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“Clarice is on a roll. Clarice has got control,” Thomas Harris writes of Clarice Starling, the strong female protagonist made famous by Jodie Foster in the film adaptation of his novel, “The Silence of the Lambs.” The same could be said of esteemed screenwriter Jenny Lumet, with her slew of exciting projects on the horizon, including the upcoming CBS series “Clarice,” which Lumet is co-penning and producing. Lumet, the East Hampton-bred daughter of renowned film director Sidney Lumet and Gail Buckley, and granddaughter of the legendary Lena Horne, took quite suddenly to writing, after a few years of dabbling in an acting career “barely.” “I mean, I was a bad actor,” Lumet clarified, with winning self-deprecation. “I was! I was just bad.” Writing came much more easily. After penning a handful of screenplays with “no understanding of what the hell I was doing,” Lumet found widespread success and critical acclaim with “Rachel Getting Married,” the captivating family drama that garnered Anne Hathaway her first Academy Award nomination for starring in the film, and established Lumet as a writing force to be reckoned with. The empathy and specificity with which Lumet writes each of her characters give the impression that the film is based on true events, but it was largely a work of fiction; a testament to the writer’s creative instincts. “It’s not that autobiographical in the sense that I don’t have a dead brother, and my mother never punched anybody, and that wedding never happened,” Lumet explained. “I mean there were absolutely elements of ‘family stuff’ — you draw on things — but I don’t think I could write 100 percent of my own ‘family stuff,’ because honestly, it wouldn’t be that interesting of a story. I thought this story was more interesting. But it was not a story that happened.”

“Rachel Getting Married” was a solo endeavor for Lumet, but she has since partnered with writer and producer Alex Kurtzman, whose many impressive credits include the latest Star Trek series, for which Lumet is also a writer. The partnership has been quite successful, which Lumet attributes not as much to sheer talent as to the way she and Kurtzman shore each other with complementary strengths and a similar no-nonsense approach to the creative process. “It’s optimistic to think that anybody is ‘brilliant.’ It might sound awful, but I think I can safely say that the two of us are very much of the mind that you sit your ass in a chair, and you get the words on the page. You do your work. And if anybody’s brilliant, that’s really nice. But it’s better to have people who finish the job. We’re never like, two dueling geniuses. We’re more just like ‘Hey, okay, let’s get it done,’” Lumet said of Kurtzman and her writing dynamic. “A lot of it comes down to time management, and who can write what at what time. We don’t have a set pattern about how it works. The writing just finds its way organically, which is cool.” The idea for “Clarice” occurred to the partners over a year ago, and had been a long time in the making. As is the nature of the business, there was much uncertainly about when, if, and how the project might come to light, so Lumet put her efforts into other projects. Then, “Clarice” landed. The series, born from a love of the movie “The Silence of the Lambs” and the source novel behind it, follows FBI agent Clarice Starling a year after the traumatizing events of the book and film. Writing a series which is, at its core, a sort of fan fiction based on such a well-known and well-loved character has been both daunting and exhilarating for Lumet. “What’s wonderful about Clarice is that even though she makes this

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huge, extraordinary impact, there’s a lot about her that, certainly in the movie, wasn’t put out there. She sort of just jumps on a moving train. It’s very encapsulated in time,” said Lumet. She found herself asking, “Why is everybody else getting to talk, and not the woman who actually won? Who saved everybody?” There’s more in the book about the heroine’s roots, but many questions have remained hitherto unanswered. The “fun part” for Lumet has been assembling the puzzle through a combination of what the book reveals, and creatively filling in the gaps. “There are a lot of questions about her family, like ‘What happened after her dad died?’” asked Lumet, referencing the chilling scene from which the source draws its title. “You know, she had a whole life,” she continued enthusiastically, “and that’s something that’s worth exploring. So, that part wasn’t intimidating; the big challenge of it is internal. I think people will bring whatever they’re going to bring to this show, and I welcome it. I just hope to do right by it. I love this character deeply.” Meanwhile, another much beloved movie, “The Man Who Fell to Earth” starring David Bowie, is also being adapted for series by the writing duo.

While there’s no set shooting schedule yet, Lumet says the pair are “way up in it.” Though she admitted it’s somewhat stressful creating two shows at once, she enjoys the challenge, stating that both shows are “thrilling, very different, and equally weird in their own ways.” Lumet enjoys wearing multiple hats, and wearing them well, but when it comes to the possibility of following her patronage into the realm of directing, her sentiments are clear. “No! Yuck, yucky. That’s just so not my . . . I mean, yuck, eek!” she exclaimed, laughing at her instinctive reaction. She went on to explain that directing is “just never something that I’ve thought, ‘Wow, I want to do that!’ And that’s a relief, because I just can’t imagine . . . Oy. Just oy.” With such a mastery of her characters’ dialogue, it’s no wonder that Lumet’s own words ring with the same piercing honesty. Her propensity for uncovering comedy within the drama, and truth within the comedy, has lent to some powerfully written projects that are both emotionally stirring, and intensely relatable. Amidst the “Star Trek,” Starman, and Starling of it all, it’s all too clear that Jenny Lumet’s star is on the rise.

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From the moment the news came that a possible pandemic was on the horizon, there has been a sense of apprehension hereabouts. After all, sooner or later New York becomes prominent on every itinerary, and then it’s only a short jump to the East End. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) festering in Wuhan, China since mid-December has been breaking out worldwide. Its circuitous path has taken it, literally, to our doors over the course of about six weeks — an Independent editor flashed symptoms and was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after arriving home from Mexico on Friday, March 6. Editor's note: She has had no direct contact with anyone at The Independent. Feverish, wearing a mask, she awaited testing before finally being sent home. Down the hall from where she had been was reportedly Suffolk County’s first confirmed case, a North Fork man who tested positive March 6.

On Sunday night, Ashley John Heather, who runs the Spur, sent members the following message: “Spur Members, Please be aware of the following information. It was reported to us from a credible source that on Friday evening (March 6) a Greenport resident was taken to the ICU at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Today, he unfortunately tested positive for Coronavirus (CV).” The Spur provides interactive meeting spaces for fellow entrepreneurs. Lauren Sheprow, a public information officer for Stony Brook University Hospital, said she could not confirm the information and that the State Department of Health would have to provide an update shortly. A statement from Southampton Town Hall on Monday, March 9, confirmed that there was a case of coronavirus identified and being treated at Stony Brook Southampton. “The individual is, and has been, in isolation in

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Workforce Housing Proposed In Quiogue The NRP Group lays out plan for 180-unit workforce housing complex By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com According to Long Island Index, 30 percent of renters in the Town of Southampton are spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, well above the recommended 30-percent threshold. The project of the Rauch Foundation that provides objective data on the region’s condition, presents comparisons with nearby suburban areas, and highlights challenges identified by the data also shows Southampton needs more than 6000 workforce housing units to serve the existing waitlist. The NRP Group LLC, in the multifamily rental business, proposed a solution to help tackle the town’s problem: a 180-unit complex in Quiogue. The company presented preliminary plans to the town board at a March 5 work session, and while the members understand and have worked to tackle affordable housing needs, they met the proposal with apprehension. “I think density triggers a lot of community concern,” Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said. “Traffic is one of them, there’s the environmental impact — nitrogen getting in the bays and things like that — school taxes. Will the school have to build an additional building or expand to accommodate it and will property taxes go up?” Jonathan Gertman, vice president of development for The NRP Group, said the plan for a 17.5-acre lot at 644 Montauk Highway behind Strebel’s Laundromat south of Old Country Road and within the Westhampton Beach Union Free School District would provide approximately 10.3 homes per acre. There would be 80 one-bedroom units (44 percent), 52 two-bedroom (29 percent), and 48 three-bedroom (27 percent). Currently, there is no price range for monthly rent. It will be in flux dependent upon income and whether the county or state contribute funding. “This proposed project is 100 percent workforce housing, which means that rents must be limited based on the Area Mean Income (AMI),” The NRP Group spokeswoman Jennifer Latchford said. “The NRP Group will work closely with the Southampton Town Board and local community to develop a project that meets local needs, and under Southamp- ton's town code, a significant por-

tion of the units will need to be for families earn- ing between 30 to 80 percent of AMI. We expect rents for those units to fall in the range of $627 to $1,760 for a one-bedroom unit, including utilities.” According to the Long Island Index, rising costs in the area have resulted from insufficient multifamily construction over the past several decades and a spike in seasonal vacationers willing to pay premiums for temporary rentals. The proposed workforce housing, serving those who make the town run on a day-to-day basis like town employees, teachers, civil servants, and retail workers, is considered affordable when the rental cost, plus utilities, comes in under a third of a person’s income. “For me, I believe that we should attract more young people to our schools depending on the size and numbers and trends of enrollment as well,” Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said. “I believe this is a good spot. Transportation is a little bit of an issue — everyone will be driving presumably — but I like the concept of affordability.”

Luxury Workforce The complex would contain color-coded two-story buildings representative of the area, and a walkable village concept with a central community building incorporating a lounge and fitness center. Gertman said his company would be open to looking into getting a bus stop potentially along Montauk Highway to connect the complex to neighboring downtowns. “The comment we get most often that is the biggest compliment for us is ‘I can’t believe it’s workforce housing. I can’t believe it’s affordable housing.’ And that’s something we really pride ourselves on,” he said. “We want to create an attractive, extremely high quality, really luxury workforce, convenient, safe, and reliable community.” There are four different building types at varying lengths and sizes to create what Gertman calls a “healthy mix” of units. While The NRP Group is a national builder operating in 12 states, it is based in New York City, and Gertman said architects and construction workers are always local. The group partners with multiple Melville-based companies, like BHC Architects, which developed plans

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for the town library and David W. Crohan Community Center/Flanders Senior Center. “We’ve looked at the landscape of affordable housing on the South Fork. We want to show we did our research,” Gertman said. “We also have the ability to do what we say we’re going to do and follow through and have the financial ability to do that.” Southampton has continued to tackle the affordable housing issue by updating accessory apartment code, and building the 28-unit Sandy Hollow Cove and 38-unit Speonk Commons apartment complexes. Neither have been close to the scale The NRP Group is proposing, although Sandy Hollow sits on just 2.6 acres. A housing study was also recently approved by the town board. “I want to see more of these, and I know pricing is controlled by zoning, but the density still worries me,” Councilman John Bouvier said. “This site also has some history of groundwater issues.” The proposal boasts a state-of-theart community that will emphasize sustainability, energy efficiency, and green technology. It would achieve Enterprise Green Community certification and feature Energy Star appliances, electric vehicle charging stations, and low-flow toilets. Vapor barriers under the buildings were recommended by town Planning and Development Administrator Janice Scherer in her department’s early response report, which the company agreed to. The site itself is clean, with some sand mining done in the past that the town wants more information on, but methyl ethyl ketone, or MEK, had been detected around the area. It is most likely associated with dry cleaning via the laundromat, town officials said. The Francis S. Gabreski Airport, with groundwater contamination issues of its own, sits northwest of the property.

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ment of the neighboring mobile home facility to inquire about a joint sewage treatment facility, but was rebuffed because they did not want to disturb the property. Schneiderman said the town would consider offering incentives to do so. “I usually say we need affordable housing east of the Shinnecock Canal because of traffic, etc., but that’s not to say we don’t need affordable housing there. We need it throughout the town,” Schneiderman said. “But the scale on this . . . We haven’t done anything close to 180 units. Speonk Commons and Sandy Hollow are probably more dense than this on a per-acre basis, but 180 units is well beyond anything we’ve done.” Under the multi-family PRD code, Scherer said four to six units per acre is typically recommended, and eight units per building. There is also town code stipulation that in order to bump up the density within an overlay district, there must be a connection with a nonprofit corporation, a qualification The NRP Group currently does not meet. A future school district impact analysis would also need to be done to determine any payment in lieu of taxes. Gertman said his group will assess ways to meet the criteria and potentially lower the density, while town officials reach out to community members to gather input for themselves. He said his company reached out to the Citizens Advisory Committee West, The Quiogue Association, and other community members, businesses, and nonprofits, and received positive feedback. “There’s a lack of workforce housing in Southampton. You all have already taken significant steps to try to ameliorate and also just identify the problem, which is sometimes the hardest thing, just saying it out loud. Then, we humbly come with a plan that we think can advance in a significant way part of a solution to that problem,” Gertman said to the board. “We can make a big dent on a property that makes sense. It fits.”

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eryone residing in the United States. These numbers form the bedrock of our representative form of government. Many people are at least somewhat familiar with the beginning of the Constitution, the beginning of its preamble: “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union . . .” Towards that goal of forming “a more perfect Union,” Article One, Section One creates the Senate and the House of Representatives. That is followed by Article One, Section Two. Although only 293 words long, it lays out the mechanics on how all the people in the country, not just citizens, are to be represented. Section Two also serves as a reminder of the painful history of America when it comes to race, and the role the Decennial Census played in that history. It tells us that the number of members of the House of Representatives from each state shall be determined by counting all residents in the nation and recording where they live. This counting must take place every 10 years. Section Two also legitimized slavery. The number of representatives from each state, Article Two says, would be based upon “their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.” The phrase “all other persons” was a euphemism interchangeable with the word “slaves.” The Annenberg Guide to the United States Constitution breaks down the meaning behind the words written over 200 years ago. Slaves were property, and, as such, had no rights, especially not the right to vote. Free and indentured women and children also could not vote, but they were not property, and had to be counted. The politics of race was injected into the Census right from its beginning. The first census was conducted in 1790. The two most populous states at the time were Pennsylvania and Virginia. Virginia had over 450,000 free and indentured residents, while Pennsylvania had about 434,000. However, according to that census, Virginia also had 292,627 African and African American slaves, while Pennsylvania only 3737. If Virginia, and the other states that had large slave populations could count those slaves as individuals in the census, while still classifying them as property, political power in the newly formed House of Representatives would swing decisively to the slave states. It was a political battle fought the year before during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia between representatives of the north and south, with the two sides reaching their Faustian-bargained mathematical formula for counting slaves, “three fifths of All other persons.” Seventy

years later, that deal with the devil exploded into the Civil War. After the Civil War, with the victorious northern states in control, slavery, along with any form of involuntary servitude, except for persons convicted of crimes, was made illegal by the passage at the end of 1865 of the 13th Amendment. According to the Annenberg Guide, Congress quickly realized that the 13th amendment did not go far enough. In 1866, Congress sent to the states the 14th Amendment, which covered a broad array of issues regarding the rights of all persons in the country. It contained the following clause that has defined the goal of each Decennial Census since: “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.” The amendment was ratified by the states in 1868 and became and still is the law of the land. While slavery had been seen as the economic cornerstone of the Antebellum South, immigration was the engine that drove the economy in the north. From the beginning, immigrants were coming to the United States seeking opportunity. These immigrants were needed to build the country, to man its nascent factories and farms, to grow the nation out from the East Coast towards the west. The framers of the Constitution, and the Congressional leaders who have followed since, specifically did not exclude non-citizen immigrant residents, no matter what their race, from the census count. They had plenty of opportunity to do so, first, at the Constitutional Convention in 1789 when they crafted Article Two, then when the census question was revisited by Congress in the 14th Amendment. If you live anywhere in the United States, no matter what your citizenship status, you must be counted, according to the Constitution. You are represented in Congress, whether you are a citizen, or not. The Electoral College, America’s method of choosing its President, is weighted by the census numbers. Programs and federal monies are directed towards the states, and their cities, towns, and villages, based on those numbers. If you live here, the Census Bureau is required to include you in its count. This is the first installment of a series of articles on the U.S. Census, with a particular focus on the East End. T. E. McMorrow has worked in three Decennial Censuses and was a field operations supervisor covering a large swath of Manhattan during the 2010 Decennial. If you're part of the 2020 Decennial operation and wish to comment on the operation, excluding any personal information gathered, which must and is protected by law, you can reach the author at t.e@indyeastend.com.

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Shinnecock Nation Demands Accurate Census Count Tribal members stand with others on its importance for funding By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation are standing with other tribal leaders, elders, and community advocates calling for a more accurate census count of indigenous peoples. “A good census count ensures that accurate data will guide funding and planning decisions for tribes and native communities for a decade,” said Shinnecock Nation Council of Trustees board member Germain Smith. He and tribal leaders from four of Long Island’s aboriginal nations met with representatives from the U.S. Census Bureau at “Indigenous Suffolk Counts: We Are Still Here,” a census information session held at the Hyatt Place Long Island/East End in Riverhead March 1 to address concerns and

discuss the importance of a correct count. Smith’s organization Shinnecock Leaders of Tomorrow helped fund Indigenous Suffolk Counts through its partnership with the New York State Census Equity Fund. The meeting’s focus was on reaching pockets of unidentified indigenous people residing in Suffolk County, and to encourage them, regardless of tribal affiliation or language, to check only one box in the race section of the 2020 Census to identify as Native American only. “It is very important that we selfidentify and create the opportunity to count ourselves and be counted,” said guest speaker Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, MSW, who represented Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s office and the

Shinnecock Indian Nation’s Seneca Bowen; Montaukett Indian Nation’s Chief Robert Pharaoh; Unkechaug Nation’s Chief Harry Wallace; Shinnecock Nation’s Germain Smith, Danny S. Collins Sr., and Sunksqua Linda Franklin; and Setalcott Nation’s tribal Elder Hannah Thomas. Independent/Charles Certain

Suffolk County Human Rights Commission. Perdomo-Ayala, who identifies as Puerto Rican and has cousins of Taino indigenous heritage living in aboriginal communities in Puerto Rico, said race in America has been historically assigned at birth based on the binary extreme of white or black. Self-identifying as Native American only, she said, allows indigenous people to reclaim their tribal identity and bring awareness to their continued existence in modern society, reinforcing the campaign’s motto: “We are still here. Be counted.” After choosing Native American, respondents can then write in their primary tribal group by name.

According to U.S. Census officials, this process of checking only one box ensures that important program and infrastructure funding reserved for Native Americans reaches these underserved communities; whereas those who identify as two or more races are counted as multicultural, an ambiguous category that is not considered for targeted funding. This revelation prompted a dialogue among the four attending tribal nations and the crowd of nearly four dozen tribal community members and allies. Smith, Seneca Bowen, Danny S. Collins Sr., and Linda Franklin represented the Shinnecock Nation; Chief Continued On Page 37.

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For The Irish, And Irish At Heart Wearing green is good for what ales you By Karen Fredericks karen@indyeastend.com When Irish eyes are smiling, sure ‘tis like a morn in spring. And they’ll be smiling all month long as green and gold and four-leaf clovers flood the East End streets of local St. Patrick’s Day parades. The nation’s shortest parade, the Am O'Gansett Parade, is set to begin at noon on Saturday, March 14 and you are invited. Revelers gather at the Amagansett Library at 11 AM on Saturday to make buttons and gear up for the grueling march — up the block, say, 100 feet or so, as the leprechauns skip. It’s a short walk, but big fun for all. Cupcake decorating sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce is set to follow. The Westhampton Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade, one of the most spirited on Long Island, will also be held Saturday. This year, the parade will step off from Westhampton Beach Middle School at noon and head down Mill Road toward Sunset Avenue, hook right, and end at the firehouse. The theme for the 2020 parade, sponsored by Bridgehampton National Bank, is “love local.” This year’s grand marshal is Preston Jankowski. Saturday March 14, will be a chance for Springs residents to eat the Holy Food of St. Patrick — corned beef and cabbage. A traditional dinner of the good stuff, with soda bread plus a beverage, can be purchased for $24 at the Springs Community Presbyterian Church on Old Stone Highway. Takeout is available. For more information, call 631-324-4791. The party begins at

4:30 PM and runs through 7:30 PM. The Riverhead Lions Club is also hosting a corned beef and cabbage dinner in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at the Riverhead Polish Hall on March 14 at 6 PM. Enjoy food, a 50/50 raffle, bagpipe music, and a performance by award-winning Irish step dancers. The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Chamber of Commerce — now a part of the North Fork Chamber of Commerce — in conjunction with the Cutchogue Fire Department, will host a parade at 2 PM Saturday. It’s the 16th consecutive year of the celebration. David Gamberg, superintendent of Southold and Greenport schools, is this year’s grand marshal. On Sunday March 15, the Center Moriches St. Patrick’s Day Parade will begin at 1 PM. The mother of them all, the Montauk St. Patrick’s Day Parade, will be held Sunday, March 22, beginning at noon. The parade will run up Edgemore Road and turn onto Main Street past the green and go up to the IGA market. Master of ceremonies Rick White will review the floats. Call the Friends of Erin at 631-668-1578 with any questions. The annual Jamesport St. Patrick’s Day Parade won’t be until March 30. The route begins at North Railroad Avenue and Washington Avenue at 1 PM and heads to the fire department. The grand marshal is Joseph Grattan Sr. and an after-party will be held at The Vineyards at Aquebogue.

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Dune Road Dredging Complete Beach nourishment project beefs up berms in Hampton Bays, Westhampton By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Beach’s berms and dunes have doubled in size along Dune Road. Two stabilization projects in the area battered by winter storms have been completed ahead of schedule. In February, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company began its $10.7-million dredging project west of the Shinnecock Inlet near the east end of Dune Road in Hampton Bays. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hired the company to pump nearly 600,000 cubic yards of sand onto the vital barrier beach to bring it and the dune up to the design standard of the West of Shinnecock Inlet emergency replenishment project, protecting the mainland. “It’s a very impressive, very large beach. It looks beautiful,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said, pointing to the new, clean sand. “It’s definitely one of the widest beaches around and hopefully it will stay that way.” The area is home to three restaurants, the Shinnecock Commercial Fishing dock, and a Suffolk County park. The area beach and its dune had

been repeatedly washed away during end-of-2019 storms, with restoration efforts made by the state Department of Transportation, Suffolk County Department of Public Works, and Southampton Town highway crews. “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. This West of Shinnecock Inlet project restored the area to its 2005 authorization level — a 15-foot-high dune with a 140-foot-wide beach berm from the toe of the dune. A nourishment project along the ocean side of Dune Road in Westhampton Beach has also been completed. On November 25, Weeks Marine began the $22.3-million project, by relocating 1.2 million cubic yards of sand. It provided for a protective beach berm and dune west of Groin 15 and affected mainland communities of Moriches Bay.

The Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company dredger pumped nearly 600,000 cubic yards of sand onto the beach in Hampton Bays. Independent/Jim Mackin

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Speak Up To Prevent Gun Violence SAVE Promise Club honored during National Say Something Week By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman recognized the Southampton High School SAVE Promise Club during National Say Something Week. He proclaimed Friday, March 6, as “Say Something Day” in the Town of Southampton to encourage all stu-

dents to speak up to prevent gun violence. The national Say Something program formed after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. It teaches students in middle and high school to

Southampton High School teacher Melissa Mitchell and SAVE Promise Club co-presidents Johan Arias and Kiera Gill are presented with a proclamation from Supervisor Jay Schneiderman. Independent/Courtesy Town of Southampton

look for warning signs and threats, especially on social media, from individuals who may want to hurt themselves or others. It also encourages those to say something to a trusted adult. “We have to work together as a

community to prevent gun violence in our schools,” Schneiderman said. “I commend these young students for looking out for one another and for making their schools safer by participating in the Say Something program.”

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Public Hearing Over Madoo Shed Conservancy looks to adjust town easement to demolish structure By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town will be holding a public hearing on adjusting the Madoo Conservancy’s historic preservation and conservation easement to allow the nonprofit to demolish a non-historic shed on the property. Town Community Preservation Fund Manager Lisa Kombrink said the 2015 purchase, in error, included two non-historic sheds that were moved onto the property between 1960 and 1975 and connected with a flat roof. Madoo Conservancy Executive Director Alejandro Saralegui is looking to replace the structure with something similar. “It’s in a puff-and-I’ll-blow-yourhouse-down state,” he said. “If we don’t do anything, it’s just going to crumble

and disappear. This is our fiduciary responsibility. And like the language in the easement, we want to replace it with a ‘liken kind.’” The project comes at a time when Saralegui said the nonprofit is trying to make Madoo more accessible to people with disabilities. Currently, the shed is used for storage and houses a nonfunctioning public bathroom. He said the new shed, which would cover the same footprint of the current one that is two steps off the ground, would have an Americans With Disabilities Actcompliant bathroom in the easternmost part of the structure. The center — the piece with the three mirrors that look like windows Saralegui is looking to preserve — would be a study cen-

The Madoo Conservancy is looking to have an easement altered to be able to demolish a non-historic, deteriorating shed, named the loo shed, seen here from the Asian Pond Gardens, and replace it. Independent/ Alejandro Saralegui

ter, and the westernmost peaked-roof structure would become a reception area with information and possibly house some items for sale. The renovation would follow a $1.2-million restoration of Madoo’s main building, the summer house. “We’re rebuilding Madoo to preserve it for future generations,” Saralegui said. “The goal is to have it last.” Southampton Town purchased the easement, which prohibits the tearing down of any structures, for $600,000.

Supervisor Jay Schneiderman asked the appraisal be reviewed and the town reimbursed for any potential cost of the shed before the structure is deleted from the easement. The public hearing has not yet been scheduled, Kombrink said. “My concern is if we made an error initially and the appraised value included that structure, then we paid for something that wasn’t historic,” Schneiderman said. “We should be refunded for that portion of it.”

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Ridership continues to grow and ticket prices come down on the South Fork Commuter Connection, which celebrated a year of service last week. “This has reduced the number of vehicles on our roadways and in our parking lots,” East Hampton Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said. “We are also reducing carbon emissions.” Southampton and East Hampton town supervisors and other elected officials gathered March 6 to mark the first 365 days of the new ride service. This program combines increased train service provided by the Long Island Rail Road with coordinated local shuttle bus connecting service supplied by the two towns. “As we work toward expanding

and fortifying the LIRR system, we’re constantly looking for new ways to meet the connectivity needs of the millions of customers we serve each year,” LIRR president Phillip Eng said. “The South Fork Commuter Connection represents how collaborative efforts between the railroad and our partners on the East End can help make ideas like this a reality.” For $3.25 each way, commuters can take the South Fork Commuter Connection to or from Speonk to Montauk and destinations in-between. With a low one-way fare, and discounts for purchasing weekly and monthly passes, it’s a cost-effective and environmentally-conscious way to leave traffic behind.

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SAND IN MY SHOES By Denis Hamill

Hate In The Time Of Coronavirus New Yorkers plagued by xenophobia denishamill@gmail.com

You gotta love all the hate. Nothing like a new plague to bring out the worst in the most hateful species on the planet. Every workday morning, I walk to the LIRR to board a train to Penn Station, from where I then take a downtown subway, and ride a crosstown city bus to get to my fulltime job on the west side of Manhattan. It has been a master class in xenophobia, fear, and hysteria. Many people are wearing face masks — which are illegal in New York City — so expect to read headlines soon about a coronavirus bank robbery crew wearing face masks, goggles, and plastic gloves. Although nothing can top the guy dressed in a woman’s burqa who robbed over $1 million in gems a few weeks ago from a jewelry store at Hudson Yards. And come to think of it, expect burqas or designer hazmat suits to be the new fashion crazes for ordinary citizens amid the coronavirus hysteria. Last week I jumped on a downtown C train at 34th Street on which, during rush hour, it is as difficult to find a seat as it is “to kill a mockingbird.”

But here was a long row of empty subway bench that could have fit five hefty butts. I knew something was wrong. Then I heard the guy at the end snoring, coughing, and wheezing. He looked homeless and was a snoozing Typhoid Mary that cleared half a subway car. If you think medical workers are fearful of contracting coronavirus, I can guarantee you that transit workers won’t go near a coughing, wheezing homeless person with a 10-foot third rail. I remember during the first years of the AIDS epidemic when misinformation, ignorance, bigotry, and fear caused some restaurateurs to make openly gay people eat with plastic plates, cups, forks, and knives. Many cops stopped arresting junkies in fear that a stop and frisk might lead to a needle prick. Firefighters and paramedics were fearful of performing mouthto-mouth resuscitations. I knew one police lieutenant who told me he was on a major drug sweep where his undercover team spotted a low-level woman pusher selling heroin. As the plainclothes cops approached,

she sprinted like an Olympian. “She ran down the street and turned a corner and when we got around there, she was nowhere to be seen,” the lieutenant said. “So we started searching between and under cars. And there she was, crouched down between two cars. When my guys went to collar her they backed off, holding their noses. They refused to cuff her or to put her in their detective cars because she’d dropped a load in her drawers. They looked at me to cuff and transport her. I looked at her. Her arms had more tracks than the Long Island Rail Road. She had sores on her skin, she was trembling, skinny, and I thought sick with HIV. I felt sorry for her. I told her, ‘Honey, you just crapped yourself a get out of jail free card.’” These days on the LIRR I have noticed people board, looking for seats, and they often will avoid sitting beside a person of Asian descent, preferring to stand on the long commute. I have not personally heard any racist comments on mass transit. But I read a report on the NBC website about an NYPD report of a subway passenger on the N train who not only refused to sit next to an Asian, but even sprayed them with Febreze. Curtis Sliwa recently dispatched the Guardian Angels to add security for Asian people wearing face masks who were being attacked by xenophobes. In England, racism against Asians in the coronavirus outbreak has also escalated to verbal and physical assault. I don’t know exactly how these xenophobes hope to avoid people who might have recently been to Italy, England, Iran, Brazil, or scores of other countries around the world where there have now been over 100,000 cases of coronavirus reported. Here in New York, there are (at press time) 142 cases statewide and one confirmed case in Suffolk County. “So far, the East End is safe,” one resident told me last week. I told him not to spread it around as word will

Nothing like a new plague to bring out the worst in the most hateful species on the planet. spread like a, well, virus and soon there will be a stampede of terrified people thinking the Hamptons is a safe zone. For years, I have promised myself that I would never go on a cruise. I love looking at the sea, but I fear it. I have read too many stories about Legionnaire’s Disease, sudden storms, food poisoning, passengers going overboard into shark infested seas. Now there are two cruise ships in quarantine for the coronavirus, including the Grand Princess with 3500 people onboard off the coast of California. People are going to stop taking cruises. The airline industry is also so depleted that they are offering special deals and the industry — which price gouges us at every turn in good times — is talking about a government bailout. Schools are closing. Movie theaters are empty. Asian restaurants are suffering. People I work with who usually take mass transit are driving to work. The stock market is on a roller coaster ride of trepidation as the coronavirus calamity worsens by the day. Meanwhile, preparedness from our elected leaders is a disaster as finger-pointing over lack of testing, especially among our medical worker community, is an international embarrassment. And so, expect coronavirus to spread and worsen. In direct proportion to the hate.

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Police Opening Arguments In Tennant Trial Was the shooting an act of jealousy, or was she fighting for her life? By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The trial of Patchita Tennant on four felony charges, including attempted murder, began in the Riverside courtroom of New York State Supreme Justice John Collins on Monday, March 9, with the prosecution and the defense making their opening arguments to jury. Tennant, a manager of the Pantigo Road CVS in East Hampton, is accused of shooting her boyfriend, Andrew Silas Mitchell, three times with a .38-caliber

revolver at their Flanders residence on Pleasure Drive the night of September 5, 2019. It is a trial that is going to come down to the credibility during their testimony of the only two people who know for certain what happened the night of September 5: the accused, Tennant, and the man her defense team acknowledges she shot, Mitchell. Both Eric Aboulafia, the lead lawyer on the case for District Attorney

Tim Sini, and Matt Touhy, who is heading up the defense team, agreed on one point during their presentations: that the victim, Mitchell, was cheating on Tennant, his longtime girlfriend. The couple have a four-year-old daughter together. “During the course of their relationship, he was unfaithful,” Aboulafia said. He told the jury that Mitchell had taken a solo trip abroad the summer of 2019, during which he became involved with another woman. “He invited her to return with him to this country, and become his secretary,” Aboulafia said. Mitchell got her a place to live, for which he paid for. “On September 5, 2019, the defendant knew all about Mr. Mitchell’s infidelity,” Aboulafia said. The prosecutor told the jury that on September 5, Mitchell had gotten out of the shower. He closed the bathroom door, the prosecutor said, because he was naked and he thought

Patchita Tennant, who faces four felony charges, is shown here during a break in the trial’s first day of opening arguments testimony. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

their daughter was in the next room with her mother, when she was actually at a relative’s house. Tennant knocked on the bathroom door, saying she needed a scarf for her hair. Mitchell handed her the scarf, then closed and locked the door. “Why is the door locked?” Tennant demanded, according to AboulaContinued On Page 35.

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Foot-tall saplings that line the driveway of a Country Lane property were allegedly taken from two Northwest Woods properties, East Hampton Town police say. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

One of the properties is owned by the Peconic Land Trust, the other, a Manhattan couple. They are opposite each other straddling Old Northwest Road, which is around the corner from a home Benjamin bought in 2018. Benjamin, who owns a residence in the financial district in lower Manhattan, as well as houses in Springs

and Northwest Woods, has been charged with third and fourth-degree grand larceny, as well as third and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Fourth-degree grand larceny means the police value the allegedly stolen items at over $1000, while third degree is over $3000. Benjamin, who had been in contact with East Hampton town police,

was arrested around midnight February 21 apparently at police headquarters. The same charges that were brought against Benjamin were previously made against a man who told police he was Benjamin’s landscaper, Cesar Sarpes-Santos, 46, of Flanders. According to the statement Continued On Page 38.

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Another Day In Court For Lisa Rooney Montauk woman accused of homicide, and her entourage, rule the hall By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com An organized group of men and women helped keep Lisa Rooney, the Montauk woman charged with homicide for the death of John James Usma-Quintero last October, from reporters outside the Riverhead courtroom of New York State Supreme Court Justice Mark Cohen March 6. Rooney’s attorney, Marc Gann, following the entourage that locked arms in front of Rooney and pushed back reporters and photographers, said his client is “remorseful” and “distraught,” and that she might soon write a letter

to the family of the deceased expressing her sorrow for what happened. On October 30, shortly after sunset, Rooney was behind the wheel of a 2019 Silverado pickup headed north on Flamingo Avenue when she struck Usma-Quintero, who was bicycling up the hill, according to the police. She was allegedly doing 85 miles per hour, and was extremely intoxicated, triggering the vehicular homicide charge, which can only be made if the district attorney believes it can be proven that the driver’s blood/alcohol percentage was

Suspected MurderSuicide In Hampton Bays Young couple dead, their baby safe following March 4 shooting By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Two people have died following an apparent murder-suicide in Hampton Bays March 4. James Fava, 26, the owner of the house at 49 Ponquogue

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high enough. According to the first East Hampton town police officer to arrive on the scene after Rooney’s truck crashed into a guardrail about 50 yards from where Usma-Quintero was struck, Rooney was unaware that she had hit the bicyclist. Rooney, the owner of Girltauk, has surrounded herself with a couple dozen supporters during each court appear-

ance since her arrest on October 30. The deceased, on the other hand, has been supported by his cousin, Jennifer Cano. She sat on the other side of the courtroom from Rooney and her group, with Usma-Quintero’s girlfriend Valentina Garcia. After his death, Usma-Quintero’s body was cremated, and his ashes were returned to his native Colombia, where Continued On Page 38.

a distraught female inside the residence. Fava and Bray were critically wounded and taken to different area hospitals. Both were pronounced dead on arrival. Lt. Susan Ralph said neither victim was medevaced. According to Fava and Bray’s individual Facebook pages, the couple was engaged. The 911 caller told the dispatch officer that a shooting had taken place inside the home. The call came in a little before midnight. Police said the caller was on the premises when they arrived, as was an infant child of the deceased couple. The baby was unharmed and is now in the custody of a family member. The female is fully cooperating, police said. Fava’s Facebook page has several posts that reference long guns. The

police said found several weapons in the home. Bray’s Facebook page has the couple’s most recent Facebook post. “I’m fine,” her March 3 post read. “It’s just that life is pointless and nothing matters and I’m always tired.” The quote is a line recited by the fictional character Andy Dwyer in the NBC comedy “Parks and Recreation.” According to online records, Fava purchased the house from his grandfather, James Mulvey, for $300,000 last June. On Friday, March 6, several vehicles were parked in the driveway of the home, and were being loaded with furniture and boxes from inside. Members of the public who wish to confidentially share information on the incident can contact Suffolk County police at 631-852-6392.

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Editorial The Need To Know State college officials had a tough decision to make and we aren’t going to secondguess it. Faced with the fact that a number of students on state-sanctioned trips overseas were in coronavirus hotspots, they were gathered and flown back to New York. As a precaution, it was decided they would undergo two-week quarantines despite testing negatively. At this point things went a bit awry. Students were apparently given the option of being quarantined at college dorms that would be made available to them or be released into the custody of their parents. We don’t know how which dorms were chosen, and that’s part of the problem: Local officials were given only scant details of the plan and the public was kept out of the loop altogether. What exactly does quarantine mean? Some of the students were going to be released to their parents, we were told. Wouldn’t that expose more people? Wouldn’t the parent then require quarantine? And what if the youngsters, sequestered in their lonely dorm rooms in the middle of the campus, decided on following the music to the nearby roadhouse? Is there security in place to prevent them? Will they be physically detained? It’s a fair question and assumption that among the 22 young people, there are a few who will test the system. There seems to be a little too much of the “need to know” philosophy prevalent in the handling of the coronavirus outbreak, and this was but one example. As of this writing, county and state officials wouldn’t even acknowledge there was a patient in Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, even though he was communicating freely with friends and passersby. To err on the side of caution, and to take an extra measure of prevention, is laudable — but to withhold information means someone has something to hide. The number of suspected cases will rise exponentially in the coming days, authorities tell us. The number of citizens who may have been exposed will likely rise into the stratosphere. Yet an Indy staffer in the hospital on March 9 was told there aren’t enough test kits to go around and that sick people were being turned away. Staffers complained surgical masks were in short supply. This has turned into a political issue in some quarters, which is typical of the petty politics that pervades this country of late. It’s not a blame game or a shame game. It’s a crisis and the people are going to be the big losers unless government on every level unites in a concerted, determined effort to keep this thing contained.

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Daylight Savings Time. How do you feel when it arrives? Serena Gagliotti I am so glad to think spring is coming. I have that seasonal thing where I get a little bit sad from winter and all the early darkness. I moved from the Caribbean back to the United States after Hurricane Irma destroyed my home, and we didn’t have daylight savings time there. So, it really affects me a bit more.

Manny Vilar I am so glad to see spring around the corner. And I think that we should keep this all year and not switch back to daylight savings time in the fall. I’m a big proponent of that. I’m an early riser, so I like having that extra daylight at the end of the day, so that I can get more done.

Susanna Oswell I work night shifts so I always feel like I’m off-kilter as far as time goes. I’m not sure I’ll even notice the difference.

Matt Kaufmann I’m all for it. It means that spring is coming. I plan to enjoy that extra hour of sunlight.

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

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Arts & Entertainment Jenny Lumet Is On A Roll

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New project is ‘Clarice’ for CBS By Georgia Warner

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Come And Be Inspired Sound View welcomes back Uncommon Art program By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Sound View in Greenport is showcasing, for the third year, its Uncommon Art Artist Residence Program. The program, dedicated to the engaging the community, allows artists across all mediums to live, work, and perform throughout the property. Guests and visitors have the rare opportunity to observe selected creatives and develop an open dialogue. It’s a time to cultivate new ideas and build a broader community. Owner of Sound View, Erik Warner said, “My inspiration was knowing that nature on the North Fork in the winter is a very powerful place that will allow artists to thrive. Getting artists out of their day-to-day studios, onto our property with a quarter-mile of walkable beach on a cold winter day when the air is clear, where the sea is rhythmically pulsing with a calming energy, is incredible. I have many friends who are artists and my idea was to create a place for them to come and be inspired. The North Fork’s calm quietness during this time of year is very powerful, in fact, transformational on many levels.” Artists in this year’s program, which kicked off February 10, have been Kara Hoblin, Ryan Bock, Kym Fulmer, and Lindsay Branham. “To have an artist in residence interacting with guests and the local community,

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sharing new and different perspectives through the lens of how their craft is executed is very exciting for everyone,” Warner explained. The artists are primarily referred from alum of prior years but come to Sound View from all over. Up next in the program is Paul Loren (March 18 to 22) who will perform in the piano bar on Saturday, March 21, from 7 to 10 PM. Loren considers himself part of the new generation of soul, inspired by early R&B, jazz, and Brill Building pop. He began singing at the age of three and playing piano by four. “The voices I remember most and identify with are Ray Charles, Frankie Valli, Sam Cooke, Sinatra, Aretha, Otis, and Tony Bennett. Growing up in New York, Billy Joel was also a big influence,” Loren said. He will be writing new music and working through his creative process on the piano in front of all guests.

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Julian Velard (March 24 to 28) will perform on Friday, March 27, from 7 to 10 PM. He is a regular on “The Howard Stern Show” and NPR and an international talent, opening for Jamie Cullum, Paul Carrack, and Goldfrapp. Beyond music, he’s also shared the stage with known comedians, including Will Ferrell. While at Sound View, he will work on his new music: “Please Don’t Make Me Play ‘Piano Man’.” Joe Iconis (March 23 to 30) will perform “An Afternoon with Joe Iconis” on Sunday, March 29, from 2 to 3 PM. His work has been nominated for numerous awards and his musical, “Be More Chill,” debuted in March 2019 at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre. Currently in development are “The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson” and “Punk Rock Girl.” During his stay he’ll be working on several projects. “My hope is that I’ll be able to spend equal time working on text-based material as well as music-driven content and I’d like the work itself to dictate what I end up focusing on. I’ll be able to devote

myself solely to the creation of new material without the pressures of production or the distractions of the city,” said Iconis. Sean Spellman (April 8 to 12) will have an open working session in the gathering room on Saturday, April 11, from 1 to 3 PM. Spellman is an avid traveler who documents his experiences through art. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Urban Outfitters, and Freehand Hotels. He plans to fully immerse himself in the environment by “walking on the beach, staring at the Sound, listening to other guest’s conversations,” he said. “I will try to interpret those experiences plainly and with minimal effort onto canvases depicting my surroundings, or abstract communications of the mind.” Sound View also has weekly seasonal programs on property to immerse guests with local artists and the community. The motel is located at 58775 Route 48 in Greenport. Visit www.soundviewgreenport.com.

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Short Film Night At Stephen Talkhouse Nick Kraus to show two of his own By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host a special Short Film Night on Saturday, March 14. The free event, which begins at 7 PM, will showcase 13 short films, between three and 15 minutes in length, ranging from an Oscar winner to local talent. “We do try and make an emphasis on local filmmakers and connections out here. It’s not just a regular film night,” said Talkhouse partner Nicholas Kraus. Kraus will also be showing two of his own shorts, produced with Matt Hindra, “Robot Baby” and “USA Warrior Stories.” The event certainly isn’t meant to compete with the likes of HamptonsFilm or HamptonsDoc. It’s just a casual evening to gather with some popcorn, friends, and maybe even walk away with an interest to at-

tend the bigger festivals. Other confirmed films are “Daybreak Express” by D.A. Pennebaker, which will be presented by his daughter, a Hamptons artist, Zoe Pennebaker Breen; “Skin,” by Guy Nattiv, the 2019 Academy Award Winner Best Live Action Short; “Wing Dad” by Nick Weber; “Ned Smith” by Sophia Chahinian and Matt Hindra; “Montauk Sharks; Monster Man Mundus” by Tom Garber; “Pillow Man” by Chris Moore; and “Trains” by Bobby Priel. “It’s just a way to do something a little bit different,” Kraus said. This will be the third year the Talkhouse has hosted the film night. Kraus hopes each person, visitor or local, takes away a new perspective of the Hamptons. Visit www.stephentalkhouse.com.

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Miami Weekend But not without my mask jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze I spent the weekend of February 28 in Miami. I boarded the plane, grabbed my face mask, and threw caution to the wind as the impending coronavirus threat loomed. All to enjoy some much-needed sunny skies. And before you say “You shouldn’t be buying up all the masks if you’re not sick,” I assure you, I’ve been stockpiling survival gear since 2012. I've always feared natural disaster or cyber-terrorism, so I’m more prepared with astronaut food and batteries, but I do also have a modest supply of face masks. I could haul up in my apartment, unfazed, for at least a month. (That is, as long as I don’t have coronavirus.) But let’s take a hard pivot back to my lovely Miami weekend. It was beautiful. It was a family trip to visit my sister,

who is living in Nicaragua. Miami is a good in-the-middle meeting spot for us. Our hotel isn’t worth mentioning. I had stayed there seven years ago and I remember it a lot newer and shinier. Maybe it didn’t do well in the hurricane? Whatever the case, time has not been on this hotel’s side. But the good news was we were across the street from a few really wonderful resorts, where we managed to spend most of our time. We visited Faena, one of Miami Beach’s most fantastic venues, for breakfast at the Veranda restaurant. If spending $26 on eggs is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. There’s also nothing better than an after-breakfast morning walk on the beach, complete with photos of Miami’s signature, colorful lifeguard stands. The Palms Hotel also provided a

wonderful respite. The hotel houses the relaxing Aveda Spa and with any 50-minute treatment grants you access to its pool and beach. My much-needed aromatherapy massage was just what the doctor ordered. The Miami Beach EDITION was also a favorite. Its Matador Bar provided us with the perfect glass of wine before dinner. The walls of the bar feature photographs from French photographer Lucien Clergue’s Matador series. Market at EDITION, the hotel’s main floor restaurant, created by chef JeanGeorges Vongerichten, was the perfect Sunday night dinner spot before we

headed back to the chill in New York. We had a few other fantastic meals while in Miami Beach. (We didn’t have a chance to explore any other areas, since we were only there for two days.) First stop, after dropping our bags, was my favorite restaurant in Miami — Dolce Italian. If you have the chance, go for the happy hour (or lunch, or dinner). Another great find was Cleo at The Redbury, a Mediterranean restaurant, for dinner on Saturday night. From the flaming skillet halloumi (yes, please!), to the Brussels sprout chips, every dish (all of which are meant to be shared) was spectacular.

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Indy Snaps Guild Hall Members Exhibit Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday, March 7, Guild Hall held the opening reception for its 82nd Artist Members Exhibition. Both galleries were wall-to-wall with people, and the walls were top-to-bottom with artwork of every style.

Empty Bowls Photos by Richard Lewin Twenty-five local chefs served all-youcould-eat of their best soups at the American Legion Post in Amagansett on Sunday, March 8, to support the work of Project MOST. The annual “Empty Bowls” event benefited Project MOST’s after-school, evening, and weekend programs, including activities at its new Community Learning Center at The Neighborhood House in East Hampton.

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Representation Reconstructed

A Labor Of Love

“Representation Reconstructed,” an exhibit of paintings and sculpture by Howard Kanovitz, will be exhibited at Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus Lyceum Gallery from March 16 through April 18. Often cited as the progenitor of photorealism, Kanovitz intently scrutinized the visible world with exactitude while addressing larger issues that question the nature of how we come to perceive it. Director of the Howard Kanovitz Foundation, Carolyn Oldenbusch, will speak at a gallery reception on April 8, from 4 to 6 PM.

The East Hampton High School Student/Alumni art show “A Labor of Love” benefitting Share The Harvest Farm will be held at the Baldwin Room at the East Hampton Library. A reception will be held on Saturday, March 14, from 5 to 8 PM and the show will run through March 22.

Alice Hope Tripoli Gallery presents “Surge,” a solo exhibition with Alice Hope, the gallery’s first artist in residence of the new residency series in development. The exhibition will be on view from March

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Accessories are available for sale that day. The restaurant offers handicapped parking in the back, with a ramp entrance to the elevator. March 20 is the RSVP deadline. Mail $35 checks, made out to LWV, to Mary O’Brien, P.O. Box 211, East Quogue, NY 11942. For questions or credit card payment, call O’Brien at 631-375-7182.

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Entertainment Guide

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Katherine Che at 200 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Learn more at www.masonicmusicseries.com.

Jazz Night

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

Jettykoon COMEDY Straight Up with Stassi “Vanderpump Rules” star Stassi Schroeder will perform on Wednesday, March 11, at 8 PM at The Paramount in Huntington. Grab tickets at www.paramountny.com.

FILM The Birds East Hampton Library presents a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” on Friday, March 13, at 1 PM. Visit www.easthamptonlibrary.org.

Mickey And The Bear Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will have weekend screenings of “Mickey and the Bear” from Friday, March 13, at 7:30 PM through Sunday, March 15, at 4 PM. Learn more at www. whbpac.org.

Guild Hall On Friday, March 13, at 7 PM, National Theatre Live presents a screening of “Cyrano de Bergerac” at Guild Hall in East Hampton and on Saturday, March 14, at 1 PM, will be The Met: Live in HD with “Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer.” Grab tickets at www.guildhall. org.

Short Film Night Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will have a special short film night on Saturday, March 14, at 7 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

WORDS Women And Migration

Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents a talk and book signing of “Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History,” on Friday, March 13, at 6 PM. See more at www.parrishart. org.

Madoo Winter Lecture On Sunday, March 15, at 12 PM at the Madoo Conservancy, Toshi Yano will cover “Wethersfield: A Renaissance Garden in the Hudson Valley.” Learn more at www.madoo.org.

Museum Mondays Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Museum Mondays with curatorial assistant Casey Dalene on Monday, March 16, at 12 PM. She will point out her favorites in the 82nd Artist Members Exhibition. Learn more at www. guildhall.org.

Townline BBQ in Wainscott hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. This Friday, March 13, will be Jettykoon. Head to www.townlinebbq.com.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will jam out to Lisa Bonner with Bonnerville the Band on Friday, March 13, at 8 PM, and the Conga Cartel on Saturday, March 14, at 10 PM. See more at www. stephentalkhouse.com.

The Moondogs On Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14, at 8 PM, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor welcomes The Moondogs, covering the music of the Beatles. Buy tickets at www.baystreet.org.

Masonic Music Series On Friday, March 13, at 8 PM, Mason Music Series presents Mike Mazzaraco and on Saturday, March 14, will be

Green Hill Kitchen in Greenport presents Jon Divello on Friday, March 13, and Zanti Misfits on Saturday, March 14, both at 8 PM. On Sunday, March 15, at 6 PM, will be the Jazz Master Series. Visit www.greenhillny.com.

The Paramount On Friday, March 13, at 8 PM, Granger Smith and special guest Tyler Braden will perform at The Paramount in Huntington, and Ally Brooke plays on Saturday, March 14, at 8 PM. Concluding the weekend is Against Me! on Sunday, March 15, at 8 PM. Grab tickets at www.paramountny.com.

Earth, Wind, & Fire Tribute On Saturday, March 14, at 8 PM, Suffolk Theater in Riverhead welcomes an Earth, Wind, & Fire tribute band. Grab tickets at www.suffolktheater.com.

Music & Poetry Montauk Community Church Coffee House presents a night of poetry and music on Tuesday, March 17, at 7 PM. Learn more at www.montaukcommunitychurch.org.

THEATER Judy Saves The Day On Saturday, March 14, at 11 AM, Goat on a Boat presents “Judy Saves The Day” at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Buy tickets at www.baystreet.org.

Sherlock’s Secret Life Boots On The Ground theater will perform “Sherlock’s Secret Life” by Ed. Lange through March 22 at the Southampton Cultural Center. Grab tickets at www.scc-arts.org.

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Since my parents were both in the medical biz, I’d always been aware of communicable viruses, flus, and diseases growing up. Whatever communicable disease was out there, I was convinced I had it. “Ma! Ma! I have chicken pox!” I remember crying out in grade school. “No, son, you have pimples,” she replied. Then I remember thinking I had the measles. “Am I gonna die if I get pregnant?” I asked, after my father told me German measles could be a serious

ailment indeed for a would-be mother. “You aren’t getting pregnant,” my sister Phyllis assured me. “You’re too ugly.” I finally convinced myself I had Irish-Italian measles, which was hardly reassuring: Mrs. Lynch next door had nine kids in eight years. I’ll probably get pregnant just sitting on the porch next to her, ugly or not, I figured. The number one cause of death in history was deadly bubonic plague in the 14th and 15th centuries that wiped out nearly one-half the population of Europe.

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The extremely contagious pneumonic plague caused oozing swellings all over the body. It could be contracted by merely sneezing or spitting, and caused victims’ lungs to fill up. Eventually your skin turned black (usually within two to three weeks) and you died. They blamed the whole thing on rats. “You dirty rat,” one wise-guy said on his deathbed in words that have become immortalized. All this is a prelude to Coronavirus, which is hovering around us as I write. An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the population. There have been about nine influenza pandemics during the last 300 years, and this is why everyone is so worried. Well-meaning citizen groups are getting out of hand. There is an online drive underway calling for a boycott of Corona Beer, which is silly. Everyone knows it’s the lime we have to worry about. Consider the plight of Constellation Brands, hired to do a marketing push for Corona Hard Seltzer. The tagline is, “Coming ashore soon.” Folks on Twitter were highly critical, claiming it was in poor taste or that it was “bad timing.” Imagine if the product launch was in Dead Horse, NY or West Slickpoo, ID (real places). I mean, I can see East Slickpoo but jeez . . . Another thought: Change the name of the drink to “Astoria.” Senator Chuck Schumer, who is always advancing the political football, held a news conference and demanded all senior citizens be given a Coronavirus vaccine paid for by Medicare. One problem, the Health Department pointed out, is there hasn’t been a vaccine developed yet. We can, however, give you something to make your breasts bigger and those lines under your eyes disappear, if that helps. Karen ordered a case of tuna in

case we have to quarantine ourselves inside our house. I kid you not. Here is the problem with Karen doing anything with food: She wants to poison me. In this case, she paid $37.95 for a case of 24. I knew without asking. “Let me guess. You didn’t get the good stuff.” (If you haven’t guessed, we’ve been through this before.) Karen: “No I got the good stuff. Light. Packed in oil!” Wrong. As most connoisseurs know, Chunk White Albacore Tuna is the benchmark, and I love a nice cold tuna salad sandwich on a fresh Kaiser roll, though an Irish-American roll will do. (See recipe below.) Light Tuna can be a mix of a variety of smaller tuna species, most often skipjack, but may also include yellowfin, tongol, or big-eye. It is greasy and smells like my sister. It is often on sale. Cats won’t eat light tuna. We have to starve my grandmother for a full week before she’ll swallow any down. You know how you go to the beach sometimes in the summer and the dog comes back covered in dead fish and smells like Moby Dick for a month afterwards? She was probably rolling around in light tuna packed in oil. It’s .99 cents a can, on sale for .49. Sometimes they just give it to you. I’d rather die from Black Plague, Measles, Small Pox, or even Penis Envy than eat a sliver of light tuna. Now we have a case of it and we’re facing a pandemic. Woe is f**k**g me. If you need it: two cans of chunk Albacore, one stalk of celery, finely diced, half shallot finely diced, a dollop of sour cream, two tablespoons of mayo, a drop of Maille mustard. Add a of couple flakes of carrot for color and texture. Serve cold on a warm roll. Stay cool. Hopefully Coronavirus moves on without touching our lives out here. See you on the other side. Keep in touch with yourself — but wash your hands.

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KISS & TELL By Heather Buchanan

The Verdict The stuffed dog decision kissandtellhb@gmail.com Sometimes it is not the big stories but the smaller ones that provoke a sense of injustice. In the curious incident of the stuffed dog and welcome sign in the wintertime, the local community is coming out in support of the owner of Petit Blue, who is set for sentencing on East Hampton Village code violations at the end of March. For those not following this story, the owner of a local children’s store put out a large stuffed dog and welcome sign to let people know that she was open when many local stores shut down in the off season. She was cited in violation of the East Hampton Village Code and had to hire an attorney to defend herself in court. The judge announced a split decision that she was guilty on the first count of “attracting the attention

of the public” with her outside sign but not on the second count by means of “goods and merchandise.” The stuffed dog was a personal item without a price tag and not for sale. The conviction, which can come with a fine and jail time, has inspired outrage in a community where there are real concerns that this is how our taxpayer dollars and court time are being spent. A locally owned store which stays open year-round is a value to a village. Where is the fine for closing your Fifth Avenue brand store and just leaving up brown paper with a “See you next season” sign? Social media comments were vastly in favor of the owner, suggesting putting a stuffed kangaroo outside the court. Technically it is the East Hamp-

ton Village Board that would have to change the code. When you take a deep dive into what exactly is in the village code, you would be surprised to see all the potential infractions. And many of them carry a $250 fine or 15 days in jail. I can just imagine the village jail cell conversation of a dad, a little old lady, and an Instagram influencer. Influencer: “So, what are you in for?” Dad: “Feeding the ducks with my son.” Influencer: “What, it wasn’t gluten free? How about you, Gran?” Little old lady: “Garage sale.” Influencer: “Yeah, well it is the Hamptons. You should have called it an Estate Sale.” Dad to the Influencer: “How about you?” Influencer: “Areola issue. I tried to claim wardrobe malfunction but they didn’t buy it.” All three look at the guy alone in the next cell in a ring master’s outfit. Influencer: “Boy, he must have done something really wrong.” Dad: “I heard him talking with his attorney. It wasn’t so much the circus as the guinea pig interpretive dance act. Big trouble.” So yes, technically feeding the wildfowl within 200 feet of Georgica or Hook Pond is unlawful. You need a permit for a garage sale. And for this one

I will quote, “No person shall appear clothed in such a manner that the portion of his or her breast below the top of the areola is not covered with a fully opaque covering.” Who are the code enforcement officers assigned to that? And the thing about a circus is that animal acts are absolutely not permitted. I get throwing missiles into the street to be illegal but a snowball? (At least global warming will take care of that one.) Also illegal are peddling loosies (cigarettes), a flagpole not topped with a finial knot or an eagle, four jukeboxes (it is more than three coin-operated amusement devices which land you in trouble), or having a female dog in heat not confined. And may I point out, however, that male dogs who are not neutered do not face any such restrictions. I believe all of us appreciate the efforts that go into preserving the charming nature of this village and do not want it spoiled. But there is a difference of a cute stuffed dog with a welcome sign and the giant windsock of a tall drunken gumby falling over. And can’t we support our local business owners who, by staying open year-round (instead of just the summer season to sell $500 bikinis), are really doing our community a service? Well at least the stuffed dog won’t go out in handcuffs.

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Brewing With Ideas NoFoChewCo food truck menu complements beer offerings By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com It’s a match made in heaven. Or, in this case, Riverhead. In January, North Fork Chewing Company was born, a partnership between owner Kirsen Bonnes Moore and North Fork Brewing Company. NoFoChewCo, as it’s affectionately named, is a food truck situated right on property of the brewery itself, making it the perfect pairing. Moore and Peter Barraud, cofounder of North Fork Brewing Company, have been friends since high school. “I knew I wanted to be a part of whatever he and Ian [Van Bourgondien] were doing. It could have been a petting zoo and I would have been trying to be involved.” When the two men opened a brew-

ery in 2018, Moore saw an opportunity to help grow their clientele. Without a traditional kitchen, a food truck brings satisfying bites on a budget suitable for the relaxed atmosphere. “Their product was one I believe in and wanted to be associated with. It was a win for all of us,” she said. East End entrepreneurship runs in her family. Her grandfather owned a storefront on Main Street in Riverhead in the ’70s and her experience in hospitality dates back to bussing tables at 13 years old at one of her father’s East End restaurants. As she got older, she dabbled in hospitality marketing, sales management, and even managed a corporate hibachi chain. “I make great su-

shi,” Moore noted. “I always wanted to open something on the East End. The food truck and catering business allows me to have much more face-to-face interactions with customers on a daily basis than I would in a brick and mortar location.” While North Fork Chewing Company is situated on-site, it’s ready to roll for private events and catering needs. With that, she created a menu with the conventional consumer in mind while also showcasing her talents for higher end off-premise catering. Think large charcuterie boards and hors d’oeuvres. “Every recipe was curated with the beer in mind. Beer and food are a match made in heaven. Some people prefer to pair things that taste alike, but I am a fan of going with opposites. I prefer a really savory and heavy dish with something acidic and bright on the beer end,” Moore said. The Pimento B&T goes well with Pierce the Ale West Coast IPA, or try the shrimp and mango briesadilla with Change NE IPA, she suggested. How about pairing a Chilijoe, a cross between sloppy Joe and chili, with It

Must’ve Been Light but It’s Darker Now Bock/Dark Lager or a lemon meringue sandwish with Back to the Lacto sour saison? Last weekend NoFoChewCo introduced new menu items — North Fork Cheese Steak made with NoFoBrewCo beer cheese, which pairs well with Shaolin Shadowboxer DIPA; and hash browns rancheros topped with beer cheese, seasoned beans, salsa, and sour cream which complements the Run the Juice NE IPA. The menu also includes kids options, such as grilled cheese and turkey wraps, and vegan choices. Moore plans on changing up the menu based on seasonality and customer feedback. Beyond business, Moore hopes to inspire others, especially women. She said, “The dream is to be able to support and inspire young women in our community with mentorship. Assisting our younger generation in finding their craft and seeing their potential would be wonderful.” Keep up to date with events, menu items, and all happenings @NoFoChewCo.

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Pining For Pie Harbor Market quells desire for Neapolitan pizza By Hannah Selinger As a writer, I have a fairly reliable memory, but sometimes I forget the things I love the most. It’s not an active lapse. I don’t literally forget that I love a place or a thing. It’s more of a passive moment. A restaurant I forget to revisit. A dish I forget to order. A memory I forget to remake. Such is the way with Harbor Market. When I first moved to the East End, I lived in faraway Montauk, but then I met my husband and moved to Sag Harbor, and we were there for a while. East End hamlets get you hooked. Each town is a neighborhood, each neighborhood a world. I mention this because now I live in East Hampton, and my days in Sag Harbor seem a world away. It’s not that I never go to Sag Harbor, because I do. It’s more like the places that were common and ordinary for me aren’t really common and ordinary anymore. You won’t find me at the bar every single Sunday night eating oysters at Bell & Anchor,

because I no longer live a block away. You won’t see me at LT with a plate of fried pickles as often as you once did. And you won’t find me loitering at Harbor Market & Kitchen, deciding whether or not to finish a pizza that is definitely not designed for only one person. The thing about a Neapolitan pie, if you’ll let me digress for a second, is that it’s thin and a little sloppy and each slice feels like just a whisper of a bite. I guess that’s why I’m so good at competently cramming a whole pie down my gullet, if need be (and, sometimes, need be). I love a Neapolitan pie. I love the char, the fact that the sauce is just a dusting of real tomato, the chewy crust. I love all of it, which is why I had to remind myself, recently, that it had been a while since I had eaten the one at Harbor Market & Kitchen. When we went at lunch — my husband, son, and I — I couldn’t resist a piece of vanilla butter cake, squares of which, topped with a

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tumble of blueberries and blackberries and a swish of frosting, winked at me from behind glass. We ate roasted mushrooms, too, which are a little absurdly pricey but worth it for a mountain of savory, sweet, and salty fungi doused in a reduction of balsamic vinegar and softened from time in the oven. But the star of the show was, naturally, the pizza. We ordered two, as gluttons do, a margherita studded with fresh mozzarella, flashfried basil, and fresh tomato sauce; and a pepperoni fiery from hot peppers. At the end, there was relatively little to show for it: four lonely slices, tucked into a recyclable takeout carton, gone before sunset.

I had forgotten, along with that pizza, that Harbor Market & Kitchen is a lovely place to watch the day go by. From the ceiling hang twinkly, star-shaped pendant lights, dotted with LEDs. The interior is rustic and comfortable: wood and other natural materials create the cozy feel of a friend’s well-appointed kitchen. You could come for a coffee and a slice of that cake. You could stay for a pizza, or two. Which is to say that I hope not to forget again, when proximity has me wandering the streets of East Hampton over Sag Harbor, about the lovely lunch just a town over, where pizzas are all the great things that pizza should be, and are lying in crispy wait, just for me.

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The Ecological Culture Initiative’s organic farm-to-table Spring Equinox Dinner will be held on Friday, March 20, at 6:30 PM at the historic St. Joseph Villa in Hampton Bays. ECI will provide an organic, plant-based meal prepared by private chef Martine Abitbol, Le Poeme, and private chef Julie Jacobs. All herbs and vegetables will be locally sourced, including produce harvested from the Good Ground Heritage Garden and other local farms. Guest speaker Dr. Christopher Gobler will talk about the ways we can address human-made impacts on our coastal ecosystems, including the recent scallop, fish, and turtle die-offs in our bays. ECI’s mission is to foster a resilient, ecology-based coastal community through sustainable food production, wellness, and environmental stewardship. The cost is $45 and limited to 45 members of ECI. For more information, visit www.eciny.org/dinner.

Rowdy Hall in East Hampton is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with special Irish fare and drink specials on Tuesday, March 17, and again on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22 to honor the Montauk St. Patrick’s Day parade. Specials include a lunch and dinner two-course prix fixe for $27, Irish mimosas for $3, and more. Dishes include corned beef and cabbage, bangers and mash, and Irish coffee cheesecake.

Venison And Cigar Dinner Townline BBQ in Wainscott is hosting a special Diplomático Rum, venison, and cigar dinner on Tuesday, March 24, beginning at 6 PM. Cocktails featuring Diplomático rum will be served and Montauk Brewing Company beer will be available on tap, as well as cigars sponsored by Diplomático. The menu includes a variety of hors d’oeuvres featuring venison, followed by a buffet and dessert. Cost is $75 per person,

Green Hill Kitchen & Que in Greenport and executive chef Matty Boudreau are teaming up with guest pitmaster Kelly Dallas to host Hogapalooza. Independent/ Isobel Media

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Hogapalooza Green Hill Kitchen & Que in Greenport and executive chef Matty Boudreau are teaming up with guest pitmaster Kelly Dallas to host Hogapalooza, the first Pitmaster Series, on Saturday, March 28, from noon to 4 PM. The event will be held at Green Hill and will feature Hogapalooza BBQ from Wynne, AR,

live music by Hopefully Forgiven, prizes, $5 drink specials, and more. The extravaganza will feature items like a smoked whole hog, beer can chicken, and blackened salmon. There will be drinks and treats from Sail Away Coffee, North Fork Doughnut Company, Diplomático Rum, Montauk Brewing Company, and Macari Vineyards. Tickets cost $25 per person and include one food ticket and one drink ticket, and can be purchased via Eventbrite.

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12 jumbo shrimp (peeled & deveined) 1 large carrot (peeled & julienned) 3 radishes (julienned) 1 Tbsp chopped cilantro 2 limes 3 dried ancho chiles 3 dried chipotle peppers 1 Tbsp soy sauce 1 Tbsp tomato paste 2 cloves of garlic 1/4 c olive oil 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce 2 heads Bibb lettuce (washed and chopped) 1 tsp sherry vinegar

Remove seeds from dried peppers and soak them in boiling water for 15 minutes. Blend the peppers with a quartercup of water, garlic, soy sauce, tomato paste, juice of one lime, Worcestershire sauce, and half the olive oil. Coat shrimp in marinade for 45 minutes. Sear in a hot pan for two minutes on each side. Mix juice from the other lime, sherry vinegar, and the rest of the olive oil. Toss it together with the lettuce, carrot, cilantro, and radish. Top with the warm shrimp. Salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy.

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GuestWorthy Recipe: Alex Meyer & Luci Giangrandi Papperdelle Alla Lepre By Zachary Weiss

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Alex & Luci’s Guest-Worthy Recipe: Pappardelle Alla Lepre

Why? “The hearty dish features slow-cooked rabbit, rosemary, and tomato, perfect for a last send-off to the cold months.”

Ingredients: For the braise: 1 rabbit, legs and bellies separated (or just the legs purchased from the butcher) 1 onion, large cut 1 peeled carrot, large cut 2 celery stalks, large cut 3 garlic cloves, smashed 2 sprigs fresh rosemary 1 c white wine (Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc)

1 tsp tomato paste Chicken stock To finish (one serving): Egg yolk pappardelle (store bought or homemade) 1/2 c of the picked rabbit meat 1/2 c of the reduced cooking liquid 1 Tbsp simple tomato sauce 5 thinly sliced pieces of garlic 1 1/2 tsp chopped parsley 1 1/2 tsp chopped rosemary 1/4 c and 1 Tbsp olive oil 1/4 c grated Parmesan

Directions: For the braise: Sear the legs and bellies in a Dutch oven with canola oil until golden on both sides. Remove the rabbit and add the chopped vegetables and garlic. Roast until they begin to color. Add the rosemary until fragrant, then add

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the tomato paste, stirring to coat the vegetables. Add white wine and cook until almost dry. Add the rabbit back to the pot, and just cover with chicken stock. Bring to a simmer, and drop the heat to very low so the liquid is moving and steaming. Cover and cook for two hours. The meat should come off the bone with little effort but not be so cooked that it shreds apart. Allow the rabbit to cool in the cooking liquid. Then, pick the meat into a separate container and strain the remaining liquid. Reduce by 75 percent.

liquid starts to look like a loose sauce. Drop in your cooked pappardelle, bring back to boil, and toss together. Finish with a half-teaspoon of fresh herbs, one tablespoon of olive oil, and Parmesan. Toss it all together to combine and serve, finishing with a little more Parmesan and olive oil on top.

To finish (one serving): Add a quarter-cup of olive oil and the sliced garlic to a heated pan. Once the garlic is sizzling, add a teaspoon each of chopped parsley and rosemary. Allow the herbs to sizzle, then add the cooking liquid and tomato sauce, and bring to a boil. Add the picked meat and cook together until a ragù forms and the

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The Maidstone Takes Ocean-Friendly Pledge Surfrider Foundation celebrates with fundraising event March 12 By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Surfrider Foundation Eastern Long Island Chapter announced that The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton is the first on the South Fork to join its Ocean Friendly Restaurant network, and it will celebrate on Thursday, March 12 at the restaurant, from 6 to 9 PM. The evening will include a signature Surfrider cocktail and a discussion on the organization’s efforts and programs. The only other restaurant on the East End with this designation is First and South in Greenport. The two are among 400 restaurants throughout Surfrider’s North American network of Ocean Friendly restaurants, an initiative that began in 2018. It’s a pledge for

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Real Realty p. 26 Tom Cavallo at 85 Pelham Street in Southampton Village by builder client, Anthony Porco. Independent/Ty Wenzel

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Deeds

Min Date =2/8/2020 Max Date = 2/14/2020

Source: Suffolk Research Service, Inc., Hampton Bays, NY 11946

Featured For Sale 171 Soundview Drive Montauk $3,295,000 Web# H50315

Susan Ceslow Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

631.668.6565 631.335.0777 susan.ceslow@ elliman.com

Linda Mallinson Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

631.668.6565 516.242.1988

linda.mallinson@ elliman.com

Area

Buy

Sell

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Kapur, V & N

U & Me Homes LLC

2,950,000

14 Sellentin Way

Bwinbtwre Corp

Harris, G by Admr

550,000

598 Bridgehampton Sag Tpk

Vazquez Torres, S

Schiller, P

583,000

1826 Edwards Ave & lot 52 St.

John, J & D

Pagnotta, G & M

290,000

2266 River Rd

Boyle, E & A

Oregon LLC

500,000*

3035 Mulberry St

Cohen I Trust

Rimor Development LLC

717,860

Harvest Pointe, Home 21

Rogers, A

Holzman, Z

885,000

6 Argyle Ln

Sperber, R & C

Mayer, R Profit Sharing

439,000

3 11th St

Blutstein, J

Beres, M & R

711,700

103 Harbor Blvd

Bochat, L & J

Aversano, V & L

1,100,000

27 Atlantic St

Palermo, C & S & E

Lynch, S

600,000

9 Willow Ln

117 Lily Pond Lane

117 Lily Pond LLC

11,000,000

117 Lily Pond Ln

Dimanni, M

Soyturk, R

1,675,000

41 Landing Ln

Killeen, E

Satrom, B & D

799,000

34 Bonita Rd

Lyons, A & T

Schneider, A

760,000

53 West End Ave

Carter, N & Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole, S

Nicholson, B

790,000

360 Flint St

Dembski, S

Coutrier, Murray etal

380,000

417 West St

Schott, B & Zitek, J

Joseph & Tolchin Joseph

597,000

5 Whippoorwill Ln

Zeledon, W & A

Llewellyn, G & M

470,000

16 Linda Ln

Rickard, T & P

Diedrich, W & J

600,000

179H Springville Rd

Castaneda, F & M

Schait, R & J

629,000

1480 Elijahs Ln

McCaskie, R & T

Munch, I Trust

520,000

2790 Westphalia Rd

Robert-Demolaize, G & L

Keegan, J & Trust

456,700

360 Bayer Rd

MONTAUK

Apuzzo Jr, J & C

225 Old Montauk LLC

8,000,000

225 Old Montauk Hwy

QUOGUE

Gaffey, J & N

Kaplan, F by Exr

1,387,500

33 Park Cir

REMSENBURG

Laface Jr, J & A

Frankman, K & M

960,000

21 Halsey Rd

Young, K & E Trusts

Jaeckle, A

975,000

16 Stokes Ln

Belz, B & J

Hanauer, S & S Trusts

980,000

5 Tall Tree Circle

CALVERTON CUTCHOGUE EAST HAMPTON

EAST QUOGUE

GREENPORT HAMPTON BAYS

MATTITUCK

RIVERHEAD

Price

Location

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Featured For Sale 689 Old Montauk Highway Montauk $2,895,000 Web# H349681

Susan Ceslow

Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

631.668.6565 631.335.0777 susan.ceslow@ elliman.com

Area

Buy

Sell

SAG HARBOR

Lefkowitz, M & Dupre, K

Barnes, B & M

999,500

219 Division St

SOUTHOLD

Ciaravino & Calcaterra

Garofalo, D & C

849,000

7630 Main Bayview &07-049

WADING RIVER

Gallagher, S & M

Persen, W

780,000

3 Indianwood Ct

WAINSCOTT

Frank, J & K

Mandel, L by Exrs

2,815,000

11 Town Line Rd

Peppermint Bark LLC

Deer Forest LLC

1,850,000

183 Sayres Path

Richardson, S

Townsend, M

995,100

54 Cliff Dr

Pomponi, C

Kolev, V & T

1,550,000

1580 Sagg Rd

IOS Capital LLC

26 North Haven Way

2,225,000

26 North Haven Way

Barbershop Quartet

Martyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Family LP

3,250,000

66 Main St

Elliston, K & Meringola

Gerbereux, R & J

560,000

3 Millstone Ln

Lopez, J & Rojas, E

Corwith, C

610,000

33 West Neck Rd

Quail, M

28 Milton Road LLC

950,000

28 Milton Rd

Olsen, J

Minuto, L & D

935,000

55 Shrubland Rd

Cruz Brothers Cnstrctn

Bank of NY Mellon

535,500

180 Longview Rd

Bank of NY Mellon

Adago, J by Ref

650,336

627 E Montauk Hwy

Zoccali, J & J

McGuinness, J

760,000

14 Cedar Dr

14 & 172 Road LLC

Ed Dean Family LP

2,200,000

14 County Rd 39

OP 355 LLC

Indursky, A & Trust

10,225,000

355 Ox Pasture Rd

Ward, J & C

McGuinness, M

4,995,000

1421 Meadow Ln

980 Meadow LaneTrust

Mulholland III, J

29,500,000

980 Meadow Ln

WATER MILL

Bernstein A & L Trusts

369 Little Noyac LLC

4,165,000

369 Little Noyack Path

WESTHAMPTON

Fairfield Townhouses

Westhampton Pines

4,200,000

146 Montauk Hwy

US Bank National As

Crowley, R&E by Ref

1,538,680

19 A Brushy Neck Ln

Lenihan, D & S

Leitman, R

635,000*

10 Cedar Ln

Geiger, C & E

Blake Stone LLC

600,000

53 Rogers Ave

282 Dune Road LLC

Dworman, D by Exrs

1,551,500

282 Dune Rd

280 Dune Road LLC

W.H.M.D. LLC

1,348,500*

280 Dune Rd

SAG HARBOR

SOUTHAMPTON

WESTHAMPTON BEACH

* Vacant Land

Price

Location

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Douglas Elliman’s Tom Cavallo

The real estate agent who utilizes a boots-on-the-ground strategy for his sellers, buyers, and builders

When did you join the real

I’m so honored and grateful for this recognition. I don’t think there is a secret, per se. I think it’s really all about having a passion for what you do and feeling excited to go to work every day. And because I truly enjoy what I do, it doesn’t feel like work. I guess that’s the secret.

How are you feeling about the market for 2020 after the big slump we’ve been in? Are you optimistic?

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

he Cavallo name evokes stunning homes on the East End, in part, because of Cavallo Building, the family enterprise that began constructing homes in 1977 with Tom Cavallo Sr. Now, Doug Cavallo has taken the firm to the next level, creating a solid foundation for his family’s building legacy. Recently, the firm expanded with Tom Cavallo Jr. joining the team. It was a natural fit and for Tom; real estate was in his blood. Since college graduation, Tom has been active in buying, remodeling, and selling properties with an attention to detail that has seen his star rise at Douglas Elliman even through the current Hamptons real estate slump. Cavallo has utilized his own kind of guerilla marketing know-how in finding underutilized properties, which most agents do not spend enough time on. He matches homes and plots with buyers and builders who transform them into what the modern East End buyer is looking for. Finding the diamond in the rough is a rare talent, not an easy feat in this region, where properties are at the very high-end of the price pyramid. And because of his family experience that is entrenched in building, he is especially valuable for builders who are looking for affordable plots to build their specs or custom builds. He has a deep knowledge of the Hamptons real estate market, as well as building parameters and what is available for a wide range of buyers. To better serve his clients, Tom is constantly searching for new opportunities in real estate investing and where there are still strong values in the Hamptons. He won’t tell us his secret sauce, but his conversion rate in a slow market saw him closing homes where not many were succeeding. Prior to his career in real estate, Tom worked with children with special needs, including teaching at BOCES.

You’re in the top three percent of all Elliman agents. What’s your secret?

estate market? I’ve been in real estate for more than a decade and have been with Douglas Elliman for six years. I became interested in real estate at a young age because it was always a big part of my life — my family has been building homes on Long Island for decades. So, I suppose it was a natural career path for me. I love the challenges of the real estate business and have a knack for finding off-market opportunities and a keen eye for development opportunities.

Are you local to the area? I’m a native Long Islander, but I grew up a bit farther west, in Northport. I’m not a stranger to the area though — I spent summers in Montauk and the Hamptons growing up. I now live here in Southampton with my wife. We love it out here.

You’re part of a family that is well-versed in Hamptons real estate. Can you talk about that? I grew up learning the ins and outs of the industry due to my family’s business. My father, and now, brother, own a building and contracting company, Cavallo Building. Learning from my father and watching him work definitely helped inspire me to make my own mark on the industry.

Why Douglas Elliman? Even though there are so many amazing brokerages on the East End, I chose Elliman for the company’s national reach and considerable NYC presence. Douglas Elliman affords their brokers the marketing power needed to reach an exclusive network of buyers and investors — not to mention sellers — because homes on the East End are so coveted by a global market.

I think that the great low interest rates have helped tremendously. They’ve helped to build up demand for both my buyers and my builders, which has resulted in a strong start for 2020. So yes, I’m super optimistic.

Do you have any advice for buyers in this market? At the moment, renters and buyers are out in the market in full force. The homes that are priced appropriately are selling, and the ones that are sitting are sitting for a reason. My advice would be to shop smart. Take both the particulars of the home (rent roll/size, any possible renovations needed) and the home’s location into consideration. For both investment and re-sale purposes, it’s smart to buy a home that will yield a high rent roll. If a home requires expansion or extensive renovations, it sometimes makes more sense for buyer to build a new home instead. It’s important to take a location’s potential into consideration as well, with regard to what’s going to be the next up-and-coming area. A home could be in an underrated location or close to an area that’s becoming more popular, and those things are important to note.

What about sellers? There are definitely some uncertainties in the market right now that might have some people worried. One big recent concern is the coronavirus, which is obviously a big wild card. However, I think this will actually affect the housing market in some positive ways. The recent push and drop in mortgage rates will boost home sales. Mortgage rates are already at three-year lows. There are a lot of investors who are more inclined to invest in real estate than the stock market, especially in the Hamptons, since it’s an international market with histori-

cally high rent rolls and low taxes. A lot of people want to get their houses sold, so there are great deals to be made. Pre-construction homes are hot with the builders I support. I sold quite a few this spring before they even hit the market.

You’ve worked with special needs kids, can you tell us a little about that? Absolutely. A fun fact about me: I was born with only one hand. I’ve never considered it a disability or let it keep me from accomplishing anything I’ve set my sights on. I’ve always enjoyed working with children, and my own experiences drove me to want to help inspire confidence in kids who might need a little extra support to achieve their own goals. I worked as a one-on-one tutor with kids at BOCES, and found the experience to be really rewarding. At one point, I was actually considering pursuing a career in special education, before I found my passion for real estate. However, I still enjoy being part of the special needs community and I make sure to support local kids and try to serve as a mentor. I think it’s important to give back.

What do you do for fun? Aside from the aforementioned work with the community, I really enjoy the outdoors. I like to be active and tend to spend my free time outside. Depending on the season, you can find me fishing, playing tennis, or snowboarding.

Anything you’d like to add? I’ve found that most buyers prefer new homes if they can afford the product. I specialize in that type of product and have excelled in a very difficult market, with 2019 marking one of my best years. My reach has grown exponentially with builders, so if you’re a builder and need someone very experienced in finding properties to take it to the next level, I’m your man! For home buyers, I have an arsenal of inventory for every price point. Just give me a call, and I’ll show you all of the possibilities — and maybe even my favorite fishing spots. To inquire about Cavallo’s properties or to sell your home, call 631-871-1401 or email tcavallo@elliman.com.

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Elliman Hits $28.7 Billion In National Sales

Morabito Team, The Terry Thompson Team, The Porto Francavilla Team, and The Avigdor/Penkova Team. The top individual prize based on transactions went to Angelica Cocha out of the Hampton Bays office. Other winners were Taleb Adla, Susan Ceslow, Thomas Cavallo, and Robert Landsiedel. The prestigious Pinnacle Club Award-winners from the Hamptons, presented to agents and teams who made over $1 million in 2019, included The Atlantic Team, Erica Grossman, Michaela Keszler, The Enzo Morabito Team, and The Terry Thompson Team. Established in 1911, Douglas Elliman Realty has more than 7000 agents. The company operates approximately 120 offices across New York City, Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Texas. Douglas Elliman has a global alliance with London-based Knight Frank Residential for business in the worldwide luxury markets, spanning 60 countries and six continents. The company also controls a portfolio of real estate services including Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, Douglas Elliman Property Management, and Douglas Elliman Commercial. For more information on Douglas Elliman Realty visit www.elliman.com. ‘Tell people not to come to get tested unless they are having trouble breathing.’ They’ll just take their vitals and send them home.” Another nurse said, “It’s like Bedlam in here,” referring to the influx of possible coronavirus carriers throughout the day on Monday. The emergency room had every bed filled, but the staff stayed calm and helpful. LeRoy was eventually released. The number of known coronavirus cases in the United States continues to increase. As of Monday morning, March 9, at least 545 people have been treated for coronavirus in 34 states and Washington, D.C., according to a New York Times database, and at least 22 patients with the virus have died. The first NYC resident tested positive on March 1. The patient, a 39-year-old Manhattan woman, had just returned from Iran when she started having mild respiratory symptoms. Cuomo said the woman and her husband are health care workers and they both isolated themselves at home. Her husband tested negative for the virus. The best advice for those who think they may have the virus but are not yet having trouble breathing — stay home, wash your hands, and stay tuned.

Mohegan Sun was the place to be on March 3 when the largest brokerage in the New York Metropolitan area, Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC, celebrated the firm’s world-class agents from around the nation at its annual awards ceremony, The Ellies. The company is the second largest independent residential real estate brokerage in the United States by sales volume. Top performers from the East End were among the honorees at this year’s event held at the casino in Uncasville, CT. “Each year, our talented and hardworking agents prove their status and reputation as best-in-class — and 2019 was no exception,” Douglas Elliman Executive Chairman Howard Lorber said. “We’re thrilled to celebrate the

extraordinary results of their labor. As always, Elliman remains committed to providing our agents with the best technological and marketing resources to help them excel, and we know that they’ll continue this unbridled success in 2020 and beyond.” Nationwide sales for Douglas Elliman in 2019 totaled $28.7 billion as the company continued its growth into new markets. The firm was responsible for 44,726 sales and rental transactions, and was ranked second among brokerages in the nation by sales volume. “This was my inaugural year managing Elliman’s Hamptons division, and these agents could not have made me prouder,” said Todd Bourgard, Douglas Elliman’s senior executive regional manager of sales for the Hamptons.

“Our team working on the South Fork has produced stellar results. We love what we do, and it’s clear that we’re very good at what we do. Elliman’s strong support of its people is always obvious to us, and we’re excited to move forward with another exemplary year of accomplishments in the Hamptons under our belts.” In the Hamptons, the top individual prize based on gross commission income was awarded to Michaela Keszler of the group’s Southampton office. Erica Grossman, Thomas Cavallo, Dawn Neway, Lynda Packard, Christopher Stewart, Maryanne Horwath, Yorgos Tsibiridis, David Donohue, and Susan Ceslow followed in succession. The Hamptons award for top team by gross commission income went to The Enzo Morabito Team for the 10th year in a row. The group operated out of the Westhampton Beach and Sag Harbor offices. Other Top 10 teams in the Hamptons included The Atlantic Team, The Terry Thompson Team, The Avigdor Penkova Team, the Aarons/ Goodstein Team, The Nigro Team, The Porto Francavilla Team, the Michael Daly Team, The Civale-Fisher Team, and The Skislock Frezzo Team. The Atlantic Team, based in East Hampton, was named the top performing team by number of transactions in the Hamptons, followed by The Enzo

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precaution to minimize the outbreak in this country. “The coronavirus outbreak is a quickly evolving situation, and now is not the time to play politics. At a time like this, fear can oftentimes outweigh facts, and we are even more susceptible to fear when the facts are hard to come by, such as when many students were recently sent to our district from affected countries. Clear, open, and constant communication is key to effectively combat this outbreak.” At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, by January 1, coronavirus was spreading across China, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand, according to the World Health Organization. By the third week, the first confirmed case was reported in Washington state in the U.S. The carnage in China — thousands of cases resulting in hundreds of deaths — forced WHO to issue a “public health emergency of international concern.” The U.S. State Department warned travelers to avoid China and issued worldwide alerts. By January 31, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered certain international travel restrictions. In South Korea, and then Iran, cases multiplied. On February 28, Italy became the epicenter of the coronavi-

rus surge in Europe. The number of infections in Europe spiked. In the United States, cases started popping up rapidly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on March 1, “It’s not a matter of if, but when.” “Ultimately, we expect we will see community spread in this country,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases told reporters. “It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more of a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness,” she said. Bridget LeRoy, The Independent editor alluded to earlier in the article, went to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after exhibiting symptoms. She said there might be additional cases hereabouts that haven’t been reported yet. “At least 20 other people are here with same symptoms as me,” she texted to the office. “Had a chest x-ray and urine tested, but they won’t use COVID testing unless patients are at ‘death’s door.’ Everyone who works here only gets ONE facemask a day so they don’t run out. And a nurse said,

Local brokers and teams honored at The Ellies national award ceremony By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Continued From Page 6. University campus that were recalled from their State University of New York study abroad programs. Officials stressed none of the students have tested positive. Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman was nonetheless annoyed the information about the students wasn’t shared with town officials. “I’m not very happy but there isn’t much I can do about it,” he said. By noon Monday, there were 142 cases reported in New York, the most in the country. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a new policy for New York schools that would require a 24-hour initial school closure if a student tests positive. “After that, we will make an assessment of the situation and the facts and make a determination going forward,” Cuomo said. “We have a significant number of people now on quarantine,” Cuomo said. “We don’t want to add to the burden we’re creating. But for the business community, it’s in their interest that people stay home and stop the spread.” Congressman Lee Zeldin said federal officials have taken every

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Plotting For Power Mattituck theatre brings Tudor-period drama ‘Wolf Hall’ to its stage By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The year is 1527 and you’re walking along the streets of England. The country is in political and religious unrest because King Henry VIII is still without a male heir. It’s all the country can talk about. Then, Thomas Cromwell begins his rise to the king’s chief minister in 1532, a powerful event in the English Reformation. The king’s wife, Anne Boleyn, is even set for a beheading — a scandalous tale itself. What is England to do? This is the story of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall.” Now through March 23, The North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck presents a Colin Palmer- di-

rected and Laura Pearsall- produced stage adaptation of Mantel’s novel. “I was definitely drawn by the challenge,” Palmer said. “I think any play where politicians and rulers are constantly conniving and plotting their way to power is going to be relevant. Especially ‘Wolf Hall,’ where people are willing to jeopardize their own convictions in order to achieve their own ends. This is definitely a great show to see as Primary season is in full swing.” “Wolf Hall” stars 22 local performers: John Bradley, John Condon, Mike Drozd, Meghan Duffy, Bill Gardner, Justin Harris, Huck Hirsch, Michael Horn,

North Fork News Compiled by Jenna Mackin

Weekly Art Program At CMEE The Children’s Museum of the East End has announced it’s offering a weekly family art program at its new location in Riverside. The space will be used by the museum for enrichment programs while continuing to serve as a daytime preschool. Currently, the art program meets on Thursday nights from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. For more information visit www.CMEE.org.

From Art To Arthritis Drop by the Mattituck-Laurel Library for an evening Play to Learn workshop for those 13 months to 3 years old. En-

joy the unique experience of spending quality time with your child through play and art activities ending with a circle of songs and rhymes. No registration is required. Need help for painful knees and hips? Come meet Mattituck native Seth B. Korbin MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, on Thursday, March 12, at 6:30 PM. He will discuss how the newest advances in orthopedic surgery can restore the quality of life of those who suffer from pain related to arthritic knees and hips. Registration is required but the event is free. For more calendar events or information, go to www.mattituck-

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Brianna Kinnier, Christian Lepore, Connor Liddell, Eric Momente, AD Newcomer, Colin Palmer, Jim Pearsall, Pete Peterson, Wendy Peterson, Sarah Storjohann, John Tramontana, Brian Truden, Skylar Wowak, and John Yaiullo. Like any good drama, the mood is carefully captured through light designed by Kayla Lessard. Diane Peterson laurellibrary.org.

Women’s Healthcare Panel Meet a panel of female medical experts who have been brought to the area to address the needs of women’s healthcare on Monday, March 16, at noon at the Riverhead Free Library. The Peconic Bay Medical Center’s Medical Director Jean Cacciabaudo will moderate a panel. Seating is limited. For more information visit www.pbmc.org.

East End Workforce Crisis? Is the East End in a workforce crisis? Join the discussion on Monday, March 23, from 11:30 AM to 1 PM at Hotel Indigo. Enjoy lunch while a panel of experts discuss the labor laws that affect local businesses, youth, and the economy. The fee is $20 for members and $30 for non-members. For more information go to www.riverheadchamber.com.

created costumes indicative of the era — a visual piece that instantly transports the audience to Tudor England. The North Fork Community Theatre is located on 12700 Old Sound Avenue in Mattituck. Show dates are Friday through Sunday, March 13 to 15, and March 20 to 22. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at www.nfct.com.

Gunshot Fatality In Aquebogue Riverhead Town Police found a Aquebogue homeowner dead Sunday night, March 8, the victim of a shotgun wound. Police went to the Pine Avenue house at about 10:24 PM to check the residence, apparently responding to a call. Lee Pederson, 69, whom police said is listed as the owner of the premises, was already dead when they arrived. Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives have taken over the case, after the county medical examiner determined the shotgun wound as the cause of Pederson’s death. RM

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Camps & Recreation East Hampton Sports Camp @ Sportime 631-267-CAMP (2267) www.sportimeny.com/summercamps/ehsc 320 Abrahams Path, East Hampton East Hampton Sports Camp @ SPORTIME offers children between the ages of 3 and 13 an exciting program of sports and games including tennis, baseball, swimming, basketball, soccer, dodgeball, capture-the-flag, and more. Experienced art and music teachers also provide campers with a variety of creative activities, special events, and themed days.

The Country School Summer Camp 631-537-2255 www.countryschooleasthampton.org 7 Industrial Road, Wainscott The Country School Summer Camp is for kids ages 3-and-a-half through 7. There is a full range of activities to choose from, including art, science, music, gymnastics, jewelry-making, team sports, swimming,

and more. Call for dates and rates.

YMCA East Hampton RECenter 631-329-6884 www.ymcali.org 2 Gingerbread Lane, East Hampton At the YMCA Summer Day Camp, children learn leadership skills and develop self-confidence in a safe, accepting, and stimulating environment. Flexible programs are designed to accommodate all families across Long Island and catered to meet your child’s interests and abilities. If your child can dream it, they can do it at the YMCA Summer Day Camp. Weekly sessions begin June 29 and run through September 4. YMCA membership is required, and space is limited. Visit the YMCA’s website for more information.

Summer Camp @ ROSS 631-907-5555 www.ross.org/programs/summer 18 Goodfriend Drive, East Hampton

Summer Camp @ Ross offers a variety of programs across the arts and athletics. There’s also an innovation lab, media, performing arts, music, and movement for campers between the ages of 6 and 15. Early childhood programming for children 6 and younger includes music and movement, creative exploration, and sports exploration. The camp’s majors and minors programming give campers the opportunity to explore their two favorite areas. Weekly sessions begin June 29 and run through August 21.

two-week sessions or a special four-tofive-day mini-session for girls entering first to sixth grade. Camp Blue Bay offers troop house camping and outdoor tent camping. Throughout the week, girls will enjoy swimming in Gardiners Bay, learn to shoot arrows on the archery course, make crafts, and roast marshmallows over a campfire. Other camp activities include boating at Hog Creek, learning about nature and outdoor survival skills, team-building, sailing, games, and sports. Sessions begin July 9 and run through August 20.

Camp Blue Bay 631-604-2201 www.gsnc.org/en/camp/CO/camp-bluebay.html 103 Flaggy Hole Road, East Hampton Located on 179 acres in East Hampton, Camp Blue Bay sleepaway camp is the perfect place for girls in third to 11th grade to have fun while discovering new things. Camp programs are available in one or

Summer Reading Club At East Hampton Library 631-324-0222 www.easthamptonlibrary.org 159 Main Street, East Hampton Registration for East Hampton Library’s summer reading clubs, which have the theme “Imagine Your Story,” begin May 23. This summer, there will be three

The Premier Camps of the Hamptons! DAY CAMPS IN EAST HAMPTON

TENNIS BASKETBALL SOCCER MULTISPORT Programs for ages 4–16 Half-day option for ages 4–6 June 22–August 28 REGISTER TODAY! ROSS.ORG/SPORTSCAMP

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT Ages 0–2 CAMP Ages 2–14 COUNSELOR IN TRAINING Ages 13–15 June 29–August 21 REGISTER TODAY! ROSS.ORG/SUMMERCAMP

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groups: read-to-me readers (ages twoand-a-half to kindergarten); independent readers (entering first through fifth grade); and young teens (entering sixth through eighth grade.) Prizes will be awarded. The program ends on August 29.

camp runs from July 27 through July 31 from 9 AM until noon in the Havens Barn. Registration is now open.

Future Stars Camp 631-287-6707 www.fscamps.com 1370A Majors Path, Southampton Future Stars Camps is offering summer camps focusing on things from tennis to chessboards, and kayaks to baseball fields. There will be activities for those age 1-anda-half to 16. Future Stars Southampton, LLC, which operates the 46,000-squarefoot state-of-the-art indoor complex on Majors Path, is an affiliate of Future Stars Tennis, LLC, one of New York’s largest sports management companies. Programs operate from June 8 through August 28.

Time Travelers 631-749-0025 w w w . s h e l t e r i s l a n d h i s t o r i c a l .o r g / timetravelers 16 South Ferry Road, Shelter Island The Shelter Island Historical Society hosts a weeklong, half-day summer program for children ages 6 to 12. Participants will journey back in time to explore Shelter Island’s story through music, art, performance, crafts, gardening, and games. The

Bulldog Ball Club 212-472-8344 www.bulldogballclub.com/summer-camps 2 Long Lane, East Hampton Based at East Hampton High School for the summer, the multisport camp for children 6 to 13 is now open for registration. Weekly sessions run from July 6 through August 21 and from 9 AM to 3 PM daily. The camp programs are designed to improve children’s knowledge and skills for beginners and experienced players alike. Camp offerings include soccer, flag football, and basketball. Transportation is available from Bridgehampton and Water Mill.

SoFo Camp 631-537-9735 www.sofo.org 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will have one-week marine and coastal maritime explorations. Children will be fully engaged in studies where they learn about marine and coastal ecosystems that are found only on the East End of Long Island. Each program is adapted to its particular age group to pro-

vide optimal hands-on learning activities and adventures. The peanut bunker is for children 6 to 8, entering first, second, or third grades, and begins July 20. The sea bass group is for children 9 to 11, entering fourth, fifth, or sixth grade, and starts July 27. The fish hawks group is for children 12 to 14, entering seventh, eighth, or ninth grades, and begins August 3.

The Art Farm 631-537-1634 www.theartfarmhamptons.org 46A Old Country Road, Westhampton The Art Farm offers small groups and tailored schedules that meet the desires of each camper to create a unique experience for kids ages 5 to 12. Campers spend their morning on the water and the afternoon on The Art Farm in the Hamptons’ organic, sustainable farm. Mornings are about being active, challenged, informed, and fulfilled while exploring. Afternoons add a chance for creativity, time spent nurturing the animals, teamwork, and fun, always combined with composting, reducing, reusing, and recycling. The program runs June 29 through September 4. A full day is 9 AM to 3 PM.

Camp Shakespeare 631-267-0105 www.hamptons-shakespeare.org 486 Montauk Highway, Amagansett

Camp Shakespeare is a fun, creative, and welcoming place for kids and teens ages 8 to 15. Activities involve acting, improvisation, movement, voice, and theatrical arts and crafts, and are led by trained theater educators in an atmosphere of discovery and cooperation. Each weeklong session culminates in a performance for family and friends. Camp Shakespeare is held on the expansive grounds of and inside St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

Camp Invention 1-800-968-4332 www.campinvention.org 3 Gingerbread Lane, East Hampton Camp Invention is where big ideas become the next big thing. Local educators lead a week of hands-on activities created especially for children entering kindergarten through sixth grades. Camp Invention’s new program “elevate” is a high-energy, hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) camp that gives boys and girls the opportunity to dream, build, and make discoveries. They will have a chance to examine science and technology concepts during team-building exercises. Camp Invention will be offered at John Marshall Elementary School from 8 AM to 4 PM August 10 through August 13.

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East Hampton Indoor Tennis 631-537-8012 www.ehit.club 175 Daniels Hole Road, East Hampton The Davis Cup Tennis Program provides top summer tennis instruction on a daily, weekly, or seasonal basis on one of 26 courts. Players of all skill levels are welcome to attend and each camper is placed into an appropriate group. Dates run June 15 through September 7 for those age 7 to 16.

Peconic Dunes 4-H Camp 631-852-8629 www.ccesuffolk .org /peconic-dunes4-h-camp 6375 Soundview Avenue, Southold The Cornell Cooperative Extension sponsors a sleepaway and day camp for youngsters. It includes training in outdoor survival, marine science, and forest, pond, and woodlands study. Call for more information. Weeklong overnight camp is for children entering third to 10th grade and runs June 28 through August 22. Day camps are available for children ages 6 to 12, and sessions run June 29 through August 21. The company also offer counselor-in-training programs for those entering 11th grade (need to be at least 16 years old by June 10). That program runs in two sessions: June 28 through July 25 and July 26 through August 22.

Amaryllis Farm Equine Rescue Pony Tails Compassion Camp 631-537-7335 www.amaryllisfarm.com 864 Lumber Lane, Bridgehampton For the camper who just can’t get enough of the world of horses, Amaryllis Farm Equine Rescue, Inc. has a camp for you. From June 29 through August 28, those 7 to 17 can enter the camp that runs from 9:30 AM to 1 PM. Sign-up for one week or the whole summer.

Raynor Country Day School 631-288-4658 www.raynorcountrydayschool.org/camp 170 Montauk Highway, Speonk Kids can enjoy an all-inclusive summer camp offering both indoor and outdoor options at Raynor Country Day School. The 12-acre grounds offer manicured fields, a gymnasium, two heated pools, an aquatics center, and sports courts designed for various uses. Flexible options include two-day, three-day, and five-day programs that run from 9 AM to 4 PM, Monday through Friday. A mature and experienced staff is on hand.

Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck 631-878-1070 www.camppaquatuck.com 2 Chet Swezey Road, Center Moriches Specifically designed for campers with

disabilities, each session at Camp Pa-QuaTuck is designed to help the campers ages 6 to 50, which are grouped by age, achieve equality, dignity, and maximum independence through a safe and quality program of camping, recreation, and education in a sleepaway environment. The camp aims to help all reach beyond the limits of their physical and mental challenges, encouraging them to join fellow campers in activities. Sessions begin June 7 and run through August 28.

Hamptons Baseball Camp 631-907-2566 www.hamptonsbaseballcamp.com 36 Nowedonah Avenue, Water Mill Hamptons Baseball Camp is for children of all experience levels, ages 4 to 14, who want to play baseball in a safe, fun, positive, and organized learning environment. Emphasis is placed on effort over talent, as well as team concepts, and core fundamentals. Also included are tips on diet, fitness, and the “intangibles.” Weeklong summer sessions are available from June 15 through September 4, Monday through Friday, from 9 AM to 1 PM.

Sandy Hollow Day Camp 631-283-2296 www.sandyhollowdaycamp.com 117 Sandy Hollow Road, Southampton The Southampton-based camp, for ages 4 through 14, offers a wide variety of activities, including swimming, tennis, sports,

and arts and crafts. It is family-owned and operated. Both full-day and half-day options are available from June 29 through August 28.

MBX Surf Camp 631-537-2716 www.mainbeach.com/camp 500 Montauk Highway, Amagansett The leading surf camp in the hamptons is about adventure, surfing, and water safety. Each camper receives focused attention, in small groups, and all lessons are taught by certified instructors. It runs in five-day, weeklong sessions from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM and goes from June 26 through August 28.

Pathfinder Country Day Camp 631-668-2080 www.pathfinderdaycamp.com 2nd House Road, Montauk Treat your kids to a summer they will remember in scenic Montauk. Activities include swimming instruction in a heated pool, basketball, baseball, archery, tennis, cookouts, and more. There are four-week sessions June 29 through July 24 or July 27 through August 21. There are also three-day, four-day, and five-day options.

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Bay Street Theater has summer camps and classes available that include puppetry, musical theater, and the work of Shakespeare. An array of offerings are suitable for kids between the ages of 4 and 14. Weeklong camps begin July 6 and run through August 28. Visit the website to see all options.

East End Arts School 631-369-2171 www.eastendarts.org 141 East Main Street, Riverhead Everything Wild is a creative arts, music, and theater two-week-long camp for children 5 to 10 years old. There is also an unexpected discoveries arts and music camp that runs for one week for children 9 to 14. Both run Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM, with early morning and aftercare options available. Programs begin July 6 and run through August 28.

Camp Good Grief 631-288-8400 www.eehcampgoodgrief.org 2 Chet Swezey Road, Center Moriches Every year, East End Hospice offers a summer camp for children who have experienced the loss of a loved one. This year, Camp Good Grief will be held July 20 to 24 at Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck in Center Moriches. Registration opens mid-April. There are fun activities and plenty of surprises, plus the camp gives children a chance to bond with others who have had similar experiences.

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Sports Pierson Falls In Regional Semifinal Giles scores team-high 22 points in 54-43 LIC loss to East Rockaway By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Without two starters, Pierson senior point guard Chastin Giles’s teamhigh 22 points, including four threepointers, was just not enough to lift her Whalers in the 54-43 Long Island Class C championship loss to East Rockaway March 9. “It’s frustrating. They didn’t beat the Pierson Whalers, they only beat a part of us,” head coach Woody Kneeland said discussing the absence of junior forward Gylia Dryden and sophomore guard Sofia Mancino. “Somebody had to step up, but we didn’t step up enough.” The Whalers (13-9) let go of a 15-7 first-quarter lead, where Giles scored nine points off a three-pointer, a grab-and-go layup, and a field goal on a breakaway, to go down 22-21 at halftime. East Rockaway’s Hunter Vertuccio led a balanced atContinued On Page 36.

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Hurricanes Drop Section XI Title Game To Northport Layla Mendoza scores 17 points in 72-45 loss, looks to regional final By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Layla Mendoza is taking nothing but positives from a 72-45 loss to Northport in the Section XI overall championship game March 5. “We learn from a loss. We go back and fix the problems,” Mendoza said. “I feel like we did well overall playing with a big school, and we have a strong team that will only continue growing stronger.” Although wishing she’d contributed more in the first half, the senior forward finished the evening with a team-high 17 points — scoring 13 of them in the final two frames — grabbed three big rebounds, and made a block. Mendoza capped the third, which Westhampton (22-3) trailed 36-16 entering, racking up eight of 10 straight Hurricane points to close the gap back to 20 points, 51-31. She

sank two free-throws after a field goal at the three-minute mark before sophomore guard Olivia Rongo’s bucket off a Belle Smith (seven points, two steals) assist. That’s also when Mendoza got to work on the boards and pulled down two rebounds in a 30-second span, both of which she converted for points on the other end. “I feel I could have been more active out there in the first half,” she said. “But the second half we really picked it up on defense and were getting steals and rebounds, got more aggressive.” The senior secured 10 points in the third, and Caroline Henke added three. Sophomore guard Molly McCarthy, who scored seven points by driving the Continued On Page 35.

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Being overwhelmed with responsibility, emotion, and negativity can become second nature. But is it possible to be overwhelmed with goodness? Feeling O2 Good in Riverhead hopes to make that possible. Since its opening in 2018, owner Matthew Forrest has set his sights on changing the way locals live. He believes his spot on the roundabout on Flanders Road is a complete one-stop-shop for your wellness needs. The vibe is a far cry from what you traditionally think of when you hear wellness on the East End. Envision “Wanderlust” — a 2012 film starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston — open minds, open hearts, and a lot of positive energy. The host of services include an oxygen bar, infrared sauna, ionic foot detox, whole-body vibration machine, full-body red light therapy, chi machine, ozone therapy, and a hot yoga studio. But that’s not all. There’s also a juice bar, kombucha on tap, immune-boosting products, pure alkaline water, açaí bowls, organic nuts and seeds in bulk, herbal remedies, tinctures, vitamins, probiotics, and teas. In being both health and environmentallyconscious, everything is sold in glass or biodegradable containers with plans to

use more hemp products “as the landscape continues to shift,” Forrest said. All of this is in an inconspicuous blue building with a smiley face emoji welcoming passersby. Feeling O2 Good wants to be a platform for making healing affordable and accessible to everyone. The company now offers 18-person entirely donationbased yoga classes, making it the first and only studio of its kind on the East End. “We have positioned ourselves in such a way that we have the opportunity to offer such a thing,” Forrest said. “We all need to connect with each other in a way that can break through this hard shell that we have been cloaked in. Yoga is a way for us to drop our armor and connect as perfectly imperfect as we all are.” It’s a lot of positive energy to fit into a building designed more like a home than a holistic wellness spa. But what makes the place unique is the backstory behind it. Before its opening, Forrest was just another construction worker on Long Island who went to the gym. His inspiration for change began in the summer of 2016, when being poisoned from

eating chicken dramatically changed his life. “Three days later I couldn’t breathe,” he said. “It went on for over a year.” His organs started shutting down, causing him to lose 30 pounds. At the same time, his father was losing a fiveyear battle with cancer. So, Forrest began to read, study, and research alternative solutions to traditional medicine, hoping to help both himself and his father. He fasted, went vegan, got into oxygen therapy, and juiced. “I formulated a system of healing for myself that was rigorous and promising,” he said. Then one day, while riding the Long Island Rail Road to Manhattan, he got the dreaded call from his brother that their father had died. “I closed my eyes and began to pray for my father, and his face, as real as your reflection in the mirror, visited me in that moment,” Forrest said. “He said, ‘When you cure yourself, don’t be selfish, help others do the same. What you know is not common knowledge.’ And, with my head in my hands, I wept and prayed to God to never let me forget that I was

Feeling O2 Good wants to be a platform for making healing affordable and accessible to everyone. blessed with that visit and that message. I knew everything was going to change, and here we are.” Feeling O2 Good is a destination dedicated to harnessing the energy that’s right in front of you. “I am a faith-based person and we are a faith-based project — and that is the difference,” Forrest said. “We promote hope and kindness. We are here to plant seeds, to be present with people, to listen, to care about each other, to create community.”

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CHIP SHOTS By Bob Bubka

More Concern For Tiger bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com Last week, I indicated I felt a strong concern for Tiger Wood’s ability to play after he pulled out of several tournaments. Tiger opting not to play in The Players Championship, golf’s fifth-largest event, solidified it. “Tiger’s back isn’t ready,” his management team. The professional’s back has been operated on four times, but have we seen the last of Tiger? It’s too early to tell, but he has now missed out on four weeks of big tournaments. Back on the PGA Tour clubs were swimming at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge during Arnold Palmer In-

vitational. Arnold loved his event and I loved covering it even more. It is readily acknowledged he is the reason today’s players are able to make such a great living playing golf. Arnold has been dubbed “The King” in the golf world, and there’s no doubt he was a special human being in so many ways, and absolutely deserved that title. Did you know that Arnold and his Winnie were married for over four decades? Nobody could ever say he didn’t know what he wanted. The King met Winnie for the first time on a Tuesday and they were married the next Satur-

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Tennant’s purse. Mitchell, severely wounded, was medivaced to Stony Brook University Hospital, which is a trauma one center. “In this case, technology is going to reveal and expose her intent,” Aboulafia said. “Common sense,” he continued, will lead the jury to finding Tennant guilty. Touhy, naturally, had quite a different take on the relationship between Tennant and Mitchell. He said Tennant was the victim of repeated domestic violence incidents. Touhy said the case was about “self-defense, and reasonable doubt.” He painted Mitchell as “a constantly scheming and manipulative guy.” “There were only two people there,” Touhy said. “At the end of the day, there are two stories here. She is going to testify. She is going to give her side of the story.” Touhy said that “Mr. Mitchell is the one who had the gun.” It was self-defense, Touhy said. “After he was shot, he still ran after her. The reality is, he regained control of the gun, and he was still coming after her.” “The bad guy here is Mr. Mitchell. He is the schemer. He is the one who had the gun,” he said. Touhy asked the jury about the prosecution’s claim that Tennant bought cleaning supplies hours before the shooting, “So what?” “Beyond a reasonable doubt,” Touhy told the jury. “You are going to keep hearing me say that, like a wave, again and again and again. You are going to believe my client. You are going to find my client ‘not guilty.’”

Continued From Page 20. fia. “She began banging on the door.” According to Aboulafia, Tennant, who is six feet tall and a former athlete, broke through the door. “She was holding a gun with two hands, and she was pointing it directly at him.” According to Aboulafia, Tennant then told Mitchell, “You aren’t going to marry me. I’m going to kill you and kill myself.” Tennant fired the gun, shooting Mitchell in the chest, the prosecutor said. She left the bathroom, going into the adjoining bedroom. According to the prosecutor, Tennant jumped onto the bed, and pulled the trigger again. In the prosecutor’s narrative, Mitchell, already shot twice in the chest, wrestled with Tennant for the gun, getting his finger into the trigger, when he tried to squeeze off shots to empty the .38. Tennant fled out the door, Aboulafia said, with Mitchell following her, the prosecutor said. Tennant drove off in her Hyundai Santa Fe SUV. According to the prosecutor, Tennant’s intent to kill Mitchell is evidenced by her actions after the shooting. Having left her purse in the house, Tennant drove to a CVS in Manorville, where she purchased a disposable cell phone with cell phone minutes, a container of water, and a shirt. Four hours before the shooting, he said, Tennant had purchased a quantity of cleaning supplies from the CVS where she had worked, and is currently on leave from, in East Hampton. According to the prosecution, an unspent bullet matching those that Mitchell was shot with was found in

day. After the death of his best friend, Buddy Worsham, Arnold joined the United States Coast Guard and served three years before returning to finish playing college golf at Wake Forest. My all-time favorite moment with Arnold came at the 1994 U.S. Open at Oakmont, not very far from his hometown of Latrobe, PA. This was the 32nd and last U.S. Open he played in. Anybody and everybody came to the 18th hole to bid farewell to The King. After signing his scorecard, Arnold was brought to a reporter with ABC, who had the television rights for an interview. He came away from it with tears rolling down his cheeks. After that it was my turn with The King. As we began talking, it was clear those were tears of joy in those twinkling eyes. It was then I realized the magnitude of the moment. What a sight. I have been blessed with many golden moments in my golf broadcasting career, but that interview with the

game’s most popular player is my alltime favorite. Arnold had his own thoughts about the mental side of things. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect,” he said. “It is at the same time rewarding and maddening, and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” That pretty much sums up the first PGA Tour victory by Englishman Tyrrell Hatton. He controlled the mental side, played some great golf, and is now the newest Arnold Palmer Invitational Champion after a three-year exemption on the PGA Tour. Next up is The Players, the PGA Tour’s showcase event. Without Tiger there will be a lot less buzz, and the question everyone is asking is whether Tiger will be able to defend his Master’s title. Trust me, there is a huge difference between a Masters with and without him.

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contest them as much as we can knowing how many great shooters they have.” Yearwood and Pavinelli’s threes (each hit three) were broken up by Mendoza’s other bucket in the third to extend the Tigers’ advantage to 47-19 before Henke scored at the 3:52 mark. Kelly McLaughlin racked up 10 points off field goals for Northport, which earned its first overall title since 2006. “I thought we did a lot of really positive things against a powerhouse like Northport as we move toward the Long Island championship,” head coach Katie Peters said. Westhampton will face the Nassau County Class A champion in the regional final at St. Joseph’s College Sunday, March 15, at 1:30 PM. “We’ll work on fouling and just our fundamentals in general,” Mendoza said. “We need to box out correctly and move our feet more on defense, but we’ll be ready.”

Continued From Page 33. baseline for big finishes and hitting a three-pointer in the first quarter, collected four rebounds and stole the ball twice. Rongo, who added six points, also grabbed four rebounds. Northport (22-2) started with a 13-1 run to set the tone, jumping out to a 1710 lead after the first quarter. Danielle Pavinelli (19 points), Sophia Yearwood (13 points), and Kerry Dennin (13 points) proved tough to contain. A total of five Tigers scored from three-point range. Sophia Bica (11 points, three trifectas), Tess Maline, and Dennin each swished shots from beyond the arc in just over a minute to help make up an 11-2 run that put Northport out front 29-14 with just over three minutes until halftime. “Northport is really good with moving the ball around and getting threes,” Mendoza said. “Our game plan was just to

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into the final stanza. “We lost our composure, didn’t realize how much time was left in the game — they were just stressing,” Kneeland said. “We had a good lead, did well on offense, but we win games at this point with defense, and we didn’t execute on defense for a long stretch of time.” Pierson came as close as 4541 late in the fourth. Back-to-back three-pointers from Giles inside the four-minute mark and two Meredith Spolarich free throws, the second, the front end of two chances from the charity stripe at the 2:47 mark, brought the game to that score. Giles scored three beyond-the-arc shots in less than a minute-and-a-half span. She hit her first of the quarter at 6:30. “She’s a dynamic player, and that’s the exciting part,” Kneeland said of Giles, who is still undecided as to where she’ll play in college. “She’s the most passionate kid on the team. I know it comes from the heart. She never wants to lose, and I love her and appreciate her for that.” East Rockaway scored seven straight points after Spolarich’s free throw. The freshman tallied Pierson’s final points on a putback before Vertuccio closed things out with two

Continued From Page 32. tack for the Rocks (9-11), scoring 27 points, 10 coming from the freethrow line. Her team tallied eight straight points to close out the first half on top, and finished the quarter on a 12-2 run. Pierson dropped the ball quite literally, throwing it out of bounds and missing shots and rebounds as East Rockaway racked up extra points on extra chances, leading to the school’s second regional semifinal win in the last three years. “All season we’ve been battling the spurts, but once we got over that hurdle in the first, they settled in and found a momentum,” East Rockaway head coach Cheri Poland said. “With every basket, they got a little more confident.” Riley O’Hagan (11 points) and Katy Howard (10 points) came through big in the second half. O’Hagan scored eight points, including two of her three three-point shots, during a 12-4 Rocks run to open the third. Vertuccio scored the other four. O’Hagan swished all three of her shots from beyond the arc in that quarter, her last coming with 5.9 seconds left to put East Rockaway out front 41-27 heading

shots from the charity stipe. “Basketball is never the number one sport at Pierson, but we do pretty well,” Kneeland said. “We were undefeated last year, won the C and B/C championships this year, finished third in the league after losing 10 seniors (11-5). We do big things with a bunch of players that don’t always play basketball.” The team is losing Giles, Kathryn Powell (four points), Mahlia Hemby, and Halle Kneeland, the head coach’sdaughter. Dryden, one of the team’s tallest girls, was out with a concussion she received when colliding with Giles during the small school championship game against Westhampton Beach February 29. She was cleared by a doctor, but couldn’t play until Wednesday as per Section XI rules. Mancino was out sick. The team found out the sophomore wasn’t going to play Monday morning. Those starters return with junior guards Grace Perello (seven points) and Brooke Esposito (two points). “There’s a good core coming back,” Kneeland said. “I could tell they were a little disappointed, but there’s a lot of good, young players still at Pierson and there’s some new coming up, so the future is bright.”

“It’s frustrating. They didn’t beat the Pierson Whalers, they only beat a part of us,” head coach Woody Kneeland said discussing the absence of Gylia Dryden and Sofia Mancino.

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worker dug up over 200 saplings from both sides of the road and transported them to the Country Lane property. There, they planted them along the exterior borders of the property, Sarpes-Santos told police, as well as along the circular driveway that opens onto Country Lane and Old Northwest Road. Sarpes-Santosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coworker was not charged by police. Once finished, the pair ran an irrigation hose along the borders of the property. The trees appeared to still be where they allegedly planted them as of Sunday morning.

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