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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019 VOLUME 160 NO. 34

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Bridgehampton

New Pastor Inspires

Ross Lower School Listed for $9.99 Mil

Rev. Tisha Williams has faith in making personal connections. > Page 3

Butter Lane property was once campus of Hampton Day School

Propose More Wind Farms Newest proposal would put an array about 30 miles off Montauk.

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

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Leaf Pickup Coming to End North Haven will offer its final village-funded cleanup this year. > Page 3

AN ‘EMERGENCY’ PROTEST

Chanting “Trump is our emergency” and “Hey hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go,” dozens of protesters rallied on Montauk Highway in front of the Bridgehampton Community House on Monday, President’s Day. They gathered in response to an “emergency protest” announced on Facebook by community activists Lisa Votino-Tarrant and Kathryn Szoka. Drivers passing by regularly honked in support.

On the Screen

South Fork

KEEPING US FED

East Hampton Cinema Phone (631) 324-0448 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (PG) Arctic (PG-13) The Favourite (R) Green Book (PG-13) Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13) BlacKkKlansman (R) Southampton Cinema Phone (631) 287-2774 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (PG) Isn’t It Romantic (PG-13) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (PG) Cold War (R)

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Sunday, February 24 Cloudy Temps in the low 40s

INSIDE Obituaries 10 Opinion 6 Arts & Leisure B1 Calendar B6 Classifieds 8 Sports 13 The Hometown Newspaper of JULIE SIGLER-BAUM

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Local organizations work together to battle food insecurity

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

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VERY TUESDAY MORNING, Evie Ramunno and her team of Sag Harbor Food Pantry volunteers count up the number of village residents who come through the doors of the Old Whalers’ Church, the pantry’s home base, seeking help.

Lately, they’re up to 67 separate families and single people, a number that has grown over the last few months, Ms. Ramunno, the food pantry’s director, said this week.

“That’s quite a bit compared to what it was last fall before the cold set in,” she said. “We’re prepared. We just try to keep everybody happy for a few days. We try to send them home with at least nine meals — three days of food.”

The Sag Harbor Food Pantry is just one local organization serving the hungry on the South Fork, where a network of pantries, churches, schools and social service entities work together to tackle the issue of food insecurity.

Ms. Ramunno said the number

Sag Harbor Food Pantry.

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of people Sag Harbor’s food pantry helps will dwindle a bit in the spring and summer as seasonal work picks up. She said people find out about the pantry both on their own and through referrals, for instance from the school social worker if a child appears to be showing signs of hunger.

“So many families are struggling.

The rents are very high. Food is expensive,” Ms. Ramunno said. “It’s tough to make it in the winter if you’re not working. We have many elderly who are also struggling. They may have their own homes, but they have taxes to pay and their Social Security and whatnot is not enough to keep them going either, so we hope that they’ll come to us for some support.”

According to Allison Puglia, vice president of programs and agency relations for Island Harvest, one of Long Island’s largest food banks, teachers are often the first to identify hungry children.

“They may see the child with a headache or a stomach ache,” Ms. Puglia said. “The child may not be paying attention because they may be waiting for lunch. Some kids squirrel away food in their backpack that hasn’t been eaten to take it home.”

In adults, she said, food insecurity

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Sag Harbor

SANS Moving Closer To State Recognition State wants to hear from residents about landmark status

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

NEW YORK STATE is inching closer to adding Sag Harbor’s traditionally African-American neighborhoods to its Register of Historic Places, and recommending them for consideration on the National Register of Historic Places. But before it makes its final decision, the State Historic Preservation Office needs to hear from residents of those neighborhoods themselves.

A final evaluation and decision are expected on March 21.

Jennifer Betsworth, an historic preservation specialist with New York State, on Thursday said letters of sup-

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Renee Simons, right, and Jennifer Betsworth, at last Wednesday’s meeting.

port are welcome, but the state also needs to hear from anyone who opposes the landmarking status before

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East Hampton

Renew My Beach Permit? Seriously?

Sag Harbor

Cannabidiol and More on Wharf

For the first time, residents will need to re-up

Another apothecary in the village

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

THE OPEN MINDED ORGANICS FARMSTAND on Butter Lane in Bridgehampton is closed for the winter right now, but that’s okay with Ashley Falkowski. She’s busy preparing to open OMO the Apothecary, a new store in the Promenade on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, slated to open March 1.

According to Ms. Falkowski and her husband and business partner, Dave Falkowski, having a store will relieve them of what they called the “constraints” of simply being a farm and farmstand. Also, they said, the farmstand gets pretty muddy

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THE ROSS SCHOOL’S FORMER Lower School campus on Butter Lane in Bridgehampton was publicly listed for sale last Thursday, priced at $9,995,000 with Compass Real Estate.

The private school announced in June of 2018 it would consolidate its lower and upper schools to its East Hampton campus on Goodfriend Drive.

According to the real estate listing, the 8.32-acre campus, located at 739 Butter Lane, “is the perfect setting

for either an educational institution or an amazing single-family private residence.” The property features five buildings constructed in 2001: “The Barn Building,” which is approximately 15,858 square feet; “The Leonard Building,” approximately 5,760 square feet; “The Farmhouse Building,” approximately 3,045 square feet; the solar-powered “Green Building,” approximately 5,760 square feet, and the “Field House,” a 13,100-squarefoot gymnasium. The campus also has a pool.

Also according to the listing, nationally acclaimed Martin Architects has created plans for “an exciting modern sports and entertainment residence” at the campus.

Andi O’Hearn, the Ross School’s

Ashley and David Falkowski.

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THE EAST HAMPTON TOWN Board is expected to pass a resolution at its Thursday, February 21, meeting to hold a public hearing during its March 7 session on legislation that would require town residents to obtain new beach parking permit stickers every five years. Residents who obtain beach driving permits for their trucks and SUVs would also be required to renew their permits under the law.

Currently, in East Hampton Town, residents are not required to renew

parking or beach driving permits — they are attached to a resident’s car registration and license. In Southampton Town, both resident parking and beach driving permits and stickers are issued on an annual basis. East Hampton Village also has an annual permit schedule.

If adopted by the town board, permits will continue to be free to residents, who will be required to renew their permits any year that ends in a zero or a five. If adopted, the new law

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK “We are aware of how much hard work this wonderful woman put into this, and how worthwhile we think this would be for these neighborhoods.

If someone is worried about finances because of the state of their home, if this designation will give them access to a grant or cheap money that will allow them to stay, then we keep another resident, and that’s important to me. We keep another family in their home. It gives us an opportunity to keep our neighborhoods.”

SANDRA SCHROEDER, Sag Harbor Mayor on the SANS community’s efforts to have their neighborhoods recognized by the state as historically significant.

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Charges Filed in Alleged Forcible Touching of Minor

South Fork Bakery Becomes a Nonprofit

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he South Fork Bakery recently announced it is officially a nonprofit. It applied for nonprofit status in May of 2018 and received notification in December of 2018 that it had been approved by the state. In operation since May of 2016, Shirley Ruch’s South Fork Bakery has had a mission

to employ local people with special needs.

On Wednesday, March 27, the nonprofit will have a fundraiser at the Hamptons Hawaiian Saimin Shop on Bay Street at Dopo La Spiaggio. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and is $50 per person. For more information, visit southforkbakery.com.

Shirley Ruch with members of her team at the South Fork Bakery.

The Spur Announces East Hampton Expansion

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he Spur, a members-only co-working space, announced last week it will expand into a new location in East Hampton Town. Since May 2018, The Spur has been operating from an historic, converted 1880s feed and seed barn near the Southampton train station.

“Over the past year, we have seen a steady growth in our membership base from both year-round entrepreneurs based on the East End as well as from innovators who are New York City-based residents but spend time in the Hamptons,” said Ashley John Heather, Spur

founder and CEO. “In our first year, we’ve already had over 150 members join The Spur and we continue to see pent-up demand from those living further east.

Because of this, we quickly determined that our next business priority should be to accommodate that market demand before we expanded into other areas.”

The new East Hampton location will operate out of the space currently known as The 324 at 44 Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.

“I’ve seen a remarkable transformation occur in the Hamptons with the increase in year-

round business people,” says Frank Cilione, an owner and operator of the East Hampton property. “What makes The Spur and their expansion plans truly exciting is rather than the de-facto ‘let’s meet at Starbucks’ to discuss ideas and business, people finally now have a venue that is specifically designed and geared especially for them.”

According to a press release issued by the company last week, it is expected the new “Spur East” will open in the Spring of 2019 and will be able to support an additional 100 members or more. The new location will

have a full bar, breakfast, lunch and catering services, and a large event space to support lectures, corporate retreats, private events, live entertainment and even a ping pong club.

The Spur was recently awarded a $500,000 business development grant from the Long Island Regional Development Council’s 2018 Strategic Plan.

The goal of LIREDC recommendations is to advance growth of knowledge-based jobs and the overall economy on Long Island.

The Spur’s grant was the largest award given to a for-profit business on the East End.

OLA Adds Local Faces to Roster of Support Staff

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rganización LatinoAmericana of Eastern Long Island (OLA) announced last week it has added to its support staff, bringing on two residents to help support the team.

Thalia Olaya is in her final year at Hofstra Law School. A graduate of East Hampton High School, she is lending her time to OLA in an effort to support the new advocacy office located on Main Street in East Hampton Village. Ms. Olaya first met Minerva Perez, the executive director of OLA, when she was still in high school.

“She came to The Retreat to volunteer and I knew at that moment she was a rare combination of empathetic and driven,” Ms. Perez said in a press release. “When I learned of her dreams to go to law school, I only hoped that we would see her again here in our community.”

Ms. Olaya will be directly as-

sisting OLA attorney Andrew Strong with legal research and support.

Jonathan Lopez of Sag Harbor is taking a gap semester from Georgetown University to join OLA’s team as administrative support staff to help shape office systems and protocol as OLA expands to offer direct legal representation on certain cases.

Mr. Lopez first met Ms. Perez when she reached out to her for suggestions to start a Latino Teen Leadership League at Pierson High School. “Jon was so organized and passionate about helping fellow middle and high schoolers,” Ms. Perez said.

“What I found most admirable is that he saw this leadership league as a way to address challenges felt by all teens, regardless of ethnic background.”

“We are lucky to have these two compassionate members of the community looking locally to share their talents,” she said.

Attorney Andrew Strong and Jonathan Lopez.

Correction The article “Teacher Survey Reveals Few Planning to Take Commuter Trains” in the February 14 edition of The Sag Harbor Express incorrectly stated only teachers of the Sag

Harbor School District had received a survey about the South Fork Commuter Connection. The survey was issued to all employees of the Sag Harbor School District.

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New York State Police on February 14 arrested Edward Quinn, 54, of Shirley in connection with an incident that occurred in Southampton on September 6, 2018, involving a minor under 17 years of age.

Mr. Quinn has pleaded not guilty to charges of forcible touching and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors, and was released on $1,500 bail at his arraignment. He is due back in Southampton Town Justice Court on April 10.

Further details of the case were not immediately available. New York State Police have said anyone with additional information may contact them at (631) 756-3300. Police said calls are kept confidential.

• Last week’s snowy, icy weather caused havoc on East Hampton roads, with town police responding to at least eight accidents involving vehicle or property damage within four hours on Tuesday. In one case, a 62-year-old East Hampton man lost control of his vehicle while driving north on Three Mile Harbor Road around 1:21 p.m. According to a police report, his vehicle spun out and overturned before striking a utility pole. In another case, the vehicle of a 58-year-old East Hampton man struck a fence on Bluff Road in Amagansett shortly before 2 p.m. In each police report, officers attributed the accident to snow or ice on the roadway.

• A teen from Hampton Bays has been arrested by Southampton Town Police for allegedly stealing from cars parked on several residential streets in North Sea and Hampton Bays. The 17-year-old boy was arrested February 14 after “a lengthy investigation into a series of vehicle larcenies” dating back to mid-January, police said in a press release issued Tuesday. He was charged with one count of fourth-degree grand larceny, a felony, for allegedly using stolen credit cards, as well as seven misdemeanor counts of petty larceny. Police said at least 30 vehicles were affected, including some parked on Widener Road, Roses Grove Road and Middle Line Highway in North Sea. • Sag Harbor Post Office postmaster Robert Brochu reported February 15 to Sag Harbor Village Police a delivery truck leaving the post office struck the driver’s side door of a parked postal vehicle, causing damage, at 9 a.m. According to a police report, the delivery truck driver denied striking the door, saying only

that he thought he hit the postal vehicle’s side-view mirror.

• A resident of Hillside Drive East called Sag Harbor Village Police on February 15 to complain about illegal dumping that took place across the street from his property sometime between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. that day. When police arrived to investigate, they saw a large pile of broken concrete on the ground. According to a police report, the resident who called police said he did not see anyone do it, and officers said they would follow up with construction crews working in the area.

• Kathleen M. Beatty, 56, of East Hampton was arrested February 11

by East Hampton Town Police and charged with first-offense driving while intoxicated and driving with a blood-alcohol content of .08 of 1 percent or higher, both misdemeanors. According to a police report, Ms. Beatty was involved in a car accident while driving north on Springs Fireplace Road near Shadom Lane shortly after 4 p.m. When police interviewed her, they observed her to be intoxicated, and said she performed poorly on field sobriety tests. She was arrested at 4:41 p.m. and was released on her own recognizance following her arraignment.

• Oscar J. Solis-Gutierrez, 41, of East Hampton was arrested February 17 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with first-offense driving while intoxicated and driving with a blood-alcohol content of .08 of 1 percent or higher, both misdemeanors. According to a police report, officers stopped Mr. SolisGuttierez as he was driving east on Montauk Highway near Stephen Hands Path and allegedly committed two traffic violations. Police said he appeared intoxicated, performed poorly on field sobriety tests and failed a preliminary breath test. He was arrested at 3:23 a.m. and was released on his own recognizance following his arraignment.

• The mother of a 16-year-old girl called Sag Harbor Village Police on February 10 to allege a local business on Hampton Street had sold vape products to a minor. According to a police report, the mother found her daughter in possession of a vape cartridge, and contacted police after the daughter told her where she bought it. When police later approached the business about the alleged sale, according to the report, they did not observe anything improper.

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North Haven

The End of Leaf Pickup Nears in Village

BY PETER BOODY

The Village of North Haven’s fall leaf pick-up in 2019 will probably be its last, Mayor Jeff Sander said at Tuesday’s Village Board meeting.

Ending the leaf pick-up beginning in 2020 is the only way to resolve the fundamental unfairness of a program that benefits only people who live on public roads but costs all taxpayers together $45,000 to $50,000, he said.

Also at the monthly meeting, the Village Board adopted local laws to bar seaplanes from beaching on the North Haven shoreline to receive or unload passengers and to prohibit people from living aboard a vessel “or any other floating structure” in village waters, except as allowed in Sag Harbor’s inner harbor mooring field.

About three-quarters of North Haven’s homes are on private roads in private communities, where it is illegal for municipalities to provide services at taxpayer expense, Mayor Sander once again explained on Tuesday as the board continued a hearing on the topic that it opened in December.

Only a few residents have weighed in with any comments on the issue.

On Tuesday, George Morell said. “It seems either no one should get it or everyone should get it.” But he also wondered aloud why the village couldn’t provide the service to his five-acre property on a private road.

Besides eliminating the leaf pick-up altogether, the options presented for discussion were based on eliminating the cost of the leaf pick-up from the

Reverend Tisha Williams at the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton.

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Bridgehampton

New Pastor Inspires A Congregation

Board restricts seaplanes and houseboats

village’s annual budget and creating a special tax assessment district in order to charge only property owners who benefit.

There were three options for determining what they would pay: a fee based either on the square footage of their properties; a flat rate for all beneficiaries; or on the basis of their property’s assessed valuations. The village’s tax levy would be reduced slightly by the elimination of the leaf pick-up from the general budget or, as the mayor noted on Tuesday, by “about $50,0000 out of a budget of about $1.5 million,” about 3.3 percent.

But “none of them looked like good options,” the mayor said on Tuesday.

“Our final take was the easiest thing to do would be to eliminate it altogether.”

Instead, he said, the village will try to arrange leaf pick-ups during a oneweek period for seniors over the age of 73 who claim an Enhanced STAR exemption on their property taxes, he said. “The strategy is to develop a plan to do it ourselves beginning in the 2020-2021 fiscal year,” Mr. Sander said. Meanwhile, the program will continue this year.

According to a worksheet prepared

by Village Clerk-Treasurer Eileen Tuohy late last fall, the option for charging a flat rate for leaf pick-up, divided equally among all 367 benefitting properties on public roads, would have been $129.43.

Based on assessed value, the special

tax rate would have been slightly more than 7 cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation, or from $24.32 to $583.89 for properties ranging in assessed value from about $340,000 to $8 million, with one property to be charged $2,780. Based on property square footage, the special tax rate would have been one-tenth of a cent per thousand, ranging from $28.07 for $143.50 for most properties in the village, but with one property to be charged $3,320 Seaplanes, Floating Homes The new seaplane restriction adopted Tuesday was drafted in response to complaints last summer about seaplane landings on the beach in front of one particular house in North Haven Manor. The problems were “isolated to a couple of incidents,” Mayor Sander said, but the problem “could be significant in the future” because of the popularity of air travel between New York and the Sag Harbor area.

“This is about landing on the beach and in the channel area,” he added, noting that Sag Harbor used to have a problem with seaplane landings and takeoffs just north of Havens Beach and the communities to the east of it until it “worked out a deal” to have seaplanes drop off passengers at a float beyond the breakwater, where they can be met by private launches or a water taxi service.

The new local law allows waterfront property owners to obtain a village per-

mit to allow seaplanes to tie up at their private docks. For all other activity, Sag Harbor village’s waterways rules for its harbor management areas apply.

A response to complaints last summer about a vessel where people were living near the southeast shoreline of the village, adjacent to the Sag Harbor channel and mooring field, the new law barring people from using the vessels as homes exempts “as permitted in the Harbor Mooring Area as shown on the [Sag Harbor] waterways chart.” In that area, Sag Harbor’s rules apply and are enforced by the Sag Harbor harbormaster.

New Board Appointment The board named Christian Duryea to the Planning Board on Tuesday. He replaces Gregory Churchill, who resigned from the panel but accepted appointment as an alternate member.

The board agreed to hire Summerhill Landscaping for care of the village hall property, the traffic circle and bed opposite it and the village entryway signs at a cost of $8,106.87.

It also agreed to rent a 36-inch-wide scanner for one week to digitize plans too large for the village’s own scanner at a cost of $695.

The board agreed to hold a 20192020 fiscal year budget workshop immediately after the next regular monthly Village Board meeting, which the board agreed to change from March 19 to March 12 at 5 p.m.

It tentatively agreed to hold a public hearing on the budget proposal on April 2 at 5 p.m. and expects to adopt the budget at its April 16 meeting.

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Rev. Tisha Williams believes in the relevancy of the church, and wants to connect to people

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Reverend Tisha Williams is the kind of pastor who uses physical objects as visual symbols to go with her sermons. She’s the kind of pastor who encourages discussion among her congregation, even when people disagree with her. She’s the kind of pastor who gets a tear in her eye when thinking about a favorite spiritual song that guides her through the tough days.

She’s the kind of pastor who has breathed new life into a church, in this case the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton, where she is the first woman to hold the position of senior pastor in the church’s 94-year history.

“She’s truly a woman sent by God,” Deacon Kent Brown, a congregant for about 30 years, said this week. “At a time when we truly needed someone to uplift us in a spiritual fashion, she brought that to the table — her spiritual awareness, her spiritual preparedness and her spiritual vision. Her vision has come to pass by reawakening many things in our church that had kind of gone dormant.”

Since Rev. Williams arrived last April, the church — then a congregation of about 50 — has attracted 31 new members. She has broadcast sermons through Facebook Live for those who can’t come in person. The membership is more diverse than ever, Deacon Brown said. The youth ministry has been revived and a new men’s group called “The Garage” has been established. Rev. Williams also brought to the congregation her international women’s Bible study group — a collective called “Who’s That Lady?” that studies the lesser-known women of the Bible.

“A tree is proven by the fruit that it bears,” Deacon Kent said. “This is only the beginning. I think there is a lot more fruit on that tree.”

Rev. Williams may be a relative newcomer to the church, but she is no stranger to the area. Her husband, Deacon Lawrence Williams, graduated from Pierson High School, and the couple has had a house in Sag Harbor Hills, which they bought from his mother, Thelma Williams, for the last 13 years. They currently split their time between Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton and Brooklyn.

“We had been sort of developing an affection for this area, which is not hard to do, because who doesn’t love it out here?” Rev. Williams said. “You never had to twist my arm.”

Starting in 2016, Rev. Williams preached off-and-on at the church for about a year while it lacked a permanent pastor. When a formal search began for one, she put her name in the running. She said she was happy to receive the appointment — and a little nervous, too, because of her status as the church’s first woman pastor.

“It comes with its own set of pressures because you feel like you don’t

want to fail,” she said. “That’s the pressure that comes with pastoring in general, but you wonder, ‘Will they attribute it to my being a woman?’ It also makes me excited. I think it speaks volumes about where the church is and where it wants to go. I know a great deal of nurturing male pastors, but there’s a certain amount of nurturing and warmth that women pastors bring to the table.”

These days, it’s not easy to be a small church community. The Atlantic reported in November 2018 that between 6,000 and 10,000 churches close each year as many denominations face declining participation in the United States. A 2015 Pew Research Center poll found as many as 36 percent of people born in 1980 or later are religiously unaffiliated, or about 55.8 million people.

“A lot of our churches are dying,” Rev. Williams said. “It’s sad. The question that is constantly coming up in clergy circles is, ‘Is the church still relevant?’ I say it is still relevant, but I believe we have to find new ways to connect with people.”

When she arrived, one of the first things she did was outline a vision statement: “Connecting, directing, protecting.”

“It was sort of a play on the idea of the ‘bridge’ in Bridgehampton,” Rev. Williams said. “That’s what bridges do. They connect one point to another, they direct you from one point to another and they protect. In a storm, you can seek shelter under a bridge.”

The congregation has embraced it so far, she said.

“It provides us focus as we look at all of our initiatives, ministries and what we are doing,” she said. “We’ve been mindful of what we are putting together.”

Rev. Williams holds a certificate in theology and ministry from the Princeton Theological Seminary and is working on a degree in Christian studies. She describes herself as “a bit of an adventurist,” having skydived, bungee-jumped and mountainclimbed.

Like everyone, she has a bad day once in a while, but draws on her faith to keep her going — that, and a song

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Sag Harbor

Sag Harbor

New Hearing Planned For Three Townhouses

Village Delays Action On Three Proposals

Part of West Water Street project revised

Parking, septic systems and waterways included

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Developer Jay Bialsky’s proposed townhouse development at 2 West Water Street is officially slated for a new public hearing before the Sag Harbor Board of Historic Presentation and Architectural Review.

The review board, under the leadership of interim chairman Dean Gomolka, set a new hearing for Thursday, March 14, at the start of the board’s regular meeting at 5 p.m. It will be held in the second-floor meeting room of the municipal building at 55 Main Street.

Mr. Bialsky’s recent changes to “unit three,” the residential unit closest to the water, motivated the board to plan the new public hearing. It was not a mandatory action; according to village code, the board could also have simply voted to re-open the previous hearing, which was closed on January 24.

The changes, according to a presentation made February 11 by Mr. Bialsky’s representatives at a meeting of the village’s Harbor Committee, include a five-foot reduction in its height and a one-third reduction in the area of the third floor. Mr. Bialsky’s physical threedimensional model has already been updated with a new miniature depicting the third unit.

During last week’s review board

meeting, Mr. Bialsky’s representatives originally requested the board postpone a full discussion of his plans to the board’s February 28 meeting. The board obliged. However, at the end of the meeting, after everyone in the audience had already left, the board voted to establish a new public hearing.

In addition to setting the new hearing, review board members on Thursday asked Brian DeSesa, one of Mr. Bialsky’s attorneys, for additional drawings beyond what the village had already received.

While acknowledging the project has “made great progress,” board member David Berridge said, “The pictorial drawings are not helping the understanding. … It’s almost there. I’d like to see the full site with all three buildings relevant to each other so we can really look at it in the whole.”

The site plan for 2 West Water Street is still under review by the Sag Harbor Planning Board, which meets next on February 26.

Board Slams Rysam Street House Design A proposed renovation of 24 Rysam Street that would elongate the footprint of the house by 13 feet and add shedstyle dormers to make the second floor more useful left the review board feel-

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BY PETER BOODY

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WORK EXPECTED TO BEGIN ON IMPOUND YARD SOON Sag Harbor public works superintendent Dee Yardley at the site of a planned 60-by-80-foot vehicle impound lot last week in a 23-acre site owned by the Village of Sag Harbor. He said the village had obtained a building permit for the project from the Town of Southampton and work by South Fork Asphalt to pave, curb and fence the site could begin any day.

There was more pushback last week against the Harbor Committee’s proposed amendment of Sag Harbor’s waterways code to establish an “outer management area” beyond the breakwater and require boats mooring or anchoring there to register, provide proof of insurance and obtain a permit.

The proposal is intended to set rules for an extended area of jurisdiction the state granted Sag Harbor in 2016 beyond the usual 1,500-foot-from-shore limit.

Harbormaster Robert Bori requested the extension to address the problem of boats breaking lose from their moorings in storms and sometimes wrecking on the breakwater, which owners might abandon and leave the village responsible for removing.

Holding its second public hearing this winter on the proposal, which the Harbor Committee has been drafting for about two years, the Village Board of Trustees on February 11 heard a number of calls for changes and corrections to an accompanying revised harbor chart; and questions about the permit and proof-of-insurance requirement; about the use of the term “fairway” on the chart; and the designation of marker buoy locations at the boundary of state and village waters north of Havens Beach.

The same concerns were expressed by commercial marina operators and mooring servicers at the first public hearing on the proposal on January 8 and at a Village Board work session on January 23. Trustee Ken O’Donnell and Mr. Bori both said then that they wanted to avoid “over-regulating” the area of extended jurisdiction.

“I want this to be right,” Mr. O’Donnell said of discussed changes to the revised harbor chart in an inter-

view this week.

As for the proposed rules for the new outer area, “The way it will work,” he said, boaters who own their own moorings “will come and register.” If they use a commercial mooring provider, the provider will register his mooring tenants with the village and pass on their insurance information, he said.

There will be no village fees charged for mooring outside the breakwater, members of the East Hampton Town Trustees who attended the hearing were told last week. They asked that, if ever fees are charged, that East Hampton Town residents be treated the same as village residents.

The February 11 board meeting was dominated by Trustee James Larocca’s and other board members’ defense of the village’s proposed vehicle impound lot, as reported in last week’s Express.

Also at the session, the board delayed action after public hearings on three proposed laws, including the Harbor Committee’s waterways amendment; one to require “innovative-alternative” nitrogen-reducing septic systems for new houses; and another to ban parking north of the village boundary on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike at Ligonee Creek.

Hold on Parking Ban The board agreed to table the proposed parking ban after Reid Brothers garage owner Robert Reid spoke against the proposal, which follows the Town of Southampton’s decision in December to ban parking for 380 feet south of the village line. Intended to keep Mr. Reid from parking overflow customer vehicles in front of the Nancy Boyd Willey pocket park, the proposal reflects Police Chief Austin J. McGuire’s concern that the town’s ban will force Mr. Reid to park cars to the

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Sag Harbor

Two Pool Proposals Are Praised by Panel Despite them being within wetlands setback

BY PETER BOODY

Whether or not to allow pools within the 75-foot setback called for in Sag Harbor’s wetlands code set a key theme on February 11 when the Harbor Committee held a marathon 4.5-hour meeting, longer than any in recent memory.

“You’ve heard tonight the discussion about swimming pools,” commented board member Will Sharp during the session. “They’re driving these projects and every one chips away at what we’re tasked with” by the wetlands code: preserving, protecting and enhancing the environmental health of the village’s shorelines.

In two cases, for properties on Upper Sag Harbor at 62 John Street and 28 Long Point Road, the board praised plans to demolish existing houses with pools and replace them with new houses with pools.

In the case of 62 John Street, the board is expected to grant a wetlands permit next month for the project, including a pool 52 feet from wetlands.

The 28 Long Point Road project appears headed for approval this spring with some changes that may increase the proposed pool’s wetlands setback from 33.9 feet to 43.9 feet. The changes will require a setback variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals.

In both cases, there will be far less lawn; larger wetland buffer zones; greater setbacks for other structures; more native plantings that require no fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides; and conventional septic systems will be replaced by innovative-alternative or “I/A” septic systems that actively reduce nitrogen discharge.

There has been no opposition in either case. But at the same meeting, committee chairman Mary Ann Eddy declared her “gut feeling” that a pool should not be allowed in the backyard of an existing, recently renovated house overlooking Ligonee Creek at 36 Fordham Street that would be 52 feet from wetlands. The house is listed for sale.

As reported in last week’s Express, that application — filed by an LLC for

which attorney Bruce Bronster is listed as a contact — has been opposed by attorney Jeff Bragman, representing a neighbor to the south; the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt; Kevin McAllister of Defend H2O, and others. The hearing was closed on February 11 with a deadline of two more weeks for the submission of written comment.

“You don’t have to do this,” Mr. Bragman said in December. Allowing the applicant “to make a few extra bucks” on a sale because the property has a pool permit “is a lot less important than the point of the legislation,” which is intended to protect wetlands.

But the board’s environmental consultant, Charles Voorhis of Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, has recommended granting the application. In a February 8 memo to the board, he wrote the pool will have “no significant impacts” on the creek or the wetlands.

He noted that a driveway and a shed will be removed and 2,511 square feet of open lawn will be replaced by native vegetation to increase the yard’s wetlands buffer area to 13,708 square feet on the .8-acre lot, exceeding the code’s requirement for a buffer extending at least 50 feet from wetlands. All in all, about two-thirds of the parcel, he noted, will be “covenanted and protected” from any future disturbance.

“Mr. Voorhis doesn’t make your decisions for you,” Mr. Bragman told the board at the February 11 meeting, commenting that Ms. Eddy’s gut feeling was “intuitive and on target.

I think you’re exactly correct.” He argued that the code requires the board to determine there are “no practicable alternatives” to the pool.

After Ms. Eddy announced her opposition, the applicant’s attorney Brian DeSesa told the board his client would agree to replace the conventional septic system with an I/A septic system as a condition of approval.

In one of the other two pool cases, Jeffrey Rosenberg is seeking a wetlands permit to redevelop a .6-acre par-

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East Hampton

T.J. Maxx Expansion Approved by Planners

Dems Pick Board Slate

Renovation will allow for a new Marshalls

BY PETER BOODY

After four years of delay and review, T.J. Maxx’s plan to expand the rear of its 33,000-square-foot store in Kimco Realty’s Bridgehampton Commons mall by 17,000 square feet to create space for a Marshalls or similar retail store cleared its last major procedural hurdle on Thursday, February 14, when the Southampton Town Planning Board voted 7-0 to grant it conditional site plan approval.

Marshalls is an off-price department store chain owned by TJX Companies Inc., the parent company of T.J. Maxx. The two stores will share common areas in the new space. Among the board’s conditions are a covenant from Kimco to be tied to the property guaranteeing that any future tenant will offer similar product lines so that the amount of traffic it would generate wouldn’t be likely to increase.

During its environmental review of the proposal, the Planning Board accepted a traffic study that predicted no major impacts and declared that the overall project would have no significant effect on the environment.

Before Planning Board Chairman Dennis Finnerty signs off on the site plan, a “land bank” covenant also will be required from Kimco guaranteeing the availability of space elsewhere on Kimco’s property to provide more parking if it becomes necessary in the future. The current site plan calls for 97 more spaces behind the existing T.J. Maxx store The board’s chief concern on February 12, as it reviewed a draft deci-

sion prepared by Southampton Town’s principal planner Clare Vail, was how to discourage drivers who want to head east on Montauk Highway or Route 27 from exiting the parking area onto Snake Hollow Road. The road’s intersection with Route 27 is uncontrolled and left turns across heavy traffic can be perilous.

They agreed to Ms. Vail’s suggestion that the simplest solution would be a single sign at the Snake Hollow Road exit indicating a right turn with the words “27 West Only.” Legally, however, there would be no prohibition against making a left onto the highway from Snake Hollow Road.

Signage inside the Commons parking system will encourage drivers to use the main entrance, which has a traffic light, to make left turns on Route 27, a policy strongly advocated by board member Jacqui Lofaro, a Bridgehampton resident who said she was familiar with the perils of left turns onto the highway from the Commons.

Board members agreed to write into the conditions of approval T.J. Maxx’s local attorney Timothy S. McCulley’s offer to meet with the board after one year to review how well the signage and traffic plan is working and make adjustments as necessary.

The planners approved the plan after a public hearing last fall at which only three people spoke, including only one critic, Pamela Harwood, the chair of the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee, which has opposed the proposal as likely to choke the hamlet with traffic and pollute groundwater.

CLARIFICATION Harbor Committee member Will Sharp, who was quoted in the February 14 edition seeming to offer praise for the 2 West Water Street condo proposal at the February 11 Harbor Committee meeting, was referring not to the project itself but to developer Jay Bialsky’s willingness to answer questions and provide detailed information for local boards and the public, including a revised 3D scale model.

“I was only referring to the graphic and 3D aspects of the project, not the merits of the design,” Mr. Sharp said. “For the record, I have reservations about the scale of the project and am sorry that there was no consideration for mixed use, i.e. retail and residential.”

Committee supports its incumbents

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE DUMPSTER FIRE IN SPRINGS

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Members of the East Hampton Fire Department extinguished a fire in a dumpster at the East Hampton Town Recycling Center on Springs Fireplace Road on Saturday, February 16.

South Fork

More Wind Farms are Proposed One, ‘Sunrise Wind,’ would be located 30 miles off Montauk Point

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

New York State has received bids from four groups proposing new offshore wind farms to feed the state’s electrical grid, including a proposal from the companies behind the “South Fork Wind Farm,” which have proposed a new “Sunrise Wind” project that if selected would be sited over 30 miles east of Montauk Point.

The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) closed bidding Thursday on the offshore wind power park, which it hopes will have a capacity of at least 800 megawatts of energy. It is expected that NYSERDA will select the winning bid in May. According to a press release issued

by New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., a total of 18 separate proposals for up to 1,200 megawatts of energy have been submitted.

In a press release issued Thursday, Ørsted and Eversource — the companies that purchased South Fork Wind Farm developer Deepwater Wind last

fall — said its “Sunrise Wind” proposal had been “carefully planned to help achieve Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s nation-leading offshore wind and renewable energy goals, and to do so with the highest possible levels of public support.” While details of bids have not yet been released by the companies or by NYSERDA, in its press release Ørsted and Eversource confirmed “Sunrise Wind” would be in the 500-mile federal lease area it already controls in the same area in which the South Fork Wind Farm is proposed.

The request for proposals by NYSERDA is a part of the state’s stated goals to create 9,000 megawatts of wind power by 2035. The Long Island Power Authority has already entered into a contract with Ørsted for 130 megawatts from the South Fork Wind Farm, a project that still needs state and federal approvals as well as access easements from the Town of East Hampton.

“As I have stated many times, I support the development of wind energy

as a means of eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels and to combat climate change,” said Mr. Thiele in a statement.

“Consistent with this position, I have supported the goal of the State of New York’s REV (Reforming the Energy Vision) for the development of renewable energy, including offshore wind. We must look at the merits of each project to insure it meets this goal and that the project avoids unacceptable, adverse impacts to our community. The public is right to demand the strictest review of every proposal, including the concerns of the commercial fishing industry and local neighborhoods impacted by new energy infrastructure on the land.”

Mr. Thiele said procurement contracts for any project must be made public, and details must be offered about the needed infrastructure for each proposal, including where energy substations are to be located and where transmission lines are expected to come ashore. He also said the burden of wind power should not be on any one community.

The East Hampton Democratic Committee supported its incumbents on the East Hampton Town Board at its convention on February 13, formally nominating Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Councilman David Lys to run for re-election on November 5.

Mr. Van Scoyoc, a former councilman, is seeking his second two-year term as supervisor. Ms. Overby is running for her third four-year term. Mr. Lys was appointed to the town board in January, 2018, and last November won an election to serve out the last year of Mr. Van Scoyoc’s council term.

In November, 2019, Mr. Lys will be running for his first full elected term.

The committee last week also nominated five incumbents to run for town trustee, including John Aldred, clerk Francis Bock, Rick Drew, Susan McGraw-Keber and deputy clerk Bill Taylor.

It also threw its support behind Jim Grimes, a Republican who also serves as deputy clerk. Zach Cohen, Tim Garneau and Mike Martinsen will round out the committee’s trustee candidates.

The committee endorsed Andrew Strong for town justice. Mr. Strong is general counsel for the nonprofit Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA). Incumbent highway superintendent Steven Lynch and tax assessors Jeanne Nielsen and Jill Massa also won the Democratic endorsement.

The Republican Party is expected to announce its slate at its nominating convention on Saturday, February 23. Both the East Hampton Town Independence Party and the Reform Democrats have also announced they will hold their own screenings at the end of February and early in March.

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OPINION

SUFFOLK CLOSEUP

Editorial

By Karl Grossman

Don’t Drill, Baby

Saving the Bays

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he Sag Harbor Village Board delayed a vote last week on its proposal to require innovative-alternative or “I/A” on-site septic systems that actively reduce nitrogen discharge for all new residential construction. The proposal also would require an I/A system whenever existing conventional septic systems must be replaced.

Sag Harbor is the last South Fork municipality to consider requiring I/A systems. Southampton Town and Village are already on board. East Hampton Town is too, and East Hampton Village joined the crowd this winter.

It’s time for Sag Harbor to get on board, too.

Village Attorney Elizabeth Vail said at the February 12 Village Board meeting the village still needed “referrals” from two adjacent jurisdictions, the towns of East Hampton and Southampton, before it can vote to adopt the proposal. Getting the nod from neighboring towns is a routine step just to make sure there are no surprise problems that could cause headaches down the road.

While they wait, village officials meanwhile have been weighing suggestions made during the public hearing process for a few tweaks, including expanding the proposed code amendment to cover commercial properties as well and exempt properties where there is access to a municipal sewer line, which is generally the case for all properties in the central commercial district.

Another village law on the books now requires such properties to connect to the sewer system. Requiring them to install independent, on-site septic systems therefore doesn’t make a lot of sense. But Harbor Committee member John Parker is right to urge the village to be careful about exemptions to the I/A law that might encourage property owners to delay installing an I/A upgrade in the hope that someday a new sewer line will reach them.

The village’s sewage treatment plant is a well-run, state-of-the-art system with excess capacity. Village Trustee Aidan Corish, who is just getting started on the long, slow process of developing an expansion plan for the plant’s network of mains, calls the plant “the gold standard” for sewage treatment, achieving even higher levels of nitrogen-reduction than I/A systems.

In a waterfront community like Sag Harbor, expansion of the wastewater treatment plant is truly is “the way to go,” as resident Anthony Vermandois told the village board as it continued its hearing on the I/A proposal last week. “It’s better to pay more in taxes” as a sewer district property owner, he said, “than to install an I/A system.”

But the sewer system won’t be expanded for years and, even then, it will only reach parts of the village along its waterfront, where groundwater pollution from old septic systems and cesspools sitting in groundwater is the greatest threat to the Peconic Bay system. Meanwhile, Sag Harbor must go all in for I/A systems, which will go a long way toward improving and safeguarding the environmental health of local waters, especially with town, county and state grant money available to many property owners that helps defray the cost of this necessary improvement.

Speak Up, SANS

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esidents of the Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah subdivisions (SANS) have been working for three years to earn their neighborhoods landmark status on the New York State Register of Historic Places.

A decision from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation could come as early as March 21.

A representative of the office said last week that anyone wishing to object needs to speak up in the form of a notarized letter, as those who do not say anything are assumed to agree with the proposal.

Letters of support are also welcome, the spokesperson said. Does SANS want to be a footnote to history, or a whole book? Renee Simons, a Sag Harbor Hills resident who has been leading the effort towards landmark status for SANS, recently asked that question, and it’s a valid one that the rest of the community should answer as well.

Correspondence should be sent to the attention of Jennifer Bentworth at NYS OPRHP, Division for Historic Preservation, Peebles Island, P.O. Box 189, Waterford NY 12188.

Tuesday Morning, Sebonac Road

The Walking Tour BY MICHAEL HELLER

Letters to the Editor Look Somewhere Else Dear Kathryn, As a fourth generation resident of Sag Harbor, I have been very disturbed by the planned impound yard near the delicate wetlands and habitat of the Long Pond Greenbelt. These ponds are critical to our drinking water, the integrity of the greenbelt ecosystems and the habitat of countless species.

My grandparents Anna and Daniel Mulvihill, my aunt Dolores Zebrowski and my father William Mulvihill protected and safeguarded their nearby properties for these very reasons for most of a century. It is unconscionable to pave the imperiled greenbelt site for the storage of impounded vehicles. The inevitable leaking fluids along with frequent vehicular activity and disruption that would occur would fundamentally change the site forever.

The Village of Sag Harbor has a responsibility to seriously consider all reasonable alternatives to this ill-advised and over-priced plan.

Arguments that prior pollution at any site should deem it irrevocably unsuitable for wildness are not based on evidence-based science or knowledge of ecological principles. When our very drinking water is involved, that ignorance has consequences that should trouble every single resident of Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton.

Mary Ann Mulvihill-Decker Sag Harbor

An Effort to Preserve To the Editor, As reported last week, the Sag Harbor Village Mayor and Board of Trustees are proceeding with their plan to construct a paved impound yard on property in the Long Pond Greenbelt. We regret no alternative site has been chosen.

We would like to thank the countless people who wrote

letters, made phone calls, signed petitions and appeared at meetings to express their concerns about the project. We are proud so many took the time to learn about the issue, learn about the wonderful Long Pond Greenbelt, and to become better acquainted with their local officials.

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

Personal Views Got in the Way To the Editor It was good to see the ARB chairman Anthony Brandt step down from his position, maybe now some sanity can come back to a board that has been heavily influenced by personal opinion rather than architectural facts. It was disappointing to see that his letter of resignation was heavily redacted. I’m sure much of what he had to say would be highly prejudicial to the current West Water Street development. Mr. Brandt’s obsessive views regarding his personal views of gross floor area (GFA) rules was undermining much of what this board is designed to do. Additionally he has made it difficult for expansion of homes that he deems are excessive in gross footage even when the applicant is within such parameters.

Every Sag Harbor resident believes in preservation and maintaining the integrity of the community. But, unfortunately, Mr. Brandt’s views of preservation and history have come to mean prolonged harassment so that many applicants will abandon their plans because of the board›s rigid mentality and unwillingness to accept compromise that is both good for the community and its residents.

Even if they are not “local” to Mr. Brandt’s standards.

Sincerely Thomas M. Jones Sag Harbor

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t’s been decades since a fisherman out of Montauk told me about seeing a ship east of Long Island similar to those he had seen searching for oil in the Gulf of Mexico when he was a shrimper there. I telephoned oil company after company and each gave a firm denial about having any interest in looking for petroleum off Long Island.

That was until a PR man from Gulf called back and said, yes, his company was looking for oil and gas off Long Island — and was involved in a consortium of 32 oil companies (many of which earlier issued denials).

It was my first experience in oil industry honesty — an oxymoron.

Then, after breaking the story as an investigative reporter for the daily Long Island Press about the oil industry seeking to drill in the offshore Atlantic, there were years of staying on the story. I traveled the Atlantic Coast including in 1971 getting onto the first off-shore drilling rig set up in the Atlantic, off Nova Scotia. The riskiness of offshore drilling was obvious on that rig. There were spherical capsules to eject workers in emergencies. And a rescue boat went round-and-round 24-hours-a-day. The man from Shell Canada said: “We treat every foot of hole like a potential disaster.”

You might recall seeing movies from years ago about oil drilling in the west and the drill hitting a “gusher” and it raining oil on happy workers. But on an offshore rig that “gusher” would be raining oil on the sea and life in it and then the oil would move to shore.

In the ‘70s there were the weeks of public hearings I covered at state houses in Boston, Massachusetts, and Trenton, New Jersey, and also hearings on Long Island. I traveled down the coast to the Florida Keys, its turquoise waters on the agenda of the oil industry, too.

Congressional action blocked drilling in the Atlantic off the U.S. But now under the Trump administration the push is on again. The New York State Legislature has just passed a bill prohibiting drilling in state coastal waters.

But that’s only three nautical miles out. However, the measures bars development of infrastructure such as pipelines to service oil and gas drilling.

A co-sponsor of the measure, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. of Sag Harbor says: “Tourism is a major economic driver for Long Island; we also have very viable commercial and recreational fishing industries. The proposal for offshore drilling threatens both our economy and our environment.”

What has changed since I got that tip from the Montauk fisherman in 1970?

The U.S. is now awash in oil — why gasoline is being sold for a little over $2 a gallon. And the U.S. has become the world’s leading producer of oil and gas. This is largely due to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, also an extremely polluting technology, contaminating water supplies with 600 chemicals used for breaking apart underground shale formations for oil and gas. Further, fracking causes gas to migrate into water tables and then water with gas in it coming out of faucets and erupting in flames when lit with a match.

Also, many of the 600 chemicals are cancer-causing.

Climate change is now a crisis. Cities, counties and states — and overseas many nations — are pushing for 100 percent renewable energy in a few short years, and this can be accomplished. Vehicles powered by electricity, hydrogen, fuel cells and other clean sources are the future, not petroleum-powered vehicles. The burning of fossil fuel in cars, trucks and power plants is the leading cause of climate change, global warming.

Meanwhile, it still costs 10 times more to do offshore drilling than to drill for oil on-shore. Why spend billions for extracting oil and gas instead of further implementing clean, green, renewable sources? Renewables are worldwide the fastest-growing energy sources.

Moreover, the claim of the oil industry that it can safely drill for oil and gas offshore has been demonstrated to be baloney. It’s drill-baby-spill.

An excellent essay on that was published this month on the Ocean Conservancy website (www.oceanconservancy. org): “What Have We Learned From 50 Years Of Offshore Oil Disasters?” is its headline, with a sub-head: “As oil spills get bigger, Congress’ responses have gotten smaller.”

The article by Michael LeVine focuses on the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989 and the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig and the massive spill that followed in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in history, so far. There have been an enormous number of smaller spills.

These three big “spills evidence a clear and troubling pattern — a major offshore oil disaster occurs in the United States every two decades,” states the article. “Each spill is worse than the last, increasing from 3 million to 11 million to 210 million gallons spilled.”

Offshore oil drilling: regularly disastrous — and unnecessary.

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

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Chester Doxas “I’m excited; I think it’s great, and I’m excited to hear what he has to say. I don’t think he has a real chance, but I hope he does.”

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This week, 40 of you responded to our survey. This is what you had to say.

One of the founders of the Jam Session, the Thursday night gathering of musicians that drew throngs to its original home in Sag Harbor’s Bay Burger, talks about the Jam’s new home at Union Cantina in Southampton and why it is bringing jazz back to Sag Harbor with a regular jazz series at Baron’s Cove.

By Kathryn G. Menu The Jam Session is returning to Sag Harbor with a Wednesday night session at Baron’s Cove. What can session devotees expect from this new series?

Well, it will be a little different — it is not the full jam session at Baron’s Cove. We really want to focus on vocalists.

We will have a trio, similar to what we do in Southampton, with some jammers jumping in here and there, but it will be smaller and focused on more featuring vocalists.

The Jam Session began a little less than a decade ago. When you and drummer Claes Brondal started the Session did you have any idea how popular that evening would become?

I think maybe he did. Claes had been involved in jam sessions a little before we started the Jam. As soon as we hooked up with Claes, it was a big sigh of relief because it felt like something I knew had legs. He has such a strong network of musicians. We didn’t have a big crowd when we first started out, but the growth did start almost immediately.

With the closure of Bay Burger, the Session had to find a new home in Union Cantina in Southampton.

How has that transition been?

Are you finding the same following in Southampton as the Session enjoyed in Sag Harbor?

We are moving in that direction. The transition has been good. We miss Bay Burger and what we had built there. I say “built,” but really it just evolved into a thing — this little club where people would come and see We are a nonprofit each other week after week.

There was a core of regulars so I can see us getand we built on that. It is starting to happen at Union ting involved in other Cantina. We are in the din- ways that promote ing room at Union Cantina — not the bar. We want it live music and the to feel like a cool New York City jazz club where you can mentoring of young have a nice meal while enjoy- musicians. ing live music. So far, it has been good and is growing in popularity. We see a lot of new faces, but we also have some core Bay Burger regulars who still come to the Jam religiously. Union Cantina did just open its burger bar and people do walk by the Jam on their way there. I think in the spring and the summer it is going to become really popular.

You are also the chairman of the Board of Directors of WPPB, host a weekly Session radio hour and helped found the Sag Harbor American Music Festival. Where was your passion for music formed?

I am a frustrated musician myself. I always loved live music. I went to college in Boston and was introduced to the Boston Tea Party — the venue for live music at the time. I grew up in the church — my dad was a preacher. It was all about music. He had a great voice. My mother was in the choir. I was in the choir. I always loved to sing. After retiring here, and once [Landes’ son-in-law and daughter] Joe and Liza [Tremblay] had Bay Burger I just thought, ‘Let’s have live music here.’ They gave me Thursday night and it worked out.

The East End is home to tremendous musical talent. Do you see the Session expanding to include other venues, other genres in music?

We are a nonprofit so I can see us getting involved in other ways that promote live music and the mentoring of young musicians. The expansion into Baron’s Cove was natural. They have grown their own music program including Wednesday nights into a jazz night — there is another band playing there, Hot Club of Montauk — so we will have the first and last Wednesday of the month for awhile if it all works out. This summer we are also going to do Duck Creek in Springs — they are putting their own series together. We would also love to get involved more with schools. We are talking to the East End Arts Council about a program where we can go into a school for two or three 45-minute sessions and work with individual musicians who want to perform live. Mentoring and supporting the creation of live music is a big part of our mission.

For more information, visit facebook.com/TheJazzJamSession.

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#tbt (Throw Back Thursday) Fred Abelman posted this photograph, taken by his mother, of the former gas ball on Long Island Avenue and Bridge Street in Sag Harbor on the Facebook page, Sag Harbor … Past Pics and Memories page. To submit your own #tbt or “Snapshot,” email kmenu@sagharborexpress.com.

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Oh, the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we’ve no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

— From the lyrics of a popular song.

s I write this on the morning of Tuesday, February 12, I look outside at snow falling. It is transforming everything out there into a winter wonderland. I take out some photos I’ve taken in the past of landscapes full of snow, and of one in particular that won first place in a photo contest.

It is of a picturesque barn and field in Bridgehampton (pictured at right). And memories of other snowfalls come to my mind. One of the earliest and most dramatic is of the blizzard of Christmas 1947 of over 26 inches of snow.

At the time, I was eight years old and living in Brooklyn.

Snowplows pushed the snow on the streets into very high mounds on the edges of sidewalks.

My friends and I had a joyous time climbing and jumping up and down on the mounds. At a certain point, I felt something hard under my feet. With one of my feet, I pushed the snow to the side — and found I was standing on the roof of a car. I imagine the owner of the car coming to it and seeing prints of boots on its roof! I also remember walking to Carroll Park, pulling my sled behind me. Then sledding fast head first on some steep hills there.

Today I learned on the news that Hawaii just had a rare snowfall. Can you imagine surfing on the warm ocean waves there in a snowfall?

Snow first forms as ice crystals high in the atmosphere and then change to snow flakes as they drop toward earth in a snowfall. Incredibly, no two snowflakes, in the past and present, have the same design. To put it another way, the design of each snowflake, past and present, is unique. To my knowledge, this is not true of any other natural entity.

The Town of East Hampton is considering requiring residents to renew beach permits every five years. Currently, residents receive the free permit and do not have to renew them provided they retain the same vehicle. What do you think?

• If it saves time and money leave the permit process as it is.

• Great idea all around. So much time, energy, and money saved.

Nothing lost.

• I like their idea and wish Southampton Town would do the same.

• There should be no renewal required.

• Don’t live in Town of East Hampton as I don’t have a dog in that fight. Sounds like a good idea security-wise however.

• Southampton Town residents should have it that good.

• As long as you keep it free for residents.

• It’s a nice benefit not having to renew every year, but East Hampton is one of the only towns without a yearly renewal. The passes are free so renewing each year isn’t really too much to ask • Don’t change anything.

• There should be an “East End” resident beach permit to allow everyone with an address east of the Shinnecock Canal to use whatever beach they want!

• It’s about time! They are going to need to up their game regarding personnel necessary to renew permits in a timely fashion or perhaps even online. If there are long lines everyone will complain mightily!

• They should focus instead on making one beach permit for the whole East End so we don’t have to bid farewell to our East Hampton friends for the summer. It is wrong to make it harder for locals to get beach permits. East End leaders should coordinate and make a fair and user-friendly (on-line!) process to optimize beach access for all residents.

Blizzards form usually when frozen ground keeps air cold until it rises to warmer air and moisture in clouds, and then forms more snow. This repeats until we have a blizzard.

One of the strongest blizzards in history was on January 31, 1977. The temperature on Long Island dropped in four hours overnight from 44 degrees to 13 degrees, and the wind chill felt like minus 18 degrees. My wife and I pulled our nine-year-old daughter on a sled to a local grocery store, and going back home the three of us pulled the sled with canvas bags of groceries tied to its top. It was part of the worst cold spell in the United States since 1918.

President Carter declared New York State and Pennsylvania “disaster areas.”

The snowfall in the Long Island area was 13.6 inches. (In Buffalo, 120 inches of snow fell, and West Palm Beach, Florida experienced a snowfall for the first time ever in its history.)

The water in bays froze, and seafood became scarce, causing Maryland to declare a state of emergency.

Another, even stronger, blizzard in the New York CityLong Island area occurred on January 31, 1948, dropping 25.8 inches of snow. Fire departments in the city and Long Island couldn’t move their trucks, so firemen were told to stand by to go on their own to wherever a fire was reported.

I loved snow so much as a child that I am still thrilled to see a snowfall, despite decades of tiring snow-shoveling in freezing air. As the famous mountain climber, Edmund Hillary put it, “Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same thrill of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.”

And watching my grandchildren and other kids playing in the snow brings me back to my own joy of doing that in my childhood.

RICHARD GAMBINO lives out his second childhood in North Haven.

125 Years Ago February 22, 1894

50 Years Ago February 22, 1968

The steamer Shelter Island, under charge of Capt.

Joshua E. Gibbs, will commence her trips between this place and New York on Monday, March 5, making two round trips per week.

She is to leave here at 4 p.m. and New York at 5.

It would seem to us cement bags would serve a better purpose for a fence at the Hurd Hatfield property on North Haven than the post and rail which Mr. Hatfield must replace so many times because of the car accidents on that curve on Ferry Road. The latest was the Bill Scholtz accident.

By our “North Haven Correspondence” in this issue it can be seen that the people of the pleasant peninsula now fast becoming a summer resort, are alive to the question of good roads. We are glad to see this spirit of enterprise and hope they will continue to push it, as North Haven, with good roads, will make one of the best drives to be found.

100 Years Ago February 27, 1919

Dr. Morley B. Lewis has begun to fix up the French house, on Union Street, which he recently purchased.

Not only are the daffodils rapidly growing and budding in our dooryards, but the hyacinths are rearing their petals above the ground. This looks as if Spring were coming but where are the wild geese?

75 Years Ago February 24, 1944

Fort Pond Bay and Block Island Sound off Montauk Point are aswarm with tin fish. This word came from the Navy Monday. Every torpedo fired from a Navy plane, warship or submarine is tested in the sea.

Thousands of tin fish are undergoing dress rehearsal off Montauk, directed by Navy enlisted men under Capt. Guy C. Hitchcock.

There is still quite a controversy over the proposed dredging of Noyac Creek.

It seems wise to agree with the conservationists and only dredge the channel and preserve the existing clam beds. There is enough water depth inside the creek to accommodate most boats but it is tough to take even a small boat with motor over some of the sand bars in the channel at low tide.

25 Years Ago February 24, 1994

On Tuesday, WLNG news anchor Joseph Ricker, 62, showed his appreciation for U.S. soldiers by speedwalking from Sag Harbor to the Chamber of Commerce in Montauk — a total of 25 miles. He left WLNG studio at 7 a.m. and arrived in Montauk around 1 p.m.

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SAG HARBOR - .71ac w/2nd story Bay Views, 2BR, 2BA, build new 5,000 sq. ft. house. $1.399K. IN#106795.

SOUTHAMPTON - 5BR, 4BA, 4,250 sq. ft., .77 ac., htd. gunite pool, forever farm vistas. $2.495M. IN#107451.

SAG HARBOR - 4BR, 3.5BA Post Modern.

Fin. bsmt., rm. for pool on .56 ac. $849k.

IN#102471.

SAG HARBOR - 5BR, 4BA, 3,000 sq. ft., .62 ac. htd. pool, dock. $5.525M. IN#111064.

WATER MILL - 3BR, 2BA, 2,000 sq. ft., full bsmt, .92 ac., pool. $1.25M. IN#110301.

SAG HARBOR - 5BR, 4.5BA, 4,308 sq. ft., .20ac., pool, CAC. $3.995M. IN#111753.

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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.

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE - Prime location, great location. Free standing building.

3000+ sf. ID#4000. $1,945,000.

HILO SHORES WF - 4BR, 5BA, dock, pool, garage, private beach access. $2,695,000.

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agent for process & shall mail to: 3601 Horseblock Rd Medford NY 11763. Purpose: any lawful.

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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.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE 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.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 NOTICE O.p.u.lence Collection LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/21/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Na. Purpose: any lawful.

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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.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 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.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 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

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Hampton NY 11937. Purpose: any lawful.

6x1/31/19 - 3/7/19 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.

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

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

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

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

• Documents may be downloaded for a 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.

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

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

Purpose: any lawful.

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

Purpose: any lawful.

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

6x2/14/19 - 3/21/19 NOTICE 37 Indian Trace LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/14/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 37 Indian Trace Kings Park NY 11754.

Purpose: any lawful.

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

Purpose: any lawful.

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

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

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

b.

c.

Suite 100 d.

IBI Group 59-61 Court Street, Suite 300 Binghamton, New York 13901 McGraw Hill Construction Dodge 3315 Central Avenue Hot Springs, AR 71913 Construction Market Data 30 Technology Parkway South, Norcross, GA 30092 Construction Data News 4201 W. Parmer Lane, Suite A200 Austin, TX 78727

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

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

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

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

Signed: Katherine Barber-Graves Superintendent of Schools Dated: February 8, 2019 3x2/14/19 - 2/28/19 NOTICE OF TAX SALE Village of North Haven, New York NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of the provisions of the Village Law and all the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and of resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven, Suffolk County, New York, passed at a meeting thereof, held on the 8th day of January , 2019, I, Eileen M Tuohy, Clerk/ Treasurer of said Village of North Haven, Suffolk County, New York will sell at public auction in the manner provided by law, on the 13th day of March, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., North Haven Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New York, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which the Village Taxes remain unpaid as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of said sale, and shall continue from day to day until the sale shall be completed.

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

The following is a list of parcels to be sold, together with a statement of the amount of tax, fees, interest and charges thereon to wit: DELINQUENT VILLAGE OF NORTH HAVEN TAXES Property Owner 7 Gleason Court LLC Section Block Lot

Balance $552.72 2 4 85

43 North Haven Way Rev Trust Section Block Lot

$2,448.33 2 4 108

Jesse Aldred Section Block Lot

$219.08 4 2 1.1

Jesse Aldred

$338.28

Section Block Lot

4 2 2

John Nielsen Section Block Lot

$219.92 4 2 40

John Nielsen Section Block Lot

$395.24 4 2 60

John Nielsen Section Block Lot

$261.50 4 2 61

Nicole Leah Williams Section Block Lot

$1,170.09 4 4 4

Andrew Lack Section Block Lot

$609.48 4 1 27.1

Andrew Lack Section Block Lot

$143.97 5 1 28

Mitchell G. Minskoff Section Block Lot

$1,214.17 6 3 13

Elena Archi Section Block Lot

$940.20 6 5 33

Audrey Orell Section Block Lot

$629.52 6 5 43

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

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Starbound Studios LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/5/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 Upper Firestone Rd Montauk NY 11954. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE 28 N Columbine LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/1/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 28 Columbine Ave N Hampton Bays NY 11946. Purpose: any lawful.

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

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

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

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Bayit Tov LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/28/2018.

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

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Gjackson LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/31/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 58 Harrison Ave East Hampton NY 11937.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE David J. Lorber & Associates, PLLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 33 Main Street West Sayville NY 11796. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE

NOTICE

35 Sands Lane LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/23/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 456 Griffing Ave Riverhead NY 11901.

Purpose: any lawful.

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

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

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Happy Shaw LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/28/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 152 W. 57th Street 31st Fl NY NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Rutella Electric LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/28/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 721 Avalon Court Drive Melville NY 11747. Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Wild Garden Style LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Po Box 529 Sagaponack NY 11962.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Helens Lane Holdings LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/20/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 770 Lexington Ave 7th Flr. NY NY 10065.

Purpose: any lawful.

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE Helens Lane Management LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/20/2018. Office: Suffolk County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 770 Lexington Ave 7th Flr. NY NY 10065. Purpose: any lawful.

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

Purpose: any lawful.

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

6x2/21/19 - 3/28/19 NOTICE OF TAX SALE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of the provisions of the Village Law and all the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and of resolutions of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, passed at a meeting thereof held on the 8th of January, 2019, I, Beth M. Kamper, Village Clerk of the said Village of Sag Harbor, will sell at public auction in the manner provided by law, on the 19th day of March 2019, at 10:00 a.m. at the Clerk’s office, in the Municipal Building in said Village of Sag Harbor, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which Village taxes remain unpaid as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of said sale, and shall continue the same from day to day until sale shall be completed.

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

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

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

Sec. Block Lot

3 4 14.1

Adrian C. Lamos II Sec. 3 Block 6 Lot 3 Sean Cottman Sec. 3 Block 6 Lot 9 Jeffrey Milici Sec. 3 Block 7 Lot 6 Wanda L Patterson Sec. 3 Block 8 Lot 5

OQ Partners, LLC $2,281.81

$2,637.15

$826.63

$990.98

Dorothe Lewis Sec. 4 Block 1 Lot 18.1

$8,730.99

Nancy Argento Sec. 4 Block 3 Lot 9

$2,735.42

Holly Gant Jones Sec. 4 Block 5 Lot 4

$1,645.09

Jeffrey Brock Sec. 5 Block 3 Lot 11

$2,205.37

Christoph Knoess Sec. 5 Block 3 Lot 13 Christoph Knoess Sec. 5 Block 3 Lot 14

$1,860.37

$2,895.97

3

Block

1

Lot

70.1

Suzan Carroll Smyth Sec.

3

Block

1

Lot

87

Halsey Whaler House LLC Sec.

3

Block

1

Lot

102

Sec.

3

Block

3

Lot

42.1

Sec.

3

Block

3

Lot

45.1

Lysander Sag Harbor Residence Sec.

3

Block

3

Lot

$12,757.57

$1,764.23

$1,533.30

$658.77

47

Michelle Edna Hinds Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 3

$1,329.09

Ione G. Carey Sec. 6 Block 5 Lot 13

$1,142.11

$3,186.25

Gerald Bennet Malanga, Trustee $4,981.37 Sec.

3

Block

4

Lot

19.1

Sec.

3

Block

4

Lot

42.1

Bonnie M. Stoffel $664.37

Sec.

3

Block

4

Lot

73

Elaine A. Steinbeck Sec.

4

Block

1

Lot

3.1

Marybeth Ward Sec.

5

Block

1

Lot

15

$1,741.24

$1,294.58

$10,572.99

$1,835.28

Sag Harbor Main Property Corp. $3,338.94

$735.04

$1,220.80

166 Hampton Street LLC Sec. 6 Block 8 Lot 16

$1,451.58

Margaret A. Linton Sec. 6 Block 9 Lot 14

$1,047.02

William Lynch Jr. Sec. 6 Block 10 Lot 3

$1,502.98

Bruce R. Fraser Sec. 6 Block 15 Lot 1

$1,230.44

Sec.

6

Block

1

Lot

2.1

Robert W. Espach Sec.

6

Block

1

Lot

23

58 Palmer Terrace, LLC Sec.

6

Block

1

Lot

46

Claudette Romano

$1,603.06

Sec.

6

Block

1

Lot

62.5

Matthew Smith Sec.

6

Block

2

Lot

17.1

Carol Ann Flett Sec.

6

Block

3

Lot

5

Alex Streeter

SOUTHAMPTON TOWN PORTION DISTRICT NO. 473609 Tax, Interest & Penalties Total Amount Due

Sec.

6

Block

4

Lot

63

Jessica L. Jenkins

$3,059.55

MAYDEL LLC Sec. 1 Block 1 Lot 17

$253.14

Cynthia O’Burns Sec. 2 Block 7 Lot 22

$1,089.26

Diane M Zgonc Sec. 2.1 Block 1 Lot 4

$604.20

Cynthia O’Burns Sec. 2 Block 7 Lot 23

$505.67

Carolyn Margolis Sec. 2.1 Block 1 Lot 26

$635.61

Gerald Bertie Sec. 3 Block 2 Lot 12

$1,950.16

George E. Gilmer Sec. 2.1 Block 1 Lot 28

Ronald H Brown Marital Trust

$3,694.69

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

Elana Archi Sec. 2 Block 7 Lot 20

Sec.

Margaret W. Ginna

$2,069.61

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

44.1

Lysander Sag Harbor Residence $15,994.37

Michelle Edna Hinds Sec. 6 Block 4 Lot 2

G. Dabela Abraham Sec. 6 Block 7 Lot 21.1

1

Lot

Lysander Sag Harbor Residence

16 Lincoln Street Sag Harbor LLC $1,653.85 Sec. 6 Block 3 Lot 15

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

3

Block

Philip Pape $944.36

Anita Rainford Sec. 3 Block 8 Lot 13.1

Martin Butler Sec. 6 Block 1 Lot 8

Sec.

$2,655.28

$3,259.72

Sec.

6

Block

4

Lot

68

Green Barn Holdings 2, LLC Sec.

6

Block

4

Lot

68

Albert Ryan Jr. Sec.

7

Block

2

Lot

10

Neal Thomason

$8,859.19

Sec.

7

Block

3

Lot

5.1

1x2/21/19

$3,579.92

$3,765.56

$1,003.45

$12,830.74

$2,968.88

$2,816.14

$3,027.50

$2,537.36

$1,924.17

$1,147.74

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Obituaries A lice Smith

Alice Smith, longtime resident of East Hampton and Sag Harbor, passed away peacefully at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center in Quiogue, on February 17, 2019, at the age of 78.

Ms. Smith was mother to two sons, James Jenkins and Nathaniel Smith, both of whom pre-deceased her, as did her brother, Hezekiah Hugie.

She will be remembered by her siblings Herman Hugie, Gloria Jerido, and Albert Hugie Jr., as well as halfbrother Herman Lee, grandchildren Leshawne Rumph, Javonda Lamison, Eboni Smith and Nathaniel Smith, great-grandchildren Steven, Shawn and Schyler Thompson, Taylor Lamison, Edward Wyche Jr., Daja Scarlato, and Natalie and Kemilia Smith, and new great-greatgrandchild, Noah A. SMITH Lion Wintjen, along with countless nieces, nephews and cousins.

Born Mary Alice Hugie on September 19, 1940, in Walterboro, South Carolina, Ms. Smith was the second child of Albert Hugie Sr. and Evelyna H. Geiger. She attended Walterboro High School.

Ms. Smith relocated to Long Island in the mid 1950s. While training as a nursing aide at Southampton Hospital, she worked for actress Bea Arthur and later for Grammy Award-winning folk-singer/songwriter Tom Paxton and his wife, Midge, helping to care for their daughters, Jennifer and Kate.

Ms. Smith provided compassionate home care for a number of East End residents, including John and Judith Lane Rand, and Irving and Christine Goddard. In 1996, she began working for Stephen Hamilton and Emma Walton Hamilton, founders of Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, assisting in the care of their children, Sam and Hope. She remained with the family for twenty years.

Ms. Smith was a devoted Church Mother of the First Church of God in Christ in Bridgehampton. She and her family members helped construct the church as it is today, and she regularly taught Sunday School there.

Whether known as “Mother Smith,” “Sister Alice,” “Nana,” or “Ahwee,” Ms. Smith was beloved by all who knew her, and will be remembered for her singular smile, as well as her remarkable strength, generosity and humor.

Viewing will take place at the First Church of God in Christ on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 23, with the funeral service to follow at noon. Donations in Ms. Smith’s memory may be made to the First Church of God in Christ, 463 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY 11932.

Lyndon W. English

Lyndon W. English died peacefully in his San Diego home on Tuesday, February 5, after a long decline due to Alzheimer’s Disease.

He was born in Southampton on

March 29, 1945, to Evelyn Cleaves and Lyndon W. English Sr., who was killed in World War II. Lyn, as everyone knew him, graduated from East Hampton High School in 1963 and received a bachelor of arts degree in computer technology from Michigan State University in 1968.

Mr. English was an avid MSU basketball and football fan who watched all the games and sometimes traveled as far as Maui to cheer his team on.

In 1967, Mr. English married Marilynn Golcar and they raised their two children in Michigan until, sick of shoveling snow, he moved his family to sunny San Diego. Mr. English pursued his career as a computer technician, working for the PSA Airline and various banks and other businesses in the San Diego area. He was also a part time realtor. Mr. L. ENGLISH and Mrs. English were married for 13 years.

In 1996, while visiting his mother “Cleavie” in East Hampton, Mr. English met Teresa Cuomo, a teacher at the Amagansett School. They fell in love and married three years later, splitting their time between both coasts. Together they traveled to many romantic and exotic places. They also enjoyed playing bridge, biking, walking and dancing. Mr. English was a passionate golfer, marathon runner and stock trader. He was filled with an adventurous spirit and contagious laughter.

Mr. English is survived by his wife Teresa, his two daughters, Kimberly English Kuhn and Koreen English, both residents of North Carolina, and his step children, Ian Mannino and Sara Mannino Kent, of Southampton. He is also survived by seven grandchildren, Tristen Kuhn, Vanessa Zeiser and Breanne, Mason and Brody Mannino and Noah and Kai Kent.

He will be cremated and a gathering will be held in San Diego followed by a graveside service in East Hampton sometime in May. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Kindred Hospice or The Alzheimer’s Association.

Michael James McNally

Michael James McNally of Sag Harbor died suddenly in East Hampton at the age of 55 on February 10. Born in Southampton July 19, 1963, he was the son of Michael Joseph and Carol Ann (Newman) McNally. Prior to living in Sag Harbor he had lived in Wantagh, L.I., and New York City.

Predeceased by his father, Michael Joseph McNally, Mr. McNally leaves behind and is mourned by his loving mother, Carol Ann McNally, and his sisters Laura Schilling (Phil), Michelle Boritz (Leo) and Joanie, as well as his five nieces Lauren Tuffy (Colin), Jacqueline and Ashley Schilling, and Nicole and Amanda Einemann. Predeceased by his Aunt Bridget Stavropoulos (George) and Maragret Gural (Chet), Michael is mourned by his Uncle John McNally (Katie), his Aunt

Joan Guadettte (Yvan) in Canada; his uncles James Newman (Joan) of New Jersey, and Joseph Newman (Arlene) of California, as well as his McPartlin cousins Marie Brenner (Al), and predeceased by Eileen Essay (Bob) and Joseph (Claudia) McPartlin. He will be deeply missed and fondly remembered by his many first cousins in Canada and the United States.

A graduate of Hofstra University, Mr. McNally was a software development leader with a broad background in technology and management. He demonstrated excellence in delivering high quality, leading-edge, bestin-class products.

He began his career at Northrop Grumman as a computer programmer for defense technology. In addition, he was a professor at Baruch College, NYC, teaching Data Base Design, M. MCNALLY XML, Conceptual Modeling, ASP, NET and E-Commerce. He worked in financial services doing business application development/ infrastructure management/ data feeds for trading, research and analytical systems. He had experience in managing the planning, development and deployment of numerous large scale software systems for various clients including Fidelity Investments, UBS, Chemical Bank/ Chase, Bear Stearns, Smart Money, DLJ/CFSB, and he was a project manager for Citigate Hudson. More recently, he was a real estate investor.

Friends may pay respect at the Mass at St. Andrew Catholic Church at 11 a.m., on Saturday, February 23, 2019, burial to directly follow. Mr. McNally will join his father and father’s family at an interment in the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery of East Hampton.

Nancie Batky

Nancie Batky (nee Anne Reidy) passed away on February 16, 2019, at Southampton Hospital. She was 95.

Mrs. Batky was born in Flushing, N.Y., on September 14, 1923, to John Reidy Sr. and Anne (Ramhorst) Reidy.

She had three siblings: John Reidy Jr. and Katherine Petri (both deceased), and Patricia O’Brien now living in Rockaway, N.J. Mrs. Batky married Joseph Batky in 1946 and they moved to Sag Harbor a year later. Together they raised three sons, Bob, Mike, and Jeff Batky in North Haven. She had two grandchildren, Brett and Scott Batky, and three great-grandchildren, Kyle, Cameron, and Lucy Batky.

Mrs. Batky cared for her husband, Joe, for 25 years after he had a serious stroke. She went back to work at several local businesses and organizations, with most time at St. Andrew Church and Middle School. She was a long-time member of the Sag Harbor American Legion Auxiliary, and was a familiar figure selling poppies at the Veterans’ Day Parades.

Memorial donations can be made to the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 388, PO Box 541, Sag Harbor, N.Y. 11963, or the Sag Harbor Ambulance Corps.

Religion Mass Schedule Changes at St. Andrew Church

St. Andrew Church in Sag Harbor holds Mass Monday through Friday at 9 a.m. Eve of Holy Day services are at 7 p.m., with Holy Day services at 9 a.m.

Saturday night vigil Mass is at 5:15 p.m. and on Sunday Mass is at 8:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. for family Mass.

St. Andrew Church is located at 122 Division Street, Sag Harbor. For more information, call (631) 725-0123 or visit standrewchurchsagharborny.org.

To Remember Our Promises at UUCSF

On Sunday, February 24, at 10:30 a.m., the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork will host services, “To Remember Our Promises,” with Rev. Kimberly Quinn John-

son, worship assistant Margi Pulkingham and musicians Peter Weiss and John Ludlow. Without any prescribed dogma or creed, Unitarian Universalism is a covenantal faith. This week, as the congregation prepares to create a congregational covenant, it will explore what covenant means to them.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork is located at 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton. For more information, visit uucsf.org.

Shabbat at Temple Adas

Services at Old Whalers’ Church

Christ Episcopal Church Services

The First Presbyterian Old Whalers’ Church is located at 44 Union Street in Sag Harbor, and hosts Sunday services at 10 a.m.

For more information, please call (631) 725-0894 or visit oldwhalerschurch.org.

Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will hold Shabbat evening services on Friday, February 22 at 6 p.m. That service will be followed by Oneg Shabbat.

On Saturday, February 23, at 10 a.m., Shabbat morning services will be held, followed by Kiddush. Torah study with Rabbi Dan Geffen is at noon.

Temple Adas Israel is located at the corner of Elizabeth Street and Atlantic Avenue. For more information, visit templeadasisrael.org.

The Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor will host Quiet Holy Eucharist on Sundays at 8 a.m. with Festive Eucharist at 10 a.m.

Christ Episcopal Church is located at 5 Hampton Street, Sag Harbor. For information, call (631) 725-0128.

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MOON WALK The Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt hosted a Full Snow Moon Hike on the grounds of the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Tuesday night.

Community Sag Harbor Queen of the Sun at Provisions

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

Bridgehampton Help Find Alewife!

The Peconic Estuary Program will hold two volunteer training sessions where guests can learn how to identify and record alewife sightings.

Tributaries within the Peconic Estuary watershed and around Long Island once supported spring runs of alewives returning from the ocean to spawn. Dams, habitat loss and declining water quality has harmed the species and little is known about their population. Documenting spawning is one step in the alewife restoration effort. On Friday, March 1, from 6 to 7 p.m. the Peconic Estuary Program will hold a training session at the South Fork Natural History Museum & Nature Center, 377 BridgehamptonSag Harbor Turnpike. A second session will be held at Baits & Barrels, 1315 W. Main Street in Riverhead. To reserve, email peptalk@peconicestuary.org.

(CCOM) is partnering with the Town of East Hampton to host a septic rebate question session on Monday, February 25, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the CCOM office, 6 South Elmwood Avenue in Montauk.

At the February 25 session, Mellissa Winslow and Samantha Klein of the Town of East Hampton’s Natural Resources Department will be stationed at the CCOM Office to afford East Hampton Town residents an opportunity to sit one-on-one to discuss the septic replacement and rebate process and help answer any questions. They also have updated information about the county septic improvement grant, for which many East End homeowners are also eligible. For more information, contact Kate Rossi-Snook, CCOM environmental advocate at krossi-snook@preservemontauk.org or (631) 238-5720.

Amagansett CfAR Hosts Winter Trivia Night

Citizens for Access Rights or CfAR will host a Winter Trivia Night on March 1 at the Amagansett American Legion Hall on Montauk Highway in Amagansett at 7 p.m.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Teams of four can register in advance for $25 per person ($20 for 2019 CfAR members); singles may also register and will be put on a team. To register in advance send team name to citizensforaccessrights@gmail.com. There will be a cash prize for first place. All proceeds will go to CfAR to protect beach access on the East End. For more information, visit citizensforaccessrights.com.

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Operation Cat: Trapping 101

Concerned Citizens of Montauk

The ARF Adoption Center, 124 Daniels Hole Road in Wainscott, will host

Public Meetings THURS FEB 21 Southampton Town Board, 10 a.m. work session/regular meeting, Southampton Town Hall, 116 Hampton Road, Southampton. (631) 283-6000 or southamptontownny.gov.

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

TUES FEB 26 Sag Harbor Village Planning Board, 5 p.m., worksession, 5:30 p.m. regular meeting. Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-1700 or sagharborny.gov.

Southampton Town Board, 6 p.m. regular meeting, Southampton Town Hall, 116 Hampton Road, Southampton. (631) 283-6000 or southamptontownny.gov.

WED FEB 27 Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals, 5:30 p.m., Sag Harbor Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-1700 or sagharborny.gov.

THURS FEB 28 Sag Harbor Village Board of Historic Preservation & Architectural Review, 5 p.m., Sag Harbor Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-1700 or sagharborny.gov.

a training session for volunteers who want to help the nonprofit break the feral cat cycle by learning about its Operation Cat trap-neuter-release program. ARF will hold a Trapping 101 information session on Saturday, March 2, at 1 p.m. for volunteers, who will learn about feral cats, the steps of humane trapping, pre- and post- spay and neutering surgery care and how to box trap and care for cat colonies.

For more information, contact Rita Del Rey at (631) 537-0400 ext.210 or by emailing rita@arfhamptons.org.

School News Cox On RIT Dean’s List

Taylor Cox, of Sag Harbor, has been named to the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2018 fall semester. Cox is in the game design and development program.

Tufts Names Dean’s List Honors

Tufts University in Massachusetts has announced that Millicent Battle and Clara Oppenheimer, both of Sag Harbor, and Jake Weinstein, of East

Hampton, have earned Dean’s List honors for the fall 2018 semester.

Guyer on Geneseo Dean’s List; Camacho Makes President’s List

Sag Harbor’s own Maizy Guyer has been named to the Dean’s List at the State University of New York at Geneseo for the fall 2018 semester. East Hampton residents Anahi Chablas, Gabrielle McKay and Jacquelyn Thorsen also earned the honor.

Sag Harbor resident Dylan Camacho was named to the President’s List at Geneseo, an honor reserved for students who have achieved a 4.0 throughout their coursework in a semester.

James Earns Honors at Cortland

Andrew H. James, of Sag Harbor, has been named to the Dean’s List at the State University of New York College at Cortland, where he is majoring in criminology.

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Groups battle against food insecurity continued from page 1

Harbor Committee members and the applicant’s team review the wetlands permit application for 28 Long Point Road at the February 11 meeting. From left, environmental consultant Charles Voorhis; board member Herbert Sambol; village attorney Denise Schoen; board chair Mary Ann Eddy; Michael Schiano from Inter-Science Research Associates; board member Will Sharp; engineer Thomas Houghton; architect Paul Masi. peter boody photo

Praise pool proposals continued from page 4 cel with a modest bungalow at 62 John Street on Upper Sag Harbor Cove with a larger house and an infinity pool that will be 52 feet from the shoreline.

With one board member calling it “a beautiful project,” the board closed the hearing on the case — which has been before the board for almost two years and drew some resistance last summer, when then-member Jeff Peters called the proposed house too big for the lot — and asked its environmental consultant to prepare a draft decision for the next meeting on March 11.

In the other case, which also drew praise from the board, Blair Effron/ Wayward Partners is seeking a wetlands permit to redevelop a sandy .9acre parcel at 28 Long Point road, a peninsula between Morris Cove and Upper Sag Harbor Cove. By the end of that long hearing, the applicant’s team had agreed to try combining the pool house and garage into one structure and flipping the location of the pool and its deck, which would allow for 10 more feet of wetlands setback.

The 62 John Street proposal calls for a 12,000-square-foot reduction in nonnative lawn, which will be replaced by native plantings; removing a bulkheaded rectangle projecting into Upper Sag Harbor Cove containing fill topped by gravel and replacing it with a natural beach; using vegetation to restore an eroded area on the east side of the property; installing an extensive drywell installation for the proposed house roof-gutter system and the pool; and the installation of an “I/A” septic system on the street-side of the property.

The proposed house will be larger than the one there now, covering 1,830 square feet instead of 1,628. “The tradeoff is a lot of lawn that goes down to the wetlands” will be replaced by “a very extensive native restoration buffer,” said Mr. Voorhis. “It really is an excellent restoration plan.”

The I/A septic system will be “as far away from the wetlands as we can get,” landscape designer John Hamilton explained, and will require a setback variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals to allow a retaining wall close to the property line to contain the fill that will be needed to elevate it above groundwater. He said the Zoning Board of Appeals informally approved a setback variance for the retaining wall in a straw vote this month.

In the 28 Long Point Road case, which the applicant’s attorney Mary Jane Asato called “a challenging application,” environmental consultant Michael Schiano of Inter-Science Research Associates reviewed a plan for a new house, pool, spa, pool house and garage that calls for removing all the lawn and non-native ornamentals on the existing .9-acre lot surrounded by water on three sides and replacing it with 12,369 square feet of native vegetation. The existing private asphalt road will be removed and replaced with pervious gravel. The pool will be smaller. It will have a non-chlorine ozone purification system but it will be 31 feet closer to wetlands unless the proposed changes — initially suggested by Mr. Voorhis — are made, which would increase the setback by 10 feet.

Ms. Eddy complimented Mr. Schiano on his presentation, which she called “well prepared.”

often comes hand-in-hand with other financial issues. “If someone is struggling to pay their rent, more likely they aren’t getting enough food to eat,” she said. “You see people making a lot of choices with their finances and that leads to food insecurity.

They may cut their medications in half. When people are making those tradeoffs in life, they’re often putting themselves at risk.”

Island Harvest works with several East End entities, including the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, the Bridgehampton School District and Living Water Church in Wainscott, to help stock pantries and supply weekend backpacks full of food for students to take home.

In the fall of 2018, the Bridgehampton School District began participating in a federal government-funded school food program known as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Schools in communities with high poverty rates receive money to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student, regardless of need. At the Bridgehampton School, about 60 percent of the kids were receiving free or reduced-price lunches before the CEP took effect.

“Just the fact that we were eligible for the CEP alone tells you about the Bridgehampton community, that it’s not all real estate wealth here,” said Robert Hauser, the Bridgehampton School District superintendent.

“That’s not spread evenly among the population.”

Mr. Hauser said he often sits with

kids in the cafeteria during lunch.

“Students aren’t looking across from them and seeing what the other person has or what they don’t have to eat for breakfast or lunch,” he observed. “You look around and everyone’s eating the same thing, the same healthy meal. I’ve always considered that social aspect of it, where in the past we might have had kids who were sitting there with no meal across from a student who has a wonderful, home-cooked lunch. That disparity doesn’t exist now.”

He said there has even been a corresponding decrease in incidents resulting in disciplinary action.

According to Sag Harbor School Superintendent Katy Graves, one in five students in Sag Harbor experiences food insecurity, though sometimes temporarily, as in the case of a family illness or job loss. She explained children at Pierson Middle-High School have personal identification numbers attached to lunch accounts they can use on the cafeteria lines, and they can punch in that number and receive lunch, regardless of whether their parents have put any money in their accounts. Children at the elementary school, where there is no formal lunch program, can also receive lunch if they do not have any.

“Children are really sensitive and there’s a lot of shame around food.

If they’re aware that the adults are aware, they won’t ask,” Ms. Graves said. “They’ll go hungry because they’re so embarrassed. Our administrators, counselors and social worker work very hard to meet their needs, and that goes across the board, whether that’s a field trip or clothing. … The

word I use is ‘proactive.’ It’s kind of all hands on deck.”

She said individual teachers and staff members even help children on their own dime, without the school district asking them to assist in such a way.

“It’s really sweet that staff members, teachers, make sure that things go home in children’s backpacks,” Ms. Graves said. “They do it because they just love the kids. I hear about it anecdotally after the fact. They are really generous with families.”

Schools often refer families to entities like the Family Service League, which counsels adults and children on behavioral and mental health, addiction issues and more. Jonathan Chenkin, the Family Service League’s vice president for development, said the organization works with Island Harvest and helps people sign up for benefits such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, once known as food stamps.

“We absolutely take any situation where a person is in need, figure out what they need, and do the legwork for them where they can get the services they need, food included,” Mr. Chenkin said. “We can refer the client to the nearest food pantry and also do the legwork to find out if they are eligible to receive other benefits. We are a network of care that’s as comprehensive as we make it for all the clients that come to us.”

Local churches are also involved in making a dent in food insecurity.

Reverend Karen Ann Campbell of the Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor is in the process of writing grants to boost its plans for a community

kitchen where people can come for weekly dinners and possibly even a pop-up food pantry.

“There are people who are unaware of food insecurity in such a wealthy place,” she said this week. “…In certain places food is more expensive because they have a trapped audience.

Knowing the statistics, from the 2010 Census, there are over 200 people living below the poverty line in Sag Harbor. I believe when the 2020 Census comes out there will be a greater need, and we can add to that the seasonal workers who are overworked in the summer and unemployed in the winter. It’s very difficult.”

Rev. Campbell said she feels religious institutions “absolutely have a mandate” to help.

“One of the last things Jesus says to his disciples is, ‘Do you love me? If you love me, feed my sheep, feed my sheep, feed my sheep,’” she said. “Jesus is concerned about people’s bodies and being whole. You can’t be very spiritual if you’re hungry.”

Throughout Sag Harbor, little wooden donation boxes can be found at shops, banks, restaurants and even village hall seeking spare change for the local pantry. While every bit helps, Ms. Ramunno said, alone it’s not enough to support the needs of the hungry. In addition to receiving donations of food, she said, the pantry spends about $1,200 per week to purchase fresh produce and other essentials for its clients.

“It’s all a help to these people who are coming to us every single week for a little bit of help,” she said. “The people here in our Sag Harbor community are really very, very generous.”

SANS nears recognition continued from page 1 it adds the neighborhoods — Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah subdivisions, which collectively go by the name “SANS” — to the State Register of Historic Places.

“The way that the law is written, if you don’t say anything, it’s assumed that you approve,” Ms. Betsworth told an audience including many SANS residents who had gathered at the John Jermain Memorial Library on Thursday night.

The law she was referring to is the 1980 New York State Historic Preservation Act, which mirrored the national preservation act signed into law in 1966 by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the case of a community attempting to gain landmark status, Ms. Betsworth said, more than 50 percent of the homeowners in the community would have to object to it in order to halt the effort.

“This district seems pretty excited,” she said.

Renee Simons, a Sag Harbor Hills resident who has been leading the landmarking process, told the group she is confident at least 51 percent of SANS homeowners supports the effort to gain recognition.

“We collected over 51 percent of the owners saying they were in favor. We actually hit 51 percent, which was required, and then stopped and kept moving” on the rest of the state application, Ms. Simons said.

Some in the audience asked Ms. Betsworth whether being named to the national and state registers of historic places automatically means a place is also named a historic district locally. She said that is not the case.

“Really the main goal of the state and national program is that honorary piece,” she said, noting that communities or property owners can often gain access to grants or tax credits for preservation or restoration projects through that status. She continued, “Local landmarking is stronger. It comes with more restrictions.

That’s that double-edged sword. You have that power to protect your community but you have those restrictions yourself.”

Much of Sag Harbor is considered an historic district under rules for what New York State calls a “certified local government,” which gives the village’s Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review the decision-making authority to regulate changes to historic buildings within

that district. The board also votes on changes to structures in the rest of the village, but is less restrictive for properties that are not considered historic.

The process so far has involved SANS organizers’ extensive, selffunded, self-completed cultural and historic survey that even drew support from the National Organization of Minority Architects late last year when the organizers needed help cataloging the more than 300 houses in the three neighborhoods.

It has also drawn recognition from the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees. In response to a letter from Ms. Simons asking whether the mayor might send a letter supporting the landmarking effort, the board passed a resolution last week authorizing Mayor Sandra Schroeder to send the State Historic Preservation Office such a letter.

“We are aware of how much hard work this wonderful woman put into this, and how worthwhile we think this would be for these neighborhoods,” Ms. Schroeder told The Express on Friday. “If someone is worried about finances because of the state of their home, if this designation will give them access to a grant or cheap money that will allow them to stay, then we keep another resident, and that’s important to me. We keep another family in their home. It gives us an opportunity to keep our neighborhoods.”

On Wednesday, a visibly excited Ms. Simons told the group the process has been ongoing for about three years now.

“When I started this with the subdivisions, I asked the questions, ‘If not us, who? If not now, when?’” she said.

“Those were the questions that are important. People would ask, ‘”Why are you doing this?’ I said, ‘Do you want to be a footnote somewhere in a history book, or do you want to be a chapter or a book?’ I didn’t want it to be a footnote.”

SANS homeowners may send letters by March 20 to the State Historic Preservation Office to Ms. Betsworth’s attention at NYS OPRHP, Division for Historic Preservation, Peebles Island, P.O. Box 189, Waterford NY 12188.

Letters of objection, in particular, must be notarized to verify that the homeowner does own the property in question. According to state rules, “Each private property owner has one vote, regardless of how many properties or what portion of a single property that party owns.”

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Critical of design continued from page 4 ing frustrated last Thursday.

“We’re turning that into a sausage and putting a bun on top of it,” Mr. Berridge said of the proposal.

The plans also call for raising the house six inches to avoid flooding while leaving as much of the 16-by-24 foot original structure intact as the property owner deems possible, according to architect Anthony Vermandois, who took on the assignment a few weeks ago after a previous architect left the project. The house is about 1,100 square feet presently, Mr. Vermandois said, and would be just under 2,000 square feet as proposed.

Zach Studenroth, the review board’s historic preservation consultant, called the renovation “aggressive” and said “what we’re left with is very little idea of what the original house was, except for that front façade.”

“I don’t think a one-and-a-half story house of this period ever wants to be a two-story house,” he said.

Board member John “Chris” Connor said he liked the house’s existing onestory kitchen entrance, which the renovation would have removed.

“It’s sweet. It’s a little quirk that I quite like, and unfortunately, you’re proposing to take that down,” Mr. Con-

nor said.

Mr. Vermandois said he would take those notes to his client and return to the board, which tabled the matter to its February 28 meeting.

Cinema Vote Postponed Again Representatives of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center will have to go back before the review board on February 28 after the board decided it still needed more information and adjustments to the cinema’s construction plans.

Recent changes to the current proposal include limiting the increased height for the new third floor to 12 feet only for the planned virtual reality room, rather than for the entire third floor.

The maximum height of the building would then be 38.5 feet. However, the cinema representatives’ presentation last Thursday lacked formal schematics, and some on the review board felt parts of their design requests had not been explored, so the discussion was tabled for the third time.

Interim board chairman Dean Gomolka reminded April Gornik, vice president of the Sag Harbor Partnership, the nonprofit organization that is rebuilding the cinema, that every aspect of the plans needs to be documented.

She replied by saying, “That seems totally reasonable.”

Hold on parking ban continued from page 4 north, over the village line, Mayor Sandra Schroeder has said.

Mr. Reid asked the board, “Why not ban parking in front of Cove Deli?” and said the move “will make it more expensive” for him to conduct the 20,000 money-losing vehicle inspections he conducts annually as a local service, including the 35 he does for village-owned vehicles. “Obviously, the business will react and I expect to do a lot less,” he said.

He complained that the public attention to his business led to a visit from a town ordinance inspector “and I got a list of violations,” even though it was the park that Mr. Reid charged was “illegally created” in front of his business.

The board agreed to close the hearing on the proposal and, on Trustee Thomas Gardella’s motion, tabled it “to assess the impact” it will have on Mr. Reid’s business.

I/A Septic Requirement After a hearing last month at which no one spoke in opposition, the board on February 11 appeared set to adopt the proposed amendment to Village Code requiring on-site, low-nitrogen “innovative-alternative” septic systems.

But village attorney Elizabeth Vail told the board she was waiting for “referrals” from the towns of East Hampton and Southampton — which both

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CBD oil and more continued from page 1 in the winter.

“We decided to open the shop to be able to serve the East End and other people other than doing mail orders and personal deliveries” in the winter, Ms. Falkowski said. “Here at the store I can venture out and do other handcrafted things.”

When the Open Minded Organics (OMO) farmstand opens up again in the spring, Mr. Falkowski will concentrate on that while Ms. Falkowski focuses on the Sag Harbor store. At the store, she will offer OMO’s cannabidiol oils and tinctures, smudges and sage sticks, Jamesport’s Stoic Artisans kombucha on tap, Southampton Soap Company and Montauk Soap Company products and more. There will be books and other merchandise that are a throwback to what customers could once find at Metaphysical Books and Tools — what used to be one of Ms. Falkowski’s favorite stores in Sag Harbor. OMO the Apothecary will also have local art decorating the walls, rotating by artist, which will be available for sale.

“We’re definitely excited,” Ms. Falkowski said. “We’re a little nervous because it’s another venture that is unknown to us.

The farmstand is easy because we grow the produce and it gets put out there.

Now we’re figuring out other products that are apothecary in nature and sourcing it is kind of difficult.”

Ms. Falkowski joins a community of at least six businesses on Long Wharf’s promenade that are owned or managed by women, including the Waterfront Beauty Salon, Hamptons Tailoring and Alterations and Long Wharf Upholstery and Fabrics.

Linda Pazera, who owns the upholstery and fabric store, said she is happy to have OMO the Apothecary as a new neighbor. She actually leases both her

space and the Falkowskis’ space in the promenade, and recently received permission to sublet the space next door.

“They’re nice people,” Ms. Pazera said. “It’s going to bring new people down here when they find out about them. They haven’t even told anybody, and everyone’s already coming down.”

Ms. Falkowski said she feels inspired to be among those female entrepreneurs.

“It’s very empowering,” she said. “In this day and age, women need to be and feel empowered. It’s great to have a community out here that allows that.”

Mr. Falkowski said the apothecary store is really going to belong to his wife.

“I really think this will be more along the lines of a traditional, rootsy Sag Harbor shop,” he said. “This isn’t meant to cater to just the high-end tourists. We’re not here to quit it after three months.”

Ms. Falkowski said she aspires to be like Country Lane, the gift and décor shop that recently closed after 20 years on Main Street.

“They are such wonderful people.

When family and friends came from out of town, I’d tell them to go there,” she said. “You could always find something, whether it was for $10 or $100.

That’s what I want to do here.”

Asked whether they are concerned about competition, particularly from the upcoming arrival of White’s Apothecary on Main Street, they said they are not.

“Does Sag Harbor have too many restaurants or bars?” Mr. Falkowski said.

“There is a fine line between what’s competition and cannibalization, but there’s also the idea of what creates demand. I think they’re different businesses.”

“Just like our farmstand,” Ms. Falkowski added. “We all make it work because we all have different things.”

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future and its sustainability. Our buildings don’t have debt, but we also don’t have an endowment, so it would be nice to grow an endowment.”

Dennis Finnerty, chairman of the Southampton Town Planning Board, said the property could, in fact, be subdivided for residential development.

On Tuesday he called it “an oversized parcel in a residential zone.”

“We’ve done a number of modifications to the school over the years, the biggest being the big athletic building,” Mr. Finnerty said. “There are a number of structures on the parcel, so I would tend to think it’s just going to be parceled out with the structures intact if someone did subdivide it. It remains to be seen. I think a lot of people agree that the best value of that property is educational or institutional use. Even beyond the town, there are state permits that were secured through the dormitory authority that would all be relinquished if they reverted it to residential use.”

Lori Schiaffino is an agent with Compass who represents the Butter Lane property. Reached by phone Friday, she said the property has been on the market for some time but that it was only made public several days ago. Ms. Schiaffino said she is a board member of the Ross School whose relationship with the school goes back 27 years; her daughter, now 35, was among the school’s first students along with Ms. Ross’s daughter.

Renewing permits continued from page 1 would go into effect for town residents in East Hampton this summer with existing permit holders required to renew in 2020.

During a town board work session in Montauk on February 12, assistant town attorney Jameson McWilliams noted that non-resident beach parking permits will still be available on an annual basis for $375, under the current draft, and that hotel and motel owners will still be able to purchase one transferable permit per unit for transient guests for $75 per permit.

Given that many hotel and motel owners sell those permits to their guests for a fee, Ms. McWilliams said the legislation does ask the managers to provide information to the town about how much they charge guests for those permits. During the February 12 work session, Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez said the board should consider increasing that fee and should look at the fee schedule as a whole. Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc suggested the board move forward with changes in the law first before it looks at the fee schedule.

Supplemental family permits, for

up to two family members related to a town resident by blood, are also available, for $75.

One point of contention during the work session on February 12 was how condominium owners — some units having more than one owner over the course of a year — should receive beach parking permits. During a work session on Tuesday, February 21, assistant town attorney Beth Baldwin updated the board with a new draft of the law, which allows condominium properties with more than four units the ability to obtain the commercial lodging facilities beach parking permit used by motels and hotels. However, the property would only be given one permit for each unit and if a condominium owner who is a resident obtains the free, resident beach sticker, that unit is no longer eligible for the other parking permit.

Renters of single- or multi-family homes are not eligible for resident or commercial lodging permits, but can purchase the non-resident parking sticker for the year.

The town board will hold its public hearing on the proposed changes at 6:30 p.m. on March 7 at East Hampton Town Hall on Pantigo Road.

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head of advancement and operations, said the decision to sell the former Lower School campus — once home to the Hampton Day School — came out of a lack of practical use for the space.

“We’re not using it the way we did when we had the full Lower School campus there,” she said. “It’s a beautiful campus, almost idyllic. We don’t really have a lot of use for it.”

She said it had always been the vision of school founder Courtney Ross to have one campus with young children and older children learning alongside each other.

“We called it ‘one school, one community,’” said Ms. O’Hearn, who said she enjoys watching the youngest of the students walking by her office window every day. “They just make you happy. They look adorable in their uniforms and they’re always so happy. I think it’s been a really wonderful change for the East Hampton campus, having them here.”

She said she hopes the property is bought by a person or organization that maintains a community-oriented use.

“There’s a lot of nice features on the campus. I love the library area, the green building area, and the old barn house is special too,” she said.

She said there are no concrete plans for the proceeds of the sale just yet, but added, “I’m sure it will go into helping support the school into the

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She also reported that the village’s environmental consultant, Charles Voorhis of Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, had drafted a “consistency report” confirming that the proposal meets the requirements of the villages LWRP or Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan.

The board voted to accept the report and close the public hearing; it also voted to issue a “negative declaration” under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, a finding that the proposed law will not have an adverse environmental impact.

But first resident Anthony Vermandois, an architect, went to the podium to urge the board to exempt properties from the requirement if they connect to the municipal sewage system, which Village Trustee Aiden Corish is just beginning a long-term effort to expand.

He foresees new sewer mains one day extending into waterfront residential areas to the east and west of downtown Sag Harbor, including Redwood and Sag Harbor Hills-Azurest-Ninevah (SANS) area.

In response, Harbor Committee member John Parker warned that adding an exemption based on a future sewer system expansion “might be a disincentive” to homeowners to install an I/A system. He said that chances the expansion will happen “in my lifetime” are probably small.

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Pierson / Bridgehampton Girls Basketball

Lady Whalers Chase History on Multiple Fronts Career scoring milestone was put temporarily on hold in latest victory

BY GAVIN MENU

vanced to play the Class A champion, either Mt. Sinai or Westhampton, on On a night when the Pierson faith- Friday, February 23, at Walt Whitman ful hoped to celebrate career offensive High School, with that game’s winner excellence, it was team defense that going on to face the Class AA champion for the overall Suffolk County ruled the day instead.

The Pierson/Bridgehampton girls Championship.

“I want to play as many games as basketball team won the Suffolk County C/D championship with a possible before March 9,” Barron said, grind-it-out 55-31 victory over Smith- referencing Pierson’s next eliminatown Christian at Centereach High tion game, a Class C Southeast Regional final against a team from either School on Friday, February 15.

On Wednesday, after press time, Section I or Section IX with a state Pierson faced Mattituck — which had final four berth on the line. “We’re won the Class B championship by just looking to win. We want to make knocking off Port Jefferson — back at it to that small school championship Centereach with the B/C/D title on the game.”

During the first line half against SmithPierson senior Katown Christian, it tie Kneeland went looked as if the Lady into last week’s Whalers might have game needing just a long rest before 22 points to reach that March 9 game 1,000 for her career. instead. They let an She came up short, 11-point lead slip finishing with 17 away in the second points, and likely quarter, and Smithreached the miletown Christian’s stone on Wednesday eighth-grade point against a Mattituck guard, Abigail Loiteam looking to acono, scored 10 avenge a pair of regpoints in the first ular-season losses to half to pull her the League VI chamPIERSON HEAD COACH team within four pion Lady Whalers.

KEVIN BARRON at halftime despite The last Lady Whaler suffocating defense to score 1,000 points

by Pierson’s Sofia in a career was Mancino.

Robyn Bramoff in Pierson guard 2000.

“It’s tough when the other team is Chastin Giles sat the last five minutes completely denying you the ball the of the second quarter and the first whole game,” Pierson head coach three minutes of the third in foul Kevin Barron said after the win over trouble. By the time she returned, Smithtown Christian, which was Pier- Kneeland had scored five quick points son’s 18th straight victory. “I tried to to push her total to nine for the game, set her up a little bit and that’s why and the Lady Whalers rattled off a 20-1 she scored more in the second half. I run to essentially put the game away. want her touching the ball as much With two minutes remaining, Barron as possible anyway, so we tried to get pulled his starters with Kneeland just her some screens in the low post. She five points shy of her big milestone.

“I looked at my mom in the stands knows winning is more important and she put up a five, so I knew I was than anything.

If the Lady Whalers (18-3) got by five points away with two minutes Mattituck on Wednesday for a third left, but we were winning by so much time this season, they would have ad- it’s not really appropriate for me to go

‘We’re just looking to win. We want to make it to that small school championship game.’

Pierson’s Katie Kneeland, leading a fast break during the Suffolk County C/D title game against Smithtown Christian on Friday night, ended up five points shy of 1,000 for her career.

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all out at the end,” Kneeland said. “It was a good move for coach to pull out all the starters.”

Barron credited the team’s “clamp down” defense and the play of frontline roll players like Aziza El, who finished with 10 points, Phoebe Arkinson, Carly Browngardt and Celia Barranco with a solid team victory. He

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“It’s all about team and our chemistry has been really, really good this season. We’re definitely a defensive team and usually defense wins the game.”

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Bridgehampton Basketball

Killer Bees On a Playoff Rollercoaster Last-second win is followed by loss to a familiar face

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Bridgehampton point guard Nae’jon Ward drives to the hoop against Greenport on Saturday. Ward hit the winning shot with 1.3 seconds left.

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Unusual Weather

his continues to be the winter with strange weather. It fluctuates from hot to cold with temperature swings of up to 30 degrees within 24 hours.

Again we are having wind with only the rare day that it is calm. One good thing is that the snowfall has been light. All the storms seem to go around us. We get a little snow and then it turns to rain.

Weather is the main factor when it comes to outside activities. There’s been some great beach walking on the good days.

On the cold and windy days, you can do your walking in the woods. On the days that the wind blows northwest, there have been great low tides. Clams are available for those hardy diggers.

There are still a handful of scallopers on the bay grinding them out. Scallop season is open until the end of March.

Spring arrives March 20, so we are less than a month away.

Reports from the cod boats are few and far between. A couple of boats from the west had a few cod and ling caught on Sunday last.

There are also rumors of some white perch being caught.

Bird watching remains good.

Unusual amounts of hawks and eagles have been seen but don’t mistake those vultures for eagles.

The next Fishing Flea Market is this Sunday, February 24. It is at Temple B’nai Torah, which is at 2900 Jerusalem Avenue in Wantagh. The hours are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Center Moriches coach Nick Thomas, left, and Bridgehampton coach Ron White shake hands after Tuesday’s Suffolk County B/C/D title game at William Floyd High School. menu photo

to the League VII title this year with a perfect 12-0 record, but will now turn their focus to the Class C playoffs and a Southeast Regional final on March 9 at Centereach High School.

Following the loss to Center Moriches, the Killer Bees will turn their focus to the state playoffs as well, except in Class D, where they will meet Academy Charter of Hempstead on Friday, March 1, at 5 p.m. back at Center Moriches with a Long Island Championship on the line. The winner will advance to the Southeast Regional final, which is tentatively scheduled for March 10 against an opponent from either Section I or Section IV. But before that, and prior to the loss

“They understand they belong,” White said on Tuesday about the confidence his team gained as a result of the win over Greenport. “Naéjon understands he is one of the tough point guards to be reckoned with. Elijah is starting to believe in himself. J.P. has to continue to work and attack that rim and continue to shoot that midrange jump shot. Everybody else is just gritty and they’ll follow the lead of the Big Three, but the Big Three have to continue to work hard.”

As for Tuesday’s game, White chalked it up to facing “an awesome team” with tremendous athletic ability and a coach he respects. It just so happens that coach was also a high school team-

to Center Moriches, the Killer Bees were relishing their win over Greenport. Bridgehampton held a sizeable lead for much of the game, but the Porters came charging back in the fourth quarter. After Greenport’s Jaxan Swann hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 85 with 17.4 seconds left, Ward charged up court and nailed a tough shot to take the lead with just 1.3 seconds left.

The junior point guard finished with 31 points, 12 of which came in the fourth quarter. Elijah White added 29 points and J.P. Harding had 16 points and 13 rebounds. Ahkee Anderson, Greenport’s own dynamic point guard, had 40 points to lead all scorers.

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mate, and together they won a state championship in 1996. Flash forward 23 years and today they chase that elusive accomplishment as head coaches.

“I’m hoping if all goes well, we’ll see each other in our respective class up in Binghamton,” White said about the New York State Public High School Boys Basketball Championships, which will be held over the weekend of March 15 through 17 at the Floyd L. Maines Arena. “I respect him. I like we have a chance to give back to the community, give back to the kids. You gotta get in where you fit in. I was blessed to stay in Bridgehampton; he’s now created an awesome program in Center Moriches, and we just handle our business.”

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Lightning wasn’t about to strike twice at William Floyd High School this week. Not with the Center Moriches Red Devils and their coach with the killer instinct in town.

The Red Devils and their head coach and former Killer Bees point guard Nick Thomas bounced Bridgehampton from the overall Suffolk Tournament on Tuesday, winning in convincing fashion just three days after the Killer Bees had shocked Greenport with an 87-85 victory in the Class C/D title game on the same floor.

The 111-53 victory in the B/C/D title game set the stage for Center Moriches to face either Wyandanch or Kings Park in the small schools championship game on Sunday, February 24, at Farmingdale State College at 7:30 p.m. The winner will play the Class AA champion for the overall Suffolk title on Wednesday, February 27, at Walt Whitman High School.

“It’s great to have the opportunities to play and get games under our belt,” said Thomas, who won a state title with the Killer Bees in 1996, but has yet to reach that pinnacle in his eight years as coach at Center Moriches. “Our kids were chomping at the bit. Now it’s just continuing to have that sense of urgency, and continuing to develop that killer instinct. They did a great job tonight coming out hungry from the beginning.”

Thomas on Tuesday was greeted, as usual, by the Killer Bees faithful and acknowledged for his contributions to East End basketball. When asked later if it’s hard for him to play the Killer Bees, and even harder to beat them by 58 points, he smiled widely before answering.

“I was raised to be a killer in Bridgehampton so I didn’t want to disappoint anyone in the community and my fellow alumni, not coming out with that kill mentality,” he said. “It’s a little bittersweet, giving it back to the home team, but at the same time we gotta do what we gotta do. It’s about how we play, not who we play.”

One of those fellow Bridgehampton alumni, of course, is current Killer Bees head coach Ron White, who earned the biggest win of his coaching career in the upset victory over Greenport on Saturday. With the score tied in the final seconds, Bridgehampton point guard Naéjon Ward drove full court and hit a running jumper through traffic to push the Killer Bees past their longtime rival. Bridgehampton went into the game as heavy underdogs, having lost to the Porters twice this season by an average of 25.5 points per game.

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A HIDDEN WORLD THAT EXISTED IN PLAIN SIGHT A CONVERSATION ABOUT SLAVERY AND ITS ROLE IN LIFE ON THE EAST END

By Michelle Trauring

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N THE HEART OF THE EAST END, there is a place that dates back 11 generations — located on an 8,000-acre island that Nathaniel Sylvester and his wife, Grizzell, bought from the Manhansett Indians in 1651.

It would become known as Shelter Island, home to their Sylvester Manor, where they loved and lived off the land, a romance that has spanned centuries.

But there is a parallel story — one that is hushed, and rarely ever talked about.

It paints slavery as alive and well in early American history, but not just in the South. Of all the northern states, New York was home to more slaves than any other, and on Sylvester Manor alone, its more than 20 enslaved people made it one of the largest concentrations in the region — the last slave freed in 1821, just six years before the state banned slavery and 42 years before the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Stratton - Dayton house, above. Esther J. Green, inset right, and her husband, Henry first appear on the 1850 Census as living in the Eastville Section of the village of Sag Harbor. Esther was born on Shelter Island in 1823. She was the younger sister of David Hempstead, a leading member of the Eastville Community and co-founder of the St. David’s AME Zion Church. On the 1840 Census, David and Esther are listed as living and working at the Sylvester Manor, a 243 acre plantation property founded in 1652 on Shelter Island. Both Esther and David were born free.

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Inspired by Black History

Inside Michael Butler’s Head

Rattling perception and imagining the stories of African tradition

There’s a world of magical realism he strives to get out in paint

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armonia Rosales is on a journey.

It began in 2017 with “The Creation of God,” a reimagining of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” which replaces the white men and angels originally found on the Sistine Chapel ceiling with women of color.

Cue the uproar.

The painting went viral as praise and loathing fell upon her head, garnering thousands of likes and comments on social media — attracting the celebrity attention of Samuel L. Jackson, Erykah Badu and Willow Smith — while simultaneously provoking aggressively negative criticism.

And while many saw the image as a triumph, it didn’t seem that way to the Afro-Cuban artist at the time.

“Now that I think back, I shouldn’t have felt a lot of the things I felt, because it was just going to happen — and it happens when people don’t want to acknowledge any kind of change, or be open,” Rosales said during a telephone interview from Los Angeles. “Those people, you can’t help. I did feel sad, because I thought I was doing something — and I was doing something — out of pure love. But nobody can say anything to me to change my mind, or alter what I want to paint.”

Over the past two years, Rosales has not shied away from her African and Cuban roots, only ramping up her exploration of her religion, culture and traditions by painting them back into art history, she said — next with “New World Consciousness,” which broke down the stereotypes of The Virgin Mary and Eve, and most recently with her depictions of ancient Lucumí lore that will be on view during “Rich in Black History,” opening Saturday, at RJD Gallery in Bridge-

‘Since a lot of the African traditions and the religions have been oral, nothing has been written or really painted, or set in history or stone. I would like to rectify that.”

t is hard to imagine a time when Michael A. Butler felt reluctant to call himself an artist.

The word is loaded, he explained during a telephone interview from his home in Eastville, weighted with expectations of traditional training and technique — neither of which he has — rather than sheer will, curiosity and a mind that once found expression through colored pencils and pens.

Butler quickly graduated to paintbrushes dipped in acrylics, bringing his dreamy landscapes, turbulent seascapes and animated characters to life on canvas. His patrons and friends noted his work had grown, only continuing to evolve.

When the artist takes a step back, he can see it, too.

His brush strokes are finer and his details are sharper. His confidence, and sense of identity, is stronger. He is finally at home in his Magical Realism paintings — a term he has searched for over the decades, and finally found just in time for his one-man show, “Genesis and Transcendence,” opening Friday at the Heritage House in Sag Harbor.

“It will be a combination of older works and newer works, and people can judge for themselves, or see what they really think about my progression as an artist,” Butler said.

“When I first defined myself as an artist, it was sort of a revelation for myself. I was not a youngster at that point, so it was a process. I think I was somewhat surprised at that — to find that in myself. Of course, I’ve always had an interest in painting. But to actually define myself as such was really illuminating.”

Growing up in Saint Albans, Queens, Butler was creative

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n 1985, Guild Hall’s Board of Trustees initiated an awards program to recognize achievement in the arts.

An independent jury was formed, and they elected Kurt Vonnegut, Willem de Kooning, and Alan Alda to receive the first Medals of Merit for excellence in the literary, visual, and performing arts, respectively.

Altogether, they would become the nucleus of the Academy of the Arts the following year, its membership growing every year since, reflecting the pool of influential visual, literary, and performing artists with ties to the East End. This year, the 34th annual Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards will honor composer Carter Burwell for Performing Arts, presented by filmmaker Ethan Coen; Alice Aycock for Visual Arts, presented by Whitney Museum Director Adam Weinberg; Bob Colacello for Literary Arts, presented by author Linda Yablonsky; and Patti Askwith Kenner will receive the Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy, presented by actress, singer and playwright Tovah Feldshuh.

A benefit dinner will be held on Monday, March 11, from 6 to 10 p.m. at The Rainbow

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For tickets and more information, call (631) 324-0806 or visit guildhall.org.

A birthday surprise for an American icon

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ay Street Theater got Jules Feiffer good.

In honor of his 90th birthday, the Sag Harbor theater threw the writer and cartoonist a surprise celebration — complete with cake and a lively rendition of “Happy Birthday” — on February 8, during a talkback following the screening of his critically acclaimed film, “Carnal Knowledge,” as part of the new Friday Night Flicks @ Bay Street series.

“We are so fortunate to have this talented

and gifted man right here in our own neighborhood, as well as part of the Bay Street family,” Tracy Mitchell, executive director at Bay Street Theater, said in a press release. “We look forward to working and celebrating with Jules for many years to come.”

Aaron Tracy recorded the talkback for an upcoming episode of his podcast, “To Live & Dialogue in LA,” as part of the Yale Podcast Network. For more information, visit baystreet.org.

ael Rasooley is proving puppet shows aren’t just for kids.

Together with Goat on a Boat, Bay Street Theater will present its first-ever evening of puppet theater for adults only — the one-woman show “Paper Cut” — on Friday, March 8, at 8 p.m. on the Sag Harbor stage, located at 1 Bay Street. A wine reception will follow the performance, held in honor of International Women’s Day. “Goat on a Boat is thrilled to present a puppet show for adults,” Liz Joyce, founder and artistic director of Goat on a Boat, said in a press release. “We are so lucky to have Yael Rasooley, such a talented international performer, share her award-winning show ‘Paper Cut.’” The story starts as a lonely secretary remains in the office after everyone else has gone home. From her little corner, using photos from old film magazines, she escapes into a world of daydreams, where she is a glamorous movie star from the 1940s and finds her ideal love at last. But as the story unravels — and as imagination and reality collide — her romantic tale becomes a Hitchcock nightmare.

Yael Rasooley in “Paper Cut.” “We are so pleased to be able to bring this new type of programming to Bay Street’s audience with Liz Joyce and Goat on a Boat,” Tracy Mitchell, executive director of Bay Street Theater, said in a press release. “It’s also even more special to have it as part of International Women’s Day.” For more information, call (631) 725-4193 or visit goatonaboat.org.

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“Since a lot of the African traditions and the religions have been oral, nothing has been written or really painted, or set in history or stone.

I would like to rectify that,” Rosales said. “I’m slowly telling a story within my series. I want to show we are more alike than we are not. First it’s like, ‘Let’s erase your mind clear from everything we were taught,’ and that’s with ‘The Creation.’ Then I went into life with ‘New World Consciousness,’ how life is in cycles, anything you go through. It was an appreciation and a love for life — the good, the bad, everything that sculpts you. That was a prelude to the Lucumí concepts and way of life.”

While Rosales sources subject material from her Afro-Cuban ethnicity, Jamaican artist Phillip Thomas finds himself taking a hard look at global history and its repetitive nature.

“History is something that is particularly important to me, in the ways in which the world is being redivided again, if you will,” the artist said during a telephone interview from Kingston. “Through things like Brexit, issues of the European Union, American politics. The old lines are being redrawn again and again, and some of the things my generation now has to deal with are going to be consequential in years to come.”

His portraits of military figures and famous generals commemorate the Caribbean’s contribution to World Wars I and II — a role often overlooked on an international scale, he said — and they speak to the diversity that exists within black history itself.

“Some of that narrative needs to be excavated more, and it would make sense to excavate it through historical terms, not just through entertainment, like sports and music — even though our music is very political,” he said. “They create a political underbelly that acts as a base to propel all of those other things.”

Thomas’s own relationship with art is tied to politics, he explained, as he was awarded a scholarship from the American ambassador to Jamaica, Sue Cobb, to study at the New York Academy of Art, where he studied under North Haven-based artist Eric Fischl.

There, he honed his identity as an artist before returning to the Caribbean to paint and ask the hard questions about making art — its cultural, social and political responsibilities,

and where to search for inspiration.

“It’s always important to look as broadly as you can to find something specific. It’s almost a contradiction,” he said. “Visual artists tend to look closely at other visual artists for inspiration, but you’re missing a whole lot in film, a whole lot in literature, a whole lot in politics, a whole lot in everyday life. And a lot of really important work comes not just from other kinds of visual art, but other kinds of human expression altogether.”

Rosales found herself drawn to Michelangelo’s masterpiece while contemplating the concept, and identity, of a higher power, she said.

“To me, God can be anybody,” she said. “God is not a particular person.

It’s within all of us. My mother was God when she, literally, birthed me in her image. My sister was God when she had pulled me up from a depression. It’s in everyone.

“So how was I going to present that God is everyone, without drawing something literally, with many faces?” she continued. “How could I draw God as the complete opposite of what He has been depicted as, this white male?

Make it female, make it the complete opposite, to show you that he, she, it, the spirit of, can be anyone at any time.”

None of her work is pre-planned, explained Rosales, who pushes through the “white noise” in her mind and onto the canvas. Her thoughts are loud and opinionated, she said, often keeping her up at night until she reworks her subject, or finds “that little sparkle in her eye — or maybe it’s a smile, her mouth open or closed.”

“When I get it, it’s like this overwhelming peace. It’s like I’m settled and I can move on to the next,” she said. “It’s like a hill. All of a sudden, now, something else is calling to me and it’s like, ‘Okay, now I need to do this.’ I feel like I will never run out of creativity. I feel like as long as I stay true to my path, do what I love, then it will always come to me. And I truly believe that.”

“Rich in Black History,” a group show featuring Jules Arthur, Stefanie Jackson, Harmonia Rosales, Phillip Thomas and Jorge Santos, will open with a reception on Saturday, February 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. at RJD Gallery, located at 2385 Main Street in Bridgehampton. Cristina Cuomo will moderate a discussion with CNN’s Don Lemon on black history, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

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hen I learned I was slightly anemic a while ago, the first thing I did was run out and buy a rib-eye steak. It was the quickest remedy I could think of to pep up my tired, almost-vegetarian blood.

But I wondered if there was a sweeter way to supplement my ironpoor diet. Leafy green vegetables contain iron, I knew. Internet searches using key word combinations like “kale waffles” and “collard greens tart” failed to turn up the dessert I was looking for. It wasn’t until I googled “spinach cake” that I discovered a traditional Turkish recipe that could satisfy my cravings and Popeye’s, too.

Google images revealed many versions of bright green ispanakli kek.

Attracted by the color alone, I decided to whip one up immediately. The recipes I saw called for fresh spinach, but I didn’t feel like washing, chopping, and cooking mountains of the stuff to wind up with the ½ cup or so that I needed. So for the sake of convenience and consistency, I used a package of frozen chopped spinach.

Squeezing it to remove as much moisture as possible, I was able to incorporate it into a standard cake batter without throwing off the proportion of wet to dry ingredients. A couple of recipes included chopped hazelnuts. I

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substituted sesame seeds, frequently used in Turkish breads and pastries, for richness and flavor. Thinking of the rib-eye, I started to worry about how my new diet would affect my cholesterol numbers. It was a relief to see that most ispanakli kek recipes called for olive oil instead of butter.

I was delighted with my spinach cake. Its color was definitely a conversation starter. The spinach didn’t so much flavor it as give it a rustic texture, the way carrots give carrot cake its unique crumb. Lemon zest lent it a mildly lemony flavor and Greek-style yogurt gave the cake just the right amount of moisture. It did take some bribery to get my husband to give the green cake a try. He thoroughly enjoyed it as an afternoon snack.

We even ate it for breakfast the next morning. It was made with spinach, after all.

This story doesn’t have an entirely happy ending. When I sat down to calculate my cake’s nutritional content, I discovered that spinach is not nearly as efficient as steak in delivering iron to the body. It is true that gram for gram it contains as much iron as ground chuck (according to the USDA, 180 grams of spinach contains 6.43 mg of iron while 170 grams of ground beef contains 4.42).

But it turns out that the iron in plant foods is less likely to be absorbed by the body than iron in meat, fish, and poultry. Adding insult to injury, boiling (frozen spinach is boiled during processing) leaches a significant

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‘I was delighted with my spinach cake. Its color was definitely a conversation starter.’ amount of iron from spinach. Even with the sesame seeds and enriched flour, one serving of my spinach cake provided me with less than 3 mg of iron, a long way from the 18 mg recommended for a woman my age.

Eating a whole cake, with about 16.45 mg, got me closer to the RDA. Obviously, I’m no nutritionist, but even I realized that this was the wrong way

to address my iron deficit.

Still, I was happy with the outcome of my adventure in baking with spinach. It was a failure in terms of supplementation, but a success as a roundabout way to discover a fun new recipe. I’ve added ispanakli kek to my collection of vegetable cake recipes, and plan to serve it as part of a larger Turkish feast some day soon.

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Puree the spinach in a food processor or blender.

2. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan and dust with flour, knocking out any extra.

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together the sugar, oil, lemon zest, eggs, and milk in a medium mixing bowl. Stir in the spinach and sesame seeds.

3. Add the flour mixture to the spinach mixture and stir to combine.

4. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth with a spatula. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan for about 10 minutes and invert it onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing and serving.

Uncovering a history hidden in plain sight continued from page B1 “This conversation that we’re having, in the greater context, it’s not about shame,” Sylvester Manor curator and archivist Donnamarie Barnes said. “It’s not about pointing the finger and saying, ‘You did this,’ or ‘You didn’t do that.’ We all agree: slavery was a terrible thing. That’s not the argument. The point is this is a history that has been hidden. Whatever the reasons are, we don’t have time to point fingers or say, ‘Shame on you.’

All we can do now is be open and honest and face it.”

On Sunday afternoon, Barnes will do just that, seated alongside a panel of fellow experts at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor for the discussion, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Facing the Enslaved History of the East End,” as part of the fifth annual Black History Month Celebration.

Presented in collaboration with the Eastville Community Historical Society, the talk will explore the history of slavery on the East End — and the omission of that history from

the founding narrative of the United States — explained panelist Aileen Novick, site administrator and project manager at Hempsted Houses of Connecticut Landmarks, who will also be joined by Georgette Grier-Key, executive director and curator of the Eastville Community Historical Society, and David Rattray, owner and editor of The East Hampton Star and director of the East Hampton Plain Sight Project.

“Especially up north, people still don’t like to talk about slavery. In general, across the whole country, people are really uncomfortable talking about it — everywhere,” Novick said, noting that many Hempsted Houses visitors are still surprised to hear about slavery in New London.

“The North did a really good job of hiding that history and there’s been such a romanticism of the past that I’m not sure we’d even recognize colonial times if we saw it,” she continued. “This country never really came to any reconciliation of that history and, instead, people buried it all over the country. I think that’s why we see

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such problems today. There’s never really been a good discussion of ‘What was slavery?’ in these different communities.”

The reason for this silence remains unknown, both women agreed. Speculation could point to embarrassment — and a strong desire to hold onto the narrative that most northerners were righteous abolitionists and southerners were evil plantation owners — but Barnes said she is attempting to flip the script and shine a new light on enslaved members of the community by, instead, looking at their contributions.

“Let’s say we find a record that the blacksmith of East Hampton had two enslaved African boys working in his blacksmith shop,” she said. “Well, in a blacksmith shop, young apprentices learn how to make nails. So let’s say these two young boys learned how to make nails and those are the nails that the people used to build their houses. If we extrapolate and say the two slave boys working in the blacksmith shop made the nails that built the town, isn’t that a different way of

talking about the history?

“You make the story come alive and give it three dimensions,” she continued. “It’s not about shame. It’s about, ‘Wow, these people were an integral part of this society from the beginning. We haven’t acknowledged them; we don’t even know their names. But let’s find out.’ And that’s the point of it all.”

The sheer number of enslaved people on the East End remains a mystery — albeit a work in progress — though Barnes said she might never know. A tribute rock on the Sylvester Manor property reads, “Burying Ground of the Colored People of the Manor From 1651,” where an estimated 200 bodies remain.

“So the question has always been, who are these people? Two hundred people buried, that’s a very large number,” Barnes said. “In 1680, when Nathaniel Sylvester died, he listed 23 enslaved black people on his will.

Twenty-three in 1680, versus 200 buried. So who are these people? It’s a big question that I don’t have answers for, but it starts a conversation in a kind

of way that you don’t usually have.”

The history lost can be disheartening, Novick said, but with every new discovery, even a new name, researchers across the Northeast are one step closer to a more complete truth.

“Some African American families have a strong feeling about their history, but they feel like no one’s ever let them tell that story. It’s hidden away,” Novick said. “Sharing that history to really get people talking is really important right now, with all these conversations on race. It’s so important to be true to what the history was and, sometimes, we don’t acknowledge the history, and it’s hard to see where people are coming from.”

The panel discussion “Hidden in Plain Sight: Facing the Enslaved History of the East End,” with Georgette Grier-Key, Aileen Novick, David Rattray and Donnamarie Barnes, will be held on Sunday, February 24, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Bay Street Theater, located at 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor. Advance tickets are $15 and $20 at the door.

For more information, call (631) 749-0626 or visit sylvestermanor.org.

as a child, doodling during summer vacations on the East End with his family, whose Sag Harbor roots date back to the 1930s.

“We summered here, all summer,” he said. “I remember coming out on Scuttlehole Road, just as the sun was rising, and everything just had this — people say the light, you know, particularly artists, but that’s not why I moved out here full-time. I just remember there was a certain scent in the air, which I think is dashed as well, along with the landscape, but it was just amazingly beautiful and fresh and clean.

“The long artistic tradition here, you don’t find that everywhere. There’s such a supportive environment here, no matter what one’s theme or genre happens to be,” he continued. “You’re free to express yourself, basically. I think it’s very nurturing for people.

Through the winter, it helps maintain my sanity somewhat.”

Most days, since 1987, Butler can be found painting at his dining room table in Eastville, working historical, cultural and architectural references into his creative flights of the imagination.

“Some say my work has a dreamlike quality. Several people say, ‘I’d like to live inside your head,’ or, ‘I’d like to live inside one of your paintings,’” he said with a laugh. “It makes me a little scared; I don’t want anybody inside my head, tinkering around up in there. It’s hard enough for me to know what’s going on out here. But it’s also a compliment and I’m very appreciative, really.

I’m a very private person, even though I do have a public persona. To me, one paints for oneself, and not the public.”

In the mid-1980s, Butler had free time on his hands, after leaving a job in public administration with the City of New York. Most of his friends in Brooklyn were artists, and he thought, “Let me see what I can do.”

Landscapes poured from him in the months that followed, and Butler saved the drawings on a long scroll that he still looks at from time to time — finding inspiration in them even today, he said.

“I would say that was a defining moment. I was doing stuff that’s similar to what I’m doing now, but a different medium,” he said. “I was calling myself an artist then, but I really didn’t quite come to terms — and accept myself as such. Some people call themselves ‘artists’ because they fell into it, or don’t know what else to do with themselves. It wasn’t until the end of that decade that I really defined myself and accepted myself as such. And it was really liberating.

“I said, ‘That’s who and what I am.’

And other people could see what I was doing and accept that part of myself, as well,” he continued. “Still, to hear myself referred to, or introduced as, an artist, it’s really something.”

“Genesis and Transcendence,” featuring work by artist Michael A. Butler, will open with a wine and cheese reception on Friday, February 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Heritage House, located at 139 Hampton Street in Sag Harbor. For more information and availability, call (631) 725-4177 or visit eastvillehistorical.org.

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Douglas Elliman Welcomes Three New Agents

Clare Ambrose’s commute just got a lot shorter.

Formerly the club shop manager at Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton, Ambrose recently joined the Sag Harbor office of Douglas Elliman as its newest licensed real estate salesperson, not far from her home in the village. Together with her husband, the Ireland native helped build the catering company Events by Peter Ambrose, and is passionate about child education and development.

In her free time, the mother of three enjoys family trips to the beach, playing a quick round of golf, and giving her all during a high-intensity spin class.

Previously the owner of Hampton Briggs Antiques in Bridgehampton, Paul Orenstein recently joined the Douglas Elliman East Hampton office. For the past 20 years, he worked in design and décor, with his work featured in the Hamptons Designer Showhouse, Traditional

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Orenstein holds a master’s degree in social work from Adelphi University and is a former board member of the New York University National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction.

A Bridgehampton resident, he is also an advocate for LBGTQ youth and has performed clari-

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New to the Hampton Bays office is Shawn Burns, who specializes in investment properties, bringing his former experience as an investment banker to the world of real estate.

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ome spring, The Montauk Yacht Club will officially be no longer — but boaters can still breathe easy.

Gurney’s Resorts is stepping in.

The Montauk staple’s expansion continues with the new Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina, its second establishment in the hamlet, now undergoing a $13-million renovation of its 107 guestrooms and multiple restaurants, as well as the lobby, ballroom and meeting spaces.

Additionally, the team is upgrading the 232-slip marina — the largest on the East End and home to most superyachts in the area. By April, Gurney’s Star Island will reintroduce itself to hotel guests as an extension of Montauk’s popular resort, as well as a destination for the boating and yachting communities, according to owner George Filopoulos.

“Montauk is a market that is important to us personally and professionally, and we are thrilled to add another location to the destination as we grow our footprint as a brand,” he said in a press release. “Having extensive knowledge of Montauk from the last several years operating the original Gurney’s, we know what guests look for and how to differentiate ourselves in the Hamptons. We are so pleased to launch a second location that will extend the Gurney’s experience out to Star Island, while introducing a new type of stay in the marina setting.”

Loaded with amenities, programs and services, Gurney’s Star Island will include a selection of casual and fine dining restaurants, a private beach, a kid’s club, and concierge services providing easy access between all three Gurney’s resorts: a complimentary shuttle service to and from Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa, as well as yacht and seaplane service to Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina in Rhode Island.

“The design of the property stays true to the brand’s coastal aesthetic and origin, led by designer Stella Abdoulin,” the release said. “Inspired by its nautical history, Gurney’s Star Island showcases a neutral color palette and maritime elements throughout the guest rooms and public spaces.”

Among the resort’s three pools is “The Pool Club,” overlooking the marina — “the ideal place to sip, swim and relax,” the release said, with waterfront chaise lounge chairs, distinctive cocktails and Gurney’s signature lunch items, including traditional and siracha lobster rolls.

“As the largest marina in the Hamptons and the second marina property for Gurney’s Resorts, Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina plans to deliver a full-service experience including fine food and beverage to its yachting guests,” the release said.

Il Forno Market will feature gourmet pizza, freshly baked goods, sandwiches and salads, and The Market will offer grab-and-go options for marina and hotel guests alike.

“The centerpiece restaurant of the resort will be named Showfish,” the release said. “A fine, yet engaging, seafood restaurant open for dinner and brunch, Showfish’s entire menu is locally sourced with seafood caught daily, brought to Gurney’s docks by local fishermen. Virtually all produce is sourced from farms on the East End, located within 20 miles of the property and prepared on display at the restaurant’s ‘vegetable butchery.’” Chef Jeremy Blutstein will lead the team at the new resort.

Opening rates start at $295 per night. For more information call (631) 668-3100 or visit gurneysresorts.com/montauk-star-island.

raditionally known to help bring new life into the world, doulas endeavor to create a warm and celebratory experience for parents, baby, and family. As this exciting journey comes full circle to the end of life, the same positive experience is necessary to support loved ones.

Understanding that death is often associated with fear and that there is a need to help both dying loved ones and their families cope, Susan Capurso, founder of End East Doula Care, aims to do death better through emotional, practical, and spiritual guidance.

As a person nears the end of their life, families may opt for hospice care and/or medical teams to help along this journey.

In June 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization announced the formation of a council to provide information and resources regarding the role of end-of-life doulas. These non-medical caregivers offer holistic support and comfort to the dying and their families, complementing both hospice and medical teams.

“Doulas support patients and families physically, spiritually, emotionally and practically,” Capurso says, noting doulas are now serving in their own practices after an extensive certification process.

“They guide from the beginning to end and enter a person’s life no matter where they are on their timeline.”

Capurso’s journey to becoming a certified doula came from her own experience dealing with the loss of her husband. Without support or guidance, she was filled with fear and anxiety, unsure what would happen and what to tell her children.

Knowing there had to be a better way, she began her own practice to utilize creative legacy work.

“Every piece you leave behind helps future generations to have a better tomorrow,” Capurso says. “Whether creating pieces of legacy, fulfilling bucket lists that haven’t yet come to fruition, or completing your missing advanced directives, I can help button it all up, soup to nuts. Where I can’t help, I have the resources you need implemented into your life.”

East End Doula Care helps people to leave behind a legacy through various projects that help construct plans to fit individual needs. Being mindful of the The Enzo Morabito Team

Susan Capurso of East End Doula Care.

process is essential. Guided visualizations, meditation, and music therapy are used to help with pain management, anxiety and fear. Other services include companionship for patients and families, education, vigils, funeral planning, obituary writing, and more. In her soon-to-be published book, Capurso offers more than 100 ways families and individuals can incorporate projects, ideas, and tools to celebrate the end-of-life journey.

In addition to working with patients and families, East End Doula Care also supports professional caregivers. With facilities filling up due to increased populations, caregivers may experience a disconnect. After the passing of a resident, in some cases a person has worked with for many years, caregivers can be moved quickly on to the next individual. East End Doula Care offers workshops for facilities and caregivers, focusing on rituals and

vigils for an End-of-Life Celebration.

Capurso says her doula work is collaborative. She enters an individual’s life and works to help them think outside of the box. Sharing wisdom and experiences, the work can be quite the feat, but is entirely achievable. Fear and anxiety fall away for both the patient and family, creating a mindful sense of ease as the natural end to life comes.

“It is not only an honor to be able to travel with a person as they enter their last chapter, it is a privilege,” Capurso shares. “Death doesn’t have to be so scary, it can be a warm and celebratory experience filled with positivity and light. With a little pre-planning and mindfulness, I help you do just that.”

At eastenddoulacare.com, Capurso’s e-book, “Before You Go - Ten Meaningful Ways to Bring Peace, Balance and Closure to your End of Life Journey,” is available for a free download.

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The Current OUTDOORS SAT FEB 23 Birding with Frank: Winter Sea Ducks, 9 a.m., call for meet-up location in Montauk. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

Hike for HarborFrost, 10 a.m., call for meet-up location in Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor. (631) 745-0689 or longpondgreenbelt.org.

Indian Field Hike, 10 a.m., meet at Third House in Montauk County Park, 3442 Montauk Highway, Montauk.

(917) 797-6265.

SUN FEB 24 Whiskey Hill Hike, 10 a.m., meet on Mill Path, off Lopers Path, Bridgehampton. Southamptontrails.org.

FOR THE KIDS 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.

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.

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

201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

“This is for the Birds!” Feeder Workshop, 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

SAT FEB 23 Make Your Own T-Shirt, drop in between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

Rotting Log Wildlife, 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

Winter Photography Contest Exhibition, reception 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

MON FEB 25 Teen Writing Workshop, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

TUE FEB 26 Pajama Story Time, 5:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Make Butter Slime, 6:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

WED FEB 27 Lego Master Builders, 3:45 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

Button Making, 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

Retro Movie Night: “Labyrinth,” 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

THU FEB 28 Escape Room, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. grades four to six, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. grades seven to 12, John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

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A scene from “Stan and Ollie.”

STAN AND OLLIE “Stan and Ollie” will screen on Friday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, located at 76 Main Street in Westhampton Beach. Additional screenings will be held on Saturday, February 23, at 4 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, February 24, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $18, $12 for seniors and $8 for Film Society members. For more information, call (631) 288-1500 or visit whbpac.org.

“Kahoot!” Trivia, 6 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

FRI FEB 22 Wooden Boat Building Workshop, 10 a.m., Children’s Museum of the East End, 376 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, $25 plus admission and $20 for members. Cmee.org.

Tracks and Scat: Nature Exploration with Taylor, 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

“Mix It Up!” Workshop, 2 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

Book Discussion: “The Hate U Give”

by Angie Thomas, 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Food Over Fiction Book Club: “Under a Painted Sky,” by Stacey Lee, 4 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library,

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A scene from “Capernaum.”

Now Showing: Capernaum The Grand Jury Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival, “Capernaum,” will screen on Saturday, February 23, at 6 p.m. at Guild Hall, located at 158 Main Street in East Hampton, as part of the “Now Showing” series. Tickets are $15 and $10 for Guild Hall and Hamptons International Film Festival members. For more information, visit hamptonsfilmfest.org.

727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

Tom Petty Tribute with Damn The Torpedoes, 8 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $35. (631) 725-9500 or baystreet.org.

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TRIBUTE FOR TOM Damn the Torpedoes will perform a Tom Petty tribute concert on Saturday, February 23, at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater, at 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor. Tickets are $35. For more information, call (631) 725-9500 or visit baystreet.org.

SUN FEB 24 Winter Film Festival: “The Third Murder,” 2 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton, free. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

Screening: “The Second Civil War,” 3 p.m., Pierson High School auditorium, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor, free. Sagharborcinema.org.

JDT Lab: “Waiting for Nothing” by LaWanda Hopkins and Elijah Coleman, 3 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, free, reservations encouraged. (631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

MON FEB 25 Screening: “The ConVENTion,” 7 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

WED FEB 27 Wednesday Films: “My Cousin Rachel,” 1 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, free. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

GALLERIES & MUSEUMS FRI FEB 22 On View: “Genesis and Transcendence” by Michael A. Butler, opening reception 5 to 7 p.m., Heritage House,

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THU FEB 21 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.

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

Books, Brains & Bragging Rights, 7 to 8:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

FRI FEB 22 Senior Ping Pong Meet-Up, 10 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

SAT FEB 23 Poetry Workshop: Celebrate Walt Whitman with Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, 1 to 3:30 p.m., Amagansett Free Library, 215 Main Street, Amagansett.

(631) 267-3810 or amaglibrary.org.

Topiary Workshop, 1 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

SUN FEB 24 Annual African American Literature Read-In, 2:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

MON FEB 25 Better Breathers Club, 11 a.m., Ed & Phyllis Wellness Institute at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 726-8800 or southampton. stonybrookmedicine.edu.

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“American Masters – Basquiat: Rage to Riches” Screening and Talk with Michael Halsband and Corinne Erni, 6 p.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, $15 and $5 for members and students. (631) 2832118 or parrishart.org.

SAT FEB 23 Open Studio for Families, 11 a.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

Film and Live Performance: “4 Little Girls: Moving Portraits of the American Civil Rights Movement,” 2 p.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

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

MUSIC & NIGHT LIFE FRI FEB 22 The Wailers, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $60 or $65. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

SAT FEB 23 Johnny Cash Birthday Celebration, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $45 or $49. (631)

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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.

SAT FEB 23 “Do You Know Your Origins?” with Sandi Brewster-Walker, 3 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration required. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

SUN FEB 24 Madoo Winter Garden Lectures: “New Perspectives” with Timothy Tilghman of The Untermeyer Conservancy, 12 p.m., The Madoo Conservancy, 618 Sagg Main Street, Sagaponack, $25 or $20 for members, registration required. Madoo.org.

“Hidden in Plain Sight: Facing the Enslaved History of the East End,” 2 to 4 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $15 or $20 at the door. Sylvestermanor.org.

MON FEB 25 Prepare for the Naturalization Test, 1 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

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

TUE FEB 26 English Conversation Class, 5 to 7 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

WED FEB 27 Intermediate ESL Class, 6 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

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

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

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WINTER ART Southampton Artists Association will open its “Winter Art Show” — featuring oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, sculpture and photography — with a reception on Saturday, February 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center, located at 25 Pond Lane in Southampton. The show will remain on view through March 3. Admission is free. For more information, call (631) 283-7432 or visit southamptonartists.org.

“Battle of the Brains” Trivia Night, 5:30 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton.

(631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

TUE FEB 26 Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation with Albert O’Connell, 6 p.m., Ed & Phyllis Wellness Institute at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, $75, registration required. (631) 7268800 or southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu.

WED FEB 27 Parenting Book Club: “Confessions of a Domestic Failure” by Bunmi Laditan, 9:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

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THU FEB 21 Family Movie: “Frozen,” 2 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

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

FRI FEB 22 Pot Luck Dinner and Film: “When Harry Met Sally,” 6:30 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

National Theatre Live Screening: “The Tragedy of King Richard II,” 7 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $18 or $16 for members.

(631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

Screening: “Stan and Ollie,” 7:30 p.m., also Saturday, February 23, at 4 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, February 24, 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.

SAT FEB 23 Documentaries and Discussion: “Alice’s Ordinary People,” 1 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Screening: “Le Samouraï,” 1 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

“Now Showing” Screening: “Capernaum,” 6 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $15 and $10 for Guild Hall and Hamptons International Film Festival members. Hamptonsfilmfest.org.

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WHY WOMEN LOVE ANTOINE

XO Spring March 14

HIGH TECH IN THE KITCHEN historic windows: what a view GONE OFF THE GRID THE MAGIC OF MADOO living with art the season ahead

Home & Garden April 18

THE RESORT TOWN IS BOOMING, EVEN AS MOTHER NATURE PRESENTS A CHALLENGE

The Summer Book May 23

BLUEFISH DELISH I STIRRING THE POT I FARMER TO BAKER A DISTILLERY GROWS IN SAGAPONACK I THE WOMEN OF WINE

Summer Harvest June 20

Harvest

Wind’s Way Home for Art Halsey’s Legacy Skolnick’s Vision Freetown Restoration

SUMMER STOCKED

FARMING THE WATERS REVIVING THE HISTORIC ROBINS ISLAND OYSTER FIELDS

PADDLING TO BLOCK • CBD’S BUDDING EXPECTATIONS • VIRTUAL THERAPY

XO Summer July 18

Home & Garden August 8

Festival September 5

Fall Harvest October 10

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018

MONTAUK'S RISING TIDE

Building strength, confidence and empowerment in the gym BREATHING DEEP IN THE OXYGEN BAR PHYSICAL EXERCISE, MENTAL HEALTH 7 MARATHONS, 7 CONTINENTS COOKING WITH SUPER SPICES

The Holiday Book

The Holiday Book November 21

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