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BARACK OBAMA STARING AT THE CEILING AT 3 A.M.

I wish I had a cigarette. I know I told the people of America that I quit but hell, I’ve told them so many things that were not true, how’s a measly cigarette going to make a difference? It’s my health, isn’t it? And, talking about contradictions, I was smoking a pack a day when I gave the country Obama Healthcare. I admit 57 percent of the country didn’t want my kind of healthcare. They liked having their own doctors and their own insurance. That’s why I had a Congress I controlled shove it down their throats. By 2016 we will have the same healthcare as Canada – lousy, but cheap. I owe those Occupy Wall Street idiots a lot. They came up with the

99 percent vs. one percent rap that I’ve adopted. Class warfare? Sure it’s class warfare, but what the hell, I’m fighting for my survival here. Boy, just one cigarette would be so great. Speaking of idiots, those Republicans who are screaming about class warfare are playing right into my hands. If the Republicans had any brains they would change the topic away from 99 percent vs. one percent, to 55 percent vs. 45 percent. That’s where the 55 percent who have jobs and health insurance and pay 100 percent of the taxes compare themselves with my loyal constituents, the 45 percent who don’t have jobs and don’t pay taxes.

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Maybe not a whole cigarette. Maybe just one puff. Sooner or later I’m going to have to come after that 55 percent anyway. The way I see it, if your household earns over $150,000 a year, I want the 45 percent that don’t pay taxes to have their fair share of that tax money. I love the term “fair share.” I pray that no one asks, “fair share to whom?” I don’t want to jinx myself, but I think I have the election sewed up. I must admit that before the Republican debates, my record was so dismal that if they had sewn Rick Perry’s mouth shut he would have beaten me. Now between that quack Gingrich, and that little twerp Ron Paul, and that religious stiff Santorum, I have it made. Even pretty boy Romney could have given me a fight, but his own party worked him over, and if he gets the nomination my boys at MSNBC, CNN, CBS and The New York Times will slime him into the ground. I wonder on the day I start my campaign if I should dust off my great promise when I got the nomination in 2008. I remember what I said: “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” I can’t believe I had the nerve to say that in 2008 and so many people believed me. Boy, no one can spew that crap better than I can. The oceans slowed? The planet healed? What bull. What pure unadulterated bull. But it worked. So now I have to get re-elected. What can I take credit for? Well, it can’t be jobs. There are more people out of work than ever before. I guess I can blame corporate America and a Republican House for that. When I think of my foreign policy, I really need a cigarette. Let’s see. First I punted when Iran had riots. The rioters never heard an encouraging word from me. So I got scared – big deal. Then I threw Mubarak under the bus and it looks like I turned Egypt, a great friend in the Middle East, into a formidable enemy. I led from behind in Libya, and I’m looking to lead from the middle in Syria. But anyway you look at it, Islamist forces are slowly taking over every country in the Middle East. The Arab Spring is turning into the Arab Winter and we’re going to

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be left out in the cold. Iran is stronger than ever and they will have the bomb in a few years. I’ve ended our presence in Iraq and they are blowing themselves up again. I’m going to give Afghanistan to the Taliban and I will blame George W. Bush for going there in the first place. I really wish I had a cigarette. I’m lonely. Where is Michelle when I need her? Is she in Hawaii or Samoa, or is she in Tahiti with 200 of her closest friends on official business? How am I going to explain gas prices going wild? We’re going to have $5 dollar a gallon gas prices in an election year. I’ve stopped pipelines, I’ve halted drilling – I can always blame it on those one percent rich, selfish people who are keeping the 99 percent of us from breathing clean air. I say tax the rich until they, along with our country, turn green. Besides, the rich have those expensive cars. I will propose that the owner of any registered car that gets less than 30 miles per gallon be subjected to a special Gas Tax. So they have to pay their fair share. I really need a cigarette. At this time of night I would settle for smelling a dirty ashtray. I can’t be complacent. I’m going to have to make some changes. It’s going to be tough to tell “Bumbling Joe” Biden that he’s history. He’s such a sweet, loyal little dope. But I can’t take any chances. It’s time for me to run with Hillary Clinton as my Vice President. Which reminds me, before I do that I’ve got to remember to first appoint an official Food Taster. I’ve got to divert any talk about my accomplishments. So the oceans didn’t slow and the world didn’t heal. There are more people jobless than when I started. Our foreign policy is a shambles and most world leaders think I’m an ineffectual boob with a weak spine and a golden tongue. But I’m going to pose and lie and blame others and woo liberals and con Democrats until I’m reelected. I’m going to turn this country into a country George Soros can be proud of. My goal is modest. I just want to show history that I’m a slightly better President than Jimmy Carter. If you wish to comment on “Jerry’s Ink” please send your message to jerry@ dfjp.com or visit indyeastend.com and scroll to the bottom of the column.

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It’s a decision that could affect East Hampton’s environmental and fiscal health for decades to come, and Democratic town board members don’t want to rush it. Neither do community activists who’ve begun a petition drive, nor a former candidate for supervisor who this week vowed to host a public forum as a private citizen if the town board won’t do it. There was movement in varied directions this week in the wake of Supervisor Bill Wilkinson’s expressing a desire to vote immediately to sell the town’s scavenger waste facility. Located next to the town recycling center on Springs Fireplace Road, the scav plant, as it’s called, was originally designed to process sewage pumped from septic tanks, then discharge the liquid into the ground. Faced with operational issues including violations from the State Department of Environmental Conservation and apparently harboring a desire to divest the town of the headache, the current administration closed the plant to processing late last year. It’s been operating as a transfer station since January. The town ran the plant itself until about a decade ago, when the Schneiderman administration voted to hire an outside firm, Severin Trent, to run the facility. Last year, the Wilkinson administration decided to sever the relationship with Severin Trent. Interviewed last fall during his bid for re-election Wilkinson said he wasn’t sure what the future of the facility would be – it could be run as a transfer station, improved to return to processing, or closed altogether. However, he only included enough money to run the plant for three months in his 2012 budget. “There are more questions than answers about this,” Councilwoman Sylvia Overby said in an interview Friday. “We need more

firm that replied to the Request for Proposals. “This is a brand new company,” Overby emphasized. “They have no track record, no deep pockets. They could spill whatever they want and just walk away.” She noted EEPC proposes to offer a liability bond for $500,000, which is half what the private firm that carts waste from CONTINUED ON PAGE 25.

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The Springs School motto is “Family, School and Community . . . Together We Make a Difference!” And the difference people needed to make last Saturday was the one between estimated costs to operate the district and the amount permitted under the new state tax cap. Last Saturday over 100 participants gathered in the school’s commons room with the goal of finding savings through the cutting or downsizing of 25 separate programs or services. Forum attendees were charged with selecting the 10 programs they

most value at the school, as opposed to picking which to cut. A consensus reached on the valued programs would help officials determine what might be excised. “Our community has choices to make and we have to make them together,” school board president Kathee Burke Gonzalez said in her opening remarks. She noted that the number of people who came out to the forum “says volumes” about community commitment. After viewing a video highlighting the school and its programs, participants were separated into eight different groups facilitated by

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social workers and administrators from neighboring districts. They reviewed a sheet of 25 programs and services that could be cut or curtailed and asked to rate them. The cost of each program was included and the goal was to eliminate an estimated $2.9 million from the budget. The groups met for over an hour to discuss the 25 potential eliminations. Upon return seven of the eight groups had completed the task, but none of the groups hit the goal of cutting spending by $2.9 million. District officials plan to tabu-

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You can’t quite say he’s back, because Randy Altschuler never really went away. The Republican lost a tight race for Congress against incumbent Tim Bishop in 2010. He was among the frontrunners for the nomination for Suffolk County Executive in 2011 and in between, has continued to hammer Bishop’s policies and activities. Last week, Suffolk County GOP chair John Jay LaValle announced his endorsement of Altschuler to run against Bishop again. The screening committee interviewed Altschuler and George Demos, who also sought a berth on the ballot two years ago. In 2010, Altschuler, Demos and Chris Cox primaried for the GOP nomination. At the time, LaValle supported Cox, whose father is the state Republican chair and grandfather was President Richard Nixon. “Chairman LaValle had it right two years ago when he said Randy Altschuler’s career as an outsourcing pioneer was a ‘death knell’ for his electoral

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apparently been targeted by the National Republican Committee, which lambastes the congressmen with near daily press releases. Demos is almost as prolific. Recently the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns Program tapped Altschuler as one of 11 nationwide “Contenders,” meaning he’s one of the top Republican candidates in the country and the NY-1 campaign is one of the top races to watch come November. A lifelong resident of the East End, Bishop was first elected to Congress in 2002. He represents New York’s First Congressional District, which spans territory from Smithtown to Montauk. Altschuler lives in St. James. Diana Weir, a former East Hampton town councilwoman and current town planning board member is managing his campaign. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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RICK’S SPACE God Mend Thine Every Flaw Let’s face it. “The National Anthem” isn’t exactly a radio friendly tune. It’s not particularly melodic, it’s hard to sing, it’s hard to memorize, and it’s a bitch to play. In fact, there was some sentiment to change our national anthem to “America The Beautiful,” especially after Ray Charles reinterpreted it in 1972. Charles sang “America the Beautiful” in a slow, rocking tempo, removing and/or reordering some verses. “Then I put a little country church backbeat on it and turned it my way,” he said. Incidentally, Quincy Jones, best known for his work with Michael Jackson, produced the record. Marvin Gaye’s rendition of the National Anthem at the NBA all-star game in 1983 wasn’t received as warmly – by a long shot. Gaye played a gentle pop/disco beat behind his vocals, stretched it out, and had the fans going crazy. The backlash, especially from white America, was predictable. As was the case when Jose Feliciano tried to reinterpret the song in 1968, the powers-that-be quickly learned

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try would not lay down, would not back down, and would heed the call when our allies sounded the horn. Hendrix was dead by the end of 1970. The story was his excessive use of drugs did him in, as was the case with Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. I’ve never believed that three young icons, revolutionaries with the power to sway public opinion, could all die accidentally in such a short time, particularly when important figures were dropping all around us (the Kennedys, George Wallace, Marilyn Monroe to name a few). Gaye’s father shot him in 1984 during a family dispute. Like Joplin, and Hendrix, and Morrison, Jackson, and probably Monroe, Gaye was a druggie. There is little doubt what caused Houston’s demise, but on that day, January 27, 1991, a radiant young woman electrified a nation. By the way, a couple weeks later, after a controversy over whether her performance was lip-synched or not (it was), Houston took the stage on national TV with the Florida Orchestra and nailed the song again. It was probably all downhill from there. Whitney elevated “The Star Spangled Banner” to another level. It’s too bad she’ll probably be remembered more for her lifestyle. Plague, epidemics, and wars – every century has its killers. Drugs are the scourge of this past century, and not just the stuff you buy on the street. The ones the pharmacist and doctors dole out will also kill you.

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EDITORIAL Money Wisely Spent East Hampton Town was in a precarious financial situation just a few years ago. Credit Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and his town board majority with righting the ship and returning the town to fiscal solvency. It’s important for Wilkinson and company to understand, though, that it’s not always about money. Folks in East Hampton have always been willing to pay extra for the finer things like conserving important land from development, and funding our ever-more expensive school districts. For example, we disagreed with the board’s decision to suspend leaf pickup, and we hope it is reinstated next season. People don’t mind paying for the service. What’s on the table now is much more critical, and the board faces a decision that will impact this community forever. We go on record today: we think the board is considering making a terrible mistake. The town’s scavenger waste plant on Fireplace Road is in bad shape. It’s outmoded, outdated, the subject of numerous DEC fines, and has been running without a fixed operator since January. The board didn’t include funding the operation in its budget beyond March, and there is a certain haste to unload it. This rush job, however, is self-created, and gives Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and Councilwoman Theresa Quigley a perfect excuse to unload the facility without proper vetting, without public input, and most important, without an environmental study that will tell us how damaging the plant will become if it is not run properly. There has been one bidder, East End Processing Corporation,

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Moving Backwards Dear Rick, Just when you think you’ve seen them at their lowest the White Wing Conservatives drop the bar even further. Yes, the White Wing is in fact a faction the Right Wing. As much as they attempt to appear otherwise their true “Values” were shown at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2012 in Washington DC. On the CPAC program, “The failure of

and Wilkinson and Quigley have jumped in bed with the company faster than a sailor in a brothel. The facility is in the epicenter of the town; the waste dumped there finds its way into our aquifer. There was some discussion EEPC would seek to decrease the environmental standards now in place. There seemed no impetus to improve the facility to a state-of-the-art processing center that would yield the cleanest possible product. That’s what we need, and that’s what we deserve. Count us in. When it comes to the drinking water, when it comes to the future of this town, no expense should be spared. We are lucky that the huge assessed valuation of East Hampton makes living here relatively pain free when measured against most other municipalities in the state. Now is the time to use that cache and address a critical problem once and for all. Relinquishing control of this facility – and for peanuts, no less – puts our future in the hands of outsiders whose main concern will be generating a profit. It will cost about $20,000 a month to keep the plant operating while the town hopefully studies possible solutions and mulls over upgrades. That’s a small price to pay. And let’s find out a lot more about the folks at Clear Flo Technologies , EEPC’s parent company, before we even consider handing over the keys to the kingdom. We urge the town board to back away from the sale of this facility and instead focus on how to make it the best possible waste treatment facility. Anything less would be a disaster for this community, and one the current town board will be remembered for causing. It’s a mistake we can’t erase.

Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American identity.” It was hosted by Robert Vandervort, ex leader of the White Nationalist group and his fellow White Nationalist, Jared Taylor. Another panelist, head and founder of the White Nationalist group VDARE, Peter Brimilow and author of writings such as, “Jews Are Weakening America’s Historic White Majority” and “A White Nation For White People” among other noble observations, was lauded by Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, America’s version of the English born racist, Brimilow. It begs the question, with Conservatives welcoming such overt racism, how can anyone of conscience especially of color, including the

14 black congressmen running for office, not know that they are looked down upon as inferior beings? It can only be that the wily feel that there is an advantage being a big fish in the Republican Party’s exclusive pond as opposed to an equal fish in the Democratic inclusive pond. It is pitiful that after all the humane progress made in our country through time, there are those attempting to “Take our country back;” yes back to the most shameful periods of our history. NICHOLAS ZIZELIS

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a conservative I believe in a “Limited Government.” A government as local as you can get, “of, by and for the people.” But for too long, the Peconic Bay Region, “The Peconic Five,” has been the low man on the totem pole, especially when it came to having our voices heard. Now that can change. Now with the putting together Peconic Sustainability Institute we, the people of the region may get to have our voices heard loud and clear. So let’s get involved early on. As we all know, “in unity there is strength,” and “you’ve got to be in it to win it!” Call State Senator LaValle and State Assemblyman Thiele, let them hear from you. Speak out! JACK MCGREEVY

A Visit To Detroit Dear Editor, I’ve just returned from a visit with my sister in Michigan. I had been putting it off and making excuses for not going for some time. After all the depressing news about the dismal economic condition and unemployment in the state I selfishly did not want to witness it first hand. Finally I ran out of excuses and acquiesced. I’m glad I did. Unfortunately I was not pleasantly surprised as I naively hoped I would be. Indeed there were all the makings to assure abject misery, yet it was not there or at least to the extent equal to the conditions. After a few days and much conversations, it finally became clear, that the reason that for this, if not completely upbeat, certainly not morbid was hope. Seeing not only the rebirth of their auto industry but General Motors once again regain the position of largest source of motor vehicles in the world gave them hope that conditions can be made to change. Repeatedly I heard accolades for President Obama’s intervention and this despite all the shortsighted who would have had their major industry fall. He is their hero. It was a long overdue but very uplifting visit. The loans made to Chrysler and General Continued on page 12.

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Mr. Amagansett Pageant The Third Annual Mr. Amagansett Pageant will be at the Stephen Talkhouse February 25 at 7 PM to benefit the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund. The evening of laughs and entertainment will include prizes and surprises with a $20 donation fee at the door. “Managansett 2012” will be judged and crowned based on honesty, congeniality, originality, physique and poise. The ability of a contestant to be versatile and “change up” quickly will be duly noted. The entry form suggests contestants to assume and fulfill the duties and responsibilities of “Mr. Amagansett” to the best of his ability as well as cleaning and maintaining the pageant robe, crown and scepter for next year. Abiding by the “Chicken Policy” (a charitable policy where if the contestant fails to appear on stage or have his picture taken, has to donate more money) is in effect. Visit www.donsharkeyfund.org or call 516-458-3978 or 516-4496330 for more information. E.T.

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What were your thoughts when you heard Whitney Houston died Saturday? Joan McLaughlin I felt so sad for her when I heard it. She was a phenomenal singer. It’s tragic. When these actresses and performers are down and out no one’s there to help them. They give so much with their talent but we can’t give them privacy when they’re in trouble. Candace Pritchard I’m so saddened by her death. She’ll really be missed. I love that song, The Body Guard, “I’ll Always Love You.” But everything she did was outstanding. That “Star Spangeled Banner.” There’s no topping her. I’d even put her in the same class with Aretha. Carolyn Preiato What a tragedy. She could hit those notes like no one else! I loved that song, “I’ll Always Love You.” I still get the chills whenever I just think of that song. And the timing is so sad with the Grammy awards. She was so young. It’s terrible. Trish Shear She has such a beautiful voice. But what a tragedy. She died so young and left a child. I love her song from The Body Guard, “I’ll Always Love You.” My husband really loves that song too. It’s so sad to say, but she said it herself, “crack is whack.”

Southampton Animal Shelter Is The Cat’s Meow Southampton Animal Shelter is slated to be on the Animal Planet’s TV show, “Must Love Cats” next month. The shelter will be featured on the March 31 episode, where host John Fulton travels to the Hamptons to meet personal feline chef Bonnie Emmerich. Following a private “tasting” with Emmerich and Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation Outreach Director Cathy Duemler and her cats, the episode includes a scene at the shelter where a dozen lucky cats experience the true meaning of “fine feline dining.” E.T.

Michael Gherardi of East Hampton Troop 298 earned an Eagle Badge after he designed and built a Sensory Garden for the East Hampton Senior Citizen Center on Fireplace Road. The garden faces the main road and it serves as the entrance to the center. A sensory garden is a garden that enables its visitors, regardless of their disabilities, to appreciate it. It utilizes mediums to attract any of the five senses. The actual man-hours for the whole project, including research, planning and execution were over 225 hours. Michael is the son of Anne and Mike Gherardi.

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frequent speeding drivers, were all “We need to bite the bullet and factors DiBiase said make the section of Noyac hazardous. do something about this.” Members of the town council So said Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne Holst at last Friday’s agreed. “Here we have a situation where work session. Highway Superinwe have many accidents, we have a tendent Alex Gregor and McLean Associates consultant Ray DiBiase dramatic need for a change here,” met with the town board to discuss said Councilwoman and Noyac resithe status of reconfiguring a danger- dent Bridget Fleming. Several options were discussed at ous section on Noyac Road, a project that has been ongoing for nearly a Friday’s work session. Installing an island or median decade. In front of an audience of Noyac at the two points where the road residents and concerned citizens, Gregor stressed the need to make the roadway, which includes a strip of retailers, including Cromer’s Market, safer. “Safety is the most important thing here,” Gregor said. The stretch of road is the site of 30 accidents since 2008, with one fatality in 2010. DiBiase, who has been working with Gregor on gaining statistical information of the specified roadway, said that there is “a lot going on in a small area.” Head-in parking, uncontrolled access to the stores from the road, a close proximity to Bay Avenue and Elm Street, curves to the east and IndependentNovNORTHAd_18.pdf 1 12/5/11 1:34 PM west and exiting concerns, plus the

curves, was deemed a viable option for slowing down traffic. The islands would be mountable at the ends and nonmountable at the runs. “The feel of the road getting smaller forces people to slow down,” Gregor said. Physically separating the parking lot from the road was a change both Gregor and DiBiase said were necessary for increased safety. This would eliminate cars from backing out directly onto Noyac Road.

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Rearranging the flow of traffic on the neighboring Bay Avenue as well as Elm and Cedar Streets would also be a factor in making the area safer, with delivery and utility trucks loading in specified areas on the west side of the buildings in the Cromer’s mall. Keeping the integrity of the retailers as well as the concern of the liabilities of the town were all responsibilities the town board recognized. “My concern is safety and accommodating everyone’s interest,” said Councilman Jim Malone. Throne-Holst expressed concern CONTINUED ON PAGE 24.

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Plum TV Stiffed Hundreds By Rick Murphy

Court papers obtained by The Independent reveal Plum TV left hundreds of unpaid bills when the beleaguered upscale media company filed for relief for bankruptcy protection. The list of those left in the lurch fills 32 pages. Nielson Research, the Southampton Chamber of Commerce, Twin Forks Moving, LIPA and Fed Ex are among the creditors. The New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Division is also looking to collect $31,515.73 from Plum; even Bagel Bob’s on University Place in Manhattan was stiffed. Plum is seeking bankruptcy

protection, and it is unclear if it will resurface hereabouts and in what form. The company still holds onto Channel 18 locally; Plum has vacated its Bridgehampton office. Plum operated TV stations in a number of upscale markets including Miami Beach, Aspen, Telluride, Vail, Sun Valley, the Hamptons, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. The company also branched out into the glossy magazine business. A move that proved disastrous. Jerry Powers, hired by Plum to head the publishing branch of the company, quit 10 months later. He told The Independent Plum TV lost between $64 and 70 million, and CONTINUED ON PAGE 26.

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Harbor Frost: A Pledge And A Dare Last Thursday night after they overheard Sag Harbor Police Chief Tom Fabiano exclaim, “I would NEVER do that,” when asked if he’d take a dip during Harbor Frost, Declan Murray, Kristine Gaudy and Tina Piette issued a challenge. They would raise $500 for Team Tom if he dared to take the plunge. He agreed to do it and, true to his word, showed up at the Corner Bar at 3 PM on Saturday wearing green crocs and swim shorts, holding a tiny gym bag with a towel in it. As Independent / Kristine Gaudy he was heading towards the beach his wife Nancy asked him where she Chief Tom Fabiano, Tina Piette and Declan should meet him after the plunge Murray warm up before the plunge. with the towel. Apropos to the quick fundraiser, he pointed to the ambulance on the wharf and said “At the oxygen tank.” Less than 48 hours after the pledge and dare, he was handed checks totaling $700 made payable to the Sag Harbor Village Ambulance Squad as he came out of the water. Way to go Chief! K.M.

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Dam! Fish Weir Vandalized By Kitty Merrill

Weird. Somebody filled in a fish weir designed to help nurture the alewive population in Northwest Creek. Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc discovered the vandalism – a makeshift dam rendering the weir inoperable -- on town property last week while walking his dog in the Stoudinger Pond area off Red Springs Path. The weir was constructed, thanks to grant money and a permit from the State Department of Environmental Conservation. Similar to a fish ladder, the weir

helps guide fish from one body of water to another. Van Scoyoc explained the construction of the Stoudinger Pond weir was part of an ongoing effort to restore the alewive population in the creek. Alewives are an “eating fish,” he said. They’re often known as “the lungs of the bays,” because they help to keep algae in check. They are a species that moves from salt water to fresh water to breed. Van Scoyoc can’t imagine why someone would drop a dump truck load of dirt on the weir, creating a dam between the pond and the

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returning Alewives here or not. If so, work should commence ASAP,” he wrote in an email to employees. In response, he received a pert missive from Councilwoman Theresa Quigley, letting him know that she is the liaison to the natural resources department. It’s okay for him to be kept abreast of what goes on in the department, she wrote, but he is not to give staff any direction . . . “because if we are both giving direction then one of us is unnecessary so we are wasting our time and from the staff’s point of view, they are confused as to whose direction they should take.” The interchange could be seen as yet another volley in the burgeoning town board power battle between Republicans Quigley and Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and Democrats Van Scoyoc and Sylvia Overby. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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A blistering email. Clandestine meetings. Dueling committees with hidden agendas. Some critics might argue last week was business as usual at East Hampton Town Hall. On the table is a proposal championed by Councilwoman Theresa Quigley to either “re-write” or “tweak” the town’s Dark Skies legislation. New Councilwoman Sylvia Overby wants to amend the current law. She has accused Quigley of wanting to re-write the legislation, drafted with heavy input from Susan Harder, a Dark Skies advocate who has worked with several municipalities. Quigley has formed a 10-person committee to discuss possible changes; Harder is on the committee. Quigley was livid to learn that Overby also held a meeting to discuss the matter, and, Quigley said, Overby told Planning Dept. Director Marguerite Wolffsohn on to draft legislation to bring to the town board. Quigley was incensed, and Supervisor Bill Wilkinson was as well – so much so he fired off an email to the other town board members. “From a political point of view, the [Overby] meeting . . . rings of Licensed Insured

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This group also included participation by Susan Harder who represents Dark Sky and was instrumental in crafting the current legislation,” the Supervisor wrote in his email. “I had a meeting.” Overby countered. “There was nothing secretive. Marguerite called Bill and told him about it. I’m a councilperson; they are very political.” Quigley said Wolffsohn was directed to draft legislation. “That’s putting an employee in a position where-in one person tells her to do one thing and another says do the other thing. We’re being paid. The staff is being paid. It’s duplicitous.”

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Suffolk County Police Homicide and Arson Squad detectives as well as the East Hampton Town Police Department are investigating a fire that left one dead in Wainscott last Friday night. The fire, which started around 6:15 PM, was at the Cozy Cabin Complex on Montauk Highway. The Bridgehampton Fire Department extinguished the blaze, where the victim, cabin resident William Bauer, 78, was discovered and declared dead at the scene. The cause of the fire is still unknown. E.T.

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need to put on our legislative hats to move forward.” According to DiBiase the amount billed for the project equals $90,497. Over $100,000 was the amount authorized by the town, not including potential bond money. Throne-Holst added that the funds from last year were re-appropriated to be included in this year’s budget. Councilman Chris Nuzzi’s plans to defund the road improvements were said to be erroneous. “That’s untrue,” Nuzzi said before the work session. One more meeting was deemed necessary, according to the supervisor, so there can be “a last opportunity for the town board to interact with all of you.” The supervisor also suggested to the audience members, most of them year-round Noyac residents, to take an opportunity to reach out to the town council and Gregor to compile information for the project. Gregor said that completing the project would take about three months, but the improvements don’t seem to be on track for spring construction this year. “It’s not going to be done before Memorial Day of this year,” Gregor said. Emily@indyeastend.com

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the town dumps currently provides. Although EEPC’s proposal is not a formal binding agreement, Overby said, “I’d like to see how any lease would be written. Right now we are the fall guy for everything.” Violations and spills would fall back on town shoulders. “We have to look at every possible ramification,” Van Scoyoc said Friday. He especially wants to include a default clause in any lease agreement. The pair appears to prefer keeping the plant in town ownership and management. So do a number of community members. A petition has popped up at a variety of local shops in the last several days. The town is poised to “outsource” the plant, it states, continuing, “We the undersigned residents of East Hampton Town want the care and oversight of our groundwater to revert back, after ten years, to the purview of our own experienced specially trained personnel.” Wi l k i n s o n h a s r e p e a t e d l y complained that town staff doesn’t have the “core competencies”

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Alternatively East End Processing Corp. would lease the facility for $1000 a month for 30 years, with an option to buy after five years. If the town doesn’t want to sell the plant right away, EEPC would want a monthly $18,575 subsidy to cover the cost of operations for up to two years or until three months after the firm has the plant running as a processing facility.

Van Scoyoc and Overby reported continued discussion of the scav plant was scheduled for yesterday’s work session in Montauk. Once again, the decision to have the discussion was made without adequate time to publicize it. Work sessions held in Montauk are not aired live on television. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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