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Embrace the February Frost on the East End.

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The Frosty Plunge is at Windmill Beach on Saturday at 1 PM. Registration begins at noon, $20 per person. The Sag Harbor Gym will offer its showers to anyone needing to warm up after the plunge. All proceeds benefit the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance. Live ice carving demonstrations begin at 2 PM. Ice sculptures will be on display throughout the village and shopping districts.

Live music will also be playing all day during the festive frolic.

At 2:30, kids can visit their favorite Frozen friends. Anna and Elsa will be returning for the frosty festivities at the Sag Harbor Variety Store on Main Street.

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here comes harborFrostthere’ll be tons of cool kid action at Dodds & Eder including folks from Sag Harbor Kids, Rainbow School, Barefoot Kids, and The Wharf Shop. Have fun with “play food” representing Bay Burger.

From 2 to 6 PM, Long Wharf will be buzzing with local businesses and organizations selling their wares and offering demonstrations. The Pierson Robotics Team will be holding a bake sale and the Wellness Foundation and other organizations will also be on hand.

Baron’s Cove (one of the festival’s sponsors) will be hosting a shellfish event during the day. Join in for oysters, scallops, clams and limited edition and classic Montauk Brewing Company Brew. Goes from 1 to 5 PM.

Perfectly located near all the fun, Baron’s is a cozy place to nest, with its blazing fireplace and year-round bar serving soothing hot toddies.

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Do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Few people personify the old adage like Robert Fletcher. As a youth he worked construction and at a gas station, but for the last six decades plus, he’s tended to the tonsorial needs and desires of residents of the Riverhead/Flanders/ Riverside area and, according to the 79 year old, it doesn’t feel like work.

If you’ve visited Riverhead, you’ve passed Fletcher’s Barber Shop. It’s located just steps from the Riverside traffic circle, adjoining a used furniture shop. Nestled into the strip, the nondescript shops seems as if it’s been there forever.

It hasn’t. In fact, Fletcher operated out of

an array of locales before settling into his current space about 23 years ago. After attending barber school in the Bowery, Fletcher came out to the East End to work in the early 1960s. “I had no idea I’d like it,” he said, relaxing in the shop’s classic barber chair during a lull last Friday. “But I stayed.”

Fletcher opened his first shop on Vail Avenue in Flanders. From there he moved to the Silver Brook Motel on Flanders Road. Peconic Avenue was home to Fletcher’s Barber Shop for a while, too.

V i s i t o r s t o t h e m o d e s t workspace are greeted by a sign that says, “What you see. What you hear. When you leave, leave it here.” Fletcher found the plackard at a yard sale and thought it would make a quirky conversation piece for a place known to locals as the epicenter of local gossip.

The characterization of “gossip central” elicits a grin from the barber. A customer will hear something in his shop, tell the wife who repeats it in the beauty parlor and, he said, “what was 15 words is 45.” Barber/client confidentiality is an amusing concept.

And clients are the focus for sure. Fletcher’s watched generations of families pass through the door. “A father, his son. The son’s son. It just keeps going on,” he said.

Haircut trends and competition are of little consequence to the Albany-born barber. “Every so often, a customer dies or moves away. But it seems like, when one leaves, a new one comes right out.”

There are a number of shops offering haircuts nearby, but Fletcher doesn’t waste t ime thinking about rivals. “To me, it’s not competition that I can see. It

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over 50 Years of Shear Fun For Fletcherdoesn’t bother me.” He eyes the ebb and flow of customers with a charming confidence. “Everybody ventures out. They try it out and complain and come back.”

Occasionally one of Fletcher’s sons will come in to help, but the shop is primarily a one-man show. He sees between 20 and 25 clients a day. “Some days, I’ll only see 10, then they all pile in on Friday and Saturday.” He credits his longevity in the business to smart budgeting. “What you make, don’t spend it all, and you can make it.”

When he’s not at the shop, Fletcher keeps busy with a handful of hobbies. He loves to buy junk cars and restore them and is a self-taught musician, playing jazz

and blues on the saxophone and keyboard. Learning to play a new instrument is, he said, “something to challenge myself to see if I could do it.”

But his heart’s at his shop. “Far as I’m concerned, I never really worked. This business is relaxing.”

“ I wou ldn ’ t t rade i t f o r anything,” he continued. “The conversation . . . there’s always somebody who says something to keep you laughing.”

At 79, has he given thought to retirement?

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“I will build a wall and force Mexico to pay for it.”

“ I wi l l deport 11 mi l l ion immigrants.”

“On 9/11 I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, and I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.”

“I will consider shutting down mosques. I will issue IDs to Muslims in America. I will force all Muslims to register in a national database.”

Sadly, there is no writing at the bottom of the screen that says, “He’s lying.”

Does any reader of this column plan to vote for Donald Trump?

D o e s a n y r e a d e r k n o w anyone who plans to vote for Donald Trump?

If you plan to give Trump your vote, I’m anxious to know why these lies don’t bother you.

Trump has destroyed the Republican party.

Most Americans will not give him a chance to destroy this country.

What would he do the first day in office . . . the first week . . . the first year?

He knows how to run an Atlantic City casino into the ground, but what does he know about running a government?

What will his foreign policy be after eight years of the horrendous, amateur Obama/Kerry foreign policy that has lost us the Middle East and the respect of the world?

Donald Trump can never be president of this country.

He will never get enough votes.For argument’s sake, let’s say he

wins the Republican nomination.Cruz backers will give him the

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religious-right Republican voters decided they would rather have four more years of Obama than give a middle-of-the-road Republican a chance at the presidency.

As for middle -of - the-road Republicans and Independents, they will either stay home or vote for Hillary.

So Hillary will beat Trump in a landslide.

Forget her lies. Forget the scandals. Forget the FBI investigation. Forget the server in her home. This is all stuff that Republicans like to talk about in the hope that Hillary can be stopped.

She can’t be stopped if she’s running against Trump.

Talk to every Democrat you know – I’ll bet you won’t find even one who will tell you they give a rat’s ass about all the noise and scandals surrounding Hillary.

Democrats vote for Democrats.And in four years, no matter

what shape the country is in, the Republican Party will continue their death spiral. They will have 20 people running for President in 2020. They will have 40 debates and peck each other to death. It will be “round up the usual suspects.”

Conservatives, as usual, will pick the most disgusting candidate they can find. My guess is it’s time for Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, to run for President.

There will be the usual collection of Republican governors. You’ll have a fat governor, a skinny governor, a bald governor, and a governor with too much hair for his own good.

Then you’ll have your usual Republican senators. It’s almost time for dopey Mitch McConnell to run for president, and who can stop nasty Rick Santorum from giving it another try. And let’s not forget the perennial Republican black candidate for president. This time we have dreamy, slightly stoned Ben Carson. In 2012 we had businessman Herman Cain who, upon closer investigation, was found to be having more sex than a pizza delivery man in a porno movie.

My cho i ce fo r the b lack Republican candidate in 2020 is rapper Kanye West, who is a perfect Republican candidate. He’s angry, he’s delusional and the silly people who are planning to vote this year for Trump in the White House will go wild over the thought of Kim Kardashian as the First Lady.

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Time flies so quickly. Those annual trips around the sun take exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365, according to Rozina Sabur, of The Telegraph. To make up for the lost time, Leap Years were born.

This Monday marks Leap Year, 2016.

A leap year, also known as an intercalary year or a bissextile year, is a year containing one additional day (or in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) added to keep

leap Year, 2016the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year, according to Astronomical Algorithims.

“Leap seconds -- and leap years -- are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons,” Sabur said.

Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day into the year, the drift can be corrected.

The name “leap year” comes from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, the day of the week in a leap year will advance two days (from March onwards) due to the extra day added at the end of February, thus “leaping over” one of the days in the week.

In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are multiples of four are leap years.

In each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a tropical year by almost six hours. This calendar was first used in 1582.

Way back in the Roman Empire days, Emperor Caesar Augustus had a bit of an ego, and wanted to add two extra days to his birth month of (you guessed it, August, with at the time 29 days) so it could have the same amount of days as his predecessor’s birth month, July, with 31 days.

Any way you slice it, leap years are special. There are traditions and superstitions surrounding leap years, different countries having their respective customs.

In Ireland and Britain, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only in leap years. In Italy, it’s believed women are erratic in a leap year.

Some countries leap day has been known as “Bachelor’s Day.” A man is expected to pay a penalty, such as a gown or money, if he

refused a marriage proposal from a woman on leap day. In many European countries, tradition states any man who refuses a woman’s proposal on February 29 has to buy her 12 pairs of gloves -- the point being the woman can wear the gloves to hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring.

As far as birthdays are concerned, leap day babies, or leaplings, still get to celebrate their birth in common years, with some observing February 28 and March 1 as their birthdays.

On Monday, Sag Harbor resident, business owner, and leapling Romany Kramoris is inviting all to celebrate her “18th birthday” from noon to five PM with birthday cake, champagne and music at her gallery on Main Street.

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Zeldin was presented with a “Thank You” plaque from the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks (CABT) for his efforts in Washington to keep bigger trucks off local roads.

As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Congressman was recognized for his votes against allowing longer and heavier trucks on our roads; as well as his work to secure the permanent removal of the Cross Sound Ferry trucking plan from the Regional Freight Plan of NYMTC and the America’s Marine Highway Program.

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Judy McCleery’s “Black Skimmers” is part of the “Reflections” show featuring photographers from the Light Painters Photography Group opening at the library with a reception on March 4.

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“Home Sweet Home” by Evelyn Luca is on display at the Mattituck-Laurel Library through the end of the month.

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Lucas enjoys the best o f two worlds with residences in Southold, and on Brant Lake in the Adirondacks. She began in advertising and window display, but while on vacation to St. Thomas, she was inspired by several watercolor artists and returned home to begin a long productive career in painting.

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Next month’s show at the library is a photography exhibit entitled “Reflections.” Members of the Light Painters Learning Center, a North Fork based digital photography club, will present images captured from their field trips, personal travels, and other photographic opportunities. Subjects include still life, landscapes, seascapes, nature, wildlife, and other abstracts.

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Several independent studies, however, offer unbiased assessments of the law known as ObamaCare.

The good news, in a nutshell, is that many Americans who couldn’t afford health insurance are now covered.

The bad news is that most of the rest of us are paying more – a lot more than we were told ObamaCare, as the ACA is called, would cost and more than we would have been paying under the old system.

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What It Really Costs And What It Will Cost a cornerstone of ObamaCare was that most everyone would sign on rather than pay a penalty for not buying a health plan. Many of those who have not signed on are young professionals, a particularly troubling trend, since they tend to be healthy. In other words, insurance companies make money off them, allowing them to cover older people, who tend to get sick more, and still turn a profit. Because of the imbalance, rates have risen far above estimates.

As recently as June 2015 the Congressional Budget Office estimated 20 million people would sign on to the ACA exchanges by January 2016, but only 12.7 million actually did. Worse, it is expected about one million of those will not actually pay their premiums and will be dropped from coverage.

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most is indeed a reality: more people than expected are getting subsidies from the government. Conversely, not enough people who were expected to pay their full premiums are signing on to ObamaCare.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported last month that just three percent of those buying plans on the federal and state exchanges earned more than $97,000, meaning wealthy people are not paying into the system at all but opting for private, premium plans.

For the ACA to work young, healthy professionals need to buy in to the premise, but they for the most part haven’t.

Sam Gibbs, executive director of AgileHealthInsurance.com, a private insurance exchange, reported that nearly half his firm’s clients are in this bracket. They purchased insurance plans that don’t meet the ACA guidelines. The trend is to buy coverage for a catastrophic injury or illness. They will pay the tax penalty and still save money, Gibbs pointed out.

President Obama and other ACA proponents promised that the ACA would result in stabilized health insurance premiums that would be about $200 a month less than a family plan cost before the ACA. As it turns out, though, premiums have zoomed. In 2016 the average health insurance family plan is a whopping $984 a month, $200

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Of course, most experts dismissed the claim that health insurance costs would decrease immediately, and even ardent ACA supporters were dubious. As it turned out, no one in the Obama administration really believed it, either.

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It turned out that in other venues Gruber had been critical of the bill as well, at one point stating it was deliberately misleading, exploited Americans, and that the citizens were “too stupid” to understand what was really mandated.

At first, the White House denied Gruber played an integral part in writing the ACA. President Obama told the Wall Street Journal that Gruber was “some adviser” he barely remembered.

In fact, an investigation revealed Gruber was a key architect of ObamaCare. John Hayward, writing for Brietbart.com, said, “Emails show frequent consultations between Mr. Gruber and top Obama administration staffers and advisers in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on the Affordable Care Act.” Haywood concluded that the President’s statement about Gruber “has always been one of the flimsiest and most transparent lies told by this profoundly dishonest White House.”

The future for ObamaCare seems dim. Almost every Republican presidential candidate has vowed to repeal it, or at least attempt to. There are pending court challenges, including one in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Centers For Medicaid And Medicare services (CMS) acknowledge that changes have to be made to save the ACA. It has already moved to address insurers’ concerns by reducing the number of special enrollment periods after insurance companies complained people would sign up when they got sick – all ACA plans

cover preexisting maladies – and quitting the plan once they get better. Congress could make more significant changes, but Democrats are loath to engage the issue in an election year, knowing it would open the door for Republicans to bash not only the ACA but those incumbents who supported it.

Saving The ACAThere is a sense in some quarters

that the Republicans are playing off the unpopularity of ObamaCare – that repealing it would in essence be throwing the baby out with the bath water.

According to the National Review, the ACA has done a good job providing coverage to the millions of citizens who don’t have it. The percentage of uninsured has dropped from 14.4 percent in 2013 to 9.2 percent. Nevertheless, there are still 29 million Americans without any kind of health insurance.

What could be the fatal flaw in ACA is the cost for the average family, which is already becoming prohibitive.

According to a new Kaiser Family Foundation study, the average deductible for employer-sponsored plans is up 67 percent since 2010, rising from $646 to $1,077. Meanwhile, the Median U.S household income has dropped from a high of $57,357 in 2007 to $53,657 in 2014.

The ACA hoped to create competition within the health insurance industry by financing the formation of new insurance companies that would compete for the consumer dollar.

Nevertheless, a recent study by the Heritage Foundation concluded one-third of U.S. counties had only one or two insurers to choose from in their healthcare exchange. Another quarter had just three. Overall, Heritage found, competition fell by 21.5 percent after the ObamaCare exchanges went live in 2013, according to an article in the National Review.

More ominous is the shakiness of the 23 nonprofit “health co-ops” created by ObamaCare to ensure choices for health insurance apart from the big insurance companies.

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“For the law as a whole, the verdict is already in. By almost any measure, ObamaCare is a failure,” concluded Jayne O’Donnell in USA Today.

Those start-up companies were funded by taxpayer dollars, a hidden cost of the ACA. Another not so subtle expense is the out-of-pocket threshold, which is discussed in the accompanying article. Some plans require a family to spend as much as $10,000 on medical expenses before their health plan even kicks in.

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You went to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription – another five or ten bucks.

Those were the good old days.Nowadays, the folks in the

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“Even when insurers break down plan benefits in neat grids, you need to know the difference between deductibles, premiums, out-of-pocket maximums, co-pays, and co-insurance to know what you’re actually paying,” writes David Weliver.

Your premium, of course, is the monthly fee for your insurance. But nowadays that’s just the beginning. Your deductible is money you pay for health care before your insurance even kicks in. Different plans have different deductibles.

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Co-pay: Your cost for routine services to which your deductible does not apply. Like everything, co-pays are on the upswing. They can be mitigated somewhat if your doctor prescribes generic drugs. In many cases, an insurance company will refuse to cover name brand prescription drugs unless your doctor certifies in writing that there are no cheaper alternatives.

Co-insurance: Even after you’ve met your deductible you are not out of the woods. Many plans require you to continue to pay a percentage of your medical expenses beyond your co-pays and deductibles, sometimes as much as 20 percent. Again, it all depends on what kind of medical plan you’ve purchased.

Then there is the so-called out-of-pocket maximum: The absolute max you’ll pay annually on medical expenses.

Still confused? There are tools online to help decipher the myriad

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“In the interests of fair and honest reporting, perhaps it is time the mainstream media begin using `Affordable’ Care Act whenever reference is made to this terribly misguided law,” wrote Chris Conover in Forbes. “ObamaCare will not save Americans one penny now or in the future. For a nation with the most complicated and expensive health system on the planet, making it even more complicated and even more expensive never was a good idea.”

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I am a happy guy, but I am not as happy as a clam. I don’t want to short change myself.

I am really happy, and clams don’t appear to show any emotion at all. It’s a silly simile.

I don’t mean the clam is a simile – as every good bayman knows, a clam is a bifocal.

Ok, I made that up. A clam is not a bifocal – that’s newborn water buffalo.

A clam can be a casino. It is also a crustacean. It is not, however, a fish. It is an animal that just so happens to live in water like a fish or a buffalo.

All this came up because we were discussing similes the other night, which is what lonely boys like me do once football season ends and until baseball season begins. A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through the explicit use of connecting words such as like, as, so, than, and so on . . . In other words, a simile is a metaphor for a metaphor.

Actually, that is not true. I was just checking to see if you are still reading. We’ll get to metaphors later but (SPOILER ALERT) suffice it to say a metaphor is not a type of crustacean.

Here are some commonly used similes:

Like A SimileAs brave as a lionRed like a roseSmellier than crapAnd so on your mommaI made that last one up myself. John Prine wrote a whole song

about similes called, “It’s a Big Old, Goofy World.” One of the lyrics is:

You oughta see his wifeShe's a cute little dishShe smokes like a chimneyAnd drinks like a fish

One thing we can conclude is she, like a clam, is not a fish, though she occasionally acts like one. She is also a “dish” but we can’t assume she is like a plate or a piece of porcelain, we must conclude the author was referring to a dish as food, perhaps something like “she is as cute as liver and onions.” The first line, “you oughta see his wife,” tells us two things: the author can’t spell, and the person he is talking to probably needs bifocals.

Let us now delve into the history and origins of the phrase “happy as a clam.” First I want to say instead of a simile it should be the name of a restaurant, “The Happy Clam.” There would be two for one mimo-sas at Sunday brunch and ”All You Can Eat Mussels Monday.” Come to think of it, a clam serving a mussel is downright weird. What are they,

animals?The earliest citation that I

can find is from a frontier mem-oir, “The Harpe's Head - A Legend of Kentucky, 1833.” "It never occurred to him to be discontented . . . He was as happy as a clam."

This is really weird because as far as I know 1) there are no clams in Kentucky and 2) I can’t believe anyone actually took the time to look this up.

Let’s be real here; your average clam spends his entire life sitting at the bottom of the bay barely moving. It is the most boring life imaginable. Hell, it’s like being married.

The only real excitement comes when a human steps in and elevates it to “clam pie” status or adds it into a nice cioppino with its cousins.

The truth is the proper simile should be “as quiet as a clam.” You can slice ‘em, dice ‘em, grind ‘em up, bake them, put them on the barbie,

you can even mix them with tomato juice and drink them, but you will never hear a sound from them.

I can even see the signs in the library: “Shhhhhh . . . please be as quiet as a clam.”

Kiss a little babyGive the world a smileIf you take an inchGive 'em back a mileCause if you lie like a rugAnd you don't give a damnYou're never gonna beAs happy as a clam-- John Prine

OK, I know you’ve been dying to know: a metaphor is when you make an analogy between two things to show how one resembles the other in some way.

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Letters & Obit PolicyThe Independent publishes all letters to the editor we receive provided

they are not libelous and emailed to [email protected]. We strive to print all obituaries as well but in the event we can’t, they will be published online at www.indyeastend.com. Please try to keep copy under 400 words.

There’s spring in the air as of this writing. Who knows how long it will last? It’s been a winter of sudden changes in temperature, surprise snowfall and equally surprising balmy days.

So, too, can surprising reversals of fortune be the theme of high school basketball, as our kids head to county and state championships this month. We’ve got plenty of pride to go around with local teams on their way to state tournaments.

Fingers crossed the kids from Sag Harbor, Mattituck, Southampton, and Bridgehampton prevail. And congrats to those in all our East End schools for their efforts. Check our sports section for updates on all the action.

The forecast this weekend is a mite chilly, but Sag Harbor will be the hot ticket in town, as HarborFrost gets underway Saturday. Emily Toy’s got all the 411 on what’s happening where. And, from sizzling action to one cool dude, check out our feature about Robert Fletcher in the Main Section. He’s 79 with the heart of a teenager.

Completing its second year, the Affordable Care Act was designed to provide health insurance to needy Americans. In our In Depth News section this week, we take a look at how well it’s lived up to its promises and predictions. Bottomline? For middle classers too “rich” for free healthcare and too poor to afford low-deductible plans, maybe it would be better nicknamed “OY!bamacare,” for exclamations that surely follow a glimpse at the monthly insurance bill. “Ouch-bamacare” works, too.

Speaking of exclamations, news from the art world this week definitely sparked a “Wow!” or two. Jessica Mackin offers info about the local artists whose work garnered record-breaking price tags. Be sure to browse her Arts & Entertainment section for that story and lots more.

Don’t forget to let me know how you’re liking Indy’s new direction. Got suggestions, feedback, news? Call me at 631-324-2500 or email [email protected].

Kitty Merrill, Main Section Editor

Online FeedbackReaders react to our 2/17 edition

re: Our Cover StoryWhat a pleasure to see such an inspiring

article on the front of The Independent. It is clear that animal rescue is an important issue and that communities must cooperate in overcoming the shame of thoughtless breeding for profit.

ANTHONY CORONre: Jerry’s Ink

With all of Jerry’s great quotes here (especially Ronald Reagan’s), I am reminded

of George Harrison’s immortal lyrics in “Taxman,” from the Beatles ‘66 Revolver album: Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, nineteen for me. ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman. Should five per cent appear too small. Be thankful I don’t take it all. ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman. If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street. If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat. If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet. Don’t ask me what I want it for. If you don’t want to pay some more. ’Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman . . . ”

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Is it just me?Castle Cheese, sold by Target actually has no parmesan in its “100 percent” parmesan cheese product.

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It’s mostly powdered wood pulp!The FDA is prosecuting for fraud.

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Favorite book genre?

Janice YoungI’m basically a fiction person. But I also readnon-fiction. I read the New York Times and lovethe science section, and I also read The WallStreet Journal. I also read memoirs. I justbought Patti Smith’s book, M Train. I’mcurrently reading Burn by Patterson.

John KingI like all kinds of books. I love science fiction. Ilike action books, you know, normal “guy”kinds of books like suspense and thrillers. Ihave a Clancy book in my drawer that was agift. I can’t wait to read it. But you know how itgoes: kids, work, kids, kids, kids.

Susan LahrmanMostly non-fiction, self-help books. I’m readingThe Food Babe Way, by Vani Hari, about anorganic diet. She writes about the terriblethings we don’t even know are in our food. Sheeven mentions that if you drink Tequila youshould drink it without the dyes.

Dana MitchellNon-fiction. I like to know about the world andreal time events. But I also like fiction. I likereading about CIA operatives, like Tom Clancy’sbooks. He’s fiction but he brings a lot ofinteresting facts and research about real eventsinto his writing.

JUST ASKING By Karen Fredericks Tara TherapyKids who struggle with reading

aloud may enjoy (warning: pun pending) a new leash on life by reading with Tara, Matthew Posnick’s therapy dog.

Every Thursday from 4 to 5 PM, he will be bringing Tara to the East Hampton Library so kids in grades one through five can read to her.

Posnick, who is an instructor and animal care associate with the

Animal Rescue Fund adopted Tara from ARF two and a half years ago. He trained her for cert i f i cat ion w i t h P e t Partners , an organization dedicated to p r o m o t i n g human-animal interactions to

improve the physical, emotional and psychological lives of the people they serve.

Tara and Posnick make regular visits to the Hampton Center, a nursing home and rehabilitation facility in Southampton, as well as Southampton Hospital. This spring at ARF, Posnick’s going to offer a class for owners who’d like to train their dogs to be therapy animals.

Kids who want to hang and read with Tara can call ahead for a 15-minute time slot or just drop by the library.

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Independent / Michael Heller

Sag Harbor Fire Department and East Hampton FD’s Rapid Intervention Team responded to a fire in a home on Noyac Road on February 17. The blaze was extinguished within 20 minutes, but the house sustained significant damage. No injuries were reported.

Independent / Jamie BergerMatthew Posnick w i t h Ta r a , t h e therapy dog.


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Celebrate Black History Month, With Their Words

Compiled by Kitty Merrill

Who doesn’t love a well-turned phrase? As Black History Month comes to a close, find below, some of our favorites f rom l egendar y A f r i c an Americans.

Be too brave to lie. Be too generous to cheat. take your share of the world and let others take theirs. --- George Washington Carver

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. --- pearl Bailey

From the first I made my learning, what little it was, useful in every way I could. --- Mary Mcleod Bethune.

no matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. --- Althea Gibson

Wha t t h e m ind do e sn ’ t understand, it worships or fears. --- Alice Walker

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. --- stevie Wonder.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope --- Martin luther King, Jr.

Be grateful for luck. pay the thunder no mind, listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody. --- Eubie Blake

they throw the ball, I hit it. they hit the ball, I catch it. --- Willie Mays

All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. --- louis Armstrong

I want the world to be better because I was here --- Will smith

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. --- thurgood Marshall

have a vision. Be demanding. --- Colin powell

You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. --- Eldridge Cleaver.

Get Scientific At SoFoThis weekend, there are two

workshops sure to satisfy any young scientist planned for kids.

Being a shy kid can be hard sometimes. Being a shy animal is no different. On Saturday kids ages six to eight are welcome to the South Fork Natural History Museum for an introduction to some of the shyest animals on the East End. Learn why being quiet can sometimes be a great thing, especially in the natural world.

On Sunday, kids ages nine and up

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Independent / Courtesy SoFo

are invited to SoFo for “Patterns of Tiling,” a nature-inspired workshop about the history of tiling, using online resources and unique ideas to design a nature inspired tiling art.

Both events start at 10:30 AM. Call the Bridgehampton museum at 631-537-9735 to register.

Leap StorytimeGuess what? February has 29

days this year, and that means it’s a Leap Year! Kiddies are welcome to the Amagansett Library to celebrate all manner of leaps and leaping. Read stories and practice library leaps on Sunday beginning at 2 PM. Call 631-267-3810 for more info.

Paint And PlayKids ages three and up can

experiment with painting on foil at the John Jermain Library in Sag

Harbor on Sunday at 2 PM. The unusual material is sure to add some fun sparkle to artwork. Also on Sunday, the kiddies can gather at the library for board games, with a little friendly competition. Starting at 3:30 PM, all you have to do is come and have fun. No advance registration is necessary. Call 631-725-0049 for more information.


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For four quarters they battled for the Suffolk Class A Championship. In one corner, Harborfields, the League V champ, on an 11 game win streak, and in the other corner, East Hampton, the League VI champ.

Neither team could muster much of an offense, and neither team could gain much of an edge – finally, Harborfields opened a five point lead late in the fourth quarter.

But East Hampton, which had knocked off the defending champion Bayport/Blue Point three nights earlier, turned to senior Kyle McKee. Three times with the game on the line he launched long three pointers from well beyond the arc, and three times they found nothing but net.

On the East Hampton bench the coach, Bill McKee, urged

Bonac Falls in epic class a championship gameencouragement – that was his son out there. Next to him, was an empty seat reserved for his mentor, Ed Petrie, who passed on last year. Petrie had led the team to its last title, in 2009, and McKee was the assistant coach then.

Harborfields, though, would not be denied. The team, 20-1 on the season and losers to only Class AA semifinalist Brentwood, the top ranked team on Long Island, worked the ball for an open shot. The taller Tornadoes had been confounded by a myriad of shifting defenses devised by McKee, just as the Bonackers had fallen victim to their opponents’ ball hawking skills. If truth be told it was as if the rims had lids on them. Scoring came hard all game, a stark difference from three nights earlier, when Bonac had bombed Bayport/

Blue Point.Rob Pecorelli,

the Tornadoes big man, finally began heating up and banging the offensive boards. The two teams were tied with 30 seconds left; Bonac bottled up Pecorelli and h igh s co r ing Malcolm Wynter, the ball swung around to senior A l e x B l o o m beyond the three point arc on the left side.

Bloom, who had only made one basket on that night, didn’t hesitate. His shot swished cleanly through. Bonac needed a three-pointer to tie. The plan was for either McKee or Brandon Kennedy-Gay, one of the top scorers in the county, to take it. Kennedy-Gay worked his dribble to the top of the key and got a good look. He faked, stopped and popped. It looked good in the air, and even entered the cylinder before bouncing out. Harborfields survived, 45-42, leaving a bewildered Bonac team to ponder its fate and Kennedy-Gay, who turned ashen, wondering what more he could have done.

East Hampton’s wonderful season ended with an 18-3 mark. Kennedy-Gay led all scorers with 19. McKee tallied

16, Pecorelli 13 and Wynter 10.Harborfields was to have played

Southampton for the Suffolk ABCD Small Schools Championship last night. A win sends them to the overall county championship Friday at Stony Brook University, possibly a rematch with Brentwood.

Win or lose, Harborfields plays the yet to be determined Nassau County Class A champ on March 6. A victory will propel the Tornadoes to the Final Four in Glens Falls.

Independent/James J. Mackin

Brandon Kennedy-Gay finishes his storied career at East Hampton as one of the highest scorers in school history, the third leading scorer in Suffolk County this season, and the likely county small schools Player of the Year.


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By Rick Murphy

Talk about déjà vu.“ B e e s h e a d i n g t o S t a t e

Tournament.”“Mariners capture County Crown.”“Johnson Leads Mariners To BCD

Title”They were last year’s headlines.

And they are this year’s as well.The Bridgehampton Killer Bees

are indeed heading to the New York State Class D Tournament to defend their title. A win Tuesday against an opponent yet to be determined will land the locals another trip to Glens Falls and the Final Four.

The Mariners, who captured the Long Island Class B title last year, will play for that prize again and a chance to advance to the Final Four.

In addition, Southampton once again captured the Class BCD crown and bragging rights over old rival Bridgehampton.

The difference? Last year it was

Southampton, Bridgehampton, SouthamptonIsaiah Johnson, the burly six-five power forward, who got hot at just the right time. This year it’s little brother Israel (Izzy) who is putting on a show.

It was Johnson who carried the Mariners to the Suffolk “B” title against Babylon on February 16, notching 30 points en route to a 77-59 victory.

That set up Friday’s encounter with Bridgehampton in the county BCD game. Once again Southampton proved too deep and too fast for the Killer Bees, and Johnson was nothing short of untouchable, reeling off 16 points, eight assists, and nine rebounds though he sat for much of the game.

It’s not as if Bridgehampton (17-4) wasn’t sharp coming into the fray. The Bees took apart Stony Brook, the Class C champion, going on an incredible 40-2 first half run. Previously, the Bees destroyed Shelter Island 80-53 to take the Class D title. In that game Elijah

Jackson scored a season high 27 points and drilled five of the team’s nine three point bombs.

Against Stony Brook the Bees took it up another notch, bottling up the taller Bears’ inside players and stealing the ball from their guards. Josh Lamison (15), Tylik Furman (14) and Elijah Harding (13) were the high scorers as Coach Carl Johnson emptied his bench in the second half.

Bridgehampton could do no wrong against those opponents, but found the troubled waters much harder to navigate against Southampton. The Mariners guards - Chad Pike and Timmy Slejo - are too quick for the Bees, and this time around Southampton took it into the paint as well. Izzy was slashing and gashing inside and out as the Bees fell behind by 10 in the first half and folded their tents in the face of an 18-3 third quarter run. In addition to Johnson (16 points) Aaron

Krzyzewski (13), and Micah Snowden (10) hit double figures. Jackson and Elijah Harding scored 11 points for the losers.

Now it’s time to get down to business.

The Bees play Tuesday at 3 PM against the yet to be determined winner of Section VIII in the regional semifinals at Suffolk Community College – Selden. The Mariners play in the Class B regional semifinals that night at 8 in the same gym. The regional finals will be played later in the week at CW Post – either March 4 or 5. A win means the State Final Four tournament in Glens Falls beginning March 11.

Southampton was to play Harborfields in the ABCD title game. A win will pit the locals against the Suffolk “AA” or Large Schools champion (either Brentwood or Half Hallow Hills West) at Stony Brook Friday at 8 PM.

Independent / Courtesy Riverhead School District

After posting a sterling 13-1 mark to capture the conference title The Riverhead Lady Waves fell to Commack in the Class AA county playoffs last Wednesday.

By Rick Murphy

The Pierson/Bridgehampton/Lady Whalers earned a berth in the State Class C Tournament by turning in a dazzling performance to defeat Port Jefferson, 69-50 on February 16. In doing so the locals avenged a one-point loss to the same team only 10 days earlier.

This time around Pierson used a flowing offense that involved all five starters and turned it on down the stretch.

Nia Dawson, who should easily be selected to the all-county team, paved the way for the team, as she often does, with 23 points. But more important, she grabbed six rebounds and assisted on six other buckets. That’s a key, because PB distributes the ball well, and every player hits the boards.

Consider Erica Selyukova, who scored seven but recorded 10 assists and grabbed five rebounds. Lily Kot had 14 points and 10 rebounds . . . and so it went. Kate Kneeland scored 12, and Isabel Peters tallied 11, and there’s some Whalers’ history at play - Peters has been taking shooting lessons from Bob Vacca, who was an all-county talent for Pierson back in the 60s and was eventually drafted into the NBA by the Milwaukee Bucks. Could Vacca shoot? Well, he broke the county scoring record, led Long Island in free throw percentage, and may well have been the greatest long

Mattituck, lady Whalers Punch Their Tickets

range bomber in the world (in those days they didn’t award three points for long field goals.) Peters drilled a game-high three bombs on this night.

Mattituck captured the Class C title last Wednesday and will join Pierson/Bridgehampton in the state tourney. The Lady Tuckers got off to a sluggish start against Center Moriches and were down five points at halftime until Liz Dwyer and company began finding the mark. The finale was a comfortable 59-42 victory.

Dwyer tallied 21, Liz Hoeg added 16 and Mackenzie Daly 10 for the winners.

In addition to being in their respective state tournaments, the wins allowed both teams to advance in the county tournament, which allows smaller enrollment schools to move up in class and challenge the bigger schools.

Saturday Mattituck beat Pierson/Bridgehampton in the “BC” game but it wasn’t easy.

The powerful Lady Tuckers, now 19-1 on the season, had all they could handle and more as the upstart Lady Whalers (13-8) took it right to them before eventually losing, 59-52. In the end it was Dwyer, who always seems to come up with a bucket at critical moments. She ended with 28, and Hoeg tallied 21 more. Dwyer also controlled the boards, grabbing 10 rebounds. Dawson once again proved she can play at a higher level, scoring

16. Kot added 14.Mattituck plays in the county

tournament, going for the Small Schools (ABCD) title today against Islip at SCCC-Brentwood at 5 PM. A win sends the locals to Stony Brook University Friday at 5:30 for the overall Suffolk County Championship.

On Tuesday Pierson will play in

the Long Island Class C Championship against East Rockaway; the winner will advance to the regional finals. The game, at St. Josephs College in Patchogue, begins at 5:30.

Mattituck will take the court immediately following in a regional “B” semifinal against an opponent yet to be determined.


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Hampton Bays Town Center (Next to King Kullen) • 46 East Montauk Highway

Wine 750 MLLivio Fellugia PG ................... 19.99Ruffi no Gold Label ................ 39.99Blackstone (all varieties) 3 for 30.00Antinori Toscana ...........2 for 34.00Sterling Napa Chard ............. 11.99Bogle Chard ............................ 8.99Sterling Vintners Chard ........... 8.99Simi Chardonnay .................. 14.99Antinori Tignanello ................ 99.99Sterling Meritage .................... 9.99Crane Lake ...................2 for 10.00Ironside Red ...... $17.99 2 for $30Da Vinci Chianti Reserva .....19.99 2 for 35Chateau Ste. Michelle Chard .10.99Chateau Ste. Michelle Riesling 9.99

Coppola Rosso ... 9.99 or 2 for 18Cupcake (all types).................9.99Bogle Cabernet ....................11.99Bogle Pinot Noir ...................11.99Bogle Merlot ..........................9.99Peconic Bay Chardonnay................................... 3 for 30.00Excelsior Chardonnay, Sauv Blanc .................. 3 for 21.00Excelsior Cabernet ...... 3 for 21.00Baron Fini Pinot Grigio 2 for 18.00Louis Jadot Macon Village ....11.99BV Coastal Cab, Chard, Pinot Noir, Merlot .. 8.99 3 for 24BV Coastal Sauv Blanc ..........7.99 ................................... 3 for 21.00

SparklingCristalino Brut ...................8.99Veuve Clicquot ................42.99La Marca Prosecco . .............12.99Chandon All Types ..........16.9990+ Prosecco 11.99 2 for 20.00JCB Brut & J. Rosé ...16.99 eachRoederer Estate Brut .......19.99

Wine MagnumsLindemans (all varieties) ......... 9.99Beringer White Zin .................. 9.99Frontera (all varieties) ............. 8.99Monkey Bay Sauvignon Blanc 16.99Yellowtail (all var) ...6 @ 10.99 eachConti Beretta PG.................... 10.99Il Giardino PG ....................... 12.99Fetzer (all varieties) ................. 9.99Woodbridge [email protected] eachBarefoot All White Varieties ........6 for 60.00Gekkeikan Sake ..................... 9.99Estrella All Types ..................... 9.99Mark West Pinot Noir ........... 19.99Santa Marina Pinot Grigio ..... 10.99.......................... or $60 for a case

Belvedere

Canadian Club

.

Mag $22.99

2 FOR $50

MilagroSilver

750 ML$21.99

Dewars White Label

Mag.

.$34.99 $29.99

Sauza Gold & Silver

Mag.

$46.99

Mag.

$49 .99

JohnnieWalker

BLUETitos

HandmadeVodka

Mag.

$29.99

Johnnie WalkerBLACK

.

Mag.

$69.99

Jack Daniels

Mag.

$45.99

Olmeca Altos Tequila

Plata$25.99

2 for$44

BacardiSelect

Mag.

Glenmorangie

750ML

$38.99

Bacardi

Mag.

$34.99

2 FOR $50

Kahlua

Mag.

$39.99

Mag.

$39.99

Smirnoff Vodka

Mag.

1-$21.99

2-$20.99ea.

3-$19.99

ea.

ea.

ea.

Mag.

1-$24.99

2-$42 3-$60

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Mag.

$39.99750 ML

$175

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Grey Goose

750 ML

$30.99

Tanqueray

Mag.

$39.99

CazadoresBlanco Tequila

Mag$29.99

Cutty Sark

Mag

$29.99

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Liters

$25.99

Sauza Hornitos

Plata and Reposado

Johnnie Walker

REDMag.

$35.99

PinnacleVodka

Mag.

$18.99

Knob Creek

Liter

$38.99

Mag.

$23.992-$40

SkyyVodka

ObanSingle Malt Whisky

750ML

$59.99

Mag.

$12.99

Platinum7X Vodka

Mag. $27.99

Deep Eddy

Vodka

Makers Mark

Mag.

$49.99

$49.99

Cazadores Reposado Tequila

Glenlivet12 Year

750 ML

$43.99

Malibu Rum

Mag

$29.99

BulleitBourbon

Mag.

$55.99

Johnny Walker

GoldMag.

$124.99

each

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WinesHOURS M-Thurs: 9AM - 7:00PM • Fri & Sat: 9AM - 8:00PM • Sunday 12PM - 6PM Saturday Delivery

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Baker’sBourbon

7 year Old Bourbon

750 ml.

Mag

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Glenfi ddich12 Year Old

750ML

$49.99

Goslings Black Rum

Liter

$22.99

Sag HarborRum750ML

$31.991.75

$26.99

Grants Scotch

New Amsterdam

VodkaMag.

$19.99

Double Cross

Vodka 750ML

$29.99

GeorgiVodka

Mag.$12.99

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