Off the record, on the QT in WHB, and very hush-hush…
...on the Westhampton Rotary Club's 18th Annual Spaghetti Dinner at the Immaculate Conception CCD Center on Quiogue.
And since an immoderate number of local Rotarians made pointed remarks about OtBB's critical comment... More...
Let it serve as a reminder of why the Red Sox should go another 90 years before appearing in another World Serious.
Updated 02/02/2010 – 12:18 pm
One needn't be a sports fan to have taken notice of the on-going controversy surrounding 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and a scheduled Super Bowl XLIV paid advertisement on behalf of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family.
The burning controversy? More...
From NBC New York's website:
"The victim, a married father with three children, was discovered bound and strangled with seven stab wounds. Dtectives{sic} on the scene believed the brutal nature of the crime screamed foul play."
And that's why they're called "detectives!"
E-mails! We get E-mails... such as this from OtBB reader Ray Overton:
"Any chance I can get you to put a plug in this week for the Rotary Club Spaghetti Dinner on your blog?" More...
An easy meeting this evening... in and out in under an hour, with the full board on board for the event.
Nothing pressing was decided, which is not to report that nothing of interest was discussed More...
...is who and how many might show up for this evening's monthly Trustees' Work Session.
'Twas but 19 days past that the infamous "No Show" non-meeting occurred, and the feeling is that the likelihood of a full compliment of Board members may be inversely proportional to those tax-paying residents in attendance.
...like YaVaughnie Wilkins, and it's already cost someone $250,000.
"YaVaughnie who?" one might ask, and with reason as she was not a household name prior to this past week's end. More...
"Turn out the lights, the party's over."
Gang Green's Super Bowl coach turned into a pumpkin in Indianapolis this afternoon, but there is very definitely just cause for Jets' fans to reprise that pre-'55 chant of Brooklyn faithful everywhere: "Wait'll next year!" More...
...and counting.
And this year, I didn't almost blow it... thanks to one of our wedding gifts from friends JoAnn and Cathy. More...
One of the most beautiful of filmdom's faces passed away last night at her home in Santa Monica, nine days shy of her 81st birthday.
British-born Jean Simmons, a naturalized American citizen, was already a veteran of a dozen films when she first came to prominence with her nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as "Ophelia" in Olivier's 1948 version of "Hamlet." More...
The "official video" of the January 7th Village Board non-meeting has been mounted on the Village of Westhampton Beach's Website.
(It appears, in all respects, to be identical to the unexpurgated version which debuted on Sea TV last weekend.) More...
One of my all-time favorite meals for near 20 years was Milo's East "Sizzling Fajita Platter," the only complaint about which I had was that there was always too much meat, onions and peppers to stuff into the three tortillas they provided.
Then the place changed its name and menu, prices went up, and it wasn't the same. More...
There are two this morning, one in Haiti and a second across America's political landscape.
I'm not certain, though, that "aftershock" is the proper term for the seismic event in the stricken Caribbean nation. More...
The biggest story coming out of Massachusetts for me today, is that the creator of the tough Boston-based private detective "Spenser," was found dead "just sitting at his desk" at his home in Cambridge yesterday.
I discovered Robert B. Parker in the mid-'70s when I grabbed up a baseball-themed novel, "Mortal Stakes," from a remainder house for one dollar, and liked it enough to start reading the entire series from the beginning! More...
By now, most have heard the names of Gilbert Arenas, Plaxico Burress and Jayson Williams, and even if their career statistics cannot be recited by rote, most are aware that all three are or were professional athletes.
Some can even recognize them as ones who've had legal problems involving firearms. More...
Improbably, the New York Jets are going to the AFC Championship game next Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
Having just now beaten the highly-favored San Diego Chargers, 17-14, in the only More...
Just because there was a "non-meeting" of the Westhampton Beach Village Board on January 7th, doesn't mean there wasn't a video record of that evening.
It's not much, but it's the "official record" of the event which was televised on Sea TV last evening and again this morning.
And since, not surprisingly, it hasn't been mounted on the Village's Website, it's here.
...to the inadvertent inclusion earlier today of the portion of Senator LaValle's plea for assistance to the Haitian relief effort which read:
"I encourage local residents to consider contacting the American Red Cross...." More...
Updated 01/15/2010 – 11:45 pm
From the Associated Press:
"The international Red Cross estimated 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake, based on information from the Haitian Red Cross and government officials. Hard-pressed recovery teams resorted to using bulldozers to transport loads of dead." More...
...at #292 Sunset Avenue... and with more than two months 'til Saint Patrick's Day!
Spike Larsen, Dick Whitney and "Easy Ed" Desmond may no longer be with us, and if anyone knows where Jerry Mangles is, they're not sayin', but the hope born in 1968 endures! More...
...by way of Speonk, courtesy of Fran and Spencer Fink.
"This an account of last night in and just outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. More...
Saturday's report of a "magnitude-6.5 earthquake" off the California coast and Monday's even larger (7.0MW) one in Haiti reminds us of how fortunate we've been on the East End.
I don't think we've had one since the "minor" tremor in March 1992 which registered 2.8 on the Richter scale. More...
Updated 01/12/2010 – 8:57 pm
...the Westhampton Beach Trustees just can't quite figure it out, and it's wasting a great deal of Village taxpayers' money.
This morning's "make-up meeting" progressed relatively smoothly... until the end when there was some contention as to whether the Board should repair to Executive Session or hold a Public Discussion More...
...of the Westhampton Beach Village Board has been scheduled for tomorrow (January 12th) at 10:30 am.
While an agenda has yet to be released, presumably this will be for the purposes More...
...and with a score like that, even with the overtime period, it certainly cannot be called a "defensive battle."
Despite the Packers dreadful start and falling behind by 21 points, by the end of the third quarter, the viewer has the sense that it was going to come down to who last had possession of the football. More...
Awwww, never mind "redux!" It's deer me, still, and with no end in sight!
Last Wednesday evening, in the space of 15 minutes, Suffolk County's deer population came close to wiping out half the residents of 256 East Main! More...
...the foreseeable future for the Cincinnati Bengals, or at least until training camp opens this Summer.
It was the New York Jets who were victorious this day, something not even their fans dared predict, as they won their first play-off game since 2004.
Go Gang Green!
...in professional law enforcement agencies which understand the need for credibility and integrity.
Department to fire five police employees
From the WSVN-TV report: More...
Updated 01/09/2010 – 12:00 am
...Westhampton Beach Trustees Jim Kametler, Joan Levan and Hank Tucker didn't come upstairs to last evening's Village Board meeting.
(Apologies to David Letterman.) More...
Well, a meeting was scheduled, but it was canceled for lack of a quorum... the Jim Kametler-Joan Levan-Hank Tucker troika was a no-show.
They were in the building beforehand in a closed door meeting in the Mayor's office where raised voices were loud enough that they could be heard through a second door and in the vestibule of the building. More...
Trustee Demands Answers After Stabbing
That's the page 9 headline in this week's East End Independent: More...
The area lost three already this year, Beach Road resident Harris Palmer on Saturday to a brain tumor, and the famed Bailey's Motel this morning to advanced decrepitude.
The latter condition also overtook Quiogue's Kate Agar, at 92, last weekend. More...
...preparatory to the first Village Board meeting of 2010, Thursday evening at 7:00 pm.
The primary issue is of enormous import, and I'm not sure just how many "get" it! More...
...Giants Stadium!
We're talking Jets, of course... the less said about the New Jersey (née New York) football Giants today, the better! More...
An acquaintance who subscribes to the 27East RSS feed, forwarded their E-mail of Wednesday last, captioned:
"25 most-read stories of 2009"
Top among them was, not Linda Kabot's Labor Day DWI arrest (which was only ranked More...
Updated 01/08/2010 – 03:47 pm
Someone has cracked (not "hacked") the website of Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.
And after a week of fits and starts, the site appears to be functioning normally once again. More...
All but forgotten today is a small South Fork weekly yclept The Whale, and published by a recovering stock car racer and born-again congregant of the Southampton Full Gospel Church, Rev. Donald M. Havrilla1 presiding.
The publication's raison d'être wasn't readily apparent to those who picked up the freebie, but what was clear to all, was that Richie had no budget for actual news gathering. More...
In the smattering of Papiamentu gleaned from my years in the West Indies, felis nobo aña!
With that (and some rumor control) dispensed with, as Winchell used to say: "Let's go to press." More...
"Many people were killed," – W.C. Fields
No, there was not "a shooting" at the Westhampton Steak House early this morning!
Yes, police were called at approximately 2:45 am in the New Year, and two More...
