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PLAXICO BURRESS IS A REPUBLICAN How do I know that? Because when he was at the top of his game – when everything was going right for his team, the New York Giants – Plaxico Burress shot himself in the foot. That’s such a Republican move. I know, I’m a Republican. Have you watched the debates? The Republican Party is at war with the Republican Party. Sadly, the only person who will win this war is a Democrat – Barack Obama. What a mess. And it got worse when Newt Gingrich crushed Mitt Romney in, of all places, South Carolina. Now here is what you have to know about South Carolina. These are the descendants of the same
people who elected Jefferson Davis to be President of the Confederate States of America because Abraham Lincoln was another Republican whom South Carolina felt should not be our President. At one point, Newt’s second wife Marianne actually tried to derail his candidacy in South Carolina. It seems that Newt, who is either crazy or has balls of steel, asked Marianne to accept an open marriage (so he could also be with his girlfriend) while preaching family values to the rest of us. It turns out the voters of South Carolina, not being the sharpest knives in the drawer, actually thought that Newt asking his wife to have an open marriage was not such a bad idea. They sort of
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and land use breakdowns by school Take an East Hampton Town district. They draw an obvious councilwoman and put her in a conclusion: Springs has the most time machine. Set the date for houses on the smallest parcels of 1995, or 1998, or 2000, 2001, 2005, land inhabited by the most year 2009, 2010. Set the venue as a public round residents. About three dozen audience meeting to discuss housing in Springs, and the dates may change, members were on hand. Quigley but the complaints remain the same said the study was prompted when and the solution no closer to being she “inadvertently stepped in a bear trap,” by suggesting amendments achieved. Theresa Quigley was the latest to the town’s accessory apartment town board member to confront an regulations. Springs residents unhappy constituency in the hamlet objected to any zoning code change on Monday night, perching on the that would make it easier to hot seat at the monthly meeting of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee. The meeting was publicized as an opportunity to question Quigley about the results of a housing and demographics study presented to the SCAC last November. Instead, Quigley was asked to re-present the analysis undertaken by a town committee using figures provided by local schools and the census. The councilwoman distributed copies of the study, which is IndependentNovNORTHAd_18.pdf 1 12/5/11 1:34 PM comprised of eleven separate data tables. The tables depict population
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show no great difference between the number of kids per address sent to Springs and the number of kids per address sent to other districts. Even after a mathematical error was discovered and fixed, Springs still lands at below the total average. “That can’t be accurate,” one audience member said. Quigley insisted the numbers were provided by school districts. As the presentation continued, Fred Weinberg piped up. The assemblage was ignoring “the elephant in the living room,” he said. The problem in Springs is due to illegally overcrowded houses. If the town would just enforce its own code, he said, there would be a drop CONTINUED ON PAGE 22.
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Wilky : Not Taking Any C*@p From Dems By Kitty Merrill
They claim they’ve done their . . . uh . . . doodie diligence. And, last Thursday night, East Hampton Town Board’s Republican majority appeared to dismiss Dems who asked for more information about the future of the town’s scavenger waste plan as merely trying to stir the sh . . . stuff. On the heels of a January 5 state of the town address that called for a unified board working together, Supervisor Bill Wilkinson lasted about an hour into last Thursday night’s meeting before he interrupted freshman Councilwoman Sylvia Overby with a defensive diatribe. Overby appeared to agree with statements made by Democratic Party chair Jeanne Frankl during the meeting’s public comment period. Frankl called for a summit designed to elicit public input regarding the town’s scav waste facility. She believes the future of the municipal service has not been adequately aired and should be “widely discussed.” The town board is not hearing from the public and not sharing with the public, she said. Councilman Dominick Stanzione disagreed. He argued the issue was brought to the attention to the board by the town-appointed budget and finance committee. The plant has been subsidized by the town board spending of upwards of $1 million per year and “this board decided to stop,” he said. That’s exactly the issue, Frankl countered. The decision was made before the issues were aired. Stanzione said the decision was made during last fall’s budgetary process. He said scav plant discussions were fully covered by the local press. Much of the coverage, however, focused on the town’s discussing aspects in executive session in violation of open meetings law. “This board overdoes executive session. You don’t have to go into executive session every time you’re uncomfortable,” said Frankl. That got Councilwoman Theresa Quigley’s goat. She accused Frankl of attempting to politicize the issue. Overby interjected disagreement and Quigley turned on her, asking with faux civility, “I’m sorry, Sylvia, do you want to speak? Do you want to take over?” Wilkinson jumped in, telling the Democrat she would have her turn to speak after his former running mate was finished. She did . . . eventually. Overby had the floor for mere
m o m e n t s b e f o r e Wi l k i n s o n interrupted her. She said that since the town budget only depicts enough money to run the plant for two months, and a request for proposal from potential private operators is due at the end of the month, there isn’t much time for adequate discussion. There is a feeling that the board is in a hurry to reach a conclusion. Information wasn’t released until very late, she began. And Wilkinson swooped in. “You and I, we’re gonna have fun in the next two years,” he said. “I’m coming out of the private sector, which makes half billion dollar decisions in five minutes and
you’re coming out of I don’t know what sector that wants everything discussed and takes time and time and time and we couldn’t solve the financial crisis of this town by doing that.” “I’m not talking about the financial crisis,” Overby began. Wilkinson cut her off again. “I’m talking about an application of process. I’m talking about decision making and I’m talking about management of the enterprise, that’s what I’m talking about.” He kept going, saying “spirited” discussions were fine. (Overby had yet to get three sentences in). But he added, “Yeah, we rushed because I think the pace of play in this town
stinks.” Overby again tried to make a point, only to be tag team interrupted by Wilkinson and Quigley. “Wow. I’d like to finish talking,” she said. She got another sentence out before Wilky interjected again. Finally, the floor was acceded. Overby listed an array of questions about the plant: Is there a financial benefit to closing the plant? What will it take to make it operational and address state Department of Environmental Conservation violations? How much would it cost to address them? What will fees be if the town turns it over to a private operator? CONTINUED ON PAGE 21.
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Southampton Town is considering whether or not to require contractors on large-scale local commercial building projects to have a certified apprenticeship program, giving folks the opportunity to “earn while they learn.” Deputy Town Attorney Kathleen Murray, Peter Zarcone and Michael Labate, both of General Building Laborers, an affiliate of the Laborers International Union of North America, met with Southampton Town Board Friday afternoon to discuss proposed legislation that would require apprenticeship participation in commercial construction projects throughout the town.
Zarcone said that hiring New York State apprentice workers would prove to be very beneficial to the Town of Southampton for myriad reasons. “This program is designed to keep New York residents working, allow for some students to get paid and to have them continue their education,” he said. Any project set to begin in Southampton can utilize the apprenticeship program, as long as the project costs $250,000 or more and involves an area equal to or greater than at least 10,000 square feet. “The bulk of construction is private and not too big here in Southampton,” said Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst.
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Murray responded by saying the proposed legislation has been tailored to meet the needs of Southampton Town. New York State labor law authorizes municipal contractors and other governmental entities to require contractors and subcontractors on public construction projects to provide apprenticeship training programs, which have been approved by the state’s Department of Labor. Southampton wishes to expand on this legislation, according to Murray. “This is a program that is geared towards the public,” Murray said. “If public monies are going to be involved, this encourages the program to go into effect.” The apprentices would be put through a training program, and would receive prevailing wage to work on site. The program would be available at no cost to the town and would be paid for by the sponsor of the apprentice. Registered apprenticeship is a formal training relationship between an employer and an employee for a specific period of time. The sponsor of any apprentice is responsible for planning, administering and paying for the program. Both the sponsor and the apprentice would need to be registered with the New York State Department of Labor and would
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have to report to Southampton’s building inspector. “The sponsor works closely with the labor department,” Murray explained, adding, “They are the ones who provide and pay for on job training and schooling.” The typical ratio on a construction site of regular worker to apprentice is about one to one, with Zarcone adding that the apprentice can only be used as secondary help. “It’s a good opportunity for people to get a good paying job,” said Councilwoman Bridget Fleming. “If we want to make this work, we need to build that fact up.” The only thing that could be considered a problem is the fact that there are few viable locations where the 200 necessary classroom hours can be fulfilled on the East End. “All the training facilities are west,” Zarcone said. The proposed legislation is slated to go to a public hearing February 28. Zarcone told board members that he would be happy to show which other towns use the program and how successful it is. “This is something that we’re proactive about,” he said. “The building trades are a big part of the economy here. It’s all about jobs, jobs and jobs. We’re training our youth and also reusing those that are coming back into the workforce.” Emily@indyeastend.com
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Appointments Raising Eyebrows, Gamble Retires By Kitty Merrill
The face of town-appointed land use boards is in flux this week, as the East Hampton Town Board discusses changes that include the retirement of one of their longest serving members and the introduction of new members with a little controversy in their resumes. As The Independent went to press Tuesday morning, the town board was expected to meet in executive session to discuss appointments to the Zoning Board of Appeals. On Tuesday night, Phil Gamble, who has been on the ZBA since the mid 80s, serving decades as chair, was expected to announce his retirement. According to insiders, the board planned to appoint member Alex Walter chair. Town hall denizens will recall that last year, the Republican majority hoped to replace Gamble and put GOP loyalist Don Cirillo at the helm. The newly elected politicians backed off when Gamble refused to step aside and threatened to resign altogether. He kept the leadership role and Cirillo was appointed vice chair. His service so far has been marked by ill will between the Republican and the planning department. It’s rumored Supervisor Bill Wilkinson was looking to propose the same set up again this year, but a compromise placing Walter in the top spot was reached. Moving to planning board
appointments, last Thursday night council members voted to retain Reed Jones as chair of the body and elevate Diana Weir, who was just appointed in December, to the position of vice chair. Councilman Pete Van Scoyoc abstained on the vote. He has no problem with Jones, Van Scoyoc, who served as a planner before he was elected councilman, told The Independent following last week’s meeting. However, he feels a member with more time on the dais than Weir should take over as vice chair. Others around Pantigo Place point out Weir served as planning liaison when she was an East Hampton Town Councilwoman between 2000 and 2003.
Another planning appointment had tongues wagging last week. The town board selected Ian Piedmont and J. K. Foster to sit on the seven-member body. Local Independence Party chair Elaine Jones looked askance at Piedmont’s appointment, reminding that he was recently part of a contingent of farmers who supported taking the authority to review hoop houses away from the planning board and giving it to the building inspector. Proposed legislation to that end was shelved after town board members learned it’s illegal to revise the planning board’s authority. According to Jones, Piedmont is also tied to the East End Community T:6.195" Organic Farm, which operates on
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town property, and has a variety of illegal hoop houses on site. The next appointment is a story that has legs – literally. Town board members unanimously placed gallery owner Ruth Vered on the Architectural Review Board. She’s been in the news recently over a dispute with the Sag Harbor Village ARB, which wants her to remove a giant sculpture of legs outside her house on the corner of Madison and Henry Streets. The home is located in a historic district on the Southampton Town side of Sag Harbor. Quigley said via email on Monday that Vered also owns a home and votes in East Hampton. kmerrill@indyeastend.com
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RICK’S SPACE Customer Disservice I don’t normally write about being stuck in automated phone hell, or being put on hold, or getting nowhere with a customer service technician over an internet problem or whatever. I lost my cell phone the other day in my house. I know it was in my house, because my wife called me around 6 PM, I answered it, and I didn’t go out again. The next day I contacted Sprint Customer Service via a chat room to ask if they could turn my phone on so I could hear it ring. This is the actual transcript (spelling errors included) of my “conversation” which
they were kind enough to e-mail me: Chat Type: Equipment Chat Reason: lost cell phone in house Alex C: Thank you for contacting Sprint. Please give me a moment while I look into it. Customer (Me): I lost my phone in the house somewhere. Can you turn it on or locate it? Alex C. I am sorry for the delay, I’m still researching the information for you. Thanks for your patience. I appreciate your patience. I have blocked the services on the line to avoid any unauthorized usage.. Customer (Me): NO NO NO! I don’t
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want that damn it . . . UNBLOCK it at once. I asked a simple question can you turn it on -- I need that phone for work UNBLOCK it!!@!! Alex C: Ok, I have unblocked it. Customer (Me): Can you turn it on or not? It’s in my house as I said at the beginning there is no unauthorized use possible. Alex C: I said I am unable to do that. There is no such technology available in America Sir Customer (Me): You never said you couldn’t turn it on. Alex C: My Apologies if I never said. Please accept my apologies. Customer: (Me). Thank you and good night. Please make sure my phone is UNBLOCKED! First of all, his name isn’t Chris K. He’s Deepak from Punjabi. They all claim their name is Chris. We know this going in. It’s clear the only thing he was interested in doing was blocking Sprint from any unauthorized phone calls. He didn’t care about me or my phone. But I have unlimited calling! So what if it was stolen and someone was using it? *** I heard “Game Of Thrones” was available on IO On Demand. Since I love the book I decided to watch the HBO miniseries. I ordered Episode One. I clicked the “Order Now” bar, and another message appeared saying it would cost an additional $4.95 per month to get series. OK, I clicked. “Come on Karen! Get the dog! Bring the popcorn!” Except the same buttons appeared again. I ordered it again, I paid for it. Again. And then again. “Get me the f****** phone,” I said to Karen.
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“No, don’t do this. You get yourself too upset.” I grabbed the phone. After the requisite jumping through hoops I finally got an HBO Cablevision “technician,” I explained to him that I kept agreeing to pay $4.95, yet the program wouldn’t begin. Then, in a lilting voice he said (I am not making this up) “HBO is like the trunk of the tree. You must have the trunk before you have the branches.” I was dumbfounded for a moment before exploding in rage. “Who the f*** are you, the Maharishi? Are you a f******* bard or something?” I thought he was going to call me “Grasshopper” for a moment but before he said anything it all came to me in a flash. They want more money. “How much for the freakin’ trunk?” “It’ll cost you $15.95 a month,” he says. “Plus the $4.95 for “Game Of Thrones?” Shove your f****** tree,” I shouted before hanging up. “And I hope all the fruit on the damn branches falls off!” *** We searched for the phone. Karen went down to the basement and looked in the hamper. I checked the outside garbage – yes, I stuck my head in the big rubber can and emptied every bag. We looked in the closets, the refrigerator, under everything, inside everything. No phone. Up to the bedroom we went. Pulled off all the blankets, the sheets, shook out the pillows, crawled underneath the bed where no human has ever ventured. We checked the bathroom and the bedside tables. We shook out every form of underwear, new and used, dirty and clean. No phone. Exhausted, we went to bed. In the middle of the night, still perplexed, I finally found it under the tissue box next to my bed. Gripped with a sense of impending doom, I slowly dialed the phone – ARRRHHHGGGGGGGGG! “THIS DEVICE HAS BEEN BLOCKED,” the voice said over and over. So anyhow, that’s how the bedroom window got broken.
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Property Deductions Yesterday as we went to press the Southampton Town Board was set to discuss enabling legislation that would increase property tax exemptions fivefold for so-called “Cold War veterans.” Veterans who served from September 2, 1945 through December 26, 1991 would be eligible for exemptions of $54,000 of assessed valuation, up from $12,000. As of this writing, no one in town can tell us how many veterans there are and how much money will be taken off the tax rolls. That’s a problem. As Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst rightly said, no one wants to say no to veterans. But there are already exemptions in place for ambulance workers, firefighters, veterans of foreign war, and certain elderly people on fixed incomes. This legislation has its origins in the state legislature, which really makes it an unfunded mandate. In other words, it’s easy to mandate exemptions when it’s other people footing the bill. In this case, that will be the taxpayer. Neither the town nor the state contributes anything when a property tax exemption is granted. The rest of us simply pay more to make up for those who pay less. We suggest the town board find out how much more before passing this measure. Sure, it’s a tax break for some folks – but it’s a tax increase for the rest of us. Those who join the armed forces are valuable members of the community to be sure – but so are postal workers, mechanics, teachers, and so on. We can’t give everybody a tax break.
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Dear Editor, “Narrowing the GOP Field” (Rick’s Place, 1/18) was so funny and so perceptive. Where the hell is Iowa? Somewhere on the other side of the Delaware perhaps? I skipped seventh grade so that may be why I have no idea. Could you send me your magnetic map puzzle? LYNN SCANLON
Dark Skies We stand with Susan Harder, who has worked so tirelessly to promote Dark Skies legislation on the East End. The East Hampton Town Board has used a compliance deadline that adversely affects a few merchants to bulldoze the entire law, for the benefit of lighting designers and commercial establishments but for the detriment of the community at large. The sensible solution would be to grant extensions to those businesses that honestly would have to spend thousands of dollars to come into compliance – though they have had ample time to do so. Re-writing the legislation is a slap in the face of the prior town boards that drafted and passed it. There is no reason to believe the current town board has any more expertise than its predecessors – there is some evidence that this town board does some folks a favor at the expense of the public, and that’s a troubling trend. Just Askin’ More and more municipalities are legislating that supermarkets are eliminate plastic bags and go to recycled paper bags instead, and that’s good. But some markets are beginning to charge us for the bags. Why? They get our business; we shouldn’t have to pay for the privilege of shopping at their stores. We never paid before, why now? Memo to East Hampton and Southampton Villages: amend your legislation to include a clause that markets can’t charge customers extra for bagging our groceries.
Stacking The Boards Dear Editor, I really thought that when the November elections were so close, that Bill Wilkinson and Theresa Quigley would realize that the voters had sent them a message. Af ter watching the Thursday, January 19, Town Board meeting I realized that they just don’t get it. They seem to argue with everyone who doesn’t agree with them and when Sylvia Overby suggested that more open longer discussion had to be held on the sewage
treatment plant, Wilkinson remarked that he came from corporate where many decisions were made in five minutes. They then proceeded to make appointments to the Planning Board and Architectural Review Board and I couldn’t help but wonder how much discussion had taken place on these decisions. Perhaps five minutes. I was quite surprised when Overby and Van Scoyoc agreed to the appointments. Ruth Vered who was appointed to the ARB is presently in legal arguments with the Sag Harbor Village ARB over the legs on the side of her business or home in Sag Harbor. Ian Piedmont a farmer appointed to the
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Planning Board, supported laws proposed by Theresa Quigley, and it was suggested that the ARB should take over the review of the proposed farming legislation from the Planning Board. The Town Board has allowed its own laws to be violated on the ECCO Farm, which the town leases to the group supporting these changes. Could it be true that the accusations that the present Town Board is stacking the boards to weaken the zoning laws and town code? ELAINE JONES
Yet Another Layer Dear Rick, If you’ve never heard of the “Peconic Institute” cheer up, you’re in the majority. Since little is known about this new group, their financial backers, leaders, or agenda, I’ve done some research. In the interest of civic discourse, here are some disturbing facts and questions that must be answered. The Webster’s definition of an institute is “an organization for the promotion of a cause.” So what exactly is the cause that Peconic Institute promotes? Instead of a single cause, this group’s laundry list of lofty goals runs longer than a Presidential platform. According to their wide ranging draft Mission Statement, the Peconic Institute aims to be “a forum to improve on present policy and governing paradigms . . . that better sustains the environment, the economy, and supporting infrastructure such as transportation, energy, workforce housing (a.k.a. low income housing), health care, clean water, and other necessary regional infrastructure.” Wow! All they left out was finding a cure for cancer. Reading between the lines here, and you see an underlying assumption. This group clearly wants to impose regional policies and top-down “solutions” to problems that they identify onto a patchwork of
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Marge White I thought it was absolutely fantastic! I’m a Giants season ticket holder and have been for forty years. I couldn’t believe it. The other team played very well. That win was God looking down on the Giants.
independent towns and jurisdictions. From their ambitious goals listed, the individuals and groups behind the Peconic Institute want to be involved in every aspect of our daily East End lives. For Assemblyman Fred Thiele, a career politician, we have an unreported case of re-districting. The Peconic Institute gives him a chance to grab power beyond the boundaries of the 2nd A.D. No longer limited to the South Fork, Assemblyman Thiele now governs the citizens and noncitizens of the “Peconic District.” For the Nature Conservancy, the Peconic Institute gives them cover so they can trample private property rights and direct taxpayer money as they see fit. It’s time for all East End citizens to ask those promoting the so-called Peconic Institute some basic questions. - Why do we need another layer of government? - Who wants more unfunded mandates? - What citizen wants policy that impacts his/her daily life to be made by unelected individuals? - What are the real goals of this group? ELAINE KAHL
Letter to the Editor, As a former naval officer; officer-of-the deck underway, independent and formation steaming; and qualified marine navigator and instructor, I have questions concerning the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy. Was the captain on the bridge exercising control of the ship? If so, why was the ship so close to the rocks? If not, who was on the bridge conning the ship? What were their qualifications? Was there a maritime pilot on the bridge? The most dangerous period in peacetime for a ship underway is when it is leaving and entering port or traversing in close proximity to land. This is when you have to be on full alert. Why did the Costa Concordia only hold emergency evacuation drills once every fifteen days? During a 15 day period the ship would normally visit a number of ports and embark new passengers. A drill should be held prior to leaving every port. The maritime industry should evaluate the viability of lifeboat systems, which fail when a ship takes on a significant list that makes it very difficult or impossible to launch lifeboats. More attention must be paid to the safety of passengers and crew. DONALD A. MOSKOWITZ
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The Occupiers Dear Editor, Dr. Naison is just one of those thoroughly out-of-touch, likely drugaddled individuals of the Old Left, New Left, and the leftover Left, who had never left the sixties. Instead, the sixties had left him. A discredited sixties which produced 1.5 million dead Vietnamese, courtesy of John Kerry’s party’s hasty evacuation of US troops after the North Vietnamese had surrendered; a sixties which gave us widespread drug use, disrespectful discourse, burning bras and burning flags, occupying Columbia University and others, and civil disobedience of a people who had no intention of giving anything to society, but just taking from it. The same for the Occupied Wall Streeters. The ONE percenters happen to have paid 37 percent of all income taxes, while those included in the clueless 99 percent that Naison represents happened to have paid nothing. About half of Americans pay no taxes at all. And the rest of us pay their bills . . . their FAIR SHARE. Accordingly, in Naison’s world, they deserve everything they demand. Even more. They deserve everything for their mere existence.
They always have a solution. Money. Yours, not theirs. And those who paid most of the taxes, upwards of 80 percent of all income tax, the 5 percent I speak of, deserve to be robbed blind because they are the innovators, achievers, and the American Exceptionals who not only provide the jobs and cultural advancement, but almost everything else good in our society. I have not even mentioned the fact that the one to five percenters pay for just about 90 percent of all charitable giving. Contrary to Naison’s description of the 99 percenters, the fact is, they are economically clueless, over-opinionated and undereducated, and they happen to have arrived on Wall Street for one express purpose: To Party. And to get laid. On their way to clobber non-Wall Streeter billionaire Rupert Murdoch at his home, they conveniently bypassed Wall Street’s largest parasite’s home, the home of billionaire George Soros. In other words, their billionaire who ripped of entire nations driving them into poverty, and collapsed the Bank of England, is better than our billionaire who employs thousands of people doing legitimate work. Continued on page 15.
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The Riverhead High School Council for Unity sponsored a bowling fund-raiser to raise funds for Christopher Timpone, a nine-year-old student at Aquebogue Elementary School, who is afflicted with Ewing’s sarcoma, which is a form of bone cancer. Yesterday Christopher and Mrs. Timpone, a teacher’s aide at the Aquebogue Elementary School, were scheduled to pick up a $1800 check at Riverhead High School.
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The Occupier’s is a celebration of the LCD’s (Lowest Common Denominators) culminating in something akin to a Renaissance Festival of incessant drum beating, drug taking, urinating and defecating on police cars and all over the streets, making life impossible for those passing this circus having to step over fornicating strangers while sniffing the unbearable stench of a human sewer. Going about their business, these people would second everything I had described. Sex is great and fun, and necessary, but Wall Street has another purpose for the greater social good for the real 99 percent: providing prosperity for MOST Americans
through their own portfolios, government, unionized and state pensions, and mostly to investors who have historically grown all of the above to have made America into the better place where just about every people across the globe want to live. I don’t see Americans immigrating to all the great places where “social justice” and FREE health care is available: Cuba, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia. What I see is that people have been coming here for treatment and pay through the nose for it, from places where they can get the care for “free.” I say this: If America is so bad Dr. Naison and the Occupiers, unjust, miserable, coldhearted and unkind, the door is open. Go! Your exit, none too soon, will make America an even happier place. ANDREW BENJAMIN
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The Riverhead Middle School Masques present Grease Junior this weekend in the middle school cafetorium. The Friday performance begins at 7 PM and there will be a Saturday matinee at 2 PM. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Contact Pat Skura at RMS 631-369-6767 for tickets or more information.
The old Swezeys building on East Main Street in Riverhead is drawing quite a crowd there days – of hungry people. The Lighthouse Group arrives at noon every Friday with free food and clothing, no questions asked. Food is delivered via trucks referred to as “mobile food pantries” and the Lighthouse delivers to nine locations across Suffolk. The Riverhead location is quickly becoming too popular, some critics lament. Last week over 200 people gathered, causing other merchants in the area to complain. Supervisor Sean Walter said alternate sites are being looked at.
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Southampton Church Declared A Basilica By Emily Toy
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Church will have to change its name. Pope Benedict XVI has decreed the Southampton landmark will henceforth be known as a basilica (as opposed to merely a church), which means new opportunities for members of the Catholic community as well as for Southampton residents. Monsignor Jeffrey Madley said the designation is a “very special” one and that the community “should be very excited for the honor.” Bishop William Murphy, who visited Sacred Hearts last month, announced to parishioners that at his request, the church had been declared a minor basilica after presenting the application to the pope in Rome. Madley explained that the application for the designation was processed after one day by the pope, something the monsignor deemed “very fastidious.” The Hill Street house of worship joins 2000 other basilicas located around the world, with only 70 of them being in the United States.
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“It’s not only nice for the people who took care of the church for 100 years, but also it’s a nice thing for the community,” he said. B u i l t i n 19 0 8 f o r t h e expanding Catholic community in Southampton, the Gothic-style church seats about 650 people and is made of white marble blocks. It cost $100,000 and took over 13 months to build. The structure was built by Irish Catholics, as well as members of the Protestant faith. “It was truly an ecumenical effort, which is one of the things that makes it so special,” Madley said. Complete with handmade stained glass windows from France and a 400-year-old pulpit, the church’s new designation means that people can make pilgrimages to the church as well as having special celebrations in honor of the pope, such as honoring his birthday. The designation also means that the basilica will gain a canopy with the papal colors, designed for the pope if he comes to visit the structure. “If the pope comes, they can
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Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Church in Southampton has received a prestigious papal designation.
hold this canopy over his head so the church gets that,” Madley said. Madley added that having the basilica in Southampton will help keep the East End connected with diocese headquarters in Manhattan
and Rockville Centre. For the New Year, a special mass was held to celebrate the newly designated basilica and to officially install the insignia of the new status. Emily@indyeastend.com
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Support Long Term Dredge Plan By Kitty Merrill
East Hampton Town needs to develop a comprehensive, long term dredging plan. Board members were in agreement about the need last Thursday night after Lazy Point resident Steve Graboski complained of shoaling in Napeague Harbor. Napeague, he said, “is basically a dreen.” By Monday morning, Diane McNally, clerk of the East Hampton Town Trustees had good news. She said the town received a letter from the state Department of Environmental Conservation reporting its intention to pursue dredging of Napeague’s west channel. The trustees have also been pursuing an excavation permit for the east channel, McNally reminded. Dredging projects involve multi agency interactions, between the town, the county and the state. Last Thursday night, McNally said a permit for Accabonac Harbor is in the hands of the county, and “We’ve been trying to determine what stage they’re at and haven’t been able to do so.” Larry Penny, the town’s director of natural resources, has traditionally been the permit point person. With his retirement, Graboski wanted to know who is taking over the permit procurement process. Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said there is a temporary management structure in place while the town seeks Penny’s successor. Still, Wilkinson admitted, the town has been only “reactive” in terms of dredging. “We haven’t done a good job planning our infrastructure and I consider dredging infrastructure,” he said. Councilwoman Theresa Quigley called the town’s strategy “hit or miss or way too delayed.”
Graboski complained that he’d heard the county was set to dredge Northwest Creek, and “that’s one of the deepest harbors we have.” Councilman Pete Van Scoyoc said the creek is actually “close to closing up.” A shoal is clogging the channel and keeping the natural flushing from taking place. How the town can better plan for the protection of shorelines is a “critical issue,” Quigley opined, as Graboski also shared concerns about the effect of erosion on homes fronting on Gardiner’s Bay in Lazy Point. Earlier in the week, Graboski testified before the Zoning Board of Appeals during deliberation of a request to install structures that could protect an imperiled Lazy Point home. Lots of people don’t even realize erosion is an issue for bay side properties, Wilkinson observed. Most people see it as affecting oceanfront parcels only. Long-term shoreline planning “is all stuff that can be anticipated,” Quigley said. “We have to have a plan in place to protect what we have.” Some sectors of town, such as Wainscott and downtown Montauk, may support creating special tax districts to cover the cost of beach replenishment projects. Dredging has historically been a cost borne by Suffolk County. McNally acknowledged Monday that, were the town to buy its own equipment and take over its own dredging, it’s likely Suffolk would cease shouldering the financial responsibility. She recalled that several years ago, the town considered buying a dredge and asking the county to reimburse East Hampton for the expense of taking over “their” job. The fiscal crisis that ensued sent the notion to the
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back burner. Graboski illustrated his dissatisfaction with town and county efforts by relating the rapidity with which town, county and state officials came together in 2010 to address the problem of malodorous seaweed in Hempstead. Neighbors complained of the stink and state representatives hosted a town hall meeting in mid December. By Christmas Eve a permit to handle the seaweed was issued. Work began on December 28 and it was completed in January of 2011. “Ladies and gentlemen, that’s how it’s done,” he said. Wilkinson pointed out that East Hampton has been able to procure emergency permits for threatened
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houses in just two days time, while Quigley asserted that it’s difficult to compare seaweed to revetments. “We, too, are frustrated by the pace of play,” the councilwoman said. Discussion flowed back and forth between dredging and shoreline structures. The latter evokes impassioned responses from community members who oppose the idea of allowing hard structures on the beach or chafe at the notion of public money spent to save private property. Town officials have to address the issue, Wilkinson emphasized. “We can’t keep kicking the can down the road.” On Monday McNally explained the trustees consider long term dredging needs in their Water Management Plan, but she said, “It needs to be updated.” kmerrill@indyeastend.com
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Eye On Education By Dr. Dominic Annacone
The Miracles of Test Scores In case you haven’t heard, a new study of a large urban school district has discovered the following: Teachers can be classified as highly effective or ineffective on the basis of test scores alone. Students who have the highly effective teachers are less likely to become pregnant during their teenage years, are more likely to go to college, will live in better communities in terms of socio-
economic status, and will earn $1.4 million more than students of low effective teachers. There was no mention whether other benefits might lead to being able to fly, capability of reading minds, or becoming immortal, but maybe that’s to come. R a j C h e t t y, o n e o f t h e researchers, disclosed this study on the PBS nightly “NewsHour.” The “NewsHour” usually provides a
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counterpoint to such presentations by a person skilled in analyzing research findings. Possibly one of the reasons PBS didn’t have this balance in that program is because the research has not been officially published or subject to peer review, steps generally taken prior to the media prematurely hyping a study’s findings. The New York Times had initially given prominent coverage to this study’s findings, but it recently published a Michael Winetrip column that revealed the purported student gains were based on test scores from the 1990s, when teachers weren’t being pressured to teach to the test. So could it be the lack of testing stresses for students and teachers may have actually led
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to those findings? I‘ve always believed test results should be part of the assessment process for schools. But the idea that test results alone determine who the effective teachers are is a gross simplification that has led to forcing teachers to spend an inordinate percentage of the school year priming kids to score well on a few tests. Yet the tests themselves have frequently been shown to be invalid. Also, the emphasis has been on reading and math. What about the other areas of the curriculum? Aren’t science, history, geography, the arts, and physical education, et al of any importance in terms of learning? And what about the personal impact of teaching? The ability of a teacher to create a love of learning, to expand one’s intellect, to foster critical and creative thinking, to promote interpersonal understanding and respect, to learn of our country’s democratic principles of governance and one’s civic responsibility, and other aspects of what was once called the humanistic elements of education. These are central to the art of teaching and learning and are evident in the work of effective teachers. This latest study, done by a group of economists, doesn’t show cause and effect by any means. It also fails to take into consideration other determinants of student achievement proven to greatly influence learning such as socio-economic conditions, home environment, family influences, etc. Many of these factors cannot be easily quantified by number crunching. That is why I believe to get a truer measure of teaching and learning effectiveness surveys will have to be conducted and other teacher and student performance criteria will have to be included. Test scores alone are insufficient and mere exposure to teachers that influence high-test scores alone will not result in the miracle outcomes described in this study.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9. Emphasizing that she doesn’t support the plant’s closure, Quigley said she didn’t know what all the problems are at the site. The answers to the RFP will provide data necessary to answer questions. Board member Peter van Scoyoc also said the topic requires a broad discussion. “I don’t think we can just decide this amongst ourselves.” Quigley said the board will fully discuss the issue at a work session once the RFPs are returned this week. Overby wants to make sure the session is well advertised so
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interested parties can attend. She noted that sometimes work session agendas aren’t released until just days before the meeting. “We’re on the same page here, what do you want?” Quigley asked querulously. Van Scoyoc noted the plant’s future is an important enough topic that it deserves its own meeting. “It’s important enough to the point that we’ve been studying it for a year,” Wilkinson remarked. “I embrace your inclusion,” he continued, “but it doesn’t diminish the fact it’s been studied for a long, long time.” kmerrill@indyeastend.com
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Man Found Dead In Shinnecock Bay An East Quogue man was found dead in the marsh of Shinnecock Bay Monday afternoon, according to Southampton Town Police. John C. Lindahl, 59, was discovered in the bay by Shinnecock Coast Guard and Suffolk County Aviation after they found his boat, a white Maritime Skiff, about a quarter of a mile west of the body, near Dolphin Lane in East Quogue. The Coast Guard deployed patrols via land and water and was assisted by Southampton detectives and bay constables. Lindahl was last heard from by family members the day before at 4 PM, when he had gone to prep his duck blind. The body was moved by the Hampton Bays Fire Department Hovercraft to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office in Happaugue. Southampton Police Detectives are continuing the investigation and the cause of death is yet to be determined. E.T.
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MTK Going Bankrupt The dream of bringing a world-class music festival to the East End appears dead. According to one creditor, the Music To Know festival organizers are in the process of filing for bankruptcy. Chris Jones and Bill Collage had originally hoped to bring three days of music to an open field in Amagansett. The project was cut back to two days and eventually moved to East Hampton Airport after neighbors who objected to the Amagansett location sued MTK. “The knife went in early and that set the tone,” Jones said. The lawsuit “Just killed us,” because would-be sponsors withdrew because of the uncertainty. “It seemed the wind was always in our face.” Ultimately, though, poor ticket sales sealed the demise. Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes and Vampire Weekend, though legitimate Indie-rock stars, never generated the expected buzz. “We stand behind the bands we booked,” Jones said. “They are great bands.” The organizers pulled the plug the week before the event. It should be noted there were torrential rains on Sunday, August 14, which would have been the concluding day of the festival. “I realized maybe it wasn’t meant to be,” Jones said during the post-mortem a week after the concert. “It rained in biblical proportions.” R.M.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7. in the number of kids attending the school. Quigley disagreed, and listed efforts the administration has made to ramp up enforcement of housing violations. SCAC member Reg Cornelia said there was actually a “mastodon in the room.” He believes school taxes in Springs are high because, even though the hamlet’s tax base is lower than every other hamlet’s, teachers are paid on parity with districts that benefit from ocean front properties and commercial tax bases. Arthur Goldman spoke of a T-Rex in the room – the need to undertake a reassessment. That could make Springs residents feel less put upon, he opined. The topic of school consolidation was broached as a strategy to level the playing field and bring Springs taxes in line with other districts, same as it’s been suggested for the last 15 years. Springs superintendent Michael Hartner reminded that the tuition agreement inked with East Hampton school last June includes a plan to undertake a consolidation study. Grant applications to cover
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Correction A news box in last week’s Independent announcing the new leaders of the East Hampton Town Republican committee misspelled treasurer Richard Gherardi’s name. The Independent regrets the error. the cost should be completed by March. Bruce Nalepinski honed in on a table that showed the percentage of property taxes traced to school districts compared to those traced to the town. In Springs, school taxes are almost four times those collected by the town. “For you to solve the school’s budget, that ain’t gonna happen,” he said to Quigley. He believes the conversation ought not to be “what can the town do to rescue us. They’re not the evil empire . . . it’s what can the school do to bring taxes down.” SCAC chair Henrika Connor suggested audience members attend Springs School Board meetings and Hartner provided a schedule of upcoming gatherings. They’re available on the school’s website. kmerrill@indyeastend.com
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Girls Basketball Standings: LEAGUE III Riverhead North Babylon Smithtown West East Islip Centereach Smithtown East Newfield LEAGUE VI Elwood/Glenn Amityville Shoreham WR East Hampton Westhampton Bayport-Blue Point Mt Sinai LEAGUE VII Southampton Hampton Bays Mattituck Center Moriches Wyandanch McGann-Mercy Babylon LEAGUE VIII Southold Shelter Island Pierson/BH Port Jefferson Stony Brook Smithtown Christian Ross
league 6-0 5-1 3-2 3-3 2-4 1-4 0-6
overall 11-1 6-1 5-4 7-5 7-5 1-10 4-8
6-0 5-2 4-3 3-4 3-4 2-5 1-6
12-0 7-2 7-6 6-6 8-5 6-7 2-10
5- 0 5-0 3-3 3-3 2-4 1-5 1-5
8-3 10-1 5-6 4-3 2-10 5-7 2-10
5-0 5-1 4-2 3-3 2-4 0-5 0-4
6-5 7-3 4-7 3-4 2-8 1-5 0-6
Boys Basketball Results (Friday) Southampton 74 Hampton Bays 49 Pierson 61 Southold 39 Stony Brook 72 Bridgehampton 45 Mercy 58 Babylon 55 Center Moriches 87 Mattituck 52 Mt. Sinai 49 East Hampton 48 (Thursday) Riverhead 69 Centereach 45 Bayport/Bluepoint 68 Westhampton 57 (Last Wednesday) Stony Brook 60 Pierson 35
Girls Results (Friday) Smithtown Christian 56 Ross 26 Southampton 57 Hampton Bays 42 (Thursday) East Hampton 44 Mt. Sinai 37 Southold 38 Pierson 20 Riverhead 53 Centereach 33 Center Moriches 40 Mattituck 38
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Betting On The Super Bowl
A lot of Fantasy players are also bettors, but I’m not, having learned long ago you can’t beat the spread. With Fantasy Football behind us, though, there is only one game in town, the Super Bowl, and it’s a game people traditionally bet on, even if they know very little about football. Let’s look at some of the action. POOLS: the purest form of bet there is, and by far the best, because usually 100 percent of the money is returned to the winners. Yes, it’s a game of luck, but consider the lottery pays between 40 and 50 percent of the money it takes in, and OTB about 80 percent. The trick is to decide how much money you usually spend on Lotto and the like and divert some of it to the Super Bowl pools – it makes watching the game more fun when you have a little action going on.
how many field goals there will be in a game. All of these are sucker bets, because they are random occurrences that cannot accurately be predicted. A lot of people don’t understand how the betting world works. I’ve heard people say, “the bookies wanted so and so to win,” and similar insinuations. Actually, the bookie doesn’t care who wins. In fact, the only mission a sports bookie has is to get the same amount of money bet on both participants in
a sporting event. That’s because the loser of a bet pays 10 percent extra – to the book. Thus, if there is $10,000 bet on each team, the bookie is guaranteed to make $1000. That’s the racket, and that’s where the point spread comes in. Let’s say a lot of money starts coming in on the Giants “plus three” – Las Vegas will move the line down to two, and keep adjusting it until enough money comes in on New England to even things out.
You can bet on anything come Super Bowl Sunday, from the coin flip to how long the National Anthem is going to take to who will score the first touchdown and
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Finally, don’t bet teasers, parlays, twisters and all the other crap bookies offer. All these exotic bets are designed to separate you from your money.
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BETTING THE SPREAD: I pegged the “spread” at three Sunday night with New England favored, and that’s what it is as of this writing. That means if you think the Patriots will beat the Giants you have to “give” three points. Thus, if the Pats win by two you lose. Some lines are three and a half -- if you can get that half point grab the Giants now because it’s a huge jump – many games are decided by three points, as the Giants vs. 49ers was. I also like the Giants at plus three – because they beat New England earlier in the season and they are a much better team now. UNDER/OVER: This is the total points scored by both teams. As of Monday the number was between 53 and 55 depending on the bookie. The prevailing opinion is there will be a lot of points scored because both teams have high-powered offenses. Consider, though, that the Giants beat the Pats 24-20 earlier in the season and that their defense is considerably stronger now. Throw in first quarter butterflies – which often occur, even among the most seasoned player – and you have to figure the game’s combined score will end up under 53.
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Football Tailgate Tragedy Mishandled
Take a drive up to the North Fork, head east to Orient Point, and hop on the Cross Sound Ferry. After your arrival in New London, CT, travel west on Interstate 95, and stop in New Haven, where you’ll find one of the most prestigious schools in the country. Yale University has produced five U.S. Presidents and 19 Supreme Court Justices. If you’re interested in attending the university, I hope your SAT scores crack 1500 and your GPA was a minimum of a 4.0. Only eight percent of students who apply are admitted. Sadly, a 30-year old woman was killed back in November, while
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tailgating the Harvard-Yale football game in New Haven. Just days ago, Yale released its response and solution. The freak accident took place during the pre-game tailgate of the Yale-Harvard rivalry. A Yale student driving a U-Haul truck loaded with beer kegs plowed through the tailgating area and hit three women. Thirty-year old Nancy Barry was killed and two other women were injured. Brendan Ross, the driver of the truck, was tested immediately and passed the field sobriety test. After nearly two months of investigation, Yale announced they
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will ban kegs and “box trucks,” establish a new vehicle-free tailgating zone, and require all fans to leave the tailgating area by kickoff. The university has taken a freak accident and instituted solutions that will do little to prevent potential future disasters. However, if the goal is to curtail fan drinking before games, then the university should be forthright and state as much. The first new guideline is that kegs will no longer be allowed during tailgating. While the vehicle that killed the woman was transporting kegs, I’m not sure what that has to do with the accident. The driver of the U-Haul was not drinking. If the U-Haul had been carrying buckets of Gatorade or catered food would these items be banned from tailgate
Boys Basketball Standings: League III East Islip
league overall 6-2
North Babylon
9-3
Smithtown East
8-4
Riverhead
5-7
Smithtown West
5-6
Newfield
1-9
Centereach LEAGUE VI Mt Sinai
102 9-2
East Hampton
6-5
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Bayport-Blue Point
6-6
Shoreham WR
5-7
Elwood/J Glenn
2-9
Westhampton LEAGUE VII Hampton Bays
7-3
Wyandanch
7-4
Babylon
7-3
Center Moriches
6-3
Southampton
6-4
Port Jefferson
5-5
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3-7
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1-9
Greenport
6-3
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5-5
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4-6
Southold
3-6
Ross
2-5
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parties? I imagine the reason for banning kegs is that cases of beer are more expensive and take up more space. Let’s hope an unintended consequence isn’t the substitution of hard liquor. If there’s anything worse than thousands of beer drinkers in a small area, it’s thousands of liquor drinkers in a small area. The next move from the powers that be at Yale is to ban oversized vehicles, like U-Hauls. Once again, the connection is irrelevant. Sure a U-Haul can kill a person, but so can a Chevy Avalanche or a Ford F-350 (although I’m not sure the Yale highbrows would know a pickup truck from a U-Haul). Had the vehicle been a Range Rover, would it be banned from Yale tailgates? I suspect not. Once again, the point seems to be to limit the quantity of alcohol that can be brought into tailgates. These new rules, combined with a vehicle-free tailgate zone and requiring all fans to leave the area by kickoff are thinly veiled attempts by the university to restrain fan drinking during tailgating before football games. Yale Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer released the university’s new guidelines in an email. Toward the end of the email she noted the school will continue “to review Yale’s tailgating logistics.” Responsibility is what the university is looking for out of its students and alumni. It would only be fair and responsible for Yale higher ups to admit that their tightened regulations have little to do with Barry’s accident. Driver error or mechanical malfunctions seem to be the most likely causes of this accident. Cutting down on excessive partying before games is an admirable goal. But, using a young woman’s unfortunate death as the reason to implement these rules, while representing them as remedies, is cowardly. Pete is a lifelong Montauk resident and former sports talk host at 88.7FM WEER. He can be reached via email at Peterfmundo@gmail.com.
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