The Suffolk Times

Birute Kliukaite, 55, of Riverhead was taken to Eastern Long Island Hospital by the Greenport Fire Department ambulance corps after a car accident on Route 48 in Greenport Saturday morning.

Police said Ms. Kliukaite, who was driving during a snowstorm at about 10 a.m., lost control of her vehicle near Moore’s Lane, striking a tree.

• A Third Street, Greenport resident reported $2,000 cash and a Toshiba computer were taken from his home sometime between 8 and 10 p.m. on Jan. 14. Police said the thief may have entered the house through a rear window.

Those who are named in police reports have not been convicted of any crime or violation. The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.

GIANNA VOLPE PHOTO | Historian Gail Horton stands on an old stepping stone near the corner of Main and North streets in Greenport. Passengers from the horse and buggy days would step from a carriage onto the stone to avoid getting clothing and shoes soiled by the mud streets.

Most North Forkers know all about the area’s colonial past and many are only too happy to share that knowledge. And in a few months, a few local historians will get to brag about the region’s rich past with a national historical group.

The North Fork has been selected as the destination for a June tour sponsored by The National Trust for Historic Preservation. The trust has offered study tours to its more than 200,000 members since 1970, but never before to the North Fork, which the organization’s brochure calls “Long Island’s best kept secret.” The tour will be a follow-up to several trips to the South Fork.

Richard Wines, chair of the Riverhead Town Landmarks Preservation Commission, said the “best kept secret” title is certainly appropriate for an area that’s “the least best known of Long Island.”

But there’s a downside to being “discovered,” he added. “I think there’s a part of us that would prefer the secret kept,” he said.

Gail Horton, a Greenport historian and longtime resident, bemoans those who visit the village but fail to realize “the richness and activity of this place and its history.” She echoed Mr,. Wines’ sentiment, saying she’d just as soon see the North Fork maintain its secret status.

Both Mr. Wines and Ms. Horton will serve as guides during the five-night excursion, which is limited to 25 people. Ms. Horton will lead the group on a walking tour of Greenport.

The visitors will stay at the Harborfront Inn on Front Street. Price for double occupancy is $2,875 per person, which doesn’t include airfare. Single occupants pay an additional $650.

“If you walk around Greenport, the story of the village is told and that’s how I intend to present it,” Ms. Horton said. The tour will include a lesson on Greenport’s maritime history, including its ports and the sailor’s life. They’ll discover how Sterling Harbor was known as Winter Harbor in the mid to late 1700s. “Our first port,” she said.

The group will also stop at Greenport Baptist Church, where they’ll be able to admire four Tiffany stained glass windows.

“I don’t know if any other church has that many of them,” Ms. Horton said.

Mr. Wines will show visitors around Hallockville Museum Farm and his own historic Jamesport property, which has been in his family for 350 years. The property includes a host of period buildings that he and his wife, Nancy Gilbert, a Peconic Land Trust board member, salvaged from the surrounding area and moved to their land.

“The house we’ll be showing was the house of a whaling captain whose ship made Jamesport its home port,” Mr. Wines said.
For anyone paying attention, North Fork history is hard to overlook. Southold, which included all of Riverhead prior to 1792, claims the title of the oldest English-speaking settlement in New York State. Cutchogue’s Old House, circa 1649, is the state’s oldest English-style structure.

But Mr. Wines argues that age isn’t what gives the area is special quality.

“My family has deep roots here going back to the founding of Southold in 1640, but I think the real attraction of the North Fork is more of what it is,” he said. “It’s the farming, the sea, the special quality of the air. You can always identify an Impressionist painting done out here because the light is a little different.”

The woman responsible for the tour, Protravel International’s managing director Susan Gullia, said she grew up coming out to Aquebogue, Shelter Island and Amagansett.

“Everyone knows about the Hamptons, but not an awful lot of people are familiar with the North Fork,” she said. “It hasn’t had the publicity and the jazz.”

Meg Annacone-Poretz, associate director of National Trust Tours, said the North Fork is an “off the radar” destination and an area “very much worthy of having a light shined on it.”

The June tour is being marketed in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

“We’re hoping people in the tri-state area who have never been to the area will come and experience it for themselves,” she said.

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TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | greenport superintendent Michael Comanda said this week his district will not pursue a partnership with Southold Schools on a shared athletic complex.

The Greenport School District is not interested in building a sports complex that would serve all of Southold Town’s schools.

During the Jan. 18 Greenport school board meeting Superintendent Michael Comanda said he’s received phone calls from taxpayers opposing the project, which was pitched by Southold school board member Scott DeSimone at a joint meeting with Greenport two weeks ago. Mr. Comanda said he has no interest in pursuing such an expensive plan with Greenport’s money.

“We have no real designs or desire to look at any long-term expense,” he told hid board. “That really was not something we were looking to accomplish. Our immediate goal is to cut some costs and share some services.”

Mr. DeSimone had said he was in discussions with Southold Town to build a complex with an eight-lane track, a turf field and lighting, which the public could also access. The costs could be shared by the schools, the town and the private sector, he added.

Greenport school board members said they were concerned that if a stadium were built outside Greenport, village residents would be upset at the loss of their prized football team. The Porters squad includes students from across the North Fork and Shelter Island, but plays its home games in Greenport.

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PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson could serve as the host for a proposed 10-bed pediatric program.

Despite some progress on a transitional-care program for medically dependent children, a solution for long-term pediatric care on Long Island remains elusive.

Local politicians and hospital administrators say the issue will not be easy to resolve, since the program’s potential cost, as well other, more pressing medical needs in the area, are pushing it to the back burner.

According to a Jan. 12 Suffolk Times report, few local long-term medical care options exist for children like Caroline Serva, who suffered severe brain damage shortly after her premature birth in April 2010 and now requires constant medical attention.

Caroline’s parents, Karen and Rob, drive two hours twice a week from their Sound Beach home to Westchester County to see their daughter at Blythedale Children’s Hospital. Two Riverhead teenagers injured in near-fatal accidents last year, Michael Hubbard and Rashad Jackson, are also at Blythedale for rehabilitation.

“The issue is that parents should not have to drive many hours to visit their children who are in a fragile situation,” state Senator Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) said in an interview. “You shouldn’t have a separation between parents and their children. We’ve worked with state agencies to have transitional care so these kids can be brought back and be taken care of … on Long Island.”

One possible solution is a proposed 10-bed pediatric program at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, Mr. LaValle said.

The program would be designed to wean fragile children off respirators with the goal of preparing them for long-term home care or recovery, said hospital CEO Jim O’Connor. Stony Brook University Medical Center would supply pediatric care specialists, while St. Charles and the affiliated Maryhaven Center of Hope, which provides services for the disabled, would have appropriate rehab facilities and staff.

“We’re looking to offer the continuum of care,” Mr. O’Connor said. “It’s difficult because one of the problems is most of these children are not in need of acute care. The child is literally sitting in the acute care hospital, taking up an acute care bed, and not getting the rehab care they need.”

Mr. O’Connor said the hospitals are in the process of submitting a certificate of need to New York State and will apply for grant money available under the state’s Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law to start capital improvements for the proposed 10-bed program’s new facilities. He hopes to have the program up and running by the end of the year.

But despite some strides toward a transitional-care program, a huge void will remain in long-term care and rehabilitation for hundreds of Long Island families. Children like Michael Hubbard, seriously burned in a gel candle accident last year, would not be eligible for the St. Charles program since he has already made the transition into long-term care.

Mr. O’Connor said he would like eventually to expand the program to include long-term beds, possibly at one of the hospital’s nursing homes, while Mr. LaValle said the transitional-care program would be the first step towards getting pediatric long-term care facilities on Long Island.

Suffolk County Legislator Ed Romaine (R-Center Moriches) said the largest barrier to starting a long-term care program is “economy of scale,” since caring for medically-fragile children is much more expensive than caring for older patients.

Mr. Romaine suggested the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility in Yaphank as the potential site of a new program, since the building has a wing with more than 50 beds that is empty due to rumors of the facility’s closing during the previous county executive’s administration.

“[Foley] handles cases for people who are going to live a long time and have multiple afflictions, which is a money loser for Medicaid,” Mr. Romaine said. “This may be something the John J. Foley nursing home could handle.”

Mr. Romaine said he has not previously suggested using Foley for long-term care because he wanted to avoid a perceived conflict of interest — his wife works at the nursing home as a housekeeper. And, while he recognizes the need for long-term care, he said the problem has been difficult to fix because no recent study shows exactly how many families need the service. Other concerns, such as county finances, have pushed the issue aside, but Mr. Romaine pledged to speak with county health officials about the problem.

He also said the hospitals in the East End Health Alliance, particularly Peconic Bay Medical Center, would be prime locations for a long-term care solution.

“Between the hospitals, each of whom have great competencies, that type of service should be provided,” Mr. Romaine said.

However, Peconic Bay Medical Center President and CEO Andrew Mitchell noted that adding a long-term care program would not be an easy — or cheap — fix.

“Pediatric long-term care is a highly specialized program that requires a very complex facility and program and an equally significant NYS review process,” Mr. Mitchell wrote in an email. “That is one reason that there is only a few such facilities in New York State.”

Mr. Mitchell said Peconic Bay has focused on expanding programs for older patients because of the East End’s growing retirement population, but he added the East End Health Alliance will complete a needs assessment soon and “can evaluate [potential pediatric long-term care] in the context of overall community need.”

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GIANNA VOLPE FILE PHOTO | Assemblyman Fred Thiele speaking at a breast cancer awareness forum on Shelter Island in November.

State Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I-Sag Harbor) could become Southold and Shelter Island’s new representative in the State Assembly, if a redistricting proposal released today by the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment takes effect.

The redistricting, which could be in place by this November’s election, would change the boundaries of the First And Second Assembly Districts. The South Fork, Shelter Island and Southold would become the First District, which would be represented by Mr. Thiele, who currently represents the Second District, which is comprised only of the South Fork. First District Assemblyman Dan Losquadro (R-Shoreham) would see his new Second District start in Riverhead and head west.

If the proposal takes effect, Mr. Thiele would no longer represent the hamlets of Mastic, Mastic Beach, and Shirley.

A public hearing, which is required before the redistricting occurs, will take place at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9 in the auditorium of the William H. Rogers Legislative Building of the Suffolk County Legislature in Hauppauge.

In a statement Thursday, Mr. Thiele said he would have preferred if the redistricting had been drawn by an independent and non-partisan committee, but he found the end results acceptable.

“This district includes as much of the East End in the same district as was constitutionally possible. Further, it avoids dividing the Tri-Hamlet Area (Mastic, Mastic Beach, and Shirley), which is currently the existing situation where I share the peninsula with two other Assembly members. My Assembly District had to be reduced in population under the State and U.S. Constitution. This district plan does that without dividing communities in my district to serve the political needs of those to the west.”

He said the redistricting was done because there were too many people in his district as it was formerly drawn.

Using figures from the 2010 U.S. Census, each Assembly District should include 129,089 residents. Mr. Thiele’s district was 13,744 residents over the average. The new district will have 128,929, 160 less than the average.

“Based upon enrollment numbers, the district is politically competitive and does not discriminate against any minority group. It unites communities of interest and does not divide villages,” Mr. Thiele added.

A map showing the redistricting proposal's impact on Long Island. Click to enlarge.

Mr. Losquadro said Thursday afternoon he was surprised that the redistricting committee didn’t see fit to keep the North Fork intact on its new maps.

“I really think that the North Fork and South Fork issues vary pretty significantly. There are far more primary homeowners on the North Fork. They also have a lot more agriculture on the North Fork than the South Fork.

Mr. Losquadro said he knew his district was going to change substantially when the census figures showed it had 149,700 people in it.

“I knew I’d be losing 21,000 constituents just to reach a parity with the other districts, but that could have been done in a way to keep the geographic areas contiguous.

Mr. Losquadro said that, while he’s enjoyed representing Shelter Island, he believes residents there could be represented by an assemblyman from either fork.

“It’s not like I don’t want to represent them,” he said. “It was a real honor for me to represent those areas.”

Southold Republican Party chairman Denis Noncarrow said he’s disappointed in the redistricting, which he believes is “a done deal” in Albany.

“The South Fork and the North Fork have different concerns,” he said. “There are battles that the North Fork had exclusively that we’re not going to have somebody fighting for.”

He said that those issues range from helicopter noise en route to the East Hampton Airport to issues that Mr. Losquadro is working on for Fishers Island, including training emergency responders and helping to provide access to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles.

“A lot of individual things are exclusive North Fork problems,” he said.

Mr. Losquadro said, even though the boundary lines have changed, he will continue to pressure the Federal Aviation Administration to change its recommended helicopter routes to alleviate the noise of helicopter traffic on the North Shore.

“We have an FAA which has just been lax, wanting and delinquent in finding a solution and implementing a solution to this problem,” he said. “The area I’m still representing will still be the area on the North Shore most impacted. I will still continue to keep my pressure up on the federal representatives and the FAA.”

Mr. Noncarrow said he doesn’t know Mr. Thiele well.

“Only time will tell. We’ll have to see how it goes. It was nice having someone who handled just the North Fork and its concerns,” he said, adding that, since Mr. Thiele is a member of the Independence Party, not a Democrat, he doesn’t see the redistricting as a concern for Southold Republicans.

Mr. Thiele, a lawyer by trade, is a former Southampton Town Supervisor and member of the Suffolk County Legislature. He was raised in Sag Harbor, where he graduated from Pierson High School before attending Southampton College. He received his law degree from Albany Law School and was admitted to the bar in New York State in 1980. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1995.

He was not immediately available for comment.

Mr. Thiele is most widely known as the architect of the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund, a land preservation program in the five East End towns that is funded through a 2 percent real estate transfer tax.

He has been actively involved in land preservation and transportation issues on the South Fork.

Mr. Thiele had served in the Assembly as a Republican until he switched his party affiliation to the Independence Party in Oct. 2009, after briefly flirting with the idea of becoming a Democrat. He said at the time that his support of marriage equality put him at odds with Republican leadership. He was endorsed by the Democratic, Independence and Working Families parties in his 2010 re-election campaign.

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GARRET MEADE FILE PHOTO | Christie O'Hara of Montauk and Leo Ullman of Sands Point rounded the first turn during the biking phase of the 13th annual Mighty North Fork Triathlon last summer.

The streets and waters of downtown Riverhead may be the stage for a July 29 triathlon.

The downtown Business Improvement District and the Riverhead Community Development Agency are planning a triathlon that would include a 1.5 kilometer swim in the Peconic River, a 10K run and a 40K bicycle race through downtown Riverhead.

The plan, discussed at Thursday’s Riverhead Town Board meeting, would have the finish line in front of the Suffolk Theatre marquee. Runners’ names would appear on the marquee as they cross the finish line, if it’s possible.

Town Board members voiced the support for the plan.

“I love it. Does everybody love it?” Supervisor Sean Walter asked his fellow board members.

“I think this would be a great event,” Councilman John Dunleavy said.

Dennis McDermott, the owner of the Riverhead Project restaurant who is involved in the proposal, called hosting a triathlon in a downtown area a unique idea.

“Most triathlons occur in beaches … removed from populations,” he said.

The swimming portion of the race would be in the river, and the bike part would use the riverfront parking lot, with the finish line on Main Street by the Suffolk Theatre marquee, he said. Main Street would need to be closed to traffic for the event, he said.

Participants would bring their spouses and would stay in local hotels and spend money locally, he said.

Mr. McDermott estimated about 500 people would participate. Race director Rueben Kline, of Event Power LI, felt 300 was a better number, saying that first-time events should start off small.

Mr. McDermott said they also hope to set up “popup storefronts” in vacant stores to promote things like local wineries, businesses and the North Fork Animal Welfare league.

Event Power directs many races on Long Island, Mr. Kline said. Their events generally raise money for charity in the community it occurs in, he said.

The Town Board technically is the board of both the CDA and the BID, and they voiced support for the proposal, although they have not formally voted to approve it.

Police Chief David Hegermiller asked if there was enough room in the river for all the participants. Steve Tarpinian of Event Power LI said they do a “time trial” start, in which participants enter one after another, instead of all at once. The participants are timed with a computer chip, he said.

Town Board members said the event would not need a special event permit, since it’s a town-sponsored event.

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JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | A flyer posted on a door at 7-Eleven in Mattituck on Thursday offering a reward up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of a crime spree that took place on Dec. 17.

The Southold Town Police Department and Suffolk County Crime Stoppers are offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest in connection with a crime spree that took place Dec. 17, when a dozen vehicles parked on Donna Drive and Woodcliff Drive in Mattituck were broken into.

Two pairs of binoculars, a laptop, a credit card, CDs, $20 in coins and a purse containing credit cards and $350 cash were reportedly taken from six separate vehicles on Woodcliff Drive, officials said.

A GPS, a pair of binoculars, an iPod and a credit card were reported stolen from three cars on Donna Drive. Three other cars on the street were broken into but nothing was reported missing, police said.

A credit card stolen from one of those cars was reportedly used for $113 worth of charges before the owner noticed it was missing.

Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley said in an email that most of the cars broken into were unlocked.

“We did not have any suspects for these crimes and we are pleading with residents to not leave these type of valuables in their vehicles while unattended and to lock their doors,” he said.

Anyone with information on the investigation is asked to contact the Southold Town Police Department at (631) 765-2600 or to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at (800) 220-TIPS. All calls will remain confidential.

JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO Venus and the moon together in the night sky at around 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday above the end of the Long Island Expressway in Riverhead.

As darkness is falling tonight, be sure to take a look toward the west-southwest part of the sky for a celestial tableau formed by a crescent moon and the planet Venus.

The moon will have shifted tonight to a position about 7 degrees above and to Venus’ right.

The glow you will see on the dark portion of the crescent Moon is known as earthshine.

INDIANS 46, PORTERS 42

For the first time in many years, Shelter Island’s boys varsity basketball team vanquished first-place Greenport, its rival across the channel.

“This was a great team win,” coach Mike Mundy said in the locker room after the game.

The Indians earned a hard-fought 46–42 victory hosting Greenport Jan. 20. The Indians had not beaten the Porters on the hardwood since the late 1990s, a span of more than 25 games.

The Porters entered the game tied for first place with Stony Brook, both with a 5–1 league record. The Indians were at the other end of the standings and coming off their first league win earlier in the week, having beaten Smithtown-Christian, 54–46, to gain some much needed confidence.

Knowing one’s opponents is a key factor in developing a good game plan and JV coach Jay Card provided that much needed information, having scouted Greenport earlier in the week. Varsity coach Mike Mundy had two days to prepare his team for the contest. The preparation and hard work paid off, as did great support from the Indians’ dedicated fans.

The Indians opened the game playing a man-to-man defense. The Porters capitalized by getting good penetration for some easy baskets. Greenport jumped out to a 15–9 first quarter lead. After switching to a 3–2 zone defense, the Indians successfully limited their opponent’s scoring opportunities and set their own pace. Greenport managed just two field goals and 6 second-quarter points. Matt BeltCappellino hit a huge shot at the buzzer, cutting Greenport’s lead to 2 points (21–19).

Both teams continued to play strong defensively during the third quarter, scoring 9 points apiece. The Porters enjoyed a brief 5-point lead until senior tri-captain Alex Graffagnino hit his second of three 3-point shots to help bring his team back from that deficit. Alex had a season-high 11 points, shooting 3 for 5 from downtown.

The fourth quarter was full of excitement and missed opportunities, especially for the Indians from the foul line. The team shot only 38 percent from the foul line, the same percentage from the 2-point area, which is a better statistic, and an impressive 56 percent from 3-point range.

Two big calls, one a technical foul, the other an intentional foul, went against the visiting team. They proved costly for Greenport. Nevertheless, the Indians played smart, using their time-outs wisely, staying on rebounds and getting to loose balls throughout the deciding fourth quarter.

After the game, players asked that credit go to the cheerleaders and the fans for their tremendous support. They said it had made a big difference.

Once again, senior tri-captain Jimmy Read led the team with 15 points, 8 rebounds and 5 steals. He also did a great job on defense against Greenport’s leading scorer. Sophomore tri-captain Matt BeltCappellino scored 13 points, played solid defense, and had two great blocked shots early in the game. Sophomore Nathan Mundy played very well as did juniors Hunter Starzee, Myles Clark and Chandler Olinkiewicz.

GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Shelter Island's Kelsey McGayhey finds her path to the basket obstructed by Southold's Melissa Rogers. Southold held McGayhey to 16 points, leaving her 21 shy of 1,000 career points.

FIRST SETTLERS 54, INDIANS 43

Shelter Island senior Kelsey McGayhey pulled herself 16 points closer to the 1,000-point mark, but it was the Southold girls basketball team that took a huge step closer toward the Suffolk County League VIII championship on Thursday night.

First-place Southold limited McGayhey to 6 points through three quarters and held off a late charge by second-place Shelter Island to record a 54-43 victory. With five league games remaining, the First Settlers (8-5, 7-0) are in control of their own destiny, which they hope will include their first league title since 2005.

“It’s in our hands and we just need to keep chugging on forward,” said Southold forward Melissa Rogers.

Shelter Island coach Peter Miedera said Southold “pretty much cemented” the league crown with the result.

Shelter Island (7-4, 5-2) stood as Southold’s biggest threat, but the First Settlers have defeated the islanders in three of the four games between the teams this season, the sole loss coming by two points. What is Southold’s secret?

“Secrets are meant to be secret,” answered Rogers.

Shelter Island, which trailed since the first quarter, twice pulled to within 5 points of Southold in the fourth quarter before Rogers sank three of four free throws, sandwiched around a basket by Sydney Campbell, restoring the First Settlers’ double-digit lead at 50-40 with 2 minutes 25 seconds to go.

GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Alexis Gibbs of Shelter Island attempting a shot while she was flanked by Southold's Sydney Campbell (22) and Carley Staples (15).

McGayhey, a 5-foot-11 center, is looking to become the first Shelter Island girl to score 1,000 career points, according to Miedera. Southold wrapped a suffocating box-and-one defense around McGayhey, who found multiple First Settlers collapsing on her whenever the ball was in her hands. By halftime, she had only 4 points on 2-for-5 shooting.

“A lot of times when she got the ball, she was bumped two, three times, so nothing was easy for her,” Miedera said. “Whenever you’re a player and you get keyed on, you feel that added pressure.”

But McGayhey shot 5 for 7 in the fourth quarter when she struck for 10 points in Shelter Island’s comeback attempt. She finished the game with 16 points — about 9 below her average — on 8-for-16 shooting. She was 0 for 3 from three-point range and missed her only free-throw attempt.

McGayhey is 21 points shy of 1,000 career points, which she could reach in Shelter Island’s next game on Tuesday on the road against Pierson/Bridgehampton.

Asked for her thoughts about approaching the 1,000-point mark, McGayhey said it is “beyond exciting. I’m kind of speechless about it.”

“I’m planning to do it at Pierson, if they don’t shut me down but, I’m serious, I can picture myself doing it,” she continued. “I want to make my parents proud.”

McGayhey has surely done her school proud. When she was younger — and shorter — she was trained as a guard. Then she grew a couple of feet, making her a threat in the post. But she has retained those ball-handling skills. She got a brief taste of varsity ball as an eighth-grader, played half the season as a freshman with the team, and has been a fixture ever since for the Indians.

A tremendous athlete perhaps best known as a volleyball player (she hopes to play volleyball for Springfield College in Massachusetts), McGayhey has a soft shooting touch, great jumping ability and a fierce competitive drive, not to mention, of course, a knack for scoring.

“When she gets hot, it’s something to see,” Miedera said. “She really does have a gift.”

Southold turned in what coach Amanda Barrilo called her team’s best effort of the season to beat McGayhey and the rest of the Indians. Campbell knocked down three 3-pointers and had 18 points. Rogers put up 12 points and 9 rebounds, and Nicole Busso added 10 points.

The First Settlers also limited Shelter Island’s second-chance shots by outrebounding the Indians, 36-20, and holding them to only 7 rebounds.

But it was defense that might have made the biggest difference. Barrilo said her team spent two full days working on its defense in preparation for the game. It proved to be time well spent. Southold made things difficult for McGayhey.

“We were determined to not give her any space,” Rogers said. “We were very determined to stop her from scoring and limit that. And one way to keep her [from scoring] is just to keep on her, keep bugging her, keep being an annoying pest. That was one of our things, just being as annoying as possible today.”

Busso, Campbell and Lauren Ficurilli were the primary players guarding McGayhey, “but once she got the ball, anyone in the vicinity doubled her,” said Rogers.

Looking ahead, McGayhey has given thought to what it will be like for her when she scores her 1,000th point. “I’m probably going to cry, I’m not going to lie to you,” she said. “It’s a pretty big deal with me.”

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JUDY AHRENS FILE PHOTO | With tall ships as backdrop, Colin Van Tuyl directs the Greenport Band in Mitchell Park during the 2004 Tall Ships of America's tour.

As Greenport Village finalizes plans for the tall ships visit set for Memorial Day weekend, the event’s steering committee has decided on ticket prices this week.

Tickets to tour six ships will cost $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and children under the age of 12 can enter for free. The village is exploring whether the event can also be free for Greenport residents, officials said.

In 2004, when Tall Ships of America last visited Greenport, the village did not charge an entry fee. It was awarded a state grant to offset the cost of ship appearance fees.

Since that grant came through the defunct “I Love New York” tourism marketing program, Greenport Village Mayor David Nyce said charging an entry fee will help offset the cost of the $130,000 appearance fees.

“I wish it could be free, but trying to raise the funds through corporate sponsorship has been difficult in this economic climate,” Mr. Nyce said. “But for a family of four with two children under 12, the cost is $14 to tour six ships. I still think that’s a real bargain. You can’t even get one baseball ticket for that price.”

On Monday, the Village Board is expected to vote on contracts with the owners of the Picton-Castle, whose home port is Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; the Lynx, a replica of an 1812 warship; the Unicorn from New Jersey, which has an all-female crew; and the Pride of Baltimore II.

Last month, the village approved a $30,000 contract for the Bounty, a Greenport-based class A vessel, which is the largest of the ships. The U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s ship Summer Wind is also expected to make an appearance at the event.

“The entire community is going to pull together to make sure [tall ships] works,” Mr. Nyce said. “The hope is that everybody benefits and we have a nice event.”

In May, the sail will start in Savannah, Ga. and visit Charleston, S.C. before stopping at Greenport Harbor. The tour will then continue onto Newport, R.I. and finish in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fleet of vessels will race against each other between ports.

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Dennis and Diane Harkoff of Legends restaurant in New Suffolk will be the Grand Marshals for the Cutchogue-New Suffolk St. Patrick’s Day parade that will take place March 10.

Dennis and Diane Harkoff of Legends restaurant in New Suffolk will be the Grand Marshals for the Cutchogue-New Suffolk St. Patrick’s Day parade that will take place March 10. They were selected by the parade committee and contacted by committee member Paul Romanelli, who announced the news.

“The committee looks for a Grand Marshal who is representative of what the North Fork is all about and has made great contributions to the community in business or through volunteerism,” Mr. Romanelli said.

He noted that the Harkoffs invested a lot of time and a considerable sum into rebuilding Legends, which has become “a great community spot.” He added that they’ve also given much time and effort supporting the New Suffolk Waterfront Fund, an effort to match preservation with an appropriate commercial use of the community’s last large open waterfront properties.

Ms. Harkoff said she was taken aback when Mr. Romanelli called to tell her the news.

“I’m still in shock,” she said, “I’m going to have to get something to wear.”

The couple will lead the parade in a Cadillac and then view the marchers with other local dignitaries from the grandstand in the center of town.

“I’m glad they’re not doing it on the 16th because we’re going to have a big party here,” Mr. Harkoff said. He’s now looking to secure a traditional Irish blackthorn walking stick, known also as a shillelagh, to carry during the parade.

gvolpe@timesreview.com

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | This vacant farmhouse could soon be remade into a group home for non-elderly adults in need of long-term medical care.

There are few services on Long Island for young people in need of constant medical care. Now, some families that have found this out the hard way are taking matters into their own hands.

More than a dozen people met for the first time in Medford Thursday night to discuss how to raise donations and awareness for “Brendan’s House,” a planned 12-bed long-term care home on Sound Avenue in Riverhead for those with traumatic brain injuries or other cognitive and physical disabilities.

The three-structure property once served as a home for single mothers before it was donated to an outpatient rehab center called New Beginnings. As envisioned, the facility would be staffed around the clock with nurses and other aides for its residents.

“There are very few resources out there for [young people who need long-term care],” said Kate DiMeglio, vice president of New Beginnings, which offers long-term care services for patients dealing with traumatic brain injuries and their families. “I’ve been fighting this for 13 years; we’re at the bottom of the barrel.”

Brendan’s House would be run by two Long Island nonprofits, New Beginnings of Medford and Family Residences & Essential Enterprises of Old Bethpage. Costs for care would be covered under the patient’s insurance, said New Beginnings’ founder, Allyson Scerri.

Since New Beginnings opened in April 2011, the center has served more than 150 people who would otherwise have no other place to turn to for support, said Ms. Scerri, a Remsenburg native who founded the center after her father suffered a severe brain injury in a motorcycle accident and couldn’t get the care he needed on Long Island.

“It’s almost like we’re the land of misfits,” she said, adding that the organization also helps veterans who return home with post-traumatic stress disorder or physical injuries. “We are a family here … We’re the last resort.”

The home is expected to cost $200,000, Ms. Scerri said, though the group has already received donations from Home Depot and pro bono services from an attorney and grant writer. Architect Roger Smith of BBS Architecture, who designed the Long Island Aquarium and the new Hyatt Place East End hotel, has donated his time to help with the renovation.

During this week’s meeting at the New Beginnings rehab center, a supporter also announced that Chrisnic Construction, a contracting group in Bellmore, would have each of its subcontractors donate a day of labor to get the project moving.

But center officials are looking for more donations or volunteers to help clean out the house, which they say needs a redesign to accommodate handicapped patients. The building itself is structurally sound.

Brendan’s House was named in honor of Brendan Aykroyd, a 25-year-old Blue Point man who was assaulted in 2009 and suffered a brain injury.

Mr. Aykroyd joined New Beginnings to continue his rehabilitation in last year, but died in his sleep in June. Around that time, New Beginnings began working on plans for the group home and decided to name it after Brendan after speaking his parents.

“My husband and I are eternally grateful that you are loving our son as you have,” Brendan’s mother, Sandi Aykroyd, told those in attendance Thursday night. “We are just so in awe of this project, that his name will live on.”

Long-term care for non-elderly, medically dependent people remains an issue for many Long Island families. According to a Jan. 12 Riverhead News-Review report, few local options exist for children like Michael Hubbard, a Riverhead teenager who was severely burned in a gel-candle accident last May. Michael and his mother, Nancy Reyer, stay off the island as Michael receives treatement at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Westchester County.

Before Ms. Reyer moved upstate to be closer to Michael, she had attended support groups at New Beginnings. The Medford facility will soon also begin rehabilitation treatment for Marialena Trinca, the 4-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a Manorville car crash that claimed the lives of her brother Jason, 10, and her mother, Keri, in October.

Under the current plan, Brendan’s House residents would live at the Riverhead group home and spend most days at New Beginnings for treatment. Family Residences & Essential Enterprises would staff the home, which would cater to non-elderly patients who need constant care but crave independence.
While organizers would like to have Brendan’s House up and running as soon as possible, project manager and executive vice president Steve Scerri said he wants to “do it right” and not rush the renovations. They have already secured the proper zoning permits for Brendan’s House from Riverhead Town and are waiting for Mr. Smith, the architect, to provide a list of materials that need to be donated.

Ms. Scerri expects to have Brendan’s House open within a year, and hopes to open more homes for long-term care in the future.

“We started with an empty building [in Medford] and the town saying, ‘You’re crazy,’” she said. “Today all of our rooms were filled.”

psquire@timesreview.com

KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Alan Stewart (from left), Marilee Scheer and Becca Mincieli in a scene from John Patrick Shanley's 'Doube: A Parable.'

“When in doubt, abstain.” Thus spake Zoroaster in 700 B.C.

“Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy.” So said John Patrick Shanley in 2004.

The playwright chose “doubt,” that place between belief and disbelief, certainty or distrust, for the title and theme of his darkly funny Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play set in 1964.

Doubt
North Fork Community Theatre
Old Sound Avenue, Mattituck
Performances continue Jan. 27 and 28, Feb. 3 and 4 at 8 p.m.; Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 at 2:30 p.m. The Jan. 28 performance is followed by a talk-back with director and cast.
For tickets, visit nfct.com or call 298-6328.

The plot dramatizes the balance of power between Sister Aloysius (Marilee Scheer), a nun who is certain even if truth is not, and Father Flynn (Alan Stewart), a young priest whom she suspects of molesting one of her students. The battle is between the fierce, forbidding school principal and the priest who preaches love and who wants to be believed. As written, they crash into each other, their perception clouded by paranoia like two semis blinded by fog on the expressway.

The clash on the Mattituck stage, while perfectly functional, attractive and well turned-out, lacks the combustion of human anxiety and urgency.

The excellent Marilee Scheer continues to amaze and delight with her ability to feel and project the heart of each one of the varied characters she plays. Alan Stewart is a skillful director as well as actor, but somehow the struggle between them is never death-defying. As film folk say, “The chemistry is wrong.”

Or perhaps the role of Father Flynn is not written as clearly as one might wish. Mr. Shanley’s writing was enormously successful with the ebullient screwball comedy “Moonstruck,” for which he won an Oscar. It seems less so in this subversive narrative. His old-fashioned storytelling is as clear and direct as Arthur Miller’s and as full of local color as Horton Foote’s. But it never has the poetry of Tennessee Williams or the musicality of August Wilson, and for all the wonderful prose in the world, it is the poets who shape our lives.

One of the great satisfactions for the audience at this production is the appearance Deborah Morgenstern, who plays the mother of the boy who may or may not have been involved to some degree with Father Flynn. In just one scene, this actress presents a whole woman, integrity intact, and we know her and care what happens to her.

The other role in the cast is the self-effacing Sister James, whose nature is to submit to Sister Aloysius in all things. When the principal asks what class she is teaching, Sister James answers, “Art,” and suffers a bull’s-eye put-down, “Waste of time!” Rebecca Mincieli has the challenge of being yes-woman to her boss and at the same time projecting a person in her own right.

One of the play’s themes is the treatment of women’s lack of power in the Roman Catholic Church and Ms. Scheer handles this beautifully. So does Mr. Shanley, who also hints that what led to the church’s scandals regarding young boys was the “doubt” people had about what was right and what was wrong.

We are all familiar with the fear and/or courage involved in making decisions, in taking sides and the irrevocability of certain choices. The play “Doubt” helps us understand and, like all really good theater, allows us to see we are not alone.

GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Alex Berkoski of Mattituck, driving past Babylon's Devyn Antolini, was good for 10 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds and 3 steals.

TUCKERS 53, PANTHERS 50

Allie Wilcenski and Shannon Dwyer both felt under the weather, but played anyway. It was perhaps because of their presence on the Babylon High School basketball court on Friday night that the Mattituck team could feel better about itself.

The Tuckers had suffered tough losses in their two previous games, blowing chance after chance in a two-point loss to Center Moriches and losing by two points to Mount Sinai on a last-second three-point shot by Sarah Brand. Not only that, but they have been anything but road warriors, taking a 1-7 road record with them to Babylon.

Ailing Mattituck found a cure in victory, pulling out a 53-50 win over Babylon in a Coaches vs. Cancer Classic game.

It was just what the doctor ordered.

“I’m just happy we won, finally,” Wilcenski said. “It’s definitely a relief.”

Nicole Murphy, shooting a double bonus, sank a pair of foul shots with five seconds left to give Mattituck the three-point margin of victory. Devyn Antolini of Babylon launched a last-second attempt from three-point territory that smashed off the backboard.

GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Nicole Murphy made two free throws with five seconds left to help Mattituck secure a win in Babylon.

Only then could the Tuckers (6-7, 4-3 Suffolk County League VII) breath easy.

“A big night for all our team,” Mattituck coach Steve Van Dood said. “It’s a step in the right direction.”

Two more wins from its remaining five league games will send Mattituck into the playoffs. But, even beyond that, the win was important for the young Mattituck team to avoid falling into a funk it might have had trouble pulling itself out of.

After a basket by Babylon’s Emily Funk tied the score at 48-48, Wilcenski converted a conventional three-point play with 42 seconds left.

Four seconds later, Babylon (2-11, 1-6) pulled two points back on free throws by Antolini.

Trailing by one point, Babylon had the ball with 20 seconds to go. Michelle Mangini inbounded the ball to Antolini, who passed to Funk before Mattituck’s Alex Berkoski made a big steal. The Tuckers got the ball to Murphy before she was fouled, setting up her two big foul shots.

“It shows a lot for our young team again,” Van Dood said. “It shows that we got over the hump. We got a win on the road, and we did it with girls actually stepping up tonight at the right time.”

Mattituck had a rough start to the game, shooting 2 for 11 from the foul line in the first half and trailing, 23-16, at halftime.

During halftime, the Mattituck coaches let the players talk among themselves and sort things out.

“They didn’t have the best first half,” Van Dood said. “We sat them down and said: ‘You know, we’ve been telling you all year what you need to do. You didn’t do it. We’re going to ask you to talk among one another and find out what it’s going to take to get this win tonight on the road.’ Obviously, they [figured] it out. I don’t know what they said.”

Mattituck played better in the second half, and that was reflected on the scoreboard. The Tuckers outscored Babylon, 19-9, in the third quarter, with 7 points from Lauren Guja and 6 from Murphy.

Two of Mattituck’s starters, Wilcenski and Dwyer, both played despite not feeling well, said Van Dood. Wilcenski, a virtual rebounding machine who sat out the previous game, made her presence known, pulling down 14 rebounds. She scored 7 points, as did Dwyer.

Van Dood said Wilcenski played with the flu. “I’ll never forget how she showed up sick tonight and she did what she did,” he said. “We needed her.”

Nine of Wilcenski’s rebounds came on the offensive end, where Mattituck dominated by a 20-9 count.

After shooting 7 for 24 from the field in the first half, Mattituck sharpened its shooting in the second half, going 14 for 20. The Tuckers hit 9 of their last 10 field-goal attempts.

“We’re working for layups, they’re hitting jump shots,” Babylon coach Chris Ryan said. “That’s what it came down to tonight.”

Guja scored 15 points. Berkoski turned in a well-rounded game with 10 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds and 3 steals.

Antolini, aided by three 3-point field goals, scored 20 points. Funk had 7 assists.

Mattituck beat Babylon by 18 points in the first meeting between the teams on Dec. 16, but the Panthers are clearly a better team now. They tweaked their zone defense and made Mattituck work hard for its points.

“The girls could have quit,” Van Dood said. “It started off shaky tonight, but the girls, I have to give them credit, they regrouped and they did the right stuff.”

bliepa@timesreview.com

PAUL REINCKENS

A Southold man, who was arrested late last year for threatening his ex-girlfriend with a shotgun, was charged with DWI Friday after striking a curb while speeding through the Riverside traffic circle, State Police said.

Paul Reinckens, 24, stopped in the middle of the road while being pulled over just after 2 a.m. Friday and had to be asked to pull over a second time, police said.

A strong odor of alcohol was detected on his breath, according to police, who said he failed field sobriety tests. He is due back at Southampton Town Justice Court Feb. 12.

Mr. Reinckens, of Hummel Avenue, had been arrested by Southold Police Sept. 24 after pulling out a shotgun at his former girlfriend’s Greenport residence and yelling “I’m going to kill you,” according to police reports.

Police said Mr. Reinckens fled after making the threat and was later found by the department’s police dog in a field behind his home. The canine unit discovered the weapon in a wooded area off Ninth Street in Greenport, according to reports. Four other long guns and a pistol found at Mr. Reinckens home were taken for safe keeping in that incident, police said.

Mr. Reinckens, a Southold High graduate, is a real estate agent with Prudential Douglas Elliman in Bridgehampton, according to the company’s website.

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport.

The owners of the Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport were granted a two-year extension of a prior Zoning Board of Appeals variance Thursday night that allows the Inn to continue hosting catered events outdoors.

The approval came despite the fact that several speakers at Thursday’s ZBA meeting urged the board to reject the application.

The Inn only held one outdoor event last year, despite having received ZBA approval to do so in 2010, because their prior approval wasn’t long enough to be able to schedule things like weddings, which must be planned more than a year in advance, according to Hawkins Inn attorney Frank Yakaboski.

Because of this, they asked for a two-year extension of the 2010 variance, he said.

Mr. Yakaboski said they have complied with all the terms of the previous variance.

Bill Welsh, who lives across the street from the Inn on South Jamesport Avenue, said there had been noise complaints about events held at the Hawkins Inn in the past, but not since Keith Luce took over as proprietor of the restaurant.

Phil Barbato of Jamesport, who also is vice president of the Riverhead Neighborhood Preservation Coalition, said it’s impossible to say they haven’t created noise when they haven’t had the type of events they are seeking to get approval to have.

Also speaking against the application Thursday were Georgette Keller, president of the Jamesport-South Jamesport Civic Association; John Newman of Jamesport; Angela DeVito of South Jamesport; and John Andrejack of Jamesport, who had Mr. Welsh read a letter he wrote into the record.

Ms. DeVito said violations of the conditions of the variance could result in overturning the variance.

ZBA members had said there were five police reports at the Inn last year. Two of them were calls for ambulance service, and three were complaints, of which two were from the same person and one was anonymous.

“Can I ask you a question, Ms. DeVito?” asked ZBA member Otto Wittmeier. “Do the residents dislike this place?”

Ms. DeVito said they do not.

Ms. Keller said the Inn is considered by the town to be a Country Inn, and that restaurants are not an allowed accessory use to Country Inns. Because of this, she thinks the current application is essentially a use variance application, which under state law is required to meet more stringent criteria for approval.

“What seems like a small break for someone here and a small break for someone else there can add up over a number of years to the point where you could very well have a situation where you have a Riverhead that no one would recognize anymore,” Mr. Barbato told the ZBA Thursday.

The Hawkins Inn recently received Town Planning Board approval for a breezeway connecting the Luce-Hawkins Restaurant with a barn in back of it. Under town code, this would make the two buildings officially count as one, and would allow the owners to build guest rooms in the barn building.

Having the additional rooms would also allow the restaurant to serve more customers, Mr. Yakaboski said.

“We are looking for ways to remain economically viable,” Mr. Yakaboski said. “We are bleeding, and I don’t think it’s a secret. What we’re planning to do with the out-building (barn) and the request we’re making tonight for the extension will hopefully make us economically viable. We’re looking to continue to operate the business.”

The ZBA unanimously approved a two-year extension of the prior variance to allow catering outdoors.

tgannon@timesreview.com

REPORTER FILE PHOTO | Members of the Shelter Island Deer & Tick Committee with a 4-poster feeding station. Pesticide is applied by rollers on four vertical posts as deer feed on corn contained in buckets between each pair of posts.

After many years of debate, political wrangling and scientific investigation, New York State has joined the rest of the lower 48 in approving for widespread use the permithrin-based pesticide that is applied to the heads and necks of deer as they feed on corn at “4-poster” deer-feeding stations.

The purpose of the device is to kill ticks and reduce the incidence of tick-related illnesses among humans.

The approval limits the pesticide or “tickicide’s” use to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, where Lyme disease and other illnesses associated with tick bites have become endemic. Special permits will still be required to deploy the 4-posters because they violate a state DEC rule that bans the baiting of deer.

The decision is nothing less than momentous to the people — spearheaded largely by Shelter Islanders — who have been lobbying for it for nearly a decade.

It follows a three-year 4-poster test program on Shelter Island and Fire Island conducted by the Cornell Cooperative Extension under a special state permit. Its cost of more than $2 million was funded by the state, county and town as well as private donors. The town continues to deploy 15 4-poster stations under an annual extension of that permit. Local taxpayers pay the $75,000 bill for that. The test program deployed 60 units on Shelter Island.

The three-year test was conducted only after Shelter Island’s Gov. Hugh Carey wrote the sitting governor at the time, George Pataki, to order the DEC as a matter of public health to allow a test to see if 4-posters could lower the tick population. Until then, the DEC in Albany had adamantly opposed the use of 4-posters in New York State even though every other state except Hawaii and Alaksa had no rules against then.

The DEC said that drawing groups of deer to baiting stations might spread chronic wasting disease among the state’s deer herd; it also said that the tickicide deployed by the 4-poster was not registered for use in the state. The state’s hunting lobby bitterly opposed the 4-posters, fearing the tickicide it deployed would taint deer meat.

According to a Cornell report on the test-program that was released last spring, 4-posters were found to be highly effective in killing ticks while introducing no more permethrin into the environment than can be found by testing deer on North Haven, which was used as a control site. There were no 4-posters there and yet trace amounts of permithrin were found in its deer, most likely from the broadcast spraying of private yards and lawns by pest control companies with permithrin-based chemicals.

The DEC’s Vincent Palmer, who oversaw the Shelter Island test program, announced that the state had “registered” the 4-poster tickicide in an email sent to 4-poster stakeholders on Friday.

He reported that the DEC had agreed to register the tickicide on January 9. It was approved “in conjunction with Special Local Need (SLN) Supplemental Labeling that is assigned the following registration number: SLN No. NY-120001. The SLN labeling specifies the restrictions, geographical use limitations, and conditions which must be complied with in order for 4-Poster Tickicide to be legally used in New York State. For example, 4-Poster Tickicide is registered for use only in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and may only be used in conjunction with a valid deer feeding permit issued in accordance with the provisions of 6 NYCRR Part 189.”

He wrote that “details associated with procedures involved with applying for a Part 189 permit authorizing the baiting of deer in connection with the use of 4-Poster Deer Treatment Devices are being developed. The NYSDEC’s Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources will provide details in the very near future.”

Shelter Islander Janalyn Travis-Messer, a real estate agent who was among those who lobbied for the 4-poster program, called the news “very exciting” in an email reply to Mr. Palmer that was copied to all the stakeholders. Her late husband Jim was a town councilman who suffered from Lyme disease.

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Leslie Pearlman of Hampton Bays admires a photograph in the show.

East End Arts held the opening reception for its 40th Birthday ‘Members Show’ Friday in the Montaukett Learning Resource Center on the campus of Suffolk County Community College in Northampton.

The show is being hosted there while the floors and walls in the gallery at the EEA building in downtown Riverhead are refurbished.

The works of art in the non-juried show open to all members had to be no larger than 12 inches, including the frame. There were 70 pieces entered.

The show was hung by EEA member and SCCC adjunct professor Margery Gosnell-Qua of Remsenburg and student Cahide Temel of Port Jefferson.

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East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTOS | Performance artist from the dance company 'Neo-Political Cowgirls' of East Hampton at the reception.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Performance artist from the dance company 'Neo-Political Cowgirls' of East Hampton at the reception.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Performance artist from the dance company 'Neo-Political Cowgirls' of East Hampton at the reception.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Performance artist from the dance company 'Neo-Political Cowgirls' of East Hampton at the reception.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Artist Mia Howard of Greenport (right) talks about her painting ( the pink flowering tree) with artist Barbara Schneider of Riverhead

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Bob Dumas of Wading River (left) talks with artist Kathryn Odell-Hamilton of Hampton Bays.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Michael Malvagno of Bellport's mixed media work titled 'Mr. H. Dumpty'.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Miranda Gatewood of Riverhead (left) admires a work of art with Jeanne and David Stiles of East Hampton by artist R.J.T. Haynes called 'Piracy and the Glass Ceiling' made of resin and wood.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Marie Wern of Wading River with a pen and ink portrait of musician Alicia Keys. It is the first work of art she has ever had in an art show.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

Riverhead artist Barbara Schneider's painting 'Shell We Have Fun'. She is a turtle lover and collector.

East End Arts' 40th Birthday 'Members Show'

East End Arts board member Gwen Branch welcomes the artists and visitors to the show.

KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | A packed crowd gathered at Polish Hall Saturday night for Rockin' for the Homeless.

The Fourth Annual “Rockin’ for the Homeless” took to the stage at Polish Hall in Riverhead Saturday night.

The evening featured live musical entertainment, a Chinese auction, 50/50 raffle and a freewill offering collection. All proceeds go to support John’s Place Mattituck Homeless Outreach, which provides food and a warm place to sleep for East End homeless.

The emcee for the evening was WLNG’s Lisa Dabrowski. Featured bands included Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks, Who Are Those Guys, Rattlesnake Dawn and Boot Scoot Boogie.

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