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TO MY DEMOCRAT FRIENDS First of all, I want to apologize for being crabby. It’s the end of summer and it went too fast. It seems like only yesterday it was June. It’s Labor Day weekend and I want my summer back. I know you do, too.

Now let’s talk politics.

I like to think that all my Democrat friends are smart. Yes, we may disagree about politics, but that’s the way the world goes and I can respect your opinions as I’m sure you respect mine.

I think you know that as a Republican I’m too smart to vote for a Rick Santorum. If he had won the nomination I would stay home on Election Day. And I believe that you are all too smart to fall for Obama’s line of bull again.

You are too smart, aren’t you?

Or has the pro-Obama media played with your heads?

Before you write and tell me what great “truths” you read every day about Mitt Romney on the front page of The New York Times, please note that last week Arthur Brisbane, in his last column as the Public Editor of The Times, accused his own newspaper of having a liberal bias.

Surprise, surprise!

In his column Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers “share a kind of political and cultural progressivism” that “virtually

bleeds through the fabric of The Times.” Brisbane argued that Times reporters approached some liberal issues “more like causes than news subjects.”

I know that – surprise of surprises – you might not have seen this reported in The Times, and as for Mr. Brisbane’s future, I have every reason to believe he’s been executed.

If you watch pro-Obama television these days you have every reason to think that Romney’s election, instead of getting the country back on track with more jobs and greater financial stability for all, will instead usher in the “Dark Ages,” with a war on older citizens and, yes, a war on women.

And, in the words of that sage Joe Biden, a return to slavery.

Religion? NBC the other night, on prime time television, felt that every American had to see a onehour special on Mormonism.

Oh, is that because Mitt Romney is a Mormon?

That’s a ridiculous. And wouldn’t it be nice if next week, to highlight Barack Obama’s religious background, NBC plans to give us a one-hour show on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ. In case you don’t remember, that’s the church Barack Obama belonged to for 20 years but swore he wasn’t listening when Reverend Wright was preaching.

So now comes the question: Are smart Democrats like you going to risk the future of this country on Barack Obama when he has failed so miserably in the last four years?

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Go back to 2008: Are you better off financially today than you were in 2008?

Are you earning less money? Do you have less buying power? Are you scrimping and cutting back like the rest of us?

Isn’t it time you cut your losses?

Or are you waiting for an Obama depression that will ruin our country for generations to come?

Aren’t you suspicious that Obama will talk about everything these days but jobs and the state of the economy?

Obama is now running the most divisive political campaign in the history of this country. He is pitting blacks against whites.

Old against young.

Poor against wealthy.

Middle class against everyone.

His campaign has even accused Mitt Romney of killing a woman who died of cancer four years after Romney left Bain.

Democrats, you are too smart to fall for this again, aren’t you? If you can’t stand Romney or Ryan, at least you can do yourself and the country a favor and stay home on Election Day. Below you will find excerpts of a column that ran in the Independent in October 2008, a month before Barack Obama was elected President. You can find the whole column on the Internet and you will see everything that I predicted has happened or is about to happen.

Now if a knucklehead like me could be so right about Obama four years ago when you and every other Democrat and a lot of Republicans fell in love with him, how can you take a chance that he won’t continue to be a disaster in the next four years?

October 2008 Jerry’s Ink: The New York Times has won.

Keith Olbermann has won.

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Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

We will, in time, find out that we have elected another Jimmy Carter.

But who will be the first admit it?

Certainly not the media which, in the next six months, will continue to be the world’s largest Barack Obama PR machine.

Iraq will be lost.

But President Obama will make a great speech about how, now that the surge has worked, he is going to, as promised, put an end to the war.

Israel will be quietly abandoned.

But President Obama will make a great speech on the need to satisfy the wishes of all sides in the Middle East in order to achieve a lasting peace.

Iran will develop nuclear weapons and laugh at our weak objections.

But Barack Obama will make a great speech at the United Nations condemning Iran. Nothing will happen.

The Barack Obama honeymoon with the media will last for years.

There will be a million fawning “exclusive interviews with President Obama” on the front page of every newspaper in the nation.

Obama’s inauguration speech will be called the greatest inauguration speech ever made by the press.

Those who voted for McCain will see early on that President Obama is an eloquent empty suit.

Those who voted for him will always see him coated with Teflon.

So what can you and I do in the next eight years?

We must move as fast as we can to keep our hard-earned income from being “redistributed.” No matter how eloquently he says it, this is what President Obama is telling us: “FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITIES, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS” My advice to everyone I know, Republicans and Democrats alike, is to sell. Sell now while you still have a chance. Sell your beach home, sell your business, sell everything you have to sell before Obama is inaugurated, because if you wait for the next eight years you will have a new partner in everything that you own – Uncle Sam. Barack Obama has lied about so many things during this campaign, but he has been incredibly honest about his plans for all of us. He plans to share our wealth.

I don’t mean to bum you out, but the election is over and the wrong man is going to be our President.

God help us.

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Happy Birthday To Us

By James J. Mackin & Kitty Merrill

Labor Day 1993. Vol. 1 #1: A salesman, a photographer, a culture writer and an athlete make a newspaper. Lee Minetree, James J. Mackin, Bridget LeRoy and Jodi Della Femina partnered up to launch The Independent, the second newspaper in East Hampton’s history, giving competition to the century old East Hampton Star. Today’s edition marks the beginning of our twentieth year.

Back in ’93, the mission was to produce a worthy weekly newspaper a day earlier than the East Hampton Star and The Southampton Press in the tabloid size format as was Newsday, The Daily News and The Post. James J. Mackin, having been

raised in a three-newspaper town, suggested there was always room for another quality newspaper, especially since the East End had such an abundance of writing and photography talent that just couldn’t find enough outlets.

The concept for a new newspaper was conceived at the Evan Frankel estate, which was being rented for the summer by Warner LeRoy, whose daughter Bridget yearned to write about the East End’s cultural world.

The one remaining item was what to title the newspaper. The name “The Independent” was suggested

by Bridget who called from London saying, “I have the name” after seeing a copy of London’s Independent. The

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We launched on Labor Day to show the local community we were dedicated to publishing a wellrounded, fair newspaper for the year round population. We predicted a

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Mackin remembers, “The late Nick Monte from Gurney’s visited our office in The Red Horse complex the second week we printed and told us he’d buy an ad in every issue we printed . . . beginning our 20th year, Nick’s word was his honor.

Gurney’s has literally been in every issue since.” Hildreths, Buzz Chew, Bridgehampton National Bank, CE King, Village Hardware, The Palm, Vered Gallery, Uihlein’s Marina East End Hospice, Guild Hall and Gosman’s are just several examples of advertisers who started with us and continue to share our mission.

Over the years The Independent has been benefactor to Softball Teams, The Little League, The Retreat, The Clamshell Foundation, Food Pantries, South Fork Natural History Museum, Southampton Historical Museum, Make A Wish, Coast Guard Auxiliary, RSVP Pet Rescue, Hoops for Hope, Ellen’s Run and many many more. Most recently we sponsored Girls Night Out at Gurney’s to benefit breast cancer research.

In collaboration with BNB, our annual “Boo!” Halloween supplement provides local school children with a venue to demonstrate their scary story writing skills.

As we leave our teenage years, founding partner James J. Mackin is most proud of providing the communities of the East End with nearly 15 million copies of The Independent for their reading enjoyment. Web readers enjoy the entire newspaper at www. indyeastend.com. We were the first local paper to publish online, and continue to do so for free, no lockouts with The Independent. We were the first to offer all content in color.

Veteran local journalist Debbie Tuma served as managing editor for our first edition, but we soon saw her forte was reporting from the field.

Tom Clavin, a colleague from the Continued on Page 33.

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Court Strikes Down MTA Tax

By Kitty Merrill

Local lawmakers this week applauded an appellate decision depicting the much-despised MTA payroll tax as unconstitutional.

Designed to bail out the floundering M e t r o p o l i t a n Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Authority and adopted in 2009, the measure levied a tax of 34 cents for every dollar of payroll for all companies in the MTA district. Nonprofits and municipalities were not exempt, meaning Suffolk County was on the hook to the tune of about $3.5 million annually. Schools, too, took the hit.

The tax went into effect even as the MTA cut services on the East End. That got up North Fork Legislator Ed Romaine’s sleeve. He was among the officials who pushed the county to sue to overturn the tax.

Last Wednesday Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cozzens, Jr. looked favorably on the petitioner’s argument – that the law was passed in violation of certain provisions in the state Constitution. Specifically, litigants, including Suffolk, Nassau and Westchester Counties plus varied other municipalities like Southampton claimed the law enacting the tax failed to garner the required two-thirds vote of the state legislature.

When the news broke Wednesday, the first question on the lips of many taxpayers, like Adrienne Esposito, director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, a non profit that had to lay an employee off to come up with the money to address the unanticipated expense, was “Will we be getting our money back?”

Nope.

The state is going to keep taking the tax for the MTA pending appeal, since the decision doesn’t order the state to stop collecting. The decision contradicts prior rulings upholding the levy, and MTA officials say they plan to “vigorously appeal” Cozzens’ decision.

According to a statement posted on the authority’s website in response to the ruling, “The MTA is getting its fiscal house in order. We have cut more than $700 million from our annual operating budget and eliminated 3500 jobs.” The tax accounted for $1.2 billion in revenue for the MTA. In the meantime, Romaine said Thursday, “This unfair and onerous tax should have never been implemented. I applaud the state supreme court for confirming what we’ve have said for years: this tax is illegal.”

“Businesses, governments, and not-for-profits who paid the tax

should receive refunds immediately,” continued Romaine. “If not, I would move for Suffolk County to file suit to recover these ill-gotten funds.”

Assemblyman Fred Thiele was also among the local lawmakers opposed to the tax. “This ruling provides us with more evidence for the case we’ve been making all along - the MTA payroll tax is an unfair, job killing tax. Here on the East End, we are paying for a service we barely get.”

In 2011 the State Legislature permanently eliminated the tax

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for small businesses with annual payrolls of $1.25 million or less per year. The same year the Legislature also eliminated MTA payroll taxes for those who are self-employed and earn less than $50,000 per year. In addition, it exempted schools, both public and private, from having to pay the tax, the assemblyman reminded.

“The next step is to permanently repeal MTA payroll. We can no longer place this burden on our counties, towns, villages and businesses. Eliminating the MTA payroll tax will put Long Island back on the path to economic prosperity.

It’s time for the Legislature to act,”

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Thiele concluded.

Southampton Town S upervisor Anna Throne-Holst recalled grappling with whether to join the suit was one of the first issues she faced when she became supervisor two and a half years ago. “ T h e M TA t a x h a s a l w a y s been a grossly unfair burden on Southampton Town residents with no justifiable level of service in return. The Town has always taken the position that the tax itself was unfair to residents and businesses.

Now the court concurs that the process through which it was imposed was unfair,” she said. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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Bishop Donor, Sillerman In Business Together? congressman to expedite approval for a fireworks display he wanted to put on at his house. On May 23 Bishop’s daughter Molly Bishop, his chief fundraiser, e-mailed Semler and wrote: “Our Finance Chair, Bob Sillerman suggested to my dad that you were interested in contributing to his campaign and that I should be in touch directly with you. We are going to be in a tough, expensive campaign and so we are very grateful for your willingness to be of help.”

According to SEC records dated July 30, Eric Semler’s firm, TCS

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Eric Semler, who asked Congressman Tim Bishop to help expedite the approval process for a fireworks display he planned, subsequently wrote Bishop’s campaign a large check.

Semler’s business relationship with Robert F. X. Sillerman may provide a valuable link should federal investigators look into the matter.

Politico.com first reported that on May 21 Semler placed a call to Bishop’s office asking the

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Viggle Inc. filed a prospectus on that date listing Sillerman as executive chairman. TCS, according to the document, held or holds one million warrants to purchase shares of Viggle, and Semler has “voting power and investment power” over the securities held by TCS Global.

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Urge Bishop Probe As The Independent went to press this week it was learned that Bob Creighton, a former Suffolk County Police Commissioner, has formally requested the Office of Congressional Ethics to probe Congressman Tim Bishop.

Creighton, a Smithtown councilman and a former investigator for the Suffolk County District Attorney wrote, “It seems clear that Representative Bishop and/or his staff clearly violated House Ethics rules and may very well have violated criminal bribery and illegal gratuities statutes. I trust that you will take this matter seriously, review all the facts in a timely manner, and open a full investigation into Representative Bishop as a result.”

Bishop stands accused of soliciting a large donation from a constituent who had asked the congressman to expedite the approval process for a fireworks display he was planning.

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Sillerman was the chief executive of CKX, an entertainment company that controls “American Idol” and Elvis Presley’s “Graceland” estate.

But his Viggle Inc. venture hasn’t been successful thus far. In fact bloggers on financial websites have complained that insiders “dumped” Continued on Page 26.

USFWS: Bishop Didn’t Speak To Regional Director

Kyla Hastey, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Congressman Tim Bishop did not meet Wendi Weber, the Northeast Regional Director, concerning the status of a fireworks permit at the home of a constituent. “My understanding is someone from his office inquired [about it] with David Stillwell. Steve and his office dealt with it,” she said. Stillwell is the Project Leader for Ecological Services in the USFWS New York State office.

An employee for Fireworks by Grucci said in an e-mail on May 24 that “Bishop is speaking with the dec regional director this morning.

Be prepared to move forward.”

Hastey stressed neither Bishop nor anyone from his office had any communication with Weber.

Bishop is in hot water after an article in Politico suggested he violated House Ethics guidelines because his daughter, Molly Bishop, suggested Eric Semler make a campaign donation on May 23, two days after Semler contacted Bishop’s office and asked for help expediting the approval for a fireworks display on May 26. It is illegal to tie an official action of a congressman to a campaign contribution.

Steve Papa, biologist with the USFWS wrote on May 23 that “there is no possibility” the fireworks would proceed. The UFFWS reversed its position the following day after Bishop’s camp contacted Stillwell.

The USFWS and other agencies were concerned about an active Piping Plover nest near the site of the fireworks, 3 Fairfield Pond Lane in Sagaponack. Papa said Grucci took steps to mitigate the harm to the nest by altering the projection of the fireworks and the duration of the display.

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Shinnecock Bay Gets Big Boost

By Emily Toy

Stony Brook University announced it was the recipient of $3 million in private donations for the Shinnecock Bay Restoration Program, a five-year program to restore the health, water quality and shellfish populations of Shinnecock Bay in the Town of Southampton.

On Monday morning a press conference was held at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Shinnecock Hills. A trawling exercise in Shinnecock Bay followed the conference, where project leaders discussed the contents retrieved from the trawling nets.

The once rich shellfish beds of Shinnecock Bay may thrive again thanks to the project funded in part

by philanthropic gifts from the Laurie Landeau Foundation and the Simons Foundation, resulting in the $3 million windfall.

Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, over the course of five years, will restock shellfish, expand existing eelgrass beds, harvest seaweeds to absorb nutrients and inhibit harmful algal blooms, monitor restoration efforts and share the project’s goals and results with stakeholders and the public, according to a press release from the university.

The Shinnecock Bay is the most eastern lagoon along New York’s South Shore Estuary system and includes about 9000 acres of open

water.

During more than decade of research in the bay, SOMAS scientists have documented the decline in the bay’s water quality, shellfish populations and seagrass habitats.

Since the program’s inception, Stony Brook University scientists identified the reasons for those declines as well as approaches to reverse these trends, ultimately improving the ecological condition.

“This generous gift from the Landeau Foundation and the matching funds from the Simons Foundation will help restore Shinnecock Bay to the healthy and productive state it once enjoyed and, ultimately, serve as a template for similar projects

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worldwide,” said Samuel L. Stanley Jr., President of Stony Brook University.

Laurie Landeau, an aquatic animal veterinarian of Northport, and her husband, Bob Maze, who holds a PhD in ecological parasitology agreed.

“Bob and I learned firsthand that like the Chesapeake Bay, Shinnecock Bay has seen its once rich ecosystem devastated,” Landeau said. “We’re confident that this project will restore the delicate environmental balance needed to sustain a rich diversity of life in Shinnecock Bay.” Stony Brook marine scientist Christopher Gobler, along with his team of marine science faculty, post docs, graduate students and undergraduates will head the efforts to restore the bay.

Congressman Tim Bishop, Senator Ken LaValle and Assemblyman Fred Thiele were all on hand on Monday to express their appreciation for the program’s efforts.

“We are grateful for the research that these Stony Brook University scientists have conducted to identify the causes of decline in the Shinnecock Bay,” Bishop said.

LaValle agreed adding, “The health of this waterway is connected to the health of our community. We need a thriving waterway to support a thriving economy, tourism and recreational activity.”

Thiele observed this program is not only a boost for Shinnecock Bay, but also a boost for the Stony Brook Southampton Campus.

“This tremendous gift will enable the Stony Brook Southampton Campus to play a significant role in addressing local issues,” Thiele said. “I look forward to seeing the University expand its role in the community.”

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Pilot, Passenger Survive Crash

By Rick Murphy

Players and staff members at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis facility were stunned to hear a loud boom followed by the sight of billowing smoke Sunday afternoon.

As it turns out, just moments earlier at the nearby East Hampton Airport Stephen Bochter, a pilot and a passenger, Kim Brillo, were taking off in his Mooney, headed home to Massachusetts around 5:30.

According to one eyewitness at the scene, the pilot realized something wasn’t right with his craft. “He declared emergency right after takeoff. The tower cleared him to land anywhere he could.”

Boucher, headed east, tried to turn the craft back to a runway. “He just didn’t have the speed. The most dangerous time for a pilot is takeoff.

He tried to turn around but didn’t have the altitude.”

The plane went down just east of Daniel’s Hole Road. Several people, including Dean Foster, a pilot, and employees of Sound Aircraft raced toward the wreck.

“They had to go under the deer fence,” the eyewitness said. When they got there the pilot was already out of the plane, the onlooker said, but “the passenger was limp, she

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The eyewitness, who asked not to be identified, said there was a moment of tension when one of the protestors at the airport complaining about the excess noise began filming the wreck even as the passengers were being rescued.

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A third of the students attending Suffolk Community College rely on

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April. Congressman Tim Bishop hailed the board’s vote as additional local support for his campaign to protect low-income students from devastating aid cuts.

The Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Resolution passed by Republicans in the House, known as the “Paul Ryan Budget” for Chairman of the Budget Committee Paul Ryan (R-WI), reduces the maximum award for Pell Grants and changes eligibility requirements for the program, resulting in a cut of at least $104 billion to Pell Grants over the next decade, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Bishop reported.

“Higher education is a gateway to opportunity, but that path would be closed to many students in Eastern Suffolk under the partisan Paul Ryan Budget passed by the House GOP,” said Bishop. “Supporting students should be a bipartisan issue, and I join SCCC’s Board in condemning these proposed cuts to America’s economic competitiveness and a 21st Century workforce.”

Under the proposal, the current maximum of $5550 will remain next year instead of increasing to $5635.

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Sanger On Obama And Iran, and Nuclear War

By Sergei Klebnikov

David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, told onlookers Sunday that Iran’s ambitious nuclear arms program is nearing completion. He spoke at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton.

In his 30-year career at the paper he has reported from all over the world, and specializes in foreign policy, national security, the politics of globalization, and more recently cyber warfare. Sanger is the author of two New York Times best sellers including Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. Sanger has shared two Pulitzer Prizes with reporting teams from the Times.

In Confront and Conceal, Sanger reveals information about America’s role in using computer warfare against Iran’s nuclear program.

Although in his talk Sanger warned of rough times ahead, the author peppered his speech with witticisms, often drawing chuckles from the crowd.

Sanger opined that President Obama has proven to be surprisingly strong on national security issues.

He said a secret meeting between the President-elect and President Bush occurred on January 9, 2008.

Sanger said Bush told Obama of two important programs to national security that he should keep. The first, one that hasn’t been kept very covert, is the drones program.

The second is a program that was unknown until recently, dubbed “Olympic Games,” a four-year long effort against the Iranian nuclear program, involved the use of a

computer worm to infiltrate Iranian computers and subsequently destroy their equipment.

Sanger spoke of an emerging “Obama doctrine,” with two features. When there is a threat to the U.S, Obama is more than willing to use force in response, but he will only act if other nations get involved in support.

Sanger described Obama’s “light footprint strategy,” that he has pursued in foreign affairs.

This strategy can be good for taking out the leaders of terrorist organizations, Sanger said, such as Osama Bin Laden, but it address corruption or economic growth. He used the example of Afghanistan, where he said the original plan was a one year effort to occupy the country, which would cost $1 trillion. Obama now has “greatly diminished goals,” Sanger said.

Computer combat, Sanger said, is a “natural progression” of the computer age. Sanger described our continued cyber attacks on the Iranian nuclear program, and how the Iranians still haven’t really caught on.

Sanger believes that there would be “some major conflict in the next year and half to two years, three if we are lucky.” The reason we are going after Iran, Sanger says, is because the cyber program “isn’t successful enough.” Cold War tactics are ineffective, he said, because what happens to the weapons if the current regime collapses? With each country that gets the bomb, Sanger said, “We are less and less sure of nuclear stability in the world.”

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Upon further investigation, police men, including one who tried to flee the scene after Southampton discovered that the two swimmers Town Police tried to arrest him, were at a barbecue, which had were located and saved in a massive been taking place on a sandbar in H a m p t o n B a y s w a t e r r e s c u e Shinnecock Bay. Police determined about 40 people were now stranded involving an additional 37 people.

Police said they originally on the sandbar. According to police, responded to calls of two men as resources began to mobilize for “in distress” swimming in the the rescue effort to secure all subjects Shinnecock Inlet. They were later and get them to safety, a third male, determined to belong to a group of a 20 year old from Hampton Bays, 40 people stranded on a sandbar in was found swimming in the channel.

Shinnecock Bay after a barbecue had The Coast Guard rescued the subject taken place there earlier in the day. and transported him to Oakland’s S o u t h a m p t o n To w n Po l i c e Marine Basin.

According to police, the 23-yearDepartment’s Community Response Unit, Patrol Division and Detective old Hampton Bays resident appeared Division arrived at the scene first to be under the influence of alcohol, and discovered that one of the male and was arrested and charged with subjects, a 23-year-old Hampton violating town code, which bans Bays resident, was being pulled from swimming in a channel or inlet.

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He was later found by officers at the Ponquogue Bridge and was transported to Southampton Town Police Headquarters, where he was processed and held for arraignment.

Police say additional charges will be filed against the other two young men for violating the town code for swimming in a prohibited area, as both subjects also entered the water at their own risk and before the rescue effort had been undertaken.

In the effort to rescue all subjects, the Suffolk County Police Aviation, Southampton Town Bay Constables, Quogue Village Police Marine Unit, Suffolk County Parks Police, Hampton Bays, Southampton and North Sea Fire Departments and the Hampton B a y s Vo l u n t e e r A m b u l a n c e transported all 37 people from the sandbar to Oakland’s Marine Basin. Police said all parties were checked out by the Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance Corps, with only one person being transported to Hampton Bays Hospital for precautionary reasons.

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By Emily Toy

Southampton Town is stepping up its game.

As the summer months begin to wind down, Southampton attorneys have already prosecuted seven cases of illegal rentals, resulting in severe outcomes this season, according to town officials.

Over the past three months, 13 properties have been involved in the cases, with nearly $30,000 in fines imposed. Defendants have also been charged with violating the town’s rental law, which requires landlords to obtain a permit before taking in tenants, according to a press release from the town given out August 20.

This past month, two Hampton Bays property owners without rental permits pleaded guilty to various code violations and paid $3000 each in fines. Last month, a landlord charged with five counts of not having a rental permit paid fines totaling $8000 for four properties on Canoe Place Road, and one on Foster Avenue.

Failure to obtain a permit, after a safety inspection as well, is a misdemeanor and carries a penalty of up to $8000 for first time offenders and up to $15,000 for subsequent convictions, and could ultimately result in imprisonment.

June saw the most activity,

with homes in Tuckahoe, North Sea, and Noyac homes bringing in $12,500 in fines. The majority of the fines, about $9000, came from one landlord who divided a single family dwelling into three apartments.

“The ultimate goal is to bring rental properties into compliance for the sake of the tenants’ safety and the integrity of the neighborhood,” said Councilman Chris Nuzzi. “But in the meantime the law gives us the ability to hit greedy landlords directly in their pocketbooks.”

Southampton has been upping the ante on code violators, thanks to the Housing and Quality of Life Task Force, which was formed in 2006.

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The group, which meets at least once a month, makes recommendations regarding enforcement actions, town code amendments, and procedural changes related to housing and quality of life issues.

It includes representatives from Southampton Town Police, Code Enforcement, Fire Marshal, Justice Court, Town Council, Environment, Town Attorney, and Building and Zoning.

“Our prosecutors have been stepping up their efforts and moving more expeditiously towards obtaining convictions and fines,” Nuzzi said.

Councilwoman and co-liaison to Code Enforcement Christine Preston Scalera said this summer’s cases highlight the importance of the Housing Quality of Life Task Force. Scalera revived the group with Nuzzi via resolution in February.

“The task force helps ensure that effective code enforcement doesn’t end with a summons,” said Scalera.

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As the hectic Hamptons season comes to a close, lots of folks drag themselves through the final days, many resembling the exhausted baker of “Time to make the donuts” fame. Here on the East End, the season ends aptly – with Labor Day, a celebration designed to honor workers.

The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 in New York City. A creation of the labor movement, it’s said to have been the brainchild of machinist Matthew Maguire, who later served as the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey.

Maguire proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York.

Although his brother Peter has also been credited with the idea, historians know for sure that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

Tw o y e a r s a f t e r t h e f i r s t celebration, the first Monday in September was selected as the official day, providing workers with a three-day weekend. By 1885, Labor

Day was celebrated in many cities around the country.

Municipalities passed ordinances to craft the holiday and the state legislature was the first to propose creating the holiday in New York.

Oregon actually beat New Yorkers to the barbecue, adopting Labor Day as a holiday by law first. By 1894, Congress made Labor Day a national holiday.

Although there are few Labor Day parades held hereabouts, the first proposal called for one. It also spoke of “a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families.” That’s closer akin to the private family celebration Labor Day now entails for most people . . . unless they have to work.

In photos published on this page, find portraits of people who will probably still be working and serving next Monday, holiday or not.

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They greet us and serve us and park our cars. They make our breakfast, our sandwiches, our reservations, coffee, and mudslides.

They are the true backbone of the community and we sure hope I, I mean, they get the day off on “Tumbleweed Tuesday.” kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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“Every day there’s progress,” Councilwoman Theresa Quigley reported Monday. Her daughter Doris, 17, was severely injured last week in an accident on the beach at Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett. A town lifeguard, Doris Quigley dove into the ocean surf on Wednesday afternoon and broke the sixth cervical vertebra in her neck. She was airlifted to University Hospital at Stony Brook and underwent surgery that same night.

Since then the councilwoman has been by her youngest child’s bedside at University Hospital at Stony Brook, as has a wide range of supporters and friends, both in

person and in spirit.

In an email on Thursday, Quigley wrote, “It is a really traumatic time. We are glad for so much love, support, and prayers. We are glad for what went right: the man who stepped up with the boogie board to hold her still. The lifeguards, her agemates and friends all there doing such a brave and professional job of rescuing her and getting her safely to the ambulance.

“The ambulance crew, whom Doris mentioned as “lovely,” the helicopter crew and staff at Stony Brook whom she also was so very grateful for. The surgeons who worked as though it was in their hands while Monsignor Hanson

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“I would like to have you reach out to the community and thank them for Doris, for all of us Quigleys.”

On Monday morning, Quigley reported “wonderful news.” Doris has been able to move her right leg, and on that morning also moved her left leg. Discussing the abundance of support and love offered to the family, the councilwoman sent, via email, “When You Are Old, a poem by William Butler Yeats. “It is beautiful and directs our minds into recognizing the true worth of a person lies beyond their physical selves,” she said. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

Dems Debate Tonight Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Fleming will face off with fellow Democrat, Rocky Point’s Jennifer Maertz in a debate set for tonight at 7 PM at the Rogers Memorial Library.

Hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, the debate will include timed opening and closing statements from the two State Senate hopefuls, as well as a Q&A involving both the League and the audience. All members of the public are welcome to the debate.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10. stock on the market, making a profit at the expense of public investors. The stock sold at $6.50 a share on June 26; it fell steadily and as of Monday was selling at $0.89 cents a share. However the prospectus for the company clearly enunciated the risks involved in purchasing shares.

Sillerman is considered Bishop’s “Rabbi,” one insider said. In fact, Bishop ran into some criticism during his first run for Congress in 2002 when it was revealed that Sillerman had paid the college tuition for both the congressman’s daughters. The House Ethics Committee vetted the matter and Bishop was cleared of any wrongdoing.

The link between Semler and Sillerman would come into play, for example, if Semler referenced Sillerman when asking for Congressman’s Bishop’s help. Then, Molly Bishop’s e-mail to Semler could indicate quid pro quo existed – that Semler made a contribution in exchange for a favor. If that scenario were true, Bishop would be subject to criminal charges.

Earlier this month a nonpartisan watchdog group blasted the congressman for having his daughter on the campaign payroll.

Bishop said in an interview with this newspaper ”She must be pretty good. She’s raised over $10 million for me.”

According to published reports, however, it’s Sillerman who has been funneling a lot of the money into the Bishop coffers. In 2002 alone, when Bishop unseated Felix Grucci Jr., Republicans complained that Sillerman had “funneled” as much as $550,000 in “soft” money into the race through the national party, according to the National Journal.

Sillerman served as chancellor at Southampton College when Bishop was provost. The congressman came under fire two weeks ago when he acknowledged in this newspaper that he had 10 family members on the payroll at the college, which was part of Long Island University.

LIU closed the campus down in 2006 after absorbing a reported $55 million debt.

Sillerman’s office requested we submit questions via e-mail but he did not respond by deadline. Bishop’s camp has been in lockdown mode since the Politico story broke, and his camp has ignored requests for comment. Semler hasn’t returned phone calls or emails.

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RICK’S SPACE See You In September When I was a kid I hated September. It’s not easy giving up Sag Harbor and going back to Brooklyn, especially since September also meant going back to school.

I hated school. I hated every day of my life that I had to get up and go. I’m not one of those kids who had an insatiable appetite to learn.

I liked to write, and I liked sports.

Nothing much has changed over the years. My thirst for knowledge is quenched in the sports section of the daily newspaper.

One minute you’re on the beach with your buds at Left Sagg, the next thing you know you’re on a subway with some rheumatic wheezer wetcoughing on your school tie.

Along with my brother and sister I’d have to get up around 6:15 and jockey for bathroom time. By the time I got dressed I was always late – that meant running the five blocks

to the Avenue R bus, which of course ran on Avenue S. At Kings Highway we’d get the D train and that would take me to Park Slope followed by a harrowing walk down three blocks in the worst neighborhood around.

Then, a barrage of knowledge, taught without patience by the Christian Brothers, a group of Ninjatrained sadistic serial killers who struck fear in even the biggest lug in the classroom.

I went to St. Augustine, the Brooklyn Diocesan High School.

That meant it was a scholarship school, and to qualify we had to ace out on a series of tests called the Co-ops; only one percent got in.

Luckily for me it was half verbal and half math. The verbal part was easy because I was a vociferous reader and writer. (That’s right, I yell when I read.) My brother, seven

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years older, was as well, so I had Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and the like under my belt already. Math was easy because of my fascination with all things baseball: when I figured out my batting average, or my earned run average, or my slugging percentage, I didn’t realize I was becoming a math wiz but by the time I was in Biddy League I knew if I had 20 hits in 70 at bats I was hitting .286.

High school was a whole different ballgame though. French and Spanish. Physics and Geometry.

Not just Religion, but Philosophy as well.

I went to Catholic grammar school and ever y subject was Religion. In Math the nuns would say stuff like, “If you had 10 catechisms and you gave three to the heathen Protestant kids on your block how many would you have left?” For English class it would be something like, “`Jesus died for your sins.’ What is the subject and verb of that sentence?” Things got weird when we studied Geography – half the kids in the class thought Brooklyn was in Jerusalem.

The catechism was basically the “Thou Shalt Nots.” It was kind of discouraging, because being we were from Brooklyn most of us had committed every mortal sin long before we hit puberty. I mean, I was coveting my neighbor’s wife when I was eight. It’s kind of disconcerting when you realize you are doomed Licensed Insured

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By the time I was in in the eighth grade I was tougher than most nuns. to hell before you even make your first Holy Communion.

The nuns were rough as well – and some had a sadistic streak – but as we grew older they kind of shrunk. By the time I was in in the eighth grade I was tougher than most nuns.

In high school the hulking Christian Brothers lurked in every classroom, waiting to pounce if you slacked off. That meant no napping (in grammar school we used to call it “praying”). We had 21 minutes for lunch, and most of us spent that precious time chain smoking.

After school it was practice or a game, be it basketball or baseball or soccer. Then the reverse trip home, dinner and yes, homework.

The truth was I never really did homework at home before. In grammar school I could knock it off on the bus or in the schoolyard.

In high school though, it was unavoidable. When you cuddle up in bed with The Brothers Karamazov you know you have a miserable life.

Nowadays, like most locals, I relish September. We all know why – they are gone. Moreover, this is the it season for weather – the water is warm, the humidity is light, the days are warm, and the nights are cool. I sometimes feel, when I’m on the beach, that this is as close as we can get to heaven, except there are no green flies in heaven.

I don’t want to rag on the summer people too much but it will be nice when things get back to normal – parking spaces at the beaches, good seats at the movies and restaurants, and some civility at the markets.

I used to dream of the September when I didn’t have to go back to the city. One day, after college, that day came. I quit my job on Wall Street and never went back again.

Life is what you make of it, and I feel blessed. Is it Nirvana? Maybe.

But one thing is for sure . . . it ain’t Brooklyn.

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EDITORIAL Indy’s 20th A lot of people have grown up with The Independent and don’t realize what a monumental event transpired 20 years ago – no newspaper had ever taken on the century-old East Hampton Star, which held a monopoly not only on the purse strings of merchants but on the news itself.

This newspaper was so-named for a reason – to deliver the news without slant or bias, and deliver all of it rather than pick or choose what should be reported and what shouldn’t.

We took on the Southampton Press three years later, once again challenging an entrenched monopoly, which had lost contact with the people on the street.

Ten years ago we branched out into Riverhead and the North Fork as well.

Oh, and one other thing – this newspaper is free, and always will be. We spend a lot of money printing a lot of copies because we want every single person out there to pick it up. There are a lot of things to enjoy in every issue -- news, arts, columns, letters and so on.

We work hard, and we love what we do. We care what you think, and we strive to continualy improve. Yes, we ruffle a few feathers, but it’s usually because the powers-that-be are uncomfortable with the truth. Before the Indy came along publishers with their own agendas buried a lot of the stuff we print.

Those days are over.

What A Difference A Year Makes Last year at this time Indy staffers were gathered at our production

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To the Editor, I have to commend you for your articles on the Tim Bishop scandal. Beyond reviewing the unethical monetary aspects of the favor Congressman Bishop handed to a contributor, you uniquely brought attention to the actual favor.

Why was it necessary to facilitate a fireworks show next to a Plover nest? When it is considered how the Federal protection of Plovers affects the public usage of beaches throughout the East End, limiting access to them and creating ‘windows’

that restrict vitally needed dredging, how egregious is it to have Congressional influence working on behalf of a potentially disruptive private fireworks display.

In the past, publically sponsored fireworks displays got cancelled or postponed if they were in proximity to these endangered birds. I can recall, as a Councilman, being summoned to a ‘summit’ by the USFW over the ‘take’ of one bird that had been found dead in a tire track. Armed agents had come down to East Hampton from Boston to discuss consequences of this event.

When placed in the context of the protective scheme that exists for the Piping Plover, why should that private fireworks show have happened? Thank you, Rick, for bringing attention to that aspect.

TOM KNOBEL

manager’s house trying to put out a paper – our office, like much of the East End, had lost power because of Hurricane Irene.

As if on schedule another storm is churning, but this one is headed into the Gulf of Mexico – and New Orleans. Those folks could use our prayers for sure.

Irene was devastating to the local economy, wiping out one of the season’s busiest weekends and ending the summer prematurely. Without bashing LIPA – too much – taking up to 10 days to restore power is simply unacceptable. Enough said.

The weather has been remarkable this year, from the unusually warm winter through the hot summer. Beach days were plentiful, and visitors flocked to the East End to enjoy them. Here’s to a gorgeous September – remember, we have almost a whole month of summer remaining.

Back To School Time The number of fatal motor vehicle accidents this summer is a grim reminder what can happen on our roadways. Hopefully, some of the aggressive drivers will go home to wherever they come from, but there are plenty more who live around here.

Starting this week there are going to be a lot of kids on the streets walking to and from school. Some are out early in the morning; some are walking home at dusk after participating in an after school program. It’s time to go the extra yard.

Slow down, stay off the cellphone, stop texting, and make sure all our kids get home safe every day.

A Better Long Island Dear Editor, I have been blessed.

I received a great education and was fortunate to have teachers who pushed me.

After working odd jobs through college, I started my first business from an apartment and ultimately built two successful American companies from the ground up that have created more than 1,000 American jobs.

And, most of all, I have a wonderful, loving wife and two beautiful, healthy children.

But none of it would have been possible without my Mom. My Mom raised my brother and me by herself. She taught us about hard work

and the importance of playing by the rules.

As I look back now, I realize how much she sacrificed to make sure me and my brother had a happy childhood, while still preparing us for what would await in the real world.

If I am fortunate enough to be elected to Congress this November, I will take those lessons with me to Washington and do my best to build a better future for Long Island’s middle-class families, seniors and small businesses.

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Randy2012.com/jobsplan.

Over the course of the next two months, Congressman Bishop will try to vilify my success in business and attack me as an “outsourcer.” The truth is that it’s Congressman Bishop’s repeated votes for higher taxes, more spending and irresponsible debt that have driven jobs off of Long Island and crippled our local economy.

As questions mount regarding Congressman Bishop’s pattern of ethics problems, his smears against me will only intensify in hopes of distracting you from his failed record.

You deserve better.

Let’s change Congress by changing our Congressman. I respectfully ask for your support and hope you will join with me to build a better Long Island for all of us. Thank you.

RANDY ALTSCHULER

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What are you reading at the beach?

Heidi Siegel The Dovekeepers. It’s by Alice Hoffman. It’s about the Jewish people, during Roman times and how they held out against the Roman army on Masada. It’s a very beautiful book.

Tricha Tippapart The Time Traveler’s Wife. A friend recommended it. She loved it so much she read it twice. I saw the movie and really enjoyed it. So I was intrigued enough to read the book.

Emma Shannon This is Where I Leave You. I just started it. It’s about a boy whose father dies and the things that happen when his entire family gets together again after long time apart.

Ellie Siegel The Thief Lord. I’m only on page eight. It’s about two brothers, who are orphaned and have run away to Venice. This is a bit different for me. Usually I like to read mysteries.

Who Is At Fault To the Editor, I have spent the entire summer explaining to my friends that The Independent is fair minded and not a one-sided partisan publication. Just to prove me wrong here comes the previous edition. Three articles and an editorial comment regarding possible ethical violations by Tim Bishop’s campaign. No articles nor editorial mention Bishop donating the funds to charity. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? So much for unbiased coverage.

By the way, if Altschuler gets elected, don’t complain when he votes to discontinue funds used to protect the environment where your beloved piping plover nest.

While we are speaking of bias, let me ask a question. Doesn’t it seem strange the one incident involved centers on Felix Grucci’s company? The company owned by the very same incumbent congressman Tim Bishop defeated in his first run for office.

I agree there should be an investigation.

But not about Tim Bishop.

MICHAEL AXELROD Editor’s Note: It’s our fault. It’s Grucci’s fault. It’s Randy’s fault. But it’s Tim Bishop who cashed the checks and refuses to answer questions.

The War Continues Dear Mr. Murphy, How can any self-respecting woman with a shred of pride allow themselves to vote a Republican ticket? They should be enraged that the Neo Conservative Party which has replaced the Grand Old Party feels that a woman is too inept or just plain stupid to be allowed to decide what should or should not be done to her very own body and that they are subservient to their male superiors.

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the same male dominating relationship enjoyed by the primitive societies we so abhor, sans burka. Welcome to the new GOP. Who says there is not a Republican war on women? Following are some of the skirmishes in that war: EQUAL PAY: Women earn only 77 cents for every dollar men make. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act was the first law President Obama signed to ensure women can fight for equal pay but Romney deems it “unnecessary” because it is a “handout to trial lawyers” allowing them to sue their employer for equal pay.

Certainly wouldn’t want to inconvenience a company or corporation with such a petty peeve like justice.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: The Violence Against Women Act signed into law by President Clinton is now being opposed by the Republicans in order to appease the Tea Party radicals who are ever more influential in today’s version of the Republican Party.

After all, they’re only women.

MILITARY RAPE: In 2010 election the House of Representatives was overpowered by the influx of radical Conservative Freshman Republicans, intent on inflicting their radical agenda on all Americans. They are blocking abortion access for raped soldiers.

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are actually reported. These are our armed forces protecting or country’s freedom while we deny them theirs.

PRO vs. NO choice: In June of 1919 Congress passed the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote for the candidates of their choice. In 2012 we have the neo Conservative Party depriving them of a choice concerning their own personal body.

The Republican Party is being transformed into the Regressican Party. Let us hope that women take advantage of that right to vote they were given nearly a century ago when the Party was more advanced.

INVASIVE VAGINAL ULTRASOUND: The initial approach of humiliating a pregnant woman by subjecting her to a physical vaginal probe raised such outrage that even the radicals of the radical party had to settle for an external ultrasound with pictures for the woman to view while listening to the fetal heartbeat. A woman forcibly raped must now once again be raped. How many times must women be violated to satisfy their men masters?

And the war continues.

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Raffle Refunds Dear Rick, I am sorry to inform those of your readers who bought a Legion Post 419 Big Bucks Raffle that the raffle is now canceled.

We will be refunding everyone’s money and if you have not already received it in person or by mail you can be assured it is on the way. Most people who bought your raffle ticket(s) from someone you know, that person will be responsible for getting it back to you. Others will have it mailed back to them after a couple tries on the phone or at the address on the ticket stub along with all out of town sales. Please bear with us. We are sorry for this inconvenience and hope you will support us in the future.

We hope you all have a happy and healthy Labor Day weekend.

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Raynor Reunion Dear Rick, The Raynor Family Association Annual Reunion, Round-Up XXI, will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2012 at the Freeport United Methodist Church, 46 Pine Street, Freeport, NY. A 9:30 A.M. gathering-time with registration, coffee, exhibits and social hour will be followed by an annual meeting

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and program. Cynthia Kreig, Freeport Historical Society President and Village Historian will be our speaker. A luncheon is included.

Raynor families come and enjoy the day in Raynortown.

For more information and costs, call Jeanne Raynor 516-623-5967 or email: raynortown@optonline.net.

JEANNE RAYNOR

Dueling Fortunes To The Editor, A Nick Delgado accused me last week of being vitriolic because I took issue with a previous letter that was laughably inaccurate and condescending. Mr. Delgado also asserted that my letter was not factual.

I stand corrected by Mr. Delgado on one issue. The Koch brothers’ wealth is estimated by Forbes at $21.5 billion each, not the $250 million I reported. My apologies. But anyone who believes that George Soros is worth only $22 billion is naive in the extreme, given the vast array of shadow organizations, front groups and investments he controls and/ or manipulates.

Whatever their respective fortunes, the major difference between the Kochs and Soros is how they use their wealth.

The Koch brothers support initiatives that promote traditional American institutions and policies, from the Boy Scouts to the Free Enterprise system to schools and think tanks that encourage and foster our Founders’ vision of limited government and individual liberty. Soros on the other hand funds myriad radical groups, many of them dedicated to bringing down the very system which saved him from the Nazis and made him an extremely wealthy man. Go figure.

At about this point in his letter Mr. Delgado ceases to cite sources. And with good reason -- most of what he says is bogus: Wall Street, particularly the big Wall St. law firms, did give more money to Obama in the last election, as any number of Wall St. Journal articles will attest. Whether they will do so to the same extent in this election is hard to say because they know by now the great harm Obama’s policies are doing to the economy.

Mr. Delgado claims that the damage done to the Wisconsin State House by weeks of rioting, vandalism and theft perpetrated by thousands of demonstrators resulted in only “normal wear and tear”. By the standards of the Occupy movement and other left-wing hate groups, maybe what occurred could be considered normal, but I’ll stick to the original estimates. And Mr. Continued on page 55.

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East Hampton Star was recruited to take the reins. He served as editor-inchief until Rick Murphy assumed the mantle in 2003.

Murphy worked 15 years at the Star, often alongside Mackin, Minetree and Clavin. Described as a natural storyteller, relentless investigator and a cheap date, he regaled the office this week with stories of his defection to The Independent. Whenever he wanted a raise, he said, “I’d get dressed up in a suit and come in a couple of hours late.” Colleagues at the Star were led to believe he was job hunting, and taking an interview with The Independent. The ploy worked with Star editor Helen Rattray. “Then next day Helen would give me a raise.”

Murphy left the news biz in 2002 and worked for a short time as a recruiter of high-end stockbrokers.

He recalled meeting with Mackin and Della Femina about becoming editor, “I walked away from a ton of money, but it only took me about 10 seconds to decide to get back in the action.”

In 1994 news editor Kitty Merrill joined the Indy family. As member of the Springs School PTA, she submitted school news columns and was tapped

by Clavin to work as a stringer in 1995. Her first profile, of a local would be aviator, won an award from the Long Island Press Club in the highly competitive feature category. The same year, Ben Sneed joined the staff as an ad executive. He’s currently the manager of our sales team.

Another 1994 milestone? Jerry Della Femina became a minority share partner of The Independent.

He published his first Jerry’s Ink column. It went on to win awards for best humor column on multiple occasions. In 2003, he became the majority shareholder.

It’s been said the goal of a community journalist -- and by association a community paper – is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Certainly the 9/11 tragedy was the single most heartbreaking event of our time.

Everyone on the East End and across the country felt afflicted, and gripped with grief. The Independent was there to cover myriad memorials, fundraising drives, and efforts to assist New Yorkers in mourning and shock. We were the only paper to meet our own police when they returned from the city in the middle of the night and the first to publish their firsthand account of providing assistance at Ground Zero.

Afflicting the comfortable has been a strength at Indy. We were the only publication to investigate town finances during the scandal-ridden administration of East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill McGintee. No

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other paper touched the story we spent months reporting, prompting probes by the New York State Comptroller and the Suffolk County District Attorney. Those probes led to the arrest of the town budget officer and McGintee’s resignation.

The unseating of the Democrat paved the way for the Republican majority of Supervisor Bill Wilkinson’s administration. Always independent, we’ve spent some time afflicting Wilky, too.

With a longevity that spans decades, Assemblyman Fred Thiele’s name has appeared in this paper more times than any other elected official. He had this to say about our birthday, “For twenty years The Independent has covered life on the East End. Often controversial and provocative, always informative, but never dull, The Independent has been a must-read for anyone seriously interested not just in what’s happening in our community but why. The best of luck for many more

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years of success to Jerry, Rick and the whole gang at The Independent.

Congratulations and thanks!”

The Independent purchased The Traveler Watchman newspaper in 2005. The Traveler was launched in Sag Harbor in 1826 and moved to the North Fork where it was based until our purchase. It is one of the oldest newspapers on Long Island and was edited for a time by Walt Whitman. The Independent has an advertising sales alliance with the Long Island Press allowing for full island exposure.

Covering the entire East End of Long Island The Independent is currently delivered to over 400 locations with circulation ranging from highs of 20,000 copies on peak summer weeks to 15,000 in off season.

Nearly 15 million copies, and almost as many gallons of coffee and slices of pizza behind us as we begin our third decade. Time sure flew; we were having fun.

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SAG HARBOR VILLAGE- 4BR, 4 Renovated Bath, CAC, Custom Kitchen. On Private 1/2 Acre, Rm for Pool-Reduced to $589,000 Exclusive: K.R. McCROSSON R.R. 631-7253471 51-4-02 SAG HARBOR FARMHOUSEENCHANTING 100 yr. Old Home on Half Acre. 3 Br, 1 Bath, Large Country Kitchen with 1 Car Garage. Asking: $530,000. K.R. McCrosson Real Estate 631-725-3471 51-4-02 NORTH HAVEN VILLAGE 3 BR, 2 1/2 Bath, Cape on quiet street, walk to the bay. Asking $698,000 Exclusive K.R. McCrosson R.E. 631-725-3471 49-4-52

JAMESPORT FOR SALE BY OWNER, 2.7 sound view acres. Private, serene, and restful. Rolling 70’ topography good for sustenance farming, horses, family fun, pure enjoyment. Soft breezes all summer, and a short walk to preserve or public sound beach. In-

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SHELTER ISLAND GENTLEMAN'S FARM, VINEYARD OR FAMILY COMPOUND Create your own Gentleman's Farm, suitable for horses, vineyard or family compound. 13 acres with main entrance and service entrance, view of pond. Three bedroom, two bath cottage with front and back decks, fireplace, full basement with ground level walk out sliding doors. Two stall mini barn/hen house or garden/potting shed. Plus, Historic farmhouse, known as "Jennings Cottage", waiting for restoration. Centrally located and secluded with short distance to Coecles Harbor. Beautiful hardwood trees. Exclusive with adjusted price of $1,500,000.

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Pool veranda above 20x42 sparkling pool, look back to house with balcony. Pool with fountain surrounded by patio and rose gardens.

All this at Twinfields, located in the heart of Pinehurst Horse Country in North Carolina. 22 acres. $3,500,000.

IN # 50859.

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NORTH FORK- WINE COUNTRY- Furnished 2 BDR 11/2 baths. Pristine 55+ community. “MUST SEE” 69.K. 863-294-8787. 51-2-52 NORTH HAVEN WATERFRONT: NEW TO MARKET! Traditional, 4 bedroom, 4 1/2 bath, gourmet kitchen, 2 car garage, heated pool. Close to Sag Habor Village. Asking $5,750,000 exclusive. K.R. McCrosson R.E. 631-7253471. 48-5-52

LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER needed for an exciting business opportunity.

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APARTMENT FOR RENT MONTAUK LARGE STUDIO APT. Year Round. $1,979.00 monthly. Includes all utilities. 5 minute walk to town.

Very quiet and private. 917353-0284. 50-4-01

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Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth! I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein, you are my mother. Oh, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee(3x). Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3x). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goals. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all in-

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Marina Shea and Dad Kevin on the My Mate Charter during the “Take A Kid Fishing” promotion sponsored by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce.

Fishing Event A Success The Take A Kid Fishing For Free trial program sponsored by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and local boat captains hosted over 200 kids and their parents and was a resounding success, announced Laraine Creegan, the chamber’s director.

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Boat Captain Joe McBride of My Mate reports that one eight yearold boy, Logan, fishing with his grandmother, caught four fish at one time and couldn’t stop talking about it. He gushed several times, “This was the best day of my life.”

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Buddhist Meditation Sunday, Channing Daughters Sculpture Garden will be the site of a Peace & Compassion Buddhist Meditation event from 7 to 8 PM. Led b y Bu d d h i st n u n G e n Kelsang Norden, the hour includes traditional chanted prayers and meditations of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion. The prayers are set to beautiful melodies and combined with a guided meditation on compassion for all beings. All are welcome to participate.

Refreshments will be served afterwards and the event is free.

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Music Festival Festival organizers announced the return of the Sag Harbor A m e r i c a n M u s i c Fe s t i v a l o n September 28 and 29, with the second annual festival opening with a main stage concert featuring celebrated blues musician John Hammond at Old Whalers’ Church.

Created in 2011 by Sag Harbor resident Kelly Connaughton with the support of founding board members John Landes and Laura Grenning, SHAMF celebrates the unique community of Sag Harbor through a weekend of live performances of Jazz, Blues, Folk, R&B and Americana.

While tickets are required for the John Hammond concert, there will once again be dozens of free performances featuring “local to global” musicians taking place throughout the festival at the restaurants, galleries, shops and historical icons of Sag Harbor.

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East Hampton Town ZIPCODE 11930 - AMAGANSETT

ZIPCODE 11937 - EAST HAMPTON

ZIPCODE 11954 - MONTAUK

ZIPCODE 11975 - WAINSCOTT

Riverhead Town ZIPCODE 11792 - WADING RIVER

ZIPCODE 11901 - RIVERHEAD

ZIPCODE 11931 - AQUEBOGUE

ZIPCODE 11947 - JAMESPORT

Shelter Island Town ZIPCODE 11964 - SHELTER ISLAND

Southampton Town ZIPCODE 11946 - HAMPTON BAYS

ZIPCODE 11963 - SAG HARBOR

ZIPCODE 11968 - SOUTHAMPTON

ZIPCODE 11976 - WATER MILL

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ZIPCODE 11978 - WESTHAMPTON BEACH

Southold Town ZIPCODE 11935 - CUTCHOGUE

ZIPCODE 11944 - GREENPORT

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Hecker,A & Barberi,K

Acker,R &Mannix Jr,J

1,800,000

106 Meeting House Ln

Nersesian, R Tick Tock V LLC Fitzsimons,T &Kasper Butler, N Castaneda, R & N Theotocatos, G & D Marc, L 159 SWR LLC Shelly, J DeRario, J

Maas, H & B Sosne, A & A Lesserson, L Walshe,T&Orenstein,J Smith, G Warner, N & N Ridge Forest Realty 159 Swamp Road LLC Friedman, G Lester, S by Exr

650,000 900,000* 580,000 550,000 425,000 680,000 450,000 2,700,000 275,000 980,000

95 Runnymede Dr 1174 Fireplace Rd 40 Woodpink Dr 8 N Cape Ln 20 Harbor View Ln 43 Ely Brook Rd 5 Renee’s Way 159 Swamp Rd 137 Springs Fireplace Rd 20 Skimhampton Rd

Montauk PPH Corp Hither Hills LLC Maxwell, J Scollan, R

Executive Merriment Mulvaney,V&Cassidy,M Weiss, A Houseknecht, F

1,800,000 875,000 610,000 990,000

692 Montauk Hwy 60 Houston Dr &lot 38.006 19 Birch Dr 79 Monroe Dr

Baron, M & M

Starnella, R

700,000

12 Cobber Ln

Sawyer, A & M

Clausen, D

258,000

6 Shirley St

Imagine Realty Group Frascino, B

Hensley, D Treanor, J

105,000 275,000

27 Eight Bells Rd 3101 Amen Corner

Stanislaw, J Kruczkowski&Kruczkow

Long, D & S HSBC Bank

439,900 220,000

3 Huckleberry Hl 242 Trout Brook Ln

Eschmann, T & J

Hilbert, H

575,000

64 Melissa Ln

Richstone&Parlovecch

Weir, L

990,000

72 Manhanset Rd

Jimenez, A & L Griffith, J Tringali, S & D

Trimarco Sr, M Young,H&L by Heir Murphy, M & C

480,000 160,000 300,000

45 A Bellows Terrace 48 Bay Ave 14 Harvard Dr

Held, S E*Trade Bank Healy, J & K

Kelsey, R Partington,J by Ref Murphy, M by Exr

885,000 1,022,769 800,000

125 Noyack Ave 25 Shadyrest Dr 8 Shelter Island Ave

Dietl, F Casero,R & Ferraro,R Southampton Commons Town of Southampton Nava, B & A McGuffog, C 90 Wyandanch LaneLLC

Loren, M Majors Path Assocs Curry, L&K by Ref Seraile, W Moore, S Kidd Construction Mele, E by Trs

950,000 459,000 125,000 2,435,000 650,000 1,500,000 12,500,000

45 Ocean View Pkwy &Lot60 41 Andrew Ct 50 Hubbard Ln, Unit#81 30 Peconic Rd 37 Walnut St Unit 3, David Whites Lane 90 Wyandanch Ln

Yadav, A & S

Selby, W

1,650,000

518 Hayground Rd

Heptig, S & D

Robinson, R & M

376,000

25 Depot Rd

Burke, C Posa, P & M

McEvoy, M Campbell, B & King,H

565,000 240,000

770 Montauk Hwy 30 Maple St

MacGilvray,R&Fritz,K Biviano, D & L Celli, P & L

Brown,P & Kosciusko Schneider, GT & GW Fornasar, E & J

295,000 407,500 779,000

1255 Stillwater Ave 1125 Pequash Ave 1210 Country Club Dr

Travias, V & A

Land, B & T

335,000

805 Sound Rd

Burke, S

Eginton, J

579,000

780 Deep Hole Dr

Pezzino, P Lyons, M & H

Tiebel, L by Admr Kehoe, A&T&K &Ekey,C

275,000 210,000

180 Wicks Rd 1125 Second St

Hagan, W & G

Bendel, B

368,000

26025 Route 25

Jackson, C & K

Hanlon,R & Frankel,J

430,000

480 N Bayview Road Ext

Source: Suffolk Research Service, Inc., Hampton Bays, NY 11946

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Police Officer Injured A Southold police officer was injured while attempting to arrest a Peconic resident for an alleged offense that occurred in Riverhead on Friday.

Officer Brian McNamara was assisting the Riverhead Police in the arrest of 36-year-old Alfredo Chitay.

While officers tried to subdue the subject, McNamara sustained a deep laceration to his right knee.

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Chitay was arraigned in Riverhead court later on Friday and also faces charges of assault in the second degree and resisting arrest in Southold court.

McNamara was treated at Eastern Long Island Hospital for his injuries and was later released.

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In the ever-changing world of Fantasy Sports, late-breaking developments often can change the complexion of your team. If you are drafting this week, you need to know what’s happening.

In Seattle, the Seahawks went out and got Matt Flynn to play quarterback and gave him a bunch of loot. But guess what? An unheralded rookie from Wisconsin, Russell Wilson, has won the starting job –

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Speaking of Denver, a lot of prognosticators think the rookie Ronnie Hillman will emerge as the feature back. Former first round pick Knowshon Marino is also back. But the winner is: Willis McGahee, age 31. Why? He’s the best running back on the team, that’s why, and he’s running hard.

If Manning is indeed healthy we need to move all his receivers up: Eric Decker seems to be the guy Manning looks for most, and Demaryius Thomas has huge upside.

Adjust your rankings accordingly – He’s moving up fast.

It’s a mistake to read too much into preseason games, but sometimes stars are born. Giants’ fans might remember a guy named Victor Cruz going off in a meaningless game two years ago. Well, he was one of the top receivers in the NFL last season.

Dwayne Harris of Dallas may be this season’s Cruz. He went off for two long touchdowns against the Rams, but more important, the opportunity is there: The Cowboys traded Laurent Robinson, Miles Austin is hurt, and Dez Bryant is a mental case. In other words, the door is ajar for Harris.

Last season was the year of the tight end, with Jimmy Graham and Rob Gronkowski enjoying recordbreaking years. Both are being drafted in the late first rounds in a lot of drafts. Want a bargain? Wait until the fourth round and grab

Aaron Hernandez – the Patriots just signed him to a long-term contract and the word is he’s going to be Tom Brady’s primary receiver. As an added bonus Hernandez lines up in the backfield and may get some goal-line carries. Incidentally, the battle for which running back will start in New England is over – Stevan Ridley is the guy.

Rumors of Marshawn Lynch’s demise have been greatly exaggerated – he’s a legit number one back. Ditto Clarence Trent in Tennessee — he’s one of the best receivers in the league when healthy.

You know how everyone grabs a kicker or two in the late rounds of the draft? Don’t take Neil Rackers (Redskins). He’s out, and Graham Gano is in. Ditto Billy Cundriff in Baltimore – he was cut Sunday, leaving the job to rookie Justin Turner.

No one knows for sure what’s going to happen but we have a sense that Oakland is going to be more proficient in the air, and if Run DMC (Darren McFadden) stays healthy, look out – he will be the top producer in the league. Buffalo has improved its defense significantly, and that means the team will be in a lot of games. That means upticks for the two good running backs, Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller.

Want a sleeper QB? Jake Locker.

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Hard Aground! Now What?

When I teach seamanship courses to private boaters on the South Shore, I note that, if you boat in our local waters and have never run aground, you’re lying. Even USCG regulars have been known to “touch bottom” at times in these waters. So, the issue is not if you run aground, but what you do afterwards.

enemy, i.e., if the tide rising (the rising tide lifts all boats, said John Kennedy) or falling. If it is falling, time is now working against you.

What’s next? At this point, you know if the boat has sprung a leak (if so, get right on VHF-16 and hail the USCG; get the “rescue starts now” clock ticking ASAP). If the hull isn’t leaking, try backing away the way What Do You Do First? you came in.

There are a couple of things to Increase throttle moderately and do right away. First, determine if the keep turning the wheel back and grounding has caused a leak. Even forth, port to starboard and back sand, if you hit it hard enough, will again. Why? Well, to some degree, it stove in a hull (or a through-hull fitting is like rocking a car in the snow. Sand or a drive shaft fitting through a stuff- and boats can get into a very powerful ing box.) While the water obviously embrace caused by suction of the wet isn’t very deep right where you are, sand and a smooth surface of a boat’s if your hull starts to fill with water, hull. But more important, you are she may slide into deeper water and sending sand from the stern directly problems will start to escalate. forward – increasing the “hump” that At roughly the same time, get ev- you have to float over. eryone into life jackets.

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Assuming this is working, it is quite possible that you will find yourself making more progress when the wheel is to one side or the other. Once you see the stern making more way down one exit path then the other, make that your new centering path.

Don’t waste time and fuel trying to back down a path that isn’t getting you anywhere – but don’t fail to sway the helm back and forth down your new exit path or you may fill it with sand and ruin your escape. Most times, this will get you out.

I’m Free – Or Am I? Unless you got out pretty quickly and easily, I would head for the marina and get a hose on that engine and start to wash out the sand. I’d also have somebody look at the running gear. A small nick in a prop can do a lot of damage to an engine’s “innards” because the running gear is no longer balanced.

At a minimum, get the boat somewhere where you can get a water hose on the engine and flush it – with the engine OFF. If there is sand in there, don’t grind it out of your engine.

Wash it out.

What if you are at this for four or five minutes and nothing is happening? If the tide is against you, and you have towing insurance, call for help. Any more time wasted and you might be spending the night.

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The commercial towers are well equipped and largely well-trained. (You DON’T have towing insurance? Think again, bunky! It is the cheapest insurance that you will use.) Get familiar with the differences between “salvage” and a simple tow, especially if you don’t have contracted commercial insurance. Maritime law is complex.

What if the tide is with you? You can still call for help but you also have an opportunity to engage in some seamanship that might hold you in good stead sometime in the future when you have more difficult circumstances in hand.

How about putting an anchor out towards the deeper water and “kedging,” i.e., pulling yourself along it from the bow? You are introducing a new angle of pressure and that might pull you free or at least loosen the bottomsuction.

At a minimum, as the tide rises, it will keep you from being blown higher onto the beach by the wind. If your boat is big enough to have a tender (dinghy), get it to work pushing the boat.

Think like what you are: a sea captain.

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The blockbuster trade in major league baseball this past weekend reverberated throughout the entire sport. The Red Sox shipped Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, and Adrian

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Gonzalez to the Los Angeles Dodgers for James Loney, Ivan De Jesus, Jerry Sands, and their two top pitching prospects, Allen Webster and Rubby De La Rosa. The swap appeared to be a win-win for both L.A. and Boston, but it also impacted both Yankee and Met fans.

For the first time in about 15 years the Red Sox have surrendered to the Yankees. Since the late 90’s, both teams engaged in big market spending, trying to one up each other in their quest for a World Series. The rivalry peaked in 2003 and 2004 when they met in back-to-back American League Championship Series. Since then, the Red Sox won another title in 2007 and the Yankees won in 2009.

The 2012 season has given us a different flavor. The Yankees are attempting to hold off the Orioles and Rays in the A.L. East, while Boston flounders at the bottom of the division. The Red Sox have

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apparently realized how good their division is and decided their current roster of players isn’t capable of reaching the top. As a result, Boston management blew the whole thing up, in an attempt to get younger and quickly rebuild; or as I’m sure ownership is selling it, “reverse course.”

Yankees fans are certainly smiling as their biggest rival admits defeat. However, Boston dumped $260 million in salary and didn’t pick up any of the tab, while still netting the Dodgers top two pitching prospects. In the Red Sox’ perfect world, they can now spend to revamp the lineup, build around young pitching, and compete for a World Series by 2014 with a younger core.

As for Mets fans, it’s a sad week.

Less than a year ago the Mets and Dodgers were considered the black holes in baseball; two teams in the country’s biggest markets with embarrassing ownership and no real direction. Since then, the Dodgers have been sold to the Magic Johnson group, gotten into playoff contention, acquired AllStars mid-season, and re-established themselves as the premier franchise in Los Angeles.

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“sometime soon.”

The Mets ownership recently announced that the team’s payroll (14th in MLB) isn’t expected to increase next season. Meanwhile, the Dodgers added a quarter of a billion dollars in salaries this past weekend. It’s a kick in the gut for a New York fan base that still pays above average ticket prices for a below average team. Mets fans see the recent Dodger moves and may think “If our owners unloaded their team, maybe that could be us.”

Mets fans know all too well that money doesn’t buy wins. But one would have a hard time selling NY fans on the idea that the Dodger formula is any worse than the Mets current plan of mediocrity. I believe fans trust Sandy Alderson, but they don’t trust the Wilpons. And unfortunately, the Wilpons have shown they will make the final call.

While this blockbuster trade pains Mets fans, it temporarily eases the minds of Yankee fans.

Time will tell how this deal plays out for Boston and Los Angeles.

But, as a Met fan who got a glimpse of winning during the first half of the season, I can’t wait for the Wilpons to let another owner open his wallet.

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resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of students applying for the money, causing costs to double from $16.1 billion in 2008 to a projected $36.4 billion in 2013.

Some of the new provisions include limiting eligibility to 12 semesters, down from 18, and limiting the grants altogether for students who take classes on a less than half-time basis. The family income level that triggers an automatic maximum grant has also been changed.

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Ross School Tennis Academy student, Trippie Tuff, above with coaches Elad Gabay, Hleb Malasu, Igal Buberman and Vinicius Carmo, defeated Jacob Frisch 6-0 6-4 in a level 1 Junior USTA Tournament at the Ross School last weekend. At right, Gabby Pollner, Christina Puccinelli, Ashley Lessen, and Adele Polahiv received trophies at the tournament.

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Delgado fails to address the many death threats made against Gov. Walker and his family, so I assume he agrees with me that that behavior was disgraceful.

Since he also doesn’t dispute David Horowitz’s findings in his book “The New Leviathan” that the overwhelming preponderance of major foundation money (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc.) goes to left-wing candidates and causes, I assume he agrees on that, too. And the Citizens United decision was a victory for the 1st Amendment guarantee of Free Speech for all. Yes, even those big bad corporations.

The unions, particularly the public sector unions, have tons of money to spend on politics, and almost all of it goes to the Democrats and other leftist causes. Ditto for the Hollywood herd’s huge sums.

There are lots of other “specifics” about Obama’s record that Mr. Delgado won’t like:: By any measure this is the worst “recovery” since the Great Depression; gas prices are double; food prices soaring; unemployment is double the official rate of 8.3 percent if you count those who’ve given up looking, and higher still if you add in the huge increases in people on Social Security disability and food stamps. And we haven’t even touched on Obama using the Stimulus trillions as a political slush fund. But that’s enough “enlightenment” for now.

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Triggerfish have been in the inlet falling for clams. Bassing is still slow with the occasional fish taking live bait. Out on the reef good size seabass and porgies have been reported with some larger fluke occasionally mixing in.

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