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Vol. 77, No. 42

Ethics questions raised as town candidates meet communities

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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND

BY DARLENE PERGOLA-APOLANT

Congratulations to the Jericho Athletic Associations U11 Boys Soccer Team for Placing 2nd at the North Hempstead Cup Columbus Day Soccer Tournament.

Haunted Village offers scary attractions BY GARY SIMEONE

This will be the second year in a row that the Milleridge Inn opens its haunted village to the public. Just in time for Halloween, the village has added more ghostly attractions to scare both the little and big ones alike. “Last year, we renovated this closed off portion of the property and wanted to do something creative with it, so we said why not turn it into a haunted house?” said Butch Yamali, Owner and Operating Manager of the Milleridge Inn. He said that the haunted house, which is open now until Halloween, is the big-

gest and most popular one in the Town of Oyster Bay. “We’re expecting an even bigger turnout to our village than we had last year with over 50,000 people visiting by the end of the month.” Some of the new spooky attractions this year include a trackless train ride and more ghosts and ghoulies to scare you inside the dimly lit haunted house. Other additions include a pumpkin patch, pumpkin decorating, an in-house magician for kids, jelly apple bobbing, and a scary bouncy house. Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joe Saladino and

Town Councilman Lou Imbroto attended the official opening of the haunted village last Friday. “This is the perfect backdrop to kick off the Halloween season with it being Friday the thirteenth at this beautiful, historic treasure in our Town,” said Supervisor Saladino. He added that the transformation of the haunted village, “is frightfully delightful and looks like something straight out of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” The two politicians stood side by side with some of the haunted house’s scariest monsters to officially See page 17

One year ago this week former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto was arrested on corruption charges for his apparent involvement with businessman, restaurateur and concessionaire for TOBAY facilities Harendra Singh. As candidates for the Town Council hit the campaign trail in October, including Venditto’s successor Joseph Saladino and four challengers for the Supervisor position, the Town Board’s creation of the Oyster Bay Board of Ethics in late 2016 and its relationship to procedures and political agendas was the foremost question addressed at community forums in Plainview and Hicksville. On Thursday, October 12 Supervisor Saladino was joined by Councilman Thomas Hand and Councilman Louis

Imbroto, three Republicans appointed to the Town Board earlier in 2017 and facing the election on November 7 as part of a slate, as the challengers and incumbents gathered in front of the Hicksville Gardens Civic Association. Closing remarks at the event turned into an onslaught of boos and jeers from residents in a packed room as Supervisor Saladino directly commented on his opponents’ campaigns. Four days later, on Monday October 16, WABC-7 Eyewitness News’ reporter Kristin Thorne moderated a formal debate in front of 80 people as the Plainview-Old Bethpage Board of Education and the PTA Council of Plainview-Old Bethpage hosted a forum with Councilman Imbroto, the lone Republican candidate, defending the current Town Board’s financial planSee page 7

Town Parklets to receive upgrades BY GARY SIMEONE

The small parklets located throughout the communities of Syosset and Plainview will get complete makeovers thanks to an initiative from the Town of Oyster Bay. The parklets that are included in the plan are located at Magnolia Lane in Syosset and Acorn Lane and Walnut Drive in Plainview. “Work is underway to improve and replace playground equipment throughout the Town of Oyster Bay,” said Town Supervisor Joe Saladino. “My administration has begun the process of replacing dilapidated playgrounds with all new equipment, bringing brand-new, state-of-the-art playgrounds to parks throughout the Town.” The Supervisor said that as well as

upgrading the parks with new equipment, the flooring surfaces will also be replaced from the current pea gravel to new fibar surfacing. Fibar is a type of engineered wood fibre that offers a softer and safer surface for kids to play on. Syosset and Plainview are not the only communities in the Town that are slated for upgrades and enhancements to their local parks. Massapequa and Farmingdale will also see parks with new equipment and surfacing in the next few weeks. “Residents can see additional playground improvements at communities throughout our Town, including parks in Syosset, Massapequa, Plainview, and Farmingdale,” said Town councilwoman, Michele Johnson. See page 17

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This Week at the Jericho Public Library Friday, October 20th at 2:00 PM

“Dick Van Dyke - America’s Funny Man with Marc Courtade” - Dick Van Dyke has been one of America’s favorite performers for almost 60 years. He rose to fame on Broadway in Bye Bye Birdie, then starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show for five seasons. He made many popular films including Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In spite of several attempts at retirement, he has worked on stage, screen and television ever since. This talk will highlight the talents of this much loved performer.

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The duo of cellist Suzanne Mueller and pianist Elinor Abrams Zayas returns to share their seamless blend of beloved classics and new discoveries spanning centuries and styles with guest performer Beryl Diamond Chacon. The program features duets and trios with music by composers including Pacquito D’Rivera, Antonín Dvorák, Gabriel Fauré, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Fritz Kreisler, Astor Piazzolla, Cole Porter and Franz Schubert. This program is co-sponsored by the Jericho Library and The Town of Oyster Bay Distinguished Artists Concert Series. Tickets are required. Non ticket holders will be seated as space allows.

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“Art Lecture: An Afternoon at the Barnes Museum with Louise Cella Caruso” - Join Louise for a private tour as she brings you across the threshold into the gallery to view select works of impressionists, post-impressionists and early modern artists.

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Movie: Frantz (Drama/History/War) In the aftermath of WWI, a young German woman who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers. (France/Germany) Subtitles. Rated PG-13. 1 hour, 53 minutes.

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday October 27th, 28th, & 29th

“Jericho Public Library Book Sale” – It’s not just books! Sale of books, CDs, and DVDs will be held in the Meeting Room during regular library hours. Items must be paid for in cash.

TOB annual Toys for Tots collection drives Oyster Bay Town Councilman Anthony D. Macagnone joined with Town Councilwoman Rebecca M. Alesia to announce the annual kick-off of this year’s Toys for Tots collection drive, which will run through December 14th, in an effort to collect new, unwrapped toys to be used as gifts for children throughout the community. “Under the direction of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, the Toys for Tots Drive follows a mission to help ensure that children in need within our area do not have to go the holiday season without something to bring them happiness,” Councilwoman Alesia said. “By helping those in need experience the wonderful embrace of the holiday season, contributors will get to play an active role in bringing happiness to one of our nation’s most valuable resources for the future, our children,” Councilman Macagnone said.

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For those who wish to donate to Toys for Tots, collection boxes can be found in the following Town facilities: • Oyster Bay Town Hall North, 54 Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay; • Town Hall South, 977 Hicksville Road, Massapequa; • Department of Public Works Facility, 150 Miller Place, Syosset; • Town of Oyster Bay Ice Skating Center at Bethpage Community Park, 1001 Stewart Avenue, Bethpage; • Syosset-Woodbury Community Park Community Center, Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury; • Town of Oyster Bay Hicksville Athletic Center, South Broadway, Hicksville. For more information, contact the Council members and co-chairs of the collection drive at (516) 624-6619 or (516) 624-6364, or visit www.oysterbaytown. com.

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Group of congregants mingled after symbolically tossing their sins into the Sound. BY SCOTT FISHER Following an inspiring Community Service at North Shore Synagogue on Friday September 22, more than 60 congregants gathered at Theodore Roosevelt Park in Oyster Bay to participate in its annual Tashlich ceremony. Tashlich, which means to “cast off” or “cast away”, is a ritual performed at a body of water on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Traditionally, congregants gather and shake a few bread crumbs, or more likely, in the case of our temple’s young-

er members, toss copious amounts of bread into Oyster Bay to symbolically rid themselves of sin from the previous year to begin the new year afresh. Under powder blue skies, with the powerful sounds of the Shofar in the air, led by Rabbi Shalhevet, Rabbi Maimin and Cantor Cotler, synagogue members collectively recited prayers casting away transgressions. The ceremony is held at a body of water with fish so that just as the eyes of the fish are always open, so too may the eyes of God always be open to watch over, forgive, and bless the participants.

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Jericho HS students earn honors in National Merit Scholarship program

The Jericho School District is pleased to announce that 18 Jericho High School students were recently named semifinalists and 27 students were named Commended Students in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Jericho High School students Benjamin Chen, Caroline Chen, Margaret Cheng, Andrew Fang, Emma Gan, Elaine Huang, Joshua Kent, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, Michelle Lu, Swati Madankumar, Srinivas Pullela, Molly Schwartz, Warren Wang, Daniel Wu, Brandon Xie, Alex Xu, Emma Zhang,

and Brandon Zhao were named Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. These scholastically talented students now have the opportunity to compete for many scholarships that will be offered next spring. Approximately 1.6 million juniors in over 22,000 high schools across the U.S. entered the 2018 National Merit Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Semifinalists, who represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, are made up of the highest scoring

Jericho High School students Benjamin Chen, Caroline Chen, Margaret Cheng, Andrew Fang, Emma Gan, Elaine Huang, Joshua Kent, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, Michelle Lu, Swati Madankumar, Srinivas Pullela, Molly Schwartz, Warren Wang, Daniel Wu, Brandon Xie, Alex Xu, Emma Zhang, and Brandon Zhao were named Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. They are pictured with High School Principal Joan Rosenberg.

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entrants in each state. Twenty-seven Jericho High School seniors were named Commended Students in the National Merit Scholarship Program. These students, Afrida Alam, Simran Bansal, Mutahara Bhuiyan, Zian Cao, Vincent Eng, Jiaxin Guo, Ishan Gurnani, Dylan Hsieh, Marc Huo, Ashley Kwak, Henry Lin, Dennis Lo, Amanda Luong, Ethan Ma, Nathanya McCala, Jack Mok, Joon Hyuk Park, Dewanshu Ranjan, Bilal Siddiqui, Chenshilong Sun, Harsha Venkatesh, Marguerite Wang, Benjamin Wong, Yunyan Wu,

Ananda Yao, Annie Yu, and Kendra Zhang were recognized for outstanding performance on the PSAT/NMSQT. Commended Students placed among the top five percent of the students who entered the 2018 National Merit Program. “We are very proud of all of our students that have been recognized as Semifinalists and Commended students,” said Superintendent of Schools Hank Grishman. “All of these young men and women serve as exceptional role models for students in our district.”

Twenty-seven Jericho High School seniors were named Commended Students in the National Merit Scholarship Program. These students, Afrida Alam, Simran Bansal, Mutahara Bhuiyan, Zian Cao, Vincent Eng, Jiaxin Guo, Ishan Gurnani, Dylan Hsieh, Marc Huo, Ashley Kwak, Henry Lin, Dennis Lo, Amanda Luong, Ethan Ma, Nathanya McCala, Jack Mok, Joon Hyuk Park, Dewanshu Ranjan, Bilal Siddiqui, Chenshilong Sun, Harsha Venkatesh, Marguerite Wang, Benjamin Wong, Yunyan Wu, Ananda Yao, Annie Yu, and Kendra Zhang were recognized for outstanding performance on the PSAT/NMSQT. They are pictured with High School Principal Joan Rosenberg.

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From page 1 ning and ethics against the platform of four Democratic candidates for Town Council (Dr. Marc Herman for Supervisor; Eva Pearson, James Versocki and Bob Freier for Council) as well as a handful of independents: Reform Party candidate for Supervisor John Mangelli, the self-funded independent for Supervisor Robert Ripp, and green party Supervisor candidate Jonathan Clarke, as well as his running mate for Town Council Steven A. Abreu. The Town of Oyster Bay Ethics Board last met in August and was scheduled to meet this Tuesday, October 17, ironically the same day as the Town Budget hearings at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. However the town website indicated that the October 17 meeting was “adjourned” and no other Ethics Board meeting for 2017 is on the calendar. Candidates questioned the propriety of this function of government and why there was no input on recent controversies such as town mailings, which were recently suspended by the Town Board until after the November 7 election. That move was made after Democrats filed a lawsuit against TOBAY Council on September 22 in Nassau County Court alleging the illegal use of the town’s taxpayer funds to print and mail political materials. On Monday, at the debate inside his

alma mater – Plainview Old Bethpage Middle School’s auditorium – Imbroto said he and his fellow TOBAY Council members and Supervisor Saladino’s Republican ticket is proud to now have a bipartisan Ethics Board as part of the town’s operations. “Our Ethics Board is brand new (established in 2016) and there was an old Ethics Board in the past from the prior administration, mainly comprised of Republicans. The new Board is completely independent and not one person on this Board works for the town or has any family member that works for the town, or has anything to do with Town of Oyster Bay government or politics – it is bipartisan. There are no more than two members of any one political party on this Ethics Board, there are Democrats and Republicans and Independents,” he said. “The main purpose of our Ethics Board is to review all financial disclosures for any conflicts of interest. Also they will review questions that are presented to them, and they have their own independent counsel to assist them with that. This is one of the many steps we have taken to increase transparency. We have also changed the process of selecting vendors and concessionaires, it’s done completely in the open at Board meetings live-streamed on the internet and with media present, so

everyone knows there are no backroom deals and every move is done for the best interest of taxpayers,” Imbroto said October 16.

‘Opening Up’’ financial disclosures

At the top of the Democratic ticket Dr. Herman said he believes corruption is still evident in Town of Oyster Bay politics, and there is a “Venditto to Saladino legacy that could go on forever,” as he explained at the Hicksville forum. Saladino told the Hicksville audience on October 12 that Dr. Herman will not quit his career as a dentist to be a full-time supervisor, as he says the Massapequa Post reported. Saladino added that to contrast Herman’s masters’ degree in ethics he himself completed a thesis in ethics as the culmination of his own masters’ program in broadcast journalism at NYIT, and prior to politics he was enforcing ethics and honesty among the political subjects he covered as a journalist. Saladino, Hand and other Republicans could not make the October 16 event in Plainview. However to the Hicksville audience, Saladino criticized Robert Ripp for his Facebook posts as “cyberbullying on the internet…despicable” and said Newsday reporting on how “Mr. Ripp failed to follow the law and submit his [as candidate] financial disclosure forms, and even worse, not filed financial disclosures to the State

Board of Elections.” “We the Republicans have been in office for eight months now and it is easy to attack those people trying to make a difference…when we have proven ourselves by reducing town debt by $71 million continuing to reduce taxes and spending with proven results,” Saladino said on October 12 in Hicksville. On Monday in Plainview, Ripp was first to speak on the subject as Thorne posed a question on financial dealings with the Town. He defended the allegations about the financial disclosure form and what he sees wrong with the requirements, given the past legal cases he was involved in against the Town of Oyster Bay Code Enforcement for parking his boat on his property. Supervisor candidate John Mangelli says when he received the financial disclosure package from the TOBAY Ethics Board, he questioned why during this critical year for Town Board and government, why was the Ethics Board not reviewing how the Republican ticket (Saladino, Imbroto, and Hand) were voted in for their respective appointments. “That to me seems like the appropriate thing for our ethics committee to be looking at – it’s partisan politics and appointments from one power broker. Review of our appointed Town Supervisor would have been the See page 17

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Early Childhood Education Week • Oct. 22-28

Syosset HS announces all-state musicians

Syosset High School’s participants in the 82nd Annual NYSSMA Winter Conference are congratulated by Syosset School District Coordinator of Fine and Performing Arts, K-12, Michael Salzman and Syosset High School Principal Dr. Giovanni Durante (pictured at far left, middle and front row, respectively) and orchestra teacher Stephanie Merten and band teacher Larry Ballereau. Missing from the photo is choral teacher Kristin Howell.

Early Childhood Education is the foundation for success. You want to give them a safe, loving environment. With structure and discipline. Not just day care, but a real school with certified teachers. A school that supports working Moms (and Dads), with before and after care—and gives students as young as three years old the fundamental skills they need to develop a lifetime love of learning. Of course, choosing a Catholic education gives them much more than an educational advantage. It also helps them understand their purpose in life and their obligations to others, reinforcing the values you live at home. Isn’t that what you want for your children? To learn more about why Catholic Elementary School is a better place to start, and to find a school near you, call 516-678-5800 x 258 or visit us online at www.LICatholicElementarySchools.org

Syosset School District Coordinator of Fine and Performing Arts, K-12, Michael Salzman recently had the opportunity to meet with Syosset High School student-musicians, who have been selected to participate in the 82nd annual New York State School Music Association All-State Winter Conference. This year, 34 students will participate in the festival, either as active members of ensembles or as alternates, including some who were selected for multiple instruments. “As the NYSSMA scores came in last spring, I knew that the All-State numbers would be high this year,” said Salzman. “But I never expected [it to be] this high. This is an incredible number of students to be recognized for their outstanding musical achievement!” Syosset High School regularly receives a high number of NYSSMA Winter Conference selections.

Congratulations to the following All-State student-musicians: Sami Ahn, Matthew Ardizzone, Stephanie Benedictus, Gabrielle Bieder, Sydney Chen, Josephine Chuang, Sean Han, Allison Hsu, Susanna Hur, Maxwell Izakson, Brandon Ji, Jihoon Jun, Paige Kahn, Joseph Kim, Anthony LaBarca, Thomas Lam, Hannah Lee, Subin Lee, Justin Lee, Annie Lin, Kalena Liu, Nicholas Massimo, Gabriela Mataras, Ashkan Moghaddassi, Aileen Park, Jake Quadrino, Harrison Rubin, Madison Schatz, Albert Shabaev, Brandon Sung, Callista Tse, Derek Warshauer, Emily Wong and Charles, Zandieh. This year’s NYSSMA All-State Winter Conference will take place November 30-December 3, 2017 in Rochester, NY.

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Rotary’s 4th Annual Karaoke Night The Syosset-Woodbury Rotary will be hosting its fourth annual Karaoke Night on Saturday, November 17, at the Marriott Residence Inn, 9 Gerhard Road, Plainview from 6:30 -- 10:30 PM. All are invited to this fun evening, which includes a lovely buffet dinner, raffles and door prizes, singing and dancing, and music by the professional DJ, Singing Sal. A highlight of the night will be a musical presentation by the

Music Academy for Special Learners, which is a program for students with autism. Tickets are $40 per person, and all monies raised are distributed to local charities and programs that support our community members-in-need. Your contribution is completely tax deductible. For more information and tickets, please call Moira at 516-496-2391.

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Robert Seaman Welcome Back Family BBQ BY DARLENE PERGOLA-APOLANT

Robert Seaman’s PTA hosted its first “Welcome Back to School BBQ” on its beautiful school grounds on Wednesday, September 13th. The students and parents enjoyed a beautiful day with the sun shining down on them. The evening was filled with fun and friendship. Parents and new families relaxed and enjoyed catching up with

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Fall Getaway in the Great Northern Catskills: Frederick Edwin Church’s Olana BY KAREN RUBIN

Just over the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (#1 on the Hudson River School Art Trail), you see this grand mansion perched on the hillside, poking out from the trees. It is just a short ride off Rte 9G on eastern shore of the Hudson River to get to the long drive up to the mansion and farm, Olana, built by the Hudson River School artist Frederick Edwin Church. Spanning 250 acres, Olana is one of the most intact artist-created landscapes in America, and “the most intact artist residence of its age in the world,” our guide explains. In fact, it is the artist’s last major work. Church designed, even decorated, every aspect of the house and landscape – digging out a 10-acre lake, planting some 50,000 trees. And today, virtually all the furnishings (95% we are told) are original to the house, even in the same places as when the Church family occupied the house, up until the 1960s. Literally saved from a wrecking ball, the Olana State Historic Site is now one of New York’s premier historical attractions (HRSAT Site #2), drawing 20,000 visitors a year. You can only visit the house on a guided tour and they only take up to 12 per tour, so tours frequently sell out by 1 pm (advance reservations are recommended). As I approach Olana, a sign on the road introduces me to a new word, and a new concept – “viewshed.” The word intentionally evokes “watershed” – a protected resource area. Here, Olana, chosen and designed by the artist Church for the views, successfully established a “viewshed” maintaining that this is a national The protected “viewshed” from Frederick Church’s Olana © 2017 Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear. com

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Continued from page D1 cultural resource worthy of protection and preservation. The notion of preservation versus progress is the very essence of Church and his Olana, taking up the key theme from Thomas Cole, his teacher and mentor. Church’s background is very different from Cole’s. While Cole, renowned as the father of America’s first art movement, the Hudson River School, was an immigrant from England, Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1826 to a well-to-do family (his father, Joseph Church, owned several businesses and was a director of Aetna Life Insurance Company). Whereas Cole had little art training, Church’s father arranged for the 18-year old to study with Cole for two years, 1844-46. Church then went to New York City to set up a studio. He became the youngest Associate of the American Academy of Design, in 1850, and within a few years, became one of the most successful artists of his generation – a veritable rock star. And whereas Cole, the immigrant, was enthralled by the wildness of the American landscape, Church fell under the spell of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who encouraged artists to travel the world. Church traveled to the Middle East, South America, Europe (one of his children was born in Rome), Labrador and Greenland. He brought these images and ideas back to the Hudson River Valley where he would build Olana, and his worldliness and world-view filled his canvases. Ultimately, Olana became his canvas. Over the last 40 years of his life, from 1860-1899, he designed and fashioned

Olana into a three-dimensional work of art that includes the magnificent Persian-inspired home with its various collections, set within a 250-acre landscape, meticulously designed for iconic views of the Hudson River Valley. What is most remarkable about Olana is that the home and grounds never left the family – the furnishings, the art, even the books, are all Church’s possessions, and we see them laid out in the deliberate living canvas that Church intended. After Church died, in 1899, his son, Louis, occupied the house, and when Louis’ widow died, in 1964, the house and estate were saved from being sold off by virtue of a public-private collaboration between New York State Parks and a private nonprofit, Olana Partnership (similar to the collaboration between the Central Park Conservancy and New York City’s parks department). Olana opened to the public as a museum in 1966. This is most fitting, since Church served as commissioner of Central Park (he was a distant cousin of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead). He also was a founding trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Church was responsible for locating Cleopatra’s needle, the obelisk, behind the museum.) And Church, who achieved national and international prominence with his seven-foot wide painting, “Niagara” (1857), was credited with creating the Niagara Reserve – New York’s first state park and one of the first in the nation, a precursor to the national parks movement. The Olana grounds include five miles of carriage trails, managed by New York State Parks, and are open to

the public at no charge. The Olana Partnership has worked to restore Olana as well as the landscape. The physical landscape, in Church’s planning and today, is as much art as the landscape painting on canvas. As you walk the trails, the images are framed – markers here as along the other sites of the Hudson River School Art Trail, compare the scene today to paintings. And since my last visit, the view from the mansion to the Hudson River and Catskills beyond has been opened up. Indeed, as I arrive at Olana, a group of artists on a week-long workshop are painting the scene. Church’s Worldly View While Thomas Cole was an immigrant from England who glorified America’s landscapes in a way that had not been done before, Frederic Edwin Church was one its most traveled among the Hudson River School artists, and he brought these images and this worldliness into his canvases. Church finished his two-year study with Cole in1846 but Cole died soon after, in 1848. Church seems to have always maintained a connection with Cole – returning to the Hudson Valley to build his home close to Cole’s Cedar Grove, traveling with Cole’s biographer to Labrador. He found ways to help the Cole family – helping sell Cole’s paintings (he owned several himself, some of which are on view at Olana) and hired Cole’s son Theodore as Olana’s farm manager. When Church was in his 20s, he became enamored with the renowned naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt who encouraged artists to travel and paint equatorial South

America. In 1853, Church made the first of two expeditions following in Humboldt’s footsteps, chiefly in Colombia; the second, in 1857, to Ecuador. At a time when people had little ability to see what other places looked like, the paintings he produced from these trips made him one of the best known and most successful painters of his generation. The New York exhibition of his tenfoot canvas, The Heart of the Andes, in 1859, “was the most popular display of a single artwork in the Civil War era, attracting 12,000 people who paid admission in three weeks to its New York premiere alone, then traveling to Britain and seven other American cities on a tour lasting two years.” The painting sold for $10,000 to collector William Blodget, at the time, the highest price ever paid for an American painting,” says Olana curator Evelyn Trebilcock. We get to see Church’s final study for “Heart of the Andes”. Church set out again to travel to exotic places and intrigued by literature of Arctic exploration, in 1859, he hired a boat to take him to the north Atlantic between Labrador and Greenland to sketch icebergs, joined by Louis Legrand Noble Thomas Cole’s biographer. At the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861, Church exhibited Icebergs: The North, another grand canvas, which also was a blockbuster hit. With his career on the rise in 1860, Church’s married Isabel Carnes and came back to the Hudson River Valley, where he had studied painting with Thomas Cole, and bought a farm overlooking the Hudson River on the

opposite shore from Cole’s house. Touring Olana: ‘Thou Art Welcome” You walk in through the threshold to Olana under an inscription in Arabic, “Thou Art Welcome.” Most remarkable: all the land and the contents of the grand home are intact, because they had always been within the Church family, and everything you see was meticulous conceived and planned by Church. That’s what makes the experience of being here all the more profound – there is an immediate connection to the man and creative process of this great artist, who until now, I had only appreciated through his canvases on view in art museums. Olana is every inch Church’s creation. Church traveled the world (he is a worldly person in his reading and outlook) and went to Mideast, and when came back, wanted to create a “fantasy”. He actually never went to Persia but thought the Persian style could be fanciful. But he didn’t just fabricate the designs out of his imagination, he studied Persian art and architecture. He never visited the Alhambra, but bought photos in order to incorporate the Moorish design elements. He experimented with colors and patterns. “The desire to build attacks a man like a fever,” Church wrote. He built the house in two years (for about $90,000, or about $2.5 million

today), and spent the next four years meticulously decorating it. Church experimented with different designs; he mixed the colors; he based his patterns on a book of Persian architecture; the stencil designs on the door – in gold and silver paint – have a shimmering effect. The gilded patterns we see on the grand doors – Les Arts Aribe – are from original stencils. “He meticulously arranged every room, choosing exotic items for their emotional effect, each room a composition. It took him four years to complete decoration,” the guide says. I ask whether Church produced much art during this time, and the guide explains that by 1876, when Church was 50 years old, landscape painting had fallen out of fashion and his career was on the wane, Church came down with crippling rheumatism. Home and family became more important and Olana became his primary canvas. Most important to Church were the views. He oriented the house and the windows southwest to best capture the view. “Our home will be a curiosity in architecture, but the view from every window will be fabulous,” Church said. The paintings we see that decorate the rooms are Church’s own collections – his own paintings as well as painters he admired, including Thomas Cole. There is also Church’s painting of “Petra,” 1868, with its unusual

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Frederick Church’s study for “The Heart of the Andes” on view at Olana © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com perspective (even for Church) – a vertical image of the temple, carved into rock cliff , as you come to it through a rock cleft, like a photograph. The last time I visited Olana, I took note of Church’s library, a window into what he was interested in, what informed him. He was interested in natural science, novels, religion (Presbyterian), “Women of the Arabs”, “Popular History of the Mexican People” “Natural Law & Spiritual

World.” He owned a copy of Darwin’s “Origin of the Species.” He was friends with Mark Twain, who also lived in Hartford, where Church was born. In 1888, at 61 years old, Church devoted himself to expanding house and building a new studio within the house. Today, his studio seems just as he left it, with various items of folk art and preColombian artifacts Church collected See page D5

W R I T E R’S C O R N E R

BY CLAIRE LYNCH

The many various things I learned along the way

Adulthood is a good time to look back at some things that have happened when we were younger. We listen, we learn, we make some mistakes, we learn. Here are some examples.

My Family’s Irish Heritage

Family members always taught me to appreciate and cherish our Irish heritage and that included knowing the peppy Irish songs, the Irish dances, the funny-looking leprechauns, the wearing of the green, the pots of shamrocks (those three-leaved clovers), the pot of gold that is hidden at the end of a rainbow, “I love shenanigans!” and the sense of humor that is distinctly Irish. It’s been said that St. Patrick’s Day revelers thought that wearing green made someone invisible to leprechauns, fairy creatures who would pinch anyone they could see not wearing green. People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that the leprechauns would sneak up and pinch green-abstainers. As a kid I saw lapel pins that said “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” and “Erin Go Bragh” (Ireland forever) which were often worn along with green carnations on March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day. Parades were a big deal and so was

eating a dinner of corned beef, cabbage, boiled potatoes and carrots on the holiday. And of course there are the Irish sayings: “May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright, happy hours that stay with you all the year long.” “We’re going to have a whale of a time!” and the Irish slang term meaning “Sure and by God.” E.g., “Sure and begorrah, ‘tis a grand day to be alive!” And “Top o’ the morning,’” “May the luck of the Irish be with you!” and “Blarney – the gift of the gab.” “And it’s No, Nay, never, No, nay never no more” from “The Wild Rover.” The Irish people are known for their love of literature. As actor Kenneth Branagh once said, “Being Irish, I always had this love of words.” Eventually I found out about the pain of Ireland, too – the Great Irish Potato Famine that went on from 18451849 – where about one million people died from starvation and other famine-related illnesses because of a potato blight – as well as some people’s fondness for the alcohol and their inability to put it down. Some of my ancestors left Ireland in the years after the Great Irish Potato

Famine for the chance at a better life in America. Like many other immigrants they went through Ellis Island and suddenly found themselves standing on American soil – standing in New York City. Upon their arrival here in this country, my ancestors settled in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Over the years they moved to other areas of the city. They got jobs and assimilated into the American culture. My grandparents were from Brooklyn. When my parents, aunts and uncles grew up they married and moved away but not too far away. As a kid, we moved from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to Rockville Centre when I was six years old – to a larger house with a front and back yard that was perfect for kids to play in. And it just happened to be a neighborhood that had several kids that were more or less the same ages as my brothers, sisters and me. Most of the families in my neighborhood had lots of kids. That block was ideal for playing ball and playing other games like Ring-aLevio. We played for years whenever we had free time until one by one people started going away to college – and getting serious about their future careers.

Our Dog Named Pierre

Like most kids I had a fondness for dogs but my parents had their hands full with raising six children. I asked and asked to get a dog but for several years the answer was no. My dad worked in Manhattan with a co-worker named Joe and almost every day my dad and Joe had lunch together. I found out later that Joe and his wife, Sally, thought that their black standard poodle named Pierre might like living in the suburbs of Long Island. Joe and Sally lived in an apartment on Park Ave. and they thought that Pierre might have fun playing with a bunch of kids in yards that were green with grass and shaded by huge oak trees. My mom and dad slowly started talking about the possibility of getting a family dog but I was cautiously wary. I wouldn’t believe it until I saw it. One Sunday at the end of June Joe and Sally arrived at our house with Pierre and we were handed his leash. I was so happy because it was every kid’s dream to have his or her own dog. I imagined having a Golden retriever or a Labrador retriever or even a collie like Lassie on TV but here was Pierre the black standard poodle. See page D6

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Y O U R S O C I A L S E C U R I T Y

Social Security and My Mom BY TOM MARGENAU

You are probably reading this column sometime in early October, which is when I always think of my mom. Her birthday was Oct. 1. She’s been dead for about 20 years now. But when I think of her, two things I remember involve her relationship with Social Security. The first is just a cute story. I started working for the Social Security Administration in 1973. I was with the agency for only about two weeks, and was still in training class, when my mother’s mother, my grandma, died. I went home for the funeral and, of course, was surrounded by scores of my grandma’s relatives and friends, many of whom were older folks on Social Security. And my mother proudly introduced me to them as “my son, the Social Security expert.” I was inundated with what seemed like a hundred questions about retirement benefits, widow’s benefits, Medicare benefits and all other elements of the government’s retirement and health insurance programs. With all of 10 days of training under my belt, I somehow managed to stumble my way through some dubious answers to their questions. If someone had told me then that someday I would be writing a nationally syndicated question and answer column about Social Security, I would have laughed in their face! The second memory of my mom is a bit of a parable about Social Security. It’s the story of her and the lady who lived next door to us. It involves the sometimes strained relationship between workingwomen and stay-at-home moms (which I won’t touch with a 10-foot pole) and their experiences with Social Security (which I will address). It’s also a story of the haves and have-nots. I’ve told this tale before in my column, but it bears repeating. I grew up in a small Midwestern town where rich folks in big houses lived very near poor folks occupying much more modest dwellings. My dad was a janitor struggling to make ends meet. My mother had to work to help pay the mortgage and keep enough groceries on the table to feed me and my three siblings. Just behind our house across the alley was a big home, owned by the vice president of a local bank. His wife, even though she had a degree in journalism, never worked outside the home once the first of an eventual brood of six children came along. My brothers and sister and I got along famously with the children of the banker and his wife. We were always playing games, shooting baskets or otherwise just hanging out. On the other hand, our parents rarely spoke. I guess the economic and educational gulf between them was just too great to foster any kind of meaningful relationship. And that gulf only widened later in life between my mom and the neighbor lady after both of them became widows. Sadly, most of the friction and resentment came from my mom’s side of the alley. And much of it had to do with Social Security.

Before I go on, I must point out this general Social Security tenet. The rules say that if you are due two Social Security benefits, you don’t get them both. You only get an amount equal to the one that pays the higher rate. My mom’s situation was a good example of that. Because she had worked most of her life, she received her own Social Security retirement benefit. The widow’s rate she was due on my dad’s Social Security account was only slightly higher than her own. That meant she kept getting her own benefit, but she got a small bump in her monthly checks from my dad’s side of the Social Security ledger. Across the alley, the neighbor lady received no benefits on her own Social Security account, but she did get a rather substantial widow’s benefit from her deceased banker husband. It was quite a bit more than my mother received from her combined accounts. And this peeved my mother to no end. Sadly, she lived the rest of her life bearing deep resentment, partly to her neighbor, and partly to the Social Security system that allowed what she perceived to be this injustice to happen. I can still hear her griping: “THAT WOMAN never worked a day in her life. And there she is in that big house, getting more money each month from the government than me, a woman who worked hard all her life just trying to make ends meet!” I used to ask my mom this: “If you believe things are unfair, what do you think we should do about it? Should we take widow’s benefits away from Mrs. (X) because you don’t think she deserves them?” My mother might get a nasty little gleam in her eye with that thought, but she always admitted that the neighbor was due her widow’s benefits. My mom would counter with this: “I think I should get my own full Social Security benefit AND my own full widow’s benefit. After all, I worked and paid for my Social Security, and your dad worked and paid for his Social Security!” On the surface, it seems like a valid point. In fact, I’ve heard thousands of workingwomen make the same argument over the years. But here is the flip side of that coin: If workingwomen can get their own retirement benefits and full spousal benefits, then shouldn’t workingmen be offered the same? For example, why can’t I get my own Social Security retirement benefit and at the same time collect husband’s benefits on my wife’s Social Security account? Or here is another example. I have a neighbor who is a widower. He was an executive with a large corporation. His wife was a librarian. They each got their own Social Security. But his benefit was much larger than hers. Now that she is gone, should he be allowed to get his own rather generous Social Security check and a dependent widower’s benefit from his wife’s Social Security? The truth is: Social Security spousal and survivor benefits have always been

classified as “dependent’s” benefits. They are meant to be paid to a lower-earning (or no-earning) spouse who was financially dependent on the higher-income spouse. They were never meant to be some kind of add-on marital bonus. Indeed, the Social

Security system would have gone bankrupt decades ago if we were doing that! If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM

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Fall Getaway in the Great Northern Catskills: Frederick Edwin Church’s Olana C ontinued from page D3 on his travels. On the wall, “Christian on the Border of the Shadow of Death,” a dark, early Church painting, reminiscent of Cole. Here in the house, we can see the transition of his style, from largely emulating Cole to developing his own style and perspective. “Church was a smart marketer of his art – people paid a fee to see just one painting. Lithographs of his work were successful,” says Olana curator Evelyn Trebilcock. “When Church studied with Cole, he painted in Cole’s style, incorporating Christian message, but Church realizes it is not commercial

-not saleable- so he instead shows God in beautiful sunsets.” We go up back stairs that would have been used by the servants – to the second floor family rooms, which were opened to the public in 2009. Most impressive here are the tiles and the fireplace, produced by Ali Mohammed Isfahan which Church acquired in New York City (they know because they have the receipts). In the dining room, set for a family meal, the walls are an art gallery – none of which are Church’s, but are the pieces he collected on his travels through Europe, artists he wanted to See page D6

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The many various things I learned along the way C ontinued from page D3

We excitedly promised our parents that we would walk Pierre morning and night, that we would feed him, water him, run around in the back yard with him, brush him and take care of him. Sure enough we did as we had promised and we enjoyed playing with him but Pierre never seemed 100% at home. He must have missed Joe and Sally terribly. Plus every day my dad got up for work at 6 a.m. and as soon as Pierre heard my dad moving around, he would get restless and call out for us. We six kids wanted to sleep a little later than 6 a.m., especially during the summer months when school was out. My dad didn’t mind helping to care of Pierre but he had to hurry and get dressed to go to work in Manhattan. Most days he walked the mile from our house to the railroad station so he had to leave at a certain time. The idea of having us kids take care of Pierre wasn’t working out so well. After a month of living with us in the suburbs we overheard our mom and dad talking and at some point we were told that Pierre had to go back to his home in New York City. We protested and protested but my parents wouldn’t change their minds. We tried using logic and we tried pleading but nothing worked. One Sunday shortly afterwards Joe and Sally drove up in their car and when Pierre heard them walking up to our front door, he got so excited. I remember seeing his tail wagging back and forth and he jumped up to be petted by Joe and Sally as soon as they entered

our house. They sat down and we all chatted for a while. They had lunch with us that day and we told Joe and Sally about some of the things Pierre had done while living in Rockville Centre. Pierre ran around the back yard with us and sometimes he would hide behind bushes hoping that he would fool us. When we threw him a tennis ball, he would catch it then prance around the yard like a proud puppy. When the time came, we handed Pierre’s leash, food and water bowls, and his favorite blankets back over. We disliked having to give him up but when we saw him reunited with Joe and Sally, we knew how much he really loved them. I remember giving Pierre one last long hug before he hopped in his car, the one he was the most familiar with, and headed back to his Park Ave. apartment.

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In high school and college I worked for a certified public accountant (CPA) - part-time when I was in school and full-time during the summer breaks and whenever I was home for long weekends. I was the CPA’s first secretary. I answered the phones, booked appointments for him, greeted the visitors/ customers, did the billing, ordered supplies and kept things running smoothly especially at tax time. He eventually hired a college kid as his junior accountant. I became his junior bookkeeper and in time he hired another secretary. My boss had worked at one of the Big 5 accounting firms in Manhattan, gotten some experience and

then set up his own shop. He wanted to be his own boss. His office was over a bank in a strip of stores that was conveniently located near the LIRR station in Rockville Centre. It was just a few blocks away from St. Agnes Cathedral High School which I attended so I could walk to work right after school ended each day. The four of us would celebrate our birthdays and other special occasions at lunchtime at various local restaurants. On regular days we would either brown bag it or I would order a pizza or sandwiches from a deli then I would walk over to pick up the food. Every so often I’d hear a LIRR train pulling in or out of the station across the way. Looking up, I’d wonder where everyone was going. I always thought that they seemed so purposeful as they hustled in and out of the train station every day. With my active imagination, I figured that they were heading to their perfect jobs or catching the train to spend the day with relatives they hadn’t seen in a while. After daydreaming for a few minutes I would tell myself to get back to work. My boss would park his car across the street and on days when the weather was glorious, when I would feel the sun on my skin and a gentle breeze in the air, he would ask me to take his car for a spin and get the car washed in the next town over. He had a brand new Audi with a standard shift on the floor. No problem. I had learned how to drive a standard shift on the column in my parents’ Chevy Impala. My dad, who was in many aspects a practical man, had

taught all six of us kids how to drive that way. When I first got my learner’s permit and approached this standard shift on the column in my parents’ Chevy Impala I thought it was old fashioned and out of style. I thought that it “wasn’t cool.” All of my friends were learning how to drive on an automatic transmission. As a youngster I had questioned it since driving an automatic transmission seemed so much easier. But in my boss’ car I thought that his standard shift Audi was cool. Sitting in the driver’s seat of that Audi I’d adjust the seat since my boss was six feet tall and I wasn’t, adjust the mirrors, depress the clutch pedal, shift and get going. Zipping along the side streets, I’d often pretend that I was the boss and that I owned that beautiful car but then I’d come back down to reality. I also appreciated the fact that I was comfortable driving a standard shift transmission car - a brand new car, at that - because I realized that it was a talent that not everyone had acquired. These days when I rent a car when I’m on vacation in a different city, I have no problem taking either a standard or an automatic car. I was a future accounting major so I learned a lot during the four years that I worked in the accounting office. After college I left Rockville Centre to explore other lands. I was excited about exploring the great, big world beyond. I knew that it was time to learn new things.

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Fall Getaway in the Great Northern Catskills: Frederick Edwin Church’s Olana C ontinued from page D5 showcase and support. There are also portraits of Church, his father, Joseph, who became a director of the Aetna Life Insurance Company and Church’s wife – all painted by other artists since Church never painted portraits. In my mind, it suggests the humility of the man. Preserving Olana After Church died, his art (along with the Hudson River School) fell out of favor. And when, in 1964 Church’s daughter-in-law died, the fate of Olana was thrown into question. David Huntington, an art historian, organized a preservation group to buy Olana and got the heirs to agree to give the group two years to come up with the funds to buy Olana.

“The house was going to be dismantled – the items had already been tagged for auction at Sotheby’s,” Mark Prezorsky, landscape curator, says. “The Hudson School was out of style. You could buy a Cole at a garage sale.” Indeed, the 1960s was not a good time for Victorian architecture – it was a time for sweeping away the “old” for the new, a period of anti-establishment frenzy. Cole’s home, Cedar Grove, for example, was put up for auction – all the possessions were sold off – and might have been knocked down altogether to make way for the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. The Catskill Mountain House which dated from 1824 and figured in many of the Hudson River School paintings, he pointedly notes was burned down in 1963.

But Huntington, the art historian, “was able to see what Olana was.” The preservation group raised the $430,000 purchase price just by the deadline with 10 cents to spare. But now that they owned the house, the problem was affording to maintain it. New York State in astonishing short order had Olana declared a state historic site – the resolution went through three readings in the Assembly and Senate in a single day and Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew by helicopter to Olana for the bill signing. The site is now owned and operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Olana is one of first anywhere to have a preserved “viewshed” (Monticello is another) – arguing the need to preserve the view helped defeat a plan to build a

nuclear power plant on the Hudson. “The farm is a big part of Olana,” Prezorsky, the landscape curator, says. “The way we experience it is how move through it –the views open up….. He composed his home as artistic masterpiece in midst of nature. This is one of the few farms where art and farming intersect.” Church had a 10-acre lake hand-dug as part of the design “before machinery; he sold off “muck” for profit.” Church, he says, was a very practical man; he wanted the farm to be a sustainable enterprise. He planted some 50,000 trees. Thanks largely to the preservation of Olana and the Thomas Cole House, the Hudson River School regained its place in American history and culture. Olana awakened a sense of pride in scenery and conservation.

Olana resuscitated an appreciation for Church’s art. In 1979, Frederick Church’s “The Icebergs” - discovered in a home for boys in Manchester, England - broke the record for an American painting, selling at auction for $2.5 million. Olana offers house tours from April through October (closed Mondays), and on weekends November through March. Reservations are highly recommended; there is a car fee on weekends and holidays, and a fee for the house tour. Plan your visit and see a schedule of special events, at olana.org. Olana State Historic Site, 5720 Route 9G, Hudson, NY 12534, 518-8280135, olana.org. The Hudson River School Art Trail, a project of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, has 8 trail sites; during the course of my three-day getaway, I get to experience six of them. Get maps and directions for all the sites on the Hudson River School Art Trail site, www.hudsonriverschool.org.

A great place to stay: The Fairlawn Inn, a historic bed-and-breakfast, 7872 Main Street (Hwy 23A), Hunter, NY 12442, 518-263-5025, www.fairlawninn. com. Further help planning a visit is available from Greene County Tourism, 700 Rte 23B, Leeds, NY 12451, 800-355-CATS, 518-943-3223, www. greatnortherncatskills.com and its fall hub www.greatnortherncatskills.com/ catskills-fall-foliage _______________________ © 2017 Travel Features Syndicate, a division of Workstyles, Inc. All rights reserved. Visit goingplacesfarandnear. com, www.huffingtonpost. com/author/karen-rubin , and travelwritersmagazine.com/ TravelFeaturesSyndicate/. Blogging at goingplacesnearandfar.wordpress. com and moralcompasstravel.info. Send comments or questions to FamTravLtr@ aol.com. Tweet @TravelFeatures. ‘Like’ us at facebook.com/NewsPhotoFeatures

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OFFICE SPACE GARDEN CITY 1565 FRANKLIN AVE Large Windowed Offices in newly built professional suite. Conference room, reception, copier, pantry included. Ample parking available. Call 516-248-3048 WILLISTON PARK 1300sf. office space avail on Hillside Ave. Prof building, parking lot, close to RR & parkways. Full commission paid. Call Tony 516248-4080.

VACATION RENTAL THE HEART OF MIAMI BEACH: 2 Bedroom Condo for rent in February and March. Close to all with ocean and bay views. Master suite with bathroom and second bedroom with bathroom. Pool/Jacuzzi and private gym in building. Serious interest. Please call 347-386-2051

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POCONO WATERFRONT 1300 sf of Original Cabin Like feeling overlooking Motorized Lake Harmony. Bring all your boats & toys. Great investment for 3 families that love to enjoy the mountains, motor boating, fishing, skiing, hiking & much more. Best spot on the lake for fishing. Comes w/3 Docks, 1 House & 4 Lots. 198 S. Lake Drive Lake Harmony, PA 18624

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Brand New Homes On private cul-de-sac (Kings Court) Use 28 Old Northport Rd For GPS Smithtown CSD #5 3240 sq ft, 5 BR, 3.5 Bths, Hardwood Floors throughout, Fireplace, Crown Moldings, Central Air, 9 ft Ceilings, SS Appliances & Granite Counters

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LOTS FOR SALE LAND FOR SALE SCHENECTADY COUNTY 14.7 acres beautiful view $41,000 7.1 acres views $29,000 2.9 acres great view $24,000 Owner financing www.helderbergrealty.com 518-8616541 or 518-256-6344

SERVICES BOOKKEEPING SERVICES performed by Big 4 experienced accountant for individuals and small businesses. Professional. Competitive. Precise. Email: B3LLC@outlook.com for more information. PROFESSIONAL WRITING ASSISTANCE Professional writing assistance with college essay, student curriculum vitae, employment resume, applicant cover letter and LinkedIn profile. Contact: rgreco8888@gmail.com for more information.

AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 25year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 GEM BASEMENT DOCTOR: One stop for all your home improvement needs! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown, wainscoting molding, closets, doors, windows, sheetrock, painting, siding, decks power washed, stained and built. 516-623-9822

GRACE ROOFING: Est. 1977. Slate, tile roof specialist, flat roofs, asphalt and wood shingle roofs, gutters and leaders cleaned and replaced, professional new roof installation. Free estimates, expert leak repairs, lic / Ins, local references, residential/ commercial. 516753-0268 LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard. 646-996-7628 MASONRY All types of stonework Pavers, Retaining Walls, Belgium Block Patios, Foundations, Seal coating, Concrete and Asphalt driveways, Sidewalks, Steps. Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured #H2219010000 Boceski Masonry Louie 516-850-4886 ROOF LEAKS REPAIRED Slate Roof Specialist. Copper Flashings. Snow Guards. Aluminum Trim & Siding. No Sub-Contractors. Nassau Lic# H1859520000. B.C. Roofing 631-496-9711. Text or call owner direct: 516-983-0860 SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain / rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience. 631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

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PAINTING & PAPERHANGING JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing. Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378 PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING: Interior/Exterior. Fall Specials! Call Steve cell 972998-8573

PARTY HELP LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

TUTORING AP BIOLOGY tutor using the Campbell or Sadava books. I use the test banks to show you what you are weak in and will review each topic and chapter with you. This is a pathway to a 5! Ephraim Himelstein 516384-9865. ephraimhimelstein@ gmail.com

MATH TUTOR Middle School Math Teacher at a local district available to tutor your child at reasonable rates in all Math through Algebra CC. A Garden City resident who has enjoyed working with children for many years. Flexible scheduling and location. Please call 516-395-5280 MATH TUTOR: TEACHING CONTENT, CONCEPTS & UNDERSTANDING Experienced tutor available for SAT (I and II), Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, PreCalc, AP Calc and Statistics. Call Richard (MS,MBA) 516-567-1512 or email: rschiller@molloy.edu

SERVICES TUTORING MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, Pre-Calc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314 ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314 SPANISH TUTOR: CERTIFIED and currently employed High School Spanish Teacher. Experienced in all levels of Spanish including: Middle School, High School Spanish Levels 1-5, AP Spanish & College Level Spanish. Experienced with tutoring Chaminade students and most school Districts. Will provide references from other parents. Excellent results. Please phone 516-655-8194 or email: mmiller@emufsd.us SPANISH TUTOR: There is a difference. Over 30 years of teaching and tutoring all levels, flexible scheduling, periodic contact with child’s teacher if required. Experienced, dedicated, flexible, collaborative, William Cullen, M.A. Spanish. Call /text 516-509-8174 wdctutor@aol. com

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We are looking for articles on local topics, opinions, ideas, nice places to visit on Long Island, and even fiction. In our Discover magazine section, we will try to feature one new article and writer each week. Each writer will be reimbursed a stipend of $25.00, and articles should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words. If you want to be published and be part of an issue of Discovery, you may submit your article to: editor@gcnews.com

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Please join Last Hope Animal Rescue on Sunday, November 12th for Brunch at Paddy’s Loft located at 1286 Hicksville Road, Massapequa from 12-3PM. There will also be Raffles and Chinese Auction baskets.

Proceeds from this event will help to offset costs incurred from the many special surgeries and treatments our dogs and cats received this year. Tickets are $40 each and can be purchased using our PayPal link, or by mailing in your check. Please visit our website, http://lasthopeanimalrescue.org/join-usfor-a-fall-brunch/ for mailing or more information. Sponsorship opportunities that can also be purchased through PayPal include: Bronze – $150 and includes one ticket for brunch. Silver – $250 – includes two tickets for brunch. Gold – $500 – includes four brunch tickets.

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From page 7 first thing to have done for an ethics committee. As an attorney I would say the Ethics Committee has no jurisdiction over a candidate. If I was in office that is one thing. The paperwork sent to me was improper and it was dated 2016. I was not a candidate in 2016 and I can tell you under oath I’ve had no course of dealings with the Town of Oyster Bay, and nobody I know, not family nor friends, makes a dime off the Town of Oyster Bay and that should be good enough. But as a private attorney and candidate now why should the Ethics Board review my private clients – that is far overreaching if not unconstitutional. A sworn statement that I do not do any business with the town should be satisfying the requirements they are looking for and I have no objection to submitting that,” Mangelli said. Democratic Candidate for Council Bob Freier says the matter comes down to Town Of Oyster Bay Code. “If I am elected part of the job is to enforce our town code whether I agree with it or not. In June I received the financial disclosures form from the Ethics Board with a copy of the town’s code in there saying as a candidate I had to complete it. It is not my job to protest it, whether I agree with it or not that is the rule and I played by the rules and I filled it out. I am an open book and not trying to hide anything as I have no conflicts of interest with the town,” Freier explained. He agreed with Mangelli and others that the current Ethics Board “is not necessarily a true ethics board” but he says he could only change that after being elected fairly next month. Councilman Imbroto released his financial disclosure in May, about six weeks after he was appointed to the Town Board. He said he has no problem sharing the information but he commented on the purpose of placing financial disclosure forms in front of candidates. “Since taking office in March we’ve been looking for ways to increase transparency and clean up the corruption some of the corruption that existed before we got on the Town Board. One way we have done that is beefing up the financial disclosure requirements – every TOBAY employee, every elected official, every appointee, and every candidate can tell the public where they make their money and the public can decide. Our Ethics Board is independent and bipartisan and can decide if there’s any conflicts of interest. You need to know who is paying your public employees and officials so that you can know if they’re making decisions in the best interests of the public or best interests of themselves. We have to make sure everybody knows where everyone’s source of income is so you can be confident in government and know people make decisions for the right reasons. This is a part of restoring the

public’s trust in their town government which was unfortunately damaged by the prior administration,” Imbroto said on Monday. Besides the new requirements and involvement of the Board of Ethics, Councilman Imbroto says creating a new position of Inspector General will ballast ethics in the Town of Oyster Bay. Eva Pearson, Democratic candidate for Town Council, is a New York State employee and she said her salary information is easily available online. Like her running mate Freier, Pearson filed the financial disclosure document with the Town’s Ethics Board “because I am a candidate and that’s what we do,” but she questioned the initiative for transparency as Imbroto described in the Plainview forum and overall function of the Board of Ethics. “There’s a clear lack of transparency. The secretary of the Town Ethics Board happens to be an officer in the Farmingdale Republicans Club. That is not so questionable in and of itself, but the fact the Farmingdale Republicans Club has the same P.O. Box as “Citizens for Saladino” to me seems unethical. Another member of the Farmingdale Republicans Club is the Deputy Supervisor for the Town of Oyster Bay Greg Carman – you tell me how ethical is this Ethics Board? The other thing we have heard is the temporary suspension of mailers coming to our doors. This cost taxpayers $300,000 to $400,000 in total and reportedly the Ethics Board said these were okay. Let’s not revere the Ethics Board as some sort of platform for transparency with the Town of Oyster Bay,” she said, bringing on a loud round of applause. At the Plainview Middle School debate Monday, moderator Kristin Thorne had to manage responses to claims and statements each candidate lunged forward, as several of them on the stage competed for time on the microphones. Saladino’s challenger Dr. March Herman suggested the current supervisor continue making public appearances: “he can’t even come here and has a substitute (Councilman Imbroto) standing in. If he does not care enough about the community that is his tough luck,” Herman said. Audience members called for just candidates for the Town Supervisor position to answer certain questions. Independent candidate Jonathan Clarke said a start to address the town’s massive debt would be “cutting the fat” by consolidating services with Nassau County divisions; get rid of patronage positions, and eliminating layers of government such as the multiple municipal water districts. “The Town of Oyster Bay fixes roads and takes away the garbage, and there’s not much more to it and that’s the way it should be. It sticks its nose in places it does not belong and the town builds up big bills in the process,” Clarke said. Democratic Candidate for Council Versocki says the Town of Oyster Bay

mirrors Nassau County’s major issue: “a systemically broken system has led to outrageous tax increases. We have faced a 33% tax increase over the last five years as residents of the town. If you look back at the last 20 years the tax increases are in the thousands of percentile. What services do you get from the town or county do you get today in this community that are better than they were 20 years ago? You continue to have a bankrupt township that continues to misrepresent things to its residents to debit. This notion that the Town of Oyster Bay will miraculously come up with $85 million by year-end to pay down on its debt – where exactly did that come from on our Town’s $300 million budget, ask yourself that. If it existed, don’t take our word for it, look at Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s the independent bond ratings agencies they would increase the town’s bond ratings. Oyster Bay’s one notch above junk bond status at one and unrated by the other and our debt service is going up by $10 million next year,” Versocki told the audience in Plainview. He and other Democrats continued to hark on the hundreds of millions of dollars in total Town outstanding debt, which Councilman Imbroto said was closer to $650 million and significantly less than the $850 to $900 million the opponents comment on at campaign stops. Versocki argued that the Town of Oyster Bay has not filed its fiscal stress test documents with the New York State Comptroller’s Office for four consecutive years. “How can you plan to propose a town budget tomorrow (with the Town Board’s October 17 hearings) when you can’t even get the documents together so independent auditors can look at it,” he said. On Monday night Imbroto struck back once more, but maintained that he’s the only candidate not spreading negativity. Before the debate ended and he stood in the auditorium to meet residents, his closing remark alluded to the Town budget hearings scheduled for

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Tuesday morning and evening. “New York State law requires smaller local governments like fire districts and water districts to do their borrowing through the Town of Oyster Bay. The town approves their financing and our review is basically limited to ‘cand they afford to borrow this money.’ That debt is not town debt that we are responsible for paying back – the Town of Oyster Bay’s debt still is very high, not over $800 million but about $650 million. Since taking office six months ago we have reduced the town’s debt by $70 million and we are on track to reduce it by $85 million by December 31. Our proposed budget for 2018 decreases the town debt by another $50 million and this would equal a 22% reduction in our town debt in just a year-and-a-half. I think that is pretty good but our opponents are obsessed with the past and looking backwards, talking about what happened before the current Council members were appointed. We are showing the way forward by being fiscally responsible since taking office – we are going to be there to pay it down and fix the town’s finances. We have done that by freezing borrowing, planning new efficiencies and finding new sources for revenue like single-stream recycling,” Imbroto said. Bob Freier’s reply was simple but it connected with the majority of the audience. He held up a document to show the town’s borrowing of over $49 million on June 27 of this year, and asked “how can you believe anything Councilman Imbroto says? The Town of Oyster Bay is the only municipality on Long Island that did not submit to the fiscal stress test from the State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli – do you think it’s due to the election coming in three weeks? They do not want you to see the real finances of the town,” Freier said. He and the other Democrat candidates say they will immediately institute a “searchable” town spending website if elected November 7, to eradicate the lack of transparency they perceive today.

Town Parklets to receive upgrades

From page 1 She said that Ellsworth Allen Park in Farmingdale will have some of the most extensive work done with a brand new playground mat being installed in

the spring. Supervisor Saladino said that the neBarring any weather delays, the upgrades to the parks should be completed within the month.

Haunted Village attractions From page 1 open the doors to the haunted village. Some early arriving guests to the village included five year old Caroline Rubin and her four year old brother Thomas from Lindenhurst. When asked what her favorite part of the Halloween season is, Caroline said that she enjoyed pumpkin picking

the best. Thomas said that he loves haunted houses and can’t wait to go inside to see all of its creepy denizens. “I am excited to see the monsters but I just want to let them know I’m not scared of them,” said Thomas.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU LNV CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST ALLISON ALBERT, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 03, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on October 31, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 106 IRA ROAD, SYOSSET, NY 11791. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Syosset, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 15, BLOCK 105, LOT 0008. Approximate amount of judgment $523,429.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 851/2012. Francis X. Mcquade Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 SYO 4091 4X 09/29,10/6,13,20 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK, N.A. AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2012 SC2 TITLE TRUST, Plaintiff AGAINST DONNA NEGRI ADMINISTRATRIX AND HEIR OF THE ESTATE OF LUCILLE TULIMIERO WHO WAS THE SURVIVING SPOUSE OF DOMINICK TULMIERO AND, LUANNE ROZRAN AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF LUCILLE TULMIERO WHO WAS THE SURVIVING SPOUSE OF DOMINICK TULMIERO, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 15, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on November 14, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 6 MARSAK LANE, SYOSSET, NY 11791. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with

the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being near Syosset, in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 15, BLOCK 151, LOT 5. Approximate amount of judgment $891,030.75 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index #14-009859. Dominic A Villoni, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 SYO 4094 4X 10/13,20,27,11/03 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU EMIGRANT BANK (FORMERLY KNOWN AS EMIGRANT SAVINGS BANK AND NEW YORK PRIVATE BANK & TRUST), Plaintiff -against- CAROLINE ARONSON, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein on April 12, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at (CCP) Calendar Control Part Court Room of the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY on November 14, 2017 at 11:30 a.m. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Syosset, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, known and designated as Section 25 Block 54 and Lot 16 Said premises known as 52 STRATFORD PLACE, SYOSSET, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Index Number 13660/2012. JAMES PANOS, ESQ., Referee STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300, Garden City, NY 11530 SYO 4095 4X 10/13, 20, 27; 11/3 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU EMIGRANT SAVINGS BANK-LONG ISLAND Plaintiff -against- ADELAIDE DEWHURST RICKERT a/k/a ADELAIDE RICKERT and

MARIANNE MANSOOR,, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated January 8, 2014, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at (CCP) Calendar Control Part Court Room of the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY on November 14, 2017 at 11:30 a.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Oyster Bay Cove, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York; known and designated as Section: 27 Block: D Lots: 30 & 31. Said premises known as 30 COVE WOODS ROAD, OYSTER BAY, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Index Number 22826/2010. RALPH MADALENA, ESQ., Referee STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300, Garden City, NY 11530 {* SYOSSET AD*} SYO 4096 4X 10/13,20,27,11/03 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST James Wang a/k/a James Y.A. Wang; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 7, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau County Supreme Court, Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on November 14, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 37 Carriage House Drive Unit 37, Jericho, NY 11753. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of NY, Section 17. Block 015 Lot 29 Unit #37 a/k/a Section 17 Block 015 Lot 29U CA 0061-37. Approximate amount

of judgment $483,805.14 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 15-003401. Alison Varley, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: September 13, 2017 SYO 4097 4X 10/13,20,27,11/03 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I TRUST 2004-AC4 ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-AC4, Plaintiff AGAINST MARY FRANZINI, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 28, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on November 14, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 10 RICHARD LANE, SYOSSET, NY 11791. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 15, BLOCK 147, LOT 27. Approximate amount of judgment $694,180.16 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 14-000115. Ralph John Madalena, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 SYO 4098 4X 10/13,20,27,11/03 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR WELLS FARGO ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-

2, Plaintiff, AGAINST VALMIRO L. DONADO, HAYDEL DEBERLE DONADO, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered April 22, 2016 I the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the CCP (Calendar Control Part Courtroom) in the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on November 14, 2017 at 11:30 AM premises known as 73 CONVENT ROAD, SYOSSET, NY 11791 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York. Section 15, Block 75 and Lot 40 Approximate amount of judgment $850,736.16 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #12603/08 HARRY GEORGE, ESQ. , Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff – 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 SYO 4099 4X 10/13,20,27,11/03 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT, NASSAU COUNTY, WB KIRBY HILL LLC, Plaintiff v. ERIC KUVYKIN and SVETLANA SHNEYDERSHTEYNKUVYKIN, et al, Defendants. Index No. 14-4475. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated September 8, 2017 and duly entered herein on September 25, 2017 (the “Judgment”), I, the undersigned Referee in said Judgment will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the Calendar Control Part Courtroom of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York 11501 on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 11:30 A.M., the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold. The premises therein described are situated in the Village of Muttontown, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau, State of New York, known as and by the street number 11 Mansion Hill Drive, Syosset, New York, designated See page 19

BY GINA JAMES On Friday September 29th, Berry Hill Elementary School had their annual PRIDE Kick Off. The Berry Hill PTA gifted all students and staff with new t-shirts to reflect this year’s PRIDE theme, Berry Hill PRIDE Warriors. PRIDE is an acronym for Patience, Respect, Integrity, Dignity, and Empathy. The PRIDE program is a joint effort by the school staff and the

PTA geared to teach the children these important principles. To kick off PRIDE, all students enjoyed the “Bully Schmully” assembly program hosted by Eric Herman. “Bully Schmully” presents a powerfully effective approach to the subject of bullying. The program focuses on helping victims of bullying by giving them the tools they need to respond to situations of criticism with humor. The program empowers them to be more

self confident and diplomatic and also deflates the intended effort of those who are mocking. Also, as a special treat the students were greeted by US Marine Jonah DiMaggio. Jonah is the son of Robin DiMaggio, a wonderful kindergarten

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Berry Hill’s PRIDE Kick Off

teacher at Berry Hill. He spoke to the students and led them all in the Pledge of Allegiance. It was a very special and unifying moment for all in attendance. It was great day and all the students and staff look forward to a great year full of PRIDE ahead.

The “Bully Schmully” assembly was big hit and used humor as a way to deal with uncomfortable “bullying” situations.

Students at Berry Hill loved their new PRIDE t-shirts.

Students enjoyed listening to US Marine Jonah DiMaggio, speak to them about PRIDE.

The students were very engaged during the “Bully Schmully” progam.

LEGAL NOTICES From page 18 as Section 15, Block 206, Lot 80 and more fully described in the Judgment. Premises will be sold subject to the provisions of the Judgment, Index No. 14-4775 and the Terms of Sale, all of which are available from plaintiff’s counsel upon request. The approximate amount of Judgment is $3,432,193.32 plus interest and costs as provided in the Judgment. The successful bidder will be required to

deposit 10% of the bid by certified or official bank check, unendorsed, made payable to the Referee. Jane Shrenkel, Esq., Referee (516) 825-2472. Rosenberg Fortuna & Laitman, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 666 Old Country Road, Suite 810, Garden City, New York 11530 (516) 228-6666, Attention: Anthony R. Filosa, Esq. SYO 4100 6X 10/20,27,11/03,10,17,24 NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU PHH Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff AGAINST Kathleen Maloney Pertew a/k/a Kathleen M. Pertew a/k/a Kathleen Pertew; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated September 6, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau County Supreme Court,

Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on November 21, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 106 Susan Cove, East Norwich, NY 11732. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of NY, Section 24 Block 8 Lot 15. Approximate amount of judgment $410,738.61 plus interest

and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 10/016171. John P. Clarke, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: September 29, 2017 SYO 4101 4X 10/20,27,11/03,11/10

Friday, October 20, 2017

Sy-Con at the Syosset Library BY JESSIKAH CHAUTIN

On Saturday, September 16, Syosset Library opened its doors at 9 AM. The usual time. However, as the crowds poured in, they found that their library had been transformed into a pop culture themed extravaganza. In the spirit of the ComicCons of San Diego and Manhattan, Sy-Con rolled into the community giving local people a chance to take part in one of these high energy events located in their own backyard. The main floor had become an Artist’s Alley, where crafters showcased their talents in the form of pop-culture soaps and candles, and

even video game themed jewelry. Off to the side stood several booths where visitors of all ages were able to shake hands with Kylo Ren and several other professionally costumed Star Wars characters. A green screen photo booth provided a place where the guests could strike a pose in front of a backdrop of their choice. Prints were immediately available to take home. Early in the day, audiences listened to guest speakers discuss the process of publishing a science fiction novel and heard a history of J.K. Rowling and the creation of Harry Potter. By midday, the cosplay (costume) contest kicked off, opening the stage to guests age 3 year

to adults, who came to show off their favorite costumes for a chance to win a prize. Some of the featured costumes ranged from more well-known characters such as Darth Vader or Wonder Woman. Others chose to dress as lesser known characters, like Squirrel Girl, or a character from Broadway’s hit Dear Evan Hansen. Impressively, many of the costumes were handmade. The downstairs level of the library held two game rooms, one packed with tabletop favorites such as Bananagrams and Dungeons and Dragons. The other became a virtual arcade where “retro” game systems like Atari and the original Nintendo allowed parents and children to play their favorite games from eras past. Other treats on the lower level included a presentation on how a young woman who loved manga (Japanese comic books) as a teen used her passion to launch a successful career in translation. Later, a published comic book author led a workshop on making comics. The day ended here with a fast paced trivia session which saw competitors whose generations spanned from teen to baby boomer. Together, they

Adult cosplay was a thing.

Captain America and Ironman

The Children’s Room

There were many Jedi knights

went head to head in a chance to show off their knowledge on a wide range of topics. All the while, nearly 70 visitors came by throughout the day to sit quietly and enjoy a smaller space where we screened anime – or Japanese cartoons. And of course, the children’s room was bustling as the busy children’s librarians and teen volunteers helped little ones create superhero capes, masks, and sculpt various candies to look like sushi -- while “The Museum of Interesting Things” displayed a traveling exhibit, offering a place where small hands could touch and examine the toys from long ago. Syosset is a large diverse community with a deep investment in their families, education, and their library. Sy-Con provided a place where everyone could come together and share their love of all things pop culture. It was a common ground. Many attendees were millennials, adults in their 20’s and early 30’s who are often difficult to encourage to attend library programming. It was estimated that over 2,700 people came to our library on that Saturday. The feedback was overwhelmingly

positive and smiles were everywhere. By the time the day was done, several patrons had already asked when the next event would be. Stories were told, art was created, and inspiration was kindled. Many left that day having learned something new while forging

friendships. This is what we do. This is what we have always done. Sy-Con is just a new way of bringing such engagement to our population. And still -- the upper two floors provided a quiet place for people to study. Books were checked out. Questions were answered. We car-

Gamers had a great time.

A 32-year-old man from Hempstead was arrested at 12:30 p.m. on September 28 and charged with Shoplifting from Macy’s in East Garden City. n

On Merrick Avenue in Westbury, three subjects were arrested on September 28 at 9:30 p.m. Charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana were two 19-year-old men, one from New Cassel and one from Westbury, and a 20-year-old man from New Cassel. n

A 35-year-old man from Woodbury was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on Old Northern Boulevard in Roslyn at 12:01 a.m. on September 29. n

A 3:30 p.m. on September 29, a 37-year-old woman from Whitestone was arrested and charged with Shoplifting from Sephora in East Garden City. n

At Bloomingdale’s in East Garden City, a 56-year-old man from Hempstead was arrested and charged with Shoplifting at 7:15 p.m. on September 29. n

Driving While Intoxicated was the charge brought against a 33-year-old woman from Seaford on September 30 at 12:01 a.m. when she was stopped on Plandome Road in Manhasset. n

At 12:14 a.m. on September 30, a 31-year-old man from Great Neck was

nerds – libraries are the future of these conventions.” In this context --what might seem like a great journey for the library and its staff, and the community, really it is as if we are all coming home.

Artists Alley was a popular feature

Incidents that have occurred recently in the local area include:

ried on as we always have, but with a bit extra on this one day. One artist commented that public libraries were his favorite place to attend a convention. “When you think about it, librarians are the original

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Sy-Con at the Syosset Library

THE POLICE BLOTTER

arrested. He was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on the Service Road of the Long Island Expressway in North Hills. n

A 24-year-old man from Merrick was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on the Long Island Expressway at Exit 39 in East Hills at 4:05 a.m. on September 30. n

A 30-year-old man from New Cassel was arrested at 10:45 p.m. on September 30 at the corner of Hempstead Turnpike and Merrick Avenue in East Meadow. He was charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana. n

On Sycamore Street in West Hempstead, a complainant reports that the rear window of his vehicle was damaged by a wine cooler bottle between 11 p.m. on September 30 and 9 a.m. the next morning. n

At the intersection of Glen Cove Road and Northern Boulevard in Greenvale, a 47-year-old man from Manhasset was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on October 1 at 1:10 a.m. n

On Roslyn Road at Powerhouse Road in Roslyn Heights, a 48-year-old woman from Syosset was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated at 1:45 a.m. on October 1. n

At 1:55 a.m. on October 1, a 32-yearold woman from Glen Head was arrested on Main Street in Roslyn. She was charged with Driving While

Intoxicated.

West Hempstead. n

A 27-year-old man from Far Rockaway was arrested on the Long Island Expressway at Exit 37in Roslyn at 5:07 a.m. on October 1 and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. n

At 7:54 a.m. on October 1, a 23-yearold man from West Hempstead was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated at the intersection of Theresa Avenue and Dunster Drive in that town. n

A 41-year-old woman from Brooklyn was arrested and charged with Shoplifting from Bloomingdale’s in East Garden City at 1:57 p.m. on October 1. n

At 6:30 p.m. on October 1, a 22-yearold man from Brooklyn was arrested and charged with Shoplifting from Macy’s in East Garden City. n

A 62-year-old man from Rockville Centre was arrested on October 1 on Hempstead Avenue at Westminster Road in West Hempstead. He was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. n

At the intersection of Glen Head Road and Glen Cove Avenue in Glen Head, a 27-year-old man from Great Neck Plaza was arrested. He was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. n

Sometime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on October 2, the rear driver’s side window of a victim’s vehicle was found to have been broken on Arthur Street in

On Mineola Avenue in Roslyn Heights, a 25-year-old man from Port Washington was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on October 2 at 1:25 a.m. n

At Lowes in East Garden City, a 69-year-old woman from East Hills was arrested and charged with Shoplifting at 9:53 a.m. on October 2. n

At 10:05 p.m. on October 2, two 21-year-old men, residents of Queens Village and Floral Park, were arrested in a parking lot on Old Country Road in Westbury and were charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana. n

At Macy’s on Old Country Road in Garden City, a 37-year-old man from Plainview was arrested and was charged with Shoplifting at 5:20 p.m. on October 3. n

On Westbury Avenue in Carle Place, a 35-year-old woman from Daytona Beach was arrested and was charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana on October 3 at 10:51 p.m. n

At the corner of Merchants Concourse and Corporate Drive in Westbury, a 19-year-old man from New Cassel was arrested and was charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana at 1:04 a.m. on October 4. -Compiled by Kate and Meg Meyer

Friday, October 20, 2017

Robert Seaman Fall Harvest Sale BY DARLENE PERGOLA-APOLANT

On Friday October 6th, The Robert Seaman PTA hosted its 2nd Annual Fall Harvest sale! Fall is here and the flowers of the season are in bloom. Mums, cabbages, pumpkins, and solar wicked gadgets were all available for the students to purchase. Parents and other family members came to help pick out goodies to bring home! The sunny weather and smiles on the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; faces while they shopped made the day a treat for everyone.

Blooming buddies

Feeling festive!

Mums for mom!

This oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for dad!

Ahhhh... enjoying a break to shop.

This one is perfect!

Enjoying the plant sale with my BFF

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Syosset Real Estate Market Conditions •

Median sales price

$690,000

Demographics near Syosset, NY City

Population

County

18,872

1,361,350

3,794

4,744

42.2

41.3

Median Household Income

140,915

98,401

Average Income per Capita

59,140

42,949

Population Density Median Age People per Household

Sold Price: $738,000 Date: 07/24/2017 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Raised Ranch # of Families: 1

Lot Size: 83x108 Schools: Jericho Total Taxes: $19,341 MLS# 2940372

8 Richard Lane, Syosset Sold Price: $685,000 Date: 09/25/2017 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Split # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 100x100 Schools: Syosset Total Taxes: $13,435

5 Warren Lane, Jericho 39 Pickwick Drive, Syosset Sold Price: $640,000 Date: 08/25/2017 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Split # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 70x100 Schools: Syosset Total Taxes: $14,744 MLS# 2943339

Sold Price: $1,200,000 Date: 09/15/2017 5 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1

50 Oyster Bay Road, Jericho Sold Price: $650,000 Date: 09/27/2017 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 0.31 Schools: Jericho Total Taxes: $13,139 MLS# 2940329

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