As a girl summering in Orient, Susan Magrino learned to love the water. “I was fearless,” she said recently, recalling days spent crabbing on a small dinghy. Until one day, after loaning the boat to a neighbor, she discovered the motor broken.

“My father said, ‘Well, it’s your boat, it’s your responsibility,’ and I never forgot that lesson. It taught me that if something is given to you, it’s your responsibility. No one’s going to bail you out.”

It’s a lesson that stuck with Ms. Magrino, 57, through life’s mishaps and in her professional life as the CEO of her eponymous public relations agency in Manhattan. “If I’m going to get involved with something, I’m going to be responsible for it,” she said.

The part-time Orient resident was honored May 6 at the 2019 Matrix Awards, an annual ceremony held by New York Women in Communications, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower women in the communications field throughout their careers. The awards, first held in 1970, honor women in media, advertising, entertainment, film, television, theater, broadcasting, magazines, newspapers, public relations and new media.

As she accepted her award, Ms. Magrino was introduced by her close friend and one of her first clients, Martha Stewart. Though she had attended the prestigious event in the past, it was exciting to receive one, Ms. Magrino said.

“Public relations is typically in the background, not always in the foreground. Usually I’m accompanying the people who are being awarded,” she said. “It was different for me.”

Ms. Magrino joined fellow honorees, including Padma Lakshmi of Top Chef, CBS This Morning co-host Norah O’Donnell, Hearst Magazines chief content officer Kate Lewis, Starcom USA CEO Kathy Ring, The Ad Council president & CEO Lisa Sherman, and Pfizer executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer Sally Susman at the ceremony. Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and a 2018 Matrix Award winner, emceed the ceremony.

“We are proud to honor Susan Magrino for her talents and for her impact on our industry and beyond,” said New York Women in Communications president Judith Harrison.

Receiving the honor allowed Ms. Magrino a moment to reflect on her 30-year career in the industry.

After graduating with degrees in English and art from Skidmore College, she began her career at The Crown Publishing Group and stayed there for nine years. “On the eve of turning 30, I didn’t want to look back with regret. I wanted to start my own business,” she said.

With a $10,000 loan from her father and the support of her sister, Allyn, who left her job to work with Ms. Magrino, the agency was founded in 1992.

“I bet my dad thought, wow, I’m going to have two kids back in Orient. But we paid him back in six months and the rest is history,” Ms. Magrino said.

Since then, the business has grown into a powerhouse, representing well-known travel, real estate, food, wine, spirits and special event brands worldwide. Her long list of clients include Martha Stewart, Moët Hennessy USA, Miami’s Fontainebleau and The James Beard Foundation Awards.

The firm perennially appears on the New York Observer’s ranking of the nation’s 50 most powerful PR firms in the country.

Ms. Magrino said the industry has changed at breakneck pace in the age of social media. “We do a lot of work with influencers on Instagram,” she said. Though many brands see social media as more attractive over traditional public relations, Ms. Magrino said a PR identity is more important than ever. “You need to know how to manage things and have a strategy. PR has a place at the table.”

Twenty-seven years after launching her own firm, the entrepreneur encourages other young women to pursue their dreams. “You have to be willing to take a risk sometimes, because great things can come out of risks.”

Photo caption: Longtime friend and client Martha Stewart introduced Ms. Magrino at the Matrix Awards last week. ( Matrix Awards courtesy photo)

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Listings prepared for Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Research Service, dated March 18-24, 2019.

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AQUEBOGUE (11931)

• Gilliam, R & A to Allen, Dwayne, 402 West Ln (600-45-1-12.3), (R), $100,000

BAITING HOLLOW (11933)

• Lindquist, T to Pasca, Selina, 161 Oak Dr (600-38-2-18.1), (R), $299,000

• Hooghkirk, J & J by Referee to Wells Fargo Bank N.A., 39 East Meadow Rd (600-61-3-11), (R), $926,834

• Kent, J & C to Parsons, Jonathan, 62 Youngs Ave (600-79-1-14.4), (R), $415,000

CALVERTON (11933)

• US Bank National Assoc to Castelli, Salvatore, 71 Laurin Rd (600-115.1-1-3), (R), $165,000

CUTCHOGUE (11935)

• Charnews, F & D to Sena, Amanda, 1675 Pequash Ave (1000-103-7-16), (R), $706,500

• Powers, K & C to Simpson, James, 1475 Sterling Rd (1000-104-2-23), (R), $533,500

FLANDERS (11901)

• Maldonado-Molina, E to 749 Flanders Road LLC, 749 Flanders Rd (900-144-1-8), (V), $80,000

• Susnjara, G by Heirs to County of Suffolk, Scrub Property (900-198-3-5), (V), $49,450

JAMESPORT (11947)

• Diliberto, M to Tishim, Brandon, 242 Manor Ln (600-47-2-6), (R), $600,000

MATTITUCK (11952)

• Liverpool, P to Spiess, Elizabeth, 200 Azalea Rd (1000-115-6-15), (R), $479,000

ORIENT (11957)

• Schriever, W to Oysterponds LLC, 20275 Rt 25 (1000-17-3-7), (R), $2,600,000

RIVERHEAD (11901)

• Rodriguez, A to Fuentes, Mario, 620 Northville Tpke (600-127-2-1), (R), $360,000

• Connolly, J & S to Tarka, Waldemar, 280 Howell Ave (600-127-5-7), (R), $350,000

• Martin, D & B to Binkis Property Development, 29 Prospect Pl (600-127-5-18), (R), $200,000

SHELTER ISLAND (11964)

• Laspia, J & S to SI Homes LLC, 4 Smith St (700-15-3-99), (R), $450,000

SOUTH JAMESPORT (11970)

• Paulick, K & Swiatocha to Galluzzo, Frank, 29 Front St (600-92-4-4.1), (V), $865,000

SOUTHOLD (11971)

• LNV Corporation to Dubon, Clemente, 610 Tuthill Rd Ext (1000-55-6-15.22), (R), $464,950

(Key: Tax map numbers = District-Section-Block-Lot; (A) = agriculture; (R) = residential; (V) = vacant property; (C) = commercial; (R&E) = recreation & entertainment; (CS) = community services; (I) = industrial; (PS) = public service; (P) = park land; as determined from assessed values in the current tax rolls.)

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Ralph L. Panella of Southold, formerly of Yonkers, N.Y., died May 14. He was 83.

Visitors will be received Sunday, May 19, from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold.

The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday, May 20, at 11 a.m. at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold, officiated by Father John Barrett. Interment will follow at the church’s cemetery. 

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Following a major renovation, North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck will reopen its doors to the public tonight (Thursday, May 16) with the musical “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The show is a spoof of Jazz Age musicals.

Performances are set for Thursdays to Sundays, May 16 to June 2.  Show times are 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. A free opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16.

Cast members are Glenn Abramowitz, Corinne Araneo, Kelsey Cheslock, John Condon, Nancy DiGirolamo, Mike Drozd, Meghan Duffy, Mike Hipp, Michael Krulder, David Lopez, Katrina Lovett, Eric Momente, Laura Pearsall, Jocelyn Podlas, Kierra Prentiss, Jenna Spates, Marion Stark, Amanda Summers, Haley Unger and Stuart Whalen.

The show is directed by Mary Motto Kalich and produced by Lorraine Warren, with musical director Karen Hochstedler and assistant director Chelsea Chizever.

Admission is $25. Student rush tickets ($20) may be available 10 minutes before curtain time. Visit nfct.com or call 298-NFCT (6328). 

North Fork Community Theatre photos by Elizabeth Wagner:

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Mariyah Zeigler was just 16 years old when she was convicted of first-degree robbery and sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison in Westchester County. She recounted a childhood marred by domestic abuse, crime and bullying at school during a public hearing on criminal justice reform Friday at Touro Law Center in Central Islip.

“Prison saved me. I spent the rest of my childhood growing up there,” Ms. Zeigler said. “Things that seemed impossible in the real world, I was attaining behind the wall.”

Several other women shared similar testimony about programs in prison that showed them a better way of life.

All argued that it shouldn’t have come to that in the first place, and called for intervention and prevention programs that could have altered their paths into prison.

Hundreds of law enforcement and education officials joined criminal justice reform advocates at the hearing, “Deconstructing the Prison Pipeline,” hosted by Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon and Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre (D-Babylon). 

For Ms. Zeigler, now 23 and working as a research assistant for Ms. Jean-Pierre, prison provided a level of comfort and security she didn’t have at home.

“The basic things. I had three hot meals and a bed every night,” she said through tears. “I was made to go to school every day.”

Those who testified offered a variety of perspectives and recommendations based on their experiences with the criminal justice system. The hearing was presented by a task force of the same name, organized by Sheriff Toulon and co-chaired by Ms. Jean-Pierre.

“A few years ago, the mother of a young person stood up in my court and cried out, ‘Judge, please help me. I’m losing my child to the system.’ We have a moral responsibility to respond to her cries,” said Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho, who called for alternatives to incarceration for young people.

In his 15 years presiding over youth court, Justice Camacho said, he has identified family environment, substance abuse, mental health issues, lack of education and gangs as among the factors that lead young people into crime.

He called for the creation of “safe spaces” for “at-risk” children to receive counseling, recreational activities, job training and education. He said he’d like to see an “aggressive, unified,” response to the problem.

Rebecca Sanin, president of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, seeks to upend the dialogue surrounding those very children who are labeled as “at risk.”

Members of the task force and advocates for prison reform spoke at Friday’s public hearing, calling for a better system to prevent troubled youths from reaching the prison system.

‘Don’t get me wrong, we have young men and women who should go to jail for their crimes. But if we are serious about ending the prison pipeline, we need to direct more resources into crime prevention and early intervention and pay more attention to the children of those who are presently incarcerated.’

Sheriff Errol Toulon

‘Long Island no longer has pockets of poverty. We have pockets of wealth. ZIP code determines far too much here. By the age of 4, social mobility, health, education and every definition of success is already on a track to produce radically different outcomes.’

Rebecca Sanin
president and CEO, Health and Welfare Council of Long Island

‘We’re not exactly being proactive with these issues. We’re waiting until kids get in trouble to work with them. We have to fix that.’ 

Charles Fox Jr.
director of special projects, Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk

“When we talk about children, we have to remember that behavior is a language,” she said, noting that kids who act out in school are communicating for help. “What do we do as a society? We punish.”

Zero-tolerance policies that lead to school suspensions and expulsions disproportionately affect students of color, Ms. Sanin said. According to a national study by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, black students are 3.5 times more likely than their white peers to be suspended or expelled. “The state Department of Education has a very significant role to play in dismantling the pipeline,” Ms. Sanin said.

State assistant attorney general Ajay Saini also testified on the intersection of school policy and race and noted that even one suspension can increase the likelihood that a student will end up in the criminal justice system.

Mr. Saini advocated against “exclusionary” disciplinary policies after investigating school districts in Syracuse and Albany that were suspending minority students at two to three times the rate of white students.

The Suffolk County Legal Aid Society handles the largest percentage of juvenile cases in the county, according to attorney Elizabeth Justesen, community outreach director for the society. She said more effort should be put into restorative justice, a judicial concept that emphasizes rehabilitation and repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior.

Ms. Justesen also proposed that defense attorneys and prosecutors who handle cases in family and youth court participate in trainings that focus on understanding trauma, poverty, racial disparities and implicit bias.

Sheriff Toulon formed the task force last fall after analyzing data on crime trends in Suffolk County showing that crime and incarceration disproportionately impact African-American males and individuals from low-income communities. Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force member Marilyn Banks-Winter and Riverhead Central School District Superintendent Aurelia Henriquez were among the local public officials in attendance at Friday’s event.

Dr. Henriquez praised Sheriff Toulon for holding the hearing. 

“This was a long overdue conversation on how schools, the community and political agencies can work together to break the cycle of the prison pipeline,” she said Tuesday. The superintendent added that the forum provided information she will bring take to the district to assist with prevention efforts and new programs. “In the Riverhead Central School District, we are constantly and consistently seeking out new ways to provide support, positive experiences and role models to our students to keep them engaged in education,” she said.

Ms. Banks-Winter agreed that the event was a good start. 

“Who is accountable for their fall? Where is the help they need from local organizations?” she said, expressing frustration that many students are classified by a system that does not acknowledge the root of the problem.

Her organization, the The African-American Educational and Cultural Festival, Inc., (AAECF) is seeking to partner with some of the Sheriff’s programs to help young people succeed.

“We have connections and resources to help those who are released from jail or prison to have a second chance  and to find and secure jobs,” she said Wednesday.

In order for that to work, she added that parole officers must work with the AAECF to help these individuals succeed and stop the “vicious cycle.”

The task force is charged with exploring how trauma, poverty, race, school policies, substance abuse and gangs feed the prison pipeline. “Most young people end up in jail largely because of the circumstances that shape their lives,” said Sheriff Toulon, a former Rikers Island correction officer.

The task force is expected to publish recommendations and implement a pilot program based on lessons learned at the hearing.

“There’s a fear somehow that reform means being soft on crime,” the sheriff said. He cited a 2017 Prison Policy Initiative study that found the United States spends $182 billion on mass incarceration each year. “If we invest just a portion of that into prevention and intervention, we will turn around countless lives,” he said.

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For the first time, Suffolk County employees will contribute toward their health care plan under a new agreement reached with County Executive Steve Bellone last week.

During his 2018 State of the County address, Mr. Bellone cited health insurance costs as the biggest financial issue facing the county. At the time, those costs represented 15 percent of the total county budget. “We needed to rein that in,” said Deputy County Executive Jon Kaiman in an interview Tuesday. 

Mr. Kaiman explained that the agreement creates new copays, such as a $100 emergency room copay, and raises deductibles for those who opt for out-of-network providers.

The county had been considering asking employees to pay 15 percent of their total health care costs. “The problem is, if you make $40,000, that’s 10 percent of your entire salary,” he said.

Under the agreement, county employees will pay 2 percent of their salaries toward health coverage, which will increase incrementally until reaching 2.5 percent, county officials said.

The annual minimum contribution will be $1,500 and the maximum will be $3,750, increasing to $4,000 after five years.

Officials estimate the health care agreement will save taxpayers $40 million next year, with the potential to save more in the future.

Mr. Bellone also announced new contracts with the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association and the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees.

The six-year PBA deal will result in the lowest police raises in decades, averaging at 1.8 percent.

According to officials, the deal maintains a 12-year schedule for police officers to receive top pay, which will now be the same for all officers. Previously, there was a second tier of top pay that Mr. Kaiman said likely would not have made it through arbitration.

The county will also save money on overtime costs by requiring new police officers to work additional days, requiring all officers to complete their annual firearms qualification training on an off-duty day and cutting sick days in half from 26 to 13.

“We wanted a structural change to how policing works. We pay $30 to $40 million a year in overtime. If we could cut that in half, that’s significant,” Mr. Kaiman said.

In a statement, Suffolk PBA president Noel DiGerolamo said the deal was fair, “while recognizing the fiscal realities of Suffolk County.”

There are 1,700 police officers in Suffolk County.

The Suffolk AME, which had been without a contract since January 2017, will receive an average raise of 1.5 percent each year through 2024, officials said. “While every contract is the result of negotiation that will leave either side wanting more, this is a fair contract and moves our county forward,” Suffolk AME president Dan Levler said in a statement.

“These agreements represent a major milestone that protect the taxpayer and are fair to the hardworking men and women who ensure our public safety and help operate county government,” Mr. Bellone said in a statement.

According to a financial impact statement released from the county executive’s office Monday, the deal could cost $192 million for both unions and result in $195 million in savings.

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Mattituck High School recently honored nine student-athletes who are expected to play college sports.

Lacrosse was a common theme among the athletes.

Here’s the list of students-athletes and their college choices:

Willie Burns, lacrosse, SUNY/Morrisville

Christian Demchak, cross country, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bryce Grathwohl, baseball, Vassar

Claudia Hoeg, lacrosse, William & Mary

Riley Hoeg, lacrosse, Virginia Tech

Rachel Janis, lacrosse, SUNY/Cortland

Emily McKillop, lacrosse, Springfield

Madison Schmidt, lacrosse, Stevens Institute of Technology

Francesca Vasile-Cozzo, lacrosse, LIU Post

Photo caption: Front row, from left: Rachel Janis, Emily McKillop, Francesca Vasile-Cozzo, Madison Schmidt, Willie Burns and back row: Claudia Hoeg, Riley Hoeg, Christian Demchak and Bryce Grathwohl. (Courtesy photo)

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Nelson Coreas-Fuentes of Greenport was arrested Sunday around 7:13 a.m. for driving while intoxicated. Police found Mr. Coreas-Fuentes sleeping in a parked 2014 Dodge Ram on the side of Route 48 in Cutchogue. The vehicle was running, police said, and Mr. Coreas-Fuentes was intoxicated in the driver’s seat. Police also found a can of Corona White beer in the vehicle.

• Daniel Scalia of Cutchogue was arrested for DWI last Thursday around 7:33 p.m. after causing damage to a number of structures. Mr. Scalia was driving northbound on Skunk Lane when he ran off the road and struck a concrete pillar/driveway marker, police said. He then continued on, striking several mailboxes. The driver fled the scene of the incident, but police located him near Eugene’s Road and arrested him.

• Vincent Liebenow of Montauk was arrested around 11:19 a.m. last Monday for allegedly stealing multiple makeup items from Rite Aid on Route 25 in Mattituck. Rite Aid staff said they saw the man remove the items from the shop and leave without paying for them. Police located him at the bus stop in front of Mattituck Plaza, confirmed his identity with Rite Aid staff and arrested him. Mr. Liebenow allegedly stole 32 items, including makeup, lip gloss, eyeliner and mascara.

• A Greenport woman was arrested for misdemeanor petit larceny after being identified as the suspect in multiple larcenies from vehicles in the Greenport Village area over the past few months.

Sheryl Davis, 50, allegedly stole loose change from an unlocked vehicle April 11. She was identified as a suspect and was questioned and arrested Sunday, police said. 

• A Brooklyn man was transported to Eastern Long Island Hospital by members of the Southold Fire Department for precautionary treatment of smoke inhalation, after he reported smoke in a Southold residence around 9:21 p.m. Saturday. Police responded and found that a chimney problem was causing the smoke. No further action was taken, police said.

• A Mattituck woman called police Saturday around 6:57 p.m. to report a vehicle moving erratically while traveling west on Route 25 in Mattituck. Police responded and determined that the driver, a Laurel man, was fine, but charged him with an equipment violation. The man was issued two summonses, one for obstructed view and another for being an unlicensed driver, police said.

• An investigation is underway after a Southold man reported to police around 1:45 p.m. Saturday that his vehicle’s rear passenger window, valued at about $500, had been damaged. The man claimed that while he was driving on Lighthouse Road in Southold, an unknown individual threw an unknown object that struck his vehicle, shattering the rear window.

• A three-car collision occurred around 11:03 a.m. Friday, when a Southold man driving westbound on Route 48 in Cutchogue drove through a steady red light at the Cox Lane intersection, colliding with another vehicle traveling north on Cox Lane through a green light. A third vehicle, traveling south on Cox Lane through a green light, was also hit when the first vehicle continued through the intersection. One individual was reported injured, police said.

• A Mattituck man reported to police around 5 p.m. last Wednesday that he saw via his surveillance system that an unknown female had taken a package from his front porch earlier in the day. The suspect was driving a black Mercedes-Benz, according to police. The investigation is still open.

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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Mayor George Hubbard Jr. asked the board Thursday evening to readdress parking in the village following the implementation of limited-time parking laws on Fourth Street.

The local law, approved Feb. 28, added a 72-hour parking restriction to the Fourth Street lot owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, located south of the train tracks. The issue came to light last year after locals and board trustees noticed vehicles were parked in the lot for several months. A public hearing was held in January.

The lot is monitored regularly, village officials said, meaning a code enforcement officer tracks which vehicles are in which spots Monday using street markers, and then again on Wednesday. 

While people are no longer parking in that lot, Mr. Hubbard said, he’s observed folks have migrated to the nearby parking lot intended for the Maritime museum guests and Shelter Island Ferry travelers, located closer to the MTA just south of Wiggins Street near the Railroad Museum of Long Island.

“We need to address the problem, because people have moved from one spot to the other,” he said, “and people have not changed their habits yet.” 

The mayor suggested putting up signs telling drivers that they can park in the MTA lot as long as it’s for less than 72 hours.

“Everyone’s scared of it now,” he said. “We cleared up one parking lot and congested another.” 

Board trustee Mary Bess Phillips suggested that local charter boats use the 72-hour MTA lot. The responsibility of notifying boaters would fall on the board, she said.

The mayor asked that people parking at the Long Island Rail Road lot for longer than 72 hours should park elsewhere, be dropped off, or take an Uber or other taxi service.

Village administrator Paul Pallas said he will look into the number of cars that are sitting in the Railroad Museum lot and report back to the board.

Photo caption: Mayor George Hubbard Jr. at Thursday night’s village meeting. (Credit: Kate Nalepinski)

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A community effort once again has landed the Southold Fire Department the Terry Farrell Award for collecting more pints of donated blood donations than any other department on Long Island and the Hudson Valley.

It’s the fourth straight year the department earned the honors.

The most recent total was 655 units of blood collected over five drives in 2018 — narrowly missing the prior year’s total of 657.

The award is named for a Hicksville FDNY firefighter who died on Sept. 11, and is the highest honor given by the New York Blood Center.

“The blood drives are hosted by the Southold Fire Department but they involve the community of the entire North Fork, drawing donors from Jamesport to Orient,” said Michael Zweig, the department’s blood drive coordinator.

Two of Terry Farrell’s brothers presented the award at an island-wide banquet in Woodbury May 9.

The most recent total for 2018 would have likely set a record if not for a snowstorm that fell on the day of one the drives in March 2018. The Southold drive was the only one on Long Island that didn’t cancel that day, Mr. Zweig said. The drive ended early that day and they still collected 74 units.

The fire department’s efforts won’t be slowing down. The next drive is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22 from 2:15 to 8:15 p.m. All donors after 5 p.m. receive a spaghetti dinner and homemade pie.

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On Tuesday, voters in Riverhead and Southold towns will go to the polls to vote on school district budgets. Several districts are offering propositions along with their budgets, and voters will need to read those closely before making a decision, 

For example, is a turf field necessary at Mattituck High School? Voters in that district will have the opportunity to answer that question directly at the polls. Last year, Greenport schools asked voters to approve a budget that pierced the tax cap; this year, the district’s $19.4 million budget comes in under the cap. Read our coverage in today’s newspapers for specifics on the impact on the tax levy. 

But there is a catch in Greenport: On June 26, district voters will be asked to return to the polls to weigh in on a $23.8 million bond proposal that, if approved, will fund major school improvements. District officials have said the school building has not been renovated since the 1970s; voters will have to decide whether making those improvements is worth the price. 

The Southold Union Free School District is asking voters to approve a $30.6 million budget, which remains under the tax cap. Within that budget, if approved, are funds to add a full-time security guard at the elementary school. At this time, the district has just one guard working in both buildings. This is surely an investment worth making.

If consolidation of our school districts is the future — and, clearly, it must be — here is something worth noting: The sharing of services between Greenport and Southold districts has saved $1.3 million thus far. This achievement should point all of our districts toward consolidation and reconfiguration, with potential savings of millions more to be reaped.

Perhaps in the near future we will see a referendum on the ballot asking voters to approve school district consolidation.

In Mattituck-Cutchogue, taxpayers will vote on a $40.7 million budget, a very slight increase over the current $40.6 million budget. This proposal is well below the allowable 2.5% tax levy cap.

But here, voters will want to pay close attention to the two additional propositions on the ballot: a $2 million plan to tackle safety and security upgrades and repair air conditioning; and a request to spend $1.6 million to create a turf field and other improvements on the western side of the high school property.

Both propositions would be funded through the district’s capital reserve fund and not through the budget proposal. These are still taxpayer funds, of course. 

The tiny New Suffolk district, its red clapboard building an icon of a bygone North Fork, is proposing a $1.01 million budget for the coming academic year — a decrease of 28% from the current budget.

Riverhead taxpayers will vote on the district’s $144.4 million budget, also under the tax cap. They should go over their ballots carefully, as there are critical propositions to be voted on, including a $3.9 million proposal to buy 44 new school buses. There is also a cafeteria-related project to be considered. 

Taxpayers in the Shoreham-Wading River district will be asked to vote on a $75.9 million budget, a 1.57% increase over this year. As with the other districts, Shoreham-Wading River is well within the allowable tax cap.

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Three candidates are running for two open seats on the Mattituck-Cutchogue Board of Education.

Incumbent Sarah Hassildine is seeking re-election, while fellow trustee MaryLynn Hoeg has decided to step down.

Ms. Hassildine will run against newcomers George Haase and Jennifer Anderson for full three-year terms.

SARAH HASSILDINE

Ms. Hassildine, 51, of Cutchogue, served a three-year term on the board from 2012 to 2015. She did not seek re-election then because she planned to relocate after her son graduated from Mattituck High School. But she chose to stay and was appointed in September 2018 to fill a vacancy on the seven-member board. She’s lived in the community for over 30 years and worked in the district as a substitute teacher, teacher assistant and in the technology department

One of the main reasons she’s seeking another term, Ms. Hassildine said, is that she believes in the goals of the district and giving students the best educational opportunities. She believes the district can achieve those goals by supporting teachers, staff, students and community. 

She said the purpose of the board is to inform and support the greater community. If re-elected, she said, her biggest goal will to be improve transparency between the administration and the community. 

“We want the community to be happy and informed of what’s going on, we want the teachers and the staff to be supported, and we want the children to feel supported,” she said. 

GEORGE HAASE

Mr. Haase, 62, of Southold, ran for a seat on the board three years ago against six other candidates — and lost by two votes. He said he admires what the district had done for his son, who graduated last year, and his family. He’s eager to run as a way to give back to the community by providing his time and keeping up the momentum.

Mr. Haase, whose wife is a teacher assistant at Cutchogue East Elementary School, first came to the East End when his parents purchased Orient by the Sea in 1978. He studied accounting at Long Island University and recently retired as co-owner of the Fig and Olive Bed and Breakfast on Skunk Lane in Cutchogue with his wife.

JENNIFER ANDERSON 

Ms. Anderson has lived in Mattituck since 2007 and has two children in the district. A PTA member and a Spanish teacher in the Westhampton Beach school district for 16 years, Ms. Anderson said she’s running for school board because she cares deeply about the children’s education and the community. 

The Georgetown University alumna said she wants to create opportunities to raise student achievement while being fiscally responsible. She believes her bachelor’s degree in international business and Spanish, her master’s in adolescence education from Dowling College and her education leadership degree from Stony Brook University can help the board make informed decisions that will benefit the children’s education while staying in line with the budget. 

She said she understands the changes and challenges the community is facing and intends to “carefully navigate through the decisions to evolve our program and represent the community interests.”

Ms. Anderson also volunteers as a Little League coach and college interviewer for Georgetown University. 

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Several school districts on the North Fork will offer propositions along with their budgets this Tuesday, May 21, when voters head to the polls.

The district that asked voters to pierce the tax cap last year will stay well under the cap this time around — but Greenport will float a $23.8 million bond project at a separate vote in June.

The district is proposing a $19.4 million budget for the upcoming school year, which maintains both programs and staff. The proposed tax levy is $15.3 million, an increase of 2.85% over a year ago. The allowable tax levy increase is also 2.85 percent — compared to last year’s 2.6 percent.

In March, Greenport and Southold Superintendent David Gamberg said the main objective in preparing the Greenport budget was to stay under the tax cap. The district aimed to keep increases minimal and preserve student programs. 

The budget is driven by employee salaries, which total $9.1 million, and employee benefits, which total $5.5 million.

The district will see increases in all spending areas: transportation, BOCES costs, debt service, special education and equipment. Other expenses, which total $1.8 million, will increase by 1.58 percent compared to last year.

Two seats are up for grabs on the school board this year as the terms of members Tina Volinski and Heather Wolf come to a close. Neither will seek re-election. Villagers Sandra Martocchia and Kimberly Moore Swann are running unopposed to fill their seats. 

Following the budget vote and election, on June 26, taxpayers will be asked to approve or reject the bond project, which would renovate and modify the school building. It will be presented to voters as two ballot items. Parts of the building have not been renovated since the 1970s, Mr. Gamberg said. 

If the bond project is approved, district officials said, a home valued at $330,000 would pay an additional $30 per month, or $355 more per year, based on property value. A home valued at $615,000 would pay an additional $55 per month, or $659 more per year.

The Southold Union Free School District has proposed a $30.6 million budget for the next academic year, which will remain within the tax increase cap, at 2.97%. 

The majority of the budget, $15.6 million, will go toward employee salaries. Employee benefits account for another $8.2 million. The additional expenditures are in transportation, BOCES costs, debt service, special education and more.

The Southold budget plan includes the addition of a full-time security guard at the elementary school. At this time, the district has one security guard working in both buildings.

The district also expects to spend $309,482 of the $9.6 million in its capital reserve, which would go toward retirement, workers’ compensation, unemployment and employee benefit accrued liability.

Roughly $1.8 million will come from state aid, with an additional $1.6 million in federal aid and NJROTC programs, tuition, using money from the Capital Reserve, additional funding, and shared personnel services with the Greenport district.

Shared services between Greenport and Southold school districts have saved a total of $1.3 million in cumulative savings thus far, Mr. Gamberg said. 

The only candidate on the ballot for Southold’s school board this year is former vice president and current member Judi Fouchet, who has served since 2004. She will run unopposed.

In the Mattituck-Cutchogue district, taxpayers will vote on a $40.8 million budget.

That amounts to a 0.26 percent increase over the current $40.7 million budget. The tax levy increase is 1.9%, within the district’s allowable cap of 2.5%.

More than half of the budget will be spent on employee salaries and related taxes, as is the case for most North Fork districts. Health insurance for employees will account for 16 percent of the budget. Other expenditures include utilities, facilities, instructional resources, pupil personnel, technology and more. 

This year’s ballot will also present two propositions. The first, a roughly $2 million plan, would tackle safety and security upgrades and repair air conditioning in district buildings. 

The other proposition requests $1.6 million to construct a field on the western side of the Mattituck High School property and would include a walkway, fence, bleacher pad and fenced-in dugout near the back of the school. Members of the community have voiced both support for and concerns about the proposed field. 

Both propositions would be funded through the district’s $3.75 million capital reserve fund. 

This year, three candidates will compete to snag two spots on the Mattituck-Cutchogue Board of Education. Incumbent Sarah Hassildine will run against newcomers George Haase and Jennifer Anderson. 

Taxpayers in the New Suffolk Common School District will vote next week on the budget and one proposition.

New Suffolk is putting forward a $1.01 million budget for the 2019-20 academic year. That’s a decrease of 28% from last year. 

Board president Tony Dill said last year’s revenue and expenses produced “substantial” one-time costs. 

The district tax levy is expected to rise 3.8%; however, it does not exceed the 2% increase cap. Under state law, Mr. Dill said, districts can use last year’s amount under the tax cap and apply it to the upcoming academic year. The district was well under the tax cap last year, with an estimated tax levy increase of 1.6%. 

The ballot proposition in New Suffolk involves the creation of a Debt Service Reserve Fund, which would pay off long-term debts in the future and initially be used for advertising bonds. This year, the district is expected to spend 9.1% of the budget on reserve funds. The district will still have debt service payments in the future, Mr. Dill said. 

The majority of the budget will go toward elementary instruction. Two teachers left the district earlier this year, which reduced teaching expenditures for 2019-20. Just over a quarter of the budget — 25.5% — will go toward secondary education, covering tuition and transportation costs for middle and high school students from the district, who attend Southold schools.

Roughly 12.1% of the budget goes to district administration, which includes administrative functions in the New Suffolk school building, along with BOCES fees, legal and audit fees and more.

Other costs, including building upgrades, personnel benefits, student transportation, special education, special items and student health, account for the balance of the budget.

Incumbent Joseph Polashock, a New Suffolk native who was appointed to the school board in 2009, will run unopposed in this year’s school board election.

Voters in the Oysterponds School District will find three items on the ballot: the budget, the school board candidates and a proposal for bathroom renovations.

`The $5.8 million budget for the 2019-20 represents an estimated 0.26% increase compared to last year, according to Superintendent Richard Malone. 

The budget complies with the 2% increase cap, resulting in a 0.98% tax rate increase over last year. The owner of an average home assessed at $6,000 would see a tax increase of $21.90.

The district has finalized a four-year contract with its teachers to predetermine salaries, which represents the bulk of the budget, Mr. Malone said.

 Spending on tuition — paid to the Greenport district, where Oysterponds sends its students after grade 6 — will reach $1.4 million next year.

The $200,000 bathroom renovation project would bring the boys’ and girls’ lavatories into compliance with state requirements. The project would be paid for with district funds outside the Capital Reserve and would not involve any taxpayer money. If approved, renovations could begin as early as this fall.

Oysterponds school board incumbents Thomas Stevenson and Dorothy-Dean Thomas, whose terms expire at the end of this academic year, are running unopposed for three-year terms. A replacement has not yet been found for board member Krista de Kerillis, who plans to retire after her term ends June 30. 

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After a winter season that produced below-average snow totals, the highway departments in both Riverhead and Southold saved money on snow removal costs. But the highway superintendents aren’t celebrating just yet.

The fiscal year for both towns is the same as the calendar year, which means they still have to get through November and December before they know how well their snow removal budgets did.

“We did save a good amount of money on snow removal this year, but the year’s not over,” said Riverhead Highway Superintendent George “Gio” Woodson. “We still have to go to Jan. 1.”

He said it seems like every 10 years or so that the town makes it through the year without having to do a lot of snow removal.

Southold Highway Superintendent Vincent Orlando said when the end of December rolls around, it may be possible to use savings to purchase something such as a small truck. Otherwise, he says, “leave those snow budget lines alone, and hope that November and December are quiet.”

Mr. Orlando estimates he spent about 62 percent of his snow budget so far in 2019, whereas in 2018, when there was a lot of snow, particularly in March, he spent 90 percent of his snow budget. 

Riverhead’s snow removal budget for 2019 is $275,000 and Southold’s is $426,500. (Neither Mr. Woodson nor Mr. Orlando could explain why Southold’s snow removal budget is larger.)

Both superintendents said that if they make it through the fiscal year and still have snow removal funds left over, the remainder can be put in a highway fund balance, where it usually can then be used on other items.

“The rest goes into a fund balance, which I can use for whatever I’m lacking, it could be paving or equipment,” Mr. Woodson said.

“You have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” Mr. Orlando said. “In my five years as superintendent, we’ve had two major hurricanes on Jan. 2.”

The East End’s sparse snow totals from November to March weren’t necessarily reflected in the National Weather Service’s statistics. The NWS’s closest weather stations are in Upton (Brookhaven National Lab) and MacArthur Airport in Islip.

From Nov. 1 to March 31, there was 15.1 inches of snow at Upton and 12.8 inches of snow at MacArthur, according to Joe Pollina of the NWS. By comparison, Upton averaged 48 inches of snow per year from 2009-10 to 2017-18.

There is no specific weather station in Riverhead or posts east other than weather volunteers, and there were no past weather counts for those sites on the NWS website.

A Baiting Hollow site on the NWS website gathered 16.4 inches of snow from Nov. 1 to March 31.

For the same months in 2016-17 and 2017-18, those Baiting Hollow totals were 42.7 and 47.2 inches, respectively.

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Riverhead High School sophomore Lauren Enos, 15, sits on the edge of her seat in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, her clarinet pointed down. Her eyes are glued to the sheet music in front of her, but she’s practiced enough that she knows composer Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” like the back of her hand.

It’s her second performance at Carnegie Hall with the Metropolitan Youth principal orchestra, but her debut as a first-chair clarinet. The pressure’s on. 

Conductor Phil Preddice lifts his baton. Lauren takes a deep breath and blows air into her woodwind instrument, and four other clarinetists follow her lead. The student musicians harmonize into a powerful, 16-minute piece. After this performance, Lauren’s brother, Bryan, an eighth-grader at Riverhead Middle School, will take the stage as first-chair trombonist with the MYO symphony orchestra..

Last Sunday, May 5, the Enos siblings performed with Suffolk County branch of MYO a private organization that hosts three concerts featuring student musicians, who must audition and pay tuition to participate. 

Students instrumentalists in the MYO program play in one of three ensembles: the entry-level concert orchestra; the symphony, which consists mostly of high school students; and the principal orchestra, primarily for 11th- and 12th-graders, said Lauren and Bryan’s mother, Rene Suprina, who is also a clarinetist and district music coordinator at Southold High School. 

Eight North Fork students performed with MYO at Carnegie Hall last weekend. Joining Lauren and Bryan were Riverhead Middle school flutist Victoria Santoro in the concert orchestra; Southold High School violinist Kate Jones in the symphony; and cellist Nathaniel Bollermann, piccolo and flutist Brady Wells and percussionist William Green from Riverhead High School, in the principal orchestra. 

Lauren said she loved being on stage with her classmates.

“It’s really cool because I learn from their talent,” she said. “Most of them have been there since their freshman year.”

Ms. Suprina said auditions are based on New York State School Music Association rankings. Instrumentalists are required to play at NYSSMA level 4 or higher. When Bryan auditioned, he was a level 5. Lauren has been at level 6 for a while, the mother said.

Lauren began performing at age 3 with the violin. When she reached the third grade, she traded her violin in for a clarinet. 

Lauren said she was inspired by her mother, who graduated from SUNY/Potsdam in 1984. Bryan started playing the trombone in fifth grade — and has stuck with it. 

Lauren said she plays constantly — during the week in school band and with family members in amateur groups in Riverhead and Greenport On off days, she practices at least an hour or two on her own. MYO rehearses every Monday evening and she takes private lessons at home.

“It seems like a lot, but with all the music that I play year-round and have to get under my fingers and everything, it make sense,” she said.

Their family is music-oriented, Ms. Suprina said. Her eldest son earned his degree in music education from SUNY/Fredonia and was later an elementary school band teacher.

“We’re a family that plays together all the time,” she said. “If I can’t make a performance with the community band, my daughter will go sub for me, and if she’s doing something, I can sub for her. My daughter has surpassed me now in my ability to play.” 

As a mother, she said, it was a moment of pure joy to watch her children perform. 

“The magnitude of being in that hall is really amazing,” Ms. Suprina said. “Being on the same stage as world-famous musicians … it’s incredible.” 

For Lauren, performing at Carnegie Hall makes the music come alive. Since audience members are prohibited from recording or photographing the performance, she said it creates a significant experience for performers. 

“It’s what I love about music,” she said. “You play a piece … and it’s just you and the audience. You experience it and then leave it there. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing.”

Photo caption: Students in the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Suffolk County principal orchestra perform in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium on May 5. (Credit: Rob Davison Photography)

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Here are the headlines across the North Fork for Monday, May 20:

NEWS

Greenport mayor says parking problem has shifted since 72-hour restriction enacted at MTA lot

EPCAL subdivision moves forward despite objections from former officials

Southold Fire Department honored again for blood donation efforts; next drive set for May 22

Student musicians take center stage at Carnegie Hall

SPORTS

Nine Mattituck athletes honored for college commitments

Nine Riverhead athletes sign letters of intent to continue athletic careers in college

Boys Lacrosse: Ward Melville ends Riverhead’s greatest season

NORTHFORKER

Here’s what to expect as Claudio’s plans Memorial Day weekend reopening

Fast Chat with Noah Schwartz of Noah’s in Greenport

WEATHER

Expect partly sunny skies with a high near 77 degrees today, according to the National Weather Service. There’s a slight chance of thunderstorms after 3 p.m. The low tonight will be about 55 degrees.

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Ann Louise (Jones) Bannon

Dec. 1, 1948 – March 8, 2019

Mrs. Ann (Jones) Bannon, age 70, of Prescott, Ariz., formerly of Mattituck and Brooklyn, N.Y., passed away after a short illness March 8, 2019, at Yavapai Regional Medical Center in Prescott.

Born in Washington, D.C. Dec. 1, 1948, Ann and her mother, Madeline Jones, moved to West Virginia until their relocation to Brooklyn. Ann attended Erasmus Hall High School and Caledonia Hospital Nursing School where she acquired her LPN licensure in New York.

Ann lived in Anchorage, Alaska, where she met her future husband of 44 years, Dennis Bannon.

Ann will fondly be held in the hearts of her husband, Dennis Bannon; as loving mother to Teresa (Doug) Nopper of Wading River, N.Y., Brian Bannon of Jamesport, N.Y., and Debra (Kevin) McCauley of Buffalo, N.Y.; as a doting grandmother to Elizabeth (Patrick O’Brien) Bannon of Center Moriches, N.Y., Nicholas Coutts of Wading River and Tatem and Katherine McCauley of Buffalo; and as great-granny Annie to her great-grandson, Quinn O’Brien of Center Moriches.

A trailblazer throughout her life, Ann started Baby Care Workshop in the 1980s when she noticed that many of the clinicians in the local community had enormous resources to offer new parents, babysitting education for tweens and teens, as well as safety issues around newly established car seat laws, and family/women’s/children’s health.

Ann provided social change to law enforcement, domestic violence, protection for victims of many populations, as well as support and education of those afflicted with substance abuse. Her passion for education and literacy in children led to her desire to work with Our Lady of Mercy preschoolers in the community. Ann brought all of these community supports out to Prescott in early 2000 where she continued her mission as a change agent in social welfare.

Her passions included, first and foremost, her family and friends. She especially enjoyed travel with all of the above. Ann loved music and the arts, museums, and gardens. Cooking was her true art as well as hosting friends and family showing off her culinary skills.

Ann will be remembered for her strength, passion, kindness and empathy to all she knew.

Visitors will be received Friday, May 24, 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 Saturday morning, May 25, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck, officiated by Monsignor Joseph W. Staudt. Interment will follow at Sacred Heart R.C. Cemetery in Cutchogue.

Memorial donations may be made to Mattituck-Laurel Library’s children’s program, P.O. Box 1437, Mattituck, NY, 11952.

This is a paid notice.

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The effects of climate change are already upon us.

High tides have been routinely higher and storms — named and unnamed — have funneled massive amounts of water between the two forks at higher levels on a more regular basis, pushing it up into narrow creeks and onto land.

There are places in our area where higher tides have pushed sand, beach gravel and shell material into critical wetland habitats, threatening to choke them. In one spot on the north shore of East Marion, the Grayson storm of January 2018 sliced down the embankment in front of one property, scooped out more than 37,000 cubic yards of sand and gravel and deposited it in Long Island Sound.

We’ll discuss the effects of climate change, including what it means to the health of our bays and creeks, at our next Times Review Talks event at The Vineyards at Aquebogue this Wednesday, May 22 from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Reserve your seat

Panelists include Kevin McAllister of Defend H20, Mark Haubner of North Fork Environmental Council, Southold Town Trustee John Bredemeyer, Joyce Novak of Peconic Estuary Program, Bridg Hunt of North Ferry and Marie Beninati of Beninati Real Estate and Southold VOICE. The discussion will be moderated by Times Review Media Group content director Grant Parpan.

Times Review Talks are panel discussions mostly on issues our communities are facing with the people who best understand the concerns and, in some cases, are in a position to make a difference. Upcoming talks are expected to cover the topics of the future of Riverhead, school enrollment in Southold Town and more.

The two-hour events will be held monthly. The $30 ticket price ($20 for Times Review subscribers) includes lunch. Space is limited, so we recommend purchasing your tickets in advance at bit.ly/TRTalks_MAY.

This month’s sponsors are Eastern Long Island Hospital, Suffolk Security Systems, Riverhead Ford Lincoln and Riverhead Buick GMC and the North Fork Chamber of Commerce.

To learn more about becoming a sponsor of Times Review Talks, contact Sonja Reinholt Derr at 631-354-8050 or sderr@timesreview.com.

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The Work We Do is made possible by:

My name is Lisa Dreitlein and I am the owner of Creations by Lisa in Greenport.

I’m proud to say I’m starting my 27th year in the village and I’m very excited to be here still.

Recently, we made some renovations to the store. I’ve been here a long time, so it definitely needed a little bit of a lift. It’s very bright and cheery now.

I used to manufacture a line of hand painted clothing, which brought me out here for lunch one day with my mother.

And I thought, ‘Wow, this is such a great place.’ It’s a small town with a lot of energy, and I thought it’d be really nice to open up a store out here one day.

When I was younger, I always worked in retail and I was always drawn to fashion and color and design. I did go to school for merchandising, which was my interest in color combinations and color theory.

One of my favorite things to do is merchandise and put things together, whether it be with color or patterns and things like that.

There’s always a ton of things to be done.

We receive merchandise on a daily basis. We’re either tagging or steaming. We do have a lot of orders that need to be done on a regular basis.

I’ve been fortunate to have employees that I work well with for many years. Without their help, it would be very difficult.

When I first opened the store, my main goal was to offer the latest trends in fashion through different vendors and designs that were affordable.

It has grown into a store that is really accessible to all people, all ages and all budgets.

It’s like Christmas every day, something new coming in and I get excited to share that with the customers.

We have a lot of regular customers and when they come in, it’s nice to show them the new things that have arrived and work with their style and tastes.

It’s just something that I’ve always enjoyed doing, and I guess you’re happiest when you’re doing something you love. That’s what’s kept me here for 27 years.

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Greenport will be transported back in time beginning this weekend.

“Snapshot,” an East End Seaport Museum exhibit featuring photos and memorabilia on loan from the public and focusing on the Peconic bays in the 1950s and ’60s will be open to the public beginning Saturday, May 25, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“There’s probably about 60 pieces in all,” said Paul Kreiling, chairman of the museum’s board. “The idea of the show, because it’s community participation, is that as people bring more interesting things in, I will include them. It’s is an evolving show.”

Depending on contributions, the exhibit will run through about September and then another exhibit is planned, Mr. Kreiling said. People who submitted photos and memorabilia will get them back.

Mr. Kreiling said he “had concerns” early on when the donations weren’t coming in that fast, but “there were a few big contributors who brought a lot of great stuff.”

Ultimately, the exhibit has worked out the way he hoped, he said.

“It’ll be a very interesting show and will bring back a lot of memories for a lot of people.”

The exhibit deals with the entire East End, not just Greenport, Mr. Kreiling said.

The museum will also be open Sunday and Monday, May 26 and 27, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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