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Community News for July 22, 2021

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John, Mark, Anne, Mary, Joan, Peter and Paul Butler — seven siblings who spent summers in Amagansett — reunited for a family reunion at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett earlier this month.
Board Member David Lys, Deputy Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, CCOM President Laura Tooman (and her daughter), Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and CCOM Chairman David Freudenthal at an unveiling of new educational wetlands signs at Fort Pond earlier this month.
: VFW Post 5350 in Westhampton Beach hosted a New York Fire Department ceremony honoring 99-year-old World War II veteran Chester Moscicki, of Center Moriches, on July 13. Mr. Moscicki, shown left arriving at the ceremony with retired NYFD Chief Thomas Martin, served as a tail gunner on a B-26, flying more than 35 missions over Japan. He was credited with shooting down a Japanese Zero and survived a crash landing on the island of Tinian. After the war he joined the NYFD where he served for more than 30 years, retiring with the rank of captain. Courtesy Westhampton Beach Fire Department
Vincent Amoroso, Jr. and Vincent Amoroso, father and son from Installation Specialties Group the company that is working on the lighthouse restoration at the Montauk Historical Society's cocktail party on July 14 to launch a public capital campaign for the Montauk Point Lighthouse restoration. Work on restoring the tower began in 2019, and is scheduled to be completed by next year. RICHARD LEWIN
Robert McBride and Kevin O'Connor at the Montauk Historical Society's cocktail party on July 14 to launch a public capital campaign for the Montauk Point Lighthouse restoration. Work on restoring the tower began in 2019, and is scheduled to be completed by next year. RICHARD LEWIN
East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys; Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Kathryn Curran; Robert Hefner and Noel Gish at the Montauk Historical Society's cocktail party on July 14 to launch a public capital campaign for the Montauk Point Lighthouse restoration. Work on restoring the tower began in 2019, and is scheduled to be completed by next year. RICHARD LEWIN
Anne Harris with interior designer Charlotte Moss at the East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN
East Hampton Historical Society Interim Director Cristoff Shay with East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and Marilyn Van Scoyoc at the East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN
The East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN
Tina Teel, Lynda Packard and Jennifer Borg at the East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN

John, Mark, Anne, Mary, Joan, Peter and Paul Butler — seven siblings who spent summers in Amagansett — reunited for a family reunion at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett earlier this month.

Board Member David Lys, Deputy Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, CCOM President Laura Tooman (and her daughter), Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and CCOM Chairman David Freudenthal at an unveiling of new educational wetlands signs at Fort Pond earlier this month.

: VFW Post 5350 in Westhampton Beach hosted a New York Fire Department ceremony honoring 99-year-old World War II veteran Chester Moscicki, of Center Moriches, on July 13. Mr. Moscicki, shown left arriving at the ceremony with retired NYFD Chief Thomas Martin, served as a tail gunner on a B-26, flying more than 35 missions over Japan. He was credited with shooting down a Japanese Zero and survived a crash landing on the island of Tinian. After the war he joined the NYFD where he served for more than 30 years, retiring with the rank of captain. Courtesy Westhampton Beach Fire Department

Vincent Amoroso, Jr. and Vincent Amoroso, father and son from Installation Specialties Group the company that is working on the lighthouse restoration at the Montauk Historical Society's cocktail party on July 14 to launch a public capital campaign for the Montauk Point Lighthouse restoration. Work on restoring the tower began in 2019, and is scheduled to be completed by next year. RICHARD LEWIN

Robert McBride and Kevin O'Connor at the Montauk Historical Society's cocktail party on July 14 to launch a public capital campaign for the Montauk Point Lighthouse restoration. Work on restoring the tower began in 2019, and is scheduled to be completed by next year. RICHARD LEWIN

East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys; Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Kathryn Curran; Robert Hefner and Noel Gish at the Montauk Historical Society's cocktail party on July 14 to launch a public capital campaign for the Montauk Point Lighthouse restoration. Work on restoring the tower began in 2019, and is scheduled to be completed by next year. RICHARD LEWIN

Anne Harris with interior designer Charlotte Moss at the East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN

East Hampton Historical Society Interim Director Cristoff Shay with East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and Marilyn Van Scoyoc at the East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN

The East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN

Tina Teel, Lynda Packard and Jennifer Borg at the East Hampton Historical Society's preview benefit cocktail party for the 2021 East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on Friday evening on the grounds of Mulford Farm. RICHARD LEWIN

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Notes That Touch The Soul

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold ... 28 Jul 2021 by Nancy Remkus

Tomato Time

The barn swallows are fledging their second set of young, and the whole huge family, the first fledge, too, perches along the grain auger. There are multiple nests in numerous barns, and by counts in our yard it has been a good year for them. They move like squadrons on wing if you are causing a disturbance anywhere, with a tractor or even with a dog running across the lawn. They will swoop in to collect the insects that fly from your wake. These are resident but migratory birds. As a farmer, I spend a fair amount of time with ... by Marilee Foster

Quit Wishin’

Silly Lily is a 1930s fishing station in East Moriches that has been brought back ... 27 Jul 2021 by Joanne Pateman

Terrible Darkness

“Suffolk County was the first in the state to bring litigation,” noted Rob Calarco, presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature, about the lawsuit the county brought in 2016 against multiple defendants in connection with the plague of opioids that has caused many deaths in Suffolk County and elsewhere. Nassau County and the attorney general joined in the lawsuit. Thereafter, other governments in New York State got involved in it. And Suffolk County’s legal initiative “precipitated other municipalities across the country to bring their own lawsuits in their own jurisdictions or in federal court,” said Mr. Calarco. What national media ... by Karl Grossman

SEEN Southampton: Throwing Shade

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School News for July 29, 2021

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A Field Of Dreams

The inspector stood a few feet from my porch. I did not expect to see him here, however; I had previously given him permission to enter the deer fence and inspect the crops that I have planted in the fields beside my home. I was exiting my house for the second time that morning. Soaked from the morning pick, I’d changed, and in fact was still changing — putting dry clothes back on — as I walked out the door and saw him. “I need to talk to you!” he said. He was red in the face. Embarrassed? Or flushed ... 20 Jul 2021 by Marilee Foster

A Final Word On The ARB

It is a sad tale, and disturbing as well, another instance of too little, too late in the public life of Sag Harbor Village. I was coming to the end of the third year of my time as chair of the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review, commonly and hereafter known as the ARB, when Jay Bialsky first proposed the buildings at 2 West Water Street to our board. I had, of course, been following the course of this application through other local regulatory boards from the newspapers. It met very little disapproval as other boards — Planning, Waterfront ... by Anthony Brandt