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Barracks Battle Continues

By Kitty Merrill

homes, children must learn to hide in closets when gun fire is heard on the street. We need our state troopers to be there now more than ever.”

Local representatives have been fighting the battle of the barracks for over a year now.

Officials from the State Police claimed the redeployment, the closure of the walk up office and removal of a desk officer, meant there would be more troopers on the road patrolling. But in a letter to the governor shared with Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, Eastern Long Island Police Conference President Charles McArdle revealed there are plans that go beyond removing the desk officer. The midnight to 5 AM shift is also going to be cut.

Writing State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico, Throne-Holst asked whether the removal of patrol during the midnight shift is actually going to occur. “This, if true, contradicts your stated purpose in cutting the desk trooper position but more

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The surge of crime in the Riverside section of Southampton Town continues. A recent homicide was in such close proximity to the state troopers barracks on Riverleigh Avenue in Riverside, staff inside heard the fatal shots.

That probably won’t happen again.

But it won’t be because crime is reduced; it will be because there’s nobody inside the barracks.

Lawmakers, representatives from civic organizations and the Shinnecock Tribal Council, multiple local police organizations, and area residents rallied outside the barracks on Monday, urging the powers that be to reconsider redeployment of resources from the barracks.

“We have been coping with a terrible surge in crime recently and an unacceptably sluggish response to this crime wave by a poorly funded town police force,” Vince Taldone, President of the Flanders, Riverside and Northampton Community Association said. “People are afraid to go out after dark, and in some

importantly creates an even worse scenario that anticipated,” she wrote in a letter dated last Friday.

The supervisor asked D’Amico to confirm or disavow plans for the midnight shift.

The so-called reorganization could result in just one trooper car to patrol the entire North and South Forks plus the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, if the reorganization moves forward as predicted.

Southampton Town gave the land to the state police for the barracks “to insure that a much-needed police presence in this area would remain,” Throne-Holst reminded the superintendent. According to McArdle, a 30-year lease of just $1 per year was negotiated and much-needed property taxes of

about $25,000 per year were waived to ensure the police presence.

The project was the first step in Southampton’s revitalization plan for the area.

“The decision by the State Police to reduce its public presence at the Riverside Barracks is ill-considered and short-sighted. Given issues with drugs and property crimes in the community, particularly the heroin epidemic, the community needs more police not fewer,“ Assemblyman Fred Thiele said Monday.

“My great fear is that this is the first of incremental steps to actually close the Riverside Barracks. That would be a public safety disaster.

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ON THE DEATH OF A CHILDHOOD FRIEND

It goes so fast.

It just goes so, so damn fast.

One minute you’re 16, the next minute you’re 50, the next minute another 30 years have flashed by and then you’re gone.

It happens in the blink of an eye.

Yesterday I got a call from my sweet former wife, Barbara Della Femina.

She said, “I called to tell you how sorry I was to hear about Phil Pepe.”

“Phil? What happened to Phil?”

“Oh, you didn’t know. Phil died yesterday. Suddenly. It was a heart attack.”

First comes the shock. Then the sadness . . . the painful sadness . . . and then the sweet memories.

I first met Phil when I was 11 years old.

We were opponents in a contest to see which of one us knew the

most about baseball.

We lived a few blocks from each other so we met on neutral grounds: the schoolyard at PS 95.

We e a c h h a d p r e p a r e d 10 questions that we asked each other.

We both answered question after question.

We were in a tie until he beat me with his last question. I still remember it: “In 1916 the Brooklyn Dodgers were called the Brooklyn Robins.

How did they get that name?”

I was stumped. I lost.

It was a blink of the eye ago when Phil and I met again, this time as 16-year-old teenagers hanging around Hi and Ann’s candy store under the Culver Line El. It was Phil Pepe, Ronnie Kealty, Guy Cargulio, Georgie Malore, Gino Balogna, Tony Branchio, Frankie

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We were 16 and we were never going to get old.

We went to Coney Island and we were all nut brown from the sun before people learned to fear the sun.

Although we didn’t have two dimes to rub together, we went to the track day after day and night after night to bet the trotters.

We cruised Ocean Parkway looking for Jewish girls. We thought they were “easy.” We were wrong – they weren’t. We were turned down by dozens of girls, all named Sandy.

We went to Joe’s Bar for pizza.

We went to movies at the Kingsway and the Avalon.

We made out with our dates in the backseat of our broken-down cars in a parking lot just off the Belt Parkway called Plum Beach.

Then, every weekend without fail, we would all meet around 2 AM at Bernie’s Luncheonette on Coney Island Avenue and devour a ton of hamburgers.

There were no drugs and we had a healthy respect for the police.

We were the good kids in a neighborhood that had no shortage of bad kids.

We were kind of secretly proud that Senator Estes Kefauver called the Avenue U section of Brooklyn the breeding place for crime in the United States.

We all went to Lafayette High School. We gingerly stumbled around education and a few of us went to college at night for a few years.

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Phil Pepe was the only one in our group who went to college for four years.

Phil graduated from St. John’s University in 1956 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism.

Then, in another blink of the eye, we were no longer 16, we attended each others’ weddings and went our separate ways.

Phil naturally went on to be a revered baseball writer and radio voice who spent more than five decades covering sports in New York. He was the lead writer and covered the Yankees for the Daily News when it was a great newspaper. That made Phil a local hero on Avenue U. Phil Pepe had the second-best job every man and boy from Avenue U wanted. The first job we all wanted was to be baseball players. But after that, Phil had the best job in the world.

He knew Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris, Phil Rizzuto . . . He knew them all and they all knew him.

The rest of us became cops, firemen, office workers. I was a messenger and drifted into advertising.

We all cast an envious eye on Phil, who got paid to watch baseball games and championship boxing matches.

I will attend Phil’s internment on Thursday.

I will kneel and whisper to Phil: “The Brooklyn Dodgers were called the Robins in 1916 after Wilbert Robinson, their manager.”

You always were a winner.

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You’ve seen all the paraphernalia on sale – there are Death Star waffle makers and cookie jars, Star Wars Storm trooper gloves, there are cookie cutters shaped like Jabba the Hutt and R2-D2, there are even outdoor survival tools with the distinctive Star Wars logo.

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It’s Lofstad Versus Yastrzemski Two familiar faces will vie for Brad Bender’s vacated seat on the Southampton Board in a special election on January 26.

Julie Lofstad, who ran and lost on the Democrat and Independence Party lines, will run again. She will face Richard Yastrzemski, who ran for town supervisor on the Republican and Conservative party lines but lost to Jay Schneiderman.

In November Yastrzemski garnered 4662 votes, including 877 on the Conservative party line. Lofstad narrowly lost her bid for a town board seat to John Bouvier by a 5147-5032 margin.

However, in an apparent slight to Yastrzemski, Lofstad was chosen to run on the Conservative line this time around.

Daman Hagan, who ran and lost for a town board seat in November, garnered 963 votes on the Conservative line and received 4686 total votes.

Hagan will serve as campaign manager for Yastrzemski. “I am honored to have the support of the Southampton Town Republican Party,” Yastrzemski said. “I believe my work in local government over the last eight years makes me the most qualified candidate for this seat.”

“This is a chance to complete the le ad e rshi p t e am,” sai d Schneiderman in a release announcing Lofstad’s nomination.

“Julie would be an excellent Town Board member. She is dedicated to improving our quality of life and preventing over development. I need Julie in order to move Southampton forward.”

“I’m thrilled to have been selected to run for Town Council,” said Lofstad. “I want to be a voice for working people who feel they are often forgotten by government.”

Bender resigned after admitting to his involvement in an oxycodone distribution scheme.

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“Behind every great man stands a great woman.” So says the author and award winning illustrator Karen Fredericks. And that pertains to the greatest of them all – the Big Man. In her new book Mrs. God’s Diary: In The Beginning, Fredericks weaves the tale of creation through a fresh set of eyes – Mrs. God. “I was eight or nine when I went to my first Bible study class and those stories, with all their floods, plagues and locusts left me with terrible nightmares,” Fredericks related. “I was horrified to read that when God asked Abraham to slay his own son, he agreed. When next I heard that Cain killed Abel, his very own brother, I do not exaggerate when I tell you that I slept with one eye open from third grade through sixth!”

Mrs. God’s Diary, In The Beginning, is the first in the series, which introduces children to The Greatest Stories Ever Told.

“I’ve written the book I wished I’d read when I was young. I’m hoping Mrs. God’s gently humorous versions of these stories will make a child’s first encounter with the Bible a much more positive experience than the one I had.”

In the book children learn how God created the world we live in as it unfolds in words and Frederick’s unique drawings: Light . . . Sky and sea . . . The land in between . . . Birds for the sky and creatures for the sea . . . Animals for the land and last, but not least . . . Man and woman.

As this amazing week of Creation draws to a close there’s just one more thing Mrs. God hopes her husband will create. But after so much work, God is pooped.

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“For the moment Mrs. God’s Diary, In The Beginning is an eBook only,” said Fredericks. “I’m planning a Kickstarter campaign this spring to publish the book in hardcover.” At karenfredericks.com, you can sign up for notification of the release of the next book in the series: Trouble In Paradise, which is the story of Adam and Eve. Karen Fredericks is an award

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New Yorkers: Not Too Generous

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Researchers analyzed eight key metrics, such as volunteer rate, growth in charitable giving, and percentage of donated income. New York’s stats are wince-worthy.

Ranking 45th out of 50 in overall charitable behaviors, the Empire State was listed as second to last for volunteer rates. Only people in Louisiana volunteer less than New Yorkers. Utah ranked the highest.

New York came in 44 out of 50 states for percentage of population that claims to have donated time and

Given the region is host to galas galore every summer, and home to nonprofits and charitable organizations by the dozen, it’s got to be pikers in other sections of the state bringing us down.

Last week the folks at the personal finance site WalletHub released their study of the least and most charitable states in the country. New York places way near the bottom of the list; it’s the sixth least charitable.

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Utah also ranked the highest when it came to percentage of income that’s donated. New York ranked 28th. When it comes to growth in charitable giving, with comparisons using data from 2012 to 2006, this state ranked 32nd. It came in 16 out of 50 for number of charities per capita, meaning there’s no shortage of opportunities to give.

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Fo r e x a m p l e , t h e a v e r a g e American who makes $30,176 could work an extra hour a week and earn enough money to plant 75 trees, provide clean water for a year to refugees, save a cow from slaughter, or buy five laptops for children in need.

Nearly a third of all annual giving takes place in December and the U.S. ranks second overall in this year’s World Giving Index.

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Drug Epidemic Impacts Babies

By Kitty Merrill

It’s estimated that every 25 minutes a baby that became addicted to drugs in utero is born. It’s called Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and as the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic continued unabated, between 2000 and 2012, there was a fivefold increase in the number of babies born with NAS. Between 2009 and 2012 the national figure almost doubled.

Babies exposed in utero to addictive opiates such as heroin, methadone, or oxycodone contract the syndrome. The drugs pass through the placenta to the baby. At birth, because they’re no longer exposed to the drugs, they immediately begin to suffer withdrawal symptoms, with their earliest hours marked by diarrhea, excessive crying or highpitched crying and sucking, fever, hyperactive reflexes, irritability, poor feeding, rapid breathing, seizures, sleep disturbance, slow weight gain, sweating, trembling (tremors) and vomiting.

Confronted with reports of the alarming increase in NAS babies, Suffolk County Legislator William R. Spencer, M.D. convened a panel of experts to discuss the crisis during last week’s meeting of the legislature’s Health Committee.

“Of all the counties in New York, Suffolk has the second highest number of infants born with drugs in their systems,” Presiding Officer D u Wayn e G r egor y i n f o rm e d .

“This alarming data demands our immediate attention. Heroin is simply too accessible, and we must devote more resources to stopping the flow of drugs into our county.”

In addition to enforcement, both education and treatment must be incorporated into a multi-prong plan to fight the rising tide of drug addiction, he added. Earlier this month, the presiding officer called for a collaboration between Nassau and Suffolk Counties to battle the epidemic jointly.

“The opiate epidemic in Suffolk and across our nation continues to grow, and it is taking a toll on all of our communities, emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually,” said Legislator Spencer. “It’s a multi-generational issue, ravaging the lives of those young and old, and now we are seeing the impacts on the most innocent members of our society: newborn babies who are coming into this world exposed to opioids.”

The panel was comprised of a variety of health professionals, including Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, chief executive officer of Mineolabased Family and Children’s Association; Steve Chassman, executive director of Long Island

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Former School Board Member Arrested

By Rick Murphy

The cause was a noble one. When Art Jones died during the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center, his family and friends in Hampton Bays wanted to honor him.

Thanks to an outpouring of support from friends and local

businesses, the family decided to set up the Arthur J. Jones III Scholarship Fund to be awarded annually to two outstanding graduating basketball players at Hampton Bays High School, one from the boys team and one from the girls. Jones graduated from the school in 1982.

Southampton Town Police said this week Warren K. Booth III had other ideas for the money. Booth, a lifelong resident of Hampton Bays and a longtime volunteer with the local fire department, was chosen by the foundation to serve as administer of the fund.

He was elected to the school board in 2009 and reelected in 2012 before losing his bid for a third three-year term in May. Police say Booth, who works for the Hampton Bays Fire District, allegedly began “stealing money” from the foundation account in 2010.

By the time Booth turned himself in on December 10, police say $50,000 was missing. Booth was charged with second degree Grand Larceny, a Class C felony punishable for up to five to 15 years imprisonment.

Booth was released on his own recognizance and he awaits trial.

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The space opera reboot was also the bestselling film on movietickets. com, representing 95 percent of sales over the past 24 hours.

So how much are we talking?

Cinema Blend reported that experts think $2.7 billion worldwide is achievable – that’s just from box office sales.

Hasbro, which brought the rights to Star War branded toys, will start selling its new line on “Force Friday.” The Star Wars line is already a huge seller -- $230 million a year.

Hasbro expects that to double.

“Star Wars will be a global phenomenon and will likely accelerate the pace of profitability in emerging markets,” Piper Jaffray analyst Steph Wissink told Forbes. She says Hasbro has much larger distribution scale in emerging markets now.

In her estimation, it’s possible that a whopping two thirds of Hasbro’s Star Wars revenues could come from outside North America in 2015 and 2016.

Keep in Mind The Force Awakens is the first film of a trilogy. It reunites the stars of the very first Star Wars (1977), Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher. The Force Awakens is set approximately 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi.

One local mother has been planning for the event for weeks. “I requested a personal day off two months ago so I would be able to go to multiple showings opening night. That’s how excited I am,” said Melissa Donatuti-Alison of Springs.

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Call In The Dogs A driver who wracked up his car on Route 25 in Mattituck early Monday morning took off on foot to avoid police.

Actually, Southold Town Police said, Sergio Gatica, 20, who lives in Greenport, was lucky to escape the accident.

According to police accounts, he was headed eastbound near Wagon Wheel Road at about 1:30 AM when his vehicle left the roadway, struck an embankment, overturned, and came to rest only after hitting a utility pole.

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Gatica was transported to Eastern Long Island Hospital for treatment of minor injuries and was then transported to police headquarters, where he was held pending arraignment on a charge of DWI and fleeing arrest.

Homeless And Hungry Southampton Town Police said they took in a vagrant who is accused of breaking into “numerous” vehicles in the Riverside-Flanders neighborhood for petit larceny.

Anthony Jenkins was spotted taking some personal grooming items from the new 7-Eleven on Flanders Road on December 9 and leaving the store without paying for them.

On November 21 Jenkins was arrested for stealing soup and hot dogs from a Flanders deli. They also said he was wanted as the culprit who had smashed several car windows in the neighborhood and stole items from them. He is awaiting disposition of those charges.

Also on Friday police arrested Shawn Daray James of Flanders, 28, and said he had been spotted casing cars as well. James allegedly had drugs on him, drug paraphernalia, and a weapon. At his arraignment the judge was concerned enough to set bail at $10,000, which the suspect could not raise. He was remanded to jail.

Harbor Village residents and village residents to gather at the declined was directly linked to the the Village Board, the Municipal board meeting to hear concerns moratorium. With data from Trulia, Building was filled, with a standing- over the current moratorium and an online real estate site, Gaynor the new zoning legislation slated to showed the board the price for a room only crowd.

A couple weeks ago, village come into effect next month. home in the hamlet had dropped In what was expected to be by 23 percent over the past year. resident Michael Gaynor put out an ad in The Sag Harbor Express, an intense debate, the tone was The moratorium has been in effect inviting people to the meeting, surprisingly lukewarm. since the spring, after the election During the meeting, Gaynor of Mayor Sandra Schroeder. as well as a get-together at the American Hotel right next door inquired, “What is the board doing Gaynor has called the actions of after the meeting, where he would to evaluate the economic impact the village board “un-American,” and relative to the moratorium and the said the board’s tactics for solving the pick up the tab.

Gaynor, who is currently suing proposed code changes?” historical preservation issue when it Gaynor also charged the reason comes to zoning, in terms of living the village for its failure to approve his application to renovate his the drop in median price for a in the village, as “a quality problem EEH Holiday ad Indie4_8125x7_2011 11/16/11 2:54 PM Page 1 house at 149 Madison Street, urged Sag Harbor home sale price had applying a quantity solution.”

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RICK’S SPACE And On The 13th Day . . .

On the 10th day of Christmas I Ho Ho Ho. On the twelfth day of Christmas took a giant snort of Jack . . . well, my sister gave to me a list of all the just for the hell of it.

You get the idea. I was going to expensive presents my little snotnosed nieces and nephews want for do a parody of that stupid song, Christmas, and I better have them which I’ve always hated. What really with me when I get to Brooklyn, not annoyed me as a kid was so many any of those “IOU” cards I used to give people have it memorized.

I was smarter than your average them when they were really little.

On the 11th day of Christmas I bear but I never could get the words took a giant snort of Jack Daniels down cold, probably because growing after I ordered $400 worth of crap up in Brooklyn I had no idea what a for those spoiled kids and Amazon partridge was, or a French Hen, or a Turtle Dove that1 matter. informed me none of them would Hampton Septic 3x7.5 12-9-15:Layout 1 12/4/15 10:57 AMfor Page While doing my research for ship on time.

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this column – it takes an incredible amount of work – I noted something interesting. It read, “The Twelve Days of Christmas’ created a secret code.”

This intrigued me. Could the partridge, the French Hen, the Turtle Dove, the calling birds and all the rest have merely been code names linked in some incredibly dangerous espionage operation?

As it turns out, Catholics in England were repressed for nearly three centuries and were prohibited from practicing their faith.

The song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” was written back then, which surprised me, because I thought it was the follow-up to “99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall” by the Polish guy on the “Lawrence Welk Show.”

Silly me. “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” was a so-called catechism song, written as a teaching aid. Each sentence had a hidden meaning to

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According to Snopes – I am not making this up – “Caught with anything in writing indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged and drawn and quartered.” Now if you think this was a ghastly punishment, akin to getting sent to your room without your iPad or having your allowance cut in half to 100 bucks . . . consider this: The punishment “Involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then disemboweled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts one to each limb and the remaining torso.”

Now this troubles me. I can see if our kids are naughty during Christmas time, we maybe hang them almost to death. I can see that – it’s being a good parent, albeit a disciplinarian.

Or maybe a little faux suffocation, just to put the fear of God in them.

But this disemboweling stuff? Count me out – hell, I just took a shower and did my hair. And must they be “large” horses? Wouldn’t four mules or donkeys get the job done?

Faced with such a dastardly death, it was prudent to disguise the true meaning of the song: Here are the characters, deciphered.

“My true love” is God himself.

“Me” is a baptized person. The “partridge” is Jesus (what he’s doing in a pear tree is his business.)

Here’s the rest: 2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments 3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues 4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists 5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the “Pentateuch,” which gives the history of man’s fall from grace.

6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation 7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments 8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes 9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit 10 Lords A-leaping = the Ten Commandments 11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles And that is my Christmas present to you. Next year for the holiday I will discuss the hidden meanings in the lyrics of “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin.

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You have to be a jaded soul indeed not to catch the holiday spirit.

There is something about Christmas (yes, we use that dirty word) and the holidays that signals a rebirth in the little child within all of us, and reminds up that despite everything going on in this world there is a time for joy and peace.

Get out there! Bring the kids to see Santa. Go to the tree light-ups and holiday themed events. Attend services at your church or synagogue. Enjoy the decorations all around us – folks go through a lot of time and effort to make our towns, villages, and their homes holiday showcases.

One of the most important things we should do is shop local. It may sound like a cliché, but ordering online does nothing to help the country and does everything to hurt the economy. Local merchants are the backbone of a democracy: selling and buying goods from each other keeps our economy churning. You can find anything you desire here on the East End so get out there and shop.

Christmas is a special time for children. All of us have so much compared to so many. Make a kid happy – reach out and find someone less fortunate and put a smile on his or her face. It will come back to you some day.

Here at The Independent, next week will be our special holiday issue featuring all the best from 2015.

As we ring out another year, we also look ahead with hope and optimism. Put the gloom and pessimism to rest.

On January 1 all of us wipe the slate clean and the chance to make our dreams come true begins anew.

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Morally Obtuse Dear Editor, Th e s l e a z y, d i s i n g e n u o u s, ungrammatical, morally obtuse letter to these pages by Nicholas Zizelis is a prime example of the nincompoopery (yes, I know that’s not a word) of the political Left.

Cloaked in vapid phrases echoing Rodney King (“Can’t we all get along?”)

and bereft of fact, he tries to draw parallels between the Planned Parenthood murders and the San Bernardino carnage. One was caused by a “Christian terrorist” and the other by “a husband and wife team motivated by their Islamic faith(!).”

Mr. Zizelis: Are you just straight out of your mind? Are you so besotted by the now rotting Leftists orthodoxies (hello Mr. Trump), that you can’t bring yourself to say “Islamic terrorist” but you CAN say “Christian terrorist?” Have you so marinated your soul into this Leftist bilge that you cannot speak the truth?

Yes, there is some evidence that the Planned Parenthood murderer held radical

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By Ed Gifford beliefs. However, do we now in the USA find ourselves concerned by people of that ilk or by the Muslim terrorist scum? Which one is it, Zizelis?

One side does it once recently, the

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other exists to do it again and again and, as described in an adjoining letter by Donald Moskowitz HAS done it again and again.

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Will you do your holiday shopping online or in the stores?

Jill Jackson I may make my holiday presents this year. I was thinking of homemade candy. My sister loves toffee and I have a wonderful recipe for that. I considered making truffles, but I’m afraid that by the time I taste-tested them there wouldn’t be a single one left.

Continued from page 15.

Muslim terrorism--not anti-abortion, Christian terrorism.

If Zizelis wants his proscriptions for how we should behave to resonate, then he should speak the truth about what’s wrong with and in the world right now. It’s Muslims, not Christians.

NICK SARIDAKIS Editor’s Note: It could be argued “nincompoopery” is ungrammatical – just sayin.’

Shane Barrett I always go to Amazon. They have everything and their prices are very good too. I may also go to Macy’s online. But it’s hard for me to shop in the stores because I’m always working.

This is my first day off in a month.

Not Who We Were Dear Mr. Murphy, Trump comes out with a new ban on all Muslims coming to the United States and the chorus from the media and other politicians on both sides is the same: “That’s not who we are.”

News flash to all those numbnuts; given the flood of illegal aliens and the real possibility we may be blown up at the movies we are NOT who we were.

I remember when English was the only language we spoke here and when we enjoyed going to the movies!

All Trump’s critics have their heads in the sand and that explains why Trump is so popular: he thinks of us first, not the terrorists or illegal aliens first.

Washington D.C. needs a good cleaning up and I’m willing to give Trump the broom!

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Tom Quigley My wife is an online shopper. But for me shopping, especially holiday shopping for my wife is definitely done in the actual stores.

Jewelry is a hands on kind of thing, after all.

Bobbie Edwards Boots on the ground! I’m a traditionalist. I’m no fan of technology. Every year all the females in my family do a “shop till you drop” all day event.

We start at about eight in the morning and go upisland and we don’t get home until eight or nine at night.

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Local YMCA Offers Holiday Camp

By Emily Toy

This holiday season, the YMCA East Hampton RECenter will be keeping the kiddies busy, at least for

a few days, as the month comes to a close and school is still out.

Beginning on Monday, December 28, the local YMCA (located at 2 Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton)

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Starting from 9 AM and continuing all day until 5 PM, the RECenter will be offering everything from use of the swimming pool and RECenter equipment and facilities, including indoor games, arts and crafts and lots more. There may also be a trip to the movie theater in store, depending on availability.

According to one employee at the RECenter, the camp will continue until Wednesday, December 30, and will feature many of the same activities and events as a typical summertime day camp offered at the facility. The camp is $65 per child per day.

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Santa Visits MFD Independent / Courtesy Bridgehampton National Bank

Pictured left to right: President & CEO Kevin O’Connor, Teller MaAurelia Werner, Branch Manager Tara Fordham, Head Teller Heidie Salazar-Barrios, Assistant Branch Manager Brittney Scagel and Teller Lindsey LaPointe.

Sag Harbor BNB Branch Renovated Bridgehampton National Bank (BNB) celebrated the completion of a year-long renovation of its Sag Harbor branch December 11 with a holiday event that doubled as a formal welcome to the new Sag Harbor Branch Manager, Tara Fordham.

Over 50 guests joined the BNB team for a festive toast. BNB opened its original branch in Sag Harbor in May of 2001, and this is the first major renovation of that location, adding over 600 square feet.

“We are very proud of this beautiful location and of being part of the unique community of Sag Harbor,” says James Manseau EVP, Chief Retail Banking Officer. “It was

Troopers

Continued from page 4. spin this as a move to get more cops on the road. The facts simply do not bear this out. Over the last few years, we have lost police coverage.

This is simply a Band-aid to cover up those losses. Elected officials and the community must stand together to demand more police services. We deserve nothing less.”

Senator Ken LaValle added, “I fought long and hard to have the state locate and build this Trooper Barracks in Riverside. Having an adequate level of State Police personnel on-site and publically available is critically important for the community’s protection.”

He continued, “Additionally, a new State Trooper class needs to be initiated to ensure proper staffing across the state; to better protect the residents; and to battle the growing heroin crisis throughout Long Island.“ “With the rise in violence and crime in the area, this is

time for an update to better serve our customers.”

A resident of Sag Harbor, Fordham has been with BNB for over 15 years. Most recently she managed the Shelter Island Branch, but she previously served as the Assistant Branch Manager for the East Hampton Main Street Branch.

As a long-time and dedicated member of the local community, she is an active member of the Sag Harbor Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, and as of January 2016 will serve as Treasurer of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce.

Fordham is originally from East Hampton but currently resides in Sag Harbor with her husband and two sons. the worst time to make these changes,“ Congressman Lee Zeldin emphasized.

Senator LaValle and Assemblyman Thiele wrote to the Governor last March requesting that a desk position at the Riverside Barracks be maintained, and stressing the importance of personal interaction between the police and the residents.

In October, the legislators conducted a site visit at the Riverside Barracks, and subsequently contacted the Governor and the NY State Superintendent of Police to reiterate their concerns, and to request that an additional class of State Troopers be initiated.

The NY State Police Superintendent responded to the legislators informing them that the desk will not be staffed and that the phone at the entrance to the Riverside Barracks will be available for residents to reach dispatchers located in Farmingdale.

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“Amazing” Finale Filmed Here Fans of the hit TV show “The Amazing Race” might have noticed some familiar territory during last Friday night’s season finale. It was filmed right in our own backyards.

“Sharing the beautiful natural assets of Suffolk County, Long Island on “The Amazing Race” and to its six million viewers is an opportunity we embraced,” stated County Executive Steve Bellone. “I thank the producers and creators of the show for wanting to locate their season finale competition in our County.”

The Amazing Race sends 11 teams on a trek around the world.

At every destination, each team competes in a series of mental and physical challenges. When the tasks have been completed, the next destination is revealed.

Teams who are farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning $1 million.

“We chose to shoot the finale of ‘The Amazing Race’ on Long Island because the Hamptons are

a magical and unique place you cannot find anywhere else in the world,” Elisa Doganieri, Co-Creator of “The Amazing Race” and native Long Islander explained. “I also grew up on Long Island, so many of the places we showcased in the finale were places where I spent my summers. The Suffolk County Film Commission was incredibly helpful working with us to find just the right locations and worked with our team to make sure the production progressed as smoothly as possible. We had their full

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Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri and Mark Vertullo are the Executive Producers for Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Earthview Inc. in association with ABC Studios and Amazing Race Productions. “The Amazing Race” was created by Bertram van Munster and Doganieri.

During the fiercely competitive season finale, three teams battled it out; racing through the Hampton Bays Inlet, Shinnecock East County Park and Coopers Beach, with the rivalry concluding at a magnificent Southampton estate on Meadow Continued on Page 22.

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Long Island, a “Top Performing Awardee,” will receive $98.3 million, thanks to grants awarded

by Governor Andrew Cuomo through the Regional Economic Development Councils. A number of the projects take place in the 1st Assembly District.

In Southampton, the Stony Brook University Shinnecock Bay Restoration Project was awarded $505,658.

The Town of Southampton was awarded three grants totaling nearly $1.1 million. The town was awarded $330,192 from the NYS Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation toward the Good Ground Park Gateway Project which will establish a pedestrian and bicycle friendly access to link Good Ground Park to the Hampton Bays Main Street Business District.

The NYS Office of Empire State Development awarded an additional $70,000 in support of the same project.

These awards make a total of $1.6 million in grant funding the town has successfully secured for the Good Ground Park Project.

“These additional funds will create a strong visual and functional link between Good Ground Park

and downtown Hampton Bays,” Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst observed.

Additionally, Southampton Town was awarded $650,000 toward the creation of a Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB). The grant award, filed in collaboration with Cornell University Cooperative Extension, will fund construction of a 200 to 400 foot PRB at Iron Point Park in Flanders. The barrier will intercept and treat nitrogen impaired ground water prior to its entering the surface waters of the Peconic estuaries adding protection from nitrogen contamination of the estuary.

The Economic Development Grant Program is an annual competitive grant process funded

by New York State. “The success of the town in these competitive grants speaks highly of both the competence of our staff in completing these often complex application documents but also to the high quality of the project ideas generated by them,” said the supervisor.

In East Hampton an infrastructure demo project at Three Mile Harbor will get $375,000, while an economic analysis and strategy development of the fisheries industry will receive $25,000.

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There will be a lottery including all five mobile home parks and one will be chosen to receive the decentralized wastewater treatment system. The lottery will take place during the first quarter of 2016.

More local grants include: • Hampton Jitney will receive $45,000 through I Love NY bus marketing.

• The Community Development Corp of Long Island is in line for a $275,000 grant towards the building of a mixed use facility in Riverhead.

• East End Arts Humanities Council was awarded $63,000 for the Winterfest Live on the Vine festival.

• North Harbor Trading in Riverhead will receive $1.25 million for a high pressure processing facility for the food industry.

“These economic development grants represent a major commitment by the State of New York to take the lead in creating jobs and improving the economy. I am pleased that Long Island was chosen for such substantial funding and that the businesses and communities in my district will benefit,” Assemblyman Fred Thiele said Monday.

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240 Fort Pond LLC Perello Jr,R & J Mack, B Trust

Fort Pond Holdings Tomitz, G 75 Grant Drive LLC

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Hoagland, E 5 Lee Lane LLC

Cohen, R & R Koch, D by Exr

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Lagun, I Carrera,G & Llamas,S Zadroga, M & M Przestrzeiski, M & A Cedar Place Realty

Murphy, W Turner Jr, W Oleksiej,L&T &Ford,A Konior, A & K 161-163 Railroad St

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250,000 850,000 206,300 241,000

131 Old Quogue Rd 415 Flanders Rd 115 Flanders Blvd 12 Glen Ave

ML Ocean Road LLC Village ofSagaponack

Moszkowski, N & A Town of Southampton

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Sanders, L & D DePierro,P & Barry,K

Abatangelo Fam Trust Larghi, R

330,000 590,000

1404 Aerie Way 13 Marlin Rd

TheRooster Run Trust Hamptons MeadowHomes Busch, F Cardaci, R & M

Crespo, C McDerby, S Flag Properties LLC Giunta, L

695,000 200,000* 455,000* 285,000

14 Quail Run 57 Quail Run 6 Cormorant Dr 34 Rolling Hill Rd

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Soodik, J Beatty, M by Exr Aimetti, D by Ref Wall, M by Exrs Snitko, H Thornton, J

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ZIPCODE 11972 - SPEONK

ZIPCODE 11976 - WATER MILL

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ZIPCODE 11978 - WESTHAMPTON BEACH

Southold Town ZIPCODE 06390 - FISHERS ISLAND

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ZIPCODE 11944 - GREENPORT

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ZIPCODE 11957 - ORIENT

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Welsher, D 153 Bishops Lane LLC Wickapogue Realty I GWB Southampton LLC Hutzenlaub, W Lambiris, J & L

1,475,000 4,400,000 2,800,000 2,248,960 1,350,000 4,200,000

225 Somerset Ave 153 Bishops Ln 136 Bishops Ln 1605 Devon CT 87 Halsey Ave 21 Old Town Crossing

Trujillo-A&Gutierrez Mahon, K & T

Powers, A Keiser, E & M

340,000 407,500

15 Laura Ct 20 Matthews Dr

809 Edge of Woods Epstein, J Eads, K & Fee, K Giraldi,A & Ling,J

Wiggins,D & Loring,H Farrell Holding Co Belknap InvestorsGrp Schneider, S

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809 Edge Of Woods Rd 971 Deerfield Rd 322 Edge Of Woods Rd 10 Head Of Pond Rd, #5

Lavender Landscaping Nguyen, C & Trinh, N Bookamer, B & K Belle Gold Trust Dahan, M & P

Czaplick, K by Exr Michalowski, M Kirschenbaum by Ref Pine, J & S Raynor, C & J

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Scrub Property 752 A Mc Cord St 24 Summit Blvd 14 Fiddler Crab Trail 39 Jagger Ln

Roberts, L & P Bonomo, C & L Lerche, M & S

Timber Ridge at WHB Timber Ridge at WHB Timber Ridge at WHB

592,360 617,460 632,520

304 Gettysburg Dr &lot 61 401 Gettysburg Dr &lot 64 403 Gettysburg Dr &lot 55

Soper, J & B Cashel, C & K

Hamilton, J Gorham, B Trust

1,250,000 800,000

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Deutsche Bank Nat

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471,734

635 Church Ln

Deutsche Bank Nat Island View LLC Bull,S & Svoboda,T Kehl, R & McEntee, J Burgess, B

Anaya,J etal by Ref Mulholland, S Trust Cornelius,K&Allen Jr Richards, M Fasbach, D

416,000 875,000 600,000 100,000* 440,000

75500 Route 25 725 Island View Ln 24 Beach St 415 Kaplan Ave 525 Madison Ave

McGrath, R & P

Tuthill,Kugler, etal

339,000

1330 Sigsbee Rd

Kelso, H Campbell, P & H

Moisa,E &Faszczewski Mensch, M & R

425,000 1,200,000

32275 Route 25 400 King St

Gerowski, D & M

Scheidet, R & C

1,300,000

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Nearly two million people fish, hunt or trap in New York, ranking the state third nationwide, DiNapoli’s report found. In several New York counties, the number of resident licenses sold equaled more than one-third of the county’s population. Fishing is the most popular, with two-thirds of New York participants fishing exclusively, followed by 28 percent who fish and hunt and nine percent who hunt only.

Consumer spending on these sporting activities totaled more than $5 billion in 2011, the most recent year for which such figures are available. Nearly $1.9 billion was spent on trip-related purchases including transportation, lodging and food. Nonresidents generated 20 percent of the revenue collected from license fees in the 2012-13 license year.

Erie County ranked first in total license sales in the 2012-13 season, issuing more than 120,000 licenses and permits. Oswego County ranked first in fishing licenses. Suffolk County ranked fourth in the sale of fishing licenses.

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East Hampton made it three in a row Thursday, dispensing with Miller Place 77-50 on the loser’s court.

Once again it was a case of too much Brandon Kennedy-Gay, one of Suffolk’s top scorers. On this day he bombed for 28, Regis O’Neil, emerging quickly as a key element on this team, added 22. Kyle McKee tallied 10. The team hit six more bombs East Hampton blew past the home team in Center Moriches Sat-

urday, improving to 4-0. Once again it was Kennedy-Gay that had the hot hand with 24 points. McKee added 15 and Jack Reese 11. The Bonackers made seven treys in the contest.

Kennedy-Gay is Suffolk’s second highest scorer, averaging 24.5 points, and he leads the county with 13 bombs. East Hampton plays at Shoreham-Wading River tomorrow; Archrival Bayport-Blue Point comes to town Saturday for a 12:30 tipoff.

Mt. Sinai comes to Bonacville Tuesday at 6 PM.

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Tuckahoe School kids recently learned how to create comic strips.

Tuckahoe School Tuckahoe fourth grade students in Melissa Idler’s reading group enjoyed reading the expository text, “How a Comic Book is Made.” Students were then motivated to create their own comic strips and did a remarkable job.

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On Saturday, January 26, 2016 the following music students will be participating in the 2015-16 HMEA (Hampton Music Educators Association) Middle School Festival: Band-Hallie Beeker; Chorus-Isabelle Riffaud; Word Drumming-Nicholas Gomez, Griffin Schwartz and Robert Sior.

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Bonac Keeps Rolling; Riverhead Wins

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December 16, 2015

Southampton plays Center Moriches at home Friday in the opener of its annual Holiday Tournament and will play again Saturday against an opponent yet to be determined. Mattituck comes to town Tuesday, and the Mariners head to the Beehive for the first time in nearly a decade to square off against Bridgehampton on December 29.

Riverhead beat Connetquot at home Friday 59-53. Tyrese Kerr had 22 points and 16 rebounds and is among the county leaders in both

categories. Lintel Brown added 12 and Sharron Trent 11.

The Blue Waves (1-0) have a busy week. They play at Huntington tomorrow, against North Babylon at home Sunday, and next Wednesday at Bellport.

Mattituck recovered from its illfated trip to East Hampton to play in the Kendall Madison Tip-Off Classic, when the Tuckers lost twice.

On Friday The Tuckers got off the schneid, coming away with a 73-43 victory against Greenport. Joe Tardif led the scoring parade with 19, and John Dwyer added 16. Mattituck plays at Southampton Tuesday and at Port Jefferson on December 29.

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Bees Mount Huge Comeback To Stay Undefeated

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The Bees moved up in class to play a non-league game at Wyandanch last Wednesday and fell 16 points behind early on.

The problem was not so much on the Bridgehampton side – it was Kashawn Charles of the Warriors, who hit eight three pointers and tallied 34 points in the game, and his teammates who drilled 13 three-pointers overall including 10 in the first half.

As befits a state title-holder though, the Bees fought back.

Coach Carl Johnson called for his trademark 1-3-1 three-quarter zone press, and the Bees whittled away at the lead, coming away with a 69-66 win after outscoring the home team 26-14 in the fourth quarter.

Jackson scored 16 including four treys, Josh Lamison had 16, Tylik Furman added 10, and Matt Hostetler tallied 10 including two three-point bombs. Young J.P. Hard-

ing, a freshman, scored 12.

The Bees had to play Westhampton Beach Saturday without their top scorer and rebounder, Lamison, who suffered a concussion during the brutal game with Wyandanch.

Not a problem – his cousin, Elijah (La La) Harding, stepped in and scored 20 points as the Bees opened up a 44-27 lead and coasted to a 60-46 victory. Hostetler drilled five three-pointers and tallied 19 points and point guard Furman recorded

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10 assists. Cory Guardiello led the Hurricanes with 13 and Griffin Schulz and Nolan Quinlan had 10 apiece.

The Bees are 3-0; Westhampton, which lost to Rocky Point 47-38 on Thursday, is 0-3.

Southold comes to the Beehive Tuesday for a 6 PM tip-off; The Bees ferry to Shelter Island on January 5 for the first of two games against that rival.

The Bees haven’t lost to a Class D rival in more than two years, but this season they have a legit rival.

The Shelter Island Islanders knocked off Hampton Bays 56-47 behind the play of their all-county candidate Tristan Wissemann who had 24 points and a dozen boards.

Billy Boeklin, whose uncle Jeff once led Suffolk County in scoring, added 18. Dave Krieg scored 17 for Hampton Bays (0-4). Shelter Island is 2 and 2 on the season.

The Islanders play at Pierson Tuesday and at Center Moriches next Wednesday.

Shelter Island lost to Center Moriches 82-52 on December 8.

Wissemann leads Suffolk in scoring with a 27.5 mark. Boeklin is 11th with 21 points per game.

In other league VIII action Pierson, off to a slow start, lost to Stony Brook 50-36 Saturday to fall to 0-3.

Steven Musnicki (15) and Sean Sloane combined for 24 points in a losing effort.

Pierson plays the host team in the William Floyd Holiday Tournament Friday.

Southold is also off to a sluggish start. The Settlers lost to Mercy 4940 Thursday. Pat McFarland scored 14 for the losers.

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