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It was supposed to be the culmination of the American Dream; every kid could get a college education, no matter how poor.

Instead, the student loan program has become a nightmare.

As it stands, former students are on the hook for a staggering $905 billion debt, some $325 billion less than Americans owe to credit card companies. According to the Wall Street Journal, student loan debt rose eight percent in the past year alone. So while Americans are making a conscious effort to pare down credit card debt – it is down 21.6 percent since 2008 – student loan debt is spiraling out of control.

The program, critics say, is insidious, with the government and colleges making sweetheart deals that benefit banks and other lenders as well as collection agencies. Most college age students didn’t realize they were in essence no more than helpless prey.

Take the case of one local woman. Josephine (not her real name) signed on to attend Alfred College in 1983. Four years later, she graduated and found a job at New York University. She dutifully paid back her loan in

Student Loan Nightmare As Debt Spirals Out Of Controlsmall installments, and eventually went back to college to get her masters degree. “The loan was put on hold because I was a student,” she recalled. After earning a masters in Computer Graphics, Josephine went to work for IDD, a financial publishing firm, and resumed paying off her loans, which were still relatively low and manageable – provided she kept working and making payments.

Her story from there is typical to what happened to many professionals. IDD was sold to the Wall Street Journal, and when money became tight dozens of mid-level management positions were eliminated. Josephine went to work for the Gartner Group, relocating to Connecticut, but the bottom fell out there after the 9-11 attacks.

“I couldn’t even get a resume answered,” she recalled. “Meanwhile interest was accruing at 8.25 percent a year.” She applied for forbearance, which freezes the loan but not the interest. She moved back home with her parents in Brooklyn and when they passed on she gravitated out to the Hamptons to be near family and took a job in a grocery store.

“I don’t earn enough to make ends meet. I kept getting letters

saying I didn’t owe anything.” She took her car off the road because she couldn’t afford it, and had to walk more than a mile to work each day.

Then, the kick in the chest – a letter from a collection agency. With principal, interest, fees, and penalties, she now owes a staggering $198,422.43.

Her health is failing, and at age 60 she was looking forward to collecting Social Security – until the collection agent informed her under federal law Social Security payments could be seized and put toward her debt. Nor could she go bankrupt. There was no way out.

“I don’t know how I defaulted. I never got anything in the mail,” Josephine said, though she suspects when she moved to the Hamptons addresses got crossed. “I had no idea what was going on.”

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is one many Americans are dealing with. Josephine pointed out she has been through three recessions and has worked in two industries that suffered significant job losses. “But the student loans keep growing no matter what.”

Apparently, we haven’t learned from our mistakes. According to the Journal a rising number of student borrowers are behind in their payments; almost 10 percent of student loans are more than 90 days in arrears.

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Brook Foundation Trustee Dorothy Lichtenstein has made a $1 million gift to Stony Brook Southampton Graduate Arts programs. The gift was announced on July 17 during the annual Southampton Writers Conference opening night, which featured a conversation about writ-ing with former PBS News Hour anchor and novelist Jim Lehrer and his wife, novelist Kate Lehrer.

Ms. Lichtenstein, President of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, is a longtime supporter of Stony Brook Southampton Graduate Arts programs; first as a frequent audi-ence member at events and then as a writing workshop participant.

“The growth I’ve witnessed in the last decade has been nothing short of amazing,” she said, citing new graduate programs in theatre, publishing, visual arts, and digital filmmaking, a presence in Man-hattan, and programs designed to train young writers and artists on the East End. “This gift reflects my confidence in President Stanley’s leadership and the University’s commitment to excellence in the

$1 Million To SBU Grad Arts Programarts at Stony Brook Southampton. It also reflects my confidence in the extraordinary leadership of Robert Reeves, who has founded many of these programs and presided over their dramatic growth. The growth has not come at the expense of quality. These programs are among the best of their kind, which is why they have risen to national and in-ternational prominence. I am proud to support this important work.”

Stony Brook University President Stanley said Ms. Lichtenstein’s generosity is a testament to the institution’s ongoing commitment to excellence across disciplines and campuses.

“We are truly gratified by Doro-thy’s confidence in the Southamp-ton Arts program and that she shares our vision for Stony Brook University’s potential for greatness in the creative arts.”

The mission of Southampton Graduate Arts is to build a com-munity of graduate programs that promote collaboration among cre-ative disciplines that foster explora-tion of artistic expression outside traditional program borders, and that continuously and effectively

support the creation of original work in creative writing, theatre, film, and visual arts. With this generous gift, Southampton Arts can move forward on several impor-tant initiatives, including the David Rakoff Studio Theater, scholarships for students, and the launch of a digital filmmaking program.

Robert Reeves, Associate Provost for Southampton Graduate Arts, says the gift “comes at just the right time. It will allow us to take advantage of fresh opportunities that arise at this transformative moment in which we are witness-ing the great democratization of the creative arts. The opportunity here is to continue to build pro-grams that are not only excellent, but affordable, inclusive, and re-

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The news of the Southwest Airlines plane’s rough landing at LaGuardia scared all the passengers on board and terrified me.

I’ve always been a little afraid to fly.

In the early days, when they were selling insurance in vending machines at the airport, I wouldn’t get onto a plane unless I bought a couple of million bucks worth of flight insurance. My theory was that the plane wouldn’t crash because I never win anything. What a scam that was. In essence, you were betting $20 that you wouldn’t survive the flight.

I used to get the insurance and mail the forms to everyone I knew, naming them as beneficiaries, the idea being that if you spend a dollar on a card and send it to someone, all you get is a “Nice card” the next time they talk to you. But for $5 you could get $1 million worth of insurance, and when the person you named as

FeaR oF FLYinga beneficiary — should the plane fall out of the sky— received the form, they were incredibly grateful. Sometimes I could swear I could hear the sound of disappointment on the phone when I called and announced that my plane had safely landed.

They stopped selling insurance in airports, and that’s when I went through my sexy, just-short-of-porn book era.

I had this notion that reading a book like “Hot Neglected Executives’ Wives” or “The Sex Secrets of the Unruly Upstairs Maid” would provide enough energy and, you should pardon the expression, “lift” to keep a 747 up in the air.

At the time I traveled to a lot of business meetings with a wonderful woman named Louise McNamee, who was the President of my ad agency, and who would constantly be reading “Jane Eyre.” I’m convinced that she read “Jane Eyre” because if the plane crashed, she wanted her obituary to read “When the plane crashed, Ms. McNamee was reading ‘Jane Eyre,’ while her disgusting traveling companion, Jerry Della Femina, was reading a filthy book called ‘The Steamy Sluts of Singapore.’”

I was always careful to rip the front cover off of my book, which always seemed to have a blonde

opening the fourth and last button of her blouse. I also loved to look at Ms. McNamee primly reading “Jane Eyre” and whisper to her “Have you gotten to the ‘hot’ parts yet?”

The world has changed. Now getting to a plane is even more tiring and stressful than flying. I find myself looking at every one of my fellow passengers over the age of nine as potential terrorists.

A number of years ago a new terror filled me as I boarded a plane.

I had spent three days in Las Vegas at a business meeting. I was tired, missed my family and decided to get home as fast as possible. This meant booking a red-eye flight. A wise man once told me that you lose a month of your life every time you take a red-eye flight. At this stage of my life, that didn’t sound all that bad.

The flight was scheduled to leave Las Vegas at 11:50 PM and land at Kennedy Airport at 6:35 AM.

I arrived at the airport early and went through security without a hitch. I bought a newspaper and started reading about SARS, which was the “Disease of the Month” at the time. (I read the other day that SARS may be coming back this year, but not by popular demand.)

At the time everyone I spoke to in Las Vegas was talking about SARS. The word was that the deadly disease came from China and Hong Kong, and the last thing you wanted to come into contact with was someone who is traveling from Asia.

I took seat 20A. I was in luck. Seats 20B and 20C were empty. I just might be able to stretch out and go to sleep, I said to myself.

One minute before the plane’s doors were closed, three people were hustled onto the plane.

They were three of the loudest, most boorish people I have encountered in a long time. Three guys over 50, two of them with combovers, and the third who looked like he just stepped out of the 1950s. One of the combovers said, “I tell you, Sidney, that broad was all over you.”

“Yeah,” said the other combover. “You should have stayed, Sidney.”

Sidney, who had an open shirt with more hair on his chest than I have had on my head in the sum total years I have been alive, said nothing. He just belched so loudly I could swear the plane shook. “I shouldn’t have had that pizza. I feel like I’m going to throw up,” he finally offered.

“Youse guys and your pepperoni. I could still taste it,” he said, and unbelievably belched even louder than the first time.

Suddenly, the whole plane took on the odor of pepperoni, and I started to feel that perhaps I was going to be sick even before Sidney.

“Hey,” said one of the terrible trio. “Dis guy is in our seat.”

I was the guy. Naturally, I was the guy sitting in 21A instead of 20A.

As I got up to change my seat, the very nice courteous JetBlue attendant said to the people in front of me, “One of you has to get up now. This man has 20A.” The attendant was greeted with a torrent of angry Chinese words.

A Chinese woman got up, and after a loud conversation in Chinese with her seat partners, changed her seat and moved to Row 19, which had a number of Chinese kids sitting in it.

I slid past the biggest Chinese man I have ever encountered, and his son who was 19 or 20. The man looked daggers at me and mumbled under his breath in Chinese.

“I can take another seat,” I said to the attendant. “No you can’t; we’re totally full,” he answered.

I sat in the seat and the Chinese man just glowered at me.

“I’m going to die,” I thought to myself.

I took an Ambien to sleep. I had two vodkas. I closed my eyes, fell into a fitful sleep and then felt this tremendous weight covering my body.

I opened my eyes. The giant (and, I might add, sweating) Chinese man had fallen asleep on top of me. I don’t mean his head was resting on my shoulder. I mean his whole upper body was on top of me. Was it sleep? Was he being aggressive because I took his wife’s seat? Was it love?

It didn’t matter. I was wedged under this guy, and all I could think of was SARS . . . SARS. Behind me Sidney was belching, and it felt like turbulence.

As many of my friends know I’m a complete hypochondriac.

SARS, I’m going to get SARS! I pushed as hard as I could to get him off of me. I said, “Excuse me, excuse me,” in his ear. He didn’t stir.

I had an idea. If he’s from China, he must be just as afraid of SARS as I am, so I started to cough as loudly as I could. He woke up, gave me a dirty look, and straightened up in his seat. I closed my eyes, and five minutes later, he was crushing me again. I coughed as loudly as I could. He never stirred.

Behind me I heard Sidney muttering to his friends. “Listen to that cough.”

“Da should never let sick guys with that kind of cough on planes. He’s going to give the people on this plane that new disease SCUDS. We shudda stayed in Vegas.”

From under the 300-pound Chinese man I whispered, “Amen.”

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Tiny Sagaponack Village is considering breaking away from the Southampton Town Police Department.

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Meeting On Sagaponack Police Set For Augustmajority of which are second homeowners, gets a seasonal officer between May and September on the beat, with the larger area patrolled by a car. The village pays about $2.3 million a year to the town for police protection, with some officials and residents believing they haven’t received enough protection for what they pay.

An informational meeting with the village board on the future of police service in Sagaponack is scheduled for August 10 at 9 AM.

Inquiries will be laid out, options will be discussed, and solutions will be proposed.

According to village Mayor Donald Louchheim, the village can save money by doing its own policing, noting that police protection is the largest part of Sagaponack’s budget.

“In the worst-case scenario, we

could save a half million dollars a year,” he said. “We pay $2.3 million per year to Southampton Town for a police force,” he said.

Village officials said forming a small police department of their own, and contracting with the town or another municipality for other law enforcement services, could save the village residents thousands, and potentially millions, according to the proposal supporters.

Former Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson has expressed interest in being Sagaponack’s police chief, should the village get its own force and the position is offered to him. Wilson has also prepared cost estimates for a new village police department with village officials. State law requires village departments have a chief and at least two officers.

In speaking beyond the costs,

Louchheim also said he wants a different type of policing, noting quality of life issues Sagaponack residents care about go unnoticed or unaddressed by Southampton’s police force.

Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst said she scheduled a meeting with Police Chief Robert Pearce (who was invited to next month’s informational meeting) and Louchheim to discuss details on the conditions of the village forming its own police force.

“They need to look at a full analysis of what the costs for them are going to be over time,” she said.

The issue comes at a time when the neighboring village of Sag Harbor is dealing with its own police problems. In the Harbor, the police staffing was a major issue with regard to a struggling budget.

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The Obama administration is pushing a plan that will cap payments at 10 percent of a borrower’s discretionary income, according to Josh Mitchell of the Journal.

According to the Department of Education some federally guaranteed loans are assigned to a Default Resolution Group for collection.

There is a website, the National Student Loan Data System --that will help former students identify what types of loans they have Colleges can also furnish information. Note that information about any private student loan will not be included in NSLDS.

In Josephine’s case, her account has been turned over to Financial Management Systems, which immediately tacked on over $38,000 in collections fees, contingent on collection. As it turns out though, FMS is the only was out for Josephine – though if she becomes medically disabled there is a possible way to have the loan forgiven. She must agree to pay $125 a month immediately. In essence, the timetable will go on forever — she will never be able to pay the loan off.

A study by the Pew Research Center indicates there are many more victims shaped in Josephine’s mold. Forty percent of households headed by a breadwinner under 35 had accrued student debt. The average balance is on the upswing, a 14 percent increase from 2007 to 2010. The default rate for loans that became due in 2009 is 9.1 percent.

Student loan interest rates doubled on July 1 because of Congressional inaction. And although there is an indication a reform deal is likely, it is by no means a bargain for borrowers. According to the New York Times, undergraduates would pay the 10-year Treasury note rate, 2.49 percent, plus 2.05 percent, with a cap of 8.25 percent, to protect them from inflation. Debt piles up fast when interest is accrued at that level.

“It makes me terrified, and it makes me angry” Josephine said, her voice rising. ”You have no idea what is going to happen when you sign on for these loans.”

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When the weather gets hot, “parked cars are deathtraps for dogs,” according to the PETA website. On a 78-degree day, the temperature inside a parked car can soar to

Seeking Signagebetween 100 and 120 degrees in just minutes, and on a 90-degree day, the interior temperature can reach as high as 160 degrees in less than 10 minutes, the website informs.

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in mind, last Thursday night two community members approached the East Hampton Town Board, asking members to place signs in local parking lots warning motorists of the potential danger to pets.

Displaying an example of a sign marked with the words “Warning: heat kills pets in parked cars,” Lynn Lehocky asked permission to produce and hang the signs in municipal lots, beach parking lots and perhaps even on local streets. They cost about $21 each and Lehocky said she’d be willing to pay for them.

Southampton Town and Village, and Sag Harbor Village have already endorsed the initiative. Lehocky noted that it is against state law to leave animals in parked cars under certain conditions. In fact, it’s a ticketable offense and carries a fine of up to $250.

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Ira Barocas has been “hectoring” the town for the last four years, he said from the podium. Last Thursday night the East Hampton Town Board held a public hearing on the final

Transform Mess To Meadowdraft of the Babe’s Lane Preserve Management Plan, a plan Barocas has been “haunting” town officials to adopt, he said.

In fact, with the plan’s adoption, the preserve will be the first

participant in the town’s Adopt-a-Preserve program. With necessary permits from the state department of environmental conservation in hand, town officials may remove invasive species that have overgrown the preserve, which is located off Squaw Road in Springs.

Then, Barocas said, the “re-scaping” of the preserve will transform it from the “overgrown mess” it now is back to the historic meadow it once was. Under the supervision of town experts, residents along Babe’s Lane and members of the Duck Creek Farm Association will take on the responsibility of revegetating the land with native species and regular maintenance to keep phragmites incursion at bay.

Speaking at the hearing, Barocas offered a historic discussion of the preserve, which was part of the original Duck Creek Farm, a 200-acre parcel that stretched from Three Mile Harbor Road to the water. A natural maritime meadow

and wetland, Duck Creek Farm was owned and used as pasturage by John Edwards and his descendants from 1795 on.

Rachel Levinson told the board that her family bought property on Squaw Road near Babe’s Lane over 30 years ago. Back then, she said, “Our view was spectacular.” Now, thanks to overgrown invasive species, “I see nothing,” she said. “Invasive vegetation came to visit us and stayed.”

Chris Groen, a Babe’s Lane resident since 1951, said the management plan wouldn’t just benefit residents of the lane. The community at large considered the area a favored place to walk and view the boats and action in the harbor, until the last several years when overgrown phragmites and bittersweet blocked the water view.

Barocas expressed gratitude to Councilwoman Theresa Quigley for helping the shepherd the plan along. She called the Adopt-a-Preserve program “a phenomenal idea.” The public/private partnership is an example of good teamwork, she said, adding, “I expect it to be a success.”

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The Guy Harvey Foundation has donated $10,000 in cash prizes and a painting by artist April Gornik will go to the tournament winner.

Two of the foremost research scientists in the country will come to Montauk for the weekend. Brooks and Sean Paxton, A.K.A. “the Shark Brothers,” directors of another shark conservation fishing tournament, the Guy Harvey Ultimate Shark Chal-lenge in Florida, will be on hand to provide educational forums under the tent at MMB.

On Friday, from 4 to 6 PM the Pax-tons will discuss “best practices” for handling and tagging sharks. That night, a captains’ meeting and beer and seafood bash will be held at the marine basin.

On Saturday, boats depart at 6 AM, with a return deadline of 7 PM. Throughout the day, an array of events, including a film festival, is planned from noon to 5 PM.

Historic Tourney This WeekendRepresentatives from the Guy

Harvey foundation will host the film ”This is Your Ocean: Sharks,” which tells the story of three artists who interact with some of the world’s largest predatory sharks. The film boasts some of the most amazing shark footage ever recorded. Also hosted by Guy Harvey’s reps, the new documentary “Tiger Shark Express” reveals the private lives of Tiger Sharks. Tiger Sharks are much less camera-shy than other sharks such as great whites, but still little is known about their lives in the open ocean.

Making its New York debut, the documentary, “Rich History - Price-less Future” explores the history of a modern day tarpon and shark fishery worth billions of dollars an-nually. The Paxtons, who produced and directed the film will introduce and discuss it. Also on Saturday a lecture and DVD presentation fea-turing Captain Kenneth Grimshaw, one of the world’s leading experts on Great White Sharks in their natural environment, will be shown. Finally, Stephanie Whiston will talk about her Underwater Photography exhibit and her techniques and travels.

Sunday’s festivities under the tent include a special presentation by the Shark Brothers – a multimedia show entitled “Sharks – From Fear to Fascination.” It is an interactive

experience which entertains and educates while taking audiences through the history and evolution of recreational shark fishing, a sport that Frank “The Monster Man” Mun-dus pioneered in Montauk in 1951. Unique hands-on demonstrations include modern shark-release fish-ing and satellite tagging methods used in the Sharks’ Eye Tournament.

Also on Sunday, Cornell Coop-erative Extension scientist and shark attack survivor Scott Curatolo Wagemann will make a plea for shark preservation. Reps from the Riverhead Foundation will talk about tagging whales, seals and sea turtles and encounters with sharks. The Peconic Baykeeper will talk about how pollution effects the foods we eat, and officials from the National Marine Fisheries Service will offer the latest in fishing 411.

Four sharks will receive satellite-tracking tags during the two-day all release tournament. Three anglers will name three sharks. The sixth grade class at the Montauk school will name a fourth. The public will then be able to follow these fish online via OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker, the most-followed shark tracking site and app in the world. Dave Bofill Marine and White Water Marine will provide chase boats with the scientists to tag the sharks. And Mustad — the best-selling hook on the planet — will provide circle hooks used to catch and release.

All profits from the two-day event will go to Montauk Boatmen Incor-porated, the Montauk School, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and the Concerned Citizens of Montauk.

For more information on Shark’s Eye contact Montauk Marine Basin’s patriarch Carl Darenberg at [email protected], call 631-668-5900, or visit www.sharkseyetournament.com.

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ton Town Police responded to a call at the Hampton Jitney on CR39. Onlookers said a man brandished a bat and threatened an employee because he was unhappy with the lack of parking spaces. He was ar-rested and charged with menancing, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment. He was processed and released on bail.

A night earlier the Suffolk County East End Drug Task Force arrested Aaron Lake, 26, after an investiga-

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Task Force BustsSaturday the East End DWI Task

Force set up shop in Riverhead and made six arrests – five for DWI – and seized two vehicles. The officers involved came from Riverhead, Westhampton Beach and Quogue police departments.

Flanders Felony July 12 turned out to be an

unlucky day for a Speonk woman. Southampton Town Police said of-ficers responding to an accident on Cypress Avenue determined Guthrie, 42, one of the drivers, was intoxicated. Since she had a prior conviction within the past 10 years the charge was upgraded to a felony. In addition, Guthrie was slapped with a DUI of Drugs, and Aggravated Unlicensed Operation First Degree, also a felony. She was remanded to county jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Riverhead FatalityA 26-year old woman was struck

by a vehicle at about 9:21 PM on July 16 on County Road 58 near Woodcrest Avenue. The driver and passenger of the vehicle, a 2000 Ca-dillac Deville, fled the scene on foot after the car crashed into a wall. Kristina M. Tflet was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police are look-

ing for witnesses.

Failed The TestOn July 15 East Hampton Town

Police were summoned to the 7-Eleven in Montauk. A man was standing outside at about 11:30 PM, drinking beer, and screaming. He continued to “threaten, curse, flail his arms in a taunting man-ner” after police asked him to calm down. Maybe he had a lot to drink – police “ordered the defendant to put the case of beer down.” He kept it up and earned a trip to the pokey, where he was put in a cell to sleep it off.

Bob Marley and the Whale(rs)Last week police discovered some-

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Since 1895, the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society has been keeping East Hampton beautiful.

And this Saturday the 117th annual LVIS fair will take place on the organization’s grounds for all members of the community to enjoy.

Since its inception in 1896, the fair serves as one of the major sources of funding for all the LVIS community activities and always features a myriad of booths offering local and unique items, plus entertainment and fun for the whole family.

LVIS Fair Turns 117For the kids this year, there

will be pony rides, toy sales, and magic shows. There will also be renowned children’s authors reading to youngsters throughout the day. Indy’s own Karen Fredericks will be reading at 2 PM. An entire “playland” will be set up, featuring a petting zoo, a giant slide, a climbing wall, toys, balloons, face painting, and a carousel. This year will also feature a Nerf Ball Wild West Shoot-out.

Hot dogs, lemonade, soda, ice cream and other food treats will be available.

Two thrift shops will be set up throughout the day. Bargain Box offers clothing, household items and furniture, and Bargain Books, always filled to the brim, will be sure to fit the needs of any literature fan. Booths offering flowers, jewelry, art, crafts, cakes, jams, and other unique wares will be set up throughout the grounds. Local gourmet food will be available all day long.

Up until Friday night, all can preview and bid on items slated to be offered at the silent auction at Saturday’s festivities. Among the

nearly 150 items up for auction, golfing at private clubs, resort and travel packages, art and antiques, clothes, jewelry, items for home and garden, food, and wine are just a few. Click, bid, and check back often for bidding status and new items added every day. Preview time stops at 6 PM on Friday. For more information on the silent auction, visit www.lvissilentauction.com.

The LVIS partners with the Lion’s Club on Saturday for a barbecue from 4 to 7 PM. A clam bar will be set up at 2 PM and early barbecue takeout is available at 3 PM. Live music will be by Just Good Friends.

The party starts at 10 AM at 95 Main Street in East Hampton. Fair is scheduled to end at 4 PM.

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Hilary Duff hosted a BBQ with Fiji Water and the EMM Group at a private home in Sag Harbor over the weekend.

Also in Sag Harbor, celebrity stylist Brad Goreski, from Bravo’s “It’s a Brad Brad World” formerly of The Rachel Zoe Project is a fan of Cavaniola’s Village Cheese Shop. In other reality news, TV chef Andrew Zimmern checked out the view from Gurney’s in Montauk last week.

Dockers on Dune Road in Quogue was a location shoot last week for “The Other Women,” a Nick Casavettes-directed film with 20th Century Fox. Three major stars were on property for filming - Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Swimsuit Super-Model Kate Upton.

Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield stopped in Dockers for brunch over the weekend and Eric Trump, Jr. was in with nine friends for dinner.

Speaking of sports, Jason Kidd, coach of the Brooklyn Nets, was in Southampton Town Justice Court in Hampton Bays answering to his DWI charge from last summer.

Sarah Jessica and Matt have become regulars at Citarella in East Hampton. And, of course, Alec Baldwin was seen outside Mary’s Marvelous in Amagansett.

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BridgehamptonBook Talk At SoFO

The South Fork Natural History will present a book talk with author Dr. Judith Weiss on Sunday at 5 PM. Weiss will discuss her book Walking Sideways: The Remarkable World of Crabs and will feature live examples and illustrations in this fascinating book-talk about crabs.

In reviewing the book, Library Journal stated, “Weiss relates the often-fascinating story of crabs from their origins in the Jurassic period to the modern dinner table. Along the way, examples of the nearly 7000 known species are Weiss’s protagonists in discussions of habitats, anatomy and physiology, reproduction, behavior, ecology, and relationships with humans in mythology, literature, art, film, and the beach . . . A surprising page-turner for anyone interested in natural history.” Light refreshments will be served and copies of the book will be available for signing. SoFo is located at 377 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike. For more information call 631-537-9735.

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Tomorrow is Kid’s Night at the Strawberry Fields fairgrounds. A special family screening of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – the original starring Gene Wilder, will begin at dusk. Starting at 5 PM, the singer Mariel will be on hand to perform, and there will be pony rides, vendors, food and special raffles. The proceeds of the event will go to The Little Red Barn Rescue in Jamesport. The fairgrounds is located at 1175 Route 48. Call Kate at 631-566-1690 for sponsorship opportunities or to pledge a donation.

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Campaigns are moving right along in East Hampton, with Republicans and Democrats getting out to see voters and line those campaign war chests.

Tomorrow night, beginning at 5:30 PM, Independence, Republican and Conservative candidate for town board, Fred Overton, hosts a fundraiser at the Fairway restaurant located at Poxabogue Golf Course in Wainscott.

Tickets are $75 in advance, $100 at the door. Call 631-267-2677.On Monday night Democratic candidates for town board -- Larry

Cantwell (supervisor), Job Potter and Kathee Burke-Gonzalez (town board) -- will host a “Listen In” designed to garner input, feedback, requests and recommendations from residents of Montauk. The issues forum will be held at Gurney’s Inn at 6:45 PM with refreshments. The program will run from 7 to 9 PM.

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By Adrienne EspositoClean water is something we

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All our drinking water is contained in a system called aquifers. The Environmental Protection Agency has designated Long Island as a sole source aquifer because we only have one source to supply our drinking water. This means that 2.9 million people live on top of our drinking water supply. Gee, what could

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In addition, according to Suffolk County’s “Report of the Sewage Treatment Plants of Suffolk County, 2012 Performance Evaluation,” there are 195 sewage treatment plants (STPS) operating in Suffolk County . . . the life expectancy of a sewage treatment plant is approximately 30 years. There are many plants in Suffolk that have been operating in the range of 25 to 40 years.” One hundred eighty four of these STPs discharge to groundwater and 16 to surface waters. Basically, this means that the vast majority of our treated effluent (aka treated sewage) is going into our only drinking water source. Sound good so far?

Our aquifers have become receptac les for sewage and

wastewater -- a bad public health plan. The increasing nitrogen comes directly from sewage. VOC contamination is related to the products we use and dump down our drains: household cleaners, degreasers, paints, and antifreeze. Too often, unused or unwanted pharmaceutical drugs are flushed, causing them to end up in groundwater. Everything we pour down the drain and flush down the toilet enters the groundwater system.

Our population has outgrown fa i l ing sep t i c s y s tems and antiquated STPs to dispose all of our wastes. We can and need to do better. We need upgraded sewage treatment technology to filter contaminates and make effluent cleaner. We need funding options, public support, and political will. If we fail to act now these pollutants will only increase over time.

A critical need to protect our drinking water is to craft a Clean Water Action Plan for Long Island. Believe it or not, Long Island does not have a master plan for water protection.

The good news is that treating sewage effluent isn’t rocket science. There are emerging technologies available to filter and treat sewage. Suffolk County is moving forward with testing and approving more homeowner options other than the traditional septic systems. County Executive Steve Bellone needs to champion this endeavor and work to advance wastewater treatment options.

Policy drives technology. This county initiative needs to continue and creative financing should be developed to pay for new technology. Yes, it will take work, support from homeowners, businesses, and elected officials. Our future depends on clean water, so let’s start now.

Adrienne Esposito is executive director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment. CCE works to build widespread citizen understanding and advocacy for policies and actions designed to manage and protect our natural resources and public health.

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I’m like a lot of guys when it comes to work.

There really aren’t that many options available to us. I get up every weekday and go to work. I have a mortgage. I have truck payments. I have credit card bills.

It really doesn’t matter how I feel or what else is going on. I can’t afford to take days off. I always answer the bell.

I don’t have as many work options as most men. I know nothing about plumbing, or carpentry. I know nothing about cars. I know nothing about how electricity works.

I blame all of this on my Catholic school upbringing. We were trained to

manly thingsdo brainy stuff, not manly stuff. We write and we push pencils around. Most writers I know drive 14 year-old Volvos, while the plumbers and electricians have new trucks, speed boats, and take vacations three times a year. The last vacation I took was a trip to Speonk.

Every subject had a religious overtone in Catholic school. I learned this early on, when in second grade one of the test questions was, “If the Roman heathens hammered eight nails in Jesus, and Mary Magdalene pulled three out, how many were left?” Talk about a head scratcher.

Once when I was about 16 I got a

job in a Sag Harbor service station. I literally had no idea how to pump gas, but in typical Murphy style I claimed I had experience. The first car pulled up and I walked around it over and over again until the guy driving got annoyed. “Didn’t I tell you to fill it up?” he asked angrily. I just shrugged. When the manager came over I told him the truth: I couldn’t find the gas cap. “It’s under the license plate, stupid,” he snapped.

“How the f*** am I supposed to know that?” I snapped back. I was fired on the spot – that meant I worked all of seven minutes at my first ever real job.

Next up I was the “helper” on the construction site. That worked out well at first – I had to drive someone’s truck to the deli to get coffee for everyone. Things went downhill from there.

“Grab me a Phillips head and bring it over here,” one of the guys yelled.

I was like, huh?“A screwdriver!” he said loudly.I was wondering why he wanted

Phillip Head’s screwdriver. Why couldn’t he use Ricky Murphy’s

screwdriver? Not that I owned one, mind you.

When I got married we bought a wood-burning stove and my then-wife sent me out to get firewood, armed with her brother’s chainsaw. Giving me a chainsaw was a monumental lapse in judgment, and I believed all concerned feared (and possibly hoped) for the worst.

I always remember the scene in Scarface when the South American dope dealers use a chainsaw on some guy that owed them money. That’s the way I figured my wood-cutting experience would go – lots of blood splattered all over, limbs of every description – tree and human -- strewn about.

Luckily (or pathetically), I was too inept to actually start the damn thing. The same fate befell me when I got a job with a lawn mowing company. They dropped me off at a big yard in North Haven with a can of gas and a lawnmower and told me they’d be back to get me. Two hours later there I was, sitting on the unmowed grass. I ended up “flooding” the engine.

I didn’t know what that meant at the time, but I did it to the wife’s car the next day when I tried to “fix” it.

Here is a truism: men want to believe they can fix all things mechanical. So naturally, when Karen noticed a leak in the basement, she turned to her man for a solution.

“Call the plumber,” she said firmly.“No, I got this,” I replied, grabbing

my tool box – with yes, a Rickey Murphy screwdriver inside, though not much else. I got out my trusty ladder, wiped the cobwebs off of it, and pulled all the insulation from between the eaves. “We have a leak!” I announced.

“Can you fix it, Einstein?” ”Of course.” First though, I had to

figure out where it was coming from. I yelled upstairs to Karen to flush the toilets — nothing. Then I had her turn on the kitchen sink and let it run. Nothing. I analyzed the drip, which was coming from the middle of the living room. I charted the course of the drip, adjusting for wind velocity, thermal infusion, humidity, and the Newtonian Flow of Liquid Charts (OK, I had the “Racing Form” in my tool chest.)

Finally, exhausted from my manly effort to do this major plumbing repair job, I went to the bathroom in my office. Oopsie – I had left the sink running with my bathing suit in it. Overflow.

I carefully mopped the floor upstairs then went down to the basement. I made hammering noises and grunted for about a half hour while I analyzed the fifth at Saratoga, a Maiden Claimer. Then I loudly packed up and came up the stairs, feigning exhaustion.

“Hun, get me a cold one, will ya?”“Is it fixed?” “Of course,” I said proudly. “I dun

need no stupid plumbing school, amigo. Jus my lil frens” – my trusty Rickey Screwdriver and the Daily Racing Form.


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Congressman Bishop From La La LandAs individuals and companies all over Long Island – and the state – grapple with

yet another round of spiraling health insurance costs, our Congressman, Tim Bishop, continues to pour the Kool Aid down his gullet.

Costs are set to rise about 15 percent this year. Bishop, though, who has blindly supported Obamacare since its inception, continues to refuse to acknowledge most of his constituents, and a great majority of Americans, want it repealed.

“Congressman Tim Bishop hailed the announcement that health insurance plan premiums for New Yorkers purchasing individual coverage through New York’s Health Benefits Exchange next year will be substantially lower than current rates— over 50 percent lower.”

That excerpt is from a press release from the Bishop camp entitled, “Health Reform to Deliver Lower Insurance Rates for New Yorkers.”

Oh, really? Try to tell that to those of us paying the bills. Bishop, always willing to grasp at straws that he thinks defend his dubious voting

record, apparently based his press release on a recent article in the New York Times (Talk about Obama apologists!) titled “Health Reform to Deliver Lower Insurance Rates for New Yorkers” (anyone see the similarity?).

The problem is, according to the Washington Post and other publications: the article was myopic and based on a fatal flaw.

The Post wrote, “For years New York has had one of the most heavily regulated insurance markets in the country. The 1993 reforms not only required insurers to accept all customers; they also mandated that insurers charge everyone the exact same price. Young or old, healthy or sick, it doesn’t matter in New York: Everyone gets the same deal.

“This is great for someone who is sick and old who, in other states, might get charged a sky-high rate or rejected altogether. It’s not great though for the young and healthy, who end up footing a bigger chunk of the bill for all those more expensive beneficiaries.”

In other words, 25 year-old non-smokers will benefit from the open insurance market in the state: the rest of us will be better off with the plans we have, the ones

with rates that go up every year. And once the young and healthy extract themselves from the current system, rates will go through the roof –it’s simple math.

October 1, X-Day, the day that Obamacare’s subsidized health insurance exchanges are supposed to become fully operational. Louise Radnofsky of the Wall Street Journal wrote: “consumers could see insurance rates double or even triple when they look for individual coverage.”

Bishop is too smart not to realize this. His cynical stance that rates will decrease dramatically is propaganda and nothing more.

Here is the bottom line: insurance premiums are based on the amount of anticipated claims. Those of us who pay for our insurance absorb the cost for all those people Obamacare adds to the insurance roles. The more people who don’t pay their fair share, the more the rest of us pay to cover them. Period. Bishop boasts 600,000 currently un-insured New Yorkers will get insurance under Obamacare – guess who will pay for them.

The only alternative is for the rest of us to choose a plan with much higher deduct-ibles, which means the plan the government gives to the have-nots will literally be superior to the ones the Middle Class works its butts off for.

By the way, the last press release from the Bishop camp proudly proclaimed that Bishop “successfully threw out five Republican batters at first” while playing third base in the Congressional Baseball game. Wow – let’s get this straight: he threw the ball all the way from third to first base? On a fly? Maybe the Yankees should sign him – at least that way we’d get him out of Washington.

We are willing to make a friendly wager with Mr. Bishop: Even though he claims insurance premiums will be reduced next year by 50 percent, our editor will pledge to wear a Elect Tim Bishop T-shirt for a month and vote for him in the 2014 election if our rates simply stay the same. If they go up, Mr. Bishop will agree to wear a carefully crafted t-shirt we will obtain for him: “I Throw Like A Girl.”

All kidding aside, it is a staggering burden for well-meaning business owners who want to do the right thing and insure their loyal employees. Bishop’s flippant refusal to pretend otherwise is outrageous and shows how out of touch he is with the working class. Small businesses are dying, and our Congressman is sticking the dagger in deeper.

The Buck Stops HereDear Kitty,

I just finished reading your article about the deer population. Did anyone think about sterilizing the bucks? As we know, for females of any species it is an involved operation. I would imagine for male deer, it would be the same for humans . . . snip,

snip. There . . . I have saved the taxpayers lots of money.

By the way, I love your writing and reporting! You do a great job at investigating a story.

Thanks for watching out for us little guys. I also love the newspaper in general. Have a great summer!

DIANE GLEASON

Fatal FlawsDear Rick,

Well I see there is still an ongoing battle

over East Hampton Airport, and that the same old tired, arguments, are being used to try and get the airport shut down!

Even when offered an olive branch, this group of people reply that the proposal is full of “fatal flaws.” My God, the legal fees involved over the years to defend the airport could have been used to do all the repairs necessary, and this nonsense about “poison money” from the feds would be moot!

And then, we get this super intellectual remark, from the Chairman of the Quiet Skies Coalition, that “when there

are complications with weather” the helicopters fly the L.I.E, “it’s an easy landmark.” My God, if you can’t say anything intelligent, then please say nothing, at all!

In the day and age of GPS who the hell uses “landmarks?” Dead reckoning went out with the bi-plane, airmail days, of aviation!

As to the demise of East Hampton Airport . . . this group has been at it for decades now!


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I agree with the Indy editorial: the airport will be sorely missed if it indeed is closed!” I would like to point out that Nassau County and the western end of Suffolk County, once had many, many airports. Curtiss Field. Roosevelt Field, Mitchell Field, Grumman Airport, Mays Field, the Hicksville Country Club, and Fitzmaurce Flying Field are all gone. There is not one airport left in Nassau County. The west end of Suffolk only has Republic Airport -- Zahns Airport, and Deer Park Airport are gone, along with the Babylon seaplane base!

Perhaps you might want to review those west end places, there aren’t many homes left that look like what we have here in the Hamptons. Do we want to see that sickening reproduction of suburban sprawl here?

Close it down and that’s what you will get! Maybe you might want to ask yourself, what the hell is in it for people who will not let go of something for decades? This group is trying to convince us that it is just all about noise? When they are offered a chance to find some mutual ground, that maybe, all can be agreed on they offer nothing but “it’s full of flaws.”

When all that can be offered to people who might be trying to meet you half-way is stupid statements, then you just have to smell a rat! What is that old expression about blowing smoke up . . .?

RICHARD KRAUSE

Water IncidentsDear Editor,

With nearly 120,000 in-ground and above-ground pools in Nassau and Suffolk counties, water is all around us here on Long Island. And, as that water becomes extra tempting as temperatures and humidity rise throughout July and August, the YMCA of Long Island reminds parents about these basic pool and swim safety guidelines.

Get Some Swim Lessons: Research shows that children who have had formal swim instruction before the age of four are significantly less likely to be involved in a serious or fatal water incident. If a child has not had formal lessons, the YMCA of Long Island offers more youth swimming instruction than any other Long Island organization.

Adult Supervision Is A Must: Even children who are experienced swimmers should not be left unattended and should swim only under the undivided, undistracted supervision of an adult (no reading, texting or talking on the phone).

During pool parties or barbecues, adults

should take turns supervising. Be sure babysitters are aware of the necessity for constant supervision in the pool.

Never Swim Alone: The “Buddy System” applies to all, and even adults should always swim with a partner, or under the supervision of another adult.

Keep A Telephone Close By: In the event of a water emergency, every second counts so have a fully charged cordless or cell phone outdoors near the pool. If 911 is not the local emergency call number be sure that number is clearly posted.

Lifesaving Equipment At The Ready: Be sure that basic lifesaving equipment, such as float rings, poles and rope are near the pool, and that adults understand their basic operation.

Learn First Aid and CPR: Keep a First Aid kit near the pool. Adults should learn how to perform CPR on children and adults, and update those skills regularly.

Install and Use Fences and Latches: New York State requires a minimum of four-foot fencing around a pool with self-closing, self-locking latches on gates. Check with

your local municipality if they have more restrictive standards.

For above-ground pools four feet or higher, use a ladder, which is removable or can be locked when the pool is not in use. Smaller above-ground pools also require fencing, unless they are emptied after each use.

Alarms A Requirement: Swimming pools installed or constructed after 1996 in New York State are required to have an audible alarm capable of detecting entry into the water.

Summer Storm Safety: All swimmers should leave the pool and go indoors at the first sound of thunder or the first sight of lightning and remain indoors and out of the water for 30 minutes after the last clap of thunder.

With over 60,000 members, the YMCA of Long Island provides over 22,000 swim lessons annually and is committed on a daily basis to the safety of all Long Islanders enjoying the water. To learn more about our swim instruction programs,

Do you remember taking your driver’s test?

Joann JordanI grew up in Philadelphia. I drove next to myfather since I was 15. I was tall and lookedolder than I was. I was very mature and myparents trusted me. I was a good driver fromthe start and I still am even though at our age alot of my friends don’t still drive.

Nick DeliagreI was 16. I remember going to Riverhead. Myfather taught me to drive when I was 14. It was amuch quieter life. I studied hard for the test. Onlythe written test made me nervous. With a juniorlicense you could drive from dawn to dusk onyour own. I was quite excited when I passed.

Lynn MarranI like to be ready for tests so I had reallypracticed for both the driving and the writtenpart. I wasn’t nervous at all. But my family hasan oil company out here and they were goingto let me try driving a truck. But I didn’t dare trydriving something that big.

Kerstin LeidorferI took my test in Austria, which is where I’mfrom. I was 17 years old and I passed it rightaway, on my first try. The man who gave methe test was a retired policeman. But my fatherwas in the car with me and that calmed medown. He taught me to drive.

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Saving FaceDear Editor,

My 13 year-old son Paul, complains my MMA (mixed martial arts) career is taking too long for a match against Baldwin champ Chris Weidman. But thanks to the Stand Your Ground law, I’ve got a plan: If I’m pinned during my next match, feel threatened with my right ankle a few inches south of my left ear, instead of tapping out, I’ll reach into my red, white and blue trunks

embroidered Italian Stallion, and pull out my Glock. I’ll blast away at the guy on top, saving face, saving my life, assuring me a win.

See ya in the octagon.FRANK VESPE

The Abominable SnowdenLetter to the Editor,

Edward Snowden is not a human rights activist, he is a loathsome, abominable traitor and spy.

He stated his aim was to inform the world about the surveillance programs operated by the NSA. He expressed concern the U.S. government could monitor the communications of the U.S. public but he did not say it occurred.

If Snowden is the activist who just wanted to expose the possible monitoring of the U.S. public, why did he go to Hong

Kong (China), a totalitarian country opposed to democratic values and freedoms? Why did he go to China with his four laptops filled with NSA information, and probably allow the Chinese to copy the NSA material?

If Snowden was concerned with the U.S. government infringing on our freedoms, why did he go to Russia, another totalitarian country opposed to

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our democratic values, a country who most likely copied the NSA information on his laptops?

Snowden could be a disgruntled individual who decided to get even with the U.S. over personal problems, possibly work related. His aim is to harm our national security. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for breaking the trust we placed in him.

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With rising healthcare costs and more Americans weary of how their food is being grown, an event this weekend couldn’t come at a better time.

This Saturday and Sunday the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce will host a Preventive Health and Sustainable Technology Expo in the Hamptons. The expo was created by Turtle Shell Health, a company that offers marketing consulting service to holistic health practitioners. Turtle Shell Health has produced Health & Wellness events held twice a year in Manhattan and have now brought a similar expo to the

Chamber Expo On TapHamptons for the first time.

The event will feature several cooking demos and expert speakers to inform about healthy living, wellness, and sustainability.

Congressman Tim Bishop will speak about health care. Chef Todd Jacobs of Fresh Hamptons will host a dinner event, and director and advocate Jeffrey M. Smith will preside over a film screening, and much more.

A congressman and Hamptons resident, Bishop’s political priorities include health care, education, the economy, and the environment. He will take part in the expo with a speech focusing on Health Care Reform Education on Saturday at 2 PM. One of the Hamptons own

chefs will also be taking part in the expo. Chef Todd Jacobs is an active member of the Northeast Organic Farmers Association, and is the head chef of Fresh in Bridgehampton. Jacobs focuses on using organic, seasonal local ingredients in his dishes. He will create the menu for the casual dinner party, “Food Riot,” on Saturday at 7 PM to benefit Slow Food East End.

On Sunday director, author and advocate Jeffrey M. Smith will close the expo with a screening of his new documentary and a Q&A to follow. Smith who has lectured in 30 countries will also be giving a keynote speech at the Food Riot dinner party on Saturday. Smith has helped influence the

first state laws in the United States regulating Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) and will present his documentary “Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives” at 1 PM. The expo is designed to provide more information about health and the health of the natural environment to the East End. The expo is co-presented by Turtle Shell Health, Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, Slow Food East End and Dodds & Eder. The expo will take place Saturday and Sunday, at Dodds & Eder 11 Bridge Street in Sag Harbor.

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Hearing of some seabass coming off the reef on clams. Bluefish have been attacking fluke baits in the bay, ocean and inlet. The snappers are here but still a bit small, they do make a great fluke bait. The bass bite continues to decline but the live bait in the inlet is still scoring a few fish. The clam chum is still working at the bridge, but most fish are small.

Peconic’s porgies are around the Cow Neck area on clams and cocktail blues are at Jessups.

Christine dubrowsky, 16, recently landed a 58-pound Bluefin.

Shore Bound/ Canal/ Ocean Beaches /Jetties

Slow pick in the canal but the snappers are here and getting bigger everyday. Over at the Ponquogue Bridge the fluke bite is good and the striped bass bite has been decent on the night tides. The ocean beaches are still producing some schoolie bass on the night tides and at dawn and dusk on bucktails and ava jigs. Some fluke are being taken from the ocean beaches too.

The Shinnecock Inlet has a decent bite of fluke going on as well as some triggerfish and a few blues.

On The Water Offshore

The Bluefin bite out around the Coimbra has been very good. Trolled lures working in early morning and jigs during the day. They are gorging on huge sand eels and should hold here for a while. On July 16 Christine Dubrowsky (16-years old) did a trip to the Coimbra with her dad and landed a 58-pound Bluefin. Still hearing of a few makos being caught but most guys have made the move to target the tuna grounds.

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Jill Rappaport, star of “Today” and an award winning animal advocate and best selling author, has created and designed her “Rescued Me Collection” to benefit animals in need.

The collars, for both dogs and cats, come in bold, bright colors with standard easy-clip collars, which can be fully adjusted for a custom fit. Matching leashes and harnesses are also available, and are all machine-washable.

This line benefits animal shelters and animal cancer. To purchase Jill Rappaport’s Rescued Me Collection visit www.gramercylane.com.

Rappaport has been on “Today” for nearly 22 years. She was the entertainment correspondent for the first 17 of those years, but when her beloved dog Jack got bone cancer, her life and career changed forever.

While chronicling Jack’s illness on the show, she realized that animal welfare issues were her calling, and so her path changed. In her popular, award-winning “Bow To Wow” series, shelter dogs get a makeover and a second chance

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“Today” Star Helps Animals In Needat life, and through her work, she helped save hundreds of horses that were severely abused. She also keeps “Today” viewers informed about the latest health trends for pets.

Rappaport is also the best selling author of people We know, horses They Love, and has written three others books, including Jack & Jill: The miracle dog with a happy Tail To Tell, about her beloved dog Jack, and 500 Cats.

Rappaport developed a clothing line for Pendleton for women and pets, which benefited the Jack and Jill Fund for animal cancer. Jill and “Today” received the coveted Genesis Award, which is the Oscars of the animal world, for her reporting on animal issues. She has now won that award twice, and her Nightly News piece, “Hurricane Sandy: Protecting Our Pets,” was nominated for another in 2013.

Rappaport was named the first recipient of the “Voice for the Animals Award” presented by Matt Lauer for her work on and off the screen from the Humane Society of the United States. She received the coveted MSPCA-Angell Animal

Hall of Fame Award in Boston. Rappaport also received the New York City Parks Citizen award from the Mounted Auxiliary unit. She was honored for Outstanding Community Service from the LI Veterinary Medical Association and Rappaport was named the ASPCA Good Will Equine Welfare Ambassador in 2011.

She ended 2011 by being given the honor of ringing the NYSE Opening Bell for the Iams Home 4 the Holidays adoption drive (she rang the Closing Bell in 2012) and started the new year as host of Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl VIII, providing up-to-the-minute sideline analysis and commentary with the shelter pups.

Rappaport received the coveted 2012 Global Pet Expo’s annual “Excellence in Journalism and Outstanding Contributions to the Pet Industry Award,” whose past recipients include Ellen DeGeneres and Rachel Ray.

In June, she was awarded the 2012 Pet Philanthropy Circle’s Pet Humanitarian Award and she received The Presidential Service

Award for Media Excellence from the ASPCA in November.

Rappaport recently launched an equestrian jewelry line called “Hannah’s Heart” named after her beloved late mare. She designed the line exclusively with London Jewelers and proceeds will benefit the ASPCA. Rappaport lives on a farm with her five rescue dogs and seven horses, whom she refers to as her “fur angels.”

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Hampton Dogs is a coffee table book of photographs by Lisa hartman and Carol Saxe featuring the dogs that live, work, and play in the hamptons. The book has raised money and awareness for local shelters and over 250 books have been donated to animal causes. hartman is a nationally recognized dog trainer and is available to local pet owners by appointment. visit her website, www.lisathedogtrainer.com for more information.

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The Animal Rescue Fund of the hamptons helped or-chestrate “Sadie’s Freedom Trail,” a puppy mill rescue being carried out in honor of a small Shih Tzu named Sadie who was born in a puppy mill. over sixty breeder dogs rescued from missouri puppy mills were trans-ported in stages by volunteers known as the Rescue Road Warriors. ARF found homes for 15 of the dogs. (Above) ARF staff and volunteers with the puppy mill Rescue dogs. (Top, from left) ARF board president Lisa mcCarthy, dr. Tara Allmen with Sadie, and ARF Executive director Sara davison.

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Another plus? Dr. Bressler is available for routine and emergency Veterinary Care 24 hours a day, seven days a week including weekends and holidays. Her practice includes the towns of Southampton, Water Mill, Bridgehampton, Sagaponack, East Hampton, Amagansett, Sag Harbor and Montauk. She is the only House Call Veterinarian available in both the Hamptons and New York City. In addition to routine and emergency care, she offers in home hospitalization if appropriate for your dog or cat.

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The trendiest names – would you believe Dexter and Luna? We don’t either, but so says Vetstreet. The rest of the list: Thor, Layla (OMG! Shades of Eric Clapton), Gunner, Piper, Bentley, Nala, Jax, Stella, Ace, Willow, Leo, Maya, Athena, and Milo. Whatever happened to Fido?

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on July 13 author Barbara Frerichs celebrated her new book What my dog Has taught me about men with a book signing event at B. Smith's restaurant in Sag Harbor. Her Lakeland terrier, teddy, was her inspiration and guests enjoyed a specialty drink named after him called the "teddytini." other drinks including wine and champagne were served along with mouth watering hors d'oeuvres. WBaZ broadcasted live from the event.

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If a pet is injured or suddenly develops a life-threatening disease, this constitutes a veterinary emergency. If you think your pet is experiencing an emergency condition, call the facility at 631-369-4513.

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Last week, a friend of mine fell overboard – while boarding a boat at the dock! Sound crazy? Not really – when the “victim” isn’t wearing proper shoes, when he stepped on the gunwales and not into the boat, and when the wake of a passing boat (who shouldn’t have been making a wake!) rocked the vessel strongly. In other words, things just go wrong at all the wrong time . . . Are you ready to deal with it?

As a case in point, when I take young boaters out for seamanship exercises, I start the man-over-board drills with an example. I bring the boat up to 20 knots and ask one of the youngsters to throw a fender over board – and then count to 10 before yelling “Man Overboard!” During those ten seconds, two things happen. The fender disap-pears behind the boat, well over a full football field behind, and the faces of the youngsters turn white and their jaws drop.

Don’t Fall Overboard!Clearly, the best defense is not

falling overboard. That means:1. No “bow riding”, i.e., sitting up

on the bow with your feet dangling over the side (BTW, it’s a violation of federal regulations – no limbs outside the boat while underway). Assuming the prop misses you as the boat whizzes over you, you could very likely be rendered unconscious by the boat passing over you. That is assuming the propeller misses you.

2. No sitting on the gunwales – the edge of the boat – even if you are holding on tight. The skipper takes a wake too hard and you are airborne. If you land in the boat, it is a small miracle. If you were sitting on the transom, unless the boat is in reverse, physics demands that you end up in the water. That is if you are lucky enough that the boat is going fast enough for you to land

man overboard!behind the propeller. You could be unlucky enough to land on the prop instead of in the water. A variation of sitting on the gunwales is holding the taff rail (railing around the stern of the boat) and jumping up and down with the swells as the boat passes over them. This is swell fun until the boat gets sluiced to one side or the other by those same swells pushing the bow around. Instead of coming down inside the stern of the boat, which a moment ago was just below you, you come down in the water.

3. The failure to use the “three point system” while working the boat can get even the most seasoned mariner. Always have three parts of your body in contact with the boat at all times, i.e., two hands, one foot; two feet, one hand. Try toppling over a three-legged stool and you can see how much more stable this is than a two-point system.

You Fell Overboard!You need to do two things.

First, attract as much attention as possible as fast as you can. I never go on a boat without a knife, flash light and whistle on my person. The light and the whistle are to attract attention. The knife is to cut me away from the line I am tangled in that is dragging me below the water.

Secondly, if the boat continues to steam way, start saving yourself – and that starts with conserving energy and heat. Eventually, someone will start to look for you. Don’t panic and waste life-sustaining energy.

Assume the HELP position or at least float with your arms across your chest and your legs crossed. If you slip below the water, don’t thrash and waste energy. Lie there for a few seconds and then dog paddle up. Get back in the prone position and start over. If the water

isn’t too cold, you can do this for hours.

Someone Fell Off The Boat!Train your crew in the following:1. The first person who sees

someone fall overboard does two things simultaneously. First, shouts at the top of his lungs “MAN OVERBOARD” and, second, NEVER takes his eyes off the person in the water and points at him constantly.

I tell my crew, “Even if you have to watch him drown in front of you, never take your eyes off him.” Why? If you lose sight of him, we may never see him again. It is unbelievably difficult to find a head sticking up out of the water. This is why the USCG often sends helicopters first to look for people in the water.

2 . Someone e l s e th rows a cushion, fender, life-jacket – anything and everything – towards the victim to give them something to swim towards and hold onto.

3. The boat driver brings the boat to neutral. The skipper then determines what side the victim is on and turns the boat to the same

side as the victim is on. It keeps the victim inside the turning radius of the boat – and keeps the propeller moving away from the person in the water.

4. Call the USCG and tell the watch stander you have a “man overboard” -- Your crewmate may be injured, have swallowed a lungful of water or having a medical emergency (how about a heart attack?) Get the “rescue starts now” clock started ASAP!

5. Once you get alongside the victim, turn off the engine. Those props are potentially dangerous. Stop the engine entirely – especially if you are getting him back aboard via a swim platform.

Try the 10-second exercise one day with your crew. And watch their faces as the fender disappears astern.

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of mature Barn Swallows (hirundo rustica) as they built and prepared their nest for the upcoming season.

Barn Swallows are migratory and arrive on Long Island from Central and South America in mid-April to establish nesting sites. They typically build nests under eaves of roofs, under bridges, or in barns as their name implies. They are small in

size, five to seven inches long, with rust-colored breasts and blue-black upper parts and pointed wings. They are swift flyers and were seen hunting for insects by swooping and

darting over the ponds and fields behind the museum.

The breeding pair of swallows that SoFo selected began to build their nest in mid-May under the museum’s walkway canopy adjacent to the parking lot. They constructed the nest from mud then attached it to the wall for support as a mud shelf. They then shaped it into a bowl. Once the nest had taken shape, they began to line the inner bowl with grass and feathers for nesting.

The female laid s ix eggs . Throughout the incubation period, which lasted about 14 days, the female swallow turned each egg daily to keep it warm. She often left the nest to feed but returned soon after to continue incubating. The male was seldom seen on video as he was standing guard on a nearby post or tree adjacent to the nest ready to defend it. At night, he joined his mate in the nest and slept alongside her until he took his post again the next morning.

After the eggs hatched, both parents proceeded to feed their young throughout the day. After 20 days of feeding, the development of their hatchlings was noticeable and amazing to witness. Struggling and shoving one another for space within the nest, one by one the young took that big leap from which there is no turning back. Today, the juvenile barn swallows are on their own and with other barn swallow colonies throughout the East End.

We are happy to say that the parents have decided to start a second brood and that their progress can be witnessed 24 hours a day by visiting SoFo’s bird cam under the News tab of www.sofo.org.

Frank Quevedo is the executive director of the South Fork Natural history museum. Located in bridgehampton, SoFo is the only state-of-the-art natural history museum on the South Fork. Check it out at sofo.org.


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The Shelter Island Bucks took fourth place – the final playoff spot – Thursday, pummeling the Riverhead Tomcats 11-3. Shelter Island improved to 15-17 on the season while Riverhead (15-18) lost for the fourth time in its last five games.

Jimmy Jack, who plays for Loyola Marymount, had his best day as a Buck, going 4-5 with a homer and three ribbies.

Cody Howard, Justin Brock, and Ty Blankmeyer all had two ribbies for the winners. Starting pitcher Alex Katz earned the victory, giving up three runs on five hits over five innings of work. Andrew McCormack and Rich Patrizio held Riverhead scoreless over the final four frames.

Jack Sundberg went 2-3 with an RBI triple for the loser and swiped and his league-leading 28th stolen base.

Westhampton is sitting pretty, alone in first place with a 20-13 mark and a playoff berth assured. The Aviators edged hard-luck Southampton (12-21) 2-1 last Wednesday.

Westhampton struck for two in the bottom of the ninth inning after being shut out for eight innings to post a thrilling walk off victory against visiting Southampton Breakers.

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Jimmy Jack erupted for four hits including a homer as Shelter island beat Riverhead thursday.

leaving two runners in scoring position, but he wasn’t as fortunate in the ninth. Leading off the inning, Cole Miller blasted a 1-2 pitch over the fence for his fourth homer of the season, and after Mitch Montaldo singled, Darius Washington lined his second double of the night, bringing Montaldo all the way home for the win. Southampton’s starter, Kyle Schwartz had been on the hook for the loss until then despite going toe to toe with Pecoraro, giving up one run over seven innings. His only blemish came in the seventh when Ben Ruta singled in Drew Bryan (VMI) to end inning.

The Sag Harbor Whalers are the hottest team in the league and may be the one to beat in the playoffs. Last Wednesday Jonathan Mulford and three other pitchers combined to blank North Fork 2-0, allowing the Whalers (19-13) to keep pace with Westhampton in the race for first place.

Mulford gave up seven hits over 6 1/3 innings, walking one and striking out four to move to 5-0 on the summer. Jacob Bodner, the league’s saves leader, pitched the final two innings. Sag Harbor’s only runs came in the fourth as it loaded the bases with one out and broke the scoreless tie on a fielder’s choice by Joey DeVito which yielded a throwing error that went out of play, allowing two runs to come in.

North Fork (12-17) managed nine hits against the Whaler quartet, including three by Eric Solberg and two from Ryan Burns.


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Lefty Surprises With open Winimagined him being in contention, never mind winning it.

Lefty had not yet shown the ability to master a links style course. Just last year Phil didn’t even make the cut at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Even his winning the Scottish Open two weeks ago didn’t convince me

he was capable of pulling off a victory at last week’s major. With that being said, what Mickelson did at Muirfield proved his passion and drive to succeed is greater than many of us gave him credit for.

I felt Mickelson’s showing at Merion would define his 2013 season. I thought he would take some time away from the game to reset his emotions; give some thought to where golf factored into his life.

At 43 years-old and playing a sport that favors youth, wasn’t it time for Lefty to dial it back a bit? It was well documented that he took the red eye into Philadelphia the night before the U.S. Open in order to attend his daughter’s graduation in California. Would his family take an even more prominent role in his life at the expense of his golf game?

Not the case. Instead Mickelson played even more golf to try to put the loss at Merion behind him. Phil proved that his competitive drive and will to win are still as strong as ever. As I thought more about Phil the competitor, I realized the only reason we view him as having less competitive spirit was because of the player he was compared with; Tiger Woods.

Tiger was seen as the focused, intense, driven golfer, doing anything in his power to reach 19 majors, whereas Phil was the anti-Tiger -- smiling, affable, sometimes goofy, family-man. But that story line often failed to give Mickelson credit for the intensity, passion, and drive he too possess for the game.

In contrast to Mickelson’s back

nine at Merion where he bogeyed 13 and 15 and blew a birdie putt on 16, he was flawless at Muirfield. He birdied four of the final six holes, and was reading putts as if he’d grown up on the course. The defining moment of the tournament came on his second shot from the fairway on the 575 yd, par-5, 17th. Phil hit three wood onto the green and after a lag put would finish with a tap-in birdie.

A month after wondering how Phil’s career would unfold, he is officially in elite company. Mickelson joins Tom Watson, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods as the only players since 1980 to win three different majors. Just to make the victory a little sweeter, the top of the Open leader board was a “Who’s Who” on tour, and Phil, who started five strokes back on Sunday, jumped every last one from Tiger Woods, to Lee Westwood and Adam Scott.

Now all attention turns to winning that still elusive U.S. Open. If I’m Lefty, I rent a house at Pinehurst and play the course four days a week for the next eleven months. But then again, maybe it’s not imperative that Phil win the National Championship next year. He’s proven this past week that there’s plenty left in the tank. For our sake, hopefully that means many more thrills for our East End summer weekends.

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It’s time to start entering some Fantasy Football drafts to recognize early trends and get a grip on which players are gaining value and, conversely, which players are dropping.

In order to win your league, you are going to have to obtain players who outperform their expectations to go along with those players who perform true to form.

There are only three ways to acquire these difference makers: getting them in the draft, trading for them, or picking them up from the waiver wire during the season.

I’m a little put off by mock drafts – there is no incentive to do well, since there are no leagues. A lot of guys use mock drafts to practice a particular strategy; this maneuver tends to abnormally alter draft positions.

I chose a $100 Yahoo Expert league for my first draft – playing for money makes everyone involved a little more diligent, and the draft results tend to mimic those in a

early draft trendsbigger money leagues.

This draft confirmed what experts have noticed about the 2013 FF season this far – running backs are going early, and a lot of them. Wide receivers and quarterbacks are dropping fast.

True to form, five running backs were off the board when I picked with the sixth pick, and I took another one, C.J. Spiller. After Calvin Johnson went at seven, three more backs were taken.

You must learn to be flexible. You can’t go into a draft with a mindset; you have to let the draft come to you, and that means take the best players early on, regardless of position. In my case, I wanted Calvin – but I didn’t expect to see Spiller there at Number Six, so I grabbed him. In the second round I definitely wanted a wide receiver, but when my pick came, the 15th overall, Ray Rice, who has an average draft position of 9.7, was still on the board. I grabbed him with no hesitation. This is when it really got crazy – I was positively

desperate for a wide receiver, but when my pick came in the third round lo and behold, there was Maurice Jones-Drew, a perennial first round pick. I couldn’t resist.

This is where another valuable lesson comes in: yes, all the top rated wide receivers were now off the board. That is if you use this year’s rankings. Go back a year ago, though, and you’ll see both Hakeem Nicks and Wes Walker were highly ranked – both finished in the top five in receiving in 2011. I grabbed them both. The point is, what happened in the past is a good indicator of what will happen in the future – but only an indicator. I know Nicks and Welker are two of the best receivers in the league – barring injury, both figure to be among the league leaders once again.

Quarterbacks did indeed drop. I took my first quarterback with the fifth pick of the sixth round, and got Colin Kaepernick, the guy I wanted. Last year, two and sometimes three quarterbacks went in the first round. In this draft, Aaron Rodgers was first to go – with the seventh pick in the second round. Drew Brees went two

picks. Tom Brady lasted until the third pick of the fifth round, and that is unheard of.

I bagged Greg Jennings, another standout receiver, in the seventh round, and got James Jones, a wide receiver who scored 14 TDs, in the eighth. Since Jennings is no longer on Green Bay, I think Jones represents exceptional value.

I snagged a back-up quarterback in the ninth round – a fellow named Tony Romo. I waited until the last three rounds to take my placekicker, tight end, and defensive team – as I almost do, and inexplicably ended up with the guy I had ranked as the top placekicker, Blair Walsh, or as I refer to him, The Blair Walsh Project.

Remember in Yahoo, 90 percent of the money goes to winners: $500 for first, $300 for second, and $100 for third. Talk is pretty cheap, but I think my team is a lock to take home some cash.

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After South opens with a preempt in hearts, North has enough support to bid 4. West wins the first club trick and continues with another club which South trumps in hand. South sees two losers, the aces in clubs and hearts. He also notes that he could lose one or two diamonds. However, if he loses two diamonds, he will not make

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