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Long Island Championships

Lady Settlers, Mariners Grab Gold

By Rick Murphy

The East End has four Long Island hoop champions – the Southampton Lady Mariners in Class B and the Southold Lady Settlers in Class C this week joined Riverhead and Shelter Island in snaring the coveted trophy.

Talk about a couple of nail biters

– fans at Farmingdale State College were treated two of the season’s most thrilling games. The Southampton game was literally decided at the last possible moment, with 0.01 seconds left on the clock. The Southold game went into overtime before the locals prevailed.

Southampton and Cold Spring Harbor (18-3) were locked in an epic battle. The locals forged ahead early, riding the hot hands of Kesi Goree and Paris Hodges. In fact, the locals were on cruise control, coasting to a 22-7 halftime lead and expanded the CONTINUED ON PAGE 33.

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Lady Waves Set Sights On State Title The Riverhead girls team isn’t just on a run – the Blue Waves are on a serious roll. That’s what you call it when a team wins 23 of 24 games.

Friday the locals upended Baldwin to earn the Long Island Class AA title and a trip to the State Final Four tournament.

Previously, Riverhead ate through the Suffolk County tournament field like a Sumo wrestler with a bowl of whipped cream, despite coming in as the number three seed. The Wave smothered Patchogue/Medford, smashed Ward Melville, eliminated Lindenhurst, and then thrashed Hauppauge for the county title. The Wave then knocked off Southampton, the county small schools champ, for the overall county title.

The Riverhead Blue Waves are the L.I. Class AA champions, the first Riverhead girls’ basketball team ever to claim that distinction.

Make no mistake about it – Baldwin gave the Waves everything they could handle and then some. In fact, the Bruins shocked Riverhead by taking the lead in the first half and clinging to it, going into the locker room with a 23-20 lead. The locals were uncharacteristically cold from the field, and even appeared lackluster.

All that changed in the third quarter, when Melodee Riley and her teammates started heating up. Riley in particular was fired up, clearing the boards and thus limiting Baldwin to one shot. She finished with a team high 18 points and 17 rebounds.

The Waves used a balance scoring attack to fend of several comeback attempts by the Bruins. Shanice Allen and Kaila-Riane Nozario both tallied 11 points and Jalyn Brown added nine.

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Southampton Comptroller Position Still Up In The Air

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Melodee Riley, shown scoring above, has been on fire for Riverhead. On the cover: the Long Island Class AA Riverhead Blue Waves.

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six points. Alex Hampton had 20 for the losers.

The team bus arrived home late from Farmingdale State College but Riverhead was hopping, waiting for the victors – it was the first ever Long Island title for Coach David Spinella and his charges. It was only the second loss of the season for Baldwin (19-2).

Next up for the locals is the NYSPHSAA Championship -- the State Final Four -- at Hudson Valley CC, in Troy.

The Wave play the Class AA semifinal against Pennfield (Sec V), at 6:15 PM. A victory propels the locals into the title game Sunday at 8:45 PM against the winner of Friday’s Cicero-No. Syracuse (Sec III)/Ossining (Sec I) game.

It’s back to the drawing board.

Two candidates met with the Southampton Town Board last Friday afternoon to be interviewed for the now vacant comptroller position.

After stalling in choosing a new comptroller earlier last week, board members were still unable to reach a consensus on who will fill the shoes of former comptroller Tamara Wright.

The frontrunners are two New York men: C. Omarr Evans, a senior level fiscal administrator from Binghamton, and John Morris, a “seasoned accountant” with nearly 25 years of finance experience from St. James.

Morris is a graduate of C.W. Post with a Bachelors degree in accounting. Experienced in governmental accounting, reporting and internal control, his most recent gig was as town comptroller for Smithtown, a position he was not reappointed to after some alleged disagreements with a few of the town board mem-

bers over his budget processes.

Morris was accused of being negligent with addressing the town board’s questions about the budget.

In Smithtown, he was responsible for preparing and reviewing a budget of approximately $100 million.

Approving bills and invoices for payment, interacting with financial advisors and bond counsel, plus financing and issuing bonds were other aspects of his former position.

Morris said that he did not draft bonds in Smithtown, something that Southampton town board members are used to having their comptroller do.

“Typically the comptroller would generate bond resolutions,” said Councilwoman Bridget Fleming.

Morris also serves as CEO at his private consulting company in Setauket, something he’s done since 1992. Although not a Certified Public Accountant, Morris and his agency are responsible for accounting and tax services for a wide variety of commercial and individual clients.

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STEVE JOBS FOR PRESIDENT I now own an iPhone and it is the most amazing instrument ever put on this earth. It does everything. It even has Siri, a tiny little woman who lives in the phone and answers any question I ask her.

Steve Jobs was a genius.

I must say Steve is lucky he died when he did because if he were still alive today, and by some wild chance Rick Santorum got himself elected president, Santorum would take one look at the magical instrument called the iPhone and have its creator, Steve Jobs, burned at the stake as a witch.

Sadly, because of a physical problem, I must give up my new iPhone.

I have these fat chubby overweight fingers. My fingers cannot type a simple email on the iPhone’s itty bitty, teeny tiny keyboard. My

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The iPhone also has a feature called Predictive Typing where, when you are writing an email, before you spell out an entire word the iPhone anticipates what you are about to type and spells it out.

This is eerie. This is the work of the devil.

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Recently a friend sent me an email and asked me how I was doing. I answered “I’m good,” but as soon as I painfully tapped the first two letters, “g-o,” for “good,” the Predictive Typing message thought I was saying “God,” so my friend got a message that read “I am God.” She wasn’t surprised because she knows me and she knows that I think that I am God. But telling a stranger you’re God could present some problems.

Here’s the good news. When I take my iPhone back to the Apple Store, they will take one look at my chubby hands and give me my money back.

The Apple store is the greatest retail store in the history of retail stores.

I will never forget the first time I walked into the Apple store on Fifth Avenue. It was packed with people from all over the world. I walked in and worked my way through the crowd, which was speaking Chinese, Greek, Swahili, when suddenly a clean-cut young man walked up to me and said, “Can I help you?”

Being a typical New Yorker I took one step back and quickly put my hand over the wallet in my back pocket.

“Oh,” I thought, “I know how this works. He’s part of a three-man pickpocket team. He disarms me by saying something you never hear in a retail store, a sincere-sounding, ‘Can I help you?’ He pretends he wants to help me while his partner bumps against me and lifts my wallet and quickly hands it off to another accomplice and in a few seconds my wallet is out the door.”

“H-h-h-h-help me?” I managed to stammer.

“Sure,” he said.

Totally disarmed, I handed him an iPad with a shattered screen and proceeded to speak the guilty gibberish everyone speaks when they try to return an item.

“I have had it maybe a year or two . . . don’t know what’s wrong . . . never dropped it (a lie) . . . it never got wet (a bigger lie) . . .”

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thetically as though he had never heard this rap before. Then he said, “May I have your American Express card and driver’s license, please.”

“Oh,” I thought, “it’s the old credit card bunko trick. He will pretend to go away, race out the door and buy himself a new Aston Martin on my credit card before I can call an American Express representative based somewhere in India and have my credit card canceled.”

In a minute the young man was back. “You’re still on warranty. Enjoy your iPad.” Then he handed me a new iPad, smiled and went on to help the next confused stranger.

Which brought me to a new paranoid theory: Maybe it’s a Scientology trick. Maybe they’re sucking me into that religion and the next thing you know I will find myself praying with Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

Paranoia aside, I’ve been back 20 times and I’m always greeted near the door by some clean-cut young person anxious to help.

I’ve walked in to buy a new set of those white Apple earphones that tangle as they come out of the box and for which I’m sure Steve Jobs will burn in purgatory for the next 500 years.

And when I asked where the earphones were, the nice young woman who greeted me with a “May I help you?” didn’t point. She walked me across the store and showed me the different earphones Apple offers.

Steve Jobs has built a great company. The stores are clean, beautifully designed and filled with eager, intelligent, hard-working young people. The products are great.

Apple under Steve Jobs’ vision is run far better and is far more profitable than the United States government.

Which brings me to a political note: If the Republican hardliners manage to screw Mitt Romney out of the nomination, as a Republican I plan to cast a write-in vote for Steve Jobs for president. It’s obvious to me that a dead Steve Jobs will make a far better president than a live Rick Santorum.

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Six local school districts will apply for a grant to study a range of consolidation options, Springs Superintendent Michael Hartnett announced Monday.

Montauk, East Hampton, Springs, Pierson, Southampton and Tuckahoe agreed to jointly apply after a meeting of school board representatives on February 13.

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“We are looking at a lot of options, from the least transformative to the most transformative. Making all six participating districts a single school district entity is “a stretch, unlikely to happen,” he said. Hartnett noted the four districts that chose not to participate “only have about 250 students.”

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“There are pools of money available for a reorganization,” including up to $1 million from the state and a similar amount from the State Department of Education. These monies wouldn’t nearly offset the increase most of the other districts would face should they absorb Springs, which has the highest comparative property taxes on the East End. The grant application is due Tuesday and would yield about $175,000. It’s competitive – “we’re in a pool competing with all levels of government and municipalities,” Hartnett said. However, he sounded cautiously optimistic.

“I’ve been working on it since December, and it’s 90 percent done,” Hartnett said. A local representative from the Governor’s Office has pledged his support, Hartnett added.

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Though it wasn’t revealed whom the applicant is, Sauders said publicly that Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Wild by Nature were among the possible tenants. Saunders, who lives in Sagaponack, reportedly paid $3.9 million for the property.

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At last Wednesday’s East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting the public got its first peek at the proposal. The existing 7,600 squarefoot building will be demolished, and in its place a 17,530 square-foot structure designed by Peter Cook will rise.

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Julie Penny, First Female At The Wheel

By Kitty Merrill

It was a hot summer night. Diana Ross was slated to perform in Central Park . . . and then the sky opened up, canceling the concert and sending soaked passengers onto Julie Penny’s Hamptons bound bus.

“We got onto the Expressway in the blinding, driving rain, and the windshield wipers went. I was in the middle lane, and the front and back tires went.” The bus began to vibrate and Penny, a slender 118 pounds, “Literally had to stand up and struggle to hold onto the wheel. It was really an amazing event, but we got through it.” The jitney host went out into the driving rain to find a phone so people could be herded off the ailing bus and

delivered to their destinations. There weren’t any cell phones or bus radios back in the 1970s, when Julie Penny became the first woman to drive the big rigs for the Hampton Jitney.

“They got another bus, and we were all happy we survived the blowouts. The mood was okay and we got through it together.”

Getting through things together was the philosophy at the new company back then. “My takeaway feeling of the whole experience is that the Jitney back then had a wonderful sense of camaraderie and Esprit de Coeur--we were like a family and Jim Davidson, though histrionic at times was a wonderful employer and decent individual.” The staff was comprised

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At first she was assigned the local route between Southampton and Montauk, operating a van. Trained as a counselor, Penny worked part time at Alternatives and the Sag Harbor School District. She started driving the van during the summer. When the school year began, she recalled, “they still needed people,” so she stayed on, driving the “bubble bus,” and taking a Hamptons to the city run.

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RICK’S SPACE Bumps In The Road For as long as I remember I’ve been infatuated with baseball.

When I was a kid I used to stand in front of the mirror, practicing my swing over and over, every day.

(Now that I think of it, maybe I was infatuated with me.)

I’d pour over the box scores, noting every statistic. We’d wait for Newsday to come – it was delivered in the afternoon in those days.

Newsday would provide our first peek at the West Coast box scores, and we devoured them. To this day I never look at the front page of the newspaper first – I always go to the back, where the sports are.

I’m convinced I could have made the major leagues but when I was about 13 I took my eye off the ball so to speak. Put another way, I started staring at the little bumps girls have on their chests. That was the beginning of my undoing.

Moving through high school I got bigger and so did the bumps. I figured God was trying to tell me something.

Around the same time I began listening to music in earnest. Like most adolescents, I felt songs were written just for me, that the singer was reaching into my soul. Words like “My Baby Does The Hanky Panky” took on new meaning. I studied the meaning of the lyrics: “Oh Donna, oh Donna, oh-oh Donna, oh Donna . . .” Obviously, it was written for me –(Or maybe a girl named Donna — who can really say?)

When I was 18, drug-induced music came to the fore. Bands like the Psychedelic Furs and The Strawberry Alarm Clock wrote deep lyrics that were supposed to make sense but really didn’t. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was “experimenting” with drugs as well – if you call getting fried out of your gourd for 40 years experimenting. Wilson was writing his masterpiece, his answer to the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Album: One song went: “I tried to kick the ball but my tenny flew right off

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I’m red as a beet ‘cause I’m so embarrassed Oh oh dum do dum de dooby do Oh oh dum do dum de dooby do Oh oh dum do dum de dooby do oh yeah Oh badumday oh dum do dum de dooby do Oh badumday oh dum do dum de dooby do Chomp chomp chomp chomp do-do-do do-do-do Bop bop bop bop do-do-do dodo-do.”

His father Murray, who also managed the group, reportedly took one look at the words and said, “Why don’t you write about surfing and cars anymore?”

Brian answered, “It is about surfing and cars.”

All this prompted me to get a guitar when I graduated from college, a Martin D-20 my mother bought for me. It was a beautiful guitar, but I didn’t know how to play it. One chord at a time, though, I learned enough to start writing songs.

My mother, who had some musical training and played the violin in school, would be down in the kitchen while I was upstairs playing.

She’d shout out encouraging tips like “You’re flat!” and “Shut the god damn door!” and stuff like that. My older brother said listening to me sing was “like hearing an animal being tortured to death.”

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Amerika that would strangle our youth, entangle us in an unjust war, and stifle creative behavior – like songwriting.

“Yeah? Well, you’re off key, Piggy.”

Pretty soon I realized I probably wasn’t going to become a famous singer/songwriter. On one hand, I had the repertoire, probably 100 original songs. On the other hand, they all sounded the same because I only knew four chords.

By the way, one of the songs – this was a stroke of genius – was called, “The Pimple Song.” Yeah, that’s right. The critical lines were: “I’ll put it to you very plain and simple I hope your face will turn into a pimple.”

Really. College Graduate.

By now I was too old to be a baseball player so the only thing left was to get married. I knew that wouldn’t work when the wife-to-be talked me into pawning my beloved guitar to get her an engagement ring. Years later I sold the ring and bought an Ovation Concert Master that I also played off key. (Sometimes in my sleep I hear throngs of voices crying out “Pimple Song! Pimple Song!” much like Zeppelin hears “Stairway To Heaven!” chants.)

Baseball season is around the corner. I have a great wife who insists I have a wonderful singing voice. I have an electric guitar and an amp loud enough to shake my house off its foundation. The “Pimple Song” never sounded so good.

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Support Our Scouts Dear Editor, East Hampton Boy Scout Troop 298 does amazing things for our community! In the past two years, the boys have raised over $5000 for The Wounded Warrior Project, and donated 500 hours helping and riding in

Now let’s look at some solutions. There should be programs, funded by the town, to help immigrants assimilate.

Everyone involved needs to step up the inclusion process for the immigrants already here.

We need the government, on state, federal, and local levels, to clarify and simplify the laws governing immigrants, and stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country and get them on the tax rolls.

Meanwhile, we can all do better. We need to embrace our neighbors, work together for a viable solution to our disagreements, and respect everyone else’s opinion. We’re nice people. Let’s show it.

This newspaper has always championed the middle class and property owners that get it from both sides – supporting those who don’t support themselves while watching the wealthy finagle a way out of playing their fair share. We have always called it as we see it when it comes to illegal immigration, and the truth is no other local newspaper has.

But The Independent will not be a party to the racism and ugliness on display hereabouts recently, and we will not look the other way while it happens. It needs to stop – now.

We can’t stick our heads in the sand and ignore the problems we face, though. Our municipalities, police, and courts must be more aggressive – the courts particularly seem to lollygag cases and look for easy compromises rather than take a hard line. But those who violate our zoning codes are a small fraction of the overall immigrant population, just as there are those among the rest of us who run afoul of the law.

“These people” are good people, people who will make great neighbors someday, and they should be treated with the respect they deserve at all times.

Soldier Ride The Hamptons. The boys donate their time to Maureen’s Haven, serving soup and fixing up beds to make sure people in need have a warm, dry place to spend the night. They pack away giant, heavy tents for the Girl Scouts Camp Blue Bay every fall and clean-up roads around our town. Plus, they collect and restore the East Hampton Food Pantry Shelves all year long.

The boys look forward to a week at summer camp upstate, working on merit badges, hiking, swimming, biking and just having fun with their Troop.

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EDITORIAL The Illegal Immigration Debate There is no issue that incites more passion. Bloggers, letter writers, and speakers at community meetings have strong views about the illegal immigration issue, and how to address it. Maybe it’s time to focus on what we all agree on, and work together to end the divisiveness by being more tolerant of opposing views.

People who live where overcrowding is a problem have every right to be unhappy, because the values of their homes plummet and school taxes go up. To call them Nazis – a vile word – is completely out of line.

But to talk about our neighbors derisively, calling them “these people” isn’t what this country is about and isn’t what this town is about.

Fact: The Latino people are hard working, family oriented people who want to make a good life for their families. Bloggers who endlessly rail about immigrants receiving public assistance miss the point; they want work, and they find it. They are not content to live on the dole.

Fact: As a general rule some Latinos don’t drive well. This is an undeniable fact. A review of the ticket and accident logs, and of DWI cases, clearly show a disproportionate amount of Latino surnames. In addition, because of their illegal status many immigrants don’t have car insurance or even a valid drivers license.

Fact: Some illegal immigrants, out of necessity frequent hospital emergency rooms, for medical care and to give birth, and as a result our entire healthcare system is taxed because many simply don’t have insurance or the ability to pay the bill.

This is true; one local hospital estimated 90 percent of the births last year were Latino.

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All this is possible because of the generosity of our community, which supports our Troop’s Annual Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser. This year, the Troop will be serving spaghetti and meatballs, salad, dessert and coffee/tea at the American Legion Hall on Montauk Highway, in Amagansett on Sunday from 3 to 6:30 PM. Please come to support the boys in their only annual fundraiser and help celebrate the best of local scouting.

See you there!

MARY MCPARTLAND

Dear Editor, This is a golden opportunity to determine the best approach to ameliorate the airport noise issue. Let the FAA obligation expire on December 31, 2014. Take control of the airport as the FAA says you can. Implement curfews, hours of operations, numbers of flights, and other non-discriminatory protocols. See how effective a control tower is, though logic should tell you a control tower will only redistribute flight patterns thereby spreading the misery not abating it.

The town can always apply for FAA money but it is extremely rare to have such an opportunity to justly deal with an issue that affects such a large population that extends well beyond East Hampton. I’m asking the East Hampton Town Board to withdraw its application to the FAA for money for a deer fence especially when the airport is self-sufficient and can build the fence on its own. Do the right thing by trying the stated alternative. Nobody gets hurt. What can be better than that?

GENE POLITO

Missing My Indy Dear Mr. Murphy, Normally I pick up the East Hampton Independent while at our home in Amagansett but I spend much of winter in Marina del Rey, CA and therefore rely on my computer. Although I completely disagree with Jerry’s politics, I love his Ink and although I miss your Low Tidings I still look forward to your Rick’s Space, but I can’t seem to pull it up. Is it me or has the Indy stopped publishing it on line?

We will be coming back to New York shortly but in the meanwhile I miss your paper. I would appreciate it if you could throw a light on the subject.

NICHOLAS ZIZELIS Editor’s Note: Go to www.indyeastend.com, click “columns” link on the upper left side of the home page and pull the tab down. It is also on the page right before the editorial, usually Continued on page 14.

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What is you all-time favorite book?

Beth Santillo The Help. It’s like I was living in the book. It was so well written. I related to every one of the characters. And I think that was one of its main strengths. There were so many totally different points of view but you understood all of them.

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The Beat Goes On Dear Rick, Is the air in town hall juiced with laughing gas?

Wilkinson . . . sings, . . . “I shot an arrow into the air and where it landed, I do not know where.” But alas when he found it in the alleyway, outside the motel, in Montauk, Wilkinson, saw $35,000 scribbled on it.

That is the number “I pulled it out of thin air.” He must have learned that trick in Disneyland. You know his $5 million decisions made in 5 seconds! He and R.V.P’s are real estate appraisers, trained by none other than Daffy Duck!

Of course, the recipient of this bonanza, is the promoter of the failed MTK concert?

Imagine that coincidence? Watching this is the rebirth, of “The Gong Show.” Just how stupid is he to think this would pass the smell test.

Well, William, the Conqueror, thee of the 15-vote landslide! Maybe you should ask Quigley, the lawyer, who thinks residents of the Springs, you know those residents that pay her salary and the bills of this town, are like “Nazis” for giving her maps of the single family dwellings.

You know, those houses that have been turned into illegal rooming houses, that violate heath dept. and building dept. septic codes, fire safety and a host of other violations. Yes, even one house has divided blacktop driveways with numbered parking spaces.

So the beat goes on and I have canceled cablevision! Watching some members of this board do the dance of the seven veils hurts my stomach from all the laughter. Thaaaat’s all Folks!

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Linda Ringelstean Catcher In The Rye. The first time I tried to read it my father took it away from me and said I shouldn’t be allowed to read it at that age. A parent from his generation didn’t like the roughness of the book. So I went off to the catacombs of the library and read it there.

Michelle Mangini The Hunger Games. All three books. I was mad when it ended. I was hoping for a fourth book.

At first I was like . . . “ewww,” because of all the blood and violence. But the book is so good you get used to it. I liked Katniss, the main character. She was so brave.

Anne Tschida Gomberg The Sun Also Rises. I hadn’t read it when I was in high school or in college and I realized I wanted to read Hemingway. It was so long ago.

Looking back I think I saw that period in time as really glamorous. After reading the book I wasn’t disappointed.

Our Debt, Our Mess Dear Rick, Suffolk County is, once again, in fiscal distress. This was true in 1992 when I was on the Suffolk Legislature. Then the economy improved, the crisis passed and Suffolk did not take the actions necessary for long-term fiscal stability. The few politicians who truly want balanced budgets are lone voices, often shouted down by a public wanting more, and too many politicians unwilling to say no.

We all want the national economy to improve. I fear, however, that history will repeat itself and just like in Suffolk, our debt and deficit will move to the back burner. Will

we ever address our national fiscal mess?

Based on history, fair reader, it is difficult to be optimistic.

For the record, it should matter to all of us that it is a mess our generation created.

It should concern most of us that we seem willing to pass our debt and deficits on to our children and grandchildren.

BILL JONES

Tax Credit Welfare Dear Rick, The tax system engineered by U.S. political elites is designed to help illegal aliens at the Continued on page 15.

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illegal aliens -- were paid $4.2 BILLION in refundable credits for the 2010 tax year.

That represents a dramatic increase over the $924 million paid out in 2005.

The inspector general for tax administration warned, “Although the law prohibits aliens residing without authorization in the United States from receiving most federal public benefits, an increasing number of these individuals are filing tax returns claiming the Additional Child Tax Credit -- intended for working families. The payment of federal funds through this tax benefit appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the United States without authorization, which contradicts federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”

As many as 72 percent of all tax returns filed by users of ITINs claimed the child tax credit, compared to just 14 percent of returns filed by people with legitimate Social Security numbers.

If this doesn’t rattle your cage, you are out of touch with reality! Just think for a moment, how we can fix a major part of USA deficit problems.

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expense of native-born American taxpayers. As a result, U.S. citizens are paying out BILLIONS in tax benefits to illegal aliens.

Illegal aliens, even though forbidden by law to even be in the U.S., collected more than $4.2 billion in so-called “tax credits” from the U.S. Treasury last year, thereby pocketing cash that rightfully belongs to American taxpayers and contributing to America’s huge federal budget deficit, according to a report from the department’s own Inspector General.

The report said tax filers not authorized to work in the U.S. were collecting cash under the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) provision of federal tax law. The child tax credit, which is worth as much as $1000 for each qualifying child, is paid out to tax filers who end up with a negative amount of taxes due.

By law, illegal aliens are not entitled to federal welfare benefits. But because they do not qualify for legitimate Social Security numbers when filing income tax returns, the IRS allows illegal aliens to apply for what it calls and Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).

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of parades, parties, leprechauns and green With respectful and cordial best wishes. beer. But just as Christmas is about more than PAUL KOKOSKI commercialized fun, so too does St. Patrick’s Day have a deeper meaning.

Rare Indiscretion St. Patrick’s Day began as a religious holiday honoring St. Patrick - a holy bishop Rickster – Editor in Chief, First of all let me say that you got one thing sent to Ireland in 433 A.D. by Pope Celestine right: The price of your paper truly reflects the I to draw its people into the fold of Christ’s value of your editorial content. universal church. Upon his arrival at Ireland’s Just a comment or two on your latest shores St. Patrick encountered many setbacks editorial, “A Can of Worms.” and persecutions by the superstitious Druids You begin with the premise that who had employed magicians to maintain their contraception should be covered by sway over the Irish race. Despite severe trials, Obamacare.

My question to you is when did sex St. Patrick was able to convert all of Ireland become something more than a recreational and conquer paganism. He is thus credited activity?

Why not accommodate ball players for with driving the Celtic “snakes” out of Ireland. their equipment expenses, etc.

Alas, I digress.

St. Patrick is credited with many miracles The Catholic Church owns and operates and is responsible for the building of several many schools, colleges and hospitals.

The Catholic schools, monasteries and churches government will force them to pay for throughout Ireland. He is known for his contraception (which is and has been against powerful expositions of the principles of the Catholic faith. He even employed the ordinary, Catholic tenets that have been in place for little, three-leaved shamrock plant to teach 500 plus years). In keeping with your theme, people about the Blessed Trinity. He was called “This is America -- folks choose their own lifestyles here.” to his heavenly reward on March 17, 461.

If the church doesn’t pay, the individual St. Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle EEH gen.ad Inde4.8125x7 5/7/09 11:48 AM Page 1 can choose to get a job with a company that man, whose total love, devotion and trust in Continued on page 16.

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does offer the toys. Simple Solution: Why not give the Catholic Church an exemption the way the over 1000 other entities are exempt from Obamacare? Don’t forget, This is America.

(Won’t happen -- much more at play here!)

You also glossed over the pass that the liberal media gives to their own Bill Maher (for example) for outrageous comments and on the other hand, the left is totally outraged when a conservative commits a rare indiscretion.

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JACK GRANT Editor’s Note: birth control isn’t about cleats and jockstraps. It’s about not bringing unwanted children onto this overcrowded planet.

A Huge Problem To the Editor, Read Ms. Merrill’s article SCC Continues to Confront. This was an article about members of the Springs Concerned Citizens attending a town board meeting Thursday, March 1.

I also attended that meeting along with about 20 other Springs residents. I found some of the rhetoric incendiary and the

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implications troubling and definitely not part of a reasonable dialogue that the SCC would like to have with its elected board, the East Hampton Police, the Town Ordinance Department, and possibly a town attorney and even a judge.

We think there is a huge problem, as the current town ordinance department is not able to keep up with the ever-expanding hamlet in Springs. Our population still continues to be in a state of explosion.

We are over populated. We are suffering from the results of over population. The school is bursting at the seams and we, the taxpayers, are not able to keep up with its needs. Zoned single-family homes are dormitories, slum landlords create slums, and blight is beginning.

Driveways look like parking lots.

Code enforcement is important, it sets standards, and zoning laws protect neighborhoods. Unfortunately we need more code enforcement officers and zoning laws need to be enforced!

Let’s get one thing clear, we are not “spies” we don’t spy on neighbors, we are not neighborhood extremists, as has been alluded by Ms. Quigley and Mr. Wilkinson. Smear tactics will not work. We are Moms and Dads, and retirees, artists and teachers, second homeowners, deli owners, and truck drivers, fishermen, plumbers and electricians.

We are Springstirs and we love where we live.

But we are watching it change and not change in a good way.

Concerned Springs Citizens just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Town Board, these are your constituents, and we are here for the long term, and we will vote in the next election.

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23 Windmill Lane LLC

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Clifford, R Buenos Dias, LLC Quizhpi Carpentry Co Conlin, M Ridge Forest Realty Clareg Properties

Bourne, H by Exr Lawrence, F by Exr Price, J Dillingham, T & T Kean, J by Ref 187 Main St LLC

355,000 525,000 325,000* 425,000 124,096 2,187,500

152 Tyrone Dr 9 Bearing East Rd 3 Plover Way 4 19th St 5 Renee’s Way 187 Main St

Ryder, K & C

Brassil, D & E

850,000*

24 McKinley Rd

Jones, T & S

Ortega,B&C & Jimenez

395,000

6 Birdie Ct

Wachter, R & G

Fed HomeLoanMortgage

210,000

61 Strawberry Common

Sanders, S Howell, K & W McCabe, T

Thompson, L DeMasi, V & P Schnebel, E

320,000 330,000 250,000

28 North Apollo Dr 27 Maple Wood Ln 98 Linda Ave

Salerno, S & P County of Suffolk KSG Properties LLC

Mackay, D & D Roselle Building Co Mar-Lin Advertures

270,000 4,197,780 840,000

228 Fox Hill Dr,Unit 228B 2366 Sound Ave 1763 Middle Rd

Virkus, J

Baron, M & S

700,000

21 Dinah Rock Rd

M4 Lumber Holdings

820 Lumber Lane LLC

6,050,000

820 Lumber Ln

Johnson, B & J

Baker, M

300,000

48 River Ave

Ausili, P Foster, S

Fischer, R by Ref Bellino, N & G

335,357 365,000

4 Bayberry Ln 161 West Tiana Rd

Bay StreetAssociates Datsyuk&ByrnesDatsyu

Salivar Jr, L by Adm Fed HomeLoanMortgage

200,000 167,770

17 A Canoe Place Rd 8 Allomara Rd

Nicolov,P & Nguyen,N Weeks,J&Mazzeo-Weeks

Burns, R & C Benfield, M

835,000 254,000*

24 Eastview Ct 15 Widgeon Ln

Connor, C Perlowitz,N FamTrust

McGay, J by Admr Kuettner,W&E Trusts

210,000 1,500,000*

75 Oak Ave 61 Cold Spring Point Rd

Basler Jr, C & J Gazza, J

Timber Ridge at WHB DeJesus, E

579,484 421*

21 Scott Dr East Scrub Property

Arango, S & C Walker, M & J

Mollod, M Verlen &Nitti-Verlen

845,000 1,335,000

25 Adam Ln 48 Beach Ln

Baumann, K

Johnson,R &Sheehan,C

530,000

7955 Skunk Ln

Stoner, G & K DiCapua, L

Foster, D Benson, N by Admr

269,000 200,000

1735 Cedarfields Dr 416 South St

Kjome,B & Glaser,L Cara Properties LLC

Erato, V & D Swain, B

748,000 487,830

890 Bailie Beach Rd 4390 Mill Ln &lot 1.003

Cedar Birch, LLC

Greenly, M Marketing

151,000*

1210 Cedar Birch Rd

Hirschhorn &Martinez

Terranova Trust

1,050,000

280 Sound Ave

Tremont, P Belleza, D & J Gatt, V Snow, M

Dobbin, M Taggart, J Trembski, G Rosenfeld, G & N

190,000* 328,000 300,000 550,000

1020 Town Harbor Ln 1145 Nokomis Rd 85 Leeward Dr 160 Rambler Rd

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Adopt A Pet The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons , is hosting a pet adoption expo on Saturday, March 31, 2012.

ARF is teaming up with seven other Long Island not-for-profit and municipal animal shelters, to promote cat and dog adoption on Long Island.

All participating animal welfare organizations will be under one roof at the Riverhead Polish Hall, 214 Marcy Avenue from 12 to 5 PM. “We want to make pet adoption as easy as possible,” say ARF’s Executive Director Sara Davison. One stop shopping for puppies, kittens, adult dogs including great mutts and purebreds and beautiful cats representing the best shelter animals on Long Island will be available Hundreds of cats and dogs will be available for adoption. All animals at the event are spayed/neutered and vaccinated to their age limit and checked by a veterinarian. Free microchipping will be available for all animals that

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are adopted. Each animal will go home with a free collar and leash (dogs) and a cardboard carrier (cats). The expo also includes refreshments, great pet giveaways and cat and dog exhibitions.

Admission is free.

A fun-filled family outing awaits Long Islanders who come to Riverhead on Saturday March 31 for this free event.

Enzo Auction When the owner of 499 Dune Road in Westhampton Beach completely renovated his oceanfront house a few years ago, he assumed the house would sell quickly. After all, the house has lots going for it: almost 70 feet of direct ocean frontage, gorgeous bay and ocean views, a large oceanside gunite pool, a two bedroom guest cottage just steps from the pool and ocean, and a very desirable address on Dune Road.

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Now the owner has turned to the award-winning Enzo Morabito Team at Prudential Douglas Elliman to sell the property through a targeted 21day “reserve” auction with a starting bid of $1.849 million.

Unlike the nature of some real estate auctions that involve short sale or foreclosure properties, the auctions conducted by Enzo Morabito involve highly motivated sellers who are not in any financial distress.

The owner simply agrees to sell the property when his “reserve” price has been met- -- or is close enough to the reserve price that a deal can be effectively negotiated.

Typically, the reserve price is 15 to 25 percent above the starting bid, but can vary depending on the property. In addition, the seller has the right to accept any reasonable offer prior to the auction, extend the timeframe of the auction, or call it off at any time. In this particular case, the owner of 499 Dune is prepared to offer owner financing.

“Our client is truly motivated to sell and wants us to get the job done for him,” explained Enzo Morabito, a 25-year real estate veteran who heads Prudential Douglas Elliman’s #1 Team in the Hamptons and Long Island. “Through our auction arm, we have established a solid track record that proves these reserve auctions really work for both buyers and sellers. I promise you that the buyer who ultimately buys this property will be getting an amazing oceanfront house on Dune Road for a great price.”

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Morabito Team is offering a threebedroom, two-bath beach cottage in Remsenburg (minutes from downtown Westhampton Beach) at a starting bid price of $299,000. Located at 3 Driftwood Lane and only 150 feet from Moriches Bay, the house is brand new to the market and has a current asking price of $499,000.

Both auctions end on March 25.

Panoramic Under A Cloud An Old Westbury financial adviser has been charged in a $74 million fraud that allegedly diverted money from at least two dozen investors to pay for his brother-in-law’s Montauk beach resort project, according to a statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC claims Brian Raymond Callahan, who operated Horizon Global Advisors, used promissory notes for five off-shore funds to hide his misuse of investor money. The notes, the SEC claims, overstated the amount of money diverted to the real estate project aimed at creating cooperative residences at the oceanfront Panoramic View Resort.

Callahan’s brother-in-law, Adam Manson, owns Great Neck-based Distinctive Ventures, which besides Panoramic, also has a stake in Montauk Tower, Ocean Dunes resort in Amagansett and Bay Pointe Yacht Club on Moriches Bay. “We have no comment at this point,” Manson told LIBN. “It’s just a complaint. It doesn’t need to be discussed.”

In 2011, according to the federal complaint filed in Central Islip on Monday, Callahan got $14.5 million in promissory notes in exchange for only $3.3 million he provided to Manson. The inflated promissory notes allowed Callahan to overstate the amount of assets he was managing and inflate management fees by 800 percent or more, the SEC contends.

The agency also alleges that Callahan commingled investor funds, using some investors’ money to make payments to other investors.

Callahan allegedly refused to testify in the SEC’s investigation and recently informed investors about it, according to the SEC’s complaint. He also allegedly misled investors by not disclosing that in 2009, investigators claimed.

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Students, League At Cultural Center To give young women in local high schools the opportunity to explore their leadership potential and a possible career in public service, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons has organized a fourth annual day-long workshop called “Running and Winning,” to be held today beginning at 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane.

Juniors and seniors from six East End schools - Bridgehampton High School, East Hampton High School, Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, the Ross School in East Hampton, Southampton High School and Westhampton Beach High School — have been selected by their schools to participate in the program headed by LWVH education committee co-chairs Mary Blake and Terri Levin Davgin of East Hampton.

“The League of Women Voters hopes that this experience will go a small way to achieving our aim of opening your horizons to the elements involved in a public service career,” wrote the League in a letter to participating students. “While New York State has a woman Senator, and a Town Supervisor on the East End, women are underrepresented in political office. The League believes that one way to reach greater representational parity for women is to develop leadership potential in our young women.”

A broad array of female elected officials from East Hampton and Southampton town and village governments will speak about their experiences seeking and holding public office.

Some of the officials include Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, Southampton Town Board members Bridget Fleming and Christine Scalera, East Hampton Town Board members Sylvia Overby and Theresa Quigley, East Hampton Town Trustees Lynn Mendelman and Stephanie Talmage, Southampton Town Justices Deborah Kooperstein, Andrea Schiavoni and Barbara Wilson, Southampton Town C l e r k S u n d y S c h e r m e y e r, Southampton Village Trustee Bonnie Cannon, Sagaponack Village Deputy Mayor Lee Foster, and Westhampton Beach Village Trustee Patricia DiBenedetto.

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The students attending from Bridgehampton High School are Bryzeida Perez, Jessica Perez and Angelica Uribe; From East Hampton, Amanda Beckwith, Yuli Betancourt, Nicole Daniludis, Tara Delaney, Manuela Dossantos, Melissa Pena, Melanie Silva, Anna Tran.

Pierson is sending Hope Denon, Gabrielle Gardiner, H a n n a h K a m i n s k i , Ky l i e Morrissey, Amber Pagano, Dana Poke, Paula Poke, Hannah Potter and Julia Schiavone; Sylvia Laytin from Ross school is also scheduled to attend.

Natalia Araujo, Gina Curreri, Alexandria Ferraiuolo, Kesi Goree, Claire Hunter, Nicole Mahoney and Natiqua Morton were chosen from Southampton High School, and Gina Arfi, Gabriela Berrios, Michele Cardo, Lenora Davenport, Jessica Mendelson, Olivia Percoco, Claudia Purkis, Marielle Ray, Brett Ryan and Alix Suter from Westhampton Beach.

For further information about the workshop, contact League Education Committee co-chair Mary Blake at 631-9074499.

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Play Bridge A hand very similar to this one was played last Monday afternoon at the East Hampton Duplicate Bridge Club’s weekly game. South bid to a reasonable small slam contract of six hearts.

West’s lead of the jack of spades got the defense off to a good start. South covered with dummy’s queen. In turn, East played the king and declarer won with the ace.

South could see that he was destined to lose a spade and therefore could not afford to also lose a diamond.

After drawing trumps, he had to fall back on a finesse for the diamond queen. When this failed, he went down one trick.

Afterward, South reviewed the hand to see if he could have given himself another chance. His partner suggested that he misplayed on the very first trick. Declarer should have not played the queen of spades on the first trick. He should have guessed that East held the king. After playing low from dummy, he should win the trick with his ace. He still knows he will lose a spade but may be able to create an end play that avoids the loss of a diamond trick.

Next he draws trump in two rounds and plays his three high clubs, discarding the spade seven on his king of clubs. He then plays his six of spades to dummy’s queen, which East then

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Westhampton Beach • 2012

The Westhampton Beach High School presents

Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante Music by Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics by Edward Kleban

Friday, March 23, 2012 7:30 PM Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:30 PM Sunday, March 25, 2012 2:00 PM Westhampton Beach District Auditorium Admission is Free ADVISORY: A Chorus Line contains material intended for mature audiences.

Parents are advised that the subject matter may not be appropriate for children.

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The Westhampton Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade featured a half dozen bagpipe bands, vintage firetrucks, floats and local community organizations last Saturday afternoon.

A Chorus Line is presented through special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. All authorized performance materials are also supplied by Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. 560 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022

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The Southampton Chamber of Commerce hosted a “Pancakes and Pundits” breakfast at Tim Burke’s 230 Elm last Wednesday morning.

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Morris said he felt confident that Southampton’s budget was not much different than Smithtown’s and felt comfortable with his abilities.

“I’ve seen a lot of different things in my career,” Morris said. “I have a diverse background in accounting.

I’ve worked with four CPA firms and was a manager at two.”

Morris, speculated to be the preferred candidate of the RepublicanConservative Party, had his first public interview on Friday. He was last interviewed in an executive session two weeks ago.

“I have a very pleasant working relationship with my employees. I can get the job done,” he said.

Evans, a 2004 graduate of Alabama A&M University holds a Masters degree in urban and regional planning as well as a Bachelors degree in finance. For the past five years, he has served as the Deputy Commissioner of Administration for the Broome County Department of Social Services in Binghamton. Fri-

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day marked his second open session interview.

At his current position, Evans was responsible for coordinating, analyzing and submitting an annual operating budget equaling to $355 million. He is responsible for and supervises a staff of 45 and reports to his superiors on a regular basis, addressing the agency’s fiscal state, as well as detailed updates on security, policies and projects.

Evans is not a CPA either, nor has he had any experience with bonding directly.

“I could be educated on that quickly,” he said. “I am familiar with bond counsel and how to deal with them.”

Evans, who is speculated to be the favorite of Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, assured that he is proficient at familiarizing himself with new work environments, keeping the Southampton residents in mind.

“It’s going to be important to familiarize myself with what is going on because it ultimately is going to affect the taxpayers,” he said.

Evans said that the two words

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that jump to mind when looking over Southampton’s budget for this fiscal year were policy and procedure.

“The number one thing is communication,” he said. “At the end of the day it’s about dollars and managing those dollars. I understand the need to do more with less.”

Fleming urged the need for whoever fills the position to have a close working relationship with the town board.

“We’ve been spoiled,” she said.

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Throne-Holst stressed the urgency with coming to a consensus in choosing a new comptroller.

Wright has been working as commissioner of finance in Brookhaven since March 1 and deputy town comptroller Kathryn Scott will end her current position tomorrow.

“We owe her a great deal of gratitude in getting us to where we are at now,” the supervisor said of Scott. “I think we are all sad to see her go.”

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The Junior Hockey season at Buckskill Winter Club ended Sunday and will start up again in late fall.

It’s Over For Pierson Boys

By Rick Murphy

The gritty and determined Pierson boys basketball team has been able to rise to the occasion all season, as evidenced by its Suffolk County Class C title. But Dan White’s charges ran into a juggernaut on March 6 at SUNY Farmingdale.

The Whalers played without their injured point guard Ian Barret, a smooth distributor with a good handle. It probably didn’t matter, though – this is the last dance for twins Mikey and Joey Lores and their father, Joe Lores, who just happens to be the coach.

The trio isn’t ready to break the family ties just yet.

East Rockaway (12-7) is a rough and tumble team, but the Whal-

ers went in with hope. After all Bridgehampton had given the Rocks a tussle, and Pierson beat the Bees handily twice. Pierson stayed with the Nassau County Class C champs for all of four minutes, and then a 15-0 East Rockaway run to end the first stanza put the Rocks in control for good, 23-10. It was that simple.

The run continued in the second quarter, and reached 24, making it a 32-10 lead midway through the quarter.

It was garbage time.

Without Barrett, Pierson couldn’t cope with the suffocating East Rockaway press. The Rocks forced numerous turnovers early on and it seemed to unnerve the locals.

Senior forward Justin Jonas led

the winners 13 points, and Dylan Delury added 12. Junior guard David McClure added 10 points and four steals. The Lores brothers combined for 18 including 10 from Mikey. Joey Butts led Pierson with 10 points.

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Bees Fall One Game Short Of Final Four

By Rick Murphy

The Bridgehampton Killer Bees had a funny feeling that they were destined to return to Glens Falls, the State Final Four tournament, after a nearly two-decade respite.

Coach Carl Johnson, who has six title rings as a player and a coach, had scouted Livingston Manor, Saturday’s opponent in the regional finals at New Paltz. His team had

a shot – if the Bees maintained composure, played hard, and played good defense.

For the first half, at least, things more or less moved along according to plan. But things fell apart quickly in the second half.

Credit Troy Correa, the Livingston Manor point guard, who went off for 40 points. “They were eminently beatable, but they had one

really good player,” assistant coach Joe Zucker lamented.

The Bees lackluster play didn’t help. “They got six or seven scores by basket hanging,” Zucker said.

“Our kids didn’t get back.”

Further complicating matters, a key player was suspended Friday, leaving the Bees with three eighth graders among the seven who dressed for the game. “I guess when

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ment with high hopes – four local teams were in the hunt for a state title as of last week. Alas three lost in regional games Friday.

John A, Coleman Catholic School, the defending Class C state champion, overpowered Southold 66-25.

Shelter Island was eliminated from the Class D title hunt by Livingston Manor 58-31. Southampton fell to Irvington 74-41, leaving Riverhead as the only local team left in the tournaments.

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Irvington, a two-time defending state champion, is simply put, a machine. Southampton has a good time, but Livingston is on another level entirely – witnessed by a 28 point first quarter that effectively ended any upset hopes the locals might have harbored. Noel Hodges

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you’re missing one of your best players and you have three young kids playing regularly you have to expect this to happen.”

Despite what seemed like a stacked deck, the Bees closed the gap to six early in the fourth quarter. But Correa went ballistic yet again, keying a 12-0 run that put the game out of reach. “We’re very disappointed,” Zucker acknowledged.

Canaan Campbell led the locals with 21 points. Jason Hopson and Joshua Lamison each had 12 points and Tylik Furman added six.

(13) and Paris Hodges (12) led the Lady Mariners. Kesi Goree was held to six.

Coleman jumped all over the Lady Settlers, putting an early end to the drama. A 19-2 third quarter run just prolonged the doom.

Nine Southold players scored, led

by Nicole Busso, Sarah Manfredi, and Melissa Rogers with four apiece.

The Riverhead Blue Waves won their match-up and head into the state semi-finals. That story is reported separately in this issue.

The Pierson boys, and the Bridgehampton boys, also were eliminated from state title contention. Those stories are reported elsewhere in this issue.

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Big East Tournament Letdown This is an exciting time of year for East End residents. Spring is right around the corner, with the clocks moving forward this past weekend. The itch to lounge on our beautiful beaches is returning. But for East End college hoops fans, the Big East basketball tournament last week was a big letdown.

In most years the Big East tournament is considered the most thrilling and talented conference tournament, highlighted on bas-

ketball’s brightest stage, Broadway. Unfortunately, this year’s competitors lacked the talent and consistency fans have grown accustomed to.

Furthermore, this year’s event was bittersweet. It was the last time this group of 16 gathered in Manhattan to play each other.

West Virginia was released from its Big East commitment and allowed to join the Big 12 this fall.

From there, things will continue to crumble. Next year will be the

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last tournament involving perennial powerhouses Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

These 16 members have been together as rivals since the start of the 2005 season. Collectively, they established the Big East as the most prominent basketball conference in the country. Once this season ends and the shuffling begins, the future and quality of Big East basketball will be clouded by uncertainty.

The tournament also lacked the drama of a typical Big East event.

Most would agree that the Big East as a whole is having a down season.

While there were a couple of overtime games with some thrills, this tournament was a dud.

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final score of 50-44 represented the lowest number of points ever and this final was the first time in the league’s history that one of its original seven founding members was not in the championship game.

Heading into the Big Dance, there is Syracuse and everybody else. The Orange have proven to be the class of the conference with their 17-1 conference record and 31-2 mark overall. Marquette, Notre Dame and Cincinnati slide in at two, three and four respectively in the conference standings, but they aren’t considered to be serious national title contenders.

Additionally, the individual star power that fans are used to was absent. The SEC (Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist), Big 10 (Jared Sullinger), and Big 12 (Thomas Robinson, Perry Jones III) have the sexy names that the Big East lacks.

Syracuse’s success has been a total team effort and while UConn’s Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb are projected as lottery picks, their individual successes have been overshadowed by the Huskies’ struggles.

The Big East saw an unusual shift in power this season. Since these 16 teams have been together, UConn, Pittsburgh and Villanova have never simultaneously finished in the bottom half of the conference. Collectively they averaged a fourth place finish over their five seasons together. But this year, UConn finished ninth, Pitt 13th, and Nova 14th.

Conversely, Marquette, Cincinnati and South Florida crept into the top half of the standings, but these programs have not yet shown the ability to bring national prestige to the conference.

The beauty of the conference tournaments and the Big Dance is the one-and-done philosophy that can turn a lackluster field into a thrilling day or week. That’s still a possibility with this group. UConn took a 9-9 record into the conference tournament last year and ran the table the rest of the season to win another national title.

The Big East’s best hope for excitement this past weekend was a throwback match-up between Syracuse and Georgetown, which didn’t come close to happening. The nine Big East teams are set for battle in the NCAA Tournament. With the most teams of any conference, the Big East can still redeem itself with some deep runs from a handful of unexpected teams.

But, for the first time in years, no one is expecting that from the country’s premiere conference.

Pete is a lifelong Montauk resident and former sports talk host at 88.7FM WEER. He can be reached via email at Peterfmundo@gmail.com.

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Penny decided to stick with the company. The company’s first driver, Sisco Barnard, taught her how to operate the big buses, “in any parking lot we could find.”

The slim woman, then in her 30s, but looking much younger, practically had to stand in her seat to operate the double clutch. As she gained mastery, Penny recalled, “The other drivers would say ‘Julie’s ready,’ but Jim hemmed and hawed for about a month.” Eventually she got her first crack at the giant jitney “and when I came back, Jim was the first to con-

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gratulate me.” I was thrilled to be the first woman driver, because I knew all along I could do it as well, if not better, than some of the guys, To drive something that big and being so high up off the road was amazing.”

Initially, passengers eyed her quizzically as they got on the jitney, Penny recalled. “You could tell in the beginning, people thought it would be really fantastic or really . . .” she said, her voice drifting off, “But I won them over.” Other truckers on the road seemed to approve; “they’d give me the high five sign.”

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she eventually dubbed “Diamond Jim.” “The place would not have flourished or have been as good as it was without his vision. For those of us who were there at that time late 70s /early 80s, it’s a time we all look back on fondly, and, it was a special time and place in our local Hampton history and for those who worked there and who were passengers,” Penny said. She feels the jitney played an integral role in the expansion of the East End, providing access in a way the railroad never did.

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sengers would push and shove to get on like it was the last space ship to the moon. That was when the Hamptons really got on the map.”

Penny left the company when a publisher bought the outline to her book – a historical romance about the first women pioneer to the Pacific Northwest. She injured her back, putting her jitney driving days behind her, and turned her attention on environmental and community advocacy.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4. advantage to 32-15 in the third. Then the Lady Seahawks charged.

Kelly Vassallo had the hot hand, and she and Holly Logan went on a determined scoring blitz. Meanwhile Cold Spring Harbor tightened its defense, forcing the Mariners to take bad shots or turn the ball over. The lead evaporated in the face of an 18-3 run, and with just over a minute left, Southampton clung to a precarious two-point lead.

Southampton had several attempts to extend the advantage via the charity stripe, but could not convert the free throws. Hodges missed a one and one with 10 seconds left, that would have iced it, but the Lady Seahawks turned the ball over, only to have Corey Atkinson steal it back. She was fouled with one tick left on the clock. Atkinson buried the first but the second clanked off the rim, giving Southampton the title.

It was the first Long Island title ever for Southampton’s veteran mentor Juni Wingfield.

Vassallo led the losers with 10 points, Logan added eight. Goree had a game-high 14 for the champions, and Hodges had 11 points, five assists and four steals.

Southold and Friends Academy engaged in a nip and tuck affair as well.

Sydney Campbell had a chance to give the locals the lead with five seconds left and the game tied at 24, but she missed a foul shot.

Campbell, though, more than made up for it in the overtime stanza, exploding for five points in the final 90 seconds to give Southold a thrilling 3226 win and the title. A stifling defense held the Settlers’ scoring machine, Lauren Ficurilli, to 10 points. Campbell finished with nine.

Riverhead’s quest for a Class AA county title is chronicled in another story on this page. Shelter Island won the Long Island Class D championship on a “bye” – there were no qualifying teams in Nassau.

Southold (16-6) and Southampton (20-4) both advanced into the New York State championships Saturday. That story is covered separately in this issue.

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Mag.

3 at

Mag.

50

39.

$

99

Hennessy VS Cognac Mag.

64.Liter $ 39.75099 ML $ 32.99 $

99

32.

$

$

99

69.

Merry’s Irish Cream Liter

13.

$

99

Johnnie Walker GOLD

18 yr old scotch

Mag.

124.99

$

Johnnie Walker RED

750 ML

$

12 Year

31.

$

99

35.

99

43.

10 ea.

Chivas Regal

$

$

99

Famous Grouse .

33.

Mag

99

Liter

99

.

$

$

with Honey

750 ML

Johnnie Walker BLACK

29.

Bushmill’s Irish Whiskey

175

$

Milagro Silver

Liter

19.99

Johnnie Walker BLUE

Herradura Silver

99

750 ML

$

Bailey’s Irish Cream

WE CARR Y A FULL LINE OF 90+ CELLAR WINES

$

Concannon Irish Whiskey

$

Mag.

99

Dewars White Label .

Mag.

34. $ 28.99

$

99

Liter

Southern Comfort

19.

$

Liter

99

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