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MY POLITICALLY CORRECT CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FOR MY DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS:
A LITTLE OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THAT Let me start by saying I am one of those Republicans who voted for Hillary. And yes, I’m just as frightened as you are. But the election is over and it’s time we stop moaning and groaning and give Trump a chance. He can’t be as bad as we think he will be. Can he? His choice of KT McFarland for Deputy National Security Advisor is a great one. She’s a brilliant woman whom I know and admire. I can’t say the same about his choice of Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Here’s what the hilarious Andy Borowitz wrote in The New Yorker: BEN CARSON WARNS THAT BIBLE MAKES NO MENTION OF HOUSING OR URBAN DEVELOPMENT “As you can well imagine, I did not want to be in charge of something that the Bible does not condone,” Carson said, in his first public statement since Donald Trump chose him to be the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “But then I realized that perhaps the Lord wants me to take this job
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DUMPING ON TRUMP The great Garrison Keillor, in a wonderful article called “Life after the election,” has this to say about our new president: “While he’s making alterations, he should consider getting a presidential hairdo rather than the hair of a hotel lounge pianist in 1959. It’s distracting to watch a man talk about national security, looking like he may suddenly burst into ‘Volare.’ “A makeover would take about 15 minutes max. And might a speech therapist try to smooth out the Tony Soprano accent and give him a presidential voice like Nixon’s or Reagan’s and cut out those irritating repetitions for emphasis – do you know what I mean? Am I right? Am I right? You know I’m right. You better believe I’m right.” ****************************************
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A Montauk Family Album By Kitty Merrill
His mother Emily was turning 88 years old this year and Dell Cullum was trying to come up with a special birthday present. A photographer, filmmaker, and wild life rescuer with an avid interest in local history and his family’s genealogy, Cullum broached the idea of documenting Emily’s childhood in Montauk. She loved the idea. Life at the Beach, a story about growing up at Fort Pond Bay is a pictorial ode to Cullum’s mother and Montauk. Rare photos within the pocket-sized book feature an array of familiar local names since, Dell said, “We related to almost everyone.” Pitts, Burke, McDonald, Joyce, Grimes, Ecker, and Sayre are some of the names a reader will find. Many of the photos were taken by Dell’s grandmother, Evangeline (Vangy) Burke, who won a Brownie camera in the Jack Wells Grocery Store prize scratch off board. In crafting the book, Dell became curator of the Burke family’s extensive collection of photographs. Add them to the giant steamer trunk of pictures from the Cullum side of the family and Dell said, “I don’t think there’s a place big enough to hold them all,” when an exhibition was suggested. Since Life at the Beach is dedicated to Emily Cullum, she appears in lots of the shots, and snippets of her bio are included. She was literally born on the beach, delivered at the beach on Fort Pond Bay, near where the restaurant Navy Beach is currently located. Born there in 1928, she resided with her parents Vangy and Leo Burke and brother Buddy until the fierce Hurricane of 1938 destroyed the family home. “I remember that day,” she told The Independent. “A big wave came over the top of the house and it was time to go.” The family piled into a car and headed for higher ground. On the way up the hill to the Montauk Manor, the car stalled out. Her father and uncle pushed the car up the hill as her aunt steered. The manor was closed for the season, but a caretaker let the refugees in. They stayed there for three days, and subsequently moved to Shepherd’s Neck, where Emily’s father built a $500 Sears & Roebuck house. Every picture tells a story, Dell reminded this week. As he and Emily selected photographs, the octogenarian recounted the tale behind each one. The process afforded mother and son hours of
time together over the course of months. Emily’s favorites among the collection include photos of the cottages along Fort Pond Bay. “She could name every house,” Dell informed, as Emily noted, “It brings back so many memories.” The pair will be on hand to offer signed copies of Life at the Beach this weekend at the annual St. Michael’s Christmas Fair held at the senior citizen housing complex
in Amagansett. And, taking a page from the book, the fair will be filled with family, as cousins Patty Collins Sales and Catherine Ecker are found among the day’s vendors. It takes place Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 3 PM. Can’t make it to the fair? Visit Dell’s website ImaginationNature.com to find the book, plus additional items, including amazing photographs, calendars, and other books.
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Kudos For Chris Chris Russo, a senior at Riverhead High School, will be featured as one of the contestants in this season of “Project Runway Jr.” on December 22 at 10 PM on Lifetime. An aspiring designer Chris saw an opportunity to apply on social media and quickly took advantage of it. After an application and audition tape were sent in, he was one of twelve who were chosen to participate. “I think they like the fact that, as my friends and family say, I’m kind of a character and not afraid to talk” said Chris describing his interview. His family has been an important influence in his fashion. His grandmother, Marilyn Russo, taught him to sew and his aunt, Suzanne Russo, works in NYC as a designer for Lynn Ritchie Design. Chris interned at Lynn Ritchie over the summer while shooting “Project Runway.” “I love abstract or geometric designs of all kinds,” explains Chris,
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Thirty years later, detectives are rekindling the search for a man accused of a double murder, this time using cutting edge technology to provide fresh clues. It was a grizzly scene, more so because it occurred in Southampton,
where murdered bodies show up once every century or so. But on December 21, 1986, S o u t h a m p t o n To w n P o l i c e , summoned by a bartender, gingerly pried open the trunk of a car parked at the Elk’s Club on County Road 39, already aware from the stench that something foul had occurred.
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a prime suspect. The pair had met three weeks earlier in Southampton, where Billy’s father had a weekend getaway. Fischer had called Hyer on December 11 at the Hicksville home she shared with her mother and sister. He asked her to accompany him to Southampton to visit his dad. It was a nasty night, rainy and windy, but Hyer agreed. The two were never seen alive again. When Hyer met Fischer, he was deeply in debt and seriously ill with cystic fibrosis. Fischer hadn’t spoken with his father in over a year but he decided to ask him for help. He wanted Hyer along for moral support. According to unsolved.com, the pair weren’t lovers; Fischer had met Hyer by chance when she became lost and he brought her home, striking up a friendship in the process. New York State Police senior investigator Stephen J. Oates, said Billy’s father, William Fischer, made a good living at a Manhattan car dealership. There was evidence he was a cocaine user, according to public reports. It was Billy’s car parked at the Elk’s Club, which was seldom used during the offseason back then. Locals reported seeing it there for about 10 days before police were called. Nancy’s mother, Joan, and her sister, Debra, had urged her not to go out that night. The next day, they called police and William Fischer. The father told them the young couple had visited him a night earlier but eventually left. Joan and Debra Hyer went to visit the father: he did not seem concerned, and he was impatient with them. Everyone involved suspected the senior Fischer, who was arrogant and rude by nature. Neighbors revealed he had begun renovating the interior of his Southampton home after the disappearances – working in the middle of the night. According to published reports, detectives quickly zeroed in and obtained a search warrant. Two .22 caliber bullets were recovered along with a strand of Billy’s hair. According to unsolved.com, additional testing established that there was a large amount of blood splattered all about the hallway. It was later determined Nancy had been stabbed there. But the suspect was one step ahead of the police, and has been ever since. Fischer collected more than $100,000 by mortgaging his house, then disappeared. His car was found at JFK airport. He hasn’t
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In it’s zeal to declare the Affordable Care Act (Obmacare) a resounding success, the Obama administration, perhaps deliberately, misclassified millions of Americans who gained health insurance for the first time under the new law. So says no less of an expert than Jonathan Gruber, one of the chief architects of the ACA, in a study released last week. Gruber concluded that roughly twothirds of new enrollees funneled into Medicaid through Obamacare
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When President-elect Donald Trump named Tom Price to become Secretary of Health and Human Services he likely drove the final nail into the Affordable Care Act. Trump, of course, campaigned on the promise to repeal the controversial law, often referred to as Obamacare. However, he has waivered in recent weeks after meeting with President Obama, promising to consider keeping two key ACA provisions: coverage for adult-aged children living at home and for people already stricken with a serious, pre-existing maladies. Price, on the other hand, is about as hard line as they come.
The congressman from Georgia has repeatedly introduced legislation to repeal and replace the ACA and is one of hundreds of Republicans who have voted dozens of times to repeal the federal health care law since it was enacted in 2010. Price, if he is confirmed, will be in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, and have authority over the Food and Drug Administration. He is an orthopedic surgeon with a degree from the University of Michigan. Given its complexities, many experts think repealing the ACA is a long shot because it would have to be replaced, and there is no concrete plan currently on the table. “I don’t think anyone would
want to pass a bill overnight that cost 20 million people their health insurance,” said Michael Sparer, chair of health policy and management at Columbia University’s School of Public Health. “The question is what does [Trump] really want to do.” According to CNN Money’s Tami Luhby, “Passing a bill to overturn Obamacare would require 60 votes in the Senate, and Republicans don’t control enough seats to squash a filibuster by the Democrats. But GOP lawmakers, who will have 51 seats in the Senate, could use the budget reconciliation process that only needs approval of a simple majority. This process is limited
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to provisions that affect federal revenues and spending.” Enrollment for 2017 is underway now. “Some 20 million people are insured either through the individual health insurance exchanges, the expansion of Medicaid or the ability of children to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26,” Luhby wrote. However, Jonathan Gruber, a chief architect of the ACA, pointed out that millions of those people would have been eligible for Medicaid simply by applying for it, leaving open the possibility to government deliberately inflated enrollment figures to make Obamacare seem more successful than it really is. (See the accompanying article in this section). Regardless, the uninsured rate has plummeted, and stands at 8.9 percent, the lowest in history. Trump, though somewhat vague, wants to allow HMO purchasers to shop out of state for plans. He also wants premiums to be tax deductible. Predictably, wrote Sarah Kliff for Voxx, “Trump’s proposal is much less favorable to low-income people than other Republican alternatives to the Affordable Care Act.”
The Perils Of Being A Landlord A Manhattan woman who owns property in the town recently told East Hampton Town Police that she won a judgment against a former renter who subsequently threatened her with bodily harm. She did not want to press charges but wanted the incident on record. Identity Theft An Audubon Street resident told East Hampton Town Police that on June 7 an unknown person transferred $4183 from her savings account into her checking account and then withdrew it. The bank closed the account and agreed to refund the money because the culprit was able to extract it without proper identification. A similar thing also happened to a Crystal Drive couple around the same time. Reward Offered Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a hit and run driver. On October 21 at approximately 11:30 PM, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle operated by Lee Lopez was traveling eastbound on Route 25A, near the intersection with Continued on Page 48.
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Holiday Giving Programs
The Retreat has launched its annual Holiday Giving Programs including Adopt-A-Family, aimed at providing holiday presents or gift cards to families in need. In December, the Adopt-A-Family program provides gifts and gift cards for local families in need to brighten what can be a difficult holiday season. Sponsoring a family during the holiday season can provide a memorable holiday experience to clients going through a traumatic time. All gifts and gift cards must be received by December 12. The Retreat provides domestic violence services and education to families on the East End of Long Island. For those interested in contributing to the Holiday Giving Programs, call The Retreat’s Holiday Help Line at 631-329-4398. You may also make a holiday donation online at www. theretreatinc.org.
Varsity Softball
A fundraiser for the Hampton Bays Varsity Softball team will be held at Southampton Ice Rink on Saturday from 8 to 11 PM. The cost is $25 and includes skates.
Pajama Program
Almond in Bridgehampton presents its 16th annual Christmas Eve tradition of roast suckling pig served with cabbage, caramelized apples, and spaetzle for $31. A portion of the revenue from Christmas Eve will be donated to the Pajama Program (www.pajamaprogram.org). The program provides new, warm pajamas and new books to children in need in the United States and all around the world, many who are waiting to be adopted. The regular a la carte menu will also be available. Hours on Christmas Eve are
5 to 9:30 PM. Almond will be closed on Christmas Day. For reservations or more information call Almond at 631537-5665.
Love Bites
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. The event chairperson is Tracy Anderson. For more information and tickets call Linda Shapiro at 631-725-2023.
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Denim and Diamonds
“Denim And Diamonds 2,” a fun-filled, food-filled dance party will take place Saturday, January
28, from 6:30 to 10:00 PM at 230 Elm in Southampton to benefit the Ellen Hermanson Foundation. The cost is $125 individual ticket, $250
benefactor ticket, and $75 for those 29 and under. For more info email info@ellensrun.org or call 212-8400916.
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Music 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.
Townline BBQ
“Smokin’ Hot Tunes” live music can be enjoyed at Townline BBQ in Sagaponack this Friday with Paul Fried performing from 4 to 7 PM alongside happy hour priced items and no cover charge. And, don’t forget free pool and pub quiz night
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Stephen Talkhouse
Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett presents the Roses Grove Band on Friday at 8 PM and then a party with DJ Paul Jones at 10 PM. Saturday, Inda Eaton will perform at 8 PM and at 10 PM The Realm will take the stage. Visit stephentalkhouse. com for more details.
Zigmund’s Bar
East End Opry presents live music Wednesdays at Zigmund’s Bar in Bridgehampton. It will be an open mic night plus special guest performances from 7 to 11 PM. Thursday is Karaoke from 9 PM to 1 AM, Friday the band
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Suffolk Theater
At Riverhead’s Suffolk Theater on Friday Jorma Kaukonen, blues and folk guitar legend, is coming back once again to this East End theater and will be performing at 8 PM. Admission is $60. Doors, bar, and restaurant will open at 6:30 PM for the event. For seating and ticket purchasing call 631-727-4343 or visit SuffolkTheater.com.
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Southampton Arts Center is offering a live cabaret concert with multi-award winning cabaret artist and Equity actress Valerie diLorenzo on Saturday at 7 PM. Enjoy some songs and stories, along with some history, from The Great American Songbook, Broadway, and also some holiday tunes. Reserve your tickets now. Admission is $20 and $15 for seniors. For details and tickets visit southamptonartscenter.org or call 631283-0967.
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This Friday at BookHampton in East Hampton, Jon Gilman will hold a signing for his cookbook God’s Love We Deliver at 5 PM. On Saturday, it’s Story Time with Susan Verde reading Water Princess at 10:30 AM with signed copies available for purchase. Later, at 4 PM Eric Fischl will speak about his revealing book of NYC’s art world. Go to BookHampton. com to register for these free events or to purchase signed versions of the books if you can’t make it.
Table Talk
Bestselling author Monte Farber and award-winning artist Amy Zerner will be speaking about The Enchanted World of Creativity, Color and Clairevoyance at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Sunday from 11 AM to 12:30 PM. Mingle, enjoy coffee from Starbucks, and learn about self-discovery and reflection. The authors will speak in detail about psychic guidance and also give minitarot readings. Admission is free and reservations are suggested. For more details or to make a reservation call 631-
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The Nutcracker
Guild Hall in East Hampton will be having its 8 th annual Hampton Ballet Theatre School’s performance of The Nutcracker this weekend in their John Drew Theater. Performance times are Friday at 7 PM, Saturday at 1 PM and 7 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM. Admission is $25 - $30 for adults and $20 - $25 for children under 12. For seating options, ticket purchases, and more info visit GuildHall.org or hamptonballettheatreschool.com or call Guild Hall at 631-324-0806 or the school at 888-953-4287.
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Hampton Ballet Theater’s Nutcracker DECEMBER 31 • 6:30PM – 11:00PM Ring in the New Year! Bring the kids and join us for our annual Fishes & Wishes New Year’s Eve Celebration! By Nicole Teitler Few theatrics are as synonymous with the holiday season as The Nutcracker. Each year countless renditions take stage and transform everyday realities into a world of lighthearted imagination. This weekend The Hampton Ballet Theatre School will take its audience into the home of Hans Stahlbaum in its eighth annual production of a Tchaikovsky classic. The performance will take place at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater in East Hampton on Friday at 7 PM, Saturday at 1 PM and 7 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM, introducing a magical stage of sugar plum fairies and Christmas cheer. Rarely are any two performances of The Nutcracker the same. That’s what makes the production process so enjoyable – it allows creative enhancements, but the basic plot remains consistent throughout. The Stahlbaums host their annual Christmas Eve party surrounding a tree both grand in size and decoration. Clara and Fritz, the children, joyously play until their godfather, Drosselmeyer, a toymaker, arrives with gifts in hand for all the children at the party to enjoy. Fritz receives a beautiful drum while Clara is given the glorious nutcracker. Jealous, Fritz and the boys toss the nutcracker around until it accidentally breaks. Without worry, Drosselmeyer fixes the toy under his large, black
cape. When the party draws to an end and the parents go to bed, Clara checks up on her nutcracker under the tree and falls asleep with it in her arms. At midnight Clara is awoken and her dream begins as the toys around her are transformed, becoming life size. This year’s ballet is choreographed by Sara Jo Strickland, director of HBTS, with costumes designed and hand sewn by Yuka Silvera and lighting overseen by Sebastian Paczynski. Adam and Gail Baranello, of A&G Dance Company, will dance the Arabian Prince and Princess, two Pro Student Level 6 at HBTS, Abigail Hubbell and Caitlin Hubbell with share the roles of Dew Drop Princess and Snow Queen, and Rose Kelly, also a Pro Student Level 6 at HBTS, will dance the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Nick Peregrino will dance as Cavalier, the role of Dew Drop Prince will be played by Timothy Sloan and the Snow King will be played by Juan Carlos. Advanced ticket sales are $20 for children (under 12 years of age) and $25 for adults for regular orchestra seating. Day of performance tickets prices are $25 for children (under 12 years of age) and $30 for adults for regular orchestra seating. Premium orchestra, box seats, balcony and group rates are also available.
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Ashawagh Hall
Four local artists who make a seamless connection between nature and the abstract will be showing at Ashawagh Hall on Saturday and Sunday. Their work includes abstract painting, ceramic sculpture, and prints from a variety of techniques including monotypes, solar prints, fish prints and photography. In addition to what promises to be a stunning collection of larger wall pieces, they will be creating an “art-boutique” with the idea that fine art can make fine gifts. Artists include John Todaro, Anahi DeCanio, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, and Annie Sessler.
Artists 4 Israel
The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will host Craig Dershowitz for an informative and inspiring presentation on Saturday. From 10 AM to 11 AM there will be a presentation for adults on the work of Artists 4 Israel. A light breakfast will be served during the presentation. At 11 AM, the students of Gates of Jewish Learning will assemble Healing Arts Kits to send to Sderot, Israel, the town most heavily traumatized by the ongoing conflict along the Gaza border. Dershowitz has been awarded the Key to the City of Sderot, the Shomer Yisrael Award and a Special Commendation from the Prime Minister of Israel for his work using modern and contemporary art to serve humanitarian purposes and his creative advocacy initiatives. He recently created “Healing Ink,” where he and several American tattoo artists flew to Israel to tattoo wounded Israeli soldiers in order to hide battle scars.
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Dragonetti, a native Long Islander whose work in recent years has been focused primarily on her ongoing Boat Hull series. The series began in the marinas of Montauk, where she was drawn to boats out of the water in need of repair. “I find particular appeal in the contrast between the abstract patterns of the painted lines and the colors in my Boat Hull series, and the overlying evidence of their weather and age, which together create a unique interplay of textures,” said Dragonetti. By focusing her compositions consistently on the triangular patterns of hulls in a square format, she is able to highlight the essential geometry of the images. “With these images I transform often humble vessels into abstract portraits, celebrating their imperfect appeal.” Dragonetti has expanded her series nationally and internationally, with images of boat hulls from Sag Harbor, Noyac, Vermont, Connecticut, Los Angeles and Portugal, in addition to Montauk, and has recently exhibited the series at Aqua Art (Miami), Art New York and several international art fairs. She also serves as a member of the board of the non-profit Professional Women Photographers group. The show will run through December 31. More of her work can be seen on her website www.micheledragonetti. com.
ONGOING Oil Works
"Oil Works," an art exhibition featuring local artists Kirsten Benfield, Johanna Caleca, Marilyn Goldstein, Kathie Hayden and Peggy Sherrill, will be held at Amagansett Library through December 31.
Thanksgiving Collective
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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.
Modern Vintage
The White Room Galler y in Bridgehampton presents "Modern Vintage" with artists Charles Waller, Scott Hewett, Sally Breen, and Claudia Ward. The show runs through December 23.
The Wednesday Group
Ten artists from The Wednesday Group have over 20 pear paintings 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
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"November's Bone." The show runs through January 16.
East End Arts
East End Arts present an art show at the Rosalie Dimon 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.
Bob Sullivan
Bob Sullivan celebrates autumn with an exciting exhibition of new plein air paintings, archival pieces, and his widely popular summer of 2016 local land and seascapes at Salon Xavier in Sag Harbor. His plein air oil paintings draw from familiar locations throughout the East End, where for the past sixteen years he worked as a licensed sea captain. The exhibition will run through December 31.
Student Art Exhibit
The fall Suffolk Community College Eastern Campus Student Art Exhibit, a lively, salon-style show highlighting exceptional work created by students in the applied arts programs will be held through December 14 in The Lyceum Gallery, located in the Montaukett Learning Resource Center.
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East Hampton FRIDAY 12•9•16 • The Hampton Ballet Theatre School presents The Nutcracker at Guild Hall in East Hampton at 7 PM tonight, Saturday at 1 and 7 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM. Advance tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for children under 12. Call 888-933-4287 for information about the range of additional ticket prices. • Kids aged four and up can make festive wreaths at the East Hampton Library from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. Call to sign up. 631-324-0222 ext. 2. SATURDAY 12•10•16 • East Hampton Trails Preservation Society hosts a wooded hike to the scenic overlook at Hedges Banks.
Meet at the log cabin park office, Cedar Point County Park on Cedar Point Road off Alewive Brook Road at 10 AM. Leader: Tina Guglielmo 631-329-2681. • From 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, it’s a Citarella Gingerbread House Decorating Workshop at Guild Hall in East Hampton. All gingerbread houses, yummy edible decorations, and materials provided by Citarella (and their top Gingerbread architects will be there to lend a hand). You decorate and take your house, leaving the sticky, icky, clean-up to GH. $20/$15 GH member, limited to 25 participants. Register by calling 631-324-0806. • Best-selling East Hampton author Dava Sobel, will discuss her new book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars at 7 PM in the Senior Thesis Center at the Ross School in East Hampton. This free event is sponsored by the Montauk Observatory. SUNDAY 12•11•16 • Try a scenic hike with spectacular views including
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VIRGO (8/23 - 9/22) Whether it is reorganizing your home, or re-visiting family issues, you are creating a new phase in your home life. Creating healthy space is important now.
Today Venus, the planet of love and affection, enters Aquarius making for a more social atmosphere. We should all be feeling friendlier and less serious. On Friday Jupiter (the planet of expansion and exaggeration) joins the Sun and Saturn (the planet of limits) in the sign of Sagittarius. This can be a day for rewards given for work well done or a day to pay the piper for letting things slide. Tuesday, the Full Moon in Gemini encourages us to organize and plan whatever our future dreams/desires may be. More secrets can be surprisingly discovered leading us to make important changes. We are entering the shadow of the upcoming Mercury Retrograde on December 19, so if you start to feel more confused just double check all communications. Back up your computers and phones and check those roads before car trips.
LIBRA (9/22 - 10/22) There can be lots of communications with friends, colleagues and relatives this week encouraging you to talk about your feelings. It’s all good.
ARIES (3/20 - 4/20) Although you may be chomping at the bit to change your life in every way, take time to step back and use some careful planning. If you can’t travel, perhaps developing a spiritual practice will ease your nerves. TAURUS (4/20 - 5/21) It’s all about other people’s money whether it’s the home budget or business partnerships. Investments will pay off, so trust that good things are on the way. GEMINI (5/21 - 6/22) Relationships and partnerships can come under discussion. What needs to go will go. You can manifest what you want. CANCER (6/22 - 7/22) Work may cut into your free time leaving you to wonder what direction you want to pursue. Perhaps a chance to work at home? Perhaps a time for a change? LEO (7/22 - 8/22) It’s either love and romance or a creative project that is on your mind. Love is all around you, so enjoy the glow.
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Southampton FRIDAY 12•9•16 • The Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton will offer “Posture/Balance/Movement: A Pre-Holiday Workshop” with Gail Pudaloff, an exercise and kinetic therapist, at 10:15 AM. This workshop will explore how postures can affect moods and breathing. Register at www.myrml.org or call 631-283-0774 ext. 523. SATURDAY 12•10•16 • Visit the Captain Albert Rogers Mansion in Southampton for Hearthside Cheer for a festive night out. The Greek Revival Mansion will be decked out with fresh winter greens and other decorations. Hors d’oeuvres, delicious sweets, and a bar are included. A baby grand piano will be present for singing your favorite holiday songs. To purchase tickets visit www. southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org. • Feeding wild birds in winter is especially important in our area, where development has removed a good deal of natural winter food resources for local birds. Join the South Fork Natural History Museum staff in what has become a holiday tradition, and make bird-friendly decorations for a holiday tree, using seeds, suet, and dried fruits. You’ll also be able to make some of these treats to take home and use as decorations on your own “holiday tree” for the birds. Bring a shoebox to take home some of your decorations. Material fee $3 per child. 10:30 AM.
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Call SoFo at 631-537-9735 for admission, location, and registration information. SUNDAY 12•11•16 • Take a Seal Walk at Cupsogue Beach County Park in Westhampton with Xylia Serafy, South Fork Natural History Museum Nature Educator at 2 PM. Be sure to bundle up. Call SoFo at 631-537-9735 for admission, location, and registration information. • There’s a free Winter Solstice Qigong at noon. Go deep into yourself, building your strength and balance for the long winter ahead. Welcome the Return of the Light as the solstice marks the shortest day of the year. At the UU Meetinghouse, 977 Bridge/Sag Turnpike. For more info call Tina, 631-723-1923. • “Tropical Immersion: Gardeninig In Costa Rica Where The Rainforest Meets The Sea” is the illustrated presentation by Dennis Schrader, a noted personality among New York’s horticulture circles. At 2 PM at the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton. The public can obtain details on all events by phoning the Alliance office, 631-537-2223, or by visiting www. hahgarden.org. Admission $10 for non-members of the Horticultural Alliance, free for members. Location: Bridgehampton Community House main hall. • The Group for the East End leads a wildlife search along Dune Road in Hampton Bays. Expect to see distant gannets, lounging Harbor Seals, various gulls, many different ducks, a handful of shorebirds, and perhaps a few birds of prey. [Fingers are crossed for a Snowy or Short-Eared Owl] Please bring binoculars. For reservations or more information, contact Steve Biasetti at 631-765-6450 ext. 205 or sbiasetti@ eastendenvironment.org. (10:30 AM to 1 PM) TUESDAY 12•13•16 • The Southampton Historical Museum welcomes all seniors to celebrate the pleasures of the holiday season at the Captain Albert Rogers Mansion on Meeting House Lane. 1:30 to 3:30 PM, admission is free, but you have to RSVP by calling 631-283-2494.
SCORPIO (10/22 - 11/21) Money and security are high on your agenda. Set some reasonable limits on expenses and let others know just how you want to be appreciated. SAGITTARIUS (11/22 - 12/21) Make those birthday wishes as big as you can imagine. Now is your time to create what you truly desire. If you can think it, you can have it. CAPRICORN (12/22 - 1/21) It might be time to relax and let others help you out when needed. Try to separate yourself from others who may be an emotional drain on you. You need time to refresh your soul. AQUARIUS (1/21 - 2/19) New friends and social groups can offer you ways to expand your love and business interests. Take advantage of these contacts while having fun. PISCES (2/19 - 3/20) Try to find the balance you seek by thinking about your true desires. Maybe you have to dust off an old dream or two to lead you on a new adventure. Joanne Wolff is a Certified Astrologer who helps her clients use the energies of their unique birth charts to maximum advantage. She points out the upcoming astrological trends and how they will affect you. Joanne is available for readings in person, or by phone. Joanne is running a Christmas Special: $50 for a half hour reading. Makes a great gift for you or the people on your list. Joanne can be reached at 516-996-5354 (text too!).
Friends. Family. Community. Dermot PJ Dolan, Agent 2228 Montauk Hwy Bridgehampton, NY 11932 Bus: 631-537-2622 Bus: 212-380-8318 dermot@dermotdolan.com
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Monday Night Paint
The Salty Canvas presents Monday Night Paint Parties at Townline BBQ in Sagaponack happening ever y Monday from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Every Monday, 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 d i n n e r b e f o r e y o u p a i n t ! To par ticipate guests must register a t w w w. s a l t y c a n v a s h a m p t o n s . com within 24 hours of the event.
ONGOING SPECIALS 1770 House
Tavern Thursdays are back at The 1770 House. Each Thursday from 5:30 PM, in the casual downstairs Tavern of the 18th century colonial home, the signature burger, meatloaf, and Korean BBQ Berkshire ribs are $17.70; with house wine, red or white, by the glass at $9; and a house beer selection at $5. Chef Michael Rozzi's nightly fine dining menu may be enjoyed upstairs or down too. For more info call 631-324-1770 or visit www.1770house.com.
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.
Monday Night Paint at Townline BBQ.
Nick & Toni's
Nick & Toni's in East Hampton is welcoming fall with the return of 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 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 are 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 631-3243550.
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.
Living Room
c/o The Maidstone in East Hampton offers a prix fixe this fall 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
18 Park Place East Hampton 324-5400 Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner Take Out Orders
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 631-283-6669.
Southampton Publick House
Southampton Publick House presents Monday Night Madness specials for Monday Night Football. Starting at 5 PM every Monday enjoy
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$5 pints, $6 burgers, and 50 cent wings. View the games on the 7 flat screen TVs in the inside bar or on the 9 flat screen TVs in the outside bar. 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.
Football Specials
Townline BBQ in Sagaponack presents happy hour and football specials available Thursday and Friday from 4 to 7 PM and Saturday, Sunday, and Monday all day. These specials are only available at the bar. Also free pool is offered during happy hour.
Zigmund's Bar
Zigmund's Bar in Bridgehampton, a new bar inspired by the location's popular 90's bar The Wild Rose, will offer Happy Hour Thursday through Saturday evenings until sunset with $5 rose, beer, and Lamb Chops. Sunday there are football specials from 1 to 8 PM.
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Indian Wells Tavern
Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett presents fall football specials. A special snacks menu will be offered on Sundays and Thursdays in the bar area along with a special drink menu. The special drink menu will be offered during the Monday night football games, along with the Burger Night promotion, which includes a burger of your choice, half-dozen wings, and draft beer – all for $25. There will also be prizes and giveaways during the games. The menus include Tavern wings, nachos, quesadillas, Asian potstickers, homemade beef chili, New England clam chowder, and more. For further information call Indian Wells Tavern at 631-267-0400.
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Buckley's Inn Between
Happy Hour weekdays at Buckley's Inn Between in Hampton Bays run 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.
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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.
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Lieb Cellars
There’s Friday night music with Rob Europe from 6 to 9 PM. On Saturday from 3 to 6 PM, it’s Jeff LeBlanc performing. www.liebcellars.com.
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Barely Acoustic performs from 1 to 4 PM on Sunday. www.raphaelwine. com.
Clovis Point Vineyard and Winery
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On Sunday afternoon, the members of the Montauk Fire Department, the Montauk Point Lions Club, Montauk Boy Scout Troop 136, and other volunteers honored the senior citizens of Montauk. Diners were treated to a full course holiday meal, a visit from Santa Claus, prayers by both Montauk Pastors, William Hoffmann and Thomas Murray. Those who were unable to get to the fire house had their meal home delivered. Chief Joe Lenahan chose the dinner to officially announce his retirement as chief, and to thank everyone for their three years of support.
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The horrors of family life have been fueling Nicky Silver’s dramadies for some time now. In his early play, Pterodactyls (1993), he wished the nuclear family into extinction. And when he made his Broadway debut just four years ago, with The Lyons, it was with an equally acrimonious family. In fact, Linda Lavin couldn’t have been bitchier or funnier in her role as the wife of a dying man. Currently, Off Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre with his latest comedy, This Day Forward,a dark one to be sure, he takes us back to the wedding night of two soon to be unhappily married people. Mar tin (Michael Crane) is a privileged Jewish boy who is head over heals over Irene (Holley Fain). But Irene is in love with Emil (Joe Tippitt), a grease monkey who drinks beer and loses all his money at a game of dice. Besides, Irene’s parents hate him. They love Martin - he’s wealthy, Jewish, and tame. At t he rea liz a t io n o f I r e ne ’s discontent, however, Martin tries to buy her off with the dream of a house in the suburbs – Westchester. It’s 1958. The entire American economy is focused
on building that ideal lifestyle and the incredible infrastructure that will make it possible. But at the end of Act I, Irene leaves him and their room at the St. Regis hotel, with its tepid pink walls and milquetoast décor (scenic design by Allen Moyer). Martin’s only consolation is the Polish maid, portrayed with inconsolable wit by June Gable (television’s “Friends”). She is right out of an “I Love Lucy” episode. It’s 2004 when Act II opens. We are in a swank Manhattan condo. Here, Martin Crane portrays Noah, Martin and Irene’s son, a theater director with lots of cred and an avaricious eye for sexy young men. In that role, Andrew Burnap (the porter from Act I) is well suited, albeit a bit sensitive. In reflecting on his youth, we learn that Noah’s dad had hit him with his belt and his mother let him know that she never wanted him. Nothing too out of the ordinary, as director Mark Brokaw presents it. Just the outcome of the years of bitter disappointment that marked their marriage and destroyed their children. As it turns out, This Day Forward is more of an indictment of American
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life and how we’ve built it, than a promise of a glowing future. In fact, these beneficiaries of the aspiring ‘50s appear simply callow. Notes from the Field Cultural anthropologist, sociologist, and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith returns to the New York stage, with yet another jolting theater documentary. This time the subject is “the school to prison pipeline.” The audience arrives at Second Stage Theatre off Broadway to a scroll of data projected on (a kind of) video wall. One of them states that in 2016, one of every 13 African American citizens was not able to vote because of felony convictions – four times that of any other group. Smith tackles her subject with hard facts, extensive research, and in-depth interviews. To illustrate her point about “prison as a right of passage” for Black Americans, she presents seven diverse case studies. Among them, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, who at the age of 25 was murdered for the unforgivable act of looking a policeman in the eye, and Niya Kenny in South Carolina, who at eighteen was sent to an adult penitentiary for defending another girl from the demands of a white male teacher. Throughout these grueling tales of racial injustice, Smith -- ever the performance artist -- portrays all of the characters, one more poignant than the next. Through the powerful words of her subjects, the playwright describes the process by which African Americans are incarcerated, and the system of enforced slavery, through poverty, which prevails and pervades. From her early works, Fires in the Mirror and Twilight Los Angeles about the riots in Crown Heights and LA respectively, Anna Deavere Smith has been a chronicler of injustice. And she’s so entertaining, the didacticism simply becomes a form of consciousness raising. “If everyone could just help one kid, it would be a better world,” she tells us, and asks us to repeat it. Today, at a time that is so heavy with political strife, Smith is as rousing as she has ever been. Brilliant, focused, and deeply heartfelt.
The Death of the Last Black Man in America AKA The Negro Book of The Dead It’s not entirely clear what SuzanLori Parks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is up to in her phantasmagoria at The Signature Theatre, Off Broadway. Written in 1990, it still makes for a captivating 70 minutes of theater. A cacophony of characters, ranging from Prunes and Prisms (Mirirai Sithole), who only says those very words, and in the strictly affected manner described in Dickens’ novel, Little Dorrit; Voice on Thuh Tee V (William Demeritt), who looks and speaks like a TV reporter, and Quen-ThenPharaoh Hatshepsut (Amelia Workman), among several others. Black Man with Watermelon, the central character, is powerfully portrayed by Daniel J. Watts. Together these characters, brilliantly costumed unto their iconic natures by Montana Blanco, create a vivid ensemble. Dancing around Riccardo Hernandez’s set, an electric chair, a long extended dead limb, and a rope for hanging, they evoke a panorama of choreographic styles from the minstrel show to pharaonic dance. At one point, they are encouraged to put the chair in the middle of the city so people can come to watch with their picnic baskets. Raja Feather Kelly’s choreography creates a wonderful sense of movement and action on the stage, in spite of the underlying outrage. That they are desperate to bring attention to their situation explains Prunes and Prisms’ prim and proper speech, and the need for Voice on Thuh Tee V’s pronouncements. Driven by the fear that the past will be erased and history distorted, they decide to document their lives, but even then they realize the document may not survive, and in the future, people will not be aware that the black race ever existed. Accompanied by outrageous sound effects (Palmer Hefferan), and projections (Hannah Wasileski) of video static that grow into thundering drums, the Black Man with Watermelon is lynched. He is joined, ceremoniously, by several other watermelon bearing Blacks. Passionately and energetically directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, Parks’ black comedy shows us lies that parade as truths, and the lives that are usurped by those lies.
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Democrats’ Bias Dear Ms. Merrill, In the spirit of your editorial, “Get Active” (The Independent, 11/30/16), and in a similar vein to Melania Trump’s decision as first lady to focus on ending social media bullying, perhaps Mr. Zeldin might consider adding to his agenda for a “New Era of American Strength” a promise to protect the rights of women. A good place to start, I believe, would be to investigate whether Southampton as an
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institution engages in behavior that in some quarters would qualify as biases against women. Anna Throne-Holst has asked, “Why aren’t women more galvanized?” Could it be possible that women who galvanize are ridiculed by Ms. Throne-Holst or her colleagues? That issue aside, I believe it’s difficult for women to protect themselves from “public servants” who deliberately exclude women impacted by “official” decisions, expecting women to validate decisions made for them. However, exclusion of women often results in collateral damage to other members of the community. A brief review of a PDD in East Quogue created by a Democrat, Steve Kenny, when he chaired
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volume of traffic on the dual-usage driveway is significantly greater than on any street in the as-of-right subdivision. So it should come as no surprise that several accidents have occurred at the entrance to the driveway. The flaws of the PDD are documented in two independent analyses. However the PDD also demonstrates that women can be treated cavalierly and even contemptuously whereas, in the as-of-right subdivision, every property owner was treated equally and fairly. If the PDD in question were created by Donald Trump’s real estate organization, I suspect Democrats would label it creepy and sexist. Instead in Southampton, we have a culture that has covered up Democrats’ biased treatment of women while they rally in Sag Harbor to protest Republican biases. SUSAN CERWINSKI
HT2FF Kudos Hi Jessica, Today’s Independent, with the cover of your Arts & Entertainment section featuring the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, looked great. And thank you also for the comprehensive article by Nicole Teitler, which included all the films and events over the four days. It’s a great festival, with a lot of top films, and with top film directors and film notables attending, and we appreciate your coverage! ARLENE HINKEMEYER HT2FF PUBLICITY
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The East Hampton Huntin’ And Trappin’ Guide Yeah, we’re green. Yeah, we have zero carbon footprints. But our leaders aren’t South-Of-The Highway nouveau riche who spout Liberal dogma and hire illegal immigrants as housekeepers and hedge trimmers – they just take money from them come election time. No sir, our town leaders are regular folk, just like us, and they put their tight, sexy capri leggings on one leg at a time just like the rest of us – and that’s just the men on the board. Now, the town has released a new guide so all of us can act like we were born and raised here and didn’t catch the last Land Rover out of Brooklyn. Want to be a true local? You need to pick up a copy of The East Hampton Huntin’ and Trappin’ Guide, and then you have to eat
like the Bubbies do. Everything you need to get started, including a skinning knife, a half-dozen traps, and a map of the best spots to set your traps, including in the parking lot by the pizza place, right outside the candy shop. Bonus recipe book: Possum Stew, Squirrel Chili, and Big Buck Thornton’s Ratatouille. Available at Ralph Lauren’s: get a free copy with every purchase of an $850 cashmere sweater (only available in puce, cucumber, and teal).
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T h e S o u t h a m p t o n To w n Development Game Want to develop strip malls all over this ritzy resort town? Well, you can’t. This is Green country where only projects that are good for our pristine waterways and preserved woodlands are allowed. Unless – you can get your hands on PPDs, which allows you to build just about anything anywhere! But first you have to Pay Peter to Develop, get it? Want a superstore on the highway? Pay Peter. A golf course over the aquifer? Pay Peter. Oopsie – a town official just called to say it’s a PDD, Planned Development District, and has nothing to do with payola. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! That’s a good one!
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David Lee, 88
A fixture in innumerable community organizations, from the Lions Club to the Sag Harbor Community Band, David Lee, owner of Cove Jewelers in Sag Harbor, died on November 28. He was 88. Mr. Lee moved to Sag Harbor from England in the late 1940s and quickly embraced his new home. He served as president and treasurer of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, and lobbied for local tourism as a founding member of
the Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau. Service in local government included stints on the Sag Harbor School Board and the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals. He served as chair of the East Hampton Housing Authority and the East Hampton Citizens Advisory Committee. A drummer, he was president of the Sag Harbor Community Band for over two decades. Mr. Lee was a member of Temple Adas Israel for 68
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years. Synagogue members described him as a “beloved guiding light.” He hosted a radio show on WLNG. In a remembrance of Mr. Lee published by the Sag Harbor Express Douglas Feiden described him as “a civic leader, business booster and tourism promoter nonpareil who devoted the bulk of his life to family, faith, fellowship — and the guiding principles of volunteerism. “And he wore more hats than anyone in the village as community leader-cum-synagogue leader-school board leader-band leader-drummeremcee-radio personality-property manager-fixer of roofs-licensed realty sales associate-jeweler-watchmaker-
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village Zoning Board of Appeals member-East Hampton Town housing chairman-kibitzer and storyteller extraordinaire-owner of Cove Men’s Shop and later Cove Jewelers in the space now occupied by Harbor Booksand so much more.” In an announcement of his passing, members of the Sag Harbor Lions Club offered, “Our deepest sympathies to his loving wife Joanna Paitchell Lee, daughters Michelle (Steven) Connar and Cheryl (Vincent) Laviano, granddaughter Cantor Rebecca (Oren) Goren, great-granddaughters Yael and Na’ama, and brothers, Martin Lee and Bernard Lee.” He’d been a member of the club for 46 years. A funeral service was held at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor last Thursday. A memorial service will be held in December, with date and time to be determined, where the Sag Harbor Lions will honor his service to the club and association.
A New App For Airport Parking To cut down on the stress of airport parking, the East Hampton Airport in Wainscott is going mobile with a new app, PassportParking. The app helps you to purchase, monitor, and manage your parking from home. Getting started just takes four easy steps: register, enter the space number, select the length of time, and purchase your parking via credit/debit card. With PassportParking you can purchase daily passes or even extend your passes for up to 15 days. Downloading PassportParking is free for iPhone and Android users. If you’re not an iPhone or Android user, you can also visit the site www.ppprk. com to manage all your East Hampton Airport parking.
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The Hampton Bays Varsity Softball Team needs your help for their upcoming trip to Disney at their fundraiser on Saturday. Come out and help the team get to their spring training at Disney by having fun holiday time at the rink. The event will take place at the Southampton Ice Rink from 8 to 11 PM. Admission is $25 per person and includes skates.
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East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue represented at the annual Santa parade in East Hampton Saturday. Pictured are (from left): Bob Pucci, Chris Cinque, Rich Kalbacher.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone led a county-wide flag tour to honor Lt. Michael P. Murphy last week, with a stop in Sag Harbor to pay homage to local hero Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter. The flag will be presented to the captain of the USS Michael Murphy in Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
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Thiele Begins Recruitment Assemblyman Fred Thiele has started a recruitment effort for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. To qualify for a position you must take a civil service examination which will be held on February 11, 2017. You must be age 21 or older, a U.S citizen, and a resident of New York. You must also have a high school diploma or GED. A medical and psychological screening will need to be passed, as well as a background check. For more info about the exam or to apply visit www.cs.ny.gov/exams and for details about the position of correction officer visit www.doccs.ny.gov. Applications for the exam must be in by December 20.
Holiday Giving The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays has released its 2016 Holiday Gift Catalog. Gifts include donations for setting an animal free, purchasing a memorial, or a membership for someone special. Sponsorships levels are also available for purchase for educational programs, new enclosures, and any type of medical supplies. Make a difference. These purchases are all a great way to support the animal patients at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center. You can also visit their gift shop within the center where jewelry, clothing, and much more is also available for purchase. Don’t forget to check out their wish list as well. To view the catalog or wish list visit their website www.wildliferescuecenter.org. Remember they are our only hospital and rehab center for the wildlife on the East End.
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or without Obamacare. “Gruber’s results suggest that if the ACA were repealed, a lot fewer people would likely lose coverage than previously thought,” according to Forbes. Gruber made headlines in 2014 when he said, “the stupidity of the American voter” made it important for him and Democrats to hide Obamacare’s true costs from the public. “That was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” said Gruber in a speech captured on tape. The White House tried to minimize Gruber’s role in the formation of the ACA only to be bitten again: emails and other public documents proved Gruber was a constant presence at key
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meetings about the ACA – some in the White House – and that he was paid $400,000 as a consultant. Gruber’s latest findings are particularly important since President-elect Donald Trump has made Medicaid reform a top priority (see accompanying article). Obamacare, already on the critical list after Trump’s triumph, continues to be under-utilized by the most coveted potential user group. Any chance Obamacare had of solvency depended upon young, healthy Americans signing on, or at least paying an increasing penalty for refusing to purchase health insurance. Instead, Sally Pipes wrote in Forbes, “As many as 9 million people decided to go off-exchange for coverage this year,” even some who were eligible for subsidies. Though the White House insists it’s because those people are unaware
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there are cheaper plans available, Pipes concluded, “Off-exchange plans offer customers something increasingly rare on Obamacare’s marketplaces — choice. “Some 2.5 million people have purchased off-exchange coverage even though they would’ve qualified for income-based subsidies.” A s r e c e n t l y a s 2 013 , t h e Congressional Budget Office was projecting that 24 million
Americans would buy insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges by 2016. Instead, there are almost as many insured on off-exchange plans – nine million – as there are on exchange plans – $11 million. In other words, millions of Americans would rather pay more to be free of the red tape and restrictions inherent in ACA provider programs.
New Jersey’s Wine Library and other top national retailers based in that state have once again been forced to stop shipping to New York State customers. The matter of who can and can’t ship has been a matter of litigation for several years.
The issue, said State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, is that UPS and FedEx are prohibited by some states from shipping alcohol out of state. The number of states that permit intrastate shipping has risen to 43. New Jersey is one of four with limited direct shipping allowed; the other states ban it entirely. According to Wine Spectator, “Many wine lovers have violated their state’s wine shipping laws without even realizing it. Wineshipping laws are very loosely enforced: Some wineries and retailers are happy to ship wine to states that may not permit it, and not since prohibition has an adult consumer been prosecuted for illegally receiving wine for their own personal consumption.” Apparently, shippers like FedEx received a letter recently from the New York State Attorney General’s office reminding them of the intrastate shipping laws. FedEx requires wine retailers to sign FedEx Alcohol Shipping Agreement wherein both parties agree to comply with all state and federal shipping regulations. R.M.
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Search Prompts 29 Charges On November 30 the East Hampton Town Ordinance Department announced the conclusion of an investigation into an illegal basement apartment in a house at 64 Woodbine Drive in Springs with the execution of a search warrant. East Hampton Town Police and the Ordinance Department conducted an inspection at the house, and, as a result, charged the owner, Gerard Picco, 54, with 29 Town and New York State Code violations. Picco was present at the time of the inspection. Officials say he resides with his family on the main floor of the house, while a second family lives in an illegal basement apartment. In the bedrooms, several of the
smoke detectors had been taken down or were completely missing. The lower-level apartment had a full kitchen and a full bathroom, walls, and plumbing, as well as electrical outlets, all of which had allegedly been constructed and installed without any building permits or inspections, as required by the Town Code. The ceiling height in the basement apartment was below the Building Code minimum of seven feet. The lack of egress (escape) windows in the two bedrooms, the lack of smoke detectors and having alterations completed without inspections made this extremely dangerous for the occupants,
according to Kelly Kampf, the Assistant Town Director of Public Safety, who was present for the inspection. The Building Code requires bedrooms to have egress, or emergency escape, windows to be a minimum of 5.7 square feet, so that an easy escape would be possible in the event of a fire or other emergency. The Code also provides that the windows be within 44 inches of the floor to facilitate a quick and unobstructed escape in an emergency. In this basement apartment, the windows were 56 inches off the floor, and their size was a mere 11 inches by 29 inches, falling woefully
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short of the required dimension, officials said. A bedroom where two young children slept had no windows at all. “Illegal and unsafe basement occupancy creates the potential for tragic consequences for occupants and overcrowds neighborhoods and must be strictly enforced,” said Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell. Picco was issued an appearance ticket to appear in East Hampton Town Justice Court on January 16. The investigation is continuing, and a referral will be made to the Suffolk County Office of Wastewater Management regarding the additional wastewater flow based on the increased number of bedrooms. Content provided by East Hampton Town Public Safety Division
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If history is any indication, League VII figures to be among the most topsy-turvy in Suffolk as nine high school girls basketball teams vie for postseason berths. Among them are local standouts like Mattituck, always a threat in Class B, and the reigning Class C Suffolk champs, the Pierson Whalers. Mercy and Southold/ Greenport are the other local teams that comprise the nine-team league. Mattituck beat a good Class A team Friday, besting Centereach at home 51-45. All-state candidate Liz Dwyer had 25 points and 11 rebounds and Corrine Reda added 11. Westhampton beat the Lady Tuckers 46-42 on November 28 in the season opener for both clubs despite 26 points from Dwyer. Credit Isabelle Smith, who exploded 20
points for the winners, and Lexi Miller who added 11. Mattituck plays at Southold/ Greenport tomorrow evening at 6:15 PM. Westhampton, which is off this week, has won all three encounters thus far this season. The Lady Hurricanes beat Newfield on November 30, 49-23 with Smith and Miller once again in the forefront. Smith tallied 12 points and recorded six steals. Miller collected a doubledouble with 10 points and 10 rebounds and also added five steals. On Thursday, Smith tallied 18 as Westhampton knocked off Connetquot 45-29 to win the Babylon Panther Classic. Julia Magro added 13 for the winners. The locals will compete in League V this season. East Hampton, Southampton, and Hampton Bays are all slated to
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coach Carl Johnson said he thinks Greenport is much improved. Pierson and Southold are also competing in League VIII. The Bees play at Mercy Friday evening and get Center Moriches Monday at the Beehive. Greenport lost its non-league opener to Hauppauge Thursday on the winners’ court 63-54. Southampton, always in the hunt for a postseason berth, has a difficult task in League VI with Bayport-Blue Point and Glenn perennial powerhouses. Hampton Bays and East Hampton will also compete in League VI. Hampton Bays has already played twice, cruising past Shelter Island on November 28, 50-24 on the loser’s court but falling at Port Jefferson Thursday 46-39. Josh Aube and Antonio Scotto combined for 23 points against the Indians. Aube grabbed nine rebounds and Scotto recorded six steals and four assists. David Krieg had 18 against Hauppauge. The Baymen play at Mattituck next Wednesday. Riverhead moves up to League III from League II. The Waves play at Mt. Sinai Friday and at Patchogue-Medford Monday. Bellport clobbered the locals in the season opener for both teams Friday, 85-49.
Boys Hoops: And They’re Off It’s that magical time again: tinsel and sleighs and brightly colored ornaments . . . and steamy gyms alive with non-stop action. The high school basketball season has begun. The new-look Bridgehampton Bees lost their non-league opener, falling to Wyandanch Saturday on the winner’s court. This one figured to be a showcase for Corey Stewart, who is expected to be one of Suffolk’s highest scores. He lived up to the advance billing, going off for 31 points as the home team prevailed 95-72. Still, there was much to like for the Bees, who are missing four starters from last year’s Long Island Class D Championship team. The Bees couldn’t find the range from beyond the three-point arc, hitting only three on the afternoon. Elijah Jackson, a four-year starter, led the losers with 19 points. The diminutive freshman point guard Nae-jon Ward showed he belonged, tallying 15. J.P. Harding added 14. The Bees will once again compete in League VIII along with Shelter Island, like Bridgehampton a Class D school, and thus its only rival for a berth in the county tournament. Stony Brook is the favorite to finish atop the league, though Bees’
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