AMAGANSETT

J. and D. York to J. Dillon, 17 Grove Street, Dec. 23, $620,550.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

C. Finocchio to C. Platto and L. Mandell, 1888 Scuttlehole Road, 1.02 acres, Dec. 16, $1,850,000.

EAST HAMPTON

C. Calhoun by executors to New Sunshine Custom Builders, part of 119 Middle Highway (vacant), Dec. 19, $175,000.

J. and M. Luppi III to 154 Oakview Highway, 154 Oak View Highway, 4.1 acres (vacant), Dec. 3, $730,000.

G. Cooper to E. Waserstein, 97 Three Mile Harbor Road, 1.1 acres, Dec. 19, $937,500.

MONTAUK

D. Buckley to Muyshondt and Goldaracen, 18 Maple Street, .96 acre, Dec. 15, $1,950,000.

NOYAC

A. Jacobs and R. Carr to M. Liot, 9 Oak Drive, .2 acre, Dec. 23, $460,000.

SAG HARBOR

J. McManus to M. and B. Tait, 25 Rector Street, .14 acre, Dec. 16, $650,000.

L. Babson by executor to Sagg One L.L.C., 126 Bay Street, .34 acre, May 27, $450,000.

B. and K. Leggard to B. and J. Midlam, 9 Wooded Path Road, .54 acre, Dec. 15, $582,000.

N. Orlando and R. Comfort to A. Zung, 238 Madison Street, .14 acre, Dec. 29, $630,000.

D. and D. and R. Schoen to S. and R. Pentcheva, 1209 Middle Line Highway, .61 acre, Dec. 21, $485,000.

SPRINGS

J. Schreick to S. Theodoropoulos, 5 Kent Place, .43 acre, Nov. 28, $585,000.

S. Ogus Living Trust to C. and C. Lewis, 49 Sandra Road, .48 acre, Dec. 2, $519,400.

J. Williams Jr. to I. Sterling and Pignitor, 36 Cedar Ridge Drive, .47 acre, Dec. 22, $600,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

    Suffolk Bancorp, a one-bank holding company that operates Suffolk County National Bank, has released results for its recent fourth quarter, with comparisons to the fourth quarter of 2010.

    Key points include a decrease in earnings per share of 62.5 percent, to 12 cents, from the comparable period, and net income at $1,156,000, down 62.3 percent from $3,069,000 during the same period in the previous year.

    The net loss per share for the full year was down 101.2 percent, from the net income of $6,256,000 in 2010.

    The company’s reasons for the quarterly drop in performance include lower balances of earning assets, a decrease in deposit service charges, and an increase in expenses like consulting, accounting, and other costs that the company acquired while assisting “in transition of management,” according to a release.

    “Given the significant challenges faced by the bank throughout 2011, I am pleased that this quarter’s results continue to reflect the financial strength that has been the hallmark of this institution over its long history,” Howard C. Bluver, Bancorp’s new president and chief executive officer, said in the release.

    “The bank was profitable in the fourth quarter, notwithstanding significant costs incurred to complete financial restatements.” In addition to changes in leadership last year, Suffolk also changed accounting firms last month, switching to B.D.O. U.S.A. Mr. Bluver cited “a new chapter in our company’s life.”

    The full press release can be read on the bank’s Web site, scnb.com, under “investor relations.”

   Necessity is the mother of invention, and sometimes the mothers are the inventors. That’s what happened with the new Whoopsiee — a half-hat, half-helmet of soft, reversible fabric engineered for adventurous toddlers by two South Fork moms.

    Karen and Amanda Krzenski are the co-creators and sisters-in-law, and besides being mothers, they both have backgrounds in child-related work. Karen Krzenski co-owned and operated the Side by Side day care center in Southampton for 16 years, and Amanda Krzenski has been a kindergarten teacher at the Springs School for more than a decade.

    Although Karen Krzenski’s children are older, Amanda Krzenski is the mother of the 29-month-old Kirra, who has also become the company’s guinea pig.

    When Kirra was starting to crawl, the family had recently moved into a new house with “wood floors, tile floors, sharp corners,” Amanda Krzenski said. To keep her from bumping her head on all that hard stuff, she wore what her mother termed “an ugly little something” passed down in the family, and most likely grandma-made. “Although it was a homemade, hideous-looking hat, it was a lifesaver,” she said. “Kirra could crawl, she could fall over, and she would just get a gentle bump. I didn’t want to inhibit her exploration, but I did want that peace of mind.”

    It was after several trips to “Aunt Karen’s” with the fashion faux pas on Kirra’s head that the Krzenski women, with Karen’s mother, Sue Adabody, an artist, began to work on a prototype. “Karen could see that it was awful looking, but it worked,” said Amanda Krzenski. “She said she wished she had something like that at the day care.”

    “We looked around to see if someone else had the idea, but there was nothing out there,” said Amanda Krzenski. She came upon a similar idea in a catalog, “but it was not breathable material, not machine washable. It was like a soft foam helmet, the kind they use for martial arts classes,” she said. “There was a hole in the market.”

    The Whoopsiee team has expanded, but it’s still all women and it’s still local. All the products, as well as the Whoopsiee itself, are manufactured in the United States. But the hats, which come with either a fish or butterfly on top, are also available online for around $45.

    “It’s not cheap to make things in America, but we thought it was important,” Amanda Krzenski said. “So the price point has to be a little higher.” The team recently manufactured 203 Whoopsiees at its factory.

    Why the extra E? When they went to register the name and the Web site, “it was already taken. So we added another E,” she said.

    The most popular model so far is the androgynous blue-and-green polka-dotted version of the Whoopsiee, “which makes a great shower gift,” said Amanda Krzenski. The team is hopeful that the Whoopsiee will be available in the spring at a few local stores, and maybe in a catalog as well. In the meantime, it can be found at whoopsiee.net. There are pret-a-porter hats, along with a chance to “design your own Whoopsiee.”

    Kirra has already told her mother that she won’t share her Whoopsiee with her 6-month-old sister, Cameron. “We’ll have to get another one,” Amanda Krzenski said.

Accolades for Ad Firm

    Blumenfeld+fleming, a marketing, advertising, and design firm in Montauk, has won five platinum and six gold awards in the 2014 Hermes Creative Awards Competition.

    The firm, headed by Lynn Blumenfeld and Jill Fleming, won platinum awards for a BMW of Southampton magazine ad, a brochure for the architect Erica Broberg Smith, websites for Fresh Hamptons restaurant in Bridgehampton and Smart Sport Surfacing, and a radio spot for Suffolk County National Bank. 

    It took golds for a logo for the Long Island Clean Water Partnership, a magazine ad for MCC Builders, an email blast for Mini of Southampton, a Suffolk County National Bank radio spot and print ad featuring mobile services, and a radio spot for Southampton Hospital’s Wellness Center.

    The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition that this year saw over 5,500 entries from firms in the United States and abroad.

Behold the Beach Glass

    Coming to you from the not-so-industrial hamlet of Water Mill is a new beach accessory, the Beach Glass, made from acrylic and intended for outdoor use — especially at the beach.

    The “pointed stem design holds the glass upright in sand, grass, and snow,” a release from the maker, Beachware, said. “And it floats!” The machine-washable, PBA-free Beach Glass comes in three colors — ocean blue, sea green, and white sands — plus “crystal clear.”

    Beachware was founded last year by Jason Klinge and David D’Agostino, who with their latest brainchild hope to “forever replace those broken, tipped-over glass flutes, or the unsightly, disposable plastic cups that litter the beaches and parks.”

    The drinkware can be seen online at TheBeachGlass.com and is available at Hildreth’s department store and Bottle Hampton, both in Southampton.

G­rowing up in Farmingdale with her parents and two brothers, Nora Kleps had the usual assortment of household pets — cats, dogs, parakeets, turtles — “anything you could buy at Woolworth’s,” she said. She also liked riding horses, but despite being drawn to animals she followed another path before eventually returning to school to become a veterinarian. It was only after becoming fluent in French, Italian, and Farsi that she became fluent in animal medicine.

    In college, she majored in foreign languages and literature, then worked as a translator and consecutive interpreter in Philadelphia, sometimes on medical cases.

    After living in Iran for three years, she returned to the United States determined to pursue veterinary medicine.

    “It felt like it was something I hadn’t done that I had always wanted to do,” she said. She enrolled at Columbia University in a general studies program designed for older pre-med and pre-vet students that enables them to get the requisite number of science credits. She did that for four years at night while working at an Italian bank in the city, then earned her veterinary degree from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

    It was her love of horses that made her decide to be a mixed-practice veterinarian, which means that she can treat both small animals and large ones, like horses. She doesn’t treat pet birds or reptiles, although she will treat turkeys, ducks, and geese.

    A job with an East Hampton veterinarian brought her to Springs in 1993, and not long after she landed a job at the Mattituck-Laurel Veterinary Hospital, on the North Fork, where she still works. Since the mid-1990s, she has also run her own mobile practice, and is one of the only veterinarians on the South Fork who makes house calls. She treats mainly small animals and horses, although she has treated an emu a few times, too. Going to people’s houses to see animals, she is able to offer any treatment involving local anesthesia or small surgeries, she said.

    “The most wonderful thing about being a vet is being around the animals, trying to figure out what is wrong without their being able to tell me.” Knowing what to do takes experience, she said, and a lot of hard knocks, but Dr. Kleps made it sound as if figuring it out was a kind of puzzle, just as it sometimes is with young children, who also cannot always communicate exactly what is wrong.

    For a sick house pet, a successful outcome often hinges on how soon an animal is seen after symptoms appear, she said. Not long ago in Mattituck, a woman took a 12-week-old kitten to her after he had been sick for 12 to 16 hours. The kitten was lethargic, not eating, and had kidney failure. The child in the family was weeping.

     Dr. Kleps had one antifreeze test left in the fridge and decided to test the kitten, even though the family did not know if he had eaten antifreeze. The test was positive and, after five intravenous treatments with 95-percent alcohol over two days, the kitten was well enough to go home. The owner had chosen the window of opportunity in which such a test will come back positive if the creature has ingested the antifreeze. Had Dr. Kleps tested the cat after more than 16 hours, the test would not have shown the antifreeze, even though it was there.

EAST HAMPTON

J. Santiago to T. and F. Samuels, 75 Crystal Drive and lot 2, .32 acre, Oct. 21, $415,000.

MONTAUK

D. Weit by executor to A. and A. Gabrielli, 589 Montauk Highway, Oct. 14, $700,000.

NAPEAGUE

C. Celle to E. Margolis and Patrusky, 24J Private Road, .49 acre, Oct. 25, $3,500,000.

NOYAC

D. Dispigna to M. and A. Arrieta, 20 Emerson Place, 1.03 acres (vacant), Oct. 3, $375,000.

F. Angrisani to London Trust, 201 Harbor Watch Court, .99 acre, Oct. 6, $1,076,000.

Deutsche Bank National Trust to J. Vola, 35 Stoney Hill Road, .43 acre, July 27, $385,199.

SAG HARBOR

L. and B. Canton to G. Morrison, 3 Gull Rock Road, .22 acre (vacant), Oct. 14, $200,000.

SPRINGS

Joslin Lion’s Head I to D. and L. Bernacchia, 23 Pond Lane, .46 acre (vacant), Oct. 19, $800,000.

P. Heilmann to S. Humburg, 25 Sheep Fold Lane, .34 acre, Oct. 14, $535,000.

Fireplace Road Corp. to N. Arshad and M. Noman, 85 Cedar Drive, .58 acre, Oct. 14, $567,500.

S. Shulman to T. Sorba and S. Cha, 24 Salt Marsh Path, .58 acre, Oct. 14, $705,000.

J. Alzate by referee to Hudson City Savings, 27 Manor Lane, .73 acre, Oct. 6, $512,000.

C. Reed Trust to K. and J. Driscoll, 489 Fireplace Road, 3.46 acres, Oct. 14, $720,000.

R. Denton by executor to S. Rodriguez and G. Fallon, 508 Old Stone Highway, .98 acre, Oct. 14, $540,000.

    Snow globes line the shelf behind the sofa in Chucky Bologna’s small yet orderly house in East Hampton as she talks about the new business, Declutterbug, that she started six months ago. The collection is of sentimental value. “I started when my son was a baby, one a year for Christmas. I ask my friends, if they are somewhere wonderful and far away, to bring me back one,” said Ms. Bologna. “Now that he’s 29, I save the most important ones. I have no problem throwing stuff away, it feels so good to purge,” she added.

    This makes sense from someone who is paid to organize other people’s lives. “I can walk into a space, and all of a sudden my brain goes into a machination. I see where it [the clutter] needs to go,” she said. Ms. Bologna used to be a landscaper and a personal chef. Her proclivity for tidiness stems from circumstance. “I’m not a type A personality. It’s become a necessity to be organized because I’ve lived in a small house and boats. It’s become how I’ve learned to live, and taught me the difference between need and want,” she said.

    Ms. Bologna’s business endeavor was born after she lent a hand to a friend who was cleaning her basement. “Another friend heard and said, ‘Oh, you can help me,’ ” she said. “It’s been word of mouth. One job keeps leading to another.”

    Client projects range from a day to four months. “You decide what you want to do with it; it’s your stuff. I help you organize it. I’m not there to throw it away. But if you want to get a Dumpster, I’m there too!” Ms. Bologna said.

     “Clients are all different,” she said, “Some people are sentimental about their attachments, some aren’t.” A large part of her job is “talking people off the ledge,” she joked.

    While people have a natural tendency to accumulate things, Ms. Bologna advises getting rid of any clothing that you have not worn for the past two years. “If you get back to your high school weight, reward yourself. Buy something new. Don’t wear your high school sweater,” she said.

    The act of decluttering is a process. “I have clients [some have her there weekly], they have an anxiety attack when I show up,” Ms. Bologna said. “I remind them of how good they feel when I leave.”

    “When someone’s house is cluttered or chaotic, it’s indicative of your mind-set at the moment,” she said. According to Ms. Bologna, eliminating the physical factor of a mess can bring you into focus and clear your mind. “I don’t do any jobs where I have to wear a mask or where there are animal carcasses under the dining room table,” she added.

    Her greatest undertaking so far involved clearing out a basement of 35 years of yard sale finds.

    “Step away from the yard sale,” she advised. “You don’t need it.” Although in compliance with her mantra, “it comes down to need,” she does make exceptions. If you “really need a pie plate . . . you go looking for that one item,” she said, but “go home without the poncho.”

    “This is a good time to organize your house for the holidays,” she said, “It takes a little soul-searching. Everything you don’t need, throw it away.”

    Ms. Bologna laughed as she sang her own version of the song “Let It Snow.”

    “Let it go, let it go, let it go.” She can be reached at [email protected].

AMAGANSETT

M. Recanati Trust to M. Forman, 16 Atlantic Avenue, .8 acre (vacant), Oct. 21, $2,400,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

D. Boylan to R. and H. Tartaglione Jr., 6 Fair Hills Lane, 1 acre (vacant), Sept. 14, $900,000.

EAST HAMPTON

E. Roye to Gardenia Partners, 156 Buckskill Road, 1.88 acres, Oct. 24, $725,000.

A. and M. Bernstein and R. Ash to J. Holley, 14 Saddle Lane, 1.3 acres, May 27, $577,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

Przonek Partnership to S. Assayag, 179 Montauk Highway, .96 acre (vacant), Oct. 19, $485,000.

MONTAUK

M. and J. Young to J. and K. Fischer, 80 Pinetree Drive, .17 acre, Oct. 20, $325,000.

R. Sauer to W. Loscher, 7 Fort Lane, 1.2 acres, Oct. 7, $655,000.

D. Plotkin to P. and K. Welling Jr., 45 Monroe Drive, Oct. 27, $745,000.

SPRINGS

C. Gainey to A. Notel, 10 Gann Road, .22 acre, Oct. 27, $620,000.

Gemeron L.L.C. to M. and R. Milizia, 54 Gardiner’s Lane, .37 acre, Sept. 13, $530,000.

Kipco Properties L.L.C. to Falkenhan Christensen, 571 Accabonac Road, .13 acre, Oct. 25, $513,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

Collecting for Charities

    For the past decade, Kate Carpluk of Town and Country Real Estate has been collecting donations of coats, hats, gloves, blankets, food, and toys to give to three local charities: Maureen’s Haven, the Bread and More soup kitchen, and Little Flower Children’s Services.

    This year all eight Town and Country offices will open their doors to anyone who may wish to donate. Ms. Carpluk can be reached at 838-7608 for pickup.

Contractor of the Year

    Plum Builders of East Hampton has received a Silver Contractor of the Year Award in the category “residential interior, $100,000 and over” from the Long Island chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. The awards are judged by members of another N.A.R.I. chapter. The Long Island competition is known for recognizing exceptional achievement, and the competition is fierce.

    More information about Plum Builders can be found on the company’s Web site, plumbuilders.com.

Holiday Shop

    Snake Hollow Studio will host a holiday shop on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring the hand-crafted wooden works of Keith Barker. The items include custom mirrors, sconces, art tables and chairs, and birdhouses. Equestrian and bird drawings and paintings by Lynn Matsuoka are also available, and portraits of people and pets can be commissioned.

    The studio is at 221 Snake Hollow Road in Bridgehampton. A sneak peek can be had at hamptonsartist.com.

Second Skate Shop

    Marley and Lennon Ficalora, who are brothers from Montauk, are opening a second Wampum Skate Shop at 5 Cleveland Place in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, and they have invited the public to the opening party on Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m.

    The flagship shop is on Main Street in Bridgehampton behind a jewelry store owned by their mother, Helen Ficalora. It sells skateboards and other skating-related items such as clothing and shoes.

    Is there anyone who hasn’t fantasized at some point about leaving behind their old stuff, selling their house, and stepping into someone else’s life?

    Maureen Taylor and Lee Beiler of Montauk and Kauai, Hawaii, are betting on that fantasy as they attempt to sell their Montauk house, fully furnished and decorated, and their two cars in a direct, “family-to-family” sale for $3.6 million.

    Mr. Beiler is a former owner of the Blue Parrot in East Hampton. Ms. Taylor was an owner of Samadhi House, a yoga studio in Montauk that burned down four years ago. Once they were both out of the business world, a plan started simmering, said Ms. Taylor.

    “In the absence of the Parrot and Samadhi House, we’re now in Kauai eight months out of the year. With all the traveling, we started thinking, ‘Why are we doing this?’ ” Ms. Taylor said.

    The decision to leave the hamlet and move full-time to their second house on Kauai was prompted in part by the changes Montauk has undergone in the past few years. “Summers have gotten crazy. As I get older I want to simplify,” Mr. Beiler said by phone from Kauai. “To break the tradition after 40 years is hard; I love Montauk, but things change,” he said.

    “Kauai is Montauk 30 years ago,” Ms. Taylor said. “A big night out is a hibachi on the beach watching the moon.”

     They designed their Montauk house themselves. When they were building it nine years ago on a hill overlooking East Lake Drive with wide views of Lake Montauk, they didn’t think about the day when they would eventually sell it. Everything from the hula girl lamps to the antlers, beach glass, and driftwood on the mantels was purchased or found specifically for the house. The dining room is dominated by a 200-year-old distressed table from Mexico with traces of its original paint. Much of the house’s interior trim and the kick plates under the counters came from an old barn salvaged from Pennsylvania.

    Because the things in the house seemed so much a part of the house, the couple came up with the concept of “selling a life,” which led them to create their own Web site for the purpose, Sellingalife.blogspot.com. “We thought it would be fun to totally hook up the family that bought our home,” the couple wrote on the site.

    Included in the $3.6 million price tag for the four-bedroom, three-bath house are the couple’s Porsche Carrera and Ford F150 pickup, a cache of surfboards, works of art and photography, not to mention all of the house’s furnishings and finishes.

    “It’s so much more than a house. It’s the light, the smell in the air, the darkness,” Ms. Taylor said.

    But what the couple will miss more than the house, she said, are the people. “Montauk will always be in my heart.”