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By Karen Fredericks karen@karenfredericks.com gramming efforts that drew a recordbreaking 50,000 visitors a year. She also initiated the much-needed Guild Hall renovation by Robert A.M. Stern, planning and successfully leading a $17-million fundraising effort.

After stepping down in 2016, she began writing the book she vowed to write while still in college: “Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait Of Lee Krasner.”

“I was a 34-year-old graduate student doing research on Krasner when she invited me to stay at her house on Springs-Fireplace Road for the summer. I was getting my masters in art history at Syracuse University, and she had agreed to let me interview her. I drove my bright orange Ford Pinto to New York City to pick her up. She was horrified by my car, but she did not own a car herself. I realized right then

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Appelhof’s Intimate Portrait Of Lee Krasner

“Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous,” are some of the words author Ruth Appelhof uses to describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) — the subject of a memoir inspired by Appelhof’s 1974 summer stay with Krasner in East Hampton, "Lee And Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner."

While perhaps best remembered by many as Jackson Pollock’s widow, she is regarded more by insiders as the producer of a major body of work that influenced the evolution of contemporary art — in particular, art made by women in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Appelhof is widely known to the Hamptons community for her almost two decades spent as executive director of Guild Hall. Her long list of accomplishments there includes pro-

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Appelhof’s Intimate Portrait Of Lee Krasner Ruth and Lee in front of “Night Watch (1960),” Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 1979.

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and there that she wasn’t really interested in my interviewing her, she just needed a chauffeur. In fact, even her knowledge of how to get to the Hamptons seemed sketchy, at best.”

Describing her Hamptons stay, Appelhof said, “At that time, Krasner was painting in the barn of Jackson Pollock’s old studio. I lived in a tiny bedroom upstairs in the house that’s now the Pollock-Krasner Museum. I’d interview her in the afternoon and type everything up at night. I’d bring down my notes in the morning and she’d take a Magic Marker and cross out all the good stuff.

I thought I could get along with almost anybody, but Lee was difficult, to say the least. Re-listening to those tapes has been very difficult for me.”

Appelhof said, “I struggled with decades of self-loathing, internalizing Krasner’s behavior and blaming myself.” But with the help of Helen Harrison of Pollock-Krasner House, the author located and reached out to many of Krasner’s other summer sitters.

“When quite a few shared experiences similar to mine, I was able to let go of that pain,” she related.

As a scholar and the friend to Krasner that she eventually became, Appelhof re-examines Krasner’s contributions in light of the intellectual and emotional experiences that Kras-

ner so candidly shared with her in weeks of interviews. In her book, Appelhof explores Krasner’s relationships with others: friends, art-world luminaries, artists allowed into her private world. Those recollections offer a window into the artist’s intense and idiosyncratic personal life as well as into her contributions through the groundbreaking work she produced over the course of more than six decades.

Appelhof notes that “for all her cruelty, she also had a large circle of deeply loyal and supportive friends and allies who helped her achieve her greatest goal: getting the recognition she deserved for her life’s work.”

Among those, key was Barbara Rose, an art historian and critic who was pivotal in arranging a show for Krasner that began in Texas and concluded at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where Krasner would be one of a very small group of female artists to have a show dedicated to her work. It was a stunning pinnacle to the artist’s career.

But in keeping with a life filled with so many hurdles, challenges, and disappointments, Krasner died before the show ever reached New York.

Hers was a life both glorious and tragic. The story Appelhof tells is riveting.

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Unprecedented Territory Dear Editor, I understand both sides and wanted to weigh in on the supermarket shelves being raided.

Locals do appreciate the New York City wealth it brings to the East End, as they need it to survive. It is, after all, a seasonal beach community.

These are difficult times for us all. What was looking good for an earlier season for the East End has turned into tragedy, as we all now practice social distancing. On top of that, our restaurants have now closed. It did not help that the store shelves were raided at the markets.

There is plenty of food and supplies to go around for everyone, but when a certain class of people takes for themselves without thinking and others must go without, it becomes frustrating to those without. Com-

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mon basic items like toilet paper and eggs, gone. Many locals do not have the income levels to purchase in bulk, especially this time of the year verses those that do. Take what you need. We need to practice common courtesy.

So, when the article from the New York Post came out, it became a clear drawn line in the sand of us versus them.

A “me first” entitlement mentality.

Today, the stores are back to normal for the most part. There was no need to panic. Everyone did, but then again, we are dealing with unprecedented territory in our lifetime.

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News & Opinion Federal, State Governments Aid New Yorkers Funding and hospital beds are coming, but ventilators are still needed

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

New York has become the area not only hit the hardest physically by COVID-19, but economically as well.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said March 23 the number of new cases in New York rose 25 percent overnight, to make it the most infected state in the nation. At press time March 24, he said the number of those infected is doubling every three days, and that he expects the apex of the pandemic could hit New York 14 to 21 days from now.

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases statewide has jumped to over 25,000, with New York City harboring the bulk of them — almost 15,000 cases. Nassau County has close to 3000 and cases in Suffolk are nearing 2000. Those numbers are more than 10 times greater than reports on the number of individuals infected in California and Washington state.

On March 20, the governor signed a 10-point policy stating all nonessential businesses statewide must close in-office personnel functions effective 8 PM Sunday, March 22.

Restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters, casinos, auditoriums, concert halls, and others were also ordered to close under the restrictions on any gathering with 50 or more participants. Bars and restaurants can still offer takeout and delivery.

This was all an effort — through social distancing — to try to slow the spread, but these changes and mandates have hit New Yorkers just as hard, if not harder than the novel coronavirus has. For those struggling and wondering how to keep their businesses afloat, help is on the way.

The U. S. Small Business Admin-

istration issued an emergency declaration a day before the executive order announcement that economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses and nonprofit organizations in the state and Suffolk County.

The Small Business Administration economic injury disaster loans offer up to $2 million in assistance per small business and can provide vital economic support to help overcome the temporary loss of revenue. These loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that can’t be paid due to COVID-19’s impact.

“Over 99 percent of businesses in the entire country are small businesses, and, employing nearly 50 percent of our entire workforce,” Congressman Lee Zeldin said. “The health and vitality of our local small businesses are critical to our entire way of life.

This critical support for our local small businesses will help ensure that they and the Long Islanders who rely on them emerge stronger than ever on the other side of the coronavirus outbreak.”

Aid has also been extended to many workers — state legislators approved bills on paid sick leave.

The sick leave measure addresses access to leave and disability benefits for quarantined individuals, and guarantees paid sick leave not related to the virus, which is relative to the size of a business.

“I just signed into law legislation to provide immediate relief to working New Yorkers whose lives are being turned upside down by COVID-19,” Cuomo said in a release March 18. “No

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one should have to make the impossible choice between losing their job or providing for their family and going to work, especially during this pandemic.”

Also on March 20, while acknowledging how closing businesses will hurt the economy, Cuomo ordered a moratorium on commercial and residential evictions for at least 90 days.

With the Department of Motor Vehicles also closing, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) is fighting to delay the October 1 deadline for travelers to obtain REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses, which will soon be needed to board domestic and international flights.

During the closure, all in-office DMV reservations, previously scheduled road tests, and vehicle appointments have been canceled. All licenses, non-driver IDs, and registrations with an expiration date of March 1, 2020 or later will be extended. Online, the DMV is still processing certain transactions relating to driver’s license, permit, and non-driver ID renewals; driving penalties and tickets; vehicle transactions; DMV records; and businesses and organizations.

The National Fight Congressional leaders are trying to negotiate a bipartisan agreement on a

$1.4-trillion economic stimulus package, as they pushed for a potential vote on March 23 amid growing concerns on Capitol Hill about the spread of COVID-19 among lawmakers. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) became the first U.S. senator to test positive, and two U.S. House of Representatives members followed his Sunday diagnosis.

A key component of the proposed bill calls for providing most Americans with $1000 and $500 for dependent minors. The average direct deposit or check for a family of four will be about $3000.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did not specify what income requirements will be in place to qualify, but Senate Republicans have pushed for a $75,000 income cap per individual to receive the money or $150,000 per couple.

The bill also proposes aid to small business owners, potentially providing retention loans to pay workers for two weeks. The companies would need to retain employees, and would get some overhead money, with the prospect of the loans being forgiven so long as workers are not laid off.

Under the proposed bill, the government will provide enhanced unemployment relief for people laid off, Continued On Page 13.

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Spike In Gun Sales As virus spreads, many worried not just about health, but safety

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Long Islanders are not just lining up to buy hand sanitizer, antibacterial wipes, and toilet paper amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re lining up to buy guns, too.

“We have had a line every day for over a week, starting one, two hours before we open,” said Chris LaPonite, coowner of Medford-based Long Island Gun Source. “Almost all are first-time gun buyers.”

Co-owner Cliff Pfleger, who also runs the Facebook page Long Island Firearm Forum, said sales have “gone up 1000 percent,” adding he’s only letting five people in his shop at a time to ensure social distancing.

“They don’t care. At this point, they feel that having a firearm is more important than the guy coughing next to you,” Pfleger said. “But most first-timers put it in their closet and never use it. I’ll buy it back from them in a few years as a used-

new gun.”

Statistics reported by Ammo.com from February 23 to March 15 reveal a 309 percent increase in revenue, a 222 percent increase in transactions, a 77 percent increase in site traffic, and a 27 percent increase in the average order.

The site, which sells ammunition online, witnessed a 276 percent sales surge on March 10, the day the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. reached more than 1000.

According to the most up-to-date figures from Suffolk and Nassau County Departments of Health and the state, novel coronavirus cases in New York surpassed more than 25,000, Suffolk County is nearing 2000 cases, said 55 are hospitalized and 14 of them are in intensive care units.

“My message would be for people to relax and not to panic,” Bellone said on a

Chris LaPonite, co-owner of Long Island Gun Source, said there’s been a long line outside his Medford-based shop daily since the announcement of the rise in COVID-19 cases in New York. Independent/Chris LaPonite

conference call with reporters. “I understand this is an unprecedented situation.

People should understand that every day, agencies that are charged with protecting health and public safety are working.”

But many want to make sure they can protect themselves in the case of an emergency.

“I’m a supporter of the police, however, I feel my family’s protection is on me at this point,” said Anthony De Vito of Massapequa Park. “With all the criminals back on the street versus the number of officers the odds are against us.”

William Bohuslaw of Yaphank said those that have never touched a firearm

and are lining up to purchase one is what scares him the most.

“These clueless rookies are a hazard to themselves and the public,” Mike Sanchez said. “Wait ‘til they start test-firing in their backyards.”

“So, a bunch of yahoos with guns now,” said Philip Calderone of Lindenhurst. “All because they can’t get toilet paper.”

Some were shocked that this many people are still looking to buy guns and ammunition.

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COVID-19 Signs And Symptoms How the novel coronavirus has affected the many who’ve overcome it

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Coronaviruses, according to the World Health Organization, are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

The coronavirus known now as COVID-19 is a new strain discovered in 2019, and has not been previously identified in humans.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Detailed investigations found that SARS was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans.

Common signs of COVID-19 infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties, according to the World Health Organization. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, SARS, kidney failure, and death.

As of March 20, British ear, nose, and throat doctors, citing reports from colleagues around the world, have also asked adults who lose their sense of smell to isolate themselves for seven days, even if they have no other novel coronavirus

symptoms. Anosmia, the loss of sense of smell, and ageusia, an accompanying diminished sense of taste, may be a clue to COVID-10 infection.

A study published February 24 in The Journal of the American Medical Association that was conducted by researchers from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention says clinical findings on 72,314 COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China through February 11 revealed a case-fatality rate of 2.3 percent, suggesting most cases are mild, but the disease hits the elderly the hardest.

Eighty-seven percent of patients were 30 to 79 years old (38,680 cases).

This age group was the most affected by a wide margin, followed by ages 20 to 29 (3619 cases, or 8 percent); 80 and older (1408 cases, or 3 percent); and 1 percent each in ages less than 10 and 10 to 19 years old.

Of the confirmed cases, 1023 patients died from the virus, which accounts for the 2.3 percent fatality rate.

The fatality rate was 14.8 percent in patients 80 and older, and 8 percent in patients ages 70 to 79.

Eighty-one percent of cases in The Journal of the American Medical Association-published study were classified as mild, meaning they did not result in pneumonia or only resulted in mild pneumonia. Fourteen percent of cases were severe, marked by difficulty breathing, and 5 percent were critical, signifying respiratory failure, septic shock, and/ or multiple organ dysfunction or failure.

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Connor Reed, 25, a British man who works at a school in Wuhan, spent 40 days in lockdown with COVID-19. He got confirmation he had the virus in late December 2019, with initial symptoms being a stuffy nose and ear and sinus problems.

“But then you get better before you get worse,” he told the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 News. “That’s when I got hit with the flu. I’ve had the flu half a dozen times, but this was probably the worst I’ve felt with that. It really was quite bad.

It wasn’t life-threatening, but I did feel terrible.”

Reed said he was stuck in bed, had a headache, and just generally felt unwell.

He was recovering from the flu before he was hit with pneumonia, which he said he’d never had before. That’s when he went to the hospital.

“It feels like you’ve only got 20 percent lung function,” Reed said. “You can’t take a full breath like you need to. If you stand up and walk into the kitchen, you’re out of breath. It also sounds like you’re breathing through a bag. Your breath is crackly and croaky.”

According to the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms may appear two to 14 days af-

According to the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms may appear two to 14 days after exposure. ter exposure. The organization also lists persistent pain or pressure in the chest, new confusion, and bluish lips or face as additional potential warning signs.

British couple David and Sally Abel, from Northamptonshire, were transferred from a Japanese cruise ship quarantined near Yokohama and taken to the hospital in February after testing positive for the virus. Of the 3711 tourists aboard the Diamond Princess, 705 became infected.

David Abel, 74, posted a video March 14 on YouTube saying the couple, who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, flew home after getting the all-clear they no longer tested positive for COVID-19.

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And Then There Were Three A third EH Village employee announces candidacy for mayor

By Karen Fredericks karen@karenfredericks.com

Jerry Larsen, Barbara Borsack, and Arthur Graham will run for mayor of East Hampton Village. Independent/James J. Mackin/Richard Lewin

The race to replace former East Hampton Village Mayor Paul Rickenbach intensified last week when a third candidate threw his hat in the ring. With just three months until the June election, Arthur “Tiger” Graham, running on the Fish Hooks Party ticket, has decided to challenge longtime village board member and current deputy mayor Barbara Borsack and former village police Chief Jerry Larsen.

Graham, a current member of the East Hampton Village Board, originally supported Borsack for mayor fol-

lowing the resignation of Rickenbach in December, but said he had second thoughts, leading him to announce his decision to run March 16.

“I had been supporting Barbara Borsack, as she has been a dedicated public servant and an extremely nice person,” he said. “But I was waiting for her to campaign. If she were doing that, she could probably beat Jerry, but she’s not. He’s gotten traction, and she has not.”

Borsack, running under the Elms Party, and Larsen, on the NewTown

Party ticket, are in the midst of a very public feud.

The latest salvo has played out on the letters pages of local newspapers, where Borsack mentioned that “Larsen was required to attend sensitivity training due to racially-charged comments he made at a public event [from the microphone], which resulted in police officers from neighboring departments calling for his resignation.”

In a letter Larsen wrote in response, he said it was short-lived, and stemmed from a remark made in jest at

a public gathering, which he regrets.

Borsack, a 19-year member of the board who also served on the zoning board of appeals, is a 30-year member of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, was its first female chief, and has personally responded to more than 3500 emergency ambulance calls. Her roots in the village date back to the 18th Century.

When asked about Graham’s entry into the race, Borsack said, “Our strategy has not changed. Our message Continued On Page 42.

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Personal Protective Equipment Shortage Suffolk County and Stony Brook University collecting what they can

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Whether it’s masks, gloves, eyewear, or disinfectant wipes, local doctor’s offices and hospitals are running low due to the uptick in patients who may have COVID-19.

It’s not just a local problem — it’s national. Health care workers are suffering a shortage of personal protective equipment and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is looking to collect what he can with a drive.

“The county is looking to solicit donations of N95 masks — construction masks — ear loop face masks, gowns, and gloves from the construction industry, building trades, and oth-

ers in organized labor,” according to the Suffolk County website. “These are typical supplies that would ordinarily be used on work sites. Additionally, the county is looking to solicit donations of ear loop masks and gloves from the personal service industry” whose businesses are now temporarily shuttered.

On weekdays between 10 AM and 2 PM, drop off supplies at the Suffolk County Fire Academy at 102 East Avenue in Yaphank. Residents can email FRESfinance@suffolkcountyny.gov regarding a large donation of supplies or a potential vendor opportunity.

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Those with sewing skills and big hearts are making masks locally, but hospitals still need official personal protective equipment.

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Music Venue Staff Worried About Future Closure of nonessential businesses wrought with financial repercussions

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

East End music venues face a long and painful recovery after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered establishments that host large gatherings be shuttered until further notice to stop the spread of COVID-19. The order for closure came fast and was unexpected.

The wide-reaching consequences are staggering, industry sources said, not only for venue staff, but for complementary workers such as performers, distributors, and food industry workers. Some venues, especially not-forprofits that rely on the generosity of sponsors and government grants, privately worry their businesses will not survive.

“We feel it is our responsibility as a place of community gathering to do our part to assist government, health, and local officials in slowing the spread of this virus,” said Guild Hall Executive Director Andrea Grover and Deputy Director Jeannine Dyner. “As such, we have made the decision to suspend all programs at Guild Hall, including those in the John Drew Theater, the Guild Hall Museum, and our classroom.”

Census Update

“Dollars, Census, and COVID-19,” which is part three of an ongoing series on the U.S. Census, past, present, and future, will appear in the next issue of The Independent, dated April 1, which is also the official Census Day for 2020.

White’s Liquors in downtown Montauk.

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Liquor Stores Deemed Essential Businesses Suffolk Theater in Riverhead. Independent/Courtesy Suffolk Theater

In a letter Guild Hall said it is no stranger to challenges.

“With the love of our community, we’ve served three generations,” read a letter signed by the Academy of Arts President Eric Fischl, an artist. “We opened our doors during the Great Depression, and have operated continuously through economic ups and downs, the hurricane of 1938, World War II, and times of profound loss. But a pandemic is not something we’ve experienced in these 89 years.”

Many public places may have to stay shuttered for months.

“It’s scary,” said Max Honerkamp, whose father purchased The Stephen Talkhouse in 1987. “People have to get paid.”

The tiny bar in Amagansett is considered the East End’s premier music venue, despite its size, and is known for being loyal to its employees, most of whom have been there for decades.

“We had a good summer. We have a little bit to weather the storm,” Honerkamp said. “But things might be tight.”

Honerkamp said three sound men, three door men, three bartenders, and a manager were on the payroll, even now during its slowest season. The task falls on management to take care of them.

“We sell a season pass,” he noted, offering the possibility of incentives by extending the season for those who purchase it now.

Ultimately, most have said, it’s going to come down to financial aid.

“You hope for some kind of funding, credit line,” Honerkamp. “It’s too soon to tell.”

Besides the venue employees are the musicians — both local and national — who have found their source of income come to a sudden halt, many have seen their first job, be it in retail or at a restaurant, become an unviable

option as well.

“The whole thing is so unfortunate,” said Anthony Cafaro, the director of marketing for Suffolk Theater.

As recently as March 7, the Riverhead landmark was hopping. John Lodge of the Moody Blues performed to a sellout crowd, its restaurant churned out trendy foods like fish tacos, and glasses clinked at the busy bars, upstairs and down.

Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center initially considered trying to push through, with the size of the venue being smaller than Cuomo’s initial guidelines — 500 people — but had to cancel all programs when gatherings under 10 were banned. Interim director Julienne Penza-Boone was not available for comment, but an employee said to The Independent that she was told the facility would be closed for at least a month.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is hoping to have an online presence should the closure be an extended one.

“Stay safe and healthy and we hope to see you at one of our virtual events online very soon, and, of course back at Bay Street Theater as soon as we’re allowed to reopen,” an announcement read.

Like many venues, Bay Street has a full refund policy, but is asking ticketholders of cancelled events to “consider donating your tickets back to us and receive a letter of your donation for tax purposes. As you can imagine, this is a difficult time for everyone, but especially artists and all of us who work in the arts. We would be very grateful.”

Sag Harbor Cinema, which burned down in an early morning fire in December 2016, went through a multimillion-dollar fundraising effort for restoration that is near complete, but is now unsure of the future of its early spring

While all nonessential businesses were required to close as of 8 PM Sunday, March 22, what some may not know is liquor stories will remain open.

White’s Liquors in Montauk is taking orders, but only if phoned in ahead of time. You can give your credit card information over the phone or bring your card or cash with you. Customers are not allowed inside the store. Once the financial transaction is processed, the order will be given to the buyer at the front door. Call 631-668-2426.

Park Place Wines & Liquors in East Hampton has refocused its staff to help customers find the products they want through phone, email, website, app, or curbside ordering. For logistical reasons, it will only be accepting credit cards, no cash, and has changed hours of operation to 10 AM to 6 PM. Park Place has more than doubled its home delivery capacity by hiring those previously out of work. The company will be disinfecting all bottles before packaging them. Call 631-324-2622.

Visit www.indyeastend.com for any updates to this story and others relating to COVID-19.

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The coming months leave establishments in unchartered waters.

Guild Hall employed 56 people, and pays for the services of over 50 small businesses, including newspapers, restaurants, hotels, freelance writers, designers, and photographers.

“Fundamental to Guild Hall’s founding remains the belief that the arts nourish the roots of our society, connect us, and provide an antidote to troubled times,” Fischl said. “If you share these values, please show your support.”

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and a $4-trillion liquidity injection to support the economy. Mnuchin said officials are negotiating what could amount to a $110-billion infusion to hospitals and medical professions.

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent over the weekend and signed by more than 60 other lawmakers, Suozzi requested any measure that emerges from negotiations repeal the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, known as SALT.

“The cap is unfair to moderateincome Americans and disproportion-

SH Assists Senior Citizens

Southampton Town unveiled an All Seniors Assistance Program to help keep these residents at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The elderly, labeled high risk if contracting the coronavirus, are warned not to risk their health to travel to markets, hardware stores, and pharmacies. When seniors need something fast, they can contact the town to come to the rescue.

“COVID-19 is particularly dangerous to senior citizens,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said. “The new service will help seniors stay at home and will help our local businesses stay viable through this public health emergency.”

Seniors can call the town at 631702-1777 to register, place an order with a participating merchant, and pay by credit card. When an order is ready for pickup, the merchant will call the All Seniors Assistance Program, and a town employee will deliver the items to the resident’s doorstep.

Visit the town’s website at www. southamptontownny.gov for more information about this service.

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ately harmful to taxpayers in states like New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California that have been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic,” Suozzi wrote in the letter.

Congress also passed a measure, called the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, to provide federal funding for paid sick leave for thousands of Americans grappling with the disease. It also ensures free testing for COVID-19.

Congress passed the first federal emergency funding bill March 4, which allocated $8 billion for state and federal efforts, including the purchase of medical supplies and research for potential vaccines and treatments to combat the virus.

Space For Rise In Cases

The governor asked for and received needed equipment for hospitals, including more than 169,000 N-95 masks, 430,000 surgical masks, 176,000 gloves, 72,000 gowns, and 98,000 face shields. But, during a press briefing March 24, Cuomo called on the federal government to release a stockpile of 20,000 ventilators needed for people in respiratory distress.

“I think the federal government should order factories to manufacture masks, gowns, ventilators,” Cuomo said. “The essential medical equipment, that’s going to make a difference between life and death.”

Besides supplies, there is also a growing need for hospital beds.

On March 23, Cuomo mandated hospitals increase capacity by 50 percent to account for the growing number of cases. New York is now also ready for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to start construction at Stony Brook University, SUNY Westbury, the Westchester County Center, and Jacob K. Javits Center for Federal Emergency Management Agency-erected hospital beds.

FEMA will be putting in place 250-bed, fully-equipped, and fullystaffed 40,000-square-foot facilities at all four locations. There will be about

320 federal staff members at all four hospitals, Cuomo said.

“They’ve reviewed these sites. I approve it,” the governor said. “I approve it on behalf of the state of New York, and now we just have to get it done and get it done quickly.”

Cuomo said construction will begin this week, and could be completed in 10 days. He also said while President Donald Trump has moved forward with voluntary partnerships with manufacturers, he could invoke the Defense Production Act to mandate companies make masks, gowns, personal protective equipment, and ventilators, and even get the hospitals built faster.

The state has tested more than 80,000 people, accounting for a quarter of all tests nationwide, according to Cuomo, and the number of coronavirus cases is expected to grow as more get tested. The governor urges calm as numbers continue to rise.

“This is going to get much worse before it gets better, but the level of anxiety is not connected to facts, there is no chaos, the net effect — many people will get the virus, but few will be truly endangered,” Cuomo said. “Life is going to be quieter for a matter of months. Realize the timeframe we’re expecting, make peace with it, and find a way to help each other through this situation because it’s hard for everyone. But everything will function. Life will function.”

Unfortunately, Cuomo said, there is still a misconception, especially among young people he’s seen gathering in parks and on playgrounds, that restrictions aren’t to be taken seriously. He pleaded that everyone in the state self-isolate, follow proper socialdistancing protocol, continue to wash their hands, wear gloves when using gas pumps, and only pick up what’s needed from the shelves at supermarkets, among other precautions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

They believe “they cannot get coronavirus or that they can only

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spread the virus if they are symptomatic,” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. “That is false — plain and simple. Residents should stay home as much as possible.”

Suffolk County reported the following confirmed cases as of March 23: 210 cases in Huntington; 208 in Islip; 164 in Babylon; 149 in Brookhaven; 84 in Southold; 70 in Smithtown; 18 in Riverhead; 14 in Southampton; 10 in East Hampton; and one in Shelter Island. Eighty-eight locations are unknown. The county death toll is up to 13. There were 183 deaths reported by press time statewide.

Five Peconic Landing residents diagnosed with COVID-19 died over the past week. Three were residents of The Shores for Skilled Nursing and one was a resident of Harbor South for Memory Support. The Greenport life care and retirement community was hit hard after a “per diem” worker had tested positive for the novel coronavirus on March 10. By March 12, it was reported two more staff members had tested positive.

Again, Cuomo said he’s hoping spirits can in some way remain lifted to keep each other’s heads above water during a difficult time for the entire world.

“Don’t underestimate the emotional trauma and don’t underestimate the pain of isolation. It is real,” he said.

“This is not the human condition — not to be comforted, not to be close, to be afraid — and you can’t hug someone. But America is America because we overcome adversity and challenges.

That’s how we were born. That’s what we’ve done all our life. We overcome challenges and this is a period of challenge for this generation. And that’s what has always made America great and that’s what going to make this generation great. I believe that to the bottom of my soul. We will overcome this and America will be the greater for it.

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Haskell’s Seafood Keeping Baymen In Business Market will deliver directly to homes in wake of novel coronavirus pandemic

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

As Jamie Hummel’s markets began shutting down, the Hampton Bays fisherman was genuinely worried what would happen when all avenues to sell his product officially closed.

“Everyone is laid off right now,” he said. “With what we do, there’s no backup for us.”

Southampton Town Trustee Scott Horowitz saw a Facebook post by his childhood friend and knew he needed to jump into action.

“We work hard as trustees to ensure the shellfish stock and our water quality is the best we can get it so we can enjoy these resources,” Horowitz said. “At a time like this, in a crisis, to not be able to utilize that, it’s unacceptable. So, I started making phone calls.

We can keep these guys working, provide sustenance to the people, and try and keep things running.”

He connected Hummel with Captain Peter Haskell, owner of Haskell’s Seafood in East Quogue, who consulted with other baymen, and Assemblyman Fred Thiele, to create a delivery service. Through Haskell’s Seafood, which purchases local product from local fishermen and clammers, a Southampton Town resident can order hard clams, steamers, oysters, scallops, squid, fluke, porgy, and whiting — even asking for a particular preparation — via phone or email, and have the product dropped off at his or her front door.

There’s even the option to pay with a credit card prior to delivery, minimizing person-to-person contact.

“It’s interesting at this point in time to see this pressure on the food chain, how it’s being disrupted even from a distribution standpoint,” Haskell said.

“These things always boil down to logistics. We have all these tools at our disposal.”

“How can you ignore what we have here when the community is in need?” the captain said. “In times of need when communities come together on a local level it exercises your ability for resilience, allows us to be self-sufficient in ways that make us feel good.

What’s happening is taxing on people, it’s stressful, and it’s hard to get by not thinking about it all the time.”

Thiele praised Haskell and Horowitz for their creativity and reassurance.

The assemblyman said he also received a letter from Southampton Town Councilwoman Julie Lofstad, whose husband is in the commercial fishing industry, concerned about the impact COVID-19 is having on local business.

Once things were in place for the new distribution channel, Thiele set up a Facebook post to let his constituents know.

“What I have as an elected official is a megaphone,” Thiele said. “I’m trying to help get the word out and let people know about it. Peter Haskell is one of the leading entrepreneurs as far as the seafood industry goes. He has been very innovated and very creative.

At this time, we feel that there is a call to action to adapt, access, and benefit from our vibrant local resources. State and federal funding is great, but we also have to be locally self-reliant when addressing these kinds of situations.”

Thiele, Haskell, and others, like Hummel, are hoping this new system is supported.

“I have one day of work this week and then I’ve got nothing,” Hummel said. “I just hope that people embrace this and keep us going. It takes a village. This affects a lot of people. It affects Pete, the truck driver — there’s a whole chain of people that this is going to help. People don’t realize in a situation like this how much we can help each other.”

Hampton Bays bayman Mike DePerte agrees. What makes this operation special, besides the local aspect, is delivering a product that people can trust. Haskell’s Seafood is already regularly inspected by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points — a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from

Capt. Pete Haskell will use his Haskell’s Seafood refrigerated trucks to drop his local product off at homes within Southampton Town. Independent/Courtesy Pete Haskell

raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution, and consumption of the finished product.

“My brother and I are on the boat, licensed by New York following all protocol. We deliver the product to Haskell’s, and it’s on its way,” DePerte said. “You also know it’s fresh because it didn’t travel too far.”

DePerte said this is already a typically hard time for baymen — February through early April, made even harder this year by the drop in Peconic Bay scallop populations — so the closing of local restaurants has only made it more taxing on those in his industry trying to stay afloat.

“Buyers were still taking stuff, there were restaurant deliveries — but that’s totally out the window now,” he said. “This is a very simple operation, and it could help us out along the way.

What’s great about Pete is he and his business are all about local, and he’s a good guy who understands that while yes, this is a business opportunity for him, I know he’s genuinely more concerned about this being a good service to the community.”

Haskell also already has the appropriate licenses, refrigeration, and trucks, so changing the distribution channel was a simple and obvious

move to make.

“We got the logistics all worked out,” Horowitz said. “I told them I’d even volunteer my own time to make these deliveries myself. Whatever I can do, I’ll certainly do.”

Over the weekend Haskell said business owners and government officials alike were anticipating these more stringent precautionary measures, and with the limited availability of groceries and some markets being tapped, on top of the influx of people taking refuge at their summer homes, the system was overwhelmed. It was quick to see his thoughts aligned with those with which he has had the ability to collaborate.

“These efforts are also intended to bring some optimism to the community,” Haskell said. “These are all things that we have around us and we can sustain during this time. We’re redirecting our efforts and focusing on the people who need help most.”

Residents can call Haskell’s Seafood at 631-610-4081 or email info@ HaskellsSeafood.com between 11 AM and 6 PM Monday through Friday to place an order and schedule a delivery.

The website is www.haskellsseasfood. com.

Haskell has chosen not to charge extra for this service.

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Getting The Essentials How local groceries and pharmacies are responding to COVID-19

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com Two essential types of businesses vital to a population that is currently social distancing are grocery stores and pharmacies.

Here are a few updates on what’s happening locally.

“Now, more than ever, it’s important we come together as a community to be of service to those in need,” a Stop & Shop Facebook post read. “One way we can do this is by advocating for our seniors.”

All Stop & Shop stores will open doors early each day, from 6 to 7:30 AM, to serve customers who are age 60 and over, as well as those with weakened immune systems.

“This could result in large crowds, the very situation we are looking to prevent as it will make it more difficult for customers to practice social distancing,” said Stop & Shop president Gordon Reid.

“While we recognize we may be experiencing product shortages in some areas, our stores receive deliveries throughout the day so our shelves will be replenished for shoppers at all hours. We are making our best efforts to have products available across high-demand categories throughout the day.”

Stop & Shop, like many grocery, department store, and retail chains, has implemented additional cleaning and sanitation efforts, to be continued throughout the day in all stores. When shopping with family, the company encourages shopping responsibly and buying only what’s needed.

Cirillo’s Market Amagansett IGA will be reserving 9 to 10 AM shopping for senior citizens. The business will remain open to the public until 7 PM.

“In an effort to best protect our senior citizens, ID will be checked at the door,” read a Facebook post from the company.

“As an independent, family-owned businesses, looking after our customers in our local communities is always our top priority,” reads IGA’s website. “We understand the impact COVID-19 is having and want all our customers to know we are doing everything we can to support you and keep you informed. We are working with our supply chain partners to make sure we can keep supply up for our communities. We ask that everyone remain calm and purchase normal quantities to ensure everyone has fair access to stock.”

L&W Market in Bridgehampton said it’s stocking shelves and staying vigilant, adding the business is also taking extra precautions.

“Stop by to stock up, get a wave and a smile, and a pump of sanitizer,” reads a social media post.

The shop is also offering toilet paper for $1.50 per roll with a four-roll limit.

Golden Pear, with locations across the East End, is offering a limited supply of free soup for the needy and elderly.

Message the company on social media for more information. Golden Pear is also offering take-home dinners, available from 4 to 6 PM, including roasted chicken, meatloaf, quesadillas, macaroni and cheese, grilled Atlantic salmon, fish tacos, warm paninis, and chili. Orders can be placed through the CHOWNOW app or phoned in.

One Stop Market in Springs is offering curbside service and delivery only, from 7 AM to 4 PM. No customers will be allowed in-store. Call 631-324-6055 for more information.

Locals can still shop at King Kullen in Bridgehampton. Independent/Lisa Tamburini

to learn more.

Mecox Bay Dairy in Bridgehampton, which is offering self-serve shopping 24/7, is selling eggs, cheese, and meat.

Milk Pail in Water Mill is open. The company asks that one shopper per family or group enter at a time, and no children are allowed inside. You can also email your

order to have it ready to pickup by emailing milkpailfreshmarket@gmail.com.

At Gosman’s fish market in Montauk, the wholesale division has taken on the feel of a retail market, with New Yorkers who normally show up to shop in May ordering now.

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Farm Stands & Fish Markets At Iacono Farm on Long Lane, customers are limited to either one chicken or four pieces of chicken, if there is any fresh chicken available.

The business has been moved outside of the shed where the Iacono family has been selling chicken, fresh eggs, chicken sausage, and other chicken-related items to the public since 1948.

On Saturday, Amanda Iacono, along with Donna Cuomo, manned an impromptu counter outside the shed.

“A lot of people are understanding, a lot of people are not,” Iacono said.

“Yesterday, a man comes up, he orders a chicken, gets one, goes back to his car, and five minutes later, a woman comes and orders a chicken, and gets back in the car and they drive away together. And these are local people.”

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Town Assisting East Hampton Seniors Meals, prescription pickup among services offered during crisis

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The Town of East Hampton is continuing to prioritize care for the senior population amid the spread of COVID-19.

While the senior center on Springs Fireplace Road has been closed since March 10, and will remain so until fur-

EH Supervisor Calls For Calm Van Scoyoc asks residents to only purchase what’s needed

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

ther notice, the site is now being used by the town to prepare and distribute frozen meals to seniors in need.

On Monday, March 23, the town’s human services department began using curbside service to distribute the meals. It has 150 meals available, which are prepared fresh and frozen daily. Due to Suffolk County regulations, the department is not allowed to directly distribute hot meals.

Those 60 and older can call 631329-6939 to arrange pickup of five frozen dinners, or have them delivered to their home.

The department is also referring clients to Meals on Wheels, “which

provides a sandwich for lunch and a hot meal for dinner,” a press release stated. “Meals on Wheels has informed the town that the company is ready to assist, and has no intentions of slowing down.”

Human service department workers can also help seniors with their food shopping needs and pick up prescriptions. They can also transport seniors to their doctor appointments.

The town has a list of over 500 seniors who have special needs, such as those who are handicapped, need oxygen, or are on dialysis. Those on the list are being contacted every other day.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc wants an end to the panic buying that has been stripping shelves in supermarkets and stores across East Hampton.

“We have enough food and supplies to get us through this crisis, but we have to think not only of ourselves,” Van Scoyoc said in an impromptu “state-of-the-crisis” talk that kicked off the March 17 town board meeting.

“Please, it is time to think of other family, friends, and neighbors who might need supplies, and purchase only what you need.”

Van Scoyoc asked fulltime resi-

dents and city dwellers who have come east to ride out the storm to “also consider those in our community who will need extra assistance.”

“We have faced many storms in East Hampton over our history: blizzards, nor’easters, hurricanes, but no storm has been as insidious as COVID-19. This is a serious disease,” he said. “Unlike a hurricane, this storm surge can be flattened. Its effects can be blunted. I ask that everyone work together. Be patient. Be calm.”

The March 19 board meeting was cancelled. The next town board meeting is scheduled for April 2.

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Pet Adoption & Fostering During COVID-19 Pandemic Shelters and rescue centers closed to the public continue to help animals

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com The East End’s animal shelters work tirelessly to provide abandoned pets with forever homes. During the spread of COVID-19, shelters are adapting to the new normal.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons has closed its adoption center and all volunteer activities have been suspended until further notice. But the shelter is still accepting online adoption applications and conducting adoptions by appointment only. Although the center is closed the public, staff are still working with the animals within its care.

“Our goal is that ARF’s cats and dogs never feel the uncertainty and anxiety we all share in this new reality of COVID-19,” ARF Executive director/CEO

Scott Howe stated. “I also know there is a very real possibility that our local community will need for us to help animals whose caregivers become ill or face extreme economic hardship. That’s why we are also preparing to send animals home with fosters.”

To view adoptable pets or donate, visit www.arfhamptons.org. Adoption applications are now on each individual animal page.

“We will be closing our doors to the general public until further notice,” read a notice from the Southampton Animal Shelter. “All events through the end of the month have unfortunately been canceled. The well-being of our animals is our top priority, and we will continue to

care for them as usual during the time of closure.”

The shelter has started offering “Roadside Adoptions & Fosters.” It’s a program designed to help pets find foster and forever homes in a “sanitary, socialdistancing-friendly fashion.”

Someone from Southampton Animal Shelter will meet a potential adopter curbside to introduce him or her to the animals up for consideration, and bring pet supplies. To take part in the program, fill out an application to be approved. An adoption coordinator will reach out for an interview. Visit the shelter’s website at

www.southamptonanimalshelter.com to apply or to donate.

Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center will also continue its care for wild animals.

“This is an incredibly difficult time and we wish to assure you that our work to care for our injured and orphaned wildlife will continue as usual,” an email read.

“We are here for you if you need us.”

For more information, visit www. wildliferescuecenter.org.

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Food Assistance For Those In Need Local pantry programs established in response to national emergency

By Karen Fredericks karen@karenfredericks.com

East Hampton Food Pantry. Independent/Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Many have already been busy stocking cupboards while self-quarantining amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While preparing for however long the novel coronavirus keeps us inside our homes, let’s not forget that many community members are financially unable to prepare their pantries with anything beyond their immediate needs, if that. Some rely on our local food pantries and other food assistance programs, which need help during this trying time.

Bank of America has enabled Long Island Cares to open a new distribution center in Hampton Bays.

“I’m very thankful for the generous support,” said Paule Pachter, CEO of Long Island Cares. “The ability for our organization to assist residents on the East End who have been impacted by COVID-19, and subsequent job losses is clearly enhanced at this time. Also, with the opening of our East End warehouse, it will be easier for our member agencies on both the South and North Fork to access emergency food that’s closer to their locations.”

The new center, called Hunger Assistance and Humanitarian Center of the Hamptons, brings together all available resources for the benefit of the hungry and food insecure on Long Island. It is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

from 9 AM to 3 PM, and Tuesday and Thursday from 9 AM to 4:30 PM. Clients are welcomed once per month, and veterans once per week, on Tuesdays. Call 631-613-3344 with any questions, and to donate, visit www.licares.org.

“As the world is faced with uncertainty, it is crucial that we come together as people to support one another, to spread hope, and to stay strong for one another,” Long Island Cares said in a Facebook post. “We are Long Island. We are strong. We will get through this.”

The Heart of the Hamptons food pantry in Southampton Village is open Wednesdays, from 10 AM to noon. Nonperishables, produce, and frozen meat will be distributed to clients in prepacked bags outside the organization’s Hill Street building. Call 631-283-6415 and leave a message with your name and phone number to set up help for someone in need. Messages will be checked periodically.

“We continue to order and receive larger quantities of food than usual from our loyal partners,” read a Facebook statement. Hapco Farms, LLC, Astor Distributors Inc., and Long Island Cares all contribute to the Southampton pantry. “We appreciate all of the offers for food donations, however, we are only

going to accept food from our distributors for as long as we can afford to do so in the interest of public safety. We cannot thank you enough for your support during this challenging time. We continue to witness the beauty of community and the strong impact we can make together.”

Email hilton@heartofthehamptons.org with any additional questions, or visit www.heartofthehamptons.org to donate.

The East Hampton Food Pantry is safeguarding senior clients by asking if they can arrive at 1 PM, if possible. Delivery can be arranged if seniors are unable to visit to the food pantry by calling 631-324-2300. The pantry is open from 1 to 6 PM every other Tuesday, including April 7 and 21.

“We are in dire need of monetary donations in order for the food pantry to continue to serve our clients, due to the increased demand of the food pantry,” the organization said in a Facebook statement. “We will continue to feed those in need throughout this difficult time, as long as we have food.”

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East Hampton Meals on Wheels can be reached at 631-329-1669 for information on its programs. The assistance program cannot accept food donations due to restrictions by the New York State Department of Health.

The organization said on Facebook the IGAs in East Hampton and Montauk are supporting it for the month of March. If stopping by either of the stores, patrons can purchase a “wheel” to support Meals on Wheels.

“Our priority is to keep our clients and volunteers healthy,” reads a statement on its website. “We have taken all necessary precautions and are following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and New York State Department of Health recommendations for everyday preventative actions that can help stop the spread of the flu and coronavirus. We have also taken on new clients due to the closure of the East Hampton Senior Center. If you would like to help, please consider making a donation or volunteering. Thank you for your continued support.”

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neva — and my phone started ringing from various editors and after a few awkward post-publication encounters with the two cops, I moved down to Manhattan and started writing for magazines like New Times, Sport Magazine, GQ, and Rolling Stone.”

big movie with Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, and Gen Bujold. The friends both hang out with the superstars at Elaine’s, make the scene at Studio 54, and in the Village, The Lion’s Head. But Joey Gardello, Thad’s oldest friend, is jealous of this new kid on the block who has taken over Thad’s friendship.

Worse for Terry, as the novel opens, Joey is murdered in Central Park, and Terry becomes the prime suspect.”

Thus begins the chase across Manhattan and out to the Hamptons, a place Ward knows well. “From ’76 to ’84, I went to the Hamptons every summer,” he said. “Always made enough as a journalist, combined with screenplays, and novels to rent a small place.

Loved it, went to many parties. Jann Wenner even came over to my place one night from his compound. I was on the bay side in the coolest little red house. It was great, except for the ticks.

Also had a cool place in Springs a couple of times. I loved the beach out there and spent most of the day falling back on my towel and then body surfing.

Man, the seafood was the best too.”

Literary Saloon

Screenwriting In Springs

Ward rented an apartment in the West Village and started hanging out in The Lion’s Head, a literary saloon on Sheridan Square filled with “drinkers with writing problems,” and Elaine’s on the Upper East Side, where celebs and authors were stoned on cocaine and starlets were zonked on ambition, and the Hamptons summer beach scene, including the Artists vs Writers Softball Game in which Ward — and now his literary alter ego, Terry Brennan — played.

In his blurb for “The Stone Carrier,” best-selling novelist and A-list screenwriter Richard Price call’s Ward’s latest “both a smart thriller and an (appropriately) jittery look back at the literary bar scene of New York in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when the only high more potent than cocaine was the high of acclaim. Suffused with a blend of paranoia and nostalgia, Ward captures that world beautifully.”

Ward, who would later write for and earn a producer credit on the excellent “Hill Street Blues,” and become the show runner for “Miami Vice,” has also written several crime thriller novels. So, in his retelling of the 1970s New York literary/celeb world, Ward also amps up the action with a brutal murder.

“It’s the ’70s in New York,” Ward said, summarizing his new novel. “Terry Brennan is a gonzo journalist for all the major magazines. He does a piece on super novelist Thaddeus Bryant and the two become best friends. Thad has everything Terry wants, a major novel called ‘The Debt,’ and soon a

Ward recalls that in 1978 he’d done a spring training piece on Reggie Jackson joining the Yanks for Sport Magazine. “I’d handed it in to Dick Schaap and Berry Stainback, editors at Sport.

They loved the piece, and paid me, and I promptly forgot about it. There was a three-month lead period in those days. So, I went on to do a couple of more pieces for other mags during that stretch, then went out to Springs to rest and work on a screenplay.

“One day I decided to go into the city to see friends, and I took the LIRR in. I get to Penn Station and as I get off I see a newspaper stand with a paper showing the sports page (which is normally on the back) as the front page. I look at the blaring headline: ‘Furor On The Yankees!’ I picked it up, still not quite figuring what this meant. Then I read the first line of the piece, which said, ‘There was a furor in the Yankee locker room today as one after another the Yankee players read Robert Ward’s piece on Reggie Jackson in this month’s Sport Magazine in which he claims to be ‘The straw that stirs the drink.’” I was like, ‘Holy Christ.’

“I read the whole newspaper story about my magazine piece and ran to a pay phone to call Sport. Dick Schaap gets on the line, ‘Where the hell have you been? Everyone in the country is trying to reach you for interviews. Get up here right away.’ See, I’d been locked away in Springs, before cell phones, before the Internet, no way to reach me, working on my script, walking my dog, and talking to no one. But the whole

Sand In My Shoes

By Denis Hamill

Cut To The Chase Into The Gonzo Past An interview with journalist and writer Robert Ward denishamill@gmail.com

In the early 1970s, the author Tom Wolfe visited Robert Ward’s creative writing class at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY on the frozen banks of the Seneca River.

“Wolfe looked around at the gorgeous, frozen landscape and told me if I wanted to be a successful writer, I needed to pack in academia and move to New York City and write some ‘new journalism’ that allowed writers to tell real life stories in long, personalized narratives thumping with a heartbeat of the human condition once reserved for the literary novel,” Ward recalled.

Ward nodded and told Wolfe he’d like to give it a try but he needed an assignment. Wolfe said he’d give his name to the editors of the then recently founded New Times Magazine, said Ward, whose latest novel “The Stone Carrier” launches the reader on a journey back in time to the 1970s where Ward’s main character, Terry Brennan, is a successful gonzo chronicler of sports stars and assorted celebs in places like Elaine’s, The Lion’s Head, and the beach house parties of the Hamptons.

“In real life, back then I had an introduction from Tom Wolfe and now I needed a subject matter and so when I looked around Geneva, all I kept seeing was the local police car,” said Ward.

“I pitched to New Times editors Frank Rich and John Lynn the idea of doing a piece on real-life small-town cops, doing patrol ride-alongs, arrests, hanging out with them in cop bars off-duty, and on the private lives of Geneva cops named Tribbler and McGuigan, which the editors titled ‘The Yawn Patrol.’”

Ward continued, “As I rode along with them, the two cops kept telling people I was doing a story for Time Magazine instead of New Times so many times that I stopped correcting them and then the piece came out and people really liked it — except in Ge-

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country was talking about the Sport Magazine piece: ‘Reggie Jackson In No Man’s Land.’”

Back To Novels

I ask Ward what has happened to that kind of gonzo journalism, that stirred a 1970s nation, in the 21st Century. “Two things,” he said. “First, publicists killed gonzo because if you did a warts-andall piece on a celeb that got close to the truth and that celeb has a publicist who hated the piece, then you will never get a chance to do a piece on the rest of that publicist’s client list. So, to gain access, editors and journalists wound up writing puff pieces that were glorified public relations stories. No warts, no all, no what’s-it-all-mean journalism.

Gonzo was largely replaced by PR. Second, computers shortened the attention span of many readers. Young readers today want news in short, instant hits, like lines of coke. That’s why Twitter is popular and other forms of social media. The internet destroyed not just newspapers but also many magazines.

It’s one of the reasons I turned back to novels and Hollywood.”

In 1985, Ward published the muchheralded novel “Red Baker,” about a working-class anti-hero who, after being laid off, searches for his lost identity that he never had to begin with.

This summer of quarantine and isolation and death, as we all await the passing of the coronavirus plague, is a great time to take the time again to read some books. “The Stone Carrier” by Robert Ward will carry you back to another time to a different New York City and a different East End that will make you nostalgic for the more innocent age of drugs, sex, rock and roll, gonzo journalism, celebrity, and murder.

“I’m already working on a sequel,” said Ward. “Same character, Terry Brennan, and all his adventures in Hollywood that get a little amped up by a homicide. Stay tuned.”

We will . . .

Hampton Jitney Suspends Service Through April 9

The Hampton Jitney suspended all service as of Monday, March 23.

According to a press release from president Geoffrey Lynch, the suspension will remain in effect until Thursday, April 9, when both ambassador and regular jitney service will resume between Manhattan and the East End of Long Island.

The call center will be closed as well, though reservations can be made online for April 9 and after.

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Police Patchita Tennant Found Not Guilty Jury finds prosecution failed to disprove self-defense argument

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Patchita Tennant, an East Hampton CVS manager charged with attempted murder, broke down in tears when the foreman of the jury of nine women and three men announced it had found her not guilty of the crime, as well as of two other felony charges in the courtroom of New York State Supreme Court Justice John Collins Thursday, March 19. It took

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A corrections officer whose most recent shift at the county jail in Riverside was on March 14 has tested positive for COVID-19. The officer, whose name was not released, “had limited contact with the jail’s inmate population,” due to the nature of his assignment, said Sgt. Paul Spinella, a spokesman for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office. The inmate population is still being monitored for signs of the novel coronavirus. All staff members who came in contact with the officer have been asked by the sheriff to self-quarantine.

All on-site visits with prisoners have been indefinitely suspended, but attorneys can still see their clients.

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the jury less than six hours to reach their verdict.

“Thank you for being my rock,” Tennant said repeatedly to her sister Carol, as the two women hugged and cried outside the courtroom. “Thank you for everyone who supported me and believed in me.”

She credited her supporters in the courtroom throughout the trial for giving her the strength to see it through.

Tennant was facing up to 25 years in prison had she been convicted of attempting to murder her ex-boyfriend Andrew Silas Mitchell. She shot him three times with a .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver inside the couple’s Pleasure Drive home in Flanders the night of September 5, and said it was in self-defense. Two of those shots had punctured Mitchell’s lungs.

He and the prosecution team of Eric Aboulafia and Katharine D’Aquila made the case to the jury that Tennant had ambushed him while he was shaving inside the master bathroom.

Tennant, and her attorneys Austin Manghan and Matt Touhy, painted Mitchell as a serial misogynist who cheated on Tennant during their 19year relationship, from which they have a daughter, and was physically abusive, too.

“You are listening to two different versions of events,” Touhy told the jury in his closing argument. “There is the Silas

Patchita Tennant, at center, enters the courtroom to learn her fate March 19. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

version, and there is Ms. Tennant’s.”

Touhy handled most of the crossexamination of the prosecution’s 20 witnesses, while Manghan played a pivotal role in the questioning of his client. Tennant took the stand for two days.

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt Manghan and Touhy's strategy for Tennant was simple yes, she shot him, but she shot him in self-defense. It was the defense lawyer’s belief that Mitchell’s credibility would not measure up to Tennant’s during testimony.

Tennant’s attorneys did not have to prove to the jury that Tennant had acted in self-defense. Rather, the burden of proof was 100 percent upon the prosecution, who had to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the shooting was not an act of self-defense.

After the not-guilty verdict was read, Tennant began crying, and hugged her attorneys. Touhy, whose aggressive cross-examination of Mitchell likely

opened the door for the jurors to move toward acquittal, sat down on a bench, covered his eyes with his hands, and also began to cry. The trial lasted two-and-ahalf weeks.

Addressing media following the conclusion of the trial, Tennant said she is looking forward to returning to work as the manager of the Pantigo Road CVS in East Hampton, where she has worked for almost two decades. She is currently on personal leave from the job.

Most important, Tennant said, she is looking forward to being able to reunite with her four-year-old daughter Vanessa, of whom Mitchell currently has custody. Tennant has only been allowed to see her daughter one hour a week since the shooting.

Her two days on the witness stand were emotionally grueling for her and her family.

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EHTPD Headquarters On Lockdown Officers following new protocols due to COVID-19 pandemic

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com East Hampton town police are adjusting to the new normal created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

More complaints are being handled over the phone, when possible, Chief Michael Sarlo said. In cases where officers are helping emergency medical technicians on a call, only one officer will go into a home, unless the situation is critical, the chief said.

In general, the guidelines for officers responding to a call is to “not go in-

side a residence unless there are extreme exigent circumstances,” he said. “There are specific questions our dispatch officers are asking all callers, which we want everyone to know are important in protecting responders in all situations.”

Certain types of proactive patrols have been reduced, Sarlo said, and sanitizing vehicles and police headquarters itself is being done on a regular basis. Dispatch officers in the East Hampton town and village police departments are flagging

East Hampton Town Police Department’s headquarters in Wainscott is on lockdown due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

calls for officers where it is believed a resident has tested positive for COVID-19.

Currently, arraignments on arrests made in East Hampton are being handled in a centralized location — the Suffolk County District Court in Central Islip. The East Hampton Town Police Department is working with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and the court system on what to do with weekend arraignments. The goal, the

chief said, is to “establish remote video arraignment procedures, which we hope will be up and running this week.”

Most staffers have been asked to stay away from headquarters, with the building in Wainscott essentially closed.

“We are also asking the public to use common sense and don’t call 911 unnecessarily,” Sarlo said. “Think about what they really need to make a report for at the time, and what can probably wait.”

Lohan Moves Next Arrest Farther East EHTPD: Michael Lohan violated wife’s order of protection

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

Michael Lohan, after being arrested by Southampton Village police in February, was back in handcuffs last week after being picked up by East Hampton town police. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

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JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

How are you adjusting to staying home?

Jim Nolan I’m a teacher so I’m used to being around lots of people. Now we do schoolwork online. I just picked up my daughter from college. She's going to miss the rest of her senior year. It’s a real loss. My other daughter, a teacher, is home too. But with all the extra time, I’ve gotten out my wood carving tools that were tucked away since I made a cradle for my son when he was born, 27 years ago.

What’s Important

Ozzie Palmer It is a little tough, as it is for everyone.

But we are very family oriented. And we stay together. That makes things a little easier. So, we’re happy. And thankful that everyone is healthy.

National news articles chronicling the recent escape from New York to the Hamptons amid the COVID-19 pandemic have left a wave of emotion in their path. Articles like “Coronavirus Leads To Class Warfare In Hamptons,” “Hamptons Food Stores Ransacked By The Wealthy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic,” and “Wealthy New Yorkers Flee To Hamptons, Hudson Valley To Escape Coronavirus” have been published by the New York Post, Bloomberg, and CNBC.

It’s true the East End has seen an influx of residents, with weekenders setting up shop and summer stayers coming back early. And yes, they are buying large quantities of food and other necessities, leaving many locals angry. But to declare class warfare by pitting the rich against the poor — insinuating that every local is poor and all wealthy are greedy — at a time like this is just not helping the situation.

As a community, we should be sharing and discussing how our local fishermen are feeding the community rather than falling hook, line, and sinker for the clickbait. The public’s health is what’s important right now. Share a link to a local food pantry. Share a resource for a senior citizen.

It’s unrealistic to think that anyone who owns a second home is not going to use it at a time like this. A pandemic could have easily happened in July, and we should be as prepared as possible any time of year. The grocery stores may not have been ready for the inflow of patrons, but none in the country were, and we all can, and will, adapt going forward.

If New York City residents want to use their Hamptons home to quarantine, by all means do so, but please also respect the local community. Stay home. Do not congregate in public spaces and do not hoard groceries and supplies. And this should go without saying, but do not, please, under any circumstance hop on public transportation to the East End or anywhere if you’ve been exposed to, or worse, tested positive for COVID-19.

A specifically cringe-worthy moment happened when we spotted a sponsored Instagram post from Blade helicopter service Sunday evening advertising “WFH = Work From the Hamptons,” offering a two-night stay at a luxury hotel and a round-trip ride from Manhattan. This is unacceptable. It is a time for everyone to stay home, not head out on vacation.

Morgan Petrelli I've always worked remotely this isn't that difficult for me. But it’s just beginning. I've come out from the city and it is so beautiful out here. And this time of year, it's always very quiet and not as intense as in the city, so it's very calming.

Cara Weaver It’s definitely something new to get used to. But the whole family is home and we are working on it as a team.

This is making us discover new ways to get out of the house. But we’re so lucky to have so many resources.

The hiking trails are so beautiful.

We’re lucky to have so many wonderful options.

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Arts & Entertainment A ‘Surge’ Of Hope Tripoli Gallery’s first artist-in-residence

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

“Alice Hope: Surge” is a new solo exhibit on view by appointment at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott now through April 12. The show marks the gallery’s first artist-in-residence in its new residency series in development. “Surge” celebrates Hope’s large-scale installation that was commissioned by Art in Embassies, where it found a permanent home in the U.S. Embassy lobby in Maputo, Mozambique. The exhibit will showcase Hope’s new pieces related to the commission, inspired by marine netting, alongside her works-in-progress during her residency. Recognized for her spiral can tab pieces, new spirals will fill the walls causing onlookers to think beyond the piece itself.

This is your first exhibit at the gallery. How did you connect with owner Tripoli Patterson?

At Trip’s Artist and Writers night at Almond last fall, he spoke about the dynamism he envisioned for his extraordinary new space. He said that he was planning to reconfigure the moving walls regularly, that at times he’d have artists actively working in the space while shows are going on. So, when the Mozambique project outgrew my studio, I talked to Trip about working in his gallery.

The scale of his space was perfect as it replicated the scale of the embassy’s lobby. Oftentimes, I don’t see the entirety of the work until it’s shown — while in process, it’s evolving material.

Installation views of “Alice Hope: Surge” at Tripoli Gallery. Independent/Kira Buckel, courtesy the artist and Tripoli Gallery

I am so grateful to the gallery for it to be seen.

Describe your U.S. Embassy commission, for those who haven’t gotten a chance to see it.

The commission was a two-year project of sourcing, experimenting, and assemblage. The project developed my use of can tabs into a physical form of mark making and tone shifting — a more painterly approach with the material. When I visited the site in Mozambique, I was directly influenced by the seine fisherman offshore from the embassy; I used seine netting as canvas which, at times, I allowed to emerge as a subject.

When setting the pattern of the tabs, I was influenced by the mesmerizing collective momentary shifts in direction of schools of fish — aquatic murmuration.

Have you been there personally?

Yes, I went to Maputo and the trip was very influential. I visited the monumen-

tal embassy site under construction, met artists, art historians, museum directors, curators, and visited the university’s art department. I got a glimpse into the tradition of making and the contemporary approach’s breadth. Resourcefulness was material in and of itself.

What inspired you to use can tabs? They’ve become very iconic in your work.

The tab’s multiple contradictory meanings keep me interested. Ultimately, I’m dedicated to how each one is a relic of consumption and a token for redemption. Each one literally represents a can being opened at a moment in time and also another person at a moment in time collecting the tab — making it a far-reaching collaboration.

How do you obtain all of these tabs?

Most of the tabs for this show are all used Modelo tabs from Costa Rica. I can’t buy new tabs; when they are new they are made pre-attached to the can lid. I worked with a person in Costa

Rica who solicited the collecting. To amass the number of tabs for each one of the works requires a lot of collective gathering. I chose Modelo tabs because of the cultural reference and duo gold/ silver tone.

Is there a significance in the number of tabs used?

Each of the spirals are different sizes, depending on how many can tabs I can find in that color. The bicolor spirals are that scale because I couldn’t source any more. I lose count of the number of tabs I use, in part because I think guessing is part of the viewer’s experience.

What do you enjoy most about this particular exhibit?

I like the variation and relationship between the pieces. While there’s autonomy, they flow into one another.

Tripoli Gallery is located at 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott. It is temporarily open by appointment only. Visit www. tripoligallery.com.

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Inda Eaton: Shelter In Place Re-examining the meaning behind her latest album title

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Social distancing. Flatten the curve.

Shelter in place.

These are sayings that, one month ago, would have caused most people to cock their heads to the side in confusion.

But not local legend and singersongwriter Inda Eaton, who chose “Shelter in Place” as the title of her recently-dropped eighth CD, a collection of original songs.

Eaton recently performed at Bay Street (all the way back on March 7, before the virus days), and rolled out a new video of her song, “Free.”

But back to “Shelter in Place.” We were able to get a few words with the Wyoming native and Springs resident this week.

So, what’s the deal with “Shelter in Place”? You don’t have a song by that title on the album; what was going through your mind when you came up with that name?

Our email and text is blowing up about “Shelter in Place.” It’s poignant and not lost on any of us.

I felt this energy brewing on a road trip across the U.S. after the 2016 election and started putting the project together. In December 2016, people

still had campaign signs on their lawns a month later, like a caution “enter at your own risk” vibe. They were literally sheltering in place and staying within their markers.

I couldn’t shake the title, “Shelter in Place.”

Then, we ended up recording the songs (imagined from the road) here at the house — a total live-in where we were sheltered together.

The buffalo on the album cover symbolizes abundance. I was out with Nancy Atlas on tour in Wyoming where we found “Tank” (the skull). She helped us hang it on the living room wall.

So many of your songs, and your story really, are about travelling, the open road, freedom. How are you dealing with sheltering in place right now?

Our current shelter in Springs is abundant. It got complicated a couple of nights ago when I deeply cut my index finger while making croutons for the Tuscan kale salad. It’s my guitar finger and required stitches. Not wanting to visit the ER during these times, our field medic neighbor and vet came over and patched me up. Guitar playing is on hold. In fact, I’m currently hunting and

pecking with my right hand to communicate with you.

A lot of the local musicians are getting creative with live feeds and so on. Do you have something planned like that?

We have a short film, “Free,” to release when the time is right. “Free,” from “Shelter in Place,” is an anthem that sums up the energy of the entire project — hopeful, high on emotion, and feeling very American. The music is available to the public for streaming on Pandora and Spotify.

I was about to jump into the live feed concept, but am taking it easy as my left hand needs to be stabilized for the moment.

The subtitle for “Shelter In Place” is Celebration of Gratitude. What were you grateful for when you came up with that name, and what

are you grateful for today?

Grateful beyond words for our community out here.

An out-of-work friend with an uncertain future took the time to bring us red sauce yesterday as we are hosting a larger-than-usual household. I cried tears of appreciation. Such a lovely gesture. I will do the same when I get back in the kitchen.

The neighborhood is coming together and we’re helping with the home schooling. I’m the music teacher.

We have a phone/text tree and are picking up groceries and medications for the block to limit exposure.

I don’t have a specific call to action to capitalize on the moment. This is not a time to sell or buy things.

For me, it’s a time to calm down, help out, and bask in the communal love of our neighborhood.

For more information on Inda Eaton and her music, visit www.indaeaton. com.

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Ruth and Lee in front of “Night Watch (1960),” Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 1979.

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On Monday, March 9, the Ladies' Village Improvement Society of East Hampton hosted Ruth Appelhof (left) who discussed aspects of her upcoming book “Lee & Me.” She was interviewed by Helen Harrison (right), director of the Pollock-Krasner House. For more photos visit www.indyeastend.com. Independent/Richard Lewin

Appelhof’s Intimate Portrait Of Lee Krasner ‘Well-behaved women seldom make history’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

By Karen Fredericks karen@karenfredericks.com “Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous,” are some of the words author Ruth Appelhof uses to describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) — the subject of a memoir inspired by Appelhof’s 1974 summer stay with Krasner in East Hampton, "Lee And Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner."

While perhaps best remembered by many as Jackson Pollock’s widow, she is regarded more by insiders as the producer of a major body of work that influenced the evolution of contemporary art — in particular, art made by women in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Appelhof is widely known to the Hamptons community for her almost two decades spent as executive director of Guild Hall. Her long list of accomplishments there includes pro-

gramming efforts that drew a recordbreaking 50,000 visitors a year. She also initiated the much-needed Guild Hall renovation by Robert A.M. Stern, planning and successfully leading a $17-million fundraising effort.

After stepping down in 2016, she began writing the book she vowed to write while still in college: “Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait Of Lee Krasner.”

“I was a 34-year-old graduate student doing research on Krasner when she invited me to stay at her house on Springs-Fireplace Road for the summer. I was getting my masters in art history at Syracuse University, and she had agreed to let me interview her. I drove my bright orange Ford Pinto to New York City to pick her up. She was horrified by my car, but she did not own a car herself. I realized right then

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and there that she wasn’t really interested in my interviewing her, she just needed a chauffeur. In fact, even her knowledge of how to get to the Hamptons seemed sketchy, at best.”

Describing her Hamptons stay, Appelhof said, “At that time, Krasner was painting in the barn of Jackson Pollock’s old studio. I lived in a tiny bedroom upstairs in the house that’s now the Pollock-Krasner Museum. I’d interview her in the afternoon and type everything up at night. I’d bring down my notes in the morning and she’d take a Magic Marker and cross out all the good stuff.

I thought I could get along with almost anybody, but Lee was difficult, to say the least. Re-listening to those tapes has been very difficult for me.”

Appelhof said, “I struggled with decades of self-loathing, internalizing Krasner’s behavior and blaming myself.” But with the help of Helen Harrison of Pollock-Krasner House, the author located and reached out to many of Krasner’s other summer sitters.

“When quite a few shared experiences similar to mine, I was able to let go of that pain,” she related.

As a scholar and the friend to Krasner that she eventually became, Appelhof re-examines Krasner’s contributions in light of the intellectual and emotional experiences that Kras-

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ner so candidly shared with her in weeks of interviews. In her book, Appelhof explores Krasner’s relationships with others: friends, art-world luminaries, artists allowed into her private world. Those recollections offer a window into the artist’s intense and idiosyncratic personal life as well as into her contributions through the groundbreaking work she produced over the course of more than six decades.

Appelhof notes that “for all her cruelty, she also had a large circle of deeply loyal and supportive friends and allies who helped her achieve her greatest goal: getting the recognition she deserved for her life’s work.”

Among those, key was Barbara Rose, an art historian and critic who was pivotal in arranging a show for Krasner that began in Texas and concluded at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where Krasner would be one of a very small group of female artists to have a show dedicated to her work. It was a stunning pinnacle to the artist’s career.

But in keeping with a life filled with so many hurdles, challenges, and disappointments, Krasner died before the show ever reached New York.

Hers was a life both glorious and tragic. The story Appelhof tells is riveting.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Some Like It Hot What food to buy, and how to make it last rmurphy@indyeastend.com

My mother told me after working 15hour shifts during World War II at the hospital, my father would hit the streets and walk downtown Brooklyn to try and find a chocolate candy bar for my brother, who was four at the time. Seems there was a nationwide shortage. I never recall food being hard to come by in my lifetime.

I was kidding around a few weeks back but I never dreamed I’d go to King Kullen and see barren shelves with no chicken, no beef, no paper goods, etc.

It made me ask: how prepared are we for these kinds of shortages? My whole neighborhood is packed with second home owners who decided to ride out this emergency here. Suppose they woke up tomorrow with no food in the house and a government-imposed house arrest in place? Or every supermarket was closed because of the rampant spread of this killer virus?

If you don’t think it can happen, imagine a week ago if I told you all the

restaurants, movies, bars, and retail stores would be closed and I’d have no professional sports to bet on.

Could you last a full month on the food you have on hand? That’s a long time. I do know I could feed 20 neighbors if I had to right now although if you live near me and are reading this be advised — you’re not invited. Here’s what I stock up on: 1. Flour. Most of us are so used to getting our biscuits from Pillsbury tubes that we don’t realize the sheer simplicity of biscuits, rolls, and bread. Basically, you can get away with three things: flour, water, and shortening, although we usually add some butter, milk, an egg, a little baking powder, and sugar to gussy up the recipe. Do you have any idea how many biscuits you can make with a 20-pound bag of flour? Probably 100. Think the kids will like them for breakfast right out of the oven with melting butter, or for lunch with PB

2. Beans. You know how every cowboy movie has a “chef” named Cookie? He’s the guy in the sombrero and there’s also a mule with pans hanging all over the thing. He smokes black cigarettes he also chews on. Every night the cowboys come in after a long day of herding cattle and they ask: What’s for dinner?

The joke is “beans and beans and more beans.” Usually with some rabbit or vermin, if you’re lucky.

We tend to take chili for granted, but there is nothing like it. Sauté onions in a little oil, soak a couple of pounds of red beans and add them to a big pot.

Pour in three large cans of tomatoes.

It is where you go from here that makes it or breaks it. Add chili powder, cumin, fresh cilantro, pepper, paprika, and bay leaves. Here’s the key: Get some good hot jalapeños from a connoisseur who hoards them. Ask for the private stock. I trade a bottle of wine with my guy.

Now my little secret: If the recipe says water, substitute vino. In this case, I use beef stock, white wine, red wine, and sherry, with a little Worcester sauce and Tabasco. Add a little water until beans are covered.

Now we’re in businesses. Sauté your chopped meat (two pounds or so) with salt, pepper, and garlic. You can use beef, turkey, venison and yes, anything you can hunt as long as you clean it and cook it properly. Chop it up and dump

it in and be grateful we live in a place where you can still live off the land.

The concoction can simmer for hours. I put a couple cans of corn kernels in near the end. I serve it with sour cream and some crumbled bacon on top. Lots of folks like cheese on top. (I don’t). You can stretch it out by serving it over rice. Do this and you can serve a building full of EMTs. 3. Pasta. When you see pasta on sale, grab it. It can be had for less than a dollar a pound. I probably have 30 packages. Ditto canned tomatoes, which can be had for as low as 88 cents each, and tomato paste. Finally, a big chunk of cheese lasts for months. Once again, any meat will do. I’ve found a little sausage goes a long way if you take it out of the casing before sautéing. Of course, I’m lucky to have a freezer full of meatballs and sausage for my Italian family, and chopped meat for the dog.

Don’t forget white sauce: sauté garlic in olive oil, mix in salt, peppers, and parsley and toss in pasta. Add a couple of cans of chopped clams — delicious. I ate pasta, grated cheese, and butter with a big chunk of Italian bread nearly every meal when I was in college and loved every bit of it.

Epilogue: Cookie done good. I really did make a giant pot of chili Friday night, though none of our neighbors ate over. I made a dozen servings I’ll freeze for later in the quarantine.

Maybe it’s a good thing I’ll be close to home.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

I Have Learned Alone with my thoughts during this crisis kissandtellhb@gmail.com

Through this crisis I have learned many things.

I have learned that the kindness of strangers can be a lifeline and that also there is no limit to selfish, greedy f ***wits. I have learned to completely give up vanity and any beauty services and can live just fine with my roots showing and chipped nails. I have also learned that I care deeply about the sweet girl who cuts my hair and my single mom manicurist and am concerned how they will live without this essential income.

I learned I have been putting on my

make up in entirely the wrong way and am now an expert on “smoky eyes for those over 35.”

I have learned you can work out for free online with German body builders.

You can put a bit of dish liquid and water on the floor by the sink, hold onto the counter, and use the slippery floor as a treadmill. Toilet paper is actually a real and valuable currency. I have revisited Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of god and have enough time to contemplate whether I agree or not.

I have learned that many people

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out here do not fully understand the work of our amazing volunteer ambulance and fire fighters. The people on the front line of this epidemic are not paid. They only get a slight property tax relief for their duties. Unlike others who serve, they do not get salaries and pensions and health insurance. And they make this sacrifice when they need to care for their own families most.

I have learned that those you might rely on are nowhere in sight and that a brief romance in Rome can lead to a deeply soulful connection that sends you strength from Beirut. A crisis pours gasoline on the flames of regret. Without distraction, time stops sprinting and slows to an unsteady gait. I have learned negativity is more negative and positivity is more positive although naivete is not rewarded.

Not since the rotary phone have people made such an effort to call those they care about.

A stiff upper lip is useful when drinking martinis, but if there was ever a time to ditch the sugar coating and be vulnerable, it is now. I have learned how loud the bird calls are and how often the ambulance siren is going by these days.

I have learned that when there is one house on fire, everyone rushes to bring water to stop the flames, but

when everyone’s house is on fire, you just try to get out alive.

I have learned that it has taken a global crisis to shine the brightest possible light on the economic disparity of wealth in this country. Restaurant workers, staff for sporting, cultural, and conference events, the travel industry, those in the arts and theaters and music halls and museums, freelancers . . . the list goes on and on. I have learned that those who have not known the anxiety ridden, soul crushing, can’t sleep, shame inducing, ‘how did I get here as such a talented and hard-working person,’ ‘I used to bite my nails but now can’t put my fingers in my face’ experience of life may not truly understand.

Yet those without financial worries cannot ignore the headlines of the economic impact on the majority of the population. And they do so at their own peril. Maybe when every woman has had their non-essential Botox injections cancelled, we will be able again to collectively raise an eyebrow at the inequity. Do not doubt our power.

I have learned and I have learned and I have learned.

But many have not.

I have learned the importance of breath. Because in the end, that is the most important gift of all.

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OLD DOGS, NEW TRIPS

By Vay David & John Laudando

Old Dogs, No Trips?

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During these far too “interesting” times, anyone who loves to travel is faced with the need to stay tucked in, cozy and healthy, at home. Even The Independent staff is working from home these days.

Today’s astonishing communications age is what makes work and learning at home possible. And, without our electronics, our entertainment at home might be the card games, word games, musicales, jigsaw puzzles, books, and other activities that used to occupy families in the not-so-long-ago.

And although all of those are still truly fun, today much of our entertainment at home comes from the computer, the phone, the tablet, and television.

There was never a better time to em-

brace the wonder of how these, either separately or in tandem, can take your imagination all over the world while you stay home.

My favorite “trip” thus far was provided by Google’s Arts and Culture site. Wonder of wonders, you can do free virtual tours of the Van Gogh Museum and Musée D’Orsay, two favorites among many offering such a delight. The Arts and Culture home page even offered a virtual tour of the Taj Mahal — wow! They’ve worked with museums and attractions throughout the world to bring them to you on your small screens. It’s easy. Simply go to artsandculture.google.com and search your favorite artist or museum — you’ll be amazed at how much is

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If, like us, you support a few arts endeavors, your emails may be full of news of newly available entertainments. Locally, Live from Guild Hall at www.guildhall.org/events/live/ is a gateway to revisit special museum events, which can lead you further to countless YouTube videos of stellar musical performances, if that’s your cup of tea. And the Metropolitan Opera, www.metopera.org, is doing free streaming of many of its glorious past performances from their website.

If live theater is your thing, have a look at BroadwayHD.com. It isn’t free, but a year’s subscription will set you back far less than two Broadway tickets. Its offerings included history-making plays and musicals that I would love to see, and that’s just a brief sample.

Last week, PBS Nature took us on a special up-close-and-personal trip through the grandeur of Yosemite, with insights about its future. We contribute to PBS, which means we can stream all sorts of public television through Passport. In these days of social distancing, imagine using Passport to plan a night of ethnic food preparation, then following dinner with a travelogue on

the place where the recipes originated.

That could be fun, social distancing or not!

Of course, this is all assuming you are streaming. Most TVs being sold these days are smart TVs, and adding Roku or Apple TV to an old TV is not difficult. And streaming can open up so much. No smart TV? Everything can also be seen on computers, tablets, and smartphones.

But how about those of you stuck at home with just an old TV and cable?

Remember that almost all cable channels offer movies on demand. And they’re set up to charge right to your cable bill, so all you have to do is push a button to select that film you really wanted to see but missed at the movie theater. And you can make your own popcorn!

In these days of IMing and Facebooking and tweets, maybe the best idea of all is to pick up your phone and spend some of this forced extra time simply catching up with friends and family. In these distanced times, the personal becomes more important than ever. And, probably, we’re not too busy to talk.

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March 25, 2020

HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

If You’re Bored, Read This Ramblings from social (but not social media) isolation jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Spring has been cancelled. And I’ll just be over here drinking immunity defense shots and hoping for the best.

Self-quarantine is like a vacation, but also like being in prison. It’s all about how you look at it, which can change daily. I feel like in some ways I was built for this. As a writer and editor, there’s a lot of time spent working in isolation. The social aspects of my job have been put on hold, such as covering all of the wonderful events the East End has to offer, but the reality is that the majority of my work is done from a computer. At Indy, our amazing team has WFH down to a science. We’ve put this newspaper together from all over the world.

As much as I want to say “I’m here for a good time not a long time,” I’d really rather give up four months of my life than infect another human who might suffer deadly consequences. It’s so important to stay home right now.

When in a frightening situation like this, sometimes you have to find the humor. I think memes might actu-

ally save us all. “Hold on, it’s time to change from my daytime pajamas to my nighttime pajamas.” “Tonight, I’m going to do a wine tour through the different regions of my home.” “I really hope this ends before summer or we’ll have to deal with Corona and Lyme.”

I find myself scrolling a little too long and laughing a little too hard — to the point where Instagram tells me I’m “all caught up.” I didn’t know that was possible.

In this world of accessible travel, I haven’t stayed put for more than a week in what feels like years (I usually split my week between Hampton Bays and Yorkville. My husband works in the city and I work here, so we’re always on-the-move). In the past few months, I’ve taken trips to Paris, LA, Miami twice, Annapolis, Baltimore, and a staycation in Greenport. I’m OK with taking a minute to lean into the silence.

I’ll sit back. I’ll do some yoga. I might have time to read a book for fun.

My husband is a private chef who isn’t going in to work every day. I told him

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it’s important to keep a schedule. Voila, I now have a private chef. This isn’t so bad. I start thinking, should I start a podcast or a Tik Tok? (Podcast, coming soon. Tik Tok, probably never happening.)

Full transparency, I did escape New York City, carrying a 48 pack of toilet paper and groceries I had delivered from Costco (not hoarding, just the only size they sell). I feel prepared.

I stocked up on groceries before the mad rush. I’ve now been quarantined for over two weeks. I’m not leaving the house for anything besides a beach walk, and I won’t even stop anywhere there’s more than one car in the parking lot. I am also the proud owner of a two-week supply of astronaut food.

Then there are the fears of impending tragedy. In the words of Cardi B, “s**t is getting real!” There are thoughts like “I’m not going to spend my last moments on Earth watching ‘Love is Blind’ on Netflix,” and “I can’t die with my closet this unorganized.”

Beach walks are the highlights of most days. I know how lucky I am to have that as an option right now. Actually, the first time I realized how lucky I am was the day after 9/11. I was sent home from my second week in college, sat on the lifeguard stand in Amagansett, and realized how I never truly appreciated my home until that day. This is not unlike that.

Right now, we may all feel helpless, fighting a war from our couches.

Our normal life has been interrupted.

(Thank goodness I have a private chef!)

Even if you’re not in a vulnerable group of people, please take any precaution to not expose those who are. We need to care of our senior citizens and keep them safe. Many of us will become sick and some may even die, but if we do this right that number will be lower and lives will be saved. Stay home.

Even if you’re feeling helpless, there’s still so much you can do to help.

Support local business by buying a gift

card for future use. Support our local food pantries by donating money. If you receive a stimulus check, but you haven’t had financial hardship due to COVID-19, consider donating part or all of it to someone in need. Pay attention to the way companies treat their employees at a time like this. Those are the ones you want to support when business is running again. If you had planned to go to a charity event, donate the ticket price anyway. If you have extra masks, donate them to healthcare workers, they are our front line of defense. And thank them for the courageous work they are doing.

And be kind. Respect your neighbor. We are all frightened.

When in a frightening situation like this, sometimes you have to find the humor. I think memes might actually save us all.

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Dining Takeout Is The New Dine-In Restaurants adjust to the new normal with carry-out options

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com We’re living in a new world where staying in is the new going out. For restaurants, that means a tremendous hit on business. Date nights, celebrations, and stop-in food cravings are all kicked to the curb — or are they?

Maybe visiting your favorite eatery is off the table, but that doesn’t mean your favorite food is. We’ve compiled a list of restaurants across the East End offering take-out or delivery menu items — many of them include wine, beer, and cocktails! So, as you sit back and ride out this new normal, here are restaurants looking to make your time inside a little more appetizing.

Hampton Coffee Company’s locations may be closed, but the roasters will remain open for online coffee orders. Head to www.hamptoncoffeecompany.com to stay up to date.

Claude’s Restaurant at Southampton Inn is offering take-out breakfast options daily from 7 to 10 AM. Stay up to date at www.southamptoninn. com.

In Water Mill, Bistro Ete is offering cocktails and food to go and is offering an additional 10 percent off. Call 631-500-9085 or head to its Instagram @bistroete.

Bridgehampton’s Almond offers takeout with curbside pickup daily from 5 to 9 PM. Call to place an order, and you’ll receive a time when it’ll be ready and they’ll bring it out to you.

The restaurant is also offering delivery to Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, Sagaponack, and Wainscott. Visit www.almondrestaurant.com.

In Sag Harbor, Estia’s is offering a drive-up hot burrito truck Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM. There will be a limited menu that can only be ordered from via credit card over the phone at 631-725-1045.

Sag Pizza is offering a limited take-out menu of pizza, salad, and woodfired chicken from 11 AM to 8 PM. 631-725-3167.

K Pasa will be offering takeout and delivery seven days a week from 1 to 7:30 PM. It is in the process of creating cocktail and bar deals. For the full

menu offered, visit www.1-800-taco. com.

The Bell and Anchor is offering a special take-out menu, available Tuesday through Sunday. Orders can be placed over the phone, 631-725-3400, from 3:30 to 7 PM. Pickup is available from 5 to 7:30 PM. The menu can be viewed by visiting www.bellandanchor. com.

Lulu Kitchen will roll out Lulu Traiteur, a to-go prepared food menu with curbside pickup. It will be available Tuesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 PM. Orders are taken by phone or email and may be ordered in advance for future pickup. The items will be prepared foods available by the quart or pound that customers can purchase and stock their fridge with and enjoy at a future time. As well, discount bottles of wine will be available for purchase from the wine list. Visit www.lulusagharbor.com.

In East Hampton, Nick and Toni’s is accepting to-go orders by phone and online from a streamlined dinner menu. There will also be curated, larger format dinner options available, such as wood oven roasted chicken and lasagna al forno. In true Italian style, it is also allowing pickup wine bottles. Visit www.nickandtonis.com.

Carissa’s The Bakery is open in East Hampton for take-away. Call to place orders. Take home dinners are available for evening pickup from 5 to 7 PM. Visit the website to order online.

Rowdy Hall will offer a special take-out menu from 4 to 8 PM with curbside pickup. Call in your order beginning at 3 PM and pay by gift card or credit card only at 631-324-8555.

The 1770 House offers a new take-out menu by chef Michael Rozzi with director Michael Cohen’s curated wine list 25 percent off all bottles, and beers are also available to go. For a full list of offerings, go to www.1770house. com.

Cittanouva will offer nightly specials for takeout. Mondays are cheddar or American burger, soup del giorno, or Citta house salad, and a draft beer for $20.20; Tuesday, grab any Citta pizza with homemade gelato for $15 and a draft beer for $5; Steak night happens Wednesdays with a NY Strip steak with a choice of three side preparations for $20; Thursday calls for any pasta

entree for $18; and get a house red or white bottle for $35. See more on its Instagram @cittanuovaeh.

Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue has moved its food truck to the restaurant and has been offering online ordering, as well as payment over the phone. They are operating Wednesday through Sunday, check website for hours. Visit www.stonecreekinn.com or call 631-653-6770.

Wölffer Kitchen is serving takeout that includes cocktails, wine, beer, and food. This includes 50 percent off wine by the bottle. Call 631-725-0101 for Sag Harbor and 631-267-2764 for Amagansett.

Wölffer Estate Vineyard is also open for delivery as well as a handsfree drive-thru in Sagaponack. It is offering free same-day shipping for $50+ orders from Southampton to Montauk.

Call 631-537-5106 ext. 925.

Scotto’s Fine Italian Foods in Hamptons Bays is offering a walk-up window and states it is fully stocked for all your needs. Hours are 11 AM to 8 PM, Monday to Saturday, and 11 AM to 6 PM on Sunday. Delivery service is also available. Call 631-728-5677.

Elaia Estiatorio in Bridgehampton is offering take-out and curbside pickup Wednesday through Sunday from 4 to 8 PM. You can order on the website www.elaiaestiatorio.com or call 631-616-6469. Credit cards only.

Park Place Wines & Liquors has refocused its staff to help customers find the products they want through phone, email, website, app, or curbside ordering. For logistical reasons, they will only be accepting credit cards, no cash, and have changed hours of operation to 10 AM to 6 PM. Continued On Page B12.

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Estia’s Hot Burrito Drive-Thru

thru operation that he has concocted to keep hungry people fed — but at a distance. His operation is currently “Estia’s Hot Burrito,” and it will run from 10 AM to 2 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. Orders must be placed by phone — 631-725-1045. Patrons can provide their credit cards to streamline the process.

There will be specials, too, like Muggsy’s Migas, house-grown cornbread French toast with salsa verde, avocado, and a poached egg, for $20; a California turkey burger on an English muffin with Monterey Jack cheese and avocado, for $17; roasted duck tacos on corn tortillas with sofrito, avocado, and sour cream, for $20; red chili posole, for $8.50; and a vegan burrito with beans and avocado salsa, for $18.

The one thing that is bound to grow old — and quickly — as we become newly intimate with our own homes is cooking, day in and day out.

And while there is some untapped joy in spending time in our own kitchens, there is also untold joy in having food delivered right to us, a joy no longer deliverable by the experience of dining.

That singular thing has been stripped from us, maybe, for an indeterminate period of time, but we are fortunate, in that our mighty cooks and restaurateurs have made it their mission to con-

A little weekend luxury break from your kitchen

By Hannah Selinger What does a life without restaurants look like? As it turns out, it is bleak — but it’s not nearly as bleak as we thought. On the East End, we have been met with an onslaught of city visitors, many of whom are here for the long haul. The close proximity of people living in New York, it seems, is unappealing in a national crisis. And so, although the unofficial crowning of Season 2020 begins not now, in March, but in two months hence, in May, we have started the seasonal rush. Bring on the people. Bring on the traffic. August is here, like it or not. Settle in. It’s gonna be a long one.

With restaurants closed and stores buckling from the assault of basic human need, creativity was necessary to offset necessity. Out here, we’re hungry, and that’s the oldest, truest hu-

man story. What are we going to eat?

When are we going to eat it? Who is going to feed it to us? Colin Ambrose, of Sag Harbor’s Estia’s Little Kitchen, has devised one temporary remedy to our current dining-less situation. He’s going to keep us full, at least some of the time. And we should all be thankful for his efforts.

Estia’s is a breakfast-y, lunch-y joint, known for its generous atmosphere, its inspired Mexican-ish cuisine, and its dedication to local ingredients. When he isn’t in the kitchen, or roaming the dining room and chatting with customers and friends, Ambrose is likely fishing somewhere out west, since fishing is his other passion.

But today — or, these days, as it stands — he’s here, on the East End, slinging migas and burritos, in a drive-

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tinue to feed us, by truck and by delivery, by takeout and by force of nature.

As we find our footing in this new — hopefully impermanent — condition, we can find new rituals, too.

Maybe make Ambrose’s Saturday and Sunday hot burrito drive-thru, a luxury that was never before available, because there was never before a need for it, part of your new routine. It may be hard to see a bright side in all of this, but if we can draw such a conclusion, let it be that, sometimes, a terrible situation opens the door for something small and lovely to emerge. In this case, Estia’s Hot Burritos is that small, lovely thing.

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GuestWorthy Recipe: Chef Kay Kyungmin Hyun

Independent/Courtesy Mokyo

Korean gumbo

By Zachary Weiss

Who: Chef Kay Kyungmin Hyun, owner and chef at Mokyo

Instagram: @chefkayhyun

Chef Hyun’s Guest-Worthy Recipe: Korean gumbo

Why? Korean gumbo is the perfect comfort food that can be eaten all year round, and a delicious and simple dish to make at home.

Ingredients: 3/4 c butter 1 c flour 2 celery stalks 1 red bell pepper 1 red onion Spices: Cumin, garlic powder, smoked paprika, black pepper, chili flakes, salt 2 Tbsp fish sauce 2 bay leaves 5 c chicken stock Plantains

Andouille sausage Deshelled shrimp Deshelled crawfish

Directions: Step 1: Roux Melt 150g of butter, then add 100g of flour and cook until brown

1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp smoked paprika 1.5 tsp black pepper 3 Tbsp Korean chili flakes 2 Tbsp fish sauce 1.5 Tbsp salt 2 bay leaves

Step 2: Soup Base — Add the following to Roux: 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped 1 red bell pepper, roughly chopped 1/2 red onion, roughly chopped

Cook for about 30 seconds after adding. Add 5 cups chicken stock. Simmer until vegetables becomes soft. Stir and simmer until soup base thickens.

Cook until vegetables sweat (about 3 minutes of cooking).

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Step 4: In a separate pan: Cover bottom with oil. (Sweat following vegetables.) Add 3 Tbsp bell peppers, diced Add 3 Tbsp red onions, diced Add 1 Tbsp celery, diced Add 1/5 sliced plantains Then, add diced andouille sausages, deshelled shrimp, and deshelled crawfish (preferred amount).

Cook until seafood is fully cooked (roughly about 1-2 minutes).

Add 1 cup of already made soup base.

Once it boils, it is ready!

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Flourless Chocolate Cookie With Raspberry Filling Ingredients 1 c walnuts 1/2 c toasted hazelnuts 1 1/4 c powdered sugar 1 1/2 egg whites 4 1/2 Tbsp cocoa powder 1/4 tsp cream of tartar 1/4 tsp salt 3 pints raspberries (washed) 1/2 c granulated sugar 2 egg yolks 1/4 c heavy cream 1 1/2 Tbsp cornstarch

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Blend and strain mixture.

Return raspberry sauce to the pot.

Over a double boiler, whisk the egg yolks until they are pale in color. Whisk together the cream and cornstarch, then add the egg yolks and cream mixture to the raspberry sauce. Whisk vigorously over medium heat until thick. This will take about five minutes.

Cool in the refrigerator for about three hours.

Set your oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor, pulse the walnuts, powdered sugar, and cocoa powder until fine. Strain the mixture to remove any large pieces.

In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites and cream of tartar to soft peaks. Fold the egg whites into the dry

ingredients, gently, being careful not to deflate the egg whites.

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Instagram Live Classes The Halyard makes social distancing less isolating

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Sound View in Greenport is offering a new kind of afternoon delight. It’s Instagram Live with cooking and cocktail classes from The Halyard Restaurant, hosted by executive chef Stephan Bogardus and general manager Derick Erwee. The four sessions last approximately 10 to 15 minutes each.

“We are really taking our connection to community to the next digital level to substitute, as best we can, the human-to-human energy,” owner Erik Warner said. “In times of self-isolation, folks are becoming lonely and looking back to the places they have great memories. We are going to do everything we can to be there. We can’t just turn off the lights during this period of

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Park Place has more than doubled its home delivery capacity by hiring folks who are now out of work and increased the ability to safely service curbside pick up. They will deliver to your home, ship, or place your order in a designated spot for in-store pick up. They will also be disinfecting all bottles before packaging them. Call 631-324-2622.

Fresno in East Hampton is offering a special take-out menu for curbside delivery. Orders can be placed Thursday through Monday from 3:30 to 7 PM by calling the restaurant directly at 631-324-8700. Beer, bottled wine, and batched cocktails are also available and both menus can be viewed by visiting www.fresnorestaurant.com.

Coche Comedor in Amagansett will have a special take-out menu Wednesday through Sunday from 4

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darkness.”

Each session allows those tuning in to ask questions as they learn new techniques and insider facts about the North Fork region.

“We want to do everything we can to keep the community engaged with each other. We hope this effort provides a platform for everyone to come together during a time of social distancing using the most social activity we all know, drinking and eating,” said general manager Derrick Erwee.

The lineup began last weekend with a cocktail class on Gin and Shrubs, followed by a cooking class

guiding through a French Style Organic Omelet with Ira’s Biodynamic Greens (from KK’s the Farm). Next weekend, the fun continues on Saturday, March 28, with a cocktail class on Tonics and concludes on Sunday, March 29, with a cooking class on Vinaigrettes and Salads. All classes begin at 4 PM and will also be available through IGTV and Instagram Live for 24 hours.

“While we cannot welcome you to the restaurant, we can share some ways to still have a good time and help you pass the time while learning about how we operate,” Bogardus concluded.

Check out @halyardgreenport.

to 9 PM with curbside pickup. Call in your order and pay by gift card or credit card only at 631-267-5709.

Bel Mare in Springs is offering take-out and delivery services Wednesday through Sunday. Diners can order online at www.belmareristorante.com or by phone 631-658-9500 and via UberEats. The restaurant is offering the full menu plus bottles of wine and beer.

Townline BBQ is offering a special take-out and curbside pickup menu, available Wednesday through Sunday. Orders can be placed over the phone by calling 631-537-2271 between noon and 7 PM or until the ‘que runs out. In lieu of gratuity, diners may choose to donate to the Honest Man Employee Relief Fund. Credit card payment is preferred.

668 The Gig Shack in Montauk is offering locals to-go options. Daily lunches from 12 to 3 PM; and dinner Sunday through Thursday, 5 to 8 PM, Friday and Saturday, 5 to 9 PM. Free

delivery on UberEats and pick up by calling 631-668-2727.

The Preston House and Hotel in Riverhead will have prime strip steaks available for pickup or delivery with two sides for only $28. Other favorites like French onion soup and gumbo are available for $8. For more menu options, call 631-775-1550.

In Greenport, Bruce and Son is offering take-out and curbside pickup Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 9 AM to 2:30 PM. It is also offering delivery to Orient, East Marion, Greenport, Southold, Peconic, Cutchogue, Mattituck, and Laurel. Visit www.bruceandsonggreenport.com.

The Halyard Restaurant at Sound View is offering a to-go menu Friday through Sunday from 11 AM to 7 PM. See the menu at www.thehalyardrestaurant.com.

First and South in Greenport offers food to go only, from 1 to 6 PM, daily. Visit www.firstandsouth.com for

Sound View general manager Derrick Erwee and chef Stephan Bogardus. Independent/Tara Donne

menu options.

Also in the area, takeout is available at Green Hill Kitchen and Que via GrubHub or by calling the restaurant directly at 631-477-4900. The restaurant is currently open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 8 PM and is looking to add more dates in the near future. It is also offering delivery to Greenport, Southold, and East Marion with 50 percent off wine bottles, along with delivery to Shelter Island with a $100 minimum, and to Sag Harbor with 24-hour notice and $100 minimum. Head to www.greenhillny.com.

The Independent reminds readers to wash hands before and after meals, and encourages everyone to continue supporting local restaurants. They need us more than ever right now.

We will continue to publish new hours and specials from local restaurants in our newspaper and on www. indyeastend.com. Email jessica@indyeastend.com to be included.

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Real Realty

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Deeds

Min Date =2/22/2020 Max Date = 2/28/2020

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

Featured For Sale 67 Second House Road Montauk $949,000 Web ID: H349934

Monica Reiner

Lic. R.E. Salesperson

631-537-4631 631-903-3920 monica.reiner@ elliman.com

Area

Buy

Sell

AMAGANSETT

39 Timber Trail LLC

Emery Jr, JS

1,400,000

39 Timber Trl

52 Meeting House Lane

Stastney, H

6,175,000

52 Meeting House Ln

Garbutt III, B

Bertolotti, E & A

1,587,500

12 Shepherds Ln

Gall, P

CVR First LLC

3,545,000

90 Birchwood Ln

BH 2510 LLC

BNB Ventures IV

9,019,440

2510 Montauk Hwy

Cowles, E Trust

Silver, A

2,900,000

20 Hull Ln

Bel Sogno Realty

Peluso, C

11,850,000

949 Ocean Rd

Karapetyan, G & Serpe, J

Nuce, G, #10 G & L

1,580,000

2 Bay Colony Ct

Parseghian & OLoughlin

Gianni, E

1,075,000

34 Alewive Brook Rd

Kollmorgen, S & Chen, A

Accabonac Development

2,050,000

24 School St

8 Island Rd LLC

Friedman, E by Exr

1,500,000

8 Island Rd

Toscano, T Trust

195 Bull Path LLC

3,500,000

195 Bull Path

Gollin, D

Bond, R & S

885,000

83 Whooping Hollow Rd

Miller, C & E

388 Stephen Hands Path

950,000

388 Stephen Hands Path

78 Cooper Lane LLC

Pitstick, K & Babin, M

1,300,000

78 Cooper Ln

Pietrzak, A & Fuchs, N

Gore, B & V

1,270,000

27 Squires Path

Aberdeenshire LLC

Pudding Hill LLC

7,450,000

29 Huntting Ln

7 Davids Lane LLC

Bartle & Boghossian

2,350,000

7 Davids Ln

Gunalp, E & L

Farber, S by Exr

1,700,000

149 Main St

Pantelakis Buchenroth

Bacanovic, P

2,250,000

103 Mill Hill Ln

Weiss Projects LLC

ES Ventures One LLC

8,500,000

80 Further Ln

37 Cottage Avenue Trst

Bozzi, B & M

5,000,000

37 Cottage Ave

EAST QUOGUE

Town of Southampton

Winterberry Marsh LLC

2,600,000*

15 Dune Rd

GREENPORT

Van Duyne, S & M

Moeller, P

990,000

910 Maple Ln

HAMPTON BAYS

Di Andrea, J & C

Zullo, P & A

2,000,000

17 Canal Way

MONTAUK

Terrapin Station MTK

Sayers Living Trust

2,110,000

38 Big Reed Path

Kamal, M & Nikjou, L

Egan, L & Becerra, M

1,425,000

14 Farragut Rd

Heckman, P &Hansell, L

Black, R & J

950,000

170 Greenwich St

Jensen, E

Sobolov, B & S

1,356,888

114 Fairview Ave

Cifuni, N

28 Midland LLC

3,600,000

28 Midland St

BRIDGEHAMPTON

EAST HAMPTON

QUOGUE

Price

Location

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Deeds Featured For Sale 192 Norfolk Drive East Hampton $649,000 Web ID: H349802

Priscilla Garston,

Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

631-537-5900 631-834-7174 priscilla.garston@ elliman.com

Stacy Meyrowitz, Lic. R.E. Salesperson

631-537-5900 917-224-7011 stacy.meyrowitz@ elliman.com

Area

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REMSENBURG

Cates & Mancuso-Cates

Bodkin, R

999,000

153 South Country Rd

RIVERHEAD

Prestigious Property

Baiting Hollow Entprs

1,600,000

3225 Sound Ave

Oakland Ridge MHC

Oakland Ridge MHC RH

14,000,000

1795& 1800 Osborne & 81-1-16

SAGAPONACK

Kringstein, B & C & Trsts

494 Hedges LLC

16,500,000

494 Hedges Ln

SAG HARBOR

Phillips, J

Svendby, B & Cummings, W

2,750,000

49 Rysam St

Brown, J

Gorga Family Trust

1,100,000

53 Wickatuck Ln

Hagerstrom, S

Schofield, d

1,345,000

466 Brick Kiln Rd

5 Bay View Drive LLC

Lathen Jr, D & K

14,000,000

5 Bay View Dr

Greenwald, A

Schuster, C & C

875,000

148 Edgemere Dr

Smith, A

1455 Majors Path LLC

1,550,000

1455 Majors Path

Pesenti, F & 241 Edge

Linde, M

1,360,000

241 Edge Of Woods Rd

485 David Whites Lane

Eternity Builders LLC

4,500,000

485 David Whites Ln

N5 Southampton Devel

D’Italia, C

2,300,000*

6 Leecon Ct

Greenspan, G & M

Saunders, S & DG

1,395,000

140 Hills Station Rd

Casciato & Reifenberg

Rosenbloom, D by Exr

6,700,000*

155 Captains Neck Ln

15 WSR LLC

Conrad Hinkel LLC

2,500,000*

15 Wainscott Stone Hwy

Hollywood Horizon

DSA Beach LLC

5,150,000*

65 Beach Ln

Poupis, D & A

Brown, R

2,175,000

339 Water Mill Towd Rd

207 Narrow Lane Redvlp

Neumann, A & R

1,250,000

207 Narrow Ln South

92 Schwenks LLC

Schwenks I, LLC

2,400,000*

92 Schwenks Rd

Hamptons RE Partners

Petho, Z & J

1,100,000

41 Winding Way

Sanchez, J & J

Szcepankowski, G Trst

950,000

22 Fairbanks Ct

Frank, M

Holcomb, M

2,505,000

37 Potato Barn Rd

Newman, S & L & H

Bender, T

915,000

159 David Ln

Fitterman, G

Blum, K & B

1,900,000

645 Dune Rd

76 Depot Road LLC

Schermeyer, M

1,144,560

76 Depot Rd

Fisher, F

Om One LLC

3,250,000

18 Michaels Way

SOUTHAMPTON

WAINSCOTT

WATER MILL

WESTHAMPTON

WESTHAMPTON BEACH

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Price

Location

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Roxane Mosleh & Associates

Interior design firm completes demo and reno of ’70s beach house, turning it into a modern marvel Independent/Courtesy Roxane Mosleh & Associates

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

R

oxane Mosleh is a full-service interior design agency that works on myriad projects, including commercial, multifamily, hospitality, and high-end residential real estate.

Mosleh’s credentials include interior designer designations of Allied ASID, Associate IIDA, and New York State Licensed Real Estate Agent with the luxury property brokerage Saunders & Associates, though she also has a Florida broker’s license.

Working with builder, Brett Poleshuk Construction, Mosleh helped transform a 1970s beach house in Shelter Island into a modern year-round masterpiece for its owner, a private investor. According to Mosleh, the multi-level, 3000-square-foot home underwent a complete re-facing and remodeling of its original structure, which required an excavation to add an egress on its lower level. To modernize the structure, a new standing seam steel roof was installed. New flooring, walls, kitchen, and bathrooms were designed and featured a mix of modern materials, such as lacquer paint on kitchen cabinetry and porcelain tile throughout. The kitchen features all Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances.

For design, cool and warm gray tones were used to project a contemporary interior design aesthetic. In addition to the general contractor, key subcontractors included Rockman Millwork, which provided all custom millwork, Westhampton Glass, which provided all windows and glass used in the project, and Ferguson, which provided fixtures for the kitchen, bath, and other rooms in the home.

In addition to building permits, the project required Department of Environmental Conservation approvals due to the property’s waterfront location. It also was necessary to install a

new electric service and state-of-the-art “Reclaim our Water” wastewater treatment system in compliance with the local municipality’s current regulations.

The project, which began in the spring of 2018, was completed in January 2020.

Mosleh also has the distinction of being the owner of the first Missoni Home retail store and today continues to market its products, including the recently launched Missoni Home 2020 collection.

Mosleh, who resides in Southampton, New York, and Florida, is the wife of professional equestrian/jumper rider, Bobby Ginsberg, who is also a realtor with Saunders and owners the Riverhead-based Bobby Ginsberg Show Stables, a successful equestrian center.

The couple has one young son.

We caught up with Mosleh to learn more about her high-end interior design work and where her work is taking her.

Roxane, do you work on the East End regularly?

Yes. I am based out of Southampton and I have many projects in the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork.

How did you get into interior design?

My father was a builder, so I think it’s in my blood. I’ve always had a passion for interior design, architecture, and construction, and I formally studied interior design.

The renovation of this beautiful 1970s beach house involved transforming a traditional beach house to a modern home?

Yes, that’s correct. The home underwent a complete re-facing and remod-

eling of its original structure, which required an excavation to add an egress on its lower level to create a modern design.

Did you have to deal with preservation organizations considering it is a home from the ’70s?

No, but we did have to work with the Department of Environmental Conservation approvals due to the property’s waterfront location.

You worked with Brett Poleshuk Construction for the demo and build. Do you work with them and other builders regularly?

I work with other builders regularly, but this was my first project working with Brett Poleshuk. He was a pleasure to work with; a real wealth of knowledge and very prominent in Shelter Island.

How would you define your interior design style?

I favor a modern minimalistic style.

However, each project and its unique architecture demands its own style.

For the renovation, what were some of your inspirations?

We reference the renowned Antonio Citterio. He is based in Milan and is a well-respected Italian architect, furniture designer, and industrial designer.

What were you happiest with in the design of this home?

We excavated the lower level of the structure to be able to put in full-length sliding doors. This, along with the color palette we selected, enabled us to transform a very dark interior to a natural

light-filled interior.

As a designer, what resources do you go to for inspiration?

Art history, design history, travel – especially to Italy and other parts of Europe, as well as India. I am also inspired by technology and innovation and new materials.

If money were no object, what would you love to design?

I probably would love to design a modern equestrian farm environment, as so many farmhouses are traditional designs. I would love to create a modern farmhouse featuring newer materials in innovative ways on preserved lands and create a green, sustainable structure.

Do you have a favorite architectural and interior project anywhere in the world?

Not any particular project, but I do love the work of the architect Zaha Hadid.

One of her more recent projects that was particularly impressive was the One Thousand Museum, a high-rise condominium in Miami. I also like the work of Frank Gehry, another architect who is known for very innovative and futuristic designs.

What are you currently working on?

I am currently working on renovating two beach houses; one in East Hampton and another in Southampton. I am also working on a new construction project.

View the full gallery at www.indyeastend.com. To learn more about Roxane Mosleh and her work, call 631-3533700 or visit www.roxanemosleh.com.

News & Opinion

March 25, 2020

South Fork Commuter Connection Survey

ated to operate during peak commuting hours in order to provide workers with a public transportation option. It comes just after the one-year anniversary of the service.

Questions asked in the evaluation, created through Survey Monkey, range from how often a rider uses the service, to thoughts about the service, and why a rider may or may not use the service. The survey can be found on the town’s website at www.southamptontownny.gov under news and information.

The South Fork Commuter Connection operates Monday through Friday year-round, except for major legal holidays and Fridays during the

summer. It offers local LIRR trips, stopping in Speonk, Westhampton, Hampton Bays, Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Amagansett, and Montauk. The LIRR fare is $3.25 each way, which includes the train ride and local last mile shuttle services.

Commuters west of the canal are encouraged to park at a LIRR station west of the canal, then ride the train to their destination east of the canal. At the stations east of the canal, last mile shuttle services will bring riders to the villages, hamlets, and employment centers. Late afternoon bus and train services will return riders to their stations of origin.

Send any questions or comments to sfcc@southamptontownny.gov.

said Mitchell told her.

“He shoved me in the face,” she said, saying she fell back onto the bed.

He went into the bathroom, locking the door. She began knocking on the door, then kicked it, damaging the trim.

“I’m going to f***ing straighten you out,” Tennant said he shouted at her.

Mitchell went into his closet and came back holding a gun, she said, grabbing her by the collar. Mitchell pointed it at her, saying, “I need to move on with my life, and I need my daughter,” Tennant testified. She grabbed his wrist, and the two wrestled for the weapon, she said.

He tripped over a table and fell to the floor, dropping it. Tennant got her hands on the gun, and when Mitchell came at her, she said she squeezed the trigger.

“All I know is I kept squeezing,” Tennant said. “He kept coming, and I squeezed again.”

After she was acquitted of attempted murder on March 19, she exhaled out-

side the courtroom, knowing it was all over.

“I’ve been out of my house for six months . . . my baby, for six months,” Tennant said, sobbing, hugging family and friends. “I’m free.”

Southampton Town asks for input following anniversary of train service

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town has generated a survey regarding the South Fork Com-

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Tennant Not Guilty

store, and the two went into the bathroom. Tennant took off her pants. “The little fetus was in my underwear,” she said.

At that point in Tennant’s testimony, O’Connor, who was seated in the courtroom, began sobbing, and left the room.

Tennant said she was hemorrhaging blood badly and had to be hospitalized.

After the incident, Mitchell and Tennant reconciled yet again.

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dergone, breaking down on the stand.

‘Lied About Everything’ Tennant began living with Mitchell in 2002, in Montauk, before he bought a house in Flanders.

Mitchell had told the jury that while living with Tennant, he married a woman in Indiana. Tennant said she never knew about that marriage, which ended in 2008, although Mitchell said she did.

Tennant said her boyfriend always told her he was going to see his brother when he went to Indiana.

“He lied about everything,” she said.

When the couple purchased their Pleasure Drive home in 2014, $90,000 was required up front. Tennant said she paid $66,000 of the down payment, with Mitchell putting up the balance.

Yet, she said, Mitchell was very possessive about the house. If she bought sheets for the bedroom he did not like, she would have to get rid of them, she said.

“Once we moved in, it was his house,” Tennant said. “Everything was, ‘My house.’”

Mitchell also grew violent, she said.

Tennant described a 2008 incident in which he struck her across the face.

“He doesn’t like it when you talk back,” she said. “After that, I moved out.

I found an apartment in Hampton Bays, and I moved in with Kamishka.”

Kamishka O’Connor is Tennant’s niece.

The couple eventually reconciled, and when asked why she went back to Mitchell, Tennant said he was “attractive, charming, educated, and hard-working.”

While pregnant in November 2013, Tennant testified while in the kitchen with Mitchell during a disagreement “he grabbed me and slammed me against the refrigerator.”

She went to work at CVS, and when she arrived, her water broke. She called for O’Connor, who was working at the

The Shooting In 2016, Tennant gave birth to Vanessa.

For a time, the couple became closer, but that soon ended.

In 2019, Tennant went to Mitchell’s office in Water Mill. There was a woman working there.

“He was acting really weird,” Tennant said, adding she said hello to the woman, but, “she would not turn around.”

Mitchell started talking, she said.

“He started stuttering,” Tennant said, before getting the words out: “‘Hi. This is LaToya. This is Patchita. Patchita, my wife.’”

In his testimony, Mitchell said LaToya was his mistress, whom he said he never told Tennant about.

After buying the house, Mitchell installed surveillance cameras in two downstairs rooms. Tennant discovered them.

“I felt like a prisoner in my home,” she said, adding he would call her complaining about the tidiness of the house, and the way she was raising their daughter.

Recalling the night of September 5, Tennant said she went upstairs to the master bedroom, and said, “When I entered the bedroom, I saw him near to the side table.”

“I said, ‘Vanessa is with my sister.’

He said, ‘Why?’” Tennant said, adding Mitchell became confrontational. “I don’t know why you don’t get the f*** out and leave me with my daughter,” she

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The most popular class in the history of Yale, “The Science of Wellbeing,” is also available online. Psychology professor Laurie Santos teaches students how to be happier and free of stress.

The course is available through Coursera or by going to www. coursera.org/learn/the-scienceof-well-being.

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Continued From Page 21. a February 10 incident in which Kate Major alleged he choked her, causing bruising on her throat. Southampton Village Justice Barbara Wilson issued the order of protection. While that charge has since been adjudicated to a simple violation, disorderly conduct, the order of protection remains in full effect, according to police.

Kate Major Lohan contacted police on February 28 to file a complaint for the new incident.

Lohan was released without bail after his arraignment late afternoon after his arrest, but not before being cautioned by Justice Lisa Rana to stay away from his wife.

Park-And-Lock The Southampton Town Police Department is urging residents to lock their cars overnight and to keep an eye on them, especially in Hampton Bays.

There has been a string of car burglaries. Detectives are investigating property thefts from vehicles in the hamlet after numerous residents reported items were stolen during the overnight hours.

Police are urging the community that if valuable property must be kept in the car, to take extra precautions, like setting car alarms, parking near motion detectors and/or video surveillance cameras, or simply removing all valuables from sight.

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Riverhead Town Supervisor: We Will Adjust Yvette Aguiar updates information, seeks to calm the public

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Riverhead Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar has a plan, she said Friday, March 20: “adjust accordingly.”

“The Town of Riverhead is working to ensure the health, security, and welfare of our residents while we navigate the unprecedented challenge posed by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19),” she said in a letter. “Our

focus is to continue implementing a continuity of operations plan.”

Riverhead Town Hall and all town offices remain closed. This now includes the yard waste facility. All calls to Town Hall will be answered centrally at 631727-3200 during business hours and forwarded to the police non-emergency line after hours and weekends. A message will

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The senior Meals on Wheels program will continue for enrollees. Seniors are encouraged to call 631-722-4444 for additional information about possible pickup/drop-off services that may be available.

“From the shops in Wading River, to in and around our downtown, to our eastern-most hamlets and everywhere in between, our small businesses are a critical component of our town,” Aguiar said. “And although the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis is yet to be fully measured, we know it is already having a huge, negative impact on our small-business community.”

Riverhead is under a state-imposed mandate to close all nonessential businesses.

“We are with you, and working daily with federal, state, and local officials to ensure financial assistance programs are readily available,” the supervisor said.

Riverhead is urging local businesses to go to the Small Business Administration website at www.sba.gov/diasters and apply for economic disaster impact loans.

All parks remain open and free to the public, but all playgrounds will be closed. All 2019 beach permits will be honored.

Currently, all golf courses will remain open with a strong recommendation to walk instead of using carts, at the direction of Suffolk County officials.

The Riverhead Chamber of Commerce will continue to provide updates on community efforts to support businesses at www.riverheadchamber.com.

The closest mobile testing center for the novel coronavirus is located at Stony Brook University’s South P Lot. Drive-through testing is available by appointment only. For more information, call 1-888-364-3065. Testing for the COVID-19 is free to all who meet the testing parameters. All hospitals on the East End have testing capabilities.

Due to recent changes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Twin Stills Moonshine, located at 5506 Sound Avenue in Riverhead, is switching up production from distilling moonshine to manufacturing hand sanitizer. Remaining community strong, Twin Stills joined with local producers and farmers at a pop-up market Saturday, March 21, offering free hand sanitizer while supplies lasted.

This came after an announcement from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau permitting distilleries across the country to manufacture hand

sanitizer as thousands scramble to find it at local stores. According to the bureau’s website, distilleries can produce ethanolbased sanitizers without the need to obtain authorization first, as long as they are comprised of “denatured or undenatured ethanol, glycerol not less than 1.45 percent, and hydrogen peroxide not less than. 0.125 percent, without first obtaining formula approval.”

As of now Twin Stills in the only distillery in the area making its own hand sanitizer. Visit the company’s website www.liooldtymer.com to learn more.

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By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior attack and Mattituck alumna Katie Hoeg. Independent/Jeffrey Camarati, UNC Athletic Communications

The NCAA announced it will extend eligibility for players in spring sports who have had their seasons cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Division I council will discuss and vote on eligibility relief for student-athletes whose seasons were impacted by the coronavirus outbreak and other related issues on March 30.

“Council leadership agreed that eligibility relief is appropriate for all Division I student-athletes who participated in spring sports,” the NCAA Division I Council Coordination Committee said in a March 13 statement emailed to schools notifying them of its intention. “Additional issues with NCAA rules must be addressed, and appropriate governance bodies will work through those in the coming days and weeks.”

The NCAA committees are allowing athletes competing in the 14 spring sports, which include baseball, softball, lacrosse, golf, and field hockey, to participate another year.

Mattituck alumna and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Katie Hoeg, who is a two-time All-American lacrosse star and the college’s all-time leading scorer, has a teaching and coaching job lined up after she graduates this spring. The Division I attack said she plans to return for graduate courses and play lacrosse next year if allowed.

“What a roller coaster this past week has been,” Hoeg said on Instagram. “This team was one of a kind and truly special. This season, although cut short, will always hold a special place in my heart. But I can’t hand over this jersey just yet . . . #onemoreride.”

The logistical challenges of the NCAA’s decision could continue for years because it’s not only seniors who would be given the eligibility relief. Teams also have scholarship and roster limits, with freshmen set to enroll next season. Though the NCAA could adjust scholarship allowance per sport, that could raise costs for individual athletic departments to support additional athletes.

Illinois Athletic Director Josh Whitman told The Washington Post that while allowing athletes to return is a “no-brainer,” it’s also “not as straightforward as it might first seem.”

“If an incoming baseball player thought that the stud center fielder in front of them was going to graduate and move on and that spot was going to be there for them to try and compete for and all of a sudden that stud

center fielder is coming back,” Whitman said, “that changes that internal dynamic.”

Never Be The Same Stony Brook University head coach Joe Spallina was stunned by the initial news.

“My heart’s broke, my spirit’s broken. Our family is in mourning.

The team will never be the same,” he said. “It’s been a rough few days, but I feel a huge sense of relief knowing all the spring student-athletes are getting their year of eligibility . . . very glad the NCAA acted swiftly to ease some of the pain.”

The Division I coach said he was happiest for the seniors. His soon-tobe-graduate standout midfielder Ally Kennedy was too.

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Winter Championships Officially Cancelled NYSPHSAA will soon discuss future of spring season

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com For Westhampton Beach senior Layla Mendoza, the news was like a second knife to the heart.

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced Monday the official cancellation of the

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remaining winter state championship events. These include boys and girls basketball regional and state championships, and ice hockey and bowling championships. Mendoza’s Hurricanes (22-3) were scheduled to compete in the Class A regional final against Locust Valley.

“It definitely felt like a tease,” Mendoza said of the March 23 announcement that came almost two weeks after an indefinite postponement of the events due to the concerns over the spread of COVID-19. “It still feels like we just took a break. It’s still unfinished business.”

It’s harder on Mendoza she tore her ACL and missed the second half of last season. She was devastated by the realization will not able to complete her high school career the way she’d hoped.

“It’s really hard, especially because I’ve never gotten this close before . . . in my whole school career,” she said. “I think we should’ve at least been able to play just with no spectators, or even pushed the games up more if they knew this virus was going to spread this fast.”

Some saw it the same way Mendoza did.

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Kids Meditation App Helps Ease Anxiety DreamyKid offers free support to teachers working at home

East Hampton-based DreamyKid, a meditation app for kids, has been offering its application free to schools since 2016.

After the app crashed temporarily due to high volume amid the COVID-19 pandemic, founders Ty Wenzel, CEO, and Jenna Walter, COO, decided to give back extra.

“When the app went down, I was woken up at 3 AM, and learned we had an un-

precedented surge in usage,” Wenzel said.

“Because our users are global, and with teachers getting it for free for their classrooms, it exhausted our server. This got us thinking.”

After the server had been stabilized, Wenzel and Walter created a free category, “Coronavirus Appropriate Meditations For Kids At Home.”

“I was getting a lot of emails from teachers asking if we could accommo-

date their students and their families at this time,” Walter said. “There was no way we weren’t going to figure out how to get healing mindfulness to as many people and families as possible in such a turbulent time.”

The company’s website also details how to create a live meditation

class with up to 50 people using Skype.

The app is available for Apple and Android devices. Teachers can request a free promotional code by filling out the short form on the website. Other categories include everyday meditations, sleep stories, and healing activities. To learn more visit www.dreamykid.com.

Streaming Workout Classes Business owners get creative for those stuck at home

By Brittany Ineson We all know how easy it can be to pack on the pounds if you’re sitting on the couch. That’s why some East End fitness companies are getting creative to keep you moving.

Barry’s Bootcamp in Southampton may have temporarily closed its doors, but the high-intensity classes are still happening via live stream on Instagram. Instructors Joey Gonzalez and Chris Hudson can lead you through 20-minute total body workouts, using your own body weight, so no equipment is needed. You can check out their complimentary, at-home workouts using the Instagram handle @barrys.

Classes start at 9 AM and noon.

“We are committed to keeping our community safe, healthy, and strong during this difficult time,” said communications and brand associate Jessica Vikser. “Barry’s encourages everyone to practice kindness, compassion, and empathy during this time. Now, more than ever, we need to band together and remember: We’re stronger as one.”

Dusting off that yoga mat and practicing your best downward dog is also a possibility thanks to Good Ground Yoga in Hampton Bays, which

has set up an online yoga studio. Classes are held using the Zoom app on your computer, phone, or tablet. If you’re a member of Good Ground Yoga, the class is free. If not, each class is $25, $20 for seniors. For more information, visit www.goodgroundyoga.com.

Need something with no set time?

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Planet Fitness is also utilizing Facebook. Free workouts are livestreamed daily at 7 PM. The company even expects some celebrity guests.

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classes are 20 minutes or shorter. Visit www.facebook.com/planetfitness to get started.

Peloton, an exercise company centered on biking, is offering new subscribers a 90-day trial. You need to download the app to follow the athome workouts, but the classes don’t

require a Peloton-brand treadmill or bike to participate. Visit www.onepeloton.com/app for more instructions.

If all else fails, YouTube has plenty of yogis and fitness gurus to follow, many offering free training and practice videos, and some have affiliated apps for more advanced trainers.

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Staying at home and social distancing might be the easiest thing to tell a writer. I’m two sides of a coin — my mood dictates where I land — so isolation is already encoded into my DNA. But COVID-19 is now telling me I have no choice in the matter, making it feel more like a mental imprisonment than a solitary act.

After five days of abiding by the rules, only going to and from the grocery store, I was one bad reference away from being called Mort Rainey or Jack Torrence (two Stephen King characters who go crazy in isolation), minus the whole murderous rampage thing. Five days.

Was the cause actually staying in? Or knowing that the entire world was changing? Either way, frigid temperatures and mild winds couldn’t stop the medicine for

which my soul craved. So, I took to the outdoors.

According to an article published

by Harvard Medical School in 2018, getting outside can be the easiest way to improve our mood. Walking through nature reduces our negative emotions and repetitive thoughts, activity sited in the prefrontal cortex of our brains. Beyond the physical activity of walking, even just listening to sounds associated with an outside setting lowers blood pressure and cortisol levels (the stress hormone).

Dr. Jason Strauss, director of geriatric psychiatry at the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance, recommends 20 to 30 minutes, three days a week in a natural environment. Whether you’re walking or just sitting and observing,

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on-campus and off-campus in-person contact with prospective student-athletes, but still permits phone calls and electronic communication between coaches and eligible recruits.

“The NCAA Division I Council and its Coordination Committee recognize that the decisions they make must be grounded in the values of higher education and must reflect the realities of the challenges facing higher education,” Calhoun said.

“This is certainly magnified during this unprecedented period resulting from COVID-19. The coordination committee recognizes that this local decision-making is made more challenging.”

In principle, the coordination committee agrees relief should be extended to spring sport student-athletes and supports providing schools with a framework in which they have the autonomy to make their own decisions in the best interest of their campus, conference, and student-athletes.

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“Not the ending we dreamed about, but the best part is the story isn’t over yet,” the North Babylon alumna said on Twitter, before announcing on Lax Sports Network: “I’m coming back. I can’t let my career end like that. I need to end it on my own terms.”

Division I Council Coordination Committee Chair Grace Calhoun also shared the coordination committee’s decision to issue blanket waivers for specific membership requirements that schools who canceled spring sports cannot meet, including minimum sport sponsorship and scheduling requirements, as well as form submissions, and waived the deadline for schools that are reclassifying to submit strategic plans.

The committee also decided to issue a waiver to allow schools to reimburse student-athletes for any expenses incurred related to canceled foreign trips and prospective student-athletes for expenses related to canceled official and unofficial visits. The actions followed a decision a week prior to suspend in-person recruiting activity through at least April 15. The dead period eliminates

Roller Coaster “This is why sports are so great. It’s been a roller coaster of a week, and in a time of adversity, we can all still come together for a cause so much bigger than ourselves,” Kennedy said.

“My season was kind of ripped away

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taking in the fresh air, sounds, and visuals of a non-urban setting can boost our mental state.

Heeding this advice, I made my way to the beach one day and a county park the next. From the sounds of the waves crashing on the shoreline to the sight of the blooming cherry blossoms, I grounded myself in nature. I dug my hands deep into the soft sand below me, touched the pink and white flowers above me, and I was calm.

Beyond the physical benefits of

my nature walks, I felt a deep-rooted shift in perspective on the current COVID-19 pandemic. Humanity may be at a standstill, or so we’re aiming to be, but the world continues. Seasons will still change, the sun will still rise, birds will still sing, and waves will still crash on the shoreline, as it all has done millennia before this. Nature will always be there for us. So, while we’re isolating ourselves and trying not to become the real-life version of a Stephen King novel, get outside.

It will save your sanity.

for me, but the fact that we can handle the cards that we’ve been dealt and come together for a greater cause really shows the magic of sports.”

The Ivy League currently does not allow athletes to pursue a fifth year at their schools, but said it is working with its schools to consider the eligibility issue.

The Division II Administrative Committee continued to make decisions as of March 19 regarding regulations and policies. Changes also covered recruiting, reinstatement extensions, application of financial aid, academic eligibility, and membership reporting requirements.

“These changes are the start of how we will adapt regulations and policies to help Division II move forward during a challenging period,” said Sandra Jordan, chancellor of the University of South Carolina Aiken and chair of the Division II Presidents Council.

Division III measures approved March 13 included an additional semester and season of eligibility for all student-athletes participating in spring sports, the removal of a minimum threshold of sponsored spring sports, and the flexibility for schools to assist students with travel, lodging, and meals due to campus displacement.

“While these measures won’t cover all circumstances, they were taken with the best interest of student-athletes in mind,” said Tori Murden McClure, president of Spalding University and chair of the Division III Administrative Committee. “During these extraordinarily difficult times, conferences and institutions should not focus on the application of NCAA legislation, but rather the health and well-being of student-athletes.”

In a teleconference last Wednesday afternoon after the Collegiate Commissioners Association decided to suspend all national letter of intent signings until at least April 15, the committee adopted a resolution to specify that institutional athletics aid agreements cannot be issued until at least April 15 to align with the recruiting dead period.

Some winter sports teams had championship games left to be played.

While their seasons also came to an abrupt halt, the NCAA has yet to provide a statement regarding those student-athletes.

“I’m choosing my passion,” Hoeg told AP News. “It’s such a weird circumstance, but I was pretty hopeful this would be a possibility, and I’m really excited this decision has been made. I can’t imagine ending my lacrosse career this way.”

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The Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award bestowed by the President of the United States, is given to those being honored for “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural, or other significant public or private endeavors.”

Gary Player and Annika Sörenstam were selected to receive the medal on Monday, March 23, howeverthe ceremony has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Player is only one of five to have won achieved a “grand slam” in golf, winning The Masters, The U.S. Open, The PGA Championship, and The Open Championship. He’s also credited with nine Major championships, nine senior Major championships, 24 PGA Tour wins, and 19 PGA Tour championship titles.

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“It never should have come to this,” said Ann Marie Kurdzos in a Twitter response to the news. “You should have let them finish two weeks ago instead of canceling it less than 24 hours before it started. Others let theirs finish, honored their athletes. I have a senior, and now he will never get that chance. Who cares if you rescheduled in July? It’s a sad day for New York.”

“My heart is broken,” one studentathlete said. “This was my one chance to be in it as a senior and now it’s gone.”

Other applauded the state for its early shutdown and protection from the novel coronavirus.

“Disappointing for many, I am sure,” one commenter said. “But the responsible decision to protect many,

When was the first time you realized you had a special talent with golf?

When I was 17, I told my dad I wanted to play golf. He said, “No, there’s no money in that.” He wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor or something of that nature. But I said I was going to become the world champion, that I was going to work harder than anyone else had ever worked, and that by traveling, I was going to get the best education anyone could get.

Well, you certainly picked the right path. What was it like when you came to the U.S. for the first time to play golf? about the honor.

As a young man growing up in South Africa, how did you get introduced to golf?

My father worked in a gold mine, 8000 feet underground, made £100 (about $130) per month, and he loved golf. I was busy playing football and other sports, and thought golf was for “sissies.” Anyway, I did go play, and thank goodness I did, because I love it so much. Golf is a passport to the world. At 84 years old, I’m averaging 72 shots per round, I’ve beaten my age well over 2000 times in a row, I’ve made friends all over, and I’ve been able to travel more miles than any human being in the world.

It’s given me the greatest education that’s obtainable. I’m so grateful for what golf’s done for me, the friends I’ve made, and the amount of money absolutely. Thank you, NYSPHSAA, for doing what is right, even when it is hard.”

“You did the right thing for the masses,” said another.

Plans are in development to honor and formally recognize the students and teams who qualified to participate in these championship events.

“It is with great disappointment that we make the decision to cancel,” said NYSPHSAA Executive Director Dr. Robert Zayas. “Our association’s focus is to benefit students through participation in interscholastic athletics, and unfortunately this rapidly-developing situation has prevented our association from providing a quality championship experience. We certainly sympathize for the students who are being impacted by this crisis, but at this time they deserve honesty from the leadership of

I left South Africa and came on my own, and, oh my goodness. I arrived in New York City, this massive city, and I went up to about the 30th floor of my hotel, looked out, and was amazed to see I was only a third of the way up. I wanted to get a hold of my wife to tell her about it, but in those days, you had to “book” a phone call — book it one day and make it the next.

But I came to this great country, the greatest country in the world, and I tell people every day that if they should wake up in the morning, because not everyone does wake up every day, just kiss the ground and realize how lucky you are to be in America with a wonderful free enterprise system and the freedom that my brother and others had to fight for, and to cherish it.

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It is the greatest honor ever bestowed on me. The President of America, the greatest country in the world. You know, I’ve been given many awards over the 70 years I’ve been playing golf, and most have been for my golfing prowess. But I like to feel I’ve done more for freedom and for human beings than I did for golf.

You know, you had your segregation when I arrived in the states, and I think back to Charlie Sifford, who wasn’t allowed to play the tournaments. I went to bat for him with the PGA and I went up to Cleveland and helped him with his club, and he never forgot that. One of the greatest thrills I had was when he asked me, a white South African, to induct him into the World Golf Hall of Fame. That was such a great honor.

Only a handful of golfers have ever received the Presidential Medal of Freedom . . . Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Charlie Sifford, Tiger Woods, and now you and Annika Sörenstam. I can only imagine the pride you feel being recognized at this level.

Absolutely! I am so excited! I like to feel that I am a great ambassador for the United States. I just love this country and am grateful for what this country has done for me. My goodness, what a country America is.

What are your thoughts on receiving this Presidential

I have known Gary Player for many years and he is the ultimate gentleman.

Giving the time to help him celebrate this award was quite significant even for me, but having Gary Player as a friend will always be the bigger honor.

our association.”

Factors affecting this decision included the evolving public threat of the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mass gathering recommendations, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s declaration of a state emergency, President Donald Trump’s national emergency announcement, input from the 11 sections, and extended school closures.

“This is one of the most difficult decisions the officers of the NYSPHSAA have ever had to make,” said NYSPHSAA president Paul Harrica. “It has been determined it is not feasible for the winter state championships to be hosted in a safe and beneficial manner for the participating student-athletes and their teams in the near future. The health and safety of the students we serve will always be our

top priority.”

With school districts closed for an extended period, sections and schools are individually determining the spring sport start dates and practice parameters that best meet the needs of the students they represent. The status of the NYSPHSAA spring state championships will be determined on or prior to April 27.

Mendoza, who is committed to Farmingdale State College, said she’s learned a lot from her experiences over the years.

“Always have a good connection with your teammates, listen carefully and pay attention, and just have fun, because that’s when you’re at your best,” Mendoza said. “Yes, my high school chapter is over, but I’m going to start an even bigger chapter in college, and I’m excited about it.”

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purchase of some items so there will be enough to go around. As a country, we must provide much better consideration for our fellow Americans. Everyone should be able to provide food and other essentials to their families.

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To the Editor, The coronavirus outbreak has panicked people into hoarding food, paper products, and sanitizing compounds. Consumers across the country are conducting binge purchases of these products and most supermarkets are reporting bare shelves and difficulty in restocking.

The binging activity is very un-American.

There is no need for people to be stocking up on food and other supplies that will last for a year or more. It is reported consumers are purchasing large quantities of toilet paper. Maybe they should be eating less so they can cut back on their defecation.

My wife and I shopped twice last week and we went through the express line of 12 items or less both times, which is typical food shopping for us.

It is reported that some people have been receiving their paychecks and going to supermarkets to shop for food, but they find empty shelves.

Supermarkets should limit the

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been legitimized with every single sound bite from every single news organization regardless of your station preference. The news media is finally unanimous. Their warnings and predilections are in complete celebration of the lifestyle options you, the misanthrope, have chosen to create. The rest of us will soon fall into a state of depression. We will crave contact with a family member, friend, or a person delivering mail or a package. We will be sad because we are missing dinner with friends, a reason to wear a nice outfit and look presentable, a motivation to employ social protocol. Soon, the busiest people will be online counselors or Skype-only therapists.

I have one friend who normally socializes with people all day and all evening. She books herself by the hour or the segment of the day. Her repetitive refrain is, “For how long can we isolate?�

Not a single person can answer that. I often consider that I will isolate for one month. Then, I will break down and venture outside. Will I contract the virus at that point and die? Then, all my time in isolation will be for naught. I happen to fall into a high-risk category since I have an underlying lung condition. Still, I wonder, is it possible I will die first of boredom, depression, or loneliness?

During most crises, many of us seek the advice of our elders. My elder

of choice would have been my father. He died seven-and-a-half years ago.

My father would have wanted to advise that people should simply go about their lives and hope for the best.

Except that, since he was a compassionate and intelligent person, he would fully understand that to do so puts others’ lives at risk. No matter how catastrophic the event, such as 9/11, he was a calming force. Although, like 9/11, the personal landscape of those we know will be so different. The personal loss could be staggering. The number of people perishing from COVID-19 is increasing exponentially. I could be among those gone from New York. I told my husband if that happens to me, he can seek out a younger, fresher marital model, guiltfree.

We must find humor and solace in the situation we find ourselves today.

We find humor in our stories and jokes. We find solace in remembering those who have passed before us whom we have loved so deeply. We find solace when we call a friend or family member for support. We find solace when our young=adult children, who have become beautiful and independent people, seek out us, their parents, more frequently as they express their love and care for our health and safety.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, JORGE L. ORTIZ Plaintiff, -against- GABRIELLA C. PEREIRA Defendant, Index No.: 622276/2019 Date Purchased: 11.11.2019 Plaintiff designates Suffolk County as the place of Trial.

The basis of venue is Plaintiff's residence Plaintiffs resides at: 148 Ponquogue Avenue Hampton Bays, New York 11946 SUMMONS To the above-named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Verified Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance, on the Plaintiff's attorney within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Notice to Defendant and Brief Statement of Nature of Action.

The nature of the above-captioned action is one for breach of contract for failure to abide by the terms of a Separation Agreement and more specifically for failing to execute the documents necessary to transfer the marital residence from Plaintiff and Defendant solely to Plaintiff. The relief sought is the appointment of Plaintiff as Receiver to transfer title into his nae solely. The property is described as 148 Ponquogue Avenue, Hampton Bays, New York 11946, SCTM No. 0900-295.000-05.00-046.00. Suffolk County is designated as the place of trial because the Plaintiff resides therein.

You must respond by serving a copy of the Answer on the attorney for the Plaintiff and filing the Answer with the Court. The Law Office of William D. Shapiro, Attorneys for Plaintiff, By: William D. Shapiro, Esq. 34 East Montauk Highway – Suite 3 Hampton Bays, New York 11946 (631) 377-1168 WDS@WilliamDShapiroLaw.com www.WilliamDShapiroLaw.com

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In light of our recent closure, we’re delighted to introduce “SASF Roadside Adoptions & Fosters”– a program designed to help our pets find their foster and forever homes in a sanitary, social-distance friendly fashion! We will meet you curbside to introduce you to our pet(s) and bring all pet supplies directly to you! We will still be implementing interactions for adopters/fosters who already own dogs – all of which can be done outside in a large area in order to limit social interactions and gathering between us humans. To take part in this program, you MUST fill out an application and be approved.

One of our adoption coordinators will contact you for an adoption/foster interview and to discuss your possible matches. Simply go to our website, pick your forever or foster pet and wait for your phone to ring! We kindly ask that anyone feeling under the weather, not partake in this program. Please use your best judgment. Please do not show up to the shelter unannounced – all adoptions or fosters will be done by appointment only. Thank you for your continued support.

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a safe and unloaded, with ammunition stored separately — and to have appropriate conversations with their families to reduce the risk of family fire. Just like we can all do our part to slow the spread of this virus, we can do our part to help prevent unintentional shootings in the home.”

After Governor Andrew Cuomo forced what the state deems nonessential businesses to close, Fred's Gun Shop announced it shut its doors after Sunday, March 22, while Long Island Gun Source says it will remain open.

Continued From Page 7. fear,” said Ryan Paul of Plainview. “They want/need a gun to protect their family/ home, etc.”

Chris DeLena said he’s thankful the owners of Long Island Gun Source are not price-gouging.

“You guys seemed extremely calm considering the mob that was present when I walked in,” he said in a Facebook post. “You guys were extremely patient, helpful, and friendly.”

Suffolk County Police Chief of Department Stuart Cameron, also speaking on a conference call, said he saw a similar increase in guns sales on Long Island after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.

“I want to assure everyone that the Suffolk County Police Department is well prepared to protect them throughout this crisis” he said, adding violent crime is down across the county.

Fred Tartaglione, owner of Fred’s Gun Shop in Port Jefferson Station, said he’s also been busy.

“Things are absolutely crazy right now,” he said. “People are coming in every second. We cannot answer phone calls. We’re getting them every 20 to 30 seconds.”

He said most are looking for shotguns and ammunition, adding he has very little left, and can’t even get his suppliers on the phone.

“It’s unprecedented,” Tartaglione said. “We have a lot of unfamiliar people buying firearms, many of them previously against us, and we’re educating everyone as much as we possibly can.”

With reports of the surge in sales circulating, those like Brady president Kris Brown, whose nonprofit organization fights gun violence, felt the need to respond.

She said unsecured and improperlystored firearms in the home can lead to unintentional shootings, what’s termed as “family fire.” These shootings injure or kill eight children or teens every day, Brown said, adding unsecured guns also place owners at risk. Individuals with unsecured guns in the home can be up to two times as likely to be murdered, she said. Guns in the home increase the risk of homicide in a domestic violence incident by up to 500 percent and increase the likelihood of a fatal outcome in a suicide attempt.

“While it is understandable to seek what can feel like protection in times of upheaval, we must acknowledge the risks that bringing guns into the home pose and take all appropriate measures to mitigate that risk,” Brown said in a statement. “In this uncertain time, we urge all gun owners to ensure that their weapons are safely stored — locked in

Signs & Symptoms Continued From Page 8.

Abel said besides a cold, his initial symptoms included shortness of breath.

He said he was considered “higher-priority” for testing because he is an insulindependent diabetic.

“It was exhausting,” he said of the testing, which was conducted over an entire day for the pair. “We had X-rays, a CT-scan, EKGs, loads of blood tests — they did every test conceivable.”

They also tested positive for acute and mild pneumonia. Because everything was viral, not bacterial, the Abels had to wait for the body to heal itself.

“The nurses and the doctors were absolutely amazing,” David Abel said.

“They continued monitoring us. They kept us totally informed.”

The World Health Organization lists standard recommendations to prevent infection spread as regular hand washing, covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, and thoroughly cooking meat and eggs. Avoid close contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness, like coughing and sneezing.

“I’d advise that people don’t panic.

Panic doesn’t help anybody,” Reed said.

“If you are infected, don’t go out and infect other people. Don’t think about yourself, but think about other people. Stay at home — not because it’s uncomfortable, but to protect the people around you.”

Getting Essentials Continued From Page 15.

According to Asa Gosman, the owners of the family-run business are weighing whether or not to open the retail business earlier than May 1.

Food delivery services through Peapod and Amazon are experiencing higher-than-normal order volume, so expect delays, but these channels are worth looking into for those who don’t feel comfortable leaving the house.

Some websites are also boasting a higher stock of certain products than others.

Prepared food companies, like Blue Apron and Daily Harvest, are additional options.

Prescriptions

Some local pharmacies that offer delivery options include Hampton Liggett Drugs in Hampton Bays, Southrifty Drugs in Southampton, and White’s Apothecary in Southampton, Sag Harbor, and East Hampton.

“We have always offered free delivery, and at this uncertain time, it seems to be a great option to serve our communities,” reads a message on White’s Apothecary website. “Be assured we are dedicated to serving you and your families should you choose to stay at home.”

Barths Pharmacy in Jamesport announced on Facebook it’s open seven days a week and boasts a drive-thru. “We have what you need during these unprecedented times: tissues, paper towels, toilet paper, cough and cold medicine, lozenges, pain relievers.”

A message on Rite Aid’s website urged customers to call ahead.

“If you have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or exhibit symptoms, please call your local store so that we can properly serve you and reduce the potential spread of the virus in the community,” a statement reads.

“Being committed to the welfare of those we serve means being responsive to evolving needs and acting swiftly,” said Troyen Brennan, executive vice president and chief medical officer of CVS Health.

“This is particularly true in times of uncertainty. The latest steps we’re taking will help ensure patients of all ages have every option available to them when it comes to filling prescriptions.”

CVS will waive charges for home delivery of prescription medications.

With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encouraging those who are at a higher risk of COVID-19 complications to stay at home as much as possible, this is a convenient option to avoid traveling to the pharmacy for refills or new prescriptions. Aetna, a health care and CVS Health company, is offering 90-day maintenance medication prescriptions for insured and Medicare members, and is working with state governments to make the same option available to Medicaid members where allowable.

“When you’re in a position to increase convenience and help provide some peace of mind, you act,” Brennan said. “As long as COVID-19 continues to be a threat, we’ll maintain a relentless focus on how best to serve our patients, members, and customers.”

Umbrella, a group that offers help to homeowners over the age of 60, is helping deliver medications and groceries to those in need across Long Island.

They are also asking for volunteers to help. Visit www.askumbrella.com/covidresponse to learn more.

T.E. McMorrow contributed reporting.

Visit www.indyeastend.com for any updates to this story and others relating to COVID-19.

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Continued From Page 17.

Andrew Cuomo’s executive order March 20, One Stop Pet Shop is only allowing one customer at a time inside its shops in Amagansett and Southampton, which cater to owners of pets of all types.

According to the company’s website the Southampton location is open from 9:30 AM to 6 PM Monday through Saturday and 10 AM to 3:30 PM on Sunday. The Amagansett location is open from 9 AM to 6 PM Monday through Saturday and 10 AM to 3 PM on Sunday.

Delivery services are now also available.

Email sales@1stoppetshops.com.

Harbor Pet in Greenport announced on Facebook it is open, currently with no grooming, Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5 PM. The shop is closed during the weekend for a deep clean. If curbside or home delivery is being requested, call 631-477-1518.

“Check back to see if anything changes for this week,” the company posted on Facebook. “Thank you everyone for your support.”

Petco in Riverhead, Hampton Bays, and Bridgehampton remain open with reduced hours from 10 AM to 6 PM to allow for increased cleaning and restocking. Veterinary services at these locations are now offering new services like pet hand-off, drop-off and text notifications at select locations to help minimize personal contact. The grooming salon also has reduced hours, and is open from 9 AM to 6 PM. Self-serve dog washes are temporarily closed and no new group dog training classes are being booked at this time. Puppy Playtime has also been postponed until further notice.

“As your partner in caring for the overall health and wellness of your pets, we want to ensure you have the information you need to care for your entire family – fur, fins and scales, alike,” Petco CEO Ron Coughlin said in a statement.

“We’ve tapped into our Petco Pet Wellness Council, an independent coalition of leading experts in animal health and veterinary science, to provide perspective on the most important things you need to know. We’re here for you and your pets. Always.”

Petco announced March 22 the company invested $2 million to an employee relief fund to provide ongoing support to Petco’s partners as they face the effects of COVID-19, as well as future hardship in other times of need.

Visit www.indyeastend.com for any updates to this story and others relating to COVID-19. T.E. McMorrow and Desirée Keegan contributed reporting

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Larsen said Graham’s candidacy is just another in a series of maneuvers to keep him from becoming mayor.

“I find it interesting that Arthur Graham, who is a village trustee in mid-term, has decided to run against his longtime friend Barbara Borsack after supporting her campaign for the last year,” he said. “He completely betrayed the woman he claims to adore, which has now caused a complete divide on the current village board. He then attacked me personally, and he does not even know me.”

“I am running for mayor because I feel I am the best candidate for the job,” Graham countered.

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has been the same from the beginning, and we trust the residents of the village to know that they are always our first priority.”

Larsen, who spent 33 years on the police force and 13 as its head, sued the village in August 2017 after the village ordered him to divest himself of a home security business, even though, he claimed, Rickenbach and current interim Mayor Richard Lawler had similar businesses. Larsen’s lawsuit was thrown out on a technicality, but the contempt between Rickenbach and his former police chief grew. Borsack sided with Rickenbach, creating a chasm that has been widening ever since.

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