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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2017 VOLUME 159 NO. 4

CHIEF PROMISESNEW APPROACH

Southampton

Police prepare for new threats; seek to maintain accessibility

A Call for Greater Classroom Diversity

Sag Harbor Schools

Group hopes to encourage understanding

SKRYNECKI REASSURES RESIDENTSSays that the hamlet is not underserved by cops

MATTA REOPENSStore’s clothing, destroyed in December fire, is repurposed into fabric art

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NEW SOUTHAMPTON TOWN Police Chief Steven Skrynecki, accompanied by five officers, paid a visit to the Bridgehamp-ton Citizens Advisory Com-mittee on Monday where he told them in so many words to count their blessings.

The CAC has complained frequently in recent months that the police department doesn’t do enough to provide adequate coverage for the ham-let, grousing that speeding and other moving violations go unchecked and that too often landcaping trucks block back roads and delivery trucks block

BY STEPHEN J. KOTZ

SOUTHAMPTON TOWN’S new police chief, Steven Skrynecki, who took office in May after serving several months as an independent consultant to the department, said this week he is settling into his new position and eager to introduce a number of new initiatives he said would lead to “an enhanced community relationship” for the department.

“There’s myriad issues to take a look at, from how you dispatch calls to how you handle arrests,” said Chief Skrynecki, who came to Southamp-ton from Nassau County, where he was the chief of that department. “We are exploring all that, going through it one by one, making major changes in some cases and in other cases mak-ing minor adjustments.”

Chief Skrynecki said he had inher-ited a department of professional and motivated officers from his predecessor, Chief Robert Pearce, but stressed “there is always room for improvement.”

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

THE OUTCOME OF the 2016 presiden-tial election got Ken Dorph thinking a lot about what was being said — and wasn’t being said — publicly about racism and other forms of discrimina-tion.

The Sag Harbor resident knows a thing or two about intolerance, as a consultant who travels for work in Af-rica and the Middle East and as a gay parent of two children who are of a different race than he is. He has seen

it with his own eyes and through the lens of his children’s experiences, too.

Now, Mr. Dorph is one of a dozen community members from Sag Har-bor and beyond who have banded together to form a grassroots group they are calling the Diversity and In-clusion Committee. The group has set a goal of promoting understanding of diversity as a positive aspect of society and acceptance of people’s differences in race, ethnicity, culture, sexual ori-

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Party guests were treated to a synchronized swimming demonstration by members of the Brooklyn Peaches in a pool covered with ping pong balls at the LongHouse Reserve benefit on Saturday.

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BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

THE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION of a 4-acre Main Street property that has been lingering before the Sag Har-bor Planning Board for almost two years took a step forward on Tuesday, when the board reached the con-clusion that it would not have any significant negative impacts on the surrounding environment.

That was the result of a lengthy evaluation con-ducted through the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), which takes into account factors such as drainage, land clearing, archaeologi-cal significance, traffic patterns and more. The appli-cation, put forth by Barry and Carol Magidoff at 441 Main Street, which is next to Mashashimuet Park and the Reid Brothers auto repair shop, can now proceed.

“Now we can move forward with the subdivision pro-cess. This is a minor subdivision,” planning board chair-man Gregory Ferraris said during Tuesday’s meeting.

BY MAHREEN KHAN

THE SAG HARBOR CLOTHING and accessory boutique, Matta, is reopening after more than seven months of devasta-tion. The December 16 fire that ripped through Main Street, taking with it several iconic shops and apartments, is now serving as a curtain raiser to the reconstruction of the dam-

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Lifeguards from across Long Island competed at the annual Main Beach Ocean Lifeguard Tournament on Thursday, July 23. Above, the start of the men’s 4x100 sprint relay. See more photos on page 11.

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THE CINEMA’S STORYRecalling Sag Harbor’s long romance with the movies

THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2017

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Musical Styles On Exhibit in “Portraits”

Music

G.E. Smith brings singers Sarah Jarosz and Paula Cole together for a night at Guild Hall

The Homes of a CommunityAnnual tour lets visitors hear the stories old houses tell

Architecture

Alone and Seeking Her PlaceAn African-American seamstress finds her way in 1905 New York City

Theater

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

Dread rippled through her as she listened to her hus-band’s footsteps ascending the stairs. It was barely dawn. He had news — bad news — and she could feel it.

He walked into the room. “Sag Harbor’s on fire.”“I knew something was wrong,” she said.

“Where?”“I think it’s around the cinema,” he said.“Oh God.”In full reporter mode, Annette Hinkle jumped out of

bed, grabbed her keys and raced down to the former Bulova Watchcase Factory, driving through a thick black cloud of soot as she tried to find a park-ing spot. When she finally did, she ran back to Page at 63 Main.

There, for several minutes, the line be-tween journalist and local blurred as she watched the Sag Harbor Cinema burn — flames shooting up in the air, black smoke billowing, her neighbors crying and hug-ging one another.

“It was like a big crush inside me — and I even kind of knew. It was like one of those premonitions,” Hinkle recalled. “The day of the fire was incredibly windy and incred-ibly cold, and there was a really strong wind coming out of the north and west. At that

point, it felt like, ‘Wow, this could be really bad,’ to the point where it takes out everything.”

She sighed. “It felt like your identity going up in smoke.”Because the Sag Harbor Cinema — which is still stand-

ing, in part, though it did sustain heavy damage — repre-sented so much more than a movie theater with sticky floors, foreign films and bad popcorn. It represented one of the last few pillars of Americana still standing, a symbol that is hard to come by anymore, let alone on the East End, Hinkle said.

“That’s why, when it burned, it was such a kick in the gut,” she said of

December 16, 2016. “Sag Harbor looks like such a posh place for anyone who just rolls into town these days. But knowing

about the tough times and the factory closing and the years it struggled, you realize the cinema must have

been an incredible bright spot, especially in those years right after it was built. I can imagine the Depression era leading into World War II wasn’t always the most uplifting of times.

“To see those glowing Sag Harbor mar-quee letters — red, white and blue — light-

ing up the street, it was that old-time

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

There is just something about old homes, Lee Pomeroy says.

They date back to a time when people built for themselves, the 84-year-old architect explains, his words slow and deliberate.

They have a history, one that creaks under old floorboards and whispers through the beams.

And they are part of a community.This is how he feels about his home

on Hempstead Street in Sag Harbor — one of five opening their doors on Fri-day, July 7, for the annual Friends of the John Jermain Library house tour, the sole fundraiser for the library’s programming budget, according to president Toby Spitz.

“We raise between $25,000 and $35,000 each year from this event

alone, which is single-handedly re-sponsible for supporting our pro-gramming,” she said. “Without the contributions from the Friends, there would be no programming. People now depend on the library for all kinds of programs. It’s gotten much more sophisticated, and they need this money. It’s not just a nice day to

BY MICHELLE TRAURING

Only now are the two golden pho-nographs inside Sarah Jarosz’s Manhattan apartment starting

to settle in — no longer foreign, or so out of place.

The Texas-born singer-songwriter had fantasized about her Grammy win for a decade, but when it finally happened on February 12 — twice in one night, to be exact — it felt surreal.

Perhaps it was because she was hold-ing fake statues — the real ones arrive via mail months later, she noted — or maybe because the publicity was too thick. But seeing her name engraved on the plaques today has made her re-alize one thing.

It actually happened.“It’s still sinking in to a certain de-

gree, but I’m just about there,” she said. “Singing has always been a part of my life, from the time I was 2, so this is one of the biggest dreams come true in my life thus far.”

Almost 20 years ago, Paula Cole was riding the same fame wave with “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” and “I Don’t Want to Wait.” Her Gram-my award for Best New Artist, and the celebrity that came with it, also took her by surprise, and she enjoyed it for a time. But then she withdrew com-

pletely.For almost a decade.“I finally can see it better, now that

I’m older and I have some distance on it. Then, it was very weird. It’s like winning the lottery or something,” Cole said. “Lottery winners some-times have PTSD, or blow it in some way, right? And a lot of musical art-ists who experience fame that quickly also go through that. And I wound up abandoning it, and I did go away for nearly eight years.”

Getting back to touring has been a welcome challenge, Cole said, and she looks forward to joining Jarosz — whom she’s never met — and GE Smith on stage at Guild Hall on Satur-day for the “Portraits” series kickoff. The concert will feature two solo sets, with Smith accompanying, and then a group performance, with conversa-tion about the music and themselves scattered throughout.

“It reveals more about the artists and the songs, and because I’ve been a musician my whole life and hung out with musicians and show folk, as they say, I’m very comfortable in that role,” Smith said of playing host. “This is a very interesting pairing, these two women: one who’s been around for a

BY ANNETTE HINKLE

New York is a city of strangers and one that has per-petually been defined by the immigrant experience. In a timeless dance of moving up and on, newcom-

ers arrive, settle into recently vacated living spaces of those who came before and, in turn, set about to make their way in a new world.

The notion of immigration and the lens through which new arrivals are seen is the topic of “Intimate Apparel,”

Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play which is the next mainstage of-fering at Bay Street Theater.

Set in 1905, the play is directed by Bay Street’s artistic di-rector Scott Schwartz and is a tale of love, desire and abject loneliness in the big city. The main character, Esther Mills, is an African American seamstress who has moved to New York from the south and is carving out her own successful business in the area that is now the Garment District of

SARAH JAROSZ PAULA COLE

The cover of Annette Hinkle’s new book on the history of the Sag Harbor Cinema.

Designer of the Sag Harbor Cin-ema, John Eberson.

Kelly McCreary and Edward O’Blenis in Bay Street Theater’s “Intimate Apparel.”

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Two of the Sag Harbor homes that will be on the Friends of the John Jermain Memorial Library House Tour on July 7.

“We’re talking about immigration, and the immigrant experience

of women in a world not set up for them to do well.”

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Move to Appoint New Super

Bridgehampton School

Robert Hauser will require state approval

Push Tighter Septic RestrictionsEast Hampton

Plan hearing on requiring residentiallow-nitrogen systems

Work to Continue At 127 Madison Street

Sag Harbor

ARB may consider more formal requirementsBY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

Sag Harbor Village will allow con-struction to proceed on a house at 127 Madison Street whose owner, in the opinion of the Board of Historic Pres-ervation and Architectural Review, al-legedly went beyond the scope of its board-approved renovations.

The conversation now has the ARB thinking about modifying the appli-cation it requires for residents to ob-tain a certificate of appropriateness for construction, renovation, land-scaping and other types of exterior projects.

The change it is considering would be to formally add language that would mandate homeowners return to the ARB for further consideration if construction plans change while the project is in progress — which was the issue at the heart of the problem at 127 Madison Street.

During its July 13 meeting, ARB of-ficials maintained a previous opinion that because of the construction little remains of what was once a Folk Victo-rian-style house built in 1870, accord-ing to the village’s historic survey.

The homeowner, Philip Pape, previ-ously acknowledged he should have returned to Sag Harbor building in-spector Thomas Preiato when he dis-covered the house was in worse shape than he initially thought. Many issues were discovered when the house was lifted to lay down a new foundation, Mr. Pape said. However, he told the ARB on July 13 he feels the end re-sult will be that “it’s exactly the same house.”

“A lot of it would have to have been patched together,” he said. “I don’t feel that it is a replica. I feel that it is the same house, just with a new struc-ture within.”

Saying he felt “the whole situation, shall we say, sucks,” ARB chairman Anthony Brandt said he felt the vil-lage had no choice but to let the work at 127 Madison Street proceed, be-cause it couldn’t allow an unfinished structure to remain.

“You may resume work and are re-minded that all aesthetic elements of the project are to be consistent with the originally approved document,” Mr. Preiato wrote to Mr. Pape in a letter on Tuesday to rescind the stop-

work order.In an email to The Express on Tues-

day, Mr. Preiato said the homeowner does not face any fines.

“Mr. Pape didn’t work through the Stop Work Order and cooperated, so I didn’t see the need to ticket him. His fine was six weeks of not working,” Mr. Preiato said. “No fine we could levy would touch that.”

The discussion during the July 13 meeting led Zach Studenroth, the ARB’s historic preservation con-sultant, to opine on the difference between “jurisdiction and presenta-tion.”

“Clapboard, shingles, windows are important to preserve or replace,” he said. “You’re talking about a finished product, but you’re not talking about a process. So, oftentimes, you see a proposal but you don’t see it’s going to be lifted six feet in the air. That’s not represented on the drawing. There’s no narrative. That’s a problem.”

Mr. Studenroth continued, “Years ago, restoration and preservation were more modest in terms of expec-tations of what we would end up with. The budgets were smaller, and I think the scope of the work is becoming greater than what you’re seeing rep-resented.”

Mr. Brandt likened the situation to the historic Morpurgo house at 6 Union Street. The ARB recently ap-proved its plans with the condition that if the owners, architects and en-gineers determined the house needed to be lifted for the restoration to pro-ceed, they would have to return to the ARB for an additional approval. That is exactly what transpired.

Mr. Studenroth suggested adding a provision to the ARB permit applica-tion that would require a homeowner to return to the board “if you have a permit but come to see more would need to be done.”

The ARB’s attorney, Elizabeth Vail, reminded the board that it could sim-ply place formal written conditions on projects it approves, as it had done with the Morpurgo house.

Otherwise, to formally amend the ARB application, “I’d have to look at the code and do a code amendment for that,” which would then require a pub-lic hearing and approval through the village’s board of trustees, Ms. Vail said.

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

The East Hampton Town Board will set a hearing when it meets Thursday night on proposed legislation requir-ing low-nitrogen wastewater systems in residential and commercial con-struction projects beginning in 2018.

A second hearing will be scheduled on a proposed rebate program that will be funded through the town’s Community Preservation Fund to help offset the cost of installing the modern systems. Both hearings are expected to take place in August, ac-cording to Colleen Reynolds, the as-sistant to Supervisor Larry Cantwell.

On Tuesday, at the town board’s work session, assistant town attorney NancyLynn Thiele updated the board on changes made to both the septic system mandate and the rebate pro-gram.

If adopted, the code amendment, which was unveiled in February, would require all homeowners and businesses to install low-nitrogen wastewater treatment systems in new construction or substantial renova-tions. Rebates would be available to

fund the full cost of the systems for residents living in special water pro-tection districts up to $16,000. Those who meet certain requirements in the scope of affordable housing programs would also be eligible for the same benefit. Residents elsewhere in town would qualify for rebates of up to 75 percent of the cost, not exceeding $10,000, and businesses would also qualify for rebates.

The Suffolk County Department of Health Services has defined “low nitrogen” levels as no more than 19 milligrams per liter of water released; although, according to Ms. Thiele, the town’s own definition could evolve if the county lowers its threshold over time.

On Tuesday, Ms. Thiele said the big-gest change made to the proposed mandate was the date residents would

be required to comply with the law. Any septic system receiving final ap-proval from the county health depart-ment by December 31 would not need to meet the stricter standards. The law’s effective date would be January 1, 2018.

Mr. Cantwell said the board con-cluded this was the “clearest way” to deal with applications already in the pipeline.

“You either have it by December 31, or you don’t,” he said during Tuesday’s meeting, noting conversations with county officials have indicated it may have its own county-wide mandate for low-nitrogen systems in place by January 1. Mr. Cantwell, who is not seeking another term, cautioned the board that it may have to take a stand against the county in defending its own mandate if the county health de-partment has not issued its new code by the time East Hampton’s goes into effect.

“At some point I think the town will have to take a stand and put a stake in the ground in asking the county to recognize the town’s local law,” he said.

BY CHRISTINE SAMPSON

The Bridgehampton School Board on Tuesday took its first public step toward appointing Robert Hauser, currently the school’s assistant super-intendent for finance and facilities, as its superintendent.

The board passed a resolution at a special meeting authorizing board president Ronnie White to submit a letter and records to petition New York State Education Commissioner Mary-Ellen Elia to allow the “Exceptionally Qualified pathway for school district leader certificate” to be applied to Mr. Hauser, paving the way for him to be appointed superintendent. He needs the state’s approval to become the next superintendent because he does not hold the “school district leader” certificate that superintendents typi-cally hold.

“It allows somebody to get a job as a superintendent if they have differ-ent certifications but are highly quali-fied,” Dr. Lois Favre, Bridgehampton’s current superintendent and princi-pal, explained after Tuesday’s meet-ing. “Even with teachers there are various pathways to certification, and this is just one of them for the super-intendency. [Mr. Hauser] has other certifications and seven years of expe-rience in the cabinet, so that highly qualifies him.”

The school board has not yet pub-licly voted to accept Dr. Favre’s retire-ment, which she announced in Febru-ary in an internal letter to the school staff.

In that letter, she identified Mr. Hauser as the next superintendent, and identified Mike Miller, the cur-rent athletic director and a physical education teacher, as the next princi-pal, and Aleta Parker, the current di-rector of curriculum and assessment, as the assistant superintendent for in-struction and curriculum. The board also recently hired a new athletic di-rector to succeed Mr. Miller.

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Hope To Raise $500K For New Playground

Sag Harbor

Effort to replace features at Mashashimuet Park

Cinema Effort Nears DeadlineSag Harbor

Industry personalities line up to support new film complex

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

Mashashimuet Park is getting a new tree, but not the kind one might imag-ine.

At the end of July, Tangram — a branding and marketing firm owned by Sag Harbor resident and newly-elected village trustee Aidan Corish — will deliver a “donation tree” to the park, serving as a playful reminder of the ongoing fundraising effort to build a new playground at Ma-shashimuet.

The 10-foot tall painted plywood tree, crafted by Tangram at its Pleas-antville, New York workshop, will dis-play 10 green leaves, which will serve as markers of success as the park hits benchmarks in its fundraising. Mr. Corish came up with the concept dur-ing a fundraiser for the park earlier this spring at The American Hotel. It was partially inspired by faux trees he has seen in other locations, including at the Nice Airport in France.

“I thought wouldn’t it be great as you come out of town to have some sort of thermometer, but not a ther-mometer, instead a tree,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.

Mr. Corish created — and donated — a similar installation for the John Jermain Memorial Library during its fundraising for the restoration and expansion of its Main Street home. Instead of a tree, books — with titles like “The Odyssey” and “Great Expec-tations” — were stacked in front of the library as it met its fundraising goals. Mr. Corish also aided the Sag Harbor Partnership in the creation of a wall that honors emergency service pro-viders and marks the progress of that organization’s efforts to raise funds to purchase and rebuild the Sag Harbor Cinema.

The Park and Recreation Associa-tion of Sag Harbor, the private, non-profit board that governs Mashashim-

uet Park, launched a $500,000 fun-draising campaign last year for the new playground, which was designed with the input of students at Sag Har-bor Elementary School by Leathers & Associates, a firm that specializes in playground design.

The current playground has pieces that are several decades old — some that park board president Gregg Schi-avoni played on as a child. Other sec-tions have been added and removed from the roughly one-acre parcel located on the western edge of Ma-shashimuet Park.

The new park will feature a whale with a blowhole climber, a net and tunnel; a whaling boat with a wind-mill and rock climb; a giant twisty slide and coil climber; a train and passenger car with a double slide and tunnel; a castle rock climber, balance beams, monkey bars, tightrope walk; “a triple wavy-straight-bumpy” slide, and 11 new swings.

According to Mr. Schiavoni, the park has already raised roughly $100,000 towards the playground project. Once it is funded, depending on the time of year, Leathers & Associ-ates has said it would take about six days to construct the playground.

“We just need to get this play-ground funded,” he said. “This is not just for the children, and parents, of Sag Harbor. We took our kids to parks in East Hampton and Southampton, and I am sure the same thing is hap-pening at Mashashimuet Park … the new playground will be a lot safer, and at the end of the day will bring more people into the park, which is the overall goal of the project. That is what it is there for — for people to come and use it.”

Donations can be sent to the Park and Recreation Association of Sag Har-bor, New York, Inc. at P.O. Box 1653, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. For more infor-mation, visit mashashimuetpark.org.

A rendering of the donation tree at Mashashimuet Park. courtesy of tangram

Susan Lacy

BY KATHRYN G. MENU

On Saturday, July 1, the Sag Harbor Partnership will reach a self-imposed deadline to raise $6 million in sup-port of an $8 million purchase of the former Sag Harbor Cinema, with the goal of creating the non-profit Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center.

According to Sag Harbor Partner-ship President Nick Gazzolo, as of Wednesday afternoon it had collected over $4.4 million in pledges and dona-tions.

“We are feeling better than ever about the momentum of this project and the fundraising behind it, and we just need to keep this going,” said Mr. Gazzolo. “Everyone who wants to sup-port this project, please pledge now. It will make this tough job a lot easier.”

The partnership has largely focused its efforts on raising the money need-ed to buy the property from Gerald Mallow, who had operated the theater as a beacon for independent and art house films since 1978. The single-screen cinema building was partially destroyed in the December 16, 2016, Main Street fire.

After reaching a tentative deal to buy the property and launching its fundraising effort, the partnership has created a cinema executive com-mittee and advisory board to begin planning for the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center — envisioned as a center

for cinema and film study. “I think we have brought together

an amazing collection of filmmakers and people who know this business from all kinds of angles,” said Mr. Gaz-zolo.

The advisory board includes lumi-naries such as Julie Andrews and film-makers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, among many others, and is led by Susan Lacy, the creator of the award-winning PBS series, “American Masters.” The producer and writer is currently under contract with HBO and finishing production on a film about Jane Fonda.

“I have a certain taste in film — I like independent, documentary and foreign films, so whenever we would be looking for a movie, almost invari-ably we would end up at the Sag Har-bor Cinema,” said Ms. Lacy of her ex-perience with the theater.

Ms. Lacy said preserving a place for this kind of content — screened the way film is meant to be seen — and be-ing able to expand the scope of film-based programming would benefit residents across the East End, and es-pecially children, with plans to offer educational programming revolving around the film industry for youth, and retrospectives for all ages.

“Cinema is our window to the world,” said Ms. Lacy. “We can create a home for that on the East End. We have the film community here — we

can create linkages and program-ming with other cultural institutions that will benefit everyone.”

“It is about saving the building, and the sign, and that is incredibly central to all of this, but just as important is what happens inside that building,” said Ms. Lacy. “Because it will never come back.”

“This is a year-round venue dedicat-ed to film, which is something we do not have — think of the possibilities,” she added.

Anne Chaisson is a member of the advisory board and the executive di-rector of The Hamptons International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary season. She said the minute she heard about the project, she knew HIFF needed to be a part of it.

“It was 1998, the first time we part-nered with the cinema — it has been a major venue for the film festival,” said Ms. Chaisson.

“You can imagine how excited we were when we heard about this,” she continued. “We don’t have bricks and mortar out here.”

HIFF will always be regional to the South Fork, said Ms. Chaisson, and has enjoyed partnerships with other institutions like Bay Street, Guild Hall and the Southampton Arts Center to screen films and present program-ming like its Screenwriters’ Lab, the SummerDocs series and this year the

25 Years: 25 Films series in honor of its silver anniversary. This project could help the festival expand its program-ming, she said, including the work it does with local youth and school dis-tricts.

Ms. Chaisson said if the Sag Harbor Cinema was not saved it would be “a gut punch.”

“You cannot go to Sag Harbor and imagine it without that iconic sign, or that theater operating as a cinema,” she said.

Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival founder and executive director Jacqui Lofaro joins Ms. Chais-sion on the advisory board. Like HIFF, HT2FF does not have a physical home. Ms. Lofaro said she hopes that chang-

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