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Multi-million dollar estates with swimming pools and tennis courts dot the woodlands radiating out from this noxious but extremely valuable hole in the ground.

Christiansen, who was hired to monitor the site using tree- and scaffold-mounted cameras strategically placed on the periphery, stood on a ridge separating the pit from the southern edge of the golf club’ s property, as landscaping trucks regularly lurched into view, stopping at the base of a black mulch mountain. Next to an industrial trommel screen or “blender” that refines the compost, a front loader piled the trucks high with mulch destined for local lawns and gardens.

“That stuff is black poison,” says Christiansen.

“No one even asks or cares what’s in it.”

Hiring a private eye to surveil a sand pit may sound extreme, but this is what it’s come to out on the East End. Recent research has shown that commercial composting operations like this can dangerously affect their surroundings. While seemingly part of a virtuous ecological circle of repurposing grass, leaves, and trees into soil-nourishing mulch, they actually release harmful levels of metals and radiological elements into the groundwater. And Sand Land is one of the most egregious:

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Environment: Water Quality On The East End A nyone who has ever trekked to the back parking lot of the Bridge golf club in Bridgehampton, past the glassy and futuristic clubhouse on the hill, has heard the ruckus. While the nearby fairways provide Instagrammable views of Noyac Bay, with only a sea breeze soundtrack, back here the grinding of gears and composting machinery breaks that spell. If you’re curious enough to plunge your rented golf cart through the secondgrowth pitch pine and mountain laurel, as Sam Christiansen did on a recent spring Tuesday, you’ll come to a rusted lawn chair that serves as a lookout over a Dantesque hellscape.

“Most people don’t even know this is back here,” says Christiansen, a 28-year-old private investigator in a teal muscle polo shirt, flared designer jeans, and distressed cowboy boots. “It’s so ugly and out-of-place inside these forests.”

Reflected in his blackout Oakleys was a 31.5acre industrial crater known as Sand Land. The decades-old pit is home to a multi-million dollar sand mining and mulch-composting business that activists say has not only been churning out dust, noise, and various stenches for years, but has actually polluted the groundwater beneath the site.

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It sits directly over the East End’s only aquifer in an area designated by New York State as a Special Groundwater Protection Area.

But Sand Land is merely one expression of a regional disaster in the making. In 2015, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services warned that water quality here — spanning everything from our ponds, estuaries, and bays to our drinking water — is at an alarming “tipping point,” suffering from manifold afflictions. Backyard septic systems and farm fertilizers ooze nitrogen and trigger pond and bay algae blooms that kill off sea and shellfisheries, while shriveling wetlands and making us vulnerable to storm surges. Old industrial sites and emerging contaminants in household products are spreading cancer-causing pollutants into drinking water. And hillsides full of organic junk are generating harmful amounts of metals and other toxins.

“No matter how you slice it, we are living in the midst of a number of disconcerting trends that are putting our waters under assault,” says Dr. Christopher Gobler, a coastal marine scientist and the director of Stony Brook University’s Center for Clean Water Technology. “And if these trends continue, then it’s only going to get worse.”

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Contents

Gioia DiPaolo Knows That Fortune Favors The Bull

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9 Helicopters Again In Forefront EH Town questions two new copter shuttles

22 Private Parking On Montauk Public Land?

Signs threaten to tow vehicles

10 Nor Any Drop To Drink The delicate balance between development and water

36 The Serpent Of The South Fork Black racers important environmental balancer

23 Montauk Drug ‘Kingpin’ Sentenced To 11 Years Rincon connection was broken up last year

24 More Arrests In Southampton Motorists scrutinized on holiday weekend

20 EH Drug Treatment Facility Examined ZBA wants rehab center brought up to town code

38 Feelings Of Deception East Quogue residents say they were fooled into signing petition

18 The State Of Our Water Forum to focus on problems and solutions

51 Water Views Festival On Sunday Schedule of events at Guild Hall

24 EH: Drugs, Violence, And Drunken Driving Felonies and misdemeanors charged

25 Live Fire Training Props Montauk gets first crack at using simulators

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B2 Exploring A ‘Visual Language’ Hamada, sculptor-turnedpainter, exhibits new work

B4 ‘Moby-Dick’ Marathon A whale of a tale, in Sag Harbor

B23 Harbor Bistro: Delicious Decisions Signature cocktails, sunset menu, and a view

B25 Sitting In The Lounge Of Luxury A journey to Australia with Emirates

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41 Southampton’s Oakley, Coady Headed To States Golf team takes second in county championships

B3 A Delightful Detour East End Arts showcases works from North Fork and South Fork artists

B6 Mountain Man At Home On The Road Loyal fans hooked on the harmonies

B24 Guest-Worthy Recipe: Dana Murrell Moroccan chicken thigh kebabs

B26 Charcuterie, Cabernet, And Crudo New restaurants and chefs are tasty topics

40 Hurricanes Cooled Down By BBP WHB girls lax team falls in Class C semfinals

42 Wölffer 5K Bud Run A real fitness foodie event with Grindstone

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Publisher James J. Mackin Associate Publisher Jessica Mackin-Cipro Executive Editors Rick Murphy Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Clean Water, Our Responsibility Dear Editor, Did you know that every year eight million metric tons of plastic go into the oceans? I was shocked when I learned this fact in middle school.

Concern about plastic in our water supply motivated me to begin recycling plastic water bottles from the cafeteria in school with Surfrider club. After three years as president of the club, when I got to high school, I joined the national Surfrider organization. This past year I have sponsored a beach clean-up at the bay near my house. I have also taken part in other beach cleanups in East Hampton and Amagansett.

It is amazing how much garbage we see on the shore and in the water on these clean-ups. I want to keep plastic and other litter out of the water so it doesn’t wind up killing birds and fish, and so it doesn’t end up poisoning our drinking water.

In addition to doing beach clean-ups, I spoke at the East Hampton Town Board meeting about banning the sale of Styrofoam since so much of it winds up in our oceans. I was very glad when the law was passed. I have also written letters about banning the release of balloons and the use of plastic straws.

Soon, I am going on a Surfrider oyster seeding at the bay, because oysters actually filter the water and help keep it clean.

All of my work with Surfrider is because I love our oceans and bays. I want to do my part to help protect them. Water is one of our most valuable resources, and we all need to help keep it clean, especially in a beautiful place like East Hampton.

Sarah Betuel (Ninth grader, EHHS)

Inappropriate Activity?

Dear Editor, One almost has to feel sorry for Andrew Strong, the

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Democratic Committee’s candidate for East Hampton Town Justice. Young, and an inexperienced firsttime candidate, he has to run for office while carrying the weight of the Democratic political machine on his back.

Instead of distancing himself from their partisan politics, as judicial candidates are required to do, he sent around a campaign letter obviously written

by Democratic party bosses, Chris Kelley, Jeanne Frankl, and Betty Mazur. In his letter, he complains that he has been “forced” to run in a primary campaign, because he has an opponent, as if being on the ballot unopposed is his right.

As a lawyer and candidate for public office, Strong ought to be familiar with New York election law. Everyone, including Strong, gets on the primary ballot the same way, by obtaining enough signatures on nominating petitions from the registered voters of the party. That another candidate also obtained the legally required signatures to get on the Democratic primary ballot is described by Strong as “shenanigans.” These are open elections, the essential element of democracy, conducted according to law.

They are hardly “shenanigans.” Strong does us all a disservice by expressing his disdain for them.

However, a more serious misstep for Strong is that his letter also violates the canon of judicial ethics for judicial election campaigns. Under 22 NYCRR Sec. 100.5, a judicial candidate must “refrain from inappropriate political activity.” Prohibited activity specifically includes: “(c) engaging in any partisan political activity,” “(d) participating in any political campaign for any office,” and, most significantly, “(e) publicly endorsing or publicly opposing (other than by running against) another candidate for public office.”

For every office other than judge, it is the law that a candidate not registered to the party must obtain the consent of the party itself. This is why and how there are already Republicans running on the Democratic Committee’s slate. Uniquely, judicial candidates do not require party consent because they are expected to campaign on their personal qualifications for office and are required to refrain from partisan political commentary. In his letter, Strong instead touts his party affiliation as the reason to vote for him, while disparaging his opponent on explicitly politically partisan grounds, in apparent violation of clause (c).

Strong continues down this path by making disparaging political comments about David Gruber, currently a nominated candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor, and Rona Klopman, currently a nominated candidate for East Hampton Town Trustee. His politically partisan purpose is undisguised and his remarks are in evident violation of all three clauses of Sec. 100.5.

It is difficult to understand how Strong can Continued On Page 49.

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Helicopter shuttle has the Twin Forks seeing red. Independent/James J. Mackin

Helicopters Again: Fight Or Flight?

East Hampton Town questions two new copter shuttles

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Long-suffering East End residents have turned lobbying against helicopter noise into a year-round activity, but opposition is intensifying of late.

Why? “It’s Memorial Day weekend,” said an official of a pilot’s association, explaining the ratcheting up of helicopter noise and the fury it brings will now move into overdrive as the flights — and the noise — increase markedly.

It’s by no means a burgeoning

problem: the condition has existed for more than a decade, and every municipality on the East End has actively sought to redirect the stream of helicopters that flow in and out of East Hampton Airport, especially on weekend days during the season. The reason is that flight paths affect residents for miles in every direction.

Last week, the Town of East Hampton filed legal objections after learning two helicopter companies

announced their intention of opening shuttle service to the local airport. The town asked the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation to determine if the new companies were legal.

During the offseason, North Fork municipalities bristled over flight plans that increased the traffic over their communities. Congressman Lee Zeldin pressured the FAA to hold public hearings. As a result, the pilots agreed to voluntarily “disperse routes,” one official said, and try “a 5050 approach” that would utilize areas south and north of the airport for approaches and takeoffs.

But the FAA did not make any mandatory changes and the pilots’ agreement was an informal one, dependent on the weather in some instances.

The pilots are often stymied by fog on the south route, which heads over the ocean at Mecox Bay, and especially in May and June.

“Weather is an issue,” the official said. “The FAA forbids you. Remember, outside 4.5 miles, the FAA is the

sole authority.” In other words, the Town of East Hampton doesn’t have final say in flight paths.

East Hampton is also involved in a complex legal maneuver that could conceivably shut the airport down all together, but that could take years even in the perfect scenario. The town, local pilots, and businesses based at the airport, and others involved with the airport, have been involved in numerous lawsuits over the years.

In July 2015, the town put in place a moratorium on landings and takeoffs of all aircraft from 11 PM to 7 AM, and extended that ban from 8 PM to 9 AM for noisier aircraft. The law was struck down in late 2016 by a federal appeals court, which ruled that if the town wanted to place restrictions on the airport, it needed to do so following the federal Airport Noise and Capacity Act, passed in 1990. That law requires that municipalities that want to regulate noisy aircraft to go through what is called a “Part 161” process, in which it presents the FAA with a cost analysis and an exploration of alternative solutions.

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A toxic algae bloom. Excess nitrogen and other nutrients from septic systems and agriculture are causing similar algal explosions in fresh and salt water across the East End.

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A freshwater crisis is building across the East End. The time to act is now.

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nyone who has ever trekked to the back parking lot of the Bridge golf club in Bridgehampton, past the glassy and futuristic clubhouse on the hill, has heard the ruckus. While the nearby fairways provide Instagrammable views of Noyac Bay, with only a sea breeze soundtrack, back here the grinding of gears and composting machinery breaks that spell. If you’re curious enough to plunge your rented golf cart through the secondgrowth pitch pine and mountain laurel, as Sam Christiansen did on a recent spring Tuesday, you’ll come to a rusted lawn chair that serves as a lookout over a Dantesque hellscape.

“Most people don’t even know this is back here,” says Christiansen, a 28-year-old private investigator in a teal muscle polo shirt, flared designer jeans, and distressed cowboy boots. “It’s so ugly and out-of-place inside these forests.”

Reflected in his blackout Oakleys was a 31.5acre industrial crater known as Sand Land. The decades-old pit is home to a multi-million dollar sand mining and mulch-composting business that activists say has not only been churning out dust, noise, and various stenches for years, but has actually polluted the groundwater beneath the site.

Multi-million dollar estates with swimming pools and tennis courts dot the woodlands radiating out from this noxious but extremely valuable hole in the ground.

Christiansen, who was hired to monitor the site using tree- and scaffold-mounted cameras strategically placed on the periphery, stood on a ridge separating the pit from the southern edge of the golf club’s property, as landscaping trucks regularly lurched into view, stopping at the base of a black mulch mountain. Next to an industrial trommel screen or “blender” that refines the compost, a front loader piled the trucks high with mulch destined for local lawns and gardens.

“That stuff is black poison,” says Christiansen.

“No one even asks or cares what’s in it.”

Hiring a private eye to surveil a sand pit may sound extreme, but this is what it’s come to out on the East End. Recent research has shown that commercial composting operations like this can dangerously affect their surroundings. While seemingly part of a virtuous ecological circle of repurposing grass, leaves, and trees into soil-nourishing mulch, they actually release harmful levels of metals and radiological elements into the groundwater. And Sand Land is one of the most egregious:

It sits directly over the East End’s only aquifer in an area designated by New York State as a Special Groundwater Protection Area.

But Sand Land is merely one expression of a regional disaster in the making. In 2015, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services warned that water quality here — spanning everything from our ponds, estuaries, and bays to our drinking water — is at an alarming “tipping point,” suffering from manifold afflictions. Backyard septic systems and farm fertilizers ooze nitrogen and trigger pond and bay algae blooms that kill off sea and shellfisheries, while shriveling wetlands and making us vulnerable to storm surges. Old industrial sites and emerging contaminants in household products are spreading cancer-causing pollutants into drinking water. And hillsides full of organic junk are generating harmful amounts of metals and other toxins.

“No matter how you slice it, we are living in the midst of a number of disconcerting trends that are putting our waters under assault,” says Dr. Christopher Gobler, a coastal marine scientist and the director of Stony Brook University’s Center for Clean Water Technology. “And if these trends continue, then it’s only going to get worse.”

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s the mid-morning lunch break ended at Sand Land, more and more landscaping trucks began to arrive to reload. Christiansen hopped into his golf cart and lurched through the heavy underbrush to the east side of the rectangular hole to get a better view.

He pulled up near some weathered scaffolding that looked like an open-air hunting blind. “That’s for prospective land buyers,” Christiansen says, “to get a look at the property.” On the far side of the scaffolding, deep in the woods, carpenters were banging out the frame of a minor mega mansion. “No one is going to buy on this side of the ridge,” he adds.

Christiansen climbed from the cart and walked over to some fallen hurricane fencing meant to mark the boundary of Sand Land’s 50-acre parcel. From here, he could see directly across to an un-mined 3.1-acre hill known as the stump dump, which was for decades the core of the composting and mulching activities at the site. A 40-foot face of sand — a gold mine in itself — wore a blackened toupee of organic waste that will eventually make its way into the blender, the contractors’ trucks, and the backyards of East Enders.

Joining Christiansen at the site was a Brooklyn filmmaker (together they would spend the next three days in a hotel room piecing together thousands of hours of surveillance video into a YouTube-ready documentary), and Washington, D.C., power lawyer Brian Sexton. Sexton was hired several years ago

by Robert Rubin, owner of the Bridge and a former Wall Street commodities trader, who transformed the defunct Bridge Race Circuit into the golf club (membership fee: $950,000) and luxury residential subdivision. Rubin objected to the mine’s noise and nuisance as well as its pollution and had joined forces with local neighbors and activists.

Hiring Christiansen and his father, Keith, whose remote cameras record the pit 24 hours a day, with footage stored on a 100-terabyte hard drive, accessible by iPhone app, was one of their first big moves.

“What you’re looking at, besides the yard waste, is millions of pounds of sand with a street value of about $35 million,” says Sexton, clad in faded dad jeans, an oversized windbreaker, and a pair

Greed, inertia, and influence peddling could leave tens of thousands without clean water, devastate our ponds and bays, and destroy wildlife throughout the region. of fresh-from-the-box suede hiking boots. “Combine that with the fact that mulch here is probably a $50,000-a-week cash business, and you’ve got a highly profitable operation. That is why people are fighting so hard on the other side to save it.”

Places like Sand Land, out of sight and out of the way, became ready repositories for tons of rotting yard waste and dead Christmas trees when Long Island succeeded in shutting down its many toxic landfills in the 1980s. At the time, it seemed like a win-win.

“When the landfills closed they never dealt with that portion of the waste stream,” says Bob DeLuca, a long-time critic of Sand Land and the president of the environmental organization Group for The East End. “So it had to go somewhere, first in a hole in the ground, and then it became a commodity.”

It wasn’t until 2000 that high concentrations of metals began turning up in private well water near these operations. That year, elevated levels of manganese were found in the well of a home on Horseblock Road in Yaphank.

Next door sat the 62-acre Great Gardens composting facility, which had begun processing

Loading up on mulch from John Tintle’s Sand Land pit, as seen from one of Sam and Keith Christiansen’s surveillance cameras.

Sand Land is one of 12 composting sites identified by county health officials as sources of toxic metals in local ground water.

up to 85,000 tons of yard and food waste the previous year. It took a decade to confirm, but in 2013, the State Department of Environmental Conservation published a landmark study that named Great Gardens as the source of local well water contamination by manganese, ammonia, thalium, and gross alpha/beta radioactivity that exceeded safe drinking standards.

The science explaining the contamination would come later, but it proved pretty straightforward: These metals and radionuclides occur naturally and at safe levels in our soil. It’s only when organic matter enters the soil that it changes groundwater chemistry; microbes break down wood during decomposition and consume oxygen as they do, reducing oxygen levels in the soil to almost zero.

This anaerobic condition allows metals and other elements to leech en masse into the ground water.

Soon after the DEC report, the county health department began testing other mulching sites. By 2016, it had found similar contamination at 11 of 12 composting facilities it tested. Two years later, it added Sand Land to its list of offenders.

From the start, activists were particularly alarmed because Sand Land sits directly over the sole source aquifer here, in what’s known as a water recharge area — a “deep flow” hydrogeologic zone that provides the greatest quantity and volume of fresh water recharge to the subsurface aquifer. For a decade, activists, politicians, and the Town of Southampton itself have been urging the DEC to shut down Sand Land and force its owner, John Tintle, to clean the site and turn it over for reclamation. Instead, Tintle, who owns another sand mine in East Quogue and a defunct one in Wainscott, has fought not only to keep the mine active but to expand his operations, including into the 3.1-acre stump dump.

Last September, after years of battles in court and before regulators, Sand Land’s critics seemed poised for victory. That month, the DEC told Tintle he had pretty much run out of sand to mine at the site, and that what was left was problematic. Mining the stump dump, it said, could release still more contaminants, further threatening the groundwater supply. It demanded Tintle cease mining operations and quickly begin the reclamation process.

But then, six months later, something odd happened. On March 15, the DEC reversed itself.

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Sea water, as it should be. Nearly 20 instances of hypoxia, a low-oxygen condition associated with excess algae production, were recorded in coastal Long Island waters in the summer of 2018 (see map, p. 14).

It announced “a settlement agreement” with Tintle.

Without public participation, the state had struck a deal that allowed Tintle to mine the former stump dump and dig 40 feet deeper, bringing the mine closer to the aquifer. It also gave him an additional eight years before he’d be required to close up shop. The agreement, while banning Tintle from accepting any new vegetative waste and mandating onsite groundwater monitoring, made zero mention of penalties for confirmed contamination on the site, nor did it propose cleaning up the mess that was already there.

Critics were blindsided. And outraged.

DeLuca called the agreement “bizarre,” and suggested it needed to be investigated: “We have no idea why or how this bad decision was reached.”

On April 17, DeLuca’s group and other activists, along with Sand Land’s neighbors, the Town of Southampton, and State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, sued the DEC and Sand Land, in state Supreme Court, seeking to void the settlement agreement.

A few weeks later, Suffolk County filed papers to join the suit.

Neither Tintle nor his lawyer would comment for this story. The DEC wouldn’t comment on the pending lawsuit, but issued a statement to The Independent saying its settlement “has put the facility on the path to closure.”

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n fact, the Sand Land flip-flop is just the latest example of how our watchdogs are failing to protect our most precious resource. Through a combination of greed, inertia, and influence peddling, the East End is staring down a crisis that could leave tens of thousands without clean water, devastate our ponds and bays, and destroy wildlife throughout the region.

It’s a slow, insidious kind of crisis. Outgunned by business interests and the political muscle of developers, lay people on local zoning boards are allowing what DeLuca calls “death by a thousand cuts.”

“People think of pollution as this green gunk spewing from a single pipe with some corporate bad guy at the other end,” he says. “But it’s a thousand tiny accommodations made daily. We’ve met the enemy and it is us.”

DeLuca has spent his career fighting accommodations. He regularly appears at zoning board meetings in a tweed jacket, rimless glasses, and a professorial goatee. He is a biologist with degrees in environmental science, an educator, and, since the 1980s, a ringleader for his group. He is plainspoken and talks as knowledgably about the glacial geology of Long Island as he does about the impact of duck farm waste on water quality here in the 1940s and 1950s.

The biggest challenge is that people just don’t understand where the pollution is coming from.

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The biggest challenge to stopping the further erosion to our drinking water, ponds, and bays, says DeLuca, is that people just don’t understand where the pollution is coming from. It’s the stuff we use on our bodies. It’s the stuff that’s flowing from old industrial sites. And most of all, it’s the stuff that’s flowing out of our bodies. “Unless you’re a geologist who cares about these things,” he says, “you never see what’s seeping through the groundwater under our yards and manhole covers.”

Indeed, the list of threats and their impacts can seem endless. Last May, the Town of East Hampton had to declare a state of emergency after it found high levels of the chemicals PFOS and PFOA in private wells near the East Hampton Airport. For years, firefighters staging mass casualty drills there would torch a school bus and then spray it down with hundreds of gallons of firefighting foam. The chemicals were also used at the airport itself and by neighboring businesses. Eventually, they leached into the groundwater and contaminated at least 100 wells.

The town had to commit $24 million to extend water mains to those homes.

In early March, the Bethpage Water District sued Northrup Grumman, which for decades operated a weapons facility in the town, after it found a chemical called 1, 4 dioxane, which the EPA recently classified as “likely to be carcinogenic,” in its drinking water. And that contamination is separate from a six-square-mile toxic plume that has been seeping into the town’s water supply and is blamed on the

company’s hazardous waste dumping.

Adrienne Esposito heads up the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, which has been sounding alarms over dioxane and other emerging contaminants for years (“emerging” because we’ve only recently begun to understand their impacts on human health). It’s not just heavy industry that is to blame, says Esposito. She calls dioxane, for example, “a major concern to drinking water quality.”

The chemical is used in hundreds of personal care products including shampoo, soap, body wash, and laundry detergent. (It is an unwanted bi-product of ethoxylation, the process manufacturers use to reduce skin-irritation that petroleum-based ingredients cause.)

“Every time we use these things, they go down the drain and enter our wastewater stream,” says Esposito. From there, they seep into wells or become part of the municipal water system. Water treatment plants, and consumer filters, currently have no way of scrubbing them out.

But these little-known contaminants aren’t the only things we flush that can harm us. Because our bodies only metabolize a fraction of most prescription drugs we swallow, birth control, antidepressants, blood pressure regulators, and anti-anxiety medications all end up in the water we drink.

That’s alarming in itself. But unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket. The biggest threat to our health and to our aquatic environment — by far — is something far more natural.

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n a cloudless spring Saturday, a dozen people crammed into the tiny screened-in porch on the back of Rick Marsh’s cottage overlooking Little Fresh Pond, in the hamlet of North Sea. Marsh and his wife, Barbara, have owned this summer place on the 19-acre pond for 65 years.

Thanks to their 40-year-old neighborhood association, which prohibits swimming pools and lawn pesticides, the pond is one of the cleanest in the area.

That, they say, may soon change. In 2010, a local developer and children’s day camp operator named Jay S. Jacobs bought a 17-acre site on the pond: 12 summer cottages and 10 neighborhood tennis courts that operated as a tennis club for visitors as well as a few locals and their kids. Jacobs saw untapped commercial upside. In 2012, he applied to the Southampton Zoning Board of Appeals to turn the place into a tennis day camp for 420 kids; it would be staffed by 90 adult counselors, 65 of them living on site during the summer.

Marsh and other members of the Little Fresh Pond Association have spent years trying to stop Jacobs. They argue that increased sewage from the camp will eventually infiltrate dangerous levels of nitrogen into the groundwater and then the pond.

“You’re going to have hundreds of people, each one of them flushing toilets three or four times a day, which is just going to kill this little pond,” says Marsh, as the other members, sunk in well-worn wicker chairs and couches, surrounded by styrofoam

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“The DEC slammed shut the doors of victory we had opened,” says one activist. “We’re now fighting to find out why they did it.” plates of fruit and cups of home-brewed coffee, murmured that’s rights all around him.

In fact, our toilets are the principal sources of the biggest water quality issue facing the East End and the county. Of Suffolk County’s 1.5 million residents, 74 percent or roughly one million people, have no access to municipal sewer systems. Their waste goes into cesspools and septic tanks (some 360,000 throughout the county). Nitrogen in that waste finds its way into the groundwater and up to the surface. During storms, rain carries that nitrogen, with pesticides and other pollutants, into ponds, estuaries, and bays.

Once there, nitrogen causes a devastating cascade of environmental disasters. It triggers hypoxia and harmful algae blooms, which kill off sea and shellfisheriers, and turns our ponds and our bays brown with microorganism death. It destroys eel grass beds and wetlands, protective natural buffers against wave and storm surges. As a result, salt water is allowed to travel further inland, and in turns invades fresh water supplies. This in turn raises the ground water levels, further compromising residential cesspools and septic systems, creating a harmful and un-ending cycle.

Nitrogen is also a threat to the water we drink.

Unlike New York City, Long Island doesn’t pump its water from upstate reservoirs. Every drop from our faucets comes from below our feet, from that singlesource aquifer, which sits as close as 120 feet below sea level in some areas. Two decades ago, that wasn’t a problem. Back then, there were fewer people living and vacationing here, and fewer septic systems to accept their waste, so groundwater was able to gradually absorb and disperse the nitrogen. Today, “we basically have an urban population living on a rural infrastructure,” says DeLuca.

According to Frank Russo, a civil engineer and the associate director of wastewater initiatives at Stony Brook University’s Center for Clean Water Technologies, the levels of nitrogen and ammonia in crude wastewater has become “a major health concern to both potable water and surface water.” Nowhere is that more evident, he says, than in the Great South Bay, which once produced more than half the clams eaten in the U.S. Over the past 25 years, the clam harvest there has cratered by 93 percent, killed off by recurrent brown tides and destroying an industry that once accounted for 6,000 jobs.

Of course, in rural areas like around Little Fresh Pond, residents fear that a business-as-usual

approach to wastewater will condemn a valuable resource to becoming a similar sort of dead zone.

On March 7, in an eerie bureaucratic echo of the Sand Land story, and after an eight-year legal fight, the Southampton ZBA approved Jacobs’ application to designate his property as a day camp. Though the neighborhood association’s own expert hydrologist had found that wastewater from the camp would likely flow into the pond, that same expert, when hired by Jacobs for his environmental impact statement, said it would flow around the pond.

Association members say such competing claims need to be resolved independently. They worry that Jacobs was given preferential treatment.

Not only because he is a powerful businessman who owns seven other children’s day camps, but because he is also the chairman of the Democratic Party in Nassau County, and the party’s former state chairman.

No one has accused Jacobs or the ZBA of doing anything improper. But critics say the boards themselves are often under immense pressure from wealthy homeowners and developers to make favorable rulings. “The ZBA has a litany of things that are not allowed and they have to say no a lot, whether it’s a mega mansion expansion near wetlands or a well-funded and connected developer,” says DeLuca.

“It’s a hard job and the politically appointed boards are not always up for it.”

It’s also hard for community groups to fight deep-pocketed developers. Early in the Little Fresh Pond battle, Jacobs sued the heads of the association for $45 million, charging defamation for their characterization of his conduct as “fraudulent.” A judge tossed the suit as “frivolous,” calling it an example of a SLAPP suit, a strategic lawsuit against public participation to chill free speech, and ordered Jacobs to pay their legal fees.

For his part, Jacobs not only defends his right to develop the land, and defends the integrity of his own experts and the ZBA’s decision, but accuses the association of creating “a phony issue.”

“What you have is handful of people who enjoyed living next to a failing day camp and a small club and don’t want to see the activity go up so they used the pollution issue to stir people up,” he says.

“I think they took advantage of everyone.”

Noting that Little Fresh Pond is already in a state of decline (in 2012, it was found to be “eutrophic,” meaning that algae was highly productive and could impair the water), Jacobs laid the blame on the

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very homeowners trying to keep him out. “Some of these neighbors, whose houses are within dozens of feet of the pond, have antiquated septic systems and [are] certainly more responsible for the pond’s decline than anything else is,” he says. He added that he cares about the environment and the pond’s health, but thinks his critics are hypocrites. “When you twist science to advance your own personal self interest,” he says, “I think it’s despicable.”

Maybe Jacobs is right that current residents are contributing to a deterioration of the pond. But adding hundreds more people to the equation seems highly unlikely to improve its condition.

Among the topics at Rick Marsh’s cottage that spring Saturday was how to raise money to carry on the fight against Jacobs. The group wants to appeal the ZBA decision. And there’s also the matter of the beach. Jacobs’ property includes a beach that could be used to let campers swim and kayak on the pond. That means, in the minds of the association members, lots of kids with environmentally harmful sunblock and insecticides, recreating, and probably peeing, in their pond. Jacobs tells the Independent he has no plans for such a use at the camp, but he wants to retain the right to use the beach. The Zoning Board must grant site approval for that use, which the association plans to fight.

But they’re not sure how to pay for it. “We’ve funded all of this out of our own pockets for eight years,” says Jim Silber, co-president of the association. “Who else can help us?”

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here are a few rays of hope in this tale.

People like Stony Brook’s Russo are creating new technologies that could help.

His team has devised a filtering system that can clean nitrogen in on-site septic systems. But it costs a lot — $35,000 to tear out an old residential system and install a new one. And though he hopes to see the price drop to $10,000, it will remain an inconvenience and a high cost for many but the wealthiest homeowners, even with local grants.

To get rid of 1, 4 dioxane in our waters is even harder. There’s only nascent research into filtering it. And even if consumers wanted to avoid it entirely, that’s nearly impossible because manufacturers are not required to list it as an ingredient on products.

Esposito’s group is lobbying the U.S. Senate to mandate that the FDA force companies to get rid of it.

“They don’t need it, they don’t have to include it in products, and it should be banned,” she says.

Which is why, say opponents, it is so disturbing that the DEC not only reversed course in March when it announced its settlement with Tintle, but also set the stage for further contamination of the groundwater by allowing him to mine the stump dump.

“The DEC slammed shut the doors of victory we had opened,” says Esposito, whose group is one of many now suing Tintle and the regulatory agency. “It was ridiculous and absurd and we’re now fighting to find out why they did it. Only they can answer that.”

Kevin Gray’s writing has appeared in Wired UK, The Wall Street Journal, New York, The New York Times Magazine, and numerous other publications.

His last feature for The Independent was “A Mighty Wind,” about the Deepwater Wind controversy.

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Feelings Of Deception Some East Quogue residents say they were fooled into signing village petition

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Some East Quogue residents who signed a local committee’s petition to form a village say they were told they were signing to explore the idea and learn more about the process and not requesting a vote on the subject.

“I had someone knock on my door and say, ‘Please sign this. It’s not a yes or no vote, it’s just so that we can have further discussions,’” said Diane Dickson at a May 20 public hearing at East Quogue Elementary School on the sufficiency of the petition. “My husband and I signed it right then and there.

Now I feel that it’s like a ‘yes’ vote.

That’s not what I was told, nor was it what I intended.”

P.J. Mitchell said if people like the Dicksons hadn’t signed the petition, maybe the East Quogue Village Exploratory Committee wouldn’t have reached the 20 percent of registered voters necessary to bring it forward to Southampton Town April 3.

“It’s a very different thing to open a discussion and have a vote,” she said. “They’re two different things, and if that’s what happened, that’s

completely inappropriate.”

Elizabeth Jackson spoke at the first public hearing and said she thought the committee had used an old list of residents, which included some who have since died or moved out of the hamlet or state, to arrive at the 20 percent number it needed. She felt similarly to Mitchell, saying she thought getting 20 percent of the hamlet’s population to agree would be more difficult than getting a majority on voting day.

She said she too heard of people being persuaded to sign in support of future hearings and discussions, as opposed to signing to continue the process.

“People are being misinformed, whether intentionally or unintentionally,” Jackson said. “They might not all be as accurate as you’d hoped.”

Another resident, whose name could not be obtained, echoed previous sentiments that the petition was brought forward because of The Hills development, which calls for a golf

course and more than 100 houses. He said he had moved to East Quogue from another village, and knew personally the cost to start and dismantle one.

In his experience taxes also increased every year. He said he was happy with the town’s response times when calling about issues, and sees no real reason to incorporate, besides helping those who want the golf course push it through.

“We have to consider the effect on quality of life,” he said to rounds of applause. “Do we need aggravation and divisiveness by adding another layer of bureaucracy?”

Supervisor Jay Schneiderman, who oversees the process, closed the public hearing, but left the record open for written comment to be submitted to the town clerk’s office by email, mail, or in person by 4 PM May 31. Testimony will only be considered if based on the sufficiency of the petition. Schneiderman has 10 days from then to file his written determination.

It was standing room only aboard the Long Island Railroad’s first Cannonball Express on May 24. Shown here are passengers disembarking at the Montauk train station. Several hours later, a passenger train sideswiped a work train in Speonk, shutting down the Montauk line for about 36 hours. The Montauk line was back in service by Sunday afternoon, in time for the Monday crunch as weekenders returned from the East End to New York City. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

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The State Of Our Water Forum to focus on problems and solutions, big and small

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com Summer’s upon us, and the landscapers are spreading the fertilizers and insecticides far and wide; the telltale algal blooms will soon be showing up in our bays and ponds; and beachgoers might find themselves put off by the amount of plastic, from bottles to bags and balloons, they see on the shoreline.

Welcome to the 21st Century and the growing awareness that our water, whether it be for drinking or habitat, is under assault from all angles. Fortunately, though, there is also a growing awareness that something needs to be done to stem the tide.

Those who want to learn about what they can do to help the cause as well as find out what broader solutions are being proposed are invited to attend The Independent’s Water Views Festival moderated by CNN’s Don Lemon on Sunday, June 2, at Guild Hall in East Hampton, starting at 10 AM.

The keynote speaker will be Cyrill Gutsch, a designer and entrepreneur and founder of Parley for the Oceans, which seeks to take on the threat the growing mountain of plastics being dumped in the oceans is having on both marine and human life.

Gutsch has partnered with a growing number of companies that have committed to eliminating the use of plastic altogether or using only materials that have been recycled from the debris in the ocean.

Edwina von Gal, a landscape designer and founder of the Perfect Earth Project, will address an issue that many may find closer to their own homes: the use of toxic pesticides and overuse of fertilizers on the typical American lawn and garden.

“Our perception of how property should look is stuck in the 1950s,” she said of the desire for green grass and lots of it. “And yet things change over time. We don’t expect people to show up dressed the way they in the ’50s and yet our landscapes are still in suits and girdles.”

She said she was spurred to begin the Perfect Earth Project after a visit to her dentist, who told her he lived near the water and was feeling guilty about the toxins he was applying to his lawn and garden. “I didn’t have any answers,” she said, “and since I was in the business, I felt it was my responsibility.”

Von Gal said she hoped to leave her listeners with the knowledge that landscaping chemicals are bad, that we don’t have to rely on them, and that embracing

an organic approach will reduce your “eco-anxiety” and lead to a more satisfying relationship with your landscape.

Dr. Aly Cohen will also address issues close to home: the large number of toxins contained in personal care and home cleaning products. “The majority of them, 99.9 percent, have never been tested for safety,” she said.

She said she would focus her talk on the topic of drinking water in the United States and how many contaminants are affecting human health, the safety of well water versus municipal water, and filtration versus bottled water. Cohen said she would provide practical tips about how you can find toxic-free solutions for things like home cleaning.

“I want to be the happy person in the room,” she said. “I want to leave the audience feeling empowered, that they have a handle on this.”

Engineer Michael Ogden is the founder of Natural Systems International, which designs water infrastructure projects around the world that use natural methods to treat wastewater and stormwater.

A current project, he said, involves a 55,000-seat soccer stadium, where wastewater will be recycled to irrigate the field as well as provide the water supply for toilets and urinals. Another project seeks to use wastewater to help restore hardwood wetlands along the Mississippi River in Louisiana that have been deprived of nutrients since levees were built.

He said his talk would discuss the role of water in Long Island’s economic growth and development; the island’s

unique geology and its role in providing drinking water; the impacts of increasing population on the aquifer, especially on the East End; the unintended side effects of civilization on water quality, from drug residue to synthetic fabrics; using natural systems to avoid pollution and clean water after use; and individual responsibility in the face of what may appear to be an overwhelming societal issue.

Beth Rattner, the executive director of the Biomimicry Institute, said her talk would focus on how nature can be used for inspiration in the design process. “It is no longer what we can learn about nature,” she said, “but what we can learn from it.”

Biomimicry “accelerates the kinds of breakthroughs we need to halve carbon emissions over the next decade,” she added. “Looking to nature also inspires new ways of farming, collecting, storing, or filtering water, or creating new ways to build homes.”

Her institute is helping develop a new type of entrepreneur who knows how to invent products that are both inspired by nature and supportive of human life.

The morning portion of the program will also include a water panel featuring Dorian Dale, the director of sustainability for Suffolk County; Dr. Christopher Gobler, the director of the New York State Center for Clean Water Technology; and Stuart Lowrie, the director of sustainable water, New York Division, for the Nature Conservancy.

An eco-expo with family-friendly activities and food tastings will follow from noon to 3 PM. The festival will include activations that are designed to be educational. Participating vendors include Flowers by Beth, Friends of Georgica Pond, The Nature Conservancy, Stony Brook Center for Clean Water Technology, Children's Museum of the East End, Art Barge, The South Fork Natural History Museum, Global Ocean Exploration Inc, Perfect Earth Project, Air, Land and Sea, The Smart Human, Homeslice Pizza, and Surfrider Foundation.

The event is free, but space is limited. Reservations can be made by emailing waterviews@indyeastend.com.

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EH Drug Treatment Facility Examined ZBA wants rehab up to town code

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The Dunes, an exclusive high-end drug treatment facility in Northwest Woods, has neighbors and East Hampton Town asking questions. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

he woke up one morning to the sound of bulldozers and backhoes, as workers graded and widened the dirt path leading to the facility’s entrance.

In Court McKinsey originally pitched the idea to the town that if the Dunes occupied the residence at 26 Bull Run, with its eight bedrooms, it would be complying with the zoning code, because the as-many-as eight patients residing there at any one time would be functioning as a singlefamily unit. Tom Prieto, then the town’s head building inspector, at first agreed with McKinsey, but later determined that, to operate the Dunes the way McKinsey described the business being run, he would need to obtain a special permit from the town planning board.

McKinsey and Safe Harbor ap-

pealed that determination to the ZBA. After the ZBA rejected McKinsey’s appeal in 2013, he then took the matter to federal court, claiming discriminating under the housing provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In March of 2015, U.S. Eastern District Judge Leonard Wexler threw the suit out, saying Safe Harbor had not exhausted all the local remedies. It hadn’t even applied for the special permit Prieto said it needed, he pointed out in his decision.

“When you are asking for a special permit, we have to take special care,” Ian Calder-Piedmonte, a member of the planning board, told Safe Harbor in 2017. At that time, the planning board told Safe Harbor it would need to obtain setback variances from the ZBA. Continued On Page 49.

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McKinsey has pointed out previously that the Dunes also offers scholarships to East Hampton residents who can’t afford the price tag, but need help battling drug addiction.

According to a neighbor, David Traitel, until the Dunes took over the property, the Bull Run access road was more like a nature path leading to Jason’s Rock, where Native Americans once drank from a spring, than a real road. But, in about 2009, Traitel said

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After nine years, the war between the Dunes, an exclusive, for-profit drug rehabilitation facility, and its neighbors and East Hampton Town saw another vociferous battle May 21, this time at a hearing before the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals. The Dunes is seeking multiple setback variances from the town code. In addition, the town Planning Department has charged that the Dunes has over-cleared its property by almost 21,000 square feet.

The Dunes is run by Safe Harbor Retreat, which is owned by Joe McKinsey, who has said in the past that he is a recovering addict. It is located at 26 Bull Run. The part of the road that accesses the Dunes property is a Trusteeowned road.

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Private Parking On Public Land In Montauk?

Signs threaten to tow vehicles from town-owned spaces

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Owners of Hero Beach have marked these parking spaces on South Eton Street as private property, threatening to tow any cars parked there without authorization. The land actually belongs to the Town of East Hampton. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

In downtown Montauk, parking, both public and private, particularly by the beach, is always at a premium during the season. The representatives of Hero Beach Resort, also known as Oceanside

Resort, rolled out a formula for a parking calculation for the property that would claim domain over public land before the East Hampton Town Planning Board May 22. Board members were not

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“You don’t have any claim to own what you have been using,” board member Randy Parsons told Britton Bistrian of Land Use Solutions, who was on hand representing Hero Beach, along with attorney Tiffany Scarloto.

Hero Beach owners want to legalize a restaurant/bar they have already built, and for which they have obtained a liquor license. As part of the site plan needed to legalize the bar/restaurant, Bistrian had presented the planning board with a list of six covenants, signed off on by Jon Krasner, the managing ownership partner of the site.

A likely key among the six covenants is the first, in which the owners agree to add a state-of-the-art septic system, something board members had been urging.

When it comes to parking, covenant number six reads, Hero Beach “will enforce that all on-site parking is for hotel guests.” Defining what an on-site parking space is, is the rub.

Currently, spaces that are owned by the town and the state on South Eton Street are marked with signs that warn they are on private property, and “violators towed at vehicle owner’s expense.”

This fact is not exactly news. The presence of the signs on South Eton Street were documented well over a year ago, yet they remain.

A survey Bistrian presented to the board shows that eight of the 19 parking spaces Hero Beach claims in the front, enclosed parking area at the entrance to the resort are partially in the public right of way. The resort currently has just 11

spaces it can truly call its own.

Because the bar has 16 seats, when combined with the number of rooms at the resort, a total of 43 parking spaces is needed.

Bistrian proposed adding 11 more spaces on site by removing the only natural vegetation on the southern border of the property on South Emerson Street.

The spaces would require drivers parking their cars to pull head in, meaning when they leave, they would be backing out onto South Emerson, which is busy during the season, particularly when Montauk Highway traffic comes to a stop, as it did much of the past holiday weekend.

Bistrian’s formula counted the 11 in front, the new 11 added on South Emerson, and the eight in the enclosed lot on Montauk Highway. She wanted to be able to draw at least 11 of the needed 13 to achieve the required parking on site from South Eton Street. However, with eight of the spaces on South Eton totally in the public right of way, and the rest mostly in the public right of way, she had a tough sell.

“If someone comes down to park for the beach, and they park in one of your head-in spots on Eton that are not at all on your property, will they see a sign there that says don’t park here, this is for the hotel?” board member Ed Krug asked. Parsons replied that there are private parking signs already in place.

“Frankly, I don’t think you should have the signs there,” Ian Calder-Piedmonte said.

John Jilnicki, attorney for the board, weighed in. “You can’t have signage like Continued On Page 38.

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Police Montauk Drug ‘Kingpin’ Sentenced To 11 Years Led Rincon Connection ring that was broken up last year

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

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Geraldo Jose Vargas-Munoz, who was the head of a drug-dealing operation in Montauk that was based in Rincon, Puerto Rico, broken up last year, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison May 21. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

“I’m sorry. I’m very, very sorry,” said Geraldo Jose Vargas-Munoz, the local head of last year’s summer season narcoticsdealing operation in Montauk, moments before being sentenced on May 21 to 11 years in state prison after pleading guilty to one of the most serious laws governing narcotics trafficking on the books: running a major drug-dealing operation.

He concluded his short statement, which was passed on to the court by a translator, by saying, “I never . . .” The few words that followed were inaudible.

Vargas-Munoz, 38 — known as Celo to friends and fellow travelers in the Rincon, Puerto Rico-based Montauk drug-dealing operation — is the next-tolast major player in the 2018 “Montauk 17” drug-dealing ring to be sentenced.

The 17 were swept up in an early morning August 2018 raid conducted by the East Hampton Town Police, along with multiple agencies, including the district attorney’s office, the East End Drug Task Force, and federal agencies. The only one left to be sentenced is Elvin Silva-Ruiz, whose street name in Montauk was Pito.

He will be sentenced June 13.

Vargas-Munoz’s attorney, Andrew Heffernan, painted his client, who was facing a total of 20 felony charges and 25 years to life in state prison if he was convicted as charged, as the top fall guy in the operation.

“He is a good man who has made a terrible mistake,” he told State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei in his courtroom in Riverside. He told the court that his client came from Puerto Rico, “not to sell narcotics, but to work in Montauk as a chef.” Heffernan said that Vargas-Munoz was employed as a chef for several years at various restaurants before becoming involved in the drugdealing operation. That only happened, Heffernan said, “due to the influences of several people back home in Puerto Rico.”

He said that Vargas-Munoz never

He told the court that his client came from Puerto Rico, “not to sell narcotics, but to work in Montauk as a chef.” personally profited from the operation: “He rented a room, drove a beat-up car, and had minimal cash in his bank accounts when this investigation came to an end.”

Over $25,000 in cash was seized from Vargas-Munoz after his arrest.

Will Nash, the prosecuting attorney on all of the felony cases that arose from the arrest of the Montauk 17, said that the District Attorney Tim Sini’s office was able to project a profit from narcotics sales of over $150,000 over the course of a year to the Rincon-based operation, easily qualifying the defendant for the law known as the “drug kingpin statute.”

Heffernan said afterward that Vargas-Munoz was chosen by the Rincon drug lords because, out of all those who came to Montauk for the 2018 season to work in the kitchens and bars that comprise the Montauk night scene, “He was the most trustworthy.”

Nash said that Vargas-Munoz is required to serve six-sevenths of the 11-year sentence. Even given the credit toward the time he has accrued since being behind bars since last August, VargasMunoz is still looking at more than nine years in prison before he is eligible for release.

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EH: Drugs, Violence, And Drunken Driving Felonies, misdemeanor charges in town

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

A traffic stop on Montauk Highway in Wainscott led to a Rocky Point man being charged with multiple felonies early May 25. Cody Zimmer, 30, was driving a 2009 GMC when he swerved across the double yellow lines, police said. Failing roadside sobriety tests, he was charged with driving while intoxicated. The charge was a felony, due to prior DWI conviction in 2010.

Police said that in the console of the car, in plain view, was a plastic bag containing cocaine, with another

packet in the backseat area of the car. The total weight of the drug was over half a gram, police allege, bringing a charge of felony cocaine possession. He was released on $500 bail.

A bloody brawl at Liar’s Saloon in Montauk led to one man being taken to the hospital and another under arrest, a little after midnight, May 24. East Hampton Town Police said that Nicholas Travers, 27, of Smithtown, was extremely intoxicated when he repeatedly punched an unconscious

More Arrests In Southampton Motorists scrutinized on holiday weekend

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

The Southampton Town Police joined officers from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office East End DWI Task Force Saturday, May 25, at various checkpoints around town. From 8 PM Saturday

until 4 AM Sunday, town officers were joined by officers from the Southampton Village Police Department and the East Hampton Town Police Department as well as Suffolk County and New York State police in

A Montauk man, John Landon, 73, was charged with DWI as a misdemeanor, after crashing his 2009 Toyota into the plate glass window of Montauk's 7-Eleven. Independent/T.E. McMorro

man in the head. Witnesses told police that Travers had been on a rampage, and had torn out the wooden handrail leading to the front door.

When he was arraigned the morning of May 25, East Hampton Town

Justice Steven Tekulsky said that, while Travers doesn’t reside in East Hampton, he has now managed to get himself arrested there twice. Travers previously was charged with DWI. He was released on $250 bail.

manning checkpoints.

As usual, Flanders proved to be fertile ground. A checkpoint was set up at Enterprise Zone Drive in Riverside from 9 to 11:30 PM. During that period, 306 vehicles entered the checkpoint and the drivers were screened, resulting in one arrest for driving while intoxicated and one arrest for driving while ability impaired by drugs.

Patrols were used through the town for the rest of the night, resulting in an additional arrest for criminal possession of a controlled substance and aggravated unlicensed driving in the third degree.

Those arrested at the checkpoint were: Patrick Coonradte, 50,

of Hampton Bays, driving while intoxicated; and Mauro Chunchi, 32, of Flanders, driving while ability impaired by drugs. Jevohni Brown, 26, of Flanders, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and aggravated unlicensed driving during the saturation patrol.

All of those arrested were processed at Southampton Town Police headquarters and held for a morning arraignment.

Police said there were no accidents involving injuries reported in the town during the DWI Task Force enforcement. Police said the widespread use of designated drivers was helping keep the number of impaired drivers off the roads.

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Memorial Day Makes For Easy Pickings Task Force checkpoints surprise drivers

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com In Riverhead on May 25, Riverhead Town, Suffolk County, and state troopers manned the checkpoints — the exact locations were

not made public. At least four drivers were arrested in the course of the night.

Noe Ochoa-Morales, 30, of River-

head, and Candace Calamusa, 41, of South Setauket, were both charged with driving while intoxicated and taken into custody.

Tomasz Zalewski, 30, of Riverhead, was hit with a DWI charge and the additional charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle as was Marvin Perez-Velasquez, 39, of Riverhead.

Riverhead Town Police had a soggy start to Saturday. At approximately 6:38 AM, officers, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, Suffolk County Police Marine Unit, and the Wading River Fire Department responded to reports of a capsized boat off of Wildwood State Park in the

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JUST ASKING

How did you spend the holiday weekend?

David Katz We came to spend the day walking around East Hampton. We’re from upisland in Nassau. We walked around Main Street and visited all the stores.

And then we went to the Napeague strip to have lobster rolls. We are definitely enjoying the gorgeous weather.

A Peaceable Kingdom?

Every year, when the Memorial Day weekend rolls around, long-time residents of the East End share knowing glances and warnings about the coming storm. And they aren’t talking about the weather, but some of our pushier summer visitors.

As the weekend unfolds, they quietly share their horror stories about whiteknuckle encounters on the roads, standoffs in store aisles, or examples of boorish behavior in restaurants.

It’s not that we locals are a bunch of grumps. It’s not that we don’t appreciate the money visitors and part-time residents pump into the local economy, money that makes it possible for many of our tradespeople and small business owners to live pretty good lives of their own.

It’s just that we know how special it is to live in place like this, with its rare combination of natural beauty and genuine small-town community vibe. It’s what draws us in and keeps us here.

Yet, year after year, we hear the same stories about the Mercedes Benz driver (Why is it always a Mercedes or a Land Rover?) oblivious to the lights and sirens of the oncoming ambulance, refusing to pull over so he can gain a couple of car lengths on the suckers who do. Or the hurried shopper at the local drugstore who barges to the front of a line of people waiting patiently to get their prescriptions filled to demand where the tissues or shaving cream are shelved. Or the restaurant patron peppering an obviously inexperienced and flustered waitress with questions about why their preferred meal is exempt from the early-bird-special price.

It seems strange that people would spend so much time and money to get here, only to bring their stress with them. Here’s a little free advice: R-E-L-A-X. If you do, you might better understand what makes this place and its people so special.

Is it just me? © Karen Fredericks

By Karen Fredericks

Joe Ficarra We opened up our house in Springs.

And we did a lot of spring yard work and clean up. I’m the official tree trimmer at our house. It actually took two days to get the mold off of the awning. It was a little too cool to have a barbecue this weekend but last weekend we had our annual spring brunch.

Rose Cee I’ll be working over part of the weekend. And then we’re doing a barbecue for 12 people. It’s going to be great fun. We’ve got steaks and lobsters on the menu. You can’t beat that!

John Henry I’ve been working this weekend. I bus during the day at a restaurant. Today was pretty quiet, probably because the weather was so gorgeous that everyone was outside. My friends and I went to the beach. It was pretty beautiful but just a little bit too cold to get in the ocean.

You’re right. It’s not necessary to criticize every little thing you say.

But I don’t do it because it’s necessary.

I do it because I enjoy it.

Karen was chosen Best Cartoonist by the New York Press Association in 2019 and 2017. She’s also the recipient of multiple awards for her illustration of the international bestseller How To Build Your Own Country, including the prestigious Silver Birch Award. Her work is part of the permanent artist’s book collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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Arts & Entertainment A Legacy Of Loudons New Netflix film on the complexities of family

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com It’s hard to say that Loudon Wainwright III is the sole subject of a filmed Netflix one-man show, “Surviving Twin,” directed by Christopher Guest and produced by Judd Apatow, because he really isn’t. In it, Wainwright dons his father’s suit; he speaks his father’s words. Loudon Jr. wrote the massively popular LIFE Magazine column, “The View From Here,” and Wainwright sings songs and tells stories, but also performs moving monologues straight from his dad’s pen, in the form of some of the columns but also in private letters written by his dad to his grandmother during World War II.

And he also talks about Loudon Jr.’s relationship with his father, “the first Loudon,” making the film a poignant, completely honest, and eerie glimpse into the dysfunction and complexities of familial relationships.

“My father wasn’t around much; he traveled a lot,” Wainwright, a Shelter Island resident, said. But a trip to a cabin in Maine, after his father’s death in 1988, found Wainwright — already a well-known singer-songwriter, actor, and humorist for near on four decades, with deep connections to the East End — leafing through a wooden magazine stand filled with old LIFE Magazines.

“I thought to myself, ‘I wonder if any of my father’s columns are in here?’ And there was a LIFE with Tricia Nixon on

the cover, and in it was one of my favorite of my dad’s columns, ‘Another Sort Of Love Story,’ the one where we had to put down our dog.” The piece hit him on a visceral level, and so began “a posthumous collaboration,” as Wainwright calls it.

“I’ve written so many songs about you/This is the last one, after this I’m through/It’s taken so long to finally see/My songs about you are all about me.” (“So Many Songs,” 1992.)

“Me and my dad get along better now than ever,” Wainwright said.

Along with Wesley Stace and GE Smith, Wainwright will be performing at Guild Hall of East Hampton on June 28, part of the “Portraits” series produced by Taylor Barton. And of course, Wainwrights abound in East Hampton, although Loudon III was born in Westchester. “My dad was a journalist,” he said. “So, although the town we lived in was pretty posh, we weren’t like the Stuyvesant Wainwrights, who were investment bankers, and real estate mavens, and so on; great people, all. And we’re all descended from the one-legged governor of New York,” he said, referring to Peter Stuyvesant, who served as the last leader of New Netherland in the 1600s before the Dutch seceded the area to the British.

“My father is buried in the graveyard here,” he said about Cedar Lawn

Loudon Wainwright III. Independent/R. Halflin

cemetery. “Stuyvesant Wainwright is there too, buried with his dog, Flash.”

Wainwright has performed here frequently over the years; the Stephen Talkhouse is a favorite venue. “I celebrated my 70th birthday there a couple of years ago,” he said. “And I’ll be playing there later this summer.”

Wainwright has also appeared in, and provided tunes for, several Judd Apatow projects, including the films “Knocked Up” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” But just how did he get hooked up with the Apatow crowd in the first place? “When Judd was 12 or 13, growing up in Syosset, he caught me on the David Letterman show. It wasn’t the late-night show, it was earlier than that, on in the morning or the afternoon, and

they would have a musical guest on all week. And I was very animated back then, with a big red beard and a lot of novelty songs.” “Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road” is probably his best-known tune.

“Judd reached out to me years later, through his people, for the TV show ‘Undeclared,’” Wainwright remembered. “I didn’t know who he was, but he wanted me to play the dysfunctional father, and that was something I knew about,” he said with a laugh. As to his own children’s reactions to his recent bare-all biographical performances, Wainwright said, “They’re very polite.

You would have to ask them what they really think.”

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Exploring A ‘Visual Language’ Hamada, sculptor-turned-painter, exhibits new works at Duck Creek

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Hiroyuki Hamada will exhibit “Paintings” from Saturday, June 1 through June 23 at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton, with an opening reception June 1 from 5 to 7 PM. Each work was made between 2015 to 2018, showcasing a transitioning period as the artist moved from sculpture to painting.

Hamada was born in Tokyo. After falling in love with his wife, an East Hampton native, he found himself moving to the area, where he has been for 20 years. His career has seen multiple highlights, including residencies at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the MacDowell Colony, to name a few. In 1998, he was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and was a two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

The artist’s past East End exhibits include Guild Hall, Ille Arts, and Southampton Arts Center. Beyond, he’s traveled to Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York, Aureus Contemporary in Paris, Chicago, Art Basel in Switzerland, DNA Gallery in Massachusetts, and more.

What influenced you to be in the creative world?

I didn’t grow up around artists at all.

In fact, I wasn’t really conscious about what art could do till I went to college and learned about art. It was odd but while I loved making things and drawing as a child, it really didn’t occur to me what it is to make something.

By making something, I mean putting things together to create a wholeness with momentum to move us. It’s about ways to transform the sum of each element into more than the simple equation, to activate the elements with an unknown something to reveal how things really are. I believe dealing with art is one way to be human, with its human deficiency as well as the unknown potential of what we are made of.

How does your creative process differ from sculpture to painting?

The process of painting is one of the most fascinating things for me. It’s a struggle to open myself, observe, and free elements as a cohesive dynamic or narrative emerging before me. I accept, affirm, and become one with the momentum to explore the process. It’s a way to surrender to the material reality while firmly grounding myself in the essence of my being. It’s highly pragmatic, yet, it is also open to the mysterious potential of our fundamental nature. If it sounds strange, well, yes, it is, and the end result can be also very strange but somehow it resonates with my heart.

Sculpture making shares the same aspect of working with the unknown, especially at the beginning of the process, when I come up with the core idea. But the process then becomes more methodical as it involves assembly of materials. It’s like growing a seed slowly with caring hands and heart.

Both ways are valid and effective for me.

What are your pieces about?

Do you focus on a particular motif?

When I started making art a few decades ago, I was very strict and conscious about not relying on recognizable symbols, images, or narratives.

I was aiming to speak a “visual language” based on our perceptions of form elements such as shapes, lines, tones, colors, contrasts, and so on. I thought that was the way to transcend our differences as people and speak some sort of a common language.

I still subscribe to the basic idea, but as I get older and see how our world operates, I see that our nature as humans and our relationship to our material reality aren’t that simple. I mean, it is a challenge to express what it is to be human, when our perceptions are so systemically and structurally skewed by the framework of our time.

I see that even what we regard as ideal principles — “freedom,” “democracy,” “justice,” “humanity,” and so on — are rather artificial within the narratives we are forced to consume in the

"Untitled Painting," acrylic and charcoal by the artist.

authoritarian hierarchy of money and violence. I see that our perceptions, for example, are largely based on values, beliefs, and norms cultivated through the pragmatic necessity of surviving within the capitalist hierarchy.

How did you get involved with Duck Creek?

I have worked with the director Jess Frost in the past, and she encouraged me to submit an exhibition proposal.

I live close to Duck Creek and I have been familiar with the beautiful space so I am very much grateful for the team at Duck Creek for allowing me to show my work there. It is important that the town is supportive of the arts, and it is great that the community-based efforts have been made to offer a venue for art, performance, and music in the area.

Do you have a favorite work you’ve done, thus far?

I always try to pursue new possibilities. So naturally, I think I’ve been always interested in the work I am doing at the moment. But it’s also nice to see old works and find some parts refresh-

Loudon

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Of his four kids, three are also singer-songwriters: Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche; his other daughter, Lexie Kelly Wainwright “is a very talented writer as well,” Wainwright said.

But whether it comes from nature or nurture, Wainwright isn’t sure.

“It’s all in a family, that’s no lie/ Even stays that way after we die/Leaves, branches, twigs on a family tree/And the forest can be hard to see.” (“All In A

Hiroyuki Hamada

ing, intriguing, or even surprising. The thing about art is that the crucial part is always the part that mystifies and triggers a sense of awe. It allows us to be a part of a larger reality, even though we don’t really understand it. That way, it allows us to be humans with dignity somehow.

What’s ahead for you?

I feel that I have so much to do in so many directions. Life is just too short.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is located at 127 Squaw Road, Springs, East Hampton. Learn more at the website www.duckcreekarts.org.

Family,” 2012.)

Besides the show at Guild Hall and later this summer at the Talkhouse, and the Netflix film, Wainwright also recently published a book, “Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & A Few of My Other Favorite Things.” The book is available in hard copy at the local bookstores, “Surviving Twin” can be seen on Netflix, and tickets for the Guild Hall show are available at www.guildhall.org.

For more info about Wainwright, visit www.lw3.com.

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A Delightful Detour East End Arts showcases works from North Fork and South Fork artists

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Thirteen East End artists from both the North and South forks will come together for an exhibition of painting, sculpture, and photography. “Detour” presented by East End Arts, opens Saturday, June 1, from 4 to 7 PM at two locations: 133 E. Main Street and 11 W. Main Street in Riverhead. It will also be on view Sunday, June 2, from 11 AM to 5 PM at the Glen Hansen Studio at 1560 Youngs Avenue in Southold and all three locations will be on view through August 25.

East End Arts serves the five towns of eastern Long Island as a multi-award not-for-profit arts organization, located in downtown Riverhead.

“Detour marks a celebration of a new and exciting direction for East End Arts and Riverhead,” said Diane Burke, executive director, East End Arts Council. “It is our invitation, to those traveling further out on either the South Fork or the North Fork, as well as residents, to take a turn, a possible detour, into downtown Riverhead

"Nobody’s Fool," 2015, watercolor on paper by Steve Martinez.

to see this landmark exhibition. After all, the forks converge in Riverhead.”

The exhibit is curated by Glen Hansen with assistance from Adam Straus. The two met three years ago as part of Paton Miller’s East End Collected show at the Southampton Arts Center. From there, they began weekly meet-ups, called Brewery Boys, at Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, and a working relationship was established. President of EEA, John McLane approached Hansen in 2018 to discuss doing a show.

“It is a detour for East End Arts in Riverhead in terms of what they have done in the past, and I think often Riverhead in general is seen as a detour or somewhere many folks out here simply go for Home Depot. I think there are probably many people on both forks that haven’t even been to downtown Riverhead at all. So, it is our small contribution to trying to change that,” explained Straus.

Hansen chose the artists with a

Benefit For Planned Parenthood Supporters rally as women find rights under attack

By Susan Canaday

Margaret Sanger, a nurse-turned-activist, founded Planned Parenthood in the early 20th Century. Her belief that women should control their own bodies, and, by extension, their own destinies, was revolutionary.

Planned Parenthood usually makes the headlines for the wrong reasons: political attacks on its abortion services or physical attacks on its clinics and doctors.

Actually, the organization offers services not just to women but also to men, young people, and transgenders.

The Hudson Peconic branch has been serving this community for 85 years, providing education and training pro-

grams, counseling, contraception, preand post-natal care, HIV testing, cancer screening, hormone replacement therapy, STI testing, abortion services and, when necessary, transport and translation.

The 31st Annual “Artists for Choice” Planned Parenthood East End Benefit will be held this year at Julie Keyes’ new Sag Harbor Gallery at the American Hotel, starting with a kickoff preview and Paddle8 art auction and cocktail party on Sunday, June 2, from 1 to 6 PM.

The second is a garden party and Paddle8 viewing and bidding followed by a concert with the Tony Award-win-

few suggestions from Straus. With a smorgasbord of talent to choose from, they unanimously decided to keep it limited for the sake of space, with hopes to continue doing collective shows at EEA “that involve a larger community of artists.” This year, in addition to Miller, Hansen, and Straus, participating artists include Meghan Boody, Stephen Capozzoli, Louise Crandell, Connie Fox, Charles McGill, Steve Martinez, Franklin Hill Perrell, Carol Saft, Arden Scott, and Allan Wexler.

“The fog and the atmospherics out here have inspired me since first visiting Montauk from the city in the mid-’90s. They are quite different than those of which I grew up with in South Florida. There’s always this mystery in the fog. It’s beautiful, but if you are out in it on the water, or even on land, there is a certain danger too,” Straus noted of his post-apocalyptic world depiction work, with a deep appreciation for the natural world.

Another artist involved, Perrell, curated the Nassau County Museum for decades and currently serves on the board of the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington. He has been known for painting iconic beachfront sites, having his first exhibit in Tribeca in the 1970s.

“I love the configuration of water on one side, land on the other,” said Perrell, noting he likes both the distinctive and inherent shape and color in evanescent things such as umbrellas and picnic items, or things that endure, such as buildings “Overall, it’s the natural designs from the horizon and these elements; but spiritually it’s a paradigm of potential unlimited freedom. Evidence of human activity pulls the spectator back into pragmatic references which are then evocative of the circumstances of people in proximity to the sea,” he noted of his work.

Visit www.eastendarts.com to learn more.

ning Billy Joel musical “Movin Out” band at Guild Hall of East Hampton, Saturday, June 15.

“The artists are key — very generous — and many made pieces just for this event, as they all realized how hard we need to work for women’s and reproductive rights,” said curator Pamela Willoughby. “I grew up on the book ‘Our Bodies Ourselves.’ I just had to jump in and volunteer on this project.

We all thought the deal was done when we protested as young women, and the Roe v. Wade decision from the Supreme Court came down.”

Willoughby, in turn, called Brontë Zunis, a bright young woman who conceived and organized last year’s benefit at Tutto il Giorno along with Planned Parenthood in Sag Harbor and asked her to curate at the last moment. Out of the 24 pieces of art last year, 22 were sold as the community supported the event.

This year, 54 local, New York City, and Brooklyn artists all wanted to donate. Zunis and Willoughby went to work organizing, starting in November.

Jenifer Van Deinse, Director of Development, Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, along with Yvonne Mann, Coordinator Special Events PPHP, met

with Zunis and Willoughby, “and voila, it happened,” said Willoughby.

The auction items include many different genres: painting, drawing, prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and tapestry. The art will be on display at the reception, and guests will have a chance to meet many of the artists, from local luminaries and established artists, to upand-comers.

Works by Betty Parsons, April Gornik, Kenny Scharf, Bronte Zunis, Mary Heilman, Michael Halsband, Randy Palumbo, Steve Miller, and Bert Stern will be among those up for auction.

To participate in the online auction, visit www.paddle8.com/auction/ planned-parenthood. The auction will go live for bidding on May 30, and will close on June 15 at 8 PM. Each piece will have a “Buy It Now” price. If the bidder places a bid at this price, it immediately goes to him or her.

Tickets for the fundraiser, which includes the concert at Guild Hall in East Hampton on June 15, range in price from $100 for individual tickets to $25,000 for a Presenting Sponsorship. Tickets can be purchased at bit. ly/PPHPJune15.

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as Captain Ahab.

On Saturday, June 8, the celebration continues at the Whaling Museum from 10 AM to 12:45 PM, John Jermain Library from 1 to 4 PM, and Canio’s from 5 to 11 PM. On Sunday, the weekend concludes at Eastville Community Historical Society from

10:30 AM to 12:45 PM, followed by Canio’s Books with an after party from 1 to 5 PM.

Canio’s was the first institution to sponsor a “Moby-Dick” Marathon. The weekend is its largest fundraiser for the year. For more information, visit www. caniosculturalcafe.org.

— Saturday, June 1, 5 to 7 PM Gardiner's Bay Country Club, Shelter Island — “For The Children With Love,” a gathering to support East End Hospice’s Camp Good Grief, will be held at Gardiner’s Bay Country Club on Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 7 PM. Visit www.eeh. org.

— Saturday, June 1, 5 to 9 PM Ashawagh Hall, Springs — The East End Photographers Group 31st Anniversary Exhibition will be held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with an opening reception. There will be music by Out East.

— Saturday, June 1, 8 PM Shelter Island Presbyterian Church — The Shelter Island Friends of Music presents A Global Musical Journey with Alejandra Sandoval. Visit www. shelterislandfriendsofmusic.org to learn more.

— Sunday, June 2, 10 AM to 3 PM Guild Hall, East Hampton — The Independent Newspaper presents Water Views Festival at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Sunday, June 2, at 10 AM. RSVP at waterviews@indyeastend.com.

‘Moby-Dick’ Marathon A whale of a tale, in Sag Harbor

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

To celebrate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday, Canio’s Cultural Café in Sag Harbor is celebrating with a three-day event from June 7 to 9. The weekend will include readings by actors Harris Yulin and Alec Baldwin, among other events.

Leading up to the weekend, on Thursday, May 30, at 6:30 PM at John Jermain Library, there will be a screening of John Huston’s 1956 classic “Moby Dick” starring Gregory Peck, with Richard Basehart and Orson Welles.

The pre-marathon warm-up will

be held with a reception for an exhibition of artist Robert Carioiscia’s Whaling prints, in homage to Sag Harbor and “Moby-Dick” at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor on Thursday, June 6, from 5 to 6:30 PM.

On Friday, June 7, the marathon begins starting at 12:30 PM through 2:30 PM at Canio’s. From 3 to 6:45 PM, at the Old Whalers’ Church, Alec Baldwin will read along with Harris Yulin as Father Mapple. Organist Walter Klauss and Choral Society of Hamptons will sing the hymn. Back at Canio’s from 7 to 10 PM, Josh Gladstone will perform

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Mountain Man At Home On The Road Loyal fans hooked on the harmonies

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com The popular music biz is big on dreamers and wannabes, greedy promoters and pushy managers, all looking to move product.

Then there is Mountain Man: make a critically acclaimed album filled with original music and the promise of reviving a tragically overlooked musical genre – and then walk away.

By the way, the “band” consists of three women, Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath, and the music they explore, which is by no means limiting, is most often dubbed “Americana.”

Their 2010 debut album “Made The Harbor” stunned critics with its mesmerizing harmonies, the Appalachian-tinged tunes “weaving an unadorned sound that can be hauntingly beautiful,” according to NPR.

The songs harkened back, not to any one era or genre, but to undefined, personal space. “Music is there to help you feel a feeling,” Sauser-Monnig said, adding the songwriting process was both individual and collaborative.

“We each write and present our songs to each other,” Sauser-Monnig said. “Next, we would come up with the harmony and then fill in the words.”

When it’s working — and it almost always does — the results are hypnotic and spellbinding, sometimes moving audience members to tears.

After touring with Feist, the group unceremoniously pulled the plug.

“We never made a conscious decision to say no,” Sauser-Monnig. Instead, life happened after college — the members were all attending Bennington College at the time – and went of their own way.

But the music lingered. “We were excited singing together. It was such a pleasure,” she said.

As legend would have it, the three found themselves living in North Carolina years later, re-bonded, and enjoyed the rebirth. The signature harmonies were as unpredictable as ever. “It is quite natural. We don’t plan it out.

Sometimes I’ll sing the low part and sometimes the middle. Gradually they

change until we are all tuned in,” she said.

A gig at the Eaux Claires music festival in 2017 confirmed their instincts: this group had something to say, and a willing — make that rapt —audience wanting to hear it. A new album, “Magic Ship,” fulfills their vision.

The music has been Americana or Appalachian, but defies stereotyping.

“We’re not pulling from any genre or style. I would say there is symmetry. A reference point,” Sauser-Monnig commented. The bandmates listened to the Andrews Sisters and Mills Brothers to check out the harmonies; each had

popular music faves they listened to growing up, in her case, The Beatles.

One critic describes the new album “as a long summer evening spent lounging beneath a shade tree, swapping stories and sharing laughs until the sun has vanished.” Think of it as bluegrass and Americana, whispers of American rock, and a shot of Gregorian chant.

Mountain Man takes the stage at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, June 2. Get your tickets on the web at www.whbpac.org, by phone at 631-288-1500, or at box office at the theater, 76 Main Street.

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As we watch the flora bloom, we’ve got one particular fauna to thank — bees!

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HaMPTOn DaZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Summer Bucket List jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Summer is just beginning, but we all know how fast it goes. We need to seize the moments, document them, and make sure we pack as much fun as possible into the next few months.

So, here is my summer bucket list: I will go to all of my favorite summer spots. For me this includes Navy Beach, Cowfish, Sunset Beach, Ca-

nal Cafe, Southampton Social Club, Wölffer Wine Stand, the list goes on.

Speaking of Wölffer Wine. I will drink rosé. I will be a “rosé-all-day” cliché. Also, I will take a day to go wine tasting on the North Fork.

Speaking of the North Fork, I will definitely spend a day in Greenport. I will spend a day in each East End town.

Back on the South Fork, I will

splurge (calorically and financially) on a Sant Ambroeus gelato.

I will barbecue and spend as much time with friends and family as possible. This is what summer is all about, right?

I will try all of the new restaurants in town like Paola’s, Armin and Judy, T-Bar, Coche Comedor, Bel Mare Ristorante, Blu Mar, The Garden at Water Mill, The Standard, Morty’s Oyster Stand, Bostwick’s on the Harbor, Ed’s Lobster Bar, and Silver Lining Diner.

There sure are a lot this summer! I’ve already tried Showfish and can’t wait to return.

Ok, now that I have the food and drink portion of the bucket list taken care of (priorities!), I will hike the trails in Montauk.

I will finally learn how to play tennis (I’ve been saying this for years).

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I will spend as much time on the beach as I can. I will get there in the morning and stay for a bonfire at night.

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Every summer I say I’m taking a trip to Block Island and Fire Island, where I have not visited since I was 11.

This summer, it will happen.

I will take the boat out every weekend. Even if it’s just for an hour. There’s really no excuse not to.

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Sweet Charities

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

South Fork Bakery South Fork Bakery, the East End’s only business dedicated to training and hiring our population of special needs, has launched a GoFundMe page. South Fork Bakery’s purpose is to provide meaningful and supported employment to residents with ADHD, auditory processing disorders, autism, and developmental disabilities. Employees are immersed in all aspects — baking, packaging, sales, marketing, business management. Visit www.southforkbakery.com.

Long Island Sound Chorus The Long Island Sound Chorus will be holding a Chinese Auction on Saturday, June 1, at Anderson Warner Hall in Hampton Bays. The doors will open at 11 AM. Winners will be announced at 1 PM. There will be prizes, refreshments, and a performance. Admission is $15.

For more information, call Jacquie at 632-399-6979.

For The Children With Love

reception catered by Sant Ambroeus Restaurant will follow the tour at 4:30 PM at the historic Rogers Mansion.

Tickets are $125 in advance and $145 day of tour. Visit www.southamptonhistory.org.

Decorators-DesignersDealers The 27th Annual Southampton Fresh Air Home’s Decorators-DesignersDealers (D-D-D) Sale and Auction benefit gala will be held on Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 8 PM. The event features live, silent, and wine auctions and a home furnishings and antiques sale.

For more info and tickets, visit www. sfah.org.

Car Show Barn Boys Car Club and Jamesport Farm Brewery will host its second annual car show benefiting East End Hospice on Sunday, June 2, from 8 AM to 1 PM.

Generation Runway

“For The Children With Love,” a gathering to support East End Hospice’s Camp Good Grief, will be held at Gardiner’s Bay Country Club on Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 7 PM. Visit www.eeh. org.

The Flying Point Foundation for Autism presents its Generation Runway event on Sunday, June 2, at 4 PM at 230 Elm in Southampton. Tickets are $75 for adults and $40 for children. Visit www.fpf4autism.org.

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The Southampton History Museum’s 10th Annual Southampton House Tour “Insider’s View” will be held on Saturday, June 1, beginning at noon. Tour participants will experience extraordinary houses that illustrate Southampton’s unique architectural history from colonial days to present. A champagne

On Thursday, June 6, the Hudson River Health Care Foundation will kick off summer at Wölffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack with its fifth annual Honoring the Hands event. Guests are invited to enjoy an evening, featuring some of Long Island’s finest sustainably-produced rosés, locally-sourced

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foods, and live music. Tickets are $125 and can be purchased online at hrhcare.org/events, or by calling the www.

HRHCare Foundation at 914-734-8555.

School’s Out Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ youth service organization, will hosts its annual School’s Out fundraiser on Saturday, June 8. The event is co-chaired by Benjamin Dixon, Dan Ennis, and Rod Grozier. Cocktails will be hosted at Amagansett Square from 6 to 8:30 PM, with lite bites by Wölffer Kitchen, and an intimate dinner to follow nearby on Further Lane at the home of Joe Hall and Martin Dagata, with food and staffing provided by STK Steakhouse.

Dinner will be served from 8:30 to 10 PM.

Cultural Extravaganza Eastville Community Historical Society will host a cultural extravaganza on June 9 at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Starting at 6 PM, there will be a special reception with Chef Tamara of “Clove & Lace.” Immediately following will be award-winning multi genre choir, Voice of Virtue, under the leadership of Rachel Blackburn. Following that is

a theatrical performance of “Running Scared Running Free, A Sal St. George Production.” A post-show Q & A will immediately follow with cast, writer Sal St. George, and Eastville’s director Dr. Georgette Grier-Key. For tickets, visit www.eventbrite.com.

Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. will hold its annual East End benefit “Artists for Choice” on Saturday, June 15, at Guild Hall in East Hampton. This year’s event features an art auction and concert. The Movin’ Out Band, from the Tony Award-winning Billy Joel musical “Movin’ Out” will perform favorite hits from the Billy Joel songbook, and more than 50 artists donated diverse pieces to the art auction. The art auction is curated by Pamela Willoughby and hosted online by www.Paddle8.com.

On June 2, the Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor will host a pre-event reception, where guests can view and bid on the art and meet many of the artists.

Proceeds from the event will benefit PPHP’s health care services, education programs, and advocacy efforts in Suffolk County. For tickets, visit www.pphp.org/eastend2019.

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IndyLit Rinse off the sand, grab a cocktail, and get some culture!

The Independent invites you to join us for an after-the-beach summer reading series hosted

by Bridget LeRoy at the Southampton Inn.

May 25 Clive Thompson CODERS The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World A technology writer for the New York Times Magazine and Wired, Clive Thompson has the rare ability to translate tech for the rest of us. Join the Smarter Than You Think author for an anthropological journey into the heart of the digital jungle.

June 22 Rachel Love Nuwer POACHED Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking Rachel Nuwer, a frequent contributor to Scientific American, The New York Times, and National Geographic, traveled the world to shine a light on this global black market. Come hear her tales from the front lines.

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When May 25, June 22, July 20, July 27.

All readings begin at 5:30pm.

Where The courtyard of the Southampton Inn, 91 Hill Street.

RSVP Free but space is limited. Please RSVP to events@indyeastend.com.

July 20 Jeff Gordinier HUNGRY Eating, Road-Tripping & Risking It All With the Greatest Chef in the World A must for foodies: Former Times critic and current Esquire food and drinks editor Jeff Gordinier will give us a taste of his rollicking four- year culinary safari with Danish chef RenĂŠ Redzepi, whose restaurant, Noma, has been called the best on earth.

July 27 Taffy Brodesser-Akner FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE (A Novel) You may know her as the New York Times Magazine staff writer behind the super-viral profile of Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow (and countless other cultural icons), but Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel is earning raves from the literati.

Settle in for a drink and a shot of good old tri-state-style neurosis.

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SanD In MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Shark Tank Pitch: Dirty Water Keep the Great White away denishamill@gmail.com

Okay, now I’m rooting for dirty water.

Dump your toxic waste into the waters of Coopers Beach, just ranked in the nation’s Top 10. Discharge chemical waste into Sag Harbor. Let the melting ice caps raise the water level until they meet the septic tanks overflowing with the waste of overpopulation of the East End and let the rust tide algae bloom. Sail the Exxon Valdez II toward Montauk Point and let it run aground on Shagwong Reef, spilling an oil slick across the entire East End like a dark black moat. Let the mosquito sprayers napalm the coastline with methoprene larvicide and let the rains wash the weed killers and lawn chemicals into the waters of Lake Montauk, Block Island Sound, and the Atlantic coast.

Flush all your plastics.

Bring back scandal-polluted Scott Pruitt to finish the task of poisoning our blue waters as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, officially renaming the Potomac as Trump Swamp.

Send up a million balloons from Hot Dog Beach.

When news came last week that a 20-foot great white shark was tracked off Montauk, I was transported back to 1974 when I first read a popular novel

called “Jaws” by Peter Benchley that remained on The New York Times bestseller list for 44 weeks. The book was so frightening that I promised myself I would never again swim in the ocean.

I grew up watching monster movies about Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Rodan, the Fly, and King Kong. As kids, we collected bubble gum cards with all these monsters from the Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi and Roger Corman and Japanese Cmovie catalogue. But even as kids, you knew they were fantasy monsters that you would never run across in real life.

But “Jaws” bit readers a different way.

Sharks were real-life monsters that in real life could devour you like a hors d’oeuvre at a beach party. Down in Coney Island, the Poor Man’s Paradise of Brooklyn, the waters were so dirty with sewage, sludge, oil slicks, illegal dumping, medical waste, syringes, dirty diapers, and the waste of humans too lazy to walk to a rest room that most self-respecting germs wouldn’t swim there, never mind a noble school of fish that would attract a big shark.

One of the last decent things Richard Nixon had done as the dirtiest

president in U.S. history — until Trump claimed the title — was sign legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency. My theory is that if he was going to be sent up the river, Nixon wanted it to be a clean one when his kids came to visit.

The first novel after the Hardy Boys that my big brother Pete gave me to read as a kid was “The Mugger”

by Ed McBain, a scary crime thriller which I read on a bus to Camp Sebago which was part of the Fresh Air Fund that sent poor city kids to the sticks for two weeks to see cows and horses and verdant forest and mirror-topped lakes.

But I’d soon learn that muggers are not as scary as sharks. I learned how to swim in summer camp in gorgeous Lake Sebago. When I came home, I showed off my aquatic skills to the other tenement kids out in the rolling filthy waves off Coney Island.

Then my brother gave me “The Old Man and the Sea” as a 13th birthday gift. The chapters where the sharks attack, tearing away great hunks of Santiago’s prized giant marlin catch lashed to his old fishing skiff, gave me the willies. I would then only go into the Coney surf up to my waist, so I could run for shore if I saw a dorsal fin.

I never saw one.

The waters of Coney were too dirty.

But after reading “Jaws,” I swore off all ocean swimming.

Then came the movie version of “Jaws,” made by a skinny, 26-year-old director named Steven Spielberg, and that has remained, for me, the scariest monster movie ever made. I watched it in a darkened theater with screaming adults who jumped from their seats at the shock editing so effective it won a Best Editing Oscar. The lingering images of Robert Shaw being masticated by a great white shark made me fearful of taking a bath. It did for swimming what “Psycho” had done for taking showers.

I have not dipped a toe in the ocean since. I have never been on an

ocean cruise. If I won one, I’d give it away to someone I don’t like.

Don’t get me wrong, I love to look out at the ocean. I love the mystery, majesty, and might of the sea. But the ocean is unforgiving and filled with monsters with big giant teeth, the better to eat you with, called sharks.

Like the sharks that devoured Santiago’s final great catch and that terrorized the little fictional coastal town of Amity in “Jaws,” which is so similar to the beach towns of the East End. The sea belongs to the creatures that inhabit it. I have nothing against sharks. They wouldn’t eat us if we didn’t invade their home. I am a proud landlubber who takes the advice Humphrey Bogart’s Rick gives a Nazi officer in “Casablanca.” “There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”

There are certain sections of planet Earth I don’t invade. Starting with the seven seas. But I have kids and grandkids much braver than I who love to swim in the ocean. I watch from the blanket, always scanning for a dorsal fin.

And now that there is a great white shark dun-dun-dun-dunning off the coast of Montauk, the experts tell us it has come our way because the waters are cleaner. Following other creatures lured by clean water upon which the sharks feed.

Not long before one of those creatures has two legs and two arms instead of gills and tails.

So, I’m rooting for sludge, oil spills, nitrogen, and enterococcus. I want waters so polluted that bilge rats will think they’re skeevy and upon which mosquitoes will perish on contact. I want waters that only corporate America could love. Polluted waters that sea life and my loved ones will avoid, sending great white sharks back to deep water where they belong.

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“The Point” *Restoration by Stephen Breitenbach

Please join the

Sag Harbor Historical Society for Drinks, Bites, Sweets & Live Music

Friday, July 5, 2019 • 5:30–7:30 p.m. • 6 Fahys Road, North Haven For directions please go to sagharborhistorical.org

Hosted by Marni & Stuart Hersch HONORING

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Water Views Writing Contest

Artwork by Joana Gutierrez, Grade 8, EHMS, Mr. D'Andrea. Thanks to all the students who entered stories and art for our Water Views contest where the question was: What does water mean to me? Please be sure to come to the Water Views Festival at Guild Hall on Sunday, June 2. It’s free and educational, with great speakers and an eco-fair. Visit www.indyeastend.com for more stories and artwork.

Grand Prize: The Personification Of Water

In the shallow waters, I am beautiful, captivating, and filled with movement.

During nice weather, I am predictable, shining, and enjoyable to be around.

When stormy weather comes, I am crazy, mean, and unpredictable.

In deeper water, I am mysterious, dark, and confusing.

The memories filter through my mind as if I were looking at a picture album.

Little boys and girls splashing in puddles, teenagers having their first and last kisses in the rain, and adults clearing snow out of their driveways and off of their cars.

Glistening in the sunlight, observe my majestic grace.

Gods tears flow through every crevice

Water is everywhere, and so I am there with it.

I have seen everything, and I realized

By Olivia Armon Grade 9, EHHS, Mrs. Dunn I am the personification of water.

I am like all the rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans.

on this earth.

that no living thing can live without me.

Yet be warned. If I become too stained, I will no longer be of use to you.

If you continue to interfere with my natural flow, you might run parts of my personality dry.

No longer will I be beautiful, mysterious, or captivating.

Fixing me will require more time and effort than my destruction.

Even if only two and a half percent of me is useful to you.

Don’t appreciate only part of me, when the whole thing is in front of you.

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RICK’S SPaCE

By Rick Murphy

Bad Language In honor of the F-Bomb Brigade rmurphy@indyeastend.com

First of all, yes, we have been in possession of the now-infamous secret recording allegedly made in the East Hampton Town Trustees office from the outset.

It was on my desk in a plain white envelope one day. There was no signature. I swear a bite of my bagel with cream cheese was missing.

I’m not sure if there is much news worth reporting, but it is noteworthy for the amount of times the F-bomb is dropped.

A word about cussing: I have a filthy mouth. In addition to the Fbomb, I use the names of body parts liberally and I also take the Lord’s name in vain a lot. That may seem like a problem for some of you, but fear not: in the course of my 12 years in Catholic school, God personally told me I could use his name, and Jesus and the Holy Ghost also signed waivers.

When you think about it, most of the trustees are or have been baymen.

We expect these colorful characters, these briny creatures from the deep, to cuss a bit. Put another way, we don’t want a bunch of land-locked wussies running the show in pink Ralph Lauren shorts.

Nevertheless, even I was taken back by the sheer numbers of curses, even when members of the public were there. One guy came in to talk about phragmites. From what I could glean,

the guy had permission from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to cut back his phrags twice a year but that wasn’t nearly enough.

You have to understand, phrags, for some reason known only to God (I should ask him) and a few trustees, is an endangered species. It is not even a creature — it is an annoying weed with a heavy root system powerful enough to upend your swimming pool or put holes in your cesspool. And, like the piping plover, which is also protected, phrags are ugly. There is no redeeming quality, unless you’ve tried to smoke one and found it’s good for glaucoma or something.

So anyhow, a guy from the public is shocked to hear the trustee (allegedly) gives him permission to disobey the law.

“I don’t give a s**t how many times you cut them!” the voice on the tape says. “Cut the friggin’ s**t every time and say it’s your second cutting no matter what f***ing day it is!”

I can’t even repeat what he suggested doing to one of the piping plovers in this, a family newspaper.

At one point, the editor of another newspaper drops by to chat. He doesn’t join the F-bomb brigade, which is symptomatic of those slaves of academia who have never met a Funk & Wagnalls they didn’t like.

Editors, including Kotz and Shaw and all the others, aren’t like me and the trustees, raw dogs who have fed off the land and made our living on the sea. They say stuff like “Oh darn” and “Golly.” Can you image being out in sixfoot seas trying to bring a load of blues back to shore screaming stuff like “Oh golly. I’m getting really wet!” and “My pants are losing their crease!” Believe it folks; I’ve lived the nightmare.

The trustees, like myself, golden teeth glistening and eyes crazed from ingesting sea robin brain, are likely to yell, “Batten down the friggin’ hatches we’re ridin’ this mother to Norway” . . . and stuff like that. And that’s just in Sag Harbor Cove.

My filthy mouth has always been my first line of defense. I always figured if I sounded rough and tough that I actually WAS rough and tough. If perchance someone called my bluff, I would turn to my second and third line of defense, which is to run and failing that, weep and beg.

There is talk about reporting these guys to the District Attorney because

they advocate killing phrag and they curse a lot. I’m not sure that will get the DA’s attention. I mean, that office deals with gangs and the mafia. I was thinking, though, if we didn’t have foulmouth trustees, it would be fun if they were in the mafia.

Mafia Trustee # 1: “You’se want somethin’?”

Member of Public (hat in hand): “I want to kill a phragmite.”

Trustee: “You never invite me to your house and now you want something from your godfather? You wanna them to sleep with the friggin’ fishes?”

MP: “Yes, fluke?”

Trustee: “What, are you’se a friggin’ wise guy?”

In conclusion, I’ve penned a little ditty for our three Trustees on the tape: “Any time you say that word I will say it better.”

“No you f***** can’t!

“Yes I f***** can.”

“Yes I friggin’ can. Yes I friggin’ can. Yes I friggin’ can!”

Indy’s own Rick Murphy and Karen Fredericks celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary just like the other 22 — at The Palm in East Hampton, where it all began. Independent/Courtesy The Palm

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May 29, 2019

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Choices The conception of reproductive rights kissandtellhb@gmail.com

The moment a woman learns she is pregnant can be the best, or worst, day of her life. There are few such monumental pieces of news which can cause such a range of emotions. And no one who is not that woman can possibly know how it feels. There is a reason it is called planned parenthood, because bringing a child into the world can be the most unbelievably rewarding experience but also an enormous responsibility emotionally, physically, and financially.

It would be a perfect world where a woman could get pregnant when she wanted to and not when she didn’t want to. The world, however, is not perfect. So, she faces choices.

What we don’t hear about as much is men and their choices. The immaculate conception as far as I know has only successfully been argued once, so men are always involved in pregnancies. Sperm donors aside; for men, is it your intention, every time you have sex, that you are prepared to create a child and care for it physically and financially until it is 18? Will you always use protection and not complain that the experience is akin to eating a January tomato?

Unless you are someone who only finds post-menopausal women superhot (and good for you), if Roe v. Wade gets overturned, this could be your reality. There is a thing called DNA testing for paternity so the days of “don’t blame me ‘cause the rabbit done died” won’t cut it. Male legislators who are concerned about preventing abortions could absolutely band together with the solution to require mandatory vasectomies for men, which could then be reversed when they wanted to have a child (with a note of permission from his wife.)

Guys, I hear you cringe. Because that might feel like — what, the govern-

ment regulating your body and reproductive rights?

So, with states now like Alabama voting to put a total ban on abortions (even in cases of rape and incest), I would suggest non-celibate men either stand up for women’s rights or find some warm apple pies, because Alabama has some laws for you too about unplanned parenthood.

“Both parents, whether married or not, have a legal duty to support their children financially. Alabama, like most states, has very specific rules for determining the financial responsibilities of single, separated, or divorced parents and for ensuring that parents pay support. These rules can be fairly complicated. If you find yourself having trouble wading through all of the forms and calculations, you should contact an attorney for help.” Better start the college and your legal fund now. Hope the legislature puts equal effort into enforcing child support and welfare programs.

While pleasure and procreation remain uneasy bedfellows, the overall best choice is for both men and women to prevent unwanted pregnancy in the first place. One study showed the lowest rate of abortions since Roe v. Wade occurred with the improved contraception access when the Affordable Care Act was established. But that perfect world of 100-percent effectiveness doesn’t exist either.

So, we are back demonstrating.

Our mothers and grandmothers fought for the reproductive rights which child-bearing age women now have today. I hope even if they don’t remember that dark, dangerous backalley era, they will fight for their own health. Because too many women, the women who didn’t have choices, had the worst day of their life turn into the last day of their life.

East End Photographers Group 31st Annual Spring Exhibition Reception: Saturday June 1st 5-8pm June 1st and June 2nd Musical Guest: “Out East” Sat. June 1st @ 5:30pm Virginia Aschmoneit • Ann Brandeis • Paul Dempsey Rich Faron • Mary Frons • Gerry Giliberti Jeffrey S. Gillis • David Gilmore • Janis Hurley Helen Janson • Virginia Khuri • Joel Lefkowitz Berton Miller • Michael Ruggerio • Dainis Saulitis Rosa Hanna Scott • Clanence Simpson • Jim Slezak Marilyn Stevenson • Nick Tarr

Ashawagh Hall 780 Springs Fireplace Road East Hampton, NY info: 631-324-9612 www.eastendphotogroup.org

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Indy Snaps ARF Designer Showhouse Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday, May 25, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held a cocktail party at the ARF Thrift & Treasure Shop in Sagaponack. Once again, the Thrift Shop was transformed into a designer show house, featuring seven rooms and an outdoor space styled by some of New York’s most illustrious interior decorators.

All items on display were available for sale, with proceeds benefiting ARF’s dedicated work in finding loving homes for animals in need. The ARF adoption van offered guests a chance to meet (and take home) a new friend and family member.

Edie’s Backyard BBQ Photos by Lisa Tamburini The soon-to-be Edie Windsor Center and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital hosted Edie’s Backyard BBQ on Saturday, May 25. There was music by DJ Karin Ward.

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Indy Snaps IndyLit Photos by Jenna Mackin On Saturday, May 25, The Independent launched IndyLit, an after-thebeach summer reading series hosted at the Southampton Inn with author Clive Thompson. Thompson is a tech writer for The New York Times Magazine and Wired. He brought his latest book “Coders — The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.”

The conversation was moderated by The Independent’s Managing Editor Bridget LeRoy.

Montauk Art Show Photos by Richard Lewin For the 12th time, the Green in Montauk was transformed into a giant pop-up art gallery over Memorial Day weekend, as the Montauk Artists Association held its annual Memorial Day Weekend Juried Fine Art Show. Artists in a variety of media, including ceramics, jewelry, painting, and photography displayed and sold their creations.

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Entertainment Guide

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

COMEDY Kevin James The Paramount Theater in Huntington welcomes Kevin James on Sunday, June 2, at 7 PM. See all about it at www. paramountny.com.

FILM Canio’s Books Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor will have a screening of “Moby Dick” at the John Jermain Memorial Library on Thursday, May 30, at 6:30 PM. See more about the marathon in this week’s issue.

Klimt & Schiele Guild Hall in East Hampton will feature Great Art on Screen with “Klimt & Schiele: Eros and Psyche” on Friday, May 31, at 7 PM. Grab your tickets at www.guildhall.org.

Footprints Of An Angel The Southampton Cultural Center presents a one-night-only screening of “Footprints of an Angel” on Saturday, June 1, at 6 PM.

Loopers Hamptons International Film Festival presents Now Showing: “Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk” at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday, June 1, at 7:30 PM. For tickets, visit www.guildhall.org.

Celebrating The Amy Award

The Lovin’ Spoonful

The Southampton Arts Center will have an East End Collected 5 Artists Presentation hosted by Paton Miller on Sunday, June 2, at 4 PM. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

The Lovin’ Spoonful will be playing at The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead on Friday, May 31, at 8 PM. Tickets go to www.suffolktheater.com.

Alzheimer’s & Dementia

The Southampton Arts Center welcomes JOBS PUB: Bossa Nova & Beyond with Nilsson Matta’s Brazilian Voyage Quintet on Saturday, June 1, at 7 PM. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

Elizabeth Robles of the Alzheimer’s Association of Long Island will host a discussion at The Center in Bridgehampton about Alzheimer’s & Dementia on Tuesday, June 4, at 6 PM. RSVP to info@bhccrc.org.

THEATER Private Lives Playwright Noel Coward’s comedy “Private Lives” will be performed by the Hampton Theatre Company through June 9 at the Quogue Community Hall. Visit www.hamptontheatre. org for tickets and times.

Bossa Nova & Beyond

Alejandra Sandoval The Shelter Island Friends of Music presents A Global Musical Journey with Alejandra Sandoval on Saturday,

June 1, at 8 PM at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. Free admission; donations appreciated. Visit www.shelterislandfriendsofmusic.org to learn more.

Rites Of Spring Rites of Spring Music Festival continues on Saturday, June 1, at 8 PM with Stockhausen’s Tierkreis at the William Ris Gallery in Jamesport. Visit www. ritesmusic.org.

Mountain Man Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will welcome Mountain Man to the stage on Sunday, June 2, at 8 PM. Hear more at www.whbpac.org.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett jams out to Costello’s Flying Circus at 8 PM and Second Shift at 10 PM on Thursday, May 30. The Original Wailers will play at 8 PM followed by LHT at 10 PM on Friday, May 31. June 1 kicks off with Ricky and The Rockets at 8 PM, followed by Faces For Radio at 10:30 PM. Sunday, June 2, at 8 PM vibe with The Velvicks and the Montauk Project at 8 PM, and Inner Roots at 10 PM. Tuesday, June 4, listen to Annie Trezza at 8 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Ball Of Redemption Guild Hall in East Hampton welcomes JDT Lab with “Ball of Redemption” by Ellen Dolan on Thursday, May 30, at 7 PM. For tickets, visit www.guildhall. org.

The Clam Bar

Book Hampton in East Hampton welcomes Ross School’s Local Author Night featuring Susan Verde, Emma Walton Hamilton, and Chris Babu on Friday, May 31, at 5 PM. On Saturday, June 1, at 4 PM, will be Mike Lupica, author of “Batting Order.” Learn more at www.bookhampton.com.

Paul Gene

The Independent Newspaper presents Water Views Festival at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Sunday, June 2 at 10 AM. RSVP at waterviews@indyeastend.com.

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EEC5 Presentation

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Water Views

New Moon Cafe in East Quogue presents open mic night every Thursday from 8 to 11 PM. Check www.newmooncafeeq.com.

At its Peconic location will be Points East on Friday, May 31, at 6 PM, Black Tie Brass on Saturday, June 1, at 5 PM, and Jellyband on Sunday, June 2, at 5 PM. Go to www.greenportharborbrewing.com.

MUSIC

Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a gallery talk by Jeremy Dennis on Thomas Joshua Cooper on Friday, May 31, at 6 PM. For tickets, visit www.parrishart.org.

Open Mic Night

Poets & Writers will celebrate the Amy Award with poetry and music. The free event is on Sunday, June 2, at 3 PM at Peconic Landing in Greenport. Learn more at www.pw.org.

WORDS

Jeremy Dennis

manmusicprogram.org.

The Clam Bar at Napeague hosts live music every Wednesday starting at 4 PM. Springs Tavern in East Hampton will have live music by Paul Gene every Thursday from 6 to 8 PM.

Jam Session The Jam Session of The Hamptons will perform at Union Cantina in Southampton every Thursday at 7 PM. See more at www.thejamsession.org.

Chamber Music Concert The Perlman Music Program presents a Chamber Music Concert at the Jamesport Meeting House featuring string quartets from the Age of Enlightenment. The free event will take place on Thursday, May 30, at 7:30 PM. Learn more about the program at www.perl-

Divine Intervention The group exhibition, “Divine Intervention,” at Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor will have an opening reception Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 7 PM. Curated by Teri Hackett, the show will run throughout the summer, from June 1 to September 2. Artists from New York and the East End will exhibit works.

Ezra Gallery Ezra Gallery of the Hamptons located at Center for Jewish Life in Sag Harbor presents the landscape show, “For Love of Nature.” The show opens on Sunday, June 2, with a reception from 4 to 6:30 PM. Artists include Bertram Alper, Shain Bard, Sally Breen, Miriam Dougenis, Kimberly Goff, Edward Joseph, Bruce Lieberman, and Eileen Dawn Skretch. The exhibit is curated by Kimberly Goff.

The show runs through July 8.

Gallery Talk Jeremy Dennis, a Parrish Art Museum

collection artist and 2018 Parrish Road Show artist, will give a special gallery talk on the exhibition “Thomas Joshua Cooper: Refuge at the Museum” on Friday, May 31, at 6 PM. Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, will reflect on Cooper’s photographs, which capture East End history, migration, and settlement at sites ranging from Conscience Point to Shinnecock Reservation locales.

Water Mill Museum The Water Mill Museum presents the “Water Mill Museum’s & Members’ Art Show” with an opening reception on Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 7 PM.

East End Photographers The East End Photographers Group 31st Anniversary Exhibition will be held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with an opening reception on Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 9 PM. There will be music by Out East. Visit www.eastendphotogroup.org.

Arts & Entertainment

May 29, 2019

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Jump Into June Know where to be, where to eat, and whom to know

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cuisine and Pat LaFrieda steaks. www. caprisouthampton.com The Nick & Toni’s team are bringing some spice to Amagansett’s dining scene this summer with the opening of the new restaurant, Coche Comedor, featuring regional Mexican cuisine inspired by local products such as rotisserie roasted chickens, meats and seafood seasoned with the flavors of Mexico, all paired with house-made tortillas. www.cochecomedor.com

The Events

rehabilitated non-releasable residents.

Discover how they came to reside at the Center. This year’s honorees include Dr. Carl Safina, PhD, and Dr. Scarlett Magda, DVM. www.wildliferescuecenter.org

Westhampton Country Club hosts the 21st Ann Liguori Foundation Charity Golf Classic on Thursday, June 20, to benefit the work of the foundation, which invests a range of cancer prevention and research organizations including St. Jude’s, and Kids Need More on Shelter Island. Aside from her Foundation, Liguori is an author and one of the nation’s leading sports radio and television personalities. www.annliguori. com The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation 37th Annual Golf Tournament at Fresh Meadows Country Club puts golf at the center of fundraising efforts for the noble cause of supporting cancer research on Monday, June 24, starting at 11 AM. Why not get some golfing friends together for an unforgettable golfing experience and a chance to support groundbreaking research that is hastening the development of new cures for cancer? www. waxmancancer.org One of the deserving charity causes is the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons’ “Get Wild!” Benefit on Saturday, June 29, from 5 to 7 PM in Southampton. The event highlights the work of the charity in caring for injured wildlife and you can always expect to see some of the

Polo Hamptons 2019 hosts the first of two polo matches and cocktail parties in Bridgehampton on Saturday, June 29, from 4 to 7:30 PM at the estate of power couple and philanthropists, Kenneth and Maria Fishel. Come rain or shine, guests can enjoy the first of two polo matches and VIP cocktail parties this summer. The second match will take place Saturday, July 6. www. polohamptons.com

Steffano Marracino brings Paola’s to the former location of EMP Summer House in East Hampton, an offshoot of the Upper East Side restaurant will feature traditional Northern Italian fare, as well as pizza prepared in a woodburning oven. www.paolasrestaurant. com

Well worth the wait: Tony Fortuna and Derek Axelrod have launched T-Bar Southampton across from the Southampton LIRR station. Drawing on the cuisine at Tony’s New York neighborhood gem, T-Bar Steak & Lounge, expect reservations to be tough to score. www.tbarnyc.com

June’s Social Jewels

Philippe Delgrange. From the Upper East Side namesake, he is Gate Guardian to the promised dining land that is Sag Harbor’s power-eatery by the water, Le Bilboquet this summer, along with his partner Ronald Perelman. www.lebilboquetny.com

Stanley Pine. He is Hampton Hills Golf & Country Club’s general manager and custodian of the golf course hidden amongst the 2000 acres of Pine Barrens guaranteeing one of serenest golfing experience in the Hamptons. www. hamptonhills.com

The Dining

This month, expect the arrival of the Brooklyn Chop House at the Capri Hotel in Southampton from Robert “Don Pooh” Cummins, Dave Thomas, and Stratis Morfogen of the Jue Lan Club.

The restaurant will be offering its signature brand of contemporary Asian

Elizabeth “Lizzie” da-Trinidade Asher is a proud Peruvian-born philanthropist, activist and entrepreneur who is both the one of the youngest of the Save Venice Board of Directors and cofounder of a liquor company, Macchu Pisco, in homage to her home’s native drink. www.macchupisco.com

If you missed the hot social ticket this past Memorial Day Saturday, that of the summer season launch party from Lauren Day Roberts and husband Bob, “An Evening in Mykonos,” keep an eye out for her and maybe make the list for the next fun celebration.

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Streaming

By E. Hutton

‘Three Identical Strangers’ Nature versus nurture Exploring this age-old conundrum is the context of the recent documentary “Three Identical Strangers” (now available on streaming video). It’s a fascinating exploration of a remarkable true story: identical triplets, separated at birth, put out for adoption, then reunited, only to find that all their lives they have been caught up in a spiral of manipulation and circumstance beyond their control.

The film’s hard-to-believe tale, meticulously constructed by the talented writer/director Tim Wardle, unfolds chronologically, shocking disclosure by disclosure. Its main protagonists are three young Long Island men (Bobby, Eddy, and David), who up until age 19 are living the life they assume fate has dealt them, blissfully unaware of the machina-

tions that have structured almost every aspect of their very existence.

Through a serendipitous accident, one of them discovers that he is not alone in his assumed cocoon of existence — that there is someone else who looks exactly like him, an identical twin brother adopted into another family. The surrounding publicity immediately leads to yet another discovery, that the two are not alone, but there is a third. They are not twins, but triplets.

Having evolved as identical (not fraternal) brothers from one fertile egg that split into multiple embryos at the very beginning of their lives, the three boys look alike, talk alike, act alike (in a 1980s interview, they boast, “We even smoke the same cigarettes”). But as the film reveals,

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the initial euphoria over their similarities masks some unacknowledged differences — despite their identical biological origins, they are definitely individuals, with separate makeups that affect their interactions with each other and the outside world.

These differences, which may be genetic as well as environmental, play themselves out with what in retrospect are predictably tragic results. Having embarked on an ill-advised joint business venture (a trendy restaurant called Triplets), the brothers find that potentially hereditary mental illness intrudes on the day-to-day contextual stresses of the situation itself, resulting in one’s unexpected suicide and the others’ retreat into their own shells.

The film’s dark subplot then emerges: In a hubristic effort to resolve that mysterious psychological/cultural puzzle — to what degree are our lives determined not only by our nature but by our nurture — outsiders have conspired to control the brothers’ marionette strings for much of their lives. In order to explore this issue, prominent medical/psychological researchers devised what sounded like a perfect experiment — if they placed three identical children (the triplets) into three different controlled environments (carefully chosen and prepped adoptive homes), and then analyzed their resulting behavior and growth, they could answer the puzzle once and for all (one assumes to their professional — and economic— glory).

What, in their zeal, the investigators didn’t anticipate (but should have realized) was the effect the insensitive framework of the experiment itself, and the clumsy intervention of the researchers, had on the brothers and their families. The professional participants’ lack of both ethical reflection and consideration of unintended consequences was astonishing, and the collusion of the doctors, the study founders, and the adoption agency verged on the criminal.

Once informed of the artificiality of the life structured for them, the parents sue (unsuccessfully) for more detail of the experiment and responsibility for its results. The brothers themselves are outraged. “How does it make me feel?” asks one retrospectively. “Like a lab rat!”

The second part of the film documents the step-by-step search for ‘Why did this happen?’ The filmmaker engages and documents the efforts of Lawrence Wright, a driven journalist who tracks down and interviews whomever he can who was involved in this ethically compromised scientific endeavor. Unfortunately, the main protagonists are dead, and the research material is locked in a Yale University vault until late in the 21st Century.

The film does present, however,

discussions with two participants — although only briefly involved as graduate assistants, they reveal with unnerving casualness their lack of concern with the residue left by the experiment, and use its lofty goals to justify its dubious methodology. This attitude is all the more astonishing given many of the participants’ background as direct and indirect Holocaust victims of Nazi manipulations (the study leader, a distinguished psychoanalyst, and his associates, his funders, and the participating adoption agency were themselves mostly Jewish individuals and institutions).

The film skillfully weaves these personal and philosophical threads into an engrossing tapestry, building suspense by its sequential revelations, as first the brothers, then the adoptive parents, comprehend and contend with the issues involved, followed by the detective-like discovery of the shocking backstory.

But the documentary’s reportorial structure fails it as a documentary. Its story-telling need to have a beginning, middle, and end leads to a final return to the topic of one brother’s suicide, searching for a cause where one may not readily exist. Discussions with surviving brothers and relatives speculate on a sometimesrocky parental relationship, culminating in a painful “60 Minutes”-like interview in which the adoptive father is pressed to admit potential fault as a remote disciplinarian.

Given the film’s careful structuring up to now of both sides of the heredity/ context conundrum, this final coda is a jarring shift. Whether the home environment was contributing or not, to assert it as the primary cause of an essentially irrational act feels as if the filmmaker Wardle is putting his thumb squarely on the scales for nurture (in this case, a lack of it) versus nature (potential mental illness) — falling back on his own opinion to answer the unanswerable question of cause and effect.

All in all, however, the careful structure and cumulative drama of the revelations provides ample reason to enjoy this beautifully crafted film, even though one is left with the realization that the question of genetics versus environment will always be unresolved — like the original conception of the triplets themselves, mysterious and miraculous.

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Dining Harbor Bistro: Delicious Decisions Signature cocktails, sunset menu, and a happy hour with a view

By Hannah Selinger

I’ll give you a minute to consider how few places offer both an irresistible view of the water and a competitive happy hour. Still thinking it over? If a water view in the Hamptons feels loaded with either pretension or excessive expense, you’ve been hitting up the wrong spots.

Until recently, East Hampton Springs’ Harbor Bistro competed with Bay Kitchen Bar for the view-happy hour one-two punch. But Bay Kitchen Bar is relocating to a non-water-adjacent location (in Southampton, where the Princess Diner used to be), and there’s no word yet on whether or not Bostwick’s will offer dollar oysters.

Ergo: Get thee to Harbor Bistro while you still can.

Every evening at the bar, between 5 and 7 PM, the restaurant offers $8 wines and designated cocktails (I’m there for the Kir Royale and Sunset Rum Punch, in case you were wondering), $5 cans of beer, and $10 small plates. Food offerings include clams and oysters on the half-shell, a Greek

salad flatbread, chips and guacamole, chicken potstickers, goat cheese croquettes, togarashi shrimp, tempurabattered Shishito peppers, and truffleParmesan fries.

Actually, that’s not even the best deal in the house. Here’s a brilliant Hamptons concept if ever there was one: from 5 to 6 each night, and all night at the bar, diners can enjoy a $29 “Sunset Menu,” which includes an appetizer, entrée, and dessert, or, alternately, an appetizer, entrée, and glass of wine. Appetizer options include a Satur Farms salad, Asian noodle soup, and grilled Romaine hearts, while entrées include odes to both land and sea (hibachi-style salmon, linguine and clams made with local bivalves, and a summer fettuccini featuring chicken, vegetables, and white wine are a few of the choices available). For dessert, there are sorbets, ice creams, and profiteroles.

If you prefer the limitlessness of a full menu, you can have that all evening long. The full menu offers a

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comprehensive taste of the sea, starting with a full list of raw bar items: salmon belly tartare (cucumber, capers, and a shallot remoulade), Yellowfin tuna poké (avocado, Macadamia nuts, seaweed), Montauk fluke ceviche (lime, mango, jalapeño), scallop crudo (corn, Serrano pepper, passion fruit), and tuna sashimi (nori rice and hot pepper sauce).

For appetizers, there are Mongolian barbecue ribs, tuna tostados, vegan Thai peanut ramen, fried calamari, local fish tacos, steamed little necks, and more. The is one of those appetizer lists that sends your brain reeling.

How is it possible to decide between so many delicious things?

Let’s skip the salad section for a moment (there is an entire section devoted to salads, to be clear) and move on to entrées. There are 14 entrées available, not including the lobster BLT, which is only available on Thursday and Sunday evenings. In the mood

for something casual? Consider the fried chicken sandwich, or the burger, each of which is served with hand-cut fries. Are you a fish lover? I dare you to choose between the “steakhouse” monkfish, gulf shrimp with day boat scallops, pistachio-crusted swordfish, or the “surfers’ combo” of Montauk fluke and nori-seared tuna. For landlubbers there is a charred steak tataki with pickled shiitake mushrooms, a roasted chicken breast with Yukon gold mashed potatoes, a five spice-dusted Crescent Farms duck breast, and a pork tenderloin schnitzel.

All this while you while away the sunset, staring out at the perfect blues, pinks, and oranges reflected on Three Mile Harbor. Stare out into the abyss for long enough and dessert, perhaps in the form of warm almond cake, seems like a better and better idea. Or maybe it was the peach cobbler or the berries sabayon that caught your attention?

Choice is a magical thing.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Dana Murrell Moroccan chicken thigh kebabs

By Zachary Weiss

Who: Chef Dana Murrell for Green Chef

Instagram: @ChefDanaMurrell

Chef Dana’s Guest-Worthy Recipe:

1 whole carrot 2 1/2 Tbsp pistachios 1/4 c currant-maple vinaigrette 4 six-inch bamboo skewers

Directions: Prep Veggies & Nuts

“A lively dish inspired by North African cuisine. Chicken thighs and bell pepper, seasoned with ras el hanout (a popular Moroccan spice blend), are threaded onto skewers and grilled. They’re served over whole-wheat couscous strewn with feta cheese and fresh scallion. A kale salad — tossed with grated carrot, pistachios, and a currant-maple vinaigrette — completes the meal.”

• Preheat well-oiled grill (or grill pan) to medium-high. Alternatively, preheat oven to 425 degrees.

• Soak bamboo skewers in water for about five minutes. Here’s how: Add water to the bag of skewers to evenly soak them.

• Remove center stems from Lacinato kale; discard. Roughly chop leaves.

• Grate carrot on large holes of a box grater into a large bowl.

• Shell pistachios; roughly chop nuts.

• Thinly slice scallion; discard root end.

• Large dice red bell pepper into about 3/4-inch pieces.

Ingredients:

Make Salad

Moroccan Chicken Thigh Kebabs with feta-studded couscous, kale salad with carrot and pistachios

Why?

12 oz boneless chicken thighs 3 1/2 oz Red bell pepper 1 tsp Ras el hanout 1/2 c whole-wheat couscous 3 Tbsp feta cheese 1 whole scallion 2 3/4 oz Lacinato kale

• Place kale in bowl with carrot. Drizzle with about one tablespoon of the currant-maple vinaigrette. Lightly season with salt. Massage until leaves soften.

• Add pistachios to bowl. Drizzle with remaining vinaigrette to taste. Salt and pepper to taste. Toss to combine.

Cook Couscous • Bring 3/4-cup lightly salted water to a boil in a small pot. Add whole-wheat couscous to boiling water. Stir. Remove from heat. Cover pot with lid. Let rest (covered) five minutes, or until water is absorbed.

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Sitting In The Lounge Of Luxury My journey to Australia with Emirates I flew the non-traditional route from the United States with a stopover in Dubai for my first trip to Australia on Emirates Airline. Emirates was gracious enough to host me in each of its first/business classes lounges during layovers throughout my trip. Each way took almost two days to arrive at my destination but it was well worth it; so much so that I am already planning my second tour of the country for next year.

Dubai International is the main hub for Emirates Airline, which operates flights to and from over 150 cities in 80 countries across six continents. During my air travels, I had the opportunity to visit the exclusive Emirates Business Class Lounges in New York, Dubai, and Melbourne.

Each lounge was luxurious and with their own distinctive cultural elements that reflect that particular country or region, particularly with the culinary offerings and reading selection at hand. The signature treat found in every lounge, was a pitted Medjool date, some stuffed with a candied orange peel, coconut, or a nut variety.

If you are already familiar with the perks of airport lounges, there’s a reason why Emirates Business Class Lounge is so legendary. Reeling from its size, amenities, and the immense array of food and drink, I arrived to the airport four hours early purposely so I could tour, relax, and gain the full Emirates experience. Upon arrival to both New York and Dubai’s lounges, I went straight for

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the showers, which provide washcloths, hand towels, personal toiletries such as shavers, toothbrushes, and a shower cap, shampoo, conditioner, soap, and a hair dryer. Having the opportunity to shower before and or during a layover is heaven on Earth.

In New York, there is a wide selection of hot and cold breakfast dishes available buffet style, such as omelets, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, cereal, fresh fruit, breads, pastries, and so much more. Freshly brewed coffee, tea, juices, Voss water, Moët & Chandon champagne, liqueur, wine, beer, soda, and more are available to drink. I had the pleasure of enjoying a small eggs benedict, fresh fruit, water, tea, and a croissant for breakfast before my flight to Dubai.

In Dubai, when I was flying to Melbourne, the lounge in concourse A was not as busy, versus when I was flying home where there were at least quadruple the number of guests. This is where my recommendation of going straight for the showers is strongly advised. Not only will you feel immediately refreshed and relaxed, you will have the opportunity to tour the lounge and have the full experience without feeling rushed.

Though drinks (opened or not) are not permitted onboard your flight, take the time to enjoy the wide variety of options available to you while in the lounge.

The cuisine is a blend of western and Middle Eastern cuisine and is all halal. For lunch and dinner, enjoy a selection of pastas, freshly prepared salads with olives and avocado, a selection of rolls, breads, muffins, cheeses, chicken and beef dishes, vegetarian and vegan options, fresh hummus and muhammara dips, fattoush, stews, sandwiches, soups, and so much more.

For dessert, enjoy a selection of miniature cheesecakes, cookies, fruit tarts, and traditional Middle Eastern pastries such as ma’amoul, baklava, basbousa, kunefe, and aish al saraya.

There was even an ice cream cart with hand-scooped ice cream. I chose pistachio, one of their more traditional and popular flavors.

Can anyone flying Emirates experience their lounges? The answer is YES! To enjoy paid lounge access in Dubai, you and your guests must be traveling on the same Emirates or Qantas codeshare flights.

Follow along on all of my travel journeys with the hashtag #EastEndTasteTravels and lookout for a video to be posted on Instagram highlighting my Emirates journey. Next week, I will take you on a culinary tour of Melbourne’s Central Business District, including many of the restaurants I visited during my two-week stay.

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By Beth Landman

Mediterranean is big now, and Armin and Judy Bellova will be offering it breakfast, lunch, and dinner with American and European influences at the transformed Hudson Blue Crab House space, now called simply Armin and Judy. The menu will be affordable and there will be a bakery on premises.

“We will be serving our own bread and making our own pasta, which is not that prevalent out here,’’ said Judy Bellova, who is hoping to have an opening mid-summer. The ingredients for most dishes will be seasonal and local.

It’s located at 1970 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton.

Après beach is the theme at Rosie’s Amagansett, which opened Memorial Day weekend at 195 Main Street, and

will serve small plates, starting with morning items such as egg burritos and avocado toast and move on to afternoon chicken schnitzel sandwiches, grain bowls, and salads. By late afternoon look for oysters, crudo, steak tartare, a charcuterie plate, mussels with cider, and brick chicken.

“I wanted to create a place for the community,’’ said owner Christina Isaly, a mother of five who has a home in the town and has partnered with Bhumi Farms for her veggie offerings. “I found it frustrating to go into a restaurant and wait, so I wanted something that was locally encouraged, satisfying, and delivered to you quickly.’’

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“It’s produced at Chateau Auguste in Bordeaux and a lot of rosé comes from Provence,’’ she explained of the wine made with a blend of merlot, cabernet sauvignon, and cabernet franc grapes.

“I love to entertain and rosé is one of my favorites. I always serve a lot of it in the summer, so I was very excited to come up with my own after many tastings,” added Miller. You too can taste it in Sag Harbor at Cavaniola’s, Baron’s Cove, or Dopo la Spiaggia.

Surf Lodge has landed Michelinstarred chef Australian chef Shaun Hergatt as culinary director for its restaurant. “This year we wanted to approach food the way people approach art, with

textures and layers and colors,’’ reflected Peter Litvinenko, the hotel’s director of brand development. “Shaun’s food is influenced by Southeast Asia, his Australian coastal background, and his time growing up in Santa Barbara.

Every detail gets attention; even all the vinegars are homemade.’’

Frank Pinello of Best Pizza in Williamsburg and Vice’s “The Pizza Show’’ has teamed with Ben Selby, owner of the Bushwick bar 101 Wilson and Pir Granoff, managing partner of the Short Stories bar on Bowery and Millie’s Cuban Cafe, to open Best Pizza and Dive Bar at 2095 Montauk Highway in Amagansett. In addition to classic pizzas, the new spot will serve up clam pies, Italian sandwiches, and beer.

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Gioia DiPaolo Knows That Fortune Favors The Bull

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Gioia DiPaolo Knows That Fortune Favors The Bull

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

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ndy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Gioia DiPaolo understands the twists and turns of Hamptons luxury real estate so much so that she changed agencies a few times to make sure she was not missing the best path. It was also during these pivots that DiPaolo understood the best way forward had always been at Douglas Elliman.

We were one of those fans of yours that were captivated when you posted on Instagram the Elliman logo with the caption “CHANGE” after leaving for Sotheby’s in 2017. You’ve certainly tested the waters elsewhere, such as joining Corcoran in Sag Harbor as well. Yet you gravitate back to Elliman.

I have so many long-term relationships with Elliman people — some of us worked together at Corcoran, so it’s like a family. Elliman seems to support the entrepreneurial spirit; they appreciate innovation in their agents. Howard Lorber is a great leader.

You worked with Dottie Herman ages ago, back when Elliman first opened in Sag Harbor. What was it like to work with the legend?

Dottie is brilliant and street smart, funny, tireless; fearless, unconventional.

I learned so much from her early in my real estate career.

You’ve brokered some amazing deals, such as the Castello di Borghese

Vineyard in Cutchogue and the Saks Fifth Avenue building in Southampton.

What do you offer these titans that others may not?

Thinking outside the box and always believing anything is possible.

Were you ever a regional director of some kind or always a broker?

I was the manager of the Sag Harbor Office for five years, which required me to become a broker. I was asked to take a regional position at one time but turned it down. I love listing and selling real estate. Managing was rewarding in its own way though — it brought out a nurturing side I didn’t know I had. I really enjoyed mentoring and assisting

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agents develop their careers.

Are you local?

I am not a local, but I’ve never felt like an outsider here. I bought a weekend home here after I sold my house in Bucks County.

I was living in Manhattan and working in the fashion industry at the time.

Why are you a signature specialist in Sag Harbor real estate in particular?

I feel at home in Sag Harbor. I’ve made best friends for life here. I love the historic architecture, the way you get to know everyone in a small town.

Walking down Main Street to the water is very special.

What is the biggest mistake sellers make in your opinion?

Not pricing a house properly is probably the biggest mistake sellers make. Find an agent you trust and have them show you the comps and the competition.

Do you have any particular advice for buyers?

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Don’t think you’re being smart by only seeing a house with the listing agent.

Is there something about the East End that inspires you?

I love the farmland and open spaces that still exist.

Are there any up-andcoming neighborhoods we should know about?

I’ve always loved the North Fork, the farms and vineyards. Greenport is amazing! It’s a hip maritime village still somewhat lost in time while offering an incredible restaurant scene. Real estate there is very affordable.

What do you do for fun when you’re not working?

I need a lot of alone time and a few great friends. I like to eat beautiful food and drink nice wine with interesting people who are smart and fun. I love spending time in Italy and I enjoy visiting family and friends in LA. Every year I go someplace I’ve never been before.

To reach DiPaolo or inquire about her properties, call 631.903.2937 or email Gioia.DiPaolo@elliman.com.

330 Main Street | Sag Harbor Village | $2,595,000 This original 1840's Captain Row's Sag Harbor Village charmer, was meticulously restored to its original glory and recently designed and renovated by John Bjornen with all modern amenities. This turn-key home has four bedroom and three full baths plus a den/library overlooking the private back yard and the gunite plunge pool. Enjoy the sunset western water views of sag harbor cove and otter pond from every room of the house or cozy up around one of the six working fireplaces. Downstairs the front bedroom/ parlor features a wood-burning fireplace, two exposures and views onto Otter Pond. A wonderful den is the heart of the home overlooking the backyard and just off the living room. The kitchen boasts both timeless charm and modern convenience with beamed ceilings, 1840's fireplace oven and Viking and Sub-Zero appliances. Upstairs are three additional bedrooms. The oversized master features two exposures with views over Upper Sag Cove, a fireplace and en-suite bath. A separate over-sized guest suite feature a new marble bathroom, private stair access and double exposure over Otter Pond and the Cove while the attic is cedar lined for amazing storage. The beautiful grounds designed by Joseph Cornetta with lush estate plantings and water features. The backyard features a heated plunge pool and separate sitting and dining areas. The entire property is surrounded by an 8' Ilex hedge for privacy. This special offering is in the heart of Sag Harbor close to restaurants, shops and bay beaches. To reach DiPaolo for a private showing call 631-903-2937 or email gioia.dipaolo@elliman.com.

22 Vitali Cilli Avenue | Sag Harbor Village |$10,500,000 You've arrived. Enter the triple story foyer/receiving room and be awed by the open water views. The first floor offers a double-height living room with a fireplace, dining room, eat-in kitchen (all with water views) den, and powder room. Four bedrooms, four and a half baths, modern-day widow's walk, a deck with a pergola off the rear of the house, 140' dock with water and electricity (6' draft at mean high tide), heated gunite pool, attached two-car garage. Beautiful high-gloss reclaimed wide plank flooring throughout. To reach DiPaolo for a private showing call 631903-2937 or email gioia.dipaolo@elliman.com.

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Relighting The Sag Harbor Cinema Photos by Justin Meinken The streets of Sag Harbor were packed with hundreds of onlookers as the restored Art Deco sign for the Sag Harbor Cinema was lit up for the first time on Saturday, May 25. This marks the first major step in the theater’s restoration since its

foundation was laid last year, after the movie house burned down in December 2016. As the countdown ended, and the red neon sign was lit, there was an outpouring of applause, cheers, and emotional reactions from the crowd.

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In Solemn Remembrance Photos by James J. Mackin, Justin Meinken, and Stephen J. Kotz

Communities across the East End paid their respects to the nation’s war dead at Memorial Day observances. In Sag Harbor, the annual parade led from the World War I monument at Otter Pond, down Main Street to Marine Park, where James Laspesa, an Air Force veteran, delivered the keynote address. In Bridgehampton, community members gathered at the war monument on Ocean Road. Volunteers decorated graves in East Hampton cemeteries before the annual parade down Main Street to Hook Mill.

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Food Fair Celebrates Farmers North meets South for civil gathering

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com

“North Meets South” festival creators Monique Cutone and Vanessa Rebentisch at Harbes Family Farm ahead of their first annual event. Independent/Gianna Volpe

One of the biggest family and farmfriendly events to hit the Twin Forks, will happen on June 8 and 9, and while it’s anybody’s guess how big a crowd will find its way to the first annual “North Meets South Farms, Food, and Drink Festival” at the Long Island Sports Park in Calverton, one just needs to look at the numbers to see why this isn’t the festival to miss.

A hundred local vendors — including an agricultural market — will be found throughout 80 sprawling acres, with more than 30 options for food, six musical acts, five inflatable rides and games, four eating competitions, three boozy outlets, two corn hole tournaments, a pig-weighing contest, exotic petting zoo, birds of prey show, hay rides, face painting, candle making, and no ticket charge for children under 12.

“It was really important to us to make sure this event was accessible to families,” said North Meets South co-creator, Monique Cutone, a professional face and body artist who joined forces with fellow mom and up-and-

coming oyster grower, Vanessa Rebentisch, to make their dream of an affordable festival a reality. “I’ve been to festivals that have charged $20 per kid, and it gets tough to spend any money on the fun stuff inside when you get tapped out at the door. We wanted to make sure this festival wasn’t like that.”

Adults will still need to pay $20 for their pre-sale ticket — or $25 at the door — but parents will only have to pay for whatever games their munchkins want to play.

In addition to free entertainment

by Brady Rymer, Jen Kane, Paris Ray, Southbound, Who Are Those Guys, and The Butterfly Cody Experience, everyone who comes through the gate will also get one free guess at how much the Goodale Farms pig-on-hand weighs, which will garner the winner a cool $100 cash prize. Two-hundred bucks will go to the winners of the two eating contests, which will take place on both days.

One contest will reward the person who can shuck and eat 30 Yenn-

icott oysters the fastest, and the other prize will go to the person to most quickly finish an allotted plate of glazed donuts from the North Fork Doughnut Company. The winner of the corn hole contest will get a custom corn hole board set by Wild Child Design in Speonk, and festival sponsor Chief Equipment, a John Deere sales/service outlet in Calverton, will also be giving away a brand-new rideable mower to one lucky event patron, according to Rebentisch, who said families are welcome to bring folding chairs and blankets to enjoy the music.

“We’ll have seating areas available in the food section of the festival, but there’s a nice, big lawn in front of the main stage that would be perfect for people to sit on blankets,” she said.

“Long Island Sports Park is a really gorgeous place: think rolling hills, lakes, and trees.”

Rebentisch, 33, is the co-owner of Bantam Creek Oyster Company. She started the North Fork Event Company with Cutone, 34, of Stay Salted after

Cutone’s chance meeting with the owner of the Long Island Sports Park last summer led to a rare opportunity for someone local to lease the expansive property, which had previously been dominated by corporations.

The two met through their 10-year-old children and classmates in Southold, Ethan and Molly, but it is organizing this festival that has kept them in constant communication since last fall’s lease signing. “We’ve worked on this thing every day from morning to night, and it has been an incredible challenge to get a first annual event off the ground with a lot of nay-sayers, but we’ve only let that feed our hunger and our drive,” said Rebentisch.

“I think the message here is if you really want something, you can do it.

It’s just a lot of work, never giving up and never taking no for an answer,” she added.

The Independent is a media sponsor for the event. Tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com, under “North Meets South.”

May 29, 2019

Boat Safety, Essential Tips Peconic Bay Power Squadron teaches new captains

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com

Ahoy there, new captains! Since another boating season is already here on the East End, Vincent Mauceri of the Peconic Power Bay Squadron is holding a boater’s safety and handling course for all those with to figure out the top 10 ways to stay safe on the seas this summer.

New York is considering a bill that will require all boaters to be licensed, so it’s essential to take a class in boat safety.

While those over 24 years of age can still legally operate a boat without garnering a boating safety certificate for now, that doesn’t make it a great idea.

“One of the biggest problems we face in the marine environment is people who don’t know what they’re doing,” said Mauceri. “The power squadron was founded on teaching people to boat safe-

ly, and the best way to stay safe is to take the eight-hour course and pass the exam with at least an 80.” The next America’s Boating Course takes place Saturdays, June 8 and 15, at the Port of Egypt Marina in Southold.

The most important thing one learns during the eight-hour safety course is the rules of the road, so to speak, when on the water. Since there are no stop lights on the seas, each vessel essentially comes equipped with its own on the bow, so deciding the right of way when it comes to two approaching vessels depends largely on the direction from which the boats are traveling. “The way I teach it is in its simplest terms,” explained Mauceri.

“If you’re out there on the water and you see a red light on the port, or left side,

of an approaching boat, it’s the same thing as being on road. Stop. Change Direction. You are the burden boat. If you can see a green light, which is the starboard, or right side, it’s just the contrary.

You are the privileged boat and are free to go. Presuming, of course, the person operating the other boat understands the rules of the road. And if you’re going to turn or veer, you always want to veer to the starboard side.”

Getting certified is just the first step. Mauceri said what’s as important as learning the rules of the road is getting out on the water to practice them.

Having a personal flotation device for every person on board — and making all children under 12 wear them when underway — is one of the requirements for legally necessary equipment for one’s boating day, according to Mauceri, who can’t believe items like a VHF radio or an anchor are not on that list. Although not required by law, a radio is one of the most important pieces of equipment you can have on board. Distress calls can be made to the Coast Guard on Channels 16 and 9.

Watching the fuel levels is sometimes forgotten by novices, according to Mauceri. “Plan to use one-third of your fuel going out, one-third of your fuel going back, and one-third in reserve, because you never can tell when you’re go-

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ing to run into a storm and have to take a different way back to port that may be longer.”

Another big mistake is not keeping an eye on the weather. Checking the local weather forecast before leaving the dock and continuing monitoring it from out on the water is essential, Mauceri said.

And then there’s the speed demons. “We reach out and tell people to go slow at the end of every winter because you don’t know what’s going to be floating around in the water or submerged six feet down — a piece of broken piling, a piece of something from the dock, you never know,” said Mauceri, adding that the danger of running aground is one that should slow down all boaters.

“When you’re on the water you have to understand that it’s a dynamic environment,” he said. “It’s constantly changing and you don’t know where that sand bar is going to move to. You don’t know.

You can’t tell. Hopefully the buoys will tell you right but the buoys are not necessarily 100 percent right either.”

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Bay because the sand bars had shifted so much, even into the edges of the channel.”

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Oceans Of Hope Gala Raising money for sea animals and mammals

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research & Preservation presents the 19th Annual Oceans of Hope Gala on Friday, May 31, from 7 to 10 PM at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead.

This year’s gala honoree will be Anthony Esernio of TD Bank, who is the market president for suburban New York.

“Mr. Esernio did not hesitate when he was asked to serve as this year’s nominee,” Ellen Bissett DeRiggi, vice president of Riverhead Foundation, said. “He has expressed genuine appreciation for the important role our organization plays in the community by responding to such a high volume of calls from the public about seals and sea turtles that have become stranded on our shores, and our efforts to rehabilitate many of these injured animals.

He has given tremendously of his time

and resources to make this year’s gala our most successful one yet, and for that we are extremely grateful.”

The 501(c)3 non-profit, founded in 1996, protects the marine environment throughout the area through rescue, rehabilitation, education, and research efforts. It is currently the primary organization in New York State that is authorized to work with seals, sea turtles, small-toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This year, the foundation launches its Sea Steward Award “to honor people, companies and/or organizations who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to environmental stewardship and support of marine conservation, education and research” with the award going to Canon USA. “Canon has been a consistent sup-

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The Oceans of Hope gala theme this year is White Nights in Monte Carlo, a white party casino night. It will include food, drinks, live music, casino games, a silent auction, and raffles. The money will go to supporting animal response, rescue, and rehabilitation initiatives. As a donation-based organization, the foundation relies heavily

on fundraising events, like the annual gala. Gala co-chairs are Brendan DeRiggi and Ellen Bissett-DeRiggi.

From January through April, the team of four full-timer staffers and three part-time staffers responded to 1459 calls from the public regarding seals, sea turtles and cetaceans, 42 field animals, and admitted 30 patients.

Thanks to their efforts, animals of both land and sea are receiving the care they need.

Individual tickets are $200. Get yours by visiting www.riverheadfoundation.org or email info@riverheadfoundation.org.

IT'S ONLY NATURAL

By Frank Quevedo

The Serpent Of The South Fork Black racers serve as an important environmental balancer Our native eastern black racer snakes (Coluber constrictor) have emerged from their winter hibernation and are starting to take up residence in old farm fields, such as Vineyard Field behind the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton.

My first encounter with an eastern black racer snake was several summers ago when a nesting pair of American robins were in distress and screaming in a shrub adjacent to the museum. I went to investigate, and sure enough, as I suspected, a predator-prey interaction was occurring.

An eastern racer was slowly consuming all the hatchlings in the nest. It was a gloomy scene, but at the same time, an indication of the snake’s role in the environment.

Racers are carnivorous and are essential as balance keepers in providing a robust, healthy ecosystem. They can grow to 6.5 feet and can slither to a speed of four miles per hour. Racers become reproductively mature at 1-to2 years of age and mate in the spring.

Females can lay up to 36 eggs in early summer with the eggs hatching in early fall.

As juveniles, they eat a variety of insects, small frogs, salamanders, young rodents, and shrews. As they grow and become adults, they will consume larger prey, such as birds, squirrels, rabbits, turtles, and other snakes.

A black racer snake. Independent/Frank Quevedo

Their prey is not constricted, as their name applies. Instead, a part of the snake’s body is thrown over the struggling victim, pressing it down on the ground before the snake eventually swallows its prey.

The racer is an alert, active, daytime sight hunter. Contrary to popular belief, the racer does not chase humans. In fact, if approached, the snake will most likely flee to a nearby burrow or some sort of thick vegetation to escape and hide.

If cornered, it may vibrate its tail against dry vegetation, which makes it sound convincingly like a rattlesnake.

Although primarily terrestrial, they climb well and are occasionally observed sleeping in vegetation at night.

Don’t worry, these magnificent reptiles are not poisonous. In fact, there are no poisonous snakes native to Long Island.

Frank Quevedo is the executive director of the South Fork Natural History Museum.

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Stop The Bans Photos by Lisa Tamburini All across America, and in two separate rallies on the East End — one in Greenport and one shown here in Sag Harbor — pro-choice supporters showed up to rally against the recent abortion bans enacted in Alabama and other states.

The “Stop The Bans” rally in Sag Harbor took place on Tuesday, May 21, at 6 PM by the windmill on Long Wharf. Dozens showed up with signs to support women’s rights over their own bodies.

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Duryea’s Dock was receiving customers from both land and sea for the Memorial Day weekend. The legal back and forth between the neighbors, the Town of East Hampton, and the owner of Duryea’s, Marc Rowan, continued last week with a hearing before the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals, but a state court judge, David Reilly, has ruled that Duryea’s Lobster Deck can continue to operate as a restaurant, at least for the 2019 season. The ultimate fate of the restaurant, and the various issues around the establishment, will likely be decided in state court. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

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Garde Robe & Tote Taxi Garde Robe, New York’s luxury wardrobe management and Cyber Closet valet service, is partnering with Tote Taxi, the “Hamptons Haute Courier,” to provide its members with door-todoor, same-day access to the wardrobe items kept in Garde Robe’s facility in

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that. It is not for the property owner to decide. It is a town highway. It is not for the property owner to decide the parking regs there.”

Samuel Kramer, the board’s chair, said, “There is a big difference between something that is owned by the town and something that is owned by the applicant.”

The board has the power to waive

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“The Hamptons is known for its the need for all 43 spaces, under the right circumstances. Eric Schantz, a senior planner for the town, suggested that the applicant consider at least proposing using some of the large lawn area on the south of the property, instead of the head-in spaces that would replace the vegetation on South Emerson.

Sharon McCobb, who lives in Montauk, said that cars frequently come “whizzing around the corner” at South Eton and Emerson, and called the sharp “L” turn dangerous.

fabulous parties — whether it’s a charity benefit, restaurant grand opening, or a wedding — so Tote Taxi is teaming up with Garde Robe to ensure its members have exactly what they need, when they need it,” says Danielle Candela, CEO and founder of Tote Taxi.

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Rocco Carriero, ForbesBooks author, and Southampton Town resident and business owner, discusses his new book published by ForbesMedia: “The Three Cords Approach to Life & Wealth

Management for Business Owners” at his office at 1673 County Rd 39 in Southampton.

The event is sponsored by the Southampton Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to the book discussion, other local businesses will share their local economic perspective regarding the local economy for 2019.

All are welcome to attend; chamber members pay $15, non-members, $20. All guests will receive a personally signed copy of Carriero’s new book. There will also be wine and hors d’oeuvres at the discussion, which will take place from 5 to 7 PM on Thursday, May 30.

Another of the covenants raised some concern from board members.

Number three agrees to limit the total number of guests on the property to 200, “unless a special event/mass gathering permit is obtained from the Town of East Hampton.” The liquor license obtained by Hero Beach from the State Liquor Authority allows 499 guests to be served on the property. Board member Kathleen Cunningham said she would be comfortable with 200 being the cap even when a mass gathering

permit has been obtained.

Bistrian had indicated that the owners wanted to go to public hearing. Calder Piedmonte cautioned that they were risking a possible rejection if the site plan went to public hearing too soon. He also said he believed a lower number of guests in the property, perhaps 120, was more in order.

“We cannot create a parking problem at this site, at the entrance to Montauk. It is a dangerous spot to begin with,” Krug said.

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Sports Kyle McGowin Takes The Mound Former Pierson pitcher called up

by Washington Nationals

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Chills were running down Kyle McGowin's spine as he stepped on the mound for his second career start as a Washington Nationals pitcher.

The reality of the situation — defying the odds to transition from one of the smallest towns on Long Island to the majors — still hasn’t sunk in for the 2010 Pierson graduate.

“Maybe it will one day, but not anytime soon I hope,” McGowin said.

“This has been awesome. And it’s fun to have strong support from home.”

In his no-decision against the Florida Marlins Friday, May 24, McGowin gave up five runs on six hits with two strikeouts and one walk across four innings. He’s allowed a run per inning across his two starts, and opposing hitters have batted .310. He also has a 1.57 WHIP and five strikeouts in seven innings.

“Not much was working,” the 27-year-old Sag Harbor product said.

“I had to battle.”

He knows he still has some work

Kyle McGowin will make his third career MLB start with the Washington Nationals May 29 against the Atlanta Braves at 7:20 PM. Independent/Courtesy Kyle McGowin

to do, and with Anibal Sanchez needing a minor league rehab start following a 10-day stint on the injured list with left hamstring tightness, the sixfoot-three, 200-pound right-hander has a chance to redeem himself when the Nationals travel to Atlanta to take on the Braves Wednes- day, May 29.

His start begins at 7:20 PM. “I need to work on my command and execution,” McGowin said. “It could be a little bit of everything. I’ll continue what I normally do — throw bullpens and lift.”

McGowin was called upon early to relieve a struggling Jeremy Hellickson against the Chicago Cubs May 19, and lasted three innings over which he gave up three hits, a walk, and three runs — two earned — throwing 44 pitches to the 14 batters he faced.

“It’s a great feeling,” McGowin said of being called up just three days prior, adding he picked relievers’ brains for tips on the transition.

“It’s awesome to be back and be able to help the big-league club.”

It worked well for him, because his head coach liked what he saw.

“McGowin pitched really well,” Nationals coach Dave Martinez said following the 6-5 loss to the Cubs.

“Apparently his slider’s been pretty good, he’s been sinking his fastballs, getting ahead, throwing a lot of strikes, so it’s kind of nice having him.”

In eight starts with the Triple-A Fresno Grizzlies before joining the MLB rotation, he compiled a 4.32 ERA and 1.31 WHIP. In 41 2⁄3 innings, he allowed 42 hits, including six homers

and 12 walks, with 50 strikeouts. His last outing for Fresno came on May 12, when he gave up no runs in 5 2⁄3 innings, and allowed one hit and one walk with 11 punchouts.

What’s helped McGowin get noticed is his strong slider, which he learned while attending Savannah State University in Georgia. He said it didn’t take him long to get a good feel for it. It led the right-hander to a 12-1 record and 1.49 ERA over 96.1 innings pitched. He also led the league in strikeouts with 111. He was a fifthround draft pick by the Los Angeles Angels in 2013, and was traded to Washington for Danny Espinoza prior to the 2017 season.

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Hurricanes Cooled Down By Bayport Westhampton girls lacrosse team eliminated in Class C semifinals

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

On a day when Westhampton Beach needed to give its best performance, the Hurricanes struggled to remain consistent.

The girls lacrosse team was missing passes, forcing shots, and leaving the Bayport-Blue Point offense open, leading to the team falling 12-6 in the Class C semifinal May 22. For the Phantoms, the win avenged their tripleovertime loss to Westhampton in the semis last season.

“We just couldn’t handle the ball,” head coach Mary Bergmann said. “We did not show up. We weren’t executing the things we’ve practiced the entire season.”

But the game was an improvement from Westhampton’s (12-5 overall, 10-4 in Division II) first loss to the Phantoms back on May 6, which snapped a fivegame win streak for the Hurricanes.

Bayport (14-2, 11-2) had scored eight of its 12 goals off free positions the first time around, so Bergmann stressed the importance of keeping her team’s opponent off the 8-meter line, which the Hurricanes did. The Hurricanes had also won the draw just a third of the time, and they turned that around by winning all but one in the first half alone, finishing 13 for 20. Westhampton won the first six, yet Bayport was up by a 5-1 score.

Senior Hollie Schleicher tallied the first of her final two goals in green two minutes into the game, evening the score at 1. Star Ailish Kelly scored three of the Phantoms’ four consecutive goals that followed. She ended with five. Westhampton senior Anna McCarthy scored up high off a cross-field feed from junior Belle Smith to make it a two-goal game, but the Hurricanes ended the first down 6-3 on a goal with 3:50 left.

“We have struggled this season with digging ourselves out of holes when we’re down in the first half,” Schleicher said. “At halftime we talked staying positive and not letting the score get to our heads, just focusing on playing our game and taking care of the ball.”

Unfortunately for the Hurricanes that’s not how it worked out.

In the second half, the Phantoms

completed another four-goal spurt over six minutes before sophomore Maureen Duffy bulled her way up the center of the field for a score. Schleicher continued the momentum with a goal just over a minute later to fire up the team, but cutting the deficit in half would be as close as the Hurricanes could come.

Schleicher received an overthe-shoulder, above-traffic pass from Smith at the 15:35 mark, and beat out a defender swatting behind her on one knee before sending the ball over the Bayport goalkeeper’s head from close range to bring the score to 10-5.

Smith (one goal, three assists) won the ensuing draw, but a back pass was missed and the ball rolled into her team’s territory. Smith scooped up a ground ball on the other side, but the ball was turned over this time on a pass from behind the cage that ended up in the crease. The Phantoms quickly scored on that turnover — one of seven times they cashed in on Hurricane turnovers on the afternoon.

“They’re used to being in pressure situations, and we aren’t,” Bergmann said. “We went into panic mode.

It’s like fighting an uphill battle. Belle’s great — we’re always looking to Belle — but she can’t do everything. We still have young kids that just don’t step up.

We’re always telling them to pass and move, and get involved.”

Paige Rignola on attack and Stony Brook University-bound Lindsay Rongo on defense also played in their final game. Schleicher said despite going out empty handed, she’s proud to have been a part of monumental wins during her two years since transferring from East Hampton, where she was on varsity since eighth grade.

Last season, Westhampton made it to the Suffolk County finals for the first time, and this year, the Hurricanes earned a record-breaking 12 wins. The team also beat Mattituck/Southold (10-9 April 17) and West Babylon (12-8 May 9), teams they’ve struggled to even score against in years past.

“We try our best as seniors and upperclassmen to create an environment where everyone is comfortable and feels a part of the team,” Scheicher

Hollie Schleicher celebrates a goal scored with the help of cousin Belle Smith. Independent/Desirée Keegan

said. “And I can’t wait to see what kind of teammates and players they develop into. I think our team has come a long way since last year. There is a really great foundation here.”

Schleicher’s love of the game has kept her coming back year after year since she began playing as a secondgrader.

“I love the competitiveness,” Schleicher said. “Knowing there are so many good players all over the country pushes me to strive to be my best. It’s taught me what it’s like to win and to lose. I’ve learned how to bounce back from disappointment, how to be a good teammate, and most importantly, it’s showed me that if you want something

you have to work hard to get it. Being a Hurricane means being a part of a community of love and support, and I’m so proud to be one.”

She’ll be taking her talents to Boston College next year, where her cousin will be joining her. Smith committed to the college as a freshman.

“I’m beyond excited to play with Belle again,” said Schleicher, who noted the chemistry with her cousin in games past. “She has been my biggest teacher throughout my lacrosse career and I couldn’t be more excited to be playing with my best friend. As cliché as it sounds, the first time I picked up the stick I knew I was going to play this sport forever.”

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Mariners’ Oakley, Coady Headed To States Three golfers place to help team take second again in county championships

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The Southampton girls golf team has some young talent to be excited about.

Two Mariner juniors and an eighth grader finished in the Top 10 of the Suffolk County championships May 21 to help Southampton to its second straight

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Continued From Page 39. pitching coach Brad Holman. “He can spin a breaking ball, slider’s very good. He’s got a feel for making the ball move, manipulating the baseball.

He’s a good competitor and works hard and does all the things that go into being good at your craft.”

McGowin received his first call up last season when teams expand their rosters at the end of the season.

At the time, he headed MiLB with a 0.90 WHIP, and was leading the Nationals’ minor league system with 152 strikeouts. He went 0-0 with a 5.87 ERA in five September big league games, making his debut September

Southampton’s girls golf team finished second in the Suffolk County championships at Middle Island Country Club. Independent/Southampton Union Free School District

second-place finish with a score of 973.

Junior Caraline Oakley finished in second (162) behind Smithtown West senior Paige Diecidue (148), who completed the 36-hole course at Middle Island Country Club six over par. Ceili Howland of Sayville was third (170). Diecidue carried a five-shot lead into Tuesday’s final round. She posted a 75 during the first round, and shot a two-over-par 73 in the second.

Oakley, who defeated Diecidue in postseason play last year, said she didn’t play her best this time around.

“But what can you do,” she said.

“I’m happy for Paige Diecidue. I’m also going to states. So overall I’m happy.”

Eighth-grader Ella Coady finished seventh (182), and junior Mia Wilutis came in 10th across the 25-team, twoday tournament.

Led by third and sixth-place fin-

ishers Ceili Howland (170) and Hannah Niggemeier (178), Sayville captured its fourth straight team title, finishing with a score of 944. Smithtown West placed third (998).

Oakley and Coady each earned a bid to the state championships May 31 to June 2 at Deerfield Country Club in Brockport. Wilutis was named an alternate. All three players earned AllCounty honors.

5 against the Cardinals. He pitched four scoreless innings in his only start September 26 against the Marlins. His ERA dropped to 2.70 after that game but shot up to 5.87 when the Rockies scored three runs in one inning in the last game of the Nationals’ season.

“It was amazing, and definitely helped for this time,” McGowin said.

“Having some experience and getting the nerves out of the way.”

What McGowin learned in his time back with the Grizzlies is to be himself, attacking hitters but not doing too much.

“I’m not switching things up too much and doing more than I’d need to,” he said. “I’m just being myself and doing what got me here.”

Holman said it’s been a constant

maturation process, and getting a taste of The Show helped McGowin get acclimated, which the pitching coach noted is the hardest thing for a new pitcher to do. Although the major league balls were finally brought down to the Triple-A level to minimize the trauma, there’s still that extra third deck that’s impossible to look past.

The Fresno coach said it won’t be long until McGowin gets the hang of things, especially with his mental game being night and day different from last year.

“With Kyle, he’s pretty easy. You give him a direction, he goes in it,” Holman said. “He doesn’t have a lot of panic in him, so you know if he lost his changeup on a given day, he’ll re-

sort to his fastball and slider and we’ll get back to working on his changeup.

He’s pretty good about self-evaluation, recognizing what he needs to do based off what happened the previous outing and where he’s at in his career.”

And when McGowin is hot, look for the slider Holman never gets tired of seeing.

“He’s got one of the better sliders in the game — he can really spin it, and that gives him an option in any count. He never has to give into a hitter,” Holman said. “He’s got the proverbial put-away pitch, which is uncharacteristic of pitchers, even in the major league. He’s got a pitch that he can throw and get a swing and a miss with, and that’s a big deal.”

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Wölffer 5K Bud Run A real fitness foodie event with Grindstone nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily

If you weren’t aware that Wölffer Estate Vineyard hosted a 5K on Sunday, May 19, don’t feel left out, not many did. I stumbled across the info while sipping hot chocolate at Grindstone.

Owner Kyle Shanahan mentioned his involvement with the second annual 5K Bud Run. “We’re creating a special donut for Wölffer using their rosé and they’re going to be at the finish line of the race,” he said. My ears perked up and my stomach immediately growled.

I signed up.

My work wife, Amy, and I arrived to the Wine Stand at 9 AM, a new record for being there early and shockingly without the intent to drink.

Roughly 120 or so people arrived to run for the designated cause, Every Mother Counts, an organization started by Christy Turlington Burns to ensure safe and effective childbirth for mothers throughout the world. Mothers, fathers, and even children, all ran with someone in mind.

Wölffer has 170 acres of land — 60 of them vineyards — so it was a picturesque run through freshly budding vines and paddocks with the occasional horse trotting through. I weaved throughout the estate with a clear mind, almost forgetting where I was.

Each stride of the way I envisioned a

dangling donut on a string in front of me. “Do it for the donut,” I kept repeating to myself. I only have two motivations to run: Someone chasing me or food waiting on a table in front of me.

Forty-five minutes later I crossed the finish line, not caring what “place” I was in. Sometimes just making it to the end, accomplishing a personal goal, is more important than comparing myself with those who finished before me. The Lynn Blue Band was playing on the deck, and I made a beeline for the Dry Rosé Cider followed

by Grindstone’s Summer in a Donut.

Sure, most people conclude a workout with water and a healthy meal, but where’s the fun in that? As each speck of powdered sugar fell on my black leggings and the cider fizzled down my

throat, I smiled wider.

It felt like a quintessential run in the Hamptons: Good people and fami-

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By Bob Bubka

Na Accepts Challenge PGA Tour winner overcomes mental block bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com

As I write this, it is Memorial Day and I feel blessed to have the freedom to take pen to hand to write about golf. This freedom came at a high price. So many have made the ultimate sacrifice. I am amazed to discover that only seven percent of the population of this country has ever served in the Armed Forces. To all that did serve, we salute you.

Now, let this serve as a warning to anyone who has students in school . . . keep this story away from them. The path that last week’s PGA Tour winner chose to follow is not one that I would recommend.

Kevin Na came to the United States from South Korea with his parents when

he was just eight years old. His family settled in southern California and Kevin fell in love with golf and worked very hard to hone his skills. He was so good, in fact, that he left high school after his junior year and played in Asia and Europe preparing his game for the PGA Tour. In only nine tournaments in 2002 on the Asian Tour, Na had five top 10 finishes, including a win at the season-ending Volvo Masters. Then, in 2003, in his third attempt at Q-School, he graduated and was able to call himself a PGA Tour player. It wasn’t easy, but now, at age 35, he boasts three PGA Tour wins, is 31st in the world rankings, and has won over $31 million.

Many players gained access to the PGA Tour via of Q-school and in Na’s 2003 graduating class was Todd Hamilton. In 2004, I played somewhat of a smelly role in Hamilton’s Open Championship victory at Troon in Scotland.

While husband Todd was engaged in a playoff with Ernie Els I was in the scoring trailer waiting with Todd’s wife and baby.

In desperation, I was asked if I could somehow find a diaper for the baby. I ran to the clubhouse and asked around, having no success, but then I was told what I was seeking was called a “nappy.”

I secured the “nappy,” rushed back to the scoring trailer, and made mommy and the baby very happy. Todd defeated Ernie Els in the playoff, so the whole Hamilton family had a happy ending.

Back to Na. Several years ago, Kevin suffered from a mental block which made it almost impossible to swing with a driver. Fellow pros always lamented when paired with Na. It was painful to watch as he stood on the tee with no confidence whatsoever that he could make a swing. At one point his lack of ability to take the club back had Na on the threshold of quitting the game but somehow, he battled past his mental block. Just asked anyone who has played this crazy game; you will realize that is no easy feat.

One of the perks of winning the Charles Schwab Challenge, besides the

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The path that last week’s PGA Tour winner chose to follow is not one that I would recommend. big fat check, was winning a trickedout 1973 Dodge Challenger representing the year the Charles Schwab company was formed. Na, being the good guy that he is known to be, gave the car to his longtime caddie, Kenny Harmes.

Harmes has been on the bag for Na since 2008 and has been through thick and thin with Kevin. Just seconds after the winning putt found the bottom of the cup, good guy Na told his caddie the car was his.

It seems that players with the first name of Kevin are on a roll at this Fort Worth Tour stop. Last year it was Kevin Kisner that claimed the title. This year, Kevin Na.

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ask this community to vote for him for judge when, at the very outset of his campaign, he proceeds without regard to his legal and ethical responsibilities as a judicial candidate. It is no excuse that Kelley, Frankl, and Mazur are running his campaign. In both his campaign and as a judge, were he to be elected, he is required to be independent of them, the party that nominated him, and of partisan politics altogether.

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In January 2017, Eric Schantz, a senior planner for the town, in a memo on the application, wrote that, aside from the variances requested, the property was over cleared by 20,890 square feet. This is a major problem, Schantz said, because the property is in a water recharge district, and such over-clearing can have an impact on the town’s drinking water.

That hearing was held in March, 2017. At that time, Schantz told the board, “There is a lot of revegetation that needs to be done to get into compliance.� The hearing was adjourned to allow, in part, Safe Harbor to submit a new survey.

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The May 21 session was a stormy one, with two attorneys, Alex Kriegsman for the Dunes, and Frank Isler, representing the neighbors, frequently interrupting each other.

Kriegsman presented the ZBA that night with a new survey. “You were supposed to turn this in months ago,� Roy Dalene, the vice-chair of the board, said. The chairman, John Whelan, had recused himself from the matter, so Dalene was in charge of the meeting. Dalene asked why the over-clearing had not been remedied.

Kriegsman responded that he believed that the town had signed off on the clearing, as it is, back in 2014. He was critical of the board, saying that it was bound by federal law to make “reasonable accommodations� for the Dunes. “If you want to ignore federal law, that is a decision for the town to make,� Kriegsman said. “We have an epidemic in this country of opioid addiction. It is particularly acute in this town. We have one facility that is actually doing something about it.� “The town believes this lot is cleared to almost half an acre,� Dalene countered, “which violates the clearing limits.�

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Givern asked, “Will you allow members of the planning department to examine your property to determine if it is over-cleared, or not?�

“Sure,� Kriegsman said.

Isler, the lawyer for the neighbors, told the board that Schantz had informed Safe Harbor in 2018 that it needed to either submit a revegetation plan or request a variance for overclearing the property. “This property has been operating for over nine years without a special permit, without a site plan, and without zoning variances, and it’s over-cleared,� Isler said.

Prejudice? “I keep thinking the whole time, we are nitpicking,� Carolyn Liot, the clinical director of the Dunes, told the board. “Some people have objections for people getting help for addiction.� She said that many people in East Hampton have in-house chefs and staff. “This is a very small facility, treating a small number of people at a time,� Liot said, “people who have a lot of influence in the world if they get well.�

Traitel, in his testimony, said he was offended that Kriegsman would compare his opposition to the Dunes to prejudice. He said he would be opposed to granting the variances needed for the Dunes to continue if it was another type of business that requires a special permit. The traffic and the trucks pulling into the Dunes are a hardship on the neighbors, he said. He said that the Dunes opened up shop knowing about the need for variances, then said, “We are here. You have to accommodate us.�

A second neighbor, Howard Buford, said, “There are trucks going in and out. Food service, laundry.�

He told the board that neighbors, including himself, who have complained to or about the Dunes have been harassed.

“There are cars parked on the nature trail. There is litter. There are cigarette butts,� he added.

He concluded by telling the board, “There is nothing. No compliance. Nothing is going on. We really need your help.�

Addiction is a disability, Kriegsman said, “and the town is required to make a reasonable accommodation� when it comes to zoning. “You have to do it. Under federal law, you have to make a reasonable accommodation,� he repeated.

Dalene said that the ZBA had not questioned at all the type of facility, but, rather, was concerned about the requested variances, and seeing the property “come into compliance with town law.�

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