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Celebrate Women, Fight For Equality

By Fred Thiele

“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry,” Susan B. Anthony said as she led the nascent women’s rights movement in America. Her words were powerful, but change is hard. Change can take time.

Anthony, however, recognized that progress is always worth it.

It took over 70 years for women to secure the right to vote - from

the start of the battle for women’s suffrage in 1848 until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. It was strong women like Anthony who took action and didn’t stop fighting until they achieved justice.

We celebrate Women’s History Month in March to appreciate how far women have come and recognize there is always more we can accomplish in order to achieve true women’s equality.

New York has long been a leader when it comes to advancing the rights of women. Beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, to new women’s equality laws that took effect this year, women’s protections here in New York State are now stronger than ever.

This past year, New York took a major step forward and enacted laws to protect women on the job, including prohibiting employers from paying women less than men for performing similar work.

For too long women have been underpaid, making a mere 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. While this law is needed progress, we must keep working to achieve full

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pay equity.

Addressing several gaps in workplace protections, the measure gives women the right to discuss and share information about salaries and recover litigation costs when they’re paid unequal wages.

And because working mothers are often put at a disadvantage in areas of employment and promotion, employers are now prohibited from discriminating against employees based on family status. Additionally, employers must make reasonable accommodations for pregnant and nursing employees.

The Legislature also strengthened existing laws to help victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. We are all horrified by stories of girls and women who have suffered these heinous crimes.

Under the new laws, victims will have better protections and perpetrators will face stronger penalties. Both of these measures will help victims to protect themselves, see justice done, and put an end to criminal abuse and exploitation.

But our work doesn’t end there.

The Assembly continues to fight for laws that put women and families first. Recently, I helped pass critical paid family leave legislation that would give workers the ability to take time off to care for a sick family member or bond with a new child.

Family should always come first and this workplace protection is long overdue.

This month, as we celebrate the great strides women have made over the years, we must also recognize the need to continue to stand up for women’s rights whenever possible.

Assemblyman Fred Thiele represents District 1 in the New York State Assembly.

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Below, find an overview of events, and with each coming week, expect us to dig a little deeper into the Old Sod. The fun starts at our western edge this Saturday night with at fundraiser hosted by the Westhampton St. Patrick’s Parade Committee at Mill Roadhouse in WHB. From 7 to 11 PM enjoy live music by Funkin A plus a top 40 DJ playing downstairs. There will be bagpipers and raffles that include a chance to win a vacation.

Admission is $20.

Also on Saturday, look north when downtown Riverhead transforms into the St. Patrick’s capital of Long Island as eleven venues host the Second Annual

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March of the Leprechauns Pub Crawl. Proceeds benefit local notfor-profits, The East End Emerald Society and the Peconic Ballet Foundation.

With the recent success of Riverhead’s Annual Santacon Pub Crawl and subsequent Oktoberfest Pub Crawl the downtown Main Street area has averaged over 1500 people supporting local businesses in Riverhead.

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WHY I’M VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP & MY MEETING WITH THE MENACE IN THE SKY AM I REALLY VO TING FOR DONALD TRUMP? No, I’m not voting for Donald Trump for president.

Are you nuts? He would be the worst president in our nation’s history, and I don’t think the country will survive.

But here’s where he gets my vote.

I would vote for him for mayor of New York City.

Follow this scenario: Our current mayor – corrupt, devious de Blasio – goes into the slammer for accepting bribes.

Bribes?

What else do you call it when a group of “builders” makes a contribution to your campaign and in return you promise to eliminate the horse-drawn carriages in Central Park so the builders can get their hands on the stables where the horses live? Their plan is to knock down stables and put up buildings that will bring them a huge profit.

As fast as you can say “Robert

Menendez” (Senator from New Jersey), this is corruption.

Want another example? How about the taxicab owners paying the de Blasio campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in return he agrees to push their rival, Uber cars, out of New York City.

Or how about the teachers’ union paying him, and in return he goes to war against – and tries to eliminate – charter schools, which have achieved incredible results teaching children, versus the dismal record of many union-teachers-led public schools.

If these aren’t examples of bribery, what is?

That he’s failed to make good on any of these promises is testimony to what an inept goofus de Blasio is.

But being bribed and failing is still being bribed.

So for argument’s sake, let’s say de Blasio is indicted and is on his way to the slammer.

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He can wear those fireman hats at big fires. He can wear any silly hat he damn wants. He can march in parades. He can make dopey proclamations.

Trump can make New York City great again. He can preen, and joke, and pose and best of all, New York City will win and the United States of America will be saved.

A MENACE IN THE SKY So I was on a JetBlue flight the other day on my way home from Anguilla by way of Saint Martin.

I was exhausted so I fell sound asleep in my aisle seat, and then someone bumped me so hard in the shoulder that I woke up. I closed my eyes and I was bumped hard again.

The third time it happened I told my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, that “someone keeps hitting me and waking me up.”

Then I saw her. A flight attendant with the biggest ass in the sky.

Now I’m the last person who can talk about being fat. I’m in that obese class myself. But this woman’s ass was bigger than the width of the airplane’s aisle. So when she walked up the aisle, she couldn’t help but hit everyone who was sitting in an aisle seat.

I’ve done a lot of flying in my life, starting back in the days when flight attendants were called stewardesses. In those days they were picked for their looks, and many of them met the men who became their husbands on a flight. One of my old clients,

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Pacific Southwest Airlines, ran commercials boasting about their stewardesses’ looks.

Then came the politically correct revolution and we went into the “Angry Granny” flight attendant years. These were woman of a certain age who took over and when you asked them for a drink they would look at you as if they would rather hit you on the hand with a ruler.

This was followed by the gay male flight attendant era. They were fine except that during a flight, they spent most of the time talking to each other in the back of the plane.

My favorite gay flight attendant was Steven Slater of JetBlue, who announced over the plane’s public address system that he had been abused by a passenger and that he was quitting his job. He then grabbed two beers and exited the plane by deploying the evacuation slide and sliding down it.

But now we have hit a dangerous snag. This “Hippo” attendant, in an emergency, would have had those trying to get past her stacked like firewood.

For safety’s sake you can’t have an ass that big blocking an aisle.

Here’s what I suggest that JetBlue do. I know they are as much victims of the politically correct mafia as the rest of us. So just as they have those devices in Disneyland, where a little kid’s height is measured – and if he is not tall enough he can’t get on the ride, so that when he’s at the top of the Whipping Tornado he doesn’t fall off and kill himself, so that his grieving parents don’t sue Disney – JetBlue and every airline should have a test where they build a walkway the width of an aisle. If a potential flight attendant can’t walk through it without hitting the sides, she (or he) doesn’t get the job.

I understand the politically correct mafia has already ruined my life, but they should not be allowed to put me in danger on a flight and, more importantly, keep me from snoozing only to be hit again and again by the hips and ass of the menace in the sky.

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“It’s like being President of the United States. Once you’re the President, you’re always the President.

Once you’re Mr. Amagansett, you’re always Mr. Amagansett.” So says Nick Kraus, Mr. Amagansett 2013.

The date has been set and the dye is cast for the Seventh Annual Mr. Amagansett Pageant, which will be held at the Stephen Talkhouse on Saturday, beginning at 6:30 PM. Rumor has it that Ken Wessberg, a previous winner, has been

sponsored already to compete in the pageant, and that fire departments, lawyers, and some restaurants are lining up contestants like hotcakes to take the robe, roses, crown and scepter home – except, it’s not a scepter, it’s a clam rake.

The pageant benefits the Donald T Sharkey Memorial Community Fund. DTSMCF supports the local community by contributing to local fire departments, helping individuals pay medical bills,

EHTPD Names Award Winners On February 23 East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo presented department award commendations to 20 officers for outstanding performance during the 2015 calendar year.

Highlighted by acts which led to the saving of seven lives; including two CPR saves, two overdose victims saved by Narcan, a suicidal subject pulled from a vehicle filling with carbon monoxide, a subject being mauled by two dogs, and an off duty Sergeant rescuing a coking victim, EHTPD officers performed some valiant and outstanding work during 2015.

Numerous felony narcotics cases, burglary investigations resulting in illegal handguns being taken off the streets, leading the department in calls for service, overseeing the implementation and training for the in car video system are some of the services for which the officers of the EHTPD were honored.

Police Officer of the Year: PO Luke McNamara.

Department Recognition Award: PO McNamara, PO Joseph Izzo, PO Katie Izzo, PO Frank Sokolowski, PO Lisa Weitz, PO Arthur Scalzo, PO Brett Herlihy, Sgt. Barry Johnson, PO Nathan Osborn and PO Raymond Rau. Excellent Police Service Award: PO Brett Herlihy, PO Michael Coleman, PO Luke McNamara, Detective Ryan Hogan, Detective Daniel Toia and Detective John Anderson, Jr. Meritorious Police Service Award: Lt. Robert Gurney and PSD Stephen Blanchard.

Chief’s Recognition Award: PO Luke McNamara, PO Michael Rodriguez and PO Vincent Rantinella.

DWI Award: PO Vincent Rantinella and PO Luke McNamara.

Professionalization Award: PO Jessie Stavola.

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providing scholarship opportunities for local students, providing summer camp for local children and supporting other local charities.

When Don Sharkey died in July 2009, a group of his friends joined together with the intent of spreading good will in the community in his name. The Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund, a registered 501(c)3 Nonprofit Corporation, was formed and all donations and contributions have been used to support those in need in the community as well as to support efforts to which Don volunteered his own time. These included the East End Soldier Ride (which later became a part of the Wounded Warrior Project), the Amagansett, East Hampton, Springs, Montauk, Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton Fire Departments, East Hampton Boy Scout Troop #298, and Jordan’s Honor Fund.

Each year, the Fund awards a scholarship of $2500 to a student who has demonstrated the ability and desire to improve the

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community.

In 2012, through the generous contributions and volunteerism of many individuals, the Fund was able to send nine children to summer camp and paid hospital bills for several community members.

It was especially poignant to fund organizers that when everyone’s good friend Carl “The Greek” Gust passed away, donations were made to the Fund in his memory.

To date, DTSMCF has distributed approximately $83,000. The philanthropic efforts of the Fund are supported by both donations and fundraising events such as the annual Mr. Amagansett Pageant and Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Motorcycle Ride.

The Donald T. Sharkey Fund is looking for pageant sponsors, contestants, and sponsors for contestants for Saturday’s pageant. It’s $250 to be a sponsor, and a $20 donation at the door is suggested for those who merely want to be spectators.

You don’t have to be from Amagansett to be Mr. Amagansett.

For more information contact Kristine Gaudy 516-449-6330, Britton Bistrian 631-921-2919, or Tina Piette at 631-267-2677.

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Long Island Public Employees Have The Best Retirement Benefits In The State

By Rick Murphy

Public employees on Long Island retire with the most generous benefit packages in the country.

While huge pensions allow retired cops, teachers, many public sector workers, and school superintendents to live out their golden years in a life of luxury,

they are driving property owners who fund the benefits towards the proverbial poor house.

Reform has been slow coming.

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The Long Island Environmental Vo t e r s Fo r u m h a d e n d o r s e d businessman and former Suffolk County Planning Commission Chairman, David Calone in the Democratic Congressional Primary against Anna Throne-Holst to select the candidate to oppose incumbent Republican Lee Zeldin.

The non-profit, non-partisan environmental group cited Calone’s balanced approach to environmental protection and development and his support for alternative energy – particularly solar and wind. The Environmental Voters Forum also praised Calone for his encouragement of efforts to reduce nitrogen in groundwater,

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LIEVF noted Throne-Holst’s water quality improvement efforts but sharply criticized her support for high-density development in watersensitive parts of Southampton Town, including “The Hills” megagolf course resort proposed for East Quogue and her encouragement of Planned Development Districts, which it termed, “Let’s Make A Deal Zoning” to benefit developers at the expense of good planning and Southampton’s environment.

LIEVF Executive Director David Reisfield said, “ We’re proud to endorse Dave Calone in recognition of his commitment to environmental protection which seems under siege in the current

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“I’m grateful to have the support of one of Long Island’s leading environmental advocacy organizations. In order to protect our quality of life in Suffolk County, it is critical that we address the water quality issues that face us,” Calone said. “In Congress, I will fight for the investments and policies we need to help control the nitrogen pollution and other contaminants that are undermining our drinking water and surface water,” he added.

The Long Island Environmental Voters Forum is a non-profit, nonpartisan grassroots organization created to identify, recruit, endorse and support pro-environment candidates for public office.

Throne-Holst’s camp, meanwhile, sent an email to supporters earlier this week claiming a new poll, presumably commissioned by the camp, showed Throne-Holst had moved ahead of Calone.

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East Hampton, for instance, had to contribute almost $3 million, double the amount the district put in four years earlier. Riverhead’s bill came to $5,278,134 for 2013.

Translated, it means student services have to be cut to make ends meet.

Pensions averaged $67,476 for teachers and other professionals who retired in 2014-15 after working at least 30 years in New York State public schools, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. The average pension on Long Island, $86,800, was higher than any other region in the state.

According to the Empire Center For New York State Policy, more than 1000 school administrators have pensions of over $100,000, with eight of the top 10 from Long Island School Districts.

Pensions are not subject to state income or federal payroll taxes.

Retirees are also eligible for social security benefits, and most receive free or discounted health insurance, paid for by their former school districts. Many have health plans and family dental.

A total of 2,664 school district retirees were eligible for NYSTRS pensions exceeding $100,000 in 2015, up from 1,255 in 2010. Thirtynine retirees were eligible for pensions over $200,000, and four were eligible for pensions over $300,000.

Double Dippers The generous pension and benefits still weren’t enough for many retired Long Island school administrators. About a decade ago a handful of them started a splinter group under the auspices of BOCES. Their intent: take advantage of a flaw in state education law that allows retired administrators to collect their full pension, return to work, and earn above the $30,000 maximum set by law.

The Independent broke the story.

First a couple, and then scores of administrators signed on. They would retire and then be quickly rehired, allowing them to double dip. When the administrators who rehired them retired, they too would join the bandwagon.

The retiring school administrators repeatedly got rehired at huge per diem salaries. The scam was airtight: School districts would claim they were having trouble filling a position, and would ask the state to issue a 211a waiver allowing a retired administrator to take the job. In some cases, the districts don’t even advertise the positions; in others, they limited their “Help

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Wanted” ads to a BOCES website.

BO CES managed the program and its retired administrators are among the biggest offenders.

Newsday picked up the story in late 2007. By then the double dipping had become so blatant as to border on being criminal.

In Commack, Robert Grotsky, assistant school superintendent, retired on January 1, 2008 and began collecting his $100,682 pension. The next day he was rehired and given a $174,900 salary – in addition to his pension. The district received a waiver, which meant it swore it couldn’t find a suitable replacement for Grotsky – even though the “search” took all of one day. It was not a unique occurrence – it was happening all over Long Island, including on the East End. By May of 2008 40 former administrators were rehired to “interim” jobs at huge per diem rates, up to $800 per day. Some showed up sporadically, some worked only a few hours per day, and some didn’t show up at all.

The Independent reported the practice was standard procedure at most East End schools, including Hampton Bays when Joanne Lowenthal was supervisor, Sag Harbor under Kathryn Holden and East Hampton under Ray Gaultieri.

Problem Persists Finally, after a public outcry, some Long Island legislators began putting the heat of State Education Commissioner Richard Mills after it was learned that every single 211a waiver request was granted without review. Mills was suspended and eventually resigned, and Governor Andrew Cuomo vowed to make the waiver process more difficult.

Still, some school districts stubbornly persisted.

The law for allowing a retired administrator to double dip is very clear: a waiver can be granted only if “a temporary need exists and a thorough and good faith search for a non-retired individual to fill the position has not yet been successful. All certified non-retired candidates for the position must first be considered.”

Springs School nevertheless tried to reappoint a retired administrator, Dominic Mucci, to a second year as

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school superintendent two years ago although 14 applicants had emerged from a superintendent search. Then school board president, and current East Hampton Town Councilwoman, Kathee BurkeGonzalez publicly stated she preferred to have Mucci return – at a salary of approximately $105,000 in addition to his pension.

This is not permissible under the waiver procedure. The school board didn’t have the authority to choose Mucci over the other candidates; his appointment was based on the district’s pledge that no other qualified candidates could be found.

T h e S t a t e E d Te a c h e r ’ s Certification Unit, which is in charge of administering waiver requests, was already aware that Springs had subverted the process by hiring Mucci for another year without making a determined effort to find a quality replacement.

Governor Cuomo was personally apprised of the situation and John B. King Jr., the new the Commissioner of Education, refused to sign the waiver.

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Reform Slow In Coming Cuomo, when he was state attorney general and as governor, has preached pension reform, and the gravy train is still rolling, seemingly, unabated.

According to Rick Karlin of the Albany Times Union, the latest figures, just released this month, show that New York’s six-figure public sector pension club is still growing, with 2931 retirees getting benefits above $100,000.

“That’s beyond the 2700 sixfigure pensioners counted a year before.

Of those, 1777 were police or fire department retirees,” Karlin wrote.

Overall, public employees in New York State, aside from police officers or firefighters, were eligible for average pension benefits of $52,517 if they had at least 35 years on the job, the Empire Center found. That, for example, would cover someone who started working for state or local government at age 25 and retired at 60.

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There is a lot of misinformation out there about Social Security, and a lot of doomsday predictions. There is one thing for certain, however.

The present system needs to change or it will become insolvent. When is anybody’s guess.

Originally, Social Security was set up so that it would remain solvent for 75 years. Unfortunately, unforeseen demographic pressures coupled with the weak economy have eroded the reserve. Now, according to the New York Times, it is currently solvent only until 2033. After that, without reforms, it would pay about 75 percent of promised benefits.

Social Security was never meant to be the sole source of income for senior citizens. Unfortunately, though, the financial meltdown of 2008 had left lasting scars across all age groups, but particularly seniors.

“Less than half of households ages 55 to 64 have retirement savings, and of those, half have less

than $120,000. Many near-retirees also have lost home equity or a job,” according to the Times.

Social Security’s long-term financial problems are a result of demographic changes. As baby boomers swell the ranks of retirees, relatively fewer workers are left to pay taxes.

Politicians are gridlocked over what to do next, but neither party wants to make waves during an election year.

The U.S. Department of Treasury has issued a brief examining Social Security: it concluded, “Social Security can be made permanently solvent only by reducing the present value of scheduled benefits and/or increasing the present value of scheduled tax revenues. Other changes to the program might be desirable, but only these changes can restore solvency permanently.”

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Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate on the record with a clear plan: he wants to increase benefits, increase the cost of living adjustment (COLA) and raise taxes to pay for it.

President Obama recently agreed to consider lowering COLA if it would bring Republicans to the bargaining table to no avail.

The Treasury Brief outlines how massively the program has grown since its conception in 1935; that is one of the main problems our forefathers did not anticipate when the bill was passed.

“Social Security has grown to become by far the single largest social program of the federal government, with expansions in coverage, increases in benefits, and the extension of the program to provide benefits to workers’ spouses and minor children, the survivors of deceased workers, and disabled workers. Currently,

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more than 49 million retired or disabled workers, their families, and their sur vivors receive monthly Social Security benefits. Total benefits in 2007 will amount to approximately $576 billion — about 20 percent of the entire federal budget.”

Currently the Social Security tax is 6.2 percent. It is deducted from the first $118,500 of wages earned.

The combined tax for Social Security and Medicare (FICA) is 7.65 percent.

The National Committee to Save Social Security and Medicare reports that initially the income cap was designed so that 90 percent of all national income would be taxed.

Currently, the figure stands at 84 percent because the gap between richer and poorer Americans keeps widening.

“In 1983, the richest one percent of Americans got 11.6 percent of total income. Today the top 1 percent takes in more than 20 percent,” economist Robert Reich wrote. “If we want to go back to 90 percent, the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security tax would need to be raised to $180,000.

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Senator Sanders wants to take it a step further: tax the first $250,000 of annual income.

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed an ambitious pension reform bill in 2011 but a portion of it has been invalidated by the state Supreme Court.

An ambitious lobbying campaign funded by unions representing teachers and municipal employees is turning public opinion against the reform by claiming it will bankrupt school districts and cost property owners thousands more in new taxes.

Cuomo is up against one of the most powerful unions in the country, the teachers’ union (NYSUT). He once again called on Albany to join him in passing legislation to curb pensions when he accepted his second term in office last January.

“We’ve sent thousands of children to schools we knew were failing from an educational point of view.

Albany has been too concerned with protecting the pension rights of teachers and not concerned enough with the future of students,” he said.

NYSUT immediately defended its members and lambasted Cuomo’s remarks. And the union does a lot more than just public relations – it makes massive political donations, supporting those politicians who favor the status quo and opposing those who agree with Cuomo that reform is needed.

It is no surprise that according to the Albany Times Union the state’s top-dollar pensioner, for the sixth year running, is George M. Philip with a $261,649 pension. Philip was the executive director of State’s Teachers Retirement System.

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Paul Batterson Jr., 24, and an accomplice, Matthew Rooney, also 24, forced their way into an East Moriches Boulevard home in December 2013 brandishing a shotgun and demanding money.

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Riverhead Deli Robbed A disturbing trend of armed robberies continued in Riverhead Thursday night when two masked men robbed a deli at gunpoint.

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Two weeks earlier a similar robbery occurred down the block at the OK Petro convenience store.

Rogue Employees Sentenced Four employees of Group Home in Southampton, who were accused of encouraging two disabled residents to fight, were sentence in County Criminal Court last week.

Erin McHenry, 30, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a disabled person, a felony. She was put on five years probation by Supreme Court Justice William Condon and sentenced to 840 hours of community service.

She allegedly encouraged two men, one in a wheelchair, to fight.

They both were of diminished intelligence and didn’t understand what they were doing. Stephen J. Komara, 60, of East Moriches, was found guilty of two counts of seconddegree endangering the welfare, a misdemeanor, and similarly sentenced. A third defendant was granted youthful offender status and a fourth is awaiting sentencing.

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Peach Fuzz Facial hair, and body hair, for that matter, mean different things to different genders.

Men want it – on their faces and especially atop their heads. A lot of men will tell you they like body hair, but usually those are men with body hair. Those of us without it are quite happy, thank you, though a little curly black chest hair to go with the Guido chain is never a bad thing.

It’s one of the oddities of life that although men are hairier than women, men lose their head hair more than women do. You rarely see a bald woman, but a whole industry has evolved marketing products to keep it from happening to men.

Facial hair on men is a virility symbol. Some (but not most) women will tell you it’s sexy. Men will tell you its sexy – but only men who have it.

Those of us who labored for years to get the thinnest of mustaches (think Justin Bieber) will tell you facial hair is a thing where barbecue sauce accumulates and little more.

Still, as puberty sets in, a young man’s thoughts turn to one thing and one thing only – hair.

Specifically, when am I getting mine and how much will I get?

By the time we are 13 we have already suffered the ignominy of watching some of the other guys

who shaved regularly. When I was in seventh grade Tommy Raffinello had a five o’clock shadow by 10 AM – wait, he didn’t count because he was 17. But other guys were already sprouting mustaches and sideburns. The same was true in the locker room, if you get my drift . . . in the Brillo triangle, for lack of a better description, where there was either pubic hair . . . or not.

Me? I had peach fuzz on my face.

Even though I had dark hair, my facial hair was transparent. In fact, no one could see it but me, but it was there. What was really depressing is Annette Buonicotti and several of the other girls had black whiskers hanging prominently above their lips and on their chins.

On occasion I would slip into the bathroom and gingerly apply my mom’s eyebrow pencil to my fuzz until it was visible to the naked eye.

You have to remember in those days the rule of thumb was pretty much one bathroom per house. We had a family of five plus an aunt in our Brooklyn house. We weren’t particularly poor, but there was only one bathroom.

My father used to believe men wore facial hair because they had something to hide. He went to college later in life and I think he picked that up in psychology class.

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Once he walked in the bathroom (no, there was no lock) and caught me coloring my fuzz. Thinking I was putting on make-up he asked, “What are you doing wearing makeup? Are you gay?”

“I’m coloring in my beard,” I replied.

“Men who have beards have something to hide,” he asserted.

“I know,” I said. “I’m gay!”

He just left, befuddled. The next time he walked in on me in the bathroom I was with my constant companion, an old Playboy I had stolen from my Uncle Tom’s apartment, and he breathed a sigh of relief and shut the door behind him, never to bring the matter up again.

I finally got the nerve to go to school with my augmented mustache, which I convinced myself looked real. I was ridiculed. One of the nuns told me I looked like Al Jolson. The other boys mocked me. Those with facial hair offered to trade some to me for my lunch “Let me see what my Mom packed for me,” I answered.

Finally, the principal asked me politely to wash my face – by politely I mean she dragged me into the boys room by the hair at the nape of my neck and informed me if my face wasn’t clean when I came back to class she would put my head in the

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toilet bowl. That did the trick.

In our Sag Harbor house there were sometimes as many as 10 people, and only one bathroom. In fact, there was no bathroom until the mid-thirties. The outhouse was located at the back of the garden, as far away as it could possibly be.

My mom was in charge of emptying bedpans and would have to walk out there in the dead of winter, sometimes through eight feet of snow (or at least she says). Finally Papa reluctantly carved one out of a small pantry off the kitchen.

EPILOGUE: When I was about 24 I started growing my ‘stache. It took two years, but it finally came in pretty thick and I’ve had it ever since. I’ve never had a beard, and I fear even if I start growing it now I’ll be dead before it fully comes in. I have a full head of hair, but it grows straight up, so I could never have a ponytail, even during my “conflicted time,” as Dad referred to it.

The outhouse? It’s still there.

It went from a bathroom to a tool shed to an artist’s studio.

The owner told me he petitioned the village to allow him to put a bathroom in it, since he spends a lot of time painting there. His request was denied – think of the irony.

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It’s Women’s History Month and thanks go to Assemblyman Fred Thiele for reminding us to give props to the hand that rocks the cradle. (See his essay under our Independent Opinion header.)

Staff at weekly newspapers can be a fluid entity, especially when it comes to gender. Over our 20-plus years here at Indy, we’ve had rosters that were maledominated and years when women comprised the lion’s share of the masthead.

In fact, The Independent was the first local paper to feature female sports editors not once, but twice. We’re proud to have blazed that trail on the South Fork, and take credit that our nurturance was the beginning of big things for young women.

Sadly, that type of gender blindness still eludes the grasp of many businesses and positions of power in the public sector nationally. A 2012 study released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that while American women have made great strides in the past 30 years — they made only 62 percent of what men did in 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available — they continue to earn significantly less than men. Moreover, as indicated in the report, the narrowing of the gender pay gap has slowed over the last decade.

Findings in the study are wince-worthy: In almost every occupation, the median weekly earnings for women are consistently lower than those for men. In management, professional and related occupations, they take home 72 percent of what men earn; in education, training and library work, the figure is 76 percent; women in the arts, design, entertainment, sports and media make 84 percent what men in those fields earn; for healthcare, the figure is 79 percent; in service occupations, 80 percent.

The ratios hold true even at the top of the scale: A 2012 study found that female CEOs and directors earned 42 percent less than their male counterparts.

And that’s just stupid. It also bodes ill for those in need.

According to a report cited by the International Labor Organization, Fortune 500 companies with three or more women on the Board of Directors averaged 28 times more money in philanthropic donations than those with no women. Also, companies with 25 percent or more women in leadership positions as Corporate Officers averaged 13 times more philanthropic donations than those with none.

Clearly, when women are in power, everybody wins.

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Democratic state. He lost. Why? I wish I knew. We wound up with a president who did nothing to make us proud. Our foreign policy is in shambles. But, he does know how to posture. The Republicans could learn something from this. I agree with you, Jerry: The Republicans are on the road to a disaster and they fail to see . . . or so it seems – I wish you were in charge of the script.

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The Leprechauns encouraging the spirit of the event while rewarding participants with prizes from venues for posting photos on their social media pages of themselves with Flatty Paddy and the hashtag #FlattyPaddy.

Participating venues include The Suffolk Theater, Jerry and the Mermaid, Diggers Ales and Eats, Joe’s Garage, Perabell Food Bar, Vines and Hops, Crooked Ladder Brewery, Sonoma Grill East, Uncle Joe’s Pizzeria and Café, and Blue Duck Bakery.

Dancing with DJ Phil will begin at 5 PM at The Suffolk Theater with bag pipers and Irish step dancers set to make an appearance throughout the evening. Bracelets, costing $10, will entitle crawlers to food and beverage specials in all participating venues and are available for purchase at suffolktheater.com or by calling 631-727-4343.

The following weekend, on Saturday, March 12, oh, to be in two places at once! In Westhampton Beach the annual procession will be led by Mr. Conehead, and in Amagansett the shortest parade in the universe was conceived by a guy who just acts like a Conehead.

A delightfully nerdy Lee Satinsky was one of the originators of the Am O’Gansett Parade, which steps off at noon and covers just one block. The Amagansett Library is the grand marshal.

In Westhampton, John Murray, aka Mr. Conehead, leads the parade through the business district. It steps off a noon and this year’s theme is “Space, The Final Frontier.”

Festivities in Montauk begin on Friday, March 18, with a grand marshal’s luncheon feting, and roasting, Captain Paul Forsberg, the leader of the 2016 Friends of Erin parade. At the party, held from noon to 3 PM at the Montauk

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Were you surprised Christie endorsed Trump?

Bonnie Engelhardt I wasn’t surprised because they have similar personalities. But it’s a little scary. I think they both speak before they think and that could be problematic if they’re representing and leading a country. I think that might be detrimental.

AnneMarie Lamprecht I was surprised. I like Christie. They’re all such a cast of characters. But the overall bantering has gone too far. I’m surprised it’s gotten to the degree it has. I’m guessing Christie will stay in Jersey for a while. So I don’t think he’s looking for anything from Trump.

Kevin Mance I wasn’t surprised. And I think everyone should support Trump.

Ingrid Ambrose Not surprised at all. The two idiots belong together.

Yacht Club, Capt. O’Forsberg will receive his official top hat, sash, and shillelagh. Advance tickets are $50. Call the party’s hostess, one time Grand Marshal Joan Lycke for tickets. 631-668-3381.

On Saturday, stalwart lads and lassies can attend two St. Pat’s events, if they’re willing.

The Michael Collins Division of the Ancient Order of the Hibernians host the 12th annual parade in Hampton Bays. It will be led

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Sunday, March 20, will see the 54th annual Friends of Erin Parade through Montauk. It begins at 11:30 AM, and watching it is hungry work, so be sure to stop by the chamber of commerce on Main Street for a commemorative mug filled with steaming soup.

Green season comes to a close on Friday, March 25, with a Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament fundraiser to benefit the Westhampton St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee. Held at Hotel Indigo in Riverhead, the event features an open bar and buffet dinner with play at 7 PM. Contestants can win up to $1000, with a $100 buy-in. Call 631-5061473 to learn more. Pre-payment and reservations can mean free bonus chips to start the night.

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S- QJ7 H- AQ862 D- 85 C- K76

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Dlr: S Vul: None Lead: Ace of diamonds S W P 1H 4D 4H All Pass

N 2D 5D

E 3H 5H

This hand was played recently at the Water Mill Bridge Club. I was East and my partner, Larry Hillel, opened 1 heart. That started a competitive round of bidding.

The North-South team, Geoff O. and Rich B., wisely made a sacrifice bid of 5 diamonds.

When I teach new students, I advise them not to bid at the five level after their opponents forced them that high by bidding five of their suit. Too bad I did not take my own advice. I should have realized that we did not have enough points and distribution to compete to the five level. My partner

Shelter Tails

did well to make four and so we were down one.

Since I was convinced that their 5 diamond bid was a sacrifice bid, I should have doubled for penalty.

We would win 2 hearts and 2 clubs for down two. Next time I’ll take my own advice.

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Alice Shira Caputo, 77 Alice Caputo, a lifelong Sag Harbor resident, died on February 18.

She was born February 2, 1939 in Sag Harbor to John and Ruth (King) Willer and married to Ginn Elio Caputo, who survived her.

They lived on Madison Street. They had four children: she is survived by her daughters, Regina Caputo, Tina Moley Miano; and a son, Gino Caputo; another daughter, Jerri Moley, passed away.

Sisters Laura Willer, Kay Jean Jung, Patricia Lyon Shaw, and brothers John Willer and Gordon

Lyon also survive her. Two other sisters, Chucky and Laura Willer predeceased her. She was a member of the Red Hat Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was buried at St. Andrews Cemetery after a ceremony at the church on February 22.

Marie Burns, 90 Marie Burns, a Sag Harbor Village resident her entire life, died on February 17 at the age of 90.

Marie was well known locally, serving as an RN and later an administrator in Southampton Hospital.

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On the girls side of the ledger Mattituck played Carle Place last night for the Long Island Class B

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It almost always goes down the same way – as basketball season draws to a close our local teams, as valiant as they are, begin to fall.

One by one they are eliminated in the state tournament until the weekend of March 11-13, when four teams from each classification square off in the Final Four tournament and a chance for an elusive state title.

Then there are the Killer Bees of Bridgehampton. This is about the time when, as other teams pack up their gear, the Bees pack their bags and head upstate.

The defending Class D champs are at it again, looking for a 10th state title, which would tie Mount Vernon. No other school has nearly as many. To put it in perspective, the Bees have won more than every other school on the East End combined, and by a healthy margin.

The journey began yesterday at Suffolk Community College, where Bridgehampton was scheduled to play Eldred, the Section IX champion. Though the coaches are downplaying it, Eldred does not appear to have nearly enough speed or muscle to contend with the powerful Bees.

The Bees should get tested Friday, however, when they play either Clark Academy or Martin Luther King in the regional finals. Clark beat MLK by 19 points earlier this season and is expected to prevail in that one. The Bees aren’t taking the game lightly; a contingent of coaches went to scout the Clark-MLK game Monday.

A win Friday gets the Bees to Glens Falls, the home of the Final Four. Their semifinal opponent will be the winner of the Oriskany (Section III) vs. South Kortright Central (Section IV) Regional Final.

That could prove to be a fateful game for the locals. Both would-be opponents are undefeated. Oriskany Central (24-0) knocked off New York Mills, the 2013 champion and last year’s runner up (the Bees beat them in the title game).

The Redskins are led by Ryan Schmadel, the MVP of the regionals, and Marcus Smithling, who scored 27 to help knock out Mills.

The entire starting five return from last year.

Moriah, a team the Bees knocked

from the undefeated ranks in last year’s semifinal game, plays Chateaugay today; the winner takes on Argyle. Panama is the favorite to earn the last semifinal berth. One of the aforementioned will play Bridgehampton in the title game should the Bees advance that far.

Southampton, the Suffolk County B champion, looked to defend its Long Island B title against Oyster Bay yesterday. Oyster Bay (12-9) upended Wheatley last week to take the B title but is considered vulnerable.

If the Mariners prevail, they will play the winner of the Briarcliff Marlboro Central game today. If Briarcliff wins, the game will be played at Pace College after the Bridgehampton game Friday.

If Marlboro wins the Mariners will play Saturday at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh at 4 PM. Should the locals prevail, they will earn a trip to Glens Falls and a possible match against Bishop Grimes, arguably the top “B” team in the state and a perennial powerhouse.

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