Two people were taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center after a box truck rolled over on the Main Road in Cutchogue Friday afternoon.

Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley, who was on the scene, said a black Infiniti was heading east when it veered into other lane. A westbound truck swerved to avoid the car and overturned in front of the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Library around 1:45 p.m., he said.

The two drivers were taken to PBMC with minor injuries.

A dog and cat that were in the Infiniti were unharmed in the crash and taken to Southold animal shelter.

Main Road was closed between Alvahs Lane and New Suffolk road. The road is expected to open to eastbound traffic shortly, the chief said. The westbound will reopen around 3 p.m. after the box truck is moved, he said.

Photo caption: The box truck overturned by the library in Cutchogue. (Credit: Tara Smith)

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Greenport/Southold/Mattituck put a smiley face on its homecoming football game Friday night.

Tyrus Smiley had a big smile on his face, and for good reason. The Greenport senior had a lot to smile about, scoring three touchdowns — two on first-quarter kickoff returns — and turning in one of the greatest individual performances in the team’s modern history.

Thanks in large part to Smiley’s considerable efforts, the Porters held off Southampton/Bridgehampton/Pierson, 28-23, gaining their first homecoming win in Jack Martilotta’s 10 years as the team’s coach.

There wasn’t much that the 6-2, 180-pound Smiley didn’t do. Start with an 88-yard return of the game-opening kickoff for a score, and then an 85-yard kickoff return for another TD that made the score 20-3 before the first quarter ended. (In between was a 1-yard TD pass from Ahkee Anderson to Jadyn Ford).

In the third quarter, Smiley ran the ball into the end zone from seven yards out, and Anderson’s run for the two-point conversion made it 28-9.

Smiley, who has scored six TDs this season, had 44 yards from 10 second-half carries. He also caught a 14-yard pass. On the defensive end, he made five tackles (two for losses), deflected three passes and recovered a fumble.

The second straight win for Greenport (2-2 Suffolk County Division IV) didn’t come as easily as it should have.

Jude Swann, punting in place of Greenport’s injured first-string punter and kicker, Danny Breen, pounded a punt in the fourth quarter. The ball bounced several times before Southampton’s Sincere Faggins, seeing no Porters near him, collected the ball and ran it back 52 yards for a TD. Hudson Brindle’s extra point cut the Greenport lead to 28-23 with 7 minutes and 45 seconds left and brought concern to the home fans at Dorrie Jackson Memorial Field.

Southampton (1-3) followed that up with a successful squib kick by Brindle. The Porters never touched the ball as Niaka Williams slid down to pull it in, giving Southampton possession at the Greenport 32-yard line.

On the next play, Smiley lowered a devastating hit on Williams. Martilotta called it one of the best tackles he has ever seen.

Southampton twice picked up first downs on the drive, including Shawn Stelling’s 11-yard fourth-down pass to Faggins, bringing the ball to the 7.

Then Greenport’s defense stiffened. Smiley stopped Stelling for a five-yard loss. Dante Tramontana pulled Nicere Buck down for a three-yard loss. Smiley did well to defend a pass in the end zone intended for Williams. On fourth-and-goal, a Stelling pass fell short and behind Faggins.

The Porters, who closed out a three-game homestand, then ran out the clock.

Southampton received TDs from Faggins on a 12-yard reception and a 12-yard run by Williams.

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Photo caption: Greenport/Southold/Mattituck’s Tyrus Smiley leaves Southampton/Bridgehampton/Pierson’s Dominic Williams behind him as he heads to the first of his two kickoff returns for touchdowns. (Credit: Garret Meade)

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First there was Marian Tinari. Then Deborah Poulos, Tara Scully and Theresa Whelan — all vying to be Suffolk County’s next Surrogate Court judge.

On Monday, at a judicial nominating convention held in Melville, Ms. Whelan — who already had the Independence and Democratic party lines — secured the Conservative Party line on the ballot in a controversial cross-endorsement deal arranged by leaders of the major political parties.

Critics see such deal-making as a form of corruption that gives the voters no real choice on the ballot. They ask, for example, how the nominee of the Democratic Party can also be the Conservative Party candidate.

Ms. Tinari, who initially had both the Conservative and Democratic lines, dropped out of the race abruptly when Republican Tara Scully secured enough signatures to warrant a Democratic primary. Earlier this month, Ms. Whelan defeated Ms. Scully in that primary.

The outcome that landed Ms. Whelan on the Conservative Party line was correctly predicted in September by former Democratic county legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher. Ms. Viloria-Fisher has been an outspoken critic of cross-endorsement deals, demanding reforms in the judicial selection process.

“At the judicial convention in September, party bosses will nominate the current Conservative candidate for Suffolk Surrogate [Deborah Poulos] for a different judgeship so that she can vacate the Conservative line in the race [for that seat]. Once that has been accomplished, and having fooled many Democratic voters into supporting Whelan in the Democratic primary based solely on party enrollment, the party bosses will probably designate Whelan as the Conservative Party candidate,” Ms. Viloria-Fisher told the Times/Review earlier this month.

Ms. Tinari and Ms. Poulos will both seek seats on the state Supreme Court bench, according to the Suffolk Board of Elections.

Kathryn Casey Quigley, chair of the Southold Democratic Committee, which has endorsed Ms. Whelan for surrogate, said that during a conversation before the primary, she urged Ms. Whelan not to take the Conservative line if it were offered to her.

“It’s difficult to begrudge a Democratic candidate a greater shot at winning a court race, especially when her opponent is on multiple lines,” Ms. Quigley said in an email Tuesday.

Alhough she lost the primary to Ms. Whelan, Ms. Scully will appear on the Republican, Green and Reform party lines.

Cross-endorsement deals, Ms. Casey said, erode trust among voters.

“It is also really difficult to watch voters lose faith in the party and our system because of these back-room deals,” she said.

The Surrogate Court judge in New York handles all estate and will proceedings under the New York State Unified Court System. The position carries a salary of $208,000 and a term of 10 years.

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Photo caption: Theresa Whelan.

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Martha Tuthill of Orient, a guidance counselor at Shelter Island School, received the Barbara B. Ackermann Counselor of the Year Award from the East End Counselors Association.

Ms. Tuthill was honored by the group at its Sept. 17 meeting at the Hyatt Place East End in Riverhead for the work she’s done since taking the position with the school district in February 2015.

“I’m so grateful to be here,” Ms. Tuthill said, talking about the opportunity the job gives her to work with students at all levels — preschool through grade 12.

Shelter Island Superintendent Christine Finn expressed her support for Ms. Tuthill. “We are so blessed to have Martha here at Shelter Island,” Ms. Finn said. “She works hard for our students and is a wonderful colleague who always goes above and beyond her job description.”

Ms. Tuthill came to the district from Greenport, where she had started as an intern, worked assisting special education students and was a guidance counselor.

Arriving on Shelter Island, she brought a wealth of experience and knowledge of programs and contacts she’d developed on the North Fork, and was determined, she said, to give students opportunities to expand their horizons.

That included the Distributive Education Club of America program, known as DECA, which involves students competing regionally and statewide in written and verbal business exercises. Two years ago, Ms. Tuthill was able to bring one student to the state competition and two students last year. During this school year, she hopes to give more of Shelter Island’s regional winners the opportunity to compete statewide.

She has also organized job fairs for Island students to find summer employment — and sometimes during the school year — at local businesses. The aim is to give students an opportunity to work and demonstrate their talents to potential employers.

Her Greenport ties and ones she’s maintained through the North Fork School Business Advisory Board and the East End Counselors Association have enabled her to offer Island students a chance to attend a college fair in October with representatives from 23 schools, and to join Greenport in a college campus tour to several area schools.

At the college fair, school representatives will spend part of the day on Shelter Island and the rest in Greenport. Brandi Hopkins, Greenport district guidance coordinator, joined Ms. Tuthill in arranging the event.

Ms. Hopkins, who had worked closely with Ms. Tuthill in Greenport, nominated her for the Ackermann Award this year.

The award is named for longtime Southold guidance counselor Barbara Ackermann, who has mentored other guidance professionals during her career and since her retirement.

Receiving the honor is supposed to be a surprise, but Ms. Tuthill knew something was up when she walked into the Hyatt last week and encountered her in-laws.

Her son, Brian, had pulled the family together, although he couldn’t be there because of studies for his MBA degree. Her other children are also college students — Sarah is at SUNY/Binghamton, Katie at SUNY/Geneseo and Matthew at Brian’s alma mater, SUNY/Buffalo.

What does the winner of such an honor do for an encore? 

“I’m going to enjoy this for a little while,” Ms. Tuthill said.

jlane@sireporter.com

Photo caption: Recipient of the Barbara B. Ackerman Counselor of the Year Award from the East End Counselors Association is Shelter Island’s Martha Tuthill (left) with Ms. Ackerman, a former Southold guidance counselor. (Megan Lang photo)

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There are few bigger thrills for us as a media organization than our annual People of the Year awards. The winners’ stories of community service, dedication and perseverance are always inspirational.

Choosing the recipients is a painstaking process. It takes several months to compile all the information on the winners and produce the mini-documentaries that we present at the formal awards ceremony in March. But it’s worth it every time when we see their genuine thanks and joy.

People of the Year is a tradition that dates back nearly three decades — one that has grown in the last five years. After the winners are announced, in the first issue of the new year, our video crew gets to work producing the videos that you see online after the ceremony.

As the calendar turns over to October, it’s time to start thinking about finding deserving candidates for this year’s awards. And once again, we’re asking the community for help in identifying nominees.

With their nominations, our readers have always played perhaps the most important role in the selection process.

In January, we’ll name an educator, businessperson, community leader, public servant, sports figure and overall person of the year. In addition, for the fifth year, we’ll honor someone working in the local food, wine, hospitality, entertainment or agricultural industry with our northforker of the year designation.

Last year’s winners represented a wide range of the community, including a successful restaurant owner, a high school soccer player who lost her mother to a long illness and a trailblazer for African-American women on the East End.

We realize there are a great many people doing big things in their community who don’t seek the spotlight. As a result, the work they do goes largely unheralded. These are the folks we’re talking about. Do you know such a person? Tell us about them.

Nominations can be sent to content director Grant Parpan at P.O. Box 1500, Mattituck, NY 11952. Or you can email him at gparpan@timesreview.com.

We will accept nominations through Wednesday, Nov. 14.

Tell us why the person or group you are nominating deserves recognition — and please be sure to include your phone number so we can follow up.

Photo caption: The winners from The Suffolk Times and Shelter Island Reporter: (from left) George Giannaris, Sarah Benjamin, William Price, Mindy Ryan, Eleanor Lingo, Christine Lewis and Grace Syron. (Credit: Madison Fender)

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Jose Lemus-Pedroza, 43, of Peconic was arrested for driving while intoxicated Sunday morning around 11 a.m., according to Southold Town police.

• A Riverhead man was arrested Friday after he drove his vehicle off the roadway and into the woods on Route 48 near Albertson Lane in Greenport around 1:09 a.m., police said.

Tyler Astin, 22, was found to be intoxicated and was arrested near Route 48 and Albertson Lane in Greenport, according to Southold Town police. When police responded, he tried to flee on foot but tripped over the guardrail, police said.

• Joel Jernick of Southold was arrested Sunday after kicking in a wooden fence and causing damage to it when entering the rear yard of a Southold property around midnight, police said.

He was charged with criminal mischief with intent to damage property, a misdemeanor, and criminal trespass in the third degree, a misdemeanor. 

• A Laurel man had his home burglarized Sunday morning around 11 a.m., police said. Stolen items include a Playstation 2, a flat screen TV, a DVD player, a comforter, two surf casting fishing poles and an air conditioner, in total valuing about $700.

• Youths were found having a party on Lighthouse Road with a bonfire in the woods Friday around 9:55 p.m., police said. They put out the fire and left without incident, officials said.

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.

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A bill requiring the Federal Aviation Administration to reassess an unpopular North Shore Helicopter Route is expected to pass in the Senate before the end of the month, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) announced Wednesday.

Co-sponsored in the House by Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-Queens) and Congressman Thomas Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), the legislation passed 393-13 in April. The legislation includes an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 and would require the FAA to consider the noise impacts on affected communities, improve altitude enforcement and consider alternative routes, such as an all-water route over the Atlantic Ocean.

In a press release Wednesday, Mr. Zeldin announced that he secured a bicameral agreement to get the legislation passed before FAA funding expires on Sept. 30.

If passed, the FAA would also be required to hold a public hearing on the route in impacted communities and open a public comment period.

“Summer after summer, North Fork residents’ quality of life has suffered due to the persistent issue of helicopter noise on the East End,” Mr. Zeldin said in a press release. “[The FAA and Department of Transportation] have continued to flat out ignore the residents directly affected.”

North Fork residents have said the route brings frequent and unwanted noise to the area.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said the route has impacted quality of life in the area.

“Southold has become a doormat to the helicopter operators as they head to and from the Hamptons,” he said in a statement calling for action.

The route dates back to 2012, when the FAA ruled that helicopters are required to fly over Long Island Sound and around Orient Point rather than fly over houses.

But pilots are allowed to deviate from the route due to safety or weather conditions, or when transitioning to a destination.

In response, both Riverhead and Southold towns formed a task force on helicopter noise, citing that helicopters frequently fly over the North Fork while heading to the South Shore.

The route was extended in 2014 and again in 2016 without consulting the public, Mr. Zeldin noted.

Catherine Kent, who serves as the Riverhead Town Board liaison to the Helicopter Noise Task Force, said Riverhead has been “inundated” by air traffic in recent years.

“It starts Thursday night and goes through Monday evening,” she said. “We have this constant barrage of helicopters and now seaplanes over our homes.”

The legislation possibly being passed is welcome news after another summer of helicopter traffic.

“I’m pleased to see any legislation that addresses this urgent problem,” she said.

Ms. Kent also acknowledged that community members on the task force have not stopped speaking up on the issue.

“I think some of this legislation is a reaction to that,” she said.

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Dane Reda knows his strengths and weaknesses.

“I’m not the greatest soccer player, but I can run fast, so …,” he said.

So, the Mattituck High School junior midfielder put his best foot forward Saturday. Actually, it was both feet and he certainly was great enough and fast enough Saturday, setting up the first goal and striking for the game-winner as the Tuckers spoiled Southold’s homecoming game with a 2-1 Suffolk County League VII victory.

The win boosted the Tuckers (7-4, 6-2) into the Suffolk Class B playoffs with four regular-season league games remaining. After enduring a three-game losing streak, they have won four matches in a row, having outscored their foes, 23-4, during that span.

“We’re comfortable,” Mattituck coach Will Hayes said. “We’re discovering what our identity is as a team. I like the direction we’re moving in.”

Added junior forward Jack Burkhardt, who tallied the first goal: “The team’s feeling itself now. Compared to last year’s season, we’re doing great.”

Last year the Tuckers barely reached the postseason, losing to eventual state champion Center Moriches in the county Class B final, 6-0.

On Saturday, Burkhardt admitted he had a feeling of deja vu back to the 2-1 loss at Center Moriches on Sept. 17 thanks to the sizable Southold crowd and intensity of both teams.

“It felt playing against Center Moriches with all the fans here today,” he said. “The mentality everyone had. Everyone played their hearts out.”

That included Reda.

With the score deadlocked at 1-1, Reda latched onto a Charlie Bordsen pass and found himself on a brilliant 50-yard run on the left side during a counterattack. He homed in on goalkeeper Cole Brigham and fired a shot into the lower far post with 33 minutes and 50 seconds left in the second half.

“I try not to think because I feel when I think then I mess up my dribble and mess up the opportunity to score,” said Reda, who has five goals and five assists this season.

“The goal was fantastic,” Burkhardt said. “I was not expecting it all. It was top class.”

Burkhardt, who has a team-best 12 goals and nine assists, had his big moment with 28:24 remaining in the opening half as Reda fed him before drilling a 16-yard shot past Brigham for a 1-0 lead.

“Jack hit a ball up to me and I ran it down,” Reda said. “I heard him call my name to my right side and I hit it with my left foot. Somehow it went right to him and he finished it like he usually does.”

Southold (5-4, 5-3) equalized on sophomore forward Daniel Palencia’s goal from atop the box past goalkeeper James Jacobs with 22:23 remaining in the first half.

“It was just an unmarked man,” Jacobs said. “He was wide open, and he blasted it home. Nothing I really could have done about that except fix our marks. It was a learning time right there.”

Hayes has been encouraged with how Burkhardt and Red have emerged as a dynamic attacking force. “Jack and Dane are developing quite a relationship up top,” he said.

The Tuckers haven’t had a lethal striker since Kaan Ilgin and Mario Arreola formed a dangerous duo during the team’s run to the 2014 state championship.

“Jack is really stepping into those boots,” Hayes said. “They’re playing off each other really well and they’re offering different aspects of the game that we may not have had at the same time. We have a big, physical forward and a crafty central midfielder who can move the ball. With some of the pieces that we have in central midfield and out wide, we’ve become a much more well-rounded team.”

As for Reda’s remark about not being a great soccer player, Hayes chimed in. “Dane is a very good lacrosse player,” he said. “In soccer he understands movement. He understands patterns and understands what needs to happen on the field in order to be successful. Dane’s first touch doesn’t really come around until about halfway through the season, where we are now. It’s no coincidence that he’s been scoring in the last four games. He’s been put in positions in front of the goal where his first touch has improved significantly.”

During pregame ceremonies Andrew Sadowski was honored for his 25-year tenure as Southold’s coach.

“I would have preferred to have won,” he said, “because that’s what I do. I coach them to win.”

Sadowski received a proclamation from the Suffolk County Legislature and a gift from the high school.

“It’s nice to be recognized,” he said. “The thing that I was very pleased about was my wife and my daughter were here. All the time spent away from them, they got to see what I have been trying to do with the young men of Southold and now they’re old men, too.”

Sadowski was referring to the several dozen former First Settlers players who attended homecoming and participated in an alumni game afterwards.

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Tara Striano and Ari Bekian, landscape designers for Salty Roots Garden and Landscape Design, are taking on a different kind of project in town.

The Mattituck residents have plans to beautify the Mattituck train station. Both are enrolled in the Master Gardener program through Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, which requires 120 hours of community service, and they thought this would be the perfect opportunity.

“We decided we wanted to donate our time locally to our town,” Ms. Striano said. “Mattituck has been changing over the past few years and why not have the train station look good?”

They were inspired after seeing how other master gardeners had beautified train stations elsewhere on Long Island.

The landscaping duo has designed a garden for the Love Lane station, where they’ll place low-maintenance plantings, bulbs for spring color, evergreens and perennials so the garden can be enjoyed year round.

The Mattituck Chamber of Commerce and Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association have partnered with Ms. Striano and Mr. Bekian to get this project done. 

The project will be completed by volunteers but donations are needed for plant material and heavy labor. Donations are accepted through a GoFundMe page on behalf of the Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association, with a goal of $5,000. They will also have a table at the next First Friday, Oct. 5, on Love Lane to raise money.

Once funds are collected, they hope to plant in late October or early November.

The project involves removing and replacing six to eight inches of soil where only chemically treated weeds grow now. 

Ms. Striano and Mr. Bekian will be in charge of maintaining the plantings, but will be able to get volunteers who are also in the master gardener program to help take care of it.

“Everything that we’re planting will be low-maintenance, drought tolerant so they shouldn’t need a lot of work,” Ms. Striano said. “They should just be beautiful, green and lush and make you feel really good when you get off the train or go to get on it — or when you drive by even.”

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Photo caption: A rendering of the project. (Courtesy photo) 

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The renowned physicist Wolfgang Pauli once reviewed a paper that failed to reflect even a basic understanding of the physics involved. His remark has become one of the greatest put-downs of all time: “This isn’t right. It’s not even wrong.”

That comment summarizes President Trump’s position on global warming and climate change. His views go far beyond ignorance; they’re just dumb. To believe Mr. Trump’s assertion that global warming is a hoax requires us to disbelieve NOAA, NASA, the thousands and thousands of climate scientists who work for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change — and to assume that virtually every organization of professional scientists in the world that support the findings of the IPCC somehow got the science wrong. Worse, to believe Trump we must dismiss all of the evidence these groups have accumulated to support their assertion that global warming is real, that it causes climate change and that it poses a threat to humankind.

We are supposed to simplemindedly accept the president’s view on this critically important topic despite the fact that his public comments on the matter amount to gibberish — total nonsense. What credible evidence do President Trump and the Republican Party offer to support their anti-science position? None! Zip! Nada! The president and the party have abdicated our leadership position in the world of rational men and women, removed the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change and pursued a legislative agenda that will make global warming and climate change much worse.

In contrast, the position of the scientific community on climate change is crystal clear. Virtually (perhaps literally) every organization of professional scientists in the world agrees with this statement from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which was cosigned by 31 American science organizations: “Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver. This conclusion is based on multiple independent lines of evidence and the vast body of peer-reviewed science.”

I suspect our own congressman, Lee Zeldin, knows the truth about climate change but lacks the moral courage to oppose his party’s inane position. Mr. Zeldin seems to want it both ways; he has joined the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus but he failed to sign its letter to President Trump asking that the U.S. remain committed to the Paris Agreement. Mr. Zeldin brags about his environmental work for our district, for which he should be applauded, yet he has voted the party line on virtually all environmental issues, earning a grade of 9 percent from the League of Conservation Voters. More importantly, Mr. Zeldin has utterly failed to speak out against his party’s mindless assault on our warming planet.

Let me help put this in perspective for you, Mr. Congressman. Write a letter to your grandchildren stating that as a member of Congress you were in a position of power but you chose not to take a strong stand against global warming and climate change. Instead, you supported the Republican Party’s anti-science, anti-environment agenda. You can fill in the reasons you think justify your inaction. Then sign the letter.

Remember that the dinosaurs ruled the Earth for almost 200 million years. The majority (birds survived) were wiped out by climate change likely caused by an asteroid impact. Today, human-caused climate change is like an untreated cancer. Its progress may be slow, but the end is inevitable. We must send to Congress someone with the moral courage to advocate strongly for the mitigation of anthropogenic global warming/climate change.

So, I’ll be looking to vote for someone other than Mr. Zeldin; someone who knows that uninhibited climate change will result in horrific human suffering on a scale the world has never before experienced. Experts predict refugees from rising sea levels, droughts, famine and increased desertification will number in the hundreds of millions — most of them from underdeveloped countries that have contributed the least to global warming. Given the current attitudes here and around the globe, I can’t imagine they will be warmly welcomed.

Mr. Gibbons is a former U.S. Navy officer and Vietnam veteran. He taught social studies at Mattituck High School for 35 years and is currently an assistant professor of education at Long Island University.

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Government liaison officer Denis Noncarrow told board members during Tuesday’s work session that he’s preparing to apply for 2019 Community Development Block Grants on behalf of the town.

He said he’s currently waiting for 2018 funds, amounting to $130,000, to be released to the town. Those funds will be used to repave the parking lot at the Southold Town Recreation Center and install new doors on the south side of the community center that comply with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

“We’re just little by little getting the ADA improvements done where we can,” Mr. Noncarrow said.

In addition, he said, Community Action Southold Town and Maureen’s Haven will each receive a grant of $5,000 from the 2018 funding.

For 2019, Mr. Noncarrow said, the town will request $230,000 in block grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. A public hearing will be held, also Oct. 23, to gather input on how those funds, if awarded, should be applied.

The board passed a resolution Tuesday night allowing Southold to enter into an inter-municipal agreement with the Village of Greenport that enables the town to apply for HUD funding on behalf of the village. If the full amount they’ve asked for is granted, $100,000 will be used for projects in the village.

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The Paul Drum 5th annual Pirate & Mermaid Breakfast brought in more than $4,000 Sunday, Sept. 23 at Front Street Station, the highest amount to date, according to Sharon Sailor.

Ms. Sailor — Mr. Drum’s mother and the owner of Front Street Station — is the president of Paul Drum Life Experience Project, a non-profit that holds free summer programs for children ages seven through 12 in Greenport. The money raised during the breakfast will fund 2019 programs.

Mr. Drum, who has Down syndrome, said he is honored to host the fundraising event for the community at which he also receives an honorary government title each year. 

“He loved the event,” Ms. Sailor said. “He’s already asking who he is going to be next year.”

The annual breakfast started as a fundraising event for the East End Seaport Museum during the Maritime Festival in Greenport five years ago. Now, the money raised benefits the The Paul Drum Life Experience Project, which became a 501(c)(3) non-profit in fall 2017.

Programs run eight weeks starting in July. Any child is welcome to come; it is not specific to Greenport residents. Participants get water and a snack during the hour-long program. This past summer, programs ranged from “Become a Detective with Chief Martin Flatley” where Southold Police officers and Chief Flatley presented what it’s like to be in their shoes. It has also hosted radio hosts from WLNG where participants got to go on air with Scotty Hart.

Paul Drum with Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski at the breakfast. (Courtesy photo)

“We have a great time doing it,” she added. “We just want to thank everyone, from the volunteers, to the participants and community for all coming together and giving their time and money and their support to us.”

At this year’s breakfast, Mr. Drum also received the honorary title of Legislator for the Day from Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski (D-Cutchogue). It is the latest in an impressive line of honorary distinctions. In 2013, Mr. Drum was Greenport Village Mayor for the day. The year following he was Southold Town Police Chief for the day. He has since been County Executive for the day and Assemblyman for the day. Whoever holds the elected seat comes to the breakfast and gives him a proclamation.

“He’s got quite the resume,” Ms. Sailor said. “He asked me, ‘do you think I could be governor or president next year?’ He’s aiming high.”

rsiford@timesreview.com 

Photo caption: Guests dress in maritime inspire outfits during the breakfast. (Courtesy photo)

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Henry Isidore Domaleski of Cutchogue died on Sept. 27, 2018 at San Simeon Nursing Home. He was 91 years old.

He was born in Orient on April 4, 1927, to Alexander and Stephania (Targonski) Domaleski and moved with his family to Oregon Road in Cutchogue at the age of 3. Following his graduation from Oregon Road School and Mattituck High School, he married the former Joan Chituk on May 6, 1951, at Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church in Cutchogue. Together they built a home next door to the one he grew up in.

Henry and his brother Anthony took over their father’s farm and formed A&H Domaleski Farms. They branded their potatoes “Golden Crop” that were trucked to Hunts Point Market in the Bronx five nights a week during the season. They also raised cauliflower and cabbage and ran the U-pick strawberry and pumpkin field at the red barn on County Road 48 for decades.

After retiring from the family business, Henry continued farming with Sang Lee Farms. In the evenings, he also farmed a huge backyard garden raising more berries and vegetables than could be possibly be consumed by his extended family, friends and acquaintances. He was the last of the many great men who farmed, with their families, on beautiful Oregon Road.

He was a member of the Polish Democrats, Riverhead Polish Hall and Farm Bureau and a communicant of Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church.

His biggest passion, however, was polka music. He and Joan never missed a Dick Pillar Polkabration in New London, Conn. or the Riverhead Polish Fair. Their car with the license plate WE POLKA could be seen around town and polka music was always playing in their home. He was also a helping hand with the parish polka dances held in Glover’s Barn.

After the passing of his wife, his greatest companion was his dog Buffy who could always be found on his lap or at his side napping together.

Predeceased by his wife, Joan, on June 6, 2016; he is survived by five children: Raymond (Elaine) Domaleski of Aquebogue, Virginia (Jerome) Surozenski 0f Cutchogue, Thomas (Barbara) Domaleski of Cutchogue, Theodore Domaleski of Bakersfield, Calif. and Geraldine Domaleski (Danny Kennedy) of Mattituck; 12 grandchildren: Tenille (Anthony) Rodine, Jessica (Paul) Reeve, Allison Surozenski, Thomas Jr., Meredith, John and Brendan Domaleski, Eileen, Michael and Olivia Kennedy, Tabby (Stanley) Zombick and Lisa (Juan) Alvarado and eight great-grandchildren: Aiden Tidwell, Ethan, Skye, Emma and Joan Rodine, Cara and Caiden Zombick and Jordy, Blake and Regal Alvarado; cousins: Barbara Legutko of Brooklyn and Christine Greene of Syosset; sisters-in-law: Dolores Chituk of Riverhead and Dorothy and Henrietta Chituk of Cutchogue; cousins-in-law; Angela Deroski of Cutchogue and Jackie Adams of East Islip; many nieces and nephews; dearest caretakers Tracy and Laura and his pets: Buffy, and Chester.

The family will receive visitors Tuesday, Oct. 2, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church in Cutchogue, celebrated by Father Mariusz Gorazd. Interment will follow at Sacred Heart R.C. Cemetery.

Memorial donations in his name may be made to the Cutchogue Fire Department or American Diabetes Association of Cutchogue.

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I’m Lee Staebler. I’m a physical therapist working in Mattituck. I’ve been in this location for a little over 16 years now. I’ve been a therapist for over 30; hard to believe. I have all my degrees from Stony Brook University. I have a doctorate in physical therapy.

Well, I treat patients who have post-traumatic injuries, surgeries, knee replacements, shoulder replacements and a great variety of orthopedic injuries. So a typical day is just looking at my schedule, seeing what kind of patients are coming in, trying to anticipate a plan, short-term goals, long-term goals, to get them fully functional again and out of pain.

You know, when you’re going through school you take stock of your aptitudes and I was always interested in physical performance; I had a curious mind. I enjoyed science. I enjoy the fact that I can do something that I perceive to be, you know, worthwhile, and where you’re helping people get better. You’re seeing that kind of thing, that’s kind of a nice perk to the job. My favorite part of the job is to see people go through the process, improve, start to see and recapture what they lost, start to feel more optimistic.

I enjoy kidding around with the patients, having fun and getting to know people. So that’s always a nice thing. You form relationships with people, so I enjoy that a lot.

Lee Staebler. (Credit: Rachel Siford)

At this point I’ve taken so many continuing-education courses. I’ve done this for so many years. I’ve seen so much that I almost sort of reflexively do a lot of what I do in terms of the knowledge I was trained in, like physiology and so forth. The mechanics of what I do, the process and the logic, needs to be adjusted from time to time.

Sometimes getting people to kind of convert from a pessimistic kind of mindset to something that’s more of a positive expectancy. Believing that they can get better through their efforts. The temporary issues that they’re dealing with, sometimes can be hard for certain people, and hard for me sometimes to kind of get people to sort of make that transition.

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The Greenport Village Board drew another big crowd on the topic of regulating short-term rentals during a two-hour public hearing last Thursday.

This time, the comments were about even pro and con — and the cons came armed with two attorneys representing people who own short-term rental properties in the village.

Both attorneys, Salem Katsh of Orient and Pat Moore of Mattituck, said they were representing several people who lease their homes short-term.

Both also claimed that short-term rentals have occurred in the village for many years and that people who have done so in the past should be allowed to continue as a “grandfathered” use under zoning.

Both also said their research indicates that only 30 homes in Greenport are being advertised as short-term rentals, which is a small percentage of the rental pool in Greenport. Trustee Doug Roberts said research he did showed there are about 60 short-term rentals in the village. Mr. Katsh said even that’s only about 5 percent of the housing in the village.

Mayor George Hubbard Jr. said he board will discuss the current proposal at its Oct. 17 work session before deciding how to vote.

“There was a lot of information and a lot people were adamant both ways, so we’ll see what the board feels like doing,” he said.

The proposal currently under consideration defines short-term rentals as 14 days or less and long-term rentals as those made for a term of at least a year under a written lease.

The revised proposal would permit short-term rentals in two-family homes provided one of the units is occupied by either the owner or a long-term tenant. It would also permit the owners of single-family houses to rent out portions of a house on a short-term basis provided they also live there themselves or have a long-term tenant in residence.

Ms. Moore said she’s talked to people and businesses in Southold Town, which adopted short-term rental restrictions in 2016, who feel it has hurt the restaurants and retail businesses in the town.

People who had been offering short-term rentals in Southold Town were forced to sell their homes after the town law was passed, she said.

“It has had a negative effect,” she said.

Colin Ratsey of Greenport said the village is being inundated with tourists, and there are fewer young people living there because of short-term rentals. Soon, he said, there will be no one left to work or volunteer for things like the fire department.

“The problem with the town is that we’re losing the kids,” Mr. Ratsey said.

The village now has residents who complain about things like fishing boats and leaf blowers, he said.

Without the homeowner being in the house, Mr. Ratsey added, “you’ll have a two-family house with one party upstairs and one party downstairs.”

Some places, he noted, “are just a party all night long. It’s getting out of control.”

Madison Fender of Greenport said she’s lived there for six years and is involved in a lot of community activities and charities.

“I’ve been looking for a year-round rental and it’s nearly impossible,” she said.

“Airbnb is out of control,” Ms. Fender said, alluding to one of the popular short-term rental web sites.

Joe Flotteron of Peconic Water Sports said he wouldn’t be able to afford to live in the village if the didn’t have a short-term rental in his house.

Many of last week’s speakers also commented during a July 26 public hearing.

One argument that came up a few times is whether a short-term rentals are permitted or not under current village law.

Ms. Moore said it’s clear from the six years the board has been considering short-term rental regulations that it is “not considered illegal. It is presently a permitted use under zoning.”

Village attorney Joe Prokop has said, however, that while short-term rentals are not “expressly prohibited” currently, they constitute a commercial use of property, which is illegal in residential zones in the village.

Ms. Moore also questioned why the proposed law would allow part of a single-family dwelling occupied by either an owner or long-term tenant to be offered as a short-term rental.

“That’s called a bed and breakfast,” she said, adding that B&Bs are limited to three rooms and have to “go through hurdles” to get approved.

Arguments against short-term rentals asserted that they use up available housing stock in the village and eliminate potentially affordable homes, leaving the village filled with tourists and out-of-towners and making it hard for year-round residents to find housing.

Supporters say people who rent out their homes will often take better care of them and that short-term rentals help the economy by bringing in people who would otherwise not be able to afford to stay in the village for two weeks.

Another frequently heard argument in favor of short-term rentals is that it provides a rental income for homeowners who otherwise might not be able to afford to stay in Greenport.

Ian Wile, who lives in Greenport and owns a restaurant in the village, said the board needs to get something on the books regarding short-term rents.

“Any direction is good,” he said. “Just get something on the books.”

The board took no formal action on the proposal following the hearing and will discuss it further next month.

“It’s great to see a lot of people here to get input back to us,” Mr. Hubbard said. “This has been talked about for over six years. It’s gone back and forth for a long time.”

Photo caption: Thursday’s hearing drew another big crowd. (Credit: Tim Gannon)

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Kyle Soper of Manorville secured his first career NASCAR Modified championship with a fourth-place finish in a 40-lap race at Riverhead Raceway Saturday night. Soper, 22, beat out Tom Rogers Jr. of Riverhead by six points for the Whelen All American Series title. Earlier in the night he won his second consecutive Late Model championship.

“It’s a dream come true,” said Soper.

Rogers won the Modified race, however, his fourth victory of the season and 52nd of his career. Dave Brigati of Calverton was second and John Fortin of Holtsville third. John Baker of Brookhaven followed Soper, coming in fifth.

In the 25-lap Late Model race, Jeremy McDermott of Riverhead picked up his second win of the year and ninth of his career. Kevin Metzger of Massapequa was the runner-up. Chris Turbush of Riverhead recovered from a spin to finish third.

The tightest championship fight on the final night of racing came in the Crate Modified class, with Michael Rutkoski of Mattituck and Justin Brown of Manorville separated by a mere three points entering the competition. When the 25-lap race was over, Rutkoski had his seventh win of the season as well as the title. Brown was second in the race and Artie Pedersen III of Center Moriches was third. The championship is the first for the 24-year-old Rutkoski.

In Figure Eight action, Tom Ferrara of Patchogue scored his second win of the season in a 15-lapper. While Ferrara drove off to his 13th career triumph, Tom Rogers Jr. earned his fifth career championship in the class by crossing the finish line second. Eric Zeh of Selden was third.

Jack Handley Jr. of Medford iced the cake on his second career Blunderbust championship by winning a 20-lap main event for his eighth win of the season and 29th of his career. Jim Laird Jr. of Riverhead was second and Tommy Walkowiak third in the final race of his career.

The Super Pro Truck champion, Mark Stewart of Riverhead, wrapped up his championship season with a win as well. It was the 20-year-old Stewart’s seventh win of the season, a milestone 20th career victory. Eddie Schutze of Oyster Bay and Jimmy Rennick Jr. of Howard Beach were the next two finishers after Stewart.

Richie Davidowitz of East Moriches became the all-time leading Legend Race Car winner at the track when he won his 20th career race in a 20-lap event. Brad Van Houten of Wading River took second while Allan Pedersen of Center Moriches was third. Jim Sylvester of Massapequa came into the race having already clinched the championship, his first.

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Veronica J. Neville of Southold died Sept. 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 82.

The daughter of John and Jane Reddy, she was born March 15, 1936, in Merrick.

Ms. Neville graduated from Bayside High School in 1954 and married John C. Neville Sept. 14, 1957.

She was a homemaker and bookkeeper for a family business and a member of St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold.

Family members said she enjoyed flowers, gardening and sailing.

Predeceased by her son Kevin in 1981 and her grandson David in 1989, she is survived by her husband, John, of Southold; her children John, of Lake Ronkonkoma, Laura Blazer of Manorville, Lisa Neville of St. James and William, of Kings Park; her brothers, Donald and Daniel Reddy; and six grandchildren.

The family received visitors Oct. 1. Funeral services were held Oct. 2 at St. Patrick’s Church. Interment took place at Calverton National Cemetery.

Arrangements were in the care of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue.

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Mr. Edmon G. Luke Jr. passed away at the Kanas Center for Hospice in Quiogue, N.Y. Sept. 25, 2018. He was 79 years of age. 

Mr. Luke was a resident of Sag Harbor, N.Y. before moving to Peconic Landing in Greenport, N.Y. in 2011.

Mr. Luke received degrees from Princeton University in 1961 and Harvard University in 1962 before embarking on a teaching career of more than 50 years.

For 32 years, Mr. Luke taught math and AP biology at the Spring Valley High School in Spring Valley, N.Y. and upon his retirement to Sag Harbor, was actively engaged as a substitute teacher and avid sports fan at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor.

Mr. Luke is survived by his brother James P. Luke and wife, Elizabeth, of Shelter Island; his sister-in-law, Maureen D. Luke of Berwyn, Pa.; eight nieces and nephews and 23 grandnieces and grandnephews. Mr. Luke’s brother John E. Luke predeceased him.

The family will receive visitors Friday, Oct. 12, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Yardley & Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary R.C. Church in Bridgehampton.

Contributions in Mr. Luke’s memory may be made to Tabor Academy, 232 Front St., Marion, MA 02738.

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With no prior discussion or warning, the position change was made. Jason Cruz suddenly became a forward for the Greenport High School boys soccer team during a preseason scrimmage against Riverhead.

Since then, he has been on Cruz control, leading the Porters in goal scoring.

“Jason’s always been an outside midfielder and an outside back for me, and then this year, I didn’t tell him that I was going to put him up top once, and then came the first scrimmage,” coach Sean Charters said. “I threw him right in there and he’s been invaluable to us ever since. He’s our leading goal scorer and he’s proven himself to be a threat up top.”

Cruz, a four-year varsity player playing on the front line for the first time since he was in junior high school, recalled that scrimmage. “The first five minutes I gave an assist and that’s when I started looking [to make] chances for my teammates and looking for those balls,” he said.

No question about it, with his great speed, Cruz is a good fit at forward.

“All you need to do is put the ball in the back of the net and that’s what he does,” Charters said. “He’s the fastest guy on my team, without a doubt. He’s getting behind guys and then he’s making a good touch. He’s giving himself an opportunity to put it home.”

The pairing of Cruz with fellow senior forward William Chapeton has been a success. Greenport has what Charters believes to be the best team the Porters have had in 13 years, since his older brother, Kyle, played for the team.

So, what has changed?

“The culture within the team,” Charters said. “Everybody wants to work hard. Everybody wants to be there every day … Guys want to be there. They want to learn and they want to play and they want to excel. That’s what a program needs to be to be successful.”

And this has been a successful season for the Porters. Credit is also due to the young man guarding the goal at the other end of the field, Miguel Torres. Torres had missed the last two seasons with a torn ACL in his left knee. Last year he served as a team manager.

A sign that Torres was to play a much bigger role came this summer during a workout when Charters presented the senior goalkeeper with a gift: a multi-colored goalkeeper jersey that Charters wore when he played for the Porters before graduating in 2012.

Torres recalled: “He said, ‘Here, take it, and good luck.’ I love it.”

Charters said: “So far he’s been playing awesome this year. That’s cool, seeing him wearing that jersey but, you know, I trust him in the net, and that’s why I put him back there.”

Cruz scored Greenport’s only goal and Torres made nine saves Tuesday in a 3-1 non-league loss at Southampton’s Richard H. Smith Field. The Class B Mariners (3-7-1, 2-6 Suffolk County League VI) presented a tough test for Class C Greenport (7-5, 5-3 League VIII).

Of course, Southampton had someone on their side that Greenport didn’t have: Diego Trujillo. The junior had a hat trick.

“He was incredibly fast, incredibly strong,” said Charters.

Trujillo, assisted by Benjamin Luss, made it 1-0, sending a shot in off the left goalpost 12 minutes and 32 seconds into the match.

A little over three minutes later, he won possession and fired a shot off the right post, but it didn’t go in.

Greenport’s first shot of the game was on the mark. Cruz equalized for the Porters at 21:26. His well-taken, right-footed blast from just outside the penalty area beat goalkeeper Antonny Lezama-Medel to the right corner for his eighth goal of the season. Jaxan Swann assisted.

But with 8:11 left in the half, Trujillo struck again, nudging the ball past Torres after a pass from Parker West.

Trujillo tucked in a rebound of a Torres save 9:18 into the second half for an insurance goal.

Southampton had the better of the play, as evidenced by a 22-7 shots advantage.

Torres did well to keep Southampton from scoring more. He stuffed a breakaway by Joseph Avallone and somehow got a hand on a blistering drive by Logan Whitall.

Cruz sustained a cut on his left eyelid during the game. “I was going to fight for the ball and I just got elbowed in the face,” he said.

Call it an occupational hazard for a soccer player.

With nine seniors on the roster, Greenport is built to win now. The Porters are one league win away from clinching a playoff berth, and beyond that, who knows?

“We have to take advantage of what we have,” Cruz said. “Our team has so much potential and I know we have great skill.”

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Photo caption: Greenport senior Miguel Torres, wearing the same goalkeeper jersey that coach Sean Charters wore when he played for the Porters, has been a big part of the team’s resurgence. (Credit: Bob Liepa)

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Winning high school girls volleyball matches is a learned behavior, something Greenport/Southold has been working at in recent years.

That work finally came to fruition on Sept. 7 when Greenport snapped a losing string of at least 23 matches, covering four years and two winless seasons, with a four-set win over Babylon. None of the Porters had ever experienced a win before in a varsity uniform.

How did they react?

“It was like they won the county title,” coach Mike Gunther said. “They were celebrating. I said, ‘Good. Look at this as a beginning.’ ”

Then, six days later, Greenport had a two-match win streak, sweeping Shelter Island in three sets. It was Greenport’s first win over Shelter Island in three years, said Gunther.

Not that the Porters are near where they want to be — they lost their next four matches —but they’re no longer at the foot of the Suffolk County League VIII standings.

“A big step up from last year,” Gunther said. “I always thought that the team had the potential to win. They just didn’t know how. They didn’t have the confidence in themselves.”

That losing streak had hung over the Porters like a dark cloud, and they were keenly aware of it. Perhaps that made the triumph over Babylon all the more sweeter.

“At first it almost felt unreal that we finally won,” junior outside hitter/setter Liz Jernick said. “I was almost expecting it out of our team to kind of get a win this year. Like, I knew we had it in us, and to finally achieve that goal was amazing. It was a great feeling.”

It can already be called Greenport’s best team in three years.

Entering Wednesday, Greenport (2-5, 2-4) was tied for fifth place with Port Jefferson (2-4, 2-4) in the seven-team league. The Porters have a fighting chance to make the playoffs with a .500 league record.

“We’re not the lowest in our [league] any more,” said senior middle hitter Emily Russell, who shares the captaincy with Jernick. “That’s a great feeling.”

Since a 9-7 playoff season in 2015, Greenport hit hard times, but the Porters have made strides this year. Serving and serve receive remain a work in progress. (Gunther said the Porters made close to 30 service errors in their season-opening loss to Port Jefferson. “That’s absurd,” he said.) The Porters have cleaned up their defense a bit and have a number of hitters who can take healthy swings at the ball.

Among them is Jernick, who Gunther would like to use exclusively as an outside hitter once Rhian Tramontana is ready to handle the setting duties with Gabby Contreras. Gunther said of Jernick: “She was All-League last year; she’s better this year. She can help us most with her hitting if another setter can come along.”

Greenport’s hardest hitter, though, may be Russell. “Probably the most inspiring player on the team because of the way she plays and her hit is intimidating,” Gunther said. “She basically can hit any spot on the court.”

Greenport is young. The team’s only other senior aside from Russell is outside hitter Lupita Perez.

That youth shows sometimes, as it did Friday when Greenport made 15 hitting errors and 13 passing errors in a 25-12, 25-12, 25-8 loss to Pierson/Bridgehampton at Greenport High School.

Pierson (7-2, 4-2), a defending Long Island Class C champion that reached the state tournament last year, lost only one player from its 2017 team. The Whalers didn’t make a single passing error and totaled 23 service aces. They were led by Sam Cox (10 aces, five kills, one assist) and Sofia Mancino (eight aces, seven assists, one kill).

Jernick had four aces, four assists and one of only seven Greenport kills.

Greenport followed that up with a three-set loss at Center Moriches (6-3, 4-2) Saturday.

As for breaking the barrier to the win column, Gunther said, “It’s a really good feeling for the girls because winning taught them that they can win.”

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Photo caption: Greenport/Southold coach Mike Gunther talking to his team during a timeout in Friday’s match against Pierson/Bridgehampton. (Credit: Bob Liepa)

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