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DOWN IN THE TUBE Aretha Franklin was seen getting off on the Hayground platform on her way to the Ross School on Friday. If you heard the sounds of “Margaritaville� echoing around the Sag Harbor platform last Saturday afternoon, it was because Jimmy Buffett of North Haven was down there performing. He arrived from Montauk and spontaneously played for a while before the guards escorted him out. Also seen using the system this week was Chevy Chase in Amagansett. EPA SHUTS DOWN TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION TO FOXWOODS The Environmental Protection Agency has shut down the tunnel being dug under Long Island Sound to connect the Sag Harbor platform of the Hampton Subway to the Foxwoods gambling resort in Connecticut. The reason is an oil spill of unknown origin, which has begun to blanket the surface of Long Island Sound directly above the dig. “This is just a temporary matter,� an official from the EPA said. “We just don’t want the workmen to get injured down in the tunnel.
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By Dan Rattiner Week of September 9 – September 16, 2008 Riders: 21,314 Rider miles: 104,312 DELAY ON NOYAC SPUR Expect delays this week as on the Noyac to North Sea spur of Hampton Subway. Workmen continue to try to round up one last horse leftover from the Hampton Classic Horse Show, who got away along with six others when the doors opened unexpectedly at the Bridgehampton platform while they were being transported by subway from Westhampton to the horse show grounds. The problem may have changed the outcome of the Grand Prix event. Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Lamaze was supposed to ride Hickstead, the horse he rode in China, but instead, on a lesser steed, finished down in the middle of the pack in Bridgehampton. Hickstead was last seen galloping happily along the tracks toward the Sag Harbor stop, but then turned up toward Noyac. He’s the horse still out there. Several cowboys from the ranches in Montauk have been called in.
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When the oil is cleaned up, we will allow the dig to continue.� BLACK STICKY GOO TO BE EXAMINED AT A LABORATORY IN NEW JERSEY Beer bottles filled with a thick black liquid are on their way to the Princeton Analysis Lab in Secaucus, New Jersey for analysis. This is the second time this has been done. The first time, the lab they were taken to burned down. The liquid smells like oil and was first brought up by workmen digging the tunnel under Long Island Sound two weeks ago. The leak continues, although now management pumps it out onto into the ocean through a black pipe while work continues. REPUBLICAN FUNDRAISER IN WATER MILL Plans are underway to have a fundraiser on the Water Mill platform for Bristol Palin, who is five months pregnant. Bristol will be on hand, and so will her mother, Sarah. The event is September 9 at 6 p.m., and the menu (continued on page 38)
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