November 10, 1994
Months after the conversion of Montauk’s historic Playhouse to affordable housing got the blessing of East Hampton Town planners, a group of Montaukers is attempting to stop it.
William C. Addeo is spearheading the 11th-hour move.
“I don’t want to oppose affordable housing, as much as I am for a civic center,” Mr. Addeo told a group of 20 Montaukers who gathered at his house on Tuthill Road Tuesday evening.
. . . He said it was not too late to turn the project around, and that Town Supervisor Tony Bullock had assured him a federal grant of $200,000 in seed money might be available for a civic center. And, he said, Joseph Oppenheimer, the present owner of the Playhouse, had told him recently, “If you come to the table with a plan, I will listen.”
. . . Mr. Bullock pooh-poohed the affordable housing project yesterday, saying that “the numbers never made sense.” He called the Addeo group’s idea “a great idea — it just lacks funding.”
November 24, 1994
The East Hampton High School Bonackers had expected a tough game from Half Hollow Hills West, and rightly so, for the Colts had come within two seconds of upsetting Comsewogue, the Division III regular-season champion, the week before.
But Saturday’s game, a divisional playoff semifinal, was no contest. Playing the most well-rounded football they’ve played all season, the Bonackers crushed Hills West 36-6 before a large and delighted hometown crowd.
. . . The victory sets up what bids fair to be a war at Comsewogue this Saturday in the Division III championship game. . . . It will be the first time that an East Hampton football team has played for a county championship since 1981 when Rich Cooney Jr., Ed Budd, Justin Winter and company trampled Riverhead 28-8 to win the Suffolk Class B title.
. . . Walking afterward into the late-afternoon glow, Bruce Pellman, Mike’s father, said the Bonackers had saved him this fall. A season ticket holder to Yankee and Giant games, and a New York Rangers fan, he had been buffeted first by the baseball strike, then by the Giants’ lackluster showing, and finally by the National Hockey League lockout.
“Watching the Bonackers has kept my spirits up and has given us something to look forward to,” he said.
“It’s better than the World Series,” chimed in Encie Peters, whose son, Robbie, is Bonac’s quarterback.