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State Of The Town Address

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State Of The Town Address 2023

residents and work on increasing accountability to taxpayers. At this year’s speech, she announced that a five percent tax cut was delivered to the town’s residents in the unanimously passed 2023 Town Budget.

“Our residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation, so any tax cut is a great start, and I look forward to building on it come budget time this year,” said Supervisor DeSena.

On Friday, Jan. 27, Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena gave her second State of the Town Address at Harbor Links in Port Washington. This speech is an annual event in North Hempstead where the town supervisor shares accomplishments and plans for the new year. The speech is accompanied by a luncheon hosted by the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Port Washington–Manhasset.

As the first Republican town supervisor in over 30 years, Supervisor DeSena and the town board started on uneasy terms leading to many public disagreements at board meetings. While the board still disagrees from time to time, they have been able to collaborate for the benefit of the town.

“I am proud of the great work we have done, and while some of our board meetings have been a bit painful at points, we’re in this together, and we’re all committed to doing the people’s work,” said Supervisor DeSena.

At last year’s town address, Supervisor DeSena stressed the importance of transparency and reform.

“My goals for my administration have not changed since my inauguration,” said Supervisor DeSena at the start of her speech.

Transparency

For Supervisor DeSena’s first year in office, she made it a goal to have residents be more informed on what is happening within their town government. She worked with North Hempstead TV, the town’s government access TV channel, to begin rebroadcasting town board meetings.

“These rebroadcasts, which occur at varying times throughout the week, give our residents as much of an opportunity to tune in as possible,” said Supervisor DeSena.

This year, Supervisor DeSena will be working on providing highlights on town projects to be broadcasted on North Hempstead TV.

“The town will bring a number of projects to fruition that residents have been looking forward to,” said Supervisor DeSena. “As work intensifies, residents should expect to see them documented in new programming.”

Substance Misuse Advisory Council

Previous work as Executive Director of the Manhasset Coalition Against Substance Abuse has made Supervisor DeSena an advocate for substance abuse support. As

promised in last year she established the town’s Substance Misuse Advisory Council.

“[The council] has worked diligently to meet the issue head-on through a number of ways, including free Narcan training seminars in conjunction with Northwell Health,” said Supervisor DeSena. “This council includes important voices in the fight against the drug overdose epidemic,”

This year, Supervisor DeSena and the advisory council will “continue to work to address the opioid crisis and navigate the uncharted landscape of legalized recreational marijuana in New York.”

Infrastructure

Last year, Supervisor DeSena called for a recommitment by the town to investing in critical infrastructure projects such as improving roads and sewers.

“I am proud to announce today that over the last year, the town has taken major steps to completing a number of long-stalled projects that will improve the quality of life of our residents,” said Supervisor DeSena.

She highlighted a few highly anticipated projects, such as sidewalk repairs and road repaving on Westbury Avenue in Carle Place and the Manhasset sewer connection project.

By utilizing a portion of the town’s remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds, the town will be making a $2 million investment in the future of Carle Place’s downtown, shared Supervisor DeSena.

Residents and businesses have desired the Manhasset sewer connection project along Plandome Road for many years. Throughout 2022, Supervisor DeSena met with stakeholders involved in the project to discuss how to move forward best.

“Details are still being finalized. I have long believed that now was the perfect time

to address it, especially in light of the $5 million grant secured by Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti in furtherance of this project,” said Supervisor DeSena. “Over the last year, the town has secured millions of dollars in grant funding to make projects and programs a reality.”

Town’s Master Plan

North Hempstead’s Master Plan is nearly 35 years old, and Supervisor DeSena feels the plan needs to be updated to reflect the diverse needs of the town’s communities. Supervisor DeSena has spoken to residents from “all walks of life and all corners of the town” to receive feedback on the master plan.

“I believe the time is ripe to bring in a professional planner to help shape the process formally,” said Supervisor DeSena. “There will be a difficult balancing act ahead as we preserve the town we love while considering the possibility of changes to reflect times more accurately.”

Our Seniors, Disabled, and Veterans

From the start of Supervisor DeSena’s term, she has prioritized caring about North Hempstead’s most vulnerable populations.

“We should be doing everything we can to work to make our communities more diverse, inclusive, and equitable because it’s something that will make our communities stronger,” said Supervisor DeSena.

Supervisor DeSena proudly announced the town’s Veterans Advisory Committee’s hard work this past holiday season which collected nearly $10,000 as part of the Veterans Donation Drive.

Fiscal Responsibility

In last year’s Town Address, Supervisor DeSena vowed to be transparent with

Building Department

Another central theme of last year’s Town Address involved fixing the challenges facing the town’s Building Department. Supervisor DeSena proposed a series of actions to reform the department. The plan strikes a portion of the Town Code that created needless interference and shifted accountability away from trained professionals in the Building Department.

With support from residents and the town Building Department Commissioner, a modified version of theproposal passed. Supervisor DeSena has requested that our Nassau County Comptroller’s Office perform a full field audit of the Town’s Building Department.

“This was long overdue and something that no administration had had the courage to do in the past,” said Supervisor DeSena. “I am confident that this impartial assessment by an outside agency will identify and address any mismanagement of departmental operations and any potential misconduct.”

New Issues Addressed This Year

In January 2022, the town lost the Town Comptroller and Chief Deputy Comptroller. The Director of Finance, Paul Wood, has served as Acting Comptroller temporarily for six months.

“Having no formally appointed Comptroller could put our town at risk financially and jeopardize our Triple-A bond rating,” said Supervisor DeSena. “This situation needs to be rectified.”

Another issue that Supervisor DeSena touched on is the town’s Board of Ethics. At last year’s State of the Town, she spoke about the need to install members to the Board of Ethics in defined, staggered terms and stop the practice of allowing them to serve in ‘holdover status’ from previous administrations. Changes to the term rules would ensure the town has a Board of Ethics independent of any outside influence.

Over the last year, four members have been installed into new, defined terms. “I will push for a fully appointed independent Board of Ethics” said Supervisor DeSena.

Supervisor DeSena concluded her town address by describing her first year in office as “wonderful and challenging.”

“The Town of North Hempstead is a great place to live, work, and raise a family. I am certain that as we continue to work together, the best times are ahead of us,” said Supervisor DeSena.

Supervisor DeSena at this year’s State of the Town Address. (Photo courtesy of the Town of North Hempstead)

Nassau Rules Committee Holds Meeting To Evaluate County Reapportionment Maps

LAUREN FELDMAN

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On Jan. 17 the Nassau County Legislature Rules Committee held their 14th term meeting agenda, during which they evaluated two proposed maps for the redistricting of Nassau County. This is a meeting which occurs every ten years following new citizen data collection via the census. A Temporary Districting Advisory Commission (TDAC) assisted both the Democratic and Republican parties with crafting proposals to evaluate Nassau’s 19 Legislative districts for reapportionment: the former presenting Motion 33, and the latter Motion 34.

As noted by Communications Director Danny Schrafel, this meeting was a procedural step and does not indicate final approval; that will come from the full Nassau County Legislature at a later date not yet determined. As well, neither map was required to be accepted wholly or in part by the Rules Committee.

The Democrats And Motion 33:

First to present was the Democratic Committee with Motion 33. The committee proposal, presented by David Mejias, cited Daniel B. Magleby, PhD and Megan Gall, PhD, GISP, who were hired to perform research, analyze the current map, and propose a new alternate map. As clarified by the Democratic presentation, “Both [individuals] are independent, and both testified that they have never been hired by a partisan organization in the past.”

Mejias proposed a map which includes five performing majority-minority districts and an Asian influence district, for the first time in the county. All five majority-minority districts have a black and Latino population in excess of 50 percent – a requirement of the Federal and New York State Voting Rights Acts – the Asian influence district also exceeds 40 percent, which complies with another requirement.

Both the 2013 map, as well as any similarly adopted map, violates the Federal and State Voting Rights Acts, as well as the Municipal Home Rule Law. It was important to the comittee, in the drawing of this new map, to ensure that it would not deny voters of color the equal opportunity to participate and elect candidates of their choice, in keeping with the law.

The Democrat proposition therefore demands a clean slate, and an overhaul of the 2013 map.

The Republicans And Motion 34: Following was the Republican Committee with Motion 34. Lisa Perillo, presenting on behalf of the committee, cited the mission of the TDAC as complying with the Municipal Home Rule Law, as well as both Federal and State Voting Rights Acts. They also affirmed that the Republican proposal adheres to these laws.

Equal population is crucial to redistricting. “The goal of redistricting,” the committee stated, “Is ultimately to give every person’s vote the same weight.” With that in mind, the Republican plan aimed to achieve as equal a distribution of population as possible across districts, and proposed a layout in which deviation was only 0.098 percent. The maximum deviation allowed across districts is 5.0 percent.

The layout proposed by Perillo includes a voting-age, non-Hispanic African American district, for the first time in the county. The plan also includes three black-Hispanic coalition districts. The plan promises both contiguous districts, as well as districts which are more compact than in the existing map. It also prioritized maintaining the cores of each district, which provide areas of common ground for residents. According to the committee, around 91 percent of the cores of each district are maintained within the Republican proposal, which does not mirror the Democrats’ proposal for sweeping change.

Public Opinion And Commentary:

Following the proposals was prepared commentary from various members of the Nassau community. Redistricting, as a process which reoccurs every 10 years, relies on public involvement and voices from Nassau districts.

Commonly expressed was concern about population growth resulting in the fracturing of towns. One community member urged the Legislature that “Maps should be drawn with communities of cohesion in mind. Lines should be drawn in pursuit of keeping communities together.” The Republicanpresented map in particular struck a chord with many members of the community, who fear the implications of proposed changes.

While the committee claims to keep the cores of each district the same, community members noted that there was an unequal amount of redistribution occurring more intensely in majority-minority areas. Several speakers came forward to dispute the fracturing of black and brown communities, which would put voters of color at a disadvantage both in voting rights, as well as the ability to select their representatives.

This was especially frustrating for community members of color at the meeting. One of whom spoke up in disbelief over the proposal, “Why is it that predominantly black and brown communities have to come and beg for something that should just be ours?” She implored the Rules Committee to

consider the impact each proposal would have on these communities. “Make sure that Nassau County is an example. You have that power.”

Following the meeting, Nassau County Legislature Minority Leader Kevan M. Abrahams (D) released the following statement: “The Republican redistricting commission proposal is a clear example of a racial gerrymander that violates multiple aspects of local, state, and federal law. Nassau County residents deserve better. Now the Legislative Republicans have an opportunity to address the illegal aspects presented by their Temporary Districting Advisory Commission members that would dilute the votes of our minority communities for another 10 years and needlessly expose taxpayers to the risk of wasteful, costly litigation.”

The Final Ruling:

The Republican motion held a majority approval of 4:3 in favor, and the Democrat motion held a majority approval of 7:0 in favor, and so the Committee ruled to pass along both propositions to the Legislature for further review. A future meeting will determine which map – if either – will take effect in whole or part. The proposed maps, as well as the existing map, are available on the Legislature’s website at https://www. nassaucountyny.gov/5455/Redistricting for those interested in a more close-up look at each district.

Proposed reapportioned map from the Democratic Party. (Photos courtesy of NassauCountyGov website).

Proposed reapportioned map from the Republican Party.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 4

Polar Plunge for Special Olympics

10 a.m.- 12 p.m. (North Hempstead Park Beach) Gather your family, grab your friends, double-dare your co-workers and start a Polar Plunge Team! You can also join us as an individual if you like, just be ready to get wet! Collect donations to help sponsor your plunge in support of local Special Olympics New York athletes. Visit northhempsteadny.gov for more information.

SUNDAY, FEB. 5

Farmers’ Market

10 a.m.- 2 p.m. (Great Neck House) The Great Neck Indoor Winter Market is a collaborative project of Deep Roots Farmers Market and the Great Neck Park District. The market will continue to bring the Great Neck community fresh and local foods and crafts.

Great Neck House Live Performance

3 p.m. (Great Neck House, Great Neck Parks District) See Konkussion live. This is an all-female band comprised of Great Neck North High School students who deliver an acoustic performance.

Honoring The Memory Of Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr.

4:30 p.m. (Lake Success Jewish Center) The Shireinu Choir of Long Island and the Free Will Baptist Church of Freeport Mass Choir will join together to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and to kick off Black History Month. Ticket price is $20 and all monies raised will support the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County and the St. John’s Baptist Church of Westbury Food Pantry. For information call 516-466-0569

TUESDAY, FEB. 7

Blood Pressure Screenings with St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

12 p.m.-2 p.m. (Station Branch Library Small Room) Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, affects an astounding one in four American adults. This condition usually has no symptoms, which is

why it is often called the “silent killer.” Have your blood pressure checked by a clinical nurse, free of charge.

Socrates Salon with Conversation

Host Ron Gross

3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (Virtual) Join us for this monthly lively conversation facilitated by Ron Gross. Come share your life experiences, knowledge, and wisdom about topics that matter, as we move from small talk to Big Talk. Everyone speaks and everyone listens, because all of us are wiser than any of us. Visit greatnecklibrary.org for Zoom information.

Town Board Meeting

7 p.m. (Town of North Hempstead Town Hall) Monthly Town of North Hempstead town board meeting.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8

Sing Along

10:30 a.m. (Great Neck Social Center) Sing

Along with Mindye and Phoebe. While music is proven to help with memory, actively participating in music has been shown to have many health benefits for seniors. Songs are age appropriate and seniors can request songs. This class is no cost to Nassau County residents. Please call 516-4870025 to reserve your spot.

Womenspace

1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Great Neck Social Center) These seasoned ladies have gathered for a number of years, tuned in to what active

folks think about. When this group hears about something on the local, state, national or global scene they select an expert from their various contacts to come talk about it. For new ideas and friends, see how stimulating and entertaining these active ladies are. Call 516-487-0025 for more information.

THURSDAY, FEB. 9

Project Independence

10:30 a.m. (Zoom) A Town of North Hempstead event for seniors. Social discussion group via Zoom. Enjoy talking with others and meeting your neighbors. Open to North Hempstead residents age 60 and older. If interested call 311 or 516-869-6311 to register and receive a Zoom link.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10

Project Independence

11 a.m.-12 p.m. (Magnolia Gardens) Understanding Sodium for Heart Health. A Town of North Hempstead event for seniors. Learn about how sodium impacts blood pressure and overall health. If interested call 311 or 516-869-6311 to register.

FRIDAY, FEB 10-SUNDAY, FEB. 12

Great Neck House Movies

Friday at 5 and 7 p.m. Saturday at 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday at 3 and 5 p.m. (Great Neck House, Great Neck Parks District) Minions: Rise of Gru (PG | Animation, adventure, comedy)

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Happy Birthday, Schoolhouse Rock!

Iconic shorts that set school subjects to music turns 50

AMANDA OLSEN

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From the first notes of the intro (As your body grows bigger/Your mind must flower/It’s great to learn/’Cause knowledge is power!) children of the ‘70s and ‘80s and beyond will recognize the irresistible, educational earworms that make up Schoolhouse Rock. But who would think to set multiplication tables or the legislative process to music? Fifty years ago, that’s just what David McCall, Bob Dorough, and George Newall did. Their series changed the landscape of children’s animated programming, earning them four daytime Emmy wins and a further four nominations.

McCall, frustrated that his sons could memorize the lyrics to Rolling Stones songs but not their multiplication facts, complained to Newall, one of the creative directors at his ad agency. He wondered if the subject in question could be set to music. This set Newall on a search for just the right musician to put a tune to the times tables. His quest led him to Dorough, a prolific and quirky jazz musician who had once written a song based on the “Do not remove under penalty of law” written on the mattress tag. Their song writer acquired, they gave him the assignment.

Two weeks later, he came back with “Three is a Magic Number,” which blew Newall and McCall away.

The song was so catchy and inspiring that the agency’s art director and cartoonist, Tom Yohe, started drawing up characters and scenes. Though their original plan was to try and produce an educational record album, it soon became clear that they had much more on their hands. This creative team presented their series of short films to then-director of children’s programming at ABC, Michael Eisner, who just happened to be meeting with legendary animator Chuck Jones at the time. Newall recounted the story to The New York Times in 1994: “After we played the song and Tom showed them the storyboards, Eisner looked at Jones and said, ‘What do you think?’ “And Jones said, ‘I think you should buy it right away.’”

After we played the song and Tom showed them the storyboards, Eisner looked at Jones and said, ‘What do you think?’ “And Jones said, ‘I think you should buy it right away.”

technology. They also expanded their team to include Lynn Ahrens and Jack Sheldon. Ahrens had been working at the agency as a secretary, work that she found incredibly boring, so she started bringing her guitar to work. Between tasks she would play and write songs. This caught the attention of Newall, who asked her to write a song for Schoolhouse Rock. She wrote “The Preamble,” a song that set the beginning of the Constitution to music. Ahrens sang the version that went on the air in October 1975. She wrote or performed on songs throughout the rest of the original series. In a 2014 interview with Noblemania, Ahrens credited this chance for everything that came after in her work. “That opportunity led to a career as a copywriter, followed by freelance careers as a TV writer, a jingle writer, a television producer of many network shows for young people and ultimately a musical theatre writer. It all started there.”

Jack Sheldon, a performer from the Merv Griffin Show, lent his distinctive voice to songs like “Conjunction Junction” and “I’m Just a Bill.” Despite his many years as Griffin’s sidekick, his voice is perhaps most well-known from these performances.

were removed from the air shortly before the show’s 30th anniversary and a special DVD release.

A musical theatre adaptation of the show, titled Schoolhouse Rock Live!, premiered in 1993. It featured a collaboration between artists Scott Ferguson, Kyle Hall, George Keating, Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, and Kathy Mandry, utilizing some of Schoolhouse Rock’s most famous songs.

Disney is running a Family Singalong in celebration of this milestone anniver sary. This will be the fifth installment of the Singalong series and is hosted by Ryan Seacrest. It airs on Feb. 1 on ABC and will be available to stream on Hulu and Disney+ later in the month. All of the original episodes are available for streaming on the platform as well.

Performances during the special include:

Black Eyed Peas — “Three Is A Magic Number”

Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert — “Figure 8”

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen — “I’m Just a Bill”

Julianne Hough – “Interplanet Janet”

The Muppets and Fortune Feimster — “Unpack Your Adjectives”

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After the initial series about multiplication, the group produced songs about grammar, civics, science and computer

The original five series ran from 1973 to 1984. The Walt Disney Company acquired Schoolhouse Rock in 1996 with their purchase of ABC. The show returned in the early 1990s with a series about money, and again in the early 2000s with shorts about the electoral college, voting for president, and a full series about the environment. These songs were not broadcast on TV and were only available through DVD or iTunes. Reruns of the original five series played on broadcast television until 2000, when they

NE-YO — “Verb: That’s What’s Happening”

Raven Symoné and Kal Penn — “Interjections”

Retta — “Ready or Not, Here I Come”

Shaquille O’Neal and Boys & Girls Club of Atlanta — “Conjunction Junction”

The stars from Disney’s Broadway pro ductions of Newsies, and “A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing”.

—George Newall, co-creator of Schoolhouse Rock

BOOK REVIEW

Welcome To His World Review of: Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell

JOSEPH SCOTCHIE

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“We’re living in Ted Kennedy’s America.” That witticism was offered by Joe Sobran in the wake of the 1987 defeat of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Senator Edward Kennedy (D---MASS) led the charge, declaring in a demagogic tirade that in “Robert Bork’s America,” women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks regulated to the back of the bus, school children denied the teachings of evolution, and “rogue police” breaking down anyone’s doors.

A qualified and articulate jurist, Bork never deserved the demagoguery slung his way. The man, however, had little support from the Ronald Reagan White House. Bork was defeated and liberals dominated the court for the next three decades.

Ted Kennedy’s America? Who can doubt it? In the early 2000s, Kennedy took on same sex marriage as a fighting cause. Conservatives snickered at this crazy old man. Who’s laughing now? The same Wall Street Journal, National Review, commentary-style conservatism that once opposed and ridiculed the gay rights agenda now supports Kennedy’s views on marriage.

John A. Farrell’s biography is the first full-length treatment of Kennedy since his death in 2009. It can be a tortured read on a tortured life. Not hagiography, the volume still ends in triumph. A Life is for those fans of Camelot who wish to relieve the Kennedy saga in all its tragedy and glory.

Ted Kennedy was born to the breed. His father, Joseph Sr., a wealthy banker, had wanted to make the leap into politics. The man lived for power. However, his tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, where he bitterly opposed America’s entry into World War II, sank any hopes. The torch was passed to Joe Junior, who also had a taste for politics. Muscular and confident, Joe Junior could never comb gray hair. He died in action during the war.

It was now onto Jack, Bobby, and Ted. In 1960, the youngest Kennedy worked as a West Coast coordinator for JFK’s winning presidential campaign. He

dreamed of a life in Arizona, far from the political world. That could never happen. The 1962 Massachusetts senate race beckoned. After Nov. 22, 1963 and June 6, 1968, Ted Kennedy’s own presidential run was an inevitability. It was as if destiny was out of his hands. When that 1980 challenge to President Jimmy Carter failed, Kennedy returned to the senate, where he had found a home.

Most of the book is a rendering of Kennedy’s many initiatives and triumphs: Proposing an opening to mainland China, cancer research, health care (where he worked with President Richard Nixon), AIDS research, liberal immigration, the vote for 18-year olds, the defeat not only of Bork, but earlier of both Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court, the nuclear freeze movement and oddly, acting as a courier for messages from the Reagan White House to the Mikhail Gorbachev Kremlin. It was to Kennedy that Gorbachev revealed his intention to withdraw from Afghanistan.

There is Kennedy the man. After the assassinations of his two older brothers, the burden of an entire family was on his shoulders. He carried that load for the next 40 years. On one weekend in December 1973, Kennedy had to tell his eldest son, Edward Jr., that a cancer would require the amputation of the young man’s right leg. That same day, he rushed off to a local Catholic church to usher Kathleen Kennedy, RFK’s eldest daughter, down the altar in matrimony.

political moments stand out. Farrell cites Kennedy’s floor leadership on the 1965 immigration bill. That bill, long a goal of President Kennedy, probably would have passed anyway. In truth, it was the president’s assassination that revived the bill. Still, the younger Kennedy’s hand was on the most significant legislation in American history.

Ted Kennedy’s own presidential run was an inevitability. It was as if destiny was out of his hands. When that 1980 challenge to President Jimmy Carter failed, Kennedy returned to the senate, where he had found a home.

Then there is Mary Jo Kopechne. On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy, while driving the young woman home from a reunion party of RFK staff members, hit the small Dyke Bridge in Chappaquiddick, MA, traveling, at some estimates, at up to 20 MPH. Too fast. He did dive into the water time and time again, trying to save Kopechne. Was it possible? Did he act soon enough? The controversy dogged the man for decades. It destroyed his presidential hopes, but not his political career. After 1968, Massachusetts badly needed a Kennedy in statewide office.

The author ends with the eventual triumph of Obamacare, a capstone on the senator’s career. To me, two

In 1965, it wasn’t yet clear that the Democrats would lose their grip on white working-class voters. In time, they did. Kennedy knew the 1965 bill would mean the end of European immigration, including his fellow Irish, into the U.S. No matter. The loss of the white working class has been made up for by millions of new Democratic Party voters from the ranks of Asian and Latino immigrants. President Lyndon Johnson was not the only pol to claim, wrongly, that the bill would not change the population makeup of the U.S. Kennedy made similar remarks. Who cares? It assisted the liberal cause in monumental ways. Farrell, however, gives only a few paragraphs to the 1980 immigration bill, one that expanded family reunification and increased legal immigration exponentially. During the 1980s and beyond, America has experienced the greatest demographic upheaval in modern history. Here, Farrell is not optimistic over the consequences. The other issue is the 1974 Boston busing crisis---a real American carnage. In 1970, Kennedy was under heat from the Kopechne tragedy. That year, during a re-election campaign, Irish South Boston stood with the man. Kennedy appreciated that tremendously.

In the early 1960s, Kennedy supported civil rights, but opposed school busing. In the fall of 1974, the bill came due. Black students from Roxbury, under court order, were bused to South Boston. Kennedy spoke at high schools in both Roxbury and South Boston, then made a beeline to Washington. He was sitting in his senate office when the school buses rolled.

drive the Irish out of the public schools and out of Boston all together.

“What can I do?” Kennedy, now busing proponent, asked. How about standing in the South Boston High School front entrance? Kennedy could have rented an apartment in Southie and enrolled his three children in the local public schools now being forcibly integrated, rather than sending them to a northern Virginia private academy.

This is more important than economics. In 1970, Irish Boston stood with their wayward son. Four years later, Kennedy sold his own people down the river. South Boston High School, once the pride of the Irish working-class, no longer exists. And we’re still living in Ted Kennedy’s America.

September 1974 represented the revenge of that city’s Anglo-Saxon elite. For decades, they smarted under Irish rule. By using the black population up from the South, their fellow co-religionists at least, for busing purposes the WASP could now

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SANTOS WATCH Santos Trek: The Georges Petition Edition

Octogenarian icon George Takei joins the chorus of calls for Rep. Santos’ resignation

attention on social media, and had surpassed its 25,000-signature goal by January 26.

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With nearly a full month of U.S. Congressional participation behind him, Representative George Santos (NY-03) seems to be staying the course in terms of smiling in public, making headlines, and being mostly (but not always) reticent about criticism and allegations against him.

However, such reticence from Santos and many of his peers in the House hasn’t stopped veteran actor, activist, and Star Trek: The Original Series star George Takei from taking a stand.

In late January, Takei started a petition calling for Santos’ resignation, calling the 34-year-old apparent Republican a “pathological liar” and “[a]nother George in the news.”

The petition, entitled “Get That ‘Other’ George Out of Congress,” quickly picked up

“I’m posting this petition because while there are very few things Democrats and Republicans can agree on, one of them should be that someone who has lied about everything in his life—his education, his jobs, his marriage, his finances, even being a college champion volleyball player, say what?—has no business being in Congress,” Takei wrote in the description of his online petition.

“I know we need two-thirds of Congress to agree, and that’s a tall order in a narrowly divided House. But if we don’t demand it, we’ll never get it.”

Whether or not they sign onto Takei’s petition, Nassau County voters do seem like they’re still feeling the sting of the Santos situation.

To put it in terms of Star Trek: The Next Generation, it seems fair to say that some

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Future Port Jefferson LIRR Electrification Has No Juice

Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2023 State of the State speech and accompanying 275 page book omitted any reference to the proposed $3.6 billion LIRR Port Jefferson electrification project.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s February 7th Public Hearing for potential Federal Transit Administration funding of their 2023 Program of Projects also omits funding to advance this project. The FTA will be providing close to $1.8 billion under various formula and competitive discretionary grant programs in 2023. Here is the link to the MTA February 7th Public Hearing for their upcoming 2023 Program of Projects.https://new.mta.info/ document/103001. By not including this project in the February 7th Public Hearing, is it the MTA’s intent to continue delaying consideration for electrification?

What ever happened to the MTA planning feasibility study funded under the prior $32 billion 20152019 Capital Plan to look into the feasibility of electrification?

Additional funding to advance the project beyond the planning study is not included in the MTA current $51 billion 2020 - 2024 Five

PENNER STATION

Year Capital Plan. The next step would be finding several million to pay for a federal National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) review. This is necessary to preserve future eligibility for FTA funding. The most obvious source of funding from Washington would be requesting permission from the FTA to enter its national competitive discretionary Capital Investment Grant (CIG) New Starts Core Capacity Program. Has the MTA asked this of the FTA? Will this project be included in the next FTA CIG report submitted to Congress by March 2023 for federal fiscal year 2024?

We will not know if the project is included in the proposed MTA 2025 - 2044 Twenty Year Capital Needs Assessment Plan until it is released in October 2023. Port Jefferson electrification is competing against twenty other system expansion and enhancement projects that the MTA is considering.

Electrification of the Port Jefferson branch has been advocated since the 1960s by generations of elected officials with no success. In 1970, electrification was extended from Mineola to Huntington. In the 1980s, discussions took place between the MTA, LIRR, Suffolk County and many elected officials over which branch should be electrified first. The Ronkonkoma branch was selected over the Port Jefferson branch.

Without electrification east of Huntington, Port Jefferson branch riders will not have a one seat ride to Grand Central Madison via the $12.6 billion East Side Access project. There is insufficient height clearance to accommodate duel mode locomotives in the 63rd Street tunnel needed for access to Grand Central Madison.

A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT FOR LONG ISLAND

Sands, the world leader in developing integrated resorts, is proposing a multi-billion-dollar investment at the current site of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. This groundbreaking, world-class hospitality and entertainment project will be transformational for the Long Island economy, creating thousands of quality union jobs and generating millions of dollars in tax revenue.

A HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY FOR LONG ISLAND BUSINESSES

Sands is committed to developing long-term partnerships with local businesses. For Long Island-based manufacturers, distributors, wholesale suppliers and other companies servicing the hospitality and entertainment industries, the Sands project will be an unprecedented opportunity to grow your business and be part of what will surely become an iconic centerpiece of the Long Island landscape.

Thousands of daily LIRR riders from diesel territory will still have to change at Jamaica for travel to Grand Central Madison or Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn.

Future opportunity for funding to progress this project beyond a planning study will be under upcoming MTA 2025 - 2029, 2030 - 2034 and 2035 -2039 Five Year Capital Plans. The estimated cost today is $3.6 billion, and will continue to grow over time. This is necessary to pay for design and engineering, environmental review, land acquisition for construction of power sub stations,

expansion of commuter parking, potential relocation and/or consolidation of existing stations, new stations and platforms, new electric Multiple Unit car storage yard, new track, third rail and signals. From start to finish could require fifteen to twenty years. before electrification of the Port Jefferson branch is completed. —Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously served as a former Director for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office of Operations and Program Management

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EastLine Theatre Brings Angels In America To Long Island

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, is a two-part, Pulitzer prize-winning play written by Tony Kushner. It was first performed in 1991, and it follows a gay man who was abandoned by his lover when he contracts HIV, the crumbling of a closeted Mormon’s marriage whose wife is slowly entering a nervous breakdown, a mother’s search for her son in the big city and a nurse who tends to a corrupt lawyer who battles the ghosts of his past.

EastLine Theatre, based in Wantagh, will be putting both parts of this show on at the BACCA Center in Lindenhurst throughout the month of February. It is believed to be the first performance of Angels in America on Long Island.

Long Island Weekly on Jan. 20 sat down via Zoom with Nicole Savin, Eastline’s co-artistic director, Danny Higgins, the director of “Angels in America,” actress Thea Kraus who is playing character Harper Pitt and actor Logan Clingan, who is playing character Prior Walter.

“[Angels in America] is one of the greatest plays ever written,” Higgins said. “It is ambition, for what it requires, and the possibility of doing it in our local community, which is has never been done, checked a lot of boxes for us. EastLine is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. All

roads led to Angels in America.”

It’s been a longtime coming for all those involved with “Angels in America,” as the planning for the production began a year ago. Auditions were held in July, and rehearsals, with just how lengthy this production is, began in September. And two weeks ahead of the Feb. 4 premiere, cast and crew moved into the BAACA Center for technical rehearsals.

“I think it’s exciting,” Clingan said when asked how they felt being weeks away from the premiere. “These characters are just once in a lifetime opportunities to play and even just from the first rehearsal, it slowly gets more anticipating as time goes on.”

Kraus echoed Clingan’s point, adding that its just as nerve wracking as it is exciting. She described her character, Harper Pitt, as an “agoraphobic Valium addict” and wacky.

“She’s sort of one of the people whose always on the outskirts of society,” Kraus said. “She approaches it with such, ‘yep, that’s who I am and there’s nothing I can do about it, and my life is falling apart in front of my eyes and there’s nothing I can do about it, but I’m handling it.’ And while she doesn’t do it gracefully, she does it. And that’s what matters.”

Clingan discussed their opening scene with their character, Prior Walter, who is telling their partner that he has AIDS.

“From there on out, Prior is physically going through a downward spiral, but tries the best to not let that hurt him emotionally and still has this positive, beautiful light that continues to radiate throughout the play, even when his boyfriend leaves him,” Clingan said. “He’s kind of suffering through this alone. He still finds light through these people he never met before,

through Harper and through [the character Hannah Pitt]. I think thats what I love about the role the most is that the trajectory is going through the darkest thing you could ever imagine going through, but still not letting it consume you.”

On the process of putting together this production, Higgins said that it first, it felt unobtainable in what it requires of the cast and the production team, who Higgins said is happily getting very little sleep.

“We have really tried to make Long Island the heart of our organization,” Savin reflected. “We feel that we as an island deserve culture, as high quality theater that the city can get and what’s different about is... that we are really trying to do works that you would otherwise not see on Long Island.”

To get tickets to see both parts of Angels in America, visit eastlinetheatre.org.

Julie Fergus, playing the Angel, rehearses a scene with Logan Clingan, who is playing Prior Walter.

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GAME DAY

History of Zorn’s

Best chicken wings

Cheese please

DINING

Preparing For The Big Chicken Wing Party?

Game day watchers are projected to eat more than a billion wings

BY ANTON MEDIA STAFF specialsections@antonmediagroup.com

Football fans might be surprised at the matchup, but one thing is not surprising: America’s love for chicken wings. This is never more apparent than on the final game day, when wings are at their hottest. Last year, Americans were anticipated to devour 1.42 billion wings while watching the the two final teams battle for the Lombardi Trophy, according the National Chicken Council’s (NCC) Wing Report.

“There will be no wing shortage,” said NCC spokesperson Tom Super. “Like almost anything else you buy right now, wings might be a little more expensive, but they’ll be stocked. I just wouldn’t wait until kickoff to be in line or order online.”

Last year, wholesale wing prices were down 19 percent from a mid-year high, according to USDA data. Retail wing prices are up about $0.30 per pound on average from the same time last year. Why the uptick? Many costs, like the price of chicken wings, have increased because of unusually high demand, record input costs, labor shortages that have reduced the supply of many goods, and government spending programs that have flooded the economy. Greater demand and less supply equals higher prices, ultimately resulting in the highest inflation that the country has seen in 40 years.

“Demand for chicken wings has been through the roof since the beginning of the pandemic,” Super added. “A shift from sit-down restaurants to takeout and quick service has boosted chicken wing consumption. Restaurants like wing joints and pizza places were built around takeout and delivery, and as long as people are sitting around watching TV and maybe drinking a beer, wings will remain in the game.”

To help meet increased demand last year, some chicken producers diverted birds traditionally marketed as whole birds for parts instead, like wings. More good news is the end-December frozen wing inventory totaled 73.2 million pounds, up 70 percent from last year, which should provide some cushion. Chicken companies, retailers and restaurants have planned ahead for the Big Game.

Maybe one day we can settle the debate over flats versus drums, but for now, editors at Anton Media Group, along with some of the most credible “Foodies” of the Facebook page Long Island Foodies, have shared their top picks for best local wings, in no particular order:

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza

• 137 Old Country Rd., Carle Place; 516-877-7750

• 3430 Sunrise Hwy., Wantagh; 516-679-2625

• 8063 Jericho Tpke., Woodbury; 516-367-2625

Brews Brothers Grille

• 183 Franklin Ave., Franklin Square; 516-216-5008

Brooklyn Wing House

• 2441 Jericho Tpke., Garden City Park; 516-636-5191

Changing Times Pub

• 1247 Melville Rd., Farmingdale; 631-694-6462

Croxley’s Ale House

National Chicken Council

• 129 New Hyde Park Rd., Franklin Square; 516-326-9542

• 190 Main St., Farmingdale; 516-293-7700

• 7 S. Park Ave., Rockville Centre; 516-764-0470

EGP Oceanside

• 2823 Long Beach Rd., Oceanside; 516-766-9547

Elsie Lane

• 29 Jericho Tpke., New Hyde Park; 516-302-8412

• 295 Main St., Huntington; 631- 824-6236

Greek Xpress

• 182 New Hyde Park Rd., Franklin Square; 516-502-6126

• 59 Main St., East Rockaway; 516-593-4949

• 37 Great Neck Rd., Great Neck Plaza; 516-570-6814

• 437 S. Oyster Bay Rd., Plainview; 516-433-8070

Haunted House of Hamburgers

• 330 Fulton St., Farmingdale; 516-777-1031

J. Paul’s Terrace Cafe

• 239 Merrick Rd., Oceanside; 516-536-1806

Jackie Reilly’s

• 3964 Hempstead Tpke., Bethpage; 516-731-7544

The Main Event

• 799 Old Country Rd., Plainview; 516-935-5120

• 1815 Broadhollow Rd., Farmingdale; 631-522-1030

Majors Steakhouse

• 284 E. Meadow Ave., East Meadow; 516-794-6600

NY Flying Wings

• 554 Stewart Ave., Bethpage; 516-433-2463

Smokin’ Al’s

• 847 Merrick Rd., Massapequa Park; 516-799-4900

Spanky’s Food Factory

• 2458 Jericho Tpke., Garden City Park; 516-280-8440

Via Roma Pizza

• 1764 Merrick Ave., Merrick; 516-868-2311

Wings Over Farmingdale

• 221 Main St., Farmingdale; 516-756-9464

Zorn’s of Bethpage

• 4321 Hempstead Tpke., Bethpage; 516-731-5500

—Compiled by Christy Hinko

Lemon-Pesto Chicken Wings

Ingredients

4 pounds chicken wings, tips removed

3/4 cup store-bought basil pesto

1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

1 lemon, zested and juiced

Preparation

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees.

2. Place wings in a single layer on a baking sheet. Place in oven and bake for 25-30 minutes or until wings are well browned and crispy.

3. While wings are roasting, combine pesto, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, and lemon zest (the peel without any of the white pith) in a bowl large enough to hold all wings.

4. When wings are finished, remove from oven and place in pesto mixture. Toss to coat well.

Nutritional information, per serving: 420 calories; 27 g fat; 7 g saturated fat; 5 g carbohydrate;

2 g fiber; 40 g protein. Serves four.

—National Chicken Council

A Delicious Long Island Heritage

The history of Zorn’s of Bethpage

Zorn’s has been making delicious homemade food since 1940 when Peter Zorn opened his first retail store on Long Island. His vision was to offer wholesome, made-from-scratch meals using the freshest ingredients that busy families could take home with them, creating one of New York’s first take-out services. We are proud to be listed on the New York State Historic Business Preservation Registry which honors businesses that have been in operation for at least 50 years and have contributed to their communities’ history.

In the 1930s, prior to the retail business in Bethpage, the Zorn family owned seven poultry farms on Long Island selling chickens and turkeys to wholesalers in Queens and the Bronx. At the time the Bethpage area was primarily farmland.

A short time after, he added his soon-to-be-famous southern fried chicken and bar-b-que spare ribs. This turned into a thriving take-out business. His menu kept growing as he met his customers’ needs. Before long he had a complete catering menu serving Long Island families all year long. Take-out meals and catering were new concepts in the 1950s and became very popular on Long Island. Many tried to imitate this concept, but Zorn’s Poultry Farms was always number one.

Today Zorn’s is owned and operated by Merrill S. Zorn, Peter Zorn’s only granddaughter, who grew up working in all aspects of the family business.

“We use the same recipes and cooking methods as my grandfather. Some of our traditions are looked upon as old-fashioned by today’s standards, but this is how we maintain our high quality and consistency. The value of our generous portions, personalized customer service, quality ingredients, and our family recipes have made our business a success,” said Merrill. “There is always a Zorn in the kitchen making sure that the original recipes passed down from my grandparents, are still prepared with the same quality and pride that they were 80 years ago!”

Zorn’s of Bethpage has transformed several times over the past 80 + years. For decades it was home to a functioning poultry farm and thousands of chickens and turkeys. In 2019, Merrill took on a massive undertaking by moving the entire business into a brand new 8,000 sq. ft. store at the same address in Bethpage. She was personally involved in the design of the new building and listened to customers’ ideas and suggestions

resulting in a beautiful new space with a dining area inside and out, as well as bathrooms for their patrons.

The new building pays tribute to the history of Zorn’s with historic photos and memorabilia used as décor.

“We kept our story alive not just for our family, but for our community and our staff, and we couldn’t be happier with how well the transition went, and all the love and support we were shown throughout the process,” Merrill added.

Inside Zorns retail store in the 1950s.

From left to right: Poppy and Nanna in the 1950s; Poppy with Merrill in the 1960s; and Merrill

Our new building on the original Bethpage property.

Skeeter.

From the original poultry farm in the 1930s, to our thriving retail store today.

Merrill was personally involved in the design of the new building and listened to customers’ ideas and suggestions.

Score Big With

Buffalo ranch popcorn

Nothing blasts the winter blues like gathering your favorite fans to watch the Big Game.

Good friends, a giant flat screen TV and fantastic food make it worth everyone’s while to come out of hibernation. Remember, though, under those football jerseys and team tees is your beach body — and yes, Memorial Day is just three short months away.

Happily, there are options that will get you swimsuit ready without skimping on Game Day flavor. Of course, there’s always the standard veggie platter (skip the dip!). But gathering with friends to watch the Big Game is a time-honored tradition that comes with its own special menu, at the top of which is an American favorite: Buffalo wings.

Named for their birthplace of Buffalo, New York, these bad boys are a staple of Game Day gatherings everywhere. But six of them will set you back more than 400 calories. Add ranch or blue cheese dressing and in you’re in for at least a couple hundred more.

This year, shake out the fat and calories by pairing spicy Buffalo taste with another American classic: popcorn.

A healthful whole grain (fiber), naturally low in fat, popcorn delivers the satisfying crunch your guests crave. This easy-to make Buffalo Ranch Seasoning Mix lets you sprinkle the crowd-pleasing flavor of wings on top of a heart-healthy snack that won’t bring regrets on the scale come Monday morning. Touchdown!

Blazing Buffalo Ranch Seasoning Mix

Perfect for game time and super easy to make, you’ll be the hit at any tailgating party. Yield: about 2 tablespoons seasoning mix

Ingredients

1 tablespoon ranch dressing or dip mix (from a 1 ounce package)

1 tablespoon seafood spice mix (or celery salt)

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon powdered sugar (or sugar)

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon vegetable oil

6 quarts popped popcorn

Cooking spray, optional

Directions

In a small bowl, blend ranch dressing mix, spice mix, garlic powder, powdered sugar and cayenne pepper. Sprinkle with vegetable oil and blend until well incorporated. Place popcorn in a serving bowl and spray lightly with cooking spray. Sprinkle seasoning mix over popcorn to taste and toss. Store leftover seasoning mix in an airtight container for future use.

Nutrition Facts

45 calories

2.5 g total fat

0 g saturated fat

0 mg cholesterol

35 mg sodium

5 g carbohydrates

1 g fiber

0 g sugar

1 g protein

20 mg potassium

—The Popcorn Board

How To Cut And Serve Cheese

How to cut cheese may seem obvious, but there are many ways to improve your cheeseboard with a bit of creativity around your cheeses. Here, we’ll explore some ways to cut your cheese and the possibilities it opens up. But to get started, we recommend watching Chef Greg Gable’s video on how to make a perfect cheeseboard (www.cheeselovershop.com).

Choose an appropriate knife to cut your cheese

Different cheeses require different cutting techniques, to keep the cheese’s shape intact. For example, hard cheese needs to be cut with a sharp knife (or you simply won’t manage to cut it). However, if you try to cut a soft, ripened cheese with a sharp knife, the rind may stick to the edge, and your cheese may end up losing its shape. For soft, ripened cheese, use a knife with no edge, such as a butter knife. In the same vein, a crumbly cheese tends to stick to the blade, even with hollow-edged knives. The best way to keep its shape intact and ensure better visual appeal is to use a wire slicer.

The horizontal cut, both appealing and practical

Often, cheese is cut into slices, pretty much like a pie. However, you can choose to slice it horizontally, which gives you three main benefits:

• It makes the creamy paste more apparent, which gives a unique visual appeal, for example, to Saint André cheese.

• It allows some hard rubs, such as a granola rub, to be used on your cheese;

while this type of rub doesn’t normally stick to the rind, it will stick to the paste of your cheese.

• For your gratins and the like, a horizontal cut allows the rind to be spread more evenly, for a better crust.

If you want to cut your cheese horizontally and still serve it in a practical format to your guests, you can combine the two cuts, and cut the cheese into slices after separating the two halves. This combination is appealing for the flower-shaped Dorothy’s cheeses, in order to make beautiful petal-shaped slices.

Other ways to present your cheese

Some cheeses are better served whole, to be cut at the table. However, most cheeseboards look prettier if the hard cheeses are pre-cut. Depending on the shape of your slices, the best choice for presentation may differ. For rectangular cheeses, present your slices spread in an arc, like a fan of playing cards. For triangular slices, try stacking them up—just make sure that every edge faces the same way for a better effect.

Gable is the research chef for Savencia Cheese USA. Visit www.cheeselovershop. com to read more from Gable.

—Savencia Cheese USA

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Heart Healthy Treats For Valentine’s Day

BY TINA MCGEOUGH specialsections@antonmediagroup.com

Who doesn’t love sharing a sweet treat with a loved one on Valentine’s Day. With February also being American Heart Month, here are a few ways you can show your loved ones, and their hearts, some love with sweet, heart-healthy ideas.

Dates

For candy bar lovers—stuffed dates can taste like your favorite one.

To make them, simply split the date in half and remove the pit. Stuff the inside with peanut butter and drizzle the top with melted chocolate. Then, sprinkle on peanuts and pop into the fridge until the chocolate has hardened.

The combination of fiber, protein and healthy fat can also help make a meal or snack more filling and satisfying, and you’re getting all three here. You can swap out the peanut butter for any nut butter of choice or for an allergy friendly swap, use sunflower butter.

Dates can also be used to make betterfor-you brownie bites.

Blend dates with oats, nut butter and

cocoa powder for a chocolatey treat with less added sugar than your typical brownie. Plus, you’ll also be getting some hearthealthy fiber from the dates and wholegrain oats. Many whole grains, including oats, contain a type of fiber, called beta glucan, which may help lower cholesterol levels.

another Valentine’s favorite, but often contain ingredients that our hearts don’t love, such as added sugar. Instead of chocolate frosting, frost your cupcakes with chocolate hummus.

Chocolate hummus is rich, creamy and has that delicious chocolatey sweet flavor you’re looking for, but nearly three times less added sugar than a typical chocolate frosting.

You can also use chocolate hummus as a sweet dip for a snacking board. A mix of berries, almonds, pretzels and chocolate hummus is a fun way to pair sweet and savory treats.

Fruit Dessert

Blueberry Pie Foil Packet can be made in less than 20 minutes.

Mix blueberries, applesauce and cornstarch in one bowl, and olive oil, cinnamon, granola and salt in another. Spoon the blueberry mixture into cooking spray-lined aluminum foil and top with granola mixture. Fold the foil over the filling and cook in the oven at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, or until the blueberries have burst.

Granola: The first ingredient in this granola is whole grain oats which are a heart healthy pick. Many whole grains, including oats, contain a type of fiber, called beta glucan, which may help lower cholesterol levels.

Blueberries: Berries are packed with heart-healthy fiber and antioxidants.

Hummus

Sweet treats like cake or cupcakes are

About 80 percent of Americans don’t meet recommended fruit intakes, so fruit-forward desserts are a great way to satisfy a sweet tooth, while also bumping up daily fruit intake. This simple

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—Tina McGeough is a registered dietician for Stop & Shop.

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Bringing The Goods To Market

Local farmer’s market moves indoors for winter

BY CHRISTY HINKO chinko@antonmediagroup.com

Although winter has been overly kind this season, the weekend farmer’s market in Great Neck has moved inside the Great Neck House through the end of March in order to help vendors continue to bring the goods to market. Shoppers are showing their appreciation for this sheltered event by continuing to frequent the market, week after week.

The venue may be small, but there is no shortage of neat treats and cool finds such as doggie bandanas, kitty bowties, essential oils, farm-fresh vegetables, intriguing horseradish blends, barbecue sauces and rubs, baked goods, gourmet pickles and cheeses, specialty coffees and local honey.

Some of the recent vendors include:

• Brian’s House of Spices

• All Baked Up of Sayville

• The Illegal Baker of Huntington

• Zippy Pets

• Qua Zay Culinary Services

• Italian Wife Bakes of Brooklyn

• The Cheese Guy of Yonkers

• Koltuk’s Honey, LLC

• Dobler Farms of Deer Park

• Horman’s Best Pickles of Glen Cove

• Diesel Cold Brew of Brooklyn

• Johnny Breads

• Brooklyn Essence, LLC

It is seemingly so popular with vendors also, many on a bi-weekly rotation, in order to accommodate all of the selling space requests. If you find something you love, check with the vendor to find out their next scheduled selling date, to coordinate your follow-up shopping adventure.

The indoor winter market, a collaborative event between Great Neck Park District and Deep Roots Farmers Market, runs Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through March 26 at Great Neck House (14 Arrandale Ave., Great Neck).

Visit www.gnparks.org for details.

Horman’s Best Pickles

Brooklyn Essence, LLC

Koltuk’s Honey, LLC

The Cheese Guy

All Baked Up

THe Illegal Baker

Photos by Christy Hinko

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Most Popular Cuisines In America

A new study has revealed that Chinese food is the most internet-searched cuisine in the United States, according to Google search data.

The research, conducted by experts at www.foodfirefriends.com, analyzed Google search data related to the 40 most popular cuisines in the world in different U.S. states, to find out what cuisines Americans search for (and eat) the most.

1. Chinese food

Known all over the world, Chinese food is certainly one of everyone’s most loved

cuisines. With an average of more than 3.35 million searches per month in the U.S. only, Chinese is Americans’ absolute favorite food.

2. Mexican food

With an average of 1.22 million Google searches in the USA, Mexican is Americans’ second most favorite food. Known for its spices and hot sauces, this cuisine is sought-after and appreciated globally.

3. Thai food

Thai food is third in the ranking. With

more than 823,000 monthly Google searches in the USA, Thai remains one of Americans’ first choices when it comes to foreign cuisines.

4. Indian food

Registering an average of 673,000 Google searches, Indian food is the fourth most Googled food in America.

5. Korean food

Another Asian cuisine features in fifth. Showing an average of 246,000 Google searches in the U.S., Korean food is the

fifth most popular cuisine in the States, followed by Japanese (with an average of 201,000 Google searches per month in the U.S.), and soul food (201,000).

Greek, Italian and Hawaiian food follow in the ranking with an average of 165,000, 165,000 and 90,500 searches in the U.S.

The study was conducted by foodfirefriends.com, which is dedicated to helping users grill and barbecue better, by offering practical guides, recipes, and advice on all aspects of outdoor cooking.

—Food Fire Friends

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This fully gutted Colonial at 8 Mullon Ave. in Baxter Estates sold on Dec. 5 for $990,000. This property features an open layout living space and generously proportioned rooms throughout, boasts four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Upon entering, you are welcomed by the bright and airy living and dining rooms with a fireplace. The gourmet kitchen features a breakfast bar with a granite top, custom cabinets, premium stainless steel appliances, and a sliding door leading to the backyard and guest house with an extra garage. The second floor features the master bedroom with ensuite bathroom and a walk-in closet and two additional bedrooms and a full bathroom. The full basement provides spacious space for recreation and storage. It is connected to the garage with a separate entrance. The property is conveniently located in the heart of the sought-after section of Port Washington, one block from the train station, parks, shopping, dining and more.

This home at 48 Hillview Ave. in the Baxter Estates section of Port Washington sold on Dec. 28 for $777,500. Its charming front porch greets you to this three bedroom Village Colonial located less than a mile to downtown shops and restaurants. Enter into light-filled living room with brick wood burning fireplace and detailed leaded glass windows. The dining room leads to kitchen complete with gas cooking, Corian counters and Merilatt cabinetry. The second floor encompasses the bedrooms including the spacious master bedroom. The home has two bathrooms. The home has a detached one-car garage, new central air conditioning and hardwood floors throughout. It is conveniently located to all amenities including being located within a half of a mile to the train station. It is approximately three miles from the town beaches.

HOME & DESIGN Heat Your Home Safely Space heaters are a top cause of home fires during winter

This winter is projected to be a cold and bitter one, with many regions already experiencing record chills and snowfall. The Firefighters Association of the State of New York (FASNY) reminds New Yorkers to follow some essential safety tips when heating their homes this winter.

Fire departments usually see an uptick in home fires during the winter. Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure and poisonings also increase during these months.

“There is an increased risk of home fires and carbon monoxide poisoning this time of year as residents use space heaters, portable heating sources, gas furnaces, and fireplaces to heat their homes,” said FASNY President Edward Tase, Jr. “We encourage New Yorkers to take proper precautions when they heat their homes this season.”

According to the National Fire Prevention Association, heating equipment is the second leading cause of home fires and the third leading cause of home fire deaths. Space heaters are the type of equipment most often involved in home heating equipment fires, accounting for more than two of every five fires (44 percent), as well as the vast majority of deaths and injuries in home fires caused by heating equipment.

Homeowners should keep space heaters a safe distance from combustible materials, such as curtains, bedding, and

upholstered furniture. To prevent CO exposure and poisoning, avoid the indoor use of unvented gas-burning appliances, unvented gas or wood-burning stoves, and unvented fireplaces.

Home heating tips

• Keep anything that can burn at least three feet away from heating equipment.

• Have a three-foot “kid-free zone” around open fires and space heaters.

• Never use your oven to heat your home.

• Install stationary space heating equipment, water heaters or central heating equipment according to the local codes and manufacturer’s instructions by qualified professionals.

• Have heating equipment and chimneys cleaned and inspected every year by a qualified professional.

• Turn portable heaters off when leaving the room or going to bed.

• Use the right kind of fuel specified by the manufacturer, for fuel-burning space heaters.

• All fuel-burning equipment should be vented to the outside.

• Make sure the fireplace has a sturdy screen to stop sparks from flying into the room. Ashes should be cool before putting them in a metal container. Keep the container a safe distance away from your home.

• Test smoke alarms at least once a month.

Homes shown here represent closed sales, sold by a variety of agencies and are selected for their interest to readers by the Anton Media Group editor. Except where noted, data and photos are provided courtesy of Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, Inc. and Zillow.

Love Where You Live

locals might feel like they voted for Data but got Lore instead.

Recent Highlights:

• In late January, Bowen Yang portrayed Santos in the congressman’s younger drag persona and in his current sweater-and-tie look on Saturday Night Live.

• Reps. Gregory Meeks and Joe Morelle of New York, the ranking members on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Administration Committee, respectively, have pushed to deny Santos access to classified materials. Axios noted, “Santos is not likely to be regularly exposed to classified information as a member of the Small Business Committee and the Science, Space and

Technology Committee, but lawmakers still face few barriers in accessing classified information.”

• On January 24, after bringing coffee and donuts for reporters waiting at his office, “Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed,” reported The Daily Beast. “But new campaign finance filings first reported by [the site] did not shed light on where the funds actually came from,” noted The Guardian

• On Twitter, Santos weighed in on Iran: “I support the freedom protesters in #Iran 100%. I will do everything in my power to help end the reign of terror plaguing their lives. #Freedom”

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In Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series and films, Brent Spiner portrayed the iconic android Data (left) and, at times, also his ‘evil brother’ Lore.

Las Vegas Sands Launches Website To Grow Community Engagement On Resort Proposal

Las Vegas Sands announced the launch of SandsNewYork.com, a new website created to share information on the project, encourage community collaboration, and directly engage local Long Islanders on their ideas, questions, and concerns.

“Sands is excited to take another meaningful step in connecting with community members. It has been a lot of fun to connect with our grassroots community leaders, some of which I grew up with and graduated high school with, and have real conversations on this transformational project, former New York State Governor and Sands Senior Vice President David Paterson said. “We welcome more community conversations that lead to even deeper local partnerships.” The website includes a page for small business owners, briefly describing the company’s local priorities and procurement processes, as well as a form for those seeking supplier opportunities. Additionally, it includes a Community Voices page, where quotes are displayed from local leaders and stakeholders who are supportive of the project, and in favor of community collaboration on

the proposal.

“We are not here to convince, we are here to collaborate. We are thrilled at the unprecedented amount of support we have received on this project from the local communities and we look forward to hearing from more Long Islanders who want to get involved,” said Ron Reese, senior vice president of global communications and corporate affairs for Las Vegas Sands. “SandsNewYork.com gives them a direct line to our team on the ground, and will empower communities to take advantage of all the opportunities this project represents.”

—Submitted by Las Vegas Sands

An artist’s rendering of the entertainment complex at the current site of the Nassau Hub and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. (Submitted photo)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Young children can have di culty distinguishing between subjective worlds in their heads and the objective world we share. ey sometimes believe their thoughts can directly cause things to happen. It’s not all wrong. oughts do change things, but only when combined by action, as you’ll prove this week.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Getting where you’re supposed to be will not require you to be assertive this week, so you can relax knowing that if it’s the right door, it will open for you without work. It’s safe to make yourself like water, nding the path of least resistance. You’ll interact especially well with Scorpio and Pisces.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Many of the week’s interactions are based in an implicit social contract, the details of which may be di erent to each person involved. Since the speci cs of a “deal” are never talked about, it takes a lot of paying attention to gather and live up to what they are. You win loyalty making every e ort in this regard.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Who is on your side? You, hopefully. Who else? Look around to see who is onboard with support for your goals. More importantly, who is onboard with support of you, just as you are, goals notwithstanding? Your support system should include people who don’t require you to be or do anything to be loved.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You can’t grow as a person without growing in awareness. New possibilities open when you can see, feel and know more. You welcome all chances to improve, even if they involve a moment of humility. No one said it would be comfortable. e opportunity to learn what you were doing wrong and correct it is a gift.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). What you pursue will run from you, and that’s just nature. e animals get around it. e lion stalks, the alligator sinks below the surface, the spider works on auspicious positioning then waits. You’ll think of your own less than obvious method of getting your prize and be quite e ective this week.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You eventually gure out what you’re supposed to do and do it. Whatever sort of false starts, missteps and confusion that happens before that is simply what it took to bring you onto the journey. How you got there will be a dim and inconsequential memory. It’s what you do when you get there that matters.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your way will be made light this week, mostly by your own excellent attitude. You may compromise because it would be harder for the others involved to do the same. Still, it won’t be worth it unless you can do it gladly with love and nonchalance. Don’t put yourself in a position to be resentful further down the road.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re so good at getting along with di erent types of people that you will nd yourself in the role of a human bridge between people who otherwise wouldn’t get along without you. In the spirit of tolerance, you’ll set a ne example and bring harmony to the scene.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). e limits and rules you’ve set are quite reasonable considering your scene and the sort of people in it, therefore you won’t have to do much to enforce your boundaries. But this isn’t a “set it and forget it” kind of plan. Check back as things change. Be ready to make new systems for di erent seasons.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). ere are many wonderful things that come with you being you, just how you are right now and exactly how your mind and body are in this moment. Focusing on your uniqueness as an asset will put you in the mindset to maximize your gifts. e world will want to celebrate you, so let them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Just in case someone out there is wondering how they can be a better friend to you, model the behavior you’d most love to receive. You’ve been there for yourself all along and know exactly how you want the world to support you. e more you give yourself what you need, the quicker others will be to follow suit.

THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS

ere’s a peace, a grace, a slow ease to the unfolding of this year. Serenity isn’t a butter y you’ll have to chase with a net because, in your many contemplative moments, it will land on your still shoulder. You will invent what helps you and end up helping many others. Mutual love and respect lead to adventurous plans with your favorite people. More highlights include a favorable international exchange, the sale of something old and an event you throw that’s the talk of the town.

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Cove Cruise

Dalby

Dancing

Dawn Eton

Fine

Fraser Island

Gore

Hats

Humidity

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Going against the grain

At the second table, declarer did not cover the ten of clubs with dummy’s jack at trick one, following low instead. East had to play the eight (an honor would have cost a trick), whereupon South contributed the deuce!

West could do no better than to exit with a trump, whereupon South won, drew trump and played the ace and another club to establish the suit. When East now returned the diamond ten, declarer rose with the ace, led a club to the nine and discarded his remaining diamond on dummy’s last club to make his game.

lead — ten of clubs.

deal occurred in a team-offour match. Both North-South pairs reached four spades, and both Wests led the ten of clubs.

At the first table, declarer made the natural play of covering the ten with the jack. East played the queen, and South won with the ace and drew the opposing trumps. He then led a small club, hoping to quickly establish a discard for his diamond loser.

But East took the club nine with the king and returned the ten of diamonds. Whatever South did from this point on, he had to lose a diamond, a heart and another club to East’s eight for down one.

In finding the winning play, declarer reasoned that West’s lead was either a singleton or from the doubleton 10-8, marking East with both club honors. West was therefore virtually certain to have the king of diamonds for his two-heart overcall.

Next, whether West had one or two clubs, no harm could come from refusing to play the jack on the first trick. If East produced an honor card, declarer could win the trick, while if East produced the eight — proving that the ten was a singleton and that South would have to lose two clubs no matter what he did — the trick could be conceded in order to keep West on lead. This gave declarer the time he needed to set up the clubs before the opponents could establish a diamond trick.

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NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT COUN-

TY OF NASSAU, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR HOLDERS OF THE FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF7, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF7, Plaintiff, vs. ORNA NACHIMOVSKY, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on November 3, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on February 14, 2023 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 23 Gilchrest Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Great Neck in the Town of North Hempstead , County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 2, Block 334 and Lot 60. Approximate amount of judgment is $2,231,217.90 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #100/2014. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. Richard Langone, Esq., Referee Eckert Seamans Cherin Mellott, LLC, 10 Bank Street, Suite 700, White Plains, New York 10606, Attorneys for Plaintiff 2-1; 1-25-18-11-2023-4T#237010-GN

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., f/k/a The Bank of New York Trust Co., N.A., as Trustee, for Chase Mortgage Finance Trust Multi-Class

Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-A1, Plaintiff AGAINST Elham Aghajani, Shahram Aghajani, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered June 4, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on February 28, 2023 at 2:00PM, premises known as 62-64 Forest Row, Great Neck, NY 11024. All that certain plot piece or parcel

of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Great Neck, Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, SECTION: 1, BLOCK: 106-02, LOT: 110. Approximate amount of judgment $741,441.54 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #24422/2009. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Office of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2. nycourts.gov/Admin/oca.shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the foreclosure auction. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Todd

E. Houslanger, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-080470-F00 74613

2-15-8-1; 1-25-2023-4T#237384-GN

LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE OF NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER’S SALE OF TAX LIENS ON REAL ESTATE

Notice is hereby given that commencing on February 21st, 2023, will sell at public on-line auction the tax liens on certain real estate, unless the owner, mortgagee, occupant of or any other party in interest in such real estate shall have paid to the County Treasurer by February 16th, 2023 the total amount of such unpaid taxes or assessments with the interest, penalties and other expenses and charges against the property. Such tax liens will be sold at the lowest rate of interest, not exceeding 10 percent per six-month period, for which any person or persons shall offer to take the total amount of such unpaid taxes as defined in Section 5-37.0 of the Nassau County Administrative Code.

Effective with the February 2019 lien sale Ordinance No. 175-2015 requires a $175.00 per day registration fee for each person who intends to bid at the tax lien sale.

Ordinance No. 175-2015 also requires that upon the issuance of the Lien Certificate there is due from the lien buyer a Tax Certificate Issue Fee of $20.00 per lien purchased. Pursuant to the provisions of the Nassau County Administrative Code at the discretion of the Nassau County Treasurer the auction will be conducted online. Further information concerning the procedures for the auction is available at the

LEGAL NOTICES

website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: https://www.nassaucountyny. gov/526/County-Treasurer

Should the Treasurer determine that an in-person auction shall be held, same will commence on the 21st day of February 2023 at the Office of The County Treasurer 1 West Street, Mineola or at some other location to be determined by the Treasurer.

A list of all real estate in Nassau County on which tax liens are to be sold is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: https://www.nassaucoun tyny.gov/527/Annual-

Tax-Lien-Sale

A list of local properties upon which tax liens are to be sold will be advertised in this publication on or before February 08th, 2023.

Nassau County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to or access to, or treatment or employment in, its services, programs, or activities. Upon request, accommodations such as those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in all services, programs, activities and public hearings and events conducted by the Treasurer’s Office. Upon request, information can be made available in Braille, large print, audio-tape or other alternative formats. For additional information, please call (516) 571-2090 ext. 1-3715.

Dated: January 25, 2023

THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER

Mineola, NewYork TERMS OF SALE

Such tax liens shall be sold subject to any and all superior tax liens of sovereignties and other municipalities and to all claims of record which the County may have thereon and subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts. However, such tax liens shall have priority over the County’s Differential Interest Lien, representing the excess, if any, of the interest and penalty borne at the maximum rate over the interest and penalty borne at the rate at which the lien is purchased.

The Purchaser acknowledges that the tax lien(s) sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale may be subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or may become subject to such proceedings which may be commenced during the period in which a tax lien is held by a successful bidder or the assignee of same, which may modify a Purchaser’s rights with respect to the lien(s) and the property securing same.

Such bankruptcy proceedings shall not affect the validity of the tax lien. In addition to being subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts, said purchaser’s right of foreclosure may be affected by the

Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act(FIRREA),12 U.S.C. ss 1811 et.seq., with regard to real property under Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC) receivership.

The County Treasurer reserves the right, without further notice and at any time, to withdraw from sale any of the parcels of land or premises herein listed. The Nassau County Treasurer reserves the right to intervene in any bankruptcy case/litigation where the property affected by the tax liens sold by the Treasurer is part of the bankruptcy estate. However, it is the sole responsibility of all tax lien purchasers to protect their legal interests in any bankruptcy case affecting their purchased tax lien, including but not limited to the filing of a proof of claim on their behalf, covering their investment in said tax lien. The Nassau County Treasurer and Nassau County and its agencies, assumes no responsibility for any legal representation of any tax lien purchaser in any legal proceeding including but not limited to a bankruptcy case where the purchased tax lien is at risk.

The rate of interest and penalty at which any person purchases the tax lien shall be established by his bid. Each purchaser, immediately after the sale thereof, shall pay to the County Treasurer ten per cent of the amount for which the tax liens have been sold and the remaining ninety per cent within thirty days after such sale. If the purchaser at the tax sale shall fail to pay the remaining ninety per cent within ten days after he has been notified by the County Treasurer that the certificates of sale are ready for delivery, then all amounts deposited with the County Treasurer including but not limited to the ten per cent theretofore paid by him shall, without further notice or demand, be irrevocably forfeited by the purchaser and shall be retained by the County Treasurer as liquidated damages and the agreement to purchase shall be of no further effect. Time is of the essence in this sale. This sale is held pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code and interested parties are referred to such Code for additional information as to terms of the sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale.

Furthermore, as to the bidding,

1. The bidder(s) agree that they will not work with any other bidder(s) to increase, maintain or stabilize interest rates or collaborate with any other bidder(s) to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the random number generator in the event of a tie bid(s) on a tax certificate. Bidder(s) further agree not to employ any bidding strategy designed to create an unfair competitive

advantage in the tiebreaking process in the upcoming tax sale nor work with any other bidder(s) to engage in any bidding strategy that will result in a rotational award of tax certificates.

2. The tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) bid, will be arrived at independently and without direct or indirect consultation, communication or agreement with any other bidder and that the tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) to be bid, have not been disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder, and will not be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder prior to the close of bidding. No attempt has been made or will be made to, directly or indirectly, induce any other bidder to refrain from bidding on any tax certificate, to submit complementary bids, or to submit bids at specific interest rates.

3. The bids to be placed by the Bidder will be made in good faith and not pursuant to any direct or indirect, agreement or discussion with, or inducement from, any other bidder to submit a complementary or other noncompetitive bid.

4. If it is determined that the bidder(s) have violated any of these bid requirements then their bid shall be voided and if they were the successful bidder the lien and any deposits made in connection with said bid shall be forfeited.

Dated: January 25, 2023

THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, New York 2-1; 1-25-2023-2T-#237560GN

LEGAL NOTICE

The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Great Neck is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran status, political affiliation, disability or genetic information (in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act) with respect to employment opportunities.

2-1-20231T-#237770-GN

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Lehman Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass Through Certificates Series 2006-8, Plaintiff AGAINST Ramin Gidanian; Nazanin Kohan a/k/a Nazanin Gidanian; et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered October 3, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100

Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on March 8, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 106 Oxford Boulevard, Great Neck, NY 11023. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being near Great Neck, in the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 2 Block 353 Lot 15.

Approximate amount of judgment $824,300.63 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 601724/2018. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies

Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Desiree L. Fusco, Esq., Referee

LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro Barak, LLC

Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792

Dated: January 12, 2023

2-22-15-8-1-2023-4T#237765-GN

LEGAL NOTICE INC. VILLAGE OF RUSSELL GARDENS

NOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTION

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that at the General Village Election to be held in the Inc. Village of Russell Gardens on June 20, 2023, the following office is to be filled for the term indicated:

One (1) Mayor, for a term of four (4) years.

DATED: 2/1/2023

DANIELLE PENNISE VILLAGE CLERK TREASURER AVISO LEGAL INC. PUEBLO DE JARDINES RUSSELL AVISO DE ELECCIÓN ANUAL

POR FAVOR, TOME NOTA en la Eleccion Municipal General de la Villa que se celebrarán en la Aldea Inc. de Jardines Russell, el 20 de Junio de 2023. Los siguientes cargos deben ser ocupados por los términos indicados: Un (1) alcade para un termino de cuatro (4) anos.

DANIELLE PENNISE

TESORERA DEL SECRETARIO DE LA ALDEA 2-1-2023-1T-#237965-GN

LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

Kensington Board of Appeals

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Kensington Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a public hearing on February th, 2023 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at 2 Nassau Drive, Great Neck NY to consider the following application:

David Bakst Applicant seeks to install a hot tub and to maintain an existing deck in the rear yard of the premises known as 35 Bridle Path, Great Neck, New York. Said premises is designated on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map as Section 2, Block 351, Lot 93 A B. The applicant seeks to install the hot tub with a 5’ 10” rear yard setback and the deck is proposed to be maintained with a 5’ 11” rear yard setback when a minimum of 15 feet is required under Kensington Code §151F. The applicant seeks to install the hot tub 2’ 2” from the lot line when a minimum of 10’ is required under Kensington Code §151-9 G. The applicant appeals the determination of the Building Department, and, in the alternative, seeks variances.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the application is on file at the Village Hall and may be inspected during regular business hours daily am. - 4 pm.

Anna Nardiello Deputy Clerk

Building Department 2-1-2023-1T-#238036-GN

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF TAX ROLL AND WAR-

RANT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned collector of taxes of the Inc. Village of Russell Gardens, in the County of Nassau, State of New York, has duly received the tax roll and warrant for collection of taxes within the Village of Russell Gardens for the Year 2023-2024, and that I will attend for the purpose of collecting taxes listed on the tax roll at Village Hall, 6 Tain Dr., Great Neck, New York 11021, from March 1, 2023 to April 1, 2023, during regular business hours: Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. except legal holidays.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that taxes will be received without interest by the collector officer on or before April 1, 2023. On all taxes received after such date, there shall be added interest of Five percent for the month of April and one percent for each month thereafter until paid. No partial payments of taxes may be made.

Dated: 2/1/2023

Danielle Pennise, V illage Clerk Treasurer Inc. Village of Russell Gardens

2-1-2023-1T-#238194-GN

Honoring Lou Bernardi For His Induction Into The NY Baseball Hall Of Fame

At the December meeting of the Nassau County Legislature, Lou Bernardi was presented with a Point of Personal Privilege award, in recognition of his recent selection for induction into the New York State Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023. Legislator Mazi Melesa Pilip presented Bernardi with the award.

Bernardi joins a list of baseball greats that includes legends such as Mickey Mantle, Keith Hernandez, Sandy Koufax and other distinguished players, coaches and writers that have been inducted since the inaugural class of 2011.

“Since starring as a pitcher at Herricks High School, Lou has dedicated his life to the game of baseball and he has accomplished so much already at such a young age,” Legislator Pilip said. “Besides the success he has had as a player and coach, Lou has given back to the community, serving as a mentor in numerous youth leagues and providing thousands of pieces of equipment to underprivileged youngsters so they can enjoy the game.”

An alumnus of Herricks High School’s Class of 2006, Bernardi played four seasons of Division I baseball at the New York Institute of Technology while studying criminology. He played professionally for several years before beginning his coaching journey and becoming an accomplished collegiate pitching coach. Bernardi, who enters his fifth year at Kings Point and

twelfth year coaching collegiate baseball, has been a member of Head Coach Michael Notebaert’s coaching staff as the Mariners’ Pitching Coach and Recruiting Coordinator since the 2019 season.

A ceremony was later held to honor Bernardi where Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti presented a New York State Assembly proclamation to Bernardi celebrating the work he has put in, both on the field and in the

community. The ceremony was attended by Herricks Public Schools Superintendent Tony Sinanis, Herricks Athletic Director Jim Petricca and North Hempstead Town Councilman Peter Zuckerman. Petricca was the athletic director when Lou attended Herricks High School and remembers Bernardi fondly. Bernardi’s picture and achievements are featured in the Herricks Hall of Fame.

“This is a proud moment for Herricks

Town Officials Attend NAACP’s Martin Luther King Jr. Program

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Council Members Robert Troiano, Jr. and Veronica Lurvey recently attended the NAACP’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. program at the “Yes We Can” Community Center in New Cassel on January 16. The event was put together by the NAACP Westbury/New Cassel Branch #2184. Musical and dance routines were performed by local students.

—Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead

High School and our community,” said Assemblywoman Sillitti. “Lou Bernardi has worked incredibly hard throughout his baseball career, and what’s especially commendable is his dedication to coaching and mentoring the next generation. I’m grateful that Lou is now sharing his expertise and passion for baseball within the district at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. It was an honor to present Lou with a proclamation from the New York State Assembly for his many achievements and induction into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.”

“Lou is truly a local baseball legend, “ said Councilman Zuckerman. “He and I have been friends for many years, dating back to when Lou coached my son in Little League. It was a tremendous honor to present him with a proclamation from the town to celebrate his induction into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.”

“Bernardi’s love for the game and commitment to be the best baseball player, coach and mentor has made him a role model for all in our community,” said Assemblywoman Sillitti.

“Lou serves as a great role model and on behalf of all the residents of Nassau County, it gives me great honor to recognize him for his overall contributions and for this latest achievement,” said Assemblywoman Sillitti.

—Information provided by the Office of Legislator Mazi Melesa Pilip and the Office of Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti

NSTV Studio Tour And Book Signing Event

North Shore TV, your community media center, will be having a studio tour and book signing of The Clear Path to Confident Public Speaking by best selling author, Anne Marie Strauss on Thursday, Feb. 2 from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at 1111Marcus Ave., Suite LL27, Lake Success, NY 11042.

Come see what NSTV can offer you with a Studio Tour of the facilities, along with a meet and greet with the author, who will give away free signed copies of her book to the first 10 attendees, along with refreshments, prizes and giveaways.

RSVP to info@nstv.org or 516629-3710 ext. 12

For more information about NSTV visit www.nstv.org —Submitted

Lou Bernardi and Legislator Pilip (Photo submitted by the Office of Legislator Mazi Melesa Pilip)

North Hempstead Town Councilman Peter Zuckerman, Lou Bernardi and Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (Photo from Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti’s Facebook)

Town Officials with community members for NAACP’s Martin Luther King Jr. Program at the “Yes We Can” Community Center.

From the left; Councilmember Robert Troiano, Jr., Coucilmember Veronica Lurvey, Bishop Lionel Harvey, Gregory Lewis, Cathy Middleton, and Supervisor Jennifer DeSena. (Contributed photos)

Local Author Releases Childrens Book

JULIE PRISCO

jprisco@antonmediagroup.com

Edna Khalily of Great Neck has published her first book, Alisha’s Magical Red Lipstick: 999 Ways To Feel Beautiful. The book follows the main character Alisha on a journey to become more confident and discover her inner beauty. The book shares an important message with vibrant illustrations done by Stan Jaskiel.

Khalily is married with three boys and has been a teacher for almost three decades. Seven years ago, Khalily lost her mother unexpectedly to throat cancer. During the three months Khalily’s mother was sick, they spent much time together and shared some beautiful moments. Khalily shared how her mother asked her to remember the messages she taught her as a child.

After her mother’s passing, Khalily reminisced on some of the meaningful lessons and advice she remembers from her mother. One that stuck out to her the most was when her mother told her there are 1000 ways to be beautiful.

“Every mother thinks that her daughter is the most beautiful girl in the world and my mom wanted me to always feel beautiful,” said Khalily. “She told me a woman has a thousand way to be beautiful, but only one of them is the physical beauty. And I asked her to tell me what are the other 999 ways of being beautiful. She said to me, that’s your journey. That’s what you have to go out there and find.”

Khalily’s book stars a young girl named Alisha. Alisha doesn’t feel pretty and she tells her mother her concerns. Alisha and her mom have a strong relationship where they share their thoughts and help one another. While Alisha is listening to her mother’s advice, she sees a glowing red lipstick and asks to try it on.

“My mother was always wearing red lipstick and she even gave me red lipstick as a gift,” said Khalily. Khalily’s own mother inspired many aspects of the book, including the magical red lipstick that takes Alisha on a journey.

When Alisha tries on the lipstick, she gets sucked through a portal in the mirror to another land where she meets a friend, Binsa, that guides her on the journey around the world.

“The two girls travel around the world to find people in different places,” said Khalily. “This book will teach child geography and it’s diverse. You see people of all cultures. The characters travel to places like India, Australia, England and Africa.”

Throughout Alisha’s journey aross the globe and meeting new people, she learns how to accept herself and feel confident in her own skin.

Khalily is excited to help spread this message to parents and young girls about how important inner beauty is. Now more than ever, social media shows seemingly perfect and beautiful people to young girls that makes them feel like they aren’t good enough. Khalily hopes her book can help children discover their own inner beauty and hold onto it.

It took Khalily about a year to put together her book. Since the book was published in early January of this year, Khalily has been overwhelmed and humbled by the feedback on her book.

Khalily is currently planning reading

events at libraries, schools and bookstores across Long Island to help spread the message of her book to young children.

Alisha’s Magical Red Lipstick: 999 Ways To Feel Beautiful is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Visit ednakhalily. com to learn more.

LEGAL NOTICES

PURPOSE: THE FILING OF NEW TARIFF AMMENDMENTS TO P.S.C. NO. 1 GAS TO COMPLY WITH THE COMMISSION’S ORDERS DATED JANUARY 19, 2023, IN P.S.C. CASES 4-M-0565 AND 20-M-0266.

TEXT: Notice is hereby given that Keyspan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid has led new tari amendments with the Public Service Commission to comply with the Commission’s Order is dated January 19, 2023, to become e ective February 1, 2023.

Keyspan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid (“KEDLI”) led tari revisions in response to a New York State Public Service Commission (“PSC”) Order Authorizing Phase 2 Arrears Reduction Program. Phase 2 of the Arrears Reduction Program provides automatic relief through direct bill credits to residential non-Energy A ordability Program (“EAP”) and small-commercial customers who have eligible arrears and who did not receive relief under the Phase 1 program, by issuing a one-time bill credit to reduce or eliminate accrued arrears through May 1, 2022. The PSC Order also establishes the Arrears Management Program (“AMP”) Phase 2 Surcharge to recover costs of these bill credits e ective February 1, 2023.

Notice is hereby given that starting on February 1, 2023, the AMP Phase 2 Surcharge will commence on customer bills and will be included in the Delivery Revenue Adjustment line. The AMP surcharge is located on the KEDLI website. For Residential customers:

https://www.nationalgridus.com/Long-Island-NY-Home/Bills-Meters-and-Rates/ ?regionkey=nylongisland&customertype=home and Business customers

https://www.nationalgridus.com/Long-Island-NY-Business/Bills-Meters-and-Rates /?regionkey=nylongisland&customertype=business

Copies of the proposed revisions are available for public inspection and can be obtained on the Company’s website at https://www.nationalgridus.com

Edna Khalily with her book, Alisha’s Magical Red Lipstick: 999 Ways To Feel Beautiful (Photo by Julie Prisco)

Keyspan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid

SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS PUFFS

South High School will present the play, Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, from Thursday, Feb. 9, through Saturday, Feb. 11, in the school auditorium, 341 Lakeville Rd. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on all three dates, with an additional 2 p.m. matinee performance on Saturday only.

For seven years, a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs...who just happened to be there, too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

The New York Times proclaims that Puffs

is “A fast-paced romp through the Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic. For Potterphiliacs who grew up alongside Potter and are eager to revisit that world, Puffs exudes a jovial, winking fondness for all things Harry!”

This Theatre South production is under the direction of Ilana Meredith Schikler, drama teacher/theatre director. Tickets are $10 each and may be purchased online at www.showtix4u.com/event-details/60584. For additional information, visit the Theatre South website at www.gntheatresouth.com.

—Submitted by the Great Neck Public School District

NORTH HIGH PRESENTS THE MAGIC FLUTE

North High School will present The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on Friday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, February 11 at 8 p.m., in the school’s Bernard Kaplan Auditorium, 35 Polo Rd. This opera is a student production, from the singers who will perform in German (with English supra-titles), to the musicians in the orchestra.

The Magic Flute is a love story with elements of fantasy, free-flying imagination, and easily accessible charm. The handsome hero, Tamino, is on a quintessential and, ultimately, successful quest to rescue the beautiful and courageous Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. He is accompanied by Papageno, the bird seller.

To aid them in their task, the Queen’s three Ladies-in-Waiting give Papageno a set of chimes, and Tamino, the magic flute.

This opera is produced and music directed by Dr. Pamela Levy, fine and performing arts department chairperson. The stage director is Robert Stivanello, the artistic director is Leonard Antinori, and the conductor is Dr. Esther Noh.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students/senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased online at https://juniorplayers. ludus.com/index.php. For more information, call (516) 441-4851 or email plevy-majnemer@greatneck.k12.ny.us.

—Submitted by the Great Neck Public School District

SOUTH HIGH FENCING TEAMS SHINE AT HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

South High School fencing teams competed against the best fencers on Long Island at the Brentwood Holiday Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 17. The Rebels had outstanding performances all around, with several students winning medals.

Top performances from the Boys Fencing Team included: captain Ryan Wong, gold medal in saber; Siyuan (Mark) Xiang, silver medal in epee; Jia (Justin) Jiang, bronze medal in foil; Maxwell Tse, fifth place in epee; Huan (John) Chen, sixth place in saber; and captain Drew Kim, ninth place in foil.

Top performances from the Girls Fencing Team included: captain Vicki Lin, silver medal in saber; Alyssa Wong, bronze medal

in saber; Justina Hom, silver medal in epee; Audrey Gao, bronze medal in epee; and Ashley Nguyen, sixth place in epee.

The South High Boys Fencing Team, coached by Joshua Baravarian, are the reigning Long Island fencing champions and two-time Nassau County champions (2021, 2022). The Girls Fencing Team, coached by Catie Sagevick, has won the Nassau County championship four years in a row (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).

—Submitted by the Great Neck Public School District

GREAT NECK HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTERS RECOGNIZED BY DECA

DECA has announced North High School and South High School as winners in the 2022–23 DECA Chapter Campaign Program. Each high school earned an Achievement Level award in recognition of their respective chapter’s growth, involvement, engagement, and outstanding activities.

Both high schools boast thriving DECA programs, which prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance,

hospitality, and management. This year, North High’s chapter has 205 members and South High’s chapter has 161 members.

All of these students prepare for DECA competitions, which include role play events, written manual events, and online competitions such as the Stock Market Game and Virtual Business Challenge. Great Neck students consistently achieve success at the regional competition and DECA

State Career Conference, with top scorers advancing to the DECA International Career Development Conference (ICDC).

“Your chapter is to be commended on its efforts to showcase the impact that DECA has in preparing your school’s emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for college and career success,” reads a congratulatory message from DECA. “We thank you for your commitment to supporting experiential learning opportu-

nities through your DECA chapter to assist in the development of academically prepared, community-oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders.”

DECA faculty advisors are Richard Marchese and Paul Rodriguez at North High, and Sheryl Demetres and Rick Vine at South High.

—Submitted by the Great Neck Public School District

Theatre South will present Puffs (cast and crew pictured here) from February 9–11. (Contributed photo)

North High School will present The Magic Flute (cast and crew shown here) on February 10 and 11. (Contributed photo)

South High Fencing Holiday Tournament (Contributed photo)

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