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Head Chef In Charge

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Fresno’s Executive Chef Gretchen Menser considers herself “one of the boys.”

The Bolivian-born East Ender has been at the helm of her restaurant for a decade, and she hasn’t lost any steam whatsoever.

She’s the only female executive chef in these parts, something she says makes her feel incredibly “proud.”

Most chefs, by their very nature, are pretty organized when it comes to their kitchens. One look at the East Hampton locale and it’s obvious Fresno’s femme foreperson is no different. Walls are filled with plastic containers neatly labeled and stacked, floors are spotless, cooks (guy cooks)are prepping at their respective stations for the night.

And then there’s the Head Chef In Charge, all five-feet, three inches of her. Scurrying around her kitchen, lugging bain maries and sheet pans, Menser’s’s pulled together. With her hair sleek and neatly secured in a bun, she will later don a clean, starchy white chef’s coat.

Menser’s been here on the East End since 1993, when she got

her start working at another East Hampton institution, Nick & Toni’s.

After traveling the world with her artist mother up until her teens, Menser said, “I did the typical Hamptons thing for a while. Came here for the summers, was in the city for the winter. But in the city, you’re constantly going, there’s such little down time, so I just sort of stayed out here.”

The intensity of the restaurant business was calmed by the natural surroundings the Hamptons and East End have to offer.

The area also offers a strong set of chefs and restaurateurs, with most serving East End locals and visitors alike for over 20 years.

“It’s a great feeling,” Menser said about being a part of the local restaurant community. “It’s like being a part of an extended family.

We can call upon each other.”

Testament to her career-long efforts to serve excellent cuisine, Menser’s offerings at Fresno are constantly changing, highlighting not only local bounty, but unique preparations featuring inspiration from her time spent in Asia and Europe as well as some dishes

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reflecting Mexican flavor profiles.

“I like to push it, a little,” she said.

Maintaining the balance between keeping the food interesting while keeping the customer happy and coming back can be a challenge, she noted. “ We d e s c r i b e i t h e r e a s Contemporary American, whatever that means,” she said, with a smile.

“The owners, [restaurateurs David Loewenberg and Michael Nolan] have let me spread my wings.

David’s got a good recipe and we fit together well. It only works if you’re good, for longevity purposes.

You got to be good and you got to be consistent.”

When asked whether she’s faced and conquered any challenges or hurdles during her tenure as head chef, Menser said they’ve been fairly few and far between.

“I don’t think this is a hurdle,

n e c e s s a r i l y, b u t I g u e s s i t ’ s interesting that still, to this day, people go to the first guy they see in the kitchen and think he’s the chef. Or a dinner guest will say ‘Oh the chef here, he’s wonderful.’

It’s strange that’s the automatic assumption.”

Still, sexism hasn’t stifled Menser’s MO at all.

She described herself as “that nerd that’s running around taking pictures of tomatoes in the summer time, proclaiming ‘They’re so beautiful!’”

And Menser gives credit where credit is due. “I have some very loyal customers,” she said. “They’ve totally embraced the weirdness.”

And Menser still has time to churn out beautiful food. Her favorite? Pan seared foie gras with a blini, apricots, and a champagne gastrique. Paired with wine. Lots and lots of wine.

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Here’s our first tip -- and first week’s challenge. In a recent installment of Indy Fit our friend Scott Rubenstein from East Hampton Indoor Tennis spoke of the importance of staying hydrated while exercising. Additionally, some experts say that drinking at least half your weight in ounces of water each day is key to weight loss. That means, if you weigh 200 pounds, you should drink 100 ounces of water every day.

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JEWS & ITALIANS IN THE SUMMER AND A MEMORY OF A STRIPPER NAMED GEORGIA SOTHERN Are you as tired of Trump, Cruz, Hillary, Sanders, and the rest of the losers as I am? Forget them. Spring is almost here and before we know it, it will be summer – wonderful, glorious summer. So I decided to trot out a harmless column I wrote years ago and take a week off from thinking about these terrible presidential candidates we are all facing . . .

I’ve been thinking about summer camp and the difference between Jews and Italians. When I was growing up in Brooklyn, the Jewish kids lived in what was essentially “The Village of Kings Highway” and I lived in “The Village of Avenue U.” We were physically only a few blocks away, separated from each other by Ocean Parkway, but culturally we were a million miles apart.

I remember being amazed when I was eight years old and my friend Junior Fasatti first told me about the concept of summer camp.

“I’m telling you, it’s true,” he said. “In the summer Jews send their

kids away.” I was shocked.

“Where do they send them?” I remember asking, concerned about these little unwanted Jewish kids.

“Places,” he answered vaguely.

“Places?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he said. “Places like Pennsylvania and Massa . . . Massa . . . Massa . . . tusetts,” was his weak answer. I realize now that Junior had no idea what he was talking about.

“They send them to farms and lakes,” he said, shaking his head in disbelief at the notion.

“And they don’t see their mothers all summer?” I asked timidly, hoping he didn’t spot me for what I was – a mama’s boy.

“They don’t see anyone all summer, but they get to milk cows,” he added, closing the subject.

Up until that point of my life I had never heard of camp. The fact is I didn’t even see a live cow until I was 17 years old. And I only visited another state, New Jersey,

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for the first time when I was 16. I went with a bunch of my friends on a summer night to Union City to watch a burlesque show starring the fabulous stripper Georgia Sothern.

Georgia’s show was a doozy.

The show started with an oily Master of Ceremonies saying Miss Sothern was late and would not be performing this evening. There was a loud moan from the testosteronecrazed all-male audience.

Then, by pre-arranged signal, Georgia came running up the aisle in her street clothes yelling, “I’m here! I’m here!” Then she started to strip – not out of a gown, but out of a very modest-looking outfit.

What she never explained was why, when she took off her bra, she had tassels covering her breasts.

This, of course, was to keep the cops from raiding the joint when she removed her bra, but the effect was very, very sexy to our impressionable young minds.

W h a t a s e n s e m e m o r y. I remember Georgia stripping and the thought of it has me perspiring.

My throat is dry and my fingers are trembling even now as I write this.

At the same time that I was drooling over Georgia Sothern as a horny 16-year-old, my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, at the age of six and a half was being shuffled off to her first summer camp, Camp Wangum.

This was followed by a few years at Camp Snow Hill, and finally she found her favorite camp, Camp Kittatinny. Even today, say the words “summer camp” to Judy and she’ll break out into the camp cheer: “KITTATINNY K-I-T-T-A-T-I-N-

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N-Y YAYYYYYYY KITTATINNY!” So that’s how it was between Italians and Jews in my part of Brooklyn. The difference between summer and winter where I lived on West 7th Street was the difference between an open fire hydrant sprouting water in the summer and a closed one wearing icicles in the winter.

In the summer, while Judy swam in cool, sparkling lakes, sang camp songs, and made arts and crafts in the clean fresh air of the mountains, my Italian friends and I went to Coney Island, cruised on Ocean Parkway and went at night to “The Spumoni Garden,” which was not a garden but had the most delicious Italian Ices, gelato and spumoni.

During the hot, sticky days we happily played in a 30-acre wasteland called “The Dumps,” which was filled with mountains of garbage and ashes that mysteriously burned all the time – sort of like an eternal flame of garbage. On hot, still nights the smell went through the neighborhood. For nature lovers, The Dumps was also the home of some awesome-looking rodent wildlife.

Years later the city built a lowrent housing project on that same site, giving it the distinction of being the first neighborhood in the country to be improved by the addition of a low-rent housing project.

In the end, whether you were a Jewish kid in a camp in the mountains or an Italian kid on the streets of Brooklyn, there’s nothing as wonderful as being a kid in the summertime.

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turn toward Hampton Bays as the Ancient Order of Hiberians, Michael Collins, Division 11 hosts its annual St. Patrick’s procession.

This year’s Grand Marshal is Hampton Bays resident William Patrick “Bill” Hughes. The son of Martin Hughes and the former Mary Diskin of County Galway, Ireland, he is honored to have been selected and looks forward to leading his fellow Hibernians in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, according to the HBAOH website.

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with the Southampton Elks, both before and after he joined Lodge #1574 more than 25 years ago.

He served as House Chairman for 12 years and is also the current Treasurer of the Tiana Beach Club. For three years Bill was House Chairman and Treasurer for Knights of Columbus Council 7023 in Hampton Bays and is still a member of Brooklyn’s Council 497 after 52 years.

In 2016, Bill is especially proud to be a charter member of Michael Collins Division 11 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and to serve as Treasurer of both the Division and Parade Committee.

Saturday’s parade steps off at 11 AM. It starts at the elementary school on Ponquogue Avenue, then runs north to Montauk Highway, turning west towards the reviewing stand in front of the Methodist Church. It ends in the parking lot of the Atrium. Watch for signs from the police alerting drivers to road closures.

Out east, the annual Montauk Friends of Erin parade on Sunday is guaranteed to draw huge crowds.

Captain Paul Forsberg takes the helm of the 54th annual event.

Capt. Forsberg is a 65 year resident and business owner in Montauk. He shares his memoirs in a book Gone Fishin’ with the Viking Fleet. What local hasn’t had fun aboard one of the Viking’s vessels?

Two events lead up to the great procession. On Friday beginning at noon, the annual Grand Marshal’s Luncheon takes place at the Montauk Yacht Club. Capt. Forsberg will be honored, roasted, and, dare we say, baited? He’ll be officially presented with his sash, top hat and shillelagh. Tickets will be $55 at the door. For advance reservations, call Continued on Page 19.

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Lots O’ Fun It was short in length but long on fun. The annual Am O’Gansett parade took to the streets . . . make that street . . . make that half a block in Amagansett on Saturday. After the briefest procession in the land, revelers retired to the home of the Grand Marshal, Amagansett Library, for snacks and crafts.

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Camp Open House YMCA East Hampton RECenter Summer Day Camp hosts an open house on Saturday from 10 AM till noon. For those who register before March 31, there’s a 10 percent discount on all full day programs.

Sibling discounts available.

Additional open house dates are March 31 and April 12 from 7 to 9 PM, April 23 from 10 AM till noon, with more coming in May.

Purim Celebration On Wednesday, March 23, at 5 PM

the Jewish Center of the Hamptons presents Dr. Seuss Purim Shpiel, “Shmendrik in the Rafters,” a parody from Dr. Seuss’ Cat In The Hat which includes reading of the Megillah.

Purim celebrates the stor y from “The Book of Esther” in the Bible, about Jews in the Diaspora during the Persian period—and provides an optimistic picture of Jewish survival and success in a foreign land. Participants typically wear costumes, perform plays and celebrate joyously.

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On Friday at 8 PM The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will be gathering in Bridgehampton to sing and toast the Shabbat. RSVP to office3@jcoh.org or contact The Jewish Center of the Hamptons at 631-324-9858, for additional information and location.

Hamlet & Business Studies East Hampton Town officials and their consultants held the kickoff to two hamlet studies, with an over view and special public meetings yesterday as The Independent went to press.

Today, residents of Downtown Montauk and the harbor, plus East Hampton and Springs, have a chance to offer input with additional meetings. A kickoff for the Montauk area will be held at 1 PM in the Montauk Playhouse Gym, and the kickoff for Springs and East Hampton follows at 7 PM in Town Hall.

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Participants must be 18 years old and over.

The winner receives a free year of bowling and mini golf, plus dinner for four.

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Lake Montauk Meeting The United States Army Corps of Engineers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will present a Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study for Lake Montauk Harbor next Tuesday at 1 PM at the Montauk Firehouse. The study was commissioned to investigate potential coastal storm risk management solutions for Lake Montauk, as well as future plans for dredging.

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Plum Island: What’s Next?

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For a tiny spit of land, Plum Island has certainly garnered its share of notoriety.

Situated east of Orient Point, the 840-acre island is technically in Southold Town but owned by the U.S. government.

The island has been used as a government-run research facility since 1954. Originally, its stated purpose was to study animal

diseases. During the Cold War, however, it’s an open secret that research shifted to biological warfare for a time. After the World Trade Center bombings, the focus once again turned to biological weapons.

The government purchased the island -- it was apparently privately owned -- during the SpanishAmerican War and Fort Terry was built on the site. The fort was

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According to a Dept. of Agriculture memo, the disease has a “highly contagious nature and the heavy economic losses resulting from outbreaks make it a major threat.

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virus may remain infectious for long periods in animal carcasses, byproducts, straw and bedding, and even pastures.”

R e s e a r c h a b o u t Fo o t a n d Mouth has continued, sometimes intermittently, on Plum Island ever since.

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National Bio and Agro-Defense Fa c i l i t y i s b e i n g b u i l t . T h e government wants to auction Plum Island off to the highest bidder once the move to Kansas is complete.

Congressman Lee Zeldin introduced HR 1887 in the U.S. House last year. The bill “would protect Plum Island and prevent a sale by the federal government to the highest bidder,” a spokeswoman for Zeldin said. The bill now has 22 co-sponsors. “The Congressman has been working closely with the Save Plum Island Coalition, which is made up of over 65 groups all in support of this bill,” she added.

Two other groups, Audubon and the New York League of Conservation Voters, are supportive of Congressman Zeldin’s bill and are working to gather support.

Local Control Zeldin said he “believes strongly in local control and that Plum Island offers Long Island a unique research and environmental resource that should be preserved for generations to come.”

Last year a public hearing was held in Brookhaven. Local politicians and conservation groups all agreed the sale of the island to the highest bidder must be monitored and development severely restricted or curtailed altogether.

The Town of Southold has been particularly proactive in deciding the island’s fate. “We created two zones. A research district and a much larger conservation zone,” said Supervisor Scott Russell. “We are positive they can withstand any court challenge.”

Ed Romaine, a former Suffolk County legislator is one of many local politicians and former politicians who want Plum Island to be preserved.

Romaine cautioned that the island must be fully decontaminated after decades of research, and therein lies the problem: though

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proposals range from building a golf course to putting a college campus on Plum Island, no one is quite sure if it is inhabitable.

Russell said with the new zoning in place those uses would not be allowed. He said a private company might want to purchase the island to build a “biotech facility” or a similar enterprise, since the infrastructure is already in place.

Russell also said some “renewable energy sources” could be sited there.

There are currently about 300 employees working on the island, and about two-thirds come from the Long Island side. Those jobs will be lost when the facility is moved unless a similar enterprise is sited there.

“It seems there has been some scaling back already,” Russell commented, “but it’s still in business.”

Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski, State Senator Kenneth LaValle, and Robert DeLuca, President of Group for the East End were among the speakers at the hearing, and all voiced the same sentiment: preserve the island, possibly as a bird sanctuary. But Assemblyman Steve Englebright voiced a cautionary note that was on the minds of a lot of people who attended the hearing: “This is the number one biological hotspot for the entire state of New York,” he said.

Chris Cryder, coordinator for Save the Sound, said 80 percent of the island has been allowed to return to its natural state, thus becoming a “de facto wildlife refuge.” His group is also calling for the island’s preservation, with an added twist: that the Plum Island Lighthouse be reinstalled.

Serious Contamination Michael C. Carroll, the author of Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory, cautioned against any kind of development on the island, at least in its current state.

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“It’s a perplexing situation, and despite good intentions, any human use, whether active or passive, is going to be very problematic.

There’s serious contamination on Plum Island,” Carroll said.

In fact, deer or other animals that find their way to the island are routinely shot and killed rather than risk having them escape and return to the mainland.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and General Services Administration (GSA) in September, 2012, calling for both agencies to submit to a consent order requiring them to present a comprehensive environmental cleanup plan for Plum Island and giving the state final review of the island’s conditions before it is put up for sale. No agreement has been forthcoming, however.

Then there is fishing. The convergence of the Long Island

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Sound and the open Atlantic swirl through the Plum Gut churn with marine life, with multitudes of baitfish drawing larger predators.

Russell said some kind of fishingrelated industry could conceivably be sited in the island’s research district but not in the conservation zone.

“It’s one of the largest fish concentrations in the entire midAtlantic area,” Cryder told the Hartford Courant in August.

Under no circumstances would Southold Town become a prospective buyer, Russell vowed.

“For one thing, we don’t have the money, and we have enough responsibilities without that one.”

He said given the myriad of uses over the years, any potential buyer would have to do a full throttle environmental analysis.

Donald Trump, of all people, voiced an interest in purchasing Plum Island in 2013. He wants to build a golf course on it.

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Plum Island on the coast of Southold is a certified U.S. Animal Disease Center and is charged with protecting America’s livestock from animal diseases; but nefarious conspiracy theories consistently dominate any conversation about the island.

Because of the heavy security in place and the reluctance of officials to openly discuss specific projects and research underway, the public has always been skeptical about the claim that animal research is the only thing happening on Plum Island.

In 1954 a new building was erected to house the Army’s anti-animal biowarfare program. President Nixon supposedly canceled the program in 1969.

At the time scientists assured that all animals on the island are detained -- killed -- to prevent the possible spread of diseases. But conspiracy theorists argue that birds regularly fly between the island and the mainland and thus are able to spread certain diseases and viruses.

According to “Lyme Disease On Plum Island” by Smaranda Dumitru,

a lawyer representing Lyme Disease victims, April Ferguson, reported that the, “Centers for Disease Control were closing a Texas A & M University biodefense lab due to outbreaks of Brucella and Coxiella burnetii. Brucella and Coxiella burnetii are both tick-borne bacterial pathogens.”

“This led Ferguson to wonder about Plum Island. Both the lab at Plum Island and the one at Texas A&M are Biosafety Level 3 labs and study similar infectious diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, and Rift Valley Fever,” Dumitru reported.

A couple of years later, Michael C. Carroll’s book, Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory was published in 2004, and the Lyme conspiracy gained a full head of steam.

“Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet,” Carroll wrote.

It’s his contention that the island has always conducted biological warfare tests, ever since the Cold War, thinking it an alternative to

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nuclear weapons. It is said Nazi scientists were brought to Plum Island to help develop biological weapons, much the same way scientists from Germany helped develop our nuclear weapons and space program after World War II. At one time or another it has been alleged – sometimes by reliable sources, that Ebola, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley Fever virus, anthrax, plague, Entebbe, Zagazig 501, typhoid, diphtheria, E. coli, AIDS, polio, Japanese encephalitis, swine flu, mad cow disease, virulent influenza, Coxsackie B-5 virus, louping ill, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Newcastle disease, vesicular stomatitis virus, contagious ecthyma, and Nairobi sheep disease have all been present on Plum Island.

Carroll presents what appears to be compelling evidence that West Nile Virus, as well as Lyme disease, spread from the facility.

Two local fisherman, working the Plum Gut for Striped Bass, told this reporter that about 30 years ago their boat began taking on water and they made landing on

Plum Island. At least a half-dozen armed guards brandishing guns immediately ran toward them and ordered them to leave the island. The fisherman complained that their boat was sinking. Nevertheless, they were ordered at gunpoint to depart at once and not mention the matter to anyone.

They ended up getting towed to Montauk Point by another fishing boat. They complained to authorities, including the Coast Guard, and nothing was done.

The two men became alarmed and stopped relating the story, and asked their names not be used here.

There are theories linking Plum Island to HIV/AIDS though most have been thoroughly debunked by scientists. One advanced by Dr. Patricia Doyle suggests Swine Fever Virus and HHV6 could be viruses manipulated to cause both Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HIV/AIDS. She claimed a Plum Island entomologist admitted that he and his team infected ticks with African Swine Fever Virus and exposed laboratory pigs to the infected ticks.

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“The research team of Dr. Jane Teas, a Harvard researcher and Dr. John Beldekas, a Boston University scientist, and their team found African Swine Fever Virus in patients with AIDS,” Dr. Doyle wrote.

In fact the two scientists did write a letter to the The Lancet, the British medical journal, suggesting that the swine disease could be related to the spread of AIDS. However according to the NY Times, in 1986, “Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said that a series of blood tests conducted indicated that a deadly disease in swine was not related to the spread of AIDS in humans.”

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Thursday, Southampton Town Police charged Chace A. Quinn o f S o u t h a m p t o n V i l l a g e , 17, Southampton with two felonies in connection with the shooting.

Three people suffered non-lifethreatening injuries in the shooting, although one remained in the intensive care unit for five days, police said.

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Riverhead Armed Robbery Yet another armed robbery occurred in Riverhead on March 9. An employee at the Mobil gas station on Route 58 told police a man brandishing a gun came into the mini-mart on site shortly after 2 AM and demanded cash.

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Life Saver A Southampton Town Police Officer used his CPR training to save a man’s life Sunday. Officer Robert Brown, a 26-year veteran, received a call at 9:13 AM from a residence in Quiogue – a 42-year-old male was unresponsive.

Officer Brown, along with Westhampton Beach Officer Mark Yakaboski arrived at the scene and began administering CPR. Meanwhile, a Quogue Village Police Officer, Daniel Bennett, attached an AED to the victim, who began breathing.

A Westhampton ambulance transported the victim to Peconic Bay Medical Center and the victim is expected to make a full recovery.

Big Bird Police received a report on March 7 that a residence on Outlook Avenue in East Hampton Village had two broken windows: the front door and the dining room window.

Village Police investigated and determined a “large bird” not to be confused with Big Bird caused the damage. Further investigation revealed the intruder to be “possibly a goose or a turkey.”

Hampton Bays Gassed A gas leak in Hampton Bays necessitated an evacuation in the shopping district Thursday around 1 PM. Southampton Town Police ordered people within 500 square feet to vacate the area on Main Street at the Ponguogue Road intersection. Vehicular traffic was also re-routed away from the scene.

It was determined a road crew had inadvertently struck a gas line and it was repaired.

Narcan To The Rescue Southampton Town Police came to the recue of a man they say overdosed on March 6. Officers responded to a call in Westhampton at about 5:30 AM and found a male, 21, who had stopped breathing.

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RICK’S SPACE Where Does The Time Go? Spring Ahead.

I dread those words. They are merely a catchy euphemism for Daylight Savings Time, which in itself is a sneaky way of saying you lose one hour of precious sleep time.

It’s not just any hour, either, it’s Prime Time, Saturday night, when you can luxuriate in bed Sunday morning without worrying about being late for work.

Let’s say you stay up a little later on Saturday, maybe to play a game of chess or read a good book, or maybe you’re on the tail end of a alcohol-fueled bender at 4 AM in your local gin mill.

You at least know that you can stay in bed a little later to sleep off the aftereffects.

Not last week.

“Rick you have to get up! It’s almost nine o’clock!”

“It can’t be! It can’t be!

Nooooooooo!!!”

I was right, of course. My watch said 7:55.

“No! It’s almost nine!”

This is the problem with the world today. Our televisions and cable boxes and computers all

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How do they know?

How can the cable box be smarter than I am?

Speaking of which, does anyone else remember the old days of television? When you turned your TV on, the channel you were watching last would come on, which makes perfect sense.

Not anymore. In Cablevision’s world, the TV is always on Channel 12 when you turn it on.

This is an insidious way of grabbing ratings, of course, because many of us turn the TV on out of habit and leave it on without paying attention.

It wouldn’t bother me so much except for the fact Channel 12 repeats the news over and over again, in a loop, and after about five hours you feel cheap and soiled that Doug Geed has controlled the better part of your day and you’ve learned absolutely nothing about the world.

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So Monday morning I dragged myself out of bed, still tired from the morning before. You shake it off and move on.

Not Karen, though. Karen insists that the lost hour of sleep affects her for weeks.

“I’m really tired today because of Spring Ahead,” she’ll say.

“Hon, it’s August 14th.”

“I’m still tired.”

“Maybe you’re still tired from Daylight Savings in 2009?”

“Hmmm . . . good point.”

I decided long ago to leave my clocks just the way they are. That way they are guaranteed to be right six months out of every year.

Part of the reason was I can never change the clock in my vehicles. The more sophisticated the radio, the harder it is to adjust it. I have a Buick Enclave with a navigation system, voice recognition, 12-speaker Alpine stereo, and so on. All of these devices are integrated.

The other day I decided to change the time. The first thing that happened is the directions turned into Spanish, and then Chinese. I kid you not. Amazingly, I can’t read Chinese, and the only Spanish word I know is “hola.”

After pressing numerous buttons and loudly cursing profusely, I realized I could just ask the damn thing to set the clock right.

“Please set the correct time,” I asked after being prompted.

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“F-you. Do it yourself,” it replied.

Now it’s on military time.

“What time is it?” Karen will ask.

“It’s 17 o’clock.”

“What’s the real time?”

“Ask the radio.”

Remember the old days, when we awoke to the sound of roosters crowing and went to bed when the sun went down? I don’t either. But old timers do. What I always ask old gramps is, “How did the rooster know?” Who told him to start an hour later, my car radio? The cable box? Satan?

DST, as we insiders refer to it, was started in New Zealand, of all places. The stated reason was that farmers got an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day to work their crops.

Did anyone explain to those wacky New Zealanders (known as zealots) that simultaneously the farmer got one hour less in the morning?

Quick quiz: New Zealand is a) north b) south c) east d) west of Australia? You have no idea, do you?

In fact, according to Wikipedia 11 percent of us think New Zealand and Australia are the same place, me among them.

The bottom line is someone stole an hour of sleep from me Sunday, and I want it back. If you have any information please contact me here at the paper or just tell my cable box or car radio.

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EDITORIAL About Time To Bag The Bags Naysayers thought the banning of single use plastic bags in East Hampton and Southampton Towns would mean a big hassle for shoppers. Bringing our own bags to the grocery store would be a pain and a hard habit to develop. So not so.

Now, Suffolk legislators are considering a countywide ban of single-use bags.

Go for it, we say.

The folks at the North Fork Environmental Council support the ban and sent an email blast urging people to contact their elected officials in support of IR 1207, the law banishing bags. They provided contact info. That’s one great idea we’re happy to copy.

Write letters to: Jason A. Richberg Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature W.H. Rogers Legislative Building 725 Veterans Memorial Highway Smithtown, NY 11787 Email Jason.Richberg@suffolkcountyny.gov It wouldn’t hurt to contact your local legislators, either. That’s Bridget Fleming on the South Fork and Al Krupski on the North.

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Chuck Columbus?

There’s a controversy brewing in Southampton over the school district’s decision to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Day. As we went to press last night, members of the Shinnecock Nation Youth Council were reportedly set to officially petition the school board to make the change. Last year, after studying Columbus and hosting a mock trial that found him guilty of murdering thousands of indigenous people, students broached the notion of the name change.

Like several states and cities, we support the idea of celebrating our indigenous people.

Trouble is, over the years, Columbus Day celebrations have morphed from honoring Columbus to more encompassing celebrations of Italian culture. It’s a day when the rich heritage and contributions of Italians are highlighted, and we don’t want to lose that.

Leaders need to find a way consider both cultures.

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Anti-Indigenous Day

Dear Editor, Columbus Day has been a school holiday in Southampton for as long as I can remember. When I student taught here in the sixties, when I taught here in the

seventies, when all three of my children attended this district K-12 in the seventies, eighties and nineties, and when my grandchildren attended in this millennium.

Instead of celebrating the many cultures in our own school district by embracing different cultures, you are affectively throwing one away! Who are you to do that?

This is divisive. By doing this you are pitting one segment of our community against another. Instead of bringing the

By Ed Gifford community together, you are dividing it.

This is not an either/or situation. Our school district’s logo says that the school district is “anchoring the community.”

However, as I see it, and others see it, the BOE is doing the very opposite - by proposing this calendar change, replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Day, you are pulling up the anchor and sending our

Is it just me?

Shih tzu.

Pro-Indigenous Day Dear Editor, (And Joan DiPaola Tutt) As a resident Continued on Page 12. © Karen Fredericks

Here’s a picture of my new dog.

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community adrift in different directions.

One culture does not, and should not, have priority over another.

JOAN DIPAOLA TUTT

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of the Town of Southampton I applaud the effort of the Shinnecock National Cultural Center to change October 10th from a day that celebrates the father of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a man, who by the way, had never set foot on North America, to a day that celebrates the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

This national holiday (which is only recognized by 16 states according to the Pew Research Center) perpetuates a false story. Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas as there were already many civilizations thriving here, nor was he the first European to set foot on the Americas - Leif Erickson landed on what is now Canada about 500 years before Columbus did.

To celebrate this day is to celebrate a man who mistakenly landed on islands in the Caribbean and exploited the people and land that he found. Ms. DiPaola Tutt, replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is not replacing the day (that admittedly does have its roots in celebrating Italian Americans) with another culture; this would be replacing that day with a day that celebrates the native cultures.

If not celebrating this marauder is a “slap in the face,” then I don’t even know what to call the celebration of him for the Native American people. As the granddaughter of Native Mexicans I have seen how the colonization of the past has continued negative effects on the present.

While there are hardly any national days to celebrate Native Americans (sticking feathers on a headband for Thanksgiving does not count) there are many reminders of the harsh history and continued faced hardships that started, as Columbus Day would have us think, when Columbus arrived. It’s 2016 and we are still trying to convince the Washington Redskins that a racial slur/caricature is a terrible mascot.

With all due respect ma’am’, no one is trying to eliminate the contributions made to American history and culture by ItalianAmericans. Not only do Italian Americans

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How do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Laurence Zimmerman Every year it’s different. But I work in New York City so I have gone to see the parade a few times and that’s really fun.

Bruce and Carol Ueland We’re usually on a plane coming back from Ireland where our daughter lives. St. Patrick’s Day is a great day to travel because everyone is so busy celebrating and no one is flying that day. But we keep a good eye on the pilot to make sure he hasn’t been celebrating too much!

Chase Rao I go to the Montauk Parade. I go with all my friends. It’s a lot of fun. We take the train from Southampton out to Montauk. All the fire trucks in the parade are great and they have the Coneheads and dancers. It’s a great way to spend the day.

Sophia Karamolegous I go out with friends and we hang out, sometime we watch movies. But sometimes we go to the parade in Montauk. I love all the floats and seeing everyone dressed up.

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get credit for my favorite food group, pizza, the Italian American community’s hardship upon mass arrival through Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century is a guaranteed lesson in American History classes, as opposed to the Indian Removal Act that is a topic taught in the context of “unfortunate but necessary contributions” Andrew Jackson made to the country during his time as President. Jackson, by the way, is on one of the most commonly used bills while Sacajawea is on a coin that many establishments will not accept.

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well-accomplished Italian Americans that it makes no sense to me why the community would choose to celebrate a man who never set foot on North American soil to celebrate Italian-Americans. Among the many to celebrate are artist, leaders, and inventors like Frank Sinatra, Rudolph Giuliani, and Frank Zamboni.

Your family is truly the beautiful embodiment of the American dream, and while I do not speak for the Shinnecock National Cultural Center, I do not believe this effort is at all an effort to disrespect Italian Americans. I believe the beauty of this country comes from our diversity and I think it is time that we take a day that is harmful to the way Native Peoples are viewed and use it as a day to celebrate the original Peoples of the Americas. By the time this comes to print the District will have made their decision, and I hope the district makes the decision that promotes awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the Indigenous Peoples.

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A Dream Wedding Brecknock Hall at Peconic Landing is looking to provide one lucky service couple with the wedding of their dreams at no cost to them.

Known as the Annual Veteran’s Day Wedding Giveback, the contest began in 2011 as an opportunity to thank military personnel and recognize them for their service to the country. Sponsored by Peconic Landing, the giveaway is made possible through sponsorship and contributions from local businesses and organizations who donate the time, talents and services needed to help make the dream day a reality.

The contest is open to current and veteran service members. At least one partner must have served or be serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. The application deadline is Friday, April 29.

The winning couple will be chosen by a panel of Peconic Landing’s veteran residents who judge the contest based on the number of years served, special military honors, contributions to the community and each couple’s personal love story. Couples must be available for an interview in person, or via Skype. Couples who have entered in the past are welcome to re-enter for a chance to win their dream day.

“For all of the sacrifices our local service men and women make, we are proud to provide a deserving couple with this special day,” said Robert J. Syron, President and CEO of Peconic Landing. “This effort would not be possible without the support of our local business partners.”

An estimated $60,000 worth of services and in-kind donations are contributed each year. Applicants can visit www.brecknockhall.com for additional information.

A Half-Ton Collected The Riverhead Community Coalition for Safe and Drug-Free Youth announced last week that over 1,000 pounds of prescription and over-the-counter medication have been safely disposed of through Riverhead’s medication drop box.

In August 2014, the permanent medication drop box was installed in the lobby of the Riverhead Police

Department at 210 Howell Avenue so that residents could safely and conveniently dispose of unused, unwanted, and expired medication 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The coalition has two upcoming take back events planned: on Saturday, April 30, in the lobby of Peconic Bay Medical Center, and on Saturday, May 14, in conjunction with the Town’s S.T.O.P. Day (Stop Throwing Out Pollutants) at the Highway Department. Both events will run from 10 AM to 2 PM and will include giveaways for the participants.

Calling Artists East End Arts announced an open call for performing artists to participate in their 20th Anniversary Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival on Sunday, May 29, 2016, from 12 PM to 5PM in downtown Riverhead.

East End Arts is looking for acts to be featured on the stage of the Riverhead Showmobile and on the street for this beloved annual funfor-the-whole-family festival which includes street painting on East

Main Street, a fine arts and crafts market of local artists and artisans, live music and entertainment, children’s activities, drumming, dance, festival food, and more.

Musicians, soloists/bands, singers (all genres ranging from Pop and Rock to Jazz and Gospel) are encouraged to apply, as well as dancers, poets/spoken word artists, theatre troupes and other performing acts. Submissions for street performing acts may also include jugglers, dancers and other performing acts.

Performing artists must be 15 years of age or older to perform on the Showmobile stage and prepared to perform a 10 to 15 minute set.

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To be considered, email East End Arts Events Coordinator Sheree Elder at events@eastendarts.org with a short bio three to five sentences in length, a link to the artist’s website and/or a video of the artist performing. In the subject line, applicants must include if they are applying to perform on the Showmobile stage and/or on the street. All acts are unpaid, with the opportunity to perform for an audience of 5,000 festivalgoers throughout the day.

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Carl Johnson will likely step down after 25 years as head basketball coach in Bridgehampton.

He guided the Killer Bees to four state titles.

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“It took a lot to come back this year,” said Bridgehampton Head Basketball Coach Carl Johnson. “Last year took a lot out of me.”

With that, Johnson told close friends and family, he is going to retire from the job.

said take a step back and think about it for a while but I need to step back.”

Johnson’s legacy is cemented in history. He has won four state championships as a coach, and earned three more as a player. No one else has ever come close to

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duplicating his accomplishments.

Johnson’s run as a player from 1978-80 made him a hot commodity among college recruiters – until a hunting accident damaged his hand.

He attended Utica, though he had offers from many Division I schools.

“I pretty much had my pick of schools but a lot backed away after I hurt my hand.”

Johnson went to Utica for two years, then transferred to Southampton College and played three years there. He was asked to coach the Bridgehampton junior high team, though he had no coaching experience.

It proved a fortuitous turn of events – the young players on his first team went on to become the core of his first three varsity championship teams.

“We lost three games my first year as junior high coach when most of those kids were sixth graders, and then we were undefeated the next year. When they were eighth graders we annihilated everyone — we averaged 95 points per game.”

Still the expectations put on Nick Thomas, Relly Hopson, Nathanial Dent and the others when they came up to the varsity were unrealistic. The community wanted and expected another state title.

Johnson’s team lost in the regional finals on a last second shot in 1995.

Then the Killer Bees reeled off three consecutive New York State Class D championships.

As quick as success came, Johnson realized that especially for a basketball coach, it is fleeting.

For more than a decade the Bees languished as Greenport built up a Class D powerhouse.

“It wasn’t easy. We went through our struggles. It was frustrating,” Johnson remembered. “We were underdogs. We weren’t used to

being underdogs, and I don’t accept being an underdog.”

The 2014-15 team changed all that. Johnson loved his nucleus, Tylik Furman, Mike Jackson, Josh Lamison, and Matt Hostetler among others. “I had Tylik in seventh grade and he kept telling me, ‘When I get on the varsity we’re going to win the state championship.’”

Fate intervened. Charles Manning Jr. transferred to Bridgehampton before the season began. His father had been the MVP of the three championship teams in the late nineties. Adding the youngster to the returning core of players transformed the Bees from a contender to the favorite.

“I just knew it, his first game.

He didn’t have a great game, and someone said ‘He’s overrated.’ They just didn’t get it.” Sure enough, Manning and company won the state title, and Charles Jr. was named MVP, just as his father was two decades earlier.

But fate can be a cruel mistress.

Manning transferred to Lutheran High for his senior year (Lutheran is the top rated team in the state as of this writing, and Manning is the team’s second leading scorer).

Nevertheless, the Bees made a run, losing last week in the regional finals. “I liked these kids a lot, more than most, so it hurt,” Johnson said.

Johnson has not slammed the door shut, at least, not yet. “The cupboard is still full, and I still have the energy, but it’s been 25 years.

That’s a lot of winters. But I’ll be close by . . .”

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Zucker Will Step Down As Well

By Rick Murphy

To say Joe Zucker wears two hats is an understatement.

He is an assistant coach of the Bridgehampton High School varsity basketball team.

He is also a world-renowned artist.

Somehow, he moves easily through both worlds, but it’s taken its toll on him.

“It’s very tiring. It’s a lot of work,” Zucker said about his coaching chores. “This is it for me – I’m definitely not coming back.”

Zucker was hooked on the Bees the first time he saw a game in 1986. Over the years he became more than a spectator, helping get players like Nick Thomas (NYU) and Fred Welch (New England College) into college and raising funds for team functions.

“Somebody suggested I ask Carl [Johnson, the head coach] if he needed any help. That was around 2002 and I’ve been coaching ever since.”

Zucker knows a thing or two about basketball. He was the seventh highest scorer in Chicago as a senior and had offers to play in college. He ended up choosing Miami (Ohio) because of its Art department. He earned a BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago.

His decision to forego college basketball proved to be the right one. His art is held by Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and scores of other prestigious institutions all

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As for coaching, “I enjoyed it,” Zucker said. “I got along with the kids. I kind of played good cop to Carl’s bad cop.”

Johnson will likely step down as well (see accompanying article).

“I think Carl was under a tremendous amount of pressure this season. He worked this team very, very hard.”

Zucker endorsed the idea of Johnson one day coaching the jayvee team or even younger kids.

“Carl would be great with the little kids. He has so much to teach.”

Zucker coached long enough to reach the pinnacle – a state title in 2014-15. “I made up my mind in

the fall that this would be my last season. I really enjoyed it.”

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CMEE The Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton is hosting two sessions of Mad Hatter Egg Hunts on Saturday, both in the morning and in the afternoon.

Kids and families are welcome to help CMEE celebrate the arrival of spring during the annual egg hunts. Sponsored by Dan’s Papers, this year’s celebration promises to be bigger, better and madder than ever. Kids of all ages will design and decorate their own hats and bags after searching for “eco� eggs containing healthy treats and other goodies that have been hidden inside and around the museum.

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Der Trump Dear Editor, It seems that Der Trump has just earned some more nebulous praise from yet another fine feathered fellow follower.

It is none other than our own equally biased, Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Farrakhan in a sermon this month admired the way Trump was standing up to ‘Jewish Community.’

Declaring that Trump, “is the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community, and said I don’t want your money.” This is the Farrakhan who states that Jews were responsible for 9/11 and that God is the one who “put them in the oven.”

This endorsement comes right on the heels of another, also feeling an equal kinship to Trump. It is former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Klansman David Duke.

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notable deviant “Americans.”

Where is Nazi Hitler when you need him, depriving Der Don of the perfect Trump Triumvirate?!!!

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Social Security Dear Editor, I read Richard O’Brien’s letter to the editor regarding Social Security. I believe his underlying assumptions are flawed.

Ponzi schemes are created by criminals who purposefully intend to rip off their “marks.” Social Security was created to keep the elderly out of poverty. If problems have arisen as a result of “bad” economic policies, e.g., zero percent interest rates, those policies should be evaluated.

In today’s economic environment, I believe two ways exist to keep Social Security solvent: expand the base from which the government collects Social Security taxes or raise the salaries of the existing base.

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The Montauk Yacht Club, Tillie’s of Gurney’s Inn, Duryea’s Lobster Dock, Inlet Seafood, John’s Pancake House and Sole East, are just a few of the eateries that are donating soup this year.

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face-painting, grabbing foam shamrocks and shillelaghs to wave on the parade and collecting lucky beads and candy tossed from the floats of hometown businesses and fire trucks. Long Island bagpipe bands march in the parade which starts on Edgemere Street, to South Edison St and enters Main Street at the east end of town.

WBMS Spanning The Globe With pencils and paper in hand, Westhampton Beach Middle School students penned letters to fellow students in Australia, Indonesia and Singapore during a writing workshop with Caitlin Alifirenka, co-author of I Will Always Write Back, last Thursday.

During the workshop, the Independent / Courtesy Westhampton Beach School District students were taught how to personalize a letter by “painting a picture of themselves,” properly address their messages and write out an envelope. They are eager to receive letters back and gain a deeper understanding of cultural differences from their peers around the world.

The students took part in the workshop as part of the school’s annual community read project where they were all challenged to read Alifirenka’s non-fiction tale of how she connected with an African student after partaking in a similar pen pal project.

In addition, the students were inspired to launch a book drive through the African Library Project. They intend to collect 2000 books and raise $1000 for postage through various fundraisers by May 10.

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