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Illegal Murderers Dear Editor, How can anyone say we don’t have a national emergency over the border? Just the stories from the “Angel” parents, who’ve lost their kids to illegal’s murders breaks your heart. How about there have been 235,000 arrests of illegal aliens by ICE in the last year alone?

That number includes 4000 arrests for homicide, 30,000 arrests for sex crimes, and over 100,000 arrests for assault, just from illegal immigrants! A recent report said 40 percent of crimes are by non-citizens.

Most of those rich politicians live and work behind fenced and walled homes/workplaces. A great number of countries have border walls. Dem leadership has supported up to $56 billion for a wall in the past but now that Trump is president, they balk, even as 300 a week die from heroin brought in over the border. When the number of overdoses on heroin and meth and crystal meth has caused three times the number of American deaths than the number of Americans killed during the entire war in Vietnam, how can you say we don’t have a crisis?

At least 6000 illegals cross a week, which costs the taxpayers $12 billon per day (they are entitled to about $70K per year in benefits). The Washington Times said findings reveal, for example, that eight out of 10 of all U.S. voters — 79 percent — say the U.S. needs secure borders; 93 percent of Republicans, 80 percent of independents, and 68 percent of Democrats agree with that.

Sorry some “non-essential” jobs are put on hold and employees may have to find temp work or take out loans if they’ve already maxed out their credit cards but national security comes first before our government’s bloated system of “non-essential” jobs. It’s happened far more drastically in the past, under other presidents, before all the safety nets we have in place now weren’t even thought of. I’m sorry people aren’t being paid on time but once this impasse is solved they will all receive their back pay, as has happened many times in prior administrations.

In Liberty, Lynda Edwards

Grateful Dear Jessica and the staff at The Independent, Our charity, Heart of the Hampton, is very grateful to you for holding a food drive on our behalf. Thank you for delivering a very large amount of non-perishable items to our food pantry at 168 Hill Street in Southampton on November 30.

The number of needy local families who visit our pantry continues to grow, and so does our need for supplies. Your generous gift will help feed many local people. Our clients are your friends and neighbors, and

your contributions of food, as well as the time and effort to collect it, really helps.

Sincerely, Hilton Crosby Executive Director, Heart of the Hamptons

Joke of Jokes Dear Rick, In his letter to the Independent, published January 9, Donald Moskowitz proceeds to criticize President Trump, armed with plenty of disingenuous things to say. One by one: Russia has, for years preceding 2017, been making “significant inroads” to Syria, just like North Vietnam was doing back in the day with South Vietnam. Does DM suggest that we go to war with Russia in that godforsaken place? Leaving Syria is smart. “Red lines” anyone? Trump said, “I disagree” to his generals? The horror!

No U.S. President has taken on North Korea like Trump has. No one has sanctioned them like he has.

“Stalemate?” Par for the course when one dares to take on lunatics, but the foundational point that Trump has dared engage NOKO seems to evade DM.

We have “alienated allies” who had us over the barrel in more ways than one due to reckless deal making in the past. Want our help? Pay for it. Don’t like the sound of that? Tough. Going anywhere else? Didn’t think so.

Heretofore, trade agreements with China advantaged China. No more of that. They are our greatest existential threat in more ways than I have the necessary space here to enumerate.

“The stock market tanked in December?” You must be kidding, DM. The stock market has flourished under Trump, but that basic fact gets left out of DM’s little screed. Would you rather have 85 percent of a huge gain in your portfolio or 100 percent of a much smaller gain? I’m waiting . . .The Dems have “shut down the government.” The wall is “very costly” to DM. No, it isn’t and it “might not solve” the illegal immigration problem. That problem costs us immeasurably and measurably and both far in excess of $5 billion.

I would refer DM to the Wall Street Journal editorial pages regarding EPA “weakening” and reduction of national monument areas. EPA over regulates but that’s not a problem to people like DM.

The Mueller investigation is the joke of jokes. Why not admit that it has not and will not, ever be able to justify its existence and the phony reasons (Dem collusion with Russians!) around which it was created.

Trump lost two thirds of the House seats Obama lost in his first mid-term. Plus, he gained Senate seats, whereas Obama lost six. That makes Trump a one-third better President than the feckless Obama.

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News & Opinion Springs School’s Winter Of Discontent Allegations say administration handled harassment claims poorly

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

The five members of the Springs School Board and Superintendent Debra Winter have mishandled charges of harassment in the workplace, costing district taxpayers more than $120,000 in legal fees, according to a group of teachers who recently spoke with The Independent.

Almost all of the teachers who are currently employed at the school asked that their names not be used, saying they are afraid of retribution from school board members, and, in particular, Winter.

However, Dianne Mehrhoff, a substitute teacher at the school, agreed to have her name used.

The director of the New York State Division of Human Rights Office of Sexual Harassment Issues, Joyce Yearwood-Drury, has charged the school district management with ignoring multiple reports from Mehrhoff regarding a male supervisor allegedly making repeated sexually offensive comments about women.

According to the complaint filed by the state, which The Independent has obtained, Mehrhoff began working for the school as a substitute teacher in 2004. In February 2016, she took on an additional job as a part-time clerk-typist, and was promoted the following year to a higher part-time position, account clerk-typist. All the while, she continued to work as a substitute teacher, usually working several days a week.

In July 2017, Michael Henery was hired as a business administrator for Springs School, making him Mehrhoff’s second level supervisor.

On November 17, 2017, Mehrhoff spoke with Winter, complaining about misogynistic comments Henery

allegedly made. Prior to that, she had complained about Henery to her immediate supervisor, Julie Bistrian.

“I would complain to her, telling her that somebody has to stop him. Julie would just laugh,” Mehrhoff told The Independent last week. She added that Bistrian never reported it.

Mehrhoff complained to Winter on a Friday. The following Monday, November 20, Henery entered the office Mehrhoff was working in. “He put his hand over his mouth. ‘Oh, that’s right, I’m supposed to watch what I say’” Mehrhoff said Henery told her.

The complaint from the Division of Human Rights details the offensive comments Henery is alleged to have made to Mehrhoff that she reported, first to Bistrian, and then, to Winter. These include using an acronym MFWIC (Motherf**king woman in charge), calling two female employees “bimbos,” and another female employee an “incompetent lazy ass.” He is said to have categorized yet another female employee as an “ID 10 T,” then told Mehrhoff to write those letters and numbers down. When she did, she realized it was code for “idiot.”

On February 20, 2018, the school was closed for winter break. Work was being done in the building to remove mold found in air vents and rooms, Mehrhoff said. A female coach had her female student athletes practicing basketball in the gym. Mehrhoff said that Henery cursed the coach and team and then asked, “Can’t any of these f**king stupid teachers read?”

Gender-Based Slurs Henery’s pejorative comments were

New York State has charged harassment and retribution in the case of longtime Springs School substitute teacher, Diane Mehrhoff. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

always directed toward women, the charging document states, never toward men.

On March 6, 2018, Mehrhoff again complained to Winter about Henery’s continued alleged use of gender-based slurs.

Around the time she made the second complaint, Mehrhoff received a text message that her schedule was being changed. She said Winter reprimanded her, even pulling her out of a classroom to do so. She also learned that her building access was being restricted. Mehrhoff was then demoted from part-time account clerk typist to the job of hall monitor.

She told The Independent that she was devastated and felt that she was being singled out. “I felt like I was being punished. All my coworkers could see me,” she said. She said the actions being taken against her were done to send a message to her coworkers: “This is why you don’t speak up.” One of the current teachers said of Mehrhoff’s demotion, “She was sitting there in the hall. What do you think that does to morale?”

On May 1, 2018, Mehrhoff filed a formal complaint with the state.

At the end of the school year, Mehrhoff’s hall monitor job was eliminated.

The state complaint alleges that she is called in to substitute teach much less frequently now. “I’ve been dumped to the bottom of the list,” Mehrhoff said.

She told The Independent that she has lost her health insurance because of the school’s actions.

“This is what is going on here,” one of the teachers said. “Fear and intimidation.”

The law firm of Sokoloff-Stern, one of four engaged on behalf of the school in the Mehrhoff matter, as well as in two other alleged cases of harassment over the past 15 months, prepared a 24-page response to Mehrhoff’s complaint to the state. In it, the district’s lawyers argue that Henery was not being abusive, that Mehrhoff had misunderstood some of the things Henery said, and that Mehrhoff had not been singled out for retribution for making the complaints. Yearwood-Drury, who prepared the complaint against the school for the state’s Division for Human Rights, disagreed. In her finding, she wrote, “Although the respondent quibbles about the meaning of some of the comments, it acknowledges that Mr. Henery made many of them. Moreover, there is witness confirmation.”

Yearwood-Drury found that Mehrhoff had reported the alleged harassing behavior multiple times to her supervisors, and “was subject to a series of job actions, which, contrary to the respondent’s position, do appear adverse. More seriously, the complainant was demoted from a clerical position she had held for two years.”

‘Unquestionably Inappropriate’ One of the other two investigations under Winter’s watch involved an unContinued On Page 11.

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First Steps For Wainscott Industrial Park Town reserves right for additional tests, calls for alternate plan

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

In an emergency meeting January 7, the East Hampton Town Planning Board hammered out a draft of a scoping document that will guide the owner of the proposed Wainscott Commercial Center, to be located over what is now a vast, sand and gravel mine north of Montauk Highway, when they compose their environmental impact statement for the project. Such a statement is required under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, because the board had previously declared, as lead agency, that the project could have significant adverse effects on the Wainscott area.

The owner of the old sand mine, John Tintle, is seeking to subdivide the over 70-acre site into 50 buildable lots, which are and will be zoned for business/industrial use. The current six individual properties on the site would be combined and then subdivided.

The meeting was required because the 60-day window since the board had made its positive SEQRA

declaration was about to close. If the meeting had not been held, the draft document originally presented to the board would have held sway. The seven-member board, with three new members, including its chairman, Samuel Kramer, had asked the representative of the applicant, David Eagan, for more time to consider what it had been presented with, but he declined.

The meeting lasted almost four hours, during which almost an hour was used by Eric Schantz, the town’s planner working on the project, to redraft the proposal Eagan had given the board to reflect the board’s concerns, as expressed at the meeting. Ultimately, for the sake of accuracy, the board approved the draft with handwritten revisions, which is now on file at the town clerk’s office.

The chief change in the document from what the board was initially presented with by the applicant involved ground and surface water, and soil test-

The Wainscott Commercial Center, a sand and gravel mine, seen from Wainscott Northwest Road, top, and Georigica Drive, is slated for subdivision into 50 lots for business and light industrial uses. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

ing. As written by Schantz, the soil and groundwater testing will have to follow state and county guidelines, with the Town of East Hampton reserving the right to conduct its own testing and examination of the site, as well as having final approval of the testing protocol.

In addition, Tintle will be required to provide an alternate plan more in keeping with the recently conducted hamlet study of Wainscott, which calls for, among other things, reducing overall density, a possible Long Island Rail Road train station at the norther edge of the site, and inclusion of current

open parkland. The newly written portion of the document calls for “a plan which reflects the sketch provided in the draft hamlet study report for the subject property.”

The impact study will now also be required to include traffic and vehicle emission data, from the final result of the project.

The board voted 7-0 to accept the amended draft. According to Margueritte Wolffsohn, who heads the East Hampton Town Planning Department, the applicant can respond with the impact statement on his own schedule.

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Opposition To Shellfish Leases Surfaces Critics say floating oyster cages are an eyesore and hazard

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

The interests of recreational users and commercial oyster farmers in Napeague Bay clashed January 9 at East Hampton Town Hall at an informational meeting on the future of Suffolk County’s aquaculture leasing program.

Recreational users said they feared the small number of leases currently in the bay would only continue to grow, and the number of floating cages holding oysters would multiply, causing navigational hazards for boaters, barriers for wind and kite surfers, and visual blight.

“We all support a clean and healthy bay, and we all support providing opportunities for local fishermen and women to harvest the bay,” said Christina Isaly-Liceaga, representing 78 members of the Concerned Citizens

of Gardiner’s Bay. “But we do not support allowing surface equipment and gear being placed in locations that are frequented by boaters, sailors, and other recreational users or to destroy the scenic view of residents and visitors to our nearby parks.”

A handful of commercial operators said opposition to the leasing program was overblown, based on misunderstanding of their business and the desire of some people to have the bay to themselves.

“Our industry is already highly regulated,” said Adam Younes, the owner of Promised Land Mariculture, who holds one of two currently active leases in Napeague Bay. “I’m obviously aware of the displeasure of a few residents to

Rod Richardson shows a photograph of an oyster farm on Prince Edward Island, Canada and said he feared Napeague and Gardiner’s bays could be obstructed with oyster cages if Suffolk County does not rethink its leasing program. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

my floating gear. However, this is a new technology, and it is used in many other places in the United States and around the world.”

The county’s lease program had its origins in a state law, passed in 2004, that allowed the county to grant leases on up to 110,000 acres in Peconic and Gardiner’s bays. Before the program was officially launched in 2008, the county whittled down the area deemed suitable for aquaculture to about 29,000 acres. In the 10 years the program has been in effect, the county has been selective, leasing only 600 acres in

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total and issuing only six new 10-acre leases each year.

The county is currently conducting a 10-year review of the program.

As part of that process, which is not expected to be completed for at least a year, county officials agreed to hold last week’s informational meeting in East Hampton. The county was represented

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Towns Hold Hearings On Plastic Bans Most uses of polystyrene to be nixed, plastic straws as well in SH

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Over the next few days, public hearings will be held before the town boards of Southampton and East Hampton, regarding new laws aimed at banning most uses of polystyrene.

East Hampton is first up, with its hearing scheduled for Thursday, January 17, at 6:30 PM at the East Hampton Town Hall Meeting Room at 159 Pantigo Road. The proposed new amendment to the town code would ban almost all uses of polystyrene, also known by the brand name Styrofoam, in the food service industry. The sale of polystyrene coolers and packing peanuts will also be banned.

The law will include exceptions allowing the continued use of poly-

styrene trays as packaging by butchers and fish mongers. In addition, foods prepackaged outside of East Hampton before they are shipped to an East Hampton store in polystyrene packaging will be allowed. Also exempt from the ban are polystyrene containers used by fish wholesalers for shipments outside the town of East Hampton.

According to Sylvia Overby, the town board member who crafted the law, it closely mimics the ban on polystyrene imposed by East Hampton Village this past August.

If approved by the East Hampton Town Board, the new law will go into effect about April 22. The delay is to allow retailers to deal with their current

stock of the soon-to-be-banned items.

The public hearing on a similar ban in the Town of Southampton will be held at the Hampton Bays Community Center, 25 Ponquogue Avenue, Hampton Bays, on January 22, at 6 PM. The law is drawn along very similar lines as the one in East Hampton, with most of the same exceptions.

The one exemption in the proposed East Hampton law not included in the Southampton version is allowing fish wholesalers shipping fish out of the town to use polystyrene cooling cases, an industry norm.

However, the Southampton town amendment goes much further than

that proposed in East Hampton in that, essentially, it bans the distribution at food markets of all plastic straws and stirrers, whatever type of plastic they are made from. If the law is approved, customers will only be given straws or stirrers upon request, and they would have to be made of biodegradable materials, not plastic.

Overby said last week that East Hampton Town is likely to follow Southampton Town’s ban on plastic straws and stirrers. “It is the next piece of legislation,” she said.

If approved, Southampton’s new law will go into effect May 8, allowing retailers time to dispose of their current stock.

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Town Aims To Reduce Plastic In Ocean After polystyrene, plastic straws, stirrers, and balloons up next

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

With most uses of polystyrene in the food service industry in East Hampton likely soon to be banned, the East Hampton Town Board is turning its attention to food service items that all too frequently end up in the ocean, and in our food chain: plastic straws and stirrers, and possibly even plastic cup tops.

According to town board member Sylvia Overby, the legislation would be similar to that currently being considered by Southampton Town, which, if approved, would allow businesses to hand out straws and stirrers only upon customer request, and those straws and stirrers would have to consist of biodegradable material.

After that, Overby said, it may well be time to ban the practice of releasing balloons into the sky. “We do not want to traumatize any children,” she said jokingly last week. However, the free release of balloons into the air at events such as weddings, birthday parties, graduations, and memorials, is no laughing matter, Overby said. The balloons themselves, along with the plastic clips used to close them, end up in the ocean, harming fish and birds, and, all too often, ending up in our food chain.

Overby cited a presentation made

by East Hampton Town Trustee Susan McGraw Keber to the town’s Recycling and Littering Committee, to which she is the town board’s liaison. “She has

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Sylvia Overby, at her office at Town Hall, hopes to eliminate the flow of plastic straws into ocean waters around East Hampton with future legislation.

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been working on this for quite a while,” Overby said.

The balloons, Overby said, after being released, eventually end up in the ocean, where, to aquatic animals, they can look like a food source, such as jellyfish. “They can look like a lot of other things that birds eat,” Overby said. And the ribbons tied to the balloons get tangled with birds. According to Overby, the committee “did a cleanup on the beach after Thanksgiving, and in a very short time, they had come up with 33 balloons.” She said that Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc is of like mind on the issue.

The focus of the legislation would not be on the balloons themselves, Overby said, but rather, the intentional release of them into the atmosphere. If a child lets go of a balloon accidentally, enforcement officers will not be tracking them down. But it is the intentional release of balloons, particularly when it involves multiple balloons, that the town is hoping to stop.

Overby suggests some alternatives to balloons. Soap bubbles being released into the air are one possibility. “Children like bubbles,” she said. “Bubbles are fun.”

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$4 Million For Water Mains Southampton sets aside CPF funds for East Quogue

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The Southampton Town Board voted unanimously at its January 8 meeting to set aside $4 million in Community Preservation Fund revenue to extend water mains in East Quogue. Contaminants had been detected in private wells there last year, and the funds will connect homes to public water.

In February, the state Department of Environmental Conservation found the chemical perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, commonly known as PFOS, at levels 150 times the federal health ad-

visory limit at the former Damascus Road landfill in East Quogue. The testing was conducted as part of a broader state investigation into how pollution from closed landfills affects groundwater. PFOS and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) were detected in 45 private wells in the hamlet. Health effects associated with the chemicals include liver damage, decreased fertility, developmental delays in fetuses and children, and possibly cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill last month allowing the CPF, which is financed through a two percent tax on real estate transfers, be used to build water mains in areas affected by drinking water contamination. Public water, unlike private wells, is regularly monitored and must meet drinking water standards.

The estimated $1.2 million cost for water main extensions, $800,000 charges and associated tapping fees, and $2 million to connect homes to newly-extended and existing water mains in the area brings the total to $4 million, which is what the board approved at the meeting.

Southampton has applied for a New York State Water Quality Improvement Grant, which would cover 60 percent, or $1.2 million, of the total $2 million cost for water main extensions, and surcharges and associated tapping fees.

If awarded, the town’s portion of the grant would be 40 percent, or approximately $800,000, thereby reducing the $4 million to $2.8 million.

Southampton also tabled two top resolutions at its town board meeting pending further review. The first, a

Southampton Town has set aside $4 million in Community Preservation Fund money to extend water mains in East Quogue to connect homes to public water. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

highly-anticipated vote on the purchase of Hampton Bays’ Bel-Aire Cove Motel for either CPF purchase or community development, was postponed to January 22. All eight residents that spoke during a public hearing on acquiring the property were in favor of the CPF purchase.

Also postponed was a vote on amending Town Code Chapter 270 (rental properties) to provide for additional affordable housing throughout the town. The accessory apartments changes to the law are pending a State Environmental Quality Review Act impact study.

Tuckahoe Taxes Too High?

Developers and real estate agents address grievances with town board

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com High taxes on new builds are stigmatizing Tuckahoe and deterring potential buyers, according to a handful of developers and real estate agents who voiced their concerns to the Southampton Town Board on January 8.

“You’re putting a burden on the people in Tuckahoe,” said Peter Calogrias, a Tuckahoe resident and local builder for 45 years. “We’re being taxed roughly 50 percent higher than other areas in the town. Between the high taxes and reassessment every two years, it’s very aggressive, and making homes less appealing to buyers. The board needs to think about the future.”

Douglas Elliman real estate agent Laura Nigro said homes being assessed at very high rates is only part of the problem, citing the 7.14 percent school tax.

According to Nigro, taxes run roughly $29-30,000 on a half-acre property. To help solve the problem, she proposed amortization.

“Most of the people who buy these homes are second-home buyers who don’t have children going to school,” she

said. “We can say they pay 2.16 percent Southampton Town rate and amortize the Tuckahoe rate to bring it up to the district rate over the next 10 years so that more houses and more people would be added to our rolls. And then maybe in that 10 years, our overall tax rate could come down a little bit with more people buying into the area.”

She and others felt having some sort of incentive for buyers of new construction is essential when there’s higher school taxes, especially because they’re seeing most potential purchasers deciding to forgo buying in Tuckahoe to live in other areas of the town where the rates are much lower.

Builder Frank DeVito said he’s lost two prospective buyers in the last few months because of taxes. He said he was charged $66,000 on a vacant piece of land, which was eventually grieved down to $39,000, and charged $88,000 on another.

“With 400 kids in the school, how do you get away with charging taxes like that?” he asked the board. “There’s tons

New builds in Tuckahoe are assessed high and taxed steeply according to local builders and real estate agents, with a large chunk of that being school district taxes. Independent/James J. Mackin

of Community Preservation Fund-purchased parcels, places for parkland, golf courses . . . and everyone else is making up the difference for all the land taken off the tax roll. Lower taxes would bring in more business — taxes and work comes in — and will bring in more revenue.”

Tuckahoe’s total tax base, or market value, is $2.63 billion, compared to Southampton’s over $26 billion.

“Many districts east are subsidized by the second homeowners,” Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said. “What you say makes a lot of sense to me, I agree with you, and I’m happy you’re here.”

Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said while there are some good ideas to explore, the idea of phasing in would have to be approved by the state, and difficult to do.

“I think we should continue to look

at this,” Schneiderman said. “I understand it may be discouraging buyers, but the school isn’t losing out on taxes.”

Many developers cited hundreds of workers hired and millions of dollars spent to put up these homes, which broadens the tax base, and said being the largest local industry needs to be taken into consideration when coming up with a potential solution.

“Put the land aside for a second and save the people, save the culture, save the workers, save the students,” Calogrias said. “You’re losing quality people and you’re losing longtime residents — I’ve spoken to many people that aren’t planning on staying because their taxes are doubling every couple of years. Take a look at this situation just down the block and address it in any way you can.”

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named school board member who was said to have groped an unnamed female teacher. Regina Cafarella of the law firm Douglas A. Spencer investigated the complaint, which was filed with the school on February 12, 2018. On February 27, Carafella issued a finding, affirming the teacher’s claim, writing that the board member “did inappropriately touch” the woman’s stomach, as well as made inappropriate comments about her figure, concluding that the board member’s “conduct was unquestionably inappropriate.”

Yet, Carafella concluded in her letter dated February 27, which was addressed to the victim, that the board member’s actions “did not constitute a violation of state and federal anti-discrimination laws,” and recommended no further action be taken by the district on the matter other than to “admonish” the board member “to abstain from any other physical contact with you or any other staff member, and from making any further comments.”

That unnamed teacher has not, as of yet, filed a complaint with the state.

The third investigation involving outside law firms, whose bills will be paid by Springs taxpayers, was sparked by Winter, herself. Ann Marie Schuppe, a teacher at Springs for 33 years, spoke recently about the incident. Schuppe retired before the current school year began.

According to Schuppe, sometime after the first two allegations of harassment were made against the school and the board, a group of teachers, both tenured and untenured, went out to a restaurant one night for a social get-together.

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Schuppe explained the tenure process for new teachers. Teachers remain untenured for at least the first four years of employment at the school. They are members of the union, but they do not have job security, said Schuppe.

As the party was dispersing, a young substitute teacher began speaking aggressively, in a loud voice, about the school’s administration, Schuppe related. When told that she needed to calm down, the woman left the restaurant. Forty-five minutes later, Schuppe, who was the head of the mentor program for newly hired teachers, and a couple of other veteran teachers left the restaurant, only to be confronted in the parking lot by the younger teacher, who demanded to know what she had done wrong.

While no charge of harassment was ever filed by the untenured teacher, a two-month long investigation ensured, during which Winter, using the one of the school’s law firms, searched for untenured teachers to bring harassment charges against veteran teachers, several current teachers told The Independent.

One of those who spoke about the investigation described Winter as “running up and down the hallways, going into untenured teachers’ classrooms, asking if they had been harassed.” The veteran teacher said that Winter “didn’t even know people’s names.”

“Lawyers were paraded into the building and took over an office,” another teacher said. Teachers were pulled out of classes and brought to the office, where they were interviewed by the lawyers. “Teachers were crying in the hallways,” the same teacher said.

“They spent $40,000 of taxpay-

Hospital Receives Grant The Ellen Hermanson Foundation has awarded Stony Brook Southampton Hospital $285,000 in grant money to benefit the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center, Ellen’s Well, a program that provides psychosocial support to breast and gynecological cancer survivors, and the Phillips Family Cancer Center, which will open later this year.

The grant will underwrite the cost of a Leica Mammotome Expert Biopsy Suite, which has the most advanced technology available and enables surgeons and radiologists to access and examine specimens without leaving the operating room. It will also fund a Hologic Affirm Prone Breast Biopsy System, which uses threedimensional imaging to facilitate the biopsy process, as well as three more chemotherapy infusion chairs for the

Phillips Family Cancer Center.

The money will also benefit programs and services offered through the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center and Ellen’s Well, including mammograms, ultrasounds and MRIs for uninsured women, nutritional counseling, an oncological social worker, reflexology during chemotherapy and transportation assistance, as well as programs for yoga, water exercises, strength training, massages, and acupuncture.

“We cherish our longstanding partnership with the Ellen Hermanson Foundation and are grateful beyond words for this most recent grant,” said Bob Chaloner, the chief administrative officer of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

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ers’ money, looking for someone to say something negative,” yet another teacher said about that investigation.

The Independent has corroborated the total amount spent on law firms via documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

In the end, nothing was turned up by the investigation, a fact seemingly acknowledged by Winter in a letter to the staff. “Towards the end of the school year, members of the teaching staff raised allegations of harassment, bullying, and intimidation by other teachers,” Winter wrote. “I can report at this time that our attorneys did not find any conduct that was legally actionable, but that there is a palpable division amongst our teaching staff and that we need to make a better effort towards treating each other with the respect that we all deserve.”

When contacted by The Independent last week, Winter would not comment for this story, saying, “I cannot talk about personnel matters. You know that." She did not return a followup call on Monday.

‘Morale Is Low’ A culture of discontent among the school staff, Schuppe says, has been created by Winter. She described what her former co-workers are now going

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through. Schuppe said the teachers don’t allow it to enter the classroom.

“Everybody is in there, doing their thing with the children. But, once you walk out of that classroom, amongst colleagues, the morale is low,” Schuppe said. “When you are with the kids, you are going to be that peppy person. That is your job. Those are your children.

You are going to do what you normally do. People aren’t going to know about morale, because their kids are happy.”

But, away from the children, she said, things are quite different.

In her second year on the job, Winter’s compensation package as school district superintendent ranks in the upper echelon on the East End, according to the New York State Education Department. The total compensation figure is arrived at by adding salary, benefits, and a classification of “other.”

Winter’s $265,000 total compensation is slightly more than $5000 higher than that of the East Hampton school superintendent. The superintendent in Westhampton Beach brings in just over $300,000, and Southampton just over $285,000. The Bridgehampton superintendent is the lowest compensated on the East End, at just over $192,000.

Across Long Island as a whole, compensation packages of $300,000 or more are not unusual.

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Full Steam Ahead For EH Affordable Housing Public hearing regarding land purchase slated for January 17

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

A public hearing will be held before the East Hampton Town Board on Thursday, January 17, on the town’s proposal to purchase the almost four-acre property on Route 114 long owned by the Triune Baptist Church in Sag Harbor, for $900,000. Though located in the Wainscott School district, the site is much closer to the heart of Sag Harbor Village, as opposed to either East Hampton or Wainscott. The hearing will be held at the Town Board Meeting Room, East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc spoke about the proposal with The Independent on January 11.

“We have been looking as a town board for appropriate, available sites that would be able to accommodate an affordable housing project We have lost out on a couple of potential sites in the past,” Van Scoyoc said. The Triune Baptist Church, which is located on Hampton Road in Sag Harbor, has owned the land since about 1993, with the intention of building a new church

on it. That plan has been shelved, making the land available.

The property is adjacent to eight cottages on a two-acre site recently purchased by the Sag Harbor Housing Trust. “We think that either together, or separately, we can put together a project there at that location,” Van Scoyoc said. He believes property could yield between 20 and 30 units.

“We are going to give a preference to East Hampton and Sag Harbor residents,” the supervisor said about future tenants. Supervisor Van Scoyoc explained the need for affordable housing in East Hampton. He said, “We have families that have lived here in town for 14 generations, who would like to make it 15.”

“We think that ‘live and work local’ is a really good goal. It cuts down on commuter traffic, and it helps maintain the fabric of our community,” Van Scoyoc added. Affordable housing will help local people stay local, “and maintain the fabric of the community. Every local business, school district, and municipality has

trouble hiring and retaining staff.

This is something that is a problem for all of us. When we hire people who live here, that money stays in the local community. It is not headed west every day.”

This project would be purchased with general municipal funds, the supervisor indicated.

“We are just completing 12 units at the Accabonac Manor House,” Van Scoyoc said, referring to a slightly under three-acre site originally purchased by the town from the Accabonac Tennis Club in 2007. Located just south of the Windmill Village I complex, that project comprises three buildings.

He said that another affordable housing effort, in Amagansett, will be breaking ground in April. That project, called 531, will have a total of 38 units on it.

The town will continue its drive towards creating affordable housing for those who live and work in East Hampton, Van Scoyoc said. “We are going to continue to look for additional properties,” the supervisor concluded.

Dust Bowl Blows Through Amagansett Layers cover cars, decks, and houses

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com No, that wasn’t Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” you saw last week walking down Amagansett Main Street, but it would have been an easy mistake to make given the dust bowl conditions in the hamlet.

“The land in back of the Amagansett parking lot has caused a dust bowl for the school, library, and businesses in Amagansett,” Rona Klopman, a member

of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, said in an email to The Independent January 13. “The land is fallow, and is causing lots of problems.”

Walking through the parking lot off of Main Street on January 11, a reporter found the blowing clouds of dirt and dust occasionally made it hard to see, and left a gritty sensation in the mouth.

The farmland is about 30 acres in

Clouds of dust blew up from fields north of Amagansett Main Street, creating dust bowl conditions.

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all, and is divided among several owners, mostly corporations with the Bistrian name attached. According to the East Hampton Town Planning Department, the land is farmed every year. The

farmers rent from the different owners.

One strip of land in the field is owned by the town.

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Editorial It’s Wainscott’s Turn The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing when it meets at 6 PM Thursday, January 17, on a proposal to develop a four-acre site on Route 114 with up to 30 units of affordable housing.

The town is buying the site from the Triune Baptist Church of East Hampton, which owned the property for more than a decade and has abandoned plans to build a church there.

The property is next to the former Cottages, an eight-unit affordable complex, that was acquired by the Sag Harbor Housing Trust several years ago. The trust, established when the developers of the Watchcase condominiums in Sag Harbor Village were allowed to make a donation in lieu of providing on-site affordable units, snapped up the Cottages rather than let the property go onto the open market, where rents would have surely skyrocketed, forcing out its working-class tenants.

In recent years, East Hampton Town has been making steady, if slow, progress in its effort to put a dent in the affordable housing crisis that makes it harder and harder for locals to stay in their home town and for the people who toil in lowpaying jobs to live in decent conditions. The Accabonac Manor House project will soon yield 12 new affordable units, and the 531 project in Amagansett will create another 38 affordable apartments.

Although the property now being eyed is just outside the Village of Sag Harbor, it is in the Wainscott School District. And if past efforts to develop affordable housing in Wainscott are any indication, we can expect this one to be accompanied by plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth from school district officials.

We get it. Wainscott, like its neighbor to the west, Sagaponack, boasts high real estate values, a low school population, and minuscule school taxes that are the envy of taxpayers living in neighboring school districts. Although the district has seen its enrollment rise sharply when expressed in percentage terms, its total number of students remains low.

There are now affordable housing developments in the Montauk, Amagansett, and East Hampton school districts. Springs, by virtue of its small lots and middleclass housing stock, is already the de facto site of most of the town’s affordable housing. The time has come for Wainscott to provide its share.

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JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

Any thoughts on the government shutdown?

Elizabeth McCarron I’m baffled. What kind of government would put people out of work to get what they want?

There’s no working together which is exactly what they need to do.

Government is so removed from real life, they don’t even know what the country is about anymore. Some may care. But some do not.

Susan Denton I feel they all need to work together.

Both parties. What they’re doing now doesn’t do any of us any good. And it doesn’t do them any good either.

There is a solution out there but only if they would compromise. They need to compromise and calm down.

Michael Cioffi I think Trump’s doing a great job. I think the Democrats have to give a little bit. We need the wall. It's a necessity. And I hope that the shutdown doesn't last much longer.

Tim Treadwell I think that all the politicians in Washington need to get together and come up with some common ground and a solution to solve this problem that will get everyone back to work.

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Police Pair Sentenced To Jail In Town Justice Court Two men with prior felony convictions plead guilty

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Fabrice Twagirumukiza, shown here after his August arrest, pleaded guilty to felony DWI on January 11, and will serve time. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

Two men arrested this past August by East Hampton Town police are now facing sentences of 12 to 36 months behind bars, with a promise of substance abuse rehabilitation.

Kevin Becker, 30, of Montauk was one of the 17 defendants picked up last summer as part of a massive narcotics sweep through the hamlet conducted by town police and agents from the East End Drug Task Force and the district attorney’s office.

Becker’s attorney, Edward Burke Jr., negotiated, negotiated a deal accepted by New York State Justice Timothy Mazzei that allowed Becker to plead guilty to conspiracy to distribution at the E felony level, reduced from the more serious B felony charge. The deal was noteworthy because Becker had a prior felony conviction on a driving while intoxicated charge. He was also apparently a peripheral player in the larger narcotics distribution scheme. Burke told the court at the time that Becker had entered the Dunes Rehabilitation program.

That deal was abandoned when

Becker was arrested again in early October on a new felony DWI charge in Montauk,. From then on, Becker remained in county jail, while Burke negotiated on his behalf.

Originally scheduled to be sentenced on the narcotics charge October 31, that sentencing was put off several times, as Burke negotiated with District Attorney Tim Sini’s office. Burke had said all along that he believed the DWI case could be fought in court. Meanwhile, Mazzei continually postponed sentencing, until the DWI charge was dealt with.

On December 19, in East Hampton Town Justice Court, the felony drunken driving charge was dismissed, and, instead, Becker was allowed to plead guilty to a simple violation, driving with ability impaired.

The next day, Justice Mazzei sentenced Becker to 18 to 36 months, to be served at the Willard Correctional facility in the Finger Lakes region. Willard specializes in drug treatment cases.

The time Becker has been in jail

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during the process counts toward his sentence. With time off for good behavior, Becker could be released before the end of the year.

Fabrice Twagirumukiza of Sag Harbor was charged with felony DWI in August. With at least one past felony DWI conviction, Twagirumukiza was indicted on six new felony charges,

including unlicensed driving after being convicted of DWI, as well as aggravated drunken driving, meaning he had an excessive amount of alcohol in his system when arrested in August.

Bail was initially set in East Hampton at $7500, which some friends posted for Twagirumukiza, but when the case got to the county courtroom of Justice Stephen Braslow in early September, bail was upped to $50,000, and Twagirumukiza, unable to raise that amount, was placed in county jail.

On Friday, January 11, Twagirumukiza pleaded guilty as charged. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 8, apparently to a one-year sentence.

Counting his time already served, and with time off for good behavior, Twagirumukiza, who is in a rehabilitation program in county jail, could be out as early as June, if Justice Braslow goes along with the one-year sentence.

Quiet Week For DWIs It was a quiet week on the roads for East Hampton and Sag Harbor police, with no arrests made on drunken driving charges in East Hampton, from Wainscott to Montauk, and just one in Sag Harbor.

John Scocco, 60, of Sag Harbor, was driving a 2018 Jeep on Main Street on January 13, headed north, when he stopped his car, put it in reverse, then backed into a parking space. According to police, he backed the Jeep up all the way onto the sidewalk, turned the engine off, and got out of the car, when an officer approached him.

Failing roadside sobriety tests, he

was placed under arrest on a charge of driving while intoxicated, a charge that was allegedly confirmed by a breath test given by police at their Division Street headquarters.

Scocco was represented during his arraignment later Sunday morning in front of Justice Lisa Rana by Brian DeSesa, who told the court the defendant had no criminal record, and lives and owns a business in Sag Harbor.

Justice Rana ordered Scocco released without having to post bail, but with a future date on her calendar.

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We’re sorry he is not happy.”

The Independent, using police sources, pieced together a more detailed scenario about the disappearance of the cash.

The money was bundled, probably prepared for a bank deposit, and tossed on the seat of a car parked behind the Bridgehampton Candy Kitchen just to the east of School Street shortly after 4 AM the morning of the theft. There is a small lot there, room for perhaps four vehicles set apart from the bigger municipal parking to the east.

At about 5:15, the victim got into his car to leave and noticed the cash was gone.

The man police say is a person of interest was picked up by a security camera crossing Main Street from north to south. He was a couple of steps from the curb in front of the Candy Kitchen. He was the only person on foot seen on the video during the time the money was in the car.

“It’s pitch-dark outside,” Det. Sgt. Costa related. “We can’t see who is around. We have to develop leads. Could it be a stranger? We’re checking to see what is normal behavior, normal procedure.”

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Money was left in an unlocked car

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town Police responded to charges made by a Bridgehampton business owner that detectives had kept him out of the loop during its investigation of the theft of nearly $60,000.

Police initially reported on Thursday, January 3, that $60,000 has been taken from a car in Bridgehampton 10 weeks earlier, using a Crime Stoppers alert to notify the public and offer a reward. A picture of a “Person of Interest” was released.

But the victim told The Independent police never showed him that photograph and did not follow up with updates after he initially reported the crime on October 15.

“He’s seen it,” countered Southampton Town Police Lieutenant James Kierson. “Maybe he thinks we have other ones or a different video.”

Det. Sgt. Lisa Costa said the investigation is an active one. “We look at every angle. We do not take it lightly.

Camera Captures Pocketbook Theft In-store security systems are getting more sophisticated

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Retail stores have relied on security cameras to help curtail thefts for quite some time, and the technology keeps getting better and better.

Cameras were whirling at Tanger Mall as holiday shopping reached a crescendo in the days before Christmas. The proprietors at Old Navy noticed suspi-

cious behavior and called in the Riverhead Town Police.

Police ascertained that three people, a man and two women, entered the store at about 6:45 PM on December 23 and “acted in concert” to steal a pocketbook belonging to a shopper. The trio concealed the pocketbook and then fled the store with it, police said. The pocketbook contained cash, credit cards, identification, a cell phone, and assorted items of value, in excess of $1000, according to police.

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North Fork Keep Out! Hunting In Progress Riverhead says it will fine trespassers on town nature trail

By Gianna Volpe Bikers and hikers be advised: The recreation trail in the Calverton Enterprise Park is closed until February, and town police have been advised to enforce a $500 fine for trespassing. The reason?

The deer shotgun-hunting season is open until January 31.

Two members of Riverhead Town’s Wildlife Management Committee, Jerry Halpin and Chris Witt, appeared before the town board on Thursday, January 10, to discuss ways to keep people out of the park during what can a dangerous time, as state-licensed hunters cull the deer herd.

“This is the first year that we’ve had the full EPCAL trail completed during that season, so there is some concern of how it’s being posted to let the community know that they cannot go on the property that time of year,” Riverhead Town Supervisor Laura Jens-Smith said. “We have notified the newspapers, it’s on our website, it’s been placed on our social media, but we feel we need to continue notifying the public that it is closed at this time for safety reasons during this season.”

Not only could trespassers be

North Fork News Compiled by Genevieve Kotz

Bad News For Tree Lovers The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Cornell Cooperative Extension Suffolk County announced that the emerald ash borer has been found for the first time on the East End — on private property in the Town of Southold. Cornell confirmed the discovery of larval specimens from infested trees earlier this month.

The emerald ash borer is native to Asia and was first discovered in the U.S. in 2002 in southeastern Michigan. This invasive beetle infests and kills North American ash species, including green, white, black, and blue ash. Although not a large component of Long Island’s forest ecosystem, ash trees are often used as an amenity or shade tree in landscapes and along roadsides.

Infestation is difficult to detect during its early stages. Later signs of infestation include woodpecker activity and outer bark being removed, numerous shoots produced on trunks or limbs, tree canopy yellowing or dieback, browning of leaves, and winding

galleries in the inner bark.

Emerald ash borer larvae feed in the cambium layer just below the bark, disrupting the transport of water and nutrients into the crown and killing the tree often within a few years. Emerging adult beetles leave distinctive 1/8-inch D-shaped exit holes in the outer bark of the branches and the trunk. Adults are roughly 3/8 to 5/8 inches long with metallic green wing covers and a coppery red or purple abdomen. They may be present from late May through early September but are most common in June and July.

The public has been encouraged to send suspect samples and direct inquiries to the Cornell Cooperative Extension office in Riverhead or visit the DEC’s website for more information.

Riverhead Idol Returns The Riverhead Recreation Department’s annual “Riverhead Idol” competition will return on Saturday, January 19, at 7 PM at the Shade Tree Center in Aquebogue.

The competition, which held

fined $500, but they could face up to 30 days in jail, according to Riverhead Town Police Chief David Hagermiller.

The two wildlife management committee members said they’ve had issues with the removal of posted signs and peeling off of stickers from signs during the archery season. Halpin said while finding people on the trail at this time of year is not a new phenomenon, it has escalated with the trail’s completion.

He cited a “brazenness upon those from outside of Riverhead . . . that somehow this is for them and no one else can have it.” He said of the more than 100 people the committee has spoken to regarding the park’s limitations through deer hunting season, “The people who give us the majority of the grief and the push-back — and swearing— are not from the Town of Riverhead.”

The committee’s suggestion to create a way to register visitors who want to use the trail was not considered by the board as the trail was completed using state and federal funds, but the board asked police to patrol the area on a regu-

lar basis and enforce trespassing fines. It will send notices to bike clubs and post additional signs, as well as consider larger, permanent ones to alert visitors how hunter activity taking place three months out of the year affects park closures.

“Some of these deer are pretty scrawny up there and you’re kind of doing a public service, if you will, to thin the herd out up there, and we appreciate what you’re doing,” said Councilman Tim Hubbard, the board’s liaison to the Wildlife Management Committee.

“I appreciate what you’re doing, how you’re doing it, and wish you to continue on. I’m not looking to shut down anything for the sake of some people who refuse to abide by the law. The onus is on them. In my opinion, the town has done everything in its power to make this known to the public. So, if you walk by a four-by-eight-inch sign that says that it’s closed because it’s hunting season, shame on you.”

For more information, visit the town’s website at www.townofriverheadny.gov.

auditions for students in grades 7 through 12 in December, will award first, second, and third-place winners with gift cards to Tanger Outlets and opportunities to sing at local events.

Tickets are $10 purchased ahead of time, or $12 at the door. The doors open at 6:30 PM. For more information, email Liz Keller at keller@townofriverheadny. gov or call 631-722-4444 ext. 740.

The library also has “Ice Painting Masterpieces” for toddlers to create ephemeral art work with ice cubes on Saturday, January 19, at 11 AM and a “Choose Your Own Adventure” reading event for elementary-aged children on Wednesday, January 23, at 3 PM.

Programs for young adults include a chess club hosted on Thursdays, January 17 and January 24, at 2:30 PM and a chance to play the new Super Smash Bros Ultimate on Fridays, January 18 and 25, at 2:30 PM.

For information on library programming, call 631-749-0042 or visit its website at shelterislandpubliclibrary.org.

Riverhead Town Board Meeting The Riverhead Town Board has changed its evening meeting time to 6 PM.

The next meetings will take place at Riverhead Town Hall on Wednesday, February 5, at 2 PM and Wednesday, February 20, at 6 PM. For more information, visit the town’s website at townofriverheadny.gov.

Shelter Island Library Events The Shelter Island Library continues to offer a variety of programs for residents of all ages. The library will screen “Always at the Carlyle,” a documentary on the legendary New York hotel whose guests have included George Clooney, Anthony Bourdain, and Anjelica Huston, on Friday, January 18, at 7 PM.

Peconic Bay Sailing Association Two youth sailing clubs received donations from the Peconic Bay Sailing Association at the group’s annual winter holiday party in December.

East End Youth Sailing and the Old Cove Youth Sailing Foundation, both based in Cutchogue, each received checks for $1500 toward their programs.

The funds were donated by members of the Peconic Bay Sailing Association from proceeds of their Whitebead 25 Regatta raffle and other fundraising activities.

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Arts & Entertainment Southampton Inn’s Good Dede Owner discusses ongoing evolution of village business

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The property at 91 Hill Street in Southampton sits on five acres in the historic village. Dede Moan owns this piece of beautiful property, also known as Southampton Inn, which has been a haven of relaxation and enjoyment for locals and visitors alike. Indy caught up with Moan to learn about the Inn and its community connections.

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in New York City and Hampton Bays. The ocean beaches didn’t have concession stands, and we bicycled everywhere — even across Montauk Highway. My appreciation of Long Island’s beauty stayed with me, and I have called the Hamptons my second home for years.

Why the village of Southampton?

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My family bought a house in 1951, and I have spent almost all of my summers and much of the off season in and around Southampton. The purchase of the inn in 1997 was, in part, an excuse to be able to spend summers with my children out of Manhattan and also work. I hadn’t totally factored in the snowy January days.

How did you get involved with Southampton Inn? In 1997, an East End realtor asked me to assist in preparing a sales package for the Southampton Inn and its adjacent commercial property known as International Plaza. I put together the financial statements and a sale brochure, and I made an offer to purchase it myself.

I never decided to run a hotel or restaurant. The inn project was going to be a fixer-upper and flip, but in 2008 the market was challenging and the Wall Street world (and many of our repeat corporate conference customers) was falling apart. I hired myself as general manager at that time and here I am, 10 years later, at the helm. The restaurant was breakfast and seasonal poolside lunch for 19 years — and then it became a dinner and private party venue as a way to support the hotel during the winter months.

What did you do previously?

I was a loan officer at Chase Manhattan Bank, managed an urban renewal portfolio at the New York State UDC, was director of investment sales at Julien Studley real estate brokers, and was a partner in the Kaempfer Company, real estate developer in Washington, DC.

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How has the restaurant changed with the evolving town?

Our restaurant, Claude’s, opened summer of 2018, and we have award-winning Chef James Carpenter creating delightful menus for our guests and catered events. It has won seven awards during its first few months of being open.

What makes Claude’s particularly unique?

Claude’s has a superb chef, wonderful foods, affordable prices, gracious service, and a pretty room inside or, weather permitting, outside. It is quite off the beaten path and is quiet enough to talk during a meal, welcoming to

large tables, has plenty of parking, and lots of personality.

It seems to do best when it is used by community members and groups for their own private parties, holidays, birthdays, family reunions, and corporate meetings. Artist shows, book signings, piano teacher recitals, nonprofit fundraisers . . . the list goes on. And we hope that more locals will visit, enjoy, and return as the best part of a restaurant, other than the great food and wine, has to be the people and ambiance.

How has this business changed your life?

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Love Takes A Bite Out Of Cancer Muses in Southampton hosts annual tasting event

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Cancer is a bitter disease. However, for one night in January it is sweetened up with the love and support of the East End community in the annual Love Bites charity event being held this year on Saturday, January 26, from 7 to 10:30 PM at The Muses in Southampton. The evening benefits Katy’s Courage.

Love Bites was founded by Linda Shapiro in 2005 to benefit the Gilda’s Club of the East End, a start-up cancer organization spin off of Gilda’s Club in New York City, in memory of comedian Gilda Radner of “Saturday Night Live” and wife of the late Gene Wilder. Upon a return in 2006 benefitting CancerCare, Love Bites returned in 2015, with proceeds going toward The Ellen Hermanson Foundation in memory of Shapiro’s friend, Annette Heller. That year, the event was held at Seasons of Southampton. Due to the event’s growing audience, in 2016, Love Bites was moved to The Muses in Southampton, benefitting Katy’s Courage and the Scarlett Foundation at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

“All of us at Katy’s Courage feel fortunate to be beneficiaries of this year’s edition of the Love Bites 2019 fundraiser. We are grateful that Peter Ambrose, Mike Variale, and Linda Shapiro have been gracious enough

to once again organize a very special event. It would not be possible without the chefs and restaurants and all of the other sponsors and we value their generosity and participation,” stated Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart, Katy Stewart’s parents.

Katy’s Courage is a not-for-profit honoring Katy Stewart, an inspirational young local girl who succumbed to pediatric liver cancer at only 12 years old. Proceeds raised for the organization benefit local scholarships, pediatric cancer research, and bereavement counseling of Katy’s Kids at the Children’s Museum of the East End.

“The savory food is varied, incredibly tasty, and so well prepared. The desserts are works of art and melt in your mouth. The atmosphere at The Muses is absolutely beautiful. It is a great way to gather together and see friends during the winter,” Shapiro added.

This year’s turnout is expected to exceed over 400 guests. Music will be provided by DJ Michael of East End Entertainment. Also on tap will be a silent auction, a golfers dream raffle, and local delectables.

“Michael Variale of East End Entertainment has donated so much more than his musical talents. The East End restaurants, caterers, and private chefs

Almond Restaurant at last year's Love Bites. Independent/Nicole Teitler

have been the core of this event, as has been all of the alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverage companies, locally as well as from out of town. The event would never have become so successful without the support of Chef Peter Ambrose who is more than a dear friend of over 20 years, has become my go-to partner for Love Bites,” Shapiro explained.

This year, the entire culinary community will be honored, with special awards going to Cheryl Stair of The Art of Eating and Joe Realmuto of Nick & Toni’s restaurant group. “Peter came up with the brilliant idea of honoring the culinary community. They’re the ones who really support this event. Cheryl and Joe have made such huge names for themselves. Not only are their businesses so successful and their food so wonderful, but they are great people.”

The annual tasting event will kickoff with a dinner at The Clubhouse at

174 Daniels Hole Road in East Hampton on Wednesday, January 16, at 6 PM. Participating businesses include Events by Peter Ambrose, Elegant Affair, The Art of Eating, The Clubhouse, Bell and Anchor, Saaz, Smokin Wolf BBQ, Golden Pear Café, Grace & Grit, The Mill House, Almond Restaurant, Scotto’s, Silver Spoon Catering, Backyard Brine, Erica’s Rugelach, Dreesen’s Donuts, Jerri’s Cakery and Cupcakes, Clarkson Avenue Crumb Cakes, and Shock Ice Cream. Beverages will be provided by Hampton Coffee Company, Chopin Vodka, Montauk Hard Label, Saratoga Water, Montauk Brewing Company, Mezcal Dona Sarita, Diplomatico Rum, and C & W Distributors.

Tickets for the kick-off dinner are $90 and Love Bites tickets start at $100. Snow date is Saturday, February 9. The Muses is located at 111 Saint Andrew’s Road in Southampton. Visit www.katyscourage.org for tickets.

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‘On Golden Pond’: Family Matters HTC brings staged fave to Quogue

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

It’s hard not to reminisce about Henry and Jane Fonda when one thinks of “On Golden Pond,” which opened on January 10 with Quogue’s Hampton Theatre Company. But the truth is the original play, penned by Ernest Thompson at only 28, is about more than the dysfunctional father/daughter relationship which became the focus of the film for obvious reasons. It’s about family, fishing, unconditional love, and the incivility of growing old.

Norman (George Loizides) and Ethel Thayer (Diana Marbury) have returned for the 48th year, like the loons on the lake, to their seasonal cabin on Golden Pond in Maine. Norman is about to celebrate his 80th birthday; he is curmudgeonly, morbid, and depressed, staying inside to read the Help Wanted ads while Ethel buzzes around,

chattering, picking berries, and enjoying the natural beauty and memories the area invokes.

The arrival of their only child, Chelsea (Jane Cortney), with her fiancé (Wally Marzano-Lesnevich) and his wisecracking 13-year-old son (Ian Hubbard), throws a cog in the works, but it’s a cathartic moment for Chelsea and Norman, and young Billy — who willingly reads the classic novels Norman suggests, what kid does that? — seems to awaken the older man’s lust for life again. Throw in Charlie (Paul Bolger), the local mailman and Chelsea’s first boyfriend, and you have a slice of Americana, complete with long-held familial resentments and the tyranny of everyday life for those whose minds and bodies are beginning to betray them.

Diana Marbury and George Loizides in “On Golden Pond” at Hampton Theatre Company through January 27.

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Andrew Botsford ably directs the ensemble, with the team of Sean Marbury, Sebastian Paczynski, Seamus Naughton, and Teresa LaBrun providing the sets, lighting, sound, and costumes. It seems there was a missed opportunity to show the changing of the seasons with a branch that hangs outside a window upstage (it’s evergreen, but it could have been maple, with blossoms in the first scene, green leaves in the second . . . you get the picture) but it’s a minor quibble.

Marbury and Bolger bring bright eddies of laughter throughout the play, which runs about two and a half hours, but feels much shorter. Norman’s relationship with young Billy is heart-

warming, his moment of forgetfulness and fear is touching. When Norman suffers an episode toward the end of the show, Ethel’s ineptitude, panic, and love is poignant and affecting.

“On Golden Pond” poses no big “a-ha” moments, no skeletons in the closet, no huge denouements. Instead, it offers up something closer to real life — how to love, how to accept, and how to go on, no matter what. As always, Hampton Theatre Company gives its audience a snappy and professional production sure to please the patrons.

“On Golden Pond” runs through January 27 at Quogue Community Hall.

For information and tickets, visit www. hamptontheatre.org.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Threads Weaving a support system is important for women The only thing more impressive than a powerful woman is a group of powerful women.

By virtue of the cyclical nature of life, there are times when a woman finds her life so unraveled, she is reduced to threads. These moments of despair can be incredibly isolating for those trained to hold it together at any cost. But if she can throw one of those threads out as a tenuous lifeline, other women can gather together to weave her a support system.

I spent a day at an equestrian businesswomen’s summit and was struck by the inspirational stories. I wonder if men would be so vulnerable in a competitive business setting. What the speakers shared was how intertwined the personal and professional are in their journeys.

A woman known for her “Shark Tank” cupcake story was hardly an overnight success. Her dreams were derailed early on when she became pregnant in high school and was kicked out of her home. She worked hard as a self-taught commercial photographer and purchased a home, only to discover her husband had not filed the payment for the taxes and the IRS came to take it all away. When she couldn’t even make it to the meeting with the IRS because her car was repossessed, she hit rock bottom.

As she again climbed out of despair, it was a cake decorating class she took to spend time with her daughter that led to her baking business. The ingenious idea to ship the cupcakes in a jar quickly caught on, although Homeland Security did consider it a threat. Just as the business was really taking off, both her estranged parents who had Alzheimer’s and her new husband’s father, who had cancer, and his wife and all moved with her. Quite the breakfast table. Trying to juggle her business and home life almost destroyed her own health. So, the glamorous TV story of “Shark Tank” hardly reflected the threadbare moments she faced.

Her advice to the audience was not about professional strategy but instead, “Look around you at work or in your social circles and see who is the woman struggling. Even if it is just words of support, reach out to her.”

The common thread among the women at the conference was a strong entrepreneurial spirit, but also a difficulty asking for help. Most built their businesses with no outside capital and tried to do it all, fearing they did not have the money to hire employees. Many were also raising families. It often took an outside person to encourage them to look at the cost/ benefit analysis of hiring someone to free their time for their strengths.

Many times, it was another successful woman willing to advise as a mentor.

For a winning female jockey who went on to a great broadcasting career, it was her own mother, a groundbreaking jockey herself, who taught her not to look at herself as a female jockey but just a jockey.

I was affected most by a young woman in a wheelchair who truly brought down the house with her story to not only survive but thrive. She was in the Brussels airport right next to the man with the black bag that turned out to be the bomber. She woke up in a hospital without her legs. Her strength and courage were beyond measure to come through 10 surgeries and third-degree burns when many might have given up.

In this story, it was a female again who gave her the will to live and, in this case, it was her horse. Her mother wheeled her into the parking lot of the hospital where her horse immediately recognized her as she recollected, with no legs, no hair, and a burned face.

A top dressage rider heard her story and encouraged her to see a future in the saddle. With help and retraining for her and her horse, she went on to compete, and even won against able bodied riders. Not a dry eye in the house. But as the threads of the story continued, a young rider who lost a leg to cancer and the will to live became this young woman’s project to support and encourage. The girl was meant to compete that week, but sadly had passed away.

So, at this conference we learned about best business practices, tips for social media and marketing, and new career paths, but mostly we took away how we can form a fabric of life strong enough to hold both the victories and the losses when we put our heads and our threads together.

“Painters Painting” director Emile de Antonio.

Parrish Reflects On New York Art Scene Museum offers up film and discussion

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a screening and talk for the film "Painters Painting, A Candid History of the New York Art Scene” on Friday, January 18, at 6 PM. The 1973 film,

by Emile de Antonio, will explore the iconic city art scene from 1940 through 1970. In the film, de Antonio captures intimate discussions about Abstract Expressionism with famed artists in their studios. Once the last credit has scrolled, the Parrish’s director Terrie Sultan will have a conversation with artist Valerie Jaudon.

“Valerie is an accomplished and intelligent painter, with whom I have had several conversations about the history and process of painting. I think she will have excellent insights to share on the methods and approaches to painting,” Sultan said. Jaudon’s artwork is part of the permanent exhibit “A Fresh Look: The Collection in Conversation” at the museum.

The showing is co-presented with Hamptons Doc Fest and part of the new, periodic Artist’s Lens Series, which invites working artists to participate in programs and talks with audience members.

“It’s an ongoing discussion. It’s an important documentation. There’s

something very authentic in what the artists were saying. They were very relaxed,” Jaudon said about de Antonio’s film. “We’re so used to everything being on social media, being seen. Things are quite different, at the time this wasn’t something that was done. The whole thing about American art, it was important to all of those curators and artists that were speaking. It was a very big moment, a very important time.”

Artists featured in the film include Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland.

Sultan added, “We, in the profession, have the privilege of talking one-on-one with artists to explore and understand how artists structure their studio practices and why they make the decisions that they do. With this film and discussion, we hope that the audience will have this same experience of being behind-the-scenes in the minds of the artist.”

Tickets are $15, $5 for members, children, and students. Visit www.parrishart.org.

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‘Reasons To Be Pretty’ LaBute’s wild, emotional ride at the Cultural Center

By Annette Hinkle

The concept of physical beauty is a complicated thing. That fact is evident and on full display in “Reasons to Be Pretty,” Neil LaBute’s brutally revealing play now at the Southampton Cultural Center. Presented by Center Stage under the direction of Joan Lyons, this enlightening, if at times disturbing, four-hander explores the emphasis on beauty in a consumerist society, where prescribed notions of physical attractiveness are valued above all else.

“Reasons to Be Pretty” opens with a bang in the form of a nasty and profanity-laden argument between Stephanie and her live-in boyfriend, Greg.

Stephanie has just been told by her friend, Carly, that Greg thinks Stephanie’s face is just “regular,” as in “not pretty.” The comment came during an overheard conversation between Greg and Kent, Carly’s husband, as he made lewd comments about an attractive new coworker at the warehouse where he, Greg, and Carly all work.

While it’s one thing for an average looking woman to maintain her self-confidence when judged by strangers, it’s quite another when the man she loves can’t convince her that he thinks she’s beautiful. With the comment, the pact between Stephanie and Greg is broken and the damage is done.

There’s no going back for Stephanie, who seriously doubts his sincerity. As

LaBute makes clear, we may consider ourselves to be highly evolved creatures, but when it comes to communication between the sexes, we still have quite a bit of growing up to do.

Meanwhile, Kent, a major cad with a wandering eye and heat-seeking hands, and his very attractive wife, Carly, have their own issues to deal with in terms of insecurity and betrayal. Carly’s sharing of the overheard conversation with Stephanie creates an uncomfortable situation that puts Kent and Greg at odds with one another as well, and their friendship is likewise thrown into turmoil.

The most illuminating moments come in a series of four monologues, one by each character, in which they speak truth to the deepest insecurities and fears in their relationships.

Even Carly, who seems to have it made, shares frustrations of being superficially judged.

Its powerful messaging and the tightness of the script means the dialogue flies by. Lyons does a good job with the direction, and in terms of the cast, Bethany Dellapolla shines brightly as Stephanie. Her pain is palpable and we can see that she will never be able to “unhear” what Greg has said about her.

As Greg, Jonathan Fogarty also has some fine moments, specifically in expressing confusion about why his

Bethany Dellapolla and Jonathan Fogarty in "Reasons To Be Pretty." Independent/Dane DuPuis

comment, which he felt was innocuous, is so hurtful to Stephanie. But his manic delivery comes across as snarky and insincere at points where baffled introspection would serve him better by making him a more sympathetic character.

As Kent, John Lovett rises to the challenge admirably by giving it his best shot, but he seems somewhat uncomfortable delivering the character’s misogynistic speeches and adopting the playboy attitude. Carly is perhaps the hardest character to read, both in motive and emotion, and Bethany Trowbridge plays her with a calm and even-keeled hand.

On a production note, the warehouse where three of the four characters work serves as the primary set and, as designed by Lyons, is well conceived for the bulk of the action. But other scenes take place at bars, in restaurants, and homes where additional lighting cues could go a long way in defining those locations as separate from

the warehouse. Similarly, the production would benefit from the addition of music cues, both during scene transitions and in the more public settings, providing further clues about the era and socioeconomic level of the characters.

All in all, “Reasons to be Pretty” is a worthy show that calls attention to rarely discussed internal dialogues and is well worth the wild ride. Be aware, however, that LaBute is known for pulling no punches and his language can be coarse, offensive, and extremely revealing. For that reason, the play is appropriate for older teenagers and adults.

Center Stage’s production of “Reasons to Be Pretty” by Neil LaBute runs Thursdays to Saturdays at 7 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM at Southampton Cultural Center through January 27.

Tickets and dinner theater packages may be purchased at www.scc-arts.org.

To read Annette Hinkle’s unexpurgated review, visit “Arts” at www.indyeastend.com.

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READING OUR REGION

By Joan Baum

‘Montauk 11954’ Reflects Changing Landscape Pelleteri’s color photography explores The End Once part of an un-Hampton cluster that also comprised the villages of Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor, Montauk, or The End, as it is affectionately known on bumper stickers, used to signify affordable summers. Despite the surge of visitors during “the horrible hundred” (the traffic-crazy time between Memorial Day and Labor Day), Montauk could, for years, lay claim to be far from the madding crowd invading the Hamptons. No more.

Celebs still buy or rent in Montauk, local waterholes remain go-to attractions, and the ocean continues to attract serious surfers, especially in July and August when the slightly diminishing year-round population of approximately 3800 swells to what town police estimate as 30,000. But as media reports increasingly document, there are no more un-Hamptons on the East End, and commercial fishing, the mainstay of the working class in Montauk, no longer defines an area many young and upscale house-sharers now refer to as hip and hot.

Thus, Carissa “Car” Pelleteri’s new photographic homage to this famed and fabled “highly photogenic . . . unique place” takes on special significance, as she acknowledges that this is

a “critical” time for Montauk, a place now in ambivalent thrall to a summertime economic boom that threatens long-time local businesses and the environment.

While the book’s images testify to the magic of Montauk — “its quiet light, the beauty, the peace and some of the great people that make the town what it is” — Pelleteri notes that she also included shots of “precious artifacts, old stores, and motels” that have since gone, lending the volume an aura of nostalgia.

“Montauk 11954” is not Pelleteri’s first collection of photos of the area. In 2014, she published a limited-edition, mainly locally distributed, volume, “Surf & Turf: Montauk,” which exemplified her passion for the people and places of Montauk. It also included brief interviews. The new book, not a second edition of “Surf & Turf,” is all photos, with fewer portraits (10 out of a total of 103 pictures) and wider landscape shots of some of her favorite scenes — horses at Deep Hollow Ranch, LIRR tracks, fish, food, and steep “Hoodoo” cliffs with gouged-out shadows that would seem pre-historical, were it not for a tell-tale surfer dude and his board.

Pelleteri is proud of her training in film and for what she assesses as

an intuitive sense of composition that doesn’t require her to do long set-ups.

She’s also an unapologetic acolyte of color photography. “Many people think they can be photographers and shoot in black and white, hoping that they may hitch a ride of the ‘classic’ bandwagon,” she said. “Once I started shooting in color and analog c-printing, I never went back to black and white. I see color photography as a more truthful and honest interpretation/documentation of my subjects. Color, whether vivid or muted, is simply beautiful. Color affects our mood and subconscious.”

When she first came to Montauk as a fashion photographer’s assistant in June 2000, she was hooked immediately “by hearing and smelling the ocean just feet away from the retro East Deck Motel” where she was staying.

The images (a few carried over from “Surf & Turf”) prove that good photographs — and their sequential presentation in a book — are far from random. In “Montauk 11954,” Pelleteri begins “soft” — vegetation, a blurry swath of ocean in the background — and moves on to signs: bait and tackle shops, seafood, Lunch, the Breakers Motel. Surfboards line up against a fence, followed by a double-page

spread of Montauk daisies. Then, compositions grow full-frame complex with dramatic linear perspective, as in “Tunnel of Green,” an angular shot of disappearing railroad tracks that give way to tactile foliage.

Many images exhibit geometric harmony, a balancing of lines and forms that prompts the eye to take in the whole while also appreciating parts. Where there are people, there are never crowds.

Crisp background details avoid mannered attempts at aerial perspective.

Bookends matter: The first photo, “Pink Flowers, October 2017,” speaks to a familiar landscape feature in Montauk, but it is the last image in the book, “Montauk LIRR station, 2017” that is telling, perhaps unintentionally. A double-spread, up-close shot of two railroad cars, the old Montauk Manor slightly blurred in the distance, the image clearly signals the end of the line. But under the prominent Montauk station lettering a smaller, orange sign admonishes “watch the gap” that may suggest a subliminal theme of the book.

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January 16, 2019

RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Charge It, Please If Kmart closes, will its replacement give out credit cards? rmurphy@indyeastend.com

I was sorry to hear Kmart in Bridgehampton may be closing, because if the rumor is true, it continues a half-century trend: stores in that location we are unable or unwilling to support.

You have to remember there were no shopping plazas out here. The Bridgehampton mall was the biggest thing since beach plum jelly around these parts. And when WT Grant announced it was opening a store at the brand-new mall, we were elated.

It was laid out, more or less, like all the others that came after it; men’s, women’s, boys, girls, housewares, hardware, toys and seasonal stuff like outdoor furniture during the summer, and Christmas stuff as the holidays were near. It was the first place out here where a whole family could shop together.

My fondest memory is they gave store credit cards to many young, local adults, apparently without running credit checks. I know that because they gave me one. I rewarded their faith in me by immediately spending my limit, $500; coming up with $10 a month to pay a back was another story entirely.

Surprisingly, WT Grant lasted about five years before going belly up,

something about accounts receivable lagging hopelessly behind accounts payable.

In 1976, Woolworth, the noted five and dime, announced it was going to open where Grant’s had been.

Woolco, the new entity, would not give me a credit card but they had a “Layaway Plan.” It meant you put up a fraction of what the item cost and paid the rest off over time: but they kept the item until it was fully paid for. Instead, more than a few locals adopted the new “Stealaway Plan.”

F.W. Woolworth, the original five and dime, was really cool and lasted 118 years. Many of the stores had a fullservice diner that sold a cup of soup and half sandwich for you guessed it: a nickel and a dime. Believe it or not, for the better party of a century, everything in the place cost literally a nickel or a dime.

Woolco in Bridgehampton had a place to eat, too. The chairs were plastic. It was hot dogs and French fries and crap like that. It was the Hamptons’ introduction to suburbia.

I ate there a lot, because as bad as it was, it was better than my first wife’s cooking.

Frank Woolworth literally created

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the modern retail big box store model.

At its height, Woolworth had 5000 storefronts both domestically and abroad, with hundreds across the United States servicing communities that otherwise were devoid of chain stores.

The failure of Woolco, its “discount subsidiary,” hastened the demise.

Still they came: Caldor, with the same kind of stock, and same type of clientele — us — opened in Bridgehampton. It went under. Then, of course Kmart, and after a tumultuous couple of years, the rebranded Kmart Luxury that featured upscale brands like Martha Stewart’s and, no kidding actually featured Martha Stewart herself, who was in the store a lot. In fact, she shops locally all the time. I saw her on the lay-away line the other day.

Each store failed in similar manner.

Maybe it’s the drinking water out here.

Real locals know you have to go back before WT Grant for the first incarnation of the property — The Hamptons Drive-In: a movie drivein where all sorts of debauchery took place and where many a young boy like myself was led astray.

It opened in 1956, and back then, it was a family affair. Mom would pack dinner, and the kids would crawl in the back seat with our PJs on. Rather than eat the good stuff Mom made, we’d all salivate at the ads on the screen. We would whine until Dad took us to visit

the snack center, which was literally a roach-filled magnet for mice and rats that sold stuff like “crab rolls.”

Soon the drive-in became a date night spot, with like-minded teenagers replacing wholesome families.

There were 700 parking spots. You would pull up to a pole, take a speaker, and hook it onto your car window and then roll it up. The speakers weren’t very good, but neither were the movies.

Every night a half-dozen or so cars would pull away with the speakers still attached. My friend Tommy used to take one every time he went. He was convinced once he figured it out he’d be able to lay in bed at home and listen to the movies. BTW Tommy did not attend MIT when he grew up.

Anyhow, soon the proprietor got sick of chasing kids looking for free entry through the cornfields, and replacing the speakers night after night. The mall developers came calling and that was that, another piece of Americana gone forever.

We still go to the Bridgehampton Mall on Wednesdays. It’s like a date — get out of the house, spend a little money, eat a little junk food. If Kmart does go under, it’ll be cool to see what retail store we get next. I’m guessing they’ll try a department store like Macy’s, figuring it’s the Hamptons, so everyone has money to spare. I hope they give out credit cards.

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Guild Builds Student Art Community Local students display their talents

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Guild Hall in East Hampton welcomes community members this Saturday, January 19, for its 27th Annual Student Art Festival with a kick-off reception from 2 to 4 PM. The gallery will showcase the artwork of students in kindergarten through 12th grade until February 24.

“We have an incredible art community here, from our exceptionally talented student body to our enormously supportive administration and inspiring faculty,” noted Margaret Zubarriain, an art teacher from East Hampton High School. Zubarriain has been teaching Drawing and Painting, Studio Art, and Sculpture since 2016.

Her curriculum is based on exploring habits of the mind and creative behavior. Students are encouraged to think, speak, and work as though they were in a professional studio.

Guild Hall bridges the gap between the school setting and that of the larger community, she noted. “Having a venue like Guild Hall to display their final works, the products of months of experimentation and discovery, brings their artistic process full circle and allows the young artists to contribute to the larger art community outside of school. They have powerful perspectives to share and the student annual exhibit invites the East Hampton community to be a part of the conversation,” said Zubarriain.

East Hampton High School students are especially excited. Senior Emily H. said, “For me, as an artist, it is always a memorable experience to see my work being displayed with others’ work in a museum. It is an amazing opportunity to share my work with a wide audience and receive feedback from other artists, as well as a broad community who enjoys viewing art.”

Maya P., a junior at EHHS, shared a similar sentiment. “The variation between works and the differences in

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ideas from artist to artist are insightful in allowing the viewers to understand the creative process of developing artists. Oftentimes, I seek refuge through art making, translating my frustrations and devoting my energy into the creation of the art piece, which is both cathartic and validating,” she said.

Guild Hall serves as a cultural center for the East End and beyond, and is a well-known name within the artistic community. For these participating students, it’s about more than showcasing their work. It’s also a chance to hang where greats before them have been. “Being an artist is hard, especially when you are filled with insecurities and doubt. It gives student artists a chance to display their work somewhere other than their dad’s office or the fridge at home. For me, being in the exhibition has been very rewarding. I could see other students’ work and be a part of a real museum exhibition,” noted Rachel O., a senior at EHHS.

Opening night festivities will include special dance performances by the East Hampton High School Dance Team, the East Hampton Middle School Dance Team, A&G Dance Co., Abigail Loos of the East Hampton Home School Group, and more.

In conjunction with the Student Art Festival, Guild Hall will also offer free art workshops, organized by Golden Eagle Artist Supply, for those in kindergarten through fifth grade.

First year art teacher at Springs School, Laura Marino, concluded, “It’s different than the independent projects that they are used to, but they have all worked wonderfully together to create some beautiful pieces. I am excited to share what our students have been working on with other local schools as well as gain inspiration from the nearby districts.”

Visit www.guildhall.org for more information.

Southampton has become more chic and trendy, and less of “the country” that my parents fell in love with almost 70 years ago. But it still offers amazing light, beautiful beaches, magnificent homes, and swimming, and tennis, and golf, and bicycle riding, and surfing, and fishing, and hiking, and farms, and wineries, and music, and art, and repertory theatre, and friends. It had been a very rural and very beachy community and has evolved into more of a year-round community with many wonderful things to do.

Describe the evolution of the Southampton Inn. The Southampton Inn has been renovated annually for 20 years. When I first purchased it, I redid 90 rooms and bathrooms in 90 days. I then spent six months, after the summer season, building the library octagon room with the fireplace and digging out the “lower level” to create conference rooms and a proper restaurant.

Over 20 years, the colors have changed, the furniture packages and soft goods have changed, the gardens have grown, and the swimming pool and tennis court were replaced. But it is still 90 guest rooms surrounded by beautiful gardens and lawns that welcome visitors to Southampton yearround.

Any notable moments that guests would be interested to learn about?

There have been so many historic moments in such an historic place! I remember having my office taken over by FBI and secret service when the President (secretly) visited the Hamptons.

And having Dennis Rodman hold court on the pool patio drinking vodkas and entertaining the staff for hours.

We have had dogs walk brides down the aisle. And a young musician, whose parents rented a piano and bench to be moved into a guest room for a four-day visit. And the cast of a TV program where the Fonz [Henry Winkler] gave me a hug and a kiss. And many movie shoots (yes, Keanu Reeves

stayed at the inn). But mostly, lots of lovely and interesting guests from all over the world who come back year after year to see their Inn friends on the same weeks.

In what ways does Southampton Inn connect with the community?

We partner with the Southampton Cultural Center (dinner or brunch and a theater ticket); we support Pianofest of the Hamptons by offering our guests tickets to Avram Hall concerts as part of their Monday overnight stays. We provide passes for our guests to the unique programming and also fantastic cocktail events at the Southampton History Museum. And we provide access to environmental fundraisers and nonprofit galas throughout the year to support many important local organizations.

We also offer our facilities to the same local organizations — whether it’s authors reading their new releases, or pianists and music teachers providing concerts on the gorgeous glass and acrylic Euro Aire baby grand in Claude’s restaurant, or the meeting rooms with lunches or dinners afterwards for budgets and planning and networking. We love to be full of activity whether for our community members or for visitors to our area.

Describe the ways you incorporate your family life into business life.

It is always difficult to balance family life and professional work, but in the hospitality business, the hours can be flexible, the guests are almost always friendly, and the children learned to support their working mom. And of course, now they are adults! They go to Claude’s for dinner with friends.

What do you envision for the future?

For the future, the Inn is situated on approximately six acres with commercial buildings that would be wonderful to convert to another use. Perhaps a higher star rated hospitality product, rental housing for the community, or just more offices for local companies.

I would very much like to convert the parking and road areas to gardens, reduce the impervious lot coverage, and create more of that “rural” ambience of the mid 20th Century. But that’s probably a few years off.

Visit www.southamptoninn.com or call 631-283-6500 for more information.

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By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

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All Star Comedy Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents a comedy show hosted by comedian Joseph Vecsey with comedians Gary Vider, Oscar Collazos, and Reg Thomas on Friday, January 18, at 8 PM. Visit www.baystreet.org for more info.

Friday, January 18, Springs Tavern is holding a dance party with DJ Chile from 11 PM to 2 AM. Saturday is karaoke with Helen “The Diva” McGuire beginning at 9 PM. Sunday is open mic, from 2 to 5 PM. Log onto www. thespringstavern.com for details.

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The New York Art Scene The Parrish Art Museum will screen “Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940 to 1970” on Friday, January 18, at 6 PM. It will be followed by a talk with Valerie Jaudon and Terrie Sultan.

Tickets are $15 or $5 for members, children, and students. Order yours at parrishart.org.

Allelujah Guild Hall in East Hampton presents National Theatre Live Screening: “Allelujah” on Friday, January 18, at 7 PM. It will also present “HIFF Now Showing” on Saturday, January 19, at 6 PM. Log onto www.guildhall.org for the details.

Sicilian Ghost Story Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents a screening of “Sicilian Ghost Story” on Friday, January 18, at 7:30 PM and Sunday, January 20, at 4 PM. Visit www.whbpac.org for tickets.

Cat Film Festival The New York Cat Film Festival will be in Riverhead on Sunday, January 20, at 3 PM at the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall.

A portion of tickets will benefit the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation and Riverhead Animal Shelter.

Visit www.catfilmfestival.com.

MUSIC Slocan Ramblers Shelter Island School and Sylvester Manor present a Slocan Ramblers Bluegrass Winter Concert on Saturday, January 19, at 7:30 PM. See www.sylvestermanor.org for the skinny.

Suffolk Theater Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents Crystal Gayle on Friday, January 18, at 8 PM and Rob Schneider on Sunday, January 20, at 8 PM. Visit www.suffolktheater.com for more info.

Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett presents Nancy Atlas on Friday, January 18, at 8 PM. On Saturday, January 19, will be Lynn Blue and Band at 8 PM and LHT at 10 PM. For a full schedule, visit www.stephentalkhouse.com.

Townline BBQ Townline BBQ in Sagaponack presents live music on Fridays. This week, Lynn Blue will perform from 6 to 9 PM. Visit www.townlinebbq.com.

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Vietnam Vet Reflects Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead presents “A Veteran’s Reflections on the Vietnam War” featuring Jim Zak Szakmary as part of its Book & Bottle series on Saturday, January 19, at 1 PM. Visit www.suf-

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Story Time BookHampton in East Hampton presents story time for children on Sunday, January 20, at 10:30 AM. Visit www. bookhampton.com for details.

Nancy Atlas Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas every Saturday through January 26 at 8 PM. Visit www.baystreet.org.

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THEATER On Golden Pond Hampton Theatre Company presents “On Golden Pond” by Ernest Thompson now through January 27 at Quogue Community Hall. Call 1-866-811-4111 or visit www.hamptontheatre.org for a complete list of showtimes.

Reasons To Be Pretty Center Stage at Southampton Cultural Center presents Neil LaBute’s “Reasons to Be Pretty” now through Sunday, January 27, at the Levitas Center for the Arts. General admission is $25. Call 631-287-4377 or visit www.scc-arts.org for a complete list of showtimes.

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Gallery Events

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Glorious Landscapes Janet Lehr Fine Art in East Hampton presents “Glorious Landscapes.” The exhibition introduces the expressive works of Alaleh Khatibi-Ostad. It also includes works by Milton Avery, Ross Bleckner, Robert Dash, David Demers, Balcolm Greene, Adam Handler, Wolf Kahn, Gideon Lewin, Haim Mizrahi, Luis Mora, Shimon Okshteyn, Jules Olitski, Wally Putnam, Dave Rogers, Theodore Roszak, Joseph Stella, and Adam Umbach. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, January 19, from 6 to 8 PM.

Walls of Dreams The Artists Alliance of East Hampton presents its first show of 2019. “Walls of Dreams” will be on display Saturday, January 19, through Monday, January 21, at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, in con-

junction with the celebration of Martin Luther King Day. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 PM. There will be a “Wall of Dreams” public participation on Sunday from 11 AM to 1 PM. The public is invited to add their dreams, hopes, and wishes to a special temporary wall.

Student Art Festival Guild Hall in East Hampton presents its 27th annual Student Art Festival for grades K through 12. There will be a reception on Saturday, January 19, from 2 to 4 PM. The show will run through February 24.

Robin Rice Robin Rice Gallery in NYC presents its first ever exhibition for Robin Rice titled “It’s About Time.” For decades, Rice has exhibited a wide variety of

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photographers at the gallery but never her own work. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, January 23, from 6 to 8 PM, and includes many images of the East End. The show runs through March 17.

Hello Color!

Folioeast presents “Hello Color!” a group exhibit featuring artists Peter Dayton, Michele D’Ermo, Dennis Leri, William Pagano, Anne Raymond, and George Singer at Malia Mills in East Hampton. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The show will be on view through February 18.

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Bridgehampton’s White Room Gallery presents “Splash,” on view through February 10.

The show features photographer Lynn Savarese, painter Heidi Rain, and a group show consisting of works in variety of mediums, styles, and subjects that were inspired by the word “splash.”

manipulator.” The current series of abstract work focuses on macro images of nature combined with additional exposures of ice, snow, sand, and sky.

The exhibition runs through March 1, and can be visited during Town Hall open office hours: Mondays through Fridays, 9 AM to 4 PM.

Drawing Room Gallery The work of John Alexander, Jennifer Bartlett, Mary Ellen Bartley, Gustavo Bonevardi, Sue Heatley, Charles Jones, Laurie Lambrecht, Hector Leonardi, Sheridan Lord, Kathryn Lynch, Aya Miyatake, Dan Rizzie, Raja Ram Sharma, John Torreano, and Fiona Waterstreet will be shown at the Drawing Room Gallery on Newtown Lane in East Hampton through January 20. The gallery is open from 11 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays.

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The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor presents the group show “Figuratively Speaking.” The show will run through February 3. Artists include Ben Fenske, Ramiro, Stephen Bauman, Alyssa Monks, Kelly Carmody, and others.

Winter Scenes East End Arts hosts the art exhibit, “Winter Scenes,” at the Riverhead Town Hall Gallery, featuring the photography of Paul Dempsey of Southampton. Dempsey describes himself as a fine art photographer and a “digital

Milton Avery's "Beach Conversation" at Janet Lehr Fine Art.

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Artists & Writers Night Photos by Richard Lewin Buffalo cauliflower (ear), Scotch eggs, and bouillabaisse (hold the baisse) were on the special menu at Almond Restaurant & Bar in Bridgehampton on Wednesday, January 9, as the restaurant held its “Artist & Writer’s Night,” which celebrated “The Sweet Science: Boxing, Eating, & Drinking with A.J. Liebling.”

Brian Halweil curated an evening of food, drink, and readings. Local literati like Iris Smyles and Alec Sokolow read selections from writings by Liebling — best known for his essays in The New Yorker. Almond Zigmund introduced the presenters.

‘Splash’ At White Room Photos by Richard Lewin Bridgehampton’s White Room Gallery presented “Splash,” with an opening reception on Saturday, January 12. The show features photographer Lynn Savarese, painter Heidi Rain, and a group show consisting of works in variety of mediums, styles, and subjects that were inspired by the word “splash.”

The exhibit is on view through February 10.

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ZIMA! Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday, January 12, the boundless imagination of Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls transformed Montauk Village into a stage for this year’s “ZIMA! A Magical Theatrical Scavenger Hunt For All Ages.”

Josh Gladstone, artistic director of Guild Hall, welcomed everyone at the village gazebo, and sent them out to get clues from the eight colorful living sculptures strategically placed at familiar Montauk locations, including John’s Drive-In, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, and the post office.

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Dining Provisions: Ahead Of Health Food Trend Café and market offer goodies that are good for you

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It may feel like the matcha and almond milk-obsessed consumer is endemic to this decade, but let’s be clear: Health food is not a new craze. Just ask Rich Kresberg, owner of Sag Harbor’s Provisions, the café, juice bar, and market that has occupied the corners of Bay and Division Streets since 1987.

Actually, Provisions is even older than its Sag Harbor location. The store originally opened in Port Jefferson in the 1970s, later moving to Division and Henry Streets. The store moved again when it added a café, over to Main Street. But it has occupied its current space for over 30 years, a testament to the fact that eating healthily is not, in fact, a recent trend. In recent years, the store has enjoyed an even bigger following. This is the era of avocado toast and Instagrammed smoothies, the era of en vogue natural dining.

Before Kresberg stepped in, in 1996, the market and café space was owned by former Provisions employee

Linley Pennebaker Whelan and current East Hampton Farmers Market manager Kate Plumb. Kresberg had been a successful Manhattan restaurateur who came east and developed a passion for a healthy lifestyle. His interest in Provisions as a consumer parlayed itself into a business interest when the restaurant went up for sale.

Although many regard Provisions as a market (in fact, Provisions makes the majority of its money from the wares sold outside of the café, in the store), these days it functions as a bustling restaurant, where the healthminded can convene over a freshpressed juice. There is, of course, every manner of green juice, designed to purify and invigorate and detoxify. There are, too, a wealth of food options that don’t feel heavy-handed in their healthfulness. Take, for instance, the eggs jambalaya (the café serves breakfast until 11 AM on weekdays and all day on weekends): three scrambled eggs

served with Cajun-spiced rice, tomato sauce, and veggie sausage, wrapped in a whole-wheat tortilla. The dish is a nod to Kresberg’s roots; he once owned the Lower East Side’s Great Jones Café, a Cajun restaurant.

Provisions’ lunch menu — it does not serve dinner — is comprehensive.

There are tuna melts and chicken hot dogs, avocado-cheddar sandwiches and tempeh reubens. A turkey taco salad is reminiscent of a 1980s taco night, full of shredded lettuce (romaine, to be fair), corn salsa, avocado, and tomato, and adorned with crispy tortilla strips — with apologies to El Paso’s yellow corn shells. There is, too, an entire category dedicated to wraps and burritos, offering international-inflected options, like a vegetable stir-fry with tamari, brown rice, sesame oil, ginger, and seasonal vegetables, and a Thai wrap with chicken, cabbage slaw, and spicy peanut sauce.

If dessert is your thing, Provisions

isn’t exactly a bastion of pastry options.

But its smoothies make adequate standins for the less healthy donuts served around the corner at Grindstone. If the piña colada — pineapple and coconut juices mixed with rice milk, banana, vanilla, and spirulina protein powder — doesn’t transport you to the Islands on a grim winter day, you’re lacking imagination. Even the Chocolate Thunder (chocolate rice milk, banana, and chocolate spirulina powder) feels like a decadent respite from too many healthy options, even though it is also — surprise! — good for you.

It may be hard to leave the café without grabbing a market item or two to take home, and that’s not an accident. The store is, by far, the most comprehensive of the East End’s health food markets, selling a wide array of fresh, frozen, and packaged items, organic and otherwise.

Consider it your good deed for the week when you stock up on your way out. It’s health food, after all.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Nicole Rutsch Golden raisin mushroom risotto

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Golden Raisin Mushroom Risotto by Nicole Rutsch for Elmhurst Milked

“Made with Elmhurst Milked’s Milked Hazelnuts, this simple-to-follow risotto recipe hosts a nutty, rich flavor. The caramelized golden raisins and mushrooms give this dish a perfect sweetand-savory balance, and putting it all together is as easy as stirring.”

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Ingredients: 1/2 c onion, chopped 1 Tbsp garlic, chopped 1 c portabella mushrooms 2 c golden raisins 1 tsp thyme 3 c Elmhurst Milked Hazelnuts 1 1/2 c Arborio Rice 1/2 c Gruyere cheese, shaved 2 Tbsp olive oil Pinch of nutmeg

Directions: In a large sauté pan, heat the olive oil and add onions. Brown the onions.

Add mushrooms and sauté for three minutes.

Add the garlic and thyme to the pan and sauté for another minute.

Add light brown sugar and let it sit

for another minute.

Add golden raisins and let it all marinate for about five to seven minutes.

Once done, take about a half-cup of the raisin and onion mix out of the pan and save for garnish.

Add the Arborio rice to the pan and toast for about two minutes.

Add one cup of the Milked Hazelnuts, stirring constantly so that the rice does not stick to the bottom.

Once almost all the liquid has been absorbed, repeat step seven two more times, until all the Milked Hazelnuts has been soaked into the rice.

Serve in a bowl and garnish with the raisin and onion mix, sprinkle some shaved pieces of Gruyere (optional) and pinch of nutmeg and fresh thyme over the dish.

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Food & Beverage News

“Being based in an oceanside community, plastic straw pollution in the marine environment has become a chief concern to many, including our staff. We were lucky to find Meghan Molloy, a local who started a paper straw company called The Paper Straw Girl, and she helped us find a quality paper straw that would hold up in a to-go cup of our famous iced coffee but still be environmentally-friendly.”

Hampton Coffee Company guests can now feel comfortable choosing straws for their handcrafted iced coffee beverages, knowing that not only are the straws marine bio-degradable, but that their purchases support a local coffee company and Molloy’s new business.

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Cocktails And Conversation Join Claude’s Restaurant at the Southampton Inn for “Cocktails and Conversation” as it expands its Happy Hour offerings from 4 to 7 daily. Enjoy drink specials, specialty cocktails, light bites, and a $30 prix fixe.

Tuesday is Hospitality Industry Night and Thursday is Real Estate Industry night.

Craft Beer Night Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett is hosting its first ever Craft Beer tap night on Friday, January 25, starting at 9 PM. The bar will showcase sought after and exclusive beer with premium selections on tap from Grimm Artisanal Ales of Brooklyn, Maine Beer Company of Freeport, and Montauk Brewing Company, for just $6 per beer.

There will be complementary food from Smokin’ Wolf BBQ and Indian Wells Tavern and entertainment from local musicians. Don’t miss prize give-

aways throughout the night. The first 30 attendees will even be given Montauk Brew Co. goodie bags. For more info, visit www.indianwellstavern.com or follow @IndianWellsTavern.

Hampton Coffee Switches To Paper Straws Hampton Coffee Company has eliminated plastic drinking straws from all its cafés in an effort to reduce the amount of unrecyclable plastic straws sent to landfills and ending up in sensitive marine environments. The local group of family-owned espresso bars and cafés will instead be offering, and by request only, marine-biodegradable paper straws to its guests. This move is expected to eliminate the use of nearly 200,000 plastic straws every year.

“We are always listening to what our guests are feeling and causes that they are involved in,” said Hampton Coffee Company co-owner Jason Belkin.

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Fresno Fresno in East Hampton announces its specials for the 2019 season. The restaurant will offer $1 Oyster Night on Monday beginning at 5:30 PM. On Tuesday, it’s 30/30, which includes a $30 prix fixe menu and 30 percent off all bottled wine. There is also a prix fixe menu offered all night Sunday through Thursday, and Friday and Saturday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. The menu includes an appetizer and entrée for $30 or an appetizer, entrée, and dessert for $35.

For reservations, call 631-3248700 or visit www.fresnorestaurant. com.

The Springs Tavern The Springs Tavern presents its daily promotions for the winter season.

Monday is Steak Night for $25. This includes soup or salad, and a grilled NY strip steak served with your choice of baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, or roasted veggies. Wednesday is Prime Rib night for $29. This includes soup or salad, prime rib served with baked potatoes or mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, au jus, and horseradish sauce.

On Thursdays, all first responders receive 25 percent off food and drinks.

Fridays, all teachers receive 25 percent off food and drinks. There is also happy hour daily from 3 to 6 PM with discounted drinks specials and $5 bar bites.

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shakes and desserts, and of course an elaborate craft beer and small batch bourbon selection. Restaurateur and owner Ian Duke and award-winning Executive Chef Scott Kampf are excited to introduce the new culinary offering to the year-round dining staple.

Chili Cook Off The Springs Tavern will host a Chili Cook Off on Sunday, January 20, from 1 to 3 PM. Guests can nosh on chili from local chefs and restaurants while they enjoy football games on TVs throughout the restaurant. The cost is is $20 and includes chili samples from all participating locations and a reusable mug.

All proceeds will benefit Springs Food Pantry and Share the Harvest Farm. Tickets can be purchased by visiting bit.ly/2RjlaNf. Participants include The Springs Tavern, Townline BBQ, The Clubhouse, A Kitchen for Liam, Highway Restaurant, Peter Ambrose, East Hampton Sportsmen Alliance, and more.

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Real Realty Brown Harris Stevens Superstar Agent, Christopher Burnside, Shares His Insights

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op producing associate broker, Christopher Burnside has been a superstar of Hamptons real estate since 1999. Hailing from Arizona with a degree in finance, he has worked with new construction and investment properties, having even developed his own homes to buy and sell. He has a talent for identifying high-end design and his knowledge of the market is a treasure trove of inside information for real estate enthusiasts.

You are from Arizona. How did you find yourself in the Hamptons?

I consider myself a local because even as a kid I’d come to the Hamptons from Scottsdale, AZ to visit with my aunt and stay with her in Bridgehampton and Water Mill for the summer. Because of that long history, I’ve always loved it here and consider the Hamptons home.

You’ve been a top producer with Brown Harris Stevens since 1999. Why BHS? I had just graduated from the University of Arizona and was working for a builder in the Hamptons. I realized I wanted to get into real estate, so I walked into Brown Harris Stevens, as I knew they were a high-end luxury real estate brokerage with offices in each of the villages. They were very enthusiastic to have me. I liked everyone I met, and it immediately felt like home. They also nurtured my desire to get involved with development and personal projects.

You’re well known for new builds and investment properties. Do you partner with specific builders on these or are you a builder as well?

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My primary business is real estate. I don’t compete with my builders, but I do love partnering and investing with builders on projects I believe will be successful. These projects are the result of strong long-term relationships with builders whom I’ve assisted in buying and selling numerous real estate deals for over a decade.

I offer incentives for builders to list with me and I’ve recently signed several builders up with private financing and cooperative marketing.

I’m working with those builders now on two of my own development projects — 1127 Noyack Path, which is a modern farmhouse, and 33 Bellows in Southampton Village.

I like to think of every listing and sale as a stepping stone to the next

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possibility. I’m more interested in building these kinds of exciting longterm relationships than just trying to make a one-time deal.

I think that if sellers are realistic in selling their home, they should make any obvious repairs that aren’t too costly, especially in places where first impressions are made. Things like the front entry, fresh paint, and gleaming hardwood floors make a positive impression to buyers. That being said, the number one consideration is pricing, especially considering that the real market has slowed down quite a bit.

For instance, I have a listing that was previously with two other agencies. I reduced the listing price by $500,000 and it sold immediately.

There is no secret to listing and successfully marketing a home. If it’s in a good location, it’s well priced, and it looks good, it’s going to sell.

Care to tell us of any interesting building or interior/landscape trends?

Interior trends lean toward modern crisp interiors, clean molding and trim, with open floor plans. Buyers want custom millwork rather than standard shelving and bookcases. Builders are engineering homes to be more efficient by utilizing solar panels, radiant heat, and are installing new technology to control home functionality like lighting and security.

What marketing do you employ to secure a luxury exclusive?

For me, it’s the special and unique features of each individual property that dictate the marketing strategy. For example, Dwell magazine caters toward modern homes, so if I have a modern home listing, I’ll advertise there. If it’s a land or investment deal, I might do a special advertising segment for hedge fund investors.

I don’t think you can block every project into the same marketing strategy. I also think that doing events like cocktail parties and partnering with charities for events have proven to be helpful marketing strategies. I’m also putting quite a bit of energy and resources into social media marketing.

Are there any trends of note that you can tell us about in selling these types of homes?

Most of my buyers are coming from Manhattan. They are researching the homes online and then coming out to see the properties based on what they are seeing. This is why investing in social media, videography, virtual home tours, and drone photography is so important.

How has social media affected your ability to sell?

Social media is predominantly a visual medium and my listings have tremendous visual appeal, which makes it easy to leverage my presence.

For those looking to sell their Hamptons home, what should they do to see their home sells quickly and efficiently?

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What are some areas of the East End that you consider up-and-coming?

The East End has already been discovered. But, there are pockets of opportunity to be found in every market. Water Mill, Bridgehampton, and Southampton all have neighborhoods that are undervalued and those are the areas where I try to focus my buyers and investors.

For example, in Water Mill north, you can buy a seven-acre property with tennis courts, a pool, and a guest house for $1.5 million, which is an incredible deal. That gets you just a one-acre property in the village.

How did the Hamptons home sales market do in 2018?

About 12 years ago, I found myself on Martha’s Vineyard when a client called and wanted to go look at homes in the Hamptons. I needed to get back quickly, so I called a friend, who picked me up in his plane. Flying back, he gave me the controls so I could experience flying. I’ve always been fascinated with flying, and after that, I was hooked. I immediately bought a plane and got my pilot’s license.

How else does flying your own plane help to sell homes or secure exclusives? Do clients ever go up with you?

I’ll sometimes take clients to lunch or pick them up, but I don’t really show homes from the air, because it’s just too distracting and it’s gotten more complicated with the controlled airspace regulations.

What’s your elevator pitch?

When you hire me you get me, you don’t get pawned off to a team of assistants. I do all my own showings. I’m available day or night, and I stand by what I say. I don’t make representations about properties that I don’t personally look into.

The market was softer, but there were some great deals made in 2018 that had tremendous value. My advice to buyers is to take action now and take advantage of that while it lasts.

What is your favorite building in the Hamptons, architecturally or otherwise?

I love modern homes, especially those designed by Bates Masi or Barnes Coy architects, with lots of steel, glass, and concrete. I also love the modern farmhouses done by architect James Merrell. Meadow Lane in Southampton, Daniels Lane in Sagaponack, and Dune Road in Bridgehampton have some spectacular modern homes.

You fly your own Cessna out of East Hampton Airport.

When and why did you start flying?

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Pajonas, T & C Gonzalez, R & V

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Mellert, S & Varela, E Zak, S & M Levine, Z & Brown, A Wilmington Savings Fund Mark, J & L Lima Da Silva, A

Friedman, L & Passy, L Siegel, B & N Bekkedahl, V Laupot, R by Ref Yookylyos Realty Corp Vidal, M

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Baymen Bask In Season’s Successes HB wrestlers make team tourney for first time in school history

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Hampton Bays’ lineup looks different, and not because of new additions or haircuts. Alongside the mat during Hampton Bays’ 49-36 loss to Port Jefferson January 9, every wrestler was beaming with excitement, cheering on their teammates, and appreciating their matches.

“The culture here is changing,” said head coach Mike Lloyd. “What we’re doing is working. We have some guys who are really dedicated to the sport and are looking to succeed, looking to make a name for themselves, represent

the school and their weight class; and it’s bringing us together as a team and creating something that is efficient and I think will be very successful.”

The Baymen didn’t have to wait long because some accomplishments have already come. Despite the loss to Port Jeff snapping an undefeated League VIII streak and handed the Royals the conference crown, Hampton Bays finished 4-1 in League VIII and currently boast a 6-12 record with three Continued On Page 24.

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Whalers Secure Essential Win Henry Brooks goes off in hard fought victory

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Someone better get a hold of Henry Brooks and hose him down. The diminutive sophomore guard is red hot, as in smoking hot.

Smithtown Christian found out the hard way on Thursday, January 10, when Brooks ignited for 41 points as the Whalers prevailed in a must-win game, 71-64.

Pierson, looking to run its League VII record to 3-2 and get a leg up on a playoff berth, knew the Knights were capable of an upset. Though 0-5 this season (0-9) overall Smithtown Christian has surprised Pierson before, and just two days earlier had played mighty Greenport tough.

Sure enough, despite playing at home Pierson couldn’t shake the visitors, falling behind by one point at

half time and clinging to a three-point lead after three stanzas.

Then Brooks took center stage. Spinning, driving, popping from the far reaches — he drilled four three-point bombs — Pierson slowly pulled ahead. The win gave Pierson a 6-6 overall record and the locals have a chance to add to that total against Ross on January 18. After that, a trip to Southold on January 28 will be critical: The Settlers (4-3, 7-5) mean business this season and figure to be a major obstacle in the race for a county Class C crown and a state playoff berth.

Wilson Bennett, 11, and Cooper Schiavoni and Richard Barranco with eight each, contributed to the win. By the way, Brooks’s performance moved him into 10th place in the county scoring race: He is averaging 21.5 per game.

Henry Brooks (13) went on a bombing mission against Smithtown Christian. When the smoke cleared, Brooks had 41 points, good enough to propel him onto the list of county scoring leaders, and the Whalers had a hardfought victory. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

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Tuckers, Whalers Doing It Again Two girls teams yield contenders year in and year out

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By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

It’s that time of the year when, if you are on a contending high school hoop team, to get the calendar out.

For teams like the Mattituck Tuckers and the Pierson/Shelter Island Whalers, there are scheduling decisions that need to be made.

Aunt Mara’s birthday party coming up in Connecticut in three weeks?

Better give her a call. There may be a playoff game that day. Oh, and that skiing trip during winter break? Come on, girl, you know better than that!

Playoff season is coming, and the Class B playoffs go through Mattituck just as the Class C playoffs go through Sag Harbor. The players are booked for the foreseeable future.

The Whalers are for real. Two wins this week, including a 51-pasting of Greenport/Southold on January 11, gave the locals seven straight league wins.

Katie Kneeland posted a game high 17 points and partner in crime Chastin Giles added 10 points. Kneeland is averaging 18 points per game, ninth best in Suffolk. Her backcourt mate, Giles, sees the court and keeps the rock flowing. Sag Harbor is in Hampton Bays on January 16 and travels to Center Moriches the following day and is already on the verge of nailing down the top seed in the Class C tournament.

Mattituck isn’t exactly resting on its laurels. The two teams are on a collision course with perfect 7-0 records.

By the time you read this, one will have prevailed their first of two matchups, scheduled for January 14.

But the Mattituck Tuckers, a Class B school, and Pierson, a Class C powerhouse, will only be squaring off for bragging rights. When the state playoffs begin, they’ll be playing against in-class rivals only.

Mattituck traveled to Hampton Bays Friday evening — always a tough place to play — and gave a glimpse of

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what to expect from here on out. The trademark multi-faceted offense is designed to feed open shots to good shooters; unselfish play is the order of the day. Meanwhile, a suffocating, ballhawking defense makes it difficult to maneuver. The result on this night: a 62-28 throttling.

What makes it all the more amazing is this is almost a totally new cast of characters — the guts of last year’s 20-3 Long Island championship team has graduated.

But Mackenzie Hoeg, a junior, seems to be in the middle of everything. Her 14 points led the winners on this night, but it could have been Jaden Thompson or one of the other starters on top of the list. Thompson augmented her scoring, an unselfish 12 points, with seven steals, five rebounds, and five assists. Those are the stats that matter.

Steve Van Dood’s charges are the Class B faves until someone says otherwise.

Next up is Port Jefferson at home Friday, January 18, for a 5:45 PM tipoff.

The Royals, 6-5, are another good team in League VI vying for momentum and a playoff run.

Elwood-John Glenn came into Westhampton on Thursday, January 10, for the biggest game of the young season, and the Knights walked out with bragging rights and an undefeated League V record in tact.

Madison Mullman made a threepointer off an inbounds play at the buzzer to lead Glenn to a 59-56 win over Westhampton — the Hurricanes were 9-0 going into the fray. Samantha Groark had 19 points and nine rebounds for the winners, and Belle Smith scored 23 points for Westhampton (9-1). The locals will try to rebound at Shoreham-Wading River on Friday, January 18. Smith, by the way, is the fourth leading scorer in the county, averaging 21.2 points per game.

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Jack Duryea Delivers

When asked to fill a spot in the 200yard freestyle relay, Pierson sophomore Jack Duryea seemed ready to commit, but quickly changed his mind.

“Yes, I think,” he said, before remembering he’d already be competing in three events. “No, I better not. I feel sick. I can’t.”

That uncertainty changed to positivity when the swimmer approached head coach East Hampton coach Craig Brierley moments before the start of the

race and said, “I’m OK. I’ve got this.”

Duryea did what was asked of him and then some, taking points in four events to help the Bonackers to an 8979 win in a battle of undefeated teams against visiting Hauppauge January 10.

He started by helping secure a thirdplace finish in the 200-medley relay with a 28.50 second split as part of a 1:48.21 time, and third in 53.87 in the 100 freestyle before helping the freestyle relay to second place.

“Jack ‘stole’ points,” Brierley said.

“He was asked to try to earn fourth place in the 100 freestyle, and he ended up third by a mere .6 seconds. He was totally gassed, but had some time to recover until his final event, or so he thought. Each swimmer puts his maximum effort into each of the events, but combine that with the daily training being at its most intense and the result is complete exhaustion. Some of the boys could not recover fast enough for their events and the team needed a fill-in for the 200-freestyle relay.”

Both teams understood the importance of the meet as the Bonackers looked to upset the reigning League II champions. Testing himself against his opponents, Duryea completed his lap of the 200 freestyle in 24.17. The relay finished the race in 1:40.72.

“There were many wonderful things that happened at this meet, and

Baymen Success

The senior night meet against Port Jeff came down to where the strength lied, splitting up like two separate matches between the lightweights and heavyweights. Nick Morea at 145 pounds pinned Nick Kim at 2:22 to start the scoring. Alex Velasquez followed with his own pin at 152 pounds, as did William Krivickas (170), Joseph Gaudiello (182), Jesse Riscen (220), and Kevin Eras (285). Lloyd said he was proud of how his boys wrestled against Port Jeff despite the loss, saying that he thinks a lot of it came down to nervous energy with the stakes being so high. Corredor looked at it like a learning lesson.

“It was a tough loss, but it was a wakeup call — we gave to work a lot harder for next year,” he said. “And even though we lost, we made a statement, put Hampton Bays back on the map. Every single team is going to have to keep an eye out for us. They’re not ready for the talent that we have.”

That talent was instilled partly by Corredor and Pacheco, who went to offseason training camps and brought

back with them a wealth of knowledge and confidence.

“The offseason camp helped me learn new moves and perfect them,” Pachecho said. “It’s really hard to implement them throughout a match because not everyone wrestles the same way, but it really truly helps me get a feeling for what a guy is going to do and gets me prepared to shoot, stall, or defend.”

“It also teaches you to not be afraid of who you’re going against,” Corredor said.

“You’re always going to have a chance if you try your hardest during a match.”

The 126-pounder said he’d enjoyed working with the underclassmen because he’s hoping that not only will they be prepared in case someone gets sick or hurt, but thinks back to the situation he hopes to be in as a freshman.

“I want to help push the team forward,” he said. “With every single thing I’ve learned, I tried to teach it to everyone and make sure everyone is on the same page, because I don’t want to be selfish, or the only one improving. I want us all to grow at the same pace, to grow as one.”

Pierson sophomore swimmer helps East Hampton stay undefeated

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Continued From Page 21. nonleague matches left, marking one of the most successful seasons in years.

Last year, Hampton Bays finished 1-3 in league play and 4-15 overall, and went 1-11-1 overall a year prior.

“It’s been a while since we made it this far,” junior co-captain Nick Pacheco said. “This year has been great and it’s truly been an honor being a part of this team.”

The 126-pounder and his junior 138-pound co-captain Nick Corredor are not only relishing in the fact that they’ve improved so much in the league standings. They’re heading to the Suffolk County Division II team tournament for the first time in school history. The tournament launched three years ago.

“We started off with a very young team this year, and I think everyone stepped up, and did what they had to do to get the team to that championship-level we wanted to be at,” Corredor said. “We faced some very tough teams and did what we had to do.”

Jack’s willingness to step up for his team was the one the captains called out by choosing him as swimmer of the meet,” Brierley said. “A few minutes later, Jack went on to swim a very tired breaststroke, but again, did what was asked of him by finishing third.”

The sophomore touched the wall in the 100 breast stroke in 1:09.32.

The win was the Bonackers’ seventh in a row. The team is 5-0 in League II after also topping Northport/ Commack 88-77 just two days earlier.

East Hampton junior Aidan Forst was named the swimmer of that meet. Falling slightly behind on the final 50 yards of the 500 freestyle, he refused to be defeated, and attacked the final turn to break out even with a Northport swimmer and touch the wall .3 seconds ahead. His time of 5:14.59 was a personal best by over nine seconds.

Hampton Bays and Port Jeff are the two League VIII teams to make the team tournament, along with League VII’s undefeated Mt. Sinai and runnerup Elwood-John Glenn. Two other teams will get in under wildcard slots.

The top two seeds will get first-round byes, but compete like all the other teams in the first round on Wednesday, January 16. Seeds three and six and four and five will face off against one another at the highest seed in each bracket at 4:30 PM, and the winner will face off against the home team at 6 PM. The semifinal winners compete January 19 at Bay Shore High School at 2:30 PM. Regardless of the outcome, Hampton Bays is excited for another go at it, hoping this season will be a catalyst for years to come.

“We’ve improved a lot from last year,” Pacheco said. “We’re not the bottom-of-the-pack team anymore that other teams can just brush off. Now, everyone’s talking about us. We set the bar high and now we’re just got to keep pushing it up. And there’s no going back.”

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It is the time of the year when the presents have been opened, the big silver ball in Times Square has made its descent, and professional golf is ready to be put on display once again. My season got underway with my journey to paradise, the island of Maui, for the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Invitations for this PGA Tour stop are always hard to come by. There’s only one way to get into this field . . .be a winner. If you won a PGA Tour event, you punched your ticket into this elite field with a $1 million check at the end.

As I’m sure many of you know, Maui is a tropical paradise in the Hawaiian Islands, which, by the way, are the most remote islands in the world.

There is no mainland within 2500 miles of these islands in any direction. Many

resist experiencing the joys of Maui simply because they think it is too hard to get to. Obviously, I would have to disagree. I’ll have more on that later.

This winners-only event is played at the Plantation Course at Kapalua on the northwest end of Maui. While the ocean is just a stone’s throw away, the course itself is inland enough to be somewhat mountainous. The elevation changes are drastic and all lead down to the water.

The views over the entire 18 holes are so spectacular and so magnificent that I contend you could play this course without even using a golf ball and still enjoy it. In fact, you might even enjoy it more, given that it’s a really difficult course.

It’s interesting to note that a quaint village just a few miles from the Kapalua Resort Plantation Course called

Lahaina has a lot in common with Sag Harbor. Both Lahaina and Sag Harbor in the early 19th Century were noted as important whaling villages, they both have whaling museums, and both are home to sailboats and yachts, for those who can afford them.

It really is hard to convey just how high the level of play on the PGA Tour and worldwide has reached. Gary Woodland, a very talented athlete, who was good enough to play college basketball, got to sleep on the 54-hole lead of three shots. How about taking a three-stroke lead to the first tee and then go out and fire a brilliant five under par round and lose? How did that happen? Well, a fine young player with a unique first name of Xander fired a nifty little 62 in the final round to win by one shot — that’s 11 under par on the only par 73 tournament course on the Tour.

Officially, his name is Alexander Schauffele, but he goes by Xander. This kid can really play, and why not? Both his grandfathers played in the European Premier League (soccer). With his victory, this 25-year-old has now won four times on the PGA Tour in just three years. His most impressive win being the 2017 Tour Championship.

The Tournament of Champions has certainly had its share of title sponsors over the years, from Lincoln Mercury to Mercedes USA to Hyundai, but

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now this unique event seems to have landed the most ideal sponsor that it is likely ever to find, Sentry Insurance from Stevens Point, WI.

Sentry has given a nice donation to the Maui United Way. It also announced it is four scholarships per year for the next three years for Maui high school graduates who wish to further their education in the Hawaii University and Community College system. There’s no doubt it has stayed true to its company values while embedding the company into the fabric of the Maui community.

It is such a good fit for a tournament as a title sponsor that I have the feeling that Sentry will be around for quite a while. I have the same feeling about our winner, Xander Schauffele, who tied the course record with his 11 under par round of 62, even though he started his day five shots back and even bogeyed his first hole to trail by six. After that, it was all pure magic. Two eagles, seven birdies, and no dropped shots.

Incidentally, we began last week with Justin Rose as the number one player in the world, replacing Brooks Koepka.

Oh, by the way, remember earlier when I said lots of people say Maui is way too difficult to get to? Well, in my book, Maui is a lot easier to get to than it is to leave.

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‘No Issues with Oysters’

Trustee John Aldred, former director of East Hampton Town’s shellfish hatchery, led the meeting. Its purpose, he said, was to try to disseminate as much information about the program and encourage as much public feedback as possible. “The trustees have no dog in this fight,� he said, noting that the county leases are all at least 1000 feet from shore, beyond the Trustees’ jurisdiction.

Although Filipowich tried to allay fears about the extent of the program, many in the audience were focused on the fact that a total of 859 potential leases have been identified, including 22 in Gardiner’s and Napeague bays, where boat traffic is heavy and recreational users abound. “This would seem like the last place you’d want to install floating gear,� said Curt Schade, the commodore of the Devon Yacht Club, which that very day had settled a lawsuit with Frank McMahon, the owner of the Amagansett Oyster Company, over the siting of his lease, which has yet to be developed.

“We have no issues with oysters being cultivated in cages that sit on the bottom, but the floating gear makes the surface of our bays unusable for others,� Schade said. “It is the taking of a public resource for the benefit of a private individual.�

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said the aquaculture program conflicts with portions of the town’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, a comprehensive planning document covering the town’s water resources. Although the LWRP encourages water-based commercial activity, it calls for that activity to be balanced with recreational and other uses.

Katie Sisson, whose family owns a house on Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett, presented photographs of an oyster cage that had broken free and washed ashore near her home. “They have introduced a hazard both in the water and on the beach,� she said. “Can you imagine how many cages would be running around Gardiner’s Bay if this lease program were run out in full?� she said.

But Younes and other commercial growers said floating cages were an essential part of a modern oyster growing operation, especially in an area with a muddy bottom like Napeague Bay, where currents can flip bottom-anchored cages and suffocate the oysters. He said his cages are clearly marked and should pose no problems for attentive sailors. As to the cage that broke off and landed near Sisson’s home, Younes said he would change the hardware on his cages to prevent that from happening again.

Bob Valenti of Multi Aquacultural Systems of Amagansett said cages are raised to the surface in the summer because that’s where the food is. “One of the reasons you float the cages is not to become an obstruction,� he said. “You float the cages to give [oysters] access to phytoplankton� which is concentrated near the surface in the spring and summer.

Chuck Westfall, another oyster grower, referring to the percentage of the bays that are dedicated to aquaculture said, “A fraction of one percent is what is being used now. And that’s after 10 years�. He suggested the need for compromise.

“Unless you have a boat in the area,� came a response from the audience.

Dust Bowl

Continued From Page 12. of a cover crop to protect the dirt from being blown away after the cash crop is harvested.

“I am very concerned about it,�

East Hampton Town Board member Jeff Bragman said Monday. Bragman is the board’s liaison to the town’s agricultural committee.

Emily and Neal Martin live at the end of Conklin Lane, where the field begins. Their residence was covered in gritty dust on Friday. “I’ve lived here 22 years,� Neal Martin said. “It is as bad this year as it ever has been. I don’t believe they got a cover crop down in time. Nothing has grown. It just blows like talcum powder.�

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Everything is covered, Martin added. “The deck. Cars. My lawn is covered with dirt. Everything.�

Who’s to blame? Betsy Martin suggested renting the land to a different farmer next year might be the answer.

Neal Martin said that the crops were harvested too late this year, so the cover crop was planted too late, leaving the geese feasting on the cover crop seeds happy, but everyone else, not so much.

Bragman has been in contact, through Suffolk County, with Liz Camps, the district manager for the county from the United States Department of Agriculture. She, in turn, is exploring possible solutions for the Amagansett dust bowl, including planting cover crops alongside the cash crop plantings, and leaving 75 percent of the harvested crops standing, as is often the case in cornfields.

Southampton Town has a law on the books requiring the planting of cover crops, according to Bragman. It is an idea whose time may have come for East Hampton, as well.

The current dust bowl conditions, Bragman said, “are not acceptable. We must do something about it.�

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