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FEATURED SERENITY IN SAG HARBOR | $2,295,000 Located conveniently close to the towns of Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton, it is set on a vast property of 2.4 acres. With approx.

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OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME | $1,599,000 This rare waterfront property, with the ability to have a private dock, is located on an Iconic Montauk Lake. Build your own dream house with a second floor, with doors that open up to an expansive 180 degrees of Ocean and sound views. Minutes to town, shopping, restaurants, and ocean. Currently sits a quaint 3 bedroom 2 bath cottage on .54 acres with room for expansion. web #480080 DYLAN ECKARDT 631 353 2845 dylane@nestseekers.com LINDA KOUZOUJIAN 516 901 1034 lindak@Nestseekers.com

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HIGH QUALITY ATTENTION TO DETAILS | $1,850,000 This modern 4 bedroom 4.5 bath home has all you would expect from a refined quality build with smart technology throughout. Open living layout with cathedral ceilings, designer kitchen and bathrooms, and high end finishes throughout including full finished basement with exercise and media rooms. Landscaped to perfection the outdoor living is simply an extension of the indoor living areas, serene private and quiet. web #527947 GEOFF GIFKINS 516 429 6927 geoffg@nestseekers.com

BRIDGEHAMPTON - LUMBER LANE | $2,500,000 Lumber Lane at its best! Private and hidden down a treelined driveway with mature landscaping on 1.98 +/- acres .This traditional home features three bedrooms, two and one half baths, upstairs sitting area, heated pool and detached two car garage. Just half a mile from Main Street, Bridgehampton. web # 488522 JANICE ROST 516 381 8905 janicer@nestseekers.com

EAST HAMPTON ULTIMATE TRADITIONAL | $1,800,000 This truly unique home is situated on 1.2 acres of totally wooded privacy It features 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, Cac, Open floor plan with vaulted ceilings and brazilian cherry floors throughout,Relax in the sunlit living room with a wonderful stone fireplace Formal dining room perfect for your entertainment , Gourmet Kitchen with Granite counter tops leading out to the new mahogany decking along with a 2 car garage. web # 484801 LISA PERFIDO 631 258 0184 lisap@nestseekers.com SUZANNE SIENKIEWICZ 516 885 7391

EXPANDED RANCH IN HISTORIC SPRINGS | $750,000 Beautiful home in east hampton to enjoy on the summer or the year round, sits on a .93 Of an acre, plenty of space with 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, an installed commercial kitchen, 2 car garage, outdoor shower, an inviting swimming pool. Definitely a must see!. web # 521091 JOHN BRADY 631 353 3048 john@nestseekers.com

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PROPERTIES A COMFORTABLE AND INVITING RETREAT | $2,499,000 This 5,000 sqft home, custom built, and well maintained this turn-key residence incorporates an abundance of natural light thru it’s many french doors and windows that open to your outdoor entertaining spaces which overlook the private grounds and your heated gunite pool. Complete with 5 beds, including a private master suite, 6.5 baths, formal dining space and 4 cozy living room spaces. web # 533783 ROBERT CANBERG 631 816 0998 robertc@nestseekers.com

WATER MILL HOME WITH POOL & TENNIS | $5,995,000 7 Bdrooms, designer kitchen stocked with Viking appliances and wet bar as well as the large and comfortable living room while gazing through the yard onto the property’s seven acres. Heated three-car garage. Take advantage of warm summer days with a dip in the heated pool and hot tub. web # 37702 MICHAEL AMMAR 631 456 3541 michaela@nestseekers.com GEOFF GIFKINS 516 429 6927 geoffg@nestseekers.com

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PRESENTING THE OPPOSITE OF PEYTON MANNING PRESENTING FOOTBALL’S BIGGEST DOPE Do you know what’s terrible?

Living in Cleveland – that’s what’s terrible.

Even worse is living in Cleveland while your football team, the Cleveland Browns, suck.

The poor people in Cleveland need a good football team.

Forget baseball, forget basketball.

The only thing that keeps the people of Cleveland from putting a gun to their heads is a halfway decent football team.

So they drafted Johnny Football – Johnny Manziel. He was going to be the quarterback who was going to carry them off to football glory.

Turns out Johnny Manziel sucked worse than Cleveland.

Now they have to dump him.

Johnny Manziel, the Heisman Trophy winner who was going to save football in Cleveland, turned out to be a drunken, druggie disaster. No worry, some other team will pick him up. Probably the Dallas Cowboys and their wacky owner Jerry Jones, who is the patron saint of psychopaths. Jones signed a

madman player named Greg Hardy, who was accused of assault against a woman he had dated.

One day, Hardy allegedly picked her up and threw her down multiple times (one time onto a pile of loaded guns), dragged her by her hair, and ripped off her jewelry and flushed it down the toilet. At one point, she said, Hardy put his hands around her throat and “He looked me in my eyes and he told me he was going to kill me.”

By comparison Johnny Manziel doesn’t look that bad. The only person he is in danger of killing is himself. Manziel, you see, has everything going for him except for a brain.

So far in his pro career Manziel has gone in and out of rehab, as a relapsed alcoholic and drug addict.

A while ago, unbeknownst to him, he was photographed in a Vegas bathroom rolling up what appears to be a $20 bill to snort cocaine.

He and his girlfriend spend half the time driving in his car and

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slugging each other. The latest? She threw his wallet out of a speeding car. He punched her and the car wound up in a ditch. She should stay out of his car. Once she decided to get out of his car while he was going 70 miles an hour. She may be dumber than he is, if that’s possible.

Manziel’s a mess – a waste of talent.

Throwing Johnny Manziel out of football is not the answer. I say let’s leave Manziel alone to destroy his life or, hopefully, to save it. Either way, it’s his choice.

Now let’s use the failure to rehabilitate the Johnny Manziels to come up with a realistic plan to combat drugs in sports that is all about Darwinism – intellectual Darwinism. Instead of survival of the fittest, let’s have survival of the smartest.

Let’s stop all drug testing in every sport immediately and let athletes do all the drugs they want.

If they get caught with drugs in public, arrest and jail them. But if in the privacy of their own room they want to snort or shoot up, leave them be. If they OD and die, all the better. It might discourage some innocent kid from believing that you don’t pay the price when you do hard drugs.

In the 1980s, basketball star Len Bias’s OD did more to end cocaine abuse in this country than all the millions of dollars worth of antidrug messages ever did.

Dare not to do drugs.

Just say no.

Brains being fried like eggs.

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being carted out with a white sheet over his body on the evening news.

So let’s let athletes do drugs until they are robbed of their talents. Let them do steroids until their brains rot. Until they can’t hit the basket.

Until they lose that step in football.

Until their fastball goes dead.

Let’s start looking at sports for what they are – a show. And let’s start treating athletes like mortals instead of gods. The last athlete who qualified as a god was the great Joe DiMaggio and he wouldn’t even let kids see him smoking a cigarette in public.

Let’s accept that we are no better than the spectators who used to go to the Coliseum and watch the gladiators except, thanks to television, we sit at home on softer seats.

What, you say? You’re not like that? You don’t buy the hype and violence? You watch sports to see the talent and the quality of performance? Okay, I will agree with you, if you can answer these questions truthfully: On Sunday, when you watched the Super Bowl, did you get a warm feeling when Denver’s DeMarcus Ware and Von Miller, while traveling at full speed, slammed Cam Newton into the ground three or four times.

Did you like the sound that made?

Did you enjoy watching poor old Peyton Manning knocked down twice by Carolina defensive players who looked to be at least 40 years younger? Did you imagine, like I did, ancient Peyton saying, “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up?”

Do you watch hockey because you enjoy watching front-toothchallenged Canadian guys skating up and down the ice for an hour? Or do you watch hockey for those few seconds when one of the morons hauls off and breaks a hockey stick over the thick skull of another moron?

Your answer is NO to these questions? Sorry, I had you wrong.

But I’m right about sports.

In sports, for every bright, articulate guy like Peyton Manning there are 50 dopes who can highfive better than they can count to five.

Johnny Manziel, Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, Darryl Strawberry, Lawrence Taylor, Dwight Gooden . . . since the beginning of time, spectator sports have never attracted Mensa candidates as participants.

The people who own the teams don’t give a damn. They own the arena. To hell with the gladiators.

After all, the Romans never checked the IQs of the Christians before they threw them to the lions.

It was simply show biz then and it’s simply show biz now.

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said. “The more we help, the more people give back to us.”

Roden, a two-time breast cancer survivor who founded the South Fork Breast Coalition in 1994, has devotedly worked on the local level to assist victims and survivors of breast cancer, providing them with everything from transportation to and from hospitals and money for food, to massages and Reiki treatments.

Roden herself was first diagnosed about 25 years ago, thinking it was “the end of my world,” she said.

“There was nothing out here at the time. I felt very alone.”

Then, she said, a small support group popped up, catapulting the inception of the South Fork Breast Coalition. That then expanded

For Susie Barr y Roden, the journey continues.

Roden has worked tirelessly for over two decades, serving as an advocate for victims and survivors of breast cancer right here on the East End. On Saturday, testament to her efforts, the Water Mill resident will be honored for the thousands of things she’s done for the thousands of people she’s helped.

Denim and Diamonds, a fundraising event set to “give breast cancer the boot,” is this Saturday night at 230 Elm in Southampton.

And of all the honorees celebrated that evening, Roden is a paradigm of selflessness.

“If these ladies didn’t let me help, I’d be a very lonely person,” Roden

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as well as annual mammograms.

The coalition also offers support to women going through chemotherapy or radiation therapy by helping manage home and family commitments.

In addition to spearheading the breast cancer awareness movement on the east End, Roden along with four other women, founded Lucia’s Angles in 2007 in honor of their friend who lost her battle with breast cancer the same year. That non-profit organization provides help and financial support for women with late-stage cancers including breast cancer, ovarian, cervical and uterine cancers, with Roden as the president.

Roden also serves as the Breast Health Community Outreach Coordinator at Southampton Hospital’s Ellen Hermanson Breast Center. In 2009, she was named the New York State First Senate District “Woman of Distinction.”

Over the years, dozens of community events, fundraisers, and philanthropic happenings have occurred all across the East End with the focus always being on keeping the money local.

“Julie Ratner, [from the Ellen Hermanson Foundation] was very passionate about people from the city, but I noted how we never see the money out here, and she said she would make sure the money stays,” Roden said. One hundred percent of the proceeds from Denim and Diamonds will stay locally.

“I learn everyday what people need,” Roden said. “And I’ve learned if you push people to be thriving, that creates a ripple effect and it all begins to snowball, and before you know it there’s a wave.”

Roden said her teams service about 50 newly-diagnosed patients per year.

“We really try to turn the patients into survivors,” she said. “I believe in paying it forward. This all makes me a better and stronger person.”

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Celebrate Black History: Read

The African American Read-In is a national literacy initiative adopted in 1989 by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English. Dr. Jerrie Cobb Scott, an active member of NCTE and the Black Caucus, brought the idea to the fore.

It was envisioned that following a decade of rigorous campaigning for participants, the African American Read-Ins would become a traditional part of Black History Month celebrations. In 1990, the National Council of Teachers of English joined in the sponsorship of the African American Read-In Chain.

The goal of AARI, according to its website, is to make the celebration of African American authors and literacy a traditional part of Black History Month activities. The NCTE black caucus developed AARI into an outreach initiative that combines a campaign for literacy with a component of diversity education.

By 2011 more than a million readers from across the United States had gathered together to read the works of African American authors during AARI celebrations held in February. Read-in events are held at colleges and universities, elementary and secondary schools, public libraries, churches, civic and recreational centers, and even in private homes.

This week Canio’s Cultural Cafe and John Jermain Library

in Sag Harbor will co-host their eighth annual participation in the African American Read-In as NCTE celebrates the 27th year of the event.

Participants are welcome to read a short excerpt from a favorite work: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, oral history or family story, but you do not need to read to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

The program will be held at Canio’s Books, 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, on Friday at 5 PM.

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Washing bottles he will redeem for money to donate, Dennis Ruiz learns the value of helping others.

dad, Dennis, Junior, the youngster redeemed bottles for a total donation of $1012.75.

The idea of raising money for a good cause started last year when Dennis was enrolled at the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton. Parents were asked to help raise money for a sport court, Tara explained.

Collecting bottles and cans, and redeeming them for cash, the family raised $400. “It was fun,” Tara recalled.

When the sport court was installed, she said, her son knew he contributed to it . . . and an interest in philanthropy was born.

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Volume 1 • Issue 5

Charities And Telemarketers That Help Themselves

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In 2011 the company that owned clothing bins typically found in supermarket malls was accused of misleading the public by giving only a small fraction of the proceeds to the charity featured on the bin.

By Rick Murphy

Giving to a worthy cause is a good thing, but only if your money goes where you intended it to go.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, a b u s e i s rampant among not-for-profits, telemarketers, and charities that exist ostensibly to raise money for a worthy cause.

In many cases most of the money they raise -- money the public donates -- ends up being spent by the very people who collect the money and not by charities helping people in need.

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For example, there are scores

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Investigators found that Kids Wish Network raised millions of dollars but spent just a tiny percent of it granting wishes for terminally ill children. Above, their website logo.

Charities

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Two years ago the Tampa Bay Times, a winner of 10 Pulitzer Prizes, published a devastating series about the misuse of funds.

It revealed the Kids Wish Network to be one of the worst, if not the worst abuser: it spends three cents for every dollar it collects on children.

“In the past decade alone, Kids Wish has channeled nearly $110 million donated for sick children to its corporate solicitors. An additional $4.8 million has gone to pay the charity’s founder and his own consulting firms,” according to the article.

The New York State Attorney General’s office has historically been in the forefront of educating citizens about making donations. Its website, CHARITIESny.org, provides a wealth of information and also makes it easy to file a complaint.

Clothing Bins The Attorney General takes the complaints seriously, too.

Recently Attorney General Eric Schneiderman obtained a $700,000 settlement from Thrift Land, USA. That company owns many of the clothing donation bins found in supermarket parking lots, 1100 in all. But it doesn’t donate the clothes unsuspecting donors put in the bin: Thrift Land sells them at a huge profit. Then they pay legitimate organizations like Big Brothers a small stipend to put a logo or name on the bin to seemingly legitimize the “donation.”

“Inside Edition” investigated the owner of many of the clothing bins found locally in shopping centers.

“Bruce Binler owns hundreds of clothing bins. They look like the ones used by major charities like The Salvation Army and Big Brothers Big Sisters,” the I-Squad investigation reported.

Some of the bins have the The National Cancer Center logo featured prominently on them.

People think all the donations are going directly to the cancer charity, but they’re not. Binler’s forprofit bins have taken in millions of dollars worth of clothing. But the charities only get a fraction and

Binler keeps most of the proceeds, the 2011 investigation concluded.

Last December the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York upheld a lower court ruling against Garrett Morgan, who fraudulently raised millions of dollars in the name of two sham charitable organizations, “The Coalition Against Breast Cancer,” and the “Senior Citizens Assistance Group.”

Every year New York State issues its annual “Pennies For Charity” report. It rates telemarketers – those solicitations made over the phone. As aforesaid many of the campaigns lose money.

In 101 of the 573 campaigns, or 17.6 percent, expenses exceeded contributions.

Of the 573 campaigns, 316 were conducted on behalf of organizations located outside of New York.

The Times investigation, conducted with The Center for Investigative Reporting, yielded some startling conclusions: Over a decade, one diabetes charity raised nearly $14 million and gave about $10,000 to patients.

Six spent nothing at all on direct cash aid.

Operators at many of the 50 worst charities have lied to donors about where their money goes, taken multiple salaries, secretly paid themselves consulting fees or arranged fundraising contracts with friends.

One cancer charity paid a company owned by the president’s son nearly $18 million over eight years to solicit funds. A medical charity paid its biggest research grant to its president’s own forprofit business.

Fraud And Waste The extent of waste, fraud, and greed is staggering. The nation’s 50 worst charities have paid their solicitors nearly $1 billion that could have gone to charitable works over the past 10 years.

SmartAsset compiled a list of some of the nation’s worst charities based on the research done by the Tampa Bay Times and other watchdog groups. Many have names that sound legitimate, like “Cancer Fund of America,” “Breast Cancer Relief Foundation,” “Firefighters Charitable Foundation” and so on.

Using data from all 50 states, the major offenders pay for-profit corporations to raise the vast

majority of their donations year in and year out.

The effort identified hundreds of charities that run donation drives across the country and regularly give their solicitors at least twothirds of the take. Experts say good charities should spend about half that much — no more than 35 cents to raise a dollar.

For the worst charities, writing big checks to telemarketers isn’t an anomaly. It’s a way of life.

Not Make A Wish “Collectively the 50 worst charities raised more than $1.3 billion over the past decade and paid nearly $1 billion of that directly to the companies that raise their donations,” SmartAsset reported.

The worst charities are persistent, returning to the same sources for contributions over and over as well as operating in the face of state and federal regulators.

State regulators have disciplined 39 of the worst 50, some as many as seven times, and several have been barred from doing business in one or more states. One was shut down by regulators but quickly resurfaced using a new name.

Other charities that appear in the top 10 include the “International Union Of Police Associations,” the “National Veteran’s Service Fund,” and the “American Association of

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State Troopers.”

These are not to be confused with reputable charities like Habitat for Humanity, Boys and Girls Clubs and others that direct donations towards the money’s intended use.

Kids Wish Network, Children’s Wish Foundation International and Wishing Well Foundation are not affiliated with Make A Wish.

In fact, Make A Wish has received numerous complaints from donors who didn’t give the foundation any money, but gave to one of the bogus charities instead, thinking it was Make A Wish.

Kids Wish telemarketers tell wouldbe donors their goal is to fulfill sick children’s dreams “while they are still healthy enough to enjoy them.”

Donors think they are contributing toward some lifechanging event for the child, like being taken to meet a far away hero or visiting some enchanted locale. Instead, Kids Wish hands out gift cards in hospitals and spend millions on salaries instead.

The Times reported the Make A Wish Foundation in Florida, one of dozens of chapters across the country, spent 60 percent of the money raised on granting wishes.

The same year, Kids Wish raised $18.6 million, its tax filing shows. It spent just $240,000 granting wishes -- a fraction of the cash raised.

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Church Responds To Pedophile Priest Series the following three directives: Establish an Office for Outreach and Assistance to all those who have been harmed by abuse committed by clergy or anyone under the employ of the Diocese.

Have in place specific policies and procedures for reporting allegations of abuse. Establish a Diocesan Review Board to serve as a consultative body reviewing all allegations of clergy abuse, all policies/procedures established to deal with sexual abuse and providing input to the Bishop in discharging his responsibilities with respect to allegations made against clergy.

Insure Protection of the Faithful in the Future by requiring:

A. Safe Environment Training of all clergy, employees and volunteers.

B. Background screening of all church personnel, employees, volunteers.

C. Signed Codes of Conduct for all clergy, employees and volunteers which delineate expected and appropriate behaviors.

Is the pedophile priest scandal a thing of the past? Yes and no.

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February 2, 2016 Letter to the Editor: The article “Bishop, Church Try to Put Scandal Behind Them” appearing in the January 27, 2016 edition of The Independent is replete with so many significant errors that if each and every error was highlighted, it would take an article equally as long to correct them.

While the article is so fatally flawed that it would be more accurate to call it a work of fiction, I am grateful to have the opportunity to communicate the truth so readers can understand all the Church has done and continues to do to help ensure a safe environment for children and young people.

In fact, the Diocese of Rockville Centre is held in high regard by many secular organizations as a leader in the implementation of safe environment policies and procedures.

One need not read any further than the first sentence to spotlight the first major error. The writer wrote: “William Francis Murphy always knew he would become a priest.” Not true!

Actually, while he always thought of becoming a priest he also thought of becoming a lawyer or professor.

Moving on to the second sentence – the writer states that Bishop Murphy “was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston.” Wrong again. Bishop Murphy was ordained a priest at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City in 1964.

A few paragraphs into the article, the writer states that “Bishop Murphy was transferred out of Boston in 1981 to the Diocese of Rockville Centre.” In fact Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Murphy to head the Diocese of Rockville Centre on June 26, 2001 and he was installed as the fourth Bishop of Rockville Centre on September 5, 2001.

The article continues with similar blatant inaccuracies, errors, misspellings and the like; but I will use this opportunity to state what the church has done and continues to do since the tragedy of the sexual abuse crisis that broke some 18 years ago.

There is no denying the truth that the Catholic Church was

embroiled in an abuse scandal which brought the Church to a low point. Over time, it became evident that the scope of the scandal was world-wide and not limited to the United States. In 2002, at the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) – the official governing body of the Catholic Church in America – the Bishops of the United States approved the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

With the ratification of the Charter, the Bishops mandated that each Diocese throughout the United States secure safe and sacred spaces for all the faithful by incorporating

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S e a n P. D o l a n , D i r e c t o r o f Communications for the Diocese of Rockville Centre responded to The Independent’s request for a comment related to Rick Murphy’s series about pedophile priests. It’s found below in its entirety.

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something does not seem right or someone is behaving in a way that makes us feel uncomfortable. Yes, it is a thing of the past because we now know what to do if we suspect abuse and we have procedures in place for reporting, accused are immediately removed from ministry/employment.

I am confident that the Church in the United States and specifically here on Long Island has put into place these measures that keep everyone safe. Measures of accountability are in place to prevent a crisis as large as the one of the early 2000s.

Is the pedophile priest scandal a thing of the past? NO – as we will not allow a false sense of security to lull us to complacency. The number of allegations – both credible and false - have dropped dramatically.

Incidentally, most reported allegations do not involve clergy but rather involve lay people and teens varying in seriousness from heinous to just plain immature but wrong acting out! Let me be clear!

With the decrease in reported cases of abuse, the diocese will not relax its standards. We remain vigilant and proactive in our approach to maintaining safe environments!

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We continue to report everything – credible and not. It is not up for us to decide what is credible or not.

We report every incident whether it happened yesterday or 20-30 years ago.

Let us not forget that the Church does not exist in a vacuum - it is an institution in society. And the people who comprise the Church reflect the cultural norms of the society in which they live. Look at our society – the very problems of the larger society will always be brought to our Church. The difference is we as a Church are now in a position to deal with some of those issues. As the Church and its members heal, we are always hopeful that healing will occur in our society.

In the 16 years since the sexual abuse scandal has come to light, the number of new allegations has dramatically declined. Ever since he arrived here in 2001, Bishop Murphy and all under the employ of the Diocese of Rockville Centre including Clergy, Deacons, Seminarians, Religious and lay people, remain vigilant in keeping the Church an institution that is safe for our children and young people. We take every allegation seriously and will always have the Hot Line number, 516-594-9063, where reports can be made.

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Despite what the article said and inferred, established policies and procedures remain in place; for example, when an allegation is made we promptly initiate a report to the appropriate District Attorney.

Simultaneously, the Office for the Protection of Children and Young People will reach out to the alleged victim, offer support and gather information.

We h a v e t h e e x p e c t a t i o n and requirement that all of our employees and volunteers attend a Virtus Class. During Virtus classes, adults learn to recognize the signs of abuse and learn how to intervene before a child is abused. To date over 98,800 people have attended these training sessions. Classes are held throughout the year in various locations throughout the Diocese.

Currently we have 298 trained Virtus Facilitators conducting sessions in our parishes, schools and agencies. Abuse prevention is taught in all Diocesan schools and Religious Education Programs.

Children are taught what abuse is, as well as how to be aware and protective of personal safety and how to report abuse of any kind.

Each year we must make a full audit report to an outside Agency.

Every third year we are subject to an on-site audit by the same Independent Audit Agency. The audit assists us in determining our adherence to the standards established by the Charter. In the past, the Diocese of Rockville Centre has always been found to be in full compliance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Regarding the sidebar – “Bishop’s Residence – the Lap of Luxury” you falsely state the old canard that

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Bishop Murphy displaced nuns from a convent which was to become his residence. Your statement that he brushed off the controversy “like a Teflon don” is simply not true and slanderous. The fact that you cite a 14-year-old opinion column from Jimmy Breslin and biased websites as your “sources” seems to demonstrate that The Independent just might have been on a mission to besmirch the Church with little or no regard for communicating objectivity.

Let me be very clear in correcting this sidebar: Bishop Murphy did not displace nuns. Prior to Bishop Murphy even being named bishop of this Diocese, the Dominican Sisters agreed to vacate the convent for another property and to allow the Cathedral parish of Saint Agnes to renovate the building both for parish use and for an apartment for the diocesan Bishop. This was then financed by the sale of a small house left to the Bishop by the family of the first Bishop of the diocese of Rockville Centre.

Further, Bishop Murphy has profound respect and love for the religious sisters that have contributed so much to this Diocese and Long Island. The Church on Long Island grew and flourished thanks to the tremendous contribution and dedication of the many women religious who staffed schools, hospitals and social service agencies throughout Long Island. Bishop Murphy has only the highest regard for the commitment of these many women of faith who have tirelessly worked to witness to the Gospel message.

Thank you for allowing me to correct some of the major inaccuracies in the article.

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Body And Soul I don’t trust modern medicine.

I prefer the Hindu philosophy about death: that we simply discard our bodies when we don’t need them anymore.

(Note: I am not sure if this is the Hindu philosophy or something I read in Cream magazine 40 years ago.)

This used to infuriate my mother and father, both of whom were in the medical profession. “ You better get that thing checked,” my father would say if I sneezed or coughed or, more frequently, came home with a rash on or near my private parts.

“Don’t worry,” I’d reply. “I’m going to drop my body soon.”

My mom would look at me perplexed and then say something like, “Well, don’t drop it down the laundry chute. We’ll never get it back.”

“Mom, I’m going to shed my body when it’s time.”

“What, like a dog? We had a hound once. Shed all over. Don’t you dare get hair on my new couch!”

“My body has been a good friend. But I won’t need it when I reach the end,” I would say, quoting some ancient Greek philosopher (or was it some two-bit rock star stoned out on acid?).

Simply put, as we evolve we have less and less need for our bodies because our minds grow (mine must be located in my belly because it’s certainly growing).

In Frank Herbert’s brilliant science fiction series, Dune, the world was ruled by huge bulbous Guild Navigators who were so cerebral that they required no body. Their essence was suspended in a bubble and they had the capacity to “fold space” that is, travel great distances in a matter of seconds.

I tried to explain to my father once that these rulers were the author’s version of God – supremely intelligent people who evolved to the point that their bodies were no longer needed.

“Give me that book!” he said, grabbing it. “No wonder. This is Science Fiction! Jesus Christ!” Dad always exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” when he heard someone say something stupid or annoying. To dad, all sci-fi writers were Communists.

My working theory is the combined intellect of every human being who has ever lived is in reality the concept we refer to as God. We don’t die at death, we simply enter the more spiritual phase of life – it’s kind of like ARRP but you don’t get a card.

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This is why I do not feel the need to go to the doctor – because I am, strictly speaking, going to be a god someday. That, and because I can’t afford my deductible under Obamacare, but I digress.

Here is the thing: I haven’t been sick in decades. I have never missed a day’s work at The Independent, and this is my 16th year (It feels like 35). I don’t get headaches, I don’t get coughs, and the last time I threw up was because I lost a bet involving tequila, a buxom divorcee, and my evil friend Tommy Lucarelli in a bar.

That’s not to say I’m healthy. My big fear – I’m being honest here – is that I go to the doctor, he looks under my tongue, and then holds the stethoscope to my chest for 10 seconds. And then he says, “That will be $150 dollars,” and I say, “Jesus Christ!” And then he says, “OMG! You are like, sooooo dead!

How did you even walk in here?

You have every disease known to mankind!”

“How much time do I have left doc?” I ask timidly.

“Maybe you can get some of those freakazoids from your commie sci-fi book to fold time backwards otherwise I doubt you’ll even make it back to your car.” Just my luck, I’ll be parked at a meter.

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As I’m leaving he shouts, “and don’t you dare drop that body of yours in my waiting room!”

There was this guy we knew in Queens who quit smoking after 30 years because the doctor told him it would kill him. One day he was crossing Astoria Boulevard and a Marlboro delivery truck smashed into him. The moral of the story is, when your time is up it’s up.

I envy prisoners on Death Row. They get to pick their last meal – anything they want (well, maybe not Jeffrey Dahmer).

If you can name your poison that’s about as good as it’s going to get, be it tequila, smokes, or whatever.

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The Great Kindness Challenge The Peacemakers, a student o f f shoot of the Riverhead F Community Awareness Program (CAP), encouraged all the students and staff in the Riverhead Central School District to participate in the Great Kindness Challenge so that the District can, once again, become a Kindness Certified School District, but mostly because Kindness Matters.

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off the Great Kindness Challenge (GKC), a weeklong event held at the end of January.

All of the elementary schools also participated in “Kind Coins for Kenya”. This is a GKC global service project to help build a school in a Kenyan village. To visualize their progress, each RCSD elementary school created a school out of paper bricks with good wishes for the students in Kenya.

At Phillips and Roanoke, Riverhead CAP supplied craft supplies for the students to use to make kind notes and bookmarks for students and staff in the schools at recess. Everyone loves getting a kind note.

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Kindergarteners at Roanoke Avenue School in Riverhead made cards for members of the military stationed overseas as part of the district-wide Great Kindness Challenge.

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and intensity of the algal blooms.

The spring 2015 algal blooms were Truth without fear since 1826 F more intense and the oxygen decline occurred much earlier than usual. Combined with rising water temperatures and an unusually large biomass of adult menhaden confined in the river, these factors resulted in prolonged periods of extremely low dissolved oxygen levels, ultimately leading to mass A collaborative study between the death of roughly 300,000 adult asphyxiation among the fish the Department of Environmental Atlantic Menhaden. The highest population.

Conservation the Suffolk County concentration of dead fish was Two other secondary factors Department of Health Services and reported near the mouth of the may have contributed to the fish researchers at Stony Brook and river off Indian Island County Park kills. Exposure to the harmful Cornell Universities has identified and in the waters between County algal blooms caused damage to the multiple causes of three separate Route 105 Bridge and the Riverhead the menhaden’s gills and may fish kills in the Peconic River in Yacht Club. have exposed them to a virus. The summer 2015.

T h e P e c o n i c R i v e r , L o n g presence of a large population of The study found that rising Island’s longest river, originates aggressive carnivorous blue fish water temperatures and a spike in in bogs and wetlands in central Long at the mouth of the river blocked algal blooms fueled by increased Island and empties into Flanders Bay an escape route from the oxygen levels of nitrogen caused low levels at Riverhead. It has a long history depleted waters. of dissolved oxygen in the river, of degraded water quality and Experts believe that discharges which is ultimately believed to several documented fish kills over of nitrogen into the Peconic River have caused mass asphyxiation the years, including in September have increased algal blooms over among the menhaden population. of 1999 (estimated at 1 to 3 million the years. State and local agencies Several additional factors also fish), August of 2000 (750,000), May involved in the study are working contributed to the kills, including of 2008 (100,000) and May of 2009 aggressively to advance nitrogen a large population of predatory fish (100,000). reduction efforts throughout blocking the mouth of the river, The multi-agency effort employed Suffolk County. essentially trapping the menhaden, extensive monitoring at nearly Suffolk County recently signed and the presence of a virus among a dozen sites along the river an intermunicipal agreement with the fish. to document existing physical, the Town of Riverhead to begin a “Collaboration between all chemical and biological conditions pilot program to test facilities with levels of government and academic that may have been associated with sanitized wastewater discharges. institutions is critical to identifying the events. Data on historical water The County also awarded the town the true causes of unfortunate quality conditions as well as past fish incidents like this,” said Acting kills was also examined to provide DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos. possible clues to the occurrences.

“DEC will continue to work with Menhaden specimens were also CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10. all partners to identify additional sent to the Aquatic Animal Health Last summer the family attended strategies to improve water quality Program at Cornell University’s Hamptons Collegiate baseball games in the Peconic River and restore College of Veterinary Medicine for in Sag Harbor. Tara was struck the health of this ecosystem for the a pathology examination. by how friendly and helpful the fish and other wildlife that depend SCDHS discounted the possibility college players were to children in on it. We will be on the lookout that illegal discharges, spills and/ attendance. After games, they took this coming summer for a similar or the presence of toxic substances Dennis out on the field to practice confluence of factors.” were contributing factors. and showed him how the venue is “These results of algal blooms Researchers from the School of maintained. and mass asphyxiation truly indicate Marine and Atmospheric Science at “He fell in love with it,” Tara said. that excess nitrogen is indeed Stony Brook University also analyzed Baseball clinics became a weekly activity. polluting our water, and we need to water samples to characterize As the family became more continue to upgrade our wastewater the phytoplankton (micro-algae) friendly with the players, they treatment infrastructure,” said co m m u n i ty i n th e r iver a nd learned the men often have to buy Suffolk County Executive Steve determined that harmful algal their own gear. “I mentioned it to Bellone. blooms (HABs) were impacting the Dennis, about doing the bottles for The fish kills occurred at three fish. the Whalers.” different locations along the twoAlthough the Peconic River has A subsequent Chinese food dinner mile tidal portion of the river between had fish kills before, the 2015 clinched the concept. “He got a May and June of 2015 and resulted in event was unique in the timing fortune cookie and I read it for him,” Tara informed. The fortune told the little boy, “You’re going to be a great philanthropist.”

“I read it and looked at him and said, ‘Let’s do the bottles.’”

Using the page Bonac Yard Sale and her own Facebook page, Tara put out a request for bottles and cans, thinking “People are more apt 803 Gregory Place to donate what they consider trash than money.”

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$8 million and the state provided more than $18 million in financing to upgrade its Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility, including the construction of a new sewage treatment plant to meet increased standards of nitrogen removal.

The state has also secured grants from the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) to reduce wastewater nitrogen pollution in the economically important Pe c o n i c E s t u a r y w a t e r s h e d , including $580,000 to the town of Riverhead to connect cesspools to a public wastewater treatment facility and $1 million to Suffolk County to construct a decentralized wastewater treatment facility to treat waste from five mobile home parks that are currently using cesspools.

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And they sure did.

Tara got calls from donors all over the South Fork, as far away from her East Hampton home as Conscience Point in Southampton Town. Mom’s job was driving around and collecting donation bags. On weekends, Dennis was in charge of washing out bottles and cans, then redeeming them at Stop & Shop.

“It was hard work, but he began to understand: every bottle was five cents.” He kept an eagle eye out for the discarded treasures and often came home from Kindergarten with bottles and cans in his backpack.

“There were a lot of lessons there,” Tara observed. Even if money is tight, a person can still make a difference. The Ruiz family couldn’t cut a check for $1000, but they still could make a big contribution. And, said Tara, “We met a lot of great people along the way.”

She’s hoping the team uses the money to buy special hats they wear to certain games. “We want to make the donation for something specific so Dennis can see the fruits of his labor . . . He just asked me last night, what are we going to do now?”

For now, the money from bottles Dennis redeems will go into his piggy bank, but in the future?

The fortune cookie said. He’s going to be a great philanthropist.

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This Week In Indy Yep. It’s winter. As of this writing, snow’s blowing sideways outside our office at The Independent. A skeleton crew has made it to work, traversing treacherous streets. It’s going to be one of those days of digging out to get to work, digging out to leave work, and digging back in upon arrival at home.

Friday was a snow day. Monday was a snow day. Tuesday was shaping up to be SSDD (same snow, different day). It’s a pain for grown-ups, but the kids love it, as evidenced by the fabulous photo on our cover by Ed Gifford. Sometimes you win, sometimes you luge.

It might be frigid and freezing outdoors, but it’s going to be a hot time at 230 Elm on Saturday, when the Denim and Diamonds gala gives cancer the boot. This week Emily Toy profiles honoree Susie Roden, survivor and tireless advocate for women’s health. She’s been at the forefront for over two decades.

Also in our Main Section, check out the Ruiz family and their fundraising success.

Mama Tara knows how to start ‘em young!

Speaking of fundraising, where do your dollars go when you donate? In his InDepth section this week, Rick Murphy takes a look at charities that may not be so charitable.

An Arts & Entertainment section packed with news of upcoming events is a mustsee, as ever. Editor Jessica Mackin’s got an array of photos from the Hampton Daze trip abroad. We’re trying to tamp down the envy and be happy for our European vactioner.

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Hampton impacts all of us in many ways, the Town’s sole focus on enforcement has left us in the position of not knowing what will happen to both year round and summer rentals. Shouldn’t an impact statement and an economic review been prepared before Unfortunate Arrogance implementation?

The law has been passed but the sketchy Dear Editor, We now have the actuality of the rental and patchwork startup of the rental registry registry looming before us, with major will come at enormous cost to those who concerns about the effect on our Town. face the loss of residence and income. The After the tumult involved in the legislative assumption that it will be painless, or that process, where numerous unanswered it is ‘necessary pain’ for those who will questions about privacy, rights, liability have to sort out a world of new glitches is and economic impact were raised, the Town unfortunate governmental arrogance.

TOM KNOBEL government has had sessions to teach potential renters how to comply and work with the new rental registry law.

Misguided Board?

The fact that formerly private rental transactions, of enormous importance to To The Editor, the Town, now include the intrusion of an Why does this East Hampton Town Board enforcement agency will change both the find it necessary to provide any specific opportunities and ability to rent property. ethnic group it’s own “advisory board”?

While we all know that renting in East Where is the distinct and separate board

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By Ed Gifford to hear my concerns? I guess those of us who have been here forever and paying taxes as working citizens that fund the educations for the “50% Latino school student population” do not count.

Assimilate into the community rather than separate into a distinct group. It is not healthy nor beneficial to define and separate everyone by ethnic, religious, race, or gender groups. This is lunacy.

Larry Cantwell should be fixing problems that exist for all residents such as illegal, overcrowded housing. Has the town seen increased real estate and school tax revenues that come close to matching the population surge in this township?

Of course not and that’s because this increased population is not living in new homes or apartments or condos where Continued on Page 14.

Is it just me?

I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night and then I can’t fall back asleep.

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Maybe it’s menopause.

Don’t be ridiculous!

Menopause is for women!

Precisely! If we’re the ones going to all the trouble, shouldn’t it be called womenopause? Why should you guys get all the credit?

Write a letter.

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Edward Leung I enjoy walking around the store for a bit but then I’m happy to go sit in the husband chairs.

These shopping trips only happen every couple of months, so I don’t mind doing my time in the husband chairs. I tell my wife not to rush, to take her time.

Stanley Liska My wife and I are here every week or two. I walk through the store and then sit in the husband chairs when I’ve looked around enough. I never know what my wife will come back with. I’m too old for surprises. But . . . I remember enough of her surprises from when I was young!

Mark Fletcher We shop here about every other month. I’m almost always finished shopping before my wife. I put my items in her basket until she’s through, and go sit in the husband chairs while she takes her time. Most stores don’t have these chairs. They’re a good spot to wait.

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increased tax revenues would be paid and received. Fix the illegal housing in this town and listen to and address the concerns of tax paying citizens in this town before you start creating more superfluous boards.

Are we supposed to be thankful that “many local Latinos are American citizens and vote here”? What about the “many” who are not citizens and do not have the right to vote here? They still deserve an advisory board that hears their concerns?

This Town Board and Larry Cantwell specifically is misguided, and foolish to consider the need for a separate Latino Board as being more important than the ongoing and current concerns of this town’s long term citizens.

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Dear Mr. Murphy, Your recent article, “Jay Balks at Questionable Deal” (l/13/16), raises some questions. Did a homeowner personally contact former Southampton Supervisor, Anna Throne-Holst, to suggest that the Town sell a beachfront parcel in Sagaponack?

If so, Ms. Throne-Holst might be asked to explain why she “opened her door” to accommodate this particular homeowner and the criteria she used to justify agreeing to sell a taxpayer-owned parcel that provides access to the beach.

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Fred Kelsey My wife passed away two years ago but I come here with someone who shops here once or twice a week. I don’t mind waiting here while she does her shopping. In fact I enjoy sitting in the chair and watching all the people in the store.

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Hope For Bernie Dear Editor, The claim by your columnist that Bernie Sanders would bring a 90% tax rate is NONSENSE. Everyone’s rate would remain the same as it is currently, up to an annual income of $250,001, when it would go from 33% to 37%; then no change from the current rate as income rises to the level of $464,851-$500,000, when the rate would go from 39.6% DOWN to 37%. Thence, unchanged up to $2 million, which would be taxed at 43%, thence to $10 million at 48%.

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Online Feedback Re: Jerry’s Ink Once you called Sanders an opportunist you lost me. I don’t think you ever listened to him seriously. Are you kidding? There is not any candidate out there as sincere or authentic. I went to CCNY and had 6 years of tuition free education through

a Masters Degree. Yes I had to qualify educationally in HS to be eligible, but at least the opportunity was there for us lower middle class kids growing up in the boroughs of NYC. Public School thru HS is free, Medicare is a single payer health plan, Social Security, The US postal service -- are all social progressive programs.

And Jerry? To correct you, Sanders plan calls for a 2.2 tax plan for 99 % of the population, and higher for the other 1 %.

That all said, I support Sanders or Hillary against your Rubio.

JOE MORGUESS

Re: Sharon Bacon I just recently had the pleasure of meeting Sharon through the Bonac Booster Club. She is an amazing person and I am so glad she is being recognized for all the great things she does for our community. Just one question.... Can we clone Sharon????

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Honor Choir Singers Eighth graders Reghan Anderson, Wells will get to experience singing Alison Fioriello, and Wells Woolcott with the best student musicians in have been selected to participate in the country. the American Choral Director’s Association Honor Choir in Boston, MA this week. The National ACDA Honor Choir is made up of the best student musicians from all over the country.

East Hampton Middle School singers were selected from over 3000 applicants based on their excellent musicianship and vocal technique demonstrated on vocal audition recordings submitted last year. The Junior High Honor Choir will be conducted by composer and professor, Dr. Andrea Ramsey, the director of Choral Studies at the University of Colorado.

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By Rick Murphy

It’s the pins and needles time of the high school basketball season, when teams on the bubble await word on where they will play in the coming county playoffs, if at all.

Clarity was to be achieved yesterday morning when the Section II seeding committee was to meet, but Mother Nature had her own ideas.

The snow caused the cancelation of numerous games Monday, and

necessitated a postponement of the seeding committee meeting as well.

Locally, the biggest question is when and who East Hampton will play. The Bonackers were to play Glenn Monday – a team that upset the League VI leaders earlier in the season – and numerous decisions hinge on the result.

“If we are able to beat Glenn, we will likely be the first or second seed,” in the Suffolk Class A tournament, said East Hampton

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coach Bill McKee. Harborfields, out of League V, is the more likely choice for first.

Bayport-Blue Point, out of League VI, and Sayville, from League V, are vying for the third and fourth seed. It’s a complicated scenario to grasp, but the ruling body prefers not to have teams from the same league play in the same tournament bracket. Confused? Join the club – the only thing that matters is if all goes as planned Harborfields and East Hampton will face off for the county title if both keep winning.

The quest starts this week, probably Friday in East Hampton at 6 PM, weather permitting.

East Hampton, 10-1 in the league and 15-2 overall, has reeled off five straight wins since the Glenn debacle, the latest victim being Hampton Bays, Thursday on the loser’s court, 70-48. The powerful Bonackers toyed with the outmanned Baymen, putting 10 players in the scoring column led

by Brandon Kennedy-Gay with 16.

Southampton is emerging as the team to beat in Class B. The young Mariners have quietly won four in a row, the latest, a 77-58 pasting of Center Moriches on the loser’s court.

Izzy Johnson, an All-County candidate having a spectacular season, went off for 30 points and added eight assists and eight rebounds.

Aaron Krzyzewski added 16 points for the winners.

Bridgehampton, the likely Class D champion, destroyed Stony Brook, the favorite to win the Class C tournament, 100-39 on Saturday.

The Bears coach, Mike Hickey, played this one close to the vest using his second stringers. The coach has used this strategy in the past to keep future tournament opponents from scouting his team.

As it happens, a real scenario exists that the three East End rivals, Southampton, East Hampton and Bridgehampton could compete for the County Small Schools (ABCD) title.

Charles In Charge Charles Manning Jr., who led the Bridgehampton Killer Bees to the New York State Class D title last season and earned the Most Valuable Player Award while doing so, has taken his game to the next level.

Long Island Lutheran recruited Manning after a stellar performance in an AAU summer league. Lu-Hi, is a nationally prominent college prep high school known for its athletic program and has a reputation for funneling athletes to Division I colleges and professional sports.

Manning started his season off slowly, drawing a five-game suspension and then coming off the bench when he returned.

But he has emerged as a key member of the starting five. On Saturday the Crusaders won their 13th in a row, crushing Cardoza 96-60.

Manning put on a show, nailing four treys and tallying 24 points. Teammate Devonte Green, an All-American headed for Indiana University, tallied 25.

Last Wednesday, against Queens Teaching, Manning exploded for a season high 29 points to lead Lu-Hi to a 96-64 victory. His recent surge hasn’t been lost on his suitors: Kansas is the latest college to send him a letter of interest.

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s le it T r o F o G d a e h r e iv R d n A , k c u it t t a M , s Hampton Bay the court.

Now the real season begins.

Hampton Bays, in first place in League VI with a 10-2 mark and winners of 16 of 18 of the season.

Hannah Reed, an All-County candidate, added 17 points for the winners. Cecilia Blowe had eight for East Hampton.

If things go according to form Hampton Bays will earn a second seed in the county Class A tournament, setting up a finale putting the Lady Baymen against powerful Glenn. The Lady Knights are undefeated in League VI play with an 11-0 mark and 15-2 overall.

More important, Glenn has bested Hampton Bays twice this season, including a 59-58 nail biter at Glenn.

Westhampton won six of its last eight to earn a berth in the Class A tournament with a 7-5 league mark (11-7 overall.)

The Lady Hurricanes were due for

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(Top, right) Alexis Fotopoulos, one of the leading scorers in Suffolk County history, led Hampton Bays to an easy victory over East Hampton Thursday. The Lady Baymen have their sights set on a county title.

By Rick Murphy

It wasn’t much of a game but it was a chance for East Hampton fans to say goodbye to the most prolific scorer in East End history.

The Hampton Bays girls’ basketball team walloped the Lady Bonackers 50-13 but that was to be expected: East Hampton is 0-15 on the season.

But for the Lady Baymen the real season has just begun, and led by senior standout Alexis Fotopoulos they figure to make a run in the Class A playoffs.

Fotopoulos, who passed the 2000 points score mark last week, was

a clunker and got one on February 2, losing to Islip 55-33.

Another East End title contender is Riverhead, which competes in League III and will vie for the Class AA crown. The Lady Waves, 12-1 in the league, are 14-3 overall.

Thursday the locals belted Smithtown West 70-44 despite falling behind 20-13 in the first quarter. A 25-2 run fueled by Dezarae Brown (18 points) put Riverhead on top for good. The finale was a comfortable 70-44.

Kate McCarney drilled three three-point bombs en route to 16 points; Sam Brown tallied 14, and Faith Johnson Desilvia 11.

Mattituck is the likely first seed in the County Class B tournament.

The Lady Tuckers are 13-1 in League VII and 16-1 overall.

Last Wednesday Mattituck won its eighth in a row by disposing of Wyandanch 65-27.

As is always the case the Lady Tuckers used a balanced attacked

by Liz Dwyer with 14 points, Briana Perino with 13, and Katie Hoeg and Corrine Reda with 10 each.

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at it again this night, scoring 23 points, grabbing nine assists and recording two assists though she spent much of the time on the bench.

Fotopoulos drilled five three pointers, showing off NBA range, and should easily earn a starting spot at Adelphi University, where she will be attending on a full basketball scholarship.

Thursday’s game was anticlimactic. Hampton Bays quickly opened up a double figure lead and led 24-5 at the end of the first quarter. The reserves spent much of the rest of the game on

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