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By Rick Murphy

F o r m e r

Sou thampton

Town Supervisor

Linda Kabot will

be running for

office, and she

doesn’t intend

to be a write-in

candidate this

t ime around .

“A b s o l u t e l y

not,” she said

emphat i ca l l y.

“The voters deserve a real choice.”

Two years ago Kabot garnered

almost 3900 votes as a write-in

after the Republican Party failed

to nominate a candidate for the

supervisor’s seat.

Kabot wants to screen with both

the Republican and Conservative

parties. But given the nature of

local politics, Kabot said she has

lingering concerns that voters

could ultimately be disenfranchised

in the event the Republican and/

or Conservative Committees

“nominate someone who is not a

serious and viable candidate for

Supervisor.”

Kabot doesn’t intend to go

quietly should that occur. “They’re

not getting away with running a

placeholder, that’s for sure,” she said.

Instead, she intends to run a primary

should she not be chosen.

It wouldn’t be the first time Kabot

took on the GOP establishment.

In 2007 she ran a primary against

incumbent Supervisor Pat “Skip”

Heaney and ultimately took his seat

in town hall.

Though Kabot would love another

shot at the incumbent supervisor,

Anna Throne-Holst, some party

insiders think she should run for the

town board instead. Jim Malone and

Chris Nuzzi, both Republicans, are up

for reelection. Nuzzi is facing term

limitations and hasn’t announced

his plans.

“A number of well-respected

individuals have urged me to run

[for town board],” Kabot said. “I’m

looking at supervisor right now but

I haven’t ruled it out.”

Theresa Kiernan, the town’s

receiver of taxes, said she intends to

run for supervisor. “I am planning

to screen. I feel like I can contribute

a lot more.” Kiernan has two years

remaining in her current position,

and said she would retain her job

should she not be chosen or should

she run and be defeated.

Malone, who is also the head of

the town’s Conservative Party, hasn’t

tipped his hand either. Two town

hall insiders said there is growing

dissatisfaction with Malone and that

it is unlikely he will get a GOP nod

even if he runs. He has been missing

in action for most of his term in

office – often skipping meetings –

and is viewed as unelectable by some

pundits from both parties.

Kabot sent letters to both the

Southampton Town Republican

Committee Chairman Bill Wright

and Malone to formally state her

interest in being screened for

potential nomination as a supervisor

candidate for both the Republican

and Conservative Parties.

On March 14, Kabot met with

Southampton Town Republican

Chairman Bill Wright and Vice-

Chairman David Gilmartin to discuss

her exploratory campaign, the

positive feedback she has received

from prior supporters, and her

desire to screen for the Republican

nomination. According to Kabot,

the party leaders firmly stated that

their intention is to screen registered

Republican candidates for supervisor

for the nomination for this year’s

election, and welcomed her to send

formal letters of interest to the

committee members.

Throne-Holst is expected to run

on the Democratic and Independence

Party lines, as she did two years ago.

Kabot said Wright and Gilmartin

both emphatically stated to her that

no cross-endorsement deal is in the

works for the incumbent, despite

news reports earlier this year that

Throne-Holst mentioned an interest

in securing the Republican and

Conservative Party’s support.

Kabot said that although she

has not spoken with Malone, she

did receive a reply to an email she

had sent to him last week inquiring

about the protocols he envisioned for

the Conservative Party screening of

local candidates.

Kabot said that Malone indicated

that he has not finalized any decision

with regard to his 2013 plans for re-

election to the town board or some

other post and that candidates

should not contact him directly or

the County Chairman Ed Walsh.

One town hall insider said Malone

is angling for a judgeship but did

not know the specifics. He has not

returned phone calls and thus could

not be reached for comment.

The rather convoluted process

for a would-be candidate is cause

for concern. “You are screened by

invitation only,” Kabot said. “There is

no guarantee. I’m asking for clarity.”

Kabot is concerned that insider

dealing may hinder her bid for

office. ”Unless the contender is

extraordinary and truly would be

a person whom the rank and file

voters would prefer to have at the

top of the ticket for the Republican

Supervisor candidate, then concerns

remain in my mind about whether

or not such person is really in it

to win it or just stepping in as a

placeholder.”

Kabot said the GOP must avoid

the fiasco of two years ago and must

refrain from nominating a candidate

who is “taking one for the team.”

Running someone with no chance

to win, she said, amounts to “a

defacto cross-endorsement deal for

Throne-Holst.”

One fear is a candidate will

be named who will subsequently

withdraw after the filing deadline.

“I have articulated these concerns

to Republican Party leaders,” Kabot

said. “The supervisor’s seat should

not be the subject of horse-trading.

I believe that whoever is nominated

as the supervisor candidate on the

Republican line should clearly state

their reasons for running and their

unwavering intention to remain

on the ballot all the way through

Election Day.”

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Michael Bloomberg when he says he

wants every gun registered. I think

it’s pure NRA/ultra-Conservative

Republican bull crap to say

registering every gun, to keep them

out of the hands of criminals, is a

Second Amendment issue.

On the other hand, I think Nanny

Bloomberg is completely off base

when he talks about cutting out

any kind of food for health reasons,

including his crusade against the

use of salt.

The sad fact is he’s losing on the

gun issue but he seems to have won

on the salt issue.

Go into any fine restaurant and

you can’t find a salt shaker on a table.

The salt police have done their job

well. Ask for salt in a fine restaurant

anywhere in New York or Los Angeles

and they look at you as if you had just

asked for a shaker filled with heroin.

Your steak arrives in a restaurant

and it’s filled with shiny, oozing,

SALT VS. GUNSdelicious artery-clogging fat, and

yet they put it on your table and

expect you to eat it without salt.

Ask a waiter or a waitress for salt

and they give you a nervous smile

and disappear for an hour looking

for the restaurant’s only salt shaker.

I hear that in Los Angles, the

capital of tasteless, politically correct

food, it’s easier to score cocaine in

most restaurants than it is to get a

harmless little shaker of salt.

The new “wisdom” is the chef

knows how much salt a dish should

have. You ask for salt and you are

insulting him, you are insulting

his family. If he comes out of the

kitchen and lops your head off with

a frigging meat cleaver it will be

justifiable homicide.

I say if God had not wanted us

to have salt or cholesterol, he/she

wouldn’t have invented high blood

pressure medication and Lipitor.

My Dad always made sure he

poured a thick white layer of salt

on everything he ate. “But Papa, you

won’t get the taste of your steak if

you put that much salt on it,” I used

to say.

“I don’t want to taste the steak. I

like the taste of salt.”

Once, years ago, I asked my Dad,

“Didn’t your doctor ever tell you that

you had to cut down on salt?”

“Yes, years ago this doctor kept

bothering me that I had to cut out

salt, until he died at the age of 67.”

He always added, “If he salted his

food maybe he would still be alive

now.” My Dad outlived a number of

doctors. He would still be pouring

salt with reckless abandon on foods

today if he didn’t die from a fall at

the age of 92.

So what is it prompting this latest

food rage on my part?

It’s because last week I was

enjoying lunch at the crudo bar at

Eataly, one of my favorite restaurant

food temples in the world.

Sitting next to me was a wonderful

family of four from Louisiana who

were in New York City for the first

time in their lives.

We started talking about food

and I told them about a weekend I

spent in New Orleans with my son

and daughter about six years ago.

“What did you like best about

New Orleans?” the woman asked.

“The salt and the fat,” I replied.

Say “salt and fat” to someone

who loves food and you immediately

make a friend.

They warmed up and lost their

fears about stuffy New Yorkers and

we talked about the joys of food and

New Orleans.

New Orleans! What a place . . . salt

shakers in every restaurant on every

table like in the good old days. And

the food – filled with salt and trans

fats and butter and cream and sugar.

It was so delicious.

It’s the kind of food you can’t find

anywhere else in this country.

When my daughter Jessie and my

son JT and I set out for a New Orleans

weekend, we stopped on our way at

the JetBlue terminal in JFK. We hit

the Papaya King stand and enjoyed a

snack of spicy hot dogs. I had three

hot dogs filled with sauerkraut and

mustard. Just the thing to get my

sodium count up for the trip.

Excessive? You bet. You can’t

teach your kids the joys of excess

too early, I always say.

We ate our way through New

Orleans.

On the first night we ate at a

restaurant named Lilette that was

outstanding. I had a delicious seafood

gumbo, we had fried eggplant with

shriveled yellow tomatoes, basil

leaves and salted, tar-like black

olives. Then we shared delicious

white truffle Parmesan toast with

shiitakes drenched in veal glace. And

as a side order we munched on fried

frog legs with fresh fine herbs.

We shared a great bottle of wine.

The next day it was a lunch at a

restaurant that served chili omelets

and grits and the most delicious

biscuits. We finished that treat, and

sped to Bourbon Street and drank

Hurricanes, which are made up

of four different rums and jungle

juice. Then we rushed to Café Du

Monde where we devoured a pre-

dinner treat of beignets covered with

powdered sugar.

Then to dinner at another

restaurant, called Herbsaint, where

we feasted on salty and delicious

Muscovy duck leg confit with dirty

rice and citrus gastrique, a seared

Kurabuta pork belly with local

field peas and pickled turnips,

and sautéed jumbo shrimp with

eggplant dressing and jalapenos.

Sunday morning it was breakfast

at Brennan’s, with turtle soup and

poached eggs with a thick rich

Hollandaise sauce and chunks of

crabmeat.

Then I had the thrill of watching

my kids taste, for the first time, a

Brennan’s treat: Bananas Foster,

filled with butter, perhaps the

world’s unhealthiest and most

delicious dessert.

As I was driving to the airport

Jessie asked, “What does it mean

when you can’t get your ring off

because your fingers are swollen?”

“It means you’ve had a great

weekend,” I answered.

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Edward Orr, Junior pleaded guilty

to two felonies leaving the scene of

an accident involving a fatality and

criminal tampering with evidence.

He signed a confession and didn’t

dispute the Suffolk County District

Attorney’s sentencing request of two

to six years in prison. The maximum

sentence that could be delivered

under state law is seven years.

Friends of John Judge, who Orr

struck and killed while crossing

Main Street in Amagansett last

fall, are outraged by the deal. They

created a “Justice for John” Facebook

page, which garnered over 400

members in less than a day, crafted

a petition that gained 135 signatures

in just two days on the counter

at Astro’s Pizza, and planned a

candlelight vigil at the site of the

victim’s death, across the street

from the pizza shop.

“Hopefully John’s watching this,”

Jule O’Brien, one of the organizers

said, as a small group huddled in the

gentle sleet that fell Monday night,

trying to light candles that didn’t

want to blaze.

Allison Lupo, whose family

runs Astro Pizza and was lifelong

friends with Judge, said of the

proposed sentence, “We feel it’s not

acceptable, we’d like to see him have

more time, because of his history.”

Orr, 30, from Montauk, has a prior

criminal background, with charges

running the gamut from a grand

larceny conviction to a domestic

violence case that was pled down

to disorderly conduct last spring to

violating the terms of probation.

He not only fled the scene of the

accident, but also attempted to hide

his car from investigating detectives

by staging an accident to justify

damage and allowed the vehicle’s

repossession to get it out of town.

With sentencing slated for April

24 before Judge William Condon,

members of the Lupo family,

longtime friends of Judge, 61, as well

as O’Brien, who woks at Astro’s Pizza,

the last place Judge was seen alive,

hope the petition and vigil might

encourage Condon to hand down

a stiffer penalty. “Everybody is just

completely shocked,” O’Brien said

after news of the district attorneys

requested sentence circulated.

“People are just disgusted.” Listing

Orr’s prior arrests, she added, “This

guy is a danger to society.”

While some comments on social

and online media pages have

been passionately outraged, the

gathering Monday night was calm

and respectful.

On Monday Orr’s attorney Gordon

Call For Stiffer Penalty For Hit & Run DriverR y a n s a i d h e

thought Judge’s

friends would be

“thrilled” that his

client confessed

to two felonies

and accepted the

district attorney’s

recommendation

-- “close to the

m a x i m u m ”

- - w i t h o u t

a t tempt ing to

negotiate for a

lesser sentence.

Tw o y e a r s i n

Attica is anything

but a s lap on

the wrist, Ryan

observed, noting

that, because of

his prior record,

Orr is more likely

to be in jail four to

five years.

“It’s not going

to be easy time,”

the attorney said.

“He’s paying for what he did.”

Ryan pointed out that Orr was

not charged with causing the fatal

accident; he was charged with

leaving the scene. Had Orr waited

for police instead of fleeing, “it

could have been a whole different

scenario,” Ryan said, noting that

there are often accidents involving

the death of a pedestrian where no

charges are filed against the driver

because he or she was not at fault.

But Orr not only f led, he

attempted a cover up, staging a

fake accident to explain front end

damage to his jeep Grand Cherokee

and volunteering the vehicle for

repossession.

While friends feel Orr is “getting

away with murder,” and have called

the sentence “a travesty of justice”

on the Facebook page, Ryan called

the plea agreement “a tremendous

prison sentence, he’s not getting off

light at all.”

The maximum sentence could

have been seven years. Ryan

theorized that’s requested when a

lengthy jury trial is in the offing.

He said the police and district

attorney were “outraged” by Orr’s

attempted cover up “for which he’ll

serve much more time . . . it was a

demand of the DA that he do state

time.”

Orr’s sentence doesn’t vary

greatly from those imposed in

similar hit and run cases locally.

In 2004 Bridgehampton realtor

Leslie Jennemann was sentenced

to two to six years after she was

convicted of leaving the scene of an

accident that claimed the life of a

farm worker. In 2007, Karen Fisher

was slated to be sentenced to three

and a third to 10 years for striking

and killing a priest in Springs. She

was ultimately sentenced to four

to 12 years because she continued

to drink in violation of a bail

stipulation. Both Jennemann and

Fisher were convicted of a heftier

charge – manslaughter – which was

not lodged against Orr.

Still, Judge’s friends may not be

the only ones feeling the punishment

does not fit the crime. State Senator

Ken LaValle announced over the

weekend that a bill designed to

increase penalties for leaving the

scene of an accident involving a

fatality was passed by the state

senate. The legislation changes

a fatal hit and run from a Class

D Felony to a Class C Felony and

increases prison time to a maximum

of 15 years in state prison. Under

this bill, the punishment for other

types of hit and run offenses beyond

those involving alcohol will also be

upgraded.

Judge had a classic Thunderbird

that friends sold. With the money

they plan to erect a teak bench in

his name on Main Street. “I hope

John is never forgotten,” Allison

Lupo said.

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Independent / James J. Mackin

A small contingent of supporters gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday night, seeking justice for John Judge who was killed in a hit and run accident in Amagansett last fall.


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gram last night as The Independent

went to press.

The program comes six months

after the creation of the town’s Wa-

ter Quality Fund: a revenue stream

set to protect local bays, bottom-

lands and other marine resources,

spearhead-

ed by Coun-

c i lwoman

Chr i s t ine

P r e s t o n

Scalera.

The new

septic sys-

tem rebate

and incentive program would tap

into the fund, providing aid for

residents to repair, replace and/or

upgrade their current systems. It’s

slated to provide as much as $5000

to residents who have a septic sys-

tem dating from 1981 or earlier.

Newly furbished septic systems

would decrease the amount of ni-

trates leaching from ground units

and into groundwater.

Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst

has been a long-time supporter of

modernizing antiquated septic sys-

tems, previously opining it should

be the first step in addressing an

“ecological crisis” that is polluting

local waters.

According to Throne-Holst, the

entire East End region must join

the effort to reduce the nitrogen

runoff entering local waterways,

largely due to

outdated sep-

tic systems.

I n c r e a s e d

year-round oc-

cupancy was

deemed the

partial culprit

for increased

nitrogen runoff, with out of date

septic systems unable to accom-

modate the extra waste being gen-

erated.

Although town board members

support the effort, Suffolk County

has not yet approved the most mod-

ern, up to date treatment systems

for use on single-family homes. That

means two things: it could take a

lot longer to install proper septic

systems to remedy the state of local

waters and it could be more expen-

sive for the individual than initially

anticipated.

“I think everyone agrees [the

current standards] are not good

enough and we’re hoping higher

standards are going to be put into

place,” Throne-Holst said.

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Breast Cancer Walk Sponsor Suffolk Federal Credit Union

and its members are sponsoring

LI2Day Breast Cancer Walk, a local

nonprofit that raises funds and

awareness for its neighbors and

their families affected by breast

cancer.

Proceeds from the bank’s

CU’s LI2DAY checking account

have exceeded expectations,

totaling more than $5000 for the

organization thus far.

Visit www.suffolkfcu.org today to

learn more.

Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty (DGSIR), one of the nation’s leading realtors, has named Deirdre O’Connell General Sales Manager. O’Connell is a North Fork native.

Newly furbished septic systems would

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By Kitty Merrill

The East Hampton Town Board

could close Cyril’s Fish House down

altogether, if members so choose. Last

Thursday night, Bob DeLuca of the

Group for the East End provided board

members with copies of Southampton

Town legislation that allows for the

“amortization,” or eventual closure of

nuisance pre-existing nonconforming

businesses, like bars and nightclubs.

He said Southampton Town exercised

the power about 10 years ago in

relation to several problem clubs.

During deliberation of the

request to downzone two properties

on the Napeague Stretch – one

is vacant and the other houses

Cyril’s – DeLuca noted “a general

resignation” that pre-existing

nonconforming uses are here to stay.

Provisions in Southampton’s Town

Code, however, offer the board the

opportunity to “exercise an awful

lot of authority if it should choose,”

he explained. The code provisions

give the town a legal way to say,

“If you can’t get it [the business] to

conform to where we’d like it to be,

we can see that it no longer exists,”

De Luca said.

That strategy sounded pretty

harsh to former Town Councilwoman

Deb Foster, who also addressed

Cyril’s: Board Could Shut It Downthe board about the zone change

request last week. “I don’t think

that’s fair to the property owners,”

she opined. It puts too much power

in the hands of the town board, she

believes.

Although the code provision was

amended in 2004 after protracted

discussion, Southampton Town

actually did not exercise that

authority; the targeted businesses

closed or changed hands and in one

case the land was purchased by the

town. A similar law was enacted in

the Village of Westhampton Beach.

The cement plant it targeted is

currently operating, sources said.

Foster took a different tact in

offering opposition to the request. If

the board wishes to grant the request,

members will have to amend the

town Comprehensive Plan. Foster

read several sections that reference

the Napeague area, and speak to

environmental preservation and

limiting commercial development.

The term “spot zoning” spurred

Supervisor Bill Wilkinson to weigh

in. Last week The Independent

reported that Suffolk County

officials had cautioned against

approving the request, as it could

be perceived as illegal spot zoning.

Wilkinson revealed contradicting

documents. The file contains two

letters from the Suffolk County

Planning Commission. One, addressed

to the town clerk and dated February

1, addresses the request by property

owner Michael Dioguardi and

deems the request a matter for local

determination. A second letter was

written to the planning department,

dated March 6, and references Cyril’s.

Signed by the same county officials,

the second letter makes the comment

about the potential for spot zoning.

County officials did not return The

Independent’s call regarding the two

letters.

Town attorney John Jilnicki

pointed out that when a single

or small number of parcels is the

subject of a rezoning, it can raise a

red flag. To avoid a spot zone claim,

the change must provide a benefit

to the community, and not just the

property owner.

At the outset of last Thursday’s

meeting, the town board voted

to close the public hearing on

the rezoning request, but that

didn’t stop Foster and DeLuca from

weighing in.

Carole Campolo had something

to say as well. She castigated some

members of the town board for

their openly hostile attitude toward

a member of the Dioguardi family

during an earlier work session on

the zone change. Bonnie Dioguardi

testified that the improvements

that triggered code violations at

Cyril’s were minimal and necessary

to the operation of any restaurant.

According to a 2009 memo from

the town’s chief building inspector

15 structures were built without site

plan approval or building permits

and do not have valid Certificates

of Occupancy. They are listed in the

memo as follows:

• 33’x10’ brick patio on the east side

• 13’x10’ wood deck with roof on

the east side

• 25’x7’ brick patio in the bar area

on the south side

• 4’x20’ wood deck seating area

extension on the west side

• 22’ x13’ wood deck seating area

with cloth awning and plastic sides

on the west side

• 17’x5’ plywood roof over service

entry on the north side

• “dilapidated” truck body used for

storage on the north side

• dilapidated reach-in cooler

• reach in cooler

• above ground propane tank

• two Cassone storage trailers

• a garbage compactor

• 8’ high lattice fence, and

• a gravel seating area providing 60

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The tower stays. The Federal

Aviation Administration has

deemed keeping the contract

control tower at Gabreski Airport

in Westhampton open is “in the

national interest,” Congressman

Tim Bishop announced on Friday.

The FAA’s decision was informed,

Bishop said, by the homeland

security mission of the 106th Air

Rescue Wing, which is based at

Gabreski and shares airspace with

general aviation traffic that uses

the facility.

Earlier this month, the FAA

considered the closure of 189 traffic

control towers, in an effort to

come up with over $600 million

in spending cuts required under

the so-called budget sequestration.

Upon hearing the news that the

tower was imperiled, Bishop made

his concerns known to the FAA.

If the tower had been closed,

Gabreski would have operated

with pilots burdened with the

sole responsibility for safety. The

airport is currently non-towered

Good News For Gabreskionly at night. During the day, the

tower guides pilots in and out of

the facility.

“Gabreski is not just any airport –

it is home to the famed 106th Rescue

Wing of the Air National Guard and

Suffolk County Police Medevac

Helicopter Unit and is therefore

essential to military training and

disaster relief efforts,” Suffolk

County Executive Steve Bellone

noted in a release heralding the

decision. “Furthermore, he added,

“As a gateway to the East End, the

airport is crucial to sustaining the

local economy. We owe a debt of

thanks to Congressman Tim Bishop

and Senators Chuck Schumer

and Kirsten Gillibrand for their

unwavering commitment to our

county airport.”

Gabreski joins 23 other FAA

contract towers nationwide that

have been spared from closure,

along with 16 other towers that

are partially funded by non-federal

agencies. The FAA will close 149

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Sparks flew. Tempers flared.

Voices raised in anger. It must have

been an East Hampton Town Board

meeting.

Last Thursday night a discussion

of the town’s Payment In Lieu of

Parking program went south, with

board members -- along party lines

– in disagreement over the notion

of waiving fees.

A desire on the part of partners

who own the Montauk Brewing

Company – three local young men –

to actually make, rather than simply

sell, libations, triggered review

before town planners. The planning

board was amenable to the idea,

but approval stalled on a parking

predicament.

The required spaces can’t be

provided on the company’s South

Erie Avenue site. When that occurs,

town officials will often accept

Payments In Lieu of Parking.

But that’s a hefty fee for young

entrepreneurs, who have asked

that it be waived or amortized over

several years.

A licensing agreement, wherein

the partners are granted an

easement allowing them to use

parking at nearby Zebrowski Field at

Independent / Kitty Merrill

A request to waive Payments In Lieu of Parking fees at the Montauk Brewing Company prompted the latest tiff on the town board.

A Bitter PILP Discussionno additional cost, was one option

proposed during planning board

discussion earlier this year. Board

members were concerned about the

precedent such an agreement might

set, and turned the matter over to

the town board.

Last Thursday night, Councilman

Peter Van Scoyoc offered a resolution

that would allow the partners – all

East Hampton High School alumni

-- to pay off the PILP over time.

Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and

Councilwoman Theresa Quigley

both vehemently opposed the

idea. “Why can’t we just use the

parking lot and waive the fee?” the

supervisor asked. “Why can’t we

just accommodate them?”

Quigley reported the town has

been collecting PILP fees for decades

and “Never spent any of the money.”

“I don’t understand the purpose

of the fee,” she continued, becoming

agitated. “We’ve done nothing

with these fees other than punish

people.” The code includes a number

of restrictions related to how the

money is used, she explained.

The town has a system in place

for such situations, Van Scoyoc

began. “It worked really well,”

Quigley interjected sarcastically.

Van Scoyoc offered that it would

be “completely unfair” to waive the

fee for the Brewing Company when

others have had to pay it.

The town allows structured

fees for “all kinds of things” when

people can’t afford them, Quigley

countered, stating, “As far as I’m

concerned, the world is made up

of making concessions for people

who don’t have money.” Veering off

topic, she spoke about her defunct

accessory apartment legislation,

which drew opposition from people

who are “bitter” because they

weren’t able to build the apartments

and don’t want to see others given

the chance to.

Returning to the idea of waiving

the fee she declared, “You can say

it’s not fair, but in truth we haven’t

been fair for 30 years . . . Let’s start

being fair.”

When Van Scoyoc pointed

out that the town code could be

amended to provide for waiving the

fees, Quigley refused. Brandishing

a piece of paper, she declared, “I’m

not going to do like you do . . .

micromanage the process.”

Wilkinson argued the brewery

situation was unique. Three times

he asked town attorney John Jilnicki

whether the fee could be waived.

The attorney said there is no

provision in the town code for such

an action, and doing so could be

subject to legal challenge. Quigley

asked whether the town code allows

the town board to waive building

permits or site plan fees, which it

does waive. Jilnicki didn’t think so.

The verbal fireworks died down

as members agreed to table the

matter for further discussion at a

work session. Councilwoman Sylvia

Overby cautioned, however, that

if the board decided to pursue a

licensing agreement or easement,

it would mean future owners of

the site would have to undergo

the planning process, and confront

the PILP all over again. “There are

ramifications,” she pointed out.

If Warren Buffet comes in and

wants to open a jewelry store,

Wilkinson enjoined, “I’ll charge him

the whole fee.”

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According to history.com, the

largest Easter egg ever made was

over 25 feet high and weighed

over 8000 pounds. It was made of

chocolate and marshmallow and

supported by an internal steel

frame. The perennially dieting Rick

Murphy wanted to eat it, but they

wouldn’t let him.

This weekend, local kids probably

won’t find eggs that are quite so

big, but they’ll be just as hoppy, as a

variety of community organizations

host Easter egg hunts.

Here’s a roundup of some of the

searches scheduled:

The Southampton Village PBA

presents an Easter egg hunt on Friday

in Agawam Park in Southampton

Village at 10 AM.

The Maidstone Gun Club hosts

its annual egg hunt at 10 AM on

Saturday. Children aged one to eight

may participate. The event is open

to the public and will be held at the

club’s Daniels Hole Road, Wainscott,

location. BYO basket.

Also at 10 AM Saturday, the

East Hampton Town Democratic

Committee sponsors its annual

hunt in Herrick Park on Newtown

Lane in East Hampton. There will

be free raffle prizes, sweet treats,

games and fun galore, plus, a visit

from Le Bunny himself. And it’s all

free.

The Easter Parade tradition in

New York City, which saw well-

heeled residents showing off their

holiday finery, especially bonnets

decorated to highlight the arrival

of spring, began in the mid-1800s.

It’s still a favored event “On the

Avenue, Fifth Avenue,” as Irving

Berlin’s song goes. In Sag Harbor,

the Chamber of Commerce hosts

Fun For Every Bunnyits annual Easter Bonnet Parade

on Saturday at 1 PM. Meet in front

of BookHampton wearing your

fanciest chapeau, and parade down

Main Street’s sidewalk to the Sag

Harbor Garden Center where there

will be a petting zoo for the kiddies

from noon to 2 PM.

Peter Cottontail comes to

Amagansett Square on Saturday

from noon to 2 PM. Meeting House

restaurant hosts the big ole’ bunny,

offering a special lunch menu, plus

an egg hunt, egg decorating, face

painting and cookie decorating. Be

sure to dress for an outdoor event.

Also on Saturday, the Quogue

Wildlife Refuge hosts its annual

Eggstravaganza. Designed for kids

aged five to 12, the festivities

include egg decorating. Begins at

11 AM and costs $10. On Sunday,

the refuge plans two sessions

of egg hunting and crafts for

preschoolers aged two to four – the

first at 9:30 and the second at 11

AM. Pre-registration is required and

admission is $10.

In Riverhead, join the egg-

citement at the Long Island

Aquarium & Exhibition Center

during their annual egg hunt which

includes a basket-load of great

prizes, including a free birthday

party, family fun center vouchers,

tour boat tickets, plus rides on the

Discovery Tower and Submarine

Simulator. The fun starts at 10

AM on Saturday, and it’s free with

aquarium admission.

History.com reports the exact

origin of the mythical mammal that

became known as the Easter Bunny

is unknown. Some sources say he

(or she) first made an appearance

in the United States in the 1700s.

He’ll make a local appearance

Sunday morning at Gurney’s Inn in

Montauk. Meet the holiday symbol

and enjoy an egg hunt at Gurney’s

at 11 AM.

The Sou thampton Tr a i l s

Preservation Society presents

its annual Easter Egg Hunt at

Poxabogue Park. Meet south of the

railroad trestle on Old Farm Road in

Bridgehampton at 1 PM sharp. For

kids eight and under. BYO basket.

Sunrise Easter services hosted

by local ministries at the Montauk

Lighthouse begin at 6 AM.

In Springs, the fire department

hosts its first ever Easter breakfast

from 7 to 11 AM on Sunday. Egg

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a little kid has for baseball unless

you’ve lived the dream.

When I was 10 or so, before girls

and Rock ‘N’ Roll intruded, my entire

existence centered on baseball.

It reached a crescendo every

summer in Sag Harbor. I lived at the

foot of Howard Street. There were

enough kids in the neighborhood to

field an entire team.

We’d begin every day by walking

to Mashashimuet Park. My friend

Craig would come get me, then we’d

cut through the backyard to Bobby

Vacca’s house, where the same ritual

played out each morning. We’d

knock on the back door. Bobby’s

grandmother, who was from Italy

and spoke very little English, would

The Kardashians, The Mick, And Me

answer,

“Bobby no home,” she would

say. We would ignore her, because

of course, he was. We’d go around

the other side of the house, open

his bedroom window, and tell him

to hurry.

By the time we got near the park

there would be a procession of a

dozen or more kids, all wearing caps,

carrying mitts, spitting profusely, and

scratching our backsides repeatedly,

as real men are fond of doing.

Ed Petrie, the legendary basketball

coach, was a young gym teacher

then and he presided over Park

School, which basically for us meant

playing baseball all morning. There

were girls, too, but I don’t remember

what they did to pass the time except

they made potholders out of those

stupid weaving kits. My sister used

to attend, so we would have 50 or

more ugly potholders in the kitchen

at any given time.

We were captivated by all things

baseball. Sometimes we’d plot for

the opportunity to pull a “suicide

squeeze play” for the sheer joy of

doing it. This entailed having a

runner on third base that would race

toward home plate just as the pitcher

delivered the ball. The batter would

then “sacrifice” himself by bunting.

If he missed, the runner would most

likely be out. If the batter missed the

“bunt” sign and swung the bat, he

would decapitate the runner. Fun

stuff.

We ’d a l l t r y and th row

knuckleballs, marveling how the ball

would “flutter” if thrown correctly.

We all chewed gum and pretended it

was tobacco. Once one of the kids got

real chewing tobacco and we tried

that – I puked all over second base

in the third inning.

After Park School it would be

more baseball: whiffle ball, stickball,

whatever. If there were only two of

us we’d invent games to play.

We’d spend all our money on

baseball cards, ogling them like

they were girlie mags. On the back

of each they would list the players

height and weight and whether

they were left-handed or right-

handed. Once in a while you’d see a

player that “bats left, throws right”

which was confounding. Even odder

was the opposite scenario – “bats

right, throws left.” We’d ponder the

meaning of this mystery of life ad

nauseum and often invent fictional

reasons why a batter would switch

from his natural side. “He got hit

in the eye with a stick,” I would lie.

“He has a giant mosquito bite that

never went away,” someone else

would offer.

“Mom, I wanna be five-foot seven

and weigh 190 pounds when I grow

up” I announced one day after

viewing the card of some portly,

compact slugger. Mom would just

look at me with a blank stare,

wondering why a skinny kid with

long legs like me wanted to grow up

to look like a fire hydrant.

On weekends we’d watch the

Yankees on TV. I would live and die

every time Mickey Mantle came to

the plate. If he struck out my heart

would sink. If he hit a homer the

elation would be so overwhelming

I’d have to share it with somebody

– the telephone operator. That’s

because in those days when you

picked the phone up a real woman

would answer and say “Number,

please?” Usually it was Mrs. Fiore

and I would scream, “Mantle just

hit a home run!” and hang up. Mrs.

Fiore would tell my mother and she’d

gently slap me for embarrassing her.

I would silently vow that once I grew

to five-seven and 190 I wouldn’t let

Mom push me around like that.

Sometimes our dads would take

us to a real game and we’d eat

Cracker Jacks and stare at the players

like they were the Kardashians

except with smaller booties.

Baseball season begins this week,

and with it the memories of summers

in the park, jaws of bubble gum, and

squeeze plays. I still feel like a little

kid, except I don’t want to be stocky

when I grow up and I can buy beer

when I go to the ballpark.

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Armed TeachersTo The Editor,

Regarding the “Teachers Packin’ Heat” article by Dr. Annacone, I think it might help further the discussion if some points are sharpened just a bit. By way of background, I have no firm opinion on whether or not teachers ought to be allowed to carry firearms on duty as the way that is implemented in a particular case would be far more important than the general concept.

The author states that there are 300 million guns in the USA, and goes on to

state that there are 7 million teachers. He extrapolates that allowing teachers to be armed would therefore put another 7 million guns “out there” and have the weapons manufacturers “licking their chops.”

I would expect a little more in the way of an accurate analysis of the facts from someone who uses the “Dr.” prefix in their signature. His so-obviously-flawed “logic” assumes that many teachers aren’t already armed. It also assumes that all those who aren’t already armed will now choose to arm themselves.

Clearly, teachers are almost certainly adults and have already made up their minds about whether or not to afford themselves of their 2nd Amendment rights. His conclusion also assumes falsely that teachers would be “required” to carry, and

that is clearly not the case. Certainly, even where this is already

happening, it would be a matter of personal choice and that teachers who choose to be armed would face further training and some sort of certification. It’s not uncommon for professionals (lawyers, DAs, people in private security, those who carry cash and other valuables or are in other high-risk jobs, as well as people who have been or feel threatened) to carry, even in jurisdictions where there are virtually no rights for the average citizen to do so. Logical safeguards are the norm for all of these cases. It’s something of a head-scratcher to assume that would not be the case for teachers.

The author also assumes that arguments between teachers, students would now risk being settled with someone

popping off a couple of rounds. That he chose to include that potential scenario does more to illustrate and underscore his inability to think dispassionately and rationally about the subject.

He asks the question that, if an intruder breaks in why would we think the teachers would be faster and more accurate than the intruder . . . isn’t that why we train law enforcement? Of course, if an intruder breaks in AND a trained law enforcement professional is there to respond, any right-thinking person would prefer the situation to be handled by the professional. However, what are the chances of this being the case? In any event, the police are not “Dirty Harry.” The majority pull their weapon to qualify and that’s it. However, an armed teacher being on scene is likely (assuming

Keep Politics Out Of Police Probe

Two members of the disbanded Southampton Town Street Crimes Unit are back on the job after serving suspensions, but the matter is far from settled.

Before the crowing by the town’s Police Benevolent Association continues, a gut check may be in order. The Suffolk District Attorney has released several convicted drug dealers from prison because their arrests and subsequent convictions were tainted. District Attorney Tom Spota made it perfectly clear why his office took those extraordinary steps – because he believes some members of the Street Crimes Unit crossed the line in making those arrests.

In fact, the cops are accused in court papers of a litany of activities including planting evidence and setting up suspects. The town faces hundreds of millions of dollars in potential liability.

Of course, allegations in court papers often times turn out to be baseless. But the fact is, the Street Crimes Unit was disbanded in disgrace and the DA is in the midst of an investigation.

Now there are claims that evidence, including drugs, is missing from what was supposed to be a secure room in the police department.

Two PBA officials were quick to point fingers at the town’s Republican Party, sug-gesting the suspension of one officer who was admittedly addicted to painkillers was politically motivated. But there’s a big disconnect here: dangerous criminals are free on our streets because the DA decided the local cops screwed up. Lawsuits are being filed left and right with all sorts of accusations flying. And criminal attorneys

are telling us some members of the Street Crimes Unit were rogue operators, racists, even drug dealers. Does that make the charges true? Of course not.

But it should give pause to PBA officials trying to downplay this whole sordid af-fair. What happened in the Southampton Town Police Department is disgraceful. It’s an embarrassment. It’s outrageous. Worst of all, a few bad apples have tarnished the reputation of a lot of good cops.

There’s nothing to crow about here. There is no rationalizing what has taken place. There was a reason Southampton was the only East End police force that didn’t

participate in the East End Drug Task Force. The whispers about the Southampton Street Crimes Unit have been out there for a long time.

The Southampton Town Police PBA has done an admirable job protecting its mem-bers, and that’s what the union is for. But someone needs to place the blame where it should properly be placed: on the officers and brass who allowed this mess to happen.

There has been one thing sorely lacking: an apology to the people of this community. It’s silly season again, and perhaps it’s no coincidence that former town supervisor

Linda Kabot, a Republican, is running again. Kabot and the PBA feuded over proposed staff cuts in the past, and the PBA endorsed Anna Throne-Holst, Kabot’s opponent.

It doesn’t take a detective to put the dots together this time around. The public’s confidence in the police force has eroded and needs to be rebuilt. The

PBA needs to be in the forefront of the effort. We suggest leaving the finger pointing to the DA.

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mandatory training) to be far better than no potential equal response to an armed intruder intent on doing harm. It’s not like there haven’t been well-documented “spray and pray” incidents involving the police.

Personally, and contrary to his intent, I found nothing in Dr. Annacone’s article that might make me come to a conclusion. All I saw was an extraordinarily superficial analysis grounded more in personal bias than a rational discussion of the subject. I remain open to both sides of the issue.

JOHN HAVLICEK

An Obligation And DutyDear Editor,

“Teachers Packin’ Heat” by Dr. Dominic Annacone is a bizarre exercise in the convoluted logic of the misinformed on his way to misinforming everyone else. The good doctor explains in a 1000-word reasoning why arming teachers ready, willing and able to defend students, is really, not a good idea. He ends by asking “What kind of school atmosphere do you want your kids to be exposed to?”

How about a safe atmosphere, doctor, where kids are guarded from armed attack by the certainty of lethal force that will be used against the perps?

We can empirically test Annacone’s thesis:

There were no armed teachers at any of the school mass shootings.

We know the results of Dr. Annacone’s solution, policy already in place. No armed teachers, plenty of dead: dead students, dead principals, dead teachers, broken families, blood and gore, destroyed schools, shattered communities, funerals, newspaper articles confusing the object with the subject, and opportunistic governors and politicians who are willing to violate common sense - backed by a complicit media with fake statistics, while the rights of Americans to defend their families are thrown out the window, as well

as their state’s constitutions.How about this solution, doctor? Armed

alive teachers followed by dead attackers and far less dead children, teachers, principals, less funerals and less media coverage for tragedies averted because even armed crazies don’t want to end their lives without getting results. Meaning a field of dead kids.

Only people like Annacone want their family’s lives ended by his cowardly not having the guts and the common sense to realize that self defense and defending one’s family is not only a right, but an obligation and a duty.

RAND ALEXANDER

What You DeserveDear Editor,

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s, State Senator Ken LaValle’s and legislators Tim

(Pelosi) Bishop’s and Fred Thiele’s first order of business for the 2013 legislative session was to clamor for and/or pass new anti-gun legislation behind closed doors in secret - without input from the public - at a time when only Mayor Bloomberg’s dishonestly-named MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS group of radical left-wingers were alone calling for more restrictions in a state that already had the most restrictive gun laws in the nation regulating legal guns.

Violating the nation’s and state’s constitution was never an issue for these people. Laws are made for you, not for them.

Considering that Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats are levying more tax hikes on legal gun owners and innocent New Yorkers to fund what was not needed

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Dylan GallagherWe watch the movie Hop before Easter. Lots ofEaster Bunnies are in the movie and lots ofbunnies and chicks too. I still think the EasterBunny’s real. Well, I say that when I get thebasket with all the chocolate eggs. I think mygrandmother might be the Easter Bunny.

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in the first place and to pay for already highly-paid teachers like The East Hampton Independent’s own columnist Dr. Dominick Annacone, whose past performance running the Wainscott School of 20 children if I recall correctly, was not exactly a shining example of administrative achievement.

Annacone’s real problem was that he could only indoctrinate 20 kids with his leftwing pablum and not 2000, which more able administrators at real schools have succeeded in doing. Dominick’s anti-gun statistics were cherry picked from Brady’s Handgun Control Inc. and the loons at CDC, without consideration of objective statistics from the US Department of Justice/FBI that, surprise . . . disprove them. For example, this one: no children were killed in New York State with an assault rifle in decades . . . if ever. Not a single one. How many were killed in bathtubs, with knives, fists, baseball bats, enraged and drunk mothers, automobiles and neglect?

So much for Annacone’s “education.” Lucky for you 20 kids who graduated . . . you’ll grow up just as bright as your teachers.

I am left wondering exactly how the state will fund the now-unfunded mandates on localities to enforce compliance and to incarcerate law-abiding firearms owners who have never in their lives committed a crime; and whom these clueless legislators have deliberately criminalized based on false statistics, false beliefs, and gargantuan stupidity that will cost the New York taxpayer with no measurable benefit to society? On that note, I wonder how many firearms Mr. Annacone fired in his life - since he proclaimed himself an expert on firearms, medicine, constitutional law, and education. Never mind. He never mentioned the constitution, only that, by his words, he has no respect for it.

Meanwhile, New Jersey’s half-sane governor, unlike yours, understands where limited funds needed to be spent and not wasted. For example, spending $4 billion to upgrade New Jersey’s electric grid infrastructure to make it immune and/or easier to repair from storm and water damage. Meaning that, unlike the New York SAFE Act which makes women and older men unsafe and unable to defend themselves and their families, Governor Cuomo, Fred Thiele, Senator LaValle, Tim (Pelosi) Bishop - all Democrats (yes, I know LaValle would have you think otherwise) have done nothing for the East End to make their residents and the electric grid safer from storm, hurricane and wind damage.

Nothing, Zip, Nada, Kapish?LIPA has done likewise -- nothing. Most

of your wires are above ground, hanging loose from flagpoles a few hundred feet from shore, with huge and heavy transformers - lightning rods - ready to tip them over. On your homes and autos perhaps?

Readers of this letter now fully understand whom their New York legislators are, where they’re going, what they’re doing with your money, and where their lemmings follow. Think Pied Piper and remember to vote Democrat the next time. You will get more of the same and, well, I think you deserve it.

A. BENJAMIN

Lesson LearnedTo the Editor,

Fascinating, but not shocking. I recently read a letter to the editor by Nicholas Zizelis in which he stated that President Bill Clinton had received the honored Republican Lincoln Leadership Prize as “defining the very characteristics of President Lincoln’s legacy as one of the great leaders of our country.” He is the first President of any political party let alone a Democratic President, to be presented this rare tribute.

I now find it equally fascinating that the PPP’s (Public Policy Polling) latest Wisconsin poll, which tallied, voters would handily pick Hillary Clinton for President over their own state’s Republican Scott

Walker or Paul Ryan in 2016. Same applied to Republicans FL Marco Rubio and even NJ Chris Christie.

This is no reflection on the once proud Grand Old Party. It is that a growing majority of voters are Tea’d off, that the more of today’s version of the Neo-Conservative Republican Party placed into positions of authority and power, the further has been the damage incurred by our country? They’ve learned a lesson from the disastrous 2010 House of Representative’s infestation of the radical clueless freshman.

ZACK PAL

Freak ShowsTo the Editor,

It’s been 100 years since the Bronx Zoo put a Congolese pygmy named Ota Benga on display. Benga had been captured from the jungle, shipped to America, and would later commit suicide when he learned he would never go home.

We look back at the zoo’s display of Ota Benga with shame, but what society now considers unimaginable is still the reality for animals in zoos. Locked in cages, gawked at by streams of visitors, and denied their freedom, animals in zoos exist

in the same intolerable circumstances as Ota Benga did when he was kept on display at the turn of the century.

While our moral progress has compelled us to put an end to human “freak shows,” so must we dismantle animal prisons. There is no justification for keeping intelligent, social animals in cages for our fleeting amusement. Someday in the not too distant future, we will look upon zoos with the same moral repugnancy as we now look upon the story of Ota Benga.

JENNIFER O’CONNOR

Mystery Of IncarnationDear Editor,

St. Francis of Assisi (St. Francesco Bernardone 1181-1226) was the Italian founder of the Franciscan order. He renounced wealth by choosing to fOllow Christ in humility, poverty, love of mankind and all creation. He loved the poor, and lepers, and revealed the beauty of Christ’s life and the mystery of the incarnation. He received the stigmata feast on October 4.

He was a humble soul. His message will be uncovered in the future. Blessed be to all created in his image.

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Oodles of youngsters were hippity hopping out into the fields at Springs Presbyterian Church and the Ladies Village Improvement Society in East Hampton over the weekend, looking for the gold egg and snatching basketfuls of pastel plastic replicas, at annual Easter hunts. More candy quests will be held this weekend. (See coverage elsewhere in this edition.)


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“the crazy quilt” craze that occurred

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Independent / Kelly Hren

Dancehampton hosted its third annual “Dance Away Cancer” Dance-a-thon at the John Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton last Friday. Proceeds raised money for Katy’s Courage and the American Cancer Society’s South Fork Relay for Life.


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Stanton, one of the few players

in baseball capable of hitting 50

homers, ahead of Harper. And

Robinson Cano and Albert Pujols.

Then it gets dicey. Joey Votto? The

man’s a hitting machine. He should

be picked before Harper.

Most pundits have Andrew

McCutchen , who en joyed a

breakthrough season last year, in

their top seven or eight. I don’t – I

think he’ll regress. Carlos Gonzalez?

Great player, still young, plays in a

hitter’s ballpark. But he gets hurt a

lot. My hunch is this will be one of

those years when he spends time

on the disabled list, so I would grab

Harper first. Ditto Troy Tulo – injury

risk.

The top three pitchers in fantasy

– as they are in real life – are Justin

Verlander, Clayon Kershaw, and

Stephan Strasburg. All are good

choices, but I have never taken a

pitcher in the first round of a draft

in my life – always pick a guy who

plays everyday over a guy who

pitched every five days.

There are two other players

I might consider taking before

Harper: Josh Hamilton and Jose

Bautista. True, both have injury

problems, but each has a huge

upside too significant to overlook.

Prince Fielder is another great

hitter, but I think Harper has more

upside because he can steal bases

and Prince, who weighs 300 pounds,

isn’t about to run any further than

he has to. Justin Upton and Adrian

Beltre chart somewhere behind

those mentioned above.

Bottom line: if you have picks

nine through 12, grab Harper. If

he’s still available when your second

round picks come along, consider

yourself lucky. If you pick early in

the first round, take one of the Big

Four and hope one of the other guys

listed above make it to the back end

of the second round, when you pick

again. Otherwise snare a player like

Jose Reyes, a blue chipper at a thin

position, shortstop, David Wright,

at third base, or even Jay Bruce,

who should club 40 or so homers

this season.

If you pick in the middle of the

first round, you have to make the

difficult decision: is this the year

Harper emerges as a superstar, or

do you play it safe? Hint: I pick sixth

in a Real Time Sports Expert League

that is drafting Saturday, and I may

not be able to resist pulling the

trigger.

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Several times in the articles on

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accident at sea will ever have the blame

apportioned 100-0 and that you are

obligated by Rule 5 (to use all available

means to maintain a proper look-out.

This means, if you have radar, you had

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S o , w h o w a n t s t h a t e x t r a

responsibility? Well, we’ve all heard

the expression, “Ignorance is bliss” and

sometimes it is, but not on the water,

where “Knowledge is power.”

This is what this column is about.

Radio Detection And RangingIf there is a better sounding

maritime short-hand than “scuba,”

it has to be “radar.” We’ve grown

up hearing about it and being

subject to it – we’ve all been on the

parkway doing 55+ mph – that we

instinctively “get it.” It is the eyes

that can penetrate fog, rain, night

and snow. But “getting it” and

using it effectively is as much art

as science.

Eye Ayes: Radar For The Private Boater First , what is happening?

Electromagnetic energy is shot

out of the radar’s “transceiver” (a

transmitter and receiver combined

in one) at the speed of light and, if it

hits something of sufficient density,

it returns at the speed of light.

This enables the radar unit

to ins tant ly determine the

distance from the object to you.

The transceiver rotates three to

four times per minute so you are

constantly scanning for all comers

and all objects – that will return a

signal. Will a sail boat? Well, her

sails certainly won’t and, unless she

has a kicker engine on her stern, her

low-lying hull might not either, nor

her wooden mast. Radar needs some

amount of density.

Here is one anecdote that

illuminates the issue. A couple

of summers ago, while we were

conducting a night patrol, we were

transiting from buoy 5 to buoy 6

in Narrow Bay east of the Smith

Point Bridge. A moonless and cloudy

night, we picked up a good-sized

object lying 1000 feet directly in

the fairway, dead ahead. I was at

the helm and couldn’t see a thing

– no lights, no glow from a wake,

nothing.

I call out to my crewmen to

move to the bow to extend my

sight. Now we’re 500 feet away and

still no one can see a thing. But

she’s big and underway slowly . . .

So, while throttling back to

a “slow bell, (just enough speed

to maintain steerage), we turn

on the forward-looking infrared

system (FLIR, like a kind of radar

that detects tiny temperature

differences at great distances) since

I knew the engine of whatever was

ahead of us had to be warmer than

the boat and the water.

And there, in full majesty, was

a flock of swans paddling along in

serene closeness – but so many and

so close together that they showed

up as a single, solid object to the

radar, even though the FLIR could

see each swan individually.

And therein lay one of the issues

of “getting the concept” of radar

and using it effectively. A tug boat

and a tow might very well look

like a very large vessel. Two boats

abeam of each other might also

look like a single, larger boat.

Another issue is the sea state itself

and that is in two dimensions.

First, while radar can see through

light rain and light snow, as it

gets heavier, the signals flood the

system and the screen “whites out.”

Back in the day, the radar observer

would “fiddle” with various dials to

try to find the right mix of tuning

to reduce the return signals from

the weather while still being able

to see something important – like

another boat.

Now, you flip a switch or press a

button and tell the system that it is

snowing or raining and the built-in

computer does most of the work

for you. But what is the second

dimension I mentioned?

Well, think of the radar like a

gun shooting out electronic bullets

in a straight line. As the seas build,

and your bow rises and falls making

its way over those building seas,

the “gun” is shooting up into outer

space or down into the water –

reducing the effectiveness when you

may need it the most. If you aren’t

aware of that, you can’t effectively

interpret what you are seeing or

might not be seeing.

State Of The ArtDespite all these caveats, I would

recommend saving up and taking

the step. There are several great

systems (see below) and prices have

come down dramatically while

functionality has gone up even more

dramatically. The cost, while nothing

to sniffle at ($2000+), is a fraction

of what it was 10 years ago and,

relative to your income and certainly

inflation, is a far smaller bite.

Function has exploded upwards.

I mentioned the computer’s ability

to “teach itself” how to see through

snow and rain. How about painting

the radar picture directly and

simultaneously onto an integrated

GPS screen? How about calculating

how close a “bogey” will get to

you – and when – for 10 objects

simultaneously? Set off an alarm

that you set that says, ‘tell me when

any object comes within a half a

nautical mile of me?’ Child’s play.

All this and more is available in the

modern system.

Here is a partial list of full-

featured, integrated (with GPS and

fathometers) systems, all in the

$2000 range:

Lowrance LRA 2400 (www.

lowrance.com)

Northstar (www.northstarnav.

com)

Raymarine C80 (or E80) (www.

raymarine.com)

I use the Raymarine E80 and I

don’t turn on the engine unless I

also turn on my “eye ayes!”

BTW, if you are interested in

being part of USCG Forces, email

me at [email protected] or

go directly to the D1SR Human

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charge of new members matters,

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