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What is your connection to owner Mary Cantone and William Ris Gallery? Scott Farrell: Mary’s gallery truly is one of the best-kept secrets on the North Fork. Many people seem to end up discovering her beautiful space as an added, surprise bonus when making a wine-tasting stop at her neighbor, Sherwood House Vineyards. As soon as I walked into William Ris Gallery, I found Mary to be one of the most approachable, open, and genuinely kind people I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. Since that initial meeting in August 2017, Mary has not only become a true friend but one of my most important and valued supporters.

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What does ‘a sense of place’ mean to you? SF: “A Sense of Place” has two interpretations for me. On one hand, it represents an attempt to capture and convey the feeling of an existing, physi-

cal place. On the other hand, a sense of place can be the pure product of my imagination as I examine an object or space and use abstraction to propose something entirely different. As a photographer, my primary passion is landscapes, whether they are representational in nature or what I refer to as “alternative landscapes.” Examples of both can be seen in this exhibit. Amanda Kavanagh: Although I do enjoy painting plein air, I prefer to work in my studio because much of what I’m trying to capture is my own sense of the place rather than an accurate representation. I tend to get distracted by reality and local color. I’d rather go with my gut. I’m fascinated by how the brain imprints images and memory and how our individual experiences often overlap with each other. Scott, Maxine, and I work in different mediums but there is an almost eerie similarity in our styles, our sense of color, composition, and mood. That universal connection, usually through nature, is what interests me most. Maxine Jurow: While my paintings are non-objective, they are always inspired by the particular. Most of my paintings are done in series with a particular color palette, often inspired by travel, whether it be to Australia, Tuscany, Morocco, or simply locales here on Long Island. My paintings are meant to be visited over time. They are meditations on what resonated for me within that location. In the same way that the ocean, a field, or a sunset is

something we continue to find beauty in, I hope that these paintings resonate in a fresh way each time they are read by the observer.

Describe your work. SF: [One] image is a photograph from Nebraska. It’s part of a series I call “Great Plains Genesis.” The scene of turbulent weather conditions in a vast, inhospitable space was actually captured on a sunny, hot August day in Columbus, NE in a flat area about three feet wide by five feet high. There are additional pieces from this series on exhibit in “A Sense of Place” and they represent the origins of my “alternative landscapes” work. AK: Many of the landscape pieces in this show came out of an artist’s residency I did a few years back in Watch Hill, Fire Island. I essentially had the whole place to myself for two weeks in early October and spent much of my time out on the boardwalks in the salt marshes studying the colors. It’s a gorgeous time to be out there, especially in that late afternoon magic hour when the light explodes on the grasses. MJ: Orange/yellow is primarily a balancing act of color volume, but it is also a study of movement. In the top section, I use translucent free brush strokes. Towards the middle, the paint is more dense, creating texture and focus at the perceived horizon line. Lastly, there is a gray ribbon of paint at the base of the painting. It anchors the eye, and serves

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as a reality check — the canvas is only a canvas, a flat painted surface.

Why did you choose this medium to express your perspective? SF: As much as I’d love to learn, I don’t know the first thing about painting. Photography is just so spontaneous and instantaneously gratifying to me. I love being able to capture moments and scenes that are often gone in an instant. AK: I’m most comfortable working in oils because it’s very versatile and I can work and rework back into it. I did go back to charcoal for a few of the pieces in this show, and that was fun to revisit after many years of working in color. The thing I do like to change up is the surfaces I work on. I like to experiment with various effects. MJ: Acrylic paint has been the perfect medium with which to explore a wide color palette. Water based acrylic dries quickly, which means I can put down layers of colors — thick or thin — quickly and easily. It is the buildup of color undertones, sometimes peeking through, that creates depth in the surface. At times, I add color pastel lines to enhance an existing composition or create an additional dimensional element.

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Scott Farrell, Amanda Kavanagh, and Maxine Jurow will explore comfort through artistic expression at the William Ris Gallery in Jamesport in the show “A Sense Of Place” from Saturday, February 15, through March 25, coinciding with the gallery’s fourth anniversary. The gallery will host an opening reception on February 15 from 4 to 7 PM and an artists’ talk on February 29 from 1 to 3 PM.

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Thrilled Hi Desirée, I was recently made aware of an article you wrote on my great-grandfather’s house in Westhampton. I was thrilled that it got the landmark designation and the publicity on historical homes. William Clark Raynor was a sturgeon fisherman and so was his only son, William Fletcher, a sturgeon fisherman and all round bayman in the 20th century. I was thrilled that the fishhouse my grandfathers and father used was also recently designated a landmark and historical site. The land was in the family since the 1730s, with a brief interlude of ownership by the Rogers family. The fishhouse was originally built about 1863 by William Clark Raynor, destroyed in the ‘38 hurricane and rebuilt the next year and used for commercial fishing until the 1960s. Since then, it has been a marina and boat building shed. It was recently purchased by the town through the community preservation fund. Best, Ruth Raynor Lapp

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News & Opinion EH: New Law On Tap To Protect Aquifer Good news on town’s former dumps, sand mining effects questioned By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Toxic chemicals at Montauk’s capped former dump, as well as the one on Springs Fireplace Road, are, overall, decreasing, the East Hampton Town Board was told. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

Representatives from the firm that has, for many years, provided guidance to the Town of East Hampton on protecting its ground and drinking water weighed in last week before the town board with some seemingly good news, as well as the beginnings of legislation to protect the water from the effects of sand and gravel mining. However, a consultant from the mining industry contradicted the firm’s warnings about the deleterious effects of mining. Benjamin Cancemi, a hydrogeologist from the consulting firm FPM Group, told town board members February 4 that the plumes of toxins emanating from the two former garbage dumps in the town that were capped at the beginning of this century are shrinking. The two sites are now recycling centers, one on Springs Fireplace Road, the other on Montauk Highway about a half-mile west of the downtown Montauk hamlet area. Cancemi said that for many years his firm has monitored for volatile organic compounds. He said the amount of tetrachloroethylene detected beneath the ground at the Springs Fireplace Road site has been steadily decreasing. However, the amount of manganese, particularly around the current compost area at the site, has been in-

creasing. Cancemi said manganese is released as organic matter decays. It is not a concern when residents compost on their properties; however, the amount of manganese released from a large-scale composting operation such as the one being run at that site can be a health concern. The amount of methane detected at the site has greatly decreased over the years as well. After the Montauk site was capped in 2001, the amount of ammonia detected increased for several years. However, that trend has been reversed. Sodium amounts picked up by the detection wells at the Montauk site, however, have increased. This may be related to winter salting of the roads, though the site is not currently used for salt storage. One member of the public, Frank Rina, questioned the firm’s conclusions, saying that they were minimizing the risk to the public. Stephanie Davis, who heads FPM’s hydrology department, also spoke. She presented the board with draft legislation that would, if enacted, regulate sand and gravel mines and their reclamation after they are exhausted across the town of East Hampton. The town, she said, is entirely de-

pendent on the natural aquifers for its drinking water. That water is filtered as it seeps from the surface through sand. Sand mining removes that natural filter. In addition, the mining process itself can introduce contaminants, such as diesel oil, to the aquifer. Imported materials, such as construction debris, introduce contaminants into the water supply, as well. What happens to these mines after they are exhausted needs to regulated, she said. Using the mine sites for composting, as an example, can lead to unwanted chemicals, such as manganese, running into the drinking water supply. She pointed specifically to a threeyear study done by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services of the Sand Land mine site in Noyac. That mine, Davis said, is deep in the groundwater recharge zone. The study showed that manganese, iron, pesticides, and other toxins were seeping into the water. In 2018, Davis told the board, a law sponsored by Assemblyman Fred Thiele and retiring State Senator Ken LaValle created a path for towns to regulate sand and gravel mining, if those towns were solely dependent on the aquifer for their drinking water. Davis also presented a proposed

amendment to the town code that would require mine operators to provide the town with a working plan to test the mining operation’s effects on the groundwater. This would include wells drilled to test the groundwater. It would also require mine owners to detail their plans to reclaim exhausted or retired mines. What the enforcement mechanisms in the law would be is up to the town board, Davis said. Kris Almskog of PW Grosser Consulting said that sand mining, if done under permit by the state’s Department of Environmental Control, was perfectly safe and does not present a danger to groundwater. He said that the DEC already mandates testing. The problem, he said, was illegal mining operations, and the backfill used in them. “Permitted legal mine sites and illegal mine sites have kind of been lumped together,” he said. Councilman Jeffrey Bragman said, in response, that he knows from experience that the DEC has a close relationship with Long Island’s mining industry. “For good or bad, that remains to be seen.” Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said the code revisions governing mining will continue to be worked on by the board, and will ultimately be presented to the public in an open hearing.

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Amagansett ‘Truck Beach’ Appeal Argued Homeowners trying to overturn 2016 Supreme Court decision by T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The lawyers for five groups of landowners bordering what is commonly called “truck beach” near the White Sands Motel on Napeague Stretch, along with the lawyer representing both the Town of East Hampton and the Town Trustees, were questioned by a panel of four New York State Appeals Court justices in Brooklyn Friday afternoon, February 7. The homeowners are trying to overturn a 2016 decision by a New York State Supreme Court Justice that found for the town and its trustees over the homeowners’ claims of ownership of the beach, and that the homeowners’ trucks utilized on the beach constituted a nuisance. The justice that presided over the five-day trial in June 2016, Ralph

Gazzillo, pointed out in his decision that expert witnesses called by the plaintiffs lacked credibility. For example, one witness, Chick Voorhis, “made the adamant contention that there are four high tides daily.” As for the nuisance claim, Gazzillo noted that one of the original claimants, Bernard Kiembock, owner of the White Sands Motel, while testifying about the nuisance effect of the trucks, also said he never had a vacancy at his motel. Kiembock did not join the appeal. That trial was Gazzillo's last before he retired from the bench. The two attorneys for the appellants, James Catterson and Stephen Angel, were questioned at length by Appeals Court justices Linda Christopher, Angela Iannacci, William Mastro, and

Attorneys representing both the Town of East Hampton and the town’s trustees, along with East Hampton Town Board member David Lys, huddled at the New York State Court of Appeals in Brooklyn following a hearing of an appeal by neighbors of “truck beach.” Independent/T.E. McMorrow

Cheryl Chambers. In Catterson’s brief, he states that there were obvious “conclusory defects” in Gazzillo’s decision. Catterson and Angel contend that the landowners

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Great Lakes Dredger Arrives At Dune Road 600,000 cubic yards of sand to be placed west of Shinnecock Inlet By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The federal government is spreading the love this Valentine’s Day. A dredge has finally been positioned west of the Shinnecock Inlet near the east end of Dune Road in Hampton Bays to rebuild the beach that has been repeatedly washed away during recent storms. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $10.7 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company last month for the pumping of nearly 600,000 cubic yards of sand onto the beach to bring it and the dune up to the designed standard of the West of Shinnecock Inlet emergency replenishment project. “This project is a big deal,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said. “We pled for emergency help, and we’re getting it.” He, along with Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, Legislator Bridget Fleming, Congressman Lee Zeldin, Senator Chuck Schumer, and others, requested immediate action be taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite the project, which began Monday. The congressman, along with Schneiderman and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers kicked off the start of the project with a press conference February 10. “With local restaurants and businesses, including the second largest commercial fishing dock in New York, operating in the affected area, the continued progress of the area’s restoration is continued good news for our local economy,” Zeldin said. “In pulling sand from the Shinnecock Inlet, this project is also good news for area boaters, both commercial and recreational.” The area is home to three restaurants, the Shinnecock Commercial Fishing dock, a public beach, and a Suffolk County park. Dune Road is on a vital

barrier island that protects the mainland during storms. The beach has been deteriorating since last October, and was restored several times by smaller replenishment efforts by state Department of Transportation, Suffolk County Department of Public Works, and Southampton Town highway crews, but subsequent storms reversed the results of their endeavors. “I spent a lot of my fall and winter on Dune Road. We have worked hard over the past few months to hold back the tide and prevent a catastrophic breach in this area,” Schneiderman said. “A much larger effort was needed — well beyond our local capacity — and this early implementation took a lot of coordinated requests, but we got there. We combined our voices and our pleas to get help and put the area back together.” “I know you put a lot of energy and necessary organization into saving that road,” Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said to the supervisor. “We might have lost it without you.” This West of Shinnecock Inlet project will restore the inlet to its 2005 authorization level — a 15-foot-high dune with an associated 140-foot-wide beach berm from the toe of the dune — which would be a better, more robust outcome than simply restoring the area to its recent 2019 pre-storm level. The project will run through the end of the month and be followed by the Fire Island to Montauk Point Plan that will likely be signed this spring. Under this plan, a dredge will return to Dune Road every three or four years across the next 30 years to pump up the beach and maintain the new levels. The dredge could also be dispatched if repairs are needed in the event of a storm.

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Even as some national health experts continue to publicly downplay the threat, there are numerous signs an outbreak of coronavirus is likely, and that means New York is a possible epicenter. Medical experts fear an initial decision made in China to keep the outbreak under wraps may have allowed it to spread. For whatever reason, often New York comes into play, as it did with the SARS outbreak, possibly because of the international traffic in and out of its airports. “It’s inevitable that we will have someone who is positive with coronavirus,” New York City’s health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said February 3. On Friday February 7, President Donald Trump, who has been handson during the past week dealing with the issue, said through a spokesman, “The White House’s economic adviser does not expect the coronavirus in China will have a major effect on the U.S. economy.” But Trump ordered travel restrictions into the United States from a half-dozen locations, directly overruling World Health Organization leaders who urged the limitations not be put in place. On the same morning, President Trump praised China’s response to the virus outbreak after speaking by

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Travel History At least 19 million people in the U.S. have experienced flu illnesses this

season, the CDC estimates. About 180,000 people have been hospitalized so far, and an estimated 10,000 have died. Sixty-eight children have died this flu season. The CDC issued a Clinical Action Alert on January 31 through its Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity network, which suggested health care providers should identify patients who might have been exposed and who have signs or symptoms related to 2019-nCoV infection, isolate these patients, and inform public health departments. This includes obtaining a detailed travel history for patients being evaluated with fever and lower respiratory tract illness. By the beginning of February, 11 cases had been identified on the U.S. mainland. Nine had been exposed in Wuhan but two were believed to have contracted coronavirus in this country (Illinois and California) from a third party that may have been traveling overseas. The majority of cases are still centralized in Hubei, the Chinese province of which Wuhan is the capital, where more than 12,600 people remain hospitalized. China’s National Health Commission said February 3 that the death rate from the virus stands at 2.1 percent nationwide. A spokeswoman for the commission said 80 percent of victims were over the age of 60 and 75 percent had some form of underlying Continued On Page 25.

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New York Cannabis Programs Economic opportunities for Long Island farmers By Valerie Bando-Meinken valerie@indyeastend.com

David Falkowski, president of Open Minded Organics LLC, hosted an event on Saturday, February 8, to provide information about the cannabis programs emerging in New York state. A panel of speakers discussed the different industry and production opportunities for farmers on Long Island and sought to clarify some of the federal legislation and New York State regulations related to cannabis. The standing-room-only event was held at the Wamponamon Masonic Lodge in Sag Harbor and was open to legislators, politicians, law enforcement, trade associations, and community members. Attendees included Legislator Bridget Fleming and Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman. According to Steve Halton, president of CNY Hemp Processing Inc., hemp can replace thousands of traditional materials used in manufacturing today.

While hemp is from the cannabis plant, its THC content is less than 0.3 percent and does not have the potency to get an individual high. Hemp stalks, however, can be used to produce textiles, building materials, industrial products, and energy and environmental products, just to name a few. There is evidence of the use of hemp products dating back more than 10,000 years and it is believed to have been one of the first crops ever cultivated, Halton stated. Cannabis and the products that can be yielded from its production should be considered as “a national industry and needs to become a national mindset,” stated Andrew Rosner, vice president of the New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association. Principal of his own family farm, Rosner spoke about hemp, cannabinoids, the New York Hemp Extract Bill, and the USDA’s interim hemp rules. He also provided definitions and

Library Display Draws Criticism Rag dolls are a ‘racist symbol of hate’ By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Liz Cramer Ernst (L) Andrew Rosner, David Falkowski, Steve Halton, Dale Deutsch (R). Independent/Justin Meinken

clarifications of the rulings and explained their implications for the farmers of New York. In addition, Rosner presented an analysis of New York state’s proposed Cannabis Regulation & Taxation Act and adult use of recreational marijuana. In addition, Rob Carpenter, administrative director of the Long Island Farm Bureau spoke in support of Long Island farmers and discussed the bureau’s positions on cannabis and the regulations and rulings that are expected in New York state. Nurse practitioner Liz Cramer Ernst, owner of Hamptons Medi Spa and a NYS Medical Cannabis Practitioner through the NYS Medical Cannabis Program then spoke of the medicinal benefits of cannabis and her experience with treating patients. Medical cannabis

is regulated under the Compassionate Care Act signed into law in 2014 by Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is being used to treat a wide range of medical conditions some of which include cancer, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, chronic pain, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Stony Brook Professor Dr. Dale Deutsch discussed the biochemistry behind the use and effectiveness of cannabis. He is planning to offer an on-line course that will provide an extensive understanding of how cannabis works within cells and further explain its use for medicinal purposes. Open to all, the course is expected to be available in May. Additional information will be available through Stony Brook University.

A display of a rag doll collection at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton, on view through Black History month, is racist and should be shuttered, a prominent local African American organization charged this week. “‘Black Face Art: The Personal Historic Collection of Samuel Johnson’ does little to celebrate the African American culture,” Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, the executive director of the Eastville Community Historical Society, told the library hierarchy via letter last week. Dr. Grier-Key

said the rag dolls were “a symbol of hate.” Indeed, some of the titled pieces include slurs including the “N” word. Most stem from the turn of the 20th century and were used for marketing purposes. Liz Burns, the director of the library, disagreed the collection did not have historical importance. “The library does not view the collection of African American vintage rag dolls belonging to Sam Johnson as symbols of hate,” Burns wrote to Grier-Key. Continued On Page 25.

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EH Village Plush Stuffed Dog Trial Ends

mat was not a sign under the village code. Jahoda responded by saying, “Under our policy, a welcome mat is not a violation.” During his closing argument, Rodgers said that the village’s sign law was unenforceable, because it was overly broad. “Just about anything could qualify as a sign,” Rodgers said. He read the definition of “sign” from the code: “Any advertising structure, display board, screen, structure, shadow box, poster, mannequin, banner, pennant, cloth, bill, bulletin, painting, printing or other device or object or part thereof used to announce, identify, declare, demonstrate, display, or in any manner advertise or attract the attention of the public by means of letters, words, figures, or colors.” When Moeller took the stand, she explained that the stuffed animal had been a gift to her daughter from the girl’s grandmother, and was not for sale, which was also true for the chalk board. Moeller said that during the offseason, because so many stores in the village close up, “you can’t tell which stores are open,” which was why she put the plush dog with the sign outside her business. Brian Lester, the prosecuting attorney for the village, questioned why Moeller could not have put the sign inside the store behind one of

Verdict coming as to whether store owner displayed illegal sign By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com It was a dog-day afternoon in East Hampton Town Justice Court Monday, February 10, where the trial of the owner of Petit Blue, an East Hampton village toy store, Colleen Moeller, was held. The bench trial was presided over by Justice Lisa Rana. It lasted about one hour, with two witnesses taking the stand, Rob Jahoda, a code enforcement officer for the village, and Moeller. Moeller was charged in early November of last year with two violations of the village code, one accusing her of having an illegal sign outside her store, and the other charging that she was illegally displaying merchandise outside her store. Petit Blue fronts the Reutershan parking lot, a couple of dozen yards away from Stop & Shop.

The sign in question was a small wooden plaque with the word “Welcome” on it, hung around the neck of a life-sized plush stuffed animal, a Golden Retriever that Moeller said during her testimony was named “Happy” by her daughter. There also was a small chalk board hanging up outside the store, which children could scribble on. Jahoda had written up the alleged violations November 8 of last year. If found guilty, Moeller could be fined up to $1000 and be sentenced to 15 days in jail, though jail time seems quite unlikely, whatever the verdict. During his cross examination of Jahoda, Daniel Rodgers, the attorney representing Moeller, unrolled a large doormat with the word “Welcome” written on it. He asked if that welcome

Colleen Moeller, with her attorney Daniel Rodgers, holds up the doggie display that's created such a furor. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

the shop’s windows. During his closing argument, Rana quizzed Lester about the charge of illegally displaying “goods and merchandise” outside the store, since the chalk board and the stuffed animal were not for sale. Rana said she would be issuing a written decision, and that if she were to find Moeller guilty of either or both counts, she would schedule a new date to decide the appropriate penalty.

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Police East Hampton Police: Sexual Conduct With Child Charged Town resident had at least two sexual encounters with child under 13 By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com An East Hampton man is free on bail after being charged with sexual conduct against a child in the second degree. According to the East Hampton Town police, Juan Sumba-Clavijo had sexual relations with a child under the age of 13 years old at least twice. The child and Sumba-Clavijo were acquainted, the police said. According to the charging documents on file at East Hampton Town Justice Court, the sexual relationship

between the two began in October of 2017, and continued until August of last year. In one such incident that allegedly took place in March of last year, SumbaClavijo photographed the encounter. It appears that the alleged victim eventually confided to an adult at the child’s school, who then alerted police, triggering an investigation, which ultimately led to Sumba-Clavijo’s arrest on Tuesday, February 4. Besides the felony charge, he is also accused of a misde-

Riverhead Dealer Faces Hard Time Latney also pleads guilty to participation in murder By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

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A former Riverhead drug dealer and gang member pleaded guilty to multiple charges that may well end in lifetime incarceration. According to federal court papers, Terrell Latney of Mastic, 39, “participated in the distribution of large quantities of

crack cocaine, cocaine, and heroin in the Riverhead area for nearly a decade.” He was also a member of the Red Stone Gorilla faction of the Bloods. On November 17, 2015, Latney assisted members of the Bloods in their attempt

meanor, endangering the welfare of a child. He was held overnight and was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Wednesday, February 5. There were friends and family members of the accused, as well as of the alleged victim, in the courtroom. One woman wept, off and on, throughout the arraignment. Sumba-Clavijo’s attorney, Susan Menu, entered a denial to the felony and proceeded to waive her client’s right to a speedy trial, as well as waiving her right to enforce the new state law that requires the prosecution to turn over within 15 days all the evidence it intends to use should the case go to trial. Justice Steven Tekulsky issued an order of protection for the child, as well as for other minors the child lives with. Under the New York State’s new laws regarding bail, the felony charge Sumba-Clavijo is facing is one of the few crimes for which bail can be set. The prosecuting attorney, John Mark Sciandra, asked that a cash bail be set at $5000. Menu countered that her client could afford $2500. Tekulsky agreed with to kill a rival gang member. Specifically, Latney drove three Bloods members to a location in Riverhead where they fired at least 39 shots into a vehicle that they erroneously believed was occupied by the rival gang member. In fact, the car was occupied by Thomas Lacolla, who was killed. On February 7 in federal court in Central Islip, Latney pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson to racketeering, including conspiring to distribute narcotics, and participating in the murder. Latney faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. “As a result of the outstanding work by our prosecutors, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Suffolk County East End Drug Task Force, Latney has been held accountable for his role in a large-

Juan Sumba-Clavijo, shown here being brought into court for his arraignment, is facing a felony charge of sexual conduct with a child, a felony. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

that amount. Under the new law, he also is required to set alternative methods to secure a defendant’s release, which he did, setting a secured bond amount of $5000, as well as an unsecured bond amount of $10,000. An unsecured bond is, essentially, an IOU. The cash bail was posted at the courthouse.

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scale narcotics distribution operation and a senseless act of violence that took a man’s life,” stated U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue. “We hope today’s guilty plea begins to bring a measure of closure to the victim’s family.”

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One Man, 2 Aggravated DWIs In 10 Hours Police arrest him in Hampton Bays, release him, then rearrest in Montauk By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com A Hampton Bays man who was arrested twice in 10 hours on separate misdemeanor aggravated driving while intoxicated charges, and felony unlicensed driving charges, was released from custody without bail February 9. The two arrests brought not only the criminal procedure law reforms into question by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana, but the practice of New York state police on the East End of releasing many of those they charge with drunken driving with desk appearance tickets, to be arraigned in court at a later date. The second arrest of Angel FrancoRojano, 29, was made by East Hampton Town police in Montauk at 11:47 AM on February 8. The first, by state police on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays at 1:33 AM. In both incidents, he was driving the same car, a 2012 Honda Civic, and failed breath tests that allegedly showed three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood — .24 in Hampton Bays, .23 in Montauk. Franco-Rojano consented to the first breath test after police pulled him over for allegedly speeding, and police found out it wasn’t Franco-Rojano’s first DWI charge. On October 20, a little before midnight, he was pulled over in the Town of Southampton. According to the police, his breath test result then was .18 or higher. He was released by state police after that arrest, as well, with a desk appearance ticket, and returned to court October 31, where his

driving privileges were suspended. That act of suspending a driver’s license who is charged with DWI is the reason most police departments on the East End hold defendants overnight, until they can be arraigned, even though the defendant is now, under the bail reform law, going to be turned loose after. In all three arrests, the serious aggravated DWI charges are at the misdemeanor level, because Franco-Rojano has never been convicted of DWI. In the second February 8 arrest, Franco-Rojano was headed west from Montauk before noon and tailgating the car in front of him, according to East Hampton Town police, who added he was swerving across lane lines. After being pulled over, he failed sobriety tests, and was placed under arrest. Between the two incidents, Franco-Rojano had traveled at least 43 miles, from the state police barracks in Riverside to Montauk. “You cannot drive,” Rana told the defendant during his arraignment in East Hampton. “That seems to be a fact lost on you. Sir, I need you to look at me. Do you understand you cannot drive?” “Yes,” Franco-Rojano responded. Carl Irace, the attorney on hand to represent defendants being arraigned over the weekend, told Rana that Franco-Rojano had already retained Colin Astarita to represent him for the October charges, and would likely keep him

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on the new charges, as well. Rana told friends and family of Franco-Rojano that “he is in very serious trouble. He needs help,” encouraging them to get the defendant into a program that treats alcohol abuse. “We all know that I have no choice but to let you walk out these doors,” Rana said. “This court is none too pleased.”

Correction The article “Green Light For Affordable Housing Application” in the February 5 issue of The Independent incorrectly stated the Southampton Town Board unanimously approved a zone change at the Full Gospel Church to potentially make way for an affordable housing complex. The town board unanimously elected to consider allowing a developer to file a zone change at the Full Gospel Church to potentially make way for an affordable housing complex.

She ordered him to return to her court Thursday, February 13, or she will issue a warrant for his arrest. Franco-Rojano is scheduled to be arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court on the charges resulting from the early morning arrest on February 17.

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A woman who told the court she splits her time between Bridgehampton and her native Iceland was charged by Sag Harbor Village police with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated early morning February 8. Ingun Eiriksdottir, 36, had made an illegal U-turn on Main Street while driving in a 2006 BMW, leading to a traffic stop, and her arrest after failing sobriety tests, according to the police. She was arraigned later that morning and released. TEM

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Editorial Of Trucks And Trustees

Homeowners and other plaintiffs on the short end of a 2016 Supreme Court decision decided to challenge an outcome that strongly concluded the East Hampton Town Trustees held control over a portion of ocean beach on the Napeague stretch known locally as “truck beach.” Briefly, a fair number of nearby homeowners felt the truck traffic on the sand near their homes had become too dangerous to continue unabated; that children and bathers were in danger. If truth be told, the beach has, over the years, been a summer nesting spot for local families in their trucks. Further, ownership records and deeds to their properties indicated much of the so-called beach was possibly privately owned. The court felt otherwise, and it reaffirmed a basic tenet this town has lived by for more than four centuries: that the Town Trustees protect the properties under their jurisdiction for the people and assure that citizens will always have open access to the water. There have been several court cases over the past 10 years that have weakened the authority of the Southampton Town Trustees in our opinion. Unfortunately, these rulings were used by other government entities or wealthy property owners to try and take away beach and water access from the townsfolk. That can never be allowed to happen, in either town. Appealing the decision in East Hampton is the prerogative of those who question the court’s decision. They too, have rights, and are citizens and taxpayers. As has been the case from the start of this chasm, it’s created an “us against them” standoff that has gotten ugly at times. It would be unfortunate to revisit those days again. There is plenty of beach between East Hampton and Montauk, and those of us who choose to drive on it treat it with respect, regardless of sometimes-shrill rhetoric. There are two sides to the argument, but there can be no give and take about the authority of the Town Trustees. It’s a matter we have to agree to disagree about, and respect each other’s position.

JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

Are jail sentences the appropriate punishment for wealthy parents who bribe their children’s way into elite colleges? Gail Murphy I wouldn’t want to see parents taken away from their children and their families. But I would like to see these parents set an example for their children by doing community service. Every community needs volunteer work. That's a better way than putting someone away in jail where they're not being utilized and it’s costing taxpayers money. Bonnie Stoffel They should pay somehow. I don't know if jail is the appropriate answer. Fines? Community service? You want the best for your kids but your kids should earn it. It's not a violent crime but does hurt the other kids who aren’t wealthy but did the work - and didn't get in. And it hurts their parents who sacrificed and worked hard to help their kids get through school. Bill DeNatale No. Jail is not the right answer. They should be fined. But why should they go to prison? That's just going to make another mess for their children. Not that I liked what they did. But their crime is in a different category from the kind that should send you to prison.

Veronica Mezzina It's definitely immoral. It's definitely illegal. But the better solution is community service. The ones that suffer most from their actions are their children, because the message they get is that their parents have no faith in them. An appropriate solution might be they have to fund the education of a deserving student who can’t afford college.

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February 12, 2020

Arts & Entertainment A Sense Of Place William Ris Gallery presents three artists with a converging view By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Independent/Maxine Jurow

What does ‘a sense of place’ mean to you? SF: “A Sense of Place” has two interpretations for me. On one hand, it represents an attempt to capture and convey the feeling of an existing, physi-

something we continue to find beauty in, I hope that these paintings resonate in a fresh way each time they are read by the observer.

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SAND IN MY SHOES By Denis Hamill

Shine Light On Karl Grossman Reporting that moved the hand of government denishamill@gmail.com The professor never took a journalism class. But for 60 years, Karl Grossman has been a celebrated investigative reporter, esteemed East End columnist, popular author of six books on the threat of nuclear energy, and a noted documentarian and TV host. He’s won a coveted George Polk Award, Generoso Pope Award, John Peter Zenger Award, a Long Island Press Club Award, and other honors too numerous to list. Grossman earned these accomplishments wrinkling his shoes in the oldschool, pre-Internet reporting trenches across seven decades using the world as his classroom and its people as his teachers. Today, he’s a full tenured professor of journalism at State University of New York/College of Old Westbury, where he’s taught investigative reporting and the ethics of reporting since 1978 after his beloved Long Island Press folded. To say that they don’t make inkstained scribblers like Grossman anymore would suggest that this tireless newshound set out to become a made man of the journalism racket. Not true. It happened by accident. “I actually never thought I’d be a reporter,” said Grossman, 78, who lives in Sag Harbor with his schoolteacher wife, Janet, to whom he’s been married for 59 years, and his main squeeze for 61. “I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens and went to Andrew Jackson High, where I considered writing for the school paper, but it was run by a bunch of snobby girls who were like a clique. That turned me off. I was an Eagle Scout and in the 1950s on Eagle Scout Day you were ‘paired’ with someone in the field you thought you’d like to go into. My aim at the time was to become a college professor so I was paired with Queens College president Dr. John Theobold. I spent the day in part with him and in part dropping into classes meeting various professors and I really thought I’d probably become a professor.” Then, in 1961, at age 19, reporting

discovered Karl Grossman. He was accepted into Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, where students spent three months in the classroom and three months interning at on-the-jobtraining jobs in various professional fields in the real world. “I wound up as a copy boy at the Cleveland Press, where over the front door was the motto: ‘Give light and the people will find their own way,’” said Grossman. “The paper was founded by EW Scripps who loved muckraking reporting. The Press was known for it. I met the most interesting people I’d ever met in that newsroom and realized that reporters were so much more invested in the real world, in the lives of others, than college professors were.” Grossman answered phones, taking news tips, giving memos to reporters on alleged corruption in city or state government. He’d watch a team of reporters dig deep into stories with research, gut instinct, and legwork. He watched those reporters toil late past deadline, overturning municipal stones, meeting secret sources, ferreting breadcrumb trails of avarice, and finally unearthing the gleaming ore of truth. Grossman watched his little memos blossom into multi-part exposés splashed across page one with banner headlines. He saw that a story that revealed the truth in a newspaper — that got its rugged power from common taxpaying readers — could actually move the arthritic hand of government for the betterment of the citizenry. “The reporters provided the light and the people found a way to make change,” Grossman said. “I knew I’d found my path in life. I knew that this was what I wanted to do. I wanted to become a reporter. On campus, I had been dating a beautiful girl named Janet Kopp from Huntington. She was homesick. I figured I’d learned enough in school. I’d never taken a single journalism course but my internship at the Cleveland Press made me want to be a reporter. I packed up my motorcycle, Ja-

net hopped on the back, and we headed east to Huntington, which is how I wound up on Long Island.” If we flash ahead several years, that motorcycle ride from Yellow Springs led Grossman to “shine light” on LILCO and the Shoreham nuclear power plant story and the scary plan to build nine nuclear plants on Long Island. Karl Grossman’s reporting on that radioactive hot-button issue — and his subsequent documentaries and books on the subject — would shed the light to make the people of Long Island vote to live nuclear energy free. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Grossman landed his first reporting job for the Babylon Leader at age 20, where, in 1963, he sharpened his mighty No. 2 pencil and took cocky aim at one the most powerful power brokers in New York State — Robert Moses, head of the State Parks and Public Works. Moses was twirling a grotesque highway system that resembled a bowl of linguini through the five boroughs of New York City, displacing tens of thousands of working-class people with eminent domain, destroying historic neighborhoods with no regard for cultural concerns, aesthetics or traditional community cohesion. Moses, who never learned to drive, would also ram highways like the Southern State Parkway out into shores of Nassau and Suffolk counties with overpasses so low that minorities on buses could not pass under them as documented in the magnificent book “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro. “Moses also wanted to build a fourlane highway the length of Fire Island,” said Grossman. “That story took me out to Fire Island to take a look and to talk to people who lived there. What I found was a gorgeous preserve of nature, the Sunken Forest with wild holly and an amazing seashore. I was a city kid, but I was an Eagle Scout, so I knew about nature. I also spoke to the people who lived on Fire Island whose idyllic world would be destroyed by Moses’s plan to cover it with asphalt. I quoted these articulate, very concerned people like Charles Collingwood, a TV commentator, and Theodore White, the Time writer who wrote ‘The Making of a President,’ Reginald Rose, who wrote ‘12 Angry Men.’ “I went back to the Leader and wrote a long, long story quoting these smart people about how Moses was going to destroy Fire Island as his roads had already destroyed so many other communities. The story ran in the Babylon Leader and other concerned citizens like Murray Barbash, a builder and conservationist, and environmentally concerned lawyers, got involved. So did my publisher, who let me write story after story after story about Moses’s Fire Island road plan.” Several other Long Island weeklies followed the Leader and even though The New York Times and Newsday champi-

oned Moses’s vision, the local conservationists and weekly newspapers helped move the hand of government as Fire Island was declared a National Seashore, which took the power away from New York State and Robert Moses and placed it with the Feds. If you visit Fire Island on Valentine’s Day with someone special and marvel at the preserved natural beauty, give thanks that a gutsy kid reporter named Karl Grossman from St. Albans, Queens biked east as a young man because he fell in love with newspapering and a Long Island gal named Janet Kopp at Antioch College. Karl Grossman made his journalistic bones with shoe leather and a notebook, an unteachable hunger for that elusive thing called the truth which he spoke loudly to people of power. Soon after Fire Island was saved, the Babylon Leader was sold to a new publisher who let Grossman cover another Robert Moses horror story, the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens. Because Moses refused to hire any blacks in his simulated world, a civil rights march embarked on the Unisphere. “I reported the story and took photos,” Grossman said. “The story ran in the Leader. I was called into the office of the new publisher and fired because Robert Moses complained about my story.” When one door closed, endless new doors opened for Grossman, who was soon hired at the Long Island Press at age 22, where he covered issues concerning the environment and the aforementioned nuclear power plant issue on Long Island. In 1977, Grossman learned that the Long Island Press was closing from a headline in a newspaper box outside the Whalebone on Noyac Road. Soon after, he received a call to come teach at SUNY Old Westbury, and was hired by a chain of local Long Island weeklies to write a column that has appeared in The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Shelter Island Reporter, and The Sag Harbor Express. The newspapering led to books including “Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know about Nuclear Energy,” “The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program’s Nuclear Threat to Our Planet,” and “Weapons in Space.” Grossman also became the chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV, the host of the weekly Enviro Close-Up, and documentaries “Three Mile Island Revisited,” “The Push to Revive Nuclear Power,” and “Nukes in Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens,” all available on You Tube. So, what does a man who got hooked on news in the early 1960s tell his students today as daily newspapers close from sea to shining sea? “I tell them that there is still a leContinued On Page B4.

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‘Gay Like Me’ A conversation with Richie Jackson and Don Lemon By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

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Author Richie Jackson will engage in conversation with CNN’s Don Lemon on Saturday, February 15, at 4 PM at BookHampton in East Hampton. Jackson, an award-winning Broadway, TV, and film producer, reflects on his own experiences as a gay man in America in his book “Gay Like Me,” which serves as a love letter to his son, who came out when he was 15.

“My son is kind, responsible, and hardworking. He is ready for college. He is not ready to be a gay man living in America,” stated the author. The book reflects on the progress as well as setbacks of the LGBTQ community over the past half-century. It celebrates parenting and gay identity, and serves as a powerful warning for his son. It’s a message that reso-

nates with readers, including gay men, around the world. Jackson most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song” on Broadway. He was executive producer on Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” and co-executive produced the film “Shortbus,” directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Lemon anchors “CNN Tonight

with Don Lemon.” He has co-moderated presidential debates and has reported on-the-scene for many breaking news stories, including the Las Vegas shooting, the Orlando shooting at Pulse Nightclub, the Charleston church shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, and many others. For more information, visit www. bookhampton.com.

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HAMPTON DAZE By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

The Flashy Girl From Flushing Pilot for ‘Indebted’ starring Fran Drescher jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze To me, she will always be the flashy girl from Flushing. Fran Drescher’s latest sitcom “Indebted” debuted on NBC last Thursday and The Wing in Soho hosted an advanced screening of the pilot for a crowd of adoring fans (myself included) on Tuesday, February 4. I’ve always been a big fan of her hit ’90s show “The Nanny.” Most Tuesday evenings are spent proofing The Independent’s newsletter and ordering Sweetgreen, so this was a treat. The queen herself, Nanny Fine, Fran Drescher. I was there as quickly as you could say “Oh, Mr. Sheffield!” When NBC was casting “Indebted,” she stated that the show was looking for a “Fran Drescher Type.” So why

not Fran Drescher herself? Following the screening, Drescher engaged in a lively discussion. “Everyone in the cast is in a place where we’re coming into it with gratitude,” she stated about the show, which, by the way, is very funny. It features a young family and their parents who run out of money and have to move in. “The beauty of this project is that these people are all beautiful, wonderful people,” she said. They even have a group chat going. Drescher’s go-to emojis, you wonder? They’re a heart, a kiss, praying hands, and the thumbs up. They’re “always in the ‘just used,’” she said. The conversation navigated

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Continued From Page B2. gitimate media for them to work in,” he said. “I tell them to work on local weeklies that have prospered as dailies close. It’s where I learned the craft. But I stress that they need to learn all the platforms news

vivor and also the founder of the cancer non-profit Cancer Schmancer. “As a cancer survivor and the founder of Cancer Schmancer, one of the things we tell people over and over again, is, ‘No joke — mind, body, and spirit balance is what you absolutely have to think about each and every day.’ Without that you’re compromising your immune system,” she said. There’s no doubt that Drescher is a New York icon. “There are very few people who will hire me to play something other than a New Yorker,” said Drescher. “I’m always playing New Yorkers. It takes a lot of imagination to cast me as something else. It’s always very near and dear to my heart. It’s a phenomenal city.”

will benefit community projects. A donation of $25 will include your choice of four gourmet pasta entrees. Visit www.eventbrite.com for tickets.

March 11, at The Rainbow Room in New York City. The ceremony is hosted by Academy of the Arts president and Guild Hall trustee Eric Fischl, while writer and Vogue theater critic Adam Green will take the reins as the evening’s emcee. There will be a live performance of a Carter Burwell composition interpreted by indie rock legends Yo La Tengo. For more information, visit www.guildhall.org.

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The Rotary Club of Southold will host an Italian Night Dinner on Monday, March 9, from noon to 8 PM at Touch of Venice in Cutchogue. All proceeds

Guild Hall in East Hampton has named the recipients of the 34th Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards. This year’s honorees are composer Carter Burwell for Performing Arts presented by filmmaker Ethan Coen; Alice Aycock for Visual Arts, presented by Whitney Museum director Adam Weinberg; Bob Colacello for Literary Arts, presented by author Linda Yablonsky; and Patti Askwith Kenner will receive the Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy, presented by actress, singer, and playwright Tovah Feldshuh. The awards ceremony will be held during a benefit dinner on Monday,

is delivered on now — print, radio, TV, internet, podcasts, blogs, social media, websites. They need to learn how to use cameras so they can make documentaries that start with a simple news story. I tell them that in the movie ‘The Graduate,’ a businessman tells Dustin Hoffman that

the future is a single word: ‘Plastics.’ I tell them to substitute ‘digital’ for ‘plastics’ and they will work in the news business. I also tell them that they must learn to write well. And to be on time. A student more than 10 minutes late in one of my classes is marked absent. Because if it was

Grapes Of Roth A Wölffer Wine Dinner, Grapes of Roth, benefiting Fighting Chance will be held on Sunday, March 1, from 6 to 9 PM at Wölffer Kitchen in Sag Harbor. The dinner will be hosted by winemaker Roman Roth. Enjoy wine pairings and a four-course meal prepared by chef Michael Rozino. Fighting Chance is America’s oldest and largest free cancer counseling center. The cost is $162.71 per person, which includes service charge and taxes. Find out more at www.wolffer.com.

through spirituality — Drescher refers to herself as a Jubu (both Jewish and Buddhist) — and other topics like surviving cancer, growing up in Queens, and, of course, the unbelievable reach of “The Nanny.” She described how her dad worked two jobs while she was growing up. “To be in this place and to have hit the bullseye so big and become so iconic in a classic television show that’s so vibrantly embraced by many people who weren’t even alive when we started doing it is just phenomenal.” “We stopped shooting [‘The Nanny’] 21 years ago and it hasn’t been off the air for a single day,” she said. Drescher is a uterine cancer sur-

Jeep Raffle The Eastern Long Island Hospital Auxiliary is raffling a 2020 Jeep Compass or $15,000 cash. Tickets are $50 and the drawing will be held on Tuesday, May 19. Visit www.elih.stonybrookmedicine.edu/carraffle.

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Empty Bowls The annual Empty Bowls benefit for Project MOST after school and summer learning program will be held at the American Legion in Amagansett on Sunday, March 8, from noon to 3 PM. The event will feature 25 local chefs creating 25 delicious soups. Entrance buys you all the soup you can devour. For more info visit www.projectmost.org. a news conference or an interview he just missed, he would be fired. I also tell them ‘Give light and the people will find their way.’” After 60 years in journalism, Karl Grossman is still shining the light. Lucky us.

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KISS & TELL By Heather Buchanan

Love, We Used To Be Friends Let’s talk kissandtellhb@gmail.com I was walking on the beach the other day and spotted Love looking wistfully over the waves. “It’s been a while,” I said. “Yes, sadly, it has,” replied Love. It seemed odd to be looking at Love like a stranger since we had known each other since I was young and a true romantic at heart, sure that every Barbie would find her Ken and every Captain would find his Tennille and a watermelon Lip Smacker and feathered hair could attract a proper mate. Love, I felt, was never far away and would swing in at unexpected times to surprise and delight me. But as I got older, over time, I saw less and less of Love. This was actu-

ally a real disappointment to me and it must have shown on my face. Love turned to look at me, “Are you seriously giving me the stink-eye?” “Hey, you gave up on me,” I said. “You gave up on me,” Love said back. I felt a wave of anger come up. “You, Love, are ageist and sexist, and . . . and . . . fatist!” I said. “Don’t blame me for your commitment-phobic society,” said Love, “You all understand that single-use plastic is a bad thing and will get a refillable water bottle, but you treat relationships as disposable.” Our argument was interrupted

by a pair shuffling by with their heads down. Love waved. “Who are they?” I asked. “Oh, that’s just Faith and Hope. They’ve had a rough couple of weeks.” “Look,” said Love, “You know how I make you feel. You know that you never feel more alive than when you are in love. That colors are brighter and tastes sweeter and the muses at your beck and call. I have my good points.” “Well,” I said, “You are almost as effective as the stomach flu for weight loss. I will give you that.” “This is your world now,” said Love. “You all have to know that a fist bump emoji is not love and no amount of Instagram hearts will actually soothe your soul. You must put down your phone and look another human being in the eye and learn their true character.” “And you wonder why we are all binge-watching ‘Poldark’ instead of going out to bars,” I said. “Love, you have not adapted to modern times. You are a useless relic.” That’s when Love took a swing at me. I ducked. “Don’t blame me for your poor choices,” said a very angry Love. “You know what?” I said to Love. “Here’s the thing. We can live without you.” I think I heard a gasp come from Faith and Hope, who were marking

sand angels. Love sat down and held its head in its hands. Love said very quietly, “I know.” We stood there in silence in that very uneasy truth. We both sat down and just let the waves lap at our feet. “I’m sorry, Love,” I said. “Me too,” said Love. It was at that moment that there was a sunburst and we noticed a couple down the beach and saw a man get down on a bended knee. Love jumped up. “Hurry!” I said to Love, “don’t miss it!” And watched as Love ran to embrace them.

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The Royal Scam Marquis Murphy quits the House of Forcucci rmurphy@indyeastend.com I don’t know how you get to quit the family, but it would have been fun if we had that option. “Son, you better get out of bed or you’ll be late for school,” Mom would say. “I’m not going to school.” “You have to.” “No, I don’t. I quit.” “School?” “No, the family.” This is what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did last month, informing the Queen of England they will stop using their “Royal Highness” monikers and stop working for the family. First of all, it takes more than a

title to be in the royal family. I had a friend from Queens whom we used to call “His Royal Highness” and he didn’t have even a hint of a cockney accent. And I don’t think it’s so easy to quit the family, either. Just ask Frankie (The Barber) Langelli, or what’s left of him. He was through with the Genovese family, but the Genovese family wasn’t through with him — if you get my meaning. Still, using the HRH title and carrying out the royal “duties” can be pretty lucrative. Here is a look at the family tree: Queen Elizabeth, 93, is at the head of the family. She is married to Philip,

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the Duke of Edinburgh, who appears to have died somewhere around 1742. Forget him, though (we already have). The line of succession goes through the Queen’s side of the family only. Philip’s (who?) family gets squat. Next in line, of course, is the Prince of Wales, Charles, who looks like he was passed down through the Northern Dancer line. Then, there is his eldest son, William, Duke of Cambridge, a balding sort like his dad and then his son, Prince George of Cambridge, age seven. The one to watch out for is the kid’s sister. Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, age five, is fourth in line to the throne and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. I say within a decade this little brat will have her brother’s head on a stake and will be riding a dragon around. Who do you NOT see on the list so far? You got it, poor Harry. My friend in Queens has a better shot at the throne. Prince Harry is sixth in line to the throne. During his 10 years in the Armed Forces, Capt. Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organizing the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces. He married U.S. actress Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018, at Windsor Castle. No one is saying as much, but “U.S. actress” raises a red flag. I imagine to the Queen it’s kind of akin to “Pole Dancer” — that is, not royal family fodder. Put another way, royalty is not expected to actually work for a living. According to Forbes, the Royal Family is collectively worth about $88 billion. The Queen has about a halfbillion a year to spend. I don’t see her out much. Taxpayers issue a “sovereign

grant” to pay the annual expenses of family members. Last year, it was $104 million (of that, half went to hair loss prevention products and apparently a large sum went to Charles’s ugly pills). The real dough is the private art, jewelry, and land held by the royal family, and private entities that provide income for royal family members like the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Duchy of Water and Vinegar. Meghan Markle is probably the brains behind the revolt. I mean, she’ll never get the big chair at the royal family dinner. There will have to be a pox or scourge upon the House of Windsor before Harry leapfrogs the others and becomes king-in-waiting. So anyhow, back to me. The reason why I am quitting the family is I’m unhappy with my Sovereign Grant. When I was five, I received 15 cents a week allowance, which eventually rose (after contentious debate in the state assembly and senate) to 25, 50 cents, and even a dollar a week. They gave Burger King workers more — go figure. There is the matter of my title. If I do quit the family, will I have to forfeit it? I’m not sure what it is now, but I kind of like “The Duchess of Dochy.” I could be a viscount and then I could open “Rick’s Viscount Appliance Stores” and hire pole dancers at the grand opening. By the way, the highest rankings are duke/duchess, earl/countess, viscount/viscountess, and baron/baroness. All other ranks of the peerage have the appellation Lord or Lady meaning everyone gets a title so it’s OK to say “Hey lady, can I get a Whopper and large fries?” or “Oh, my lord, your hair is falling out in clumps.” Though I no longer consider myself a member of the House of Forcucci/Murphy, I will continue to collect my stipend and for the moment and use the title “Marquis” in case anyone wants to get tortured.

Gallery Events Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

A Sense Of Place Saturday, February 15, will officially mark William Ris Gallery’s fourth anniversary on the North Fork. The weekend celebration will include an opening for “A Sense Of Place” with work by painters Amanda Kavanagh and Maxine Jurow and photographer Scott Farrell. A reception will be held from 4 to 7 PM. An artists’ talk is scheduled for

February 29, from 1 to 3 PM. The show will run through March 15.

In Process @ Watermill Watermill Center artists-in-residence, Qinmin Liu and Yapci Ramos, will open their studios and share their latest work on Saturday, February 15, from 2 to 4 PM. For more info, visit www.watermillcenter.org.

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Hamptons Film presents “Ordinary Love.”

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Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor welcomes comedians Judah Friedlander, Joseph Vecsey, and Mark DeMayo on Thursday, February 13, at 8 PM. Buy tickets at www.baystreet.org.

Kevin James Ron White will come to The Paramount Theater in Huntington on Friday, February 14, with shows at 7 PM and 10 PM; Gary Gulman on Saturday, February 15, at 8 PM; and Kevin James on Sunday, February 16, at 7:30 PM. Grab tickets at www.paramountny.com.

FILM Conscience Point On Wednesday, February 12, at 7 PM, Hamptons Film Fest presents a screening of “Conscience Point” at Tutto Il Giorno in Sag Harbor, with a panel afterward of Shinnecock Nation members and others. Then, see it again at Southampton Arts Center on Sunday, February 16, at 5 PM. Grab tickets at www.hamptonsfilmfest.org.

Jay And Silent Bob The Paramount Theater in Huntington welcomes Kevin Smith to screen “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” on Wednesday, February 12, at 8 PM. Grab tickets at www.paramountny.com.

The Way We Love In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton will offer a talk for all ages on “The Way We Love,” Wednesday, February 12, at 12:30 PM. Novelist Simon Van Booy will read a selection of his favorite pieces from fiction, philosophy, and poetry. A reception will follow.

Raconteurs: Love Southampton Arts Center will host a Raconteurs Storytelling Evening on Friday, February 14, at 7 PM. The Valentine’s Day theme is love. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

BookHampton BookHampton in East Hampton welcomes Richie Jackson in conversation with Don Lemon on Saturday, February 15, at 4 PM to discuss the book “Gay Like Me.” Learn more at www. bookhampton.com.

MUSIC Jazz Night The Jam Session presents Soul/Jazz every Thursday night at Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor at 6:30 PM. See more at www.edslobsterbar.com.

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Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents the next Film & Talk, “Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own,” on Friday, February 14, at 6 PM. Visit www.parrishart.org to learn more.

The Paramount Theater in Huntington hosts 38 Special on Thursday, February 13, at 8 PM; Fitz and The Tantrums on Tuesday, February 18, at 8 PM; and Monster X album release party on Wednesday, February 19, at 8 PM. Grab tickets at www.paramountny.com.

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Hamptons Film will be at Guild Hall in East Hampton presenting a screening of “Ordinary Love” on Saturday, February 15, at 6 PM. Buy tickets at www. guildhall.org.

Townline BBQ in Wainscott hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. This Friday, February 14, Jimmy Lawler will be playing. Head to www.townlinebbq.com.

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Amagansett Free Library presents a free screening of “Back to the Future” on Sunday, February 16, at 2 PM. Visit www.amagansettlibrary.org.

Dawson City Sag Harbor Cinema presents a screening of “Dawson City: Frozen Time” at Bay Street Theater on Sunday, February 16, at 2 PM followed by a conversation with director Bill Morrison. Grab

On Friday, February 14, at 8 PM and on Saturday, February 15, at 8 PM Sal “The Voice” Valentini comes to Suffolk Theater in Riverhead. On Sunday, February 16, at 7:30 PM it’s The Wailers. Grab tickets at www.suffolktheater. com.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host DJ Paul Jones on Friday, February

14, at 10 PM. On Saturday, February 15, Born and Raised will play at 8 PM followed by Fast Five at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

Motown Review On Saturday, February 15, at 8 PM, Dr. K’s Motown Review will play at Bay Street in Sag Harbor. Buy tickets at www.baystreet.org.

Winterfest Long Island Winterfest presents a list of live music. On Saturday, February 15, at 1:30 PM Parrotheads vs. Deadheads will be at Jamesport Farm Brewery. At 6 PM, Bistro 72 in Riverhead welcomes Bakithi Kumalo, and at 7 PM is Ahmad Ali at Clovis Point Vineyard in Laurel. On Sunday, February 16, Long Ireland Beer Company in Riverhead will host Karl Blessing at 2 PM. Also at 2 PM is The Foster Europe Band at Her-

on Suites in Southold. See more details at www.longislandwinterfest.com.

Masonic Music Series On Saturday, February 15, at 8 PM, Mason Music Series presents Klyph Black and Rumor Has it followed by Anita Guarino on Sunday, February 16, at 7 PM at 200 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Learn more at www.masonicmusicseries.com.

Friends Of Music Shelter Island Friends of Music presents violin virtuoso Eric Silberger and Bradley Moore on piano on Sunday, February 16, at 3 PM at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. Learn more at www.shelterislandfriendsofmusic.org.

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Indy Snaps Tickled Pink Photos by Lisa Tamburini The Ellen Hermanson Foundation presented Tickled Pink, a night of comedy featuring Jessica Kirson and special guest Andrina Wekontash Smith on Saturday, February 8, at LTV Media Center in Wainscott. The event honored Cheryl Babinski, Christopher Robbins, and Charlotte Sasso. The event supports life-saving breast health care.

Pasta With A Purpose Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday, February 8, the Montauk Fire Department once again showed community spirit and held its Pasta with a Purpose benefit dinner. Funds were raised to help recently paralyzed local emergency medical technician Randy Hoffman. Members of the MFD Ladies Auxiliary and Montauk Boy Scout Troop 136 served at both sittings.

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Brecknock Hall Honors Veterans With Free Weddings ‘From soup to nuts,’ for the past decade By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

he elegant stone mansion rests behind stone pillars on Route 25 in Greenport. Constructed in the 1850s, the building was named for the owner David Gelston Floyd’s ancestral home of Brecknockshire, Wales. David, grandson of William Floyd, established a track record in Greenport as a shipping magnate, whaling fleet owner, bank president, and legislator. Stone left over from the building of Brecknock Hall was used to build Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport Village. In 2011, Brecknock Hall, in partnership with Peconic Landing, created the Veterans Day Wedding Giveback — an opportunity to thank our military personnel and recognize them for their service. The event, now in its 10th year, has become an annual staple at Brecknock Hall and will take place on Sunday, November 8, over Veterans Day weekend. “We have a wedding here almost every weekend,” said Valerie TirelliHallock, the sales and events coordinator. “And they are all special, of course. But there’s such a special feeling with the Veterans Day Giveback. We provide everything absolutely free, from soup to nuts.” This includes flowers, food, Continued On Page C4

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decorations, music, tents, hair, makeup, the cake, you name it, for up to 90 guests. Giveback was a heartfelt affair from the beginning, thanks to the generous support and dedication of three dozen or more neighboring business partners and volunteers. “It’s a way for us to thank service members,” Tirelli-Hallock said. “And it’s also a way to involve the Peconic Landing members.” What happens is this. Brecknock Hall, on its website, has an application for couples where one of the members currently serves or has served in the U.S. Armed Forces. “We get anywhere from four to 22 applications a year,” Tirelli-Hallock said. “It tends to be people who are at least from the tri-state area, and often from the Twin Forks, since of course they don’t want their families and friends to have to travel too far.” Then the applications are passed on to a committee, made up of mem-

bers of Peconic Landing, the equitybased “62 or better” community which shares a long driveway with Brecknock Hall. Those members have also served in the military, and judge the contest based on the number of years served, special military honors, and each couple’s personal love story. The complimentary wedding is held on the Sunday of Veterans Day weekend. Most recently, U.S. Air Force Reservist Kyle Stephen Holmes, 35, of Sunrise, FL, married U.S. Air Force Captain Kaitlin Daddona, 26, of Southold, at Brecknock Hall on Sunday, November 10, 2019. Kyle and Kaitlin became engaged in May of 2018 when the two were on assignment at different bases: Kyle in Hawaii and Kaitlin in Alabama. Kyle proposed on the last night of a visit to see Kaitlin with his daughter, Kylie, creating a memorable proposal together as a family. “I wish I could find the words to express how grateful we are for the team at Brecknock Hall and the Veterans Day Giveback. This experience has been out of this world. The care and attention from all of the vendors

have humbled us immensely. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything. We will remember this day for the rest of our lives,” said Holmes. “The day couldn’t have gone more smoothly,” added Daddona. “Every person who had a part in putting our wedding together, from the giveback committee to the vendors, put their hearts and souls into making our day perfect, and we couldn’t be more thankful. Your commitment to our nation’s servicemen and women makes us proud to serve our country.” “I would like to extend a warm thank you to the sponsors that volunteered their services and teamed up with us to create the beautiful day Kaitlin and Kyle deserved,” Robert Syron, president and CEO of Peconic Landing. “In the almost decade that we have been doing the Veterans Day Wedding Giveback, this thank you to our military personnel has become a heartwarming Peconic Landing tradition that the community looks forward to every year.” Sponsored by Peconic Landing, the annual Veterans Day Wedding Giveback began in 2011 as an opportunity to

thank our military personnel and recognize them for their service in honor of Veterans Day. Now in its 10th year, it has become a community affair, made possible through sponsorship and contributions from local businesses and organizations who donate the time, talents, and services that help to make the dream day a reality. Brecknock Hall also has a policy, the other 51 weeks of the year, to only hold one wedding a weekend. “We like the couple to feel like the place belongs to them, not like they have to hurry up,” said Tirelli-Hallock. “The bridal suites upstairs offer them a place to put their things and relax.” The Brecknock Hall team have a group of vendors they use. “It’s part of what makes things go smoothly for everyone,” said Tirelli-Hallock. “Our vendors are all local, and we have several in each category — different caterers, different florists — but they’re all from the area,” she said. For more information about planning a wedding at Brecknock Hall or to apply for the 2020 Veterans Day Wedding Giveback, visit www.BrecknockHall.com.

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Make A Splash Valentine’s Weekend Gurney’s offers swim-in movie screenings & more By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

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You’ve heard of drive-in theaters, but have you ever heard of a swim-in? Gurney’s Montauk Resort and Seawater Spa is making a splash with a unique Valentine’s Day movie event — film screenings in their indoor saltwater pool, the only one of its kind in North America. The special one-time only event will show “Crazy Stupid Love” and “10 Things I Hate About You” on Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February

15 at 9 PM, a complimentary invite to guests only. But, a floating heart would be nothing without FUNBOY floats to relax on while enjoying champagne in one hand and your beau’s in another. Or how about cozying up in one of the thematic, heated igloos? Reserve a twohour time slot, available all weekend long. Additionally, on Saturday at noon, there will be a decadent dessert and

candy-making class. Pair it with something sexy to sip on at 3 PM in the Regent Cocktail Club with a cocktailmaking class about bitters, spritzes, and Negronis with St. Agrestis. Indulge in some self-love and workout with The Ness on Saturday morning, 10 AM, or Sunday, February 16, at 10 AM in The Great Hall. Couldn’t find a babysitter? On Sunday at noon, rockstar chef Jeremy Blutstein will have a special Kids’

Club cooking class. All of these activities are carefully packaged into a romantic weekend escape with daily breakfast credit for two, champagne, and chocolate truffles upon on arrival. Best of all, extend the time, unwind, and sleep in with a 2 PM check out. Gurney’s is located at 290 Old Montauk Highway. Call 631-235-6500 or visit www.gurneysresorts.com.

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Sarah Seven: Made In New York Making breathtaking luxury look effortless By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

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arah Seven gowns are created in New York City. The designer boasts wedding gowns that “look like something you’d actually wear.” They are innately feminine for the woman who wants to feel like herself, only fancier. Creating breathtaking luxury that looks effortless, these made-to-measure dresses bring wearable ease to a bride in search of the perfect one. Sarah Seven has two collections of gowns: Sarah Seven and Bride. by Sarah Seven. At Sarah Seven, you’ll find chic gowns for the modern bride. With a Hollywood glamour that cries bombshell, these gowns fit every curve. The clean lines create stunning silhouettes. The Giovanna dress offers a plunging V-neck with cutouts and a V-back, along with an accent belt. The Prosecco dress, a “full level dream queen” ac-

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cording to the website, offers a moveable off the shoulder strap, fitted bodice and hips, and cascading bottom with train. The site boasts that it pairs well with “salty snacks.” Both dresses are part of the Sarah Seven collection. Within the Bride by Sarah Seven collection, you’ll find Opal. Opal’s dress vibes are “wants for nothing,” according to the site. There’s even a dress named Hampton. The site describes it as “what a bad B wears to high tea.” You can also find looks for before the aisle and for continuing the night in style with Before by Sarah Seven, a collection of less formal white dresses and even a jump suit. All of Sarah’s gowns can be purchased at any of her five stores in New York, Chicago, Florida, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and bridal boutiques worldwide. Visit www.sarahseven.com for more info.

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When A Movie Will Have To Do Sometimes being a Valentine’s veggie has its rewards By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

lowers? You better. Candy? Of course. Dinner? That would be romantic. If there are two of you, that is. A good movie? Couples in the Valentine’s Day mood probably prefer a romantic night sans the popcorn and Big Gulp (though hot butter might be OK). Sitting at home watching movies on the big day more often than not means doing it solo. That’s right, scorned lovers are the most likely to immerse themselves in tears and flat

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champagne. Or some of us just prefer the pleasure of our own company. “Valentine’s Day isn’t just for recipients of shameless bouquets and foil Mylar blimps,” wrote the romance writer DeAnna Janes in Harper’s Bazaar. “It’s for haters, matchmakers, and swipe daters, too. Whether you’re single, coupled up, or have no idea what day it is, there’s a movie for that.” Elle offers up, “Films To Watch If You Are a Valentine’s Day Hater.” You know without looking, “Thelma and Louise” will be on the list, even though it’s not about romance at all. It’s simply

a film about women drivers. The other unanimous choice is “First Wives’ Club.” “Kramer vs. Kramer” made the list, even though it brings one of the most unromantic things in the world into play — a snot-nosed kid. Still, there are plenty of weepy moments, and a solo Valentine’s night is nothing if not weepy. Here’s an original thought: Why not just watch “Valentine?” In this cleverly-titled romp, would-be lovers woo hearts with flowers, candy, cards and gifts. Best friends Kate (Marley Shelton), Paige (Denise Richards), Dorothy

(Jessica Capshaw), Lily (Jessica Cauffiel), and Shelly (Katherine Heigl) are young women looking for a relationship — a valentine to die for. (SPOILER ALERT) And this time they might just get their wish! Plus, Denise Richards gets arrested for impersonating an actress. Town & Country recommends “When Harry Met Sally,” a film so versatile it also made the “Best Book Store” and “Best Faked Orgasm” lists. If you’re looking to recapture that feeling of young love, Wes Anderson’s delightful “Moonrise Kingdom” is ColContinued On Page C14.

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Valentine’s Dining Deals Where to savor moments with your sweetie By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

ove is in the air and in the kitchen this Valentine’s Day, a perfect reason to get out and celebrate some of the East End’s finest cuisine. This year, the annual celebration of love falls on a Friday. Make a reservation somewhere

special. Whether it’s couples’ night, girls’ night, or boys’ night, we’ve compiled a list of 10 places on the North and South Forks guaranteed to satisfy your hearts and stomachs. In Sag Harbor, Page at 63 Main (63 Main Street) is serving up a prix fixe menu for $48 per person by or before

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6:30 PM. First-course options include soup, salads, and fried calamari. Main courses offer a vegan Freekeh grain bowl, grass-fed pork tenderloin, braised beef short ribs, and skin charred farm raised salmon, to name a few. To conclude, enjoy any dessert from the regular menu. All the while, sip on a glass of Prosecco. Call 631-725-1810 for reservations. On both Valentine’s Day and Saturday, February 15, Baron’s Cove (31 W. Water Street) is offering dining guests a four-course prix fixe dinner for $85 per person. First course options include charred oyster or short rib. Next, dine on ceviche mexto or beets salad. For a main, choose between filet mignon or arctic char. Then, to conclude, choose from ice cream, sorbet, or a chocolate surprise. For reservations, call 631-7252100. Over in Bridgehampton, Elaia’s (95 School Street) has a special six-course tasting menu prepared by chef Radu Grigore for $80 per person, with several gluten-free options. Learn more at www.elaiaestiatorio.com. Down the road at Almond (1 Ocean Road) a fourcourse blood orange-themed menu will be served. At $85 per person, enjoy appetizer options of Molly n’ Sarah’s fried oysters or foie gras terrine; choose between Ray’s charred radicchio or blood

February 12, 2020 orange cured striped bass as a middle course; entrees of Crescent Farm duck a l’orange or seared Montauk scallops; and indulge in Anthony’s polenta cake for dessert. Call 631-537-5665. East Hampton’s Rowdy Hall (10 Main Street in the Parrish Mews) will host a Valentine’s celebration with a la carte specials all day, including lobster cocktail, red snapper filet, and espresso trifle. Call 631-324-8555 for pricing. If you’re seeking something a little fancier, head to Nick & Toni’s (136 N Main Street) for a four-course prix fixe menu for $95 per person, or pair it with select wine pairings for $125 per person beginning at 5:30 PM. Antipasti choices include little gem lettuces, burrata, or wood oven-roasted local oysters. First courses feature housemate tagliatelle or torchio. Then, enjoy a choice of wood oven-roasted halibut, grilled jumbo prawns, Rohan duck breast, or domestic wagyu New York strip steak. End the romantic evening with pistachio cake, butterscotch custard, or a chocolate Napoleon. Those wanting an a la carte experience can still dine at the bar. Reservations are required for this dinner. Call 631-3243550. Chef Michael Rozzi of The 1770 House (143 Main Street) prepared a signature four-course prix fixe dinner

for $85 per person beginning at 5:30 PM. First course options include crisp Hog Neck Bay oysters, spicy Montauk fluke, or beets and pomelo salad. Next up, choose among handmade agnolotti, seared daybook scallop, or seared Hudson Valley foie gras. For your third course, partake in roasted prawns, Texas wagyu strip steak, or Australian rack of lamb. Conclude the evening with peanut butter and banana profiteroles or sticky date cake. Add a little vino to your dining experience with one of the 13 Champagne and sparkling wine options overseen by wine director Michael Cohen. Call 631-324-1770. In Amagansett, Coche Comedor (74 Montauk Highway) has an allday three-course prix fixe menu, also available a la carte. First course will be grilled local oysters, second course is wood rotisserie rack of lamb, and a third course of carajillo chocolate pudding. Reservations aren’t required, but call 631-267-5709 to find out more. On the North Fork, go to Sound View Greenport (58775 County Rd 48) for a five-course tasting menu, coinciding with chef Stephan Bogardus’s one-year anniversary at The Halyard restaurant. For $100 per person, follow your senses through fluke crudo, then to soup of celery root and apple, followed by seared Hudson Valley foie

C11 gras, a fourth course of Shinnecock Sea Scallops, and conclude with chocolate textures and Basque cheesecake. Additional canapés include Long Island duck terrine, arancini, oyster with crème fraîche and ossetra caviar. Call 631-477-0666 for more details. Celebrate love on Love Lane in Mattituck as Love Lane Kitchen will have special menu items all day. Brunch items, served until 2 PM, are crab cake egg benedict, sweet potato hash and eggs, or pancake tacos. For lunch, until 4 PM, dig into a Philly cheesesteak. Then, for dinner, served 5 to 9:30 PM, feast on fried oysters or wild exotic mushroom crepes for starters or crab and saffron risotto, stuffed pork chop, or filet mignon for dinner. Feeling flirty? Have a French Kiss, Pretty In Pink, or Off With My Overcoat cocktail. Dinner reservations are recommended by calling 631-298-8989. Also in Mattituck, Shinn Estate Vineyards (2000 Oregon Road) will have a special wine and chocolate pairing for $45 beginning Monday, February 10 at 10:30 AM through Sunday, February 16, at 5 PM. The event will run any time during regular business hours and includes carefully selected pairings by winemaker Patrick Caserta. Book your tickets by calling 631-804-0367 or visit www.shinnestatevineyards.com.

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Here Comes The Bride, Here Comes The Judge By land or sea, East Hampton Town justices officiate weddings By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

ast Hampton Town Justice Court is one of the busiest town courts in the state. Justices Steven Tekulsky and Lisa Rana alternate weeks on the bench, with each week having three calendared days: Monday sessions for civil matters and parking tickets, Wednesdays for vehicle and traffic violations, and Thursdays for criminal matters. They each preside over trials, and perform arraignments on various criminal charges, up to and including murder. It can be an unpleasant job. But there is one function that both judges look forward to: presiding over weddings. Last year, between the two of them, they presided over about 120 weddings, according to Katelyn Davis,

the court clerk who schedules weddings at the courthouse. She should know: Tekulsky presided over the ceremony in Bridgehampton this past June during which the former Katelyn Anderson tied the knot with Michael Davis. The fee paid to the presiding judge is $100, cash. Tekulsky explained recently that tips are not allowed, nor is the cost of transportation, unless the ceremony is being conducted outside of the town. While weddings are performed at the courthouse, many couples prefer other locations. The Montauk Lighthouse is a popular site. Beaches in general are popular, as are restaurants and clubs such as Surf Lodge and Gurney’s Resort in Montauk, and East Hampton Point on Three Mile Harbor.

Justice Lisa Rana leading the ceremony as Lilly, who happens to be Rana's niece, and Duillio Diaz tied the knot in 2017. Independent/Jessie Felix

Water-themed locations are a staple of East Hampton weddings. “I have had a few couples tie the knot on boats in Three Mile Harbor, and on local bays,” Rana said. She was asked if there was a particularly memorable wedding she had presided over. “One wedding I particularly remember was a same-sex couple who married shortly after they were le-

gally able to do so in New York state, in 2011. They were an elderly couple. One person I believe was in his late 80s, the other in his 90s, and they had been together for over 60 years. They had so much love for one another, and it was an honor to marry them. That was, incidentally, the first same-sex marriage I officiated.” Continued On Page C14.

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Modern Mocktails Meet East End Events Offer your sober guests something besides seltzer and lime By Brittany Ineson

et that Shirley Temple aside and use your Arnold Palmer to water the plants. There’s a new drink in town. If you’re looking for a non-alcoholic option for your next night out or during your wedding planning sessions, just ask the bartender to mix it up with a mocktail. Mocktails, or non-alcoholic cocktails, can be just as fun to sip as their alcohol-infused counterparts. These boozefree beverages are making a splash, drizzle, garnish, and dash at establishments all over the world, as more folks “put the plug in the jug” or just don’t want to be that guest at the reception. Make sure to ask your mixologist what specialties they might have for your sober, or just sobercurious, wedding guests, and see how inventive they can be.

If you’re on the East End, we have a few places you might want to try, not only as wedding venue possibilities, but because of their fancy mocktail prowess. The Halyard — Take in the breathtaking views at the Sound View in Greenport while sipping on a mocktail that blows your mind. The hotel’s restaurant, The Halyard, offers “The Flower Bomb,” a mixture of fresh-squeezed orange juice, cranberry juice, aquafaba, and soothing lavender syrup. Served up in a coupe glass, it’ll be hard to find another drink as dashing and delicious as this. www.thehalyardgreenport.com Almond — Want something sweeter? Pop on by Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton for its signature “Cherry Mocktail.” With pineapples, oranges, and limes, this drink is packed with a fruity

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wedding will be performed by whichever justice is scheduled to be on the bench on the date the couple requests. Both justices perform weddings in Spanish, as well as English. “I am glad I am able to perform weddings in Spanish,” Tekulsky said. “Marriage is a big commitment and, at the least, the bride and groom should understand what they are agreeing to.” “Weddings are definitely a happy time for couples, and it is a nice counter-balance to some of the harder issues we deal with in our local courts,” Rana said.

Continued From Page C9. lider’s choice for Valentine’s Day viewing. “The filmmaker’s portrait of preteen passion is at once highly stylized and incredibly specific, and anyone who has fond memories of middle school crushes will certainly find plenty to relate to in the story,” states the Collider review. We’re not sure who plays the priest. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” made the list. It is a 2004 American romantic science fiction tragicomedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. It follows an estranged couple who have erased each other from their memories, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Binge watching in the crib is the preferred way to deal with Valentine’s Day blues. The day has become a celebratory occasion for girlfriends — that’s right, say hello to Galantine’s Day. It’s a celebration of female friendship, invented by the “Parks and Recreation” character Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler, that occurs every year on February 13, the day before Valentine’s Day. Her catchphrase: “Uteruses before duderuses.” We didn’t make it up folks, they did. Jim Carrey says Valentine’s Day “is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.” But we all we know how dumb he is.

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Continued From Page C12. Both justices have performed a wedding ceremony in which one member of the couple, or more, were former defendants. “It’s a small town,” Rana added. There have been celebrity sightings over the years at the weddings both have presided over, but mostly as witnesses or friends of the couple tying the knot. To be married by an East Hampton Town justice, one must first get a marriage license from the town clerk’s office. Town Clerk Carole Brennan explained that couples need to bring either a passport or driver’s license, and certified copies of their birth certificates. If either of them is divorced, he or she needs to bring a certified copy of the divorce certificate. The fee for a license is $40. There is a 24-hour waiting period before the couple can bond in holy matrimony. They must act on the license within 60 days. Once the license is issued, it is just a short walk over to the courthouse, and the clerk’s window, license in hand. Davis explained that, unless the couple specifies one judge or the other, the

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Continued From Page C13. punch that only Almond can offer. Drizzled with cherry juice and garnished with a slice of orange, this mocktail seems like it should be sipped as the sunset dips over the Atlantic Ocean on a perfect Hamptons beach day. www.almondrestaurant. com The Clubhouse — If you’re looking for something that shakes, ask for a “Mock-a-rita” at The Clubhouse in East Hampton. A little bit of citrus mixed with some lime juice and fresh mint is all you need to serve up this fruity favorite. Throw the ingredients into a shaker and shake, shake, shake! Serve in a frozen salted glass and garnish with a lime for a good (sober) time. www.ehitclubhouse.com Not your cup of tea? Then order a “Kaylee.” Affectionately named after its creator, the “Kaylee” is made up of thirstquenching watermelon juice and sweet agave syrup. Garnished with a slice of cucumber and sprig of mint, this mocktail is as fresh as it gets. The Maidstone — And while you’re in town, stop by and have a rest at The Maidstone in East Hampton. This homestyle hotel serves up a bubbly treat to top off your evening. Ask for its “Watermelon Mocktail” and you won’t be disappointed. Club soda, fresh watermelon juice, orange juice, and a splash of grenadine are all you need to set the scene as you end your booze-free event in the Hamptons. www.themaidstone.com Gurney’s Montauk — Scarpetta Beach, with its forever views of the ocean, offers up two different signature mocktails (or, as it says on its menu, soft cocktails). First is the “No-Groni,” a combo of dried orange zest, chinotto, and sparkling soda, and second, the “Ditch Plains,” a tangy beverage with cucumber, lime, mint, and soda. www.scarpettarestaurants.com Although the champagne toast to the bride and groom is the traditional drink, for some, that’s just one drink too many. Offering up mocktails for your guests and bridal party can be a way your sober friends and family can partake without falling off the wagon. Cheers!

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Crest Hospitality waterfront wedding locations on the North Shore of Long Island. The Crest Hospitality Event Sales Team will make sure your special occasion is as spectacular as our water views. Includes Danfords, Waterview at the Port Jefferson Country Club, and Water’s Edge. www.cresthospitality.com/portfolio/

Danfords

Whitecap water views with nightcaps fireside at Long Island’s most nostalgic destination, Danfords Hotel, Marina, and Spa. Make your every wish come true. www.danfords.com

Waterview at the Port Jefferson Country Club

Classic elegance and simplicity: The Waterview at the Port Jefferson Country Club. Crest Hospitality welcomes the public to experience Long Island’s best-kept secret. Enjoy seasonal dining at The Cliffside. www.waterviewportjeff.com

Water’s Edge

A wedding at Water’s Edge gives you the opportunity to present your guests with a unique space at the hottest, newest venue on the gold coast of Long Island. Treat your family and friends to innovative restaurantquality food presented with a premium top-shelf beverage selection. Custom menu choices showcase the exceptional cuisine. Spoil your guests with innovative hors d’oeuvres, specialty cocktails, and creative exit stations. www.watersedgecenterport.com

Preston House

Add elegance to your event on Long Island at The Preston House & Ho-

Navy Beach

Montauk’s Navy Beach, positioned on 200 feet of private beach overlooking Fort Pond Bay, is a laid-back, familyfriendly eatery that has also become a hot-spot for yachts and a sought-out destination wedding venue. The restaurant offers casual coastal cuisine paired with an eclectic wine list, including one of the largest selections of rosé wines in the Hamptons. Now open in the Caribbean. www.navybeach.com

360° East

360° East at Montauk Downs is a breathtaking backdrop for your dream wedding celebration. Surrounded by panoramic views of Montauk, and overlooking a Robert Trent Jones designed 18-hole golf course, 360° East at Montauk Downs is sure to be your one-of-a-kind wedding destination. www.lessingsweddings.com

The Vineyards at Aquebogue

Nestled on the North Fork of Long Island, The Vineyards at Aquebogue provides a captivating setting at any time of year for your next event. Whether it be your dream wedding, an intimate celebration, or corporate event, they will make your dreams come true. www.lessingsweddings.com

Three Village Inn/Mirabelle Estate at Three Village Inn provides a truly unique setting for your special occasion. Overlooking scenic Stony Brook Harbor, at the center of the picturesque colonial village of Stony Brook, take beautiful wedding photos in the manicured gardens. www.threevillageinn.com

Barons Cove

Barons Cove provides an exceptional space for weddings and bachelor or bachelorette parties. With a selection of rooms and suites, top-notch dining, a bar featuring live music, pool area, and stunning views across the water in Sag Harbor, Barons Cove offers something for everyone. www.caperesorts.com/barons-cove

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Indy Snaps The Last Picture Show Photo by Tom Kochie Sag Harbor Cinema presented a screening of “The Last Picture Show” at Bay Street Theater on Sunday, February 9, followed by a conversation with Sag Harbor Cinema’s artistic director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan and writer/director/actor Ed Burns.

Cocktails For Koalas Photos by Richard Lewin The Clubhouse in East Hampton, The Country School, and Wildlife Rescue of East Hampton held “Cocktails for Koalas” to benefit the animals in need of help in Australia on Friday, February 7. All proceeds went to Wildlife Information Rescue Service.

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OLD DOGS NEW TRIPS By Vay David & John Laudando

Zagreb: Two Cities Rolled Into One The last stop on our three-country adventure olddogsnewtrips@gmail.com We arrived in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and immediately tried to get cast in a commercial for Staropramen Beer. The park just around the corner from our Airbnb had been transformed with lights, sets, signs, and seating in preparation for shooting the commercial, but alas, they weren’t looking for more actors, so we headed to town. Our Airbnb was within easy walking distance to Zagreb Cathedral, at the city’s vibrant heart. And that’s steps away from Ban Jelacic Square, dominated by a large statue of Josip Jelacic on a horse. Installed in 1866 by the Austrians, the statue has caused many controversies and political machinations ever since, but it remains “the place” to meet up in Zagreb. The square is also the site of countless stalls selling nearly any kind of food you could imagine, and it’s not very far from the site of Zagreb’s famous open-air and underground market, Dolac. Both Dolac market and the stalls in the square offer an amazing variety of homemade cheeses, baked goods, flowers, you name it. Our first Zagreb breakfast came from one of many personable vendors in the square. Zagreb is divided into the Upper and Lower towns. The two were bit-

ter rivals for centuries but united in the 1600s to stave off an invasion from the Turks. The city has also endured Communism and a bitter war. When Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Zagreb became its capital. We actually saw a few signs of it being hit during the resulting war, but for the most part, the city escaped relatively unscathed. The Upper Town is the oldest part of Zagreb. It’s a pastiche of red-roofed buildings and church spires on cobblestone streets. The way there can be steep or somewhat flatter, but you can take what’s billed as the world’s shortest funicular ride up, for under $1. The funicular is less than 10 minutes from the main square. Also nearby, you can drop into a long row of restaurants offering an enticing variety of national and international cuisines and libations. We toured both the Upper and Lower towns on a walking tour with Dora of Free Spirit Tours. Free Spirit is a great example of the many free tour groups offered in most European cities. They are easy to find on the web, and, for us, have always proved to be well worth a generous tip to the tour leader at the end of the rich and informative look at a place. We especially enjoyed

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the dancers in front of the Church of St. Mark, famous for its intricate roof treatment. That evening, we found unexpected excitement — the CRO Race, with some of the best cyclists in the world, had its last leg right under our noses. The final laps of the six-stage event ran right through the center of the city, and we were there to see them zoom by. It was a fun surprise to see such a speedy race on those ancient cobblestone streets. We loved the city’s museums — at least those we were able to see. We enjoyed the Mimara museum on our first day there. On our last day, Croatia’s Independence Day, when many places were closed, we went for a stroll, admiring many little parks, amazing buildings, and a far-reaching botanical garden. Then, lo and behold, we found a museum open, with an exhibition of Calder mobiles. Again, I wondered why museums showing mobiles don’t incorporate fans to keep them moving, which is what they are designed to do. Luckily, I carry a hand fan with me everywhere I travel, and it was strong enough to set some of Calder’s won-

derful creations in motion. I probably looked silly, but I was happy. Dinner that last night in Zagreb was the cherry on top of the great food we relished throughout Croatia. The waiter from our first night in Rovinj had recommended Boban Restoran, and it was the perfect, delicious conclusion to this first-rate visit to three countries. P.S. — We ended the trip with one night in London, where we stayed close to The Blackbird, our favorite Kensington pub, so we could once more feast on pies, ale, and cider. And our timing meant we had the opportunity to see the marvelous Chihuly exhibit “Reflections on Nature” in Kew Gardens. But that wasn’t why we booked the way we did. We found that booking a flight to London, then booking from there to Zagreb, saved us about $500 over booking from JFK to Zagreb, even though the more expensive flight also stopped in London. So now, if a flight to one place has a stopover in another, we investigate booking first to the stopover, then booking from there to our ultimate destination, with the potential for great savings.

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Wölffer presents two wine dinners By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Soy and licorice-marinated quail, rigatoni mezze with a six-hour Merlot tomato sauce, grilled venison rib chop, foie gras mousse, and chocolate tart — these are just some of the flavors that debuted at the first in the new wine dinner series held at Wölffer Kitchen in Sag Harbor. The inaugural dinner, held on January 19, themed “Extraordinary Merlot Library,” was one of three nights dedicated to an in-depth culinary experience. On Sunday, March 1, and again on Sunday, March 29, chef Michael Ronzino will prepare a unique array of cuisine suited for the chosen wine pairing by winemaker Roman Roth. Although the menu hasn’t been revealed just yet, judging by the first dinner, it will be toothsome. Roth will guide guests through each dinner in a true immersive experience, as he shares anecdotes and details about both the wines and vineyard itself. “What makes it even more special is that we are serving some of our rarest wines from our library collection,” Roth said.

Tying in philanthropy, March 1 is the Grapes of Roth charity benefit. Proceeds will be donated to Fighting Chance, a free cancer counseling center serving the East End. For $125 per person, wines to make an appearance are 2007 and 2010 Grapes of Roth Rieslings, 2001, 2002, and 2016 Grapes of Roth Merlots, 2010 Grapes of Roth Merlot (Wine Spectator Top 100), and a 2009 Grapes of Roth Botrytis Late Harvest. “I’ll also be there to answer any questions about the wine, winemaking,

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or the pairings,” Roth continued. Concluding the series on March 29 will be a “Passion for Pinot Noir.” The evening’s lineup of wines will be a 1994 Pinot Noir, 1997 Pinot Noir for the first course; 2002 Pinot Noir, 2011 Landius PN along with the second; the third will go down with a 2013 Landius PN, 2017 Landius PN Pre-release, and dessert will pair with a 2006 Late Harvest Chardonnay Icewine. Guests who aren’t available for this round of dinners can look for-

ward to the summer months, as Roth and the Wölffer family are preparing for another outdoor dining series. “For the summer, we are already working again to organize our very popular ‘Grilling with Roman’ series. There will be three outstanding grilling nights that celebrate great food, fantastic wine, and outdoor entertaining,” said Roth. Wölffer Kitchen is located at 29 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Visit www. wolfferkitchen.com for tickets.

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Sports bar has popular happy hour, delicious food By Hannah Selinger

The thing about winter is this: It lends itself to a certain style of eating and drinking. If summer is all pink tinted sunset and glittery dinner by candlelight, winter is a huskier version. We take comfort in the rib-sticking, in the dark and inviting, in the cozy. We take comfort in sports bars, as it happens, or, at least, I do. While football is on television — and in the long few months between football and summer weather — the sports bar, with its dietcrashing cuisine and laissez-faire attitude, has my attention. That’s where The Point comes in. People often refer to Montauk as the Drinking Village with a Fishing Problem, and you can see why, in a village of 3000 that balloons to 30,000 in season, that might be a truism. There’s not much to do when the weather is bad. The majority of the town’s restaurants close. Liar’s Saloon, which is, notably,

open 365 days a year, serves only one thing to eat: toaster oven-hot frozen pizza (don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it, but don’t count on it for get-throughwinter sustenance, either). But at The Point, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year, you can always expect — even in a town that shuts down with the passing September tumbleweeds — a convivial crowd. There are 17 flat-screen televisions, as well as NFL games and drink specials. There are, naturally, chicken wings. On Tuesdays, the bar and restaurant host a bustling trivia night. Most nights, a three-hour Happy Hour (from 4 to 7) boasts half-price appetizers and drinks. And there are so-called Sloppy Sundays, featuring $3 well drinks after 11 PM (any local server or bartender is already privy to this particular promotion). The Point knows its own identity, and it’s not trying to put on airs. This

is a bar, first and foremost, with the added bonus of snackable food. Given the cheekiness and self-recognition inherent in The Point’s unofficial mission statement of partying well into the night, you might not expect any great shakes when it comes to the food. But actually, the food here is delicious, in a predictable but satisfying way. Baked clams are only one of many fresh seafood options. (Are you surprised to see seafood occupy a prominent position on a sports bar menu? You shouldn’t be; this is Montauk). Local blackened seared tuna, scallops, and steamed mussels are all good bets. But the wings are king. These are true Buffalo-style beauties, slicked with hot, buttery sauce and served with — you guessed it! — blue cheese on the side. There is an actual buffalo dish, too. I mean the meat, which is served as a burger, along with lettuce, tomato, and

onion. If that’s not your speed, there is a regular burger, a turkey burger, a chicken sandwich, a fish Reuben, a Philly cheesesteak, and more. As far as casual cuisine is concerned, the options are plentiful. Isn’t that exactly what you’re looking for in the middle of the long, cold winter? Hot wings and choices? The Point is also the most popular watering hole of the epic, annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, which is, in some ways, a swan song to winter. If you make it to the parade this year, you may find yourself waiting for a spot to open up. The Point’s raucous post-parade party is a yearly tradition. But you don’t have to wait until March to enjoy the simple pleasures offered at The Point. In fact, any winter evening will do. Sidle up to the bar, order a plate of those wings, and remember that winter is just a short moment in time. Might as well enjoy it while you can.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Raspberry Shortbread Heart Cookies

Ingredients 1 1/4 c flour 1/2 c sugar 2 Tbsp butter, softened 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 tsp salt 1 egg 1/2 c of quality raspberry jam Powdered sugar

Directions Mix the first seven ingredients in a bowl with a mixer on low. Shape into

a ball and refrigerate for two hours or freeze for 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a floured surface, roll dough until it becomes an eighth-inch thick. Cut out dough into heart shapes and cut out the center of half the cookie shapes. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for six to eight minutes. Remove and cool. Spread jam on whole cookie shapes, then put the cutout shapes on top and press gently together. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Chef Justin Finney

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Highway Hummus Platter By Zachary Weiss

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grilling, pickling, poaching, frying, use of fresh ingredients, etc. And, as a dish to share, it offers a spirit of hospitality we always hope to showcase here at the restaurant.”

Chef Justin Finney, Highway Restaurant & Bar

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Chef Finney’s Guest-Worthy Recipe: Highway Hummus Platter

Why? “We love this dish for many reasons. Not only is it delicious, but it speaks to so much of what we do here at Highway. The hummus platter has been on the menu since we opened, but has evolved depending on the season and available ingredients. As we have continued to grow as a restaurant, so has this dish. I believe it to be guest worthy because it highlights a wide variety of the techniques we use in the kitchen —

Ingredients/Directions: For the hummus 500 g cooked chickpeas (drained, pureed) 250 g tahini 10 g salt 5 g citric acid 100 g crushed ice Combine all ingredients in a mixer with the whisk attached. Mix on high until smooth. For the salsa 4 cases Roma tomatoes 1/4 bunch of cilantro 1/2 jalapeño

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1 tsp cumin (ground) 1 Tbsp salt Chop all vegetables and run through the meat grinder. Finish the salsa with cumin and salt. For the toasted pine nuts 1/2 c of nuts Toast Pine nuts at 350 degrees for 7 minutes For the Tahini 1/2 c tahini 2 c water 2 Tbsp salt 1 tsp citric acid Combine all ingredients in food processor and pulse until smooth.

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For the grilled eggplant salad 3 large eggplant 2 Roma tomatoes 1/2 c extra virgin olive oil 2 tsp salt Grill the eggplant for one hour, rotating every 15 minutes. When the eggplant has cooled, remove the flesh from the charred skin. Chop the tomatoes and pulse in the food processor. Chop the eggplant with a bench knife until smooth. Finally, combine all the ingredients in a bowl. For the pickled vegetables 1 head cauliflower 2 large carrots 1 bunch celery

8 c distilled vinegar 1 c salt 1/2 c sugar 1/2 Tbsp turmeric First cut all the vegetables into similar size. In a large pot, combine the vinegar, salt, sugar and turmeric. Bring everything to a boil and add the carrots. When the liquid has returned to a boil, add the celery and cauliflower. Store in the cooler. In the middle of a large plate, put hummus. Using a spoon, create a pool. Inside the pool put one tablespoon of salsa, one tablespoon pine nuts, one tablespoon tahini, chopped parsley, extra virgin olive oil, and cayenne. On a separate plate, arrange the eggplant salsa and pickles. Grill pita and serve on side plate.

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

1770 House Chamber Mixer The 1770 House and the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce will cohost an after-business hours mixer on Wednesday, February 19, from 5 to 7 PM at the restaurant, located at 143 Main Street in East Hampton. Complimentary passed hors d’oeuvres and happy hour pricing will be available. There’ll be updates on all the happenings this spring, including details on the Spring Street Fair as well as other opportunities for members. Admission is free for members or future members and $15 for non-members.

The Bell & Anchor The Bell & Anchor in Sag Harbor is celebrating Valentine’s Day on Friday, February 14, with food and drink specials. Guests may enjoy $1 oysters complete with $10 glasses of Prosecco and $15

glasses of champagne. Chef Sam McCleland will also serve specials in honor of the holiday. The regular a la carte menu will also be available. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the restaurant directly at 631-725-3400.

Claude’s Restaurant Celebrate this Valentine’s weekend at Claude’s Restaurant at the Southampton Inn. Claude’s is offering a threecourse Valentine’s Day prix fixe dinner. Dinner includes a choice of an appetizer, an entrée, and dessert. The special Valentine’s Day Menu is $35 and comes with a complimentary glass of rosé or Prosecco. This special menu will be available both Friday, February 14, and Saturday, February 15. Call the Inn at 631-283-6500 or email events@southamptoninn.com to reserve your special evening.

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Clyde, J & L

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Sznurkowski, P Trust

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Nicolini, J & K 1600 Pine Tree Road Schultheis, G & C Cosgrove, B & Kim,Y

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Eichler & Bonner Eichle Gerard Drive LLC Coffey, S Albarracin, R Anger, E & J Shapiro, T & I Semaphore Investment Mintz, H & A

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Pearlman,N & Chang, C Wojcik, J & Friend, S Navatto, S AM Life.Style.Homes Tuminaro, L & T

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Mitchell Family Trust Gatof, P & B Sagaponack Properties

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Dana Trotter, Sotheby’s Powerhouse Representing the Hamptons globally while living the country life By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com The East End has incredibly powerful women in real estate. Sotheby’s International Realty got lucky when they recruited Dana Trotter in 1997, who has secured over a half-billion dollars in sales for the brokerage. Indy finally caught up with her to learn more about her method, lifestyle, and her relationship to the East End.

Dana, are you native to the East End? Well, I wasn’t born here, but my family was fortunate to move to Amagansett when I was eight years old. Not only do I know the area very well having grown up here, but I also grew up around the business with my mother in real estate and my stepfather, who was a builder/ developer, so I have been very wellversed in all aspects of the business from a young age.

You were ranked as one of the top 50 brokers in the country by the Wall Street Journal. You’ve secured over a half-billion dollars in sales for Sotheby’s. What does this mean to your clients? My transaction record reflects a wide range of experience and client confidence. I have successfully negotiated countless deals in my time with Sotheby’s International Realty so there is not a lot I haven’t seen. This nuanced experience creates value for my clients and customers. Additionally, I value hard work, trustworthiness, and confidentiality, which leads to repeat business as well as referrals by clients to their friends and families.

The homes you have in your inventory are spectacular. Why did you choose Sotheby’s as your brokerage? I was lucky enough start with at Sotheby’s in 1997. I was originally hired by Braverman Newbold Brennan when they were the most exclusive high-end boutique agency here. Sotheby’s International Realty bought them out six

months after I started. I have been recruited by just about every other agency out here since then, but when you start at the best company with a broad reach, agent support, and international brand, why would I leave? Sotheby’s also fully appreciates the work I do and my track record, so I have close relationships and the full support of corporate and marketing leaders within the company both locally and in NYC. Together we find the best ways to represent properties in the Hamptons.

You also are part of a collaborative of 35 real estate professionals that market homes from Aspen to the South of France. Can you tell us more? I am very proud to be one of the original members of the Sotheby’s Market Leaders Group, which is comprised of the most successful brokers in our key markets across the country. I have personal relationships with each of these brokers and we often collaborate on our listings, best practices, and generate new and innovative ideas. We also cross-market our listings, as many people in the luxury markets own homes in several locations. This group provides me an amazing reach for my listings, provides me with trusted friends and brokers in other key markets, and gives me access to many great brokers and ideas, which adds to my own resources and knowledge. My customers appreciate that I can refer them to another trusted advisor in whatever location they desire. I can give them to key people that will help them every step of the way. This group loves to represent the Sotheby’s brand at the very highest level.

You’ve sold some amazing homes! Can you note some of your favorites?

One of the many special properties that I sold was a farm in Wainscott South that consisted of 18 acres right off the beach. It was a place I grew up visit-

ing because my childhood horse was boarded there, a truly magical place. It was somewhat bittersweet for both the family selling and I, but it went to another wonderful family that is now enjoying it with their children.

It’s been quite a soft market the last few years. How do you market yourself and your inventory during these downturns? I have always been one to take quality listings in every price point and my team is also very successful with rentals (we did over $3 million just in rentals last year), so while the high-end market has slowed a little, we are still very active in the under-$3 million market. We’re also not tied to any one way of doing business or any one segment of the market, so we can be innovative, nimble, and agile in our approach. We pride ourselves on working hard for our customers and clients at any price point.

Do you have any predictions about the market in 2020? 2020 is already off to a great start. We saw the busiest fourth quarter we’ve had in a long time, and, so far, the year is looking like it will be very strong. We are optimistic and putting our heads down to work hard. There’s often hesitation in the marketplace during an election year, but there are very compelling opportunities in this buyer’s market, especially in the high end.

We learned that you are a lover of the equestrian life. Can you tell us a little more about this aspect? Yes. I grew up riding horses and competing on the East Coast. This has always been my passion and I am, by nature, a very competitive person, so it is a great outlet for me to enjoy nature, my horse, meet interesting people, get exercise, and do something I love. I am extending this passion this year having been invited to be on the board of the new School of Veterinary Medicine at Long Island University.

What is some advice you would give a buyer when looking for a home? Trust one of the largest investments of your life to someone who knows the market and the local rules well and who can help you make good decisions. Trying to do it on your own can often lead to disaster. You need the advice of a

well-seasoned and experienced broker who can guide you in your search and help you make one of the most important purchases you’ll make in life. I can also direct buyers to other local experts like lawyers, surveyors, architects, builders, engineers, etc.

What about sellers? Studies within our company show that sellers have a tendency to overprice their property by 10 to 15 percent on average, and aspirational pricing is all too common in our market. To achieve a timely sale for the highest possible price, it’s crucial that a home is priced correctly at launch to best capitalize on the initial spike of attention received by new listings. Sellers need to trust their broker and adapt to the current market conditions if they are serious about selling. Our standard line is “compelling properties, priced well, will sell.” Anyone can find property info and sold data online, of dubious accuracy, but I live and breathe in this market and I follow the deal flow before it’s even published.

Are there any up-andcoming neighborhoods or trends that we should know?

I think the waterfront neighborhoods in the Sag Harbor/Noyac area are becoming more sought after and had been undervalued. There is a wide variety of offerings across price points in our market but the homes that stand out usually offer a special feature that separates it from the pack and adds value. To that point, trends have shifted away from vanilla McMansions and spec builders have to be more creative with their designs and finishes to stand out and achieve a successful sale.

We know how busy you are, but how do you spend your downtime?

There isn’t a whole lot of downtime with three children and a full-time job, but we love nothing more than taking the dogs for a morning walk on the beach. Riding my horse is a form of therapy which I practice as often as possible. On Sundays, we spend family time on our boat waterskiing or going to Greenport for dinner. My husband is from New Zealand, so we love traveling there to visit family in addition to family vacations in other parts of the world. To reach Trotter or inquire about her properties, visit www.danatrotter.com, call 631-379-3236 or email dana.trotter@sothebyshomes.com.

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our school community — students, faculty, staff, parents, and residents — an opportunity to share positive feedback on school climate and speak out about safety, security, and wellness-related concerns in a non-threatening arena. We will continue to research programs that best fit our student population and promote safety and wellness.”

The Shareit widget can be found on the bottom right corner of the school district’s website. Independent/ Riverhead Central School District

Although users can report known issues or share positive news on an anonymous basis, the platform does offer the option to identify oneself. Once a report is submitted, it is sent directly to school officials for review, and ap-

propriate action will follow. The Shareit widget can be found in the lower right corner of the district’s website — www.riverhead.net — as well as on each individual school webpage.

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Cell Tower Conflict Continues East Hampton planning board members face possible legal action By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

The Town of East Hampton moved ever closer to officially signing off on the proposed 185-foot-tall cell phone monopole tower at the former Northwest Woods brush even as neighbors made it clear they were vehemently opposed to its placement by their homes. A special public hearing was held before the East Hampton Town Planning Board February 5. The board has to issue a special permit for the project to move forward. The day before that hearing, members of the town’s zoning board

of appeals signed off on the variances needed for the project; necessary because the distance from the proposed tower to three neighboring properties, including one owned by the town, was less than double the height of the tower, contrary to town code. The town appears to be in a legal dilemma. The wind turbine tower at Iacono Farm on Long Lane had been AT&T’s preferred place to put the cell phone antennas, but the planning board rejected that proposal in 2017, urging AT&T use the Northwest Woods

site. The telecommunications company sued, and the two sides settled with an agreement favoring AT&T. It would build at the Northwest Woods site, but only if the town issued all needed permits within 60 days, and after that, only if there was no legal action against the town from neighbors that would hold the project up for more than 90 days. As of now, five neighbors have retained two law firms. David Kirst, who represents one plaintiff, said that, given the elevation of the site, the pole would be the equivalent of a 22-story building, and that the application “fails to meet most, if not all” standards for issuing the needed permit. Andrew Campanelli, representing four other surrounding homeowners, warned the board that if the tower is constructed, “you are going to reduce the value of these people’s homes by $750,000 to $1.1 million.” He said that court precedent favors his clients, and that the board was ignoring the fact that AT&T would “prefer to go to Iacono farm.” That loss in value of his clients’ properties, Campanelli told The Independent, could be grounds for a lawsuit against planning board members personally, for fiduciary irresponsibility. Three of the neighbors, all of

The wind turbine tower, located at the Iacono Farm on Long Lane, is AT&T’s preferred location to place cell signal antennas. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

whom live on Bull Path, spoke in opposition to the brush dump site. “Nobody wants to be near this,” Pam Leichter said. Two town residents spoke in support, including Tom Cooper, who lives next door to Iacono Farm.

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March 15, 1882. In that conveyance, the trustees retained for residents of East Hampton their right to continue to use the beach for fishing boats and nets, as well as for “caring” for the fish after taking them out of the water. Justice Iannacci’s countered that the town had put into the trial record the allowed usages of the beach. “They didn’t,” Catterson argued. Then Michael Rikon, representing both the town and the trustees, was asked by Chambers about the nuisance claims made by the claimants. He told the court that, during the trial, Ed Michels, the town’s harbormaster, testified that his officers “strictly enforce” the town code on “truck beach.” Justice Christopher asked Rikon about the claim that the adjacent owners had an unbroken chain of ownership on the beach. “The Trustees always held the beach,” Rikon responded. It will likely be several weeks before the court renders its verdict on the appeal.

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Continued From Page 12. condition. Outside mainland China, concern is growing in Hong Kong, which

has sealed off most of its border crossings. The semi-autonomous Chinese city reported its first death from the virus on February 3, as authorities also confirmed three “local infection cases,” which had not recently returned from China. Authorities said an ongoing strike by healthcare workers has had a “serious impact on services.” Unions have demanded that the border be fully closed and extra support provided for frontline staff before they will end their walkout action — though most doctors and nurses continue to work. Anyone who had close contact with the new cases has been placed under quarantine, Hong Kong health authorities said. Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Hong Kong health authority’s communicable disease branch, told reporters February 3 the new cases showed “there could be invisible chains of infection happening within communities.” “We are not ruling out a large spread in the future,” she said. Also under quarantine are thousands of passengers on board two cruise ships: the Diamond Princess cruise ship, currently sitting in Yokohama Bay, south of Tokyo, and a second

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Johnson, who lives in Southampton, could not be reached for comment. He reportedly said he began collecting the dolls after Oprah Winfrey suggested collecting black memorabilia on her

TV show years ago. Grier-Key lambasted Burns in a return-letter dated February 8 accusing her of “exploitation and miseducation.” “As a library, one of our jobs is to collect and make available information on our history, the parts we cherish and those we wish to forget. We hope Mr. Johnson’s collection can be used as a teachable moment for viewers young and old,” Burns wrote. “This is a misfortunate view and misinformed opinion! Your organization needs cultural sensitivity training and to represent the entire community. As an African American woman, I can’t forget the history of my grandmother and ancestors, nor do I wish to do so. But, I demand respect for it,” Dr. Grier-Key responded. The Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor was founded in 1981 and chartered by New York state in 1986 to preserve the history of the working-class community of Eastville and to tell the story of St. David AME Zion Church. Eastville is widely believed to have been a stop along the Underground Railroad. The society also owns, upkeeps, preserves, and protects the adjacent century-old cemetery in which African and Native Americans of the earlier St. David’s church membership are buried, many of whom were whalers.

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There was much cheering at the Bridgehampton boys basketball team’s last game in the historic Beehive. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

End Of An Era Bridgehampton boys basketball team plays last game in the Hive By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com “This is a little bittersweet for me,” Bridgehampton basketball great Carl Johnson said prior to the Killer Bees’ final game in what will soon be the old Beehive. “If this gym could speak, it’d tell a lot of great stories.” Despite being one of the smallest gyms in the country, some big names, like Johnson, have entered and exited. In-

side the ancient and historic 37x55-footcourt built in 1931, the Killer Bees have won thousands of games that led to nine state titles, second only to the 11 won by Mount Vernon, 25 Class D crowns, and 33 league ones. “We had a dominant history of winning,” said head coach Ron White, who is also the district’s school board president.

“Through it all, we persevered.” Bridgehampton is the smallest school ever to make the overall Suffolk County final. The maximum enrollment for a Class D school is 149 students. This year, Bridgehampton has just 54, being ranked the 25th-smallest school in the New York. Johnson said the Hive was often referred to as the team’s “sixth man,” although it wasn’t built for a competitive advantage, but because it was all the district could afford. Bridgehampton may not have even needed it though, boasting players like Bobby Hopson, Troy Bowe, Javon Harding, Charles “Mo” Manning, and Carl Yastrzemski. The Red Sox Hall of Fame outfielder helped Bridgehampton to a Suffolk County title in 1957, setting a county scoring record that season

The current district educator, and former player and head coach of the Killer Bees, is estimated to have been part of around 500 games at Bridgehampton. He won three state titles as a player from 1978 to 1980, and four more as coach, from 1996 to 1998 and again in 2015. In his 27 years as head coach, Johnson had a .602 winning percentage, 330-218. He led the Killer Bees to 13 league titles and 11 Suffolk County crowns, along with the four state titles. The 2020 Basketball Coaches Association of New York Hall of Fame inductee was also the center of a critically-acclaimed 2017 documentary “Killer Bees,” written and directed by Bridgehampton graduates Benjamin and Orson Cummings. Shaquille O’Neal was the film’s executive producer. “We’ve shown other teams we can play just as well as they can,” Johnson said. “Sacrifice, commitment — that’s what I’ve asked of my guys, and when you start realizing that you can mold these kids’ lives, it becomes a year-round job on and off the court. It’s not just basketball. I want to have some idea of what Continued On Page 29.

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Jackson Hulse Repeats As League Champ Junior one of 10 Westhampton wrestlers headed to county tournament By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

As the defending Suffolk County champion, Jackson Hulse admits there was some added pressure to repeat first as a League VI champion, but he wasn’t going to let some nerves stand in his way. With a 9-4 win over Kings Park’s Kiernan Derway, the Westhampton Beach wrestler took home some new hardware while stretching his undefeated streak. “The kid was pretty tough — a lot more athletic than I thought,” Hulse said, smiling. “I might have underestimated him a little bit.” The junior 170-pounder started the match off strong with two sets of back points, and increased his advantage to 6-0 at the 1:31 mark of the second period after choosing to start on bottom. With 43 seconds left in the match, Derway earned his own pair of back points, and after letting Hulse escape, picked up another pair with 25 seconds to go, but it was too little too late. “I felt confident with myself and my abilities, even when the expectations messed with my head a little bit,” Hulse said. “I’m a little gassed, but I had to push through it — not just physically, but mentally.” He pinned Miller Place’s Joe Mancero in 2:44 in the quarterfinals, and took down Mancero’s teammate Robert Cunningham in 40 seconds in the semis. Hulse was one of five Hurricanes to make it to the finals, and one of 10 that earned a spot in the Suffolk County Division II tournament February 14 at Center Moriches

High School. The junior is now 30-0 this season and 118-35 across his now fiveyear varsity career, reaching the 100-win milestone January 4 at the Cory Hubbard duals. “He has all the talent in the world,” co-head coach Andrew Petroulias said. “I think he wrestled well. For most of the match, he was dominant. We just keep pushing him to make the most of his career.” Grant Skala (106 pounds), Will Zafuto (119), Jason Montagna (126), and Gavin McIntyre (145) all earned second-place finishes. McIntyre came into the finals off a high from his 8-4 win over Miller Place’s Travis Grebe. The junior said he knew Islip’s Francis Whitehouse was strong on top, and tried to get his elbows in to get a quick standup. It worked well with 1:36 to go in the third period down 2-0, and while the escape point was all he could collect before time expired, McIntyre said he’s looking forward to having another shot at taking down his opponent this Friday. “It was a close match with a really tough kid,” McIntyre said. “It was hard to get takedowns on him, get my shots. I almost had one at the end of the first period. With a one-point match, it could go either way on any given day.” Montagna also came close to topping his Kings Park competitor. Down 5-1 after Thomas DiResta gave him the point to continue the period in neutral, he racked up three more on a near pin, and two back

Jackson Hulse remains undefeated this season. Independent/Desirée Keegan

points to go up 6-5. “Jay’s always going to give you 110 percent,” Petroulias said. “He’s a kid who’s never out of it.” But DiResta was quick on his feet in the second, sandwiching Montagna’s back points with pairs of his own to enter the third period out front 9-8. Montagna escaped quickly to tie the match, but DiResta collected another pair of back points at the end of the period. With pins in the tournament against Miller Place’s Derek Knee (1:31) and Justin Klein (3:20), Montagna is up to 91 across his 130-win career — one pin away from tying recent graduate Liam McIntyre’s record of 92 across his 171 wins. “I was excited to show my capabilities in the finals,” the senior said. “I feel I’ve been kind of overlooked for most of

my career, and this was my chance. We’ll see how it goes Friday. I can’t wait. It’s going to be a lot of fun.” Joe D’Agostino (99), Jack Santora (106), James O’Neill (152), Aidan McKeon (160), and Eric Schaumloffel (220) all earned fourth-place finishes. Co-head coach Connor Miller said he’s proud to see far his guys have come since shaking off the rust at the beginning of the season. “We don’t have year-round wrestlers up and down the lineup, so we’re really happy to see this kind of growth over the season,” Miller said. “I think the kids came out today and really competed, battled hard in those first two rounds especially. We came up with some upsets, and it’s especially great for some kids who weren’t sure at the beginning of the season that this is where they’d be.”

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own rule. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it would fall on deaf ears,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even about the rule, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the penalty.â&#x20AC;? He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see how the punishment fits the crime, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping this appeal will open the eyes of athletic directors and section representatives across the state that something needs to change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To penalize the kids is unfair,â&#x20AC;? Phillips said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand they want everyone to play the same number of games, but even with a violation like this it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t impact playoffs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win-loss record in the league remains the same. It was an honest mistake.â&#x20AC;? One of Southamptonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nonleague games was a late addition against Rocky Point. That district had hired Reagan Lynch, a former Amateur Athletic Union player of Wingfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, who was scrambling to secure some games, so Wingfield decided to help.

Caraline Oakley could lose out on competing in the playoffs her senior year. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why they have to be punished by such a rigorous discipline policy for a mistake that coach made,â&#x20AC;? Wingfield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The girls are broken.â&#x20AC;? Those like Caraline Oakley, who

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After earning a state-qualifying time at the league championships last weekend, East Hampton’s 200-yard freestyle relay did it again. Jack Duryea, Aidan Forst, Fernando Menjura, and Owen McCormac raced to a third-place state-qualifying finish with their 1 minute, 29.97 seconds swim at the

Suffolk County championships at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood February 8. The quartet and Colin Harrison will travel to the Nassau County Aquatic Center March 6 and 7 to compete in the state championship meet. “After the league meet, they went back to work to continue to train their

racing skills, techniques, and speed endurance,” head coach Craig Brierley said. “The boys were very focused and motivated to do their best, and the coaches were thrilled with the efforts the boys put in for each of their races.” The 200 medley relay of Duryea, Menjura, McCormac, and Joey Badilla

also finished fourth in the county in 1:40.89, and McCormac touched the wall fifth in the 50 freestyle in 22.42 seconds. The Bonackers finished sixth out of 22 schools, and were largely helped by Menjura, who was named the swimmer of the meet. The Pierson junior tied for Continued On Page 34.

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ton team to top rival East Hampton in the playoffs. While this year’s team, which started with only eight players — one senior, two juniors, one sophomore, and four freshmen — finished the season 0-14, the current student-athletes still feel connected and inspired. “We wanted to go out and do the best we could, and close out this gym with a bang,” said freshman Scott Vinski following the season finale 70-40 loss to Shelter Island. “We’re all aware of what’s happened here. We may not have gotten to live through it, but from stories we’ve heard, we know what it means to everyone else. It’s given me a goal. I want to achieve the same things as those before us.” The atmosphere, while not typical for the games he’s competed in this season, excited him for the future. Especially when he got that “bang” he was hoping for, hitting the final basket in the Hive — a three-pointer with eight seconds left. He hit shots from beyond the arc twice on his way to accumulating a game-high 20 points. It’s impressive given the fact three-pointers cannot be scored from the corners, because a player would technically be out of bounds. “We’re hot and steamy, elbow-to-elbow, there are legends out there,” White said. “It was really an outer-body experience. It’s a blessing and a privilege to be in your hometown and say that you’re able to give back in this capacity; say that you’re part of the heartbeat.” For White, like Johnson, the experience has come full circle. “There’s some tradition,” Johnson said. “But we’re going to start a new tradition with this current team, and I can’t wait to see what they’re going to accomplish.” As a coach, White took the team to the subregional championship two years in a row, and helped the Killer Bees win

their first-ever Long Island championship. It was the inaugural game, because there’s never been a Nassau Class D team for Bridgehampton to compete against. He’ll continue to lead the team next season in its new space. “I’m really proud of those guys,” White said. “I put them through so much and they accepted the challenge. There were bumps and bruises, and regardless of wins and loses, we’ve grown so much.” The Hive boasts a colony that just keeps growing. “Bridgehampton basketball is like a river,” Johnson’s former assistant coach and esteemed artist Joe Zucker said. “It’s constantly flowing, and all the people involved in it are part of that moving river. It doesn’t matter if you jump in during a period where there’s no victories, no state championships, you’re still part of something that’s been going on a long time, and you really gave a lot of people a lot of happy hours.”

dent-athletes. That’s because this limit has been exceeded three times in Suffolk County history. In 2011, the Babylon and Sayville girls lacrosse teams appealed the exclusion from the postseason, and the teams were allowed to play, but their coaches were suspended immediately. In 2017, Center Moriches’ girls soccer team was denied its first appeal, which was overturned. The girls were told they could compete at the county level, but if they made it further than that, it would be deemed ineligible. This rule has been a cause for concern that even the executive director of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Robert Zayas, proposed the coach be suspended and the school fined instead of punishing student-athletes. His measure was voted down 26-20. “I’m just shocked that adults in education would not approve that, and would rather see kids penalized than the coach. It just blows my mind,” Phillips said. “A safety net was supposed to be put in place after the Center Moriches incident. There should be an alert, a block, a message saying, ‘Sorry, you exceeded the maximum amount of games’ when submitting a schedule. I’m not blaming section, it’s our responsibility to catch it first, but I feel it’s somewhat culpable.” At the bare minimum with the appeal, the athletic director is hoping his girls get the chance to play, and that this will send a message to the state that something needs to be done. “I hope they’ll find it in their hearts that this is the right thing to do, on all levels,” Phillips said. “It’s heartbreaking. I know coach was devastated. I was devastated talking to the girls. It’s just so unfair to penalize these kids for our mistake. It was human error. A correctable mistake.” Check online at www.indyeastend. com for results from Southampton Union Free School District’s latest appeal.

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they’re doing, what they’re going to do.” He worked with players like White, who won state titles from 1996, when Bridgehampton was the third-smallest school in the state, to 1998, and came within a basket of becoming the first player to go to the state tournament all four years of his varsity career; and current Center Moriches head coach Nick Thomas, who played point guard from 1992 to 1996, helping Bridgehampton win the first of the three straight state crowns, success he carried over to his Red Devils team. He even beat his mentor in Johnson’s final season as head coach. “People always ask me what it was like playing in such a small gym,” Thomas said. “I always tell them, ‘Home is home.’ Yeah, we needed more room — for more banners.” What has emerged from the confines of the small space on Montauk Highway means just as much to the community as the admiration felt inside it. “Carl knows he carries a legacy that people are proud of and that people want to see continue,” Assemblyman Fred Thiele said.

Part Of The Heartbeat On February 5, when Bridgehampton’s boys basketball team competed in its last regular-season game before it makes the move to a new regulation-size gym as part of a $25-million expansion project, which will also include new classrooms and a fitness center, those in attendance felt that deep approbation for the Killer Bees’ storied past. That excitement may even have been heightened considering the number of times the school almost closed, and once was, although the decision was quickly overturned. That news actually boosted a former Bridgehamp-

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Continued From Previous Page. New York Public High School Athletic Association, which oversees high school sports at the state level, expressing disappointment over the rule. “I was shocked. It’s not fair at all,” senior Ishanti Gumbs said. “Not only do we not know every rule there is to make sure that doesn’t happen, but we don’t make the schedules. And being one single game over the limit was the worst part, because it’s something so small but so big. We tried to forfeit a game so that we could try and work with the section, and it still didn’t work. All of our hard work just went down the drain.” The Mariners couldn’t forfeit a game because by the time they were notified by Section XI about the issue the girls only had league games left to play. For this appeal though, Phillips said he’ll be more prepared to fight for his stu-

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The percentage of $10M+ home sales that Corcoran Hamptons agents represented. No other brokerage came close.*

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Source: The Real Estate Repor t as of year-end, 2019. The Corcoran Group is a licensed real estate broker located at 660 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10065