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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 VOLUME 160 NO. 49

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Sag Harbor Mayoral Race

Lifeguards’ New Lifeline Creating a social media network in case of an emergency. > Page 3

Mayor Sleuths Out Dumper In North Haven, they take illegal dumping seriously. > Page 5

Sag Harbor Trustees Race

SCHROEDER AND MULCAHY DANCE

ONE DISAGREES ON VILLAGE MANAGER

Candidates enter ring at library forum

Three of four hopefuls make their pitches

BY PETER BOODY

BY PETER BOODY

MAYOR SANDRA SCHROEDER AND HER CHALLENGER in the upcoming June 18 Sag Harbor Village election, real estate agent Kathleen Mulcahy, squarely disagreed on only two issues — the hiring of a village administrator or project manager and reinstating public comment at the beginning of the village board’s meetings — when they met before a packed conference room in the John Jermain Memorial Library for a Meet the Candidates forum cosponsored by Save Sag Harbor and The Sag Harbor Express on Satur-

THREE CANDIDATES FOR TWO SEATS on the Village Board of Trustees agreed Sag Harbor should begin work on a long-term comprehensive plan and also improve lines of communication between village government and the public when they appeared at a candidate forum sponsored by The Sag Harbor Express and Save Sag Harbor at the John Jermain Memorial Library on Saturday, June 1.

The only thing the three candidates who attended the forum strongly disagreed on was the idea of hiring a village manager,

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Quilts For a Community

Mayoral candidates Sandra Schroeder and Kathleen Mulcahy.

‘DIVINE’ EXHIBIT TO HELP CHURCH

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Minister and her sister advance cafe for the homeless

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

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N VALENTINE’S DAY, Teri Hackett took a trip to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Harlem, and found herself completely moved — not by love, but by art.

Using the cathedral’s sacred space as a canvas, 43 artists had illuminated the intersection between spiritual and social identity, surrounding the altar, choir, crossing and nave with installations that explored notions of dignity, inclusion and exclusion, and the ways in which they form personhood and community cohesion.

Hackett immediately called her sister, Reverend Karen Ann Campbell, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor.

“Karen, we’ve gotta do this,” Hackett recalled whispering hurriedly from inside the cathedral.

And to her delight, Campbell agreed.

In less than four months, the duo gathered 34 New York- and East End-based artists to transform the 19th-century church into a contemporary art space for the show, “Divine Intervention.” Last weekend, an opening reception marked the first exhibition of its kind inside the sanctuary, welcoming a blend of installations, paintings, photography, sculpture and artist books.

“There’s an interesting story behind the title,” Hackett said. “I call Karen my ‘new sister’ because we met in 2010. My mother gave birth to her when she was young and Karen was ad-

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Weekend Weather Thursday, June 6 Mostly Cloudy Temps in the low 70s

Friday, June 7 Partly Sunny Temps in the low 70s

Saturday, June 8 Partly Sunny Temps in the low 70s “Jib Net,” created and installed by artists Lisa Hein and Bob Seng at Christ Episcopal Church.

Sunday, June 9 Partly Sunny

Temps in the high 60s

INSIDE Community 13 Opinion 6 Arts & Leisure B1 Calendar B6 Classifieds 8 Sports 12 The Hometown Newspaper of TORANOSUKE MATSUOKA

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Mare Dianora’s project crosses borders — literally and figuratively.

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The curator of “Divine Intervention” and artist, Theresa Hackett, poses with her sister, Reverend Karen Campbell of Christ Episcopal Church. lori hawkins photo

‘...you feel like you’re under water, as if you were swimming alongside the hull of a ship...’

LISA HEIN ON THE INSTALLATION CREATED BY HER AND BOB SENG FOR THE EXHIBIT AT CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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Sag Harbor Schools

Noyac

Board can’t agree on contract for extra spaces

Finds the opponents’ complaint likely to succeed on its merits

Church Parking a No-Go Judge Halts Sand Land Expansion

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

ON MONDAY, the Sag Harbor School Board of Education failed to carry a four-vote majority to approve a proposed three-year contract with St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church for the use of 12 spaces in the parking lot behind the Division Street church. According to the resolution on the Board of Education’s agenda, the contract would call on the district to pay $500 per month for the 12 spaces, located

across the street from the district’s Sag Harbor Learning Center in the former Stella Maris Regional School building on Division Street.

Board members Diana Kolhoff, Jordana Sobey and Alex Kriegsman voted in support of a resolution approving the contract — despite the latter two admitting concerns about some of the language in the agreement — with Susan Lamontagne and Chris Tice voting

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BY PETER BOODY

IN WHAT ASSEMBLYMAN Fred W. Thiele Jr. called “a major victory for the environment, our drinking water, and the community at large,” a state Supreme Court judge in Albany on Friday, May 31, blocked the state DEC commissioner’s March 2019 agreement to allow the Sand Land mine in Noyac continue in operation for eight years and even expand its operations.

Under the terms of a preliminary injunction issued by Acting Justice James H. Ferreira, Sand Land is forbidden from sand mining beyond the depth and acreage limits of its last valid permit.

“Petitioners have demonstrated a probability of success on the merits of their challenge to the settlement agreement and renewal permit,” the judge wrote, “… as an unlawful expansion of the mined area ... without regard to the notice and procedural

requirements of the Environmental Conservation Law.” Stunned by state DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos’s agreement to ignore previous DEC rulings and let the mine’s owner, Wainscott Sand & Gravel company, continue mining at Sand Land for eight more years, dig 40 feet deeper and expand into a three-acre area known as the “stump dump” previously off limits, an alliance of oppo-

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East End

Sag Harbor Schools

Lifeguards Create an Emergency Network

Add One Afternoon Bus Run

Use social media to connect first responders

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

circumstantially close can respond.”

Of course, they’re not discounting Two longtime East End lifeguards the abilities of police officers and othare asking for help to grow “HELP,” the er first responders, who they say are Hamptons Emergency Lifeguard Part- obviously important in emergencies. nership, a social media networking They point out that 911 should still be group they recently launched to con- called first. And they’re not trying to nect qualified first responders to those steal the spotlight of the East Hampton in need of assistance on local waters Volunteer Ocean Rescue. But they said on unprotected beaches or when town if a police officer attempts to rescue someone drowning in the surf, that oflifeguards have signed off for the day.

Spencer Schneider, a trial attorney ficer needs to first spend time securing who lives and practices in East Hamp- his or her firearm before entering the ton and New York City, and Sean Daly, water, meaning precious rescue time a New York City Police detective lieu- begins ticking away.

One challenge they’re coming up tenant who lives in Hampton Bays, have side jobs as lifeguards at Main against is getting local 911 dispatchers Beach. They met there and became on board. Pulse Point covers the mafriends two years ago. They launched jority of Long Island, Mr. Daly and Mr. HELP as a Facebook group connected Schneider said, but not the East End. “We’re trying to get a direct link to a mobile app called Pulse Point, from 911 to our network which draws reports of so that we have a broader water emergencies and coverage of beaches that’s other urgent situations really focused in the from 911 and puts them Hamptons,” Mr. Schneion a searchable map. der said. “We need covIt’s a rescue method erage here. We need the similar to the crowdsourctowns to buy in.” ing efforts that aided vicMr. Daly said water restims of major hurricanes, cues “are an all-hands-ontornadoes and floods elsedeck situation.” where in the country in “With a water rescue recent years, Mr. Schneiyou only have a few minder said. utes,” he said. “In rip curHELP draws on the exheller rents, the number-one repertise of certified life- Schneider and Daly guards — more than 100 so far — who source we have for a surf rescue is the joined its closed Facebook group of ocean-trained lifeguard.”

While HELP was mostly Mr. Daly’s over 300 members, and who, Mr. Daly and Mr. Schneider said, are willing to brainchild, Mr. Schneider has poured lend a hand when they’re nearby, even a lot of effort into launching what has if they’re off-duty. Someone in need now become a New York State-accredof help in East Hampton waters won’t ited lifeguarding course. It, too, has a care if a lifeguard coming to the res- catchy acronym: “HOLA,” for “Hampcue is from Southampton, Mr. Daly tons Ocean Lifeguard Academy.” The free course will launch this summer. and Mr. Schneider said.

“We wanted to update what’s taught “There’re hundreds of working lifeguards who can be mobilized because to lifeguards,” Mr. Schneider said. “I everybody carries their cell phone,” designed a course — Sean helped imMr. Schneider said in an interview. mensely — we have great instructors “They can be mobilized at a moment’s and it’s a great program.”

Mr. Daly, who is a member of the notice if a rescue is needed either at an unprotected beach or after hours at a NYPD scuba team, said HELP has had protected beach. … We’ve already had a warm reception so far.

“Once we started moving forward success with this. It is already workwith HELP, I approached lifeguards,” ing.”

Mr. Daly added, “I’m trying to create he said. “Everyone has nothing but the largest network of Suffolk County positive things to say. They all agree lifeguards and notify hundreds of peo- it will help save a life and have raised ple instantly, so that someone who is their hands to offer assistance.”

Decision will preserve later start time

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

Mare Dianora’s quilt project, above and her children, Ollie and Finny, at the Mexican border.

Sag Harbor

Quilts Help to Build Community Project is designed to bring people together across many borders

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

In a political climate obsessed with building up walls — both literally and figuratively — Mare Dianora is busy tearing them down.

And she is doing it with a quilt.

“A quilt is a symbol of warmth and comfort, and I love the idea of it being pieced together and connectedness — and that’s what I want to celebrate, with community,” the Sag Harborbased artist explained. “We can be very, very different, yet still connected. And the quilt squares are very, very different, yet still connected.”

On Saturday morning, Ms. Dianora was still digesting her workshop session in Huntsville, Alabama, from the night before. It was her third stop of the “Community Quilt Project,” which will make its triumphant return on Sunday, June 9, to the Southampton Arts Center, where it all began last November.

“It’s evolved and it’s certainly brought up some issues and conversa-

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tions and tensions,” she said, “but it’s definitely reminded me of what we have in common, versus what our differences are.”

On April 27, Ms. Dianora took the project on the road, along with her husband, musician Claes Brondal, and their two sons, 6-year-old Ollie and 10-year-old Finny, who received a free America the Beautiful Pass, as part of the National Park Service’s “Every Kid in the Parks” program.

From Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana to Idaho, Oregon, California and Texas, the family of four camped their way across the country, stopping in national parks along the way — as well as one border town: Nogales, Arizona, and its Hilltop Gallery and Arts Center.

By the time they arrived, the city of 20,000 was infamous for its reels of razor wire that cover the tall border wall running through its downtown, separating it from its twin Mexican city on the other side, also called Nogales.

“The razor wire basically appeared overnight,” Ms. Dianora said. “The residents were quite shocked and very unhappy about it. The fence is a part of the daily life, and you used to be able to go freely into Mexico. People come back and forth all day, every day. There are school kids going back and forth, and people visiting family on both sides.

“It’s not like, ‘it’s us versus them’; it’s one place,” she continued. “That was really the feeling I got over and over again, from everybody, was that ‘we are one.’”

At each Arizona workshop, Ollie and Finny insisted on sharing photos of their favorite places in Sag Harbor, and the residents of Nogales shared their stories, taking Mr. Brondal and the boys on a tour while Ms. Dianora was teaching.

“They got up close. They got to see the fence and the wire,” she said. “Ollie, who’s 6, told me that he saw two

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Continuing a discussion about how to reduce transportation costs, the five members of the Sag Harbor School Board of Education at Monday night’s meeting approved a resolution to add one bus run to Pierson MiddleHigh School in the afternoon for the 2019-20 school year — a decision that preserves the school’s later start time.

One of six options originally proposed by the district’s transportation committee, “Option C” creates an additional in-house bus run after school for a total of six runs. According to the transportation committee’s estimates, it will save the district an estimated $200,000 to $235,000 in subcontracted bus service with Montauk Student Transportation. On Monday, Superintendent Katy Graves noted there will be logistical issues adding the bus run to the current loop at Pierson, necessitating a security guard to ensure student safety.

The other alternative on the table Monday night, known as “Option D,” would have moved the start time at Pierson 10 minutes earlier to 7:40 a.m.

“It takes away from the board’s longterm goal for a later start time, which they have been working very hard to set back,” said Ms. Graves, adding that changing times back and forth “can be a real challenge for parents when they are establishing routines.”

Board member Alex Kriegsman said he felt “very strongly” that “Option C” was the best path forward, noting the district has been furnished with numerous peer-reviewed medical studies that suggest start times before 8:30 a.m. can impact school performance and depression in students, among other issues. “We are already 40 minutes from that time, and I think moving that start time backwards would be a big step backwards,” he said.

Agreeing with Mr. Kriegsman, board member Susan Lamontagne said, “I think this recommendation is a no-brainer and I hope we can put this to rest tonight.”

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK ‘A quilt is a symbol of warmth and comfort, and I love the idea of it being pieced together and connectedness — and that’s what I want to celebrate, with community.

We can be very, very different, yet still connected. And the quilt squares are very, very different, yet still connected.’

MARE DIANORA, Sag Harbor artist on the Community Quilt Project she will bring back to Southampton this Sunday, after bringing the project to other communities in Arizona and Alabama.

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Local Officer Aids in Swamp Rescue

Speeding Stop Leads to Two DWI Arrests in Noyac

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very search-and-rescue operation he goes on is different, but this one in particular was a little more personal for New York City Police Detective Investigator Sean Daly.

Det. Inv. Daly, who is originally from Bridgehampton and now lives in Hampton Bays, pulled an 84-yearold man from a swamp on Staten Island on May 2. According to published news reports, the man had tried taking a shortcut to a doctor appointment after missing his bus, and on the way, he fell into wetlands, started sinking and became too weak to get up. Det. Inv. Daly said he found the man lying on his back in about six inches of water.

“After reflecting upon it,” the officer said, “it would be the fact of his age that reminded me of my father.

I lost my father a couple of years ago.

I was really happy to get him out of there.”

The man was able to call 911 himself at 2:05 p.m. and a team of 122nd Precinct officers, K9 units and emergency medical technicians responded. Eventually, a medevac was called because the initial first responders could not reach him. Det. Inv. Daly, who is a member of the NYPD scuba team, was lowered down by helicopter. He helped the man to his feet and fitted him with special jacket, and the helicopter lifted them up and transported them to Staten Island University North Hospital.

New York City Police Detective Investigator Sean Daly.

From the time the 911 call came in to the time the helicopter arrived, 18 minutes had elapsed. The man, who was alert and “in pretty good shape,” Det. Inv. Daly said, was at the hospital by 3 p.m.

What made this rescue unusual was the physical environment.

“Most of our water rescue jobs are in large open-water bays or the harbor, but this was a small pond in Staten Island,” he said.

Det. Inv. Daly has been with the NYPD for 17 years and the scuba team for 12. Scuba officers must be capable of diving year-round, must

be able to complete a 50-yard swim wearing a 12-pound weight belt and must be able to tread water for 20 minutes, among other skills.

Det. Inv. Daly is also a certified lifeguard who has manned East End beaches for many years.

“Each case is different,” he said.

“Sometimes you might have a person in the water, in the surf, someone after a boating accident, someone who stranded a jet ski or with a broken leg off of a tugboat. Certainly this is what we train for and what we do with some frequency over the years.”

Debate for Independence Party in SH

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he League of Women Voters of the Hamptons will sponsor a candidate debate between Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman and current town Superintendent of Highways Alex Gregor — who are both vying for the Independence Party line to run for town supervisor — on Wednesday, June 12, at 7 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Li-

brary in Southampton.

Primaries across the state will be held on Tuesday, June 25.

If an appeal by candidate Eileen Duffy is declared successful on June 7, there will also be a primary debate on June 12 for the two Democratic Party lines for Southampton Town Council. That debate would include John Bouvier and Craig Catalanotto,

already selected as the Democratic Party candidates, with Eileen Duffy vying for one of the lines. The top two vote getters would be the two Democratic candidates on the ballot on November 5.

The debate will be moderated

by League of Women Voters of the Hamptons co-president Estelle Gellman of East Hampton.

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he New York State Public Service Commission will hold an information forum and hearing on the South Fork Wind Farm application submitted by Deepwater Wind, now Orsted, on Tuesday, June 11 at the East Hampton Emergency Services Building at 1 Cedar Street in East Hampton.

Two sessions will be held. An afternoon session will begin with an hour-long informational session at 2 p.m., followed by a “public statement

hearing” at 3 p.m. The evening session will begin at 6 p.m. with the informational session, followed by the hearing at 7 p.m.

The developer has applied to the PSC for “the construction of approximately 3.5 miles of submarine export cable ... to the south shore of the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, and approximately 4.1 miles of terrestrial export cable from the south shore of the Town of East Hampton

to an interconnection facility with an interconnection cable connecting to the existing East Hampton substation in the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County.”

The cable is proposed to come ashore at one of two locations: at Beach Lane in Wainscott, or at Hither Hills State Park in Napeague. Other aspects of the South Fork Wind Farm project are under review by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Iun Martell, 24 of Noyac was arrested by Southampton Town Police on Sunday, June 2, at 4:38 a.m. on Orchard Avenue in Noyac and charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and a violation of driving an unregistered vehicle without a license. Police said he was originally stopped for speeding and upon further investigation it was revealed that he was intoxicated. He was transported to police headquarters in Hampton Bays and held for morning arraignment.

Mark Washeim, 60 of Center Moriches was arrested by Southampton Town Police on Sunday, June 2, at 10:38 p.m. on Noyac Road in Noyac and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor. Police said he was originally stopped for speeding and upon further investigation it was revealed that he was intoxicated. He was transported to police headquarters in Hampton Bays and held for morning arraignment.

• Kyle E. Lombardo, 27 of Amityville, was arrested by East Hampton Town Police on Montauk Highway east of Accabonac Road in East Hampton on May 26 and charged with Aggravated DWI and DWI, both misdemeanors. Police said they pulled Mr. Lombardo over for operating a vehicle without tail lights on and said he appeared intoxicated. He was held for morning arraignment and released on his own recognizance.

• East Hampton Town Police charged Robert O’Boyle, 65, of Greenwich, Connecticut, with a misdemeanor count of DWI after police said they pulled him over on May 27 around 1:44 a.m. for allegedly speeding on Route 114 and Stephen Hands Path. Police said he appeared intoxicated and held Mr. O’Boyle for arraignment the next morning, where he was released on his own recognizance.

• Emilse Hurtado, 42 of East Hampton, was arrested by East Hampton Town Police on May 27 on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott and charged with DWI and with operating a motor vehicle with .08 or 1 percent blood alcohol or more, both misdemeanors. Police said

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they pulled her over around 11:41 p.m. for inadequate head lamps and discovered she was under the influence. She was held for morning arraignment where she was released on her own recognizance.

• Robert K. Futterman, 60, of Manhattan was arrested by East Hampton Town Police on May 27, at 11:18 a.m. on Cedar Street in East Hampton and charged with use of a vehicle not equipped with an interlock device, a misdemeanor. He was released on an appearance ticket and a $200 fine.

• Javier Cordova, 31, of Medford was arrested by Southampton Town Police on Saturday, June 1, at 10:11 p.m. on County Road 39A and charged with circumventing an interlock device and second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors. Police said he was involved in an accident at the intersection of Montauk Highway.

He was transported to police headquarters in Hampton Bays for processing.

• A 40-year-old North Babylon resident was issued a summons for a village code violation on May 27 after Sag Harbor Village Police said he provided food service delivery using his 1989 Chevrolet, without a valid peddler’s permit from the village. He was released on a written ticket to appear at Sag Harbor Village Justice Court at a later date.

• The sexton of the Old Whalers’ Church in Sag Harbor contacted village police on May 29 to report a person who has allegedly been staying in the Union Street church without permission over the course of the last month, leaving behind suitcases, which police took into custody. Police have attempted to contact the individual without success, according to the incident report. On May 31, the church sexton reported finding two additional backpacks with an assortment of clothing.

• A Sag Harbor resident contacted village police on June 3 to report a 2017 Ford F150, driving down Harrison Street around 4:15 p.m., struck a 2008 BMW parked on the road, and left the scene of the accident.

Police were able to locate the vehicle in Mount Misery and issued the male owner a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident where property was damaged.

• The owner of Water Mill Masonry in Water Mill reported to Southampton Town Police on May 31 at 8:15 a.m. that sometime within the course of a week someone stole a cement mixer, valued at $4,500, from his driveway. Police detectives are continuing to investigate the third-degree grand larceny, a felony.

• A victim reported to Southampton Town Police on May 29 at 2:07 p.m. that sometime between May 27 and 29 someone stole two leaf blowers, valued at $1,600, from a trailer parked on his property on Whalebone Landing Road in North Sea. Police detectives are continuing to investigate the fourth-degree grand larceny, a felony.

• A Terry Drive, Sag Harbor resident may be visited by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) after police were called by a neighbor who said they observed an individual digging up phragmite growing in the sand in front of the residence. Police checked the area, noting the disturbance, and contracted the DEC. • Sag Harbor Village Police received an anonymous tip on June 1, just after 2 a.m., about a loud party on Walker Avenue where underage drinking was alleged to be occurring. According to police, they did not find anyone underage at the resident, but that loud music was playing and cars parked on both sides of the roadway were creating a traffic hazard. Police said the revelers willingly broke up the party with one guest stating there were uninvited people, who may have been underage, that showed up at the party but that they were asked to leave prior to police arrival.

• Two bicycles, chained to a light post on Main Street, Sag Harbor, were removed by staff with the Sag Harbor Village Public Works Department, after police received an anonymous call on May 30 that the bicycles had been there for over a year.

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Southampton

Crossed Signals on Housing Project 60-unit affordable apartment project stalled until Town Board accepts zoning application

BY PETER BOODY

North Haven Mayor Jef Sander, above, has urged residents not to dump household garbage in village trash bins, left.

North Haven

Mayor’s Sleuthing Leads to Dumper Asks residents not to put household trash in bins

BY PETER BOODY

A little sleuthing by North Haven’s mayor led him to identify a North Haven Point resident as the guilty party for dumping household trash in a village bin at the end of Sunset Beach Road last week.

Mayor Jeff Sander, 77, asked the village clerk to contact the person, whom he declined to identify in an interview Monday, and request that he stop misusing village facilities. The receptacle has since been replaced with one that has a lid to discourage overfilling, he said.

Mr. Sander was walking his dog nearby when he noticed a car parked beside the trash bin, the only one that the village maintains besides the one at the playground behind village hall.

After he had walked away from the area and later returned, he found the car gone but the trash bin overflowing.

The mayor took a photo of the unsightly mess and asked village clerk Eileen Tuohy to email the image to residents with the following message: “Per the attached photograph, please refrain from depositing household garbage in the trash receptacle at the beach at the end of Sunset Beach Road. The trash gets picked up on a

regular basis. However, the overflowing receptacle and other unacceptable items left behind outside of the trash have become an issue. We ask that everyone please respect this rule and respect our beautiful community.

Thank you very much.”

The mayor also dug into the garbage bags and found what he called “documents” that identified the dumper as a resident of North Haven Point, an exclusive and pricey private community on North Haven’s west side. He gave the evidence to Ms. Tuohy “to notify them not to do that,” he said.

“It’s not a big thing but it’s upsetting,” Mr. Sander said.

Household garbage is supposed to be collected by a carting service or collected in Southampton Town garbage bags, which cost a bit over $3 each for the large size, before throwing them in the mixed waste container at the town transfer station on the Bridgehampton- Sag Harbor Turnpike.

Mr. Sander said he doubted the offense was a violation of any village code but “if it persists and it becomes a constant problem maybe we should put it in the code.” Then the challenge would become enforcing the rule, he added — even though his detective work had found the culprit.

Hearing nothing from him for months, the town supervisor thought the non-profit developer of a 60-unit affordable housing project he wants to build on five acres behind the Full Gospel Church on County Road 39 in Southampton might have abandoned the project.

The developer, Ralph Fasano of Concern for Living in Medford, first described the concept to the Southampton Town Board at a work session in early February. But he has spent months wondering when the board would get around to deciding whether or not to even consider the necessary zone change for the project, according to a representative who spoke before the board late last month.

“We were expecting him to come back to us,” Supervisor Jay Schneiderman told Michael Daly, a member of a non-profit East End housing alliance that is working with Mr. Fasano to promote the project. “I haven’t heard a peep from him” since his appearance in February.

Mr. Daly attended the May 28 Town Board work session to submit 60 letters he said had been signed by “com-

munity members, community leaders, local clergy, local veterans, local educators, local business owners, as well as local business people and employees who see this as a possible good step in helping” address the “affordable housing crisis that we’re in.”

He warned the board that Mr. Fasano faced an end-of-June deadline to agree to buy the site from the widow of the late Rev. Donald Havrilla of the Full Gospel Church.

“If we do not give him the support to at least accept his application and move forward,” Mr. Daly told the board, “he can’t put the additional $300,000 to $500,000 dollars” that he’d have to spend “at risk. So he will rescind his application. He’ll withdraw his application. And my concern is that sends a message to the developers that … Southampton’s not open for this type of business.”

He noted that accepting the application for a zone change did not mean the board would grant the change.

“You’re not approving the project,” he said. “You’re just accepting the application so it can go forward, and the community will have plenty of time to give feedback” during the public hearing process on the zone change request.

Currently zoned R-20, which allows up to 10 single-family houses on the site, the property would have to be reclassified MF44, which would allow up to six attached units per acre unless they are kept affordable according to state definitions, in which case up to 12 units would be allowed per acre.

“We asked him to talk to the community” and report back about a number of issues, including proposed access roads that would connect into adjacent neighborhoods, Mr. Schneiderman said.

Mr. Daly said Mr. Fasano did meet with community members. “Already Ralph has addressed three of the issues, such as coming through the Hillside area,” Mr. Daly said, referring to the Hillcrest neighborhood. “We’ve successfully discussed with the Southampton Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing about the use of the fire road behind there,” he added, which he said would preclude the need for access into Hillcrest. Mr. Fasano is also willing to “right-size” the project’s sewage treatment plant to serve nearby local businesses and possibly the Hillcrest neighborhood, Mr. Daly said.

Mr. Daly seemed to believe the board might have heard from residents who

opposed the project because when Mr. Fasano met with community representatives, “you know, the classic NIMBY things all came out,” he told the board. “You know: the density, they’re all going to kill us.’”

Councilwoman Christine Scalera told him density was a legitimate concern and prodded for a concession toward reducing it from the 12-unitsper-acre currently planned.

Mr. Schneiderman told him that, before the board makes a decision, Mr. Fasano should come back for another work session to report on his discussions with community members.

The project has already obtained a $20-million state grant toward its $28-million estimated total cost, which “shows how enthused the state is about the possibility,” Mr. Daly said, describing it as “one of three projects on Long Island that the state has granted funds to.”

The 36 one-bedroom units in the proposed project, which the company will manage, would rent for between $550 and $800, Mr. Fasano said in February; its 24 two-bedroom units would rent for $1,000 to $1,200 a month. Fifteen units would be reserved for veterans.

Injunction imposed on Sand Land permit continued from page 1 nents in April asked the State Supreme Court in Albany “to annul, vacate and in all respects void” the DEC action.

They also sought a preliminary injunction to bar the agreement from being implemented while the case is pending in court.

In their suit, they allege the DEC agreement is illegal and based on falsehoods “in order to circumvent” previous decisions by the DEC’s executive deputy commissioner and its chief administrative law judge that would have led to the mine’s closure and reclamation.

They assert that expanding into the stump dump would unleash pollutants into the groundwater from past vegetative waste processing activities there.

The alliance of petitioners includes the Golf at the Bridge golf course and other nearby property owners; State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr.; the

Town of Southampton, and four civic and environmental groups — Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Group for the East End, the Noyac Civic Council and the Southampton Town Civic Coalition.

Last September, Mr. Thiele celebrated what he called “the beginning of the end” for the mine when Daniel Whitehead, director of the Division of Environmental Permits at DEC headquarters in Albany, wrote the company that its application for a new and expanded state mining permit had been denied.

“Sand Land has only de minimus reserves of sand left for mining purposes,” he wrote, “and areas where mining could occur are the subject of groundwater monitoring investigations.” Instead, he wrote, the DEC “seeks modification of Sand Land’s Mine Permit to require the cessation of mining activities and the initiation of steps to reclaim the site.”

The DEC commissioner’s March

agreement to grant a new, expanded permit after all is characterized as a “settlement” of Sand Land’s administrative appeal of the September ruling. Sand Land agreed in the settlement to cease operations within eight years, which the DEC commissioner hailed in a press release as an environmental victory.

Commenting on the injunction in a statement on Monday, Mr. Thiele wrote, “The state DEC got it right the first time in September, 2018, when they issued a determination to close the mine. Their decision six months later, behind closed doors, to reverse field and permit the expansion of mining was inexplicable. Even worse, the state DEC attempted to deceive the public and elected officials by characterizing the settlement in a press release as closing the mine.

“They never mentioned the threeacre horizontal expansion and attempted to characterize it as a ministerial change,” Mr. Thiele added.

In his decision to issue the injunction, Justice Ferreira wrote that the petitioners had a likelihood of success in showing the court that the stump dump was off limits under the terms of previous DEC rulings and that allowing the mine to expand would cause “irreparable harm” to the environment. He cited the affidavit of Dr. Stuart Z. Cohen, a certified groundwater expert, that sampling data at the mine showed “manganese concentrations that exceeded DEC standards in four of nine wells, with the level 87 times the applicable standard”; “highly elevated” levels of radionuclides; “quantifiable concentrations” of thallium, which Dr. Cohen called “a highly toxic chemical;” four wells had nitrate-nitrogen levels that exceed standards; and that four of six surface water samples “exceeded standards for arsenic, five of six samples exceeded standards for manganese and four of six samples exceeded standards for lead.”

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JUNE 6, 2019

OPINION Editorial

‘The solution to increased flooding in the Village should NOT be to run dirty water — or even filtered dirty water — into the bay...’

Open Lines Of Communication

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s the candidates running in Sag Harbor Village for mayor and the board of trustees talk about the need for better communications with the public, there are good examples all around us of public entities that do a pretty good job at it.

One is the Southampton Town Board, the operation of which is transparent and easily followed by the public. A major aspect of that transparency is the board’s regular schedule of work sessions, at which the key players on various issues and projects — town staff and community members — come before the board to present the facts, describe the options and recommend actions for the board to take.

Because so much of the town’s business is aired at work sessions, there are few surprises when the Town Board holds its official meetings to introduce new legislation to its residents or make decisions by casting votes.

The East Hampton Town Board has a similar schedule, hosting regular work sessions along with its more formal bi-monthly meetings, including a work session in Montauk in an effort to ensure residents from that hamlet have a venue to discuss issues with their elected officials closer to home.

In Sag Harbor, the board of trustees operates on a different schedule, some of it born out of the fact that virtually everyone is a volunteer, despite the heavy lifting that can come with the responsibility one takes on when they run for elected office. The village’s work sessions are extremely rare. Things instead seem to appear on the official agenda of monthly meetings out of thin air, as far as the public knows. When the village began moving forward, swiftly, with plans for an impound lot on the edge of the Long Pond Greenbelt, there was not a public discussion prior to what seemed like a fait accompli when the need for that lot was explained. As plans move forward to address important projects like Havens Beach, Long Wharf and even the celebrated John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, there are very few moments where the board of trustees discusses the issue earnestly, amongst each other, in public session where community members can also share their thoughts.

It appears everyone running for office, including incumbents, at a Meet the Candidates forum last weekend at the John Jermain Memorial Library supported increasing communication with the residents of Sag Harbor.

Whoever wins the village elections on June 18 should pledge to seek regular work sessions on key topics and projects — as much as the village’s more limited staffing and resources will allow.

The Healthiest Choice

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he Sag Harbor School Board of Education deserves credit for working with its transportation committee to come up with a reasonable way to cut down on transportation costs while also preserving the later start time at Pierson Middle-High School.

Instituting the 15-minute later start time for the 201819 school year, adopted on top of a previous 10-minute later start for 2015-16, has not been without its share of headaches, but the peer-reviewed medical research on the benefits of a middle and high school start time of 8:30 a.m. is abundantly clear, as board member Alex Kriegsman rightly pointed out Monday as he moved to support adding a sixth afternoon bus route at Pierson instead of a plan that would roll back the school start time by 10 minutes. While the Sag Harbor School District is a pioneer for later start times on the East End, it is still 40 minutes behind when many medical professionals believe middle and high school aged children should start their day.

It is true the rollout of later start has not been without its controversy and legitimate issues and it will be incumbent on the school community, including the board of education, to make the transition easier — when possible — on the students it has impacted most. Change is challenging, but policies that support the mental health of our children should be our greatest priority, especially when the research is so abundantly clear.

Looking to the Future

Tuesday Afternoon, Gibson Lane

The Walking Tour BY MICHAEL HELLER

Letters to the Editor Better Way to Manage Storm Water Dear Kathryn, Everyone who knows Havens Beach realizes that the water quality and the shape and texture of the beach itself suffer from the dirty storm water now being siphoned into the bay waters via the large drainage ditch that bisects the Havens public recreational space. These negative effects are also felt at the SANS beaches to the east.

We are seeing high bacteria counts in the water, making swimming unsafe. Stagnant, dirty water pools at the outflow put children at risk. Erosion is occurring and a dangerous, squishy concoction underfoot near the outlet has arisen.

Most people are also aware of the increasing flooding conditions in village streets in heavy rains. Basements are flooding. Village drainage systems are utterly inadequate to the amounts of storm water runoff with nowhere to go as new paved construction and bigger houses are constructed, replacing backyards and permeable open space.

The Village Trustees are getting ready to “remedy” both these situations at once with a proposal to construct a new concrete pipe in the ditch, change the sponge filters on the drain, mow the phragmites, and build riprap structures that they hope will contain erosion. This work will be connected to a new drainage pipe at Hempstead Street, facilitating more road runoff to enter the ditch, and thence the bay.

In theory this new construction will reduce the number of bacteria going into the bay while speeding up the rate at which road runoff leaves the roads and enters the bay.

The Friends of Havens Beach have many questions. Will these sponges really be capable of filtering out all the pernicious bacteria? Does mowing phragmites achieve anything? What kinds of erosion occurs when storm water runs out faster? And how much dirty water in the dreen will simply by-pass the filters altogether and go straight into the bay?

The engineers will surely argue that all this will work fine. And that even if it doesn’t, anything is better than the failed (and expensive) system that is there now.

Spending more money and trying harder might make a bad situation very, very slightly better. Or perhaps worse.

No one really knows.

What we do know is this: The solution to increased flooding in the Village should NOT be to run dirty water — or even filtered dirty water — into the bay. (And most certainly not at a beach given to the people of Sag Harbor for quiet recreation!).

At its next meeting on June 10, the Harbor Committee is being asked by the Village to review the proposal to see if it is consistent with the goals of the LWRP. It would seem a no-brainer that it is not consistent with the goals of safe water, and public health and recreation.

But the way the proposal is being put is: that it’s better than the mess we have now. Friends of Havens Beach asks that the Harbor Committee not fall for this “logic.” We ask that they recommend to the Village Trustees not to implement this project. Instead that they recommend: The Village come up with an effective, comprehensive plan for street drains. One that allows for storm water to be absorbed into the ground rather than run into the bay at the Village’s only public swimming beach. Or anywhere along the shore.

That — instead of a single ditch — at least part of the almost 20 acres behind Havens Beach be restored to wetlands, able to absorb both storm water and the inevitable hurricane surges.

All around the country coastal parks are being designed that remain parks but have this capacity and beauty. And grants are readily available for well-thought out cohesive projects. Friends of Havens Beach will gladly assist with this aspect!

Please hold off on this misguided project. Let’s save our efforts for something that will truly benefit the Village.

Yours truly, Carol Williams, Kate Plumb For Friends of Havens Beach Sag Harbor

Jean Vanier and L’Arche Long Island To the Editor: I was saddened to learn of the passing of Jean Vanier on May 7. Vanier was the founder of L’Arche, a worldwide movement that establishes communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities share their lives together.

L’Arche means “ark” in French. In 1964, Vanier purchased a small house in France and invited two men with intellectual disabilities to share this home for the rest of their lives. From this simple act of kindness, Vanier’s vision for L’Arche has grown into the L’Arche of today that includes 154 communities and 21 community projects worldwide.

The newest of these community projects is L’Arche Long Island, located in Riverhead.

Jean Vanier’s death follows the passing of Jean Lanier and Michel Berty, the principal founders of L’Arche Long Island. Through the tireless efforts of these two longtime residents of Wainscott, the Riverhead home was opened in 2016 for four people with intellectual disabilities and the assistants who share life with them.

The L’Arche Long Island community will honor Jean Lanier and Michel Berty on July 7, 2019 at a reception to be held at the Jackson Carriage House in Amagansett from 4-6 p.m. Proceeds from this event will go to support L’Arche Long Island and help realize the vision of creating new homes and new programs on the East End. Rob Smart Sag Harbor

Dear Kathryn, Thank you and The Express, Save Sag Harbor, and the JJML for hosting the candidates event on Saturday morning. It was important for the Sag Harbor residents to see the differences between the candidates directly in a debate format.

I want to re-iterate a few points made during the debates where it is most obvious that Mayor Schroeder and I disagree, starting with the need for an overall strategic plan.

I believe we need a long term, comprehensive plan for the village, done in conjunction with the residents and stakeholders and our neighbors. It must look at the entirety of the Village, its upcoming issues and changes. It cannot be done piecemeal, one project or area at a time, or it isn’t the valuable tool we need to form the decisions of all the boards for a cohesive and holistic blueprint for the future of Sag Harbor.

The same goes for a Village Administrator. Contractors and consultants, who often work for the companies that are doing the work, might be paid by Sag Harbor, but they are not necessarily working in our best interest. A Village Administrator, with an urban planning background, while initially costly to the Village, will be able to oversee all the major projects coming up in the next few years (Long Wharf Restoration, Havens Beach drainage repair, Steinbeck Park, expansion of the sewer system, etc.). Again, we need a holistic approach, one set of eyes looking out for the community, not a series of different consultants saying everything their own company is doing is fine.

And finally, Bay Street Theater. Bay Street is a not only a cultural jewel in Sag Harbor’s crown, it is an economic driver of the vibrancy of Main Street. It is there for our residents all year long. The sell-out musical performances in winter months bring people to our restaurants and shops at a time when the business is sorely needed. The Literature Live! program gives school children a chance to see classic books brought to life on the stage. Thousands of visitors and tourists come and enjoy Sag Harbor on their way to be delighted and entertained by the Mainstage Summer Season programming and the Summer Gala. Our village would not be the same without it.

The Sag Harbor Board needs to change. It needs to think strategically about what our future looks like and how we can protect the things we love about this vibrant yearround village; cultural places like Bay Street Theater and the soon to be re-opened Cinema and our waterfront and marinas and Havens Beach. It needs to listen to the residents of all the communities it serves and help them all keep the charm and feel of what makes each area special.

It needs to support the volunteer emergency services, the school district, the multi-generational residents and our newer year-round residents, the tourists and the seasonal visitors. And it needs to encourage and support the businesses, restaurants and shop owners on Main Street that keep Sag Harbor vibrant 365 days a year.

Aidan Corish, Bob Plumb and I can make these changes.

By planning for the environmental, economic and demographic changes that are coming, and by working with all our residents in advance, we will raise the level of the Mayor’s office and the Board of Trustees to become focused on the future success of our Village.

I hope the residents of Sag Harbor Village will support us on Tuesday June 18th.

All the Best, Kathleen Mulcahy Candidate for Mayor Horizon Party Sag Harbor

Open a Dialogue Dear Kathryn, I would like to thank the Sag Harbor Express, Save Sag Harbor and the John Jermain Memorial Library for hosting the candidates debate last Saturday. I enjoyed participating and hope that it was an informative event for all those in attendance.

As election day approaches, I would like to outline what I believe are the biggest issues facing our village and how we can prepare for them.

First and foremost is water quality. It is not an overstatement to say that as the quality of our waters goes, so goes Sag Harbor. That is why from its inception in 2017, in association with our village, neighboring municipalities, private entities, charitable foundations and individual contribu-

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JUNE 6, 2019

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A CONVERSATION WITH

Theresa Roden

Theresa Roden, the founder of the East Hampton-based organization Inspirational Triathlon Racing International, or i-tri, will accept the 21st Century Newcomer award from the Business Council for Peace on Thursday, June 6. Earlier this week, Ms. Roden caught up with The Sag Harbor Express to discuss the origin of i-tri, how it differs from other mentoring programs, and where she sees the nonprofit headed.

By Michelle Trauring What was your reaction to receiving the 21st Century Newcomer award?

We were really thrilled and surprised that we were selected; I know they had a lot of applicants this year. This award is really one that we’re super proud of because it was about mentoring, so we were able to show that not only do we mentor the girls in our program, but girls who are alumni of our program also come back and mentor the younger girls.

We also lean on women in our community to mentor girls, as well, and several of our board members are actually mentoring me, since they are women who have been leaders and executives in the business world. I am now stepping into more of a leadership and CEO role within i-tri, as we get ready for eventually a national expansion.

What is the origin story behind i-tri?

In my 30s, my daughter was about 6 years old, we were over on Block Island and we were hanging out when all of a sudden, these crazy lunatics came running down the beach, jumping over sandcastles and everybody was cheering, and the people running had numbers written on their arms in Sharpie.

I looked over at a friend of mine and said, “What are they doing?” and he said, “Oh, they’re doing the Block Island Triathlon,” and he explained to me what that was.

And it was one of those crazy light-bulb moments where I thought to myself, “Okay, next year, that’s gonna be me.”

I came home after that summer and told a few of my friends, who were all young moms at the time, and I told We want to come them that I had this crazy back and do this idea and they decided to train with me. again, and find girls

just like us and help How did i-tri begin to take shape? them to the finish Three or four years later, when my own daughter — line. who had watched this transformation happen for me — was about to enter middle school, I was looking at her and thinking about how hard that time in life had been for me.

For most girls, it’s a really hard time of life. And I thought, “Wow, if I had learned all of this at her age, instead of waiting until I was in my 30s, what a difference it would have made.”

That’s where the idea for i-tri comes from: “What if we took a group of girls who didn’t necessarily believe they were athletes and gave them all the training and support and equipment they would need to accomplish a really big goal?”

We started with no budget, no idea really how this was going to work, and about 10 girls. And it was just miraculous.

Everything worked the way it was supposed to work, and the girls helped to develop the program that is pretty the same now, 10 years later, as it was then.

How has the program grown?

The following year, they had come back to me in September and said, “This can’t be over. We want every girl who could benefit from this to have a chance to do this. We want to come back and do this again, and find girls just like us and help them to the finish line.”

We had 24 girls the next year. It has just grown from there.

We’re now in 10 different schools from Montauk to Mastic.

This year we have close to 200 girls participating.

Why is this organization important for girls, particularly right now?

Now, more than ever, we’re seeing — with the climate that we’re in — girls who have felt very empowered are speaking up and talking about timely issues that they’re watching on the news and it’s becoming really great conversation. We just don’t want them to get discouraged. We want them to believe in themselves and believe that the future is theirs to form.

I look at them and I always say, “I’m not worried about the future because I hear from you guys about your ideas, your vision of what you want to see in the future,” and I know these girls are going to be the ones leading us to that future.

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Kathryn ‘Evans’ Gerecke Praying For Home

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“When life itself has become a prayer, we are connected to that source of love and life.”

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teps away from St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church in Sag Harbor stands whaling Captain Jeremiah Hedges’ house dating back to the 1840’s. It is this historic house that Kathryn Evans Gerecke has called home since 1926. Her family purchased it and moved in when Evans was only two months old, and she still lives there today along with her memories and the things she loves.

Many believe in the power of prayer, and Evans is among them. She attends St. Andrew Church daily and remains after Mass each day to say the rosary with a dedicated group of the faithful. “No sincere prayer is ever lost,” she says with conviction. “I believe a lot of people benefit from our prayers. It gives me a sense of having done something positive: we’ve turned our hearts to God. Our prayers may not benefit the specific need we are praying for, but that may not be what is best. Only God knows that — we don’t.”

Throughout her life, Evans has been a part of St. Andrew Church: as a lector, Eucharistic minister and a long time member of the finance committee. “I help wherever I am needed. The church is like my second home. It is part of my life — right now it is the biggest part of my life.”

Growing up across the street from the church had many advantages.

“I attended St. Andrew’s School, and there seemed to always be someone to play with. My father put a hoop up on a tree in our backyard, and the kids would come over from the school to play basketball. During the hurricane of 1938, the school had to close.

Many of the kids couldn’t make it home so they came over to my Kathryn “Evans” Gerecke house. Mrs. Korsak from Madison Market sent up food for them. I heard the rumble when the steeple from the Old Whalers church fell. I remember going out after the hurricane and seeing all of the trees down. Some streets you couldn’t go down at all. There were no lights.”

Evans remembers the freedom of childhood in Sag Harbor.

“When I was young everything was free. We were free to do what we wanted. All of the things that people say you can’t do or things that may be too dangerous; we did.

We roller skated down the sidewalks and played hide and seek in the cemetery. We spent all day at ‘Tides Beach’ and played a lot at the park.”

As the face of Sag Harbor continues to change, Evans recalls earlier times on Main Street.

“I remember when cars used to park in the middle of Main Street, and there were streetlights and traffic lights in the middle as well. Schiavoni’s Market used to be half Schiavoni’s and half Santacroce’s Ice Cream Store. The Candy Kitchen used to be where the Paradise was, which is now LuLu’s. Main Street has changed a lot. You just have to accept it. I’m glad we still have Schiavoni’s Market, the ‘5 and 10’, and the Wharf Shop.”

Evan’s father was employed at Fahy’s factory.

“During the Depression, I remember the day that my father came home from work and said that the factory had closed. I was about seven years old. That factory was the one source of work in town. My father got a job with President Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration). I think 1934 was one of the snowiest winters, and he had to work in the cold outside in Montauk helping to build the roads.”

Evans remembers the impact World War II had on Sag Harbor.

“When I was about 15 or 16, four of us were asked to go to the top of the Municipal Building on Main Street every Saturday to watch for planes that may be coming to bomb us. We loved every minute of it because we felt we were helping. During the war, you couldn’t get a car or buy anything new. Everything went to the war effort. Butter and sugar were rationed. Ration stamps became more

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important than money. Everyone did what they had to do — that’s just the way life was. It didn’t phase us — we felt good about helping in any way we could. I remember on VJ day we all walked from town all the way to McNally’s (formerly Lenny’s Steakhouse/The Salty Dog/The Waterside) Restaurant in Noyac to celebrate, and then we walked all the way back to town.”

Reflecting on one of her first jobs, Evans recalls, “I used to work the switchboard for the New York Telephone Company which was originally on the corner of Union and Madison Streets. That house is gone now. People would call and say, ‘Hey Evans, give me so and so.’ We were the authority in town. We blew the fire whistle. When there was a fire, the whole board lit up. We had to tell all of the firemen where to go.”

Attending nursing school at Mary Immaculate in Jamaica, Queens, Evans became a registered nurse, and after that she received a Bachelor’s Degree in nursing from St. John’s University. She was a Cadet Nurse during World War II and worked in Queens and King’s County hospitals, then in Suffolk County as a public health nurse and later as head nurse of Pediatrics in Southampton Hospital for 23 years.

Evans retired from nursing in 1987 when things began to become computerized.

“I missed the people. You get a tremendous closeness in nursing.

I still like reading medical books about different diseases. Nowadays it’s hard to order anything without a computer and an email address.

Computers may disconnect us from our past, and that isn’t good.”

Recently having renewed her driver’s license, Evans is now able to drive until she is 101. When asked to what she attributes her long and wonderful life, she replied, “God mostly, and I’m just lucky. I’ve taken reasonably good care of myself, and I like good foods. I don’t care for sugar or sweet things.”

Evans is a charter member the Columbiettes (a Catholic charitable organization) as well as a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. She enjoys gardening and listening to Yankee games on her portable radio. “I can use my imagination when I listen to the games on the radio, and I can move around and do what I need to do in the house.

TV keeps you captive.”

Comfortable in her cozy home, Evans continues to enjoy life to the fullest. She talked about the importance of the “Home” column in The Express.

“I remember parts of my life by reading your columns.

The older you get the more you remember about the way past. That’s why it is good to sit and talk about it. I used to be very quiet, but for the past year or so, I can’t stop talking.”

What a gift it is for me to sit and listen to all of these amazing stories, stories from the salt of the earth, stories from the hearts and souls of those who have helped to build and shape the Sag Harbor we all love. These are the folks that knew my grandparents and my parents, the folks that have lived through all of the changes and still love their hometown.

“In the past, it used to be easier getting around town and harder to get outside of town, but then again we didn’t want to get anyplace. We were very happy to be in Sag Harbor,” said Evans. “Sag Harbor is a pretty unique place. People came from all over the world to settle here.

For a small town, we’ve had greater diversity than most places. You live in a place a long time, and it’s hard to leave. I’ve met a lot of friends here. The church across the street means so much to me. It’s nice to visit other places, but I’d never want to live anywhere else.”

For all of her prayers, her dedication and her commitment to her hometown, we are grateful that Kathryn Evans Gerecke calls Sag Harbor — HOME. NANCY REMKUS is a retired elementary school teacher and third generation resident of Sag Harbor whose column highlights the people that make up the fabric of the South Fork.

There was a lot of talk at Saturday’s Meet the Candidates event about planning for the future of Sag Harbor Village. In your opinion, which issues need the most attention and why?

• Traffic Officers need to DIRECT TRAFFIC at the fork of Madison and Main.

• Water quality.

• Water, water and water. Without clean water to drink, clear water to boat, fish and swim in and clean beaches to enjoy, Sag Harbor will become just another small town.

• Zoning to dissuade huge houses on small lots, middle income housing, water quality issues, septic and sewer issues

• Village management capabilities are not adequate, given the significant development: hiring a city manager; hiring and paying professionals to head ARB, ZBA and expanding the building department, hiring competent staff (building inspectors). We’re no longer a little nor quaint Village, thanks to the inadequate rules we operate under and we also require a business professional to head our local government.

• Respect for the local independent businesses who are the backbone of the commercial district which is the major contributor to the tax base of the village.

• Affordable housing projects, making the village more “walker friendly” including better maintenance of sidewalks (repairs, snow removal.)

YESTERDAY’S EXPRESS 125 Years Ago June 7, 1894

The quiet little hamlet of Sagaponack, which usually has naught to molest it further than the everyday occurrences, which fall to the lot of such places, was seriously disturbed last Saturday night, or rather early Sunday morning, when robbers attempted to loot the residence of Ebenezer Hedges, on Hedges’ Lane.

The residence of Mr. Hedges stands where dwellings are not very plenty.

Last Saturday night, between the quiet hours of 12 and 1 o’clock, a time when everything is expected to be quiet save the sound of the whippoorwill and the roar of the majestic ocean, Mrs. Hedges, who sleeps in a room by herself and on this occasion had the door fastened, heard someone trying to open her door.

She listened and then putting forth the usual question “who is there?” she came to the hasty conclusion that it was someone beside the family, bringing her vocal powers into action at the same time so as to arouse her husband in a room nearby ... Mr. Hedges, as a general thing, does not keep much money in his house, but, on this occasion, he had more than usual and it is supposed that some one knew it, as he had cashed some checks the previous day. When he came to look about to see what had been taken, he found the bureau drawers and other places had been ransacked, an old pocketbook turned inside out, but nothing had been taken.

100 Years Ago June 12, 1919

Governor Smith has signed the bill that appropriates $35,000 for a lock in the Shinnecock Canal at Good Ground. As some of the Governor’s nearest political friends live at that

place, including Ross Murphy of Tammany Hall, how could he do otherwise? Can anyone tell how much money has already been spent on this ditch? And when, if ever, will it be completed.

75 Years Ago June 8, 1944

The excitement induced by the Invasion of Europe, probably does not invade the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cilli of this village.

For them, there can only be a deep pride amidst a deeper sorrow in knowing their son, Nick, in giving his life for the cause of Freedom, helped to open the path to victory, and make that path clearer for other Sag Harbor boys who even today are pressing on in the attack to free Europe as well as to avenge their great loss.

50 Years Ago June 6, 1968

Wayne Rana, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rana of Bridgehampton, was named to the Greater Boston League Collegiate All Star team last week. Playing shortstop and outfield for Northeastern University, Wayne was chosen as All Star outfielder. The team was picked by the coaches in the league composed of teams representing Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Tufts, Brandeis, MIT and the Northeastern Huskies.

25 Years Ago June 9, 1994

Sag Harbor has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, it was announced recently.

Peter Davies, who spearheaded the effort to expand the village’s historic district and prepare the documentation for approval from village, state and federal agencies, said the federal government made the announcement on May 10.

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840 Sagg LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/21/2018.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 2462 Mains Street Ste #7 Bridgehampton NY 11932. Purpose: any lawful.

7 Ashwood Court LLC. Filed with SSNY on 3/19/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 30 Race Lane East Hampton NY 11937. Purpose: any lawful.

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Capobianco Properties LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/27/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 110 Surf Rd Lindenhurst NY 11757. Purpose: any lawful.

86georgica LLC. Filed with SSNY on 3/19/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 Central Park W Apt. 10d NY NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful.

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Lojaro LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/30/2018.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 275 Oakleigh Ave Baiting Hollow NY 11933. Purpose: any lawful.

Vision Makers Events LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/10/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 156 Peconic Hills Drive Southampton NY 11968.

Purpose: any lawful.

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1 Matthews Drive LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/24/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 207 Montauk Highway Speonk NY 11972. Purpose: any lawful.

Fbj Property Management LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/9/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Po Box 1 29 Club Lane Remsenburg NY 11960.

Purpose: any lawful.

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145-04 Jamaica LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/13/2016. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 48 South Service Rd Ste #404 Melville NY 11747.

Purpose: any lawful.

Diverse Industries, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/9/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 76 Mall Drive Commack NY 11725. Purpose: any lawful.

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Rent Manager LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/26/2016. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 48 South Service Rd Ste #404 Melville NY 11747.

Purpose: any lawful.

Carter Bentley Realty LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/11/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 140 Lakeland Ave Sayville NY 11782. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/9/19 - 6/13/19 NOTICE Morhan Realty, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/16/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 8 Flower Ave Holtsville NY 11742. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/9/19 - 6/13/19 NOTICE 242 East Main Street LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/6/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 310 Hallock Ave Port Jefferson Station NY 11776.

Purpose: any lawful.

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Denise Burke O’Brien, Esq. • Joseph M. Burke, Esq. Hon. Edward D. Burke, Sr. (Retired - NYS Supreme Court & Southampton Town Justice)

Edward D. Burke, Jr., Esq. - of counsel

Tel:

631 283 4111 Fax: 631 283 7711

Web: www.burkeandsullivan.com • Email: info@burkeandsullivan.com 41 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York 11968 3348 Noyac Road, Sag Harbor, New York 11963

6x5/9/19 - 6/13/19 NOTICE Belco Industries LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/14/2016. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 8824 Storm Cloud Ave Las Vegas Nevada 89129. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/9/19 - 6/13/19 NOTICE 490 Rocky Point Rd LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/9/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 21-57 24th Street Astoria NY 11105. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/9/19 - 6/13/19 NOTICE

6x5/16/19 - 6/20/19 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT SUFFOLK COUNTY U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff against

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE Canvasback, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/29/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 34 East Montauk Highway Ste 3 Hampton Bays NY 11946.

Purpose: any lawful.

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EMORY BRIENER AS EXECUTOR TO THE ESTATE OF ANAMARIE A. BRIENER, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, NY 11590 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered March 22, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Shelter Island Town Hall, 38 N Ferry Rd, Shelter Island, NY 11964 on June 24, 2019 at 2:00 PM. Premises known as 6 Community Drive, Shelter Island, NY 11964. District 0700 Sec 014.00 Block 02.00 Lot 018.000. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Shelter Island, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $268,052.38 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 606159/2016.

Edward Heilig, Esq., Referee VERJN157 4x5/23/19 - 6/13/19

32c Canoe Place Rd. LLC. Filed with SSNY on 3/27/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 26 East Montauk Highway Hampton Bays NY 11946. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE Sagg Main Press LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/24/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 870 United Nations Plaza NY NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE 57 Pond Lane LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/22/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 44 Cobblefield Lane Southampton NY 11968. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE Jav 6 Foods LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/15/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 14 Sweet Briar Path Lake Grove NY 11755. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE Area Seven, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/19/2019.

Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 430 Bailie Beach Rd Mattituck NY 11952. Purpose: any lawful.

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NOTICE D.a.k.k. Leasing LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/30/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 18 Lowell Ave Holtsville NY 11742. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE Jacked And Rich, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/13/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 3239 Rte 112 Ste 7 Medford NY 11763.

Purpose: any lawful.

DENTISTRY FOR CHILDREN, TEENS & HANDICAPPED

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE Serrano Realty Holdings, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 3/30/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 3239 Route 112 Medford NY 11727. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE Core Four Properties, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/9/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 90-7 Colin Drive Holbrook NY 11741. Purpose: any lawful.

6x5/23/19 - 6/27/19 NOTICE Roberto’s Home Improvement LLC. Filed with SSNY on 5/2/2019. Office: Suffolk County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 15 Roxbury Street Huntington Station NY 11746. Purpose: any lawful.

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116 Riverside Realty, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 11/13/2018. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 65 Indian Ave Flanders NY 11901. Purpose: any lawful.

Bc19 LLC. Filed with SSNY on 4/22/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 109 9th Street Garden City NY 11530. Purpose: any lawful.

Max Rehab Lending LLC. Filed with SSNY on 5/2/2019. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 20 Peachtree Ct Ste 101 Holbrook NY 11741.

Purpose: any lawful.

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ARTICLE 11-AAA OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, A PUBLIC REFERENDUM OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS OF THE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR. THE RESOLUTION SEEKS APPROVAL OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE DEFINED BENEFIT SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1997 AND IS ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK STATE COMPTROLLER FOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER MEMBERS OF THE SAG HARBOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS. THE AMENDMENT IS TO BE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020 AND, IF APPROVED, WOULD INCREASE THE MONTHLY SERVICE AWARD ACCRUAL FROM $20 TO $30 FOR EACH YEAR OF SERVICE CREDIT EARNED AFTER 2019.

THE ANNUAL COST OF THE CURRENT PROGRAM IS ABOUT $65,000 ($1760 PER PARTICIPANT) WHICH INCLUDES THE COST OF ADMINISTRATION OF ABOUT $3,700 PER YEAR. THE ANNUAL COST OF THE AMENDED PROGRAM IS EXPECTED TO BE ABOUT $75,000 ($1,790 PER PARTICIPANT). THERE WILL BE NO INCREASE IN ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AS A RESULT OF THIS AMENDMENT. THEREFORE, SHALL THE STATED RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM BE APPROVED? Beth M. Kamper Election Officer 3x5/30/19 - 6/13/19 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The Annual Meeting of the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will be held on Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 10am at the museum, 200 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY. At this meeting, members will vote to elect the following people to continue serving on the museum’s board of directors for an additional three (3) year term: Linley P Hagen - President Robert Chaloner - Treasurer Tom Daikin – Board Member Annette Hinkle – Board Member Additional nominations may be presented in writing up to three (3) days prior to the meeting addressed to the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, P.O. Box 1327, Sag Harbor, NY 11963.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual election for the Village of Sag Harbor will be held on the 18th day of June 2019 at Fire Headquarters, 1357 Brick Kiln Road, Sag Harbor, New York between the hours of 12:00 noon and 9:00 p.m. The election is for one (1) position of Mayor and two (2) positions of Trustee, each for a two-year term and one (1) position of Village Justice for a four-year term and that the names of the seven (7) candidates running for election are as follows:

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Mayor

Trustee

Inactive Applications (no discussion): Gaunt, SCTM#: 901-2-4-75, Revetment; 10 Meadowbrook LLC, SCTM# 901-6-1-11, Site Plan Review; Carpe North LLC, SCTM# 901-4-132.7, Site Plan Review; Carpe South LLC, SCTM# 901-4-1-32.8, Site Plan Review; 16 E Harbor LLC, SCTM# 901-6-5-36, Shoreline Restoration; Spaeth Family 2011 Trust, SCTM# 901-3-262.1, Site Plan Review

H. Aidan Corish 23 Howard Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963

And any other matters that may come before the Board.

Bob Plumb 226 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963

By Order of the Planning Board Village of North Haven Erika Gubitosi, Planning Clerk

Sandra Schroeder 370 Division Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963 Kathleen Mulcahy 35 Prospect Avenue, Sag Harbor, NY 11963

Jennifer Ponzini 11 Wildwood Drive, Sag Harbor, NY 11963 Silas Marder 175 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963 Village Justice Lisa R. Rana 229 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, East Hampton, NY 11937 Newly elected or re-elected Village Officials must take an oath of office with the Village Clerk within 30 days of taking office.

The matter to be voted upon at said referendum is as follows: PROPOSITION FOR SUBMISSION TO ELECTORS OF THE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR REFERENDUM ON THE AMENDMENT OF THE SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM FOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER MEMBERS OF THE SAG HARBOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR ADOPTED A RESOLUTION ON APRIL9, 2019 AUTHORIZING, PURSUANT TO

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PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Planning Board of the Village of North Haven will hold their regular meeting on June 17, 2019 at 4:30 P.M. in the meeting room at the Village Hall, 335 Ferry Road, North Haven, New York on the matters of: 370 North Ferry Road LP, SCTM# 901-1-2-2, Site Plan Review.

1x6/6/19 PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that pursuant to Article 12 of Chapter 300 (Zoning) of the Village Code of the Village of Sag Harbor, the Village Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing on June 18, 2019 at 5:30 pm at the Village Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York, or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in order to consider the following applications: 1. Application of Glover, LLC for property located at 14 Vitali Cilli Avenue, Village of Sag Harbor, SCTM 903-2-1-43 for the construction of a new single family residence requiring the following variances under Sections 300-4.3 (Table of Dim. & Regs) and 300-9.3D of the Village Code: the lowest level of the proposed residence has been deemed a basement and counts as a story (Village Code §300-2.2), making the home a three-story building, where only two stories are permitted; therefore, relief is required for the same; The proposed rear yard setback of the residence is 19.6 ft. where 30 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 10.4 ft. is required; The proposed residence protrudes into the sky plane exposure line for a volume of 1,887.63 cu.ft. on the north side and 1,921.2 cu. ft. on the south side for a total of 3,808.83cu.

ft.; The side yard setback of the proposed shed is 10.2 ft. where 15 ft. is required (in a side yard); therefore, relief in the amount o f 4.8 ft is required; The side yard setback of the proposed outdoor shower is 10.2 ft. where 15 ft. is required (in a side yard); therefore, relief in the amount of 4.8 ft. is required; The proposed side yard setback for the exterior stairs on the north side is 10 ft. where 15 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 5 ft. is required; The proposed side yard setback for the exterior stairs on the south side is 10 ft. where 15 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 5 ft. is required; The proposed rear yard setback for the septic retaining wall is zero ft. where 3 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 3 ft. is required; The proposed side yard setback (north) for the septic retaining wall is 0 ft. (zero) where 3 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 3 ft. is required.

2. Application of Robert & Elizabeth Russell for property located at 258 Main Street, Village of Sag Harbor, SCTM 903-3-1-54 for the construction of a 186 sq ft pool house and a 100 sq ft 3rd floor egress platform on the roof of the 2nd floor requiring the following variances under Sections 300-4.3 (Table of Dim. & Regs) and 300-9.3D of the Village Code: The proposed front yard setback is 19.9 ft. where 35 ft. is required; therefore, relief must be obtained for 15.1 ft.; The proposed egress platform protrudes into the sky plane exposure line (pyramid) for a volume of 240 cu. ft. where zero is permitted; therefore; relief must be obtained for the same.

3. Application of Judy Gilbert for property located at 148 Redwood Road, Village of Sag Harbor, SCTM 903-1-1-6 for the construction of a Swimming Pool requiring the following variance under Section 300-9.1A(4) of the Village Code: The proposed swimming pool, which is an accessory structure, is in a front yard.

Accessory structures are not permitted in a front yard; therefore, relief in the form of a variance is required.

4. Application of Olaf Olafsson for property located at 42 Suffolk Street, Village of Sag Harbor, SCTM 903-6-1-53 for the legalization of the construction of a Patio, Outdoor Shower, Cellar Entry, BBQ and Utility Equipment requiring the following variance under Section 300-4.3 (Table of Dim. & Regs) of the Village Code: The rear yard setback for the patio (south of cabana) is 5.1 ft. where 10 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 4.9 ft. is required; The rear yard setback for the A.C. condenser is 8.5 ft. where 10 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 1.5 ft. is required; The rear yard setback for the pool heater is 7.1 ft. where 10 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 2.9 ft. is required; The rear yard setback for the outdoor shower is 7.1 ft. where 10 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 2.9 ft. is required; The side yard setback for the masonry BBQ is 6.1 ft. where 10 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 3.9 ft. is required; The total lot coverage is 30.41% (4,198.81 sq. ft.) where 25% (3,451.32 sq. ft.) is permitted; therefore, relief in the amount of 5.41% (747.49 sq. ft.) is required.

5. Application of Jeffrey M. Brock and Belen Moneo Feduchi for property located at 17 Montauk Avenue, Village of Sag Harbor, SCTM 302-5-3-11 for the construction of dormers, a two story addition, two porches, patio and outdoor shower requiring the following variance under Section 300-4.3 (Table of Dim. & Regs) of the Village Code: The previously noticed front yard variance for the proposed brick patio has become more intense as the setback has decreased to 12.4 ft. from 14 ft. where 20 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 7.6 ft. is required.

6. Application of Lara Ivanovic for property located at 12 Shaw Road, Village of Sag Harbor, SCTM 302-3-2-26 & 8.3 for the already constructed 640 sq. ft. Gunite Swimming Pool requiring the following variances under Section 300-4.3 (Table of Dim. & Regs) of the Village Code: The side yard setback (north) of the swimming pool is 10 ft., where 15 ft. is required; therefore, relief in the amount of 5 ft. is required.

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 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: May 31, 2019 Heather Zaykowski, Clerk to the Zoning Board of Appeals

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Divine intervention

Letters to the Editor continued from page 7 tors, I have been actively involved in the first continuous water testing initiative to take place in Sag Harbor. In addition, I am leading the team to expand our sewage treatment plant service areas. The goal of this project is to take full advantage of excess processing capacity at our facility, and reduce the amount of nitrogen and coliform bacteria that enters our waterways.

We are desperately in need of a long term village plan. We do have the LWRP which is currently being updated, but I believe that there have been profound and fundamental changes to Sag Harbor since this remarkable document was conceived and published 33 years ago. We need to begin with an open village dialogue to reestablish who we are, who we want to be, where we want to go and how we want to get there.

We have three major municipal projects in the offing, Long Wharf rehabilitation, Steinbeck Park creation and STP service area expansion. In addition we have a major construction project imminent on Long Island Avenue with another under consideration at the same location. These projects will not exist in isolated silos, there will be an impact on the village and the village management. For these reasons and a myriad of others, it is time for Sag Harbor to follow the example of many successful municipalities and hire a qualified, professional village manager. As well as overseeing these major projects, the creation and filling of this position will allow the village board to be more strategic and less executional in its deliberations and endeavors, to the betterment of the entire community.

In addition to our location and natural beauty, our cultural institutions, hospitality, and bespoke shopping opportunities are the engine of our prosperity. We need to embrace all of our cultural institutions and merchants through a better dialogue with them

and our Chamber of Commerce. Similarly, the village and the school are inexorably linked; we are two sides of the same coin. A more meaningful dialogue with the school board to identify areas of mutual interest and benefit is in everyone’s best interest.

I appreciate the diversity of opinion that exists in our village and embrace inclusion, transparency and open respectful dialogue. I believe that I have demonstrated that once I have gathered all of the facts and listened to the contrary opinions, I am not afraid to make tough decisions no matter how difficult they might be.

There is no doubt that we will never agree on every issue; however I do hope that for the good of our community, we can disagree agreeably. The knowledge gained during my first term will serve me well and make me an even more effective representative should I be fortunate enough to be reelected.

I am asking you for your vote, on June 18th. Please vote line 7, H Aidan Corish, Sag Harbor United!

Thank you.

Aidan Corish Sag Harbor

Incorrect Police Report Dear Sag Harbor Express, A piece in the police report listings published on May 30, 2019 was inaccurate.

The expletive-filled rant by a neighboring property owner (which was also witnessed by other neighbors) did not occur on May 23, but on May 20th. It was reported in person, not by phone, to the Sag Harbor Police on May 23, at the suggestion of concerned neighbors.

It was not “brought on by [my] objections to a building project several years ago.” I never made any objection whatsoever to anybody about a building project years ago.

Sincerely, Eileen Grigg Sag Harbor

Quilt for community continued from page 3 people holding hands between the wall — like one on each side — and that made him very sad. That definitely stuck with him.

“We felt such warmth from the community,” she continued. “We were so welcomed and they were so grateful we came. It was like a big sharing session. It was just so lovely and I do hope to get back.”

Nearly every quilt square that came out of Arizona depicted “the fence,” as they call it, in some way. In Alabama, one participant made a rainbow flag out of mosaics, while another focused on the women’s rights and pro-choice rhetoric sparked by the abortion ban in her home state — though, admittedly, Ms. Dianora expected more spaceships, considering Huntsville is home to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.

On the East End, the imagery mostly revolved around the sea and the

beach, though she anticipates that may shift during the second workshop session. The project has changed, the artist said, and so has she.

“I’m humbled. I’m just really humbled by the people I’ve met and spoke with, both here in Alabama and in Arizona,” she said. “Across the board, people wrote and drew about family and friends, and love connecting us.

In all of the workshops, that was an important thing to people.

“It feels like we’re all working toward the same goals of community, wherever we are, and holding onto the things that are important to us and shared experiences,” she continued. “It’s just what matters.”

“Community Quilt Project, Phase 2” with Mare Dianora will be held on Sunday, June 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center, located at 25 Jobs Lane in Southampton. Admission is free and drop-ins are welcome. For more information, call (631) 2830967 or visit southamptonartscenter.org.

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SAVORING THE SEASON

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Lexie Tucci, 6, and Eva Tucci, 9, enjoy the new playground at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor. The nonprofit Park & Recreation Association of Sag Harbor is still raising funds to support the new playground. Visit mashashimuetpark.org to donate.

Seek extra parking continued from page 1 against the resolution. Board members Brian DeSesa and Susan Schaefer were absent from Monday’s meeting.

Prior to the vote, board members debated some of the language in the contract, including a provision that does not allow commercial vehicles to use the 12 spaces. Ms. Tice said she was also concerned about an outstanding question about the district’s financial responsibility outside of the $500 monthly fee, noting the contract suggests it could also be responsible for covering real estate taxes, and wondered why the district would need to execute the contract in the summer months for use by construction crews working at the Learning Center if commercial vehicles were prohibited.

“They don’t want commercial-sized vehicles,” said Superintendent Katy Graves, who said the diocese, which negotiated the contract on behalf of the locally-operated church, was concerned about oversized vehicles being parked in the lot.

“Shouldn’t the language be different,” asked Ms. Tice, noting there are parents who drive their children to school in vehicles with commercial license plates. Ms. Graves said the diocese would not change the language and that the district could use the 12 spaces for staff parking — freeing up street parking closer to the Learning Center for parents.

“We have a lot of people down there right now and they are congesting the streets of Sag Harbor, which is what we told the people of Sag Harbor we would not do,” said Ms. Graves, referring to construction crews, some who are not driving commercially licensed vehicles and could utilize the spaces.

“My understanding is this was supposed to be sorted out a long time ago,” said Ms. Lamontagne. “It wasn’t.

It was also supposed to be a free or

nominal fee.”

Ms. Graves said that while those who run the church locally wanted to make it nominal, the diocese negotiated the agreement taking into consideration land value in Sag Harbor.

Ms. Lamontagne said that unclear language like that involving commercial vehicles made her reluctant to move forward.

“I think the point about the commercial vehicles is a valid one,” said Mr. Kriegsman, an attorney. “I understand that is what they told you, but that is not how it reads.” Mr. Kriegsman also raised a concern over a liability or indemnification provision, which he said could leave the district liable if someone is injured in the lot at no fault of the district. While he praised the district for its negotiations, he asked if there was room for revision.

“I can try,” said Ms. Graves, who indicated the process has been challenging, noting an agreement was reached six months ago before it was set aside by the diocese, which opted to draft its own contract.

“I know this has been three years in the making and our attorneys have been working on this for a long time and I feel like it is one of those as good-as-it-gets kind of things,” said Ms. Kolhoff, stating she was comfortable moving forward with approval Monday night. Ms. Sobey said while she would like some questions answered, she was also comfortable moving forward and perhaps asking for an amendment to the contract to address concerns that were raised.

She also noted the district is able to leave the contract with just 30 days’ notice to the diocese.

While Mr. Kriegsman appeared to be on the fence, he ultimately voted to approve the resolution with Ms. Kolhoff and Ms. Sobey, although they did not have the majority needed for approval.

opted. She found me in 2010 and so we have been just completely connected at the hip ever since, and that’s the ‘Divine Intervention.’”

Together, they conceived the show, with Hackett acting as curator by selecting the artists and reviewing their work, ultimately choosing Lisa Hein and Bob Seng, who specialize in site-specific installations, to anchor the show.

When they first visited the Sag Harbor church, Hein and Seng were struck not only by the architecture — particularly the exterior — but also the village’s maritime history, and an idea quickly formed.

“The church has very steep roofs, so you can see a lot of the roof, but at the same time, it’s really triangular.

So we thought, ‘This looks like sails,’” Hein said. “If we put an additional jib out on the front of the steeple, then it would make you think the rest of the roof are also sails, so it would suddenly be a fully rigged ship.”

They called the project “Jib Net,” and applied for permits to erect it outside the church. A week before the opening, Hein learned they would face an uphill battle to get the installation approved.

“We knew we wouldn’t have time to make it after the hearing, so we just went ahead and made it. And it cost a lot of money,” she said. “So now we had this 40-foot-high net, cut in the shape of a jib. So we thought, ‘What are we gonna do?’ Don’t worry, there’s a happy ending here.”

They moved the net indoors, fixing it to the peak of the ceiling and letting it run nearly the length of the sanctuary, resting at about shoulder height.

Inside, it takes on a new life — one as a keel, rather than a jib.

“Instead, you feel like you’re under water, as if you were swimming alongside the hull of a ship,” she explained.

“Because it’s grey netting, you almost don’t notice it, and then all of a sudden when you’re next to it, you see how huge it is. It’s almost invisible, but it’s huge.

“The site is what inspired it, but in a way, this net coming down like a blade could have some relation to the title, ‘Divine Intervention,’ because it comes down from way on high to your level,” she continued. “It sort of slices down and if you think of the Old Testament, it could be a blade of judgment. In a way, it almost divides the church into one side of the aisle and the other.”

Work by more than two-dozen artists join “Jib Net” in the sanctuary, including a pair of “Photo Narratives”

by Bonnie Rychlak, only amplified by the Tiffany window they flank, she said.

“They’re images that I’ve taken from various places,” the part-time Springs resident said. “I take the photographs — they’re black and white — and then I enlarge them and cut them up, and then mount them on mirror and hand-color them. These are set into a white wooden box and the front is then covered in pebbled glass.

“It creates this diffusion of light that is just so extraordinary,” she con-

tinued. “They can be beautiful; they can be ghostly. They play with the glass window, which is just so incredible. I can’t get over it. I’ve never shown in a church, and certainly not next to a Tiffany window.”

Half of the art sale proceeds will benefit the Community Café, a ministry to serve Sag Harbor-area locals who are hungry, lonely or both — alleviating some of the food insecurity in the community, where a reported 7.9% of residents have no guarantee of their next meal.

“Given the times that we live in, I’m finding it to be a big community event, in support of something that is so necessary — spiritually and practically — by feeding people,” Rychlak said. “Personally, I feel it’s really helped me feel like there’s something beyond what we read about in the paper every day. It’s been healing for me, and it’s an opportunity for artists to have some sort of spiritual connection. I’m not religious, but I certainly feel, in this darkness, we need to feel some connection.”

For artist Janet Goleas, the exhibition has given her an opportunity to slow down — while contemplating the artwork on view, engaging with the church architecture itself, and making her own piece for the show: an art book of the Jane Austen classic, “Pride and Prejudice.”

“I hope people don’t get mad at me for defiling a book of such significance,” she said with a laugh.

While the identity of the book is intact, the cover is collaged and manipulated, as is every single page of the old, stained volume she stumbled across at a used book sale — joining a collection of unique artist books by Angela Britzman, Barbara Friedman, Elisabeth Condon, Stephen White and Jodi Panas at the show.

“I love it when the East End does something a little out of the ordinary and kicks the ball out of the park,” she said. “I think everyone’s going to really enjoy this. They’ll still have services there — it hasn’t disrupted the pews — and it’s a wonderful tribute to the sanctity of that space. It’s really nice and brave, I would say, for Teri to embark on this. It’s such a beautiful environment and it’s transformed.”

“Divine Intervention,” a summer group exhibition, will remain on view through Monday, September 2, at Christ Episcopal Church, located at 5 Hampton Street in Sag Harbor. Participating artists include: Bastienne Schmidt and Almond Zigmund, Lisa Hein and Bob Seng, Drew Shiflett, Carole Seborovski, April Gornik, Reynold Ruffins, Maureen McQuillan, Karen Arm, Amanda Church, Leah Guadagnoli, Theresa Hackett, Leo Holder, Dennis Hollingsworth, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Mary Jones, Christa Maiwald, Ray Manikowski, Diane Mayo, Nell Painter, Marilla Palmer, Liza Phillips, Bonnie Rychlak, Anne Seelbach, Alison Slon, John Torreano, Michelle Weinberg, Angela Britzman, Barbara Friedman, Elisabeth Condon, Janet Goleas, Stephen White and Jodi Panas.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Candidates for mayor continued from page 1 day morning, June 1.

“I strongly believe we need a project manager in this town,” said Ms. Mulcahy, “especially with things like Long Wharf coming up, the Havens Beach pipes” to “be sure it is done right. We need someone with real project management chops to do this and that costs a lot of money and we need to find that money, but I do think that will be a return on investment that will be so valuable.”

The village clerk and the departmental staff in the Municipal Building are “wonderful but overworked,” she said, “and honestly the board of trustees and the commissions and boards are part-time at best and volunteers for the most part.”

“We’ve had plans sitting on shelves for a long time because there’s no one who can do them,” she added.

Mayor Schroeder argued that the village’s practice of hiring engineers to handle individual projects is the better way to go. She said a village manager, under Civil Service law, is limited to handling “financial documents for the state, for the trustees and everything else … so I think we’re better off going, as I said, with the project engineers who developed our projects” to manage them.

Ms. Mulcahy countered that “bringing in consultants for this over here and consultants for that over there is not thinking in this comprehensive and strategic way” that she said she favored in her opening remarks.

“With that in mind,” replied the mayor, “it sounds like we’re going to need to create a whole new department like an engineering department like the towns have … The ones who come up with the plans that are successful are the ones who run the project as it’s being done,” she added. “I don’t understand your point of view.”

How to increase public participation and communication was the last of 12 questions posed during the hour-long mayoral forum by moderator Kathryn Menu, editor of The Sag Harbor Express. It was followed by another hour-long forum devoted to three of the candidates for two village trustee seats at stake on June 18. (See separate story).

Mayor Schroeder went straight to the issue of “public participation,” as it’s called on the agenda of Village Board meetings. During her administration, “public participation” at the beginning of the board’s monthly meeting was removed, leaving public comment for those not on the agenda for the close of the session, after the

board had completed its business.

“Public comment — we have it at the end now because the people who go through the process to be on the agenda,” she said. “Many of the people in the audience are volunteers who have meetings they have to attend afterward.” Ms. Schroeder said she would rather give those of the agenda the ability to be addressed first and that is why public comment was removed at the start of the meeting.

Ms. Mulcahy called for “public input” to be “at the beginning of the meeting. Everyone who’s there needs to hear what the public wants to talk about, including those board members and commission members who have other places to be,” she said. She also called for “board meetings once a quarter” on a “Friday or Saturday so more residents can get there. Look how many people are here … So many of our residents are not here during the weekdays. They have a right. They are taxpayers.”

She also called for an annual meeting “to tell the whole village in a large venue … what’s going on with our village and hear from them with public input what they’d like to see ... Some of the most creative people in the world live here. Let’s see what they have to say about some of our issues.”

Mayor’s Opening Remarks The forum opened with each candidate making a two-minute opening statement. “I’ve served two terms as mayor and we’ve accomplished an awful lot in the past and for the future, which we’re talking about today,” Mayor Schroeder said, who called for more environmental initiatives and “a long-term commitment to storm water pollution.”

The Long Wharf project, she said, includes a plan to divert runoff from the bay. Long-term plans are also in progress to expand the village sewer district. “Other than that, we have a lot of projects under way and one of them is electric car charging stations,” said Mayor Schroeder.

Mayor Schroeder also disclosed other developments during Saturday’s forum that had not been widely publicized before: the creation of a Parks Department “is pretty much in the works,” she said; an environmental consultant will explain plans to improve the drainage and filtering system at Havens Beach at the next meeting of the Harbor Committee, which will be at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 10; the village has acquired a vehicle that operates as a sifter, she said, “to help clean the rest of the stuff out of the sand” at Havens Beach; “very

Sandra Schroeder

Kathleen Mulcahy

nice people from the Peconic Estuary Program” are “out looking for grants for us” for the planned John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, which could fund landscaping for a DEC-required wetlands buffer. She also said the village has only two more years to lease the “gas ball” gravel parking lot on Long Island Avenue before National Grid sells it — something the village needs to plan for.

really, as part of the [comprehensive] plan but also even before the plan is finished, to find out what it means to live in Sag Harbor. Really communicate what it means to live in an historic village, that not everybody needs a pool, not everyone needs an in-laws apartment.”

On the same topic, Ms. Schroeder said, “I do not know what the solution to this is because we tried, as everyone knows, to put laws into effect that are going to control the size and the structure and the nature of our village.” After talking about the six lawsuits the village has lost, she concluded, “So I agree with everything that’s said, but I’ve had people complain to us also, ‘My real estate agent said we can do this’ … the real estate people also need to be honest with the people they’re selling to, because I don’t believe that’s always the case.”

Mulcahy Opening Remarks “I’m running for mayor to bring open communications, collaboration and cooperation back to our village government,” said Ms. Mulcahy, a former corporate executive. “We must be more responsive to our residents.

We have to work with our neighboring villages and towns, and we need to come together as a community to decide what Sag Harbor can and will look like five years, 10 years and even 20 years from now.”

She called for a “strong comprehensive plan” for the village, noting she “did strategic planning at companies like PepsiCo and Verizon” for most of her career.

She called for the hiring of a village administrator, “who can act as a project manager,” and promised “to start an environmental commission, or task force, in my first week to spearhead solutions for the bay, the aquifer, the septic systems and the beaches.”

She also promised “open communications, open office hours, meetings at more convenient times.”

When Ms. Menu asked what can be done about “overdevelopment” despite the adoption of a gross-floor-area limit in 2016, Ms. Mulcahy said “really that is the A-number-one issue I think that got me into this to start with.”

“I do think immediately we need to

Other Questions Both candidates, in response to Ms. Menu’s first question, said they favored developing a new comprehensive plan, with Ms. Mulcahy calling for sessions with “all the stakeholders.”

“I pretty much agree with everything Kathleen said but I do think we could start researching other comprehensive plans for what it’s worth in other places,” Mayor Schroeder said.

She also suggested breaking the process into “different parts of the plan at different times so it’s doable.”

Asked if they favored creation of a Parks Department, the mayor disclosed one is already in the works.

“Well, nice to hear that,” Ms. Mulcahy said. “I do think that given Steinbeck Park and Marine Park and then I think maybe even things like Havens Beach could be part of the parks department

… even Long Wharf if we decide to do a bigger Long Wharf [that’s] more recreational. So I think that’s a good idea; it does create another tax and it will need, again, a manager and a commission and a board to run it.”

On Steinbeck Park, the mayor disclosed the role of people from the Peconic Estuary Program in seeking grants for buffer landscaping and said landscape architect and village resident Ed Hollander “has spearheaded this project with us.” She said “he has all sorts of things already set aside at one of our village properties for a, like, walkways and things such as that.

We’ve been collecting stuff for it and if it has to be done in stages I think it would be best because we could have the walkway that’s proposed around Long Wharf to go under the bridge and matching through the park.”

“I would like to see lots of use of rain gardens, natural plants and things that are indigenous to the area because that’s what we want to have,” Ms. Mulcahy said. She said the “village needs to see” Mr. Hollander’s plans, which she called “magnificent,” because “we need to think about if that’s what we want or, do we want a more natural, relaxed park. I don’t know.”

The health of Havens Beach will be a focus of the environmental commission she plans to launch, Ms. Mulcahy said. “So Havens Beach is A-numberone; the drain, the dreen is a problem.

It needs fixing but it needs a budget to fix that and right now I don’t believe we have the budget plan …” Extending the sewer district to protect the Havens Beach waters from runoff is “something that would be worth looking at more closely. That’s really, it is a key priority, but I don’t have the answer yet, but I want to do the research on it, make sure it stays a key priority.”

Mayor Schroeder said the village has a $125,000 grant “to work on repairing and changing the drain” and disclosed the project will be explained at the upcoming Harbor Committee session.

Asked how the village can work with the Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Ninevah (SANS) neighborhoods to protect their character, Mayor Schroeder said, “I think we have to come up with a specific inventory and have it adopted. I don’t know the legal way to do this. I’m not going to pretend I do.”

“I believe they do have a lot of that work already done,” said Ms. Mulcahy, “and we can start putting that into books, but it’s really what I believe my conversations with people” from SANS have shown “what they’re looking for is to keep the scale, the community feel up there … Whether it’s down to historic buildings or not, or just that feel, so even immediately just making

sure that our planning boards or zoning boards are more in line with what that scale and community feel is and that they don’t approve things that are way out of whack.”

Ms. Mulcahy called the lack of affordable housing “at a crisis level” and admitted, “I don’t know how to solve that.” She suggested having developers of big projects “pony up for some affordable housing as well.” The mayor noted “we have that in the law” and that the village has received payments. She added that she had no objection to accessory apartments being created in single-family homes as long as the owner is in residence and the property meets all safety requirements.

The mayor noted that the village is hiring two paid EMTs for the ambulance corps. “We do not have the volunteers anymore and it’s going to be a mess and it’s going to cost money and there’s no way around it…,” she said.

Ms. Mulcahy agreed “we are going to have to figure out budget-wise how we’re going to start having salaried fire and ambulance and emergency personnel, there is just no doubt about it,” but wondered “if we can expand and work together with some of the other villages around us that may be the answer for some of the things but not all certainly…”

Both candidates favored helping Bay Street Theater stay in the village as it looks for room to expand. Ms. Mulcahy said, “There is a lot of parking in the village; we just don’t always go out of our way to find it,” and suggested better lighting and “flatter sidewalks.” The mayor said the village perhaps should try again to run shuttles in summer to unused school district parking facilities but publicize it better. “I don’t know what any other solution is other than a garage with layers of cars … There’s no place else to put parking.”

“I love this village,” Ms. Mulcahy said in her closing remarks. “I would be honored to be the mayor of this town. It is a charming and historic village, as I said earlier, and I would like to work with the trustees and the committees to continue to write the next page of that history.”

“It used to be we all, everybody in the village, knew each other. Everybody,” said Mayor Schroeder, a lifelong resident. “When I was little, it would have been a fish bowl. We’ve lost some of that and I’d like it back. Because” as a community “we’re stronger together than being, you know, I’m from here, you’re from there, that type of idea.”

“I’ve had the most enjoyment just helping people,” the mayor concluded, “ … I have helped so many people and I am hoping to have the honor for another term of office by serving you all again.”

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JUNE 6, 2019

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Candidates for trustee continued from page 1 which Jennifer Ponzini, a lawyer, real estate broker and former member of the Zoning Board of Appeals questioned.

“To hire a manager is going to be very costly,” she said. “I think I want to be the manager. I’m the trustee …

That’s why we’re here. Why are you going to pay people?”

“If we hire a manager,” she added, “are they hearing your voice?

Where are they? …If I’m a trustee, I want to manage it. If you’re going to give us this election and make one of us in charge, basically, to hear your voice, why do you need to hire a manager?”

Candidate Robert Plumb, a builder and current member of the Zoning Board of Appeals, said “in the long run” a village manager would be “a financial plus for the village because there are some big grants out there that are not being picked up.” He added that “there seems to be a weak link in the mayor’s office, and I’m not specifically referring to the mayor; I just mean that branch of government.”

“Do we need a village manager?” said Trustee Aidan Corish, who is seeking a second two-year term and is the only incumbent in the race. “Boy — do we ever.”

A fourth declared candidate, Silas Marder, did not attend the forum due to a family matter, Save Sag Harbor board member Bob Weinstein told the audience Saturday.

“There are so many aspects of this village that need to be wrangled,” Mr. Corish explained. “We’re about to enter into a period when we’re going to have the Long Wharf rehabilitation, we’re going to have the Steinbeck Park, we’re going to have the sewage treatment plant,” which Mr. Corish is looking to see upgraded to allow for an expansion of the village’s sewer district.

Answering the first question from moderator Kathryn Menu, the editor of The Sag Harbor Express, the candidates all agreed on the need for longterm planning.

“Absolutely it needs a comprehensive plan,” said Mr. Plumb of Sag Harbor government. “There is virtually no coordination between the various boards … It’s non-existent.”

“Long-term plan. Boy, it’s a long time ago that we should have started this,” said Mr. Corish, who is seeking a second term as trustee and is the only incumbent in the race. “We get this scattershot approach to everything.

We’re sort of putting fires out here and we’re building something there.

We’re considering the impact of something over here but at no time in my two years have we ever sat down and discussed … the long-term plan.”

“I believe we do need a long-term plan,” said Ms. Ponzini. “We do need to start with the community … We do need to organize the boards and the order of the boards” as they review applications.

During the forum, Mr. Corish again touched on the problem of managerial coordination in the village after a question about Havens Beach, which Mr. Corish said he wanted to see a specific trustee designated to oversee.

“It comes back to a scatter shot approach,” he said. “It’s like kids playing soccer. Everybody runs after the ball.

All our attention is on this project this week and this project next week.

We don’t achieve anything [running government] like that. If we had a plan and we knew how to assign our resources in a way that was methodical, we could gain ground on this.”

Answering a question about improving communications between the Village Board and the public, Mr. Plumb also touched on how the village government functions. After saying the Village Board “absolutely” should reinstate a public comment portion at the begging of its meeting in addition to one held at the end of each session, he added, “I personally feel … if the impound lot had been aired, discussed, brought up, I don’t know where it would have wound up but I do think it would have been less controversial and a lot fewer hard feelings about it … Somebody else could have had a better idea, frankly, but we don’t know because we didn’t ask anybody.”

Also touching on village government’s operational issues, Mr. Plumb said during his introductory remarks, “I’ve been a member of the ZBA for four years. In this time, we passed on many suggestions to the [village] board for code clarification and possible changes. Not a single one has even gotten to the discussion stage.”

Ms. Ponzini did not specifically address the question of reinstating the public participation portion back to the beginning of the monthly board meeting. “When I started doing this, so many people came up to me and said, ‘How can I get involved?’ … I was like, oh, I’ll help you. I think we need to get these people on the boards, and I see the boards need people,” she said.

She suggested having board sessions at “different times, once a month or every two months,” and said public participation is “very important” but speakers “do need to be

Trustee candidates Jennifer Ponzini, Robert Plumb and Aidan Corish.

timed.” She added, “All of us need to go out there and tell everybody they can participate in the community.”

Here is an abbreviated summary of some of the candidates’ positions and comments in the order in which the candidates were introduced at the forum: Jennifer Ponzini “If I’m on the board of trustees I want you to come up to me and I want you to talk to me. I want to hear your voices. I’m here for you,” Ms. Ponzini said. “This is not for me. This is for you.” She said she was “committed to solving quality of life issues, preserving our historic integrity. I want to safeguard our natural resources for the residents, for the visitors and for my children and everyone else’s children, for the generations that are to come to the community.”

Asked about possible zoning changes, she said regulations should be enacted to protect the historic SANS community’s culture.

On pollution and runoff affecting Havens Beach, she said, “I know Havens Beach is an issue but there were 63 beaches closed with regards to, they say, rainfall, which is probably not true, but I know the trustees have something in place, a new plan they’re acting on,” she said.

“I think we need to better inform the homeowners about the septic systems and the rebates that are happening right now,” she added.

“I don’t know if we’re going to totally solve Havens Beach. I do like Aidan’s idea of making a trustee in charge of it. That might be a good idea.”

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On protecting Main Street’s local business and vitality, Ms. Ponzini said, “I work in the village and I’m part of the businesses in the community so I’m here for you.” She opposed “pop-up” stores. “I know the rents are high but there’s nothing we can do about that … I think we all need to sit around as a community just like this and we need to talk about this.”

On the issue of traffic calming, she said she liked “the idea of the flashing [speed] sign over by [Route] 114.”

On trying to regulate Airbnb shortterm rentals, “Something needs to be done,” she said. “This is affecting our community.” She suggested requiring rental permits and adopting regulations “to make it easier to cite people.”

Like the other candidates, she favored allowing accessory apartments in owner-occupied homes as a way to provide affordable housing and rental income, with “maybe tax incentives” for those who create them.

Robert Plumb Over his 40 years living in Sag Harbor, “we’ve all watched Sag Harbor change dramatically,” Mr. Plumb said, “and I believe we’re at a critical point” because of “environmental stresses” and “the demands of development.”

“My goals for the board are cohesive environmental water quality, open government, a willingness to discuss long-term planning,” he said.

He complained that “developers are not using architects,” leading to code violations in finished projects that wind up before the ZBA. He said the board recently has been “much stricter” with variance applications and called for higher application fees.

“I think many people were shocked to see the dredge alongside Long Wharf” in 2017, he said when the topic turned to Havens Beach. There was no public notice about it, he said, and “no discussion,” and after the spoil was piped onto the beach. In terms of Havens Beach, he said, “you would have to address that on a macro scale rather than just that one ditch.”

On preparing for rising sea levels, “First of all, I think it’s important to say climate change is real,” he said, adding that government data shows a rise in sea level near Montauk Point of .8 feet over the past century. He said adaptions to existing structures will be insurance-driven and when a house is raised “it’s not necessarily a problem” but at 23 Bridge Street, a commercial property, “it’s contiguous with 15 other properties. I mean how do you do that?”

He said it’s unrealistic for drivers to expect a parking spot “in front of or near where you want to go all the time,” and suggested a digital metering system associated with an app that could show drivers where parking spots are available.

“You need to make what is accessible and what is available feel more like downtown,” he said, in order to encourage drivers to park farther away from Main Street. “They always find a place to park,” he said. “Nobody’s ever gone home from the fireworks because they couldn’t find a place to park.”

He favored setting a two-week minimum rental limited to twice a year on private homes and a shorter term in an owner-occupied residence if the fire codes are met. “I don’t really see a lot of room for … accessory structures” to provide affordable rental spaces.

“I just feel like that’s the case in an old village with small lots and small streets.” He favored “a contribution” from the village to fund affordable housing beyond village limits in the unincorporated town areas to the east and west.

Aidan Corish “Debate and dissent go to the very core of our politics and I think it’s a strength of our system,” Mr. Corish said, noting he had opposed the village board majority’s decision to build a police impound lot adjacent to the Long Pond Greenbelt. “However, …it is incumbent upon us to disagree agreeably.”

The declining full-time population of the village and lack of volunteers for emergency services is “a huge issue,” he said, that needs to be addressed by comprehensive planning.

On zoning issues, he drew applause when he said, “The one thing I would do that I think would make a big difference is absolutely deny forgiveness”

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“There’s a monstrosity living in Ninevah right now that needs to be hauled down,” he added. “It’s just not right … I do think we’re being taken advantage of and it has to stop.”

He defended his oversight of the village’s grant application efforts. “I’m a pretty smart fellah. I’ve been around.

This is one of the most opaque entities, to go after grants,” which, he said, “we are applying for continuously.”

Calling for a trustee to be named as the overseer of Havens Beach, if not all the village’s natural resources, he said that “one of the great frustrations of people living in the village [is] they don’t know who to reach out to [in order] to answer questions.”

He said the village will be adding “microbial source tracking” to its water quality program so the source of coliform bacterial pollution can be identified and that “a major $100,000 engineering survey of the village” will soon be underway to identify “those areas which will give you the most bang for the buck in the reduction of coliform and nitrogen into the waterways” to guide decisions about where to expand sewer district mains.

On sea level rise and FEMA regulations, he said, “Raising houses is something that will have to be done … in a sympathetic way that’s in keeping with the historic nature of the village as much as possible.”

“I reiterate everything Bob just said about village parking,” Mr. Corish said when the topic turned to the business district.

“Traffic calming and traffic volume are two separate things,” he noted.

“Traffic volume leads to traffic calming because you just can’t drive anywhere.”

He favored allowing short-term rentals if a property is owner-occupied and conforms to codes. “If not in residence, I would make the shortest rental period be two weeks …”

Affordable housing is “not an issue I believe we can resolve in the village,” Mr. Corish said. He said the concept of “preservation” may have to be redefined to refer to a community’s culture and demographics, not just land.

“Land isn’t a community really. A community is people.”

He said he had opposed the removal of public comments from the start of village board meetings. “We need a broader dialogue,” he said. “We need to open up the issues. We need to get input from people and we need to find out what people really want.”

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Outdoors

BY AL “BIG TIME” DANIELS

June Weather

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A DAy At the BAllpArk Opening Day came Sunday afternoon for the Sag Harbor Whalers of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League (HCBL) under glorious sunny skies at Mashashimuet Park. The Whalers knocked off the visiting Southampton Breakers, 8-3, with Duke Jordan (LSU – Eunice), pictured above, tossing four innings to pick up the win. His collegiate teammate at Eunice, outfielder River Town, led the Whalers at the plate, going 4-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored. Catcher Matt Stone (Georgetown) had three hits and Peter Marren (Bucknell), pictured below left, had two. The Whalers played three games earlier this week and will travel to play the North Fork Ospreys on Friday, June 7, at 5 p.m. before going to Bellport High School to face the Long Island Road Warriors in a doubleheader on Saturday. The team returns home to face the Riverhead Tomcats on Sunday at 5 p.m. gavin menu photos

e had a fairly nice weekend and the warming water has increased the fish bite. There are still plenty of blowfish at Long Beach, but there are many small ones mixing in, too. It’s like the old days; you reel in a hooked one and several more are following. It’s a good sign they are coming back.

There are not too many bluefish in the mix. A few more fluke have been caught and more keepers are in the mix. The best spot seems to be between Mashomuck Point and Cedar Point. Use S/S sandwiches on the drift.

Reports have come in that striped bass are being caught at Cedar Point. The trollers are catching fish at South Ferry. Some weakfish have been caught, mostly by the porgy fisherman. Still, the porgy bite seems good in the Peconics.

Surfcasters are catching bluefish and bass. There is better ocean fluke fishing with fish up to eight pounds. Some bass are in Plum Gut and the Race. Fishing will improve as June progresses.

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Henry Brooks shifts focus back to baseball and state regional final

BY GAVIN MENU

Henry Brooks became the first-ever Pierson golfer this week to compete in the New York State Public High School Golf Championships, doing so in difficult conditions at Cornell University on Sunday and Monday.

Brooks, one of nine players representing Suffolk County, shot an 83 on Sunday and an 86 on Monday to finish with a total score of 169 on the par 71

Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.

“The course was hard, and conditions were terrible,” Brooks said about the rain and wind.

Nathan Han of Somers from Section I claimed the individual state title by following up his par 71 on Sunday with a 1-under score of 70 on Monday.

Shane Devincenzo, a senior from Port Jefferson, posted the best score among golfers from Suffolk County with a two-day total of 148.

By Tuesday, Brooks had shifted his focus back to baseball and preparing along with his Pierson teammates for this Saturday’s Class C state regional final, which will be played against either Pine Plains, from Section IX, or a team from Section I. If it’s a team from Section I, the game will be played at Pace University in Pleasantville at 11 a.m. If it’s Pine Plains, it will be at Cantine Veterans Memorial Complex in Saugerties at 4 p.m.

BRINGING THE FARM TO THE MARKET

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The Sag Harbor Farmers’ Market held its second market of the year on Saturday, June 1, where Lea Tracy, 7, and Isabel Tracy, 8, from Clarkson Ave. Crumb Cake Company bought pickles from Backyard Brine.

Community Sag Harbor Chamber of CommerCe arts & Crafts fair and sidewalk sale

The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce will present the annual Arts and Crafts Fair and Whale of a Sale Sidewalk Fair on Saturday and Sunday June 15 and 16. Marine Park on Bay Street will be bustling with local artists, photographers, and craftsmen for a unique shopping experience. Stroll Main Street where select merchants will bring their wares onto the sidewalk with special deals and promotions.

For more information and a list of participants, please visit sagharborchamber.com

Sag Harbor buSineSS owner winS weSt indieS r egatta Thierry de Badereau, who earlier this spring opened his shop WildSide at 85 Main Street in Sag Harbor, built Free, his 42-foot wooden sloop, on a beach in Carriacou, a small island north of Grenada, in 2015. Together with his skipper, Calistus Enoe, and an experienced crew of sailors, de Badereau and Free won the West Indies Regatta in April against a half dozen other wooden sloops and a dozen other classic sailboats. Local photographer Ed Gifford was there and captured the scene, including a post-event picnic where all the boats tie up together for their skippers and crews to celebrate. “This race is to maintain a tradition,” said de Badereau. ed gifford photos

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MON JUNE 10 Sag Harbor Village Harbor Committee, 4 p.m. work session, 5 p.m. meeting, Sag Harbor Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor (631) 7250222 or sagharborny.gov.

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Southampton Town, 1 p.m., Southampton Town Hall, 116 Hampton Road, Southampton. (631) 283-6000 or southamptonny.gov.

Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees, 6 p.m., monthly meeting, Sag Harbor Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor (631) 725-0222 or sagharborny.gov.

MON JUNE 13 Sag Harbor Village Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board, 5 p.m., Sag Harbor Municipal Building, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor (631) 725-0222 or sagharborny.gov.

Last year, when Alan Alda took the stage at the “All Against Abuse” gala, he brought down the house with a compelling plea.

In his distinctive voice, he shared the story of a life of terror — between his neighbor and a violent spouse — and his mother’s lifelong injury that came as a result her intervening in one of their physical altercations.

“As Alan said, domestic violence doesn’t just affect the person being beaten; it affects us all and we have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable,” according to a press release.

“You can help families affected by violence and abuse by participating in the All Against Abuse Auction.”

Bid on a selection of prizes while supporting The Retreat during its annual gala on Saturday, June 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. at The Muses, located at 111 Saint Andrews Road in Southampton.

Auction items include: a New York City rosé wine and food class, a halfday fishing charter, gift certificates from Urban Zen and Sylvester & Co, 27 Hampton Salon services and a basket of products, a Wölffer tour and tasting with Rosé Magnum, an Onda Beauty facial, four field-level tickets for the Yankees versus Astros game, and a week at Flying Point Surf Camp.

For more information, visit retreatgala.org.

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The South Fork Bakery, a three year old nonprofit and the only business dedicated to the training and hiring of people with special needs on the East End, has launched a GoFundMe to help founder Shirley Ruch continue the mission of the bakery.

The Go Fund Me, which can be accessed at gofundme.com/hf6zwvsouth-fork-baker y- cook ies-w ith-acause, has raised $13,275 of $40,000.

Voters approVe support for parrish art museum

Continuing a four-decade show of support, registered voters in the Southampton Union Free School District approved a tax levy for the Parrish Art Museum on Saturday, June 1. According to the District Clerk, a total of 125 votes were cast this year, with 100 in favor (80%) and 25 opposed. The Museum requested $367,278 for 2019-20.

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The Colorful And Criminal Past of Boxing Sussman reveals the influence of the mob on a violent sport

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art-time East Hampton resident Jeffrey Sussman loves to write about boxing, and he’s good at it — “Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing” and “Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame and Fortune,” his most recent books. Sussman’s also published boxing-related articles and short stories and contributes regularly to the premier boxing website boxing.com. The president of a Manhattan-based public relations and marketing firm, and a mild-mannered presence on YouTube videos, since college days Sussman has gravitated to the violent sport as a historian and writer. His new book is called “Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science.”

In an email, he notes that at the age of 12 his father, an amateur boxer, arranged for him to get boxing lessons (ten for $100), but, more significant, it was books about boxing that influenced him. His father, friendly with the owner of Stillman’s Gym (“the University of Eighth Avenue”), also gave him a collection of profiles of boxing champions and record-setting baseball players by the famous sportscaster Bill Stern, and later on, Sussman writes, he read Graziano’s autobiography: “I, in some ways, identified with him.”

A critical moment in accelerating his interest in boxing and crime occurred at his Bar Mitzvah party, Sussman writes in the introduction to “Boxing and The Mob.” It was when his father, in the (mob-controlled) garment business, introduced him to one of the guests — great uncle Irving, a former bootlegger, whose mantra was “only bet on a sure thing.” And if you couldn’t be sure? Then fix it to make sure. Sussman’s curiosity was aroused.

Reading about boxers and boxing enhanced it. He learned that in New York “boxing” and “the mob” were interchangeable. In a YouTube video he also acknowledges how he overheard his father once being threatened by labor racketeer Johnny Dio (the Sussman kitchen was subsequently vandalized, sending a “message”).

During his college days, Sussman was an English major and “boxing seemed declassé,” he says.

He read the famous poets of the early 20th century and for a while worked part time as a secretary for the Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wasn’t at all interested in boxing. Keen student of literature that he was, however, Sussman kept up his own interests in the subject, including reading William Hazlitt’s 1822 essay, “The Fight,” which he found “gripping.”

In the 1980s, he got to write a number of press releases on a welterweight Olympic gold medalist boxer, Howard Davis. More reading on boxing followed, including Wilfred Sheed’s 1975 book on Ali and, of course, the boxing essays by The New Yorker’s A.J. Liebling.

“That was it,” Sussman says. “I decided to give up my literary prejudices about boxing not being worthy of my efforts.” He was moving into territory that sealed his sociological passion to explore boxing and boxers.

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Wade Dooley and Tova Feldshuh in Bay Street Theater’s production of “The Prompter.”

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MADE FOR EACH OTHER

Tovah Feldshuh and Wade Dooley shine in Dooley’s ‘The Prompter’ at Bay Street Theater

BY DAWN WATSON

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efore we get too far in with the intricacies of it all, let’s dispense with the facts. “The Prompter,” now staging its world premier at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor through June 16, is the best play I’ve seen in years. Buy your tickets and go see it now.

The two-character comedy — written by Wade Dooley, and starring himself and the incomparable Tovah Feldshuh, directed by Bay Street artistic di-

rector Scott Schwartz, and with voices by Julia Motyka and Adam Petherbridge — deserves standingroom-only houses every single night that it plays.

Based on Dooley’s real-life experiences behind the curtain on several Broadway shows, this play tells the story of Irene Young, a grand dame who has seen and done it all. With a career that has spanned decades, including tremendous theatrical and film success and even her own short-lived television series, she’s decided to make one last Broadway appearance.

Four decades after her Broadway debut and now

in her twilight years, the legendary actress is hellbent to trod the boards one last time. The only problem is she can’t remember her lines.

Enter Wade, a young actor with stars in his eyes and dreams of his own stage success, who is hired to feed Irene her lines. Desperate for her acceptance and affection, he sees Irene as a grandmotherly figure, though she’s anything but. Caustic and curmudgeonly, the celebrated actress is the definition of diva.

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Theater

In Touch With His Past Self Walker Vreeland recreates a period of his own life — breakdown and all

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efore any one performance of “From Ship to Shape,” Walker Vreeland requires two months of intense rehearsal — because even though he wrote the words he acts on stage, he does not feel like the person who once lived them.

“It is very much like I’m telling the story about somebody else,” he said. “And that is sometimes amusing, sometimes painful, because I didn’t have the clarity I have now.”

It takes every moment of the rehearsal process to fully step into the version of Walker Vreeland who was drowning in self-doubt aboard a cruise ship 16 years ago, he said, someone who did not feel worthy as an actor, or as a person — an identity that fed into his mental illness and the subsequent breakdown that unfolds in his one-man play.

With levity, hope and resilience, Vreeland will bring “From Ship to Shape” back to Bay Street Theater on Monday night, where it premiered during the third annual New Works Festival in 2016. Shortly after, Vreeland hired Academy Award-winning director and producer Milton Justice to analyze the script, now 15 minutes lighter with a tighter structure and added music.

A year later, it would have an extended, sold-out run Off-

Broadway.

“A lot of times, people see the show and say, ‘God, is that exhausting?’ and I say, ‘Actually, no. It’s the opposite. It’s quite energizing and quite exhilarating to relive my nervous breakdown on stage,’” he explained. “Every single performance is another exploration of what did happen to me, and it’s like one thing leads to another, leads to another, leads to another.”

The year was 2001 and Vreeland was a borderline cliché, he said. The young actor had just graduated from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He was optimistic, idealistic and naïve, and he said yes to every opportunity.

“Really, that’s what you’re taught,” he said. “‘Don’t say no to anything. Who are you to say no to anything? You think you’re too good for a cruise ship? Who the f--k do you think you are?’”

It was that mentality, a weak sense of self and a struggle to find steady work — “It’s the oldest actor’s story in the book,” he said — that landed him aboard a ship in the Norwegian Cruise Lines fleet in June 2003. And within his first voyage from Manhattan to Bermuda, the 24-year-old wanted off.

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Bits & Banter Culture

Art

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Celebrating Asian Arts

Artists blur the lines between fact and fiction

A festival of music, dance and visual art

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oo often, language differences create cultural barriers that feel insurmountable.

But through the visual and performing arts, they can be broken — as seen by the crowd last year’s Asian Spring Performing Arts Festival attracted.

Asians and non-Asians alike turned out for the performing arts festival featuring live music, visual art and dance from various regions in Asia, to be held this year on Saturday, June 8, at the Southampton Cultural Center, located at 25 Pond Lane in Southampton.

The day will start at 3 p.m. with children’s visual workshops in Chinese sugar art, Indian henna painting and Chinese kung fu. “Beautiful, colorful Philippine textiles representing the unique art form of textiles will be on display, and an Asian guqin instrument will be performing peaceful mountain music, as part of the workshops,” according to a press release.

A live performance will follow at 5 p.m., showcasing the Chinese Lion Dance, tea art, kung fu, guquin music and Philippine dances.

“The Philippine dances will be one of the most distinctive component of this year’s festival,” the release said. “Colorful costumes and ornaments enhance the dancer’s appearance, whose bell anklets and rhythmic steps provide the sole accompaniment to punctuate their

movements.”

The performance will conclude with Chinese face changing, a crowd pleaser in Asian, Europe and the United States, and a source of “intense fascination for both children and adults,” the release said.

“The face changing, known as ‘Bian Face changing.

Lian’ in Chinese, was initially an important aspect of the Chinese Sichuan Opera, where the performers used face changing techniques on stage and transformed them into a special art with stunning skills,” it said.

A “Taste of Asia” food reception will close the evening from 6 to 7 p.m., including a cooking demonstration sponsored by the Philippine Consulate.

Tickets are $20 and $10 for children and students under age 21. For more information, visit scc-arts.org.

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A Summer of Docs Series kicks off on June 29

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he 11th annual “SummerDocs” series has two prerequisites. First, the documentaries must be entertaining and engaging. And second, they must be from the minds of revolutionary storytellers.

The series will kick off with a screening of “Maiden,” directed by Alex Holmes, on Saturday, June 29, at Guild Hall in East Hampton, followed by Mads Brügger’s “Cold Case Hammarskjöld” on July 20 and “Circus of Books” from filmmaker Rachel Mason on August 24.

Following the screenings — all begin at 7 p.m. — Baldwin and Hamptons International Film Festival Artistic Director David Nugent will have conversations with the directors of each film, along with additional guests to be announced.

For more information, visit hamptonsfilmfest.org.

rtists Barbara Friedman, Melora Griffis and Judith Simonian all blur the line between abstraction and representation, fantasy and reality, fact and fiction.

It makes them unreliable narrators — though, perhaps, it’s the subject of the work, or each piece as a whole, or even the viewer, that are the unreliable ones.

On Saturday, June 8, the newest exhibition at Sara Nightingale Gallery, “Unreliable Narrators,” will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. in Sag Harbor, located at 26 Main Street.

“The exhibition’s title derives from an ongoing body of work by Barbara Friedman, in which familiar protagonists from children’s literature and popular culture appear in precarious situations,” according to a press release.

Friedman’s treatment of characters such as Gulliver, Pinocchio and Gumby engages them in unexpected activities and settings, often found in supine positions, as if they have given up or been conquered.

Griffis’ airplane paintings, on the other hand, were inspired by a pair of shoes. “‘Painterella’ questions whether she has been framed by the Prince — seduced by the classic rescue fantasy — while the Prince, alone in his private jet, travels great distances, only to return to her with her missing shoe,” the release said.

“Visitation,” by Barbara Friedman.

Simonian paints a radiant yet unstable world that often becomes unhinged, transforming before the viewer’s eyes like a theatrical stage set.

“Her interest lies in the unevenness of the subjective eye,” the release said.

The show will remain on view through July 5.

For more information, call (631) 793-2256 .

WORLD PREMIERE!

Now thru June 16 “Tovah Feldshuh is brilliant.

Wade Dooley is sensational.”

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Wade Dooley and Tova Feldshuh.

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At the beginning of the show, Dooley, as Wade, says that the story isn’t about Irene but it’s awfully hard to not focus on this complex character.

Especially thanks to Feldshuh’s tourde-force talent in bringing her to life.

Her riveting portrayal is the single most accomplished character study and performance I’ve seen in decades.

The six time Emmy- and Tony nominee, and winner of multiple theatrical awards (four Drama Desk-, four Outer Critic Circle-, two Dramalogues, an Obie, a Lucille Lortel- and the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress, to name a few) doesn’t just command the stage, she succeeds in making the audience fall in love with her not-really-so-likable character. Her prodigious gifts allow her to move gracefully, engagingly and utterly believably from mood to mood and beat to beat through myriad emotions and characters — making an incredibly meaty role look delightfully, and deceptively, easy.

All of this praise for his legendary co-star is not to slight Dooley (“Jersey Boys,” “Broadway Bares: Rock Hard” and “NEWsical the Musical”) for his own considerable talent, which is on full display here. Funny, charming, relatable and real, as this heightened version of himself, he is the heart and soul of this show.

Tailor-made for himself as a result of being “too old to play young and too young to play old,” Dooley’s real brilliance shines through in his writing.

His experiences, refined and stripped bare, have provided us the opportunity to ostensibly sneak backstage and see what happens behind the curtain.

Not only are there some delicious tidbits and showbiz insider stuff here that he shares without being off-putting — certainly a skill — his writing allows us to witness the push and pull of a deeply layered relationship that is heartwarming in glimpses and heartbreaking in actuality.

Both characters are written and performed with such verisimilitude that the play feels innately real. A hearty round of applause to Dooley, not just for writing an exceptional play that showcases well developed (and oh-so entertaining) characters, but for lovingly and respectfully creating what could easily be the role of a lifetime for many a woman of a certain age.

Premiering to the world at Bay Street, “The Prompter” first appeared at the theater’s “Title Wave” fifth annual New Works Festival in 2018.

The production features set design

by Kevin Depinet, lighting design by

Mike Billings, costume design by Tracy Christensen, sound design by Jon Weston, wig, hair, and makeup design

by J. Jared Janas, and props designed

by Andrew Diaz. The stage manager is Denise Yaney, music consultant is Ben Kiley, movement consultant is Shannon Lewis, and casting is by Binder Casting. Bravo to all on an extraordinary show.

Now, with all this well-earned praise to heap upon such a deserving show, and most especially for a firsttime produced playwright, there are a few very minor things to actually

Tovah Feldshuh and Wade Dooley.

constructively critique. Personally, I didn’t mind the generous sprinkling of “F bombs” and other such blue language, but do feel quite strongly that the use of “the P word” toward the end of the play felt false to the character and gratuitous. There are other ways to make that particular point.

And Wade’s ending monologue could be tightened just a bit, but otherwise we are talking a solid 90-plus minutes of sheer perfection.

Bottom line: Bursting with joy, “The Prompter” is bright, merry, entertaining, earnest, and heartwarming without being hokey, which is no mean feat. I’ll say it again: it’s the best show I’ve seen in years.

“The Prompter” stages at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor through June 16. Show times are Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m., with select Wednesday matinees at 2 p.m., Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and select Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m.

Tickets range from $40 to $125. For additional information and reservations, visitbaystreet.org.

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t’s kind of scary as a young parent when you realize you don’t remember how to plan an adults-only vacation. Even a few days without the panic of where to find the next round of hot dogs and macaroni and cheese is hard to imagine.

So, I found myself up against it last month as my wife was poised to celebrate her 40th birthday and made it clear to me that she wanted to exit her 30s in style. We are fortunate to have an apartment to stay in on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, which is close enough for us to get home in a hurry should our four-year-old son have some kind of monumental meltdown. It’s also the greatest city in the world, but we’ll get to that later.

We lined up a detailed schedule for our mothers to watch Charlie, our son, and Ella, our 10-year-old daughter. We would pack the kids off to school on Thursday morning (side note: I read recently that getting kids off to school in the morning is like a day’s work in itself, which I wholeheartedly agree with) and Grandma 1 would pick them up from school and handle Thursday evening — TV, pizza, iPads, ice cream, more TV, bedtime.

How hard could it be?

In the original plan, Grandma 2 When not cooking for or cleaning up after his two wonderful children, GAVIN MENU is the co-publisher and director of advertising for The Sag Harbor Express.

would handle Friday and then kick things back to Grandma 1 for Saturday (see schedule above) and we would be home Sunday morning. As it turned out, my sister and brotherin-law decided to come for the weekend with their three kids, so we had some experts in young parenting and were set for departure. All went smoothly, as far as we were told, and our kids were alive and happy when we got home on Sunday.

Planning for the weekend away — our first together without children in four years — kicked into high gear a few weeks earlier. I spoke to some of my most knowledgeable New York City friends who led us to the Classic Harbor Line tours near Chelsea Piers, and to the yacht Manhattan II, specifically. This was one of the most wonderful ways to see New York, comfortable and romantic with a friendly staff and a full bar. The yacht is inspired by the classic commuter boats from the 1920s that were owned by the ultra-rich on the shores of Long Island Sound.

The cruise took us up and close and personal with the Statue of Liberty, lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge. We sipped rosé on the deck and were joined by an army of young international law students who will probably run the world someday.

We meandered across town still glowing from our boat ride and the joy that came from passing pizza and macaroni and cheese-based res-

The author and his wife, Kathryn, in New York’s Central Park.

taurants before finding our way to Eataly, the marketplace and eatery on 23rd Street dedicated to the wonderful foods of Italy. After a phenomenal meal, including a burrata with spring vegetables that I’m still think-

ing about, we grabbed a gelato for the road and walked for miles, including a tour of Times Square, which, frankly, has grown kind of creepy in recent years.

The next morning we headed for

the Metropolitan Museum of Art, knowing that some priceless European painting would be safe from the excitable arms of our four-year-old.

We toured the galleries and had a drink on the Met’s breathtaking rooftop bar. We lunched on the sidewalk at Café Boulud and wasted away the hours in Central Park. It really is an incredible feeling to just do nothing when your life is so full otherwise.

The rest of the weekend was filled with movies, a trip to the “Top of the Rock” at Rockefeller Center and more lovely food and wine without constant demands for our phones and more and more ice cream. It was the kind of weekend that reminded us that, even in our forties, we can still feel young again. And, yes, I know 40 is still relatively young. But it’s also an age that somehow makes you think about your life so far, a moment in time to look back at what you’ve accomplished, or not accomplished, in your journey.

My wife and I spent a similar weekend in New York City when we first met in our 20s. I’m not sure if we appreciated it as much as we do now, but the trips are interesting bookends to our lives together so far.

We’ve accomplished a lot, but still have so much to go. We are getting older, but we’re still young at heart.

And having returned to the land of mac and cheese, cartoons and demands for the iPad, it’s nice to know that we’ll always have New York.

Walker Vreeland stages a breakdown continued from page B1 Hired as a lead singer, he was told to learn three different musical reviews in one week, with nothing more than a trio of scores and a low-quality VHS tape to help him. He had no scheduled rehearsals, and they also wanted him to dance.

Then, management announced that anti-depressants were no longer allowed aboard for staff. Already losing the ground beneath him, Vreeland decided to increase his dosage instead of making an expensive call to his doctor, succumbing to an atmosphere that felt like “an earthquake in the entertainment capital of the world,” he said.

In there, he lost himself.

“As I joke, if you think you may be at risk of going over the edge — figuratively or literally — do not get on a boat. Like, any boat,” he said. “Don’t get on a cruise, don’t get on a sailboat, don’t get on a fishing boat, don’t even get in a f-----g canoe. Because when you are feeling crazy, there is already a lack of solid ground under your feet.”

Less than three weeks after stepping foot on the cruise, he stepped off. Quitting felt like a failure, he said, “and I didn’t have any foundation under me to fall back on.”

“As a person, my identity was so tied up in being an actor that when I felt like I failed, I lost it,” he said. “I lost it.”

Five months later, he woke up in a bed in Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Mood Disorder Psychiatric Ward, after suffering from a severe mental breakdown.

“I think in any kind of downward spiral, there are these signposts along the way, and most of the time, you cannot see them and you cannot stop it,” he said. “I think it’s the nature of a downward spiral. You reach a point where the momentum is so strong that you have lost control and you don’t feel like you have any agency.

You feel like you’re not operating the controls. You feel like you’re no longer driving the car. You’re just at the mercy of this whirlwind descent into hell.

And it’s really scary.”

He paused.

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“But, I have to say, it’s so much fun to do it on stage.”

Sparked by a series of journal entries — beginning on the cruise and continuing through his lithium-induced haze at the hospital — Vreeland wrote the majority of his one-man, three-act play on Long Island, where he worked as a radio host for WBAZFM 102.5 in Southampton until 2016, the same year “From Ship to Shape” debuted at Bay Street Theater.

Three years ago, and through his play, Vreeland sought to bring his audiences one step closer to a world free of the stigma surrounding mental illness. And while he feels they have, there are countless steps to go, fueling a conversation that still needs to be had — especially in places like the Hamptons.

“I think it’s hard when you live in a place that’s like paradise,” he said. “It’s easy to feel like you’re the only person ever to have a panic attack in the middle of paradise, and I think that disparity between one’s mental state and one’s surroundings can intensify feelings of isolation and shame.”

The playwright said he certainly felt that way while not only living on the East End, but also aboard the ship, cruising back and forth from a tropical oasis.

“You’re saying to yourself, ‘Here I am at the beach, here I am at a farm stand, here I am within this postcard charm of this town, why do I feel like such shit? What is wrong with me?’ and part of my message is, ‘Nothing is wrong with you,’” he said. “You may be challenged by the mental illness demons, but it doesn’t mean anything’s wrong with you.

“I think the sooner we can accept the mess that we are, the sooner we can get on that path toward healing,” he continued. “I don’t think we allow for enough messiness, and certainly not in a place like the Hamptons.”

These days, Vreeland is living in Washington Heights, producing a number of podcasts and working on a new project, but he isn’t sure what shape it will take yet. It’s too soon to tell, he said, and that is perfectly fine by him.

“Life is really good,” he said. “I’m

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Walker Vreeland will present his oneman show, “From Ship to Shape,” on Monday, June 10, at 7 p.m. at Bay Street Theater, located at 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor.

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A trainer once told him, says Sussman, that “boxing is the sport of knowing how not to be hurt while trying to hurt one’s opponent” — meaning that there was “a science to that, and if one achieved that balance, then one would have landed in the sweet spot of boxing.” Like a sweet spot on a tennis racket, perhaps? Still, for the general reader, an odd way to describe a sport that seems anything but recreation or pleasurable diversion.

In a recent interview on the Ringside Boxing Show, Sussman allows that “blood-dripping portrayals” are at the core of boxing, but the admission in no way dampens his interest in how the sport attracted hardscrabble minority kids in slums, many of whom came from impoverished immigrant families and were desperate to make money for their families and themselves. Unwittingly, most slid into the Machievellian arms of criminals, smart con men such as the legendary mastermind racketeer Arnold “The Brain” Rothstein, son of an Orthodox Jew and the model for Meyer Wolfsheim in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” as well as the prototype for Nathan Detroit in Damon Runyon’s “Guys and Dolls.”

Did Rothstein with ex-boxer-bagmanturned-gambler Abe Attell, really fix the 1919 World Series?

“Boxing and The Mob” is hardly the first exploration of “fixed fights, paidoff referees, greedy managers, and misused and acquiescent boxers,” but what it does effectively is present convincing evidence of the insidious connection between fighters and criminals that took off in the 1930s, and that is still with us today in subtle, sophisticated “more circumspect” ways related to gambling. The book also fairly reassesses those said to have taken falls — eye opening and sometimes sympathetic accounts that show that it was not the boxers themselves who took bribes so much as their promoters, managers, referees, trainers and high-powered judicial and political allies. In rare instances the fighters never made nearly as much as their various handlers.

The legendary boxers are here in full ambiguity, among them Sugar Ray Robinson, Sonny Liston, and Jake (Raging Bull) LaMotta. Did they cave at any point? Throw a fight or play the odds? The mobsters are also here, some the general public may not have heard of, such as Owney Madden, a sadistic killer, who controlled the heavyweight division in the `30s, Frankie Carbo, a member of Murder, Inc. who worked the `50s, and a score of those who kept at their criminal craft despite various Senate investigatory hearings. Money ruled, money rules. And today? No need to fix fights: TV and movie rights are worth so much more. A different kind of fixing indeed.

Jeffrey Sussman will read at the East Hampton Library on Saturday, June 8, at 1 p.m. and at Westhampton Library on Saturday, June 15, at noon.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Steve Haweeli Honored By Executive Circle Award

Steve Haweeli recently added another piece of hardware to his mantle.

Last month, the founder and president of WordHampton Public Relations in East Hampton won the Executive Circle Award from Long Island Business News, which celebrates senior-level executives who “consistently demonstrate remarkable leadership skills, integrity, values, vision, commitment to excellence, company performance, community service and diversity,” according to a press release.

Established in 1992, WordHampton Public Relations is an award-winning agency on the East End, representing signature hospitality, real estate and lifestyle businesses throughout the metropolitan area.

“Their mission is to build client reputations and revenues,” the release said. “This is done through strategic and creative thinking, deep media relationships, social media savvy and client partnering.”

For more information, call (631) 329-0500 or visit wordhampton.com.

Sag Harbor Resident Leads Online Career Accelerator Class

For the last 20 years, Laurel Donnellan has developed and validated her career transformation method. And now, she is ready to share it with the public — or, more specifically, the East End. The Sag Harbor resident will use her system as the foundation of “Pivot with Purpose: Career Accelerator,” a live, online program for college students, recent grads and professionals, or “anyone that is looking for a new career direction, a more meaningful career path, or for ways to leave a legacy,” according to a press release.

“The goal of the ‘Pivot with Purpose’ program is to inspire participants to generate exciting new options for remarkable work that is financially, emotionally and intellectually sustainable,” explained Donnellan, founder of the Compassionate Leaders Circle.

will run every Tuesday, with opportunities to watch videos of any missed sessions. For more information, visit compassionateleaderscircle.com.

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In partnership with SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Donnellan and her partner, Kelly Dwyer, will host the eight-week program, which begins June 11, and offer a $200 discount for all local residents who participate.

“We guide people to their soul work,” Kelly Dwyer, senior faculty at the Compassionate Leaders Circle, said in a press release. “Finding a career path that speaks to the truest expression of your soul requires a plan and this web-based course will help you develop that plan.”

Students will learn to identify their “pivot type” and, using the Donnellan Method, focus on lessons from their past, address areas for growth in their present, and establish habits for optimal future success.

The course is one of several programs available through the Compassionate Leaders Circle, “all aimed at developing compassionate leaders who acknowledge our universal interconnectedness and use their influence to make a positive impact on others and the planet,” the release said.

“In today’s world, we all have an opportunity to be compassionate leaders and to be most effective in this role, one must first find their true purpose and pivot to a career that is most aligned with their soul,” Donnellan said.

East End residents can use the code “LOCALS200” for a $200 discount on the course, which

What goes better with cold beer than live music?

Townline BBQ, located at 3593 Townline Road in Sagaponack, isn’t sure — which is why the “Bands, Brews & BBQ” concert series is as strong as ever.

This month, Born & Raised will kick off the festivities on Friday, June 7 — with an encore on July 12 — followed by Out East on June 21, Jake Lear on June 28, and Ray Red on July 5.

Happy hour specials include half-price pint cooler specials and cocktails on tap, $4 Modelo cans, $4 Dealer’s Choice drafts, $6 wings, $7.50 giant pretzels with mustard, and more.

For additional information, call (631) 537-2271 or visit townlinebbq.com.

Hampton Luxury Liner Tweaks Summertime Schedules

Hampton Luxury Liner, a coach bus service from Manhattan to Montauk, is doing a few things differently this summer.

“The biggest complaint we had last year was having to stop in Westhampton, Hampton Bays, or Sag Harbor, because it’s out of the way and makes the trip longer,” according to Mark J. Vigliante, president and CEO. “So, bottom line, we listened and adjusted because we want to give the customer what they want: a shorter trip and more express buses.”

The new Sag Harbor line will pick up passengers in New York before making stops in Westhampton, East Quogue — the latest addition — Hampton Bays and its terminus. The Montauk line will also start in the city, followed by stops in Southampton, Water Mill, Bridgehampton, Wainscott, East Hampton and Amagansett, before reaching its final destination.

For more information, visit hamptonluxuryliner.com

Chinese Meets American Steak

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here’s a new restaurant concept in town, and it’s guaranteed to please most palates.

On Memorial Day weekend, Brooklyn Chop House opened in the Capri Hotel in Southampton. The busy hotel, which occupies prime real estate on Route 39, has a storied past. Despite the spate of great restaurants that have graced its grounds — BLT Steakhouse and Nobu among them — the Capri established itself as a lively nightclub, with extended late-night hours.

Unsurprisingly, the hotel butted heads, on more than one occasion, with the town.

But those days are no longer, said owner Stratis Morfogen, one of Brooklyn Chop House’s owners. Morfogen has a long history in New York restaurants, as well as a long history out east. “For the last 15 years, I’ve owned Chinese restaurants, one being Philippe. I’ve recreated what my father did in 1950,” he said. Morfogen’s father ran the successful Chelsea Chop House, and Morfogen’s own restaurant experience spans decades. On the East End, he was responsible for the successful summer version of Philippe on East Hampton’s Three Mile Harbor, which he ran in the restaurant’s early years.

The new concept at the Capri Hotel will be a seamless blending of Chinese and American sensibilities. “When you ask Chinese culture about the word chop, it’s a position in the kitchen,” Morfogen said.

“When you ask an American, they say, ‘Oh, it’s a steakhouse.’” Brooklyn Chop House — an outpost of the New York City restaurant by the same name — will marry steakhouse cuisine with Chinese cuisine. Classic diner sandwiches, like the Rueben and the bacon cheeseburger, are reinvented in dumpling form. On summer weekends, beginning at the Fourth of July holiday, the restaurant will feature a proper dim sum brunch.

The menu will pay homage to dry-aged meats, naturally (the group has a substantial locker filled with aging steaks with famed butcher Pat LaFrieda), but if it’s dim sum you’re into, well, you’re in luck there, too.

“There’s no restaurant on earth where you can get a 3-lb. dry-aged porterhouse steak by Pat LaFrieda with a 4-lb. salt-andpepper lobster and a Peking duck, all on the same table,” Morfogen said.

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arm-to-fork is a year-round endeavor, but the movement sure ramps up on the East End come summer.

At Baron’s Cove, located at 31 West Water Street in Sag Harbor, executive chef Jay Lippin relies on his roster of community farms and partnerships to craft each seasonal menu.

“I’ve always had a close relationship with farmers, fishermen and local artisans,” he said. “So, when I came to Baron’s Cove, I brought that same philosophy and outlook.”

Every summer, he collaborates with local producers on what crops to include in the restaurant’s menu. East End seafood hookups will include Captain Peter Haskell of Haskell’s Seafood in Calverton, Oysterponds Oysters in Orient Point, and Peconic Gold Oysters in Peconic Bay. A handful of local farms — Good Water Farms in Bridgehampton, Balsam Farms in Amagansett and, one of the first collaborators, I & Me Farm in Orient Point, among others — will help round out the produce. Local dairies and courtesy photo cheeses come courtesy Mecox Bay Dairy in Bridgehampton and Catapano Dairy Farm in Peconic, and various artisans range from Geneva, New York to Columbia, South Carolina.

“What’s great with working with a lot of local farmers is discovering new things, new flavors, and really building a sense of community here at Baron’s Cove,” Lippin said. “It’s really a symbiotic relationship.”

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come to between $65 and $100. “Lunch by the pool, you’re probably looking at $25,” he said.

Most of all, this restaurant will not be the traditional, stuffy, creamed-spinachon-the-side steakhouse of yore, and Stratis Morfogen is adamant about that.

“This is not your dad’s steakhouse,” he emphasized. “This is dim sum and chops.

That’s the whole concept.”

Brooklyn Chop House opened at Capri Hotel in Southampton on Thursday, May 23. The restaurant will be open for breakfast and lunch daily, and dinner Wednesdays through Sundays until July, when it will be open Tuesdays through Sundays. Delivery will be available through UberEats. Visit brooklynchophouse.com/sh for more information.

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vation of the existing space, including a complete kitchen overhaul. Food service will not be limited to the dining room.

The space will also feature poolside service, room service, and a series of event spaces available well after the season has officially ended. Since the Capri Hotel stays open until November, catering events (there are three spaces appropriate for catering, which can hold, respectively, 50, 75, and 250 people) will continue until the hotel itself closes for winter. Morfogen envisions Brooklyn Chop House, Southampton a long-term endeavor.

As for the Capri Hotel’s longstanding reputation as the life of the proverbial Hamptons party, those days, Morfogen promised, are over.

“The landlord and I have gotten together and the way we’ve aligned our partnership is that we’re looking at it for the hotel guests as well as the restaurant guests,” he said. “We’re not going to have the nightclub open until 5 in the morning, like it’s been notoriously done in the past.”

Diners will find a wide variety of options and price points on the restaurant’s menu. A massive, dry-aged porterhouse for two will cost around $140, but it will be possible to get quality food, drinks, and service for far less. Morfogen estimates that the average dinner check for two will

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The Current OUTDOORS SAT JUN 8 Grassland to Grassland Hike, 8 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum parking lot, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 745-0689.

Northwest Harbor Walk, 10 a.m., meet at the Northwest Harbor County parking area, at the end of Northwest Landing Road off Swamp Road, East Hampton. (631) 324-7907.

SUN JUN 9 Laurel Valley to Camps Pond Hike, 10 a.m., meet at the kiosk located on Deerfield Road, across from Deerwood Path, Noyac. (631) 204-7821.

Beach Walk with Marine Invertebrate Zoologist Keith Serafy, 11 a.m., call for meet-up location in Noyac. (631) 5379735 or sofo.org.

FOR THE KIDS FRI JUN 7 Explore and Play, 10:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Meet Kai, the Library Reading Dog, 3 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

SAT JUN 8 Reading with Wally the Dog, 10 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

“Train Your Eyes to be Tick Wise,” 10:30 a.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org.

“City Crossing” by Susan Grossman.

GROSSMAN AT MM Using a minimal palette of black, white and gray — and punctuated by the occasional primary color — a new exhibition of recent work by Susan Grossman will open with a reception on Saturday, June 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. at MM Fine Art, located at 4 North Main Street in Southampton. The show will remain on view through June 16. For more information, visit mmfineart.com SUN JUN 9 17th Annual Teeny Awards Ceremony, 1:30 p.m. red carpet, 3 to 5 p.m. ceremony, Southold High School, 420 Oaklawn Avenue, Southold, $20 and $10 for students, or $30 and $15 at the door. Eastendarts.org.

GarageBand Music Writing, 1:30 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration requested. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

MON JUN 10 Monday Mornings at Madoo, 10 a.m., Madoo Conservancy, 618 Sagg Main Street, Sagaponack, weather dependent. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary. org.

TUE JUN 11 Let’s Celebrate Flag Day, 11:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

10th Annual Sag Harbor Elementary Fourth Grade Photography Show, on view through June 30, John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

WED JUN 12 Blastoff to Art, 11:30 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

THU JUN 13 Make Bottle Rockets, 4 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

Boxwood Symposium with Andrea Filippone, Eric “T” Fleisher and Margery Daughtrey, 5:30 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton.

(631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary. org.

Current Affairs with Tim Bishop, 5:30 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, free.

(631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

“The Scoop on Seasonal Allergies” with Erin McGintee, 6:30 p.m., Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, registration requested. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

WED JUN 12 Author Talk: “My Young Life” by Frederic Tuten, 12 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, free. (631) 283-0774 or myrml. org.

THU JUN 13 “Great Decisions” Discussion Series, 7 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

STAGE & SCREEN THU JUN 6 Hampton Theatre Company Presents “Private Lives,” 7 p.m., additional performances Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2:30 p.m., through June 9, Quogue Community Hall, 125 Jessup Avenue, Quogue, $30, $25 for seniors except Saturday evenings, $20 for under age 35, and $10 for students under age 21. (631) 635-8955 or hamptontheatre.org.

“The Prompter,” 8 p.m., additional performances on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., select Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m., Tuesdays at 7 p.m., and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and select matinees at 2 p.m., through June 16, Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $40 to $125. (631) 7259500 or baystreet.org.

FRI JUN 7 “Rise Up: Four Stories, Four Films” Screening: “The True Cost,” 6 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, free, registration requested. (631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

Film & Talk: “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” 6 p.m., Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, $15 or $5 for members, children and students. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

Great Art on Screen: “Water Lilies of Monet,” 7 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $18 or $16 for members. (631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

SAT JUN 8 “Rise Up: Four Stories, Four Films” Screenings: “Eighth Grade,” 11 a.m., followed by “Liyana” at 1 p.m. and “Period. End of Sentence” at 2:30 p.m., Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton, free, registration requested. (631) 283-0774 or myrml.org.

Annual Asian Spring Performing Arts Festival, 3 to 5 p.m. workshops, 5 to 6 p.m. performance, 6 to 7 p.m. reception, Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton, $20 and $10 for children and students. Scc-arts.org.

Now Showing: “Framing John DeLorean” with Alec Baldwin, David Nugent, Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, 8 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $25 or $23 for members. (631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

SUN JUN 9 “Really Funny” Series: “Sons of the Desert,” 6 p.m., Pierson High School auditorium, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor, $10. Sagharborcinema.org.

Eastville Community Historical Society Presents “Running Scared, Running Free,” 8 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, $20 to $55. (631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

MON JUN 10 “From Ship to Shape”: A Monologue Written and Performed by Walker Vreeland, 7 p.m., Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, $35 to $45. (631) 7259500 or baysteet.org.

JDT Lab: “The Violin Maker” by Stephen Dickman, 7:30 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, free, reservations required. (631) 324-0806 or guildhall.org.

WED JUN 12 Wednesday Films: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” 1 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, free. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

GALLERIES & MUSEUMS THU JUN 6 Robert Carioscia: Whaling Prints in Homage to “Moby-Dick” and Sag Harbor, artist’s reception 5 to 6:30 p.m.,

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Rise Up “Rise Up: Four Stories, Four Films” will kick off with “The True Cost” on Friday, June 7, at 6 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library, located at 91 Coopers Farm Road in Southampton. The series will continue on Saturday, June 8, with “Eighth Grade” at 11 a.m., followed by “Liyana” at 1 p.m. and “Period. End of Sentence” at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free, but registration is requested. For more information, call (631) 283-0774 or visit myrml.org.

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CARBON LEAF

Carbon Leaf is coming to the East End for a concert on Friday, June 7, at 8 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, located at 76 Main Street in Westhampton Beach.

Tickets are $43. For more information, call (631) 288-1500 or visit whbpac.org.

Canio’s Books, 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-4926.

FRI JUN 7 On View: Photography by Jeff Lion Weinstock, opening reception 5 to 7 p.m., on view through June 30, Amagansett Free Library, 215 Main Street, Amagansett. (631) 267-3810 or amagansettlibrary.org.

SAT JUN 8 On View: Marc Dalessio and John Morfis, on view through June 23, Grenning Gallery, 26 Main Street, Sag Harbor.

(631) 725-8469 or grenninggallery.com.

Summer Kickoff Group Show, opening reception 5 to 7 p.m., on view through Sunday, June 9, Ashawagh Hall, 780 Springs-Fireplace Road, Springs. (631) 267-6554 or ashawagh-hall.org.

“All That Has Been: Our Roots Revealed” Exhibition, opening reception 5 to 7 p.m., Sylvester Manor, 80 North Ferry Road, Shelter Island, $50. (631) 749-0626 or visit sylvestermanor.org.

“Unreliable Narrators,” opening reception 6 to 8 p.m., on view through July 5, Sara Nightingale Gallery, 26 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 793-2256 or saranightingale.com.

On View: Susan Grossman, opening reception 6 to 8 p.m., on view through June 16, MM Fine Art, 4 North Main Street, Southampton. Mmfineart.com.

SUN JUN 9 Gallery Tour with Paton Miller and “EEC5” Artists, 12:30 p.m., Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, free. (631) 283-0967 or southamptonartscenter.org.

MUSIC & NIGHT LIFE THU JUN 6 Tutti Suonare, 7 p.m., Clark Arts Cen-

ter, Perlman Music Program Campus, 73 Shore Road, Shelter Island Heights.

Perlmanmusicprogram.org.

FRI JUN 7 Robby Krieger of the Doors, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, $65 or $69. (631) 727-4343 or suffolktheater.com.

Songwriters Share Concert Series: Nancy Remkus and Dan Koontz, 7:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, $20 and $15 for seniors and students. (631) 537-0132.

Carbon Leaf, 8 p.m., Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, $43. (631) 288-1500 or whbpac.org.

SAT JUN 8 Sarah Conway with Dan Koontz, 8 p.m., Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, 200 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0770 or sagharborwhalingmuseum.org.

SUN JUN 9 Tutti Suonare, 7 p.m., Jewish Center of the Hamptons, 44 Woods Lane, East Hampton. Perlmanmusicprogram.org.

LECTURES & CLASSES THU JUN 6 The Art of Creative Writing with Jennifer Senft, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., also June 13 and 20, Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, $185 or $145 for members. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

Tai Chi, 12:30 p.m., Thursdays through July 18, except July 4, Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, free, registration required. (631) 537-0015 or hamptonlibrary.org.

FRI JUN 7 “Moby-Dick” Marathon, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m., Canio’s Books, 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, 3 to 6:45 p.m. with Harris Yulin and Alec Baldwin, Old Whalers Church, 44 Union Street, Sag Harbor, continues Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday, June 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at various Sag Harbor locations.

(631) 725-4926 or caniosculturalcafe@ gmail.com.

SAT JUN 8 Author Talk: “Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science” by Jeffrey Sussman, 1 p.m., East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton. (631) 324-0222 or easthamptonlibrary.org.

Art for Health Lecture Series: Looking Forward to Aging on the East End, 3 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, free. Artfulhomecare.net.

Author Event: “Paddle Diva: Ten Guiding Principles to Finding Balance on the Water and in Life” by Gina Bradley, 5 p.m., BookHampton, 41 Main Street, East Hampton, free. (631) 324-4939 or bookhampton.com.

Ghost Hunting, 8:30 to 11 pm., Rogers Mansion, 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, or Halsey House, 249 South Main Street, Southampton, $30.

(631) 283-2494 or southamptonhistory. org.

SUN JUN 9 “Gardening with Kids: Opening Eyes and Doors” with Karen Bussolini, 2 p.m., Bridgehampton Community House main auditorium, 2368 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, $10 and free for Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons members. (631) 537-2223 or hahgarden.org.

Author Event: “The Bridgehampton Inn Look + Cook Book” by Sybille van Kempen, 3 p.m., BookHampton, 41 Main Street, East Hampton, free. (631) 324-4939 or bookhampton.com.

Sundays at Two: Marijuana in New York with David Falkowski, 2 p.m., Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center, 1061 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, free. (631) 745-0689.

Author Talk and Book Signing with Tom Clavin, 2:30 p.m., Montauk Library, 871 Montauk Highway, Montauk. (631) 668-3377 or montauklibrary.org.

Author Event: “The Green Wardrobe Guide” by Beth Fiteni, 3 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, registration required. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

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EVENTS & MEETINGS THU JUN 6 BYO Game Night, 7 p.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain. org.

SAT JUN 8 Landscape Pleasures, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. symposium, Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, and selfguided garden tours on Sunday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., selection of East End properties, $250 or $200 for members. (631) 283-2118 or parrishart.org.

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PADDLE DIVA Gina Bradley will visit BookHampton with her debut “Paddle Diva: Ten Guiding Principles to Finding Balance on the Water and in Life” on Saturday, June 8, at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton store, located at 41 Main Street. Admission is free. For more information, call (631) 324-4939 or visit bookhampton.com.

HAH Members’ Garden Tour, 10 a.m., tour of three historic properties in Bridgehampton, $10, free for HAH members and their guests. Hahgarden. org.

The Retreat’s Annual “All Against Abuse” Gala, 6:30 p.m., The Muses, 111 Saint Andrews Road, Southampton. Retreatgala.org.

SUN JUN 9 The Blessing of the Fleet, 5 to 7 p.m., 1 Town Road, Montauk, free. Montaukchamber.com.

TUE JUN 11 “Tea Cup Designs”: English Tea with Olde Towne Garden Club, 11:30 a.m., Southampton History Museum, 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton.

(631) 728-8785.

WED JUN 12 Morning Book Club: “Girl Waits with Gun” by Amy Stewart, 11 a.m., John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor. (631) 725-0049 or johnjermain.org.

Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Support and Advocacy Meeting, 6:30 p.m., South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. (631) 537-9735 or sofo. org.

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