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The East End has four Long Island hoop champions – the Southampton Lady Mariners in Class B and the Southold Lady Settlers in Class C this week joined Riverhead and Shelter Island in snaring the coveted trophy.

Talk about a couple of nail biters

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Lady Settlers, Mariners Grab Gold– fans at Farmingdale State College were treated two of the season’s most thrilling games. The Southampton game was literally decided at the last possible moment, with 0.01 seconds left on the clock. The Southold game went into overtime before the locals prevailed.

Southampton and Cold Spring Harbor (18-3) were locked in an epic battle. The locals forged ahead early, riding the hot hands of Kesi Goree and Paris Hodges. In fact, the locals were on cruise control, coasting to a 22-7 halftime lead and expanded the

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State TitleThe Riverhead girls team isn’t just

on a run – the Blue Waves are on a serious roll. That’s what you call it when a team wins 23 of 24 games.

Friday the locals upended Baldwin to earn the Long Island Class AA title and a trip to the State Final Four tournament.

Previously, Riverhead ate through the Suffolk County tournament field like a Sumo wrestler with a bowl of whipped cream, despite coming in as the number three seed. The Wave smothered Patchogue/Medford, smashed Ward Melville, eliminated Lindenhurst, and then thrashed Hauppauge for the county title. The Wave then knocked off Southampton, the county small schools champ, for the overall county title.

The Riverhead Blue Waves are the L.I. Class AA champions, the first Riverhead girls’ basketball team ever to claim that distinction.

Make no mistake about it – Baldwin gave the Waves everything they could handle and then some. In fact, the Bruins shocked Riverhead by taking the lead in the first half and clinging to it, going into the locker room with a 23-20 lead. The locals were uncharacteristically cold from the field, and even appeared lackluster.

All that changed in the third quarter, when Melodee Riley and her teammates started heating up. Riley in particular was fired up, clearing the boards and thus limiting Baldwin to one shot. She finished with a team high 18 points and 17 rebounds.

The Waves used a balance scoring attack to fend of several comeback attempts by the Bruins. Shanice Allen and Kaila-Riane Nozario both tallied 11 points and Jalyn Brown added nine. Marta Czaplak nailed two treys for her



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The team bus arrived home late from Farmingdale State College but Riverhead was hopping, waiting for the victors – it was the fi rst ever Long Island title for Coach David Spinella and his charges. It was only the second loss of the season for Baldwin (19-2).

Next up for the locals is the NYSPHSAA Championship -- the State Final Four -- at Hudson Valley CC, in Troy. The Wave play the Class AA semifi nal against Pennfi eld (Sec V), at 6:15 PM. A victory propels the locals into the title game Sunday at 8:45 PM against the winner of Friday’s Cicero-No. Syracuse (Sec III)/Ossining (Sec I) game.

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By Emily Toy

It’s back to the drawing board.Two candidates met with the

Southampton Town Board last Friday afternoon to be interviewed for the now vacant comptroller position.

After stalling in choosing a new comptroller earlier last week, board members were still unable to reach a consensus on who will fill the shoes of former comptroller Tamara Wright.

The frontrunners are two New York men: C. Omarr Evans, a senior level fiscal administrator from Binghamton, and John Morris, a “seasoned accountant” with nearly 25 years of finance experience from St. James.

Morris is a graduate of C.W. Post with a Bachelors degree in account-ing. Experienced in governmental accounting, reporting and internal control, his most recent gig was as town comptroller for Smithtown, a position he was not reappointed to after some alleged disagreements with a few of the town board mem-

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bers over his budget processes. Morris was accused of being

negligent with addressing the town board’s questions about the budget.

In Smithtown, he was responsible for preparing and reviewing a bud-get of approximately $100 million. Approving bills and invoices for payment, interacting with financial advisors and bond counsel, plus financing and issuing bonds were other aspects of his former position.

Morris said that he did not draft bonds in Smithtown, something that Southampton town board members are used to having their comptroller do.

“Typically the comptroller would generate bond resolutions,” said Councilwoman Bridget Fleming.

Morris also serves as CEO at his private consulting company in Se-tauket, something he’s done since 1992. Although not a Certified Public Accountant, Morris and his agency are responsible for accounting and tax services for a wide variety of commercial and individual clients.


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Steve Jobs was a genius.I must say Steve is lucky he died

when he did because if he were still alive today, and by some wild chance Rick Santorum got himself elected president, Santorum would take one look at the magical instru-ment called the iPhone and have its creator, Steve Jobs, burned at the stake as a witch.

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The iPhone also has a feature called Predictive Typing where, when you are writing an email, before you spell out an entire word the iPhone anticipates what you are about to type and spells it out.

This is eerie. This is the work of the devil.

When I write an email and go to sign it “Jerry,” I spell out “J-e-r-r” and the Predictive Typing insists that I’m “Kerry,” and that name doesn’t seem to want to go away. So if you get an email from me and

it’s signed Kerry, no, I have not had a stroke. I am the prisoner of the Predictive Typing devil.

Recently a friend sent me an email and asked me how I was do-ing. I answered “I’m good,” but as soon as I painfully tapped the first two letters, “g-o,” for “good,” the Predictive Typing message thought I was saying “God,” so my friend got a message that read “I am God.”

She wasn’t surprised because she knows me and she knows that I think that I am God. But telling a stranger you’re God could present some problems.

Here’s the good news. When I take my iPhone back to the Apple Store, they will take one look at my chubby hands and give me my money back.

The Apple store is the greatest retail store in the history of retail stores.

I will never forget the first time I walked into the Apple store on Fifth Avenue. It was packed with people from all over the world. I walked in and worked my way through the crowd, which was speaking Chinese, Greek, Swahili, when suddenly a clean-cut young man walked up to me and said, “Can I help you?”

Being a typical New Yorker I took one step back and quickly put my hand over the wallet in my back pocket.

“Oh,” I thought, “I know how this works. He’s part of a three-man pickpocket team. He disarms me by saying something you never hear in a retail store, a sincere-sounding, ‘Can I help you?’ He pretends he wants to help me while his partner bumps against me and lifts my wallet and quickly hands it off to another accomplice and in a few seconds my wallet is out the door.”

“H-h-h-h-help me?” I managed to stammer.

“Sure,” he said.Totally disarmed, I handed him

an iPad with a shattered screen and proceeded to speak the guilty gib-berish everyone speaks when they try to return an item.

“I have had it maybe a year or two . . . don’t know what’s wrong . . . never dropped it (a lie) . . . it never got wet (a bigger lie) . . .”

The young man nodded sympa-

thetically as though he had never heard this rap before. Then he said, “May I have your American Express card and driver’s license, please.”

“Oh,” I thought, “it’s the old credit card bunko trick. He will pre-tend to go away, race out the door and buy himself a new Aston Martin on my credit card before I can call an American Express representative based somewhere in India and have my credit card canceled.”

In a minute the young man was back. “You’re still on warranty. En-joy your iPad.” Then he handed me a new iPad, smiled and went on to help the next confused stranger.

Which brought me to a new para-noid theory: Maybe it’s a Scientol-ogy trick. Maybe they’re sucking me into that religion and the next thing you know I will find myself praying with Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

Paranoia aside, I’ve been back 20 times and I’m always greeted near the door by some clean-cut young person anxious to help.

I’ve walked in to buy a new set of those white Apple earphones that tangle as they come out of the box and for which I’m sure Steve Jobs will burn in purgatory for the next 500 years.

And when I asked where the earphones were, the nice young woman who greeted me with a “May I help you?” didn’t point. She walked me across the store and showed me the different earphones Apple offers.

Steve Jobs has built a great com-pany. The stores are clean, beauti-fully designed and filled with eager, intelligent, hard-working young people. The products are great. Apple under Steve Jobs’ vision is run far better and is far more profitable than the United States government.

Which brings me to a political note: If the Republican hardliners manage to screw Mitt Romney out of the nomination, as a Republican I plan to cast a write-in vote for Steve Jobs for president. It’s obvious to me that a dead Steve Jobs will make a far better president than a live Rick Santorum.

If you wish to comment on “Jerry’s Ink” please send your message to [email protected] or visit indyeastend.com and scroll to the bottom of the column.



By Rick Murphy

Six local school districts will apply for a grant to study a range of consolidation options, Springs Superintendent Michael Hartnett announced Monday.

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Springs, Pierson, Southampton and Tuckahoe agreed to jointly apply after a meeting of school board representatives on February 13.

Conspicuously missing are the

four smallest districts on the South Fork – Amagansett, Bridgehampton, Wainscott and Sagaponack. Their inclusion rules out a contiguous school district, Hartnett acknowledged, though mergers and consolidations are still possible.

“We are looking at a lot of options, from the least transformative to the most transformative. Making all six participating districts a single school district entity is “a stretch, unlikely to happen,” he said. Hartnett noted the four districts that chose not to participate “only have about 250 students.”

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It was a hot summer night. Diana Ross was slated to perform in Central Park . . . and then the sky opened up, canceling the concert and sending soaked passengers onto Julie Penny’s Hamptons bound bus.

“We got onto the Expressway in the blinding, driving rain, and the windshield wipers went. I was in the middle lane, and the front and back tires went.” The bus began to vibrate and Penny, a slender 118 pounds, “Lit-erally had to stand up and struggle to hold onto the wheel. It was really an amazing event, but we got through it.” The jitney host went out into the driving rain to find a phone so people could be herded off the ailing bus and

Julie Penny, First Female At The Wheeldelivered to their destinations. There weren’t any cell phones or bus radios back in the 1970s, when Julie Penny became the first woman to drive the big rigs for the Hampton Jitney.

“They got another bus, and we were all happy we survived the blow-outs. The mood was okay and we got through it together.”

Getting through things together was the philosophy at the new com-pany back then. “My takeaway feeling of the whole experience is that the Jitney back then had a wonderful sense of camaraderie and Esprit de Coeur--we were like a family and Jim Davidson, though histrionic at times was a wonderful employer and decent individual.” The staff was comprised

of artists, writers and students from nearby Southampton College.

Penny grew up in the Bronx and after graduating Southampton College, commuted from her home in Sag Har-bor to CW Post in Old Brookville. When she applied for the jitney job, she was used to making the drives upisland and “I loved it.”

At first she was assigned the lo-cal route between Southampton and Montauk, operating a van. Trained as a counselor, Penny worked part time at Alternatives and the Sag Harbor School District. She started driving the van during the summer. When the school year began, she recalled, “they still needed people,” so she stayed on, driving the “bubble bus,” and taking a Hamptons to the city run.

“These small buses (Argosys) had to have been old by the time I first drove them in ‘79. Part of the Airstream line (hence, that bubble-like look like its

RVs.) Once inside, we had to keep the bus doors closed with bungee cords as they wouldn’t shut tight and the gap would widen as you drove. Besides, the whistling wind coming through the gap could drive you crazy.”

Davidson – “a real mensch,” offered family health insurance to staff, so


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Julie Penny was the Hampton Jitney’s first female driver.

Who’s On First? This month The Independent celebrates local female trailblazers, with a

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I’d pour over the box scores, noting every statistic. We’d wait for Newsday to come – it was deliv-ered in the afternoon in those days. Newsday would provide our first peek at the West Coast box scores, and we devoured them. To this day I never look at the front page of the newspaper first – I always go to the back, where the sports are.

I’m convinced I could have made the major leagues but when I was about 13 I took my eye off the ball so to speak. Put another way, I started staring at the little bumps girls have on their chests. That was the begin-ning of my undoing.

Moving through high school I got bigger and so did the bumps. I figured God was trying to tell me something.

Bumps In The RoadAround the same time I began

listening to music in earnest. Like most adolescents, I felt songs were written just for me, that the singer was reaching into my soul. Words like “My Baby Does The Hanky Panky” took on new meaning. I studied the meaning of the lyrics: “Oh Donna, oh Donna, oh-oh Donna, oh Donna . . .” Obviously, it was writ-ten for me –(Or maybe a girl named Donna — who can really say?)

When I was 18, drug-induced music came to the fore. Bands like the Psychedelic Furs and The Straw-berry Alarm Clock wrote deep lyrics that were supposed to make sense but really didn’t. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was “experiment-ing” with drugs as well – if you call getting fried out of your gourd for 40 years experimenting. Wilson was writing his masterpiece, his answer to the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Al-bum: One song went:

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aged the group, reportedly took one look at the words and said, “Why don’t you write about surfing and cars anymore?”

Brian answered, “It is about surf-ing and cars.”

All this prompted me to get a gui-tar when I graduated from college, a Martin D-20 my mother bought for me. It was a beautiful guitar, but I didn’t know how to play it. One chord at a time, though, I learned enough to start writing songs.

My mother, who had some musi-cal training and played the violin in school, would be down in the kitchen while I was upstairs playing. She’d shout out encouraging tips like “You’re flat!” and “Shut the god damn door!” and stuff like that. My older brother said listening to me sing was “like hearing an animal being tortured to death.”

Never one to miss a beat, I re-plied the song was about a pig dying – the military industrial complex of

Amerika that would strangle our youth, entangle us in an unjust war, and stifle creative behavior – like songwriting.

“Yeah? Well, you’re off key, Piggy.”

Pretty soon I realized I probably wasn’t going to become a famous singer/songwriter. On one hand, I had the repertoire, probably 100 original songs. On the other hand, they all sounded the same because I only knew four chords.

By the way, one of the songs – this was a stroke of genius – was called, “The Pimple Song.” Yeah, that’s right. The critical lines were:

“I’ll put it to you very plain and simple

I hope your face will turn into a pimple.”

Really. College Graduate.By now I was too old to be a base-

ball player so the only thing left was to get married. I knew that wouldn’t work when the wife-to-be talked me into pawning my beloved guitar to get her an engagement ring. Years later I sold the ring and bought an Ovation Concert Master that I also played off key. (Sometimes in my sleep I hear throngs of voices crying out “Pimple Song! Pimple Song!” much like Zeppe-lin hears “Stairway To Heaven!” chants.)

Baseball season is around the corner. I have a great wife who insists I have a wonderful singing voice. I have an electric guitar and an amp loud enough to shake my house off its foundation. The “Pim-ple Song” never sounded so good.

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Support Our ScoutsDear Editor,

East Hampton Boy Scout Troop 298 does amazing things for our community! In the past two years, the boys have raised over $5000 for The Wounded Warrior Project, and donated 500 hours helping and riding in

Soldier Ride The Hamptons. The boys donate their time to Maureen’s Haven, serving soup and fixing up beds to make sure people in need have a warm, dry place to spend the night. They pack away giant, heavy tents for the Girl Scouts Camp Blue Bay every fall and clean-up roads around our town. Plus, they collect and restore the East Hampton Food Pantry Shelves all year long.

The boys look forward to a week at summer camp upstate, working on merit badges, hiking, swimming, biking and just having fun with their Troop.

All this is possible because of the generosity of our community, which supports our Troop’s Annual Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser. This year, the Troop will be serving spaghetti and meatballs, salad, dessert and coffee/tea at the American Legion Hall on Montauk Highway, in Amagansett on Sunday from 3 to 6:30 PM. Please come to support the boys in their only annual fundraiser and help celebrate the best of local scouting.

See you there!MARY MCPARTLAND

Golden OpportunityDear Editor,

This is a golden opportunity to determine the best approach to ameliorate the airport noise issue. Let the FAA obligation expire on December 31, 2014. Take control of the airport as the FAA says you can. Implement curfews, hours of operations, numbers of flights, and other non-discriminatory protocols. See how effective a control tower is, though logic should tell you a control tower will only redistribute flight patterns thereby spreading the misery not abating it.

The town can always apply for FAA money but it is extremely rare to have such an opportunity to justly deal with an issue that affects such a large population that extends well beyond East Hampton. I’m asking the East Hampton Town Board to withdraw its application to the FAA for money for a deer fence especially when the airport is self-sufficient and can build the fence on its own. Do the right thing by trying the stated alternative. Nobody gets hurt. What can be better than that?

GENE POLITO

Missing My IndyDear Mr. Murphy,Normally I pick up the East Hampton

Independent while at our home in Amagansett but I spend much of winter in Marina del Rey, CA and therefore rely on my computer. Although I completely disagree with Jerry’s politics, I love his Ink and although I miss your Low Tidings I still look forward to your Rick’s Space, but I can’t seem to pull it up. Is it me or has the Indy stopped publishing it on line?

We will be coming back to New York shortly but in the meanwhile I miss your paper. I would appreciate it if you could throw a light on the subject.

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click “columns” link on the upper left side of the home page and pull the tab down. It is also on the page right before the editorial, usually

The Illegal Immigration DebateThere is no issue that incites more passion. Bloggers,

letter writers, and speakers at community meetings have strong views about the illegal immigration issue, and how to address it. Maybe it’s time to focus on what we all agree on, and work together to end the divisiveness by being more tolerant of opposing views.

People who live where overcrowding is a problem have every right to be unhappy, because the values of their homes plummet and school taxes go up. To call them Nazis – a vile word – is completely out of line.

But to talk about our neighbors derisively, calling them “these people” isn’t what this country is about and isn’t what this town is about.

Fact: The Latino people are hard working, family oriented people who want to make a good life for their families. Bloggers who endlessly rail about immigrants receiving public assistance miss the point; they want work, and they find it. They are not content to live on the dole.

Fact: As a general rule some Latinos don’t drive well. This is an undeniable fact. A review of the ticket and accident logs, and of DWI cases, clearly show a disproportionate amount of Latino surnames. In addition, because of their illegal status many immigrants don’t have car insurance or even a valid drivers license.

Fact: Some illegal immigrants, out of necessity frequent hospital emergency rooms, for medical care and to give birth, and as a result our entire healthcare system is taxed because many simply don’t have insurance or the ability to pay the bill. This is true; one local hospital estimated 90 percent of the births last year were Latino.

Now let’s look at some solutions. There should be programs, funded by the town, to help immigrants assimilate.

Everyone involved needs to step up the inclusion process for the immigrants already here.

We need the government, on state, federal, and local levels, to clarify and simplify the laws governing immigrants, and stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country and get them on the tax rolls.

Meanwhile, we can all do better. We need to embrace our neighbors, work together for a viable solution to our disagreements, and respect everyone else’s opinion. We’re nice people. Let’s show it.

This newspaper has always championed the middle class and property owners that get it from both sides – supporting those who don’t support themselves while watching the wealthy finagle a way out of playing their fair share. We have always called it as we see it when it comes to illegal immigration, and the truth is no other local newspaper has.

But The Independent will not be a party to the racism and ugliness on display hereabouts recently, and we will not look the other way while it happens. It needs to stop – now.

We can’t stick our heads in the sand and ignore the problems we face, though. Our municipalities, police, and courts must be more aggressive – the courts particularly seem to lollygag cases and look for easy compromises rather than take a hard line. But those who violate our zoning codes are a small fraction of the overall immigrant population, just as there are those among the rest of us who run afoul of the law.

“These people” are good people, people who will make great neighbors someday, and they should be treated with the respect they deserve at all times.


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The Beat Goes OnDear Rick,

Is the air in town hall juiced with laughing gas?Wilkinson . . . sings, . . . “I shot an arrow

into the air and where it landed, I do not know where.” But alas when he found it in the alleyway, outside the motel, in Montauk, Wilkinson, saw $35,000 scribbled on it.

That is the number “I pulled it out of thin air.” He must have learned that trick in Disneyland. You know his $5 million decisions made in 5 seconds! He and R.V.P’s are real estate appraisers, trained by none other than Daffy Duck!

Of course, the recipient of this bonanza, is the promoter of the failed MTK concert? Imagine that coincidence? Watching this is the rebirth, of “The Gong Show.” Just how stupid is he to think this would pass the smell test.

Well, William, the Conqueror, thee of the 15-vote landslide! Maybe you should ask Quigley, the lawyer, who thinks residents of the Springs, you know those residents that pay her salary and the bills of this town, are like “Nazis” for giving her maps of the single family dwellings.

You know, those houses that have been turned into illegal rooming houses, that violate heath dept. and building dept. septic codes, fire safety and a host of other violations. Yes, even one house has divided blacktop driveways with numbered parking spaces.

So the beat goes on and I have canceled cablevision! Watching some members of this board do the dance of the seven veils hurts my stomach from all the laughter. Thaaaat’s all Folks!

ARTHUR J. FRENCH

Our Debt, Our MessDear Rick,

Suffolk County is, once again, in fiscal distress. This was true in 1992 when I was on the Suffolk Legislature. Then the economy improved, the crisis passed and Suffolk did not take the actions necessary for long-term fiscal stability. The few politicians who truly want balanced budgets are lone voices, often shouted down by a public wanting more, and too many politicians unwilling to say no.

We all want the national economy to improve. I fear, however, that history will repeat itself and just like in Suffolk, our debt and deficit will move to the back burner. Will

we ever address our national fiscal mess? Based on history, fair reader, it is difficult to be optimistic.

For the record, it should matter to all of us that it is a mess our generation created. It should concern most of us that we seem willing to pass our debt and deficits on to our children and grandchildren.

BILL JONES

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The tax system engineered by U.S. political elites is designed to help illegal aliens at the

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St. Patrick’s DayDear Editor,

Regarding St. Patrick’s Day - March 17:For most people St. Patrick’s Day is a day

of parades, parties, leprechauns and green beer. But just as Christmas is about more than commercialized fun, so too does St. Patrick’s Day have a deeper meaning.

St. Patrick’s Day began as a religious holiday honoring St. Patrick - a holy bishop sent to Ireland in 433 A.D. by Pope Celestine I to draw its people into the fold of Christ’s universal church. Upon his arrival at Ireland’s shores St. Patrick encountered many setbacks and persecutions by the superstitious Druids who had employed magicians to maintain their sway over the Irish race. Despite severe trials, St. Patrick was able to convert all of Ireland and conquer paganism. He is thus credited with driving the Celtic “snakes” out of Ireland.

St. Patrick is credited with many miracles and is responsible for the building of several Catholic schools, monasteries and churches throughout Ireland. He is known for his powerful expositions of the principles of the Catholic faith. He even employed the ordinary, little, three-leaved shamrock plant to teach people about the Blessed Trinity. He was called to his heavenly reward on March 17, 461.

St. Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle man, whose total love, devotion and trust in God should be a shining example to each of us.

With respectful and cordial best wishes.PAUL KOKOSKI

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The Catholic Church owns and operates many schools, colleges and hospitals. The government will force them to pay for contraception (which is and has been against Catholic tenets that have been in place for 500 plus years). In keeping with your theme, “This is America -- folks choose their own lifestyles here.”

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A Huge ProblemTo the Editor,

Read Ms. Merrill’s article SCC Continues to Confront. This was an article about members of the Springs Concerned Citizens attending a town board meeting Thursday, March 1. I also attended that meeting along with about 20 other Springs residents. I found some of the rhetoric incendiary and the

implications troubling and definitely not part of a reasonable dialogue that the SCC would like to have with its elected board, the East Hampton Police, the Town Ordinance Department, and possibly a town attorney and even a judge.

We think there is a huge problem, as the current town ordinance department is not able to keep up with the ever-expanding hamlet in Springs. Our population still continues to be in a state of explosion.

We are over populated. We are suffering from the results of over population. The school is bursting at the seams and we, the taxpayers, are not able to keep up with its needs. Zoned single-family homes are dormitories, slum landlords create slums, and blight is beginning. Driveways look like parking lots.

Code enforcement is important, it sets standards, and zoning laws protect neighborhoods. Unfortunately we need more code enforcement offi cers and zoning laws need to be enforced!

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The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons , is hosting a pet adoption expo on Saturday, March 31, 2012. ARF is teaming up with seven other Long Island not-for-profit and mu-nicipal animal shelters, to promote cat and dog adoption on Long Island. All participating animal welfare or-ganizations will be under one roof at the Riverhead Polish Hall, 214 Marcy Avenue from 12 to 5 PM.

“We want to make pet adoption as easy as possible,” say ARF’s Execu-tive Director Sara Davison. One stop shopping for puppies, kittens, adult dogs including great mutts and pure-breds and beautiful cats representing the best shelter animals on Long Island will be available

Hundreds of cats and dogs will be available for adoption. All animals at the event are spayed/neutered and vac-cinated to their age limit and checked by a veterinarian. Free microchipping will be available for all animals that

are adopted. Each animal will go home with a free collar and leash (dogs) and a cardboard carrier (cats). The expo also includes refreshments, great pet giveaways and cat and dog exhibitions. Admission is free.

A fun-filled family outing awaits Long Islanders who come to River-head on Saturday March 31 for this free event.

Enzo AuctionWhen the owner of 499 Dune

Road in Westhampton Beach com-pletely renovated his oceanfront house a few years ago, he assumed the house would sell quickly. After all, the house has lots going for it: almost 70 feet of direct ocean front-age, gorgeous bay and ocean views, a large oceanside gunite pool, a two bedroom guest cottage just steps from the pool and ocean, and a very desirable address on Dune Road.

Unfortunately, just as in life, timing is everything in real estate, and the

housing slump stalled the sale of the house despite the best efforts of sev-eral Hamptons real estate brokers. The house was last listed at $2.599 million.

Now the owner has turned to the award-winning Enzo Morabito Team at Prudential Douglas Elliman to sell the property through a targeted 21-day “reserve” auction with a starting bid of $1.849 million.

Unlike the nature of some real estate auctions that involve short sale or foreclosure properties, the auctions conducted by Enzo Morab-ito involve highly motivated sellers who are not in any financial distress. The owner simply agrees to sell the property when his “reserve” price has been met- -- or is close enough to the reserve price that a deal can be effectively negotiated.

Typically, the reserve price is 15 to 25 percent above the starting bid, but can vary depending on the property. In addition, the seller has the right to accept any reasonable offer prior to the auction, extend the timeframe of the auction, or call it off at any time. In this particular case, the owner of 499 Dune is pre-pared to offer owner financing.

“Our client is truly motivated to sell and wants us to get the job done for him,” explained Enzo Morabito, a 25-year real estate veteran who heads Prudential Douglas Elliman’s #1 Team in the Hamptons and Long Island. “Through our auction arm, we have established a solid track record that proves these reserve auctions really work for both buy-ers and sellers. I promise you that the buyer who ultimately buys this property will be getting an amazing oceanfront house on Dune Road for a great price.”

For lower end buyers, the Enzo

Morabito Team is offering a three- bedroom, two-bath beach cottage in Remsenburg (minutes from down-town Westhampton Beach) at a start-ing bid price of $299,000. Located at 3 Driftwood Lane and only 150 feet from Moriches Bay, the house is brand new to the market and has a current asking price of $499,000.

Both auctions end on March 25.

Panoramic Under A CloudAn Old Westbury financial adviser

has been charged in a $74 million fraud that allegedly diverted money from at least two dozen investors to pay for his brother-in-law’s Montauk beach resort project, according to a statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC claims Brian Raymond Callahan, who operated Horizon Global Advisors, used promissory notes for five off-shore funds to hide his misuse of investor money. The notes, the SEC claims, overstated the amount of money diverted to the real estate project aimed at cre-ating cooperative residences at the oceanfront Panoramic View Resort.

Callahan’s brother-in-law, Adam Manson, owns Great Neck-based Distinctive Ventures, which besides Panoramic, also has a stake in Mon-tauk Tower, Ocean Dunes resort in Amagansett and Bay Pointe Yacht Club on Moriches Bay.

“We have no comment at this point,” Manson told LIBN. “It’s just a complaint. It doesn’t need to be discussed.”

In 2011, according to the federal complaint filed in Central Islip on Monday, Callahan got $14.5 million in promissory notes in exchange for only $3.3 million he provided to Manson. The inflated promissory notes allowed Callahan to overstate the amount of assets he was man-aging and inflate management fees by 800 percent or more, the SEC contends.

The agency also alleges that Cal-lahan commingled investor funds, using some investors’ money to make payments to other investors.

Callahan allegedly refused to testify in the SEC’s investigation and recently informed investors about it, according to the SEC’s complaint. He also alleg-edly misled investors by not disclosing that in 2009, investigators claimed.


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To give young women in local high schools the opportunity to explore their leadership potential and a possible career in public service, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons has organized a fourth annual day-long workshop called “Running and Winning,” to be held today beginning at 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane.

Juniors and seniors from six East End schools - Bridgehampton High School, East Hampton High School, Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, the Ross School in East Hampton, Southampton High School and Westhampton Beach High School — have been selected by their schools to participate in the program headed by LWVH education committee co-chairs Mary Blake and Terri Levin Davgin of East Hampton.

“The League of Women Voters hopes that this experience will go a small way to achieving our aim of opening your horizons to the elements involved in a public service career,” wrote the League in a letter to participating students. “While New York State has a woman Senator, and a Town Supervisor on the East End, women are underrepresented in political office. The League believes that one way to reach greater representational parity for women is to develop leadership potential in our young women.”

A broad array of female elected officials from East Hampton and Southampton town and village governments will speak about their experiences seeking and holding public office.

Some o f the o f f i c i a l s include Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, Southampton Town Board members Bridget Fleming and Christine Scalera, East Hampton Town Board members Sylvia Overby and Theresa Quigley, East Hampton Town Trustees Lynn Mendelman and Stephanie Talmage, Southampton Town Justices Deborah Kooperstein, Andrea Schiavoni and Barbara Wilson, Southampton Town Clerk Sundy Schermeyer, Southampton Village Trustee Bonnie Cannon, Sagaponack Village Deputy Mayor Lee Foster, and Westhampton Beach Village Trustee Patricia DiBenedetto.

Students, League At Cultural Center

The students attending from Bridgehampton High School are Bryzeida Perez, Jessica Perez and Angelica Uribe; From East Hampton, Amanda Beckwith, Yuli Betancourt, Nicole Daniludis, Tara Delaney, Manuela Dossantos, Melissa Pena, Melanie Silva, Anna Tran.

Pierson is sending Hope Denon, Gabrielle Gardiner, Hannah Kaminsk i , Ky l i e Morrissey, Amber Pagano, Dana Poke, Paula Poke, Hannah Potter and Julia Schiavone; Sylvia Laytin from Ross school is also scheduled to attend.

Natalia Araujo, Gina Curreri, Alexandria Ferraiuolo, Kesi Goree, Claire Hunter, Nicole Mahoney and Natiqua Morton were chosen from Southampton High School, and Gina Arfi, Gabriela Berrios, Michele Cardo, Lenora Davenport, Jessica Mendelson, Olivia Percoco, Claudia Purkis, Marielle Ray, Brett Ryan and Alix Suter from Westhampton Beach.

For further information about the workshop, contact League Education Committee co-chair Mary Blake at 631-907-4499. R.M.

Let’s Let’s Let’s Let’s Play Bridge

By George Aman

A hand very similar to this one was played last Monday afternoon at the East Hampton Duplicate Bridge Club’s weekly game. South bid to a reason-able small slam contract of six hearts. West’s lead of the jack of spades got the defense off to a good start. South covered with dummy’s queen. In turn, East played the king and declarer won with the ace.

South could see that he was des-tined to lose a spade and therefore could not afford to also lose a diamond. After drawing trumps, he had to fall back on a finesse for the diamond queen. When this failed, he went down one trick.

Afterward, South reviewed the hand to see if he could have given himself another chance. His partner suggested that he misplayed on the very first trick. Declarer should have not played the queen of spades on the first trick. He should have guessed that East held the king. After playing low from dummy, he should win the trick with his ace. He still knows he will lose a spade but may be able to create an end play that avoids the loss of a diamond trick.

Next he draws trump in two rounds and plays his three high clubs, discard-ing the spade seven on his king of clubs. He then plays his six of spades to dummy’s queen, which East then

wins with the king. South and dummy now have only diamonds and trumps. East has no safe card to play. If he leads a diamond, South can win with the jack in dummy and then loses no diamonds. If, on the other hand, East leads a spade or club, South discards one of his small diamonds from his hand and trumps in dummy.

If you are an active bridge player but have not had the experience of playing duplicate bridge, why not try playing at our Monday afternoon game? We play at 12:30 at St. Luke’s Church in East Hampton. Find a part-ner and show up about 12:15. If you have any questions, call me at 907-2917 or e-mail me at [email protected]. In April we will be playing a second game on Thursday nights at the Day Care Center in East Hampton.

S- Q73 ♥- J1074 ♦- AKJ5 C- A8 S- J1098 S- K542 ♥- 32 N ♥- 96 ♦- 984 W E ♦- Q103 C-10764 S C- J953 S- A6 ♥- AKQ85 ♦- 762 C- KQ2 Contract: Six hearts by South Opening Lead: Jack of Spades A hand very similar to this one was played last Monday afternoon at the East Hampton Duplicate Bridge Club's weekly game. South bid to a reasonable small slam contract of six hearts. West's lead of the jack of spades got the defense off to a good start. South covered with dummy's queen. In turn, East played the king and declarer won with the ace. South could see that he was destined to lose a spade and therefore could not afford to also lose a diamond. After drawing trumps, he had to fall back on a finesse for the diamond queen. When this failed, he went down one trick. Afterward, South reviewed the hand to see if he could have given himself another chance. His partner suggested that he misplayed on the very first trick. Declarer should have not played the queen of spades on the first trick. He should have guessed that East held the king. After playing low from dummy, he should win the trick with his ace. He still knows he will lose a spade but may be able to create an end play that avoids the loss of a diamond trick. Next he draws trump in two rounds and plays his three high clubs, discarding the spade seven on his king of clubs. He then plays his six of spades to dummy's queen, which East then wins with the king. South and dummy now have only diamonds and trumps. East has no safe card to play. If he leads a diamond, South can win with the jack in dummy and then loses no diamonds. If, on the other hand, East leads a spade or club, South discards one of his small diamonds from his hand and trumps in dummy.


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Long Island Aquarium will host a party to Benefit the Kent Animal Shelter. Enjoy an hour of passed hors d’oeuvres, four stations of chef’s choice, and a cash bar plus karaoke with the great Regina T. Holmes, raffles and prizes! Tickets $45 in advance, $50 at the door. Visit www.KentAnimalShelter.com or call 631-727-5731 for more information.

Kent Animal Shelter is a 501C3 organization established in 1968 in Calverton, NY that provides a no-kill haven for homeless animals,

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North Fork PaintingsJo-Ann Corretti, North Fork

Artist, together with the Old Town Arts & Crafts Guild, will exhibit her latest paintings depicting the beautiful North Fork at the quirky Rothman’s Gallery, located in Rothman’s Depart . Store, 54100 Route 25 Southold, NY. Refreshments will be served along with sing along live music at the reception on March 31 from 5 to 8 PM and the show of 16 Artisans will run through April.

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The Westhampton Beach High Schoolpresents

Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas DanteMusic by Marvin HamlischLyrics by Edward Kleban

Friday, March 23, 2012 7:30 PMSaturday, March 24, 2012 7:30 PMSunday, March 25, 2012 2:00 PM

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The Westhampton Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade featured a half dozen bagpipe bands, vintage fi retrucks, fl oats and local community organizations last Saturday afternoon.


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Morris said he felt confident that Southampton’s budget was not much different than Smithtown’s and felt comfortable with his abilities.

“I’ve seen a lot of different things in my career,” Morris said. “I have a diverse background in accounting. I’ve worked with four CPA firms and was a manager at two.”

Morris, speculated to be the pre-ferred candidate of the Republican-Conservative Party, had his first public interview on Friday. He was last interviewed in an executive ses-sion two weeks ago.

“I have a very pleasant working relationship with my employees. I can get the job done,” he said.

Evans, a 2004 graduate of Ala-bama A&M University holds a Mas-ters degree in urban and regional planning as well as a Bachelors degree in finance. For the past five years, he has served as the Deputy Commissioner of Administration for the Broome County Department of Social Services in Binghamton. Fri-

day marked his second open session interview.

At his current position, Evans was responsible for coordinating, analyzing and submitting an annual operating budget equaling to $355 million. He is responsible for and supervises a staff of 45 and reports to his superiors on a regular basis, addressing the agency’s fiscal state, as well as detailed updates on secu-rity, policies and projects.

Evans is not a CPA either, nor has he had any experience with bond-ing directly.

“I could be educated on that quickly,” he said. “I am familiar with bond counsel and how to deal with them.”

Evans, who is speculated to be the favorite of Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, assured that he is pro-ficient at familiarizing himself with new work environments, keeping the Southampton residents in mind.

“It’s going to be important to fa-miliarize myself with what is going on because it ultimately is going to affect the taxpayers,” he said.

Evans said that the two words

that jump to mind when looking over Southampton’s budget for this fiscal year were policy and procedure.

“The number one thing is com-munication,” he said. “At the end of the day it’s about dollars and man-aging those dollars. I understand the need to do more with less.”

Fleming urged the need for whoever fills the position to have a close working relationship with the town board.

“We’ve been spoiled,” she said. “We were able to ask Tamara ques-

tions regularly. She was really on top of the budget.”

Throne-Holst stressed the ur-gency with coming to a consensus in choosing a new comptroller. Wright has been working as com-missioner of finance in Brookhaven since March 1 and deputy town comptroller Kathryn Scott will end her current position tomorrow.

“We owe her a great deal of grati-tude in getting us to where we are at now,” the supervisor said of Scott. “I think we are all sad to see her go.”

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The gritty and determined Pierson boys basketball team has been able to rise to the occasion all season, as evidenced by its Suffolk County Class C title. But Dan White’s charges ran into a juggernaut on March 6 at SUNY Farmingdale.

The Whalers played without their injured point guard Ian Barret, a smooth distributor with a good handle. It probably didn’t matter, though – this is the last dance for twins Mikey and Joey Lores and their father, Joe Lores, who just happens to be the coach.

The trio isn’t ready to break the family ties just yet.

East Rockaway (12-7) is a rough and tumble team, but the Whal-

It’s Over For Pierson Boysers went in with hope. After all Bridgehampton had given the Rocks a tussle, and Pierson beat the Bees handily twice. Pierson stayed with the Nassau County Class C champs for all of four minutes, and then a 15-0 East Rockaway run to end the first stanza put the Rocks in control for good, 23-10. It was that simple.

The run continued in the second quarter, and reached 24, making it a 32-10 lead midway through the quarter.

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Senior forward Justin Jonas led

the winners 13 points, and Dylan Delury added 12. Junior guard David McClure added 10 points and four steals. The Lores brothers combined for 18 including 10 from Mikey. Joey Butts led Pierson with 10 points.

For the Lores’s, the victory puts the family one win away from ful-filling a promise dad made to sons many years ago – a trip to the State Final Four tournament in Glens Falls.

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The Bridgehampton Killer Bees had a funny feeling that they were destined to return to Glens Falls, the State Final Four tournament, after a nearly two-decade respite.

Coach Carl Johnson, who has six title rings as a player and a coach, had scouted Livingston Manor, Sat-urday’s opponent in the regional finals at New Paltz. His team had

Bees Fall One Game Short Of Final Foura shot – if the Bees maintained composure, played hard, and played good defense.

For the first half, at least, things more or less moved along according to plan. But things fell apart quickly in the second half.

Credit Troy Correa, the Livings-ton Manor point guard, who went off for 40 points. “They were emi-nently beatable, but they had one

really good player,” assistant coach Joe Zucker lamented.

The Bees lackluster play didn’t help. “They got six or seven scores by basket hanging,” Zucker said. “Our kids didn’t get back.”

Further complicating matters, a key player was suspended Friday, leaving the Bees with three eighth graders among the seven who dressed for the game. “I guess when

you’re missing one of your best play-ers and you have three young kids playing regularly you have to expect this to happen.”

Despite what seemed like a stacked deck, the Bees closed the gap to six early in the fourth quar-ter. But Correa went ballistic yet again, keying a 12-0 run that put the game out of reach. “We’re very dis-appointed,” Zucker acknowledged.

Canaan Campbell led the locals with 21 points. Jason Hopson and Joshua Lamison each had 12 points and Tylik Furman added six.

By Rick Murphy

The East End went into the New York State girl’s basketball tourna-

Girls’ Hopes Dashed In State Tourneyment with high hopes – four local teams were in the hunt for a state title as of last week. Alas three lost in regional games Friday.

John A, Coleman Catholic School, the defending Class C state cham-pion, overpowered Southold 66-25. Shelter Island was eliminated from the Class D title hunt by Livingston Manor 58-31. Southampton fell to Irvington 74-41, leaving Riverhead as the only local team left in the tournaments.

Shelter Island was overmatched against their Westchester-matched rival succumbing to a 20-5 second

quarter run that provided ample breathing room. But the Islanders compiled an excellent 12-6 record, mostly against higher enrollment schools. The game marked the end of the spectacular career of Kelsey McGayhey, who was Suffolk’s fourth leading scorer with a 22.3 mark.

Irvington, a two-time defending state champion, is simply put, a machine. Southampton has a good time, but Livingston is on another level entirely – witnessed by a 28 point first quarter that effectively ended any upset hopes the locals might have harbored. Noel Hodges

(13) and Paris Hodges (12) led the Lady Mariners. Kesi Goree was held to six.

Coleman jumped all over the Lady Settlers, putting an early end to the drama. A 19-2 third quar-ter run just prolonged the doom. Nine Southold players scored, led by Nicole Busso, Sarah Manfredi, and Melissa Rogers with four apiece.

The Riverhead Blue Waves won their match-up and head into the state semi-finals. That story is re-ported separately in this issue.

The Pierson boys, and the Bridge-hampton boys, also were eliminated from state title contention. Those stories are reported elsewhere in this issue.

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Big East Tournament Letdownketball’s brightest stage, Broad-way. Unfortunately, this year’s competitors lacked the talent and consistency fans have grown ac-customed to.

Furthermore, this year’s event was bittersweet. It was the last time this group of 16 gathered in Manhattan to play each other. West Virginia was released from its Big East commitment and al-lowed to join the Big 12 this fall. From there, things will continue to crumble. Next year will be the

last tournament involving peren-nial powerhouses Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

These 16 members have been together as rivals since the start of the 2005 season. Collectively, they established the Big East as the most prominent basketball conference in the country. Once this season ends and the shuffling begins, the future and quality of Big East basketball will be clouded by uncertainty.

The tournament also lacked the drama of a typical Big East event. Most would agree that the Big East as a whole is having a down season. While there were a couple of over-time games with some thrills, this tournament was a dud.

The Championship included Cincinnati and Louisville, two schools a combined 1400 miles from Madison Square Garden. The

final score of 50-44 represented the lowest number of points ever and this final was the first time in the league’s history that one of its original seven founding members was not in the championship game.

Heading into the Big Dance, there is Syracuse and everybody else. The Orange have proven to be the class of the conference with their 17-1 conference record and 31-2 mark overall. Marquette, Notre Dame and Cincinnati slide in at two, three and four respec-tively in the conference standings, but they aren’t considered to be serious national title contenders.

Additionally, the individual star power that fans are used to was absent. The SEC (Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist), Big 10 (Jared Sullinger), and Big 12 (Thomas Robinson, Perry Jones III) have the sexy names that the Big East lacks.

Syracuse’s success has been a total team effort and while UConn’s Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb are projected as lottery picks, their individual suc-cesses have been overshadowed by the Huskies’ struggles.

The Big East saw an unusual shift in power this season. Since these 16 teams have been together, UConn, Pittsburgh and Villanova have never simultaneously fin-ished in the bottom half of the conference. Collectively they av-eraged a fourth place finish over their five seasons together. But this year, UConn finished ninth, Pitt 13th, and Nova 14th.

Conversely, Marquette, Cincin-nati and South Florida crept into the top half of the standings, but these programs have not yet shown the ability to bring national prestige to the conference.

The beauty of the conference tournaments and the Big Dance is the one-and-done philosophy that can turn a lackluster field into a thrilling day or week. That’s still a possibility with this group. UConn took a 9-9 record into the confer-ence tournament last year and ran the table the rest of the season to win another national title.

The Big East’s best hope for excite-ment this past weekend was a throw-back match-up between Syracuse and Georgetown, which didn’t come close to happening. The nine Big East teams are set for battle in the NCAA Tournament. With the most teams of any conference, the Big East can still redeem itself with some deep runs from a handful of unexpected teams. But, for the first time in years, no one is expecting that from the country’s premiere conference.

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lady SettlersCONTINUED FROM PAGE 4.advantage to 32-15 in the third. Then the Lady Seahawks charged.

Kelly Vassallo had the hot hand, and she and Holly Logan went on a determined scoring blitz. Meanwhile Cold Spring Harbor tightened its defense, forcing the Mariners to take bad shots or turn the ball over. The lead evaporated in the face of an 18-3 run, and with just over a minute left, Southampton clung to a precarious two-point lead.

Southampton had several attempts to extend the advantage via the charity stripe, but could not convert the free throws. Hodges missed a one and one with 10 seconds left, that would have iced it, but the Lady Seahawks turned the ball over, only to have Corey Atkinson steal it back. She was fouled with one tick left on the clock. Atkinson buried the first but the second clanked off the rim, giving Southampton the title.

It was the first Long Island title ever for Southampton’s veteran mentor Juni Wingfield.

Vassallo led the losers with 10 points, Logan added eight. Goree had a game-high 14 for the champions, and Hodges had 11 points, five assists and four steals.

Southold and Friends Academy engaged in a nip and tuck affair as well. Sydney Campbell had a chance to give the locals the lead with five seconds left and the game tied at 24, but she missed a foul shot.

Campbell, though, more than made up for it in the overtime stanza, exploding for five points in the final 90 seconds to give Southold a thrilling 32-26 win and the title. A stifling defense held the Settlers’ scoring machine, Lauren Ficurilli, to 10 points. Campbell finished with nine.

Riverhead’s quest for a Class AA county title is chronicled in another story on this page. Shelter Island won the Long Island Class D championship on a “bye” – there were no qualifying teams in Nassau.

Southold (16-6) and Southampton (20-4) both advanced into the New York State championships Saturday. That story is covered separately in this issue.

Penny decided to stick with the com-pany. The company’s first driver, Sisco Barnard, taught her how to operate the big buses, “in any parking lot we could find.”

The slim woman, then in her 30s, but looking much younger, practically had to stand in her seat to operate the double clutch. As she gained mastery, Penny recalled, “The other drivers would say ‘Julie’s ready,’ but Jim hemmed and hawed for about a month.” Eventually she got her first crack at the giant jitney “and when I came back, Jim was the first to con-

First FemaleCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10.

gratulate me.” I was thrilled to be the first woman driver, because I knew all along I could do it as well, if not better, than some of the guys, To drive something that big and being so high up off the road was amazing.”

Initially, passengers eyed her quiz-zically as they got on the jitney, Penny recalled. “You could tell in the beginning, people thought it would be really fantastic or really . . .” she said, her voice drifting off, “But I won them over.” Other truckers on the road seemed to approve; “they’d give me the high five sign.”

Davidson died in the late 80s. Penny credits the jitney’s success with the man

she eventually dubbed “Diamond Jim.” “The place would not have flour-

ished or have been as good as it was without his vision. For those of us who were there at that time late 70s /early 80s, it’s a time we all look back on fondly, and, it was a special time and place in our local Hampton his-tory and for those who worked there and who were passengers,” Penny said. She feels the jitney played an integral role in the expansion of the East End, providing access in a way the railroad never did.

Driving the Friday night runs from Manhattan and the Sunday routes back to the city, Penny recalled, “Pas-

sengers would push and shove to get on like it was the last space ship to the moon. That was when the Hamptons really got on the map.”

Penny left the company when a publisher bought the outline to her book – a historical romance about the first women pioneer to the Pacific Northwest. She injured her back, put-ting her jitney driving days behind her, and turned her attention on envi-ronmental and community advocacy. Now a grandmother, she’s focusing her skills on writing a primer for grandparents of children with autism and special needs.

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