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September 20, 2013 Page 37
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Robert Warren Dash, an artist and writer as well as the founder of the 2-acre Madoo Conservancy gardens in Sagaponack, has died. “Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Dash was a fixture in the New York gallery scene,” states the Mark Humphrey Gallery in Southampton. “His landscapes, like those of Fairfield Porter, manage to wed freely moving paint-as-paint with straightforward descriptions of the natural world.” According to Ro Gallery, Dash was home schooled for most of his young life due to illness. Though he never formerly studied painting, he developed in interest in Abstract Expressionism, particularly Willem de Kooning. “[De Kooning] was the one that taught me that paint does everything, and paint is art, the wielding of it, the manipulation of it; what it does. And paint is your deciding factor,” Dash said in a 1974 interview at his Sagaponack home for the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. He established Madoo in Sagaponack in 1967. Dash was also known on the East End as a longtime columnist for The East Hampton Star.
Sagaponack Will Not Form Its Own Police Department SAGAPONACK: Earlier this week, Sagaponack Mayor Donald Lochheim inked an agreement with the Town of Southampton for increased police service, ending the village’s current bid to form its own police department. According to a post on the Sagaponack Village website, Sagaponack will be a separate patrol area/territory under the Town Police Department. The village will receive 24-hour coverage from May 15 through Sept. 26; and 16-hour coverage from Sept. 16 through May 14. The officers assigned to the Village will be consistent so as to develop and maintain a familiarity with the Village residents.
A Love Shared Raises Monday for ALS Research on the North Fork SOUTHOLD: The North Fork Table & Inn and a group of top Long Island chefs have banded together under the name “A Love Shared” to aid in the fight against Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the tragic progressive neuro-degenerative condition best known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. In support of The North Fork Table & Inn’s chef Gerry Hayden, who suffers from ALS, the group is putting on a family-style benefit dinner next Claudia and Gerry Hayden month, preceded by a wine and amuse bouche tasting. The organizers and chefs hope to raise $75,000 for ALS research and quality of life care for Hayden, their good friend, on Sunday, October 13 at 8 Hands Farm in Cutchogue. While the dinner is a fundraiser for a worthy cause, it’s also a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity for discerning foodies and diners. The evening will feature chefs from across the Island, including Lia Fallon of The Riverhead Project, Tom Schaudel of ALure and AMano, Terry Harwood of Blue Canoe and Vine Street Cafe, Gerry Hayden and Claudia Fleming of The North Fork Table & Inn, Keith Luce of The Square, Michael Meehan of H20 Seafood Grill, Christian Mir of Stone Creek Inn, Joseph Realmuto of Nick & Toni’s, Guy Reuge of Mirabelle and John Ross. Provisions will be provided by Browder’s Birds, Catapano Farms, Deep Roots Farm, 8 Hands Farm, Invincible Summer Farms, Mar-Gene Farms, McCall Ranch, Oysterpond Farms, Race Rock Oysters and Taste of the North Fork. Only 200 tickets will be sold for the event and they cost $250 apiece. A Love Shared is also accepting donations. Visit aloveshared.com to buy tickets and learn more about this event and the cause. Courtesy North Fork Table & Inn
Madoo Conservancy Founder Robert Dash Dies
Red Sox to Unveil Statue of Bridgehampton’s Carl Yastrzemski BOSTON: Carl Yastrzemski, the baseball Hall of Famer, 18-time AllStar and Bridgehampton native known as “Yaz,” will be honored with a statue unveiled at Boston’s Fenway Park on September 22, just 10 days before the 30th anniversary of his retirement from baseball. The Boston Red Sox said last Wednesday that the statue will depict the moment the legendary left fielder tipped his helmet to the fans before taking his final at bat. He was a Red Sox player during his entire 23-year career, and the team notes that at that time he had played the most Major League games, 3,308, of any player ever. “This is quite an honor,” the 74-year-old Yastrzemski said. “To have a bronze statue at Fenway Park is something I never could have imagined, and I am very grateful to the Red Sox for this kind gesture.” It will be placed between the only other two statues the Red Sox have ever commissioned, one of Ted Williams and one named “The Teammates,” which depicts Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Williams. The Little League field on School Street in Bridgehampton is across from Yastrzemski’s childhood home. According to his official website, Yastrzemski grew up the son of a potato farmer and he graduated with a .512 batting average in 1957 from Bridgehampton High School, where he played baseball as well as basketball and football. He went to Notre Dame University on a baseball and basketball scholarship, and signed with the Red Sox while still a freshman. Yastrzemski was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 1989.
In Montauk, Governor Calls for Raising Fluke Limits MONTAUK: Governor Andrew Cuomo was in Montauk last Thursday to visit the commercial fishing fleet and call on the federal government to reform summer flounder regulations he says are unfair to New York fishermen. Cuomo said the state is prepared to sue over the limits set by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Fisher Management Plan. New York has more restrictive limits imposed on it than neighboring states, according to Cuomo’s office. In his letter to the Department of Commerce, Cuomo wrote, “[W]e cannot tolerate a management plan that limits an angler on the New York side of Raritan Bay to four fish with a minimum size of 19.5 inches but allows a New Jersey angler fishing the same water body to harvest five fish of only 17.5...This situation makes no sense.” In 2011 a total of 1.4 million pounds of summer flounder, or fluke, were brought in to New York shores at a value of $3.4 million, while if the state were treated the same as other states, it could have brought in 4 million pounds valued at $9.8 million, Cuomo’s office stated. “The federal formula utilizes decade-old information, putting New York at a disadvantage...” said Cuomo. He called on the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to conduct a major reassessment. “The federal quotas create an unfair, competitive disadvantage that jeopardizes a vital industry,” added New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “… There should be one set of rules for everyone, and I will use every tool at my disposal to ensure an even playing field for our workers.” Congressman Tim Bishop, of Southampton, said he supports the governor’s efforts, and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone thanked Cuomo for calling on the federal government to ”eliminate the arbitrary disparity.”