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Rail-bus plan is set to start on Monday, March 4. > Page 3

GOP has no challenger yet for Schneiderman

Officer Of The Year

BY PETER BOODY

FORMER SOUTHAMPTON TOWN Supervisor Linda Kabot, a Republican who lost her first reelection bid as supervisor to Democrat Anna ThroneHolst in 2009 and then failed to oust her in 2011 and 2013, is re-entering the political arena as the GOP candidate for county legislator in the second district.

The veteran political scrapper will challenge incumbent Democrat Bridget Fleming of Noyac, who is seeking a third two-year term.

The Riverhead PBA bestows the honor on a Sag Harbor native. > Page 3

Waiting for The Sewer

Future of two projects hinges on the extension of lines.

Meanwhile, as town races came into focus last week, no candidate emerged to challenge Democrat Jay Schneiderman in his bid for a third term as Southampton Town supervisor, after his expected challenger, Councilwoman Christine Scalera, decided not to run.

The Suffolk County Republican Committee nominated Ms. Kabot at its convention in Farmingville on Monday night, February 25, following her endorsement by both the Southampton

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Village Budget Up 3.28% to $11.26 Mil

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Spending does not include Long Wharf

BY PETER BOODY

MAYOR SANDRA SCHROEDER last week unveiled a tentative spending plan for the village of Sag Harbor’s fiscal year beginning June 1 that totals $11,261,290, up 3.28 percent or $357,276 from the current budget.

The proposal does not include debt service for the restoration of Long Wharf, which would have to be added if the board elects to begin that work next fall, Mayor Schroeder said as she met with department heads and the

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VOLUNTEERS ARE DISAPPEARING Fire department and ambulance corps hope for paid personnel

BY PETER BOODY

A DECLINING POOL of citizens who are willing and able to volunteer for community service is beginning to complicate the way Sag Harbor has to plan its budget for emergency services.

“People aren’t volunteering

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LIGHTING IT UP

The Fiery Sensations fire dancers performed on Windmill Beach on Saturday night as part of HarborFrost festivities.

See more photos from the annual celebration of winter on page 14.

Sag Harbor

Townhouse Approval Is Closer

Future for the park would look brighter

AFFORDABLE EFFORTS Panel explores progress made in housing

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DEVELOPER JAY BIALSKY’S proposed townhouses at 2 West Water Street are inching closer to reality, with the Sag Harbor Planning Board on Tuesday agreeing to vote at its next meeting on

OUTH FORK GOVERNMENT officials and housing activists last year identified a massive problem in the region at The Sag Harbor Express’s first “Express Session” on the topic: a lack of affordable housing for low- and middle-income workers, senior citizens and other vulnerable populations.

Now, they say, momentum is

gaining toward change for the better.

That was one of the takeaways on Friday at the American Hotel, when The Express sponsored a second “Express Sessions” panel discussion on the topic of affordable housing, during which seven community leaders explored how much progress has been made since last

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Ari Selinger on location at the American Hotel.

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Filmmaker Chases Ghosts His own, and those of his movie’s characters

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

ARI SELINGER’S LOVE AFFAIR with Sag Harbor began with summertime visits when he was a young kid and continued with winter visits into his adult years. Sometimes, he says, the hair on his arms stands up from the

feeling he gets when he walks down Main Street.

“My earliest memories are not knowing who James Dean and Marilyn Monroe were, but riding the horse in front of the Five and Dime,” Mr. Selinger

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I fell in love on Hampton Jitney “I was taking the Jitney home from Bridgehampton one summer day in July and there were only a few seats left on the bus. I see this pretty girl sitting by herself with all of her bags on the seat. I sat next to her. That was basically our first date. Three years later I proposed with the help of Hampton Jitney.”

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK ‘It’s a long-term situation and it takes tremendous patience to be able to go to a town or village and put in an affordable apartment. We have an affordable housing code that is little-used in Sag Harbor. It’s time to revisit it and make it work because it’s not producing any affordable units.’

SUSAN MEAD, Sag Harbor Partnership treasurer discussing affordable housing in Sag Harbor at the last Express Sessions. See page one for full coverage.

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Powdered Drug Found in Bathroom at John Jermain Memorial Library

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he Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation for Animal Welfare, Ltd. (The Millstein Foundation) has awarded the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons a three-year grant to support the transport of dogs to ARF from areas in need in the country struggling to care for the animals because of overpopulation or adversary. The first transport of dogs arrived safely at the ARF Adoption Center in Wainscott on January 14 from South Carolina.

As avid animal lovers, Irving and Phyllis Millstein were longtime supporters of ARF during their lives. Mr. Millstein passed away in 1998, and when Mrs. Millstein died in 2009 ARF became one of the principal beneficiaries of their estate in Amagansett. The Millsteins’ bequest has since been used over the years for upgrades at the ARF adoption center in Wainscott.

The Millstein Foundation now continues the Millstein legacy

One of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons (ARF) rescues at its Wainscott headquarters. photo courtesy of arf

through ARF’s animal rescue program for communities in need. The Foundation’s grant to ARF will support transportation costs in addition to the medical

expenses incurred by ARF’s partners to make the animals ready for safe travel to a new state, including vaccinations, health certificates, and microchipping.

High School Food Pantry Announced

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s part of a collaborative effort to meet the needs of those in the school community, East Hampton High School has recently opened a satellite food pantry to serve students.

“I am excited for the opportunity to have a food pantry at East Hampton High School,” Principal Adam Fine said. “The most important part of this joint venture is the involvement of our Justice League Club, led by Aubrey Peterson and Barbara Boylan. This opportunity allows our students to play a pivotal role in the collection and inventorying of food and personal hygiene products

that will benefit their peers at the high school.”

The initiative is an extension of the East Hampton Food Pantry and was facilitated between the East Hampton Food Pantry Board and the district’s Board of Education. While a true collaborative project, integral to bringing the initiative to fruition was the combined efforts of East Hampton Food Pantry Chairperson Vicki Littman and district Vice President Christina DeSanti, according to a press release issued by the food pantry this week. If successful, the addition of other food pantries in schools throughout the East Hampton Union Free

School District will be considered.

With the addition of the food pantry, members of the Justice League Club in grades nine through 12 will assist in tasks essential to the food pantry’s operation, such as developing forms, publicizing the pantry, stocking shelves, cataloging inventory, facilitating food drives and coordinating deliveries.

Throughout the year, these students will organize drives targeted at specific food or personal hygiene items as needs arise to ensure the food pantry remains stocked with a wide variety of items.

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ew York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced this week that revenues for the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund were down almost 45 percent in the month of January.

According to Mr. Thiele, in January 2019, the five East End towns brought in $5.47 million in CPF revenues, which are collected through a two-percent transfer tax on real estate purchases. That is a 44.8-percent decrease compared to $9.91 million in revenues collected in

January 2018.

According to Mr. Thiele, the January 2019 revenue number is the lowest monthly total in nearly six years, since March of 2013, when only $4.19 million was collected in CPF monies. Recently, New York State projected a $2.3-billion reduction in state income tax collections for 2019. Governor Andrew Cuomo put the onus for the reduced tax projections on the federal “Tax Cut and Jobs Act”. That federal tax law change placed a $10,000 cap on the

federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT).

“It is impossible to determine trends based on a single month of CPF revenues,” said Mr. Thiele. “At least a quarter of a year of data is required to determine whether the revenue drop for January is an aberration or a significant change in the real estate market. Local government officials should closely monitor CPF revenues in the coming months and be cautious in making any long-term projections.”

An employee cleaning an upstairs bathroom at the John Jermain Memorial Library around 8:15 a.m. on Monday found a small plastic bag containing a white powdery substance that turned out to be some type of drug. According to a Sag Harbor Village Police report, the library’s director reported the incident to police, who responded to collect the bag. Police tested the substance in the bag and determined it to be an amphetamine of an unknown origin. According to the report, the drug was later destroyed.

• Tristan Tutching, 24, of Hampton Bays was arrested February 22 by Sag Harbor Village Police and charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harassment, a violation, following an incident at a store on Hampton Street. According to a police report, Mr. Tutching was involved in an argument with a 21-yearold Amagansett man who had an active order of protection against him. Police said the defendant threatened violence, grabbed a rubber mallet and “aggressively made his way” toward the other man. Police arrived and arrested Mr. Tutching at around 2:30 p.m.

He was released on $500 cash bail after his arraignment the next day.

• Johannatan Arturo MerchanHeras, 23, of Danbury, Connecticut, was arrested February 23 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with first-offense driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and aggravated DWI, a misdemeanor levied when a defendant allegedly has a bloodalcohol content of .18 of 1 percent or more. According to a police report, Mr. Merchan-Heras was involved in a car accident on westbound Montauk Highway near Wainscott Northwest Road late at night on February 22. When police arrived, he was observed standing near his vehicle, showing signs of intoxication. According to the report, Mr. MerchanHeras performed poorly on field sobriety tests and failed a breath test. He was arrested at 12:15 a.m. on February 23 and was released on $300 cash bail following his morning arraignment.

• Kevin Joseph Garcia, 22, of

Southampton was arrested February 22 by Southampton Town Police and charged with seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, as well as unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and a traffic infraction. According to a police report, police stopped Mr. Garcia for following a vehicle ahead of him too closely while on East Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays. The officer said a strong odor of marijuana could be detected from Mr. Garcia’s vehicle, and both the driver and passenger were detained. According to a police report, after the vehicle was searched, police found a medication vial containing eight oxycodone tablets not prescribed to Mr. Garcia, as well as a metal grinder, two drug pipes and three small glass containers. He was arrested at about 10:45 p.m. Mr. Garcia is due back in Southampton Town Justice Court on March 27.

• Michael D. McLoughlin, 26, of East Hampton was arrested February 17 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor levied when a defendant allegedly has more than two ounces of the drug. During a traffic stop on Route 114 in East Hampton shortly before 5 p.m., police said they found in his car two large plastic bags containing a green, leafy substance that tested positive for the presence of marijuana. The bags weighed more than 2 ounces in total, the police report said. Mr. McLoughlin was arrested at 5:13 p.m. and was released on a $250 field appearance ticket.

• A telephone scammer attempting to bilk Golden Eagle Art Supply Store in East Hampton out of about $800 on February 10 was unsuccessful. According to an East Hampton Town Police report, the store was contacted at 2:53 p.m. by a man who claimed he was a representative of PSEG’s billing department and said the store’s power would be cut off at 3:30 p.m. for non-payment of its electric bill, unless payment was made in the form of a pre-paid money card. The store owner hung up the phone on the scammer and contacted East Hampton Town Police, who are investigating the matter.

• A 47-year-old East Hampton

man was the victim of overnight criminal mischief sometime between 9 p.m. on February 15 and 10 a.m. on February 16. According to an East Hampton Town Police report, the man discovered the front passenger side window of his pickup truck, which was parked in the driveway of his house on Three Mile Harbor Road, had been shattered. A white rag was discovered near the vehicle, which police believe was used by the suspect for protection while attempting to smash the window.

When officers canvassed the area, according to the report, they could not find anyone who heard or saw anything. The victim and his landlord both stated in the report there had not been any previous problems at the residence, and the police documented the incident.

• A resident of Brandywine Drive in Sag Harbor on February 23 called Sag Harbor Village Police to request patrols on the street following two incidents in which youths were reportedly lighting fireworks at a house on the street that is listed for sale.

According to a police report, the first incident was on February 16 and the second was February 22, but officers who subsequently checked out the area could not find anything unusual.

• An anonymous person reported February 22 to Sag Harbor Village Police a possible fire on John Street at around 5:30 p.m.

According to a police report, when officers arrived along with the Sag Harbor Fire Department chief to investigate what came over the radio as an “open burn,” they found a resident who was burning sticks in a barrel in his backyard. The resident told them he didn’t believe it would cause any harm, and the fire chief subsequently cleared the scene of any hazards.

• A resident of a West Water Street condominium called Sag Harbor Village Police on February 20 to report several items had gone missing from her residence on February 5. According to a police report, the woman said a black mink fur coat, a necklace and two rings were unaccounted for following a visit from the cleaning lady and her friend. The police are treating it as an incident of grand larceny.

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Two Projects Hinge On Sewer Expansion The Church and Uptown Pilates hope to rid themselves of reliance on septic systems

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

In January, a newly formed Sag Harbor Village committee began discussing whether the village’s sewage treatment system should be expanded, with the goal of eventually making recommendations to the Village Board of Trustees. Meanwhile two major downtown development proposals hinge on extended sewer lines to proceed.

The Sag Harbor Planning Board on Tuesday heard from attorney Brian DeSesa, representing Uptown Pilates at 23 Bridge Street, and attorney Tiffany Scarlato, representing artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl, who are redeveloping the former Methodist church at 48 Madison Street. Both projects call for connections to the sewer system, and both attorneys are petitioning the Sag Harbor Village Board to allow them to connect to the sewer system.

Mr. Fischl and Ms. Gornik want to build an art hub called “The Church” with artists-in-residence who would teach classes and show their work.

Their property is about 38 feet from the existing terminus of a sewer line.

“Our engineer has been dealing with the village’s engineer,” Ms. Scarlato told the planning board. “Now it’s a matter of how the village moves forward on that.”

During a planning board work session prior to the regular meeting, village attorney Denise Schoen said she had heard that there had been some “positive feedback on extending the sewer for this particular property” so far, but that there has been nothing official in terms of decisions.

In the case of Uptown Pilates, which is seeking to renovate and expand its existing buildings, Mr. DeSesa said Wednesday a sewer connection would side-step having to “erect four-foot concrete walls around the entire property and raise the grade up to the top of those four-foot walls so we can locate a compliant septic system” on site. He said the current septic system, as well as those of some neighboring buildings, are already dangerously close to groundwater. The area is also

prone to flooding.

“It’s not even an extension, it’s a connection across the street,” said Mr. DeSesa, who also represents two more Bridge Street property owners who want to connect to the sewer system, too.

The village board previously rejected an application by Uptown Pilates to connect to the sewer system in 2018, Ms. Schoen said on Tuesday.

Board members suggested that Mr. DeSesa start a Zoning Board of Appeals application in addition to its sewer line petition to the village board. That’s because Uptown Pilates’s application will require a parking variance for as many as 27 spaces.

Mr. DeSesa said that number might be reduced if the building inspector recognizes that the pilates studio can only hold a maximum of 10 people at a time.

Also on Tuesday, the board waived a full site plan review for Blocks, Trucks and Art, a new business that recently moved in on Washington Street, after environmental consultant Kathy Eiseman told the board the application was “minor in nature.” Co-owner Angela De Vincenzo, who has taught at private schools for two decades, is seeking special exception permission to add one-on-one tutoring and smallgroup instruction to the already-approved gallery use there. The board set a public hearing on the application for March 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Ms. Eiseman told the board, “They’re not changing the building.

They’re not even changing the floor plan inside. There is no reason to require them to hire an architect and do a formal plan in this case, because they’re really just moving the furniture around to support their program.”

The planning board also began reviewing an application by the Dock House restaurant, represented by Mr. DeSesa, to legalize an existing outdoor, walk-in refrigerator. The planning board referred Mr. DeSesa to the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals, which will have to consider granting at least one variance for the refrigerator before the planning board can act.

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Kaley Castantine, right, with her grandmother, Cynthia Burns, after receiving her award for officer of the year.

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Officer of the Year Is Local Woman

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Kaley Castantine says she always knew she wanted to be a police officer, even before she graduated from Pierson High School in 2006. She followed through on her dream, joining the Riverhead Police Department in 2014 — which she said brings new challenges every day.

Last October, she found herself diving into Long Island Sound to rescue a man who had driven into the water and whose vehicle sank 75 to 100 feet off of Roanoke Beach.

“I couldn’t see anything. It was pitch black,” Officer Castantine recalled in an interview this week.

Witnesses were pointing to where she had to go, so she disrobed and swam out. “I had a window breaker and a seat belt cutter,” she said. Finding the car underwater, “I started as hard as I could bashing out the back window. I ended up breaking the rear window. At that point the current was pretty strong. I was feeling for occu-

Riverhead PBA picks a Sag Harbor native to honor for bravery pants. I started in the back seat, and I’m going up and down for air. I didn’t even notice I was getting cut by the glass that I broke. Your adrenaline is going so quick.”

Sadly, the driver didn’t survive. But for her quick thinking and bravery, Officer Castantine was honored on February 8 by the Riverhead Police Benevolent Association as its Officer of the Year.

She said being acknowledged in this way felt rewarding. “It was pretty amazing,” she said. “I work with some really good guys. In this job, you don’t think — it’s fight or flight. That’s what they say, you go into it or run away, and I always just go into it. You just don’t know what you’re getting into.”

Officer Castantine, who was a parttime officer in Riverhead in 2014 before

becoming full-time in 2016, and who now lives in Westhampton, said it’s a little scary to be a police officer these days, but said she maintains a feeling of empathy while she is on duty.

“I’m just like you out of this uniform. I’m a normal human,” she said.

She acknowledged her grandparents, Larry and Cynthia Burns, for raising her to be the person she is.

She also said her late friend, New York City Police Detective Brian Simonsen, who was laid to rest last week after being killed in the line of duty, was very inspirational to her.

“He always told me to stay safe and do what you love,” Officer Castantine said. “The police community is very small when you become an officer. He did have a lot of impact.”

Riverhead Police Officer John Morris, the Riverhead PBA vice president, presented Officer Castantine the award. “She chose to put her own life on the line in an effort to save another human’s life,” he told the Riverhead News-Review.

The South Fork Commuter Connection, a year-round rail and bus service for commuters travelling to East Hampton and Southampton towns, will officially launch next Monday, March 4.

The Long Island Rail Road has partnered with both towns to bring the Commuter Connection to the South Fork. The LIRR will add two additional morning and afternoon trains to its schedule, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. In the summer, the LIRR will suspend one of the afternoon trains on Fridays to accommodate its once-weekly Cannonball service from New York to the South Fork.

The towns will provide what has been called “last mile” bus service through the Hampton Jitney and the Hampton Hopper from train stations east of the Shinnecock Canal to downtowns and employment centers.

Trains will originate in Speonk and Hampton Bays in the morning, with continuing service through Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton and Montauk. The first morning eastbound train will depart Speonk at 6:16 a.m. with a second morning train leaving Hampton Bays at 8:26 a.m. Afternoon trains traveling westbound will depart the Montauk train station at 2:48 p.m., arriving in Speonk at 4:14 p.m. A 4:50 p.m. departure from Montauk will only go as far as Hampton Bays, arriving at 5:43 p.m.

For residents working in Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor, bus service will be available from the Bridgehampton train station at Maple and Butter lanes. The fare will be $4.25 each way, or $8.50 round trip, which includes the “last mile” bus service.

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. — who lobbied the LIRR to help create the service — and State Senator Ken LaValle have secured $1 million in state funding to help offset the cost of providing the “last mile” bus service.

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Working on housing solutions continued from page 1 year’s conversation.

Hundreds and hundreds of people still wait their turns in local affordable housing lotteries, but “the momentum is our best ally in getting these things done,” said Catherine Casey, the executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority.

“There isn’t a silver bullet. There isn’t one giant pot of money or one piece of legislation. The most important thing is we do have the political will at the moment on the municipal, county and state level. We have to seize the day. We have momentum.”

One Year Later As it turns out, a lot has been accomplished in a year.

East Hampton Town in January agreed to purchase about four acres on Route 114 from Triune Baptist Church for $900,000. A property once slated for a worship center will be transformed into an affordable housing community.

The East Hampton Housing Authority last May received $7 million more from New York State, the remaining funding needed to develop a 37unit project on Montauk Highway in Amagansett. The overall price tag

of the project is about $19 million.

Dubbed “531 AMG,” it’s well into the planning phase.

Southampton Town passed new legislation to allow more homeowners to build accessory apartments on their properties by reducing the minimum lot size required. The town also set a new requirement that, beginning this year, all new accessory apartments in private houses have to be rented to people with limited incomes at affordable rates.

A housing lottery is imminent for the condominiums at Southampton Pointe in Southampton; there’s a list of 280 people who want one of its 15 units. The town is building affordable apartment communities at Sandy Hollow in Tuckahoe and Speonk Commons that will total 66 units. Another site, Tuckahoe Woods, has been identified by Southampton Town as a viable location for a couple more units. In Hampton Bays, development of a new 50-unit senior citizen community is under way.

And New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has proposed raising funds for affordable housing with a .5-percent tax East End towns would impose on property sales of $400,000 and above, similar to how the Community Preservation Fund works.

While the proposed tax still has to be approved by New York State and then ratified by the voters in each town, such a fund could be used in a variety of ways to help people obtain reasonably priced places to live through subsidies and more housing projects.

“Everyone deserves a place to live that they can afford to live in, but affordable housing in and of itself is really a moral problem as well as a marketing problem,” said Michael Daly, a real estate broker with Douglas Elliman who runs a group called the NextGen Housing Collaborative.

Elected Officials Buoy Housing Efforts Mr. Daly called for the community to rally around elected officials who support affordable housing initiatives.

“We can’t elect these fine people and let them hang out to dry,” he said.

“We have to go and support them at these meetings. Workforce housing, senior housing. If it’s to be, it’s up to we. Things only happen when the people get behind them.”

Among the elected officials who support such projects is East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, who said the town “is constantly looking” at ways to grab, build and keep more affordable units. In addition,

East Hampton architect Eva Growney addresses the panel on Friday afternoon at the American Hotel.

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Housing he said, “Any future development of affordable housing in East Hampton will meet the standards for renewable energy as well as septic systems.

That’s part of what we’ll do going forward because it’s critical.”

Mr. Thiele, the sponsor of the new housing tax, said it might be “the best bad idea we have.”

“Nobody likes increases in taxes,” he said, but added, “There is broadbased support for this. It seems popular regardless of political stripe. There is some resistance from the building industry and real estate industry.”

Where Does Sag Harbor Fit In? According to Rob Calvert, a director of the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust, land acquisition and financing are roadblocks the Trust has faced. So far, it has successfully preserved eight workforce units at The Cottages. But it competes against municipalities including East Hampton for state grant money — and has lost out three times.

“The challenge we had was to create an organization from scratch that had the capacity to build that which you describe,” Mr. Calvert said. “We were able to come up with a model that we thought could be replicated.

What we could not solve … is a very competitive situation where we could not compete at the scale for the project we were working on. It was that realization that as a small organization that is volunteer-based, however dedicated we are to affordable housing, there is a limit to what we can accomplish.”

Susan Mead, the treasurer of the Sag Harbor Partnership and an attorney who also sits on the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals, said it’s going to take “a menu” of “20 or 30 incentives” for developers and homeowners in Sag Harbor to want to add accessory apartments or build affordable units in the village. While support for affordable housing is in the Sag Harbor Partnership’s mission statement, “That’s about the extent of our involvement,” she said.

“It’s a long-term situation and it takes tremendous patience to be able to go to a town or village and put in an affordable apartment,” Ms. Mead said. She called for incentives such as waiving building department fees and streamlining the regulatory process. “We have an affordable housing code that is little-used in Sag Harbor.

It’s time to revisit it and make it work because it’s not producing any affordable units.”

Later in the session, Anthony Vermandois, a local architect who frequently deals with land use and zoning issues, spoke of how difficult it is for a property owner to build a detached apartment.

“You probably won’t be able to do it because of the zoning. The setbacks, the lot coverage, the pyramid law,” Mr. Vermandois said. “Just a couple of

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years ago, Sag Harbor Village changed its laws so that you’re not allowed to have plumbing [in an accessory structure] unless it’s in a pool house, so you have to have a pool. The village is almost shooting itself in the foot with the rules and regulations.”

Mr. Calvert concurred, saying there have been just two legal conversions of illegal apartments since Sag Harbor’s code was changed. He suggested there be further zoning changes in residential districts that would allow for greater density when affordable housing is the goal. He also said the housing trust is “looking at the possibility of making a pretty significant contribution to the creation of an affordable unit.”

Win Some, Lose More Some members of the panel pointed out the fight to keep housing affordable isn’t just about building new stock – it’s about retaining options that already exist.

Mr. Calvert said “we’re going to lose a ton and gain a few modestly” in Sag Harbor at the current rate of development. “It’s going to take an intervention,” he said. “It’s not an incremental approach.”

Mr. Van Scoyoc said this particular aspect of the problem keeps him awake at night.

“We do have to succeed in an approach that is very broad. We need to keep putting projects out there and getting them built,” he said. “As we are pushing forward with more units coming online, we are losing affordable properties at an alarming rate.

Streets that had very modest homes that people could afford, now they are multi-million-dollar homes. We’re losing units faster than we could possibly build them.”

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Among the audience members who spoke during Friday’s session were, at left, Eleni Prieston and, at right, Dr. Nancy Peppard.

Hampton: the potential closure of the East Hampton Town Airport, which would leave about 600 acres of already-cleared land ripe for some sort of project to benefit the community.

“You could build a very intentional community there that is forever affordable, forever tailored to the workforce, that produces its own energy — basically the model for how we have to live in a sensitive area in an affordable way,” Mr. Calvert said.

The audience burst into applause.

Mr. Van Scoyoc replied that “we are looking all over town for opportunities” and that it may be an option the town weighs at some point.

“We’ve struggled to control and dial back airport noise for decades, and we’ve seen huge impacts from that,” the supervisor said. “Really it comes down to values that our community has and where you want to be going forward in the future, and we

can remold our East End to whatever vision we see.”

Community Perspectives Eva Growney, a local architect, suggested there be some sort of regulation of Airbnb rentals, which have encouraged landlords to favor short-term rentals for non-residents. She cautioned “that’s a very slippery slope,” but called for officials to “take a hard look at that in a way that’s workable for this community. It’s a humane issue here. People cannot afford to live where they’re living.”

John Barton, a lifelong Sag Harbor resident, called for local officials to take “a more spread-out approach” in which they put motivation “in each existing homeowner’s pocket so you motivate them to create more affordable housing.”

“That comes in the form of the most understandable language, which is money,” Mr. Barton said. “Give tax

recurring topic during Friday’s Express Sessions discussion was affordable housing for senior citizens and people with disabilities and the related issue of services to support them.

“Aging in place is simply wanting to stay in your own home until you expire, period,” said Dr. Nancy Peppard, a forensic geriontologist who is the executive director of the Out East Neighborhood Network. “It’s not any extraordinary thing, but the fact is we don’t have the services here.”

Catherine Casey, director of the East Hampton Housing Authority, related the issue of affordable housing to Dr. Peppard’s point: “Who are the people that provide those services and where do they live?” she asked. Oftentimes, Ms. Casey said, those caregivers also need affordable housing, in addition to seniors whose incomes may not support living in houses. She also said “a leg up is given to people with any disabilities” when it comes to the housing authority’s properties.

Diana Weir, Southampton Town’s director of housing and human services, cited a model of housing in which people who are disabled can live together with the assistance of a house manager supported by the residents’ rent.

“The system works in other places and they’re looking to see if they can find property to do that here as well,” Ms. Weir said.

From the audience, Eleni Prieston offered a potential housing site, particularly for the disabled or elderly: the Stony Brook Southampton college campus. According to New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., even as approximately 600 students take classes there regularly, multiple dormitory buildings on the campus remain unoccupied.

“Potential housing opportunities are presented by those parts of the campus that are not being utilized,” he said.

He also noted that Stony Brook Southampton Hospital was recently cleared by New York State to build a new hospital at the nearby university campus.

“When the hospital does move, that leaves the facility that is there now,” Mr. Thiele said. “Maybe that could be an assisted living facility or maybe some other option, housing for the disabled, or things that we are talking about today.”

Ms. Prieston is involved with a group called Special Services East End Network, or SEEN, which advocates for the developmentally impaired who age out of the public school system.

“I think it’s practical and makes sense,” Ms. Prieston said of the college dorm solution. “Things happen out here very, very, very slowly. We just keep pushing ahead hoping that we don’t have to devote a decade to the solution.”

- CHRISTINE SAMPSON incentives for affordable housing, or fund it by the CPF or something.

As soon as you identify targets in the community” for large affordable housing projects, “they’re going to be attacked.”

Eric Cohen, another longtime resident, said the private sector should be encouraged to get more involved.

“I have one idea: expand the zoning where multi-use development is allowed,” he said. “If we can do that, we would also create vibrant neighborhoods for senior citizens and others, and make it viable for developers to build where they could make a good return.”

Working Toward Solutions Diana Weir, Southampton Town’s director of housing and community development, said the town “is very excited” over the projects it has in the pipeline.

“At least we’re providing more than we have in the past,” she said. “We’re getting five units here, three units there, and every unit is gold.”

She said the town is also looking at “every store in town that has a second floor

that’s just for show” to see if they can be converted to affordable apartments.

“We’re trying everything,” she said.

The issue is even catching fire in Southampton Village. Trustee Kimberly Allan attended Friday’s session to glean some ideas for her village.

“We really want to do something quickly,” she said.

Mr. Thiele suggested that Southampton Village pursue a sewer district, which has helped Sag Harbor retain a vibrant downtown, as a step toward increasing the density that affordable housing developments often require.

“Put as many tools in the toolbox as you can,” he told Ms. Allan.

Mr. Daly called for zoning code revisions and reiterated the need to support elected officials who prioritize affordable housing.

“Generations of our forefathers have created these codes that don’t allow it,” he said. “It’s a wild, crazy, convoluted series of challenges that we face, but it’s only going to be faced if we have the will to face it and support the people who can change the codes.”

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OPINION Editorial

SUFFOLK CLOSEUP

By Karl Grossman

The Main Street Takeaway:

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ag Harbor is not a village that can be narrowly defined. Just as it can no longer be referred to as an industrial or blue-collar community, it is not solely a high-end or luxury resort destination either. Much has changed in Sag Harbor, a diverse group of community and business leaders agreed during a recent roundtable discussion in the offices of The Sag Harbor Express, held in advance of a March 7 Express Sessions event at Bay Street Theater titled “The Uncertain Future of Main Street.” But as much as there has been change, panelists — some who have lived in the village their entire lives — were in consensus that the heart and soul of Sag Harbor is still very much intact.

Which is not to say there is not a tremendous amount of work that can, and should, be done as the community strives to maintain its diversity of locally-owned businesses and its year-round population. Sag Harbor Village has seen a sharp increase in the amount of rent being charged in both its business district and residential neighborhoods and, like surrounding communities, is faced with an alarming decline in affordable, workforce housing. Our hope is that on March 7, at Bay Street Theater, the community can come together to begin a productive conversation on how the community as a whole can work together toward common goals.

While the recent loss of several beloved businesses has been painful, the reality is Sag Harbor has not lost its soul. There are still a number of residents, some with family roots going back several generations, who have dedicated themselves through volunteerism and in other ways to this village. Take a walk down Main Street and you see a village that remains vibrant and is home to more locally-owned businesses than corporate entities.

To declare the village sold and the deed done is not only unproductive, it is insulting to the families and business owners who have not cashed out and remain dedicated to their hometown and place of work.

Moving forward, we believe increased communication between business owners, landlords, village, town and state government leaders and the residents and secondhomeowners who drive the economic engine needs to improve. Community collaboration seems to have waned in the age of the internet and social media — mediums that have had both positive and negative impacts on Main Street — and if we are to preserve some of Sag Harbor’s old-world charm, returning to the notion of supporting your neighbor is a good place to start. Shopping local, which has become more difficult as prices rise across the board, is imperative for those with the means to do so. And for those who head to Riverhead or Amazon.com to do the bulk of their shopping, it’s important to also turn to Main Street when possible, maybe for birthday or Christmas shopping, or for those last-minute items.

Encouraging all of Sag Harbor’s stakeholders, including its commercial property owners, to consider their legacy is also important. Do we want to have a village full of empty storefronts? Do we want to have retail establishments that truly serve the community as a whole? Is the affordability of Main Street collapsing under a siege of surging commercial rent prices and if so, what can be done to reinforce that Sag Harbor’s vibrancy and draw is intrinsically linked to its uniqueness — a quality that disappears if Main Street becomes another Rodeo Drive?

How can we better serve the year-round population as Main Street businesses? And how can we better engage our youth?

One thing is certain in all of these questions — it is only in coming together and engaging as many stakeholders as possible that we can help shape this evolving Sag Harbor into something that benefits us all — long-time residents, business owners, landlords and second-homeowners included, most of whom want to see the year-round Sag Harbor they know and love not only survive but thrive.

This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, when community members feel a need to come together and have this conversation, but it’s hard not to see this moment in time as a crossroads for the future of Sag Harbor.

We hope you will join us on March 7 and help continue this important dialogue.

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Letters to the Editor The Price of Refusing Compromise Dear Editor With respect to the article “Airport Closure Put on the Table” in the February 7 edition of The Express, I would like to make two points: First, the article states that the overall number of complaints dropped from 2017 to 2018 and insinuates that the situation has improved over that period. I suggest an alternate interpretation, which is that after years and years of documenting the problem with nothing to show for it, many have simply given up. There are a number of ways to submit complaints but all are time consuming and frustrating in their own way and frankly, if nothing is going to change, why raise your blood pressure? Surely the airport knows the volume and flight paths being used by traffic at the airport — why should it be the responsibility of those affected to further document the problem?

Second, Mr. Feurerring of the East Hampton Aviation Association states that the bulk of the complaints come from a concentrated number of households in the area and the subtext here seems to be that, you know, maybe the problem is with those making the complaints, not noise from the airport. Honestly, I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to those who have the time and dedication to continue to document the problem. I know I am not always able to stop what I am doing to make a complaint, but that doesn’t mean I am not affected by the noise; I suspect the same is true of many others.

It is unfortunate that aviation interests continue to dismiss the very real problems associated with the airport and fight reasonable efforts to ameliorate those issues (for example the curfew on overnight flights). Closing the airport seems like a drastic step but as long as they refuse to countenance any compromise with those affected and make the airport an “all or nothing” choice they will drive more and more to conclude that full closure is the only solution.

Respectfully, Erik Brockmeyer Noyac

Pursue Scale and Harmony To the Editor, Tony Brandt is right, the Bialsky plan for development of the property at 2 West Water Street is, simply put ... too big. Proposed are three townhouses, each an average of 7,500 square feet, requiring variances of 300 percent from existing code. The precedent set by this development is a dangerous one: in exchange for a plot of land destined to be become a park, the developer, Mr. Bialsky, is demanding permission to build three huge townhouses — three times the size normally approved in this area of town.

The argument is made that, “as of right” the developer could build 13 townhouses. Frankly, I think this would be preferable for the village: 13 townhouses targeting the merely wealthy, instead of the three proposed townhouses that will only be accessible to the uber-wealthy. Nothing against the uber-wealthy, but should the village of Sag Harbor be in the business of facilitating their entry into our town at the expense of ignoring our zoning regulations?

In addition, 13 townhouses would be of sufficient number that the county/state affordable-housing regulations would kick in, requiring the developer to contribute to the fair-housing fund or to build affordable housing. Why are developments of only three townhouses exempt from the requirement to provide for affordable housing? If true, the Bialsky project exposes the problems with that exemption.

It is unfortunate that the zoning board granted the enormous variances for this project. This is unprecedented and will commit the village to more outlandish deviations from zoning standards in the future. Tony Brandt is right.

We can only hope that the village’s Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review adheres to its existing mandate to consider “scale and harmony” in evaluating the Bialsky project and votes it down.

Sincerely, Victoria L. Sharp Sag Harbor

Quelling Discussion Dear Kathryn, When Dr. Carl Bonuso was the interim superintendent of schools at Sag Harbor, he instituted workshops for various topics. The board held workshops for the IB program, common core math, the budget process, and other topics.

The attendance at these workshops superseded most other board of education events. The primary reason was that these workshops were interactive. Members of the community, sometimes students, the board and presenters would have an open discussion. A workshop, by definition, is a meeting at which a group of people engage in intensive discussion and activity on a particular subject or project.

Now, with the new board of the Sag Harbor school district, workshops are still held, but in name only.

I attended a budget workshop on February 11, 2019. Dr. Philip Kenter presented a preliminary budget for 20192020 with specific information on transportation. I and one other member of the community asked questions.

I also made a comment about the transportation budget when the board president interrupted me, asking if I had a question. This is not in the spirit of a true workshop, and, from my perspective, she was quite rude. I felt she was also quite rude to one of the board members.

When our new board member asked me a question about the statement I made during Input 1, the board president shut him down, saying board members were not allowed to ask questions of a community member. This board member was just trying to understand the issue, which was not explained. It seems counter productive not to allow him a question, policy or not. The board has ignored policy and even the law in the past when it suited them.

It is disturbing to witness the board president quelling attempts at communication with community members, both during a workshop, where interactive communication is the heart of the process, and during Input 1, where a new board member is attempting to understand an issue. Obviously, communication with the public and transparency are not a priority. Watch the meeting, which is recorded, and see if you agree with me.

Sandi Kruel Sag Harbor

Balloons Blow

he East Hampton Town Board had taken a blow against balloons. A town law barring the intentional release of balloons has been unanimously passed. It follows action by Suffolk County — back in 2005 — prohibiting the mass release of 25 or more balloons filled with helium or other “lighter-than-air” gasses.

The East Hampton law is tougher — it bars the release of any number of balloons. It zeroes in on balloons “made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene or nylon fabric that can be inflated or filled with a gas such as helium, hydrogen and nitrous oxide…”

“Balloons waste natural resources, litter our communities, pollute our waterways and kill wildlife,” says the measure passed 5-to-0 on February 7.

Exceptions are made for “balloons released indoors,” “hot air balloons that are recovered after launching,” and “balloons used for the purpose of carrying scientific instrumentation.”

The balloon business as represented by the New Jerseybased The Balloon Council, with a vested interest in its product, is not happy with what East Hampton has done.

A leading proponent of the East Hampton law was Susan McGraw Keber, a dedicated environmentalist and member of the East Hampton Trustees, which has jurisdiction over the town’s waterfront. At the town board meeting, she presented the board with a proclamation from children of the Give It Back Club at the Montauk School.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, the measure’s sponsor, said the town wants “to make people aware all across the country that when you release a balloon it has serious consequences.” How serious was outlined by those testifying before the board.

Kimberly Durham, necropsy program coordinator of the Hampton Bays-based Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, said: “I have observed the horrific consequences of discarded balloons on marine wildlife.” Marine life can’t distinguish between balloons in the water and jellyfish, a food source.

Some released balloons drift back to shore. Colleen Henn with the Surfrider Foundation told that board about the beach clean-ups it has conducted and balloon litter along the coast.

Lorna O’Hara, public information director of The Balloon Council, told WABC-TV/7 of the East Hampton law: “We prefer education over legislation.”

The county law — in which children also played a part — took form when then Suffolk Legislator Lynne Nowick of St. James received a letter from some elementary school students about helium-filled balloons falling into waterways and being mistaken for jellyfish by sea animals, which ingested the balloons and died. They noted that Connecticut, because of this problem, had banned mass balloon releases and suggested the same sort of thing be done here.

Ms. Nowick got to work, did research, found that balloons represented the most common form of floating garbage within 200 miles from shore and, indeed, regularly kill marine life, especially turtles. She introduced the bill to prohibit mass balloon releases in Suffolk. The measure speaks of how “research has indicated that marine life and animals ingest these as they appear near the surface because they believe they are spotting jellyfish or other edible resources.” They then “either choke on the balloon or the balloon will form an intestinal obstruction either of which will sentence these animals and marine life to a painful death.”

These balloons, further, are a “source of pollution.”

Enter The Balloon Council. As it says on its website, www. theballoonccouncil.org: “An industry has grown from a handful of small manufacturing companies…to one that now produces products that are an integral part of festivities in this county and abroad. At the time that TBC was established, several state legislators were considering well-intentioned but ill-conceived laws which would have severely limited consumer’s rights to obtain full enjoyment from balloons.” It trumpets: “The Balloon Council — Affirming America’s Ongoing Love Affair with Balloons.”

The Balloon Council sought to stop the Suffolk measure but legislators resisted and enacted it. Ms. Nowick, after completing the maximum 12-year term allowed for Suffolk legislators, was elected and since re-elected to the Smithtown Town Board.

The organization, Balloons Blow, based in Florida, advocates alternatives to releasing balloons. “There are many safe, fun, and eye-catching alternatives to balloons for parties, memorials, fundraisers, and more!” it says on its website, www.ballooonsblow.org. It presents many. “As we become more aware of our personal impacts on the environment people are ditching single-use, wasteful products for earth-friendly, reusable and exciting alternatives.”

“Balloons Blow…Don’t Let Them Go,” it declares.

KARL GROSSMAN is a journalism professor and journalist who frequently writes about Long Island issues.

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Do you find it to be a good thing, in an ironic sort of way, that as a result of the Trump presidency so many investigations have been launched that have uncovered so much criminal activity?

Alex Russell “I think it’s more politically-driven than being actually interested in getting the truth. It’s investigations to score points, as opposed to actually discovering the truth. It’s just the sheer amount and volume; if they were actually interested in getting to the truth, I think they’d be a little more efficient about it.”

Brina Stachecki “I guess; I think that there’s always been corruption, but maybe the price to find it in this case might have been too high; Trump has done SO many things that are illegal that our eyes have been opened to something...his crimes are much worse than us just being aware of them.”

Beverly Delcek “I thing it’s a good thing. It’s a good thing that it’s been uncovered, but it’s still a bad thing that we still have him in office and happen to have all of this criminal investigation stuff going on. The investigations are a good thing, though; I hope they will curb it.”

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John Bouvier

This week, 53 of you responded to our survey. This is what you had to say.

Town Councilman John Bouvier of Westhampton is a retired mechanical engineer with a long career that began with contract diving jobs all over the country. Working to help to design oceanic submersibles, he eventually found himself at NASA, where he helped design robotic equipment for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. In a lecture titled “From Deep Sea to Space,” sponsored by the Montauk Observatory and the Stony Brook Southampton School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, he will talk about his work on Friday, March 1 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Chancellors Hall, 239 Montauk Highway, on the Stony Brook Southampton campus.

During Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address last month, he raised the possibility of New York legalizing marijuana for adults and taxing it. What do you think?

By Peter Boody Where did you grow up?

I was born in Huntington Hospital and grew up in Remsenburg until I was five. My father was director of Grumman International and so he also worked in American embassies in Europe with the Department of Defense selling aircraft to our allies. In those days, that was part and parcel for the two jobs at the same time. I grew up in Paris, then we moved to Spain and to Germany and to Greece.

I came back to the United States for my last year of high school in Westhampton Beach.

Did you go to college in the U.S.?

Not at first. I grew up on the bays here, where we had a house that we rented out when we were away, and watching Jacques Cousteau. That had a profound effect on me.

Anything under water and I was I totally fascinated with it. I decided before I went to college that I wanted to go to dive school, which I did. I went to the Harbor Branch Navy-run dive school in Fort Pierce, Florida.

You went right to work?

Yes, I did a lot of commercial salvage work traveling all over the country, living in motels and even in my car, until I started getting contract work with the Navy, who put me up in military barracks. I did end up going to the University of California when my work, my life experience, took me to California. I met I did a lot of comGraham Hawkes, who is a mercial salvage work designer of submersibles and an engineer. I went to traveling all over the work in Oakland for him country, living in and Sylvia Earle, who was known as “Her Deepness,” motels and even in a really fascinating wonmy car, until I started derful woman who was a marine biologist and was getting contract work known to do a lot of diving.

They were rebuilding one with the Navy ... of the original all metal minesweepers, converting the ship to a research vessel. Graham and Sylvia started a company called Deep Ocean Engineering. I was a manager. We designed a submersible called Deep Rover and a remotely controlled vehicle called Rig Rover.

What led you to work with NASA? It was quite natural. After we had done Deep Rover and Rig Rover, I had met someone who asked me come east and work on a project for NASA. The contract was to take lessons learned under water and apply them to on-orbit operations. They saw a parallel there, so we were awarded that contract and I started as general manager of Oceaneering Space Systems, an offshoot of Oceaneering International.

Among my assignments was developing tools for the Hubble space telescope repair missions.

What brought you back home?

My father was ill. After he passed away in 1993, I went through his papers and found a whole bunch of letters that he had sent to me that never caught up with me or were returned because for so many years I had moved around so much, depending on where my work took me. I was so glad I could hear from my father later in life.

I have to ask: how are you related to the Bouviers?

Jackie was my cousin and my godmother. My father and she used to chase each other around the windmill in East Hampton when they were kids. I remember little snippets of things. I particularly remember the moment when Jack was assassinated. Jackie called us. We were in Paris at the time. I was sitting on the couch not understanding the emotions I was hearing. I really miss her a lot. She was a wonderful person.

#tbt (Throw Back Thursday) Pierson graduate Bobby Vacca with his Quinnipiac College coach Burt Kahn after being named to the ECAC Division III weekly basketball team in this #tbt (Throw Back Thursday) from the February 1, 1973 issue of The Sag Harbor Express. To submit your own #tbt, email editor Kathryn G Menu at kmenu@sagharborexpress.com.

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By Susan Menu

Mothers and Daughters

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hen mothers look back at baby pictures of their daughters, we remember the days when our little girls looked to us as though the moon and the stars radiated from our very being. So it is a mystery to many of us when, at 10, or 12 or 14, they begin to speak to us as though we are the dumbest people on the planet.

I remember looking at my nine-year-old daughter standing in our kitchen thinking, this child is perfect. She hasn’t given me a moment of anything except happiness every day of her life. God, or the spirit who controls all, must have overheard my thoughts and said, “Really, well get a load of this.” And within two years, my beautiful baby had turned into a mean girl. She developed a permanent look on her face that my dearly departed mother would have referred to as a “puss.” I’m not sure she smiled in my presence for the next six years.

So what is it between mothers and daughters?

Mothers really know a lot. We know how to read labels in supermarkets, careful not to buy anything that could poison our offspring. We are on the lookout for food that could cause our kids to develop a fatal illness in 40 years. We promise to buy organic produce. When organic becomes ridiculously expensive, swallowing our guilt, we revert to grocery store fruits and vegetables. We learn how to negotiate the minefield of our education system, kissing butt so our children get the one good teacher capable of bringing out the best in our precocious second grader. We work all day, run home and make dinner, and try to convince our children that another dinner of macaroni and cheese isn’t the healthiest choice for the seventh day in a row.

Still, our daughters speak to us — when they must — with distaste.

It’s normal to worry that your daughter may never like you again, may never act grateful for all you do for them.

When my daughter was a teenager, I solved this by doing my best to ignore her. I forced myself to tell her three nice things every day, even though it took most of my brain power to come up with one. I closely monitored her coming and going while at the same time pretended to have little interest in her life.

While she slept, I carefully went through her backpack looking for any signs of trouble. When she received letters from an inmate at an upstate prison (true story, a high school buddy who enjoyed conducting burglaries) I care-

• I personally do not agree with the legalizing of marijuana — it will just bring more problems with people driving drunk, and more criminal problems will happen to add to what we already have. We do not need more problems for the police to solve and the public to have to endure.

• Legalize it, regulate it, tax it and then rebuild New York and give everyone real health care and free public college for all.

• Idiotic idea, especially when psychosis is linked to teen pot use. My generation can clearly see what pot does to us over years of use: PERMANENT long-term

loss of short-term memory. How many ways can we degrade our brains and ruin our kids? Colorado children have died in ER from consuming edibles. Wake up and stop pretending pot’s a panacea.

• Legalize it. No taxation.

• It’s long overdue and we could really use the tax revenue.

• Why not! They should regulate alcohol sales better!

• It seems to be a good idea. A number of states have done it and there has been good revenue.

• Marijuana was misclassified in the 1930’s as a class 1 narcotic mainly due to racial reasons. It’s no more harmful than alcohol, probably less.

• I’m okay with legalizing pot and taxing it ...as long as ALL the tax revenue goes towards Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation and education and not towards any other state or local projects.

• Disagree. Should only be under medical control — there are risks, especially for young people. Don’t need to be encouraging more drug use, given opioid crisis.

fully steamed open the letters and read them. They were innocent enough, and I ignored them, carefully resealing them for her reading enjoyment. That is until one asked her to send a picture of herself, which I assumed would be hung up on the little criminal’s cell wall. I did confront her about that and to my knowledge no picture of my child graced the wall of any prison.

I’m sure many readers will be horrified about my invasion of privacy. But the only really important job you have as a mother is to ensure that your child is alive at the end of the day. A mother of a teenager should aim to develop skills similar to an undercover FBI agent, making sure no threats are incoming.

Surliness, slammed doors and the silent treatment, traits our daughters would never inflict on anyone else, especially their fathers, are part of the teenage years.

Don’t take it personally. Remember you have friends and other family members who actually like and respect you.

One day if you play your cards right, your daughter may actually become a human being you want to spend time with, and she with you.

Teenagers basically want to be left alone. The only opinion that seems to matter to them is that of their friends.

Don’t be fooled. They hear everything you say. Your values are their values, even though they hide that fact very well. Your love and approval are what really matters when all is said and done.

Go about your business, leave them alone, don’t pry just verify. Verify they are polite and respectful to their peers, the teachers who deserve it, and shopkeepers. Teach them to care for others by your example — they see how you treat others, how you do your job and how you show up every day no matter what. Let them know they can be mean to you, even act like you are the biggest dope they know, but that you will still be there for them (though this caring, no matter what, expires after age 35).

The payoff comes when your daughter has a teenage daughter who posts a note on her door that says, as my granddaughter recently wrote, “No Mom aloud (sp) until Lily says you can come in.”

Soon the day will come when the words coming out of your daughter’s mouth, as she speaks to her teenage daughter, will be the very same words you said to her so many years ago. And as the French like to say, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Go about your

business, leave

them alone, don’t pry just verify.

SUSAN MENU of Springs is an attorney, mother and grandmother.

125 Years Ago March 1, 1894

Mrs. Catherine G. Starr has purchased the residence of Charles P. Cook on Main Street; price $3,500.

The Sag Harbor Brick Company has sold during the past week twenty-five car loads of brick; most of them for the plant of the Southampton Water Company.

100 Years Ago March 6, 1919

The Pennsylvania Textile Company of Madison Avenue and 25th Street, New York City, soon expects to build a factory at Greenport, erecting there a onestory building with basement either 60 by 200 feet, or 60 by 60 in which it is expected to manufacture textile goods.

Henry Thiele, who last season drove a taxi, has opened a repair shop and automobile supply depot in the Glenn block, Main Street.

75 Years Ago March 2, 1944

Sometime back we advocated in this column some kind of transportation service which would connect our village with the train service to the outside world. We still feel that this is an essential need of our community. We have recently heard of the possibility of such a service, in the form of bus transportation from East Hampton to Sag Harbor, tying in with the trains which arrive in East Hampton so that connections may be made by bus to Sag Harbor. Although, this may not seem like the most

desirable solution of our transportation problem, if it could be put into operation without cost to our Village, and with a reasonable charge to those who might use the service, it would indeed be a step in the right direction.

50 Years Ago March 4, 1968

Interior and exterior redecorations of the beautiful old former French House on Main Street are nearing completion, according to Walker Heimberg, supervisor of the project for Arganout Enterprise Inc. Completion date is set for April 1st, or thereabouts.

Work started January 27th, several days following the completion of estimates.

The house, possessing well over a hundred years of heritage is being painted white. Pastel colors such as opal mauve, Avalon blue, chalk white and oyster green were used to paint the fine proportioned and beautifully carved rooms, left intact.

25 Years Ago March 3, 1994

Pierson played three quarters of near-flawless basketball and held on for dear life in the fourth quarter to beat Southold 80-77 to win the Suffolk County class D title and advance to the state tournament for the first time since 1983.

The Settlers whittled Pierson’s 17-point lead at the start of the fourth quarter to three on a 3-pointer

by Brian Stype with three seconds left. In the face of full court pressure, sophomore Rod Hill lobbed the ball to half court to Andre Thompson, who dribbled out the clock to victory.

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SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 King Street East Hampton NY 11937.

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Threegreens Bh LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/27/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1718 Montauk Highway Bridgehampton NY 11932. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE 6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 Bwo Ventures, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/31/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 715 South Country Rd West Bay Shore NY 11706. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE R & R Commercial Realty Group LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/18/2018. Office: Suffolk County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 340 Veterans Memorial Highway Ste #7 Commack NY 11725. Purpose: any lawful.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 99b Fordham Rd Southampton NY 11968. Purpose: any lawful.

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6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19

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NOTICE Atnv Nightlife & Entertainment, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/9/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 25 Canoe Plc Rd Hampton Bays NY 11946. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE Sensei Scissors New York, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/21/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 9 Newpoint Lane West Moriches NY 11940. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE Lentz House Media Group LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/29/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 7 Carlson Lane East Northport NY 11731. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE Exotic Salon, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/18/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 721a Hawkins Ave. Lake Ronkonkoma NY 11779. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE 274 Osh LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/18/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 10 Pantigo Rd East Hampton NY 11937.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE 44 Richards LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/6/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 10 Pantigo Rd East Hampton NY 11937.

Purpose: any lawful.

6. Each bidder must deposit a bid security in the form of a Bid Bond, Certified Check, or Cashier’s Check payable to the Owner in the amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the Base Bid amount.

7. The Owner reserves the right to award the contract within forty-five (45) calendar days after the actual date of the receipt of the bids. No bidder may modify or withdraw their bid within forty-five (45) calendar days after the time and date specified for the receipt of bids.

8. The Owner reserves the right to waive any irregularities or informalities in the bid forms or during bidding procedures, and the right to reject any or all bids.

9. Special attention is called to prospective bidders that project site will be available for bidders to inspect proposed work areas from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on weekdays by appointment with Mr. Paul Wilken, Assistant Plant Facilities Administrator, phone number (631) 899-3006.

Signed: Katherine Barber-Graves Superintendent of Schools

NOTICE 95 Springville Road 15 LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/14/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 37 Indians Trace Kings Park NY 11754. Purpose: any lawful.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE

Happy Shaw LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/28/2018.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 152 W. 57th Street 31st Fl NY NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Rutella Electric LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/28/2018.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 721 Avalon Court Drive Melville NY 11747. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Wild Garden Style LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Po Box 529 Sagaponack NY 11962. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE

Dated: February 8, 2019

Helens Lane Holdings LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/20/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 770 Lexington Ave 7th Flr. NY NY 10065. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE OF TAX SALE Village of North Haven, New York NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of the provisions of the Village Law and all the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and of resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven, Suffolk County, New York, passed at a meeting thereof, held on the 8th day of January , 2019, I, Eileen M Tuohy, Clerk/Treasurer of said Village of North Haven, Suffolk County, New York will sell at public auction in the manner provided by law, on the 13th day of March, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., North Haven Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New York, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which the Village Taxes remain unpaid as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of said sale, and shall continue from day to day until the sale shall be completed.

The Village of North Haven will exercise its rights and purchase each and all of the tax liens at such tax sale.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19

The following is a list of parcels to be sold, together with a statement of the amount of tax, fees, interest and charges thereon to wit:

NOTICE Helens Lane Management LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/20/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 770 Lexington Ave 7th Flr. NY NY 10065. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Bnb Farms, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 744 Twomey Ave Calverton NY 11933.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19

Starbound Studios LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/5/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 Upper Firestone Rd Montauk NY 11954. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE 28 N Columbine LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/1/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 28 Columbine Ave N Hampton Bays NY 11946. Purpose: any lawful.

Balance $552.72 2 4 85

43 North Haven Way Rev Trust Section Block Lot

$2,448.33 2 4 108

Jesse Aldred Section Block Lot

$219.08 4 2 1.1

Jesse Aldred Section Block Lot

$338.28 4 2 2

John Nielsen Section Block Lot

$219.92 4 2 40

John Nielsen Section Block Lot

$395.24 4 2 60

Bayit Tov LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/28/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 48 South Service Rd Ste #404 Melville NY 11747. Purpose: any lawful.

John Nielsen Section Block Lot

$261.50 4 2 61

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Nicole Leah Williams Section Block Lot

$1,170.09 4 4 4

Andrew Lack Section Block Lot

$609.48 4 1 27.1

Prospective bidders are invited to submit their stipulated sum bids, including applicable Alternates and unit prices, for work described in general as follows:

Andrew Lack Section Block Lot

$143.97 5 1 28

A. B. C. D.

Mitchell G. Minskoff Section Block Lot

$1,214.17 6 3 13

Elena Archi Section Block Lot

$940.20 6 5 33

Audrey Orell Section Block Lot

$629.52 6 5 43

NOTICE 730 W. Broadway 4b LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/14/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 37 Indian Trace Kings Park NY 11754. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE 37 Indian Trace LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/14/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 37 Indian Trace Kings Park NY 11754. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE 4519 Noyac LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 4519 Noyac Rd Sag Harbor NY 11963.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE Hayes Drone Services, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 24 Shebar Dr Islip NY 11751. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 INVITATION TO BID A. PROJECT 1. The Sag Harbor Union Free School District invites sealed bids to be received for the Renovations to Former Stella Maris Elementary School Project.

CONTRACT NO. 1 – GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT NO. 2 – MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT NO. 3 – ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT NO. 4 – PLUMBING CONSTRUCTION

2. The project shall be substantially complete in accordance with Document 00 21 13 and Section 01 10 00 for all work as indicated on the Contract Documents.

3. The Owner will receive sealed stipulated sum bids from qualified bidders at the Sag Harbor UFSD District Office, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor, NY, 11963, until 4:30 PM Local Time, on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud.

4. Contract Documents can be accessed for viewing at http://www.ibigroup.com/projects-for-bid and then click on “Obtain Documents”. The system will then connect to the printer’s website. “Register Now” (free) to obtain valid user name and password. The system will E-mail you a user name, password, and link back to the portal for viewing the project.

Bidders who register as a plan holder may acquire the bidding and contract documents through the website using the following options: • Documents are available to view for free.

• Documents may be downloaded for a nonrefundable fee.

• Printed portions of the documents may be purchased for a non-refundable fee.

• A complete printed set may be purchased for a non-refundable fee of $50.00.

For printed portions of the documents or download, the fee is dependent on the size of the documents.

5. Copies of the Contract Documents may be examined at the following offices: a.

b.

IBI Group 59-61 Court Street, Suite 300 Binghamton, New York 13901 McGraw Hill Construction Dodge 3315 Central Avenue

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Sways Movie, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/25/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 90 State St. Ste 700 Office 40 Albany NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Sailor Dog LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/1/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 Upper Firestone Rd Montauk NY 11954.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE

NOTICE Gjackson LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/31/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 58 Harrison Ave East Hampton NY 11937.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19

BY: Eileen M Tuohy, Clerk-Treasurer Village of North Haven 3x2/21/19, 2/28/19 & 3/7/19 NOTICE Notice of formation of ServiceWorks National LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/2019. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to the LLC, LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 #806, Buffalo, New York 14221. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE 35 Sands Lane LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/23/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 456 Griffing Ave Riverhead NY 11901. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Block 1, Lot 9, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/8/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1205 Bayshore Rd Greenport NY 11944.

Purpose: any lawful.

Any person wishing to be heard on said application may appear at the time and place of the hearing, in person, by attorney, or agent, or may submit written comments on the same, which comments shall be delivered to the Office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Sag Harbor, at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York before or at the hearing. The Village of Sag Harbor provides handicapped access to all public meetings. Anyone needing special assistance should contact Dee Yardley, Handicapped Access Coordinator at (631) 725-0222.

Dated: February 14, 2019 Heather Zaykowski, Clerk to the HPARB

By Order of the Village of Sag Harbor of the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review 1x2/28/19

PLEASE TAKE NOTE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven, after holding a public hearing on February 19, 2019, adopted the following Local Law at their meeting on February 19, 2019.

LOCAL LAW NO. 1 OF 2019 A LOCAL LAW AMENDING VILLAGE CODE § 50-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTH HAVEN AS FOLLOWS:

NOTICE David J. Lorber & Associates, PLLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 33 Main Street West Sayville NY 11796. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION of Newtown Realty Management LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/2/2019. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to the LLC, Rocket Corporate Services, Inc. One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, STE 805A, Albany NY 12210. Purpose: real estate management and consulting.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 PUBLIC NOTICE

Erika Gubitosi, Secretarial Assistant North Haven Board of Architectural Review & Historical Preservation

Bruce R. Fraser Sec. 6 Block 15 Lot 1

$1,230.44

William N. Whitmire (Trustee) Sec. 9 Block 1 Lot 1

$1,603.06

NOTICE OF TAX SALE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of the provisions of the Village Law and all the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and of resolutions of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, passed at a meeting thereof held on the 8th of January, 2019, I, Beth M. Kamper, Village Clerk of the said Village of Sag Harbor, will sell at public auction in the manner provided by law, on the 19th day of March 2019, at 10:00 a.m. at the Clerk’s office, in the Municipal Building in said Village of Sag Harbor, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which Village taxes remain unpaid as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of said sale, and shall continue the same from day to day until sale shall be completed.

The purchasers at such tax sale will be required to pay the amount of their respective bid to the undersigned Village Clerk within 10 days after the sale, and upon payment, shall receive a written certificate of sale describing the real estate purchased and the sum paid therefore.

Purchasers of tax liens do NOT acquire ownership of the real property by purchasing referenced tax liens.

The following is a list of parcels of real estate to be sold, together with a statement of the amount of the tax, fees, interest and charges therein, to wit: EAST HAMPTON TOWN PORTION District No. 472403 Tax, Interest & Penalties Total Amount Due

$1,089.26

Cynthia O’Burns Sec. 2 Block 7 Lot 23

$505.67

Gerald Bertie Sec. 3 Block 2 Lot 12

$1,950.16

Ronald H Brown Marital Trust Sec. 3 Block 4 Lot 14.1

$3,694.69

$2,281.81

B. No person shall construct a dock without obtaining a permit from the Village.

Adrian C. Lamos II Sec. 3 Block 6 Lot 3

C. Mooring permits shall not be issued for commercial vessels of any kind, including, by way of illustration, not limitations floats, barges, floating docks, commercial fishing vessels and all nonrecreational vessels, and mooring permits shall not be issued for seaplanes in designated mooring areas.

Jeffrey Milici Sec. 3 Block 7 Lot 6

$2,637.15

The purpose of this local law amendment is to address the use and restriction of seaplanes within the Village, consistent with the character of the Village.

Section 50-13 is amended to read as follows: Mooring permits required.

A. No person shall place a mooring or mooring tackle or moor a vessel without first obtaining a mooring permit from the Village Clerk. Such permit shall be applied for on forms to be supplied by the Village and shall be accompanied by an application fee as shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees. Upon receipt of a properly prepared application, the Village Clerk shall determine if the application is complete and, if so, shall process the application. No application shall be deemed complete until the permit fee is paid. The permit shall expire on October 31 in the year issued.

D. Seaplanes are prohibited as follows; no person, firm, or corporation shall land or cause to be landed, take off or cause to take off or taxi any seaplane on or from any waterway within 250 feet of the shore within the Village, except if: (1) An annual permit is obtained from the Village for the use and operation of the seaplane within 250 feet from the shore; (2) The waterway is within 250 feet of land owned by the operator or owner of the seaplane; or (3) The seaplane is taxiing into the Sag Harbor Waterways Management Area.

SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Local Law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State as provided by law.

All persons in interest will be heard by the Board of Trustees at the public hearing to be held as aforesaid and may appear in person or by representative. The Village Hall is accessible to handicapped persons.

Dated: February 19, 2019

By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven.

BY: Eileen M Tuohy, Village Clerk/Treasurer 1x2/28/19 NOTICE OF ADOPTION PLEASE TAKE NOTE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven, after holding a public hearing on February 19, 2019, adopted the following Local Law at their meeting on February 19, 2019.

LOCAL LAW NO. 2 OF 2019 A LOCAL LAW AMENDING VILLAGE CODE § 50-16 BE IT ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTH HAVEN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. PURPOSE. The purpose of this local law amendment is to address the use and restriction of floating homes within the Village, consistent with the character of the Village.

Section 50-16 is amended to read as follows: No person shall live aboard a vessel or on any other floating structure over the water on or in any waterway, except as permitted in the Harbor Mooring Area as shown on the waterways chart. The use of such vessel or structure in the Harbor Mooring Area shall be regulated by the Village of Sag Harbor Bay Constable pursuant to the existing Inter-Municipal Agreement.

SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Local Law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State as provided by law.

Dated: February 14, 2019 Heather Zaykowski, Clerk to the HPARB

By Order of the Village of Sag Harbor of the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review

MEETING NOTICE

Dated: February 19, 2019

By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven.

BY: Eileen M Tuohy, Village Clerk/Treasurer 1x2/28/19

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Architectural Review and Historic Preservation of the Village of North Haven will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., in the Meeting Room, North Haven Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New

6 10 3

1x2/28/19

Cynthia O’Burns Sec. 2 Block 7 Lot 22

SECTION 1. PURPOSE.

Any person wishing to be heard on said application may appear at the time and place of the hearing, in person, by attorney, or agent, or may submit written comments on the same, which comments shall be delivered to the Office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Sag Harbor, at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York before or at the hearing. The Village of Sag Harbor provides handicapped access to all public meetings. Anyone needing special assistance should contact Dee Yardley, Handicapped Access Coordinator at (631) 725-0222.

1x2/28/19

Sec. Block Lot

$3,059.55

SECTION 2. AMENDMENT OF VILLAGE CODE § 50-16.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Sag Harbor Village Board of Historical Preservation and Architectural Review will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 5:00 P.M. at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York, or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in order to consider the application of 38 Meadowlark Lane, LLC, for a Certificate of Appropriateness pursuant to Sag Harbor Village Code §300-13.3 (“Review Procedures”) with respect to the property located at 38 Meadowlark Lane, Sag Harbor, New York 11963 and identified on the Suffolk County Tax Map as parcel number 903-3-1-79.1.

York on the following applications: Maslin, SCTM#: 901-1-3-4, install generator; And any other matters, which may come before the Board.

Elana Archi Sec. 2 Block 7 Lot 20

SECTION 2. AMENDMENT OF VILLAGE CODE § 50-13.

NOTICE

DELINQUENT VILLAGE OF NORTH HAVEN TAXES

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Sag Harbor Village Board of Historical Preservation and Architectural Review will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 5:00 P.M. at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York, or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in order to consider the amended application of JAB 2 West Water LLC, for a Certificate of Appropriateness pursuant to Sag Harbor Village Code §300-13.3 (“Review Procedures”) with respect to the property located at 2 West Water Street, Sag Harbor, New York 11963 and identified on the Suffolk County Tax Map as parcel number 903-2-2-50.

NOTICE OF ADOPTION

Property Owner 7 Gleason Court LLC Section Block Lot

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

SOUTHAMPTON TOWN PORTION DISTRICT NO. 473609 Tax, Interest & Penalties Total Amount Due Richard Sabean Sec. 1 Block 1 Lot 1

$4,061.69

MAYDEL LLC Sec. 1 Block 1 Lot 17

$3,259.72

Diane M Zgonc Sec. 2.1 Block 1 Lot 4

$253.14

Carolyn Margolis Sec. 2.1 Block 1 Lot 26

$604.20

George E. Gilmer Sec. 2.1 Block 1 Lot 28

$635.61

Jonathan Friedan (Co-Trustees) Sec. 3 Block 1 Lot 13

$8,859.19

OQ Partners, LLC Sec. 3 Block 1 Lot 44.1

$2,655.28

Philip Pape Sec. 3 Block 1 Lot 70.1

$12,757.57

Suzan Carroll Smyth Sec. 3 Block 1 Lot 87

$1,764.23

Halsey Whaler House LLC Sec. 3 Block 1 Lot 102

$1,533.30

Lysander Sag Harbor Residence Sec. 3 Block 3 Lot 42.1

$658.77

Lysander Sag Harbor Residence Sec. 3 Block 3 Lot 45.1

$15,994.37

Lysander Sag Harbor Residence Sec. 3 Block 3 Lot 47

$3,186.25

Gerald Bennet Malanga, Trustee Sec. 3 Block 4 Lot 19.1

$4,981.37

Margaret W. Ginna Sec. 3 Block 4 Lot 42.1

$1,741.24

$1,294.58

Wanda L Patterson Sec. 3 Block 8 Lot 5

$826.63

Anita Rainford Sec. 3 Block 8 Lot 13.1

$990.98

Dorothe Lewis Sec. 4 Block 1 Lot 18.1

$8,730.99

Nancy Argento Sec. 4 Block 3 Lot 9

$2,735.42

Bonnie M. Stoffel Sec. 3 Block 4 Lot 73

Holly Gant Jones Sec. 4 Block 5 Lot 4

$1,645.09

Elaine A. Steinbeck Sec. 4 Block 1 Lot 3.1

Jeffrey Brock Sec. 5 Block 3 Lot 11

$2,205.37

Marybeth Ward Sec. 5 Block 1 Lot 15

$1,835.28

Christoph Knoess Sec. 5 Block 3 Lot 13

$1,860.37

Sag Harbor Main Property Corp.

Sec. 6 Block 1 Lot 2.1

$3,338.94

Christoph Knoess Sec. 5 Block 3 Lot 14

$2,895.97

Robert W. Espach Sec. 6 Block 1 Lot 23

$3,579.92

58 Palmer Terrace, LLC Sec. 6 Block 1 Lot 46

$3,765.56

$1,003.45

Martin Butler Sec. 6 Block 1 Lot 8

$664.37

$10,572.99

16 Lincoln Street Sag Harbor LLC Sec. 6 Block 3 Lot 15

$1,653.85

Claudette Romano Sec. 6 Block 1 Lot 62.5

Michelle Edna Hinds Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 2

$2,069.61

Matthew Smith Sec. 6 Block 2 Lot 17.1

Michelle Edna Hinds Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 3

$1,329.09

Carol Ann Flett Sec. 6 Block 3 Lot 5

$2,968.88

Ione G. Carey Sec. 6 Block 5 Lot 13

$1,142.11

Alex Streeter Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 63

$2,816.14

Jessica L. Jenkins Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 68

$3,027.50

Haynes, Cemron (est. of) Sec. 6 Block 6 Lot 17

$735.04

$12,830.74

G. Dabela Abraham Sec. 6 Block 7 Lot 21.1

$1,220.80

Green Barn Holdings 2, LLC Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 68

$2,537.36

166 Hampton Street LLC Sec. 6 Block 8 Lot 16

$1,451.58

Albert Ryan Jr. Sec. 7 Block 2 Lot 10

$1,924.17

Margaret A. Linton Sec. 6 Block 9 Lot 14

$1,047.02

Neal Thomason Sec. 7 Block 3 Lot 5.1

$1,147.74

William Lynch Jr.

$1,502.98

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Townhouses near OK continued from page 1 March 26 whether or not to grant it conditional approval.

If approval is granted, according to Brian DeSesa, one of Mr. Bialsky’s attorneys, it would be “another step in the direction of getting ready for the closing” on the sale of Mr. Bialsky’s adjacent property on Ferry Road to Southampton Town’s Community Preservation Fund for $10.5 million. The intended use of the Ferry Road land is Sag Harbor Village’s long-anticipated John Steinbeck Waterfront Park.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bialsky’s project also needs approval from the Sag Harbor Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review. It will take up the matter again tonight, February 28, at 5 p.m. at village hall. It will hold a formal public hearing on Mr. Bialsky’s recently adjusted architectural plans on March 14, also at 5 p.m. at village hall.

“The changes that have been made are mostly massing, not footprint,” planning board chairman John Shaka said during the board’s regular meeting.

On Tuesday, after the planning board discussed the 2 West Water Street pro-

posal at both a public work session and its regular meeting, the four board members present decided the site plan was almost ready to approve.

Kathy Eiseman, the board’s environmental consultant, told the board she considered a few engineering matters loose ends. Mostly, she said, they are related to containing stormwater runoff and preventing flooding at the property. The proposed bulkhead on the shoreline is also being adjusted to add some rip rap, Ms. Eiseman said, which was a request of the village’s Harbor Committee.

Village attorney Denise Schoen told the board, “If all the conditions are met, then a building permit could be issued. If not, they would have to come back for a modification.”

On Wednesday, Mr. DeSesa disagreed there were any loose ends remaining.

“We wouldn’t move forward with engineering those systems until we’re in the permit process,” he said. “It’s not practical to design something you don’t know you’re going to get approved. We need everything before we start drafting those plans, all four boards, before starting down that path.”

Chasing ghosts continued from page 1 said in an interview. “This is where my mind was carved into what it is now.”

From the mind of Ari Selinger, now a New York University-educated filmmaker based in New York City, first came “Moondog Airwaves,” a short film shot at Bay Burger that screened at the Sag Harbor Cinema about six weeks before it burned down in 2016.

Mr. Selinger is now working on his next film: “The Ghost of Hank Williams,” for which he has just finished casting his actors, and which he will begin shooting at the American Hotel in the coming days.

And so continues his romance with Sag Harbor.

“I hope people see it as the least I can do for a town that I love,” Mr. Selinger said. “I hope people receive it as a gift. I’m making it for myself, but I’m really making it as a love letter to Sag Harbor.”

“The Ghost of Hank Williams” is about a couple, Toby and Tara, who are “disillusioned ghost hunters, who could really be anybody,” Mr. Selinger said over drinks at The American Hotel. “I was really inspired by the ghost stories they told me here, and I loved how the location fit the characters.

When the location can be a main

character as well, I love that, too. I mean, it’s the American Hotel.”

Mary Ferrara, the hotel’s administrative manager, said the hotel “lends itself to be a perfect location” for the film.

“During my meeting with Ari last month, his excitement for what this location has to offer was contagious,” Ms. Ferrara said. “We feel privileged to be a part of this project.”

But in addition to being about ghosts, the film is also about music — “Hank’s music, whose forlorn lyrics of heartbreak and sorrow the couple, Tara and Toby, seem to be living out,” Mr. Selinger said on an online crowdfunding page that he is using to help gather the resources to make the film.

“More importantly, the hotel serves as a meeting ground for the past and present — a major theme explored in this story, the lyrical link between yesterday and today.”

More information on the film may be found online at gofundme.com/ umyvk-the-ghost-of-hank-williams.

Not only is The American Hotel working with Mr. Selinger, but so are Provisions, Harbor Market, Schiavoni’s IGA, Grindstone Donuts and other local businesses.

“It feels like small-town filmmaking at its finest,” Mr. Selinger said.

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LTV SALON DEBUTS

michael heller photo

Aida Turturro (center), with Patrick Christiano, Karen Saunders and Mario Cantone, reads from an original play written by Joy Behar at the inaugural LTV Salon at LTV Studios on Friday, February 22.

Volunteers are needed continued from page 1 anymore,” commented Mayor Sandra Schroeder last week as the Village Board met with department heads to go over the preliminary budget for fiscal year 2019-2020. The participants included fire and ambulance officials who said they are facing more calls for service with fewer people to handle them.

“It’s the new group,” the mayor said of recently arrived residents who don’t have the time or the interest.

“To that point, Sandra,” replied ambulance corps chief Deborah O’Brien, “we’re supposed to have 40 people in the ambulance corps. We have 29, with more and more calls.”

“I know. It’s the new way of the world,” the mayor added.

Part-time paid emergency medical technicians (EMT) and paramedics on the ambulance corps staff cover calls that volunteers may not be on hand to take, Ms. O’Brien explained. But those professionals want full-time work and they can find it in other ambulance corps nearby. Sag Harbor, meanwhile, keeps losing them as the only ambulance corps in the region with no fulltime positions.

Ms. O’Brien asked that a line be added to the budget to fund a fulltime EMT or paramedic, which she said would be a wash in terms of pay for the three part-timers who would be replaced. But it would require up to $40,000 a year in benefits, including medical coverage for a married person, which part-timers don’t get.

“It’s crazy,” Trustee Ken O’Donnell

commented. “We were sitting here five years ago, when Brian [Gilbride] was mayor, saying us hiring a parttime EMT was going to be the end of volunteerism. And now, five years later, we’re talking about the village being pillaged by people getting hired full-time. You’re only talking five years. It’s crazy.”

Assistant Fire Chief Steve Miller also called for more paid staff, a “duty captain” to help answer the soaring number of calls the department receives, topping 500 a year for the past several years.

Also, he said the department was “working on a junior program to entice the kids.” Meanwhile, a Sag Harbor 17-year-old who trained to become an EMT has to go to Bridgehampton’s junior program in order to find a sponsor, he said.

Ms. O’Brien said in an interview this week that her 29 volunteers put in an average of 552 hours of training and work a year, with many of them putting in far more hours than that. The corps is supposed to have 40 members, according to the Village Code regulating it, she said, but “it’s hard to find people. Everybody has to work. People have two jobs. They don’t have time.”

There also “are people moving into the community,” she added, who are “not volunteer-type people.” The people who are tearing down modest houses and rebuilding them “are not the people who are volunteering.”

Meanwhile, she said, “Those willing to volunteer have to work so hard just to stay here.”

DON’T MISS OUT!

Village Board to review the spending plan at a work session on February 20.

The village, hoping to win a major state grant, had planned to begin the $3-million Long Wharf project in late 2018 but had to postpone it when the village did not receive an expected $2.5 million in state funding.

As it currently stands, the largest single increase in the spending plan is a 793-percent hike from $14,750 to $131,712 for assessment services provided by the Town of East Hampton, which has upgraded its computer system and is charging Sag Harbor a prorated share of the cost.

“It has quite an impact on our budget,” Mayor Schroeder said, “but it is less expensive than hiring a group of people to be our assessors and starting our own assessment program.”

Just in case the final budget will force the village to pierce the state’s 2-percent limit on annual tax increases, the board voted 5-0 to set a public hearing for March 12 on a proposed local law that would allow the village to pierce the cap. “That amounts to being prepared,” the mayor commented.

Under state deadlines, a final budget proposal must be presented at a public hearing no later than April 15 and it must be adopted with any amendments by May 1.

During the budget session, the board discussed the possibility of adding a full-time paid emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic to replace three part-timers who supplement the 29 volunteers of the village ambulance corps. That would add up to $40,000 in medical and other benefits to the budget that part-timers don’t receive, Deborah O’Brien, the president of the ambulance corps, told the board.

She said that Sag Harbor is the only corps in the region without a full-time paid professional EMT or paramedic on staff and that the corps has been losing part-timers to full-time jobs elsewhere. She said she had asked that the budget include funding to hire a full-timer but the spending plan, as presented on February 20, did not include it, showing an increase of only $980 in the ambulance corps budget to $496,240, a rise of about two-tenths of 1 percent.

The budget proposal calls for increasing trustee salaries by $4,800 to $48,000, to a total of $12,000 for each of the four trustees. The mayor’s salary would rise $2,000 to $26,000. “Because we have a treasurer now,” the mayor said, referring to Rhonda Meserole, the budget proposal includes an increase of $18,510 to pay her salary.

Other major cost increases, if approved, would include a 22-percent hike in spending for Village Hall repairs and its security system from $41,000 to $50,000; repairs and utility costs at the central garage building, up 18 percent from $11,300 to $13,000; and for “judgments and claims,” up an expected $8,000 or 67 percent from $12,000 to $20,000.

Except for undistributed employee benefits, which are expected to total $3,292,016, up 2 percent, the largest single line in the budget is the police department budget, which will drop 2 percent to $2,178,585 because of a savings of almost $120,000 in salaries “due to the attrition of senior officers and the influx of new officers,” Chief Austin J. Maguire wrote in a budget letter to the board.

In his budget proposal, he is asking for an additional officer for a total of 12. “Of East End villages with police departments,” he wrote, “we are geographically the smallest. But we are second only to Southampton Village in calls for service and full-time population,” even with the fewest number of police officers in the region.

The budget calls for an additional matron duty at the village jail costing $6,500, up 44 percent from $4,500.

The budget line for fire prevention shows an increase of 13 percent, up $54,230 to $466,705. Most of that is for a new chief’s car, which the mayor said will cover “all the bells and whistles” such as decals and lights, which have turned out to be extra costs in past purchases.

Second Assistant Fire Chief Kevin O’Brien told the board he also “was hoping” to have an “additional person” to act as a duty captain to help answer the department’s well over 500 annual calls.

“That’s unreal,” the mayor said of the workload.

A 14-percent increase in the building department’s “safety inspection/code enforcement” budget to $272,719 is the result of the addition of a full-time person at a salary of $35,363. A part-time position, meanwhile, will lose $6,000 in wages, with its budget line dropping from $16,000 to $10,000.

The highway department shows an increase of 7 percent to $870,082, including $35,000 for a new vehicle and $10,000 in higher paving costs. The harbors and docks budget includes a 10-percent increase to $379,400, including an additional $10,000 for pump-out services for the increasing level of boat traffic in the harbor, Trustee Ken O’Donnell said. An additional $5,000, for a total of $50,000, is budgeted for repairs.

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Obituaries

Community Sag Harbor Queen of the Sun at Provisions

What are the bees telling us? Provisions Natural Foods Market and Café in Sag Harbor, will host a screening of “Queen of the Sun,” an alternative look at the global bee crisis, on Sunday, March 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Mary Woltz from Bees Needs will speak often the screening. Tickets are available at Provisions and all $5 ticket donations will go to the Spikenard Bee Sanctuary. For more information, visit provisionsnaturalfoods.com

East Hampton Free Community Health Fair

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital will co-sponsor a free community Health Fair at the Most Holy Trinity School, 77 Buell Lane, East Hampton, on Friday, March 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Highlights include health screenings and checks (cholesterol, blood pressure, HIV), applications for colorectal screenings, and appointments for no-cost mammogram and pap tests (for uninsured women over the age of 40).

Representatives and information will be on hand from health insurance organizations, EmblemHealth Medicare, Hudson River HealthCare, East Hampton Town Human Services Department, HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program), Project Warmth,

Timothy D. Lewis

PUBLIC MEETINGS THURS FEB 28 Sag Harbor Village Board of Historic Preservation & Architectural Review, 5 p.m., Sag Harbor Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-1700 or sagharborny.gov.

TUES MAR 5 East Hampton Town Board, 10 a.m. work session, East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton. (631) 324-4141 or ehamptonny.gov.

THURS MAR 7 East Hampton Town Board, 6:30 p.m. regular meeting, East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton. (631) 324-4141 or ehamptonny.gov.

and The Retreat. Applications and information will also be available for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/Food Stamps), and attendees will have the opportunity to speak with a nutrition educator.

Healthy refreshments will be served and a stress relief circle will be held. The entire community is invited to attend. For more information, call (631) 329-2425.

LVIS Reopens for the Season

The Shops at LVIS, 95 Main Street in East Hampton, will re-open Friday, March 1, at 10 a.m. The Spring Opening will feature an all new selection of clothing, accessories, jewelry, books, housewares, art, furniture and more.

Come early for the best selection. For more information, visit lvis.org.

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CHEER SQUAD HONORED

(From left) Bridgehampton cheer team students were recognized for their hard work: Jaden Campbell, Alanah Johnson, Jalisa Hopson, Nava Campbell, Melanie Braia, Jaeda Gant, Kimberly Rojas and Melissa Villa.

School News Bridgehampton School Honors High Achieving Athletes

The Bridgehampton School recognized the many students who work hard to achieve excellence in their school work, perfect attendance and commitment to athletics including members of the cheer team who earned High Honor Roll and Honor Roll recognition. Melanie Braia, Jaden Campbell, Nava Campbell, Jaeda Gant, Jalisa Hopson, Alanah Johnson, Kimberly Rojas and Melissa Villa were awarded certificates for their work on and off the court. Bridgehampton High School students who were recognized as having perfect attendance are Anthony Cabrera, Olivia Cas-

sone, Jose Dorado, Ayanna El, Yaritza Huacon, Hugo Kapon, Sarah Kapon, Maydelin Ruiz Soto, Monasia Street, Marques Thomas, Max Tiska, Justin Urgiles and Kim Villa.

Pancake Breakfast to Benefit Pierson 8th Grade

The Pierson Middle School eighth grade class will hold a pancake breakfast to benefit the class’s trip to Washington D.C. The pancake breakfast will be held on Sunday, March 3, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the Sag Harbor Fire Department headquarters, 1357 Brick Kiln Road in Sag Harbor. The cost is $10 for adults and $7 for children under 12. A 50/50 raffle will be held during the event.

Timothy D. Lewis, age 71, died in Sarasota, Florida on February 3, 2019. A resident of Sag Harbor and Longboat Key, Florida, Mr. Lewis was born in Chicago on June 28, 1947. He attended the Frances W. Parker School in Chicago and the University of Wisconsin at Ann Arbor.

He was lured East when he was accepted into The Juilliard School, drama division, and moved to New York City.

His acting career included Broadway plays, off-Broadway work, and a number of movies and background work. He was a proud member of the Screen Actor’s Guild. Eventually Mr. Lewis brought his considerable wit and charm to the business of fund-raising for various cultural institutions in New York City.

He also directed development programs for such organizations as The Cooper Union, The MacDowell Art Colony, the ACLU and T. LEWIS WLIU radio station (now WPPB). Whatever endeavor he took on, he worked with enthusiasm and commitment.

Mr. Lewis had a fine intelligence which he turned to a wide range of interests, including the arts, of which he was both patron and practitioner. He was also an ardent tennis player and a serious student of the game.

Mr. Lewis was a caring and thoughtful man with a superb sense of humor, to the delight of his family and friends.

He is sorely missed by his beloved and loving wife, Sarah Burr, his brother Dan Lewis (Stephanie Riger), sister April Burke (Richard Flynt) and a number of nieces and nephews. A memorial ser-

vice is planned for May 10, 2019 at The Heights Casino in Brooklyn, New York.

Mr. Lewis was diagnosed with CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia) in 2001. He fought this illness gallantly and persistently, until it finally claimed him. Donations in his memory will be gratefully accepted by the Northwell Health CLL Research and Treatment Program, 410 Lakeville Road, Ste. 212, New Hyde Park, N.Y. 11042, Attn: Dr. Kanti Rai.

George C. K amper

George C. Kamper passed away on February 22, 2019 after a nine-month battle with cancer; he was 56 years old.

He was born in Manhattan, New York, on December 8, 1962, the son of Mary (Tsapos) and Costas Kamper.

Shortly after graduating from high school, Mr. Kamper moved to Sag Harbor, where he began his career in con- G. KAMPER struction and would go on to build over 300 homes for families on the East End. A devoted father, son, brother, and uncle, Mr. Kamper also had a love for his pets, boats and classic cars.

In addition to his mother, Mr. Kamper is survived by his brother, Ted, of Queens, N.Y., and children Alexander of Sag Harbor, and Samantha, of New York City.

All are welcome to attend a memorial service on Sunday, March 3, from noon to 3 p.m. at The Bell & Anchor in Sag Harbor. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be made to Fighting Chance, www.fightingchance.org.

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“I am honored to have the Republican nomination to run for Suffolk County Legislator,” Ms. Kabot said in a statement on Tuesday. “I appreciate the opportunity to step back into the political arena and offer the voters a choice for a more effective voice for the people …”

“I have strength of character, 14 years of experience at the executive and legislative level of local government, and an ardent desire to return to public service,” she said. “I look forward to a vigorous campaign.”

Ms. Kabot, a former wedding photographer, started her political career in the 1990s as executive assistant to Republican Southampton Town Supervisor Vincent Cannuscio of Hampton Bays. She was elected to the Southampton Town Board in 2001 and again in 2005.

In 2007, in the middle of her council term, she challenged Republican Supervisor Skip Heaney in a primary and won, going on to narrowly beat Democrat Jim Henry in the general election.

Ms. Fleming, a former assistant Manhattan district attorney, is a lawyer focusing on matrimonial and family law and professional mediation.

She was elected to the Southampton Town Board in 2010 to fill an unexpired term and to a full four-year term in 2011. In 2015, she won her seat on the legislature and was reelected in 2017.

The second legislative district covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island and a few small parts of Brookhaven Town.

“I have enormous respect for the Democratic system,” Ms. Fleming commented on Tuesday, “and I’m looking forward to running a strong campaign.

I think the process is really healthy for good government and I want to make sure voters know of the successes my team has been able to achieve.”

She said her constituents’ county tax rate has remained level or declined during her years in office and that she and her team have steered “many millions” in infrastructure funding to the district for clean water, reversing brown tide, revitalization efforts and supporting vibrant downtowns.

She listed renewable energy, public transportation, health issues and “landmark advances in research to combat tick-borne disease” as areas where she has achieved results. “I’m really very proud of the amount of success my team has been able to deliver,” Ms. Fleming said.

Southampton GOP Supervisor Search Meanwhile, the Republican and Democratic committees in both East Hampton and Southampton Towns met last week to nominate their candidates for most town contests.

But the Southampton Town GOP ended its meeting with no candidate for supervisor. This week the committee continued “to have conversations” — as committee vice chair Theresa Kiernan put it on Monday —with prospective candidates to challenge Democratic nominee Jay Schneiderman, who is seeking his third twoyear term. GOP Chairman David Betts could not be reached for comment.

Republicans had been expected to tap Councilwoman Scalera, the only

Republican on the Southampton Town Board, to run for supervisor. Facing the term-limited end of her eight years as a councilperson, she announced a few weeks ago she was considering a run against Mr. Schneiderman.

But just last week, shortly before the Republicans held their nominating convention on Wednesday, February 20, she announced she would not be a candidate.

She commented in a text message on Tuesday, “While I love what I do, the demands of a campaign and the physical and mental commitment required to do the very best I can (and I wouldn’t know how to do less) make running for supervisor right now not in the best interest of my family and that has to come first. I am grateful for the support many people have given through the years. I hope that while some are disappointed with my decision not to run that overall they have been proud of the way I have represented them in Town Hall and know that I poured my heart into my work.”

Ms. Kabot said Monday that the GOP committee had asked her to consider running for supervisor but she declined, in part because of her concern it could lead to conflicts with her work as a consultant to real estate clients on land-use and permitting issues.

To run for the Southampton Town Board seats currently held by Ms. Scalera and Democrat John Bouvier of Westhampton, who is seeking a second four-year term, the GOP committee nominated two newcomers to town-level electoral politics: Jim Ding of North Sea, a former candidate for the Sag Harbor School Board and a member of the Noyac CAC when he lived in Noyac; and Rick Martel of Hampton Bays.

In addition to Mr. Bouvier, the Democratic Committee tapped Craig Catalanotto of Speonk, the co-chair of the town’s Citizens Advisory CommitteeWest, to run for Town Board.

Top East Hampton Contests In East Hampton, a breakaway group called the Reform Democrats met on Tuesday, February 27, with many observers expecting it to name its own candidates to challenge the nominees of the town’s Democratic Committee, who were named at its convention on February 13. The Reform group’s leader, Rona Klopman, declined on Wednesday to say what was decided on Tuesday and promised to issue a press release by the end of the week.

As for the Democratic Committee, there were no surprises. “Almost 80 percent of the 36 committee members” cast ballots at the convention, according to the committee’s website, nominating three Town Board incumbents to seek reelection: Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, a former councilman who will be seeking his second two-year term; Councilman David Lys, seeking his first full four-year term; and Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, seeking her third four-year term.

The East Hampton Republican Committee on February 23 named Richard Myers, past chairman of the Wainscott CAC and a 10-year member of the Board of Architectural Review, to challenge Mr. Van Scoyoc in the supervisor race.

For the two council seats at stake on the Town Board, it named Bonnie Brady, the government affairs liaison for the Long Island Commercial Fishermen’s Association, and Betsy Bambrick, the town’s recently retired code enforcement chief, to run against Mr. Lys and Ms. Overby.

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amazing game against them. It was very intense.”

After going from the regular season right into a busy and successful Suffolk County tournament, Barranco and her teammates were looking forward to taking some time off and getting back to work at practice with nearly two weeks to prepare for the state regional final.

“I think this was our best game out of the past three in this tournament,” Barron said on Friday. “We always play up to the competition.”

And next up is the defending state champion. The task doesn’t get much taller than that.

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men’s,” Kneeland told The Press. “We get more people at the girls’ games than we do at the boys’ games at home, which is amazing to see.”

After losing to Mt. Sinai on Friday in the Suffolk County Small Schools Championship game, Pierson will turn its attention to the state Class C playoffs, starting with a game on March 9. Kneeland will take her 1,034 points into the game, with dreams of extending her career and her team’s season at least one more game.

The New York State Public High School Girls Basketball Championships will be held at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy over the weekend of March 15 through 17. That’s the same weekend as the boy’s tournament, which is held in Binghamton, about 120 miles away. Kneeland is not concerned with physical distance. She is focused, instead, on narrowing the perception gap and continuing to fight for equal footing for girls and women in the arena of sports. Kneeland has at least one more game to go this season and, as she pointed out last week, there’s still so much more to accomplish.

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tournament. “The boys have always been the one to see…and I want it to be the girls now, so I hope that helps.”

The struggle for girls and women to be on equal footing with their male counterparts in terms of athletics dates back 47 years, when Title IX was passed as part of a new law that read, in part, that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

Studies have shown dramatic increases in the number of females participating in high school and collegiate athletics as a result of Title IX, but gaining the same spotlight as, say, football or men’s basketball — and therefore the same funding — has remained a challenge.

In an interview with The Southampton Press after she reached the 1,000-point mark, Kneeland said adding another female name to the banner, along with all the corresponding hype, might inspire the next generation of female athletes.

“I think that’s powerful because women’s basketball isn’t taken as seriously as

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e made it through February and now we will have to wait to see what March will bring. The past week continued to be another one of weird weather. We continue to dodge the snow events.

We have a little snow and sleet and then the rain takes it away. We are still plagued by wind.

The almanac states that the average temperature for March will be slightly above average. If you believe the almanac, it makes no mention of snow for the entire month. However, remember that the month of March can be a strange one.

We continue to walk the beach when the weather permits. Both the ocean and bay have given up some great beach finds. There are plenty of birds for the birdwatchers. You can’t believe the amount of birds of prey. Hawks and eagles are almost an everyday occurrence. There also are a lot of vultures in the skies.

Fishing has been quiet even when the weather cooperates.

There are very few codfish and ling. There was no news from the Montauk boats this week past.

The only news is coming from the boats from western Long Island. The northwest winds have been producing some great clamming tides. Those hard clams should start nosing soon.

This Saturday, March 2, there is a fishing show at Ward Melville High School in East Setauket. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. If you miss that one, our own fishing flea market will be the next Saturday, March 9. The Sag Harbor Fire Department Dive Team is sponsoring the 6th Annual Fishermen’s Flea Market. It runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is located at the main firehouse, 1357 Brick Kiln Road in Sag Harbor.

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ierson senior Katie Kneeland drilled a foul shot with 32.7 seconds remaining in the first quarter of the Suffolk County B/C/D title game against Mattituck at Centereach High School on February 20. It was her 1,000th career point as Kneeland became just the third girl in school history to reach the milestone, joining Robyn Bramoff and Kate Browngardt.

Most team-minded competitors like Kneeland talk about the bigger picture in moments like these, how team accomplishments always come first, and how there are more championships to chase. But Kneeland used the moment to shine a light on something much larger, in her opinion, than the individual accomplishment. For Kneeland, the fact that she increased the number of girl names from two to three on the 1,000-point-scorer banner in the Pierson gym meant everything.

‘That’s really important to me because I want to get girls basketball at Pierson to have more popularity,” Kneeland said after Pierson’s 46-41 victory over Mattituck, which advanced the team in the overall Suffolk County

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Before Friday, the last time the Pierson/Bridgehampton girls basketball team had lost a game was three weeks before Christmas. For fans of the Lady Whalers, this year’s team has been a gift that keeps on giving.

After starting the season with three consecutive non-league losses, and with their star senior on the bench with a wrist injury, the Lady Whalers came together and rattled off 19 straight victories, won a League VI championship and a pair of postseason games against worthy opponents.

The sting of defeat had become a distant memory, dating back to December 5 to be exact, when Pierson lost to Harborfields, 54-34.

That all changed on Friday, December 22, at Walt Whitman High School, where the Class A Champion Mt. Sinai Lady Mustangs snapped Pierson’s 19game win streak with a 69-55 victory in the Suffolk County Small Schools title game, which brought an end to Pierson’s charge through the overall county tournament.

Mt. Sinai played Longwood, the Class AA champion, on Wednesday after press time to determine the top team in

Suffolk County.

The Lady Whalers, meanwhile, have begun preparations for the state Class C playoffs, starting with a Southeast Regional Final on Saturday, March 9, most likely at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Their opponent will come from either Section I (Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties) or Section IX (Orange, Sullivan and Ulster), where defending statechampion Millbrook looms large as the top-ranked Class C team in the state by New York sportswriters.

Pierson, largely as a result of its most recent success, is ranked number 12.

“There’s no way you’re going to see competition like this upstate,” Pierson head coach Kevin Barron said on Friday about Mt. Sinai, which will continue along in the state Class A playoffs regardless of Wednesday’s outcome in the overall county championship game.

“They’re a good team.”

Pierson struggled mightily in the first half and committed a long series of turnovers that led to a 13-point halftime advantage for the Lady Mustangs.

The lead ballooned to 17 with under four minutes remaining in the third quarter after Mt. Sinai’s dynamic senior guard, Gabby Sartori, who led all scorers with 32 points, completed a threepoint play.

But that was when the tide began to turn in favor of the Lady Whalers.

“We started to get the ball up the middle more and pacing our way up the court, which is what I wanted,” Barron said about beating the Lady Mustangs’ full-court press.

Katie Kneeland, who led Pierson with 20 points just two days after scoring the 1,000th point of her career in a win over Mattituck, scored five points in a 12-0 run that also included baskets by Chastin Giles, Celia Barranco and Aziza El. The Lady Whalers kept up the pressure and Kneeland hit three straight free throws to pull her team within three, 54-51, with 6:10 left in the game.

But that was where the run came to an end. Riding the hot hand of Sartori, and with major contributions from senior Brooke Cergol down the stretch, the Lady Mustangs pulled away one last time and closed out another victory.

“We could have won this game, but we started out slow,” Barranco said afterward. “But I think we played an

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SPORTS W R AP Killer Bees Gear Up for states The Bridgehampton boys basketball team will return to the court at Center Moriches High School for an elimination game against the Academy Charter School of Hempstead on Friday, March 1, at 5 p.m. The game will be the first Class D Long Island Championship game in recent memory, with the winner advancing to the Southeast Regional Final, tentatively scheduled for March 10 against an opponent from either Section I or Section IV. The winner of the regional final will advance to play in the state final four over the weekend of March 15 through 17 at the Floyd L. Maines Arena in Binghamton. The Killer Bees last won a state championship in 2015, which was the program’s ninth overall.

BUsiello Wins 5th state title Adam Busiello, a senior at Eastport/ South Manor who attended Sag Harbor

Elementary School, won his fifth New York State wrestling championship over the weekend. He is the first wrestler in state history to reach six state finals, and the first in the history of Suffolk County to win five state titles.

Busiello pinned Willie McDougald of Niagara Falls in the Division I 138-pound weight class final in 3 minutes and 28 seconds on Saturday night at the Times Union Center in Albany. It was his 111th straight win, according to Newsday, which reported his career record at 280-8 and 50-0 for his senior season.

Busiello will continue his wrestling career at Arizona State University.

Greene rUns in elite Meet Pierson sophomore Penelope Greene competed on Saturday in the Long Island Elite Meet at St. Anthony’s High School, finishing third in the freshman/sophomore 1,500-meters race with a time of 5:15.57. She was joined

by East Hampton’s Ava Engstrom, who ran in the varsity race at the same distance and finished eighth with a time of 5:01.75.

“They did extremely well, running with some of the best athletes from all of Long Island,” track coach Yani Cuesta said. “We are super proud of both of them.”

The meet marked the end of the winter track season, with the spring season set to begin on Monday, March 4.

DUryea Will Close oUt Career The New York State Public High School Boys Swimming Championships will be held this Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2, at the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow. Pierson senior Ryan Duryea will close out his decorated career as a member of the East Hampton team’s 4x200 meter freestyle relay, along with Aidan Forst and Owen and Ethan McCormac.

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oisin Bateman usually works through her creative process alone.

So when she decided to collaborate with a team of five fellow artists, she went in with an open mind — especially considering three of them hadn’t graduated high school yet.

“There’s something different about working in a group as opposed to working by yourself,” Bateman explained. “I think it does open up new possibilities, because everyone sees things in such a different way.”

What came next was a transformation — both inside herself and out through her art, she said — working alongside collaborators Scott Sandell and Peter Solow, and his trio of students, during a printmaking workshop at Pierson High School in

Sag Harbor.

“This truly extraordinary workshop allows students to act as interns working directly with a variety of professional artists,” Solow said in a statement, “authentically engaging in a variety of art making processes that they can apply to their own work.”

But the takeaway was not exclusive to the students, Bateman said. Two days later, she had walked away with a taste of a new artistic language, a medium previously foreign to her, and a re-imagined digital print that will be on view as part of “Division Street Editions,” opening Friday at Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor in support of Pierson Student Travel.

“I’m so proud of the work that’s there,” gallery owner Julie Keyes said. “I consider my gallery, at this point, to be of impeccable curation, and being in Sag Harbor,

I don’t have to try. It’s a really beautiful group of works from a high-quality, modern, state-of-the-art, new printer that is available in Sag Harbor. Beginning Scott Sandell’s new venture as an art printer is a gift to the community.”

The new Epson printer was enough to catch artist Christopher French’s attention. During the 1990s, the self-described “irregular printmaker” published a number of individual prints, and two print editions, with Pyramid Atlantic in Maryland. There, the emphasis was on handmade paper, the artist recalled, which he combined with lithography, silkscreen, etching, chine collé and embossment, working with a staff that ranged from interns to master printers.

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hen the phone rang and Paul McCartney was on the other end, Denny Laine wasn’t surprised.

They were friends, after all, tightly connected through the British music scene — as founding members of the Beatles and the Moody Blues, respectively — and shared stages together, around the world, before their groups dissolved.

So when the Beatle asked the Moody Blue to hop on a flight to Scotland and start a new band with him and his wife, Linda McCartney, Laine wasted no time, he recalled during a telephone interview last week from Miami, taking off a few days to soak in the sun before returning to his “Songs and Stories” tour,

w h ic h will bring him to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday night.

“Paul saw me at a show I did

with Jimi Hendrix with this new band I had, and not long after that, he asked me to join and I just jumped on that plane,” Laine said. “Of course, it was up in Scotland, so it was away from the press. It was very private and we had plenty of time without any pressure to put it together. It was a gradual process and we eventually went out on the road, and built it as a band. It took a while.

It always takes a while when you’re coming from something established and doing something new.”

In 1971, they co-founded Wings. Three years later, their album “Band on the Run” went triple platinum, its Grammy-winning title track spending seven weeks at number 1 on the UK’s Guinness Charts of British Hit Singles.

“We definitely made a decision that we weren’t going to be the Moody Blues or the Beatles. You can’t do that, especially at that time,” Laine said. “Paul goes out now and does all his Beatles stuff, but you couldn’t have done it then. I would not have done that, either. The whole point was to be a songwriting situation, where you do your new show. It’s the same as when I left the Moody Blues — they were forced, in a way, to do their own thing and write their own material and go their own direction. We all were.” continued on page B3

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lightly past 1 p.m. on a recent Friday afternoon, Anderson East was just waking up to a chilly, grey day in Covington, Kentucky.

“Yeah, perfect,” the musician said with a smooth drawl and a lighthearted laugh, less than seven hours before his performance at the Madison Theater that night — a fusion of roots, soul, rhythm and blues, and country from his studio records, “Delilah” and “Encore,” with a few unexpected band favorites sprinkled in.

“I’ve been recording records since I was 13 years old and putting them out, here and there,” he said. “I have no idea why the hell I did it, because they were not good. I was just trying to make noise

somehow. I don’t know why the hell I thought sharing it was a good idea. Down the road, it seems to have worked out alright.”

The Sag Harbor Express caught up with the Grammy-nominated musician before his show on Saturday night at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, rewinding to his earliest musical days as a kid in small-town Athens, Alabama — deadpanning almost the whole way through.

The Sag Harbor Express: Take me back to Athens. What was it like growing up there?

Anderson East: Man, it was really a great little town. My best friends in the world were awesome people — we’re all still super, super close. For me, at least, it

was a great place to grow up, but not necessarily a great place to be. As I got older and wanted a little more out of life, there wasn’t any kind of music scene. It was a dry county, so there weren’t any bars and nobody was playing music beyond what you heard in church on Sunday.

But there was a youth pastor, a guy that was smart enough, or kind enough, to put on a coffee house at the Presbyterian Church on Wednesdays, so that gave our teenaged selves some kind of outlet to play some music. That was pretty much the extent of it.

How did music come into your life?

A neighborhood friend of mine, his old-

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Anderson East will perform at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Saturday.

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The Current OUTDOORS SAT MAR 2 Chatfield’s Hole Hike, 10 a.m., meet at Chatfield’s Hole on Two Holes of Water Road, off Swamp Road, East Hampton. (631) 813-6988 or (631) 481-6228.

Observe Wintering Seals, 11 a.m., also Sunday, March 3, meet at Montauk Point concession building, 2000 Old Montauk Highway, Montauk, $4 and free for children under age 3, reservations required. (631) 668-5000.

Nighttime Salamander Search with Andy Sabin, 7:30 p.m., call for meet-up location from Bridgehampton to Montauk, wear boots and BYO flashlight, $15, $10 for children and free for South Fork Natural History Museum members, reservations required. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

SUN MAR 3 Bay to Ocean South Hike, 10 a.m., meet at 113 Farm Court, Sagaponack.

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FOR THE KIDS THU FEB 28 Baby Beats, 10:45 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Teen Movie Afternoon: “The Pursuit of Happyness,” 3:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Chess: Grades K-6, 4 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Escape Room, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. grades four to six, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. grades seven to 12, John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Magic: The Gathering, 7 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or

Montauk, free. (631) 668-3377 or montauklibrary.org.

MON MAR 4 English Conversation, 6 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

WED MAR 6 “Georgia O’Keeffe: A Woman Ahead of Her Time” with Ranelle Wolf, 1 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton.

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Intermediate ESL Class, 6 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

THU MAR 7 Beginner ESL Class, 6 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

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TUE MAR 5 Make Marvel Perler Beads, 3:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

WED MAR 6 Paper Airplanes: Part 2, 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

STAGE & SCREEN THU FEB 28 Screening: “Concert for George,” 7:30 p.m., Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, $10. (631) 2881500 or whbpac.org.

SAT MAR 2 The Met Live in HD: Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” 1 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $22, $20 for members and $15 for students.

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SUN MAR 3 Screening: “A Star Is Born,” 2 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Winter Film Festival: “The Paris Opera,” 2 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton, free. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

“Present Tense” Series: “Little Murders” with Jules Feiffer, 3 p.m., Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, $15 or $12 for SAC members. Sagharborcinema.org.

Screening: “Queen of the Sun,” 4 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $5. Provisionsnaturalfoods.com.

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THU MAR 7 Jam Session, 7 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, BYO instruments. (631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

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THU FEB 28 “Painting Locally,” on view through March 10, Grenning Gallery, 26 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-8469 or

DANGERS OF BEING A BIRD If you were a migrating water bird, do you think you would survive? Find out in this interactive migration survival game. Children age 6 to 8 can find out during “Migration Headache: The Dangers Birds Face” on Saturday, March 2, at 10:30 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum, located at 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton. For tickets and more information, call (631) 537-9735 or visit sofo.org.

Rose Friedman and Justin Lander in “The Perils of Mr. Punch.”

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THE PERILS OF MR. PUNCH Goat on a Boat @ Bay Street Theater will kick off its spring lineup with Modern Times Theater’s production of “The Perils of Mr. Punch” on Saturday, March 2, at 11 a.m. at the Sag Harbor theater, located at 1 Bay Street. “The Perils of Mr. Punch” follows the troubles and travails of puppetry’s favorite loudmouth, Mr. Punch. Nothing ever goes right — his dog looks suspiciously like a skunk, his baby doesn’t behave and crocodiles appear around every corner. The skillfully operated hand puppets are chock full of surprises and tricks, as is the elaborate stage. The show is rounded out with live music played on a variety of instruments, from the ukulele to the bicycle pump. Tickets are $15. For more information, call (631) 725-4193 or visit goatonaboat.org.

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SAT MAR 2 “Migration Headache: The Dangers Birds Face — Could You Survive the Journey?,” 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

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SAT MAR 2 Classic Stones Live: Exile on Main Street & More, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $45. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

Traditional New England Contra Dance Party, 7:30 p.m., Water Mill Community House, 743 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, $15, $7.50 for students, free for children under age 16 with adult, wear soft-soled shoes. Litma.org.

Denny Laine, 8 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $35 or $45 at the door. (631) 725-9500 or baystreet.org.

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“I Want To Love You But I Can’t”: The Paintings of Aida Nelson, on view through March 17, Ille Arts, 171 Main Street, Amagansett. (631) 905-9894 or illearts.com.

TAKEOVER “Hangouts”: Dark Carnival Dream Music with Ryder Cooley, and Close-up Magic and Mysteries with Allan Zola Kronek, 6 to 8 p.m., Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 2830967 or southamptonartscenter.org.

FRI MAR 1 Southampton Artists Association Winter Show, closing reception 5 to 7 p.m., on view through March 3, Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 283-7432 or southamptonartists.org.

SAT MAR 2 “Black & White,” opening reception 5 to 7 p.m., on view through March 31, The White Room Gallery, 2415 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 237-1481 or thewhiteroom.gallery.

SUN MAR 3 On View: Mary O. Johnson and Social Realism, opening reception 2 p.m., Q&A at 3 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

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THU FEB 28 “The Whaler’s World” with Connor Flanagan, 1 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, free. (631) 283-2494 or southamptonhistory.org.

Beginner ESL Class, 6 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton.

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Lao Winter Soups and Tasting, 7 to 8:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

SAT MAR 2 Beginner Japanese, 11 a.m., also on Saturdays through April 20, Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, $75 for eight sessions, registration required. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

SUN MAR 3 “Long Island Naval History in Wartime” with Bill Bleyer, 2:30 p.m., Montauk Library, 871 Montauk Highway,

THU FEB 28 Early Risers’ Book Club: “Tender Bar” by J.R. Moehringer, 9 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Fiction Writers Critique Group, 5:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

SAT MAR 2 HAH Roundtable: “Getting to Know the Natives” with Rick Bogusch, 10 a.m., Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons John LoGerfo Library, Bridgehampton Community House, 2368 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-2223 or hahgarden. org.

VITA Tax Assistance, 20-minute time slots from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, eligible for incomes of $55,000 or less, registration required. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

MON MAR 4 The W Connection: A Widows Support Group, 4:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

East Hampton Trails Preservation Society General Membership Meeting, 7 p.m., Ashawagh Hall, 730 SpringsFireplace Road, Springs. Ehtps.org.

TUE MAR 5 Artists & Writers Dinner with Bastienne Schmidt, 7 p.m., Almond, 1 Ocean Road, Bridgehampton, $45.

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THU MAR 7 Board Game Night, 7 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

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Andy Warhol at Face Value

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uestion: what’s the difference between an S&H Green Stamp and the Mona Lisa?

Answer: nothing, when they’re silkscreened multiple times

by Andy Warhol. Or, for green stamp, substitute Marilyn Monroe. Or switch out Mona for a dollar bill. Those images and many more have become touchstones of 20th century art, not only in America but around the world. Seeing them gathered at the Whitney Museum for the exhibition “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” on view through March 31, is a sobering reminder of Pop art’s enduring impact on visual culture, as well as an object lesson in branding against type.

The Whitney exhibition is billed as the first comprehensive New York presentation of Warhol’s work since MoMA’s 1989 retrospective, two years after the artist’s untimely death at 58, caused by complications from gallbladder surgery. In the catalog of that earlier show, the art histoHELEN A. HARRISON is the director of the Pollock Krasner House and Study Center in Springs.

rian Robert Rosenblum described Warhol’s subject matter as “the most commonplace facts of visual pollution in America that would make the aesthetes and mythmakers of the fifties cringe in their ivory towers.” And cringe they did, even as a few prescient dealers and a new generation of collectors jumped on the Pop bandwagon. The art world was knocked on its kiester by the unlikeliest successor to Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko and Klein — a gay misfit from Pittsburgh who lived with his mother and drew shoe ads for I. Miller.

After introducing itself with a few of Warhol’s greatest hits — Brillo boxes, Coke bottles, Campbell’s soup cans — the Whitney show does an admirable job of surveying his early career as a commercial illustrator, with a selection of book and magazine layouts that remind me of Ben Shahn’s graphics. There are also some juvenilia, eccentric character sketches of his friends, and drawings of shoes as surrogate portraits, in which we see Warhol’s singular linear style emerge.

Then on to the hand-drawn newspaper, advertising, and cartoon knockoffs, for which source material is also displayed. Much of the documentation

Andy Warhol, “Campbell’s Tomato Soup,” 1962. Casein, acrylic and graphite on linen, thirty-two panels 20 x 16 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

comes from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, a more inclusive and, to my mind, more revealing treatment of Warhol’s career. But since we’re not in Pittsburgh, we have to take the Whitney’s version at face value, though with a grain of salt.

The presentation segregates key aspects of that career away from the primary installation on the fifth floor, making it appear as if Warhol channeled most of his creative energy into the screenprinted canvases of pop-culture icons, car crashes, and self-portraits. Like the visual equivalent of a drumbeat, his repetitions reduce even the most compelling imagery, such as the mangled body of a suicide jumper and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters, to virtual illegibility. Conversely, his oxidation and camouflage paintings elevate random and utilitarian patterning to the level of abstract art.

This kind of irony is classic Warhol, and there’s plenty of it here.

To get a fuller picture of Warhol’s achievements, however, you need to look elsewhere. Apart from a sampling of his Screen Tests and a group of Interview magazine covers, there’s little evidence of his wide-ranging

enterprises, from film, video and television (he even had his own cable TV shows) to music, theater, product endorsements and the commissioned portraits that comprise the bulk of his oeuvre. The moving images and prints are on the museum’s third floor, and a large group of the portraits is in an easy-to-miss side gallery off the main lobby. I confess that I skipped the films. Having sat through several of them when they came out, I have no desire to revisit them. The portraits are even more slick and shallow than his Jackie and Marilyn and Liz, which themselves were not taken seriously by the artworld cognoscenti when they first appeared in the 1960s.

I still find it astonishing that an artist who celebrated superficiality and constantly downplayed any serious consideration of his motives — one whose philosophy ran the gamut, as he put it, from A to B and back again — has risen to such a level of international renown. His avowed ambition was not to make great art but to be rich and famous, and by golly he succeeded on both counts. The exhibition tries to attribute deeper meanings, but I’m not convinced.

Anderson East was drawn to making records continued from page B1 er brother got a guitar and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. So I begged my grandma to get me one, and she went along with it and ended up getting me some guitar from Toys “R” Us, had a speaker built into it — some kind of gangster guitar, all in one.

That was how I got the love for it.

I was fortunate enough to get a fourtrack tape recorder, and that was it. And I was hooked. It was giving a junkie a taste right there, and I’ve been on that road ever since. I was 11 or 12, something around there.

You made your debut at a talent show?

Yeah, a great talent show — seventh or eighth grade.

How’d that go?

Oh, it was the greatest music experience of anybody’s life. It’s the best thing they’ve ever heard. I wrote a song and me and my buddies played it. I can’t remember how it goes, but I’m telling you, it was an instant classic. And then we broke protocol and we played “Free Bird.” It was a great idea.

Did you guys win?

No, we definitely did not win [he laughed]. But we won in our hearts.

That’s all that matters.

I was pretty proud.

When did you realize you wanted to pursue music professionally?

I don’t think there was this breakout, sensational moment. I think it was just the only thing I was interested in. It was guitar, girls and skateboarding — and the last two, you can’t get a job with them. I guess music was the smarter of the three choices. It was the only thing that could actually keep my attention. And it was the only thing that I was actually any good at.

And also, it was kind of an odd environment, considering there wasn’t any kind of music or anything like that. It was anything you could find, or learn, or listen to, was even more precious because you just didn’t have access. So it was like this forbidden fruit, almost, that you keep pursuing.

What was the pursuit like once you made the decision to chase it?

My parents were both very insistent that I get an education beyond high school and so I did a little research and found out you could go to school to learn how to make records. I was like, “Well, if that’s the case, that’s what I want to do.” I went to school and was finally put in that environment of like-minded people with access to things I’d only seen in maga-

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zines. And all that was great, and I got a technical proficiency I probably wouldn’t have otherwise, and I met some really great people that had that faraway look in their eyes, as well, and that was probably the biggest benefit out of that whole experience.

How did you grow from “Delilah” to “Encore”?

“Delilah,” I approached that one as actually making a record, like as a being-in-the-studio process or exploration. And then I think “Encore,” we were trying to harness what we had been doing in a live performance — still with the intention of making a record, but having the grandiose-ness and the emotion of having a live show component with this record, instead of just track-by-track studio record.

What was it like getting your first Grammy nod for “All On My Mind”?

I felt like they were just giving these things away, apparently. It took a couple days just to sink in. It was a big shock. I’ve never won anything, besides a karate trophy when I was 8.

We were up against our dear friend Brandi Carlile, and I’m always okay with losing anything to her, she’s so incredible. Just to be recognized on that kind of a platform was just ridiculous and made me lose faith in the whole system.

I kid, though. I kid.

‘We weren’t here to mess around. We were here to work, and it was always a very positive work attitude.’

- DENNY LAINE

Is it your favorite song to perform?

“This Too Shall Last” is usually my favorite song to play. I think that one has some kind of dark comedy to it now, but that meant a lot to me writing it and getting to play it every night. It’s always a lot of fun. We explore new territories with it, and it’s usually the last one. We’ll change it up here and there, but it always seems like a good way to finalize an evening.

Where do you typically draw inspiration from?

There’s no rhyme or reason for it — it just pops out. I’ve gotten thoughts from bumper stickers off of cars to dialogue in movies, or book titles, or things people say, or just force it into existence with some other people in a room. If it’s gon’ come, please, c’mon now. I’ll take all I can get from anywhere.

Are you writing now?

I’m flexing that muscle again. Over this past year, we’ve been traveling so much, I didn’t have the energy for it and was more focused on the job at hand, which is showing up and delivering the best possible show I could at night. But now, I’m getting back into it and, honestly, that’s more where my head is: creating some new stuff.

I’m keeping it to myself for now, and kind of just writing and forgetting about it until the time comes to

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the original Moody Blues, Laine struck out on his own in 1966 to pursue his own songwriting.

The guitarist and lead singer formed the Electric String Orchestra — the band McCartney saw open for Hendrix in London — among other stints before his decade in Wings.

“I definitely have quite fond memories; we were like a family. But it was work, too,” Laine said of Wings. “We weren’t here to mess around. We were here to work, and it was always a very positive work attitude. That’s really what carries us through. The Beatles never had a day off; the Moody Blues never had a day off. We were always working and because it’s a 24/7 job, that’s really what drove us through it.

“We were doing all new material and working on putting a new band together,” he continued. “It’s very hard to be good when you’re just starting, it takes a while for a band to get

Anderson East

make a record again, and then we’ll all sit back and examine the work that was done — and go from there. I’m just taking my time right now.

Anderson East will play a concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, located at 76 Main Street in Westhampton Beach.

Tickets are $45 or $55. For more information, call (631) 288-1500 or visit whbpac.org.

good, especially for live. Playing live in front of an audience, you’ve got to be very tight. A lot of that took work.

That’s really what the whole feeling was. Even up in Scotland, we were away from the press and the world, really. We were working hard to get it right.”

And they did — until McCartney was arrested in Japan for marijuana possession, landing himself in jail for nine days. It ground their tour to a complete halt, Laine recalled. He left the band shortly thereafter, releasing a dozen solo albums in the nearly 40 years since.

“Songwriting, for me, you’re following what’s going on in the world and you just write about your thoughts on everything,” he said. “And that’s all songwriting is, it’s not necessarily personal. It’s part personal, but it’s partly doing everything else around you. You hear other people’s stories and you write about them, or you write about anything that you have a public opinion about. Any ideas you can share, or advice, or personal problems, everything. That’s what songwriting is.”

Denny Laine will play a concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater, located at 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor.

Advance tickets are $35 or $45 at the door.

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Feiffer and His Satire of ‘60s New York

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Revisit ‘Little Murders’

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ince 1967, when “Little Murders” was staged in an off-Broadway theater, Jules Feiffer mesmerized critics with the clever absurdity of his prose.

Set in a nightmarish Manhattan — plagued by daily power outages, escalating violence, racial conflicts and abusive cops — the play follows fashion photographer Alfred Chamberlain, who meets the dysfunctional family of his newest girlfriend, an interior designer who saved him from a mob of local bullies.

Elliot Gould, the first actor to portray Chamberlain on stage, bought the rights for the screen and kept the project in the hands of those closest to the play. Feiffer penned the adaptation and actor Alan Arkin — who directed the first Broadway revival in 1969 — made his feature film directorial debut, which will screen on Sunday, March 3, at 3 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center, as part of the “Present Tense” series.

“Little Murders is a JFK post-assassination satiric play, then film, that predicted the breakdown of traditional American institutional safeguards and the random violence and societal insanity that follows,” Feiffer said in a statement.

“Why anyone thinks this has any relevance to present-day events, go figure.”

Feiffer will lead a post-film discussion, moderated by Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, head of the Sag Harbor Cinema programming committee.

Tickets are $15 and $12 for SAC members. For more information, visit sagharborcinema.org.

Donald Sutherland in “Little Murders.”

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“Gibson Beach” by Ben Fenske, above, “House on Latham Street,” by Rachel Personett, inset.

Art

Grenning Goes Local Artists capture familiar scenes

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here is something special about the way natural light shines on the East End, attracting artists and writers for hundreds of years — from Walt Whitman to William Merritt Chase and Childe Hassam.

They each translated the natural landscape into their art through realism or impressionism, a subculture still active today — and thriving, according to Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, where the new exhibit “Painting Locally” will remain on view through March 10.

Participating artists including Venezuelan-born Angel Ramiro Sanchez and Nelson H. White have shown with the gallery since its inception in 1997. As the grandson of Henry C. White — who bought 50 waterfront acres on Shelter Island in 1908 — not a summer has passed without a fresh series of plein air paintings from White’s painting box, featuring Mashomack Preserve, Dering Harbor and Sunset Beach.

Sag Harbor’s own Cappy Amundsen has two pieces on view.

He was a reluctant East End artist, selling paintings for money to live, and befriending some of the most interesting artists and writers of his time while contributing to community life in the village.

“Classically trained in NYC in the 1920s, Amundsen founded the Washington Square Outdoor Art Show with his friends Jackson Pollack and Willem De Kooning in 1932 in New York City,” according to a press release. “He gave up his idea of having a career in painting, and became a commercial fisherman sailing up and down the New England coast for decades, until he settled in Sag Harbor permanently in 1948.”

In the spirit of classically trained, mid 20th-century painters, the gallery will also show a pair of watercolors by John Whorf, who may have even known Amundsen, as they would have been travelling and painting the same subjects in the very same ports in New England.

“As one of the most respected watercolorists, and collected by John Singer Sargent, Whorf’s work is mesmerizing,” the release said.

Ben Fenske spends his summers in Sag Harbor — a true painter’s painter whose fascination with natural light effects is omnipresent in all his work.

“In each painting, his brushwork chases the light as it changes with elements and bounces off and around his subjects,” the release said. “Fenske’s rigorous attention to his process results in vibrant paintings that exude spirit. Frequently, Fenske is drawn to secluded, undisturbed, peaceful beaches like Cedar Point, or his oft-painted ‘Secret Beach’ on North Haven.”

For more information, call (631) 725-8469 or visit grenninggallery.com.

ainting at a time between World Wars I and II, Mary O. Johnson contributed to the social realism movement with her art — and her daughter, Priscilla Johnson Ciccarello, will come by the John Jermain Memorial Library on Sunday afternoon to talk about it.

Johnson’s work will remain on view at the Sag Harbor library through March 30, and Ciccarello’s talk at 3 p.m. will coincide with an opening reception, starting at 2 p.m.

“Priscilla Johnson Ciccarello will talk about the life and work of her mother, as well as the family’s extensive efforts to create archive,” according to a press release.

For more information, call (631) 725-0049 or visit johnjermain.org.

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Songs for Sharing Klein and Doctorow headline concert

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efore Chris Klein was a teacher at Sag Harbor Elementary School, his sole calling was music — and on Friday night, he will put that passion to use.

The Southampton native will open for singer-songwriter Caroline Doctorow at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse, located at 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton, as part of the fifth annual “Songwriters Share” concert series.

Doctorow’s concert will benefit Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt.

Upcoming concerts include Fred Raimondo on April 5, playing for The Retreat; Gene Casey on May 3, playing for the Turtle Rescue of the Hamptons; and Nancy Remkus and Dan Koontz on June 7, playing for the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry.

A reception will follow each concert. Tickets are $20 and $15 for seniors and students.

For more information, call (631) 537-0132.

years ago with Scott,” French said.

“Then, like now, I did advance work by producing a bunch of hi-res digital images that he and I then edited and formatted for printing on paper or canvas. Scott introduced me to the transformative possibilities of digital printing, and I was very happy to have a second bite at the apple.”

Expanding on his studio practice, French selected a small, 20-inch-by14-inch painting and watched it print out “in exquisite detail” as a 5-foot-by3½-foot version — a stand-out moment for him during the workshop.

He now has it stretched and hanging in his studio, he said, “ready for me to change again when I paint on it,” but in the classroom, the goal was to let each of the students steal a glimpse into what he does once he is there.

“Whether old school or digital, printing is essentially a process of correction, working from first imprint to finished image,” he said. “The initial proof always requires alteration, which means working on a computer to create and finalize a design that is then formatted by Scott for size, clarity and color correctness before printing.

“The students are naturals when it comes to computers, and I wanted them to see me working my way through the process of creating, editing and finalizing an image,” he continued, “using the computer to transform a handmade image into a completely different and unique artwork,

Margaret Garrett and Scott Sandell.

and how that image can then suggest another one, and another.”

Bateman left the computer work to Sandell and the students, she said, focusing instead on her pastels and photographs, sourced from her native Ireland and the East End. Cutting them into strips, they spread them into a collage on the classroom floor, trying different configurations — until the students had an idea.

“I always have the strips horizontally, and they said, ‘Let’s try putting them vertically.’ And I was like, ‘Wow, that’s interesting. I would not have come up with that idea.’ It was a completely different feeling; it was pretty exciting,” Bateman said. “We did let it go in the end, but I was like, ‘You guys, yeah, you can make these discoveries, too — thinking in a different way and trying out something completely new that you haven’t tried before.’ You don’t have to keep it, but you can be open to it.

“I still ended up with this series of prints that’s this merge of photographs,” she continued. “It was so much fun. It was like something I’ve never done before and experienced before. It was really quite an adventure.”

“Division Street Editions” will open with a reception on Friday, March 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Keyes Gallery, located at 53 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Participating artists include: Roisin Bateman, Eric Dever, Christopher French, Hudson Galardi-Troy, Margaret Garrett, Steve Miller, Joe Pintauro, Scott Sandell, Daniella Schiff, Peter Solow and Bob Weinstein. For more information, visit juliekeyesart.com.

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Second Craft Beer Takeover at Indian Wells Tavern

The gang’s all here.

Sloop Brewing, Bell’s Brewing Company and a special feature from Montauk Brewing Company make up the next Craft Beer Takeover roster on Friday, March 1, starting at 9:30 p.m. at Indian Wells Tavern, located at 117 Main Street in Amagansett.

At $6 a beer, pairings will include complimentary bites from Bostwick’s Clambakes & Catering, and live entertainment beginning at 10 p.m.

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Bridge Bancorp Announces Approval of Stock Repurchase Program

Bridge Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for BNB Bank, recently announced a repurchase program for up to 1 million shares of its common stock — allowing it to buy the shares from time to time through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or in any other manner that is compliant with applicable securities laws, replacing the previously authorized repurchase plan.

“The stock repurchase program does not obligate the Company to purchase shares,” a press release said. “There is no guarantee as to the exact number of shares that may be repurchased by the Company pursuant to this program, which is subject to market conditions, the cost of repurchasing shares, the availability of alternative investment opportunities, liquidity, and other factors deemed appropriate.”

Bridge Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company engaged in commercial banking and financial services through its wholly owned subsidiary, BNB Bank.

Established in 1910, BNB, with assets of approximately $4.7 billion, operates 39 branch locations serving Long Island and the greater New York metropolitan area. In addition, the Bank operates one loan production

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office in Manhattan.

“BNB has a rich tradition of involvement in the community, supporting programs and initiatives that promote local business, the environment, education, health care, social services and the arts,” the release said.

For more information, visit bnbbank.com.

C’s Home and Office Management Adds to Accolades

For the seventh year running, C’s Home & Office Management earned Accredited Member status from the National Home Watch Association — which maintains “the highest standards for home watch and absentee homeowner services throughout the United States and Canada,” according to a press release.

At the helm of the Sag Harborbased business are Chris and Cynthia Capalbo, both success stories in their own right — he a former horse trainer in Colorado and California, until he was badly injured and relocated to the East Coast, where he met

his now-wife, who got her start cleaning houses in the village to bring in extra income while earning her bachelor’s degree in business management.

From there, C’s Home & Office Management was born. As the business was growing, the couple welcomed their twins, Haley and Christopher, in 2000.

“Shortly thereafter, they both lost their mothers to pancreatic cancer,” the release said of the Capalbos. “Cindy then became interested in finding alternative ways to treat illnesses and disease. She went back to school and earned her master’s in herbology. She thought it would be smart business and personally rewarding to incorporate her knowledge into her business by offering organic cleaning products and becoming a certified Green Cleaning Company.”

C’s Home & Office Management serves Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Southampton, Noyac, Wainscott, Water Mill, Bridgehampton and Sagaponack. For more information, call (631) 725-2408 or visit cshomemanagement.com.

eptic systems are a dirty, complicated business. Their functionality not only affects a residential or commercial property, but it can also play a role in the health of the water. Failing septic systems have made headlines across Long Island as nitrogen pollution from sewage has led to fish die-offs, beach and shellfish bed closures, algae blooms, and red, brown and rust tides. This decline in water quality threatens not just drinking water and the environment, but has an impact on tourism and the economy. With all of this interwoven, John Parry of South Fork Septic has become passionate about implementing local septic rebate programs to install advanced wastewater treatment systems to mitigate concerns of nitrogen pollution from the source.

Prior to the introduction of the rebate program, which helps homeowners pay for new septic treatment systems in East Hampton, Southampton, and other Long Island towns, more than 90 percent of homes in eastern Suffolk County had septic tanks or cesspools. Not hooked up to sewers, these individual systems were designed to remove pathogens, not nitrogen.

Old, failing systems need to be replaced, which is often when Parry gets a call.

“A conventional system consists of a septic tank, which catches solid waste, and then a cesspool off of it that has a pipe that acts like a filter, blocking solid waste,” Parry explains. “But that’s kind of impossible to do if it’s something that can’t be maintained by a person every day. You still get solid waste into a cesspool without a filter or machine to stop it. In this case, the solid waste leaves the septic tank, enters the cesspool and then ground beneath it, which is all sand, and creates a block and stops draining.”

When these cesspools begin to collapse or stop draining, Parry urges customers to consider the new alternative option rather than replacing their current system with a conventional system. His company helps individuals looking to make the change

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he home at 48 Lumber Lane in Bridgehampton is East End Americana at its best, according to listing agent Andrea L. Ackerman.

Dating to 1920, this 3,100-square-foot, twostory traditional — priced at nearly $2.5 million — sits on .64 of an acre landscaped with mature trees, leaving plenty of room for a pool, said the licensed associate real estate broker with Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons “It offers a radiant-heated, glassed-in solarium, formal dining room, parlor and living rooms, each with its own fireplace,” Ackerman said. “The five bedrooms are generous in size and the floor-to-ceiling windows allow light in all day long.”

With good bones — and an authentic, charming feel — the farmhouse is conveniently located just north of Main Street, and less than 3 miles to the ocean beach, she noted.

“Because of the convenience to the train, jitney and shops, this has mass appeal,” Ackerman said of the home. “It could be [for] a young family who wants to walk into town, or has no car or likes to bike to the beach, and finally someone who wants real conveThe exterior, top, and interior, above, nience.” of the house at 48 Lumber Lane in For more information, visit bhshamptons.com.

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through the grant process, getting the right paperwork filed. Since early summer 2018, South Fork Septic has installed 30 new advanced wastewater treatment systems. Now, these installations average three to four per week.

Advanced septic systems are a series of county-approved, submersible, oxygenating pumps. They bring in atmospheric air, pushing the bacteria from human waste through, creating a colony. The oxygen process keeps eating the organisms and breaks them down in a much more rapid process.

From there, the water runs through breakdown chambers and comes out crystal clear.

For Parry, it’s not just business. “I am native to Southampton,” he says, sharing the vast importance of preserving the environment. “I’m part of the fire department and every year we have our muster at Lake Agawam. Over the past few years we were not even allowed to go near the pond because of algae blooms, which environmentalists think are caused by old septic systems leaking into the pond.”

With any new product to a marketplace, especially one that changes the way things have been done for decades, it is often met with skepticism. Parry himself was wary, though after installing four he realized this was the way to go. He also learned that these systems are quite common across the United States and even other countries.

“A homeowner will know if there’s a problem,” Parry says. “A buzzer and red light will go off, and a homeowner can call the provider to come address the issue. With old conventional systems you wouldn’t know you have a problem until it backs up into your basement, filling it with sewage.”

Their environmental benefit and a shared love of the East End is one Parry hopes will be a draw for customers. “I love it out here,” he says. “I’m always out on the water and fishing all the time. I really want to preserve everything. I don’t want it to be like the East River.”

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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE With an Eye on the Past A Roundtable Discussion

The Sag Harbor Village business district has seen tremendous change over the years from the end of the whaling industry to the closing of the Bulova Watchcase factory to today’s challenges with the rising cost of real estate.

BY GAVIN AND KATHRYN G. MENU

Most, if not all, residents of Sag Harbor and those who spend time here as second homeowners or visitors agree the character of the village — its history and traditions, its quaint but vibrant Main Street, its mom-and-pop shops and its tight-knit community — is worth saving and worth fighting for.

Sag Harbor’s downtown is admired

by those near and far for its authenticity — an authenticity preserved by families that have been here for generations and celebrated by others who have come to call the village home as well. Sag Harbor is a village committed to preserving its history, its waterfront, its roots in innovation and arts and culture. Over the last 20 years, the village has also evolved into a luxury resort destination and as a result of its suc-

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cess, the cost of doing business in the village has risen dramatically. And so has the cost of living.

While the village maintains more locally-owned businesses than most downtowns on the South Fork, Sag Harbor has seen more than a half a dozen businesses shutter their doors in the last year and a half. It is antici-

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Merchants talk with concern and optimism on future of Main St.

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BY MICHELLE TRAURING

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Try to take the temperature of the retail industry on Sag Harbor’s Main Street, and the local merchants by whose thermometers it can be measured will offer a range of results.

But when it comes to a cure for many of retail’s ailments, perhaps Michael D’Angelo — who is not a doctor, but rather the co-owner of the Emporium True Value Hardware store — has the right prescription.

Shop local to keep Main Street’s businesses alive, he says, from the momand-pop shops to the restaurants to the grocery store and everyone in between.

The same goes for main streets in Southampton, Bridgehampton and other local villages and hamlets, he says.

“I only go to the internet when I know I can’t get something between Southampton and Montauk,” said Mr. D’Angelo, who owns the Main Street hardware store along with his brother, Peter D’Angelo. “Everything’s so close.”

While he offered that solution for what he and many of his fellow business owners described as a key issue — competition from the internet — Michael D’Angelo said his own view of the future of retail on Main Street is that “it’s concerning, for sure.” Property values, competition, customer traffic, the economy in general — there are so

Peter D’Angelo, left, and his brother, Michael, at their Emporium True Value Hardware store on Main Street in Sag Harbor.

many moving parts to running a business.

“You wonder if 20 years from now anyone’s going to want to own a brickand-mortar store,” he said.

Gwen Waddington, who co-owns The Wharf Shop with her mother, Nada Barry, said she has an overall hopeful feeling about the future of Main Street but that “it’s a big question mark” to some degree given factors such as what types of businesses move into vacant buildings and whether other properties sell.

And having just had one of his best summers in the last 14 years, Randy Kolhoff, owner of Black Swan Antiques, said it’s going to take some innovation on the part of the local retailers to stay relevant.

“For people who are going to go on in retail and be successful, it’s not just waiting for people to come in through your door,” he said. “It’s about networking, providing service to your clients and being online.”

According to Lynda Sylvester, an art-

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ist and former interior designer who owns Modern General and Sylvester & Co., “a lot of the press and national anxiety about retail simply doesn’t apply to us.”

“The press has gathered from big box stores that have suffered ... the fact that people’s buying habits have changed,” said Ms. Sylvester, for whom 2019 will mark her 30th year in the retail business. “To me, retail has never been in a

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It was an idyllic downtown, its streets lined by mom-and-pop shops, dotted with chatty neighbors walking to and from their quaint homes, leading even quainter lives.

It was how they liked it — an escape from the doldrums of mainstream suburbia, shaped by counter-culture and creativity. Cradled by nature, the town was virtually undiscovered.

Until it wasn’t.

Incoming landlords and rising rents pushed out longtime tenants, replacing them with generic chain stores. Main Street felt more commonplace, its uniqueness watered down by new investment and higher property values, driving residential sales to upwards of $40 million and out of the realm of possibility for prospective homeowners.

If this scenario sounds familiar, it should. But this particular case began nearly 30 years ago and 2,000 miles from Sag Harbor, New York, in Aspen, Colorado — though countless other small towns and villages across the United States have felt these same truths.

Though perhaps on a less dramatic scale, this story that has ripped through main streets nationwide, one fraught with exorbitant commercial property sales and outlandish rents to match, subsequent vacancies and,

eventually, a less populated yearround community — a domino effect that further perpetuates the mounting problem, while posing a threat to any integrity and authenticity that’s left.

At the rate of development and change in Sag Harbor — namely, the $9-million sale of assembled storefronts on Main, Washington and Division streets to real estate mogul Donald Zucker, as well as a slew of recently shuttered businesses, including Harbor Books, Adornments and Country Lane — some local civic groups fear the village may be headed down that path, soon be another statistic and a ghost of what it once was, if the proper measures aren’t taken to prevent it.

“You’re right to be concerned about it. You’re right on, and I’m sure you’re hearing a lot of concern in the community. No surprise there,” said Chris Bendon, who worked in the City of Aspen planning office for 19 years — 11 as its director — before leaving to start a private land-use consulting firm, BendonAdams.

“But the sense that there’s some magic set of regulations out there that makes a town or city an amazing place that everyone wants to be in, with a ton of mom-and-pop shops, where you can buy a home with a nice backyard that’s $100,000 and be able

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An illustration by Ted Littleford showing, from left to right, the future home of The Church, the future Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center and Bay Street Theater as anchors on the south, center and north sides of Main Street.

Sag Harbor

A History of Arts and Its Connection to the Future The Village of Sag Harbor has always been — and will likely always be — a hub of arts, culture and creativity

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

“The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.” – Katherine Anne Porter On September 11, 2001, the cofounders of Bay Street Theater faced a monumental decision: whether to stage the first preview of Ira Lewis’s “Gross Points,” set for the following night.

Juxtaposed against the deadliest terrorist attack in human history, the lighthearted comedy could have seemed disrespectful and silly, a dichotomy between art and the real world. But that uncertainty turned to conviction that the show must go on. Any other way, and the enemy would win.

On September 12, 2001, before the curtain went up, director Stephen Hamilton walked onstage, looked out at his company — among them Alec Baldwin — and said: “I ask you to literally, and figuratively, stand in the light tonight.”

They did, and continued to every performance thereafter — for the show sold out its entire run, a feat never achieved before, nor repeated since. In the country’s darkest hour, the arts united the local community, providing a refuge for laughter, pain and camaraderie. Patrons stayed late, socializing in the lobby and drinking at the bar, connecting through the aftermath of tragedy.

And as they profited socially from arts and culture, so did Main Street economically, recalled Bay Street Theater co-founder Emma Walton Hamilton.

“It’s long been known that there is a direct relationship between a cultural or arts organization on Main Street and dollars spent,” she said. “The statistic is for every dollar spent at a cultural institution, there is another $4 spent on local business and in the community — whether it’s at local restaurants, shopping in local stores, hiring a babysitter and so forth. The impact is big and it’s real, and we certainly saw that from the earliest days of Bay Street Theater.”

In a village anchored by cultural institutions on the north and south end of Main Street — and soon to be the middle, with the rebuilding of the Sag Harbor Cinema — the thriving arts scene is intrinsically and undeniably linked with economics, yet caught in the midst of an anxiety-riddled business district grappling with soaring commercial sales, new landlords, rising rents and vacancies.

“I think the part that’s a real threat to the arts is what you see happening with real estate,” said Nick Gazzolo, president of the Sag Harbor Partnership. “For so many people, we just see the story again

and again if they don’t own their buildings and the rents keep going higher and higher. Unless you have a fortune of your own or you own the building, cultural and artistic endeavors are challenged for that reason. In that respect, it feels like the best of times and the worst of times.”

Despite a rapidly changing Main Street, galleries are flourishing, a cinema is rebuilding and a church is reinventing itself into a cultural hub — all the while, Bay Street Theater’s future on Long Wharf remains uncertain.

“It’s almost immeasurable, the impact that an arts organization can have on a community,” Ms. Walton Hamilton said. “If you don’t have the arts, all the extraordinary benefits — some of which are tangible and practical and visible, and some of which are more amorphous — they go away. And what we’re left with is just commerce. And that’s not a balanced life.”

The Church When properly executed, a dynamic environment needs no introduction. It is evident from the threshold as a space for quiet — for open eyes, open hearts and open minds — with an enlivened sense of place and vitality.

Historically in Sag Harbor, these were often houses of religion. To Eric Fischl, they could also be centers for the arts.

So in the case of the former United Methodist Church, it will be both.

Last year, Mr. Fischl and his wife, fellow artist April Gornik, purchased the 19th-century Madison Street building with a vision: to redevelop what they would call, simply, “The Church,” as a space for creatives to explore and collaborate, eventually hosting think tanks, symposiums, master classes, performances, installations and even a residency program by spring or summer of 2020.

“It still feels like a sacred space of sorts,” Mr. Fischl said of the church, “and what I’m doing is I’m painting portraits of the great creative people that have absolutely been a part of Sag Harbor, and essentially canonizing them.

We’re gonna have art saints in the windows, instead of saint-saints.”

The night before, Fischl had just finished a portrait of Betty Friedan, who will join the ranks of luminaries such as James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, Charles Edison, Ephraim Byram, E.L. Doctorow, Lady Caroline Blackwood, Elaine Stritch, George Balanchine and Spalding Grey, just to name a few.

“The thing is, when you start getting into who is going to be there, who are you representing in those windows, you realize that there’s at least 150 legitimate names of great writers, thinkers, actors, et cetera, et cetera, that have been a part of the Sag Harbor history since the beginning — and they’re just the dead ones,” Mr. Fischl said. “I had to cut it off someplace. It’s kind of a mixed blessing. On one hand, you kind of want

to be in the window, and at the same time, you don’t want to have to get there the same way.”

The artist laughed to himself. “But seriously, there’s this gigantic group of people that, not only were they connected deeply to Sag Harbor, but they also moved the needle of culture from this small place,” he continued. “They impacted America, or they impacted the world in some cases. It has always produced an economy that was part of a global economy and not just simply a local consumer one.”

As Sag Harbor teeters toward the “second-home suburbanization” of the

‘This is why we, as artists — who are very much connected to Sag Harbor — see the potential for a rebirth that is connected to the DNA of the town itself.’

– ERIC FISCHL

greater East End, Mr. Fischl said he fears the village will lose its character. “This is why we, as artists — who are very much connected to Sag Harbor — see the potential for a rebirth that is connected to the DNA of the town itself, which is through its creativity, through the people that have global careers and have this place as a place of production.”

It is no accident or mistake that, over the last 100 years, great artists and writers have found themselves drawn to Sag Harbor, according to Laura Grenning, owner of Grenning Gallery on Main Street. And the same could be said of Mr. Fischl and Ms. Gornik stepping up as leaders of the cultural district, she noted.

“You’ve got some really creative, and very capable, and highly respected artists buying one of the most important, beautiful architectures that used to house a church,” Ms. Grenning said.

“If you stand at the top of Main Street, you’re within a quarter mile of six or eight spiritual institutions. The 19th century was probably the height of the churches being a social center, but I think April and Eric taking over the church is, like, our new religion is creativity.”

The Galleries One of the first artisans to call Main Street home was Romany Kramoris. It was 42 years ago when she opened her gallery, she recalled, moving a small slice of Greenwich Village into Sag Harbor.

The change was nearly immediate, she said, though intangible at first.

But as more collectors came to her gallery openings, or dropped by to see her stained glass art, the more liveliness and resources they brought into the downtown economy.

It marked the official start to a burgeoning cultural movement, she said, and the way it has grown in the decades since is nothing short of “miraculous, with tremendous foresight and tremendous hard work and imagination.”

“I think any time the arts come to the village, like when Bay Street Theater moved in, they are interesting and growth producing in soul and spirit and creativity and happiness — seeing creative things, hearing music,” she said.

“There seem to be a number of galleries mushrooming on Main Street and I’m happy to see that. I think one helps the other.”

From Monika Olko and Grenning to Sara Nightingale and Tulla Booth, the galleries are the heartbeat of the village, according to Ms. Grenning, and an expression of the soul of the downtown.

“It seems to me like the arts are thriving — they’re absolutely essential, especially in a luxury community like we have — but people have to come into the stores and buy the paintings,” Ms. Grenning said. “It feels like a community that appreciates art and is supportive.

I’ve run a gallery in this town for 21 years, and I’m in business because of the people buying.

“If you like galleries in town, you have to vote with your dollars,” she continued. “If they go away, you end up with the mind-numbing, commercial luxury brands, which is incredibly predictable and available everywhere.

If it’s just about consuming items and not about the human expression and response to nature, then you end up having that empty feeling when you’re walking down Main Street — and that’s exactly what’s happened with some of the neighboring towns.”

Julie Keyes saw it firsthand, before moving her Keyes Gallery from East Hampton Village to Sag Harbor in January. She is the newest among the group, adding to the “aggressive number of galleries on Main Street,” she said with a laugh.

“The cool thing about the galleries is we’ve decided to do ‘Thursday Night Lights,’ where we’re all going to be open Thursday night,” she said. “We’re going to do mutual openings. We’re going to have art to correspond. We hope to make it so this group of art galleries actually becomes a force amongst itself.

We’re working together.”

“We aren’t starting arts and culture in Sag Harbor. We are trying to carry the Olympic torch that Sag Harbor has,” she added. “And we need the movie theater back.”

The Cinema Armed with a half-dozen shovels, members of the Sag Harbor Partner-

ship officially broke ground on the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center to erupting cheers — an outpouring of joy in the wake of the December 2016 fire that destroyed the iconic cultural destination.

And as the neon “Sag Harbor” sign lies in wait, the cinema is readying itself for a final round of fundraising, to the tune of $3 million, to purchase film and projection equipment, concession and café supplies, and support administration and staffing costs — including the search for an executive director — as well as potential expansion and architect fees, according to Ms. Gornik, who chairs the partnership’s fundraising campaign.

“It’s almost embarrassing to ask the community to chip in again. However, we’re heading toward some really fantastic and finishing funds that we need,” she said. “We’re making something that doesn’t exist anywhere else that I know of on Long Island. That’s something that we’re cognizant of and we want the cinema to be as special as we have promised.”

Collaborating with village institutions such as the John Jermain Memorial Library and the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum, the Cinema will operate as a hub for film — with three screening rooms — and educational programming, with a focus on innovation and affordability, helping give rise to a true cultural district on the East End. “It’s way busier than it used to be out here in the winter, by far. It’s noticeably more active,” she said. “It feels so good. It feels like things are really rolling. And that makes us feel fantastic. And I hope we’ve been a part of the stimulus for that.”

Lisa Field, president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, said she is certain they have, and only anticipates their reach to increase — economically, socially and otherwise.

“I’m really hopeful that, when the Sag Harbor Cinema is completed, that’s just another piece of the puzzle,” Ms. Field said. “I do see the arts continuing, but I think we’ve already come a long way. Sag Harbor, in the 1980s, was bars and discos. Before that, we were a factory town. Now it’s really evolved.

There are lots of second homeowners here, lots of visitors. We’re a tourist destination, and on top of that, the bars and nightclubs have given way to restaurants and more art galleries. I think it’s been evolving. We are a cultural destination right now, and I think things will continue to go in that direction.”

The Future of Bay Street Theater But even with so much artistic growth in the village, arguably the most critical cultural anchor in the village — Bay Street Theater — could be on its way out, due to an aging building, rising housing costs for talent and a sheer lack of space to properly mount

productions.

“I remember when Bay Street started,” Ms. Field said. “To see how much they’ve grown and what they contribute to the village and the community, I think that would be a definite loss to the community, even if they were to go to another town close by. Taking them out of Sag Harbor would hurt. I would hate to see that happen.”

Executive director Tracy Mitchell says she is in complete agreement, and while she declined to discuss specifics, she noted that the theater still has four years left on its lease and is open to other options than relocating and building from the ground up.

“It’s devastating to think about leaving, and I live here,” Ms. Mitchell said.

“It’s not to say we won’t be replaced by something else, but where can you find a place that has a waterfront theater that’s a professional regional theater? I think the arts are one of the few things that can truly help keep people coming down to the center and down Main Street. It’s proven time and time again, not just here, that that’s what draws people in. It’s one of the main factors that people will make the effort to go out for something.”

From the time Bay Street opened in 1991 with Joe Pintauro’s “Men’s Lives” — a conscious decision that set the tone for the theater, uniting the baymen and the affluent alike — the notfor-profit has expanded exponentially, now on the brink of outgrowing itself.

For nearly every production, Ms. Mitchell rents 8,000 square feet in Riverhead to build their sets. Their housing budget has escalated to $350,000 annually. And the staff offices are busting at the seams.

“If there is ever a possibility of staying here and adding on, that would be interesting to us, of course,” Ms. Mitchell said. “But we’re not going to invest in something we don’t own, and [owner] Pat Malloy has been very clear.

There’s no surprises; he’s been great that way. He’s always said he’s going to keep the Wharf as one piece, so I get that. From a business perspective, I respect it. It just is what it is. We can only do what’s in our control, which is to keep negotiating in good faith, as he does, and to simultaneously always have our eyes open.”

If Bay Street Theater leaves in four years time, the lasting impact it has made on the village will stay, Ms. Walton Hamilton said, as will the cultural district it’s helped to shape.

“Those of us who work in the arts, it’s our job to continue telling the story of how very, very important they are in our lives,” she said. “It’s not just for the business impact on Main Street, or the educational impact. It’s long term.

How do we even know what history is?

We know through the arts and culture of early societies, how they lived. The arts are the most profound reflection of who we are — and they stand the test of time to tell future generations who we were.”

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The future of retail continued from page C1 better position than to come back in a really dynamic way.”

The stores that are doing well, she says, are those that are going back to a previous way of life — “a return to authentic,” she said.

“They’re going back to making things, back to specialty. It’s kind of a cliché now when people talk about Brooklyn — the candle makers, the chocolate makers, the bakers,” Ms. Sylvester said, saying Sag Harbor has plenty of specialty and authenticity yet.

“Because the people we have shopping here are lovely, smart and have disposable income, we are lucky. I think the Hamptons are in a good position to remain a strong retail community if they can manage the rent issues.”

“Rent” is quite the four-letter word around Sag Harbor these days.

Lisa Field, president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce and owner of the Sag Harbor Variety Store, said reasonable rents and the proliferation of owner-occupied businesses — like hers, and like the D’Angelos’ hardware store — are key to the future of Main Street.

“Our Main Street is still more owneroccupied than everyone around here,” she said, having recently counted at least 15 businesses owned by people who also own the building where they are located. “That’s a big, strong number. But we’re worried about what the future is going to be — the changes, and the aging of the people who are the owner-occupiers.”

When Harbor Books underwent its metamorphosis earlier this year, owner Taylor Rose Berry at the time cited issues surrounding rent increases, despite the landlord’s offer of a temporary rent freeze, as the reason she couldn’t continue doing business as she had been. The bookstore was not the first store to bump up against rent problems, and likely won’t be the last.

Mr. Kolhoff, one of Ms. Berry’s nearby neighbors, said the loss of the traditional bookstore “was really hard to take” and said it reinforced, for him, how grateful he is to his current landlord for keeping the rent sustainable. He said it’s not too hard to envision a Sag Harbor bought up and rented right out from underneath everyone.

“It’s not hard to imagine that large parts of the village are going to become like East Hampton and parts of Southampton,” Mr. Kolhoff said, echoing Mr. D’Angelo’s “shop local” mandate. “People have to go into their community stores and support them. For locals, can you afford not to support local businesses? In the end, don’t you just end up with a sheltered downtown like some of

the other villages? We really do have an eclectic mix of great vendors and store owners here. I’d hate to see this place just filled with vanity stores and hobby projects for people who don’t need to turn a profit.”

But Mr. Kolhoff himself took an interesting turn with his space in December, opting to share it with art gallery owner Laura Grenning. Ms. Grenning, who once occupied a gallery in the Sag Harbor Cinema and most recently was located in the building she has owned on Washington Street since 2007, said the move made sense because they shared many common clients as well as similarities in design and product aesthetics. It all started when Mr. Kolhoff expressed interest in a sculpture of a boar from Ms. Grenning’s gallery for his front window.

“There are a lot of people looking for spaces in this town,” she said. “We got to thinking. We decided it would be a win-win situation. I probably wouldn’t have done this if there wasn’t such a high demand and if I couldn’t rent my space out.”

Some in the business community, including Ms. Field, called the Black Swan-Grenning Gallery collaboration “innovative.” Ms. Grenning agreed but said it was also a very “communityaware” move.

“We know each other well enough that we trust it’s going to work,” she said. “It is trust, it is community, and if we’re going to have a recession or a tough time in retail, it’s a way to share overhead.”

When longtime retail staple Country Lane closed late in 2018 after 20 years in business, and a neighbor, Adornments, shut its doors as well, many in Sag Harbor wondered what would become of the rest of the tenants at the corner of Main and Washington streets in the buildings that had been purchased by real estate mogul Donald Zucker — under the names of a couple of limited liability corporations — for more than $9 million. Mr. Zucker declined a request for comment.

That there may be a few vacant storefronts does not necessarily translate directly to a lingering downturn in a local economy. Other factors point to strength in commerce in Sag Harbor.

Within the borders of the Sag Harbor School District, for instance, the value of Southampton Town’s tax assessment rises nearly every year (East Hampton Town has not re-assessed its tax rolls in some time). The Sag Harbor Building Department sees applications for things like building permits and zoning variances at a dizzying pace. And leases may have already been signed behind-the-scenes for those spaces that

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Landlord Casts a Big Shadow

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Black Swan Antiques owner Randy Kolhoff, left, and Grenning Gallery owner Laura Grenning in their newly shared space on the west side of Main Street. michael heller photo

still appear vacant.

“I think the retail trade sector is in a position of modest expansion because the real economy is strong,” said Dr. John Rizzo, chief economist for the Long Island Association, a regional think tank. “Retail is diversified on Long Island with many small businesses. Diversity acts as a kind of protection against downturns, and boutiques are less susceptible to internet buying than retail that sells, say, basic clothing. But internet sales remain a challenge.”

Indeed, every shopkeeper interviewed said competition from internet sellers is a significant hurdle to doing business. But a proposal by New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo may ease that pain a bit. On February 8, as part of his budget plan for the 2020 fiscal year, Governor Cuomo unveiled a plan to mandate online sellers collect and pay sales tax on every transaction, a move he said he expects will also boost sales tax revenue by $33 million in Suffolk County. That would amount to a 2.26-percent increase over the $1.46 billion that the New York State comptroller’s office said Suffolk took in last year in sales tax — in other words, a win-win.

“New York’s brick-and-mortar retailers are currently at a disadvantage because many online retail competitors are not collecting sales tax,” Governor Cuomo said in a statement.

Some Sag Harbor business owners even say they feel like they compete more with the internet than with each other.

“We never feel the other businesses, even the others who sell toys, are our competitors,” said Ms. Waddington,

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If we don’t have a product I always recommend people go to the Variety Store or the Kite Shop if they might sell what the customer is looking for.”

Ms. Grenning, though, has a different story to tell. She built her first website in 2001 and said lately she’s doing as much as 40 percent of her business through her website and through virtual galleries hosted by sites such as Artsy. net. This year, she said, she’s going to be starting a blog and investing more in internet advertising. But she did agree with Ms. Waddington and Ms. Field in that she doesn’t feel a strong sense of competition among other businesses in her corner of retail on Main Street.

“I think the taste of the clients is for more interesting, sophisticated and original things,” she said. “More galleries equal a lot more clients. I don’t think I compete with the other galleries in that I have such specific tastes. I think the more art galleries, the better.”

Ms. Grenning said she thinks the way Sag Harbor’s Main Street is developing will include “a lot of new types of businesses that form a more gentrified community.”

“I don’t throw a stone at that at all because I’ve been lucky enough to raise my daughter here in Sag Harbor, and if people weren’t buying $8,000 paintings on their way to buying a loaf of bread I probably couldn’t have stayed in this town,” she said. “I am part of the gentrification. I got here 21 years ago. I’ve seen a lot.”

Ms. Field recently attended the New York City Travel Show for the first time,

Other than having an affinity for characters created by the children’s author A. A. Milne, who is the man behind the purchase — over the past decade or so — of arguably the largest collection of commercial properties in Sag Harbor?

He is Donald Zucker, a developer who earned his fortune in New York City real estate developing apartment and retail buildings.

Founder of the Donald Zucker Company — later the Zucker Organization — Mr. Zucker’s organization and its subsidiary, Manhattan Skyline, oversees management of 2,200 apartments in the city, according to a 2017 interview in The Real Deal with Mr. Zucker’s daugh-

representing the Chamber of Commerce, and handed out thousands of brochures to attract visitors to Sag Harbor, as visitor traffic is a huge part of Main Street’s viability. It’s the same reason why the chamber does events like HarborFrost and HarborFest — and Ms. Field echoed Mr. D’Angelo’s point: shopping local is the key.

“Sag Harbor is a destination,” she said. “If [people] are walking past vacant storefronts, that’s not charming. Visitors here want to see different unique shops, and the locals here need to have the different shops that they can shop at. It’s a great balance for Sag Harbor and we want to keep it that way.”

A handful of proprietors or managers of clothing stores declined to answer questions for this article.

But one who swiftly responded to a query was a newcomer: Alex Faherty, who owns the Faherty clothing store chain along with his brother, Mike Faherty. Their Sag Harbor store — which opened last May to join the ranks of their stores in Nantucket, Boston, California and New York City — has remained open year-round while other clothing stores have said “see you next spring.” Alex Faherty called their first season on Main Street “a great success.”

“We really loved getting to know the Sag customers and they have welcomed us into the community. It could not have been a better fit,” he said in an email.

Asked his impression of Main Street’s retail scene, Mr. Faherty said, “It feels like it could be staying still, but in a good way. Most spaces are full … and the small community of year-round shops feels stable and invested in the lo-

ter Laurie, who is vice chair of the company. The interview also said the organization is responsible for more than 200 commercial properties across the country, some of which can be found in Sag Harbor and East Hampton.

Mr. Zucker first kicked up dust in Sag Harbor in 2007, when he purchased, from attorney and developer Herb Hellman, several key properties in the business district, including the historic Admiral Stanton House, now home to Corcoran Real Estate, at the south end of Main Street. Also acquired in that deal were the building at the corner of Division and Bay streets, where Bridgehampton National Bank is, and the building

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He later added, “I think if other brands understand the market and actively keep trying to reach the consumer, then there is room for success for everyone.”

Mr. D’Angelo says he still feels positive about Main Street’s future. “Hey, this is my town,” he said. “There’s still a sense that you know everybody. People take care of each other.”

Ms. Sylvester said she feels frustrated when retail experts’ doom-and-gloom news about big box stores overshadow the successes of small, innovative companies. The online publication Retail Dive reported in January that “in 2019, the mall remains under siege,” with store vacancy rates at 9 percent, up from 8.3 percent over the same time in 2017. “Only the best will likely survive,” Retail Dive said, though it noted that big box bankruptcies are expected to slow in 2019.

“If you go down Main Street now and see who’s sweeping the sidewalk, unpacking a box or painting a wall, these are real people, not imaginary people from big companies. They all have personalities and it shows in their businesses,” Ms. Sylvester said. “That’s why we’re special and that’s why people come here. I think that’s really the differentiation. We set ourselves apart because we are a little more authentic.”

She said she believes retail on Main Street has an upbeat spirit to it.

“You turn over a rock and you’ll find an entrepreneur. You turn over another rock and you’ll find an optimist,” Ms. Sylvester said. “That’s the fun of being an American, and that’s the spirit that’s turning our corner.”

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“It takes a village to make a village. We have survived as a vibrant 300-year-old village because stakeholders have stepped up to work together to ensure a community and village that is diverse.”

“There is a vibrant local community with family and roots going back generations that is largely underserved. Many of us want Main Street to be relevant to our local, year-round community. Many of us want affordable restaurants that are family-minded. Many of us want merchants that live here and are part of our community.”

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“Most businesses must make their money in July and August, and try to survive the remainder of the year on breaking even if they’re lucky.”

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“I’m not sure if we have successfully created a partnership between the community, municipalities and landlords, but I will say that Sag Harbor is and always has been a community that comes together in difficult times. The trick is to get this community to rally before things turn bad.”

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– TRACY MITCHELL

– BARBARA ROBERTS

Main St. continued from page C1 pated some will re-open as year-round businesses, but others remain vacant.

As the future of Sag Harbor’s business district evolves, both for better and for worse, The Express sat down with a number of community leaders to discuss common goals and how they envision the future of Main Street, Sag Harbor.

We want to start with a question we led with the last time we convened a roundtable about Main Street in 2012. We see a number of vacant storefronts on Main Street right now, and there’s been a lot of discussion about how Sag Harbor is changing and higher end stores are coming in.

What’s wrong with letting the free market determine the future of Sag Harbor? Do we have a choice?

AIDAN CORISH: There is absolutely nothing wrong with letting the free market decide, and to a large extent we do not have any other choice. Currently our commercial district zoning restricts the maximum size of a new store or restaurant, which discourages national chain stores.

BARBARA ROBERTS: It takes a village to make a village. We have survived as a vibrant 300-year-old village because stakeholders have stepped up to work together to ensure a community and village that is diverse. We must remember that some of what Sag Harbor faces as it heads into the next 10 years are systemic changes in the economy. We must recognize that brick and mortar stores and shopping centers offering items to any income group are experiencing major challenges and dislocations from the massive change in consumer habits to online shopping. We must consciously and deliberately think about what uniquely Sag Harbor should be and what it should offer in this new online shopping world.

The mantra in brick and mortar retail currently is to offer the consumer an experience. We must consciously identify, celebrate and protect the experience that Sag Harbor can offer.

JESSE MATSUOKA: I don’t think we have a choice, nor do I feel that we should decide who comes into town.

I think it’s more important to control who can’t come into town, like big box names.

LISA FIELD: As far as letting the free market determine Sag Harbor’s future, that really is what will happen in the end. I believe there are steps that can and should be taken to try and ensure the stores and restaurants we love continue to thrive, but in the end, there are no guarantees.

NAT EGOSI: There is a vibrant local community with family and roots going back generations that is largely underserved. Many of us want Main Street to be relevant to our local, yearround community. Many of us want affordable restaurants that are familyminded. Many of us want merchants that live here and are part of our community. Many of us want an attractive, friendly Main Street where we know each other. Many of us want our children and grandchildren to experience what we experienced when we were children growing up here. Many of us enjoy the off-season and the sense of community. Many of us want Main Street to be more relevant to us, like it was in the past. Many of us like stores and shops with owners we know.

Unfortunately new businesses are formed in Sag Harbor without understanding fully the local customer base. By local, I mean the segment who grew up here and have deep family and roots in the community. This customer base is large, vibrant and year-round. It is intertwined in the community through its active role in volunteer organizations, school, religious institutions and their family businesses. The free market can and should determine the future but it needs to be better educated.

We have a choice. We can look at our Main Street and see what is missing.

What do we need? We can communi-

Main Street Sag Harbor, pictured during last year’s HarborFrost celebration, has become the envy of the East End, but business owners are facing challenges. “Main Street businesses need consumers willing to spend money on Main Street,” Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce President Lisa Field said. “It’s one thing to like the look or feel of the village, but if you do not choose to spend your money in those stores and restaurants, they won’t last. michael heller photo

cate our needs to attract the right business that would be welcome here. We can help connect to buyers by providing them insights on the community’s needs.

I have a tenant that owns a school for martial arts instruction. It may not have seemed like something we needed but we did. Both children and seniors from the community come to Main Street all year-round and attend.

It is a good example of a business that serves the community well. In many communities, the municipality has a business development function that provides support and assistance to the type of businesses the community wants and needs. The support and assistance can include technical help on getting permits and licenses, financial assistance through loan programs and promotions.

Some of our buildings on Main Street could have been bought by locals if they knew how to do it and could see their way through it with a reasonable risk. The building on the corner of Washington and Main is an example. There is no reason why a consortium of like mind private individuals couldn’t pool their resources to create a private for-profit community fund backed by loan financing that secures the future and provides a proper return on the investment.

EMMA WALTON HAMILTON: The problem, as I see it, is two-fold. Letting the free market determine Sag Harbor’s future means that the future is determined by those businesses with the most resources, like chains and large corporations. By extension, that means the business district will return to being largely seasonal since large corporations have no marketing or financial interest in keeping stores open off-season and can afford to close. Do we have a choice? I believe we do — we’ve seen already how effective the work of Save Sag Harbor and certain legislative decisions have been with respect to size of footprint, usage restrictions, etc. We need to continue to be vigilant at the legislative level, and also with respect to community advocacy.

THOMAS GARDELLA: We have a choice as members of the community to support the businesses we believe serve a purpose. The free market is something we can only control by where we choose to spend our money and what establishments we frequent.

In 2012, Herb Hellman, a Main Street landlord and property owner, said there needed to be a partnership between the community, municipality and landlords, with each respecting the other’s roles. Do you think we have managed that in Sag Harbor?

CORISH: Given the current state of main streets locally, regionally and nationally Sag Harbor Main Street is still in relatively good stead. However, we need to be vigilant and cognizant of changing trends and influences.

Our cultural institutions are vital to maintaining Main Street vibrancy. A prosperous Sag Harbor commercial district is in everyone’s best interest.

Jazz club anyone?

ROBERTS: Sag Harbor is seen from afar as a very vibrant and successful village. It is admired by many. Government, building owners, business owners, citizens of all ages and income levels and our not-for-profits need to be in the partnership and discussion for our village future. We have one of the best codes for protecting the physical look for our Main Street. We have some landlords with strong ties to the community and many anchor businesses that own their buildings.

We have extraordinary not-for-profit groups such as Save Sag Harbor, Sag Harbor Partnership, Bay Street Theater and the Sag Harbor Cinema. We have an active Chamber of Commerce. We have people who shop and dine in our village year round.

We should work hard to build on the work of the Sag Harbor Partnership to put together a group of locals who would be interested in purchasing the buildings on Main Street and keeping them in a rent range that could allow a diverse group of businesses to be profitable. We need to work closer to encourage business owners who want

to sell their businesses or are in difficult lease negotiations to reach out to the community for help. There are local people who are interested in and capable of investing in our village real estate and businesses, and we need to make that more transparent and possible.

MATSUOKA: We have not managed this and also have not come any closer in the last couple decades. I think I have been hearing the same argument from all sides of the coin. From the community complaining to the municipality and also from fellow landlords. I think we need to learn from other communities that have successfully created strong communication highways and listen to each other to implement, collaborate and grow as one town.

FIELD: I’m not sure if we have successfully created a partnership between the community, municipalities and landlords, but I will say that Sag Harbor is and always has been a community that comes together in difficult times. The trick is to get this community to rally before things turn bad.

EGOSI: Respect is a somewhat bilateral perspective; however it often seems in Sag Harbor that the outside forces are not respectful of the longstanding residents. For example, developers and promoters who seek to profit from the community by leveraging their resources tend to be only respectful to the faction that will approve their agenda. Developers and promoters come in all different forms; this is where respect becomes a challenge since their resources are not on equal footing with those that are towing the line. However laws and regulations provide a balance and when the community decides they don’t; it is time to update them for the community to remain sustainable.

TRACY MITCHELL: I do think that we need a bigger business presence representing the village, with more people with business backgrounds on the board. It’s often hard to get the

board to understand that we are not “fat cats” raking in money. Most businesses must make their money in July and August, and try to survive the remainder of the year on breaking even if they’re lucky.

WALTON HAMILTON: I would very much like to see a partnership like Herb Hellman describes, and I don’t think we’ve managed it yet. I think it begins with effective communication between the constituencies, which we don’t currently have. For example, I have not seen many village officials or developers show up for Express Session discussions. I also think there must be some kind of agency or organization — beyond the Chamber of Commerce — that could be established to support communication between the constituents and offer resources, like best practices based on other similar communities. Vermont, for instance, has an Agency for Commerce and Community Development that appears to function in this way.

GARDELLA: I believe any business that wants to be successful should take Mr. Hellman’s advice. Respect for the community, municipality and the landlord are a good recipe.

Short of rent control, should the landlords be compelled in some way to allow for affordable uses of their building? And the question is, what does affordable mean?

CORISH: The law does not allow for any influence by the village board on the rent charged by local landlords, nor should it. As for affordability, one person’s bargain is another’s breaking point.

ROBERTS: We need to make the business case to landlords that it is in their best interest to work with all the stakeholders to perpetuate a variety of businesses. We need to work harder on identifying and clarifying a brand for Main Street. We need to do a survey and visioning event where we clearly identify the businesses that we would like to see in our community and we need to gather the data and facts about

the demographic of who really spends money here and what they spend it on and want. Some spaces on our Main Street have turned over many times in the last few years because the businesses who came into those spaces did not clearly understand the demographic and seasonal changes for who shops in Sag Harbor. We also need to remind our citizens to shop, dine and bank locally.

We are at a crossroads and must understand that with the sale of the cinema and potential purchase of the park, we have demonstrated the buildings in Sag Harbor are worth millions.

There is a certain amount of return that a building owner expects if they pay millions for a building. We possibly could start a fund to purchase buildings. We also need to do a review as we did 10 years ago on other villages best practices and new possible ideas.

A paid professional village manager could help us. In my opinion, with the current changes in retail across all categories and with our strong code to keep the size of each space small, l think that there will be an alignment of lower rents for the security of long term tenants.

Voluntary commercial rent control might work if it were tied to some income or estate tax or other government benefit. The concept of an inclusionary zoning fee charged to real estate owners who receive positive zoning change approvals could be expanded to create a fund for subsidizing critical business rents or an emergency fund. We also could do more to help our business owners become better marketers, customer service oriented and cash flow managers. Labor is a critical issue with business owners and setting up new programs for local high school job fairs and internships could also be a helpful new initiative.

MATSUOKA: I think landlords that allow rent control and affordable housing should be rewarded and supported. If the town were to carefully control its budgets to finance its own affordable housing projects it would

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“I believe that the village has managed it as best as it could have to date. However, I believe that our biggest challenges are ahead of us.”

“I believe we, the consumers, bear as much responsibility as the property and business owners with respect to the success of Main Street. And that means we must make a concerted effort to shop local, whenever possible.”

– EMMA WALTON HAMILTON

– AIDAN CORISH

“We have a choice as members of the community to support the businesses we believe serve a purpose.

The free market is something we can only control by where we choose to spend our money and what establishments we frequent.”

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“I think we need to learn from other communities that have successfully created strong communication highways and listen to each other to implement, collaborate and grow as one town.”

– JESSE MATSUOKA

– THOMAS GARDELLA

continued from previous page be hugely successful.

FIELD: I do not believe that it is possible or feasible to think there should be some form of rent control. Each property owner gets to make their own decision on what to do with their properties and investments. However, as a commercial property owner, it is my opinion that you are better off with a solid, reliable tenant who can afford their rent and make timely payments than holding out for the highest bidder and ending up with vacancies throughout the year. You need to understand that my point of view also comes from my desire to be a part of this community and not just an outside investor.

WALTON HAMILTON: This is certainly not my area of expertise, but I would be interested to learn more about commercial rent control, or rent stabilization in terms of its history, effectiveness, long term impact and feasibility at this stage.

We don’t know Donald Zucker, who owns several properties on Main Street, but we know from past history that he is willing to let storefronts sit vacant until he gets his price. Are there ways to encourage landlords to keep their stores active and be more community-minded?

CORISH: Perhaps we could have an ordinance that every shopfront in the village be presented in an “active manner” with papered over windows only acceptable during renovation or redecoration. Maintaining an attractive streetscape is in everyone’s best interest and may be an area of oversight for the historic preservation and architectural review board.

ROBERTS: We should be looking at our commercial code to be sure we have enacted everything we can to encourage our diverse, small business community. We should check if there are any new tactics for keeping luxury brands under control in a village.

Could we require that spaces by decorated, open for business year round?

Could we start a fund to buy our buildings? Save Sag Harbor is doing what it can to keep on top of this but have limited financial resources and volunteer time. Should we come together to do a formal review and visioning for the village’s future?

MATSUOKA: We are getting more and more new landlords that are new to this area and don’t understand the community that we have here and need here. I think by creating these communication highways we can explain what works and what doesn’t in this village.

FIELD: I think the only way to encourage landlords to keep their stores active is to get to know who they are and invite them to participate in our community...get to know what Sag Harbor is really about.

EGOSI: A landlord fundamentally wants their storefronts filled with long-term deals and typically is willing to wait rather than sign a deal at lower rent. Landlords become community-minded when they need the community. Creating that need will encourage landlords to keep their stores attractive, active and beneficial for the community.

WALTON HAMILTON: I would like to think that personal outreach — whether it be from community members, local government officials or members of organizations like Save Sag Harbor or the Sag Harbor Partnership — could be effective, if it were framed as a discussion about legacy and civic duty.

But I suspect that the only effective way to encourage landlords is through their pocketbooks. I have a couple of ideas of ways to reach them from that angle. One, embark on and publish a community-wide self-study, focusing on what members of our community value most about Sag Harbor. Include statistics on impacts to Main Street when businesses close for the winter, and tangible gains to businesses who are community-minded and philanthropic. And two, explore incentives for landlords to keep stores active and

be community-minded, such as tax breaks for year-round business operations, philanthropic activity, etc.

Do we agree that the consumer is who dictates what businesses succeed or fail?

If that’s the case, and noting the changing demographic of Sag Harbor and the South Fork, what does that mean for businesses on Main Street?

THE PANEL

The Uncertain Future of Main Street Sag Harbor

CORISH: It is the consumer who decides, but only to a point. Shopping locally is a responsibility we all share to maintain a vibrant and relevant downtown. However many international brands are happy to run stores at a loss or break even during the summer season only, to maintain visibility in the eyes of their customers and to drive shoppers to complete their transaction online.

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Bay Street Theater

ROBERTS: I think we need facts about the demographic. We are an aging community and it is a myth in my opinion to think that older people who are spending more time here are any more interested in high end stores than those who have lived here for a long time. Some landlords and high end retails seem to have an attitude that if they build a luxury space, the consumers will come. We should be more aggressive to publicize the long list of high-end luxury retail operations that have attempted to do business in our village and failed. I personally think that if we did real research and surveys that there would be an amazing alignment of what the people who regularly shop in Sag Harbor want.

Owner, Sag Harbor Inn Main Street Landlord

MATSUOKA: With the evolution of technology, we live in very different times. People expect things faster, more efficient and hassle free. The truth is that more stores will close due to companies like Amazon and if the restaurant industry doesn’t change with the times it, too, will be left in the dust.

FIELD: I 100 percent agree that the consumer dictates which businesses will succeed or fail. Main Street businesses need consumers willing to spend money on Main Street. It’s one thing to like the look or feel of the village, but if you do not choose to spend your money in those stores and restaurants, they won’t last. If every time you need to make a purchase, and your first thought is to buy it online or in Riverhead, you are hurting the local businesses who rely on the year round population to stay open.

EGOSI: The consumer dictates where they will spend their money. In Sag Harbor, businesses need to change to adapt to the market and it’s not just demographics. I could list many reasons why the demographics have changed but one example I like to consider is our school. It is so much better from years ago; this attracts families who want to raise their children in a good school. Now there are plans to convert the old St. Andrew’s elementary school into a pre-school. This will have a significant impact to continue attracting young families who want to live in a community that has this amenity.

WALTON HAMILTON: I believe we, the consumers, bear as much responsibility as the property and business owners with respect to the success of Main Street. And that means we must make a concerted effort to shop local, whenever possible. It’s tempting to buy online, especially when we can get a better price there, and/or don’t have to venture out into the cold or navigate traffic or find parking. But it’s essential for us to be as community-minded as we expect the landlords and businesses to be. Another thing that might help is if more local businesses would consider offering incentives for year-round residents to keep shopping local. Provisions does this well, with their Fruit and Nut Card, and Harbor Books was doing it with their discounts offered after 10 purchases. I would like to see more businesses and restaurants reward their year-round customers in this way.

The demographics of Sag Harbor have changed dramatically in the last 10 years.

What kind of impact do you think that has had on local businesses, for better and for worse?

Aidan Corish Sag Harbor Village Trustee

Nat Egosi

Lisa Field President, Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce Owner/Operator, Sag Harbor Variety Store

Thomas Gardella Sag Harbor Village Trustee Former Chief, Sag Harbor Fire Department Owner/Operator, T. Gardella Plumbing & Heating

Emma Walton Hamilton Board Member, Sag Harbor Partnership Co-Founder, Bay Street Theater

Jesse Matsuoka Owner/Operator, Sen Japanese Restaurant Board Member, Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce Board Member, Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center

Tracy Mitchell Executive Director, Bay Street Theater

Barbara Roberts Board Member, Save Sag Harbor Board Member, The Spur

Jay Schneiderman Southampton Town Supervisor *Not all panelists were able to participate in the roundtable discussion.

CORISH: Given the changing demographics, I imagine it is more difficult to manage retail and restaurants when there is such fluctuation in the population over the weekends and holidays. It creates a challenging but predictable environment.

MATSUOKA: For my industry I would say for the worse. We have seen a lot of families that have had their children grow up and leave the Hamptons to go to college or have graduated and moved to other cities. This has created a gap in a working class that has supported the restaurant industry for multiple decades. The next generation of working people are still very young and not that experienced. The other part to it is that it’s no longer affordable for most younger working class people to move out here to find middle-income jobs. We have had to create our own affordable housing to support the employees that come out.

FIELD: The changing demographics of our area with more second homeowners creates the issue of less people around during the week or full time to patronize the local stores. On the other hand, the increase in second homeowners also bumps business on the weekends, holidays and summertime.

EGOSI: Businesses such as Amazon

or Airbnb are significant factors. Overall, the impact has been neutral. For some, it’s been better, such as restaurants, and for others worse. Airbnb has been awful for the hotel industry and converts residential areas into business areas, taking foot traffic and money away from Main Street and Sag Harbor.

WALTON HAMILTON: The combination of 9/11 and the internet brought an influx of people out here year-round, and I would imagine that would be good for local business. The problem, of course, is the ongoing lack of affordable housing and the degree to which it means young people are forced out of the area, meaning any positive impact from those events is unsustainable if we can’t solve the housing issue.

Do you see anything regretful about where Sag Harbor has gotten to at this point?

CORISH: No regrets. I believe that the village has managed it as best as it could have to date. However, I believe that our biggest challenges are ahead of us.

ROBERTS: I believe the commercial code revisions that were done 10 years ago have worked well in protecting the look of Main Street. However, occasionally boards have made decisions that do not seem to be in the spirit of

the code. Citizens must be diligent in stepping up to join the village boards, attend meetings to monitor appeals and major projects and encourage our village leaders to have an open meeting process and to be strong enforcers of the code.

MATSUOKA: Definitely the increase in rental prices. I can no longer afford to rent homes to put up staff for the season. It’s gotten to the point where I need to buy homes in order to control the rent so that my staff can afford to live and work in the Hamptons.

FIELD: Sag Harbor has always been a town of change. From a thriving whaling port that changed to a factory town that changed to a top tourist destination, the residents of Sag Harbor have adapted as have the businesses.

The evolution of Bay Street Theater from a factory plant to a roller rink to a nightclub to its current use as a theater is a great example of change. At one time, Sag Harbor was known as a bar town where now we are billed as a restaurant town. I don’t think I see anything regretful at this point because I still see a vibrant village with sustainable businesses.

MITCHELL: The issue becomes when more and more second homeowners replace full time residents. That does make it harder during the winter months, especially if they’re not coming out.

WALTON HAMILTON: I think it’s very regrettable whenever storefronts sit empty and beloved local businesses are forced out because of rent increases. Part of the problem is a vicious circle, of course. The more attractive Sag Harbor is as a place to live and do business, the more people will try to come in and take advantage of its resources.

What kind of businesses will thrive and what types will have the greatest challenges in the next five to 10 years. What is the community here? Is it different than it was 25 years ago? What is this community looking for?

CORISH: Great questions. The arts and dining will survive, local owner-operated retail will face a difficult environment. A vibrant mix of retail is always preferable.

ROBERTS: Again there are ways to do professional research and visioning to properly answer these questions.

Save Sag Harbor hopes that this forum will lead to more partnerships, discussions, events and plans to answer these questions in an informed and realistic way. I believe by clearly identifying, codifying and celebrating our brand that we can maintain it for generations.

MATSUOKA: The businesses that gear goods and services towards the summer clientele will thrive. People are looking for better tasting food, easier access to it. Healthy living is a big thing in the Hamptons so gyms and physical therapists will do well. Obviously the real estate game is strong out here.

FIELD: I think restaurants will continue to thrive in the next five to ten years. Unfortunately, I do think we will continue to see the closing of more retail stores. Retail is a difficult business especially for stores that do not own their building.

EGOSI: The community is looking for a Main Street that is attractive and provides a clear sense of community.

There are a greater number of business owners living in Sag Harbor running their businesses at locations other than Main Street. These owners are all part of the community; whether it is a florist, landscaping company, doctor or plumber. They all form part of our circular economy. When Main Street businesses are disconnected from the rest of the business, our community starts to break down.

WALTON HAMILTON: Restaurants should survive because a community experience is something you can’t get online. The same is true of businesses that offer services, and those who have a tangible connection to the community and offer something unique that isn’t readily available elsewhere.

The only way to answer it is to embark on an expansive self-study program — and also to study other similar communities and villages, both in the United States and abroad, who have achieved sustainability with respect to what their community members value most. Speaking for myself, I live in Sag Harbor because of its unique balance of history, culture, fresh air, open space, water, charm, sophistication and beauty – within easy access of New York, and with so many wonderful local resources at one’s fingertips.

The number of arts and cultural institutions are growing in Sag Harbor with the reinvention of the cinema and the introduction of April Gornik and Eric Fischl’s The Church. What kind of impact do you see this having on the business community and Main Street in general?

CORISH: They are almost as vital to the future success of Main Street as clean water and fresh air.

ROBERTS: Arts, cinema, theater, music, literature is a strong part of the 300-year-old brand of Sag Harbor. The cinema and The Church are institutions that can only add to our brand and experience. One concern should be the possible move of Bay Street Theater and certainly all stakeholders should be encouraging the theater to stay in our community.

MATSUOKA: I feel that Sag Harbor has always been an artist village and the reason why it stays busy and is getting busier is because of the arts and cultural institutions that attract visitors and locals to enjoy and participate in town. I think the more we accept this notion that Sag Harbor is the most entertaining village in the Hamptons we will all realize that Sag Harbor is always changing and its changing in the right direction.

FIELD: Bay Street Theater has had a huge impact on the business community and Main Street. I hope that the redefined cinema will have the same effect and help business. We have been growing as an arts and cultural destination for years.

EGOSI: Probably will further push away a portion of the current residents from the business community and Main Street until these residents see benefits, if ever. I am unaware of any planning studies or hard research that assures the cross section of Sag Harbor residents will benefit from the cinema plans or The Church. The speculation is that we need these institutions; however who is the “we?” If the cinema provides reasonably-priced movies as entertainment for young families and their children year-round, then it will be fantastic.

MITCHELL: I believe the arts help a village. The difficulty is only in that none of the current arts organizations out here run without having to fundraise for sustainability. It’s just a fact of most artistic institutions. Ticket prices alone cannot sustain most arts organizations. But again, the more arts, if sustainable, the better for all. We employ local people, provide year-round entertainment at reduced prices or even free access, and provide an outlet for artists and anyone who needs a creative outlet.

WALTON HAMILTON: The arts are good for business! According to the latest research from Americans for the Arts, for every dollar spent at an arts organization, there are another $4 spent on neighboring businesses — stores, restaurants, babysitters, etc.

The arts draw people to Main Street, and promote communication, compassion and social consciousness. People will always worry about parking — they have been doing so here for decades — but in the end, the arts bring more good than ill.

GARDELLA: I think the increasing art and cultural institutions have an important impact in the community.

It’s still a question on how these institutions will impact Main Street as a whole. I support the efforts of our arts and cultural institutions but it remains to be seen who will ultimately benefit. I believe we should create an atmosphere that supports the everyday person in Sag Harbor.

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Saving main streets continued from page C1 to walk to work, that just doesn’t exist. That’s a myth,” he added. “You can draw the unicorn, you can describe the unicorn, you can have all kinds of conversations about the unicorn, but the unicorn doesn’t actually exist.”

History Under Siege In 2010, the United States Census revealed that an estimated 19 million properties had been abandoned throughout the nation as a result of the 2008 economic downturn — leaving many buildings, particularly the older and historic, vacant and depreciating.

While Sag Harbor escaped the nearcomplete erosion of its main street almost a decade ago, other historic villages and hamlets did not. Chief among them was farther up island in Oyster Bay, according to Meredith Maus, executive director of the Oyster Bay Main Street Association.

“In the ’80s and ’90s, when all the strip malls were coming up, our downtown took a really big hit,” she recalled.

“We had high vacancy rates, which led to buildings being abandoned and deteriorating. We looked to historic preservation as a means to really drive economic development in our downtown.

It was really a major focus of ours, to take care of the history we had in our downtown, to really highlight what made our downtown special. It gave us historic assets. And we’ve seen, recently, actual community revitalization.”

With vacancies practically nonexistent and a reinvigorated sense of civic pride, Oyster Bay is flourishing, Ms. Maus said, and she attributes the hamlet’s success to its sheer history adding value to Main Street. The intrinsic tie of history to the economic welfare of any location inspired the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to adopt “A Policy Statement on Historic Preservation and Community Revitalization” in 2016, which encourages the use of historic preservation to stabilize and enhance communities nationwide.

“Although historic preservation is often ignored by stakeholders who express a desire for new construction, decades of successful historic preservation projects affirm that renewed historic assets can meet community expectations for modern uses while maintaining the character that traditionally defined the area,” the statement reads.

The driving force of the policy revolves around building a community plan, Ms. Maus explained, which, in Oyster Bay, includes input from hamlet residents, business and building owners, and the local government, all de-

ciding on a vision for the downtown’s future.

“Ultimately, what it comes down to is this: Your businesses are being run by your friends, your neighbors. These are people that you deal with on an everyday basis,” she said. “To invest in your downtown and take pride in where you live, it sets you apart. And it’s grounding, in a way.”

According to Save Sag Harbor cofounder Barbara Roberts, who formerly sat on the Suffolk County Planning Commission representing Southampton Town, the village does not have a comprehensive plan in place for the central business district.

“We have a very unique problem here. My number-one thing that I feel very strongly about — which we may, at Save Sag Harbor, do — is to fund a vision exercise and really hire people to come in and do this properly,” she said. “We do not have a long-term comprehensive plan. The waterfront plan was updated in the ’90s. We are a very different village than we were then, but in some ways, we’re the exact same village.

“The fact that the cinema sold for $8 million and we now have the park going for $10 million, that automatically makes every building on Main Street worth at least $8 million to $10 million,” she continued, “which means a landlord has to charge a business probably $13,000 to $15,000 a month to make those numbers work.”

From an investment standpoint, this price-gouging strategy is “so counterintuitive” to the success of any village, according to Matt Wagner, vice president of revitalization programs at the National Main Street Center, but that doesn’t stop it from occurring.

“If you’re looking at it from a pure real estate play, big box or nationals can afford more rent,” he said. “But that’s a short-term play, versus a long-term sustainable play of what we would encourage: Why not help to strengthen unique local retail, be patient with the market and, over time, those businesses will be able to afford more rent because the market will be enhanced.”

Gentrification for Mom-and-Pops The phenomenon Mr. Wagner described is known as commercial gentrification, or “hot markets,” which is felt on many main streets — including Sag Harbor — the same way residential gentrification is felt in neighborhoods.

“Normally, you see property values going up and the locals that were originally there can no longer afford their taxes, or afford to live there anymore,” he said. “Same exact thing, but happening in commercial districts. And you’re

Downtown Aspen, Colorado, which over the years has seen mom-and-pop businesses being replaced by high-end retailers.

Downtown Oyster Bay, Long Island.

not alone.”

There are two forms of hot markets: the first in larger, urban environments — the New Yorks and Chicagos of the world, he said — and, on the flip side, in smaller towns with high quality of life, which is less talked about.

“That influx of new investment is looking for, in some cases, those similar shopping attributes you may find in an urban environment, like name-brand things, national retailers,” he said.

“What gets lost — because of the rising rents and the pressures that apply to the market — is actually the thing that made it attractive in the first place.”

In Aspen, mom-and-pop stores were once a key part of the character and authenticity of the city, and positively influencing its attractiveness, Mr. Bendon said. The increasing price points are reflective of that and the downtown’s success, he said, even though many of those shops are no longer. The key is to examine the long-term, macro-economic benefit, he said, which may alienate landlords who have specific tenants in mind.

“There’s been an attempt to prohibit new chain stores from coming in,” he said. “There is a set of regulations that’s new — it’s only within the last two years — that identifies chain stores by a formula-based concept. That has some success in satisfying the drumbeat, the community thirst; it quenches that thirst to do something. It’s not clear whether it has any effect on the character. A lot of these things take decades to really unfold.

“The originality and the funky character of a place, those things are usually born out of creativity and innovation.

They’re not born out of regulation,” he continued. “You can manage the pace of growth, you can do some things with zoning, like trying to keep banks or high-end offices off of the prime retail spaces, so they’re not outcompeting unique retail experience. But it’s just

quires a municipality to hit a 10-percent affordable housing benchmark, one that eight out of every 10 towns fail to meet, even 50 years since the law passed — and almost half of them fall at less than 5 percent.

Nantucket is hovering right around 3 percent, Ms. Andrews reported.

“The Community Foundation is a resource and a grant maker, but we’re never going to grant our way around the housing crisis in any way,” she said.

“What we can do is support initiatives that are going to address that, such as surveys and cooperative conversations to figure out what the ‘best’ thing to do — and I use ‘best’ with big air quotes because there is no one solution.”

Piecemeal and stopgap solutions have led to unstable and unhealthy housing conditions, many of which are overcrowded and home to seasonal workers who decided to stay, Ms. Andrews said.

“Some of our seasonal residents say, ‘You know what, it’s not my problem that these seasonal workers have no place to live, why should that be my concern?’ I, personally, say, ‘What kind of community do you want to live in?’” she said. “As a community foundation, we embrace all our residents, regardless of how they got here, how long they’re staying. Everybody has a voice here, and we embrace the diversity that we’re seeing now.

“This is not the Nantucket I moved to 40 years ago, clearly, but it’s wonderful,” she continued. “The diversity is not challenging, it’s wonderful and needs to be embraced. We’re trying hard to continue with that message, to tell the squawkers, ‘I understand your feeling and I understand you won’t economically support this, but understand this community needs to support this. This community needs to find safe, stable housing for all of its residents.’”

In the 1970s, Aspen officials recognized what could have been an insurmountable affordable housing issue,

inherently not a great tool to use.”

In the face of a depressed downtown in Nantucket, regulation was the answer for the small island off the coast of Massachusetts. A series of zoning and planning ordinances, as well as the work of not-for-profit group ReMain Nantucket — founded by Wendy Schmidt, president of the Schmidt Family Foundation — helped reestablish Main Street as a destination, one that had long been lost, according to Margaretta Andrews, executive director of Community Foundation for Nantucket, who has watched changes to the island for the last four decades.

“We haven’t had a mom-and-pop store here for 20 years,” she said. “Wendy Schmidt saw the downtown deteriorating: rising rents, stores turning over year after year after year, no continuity, restaurants closing early, just a lot of change. She made it her mission to revitalize downtown.”

The organization transformed a circa-1842 building into an educational hub, home to The Nantucket Community Music Center and Nantucket Community School, and rejuvenated Mitchell’s Book Corner, bringing new vibrancy to the downtown, while still preserving its spirit, Ms. Andrews said.

“I think downtown is still a concern, but I think the inroads have been made.

There’s still a lot of turnover — rents are very high and there’s not much they can do about that,” she said. “But I do think, because ReMain has been very successful, the feeling is that they’ve got it covered. That leaves affordable housing as our number-one priority on the island. It is probably one of the most severe that I’m aware of in the country, to be honest.”

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and met it with a robust affordable housing program. Supported by two tax sources and restricted by firm requirements, it serves all levels of the community, with most properties ranging between $50,000 and $1.2 million — a fraction of what they would normally cost, Mr. Bendon said.

Currently, more than half of Aspen’s 8,000 year-round population participates in the program, he said.

“In terms of the core, overnight population, affordable housing has played a critical role. We’d be a, fundamentally, completely different community if we didn’t have an affordable housing program,” Mr. Bendon said. “It’s for busboys all the way up to doctors and lawyers. People from outside the area look at that and say, ‘That’s completely insane, why are you doing that?’ but it serves the whole gamut of what holistic community looks like.”

As with any social policy program, Aspen’s solution to its housing crisis does not come without its share of disputes.

On the surface, it is an “overwhelming success,” Mr. Bendon said, but up close, the lottery system is fiercely competitive and can leave applicants waiting years, some decades, while others get it on their first try.

“There can be a sense that there’s some sort of magic set of regulations, or set of policies, or a master plan, or even a set of elected officials — that there’s some sort of magic thing out there that somehow solves all problems, and we just need to find it,” Mr. Bendon said. “In reality, everything is a series of trade-offs.

“You just have to continue to step into it,” he continued, “knowing that you feel good about the place you are and that it’s a place that’s worth fighting for. It’s not an easy task and the tools aren’t terrific — and there’s a lot of hand wringing and complaining that goes into that — but, eventually, the hard work is worth it.”

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A Code Written to Protect a Village A code revision, adopted in 2009, aimed to help protect local business

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While some residents have sounded alarms over recent closures of local businesses and the sale of a key commercial building on Main and Washington streets in Sag Harbor, the village has maintained a downtown largely occupied by mom-and-pop shops. In the last decade, the size of most business spaces has not changed dramatically, and the village remains home to more locally-owned commercial spaces than nearby villages in East Hampton and Southampton.

“I don’t think Sag Harbor has ever been a better place to live, work and do business in,” said Gregory Ferraris, a certified public account who owns GNFerraris, LLC on Main Street. “There are communities that are very jealous of Sag Harbor right now. Sag Harbor is not Disney World. It is going to change, and all of that change is not going to be bad.”

Mr. Ferraris, a lifelong resident of Sag Harbor, remembers a time when the economy struggled to thrive in the village, with many stores boarded up.

When the village began to face significant development pressure in its downtown, he led a group of lawmakers and consultants in a revision of the village zoning code in 2007. It was a year of marked change and with the knowledge that CVS Pharmacy was looking to take over a large portion of the building on Long Island Avenue that remains home to 7-Eleven and Sing City, the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees set out to revamp what was considered an antiquated zoning code. Mr. Ferraris, then the village mayor, embarked on the two-year effort with former Trustee Tiffany Scarlato, former village attorney Anthony Tohill and former environmental planning consultant Richard Warren, of the Southampton-based Inter-Science Research Associates. The resulting code, adopted in 2009, aimed to protect the diversity of small stores and uses on Sag Harbor’s Main Street.

“There was a concern about the conversion of retail space to office space that people saw happen in other communities like East Hampton and Southampton that distracts from the retail shopping experience of visitors,” Mr. Warren said last week about the code revision. “There was also a concern about the change in the type of retail stores, where larger retail entities were looking to come in and take over several spaces, reducing the overall diversity of the mix of retail uses in the village. Our

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main focus was to preserve, the best we could, the character of Sag Harbor.”

The first step was identifying what existed in Sag Harbor and creating an updated table of uses. Largely, consultants zeroed in on size and use restrictions. Some of the major changes in the code revision, Mr. Warren said, included a limitation on the expansion of stores to a maximum of 3,000 square feet, with the exception of grocery stores, hardware stores or home furnishing outlets, which can petition the village to become larger. The code also created a new office district on the periphery of Main Street to provide new office space options. Offices that already existed on first floors in 2009, as well as businesses above 3,000 squarefeet, are considered pre-existing, nonconforming to the code. If they change uses — converting from an office space to a retail establishment, for example — they would have to go before the village boards for approval.

The new code also streamlined the planning process for minor changes happening on Main Street and strengthened the ability of the Sag Harbor Village Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board to ensure that any visible changes to storefronts in the business district were consistent with the overall character of the village.

“It was important to us to try and understand what was making Sag Harbor tick — why it was so successful,” said Mr. Warren. “It seemed the diversity of stores was something that was pretty important. The business district

is limited in its frontage and it was important to not have three or four spaces combine into one space. It was pretty controversial — the size restriction — but when we did an inventory of what the sizes were in Sag Harbor, it was surprising to see how many stores had less than 2,000 square feet. It was a dramatic number.

“In addition to maintaining diversity of stores by limiting the frontage, we felt that the ability to keep smaller stores probably had the likelihood of keeping smaller retailers,” he added.

While some residents, fearing big chain “box” stores were coming to Sag Harbor, called for a restriction on formula business, both Mr. Ferraris and Mr. Warren said regulating tenancy is against the law in New York State.

“You cannot regulate a chain store from coming in — you can’t regulate between a high-end t-shirt store versus a regular t-shirt store,” said Mr. Warren.

Mr. Ferraris and Mr. Warren said revisiting the zoning code is generally a worthy exercise every five to 10 years.

That said, Mr. Ferraris said looking at Main Street’s development over the last decade, the code revision enacted in 2009 appears to have been successful.

“We have gone through the last 10 years with very little controversy when it comes to Main Street,” he said.

“There are no more offices on the first floor than there was a decade ago and there is a tremendous demand for office space. All of the sizes of the stores are largely the same. In those ways, we were successful.”

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What percentage of your groceries are purchased in Sag Harbor?

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What percentage of your service providers are locally-based in or around Sag Harbor?

What percentage of retail shopping do you do in Sag Harbor?

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(clothing, toys, home supplies, etc.)

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The Survey As part of our research to explore the best way forward for the Sag Harbor commercial district, we turned to the community for advice. More than 300 of you responded and approximately 48 percent of those who responded are full-time residents of Sag Harbor, with 28 percent having families who have lived here for generations. We heard from 45 second homeowners and a smaller group who referred to themselves as frequent visitors to the village. It’s been said several times on the pages of this section that Sag Harbor is an aging community. Of those who responded to the survey, 75 percent were 50 years old or over, with the largest demographic in the 60-to-69 range.

WHERE IN SAG HARBOR ARE WE SHOPPING? Several local businesses stood out in response to the question, “Which businesses do you typically visit in the Sag Harbor commercial district?” A total of 101 individual businesses were identified as places to visit. Here were the Top 10:

1. Sag Harbor Variety Store 2. Schiavoni’s IGA Market 3. Sag Harbor Pharmacy 4. The Wharf Shop 5. Provisions Natural Foods Market & Café 6. Emporium True Value Hardware 7. Sag Town Coffee 8. The Corner Bar 9. Harbor Books 10. Tie: D.J. Hart and Flashbacks Featured Comment: “Not many — they’re mostly for the tourists. Who wants to pay $100 plus for a pair of jeans, or $60 for a candle? Most restaurants are ridiculously priced. Most mom-and-pop stores were run out because of outrageous rents!

I would shop at the 5&10, Cove Deli for coffee and a bagel, the Legion or the Corner for drinks or even 7-Eleven for a coffee. I’ll frequent the laundromat to do my laundry.

Our quaint little village that we all loved and grew up in has gone into an expensive monopoly of overpriced businesses and crazy traffic that chokes up the whole area.

I will, however, say that no other area can match the beauty of Sag Harbor.”

WHERE ELSE ARE WE SHOPPING? It’s no surprise that the people who responded to the survey picked Riverhead as the top destination to shop besides online or in Sag Harbor. While the Village of Sag Harbor has managed to keep big box stores from opening here, those stores — K-Mart, Target,

Costco, T.J. Maxx, and others — remain in close driving distance. Here are the top 5 destinations outside of Sag Harbor where people are shopping.

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Featured Comment: “Riverhead grocery stores. Bigger savings on same products. In some cases half the price of produce and meats plus better selection. Clothing definitely at the outlet. I do think the price of the clothing stores on Main Street are appropriate as they sell higher quality clothing.”

WHAT SAG HARBOR WANTS 1) It may be no coincidence that “bookstore” topped the list of what people think is missing on Main Street, with Harbor Books recently making headlines for closing its doors as a traditional bookstore and the subsequent news making its way around town that White’s Apothecary will host the bookstore until it finds a more permanent space. [Editor’s note: People may need a reminder that Canio’s Books is still alive and kicking on Main Street, albeit a bit farther away from the downtown business district than some may like to walk.]

2) Affordably-priced dining was the second-highest vote-getter, with dozens of people calling for “middlepriced” restaurants, “family-friendly” eateries and more accessible take-out possibilities. Multiple people also wanted Thai food and Indian food in Sag Harbor.

3) What else was on people’s wish lists? A shoe store and a dry cleaner were also among the most frequent responses, as were “affordable” clothing stores for men, women, teens and children.

4) People also want more things to do. Quite a few respondents pitched family entertainment centers or places for teens to hang out. And while it doesn’t fall into either one of those categories, enough people cried out for “a dive bar to replace Murf’s,” with one person saying what Sag Harbor needs is “for God’s sake, more bars.”

5) It’s important to note what Sag Harbor doesn’t want. With very few exceptions, survey respondents were united against “big brands,” “food

chains” and “pop-ups.”

6) With a handful of people saying, “it’s fine as it is” and “we need better hours from the ones that are here,” all in all, an overwhelming number of people want locally owned mom-andpop shops to populate their village’s downtown.

THINKING BIG PICTURE Sag Harbor’s evolution has attracted a higher income demographic. Is this a good thing?

• Not if it means that Sag Harbor is going turn into a Hollywood set like East Hampton has become.

• Having fewer year-round residents is a problem. The higher income demographic has put enormous pressure on preserving our old buildings and village feel because of their desire for 21st-century amenities available on larger parcels of land typically found outside of the village. Sag Harbor has been a market village which held a nice balance between filling the needs of year-round residence and attracting tourists. I fear the scale is tipping away from year-round residents.

• Yes...brings vitality to businesses.

• It’s good and it’s an issue — balance is always best.

• Cash flow is necessary for the locals to survive. Good or bad? Depends on who you are asking.

• No, it’s forcing the local middle class to leave.

• No, if it means we lose the moderate-to-low income demographic of young families and retirees. Retirees volunteer and support the village.

Young families drive the village offseason and the parents are also volunteers supporting the community groups including fire dept., ambulance, etc. Lose those people, then we have to hire people like how it is up island.

• It is terrible. The village has lost its character and soul.

• Not for those with lower incomes.

My children could not participate in many school activities because of cost, many of the restaurants are way above our budget.

• That’s the 64 million dollar question isn’t it. Everything hinges on this.

There was a time that someone would buy a house, fix it up for themselves

and live in it. Now every pigs ear is turned into a silk purse. What should be a $2 million home is now $6 million. Every bell and whistle and high end finish has been added. Higher income demographic will support higher priced restaurants and clothing stores. It’s a slippery slope.

How important is a vibrant restaurant and nightlife scene to the Village of Sag Harbor?

• Very important. People shop before and after dining.

• Restaurants, yes. Nightlife? Not so much...

• It’s important but we need a mix.

We need an affordably priced tavern where locals and workers can mix without having to pay $7 for a draft beer or $15 for a glass of wine.

• Relatively. In need of community feel and affordability that has been decreasing, as with pizza place and Murf’s.

because of this.

round tween/teen demographic.

• Important but need parking.

How important is the continued development of Sag Harbor’s community of arts and culture?

• DO NOT LOSE BAY STREET!!! VITAL. • This is important but I do wonder when we reach a saturation point with arts and culture. It is a dead rock feature of Sag Harbor which is great but I feel strongly that we need to be incubating new businesses to have a well-rounded economic base.

• Very important. Rebuilding the cinema is going to be an incredible draw to town which trickles down to the restaurants which trickles down to the shops. Need to work on the parking though.

• Very important as long as the locals, kids and adults can afford to join in.

• I suppose it’s important ... but God forbid we become Montauk. The code does restrict too much outdoor music and gathering I believe, but I think it’s important to have life in the village, especially off season in order to make it all viable for businesses to survive.

• Questionable if it significantly shifts the balance away from current interests of the community. Having more development of arts and culture is great as long as there is more development of other aspects so the village is balanced and stable to keep its tradition of diversity.

• Very important. Because it is pretty dead. Basically nothing to do after you eat dinner at a restaurant. Too quiet. There should be lots and lots of outside tables, fountains, street musicians. Town should be alive. Now it is dead.

• Not at all. That is for the new, second home Manhattan bunch. We have enough art and culture. Who defines art and culture?

• Comfortably important. I wouldn’t want it to become out of control so we don’t feel comfortable coming into town to have a meal or a drink.

• Sag Harbor has always had a vibrant nightlife. It used to be a bar town, but now it’s more of a restaurant town. I guess all of that drunken behavior is no longer socially or legally acceptable.

• Important, but not to the exclusion of the lower moderate scale restaurants. Even the Corner Bar is upscale in the season.

• It seems that the local business is partying now. Sadly, our last family restaurant with proper table service and plates and silverware left with Conca D’Oro so there’s no place to take a family for a weeknight meal.

The restaurants sit empty all winter

• Hugely. Would like more possibility for local artist collaboration and showing of artwork without hefty price tags. Inclusion! No wealth or appearance of such needed.

• Another complicated question.

I feel an arts community should develop organically. The writers and editors from Time-Life found Sag in the ‘60s and were able to afford it as it hadn’t yet gentrified. A very vibrant community developed as a result of this. Filling churches with artists isn’t a bad thing but I’m not sure how this will really develop as a self-sustaining demographic and what ultimate impact it will have on the character of the village.

• There’s enough of the “art scene,” already in the village including the expansion of the cinema project seemingly to duplicate much of Bay Street’s mission without the live theater component.

Should the free market determine the future of Sag Harbor’s business district? If not, what should?

• The local government should perform its duties and protect the identity of Sag Harbor.

• Absolutely not let the free-market determine the future of our business district. We need current stakeholders and people who can envision maintaining the soul of the village.

• Within reason. Change is good and business is business but have to keep the flavor of the village and not sell out to big box and chains. That means the landlords have to be reasonable — a shame for stores like independent bookstores to be pushed out.

Sag Harbor needs a bookstore!

• If we want to become East Hampton with Starbucks and Tiffany’s, SURE! Research how other communities maintain their unique stores and ‘free market’ — Saratoga Springs, Woodstock, Lake George...

• Yes. Competition is good for the consumer.

• Sort of....if free market participants are interested in willing to open businesses and run them within a shared community vision of a quaint and beautiful village WITHOUT chain brands, excessive neon signage, etc.

But I strongly believe that Sag Harbor should prevent the village and its main streets from being invaded by chain stores. Southampton and East Hampton Village have each largely failed at this and as a result, the villages have excessive chain retail and have lost their character.

• Unfortunately, I think it has to.

As much as I’d love us to float a bond and become the village landlords, I think the free market will prevail. But stronger code is crucial. We’ve made strong inroads but we have to take a very deep look at the current code and find the vulnerabilities to ensure we protect the character of the commercial district, including re- looking at height restrictions. Many two-story buildings will be rebuilt to allowable three-story buildings. Imagine what will happen when Malloy is gone...

• We all know that greed is what is ruining Sag Harbor. Landlords who do not live here raise rents leaving buildings vacant, rather than taking

• Not important — focus on year

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THE QUESTION What is your prediction for what Main Street in Sag Harbor will be like in 10 years?

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CHARLIE BATEMAN

CLINT BENNETT

JANE HUSBAND

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KAREN VENEZKY

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“I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more like Southampton: only high-end stores, no more small businesses.”

“I think the trajectory for the last 20 years has been that local people are getting boxed out because they can’t afford the rent anymore, and the small mom-and-pop stores are being driven out. East Hampton Main Street is a perfect example of high-end pop-up stores coming in and corporate money, and it’s sad...it’s really sad.”

“I think they’re going to change the buildings, and it’s going to be more modernized.”

“East Hampton. Because it’s the same story of ‘What kind of store can afford the rent here?’ I hope that’s not the case, but the last one for me was Harbor Books; when that went, I was really sad about it.”

“I think it will be very much the same as it is now, but more crowded.”

“My prediction is that it’s going to get fancier and fancier, with very chic little boutiques, which on one hand may attract people to come — which would be great — but on the other hand would take out the local pharmacy and grocery store, which the local people depend on.”

“I think that there’s going to be a continuation of stores that are going to be, in effect, revolving doors, because I think some of the owners are going to perceive — and this is true, I tink — that this place is capitalized

by Manhattan money, which I think some people think is boundless, and endless...hence the revolving doors.”

“Well, I’m sure that the [American] Hotel will be there, and I would think that there would be one or two new restaurants, but I think tourism is not going to change; if anythng it’s going to go up — people like Sag Harbor, it’s a cute town.”

“It’s going to be amazing.

I think it’s going to be the perfect combination of new and old.”

“I think it’s going to be an ultra-luxury version of what we currently have. It’ll be Aspen-bythe-Bay.”

“It’s going to look remarkably the same; it’s been looking the same for hundreds of years.

We’ll probably see some high-end clothing stores — even more higher-end clothing stores — but just as many realtors and just as many banks. It’s going to look a lot like it is right now, just more expensive.”

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The Sag Harbor Variety Store, which has been at 114 Main Street in Sag Harbor since 1922, is the most visited retail outlet in the village, according to the majority of people who responded this michael heller photo week to a survey put out by The Sag Harbor Express.

continued from previous page a loss, only to have seasonal pop-ups come in that no one can afford to shop in. Rents should be capped and landlords should be penalized and pay for buildings being empty over a period of time. Or no one can own a lease if you don’t live here full time.

• Some free market combined with corporate responsibility to help obtain a vision of the kind of main street we want. We do not want only those who can afford the increasingly astronomical rents. Maybe we need special tax breaks or deductions or subsidies to keep the right shops and restaurants.

Do not become East Hampton.

• I don’t think anyone has much choice as there is no way for government to regulate individual owners.

• I think that there should be incentives for landlords to get tenants, and if they are vacant too long then they have to lower their asking rent or face fines, not tax breaks.

• NO NO NO there should be a Downtown Development Council in place. (best if it was 20 years ago but now is better than never) If you contact Historical Concepts (they are based in Atlanta and have worked closely with many builders (e.g. Steven Gambrel) restoration projects and historic preservation in Sag. They have spear headed this in other small towns like Sag

Harbor in order to maintain its beauty and keep history in place as it grows and changes in a positive way. They would be extremely helpful moving forward.

Should village government spend money to support a vibrant downtown business community? Would a full-time village manager be required?

• Sorry isn’t there a chamber of commerce? Is that not THEIR job?

Why spend taxpayer dollars — seriously, shopkeepers want to promote a healthy economy — get locals involved!

• Yes, village government should do its duty but I’m not certain that that requires yet another local employee.

• Village infrastructure must be able to support continuing evolution of the business community. Sewage district expansion, drainage and a parking facility in the back parking lot must be addressed. If that necessitates a village manager, so be it.

• Yes. Also the village government should stop discouraging local events like whalers festival and music festivals by charging for police.

• The village government has to allow things like Sag Town to allow seating in the downstairs section. It needs to stop charging enormous fees to things such as the Music Festival, which is a huge boost to the community.

• No. Waste of money.

• Yes it should spend money on that, but let’s not confuse spending money with necessarily meaning hiring fulltime (although it might). Spend money on the mission and that may or may not be best allocated or optimized by hiring as external consultants and committees might better serve the purpose. The purpose is not to create a new role, but support a vibrant business community and it is unclear to me (although I am open minded to understanding) why the suggestion of hiring a full-time manager would necessarily support that goal.

• Yes. there should be a full time manager. Also, there should be a meaningful parking plan, including a multi-level muni garage behind Main Street.

• I certainly think efforts need to be made and funds allocated to help boost the small town values of the town. Not sure if the full time village manager would be required, yet a great idea, as long as their values aligned.

• Yes, though I’m not sure what, specifically, the village would be finding — a review of the code, of course, a long term planning study, a review of the LWRP... and please God, yes, a village manager who knows what they are doing.

• No. Besides, who would want that

thankless job? Save the money. Eventually all of the working people will be squeezed out, and the volunteer fire department and ambulance will need to be salaried.

• A full time manager should be hired either way for the village. A manager would provide stabilized services for residents and structure for employees. It would leave the day to day running of the village out of politics.

• Well management might be a help especially as it seems this situation might be spinning out of control and we’re reacting to certain visible scenarios. A management approach might be able to handle things before they become a huge negative impact on the community at large.

• Shouldn’t the role of the mayor along with a committee of experts in business determine and support a vibrant downtown business community?

• Why? It already is vibrant. And the taxes are high enough!

• Yes but part-time should be enough.

• I don’t know, but there should be some kind of planned cooperation, rather than occasionally adversarial relationship, between the village and volunteer-started nonprofits like Save Sag Harbor and the Sag Harbor Partnership.

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that stretches between Main and Division streets housing Grindstone Donuts and Provisions. According to the most recent proposed assessment figures provided by the Village of Sag Harbor the combined value of those properties is $5,857,200 ($1,456,100, $1,129,400 and $3,271,700, respectively). But assessed value does not always reflect the actual market value.

At the time of that purchase, when the dry cleaners which operated in one of the spaces acquired

by Mr. Zucker decided to move out because of rent increases, the village began to sit up and take notice. That purchase and a coincidental effort

by CVS pharmacy — which hoped to take over and move into the collection of spaces including the 7-Eleven, Sing City, Water Street Liquors and the balance of the Graphic Arts Building along West Water Street — were considered motivating factors for officials to revamp the village’s zoning code, resulting in a sprawling revision to control commercial development in the business district. It was designed, in part, to limit the size space a single business could occupy and to codify the types of uses that could operate in specific buildings in the business district, presumably to make the village unattractive to operators of big box stores and big city stores looking for a Sag Harbor outpost.

A 2007 item in New York Magazine underscored the situation, noting that the fear in the community was that Mr. Zucker had all intentions to raise rents to the degree he could.

“There’s a convergence of forces in Sag Harbor, and he’s part of it,” attorney James Henry told the magazine at the time.

In response, a spokesperson for Mr. Zucker said, “He has no interest in changing the character of the area.”

In an interview in The Real Deal from October 2016, Mr. Zucker responded to the interviewer’s question about a similar contretemps over property he bought in East Hampton, saying, “It’s not that the locals had any problem with me as a landlord. They had a problem — and they’re not wrong — that gradually the retail in East Hampton became more like Madison Avenue. The rents kept going higher and the locals got forced out, but there are still a few left. Ralph Lauren is one of my tenants. I’m not going to deny that if I can charge higher rents, I will.”

In addition to the space on the east side of Main Street in East Hampton that houses Ralph Lauren, Mr. Zucker also owns the movie theater’s building and other properties.

The developer got his start in New York after returning from the Korean War, working on Wall Street then starting a mortgage brokerage in 1961 which eventually helped supply the cash to invest in developing properties on his own. His first was an apartment building

— a 20-story affair in the mid-1960s.

In 1977 he and a partner formed a development company. The Real Deal interview with Mr. Zucker, who declined to be interviewed for this story, says his 300-person firm has developed 30 buildings since its founding.

While Mr. Zucker reportedly remains active in the company, his daughter is responsible for the property rental division, Manhattan Skyline — which now controls many of the properties in Sag Harbor — and has done some developing of her own, according to a 2014 Wall Street Journal story. That article, largely about the succession plans of several New York development companies, indicated that Ms. Zucker was being groomed to eventually head the company.

Reports also indicate Mr. Zucker has been charitable. There is a family foundation, headed by his wife, and he has contributed to various organizations, notably the foundation’s $61 million donation to the Hofstra University/Northwell Health medical school in 2017. Locally he has contributed to Bay Street Theater.

Late in 2018, it was confirmed Mr. Zucker made another large purchase of commercial real estate in Sag Harbor. He acquired the properties that had, over several decades, been collected by Julia Hyman. These include 83 and 85 Main Street, which form the corner at Washington Street; 11 Washington Street, which currently houses Blooming Shells and Near Main and includes a neighboring vacant lot — the last in the business district; and the property at 80 Division Street that includes the Scarlet Rose salon and a private residence.

The combined sale price for the three properties was $9 million, despite a $14 million asking price, confirmed Compass Real Estate agent Lee Minetree, who handled the sale.

The Main Street property went for $6,125,000, the Washington Street property went for $1,475,000, and the Division Street property sold for $1,400,000.

Presently, two of the Main Street storefronts sit empty, the tenants leaving shortly after the sale was announced, although Mr. Minetree said that new tenants were set to move in. A third storefront, adjacent to Grindstone Coffee at the north end of Main Street, has been empty since last year.

Lest it be said that big city real estate developers do not have a whimsical side readers should note The Real Deal piece on Laurie Zucker mentions her father’s love of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, and many of the Zucker Organization’s LLCs are named after her characters.

“Donald has a soft spot for the absent-minded bear,” the story reads.

Hence his properties at the north end of Main Street are under the LLC Sag Harbor Pooh, the Washington Street properties under Sag Harbor Roo, and the Main Street properties under Sag Harbor Eeyore.

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The Sag Harbor Express

To Our Readers, Since its founding in 1859, The Sag Harbor Express has seen the Village of Sag Harbor through a series of changing times. Launched as the whaling industry was aproaching its sunset, The Express was not the first newspaper in Sag Harbor. That honor goes to Frothingham’s Long-Island Herald, Long Island’s first-ever newspaper published between 1791 and 1796. There was also the Sag Harbor News, the Sag Harbor Corrector and the Sag Harbor Herald, but ultimately it was The Express that survived and thrived as the paper of record for Sag Harbor Village, the Village of North Haven and school districts in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton. We have been named “Newspaper of the Year” by the New York Press Association three times since 2013, and have won the prestigious Stuart C. Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence a record six times.

Newspapers have come a long way since David Frothingham published quirky stories, sermons and national and international news in Sag Harbor. The Express today is focused almost entirely on local news, covering our elected officials and school boards with more depth than any other paper. We also shine light on the success stories in our small slice of the world, from the triumphs of our children to the efforts to preserve the area’s historic character and way of life.

Times have changed yet again in Sag Harbor in terms of the cost of doing business and the demographics of its full- and part-time populations. The newspaper has been forced to change as well. We feature some of the best writers and photographers on the East End, and have partnered with top printers and web designers to ensure a high level of quality in our products. Our online and social media presence is robust and we publish a series of lifestyle magazines under the banner of Express Magazine, again focused entirely on the East End market. We publish two boating and fishing sections, which complement a pair of in-water boat shows at the Breakwater Yacht Club. In special sections over the last year, we have examined the local real estate market, shed light on East End health care and celebrated our local graduates. In addition, our “Express Sessions” series is helping lead the community in conversations about topics that matter to you most. Whether it’s news, arts, sports, business news or lifestyle, we are producing more content than ever.

We mention all this because soon we will introduce a new “Express Pass” membership and subscription models and ways to access online content as well as exclusive and discounted access to special events. If you’re a regular reader of our online content, you will soon be asked to pay for it. We have always been at the forefront of covering Sag Harbor and its surrounding areas, and this will help us continue to do so. Starting soon, you will be asked to register online with your name and email. If you’re already a print subscriber, you will continue to receive complete access to sagharborexpress.com. If you’re not a subscriber but would like to be one, you can receive complete access to our print and digital products for $52 per year.

The cost of The Sag Harbor Express has always been a bargain, and we believe that spending one dollar a week for quality and well-produced local journalism remains a great deal. The Express is consistently recognized as one of the top newspapers in all of New York State. For 160 years it has been at the center of Sag Harbor, covering the community first in print, and now online and through community-minded events as well. We hope The Express continues to publish for another 160 years, and that you come along for the ride.

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Gavin Menu and Kathryn G. Menu Co-Publishers The Sag Harbor Express and The Express Magazine

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