, and likely has no credit card debt.

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Polo Hamptons Returns A two-part event is set to unfold in Bridgehampton

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Polo Hamptons returns this season with two events at 900 Lumber Lane in Bridgehampton. Christie Brinkley will host the annual Polo Hamptons Match and cocktail party on Saturday, June 29, from 4 to 7 PM. Brinkley is expected to be joined by up to 500 guests donning their most chic, ground-stomping style as they watch the sport of kings.

As horses gallop in the background, patrons will enjoy an open bar to wash

A scene from Polo Hamptons action last summer. Independent/Courtesy Polo Hamptons

down delicious hors d’oeuvres catered

by Elegant Affairs. There will be preferred seating for those requesting it.

A Day Of Play At Hampton Racquet Event benefits breast cancer patients and their families

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Adult round robins, and tennis clinics and match play for kids at Hampton Racquet Saturday will help breast cancer patients and their families.

The June 29 event, titled “A Day

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of her time and energy.

An activist and an advocate, Hermanson channeled her journalistic talents to become a forceful voice for breast cancer patients and their families. She educated her readers about the importance of early detection, the challenges of living with breast cancer, the very real but littlediscussed or understood issue of pain management, and the debilitating effects of breast cancer on the entire family.

No patient is turned away from the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for lack of insurance or inability to pay for treatment, and all services though what’s called “Ellen’s Well” — a program that provides psychosocial support for breast cancer survivors under the leadership of specially-trained oncological social workers — are pro-

vided free of charge.

A family ticket for the entire day — 11 AM to 3 PM — which includes two parents and their children, costs $50. An individual ticket costs $20.

Tickets can be purchased at www.ellenhermanson.org.

In addition to the tennis events, there will be a healthy barbecue, outside games, a bouncy castle, obstacle course, and trophies and prizes. Monika Olko, owner of Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor, donated a painting from the artist Michele D’Ermo called “Distant Rain” that will be used as a silent auction item.

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By Scott Jeffrey

Porgies In The Peconics If you’re patient, you can catch some fluke Shinnecock Bay/Inlet/Ocean The fluke bite in the bay continues to be tough for most. A few anglers have been able to put a limit together fishing the shallow waters. Earlier in the week, the inlet was good. Go figure. Bottom line

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said. “None of this would’ve ever been possible without the people that have gotten me here. They’ve all supported me.”

This includes current high school varsity coach Mary Bergmann, who called her up to the varsity team. Bergmann said she’d known Smith since sixth grade, but as the girl who kept the stats and attended a summer camp that year, where she saw her play for the first time.

“Every year her game evolves and every year when we see her play we always are like, ‘Wow, she just keeps getting better and better.’ She is a human highlight reel, and she’s fun to watch,” the coach said. “Most people wouldn’t notice, but she’ll come back with a better feed, a better shot, a better fake. She gets better at the little things by doing all the behind-the-scenes work, and that is what makes her great. She works so hard, and on top of it, she’s naturally gifted. Ever since I met Belle, she has been the best at everything she does.”

As a Hurricane, Smith’s been a

is you have to put in your time and fish more than one day a week if you want to bring home some fluke.

The seabass season opened on Sunday and did not disappoint. The Shinnecock reef was productive, although two-time U.S. Lacrosse All-American, four-time All-County selection, threetime Player of the Year for Westhampton, and was named top midfielder in her class by Inside Lacrosse and the organization’s No. 2 overall 2020 recruit.

Since seventh grade, she’s posted 345 points on 231 goals and 114 assists, and has a career 319 draw controls. Smith also has a career 110 ground balls and 110 caused turnovers. She tied a season record 33 assists with Haley Daleo, and tied for most goals in a game with nine with her older sister Alexa Smith. The junior also holds the record for most points in a game with 12.

She is also a back-to-back Under Armour Underclass Tournament champion, helping lift Long Island to national bragging rights in the Command and Highlight divisions in 2017 and 2018.

Respected By Teammates What Bergmann said also sets Smith apart is how she acts with class, and is humble despite her numerous accolades.

“Her teammates respect her — they respect her work ethic, they respect her talent, and they respect her kindness.

They also respect that she comes out

there are a lot of short fish to cull through.

The bunker schools outside the inlet along the beaches both east and west of the inlet are holding some good fish. The tough part is hitting all the schools until you find them. One of our customers, Alex Wexman landed a 55.5-lb fish on live bunker.

Shorebound The Shinnecock canal is still holding some porgies but not in the numbers earlier in the month. A few fluke are still in here too, along with some kingfish and small blowfish. If you’re in the right place at the right time, you may get a shot at some cocktail bluefish. Over at the Shinnecock inlet, guys have had success with big blues, schoolie bass, and a few fluke. I and plays lacrosse and never acts as if she is better than anyone because she is on the USA team or is an All-American,” Bergmann said. “She doesn’t expect to win games, score goals, or assist teammates because of her accolades, she expects it because she is prepared and she has spent years working toward this level of play.”

The coach said she had no doubt Smith could make the final cut.

“If you know her and know how she plays and have seen her highlights, she is a stud, and they would have been crazy to not take her,” Bergmann said. “Even the PAL kids look up to her. She’s the first player to ever have this status and the young kids eat it up. She is a celebrity to them. People even request to be in her group when we do clinics and camps. It is so fun to watch, because that is going to make a huge difference in our program.”

Young girls could be seen running up to Smith and her USA teammates during practice asking for autographs; others have cheered from up the stands during high school games. The lacrosse player said while she plays for the excitement of the game, it’s the relationships that mean most to her.

did hear our first report of triggerfish, but not in any numbers. Ponquogue Bridge has schoolie bass and a few fluke.

Peconics The porgies are still in most of the regular haunts like Rogers Rock and Jessups Neck.

Still hear of a few weakfish in the mix too.

If you’re looking for a fluke, you will have to hunt for the deeper holes or head further east around Gardiners. There have been few reports of cocktail blues and schoolie stripers in the rips of the races.

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“I play for that love,” Smith said.

“Seeing them up in the stands and loving the game, it brings me back to that age when I would do the same thing. Little do they know they have just as much of an impact on me as I do on them.”

The USA team is scheduled to play its first game of the championship tournament August 2 against Australia. The team is looking to reclaim gold after a string of four straight world championships ended with a loss to Canada in the gold medal game in 2015, the last U19 world championship held in Scotland.

The U.S. has won four of the six previous World Lacrosse Women’s U19 championships (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011) while Australia (1995) and Canada (2015) have each won once.

“We’ve always stressed ‘if you can be anything, be kind,’ and ‘with great things comes great responsibility,’” Jen Smith said. “As a mom, it’s big to know your kid is going to go places in life because she has all the tools. She’s immersed herself in these goals and these dreams. She’s able to see her dreams in order to bring them into reality, and I think more’s in store for her. It’s to be something more to people.”

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Why is affordable housing unaffordable for most town employees?

Would police response times be quicker, if there were more officers and less empty police vehicles parked in the Hampton Bays police station, the Bridgehampton Commons substation, the North Haven Village Hall, and the Sagaponack Village Hall?

Is it true that the Southampton Town comptroller is the highest paid in all of Suffolk’s 10 towns?

Can you exit your driveway and your road and get to appointments on time?

Could traffic control officers be better utilized?

Does Jay prefer pickle ball to being our town supervisor?

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Beach Balloons Hello DesirĂŠe, I read your helium balloon article in The Independent yesterday. Today my twoyear-old son spent his beach walk collecting helium balloons instead of his usual rocks and shells. Sadly, we only walked about half a mile along the beach from Kirk Beach to Hither Hills, and collected 18 helium balloons. Sad times.

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Continued From Page 18. kagawa added. “Bees contribute to complex, interconnected ecosystems that allow a diverse number of different species to exist together. Please make it illegal to poison bees.�

Klughers said she feels the world would be boring without honeybees, saying the food supply would be dull and expensive.

Klughers is spreading that mes-

East Hampton beekeeper Deb Klughers manages a honeybee hive. Independent/Courtesy Deb Klughers

sage, while also letting people know that she’s not looking to ban agricultural chemicals, or any sprays used by homeowners to kill ticks or mosquitos, saying this is solely to protect honeybees that end up in a space they’re not wanted, like a grill, toy box, or shed.

Honeybees move into a dark, dry cavity and never create their own holes or space.

“They aren’t like yellow jackets or hornets that come after you if you go by them,� she said. “Honeybees are just looking for nectar and pollen.�

Cornell University’s Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies, based in Ithaca, has an extensive list of beekeepers categorized geographically. Klughers said she’s received calls from people on Staten Island, and in Freeport, Orient Point, and other local locations with swarm sightings. When it’s local, she puts out messages on her social media channels to let the public know there’s no need to be alarmed.

“The legwork on who to call has been done. That is a resource that is already there and could be utilized when mirroring the New Jersey law, directing residents on who to call when they come across a swarm,� she said of the Dyce Lab list. “The thing is the people that are calling the beekeepers know what they’re dealing with. Other people don’t. With this law would come public education.�

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