Compliments of Volume 62 | Issue Two FREE Fire Island’s Longest Running News Source since 1957 June 8, 2018 INSIDE: Green Lawns, Archives SAGE Defoliate Brown Tide Acquired Turns 40 Dunes? Your Source for Summer News on the South Shore www.fireisland-news.com Your Source for Summer News on the South Shore www.fireisland-news.com THE FIRE ISLAND NEWSPAPER • June 8, 2018 • PAGE 4 Volume 62 | Issue Two EDITOR’S WINDOW by Shoshanna McCollum
[email protected] Fire Island’s Longest Running News Source since 1957 June 8, 2018 IN THIS ISSUE COMMUNITY IN EVERY ISSUE 9 FI EATERIES ADOPT COLUMNS 47 ADULT COLORING PAGE SURCHARGE 13 KISMET Lauren Stevens Timothy Bolger Bradlee White 6 AROUND & ABOUT 11 INTERVIEW: RORY ALLEN 14 SALTAIRE Lorna Luniewski 39 ADVICE COLUMN Hugh O’Brien Camille Mercogliano 12 GREEN LAWNS, 16 ATLANTIQUE 38 BOOK REVIEW BROWN TIDE, AND Kirsten Corssen Rita Plush A THIN GRAY LINE Anika Lanser 17 OCEAN BAY PARK 35 CALENDAR Barbara Placilla Lorna Luniewski A Note on the Vote 15 SALTAIRE VILLAGE I THINK IT IS FAIR to say we had a whirlwind VOTES AND MEETS 18 OCEAN BEACH AREA 54 DAY IN THE LIFE couple of weeks. Starting Memorial Day Weekend, MEMORIAL DAY Joey Macellaro OF FIRE ISLAND when a dead whale washed up on the beach, and WEEKEND 20 CHERRY GROVE Reader Contributed Photos Emma Boskovski Robert Levine 24 DINING REVIEW: reporter Danielle Lipiec was ready at a moment’s THE PANTRY notice to cover it. And since it was Memorial Day 19 HOT MESS: OCEAN 21 FIRE ISLAND PINES Weekend, it makes sense to mention one of our veter- Robert Levine Shoshanna McCollum BEACH ELECTION 2018 an writers – what a happy surprise it was to learn EXAMINED 36 EYE ON FI Shoshanna McCollum Timothy Bolger that our own Robert “Rose” Levine was crowned Cartoons by Eric Pedersen Homecoming Queen! In addition to his communi- 22 BITING THE BULLETS: 50 FIRE ISLAND ty columns, do check out his nimble reporting of the WHAT FINS AND NPS BUSINESS DIRECTORY 40th Anniversary of SAGE.