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Village Launches New Website Hopes users will find it more interactive.

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Town Bans Plastic Straws Polystyrene and plastic stirrers are on the list as well. > Page 7

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Kathy Hochul, New York State Lieutenant Governor and co-chair of the New York State Heroin and Opioid Abuse Task Force, speaks at last Wednesday’s forum in Southampton. michael heller photo

East End

SEEKING STRATEGIES

FED UP WITH WHAT HE CALLED LIES, insults and misinformation, Sag Harbor Trustee James Larocca led a Village Board counter-offensive at Tuesday night’s monthly Village Board meeting against the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt and their campaign against the board’s plan to put a 60-by-80-foot paved and fenced vehicle impound lot at a former dump site on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

“This issue, the history of it, the narrative of it,” said Mr. Larocca, “is filled with misinformation, disinformation, a lack of courtesy and civility, and is spewing insults, personal

insults to this board and others.”

He spoke after resident Susan Sprott had gone to the podium, during the final public portion of a long, busy meeting at which the impound yard never came up, to chastise the board for ignoring the opposition and refusing to negotiate.

“I come from a place where negotiation is the only way you can live,” she said. “You have to survive on negotiating and that requires listening to more than one side.”

She disclosed that she had filed a Freedom of Information Law request with the village on January 29 to obtain “all documents, emails and communications, including emails on private servers, showing all communications between our mayor and DeLalio South Fork Asphalt as well as any and all communications relating to this project and its bids by any other company.”

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Officials explore options for next step in battling opioid epidemic

BY VALERIE GORDON

LOCAL AND STATE POLICY-MAKERS, health professionals and others gathered at the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons last week for an opioid forum, “Stories From Suffolk.”

The goal of the forum — a joint effort between Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s office and the Albany-based Rockefeller Institute of Government — was to discuss the next steps in addressing the nationwide opioid epidemic

on a local level.

The conference at the Shinnecock Hills church on Wednesday, February 6, was split into two panels focusing on prevention methods, and treatment and recovery options, and was intended to tease out “what works and what doesn’t,” according to the institute’s president, Jim Malatras.

“There is no greater challenge than the opioid epidemic,” he said, referring to the forum

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Southampton

A revised 3D model of proposed townhouses at 2 West Water Street shows a scaled-back peter boody photo building 3, in the foreground.

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Sag Harbor

Bid for Pool in Peril; Bialsky Makes Pledge

Sixty units would be built off CR 39

Harbor Committee delays votes on key cases

BY PETER BOODY

BY PETER BOODY

A NON-PROFIT DEVELOPER of affordable housing based in Medford last week asked the Southampton Town Board for permission to apply for a change of zone so it can build 60 affordable one- and twobedroom rental apartments in five shingled, house-like structures on property it’s under contract to buy south of County Road 39 in Southampton, behind the Southampton Full Gospel Church.

The five-acre site, the undeveloped southern half of the Full Gospel Church’s 9.5-acre parcel, is under option to be subdivided from the main lot and sold to Concern for Independent Living Inc., which operates 1,300 rental units at 275 sites, many of them single-family

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SKATE FOR KATY

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A group of skaters performs a routine at Sunday’s Katy’s Courage Skate-a-Thon at Buckskill Winter Club. See page 13 for more photos.

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Espresso Up for Sale Lease and equipment are available

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

ABOUT FIVE MONTHS have elapsed since a mysterious “closed — on fall break” sign appeared inside the door of Espresso, the take-out spot at the corner of Main and Bay streets, leaving many scratching their heads and

searching for answers.

One clue to the shop’s fate emerged this week when Town and Country Real Estate placed a “for sale” advertisement in this newspaper for the property.

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“I HAVE A GUT FEELING THIS just shouldn’t have a swimming pool on it,” declared Mary Ann Eddy, chair of Sag Harbor’s Harbor Committee, speaking on Monday during a marathon meeting of the committee.

She was referring to a for-sale property at 36 Fordham Street overlooking Ligonee Creek where the owner wants to put in a pool within the required wetlands setback in the backyard.

The four-and-a-half-hour meeting, the longest in memory for the panel, featured two other applications that call for a pool within the required 75foot setback; and it included continuing review — some of it acrimonious — of developer Jay Bialsky’s proposed waterfront condo project at 2 West Water Street, which is also pending before the Planning Board and the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review.

Questioned by a critic in the audience

from the organization Save Sag Harbor, Mr. Bialsky made an impassioned declaration that, as an expert builder and developer, he knew what he was doing and would meet all codes and requirements to protect the environment as he proceeded with the project.

His architect, David Harvey, unveiled for the first time at the session a 3-D model of the project showing the latest incarnation of “Building 3,” the closest one to the water, which has been scaled back because of resistance among Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board members to the building’s mass. Mr. Bialsky’s attorney Brian DeSesa said its height had been cut by five feet and its third-floor area cut by one-third, significantly reducing the building’s mass but not its footprint.

Ms. Eddy’s declaration of opposition to the pool at 36 Fordham, which is sited 55 feet from wetlands — came be-

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East Hampton

Sag Harbor

A Time To Grieve, Your Taxes

Split Vote on Wind Farm Soil Sampling Eversource purchases 50% in Deepwater Wind

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

The East Hampton Town Board narrowly approved a resolution last week to allow Deepwater Wind to conduct geotechnical and archaeology soil sampling along roadways the company is pursuing in Wainscott as a potential route for its power cable for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm.

It was also announced late last week that Eversource, New England’s largest energy company and an electric transmission builder, is paying approximately $225 million for a 50 percent interest in Ørsted’s Revolution Wind and South Fork Wind Farm projects and in the rest of the company’s 257-square-mile federal lease area off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Ørsted acquired those assets in November when it bought Deepwater Wind for $510 million.

According to a joint press release issued on Friday, February 9, the deal builds on the companies’ “Bay State Wind partnership,” a 50-50 collaboration on a separate 300 square-mile ocean tract adjacent to the Deepwater Wind area that could eventually host “at least 4,000 megawatts of offshore wind.”

“Offshore wind will provide a growing and critical source of zero-carbon energy in a region with very aggressive carbon reduction and renewable energy goals,” said Lee Oliver, Eversource’s executive vice president for enterprise energy strategy and business development. “This transaction solidifies our partnership as the strongest developer of offshore wind in the Northeast and is consistent with Eversource’s efforts to be a key catalyst for clean energy development in our region.”

The South Fork Wind Farm project — a 15 turbine wind farm proposed roughly 30 miles southeast of Montauk — will continue to move forward as planned, the companies’ said in their release. Deepwater Wind, if approved by state and federal regulators, is anticipated to be completed by 2022.

Meanwhile, members of the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday were once again divided on a resolution involving the South Fork Wind project. The board ultimately voted, 3-2, in support of a resolution that

would give the company permission to conduct soil sampling along a proposed cable route starting on Beach Lane in Wainscott, continuing down Wainscott Main Street to Sayre’s Path, to Wainscott Stone Road, to Wainscott Northwest Road, and ultimately leading to a power substation off Cove Hollow Road.

The shovel test pits will be dug at approximately 50- to 100-foot intervals adjacent to existing pavement and within the road right-of-way, will be approximately 18 inches in diameter and about four feet deep, according to the town board resolution granting the company the right to conduct the tests.

Both Councilmen Jeffrey Bragman and David Lys voted against the resolution, stating they thought the town should wait until the project’s review with the state’s Public Service Commission is completed, or until that body — leading the state’s environmental review of the project — requests the samples as a part of its investigation.

“I don’t know why we are giving a head start to Wainscott,” said Mr. Bragman. “They don’t want it and a lot of questions about this project remain unanswered.”

Supervisor Peter van Scoyoc did furnish a letter from Deepwater Wind stating it would be conducting similar sampling at a second potential cable landing location in Hither Hills, although that work would not begin until the summer. Performing the work in Wainscott in the summer, said Mr. van Scoyoc, was something he did not believe any board members would support.

“I think the more we learn about the geotechnical data of those borings informs us about the landing at this particular location,” argued Mr. van Scoyoc.

“I see no problem in getting more information. More information is good.”

“We may learn more information that says this is the exact wrong location if we learn there are archeological problems or some geotechnical problems,” said councilwoman Sylvia Overby. “It may take it off the table completely.”

“I think it is preemptive for us to go out and allow this to happen without getting more information from the PSC,” said Mr. Lys.

Budget workshop set for next week

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Screenshots, above and below, of pages from Sag Harbor Village’s new website.

Sag Harbor

Village Launches a New Website Trustee hopes design will encourage more interactivity

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

When Aidan Corish ran for a seat on the Sag Harbor Village Board back in 2017, one of the issues he wanted to improve was communication between the village and its residents.

With the recent roll-out of a brand new website for Sag Harbor, it’s safe to say Mr. Corish — with help from some village staff members — has begun to tackle that goal.

“Our [previous] website was perfectly functional for dates of meetings and agendas and such, but it was not very interactive,” Mr. Corish said in an interview this week. “To encourage people to interact, we needed a better interface and a better process.”

The new iteration of the website — which can be found at sagharborny. gov — puts more emphasis on quick access to information and tasks that can be accomplished online, such as marine bookings, he said. But what he said he is really excited about is the potential for text message and email notifications to residents — a system that requires them to sign up for an account on the new website.

For instance, it will allow people to learn about new applications before the Board of Historic Preservation and

‘I think it represents Sag Harbor in a very beautiful way. This is like our front window, so to speak.’

Architectural Review, if that’s what they are interested in, or allow them to receive seasonal reminders about leaf pickup or snow removal.

“The idea was that we could allow

people to stay in touch,” said Mr. Corish, whose own business, Tangram, specializes in design and branding. “I think any dialogue between the village and the residents is a good thing.

I think it will increase and enhance that communication.”

He credited village clerk Beth Kamper with helping out greatly, and said Connie McGrath, one of the village’s secretaries, did a lot of the “heavy lifting” with “a tremendous amount of backfilling.” He singled her out for thanks at Tuesday night’s Village Board meeting.

“I think it represents Sag Harbor in a very beautiful way,” Mr. Corish said.

“This is like our front window, so to speak. I really, really hope that people do sign up, because that’s where it becomes a valuable tool.”

Michael Paul

Sag Harbor Village residents, mark your calendars: some important dates are coming up, including tax grievance day and village budget workshops.

Grievance day for village property tax assessments is Tuesday, February 19, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the second-floor meeting room of the Municipal Building at 55 Main Street in Sag Harbor.

According to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, individual complaints must be filed for each separately assessed parcel that a person owns. People should present statements, records and other relevant information to support their grievances, the Taxation and Finance website states. Assessments from prior years may not be contested. More information may be found online at tax.ny.gov/pit/property/contest/ grievproced.htm.

According to local attorney Alex Kriegsman, due to rising property appraisals in Sag Harbor, many people are gearing up to grieve their taxes.

“I’ve had a lot of people contact me in the past several days. The new assessments for village residents just went out, and we’re seeing massive increases that appear to bear no relation to the market,” Mr. Kriegsman said Wednesday. “I’m challenging a number of them in the village, and because Sag Harbor Village assessments are done by the Town of Southampton, I think that Southampton residents can expect some bad news in the coming weeks when those notifications go out. I’m assuming we’re going to see the same thing.”

The day after tax grievance day, February 20, the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees will hold its first public meeting to begin planning the 2020 budget. The meeting will be at 4 p.m., also in the Municipal Building meeting room. The board will hold one budget meeting per month until it must adopt a final version in early April.

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School Puts Emphasis On Diversity, Inclusion

Revisit Hamlet Studies

Looking at ways of embracing a changing community

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

An idea pitched by community members to the school district during the summer of 2017 has come fully to life as a newly chartered committee of the Sag Harbor School Board, with a roster of 18 people tackling an issue affecting not just the schools but the nation: deciding how to encourage inclusion and empathy in a place that is growing more and more diverse.

The Sag Harbor School Board on Monday voted 5-0 to formally establish the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

“It is amazing that everyone was so on-board with this moving forward,” said Betty Reynoso, the Sag Harbor Elementary School assistant principal, who co-chairs the committee along with superintendent Katy Graves.

“We’ve been given the gift of time to carefully plan out what we’re doing moving forward. We can go the distance as a committee.”

During a presentation on Monday, Ms. Reynoso said she envisions “a school where everyone is equal and included” without having to be singled out as needing special attention or support.

The group has been meeting every month since December of 2017 but only as a subcommittee of the Nutrition and Wellness Committee. Among its first tasks was defining “diversity” in the Sag Harbor School District. It came up with groups including the LGBTQ community; immigrants; students with special learning needs or disabilities; those with fragile housing situations or have hostile relationships at home; those who experience poverty; and others.

Even before it gained full committee status, the group was able to immediately effect some changes within the schools, including asking the administration to add Spanish-language cafeteria menus, report cards, phone messages and official email communications from the school district.

“It’s been really rewarding. We feel like we’re making a difference,” said Bobbie Cohen, a longtime Sag Harbor Elementary School staff member

who has been an active committee member, having been inspired to join after seeing the play “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

The committee plans to focus on making sure individual classroom libraries are representative of a wide range of cultures, abilities and experiences.

“If children never read books about other cultures or other walks of life, then they never get to see other perspectives,” Ms. Graves said. “If children don’t get to read books about children of their own culture or color, that’s not good either, because it doesn’t help them learn their own story.”

The committee is lining up a film screening in collaboration with John Jermain Memorial Library, which is just one of the entities with which it has partnered. Other groups the committee is working with include The Retreat, the Children’s Museum of the East End and Organización Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island.

The committee is also planning student workshops, staff conferences and other events.

“We’ll have guest speakers for children, families and staff to continue that dialogue of what is diversity and inclusion — not only in our school and community, but lifelong,” Ms. Graves said. “It is a big, broad world out there and we want our children and families to be ever inclusive for their lives.”

Teacher Survey Reveals Few Planning to Take Commuter Trains Just 37 of the 108 members of the Teachers Association of Sag Harbor answered a school survey asking who plans to use the South Fork Commuter Connection, with only six of those teachers saying they plan to use it regularly.

With two morning and evening Long Island Rail Road trains and connecting shuttle buses, the service is intended to ease commuter woes on the South Fork. It is set to launch on March 4.

Of those 37, another four said they would use it “but not every day,” and seven said they would use it only on rare occasions.

Having also been asked about the commuter system’s schedules, seven teachers employed at the elementary school said they would not use it and six middle-high school teachers said they would not use it because the timing does not work for them.

Work session planned for February 19

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Want Zero Tax Levy Increase Option

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

As the Sag Harbor School District continued Monday to wade through the process of building next year’s budget, two school board members called for administrators to give them a zero tax-levy increase option for their consideration.

Board members Chris Tice and Alex Kriegsman said they recognize many homeowners in New York are impacted by the loss of their federal income tax deductions for state and local property taxes, and are also experiencing local property tax increases based on rising appraisals.

Most years since New York State imposed the “tax cap” in 2012-2013, administrators in Sag Harbor have typically presented the school board with a few tax levy options starting with the maximum increase and then ticking down a few notches from there.

“Our average homeowner has had a

very steep hit to their pocketbook in the past year or two,” Ms. Tice said. “I would ask that one of these [options] shows no tax increase.”

This year, Sag Harbor’s maximum tax levy increase is 4.56 percent, or about $1.7 million, based on factors such as real estate growth in the district and exceptions for debt on capital projects in addition to the Consumer Price Index. According to documents on the district website, in the last 15 years, the closest Sag Harbor ever got to zero percent tax levy increase was 1.05 percent, back in 2006-2007.

Mr. Kriegsman — an attorney whose areas of expertise include land use and zoning law — echoed Ms. Tice’s

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suggestion and said property taxes themselves have been rising, too.

“We shouldn’t go into this saying, ‘Wow, this is great, let’s go up 4.5 percent,’” he said. “In the Town of Southampton and [Sag Harbor] Village, there have been big increases in appraised values so people are getting hit hard with property tax increases.”

He later said, “A flat zero would be a great thing to look at.”

School business administrator Dr. Philip Kenter said Monday he could provide a zero tax-levy increase option when he outlines possibilities for the school board to evaluate at the next workshop, on March 11.

Adopting a zero tax-levy increase for the 2019-2020 budget does not necessarily mean the district cannot increase spending — it would simply mean any increases would have to be offset by additional revenue or by

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The East Hampton Town Board will revisit hamlet study recommendations and public reaction to those plans at its Tuesday, February 19, work session at 10 a.m. in East Hampton Town Hall on Pantigo Road.

According to a press release issued by the town board this week, its planning consultants, including Massachusetts firm Dodson and Flinker and former town planning director Lisa Liquori, with Fine Arts and Sciences, will be on hand to discuss community comments to the studies, which looked at issues and potential solutions for downtown areas in Amagansett, East Hampton, Montauk, Springs and Wainscott.

Consultants for the town board began working on the hamlet studies in 2016, developing a first draft in the late spring of 2017 and a second draft of recommendations for the individual hamlet centers in early 2018.

Public hearings on the individual hamlet studies were held throughout 2018. Public reaction to the studies were varied — residents of Wainscott appeared largely supportive of that hamlet study, while some residents of Springs called on the town board to expand its scope when looking at that hamlet’s gateway on Springs Fireplace Road. In Montauk, where coastal retreat for oceanfront businesses in downtown Montauk is one of several recommendations, residents appeared divided; some lauded the board for looking at the environmental reality of climate change while others were critical of any more shoreline hardening in Montauk and asked the board to give the community more time before moving forward with that particular hamlet study.

On February 19, the town board is expected to discuss public comments .

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It’s getting really serious in terms of affordable rentals for people who work here.’

JAY SCHNEIDERMAN, Southampton Town Supervisor talking about affordable rentals in the Town of Southampton in the wake of a request by a developer for a change of zone in an effort to build affordable rental units off County Road 39.

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IN OTHER NEWS

Guilty Pleas for Two Involved in Alleged Montauk Drug Ring

Science Inspires at School Fair

Sag Harbor Elementary School science teacher Kryn Olson with her students at the school Science Fair for grades four and five, which was held on February 7. Ms. Olson said students were encouraged to pick a topic of their own interest to explore for the annual fair. photo courtesy of the sag harbor school district

Town Purchases Land Where Body was Found

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he Town of Southampton has formally purchased the property on Hawthorne Road in Shinnecock Hills where remains were found on August 13 on what is believed to be an ancient burial ground for the Shinnecock Nation.

In October, the Southampton Town Board held a public hearing on purchasing the property from KB

Southampton LLC through its Community Preservation Fund. The owners have agreed to sell the property to the town for $450,000.

As the site had already been disturbed significantly, according to town officials, the Shinnecock Nation raised an additional $50,000 for the restoration and preservation of the burial site.

Remains were found dur-

ing excavation of the construction site on August 13.

Property owners immediately stopped work while the remains were sent to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s office to determine origin. Town officials said in a press release this week that an archeological study of the property may be required to determine if there are other remains on the premises.

The discovery of the remains prompted the creation of the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Heritage Committee within the Town of Southampton. That body recently held its first meeting and is considering recommending the town adopt formal procedures for when ancient remains are found at construction sites in the future.

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ew York State Sentator Ken LaValle was joined by Senate Republican Leader John J. Flanagan and Senator Phil Boyle in calling on New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker this week to immediately impose strict limits on PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) levels in drinking water.

Currently, PFOA and PFOS carry a “health advisory level” from the Environmen-

tal Protection Agency of 70 parts per trillion, although the standard is purely advisory. Largely phased out of production between 2000 and 2006 — there are some limited ongoing uses according to the EPA — PFOA and PFOS were used to manufacture fire suppressant foams, as well as materials that are resistant to water, grease or stains. The exact health impact is unknown, although vulnerable populations that have been identified by the EPA include

infants and nursing and pregnant mothers.

According to a press release issued by the state senators this week, the EPA has delayed “its decision to regulate levels of these toxic chemicals in drinking water nationally.” On the East End, PFOA and PFOS contamination in private drinking wells in East Hampton prompted that municipality to declare a state of emergency and work with the Suffolk County Health Department to extend public water in the

hamlet of Wainscott.

“There have been detections of PFOA and PFOS in multiple locations on the East End of Long Island. It is time that New York State takes the lead role in protecting our residents’ drinking water. The State Health Commissioner must immediately impose more stringent limits on these chemicals, in addition to establishing proper guidelines for detection and remediation. We must protect the public’s health now,” said Senator LaValle.

Following a summertime drug bust in which 17 men were arrested for their alleged roles in a narcotics distribution ring run out of bars and restaurants in Montauk, two of them pleaded guilty on February 6 to felony conspiracy charges.

According to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, Antonio Ramirez-Gonzalez, a 30-year-old who went by the alias “Tete,” pleaded guilty to second-degree conspiracy, a felony. Gilberto QuintanaCrespo, a 32-year-old who went by the alias “Jimmy,” pleaded guilty to fourth-degree conspiracy, also a felony. They will be sentenced on March 13. During the time of their arrest on August 15, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said Mr. Ramirez-Gonzalez and Mr. Quintana-Crespo were among the leaders of the narcotics operation.

• Southampton Town Police last Thursday arrested a man whom they claim drunkenly hit a house on County Road 39 with his car and tried to flee the scene of the accident. According to a police report, Sergio Bonilla-Hernande, 33, of Southampton was charged with first-offense driving while intoxicated and driving with a blood-alcohol content of .08 of 1 percent or more, both misdemeanors, after they said he crashed his car into a house on the south side of County Road 39 near Summer Drive in Tuckahoe. A person in the house who reported the accident told police Mr. Bonilla-Hernande attempted to flee by repeatedly putting the vehicle into drive and then into reverse, but the wheels merely spun in place. He was arrested at 2:45 a.m. No further information was available from Southampton Town Justice Court.

• An 18-year-old from East Hampton was arrested February 9 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with firstoffense driving while intoxicated and driving with a blood-alcohol content of .08 of 1 percent or more, both misdemeanors. According to a police report, the teen, whose name police withheld because of his “youthful offender” status, was involved in a car accident while driving east on Town Lane in Amagansett. When an officer arrived to investigate, he said the teen appeared intoxicated and performed poorly on field sobriety tests. The teen consented to a breath test, and was arrested at 1:29 a.m. He was released on his own recognizance following his arraignment.

• Carlos A. Saquicaray-Loja, 39, of East Hampton was arrested February 9 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with first-offense driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor. According to a police report, while driving south on Route 114 near Stonewall Court, he drove into oncoming traffic and was pulled over. An officer said he observed Mr. Saquicaray-Loja

to be intoxicated, and said he performed poorly on field sobriety tests. He was arrested at 7:14 p.m. and was released on $250 cash bail following his arraignment.

• Jason Thomas Speedling, a 39-yearold homeless man, was arrested February 7 by Southampton Town Police and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny involving a credit card, a felony, and thirddegree menacing, a misdemeanor. According to a police report, an officer on patrol stopped Mr. Speedling, who was walking on Ponquogue Avenue in Hampton Bays, at around 8:40 p.m. after the Southampton Town Detective Division put out a “be on the lookout” notification for a suspect matching his description. After he showed the officer his identification, Mr. Speedling was arrested. He was accused of taking a credit card from the vehicle of an acquaintance earlier in the day and using it twice, as well as allegedly verbally threatening the victim and the victim’s family. No further information was available from Southampton Town Justice Court.

• An 83-year-old Sag Harbor man avoided falling victim to a phone scam on February 11. According to a Sag Harbor Village Police report, he received a phone call in which he was told he had won a million dollars, and that he needed to send a certified check in the amount of $849 to an address in Yonkers. The man did not provide any personal details to the caller, and did not send the check. He called police to document the incident.

• Christian F. Morales, 24, of East Hampton was arrested January 26 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident with injuries, a misdemeanor. According to a police report issued February 11, at approximately 1:13 a.m. on December 1, 2018, Mr. Morales struck a tree on the street near his house with his vehicle and caused his passenger to sustain facial injuries. The report states Mr. Morales then fled the scene on foot and failed to report the accident to the police. He was arrested January 26 at 7:40 p.m., was released on a $100 appearance ticket and was due back in court this week.

• Brian K. Midgett, 27, of Amagansett was arrested February 8 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, for allegedly disobeying a court order.

According to a police report, Mr. Midgett showed up at a residence that he had been ordered to stay away from last April by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana.

There happened to be a police officer at the house investigating a separate incident at the time Mr. Midgett made his appearance, and he was arrested at 7:23 p.m.

He was released on an appearance ticket and is due back in court on February 28.

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Southampton

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Town Bans Plastic Straws

Polystyrene will also not be allowed in food stores and restaurants

BY PETER BOODY

The Southampton Town Board on Tuesday voted unanimously to bar the use of plastic straws and polystyrene packaging at fast food and takeout establishments including restaurants, effective May 8. The ban does not affect retail sales of those products at stores and supermarkets.

The plastic straw and polystyrene container ban, proposed last fall by the Town Board’s Sustainable Southampton Green Advisory Committee and its plastics subcommittee, sponsored by Councilwoman Julie Lofstad and championed by the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, drew no public opposition during public hearings this winter in Hamptons Bay and at Town Hall in Southampton.

The law is intended to reduce the threat to marine life posed by floating plastics; reduce litter on local beaches; and save money by cutting the volume of the town’s solid waste stream, Joseph Glorioso, a member of the town’s Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee and the Sustainability Committee, explained before the Town Board voted on February 13.

“This may be a small step but it’s a very important step,” said Ms. Lofstad just before the vote. “Our environment is everything to us and anything we can do that’s not going to have harmful impacts on our businesses and residents is a no-brainer for me.”

The board’s only Republican member, Christine Scalera — who is considering a run for supervisor against incumbent Democrat Jay Schneiderman — commented before the vote, “It’s not a secret that I haven’t supported bans in the past” because they can be hard on businesses. She said she had received “a barrage” of opposition from local businesses to the town’s plastic bag ban before it was enacted in 2014 and voted against it. But this time, she noted, the plastics subcommittee conducted a survey of local businesses and found 95 percent supporting the ban. It appears “people are coming on board” and “this is a win-win,” Ms. Scalera said.

Councilman John Bouvier thanked the Surfrider Foundation “for being there all the time.” Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said that, just as it did with the town’s plastic bag ban, he hoped the county and state

would follow the town’s lead on plastic straws and polystyrene packages.

Supervisor Schneiderman said, “We do live in a really sensitive environment. We have a lot of marine live. We have a lot of other wildlife.

Styrofoam is problematic, there’s no question about it. It does … last a very long time. For plastic straws, there are alternatives.

“All you have to do is see the images of the marine life that is impacted and of course you want to change things. It’s remarkable we’ve had no one opposed to this,” he added, taking it as a sign people are being more environmentally responsible.

He thanked the Surfrider representatives on hand and the Sustainability Committee and praised Councilwoman Lofstad for taking on the issue “before she knew it wasn’t going to be controversial, and who got out there and said, ‘I need to do this.’” Noting her husband is a commercial fishermen, he said she understood firsthand the impact of plastic straws and polystyrene on marine life.

Under the law, restaurants will be permitted to keep a small number of plastic straws on hand for those with physical disabilities who require plastic straws.

Last November, when the proposed law was first introduced, Tip Brolin of Water Mill, a member of the plastics reduction subcommittee, told the board that 30 percent of the town’s solid waste is from polystyrene products, with homes and businesses in Southampton Town disposing of about 20 million straws and 8 million polystyrene cups a year — not to mention other polystyrene materials such as so-called peanuts and other packaging.

Cutting its volume would reduce disposal costs, increase recycling revenues, and remove the health threat posed by polystyrene, a carcinogen, lingering in the environment, Mr. Brolin said.

The material breaks down into tiny pieces but other than that “it does not degrade,” he said. “It stays in the landfills and the ocean to eventually be eaten by sea life.” Some 13 pounds of plastic was found in the digestive system of a dead whale that beached at Indian Wells in Amagansett in September, he said.

“The only way to avoid the problem in the future is not to have it in the first place,” Mr. Brolin argued then.

Hear Retaining Wall Concerns Among other topics at a busy meeting on Tuesday, the Town Board heard about the prospect of proliferating and increasingly high retaining walls in waterfront communities as sea level rises.

Complaining about the aesthetic impacts and flooding caused by runoff deflected by retaining walls, an attorney and several residents of the Turtle Cove and Cold Spring Pond areas of North Sea raised the issue as they spoke against a proposed law — drafted by the town attorney’s office and favored by the building inspector — that would cede oversight of septic system retaining walls to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services.

“Why would the Town of Southampton relinquish any responsibility it has” to regulate retaining walls, asked the president of the Cold Spring Point Association.

Assistant Town Attorney Katie Garvin told the board the proposal would codify existing practice in the building department, which for decades has exempted retaining walls built to contain septic systems from having to comply with zoning setback and height standards if the county health department has determined the height and location of the walls are structurally necessary.

“We’re ceding our zoning powers,” explained Ms. Garvin, after noting the town is facing two Article 78 lawsuits over retaining walls were approved by the county. Both cases are also before the Board of Zoning Appeals seeking to revoke the building permits that were issued by the town for the structures.

Chief Building Inspector Mike Benincasa explained that it would be a hardship to require people building septic systems in waterfront areas, where groundwater levels may be high, to engineer a system with walls that meet height and setback requirements and then learn from the county that it requires something different. He suggested the proposed law limit retaining walls to “the minimum height necessary” and require some sort of local review for walls over three feet.

“This all started when I/A came in,” said attorney Mike Walsh, referring to “innovative-alternative” nitrogen-reducing septic systems. Mr. Walsh filed the two lawsuits pending against the town.

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OPINION

SUFFOLK CLOSEUP

Editorial

By Karl Grossman

An Appealing Prospect

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nonprofit developer of affordable housing approached the Southampton Town Board last week with a proposal for a change in zone that would allow for the creation of as many as 60 one- and two-bedroom rental apartments on a five-acre parcel south of County Road 39, behind the Southampton Full Gospel Church.

With rental prices being discussed at between $500 to $800 per month for a one-bedroom unit and $1,000 to $1,200 per month for a two-bedroom unit, the prospect is more than appealing in a region that has a significant population of residents and business owners drowning in a sea of unaffordable housing options.

A recent search for Sag Harbor real estate between $500,000 and $1 million — the bottom of the real estate market — yielded few listings, even in areas outside of the village such as Noyac. For those who are unable to afford to buy their own home, rental properties are the only option, and they, too, are scarce and often come with monthly rents as large as a mortgage payment. Even finding a room to rent can be challenging — a single bedroom often going for what a two-bedroom home would have cost just a few years back.

This is an unsustainable situation that will make it increasingly difficult to support a year-round population of volunteers who provide emergency services, volunteers for local nonprofits and employees for year-round businesses, many of which are struggling to find people willing to contend with the hours-long commute from more affordable communities.

This is not a new problem and both East Hampton and Southampton towns should be lauded for their work so far toward increasing their affordable housing stock. On Tuesday, at an East Hampton Town Board work session in Montauk, East Hampton Town Housing Authority Director Catherine Casey announced that the town’s proposed 37unit housing project in Amagansett, which will have rental units with one to four bedrooms, is moving forward and will likely break ground this spring. East Hampton Town also recently purchased a four-acre parcel in Wainscott for an affordable housing project that could have between 20 and 30 units. It is located next to the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust property on Route 114, potentially giving that nonprofit the ability to partner with the town on a robust, and much needed, housing development just outside of Sag Harbor Village.

Southampton Town officials have also been busy — development of the town’s first affordable rental complexes at Speonk Commons and Sandy Hollow Cove broke ground in early 2018, and in January of this year, the board approved a new accessory apartment law aimed at increasing the stock of rental units in single-family houses in the less populated areas of the town.

As much as everyone on the East End appreciates and wants to preserve our rural character, it will be high-density projects that will put the biggest dent in the affordable housing crisis. They must be planned properly and aesthetics are key. But if we fail to provide substantial housing options in both towns, we will lose the year-round population, which will beg the question: who are we preserving all of this for?

Show Me The Money

T

he Sag Harbor School Board of Education and the district administration offer residents a very detailed and expansive budget process — it’s often informative with plenty of material generally available to help the public understand the finances behind the biggest line item on its tax bill.

One challenge, and this is not a new way of presenting draft spending plans in the Sag Harbor School District, is the longstanding process of looking at individual departments before there is an understanding of what the overall picture might be.

Perhaps it would be helpful to understand what the overall “wish list” budget is, including all departments, and then workshop the individual departmental budgets from that point on. It is obviously challenging to understand whether or not potential increases to a transportation budget, for example, should be considered essential without having some idea of what it could mean in the big picture.

Saturday Afternoon, Short Beach

The Walking Tour BY MICHAEL HELLER

Letters to the Editor Better Use of Money and Space Dear Editor, The Suffolk County Water Authority has decided that its property on Division Street should not be used as a vehicle impound yard because of the threat of polluting our aquifer, the very reason the proposed location in the Long Pond Greenbelt is not suitable.

Clearly in order to protect our aquifer and the fragile Long Pond Greenbelt, the impound yard project needs to be rejected. If Sag Harbor Village refuses to share an already existing impound yard in neighboring villages, their existing impound site can certainly be reorganized with a little ingenuity. After all, the village claims to only have 2-3 cars at time.

If the existing site is used, tens of thousands of dollars can be redirected for other important village projects such as updating septic systems, cleaning up Havens Beach, rehabilitating Long Wharf, or funding the John Steinbeck Park.

Sincerely, Dai Dayton, President Sandra Ferguson, Vice President Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt

Time to Monitor Mine Dear Editor, In June, 2018 the Suffolk County Health Department released a thorough and extensive report on contamination in the groundwater beneath the Sand Land Mine in Noyac.

Excessive iron, manganese, radioactive chemicals, carcinogens and pesticides were found above drinking water standards in our sole-source aquifer. The aquifer supplies water to everyone on the East End. Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth LaValle introduced legislation which allows local governments to adopt and enforce laws that require “the monitoring of groundwater impacts resulting from mining or the reclamation of mines within counties with a population of one million or more which draw their primary source of drinking water for a majority of county residents from a designated sole source aquifer.” Governor Cuomo signed this into law recently.

Now it is time for the Town of Southampton to demand that continuous monitoring wells be installed beneath the Sand Land Mine and all industrial waste processing sites under the jurisdiction of Southampton. Lycemeters should also be required. Lycemeters test water as it is filtering down through soil and could identify contamination before it gets to our water supply. The Bridge Golf Course was required by Southampton Town to have the groundwater tested biannually and to install lycemeters.

This active monitoring verifies that the golf course is not contaminating our groundwater. So why shouldn’t the ad-

jacent property, the Sand Land Mine, be held to the same standards, especially since the health department found that the processing of wastes has contaminated groundwater beneath the mine?

John & Maryann Arendt Noyac

Wrong Again, Gladly Dear Editor: I would guesstimate that I have been lucky enough to see 30-plus plays and musicals at the Pierson Middle School and High School. And every few years I think to myself as I sit in the audience “This is the best one they have ever done. They can never top this one.” And then every few years they prove me wrong. The production of Willy Wonka just did it again!

The amount of talent, both on stage and behind the scenes we have at our school is incredible, especially for a district our size. The cast in Wonka is wonderful, which is great since it bodes well for the next four to seven years of productions. And behind the scenes the teachers, volunteers, administrators, etc. who work tirelessly on production after production never ceases to amaze with their creativity and sheer willpower to produce the best show they can.

Thank you to all involved, and I look forward to being proved wrong again and again!

Kathleen Mulcahy Sag Harbor

Airport is an Environmental Risk Dear Editor: As one who has been advocating closure of East Hampton Airport for years, and co-founder of SAY NO TO KHTO, it is encouraging to see “Airport Closure Put On The Table” on the front page of your February 7 edition. However, at this point SAY NO is far less concerned about noise pollution (as awful as that is), and far more concerned about the egregious impacts of the massive carbon pollution generated annually by airport operations. The same day as your article, there was yet another front page one in the New York Times detailing accelerating global warming, and noting the huge factor of man-made carbon emissions. Forget about noise — the airport should be closed because it is an inexcusable environmental nightmare.

Barry Raebeck Wainscott The Sag Harbor Express welcomes and encourages letters to the editor. Preference will be given to letters that are exclusive to The Express and which address local issues. The Express will not publish letters it considers libelous or obscene. Correspondence should be emailed to letters@sagharborexpress.com.

Lives at Risk

ilent Spring by Rachel Carson, published in 1962, is acknowledged as instrumental in the creation of the modern environmental movement. What isn’t fully realized, however, is the role of Long Islanders — and a lawsuit with as its lead plaintiff the great environmentalist from Suffolk County, Robert Cushman Murphy, in helping inform Ms. Carson of the threat pesticides pose to life.

The title of Silent Spring is laid out in its introduction, “A Fable for Tomorrow.” It starts, “There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.”

But, Ms. Carson writes, “Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chicken, the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients.”

“There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example — where had they gone?”

It was a silent spring. “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world,” states Ms. Carson. “The people had done it themselves.”

The special focus of Silent Spring is the super-deadly pesticide DDT which as a result of the book was banned in the United States.

In the 1950s, Marjorie Spock began teaching at the Waldorf School in Garden City and with a friend, Mary T. Richards, established a large garden at their home in Brookville. They grew food by the biodynamic method.

This was particularly important for Ms. Richards who required a diet of organic produce because of her chemical sensitivities.

Then the U.S. government and the state conducted massive aerial spraying of DDT on Long Island to kill gypsy moths. The food in their garden was rendered contaminated for them and they sued. Other Long Islanders, including Mr. Murphy, of Old Field, joined in litigation.

In 1958, a trial lasting over 22 days — referred to by the press as “The Long Island Spray Trial” — was held in federal court. There were 50 expert witnesses who testified about the dangers of DDT, 2,000 pages of testimony. The judge ruled for the government.

But “Murphy v. Benson” (the plaintiffs led by Mr. Murphy versus U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and other officials) went to the U.S. Supreme Court to get the judge’s ruling overturned. They “lost the battle but won the war,” Ms. Spock later said as plaintiffs for the first time were given the right to enjoin the government to force it to provide a full scientific review prior to a proposed action affecting the environment.

Meanwhile, Ms. Spock conducted correspondence with Ms. Carson and advised her of the progress of the case and the evidence gathered. (Ms. Spock was a younger sister of famed “baby doctor” Benjamin Spock.) Between the “Long Island Spray Trial” and other information Ms. Carson was getting — notably about bird kills caused by DDT — the basis for Silent Spring was provided.

St. John’s University Professor Richard Hammond has called Mr. Murphy “a key figure in the fight against DDT.” He not only took the litigation path, but formed Citizens Against Mass Poisoning. It was one of Mr. Murphy’s battles for the environment, internationally and on Long Island.

Mr. Murphy, the Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, authored Fish Shape Paumanok: Nature and Man on Long Island, which I believe is the finest book on Long Island’s environment ever written. (I was fortunate to meet him in the early 1960s when I wrote extensively about the four-lane highway public works czar Robert Moses pushed to build on Fire Island and Mr. Murphy was among the leaders of those challenging and finally stopping the road in favor of a Fire Island National Seashore.) Paumanok is the native American name for Long Island.

I use Silent Spring as a text in the Environmental Journalism class that I’ve taught for decades. The assault on life by chemicals Ms. Carson wrote about is far from over. In Suffolk, the county long sprayed DDT with abandon; but with it outlawed has gone to another problematic pesticide, methoprene, to kill mosquitoes.

Also, Ms. Carson was enormously concerned about the lethal dangers of nuclear technology warning about “the most dangerous materials that have existed in all of earth’s history, the by-products of atomic fission.” (She was diagnosed with breast cancer in the midst of writing Silent Spring and died in 1964.) Now, despite the atomic catastrophes at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, the U.S. Congress just passed — by 361 to 10 in the House, a “voice vote” in the Senate — the “Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act” which seeks to revive and expand nuclear power in the U.S. And President Trump signed it. We still have very far to go.

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What are your thoughts about the large number of Democrats who have announced their candidacy for president?

David Heller “I think it’s a diversion from what ought to be getting done right now to square-up the government and make it accountable. It’s not intentional, but they’re looking aside from a job that they’re not doing right now, and that nobody’s doing right now, and that they should be doing right now.”

Gerald Bertie “The first thing that comes to mind is, ‘The more the merrier.’ There seems to be a large volume of individuals who wish to be president, and I wish them all luck.”

Michael Heller

COLUMNISTS

Lauren Chattman, Al “Big Time” Daniels, Richard Gambino, Karl Grossman, Hope Harris, Helen Harrison, Annette Hinkle, Susan Lamontagne, Lawrence Larose, Jim Marquardt, Paige Patterson, Nancy Remkus

Vic Cippola “Well, the Republicans had 16 two years ago, so they actually haven’t even come close to that yet. I think there are going to be more, and I think it’s going to be a circus, but we’ve become used to that.”

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VOICES

A CONVERSATION WITH

THE SURVEY

Eric Glandbard Formerly the general manager and co-director of the nonprofit public access station LTV in East Hampton during the 1980s, Mr. Glandbard — a 38-year resident of Sag Harbor — returned late in 2018 to become LTV’s executive director.

He shares his inspiration for returning and some of the new initiatives happening at LTV.

#tbt (Throw Back Thursday)

By Christine Sampson

Robyn Bramoff on a fast break during the Lady Whalers playoff win against Smithtown Christian in this D. Johnson photo from the February 4, 1999 issue of The Sag Harbor Express. To submit your own #tbt (Throw Back Thursday), email editor Kathryn Menu at kmenu@ sagharborexpress.com.

What inspired you to come back to LTV? I’ve always had a soft spot for LTV, having worked here 30 years ago. When I discovered that the executive director, Morgan Vaughan, was stepping down, I thought, ‘What an opportunity!’ When I was at LTV, it was some of the best times of my life back in the day. The chance to experience that again inspired me to throw my hat in the ring. Because I’ve always been in love with the idea of TV for the people, by the people, I wanted to come back and continue that tradition here.

How has LTV evolved since you were here last?

I started with the building up on Springs Fireplace Road, a small building and a smaller operation. I came back to the media center, which is a much bigger place with four studios, a bigger staff, producing a lot more programming than we did back in the day. We’re doing over 260 town board meetings and hundreds of shows produced in our studios and out in the town every year.

What are some new initiatives you have coming up?

We’ve started training programs, classes in making documentaries for little or no money with your smartphone. We’ve had a tremendous response already. We hope to create a mosaic of our town with these short documentaries produced by the community to really reflect who we are — the people, the places, the ideas, the issues.

To be the chronicler of East Hampton that we’ve always aspired to be. We’re also doing classes in studio production. We’ve got four studios here, but a big thing we’re doing is developing our second floor. We’ve refurbished part of it into classrooms and office spaces where we’re hoping to host media makers, production companies and independent filmmakers. We have a first-class audio room, and we are looking to develop a complete sound studio, recording studio, edit rooms and production offices. We hope to create a digital academy there with classes in filmmaking, virtual reality, audio production, et cetera. We will also launch, in the next few months, a new website which we hope to be a media hub for the East End, featuring sections devoted to natural resources and the ecosystem as well as sections for student work, arts presentations, government, et cetera.

We hope to create a mosaic of our town with these short documentaries produced by the community to really reflect who we are...

What do you think is the role of public access TV? I think that public access is two things. One is to give a voice to people, the electronic soapbox. If people have something they would like to say, they can create a show and it’s put on the airways and the website. The other is to teach people how to use media to express themselves.

What are your needs, and how can people support you?

One thing to know is we’re not a town organization.

We get money from East Hampton Town to cover the town board meetings, et cetera, but we’re an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit and we’re looking for funding to fulfill some of these projects that we’d like to carry out. We’re also looking for donations of office equipment and production equipment to fulfill that. We are working with local not-for-profits and we’re inviting them to be part of our digital academy to bring their programs here or develop programs with us. We’re looking for funding for this year to complete the renovations of our edit rooms and our upstairs, and for people to come use the media center. Our studios are available for rentals, affairs, film screenings.

Our audio room is for rent for creating podcasts. We invite you down here to see it and be part of our training programs and use our facilities. We’d love to find out what LTV can do for you.

SMALL TOWN CRANK

By Lawrence LaRose

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

D

uring the past week, The Sag Harbor Express reported that a new Flower Stand will be opening up at the base of Main Street, near the windmill.* In very short order, the internet went ballistic, Facebook exploded.

Jamie Fleur: New flower stand? OMG, what a great idea!

Clive Banders: WTF!? Really, don’t we have a florist in Sag Harbor already!?

SH-Florist: Yes, we do.

Clive Banders: Jayzus, but isn’t that the florist in town, like the one that believes in reincarnation and astral projection?

Bazazi Cumber: I could never buy an azalea from a person like that, it offends my morals.

Like if you are not totally Hippocratic Oath and on the same moral compass as me I could never buy rhododendrons from you!

Nate Carioca: Who you calling a Zionist, you racist twatwaffle!?

Bazazi Cumber: I said AZALEA not Zionist Nate: Sorry, was reading fast!

Cindy Yaffers: Or Not reading more like!

Tommy Guns: Don’t we already have a flower shop?

Chris Klompers: It’s called Capitalism, dude!

SH-Florist: Yes, we do.

Tommy Guns: It seems stupid, we have one Fire Department, are they going to open

another one of those too?

Chris Klompers: You seem stupid, Tommy Guns. A Fire Department is a municipal service funded by taxpayers. Florists and restaurants and hair salons offer a variety of services, cuisines, options, driven by market forces to please the greatest number of people Tommy Guns: Thanks for the economics lecture, you pointy-headed, turtle-kissing, Libtwit!

Cindy Yaffers: Maybe we can all get along here?

I mean the level of discourse on the internet is really distressing and corrosive, and I worry what it is doing to all of us personally, and as a society.

Tommy Guns: Shut up, Cindy!

Chris Klompers: Yeah, Shut up Cindy!

Can’t believe I am agreeing with some right-wing gun-slinging nut job.

LOL! Tommy Guns: You Lib-iots always have to turn things political at the drop of a hat.

You must just spin in consternation and anguish without Lock Her Up Hilary in office! And Guns just happens to be my last name, I don’t even own one.

Pat Paulson: No guns? Yeah, that’s why there’s a picture of an AK-47 on your profile page!?

Bazazi Cumber: Does anyone know if this new flower stand is organic? Asking for the planet!

Nate Carioca: What are you crazy!? Organic hahaha! Even if they say they are, florists are almost single-handedly destroying the planet. They blanket the fields with pesticides, even when they say they don’t, they use near slave labor in South America, then the flowers

are flown here on gas-guzzling, greenhouse-gas-producing jets! All for a frickn’ petunia and the world is going down the toilet!

Cindy Yaffers: Nate Carioca, where are you getting your facts?

Tommy Guns: Put a lid on it Cindy! Do a Google search, think for yourself! That’s the problem today, people can’t think for themselves. Do a little investigating.

Everything is a hoax and people are falling for it. Next thing you know they’ll call that Albanian Bomber in the Dubuque Applebees a hoax, dude killed like 47 people!

Jamie Fleur: Um, that was a hoax. No bombing took place in Dubuque. It was a couple high school kids pirating a news website, put up a fake story.

Tommy Guns: Like I’m gonna believe that!

Jane O’Grady: What do we need another flower stand for? We have one. This town is going down the drain, 30 years ago we had one florist and no one complained. This place is getting ruined, not like it used to be at all.

Chris Klompers: Yeah, back when people had sofas on the front porch and the Bulova Factory floated on toxic tides! Those were the days!

Cindy Yaffers: This whole thread makes me think of that W.H. Auden poem, September 1, 1939, which he wrote shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The concluding line is “We must love one another or die.”

Tommy Guns: Screw Auden. *Not really, but just go with it.

LAWRENCE LAROSE is a builder and a writer.

This week, 44 of you responded to our survey. This is what you had to say.

On what platforms do you consume local news?

• Through local newspapers — The Express and The Star. And on News Channel 12. Also by word of mouth by hanging out at local Sag businesses.

• Cell phone or Kindle.

• The Sag Harbor Express newspaper and WLNG local radio station.

• Mainly online Sag Harbor Express and to a lesser extent Southampton Press, rarely East Hampton Star. Also links on Facebook. When I am home I often read the physical copy of the Sag Harbor Express if I have time.

• iPhone, iPad, the newspaper.

• I feel like such an old fogey but I still rely exclusively on The Express. I pore through it every week to catch up on local news. I don’t find that all of the same info is available online — at least not in as user-friendly a format. I might read an iPad version if it was like a pdf of the full paper including weekly ads

from local businesses.

• I buy the three local newspapers.

• Television and news apps.

• Print newspaper, television and online • The Sag Harbor Express — paper copy and online!

• The Sag Harbor Express, print and online and 27east and Southampton Patch.

• Newsday, East Hampton Press, Star and Independent.

• The Express, mostly online, sometimes in print; The Star, mostly in print, sometimes online; Southampton Press online only. Receive e-mail from Save Sag Harbor and Sag Harbor Partnership.

• Weekly papers and Facebook.

• WLNG, The Sag Harbor Express and my neighbors.

• First and foremost, Sag Harbor Express. Also The Independent, East Hampton Star, and 27 East, as well as Patch. All online.

• Primarily via email/newsletters: Star, Express, Independent, Press.

Some social media: more Instagram than Facebook. Once in a great while I’ll go to a website to check a report, fact or hearsay.

YESTERDAY’S EXPRESS 125 Years Ago February 15, 1894

While throughout the Hamptons and many other places on Long Island we see that quantities of ice has been harvested, from 4 to 4 ½ inches thick, not a pond has been harvested in this place, during the present season, for next summer’s use. They better not wait too long, or they “may get left.”

100 Years Ago February 20, 1919

Captain “Bob” Ebbetts, at one time keeper of Cedar Island light station and who for some years has been keeper of Horton’s Point light station in Southold town, has been retired from the service, with a pension.

He quits work March 31.

When Capt. “Bob” was at Cedar Island he had many friends in Sag Harbor. He is a veteran of Co. H., 127th Regiment, and has been in the Light House Service for twenty-four years. Some time ago he fell in the light tower at Horton’s Point and broke his leg. Captain Ebbetts and family will live in Southold.

“Cohen, you’re a lucky man,” said Justice Callaghan when a jury at Riverhead this week acquitted the Sag Harbor junk dealer of a charge of him receiving stolen property. Testimony given showed that wire was stolen by Thomas Pidgeon and Charles Topping from a Promised Land fish factory telephone system. The men, who are now doing time in State’s Prison, sold the copper to Cohen. The insulation was removed and the material shipped by Cohen

from Bridge-Hampton station to a New York metal dealer. Cohen’s defense was that he didn’t know the wire was stolen property.

75 Years Ago February 17, 1944

In the midst of the biggest snow storm of the winter, the many friends and relatives of George E. Butts, local contractor and builder, plowed through snowdrifts to tender him a farewell party at his home on Bay Street last Saturday evening. Mr. Butts is leaving today, to enter the services of the United States Navy.

50 Years Ago February 15, 1968

After many months of private debate in the face of the growing menace of roving dog packs on Shelter Island, the Town Board voted Monday night to schedule a March 11 Public Hearing on a proposed Dog Ordinance which would require all owners to either leash or fence their dogs under penalty of a $25 maximum fine.

The ordinance will also prohibit the admittance of dogs in food stores on the Island, and will permit town authorities to destroy dogs if not claimed after 12 days of being picked up.

25 Years Ago February 17, 1994

The “Morning Mayor,” Joe Ricker, is serving out his last days as news director at WLNG radio. On February 28th, the golden throated Ricker, known for his deep, authoritative voice, will sign off after 35 years on the air.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 SSNY on 12/5/2018. Office: Suffolk County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/o Richard M. Mathew Esq. 295 North Sea Rd Ste #201 Southampton NY 11968. Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/10/19 - 2/14/19 NOTICE Rach 26 LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/4/2018.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 48 South Service Rd Ste #404 Melville NY 11747.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/10/19 - 2/14/19 NOTICE Notice of Formation of Only The Best For You LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Sec. of State of NY SSNY on 12/20/18. Office Loc: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 36 Priscilla Ave, Flanders, NY 11901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR NOMURA ASSET ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-AR4, Plaintiff, AGAINST MARCO AGUDELO AKA MARCO J. AGUDELO, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on November 18, 2016.

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, NY 11937 on February 22, 2019 at 10:30 AM premises known as 48 Seabright Ave, East Hampton, NY 11937.

Mooring permits required.

NOTICE Guazhambo Home Improvement LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/8/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 63 East Montauk Highway Hampton Bays NY 11946. Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE 27 Post Lane LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/4/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 27 Post Lane Southampton NY 11968. Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE Zao Studio LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/2/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 323 6th Street Apt. #a Lindenhurst NY 11757. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE Mendoza Management Capital LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/3/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 King Street East Hampton NY 11937. Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE Jimenez Construction And Remodeling LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/3/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 138 East 3rd Ave Huntington Station NY 11746.

Purpose: any lawful.

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All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of East Hampton, County of Suffolk and State of New York. District 0300 Section 096.00, Block 05.00 and Lot 013.013.

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.

Approximate amount of judgment $738,855.63 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #37709/09.

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Buenavista 268 LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/28/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Po Box #1722 Baldwin NY 11510.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE O.p.u.lence Collection LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/21/2018. Office: Suffolk County.

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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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6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE John Papa Zulu, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/8/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 200 Motor Parkway Ste A-3 Hauppauge NY 11788. Purpose: any lawful.

NOTICE Dj Ulez LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/17/2018.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 237 North Alleghany Ave Lindenhurst NY 11757. Purpose: any lawful.

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6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE Kellis Pond LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/11/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1584 Noyac Path Sag Harbor NY 11963. Purpose: any lawful.

NOTICE 94 Bull Path LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/20/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Po Box 2867 East Hampton NY 11937. Purpose: any lawful.

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6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE Jhm Adjustment, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/14/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 90 W. Main St. Patchogue NY 11772. Purpose: any lawful.

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

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.

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: January 21, 2019

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

BY: Eileen M Tuohy, Village Clerk/Treasurer

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.

NOTICE

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.

PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven will hold a public hearing on the 19th day of February 2019, at 5:00 P.M., at the Village Hall, Ferry Road, North Haven, New York, to consider the adoption of a Local Law as follows: LOCAL LAW NO. 1 OF 2019 A LOCAL LAW AMENDING VILLAGE CODE § 50-13

2x2/7/19 - 2/14/19 PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven will hold a public hearing on the 19th day of February 2019, at 5:00 P.M., at the Village Hall, Ferry Road, North Haven, New York, to consider the adoption of a Local Law as follows: 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 2.

AMENDMENT VILLAGE CODE § 50-16.

OF

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.

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: January 21, 2019

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

BY: Eileen M Tuohy, Village Clerk/Treasurer 2x2/7/19 - 2/14/19 PUBLIC NOTICE

Triunfo LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/9/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1 Nursery Court Patchogue NY 11772. Purpose: any lawful.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTH HAVEN AS FOLLOWS:

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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.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Village Board of the Village of North Haven will continue the Public Hearing on Leaf Pickup on Tuesday February 19, 2019 beginning at 5:00 p.m. in the meeting room, North Haven Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New York. The purpose of the public hearing is to discuss the future of the leaf pick up service provided by Village.

SECTION 2.

AMENDMENT VILLAGE CODE § 50-13.

By Order of the North Haven Village Board Eileen M Tuohy, Village Clerk/Treasurer

NOTICE Masp8 LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/7/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 10 East 23rd Street Ste #300 NY NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful.

SECTION 1.

PURPOSE.

OF

Section 50-13 is amended to read as

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR PUBLIC NOTICE OF VACANCY FOR MEMBERS TO VARIOUS BOARDS The Village of Sag Harbor is currently seeking members as well as alternate members to fill vacancies on various boards. Candidates must be a resident of the Village of Sag Harbor and would be required to attend either one or two meetings a month.

Anyone interested may contact the Village Clerk at 725-0222 or send a letter of intent to the Village of Sag Harbor, P.O. Box 660, Sag Harbor, NY 11963-0015.

2x2/7/19 - 2/17/19 PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that pursuant to Article 12 of Chapter 300 (Zoning) of the Village Code of the Village of Sag Harbor, the Village Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing on February 27, 2019 at 5:30 pm 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 following applications: 1. Application of HOWARD STREET LLC for property located at 42 Howard Street (SCTM # 903-3-2-5), for variances pursuant to Village Code Sections 300-9.1 A(4) & 300-4.3 (Table of Dimensional Regulations) (a) to locate a generator in a front yard where accessory structures are prohibited; (b) a side yard setback variance for the generator of 7 feet to situate it 3 feet from the side yard lot line where 10 feet is required, and (c) a total lot coverage variance of .10% to increase total lot coverage to 25.1% where 25% is the maximum permitted.

2. Amended Public Notice for Application of FLORENCE, for property located at 11 West Henry Street (SCTM #903-4-2-65.1), Sag Harbor, New York to construct both single-story and a two-story additions with a covered porch to an existing residence requiring variances from Village Code Section 300-4.3 (Table of Dimensional Regulations) as follows: (a) The proposed front yard setback for the covered front porch is 20.5 ft. where 35 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 14.5 ft. is required, (b) the proposed front yard setback for the front one-story addition is 20.5 ft. where 35 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 14.5 ft. is required, (c) the proposed front yard setback for the two-story addition is 20.5 ft. where 35 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 14.5 ft. is required, and (d) the proposed side yard setback for the one-story addition is 10.5 ft. where 15 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 4.5 ft. is required. (already noticed); (e) the proposed rear yard setback for the one-story addition is 26 ft. where 30 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 4 ft. is required (already noticed).

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. Copies of the applications may be obtained and are available for public review during normal business hours (8:30 A.M. – 4 P.M.) at the Office of the Building Department of the Village of Sag Harbor. The Village of Sag Harbor provides handicapped access to all public meetings.

Anyone needing special assistance should contact William D. Yardley, Handicapped Access Coordinator at (631)725-0222.

Dated: January 25, 2019

By Order of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Sag Harbor 1x2/14/19 VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR BUDGET MEETING CALENDAR FISCAL YEAR JUNE 1, 2019 – MAY 31, 2020 February 20th 4:00 p.m. Public Budget Meeting March 20th 4:00 p.m. Public Budget Meeting March 29th 4:00 p.m. Village Clerk to present “Tentative Budget” to the Board of Trustees at a regular or special meeting April 9th 6:00 p.m. Public Hearing on Budget Additional work sessions to be scheduled if necessary.

Any additional meeting (if necessary) will be advertised on WLNG Radio.

2x2/14/19 & 3/14/19 NOTICE Twenty-twenty-one Creative LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/29/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 99b Fordham Rd Southampton NY 11968. Purpose: any lawful.

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

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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 non-refundable 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.

IBI Group 59-61 Court Street, Suite 300 Binghamton, New York 13901

b.

McGraw Hill Construction Dodge 3315 Central Avenue Hot Springs, AR 71913

c.

Construction Market Data 30 Technology Parkway South,

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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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

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.

Dated: February 8, 2019

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Planning Board of the Village of North Haven will hold their regular meeting on February 25, 2019 at 4:30 P.M. in the meeting room at the Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New York on the matters of: Caetan, SCTM#: 901-6-3-50, two-lot subdivision; Badilla, SCTM#: 901-3-2-35 Site Plan Review; Rebzach Realty LLC, SCTM#: 901-6-5-51, Site Plan Review; Koblentz, SCTM#: 901-5-1-62 Site Plan Extension

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.

Prospective bidders are invited to submit their stipulated sum bids, including applicable Alternates and unit prices, for work described in general as follows: A. CONTRACT NO. 1 – GENERAL CONSTRUCTION B. CONTRACT NO. 2 – MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION C. CONTRACT NO. 3 – ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION D. 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.

3x2/14/19 - 2/28/19 PUBLIC NOTICE

Inactive Applications (no discussion): Gaunt, SCTM#: 901-2-4-75, Revetment; 10 Meadowbrook LLC, SCTM# 901-6-111, Site Plan Review; Carpe North LLC, SCTM# 901-4-1-32.7, Site Plan Review; Carpe South LLC, SCTM# 4-1-32.8, Site Plan Review And any other matters that may come before the Board.

By Order of the Planning Board Village of North Haven Erika Gubitosi, Planning Clerk 1x2/14/19 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on the 4th day of February, 2019, bearing index Number 19-00470, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 310 Center Drive, Riverhead, New York grants me the right to assume the name of Sylvia Schumann.

The city and state of my present address are Sag Harbor, NY; the month and year of my birth are March, 1969; the place of my birth is Southampton, New York; my present name is Sylvia Schumann-Janku. and an affidavit of such publication shall be filed in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office within ninety (90) days after the making of this Order; and it is further ORDERED that upon full compliance with the above provisions of this Order, the Petitioner shall be known by the name of Sylvia Schumann which Sylvia Schumann is authorized to assume and by no other name.

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“That’s a lousy way for us to find out what gives here,” she said.

That’s when Mr. Larocca seemed to have had enough.

Noting that the Suffolk County Water Authority has decided its pumping station off Division Street would not be a good site for the impound yard because, the Friends’ president Dai Dayton has said, pollution would threaten its wells, Mr. Larocca decried the group’s subsequent characterization of the Authority’s decision as equally applicable to the turnpike site, which is adjacent to the environmentally sensitive Long Pond Greenbelt.

“There are no pumping stations in the site inside the dump where the impound yard is to be placed,” Mr. Larocca said, “so to treat them as similar is simply wrong … I find that shading of that one fact consistent with just the history here.” He said that, after taking time off for a medical issue, he had “gone through every piece of paper that you folks have generated …”

“Wait a second,” said Ms. Sprott. “Excuse me! Excuse me; I am not a member of the Long Pond Greenbelt. I am a citizen, a resident of Sag Harbor …”

“Oh. My apology for that,” Mr. Larocca broke in.

“I am sympathetic. I hear that you’re stressed by presumed inaccuracies. We all are …,” Ms. Sprott said.

“I think it’s important to listen while I put on the record some of what these problems are,” he said, apologizing again for associating her with the Friends but adding “you are reflecting what they have been putting out for quite some time.”

A November 22 full-page ad in The Express, he said, asserted that the Friends’ efforts to meet with village officials “had been met with silence.

That is simply not true. The mayor has met with members of the committee.

I have met with them. The trustees have met with them. I even traveled to Bridgehampton to meet with the leadership” because “they said it would be best if you came to us.”

“The continuing assertion that we have not been responsive is simply not true,” he added. “I can take you through four or five articles” in the local press “and other writings where that theme has been pressed over and over again. That’s not how you resolve a public policy problem like this.”

“Number two,” he went on, the environmental impact of the planned yard on the turnpike site “has been exaggerated … This is a space of 60 by 80 feet in a 23-acre site that has been

in one form or other a dump, and sanitary waste and transfer station and car disposal area for generations.

The greenbelt is beautiful and should be protected to the maximum. The impact of this small addition to this compromised piece of property has been so overstated [that] if I had heard only that, I would be as concerned as anybody else.”

He cited “all kinds of misinformation” aired by critics at a previous board meeting, including that grading would be required and assertions that were “all bolloxed up” about how the village’s Columbia Street parking area, where police now keep impounded vehicles, “is currently being used.”

He and Ms. Sprott got into the issue of her FOIL request, about which Mayor Sandra Schroeder said, “It’s to connect our mayor with somehow doing something wrong with Delalio or somebody.”

“I don’t have all the knowledge of both sides,” Ms. Sprott admitted, but added “I have every single article that’s been in the newspapers … ” “Well they’re wrong,” the mayor said.

“I don’t put this on the newspapers,” Mr. Larocca said, asserting that they are only reporting what the Friends have alleged. He later added that he had no complaints “about the state of journalism” locally.

Their long conversation ranged to the town’s decision not to buy for preservation the village’s 23-acre former dump site off the turnpike, which Mr. Larocca said the Friends have alleged the village short-circuited. Mr. Larocca said it was not true that the village had never responded to the town’s inquiries about a possible acquisition, which he and the mayor said the Friends have repeatedly charged; he said the mayor had responded by phone instead of filling out a form the town had sent.

The town reviewed the acquisition, he added, and determined it was not appropriate to acquire “a polluted site like the dump.”

“I have never heard anyone from the greenbelt acknowledge that,” he said, even though he said he had explained it to the group’s leadership. A similar claim that the village turned away a county inquiry is false also, he said.

“This thing has built and grown to the point where you believe we’re not doing our jobs fairly or accurately or that we’re not giving access, that we’re not listening,” Mr. Larocca said.

“We are listening. We’re trying to listen to what’s true.”

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using money in its “unassigned fund balance,” or the money it has leftover at the end of a previous school year.

According to Dr. Kenter, the district is anticipating additional revenue next year from students coming to Sag Harbor from other districts who pay tuition for that choice. The district may also see an increase in state funding once New York State legislators complete their budget in the next few weeks.

But on Monday — during a budget workshop attended by three of the seven school board members — board president Diana Kolhoff warned that considering a zero tax levy increase could lead to budget cuts.

“That’s totally fine,” she said, “and then the next conversation is … if

‘...if we’re trying to keep it zero, it’s got to come out of somewhere else, so which programs do we cut?’

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SKATING FOR KATY’S COURAGE Dozens of kids and families took to the ice on Sunday for the annual Katy’s Courage Skate-a-Thon at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton. The event helps raise funds for cancer research and bereavement counseling for children and families in honor of Katy Stewart, a Sag Harbor youth who succumbed to cancer. Clockwise from top: Kids “Chuck a Puck” during the Skate-a-Thon on Sunday; Jim Stewart, father of Katy, and four-year-old Christopher Stewart watch from the warmth of the clubhouse at the Buckskill Winter Club; 14-year-old Robert Stewart, brother of Katy, helps his four-year-old brother Christopher as they make their way around the rink on Sunday.

we’re trying to keep it zero, it’s got to come out of somewhere else, so which programs do we cut?”

Sag Harbor has not yet released a full draft of its proposed 2019-2020 budget.

Dr. Kenter on Monday outlined the district’s proposed transportation budget, which would tentatively see about an 8-percent increase over the current year, up to about $1.55 million.

Included is the purchase of one new full-sized school bus at a cost of $103,524, which would be paid for through a reserve fund. A labor contract settlement with the school bus drivers resulted in a 10.7-percent increase in salary costs, up to $489,768.

Spending on field trips would remain the same at $90,000, while sports transportation would rise 2 percent, up to $76,500. Spending on bus fuel is also expected to increase by 2 percent, up to $119,130. The district is also anticipating continuing its bus contracts with the Wainscott and Sagaponack school districts, in which those schools pay Sag Harbor to transport their students, which is projected to bring in more than $415,000 in revenue for the district.

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houses in Suffolk County. Fourteen of them are “larger sites” like the proposed development in Southampton, the company’s executive director, Ralph Fasano, told the board at its work session on February 7.

“We really strive to develop housing that doesn’t look like affordable housing,” he said. “We like it when people confuse us with luxury housing and luxury condos.”

He said his company was “very good” at securing financing, including enough grant money to keep the project’s debt service low. The 36 onebedroom units in the $28-million proposed project, which the company will manage, would rent for between $550 and $800, he said; its 24 two-bedroom units would rent for $1,000 to $1,200 a month. Fifteen units would be reserved for veterans; the others will be made available through a lottery system, Mr. Fasano said.

The company must ask the Town Board for a change of zone from R-20, which allows up to 10 single-family houses on the site, to MF44, which would allow up to six attached units per acre unless they are kept affordable, in which case up to 12 units would be allowed per acre.

The town code requires the Town Board to vote to accept a change of zone application before beginning to review it, a process that requires public hearings, including a State Environmental Quality Review Act review.

“You could say, ‘We don’t want to consider it,’” the town’s planning and development administrator, Kyle Collins, advised the board. In that case, he

added, “The application would die.”

A sewage treatment plant is proposed for the far southeast corner of the property, on the Southampton Town side of the boundary with Southampton Village.

Board members, citing an urgent need for affordable housing on the South Fork, seemed receptive but declined to accept the application until the developer seeks feedback from the local town Citizens Advisory Committee and residents of two adjacent neighborhoods, with which the project’s main through road will connect. Another access point will be off County Road 39 and run to the project to the east of the church.

The developer’s representatives will meet with the board again at its 10 a.m., February 28, work session to report the results of their outreach.

“We have just a ton of people looking” for affordable rentals, commented Supervisor Jay Schneiderman.

“There are a lot of panicking people right now. I’m getting texts” from them … “It’s really bleak and they’re not finding anything below $1,000 or $1,500, not even rooms in a house. It’s getting really serious in terms of affordable rentals for people who work here.”

Councilman John Bouvier urged the company to incorporate renewable energy technology in the project as the town strives to meet its goal of energy independence by 2025. “It will certainly be explored as we get into the project,” promised architect James Havrilla of H2M Architects in Melville. He is no relation to the Rev. Donald Havrilla of the Full Gospel Church.

The ad calls it an “on-going business” and says the sale would include all contents. “All equipment three years old. Long lease in place. Serious inquiries only,” it reads. The asking price is not disclosed.

Hal Zwick, its listing agent, could not be reached for comment; nor could Danny Cheng or Rich Camacho, Espresso’s co-owners.

Espresso has not been without its challenges in Sag Harbor. The takeout spot opened at the former location of the Cigar Bar, in January of 2016, two years after having to leave its previous location at the corner of Henry and Division Streets, where Harbor Market is now. Mr. Camacho and a partner purchased Espresso in 2006 from Luigi and Robin Tagliasacchi.

According to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, several code violations were found during Espresso’s most recent county inspection in March of 2018. Among them

were inconsistent marking of food expiration dates, refrigerators that were lacking thermometers to maintain proper food storage temperatures, a hand-wash sink that was obstructed with cleaning equipment and proof of the presence of rodents. Records indicate that corrective actions were taken on all of them.

In 2016, Mr. Cheng, who also owns the Yummylicious ice cream parlor and whose family also owns Sing City on Long Island Avenue, told The Sag Harbor Express, “We provide great meals at great prices. We’re here to fill that void for the people who want affordable food.”

That’s exactly what Arlene Blake of Sag Harbor has missed ever since the “closed” sign went up last fall.

“It was my go-to place,” said Ms. Blake, who said she’s not much of a cook. “They had the best grilled salmon in the world. … The people were great. So many people are so disappointed. I love this town and that was a big part of it, as far as I’m concerned.”

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as the “spaghetti method”: “We are throwing everything against the wall to see which strands of those spaghetti pieces are going to stick.”

The plan moving forward is to replicate what works throughout the state and get the number of opioid-related deaths down to zero, Mr. Bellone said.

But to do so requires efforts from every facet of the government, including law enforcement and the criminal justice system, education, as well as health services and treatment accessibility.

In 2017, Southampton Town Police reported that 19 individuals died from opioids; in 2018, that number dropped to six. “We are committed to getting that number down to zero,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said on Wednesday.

The first step in addressing the crisis is funding, according to Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. The co-chair of the New York State Heroin and Opioid Abuse Task Force announced on Wednesday that $7.5 million in state funding will be allocated toward doing just that. She added that $3.5 million is set aside for medication assistance, $1.75 million to help facilitate hospitals, and $1.8 million for education efforts.

“I’ve been to far too many funerals,” she added.

Robert Kent, chief counsel for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, or OASAS, said the first step on his part, however, is to break down the barriers put in place by insurance companies. He explained that often, individuals in treatment are charged multiple co-pays per day, depending on what services are provided. Under a new plan, those co-payments would cost the same as a doctor’s office visit and will be limited to one charge per day, he said.

The problem remains, however, that medical providers authorized to provide Medical Assisted Treatment, or MAT, are limited by the federal government on how many patients they can treat per year, according to Steven Salvatore, founder of Farmingvillebased Victory Recovery Partners. He said during an interview that within the first year, medical providers are only allowed to treat 30 patients.

Those numbers increase to 100 in the second year, and top out at 275.

While that barrier remains, Mr. Kent said that OASAS is working with the New York State Education Department to address the challenges faced in education. He explained that the plan is to create a statewide comprehensive kindergarten-through-12th grade curriculum to teach students about the dangers of opioid and substance abuse.

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini expanded upon that, outlining several educational programs of his own. Those include “The Ugly Truth,” a heroin and prescription drug awareness program led by the county’s police department, medical examiner’s office and Health Department, as well as “Choices and Consequences,” a presentation by the district attorney’s office Vehicular Crime Bureau on the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

“It’s never too early to start,” Mr. Sini said.

Panelist and Hampton Bays School Superintendent Lars Clemensen agreed: “Action is needed today. It’s needed yesterday.”

He added that teaching students to recognize warning signs will help to eliminate what he called the “bystander effect.” “Don’t assume someone else is going to carry the ball,” he said.

Mr. Clemensen’s counterpart in Remsenburg-Speonk, Ronald Masera, said that building relationships between students and law enforcement is crucial to addressing the opioid problem in school-age children.

However, according to Anthony Ferrandino, chairman of the NorthportEast Northport Drug and Alcohol Task Force, more action is needed.

He explained that school administra-

tors and teachers are often contending with state instructional requirements, such as mathematics and science, to truly dedicate enough time to social emotional learning. “It often gets missed,” he said.

Krystle Stoddard, a New York State Recovery Peer Advocate at THRIVE Recovery Center in Hauppauge, added that budgetary restrictions often prevent school administrators from hiring a dedicated instructor to teach such courses. Instead, those responsibilities fall on the districts’ health teachers and guidance counselors, she said.

On top of addressing the educational aspect, Mr. Sini also explained that the district attorney’s office has implemented several programs within the criminal justice system to benefit those suffering from addiction.

In 2017, the Suffolk County Police Department launched the Preventing Incarceration Via Opportunities for Treatment, or PIVOT, program, an initiative in partnership with the Long Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence, or LICADD. Under which, the police department will refer appropriate candidates to LICADD, which will in turn place those individuals in OASAS-certified rehabilitation facilities.

Under a similar program, which Mr. Sini said is coming soon, nonviolent offenders within the court system who accept treatment prior to their arraignment can have their case dismissed. “You are never entered into the criminal justice system,” he said.

Drug dealers pose a separate problem, however, he said. In recent years, the state’s manslaughter statute was amended to include charging those responsible for a fatal overdoses to address those challenges.

The Southampton Town Police Department also debuted a public service announcement at the forum that, together with East End police chiefs and students from Westhampton Beach High School and Tuckahoe School, helps raise awareness of the dangers of opioids.

Kristie Golden, associate director of operations at Stony Brook University Hospital, added that the County Police department is currently training a crisis intervention team to respond appropriately to sensitive overdose situations. She advised that a similar team should be trained to respond to situations in Suffolk County jails.

“Our law enforcement professionals deal with difficult situations everyday—it’s very easy to become hardened,” she said.

During the panel on treatment and recovery strategies, Ms. Golden added, however, that accessibility to treatment may be the biggest challenge yet in addressing the opioid epidemic.

Methadone, one approach to MAT, requires daily doses to be effective.

But treatment must be supervised, and there are only four sites throughout Suffolk County that offer such services, she said.

Jeffrey Reynolds, president and CEO of Family and Children’s Association in Mineola, added to that sentiment. “Asking someone to drive from Hauppauge to Riverhead every day is crazy,” he said. “There ought to be a dozen facilities.”

In addition, he noted that the services offered by those facilities are also often limited by the various sites’ hours of operation. “Substance abuse is 24/7. It’s not 9-to-5,” he said.

But, he said the problem goes deeper than that. He explained that the gateway to opioid abuse is often seen as marijuana, but, he said, it starts with mental health instead.

“Mental health is on the forefront,” added Tomrul Tuzel, medical director at Behavioral Enhancement and Substance Abuse Medicine Treatment in Deer Park. “Having access to mental health professionals is critical.”

However, he explained that by the time an individual gets an appointment to see a psychologist, it’s often too late. “When people are in pain or suffering, they’re going to go for the quickest fix,” he said.

Dr. Golden agreed: “If we’re going to get down to zero, we need to say, ‘Let’s get you in today.’”

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Sag Harbor Bay Street Announces School Vacation Theater Camp

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts in Sag Harbor is pleased to offer “Mighty Myths & Legends: A Musical Performance Camp,” February 18 through 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. The camp is for children ages seven to 12, taught by Bethany Dellapolla, and for ages 13 through 18, taught by Allen O’Reilly.

Students will work independently in each of the two split sessions to create a musical based on their life stories incorporating their favorite classic myths and fairy tales. Then on the final day of camp, the groups will join forces and present a final performance for friends and family.

Registration is $470 per child or teen. Parents and guardians can register their kids by calling the administrative office at (631) 725-0818 or by printing forms online at baystreet.org.

PUBLIC MEETINGS THURS FEB 14 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 FEB 19 East Hampton Town Board, 10 a.m. work session, East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton.

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North Haven Village Board of Trustees, 5 p.m., North Haven Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven.

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On Friday, February 15, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, 124 Daniels Hole Road in East Hampton, will hold ARF’s Sharing the Love! Low Cost Vaccine Clinic from 4 to 6 p.m.

The clinic will offer FVRCP (Feline Distemper), DA2PP (Distemper), Bordetella, rabies and microchipping for just $10 each for cats and dogs only. The cost is $25 for unaltered animals. No appointments are necessary. For more information, visit arfhamptons.org.

East Hampton Chamber of Commerce February Mixer

The Southampton Youth Bureau will be hosting their next Open Mic Night on Friday, February 15, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Hampton Coffee Company, 749 County Rd 39 in Southampton. Performing is free and open to youth in grades 5 through 12. Acoustic solo artists & bands, karaoke, poetry/spoken word, and comedic acts are all welcome to participate. To reserve a performance spot, contact the Southampton Youth Bureau at (631) 702-2425 or email pstrecker@southamptontownny.gov.

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The Palm at The Huntting Inn, 94 Main Street in East Hampton, and the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce will co-host an early evening mixer on Wednesday, February 20, from 5 to 7 p.m., at The Palm. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be offered along with happy hour prices. Chamber Executive Director Steven Ringel will update attendees on The New York Times Travel Show he and other members attended, the Spring Street Fair and other pending projects. Incoming president Glenn O. Vickers will also be on hand. Admission is free for members and $10 for non-members. For more information, email steven@easthamptonchamber. com or call (631) 324-0362.

Learn How to Use a Chart

The United States Power Squadrons will present “How to Use a Chart,” part of the USPS University seminar series, at 10 a.m. on March 2 at West Marine in Riverhead. Attendees will learn about chart symbols, navigation aids, latitude and longitude and more. West Marine is located at 1089 Old Country Road in Riverhead. There is a $35 fee, which includes the cost of the student guide. Students should register online at pbps.us/education/schedule.

To learn more or reserve your space you can also call Vince Mauceri at (631) 725-3679.

Guild Hall executive director Andrea Grover with Southampton Arts Center artistic director Amy Kirwin and Parrish Art Museum chief curator Alicia Longwell at the opening of the newest show at the arts center — Takeover! Artists in Residence — on Saturday. The show will remain on view through March 24.

School News Bennett, Brown & Hayes Earn Dean’s List Nods

Duncan Bennett and Phoebe Bennett, both of Sag Harbor, and Paulette Brown of Southampton and Taliya Hayes of East Hampton were four of more than 1,500 students named to the Dean’s List at the State University of New York at Oneonta. To qualify, students need to maintain a 3.5 grade point average while carrying a course load of 12 hours or more.

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Hannah R. Jungck of Sag Harbor earned Dean’s List honors at Clemson

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Purchase College announced this week that more than 1,200 students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester, including Elia Doyle, an Art History, Anthropology and Visual Arts major, and Skylar Kelleher, a Sociology major. Both students are residents of Sag Harbor Village.

2 West Water Street While the size and mass of the 2 West Water Street proposal have been the main issues before the Planning Board and the Architectural Review Board, the Harbor Committee’s review has focused on Mr. Bialsky’s plans to remove concrete rubble that was dumped illegally over the years along some of the waterfront; extend a bulkhead from 100 to 235 feet; install stone rip rap in front of the bulkhead, and build a dock for up to six boats, with board member Will Sharp asking why the bulkhead has to be extended after the concrete rubble is removed.

After a long, rather informal discussion among audience, committee members and the developer’s representatives, the committee voted to close the hearing but allow written submissions for two weeks. The project requires a wetlands permit because it is within 150 feet of the shoreline.

“How do you get to replace garbage with garbage,” Mr. Sharp asked. “From an environmental point of view, we would never be allowed to put a bulkhead there. Why can’t you just let the beach re-emerge?” Members of the audience asked the same question.

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en of New York; Jane Holden of Sag Claire Wagner, a longtime resident Harbor; Bert Holden of Florida, and of Sag Harbor, died at her home here Jeffrey Holden of Connecticut. She is also survived by grandchilon Tuesday, February 12. dren Michela Butts, EmShe was 80 years old. ily Foster, Natalie Brooks, Born in New York City on Thomas Brooks and HenNovember 13, 1938, she was ry Brooks. A grandson, the daughter of Albert and George H. Butts, predeMaragaret (Parant) Holden. ceased her.

A graduate of Pierson Visiting hours will be High School and trade at Yardley & Pino Funeral school, Mrs. Wagner had a Home in Sag Harbor on Fricareer as an aesthetician, day, February 15, from 4 from which she was retired. to 6 p.m. Graveside prayers Mrs. Wagner was predeand interment will be at St. ceased by her husband, Hen- CLAIRE WAGNER Andrew Cemetery on Saturry T. Wagner. She is survived by children Jennifer Butts and Marga- day, February 16, at 11 a.m.

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fore a new surge of opposition to the application. Joining attorney Jeff Bragman in calling the pool a threat to the creek and the Long Pond Greenbelt, to which it connects at Long Pond, were Dai Dayton of Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt; environmentalist and former East Hampton Natural Resources director Larry Penny; village environmental activist and historian Jean Held of the Friends of Havens Beach; and Kevin McAllister of Defend H2O. Another board member, Will Sharp, complained that the proposed drywell system intended to contain overflow from the proposed saltwater pool was “inadequate to what happens with a swimming pool” during maintenance.

Attorney Brian DeSesa, representing the applicant, an LLC — with Bruce Bronster listed as its contact — responded to the mounting opposition by offering to accept as a condition of approval a requirement for an “I/A” nitrogen-reducing septic system.

But with mixed signals from board members Herbert Sambol and John Parker — and some pushback from the committee’s environmental consultant, who on February 8 filed a memo recommending that the committee grant the permit — Ms. Eddy did not call for a vote on the application. Despite Mr. DeSesa’s call to close the hearing, the board voted in favor of her motion to keep it open to the panel’s March 11 meeting.

Mr. Bialsky’s attorney, Brian DeSesa, said there was not enough area on the site plan. As explained by the panel’s attorney, Denise Schoen, there is not enough room to allow for a sloped, natural beach, which would take up too much space to allow for upland infrastructure. He noted that the shorefront has been littered there with concrete rubble for decades following its use as the landing for an earlier bridge to North Haven and for a railroad depot. “Sand has re-gathered there but it wasn’t a sandy beach,” he said.

Architect David Harvey, responding to audience questions about the bulkheading and public access issues, said that proposed Buildings One and Two of the project will cover the same width east-to-west along West Water Street as the converted motel now on the site but will extend 15 feet deeper on the landward side. The existing building, Ms. Schoen noted, is “actually closer to the wetlands than the proposed” structures will be.

The proposed structures will be six feet taller than the existing former motel, not including its cupola, but that height includes the third-floor glass pavilions that will be set back above the second floor ridge line.

Criticism and commentary from audience members Jayne Young and Barbara Roberts of the organization Save Sag Harbor during the presentation prompted Mr. Bialsky to step forward from the audience and mingle with board and audience members as they studied the revised 3-D model of his proposal.

Responding to Ms. Roberts’ and Ms. Young’s concerns about walkways, underground parking, toxic impacts of the demolition process for the former motel on the site, and other issues — some not directly relevant to the committee — Mr. Bialsky said he’s been a developer in the area for 25 years “and I think my reputation speaks for itself … people know me in this community for 25 years know that I do things correct. I hear your concerns. Every time I’m at a board meeting,” whether it’s the zoning, planning, architectural review boards or the Harbor Committee, “I have listened, and I’ve done. On the record, I will be the builder of these buildings and it will all be done to New York State code, government code, whatever the building inspector wants that will be done.”

Mr. Sharp later commented that “there’s a tremendous amount of information” on the application and “the developer has risen to the task of communicating with the audience and the board.” He added, “I think this project is an example of what the village should see in the future.”

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Pierson/Bridgehampton Girls Basketball

Lady Whalers Stake Claim to League VI Title Emotions run high on Senior Night and roll into program-defining win

BY GAVIN MENU

Chastin Giles wears number one for the Pierson/Bridgehampton girls basketball team, and Katie Kneeland wears number two. Together they have become quite the 1-2 punch for the Lady Whalers.

And now, with their teammates, they have the League VI championship all to themselves.

Kneeland, one of nine seniors to play their final home game against Mattituck on February 7, came on late to score a game-high 14 points and lead Pierson to a 38-32 victory that capped a perfect regular season and the Lady Whalers’ first league championship since 2014.

Emotions ran high right from the start with the program celebrating its senior class in front of the biggest girls basketball crowd outside Spirit Night in recent memory. It was also announced early that Thursday was also head coach Kevin Barron’s last game coaching at Pierson High School, at least for the time being, as he will step away to spend more time with his family, including his two young children, 2-year old Annabelle and 6-month old Andrew.

“I’ve been with Barron for five years.

It’s just incredible,” a teary-eyed Kneeland said during a wild celebration at center court. “I was in eighth grade and that was our rival, and all of a sudden I’m a senior and we’re finally the top of our league. It feels amazing and I got to do it all with Barron.”

Pierson finished the league schedule with a perfect 16-0 record, while Mattituck will head off to the Suffolk County Class B playoffs after finishing 14-2, both of its losses coming at the hands of Pierson.

The Lady Whalers (17-3 overall) have no Class C rival in Suffolk County, so they staked claim to that title as well.

They will compete next in the overall

Suffolk County tournament starting with the C-D title game against Smithtown Christian on Friday, February 15, at 4:30 p.m. at Centereach High School.

The winner will advance to play the Class B champion, possibly Mattituck, back at Centereach on Wednesday, February 20.

There are also no Class C schools in Nassau County, so no matter what happens in the Suffolk tournament, Pierson will play a Southeast Regional Final with a berth in the state final four on the line on either March 8 or 9 at a location north of New York City, against a team from either Section I or Section IX. The winner will advance to the state public high school girls basketball championships at Hudson Valley Community College over the weekend of March 15 through 17.

Pierson got off to a slow start against the Tuckers, a perennial powerhouse, and fell behind by 11 points late in the first half. Giles, who finished with just six points but made immeasurable contributions in other ways, was on the bench in foul trouble at the start of the third quarter as the Lady Whalers started to claw their way back into the game.

Giles returned with 4:26 remaining in the third quarter and sent the Lady Whalers into overdrive as they capped an 18-0 run to put the game away. She scored on a slashing drive to the hoop to pull Pierson within three with 2:45 left in the quarter, and hit Kneeland with a no-look pass in traffic to trim the lead to just one. Kneeland scored again with 20 seconds left in the third to give Pierson its first lead since early in the first quarter, and four minutes later, Pierson’s lead had ballooned to nine.

“We got a little nervous in the beginning,” Kneeland admitted.

Pierson senior Celia Barranco dominated the fourth quarter, scoring six of her 12 points while forcing turnover

Pierson senior Katie Kneeland is scooped up by her father, George, during a pre-game ceremony on February 7 to honor nine seniors on the Lady Whalers basketball team.

after turnover, and grabbing rebound after rebound.

“This means the world to me, to be honest,” Barranco said afterward.

“We’ve been working really hard for this.”

Like Kneeland, Barranco has been a four-year varsity player under Barron, and has been there through good times and bad. “He really pushes me a lot and he made me the player I am today,” Barranco said.

Mattituck’s Rachel Janis broke a long

scoring drought for her team with 3:19 remaining in the game, but with Giles controlling the ball and her teammates wreaking havoc on the defensive end, the Pierson faithful danced and chanted their way through the final three minutes.

“It means all of the hard work has paid off from the beginning of the season, when we started in November,” Pierson senior Paige Schaefer said later. “And we still have a lot more work to do.”

Celia Barranco gives Sodia Mancino a ride as Pierson players celebrate winning the League VI title outright with a 38-32 win over Mattituck last Thursday. michael heller photos

Pierson Boys Basketball

Bennett Scores 27 in Season-Ending Loss Pierson falls to Southold as dramatic final seconds end with a blocked shot at the buzzer

BY GAVIN MENU

Wilson Bennett carried an oversized load for a freshman in the Pierson boys basketball team’s Suffolk County Class C outbracket playoff game against the Southold Settlers on Monday night. And he was up to just about every challenge.

The 14-year-old forward, who started the season on junior varsity but played his way into the varsity starting lineup, led Pierson with 27 points but came up just short in the end as his last-second jumper was blocked at the buzzer.

The 58-56 victory earned the Settlers an uneasy date with Greenport in the Suffolk Class C championship game on Wednesday after press time at Center

Moriches High School. The Porters were heavily favored after they cruised to the League VII title with a 19-1 overall record.

Pierson and Southold, on the other hand, battled their way into the playoffs and found themselves in a win-orgo-home game on Monday. Pierson was without the services of its lone senior, Cooper Schiavoni, who had suffered a head injury a week earlier.

The Settlers came out quick and led by five points early but the Whalers turned defense into offense and took four-point leads into both the second and third quarters.

The lead grew to eight points early in the second half but the Settlers, playing

in front a lively home crowd, clawed their way back with the hot hand of junior Nick Grathwohl leading the way.

He finished with a game-high 28 points.

A pair of free throws from Bennett sent Pierson to the final quarter clinging to a 46-45 lead.

Southold never led in the second half until Grathwohl hit a contested layup with 11 seconds remaining that put his team up by two. Bennett’s three-point attempt from the corner was blocked

by Southold’s Steven Russell moments later, and the Whalers’ season came to a sudden end.

“They work really hard and they put their hearts into this game,” Pierson head coach Hank Katz said about his

players afterward. “We lost to this team three times by a total of eight points.

They’re a good team. I give them all the credit in the world.”

Henry Brooks, Pierson’s top scorer, was held to just 10 points while Nick Egbert also scored 10 and played a scrappy game for a guard in the paint.

“We put our hearts on the floor tonight,” Katz said. “It’s certainly not for lack of effort.”

Schiavoni will graduate but Brooks, Bennett, Egbert and other role players like Harry Cowen, Richard Barranco, Peter Schaefer and Habtamu Coulter are expected to return, along with players from a strong junior varsity team.

“It’s a bright future ahead,” Katz said.

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he Bridgehampton boys basketball team’s playoff run was temporarily put on hold this week as Tuesday’s snowy and icy weather prompted officials from Section XI to move the Suffolk County Class D Championship game between the Killer Bees and Shelter Island from Tuesday to Wednesday.

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Bonac Boys Swimming

Swimmers Make a Splash, Duryea Makes States East Hampton swim team is second in Suffolk County behind Half Hollow Hills

BY GAVIN MENU

Ryan Duryea has had the New York State Swim Championships in his sights for a very long time. And in what could have been the final freestyle swim of his high school career, the Pierson senior made his dream come true.

Duryea anchored the East Hampton swim team’s 200-yard freestyle relay at the Suffolk County Championships on Saturday as he, Ethan McCormac, Owen McCormac and Aidan Forst won the event in 1 minute and 28.32 seconds, which qualified them for the state meet on March 1 and 2 at the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow.

The 40 points awarded for the firstplace finish went toward the Bonackers’ total of 205, which placed them second behind Half Hollow Hills, which won its 13th straight county championship with 402.5 total points. The Bonackers, who previously had won the League II Championship meet despite competing without a diving team, finished ahead of 26 other schools in Suffolk County.

“The boys were very focused and motivated to do their best, and the coaches were thrilled with the efforts the boys put in for each of their races,” said East Hampton head coach Craig Brierley, who has led both the boys and girls high school swim programs to heights unimaginable 10 years ago.

“Coming into the season, I had a few goals in mind.” Duryea said later.

“I knew that we were going to have a strong team, so going undefeated and winning a league championship was a big goal I had for the team. We surpassed my expectations as we were league champs and won the League Championship meet. Another goal was to qualify for the state meet.”

As he as all season, East Hampton senior Ethan McCormac led the team and finished as county champion in both the 50 freestyle, which he won in 21.76 seconds, and the 100 freestyle, where his winning time was 46.46 seconds.

He led off the 200 freestyle relay with a blistering time of 21.51 seconds, while Duryea closed out the championship performance.

“All season Ryan has been a huge asset to the team with his leadership and versatility to contribute in any event and he was again up for the challenge that was presented to him,” Brierley said, announcing Duryea as the team’s “Swimmer of the Meet.” “The coaches had total confidence in his abilities to deliver.”

Duryea has led a strong contingent of Pierson swimmers this season, including his younger brother, Jack, who also

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swam in Saturday’s county meet, competing in the 100 breaststroke. He finished in 15th place to earn two points.

“The training this season has been very rigorous,” said Jack, who will return next season along with fellow Pierson swimmers Colin Harrison, Fernando Menjura, Conor Flanagan Edward Hoff and Joey and Nicky Badilla. Most of them, and most of their varsity teammates, also compete on the East Hampton Hurricanes club team, so swimming is basically a year-round pursuit.

“On Mondays and Thursdays, we go to Hurricanes practice and on the other days we go to varsity, including an early Saturday morning practice,” Jack said.

“I also go to practice for an hour before school on Tuesdays and Fridays.”

“My training with the varsity team was more than helpful; it was some of the most fun I’ve had on a sports team,” Harrison added about his experience this season. “This team is very important to me and I’m very grateful I get to be a part of it.”

Harrison specializes in the 100 butterfly and swam a personal-best time of 57.43 on Saturday to finish in 15th and earn points.

“My main goal was to improve my strength and endurance for fly and regulate breathing patterns,” he said.

“I did meet both of those goals, and at counties I ripped through the 100 fly without dying out near the end. And in my 50 free, I didn’t take a single breath and went a best time of 22.90.”

East Hampton’s 200 medley relay finished fourth on Saturday with three Pierson swimmers, Joey Badilla and Ryan and Jack Duryea, joined by Ethan McCormac to post a time of 1:40.69. Badilla was ninth in the 200 IM in 2:08.65, and finished seventh in the backstroke in 58.20. Menjura, who missed much of the season with an injury, posted a 10thplace finish in the 100 freestyle with a time of 51.72. In addition to the winning and state-qualifying performance in the relay, Ryan Duryea scored points in the both the 50 freestyle (eighth in 22.78) and the 100 breaststroke (seventh in 1:03.07).

“We swam well as an entire team and were able to put all of the pieces together to create the most memorable season yet,” said Duryea, who will continue his swimming career at Division III Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.

“After swimming for over a decade, I could not imagine giving it up yet.”

And thanks to his performance on Saturday, he’s got one more high school meet to go.

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Outdoors

BY AL “BIG TIME” DANIELS

Fogbows

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he weather continues to be strange this winter. Another phenomenon happened early last week. There were reports of a fogbow along the ocean visible in Bridgehampton and East Hampton.

Fogbows, also called cloud bows, white rainbows, and ghost rainbows, are all terms used to describe what occurred last week. Looking like a white rainbow, it forms when sunlight mixes with water droplets inside fog, rather than inside raindrops.

It will be interesting to see what happens next. There seems to be a little snow in the forecast, then changing to rain.

Until Tuesday morning, when this was written, we had basically had a snowless winter.

The fishing reports have been nonexistent due to the weather and also the lack of fish. The only report I heard was from the charter boat King Cod from Moriches. They found 18 cod and a couple of ling for the charter. We did have some great low tides during the heavy west winds. Clams are still available for those diehard clammers.

It is a great time to hone your birdwatching skills.

There are plenty of birds of prey including red-tails and eagles around. Waterfowl are plentiful and the male ducks are in breeding plumage.

The next fishing flea market is on Sunday, February 24, at Temple B’nai Torah, 2900 Jerusalem Avenue in Wantagh.

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tanding in front of 100 high school students, Greg Milstein’s eyes always drift to the loners — the nonathletic, the uninspired, the last-to-be-pickedfor-the-team-type kids.

At age 16, he was one of them.

“I really do see the little me out there,” the Levittown native said.

“And I think to myself, ‘Wow, the difference between feeling like you can’t do it, and you can, is just one success away.’ And, hopefully, I can provide that through circus. Circus, to me, has always been home. And circus skills are always home.”

Almost 40 years since his high school days, Milstein is the executive director of the National Circus Project, a non-profit organization that performs and teaches workshops at 350 schools and venues across 15 states in the Northeast every year — including, on Friday night, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

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bout six years ago, The American Hotel had a piano, but no pianist — its beautiful Steinway grand collecting dust in the dining room, waiting at the ready for an impromptu, inspired performance.

Or, perhaps, waiting for Lee Glantz.

“When I walked through the front door, I thought how unique the place was — a trip back to the way it used to be, but

still is,” Glantz said of his first visit to the Sag Harbor icon. “It has a special aura.

And when I saw the piano in the piano room, I was intrigued, and I thought it would be a fantastic venue for what I do.”

Dedicated to keeping “The Great American Songbook” alive, the longtime pianist and vocalist is now a regular in Sag Harbor, primarily providing ambiance for the past five summers at The American Hotel and, in recent years, themed concerts during the winter that put him cen-

ter stage, instead of a three-course meal.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, he will perform “My Funny Valentine: Love Songs” on Friday, February 15 — a collection on wanting love, being in love, losing love and the effort to keep love, from “Someone to Watch Over Me” and “At Last” to “Stormy Weather” and “Always on My Mind.”

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The Current OUTDOORS SAT FEB 16 Observe Wintering Seals, 10 a.m., also Sunday, February 17, at 11 a.m., meet at Montauk Point concession building, 2000 Old Montauk Highway, Montauk, $4 and free for children under age 3, reservations required. (631) 668-5000.

Northwest Hardscrabble Loop, 10 a.m., meet at the trailhead at the end of Plank Road, off Route 114, East Hampton. (631) 238-5134 or (631) 6814774 day of.

Camp Tekawitha Hike, 10 a.m., meet at the parking lot of Red Creek Park, Old Riverhead Road, Hampton Bays.

(631) 481-6228.

Nighttime Salamander Search with Andy Sabin, 7:30 p.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, wear boots and BYO flashlight, $15, $10 for children and free for South Fork Natural History Museum members, registration required. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

SUN FEB 17 Barcelona Neck Hike, 10 a.m., meet at the Sag Harbor Golf Course parking lot, Barcelona Neck Road, Sag Harbor.

(917) 797-6265.

SoFo to Mashashimuet and Back Trail Walk, 11 a.m., starting location at South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, $15, $10 for children age 3 to 12, and free for members. (631) 537-9735 or longpondgreenbelt.org.

TUE FEB 19 Full Snow Moon Hike, 6:30 p.m., Vineyard Field at South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 BridgehamptonSag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton.

(631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

Eastern tiger salamander

SALAMANDER SEARCH Join Andy Sabin for a nighttime salamander search on Saturday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum, located at 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton. Be sure to wear boots and bring a flashlight. Admission is $15, $10 for children and free for South Fork Natural History Museum members. Registration is required. For more information, call (631) 537-9735 or visit sofo.org.

FOR THE KIDS THU FEB 14 Chess: Grades K-6, 4 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

End of “Ice Breakers” Reading Club Celebration: Movie & Munch, 5 to 8 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, permission slip required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

FRI FEB 15 Baby Playtime, 10:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Valentine’s Story Time, 10:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

Popcorn and a Movie: “Dancing in the Light: The Janet Collins Story,” 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

After-Hours Movie: “42: The Jackie Robinson Story,” 6:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Open Mic Night, 7 to 9 p.m., open to grade five to 12, Hampton Coffee Company, 749 County Road 39, Southampton. (631) 702-2425 or southamptontownny.gov/youthbureau.

SAT FEB 16 Young Birders Club with Miles Todaro, 10 a.m., call for meet-up location.

(631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

Hot Cocoa and Books: “Absolutely Almost” by Lisa Graff, 2 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Movies at the Library: “Frozen,” 2 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

SUN FEB 17 Library Buddy Crafternoons, 1:15 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

MON FEB 18 School Vacation Musical Performance Camp: “Myths and Legends!,” 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., through Friday, February 22, Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $470. (631) 7259500 or baystreet.org.

Winter Vacation Art Workshops, various sessions through Friday, February 22, Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, $40 or $30 for members. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

Winter Weather: Nature Walk with Rachel, 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 BridgehamptonSag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

TUE FEB 19 Sleepy Spiders: Nature Exploration with Miles, 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

Google Expeditions, 3:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Pajama Story Time, 5:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

WED FEB 20 Evergreens in Winter: Nature Walk with Melanie, 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

Start to Art, 11:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Chess Camp for Beginners, 1 to 3 p.m., through Friday, February 22, Children’s Museum of the East End, 376 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, $30 or $80 for three days. Cmee.org.

Lego Master Builders, 3:45 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

Teen Community Service Club, 5 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

THU FEB 21 Jackson Pollock Drip Painting, 10 a.m., Children’s Museum of the East End, 376 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, $3 plus admission and $1 for members. Cmee.org.

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Simon Barker, Samson Coulter and Ben Spence in “Breath.”

Take a Breath “Breath” will screen on Wednesday, February 20, at 1 p.m. at the John Jermain Memorial Library at 201 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Admission is free. For more information, call (631) 725-0049 or visit johnjermain.org.

John Lodge

BRING ON THE BLUES John Lodge of The Moody Blues will play a concert on Thursday, February 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Suffolk Theater, located at 118 East Main Street in Riverhead. Doors open at 6 p.m. and tickets are $65. For more information, call (631) 727-4343 or visit suffolktheater.com.

Birds of Vineyard Field: Nature Walk with Xylia, 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

February Break Retro Movie Marathon: “The Neverending Story,” 1:30 p.m., also “E.T.” on February 22, John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

STAGE & SCREEN THU FEB 14 “Casablanca,” 7:30 p.m., Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, $10. (631) 288-1500 or whbpac.org.

FRI FEB 15 Circus Performance with the National Circus Project, 6 p.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

Screening: “The Hate U Give,” 6 p.m., Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, $12, $10 for Friends of SAC and free for students.

(631) 283-0967 or southamptonartscenter.org.

“Love Letters,” 7 p.m., additional performances on Saturday at 7 p.m.

and Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton, $25 or $12 for students under age 21 with ID. (631) 287-4377 or scc-arts.org.

Great Art on Screen: “Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies,” 7 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $18 or $16 for members.

(631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

Screening: Oscar-Nominated Shorts, 7:30 p.m., also Saturday, February 16, at 4 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, February 17, at 4 p.m., Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, $18, $12 for seniors and $8 for Film Society members. (631) 288-1500 or whbpac. org.

All Star Stand-Up Comedy, 8 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $30 or $40 at the door. (631) 725-9500 or baystreet.org.

SAT FEB 16 Documentaries and Discussion: “Killer Bees,” 1 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

SUN FEB 17 Winter Film Festival: “Famous Nathan,” 2 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton, free.

(631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary. org.

WED FEB 20 Wednesday Films: “Breath,” 1 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, free. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

THU FEB 21 Comedian Jackie Kashian, 8 p.m., Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, $28. (631) 288-1500 or whbpac. org.

GALLERIES & MUSEUMS THU FEB 14 “Born Free,” on view through February, Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

SAT FEB 16 Open Studio for Families, 11 a.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

MUSIC & NIGHT LIFE THU FEB 14 The Moody Blues’ John Lodge, doors

open at 6 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $65. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

FRI FEB 15 Sinatra Love Songs with 19-Piece New Millennium Big Band, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $39 to $49. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

SAT FEB 16 Love Train: A ’70s Band Disco Valentine, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $35 to $42. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

SUN FEB 17 Shtrykov-Tanaka Duo, 3 p.m., Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, 32 North Ferry Road, Shelter Island, free.

Shelterislandfriendsofmusic.org.

WED FEB 20 Music in the Morning with the East End Youth Quartet, 10:30 a.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

bor, registration required. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

MON FEB 18 Nourishing a Healthy Heart with Paula Montagna, 9:30 a.m., Ed & Phyllis Wellness Institute at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, free.

(631) 726-8800 or southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu.

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

TUE FEB 19 English Conversation Class, 5 to 7 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

“Singing the Unsung: Eugene Bullard,” 7 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

WED FEB 20 “Meditating on a Riff: How Spirituality is Changing American Culture” with Hugh Wyatt, 12 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, free. (631) 2832494 or southamptonhistory.org.

THU FEB 21 “America’s First Whalemen” with John Strong, 11 a.m., Rogers Mansion, 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 283-2494 or southamptonhistory.org.

EVENTS & MEETINGS THU FEB 14 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.

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LECTURES & CLASSES THU FEB 14 Tai Chi with John Turnbull, 12:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration required. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

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

FRI FEB 15 Plant-Based Eating with Peggy Kraus, 9:30 a.m., Ed & Phyllis Wellness Institute at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 726-8800 or southampton.stonybrookmedicine. edu.

SAT FEB 16 Knitting Know-How, 10 a.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, BYO yarn and needles. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Author Talk: “Venture Smith: From Enslaved African Royal to African American Autobiographer” by Chandler B. Saint, 4 p.m., Canio’s Books, 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-4926.

SUN FEB 17 “Dogs and Romance” with Nola Thacker, 3 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Har-

Comedian Jackie Kashian will perform on Thursday, February 21, at 8 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center at 76 Main Street in Westhampton Beach. Tickets are $28. For more information, call (631) 288-1500 or visit whbpac.org.

Spiritual Singles Over 40, 6 to 8 p.m., The Spur, 280 Elm Street, Southampton. $40. For more information, call (631) 603-9677 or email eva@ensouledhearts.com.

SAT FEB 16 The HAH Garden Book Review Group, 11 a.m., Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons John LoGerfo Library, Bridgehampton Community House, 2368 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-2223 or hahgarden.org.

SUN FEB 17 French Club, 3:45 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

WED FEB 20 East Hampton Chamber of Commerce Mixer, 5 to 7 p.m., The Palm at The Huntting Inn, 94 Main Street, East Hampton, $10 or free for members. (631) 324-0362 or easthamptonchamber.com.

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The Price of Fame And the End of the Road

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few weeks ago, my husband, that for my daughter, spending a few Adam, and I found ourselves quality minutes with those two young roaming the aisles of Rough women on a January night in Brooklyn is the equivalent of me hanging Trade, a warehouse-size record store backstage with The Talking Heads a in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s part generation ago. of a British chain, and when I say they Still, I fear the price of fame in the sell records, I mean honest-to-God era of social media. vinyl. My jaw dropped when I walked Since this was the first time I’d into the mammoth space and saw row heard of her, I read up on Elle Mills after row filled with bins of albums, on the car ride home. Turns out, she just like the old days (but with an has over a million and a half subscribespresso bar instead of the bong displays). ers and last year won the “breakout Everything old is new again, and YouTuber” category at the 10th Shorty much higher priced, now that we’ve Awards (whatever those are). But I gotten rid of our turntable and alalso learned that she had a bit of a bums, which I swear someone has breakdown last May and needed to repackaged in shrink wrap and is now step back from social media for a selling as new. while. She was all of 19 years old and But as you may have the stress of creating a guessed, we weren’t steady stream of new there for the albums. content for her loyal Instead, this schoolfollowers had become night expedition to too much. Such is the Hipsterville was all price of baring your about our 17-year-old soul in a way in which daughter, Sophie (or your public persona as I affectionately call is indistinguishable her, the luckiest-kidfrom your private one in-the-whole-world… especially when because-you-havethere’s another up and parents-who-indulgecoming content creator in the wings just your-midweekwaiting to take your teenage-whims) and fan base. her longtime school I worry about these chum, who came sweet, honest and along for the advenDodie and Sophie Flax. ture. lovely young women Both girls are avid fans of Dodie, who become famous so young and, a talented one-named British singer day after day, appear live from coast to and YouTube sensation who was percoast where they greet every last adorforming at Rough Trade that evening. ing fan with the same energy as the Admission to the show at the rear of first. For better and for worse, they are the store was not by ticket, but rather, in the driver’s seat in every way. Gone free with pre-purchase of her yet-to-be are the days when record execs, managers, agents, body guards and handlers, released CD, which we bought online as unscrupulous as many could be, for $10 and which we were told would shielded their clients from prying eyes be sent to our home when it was and the price of success. available. Oddly, buying a CD that did A couple weeks after the event, not yet exist was the only way to get Adam told me about a TV documentainto see her mini-concert, which was ry he saw on Christina Grimmie that capped at just 200 people. reminded him of our trip to Brooklyn.

Despite the return of vinyl, the Grimmie was a 22-year-old singer music business is a convoluted proposition compared to when we were who was discovered as a contestant on young and concerts were how you sold “The Voice” and went on to build her albums, not the other way around. fan base through albums and YouTube But here we were, with 198 or so other videos. In June 2016, she was killed in mostly teenage girls who had figured Orlando, Florida by a 27-year-old obsessed “fan” who came to her concert. out how it works. Adam and I hit an He shot the singer point-blank as she eatery up the road during the show opened her arms to give him a hug and returned to Rough Trade just in during the meet-and-greet portion of time to grab a cappuccino and join the evening. other moms and dads who had driven It turns out that Grimmie’s brother from places like Westchester and Jersey to indulge their own children. was her only bodyguard. He was also We watched as our enthusiastic in charge of selling merchandise, and teens streamed out of the concert as he tackled his sister’s killer, the man space and lined up around the perimturned the gun on himself. If you don’t eter of the store for the real highlight recall hearing about this story in the of the evening — the one-on-one meet news, there’s a good reason why. It was and greet with the performer who a bad week for Orlando and the very would pose for photos and sign mernext night, 49 people were gunned ch. Since the CD hadn’t been released down at the Pulse nightclub. yet, Sophie brought along Dodie’s Adam said that security experts latest book to autograph, while her were consulted for the documentary friend had her ukulele in tow. I have and when shown videos of Grimmie’s to admit, it was great fun watching concert that night, immediately zeroed in on the killer in the crowd as the fans squeal in anticipation as each someone they would have stopped and got close and finally had a moment searched at the door. He looked out of with the singer. place, they said, and appeared to be “You’re shaking like a Chihuahua” I double the age of the primarily female heard one young girl say as her friend teenage fans in the audience. emerged from the line after her 20 Our night in Brooklyn was nothing seconds of face time with Dodie. but good vibes, positive energy and I imagined my own child would have a similar reaction when it was her great fun and I love the relationship turn. But as I glanced at Sophie and her the performers like Dodie and Elle have with fans like my daughter. It’s friend near the end of the line, I could great that these days, with little more see them already jumping with excitement as they looked up at the balcony than a keyboard and a camera someone who’s talented and ambitious can of the store. Apparently, they had self-produce content that makes them caught sight of Elle Mills, another YouTuber, this one a vlogger from Canada, a star on their own terms. who has become uber famous for her But the world is a crazy place, and revealing confessional videos.

I don’t know the answer. I just hope Sophie explained that Elle and that these young talents who so willingly give so much of themselves can Dodie are friends, so it makes sense find the balance they need to stay she’d be there to lend moral support. centered and safe. And I fervently pray Sophie and her friend quickly jumped they don’t ever encounter a fan who is out of line to go hang with Elle who looking to take more from them than quietly laughed and chatted with they are prepared to give. them, posed for photos, signed their stuff and asked them to keep quiet The End of the Road about her presence, lest others notice. ’m sorry to say, circumstances dicWithin minutes, Elle had beamed out tate that this will be my final “On a five second video post to her many The Road” column for the Sag Harbor followers. Taken from the balcony, it Express. It’s been more than five years included a shot of Sophie serenading since I started this monthly foray into her on the ukulele. whatever was currently happening in Does this make my daughter famous? I wondered, and for the next my world and many of my ramblings half hour sat and watched Dodie have focused on life with my daughter, much to her chagrin. greet, hug and pose with every single In those years, Sophie has grown up one of those teens in line. I hoped and is now on the brink of adulthood. she was enjoying it as much as her In May, she turns 18 and come June, adoring fans were. By the time Sophie she will graduate from East Hampton finally emerged from the line, like High School. Next fall, she’ll be off to the Chihuahua girl, she was quaking college in one of several states. The with excitement from the encounter. short list includes Massachusetts, It had been quite an evening — two Ohio, Colorado and South Carolina.

YouTubers for the price of one — and We’re still waiting to hear whether within minutes, Sophie had posted Vermont and Washington, D.C. will pictures of herself with both of them also be on the list. on Instagram and a caption reading It seems a fitting time to let go. “best. night. ever. wow.”

Soon, she will be off having advenQuite a proclamation for a notoriously quiet kid. And I now understand tures of her own that don’t involve me or my husband or this part of the ANNETTE HINKLE, former associate editor world. I just hope that she writes. So of the Sag Harbor Express, writes extenwhile this may be the end of this colsively about the East End of Long Island for umn, remember, the road never ends a number of regional publications. In 2017, — it’s just that sometimes you have her first book was published. “Sag Harbor: to head for the off ramp and take the scenic route.

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Songs for Valentines continued from page B1 this period from the 1920s to the 1950s, will live on through eternity, similar to what classical music is — the music of Beethoven and Mozart and Bach, even though it’s hundreds of years old,” Glantz said. “That was a period of time that is larger than the 30 years I’m talking about, but this music is so rich and easy to improvise and interpret by other artists throughout the years. It will live on, and it’s music that I love to do.”

Growing up in Queens, his childhood home was filled with Broadway show music — songs by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, and Irving Berlin — and it wasn’t long before he pulled up a seat at the family piano himself.

“Around 6, 7 years old, my mother started to teach me how to play these songs,” he recalled. “A lot of these songs that I play were already 20, 30 years old. Even though I grew up in the rock era of the Beatles, I was playing these standards from ‘The Great American Songbook.’ I learned early — all this repertoire really came into me at a young age.”

Dabbling led to an attempt at classical training — “My teacher said to my mother, ‘Well, he’s not really a classical pianist. He can’t stay to the written note. He’s frustrated,’” Glantz said — and he embraced his improvisational streak.

To this day, no song ever sounds the same twice, he said, and “The Great American Songbook” gives him the musical freedom he has al-

ways craved, as does his tenure at The American Hotel.

“I’ve been performing for about 35 years, and I’ve played in all sorts of places all through New York, France, Palm Beach, Nantucket,” he said. “I’ve had a very nice career, but I must say that The American Hotel is really home. These concerts enable me to perform in a more formal setting,

‘This period that I mainly sing from, this period from the 1920s to the 1950s, will live on through eternity, similar to what classical music is —’ rather than background — which I enjoy doing, too, because it’s totally different.

“I love playing and I love creating an ambiance, and there’s a certain relaxed aspect of that, but concerts are something that I love doing and I want to do more.”

Pianist and vocalist Lee Glantz will play a concert, “My Funny Valentine: Love Songs,” on Friday, February 15, at The American Hotel, located at 49 Main Street in Sag Harbor, as part of the Friday Night Winter Concert Series. It concludes on Friday, March 1, with “Billy Joel: The Ballads.”

Dinner begins at 7 p.m., followed by the concert at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $89, which includes a three-course prix fixe, and reservations are recommended. For more information, call (631) 725-3535.

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Vincent Frezzo Leads Long Island Board of Realtors Hamptons Chapter

Vincent Frezzo — an agent at the Douglas Elliman Bridgehampton office — is a member of the Brendan Skislock Team, and is now the president-elect of the Long Island Board of REALTORS® Hamptons Chapter.

Prior to joining Elliman in 2016, Frezzo held executive-level positions in marketing, sales and digital media for global Fortune 100 companies, including L’Oreal, Coty and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He is a member of the National Association of Realtors and Multiple Listing Service, and also volunteers his mentoring skills and branding expertise with a number of local and national charities. He enjoys surfing, sailing and snowboarding, and lives in the Mecox Bay area of Bridgehampton, with his partner and dog.

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Kenneth Zahler Joins Town & Country

The newest addition to Town & Country Real Estate is Kenneth Zahler, a licensed real estate salesperson with 45 years of experience, now based in the Greenport office.

After a decade in the title insurance business, he opened his own company, Aquebogue Abstract Corp., and over the years, attended approximately 25,000 closings, prepared reports, rendered opinions and, as an expert witness, gave testimony in real estate litigation cases both locally and in New York. He also co-presented a class for the Suffolk Bar Association.

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“He invests in real estate, both commercial and residential, has been involved in 1031 Tax deferred Exchanges and has acted as general contractor on construction projects, which include several residential and commercial projects,” according to a press release.

A vital face in the North Fork community — sitting on the boards of various non-profit organizations — Zahler assumed leadership of Okeanos, which rescued and rehabilitated aquatic mammals, and turned it into The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation at Atlantis Long Island Aquarium.

“All this experience adds to a diverse education and understanding of issues both directly and indirectly related to real estate: Ken helped many practicing attorneys solve the most difficult real estate issues,” the release said.

The past president of the Riverhead Board of Education, and the local Rotary chapter, has always had a passion for archi-

tecture and, together with his wife, built and lived in four homes, two of which were published in magazines.

For more information, call (631) 477-5990 or email kzahler@tchamptons.com.

East Hampton Chamber Mixer Warms Up at The Palm

Meet incoming president Glenn O. Vickers — and mingle with fellow business leaders — at the next East Hampton Chamber of Commerce mixer on Wednesday, February 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Palm at The Huntting Inn, located at 94 Main Street in East Hampton.

Executive Director Steven Ringel will update attendees on the New York Times Travel Show that he and other members attended, as well as the Spring Street Fair and other pending projects.

Admission is $10 and free for members. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served.

For more information, call (631) 324-0362 or visit easthamptonchamber.com.

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Valentine’s Day at The 1770 House

hef Michael Rozzi likes his tasting menus to build like a crescendo — and there is, perhaps, no better holiday for that than Valentine’s Day. Winter warming specials are at the heart of his four-course prix fixe, available for $85 per sweetheart, on Thursday, February 14, starting at 5:30 p.m. at The 1770 House, located at 143 Main Street in East Hampton The first course selections are small bites with lighter flavors — from chilled West Coast oysters to baby beets to foie gras torchon — starting off a menu that gradually grows into big, full flavors and multi-layer dishes.

Second course selections include cauliflower bisque with house hot smoked salmon and Siberian caviar; sheeps milk ricotta ravioli with baby artichokes, pancetta and heirloom carrot; and littleneck clams with white wine broth, garlic and shallots, tomato and grilled bread.

For the entrée, choose between fluke filet with roasted maitake, leek and sunchoke hash, and vadouvan oil; butter poached lobster with brandy and tarragon, a vegetable bouquet and black truffle; milk fed suckling pig porchetta with smoked apple, sweet potato, baby kale and cider jus; or braised beef shortrib with fregola sarda, crimini mushrooms and winter greens.

And for dessert, just leave it to Chef Rozzi to do the selecting.

“Rozzi’s menus may be enjoyed with wines from The 1770 House’s 250-bottle Wine Spectator award-winning list, overseen by wine director Michael Cohen,” according to a press release. “For those who like a Champagne toast, The 1770 House is one of the few restaurants to serve NV Billecart-Salmon brut reserve by the glass and at $22. There are 17 Champagne and sparkling wine selections, including two by the glass ($14 $22); NV Billecart-Salmon brut reserve and rosé by the half bottle ($48-$80); and bottles ($56 - $300) from France, Spain, New Mexico, California and the North Fork.”

To extend the celebrations, six main house guest rooms range from $180 to $280 per night on weekdays, $236 to $420 on weekends, and the two-story, two-bedroom carriage house is $556 on weekdays and $604 on weekends.

“The warm welcome includes breakfast and in-room snacks,” the release said. “On Saturday and Sunday, hot selections are featured with challah French toast or buttermilk pancakes with warm Vermont maple syrup; eggs any style, including omelet of choice or eggs Benedict; and smoked salmon frittata with cream cheese, chives and green salad. On weekdays, a continental buffet features house-made muffins and granola, smoked salmon and sliced onion, hard boiled eggs, bagels, yogurt and fresh fruit. Coffee is by Hampton Coffee Company. In-suite snack bar treats for purchase include Dean & DeLuca selections, North Fork Potato Chips, Tate’s Cookies and fresh fruit.”

For more information, call (631) 324-1770 or visit 1770house.com.

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tanding at a table in the corner of an Italian piazza-style tasting room, Salvatore Diliberto pours measured heaps of flour onto the wooden top. He creates a small crater where he will add egg and a little salt and oil, while singing a favorite Italian song. A renaissance man in many respects, Diliberto is a winemaker, trained opera singer, Italian tour guide and, during the week, a lawyer.

On select Sundays in the winter, he also plays an Italian nonna at Diliberto Winery in Jamesport for Sundays with Grandma, a pasta demonstration and wine pairing dinner.

Having grown up as a first-generation Italian American, Diliberto found Sundays to be a particularly special day. Extended family and sometimes friends would gather for a meal at grandma’s house, which in his case was his aunt’s home in upstate New York, spending the day around the table and sharing stories of what was going on in their lives. Recalling those memories and an eagerness to bring this once common concept back is the inspiration behind Sundays with Grandma.

“The best experience I had was the fact that these people sitting around the table for the most part had not been born in this country and when you looked around, every man wore a three-piece suit and the women were all dressed up,” Diliberto shares of his family, many of whom came from Dugenta in Campania, Italy, where he leads tours in the spring and fall. “You couldn’t tell who was a doctor and who was a laborer. I was always very proud to be part of that kind of family. These were hardworking people that made a long journey to make a better life for their children and grandchildren.”

As the years went on and Diliberto had children of his own, he endeavored to create the same social family experience in his own home with his parents, kids, siblings and in-laws. Music was always part of it with opera and classical music often playing in the background. With life tak-

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ing people every which way, it can be hard to hold on to family traditions. If you can’t do it with your own family, Diliberto invites you to be part of his.

Being “grandma” is hard work, but work Diliberto truly enjoys. Every dish served during the Sunday dinners is homemade, including the mozzarella served with tomato and fresh basil, the tagliatelle pasta topped with marinara sauce made by Diliberto’s wife, Maryann, and the desserts like the pizza dolce. Each of the four courses are paired with the winery’s various vintages like the 2014 merlot or 2016 blend of merlot and cabernet franc called Cantina.

Guests sit family-style at long tables in the tasting room as Diliberto demonstrates how to make pasta while sharing stories of his childhood and singing songs like “That’s Amore” by Frank Sinatra or “Funiculi Funicula” by Luciano Pavarotti.

His daughter, Riverhead High School choral teacher Dena Tishim, often accompanies him on the piano.

“I love to see the reaction of people when they see what goes on at Sundays with Grandma,” Diliberto says. “People enjoy the music and food, and the atmosphere of being with others and sharing a meal.

Sometimes people come up to me during

Salvatore Diliberto, above, and the mural on the wall of Diliberto Winery’s tasting room, top. or after the dinner a bit teary-eyed and tell me it reminds them of their own childhood and how much they miss it. It’s a way of remembering the people who were important to you. That’s my reward.”

Sundays with Grandma takes place on February 17 and 24 and March 3 and 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. Tickets are $99 per person and must be purchased in advance. These dinners are strictly 21 and over.

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Join the circus continued from page B1 Since 1984, that equals more than 12,000 performances, 67,529 workshops and 1,133 Student Circus programs for nearly 6.9 million participants.

“That number is really staggering to think about,” Milstein said. “If someone told me, ‘Hey, you — you, that nerdy fat kid who sits in the corner and cries because you don’t want to play basketball because you’re afraid you don’t know how to shoot a basket — you’re gonna grow up and you’re gonna travel around the world and spend your life using your physical excellence as a way to inspire others, and that will be your career,’ I would have been like, ‘Are you crazy?’”

What has defined Milstein’s life is thanks to a random box of blue rubber handballs in his friend’s backyard. What followed was a complete accident, he recalled with a laugh.

“We were all challenging each other to juggle and I don’t know what happened that day, I don’t know what happened that night. All I know is I got obsessed,” he said. “It was like my brain focused on the juggling and I just kept trying so hard. I just had to do it; I had to succeed.”

His next memory was a tap on his shoulder. He startled, looking around the ball-speckled yard. The sun was almost down, and all his friends were gone. His friend looked concerned.

“He says, ‘My mom wants to know if you’d like to stay for dinner. She’s inside, worried about you, because you’re still here,’” Milstein said. “I was standing out there for hours, trying to juggle. It was like I time-traveled, like, what happened? It was the strangest experience.

“But then he went up to his room, came outside and handed me this pamphlet that he had from an old birthday gift, with a guideline on how to juggle,” he continued. “And that gave me the pattern. By the time I left, I was making several throws with three balls. I taught myself how to juggle that night.”

From high school and into his early 20s, Milstein practiced his skills for at least two hours a day, every day.

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and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, officially becoming a full-time circus performer — not to mention a ringmaster, balloon and trapeze artist, magician, master unicyclist, tightrope and stilt walker — ever since.

But gone are the days of the anachronistic, three-ring, multi-milliondollar circuses. Now, the United States has adopted a more Europeanor Russian-style affair, adopted from countries where circus popularity has soared for centuries.

“There, circus people are not only respected, but circus is high art — opera, ballet, theater, circus, all on the same level,” Milstein explained. “It’s so special and so high level. In America, they’re like, ‘What are you, a clown?’

It was, for many years, disheartening.

Unfortunately, Americans were not aware of what circus was.

“But there’s an evolution happening,” he continued. “Circus is changing — think Cirque de Soleil, but in a way, they did not bring something new. The theatrical artistry of Cirque de Soleil was similar to what was already being done at the Moscow Circus and other avant-garde circus shows in Europe. But what Cirque du Soleil did was make it accessible.”

That is precisely what National Circus Project does, too, by bringing circus arts into the classroom and beyond, teaching children to juggle with scarves, balance with feathers and spin plates — giving them gratification and fanning their self esteem in the process, Milstein said.

“In your career, you wonder what you contribute to the world,” he said.

“National Circus Project staff members absolutely go to bed at night knowing they do tremendous things for others. They empower kids to have success, and the crowd goes wild.

These are memories they will have for the rest of their lives.”

The National Circus Project will give an interactive performance and teach a workshop on Friday, February 15, at 6 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum, located at 279 Montauk Highway in Water Mill, as part of Family Month. Admission is free for students and children, and included in admission for adults. Reservations are recommended. For more information, call (631) 283-2118 or visit parrishart.org.

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Enslaved African, Autobiographer

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Exploring the life of Venture Smith

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oseph Vecsey is back with a brand-new lineup for his All Star Comedy series at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Headlining on Friday, February 15, are three rising stars of comedy: Casey Balsham and Ken Krantz, both familiar voices on SiriusXM and at Gotham Comedy Club, and Marc Theobald, writer and actor in Tracy Morgan’s “The Last O.G.” on HBO. “Please note that there is the possibility of raunchy, social and political humor themes or comments, which do not reflect the views of Bay Street Theater or its employees,” a press release said. “Comedy nights contain mature material and are not appropriate for those under 18.”

The show starts at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are $30 and $40 at the door. For more information, call (631) 725-9500 or visit baystreet.org.

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enture Smith, the son of a West African prince, spent 14 years as an enslaved man on Fishers Island. He would work to purchase his freedom, moving to the East End and Connecticut, and in 1798 wrote his autobiography.

Today, he is considered the earliest known, completely AfricanAmerican literary voice. One of less than 20 autobiographies from the first 200 years of the American colonies, the narrative sheds light on life in West Africa, the Middle Passage and 18th-century slavery in New England.

Author Chandler B. Saint, a historian and preservationist, has devoted years to documenting the life and times of Venture Smith and, on Saturday, he will visit Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor to discuss his book, “Venture Smith: From Enslaved African Royal to African American Autobiographer,” starting at 4 p.m.

“Founder and president of the Beecher House Center for the Study of Equal Rights, Saint has initiated projects like the reenactment of the historic Lane Debates of 1834 — the first major debates on abolition — and the Documenting Venture Smith Project, which has attracted international attention and cooperation from scholars in Britain, Canada, Africa, and the U.S.,” according to a press release.

Having served with Pete Seeger and others in the emerging New England side of the Civil Rights Movement, Saint found himself greatly influenced by these giants and, ever since, civil and equal rights have been central to his life.

For more information, call (631) 725-4926.

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ong Island Grown” is getting some new flavor.

For its sixth annual iteration, the lecture series — hosted by the Peconic Land Trust and Bridge Gardens — has expanded to not only include farmers, food and beverage producers, and chefs, but also the innovative and entrepreneurial products coming from the East End community that demonstrate how locally grown products are evolving to meet changing consumer tastes.

“This lecture series means a great deal to me,” Bridge Gardens member Patricia Sanders said in a press release. “As a locally grown gal, each session reaffirms how fortunate we are to have so many talented individuals remaining loyal to the soil and heritage of the East End. I always look forward to the inspiring stories shared by the speakers.”

This year’s panel discussions will kick off on March 17 with Abra Morawiec of Feisty Acres Farm, Kareem Massoud of Paumanok and Palmer Vineyards, and Jack Formica of Amber Waves Farm Market.

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n 1977, the Shelter Island Friends of Music made it their mission to bring world-renowned artists and rising stars to the East End for a series of free concerts.

And with this year’s “A Global Musical Journey” series, they will do just that — kicking off on Sunday, February 17, with the Shtrykov-Tanaka Duo at 3 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, located at 32 North Ferry Road on Shelter Island.

Pianist Misuzu Tanaka and clarinetist Maksim Shtrykov will perform music by Danzi, Bassi, Gretchaninov and Rosenblatt.

The series continues on April 13 with pianist Peter Dugan at 8 p.m., June 1 with vocalist Alejandra Sandoval at 8 p.m., September 6 with vocalist Jakub Józef Orliński at 8 p.m., and October 13 with cellists Ani Kalayjian, Laura Metcalf, Andrew Yee and Caleb van der Swaagh at 3 p.m..

For more information, call (631) 749-2251 or visit shelterislandfriendsofmusic.org.

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A selection will be on view on Saturday, February 16, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Griffing & Collins Real Estate and DJTM Enterprises, LLC office, located at 2 Grand Avenue in Shelter Island Heights. Champagne, wine and small bites will be served.

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“Please join us for what is sure to be an exciting program exploring unique agricultural operations and what drives these individuals to farm and produce on Long Island,” the release said.

Each presentation begins at 2 p.m., moderated by pastry chef and author Laura Donnelly at Bridge Gardens, located at 36 Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton. A reception will follow. Admission is $40 and $30 for Bridge Gardens members, or $140 and $100 for the whole series, respectively. Registration is required. For more information, call (631) 283-3195 or visit peconiclandtrust.org/bridgegardens.

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‘The warning signs are in front of us, for change on Main Street.

Rents, and the expected rental rates of landlords going forward, are forcing changes within the commercial district with the loss of long-term busineses.’

Developer and real estate investor Donald Zucker purchased a collection of properties that form the corner of Main and Washington streets in Sag Harbor in 2018.

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What’s Around the Corner for Main Street?

With recent property sales, the business landscape continues its affluent march and the future for mom and pop stores becomes even more tenuous

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ust before real estate mogul Donald Zucker dropped $9 million on an “assemblage” of properties in Sag Harbor — with frontage on Main, Washington and Division streets — there was chatter in the village.

Tenants began speculating. Nearby businesses took stock. The closures of mainstays La Superica, Lee Jewelers and Conca D’Oro still stung, even two years later, as imminent change lin-

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gered in the air.

They could feel it, and so could local real estate brokers.

“Sag Harbor commercial real estate is always in high demand,” according to Scott Strough, an associate broker with Compass in Sag Harbor.

“The warning signs are in front of us, though, for change on Main Street.

Rents, and the expected rental rates of landlords going forward, are forcing changes within the commercial district with the loss of long-term

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businesses.

“That’s not a knock against any new business coming in,” he continued.

“It’s just a sign of the times — that rent and overhead within the Sag Harbor business district has become challenging. Investors looking at buying on Main Street for rental income have to balance return with tenant retention in their evaluations.”

For a glimpse into the future, Sag Harbor investors should look to their neighbors on either side, noted John

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Wines, licensed associate real estate broker with Saunders & Associates in Southampton Village, where he is witnessing higher turnover and vacancies than years past.

“Retail shops and restaurants continue to find it hard to cover the rising rents and other operating costs in a relatively short season,” he said. “That said, vacancies and turnover are nothing new in our area. Year after year,

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ROUNDTABLE

Move It! No Matter Your Intentions, Price to Sell.

Local real estate professionals share their thoughts about the market today

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ast year, with unpredictability in Washington and on Wall Street, real estate on the East End took a hit — but industry professionals are confident in 2019, especially when it comes to Sag Harbor. The Express invited a slate of local experts to discuss residential real estate issues and trends.

Included in this feature are: John Wines, licensed associate real estate broker with Saunders & Associates; Georgiana Ketcham, licensed real estate broker and owner of Georgiana B. Ketcham Real Estate on Shelter Island; Geoff Gifkins, Hamptons-area regional manager for Nest Seekers International Realty; Judi Desiderio, chief executive officer of Town and Country Real Estate; Simon Harrison, principal broker for Simon Harrison Real Estate; Jessica von Hagn, licensed real estate salesperson with Brown

Harris Stevens of the Hamptons; Enzo Morabito, a licensed associate real estate broker with Douglas Elliman Real Estate; Mala Sander, associate broker with Corcoran Group; Jon Barton, licensed salesperson with Sotheby’s International Realty; and Scott Strough, associate broker with Compass.

Here is what they had to say.

The Sag Harbor Express: What is your general feeling about the real estate market in and around Sag Harbor?

JOHN WINES: The real estate market in and around Sag Harbor is, like many other areas across the nation, a little soft right now. That’s not to say, however, that it is destined to struggle in 2019. Many quality properties were sold in Sag Harbor during the past year and there are good economic indicators still in play at the national level.

It’s also worth noting that Sag Harbor continues to enjoy a stronger demand

relative to many other areas of the Hamptons.

GEORGIANA KETCHAM: Over here on ‘Fantasy Island [Shelter Island],’ we are very busy with sales and rentals for summer of 2019.

GEOFF GIFKINS: We saw a dip in sales last year, but every market has its cycles with peaks and troughs. Take the headlines with a grain of salt. In these micro real estate markets, any one large transaction, or the lack thereof, can greatly affect the results. Both buyers and sellers should look at the broader picture and historical data.

Sag Harbor has consistently performed well and will continue to do so.

JUDI DESIDERIO: Sag Harbor real estate took a breather last year, but for 2019 we see more inquiries in all price ranges. Sag Harbor remains the most vibrant village in the Hamptons.

SIMON HARRISON: We have the same pipeline of buyers and sellers in dollar

volume and unit sales, but the fall market was off.

JESSICA VON HAGN: We have not been immune to the recent slowdown that has been witnessed in other markets — whether we blame recent tax changes, Fed rate hikes in 2018, recent market volatility and higher inventory levels.

2018 was a transitional year. With that said, there is still an insatiable amount of demand out there for Sag Harbor and surrounding areas at the right price. I am very optimistic about the Sag Harbor market in 2019.

ENZO MORABITO: We feel very, very strongly about Sag Harbor, more so than just about any market. The mixture of different price ranges gives Sag Harbor a dynamic that no other town has, which is extremely positive. We are moving my team’s east-of-the-canal office from Bridgehampton to Sag Harbor — that’s how much we think of the Sag Harbor real estate market!

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MALA SANDER: It’s a buyer’s market, which translates to opportunity for smart buyers. Certainly it’s a lot less volatile than the stock market!

JON BARTON: I’m feeling very confident about the Sag Harbor real estate market. Since January 1, 2018, there have been approximately 225 closings in the Sag Harbor School District — roughly one every working day. There are about 23 listings currently in contract in the area, totaling over $50 million, so we’re off to a great start in 2019. Sag Harbor’s unique Main Street culture has become a hub of normalcy in the Hamptons, and I think visitors and locals increasingly appreciate contact with local business owners.

SCOTT STROUGH: I believe the Sag Harbor real estate market has entered into another cycle of strong demand and sustained price increases, especially long term. Sag Harbor remains the crown jewel of the Hamptons.

What trends did you see emerge in the Hamptons overall last year?

WINES: One obvious trend that persisted in Hamptons real estate last year was that properties had to be realistically priced in order to sell. Properties that were priced aggressively with high expectations, in most instances, languished. Not surprisingly, sales under $2 million remained strong throughout the Hamptons. At the same time, we also saw a trend toward downsizing. My son and I represent the condo units at Harbor’s Edge in Sag Harbor Village. We sold several units this past year to buyers who were downsizing from large homes. This trend has been so popular lately that we have only three new units left at Harbor’s Edge, out of the 15 original units that were built.

KETCHAM: The usual same old, same old: five outfit weekends with fundrais-

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