On The Beach Blog

...in perhaps the most unseemly local match-up since Bob King and Fred Adams threw down with one another in the brokerage offices of Robb&Robb in the mid '80s, we have Ed Dean and Jim Kametler in of all places Waldbaum's.

It was shortly before 9:00 am Friday when words were exchanged, fingers were pointed, threats were made and Mr. Dean suggested that Mr. Kametler wait for him "outside."

(Breathes there a male who doesn't un­derstand the implications of "outside?")

A complaint was filed with the Village Police Department by Mr. Kametler later that morn­ing, and a cross-complaint today by Mr. Dean.

While few OtBB's regulars will require a score­card, for the uninitiated...

• Mr. Kametler, age variously reported as 54 or 55, is a Westhampton Beach Village Trustee, deposed Deputy Mayor and former Village Police Officer who left that employment shortly before departmental charges were preferred.
• Mr. Dean, a deceptive age 70, is the retired proprietor of Dean's Country Market, and father of Police Chief Ray Dean.

(No weights have been provided, but Mr. Kametler from all appearances out-bulks Mr. Dean.)

There have been no particulars given as to the exact nature of the words which were alleged to have been exchanged, but there is said to have been ill-will between the two men since Mr. Kametler took office on former Trustee Tim Laube's coattails in 2004 and began prosecut­ing a personal jihad against his former boss.

More if this develops further.