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Sag Harbor: A Hopeful Future By Nicole Teitler
When the massive fire broke out in the historic village of Sag Harbor on the frigid morning of December 16, businesses, homes and memories all fell victim to the roaring flames that ripped through Main Street. One of those businesses, the historic Sag Harbor Cinema, located at 90 Main Street, left a gaping wound in the heart of the community. The iconic, neon lettered building was originally opened in 1915 as a single screen theater, rumored to have played the first talkie movie on the East End. In its over one hundred year history, Sag Harbor Cinema has been the host to films across every genre and welcomed thousands of faces from near and far. The building was demolished following the fire, but the beloved sign was saved and stored. “Everybody here is sad about the demise of the theater. It was a gem. Sag Harbor is such a unique, historical, closely knit community. But the damage will somehow be restored,” expressed local resident
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Lara Perschke. What is said to be the worst fire on the South Fork in over two decades also engulfed the two family businesses run by Tisha Collette and her husband Shane Dyckman. Collette, a luxury consignment shop, and SagTown Coffee are now permanently closed but have raised over $6500 for staff rendered jobless by the disaster on their Crowdrise page.
Michael Lynch, who had just moved in to an apartment above Compass Realty lost everything. He could have lost his life, too, if not for SHPD officer Randy Steyert who awakened him. A Crowdrise page set up to help him has raised over $15,800 so far. The devastation that took place right before Christmas left many worrying about how small businesses would be affected. “The community really came together because of the fire,” Lisa Field, owner of Sag Harbor Variety Store and President of the Chamber of Commerce, explained. “Many people came into Sag Harbor to shop locally to support the businesses. They kept asking, ‘How do we help with the rebuilding?’” Field is optimistic about what the future holds for her town and encourages the public to visit. “We’re open for business, we’re alive and well. We have great shops, keep coming to Sag Harbor.” It’s hope that keeps the pulse going strong in this grieving neighborhood. Though the physical damage remains, due to quick and effective responders who battled the blaze in freezing and harsh conditions, no lives were lost. Joseph Traina, owner of Page at 63 Main, aimed to give recognition to those who risked their lives putting the fire out. With his management team, friends and family, a fundraiser was conceived to honor the heroes. On Sunday over 150 people gathered at the restaurant, despite the snowy weather and icy road conditions, to benefit the first responders. “There has been a whole outpouring of people who would like to do something to plug up the hole in the community . . . it could have been so much more tragic. We
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A fundraiser and thank you for SHFD at Page at 63 Main on Sunday included the sale of photographs by Michael Heller taken during the massive December fire.
owe them an enormous amount of gratitude for their efforts and bravery,” said Traina. “It hit a chord with everyone.” The fire department is reliant on volunteers and the money raised from the event goes directly towards not for profit affiliations ranging from fire losses to the boy scouts. Thomas Horn Sr, best recognized from his years of collecting donations outside of the local firehouse, collected donations at the event. Local photographer Michael Heller captured the scenes from that ill-fated day. His extraordinary and evocative photographs of the day were displayed on a “Wall of Heroes” at Traina’s restaurant and available for purchase, with one hundred percent of proceeds going towards fire responders. Close to $1500 was raised in photography sales alone at the event. A boarded up building, scorched brickwork and the hole where the cinema stood on Main Street are reminders of what is irreversibly lost but also serve as the groundwork for a strong, rebuilding community. The RJD Gallery, where many works of art were lost, has started construction at a new location in Bridgehampton. Their goal is to re-open in March. In a release this week, gallery staff said, “We have greatly appreciated the thousands of comments, tweets, and outpouring of empathy on social media that we have received and encourage you to keep your friends informed, by letting them CONTINUED ON PAGE 12.
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The first significant snow on the East End last Saturday coated the region with up to 10 inches of the white stuff. Some intrepid pedestrians found reason to smile and kids got their snow angels on, while most locals cranked the heat, closed the doors, and took a snow day.
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A STAR IS ABOUT TO BE BORN I believe Donald Trump’s inability to line up anyone to perform at his upcoming inauguration, with the possible exception of Sylvester Stallone (who these days sounds as though one of the boxing gloves from his movie Rocky is lodged in his throat), may be a blessing in disguise for me. Let me explain. When I was seven years old, my mother had high hopes for me to have a career in show business.
Forget that I had no talent – I couldn’t sing or dance or perform. Plus, I was the clumsiest child on the face of the earth. But nothing could stop my mother’s ambition for me. Also, I did bear a startling resemblance to an English child actor named Roddy McDowall who stared in the 1943 movie Lassie Come Home. If you see the movie these days
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on TCM (Turner Classic Movies), remember that I looked like the little boy, not Lassie the dog, who was better looking than both of us. My stage-struck mother finally decided that I must take mandolin lessons. In Gravesend, my old Italian neighborhood, little boys took mandolin lessons, unless they were blind, in which case they took accordion lessons so they could pick up some change playing “Lady of Spain” on the accordion while begging on the Sea Beach subway. The mandolin teacher my mother selected was Mr. LaPonte, a vile old man who spoke little English and had an angry, explosive temper. LaPonte charged 25 cents a lesson – an amount my mother could ill afford. Every week my mother would send me to Mr. LaPonte’s shabby, cluttered, tiny apartment, which he shared with his wife who, even to my innocent seven-year-old eyes, appeared to be the homeliest woman in all of Christendom. Every week I would arrive at the LaPontes’ house with an excuse as to why my mom didn’t have the lesson money, and a promise that we would pay next week. One day I was warming up on the mandolin before my lesson. I was playing “Opus #1,” a song that was the theme song of Tommy Dorsey’s band. Mr. LaPonte ripped the mandolin out of my hands and threw me out of his house, screaming at the top of his lungs: “Don’t you ever play that “n****r” music in this house again.” Among other things, it turns out Mr. LaPonte was an ugly, disgusting racist, too. My formal mandolin training
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ended when I showed up at the LaPonte apartment one day and there was screaming coming from behind his door. Inside the tiny apartment was a rather buxom 15- or 16-year-old girl, her furious mother and the LaPontes yelling in Italian. It seems while he was standing behind the girl, giving her a lesson on how to hold the bow on her violin, LaPonte decided to squeeze her breasts. She told her mother, and so you could add child molester to the list of ugly LaPonte credits. As LaPonte mounted his defense, screaming that he never touched the child, his own wife cast her verdict and threw a glass full of water at him, hitting him on the shoulder and splashing everyone in the apartment. I left vowing I would never go back, and I didn’t. If I remember correctly, when I left we owed the old reprobate 75 cents. After that, my mandolin career consisted of playing on West 7th Street every hot summer night, when the heat made the houses unbearable and sleep impossible, so everyone sat outside their homes and waited for that mythical breeze to come from Coney Island, which was a few miles away. Ye s , t h e l e a d s o n g i n m y mandolin repertoire was “Opus #1.” Now, a thousand years later, I am imagining this scene taking place in Trump Tower. Jared Kushner, the presidentelect’s smart, nice son-in-law, is speaking: “Mr. President-elect, we cannot find a single person to perform at your inauguration. “Our last choice, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, just told us to f**k off. “We have to go to our nuclear option.” Trump: “Nuclear option?” “Yes, we may have to go to Jerry Della Femina playing his mandolin.” “Jerry Della Femina? That idiot didn’t even vote for me.” “Mr. President-Elect, we are desperate.” And so it will come to pass on Inauguration Day, there I will be with my mandolin. I will play two Neapolitan songs, “Come Back to Sorrento” and “Funiculi Funicula,” and I will end with my specialty, “Opus # 1.” And looking down, smiling at me from heaven, will be my mother. I just pray that she isn’t muttering, “It cost me 25 cents a lesson I couldn’t afford, and he winds up playing for this putz.” If you wish to comment on “Jerry’s Ink” please send your message to jerry@ dfjp.com.
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With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day around the corner and a Pew Research Center survey reporting 46 percent of U.S. voters expecting Donald Trump’s presidential triumph to result in worse race relations, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an indepth analysis of 2017’s States with the Most Racial Progress. So much for New York’s rep as liberal and touchy feely. We ranked an abysmal 31 out
Resistance Ain’t Futile With Martin Luther King’s birthday on the horizon, Canio’s Cultural Cafe in Sag Harbor will host two events designed to underscore the importance of speaking out, resisting, and activism. On Saturday, at 5 PM three local activists will describe their experiences in “The Sprituality of Resistance.” Chenae Bullock, Shinnecock Tribal Member and historian, Engu Michel Dobbs, Zen Buddhist priest of Ocean Zendo, and Rev. Kimberley Quinn Johnson, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork will discuss the spiritual context of their social activism and resistance work. Chenae Bullock and Michel Dobbs have participated in the movement to support Water Protectors at Standing Rock, ND. Kimberly Quinn Johnson is on the Southampton Anti-Bias Task Force and a founding member of Racial Justice East End. The panel presentations will be followed by discussion and Q&A with the audience. On Sunday Canio’s cosponsors “Writers Resist: Teach In/Speak Out,” an afternoon dedicated to empowering our community through workshops and readings, at Stony Brook Southampton. From 2:30 to 3:45 PM, there’s a “Teach In” consisting of writerled workshops open to the public. The Speak Out, from 4 to 5 PM, will include readings from the past and present, writings selected to highlight the ideals of democracy, diversity and free expression, and an audiencebased Twitter storm of a Langston Hughes poem.
of 50 states and the District of Columbia. Analysts measured the gaps between blacks and whites in 16 key indicators of equality and integration for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The data set ranges from “median annual income” to “standardized test scores” to “voter turnout.” The report examines the differences between only blacks and whites in light of the highprofile police-brutality incidents
that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement and the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who played a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement to end segregation and discrimination against blacks. Hawaii, Idaho, and Kentucky scored first, second, and third, respectively, as “Most racially Integrated States.” Georgia, new Jersey, and Maryland were tabbed the states with the most racial progress.
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New York ranked 30 in the categor y of employment and wealth, which examined income gaps, employment, home and business ownership, and poverty rates. The state was 34 out of 51 in the education and civic engagement category, which tracked diploma percentages, gaps in standardized test scores, plus voter turnout. New York scored a more respectable 20 out of 51 in the health category, which scrutinized such stats as infant mortality and suicide rates. Researchers also looked at racial progress made over time, tracking improvements in the Continued on Page 37.
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receive the North Fork Chamber of Commerce’s annual Community F Service of the Year Award. The North Fork Chamber will present the award at its sixth annual Snowflake Gala & Awards Ceremony later this month. “It’s a tremendous honor,” auxiliary president Helene Fall said in an interview. “We are very appreciative of the NFCC recognizing the service of the auxiliary to the community. We are also happy to have been chosen along with at 3 PM, there’s “Winter Sensory Robert’s Jewelers [Business of the Science” in sessions for kids ages Year]. He’s been so supportive of the four and five. At 4 PM, students in auxiliary for so many years.” Since its humble beginnings, grades K to first use their five senses the auxiliary — which predates to create a special craft. All the the hospital and was originally offerings are free, but registration formed to purchase supplies — may be required. Call 631-298-4134. has grown into a vital source of revenue for ELIH. In 2016 its three Kudos ELIH Aux The Eastern Long Island Hospital branches, the East End/Shelter Auxiliar y has been chosen to Island, Southold West and TWIGS,
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Movies & Science Ithaca screens at the MattituckLaurel Library Friday at 1:30 PM. Friday night at 5:30 PM, teens can watch Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Next Tuesday
Winter Lecture Series Southold Historical Society’s Winter Lecture Series presents a talk entitled, “History of 911: A Soldier’s Experience.” CPT. Charles Sanders, Commander and Historian, American Legion Post 803 in Southold is the guest speaker. There will be a lecture, a video as well as time for questions and answers with the audience. Saturday at 2 PM at the Community Center at Peconic Landing (simulcast to the Southold Free Library).
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Wedding Showcase Take center stage on your wedding day with the bounty of beautiful nuptial accouterment you’ll see Sunday during the Suffolk Theater wedding showcase. Touted as one of the most unique flexible event spaces on the East End, the 1930s art deco theater will be packed to the rafters with wedding inspiration. There’s free admission with pre-registration. Otherwise, pay $10 at the door. The showcase runs from noon to 4 PM.
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Full Moon Hike On Thursday beginning at 5 PM, join a Group for the East End naturalist for a beautiful, crisp moonlit walk through the trails of Downs Farm Preserve. Discover the sights and sounds of the world at night. Participants may bring a flashlight/headlamp. For reser vations or more information, please contact Jessica Kennelly at 631-765-6450 ext. 215 or jkennelly@eastendenvironment. org. On Friday night at 5 PM, there’s Nature BINGO at the preserve.
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Weir In, Shelly Out At LTV By Rick Murphy
The reign of Jim Shelly at LTV is over. Diana Weir, an East Hampton Town Planning Board member and a town board member two decades ago, quietly took the helm as president of the LTV Board of Directors last week. Shelly was affiliated with LTV for nearly two decades, serving as the treasurer for much of the last decade, and since the summer of 2015 as the president, after he engineered a coup and ousted
Robert Strada from that position. He also led the move to remove several members from the board. The very public squabble that ensued caused a domino effect. Strada went public with his concerns about the financial management of the local public broadcasting company, singling out Shelly and Seth Redlus, the long time Executive Director. The town, which funds LTV, then ordered a financial audit, and Strada called for an investigation by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s
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Office. The audit, by an independent auditing company, Nawrocki-Smith LLP, was highly critical of the way business was conducted under Shelly and Redlus. The audit noted 19 areas where improvements were needed, including the fact that Redlus spent with impunity, even when he was supposed to get approval from the LTV board (items over $5000) or the town board ($10,000). He controlled the company credit card, cash accounts, and check book with
little or no oversight. Redlus is apparently still on the LTV payroll, however, even though he reportedly lives in Texas. When board members began bickering Shelly quietly engineered a move to hire Redlus as a consultant even though Redlus was leaving his job after feuding with Strada and his wife, Michelle Murphy, who was also on the LTV board at the time. T h e LT V b o ard e v e n t ual l y approved a contract to pay Redlus $3200 a month plus expenses as a Continued on Page 11.
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Diana Weir, the new President of the LTV Board of Directors, said she envisions a “fresh start” for the public access television channel of East Hampton. “It really is a lovely facility and I am very honored,” Weir said. Her roots run deep -- she originally volunteered at LTV in 1988. She replaces Jim Shelly, who resigned. “It’s been a rough last few years for him and I guess he decided to step down,” Weir said. She said she did not think Shelly
was asked to step down, despite a negative auditors’ report and an investigation by the Suffolk District Attorney focused on possible fiscal malfeasance at LTV. Weir was a member of the East Hampton Town Board from 1996 to 2000 and has served on the LIPA Board of Directors, the Stony Brook University Board of Directors, and as Executive Vice President of the Long Island Housing Partnership. Most recently she served as Randy Altschuler’s campaign manager when he ran for Congress against Tim Bishop four years ago. She is a member of the East Hampton Town Planning Board. Weir said former LTV Executive Director Seth Redlus, who was roundly criticized by auditors, is still affiliated with LTV as a consultant but she “does not think” he draws a monthly stipend any longer. “Right now his work is minimal; we use him very infrequently on an as needed basis.” She said Redlus was initially made a consultant to facilitate a smooth transition after he left LTV. “We got a clean slate and this is a new era for LTV. It’s a labor of love for me,” Weir said. One of the main criticisms from the audit was the lack of
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The State Supreme Court saved an East Hampton woman convicted for DWI from jail time by overruling the local justice court. The woman was convicted despite the fact that there we no witnesses. No one placed her at the bar in question or saw her drinking, no one saw her driving, and there were no witnesses to a purported accident she allegedly was involved in. Carl Irace, an East Hampton attorney, took the case after the woman, whose name is being withheld, came to him with her story. In June 2013 an East Hampton Town police officer knocked on her door early one morning and
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is to establish a five-year plan and do more fundraising.” Weir realizes the time will come when LT V will have to finance itself. “Right now we have a state of the art website. You can watch town meetings from anywhere in the world. LTV developed that. We need to look into the future.”
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arrested her for DWI and leaving the scene of an accident after a brief interview. Irace said a witness placed a car that was similar to his client’s at Wolfie’s on Fort Pond Boulevard in Springs, and told police she saw the driver strike a car parked across the street while leaving the tavern. “There was no evidence that one car hit the other,” Irace said. The witness could only supply a partial license plate, but police apparently traced the make and model and came up with his client’s name because she lived nearby. The officer, according to court documents, stated, “Defendant did operate a 2006 Subaru Forester, bearing New York plates eastbound in the parking lot of Fort Pond Blvd while in an intoxicated condition . . . the defendant was involved in a reportable motor vehicle accident when she backed out a parking space and struck a second, parked vehicle. The defendant then left the scene of the accident southbound . . . the defendant stated, ‘I was parked by the cottages but I know I didn’t hit anything.’” ”It was a zealous prosecutor, very immature and aggressive. Our defense was, ‘You can’t prove it.’ But they weren’t looking at the facts,” Irace said. A jury convicted the woman Continued on Page 12.
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consultant and to indemnify him from any future liability. “Seth Redlus is retained as a technical consultant on an as needed basis,” said Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, the town board’s liaison to LTV, earlier this week. “I applaud Jim Shelly who has served on the LTV Board of Directors for many years. His dedication and volunteerism have helped provide our community with what is arguably the best Public Access Television Station anywhere. He will be missed,” Van Scoyoc said. Van Scoyoc has drawn criticism from some former LT V board members and critics who point out some of the financial irregularities occurred on his watch. Van Scoyoc soft-soaped the auditor’s findings and did not attend the public meeting where they were presented to the town board. Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell lambasted Shelly at that meeting and was highly critical of LTV. “The truth is there has been a serious lack of internal controls at LTV, and the oversight has been woefully inadequate on the part of the board,” Cantwell said at the meeting. Shelly acknowledged at the meeting that the audit was “painful.” Van Scoyoc’s son worked at LTV as an intern and though the councilman said the young man did not get paid, it was subsequently revealed by The Independent that the son had received a stipend. “Diana Weir, the new Chair of the LTV Board of Directors, has an impressive private/public resume and leadership skills that will undoubtedly help LTV continue to fulfill its charter of providing the very best public access television to the Town of East Hampton,” Van Scoyoc said. Weir comes in at a difficult time. LTV is in the midst of litigation with Video Voice, a broadcasting company that produces WVVH TV. Video Voice contends that it is an affiliate of LTV, citing an agreement put in place with the founder of LTV, Frazer Dougherty, and that it
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has secured permanent space in the LTV studio. Video Voice was evicted from the studio it purports to share with LTV and Dougherty has testified that Video Voice has a right to have a studio. “We filed suit in 2011 and they have yet to answer the complaint,” said Joe Bainton, the Video Voice attorney. “It’s an egregious case of slowness. They can run but they can’t hide.” The town has been named in the suit as well. The LTV building sits on property owned by East Hampton Town. It is funded by about $700,000 in cable fees paid annually to the town and East Hampton Village by Cablevision, though the municipalities aren’t obligated to give LTV the money. Cablevision gobbled up smaller cable companies that served Long
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Island to gain a cable monopoly, including East Hampton Cable, and pays fees to each municipality. Cablevision also agreed to provide one local access channel to each municipality, which is how LTV came to be. With the sale of Cablevision to Altice last year, these agreements may change in the future as contracts expire. More and more providers, like Vios (Verizon), are moving to Internet delivery. If the channels are delivered via the Internet to a receiving box, Altice would have the option on not using the strung cable, and thus wouldn’t have to pay East Hampton for use of the utility poles it is strung on. In other words, the funding source for LTV might eventually dry up. For the moment the upheaval continues. There are only five
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holdover members on the 10-person board from 2014. Weir didn’t come on board until late last year and Morgan Vaughan, the executive director, was hand picked by Redlus in 2015. “Jim Shelly’s contributions of time and talent are extensive. It was my pleasure to work with him over the past 18 months. Without his guidance, LTV would not be in the very stable position it is in today,” Vaughan said. “I am also extremely excited to work with Diana Weir, who has already contributed so much to the Town of East Hampton, and whose passion and dedication to the betterment of this community is well known. She is an incredible asset to our board and LT V,” Vaughan added. An interview with Weir appears elsewhere in this section.
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RICK’S SPACE Snowed In Snow days were hard to come by when I was a kid going to grammar school in Brooklyn, probably because we had nuns and they were already on the school grounds. For the rest of us, though, the snow was a big hurdle to overcome. First of all, getting a day off was never a sure thing. We had some whoppers when they made us trudge through nine inches of snow. Nowadays the kids get to come in late if there are a few inches on the ground and get a snow day if a few inches more fall. This is all part of the sissyfying of America’s youth. In those days my sister and I went to St. Francis of Assisi, my brother was at St. John’s Prep, my mom was a school nurse, and my father worked at Brooklyn State Mental Hospital. When he used to get mad at us he’d shout, “There are more nuts in this house than there are at work” and he was probably right. Things got pretty hectic on
school days since we only had one bathroom, so getting a day off was a big deal to us. This was the backdrop for my most famous scam. Each morning when it snowed we’d get up at the crack of dawn and tune into 770 WABC radio. The list of schools that were closing would be repeated on air. There were hundreds, so the guy would talk like one of those carnival hucksters and mumble a million words a minute. It would take a good 15 minutes to cycle through the list, and, of course, schools would be added to the list as the morning wore on. It didn’t take me long to figure that a timely phone call to the radio station was all that was needed. But being in the fourth grade, I sounded like a little kid, as did all my classmates — except one. We all had a James Pennimore (not his real name). He towered over us, he had a heavy growth on his face, and his deep voice was a notch
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above my Uncle Tommassoni, who had a throat box from smoking six packs of cigarettes a day. In other words James was perfect – except he was afraid of being caught by the nuns, which basically meant a lifetime of torture, followed by an eternity in hell. But James didn’t like to study very much, and he hated doing his homework. That’s where I came in – being the brown-noser I was, I always did my homework, and I had no problem doing his for him – on one condition. He would make the call on snow days. We practiced after school. We already knew the special phone number for the hotline to report school closures, and of course in those days they couldn’t trace the call. “Hello, this is Father Nolan over here at St. Francis of Assisi in Brooklyn. It’s really bad out there so we’re gonna shut it down today.” We drilled it into James until he could recite it in his sleep. It snowed twice, and it worked both times, or so we thought. No one said anything, anyway. I later realized with all the bedlam going on even if a school called in twice no one at the radio station would care. I decided to ratchet it up. One day in March it was really cold, and icy and snowy, but it wasn’t really a candidate for a snow day. I turned
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Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts hosted a holiday party for supporters of Bay Street’s 2016 season. The event took place at Topping Rose in Bridgehampton. The evening featured a performance by Joanna Howard, accompanied by Linda Howard. Jules Feiffer, world-renown cartoonist and author, also spoke about his work The Man In The Ceiling, which makes its world premiere as a musical, opening Bay Street’s 2017 Summer Mainstage Season. With book and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, the show will be directed by Jeffrey Seller, who is also known for his work as the Broadway producer of Hamilton and Rent.
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Guild Hall Student Art Festival. Hampton presents the group exhibit, "November's Bone." The show runs through January 16. East End Arts East End Arts presents an ar t show at the Rosalie Dimon
Photograph by Stephen Wilkes. Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email to jessica@indyeastend. com. Winter Favorites Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor presents "Winter Favorites: New and Old Treasures," featuring photographs from the "National Geographic Series" by Stephen Wilkes and including work by Blair Seagram, Daniel Jones, and Eric Meola. The show is on view through Monday, January 30. Visit www.tullaboothgallery.com. Student Arts Festival Guild Hall presents its 25th annual Student Arts Festival Part I, with grades K through 8. The Student Arts Festival celebrates the young artists of our region and salutes their devoted art instructors, school administrators, and families who nurture their creative pursuits. Each year, students from Bridgehampton to Montauk participate. The museum features more than 3500 works of student art that cover the gallery walls floor to ceiling salon-style. An opening reception will be held on Saturday from 2 to 4 PM. The show runs through February 12. Visit www. guildhall.org for more info. Artists Choose Artists The Parrish Art Museum presents the third iteration of "Artists Choose Artists," on view through Monday. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, the exhibition comprises the work of seven jurors and fourteen artists, includes Tina Barney with Dinah Maxwell Smith and RJT Haynes, Lynda Benglis with Garrett Chingery and Saskia Friedrich, Tony Oursler with Jackie Black and Marianne Weil, Donald Lipski with Suzanne Anker and Ben Butler, Jorge Pardo with Anne Bae and Monica Banks, Cindy Sherman with Bill Komoski and Toni Ross, and Leo Villareal with Karin Waisman and Almond Zigmund.
The fourth Artist’s View, where participants featured in the exhibition lead intimate talks in the galleries, will be held on Friday at 6 PM. Artists Jackie Black, Marianne Weil, and Almond Zigmund will provide insight into their process for works in the exhibition.
Gallery at the Jamesport Manor Inn featuring East End Arts members. The show includes oil paintings by Roxanne Panero of Sagaponack, and photographs by Sara Cedar Miller of Hampton Bays. It will be on display until February 1.
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Aubrey Grainger Aubrey Grainger's "Farms, Water and East End Scenes" is on display at the Art Gallery at Quogue Library. Grainger is a Sagaponack based artist. She is a passionate plein air painter whose subjects include the East End of Long Island and the Adirondacks. An opening reception will be held on Saturday from 3 to 4:30 PM. The show runs through January 29. ONGOING Thanksgiving Collective Tripoli Gallery in Southampton presents its 12th Annual "Thanksgiving Collective: Year-Round." Curated by Tripoli Patterson, "Year-Round" features works by Alice Aycock, Max Blagg, Jennifer Cross, Robert Dash, Sabra Moon Elliot, Eric Freeman, Saskia Friedrich, Jeremy Grosvenor, Judith Hudson, Keith Sonnier, Susan Tepper, and Lucy Winton. The exhibition will be on view through January 30. The Wednesday Group Ten artists from The Wednesday Group have over 20 pear paintings on display at The Golden Pear in East Hampton. Stop in, have a snack, and look at some deliciously wonderful pear art. Participating artists are Anna Franklin, Cynthia Loewen, Jean Mahoney, Alyce Peifer, Gene Samuelson, Frank Sofo, Bob Sullivan, Aurelio Torres, Pam Vossen, and Dan Weidmann. The show runs through January. November's Bone The Halsey McKay Gallery in East
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The Annual “Love Bites” benefit will be held on Saturday, January 21, from 6:30 to 10 PM at The Muses in Southampton. The event will benefit The Scarlett Fund and Katy’s Courage and honor lead chef Rocco DiSpirito. Restaurants and chefs include Bareburger, Manna, Golden Pear, Edgewater, Dopo La Spiaggia, Cait’s Baked, Red Catering, The Service Station, Chef Coordinator Peter Ambrose, and many more. Katy’s Courage is dedicated to
supporting education, children’s bereavement support, and pediatric cancer research, in honor of Katy Stewart. Katy was diagnosed with a rare form of pediatric liver cancer called hepatoblastoma and died at the age of 12. The Scarlett Fund at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was created by Jennifer and Robert James to support and raise awareness for pediatric cancer research in honor of their eight-year-old daughter, Scarlett James, who was diagnosed in 2013 with T Cell Lymphoma. Tickets start at $125. For more information and tickets call Linda Shapiro at 631-725-2023 or visit www.katyscourage.org.
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Snowy Owls See Aladdin Ready for a magic carpet ride? The YMCA Summer Camp team invites you to join them for a fun-filled trip to the city to experience Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway on Saturday, January 28. The shuttle to NYC leaves at 9:30 AM from three different locations: Montauk, East Hampton, and Riverhead. Tickets are $75(before 1/20) and $85 (after 1/21) and include round trip coach bus transportation and admission tickets. To register or view full itinerary visit YMCALI.com/bestofbroadway. Call 631-329-6884 ext 21 with questions. C.T.
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Nancy Atlas and friends heat up the night every Saturday in January at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. This Saturday Danny Kean will be performing with his super funky keyboard. Showtime is 8 PM. Purchase tickets through Bay Street’s website or call 631-725-9500.
Wednesday Night Live
Ray Red and Mike Rusinsky host “Wednesday Night Live,” a weekly open mic at MJ Dowling’s in Sag Harbor from 8 to 11 PM. Performers include musicians, poets, comedians, and singers. Sign up starts at 7 PM. Performers get a free soft drink or tap beverage. Every Friday, it’s karaoke beginning at 10 PM.
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Come for free pool and pub quiz night at 7 PM every Thursday evening, and Saturday and Sunday football special pricings. Check out “smokin’ hot tunes” alongside a happy hour menu every Friday. Townline is open regularly by 11:30 AM until 9 or 10 PM Thursday through Monday. For more info call 631-537-2271 or visit the Townline BBQ Facebook page.
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Enjoy live musical performances at Stephen Talkhouse on Saturday with Cracked Actor the David Bowie Tribute Band at 8 PM and at 10 PM the band Revel in Dimes will take the stage. Visit stephentalkhouse.com or call 631-267-3117 for cover pricing and more info.
Zigmund’s Wraps Up
The owners of Zigmund’s have decided to close shop and move on to new upcoming projects soon to be announced. This week there will be the last open mic night plus special guest performances on Wednesday from 7 to 11 PM. Thursday is Karaoke from 8 PM to 1 AM. On Saturday party it up with the signature music of Retro
Sounds. Sunday is closing night with a last session of their popular Karaoke from 8 PM to 1 AM. Call 631-9195340 with any questions or visit their website. Zigmund’s Bar will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 6 PM to 2 AM.
Songwriters Share
The third annual songwriters share concert series will begin Friday at 8 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse of the South Fork in Bridgehampton. Mariann Megna and friends will be performing to benefit this year’s chosen charity organization Maureen’s Haven that provides support to the homeless through November to March. Admission is $15 and CD’s will be available for purchase. Call the Meetinghouse at 631-537-0132 with any questions.
South Of The Border
The Southampton Arts Center is hosting a performance of Latin music by numerous musicians on Saturday from 7 to 9 PM. The show will be recorded live by WPPB 88.3 FM of Peconic Public Broadcasting. Tickets are $15, $5 for children. For details visit southamptonartscenter.org.
JEY Trio Concert
The Southampton Inn will be holding a special concert in its library with classical selections performed by Yeou-Cheng Ma, Joseph Rutkowski, and Elinor Abrams Zayas on Sunday at 3 PM. Afterwards there will be wine, hot cider, and cheese to enjoy. Admission is complimentary and there are special overnight and dining packages available with attendance. For details visit southamptoninn.com or call 631-283-6500.
Suffolk Theater Concerts
At Riverhead’s Suffolk Theater on Friday some of the original members of the Village People will perform at 8 PM. Admission is $45-$65. Saturday some of the original members of Jefferson Starship will be performing at 8 PM. Tickets are $50-$79. Doors, bar, and
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The Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead is holding a presentation on Martin Luther King Jr. with examinations of his writings, speeches, and early life. The speaker, Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, is the director and curator of the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor. The event takes place Saturday at 1 PM. It includes refreshments and admission to current exhibits. RSVP by calling 631-727-2881 ext. 100. Tickets are $5 and members are free.
Views Of Spiritual Resistance
Canio’s Books/Cultural Café in Sag Harbor will host a lecture titled The Spirituality of Resistance: Three Views on Saturday at 5 PM. Three local activists will speak about their personal experiences. All are welcome to this free event that will be followed by a discussion with the audience and some refreshments. Call Canio’s at 631-725-4926 for more details or visit caniosbooks.com.
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See a live screening of No Man’s Land starring Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Patrick Stewart at Guild Hall in East Hampton. The play about two aging writers will be broadcast all the way from London on Saturday. Tickets are $18, $16 members. The last chance to purchase tickets will be two hours prior to curtain. To order tickets visit GuildHall.org or call 631-324-0806.
4000 Miles
Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize winning play 4000 Miles is being presented by the Hampton Theatre Company at the Quogue Community Hall beginning Thursday at 7 PM. Performances will continue through January 29 on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 8 PM, and Sundays at 2:30 PM with an additional matinee
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Comedy At Bay Street
Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will be hosting a comedy special A Special Engagement on Friday at 8 PM with comedians Sherrod Small and Christian Finnegan. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. For details and ticket purchases visit baystreet.org or call the box office at 631-725-9500.
Calling All Actors
The Hampton Theatre Company will be holding open auditions for Bernard Slade’s mystery An Act of the Imagination on Sunday and Monday from 6 to 8 PM. The auditions will be held at the Quogue Community Hall. Rehearsals will begin in early February. Those auditioning should bring a headshot and résumé if they have them. Non-Equity and Equity actors are welcome. For details email director Edward Brennan at harleydeuce831@ aol.com or call 631-766-0537.
Wedding Showcase!
The fourth annual Suffolk Theater Wedding Showcase will take place Sunday from 12 to 4 PM. Tickets are free with pre-registration and $10 at the door. The theater, founded in 1933, has been newly restored and offers this event as a great opportunity to present the beautiful aspects that have been brought back to life. For seating options and ticket purchasing call 631727-4343 or visit SuffolkTheater.com.
Film Antonia’s Line
The East Hampton Library begins its International Film Festival of 2017 with the Dutch film Antonia’s Line on Sunday at 2 PM. The subtitled film by Marleen Gorris was a 1996 Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Film. For more info and to register for a seat visit easthamptonlibrary.org or call the circulation desk at 631-324-0222.
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sense of humor, and Dave Locascio remembered by his quick wit. The show is of the “shock-jock� variety and recorded live every Monday at 9 PM (even on holidays). Between music selections, it features racey commentar y and debates along with a variety of special guests who are interesting, entertaining, and often quite well known. Recent guests have been a local politician, a UFC fighter, local artists and musicians, a Telemundo actress, a crystal healer, and an experienced genealogist. Verneuille built his show from the ground up (and each piece of equipment used during each
Podcasts and Ted Talks have been an ongoing trend, and the newest trend is Internet radio shows. Yes, AM, FM, and Sirius radio offer live shows like Howard Stern; however, an Internet radio show can be made available for listeners to hear live or at any time afterwards. Each show is archived and can be posted online for listeners to enjoy after the live version has aired. The East End has its own successful Internet radio show that’s just reached its one-year birthday. The Ryan Show created by Ryan Verneuille, is co-hosted by Nick Schiavoni, known for his wildcard
recording is not cheap). He learned audio engineering during his free time and eventually set up his very own sound studio. Ya m a - Q , t h e t a s t y J a p a n e s e restaurant in Bridgehampton where he also works as sushi chef, allowed him to use the entire upstairs of the restaurant to set up a perfect sound stage for the show. He had a dream he knew he had to make happen. The show has become another job, but also his favorite part of the week. Plans for upcoming shows are always on his mind and what he wants to happen, happens. He would produce the show five days a week if he could
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East Hampton WEDNESDAY 1•11•17 • The East Hampton Clericus hosts a free community soup dinner at Most Holy Trinity parish hall on Buell Lane in East Hampton from 5 to 7 PM. All are welcome. THURSDAY 1•12•17 • See Beauty and the Beast at 4 PM at the East Hampton Library. SATURDAY 1•14•17 • Montauk Community Church hosts a rummage sale with half off all clothing from 9 AM till noon. • Last week they screened the original, this week East Hampton Library is playing the remake of The Magnificent Seven starring the very delicious Denzel Washington at 1 PM. It’s free, but you should register by calling 631-324-0222 ext. 3. • At 10 AM meet on the east side of Three Mile Harbor Road about 100 yards north of Flaggy Hole Road (just north of Maidstone Market) for a four mile ramble through Springs. Call 631-275-8539 for details. Rick Whalen of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society is your leader. WEDNESDAY 1•18•17 • East Hampton Democrats will meet from 6:45 to 8:45 PM at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in
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Southampton WEDNESDAY 1•11•17 • The Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton will offer “Bilingual Nutrition: Be Healthy, Be Active” on January 11, 18, 25, and February 1, at 6:30 PM. Marta Blanco, BSc. DTR, a bilingual nutritionist from Cornell Cooperative Extension, will discuss the USDA My Plate Dietary Guidelines. There is no fee. Registration is not required. THURSDAY 1•12•17 • Take a full moon hike, beginning at 6:30 PM at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton. The walk is co-sponsored by Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt and SoFo. Dai Dayton, President, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, will lead the way. To make a reservation for this free program, please call the museum at 631-537-9735 or, on the night of event, Dai Dayton, at 631-745-0689. SATURDAY 1•14•17 • Search for seals at Cupsogue Beach in Westhampton with Xylia Serafy, of the South Fork Natural History Museum at 2 PM. Call SoFo at 631537-9735 for registration, admission, and location information. • Join Quogue Library staff at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge for a winter woodland hike while reading the story, The Mitten by Jan Brett. Register by calling the Library at 631-653-4224 ext. 101. 10:30 to 11:15 AM.
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Compiled By Jessica Mackin-Cipro Sen Happy Hour Sen in Sag Harbor presents Happy Hour Monday through Thursday from 5:30 to 7 PM. Enjoy $8 cocktails and $6 red and white wine. Phil's Waterfront Phil's Waterfront Bar and Grill in Aquebogue presents Happy Hour Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 PM. They also feature live entertainment on Saturdays. Call for details.
Don’t miss half-price bottles of wine at Indian Wells Tavern.
Submit your specials! Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email to jessica@indyeastend.com.
ONGOING SPECIALS Southampton Publick House Southampton Publick House presents Monday Night Madness specials. Starting at 5 PM every Monday enjoy $5 pints, $6 burgers, and 50 cent wings. Don't miss Sunday Brunch from 11:30 AM to 3 PM. The menu is a prix fixe for $16 per person, which includes a brunch entree along with coffee or tea. Southampton Publick House is open seven days for lunch and dinner. For further information visit www.publick. com or call 631-283-2800. Indian Wells Tavern I n d i a n We l l s Ta v e r n i n Amagansett has announced they will offer half-price bottles of wine every Thursday and Sunday night. On Thursdays diners may enjoy half-price bottles of wine alongside their prime rib promotion which includes a soup or salad to start, followed by prime rib served with baked potato and vegetables for $29. On Sunday, diners may enjoy half-price bottles of wine alongside a la carte Chef Specials that will change weekly. The 1770 House The 1770 House Restaurant & Inn in East Hampton, the premier year-round destination for authentic Hamptons fine dining and luxury accommodations, presents its best dining deals of the year by Chef Michael Rozzi. Each Thursday through March, in the casual downstairs Tavern of the 18th century colonial home, The 1770 House presents $17.70 dishes including its signature burger and meatloaf plus Chef Rozzi’s new Tavern favorites – Korean BBQ Berkshire ribs, lamb and chick pea curry, and, chicken parmigiana-style; $9 house wine, red or white, by the glass; and a $5 house beer selection. From Sunday to Thursday, except holidays, complementing nightly menus in the dining room and downstairs Tavern, The 1770 House presents a $35 three-course prix fixe of popular a la carte dishes as well as $9 wine and $5 beer selections. For reservations call 631-324-1770.
Almond Specials Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton presents daily specials for the fall. Meatless Mondays will continue offering a three course meatless menu for $35 all night. Tuesdays are steak frites night with a featured steak frites for $19.95. Thursday nights enjoy ½ dozen Montauk pearl oysters or ½ dozen shrimp cocktail for $10 at the bar or at tables. On Sundays grab a burger and a beer at the bar for $15. A $29 three-course prix fixe will be offered from 5:30 to 7 PM every night. For reservations contact Almond at 631-537-5665. Monday Night Paint The Salty Canvas presents Monday Night Paint Parties at Townline BBQ in Sagaponack happening every Monday from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Nikki Payne of the Salty Canvas will host a paint party complete with step-by-step instructions and all painting materials. Cost for the evening is $45 and includes one complimentary Happy Hour drink. The Happy Hour menu will be available for guests as well as the full Townline menu, so get there early to enjoy dinner before you paint. To participate guests must register at www.saltycanvashamptons. com within 24 hours of the event.
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offers a prix fixe that includes three courses for just $35 at the cozy Living Room Restaurant, Sunday through Thursday, from 5:30 to 7 PM. Happy hour is Sunday to Thursday from 4 to 6 PM. Enjoy drinks and appetizers at 50 percent off. Free Soup Days Tuesday and Thursday are "Free Soup Days" at Clamman on North Sea Road in Southampton from 11 AM to 3 PM, with the purchase of a sandwich or entree. For more info call 631-2836669. Nick & Toni's Nick & Toni's in East Hampton offers their famous woodburning oven pizzas. The pizzas are available Sunday through Thursday all night. The Choice prix fixe has also returned. The menu is available Sunday through Friday (restaurant is closed Tuesday) beginning at 6 PM. Nick & Toni's hosts happy hour every Monday through Friday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM and Sundays from
Baiting Hollow Farm Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard presents 3EZ from 2 to 6 PM on Saturday. The vineyard hosts Bob Stack from 2 to 6 PM on Sunday. www.baitinghollowfarmvineyard.com.
Lieb Cellars There’s Friday night music with Rob Europe from 6 to 9 PM. On Saturday from 3 to 6 PM, it’s Jesse Barnes performing. Sunday sees Jeff LeBlanc from 3 to 6 PM. www.liebcellars.com.
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2:30 through 6:30 PM. During Happy Hour a sommelier selected glass of wine will be offered for $8, select cocktails are half price including the Meyer Lemon Cosmo, Seasonal 'Rita, and the Spanish G&T, and a rotating bottled brew is available for $6. A select bar menu of small plates are available including meatball sliders for $6, pizza margherita for $10, formaggi plate for $10, and seasonal bruschetta for $5. Call Nick & Toni's at 631-324-3550. Buckley's Inn Between Happy Hour weekdays at Buckley's Inn Between in Hampton Bays runs from 4 to 7 PM. On Thursdays, it's Buckley's famous wing night with $15 all you can eat wings and all you can drink Miller Lite from 10 PM to 1 AM and music by DJ Pauly. Prime Time Prime Time at The Palm in East Hampton takes place Sunday through Friday from 5 to 7 PM with half off "Prime Bites" at the Palm Bar.
Raphael Southold Slim performs from 1 to 4 PM on Saturday. On Sunday, it’s The Kat-a-tonics from 1 to 4 PM. www. raphaelwine.com.
Clovis Point Vineyard Clovis Point hosts live music this weekend at its Jamesport locale. Saturday see Ahmad Ali from 1:30 to 5:30 PM. Sunday, it’s Bryan Gallo starting at 1:30 PM. www. clovispointwines.com.
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Pita Toast With Roasted Garlic And Caramelized Onion Jam, Duck Confit, And Truffled Honey Ingredients (serves 4) 1 package of pita rounds 4 duck thighs 1/3 c kosher salt 1/4 c granulated sugar zest of 1 orange hand full of thyme 1/2 gallon canola oil 1 large white onion 3 heads of garlic 1/4 c chives chopped 3 tbsp honey 1 tbsp truffle oil salt and pepper to taste Method This recipe requires you to quick cure the duck. This will need to be done a day in advance. Begin by mixing the salt, sugar, thyme, and orange zest. Rub the duck with the mixture and set it in the refrigerator overnight. When you are ready to confit the duck, set your oven to 275 degrees and heat the canola oil
over low heat on the stove in a three to four inch deep oven friendly frying pan. Rinse the excess rub off the duck thighs. Pat them dry and place them in the warm oil with a few sprigs of thyme and an orange peel. Allow them to cook in the oven at 275 degrees for about four and a half hours. While the duck is cooking, wrap the heads of garlic in tin foil and drizzle each with a bit of oil. Roast in the oven next to the duck for about an hour. Slice the white onion thin and caramelize them over medium high heat in a large sautĂŠ pan. When the garlic is done remove it from the oven and squeeze the roasted garlic from the skins. Place the caramelized onions and roasted garlic together in a food processor and pulse a few times until incorporated. When it has cooled in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes, mix the chives into the resulting jam. When
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amount of copper pipes and water. Police said an unknown person or persons entered the house on Breezy Point Road near Wildwood State Park between 5 PM on December 21 and 9:30 AM on January 2. Police are asking for witnesses to contact them at 631-727-4500 ext. 332. All calls will remain confidential, police said.
Liquids Dumped A man who lives on Becky’s Path in East Hampton told town police an unidentified male backed into his driveway Friday afternoon, opened up the trunk of his vehicle, removed a hose, and then emptied liquid onto the rear of the property. The man apparently also urinated. Police could not detect what the liquid was.
Day Care Workers Acquitted Two day care workers accused of mistreating toddlers were acquitted in separate trials. Southampton Town Justice Gary Weber issued his decisions at the end of December, clearing Sarah Dawber, 24, of Mastic Beach and Kathleen Culver, 33, of Southampton. Weber noted there was only one witness for each allegation, which occurred separately. Dawber was
Copper Piping Stolen Riverhead Town Police said sometime over the holiday week thieves broke into a Wading River house and removed a significant
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changed their original story in the courtroom. Dawber’s trial took place in September; Culver’s wrapped up two months later.
Fighting Chance
Throughout the month of January the Sag Harbor-based Fighting Chance, that provides free areas of counseling, learning, and support for those affected by cancer, will be hosting a library tour throughout the East End to promote its 15th anniversary and present its new website and patient guides. Attendees will receive the organization’s new Reference Directory and Tips & Strategies Guide and can ask any questions during the presentations. The tour schedule is Thursday at 11:30 AM in Sag Harbor, Friday at 11 AM at the East Hampton Library, Saturday at 3 PM in Amagansett, Wednesday, January 18, at 2:30 PM in Southampton, Friday, January 20, at noon at the Westhampton Free Library, Saturday, January 21, at 11:30 AM at the Shelter Island Public Library, and Monday, January 23 at 1 PM at the Mattituck-Laurel Library. For more details visit fightingchance.org/ or call 631-725-4646. A.M.
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No one in these parts will argue our legislators are underpaid – a July house rental in the Hamptons can cost more than the $79,500 annual salary New York State senators and assemblymen pull in. A move to up the salary became bogged down in a sea of partisan bickering as the 2016 session wound down, and thus lawmakers’ paychecks will remain the same until at least 2019. “The whole thing collapsed. Not enough votes in the senate,” Assemblyman Fred Thiele said this week. The New York Commission on Legislative, Judicial, & Executive Compensation rejected an increase in lawmakers’ base salary of $79,500 late last year. The opposition was fueled by appointees of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who wanted to fold in an ethics reform package as part of the deal. Specifically, Cuomo wants to ban, or at least put a cap on, the amount of money a state legislator can earn at an outside job. Thiele, for example, served as the village attorney to Sag Harbor, and Thiele
as well as Senator Ken LaValle were affiliated with Twomey, Latham Shea, Kelley, Dubin, and Quartararo, the prominent Riverhead law firm, before resigning last year. As it turns out, legislators are free to work as many hours as they please on other jobs. “There’s nothing legally linking them [pay raise and outside income] together,” Thiele said. Both said their resignations from side jobs were unrelated to Cuomo’s position on outside income limits. Some lawmakers bristled at Cuomo’s position; their last raise came 18 years ago. In the past five years lawmakers have been supportive of Cuomo’s reform measures, and some felt a sort of quid pro quo was in order. Unfortunately for the current legislature, any pay raise that is approved won’t kick in until the next election – 2019. “I suspect it will still be discussed,” Thiele said. “Outside income has been the source of several criminal issues in the state. The governor’s own associate faces charges.”
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This week Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a push to require the Department of Housing and Urban Development to recognize homeless victims of domestic violence in its annual count of the homeless population of America. It’s surprising they’re not already included, frankly. Every year, HUD requires local Continuum of Care Coalitions in communities across New York and the country to report information about the homeless population for its annual Point-in-Time Count. This data is critical in determining the size of the homeless population nationally and locally, helping to dictate the federal policies and resources assisting homeless individuals and families across the country. Since it is not required to count homeless victims of domestic violence, programs and resources to assist this vulnerable population are underfunded. Gillibrand plans to call on the incoming administration to direct HUD to permanently include victims of domestic violence as a required subpopulation in its annual count. Without the inclusion, homeless domestic violence survivors are essentially an invisible population and that lack of visibility has an impact on funding that could help these victims get back on their feet after escaping harrowing home situations. We applaud the senator’s advocacy and support her push for the inclusion. It’s a no-brainer. And, speaking of no brains, welcome to an editor’s pet peeve. It’s snow season and for safe driving in wintry weather, remember snow means “Go Slow.” A slow, steady pace with no sudden stops or acceleration is the best way to navigate icy, snow-covered streets. So, take it easy and quit tailgating me! And before getting behind the wheel post-storm, be sure to thoroughly clean off your car. Snow’s real pretty, except when it comes flying off some inconsiderate driver’s roof into your windshield.
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Dear Editor, Good evening, I know you are an independent paper operated by mostly older conservative thinkers, I am writing to voice great displeasure of the misinformation you printed. I personally know 10 or more highly functioning, hard working successful professionals who have used it for 20 to
30 years with never moving on to other drugs!!!! No one dies from marijuana but many die from nicotine and alcohol ... If which your staff has probably been misusing/ overusing their lifetime... Ignorance is no excuse for lying to the public. There is an excellent reason why it has been legalized and you should know it!!! It’s safe and it’s medicine!! Camilla and your staff should be printing a retraction as soon as you read the science and facts, but then cognitive dissonance is what keeps your belief system intact I suppose. LAURA ROMANO
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Mostly Accurate Dear Editor, In response to Mr. Rick Murphy’s book review of The Reporter Who Knew Too Much about Dorothy Kilgallen. Author is Mark Shaw. Mr. Murphy’s book review is accurate with the following exception: “She often bounced ideas off her friend Florence Smith who also served as a proofreader and a confidant. Smith was found dead two days later.” These falsehoods originated from 1960s JFK conspiracy theorist Penn Jones, also known as William Penn Jones Jr. He published a minor newspaper in Texas. It was called the Midlothian Mirror. Mr. Jones referred to Dorothy’s friend as “Mrs. Earl T. Smith.” Other book authors have cited her maiden name: Florence Pritchett. Mr. Jones never contacted anyone in New York who had known Florence Smith. I contacted her son Earl Jr. in the 1990s. He told me his mother (Florence) had died at home following a long battle with leukemia. She was in no position, while she was so sick, to listen to Dorothy Kilgallen’s ideas about JFK’s death or to proofread any of Dorothy’s writing. Penn Jones claimed in the 1960s that the New York City medical examiner never had been able to determine the cause of Mrs. Smith’s death. Wrong. Her death certificate was signed by her personal physician, not a medical examiner. You don’t have to obtain a copy of her death certificate to determine that. You can visit the main branch of the New York Public Library, 5th Avenue and West 42nd Street, where an index book that includes the year 1965 lists which deaths were medical examiner cases and which weren’t. All five boroughs are covered by the book. The death of “Florence Smith” in Manhattan wasn’t a medical examiner case.
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Her date of death is listed as November 9, 1965. Also, Penn Jones claimed in the 1960s that Florence had died two days after Dorothy. Wrong. Dorothy died on a Monday. Florence died the next day: Tuesday, November 9. The truth: Dorothy Kilgallen could have been murdered. Florence Pritchett Smith couldn’t have been.
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Florence’s son Earl Smith Jr. is the president of a corporation located in the metropolitan area of Boston, Massachusetts. I managed to contact him in the mid 1990s while I was researching Dorothy Kilgallen, and that was before Google was launched. I tried to check out what Penn Jones had written via selfpublishing during the 1960s. Earl Smith Jr. can tell you that his mother Florence and Dorothy Kilgallen were friends, but they did not interact toward the end of his mother’s life while she was at home dying of leukemia. They weren’t neighbors, as some bloggers have claimed. Florence, her husband, and son lived on Fifth Avenue between East 93rd and 94th streets. She died there after having been bedridden with leukemia for a long time. There were few if any hospices then.) Dorothy lived on East 68th Street between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue. She was found dead there. KATHRYN FAUBLE
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Bridge Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for The Bridgehampton National Bank, announced the declaration of a quarterly dividend of $0.23 per share. The dividend will be payable on January 31, 2017, to shareholders of record as of January 23, 2017. The company continues its trend of uninterrupted dividends. Established in 1910, BNB, with assets of approximately $3.8 billion, operates 40 retail branch locations serving Long Island and the greater New York metropolitan area. In addition, the Bank operates two loan production offices: one in Manhattan, and one in Riverhead, New York. Through its branch network and its electronic delivery channels, BNB provides deposit and loan products and financial services to local businesses, consumers, and municipalities. Title insurance services are offered through BNB’s wholly owned subsidiary, Bridge Abstract. Bridge Financial Services, Inc. offers financial planning and investment consultation. For more information, visit www.bridgenb. com. In other BNB news, Kim Cioch, Senior Vice President, Commercial Lending Officer has been recognized as Lender of the Year by The 504 Company (formerly known as Empire State Certified Development Corporation). A resident of Riverhead, she works out of BNB’s Riverhead Lending Office. “Kim has been a long time, active partner of The 504 Company and an advocate for Long Island small businesses,” noted Pat MacKrell, President and CEO of The 504 Company. “Throughout the course of our work together, she has proactively sought opportunities to provide alternative sources of
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The Suffolk County Water Authority will host the first meeting of a planned ten-year public education initiative, Watertalk, focusing on groundwater quality and conservation at the East Hampton Library on Wednesday, January 18. The meeting will have opening remarks by SCWA Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey W. Szabo. The meeting will be held in the library’s Baldwin Family Lecture Room from 6 to 7 PM. C.T.
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The Visiting Artist Program is in full swing at Springs School thanks to the generosity of the previous Springs Mystery Art Sale proceeds. The program gives students the experience working one-on-one with a professional artist. Artist Virva Himmenima worked with third graders creating rockets out of recycled materials.
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Hampton Bays Middle School students learned about various colleges during the annual College Awareness Day. Pictured with the college students are Middle School Principal Dennis Schug, Assistant Principal Anthony DeBlasio, and guidance counselors Lorie O’Halloran and Jessica Sears.
Teen Council Created Guild Hall has announced the formation of The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council. The council will provide ten (10) local teenagers from 14 to 18 years the opportunity to work for pay at Guild Hall as content producers, curators, and programmers from March 7 through June 6.
The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council is modeled after the very successful Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) which was the prototype for Teen Arts Councils around the countr y. Through GHTAC, East End teens will work collaboratively with their peers and Guild Hall staff to create fresh programming that is directly
reflective of their generation while gaining important work experience. GHTAC projects may include creating programming such as play readings, fashion shows, battles of the bands, and movie nights to appeal to teens. The council members also participate in Guild Hall events such as the Student Arts Festival, artXchange, and Guild Gatherings. The GHTAC meets from 3:30 to 5:30 PM on the first and third Tuesday of the month between March 7 and June 6 at Guild Hall with Corey Jane Cardoso, Teen Arts Council Coordinator. TAC members are expected to attend all meetings, participate in programs generated by the group, and volunteer at one or more Guild Hall events, accounting for two hours a week with the possibility of additional hours based upon the projects generated. Applications for GHTAC membership for the Spring Session are available online at www. GuildHall.org and can be submitted through January 31, 2017.
Tuckahoe School Tuckahoe Family Fun Night at the Southampton Ice Rink takes place on on Saturday, January 21, from 7:15 to 9:45 PM. Please join the Tuckahoe PTO for a fun-filled night of ice skating! Admission is free. Skate rentals will be available for $5 and the ice rink snack bar will be open for business. This event is open to Tuckahoe students, teachers and their immediate family members only. Also, please note that this is not a drop off event; children must be supervised by an adult. Westhampton Beach Westhampton Beach Elementary School fifth-graders are continuing their school’s tradition of leaving their mark at the school through a
wildlife art project. With the assistance of local e n v i r o n m e n t a l a r t i s t To n y Valderrama, the students are working collaboratively to paint several murals on ceiling tiles that will be displayed in a hallway leading to the fifth-grade wing at the school. The colorful tiles, that feature Long Island Wildlife, will hang alongside tiles created by former fifth-graders. The project not only serves as a stepping-stone to middle school, but aims to raise awareness of local ecology among students.
Hampton Bays To inspire Hampton Bays eighthgraders to start thinking about their futures, the middle school hosted its annual College Awareness Day last week. During the event, which was organized by guidance counselors Lorie O’Halloran and Jessica Sears, middle school students gained insights and perspectives about college life from Hampton Bays High School graduates and children of school staff who are now enrolled in college. The college students answered questions about their experiences to date and discussed such topics as the typical college schedule, selection process and extracurricular activities offered. The district expresses appreciation to the following college students who participated in the event: Angie Delgado (SUNY Oswego), Alexandra Peterson (SUNY Stony Brook), Christian Berglin (SUNY Maritime College), Noah Montague (SUNY Stony Brook), Vanessa Para Henao (Baruch College), Mary Kelly Hilton (SUNY Geneseo), Taylor Dunn (Marist College), David Ramirez (Farmingdale State College), Daniela Guttierez (SUNY Oneonta) and Laura Maila (James Madison University).
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Continued from page 7. above-mentioned categories using the oldest available data to compare with most recent data. There, New York ranked a laudable 11, with the most progress in the employment and wealth category. Data used to create these rankings were collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How did other states fare? • The District of Columbia has the lowest gap in homeownership rates between whites and blacks, at 11 percent. Connecticut has made the most progress in closing this gap since 1970, with a change of 8 percent. • Hawaii has the lowest gap in median annual household incomes between whites and blacks, at 9 percent, and has made the most progress in closing this gap since 1979, with a change of 31 percent. • Alaska has the lowest gap
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in labor-force participation rates between whites and blacks, at 1 percent. North Dakota has made the most progress in closing this gap since 1970, with a change of 23 percent. • Montana has the lowest gap in unemployment rates between whites and blacks, at 1 percent. North Dakota has made the most progress in closing this gap since 1970, with a change of 13 percent. • Hawaii has the lowest gap, almost none, in poverty rates between whites and blacks. Mississippi has made the most progress in closing this gap since 1970, with a change of 24 percent. • Hawaii has the lowest gap in business-ownership rates between whites and blacks, at 38 percent. Texas has made the most progress in closing this gap since 2002, with a change of 7 percent. • Idaho has the lowest gap in the number of residents with at least a bachelor’s degree between whites and blacks, at 2 percent, and has made the most progress in closing this gap since 1970, with a change of 8 percent.
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There are very few things that can be taken for granted in high school basketball, but one thing is for certain: the road to the Suffolk County Championship seems to always go through Southampton. The Mariners are almost always the team to beat. Back in the late 60s, when the miraculous three-year unbeaten streak took place, there were no ABCD classifications. But over the years Southampton has won wherever it has been placed, including most recently a run of Suffolk County Class B titles. Now the Mariners are being asked to move up in class once again as the school’s population grows – into the nightmarish waters of Class A. No problem. This year’s model ran its League VI record to 4-0 Thursday by edging a
very tough Bayport-Blue Point team 72-68 on the loser’s court. Micah Snowden tallied a season high 28 points and grabbed 18 rebounds to hold the Phantoms at bay, using a 17-6 spurt to seize control in the third stanza and then holding off a late run led by the Phantoms’ all-county star Mike Darby, who finished with 24 points. Andre Franklin finished with 13 and Elijah Wingfield tallied 11. The Phantoms fell to 2-2 in the league and 6-4 overall. Southampton is 7-0 overall. Two days earlier the Mariners took apart East Hampton 77-38. A devastating 26-2 third quarter run did in the Bonackers. Chad Pike led the scoring carousal for the winners with 18 points. Timmy Alejo had 16, Wingfield 13,
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Babylon team at the Beehive. J.P Harding went off for 25 points, Elijah Jackson tallied 21 and Elijah Harding added 14 as the Bees opened up a 20 point lead in the third quarter and coasted from there. Babylon is 5-4 overall and 1-1 in league play. The Bees play at Shelter Island next Wednesday at 4 PM.
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Pierson, Mattituck Off To Quick Starts By Rick Murphy
A deep and talented squad led by a core group of seniors has the Pierson Lady Whalers basketball team dreaming of a trip upstate. The team is 10-1 overall and sitting comfortably in second place in League VII with a 6-1 mark. Thursday the locals traveled to Stony Brook, always a tough place to play, and came away with a hardearned 50-36 victory. A stinging defense and a balanced offensive attack are the keys to success for Kevin Barron’s charges. The star, though, is all-county stalwart Nia Dawson, who on this night tallied 19 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and handed out six assists. Lily Kot added 17 points and snared six rebounds. Two days earlier the locals destroyed Smithtown Christian 60-
14. Dawson had 15 points in limited action. Another senior standout who can do it all, Isabel Peters, recorded 13 points, five rebounds and three assists. Next up for the Lady Whalers is a game at home Tuesday evening. Tip off is 6:15 PM. As good as the Lady Whalers have been, the Lady Tuckers of Mattituck have been a tad better, holding a 6-0 mark in League VII (8-1 overall). The Tuckers, coming off a 20-3 championship season, also return a core group of star players and none shine brighter than Liz Dwyer, an all-state candidate and one of the county’s highest scorers. The 5’10” senior can take it down low but also drills from the outside, opening up the floor for a bevy of talented teammates. On January 3 the team was tested by Port Jefferson (6-1) but
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Harlem Magic Masters At EHHS The Harlem Magic Masters are visiting East Hampton High School this Saturday at 7 PM to help the high school’s freshman class. Members of the East Hampton Dream Team in support of their community have agreed to compete in a game against the Magic Masters (who in their five-year existence, that has included over 300 games, have never faced defeat). The game will take place in the EHHS gymnasium and tickets can be purchased school’s main office or at the door. The Magic Masters are a talented group of comedy basketball players and performers that ensure to include and entertain every person in the audience. They ask volunteers from the crowd, especially the children, to participate in their show and spend all of half time and stay after the game signing autographs and meeting fans. It promises to be a fun night filled with basketball celebs. Tickets are $10 to $15. Call 631-338-2754. A.M.
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