Tommy’s opens at the Shell Factory
By CHUCK BALLARO - | Jan 27, 2021
The long-awaited Tommy s Tiki Bar has opened at The Shell Factory & Nature Park.
It took a year and a half from start to finish, but the Shell Factory was finally able to cut the ribbon on one of its biggest projects ever this month, when it opened Tommy’s Tiki Bar.
Many friends and supporters were on hand to witness the opening of the covered outdoor bar on Jan. 13, which finally put a cap on the three big projects that were done on the restaurant portion of the complex.
During the sacking of the Capitol last week, someone engraved the words “Murder the Media” on one of the doors of democracy’s cathedral. And members of the news media who were reporting on the violence that day were secondary targets, threatened and surrounded at times, their colleagues inside forced to shelter in secure locations for hours.
We’ve held meetings this week at The Gazette to train our journalists on the best way to dodge bullets if violence comes to state Capitols this week.
How did we get to these fearful, broad-brush days, when everyone and every institution is painted into one warring side or the other? What happened to the shining city on the hill we built when we first came over to the New World?
During the sacking of the Capitol last week, someone engraved the words “Murder the Media” on one of the doors of democracy’s cathedral. And members of the news media who were reporting on the violence that day were secondary targets, threatened and surrounded at times, their colleagues inside forced to shelter in secure locations for hours.
We’ve held meetings this week at The Gazette to train our journalists on the best way to dodge bullets if violence comes to state Capitols this week.
How did we get to these fearful, broad-brush days, when everyone and every institution is painted into one warring side or the other? What happened to the shining city on the hill we built when we first came over to the New World?
To those residents of the Village of Greenport he’s Mr. Mayor.
To Island residents he operates an auto repair shop that’s the only New York State Inspection Station here.
He’s George Hubbard, a young senior citizen who runs his shop with an old fashioned small-town Mayberry approach. He knows everyone’s name and people are very comfortable leaving their car at the place even if he’s not there. They can just leave a note outlining what they want done.
“And I like being on a first name basis with everyone,” George said.
And it’s this friendly, trusting attitude that has been part of Island commerce for a very long time. I remember in the late 70’s right after moving here year-round, my wife called me at work in Sag Harbor to tell me that her car would not start. I told her to call B&D garage and tell them her problem. She told me that Bobby Clark came and installed a new battery and said he’d send a bill. Friendly and trusting Island traditions.