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Sweep Nets Suspected Code Violators
Independent / Kitty Merrill (Left) Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman and Town Code Compliance and Public Safety Administrator Steven Troyd announce the results of a hamlet-wide sweep in Hampton Bays. (Right) This motel, above, was one of the properties to come away with violations.
By Kitty Merrill
It was the largest single enforcement effort in the Town of Southampton, according to Supervisor Jay Schneiderman. Last Friday he was joined by a raft of officials and officers from the town police department and the team that undertook the “Strategic
Code Compliance Enforcement Operation” in Hampton Bays to report the results.
Acting on tips and information gleaned on their own patrols, code enforcement officers visited and inspected dozens of properties – individual residences and motels – between October 10 and last
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Friday. A total of 215 violations were issued, with fines for the transgressions ranging from $100 to $1000. Some of those violations include overcrowded housing, illegal rentals, non-functioning smoke and CO detectors, blocked emergency exits, excessive vehicles, parking in the front yards, and illegal conversions from single family homes to multi-family dwellings. Twenty-eight landlords, including one who was convicted in June for failure to secure rental permits for eight properties he manages, received violations.
One of the most important jobs of an elected official is to protect public safety and quality of life in the community, Schneiderman pointed out. The sweep was a coordinated effort with town code enforcement, STPD, the Suffolk County Department of Health, local schools, and the fire marshal’s office. The Department of Social Services was on standby as the inspections began, in case officers found situations that could endanger children. Schneiderman turned the podium over to Steven Troyd, head of the town’s Code Compliance and Public Safety Department, who helmed the operation. Search warrants were executed at two properties, as a result of lengthy investigations. A yearlong
probe precipitated the search of a residence located on Hill Station Road in the hamlet. Seventeen people were allegedly living in a four-bedroom, two-story wood frame house. The basement had been converted into rooms lacking safe egress, Troyd reported. A slew of violations related to overcrowding and safety issues such as the pool enclosure, smoke and CO detectors, blocked emergency egress, and hazardous electrical wiring were issued. So, too, were violations of the town code related to illegal rental, and one-family to multi-family conversion. Mold was found in the ceiling. An interview of residents revealed the property was run by an individual who previously was taken to court for similar misdemeanors. On October 11, code enforcers visited 42 residential properties, issuing 25 notices of violation for 49 violations running the gamut from building without a permit to change of use, excessive vehicles, front yard parking, property maintenance, to failure to obtain rental permits. There were 17 properties that didn’t receive any violations. Last Thursday it was two motels’ turn.
At the Bel Aire Cove Motel on Shinnecock Road, Troyd said inspectors found bed bug and roach infestation, overflowing septic,
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Beckoned To Broadway
By Kitty Merrill
encouraged to ad lib.
As a kid growing up in Remsenburg, Billy Finn was, like most little boys, reluctant to let down his defenses and risk embarrassment. “I didn’t want to be made fun of,” he told The Independent this week, sitting backstage at the Jerry Orbach Theater getting ready for the week’s eighth performance.
Three years ago, Finn moved to Los Angeles, landing a gig with Universal Studios as a wizard in the Harry Potter homage, Wizarding World. Earlier this year, a friend from the Wizarding World let him know GOT: The Rock Musical was casting and needed an understudy. Already a fan of the wildly popular HBO series, Finn jumped at the chance – and directors grabbed him up. “I read and sang for them and they said, ‘You’re perfect. Learn three roles, we open in two weeks.’
That childlike fear is distant in the rearview these days. As Rob Stark – or Prince Joffrey, or Bran Stark, or Viserys, or even a Direwolf -Finn cavorts onstage, losing a goofy version of “rock, paper, scissors,” undulating shirtless in a cheesy beefcake moment, belting out solo songs, grabbing guffaws galore from the audience, dissing the bastard Jon Snow, and lots more in Game of Thrones: The Rock Musical, an unauthorized parody, which opened Off-Broadway on Saturday. Once bitten by the acting bug, Finn fantasized about auditioning for plays in the Big Apple. But, the 24-year-old East End native said this weekend, “I never thought I’d be asked to come to New York to perform.” Saturday’s opening in the heart of the theater district felt “so surreal and amazing.”
Independent / Courtesy BF A Stark revelation: Billy Finn sits the Iron Throne at the Orbach Theater in New York.
Finn jokes that his resume so far “doesn’t look real.” His first stage experience dates back to middle school in Westhampton Beach when he snagged a role in Seussical the Musical. “I found out it was a lot of fun being on stage.” He performed in school plays moving
forward and in high school did a show outside of school. “I got my first paycheck and realized maybe I could make a career out of this.” He studied theater at Emerson College and upon graduation moved to Florida.
And that’s where the resume gets, well, interesting. Finn found work at Disney World, as a Jungle Cruise skipper. “It was an acting job. I got used to speaking before the audience.” The show had a set script, but performers were also
“I was really thrust into it,” Finn recalled. He’s been with the troupe since the show opened in LA last March, travelled to San Diego for Comic Con months later, and now hits the stage in NYC. Back in LA, the ensemble troupe was comprised of about 30 members. “We had two complete casts and alternated every performance.” To come to New York, the cast was cut to one group of performers. Asked how it felt to be selected from among almost three dozen actors for the trip, Finn struggled to find the words: “Oh my gosh, to get picked to come! I got the call out of left field and it still doesn’t feel real,” he said. “It’s a coming home for me. These streets are where I grew up,” Finn informed. His mother, Lisa, is an ardent fan of the theater and originally from the city. “My mother and grandmother loved Broadway and brought me often as a little girl,” Lisa, now a North
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the day I walked into the Blue Water Grill in New York City for my usual lunch of a dozen cherrystone clams, a glass of wine, and some good quality time alone with my cell phone.
Jerry’s Ink
by Jerry Della Femina
IF WE SHOULD MEET AND I IGNORE YOU Are you like me? Stuck for life with a horrible memory for names and faces?
The truth is, I have a great memory for the most trivial of facts. (Nick Etten of the Yankees led the American League in homers in 1944 with 22; Donna Reed won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1954 for From Here to Eternity.)
I could bore you to death with millions of dumb facts that no one is interested in. Perhaps this is why, as a young man, I had so few second dates with women. On top of that, I have a horrible memory for names and faces. This is usually solved when I’m with my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, who, aware of my problem, compensates for my shortcoming by digging her nails into my arm when
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a couple, who appear to be complete strangers to me, approaches us at a cocktail party.
Judy then screams out as though I’m deaf as well as dumb: “HELLO! IT’S BILL, B-I-L-L STRAUSS AND NANCY, N-A-N-C-Y. How are you two? Jerry, aren’t you going to say hello to BILL AND NANCY?!”
Naturally I’m standing there looking like Bobo the Ape Boy, and most people look a little dismayed by Judy’s screaming out their name. But for the most part it works for Judy and me. And I’m sure that most couples we know, when they are alone, wonder how someone as smart as Judy wound up with such a clueless boob for a husband.
Judy’s great memory for names and faces, of course, doesn’t help me when I’m alone. For example, I remember
Then I spotted a familiar face – or at least I thought it was a familiar face. This attractive woman who was sitting alone appeared to be waving at me. Naturally, as I approached her I was desperately trying to remember who she was, and decided to have a conversation with her and fake it until I could figure out the connection. This method usually works for me, but occasionally someone will look me in the eye and say, “You have no idea who I am, do you?” That’s when I go into my famous “I’m an idiot” defense. But the woman sitting alone in the Blue Water Grill looked friendly, and she was waving, so I waved back, rushed up to her table, planted a big kiss on her cheek, and said, “How are you?” “Who are you?” she answered.
Just then the waiter the woman had actually been waving to came up and asked the woman if he could take her order.
“Sorry, my mistake. So, so sorry,” I muttered, slinking away, trying my best not to look like the kissing bandit of the Blue Water Grill. This, of course, was not my greatest “wrong person” disaster. That happened a number of years ago. At the time my advertising agency
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I went straight up and, as I came down, I was running before my feet touched the ground. I was flying down the long hallway to another bank of elevators. I looked over my shoulder and there was the UPS man, giving me the most menacing stare. Naturally, the elevator I got on was crowded with people coming from an upper floor who stared at what they perceived was a madman who came into the elevator alone and started giggling. Of course, in trying to hold back my laughter I only succeeded in making the most unappealing snorting sounds.
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Bullying: It Has To Stop Now
By Justin Meinken
they will be labeled as a snitch. We need to change that,” she said.
Recently, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia released guidelines and materials to all school districts in New York State to be used to ensure compliance with the Dignity for All Students Act. DASA is the first comprehensive statewide legislation to protect students in public elementary through secondary schools against bullying, discrimination and harassment.
A workshop to spark awareness for issues such as bullying was held last Saturday in the Hampton Bays Senior Center. Sponsored by the Town of Southampton, its Youth Bureau workshop was part of the Bullying Prevention and Awareness Month agenda and included guest speaker Nancy Silberkleit, co-CEO of Archie Comics.
“It’s hard to get into a bully’s mind,” Silberkleit said. “Why do they bully people? We don’t always know why.” What’s important, she stressed, is that “we need to be kind to others and stand up for a person who doesn’t have anyone and is being bullied. Too many times we have seen horrific acts of bullying and no one ever stood up for their targets. In the end, the targets took their own lives rather than continue to live in that manner. You can make a difference by upping your acts of kindness.” She continued, “Perhaps you’ve seen or even know someone who seems like they don’t have a friend in the world. Let them know you care. Be kind. Say something nice even if it’s a comment like, ‘Nice shoes!’”
As publisher for the Rise Above Social Issues Foundation, East Hampton resident Silberkleit dedicated the comic book Rise Above! “to a young boy from Canada named Mitchell, who took his own life as a result of being bullied. Rise Above! is about not letting the balance of power be negative. It walks through the challenge of being bullied. Life is always changing and is full of challenges. But each of us has the
“Although there is the Dignity for All Students Act in place, some schools do not enforce it because they do not want to be labeled as a school that has problems with bullying,” said Scalera. “The laws are slow to address issues like bullying and cyberbullying. We’re hoping that programs such as this one can teach that we do not have to accept that type of behavior.” Independent / Justin Meinken Councilwoman Christine Scalera (fourth from left) with participants in Saturday’s Youth Bureau workshop.
power to be a change maker,” she said.
“I have a mantra that I came up with for myself and I live by: Never let anyone define who they want you to be. You know who you are. Think about your own mantra and live by it!” Silberkleit concluded with, “Make a difference in the world.”
Act Two, a student community theater group of the Youth Bureau followed Silberkleit’s inspiring speech and performed skits which highlighted different scenarios of bullying and the feelings associated with them. Singer Lindsay Dunn followed with a few uplifting songs which included Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful,” “Million Reasons” by Lady Gaga, and “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. The members of Act Two – Ava Reid, Amani Richards, Nicole Guerrero, and Kayla Guerrero – told the audience that having been participants in the workshops and the Youth Bureau, they now felt comfortable reporting a bullying problem to a counselor and said that they have already been “upstanders” for others.
Councilwoman Christine Scalera has been a supporter and promoter of the town’s youth programs for many years. She stated that her desire to do something about bullying started “about 11 years ago, when a mother came to me in desperation. Her child was being relentlessly bullied and no one would do anything to stop it. She
didn’t know where to turn for help.”
Scalera continued, “If you look around this room, just about every young student who participates in the Youth Bureau has experienced bullying and has also seen friends, or other students in their schools, who are being bullied. Some of them don’t want to report it because
Nancy Lynott is the director of the Town of Southampton Youth Bureau and Tracy Kolsin is the assistant director. They share Scalera’s mission to empower young people to have the confidence to be the change makers in their communities and make a difference in the world. They can be reached at 631-702-2425 or you can visit their website at www.southamptontownny.gov/ youthbureau.
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Sand In My Shoes by Denis Hamill
The Undertaker In Chief Ryan looked down at his iPhone news alert: TRUMP TO SCRAP CRITICAL CARE SUBSIDIES, HITTING OBAMACARE AGAIN.
Ryan sat with a relative in a waiting room known as the Fourth Floor in a midtown Manhattan office building looking out onto the infamous Lipstick Building on 53 St. and Third Ave. Up there, on the 17th floor, Bernie Madoff from Far Rockaway had built a career and a $7 million Montauk mansion from a $50 billion Ponzi scheme that ruined and ended countless lives. His sociopathic avarice drove his son, Mark, to
hang himself at 44. The shame and stress clearly exacerbated his son Andrew’s death from cancer at 48. That is the collateral damage caused by the selfish actions of a sociopathic man.
Across the street from the scene of Madoff ’s crimes Ryan sat with his relative on the Fourth Floor which since that news alert was a worse crime scene. The Fourth Floor was filled with some of the bravest people in the big tough city as this was the waiting room of the Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where people diagnosed
with colon and rectal cancers come every couple of weeks to fight for another year, month, week, day of this wonderful thing called Life. More lose than win.
Ryan didn’t mention the news alert but he saw his relative reading her iPhone. “Trump is at it again,” she said, looking up. “His own Republican congress failed twice to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act so he just slashed subsidies for people in my health situation. Nice, huh? When I beat this cancer, and I will beat it, I will have a pre-existing condition. I’m lucky that I have good health coverage because if I was on Obamacare, my new premium after Trump’s cut would be like $28,000.” Which makes Trump the Undertaker in Chief.
She looked around the Fourth Floor at cancer patients from every walk of life, from East Flatbush to East Hampton, many spending life savings to travel here from other cities, states, countries, continents. They were men and women, young and old, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, wearing hijabs, yarmulkes, turbans, kufis, and wigs for chemoinduced baldness. They sipped gratis coffee and nibbled Graham crackers and shared whispers of hope fueled by evermore precious breaths as they awaited blood work results. When their names were called they were led into chemo suites where they sat in recliner chairs as compassionate nurses offered blankets. Then IV tubes were plugged into mediports embedded under their chemo-creped skin as IV bags of experimental heavy metal bromides dripped for a few hours into their circulatory systems to fight the insidious microscopic monsters that were trying to eat them alive from within.
You don’t know “scary” until you’re a regular customer at this little shop of horrors. Everyday is Halloween on the Fourth Floor.
The last person dear to him that Ryan accompanied regularly to the Fourth Floor was a big, burly guy, a city sanitation man who became 8
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a city cop, a legitimate tough guy who fought in the heavyweight Golden Gloves semi-finals before 20,000 people in Madison Square Garden and played with the NYPD football team in the Orange Bowl. He bet his bighearted life on finding a miracle up here on the Fourth Floor. He left us at 52.
Ryan looked over to his relative, devoid of a single droplet of selfpity. She sat like a brave fighter waiting for the bell to send her out to fight the ninth of 12 rounds of chemo. “I’m gonna be okay,” she said. “I’m gonna win. I have great health coverage. My husband has great coverage. I’m young. The doctors give me a 75 percent change of beating my cancer. But there are people here in worse shape than me. For those fighting cancer with Obamacare, the Trump cuts will kill a lot of them. Others won’t get into MSK because their coverage won’t be good enough. If you don’t get first-rate treatment for stage three and stage four cancer you are going to die. What Trump just did is going to kill people in this room and in cancer rooms like it all across America.” She paused, glaring out at the Lipstick Building that stood like a towering tombstone to all those another selfish sociopath drove to early graves.
“And Trump did this for one and one reason only,” said Ryan’s relative. “Obama. He’s so jealous of Obama being smarter, younger, more popular, and more successful than he’ll ever be that he wants to obliterate everything Obama accomplished in office. Doesn’t matter if people’s lives will be lost because of his ego. Every health organization, all the heart, diabetes, cancer organizations, warned and begged Trump not to do this. He just killed more people than we can count with one swipe of his pen. Karma will get him for this.” Then Ryan’s relative’s name was called across the crowded Fourth Floor and she got up to go fight another round for her life. To comment on Sand in My Shoes, email denishamill@gmail.com.
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Obituary
William E. Havens, Jr., 65
William (Billy) E. Havens, Jr., a lifelong Bonacker from Amagansett, died Thursday, September 28, 2017 in Boca Raton, Florida. Billy had recently moved to Florida to be nearer to his only daughter, his pride and joy, Rebecca, who is currently residing in Boca Raton and attending Florida Atlantic University. Billy was born July 10, 1952, the son of William E. Havens and Anna Hollander Havens, both of whom predeceased him. He was also predeceased by his brother, Benjamin. In addition to his daughter Rebecca, he is survived by his sisters Marion Havens of Hicksville, NY, Lillian Havens of Manorville, NY, Connie Havens Colonna of Springs, NY, and by his brother Nick Havens of Amagansett, NY. Billy is also survived by his sister-in-law Mary Emma Havens, brother-in-law Alex Colonna, and his nieces and nephews Michael Havens, Jeanie Stillwachs, Kelly Havens, Julie Havens, Sara Havens, Jason
Cobb, Anna Colonna, Alexandra Colonna, Tonio Colonna, and by his great nephew and niece Ethan and Taylor Stillwachs.
At a young age, Billy followed in his father’s footsteps and fishing became his way of life. However, the struggle of the local fishermen ensued and Havens was involved and instrumental in defending the local way of life of the East End baymen. Because of his prominent involvement, he was featured in Billy Joel’s “Downeaster ‘Alexa’” video in 1989, depicting the hard work and woes of the commercial fishing business, was included in Peter Matthiessen’s book Men’s Lives, which chronicled the lives of the local baymen, and had been interviewed in The New York Times feature stories. Because of Havens’s well-known reputation as a man who “knows the sea and local waters best,” he was introduced to his future wife, Deborah Ross (now deceased), as she was gathering information to produce a movie about the local
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fishing situation on the East End. Billy and Debbie not only enjoyed the East End with the fishing community, but they also owned and operated Harry’s Hideaway restaurant and bar in Springs (the former Jungle Pete’s).
Though the fishing and Bonac community were deeply seeded in Billy’s heart, he and Debbie moved to California where he succeeded
and enjoyed his union job of being a grip in the filmmaking business. However, in the mid 1990s the East End happily welcomed them back, this time including their young daughter Rebecca. Life was not always easy living and struggling with a fisherman’s lifestyle, but through any hardship, Billy still shared his contagious
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Two Local Gems Registered
The Eliis Squires Jr House in Hampton Bays and the William A. Farnum Boathouse in Sag Harbor have both been listed on the State Register of Historic Places.
Compiled by Kitty Merrill
Friday the 13th was a lucky day for folks interested in preserving local heritage. That’s the day Assemblyman Fred Thiele announced that the William A. Farnum Boathouse in Sag Harbor and the Ellis Squires House in Hampton Bays have been listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.
Built circa 1915, the William A. Farnum Boathouse is most closely associated with William Farnum, a prominent, early 20th-century stage and film actor, who had roles in over 20 films from 1930 through his death in 1953. Notes from the state review board’s assessment of both houses follow. Farnum was born in Boston to a family of actors. He grew up around the theater and began acting at age 14.
He first gained critical and commercial success in 1900, when he played the leading role in BenHur on Broadway. After working in touring productions for a few years, he founded the William Farnum Stock Company in 1904. The company, which was based out of Park Theater in Buffalo, offered a new show every week. Farnum hired Olive Ann White, well-known for her roles in Irish-themed stage productions and as the inspiration the song “My Wild Irish Rose.” The
two hit it off, and White divorced her husband. In 1906, Olive and William married at her house in Sag Harbor on Actor’s Colony Road. In 1913, William Farnum made the switch from the stage to the screen when he signed a contract to act in The Spoilers, a western about the Nome Gold Rush. Farnum’s fight with Tom Santschi in the final scene, which was unrehearsed, lasted a full reel, and is still considered a classic. It helped push Farnum to film stardom. Farnum became a sensation and was known for his physical, rugged roles in Western and action movies. By 1917, he had become Fox Studio’s leading male star and one of the highestpaid actors in Hollywood, earning $10,000 a week.
many parties in the trophy room on the second floor of the boathouse, which was lined with mounted fish and trophies earned in races. Injured, Farnum returned to Sag Harbor in 1924 to recuperate and did almost no acting for six years.
In his absence, the film industry transformed with the advent of talking movies. After Olive Ann and William divorced in 1929, he no longer returned to Sag Harbor. He continued working in theater
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When he wasn’t filming, Farnum frequently escaped to his home on Actor’s Colony Road to relax. During the 1910s, he expanded the existing property and built a gentleman’s farm and recreational buildings on the beach. Farnum enjoyed engaging in physical activity, working on his farm, and getting out on the water – and staff from Fox’s PR department were often around, taking pictures or writing stories to promote Farnum’s masculine image. Of all the buildings on the estate, Farnum’s boathouse, built c. 1915, was closely tied to both his public and private image as an avid sportsman and yachtsman. He won many local races in his prized catboat, the Olive Ann, and enjoyed
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Independent Opinion
By Fred Thiele
Celebrating Women’s Suffrage
The right to vote is a shining example to the world of what democracy means and why it’s so important. Voting is one of the strongest, most direct ways we can affect change. It’s our chance to influence, inspire, make our voices heard, and hold our leaders accountable. But not too long ago, women were denied the right to vote.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State -- three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
New York has long been a national leader in the advancement of women’s equality. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 -- the nation’s first to address women’s rights -was organized by leading suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and set in motion a
decades-long push toward women’s suffrage. On Nov. 6, 1917, New York legalized women’s suffrage.
It wasn’t an easy journey, though. Women were considered far from equal, with many anti-suffrage arguments focused on a woman’s supposed inability to think rationally, and some even declared that women didn’t have time to vote or think about politics because they were too busy taking care of the home.
But suffragists persevered nonetheless. They gave speeches in churches, convention halls, meeting houses, and on street corners and circulated countless petitions. They also published newspapers, pamphlets, and magazines to get their message out. Now, as we celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage here in New York, we are not only reminded of what it took to get here, but also
how far we still must go to achieve full women’s equality.
Today, safeguarding women’s rights is more important than ever, and the Assembly Majority remains committed to doing just that. Not only do we have a federal administration that’s threatening a woman’s right to keep her reproductive health care decisions between her and her doctor, but, unbelievably, women still earn less than men for equal work. This year, the Assembly Majority passed two critical pieces of legislation to strengthen and protect women’s reproductive health rights. One measure affirms a woman’s right to choose and the other requires insurers to continue covering FDA-approved contraceptives at no cost to the consumer. The Assembly Majority also passed workplace protections including the New York State Fair
Pay Act to ensure pay equity among male and female workers and to ensure that jobs traditionally held by women are not undervalued. A century after women’s suffrage was achieved in New York, our state remains a progressive leader on women’s issues and equality, recognizing that each and every person deserves to be treated with respect and fairness no matter their race, sex, creed, nationality or sexual orientation. For the trailblazers that came before us, the activists that stand among us and the visionaries yet to come, may this anniversary serve as a spark for great strides forward in the march toward full women’s equality.
New Yorkers can celebrate women’s suffrage in a variety of ways, including attending workshops
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Children of the night, what music they make! Would-be Draculas and Frankenstein monsters, and all manner of ghouls and boys, traditionally don their costumes and head out for Halloween tricks and treats on October 31.
But in the move toward making Halloween an entire season, there’s lots of costume and pumpkin-filled fun on the horizon beginning as early as this week.
Southampton Arts Center, located at 25 Jobs Lane in the heart of Southampton Village, embraces the return of the Spooktacular Haunted House. Over the course of the last two weeks in October, the East End community will enjoy its very own Halloween frightfest inside the historic building. Now in its fourth year, the Spooktacular Haunted House promises a horrifying, bloodcurdling, and entertaining experience. Created by Oscar Gonzalez, the attraction boasts seven rooms of terror featuring monsters under the bed, scary clowns, an evil butcher, zombies, a forest of skeletons, and more. Tickets are just $5 and can be purchased at the door. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Scaring will be kept light for the first hour for families with young children.
“Oscar Gonzalez and his team create a spine-tingling haunted house that the entire community will enjoy. We are also very pleased to keep the admission price at just $5, and to once again offer an opportunity for students to earn valuable community service hours as Scare Team volunteers.” said Southampton Arts Center board secretary Fairley Pilaro.
“The quirky and unusual feel extends out to our current exhibition, ODD BEAUTY: The Techno Eccentric World of Steampunk, curated by Art Donovan, which includes over 120 works from internationally renowned artists in the movement, and is one of the largest collections to date of artwork in this genre shown under one roof.” added
Southampton Arts Center director of programs Amy Kirwin. “It’s the perfect pairing for a simply spooktacular Halloween.”
The doors creak open Friday. Visit the website at www.scc-arts.org for hours of operation. On Sunday, ARF hosts its annual Halloween Pawty. Join the Animal Rescue Fund for tricks and treats and see all the adoptable cats and dogs at the ARF Adoption Center at 124 Daniels Hole Road in Wainscott from 11 AM to 2 PM. Bring the whole family and your
pets, too, and take a walk along the haunted trails. Candy, games, and much more. More at www. arfhamptons.org. Be sure to check back next week,
after we flesh out more events leading up to the big night. We’ll have a calendar for the kiddies and nightlife listings for adults who fancy getting fancy, or frightening, when the moon is full.
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Meet The Candidates
By Kitty Merrill
With local campaigns ramping up, opportunities to get to know would-be elected officials abound.
• On Monday at 6:30 PM, the Hampton Bays Civic Association will present a candidates’ debate at the Southampton Town Community Center on Ponquogue Avenue. Candidates for Suffolk County Legislature -- incumbent Bridget Fleming and challenger Heather Collins -- are invited to the discourse. Jay Schniederman, who’s running for re-election as Southampton Town Supervisor, faces off against challenger Roy Overton. Candidates for town board – incumbents Julie Lofstad and Stan Glinka and challengers Tommy Schiavoni and Thea Dombrowski Fry -- will meet in verbal jousts. Highway supe Alex Gregor will vie with his challenger Lance Aldrich. Judge Debra Kooperstein and Barbara Wilson are both running unopposed. After the candidates introduce themselves, there will be a
question-and-answer session. In the question session, the HBCA board will go first, followed by questions from the audience. Bring your questions for the candidates. Get your answers. Vote! • In East Hampton, the Historical Society will host two “Meet the Candidates” events beginning tonight at Clinton Academy. Republican Party candidates for town trustee will be on hand from 6 to 8 PM. Tomorrow night, same time, meet the Democratic candidates for trustee.
The program will consist of a welcome from EHHS staff, followed by an overview of the Dongan Patent which set the unique format of East Hampton Town’s governing body in 1686. Candidates will give a brief introduction followed by a Q&A, and a summary of why they should receive your vote.
program, light refreshments will be served and the public will be able to meet and greet with the candidates. • On Saturday, October 28, the East Hampton Republicans will host a pre-election celebration
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Remember the hugely popular Spring Street Fair in East Hampton Village? It’s back, with a fall flair.
This event is free and open to the public. No reservation is required. Seating is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Following the
The Village of East Hampton will host a fall festival in Herrick Park on Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM. There will be 60 booths at which local artists, shopkeepers, and 20 non-profits can display their wares and information set up in the downtown park.
Listen to live music all day – from bluegrass to blues. Experience a live community mural painting project
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(with supplies provided); a Kidzone, featuring hands-on science and art projects from the East End Children’s Museum in the gazebo; a jumping house, climbing wall, games, and surprises. Look for a magic show from MagicSteve, an aerial trapeze display from artist Robin Lynch, a pumpkin carving contest, a costume parade, and food and drink. Sponsors include DiscoverLI. For updates and news, follow the chamber on Facebook at @EastHamptonChamberofCommerce.
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The Town of East Hampton will conduct a Stop Throwing Out Pollutants day Saturday at the Montauk Transfer Station from 10 AM to 3 PM. It’s a chance to finally get rid of all that hazardous waste you’ve had kicking around the garage. STOP items for disposal include oilbased paints, pesticides, thinners, urethanes, stale fuel, chemical aerosols, engine coolant, and flammable materials. The program is open to town residents only and for residential use only. Got questions? Phone 631-324-7191.
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Providing Aid To Puerto Rico
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Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is joining Stony Brook Medicine and other local healthcare organizations in providing aid to Puerto Rico through Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort. Puerto Rico was battered by Hurricane Maria on September 20, leaving the majority of the island without power and communications. Roads are either washed out or blocked by debris, and supplies are running out. A box has been placed in the main lobby of the hospital at 240 Meeting House Lane in Southampton to collect the following items: batteries, flashlights, portable lanterns,
diapers, baby wipes, cases of water, and feminine hygiene products. All donated items must be unopened and in their original packaging. All supplies collected will be brought to an Empire State Relief and Recovery collection site every weekend. The effort began October 7.
Kent Animal Shelter in Calverton has been awarded an ASPCA grant of $32,500 to spay and neuter pets as part of a continuing campaign against pet homelessness in the region. The grant allows the shelter’s on-site clinic to provide spay/neuter surgeries for Long Island pets adopted from humane organizations and municipal shelters as well as pets that haven’t been fixed due to financial hardship of their owners. Owners of cats and dogs that might be eligible are encouraged to call the Kent Animal Shelter at 631-727-5731 ext. 2 for more information and to make an appointment.
Spaying and neutering is one of the most effective ways to reduce the homeless pet population and is safe for puppies and kittens as young as eight to 10 weeks old, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
“It’s important to lend a hand to those who need it most,” said Steven Bernstein, chief
development officer at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Southampton Hospital Foundation president. “We are willing to do whatever we can to help Puerto Rico recover from this devastating storm.”
Financial contributions can also be made. Checks can be made payable to Southampton Hospital Foundation with a note clarifying that it is for the Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Fund. All checks should be mailed to the Foundation at 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY 11968. Additionally, Stony Brook Medicine is rounding up medical
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Constitutional Convention Hotly Debated
a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a better state government and a healthier democracy – one that prioritizes honesty and integrity over special interests and backroom dealings and makes voting in New York State easier and more accessible,” wrote Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union of the City of New York. “For the first time in 20 years, real solutions to end government corruption begin by voting ‘yes’ on Election Day to hold a constitutional convention.”
By Rick Murphy
Never before have so many disparate interest groups banded together for a common cause, at least not in this state.
But Proposition One, a vote this November on whether or not to hold a constitutional convention in New York State come 2019, has had that effect.
Consider this: The NRA, a number of gay groups, numerous environmental organizations, unions, and politicians from the far left to the far right are all opposed to hosting a convention. But it’s not up to them – voters will decide on Election Day. State Senator Ken LaValle is one opponent, and he doesn’t mince words as to why – it’s a waste of money, for one thing, and a waste of time, for another. “The last time we had one, nothing happened,” he said this week. Costly is an understatement. The last convention took place in 1967 and cost taxpayers $47 million, LaValle said. The cost in today’s dollars would be $337 million. “We elect delegates. We pay their salaries, and they hire staffers we pay for. It’s very costly,” LaValle said.
The matter comes before voters every 20 years. If they vote to stage a convention, it will be held in Albany. Voters will be asked to elect three delegates from each senatorial district in the state. An additional 15 at-large delegates will also be chosen. They will convene in Albany on April 2, 2019. If, during the convention, the delegates adopt
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a new amendment or change an existing one, the matter will be put before the electorate on November 20. Voters will then decide to either adopt all of the proposed changes to the state constitution or none of them.
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A convention would not be inclusive – “making it vulnerable to powerful special interests that do not stand for New Yorkers,” she added. There are proponents. Some say it “is the only way to clean up Albany,” according to Syracuse.com, which hosts a continual give-andtake blog about the relative values of the convention.
“Just look at the jockeying over whether New York should hold a convention to consider changes to the state constitution. Groups that could seldom stand to be in the same room with one another are working together to defeat the question known as Proposal One that goes to voters,” Tom Precious wrote in the Buffalo News last
“Abandoning our legislative process for a constitutional convention risks our rights,’’ said Robin Chappelle Golston, chief executive officer of the statewide Planned Parenthood group.
“This November, New Yorkers have
Kenneth Lovett, writing in his “Insider Albany” column in the NY Daily News, pointed out many women’s groups are lobbying to hold a constitutional convention. Forward March New York, which formed after the Women’s March on Washington, is “fearful the US Supreme Court could overturn federal abortion protections,” wrote Lovett, and wants to strengthen abortion rights by means of a constitutional amendment.
“The only way to protect women’s rights in this state is to put the power back into their hands. You can do this by endorsing and fully supporting a ‘Yes’ vote for a constitutional convention when it appears on the electoral ballot this coming November,” the group wrote to Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose support of the convention process has been tepid. The group noted Cuomo’s father and former Governor Mario Cuomo supported constitutional conventions. Special Interests Not all abortion-rights advocates
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Two For East Hampton Town Supervisor expertise negotiating union contracts. “The only difference between negotiating and the grievance process is the lawyers make a tremendous amount of money.” Vilar agreed “there must be a mitigation of noise,” but is confident he can forge an agreement.
By Rick Murphy
Incumbent East Hampton Town Board member Peter Van Scoyoc, a Democrat, is seeking the town supervisor position vacated by Larry Cantwell, who is retiring. Manny Vilar, a Springs Republican, is taking his first stab at local politics. Vilar sees that as a plus – the “establishment” versus a fresh face. Vilar is the founding president of the Police Benevolent Association of New York State, the fifth biggest police union in the state, and a NYS park police sergeant for 33 years.
Van Scoyoc is a builder and a charter fisherman, though he has curtailed both activities since taking office six years ago. Both men say they are ready to work full time should they get elected. The two are on the opposite sides of the fence on two key issues – East Hampton Airport and the proposed wind farm to be built off the coast of Montauk. Under Van Scoyoc, the town is embarking on a lengthy process called a Part 161 with the Federal
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Aviation Administration in an attempt to gain control of the East Hampton Airport and curtail noisy helicopter traffic.
“We’ve exhausted the judicial options. The path we are taking is in response to the FAA,” Van Scoyoc said during a debate at The Independent Thursday. The process is costly – about $2 million – and could conceivably result in the closure of the airport. “That’s within the realm of possibility,” Van Scoyoc acknowledged. Vilar is adamantly opposed to
closing the airport under any circumstances. “In my view, public safety is the most important function of a municipality,” Vilar said. “I have consulted with Homeland Security. We must have aviation access. We must have an open, safe, viable airport.” Van Scoyoc said the helicopter companies that funnel visitors to East Hampton at all hours are to blame. “They have no interest in negotiating. It’s a growing problem.” Vilar said he would call on his
The Town of East Hampton will conduct a S.T.O.P. (Stop Throwing Out Pollutants) Day on
Saturday, October 21, 2017 at the Montauk Transfer Station,
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A reminder, this program is open to Town of East Hampton residents only, and will not accept waste materials from residents living outside the boundaries of the Town of East Hampton. East Hampton residents desiring to participate in this program are encouraged to bring their hazardous waste to the Montauk Transfer Station. Hazardous waste will not be accepted prior to this event. This event is for residential use only. Need additional Information? Call the folks at the East Hampton Recycling Center at 324-7191 for further details.
The wind farm has drawn the ire of the fishing community for a number of reasons. The proposed site is a prime fishery for cod, the noise from the windmills could confuse migratory fish, and the underground cable running to the shore could damage the fragile ecosystem fish flourish in.
Van Scoyoc pointed out that the use of fossil fuel for power must be phased out. He said a wind farm in Rhode Island was planned carefully and is running well.
Vilar said the rush for wind power in New York State is political. “It all stems from the governor’s initiative to replace Indian Point [power plant].” He said “true empirical data gathered over years” proves the wind farms are dangerous to fish. “The construction is detrimental to the ecosystem,” Vilar stated. He suggested instead land-based wind farms, solar panels, and microgeneration as alternate energy sources. Van Scoyoc countered that those alternate sources wouldn’t provide a sufficient amount of electricity. “The wind isn’t the same onshore,” he said. “There isn’t enough. And solar won’t meet our needs.”
The two candidates clashed on how quickly the town should act to replace aging septic systems. Van Scoyoc pointed out that the town will draw 20 percent of its CPF
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More PFCs Found In Drinking Water
By Rick Murphy
This time it’s Wainscott.
Last year, Westhampton Beach and Yaphank. Then Hampton Bays. Now PFOA and PFOS have been found in drinking wells in Wainscott.
On October 11, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services confirmed perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) have been found in “some private wells” near East Hampton Airport.
One of the private wells had levels of PFOA and PFOS above the EPA’s lifetime health advisory level of 0.07 parts per billion.
The chemicals are commonly found in the fire suppressing foam firefighters use to fight engine fires, though only one fire of note was reported at the local airport in the past two decades. Some local residents said local fire departments did use airport grounds for training over the years and that foam was used.
Independent /Courtesy Suffolk DOH Residents who live in the area south of the East Hampton Airport will have their drinking wells tested for PFCs, though it is not certain if the airport is the source of the contaminants.
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Zeldin Lambasts Former Official Over Iran Deal
By Rick Murphy
Congressman Lee Zeldin lambasted an official from the Obama administration who helped craft the Iran nuclear deal on October 11, echoing President Trump’s contention it was “the worst deal” in history.
The occasion was the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the deal. Zeldin, a member of the committee, was questioning Jake Sullivan, who served as a senior advisor to the US government for the Iran nuclear negotiations under President Obama. The discussion grew tense when Sullivan attempted to defend the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or Iran nuclear deal, to the committee.
“The deal is built on verification,” Zeldin said, meaning hands-on inspections in Iran to ensure that nuclear weapons were not being built. “We’ve never had access to Iran’s sites. You’re blaming President Trump, but we never had access.”
Sullivan attempted to answer, but Zeldin, his voice rising, dropped a bombshell on the proceedings. “You have never read the verification proceeding, sir. None of our leaders read the agreement. Yet the deal is built on verification.” Sullivan finally acknowledged he never actually read that portion of the JCPOA. The deal provides a reported $150 billion of relief from sanctions to Iran in return for its promise not to develop a nuclear weapons program.
“How much of that money went to terrorists?” Zeldin asked Sullivan pointedly. Sullivan did not reply. “It’s a question that deserves an answer. The Obama administration provided money to Iran. Our sailors were held as hostages and Secretary of State John Kerry said `thank you’ to Iran.” Zeldin said Iran has become emboldened as of late, now that the sanctions have been lifted and the economy is improving. “They call Israel ‘Little Satan’ and the US ‘Big Satan.’ We got ridiculously played at the table.” Trump is considering pulling out of the deal, though his latest remarks indicate he may stay put for the moment. The committee hearing was titled, “Confronting the Full Range of Iranian Threats.” Zeldin released a statement urging President Trump to not recertify the JCPOA. Sullivan served as a senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is an international agreement on the nuclear program of Iran signed in July 2015 between Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States — plus Germany. Under the agreement, Iran agreed to eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98 percent, and reduce by about two-thirds the number of its gas centrifuges for 13 years. For the next 15 years, Iran will only
Independent / Courtesy Lee Zeldin Congressman Lee Zeldin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, questioned an official from the Obama administration about the Iran Nuclear Deal during a committee hearing last week.
enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent. Iran also agreed not to build any new heavy-water facilities for the same period of time. Uraniumenrichment activities will be limited to a single facility using first-
generation centrifuges for 10 years.
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lamented the lack of affordable housing in the town and promised to make it a priority in the coming years, noting the proposed 2018 budget has $2 million set aside for housing.
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funds and use the money for that purpose. Vilar is in favor of tapping a federal fund that will allow homeowners to borrow money to replace their cesspools and pay the loans back over a 30-year period. Van Scoyoc said he has proven track record. “We’ve done a really good job. We’ve returned civility [at board meetings]. We have open and frank discussions.” Van Scoyoc
The agreement provides that in return for verifiably abiding by its commitments, Iran will receive relief from nuclear-related economic sanctions.
Vilar said all is not rosy in the town, noting he has the PBA endorsement. He also said he would like proposed board resolutions to be better vetted before they are voted on, and that appointed boards going forward should have an equal number of members from both parties.
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Members of the Southampton Town Police community response unit responded to Central Avenue in East Quogue on October 8 after receiving complaints of a possible marijuana growing operation. The officers responded to the incident location and spoke to the resident Robert Kuroski, 50, regarding the matter. Kuroski consented to a search of the property, which revealed a large
amount of marijuana plants to the rear of the property behind the garage. In addition, a large amount of marijuana was hanging within a cargo shed located along the garage. Additional marijuana within multiple glass and plastic containers was also located in the garage. An unspecified number of marijuana plants were seized and Kuroski was arrested and charged with criminal possession
of marijuana, 2nd degree, a felony, and unlawfully growing cannabis, a misdemeanor. Kuroski was transported to headquarters and held overnight. He was then taken to Southampton Justice and arraigned. He posted $1000 bail and awaits a court date. Animal Cruelty Suffolk County SPCA detectives charged a Riverhead woman with animal cruelty on Thursday.
The woman, 33, did not adequately feed the dog, a nine-year old female pitbull, and forced the animal to live in “substandard and unsanitary conditions with an
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East Hampton Village authorities notified the Riverhead Marine Foundation that a dead dolphin had washed up on Main Beach October 10. It was taken to Riverhead for testing.
Thursday afternoon officers found a dead deer on Montauk Highway with a bullet lodged in its head. There were no suspects.
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Guild Hall Presents Yektai, Topham, And Recollections
Beauty, 1981 by Manoucher Yektai
By Jessica Mackin-Cipro
On Saturday Guild Hall in East Hampton will open three exciting shows in its galleries. “YEKTAI: Manoucher Yektai; Nico Yektai; Darius Yektai” will be on display in the Moran Gallery. “Pamela Topham: Tapestry Visions” will open in the Spiga Gallery. “Recollections: Selections from the Permanent Collection” will be in the Woodhouse Gallery. The shows will open on Saturday with a Guild Hall members’ reception from 5 to 7 PM.
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The “YEKTAI” exhibition traces the artistic legacy of patriarch Manoucher Yektai and his two sons, Darius, a painter and sculptor, and Niko, a furniture maker and sculptor. Manoucher’s life brought him through three cultures in the
three different countries of Iran, France, and the United States. His life in the arts influenced his sons. The similarities and differences of their work and their visions will be examined. The show is curated by Guild Hall museum director and chief curator, Christina Mossaides Strassfield. Pamela Topham was the winner of the 77th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition in 2015. She was awarded top honors by Marla Prather, curator for the development of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Modern Art. Detailed colored pencil drawings, photographs, and multiple site visits are sources for Topham’s tapestry designs. The show is also curated by Strassfield.
“Recollections” is organized by Jess
Figure with Three Roses by Darius Yektai
Frost, associate curator and registrar of the permanent collection. Last year, Guild Hall began building a comprehensive digital catalog of over 2400 objects in the museum’s permanent collection of 19th through 21st century art. Works include internationally distinguished artists like Thomas Moran, Fairfield Porter, Willem de Kooning, Jane Freilicher, David
Salle, and Ross Bleckner. The show features a selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture by these masters, alongside rare discoveries by under-recognized artists. Each of the shows will run through December 31. For more information visit www.guildhall. org.
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Musings With Nanci LaGarenne
around for something affordable. A positive of self-publishing is that one is not at the mercy of an agent’s taste and what the publishing houses think will sell. But on the other hand, we have to do all the work getting the manuscript into book form, very time-consuming, and then we have to market the books ourselves.
By Bridget LeRoy
If you ever offered up a tune at the popular karaoke nights at Montauk’s Liars Saloon, you probably already know Nanci LaGarenne, who hosted there for a dozen years. LaGarenne has lived on the East End fulltime for over two decades, but even before that she was working summers at Napeague Harbor and at the Buttery restaurant on Newtown Lane, in addition to being a child care coordinator at The Retreat and freelancing for Dan’s Papers and The Montauk Sun.
LaGarenne has self-published two books – Refuge and Cheap Fish – one based on the time she spent working at The Retreat and the other a roman a clef about Montauk. Not only are both the subject matter and the author local, but LaGarenne also did not publish until she was over 50, proving that someone can reinvent themselves anytime. LaGarenne and her husband, James, live in Montauk with their pot-bellied pig, Garth Brooks.
How did you get started? I had an idea for a first book in late 1999. The story and the characters were in my head – three women and a few men in Lazy Point – totally fictional. But it was based on some issues I was struggling with in real life – love, relationship, betrayal. There were lots of stops and starts, but eventually I had a manuscript, found an agent, and it was sent to a bunch of publishing houses.
Knopf rejected it, but Penguin called it “a quirky story, just not for us at the time.” I saved the rejection letters for a long time and then got on with it. That book, which I will publish one day, is called Promised Land. What about the books you published? The second book I wrote was Refuge, in 2002. Working at The Retreat, with the children during the day and the women residents at night, manning the hotlines too -- it’s lifealtering. Refuge is my heart book. My passion is helping women and children survive abuse. It was a gift to my sisters. And to all women who survive or are in abusive 22
There’s no publicist. No advance. And the royalties at the end of the day after laying out the money to get the books printed are almost non-existent. On top of that, there’s a stigma about self-published books. Some bookshops won’t carry them.
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relationships.
It was easy to tell, but was emotional to write at times. But for me, the truth is paramount and I don’t mind delving into the dark places. It’s gritty, I don’t deny that. Not exactly a light beach read. If it grabs you and makes you pay attention, I’ve succeeded.
Cheap Fish, a total 360, was born out of a possible karaoke novel I had started. I had such material! But on a whim, after a fantastic little story told to me, I had to write instead the story about the floating brothel started by commercial fishermen and a barmaid. I needed a break from the intensity of Refuge. Cheap Fish is a quick read, people have fun with it, and it was so fun writing it. I am asked a lot do a sequel. I would love to. What kind of input did you have from loved ones or mentors? The idea for Refuge came out of a story I promised my sister Lee that I would write – a validation of surviving childhood abuse.
Cheap Fish worked due to my source, a “salty” (commercial fisherman) from Montauk, who indulged me with his knowledge of the sea and all things commercial out there. He was honest and forthcoming and answered my questions, and I treasure the time we worked on it.
My husband is my technical support. He formats the book on the computer. In essence, he gets to read the story as he’s doing that. I couldn’t have done the self-publishing without him. He’s logical, I’m the dreamer.
My son is my reader and my sisters and a few close friends are always up to read some rough drafts too. I met a few other writers and authors who were quite supportive. I don’t do writing groups. Not my thing. I just write every day. Both my sons are always encouraging me. And my daughter-in-loves are fans and my granddaughter of course, who is seven. Huge fan of books, and me, and vice versa. She and I are writing a children’s book now. She dictates and I type.
Did you have moments of doubt? I think all writers doubt themselves, at some stage. I just don’t let it get the better of me. I think that came with age. Self-confidence and not being afraid to put it out there. I didn’t write a book until I was in my 40s, and didn’t publish until I was 55. Talk a little about the world of self-publishing, which has morphed so much in recent years. What tips would you have for others? It’s great. You have to lay out the money first, so I shopped
Thankfully, the attitude is changing, with the big publishers producing less books a year and going with repeat bestselling authors, but the stigma is still there to a degree. However, I would recommend self-publishing if you have a ready manuscript that’s been edited many times and people have read it and liked it. Having a traditional publisher would take a lot of the grunt work away. I’d rather be writing. But marketing myself and delivering books and getting out there has taken me out of my comfort zone. And I have learned how to sell books. I’ve seen the other side.
What has the local response been like? Cheap Fish has drawn some interesting remarks. Some people believe there is an actual brothel boat off Montauk. They also believe the characters, most of whom aren’t actual people, are indeed people they know. But that’s Montauk. That’s fine with me, as long as they enjoy it. It was an homage to Liars and the fishermen, with love and fun thrown in. And murder, of course. It is a mystery, after all. Just like Montauk. Refuge, on the other hand, is totally fictional. It has received a lot of thumbs up from women who said it validated what they suffered in abusive relationships and/or childhood sexual abuse. I am grateful and honored. It is the very reason I wrote it. The local bookshops have been fabulous and sold both my books. I’ve been fortunate.
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Young Frankenstein at NFCT
Michael Hipp as Frederick Frankenstein and Matt Orr as Igor greatly enjoy Jenna Wolf’s bouncy “Roll in the Hay” as Inga in North Fork Community Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein.
Young Frankenstein at Mattituck’s North Fork Community Theatre, is presented “in living black and white.”
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direction of Leslie McBride. But there are two noticeable standouts. Jenna Wolf as Inga, with her beautiful yodeling voice and hysterical large-breasted costume (“What knockers!” “Why, thank you!”) is a pleasure to watch. And James Carey, who takes a part that is mostly nonverbal as the Monster, is hilarious. The audience thought so too, as sometimes lines were drowned in laughter from the crowd.
I have to admit it – I had never been to North Fork Community Theatre before last week. In fact, I had barely heard of it. But after seeing Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein the Musical put on “in living black and white” by an enthusiastic cast and crew in Mattituck, I will be back.
From the time the audience entered the former church, where NFCT has been staging its productions since 1962 (first shows were in 1957, but elsewhere), the gray interiors evoked an “old-movie” feel. Brooks chose to direct the film of Young Frankenstein – which he often calls his greatest accomplishment – in black-andwhite like the old Universal original horror pictures. Bob Kaplan, who directed this production of YF, chose to follow that route. So the sets by Michele Messinger, costumes by Deanna Andres, and makeup by Sonomi Obinata are also only in black and white and shades of gray.
Kaplan said that to his recollection it was the only time that this has occurred, which is actually not the case (sorry, Bob). The 1970s Broadway production of Dracula, with astonishing sets and costumes by Edward Gorey, accomplished the same – with a spot of red in each scene. I saw it at least a dozen times (back when Broadway tickets didn’t require a mortgage). It made an overnight sex symbol of the almost unknown Frank Langella – who, in the “small world” category, had
already appeared in Mel Brooks’s The 12 Chairs – but the film version which arose from that production of Dracula kept none of the campy qualities that were on the stage and was not nearly as good.
You don’t need to worry about that here. NFCT’s Young Frankenstein is all camp all the time, and has all of your favorite quotes from the movie plus original music by Brooks. The Broadway run of this production wasn’t all that successful after the over-the-top triumph of The Producers, but it has a continued life in theaters around the world, including a new production which just this week opened in London’s West End. For the handful of people out there who haven’t seen the film and don’t know the story – first of all, shame on you! The plot in a nutshell follows Frederick Frankenstein, a brilliant New York doctor in the 1930s, who returns to his Transylvanian roots after the death of his grandfather, the monsterbuilding Victor von Frankenstein. There he meets a cast of colorful characters and realizes his destiny. The production features Michael Hipp as the eponymous lead, Nancy DiGirolamo as his madcap heiress fiancée Elizabeth, Matt Orr as Igor (pronounced Eye-Gore), Laura Pearsall as Frau Blücher (nei-ei-ei-eigh!), Alan Stewart as Inspector Kemp, Kaplan as the Hermit, and Lon Irving Shomer as the elder von Frankenstein. The entire ensemble is very good, really. Kudos also go to the musical
What the cast does well is really make the characters their own, which is hard in a production where most of the audience (okay, well – me) can speak along with every word. Hipp, Orr, and Pearsall, who are on stage most of the time, do an excellent job of bringing a new shading to well-uttered lines.
There is a perhaps overly-ambitious tap-dancing number. A line was flubbed here and there. The production is accompanied solely by
piano. But you know what? This is community theater, people! This is not one of the professional theaters on the East End, the kind where the actors have asterisks after their names. These are our friends and neighbors, the kind with fulltime jobs, taking time out of their busy schedules to do what they love to do – put themselves out there in front of a crowd to sing and dance and make us laugh. And I say, bravo NFCT!
There really isn’t a better way to bring on the spooky Halloween season than to visit the North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck and introduce your family to a live version of Young Frankenstein. You’ll have a wonderful time, and you will be supporting live theater, which right now needs all the support it can get.Young Frankenstein the Musical runs through October 29. For more information, visit the website at www.nfct.com. Blücher!
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Take Home A Nude Art Party + Auction
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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro
The 26th annual Take Home A Nude art party + auction presented by the New York Academy of Art was held at Sotheby’s on October 11 in New York City. The event honored artist Amagansett resident John Alexander, an Academy supporter. Alexander, a visiting critic and lecturer at the Academy, has had retrospectives displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. You can also find his paintings in the permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. (He was interviewed in the Memorial Day issue of The Independent.) The event raised over $1.1 million 24
through its silent and live auction which featured works by artists including Peter Beard, Ross Bleckner, Christo, Will Cotton, Patrick Demarchelier, Eric Fischl, Eric Freeman, Damian Loeb, Ryan McGinness, and Kiki Smith, along with portrait commissions by Margaret Bowland and Nan Goldin.
Proceeds from the evening go toward student scholarships and programs at the Academy – which was founded in 1982 by artists, scholars, and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol. It’s a graduate school and cultural institution that teaches students traditional methods of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Combining intensive technical training and active critical discourse, the Academy encourages students to
use the skills learned to make vital contemporary art.
Through its speaker series, exhibitions, and educational programs, the Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.
Event chairs included Ronald O Perelman and Anna Chapman, Jane and Jimmy Buffett, Amy Cappellazzo, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, Alice and Lorne Michaels, and Marcia and Richard Mishaan. Junior chairs were Michael Avedon, Nick Brown, Nell Diamond, and Isabel Wilkinson. Guests at the event included Derek Blasberg, Helena Christensen, Andy Cohen, Pari Ehsan, Alexander
Gilkes, Nan Goldin, Princess Alexandra of Greece, Eileen Guggenheim, Zani Gugelmann, Hugo Guinness and Elliott Puckette, Jane Holzer, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Steve Kroft, Padma Lakshmi, Adam Lindemann, Damian and Zoya Loeb, Martin Margulies, Nicole Miller, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Colby Mugrabi, Misha Nonoo, Chris Noth, MaryKate Olsen, Daphne Oz, Marchesa Cristina Pucci, Lais Ribero, Helen Lee Schifter, Liev Schreiber, Brooke Shields, Peggy Siegal, Mickalene Thomas, Naomi Watts, Linda Wells, Ali Wentworth, Dustin Yellin, Yelena Yemchuk, Princess Beatrice of York, Kara Young, and Bettina Zilkha. For more info on the New York Academy of Art visit www.nyaa.edu.
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Author Susan Israelson was a fashion coordinator and advertising copywriter. On Saturday she appeared at East Hampton’s BookHampton to read from and sign copies of her latest book, Water Baby.
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Southamptonfest returned to Southampton Village this weekend. The weekend featured live music, dancing, art, history, and plenty of food.
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Boeing Boeing At SCC
Remember Coffee, Tea, or Me? Or how about the word “stewardesses”?
Well, Center Stage at Southampton Cultural Center will bring you back to the time of mini-skirts and mayhem with its season opener, Boeing Boeing, which is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most performed French play in the world.
It’s the 1960s, and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn’t be happier: a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his carefully calculated planning. Soon all three stewardesses are in town simultaneously, timid Robert is forgetting which lies to tell to whom, and hilarious chaos ensues. “Boeing Boeing has presented challenges,” said veteran director Michael Disher. “But I guess that’s to be expected when one has more
Independent/Dane Dupuis Gloria (Shannon DuPuis) teaches Robert (John Leonard) the art of the “New York kissing technique.”
working doors than actors.”
The revival of Boeing Boeing – which was originally written by Marc Camoletti and translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
– has had many incarnations. The most recent turn on Broadway in 2008 earned the airplane comedy six Tony nominations, with it winning two – for actor Mark
Rylance and for Best Revival of a Play. “I’ll be curious to see what flies,” Disher punned. “The possibilities defy altitude.”
Not all versions have been, well, airborne. The film version, with Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis, used the tag line “the big comedy of nineteen-sexty-sex.” It was not.
But now, everything old is new, and nostalgic, again. “And this piece will never be ‘set,’” Disher continued. “Discovery in comedy is one of the richest treasure troves in acting.”
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Boeing Boeing at Center Stage features Dane DuPuis, Shannon DuPuis, Samantha Honig, John Leonard, Catherine Maloney, and Josephine Wallace. Fun fact: David Tomlinson – Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins – played Bernard in the original West End production.
The show opens on Friday and runs through November 5 with shows on Thursday and Friday at 7 PM, Saturdays at 8, and Sunday matinees at 2:30 PM. Tickets are $25, $15 for students. There are also dinner theater packages available with the Plaza Café. Tickets can be purchased online at www.scc-arts.org.
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Reading Our Region by Joan Baum
Come Home
With a mission to be “uniquely positioned to make the transition into such media as film and television,” Oceanview Publishing, whose owners have had a house in Amagansett for years, courts novels they see as not only suspenseful, authentic, and original, but evocative of place. In Pat Gussin’s latest thriller Come Home, they have another prospect, merging an exciting tale of domestic discord and kidnapping with the toppling of the Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt in January 2011 during the abortive Arab Spring. Chances are you’ll zip through and be continually surprised by the plot shifts. And learn something along the way about Egyptian culture and the Egyptian upper class, not to mention also picking up a lot of info on plastic surgery and drug testing. The narrative, which spans only a month but covers ground, most of which the author knows --
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Readers may also question the extent of outside info: “Elvis died of constipation,” Nicole’s mother, also a doctor, tells her daughter. “Died on the toilet. He was a narcotic addict, and his physicians kept him supplied.” Or this detail about Roberts International Airport in Monrovia. No third world airstrip, it was built by the US government, “and had state of the art information technology and decent security.”
Though the medical lore may also at times seem a bit much, it does serve verisimilitude and reflect current events. For instance, Natalie is working on a promising cancer retardant drug, Zomera, that in post-approval trials is belatedly discovered (to stock holders’ horror) to prompt fatal rectal failure when taken with prescribed opioids. So, too, sections on plastic surgery that contain implicit criticism of older women trying to look young. You can bet that when Nicole’s nightmare is over, she is going to take a different, more humanitarian professional course. Though focused on privileged characters in 2011, Come Home resonates today as the immigration debate heats up and as post 9/11 suspicions about Arab American citizens appear in the media along with reports on tensions within
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ethnic communities about culture and identity.
As the book opens, Archy, as he’s called by his wife and friends, is spending increasing amounts of time on the phone with the family patriarch back in Egypt. He should take charge, he is told, call himself Ahmed, his son Wati, and send him to an Islamic school. Most important Ahmed should “come home.” Anti-Mubarak protests are mounting, threatening the family business.
Resentful of his wife’s greater success, feeling anti-Arab sentiment in the malpractice lawsuits filed against him, and seeing his son’s sweet nature as the result of maternal coddling, Ahmed begins to succumb. Given that many terrorist attacks these days are the work not of illegal immigrants but citizens, Ahmed’s growing denigration of American ways is particularly compelling. Come Home is thus not only an engrossing cliff hanger but an instructive tale.
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Fashion Fling & Luncheon
(L to R) Mary Beth Lichtneger, CFO, IGHL; Janet Fernandez, treasurer, IGHL; Donna LuDuca, board member, IGHL; and Nella Hahn, board member, IGHL at last year’s event.
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The Independent Group Home Living program presents its ninth annual Fashion Fling & Luncheon at Westhampton Country Club on Sunday from 11:30 to 3:30 PM. IGHL provides services for those with intellectual disabilities. The event will benefit the Gregory House, which houses six women in
Riverhead.
“This event is about bringing women together who support IGHL and its mission,” said Dori Geier, co-founder of the event along with Mary Beth Lichtneger, IGHL’s chief financial officer. “This event recognizes these women as being a vital part of IGHL’s family and in this way we honor them.”
Independent/Courtesy IGHL Diane Ghioto and Janeen Nebons of Tanger Outlet, Riverhead.
Lichtneger added that, “This year’s fashion fling and luncheon will benefit the Gregory House. We’d like to put an addition on the house of two bedrooms so all the women have their own room.” Tanger Outlets in Riverhead is a sponsor of the fashion show and models will wear looks from Chico’s. Janine Nebons, the GM of Tanger, will emcee the show and share insider tips. “Working with our retail partner Chico’s Outlet and other Tanger 30
retailers, we are happy to support IGHL’s mission to provide quality programs, services, and support for the intellectually-disabled,” said Nebons. “IGHL’s work on Long Island is essential to serving those individuals that need assistance on many levels. We know the annual fashion show is a perfect fit for Tanger Outlets and IGHL and look forward to showcasing great fall fashion,” she continued. For tickets and more info visit www.ighl.org.
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Homecoming Carnival By Justin Meinken
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Chilling October winds and a dark night sky were not enough to dampen the bright spirits of the Pierson High School students during their homecoming weekend, Friday night. After a crushing victory by the girls’ soccer team, the high schoolers celebrated their homecoming with a nighttime carnival. Held on the sports field in the back of the high school, each grade performed in an intense lip-sync battle and the homecoming king and queen were crowned. 31
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Hampton Daze by Jessica Mackin-Cipro
NEw York City Wine & FOOD FESTIVAL The Food Network and Cooking Channel’s New York City Wine and Food Festival returned for its 10th year this past weekend. Over 70 culinary events took place across the city, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting the hunger relief organizations No Kid Hungry and Food Bank for New York.
Rev Run performing at NYCWFF.
Ray, Marcus Samuelsson, Geoffrey Zakarian, and Robert Irvine took part in this year’s events.
The first event I went to was Smorgasburg on Thursday night. Presented by Thrillist, it was hosted by the cast of “Chopped.” Hosts included Ted Allen, Geoffrey Zakarian, Alex Guarnaschelli, Marcus Samuelsson, Chris Santos, and Marc Murphy. We sampled food and drinks from Brooklyn’s celebrated outdoor market. To end the event, Rev Run performed a set.
Top chefs and culinary personalities like Daniel Boulud, Wolfgang Puck, Alex Guarnashelli, JeanGeorges Vongerichten, Whoopi Goldberg, Giada De Laurentiis, Anne Burrell, Katie Lee, Rachael
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Chefs Marc Murphy, Marcus Samuelsson, Chris Santos, and Ted Allen.
On Saturday I headed to the Grand Tasting event, which featured live culinary demonstrations and book signings by chefs like Duff Goldman, Anne Burrell, Amanda Freitag, Masaharu Morimoto, Robert Irvine, and Andrew Zimmern. Local chefs and restaurants
involved in the NYCWFF included Marco Barrila from Insatiable Eats Catering, Stephan Bogardus from North Fork Table & Inn, Michael Chernow and Christopher Cryer from Seamore’s, Jorge Espinoza of Scarpetta, James Tchinnis from Swallow, and Laurent Tourondel of LT Burger.
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by Jessica Mackin-Cipro Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email to jessica@indyeastend. com. Pop Up Exhibit A pop up exhibit of paintings will be held in a spacious East Hampton barn. The show opens on Friday with a reception from 5 to 8 PM. The barn, located at 20 Skimhampton Road, East Hampton is the studio of Kryn Olson, one of the artists. The other artists include Shari Abramson, Perry Burns, and the late Chris Haile. The exhibit will run through November 5, by appointment. Email coco@folioeast.com or call 917-592-8033.
ONGOING Bert Stern Christy’s Art Center in Sag Harbor presents photographs by Bert Stern of modern icons including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Kate Moss, Ray Charles, and more. The show runs through November 8. Live Graffiti White Room Gallery hosts “Up from the Underground,” a graffiti exhibit, on view through Sunday. It features internationallyrenowned artists VP Dedaj aka VIC 161 and Domenick S. Vetro aka TAG. For this exhibit they present art from the ’80s through 2017. ODD Beauty “Odd Beauty: The TechnoEccentric World of Steampunk” is on view at the Southampton Arts Center through November 12. Touted as the most ambitious international Sseampunk exhibition in years, the show features works by renowned steampunk artists such as Sam Van Olffen, Paige Gardner, Tom Banwell, and many more.
Astronomy Art Exhibition The Astronomy Art Exhibition is on display at Custer Observatory in Southold. The exhibition features original works by artists Nick Cordone, Cynthia Padgett, and Randall DiGiuseppe, inspired by the night sky. The exhibit will run through November 5. Beauty and the Beast The Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum presents Cindy Pease Roe’s “Beauty and the Beast.” The show is designed to enlighten, delight, and engage people through Roe’s paintings and sculptures that celebrate the beauty of the ocean and the beast, marine plastic litter. The show runs through October 31. Sacred Rivers Stephanie Joyce, Susan Newbold, and Heidi Lewis Coleman will be exhibiting their collaborative “Sacred Rivers,” ink on mylar with metal leaf paintings, through November 25 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton. Restorative Nature “Restorative Nature,” paintings and sculpture by Gina Gilmour, will be on display at Suffolk County Community College through Tuesday. The show is an exhibit of paintings and sculpture ranging from small ceramics to paintings up to six feet high. View her works in the Lyceum Gallery, in the Montaukett Learning Resource Center on the Eastern Campus of SCCC in Riverhead.
Christy’s Art Center in Sag Harbor presents photographs by Bert Stern. The show runs through November 8.
info visit rentalgallery.us. Suffolk Historical Society The Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead presents “Riverhead Town 225th Anniversary Exhibition.” Located in the Weathervane Gallery, the exhibit displays historic photographs, documents, and artifacts depicting Riverhead’s past from the collection of the Suffolk County Historical Society through December. There is also the exhibit, “Line Drawings of Riverhead’s Notable Landmarks,” featuring drawings of historic structures
depicting the diversity and beauty of Riverhead, in the Gish Gallery, through October 28.
The Historical Society also presents “Over Here, Over There: Long Island & the Great War.” Commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the First World War, the exhibition features rare artifacts, maps, photographs, weaponry, posters, and more, depicting Long Islanders’ experiences during the First World War. Curated by Richard F. Welch, this exhibit will be on display in the Grand Staas Gallery until January 2018.
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Entertainment Guide Compiled by Bridget LeRoy All singing, all dancing? Readings, stagings, and slams? We can’t print it if we don’t know about it. Send your entertainment events to bridget@ indyeastend.com by Thursday at noon.
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VARIETY ARTS FESTIVAL The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in Riverhead presents A Vail October, a unique variety arts festival to celebrate the 136th birthday of the historic East End venue.
The festival features interactive performing arts events across all disciplines and genre, with emphasis on connecting local artists with new audiences and presenting work not seen anywhere else on the East End. From jazz to old time radio theatre to puppetry and beyond, the festival runs Thursday to Sunday, with evening weekday/weekend performances starting at 6 PM and weekend performances starting at 11 AM. Also, calling all storytellers, all ages, all media to participate in the first East End open mic story slam on Friday as part of the event. Come celebrate the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall’s 136th birthday with your story.
For more information about performing or purchasing tickets, visit www.theVail. org, or email vailleavittproductions@ gmail.com. Stephen Talkhouse
Friday it’s music by Big Karma at 8 PM, with the Lone Sharks continuing the party at 10. The Sturdy Souls take the stage at 8 on Saturday, with a Hello Brooklyn open-to-the-public birthday party for Ruby Honerkamp afterward at 10 PM. Visit www.stephentalkhouse.com or call 631-267-3117 to purchase tickets or for more info. Karaoke at Springs Tavern
The Springs Tavern at 15 Fort Pond Boulevard has announced that the Diva Karaoke will host karaoke night every Saturday night beginning at 10 PM. No cover, just bring your best singing voice! The Springs Tavern currently serves dinner seven days from 4 to 10 p.m. The bar is open seven days a week from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. For further
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information call The Springs Tavern at (631) 527-7800. Who loves you?
This Friday at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, enjoy an evening of Jersey Boys-style music, as Frankie Valli’s greatest hits are performed by four young Broadway veterans. The troupe will recreate some of the greatest hits – “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” and more.
Tickets range from $42 to $55. Ticket options for this event include row seating and cabaret seating. Doors, bar, and restaurant open at 6 PM, the show starts at 8 PM. Visit www.SuffolkTheater.com for more information and tickets. Music at Bay Street
On Friday, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor hosts The Nancy Atlas Project at 8 PM. Careful, this one sells out quick! Montauk homegirl Nancy Atlas is known for her raw, live performances and stellar song writing.
Tickets for the 8 PM show are available through www.BayStreet.org. Doctorow in Sag Harbor
Award-winning songstress Caroline Doctorow will perform at the Masonic Temple, 200 Main St., Sag Harbor, on Saturday at 8 PM.
Relax and enjoy Sag Harbor native Doctorow’s stirring voice and acclaimed folk music within the historic environment of the inner sanctum sanctorum of the Wamponamon Masonic Temple. Refreshments served after the show. The $20 admission goes to benefit the local food pantry and the Pierson High School scholarship fund. OPERA AND OPERATIF
On Saturday at 1 PM, Guild Hall presents The Met: Live in HD with Bellini’s Norma, an encore screening.
The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she performed to acclaim at the Met in 2013. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production. Tickets at www.GuildHall. org or by calling the box office at 631324-4050. $22 ($20 members); $15
Mike Cannon will perform at Bay Street’s All Star Comedy Show on Saturday.
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The performance is preceded by an “Operatif ” lecture on Norma by Victoria Bond at noon. This event is $30, free for opera donors. The John Drew Theater is in the Dina Merrill Pavilion at Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton.
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It’s pronounced fronkenshteen If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to, how about a night of musical comedy? North Fork Community Theatre is presenting Mel Brooks’s musical stage adaptation of his comedy classic Young Frankenstein, just in time for Halloween. According to director Bob Kaplan, the theater at 12700 Old Sound Avenue in Mattituck has been transformed to look like a black-andwhite movie. Performances run through October 29, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2:30. There will be an opening night reception tomorrow at 7 PM before the show. A review appears
elsewhere in this issue.
For tickets, call the box office at 631298-6328 or by visiting the website at www.nfct.com or Brown Paper Tickets. Blücher! Ha Ha Halloween
Long Island Comedy presents Ha Ha Halloween, a hilarious night of laughter and fun featuring a scary good line up of top comedians from around the country at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead this Friday. Featuring Paul Anthony, host of the Long Island Comedy Festival and the 50+ Comedy Tour, John Santo, master impressionist, Banjo Les direct from the Long Island comedy scene, and national headliner Maureen Langan. Tickets are $35. Contact the box office at www.SuffolkTheater.com. Laughs In Sag Harbor
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Old Dogs, New Trips
by Vay David & John Laudando
DESTINATION: WEDDING ON HIGHWAY 1 Independent/John Laudando A view of the Pacific Ocean from a beach south of Mendocino, California.
world of grand movies, it was pretty much as I’d imagined -- until we reached the indoor pool, which was utterly breathtaking. The famous Neptune Pool was being renovated, unfortunately, but the grounds were quite grand, and the view was irresistible. Easy to see why it’s built where it is, high up, overlooking the Pacific. We did the grand rooms tour, and if you go early enough in the day, tickets are pretty easy to get. We had a yummy lunch from their cafeteria and sat outdoors, where we were joined by a flock of audacious crows. Newlyweds Sarah Codraro and Benjamin Latham following their wedding ceremony on a hilltop in Elk, California.
The Independent wishes to acknowledge the wildfires that are raging in parts of Northern California. Our hearts go out to our Western friends and family. Our last column left us on California’s twisting, turning Highway 1 headed to a hilltop wedding in Elk, a bit south of Mendocino.
It is a road that is every bit as awe-inspiring as they say. And the wedding, set overlooking the majestic Pacific Coast, was pretty inspiring too. We had come to celebrate as East Hampton native Benjamin Latham married Sarah Codraro, originally from Maine -- the meant-for-each-other couple met when they were both students at Bates College. Highway 1 was what we travelled
for much of our way north from Joshua Tree National Park, and we managed to take in quite a few sights. We took the ferry those famous 26 miles to Catalina Island, a fun, cozy spot for a weekend, with good food and good vibes. Our best meal there was at Steve’s Steakhouse and Seafood, upstairs right across from the beach. And we savored happy-hour margaritas and nachos at Coyote Joe’s, facing the beach. We’d intended to rent a golf cart to tour the rest of Catalina before leaving, but bad weather persuaded us to take an earlier ferry and head for our next destination: Hearst Castle. As a California native, even I had never been there before, and my expectations were high. In today’s
After a quick stop with friends in San Francisco and a visit with relatives in Oroville, we headed for the coast and a rendezvous with other wedding guests at St. Orres, a favorite restaurant in Gualala that captivated us so much on a previous trip that we had gone there two nights in a row. Then we headed to
our Airbnb in Albion.
Next morning, we headed to Circa 62, at the Inn at Schoolhouse Creek in Little River. It calls itself “a pretty good breakfast spot” -talk about an understatement -- it was delicious! And we had a very fun visit to the upstairs bar at Flow, in the alluring town of Mendocino.
That night, more than 100 of us gathered at Cuffey’s Cove Ranch, on a windswept hillside, surrounded by panoramic views of the ocean for barbecue, spirits, and good spirits! The next day was the joyful wedding itself, where the wedding supper and dancing afterward took place in a huge barn filled with happy people. And a wonderful time was had by all! Find more stories and photos at olddogsnewtrips.com, comment on our Facebook page -- Old Dogs, New Trips -- or at olddogsnewtrips@ gmail.com.
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East End Calendar by Kitty Merrill Each week we’ll highlight local community events and library offerings presented by area institutions and organizations. It’s on you to send ‘em in, kids. Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email news@indyeastend.com.
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WEDNESDAY 10•18•17
• Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will partner with Amagansett Library to teach the
basics of bulb planting. For children in grades one to three. 4 PM. Register by calling 631-267-3810. Thursday 10•19•17
• East Hampton Town Republicans host a Listening Session at the Montauk Firehouse. Bring your concerns to the town board candidates
-- Manny Vilar, Jerry Larsen, and Paul Giardina. 6:30 to 9 PM. Free refreshments. SATURDAY 10•21•17
• Follow the longest trail in the enchanting Big Reed Pond nature preserve in its autumn splendor with views of Big Reed Pond, a National Natural Landmark. Some hilly areas. Meet at the Big Reed Nature Trail parking area off East Lake Drive, on the right about 1.8 miles north of Montauk Highway in Montauk at 10 AM. Leader: Eva Moore 631-2385134 or day of hike 631-681-4774. TUESDAY 10•24•17
• Young Cowgirls Set Sail!, a theater workshop for ages eight to 13, taught by Kate Mueth of the Neo-Political Cowgirls. A performance to follow on December 11 at 7 PM. The workshop will dive deep with journaling, conversation, theater games, movement,
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and concept-building through the meeting of theater art and social justice/community service.
As a group, participants will discuss their vision of our community and decide upon a particular need someone or a collective within our community has. Then, the group will come up with a plan for addressing, in a simple and concise way, how members might like to show up for this cause. In conjunction with this, they will also create a theater presentation based on this experience to share on the stage of the John Drew Theater for an audience. $200 ($185 GH Members). To reserve a spot contact Jennifer Brondo at 631324-0806 or Jennifer@guildhall.org.
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WEDNESDAY 10•18•17 • A support group for adult children of aging parents is held the third Wednesday of every month at the Hampton Bays Senior Center on Ponquogue Avenue at 6 PM. A family style dinner is served. To learn more, phone 631-728-1235. THURSDAY 10•19•17
• Parents who have questions about toddler development and behavioral issues, including temper tantrums and toilet training, are invited to the Westhampton Free Library from 10 to 11 AM to participate in a parent/ toddler workshop. During the workshop, the library’s parent educator will offer research-based strategies to help parents. To register, call 631288-3335 or sign up online at www. westhamptonlibrary.net. • SAGE LI Hampton Bays hosts a mingle for lesbian, gay, and bisexual seniors and their friends the fourth Thursday of the month from 3 to 5 PM at the Hampton Bays Senior Center. Call 631-728-1235 for further information.
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SATURDAY 10•21•17 • South Fork Natural History Museum hosts its first members-only celebration from 11 AM to 3 PM. A day of free festivities for members. Face painting, interactive exhibits, marine touch tank, and more. Jason’s live animal show will be in the house from 1 to 2 PM. Call 631-537-9735 to RSVP. SUNDAY 10•22•17
• It’s A Tribute to Frank Sinatra at the Hampton Bays Library at 2 PM. Renowned tribute artist Jerry Cardone celebrates the work and the life of a man who has captivated fans like no other. This program is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Hampton Bays Public Library.
• The Friends of the Rogers Memorial Library will present internationallyacclaimed pianist Joel Fan in concert on Sunday at 3 PM. He will perform works by Chopin, Liszt, and more. A reception will follow. There is no charge for this program. Register at www. myrml.org or call 631-283-0774 ext 523.
• Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt present “Bark: Get to Know Your Trees” at 1 PM. Join Michael Wojtech for an exploration of bark, which is always visible, in any season. He will be available to sign copies of his books, Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast and Drawing Trees and Leaves: Observing and Sketching the Natural World. The Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center is located at 1061 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton just north of Scuttle Hole Road. Refreshments will be served. To register today visit: http:// www.longpondgreenbelt.org/bark/. FLPG Member: $15. Non-Member: $25*. *includes FLPG membership. For more information contact Jean Dodds, 631-599-2391 or greenbeltnews@aol. com.
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• Learn about diagnostic tools at the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Southampton Hospital, the importance of breast self-exams and mammograms, and how a Patient Navigator can help support you through your breast cancer journey. Taking place at the Westhampton Free Library at noon. Call 631-288-3335 ext. 4 to register.
• The Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton will offer a discussion in a monthly series produced by the Foreign Policy Association, “Great Decisions 2017,” about topics of global issues from 10:15 to 11:45 AM at Cooper Hall. Martin Levinson, Ph.D., will moderate a session on prospects for nuclear security. Seating is limited and reservations are suggested. Register at www.myrml.org or call 631-283-0774 ext. 523.
• Get ready to celebrate Halloween with the Westhampton Free Library from 5 to 9 PM at the Village Green and Gazebo. During the Spooky Spectacular, there will be plenty of tricks, treats and activities. Families are invited to arrive in costume and participate in a Monster Mash Dance from 5 to 6 PM and watch the film Hotel Transylvania at 6 PM or Frankenstein at 7:30 PM. For more information, visit www.
• The Rogers Memorial Library will offer a screening of Hidden Figures at 3 PM. This 127-minute film tells the story of three African-American women working at NASA on the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, an event that galvanized the world. Register at www.myrml.org or
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By Nicole Teitler
Strong Island Is Island Strong
Island Strong All Day Long. More than a phrase or t-shirt, it’s actually the company motto of Island Strong, an online merchandise store that began selling products in 2015. Terrance Saporito, CEO and founder of the company, designed the popular logo during his college humor t-shirt business days; a filled-in outline of Long Island with the word “STRONG” boldly in the middle. However, it was his wife, Erica, who came up with the name Island Strong as a tribute to strengthen the community.
Saporito and partner, Brian Jones, who handles ecommerce and shipping, are Island natives that have been friends for almost two decades after first meeting in school at Connetquot. As business ideas were flowing, Saporito and Jones were introduced to local celebrity and UFC fighter Chris Wade, who is a jack-of-all-trades helping wherever possible. “Chris’s ideas and goals aligned with ours so well it was a nobrainer. And just last year my long time mentor Al Carrabis joined us,” Saporito said. “Al is a very established business man who currently lives in Blue Point. He corralled us three in and started turning Island Strong into a welloiled machine. All of our friends and family have been so supportive and we really have built one huge family.” In particular, Saporito pointed to the wonder women behind the business, Erica and Jones’s girlfriend, Mallory.
Two new lines of hats and beanies with the Island Strong and LOCAL designs are expected to come out later this month, as new creations pop up several times a year. Saporito primarily constructs everything himself, with the exception of a few fan creations that are submitted. In trying to keep with the idea of “shop local,” Royal Apparel in Hauppauge
much deeper,” said Saporito. “I’ve met so many incredible people over the last two years. I’ve realized that our communities are what make Long Island so unique. The friends we’ve made along this journey make Long Island so special to us,” Saporito passionately expressed.
“We’re inspired greatly by towns like Greenport and Sayville. We spend a lot of time there because of the hometown feel you get when you’re walking the street or talking to shop owners. Not to say that other towns don’t have that, it’s just where we are right now. I grew up going to beautiful places like the Arboretum and especially love the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport. We’re lucky to be close to so many incredible places. People around the country don’t have that luxury and I think we take it for granted.” sources some of the clothing, with much of it coming from within the United States. Currently, they are using East End Emblem in Ronkonkoma for their prints.
Fan favorite designs include the signature Island Strong logo, the Long Island mermaid, and the LOCAL logo. “The LOCAL logo is very simple but I feel it can be worn by any Long Islander. We have plans to expand further on this design,” Saporito acknowledged. As for who can be seen wearing it, “It is astonishing how many orders we get from out of state. When they leave Long Island, everyone wants to take a piece with them.” Island Strong works with local charities on a consistent basis. With aims to better the community, they’re currently working with Room4Love, Boots on the Ground NY, and Save the Great South Bay, but the charities occasionally rotate. At this time the company directs all donations to Island Harvest with an awareness that this is the “most crucial time for Long Islanders in
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Yet, it’s Peconic Land Trust that hits home and is always in their hearts. “My mother Carol Isles who is on the board of directors for LINLA (Long Island Nursery & Landscape Association) and LIFB (Long Island Farm Bureau) mentioned Peconic Land Trust to me and we fell in love with what they represent and their goals for Long Island,” Saporito said. All of this led to the creation of the Loyal to the Soil logo.
Now fans of Loyal to the Soil can sip beer while wearing their favorite shirt. Being released later this fall is a new Loyal to the Soil wheat beer in collaboration with Jamesport Farm Brewery. Saporito expressed his excitement. “Them being a farm brewery and growing 90 percent of their own ingredients, it’s only fitting. Myself and Brian love Long Island craft beer, so this is a dream come true.” Beyond giving back, “my appreciation for Long Island goes
Island Strong emphasizes that their company buildup has been in large part through Instagram. Dozens of local photographers tag the account in an almost symbiotic relationship to spread brand awareness. Island Strong can also be found at local festivals where people can meet the team behind their favorite social media posts. “No social media platform will get your message across better than a conversation,” Saporito said.
In addition to selling merchandise online and in a select variety of small businesses, including Riverhead’s Taste the East End Boutique, Island Strong will be opening their first brick-andmortar location in summer of 2018, filled with a plethora of Long Island products. Want to go Island Strong All Day Long? Follow them on Instagram and Facebook @LIslandStrong or purchase your very own gear at www.lislandstrong.com. You can follow more stories from Nicole Teitler on Facebook and Instagram @NikkiOnTheDaily.
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Real Men Wear Pink
By Nicole Teitler
This Saturday join Lucia’s Angels, the Coalition for Women’s Cancers, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for the Real Men Wear Pink cocktail party. From 5:30 to 7:30 PM enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, and a silent auction at the Maidstone Club Tennis House located on Maidstone Lane in East Hampton.
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Barbara Borsack, one of the chairpersons involved with the event and an East Hampton resident, underwent breast cancer treatment in 2009 and completed in 2010. Upon realizing that all services were done in Southampton she decided to start an event in her local area. Through a simple Facebook post in 2011 an idea was started. “I posted ‘I would like to start a cancer fundraiser in East Hampton. Would anyone be interested in joining me?’ And I immediately had a committee,” Borsack remembered. “All of these people volunteered to help.” The group began getting together in 2011 and every year the money is split three ways, all of which hold a special place in one of the organizers’ hearts, which has grown to giving over $10,000 to each individual charity. “We have no formal organization. We’re just a group of friends who get together. And they’re just amazing women. We start meeting in May and pick a date, and then we get together in June and July. We meet maybe five or six times before the event. The rest is everyone going out into the community and gathering prizes, selling tickets,” Borsack said.
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Lifetime honorees are tributes to the loving memory of Teresa Montant, Cecilia Avallone Babinski, and Karin Anderson, three friends who succumbed to different forms of cancer. New to this year will be an honor board, which will include special friends showcasing loved ones’ pictures.
Prizes include over 50 raffle prizes from local businesses, 30 silent auction items, and more. Tickets are $100 per person. Contact 631-324-0803 for ticket information. You can follow more stories from Nicole Teitler on Facebook and Instagram @NikkiOnTheDaily
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by Jessica Mackin-Cipro Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email to jessica@indyeastend. com. Breast Cancer Awareness Month It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All month long dine at Sabrosa Mexican Grill in Water Mill and a portion of your check will be donated to the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Tomorrow it’s Shopping Night Out. Enjoy jewelry, clothing and houseware vendors at Dockers Waterside Marina & Restaurant in East Quogue from 6 to 9 PM. There’s a $10 entry fee that includes a buffet and donation to the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. On Friday it’s Breast Cancer Awareness and the Role of a Patient Navigator. Learn about diagnostic tools at the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Southampton Hospital, the importance of breast self-exams and mammograms, and how a patient navigator can help support you through your breast cancer journey. The event takes place at the Westhampton Free Library at noon. Call 631-288-3335 ext. 4 to register.
On Saturday don’t miss Real Men Wear Pink. Enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, and a silent auction at the Maidstone Tennis House in East Hampton from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Tickets are $100. Call 631-324-0803 to purchase. The event benefits the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Lucia’s Angels, and the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
On October 27 it’s Girls Night Out. Enjoy wine and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, spa treatments,
music, and dancing from 7 to 10 PM at Gurney’s Montauk. Free Hampton Jitney transportation is provided as well. For bus reservations, call 631-726-8715. For tickets, visit GNO2017. splashthat.com. The event benefits the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Purple Purse In 99 percent of domestic abuse cases, victims will experience financial abuse, which means their abusers will deny them access to money and financial resources they need to break free. The Retreat and Allstate Foundation are drawing attention to financial abuse by launching a Purple Purse campaign. The Retreat is one of more than 220 domestic violence services agencies participating in the 2017 The Allstate Foundation Purple Purse Challenge. Taking place through October 31 and coinciding with National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Challenge urges the public to support survivors of domestic violence and financial abuse throughout October. Since 2002, The Retreat has provided financial empowerment services. Its Take Charge! program teaches clients job readiness and financial skills so they can become financially independent. Your participation in the Purple Purse campaign will help raise much-needed funds for survivors of domestic abuse. To become a Purple Purse Team Member, visit www.theretreatinc.org, the Facebook page, or call 631-3294398. Shelter Island 5K The 18th Annual Shelter Island 5K Run/Walk, a USA track and field certified course, will be held on Saturday at 11 AM. The race is held in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and
supports the North Fork Breast Health Coalition, the Coalition for Women’s Breast Health at Southampton Hospital, and Lucia’s Angels. All proceeds go directly to patient care via these local breast health organizations. The beautiful and scenic 5K course starts on a tree-lined street with stunning fall foliage and finishes along the beautiful Crescent Beach.
Medals are awarded for the top male and female finishers, and for the first-place breast cancer survivor runner and walker respectively. There are also prizes awarded to the team with the most participants. A free shuttle bus runs from the North Ferry to registration between 9 and 10:15 AM. The return shuttle from the finish to the North Ferry runs until 1 PM. An open stretch clinic starts at 10 AM. The first 600 participants are guaranteed race shirts and goody bags. All participants are welcome to the free post-race barbeque, which includes infamous chili, BBQ, cookies, and more. The event is family friendly and all ages are welcome. Dogs and strollers are also welcome. All proceeds for the raffle, with over 20 prizes, benefit Lucia’s Angels. Runners may register online at https://www.shelterislandfall5k. com or by mail by printing the application online and mailing to PO Box 599, Shelter Island, NY 11964. Fees are as follows: $30 adults, $10 kids 14 and under for advance registration prior to midnight on 10/20/17. Same day registration is $40 adults and $20 kids. For more information about Shelter Island Run visit www. shelterislandrun.com or call 631774-9499.
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cancer.org or visit www. makingstrideswalk.org/longisland or www.makingstrideswalk.org/ easternlongisland to sign up or donate. ARF Halloween Pawty Join ARF for tricks and treats and see all the adoptable cats and dogs at the ARF Adoption Center in Wainscott on Sunday from 11 AM to 2 PM. Bring the whole family and your pets too and take a walk along the haunted trails. There will be candy, games, and much more. Visit www.arfhamptons.org. Fashion Fling Independent Group Home Living Program presents its ninth annual Fashion Fling & Luncheon at Westhampton Country Club on Sunday from 11:30 to 3:30 PM. IGHL provides services for those with intellection disabilities. The event will benefit the Gregory House, which houses six women in Riverhead. Tanger Outlets in Riverhead is a sponsor of the fashion show and models will wear looks from Chico’s. Janine Nebons, the GM of Tanger, will emcee the show and share insider tips. Our Lady Of The HamptonS Our Lady of the Hamptons Regional Catholic School in Southampton is celebrating 35 years of learning, growth, achievement, and faith at The Muses in Southampton on Saturday, October 28, from 6 to 10 PM. Guests can enjoy a red carpet, music by Noiz, hors d’oeuvres, open bar, and dinner. The cost is $100 per person. RSVP by October 21 by emailing olhanniversary35@gmail. com or call 631-283-9140.
Breast Cancer Walks The American Cancer Society presents its annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk scheduled for Sunday at Suffolk County Community College, Eastern Campus in Riverhead. For those interested in walking, registration begins at 7:30 AM and the walk starts at 8:30 AM. There is no fee to register, though contributions and donations are greatly appreciated. Call the American Cancer Society at 631-300-3455, email LongIslandNYStrides@ 39
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Guest Worthy Recipe: Josh Tanner
By Zachary Weiss
Who: Josh Tanner, chef and partner of New York Prime Beef INSTAGRAM: @NewYorkPrimeBeef CHEF TANNER’s GUEST WORTHY RECIPE: Filet Chateaubriand WHY? New York Prime Beef tenderloin is the ultimate showstopper for a fall supper, and the best part is that you can throw it in the oven and be free to entertain guests. The meat is USDA Prime Filet Chateaubriand which is guaranteed to be meltingly tender, moist, and flavorful. Whether as a tied roast, or on the grill for a special fall gathering, the Filet Chateaubriand is sure to make a lasting impression and, even better, guarantees sandwiches for days after. INGREDIENTS 5 lbs Chateaubriand Olive Oil
Salt & pepper Rosemary Potatoes
Fall vegetables (parsnip, turnips, carrots) DIRECTIONS Preheat your oven to 500°F. The high temperature helps develop the caramelized appearance and flavor on the outside of the meat. Make a simple seasoning rub of
freshly cracked black pepper and kosher salt. Rub all over roast.
Insert a meat thermometer into the thickest part of the meat. Roast uncovered for the first 15 minutes, then turn it down to 350° and let it roast until desired internal temperature is reached. To help you plan, it will be roughly 14 minutes per pound for rare; roughly 17 for medium rare; and roughly 19 for medium. Again, these times are approximate and your best weapon is a meat thermometer. Go by temperature, not time.
Arrange the peeled baby potatoes in the pan alongside any fall vegetables of your choice. We like parsnips, turnips, and carrots as they soak up all the delicious meat juices and turn caramelized in a high heat.
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Tent the roast with foil and let it rest at least 15 minutes. It will continue to cook during this time, allowing juices to permeate the meat. Once the temperature comes back down to 120°F, it’s ready to carve and serve.
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Navy Beach Raises The Bar
By Nicole Teitler
Montauk’s Navy Beach completed a successful fifth season of philanthropic efforts for the Navy SEAL Foundation, $35,000 to be exact. This number comes as no surprise with the array of endeavors, including a “dine and donate” program during the summer season where all lunch and dinner checks collect $1 per meal, and an anticipated kick-off event held in June. “Each year we host a kickoff event – a beachside cocktail party – where guests, SEAL team members, and families gather in support. We were fortunate enough to raise over $10,000 on this day,” said Frank Davis, Navy Beach co-owner. This year former US Navy SEAL Mike Zapata and Marc Wolf, director of development of the New York region for the Foundation, expressed their sentiments at the event.
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The numbers are only part of the overall $125,000 Navy Beach has raised for the not-for-profit organization which provides ongoing support to the Naval Special Welfare community. As a former base location during World War II, this specific location holds a special attachment to the Navy and the SEALs.
“Amazing local veterans have and continue to visit us and share their honorable stories of their service and some include their memories of our location when it was an active base,” Davis said. “We are very fortunate. My partner Franklin’s parents were both in the Navy. Both served as Naval officers in the Vietnam war where they met. My brother was a member of the special forces, 82nd Airborne Rangers.” During the off-season Davis maintains a year-round relationship with the Foundation As an active
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ambassador he merited an invite to join the host committee at the annual Navy Seal Foundation gala in Manhattan every spring, and which raised over $12 million in 2016. “I believe no organization is better at putting these raised dollars to work. We are lucky to be involved,” Davis said.
Next year’s 2018 season is already in the works. The annual kickoff event is scheduled for June 16 (mark your calendars), with even more SEAL members involved. In addition, Navy Beach is planning to have cadets enter the BUD/S class
(Basic Underwater Demolition/ SEAL) since the location is right on the water. This class is expected to have local East Coast team member families involved, both past and present, and Gold Star Families (those who have lost loved ones in the Armed Forces).
Navy Beach is located at 16 Navy Road in Montauk and can be found www.navybeach.com or reached at 631-668-6868. You can follow more stories from Nicole Teitler on Facebook and Instagram @NikkiOnTheDaily.
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Roasted Spaghetti Squash & Brussel Sprouts With Herbed Butter Sauce Ingredients (serves 4) 1 large spaghetti squash 1 lb Brussels sprouts
1 clove of garlic sliced thin 1/4 c olive oil 1/4 lb butter
1/4 c chicken stock
1 Tbsp of thyme (picked)
1 Tbsp tarragon (picked & chopped) 1 Tbsp chervil (chopped) Salt and pepper to taste
Directions Start by washing the outside of the spaghetti squash. Split it lengthwise down the middle, scrape out the seeds, and place the squash on a sheet tray with the skin side down. Roast in the oven at 400 degrees for one hour. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and quarter your Brussels sprouts. Cook the Brussels sprouts in the boiling water for about two minutes. Immediately place in an ice bath to cool them down. Strain Japanese RestauRant and sushi BaR
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Heat two pans over medium heat and add the olive oil evenly. Begin sautÊing the garlic in each pan. The squash will go in one pan and the Brussels sprouts in the other. Cut side down for the Brussels sprouts to create a nice sear. Brown each of the vegetables and season to your liking. At this point you are ready to warm the butter sauce and add the herbs to the sauce. Don’t heat it too high or you will break the sauce. Plate the vegetables and ladle a bit of sauce over the top and enjoy.
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by Kitty Merrill Clovis Point Vineyard and Winery
Wölffer Estate Vineyard
On Saturday, from 1:30 to 5:30 PM, Joe Scollo from the band Full House performs. Sunday, same time, it’s Bryan Gallo. www. clovispointwines.com.
Yoga in the Vines presents a special harvest-themed meditation and paint class from 10 AM till noon at the wine stand. $55. www.wolffer. com.
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Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard presents music on Saturday. From 11:30 AM to 6 PM, it’s Craig Rose with Ain’t So EZ from 2 to 6 PM. On Sunday, from 2 to 6 PM, it’s Miles to Dayton. www. baitinghollowfarmvineyard.com. Pugliese Vineyards Stop by on Saturday for live music by Nina Et Cetera from 1 to 5 PM. On Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, it’s George Barry. www. pugliesevineyards.com. Roanoke Vineyards On Saturday, lift a glass to “Over the Falls; Wines from the Niagara Frontier,” with Lenn Thompson, publisher of the New York Cork Report at 5:30 PM. Tickets are $45 and can be found at www. roanokevineyards.net.
Spinning in Infinity performs from 1 to 4 PM on Sunday. www. raphaelwine.com. Martha Clara Vineyards Stop by Sunday for an educational vineyard tour and tasting. $15 per person, $5 for wine club members. Reservations required. The walk begins at 11 AM, check-in’s at 10:45 AM. www. marthaclaravineyards.com.
by Jessica Mackin-Cipro Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email to jessica@indyeastend. com. Taco Tuesday Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett is now hosting Taco Tuesday every week for dinner service. Diners may choose from three different tacos for $20 complete with chips and salsa to start. All tacos are topped with radish, cilantro, and queso fresco and are served with rice and beans. Selections include a steak taco, pulled chicken taco, and seared tuna taco.
Coast Kitchen Coast Kitchen at the Montauk Yacht Club has announced their fall specials for the season. Happy hour is served daily from 4 to 7 PM and is complete with bar bites for $10 and drink specials, which include; $3 beers, $8 glasses of wine, $10 house specialty drinks. A special three-course prix fixe menu will be served daily from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for $29.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity. For more info call the Montauk Yacht Club at 631-6683100.
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There’s music every weekend this month from 1:30 to 5:30 PM. On Saturday George Barry performs, Sunday sees Tom Kopec at the mic. www.jasonsvineyard.com.
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Source: Suffolk Research Service, Inc., Hampton Bays, NY 11946 * -- Vacant Land East Hampton Town ZIPCODE 11930 - AMAGANSETT ZIPCODE 11937 - EAST HAMPTON ZIPCODE 11954 - MONTAUK ZIPCODE 11963 - SAG HARBOR Riverhead Town ZIPCODE 11792 - WADING RIVER ZIPCODE 11901 - RIVERHEAD ZIPCODE 11931 - AQUEBOGUE ZIPCODE 11933 - CALVERTON ZIPCODE 11947 - JAMESPORT ZIPCODE 11970 - SOUTH JAMESPORT Southampton Town ZIPCODE 11901 - RIVERHEAD ZIPCODE 11932 - BRIDGEHAMPTON ZIPCODE 11942 - EAST QUOGUE ZIPCODE 11946 - HAMPTON BAYS ZIPCODE 11959 - QUOGUE ZIPCODE 11960 - REMSENBURG ZIPCODE 11963 - SAG HARBOR ZIPCODE 11968 - SOUTHAMPTON ZIPCODE 11977 - WESTHAMPTON ZIPCODE 11978 - WESTHAMPTON BEACH Southold Town ZIPCODE 11935 - CUTCHOGUE ZIPCODE 11939 - EAST MARION ZIPCODE 11944 - GREENPORT ZIPCODE 11948 - LAUREL ZIPCODE 11952 - MATTITUCK ZIPCODE 11971 - SOUTHOLD
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645,000 3,100,000
89 Mulford Ln 114 Meeting House Ln
8 Duryea Avenue LLC Kotsonis & DeStefano McKenna,B & Fierro,E
Schrader, W Carbo, R Osterholm, W&B, etal
450,000 850,000 745,000
8 Duryea Ave 213 Fairview Ave 229 W Lake Dr
Haber, K Martin, M & N Schwam, K & B Lipson, R 58 Underwood LLC Ornstein, A Trust Eckardt, S & Le, M Payne Real Estate Posillico, R & M Dryburgh,S & Raij,C Dellapolla, S Brown, N & F Egypt 875 LLC 19 Pondview Lane Blatstein, E & L
McGlynn, S & A
Ritter, R Safe Harbor Dvlpmnt Edwards, M Landfall Properties Ross Havens, D Trust Deutsche Bank Nat Pesner, M D.L. Talmage Inc Taormina,P &Vitale,C Lynn,J & Richards,B Winograd, K Greenberg, L Sherrill,EJrTrust &L 19 Pond View LLC Ironman Realty LLC
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Fondulis, C Van Slyke, B Gill, G & H Vargas, C & C Fortis Realty Group Kretschmer, A & M
Stroh, G Zabolotny, M Conway, J Edelstein, C & D Fannie Mae Flynn, P & P
360,000 340,000 703,000 442,500 275,000 580,000
95 Elizabeth Dr 386 Hulse Landing Rd 2 Inverness Ct 32 Josephine Dr 54 Stephen Dr 27 Megans Way
Park,M & McInerney,P US Bank Trust NA
Martin, A Georges, E by Ref
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177 Tuthills Ln 480 Peconic Bay Blvd
712 Horton Avenue Campagna, M & J Diedericks&Panipinto Pepi, A & De Santo,D Sapienza, S US Bank National Thornton LivingTrust Gambino, J Mangini, J & J
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Maimoni, R & K Dueker Jr, W Zervos, T & B
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909 Sound Shore Rd 68 Seacove Ln 77 Morningside Ave
Aucapina-Parra, J US Bank National As HSBC Bank USA Gachynsky &Gachynska
Bennett, C&D Trust Nash, V & V by Ref Kruk, D by Ref Gazza, J & C
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57 Goodridge Rd 184 Ludlam Ave 76 Oak Ave p/o 432 Maple Ave S
Chatterjee, N Trust Schiff,L & Zemmel,S Bennett, M Trust
Long,A & Griffiths,S Kessler,J&de Korte,S 15B Squires Ave Land
565,000 899,000 528,000
79 Lewis Rd 4 Landing Ln 15B Squires Ave
339 Lumber LaneTrust 2 Planets LLC
Federal NationalMrtg Michail, A McGrath, M Hempel, A de Korte, J & S Finkelstein, S & S
Sonaro Holdings Inc
Culpepper,R&Holbrook Zazzarino, L Omlor,J & Gorman, S Rendon, S & J Ilsey, R & H US Bank National As PGA Capital LLC Gaona, T & Saa, M 19 Landsdowne Lane 473 Hill Street Hldg Sterling KnightsHldg Castelli, S & G Raffa, C
Gruosso, P & R Melnick, M & D Dansker, L Schwartz, G & D
Reilly BuildingCorp Sheahan, D
DeRosa, J by Ref Kaplan, D Trust Deutsche Bank Nat Farrell, J & C Davidson, M & E Miller, M
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Helbing&NikolichHelb Crowley, L by Exr LodgeChildren’sTrust Cassuto, J by Ref US Bank National As Browne Development Raji, S Sambob Inc 510 Old Town RoadLLC Hubbard, G Samanowitz, R & A Ware, K & J Kavanaugh, S Bergman, L by Exr Audet, E
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503,305 908,000 400,500 568,000 285,000 934,500
1,350,000 1,365,000 815,801
750,000 809,000 617,500 1,406,856 645,750 1,550,000 950,000* 4,029,500 11,100,000 270,000 1,350,000 850,000 853,000 4,200,000 1,100,000
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32 Suffolk Rd 6 Gerald Ln 1 Re Ct 11 Middle Rd 19 Coolidge Rd
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12 Row Off Noyack Ave 31 Meadowlark Ln 6 Fern Rd 62 Turtle Cove Dr 7 Jordan Ln 308 St Andrews Rd 308 St Andrews Rd 42 Hills Station Rd 19 Landsdowne Ln 473 Hill St 510 Old Town Rd 643A Ent Ave 6 Sandpiper Ct
51 Bridle Path 265 Dune Rd 62 Dune Rd 836B Dune Rd
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Chianese, A Blaikie-Siejka, C Durett, V O’Brien, R der Boghossian, R &J
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Real Estate News Analyzing the Hamptons market, T&C reported, “The $10-$20M price range found its groove again,” sounding a collective “whew” that reverberated throughout the industry.
Sales in that segment are up 133 percent over the third quarter figures from 2016, and that’s a good thing. Curiously, Desiderio notes, six of the seven sales in the $10-20 million range were in the Bridgehampton market, which includes Water Mill and Sagaponack. “A dazzling statistical fact; sales in the Bridgehampton area accounted for over two percent of the home sales in the entire region,” she observed. There were two $20 million-plus sales in East Hampton Village. It posted the highest median home sales price at $4,437,500. Impressive, yet 15 percent less than last year’s at $5 million. The Sag Harbor market, which
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includes Noyac and North Haven, had a quiet three months, according to the Town and Country report. Sales were down 30 percent and volume dipped a whopping 60 percent over the same quarter a year earlier. The lack of higher-end sales is seen as the main culprit. There is more and more data that suggests the need for affordable housing is overwhelming. Sales under $500K went down -- there simply are few to none.
In closing, the third quarter was a healthy quarter for the Hamptons residential market.
There were approximately eight percent increases in all three criteria monitored -- number of sales, price per sale, and median price. In contrast the North Fork market was steady. Total home sales increased 15 percent; median home sales price rose 23 percent, and the median was up 22 percent.
SEASONED PROFESSIONALS Independent / Courtesy Douglas Elliman Kerri Blank has joined the East Hampton office of Douglas Elliman.
Compiled by Rick Murphy Blank Joins Elliman Kerri Blank, a top producing real estate professional, has been a licensed associate broker for the past 15 years. Her prior career as a successful attorney has helped Blank hone her skills as an expert negotiator and dealmaker. She is also a certified home stager and offers her clients complimentary home staging.
Blank received a BA in art history
from Syracuse University and a law degree from New England Law. Prior to entering real estate, she practiced law at a large New York City law firm, and then her own law office. Town & Country Third Quarter report Judi Desiderio, the CEO of Town and Country, has a reputation for telling it like it is, so her insights into the current condition of the market are required reading.
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Goodbye Columbus Christopher Columbus: So whatsa matter? Christopher Columbus Jr.: They want to take your day away, Pop. CC: What? What? They no lika my calzone? What? Ahh . . . my gnocchi was how you say, mealy, yes? Thatsa it! Son: No, Pa.
CC: What, my lasagna was watery? I’ma kill Bruno Tagilosacchi for that soggy mozzarella! Son: No, Pop. They say we are Barbarians.
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Son: We’ll still get you a cake, Pop. CC: Mancano solo le candeline di compleanno? Son: Yes, you can blow out the candles. CC: Come mamma m’ha fatt?
Son: No, you CANNOT wear your birthday suit. CC: Whata else bad you gonna tell me? Son: Well you’ve been removed from the Southampton School District calendar.
CC: So bene che ci sono sempre stati degli atei, ma sono dei pazzi! Son: Yes, loco!
CC: One a more thing. Is a Mario eh . . . ?
CC: Si! No bigga lika me!
Son: Pop, they are also gonna take your holiday away.
CC: What? I only gotta one a lousy day off from making the linguine, from cooking the marinara, from drying the prosciutto . . . plus itsa my birthday! Son: It’s not really your birthday. CC: Mio compleanno è domain! l mio compleanno è domani. La
Son: Don’t worry. I’m sure Mario Lanza is still on the calendar. CC: And Julius Larosa?
Son: Now you’re pushing it, Pop.
CC: I want nothing to happen to the school board . . . Son: of course not.
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We’re proud and pleased as punch this week to tell the story of East End resident Billy Finn as he makes his dreams come true on stage. We must admit to a smidgen of nepotism here – Billy’s a member of Indy’s extended family. His mom Lisa, now an editor for Patch, was a reporter for The Independent a few years back.
While we take our obligation to present local news seriously, the chance to report the successes of our local young people is a joy. Telling the stories of our youth – their community efforts and achievements – is a cornerstone of our newspaper. That’s why we couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome back award-winning photographer Gordon Grant, whose extraordinary shots of local sports and news events graced Indy’s pages 25 years ago when we first started. To repeat, we do just love kvelling about East End kids, so be sure to help us out by letting us know of your sons’ or daughters’ achievements and efforts. Hit us up at news@indyeastend.com. And -- and this is an exciting and – don’t forget to grab up a copy of next week’s Boo! Short and Scary contest edition. It’s a spooky and sensational annual effort and a labor of love for us to present the best stories and art by our local school children. Thanks to our sponsor Bridgehampton National Bank for helping us on this ghoulish quest. Trustee Endorsement Dear Editor,
I write to endorse Susan Vorpahl and the other eight candidates running on the Republican and Conservative lines for East Hampton Town Trustees. Susan exemplifies the best tradition of the Trustees and it is why I am singling her out from this extraordinarily experienced group of trustee candidates. Susan Vorpahl is the daughter of East Hampton legend, the late Stuart B. Vorpahl Jr., and the most awesome Mary Vorpahl. Stuart Vorpahl was a commercial fisherman and past East Hampton Town Trustee. Being a Vorpahl,
Susan has a breadth of knowledge and profound respect for East Hampton’s waters and what it takes to provide for one’s family in this dangerous and unpredictable profession. With a love of this land we call East Hampton, Susan will continue the traditions her dad helped keep sacred furthering the historical importance of the East Hampton Town Trustees and the 1686 Dongan Patent.
Joining Susan is an incredible group of professionals including Joe Bloecker, former trustee and holder of a sea captain’s license; Gary Cobb, president of the Save Our Baymen’s Association; Julie Evans,
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former owner of a commercial fishing boat and also a holder of a sea captain’s license; Jim Grimes, local businessman and incumbent trustee; Mike Havens, commercial fisherman; Lyndsey Hayes, accredited college coursework in marine studies and daughter of a commercial fisherman; Diane McNally, former trustee clerk and incumbent trustee for decades; Willy Wolter, 40-year recreational fisherman and board member of EECO Farm.
I urge all East Hampton voters to ensure East Hampton’s waters continue to be protected by this extraordinarily experienced group of men and women and to vote on the Republican or Conservative lines for Vorpahl, Bloecker, Cobb, Evans, Grimes, Havens, Hayes, McNally, and Wolter for Town Trustee. Carole Campolo
BLOCKED BEACHES Dear Editor,
Well, another delightful summer in the Hamptons is pretty much behind us. A little cooler and wetter than usual perhaps, but still delightful.
Our vast and beautiful beaches are a large part of that delight. With one caveat. With increasing frequency, some selfish and shortsighted people among us are trying to reverse our centuries-old tradition of pretty much unfettered access for one and all to those beaches. CfAR (Citizens for Access Rights) has pointed out that this trend is a growing problem -deeded roads and other accesses blocked with berms, signs, etc. Unfortunately this trend has been aided and abetted by two town board members running for office this year. Mr. [Peter] Von Scoyoc and Mrs. [Kathee ] BurkeGonzalez both claim to be in favor of public access to our beaches in their campaign literature. Yet both voted to forbid a mere 15 or so parking spaces on the unused eastern side of Dolphin Drive. This is the only feasible parking for access to the South Flora Preserve Beach, a 37-acre piece which was purchased with $8 million of public funds “for use as a public beach.”
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Were you surprised by the news about Harvey Weinstein? Mary McPartland It’s terrible. But in the eighties the “casting couch” was thought of as the “price of entry.” This went back to the 1920’s. William Randolph Hearst was famous for it. But this shows how much our society has changed. Now, it’s finally acceptable to talk about it. So this is real progress. Mark Roeloff It’s such a shame but I think that kind of thing happens all the time. And it wouldn’t surprise me at all to start hearing about other people who’ve done the same thing. Especially now that Weinstein is in the news. Franny Moy What surprised me the most was that clearly people, and lots of people, have known about this for years. But hey, this has been going on forever in Hollywood, so I find myself wondering, why now? It’s a good thing it’s come out. But what took so long? Lee Silverman The guy’s a creep. But you can only assume there will be lots more of this kind of news coming out about other men in Hollywood that do stuff like this. There must be a lot of nervous guys out there in L.A. right now.
The only other parking is a tiny lot over three football fields away, often filled with the vehicles of nearby residents and their guests.
They have also allowed the owners of another oceanfront property, the Beach Plum, to begin marketing their lots even though they have not fulfilled a key provision of their subdivision approval. They were supposed to deed over to the town three parcels, one of which runs the length of the oceanfront across the top of the dune. They have not done so, and our current town board seems not to care. And the current Democrat majority on the board of trustees has said nothing about this or about parking at South Flora. So which is it? Are Peter and Kathee and the Democrat trustee candidates really in favor of public access, or do they seek to create private enclaves for the entitled few? If you think I’m exaggerating, rentals in the EEDRA subdivision next to South Flora are often advertised for rent as having “a virtually private beach.” The Republican candidates for town board and for trustee stand
squarely behind our long tradition of freedom of access for all. Where do Peter and Kathee and the Democrat trustee candidates stand? Reg Cornelia
Chair, EH Republican Committee. Baseless Assumption Dear Editor,
With due respect to the editorial published in The Independent on 10/11/17 entitled “Yes To The Hills,” it appears The Independent believes Southampton Town Board members Julie Lofstad and John Bouvier have assumed that Discovery Land (the developer of The Hills) will abandon the site and sell it to the town if the PDD is rejected. As pointed out in the editorial, this assumption has no basis in fact.
Because the assumption has no basis, it’s safe to assume Ms. Lofstad and Mr. Bouvier have other reasons for being skeptical of The Hills PDD. As is often the case in court trials, opposing lawyers hire “expert witnesses” with Continued On Page 59.
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Independent / Courtesy Riverhead School District The work of Riverhead High School artists will be displayed at the Peconic Ballet Foundation’s Art Barre event on Saturday. From left are studentartists Katherine Marroquin Gonzalez, Devyn Bishop, Olivia Bozuhoski, and Kelly Valencia.
Independent / Courtesy Westhampton Beach Schools Westhampton Beach Middle School students are collecting coins for a school damaged in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria. From left are students Makayla Messina, Lauren Gross, and Ryan Jayne.
Riverhead School District The artwork of four Riverhead High School students has been selected to be showcased at the Peconic Ballet Foundation’s Art Barre event on Saturday at 71 East Main St. in Riverhead. The students, freshman Katherine Marroquin Gonzalez and juniors Devyn Bishop, Olivia Bozuhoski, and Kelly Valencia, each have one or more unique pieces on display for the event. Bishop’s work includes a still life drawing, a self-portrait, a dog portrait, and a portrait titled Brandon. Her pieces are done in graphite, charcoal, and watercolor, and were selected because they “articulate a unique style and visual voice.”
Bozuhoski’s pieces include a still life painting, a pencil drawing titled Observation, a pastel drawing called Hushed, and a marker drawing called Animated Koi. The pieces were chosen to be featured because “they demonstrate a mature, technical skill.” Gonzalez’s piece, called No Boundaries, depicts a boat in pencil and black marker was picked because it demonstrates a natural ability. Valencia’s piece, At Peace,
portrays an owl in black marker. It was selected because it shows the artist’s desire to improve herself. EWECC The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center will join the East Hampton community at the first annual fall festival in Herrick Park on Saturday organized by the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce. Teachers from the center will organize and lead a costume parade at noon. At the center’s booth, children will have an opportunity to make costume elements on the spot to wear in the parade. The festival will also feature arts and crafts, science exploration, and play activities for kids.
Erin Albanese took her class on a walking trip to the East Hampton Library where the children met the librarian and explored the children’s room. The pre-K groups learned about some of our community helpers when an East Hampton Village ambulance visited the center, allowing the children a chance to climb on and look around. A patriotic parade at the center earlier this month had children waving American flags they had made while marching to patriotic music. From their play deck, the toddlers looked
Independent / Courtesy Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Kids at EWECC are learning about their community.
on and waved their support. East Hampton High School The EHHS music department is proud to congratulate three students who have been chosen for year’s NYSSMA All-State Ensembles. Julia Short (senior) and Talia Albukrek (junior) will be singing in the Mixed Choir, and Anthony Genovesi (junior) was selected as an alternate percussionist for the Instrumental Jazz Ensemble. These students were selected out of nearly 2500 students who earned exception scores at the NYSSMA Solo Festival. They will be travelling to Rochester at the end of November to perform at the NYSSMA Winter Conference. The performances take place throughout the duration of the conference, and more details can be found at www. nyssma.org/2017-nyssma-winterconference/. Hampton Bays School District To do their part to help improve local waterways, Hampton Bays High School science research students volunteered to seed 62,000
clams into Shinnecock Bay. The initiative, which connects learning to the local environment, was conducted in collaboration with the Shinnecock Bay Restoration Program. The program was established in 2012 to restore the water quality in the bay through a variety of partnerships.
This is the fourth time that Hampton Bays High School science research teacher Dr. Stephanie Forsberg has involved her students in the restoration program. Last year, approximately 40,000 clams were seeded into the bay by her students. Tuckahoe School District Students in Jean Dodici and Antoinette Counihan’s secondgrade classes have been studying communities and the characteristics of the three types of communities -urban, suburban, and rural. Students created projects to represent a type of community. Beautifully-crafted dioramas and posters were presented to parents after Friday morning assembly. Tuckahoe PTO “Wild West” book fair is today through Friday -Saddle Up and Read! 49
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All Star Comedy returns with the hottest up-and-coming New York comics hosted by the hilarious and popular Joseph Vecsey. Featuring Crystian Ramirez (“Last Comic Standing”) and Mike Cannon (MTV’s “Guy Code” and “The Nightly Show”).
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Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 the day of event. Tickets on sale now at baystreet.org or by calling the Box Office at 631-725- 9500. NEVERLAND Revisited
The Peconic Landing Theater in Greenport offers a “LIVE in HD!” performance of Peter Pan by the National Theatre on Sunday at 3 PM.
Captured live at the National Theatre, a recorded performance of JM Barrie’s much-loved tale screens in cinemas. When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily, and the vengeful Captain Hook await. A riot of magic, music, and makebelieve ensues. A delight for children and adults alike, Sally Cookson (NT Live: Jane Eyre) directs this wondrously inventive production. Tickets are $20 per person, and registration is required at https:// peconiclanding.ticketleap.com/. For additional information call 631-4773800. Love in the air
Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center offers up a production of Boeing Boeing beginning this weekend. See the article elsewhere in this week’s Independent.
The show opens on Friday and runs through November 5 with shows on Thursday and Friday at 7 PM, Saturdays at 8, and Sunday matinees at 2:30 PM. Tickets are $25, $15 for students. There are also dinner theater packages available with the Plaza Café. Tickets can be purchased online at www.scc-arts.org.
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Life and Real Estate in NYC Siblings and top real estate duo Joanne Renna Douglas and Alfred Renna will appear at BookHampton in East Hampton on Saturday at 5 PM to read from and discuss their engaging and often hilarious book Negotiating New York: Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Real Estate.
An accounting that is more exposé than how-to, Negotiating New York delves into the outrageous antics and adventures these two (along with sisters Donna and Rosemary) share as they travel from New York to Italy to the
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Guild Gathering presents “Illusions” featuring costume designer Yuka Silvera, photographer Jeremy Dennis, photographer/co-owner of Canio’s Books Kathryn Szoka, and visual artist Aurelio Torres tomorrow from 7 to 9 PM.
This series of collaborative evenings are curated to engage, cultivate, and connect artists, professionals, and the public on the East End. The free presentations, open to the public, are followed by a mix and mingle reception with light refreshments and beer provided by the Montauk Brewing Company. The Moth. MFA, and Kid Lit As written about in last week’s Independent, Tara Clancy and Catherine Burns of The Moth will be speaking tonight at Stony Brook Southampton campus as part of the Writers Speak Wednesdays.
The 7 PM event will be preceded by an open house at 5:30. Julie Sheehan will discuss the MFA workshops in fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, and more, all taught by distinguished working writers.
For those interested in writing books for kids — from picture books and early readers to middle grade and young adult fiction — the open house will include a presentation on the one-year Children Literature Fellows program. Writers Speak Wednesdays programs are free and open to the public. All programs are held in the Radio Lounge on the second floor of Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton. For more information, call 631-6325030 or visit www.stonybrook.edu/ mfa. On Facebook, visit Writers Speak Wednesdays; to follow on Twitter @ WritersSpeakWed. Suffrage Talk at Library
The East Hampton Library’s final Tom Twomey Series event, “The East End, Long Island, and 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in New York State” will be held on tomorrow from 6 to 7:30 PM, with a lecture presented by historians Arlene Hinkemeyer and Antonia Petrash.
In celebration of New York State’s Suffrage Centennial, author Petrash will discuss the suffrage movement on Long Island and Hinkemeyer will focus on the suffragists of the East End, including Mrs. Thomas L. (May Groot) Manson of East Hampton. Moderated by Judith Hope, hosted by Brooke Kroeger. Refreshments after
the talk. The event is free; no RSVP required. OF CHURCH AND STATE
The Southampton Historical Museum presents “When Church and State were the State,” a discussion of Puritans, theocracy, and the origins of American liberties with Father Patrick Edwards at the Rogers Mansion tomorrow at 11 AM. Admission is free, RSVP 631-2832494.
Mourning the Victorian Way Saturday brings a ghoulish delight to the Rogers Mansion, courtesy of the Southampton Historical Museum, as participants get to partake in a funeral reenactment and a graveyard tour.
In the 19th century, death and funerals took place at home. Join in as the Music Room at the Rogers Mansion is redecorated as an 1880s funeral service, and discuss the funerary customs of 19th century Southampton. After the “wake,” mourners will follow the coffin to nearby North End Cemetery, for the tour of the burying grounds. 19th-century mourning attire is encouraged.
The event is from 3 to 5:30 PM at the Rogers Mansion, 17 Meeting House Lane. $25 per person, RSVP required at 631-283-2494.
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Short Film Night Join award-winning producer Patti Greaney on Friday night for the second annual Fall Shorts, a series of international short films, screening at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation.
Perfect for movie lovers of all ages the ticket includes popcorn and sweet treats. Admission is $25 for families, $10 for adults, and $5 for kids. Showtime is 6:30 PM. For more info, visit www.montaukplayhouse.org.
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• At 7 PM learn about an exciting new smartphone app that will serve as a concierge, guide you through the millions of currently available smartphone apps, and point you to the ones that will make your life easier. It’s called ezpzLifestyle. Please feel free to bring your own smartphone or tablet to the Hampton Bays Library for the class. WEDNESDAY 10•25•17
• Teens and tweens are invited to the Westhampton Free Library at 4 PM to participate in a droid race. Participants will use the library’s BB8 droids to race against each other. To register, call 631288-3335 or sign-up online at www. westhamptonlibrary.net. • Celebrate National Pasta Day by making (and eating!) some good old fashioned spaghetti and meatballs at 4 PM at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. For those in grades six to 12. To register online, use code RMT568.
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• The Rogers Memorial Library and the Southampton Trails Preservation Society will present a lecture on hiking East End Trails at 5:30 PM. Marilyn Kirkbright, president of Southampton Trails Preservation Society, will talk about the opportunities for hiking the 300 miles of preserved paths on the East End. Register at www.myrml.org or call 631-283-0774 ext. 523. TUESDAY 10•24•17
• Give blood at the Southampton Fire Department station on Hampton Road and Narrow Lane from noon to 7 PM. Bring ID. Complimentary hot chowder
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are on board for a convention, the Buffalo News reports. “Antiabortion activists fear that an expansion of abortion laws – presently just proposed legislation that Planned Parenthood supports – could be placed into the state’s constitution,” according to a recent article. “Abandoning our legislative process for a constitutional convention risks our rights,’’ said Golston.
LaValle agreed. “The system we have now allows the people to bring before their legislators any issue they may have,” he said. “We have a methodology in place now to put items on the ballot.” LaValle said that is why most unions oppose it. “They are afraid of all sorts of things. They are afraid it could affect their pensions,” he surmised. Opponents of gun control also worry that the convention could bring with it unwanted reform. Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, said, “I think we have more of a chance of losing rights than gaining anything.’’
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and film, and played in small roles through his death in 1953.
Though the other homes he was associated with at the height of his career have been lost, and changes to the estate have impacted its integrity, the boathouse remains much as it did during Farnum’s ownership through the care of the Hedeman family. The boathouse featured a lower level for boat storage and an upstairs lounge and trophy room where Farnum hosted summer and Christmas parties. It is one of three structures that remain in its historic location of the former estate, along with the chicken house and barn. The Federal-style Ellis Squires House is historically significant for its architectural design that represents its post-Revolutionary construction period. The two-story, gable-roofed home was built circa 1790 and has a wealth of exterior and interior fabric dating from
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The house is significant for both its architectural design and construction technology which are expressive of both the vernacular Federal style as well as the form and massing typical of a Long Island half-house of the late 18th century. Built in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution, the house is additionally notable for its construction during a period which saw little of that as communities recovered from the effects of war and occupation. Ellis and Jerusha Squires’ family, which grew to seven children between 1792 and 1812, established a network of descendants and community in the area which became known as Squiretown. The building retains long shingles and a stone foundation typical of 18th-century construction and a vernacular, side-hall half-house plan as well as more fine details like its decorative front door surround, which incorporates sidelights and reeded pilasters beneath a molded entablature. Federal details also remain in the parlor, which retains a historic mantelpiece, cupboard, and wood paneling. Wide pine floorboards and board and batten doors with wrought iron hardware
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remain throughout. While the rear kitchen was updated in the 20th century, it retains exposed beams with 1/4” quirked beads typical of 18th-century construction.
The Town of Southampton owned the vacant building for many years, and it was recently purchased from the town by Peconic Historic Preservation, which plans to restore the building.
The State and National Registers are the official lists of buildings, structures, districts, landscapes, objects, and sites significant in the history, architecture, archeology, and culture of New York State and the nation. There are more than 120,000 historic buildings, structures, and sites throughout the state listed on the National Register of Historic Places, individually or as components of historic districts. Property owners, municipalities, and organizations from communities throughout the state sponsored the nominations. State and National Register listings can assist property owners in revitalizing buildings, making them eligible for various public preservation programs and services, such as matching state grants and state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits. Additional reporting by Justin Meinken.
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Harbor South for memory support at Peconic Landing in Greenport – the East End’s first memory care neighborhood – has been recognized among the nation’s leading providers of personcentered memory care by Dementia Care Specialists and the Crisis Prevention Institute.
The continuing care retirement community is the first provider in New York to receive CPI’s Distinguished Provider Award, recognizing its commitment to providing standards-driven, personcentered care for those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The award was presented to the community in an afternoon ceremony on September 18. “The Harbor South team is amazingly dedicated. They understand the importance of educating all of their staff, and they work hard to fine tune those
To receive the award, the leadership and staff of Harbor South engaged in a five-month preparation and assessment period, followed by a two-day audit of life in the neighborhood to review the organization’s approaches when working with members with dementia. Independent / Courtesy Peconic Landing The staff at Peconic Landing. (L - R) Gregory Garrett, EVP/administrator of health services; Jennifer Ackroyd, assisted living administrator; Laura Rutkowski, house manager; and care partners Kristy Reeves, Samantha Thompson, and Letitia Clancy.
skills until they are mastered,” said Sharon Jackson, senior consultant with CPI’s Dementia Care Specialists. “They are organized and efficient and ensure they are communicating with each other, their members, and the members’ families. They do this because this is
what they love.”
The Crisis Prevention Institute is an international training organization committed to best practices and safe behavior management methods to enrich the lives of the individuals they serve, according to its website. Its dementia care sector, Dementia
“Dementia changes the way you live and the way you perceive things. As providers, we must get into their world and communicate with them in a way that they can understand – and each individual’s world may be different,” said Jennifer Ackroyd, Peconic Landing’s assisted living administrator. “How you approach and communicate with each individual is key in helping them find purpose and engaging them to live each day to the best of their ability.”
The community offers memory support at the assisted living level, following a person-centered care model that integrates each individual’s life-story with their level of ability at every stage of dementia. This allows for a truly personalized care plan, said Gregory J. Garrett, EVP/administrator of health services for Peconic Landing.
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“It is amazing to see the transformations that are taking place. Our members are more alert, engaged, and making the most of life with their neighbors,” Garrett said. “This approach is changing the lives of those living with dementia, and we see it every day. Our care team does a remarkable job of connecting with our members, and we are committed to exploring new ways of enhancing life for the members of Harbor South.”
Peconic Landing’s 12,000-squarefoot, $9 million memory support neighborhood opened in May 2016, offering private accommodations and community spaces for 16 individuals living with Alzheimer’s
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There are always a ton of fun and interactive events happening on the North Fork, here is a list of our favorites. Got news? Email us at news@indyeastend.com. After School Nature See the colors of nature on Wednesday, October 25, at Mashomack Nature Preserve on Shelter Island. Kids ages four and up can go on a scavenger hunt, collect leaves, and make a special placemat to take home. They’ll enjoy some Jell-O jigglers for snack, too. 3 to 4:30 PM. Car Show The Suffolk County Historical Society Museum plays host to an antique car show on the great lawn on Main Street in Riverhead on Saturday. From 11 AM to 3 PM check out a collection of Early American autos. This one-day special event includes free museum admission and refreshments. Gone! Experience Gone, a multimedia investigation into the 1966 disappearance of Cutchogue’s Louise Pietrewicz. Mrs. Pietrewicz, a 38-year-old mother from Cutchogue, was in the process of separating from her husband when she was reported missing in October 1966. Multiple police agencies were involved in the investigation, but an arrest was never made. No media outlet has ever reported her disappearance, but elements of her story have been quietly discussed in her Cutchogue community for decades. This threepart documentary will be followed by a question-and-answer session with The Suffolk Times staffers
and special guests connected to the story. Tonight at 7:30 PM at Peconic Landing in Greenport. Registration required at https:// peconiclanding.ticketleap.com/ Run For Ridley The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation will be holding its 20th annual 5K Run for the Ridley. Proceeds will go toward supplies needed to respond to and care for cold stunned (hypothermic) sea turtles that strand on Long Island shores during the winter months.
It takes place Sunday. Registration begins at 8 AM and the run begins at 10 AM. Gather in the municipal parking lot at McDermott Avenue in downtown Riverhead. ELIH Eastern Long Island Hospital hosts a community health education forum, “Unlocking the Secrets of Longevity -- Living Healthy Past 100.” Presented by Stony Brook Medicine tomorrow at 7 PM at the Peconic Lane School/Southold Recreation Center, the evening boasts three expert speakers who will discuss aging. Suzanne D. Fields, MD, will expound upon the secrets to successful aging. Dr. Joanna Chikwe will discuss cardiac diseases, and Jason Mathew, DO, a clinical assistant professor of neurology, will talk about understanding stroke. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 PM at the recreation center. Call 631-4775164 to register, seats are limited. Take A Whiff Learn how to safely and effectively use pure therapeutic-grade essential oils as a solution for managing stress during an evening at the
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Birchwood of Polish Town in Riverhead on Wednesday, October 25, from 5:30 to 8 PM. The East End Women’s Network is your host for the evening which includes a sit-down dinner and great networking. Tickets are $45 for EEWN members who RSVP by Monday, $50 for non-members and those who don’t RSVP. Visit www. eewn.org to do so. Family Fun Aa part of its Parents University series, the Riverhead Central School District will hold a community and family fun night on Wednesday, October 25, from 6 to 7:30 PM at the high school on Harrison Avenue. The free event will showcase the district’s elementary schools and feature the district’s high school and middle school club offerings. Also on hand will be local organizations. Additionally, there will be games and activities for children, free raffles and prizes. Scallops! The Rotary Club of Southold is sponsoring a scallop dinner fundraiser on Tuesday at Touch of Venice Restaurant in Cutchogue, from 4 until 8 PM. Tickets are $30 per person, gratuities are not included. A pasta dinner may be substituted for scallops. Takeouts will be available.
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Tickets may be purchased from any Rotarian or at the door. Down At Downs Farm Join Group for the East End, Southold Mothers Club, and Lyrical Children for fifth annual family nature scavenger hunt throughout the trails of Downs Farm Preserve. On Sunday from 11 AM to 1 PM, this is a fun event that connects families with the outdoors. All are welcome. Registration is strongly encouraged and a suggested family donation of $5 is requested.
Did you know that as water temperatures drop, sea turtles face the risk of hypothermia? If you want to learn how you can help these marine animals on Long Island, join in welcoming the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society to Downs Farm Preserve at 1:30, after the scavenger hunt. Guests will learn the turtle’s habitats, human impact through beach and water activities, and what we can do as a community to help them during “cold stun” season. This lecture will be followed by a beach cleanup at nearby Bailie Beach Park in Mattituck where participants will learn tips on how to monitor the beach not only for marine debris, but for sea turtles as well! For reservations or more information, please contact Christine Tylee at 631765-6450 ext. 208 or ctylee@ eastendenvironment.org.
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Riverhead High School’s annual spirit week celebrations culminated this weekend as the Blue Waves took on the Copiague Eagles on a drizzly Saturday afternoon. Despite the rain, school spirit filled the stands as the varsity, junior varsity, and middle school cheerleaders led the crowd in multiple cheers.
At half time, the varsity cheerleaders treated the crowd to a performance and the 2017 royal court was introduced. The court included freshmen Briana Palhares and James Marin, sophomores Casey Dunbar and Joseph Brown, juniors Rázjon Banks and Alyssa Moore, and seniors Michael Daniel and Carla Crump. 11:26 PM
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smile and laughter with everyone. He is known by all as a “good man,” “a kind soul,” a “solid friend,” and was a beloved family member. Billy’s family felt he led with the torch, and was a solid grounding strength who cared deeply about all his family, immediate and extended. After retiring from the Town of East Hampton Highway Department, in addition to taking his fishing poles to the waters, Havens also continued to enjoy spending time on the bays clamming and scalloping, never giving away his secrets, always with a grin on his face, keeping those “special spots” to himself. Not only did he know where to find the most clams and scallops, he also kept secret where he found the best local wild raspberries and blackberries. Billy didn’t spend all his free time on the water, he also enjoyed supporting Rebecca’s passion for equestrian competitions and was her biggest fan. NASCAR races, attending the local races at Riverhead Raceway, and traveling all over Long Island to attend car
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Last week’s coverage of the Montauk fall festival included an incorrect listing of winners of the annual chowder contest. Inlet Seafood took first place in the Manhattan Chowder category, with Sausages coming in second, and Quinchos placing third. In the New England category, Shagwong won the top honors, followed by Backyard in second, and The Point in third.
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shows were all favorite activities he shared with family and friends. Billy was a frequent user of social media and was the co-founder and administrator of the local and very popular Facebook group Hometown Bonac Connected Friends. For years Billy’s multitude of Facebook friends enjoyed the sunrise, sunset, and his mouthwatering culinary talent photos; photos that everyone became accustomed to seeing and looked forward to daily. Billy knew everyone in town it seemed, in every profession, every side of the bridges, and he cared for them equally. Every friendship was so important to him, it didn’t matter how often he saw you, you remained special to him.
Billy seemed to be the local expert on the fishing industry history on the East End. He shared his vast knowledge and photos and always seemed passionate in his discussions about the fishing industry, his friends, family, politics, and the changing way of life on the East End. Billy Havens, to some, may have been known by a nickname, such as Wig or Bonacker Bill, but he
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was known by all as a good, kind, hardworking, honest man, and in Bonac terms, he was and always will be “the Finest Kind.”
Visitation was held on Friday, October 13, 2017 at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home, 94 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, NY. A graveside service followed at Oak Grove Cemetery, Windmill Lane, Amagansett, NY on Saturday.
Billy was a proud American, a huge supporter of our military and veterans, and had a deep fondness for the Wounded Warriors Project. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his honor to The Wounded Warriors Project, online at www. woundedwarriorproject.org, or by downloading a donation form and mailing to Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675-8517.
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Schneiderman never prepared a forensic investigation into three horse farm PDDs located directly across the street from the proposed Hills PDD. An analysis of these PDDs is important because the same people involved in the creation of the horse farm PDDs are also involved in The Hills PDD. In fact, The Hills consultants did undertake an in-depth analysis. I did as well. As a result, I know every land purchase, every real estate transfer, and every financial transaction associated with every parcel on all three PDDs. Therefore The Hills consultants and I know the extent to which the PDDs harmed taxpayers, the environment, and the business of horse farming. That’s why the developers of The Hills rejected horse farming as an alternative to a golf course. A great deal of confusion has always surrounded the creation of these horse farm PDDs because of proven questionable ethics. Going forward, PDDs can no longer be used. But that doesn’t change the flaws that still exist and that can still be incorporated into any PDD like The Hills. Susan Cerwinski
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Fork resident, recalled. “When my son was born, I wanted to share the magic with him. I took him to see Beauty and the Beast when he was about three years old, and he watched wide-eyed with wonder.
“Later we saw an Off-Broadway production of Mame and afterward, while the young actor signed his Playbill, my son told me he wanted to do the same, be on the stage and if that young boy could do it, so could he.” Finn came to the Orbach this week well-acquainted with the theater -- from the audience side. “I’ve been to the Jerry Orbach Theater three times to see The Fantasticks. To perform on that stage is so, so strange and amazing,” he said. There isn’t a lot of time for the young actor – one of the youngest in the troupe -- to reflect on his feelings. The cast performs two shows a day on the weekends and every night. Members of the cast are called upon to be ready to perform any of the roles, switching out with troupe mates at
a moment’s notice. Finn’s played six of the show’s 10 male characters. He knows all the rest. The beleaguered Jon Snow is a role he’s yet to do. “I haven’t done Tyrion (Lannister) or Jon for an audience yet, unless you count my mirror,” he joked. With performances planned through the end of the month at least, Finn’s likely to have a shot at the parts. And after Manhattan, what’s next?
“I’m up for a role in Japan for at least a year,” he informed. He’s on the short list to perform in a Wizarding World “charm show.” It will be “a fun challenge,” the actor opined. “They’re not teaching us Japanese.” Casting directors tasked auditioners with learning the language as part of the tryout. “They wanted to see if we could learn this random line from one of the Harry Potter movies in Japanese and come back with it.” Finn will find out next month if he’s landed the part and heading overseas. In the meantime, he’s enjoying performing in the parody with his theater “family.”
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getting paid to do that, it’s crazy,” he enthused.
Looking to the future, his dream is to be a voiceover artist in an animated film “That would be my ultimate,” the WBHS alum admitted, noting that so many animated films from his childhood inspired him, as did Saturday’s audience filled with friends, family members, and of course, his mother. “Watching his GOT: The Rock Musical journey has been the proudest and happiest moment as a mom. I know somewhere my mother and grandmother are cheering!” Lisa said. In turn, her son offered a huge shout-out to his mom: “She’s been the constant force that pushes me forward whenever I second guess, doubt, or am unsure of myself. I wouldn’t be where I am now if it wasn’t for her always having my back, helping me with opportunities to further my craft, and her never-ending love and support.”
“I know this is the first of many opening nights for Billy,” Lisa added. As her son’s career blossoms, she predicted, “He’ll be signing many Playbills in his life.”
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and almost serendipitously, it is discovered as a contaminant virtually everywhere. And as is often the case in these stories, the company producing PFOS products possessed information hinting at its risks but chose not to share their data with regulators or the public for years.” The SCDHS looks to do more samples of private wells in areas near the airport, Town Line Road to the west, Montauk Highway toward Merriwood Drive to the south, and by Daniel’s Hole Road to the east.
Homeowners willing to have their wells tested will not be charged. Homes furnished with public water are not affected. One source said the contaminated well was found on Hedges Lane south of the airport and north of Montauk Highway.
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and galleries, visiting historic sites or reading more about our state’s famed history. The New York State Women’s Suffrage Commission, which was created to honor the fight for women’s rights and pay tribute to pioneering suffragists and figures, has more information on its website. Assemblyman Fred Thiele is the representitive for New York State’s First Assembly District. The district includes East Hampton, Shelter Island, Southampton, and portions of Brookhaven in Suffolk County.
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electrical violation that resulted in four days without power for tenants in the 18 units, some of which, he said, were overcrowded. The owner has pending charges already and will be issued additional summonses to be included among them. At another motel on North Road, inspectors found an alleged 72 tenants in the 18 rooms they visited – the hotel has 20 in all. No notices of violation were issued, and the owner is engaging code enforcement to come into compliance, Troyd said. He predicted a walk-through of the property to review the overcrowding.
An earlier enforcement action led to an overall amelioration of conditions at the motel, Troyd said, noting the improvement of a poor septic condition.
Friday wasn’t such a lucky day for the owners of a motel on East Montauk Highway. The enforcement team executed a search warrant on the premises, which accommodates three motel buildings and a carriage house. It has 13 rental units each designed to house two occupants. Some of them had up to six people living in them and others were home to four people. Kitchens had been converted into bedrooms, the administrator said, and people were living in the carriage house top floor where living space was not legal.
Additional violations relate to oil tanks designed for interior use only operating outdoors, stairs to a deck with no supports, two projects constructed without permits, and more.
Asked whether tenants in the overcrowded premises will face eviction, and possible homelessness, Schneiderman demurred. The operation was conducted “with the highest respect for human dignity, that was front and center,” he said. He admitted the enforcement actions could result in evictions, and said the county Department of Social Services is available to help people find alternative housing. Bottom line, however, he said, “If these people are living in conditions
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Code enforcement supervisor Chris Fraser enjoined, “No one has been dislodged, they’re still there.” “Obviously we don’t want them in the street, “ Schneiderman added. Landlords will have to go through court proceedings to evict tenants, some of who are paying $900 per month for overcrowded motel rooms.
New to the town and the department, Troyd felt the operation provided him with a good opportunity to get a bead on the hamlet. He emphasized that while conditions were overcrowded at some dwellings, “The children were taken care of and there was no evidence of drug use, no evidence of prostitution or other criminal activity.”
Hampton Bays was targeted among the town’s hamlets based on a volume of complaints. Enforcement activity and investigations are, said Fraser, “ongoing” in the hamlet and throughout the town. “Many of the violations we found can be easily fixed and we are working with some of the landlords,” Troyd offered.
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“These violations could endanger the lives of residents living in unsafe conditions,” the supervisor added. “This will not be tolerated in the Town of Southampton.”
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Though Congressman Lee Zeldin is still a year away from a re-election bid, Zeldin for Congress just announced its amount raised and cash on hand for the campaign’s most recent FEC fundraising report, covering donations received between July 1 and September 30.
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Pierson’s Javi Lopez (9) and Alex Wesley (21) are key cogs in the team’s suffocating defense.
Pierson, Southold Down To The Wire
By Rick Murphy
The two top soccer teams in League VII slugged it out Thursday, so one emerged at the top of the heap, right? Wrong.
The Pierson Whalers and Southold Settlers played for first place in League VIII at Mashashimuet Park and left everything they had out on the field, but in the end both teams had to settle for a 1-1 tie. Pierson damn near pulled it off,
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employing an ironclad defense in front of its brilliant netminder, Wil Martin.
But with less than two minutes left Ryan Herrmann broke clear and found the net, tying the game with nine seconds remaining. It stayed that way until the setting sun mandated the game be called. Grady Burton scored Pierson’s goal in the first stanza from the right side off a long assist from Sam Warne. Cole Brigham was brilliant in defeat, turning away six shots
guarding the Southold net.
The Whalers aren’t complaining, mind you. After beating Port Jefferson 4-0 on Saturday, they need only best Smithtown Christian (3-7) on the road today to finish the season with an 11-0-1 league record, (12-1-1 overall); the Whalers only loss of the season was to unbeaten Center Moriches, a League VII school that will compete in the Class B playoffs. Playing at home against Port Jeff, the Whalers started off slowly and
then found their groove in the second half, scoring three times.
Warne had a busy afternoon with a goal and two assists and Luis Padilla added a goal and an assist to lead Pierson/Bridgehampton (12-0-1) in Suffolk VIII. Martin recorded five saves.
On October 10, the powerful Whalers went up to Greenport and dumped the Clippers 4-0. Warne scored twice and Burton added another goal. Greenport is 6-6 in
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Southampton’s Jonathan Hall (32) and Adonis Hutchings (below) have been a big part of the program’s resurgence.
Laube, Westhampton Keep Chugging
By Rick Murphy
At this point in time it’s about staying healthy and grabbing a county title.
Yes, the name of Westhampton’s Dylan Laube will be forever etched in the Suffolk County record books. No, individual statistics and the fame that come with them are not what sports is all about. It’s all about winning. So when Comsewogue rolled into Westhampton Friday, the focus for the Hurricanes was on winning and staying on the ever-diminishing list of unbeaten teams. To accomplish that goal, the locals have a tried-and-true formula – get Dylan the football. But more so this season than ever before during
his career, there is a secondary goal in place – keep Laube healthy and rested. And so when the game is secure he is taken out of the game, oftentimes kicking and screaming.
Westhampton opened the scoring in the first stanza courtesy of – who else – Laube, who took off on a 77yard run like a lightning bolt shot from a cannon. Later in the first, he scored again, this time on a nineyard scamper. Laube made it 20-0 in the second with a 14-yard run, and after Comsewogue scored, the All-American candidate took off on another nine-yard scoring run, making it 29-6 at halftime.
That was enough highlights for one day for the senior as the Hurricanes rolled on, 49-13. Laube had 12
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EHHS Color Run Photos by Morgan MicGivern
East Hampton High School’s freshman class hosted a color run as part of Saturday’s homecoming festivities. Participants were “painted” with nontoxic paint powder as they ran the 2K course around the perimeter of the school.
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Southold (9-1-1) played Smithtown Christian after press time Monday and plays at Ross School today. That should leave the Settlers in second place and earn them a return engagement in the Suffolk Class C playoffs with Pierson.
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p.m. A 22-minute delay to call an ambulance for an injured Pierson player, Josue Cruz, who suffered an apparent neck injury and was taken to a local hospital, prolonged the game. There was no word on his condition at halftime. “Fortunately Josue is OK. No concussion or neck injury,” Solow said. “We’re hoping to have him back for our last league game [today] against Smithtown Christian. He’ll definitely be back by our playoff game next week.”
Both game officials said that Section XI would have to rule on whether the game is a draw or that sudden-death overtime needed to be played. However, Pierson
won the first match between the two teams, so it is likely given the fact the playoffs begin this week that the Whalers will be declared League VIII winners and earn the top seed in the Suffolk Class C playoffs. The title game is October 28.
“I don’t think we’re doing overtime. I think it’s too late in the season,” Solow said.
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Riverhead Central School District high school lacrosse players have been busy making headlines.
Over the summer, three Riverhead High School players -- Katie Goodale, Megan Kielbasa and Chrissy Thomas -- earned recognition after being named to the Under Armour All-American Command team from Long Island. To earn their respective spots on the championship team, the girls participated in a tryout where they competed against more than 150 lacrosse players from across Suffolk and Nassau counties. The team went on to take the division championship. In addition to playing on the Under Armour team, Goodale, along with fellow players Emma Panciocco and Christine Thomas
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carries yet amassed 203 rushing yards and four touchdowns to lead Westhampton (6-0). Liam McIntyre had four carries for 22 yards and a touchdown. Tyler Nolan had six carries for 58 yards, along with one catch for 20 yards, and a touchdown.
Clarke Lewis once again showed discipline and enormous productivity at the quarterback position. He attempted only two passes but completed both for 68 yards and a touchdown.
were recently featured as 2017 players to watch in Inside Lacrosse Magazine. The district extends its congratulations to the lacrosse players for their recent accomplishments.
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It is unlikely Laube will get much rest come Friday evening. Sayville (5-1), the legendary Golden Flashes, comes to town at 6 for a showdown. Sayville is a perennial county and Long Island champion.
Laube, by the way, leads Suffolk with 1422 rushing yards on only 123 carries, a gaudy 11.56 yards-per-carry. He’s scored 21 touchdowns, also tops in the county.
In Conference IV action Wyandanch, on the road, hammered Southampton
Niquan Joiner completed 11 of 15 passes for 148 yards and a touchdown to earn the win for Wyandanch. Joiner also scored a rushing touchdown. It was the first win of the season for Wyandanch, now 1-5. Southampton (1-4) finishes up the season Saturday against Port Jefferson (3-2).
Hampton Bays (3-3) beat Mercy 14-7 on the road Friday. Liam Egan scored the game-winning touchdown on a three-yard run with 4:47 remaining in the fourth quarter. Ryan Razzano had 16 carries for 67 yards and one touchdown in the first quarter. Razzano completed four of 11 passes for 24 yards. Anthony Bossone recorded 70 yards on 22 carries. Bossone went 2-for-2 on PAT kicks. Egan and Ethan Aube each made eight tackles. Aube, Gabe Boro, and David Scott each notched one sack for Mercy (4-2). The Baymen finish the season at Center Moriches Friday. Kickoff is scheduled for 6 PM.
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The Tribe launched a six-week training program open to all fitness levels for the cost of $319. Classes include TribeFIT, TribeLIFE, TribeCORE, and TribePUNCH -- a new addition to the program lead by Tribe coach, Stephanie Bormuth. Tribe aside, Raise the Bar with row core interval training is heating things up at Southampton Gym. Rebecca Oleander is leading the class that focuses on endurance and strength training through low impact but high intensity workouts. Wanna give it a go? All levels can get ready for suspension training, kettlebells, medicine balls, and resistance bands on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10 AM. Head into Sag Harbor for Core De Force Live, an MMAinspired total body workout. No equipment is necessary, but expect to burn off last night’s snack and inches off your waist. Taught by Treacy Villante, Carrie Krempler,
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But all of this wouldn’t be possible without great leadership. Mary Kathleen Weber is the new fitness director at all three locations, bringing eight years of college level coaching experience with her. Also new to the team is Jennifer Rosas, the lead personal trainer and Tribe coach who carries four years of Army training with her. Need to save money? No problem if you’re a student 21 and under or a teacher, you’re now eligible for discounted rates. Call East Hampton Gym at 631-324-4499 and ask for Mitch Levy to find out more. While you’re maintaining key hydration after working out so hard, make sure to stop by the new Juice Harbor juice bar in Sag Harbor. More than just juices, menu items include protein shakes and acai bowls. Try the Bee Power, with banana, almond butter, dates, coconut, maca, raw cacao, bee pollen, royal jelly, and almond milk. Open daily from 7 AM until
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