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Rental Registry Won’t Help Stop Overcrowded Houses By Kitty Merrill
Bad news for supporters of East Hampton town’s proposed rental registry. If they think a law requiring landlords to register their houses will quickly curtail the abundance of illegally overcrowded or excessively turned over rentals, they think wrong. If opponents think the registry gives enforcers carte blanche to get all up in their business, and home, they think wrong, too. This week The Independent spoke with town public safety director David Betts, who presides over the ordinance enforcement department, about the controversial law slated to be the subject of a public hearing tomorrow night. (Town officials expect such a huge turnout, they’ve changed venues for the hearing to a larger space at the American Legion.) In recent weeks, ordinance enforcement has issued press releases lauding two enforcement actions – one involves an overcrowded house and one involves what’s know as excessive turnover
(repeatedly renting a home for short Won’t it make it easier for periods of time). investigators to gain entry into a For years, town officials have suspected overcrowded house? reasoned that East Hampton’s lack That’s a negatory, good bubbies. of a rental registry makes it hard for Enforcers still won’t be able to code enforcers gain access to a to crack down home without How will the rental registry on those the owner or facilitate investigations into two types of occupant’s violations of the permission or a overcrowding or excessive town code. Yet, search warrant. with those two turnover? It won’t, according to Although he press releases, noted several the t o w n East Hampton Town Public Safety t i m e s d u r i n g itself heralded the conversation Director David Betts. two actions that he had yet undertaken to to review the address the violations without the most recent iteration of the law, rental law in place. Betts explained how the registry would assist his department. Say five different people call in Makes No Difference I n t h o s e t w o c a s e s , w h a t complaints about illegally-rented difference would the registry have houses in their neighborhoods. With a registry in place, staff can made? Basically, none, according to check the registry to see if the houses are in the database. If they Betts. How will the rental registry are, case closed. If they aren’t, enforcers can go facilitate investigations into overcrowding or excessive turnover? to the front door and ask whoever answers the door if the house is It won’t, according to Betts.
rented. If the door-answerer says yes, the landlord and tenant both may receive a violation for failing to register. Period. Nobody gets inside without permission or a search warrant. If the officer approaching the house sees what’s called presumptive evidence -- separate electric meters or mail boxes, several satellite dishes on the roof, more than the permitted four cars in the driveway, any indicator of an illegally over-occupied house -- the full scale investigation commences, the same way it would proceed without a rental registry.
Still Have To Investigate In the case of excessive turnover, officers still need to go to the house repeatedly to prove it’s being rented more than three times within six months. In the case of over-occupied homes, “We still have to establish other elements to make a case,” Betts said. Beyond weeding out unfounded Continued on Page 34.
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The lesson is this: if you love your town, pay attention to what your local government plans to do, because once wheels are in motion, officials probably won’t put the brakes on. And in this case the wheels are on the huge excavators and bulldozers on the beach in Montauk. And on Monday, hundreds of residents who were shocked to see the beginning of the Army Corps of Engineers geotube project on the beach at the west end of town, learned the lesson the hard (structure) way. A week earlier, they begged members of the town board to stop the project. At a November 10 town board work session attended by hundreds
of unhappy constituents, East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell told the crowd that he’d look into the legalities of halting the project. On Monday, he issued a press release stating the town board won’t urge the ACOE to quit work. “The Town Board sees no basis upon which to halt this project and fully supports completion of this interim protective measure until the completion of the Fire Island to Montauk Point Reformulation Study (FIMP),” the statement begins, after making note of the concerns raised since the stabilization project began. In the release, Cantwell states, “It can’t be emphasized enough that the current project is an interim Continued on Page 19.
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I’m not a religious person. But if I were, I would be saying a prayer thanking God that all the presidents in my lifetime – from Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush – protected me and my family and every American from harm. Yes, and that includes Jimmy Carter, who was a lousy president but still did his best to keep the United States strong and safe. Then along came Barack “The Clueless” Obama. I don’t know about you, but I’m scared stiff. When will it happen? When will they strike here? Barack Obama, in his stupid refusal to fight and destroy ISIS and all the other jihadists who are threatening our children and loved ones, has put us all in danger. Let me go one step further: If Barack Obama had been President of the United States in 1941 when Roosevelt declared war on Germany and Japan, all of us would be saluting a Nazi flag today. At this point let me say a word to those wonderful men and woman who are left from “The Greatest Generation.”
I apologize to the Greatest Generation. You were too smart to elect an inept community organizer as your president. I don’t want to get into a discussion with those who love Barack Obama and agree with him that global warming is a bigger threat to my family and me than global terrorism. I happen to think that if global warming had the ability to strike back, Obama would surrender to it. All, I can say is I worry, worry, worry about the fact that Obama still has a year in office to get me killed, because he has no idea what a threat ISIS and all the other jihadists are. Obama’s idea that ISIS can be defeated from the sky is insane. In the history of mankind only one plane ever ended a war. That was the Enola Gay, when it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Sooner or later we must have boots on the ground. Obama – whose idea of war is to draw a red or yellow or pink line and, when he’s ignored, to give a press conference where he declares
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Congress must bring this law to the White House and see if Barack Obama has the nerve to veto it. Let’s have him tell the world, in his best mumbo-jumbo way, why he is vetoing a law that 80 percent of Americans with brains are in favor of. Now, I know no country has ever formally declared war on a group of terrorists, but the world has changed. Countries do not declare war on other countries these days. We have police actions. We invade in search of weapons of mass destruction. We go to war, but it’s never called war, and there is no formal declaration of war. This would be different. This would be a formal declaration of war on ISIS and Al Qaeda and jihadists. What would it accomplish? The minute we do this, those few thousands of Americans who have joined ISIS or have been trained by ISIS or Al Qaeda will immediately become spies if they are in the United States or try to come into the United States. When we catch them, they will be tried by a military tribunal and, if found guilty, they will be executed. Anyone who has communicated with ISIS in Syria or Iraq – anyone who helps these terrorists – will be classified as spies and traitors. Let’s not tie the hands of those who will find those terrorists who live in this country and are planning to harm us. Let’s wiretap, infiltrate mosques, use the NSA, CIA, FBI. Let’s get information any way we can. I’m not as afraid of losing my rights as I am of losing my ass. Most people agree with me. This will not be seen as an attack on Muslims or any religion. In fact, this will help take the pressure off Muslims by zeroing in on those people who have declared war on us – ISIS and Al Qaeda and the jihadists. This is an attack on mad dogs who are here to harm us. In 1646, Hugo Grotius wrote, “By the law of nature, no declaration is required when one is repelling an invasion” (“The Law of War and Peace”). In this case it is an invasion, and a declaration of war is needed. If you agree, send this column to Congressman Peter King or Senator Charles Schumer. If you don’t agree, you’re an idiot. If you wish to comment on “Jerry’s Ink” please send your message to jerry@ dfjp.com.
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also details about life in a small fishing town and the tight knit families that made it a community. “There are so many little details about so many local families – these were the people who fished from the Promised Land and shopped at Daniel’s Store (Dan Miller, now the Springs General Store). Lester launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to start a book, and recently completed her labor of love, A Gift From The Attic. Sunday she will hold her first book signing at the Springs Presbyterian Church. Those interested can also purchase the book directly from herby calling 631-604-6807 or visit Lulu.com. The most poignant letter of the collection wasn’t written by her grandmother but by Edith, who penned a fitting farewell letter to Elsie after reading all the letters. “I’m quite sure it wasn’t an easy time for you . . . Grandfather wasn’t getting any better. It wasn’t easy for him not being able to care for his family,” Lester penned. Elsie’s beloved husband, father of 12, “never made the fall fishing” again. As Lester wrote to her grandmother, “How sick he must have been . . . he kept trying to take care of his family. I’m sure your heart was broken.” You see, Elsie was harboring a secret as well – she was dying, too, and broken up by the fact her husband wouldn’t be there to care for her in her final hours.
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Tucked away in a quaint complex behind Main Street in Westhampton Beach, Hamptons Yoga Healing Arts is a sacred space. Visitors find a spacious studio, its windows decorated with lush plants and its polished wood floors home to an array of soft-violet mats and cushions. Violet is the color of the brow, or third eye, chakra, representing perception beyond ordinary sight. There, Indy’s own Christine John
presents East End Zen, a class offering Reiki healing with restorative yoga. Recently we visited the sacred space to see what our multi-faceted graphic designer does when she’s not in front of the computer. “Reiki is light energy healing,” John explained. Comprised of two Japanese words, Rei and Ki, it translates to universal life force energy. Although it’s become popular on Long Island only in the last 10 years, Reiki traces its origins to a 2500-year-old Tibetan
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lovingly approaches each student to channel healing. “It is alright if I touch you?” she whispered softly to this reporter. Given permission, she placed one hand on the side of the head, the other at the top of the shoulder, sending energy to the throat chakra, the seat of communication. “The hands can tune in intuitively to where healing is needed,” John explained after class. “As an advanced Reiki practitioner, I use my hands to read where the energy should go. I let my intuition flow.” Reiki healing is based on the principle that the practitioner can channel energy to the patient (or student) through light touch. The energy then activates natural healing processes to restore body, mind, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, John explained. Each person’s needs are different, each situation is different, so John guides her healing based on what she feels from the individual. She never asked this writer to describe physical or emotional needs, yet used instinct to zero in on a troubled area. Pairing the healing with yoga poses provides optimal relaxation for class participants. “I love that Christine has combined the most relaxing yoga floor poses with a healing energy modality. It was a chance to meditate, stretch, and relax,” said Bridget LeRoy, another class member and part of the Indy family. “Last week a girl came to a yoga class first. She was very apprehensive and not open. She called Reiki ‘voodoo,’ but she decided to come to East End Zen. She fell asleep during the class and said that night she had the best night’s sleep she could remember,” John related. A great night’s sleep and enhanced relaxation are the most common benefits of Reiki. It can also encourage mental clarity, aid with pain management, and relieve stress, depression, or anxiety. Reiki has become a popular addition to substance abuse recovery programs. East End Zen is held every Saturday at 4 PM at Hampton Yoga Healing Arts in Westhampton Beach. Call 631-702-3710 or visit www. hamptonsyogahealingarts.com to sign up for the class. Private sessions are also available.
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SAAM Seeks North Sea Home By Emily Toy
There’s no place like home. And 2016 is gearing up to be the year the Southampton African American Museum can finally attest to that. For nearly a decade, the SAAM has been operating virtually, creating programs, hosting concerts, festivals, and workshops, and promoting an understanding and appreciation of African American culture on the local level. But next year, it will start setting
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from the Suffolk County Health Department, which Executive Director Brenda Simmons claimed was an important hurdle. Now the organization can move forward with renovating its future home, located at 245 North Sea Road. Now, according to the executive director, the next step is to apply to the village regulatory boards for the renovations, which are expected to cost about $600,000. In 2006, just one year after the museum’s inception, Southampton town and village jointly purchased the structure with Community Preservation Fund money, thus limiting the types of changes that may be made to the structure.
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Town Trustee Races Await Final Numbers The Suffolk County Board Of Elections has completed counting absentee ballots and the final results of two local town trustees’ races may be affected. In East Hampton, Francis Bock, Pat Mansir, Bill Taylor, Richard Drew, and Tyler Armstrong, all
Democrats, were elected. Four Republicans, Tim Bock, James Grimes, Sean McCaffrey and Diane McNally, also finished in the top nine out of 18 candidates. However McNally, with 2514 votes Election Night and McCaffrey with 2506 could be vulnerable – there
are some 600 absentee ballots, and Democrats have two-thirds of them. That means Democrat Brian Byrnes, who had 2420 votes on Election Night, could likely unseat one of the Republicans. In Southampton Eric Shultz, a Democrat incumbent, had 4847
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Mr. and Ms. Joseph Lombardi of East Hampton announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine, to Steven Dunlop, son of Robert and Claude Dunlop of Marietta, Georgia. Ms. Lombardi, is a graduate of East Hampton High School and Flagler College. An internship at Hatch Show Print, brought her to Nashville, TN. Ms. Lombardi is a Digital & Bindery Specialist at The Print Authority in Nashville. M r. D u n l o p g r a d u a t e d from Georgia Tech and is a Construction Superintendent for Balfour Beatty Construction, also in Nashville. A March 12, 2016 wedding is planned in Nashville.
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The eight-man heroin distribution network busted by a Suffolk County District Attorney Task Force has an East End connection. Erick Castor, 30, of North Babylon, was a fixture on The Hamptons nightlife scene, according to Bob Clifford, spokesman for DA Tom Spota. Castor allegedly sold cocaine at area clubs on a routine basis last summer, and was charged this week with two counts of third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, plus one count of fourth degree conspiracy. He’s accused of selling coke to an undercover officer. Castor allegedly purchased large amounts of cocaine from accused ringleader Richard Bruno Junior, 26, of Holbrook, for resale in The Hamptons and his hometown of North Babylon. Junior faces 18 drugrelated charges including Operating as a Major Drug trafficker, a class A felony. Flanked by members of the Heroin Task Force, which includes Captain James Dewar of the New York State Police and Chief Deputy Sheriff Michael Sharkey, on Monday morning Spota detailed aspects of the big bust. Working with state police, the DA’s Heroin Task Force seized 19,000 glassine envelopes of heroin packaged for sale, a quarter kilo of pure, uncut heroin, and other narcotics including cocaine, methamphetamines, and anabolic steroids. Some packages were stuffed up alongside the insulation in the attic of Bruno’s father’s home in Farmingville. Detectives also found an illegally defaced handgun in the house, $192,000 in pop’s safe, plus another $37,000 worth of wads of cash up in the rafters. Richard Bruno, Senior, 59, was allegedly supportive of his son’s illegal enterprise. Spota related that during the course of the investigation task force members learned dad advised sonny boy to launder his heroin money by operating a pot grow house in rural Pennsylvania. Junior could explain those big utility bills by growing flowers and tomatoes indoors alongside the pot . . . because apparently Keystone staters can’t tell the difference between pot plants and petunias. Bruno Jr. allegedly purchased the heroin for resale in Suffolk from codefendant Jonathan Rincon, 26, Continued on Page 23.
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(Above) Nothing like a little fiberglass in your fix. A package of heroin found alongside the insulation in the defendant’s house. (Inset, L to R) Detectives say Erick Castor sold cocaine at Hamptons clubs throughout last summer. Richard Bruno Junior was charged as a major drug trafficker. Richard Bruno Senior was one supportive dad. He’s accused of letting his alleged kingpin son store drugs, money, and a gun at his home in Farmingville.
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RICK’S SPACE I’m Asking For Your Vote I don’t think I’d make a good politician. One problem is I curse – a lot. I routinely spice up my everyday language with the F bomb, which I drop as often as I can. It is not unusual to hear the F-word and several obscene references to male and female body parts in a single sentence – and that’s when I’m in church. On the streets I’m even worse. One of the things that struck me while we did our political interviews recently was that none of the local candidates cursed.
I understand that candidates on the national stage can’t, because they are always being recorded, and they are always stumping for Bible Belt voters. I think local politicians try too hard to emulate their national counterparts. Not only don’t they curse, but also they are politically correct to a fault. Out here on the East End the politicians are completely interchangeable. Q: Why are you running for office?
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would mean my wife didn’t vote for me. That’s an awesome amount of rejection. Hell, even I might not vote for me. If I did get elected I would start by saying “No” to everything they asked for just on general principles (or is it principals?). In my day we had 40 kids in a classroom, no computers or calculators, and no state laws protecting us from abuse. We did quite well, thank you – I mean, look how I turned out. I had a teacher who used to shake my friend Johnny Simone as hard as she could and yell, “You want to stutter? You want to stutter? I’ll give you something to stutter about!” Johnny is an orator now. I would do away with T-ball, and the no-cut rule on school teams, and all the games that don’t keep score. To me there is nothing sadder than seeing a six-year-old girl taking pathetic swings at a big ball on a tee and missing it by a mile. She needs to face live pitching, and if she does happen to hit one, rest assured her next time up they’ll be a fastball whistling under her neck. Whoever invented “The Mercy Rule” should be shot. For those that don’t know the rule basically says if one team in winning by 10 or more runs after the fourth inning they call the game – that’s right, they end the game. That would have driven me nuts. I played on some pretty good teams and we were very competitive. If we were playing a team from say, Saint Sissy of the Poor and we had those Spastics (yeah, that was the team name) down 10-0 that would be the time to build up our stats by piling on the hits. I remember once when the opposing catcher got his bell rung on a close play at the plate and thought he had broken his arm. I started stealing every base I could. Finally the ump pulled me over and whispered, “You know he can’t throw the ball, right?” I’m like, “hell yeah!” I don’t see why we have school buses. Honestly. We had busses in Brooklyn, but the schools sure as hell didn’t pay for them. We could buy bus passes, but the tough kids would take them from us. Every month the bus passes changed colors. I would get a piece of construction paper, cut it to the exact size of the pass, and mount it on cardboard. Then when the bus came I’d flash my wallet with the card partially showing. It would usually work but if it didn’t I would just run away. Once I did get caught and I told the driver my name and address, except I gave him Johnny Simone’s. I know it sounds like a cliché, but we really did walk to school, no matter what the weather. We didn’t get snow days much, either. Somehow we survived all the tough kids robbing us and beating us up. There’s no “Mercy Rule” in real life.
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Here is the sad state of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Obama administration: it is secretive, vindictive, and like the IRS and other federal agencies, plays politics at the behest of the White House. It took The Independent the better part of a year to receive the FBI file on disgraced former Congressman Tim Bishop, who was the subject of an ethics probe by the FBI after the Office of Congressional Ethics concluded Bishop likely broke the law by soliciting a contribution in return for a favor from his office in May, 2012. In September 2013, The Independent broke the story that the FBI was investigating Bishop and had sent at least two agents into his district to grill those involved in the now infamous “Plovergate” scandal. Cut to the fall of 2014. Bishop, who had been leading in the polls, was falling rapidly. Lee Zeldin, his brash challenger, reported afterwards that constituents he met oftentimes asked about the FBI investigation into Bishop’s dealings. The Congressman was desperate to put the matter behind him. On September 10, as if by divine intervention, he got what he wanted. One of the myriad attorneys Bishop hired to help him weasel out of trouble announced he had been informed that the FBI “decided not to pursue charges” against Bishop. The Independent could not get a spokesman from the FBI to confirm that statement was actually made. Bishop then took to the airwaves. The phrase “not to charge” had morphed into “cleared by the FBI.” Bishop, staring straight into the camera, would repeat that phrase dozens of times in the following weeks of the campaign. Zeldin won easily despite the last minute switch in tactics. Two weeks after Bishop’s attorney announced his client would not be prosecuted, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder abruptly announced his resignation. President Obama announced he would nominate Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become the nation’s next attorney general. Perhaps not coincidentally, it was Lynch who was in charge of the Bishop investigation. Bishop voted with the Obama administration 98 percent of the time. He championed the bailout. He fervently supported Obamacare. He marched to the Obama/Pelosi mantra religiously. Was it time for the administration to give something back to him – maybe a pass on the FBI investigation? That’s what The Independent wanted to find out when we FOILed for Bishop’s file. We finally received it after numerous delays. Our excitement quickly waned. There were almost 300 pages in the file: 246 were deleted. Let’s be clear about this: five of every six pages were excluded from our request. Of course, it is possible all those pages referenced matters of national security, but somehow we doubt that. Virtually every name and phone number on the remaining few pages was redacted. In other words, almost every significant piece of information in the Bishop file was withheld from the press, and therefore from the public. Tim Bishop repeatedly said he had “nothing to hide” yet he refused to answer some questions posed by the OCE, refused to return calls from the press, and hired a battery of lawyers to lobby for the dismissal of his charges – and paid for them using campaign funds. Is he under investigation for other matters? The FBI won’t say. Would an enemy of the Obama administration been given a free pass had he or she committed the same indiscretions? We’ll leave that to the public to decide.
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By Ed Gifford November 11th newspaper didn’t have a single acknowledgement other than you just spewing your own rhetoric. We deserve better. With all respect to our veterans, JULIE STRONG With all due respect, Julie, you should actually read the paper before writing a snotty letter. Our November 4 issue had a complete wrap-up of all Veteran’s Day Continued on Page 18.
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Disturbing Letter(s) Dear Editor, Your editorial last week “Despicable Behavior” concerning the East Hampton Town Trustees was quite harsh, perhaps without knowing some of the facts. Until only recently, the trustees have not been televised for the public to watch. I started attending the trustee meetings last year, 2014 to support Susan Knobel in her effort to move her house out of danger from being blown into Napeague Harbor in a storm. I was quite surprised at the treatment of many of those who went to the trustees for help and the “despicable behavior” of how they were treated. Instead of rational solutions to those who came before the trustees for their problems to be solved, people seemed to be treated differently depending on who they were. Actually their behavior reminded me of the Wilkinson and Theresa team. You stated in the editorial that Democratic candidates Bill Taylor and Rona Klopman shouldn’t have been on the ticket. Bill Taylor is an incumbent and deserved re-election because of his use of common sense in making decisions that had nothing to do with fatcats south of the highway. As far as Rona Klopman running for trustee she decided to run after spending 14 months going to the trustee meetings to try to get an access for a cemetery on Six Pole Highway in East Hampton that the trustees owned. That is another long story that is despicable. Rona Klopman attended more meetings than some of the Trustees. One trustee only attended 6 meetings out of 16. I agree with you that Deb Klughers and Zach Cohen are very intelligent people but Klughers and Zach wrote very disturbing letters to newspapers. Did they really think that their fellow Democrats were going to vote for them? The back stabbing during the campaign was appalling. We need people who will work together and not back stab other people. I do know that the voters of East Hampton are smart and it would be wise for the new trustees to not only protect our beaches and waterways but to uphold the patents from colonial times. After all they are elected every two years. They
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How will you spend Thanksgiving? Kate Grant Usually my whole family comes for the holiday but this year it will just be four of us. But we’ll still sing karaoke all day and have lots of fun. We like the Glee karaoke best. My daughter puts the music on and then I grab the microphone to have a go at it. We go on all day long together. Stephanie Beros It may be a difficult holiday. I’ll be spending it with my 91-year-old mother and she’s not really well. I’ll make a turkey or a smaller bird for just the two of us. I miss the days when the whole family was together. My mom was such a great cook. Now it’s my turn to return the favor. Susie Lish I’m a private chef. I’ll be making dinner for about 20, mostly traditional but mixed with lots of fresh local vegetables and a winter salad. I make a special stuffing for the vegetarian guests, a roasted fish and a brisket for anyone not a turkey fan. And a sweet potato pie. Daniella Diaz I’m going to Florida where I’ll spend it with my mother and my cousins. There will be about 10 of us spending the holiday together. I’m from Columbia and this is going to be my very first Thanksgiving in America.
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will be televised and the public can watch. Perhaps more newspapers will cover them. I wish them luck. ELAINE JONES Editor’s Note: A few points: Bill Taylor wrote letters of support for disgraced former Town Supervisor Bill McGintee even after it became known McGintee had mismanaged (and lost) $30 million in public funds; Klopman, a party operative, lives in a private oceanfront community and is currently in court because she allegedly had her pool drained onto a public road near the beach. By the way, you missed the point of our editorial: The Democrats nominated Klughers (who is also an incumbent) and Cohen. If they were dissatisfied with them they could have chosen not to. The most egregious thing you wrote though, is Cohen and Klughers “wrote letters to the newspapers.” Oh, pardon us. We thought we lived in America. Is the Democratic hierarchy so controlling that candidates aren’t allowed the same rights and privileges every citizen has?
An Idiot? Dear Rick, A while back I had written a letter regarding Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson. I had referred to him as a savant; one exceptionally knowledgable about one subject, in his case manipulating and treating the human brain of others, but knows little about anything else. As I said, the popular name often used for such a dichotomy is Idiot Savant but I was emphatic to state that this, he was not. He has since made statements and declarations such as to boggle the mind of any rational listener. Whether inventions, faulty recollections, or outright lies, they emanate non-stop. Not wanting political differences to color my evaluation of Carson I had stated that he was not the classic Idiot Savant. I was wrong. NICHOLAS ZIZELIS Editor’s Note: Better be careful. Carson said if you keep calling him names he’s going to punch his mother again.
maintained – the feds are paying for the installation of geo-tubes, which will be filled with sand, then covered with more sand. Legislator Jay Schneiderman cautioned against seeing the reinforced dune project as an end product. He predicted, “In a few years, a wide sandy beach will be constructed in front of the dune. Under this federally funded project, sand will be dredged from off shore and pumped onto the beach. The current project is necessary in the interim period to protect all of downtown Montauk if a major storm strikes. After the beach has been constructed, the current project will not be necessary and can be removed.” The statement did little to mollify opponents. Within minutes of its distribution, James Katsipis, a local photographer who spearheaded
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protests, urged friends on social media to attend the Tuesday morning work session and “continue to PRESS for a SAND ONLY project for Downtown Montauk. Please attend regardless of any statement made by Supervisor Cantwell in advance of this meeting since the mere request for a SAND ONLY project by the Town Board is not sufficient. We must insure that the Town Board INSISTS ON and only moves forward with a SAND ONLY project.”
Appeasing opponents by simply asking for a “Sand Only” project, “falls far short on delivering this project in its only acceptable form,” he wrote. Katsipis was among the first demonstrators arrested on November 6, when the beach rallies began. Since then, more than a dozen community members have worn the cuffs in protest of the project, arrested for failing to move out of the way of workers and their machines on the beach.
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Continued from page 13. of Brooklyn, who is also charged with Operating as a Major Drug Trafficker. Rincon is on parole for a narcotics felony out of Queens County. “From Rincon’s apartment on Ocean Avenue, we seized approximately 5000 bags worth of uncut heroin and $60,000 cash,” DA Spota said. Another parolee on a conviction for drug sales, Rodney Montalvo, 39, was based at the Clarion Hotel on Veterans Memorial Hwy in Ronkonkoma, Spota said. Montalvo,
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The East Hampton Group for Wildlife marched in opposition to East Hampton Village’s deer sterilization program on Saturday. About two-dozen participants gathered at the windmill and walked down Main Street to Village Hall. EHGW likens the program to torture of the animals.
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McCormac, F & J Peill, I Feinberg, M Snider,F&Fusselman,A Seoane,J &Conneally Mistretta, J & C 10 Fireplace LLC Laskowitz, J & A
Trabona, A by Exr Pearson, N Johnston, R Good Jr, W Duffy, T & B Trusts Camillo, J & S Morgan Jr, T & M Reit, S
565,000 710,000 379,000* 450,000* 815,000 800,000 775,000* 2,300,000
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119 Bay Street LLC
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Rockowitz, J & N
Campo Brothers
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Sheppard, M K.P.J. PropertiesLLC
Kassner,S&Kelly Trst Birthday Brothers As
250,000 350,000
70 Strawberry Commons 673 Osborn Ave & lot 5
Miness, D
Beechwood Highlands
511,940
36 Foxglove Row
Federal NationalMrtg
Boschetti, L
232,178
188 Forge Rd
Gilpin, S & E
Clark Jr, A by Exrs
423,890
7 Smith St
Della Speranzo Sr&Jr Trucinskas&Menshova Hollow Forest LLC
Hamilton, T by Exr Virgintino, B Sequen, J
55,000* 345,000 225,000
23 Anchor St 14 Harvey Rd 35 Birch Ct
Rutherfurd&Ravenhall Schiller,C&Specht,M Wellman, G & J
Rutherfurd, A Majahid, R Clary, W
350,000 400,000 316,300
31 Central Ave 40 Hallock Ave 20 Barracuda Rd
Guillen,J &Maldonado Flag Properties LLC Capria, T
Turner, J Ferguson, J & M Frassanito,M & Trust
440,000 365,000* 384,000
12 Old Squiretown Rd 6 Cormorant Dr 54 Homewood Dr
Jahn, R & P Beekman Mitchell LLC
Thier,J & Ryan, V 1,175,000 Cataldo,W & Cohen, N 4,950,000
2 Morrissey Ln 53 Dune Rd
Gallo, W Revoc Trust
O’Connell, M & S
7,600,000
46 Club Ln
Farcas, D Corio, K & N Blake, M Blake, M Graham,D &Whiting,S Baker, A & S Pakula, H
O’Hear, E Trust Thiele Werner, K LTL Family Holdings Stelle, F Hegner, L Browngardt, R Trust Sag DevelopmentPrtnr
643,000 860,000 987,506 11,994* 1,700,000 1,450,000 3,202,760
3 Spring Ln 50 Whitney Rd 4220 Noyack Rd 4258 Noyack Rd 76 Sunset Beach Rd 18 Howard St 15 Church St, #G-101
Lohan43 LLC Collazos, J & N Frank, M & A Kim, J & D
Gue, L Scott, M by Admr Arendt, M Deutsche Bank Nat
1,000,000* 245,000 981,500 405,000
43 Lohan Ct 384 North Magee St 48 Hilltop Rd 68 Shinnecock Hill Rd
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Bencar Building Corp North Fifth LLC
Radley Prospect LLC 1,800,000 Mezzacappa, D by Exr 16,785,000
128 W Prospect St 430 Halsey Neck Ln
Luloff, P
108 Westminster LLC
4,375,000
108 Westminster Rd
Bossung, R Trust
Pastor, J & L
200,000
75 Montauk Hwy
Ibrahim, S & I Begley, J Posa,P &Budah-Posa,M Tortora,A &Cappiello
Timber Ridge at WHB Timber Ridge at WHB Sapp, M & D Bloch, S
572,280 627,500 580,000 1,035,000
303 Gettysburg Dr 306 Gettysburg Dr &lot 59 25 Debbie Ln 23 Tuttle Pl
Crary, D
McCall, T
375,000*
Oceanview Ave
Teeven, J Vigen,T& Esposito,C Worcester,R&Legendre
GreatPeconic LLC Loreto Jr, T Osler, S & J
700,000 416,500 680,000
3275 Skunk Ln 330 Oak Dr 2145 Haywaters Rd
Arnold, J
Thogersen Sr,G Trust
485,000
70 Wiggins Ln
Schott, S Williams, T
Vitale Ryan, M Buthorn, D
366,000 374,500
2570 Route 25 285 N Oakwood Dr
England, C & C Levi, D & J Cacioppo LivingTrust
Newman, J Willets, A Jackson, H & B
349,000 925,000 315,000
385 Center St 4415 Camp Mineola Rd 935 Bay Ave
Panetta, R & E Fuhrmann&MarillTrsts
Lawrence, B & C Deneufville, P & J
520,000 625,000
550 Greenway W 2620 Orchard St
Nuzzi, C & S Maroney, D & J Bakst, K Kelleher, T & M Ciampa Trusts Prtnrs
Argyrides, S Kerbs, J & J & C Schoenbaechler, F Pilles, E by Exr Kolyer, S & A
274,200 580,000 545,000 680,000 1,300,000*
525 Clark Rd 49700 CR 48 2325 Clearview Ave 1075 Clipper Dr 4075 Paradise Point Rd
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FEATURED PROPERTY MINUTES TO SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE Nestled comfortably in nature’s surroundings, this home is within minutes of Southampton Village and beaches. This home consists of 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a dining area, kitchen and a living area with fireplace. The master bedroom hosts an ample sitting area with a fireplace and a full bath to include a Jacuzzi. Each bedroom is large with significant closet space. This home boats a covered, wrap around porch equipped for summer time fun, great conversations and outdoor dining. WebID 61904 $725,000 HORACE R. BARROW 703.989.8555 horaceb@nestseekers.com
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The bad news is the curtain is closing on the high school fall season. The good news is basketball practice begins this week. The Pierson Field Hockey team, which won the New York State Class C title in 2013, made another run this year only to fall short in the semifinals. Cazenovia, a fast and talented team, took out the Lady Whalers 2-1, scoring the winner with just over seven minutes left after dominating the first half. The locals, though, came out hard for the second half and tied the game on a goal by Claudia Patterson with 13 minutes left on the clock. As it turned out, the most talented team in the tournament turned out to be Whitney Point, which blew out East Rockaway 4-0 in the other semifinal Saturday then took down Cazenovia 3-1 Sunday to capture the gold. The matches were played at MaineEndwell field. The Southold Boys Soccer team was eliminated in the Class C regional semifinals, losing a heartbreaker to Solomon Schechter on November 4. Erik Engstrom of East Hampton.
competing in the State Cross Country tournament in Central Valley, turned in a solid performance, finishing eighth in the Class B run with a time of 16:41.4. The local team also performed well, garnering 139 points, the fifth highest in Class B out of 11 teams. Josh Dempsey finished 32nd in the race. The Westhampton Hurricanes were eliminated from the Suffolk County Division III football championships in the semifinal, but turned in an inspiring effort in losing so. The Sayville Golden Flashes, once again undefeated, are one of the top programs in the state if not the country and are perennial Long Island champs. As expected, they wore down the locals, 56-27, but just scoring 27 points was a remarkable achievement, and it wasn’t done in garbage time, either. Dylan Laube ripped off a 42-yard run in the first quarter to open up the scoring, and The Flashes responded to even things up 7-7 after one stanza. When Laube scored on a oneyard run early in the second, Westhampton had a 13-7 lead and visions of an upset. The Sayville offense turned it up a notch, relying
on running back Ashton Bradley to carve out yardage. He would score the next four of his team’s touchdowns on three short runs and a 32-yard pass from Jack Coan. The Sayville defense stiffened at the same time, scoring on a fumble return. Just like that,
it was 49-13. The top-seeded Golden Flashes will take on the second seed, East Islip, for the County Division II championship Sunday at Stony Brook University at 4 PM. East Islip knocked off Miller Place in the other semifinal 47-14.
Riley Avenue Elementary Students participated in a “Halloween Candy Buy Back” sponsored by Bach/Grazina East End Orthodontics dental office. The students at Riley collected 538 pounds of candy to send to the soldiers overseas. Art teacher Melissa Haupt and the Riley Avenue Student Council helped coordinate the effort. The Candy Buy Back for the troops was a huge success. Dina Reilly, the Patient Advocate from Bach/Grazina Orthodontists, came to Riley Avenue to weigh the candy the students gave up from their Halloween stash. Bach/Grazina offered to pay for the shipping costs to send the candy overseas and to reward the students
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If someone told you Marcus Mariota would outscore Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck you would have laughed, right? The truth is the rookie gets more fantasy points than those two veteran QBs many a week in this topsy-turvy season. Going into the season the top quarterbacks were Aaron Rodgers and Andrew Luck, followed by Ben Roethlisberger, Drew Brees, Manning, Tony Romo, Matt Ryan and a few others. Tom Brady was facing a suspension because of Deflategate. Now it seems anything goes. David Carr, the unheralded QB of the Raiders, is on fire. Blake Bortles has been more consistent than any of above. Romo got hurt. Ryan’s team, Atlanta, is winning like never before, but he’s throwing a lot less. The same is true of Manning. So what does a Fantasy player do? If you are in a season-long league, nothing. If you have one of the top guys you have to ride this thing out. The last thing you want to do is make a change for the sake of change and then have your guy explode, like Brees did two
weeks ago when he threw for seven touchdowns. If you are playing in Daily Leagues, however, the last thing you want to do is pencil in a big name quarterback every week, especially if you have to play a lot for the privilege. The best thing to do is play matchups. New Orleans for example, has a terrible pass defense. Chances are whatever QB that faces them will do well, especially down in the Dome, where there are no weather concerns. On the other hand, no matter how good a QB is he’ll have trouble against certain defenses, like Denver or Carolina. It’s best to simply avoid the matchup. Another thing to do is focus on QBs who run well. Cam Newton, for example, ran for 57 yards and a touchdown Sunday. That’s 11 fantasy points, and everything you get from him passing the ball is icing on the cake. Then, of course, there is Brady. More than a few DFS players are making a nice living just penciling him in every week – yes, he’s been that good. The hot QBs this season are all
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reliable veterans who have taken in a lot of games. That means their games up a notch because chucking the ball all over the field. their teams have improved around Fantasy Notes: Remember there them. Andy Dalton: his Bengals are are two bye weeks left. Today is the 8-0, and Carson Palmer: Arizona is day to make sure you are covered at 6-2. What it means is the team is every position come Sunday. firing on all cylinders, the players Week 10 is also the week when have bought into what the coaches teams start getting mathematically are preaching, and the team is eliminated from the Fantasy going to stick with what’s working. playoffs. Remember that you owe Finally, the old tried and true: it to your league mates and the the more they throw, the more sport to continue to play hard each Fantasy points they put up. Philip week. You don’t want your laziness Rivers has always been a good QB, to hurt another team’s chances: but the Chargers are struggling, so people have long memories, and it Absolute Adscome 9-13-15:Layout 1 9/21/15 12:16 PM Page 1 he has to Aces try and from behind will come back to bite you.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4. complaints, the registry offers one other form of assistance to enforcers. It can be an “add on” charge to landlords and tenants in suspected overcrowded or overrented houses. Compare it to a motorist pulled over for DWI and leaving the scene of an accident. A rental registry charge can be likened to also getting a ticket for a broken taillight after the DWI and leaving the scene arrest. Far less intrusive than earlier iterations of the law – some called for inspections by town officials, while one version proposed about a decade ago, would have required landlords and tenants to disclose how much the rent was and how much the tenant made (as a nod toward providing affordable housing) -- the draft proposal implements an honor system for landlords. They have to affirm via notarized affidavit that the house meets some 22 aspects of the code as they pertain to safety. Asked how code enforcement will check to see if rental registrants actually have installed or maintained the 22 items, Betts had no answer other than to express the hope that people are honest on the form. Who doesn’t want to have the required number of smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, he wondered. Betts was at the helm of the
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code enforcement department in Southampton Town when it imposed its much-maligned rental law. Officials in Southampton have called it a failure – so much so, Supervisor-elect Jay Schneiderman has added it to his list of aspects of the town code that need an overhaul. Asked if Southampton’s rental law made a difference, if it was any help, Betts deflected. “It’s a different kind of code there. It’s a different set up,” he said, without articulating the difference.
Dueling Petitions The public hearing tomorrow night begins at 6:30 PM. So far, an online petition urging the town board to stop the registry has garnered 1012 supporters. Additional criticism of the proposal includes the complaint that the added layer of bureaucracy will discourage people who have been renting their homes to make ends meet from continuing a local tradition. It flies in the face of supposed interest in providing affordable housing, others say, as the proposed registry fee will likely be passed on to tenants. No provision is made for long term renters, meaning they will have to come up with the fee every two years. If a family’s circumstances change, say a spouse dies or a new baby is born, the registry will have to be changed to reflect the new number of people
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O’Brien Brothers Update
The waiting game is over for the O’Briens, the family featured on the cover of our October 21 edition. Earlier this month Eric, 22, was due to donate his kidney as part of three-way, cross-country organ swap that would see his brother Keith receiving his third kidney transplant. Days before the surgery, a CAT scan on the patient in Georgia revealed a problem, and it was back to the drawing board. “We found a direct donor for a two-way swap,” mom Jule Ann reported. “A 35 year old woman is donating for her dad.” The woman was due for final tests on Monday. The results checked out, and Keith’s surgery will take place on November 24. The family launched the “Brother to Brother Kidney Transplant” GoFundMe page in the hope that donations might defer the expense of travelling three times a week to the transplant center in the city after the surgery. Jule Ann estimated the cost at $300 per week. A fundraiser at the Talkhouse in Amagansett will be held next month on December 9. K.M.
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in a household, and another fee forked over. “Is this a fundraiser for the town or meant to actually do something,” one critic queried. The alreadyoverburdened building department has been tabbed to administer the registry. Both tenants and landlords may be subject to summonses and fines. Homeowners who inadvertently rent to bad tenants could be fined and visitors who unwittingly are the fourth short–term renters in a house suspected of excessive turnover would also be subject to criminal charges and court proceedings. Finally, opponents see the collection of personal information about the rental house and its tenants as invasive and potentially harmful. Information in the database could be available to anyone who asks for it through Freedom of Information Law. Asked to weigh in on this worry during candidate interviews last month, Supervisor Larry Cantwell shrugged it off. People can find personal information a variety of ways already, he pointed out. On the other side of the argument, a petition in support of the rental registry gathered 748 signatures, both online and in hard copy as of September 8, the most recent update to the change.org web page. Proponents of the registry believe East Hampton needs a registry to help prevent illegal housing, ensure tenant safety, preserve water quality and the environment, the quality of life on the East End, real estate values, and the single family residential character of local hamlets. A c c o r d i n g t o To w n C l e r k Carole Brennan, her office hasn’t received any petitions regarding the rental registry yet. Though email comments on the proposal should be sent to her for the official record, some have been sent to individual
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