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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019 VOLUME 160 NO. 39

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Easter Fire Remembered 25 years ago, a blaze destroyed the Emporium Hardware store. > Page 5

Townhouses Come Closer

West Water Street project receives approval from planning board.

AN HISTORIC RULING FOR SANS

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

SAG HARBOR’S NEWEST state landmark isn’t one place in the village.

It’s actually three places with more than 300 individual buildings: the village’s historically African American neighborhoods of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah.

The three communities, which go by the acronym SANS, are officially on the New York State Register of Historic Places as of Thursday afternoon. SANS

Neighborhoods get landmark status residents received word they earned the unanimous support from the New York State Board of Review for Historic Preservation.

“It’s official. I’m so excited. It was such a long journey,” said Renee V. H. Simons, a Sag Harbor Hills resident who has led the landmarking efforts

over the last few years on behalf of the communities, as she reported the news by phone on Thursday.

Along the way, SANS had to self-fund an in-depth survey that documented the cultural, architectural and historical significance of the three subdivisions.

In 2017, they sold “SANS 11963” hats as a fundraiser and received a grant from Preserve New York. The residents also got help from the National Organiza-

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Power Lines To Be Buried by Beach

School Sees Spending Bump Sag Harbor district’s three campuses ask for more staff, supplies.

18 households to bear expense of work in front of community

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A party at the Ninevah home of James and Barbara Brannen.

Musician Nancy Atlas makes her case in front of the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday.

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East Hampton

A Chorus of Opposition

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

THURSDAY NIGHT FOUND Montauk singer-songwriter Nancy Atlas headlining a group of local musicians in East Hampton that included Inda Eaton, Klyph Black, Josh Brussell, Lynn Blue and Ms. Atlas’s husband, Tom Muse. It was not the Stephen Talkhouse stage in Amagansett where more than 150 musicians, business owners and com-

Town to revisit music permit changes munity members gathered, though.

It was down the road at East Hampton Town Hall where several hours of impassioned pleas called on the Town Board to reconsider proposed changes to its music and entertainment permit

— changes residents said would harm local music and businesses alike.

And the chorus was heard.

“I think we have had a really good opportunity to recognize the importance of music in our lives, in our town, and we will certainly consider all of this,” said Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc near the end of the marathon public hearing.

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BALANCE IS KEY IN FUTURE LAND USE SIX EXPERTS on land use and preservation convened last Friday for an in-depth conversation that came to several conclusions — among them that there are multiple types of both development and preservation, that development is not necessarily at odds with preservation, and

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A New Minister For Old Whalers’ Presbyterian Church named a woman as assistant pastor. Inspired, halfway WHEN LINDA WESTERHOFF Macono- through her freshman year at Lycoming, she traded a future in chie was 16 years old, she a lab coat for a future in a remembers sitting in a Geneva gown, or a pulpit pew in the Southampton robe.

Presbyterian Church, lisNow her work in faith tening to the reverend has brought her home to and thinking, “I could do the South Fork some 35 that.” It was the 1970s, years after she became an however, and while Ms. ordained minister. Rev. Maconochie was active Maconochie will take the in youth group and her pulpit at Sag Harbor’s Old parents, Fran and Roger Whalers’ (First PresbyteWesterhoff, raised their rian Church) for her first three children in the Sunday worship service church, female ministers REV. MACONOCHIE were few and far between. It seemed a on Sunday, April 7, at 11 a.m., a new worship time for the church, which calling that was just out of reach.

As faith would have it, just as Ms. will celebrate the 175th anniversary Maconochie was readying to leave for of its historic building this May. Lycoming College in Pennsylvania to continued on page 6 study pharmacy, the Southampton

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that the East End needs to strike a balance between them while planning for changes like sea level rise and other environmental concerns.

“The East End, whether we like it or not, really is driven by the real estate industry,” said Rich Warren, owner of the

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Community building is a priority

Panel: preservation and development need not be at odds with each other

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

BY A NARROW 3-2 MARGIN, the Southampton Town Board approved the creation of an underground utility district encompassing 18 parcels in the Bay Point section of Noyac, which will allow property owners to fund the removal of nine utility poles and the burial of power lines on Long Beach Road at a cost of $420,000, to be bonded over 20 years.

Councilwomen Julie Lofstad and Christine Scalera cast dissenting votes against the Cliff Drive Underground Utility District, noting property owners’ arguments that the district will largely benefit only homeowners in that neighborhood.

The creation of underground utility districts in the town became possible after a bill co-sponsored by New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2017. The utility districts, under the bill, operate like sewer districts, brought forward either by the

town or by public petition. A minimum of 50 percent of affected property owners must sign a petition put forward by a particular neighborhood or group of neighborhoods. If suggested by the town board, a district would be subject to a permissive referendum.

In this case, it was a group of property owners in Bay Point who petitioned the Town Board to remove these particular poles and lines, led by North Haven Mayor and Bay Point property owner Jeffrey Sander. Originally, a proposal was floated through the Town Board proposed by Mr. Sander and residents of Cliff Drive in Bay Point to bury all the lines on Long Beach Road at an estimated cost of $1.745 million in an effort to improve the scenic vista and make an ongoing FEMA-funded stormhardening project unnecessary. That cost would have largely been borne by residents of the Sag Harbor School District, minus the actual Village of Sag Harbor, with residents of Cliff Drive defraying the cost by $200,000.

After public opposition emerged, largely from residents of Noyac, the plan was retooled into a new petition proposed by residents of Cliff Drive, smaller in scale and cost, which will be borne solely by 18 residents in the

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK ‘I think it’s wonderful that another part of our local history will be included and not forgotten by future residents and our great, great grandchildren. I’m very proud of all the work that they put into that. It’s phenomenal, and in a short period of time. It only adds to the charm of our village. It’s another part of history that would have been lost.’

SANDRA SCHROEDER, mayor of Sag Harbor on hearing the news that the village’s historically African American neighborhoods of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah (SANS) have been added to the New York State Register of Historic Places.

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Police Remains of Final Krupinski Plane Crash Victim Are Identified

IN OTHER NEWS

Students Leading Bridgehampton

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ridgehampton High School announced this week that seniors James Fairchild and Autumn Coffey have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the Class of 2019.

James has taken numerous honors and Advanced Placement courses, also playing on varsity tennis, swimming and junior varsity basketball. A member of the high school’s robotics team and Future Farmers of America, James was also a recipient of the DAR Good Citizens Award and the President’s’ Education Award in recognition of outstanding academic excellence.

He has also dedicated himself to teaching coding to fourth-and-fifth grade students and worked closely with the South Fork Natural History Museum and underclassmen in designing and constructing an educational aquaponics system.

“It feels that all of the work and

time committed to my education has truly empowered me to study and to achieve anything I wish,” James said.

James was also named a Borlaug Scholar by Cornell University and had a research paper that addressed food insecurities in Liberia published by the New York James Fairchild Youth Institute as well and critiqued and complemented by multiple international experts at the Global Youth Institute. He would like to study computer science, business or architecture in the future.

Autumn has also taken numerous Advanced Placement, honors and college-level courses and is a member of the school’s robotics team. She was also honored as an

Academic All-County student for basketball. She is involved locally in the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. Her post high school plans include majoring in nursing and possibly taking part in a study abroad program.

“I am happy to have achieved something so Autumn Coffey amazing. I am happy that all of my hard work has paid off,” said Autumn.

“James and Autumn are both wonderful students who represent the well-rounded educational experiences at Bridgehampton High School,” Principal Michael Miller said. “Their commitment to academics will certainly drive their future successes.”

Forum on Abuse This Week

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ast Hampton Town, the East Hampton Town Police Department and East Hampton High School, in conjunction with the East Hampton Adolescent Mental Health & Substance Use Task Fork, will hold a Substance Abuse Forum on Thursday, March 28, at 6 p.m. at LTV Studios, 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott.

The event will feature Kym Laube

of Human Understanding and Growth Services, Inc. as the guest speaker, with East Hampton High School principal Adam Fine and East Hampton Town Police Department Kenneth Alversa helping to lead the discussion, which will look at what educators are seeing in local school districts, existing drug trends and interventions and support.

Keyes Showcases Students

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n exhibition of the work created during this year’s Pierson Fashion workshop, featuring student dresses and designs created by students in grades seven through 11 this summer using materials donated by fashion guru Donna Karan and Urban Zen and accessories designed and created during the 2018-19 school year using repurposed materials, will open at Julie Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor on Saturday, March 30.

The opening will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. with the exhibit on view through Sunday, March 31. In addition, work from a pilot program created by Pierson senior Gabby Knab will also be presented during the exhibition. This program engaged elementary school children and their parents in both fashion design and construction.

A bag designed during the Pierson Fashion workshop this summer.

The three-year-old Pierson Fashion Workshop is funded by the Donald Reutershan Educational Trust.

Clarification The article “Court Forces Approval of Pool” in the March 21 edition of The Sag Harbor Express inadvertently excluded the fact that the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals decided to hold a work session immediately following its regular meeting, during which it continued to discuss the matter of 59 Garden Street. Zoning boards may legally hold such work sessions, according to ZBA attorney Denise Schoen. It was during this work session that the Sag Harbor ZBA took its straw poll affirming the variances William Egan would need to build his pool in a front yard where such accessory structures are normally prohibited according to Sag Harbor Village code.

Ms. Schoen later explained the board had an April 8 deadline to act, and waiting until its next meeting would have meant missing the deadline.

She said during the early part of the meeting the board postponed the discussion to a work session “to be determined,” then decided to hold that work session immediately following the regular meeting, which it can legally do, and which other area zoning boards often do as well.

Partial skeletal remains that washed up on an ocean beach in Amagansett in Janaury have been identified by the Suffolk County medical examiner’s office as those of William Maerov, the 22-year-old grandson of Ben Krupinksi and Bonnie Krupinski. East Hampton Town Police Captain Chris Anderson confirmed this week the identification was made based on DNA comparisons completed earlier this month. The Krupinskis died along with their grandson and pilot, Jon Dollard, in a plane crash during a storm on June 2, 2018. Police had called off the search for Mr. Maerov’s remains 11 days after the accident amid rough seas and difficult search conditions. Several days earlier, they had already located the bodies of the Krupinskis and Mr. Dollard, along with the majority of the wreckage of the airplane, underwater about a mile off of Atlantic Beach.

• Kevin P. Sabo, 28, of Westhampton Beach was arrested March 24 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 more, both misdemeanors. According to a police report, Mr. Sabo was involved in a car accident on South Essex Street near Montauk Highway in Montauk shortly before 5 p.m. The responding officer said he showed signs of intoxication, performed poorly on field sobriety tests and failed a breath test. Following his arrest at 5:13 p.m. and subsequent arraignment, he was released on his own recognizance.

• Nina K. Schafer, 54, of East Hampton was arrested March 24 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with second-degree assault, a felony when the incident involves a victim aged 65 or older and a defendant at least 10 years younger. According to a police report, at a residence on Oak View Highway in East Hampton, Ms. Schafer struck a woman who is at least 65 and caused a laceration above her left eye. Ms. Schafer was arrested at about 7 p.m. and was released on her own recognizance following her ar-

raignment.

• Tristan A. Johnson-Weigle, 21, of Shirley, was arrested March 24 by Metropolitan Transit Authority Police at the Montauk Train Station, and was charged with third-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury, a misdemeanor. According to a police report, Mr. Johnson-Weigle repeatedly punched a victim in the face and slammed his head against the wall, requiring immediate medical attention for the victim, who sustained a fractured nose and other injuries.

Mr. Johnson-Weigle was arrested shortly after 5 p.m. and was released on $250 cash bail following his arraignment.

• Miguel A. Martinez, 21, of Mastic Beach was arrested March 24 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 more, both misdemeanors, and seconddegree possession of a forged instrument, a felony. According to a police report, Mr. Martinez was stopped after allegedly committing multiple traffic infractions on Montauk Highway near South Emery Street in Montauk shortly after 6 p.m. An officer said he appeared to be intoxicated, performed poorly on field sobriety tests and failed a breath test.

Mr. Martinez also allegedly provided police with a forged driver’s license when he was asked to show identification after he was pulled over, leading to the forgery charge. He was arrested at 6:39 p.m. and was released on $400 cash bail following his arraignment.

• Southampton Town Police received multiple reports of phone and email scams this week out of Hampton Bays, including some where victims lost money. In one instance, a 20-year-old woman reported on March 16, she responded to a Facebook post advertising “free puppies” in Virginia. After she electronically sent a $300 gift card for “shipping and handling” to send her a puppy, the recipient called her and said he would need an additional $500 to cover the cost of “a specific shot” the puppy needed before he could send

the puppy via airplane. At that point, she learned it was a scam and called police on March 18. In another instance, according to a police report, an elderly couple, also from Hampton Bays, were tricked in a phone scam into believing their grandson had been arrested and needed $4,500 to be bailed out of jail. They gave that sum in cash to a “bail bondsman” who showed up at their house on March 21 at around 5:45 p.m., only to later learn they had been swindled. The case is still under investigation. A third incident involved an 88-year-old man who received a call on March 21 from a man posing as his grandson asking for money. A phone number was recorded from the caller ID system and documented by police.

• Rolando E. Merchan, 49, of East Hampton was arrested March 22 by East Hampton Town Police and charged with first-offense driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of .08 of 1 percent or more, both misdemeanors. According to a police report, Mr. Merchan was stopped by an officer on Town Lane near Abraham’s Path at around 1 a.m. in East Hampton after he allegedly disobeyed a stop sign and failed to stay in his lane. He was released on his own recognizance following his morning arraignment.

• A 67-year-old Amagansett man crossing Main Street in the vicinity of Apple Bank in Sag Harbor reported March 23 to Sag Harbor Village Police he fell by losing his footing on broken curbing. According to a police report, the man sought medical attention for a painful injury and may seek damages from the village as a result. Police noted the man was not using a crosswalk to cross the street.

• A guest staying at The American Hotel called Sag Harbor Village Police on March 19 to report the odor of gas or paint woke him from sleep around 4 a.m. The Sag Harbor Volunteer Fire Department responded, but could not find anything hazardous nearby that might have caused the smell.

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The challenges of using our land continued from page 1 Southampton-based environmental planning firm Inter-Science Research Associates and a former consultant to Sag Harbor Village.

Mr. Warren was a panelist during the latest installment of The Sag Harbor Express “Express Sessions” at the American Hotel, along with Anthony Brandt, the founding chairman of the Sag Harbor Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review; Anthony Vermandois, a local architect who has worked on many preservation projects; Melanie Cirillo, director of conservation planning for the Peconic Land Trust; Chris Nuzzi, a senior vice president of Advantage Title and a former Southampton Town councilman; and Brian DeSesa, an attorney who has represented many builders and who is on the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals.

The Landscape of Preservation The preservation of both structures and land was front and center on Friday.

During the two times Mr. Brandt served on the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review, which first began when it was established in 1986 and later included approximately three more years from mid-2016 to early 2019, he said he and his colleagues tried to work with builders who wanted to make changes to historic houses.

“At first the board didn’t have that much to do. The applications were not numerous,” he said. “The whole process was much simpler. You didn’t have to come in with architectural drawings, believe it or not. Sometimes it was just builder’s drawings. We made some mistakes that way.”

Then, he said, “Sag Harbor became fashionable,” and by 2016, he said development got out of hand. He returned to the review board at the request of the newly elected mayor.

“My mandate was to turn the whole battleship around, if I could, and I feel that I partially succeeded. Only partially,” said Mr. Brandt, who resigned in January citing the need to focus on personal projects. “The pressure for development became enormous.”

He said the review board was sued — and lost — four times right after the village adopted new zoning code changes in 2016. “That’s when I learned from people far more knowledgeable than I am that New York State favors real estate in a major way, that the real estate lobby in Albany is one of the most powerful there is,” he said.

Mr. Vermandois, who worked on the restoration and renovation of the historic Morpurgo house at 6 Union Street, said, “I like to say everybody says they’re a preservationist until

they have to do work on their own house, and all of a sudden they become a pragmatist.”

One of the challenges in historic preservation, he says, is money.

“With historic renovations, it’s a more expensive process than modern or new construction,” he said. “You are having to ideally salvage those historic materials you have, and it’s not free to do that.”

But as an architect, Mr. Vermandois knows he has a responsibility to the village when it comes to preservation.

“Sometimes clients come to me with ideas that I feel are not really appropriate for their historic property, and a big part of my job is educating them on what makes this particular house special,” he said.

Ms. Cirillo said while the Peconic Land Trust is focused on protecting farmland, woodland, coastal lands and other types of open space, it acknowledges that “100 percent preservation is not pragmatic.”

“We really have learned to take the conservation tools available to us and to blend them and to get creative and work with land owners and what their goals are,” she said. “When we all sit together and come up with ideas and strategies, it’s when the opportunity is right. The land owners are ready to make decisions when the land is for sale, and we’re able to work more nimbly when we’re collaborating with the towns because the funding is so critical.”

She, too, offered a bit of general education: the Peconic Land Trust does not directly receive funds generated by the 2-percent real estate transfer tax, the source of the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund (CPF).

It’s simply a tool the land trust has leveraged with towns and land owners to protect thousands of acres across the East End. “The tax is generated in the towns and villages and received by the county, who returns it back to the towns and villages so they can preserve their community character, and every East End town has a slightly different community character and set of goals,” Ms. Cirillo said.

The trust also has the ability to protect historic facades, she said.

“Kudos to those who started [the CPF]. Their foresight must have anticipated the rising values of real estate out here — who would have thought?”

Ms. Cirillo said. “We couldn’t have protected as much without a fund like this.”

Mr. Nuzzi agreed the CPF “is a powerful tool.” But he said there’s one aspect of preservation that requires a bit of “pivoting” moving forward: the maintenance costs being borne by taxpayers after properties are acquired by towns via the CPF. “It comes out of the general fund, funded by taxpayers,” he said. “It’s a

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point of discussion.”

He also wondered whether the East End is a “victim of our own success” when it comes to preservation and development.

Two Movements at Odds?

“Generally speaking, there’s no shortage of government intervention,” Mr. Nuzzi continued. “Have we most effectively balanced other types of development and preservation? Despite the differences in the five East End towns, I think having a focus on this as it relates to preservation of housing, in particular, has to be done on more of a regional level.”

He said “the other side” of preservation is “maintaining the people, the year-round community.”

“It’s using not only zoning tools but partnering with our business community on efforts to retain local talent that wants to stay here,” Mr. Nuzzi said. “It is important and it’s going to take continued discussion to do that.

We are definitely at a critical moment in terms of retention of people.”

Mr. DeSesa said preservation and development are not “at odds,” but rather the relationship between the two has evolved.

“Now they do cluster developments,” he said. “The open space requirements on subdivisions have been increased based on lot sizes.”

In Sag Harbor, it’s challenging to find a balance, Mr. DeSesa said. He explained that much of Sag Harbor lies in an “R-20” zone, meaning residential lots need to be a minimum of 20,000 square feet, but most of the lots aren’t that large. That often necessitates exceptions from zoning rules.

“We need smart people both on the applicants’ side and on the boards’ side to mediate, manage and negotiate that,” he said.

Mr. DeSesa said a balance still needs to be struck between development and preservation.

People are attracted to Sag Harbor because of its historic district, he said, but “if people move to make a big investment in the village in restoring those homes, they need to get some sort of benefit somehow. What benefit can we tolerate to still keep the historic character of the area, but also to attract those people to come in and preserve it so it doesn’t fall into disrepair?”

Mr. Warren made a similar point, saying it’s about finding “a sense of fairness both from a private property owner’s perspective, how to deal with their interests and how to deal with what the community is looking for. It shouldn’t be, ‘I like what’s here, now let’s change it.’ It’s an education process on both sides.”

In response to an audience question from Lynn Blumenfeld, who suggested “legislating real changes that

Panelists at Friday’s Express Sessions included, from left, Anthony Brandt, Anthony Vermandois, Brian DeSesa, Melanie Cirillo, Chris Nuzzi and Rich Warren. michael heller photos

will actually affect us,” Mr. Warren recalled the 2016 code change process in Sag Harbor, when the village developed house size limits based on their lot sizes.

“It was a blood bath,” Mr. Warren said. “Property owners here don’t want people to tell them what to do with their property. We had to find a balance. There are limitations here in Sag Harbor, almost in each East End community. Over time, I think we’ll see a readjustment.”

Planning Ahead Mr. Vermandois said the biggest challenge he has — the one that keeps him awake at night — isn’t the restoration of historic properties. It’s climate change, and sea level rise in particular.

“Scientists are telling us that we’re looking at a 1- to 3-foot rise in sea level over the next century, even if we move rapidly to a carbon-neutral economy,” he said. “I say, hey, that’s something we’ve got to be preparing for, and not just in Bangladesh or Congo, but right here in Sag Harbor Village. There are parts of Bay Street, Garden Street or John Street right in the heart of the village that are 3 feet above sea level.

What happens when that sea level goes up 3 feet? Either we’re going to have to say Bluff Point or Baron’s Cove become islands, or we raise streets and houses up, or we just abandon those houses, and some of those are historic houses. That’s a real challenge that we have to work with.”

Mr. Warren said New York State began to address sea level rise in its building codes when it started to incorporate updated Federal Emergency Management Agency guidelines for flood maps. Even New York City is planning ahead for it, he said.

“It’s something we should all be

Real estate broker Jane Holden makes a comment during Friday’s Express Session.

conscious of. It’s a reality,” Mr. Warren said.

Mr. Brandt said he feels Sag Harbor lacks a long-range plan.

“This is a disaster waiting to happen,” he said. “In my imagination, I see people coming to Sag Harbor in 100 years to do underwater archaeology. That’s a joke, but it’s not a joke.”

Community Perspectives Barbara Bornstein, a local real estate agent who is active in trail preservation groups, pitched to Ms. Cirillo more recreational trails on land that has been preserved via CPF moneys.

“Trails are not incompatible with farmland,” she said.

Jane Holden, also a local real estate agent, made another point about the CPF. She said when it was first instituted, it was not that hard for home-

owners to swallow. But now, she said, people question it because “of the millions and millions of dollars, very little has been given back to this area.”

Ms. Cirillo responded by suggesting people get actively involved by encouraging land owners to approach the village with preservation or conservation ideas.

“We’d be all for advocating for that,” she said.

Bob Weinstein, a member of Save Sag Harbor whose house was built in 1834, called for the real estate industry to more thoroughly educate clients about Sag Harbor.

“They can open up the issues of what it means to live in an historic district and what’s viable and feasible in terms of development or preservation of a home,” Mr. Weinstein said.

“We have to protect the historic authenticity of this village.”

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Sag Harbor Schools

Sag Harbor

More Teachers In Proposed Budget

Village Budget Creeps Up

Three campuses see need for more staff and supplies

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Spending on supplies and teaching staff for the Sag Harbor School District’s three campuses — including the anticipated opening of the Sag Harbor Learning Center, formerly Stella Maris — is projected to increase next year, according to budget summaries presented during Monday’s meeting of the Sag Harbor School Board.

Administrators representing Sag Harbor Elementary School and Pierson Middle-High School said all current programs are maintained in the proposed budget.

Sag Harbor Elementary School principal Matthew Malone proposed $6.89 million for staffing and $263,384 for equipment, supplies, textbooks and other items. Elementary school staffing costs would rise about 6.7 percent, while the rest of the school’s budget would rise 4.75 percent.

One of the needs, Mr. Malone said, is a teacher for students considered “English language learners” who need considerable support learning a new language. He and other administrators are asking the district to hire one new full-time teacher to be shared between the elementary, middle and high schools. The proposed salary for that teacher is $63,268.

More for Sag Harbor Learning Center Included in the proposal is money for supplies and staffing for the new Sag Harbor Learning Center, where the prekindergarten will be housed starting next year. On Tuesday, Dr. Kenter told The Express that out of the proposed $99,319 supplies budget for Sag Harbor Elementary School, $1,600 has been earmarked for the Sag Harbor Learning Center.

“This is something we’re very excited about,” Mr. Malone said. “There are some supplies that will be needed to outfit the new classrooms, and some staffing needs as well.”

He acknowledged the costs are in addition to the moneys already laid out for construction and renovations of the facility. He said because “there’s a lot of enthusiasm around the move,” he is expecting four sections of prekindergarten next year instead of three.

The salary for a new school nurse at the Sag Harbor Learning Center is proposed at $69,774. A part-time teacher would be made full-time at a salary of $67,730, and a part-time teacher assistant would be hired at a salary of $22,561.

Other Budget Items At Pierson, in addition to the new teacher, principal Jeff Nichols said the school would need about $7,000 more in fees for the International Baccalaureate program, which is a rigorous track of academics that prepares students for college-level course work.

He also said there is a need to spend over $11,000 more on new textbooks, including about $3,000 for new math and computer science materials.

Spending on supplies, equipment, textbooks and other costs to operate Pierson would increase to $441,816, a 4.36-percent jump. Spending on salaries for teachers and other staff members would rise to more than $8.1 million, an increase of 3.79 percent.

Dr. Carleen Meers, who manages the special education budget, said receiving federal and state funding will help the district “minimize the fiscal impact” of increases in out-of-district tuition, supplies and equipment.

Those increases include $50,000 more for tuition, about $11,000 for supplies and $4,650 for equipment. The budget would increase by 3.9 percent to $1.13 million, with staffing costs increasing by 2.86 percent to $3.11 million.

The total cost of benefits for district staff is projected to decrease by 1.84 percent, or about $194,000, down to $10.34 million. Those benefits include health and dental insurance, disability insurance, retirement system contributions and others.

Tax Levy Options Dr. Kenter on Monday also fulfilled a request the school board asked of him during the March 11 meeting: a wider range of options for possible tax-levy increases.

The district could go as high as a 4.56-percent tax-levy increase, which is different from the “2 percent tax cap” most people are accustomed to because of factors like real estate growth in school district borders and budget exclusions for debt on capital projects. On March 11, the board reviewed the 4.56 percent option as well as 4.25 percent, 4 percent, 3.75 percent and 3.5 percent. The farther down the district goes, the lower the tax levy drops; the effect is to ease the

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Spending is within tax cap, for now

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Taylor Rose Berry at the entrance to her new shop above 51 Division Street, above, and a rendering of the interior, inset.

Sag Harbor

Several New Places to Buy Books

BY GAVIN MENU

Sag Harbor’s beloved bookstore, Harbor Books, is returning to the downtown business district but with a new name and location.

Berry & Co., named for owner Taylor Rose Berry, is coming soon to 51 Division Street, the same building that houses Jack’s Coffee, the Sag Harbor Baking Company and the UPS Store. The space Ms. Berry will occupy is on the second floor and was most recently home to Windswept Salon, which moved out over the winter.

“I’m really excited,” Ms. Berry said on Friday as she announced the news.

“As everyone knows I’ve been looking for the perfect space for quite some time and I’ve looked into every option.”

Ms. Berry’s commercial real estate agent, Hal Zwick of Town & Country Real Estate, recommended the space and helped secure a workable lease.

The space has cathedral ceilings, sky lights and an outdoor deck with water

Taylor Berry lands on Division St, and other locations views. Ms. Berry, who put a lot of work into the former Harbor Books space at 20 Main Street, said the new location was like coming home again.

“It’s a good home for us. And I’m not calling it Harbor Books. We’re kind of the grown-up version of Harbor Books,” said Ms. Berry, who also plans to operate pop-ups at different locations on Main Street including White’s Pharmacy, which will take over her former location, Black Swan Antiques, the Julie Keyes Gallery and The American Hotel, among others.

“I’ll still have a big Main Street presence that I’ll be able to use to direct people to Division Street,” she said.

Ms. Berry already has a pop-up in

action at the new East Hampton location of The Spur, a co-working space in Southampton that just last week opened its second outpost on Three Mile Harbor Rd. in East Hampton. Berry & Co., when it opens in Sag Harbor, will have a wide selection of books along with a continued partnership with Dobra Tea, which Ms. Berry previously featured at Harbor Books.

“It’s the bookstore,” Ms. Berry said proudly. “I’m lucky that’s the industry I’m in and love and I think people will find the bookstore. Business provided, my plan is to be there for the foreseeable future. I wanted to find us a home that felt like a real home, and that’s what we were able to do.”

Ms. Berry has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help get the store open but promises there are perks for her supporters. A $50 donation, for example, will get you two books and “a beautiful bookmark,” according to Ms. Berry. To visit the page go to kickstarter.com/projects/berryandco/thenext-chapter-for-harbor-books?ref

Increases in salaries for justice court staff and money to boost drainage engineering and sidewalk repairs have driven up Sag Harbor Village’s proposed 2019-2020 budget since a first draft was initially presented last month.

The budget is up from $11.26 million in the first draft introduced in February to $11.27 million, presented Wednesday, March 20, during a village budget workshop. The updated figure is a 3.36-percent increase, or $366,172, over the current year’s budget of $10.9 million.

So far, according to village treasurer Rhonda Meserole, the draft spending plan fits within the state-mandated cap on tax levy increases. However, she explained Wednesday, the village has not received final assessment numbers from Southampton Town, which will impact the percentage by which the village can increase its tax levy.

The village board will hold a public hearing Friday, March 29 at 4 p.m. to discuss the potential for raising the tax levy above the state limit. Ms. Meserole described the hearing as a “just in case” formality.

In the second-draft budget, the largest increase remains a 793-percent jump from $14,750 to $131,712 for assessment services provided by East Hampton Town related to computer upgrades. Multiple municipalities that East Hampton serves are shouldering part of that cost. Another increase included $10,000 more in funding for area youth programs. This would restore the funding that was cut from $10,500 in previous years down to $500 in 2018-2019.

But not much has changed since February. Spending on Sag Harbor Justice Court would rise 2 percent to $265,364, with the increase attributed to a $5,795 raise in salaries for its various staff members. Ms. Meserole added $7,500 for drainage engineering and $5,000 more for concrete and sidewalk repairs.

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Sag Harbor

Writers Conference Set for the Summer

Planners Approve Condos

Frederic Tuten to lead memoir workshop

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

Frederic Tuten once spent his summers visiting with Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein — their days filled with art, writing and deep friendship, while basking in the East End sun.

The novelist eventually found his way to the Southampton Writers Conference, an annual meeting of minds featuring lectures, readings and workshops, where he has taught fiction and short story writing for more than a decade.

And this year, following the recent release of “My Young Life,” he is making his debut as a memoirist.

“It’s my first time, but I’ve been living and reading memoirs and now, having written one, I feel it’s a good idea for me to do it,” Mr. Tuten said of his summer workshop. “I’m excited to do it, and I’m excited to talk about something different than short story or novel writing. Usually the summer students are terrific, so I’m looking forward to seeing what new things and fresh things they have to say and think about, and hope I can be of some help.”

Hosted by Stony Brook Southampton’s MFA in Creative Writing program, both full-time professors and guest faculty will lead the 44th annual Southampton Writers Conference from July 10 to 21. The lectures and workshops cover a wide breadth, from fiction, nonfiction and poetry to children’s literature, playwriting and TV writing, according to co-directors Christian McLean and Susan Merrell.

A Local Voices scholarship to attend the conference is available through April 2.

“This is always one of the real highlights of the year, for everybody on our team,” Ms. Merrell said. “We have such a great group of students and professors, and having these other people join us, it validates what we do, it enhances what we do, it makes our world bigger in the most beautiful way. I really love it. I’m always really looking forward to this time of summer.”

With deep roots on the East End, the Southampton Writers Conference continues a storied tradition dating back to 1976, one that has drawn luminaries such as Joyce Carol Oates and E.L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Wolfe, Elizabeth Strout and Derek

Walcott.

“It started off as a much smaller summer program and, in the 1990s, it grew pretty rapidly,” according to Mr. McLean. “It’s pretty amazing when we go through it and we actually look at who has been a part of it over the last 44 years. It’s a really fantastic list of people. When I think about the number of writers that I’ve met, being a part of it over the last 10 years, it’s pretty crazy.”

The legacy only continues this year, he said, with three different ways to participate in the Southampton Writers Conference. The first is the lecture series, providing access to all morning programming, salons, evening readings and social gatherings throughout the 12 days.

The next level is either a five- or 12day workshop — small, intimate gatherings designed for emerging writers seeking feedback, or those looking to jumpstart their practice. And for participants who want more time to write, they can sign up for the workshop and residency option, which can be devoted to writing entirely, or paired with a five-day workshop on either side of a week-long writing residency.

“It’s for people who don’t necessarily want a workshop, but want some time and space away to finish something, with this community of writers in the background,” Mr. McLean said. “So when they’re sick of smashing their heads against their keyboards, they can come down and hear a reading or talk, or hash out ideas with fellow writers. The idea is to create this community of writers at all levels.”

Prior to his memoir-writing workshop, Mr. Tuten will request 20 pages of work from each of his students, and then ask the following of them: Why they want to write a memoir, what it means to them, what they are willing to do to get there, and how truthful they are willing to be.

He asked the same questions of himself while contemplating “My Young Life.”

“I turned 82, I was working on this for six years — different versions of the memoir — and I’ve lived an interesting life, I think, at least from my point of view,” he said. “That’s sort of telling you,

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2 West Water Street project nears final OK

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

The Cause The fire started innocently enough, in a freak accident kind of way. A large mop, the kind used to apply floor finish, had spontaneously combusted after being left out with linseed oil still on it. That was the conclusion the fire department came to within about a week, according to Frank D’Angelo.

He spoke last week over the phone from his second home in Florida, where he spends most of his time now after retiring four years ago. The store is now owned and operated by his two sons, Mike D’Angelo, 38, and Pete D’Angelo, 35.

The way Mr. D’Angelo found out about the fire is hard to fathom in today’s age. He did not witness the blaze

The Sag Harbor Planning Board on Tuesday pushed one major downtown project forward and postponed making a decision on another as it said goodbye to its chairman, who will resign on April 1.

After a final review of all the talking points the Planning Board discussed over the past several months, it approved a written decision for developer Jay Bialsky’s complex of townhouses at 2 West Water Street. The 4-0 vote, with board member Neil Slevin absent, puts Mr. Bialsky one step closer to closing on a deal to sell land he owns at 1, 3 and 5 Ferry Road to Southampton Town for $10.5 million.

The money will come from the town’s Community Preservation Fund, and the property is slated to become Sag Harbor’s long-anticipated John Steinbeck Waterfront Park.

Before the sale can officially close, Mr. Bialsky still needs approval from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, which is expected in the next two months. All that’s left in Sag Harbor’s regulatory process is approval from the Harbor Committee, which indicated in a straw poll earlier this month it would approve the project in April.

“We’re very happy with the approval and the process moving forward,” Mr. Bialsky said Wednesday.

The proposal for the three townhouses at 2 West Water Street once totaled 27,740 square feet in size; as of right, there were eight residential units and four commercial spaces grandfathered into its previous use.

However, plans were scaled down in increments to come in collectively at about 21,800 square feet.

Mr. Bialsky’s team must address two final issues: how to properly drain each unit’s rooftop pool, and

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The Emporium after the 1994 Easter Sunday fire, above, and as it is today, inset.

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The Emporium Fire Remembered

BY CAILIN RILEY

The call came in during the early morning hours on April 3, Easter Sunday, of 1994.

Kevin O’Brien was the chief of the Sag Harbor Volunteer Fire Department at the time, and he was on call.

He remembers sighing and getting out of bed. “Automatic alarm at the Emporium Hardware Store.” In his drowsy state, that’s what he thought he heard over the radio. But as he steered his car from his home on Joel’s Lane and into Sag Harbor Village, he remembered: there were no alarms in that building. He pressed down harder on the gas pedal.

In the short drive to Main Street, his radio was crackling with the voices of other Sag Harbor firefighters, the urgency and panic rising quickly in their voices.

“My assistant chief at the time, Mike McAree, was at the rear of the building on Meadow Street, and he was getting real loud on the radio,” Mr. O’Brien said. “I said, ‘You need to calm down.’ And he says, ‘Oh yeah? Come

25 years after the Easter blaze, memories are still vivid around back.’ Right then and there, I knew we had a major problem.”

A total of 21 fire departments, from Montauk to Yaphank, made their way to Sag Harbor in the early morning hours that day to fight one of the biggest fires in the village’s history.

The Emporium True Value Hardware Store, owned by brothers Frank and Dennis D’Angelo, and located on Main Street in the heart of the village, burned down that day, causing major damage to adjacent buildings as well.

As the 25th anniversary of the blaze approaches, the D’Angelo family, former Sag Harbor Fire Department Chief O’Brien, and others whose lives were directly affected looked back on the fire, sharing their memories from that day, and its aftermath. From the year-long effort to rebuild the store, which still stands today, to the abil-

ity of the firefighters to prevent loss of life and save the surrounding stores from total destruction, it is a story of a potentially larger crisis averted, thanks to the ability of a small community to come together and overcome adversity.

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Bill Would Seek to Cut Maternal Mortality Southampton Town has one of highest incidences of infant death in the state

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

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Twelve-year-old Angelina Beard has an affirmation — “Upbeat” — written onto her left hand as part of the i-tri 2019 Kickoff Retreat in the Pierson High School gymnasium on Saturday, March 23.

Discuss budget options continued from page 4 burden on taxpayers with each downward tick.

With the maximum 4.56-percent tax-levy increase, Dr. Kenter explained, Sag Harbor could raise an additional $1.7 million in tax revenue from the community over the current year’s budget. Dropping that to a 2.5-percent tax levy increase lowers that amount to $942,169. Further reducing it to 1.75 percent means $660,460 more in tax revenue for Sag Harbor, and a 1 percent increase means $378,751 more.

The board also got a look at a zeroincrease option, which would mean keeping the residents’ tax burden flat.

Doing so, projections show, would likely mean taxes go down by a few dollars. Deliberately choosing a zeroincrease option, he said, is different from an “austerity budget” situation where a community votes down a budget twice and a school district is forced to keep its tax levy flat.

Dr. Kenter showed the school board a slide titled “Selecting a Tax Levy that Is Near the Tax Levy Limit.”

“As your business official, I would highly encourage you to consider this,” Dr. Kenter said.

He explained how going to the maximum or just below the maximum would help the district protect its reserve funds that are designated for

emergencies and specific purposes; help the district protect its Moody’s bond rating, which is just one notch below the highest possible rating, which would in turn enable the district to save on interest rates whenever it borrows money; and would “protect the continuation of all student programs and staff.”

Board member Susan Lamontagne said she thinks “there are plenty of places where it seems to me we can sharpen our pencils.”

“It’s appropriate that when we are doing well, we do give back to the taxpayers and not spend everything that’s coming in,” Ms. Lamontagne said.

“When we do need it, I think when we give back, it makes it more likely when there’s a downturn they’ll step up.”

The board is expected to take a look at its whole budget at its next meeting, planned for Monday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pierson library.

Board member Chris Tice urged the board and the administration to explore the possible financial impacts of transportation and staffing solutions to the problems posed by teachers leaving school early for sports programs. However, board president Diana Kolhoff said the committee handling that subject would not be convening prior to the school board’s next meeting, so the board would have to proceed without concrete options to weigh.

New pastor set to start continued from page 1 Rev. Maconochie, who received a B.A. in religion from Lycoming before attending Princeton Theological Seminary, from where she graduated with a Master of Divinity degree, will split her time at the pulpit between the Old Whalers’ Church and the Springs Presbyterian Church. Community building is one of her top priorities.

“I see a church as community and a group of people that care about each other,” she said in an interview from her office in Sag Harbor last week.

“And the church also cares about the community. We need to get outside the walls of the church to see what the needs are in the community and meet them somehow. I think one of the good things about the Presbyterian Church, in particular, is that it is pretty open to a variety of viewpoints and stances on social issues.”

“You don’t need to have all the answers and we don’t claim to have all the answers,” added Rev. Maconochie.

“We want people to come and explore and see what fits and how it fits into what you already believe and what you already know.”

As an ordained minister, Rev. Maconochie has served churches in Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky and New York, helping congregations of small churches grow in their communities and find their missions. She has also served on a nationwide task force to help churches redevelop in an in-

creasingly secular society.

In Sag Harbor, focusing on increasing the number of families in the congregation is another focus, as is finding ways the church can help address the needs of children. “I want to make worship friendly for children,” said Rev. Maconochie, “which sounds like it can’t happen. But I preach in such a way that kids understand what I am talking about. And I will do a children’s sermon during worship times so that there will be something specifically for them.”

Rev. Maconochie said she has a lot to learn about the needs of both communities she is serving before she understands fully the work that lies ahead. But being a native of Southampton — her mother, Fran, is still a devoted member of the Southampton Presbyterian Church — and someone who has visited the area with her three daughters throughout her adult life, she feels that, in many ways, this is a coming home.

“I think it means a lot to be from here and I think it means that I can already hit the road running because I understand the culture,” she said.

“It has changed, but I have seen those changes occur as they are happening.

And I am excited to be here in Sag Harbor.”

The Sag Harbor Old Whalers’ First Presbyterian Church, 44 Union Street in Sag Harbor, will welcome its new pastor to work on April 1. Rev. Maconochie will give her first sermon on Sunday, April 7, at 11 a.m.

Last week, the New York State Legislature unanimously passed a bill co-sponsored by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. that aims to reduce maternal mortality through the creation of a Maternal Mortality Review Board that will take a closer look at maternal deaths across the state in an effort to reduce strategies to improve health outcomes for mothers during and after pregnancy.

“We live in one of the most advanced nations on Earth, yet U.S. women are more likely to die during pregnancy or from childbirth than anywhere else in the developed world,” said Mr. Thiele in a press release. “We need to do more to prevent maternal deaths and we need to do it now.”

The bills passage was lauded by the local nonprofit, East End Birth Network, a group founded in the spring of 2018 by a group of women shocked to discover that eastern Southampton Town has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the state.

“We are excited and optimistic” said Southampton resident Sara Topping, executive director of the EEBN, and a massage therapist and doula.

“We approached Assemblyman Thiele about this issue last year and are encouraged that it has garnered so

much support. But it’s only the tip of the iceberg.”

According to Mr. Thiele’s office, maternal deaths have steadily risen in the United States since 1987, from 7.2 per 100,000 live births to 18 per 100,000 live births in 2014. In New York State, the mortality rate is even worse — in 2016, New York State was ranked 30th in the nation, with clear racial disparities, said Mr. Thiele, increasing from 15.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2001-2003 to 19.6 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2014 and 2016.

According to a report prepared in 2017 by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, the infant death rate in Southampton Town — east of the Shinnecock Canal — was 8.1 to 10.1 per 1,000 live births based on state data the county gathered between 2008 and 2010. West of the canal, the infant mortality rate was less than 2 per 1,000 live births as it was in East Hampton and Southold towns.

In Greenport, that rate rose to 4.1 to 6 per 1,000 live births and in Riverhead, the mortality rate was between 6.1 and 8 deaths per 1,000 live births.

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continued from page 5 — it was contained before he even knew about it, although firefighters remained on the scene for three days. As fate would have it, he and his family, who lived in Southampton, had piled into their car after going to church that morning, heading to Rockland County for a visit with his wife’s side of the family. Had they been home for a bit later, it’s likely they would have discovered that the family business was going up in flames. Instead, as fire trucks poured into Sag Harbor from surrounding towns, they were headed west, unaware of what was happening. In the days before cell phones were ubiquitous, and without anyone from his extended family even fully aware of exactly where they were going that day, he said, Mr. D’Angelo did not find out about the fire until he returned home late that night to an answering machine full of frantic messages. His oldest child, daughter Nicole, was a teenager at the time, eager to see who had called during the day. She alerted her father right away to a steady stream of frantic messages.

“It was pretty traumatic at the time,” Mr. D’Angelo recalled. “The village was really a mess. I went downtown and started answering questions with the fire marshal. I was just trying to make sense of it all.”

The Response While the D’Angelo family was hours away enjoying Easter Sunday with relatives, Mr. O’Brien was handling one of the biggest challenges of his career as a firefighter, trying to keep what was already a once-ina-generation fire from becoming a full-blown catastrophe, managing the response of 21 departments that came with aerial ladders, tankers and other advanced fire fighting equipment.

“You name it, we had it,” Mr. O’Brien said.

No one was in the store, but there was a dramatic rescue of one tenant who was present in one of the four upstairs apartments during the fire.

Firefighters rescued Lucas Stone and his dog, a black lab named Pinot. A fire department aerial ladder was not set up in place yet, requiring the firefighters to use the less stable ladders to remove Mr. Stone and his dog from the building.

Mr. Stone was living in the apartment, which belonged to his father,

Dick Stone, an artist who used the space as a studio. Mr. Stone’s parents were away in Europe at the time of the fire, and he remembers going into the kitchen to make breakfast when he heard the village’s fire alarm go off. He looked out the window to see what was going on after he heard the alarm going off an unusual number of times, figuring that maybe it was malfunctioning. When he decided to head downstairs, he was greeted by a wall of thick, black smoke in the stairwell. He went back inside, grabbed Pinot, and went out on the deck, then watched as the interior of the apartment began to fill with smoke, surrounding his father’s paintings.

“I went to the far side of the deck and looked at the roof of the hardware store,” he recalled. “The plastic of the several skylights, instead of curving upwards toward the sky seemed to be curving downward into the store.”

The firefighters had spotted him by then. He handed the dog to one firefighter, who took it down, and then proceeded down the ladder himself, to safety.

“I then spent the rest of the day watching the entire building and everything that was in it, all of my father’s work, all of my stuff, burn up.”

Aside from the top priority of preventing loss of life, the firefighters also had to work fast to make sure the blaze stayed as contained as possible, no easy task when dealing with buildings that are stacked right next to each other for nearly the entire length of Main Street. Mr. O’Brien said he directed the firefighters to make what’s called a trench cut on the roof of the adjacent building, owned by Marty Trunzo, the longtime operator of Marty’s Barber Shop. It sounds like what it’s named — and it’s dangerous work. Firefighters made their way onto the roof, and using equipment, cut a large trench that functioned as a firestopper, keeping it from spreading to other buildings. Mr. O’Brien said he knew that had been the right call when, as the fire was raging, three other retired chiefs who happened to live in the village and were watching the blaze came over to him and told him he needed to make a trench cut.

He said he informed them that it was already underway, adding that it was “a relief” to hear the seasoned fire chiefs, who had run departments in much bigger cities and towns, validate his decision.

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He credited the move with saving Mr. Trunzo’s building, adding that the weather had deteriorated throughout the day, with windy conditions making the fire even more difficult to fight.

Looking back, Mr. O’Brien said the situation turned out remarkably well.

“We were so lucky nobody was killed,” he said. “I thank God. It could’ve been horrible.”

The Aftermath For Frank D’Angelo, whether or not to rebuild was never a question. But the roughly year-long period from the fire until the grand re-opening of the store was certainly a difficult time period.

There were several factors that kept a tough situation from becoming worse, according to Mr. D’Angelo. The family owned two other businesses — the Water Mill Lumber Supply and a lumber yard out in Montauk — so that helped ease the blow financially.

Mr. D’Angelo was able to make sure all of the stores employees at the time had work either at another one of their businesses or another True Value hardware store. And all of the tenants in the building were able to find places to live in the year while the store was being rebuilt. Nearby buildings, including Schmidt’s Liquor Store and Schiavoni’s IGA, among others, sustained damage that had to be addressed. But Mr. D’Angelo said they had good insurance, and he’d also made the switch to computer filing, meaning all orders and outstanding invoices were not lost. Mr. D’Angelo also credited Sag Harbor village officials with working fast to help the business get back on its feet.

“We got some pretty quick approvals once we got the new design,” he said. “We started to pour concrete in December, and seven months later, the store was open.”

Staying Power For brothers Mike and Pete D’Angelo, who now run the store, memories of that time are colored by the fact that they were young teenagers. Mike, who was a freshman at Southampton High School, said he remembers things being “tense” at home during that time.

It wasn’t until many years later that he’d come to gain a full understanding and appreciation of what happened, when he did an eight-year stint with the Sag Harbor Fire Department, starting in 2008, when he moved to Sag Harbor, where he still lives now with his wife and children.

“I met a bunch of guys who were involved in it, and heard their stories,” he said. “It was a pretty wild scene based on the stories they told, of people really putting their lives on the line.”

More recognition came five years later, when he found a box in his grandparents house filled with cards people had sent his family in the aftermath of the fire, expressing condolences.

Pete, the youngest of the three children, was 13, but remembers certain details as well.

“I remember being dropped off late for school the next day, and then I came down with my parents,” he said.

“Everything was charred rubble, and blackened merchandise. I’ll never forget that smell. It was like wood that was in a bonfire and leftover.”

Surviving a major fire and not only rebuilding but continuing to thrive for many years in a village where the economic landscape is ever changing, and storefronts change at an increasingly dizzying pace, is no small feat, and it’s a point of pride for the family, which has run the store since 1977, making it one of the longest standing businesses on Main Street.

Pete acknowledged the changes he and his brother have seen in more recent years — busier summer seasons, slower winters, and the challenges of competing with chain home improvement stores and the internet. But they seem confident they can withstand those challenges, perhaps because of a proven track record of staying power, against big odds.

“You have to focus on customer service and making people happy to come here,” Pete said. “You have to give them a reason to come into the store instead of going to the internet.

We’ll stay as long as we’re profitable.”

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‘Infant mortality goes hand in hand with the care that mothers receive.

This is a completely unacceptable condition.’

According to Ms. Topping, the East End Birth Network recently granted a scholarship to Ahna Cuffee of the Shinnecock Nation to attend an Indigenous Doula training in Canada.

African-Americans and Indigenous women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth in the U.S. than white women. Doulas, trained, non-medical birth attendants who support pregnant women emotionally and stay with them for the duration of their labors, have been shown to decrease these startling numbers, said Ms. Topping, data that prompted the Governor’s new Pilot Doula program for Medicaid patients in Kings and Erie Counties in upstate New York.

“We still have a lot of work to do,” said Ms. Topping. “Southampton, Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor have one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the entire State of New York.

Infant mortality goes hand in hand with the care that mothers receive.

This is a completely unacceptable condition.”

“We are looking forward to what the next year may bring working with Assemblyman Thiele and Legislator Bridget Fleming,” she added. “We have a lot of things in the works, including bringing the Stony Brook University Hospital Volunteer Doula Program to Stony Brook Southampton.”

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Rally to protect music continued from page 1 Mr. Van Scoyoc happens to be a musician and his wife, Marilyn, was a music educator.

“Just so people know, we had no intention on voting on this tonight and will certainly take this up at a work session,” said the supervisor. “I think it is clear that future engagement on how we can do what we need to do to address the concerns we have without harming those who may be affected in a collateral way is very important for us to do and take that time. We are going to do that. I just want to reassure everyone.”

The gathering was largely prompted by a call to arms by Ms. Atlas, who posted a video on Facebook on March 15 urging residents to attend the March 21 town board meeting, where a public hearing had been scheduled on changes to the code that governs the issuance of music and entertainment permits in the town.

The proposed changes would require that bars, restaurants and taverns apply for a music and entertainment permit on an annual basis if they hope to host live music outside of special events, which requires its own permit. It would also give the town clerk discretion to deny or revoke a music permit if a business has been convicted twice of violating a number of town codes within a three-year period.

Town attorney Michael Sendlenski said during a work session on March 19 that permits currently can be revoked by the town board if a business is issued three summonses within a one-year period.

The proposed amendment would also remove an appeal process from falling under the jurisdiction of the town board, placing the authority of that review in the hands of a three-member committee made up of the town police chief and representatives from code enforcement and the fire marshal’s office. Other amended changes would require seating plans be filed with the town clerk to ensure a restaurant was not removing its seating to become a de-facto nightclub.

Musicians and business owners expressed concerns Thursday night that the new law would be used to address town code issues that have nothing, in fact, to do with live music. They also expressed worries that two convictions in a three-year period would put too many businesses at risk of losing an important facet of their business — live music — including businesses who have already pleaded guilty to a violation of one of a host of town codes as a part of a settlement agreement.

“I would like to suggest, right off the bat, that any new music laws or amendments be based solely on convictions of violations through music, through the making of music,” said Ms. Atlas, “because right now, in this proposed new law, you can get a violation through

parking, over-crowding, zoning and town code law and it is so vague it could be for having a new awning or a shed.”

Attorney Deborah Choron, an associate with Matthews, Kirst & Cooley, agreed, noting the construction of either could land someone with four different code violation charges — charges that would become convictions if the business owner made a plea deal with the town. Ms. Choron said the result would be fewer business owners willing to come into greater compliance with town code when facing a number of violations through a settlement process.

Attorney Dianne Leverrier said she believed the creation of a committee to lead the revocation hearing is not lawful under state town law, which lays out a process for a town clerk to grant permits and a revocation process. Ms. Leverrier said her research showed that authority should remain with the town board, not a special committee. Ms. Leverrier also questioned language regarding employees being convicted of town code violations, which could put business owners in danger of revocation.

“My thoughts are I get this amendment is to fix things and make them better,” said Ms. Eaton. “There is not one of us in this room that has not driven back from a venue, or a restaurant or an establishment and thought, ‘Wow, it must be tough to be their neighbor.’ I get that, I really do. So, I see where this comes from. I am just not in favor of how the amendment is written. It has unintended consequences.”

David Gruber, an attorney running for town supervisor and frequent critic of the current Town Board, suggested the board should have encouraged public discussion prior to a public hearing.

“This is the last chance the public has to prevent you from doing something that is out of control,” he said.

Both Laraine Creegan, the executive director of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, and Paul Monte, chair of the East Hampton Town Business Advisory Committee, urged the town to rethink the amendments, with Mr. Monte suggesting the advisory committee could meet with local business owners and musicians and come back to the board by the end of June with recommendations.

“There is a very real concern it is far too late in the year to expect businesses and musicians to adapt to radical changes in programming,” said Mr. Monte.

“We have an arts council for fine arts,” Mr. Van Scoyoc said in response. “Why not have a committee formed with musicians that can inform the town board how we can help you, your livelihoods, how we can make adjustments to codes to promote live music and do so in a respectful manner to the whole community but give more opportunities for small businesses that are music related?”

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Members of the East Hampton Fire Department’s “White Knights” Heavy Rescue Squad held a joint heavy rescue/EMS training drill with members of the East Hampton Volunteer Ambulance Association at the East Hampton Village Highway Barn on Wednesday, March 20.

OK for townhouses continued from page 5 a signature on the plans from Mr. Bialsky himself to certify he understands each stipulation. The planning board’s approval is conditional upon those two matters.

Board Pauses at Cinema The board postponed approving the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s updated plans. Board attorney Denise Schoen said two issues stood in the way: the planning board does not have the most recent set of building plans, and the cinema team needs to secure signage from the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees along the rear lot line of its property on Meadow Street that say, “no stopping, no standing, no parking.” Ms. Schoen explained the latter issue pertains to New York State building codes for fire safety.

“The way the fire code reads, it says you have to have one access point kept open for fire trucks,” she said.

“If it was a busy summer, Main Street might be insane. That’s a real issue. If it was filled with cars, they wouldn’t be able to use ladder trucks and we’d really need Meadow Street.”

Attorney Christopher Kelley, representing the cinema, on Wednesday called the outstanding issues “minor.”

“My position is that we just want to get the approval,” he said. “The village can do whatever it wants when it wants — there’s already no parking

permitted on Meadow Street — and the final plans were already submitted to the architectural review board and approved, but I guess they didn’t make it over to the planning board.”

The board voted 4-0 to table the cinema decision to its April 21 meeting, when it will again have a new or interim chairman. John Shaka, who presided over meetings since December 20, tendered his resignation effective April 1, as he will be moving overseas for an extended period of time.

“We’re going to miss your leadership and your intelligence,” board member Larry Perrine told him on Tuesday.

“It was my pleasure working with you and I wish I was here longer,” Mr. Shaka replied.

The planning board also held a hearing on Angela De Vincenzo’s request for a special exception use permit to add her tutoring business to the existing gallery space she recently leased at 17 Washington Street, called Blocks, Trucks and Art. During the board’s work session, consultant Kathy Eiseman said, “Our only comment was we wanted the fire marshal to take a look at it. He did, and [the report] was four pages, but it was all good.”

The board liked Ms. De Vincenzo’s proposal and indicated it would approve a written decision on the permit in April.

tion of Minority Architects, which sent 25 volunteers to help with photographing and cataloging the 306 houses in the area over the course of a weekend last fall.

“Today’s efforts once again underscore and document the drive and existence of African American contributions in the long history of America,” Ms. Simons later said in a news release.

“It recognizes extraordinary success at a time of immense downward pressure both legally and in practice to debilitate and deny human and legal rights as full citizens of America. The resourcefulness and ability shown in SANS Sag Harbor to collaboratively rise above the economic currents and develop an American experience, against the odds, is historic.”

Gaining landmark status on the state’s historic register does not correlate to inclusion in Sag Harbor’s historic district. That means properties in SANS won’t be subject to the same restrictions regulated by the Sag Harbor Board of Historic preservation and Architectural Review — unless the village includes SANS houses as “contributing structures” in its next historic resource survey — but there are some advantages to state and national register designation.

Jennifer Betsworth, an historic preservation specialist with the State, told an audience of SANS residents in February that recognition on the New York State Register of Historic Places is an honor that allows communities or property owners to access grants or tax credits for preservation or restoration projects.

In her presentation in February, Ms. Betsworth said the SANS communities date back approximately 70 years; Azurest was founded as a distinct subdivision between 1948 and 1949, Sag Harbor Hills around 1950 and Ninevah in 1952.

Over the years, SANS transitioned from a resort community for African Americans to a place where many lived full-time. A large number of houses remain in the hands of families that originally owned and built them. It has also become a more racially diverse place, and a place that faces challenges. Investors and developers have scooped up quite a few properties — some in SANS say it’s in the neighborhood of at least 20 — to flip or maintain as income-generating rentals, and many agree that has impacted the camaraderie and closeness for which the communities had become known.

Dr. Georgette L. Grier-Key, executive director of the Eastville Community Historical Society, traveled upstate to the Board of Review hearing to witness the vote. She later said in a statement the successful efforts of the SANS community represents “the everyday citizen making a way out of no way.”

“Striving to cut a sliver of the world out for themselves, making it their own and for their families, and creating a sense of community — that’s what SANS did during a dark period in our country,” she said, calling the landmarking vote “a recognized breakthrough among a great many other layered histories residing within the SANS community.”

Sag Harbor Mayor Sandra Schroeder on Thursday said she was happy to hear the news, and called it an important day for SANS and for Sag Harbor.

“I think it’s wonderful that another part of our local history will be included and not forgotten by future residents and our great, great grandchildren,” Ms. Schroeder said. “I’m very proud of all the work that they put into that. It’s phenomenal, and in a short period of time. It only adds to the charm of our village. It’s another part of history that would have been lost.”

Village budget continued from page 4 Powerball tickets?” village trustee James Larocca joked at one point.

Mayor Sandra Schroeder identified an area that appeared to be underfunded — an insurance line that looks like it will come up about $3,500 short this year. The budget draft showed $35,000, consistent with this year. Ms. Schroeder asked to up that to $39,000.

Absent from the second-draft budget was a full-time ambulance corps emergency medical technician, which a representative of the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps had pitched in February. Ms. Schroeder said the salary

and benefits might be cost prohibitive.

“I’m thinking about the people living on Social Security,” she said.

Trustee Tom Gardella, a former Sag Harbor Volunteer Fire Department chief, said before the village finalizes the budget, he would like to know more specifics about how much it would cost to add one full-time ambulance crewmember to the budget.

Following the meeting, Ms. Schroeder said the budget is close to completion “unless we take big things out.”

She said none of the budget items “are more important than the other.”

“It’s not like it’s a Christmas wish list,” she said. “It’s not free. It’s all going up.”

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t may seem that everyone on the South Fork has oodles of money amid rising assessments on property values.

But for those who have been here for 10, 20 or 30 years, some with families that have lived here for generations, the reality is clear: There are people struggling with the high cost of living, especially the high cost of housing. And while a single year’s increase in property taxes may seem minimal, when looked at over a 10-year timeframe, the impacts can be much more substantial.

We are staunch supporters of public education, of teachers and of increased programming for children, especially in an area where options are limited without the proper financial resources, or parents who work two, or even three jobs to make ends meet.

The Sag Harbor School District, in reviewing its budgets, has wisely ensured that its reserves are fully funded — planning for the future in this way is a luxury not every district enjoys and one that taxpayers may benefit from in years to come.

While we appreciate school board members looking at what is possible under the “less is more” model, when it comes to detailed information about how a particular budget is funded, or the time we spend talking about those details, more is definitely better.

The Sag Harbor School Board this week was presented with proposed spending plans for the elementary school, middle-high school and the special education department — clearly some of the most important information for the board to consider before it finalizes a plan to present to voters this spring. While previous budgets, including those for athletics, transportation and buildings and grounds, provided line-by-line breakdowns in spending, this was not available at the first presentation of these budgets.

In fairness, a senior administrator told The Express they were still in the process of finalizing some of the budget breakdowns, and more information would be forthcoming — there is another budget workshop scheduled for next Monday. But the fact remains, Sag Harbor School District is one of the few that has yet to show a total budget projection for its draft plan. Without these line items, without an understanding of how it all feeds into a larger picture, and with just one more budget work session planned before a separate meeting where the board will adopt the spending plan, we are concerned there will be too little time to workshop as a board — with the community — if necessary.

We hope at the next budget session the community can begin to understand what all these numbers mean, and that the board takes the time to schedule another workshop to revisit those numbers, if necessary, ask questions and make suggestions that could benefit students and taxpayers alike.

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hen Southampton resident Sara Topping joined a group of East End women in founding the East End Birth Network, it was a nonprofit founded with urgency and a realization that this is home to communities with some of the highest infant mortality rates in New York State.

The reality is that maternal mortality rates also remain abysmal in the United States when compared to the rest of the developed world and that New York State ranks 30th in the nation when it comes to maternal mortality — a statistic that grows for women who are minorities and especially African American. These statistics are grim and real and until recently seemingly largely ignored.

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. co-sponsored a bill that was passed by the State Legislature and is now awaiting the signature of Governor Andrew Cuomo before it becomes a state law. It would establish both the Maternal Mortality Review Board and the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Advisory Council, a body that would be made up of health professionals and experts that represent New York’s diversity. Both groups would study maternal health across the state in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies.

Mr. Thiele should be applauded for bringing the legislation forward, as should the East End Birth Network for proving itself a capable advocate for women in this generation and the next.

in these pictures my wife and I see our daughter, a fourth generation Sag Harborite, clasping a bluefish that she just caught. But I also see first kisses like a memory; and I see generations walking the beach together; and I see folks simply enjoying, unstressed, the sun and sand. I see what our parents saw in 1951 and what the early Eastville settlers saw before, now shaped by the prism of 64 years.

What I see is folks who are relaxed; folks who are smiling; folks who are, for the moment, free to be themselves.

Time future.

And then I wonder what the young lady in the last photo, arms akimbo, is thinking as she stares westward, perhaps wondering how our sun will set.

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Letters to the Editor Sag Harbor Beach Portraits Dear Editor: Breakout time past, time present and time future. Include the benches.

These pictures tell a story- a story about a community, about a history, and, importantly, about a slice of American history as experienced by African and Native Americans from the 1800’s to the present day.

Time past.

Close your eyes and imagine: a blue sky and a bluer stretch of water. Imagine a pristine crescent beach forming the southern border of that water and add sunbeams sparkling as they reflect off the gentle waves lapping at the shoreline.

You’ve just imagined what the adults who began the communities of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, Ninevah Beach and Lighthouse Lane saw in Sag Harbor.

But why these communities? What the newcomers saw in the post World War II in the late 1940s was an extension of past history. The history here goes back to the communities of Eastville in Sag Harbor and Freetown in East Hampton. Eastville dates back to the early 1800s, when Sag Harbor was a port and whaling community; it was a working class community in the pre-Civil War era and it was a multiethnic community that included free Blacks, Montauketts and Shinnecocks and European immigrants who worked in the whaling business. More importantly, Eastville represented an example of free black labor, land ownership and religious practice despite the segregation to the Eastville area. It is where the St. David A.M.E. Zion Church was founded in 1840 by Lewis Cuffee and others.

At the time African Americans and Native Americans who attended the Methodist Church in downtown Sag Harbor were segregated to the balconies and the rear of the church for services. The church was also, reputedly, a terminus for the Underground Railroad.

When the whaling industry declined the men of Eastville sought employment as boatmen and clammers while the women were employed as domestic workers in the homes of wealthy white folks who lived in downtown Sag Harbor.

Then, in the late 19th century, a new wave of economically advantaged African Americans arrived, renting summer homes in Eastville; many became full-time residents.

As an indicator, my parents rented in the Eastville community on Hempstead Street beginning in 1949 before they built a summer home in Sag Harbor Hills in 1951.

So, fast forward, it’s 1951. The community of Sag Harbor Hills consisted of: Parker, North, Parks, Jones, Pickens, Cuyjet, Sinclair, King, Granger, Letcher, Bannister, Williams and Norman. These were folks who had the means to have gone anywhere but were restricted by the boundaries of segregation. These were folks who formed social clubs and

entertained at home because they had to. So, there was a history of folks who had gone before to Eastville and they followed the history.

The houses were built for summer use. The beach was the anchor for the community, the communal lynchpin, the edge of center. It’s where families went and socialized; where we, as children, learned to swim and fish and scallop and clam. It was the lifespring from which we drank to revitalize our spirits after a fall and winter and spring of isolation in disparate and separated communities. It was, in the truest sense, regeneration.

Now move inland from the beach, past the beach grass and scrubpine and beachplums. Enter a community of dirt roads and party lines and houses where every adult was an aunt or uncle, a special designation symbolic of the true sense of community and bonding among the members and, perhaps, an acknowledgement that it takes a village to raise a child. It was a designation of honor and respect.

It was a community where you respected and honored the house rules in whichever house you were in. And it was a community where you couldn’t wait for Aunt Barbara to make fried chicken and biscuits or Aunt Cynthia to make clam chowder.

Enter a land where you went next door to borrow a cup of sugar or flour — or whatever else it was you might need.

Enter a place where each house had a ship’s bell, each with a distinctive tone and rung when we were summoned back to the homestead. Enter a place where we, as children, were released in the morning as a skittering horde to imagine our day — off to the beach to swim or clam or waterski, or the creek to explore, or the woods to hunt. Imagine a place where we were released to the universe of our imaginations to create a reality for the day — until that bell rang.

As children we had a freedom that is unimaginable today. Who today has Daisy BB guns with the license to stalk through the woods? And who leaps from sandcliffs as a member of the Vikings? When did you last see children riding from the back of a station wagon sitting on the open flap? When did you last pick beachplums from the front of the house and help your grandmother make beachplum jam or turn the crank to make peach ice cream from fresh peaches? And when did you last drive a car at 12?

The benches — perched on a small bluff above the beach — are another story. A gathering place in the evening, a place to congregate and close the day — before that bell rang. Where some romances started and others ended.

Time present.

It’s now 2015. Skinny Hill is now Harbor Avenue; the roads are paved; most of the ship bells are gone and forgotten (but not all). Families have come and gone but each is woven into the fabric of the community — Pinderhughes, Rhoden, Gibbs, Lopez, Segre, Giscombe and many more.

And the beach, that lifespring, is still there — still a communal resource where lifelong friendships are made. So,

Dear Editor, 87. It’s ironic that in the week prior to March 22, World Water Day, Suffolk County Water Authority advises customers that it plans to spend over $1 billion to treat its water, passing on the costs to East End residents. 87. Only one week later, on the eve of World Water Day, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announces that it extends Sand Land’s permit to continue operations for an additional 8 years and allowing them to dig an additional 40’ lower, approaching the water table. 87. DEC Commissioner, Basil Seggos, goes on to state that the Agency will continue aggressive on-the-ground oversight to ensure Sand Land complies with all rules and regulations ensuring its operations do not threaten the environment. 87.

Just hear me out; Sand Land pollutes our drinking water, SCWA drills new wells within ½ mile of Sand Land and the DEC has the gall to purport they will continue aggressive oversight!

Are we stupid? Per the Sag Harbor Express’ reporting, the water under Sand Land has elevated levels of Manganese, Iron, Thallium, Sodium, Ammonia and other unhealthy contaminates. Also, Sand Land is not in compliance with New York State Environmental Law. EIGHTY-SEVEN times the State’s maximum threshold for Manganese! 87! Not twice the level or, say, four times the level. EIGHTY-SEVEN! Suppose I drove 87 times the speed limit or drove a car while impaired at 87 times the maximum blood alcohol level. Try as hard as you may, it is inconceivable getting to 87 times a maximum of anything. But Sand Land has!

The only thing more ridiculous than granting a demonstrably egregious polluter an extended permit to operate, is to believe the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going to aggressively monitor them. Where were they in the first place? It took local politicians to force the DEC to even look in to Sand Land’s operations.

The DEC is required to monitor water quality. Didn’t 87 times permitted levels catch their attention!

It may well be that the way to get the DEC’s attention is to threaten to vote-out the political leaders they report to.

So, here I go; Andrew Cuomo, the NYC DEC reports to you.

If you ever seek another political office, I will not vote for you. To Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and Lee Zeldin, you represent New Yorker’s interest nationally. I’ll not vote for your reelection if you don’t bring power to bear and shut down Sand Land. Fred Thiele, I truly applaud your anger at the DEC’s inconceivable decision. But, if you can’t cause the DEC to reverse their decision, sorry, I won’t again vote for you. Jay Schneiderman, sorry too, but you’ll never get my vote if that operation continues. To all, even though you have tried, you haven’t done your jobs. If you can’t shut down Sand Land now, I’m going to vote for someone who may.

Raymond Pride Noyac

Ban the Blowers Dear Editor Thank you for the great Karl Grossman article on leafblowers, the most useless, annoying machine ever made. It makes more mess than it cleans up and deafens everyone in the neighborhood. Ban them forever. They are an aggravating health hazard, and not good for the soil. Find some quiet way to deal with leaves. How about a rake?

Thanks for all the good work you do.

All best, Ruby Jackson Sag Harbor

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Ariel Howard “It was a total witch hunt. It’s obvious that they’re bitter after losing the election...they’re sore losers.”

Harris Rosen “I want to see the whole report; I can’t trust just the attorney general writing a four-page summary and only quoting only three lines from the actual report...that’s my thinking.”

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VOICES

A CONVERSATION WITH

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This week, 35 of you responded to our survey. This is what you had to say.

John Kowalenko, who owns the Art of Eating Catering company with his wife, Cheryl Stair, has picked up where he left off about 10 years ago by organizing another “Ladles of Love” fundraiser for local food pantries.

He spoke to The Sag Harbor Express about the event and the larger issue of hunger in the Hamptons.

The communities of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah will be officially recognized on the New York State Register of Historic Places after a decision last week by the New York State Historic Preservation Board. What do you think this will mean with regard to development in those neighborhoods going forward?

By Christine Sampson How pervasive is the problem of hunger here?

It’s a combination of things. It’s the time of year. There’s not a lot of work. Once the season comes, there’s less of a need, but right now people are not working. People from the pool companies and the restaurants and the service companies who support this community in season are all struggling right now. You’ll get a combination of people coming into the food pantry. It could be a friend you don’t realize is struggling, or a retired veteran or a senior citizen.

We get a lot of senior citizens coming in by bus. We’re trying to get people and families enough food to last a week to help them out. It’s amazing how many kids come down with their parents. I get emotional talking about this stuff.

How did you conceive the “Ladles of Love” event?

Let’s go back maybe 10 years ago, when we were not as involved with the food pantries as we are now. I knew that they were in desperate need. I just kept hearing about how much need there was because we were working with Island Harvest and delivering food. At the time we had the diner in Amagansett. We put together an event in January. I was out with a friend of mine, Enzo Morabito, and his wife Cathy. I wanted to do an event with soups and stews to feed everybody. I wanted to call it “Ladles” something. Cathy said why not “Ladles of Love?” Two snowstorms came through that week, but we ended up with about 300 people coming down. We had five local bands, 22 local restaurants. Everyone was doing stews and soups and chili.

It was extremely successful.

We raised $7,000. We gave money to 10 food pantries and brought in about 1,200 pounds of food. It was nice and warm under the tent, you wouldn’t even have known you were outside.

It was food-driven with the goal in mind of bringing awareness to the food pantries.

The demand on the food pantries is increasing and the budgets are not increasing as rapidly

Is this the start of an annual Ladles of Love?

This is kind of the beginning of bringing it back. It’s a simplified version of it at The Stephen Talkhouse.

What do the food pantries need?

The demand on the food pantries is increasing and the budgets are not increasing as rapidly. We had a shortfall this year because one of our big donors passed away and our winter appeal fell short. [Food pantry director] Vicki Littman said, ‘Why don’t you do the ‘Ladles of Love’ again?’

And we said ‘Yup, we’ll do it.’ There’s a lot of behind the scenes coordination that people don’t realize, but a lot of people behind the scenes are helping. We really lucked out because the Montauk Beach House really stepped up and gave us a $2,500 donation, which is paying for a lot of the operating expenses for the event and we’re very grateful for that. [Stephen Talkhouse owner] Peter Honerkamp donated the Talkhouse for that evening. It’s been a very good, supportive journey to reestablish awareness of the fact that there is hunger in the Hamptons.

“Ladles of Love,” a benefit for the East Hampton and Amagansett food pantries, is set for Friday, March 29, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse on Main Street in Amagansett. The goal is to raise $40,000 to cover a budget shortfall, according to a press release. Sponsored by the Montauk Beach House and Sound Aircraft Services, among others, the event will feature five bands, a silent auction, a 50/50 raffle and the first-ever “Supervisor’s Jam” — featuring music performed by East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc’s band, Supe du Jour, and the Southampton Town supervisor’s band, Jay Schneiderman and Friends. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by calling the East Hampton Food Pantry at (631) 324-2300.

• I think we need to stop the separation of communities.

• It will give some protection to the scale of the houses and protect owners from over development.

• Hopefully it will slow down development of mega houses by developers.

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By Susan Lamontagne

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magine a Marie Kondo spring cleaning on steroids.

Then multiply that ten-fold and you’ll have an inkling of what’s been going on in my house lately. After more than 20 years of patchwork-style spring cleanings, the kind where you donate some old clothes and throw the rest of the crap into boxes and bags to deal with later, an organizational tsunami has hit my house.

I was suddenly motivated — and for the first time in history had the time — to clean out every closet, drawer, cabinet, and box in my home. It started with a large pile of board of education materials that had accumulated over the past three years in a corner of my office — out. Next were the financial records clogging my filing cabinets that dated back to the Nixon Administration — shredded. The clothes were easy. If they hadn’t been worn in the last year they were promptly donated. Toys were next. They were not so easy as both my boys are now teenagers, so the departure of some of their playthings symbolized the loss of their childhood.

“You still want this?” I would ask as I held up the marble maze or the science kit or the Tonka trucks while they played on their X-box. “Nope,” said the older one without a glance. When I asked what they wanted me to do with the Pokemon cards and the Legos, the answer was decidedly different: “Might they be worth something someday?”

(Their grandfather still bemoans the fact that his mother tossed all of his baseball trading cards and he swears he had a Babe Ruth and a Ted Williams.) Many of the stuffed animals got nothing more than a shrug. Fortunately, some of them came alive during the night and moved from the “donate” pile back to the “keep” bin. No one is taking responsibility for the migration.

When I started to rifle through the basement storage closet, the real fun started. Wrapped in two plastic bags within another bag at the bottom of a giant bin was a journal I had kept shortly before and after the birth of my first child. The reason it was so well wrapped is that it was blanketed with soot from our home fire back in 2006 (thank you again Sag Harbor Village Fire Department!). The contamination didn’t stop the journal from revealing that our memories can be less than accurate.

“Last night you put us to the test with non-stop feedings and inconsolable cries,” reports the soot-covered journal.

has spelled out the practical effects.

• State grants will be available for home maintenance.

• Can only hope this will help curtail overdevelopment and expansion of buildings in these neighborhoods.

• It’s a good thing.

• Mid-century design triumphs, once again, as it should.

• People will not be able to buy two homes and knock them down to build a mega mansion.

• I hope it slows oversized homes.

• It is wonderful. Houses will be built according to neighborhood. GREAT. • Very difficult to renovate or tear down any existing houses.

• It is hard to say. A lot will depend on restrictions that might be imposed on new residents.

• Hopefully, it will make it harder for developers to build over-scale houses not in keeping with the character of the neighborhood.

“You don’t like to be fussed with and diaper changings are a nightmare!” Lines such as these had us in fits of laughter as we have long sworn the kid never cried and was the easiest baby ever. Later on, the journal reveals our son to be a “snacker” who likes to feed for about 10 minutes then fall asleep for 30, only to wake and repeat the cycle.

Our elderly neighbor, Alexandra, told us at the time that this pattern was unacceptable and we had to nip it in the bud. Her advice? “I would stab my babies in the foot with my thumb nail if they fell asleep while feeding,” she boasted. I never heeded her parenting advice and my son remains a snacker to this day.

Now the cleaning is almost complete. Cabinets and drawers are in perfect order. Closets are clutter free.

The boxes that remain in the basement storage closet are now labeled and their contents (what’s left of them) neatly arranged. It’s a sight to behold.

The house feels better. I feel better.

And there is actual science that confirms this.

For one thing, spring cleaning helps to reduce dust, which scientists have discovered is toxic. According to Rachel Dodson of the Silver Spring Institute, dust typically contains at least 45 toxic chemicals including phthalates, a hormone-disrupting chemical, phenols from cleaning and personal care products, flame retardants from furniture, computers and TVs, and highly fluorinated chemicals from non-stick cookware (we banished non-stick from our home long ago).

Children are at particular risk because they tend to crawl and play on the floor. To reduce exposure, Dodson and others say to clean floors with a damp mop and avoid buying furnishings and products treated with flame retardants.

Scientists have also found that cleaning is a proven “de-stressor” that can “improve your mood” according to Reader’s Digest. There are even hundreds of new Instagram channels devoted to the art of cleaning, including “Harriet” who says cleaning can help people to cope with conditions like OCD. But do it now while the skies are gray and the weather is dodgy. Only then will you discover your own spring cleaning surprises and be ready to enjoy the nice weather when it arrives.

The house feels better. I feel better. And there is actual science that confirms this.

SUSAN LAMONTAGNE is a health advocate and media consultant.

125 Years Ago March 29, 1894

Twenty-thousand bricks have been purchased of the East Hampton Lumber Company and delivery commenced yesterday, for that long talked of lockup in the Village of East Hampton.

The steamer Shelter Island on her Thursday and Monday trip took 46 packages of fish to New York, making 8,200 pounds and the railroad has taken the past week 155 boxes and 50 barrels, making 38,450 pounds.

100 Years Ago April 3, 1919

The Sag Harbor branch of the Red Cross at Sag Harbor has always proven herself not backward in coming forward in every good cause, on Tuesday of this week shipped off to the parent society 1,700 pounds of old but good clothing.

75 Years Ago March 30, 1944

We can well imagine that someone in Sag Harbor murmured “God Bless the Red Cross” last Tuesday evening when word was received through the agency of the American Red Cross that Frank Sabloski, last week reported missing, is safe, a prisoner in Germany. Frank, a wrist gunner in a Yankee bomber, was shot down over enemy territory, last February 25th. And although he is a prisoner in enemy hands, we know through the Red Cross that he is safe and the day cannot be too far off when he and his valiant brothers in arms will stand free again beneath the stars and stripes.

50 Years Ago March 28, 1968

The Sag Harbor Lions Club announced their intentions to purchase and

install playground equipment at Mashashimuet Park in the near future. The sum of $500 was appropriated for this project which the Lions hope will be the start of a program of community participation in the maintenance and expansion of the park facilities.

25 Years Ago March 31, 1994

A joint venture between the towns of East Hampton and Southampton as well as SUNY/Stony Brook Hospital and Southampton Hospital will bring an HIV and AIDS patient care clinic to the South Fork.

Southampton Town Supervisor Fred Thiele said, “The cooperation has been extraordinary. When that happens, good things follow.”

Representatives from LIACC (Long Island Association of AIDS Care), East End AIDS Wellness Project, East Hampton Town, Southampton Hospital and SUNY/ Stony Brook Hospital attended last Friday’s Southampton Town work session to explain the proposal.

University Hospital has applied for a $287,000 federal grant through the Ryan White Fund to fund the East End clinic, and Dr. Jack Fuhrer, Project Director is optimistic the funding will come through … Southampton and SUNY Stony Brook hospitals will provide the treatment while the towns of Southampton and East Hampton have agreed to pay for the space.

East Hampton Town Councilwoman Cathy Lester said Friday that East Hampton has considered several sites, including space at Goodfriend Park on Route 114 between East Hampton and Sag Harbor, which used to house medical offices and is centrally located. In addition, the Southampton Town Board will seek out locations in its town.

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Variances sought for projects nearly finished

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

The Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals last Tuesday began weighing variances for two properties, 8 Wilson Place and 19 Cuffee Drive, to legalize construction work that has already taken place.

In the case of 8 Wilson Place, belonging to Delia Brennen and Julio Leitao under the name of Sharon Jones Trust, a two-story, modern, cube-shaped house clad in black corrugated aluminum allegedly violates a zoning rule governing the height and mass of roofs, known as the pyramid law.

“The house went through many gyrations and things got lost in translation,” said architect Anne Sherry, who took responsibility for the mistake.

The Sag Harbor building inspector did not catch the mistake, either, and the building — which involved concrete components — was nearly complete before neighbors noticed something was amiss. According to zoning board documents, the pyramid violation would require a variance of around 4,000 cubic feet. The house would also need a two-foot side yard setback variance on one side to remain 13 feet from the property line where 15 feet is the normal distance required.

“I feel for the person who’s building it but it does not conform to the area,” said John Brannen, who lives across the street. “It’s another sore spot for our area because we’ve got a lot of properties that have been worked on.”

The zoning board told Ms. Sherry and Mr. Leitao they would need an as-built survey, a copy of the original building plans and other documentation before it would make any decisions, and tabled the application to its May 21 meeting.

In the case of 19 Cuffee Drive, builder Michael Brosnan himself brought

a mistake to the village’s attention. A surveyor had staked out the foundation incorrectly, he said, resulting in the house being built too close to the road. Two village inspections of the property, he said, did not pick up the error.

Mr. Brosnan told the zoning board he discovered the error as he was installing the septic system and was “baffled by how it got so tight” on the property. He said he ultimately realized the plans contained setback numbers for the wrong municipality. When he approached the village to legalize the house, the building inspector said he would need a new front yard setback variance to remain 23.8 feet from the lot line, where 35 feet is normally required. A side yard variance is also needed for the cellar entrance, which is 13.6 feet from the property line, where 15 feet is usually required.

“It’s crowding the street and that’s a problem,” ZBA member Robert Plumb said.

Mr. Brosnan, who said he is building the house to eventually sell it, suggested easing the impact of the error using creative landscaping.

His attorney, Alex Kriegsman, told the board, “It would be an enormous burden in cost to move this back. It appears closer right now because everything’s bare. There are other houses with the same setback.”

At the close of the hearing on 19 Cuffee Drive, Mr. Plumb said there’s “sort of an ongoing issue with people building things that are not on the plans.”

“What are we supposed to do? Just say it’s okay and then the next person does it and it’s okay again?” he said.

The zoning board ultimately asked for a landscaping plan from Mr. Brosnan and tabled the matter to its April 16 meeting.

Frederic Tuten will be leading a memoir workshop at the annual writers conference.

Writers are ready continued from page 5 ‘Oh what a great life I’ve had,’ and I don’t mean that at all. I mean the people I’ve known, the people who helped me.

“I wanted to have their memory preserved in some way, I wanted to have people know who they were, what they did, and how extraordinary they were,” he added. “Not famous people — people who are living very beautiful lives, honorable lives. And I wanted to tell that story.”

Poverty dominates much of Mr. Tuten’s earliest memories of growing up in the Bronx during the 1940s. At age 15, he dropped out of high school to pursue a life making art and dreaming of Paris. But first, the aspiring painter landed in Manhattan, working odd jobs and gathering friends, mentors and many girlfriends along the way.

“The Lower East Side in the ’60s, was an extraordinary period of creativity, a wealth of young people living there — not wealthy young people, wonderful young people from all over America, because the rents were affordable,” he recalled. “There were artists and poets in my building; it was a glamorous time.”

Mr. Tuten did eventually live in Paris and, not long after he returned, first

visited the East End and Mr. Lichtenstein, renting a home in Southampton to be closer to his friend. Now, more than 20 years since the pop artist’s death, Mr. Tuten’s portrait — painted

by North Haven-based artist Eric Fischl — still hangs in the family home, and the writer finds joy in relationships he’s made at the Southampton Writers Conference, he said.

“It’s warm, it’s inviting, it’s generous, it’s kind, and some of the people there are phenomenal, like Roger Rosenblatt and Amy Hempel,” Mr. Tuten said. “You see the roster of names — illustrious people, but deservedly so, not just the taste-of-the-moment writer. Solid writers, wonderful writers, and engaging.

That’s the part I love so much.

“I look forward to it,” he continued.

“When the summer’s over, I really miss it. I can’t wait to go back again.”

The 44th annual Southampton Writers Conference will be held from July 10 to 21 at Stony Brook Southampton, located at 39 Tuckahoe Road in Southampton. The deadline for the Local Voices Scholarship, open to East End residents, is April 2, and will cover a five-day workshop, as well as all lectures and readings, valued at $1,495. For costs, registration and scholarship information, visit stonybrook.edu/writers.

newly created district.

According to assistant town attorney Kathleen Murray, the petition needed to be signed by homeowners equaling at least 50 percent of the group’s assessed valuation, which is just over $23 million.

The signed petitioners, said Ms. Murray, have an assessed value of over $18 million, or 81 percent of the assessed valuation. The proposed cost to each of the 18 property owners is also based on assessed value and averages around $1,421 annually over 20 years. Four residents have not signed the petition supporting the creation of the district.

“When my family purchased and built the house, there were no lines on Noyac Road,” said Mr. Sander, who now owns his original family home in Bay Point and a neighboring parcel. “When they were finally put in it was somewhat devastating. It was always my family’s desire to see them buried.”

While many property owners spoke on Tuesday in support of the district, one of the residents who has not signed the petition is Joseph Hennessey, a longtime resident, former New Jersey firefighter and Korean War veteran. On Tuesday, his niece, Koral Gregor, spoke on behalf of her uncle.

“He is 87 years old,” she said. “He told me the poles do not bother him — they never have. But he doesn’t have the funds for this.”

At the close of public comment, Supervisor Jay Schneiderman asked Mr. Sander how the community was prepared to handle situations where seniors on fixed incomes would struggle to make the payment. Mr. Sander said the neighborhood would support Mr. Hennessey, if necessary, although Ms. Gregor said some of the benefits he receives could preclude that support.

While she acknowledged that the property value of her uncle’s property would likely increase, she said ultimately, her responsibility was to share her uncle’s wishes and present his concerns to the board.

With the understanding that Ms. Gregor and the neighborhood had largely committed to ensuring Mr. Hen-

nessey through the creation of the district, Mr. Schneiderman said he would support the creation of the district, citing the “extraordinary” support the neighborhood petition received. Both Councilmen John Bouvier and Tommy John Schiavoni — who sponsored the resolution — agreed, but the resolution failed to earn the support of either Ms. Lofstad or Ms. Scalera.

Call to Sue Over Sand Land In other town news, a group of residents from Noyac and Group for the East End President Bob DeLuca called on the Southampton Town Board to consider legal action over a recent settlement made by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation allowing Sand Land mine in Noyac to continue operation for eight years and excavate an additional 40 feet of sand vertically, although the mine is not allowed to grow horizontally during that period. Reclamation must occur two years after the mine closure, according to the settlement, and no vegetative waste can be processed on the site. It also mandates an independent third-party monitor to oversee the mine’s operations.

County testing results of surface waters and groundwater at the mine have shown the presence of the heavy metal manganese at 87 times the state threshold of 300 parts per billion, as well as elevated levels of cobalt, lead and arsenic.

“I am asking you to sue the pants off the DEC,” said Elena Loreto, president of the Noyac Civic Council. “Second, Southampton Town must condemn the DEC’s recent issuance of another permit.” Ms. Loreto also called for the town to pass a resolution allowing it to conduct its own groundwater monitoring on the Sand Land site.

Board members said they were unanimous in their support of the Civic Council’s position.

“The question of suing the DEC is something we will take under advisement — it is something we are looking at,” said Mr. Schneiderman. “I absolutely support monitoring of groundwater, a very tough regimen and not what the DEC has required. Three wells on a 50acre site is ridiculous.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 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.

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

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LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/02/18.

Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to the LLC, 2A Hudson Ave, Shelter Island, NY 11964. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

6x3/14/19-4/18/19 PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven will hold a public hearing on the 2nd day of April 2019, at 5:00 P.M., at the Village Hall, Ferry Road, North Haven, New York, to consider the adoption of a Local Law as follows: LOCAL LAW NO. OF 2019 A LOCAL LAW TO OVERRIDE THE TAX LEVY LIMIT ESTABLISHED IN GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW § 3-c BE IT ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTH HAVEN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. PURPOSE. It is the intent of this local law to allow the Village to adopt a budget for the fiscal year commencing June 1, 2019 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the “tax levy limit” as defined by General Municipal Law § 3-c.

SECTION 2. AUTHORITY. This local law is adopted pursuant to subdivision 5 of General Municipal Law § 3-c, which expressly authorizes a local government’s governing body to override the property tax cap for the coming fiscal year by the adoption of a local law approved by a vote of sixty percent (60%) of said governing body.

SECTION 3. TAX LEVY LIMIT OVERRIDE. The Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to adopt a budget for the fiscal year commencing June 1, 2019 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the amount otherwise prescribed in General Municipal Law § 3-c.

SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY. If a court determines that any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or the application thereof to any

person, firm or corporation, or circumstance is invalid or unconstitutional, the court’s order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this local law, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or in its application to the person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.

SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.

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

Dated: March 12, 2019

By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Village of North Haven BY: Eileen M Tuohy Clerk/Treasurer 2x3/21/19 - 3/28/19 PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that pursuant to Chapter 285 (Wetlands) of the Village Code of the Village of Sag Harbor, the Harbor Committee of the Village of Sag Harbor will hold a public hearing on April 8, 2019 at 5:00 P.M. at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York, or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in order to consider the following application: 1. Wetlands Permit Application of 88 Redwood Road LLC for premises located at 88 Redwood Road, Sag Harbor, New York (SCTM #903-1-3-4) for construction of an addition to an existing dwelling, improvement to an existing deck, installation of a swimming pool and reconstruct a dock on residentially developed property along Sag Harbor Cove.

2. Wetlands Permit Application of Steven Fishman for premises located at 80 Redwood Road, Sag Harbor, New York (SCTM #903-1-

3-7) for construction of a two-story, three bedroom dwelling with a carport, decking and swimming pool and to install a septic system and dock assembly.

Any person wishing to be heard on said applications may appear at the time and place of the hearing, in person, by attorney or agent, or may submit written comments on the same, which comments shall be delivered to the Office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Sag Harbor, at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York before or at the hearing.

Copies of the applications may be obtained and are available for public review during normal business hours (9:00 A.M. – 4 P.M.) at the Office of the Building Department of the Village of Sag Harbor. The Village of Sag Harbor provides handicapped access to all public meetings. Anyone needing special assistance should contact William D. Yardley, Handicapped Access Coordinator at (631)725-0222.

Dated: March 18, 2019 Doris Alvarez, Clerk to the Harbor Committee

By Order of the Village Harbor Committee Of the Village of Sag Harbor 1x3/28/19 PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that pursuant to Chapter 285 (Wetlands) of the Village Code of the Village of Sag Harbor, the Harbor Committee of the Village of Sag Harbor will hold a public hearing on April 8, 2019 at 5:00 pm at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York, or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in order to consider the following application: 1. Wetlands Permit Application of Paul Glickman for premises located at 4 West Water Street, Sag Harbor, New York (SCTM #903-2-2-2) for installation of an aboveground 8’ x 10’ hot tub in an existing deck and an associated drywell.

Any person wishing to be heard on said application may appear at the time and place of the hearing, in person, by attorney

or agent, or may submit written comments on the same, which comments shall be delivered to the Office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Sag Harbor, at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York before or at the hearing.

Copies of the applications may be obtained and are available for public review during normal business hours (9:00 A.M. – 4 P.M.) at the Office of the Building Department of the Village of Sag Harbor. The Village of Sag Harbor provides handicapped access to all public meetings. Anyone needing special assistance should contact William D. Yardley, Handicapped Access Coordinator at (631)725-0222.

Dated: March 21, 2019 Doris Alvarez, Clerk to the Harbor Committee

By Order of The Village Harbor Committee of The Village of Sag Harbor 1x3/28/19 NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION of 81 DAVID WHITES LANE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on October 26, 2018. Office located in Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to JORDAN & LEVERRIER P.C., 257 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, New York 11937. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

6x3/28/19 - 5/2/19 MEETING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Architectural Review and Historic Preservation of the Village of North Haven will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., in the Meeting Room, North Haven Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New York on the following applications: Von Hagn, SCTM#: 901-1-128.1, revegetation; Levene, SCTM#: 901-62-51, modification to previously approved deck, Maslin, SCTM#: 901-1-3-4, construct utility enclosure; Maunakea Associates LLC, SCTM#: 901-6-3-8.2, proposed new construction of a 2 story single-family

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dwelling, detached 2-car garage, pool and pool house. And any other matters, which may come before the Board.

Erika Gubitosi, Secretarial Assistant North Haven Board of Architectural Review & Historical Preservation 1x3/28/19 NOTICE TO BIDDERS SEALED BIDS will be received by the Village Clerk of the Village of Sag Harbor at 55 Main Street, P.O. Box 660, Sag Harbor, New York, 11963 until Friday, April 26, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at which time they will be publicly opened and read and the Contract awarded as soon thereafter as practicable for the following project: LONG WHARF REHABILITATION A refundable bid deposit of $100.00 will be required for a copy of the plans, specifications and contract documents. Drawings and specifications may be examined and obtained at the Village Hall, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays on or after Friday, March 29, 2019.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond, made payable to the Village of Sag Harbor in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid.

Attention of bidders is directed to the requirement as to conditions of affirmative action, conditions of equal opportunity employment and the minimum wage rates to be paid under the contract.

The Village reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities therein and to accept the bid which, in its opinion, is in the best interests of the Village of Sag Harbor.

By Order of the Board of Trustees Of the Village of Sag Harbor Beth M. Kamper, Clerk-Administrator 1x3/28/19

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Community Sag Harbor Art Night: Celebrate Women’s History Month

The John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street in Sag Harbor, will hold “Art Night: Celebrate Women’s History Month,” on Thursday, March 28, from 7 to 8 p.m. In this workshop, guests will celebrate the diverse creativity of famous women artists and share ideas about what you see in their artworks before creating their own painted-collage masterpiece inspired by Springs artist Lee Krasner.

To register, call (631) 725-0049.

CELEBRATING A MULTITUDE OF CULTURES

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Irina Kercheval and her brother Jake serve up traditional Romanian stuffed cabbage during the annual Multicultural Night celebration at Pierson High School on Friday, March 22.

School News Hayground Students Are Budding Authors

Students in Marybeth Pacilio and Helene Necroto’s class at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton have worked hard to revise, edit and type their writing work last week in advance of submitting their books to the Hampton Library for its annual “Budding Authors” event. Some of the student’s titles include, “The Adventures of the Mixed Up Twins,” “The Three Dark Mermaids,” “Icy Fang,” and “My Favorite Activists.” Based on their preference, each student learned how to make a “Chinatown Accordion” book or to bind their book using a five hole “pamphlet stitch.”

Throughout the process they have been using traditional bookbinding tools such as bone folders, awls, and drafting triangles.

In addition to our bookmaking, the children have been putting their

finishing touches on their activist portraits, which will be included in an end-of-year class publication. The next, and final phase of our activist project will be what we are calling the “application phase”, whereby the children will identify issues of concern to them, and consider how we can use our own lives to bring about positive change in our community.

Bridgehampton School Announces Kindergarten Screening

The Bridgehampton School will hold its kindergarten screening for children in the district who will be five years old by December 1, 2019 on May 17. According to district officials, this will be the only day for screening, which is by appointment only. Residents should contact Barbara Palermo at (631) 998-1325 to make an appointment and should pick up a packet for screening in advance of May 17.

Obituaries A llan F. Mortensen

Allan F. Mortensen, who lived most of his life in Sag Harbor, died at Sunrise Assisted Living in Holbrook, where he had been for the past three years, on March 24. He was 83 years old.

Born in Sag Harbor on July 31, 1935, he was the son of Allan C. and Margaret Mortensen.

Mr. Mortensen was the owner of Peerless Marine in North Haven until his retirement and the business was taken over by his nephew.

A graduate of Pierson High School, he had served with the U.S. Army and was a supply sergeant for the National Guard for many years.

Mr. Mortensen loved everything about the waterfront, and enjoyed boating, fishing, water skiing, target shooting and photography. He also enjoyed radio controlled airplanes and helicopters and was president of

the Suffolk Falcons model aeronautics club for 17 years.

In addition Mr. Mortensen was a member of the American Legion, the National Rifle Association and the Southampton Rifle Club.

Mr. Mortensen was predeceased by a brother, Wayne. He is survived by sisters Joan Gucker (George) and Margaret Fiigon (Joseph), both of Sag Harbor. He is also survived by two nieces and four nephews.

Visiting will be at Yardley & Pino Funeral Home on Friday, March 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 30, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Andrew R.C. Church.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorial donations be made to the American Diabetes Association or the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

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Paint Eggs at The Wharf Shop

The Wharf Shop, 69A Main Street in Sag Harbor, will host Easter egg painting on Saturday, March 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your hard-boiled egg to decorate with the Wharf Shop’s egg spinning machine. For more information, call (631) 725-0420.

Amagansett Ladles of Love

“Ladles of Love,” a benefit for the Amagansett and East Hampton food pantries, will be held on Friday, March 29, from 7 to 11 p.m., at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.

The goal is to raise $40,000 that the organization is short via their appeal letters. The event will feature five bands, a silent auction, a 50/50 raffle and merchandise from Polar. In the first ever Supervisor’s jam, East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and his band and Jay Schniederman

PUBLIC AGENDA THURS MAR 28 Sag Harbor Village Board of Historic Preservation & Architectural Review, 5 p.m., Sag Harbor Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0222 or sagharborny. gov.

FRI MAR 29 Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees, 4 p.m. budget meeting including the presentation of the tentative budget, Sag Harbor Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0222 or sagharborny.gov.

MON APR 1 Sag Harbor Board of Education, 6:30 to 7:30 budget and education meeting, Pierson Middle-High School Library, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-5300 or sagharborschools.org.

TUES APR 2 East Hampton Town Board, 10 a.m. work session, East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton. (631) 324-4141 or ehamptonny.gov.

THURS APR 4 East Hampton Town Board, 6:30 p.m. regular meeting, East Hampton Town Hall, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton. (631) 324-4141 or ehamptonny.gov.

and Friends will at some point share the stage. A simple delicious dish of Rice and Beans w/corn bread from Art of Eating catering will be served with admission. Tickets are $35 and can be reserved by contacting the East Hampton Food Pantry at (631) 324-2300.

Religion Service Time Change at Old Whalers’ Church

The First Presbyterian Old Whalers’ Church is located at 44 Union Street in Sag Harbor, and will now host Sunday services at 11 a.m.

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

“A Living Legacy: Voices from Alabama” at UUCSF

On Sunday, March 31, at 10:30 a.m., the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork will host services, “A Living Legacy: Voices from Alabama” with speaker Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson, worship assistant Margaret Pulkingham and musicians Peter Weiss and John Ludlow. Alabama is the site of many major contestations of the 20th century civil rights movement. This year, members of the Unitarian Universalist community have had the opportunity to visit Alabama to learn more about our living legacy.

This week, those members will share their experiences in Alabama, featuring Rev. Johnson, Carol and David Hol-

stein and Michael Daly.

For more information, visit uucsf. org.

Shabbat Temple Adas Israel

Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will hold Shabbat evening services on Friday, March 29, at 6 p.m., followed by Oneg Shabbat. Shabbat morning services are on Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m., followed by Kiddush. Torah study with Rabbi Dan Geffen is at noon.

For further information visit the Temple’s website, www.TempleAdasIsrael.org, email Eileen Moskowitz, Temple Administrator at adasisrael11963@optonline.net or call the office at (631) 725-0904.

Shabbat at Center For Jewish Life

The Center for Jewish Life in Sag Harbor will hold its weekly evening Shabbat on Friday, March 29 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a community Shabbat dinner. Shabbat morning service and Torah discussion is on Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m., followed by Kiddush lunch.

For more information, visit cfjewishlife.com.

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Cooper Cooper Schiavoni Schiavoni knows knows his his time time is now.

Gone are Tyler LaBorne is now. Gone are Tyler LaBorne and and Sam Sam Warne, Warne, who who held held down down the the top top of of the the pitching pitching rotation rotation for for the the PierPierson/Bridgehampton son/Bridgehampton baseball baseball team team in in recent recent years. years. Since Since they they both both graduated, graduated, this this year’s year’s team team belongs belongs to to Schiavoni, Schiavoni, who who will will fill fill the the roles roles of starting shortstop and ace of starting shortstop and ace pitcher pitcher for for his his senior senior season season at at Pierson.

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Southold Southold starter starter Brendan Brendan Duffy, Duffy, who is just a freshman, who is just a freshman, held held Pierson Pierson scoreless scoreless through through the the first first three three ininnings.

But after the Settlers nings. But after the Settlers scored scored aa run run in in the the top top of of the the fourth fourth inning, inning, the Whalers responded the Whalers responded with with five five runs runs in in the the bottom bottom of of the the fourth fourth to to knock knock Duffy Duffy from from the the game. game. Pierson Pierson added added four four more more runs runs in in the the bottom bottom of of the the sixth sixth inning inning and and Matt Matt Hall Hall closed closed out out the the game game for for Pierson Pierson with with aa pair pair of of strikeouts strikeouts in in the the seventh. seventh.

Pierce Summers led Pierce Summers led Pierson Pierson at at the the plate, plate, going going 2-for-4 2-for-4 with with aa two two RBIs RBIs and and aa pair pair of of runs runs scored. scored. Christian Christian Pantina, Pantina, an an eighth-grader eighth-grader who who startstarted ed his his first first varsity varsity game game at at second second base, base, picked picked up up two two hits hits as as well well as as the the Whalers Whalers benefited benefited from from producproduction tion across across their their entire entire lineup. lineup.

Pierson Pierson and and Southold, Southold, longtime longtime Suffolk Suffolk County County Class Class C C baseball baseball rivals, rivals, originally originally weren’t weren’t even even supsupposed posed to to play play each each other other during during

the the regular regular season. season. Last Last year year both both the Whalers and Settlers the Whalers and Settlers competed competed in in League League IX, IX, but but since since then then GreenGreenport dropped its varsity team, port dropped its varsity team, Mercy Mercy High High School School closed closed its its doors, doors, Stony Stony Brook Brook decided decided to to compete compete against against other other private private schools schools and and Port Port JefJefferson moved up to Class B. ferson moved up to Class B. Pierson Pierson and and Southold Southold are are the the last last of of the the Class Class C schools, so meeting in the C schools, so meeting in the regular regular season season was was too too important important to to pass pass up. up.

So coaches Jonathan Schwartz So coaches Jonathan Schwartz of of Pierson Pierson and and Greg Greg Tulley Tulley of of Southold Southold agreed agreed to to schedule schedule aa pair pair of of “non“nonleague” league” games games against against each each other other to to start start the the season, season, the the first first of of which which was was on on Monday.

Monday. Pierson Pierson will will travel travel to Southold for the second to Southold for the second game game this this Friday, Friday, March March 29, 29, at at 4:30 4:30 p.m. p.m.

Now Now competing competing in in aa revamped revamped League League VIII VIII with with mostly mostly Class Class B B schools, the Whalers will play schools, the Whalers will play their their first first three-game three-game series series of of the the season season against defending state against defending state champion champion Center Center Moriches Moriches starting starting on on MonMonday, April 1, at Center Moriches day, April 1, at Center Moriches at at 4:30 4:30 p.m. p.m. The The second second game game of of the the seseries ries will will be be played played at at Mashashimuet Mashashimuet Park Park on on Tuesday, Tuesday, also also at at 4:30 4:30 p.m. p.m.

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Girls Lacrosse

Outdoors

Bitis Returns with Newfound Hope

BY AL “BIG TIME” DANIELS

Spring Has Sprung

After missing her junior season, Pierson senior is now “100 percent” for Lady Bonackers

BY GAVIN MENU

Emma Rascelles and Tiana Treadwell.

And, of course, there’s Bitis, Sanna’s It was the first week of practice senior co-captain.

“She’s one of our leaders and she and the start of her junior lacrosse season when Sophia Bitis felt her left really gets the girls motivated,” said knee snap. It was March 9, 2018, and Sanna, who now works as a teacher Bitis wouldn’t play competitive high in the district and is committed to school lacrosse again until just a few growing the program from the varsity team down to the youth league. weeks ago.

Now the Pierson senior is back to “We have a great group of girls. We her usual self, running attack for the have a really young program but East Hampton girls lacrosse team and we’re happy with the effort they’re leading the Lady Bonackers into the putting in.”

Prior to her injury, Bitis had her next phase of program development.

“I tore my ACL and meniscus so sights set on playing Division I lacrosse early in the season that I never even but needed that all-important junior season to prove her got to scrimmage my game was worthy. own team,” Bitis said That all changed in following an 18-8 a moment, and now loss to Longwood at her focus has shifted East Hampton High somewhat.

School on Saturday “Missing junior morning. “I got reseason was brutal. ally lucky because That’s the year you my recovery was easget recruited,” Bitis’s ier than I thought it mom, Stephanie, was going to be and said. “But is she gowas I back on the ing to play in colfield in exactly six lege? Yes.” months even though Bitis said her top my surgeon told me choice at the moit would be nine ment in Division III months to a year, at Chapman University least. in Los Angeles, where “Instead of going she visited over the to lacrosse practice, winter break and I would go to physiPIERSON SENIOR “fell in love” with cal therapy, six days SOPHIA BITIS the school. a week, sometimes “In terms of playeven twice a day, for ing in college, my six months,” she added. “The most challenging part was injury couldn’t have happened at a staying positive through the whole worse time,” she admitted. “After I got process. It was hard for me to sit on hurt, I started doubting that I would the sideline and watch when, my reach my goal of playing in college. whole life, I was on the field or court Lacrosse is a sport that begins recruitplaying. But I knew I had my senior ing for college very early, so going into year to look forward to so that gave my junior season uncommitted made me put a lot of pressure on myself. me a lot of motivation.”

Head coach Jessica Sanna has re- When I got hurt I assumed my chancturned to the team after a one-year hi- es were done.”

Bitis said her mom and Pierson Midatus and expects the Lady Bonackers, who are ranked near the bottom of dle School principal Brittany Carriero 24 teams in Division II, to be competi- helped push along the recruitment tive. A big boost, she said, comes from process and found Chapman, which the Pierson players. There’s Grace has a beautiful athletic facility and Perello, a sophomore who scored five field right at the heart of the campus. goals against Longwood on Saturday, Bitis originally had her sights set on

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Pierson senior Sophia Bitis, at left, looks to breakthrough for a goal against Longwood on Saturday.

Stetson University in Florida, but that is a Division I program, and, in the end, a connection was never made.

Despite those challenges, and after watching her team play a full season from the sideline, Bitis, who attended every home game for the remainder of her junior season, has returned hungrier than ever.

“It was incredibly hard,” she said about missing last season. “Lacrosse has been my favorite sport since elementary school, and I went into my junior season with a lot of expectations for myself and my team. To have that all gone within three days was really hard.

“We have an extremely young varsity team this year with almost the whole team being in the 10th grade or younger,” she continued as the conver-

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South Fork BoyS oFF to rocky Start in DiviSion i Play The South Fork boys lacrosse team, which includes players from East Hampton, Southampton, Bridgehampton, Pierson and the Ross School, is off to a tough start in its

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The Lady Bonackers will host Islip on Thursday, March 28, at East Hampton High School at 4:30 p.m. and Babylon on April 2 at the same time.

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Osprey numbers have increased, and sightings are common. On the warmer days, peepers can be heard singing in the woodland ponds. There are rumors of alewives being seen locally.

Some of the ospreys have been seen with alewives. A couple of striped bass have been caught in the usual early-season locations.

There is news of some holdover bass further to the west.

Freshwater fisherman have been active. Perch, pickerel and largemouth bass have been caught. Remember largemouth bass are not in season yet. There are also reports of Southampton Town planning to stock Trout Pond with trout. Remember the trout season opens April 1.

There were more good tides this week for the clammers. Hard and soft clams are still available with a few oysters in the mix.

Still very limited reports are coming from the ocean fishing boats.

A charter boat to the west found 18 cod on some of the wrecks. A few ling were in the mix as well.

Some of the large boats will be heading to the haddock and codfish grounds to the north.

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“Mountain Interval PLATE 41 #12s, Swiss Alps, April 2016,” by Renate Aller.

hen Renate Aller walked through her front door in New York, she found her husband waiting expectantly.

“How long does it take you to pack?” he asked her hurriedly.

“For what?” she replied.

“For a mountain.”

“Umm, two hours?” she said. “And that’s pushing it.”

He paused. “Well … How about one hour?”

The German-born photographer took a deep breath, focused and immediately grabbed her winter clothes, boots and camera gear, shoving them into her luggage. The Bernese Alps were calling and the couple knew they wouldn’t wait. The time to go was now.

“The reason we had to go that day is I was going to take a picture of the Eiger, a very famous mountain, and it’s one of the most difficult mountains to climb. So the only way to take a photo of it is you have to go onto a mountain across, which is called First,” Aller explained during a recent telephone interview. “And they were about to close their lift service.”

Jetlagged in Switzerland, they scrambled out of bed the next morning, just nearly catching the final lift of the season. Aller set up her camera and was snapping the coveted photos of Eiger — the ones she craved for years — when she turned her head to the left.

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“Ocean | Desert #5, Colorado Great Sand Dunes, May 2013,” by Renate Aller.

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Going All the Way With LBJ Digging into and reexamining the contributions of the nation’s 36th president

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Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Johnson in the film “All the Way.”

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t is nearly impossible to escape the shadow of Lyndon B. Johnson in Texas — and as a young boy, playwright Robert Schenkkan never tried.

The 36th president of the United States was his childhood hero.

Growing up in the heart of Austin — Johnson’s birthplace and hometown — Schenkkan was never far from the LBJ Presidential Library or the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and “everyone you ran into knew LBJ or had a handful of LBJ stories,” he said, including his parents.

“When I grew up in my house, LBJ was one of the good guys,” Schenkkan said.

The family cheered on the incumbent

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through the Johnson-Galore election. But just two years later, relations in Vietnam “ramped up in an extraordinary manner,” he said. And the eldest Schenkkan brother was nearing draft age.

“Suddenly, I didn’t feel so good about him,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright said of Johnson. “And that idea would dominate my thinking for a long time, until I left college and began my career in New York, started a family and began to realize how many government programs were helpful to me — and had their origin in the Great Society.”

Schenkkan reevaluated the president and the ambitious set of programs he spearheaded in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. He celebrated his aspirations and triumphs, and recognized his failures. The presidency was a

job Johnson deeply wanted, but not by way of the 20th amendment — catapulting him into the White House in the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

For his play, “All the Way,” Schenkkan narrowed his focus to this very year — one stoked by enormous stakes and tremendous conflict among strong-willed, shrewd, brilliant politicians, he said — and will discuss the subsequent film adaptation following a screening on Sunday, March 31, at Pierson High School, as part of the Sag Harbor Cinema’s “Present Tense” series.

“It’s a brilliant play and Robert’s a brilliant writer, who is new to the East End, and Lyndon Johnson has become a conversation

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MARCH 28, 2019

The Current OUTDOORS SAT MAR 30 Hither Woods Hike, 10 a.m., meet at the Hither Hills West Overlook off Route 27, 1 mile east of the Montauk Highway/Old Montauk Highway split, Montauk. (914) 227-6193.

Annual “Dancing with Daffodils” Rite of Spring, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., meet at the Elizabeth A. Morton Wildlife Refuge, Noyac, $4. (631) 725-3942.

Observe Wintering Seals, 10 a.m., also Sunday, March 31, at 11 a.m., meet at Montauk Point concession building, 2000 Old Montauk Highway, Montauk, $4 and free for children under age 3, reservations required. (631) 668-5000.

SUN MAR 31 Tuckahoe Woods Hike, 10 a.m., meet at the Kurt Billing kiosk on Sebonac Road, Southampton. (631) 204-7821.

FOR THE KIDS THU MAR 28 Chess Club, 4 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

FRI MAR 29 Baby Playtime, 10:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Freestyle Fridays, 3 to 5 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Family Art Day: “Title Art,” 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration requested. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

Guests dig into “Starting Seeds at the Farm” at Quail Hill in Amagansett.

STARTING SEEDS Help Quail Hill Farm get a head start on this year’s crops by planting a variety of seeds in trays destined for the greenhouse, alongside farm manager Layton Guenther, on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Amagansett farm — and then return on May 18 to transplant the seedlings into the fields. Admission is free. For more information, call (631) 283-3195 or visit peconiclandtrust.org.

SAT MAR 30 The Great Play Date, 10 a.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, weather permitting. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Goat on a Boat @ Bay Street Theater Presents “The Chicken Show,” 11 a.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $15. (631) 725-4193 or goatonaboat.org.

“Getting Ready to Babysit” Class, 1 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Munch and Books: “The Magician’s Elephant” by Kate DiCamillo, 2 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

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SUN MAR 31 “The Language of Trees: Let’s Create Poet-Tree,” 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

DIY Spa Day: Sugar Scrub and Hand Sanitizer, 1:15 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

MON APR 1 Teen Writing Workshop: Grade 8 to 12, 5:15 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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

TUE APR 2 Coding Club, 3:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

Maker Kit: My Intent, 3:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration requested. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

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

WED APR 3 Interactive Music and Fun for Toddlers, 10 a.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration required. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Start to Art, 11:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, caregiver required. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

Kids Club @SAC: Puppets 2.0 with Liz Joyce, 4 p.m., Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, $10, registration required. (631) 283-0967 or southamptonartscenter.org.

Epic Origami, 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration required. (631) 5370015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Live Animal Presentation, 4 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

THU APR 4 Baby Beats, 10:45 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Chess Club, 4 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

Teen Community Service Club, 6 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

STAGE & SCREEN THU MAR 28 “Man of La Mancha,” 7 p.m., additional performances on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., with a matinee on April 6 at 2:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m., through April 7, Quogue Community Hall, 125 Jessup Avenue, Quogue, $40, $35 for seniors except Saturday nights, $30 for under age 35 and $20 for students under age 21. (866) 811-4111 or hamptontheatre. org.

FRI MAR 29 2019 Oscar Spotlight: “Minding the Gap,” 7 p.m., Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, $10 or $7 for Friends of SAC. (631) 283-0967 or southamptonartscenter.org.

SAT MAR 30 The Met Live in HD: Wagner’s “Die Walküre,” 12 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $22, $20 for members and $15 for students.

(631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

Screening: “The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Ferrand,” 3:30 p.m., LTV Stu-

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Road, Southampton. (631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

“The Five Questions: A Search into Self” with Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson, 5:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Writers Speak Wednesdays: Amy Hempel and Julia Slavin, 7 p.m., Duke Lecture Hall in Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton, 39 Tuckahoe Road, Southampton, free. (631) 632-5030 or stonybrook.edu/mfa.

THU APR 4 Author Talk: “Big Guns” by Steve Israel, 5:30 p.m., Seasons of Southampton, 15 Prospect Street, Southampton, $70. (631) 324-4637 or lwvhamptons. org.

EVENTS & MEETINGS

HeavenSent

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God’s Choir Gospel music group HeavenSent will perform on Saturday, March 30, at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater, located at 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor.

Advance tickets are $30, or $40 at the door. For more information, call (631) 725-9500 or visit baystreet.org.

doors open at 6 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $59. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

LECTURES & CLASSES

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The cast of “Die Walküre.”

THE VALKIRIE Get a front-row seat to Wagner’s “Die Walküre” — via “The Met Live in HD” — on Saturday, March 30, at 12 p.m. at Guild Hall, located at 158 Main Street in East Hampton. Tickets are $22, $20 for members and $15 for students. For more information, call (631) 324-0806 or visit guildhall.org.

dios, 75 Industrial Road, Wainscott, $10. Hahgarden.org.

SUN MAR 31 “Present Tense” Series: “All the Way” with Robert Schenkkan, 3 p.m., Pierson High School auditorium, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor, $15 suggested donation. Sagharborcinema.org.

WED APR 3 Wednesday Films: “The Little Stranger,” 1 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

GALLERIES & MUSEUMS FRI MAR 29 Bastienne Schmidt: “Grids and Threads” Book Signing and Conversation with Terrie Sultan, 6 p.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

MON APR 1 On View: Dan Rizzie, opening reception April 14, 1:30 to 3 p.m., on view through April 30, John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

MUSIC & NIGHT LIFE THU MAR 28 All For Alabama: A Benefit Relief Concert for Tornado Victims, 7 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag

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Harbor, $25 suggested donation. (631) 725-9500 or baystreet.org.

FRI MAR 29 Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Band, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $39 or $45. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

SAT MAR 30 The Platters, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $49 or $59. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater. com.

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

Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks, 8 p.m., Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, $30. (631) 288-1500 or whbpac.org.

SUN MAR 31 TUSK: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Experience, 7:30 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $45 or $49. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater. com.

WED APR 3 “Music in the Morning” with the Tom & Lisa Band, 10:30 a.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

THU APR 4 Under the Streetlamp with Cast Members of “Jersey Boys” and More,

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THU MAR 28 “Pierson v. Post: The Sagaponack Foxhunting Case that Made Legal History” with Angela Fernandez, 11 a.m., Rogers Mansion, 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 2832494 or southamptonhistory.org.

FRI MAR 29 Adult Chess Class, 11:30 a.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration requested. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

SAT MAR 30 “New York’s Great White Shark Nursery: Research Advances and Future Plans” with Tobey Curtis, 2 p.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-9735 or sofo. org.

“Marie Curie’s Life and Work” with Edward Sierra, 2 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

SUN MAR 31 “Long Island Grown VI: Food and Beverage Artisans at Work” with Peter Haskell, Cori Anne Kopke and Carolyn Iannone, 2 p.m., Bridge Gardens, 36 Mitchell Lane, Bridgehampton, $40 or $30 for members, registration required. (631) 283-3195 or peconiclandtrust.org/bridgegardens.

“A Shakespeare Sampler” with Rosemary Cline and Andrew Botsford, 3 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton. (631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

TUE APR 2 Winter Lecture Series Part Four: “The History of Our Local Edible Oyster” with Mark Cappellino, 4 p.m., Peconic Landing Community Center, 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, free, reservations requested. (631) 765-5500 or southoldhistoricalsociety.org.

English Conversation Class, 5 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 7250049 or johnjermain.org.

WED APR 3 Author Talk: “An Accidental Corpse”

by Helen Harrison, 12 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm

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THU MAR 28 Early Risers’ Book Club: “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng, 9 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Art Night: Celebrate Women’s History Month, 7 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Lighten Your Load Book Club, 7 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration requested. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

FRI MAR 29 “Ladles of Love” Food Pantry Fundraiser, 7 to 11 p.m., The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett, $35. (631) 324-2300.

THE GREAT WHITE Join Tobey Curtis for the talk “New York’s Great White Shark Nursery: Research Advances and Future Plans” on Saturday, March 30, at 2 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum, located at 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton. For more information, call (631) 537-9735 or visit sofo.org.

SAT MAR 30 Starting Seeds at the Farm with Layton Guenther, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., transplant seeds on May 18, Quail Hill Farm, park on Deep Lane, Amagansett, free. (631) 283-3195 or peconiclandtrust.org.

SUN MAR 31 Podcasts with a Side of Coffee Sundays: “StarTalk: The Science of Storytelling,” 3 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

MON APR 1 Rogers Memorial Library Walking Group, 9:30 a.m., meet outside Cooper Hall at Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton.

(631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

East Hampton Trails Preservation Society General Membership Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Ashawagh Hall, 730 SpringsFireplace Road, Springs. Ehtps.org.

TUE APR 2 DIY Chapbook, 5 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

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ON ART Helen A. H arrison

Epic Abstraction at the Met

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ver since 1950, when the so-called Irascible Eighteen protested the Metropolitan Museum’s lack of interest in contemporary art, the Met has been playing catch-up. Things improved under the aegis of curators Robert Beverly Hale and Henry Geldzahler, and some recent acquisitions signal that the museum is making an effort to keep up with the times. But the current show, “Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera,” covering the period from the 1940s to the present and drawn primarily from the permanent collection, is an illustration of why the Met is known for its scattershot approach to modern art.

The first problem, even before you enter the galleries, is the show’s title.

How is epic defined? Clearly not in the dictionary sense, or even coherently in the introductory text. Is it about expansive ideas and subjects (broad), or existential concerns of the self (narrow)? The installation does nothing to resolve that dichotomy.

Nor does one or the other of those two extremes apply to all, or even most, of the works on view. Frankly, apart from the obvious candidates and some that could arguably qualify HELEN A. HARRISON is the director of the Pollock Krasner House and Study Center in Springs.

in spite of their modest size, a lot of the choices left me perplexed, not least the subtitle closer.

Much as I admire Carmen Herrera’s work, shown so beautifully at the Whitney a few years ago, I fail to see why she was picked to bracket the selection. Her long career is epic by any definition, but her individual canvases are not. The single painting at the Met — one of the works on loan from private collectors — is a fine example of her geometric style, but it hardly represents a monumental artistic statement. Pollock, on the other hand, is the obvious choice to begin such a survey, and the Met owns an exceptional cluster of four major canvases. They are followed, in canonical fashion, by a gorgeous room of Rothkos, as if to establish the benchmark against which the rest of the show must be measured.

Fortunately the canon is disrupted by a terrific 1958 action painting, also on loan, by Gutai artist Kazuo Shiraga, who painted with his feet while hanging from a rope. It’s a bit misleading to pair him with Pollock, as if their approaches were similar, which they weren’t, but it does show that expressive abstraction had international ramifications in the postwar decade and beyond. And at the center of the Rothko room, “Kouros,” a powerful 1945 sculpture by Isamu

Willem de Kooning, “Easter Monday,” 1955-56. Oil on canvas, 96 x 74 in.

Rogers Fund, 1956.

Noguchi, extends the language of biomorphic abstraction into three dimensions.

The remaining galleries are crowded and far less coherent, in part because, apart from Clyfford Still and Bridget Riley, each artist is represented by a single work. Standouts include Willem de Kooning’s “Easter Monday,” 1955-56, a big canvas for the period, full of energized brushwork and intriguing offsets from the newsprint he used to blot the paint — most prominently, a movie ad for “Alexander the Great.” It’s no wonder de Kooning was Robert Rauschenberg’s avatar.

A large Helen Frankenthaler, “Western Dream,” 1957, on loan from her foundation, is a wonderful early example of her signature stain painting technique. Thornton Dial’s “Shadows of the Field,” 2008, made of rags and cotton on a metal frame, is an imposing and disquieting monument to the enslaved field workers of the South. And Joan Snyder’s big, bold “Smashed Strokes Hope,” 1971, a promised gift to the Met, commands the wall with authority. If only these outstanding pieces had more breathing room.

For sheer physical monumentality, however, you need look no farther than Louise Nevelson’s “Mrs. N’s Palace,” a room-scale construction made

over a thirteen-year period from wood she collected on the street. Over a hundred separate elements form the walls, and a floor of mirrored black glass is visible through the en-

‘Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera,’ covering the period from the 1940s to the present and drawn primarily from the permanent collection, is an illustration of why the Met is known for its scattershot approach to modern art. trance. You can readily imagine the formidable Nevelson spirit, epic in its own right, enthroned inside.

The Met is to be congratulated for looking beyond the usual suspects — white, male, American — to a much wider range of abstract artists past and present. It’s always a treat to see things that rarely make it out of storage, but a selection that lives up to its billing, even if a smaller one, would have been better. And the strategic loans are reminders that, where modern art is concerned, the Met still has plenty of gaps to fill.

Aller explores the space between continued from page B1 There, she saw a river of clouds snaking through the mountain pass — rendering her speechless as she rotated her camera and caught the moment.

“It was beautiful, it was mesmerizing, and that became one of my favorite pictures from the trip,” she said.

The photo, “Mountain Interval PLATE 41 #12s, Swiss Alps,” is a personal highlight in the show, “Renate Aller: The Space Between Memory and Expectation,” now on view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill alongside another photography exhibit, “Jean-Luc Mylayne: A Matter of Place,” drawn entirely from the permanent collection, according to director Terrie Sultan.

“Renate Aller and Jean-Luc Mylayne are both very dedicated to humanity’s interaction with nature and they physically take their pictures outside,” she said. “Other than that, they have two very distinct, very different points of view, creative approaches, and their work, of course, doesn’t look anything like each other.”

Once a year from 2004 to 2006, French-born Mylayne also packed his bags and, less hastily, made his way to Fort Davis, Texas, of all places.

A seemingly odd choice on the surface, the town is the only place in the world where the Eastern, Western and Northern blue birds’ migratory paths cross — and as a photographer whose life-long project is the exploration of the color blue, and his subject matter birds, of course he would know.

“Sometimes finding the bird in the photograph is a little bit like playing ‘Where’s Waldo?’ because it is not always necessarily front and center, but it is always there as a metaphor for humanity in the nicest, most gentle way — how birds integrate into their natural habitat,” Sultan said.

“I think of Jean-Luc as being a photographer’s version of a plein air painter, like William Merritt Chase.

He took his camera — he uses a great big glass plate, 8-by-10, an analog camera — and he would sit in the landscape until the light and the bird and everything was just right, and then he would take one picture.”

Aller once practiced her photography in a similar way, except with her Agfa Click box camera at age 8, its edges sharp enough to cut her small fingers, if she wasn’t careful. She was limited to one roll of film every family vacation, allowing her eight images total.

“My parents never took us on luxury vacations, they always took us camping or mountain climbing.

My toys were rocks and stones and little twigs,” she said. “Most images my father took of us, my sister is posing — she looks like an Italian movie star with dark hair. My mother, after years, knew how to hold a pose because my father took forever composing. He didn’t want to waste film.

“And I used to stand, in all these pictures, with my back to him,” she continued with a laugh. “So if you’d show these to a therapist, they’d probably have a whole lot to tell you about me rejecting my parents, but I was actually taking my own photo looking down. So, you can see, it’s a very sad picture. Skinny legs, head down, bent forward, and it’s because I was composing my own photo. There’s nothing wrong with me, otherwise.”

At age 15, Aller transferred to an all-boys school to capitalize on a more advanced art program, exploring her identity as a painter, then a sculptor and, finally, as a photographer, when her first solo show of oceanscapes — shot from her balcony on Dune Road in Westhampton Beach — opened in New York.

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that’s why you don’t have to have an art education to look at these pictures, and you probably have a reaction because you are touched by its non-quantifiable space.”

Whether she’s watching a river of clouds snake through a mountain pass, or holding her breath as the sun breaks through a storm on the ocean horizon, Aller has honed her ability to predict a moment — and only then does she click her shutter.

That split second, she says, is “the space between memory and expectation,” during which nothing inherently happens, but without which no

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“We get very attached to a moment, to something we know and we want to hang onto that, whether it’s good or bad, really, but then our yearning for the next moment is as strong as the desire to stay with the moment we’re in. And that conflict, I think, makes us human beings.”

“Renate Aller: The Space Between Memory and Expectation” and “Jean-Luc Mylayne: A Matter of Place” are on view through July 28 at the Parrish Art Museum, located at 279 Montauk Highway in Water Mill. For more information, call (631) 2832118 or visit parrishart.org.

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“People always think the photos are from the same location and, of course, they’re hundreds of miles apart from each other,” Aller said. “They just carry each other’s memory.”

It was during her last trip to Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve that, while she composed her image, she realized she was cropping out the backdrop of snowcapped Rocky Mountains behind the swirling sands.

And so began her “Mountain Interval” series, she said, a project that has taken her to six continents — from the Dolomites of Italy and the Himalayas of Nepal to the Andes of Chile and the Remarkables of New Zealand.

“By not taking the National Geographic view of the entire landscape, it’s like I’m photographing the essence of the mountain, not just a part of it,” Aller explained. “I think of it like a portrait of the mountain that I’m taking and, by cropping it, I create abstraction and you don’t understand the scale.

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Bostwick’s Chowder House and Clam Bar at Napeague Open for 2019 Season

Does this spring weather have you craving some chowder?

Good news: Bostwick’s Chowder House will reopen for the 2019 season on Thursday, April 4, with limited hours leading into the summer — Thursdays through Sundays starting at 11:30 a.m. at the East Hampton restaurant, located at 277 Pantigo Road.

New England and Manhattan clam chowders top the menu at $7.95 per bowl, as well as lobster bisque and corn chowder for $8.95 and $6.95, respectively.

Start off with baked stuffed clams or coconut shrimp spring rolls for an appetizer, followed by one of the restaurant’s crowd favorites: fried oysters, seafood pasta, sautéed crab cakes, tuna poke fish tacos, a lobster roll, or an oyster Po Boy. Entrées range from $17 to $26.95.

For more information, call (631) 324-1111 or visit bostwickschowderhouse.com.

The Clam Bar at Napeague — the classic seaside snack bar and family-owned mainstay that has served the East End for three decades — is already frying and stuffing their staple dish, or serving clams on the half shell and in chowder, weather permitting.

Beginning daily at 12 p.m., the menu includes tuna bits, grilled fish tacos, New England clam chowder, clams on the half shell and Montauk pearl oysters as appetizers, as well as a lobster salad roll, a fried soft shell crab sandwich with fries, local steamers and a lobster BLT for entrées.

The Amagansett restaurant is located at 2025 Montauk Highway. For more information, call (631) 267-6348.

East End Restaurant Week Discounts Expand to Lodging

East End Restaurant Week isn’t just about the food anymore.

The third annual campaign — which kicks off on Sunday, March 31, with three-course

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prix fixes for $29.95 from Westhampton Beach to Montauk — will also feature a minimum 10-percent discount for all restaurants with lodging.

“Diners look forward to East End Restaurant Week all year round,” Long Island Restaurant and Hospitality Group President Steve Haweeli said in a press release. “It’s a great opportunity to try top-notch East End restaurants without breaking the bank. We hope to attract diners from all over Long Island and even in New York City with the lodging component, as well.”

On the South Fork, participating restaurants include: Wölffer Kitchen Sag Harbor, Lulu Kitchen and Bar, Page at 63 Main, Cappelletti Restaurant, Baron’s Cove, and The Bell & Anchor in Sag Harbor; Fresno, Nick & Toni’s, Cove Hollow Tavern and The 1770 House in East Hampton; Wölffer Kitchen in Amagansett; 668 The Gig Shack in Montauk; Bobby Van’s Steakhouse in Bridgehampton; Bistro Ete in Water Mill; Shippy’s Pumpernickels Restaurant East and Claude’s Restaurant in Southampton; 1 North Steakhouse, Cowfish Restaurant, RUMBA Island Inspired Cuisine & Rum Bar, and Centro Trattoria & Bar in Hampton Bays; Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue; and Trumpets On The Bay in Eastport.

Representing the North Fork are A Lure Chowder House &

Oysteria, and The North Fork Table and Inn in Southold; Noah’s in Greenport; Jamesport Manor Inn in Jamesport; Bistro 72, Farm Country Kitchen and The Preston House & Hotel in Riverhead; and La Plage Restaurant in Wading River.

“The promotion was originally created to garner positive publicity and generate additional business for East End restaurants during a traditionally slow period, and as a kick start to the spring season,” according to a press release. “What began as a South Fork promotion was so well-received that, over the last 15 years, it has grown to encompass all of the East End.” East End Restaurant Week will run through Sunday, April 7. For more information and reservations, visit eastendrestaurantweek.com.

Co-Working Space The Spur Doubles Its Reach

Earlier this month, The Spur launched its second location, Spur East, in East Hampton, just 10 months after debuting its first co-working space in Southampton. A separate membership for the ping-pong club, Spur SPIN, will be offered in April.

Offering space for co-working, as well as a members club, wellness services, event spaces and healthy dining, The Spur plans to open new locations across the East End, including the North Fork, and in other resort towns, such as Palm Beach and Aspen.

“The Spur is not just a physical space. It’s an active community of business leaders and next generation entrepreneurs looking to build their future from a base on the East End,” Spur chairman Bruce Bockmann said in a press release. “Resort towns need re-inventing as the internet continues to disrupt Main Streets across America.”

The Spur recently received a $500,000 business development grant from the Long Island Regional Development Council’s 2018 Strategic plan, marking the largest award ever given to a forprofit business on the East End. For more information, visit thespur.com/join-the-spur.

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f you’ve followed Chip and Joanna Gaines, Jonathan and Drew Scott, or any of television’s other dynamic homerenovation duos as they tear down and rebuild a dream home, chances are you have a similar interest in the craft. You probably also know that building or renovating a home is a culmination of different industries and talents. Whether a tradesmen, homeowner, or prospective property buyer, the 29th annual Long Island Builders Home, Trade, and Remodeling Expo puts those with an interest in home improvement projects in front of all the pros to make things happen from the ground up.

Hosted by the Long Island Builders Institute, the expo taking place today, Thursday, March 28, features more than 95 exhibitors showcasing new products and services for both industry professionals and consumers. Home, trade, remodeling, rentals, assisted living and commercial construction businesses will be on hand to network and meet potential customers. While Long Island Business Institute operations director Lois Fricke is tight-lipped on what to expect — you’ll have to go to find out — she says each year these participating vendors unveil what’s new to the industry, appealing to both trade and end-users.

“Anyone from the general public interested in doing any kind of improvements on their home or office need to come to this show,” Fricke says. “It’s all Long Island businesses and companies that service the East End and Nassau and Suffolk counties.”

A lot of emphasis is placed on the fact the show’s vendors are all local businesses that have set up shops across Long Island, working from Nassau County to the furthest points east. Businesses located specifically on the East End that will be at the show include J. Ratto Landscaping and Riverhead Building Supply. Registration fills up in advance for this event that is planned out a year in advance. There are perks for businesses to participate, including an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) course and $10,000 in prize giveaways. For the general public, a

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An Artist’s Retreat Hits the Market ith a sharp eye for detail and a deft hand for design, artist Erica Lynn Huberty transformed her home at 11 Thistle Patch in a way few could repeat.

A pioneer in contemporary fiber arts, Huberty re-imagined her old North Haven ranch and renovated it to a modern-day cottage — one inspired by Captain’s Row in Sag Harbor, now listed for $1.875 million with Rima Mardoyan Smyth and Ryan Struble of Douglas Elliman.

“We loved the house because it looks like a historical Sag Harbor house, but is new and beautifully landscaped and bordering on a 30-acre nature reserve,” Mardoyan Smyth said. “It has big sky and beautiful light.”

Sited on just over a half-acre, the 3,500-square-foot, sixbedroom home is located three blocks from the beach and features a wood-burning fireplace and a master suite with a walk-in closet, dressing room and claw-foot bath, as well as a finished lower level.

“The overall feel of the house is rambling, comfortable, with lots of indoor and outdoor spaces and a poetic English Garden designed by a well-known landscape designer, Tony Piazza,” Mardoyan Smyth said. “He did the Parrish Art Museum and other significant homes in the Hamptons.”

The backyard is also home to a heated pool, outdoor shower, a greenhouse and even a tree house.

“There is a separate house connected by a large entrance,” Mardoyan Smyth noted.

“This is so fantastic as it would be perfect for an artist, office, guests, mother-daughter situation, or to be used as a gym or yoga room. It is large and has its own deck, has a bedroom and an en-suite bathroom and a kitchenette.

“The house is priced well below market value,” she continued. “The person who will get the house will be in a very dreamy place, which is hard to replicate, as it is unique in every way.”

$5,000 remodeling prize is on the table.

“Non-trade attendees get a card to fill out at check-in,” Fricke explains of the giveaway. “They have to go to 30 exhibitor booths and have it stamped. Then, the cards go in a big drum. The chosen homeowner wins $5,000 to spend with one of ten sponsors. They can spend it with one, two, or all of them.”

This year’s sponsors include Alure Home Improvements, Cosentino, Huber Engineered Woods, J. Ratto Landscaping Ltd., Macedo Construction, Maggio Environmental Services, Outstanding Plumbing & Heating, Plesser’s Appliances, Riverhead Building Supply, and Sterling Floor Designs, Ltd. As part of the organization’s Long Island Home Builders Care charitable initiative, attendees to this year’s expo are invited to bring new or gently used clean towels for a towel drive benefitting the Interfaith Nutrition Network (INN). These towels will be

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All the way with LBJ continued from page B1 that is more relevant,” explained Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, head of the Sag Harbor Cinema programming committee. “It’s been going through a process of reevaluation. His contribution to the country, his presidency, has been reexamined in recent years, and I think he makes for a very interesting character.”

Colored by the Vietnam War, so much of Johnson’s story has simply been lost, or overlooked, Schenkkan said, and he felt compelled to revisit it from a writer’s perspective.

“Ignorance of history is at astonishing levels throughout much of the population,” Schenkkan said. “Vietnam, of course, is and was a terrible tragedy for which LBJ must bear his fair share of responsibility. But then, the man’s story was much more complicated than that, and people have forgotten. I think people have forgotten how bad race relations were in 1963 and how heroic the efforts by so many people were and how many people it took to make this enormous seismic change in the country.

“The arc of that year is just so breathtaking, so complicated and you can just see the whole country shift in that moment,” he continued. “I felt very good having made that choice.

He truly was fighting for the soul of the country and what this country was meant to be.”

Directed by Bill Rauch and starring Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad” fame, “All the Way” made its Broadway premiere in March 2014, and it broke all existing box office records for a new play at the time.

It would go on to win Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, as well as Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play and Actor in a Play, Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding New Broadway Play and Actor in a Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play, and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play.

“I was thrilled and surprised. If you put a gun to my head and said, ‘Okay, what will be your big Broadway hit?’ I would not have immediately said, ‘Oh, my 17-character, three-hour play about LBJ,’” Schenkkan said. “So it was very, very satisfying, but at the same time, it offered further validation for something I’ve felt: I think American audiences in fact, contrary to some general ideas out there, are very interested in theater that is about politics, or has in its central plot, political structure.

And, of course, plays that deal with issues of weight and substance, and are about their own history.”

Surrounded with books and plays from an early age, Schenkkan loved to read and absorb history as a child, but loved his father’s made-up stories even more — which he would tell his four sons during impossibly long summer drives from Texas to Florida every year.

“My father used to entertain us; he had gotten his master’s in playwriting,” Schenkkan said. “And I’ve always enjoyed history of all kinds. I read it for pleasure. There’re just such extraordinary narratives out there — things that are so outlandish, if you made them up, nobody would believe you. In my research, I came across one of those weird things people do that just make you laugh out loud.”

During his presidency, Johnson purchased an Amphicar, the only civilian amphibious car ever mass-produced.

On land, the vehicle looked like an ordinary automobile, and Johnson would take his guests on joyrides around his Stonewall, Texas ranch.

“Then, LBJ would pretend to lose control of the car and drive it into a lake. And he just thought this was hilarious!” Schenkkan said. “I thought it was pretty funny, too, and I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s just delicious.’”

For obvious logistical reasons, the scene could not be achieved on stage, but it played out brilliantly in the Steven Spielberg-backed film, “All the Way,” released by HBO in 2016 and also starring Cranston, Schenkkan said. Far from a filmed play, the adaptation adds depth through cinematic flourishes, he said, while staying true to the story.

“At the end of the day, film and theater are two different experiences in the one critical notion: that theater is a live event for the live actor happening in front of you in real time, in a way that has never happened before and will never be exactly replicated again,” Schenkkan said. “On the other hand, film can take you places in a literal way that stage is hard-pressed to compete with, and can bring you in to a different kind of intimacy, which in its own way can be extraordinarily cathartic. One is not better than the other. They are just very different approaches to storytelling.”

Playwright and screenwriter Robert Schenkkan will present his film, “All the Way,” on Sunday, March 31, at 3 p.m. at the Pierson High School auditorium, located at 200 Jermain Avenue in Sag Harbor, as part of the “Present Tense” series. Admission is a $15 suggested donation. For more information, visit sagharborcinema.org.

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A member of the MFA in Creative Writing faculty, Hempel is also the author of four story collections — The New York Times named “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel” one of the Ten Best Books of 2006 — and was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017.

She will share the stage with Julia Slavin, author of The New York Times Notable Book “The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories.” Other books include her novel “Carnivore Diet” and

a new collection, “Stories for Squatters.” Her work has appeared in Gargoyle magazine and Tin House, and she is the winner of the 2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.

She lives in Washington, D.C. The “Writers Speak” series will continue with Kyla Marshell and Shane McCrae on April 10; poet Sharon Dolin and writer Chloe Caldwell on April 24; and a showcase reading by MFA students on May 1.

The readings begin at 7 p.m. in Duke Lecture Hall at the Southampton campus, located at 39 Tuckahoe Road, each preceded by a reception at 6:30 p.m. and immediately followed by a Q&A and book signing. Admission is free. For more information, call (631) 632-5030 or visit stonybrook.edu/mfa.

ven before the official start of spring, 37 tornadoes have ripped through Alabama — and if that sounds like a lot, it is.

In the first three months of any given year, the southern state typically sees less than 10 cyclones, and very rarely do they kill dozens of people, as the cluster of storms on March 3 did.

Lives, homes and livelihoods were lost, and in their wake, Bay Street Theater will host the benefit concert “All For Alabama” on Thursday, March 28, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sag Harbor theater, located at 1 Bay Street. All proceeds will be donated to United Way of Alabama.

“Everyone involved will be volunteering their time and talents, including all of the musicians, the Bay Street staff and volunteers, and Jay Schneiderman and his staff,” executive director Tracy Mitchell said in a press release. “It’s always so heartwarming to see the artists and the entire community come together in times of need for others.”

Mitchell and the Southampton Town supervisor will emcee the night, featuring performances

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On Friday, March 29, the benefit concert will attempt to raise $40,000 for the East Hampton and Amagansett Food Pantries — their reported deficit via their appeal letters — from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse, located at 161 Main Street in Amagansett.

Bands are booking fast — including Mama Lee, JettyKoon, Lynn Blue Band, Bastards of Boom, Taylor Barton, Bobbi Terzi Originals and OCDC — but don’t be surprised if a few special

guests swing by for the fundraiser, which will also include a silent auction, 50/50 raffle and merchandise from Polar.

“In the first ever Supervisor’s Jam, Peter Van Scoyoc and his band, Supe du Jour, and Jay Schniederman and Friends will at some point share the stage,” according to a press release.

Tickets are $35, which includes a dish of rice and beans with corn bread, courtesy of the Art of Eating. For more information call (631) 324-2300 or (631) 267-2411.

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He is a storyteller.

An original member of the acoustic trio Damaged Goods, the musician has shared stages with the likes of Jorma Kaukonen and Taj Mahal to Suzanne Vega and The Marshall Tucker Band.

And on Friday, April 5, he will take to the Songwriters Share stage at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse, located at 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton, joined by acoustic Americana combo The Cosmic Pioneers.

Proceeds from the concert will benefit The Retreat, a safe haven for families in crisis. Since 1987, The Retreat has been providing domestic violence and sexual assault services and education to families, friends and neighbors on the East End. Tickets are $20 and $15 for seniors and students, and a reception will follow the show.

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Over the years, the program has provided aid for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines, the earthquake in Haiti, the tsunami in Japan, Long Island victims of Hurricane Sandy, and the ambulance and fire teams who assisted in the Sag Harbor cinema fire, raising more than $62,000 total.

“The All for Alabama relief concert is in honor of all those whose lives were literally uprooted in recent weeks by the tornadoes,” the release said.

“Rebuilding will be required for many months and years to come.”

The suggested donation is $25, but any amount, large or small, is welcome. Cash and checks are preferred. Additionally, the theater will collect donated items from local retailers and restaurants to assist in the fundraising efforts. They can be dropped off at the box office from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and should be addressed to Michele Wilson. Make sure all gifts are properly marked with the donor’s name.

For more information, call (631) 725-9500 or visit baystreet.org.

Monday to Thursday 9 am to 9 pm Friday & Saturday 9 am to 9 pm • Sunday 12 to 6 pm 52 Main Street Sag Harbor NY 11963 631.725.0054

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