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TIMES of MIDDLE COUNTRY C E N T E R E AC H • S E L D E N • L A K E G R O V E N O R T H

Vol. 17, No. 59

June 2, 2022

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Academic excellence

Middle Country School District announces 2022 valedictorians and salutatorians

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elective classes such as fashion design, crafts I and II, and advanced drawing and paintings. After graduation, Isabella plans to focus on her goal of becoming a doctor. She has been accepted to Nova Southeastern University’s Honors College as a neuroscience major. She received dual admission to Dr. Kiran Patel Medical School to pursue her goals. Isabella boasted a weighted GPA of 101.8.

Newfield High School valedictorian Dora John is an academic, extra-curricular, and volunteering superstar. She is the president of the World Language Honor Society, president of G.O, president of the Newfield Wolverine Newspaper, and treasurer of the National Art Honor Society.

The valedictorian is a member of the varsity fencing team, mock trial team, National Honor Society, SADD Club, and Thespian Honor Society, and sits on the Middle Country Legislative Assembly.

Dora volunteered as a techno buddy, a book buddy, and an art buddy through the Middle Country Public Library. She currently sits on the teen advisory council of the public library, serves as a teen book reviewer for the library, and is a hospital volunteer at Stony Brook University Hospital. In the fall, Dora will be attending Cornell University as a Human Biology, Health and Society major. She boasted a weighted GPA of 103.3542 and has the potential to graduate next month with more than 50 college credits.

Newfield High School salutatorian Abu Kalam locked in the number two spot earning him a salutatorian title with a weighted 101.3625 GPA. At the end of his high school journey, Abu will have two college-level and 14 advanced placement classes which combined a total of more than 50 college credits.

Abu has been a member of the varsity tennis team, National Technical Honor Society, National Honor Society, secretary of DECA, and president of the 2022 Senior Class. Outside of school, he earned the Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award for completing 100 hours of community service at Stony Brook University Hospital. In addition, Abu interned through Perry Gershon’s and Jackie Gordon’s campaigns for congress.

Abu is set for Honors College at Stony Brook University in the fall. He will be majoring in economics with the long-term goal of consulting and then entering the world of politics.

For more information regarding the Middle Country Central School District and its students’ many achievements, please visit the District’s website: https://www.mccsd.net/.

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The Middle Country Central School District has officially named its top scholars for the Class of 2022.

Centereach High School announced Nicholas Matter and Isabella Fiore as valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, and Newfield High School announced Dora John and Abu Kalam will be valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, for the Class of 2022.

Centereach High School valedictorian Nicholas Matter is an exceptional and wellrounded student. Upon graduation, he will have completed 12 AP courses with an additional two college-level courses, allowing him to enter college with more than 40 college credits.

Nicholas has never received a score of less than a 4 on any AP test.

Nicholas is a member of the National Honor Society, Tri-M Honor Society, Jazz Band, and the school’s math team, of which he was president last year. He is also an accomplished musician, scoring a perfect six on his most recent New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) solo, and has participated in Suffolk County Music Educators’ Association (SCMEA) performances for the past six years. Nicholas is also a strong athlete. He has been a valuable member of the varsity soccer team for the last two years. He was recognized by Suffolk County as an AllAcademic player this past season. Nicholas has worked at Brookhaven National Lab, where, through their mentoring program, he developed a tool used by other developers to automate testing.

The valedictorian has been accepted and will attend Binghamton University in the fall where he will study computer science. Nicholas boasted a weighted GPA of 102.7.

Centereach High School salutatorian Isabella Fiore is an involved student in her school and community as well as maintaining a stunning academic record. By the end of the school year, she will have completed 11 AP courses along with an additional three college-level courses.

Isabella is a member of the National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, Italian Honor Society, National Technical Honor Society, Distributive Education Clubs of America ( DECA), Environmental Club, and the History Club. She has been a cross country runner, twirls baton, and is a competitive swimmer and lifeguard.

Isabella is well known throughout Centereach High School as a talented artist. She has taken

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An evaluation of seating availability at Port Jefferson train station

BY CAROLYN SACKSTEIN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Since the renovation of Port Jefferson train station in 2019, some previously available seating has been either relocated or removed.

One village resident, who agreed to be interviewed for this story but asked to be unnamed, suggested that a lack of available seating at the station poses an unnecessary burden for the elderly and physically disabled.

“There is no reason we shouldn’t have access to seating, enough of it available to all,” the resident said. “We have to treat all people with dignity. People who are handicapped, those who are paying, the railroad owes us a seat as well as comfort.”

While the indoor ticket area has seating for 12, these seats are available only from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. During the time when the area is closed to the public, outdoor seating becomes limited.

With few options to sit along the platform, some passengers have resorted to sitting on the floor or on the steps of the platform.

Gregory Adams, a resident of Wyandanch, uses a cane to walk. He said the present layout of the train station impedes his ability to sit comfortably while waiting for a train.

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to sit down,” he said. “Not having a place to sit has been a hardship. I have to sit on the steps over there, waiting.”

Historical context

The Port Jefferson station has undergone a series of transformations over the last few decades.

A 2001 restoration of the station returned the facility to its 1903 design by architects John J.

Gregory Adams, above, said the present layout of the train station impedes his ability to sit comfortably.

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Until recently, there was only one designated outdoor seating area at the station, located on the far end of the platform. This enclosure includes a bench with armrests that designate six seats. It is located between the pedestrian bridge, which links the south parking lot to the platform north of the tracks, and the ticketing area.

Village resident Mary Dylan was sitting on the new bench when TBR News Media asked her for a comment. Dylan considered her experience of using the new seating area to be a positive one. “It is nice to see all the new

improvements [at the station] and I particularly like the new bench put there,” she said.

TBR News Media approached several other people at the station for comment on the subject of seating. While most were also unwilling to provide their names, some offered commentary of their own experiences with the facility and its amenities.

The indoor ticketing area is manned by at least one LIRR employee during business hours. Those questioned said the presence of LIRR personnel on-site provided a sense of comfort and security for those sitting indoors.

Other riders said they prefer to wait outside in the fresh air. One person preferred to wait outside as the indoor area is away from public view.

Adams and some other concerned passengers were pleased to learn that the new bench was recently installed outside the ticketing area. The installation of this seating area, which lies on the east side of the ticket office, is an indicator that LIRR is responding to public concerns.

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Hostile architecture

The blurring line between public and private space

‘Our technologies are going to have values built into them. We have to actively decide the values that we want because otherwise, we have these other values creeping in that we may not even notice.’

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM During our investigation of seating shortages at Port Jefferson train station, TBR News Media took a closer look at the emerging field of hostile architecture, a design movement that employs subtle and often harmful means to alter public spaces.

Robert Rosenberger, associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is an expert on the subject of hostile design. He said through architecture, urban designers today can manipulate the environment to ward off certain populations.

“Hostile architecture refers to when objects in public spaces are designed in a way to control those spaces and push out or control the behavior of already vulnerable groups,” he said in a phone interview. “Benches redesigned to deter people from sleeping on them is one of the main examples of hostile architecture, and we mainly see that done through the addition of armrests.”

The issue of hostile architecture was first observed on social media, according to Rosenberger. However, the issue gained traction among journalists and academics is now being explored as its own discipline.

Professor Setha Low is director of The Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She researches hostile design and works with design students to envision public spaces that can be more user-friendly and inclusive.

Hostile architecture is not only disruptive for the individuals that it targets. Low suggests that other vulnerable demographics can also get caught within the crosshairs.

“It doesn’t just make it hostile or unwelcoming for individuals who might want to sleep there,” she said. “It also doesn’t allow older people who might want a place to sit.”

Not all public spaces are equally public and accessible. In cases where hostile design is practiced, public environments can be highly restrictive and unwelcoming, and effectively private.

“Public space is only as public as you make it,” Low said, adding. “There are a lot of ways we privatize environments and many things that can be done to reduce the publicness of the public space.”

Hostilely designed structures can be difficult to identify as they often blend into the built environment. Because they affect only certain populations, those unaffected can be oblivious to the problem.

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The two benches above are the only available outdoor seating areas at Port Jefferson train station. Professor Robert Rosenberger says the armrests along the benches are a common example of hostile design. Photos by Raymond Janis

“People who are not targeted by these designs sometimes don’t even recognize that they are there,” Rosenberger said. “Something that’s interesting about hostile architecture is that once you see it for the first time, you start seeing it everywhere.”

While there are laws regulating public spaces to ensure handicap accessibility, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, there are currently no laws that prohibit hostile architecture. “I don’t see anything at the national or state level where there is some kind of prohibition on this kind of design,” Rosenberger said.

While hostile design most noticeably includes adding materials, such as armrests along public benches, it can also take form through subtraction.

“One of the trends in hostile architecture

is removing objects from spaces rather than adding things to those objects,” Rosenberger said. “It’s a kind of design through removal, an architecture that involves no architecture.” He added, “Even if you are in a space and there are no objects there, that can be a form of hostile design as well.”

For Low, hostile architecture is not a design issue. Rather, it is a human issue which speaks to the ways in which people interact with one another. Architecture, therefore, is merely the reflection of the values of a society.

“I don’t think it’s the architecture going wrong,” she said. “I think we’re in a moment in time when some of the more negative impulses and illiberal activities are being tolerated when they wouldn’t have been in other times.” She added, “How we build our environment — our villages, our benches and everything else — is

directly related to how we view ourselves and our society at that moment.”

Rosenberger sees two principal values embodied by the hostile architecture movement. “The first one would be a kind of technocratic control, a value of controlling spaces and who is in those spaces,” he said.

“The other is a value of washing our hands of that and saying, ‘There’s nothing to see here — the space is innocent.’” He added, “The spaces and the objects are not innocent. They may look innocent, but actually we have values built into that space.”

Low believes public space is always designed with the intent to evoke a certain feeling or experience from the user. For this reason, a public space cannot be innocent or neutral. “The built environment is never neutral,” she said. “How do you feel in different places? Why do you feel that way and what is it in the built environment that is making you feel either encouraged to come or not?”

Rosenberger suggested that to overcome hostile design, a community must first define its own values and then rebuild the environment to express them.

“Our technologies are going to have values built into them,” he said. “We have to actively decide the values that we want because otherwise, we have these other values creeping in that we may not even notice.”

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To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com minimum front yard setback (50’ required – 31’2” from Middle Country Rd., 25’10” from Horseblock Rd. provided); minimum side yard setback (25’ required – 1’ 10” provided); minimum rear yard setback (40’ required – 19’5” provided); maximum FAR (Floor Area Ratio) limitation (25% permitted – 28.06% provided); minimum natural area/landscaping percentage of site (20% or 5,391 sq. ft. required – 5.3% or 1,424 sq. ft. provided; half of required landscaped area required in front yard (2,695.5 sq. ft. required – 1,149 sq. ft. provided); minimum natural area/ landscaping along street frontage (15 ft. required – 0’ provided along Horseblock Rd.; parking area shall be screened with hedge, berm and/or decorative wall or fence (none provided in some areas); amount of parking (14 stalls required – 4 stalls provided); parking in required front yard prohibited (Middle Country Rd. – 50 ft. required – 27’3” provided to finishing area and Horseblock Rd. 50 ft. required – 0’ provided to queuing area. (0200 48700 0400 001001)

Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

LEGAL NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT:

DATED: May 24, 2022 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, on the 24th day of May, 2022, subject to a permissive referendum as provided for by Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law.

BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN ATTEST: MARION WARREN Secretary 8884 6/2 1x tmc

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN

An extract of the resolution is as follows: The SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Repair, New and Rebuilt Apparatus, Equipment and Communication known as Capital Reserve #2 under Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law in which account there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, the purchase of a 2022 Ford F550 4x4 Crew Chassis, and it proposed to contract for such purchase in order to maintain the high standards of performance of the SELDEN FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said purchase is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund #2 of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed Seventy Five Thousand ($75,000.00) Dollars for the purchase, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such purchase.

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE IV, SEC. 85-55 (B) OF THE BUILDING ZONE ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS WILL HOLD A WORKSESSION ON JUNE 6, 2022 (BZA CONFERENCE ROOM – 1ST FLOOR) AT 3:00 P.M. AND A PUBLIC HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 (2ND FLOOR AUDITORIUM) COMMENCING AT 2:00 P.M. AT ONE INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH OPEN MEETINGS LAW, SAID PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE LIVE ST R E AME D OV E R THE INTERNET AT http:// b r o o k h av e n t o w n ny. i g m 2 . com/Citizens/Default.aspx, TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING: TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY 3. Ron Kass CLK Realty Inc., 1830 Middle Country Rd., Centereach, NY. Location: Southeast corner Middle Country Rd. and Horseblock Rd., Centereach.

Applicant requests the following relief for proposed additions and alterations to car wash: minimum lot area (65,000’ required – 26,955’ provided); minimum lot width throughout (150’ required – 128.8’ provided);

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4. Ron Kass CLK Realty Inc., 1830 Middle Country Rd., Centereach, NY. Location: Southeast corner Middle Country Rd. and Horseblock Rd., Centereach.

Applicant requests height variance for proposed 13’ high 88 sq. ft. ground sign (12’ high 24 sq. ft. permitted); permission for said sign to be located less than the required 17’ from Middle Country Rd. (4’8” provided); also, height variances for two proposed 20’2” high wall signs (18’ high permitted).

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5. Angela Zozimo, 4 Vining St., Centereach, NY. Location: South side Ormond Ave. 120’ East of Adirondack Dr., Selden. Applicant requests division of a parcel into 2 plots, 1 & 2,

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The following incidents have been reported by Suffolk County Police: East Setauket Wanted for questioning ■ Walmart on Nesconset Highway in East

Setauket reported that two women entered the store on May 28 and allegedly stole miscellaneous clothing items valued at approximately $150.

■ BJ’s Wholesale Club on Nesconset

Highway in East Setauket called the police on May 23 to report that a woman allegedly stole 5 packages of Canadian Snow Crabs and two packages of Bubba Burgers valued at $265.

Holtsville ■ A catalytic converter was stolen from a

2009 Hyundai Santa Fe parked at the Jesus is Lord Church on Long Island Avenue in Holtsville on May 26. The item was valued at $800.

Lake Grove ■ Selected Hype at the Smith Haven Mall in

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Sixth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the To Place A Legal and Notice public’s help to identify locate the Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com person who allegedly stole 40 assorted ■ Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Smith Haven grocery items from Stop & Shop, located at Mall in Lake Grove called the police for on existing deck garage to dwelling; also, variance 1 260 Pond Road in South Setauket on May LEGALS con’t from pg. addition; also, rear yard and rear yard and side yard May 20 to report a petit larceny. Two people 15 at approximately 11 a.m. side yard for variances for existing inentered the store, chose assorted Nike variances Lake Grove reported a shoplifter on May 26.

A woman allegedly stole six designer t-shirts valued at $900.

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Northvehicle, of Lynnwhich St., according to the owner was THE DISCRETION OF THE containing her wallet from her unlocked Centereach. Applicant re-valued BOARD. locked, was at $9,000.

34. Eusebio Pena, 14 quests rear yard, minimum Mount Sinai Lynbrook St., Centereach, and total side y a r d PAUL M. DE CHANCE woman called police ■ ALocation: NY. Souththe side of on May 28 to South Setauket variances for proposed one CHAIRMAN Lynbrook 300’visiting East of & Shop on Pond Path in South report thatSt.while Heritage on ■ Stop storyPark residence addition Hammond La.,Coram Centereach.

Setauket reported a shoplifter on May 28.

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someone entered her car and stole a diaper bag containing cash and credit cards. The credit cards were later used at a local Walmart.

A woman allegedly stole miscellaneous grocery items valued at $350.

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest.

Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS.

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Bellone, Kornreich visit veterans home for Memorial Day service

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Public officials gathered before a room of vets at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University for a Memorial Day service Friday, May 27.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) gave the keynote address for the event. He continued the theme raised during his State of the County address a week earlier, invoking the example of the Greatest Generation as a model for Americans today.

“I can’t help but think that it’s just at the moment when we see our World War II veterans unfortunately slowly, but inevitably, fade into history, that 80 years later we now see war raging in Europe,” he said. “It’s so important that we never forget what they did.”

For Bellone, American veterans should be honored not only for their service abroad but for the work they perform for communities after they return from the battlefield.

“It’s what veterans always do — they come

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home after fighting for our country and they build and they strengthen our community,” the county executive said, adding, “To all our veterans who have served, you all have picked up the baton of service. From the Revolutionary War right up to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, American veterans have served and have sacrificed.”

Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) was also in attendance.

Saying that he was inspired by Bellone’s address, the councilmember commented on the need for policymakers to temper their power to wage war and monitor their decisions that threaten peace.

Without memory of the great global conflicts of the 20th century, leaders today may be less cautious in their use of force.

“Maybe people now who are making decisions, who didn’t live through it, maybe they don’t have the same reluctance to engage in war and the same urgency to avoid it,” Kornreich said. “Especially right now, with all of the conflicts that are going on, that’s a very good lesson. I can’t think of a better way to honor the memory of those who have died in war than to try to fight for peace.”

— Photos courtesy of Long Island State Veterans Home

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(50’ required – 31’2” from Middle Country Rd., 25’10” from Horseblock Rd. proDATED: May 24, 2022 vided); minimum side yard setback PAGE A8 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • JUNE 2, 2022(25’ required – 1’ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, 10” provided); minimum that a resolution was duly BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS rear yard setback (40’ adopted by the Board of required – 19’5” provided); Fire Commissioners of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN maximum FAR (Floor Area SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT, Ratio) limitation (25% Town of Brookhaven, County permitted – 28.06% proof Suffolk, State of New ATTEST: vided); minimum natural York, on the 24th day of MARION WARREN area/landscaping percentMay, 2022, subject to a age of site (20% or 5,391 permissive referendum as Secretary sq. ft. required – 5.3% or provided for by Section 6(g) 1,424 sq. ft. provided; half of the General Municipal 8884 6/2 1x tmc of required landscaped area Law. required in front yard NOTICE OF (2,695.5 sq. ft. required – An extract of the resolution PUBLIC HEARING 1,149 sq. ft. provided); is as follows: BOARD OF minimum natural area/ ZONING APPEALS landscaping along street The SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN frontage (15 ft. required – 0’ maintains a Capital Reserve provided along Horseblock Fund designated as the PURSUANT TO THE PROVI- Rd.; parking area shall be Capital Reserve Fund for SIONS OF ARTICLE IV, SEC. screened with hedge, berm Repair, New and Rebuilt 85-55 (B) OF THE BUILDING and/or decorative wall or Apparatus, Equipment and ZONE ORDINANCE OF THE fence (none provided in CARPET • RUGS • HARDWOOD Communication known as andersontuftex.com TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, some areas); amount of Capital Reserve #2 under NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN parking (14 stalls required – Section 6(g) of the General THAT THE BOARD OF ZON- 4 stalls provided); parking Municipal Law in which

ING APPEALS WILL HOLD A in required front yard account there is sufficient WORKSESSION ON JUNE 6, prohibited (Middle Country funds to accomplish the 2022 (BZA CONFERENCE Rd. – 50 ft. required – 27’3” purpose hereinafter set ROOM – 1ST FLOOR) AT provided to finishing area forth; namely, the purchase 3:00 P.M. AND A PUBLIC and Horseblock Rd. 50 ft. of a 2022 Ford F550 4x4 HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, required – 0’ provided to Crew Chassis, and it proJUNE 8, 2022 (2ND FLOOR queuing area. (0200 48700 posed to contract for such AUDITORIUM) COMMENC- 0400 001001) purchase in order to mainING AT 2:00 P.M. AT ONE tain the high standards of INDEPENDENCE HILL, FAR- 4. Ron Kass CLK Realty performance of the SELDEN MINGVILLE, N.Y. AND IN Inc., 1830 Middle Country FIRE DEPARTMENT in the ACCORDANCE WITH OPEN Rd., Centereach, NY. Locadischarge of its duties in MEETINGS LAW, SAID PUB- tion: Southeast corner Mid preserving the lives and LIC HEARING WILL BE LIVE dle Country Rd. and Horproperty of the residents of ST­ R E AME D ­ OV E R T H E seblock Rd., Centereach. the community, and said INTERNET AT http:// Applicant requests height purchase is deemed in the b r o o k h av e n t o w n ny. i g m 2 . variance for proposed 13’ best interests of the resicom/Citizens/Default.aspx, high 88 sq. ft. ground sign dents of the SELDEN FIRE TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOW- (12’ high 24 sq. ft.

DISTRICT. The resolution ING: permitted); permission for further provides that there said sign to be located less be transferred from the TIMES OF than the required 17’ from present Section 6(g) Capital MIDDLE COUNTRY Middle Country Rd. (4’8” Reserve Fund #2 of the provided); also, height SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT a 3. Ron Kass CLK Realty variances for two proposed sum not to exceed Seventy Inc., 1830 Middle Country 20’2” high wall signs (18’ Five Thousand ($75,000.00) Rd., Centereach, NY. Loca- high permitted).

Dollars for the purchase, tion: Southeast corner Midand the District Treasurer is Rd. and Hor- 5. Angela Zozimo, 4 Vining dle Country authorized to effect such

seblock Rd., Centereach. St., Centereach, NY. Locatransfer from time to time 2020 $ the fol- tion: SouthAW side 5 Applicant requests

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THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL COMMENCE AT 4 P.M. 34. Eusebio Pena, 14 Lynbrook St., Centereach, NY. Location: South side of Lynbrook St. 300’ East of Hammond La., Centereach.

Applicant requests rear yard

garage to dwelling; also, rear yard and side yard variances for existing inground swimming pool.

(0200 39000 0200 033000)

35. Grace Bowen, 60-84 Putnam Ave., Ridgewood, NY. Location: West side College Rd., 80’ North of Cherry St., South side Walnut St. (not open), Selden.

Applicant requests front yard setback variance from Walnut St. for proposed one family dwelling.

(0200 49000 0100 024001)

45. Danny Corpac, c/o RDesign, 1070 Rte. 25, Suite 7 PMB144, Selden, NY. Location: West side of Oxhead Rd. 115’ South of Stony Brook Rd., Centereach. Applicant requests permission for existing pole barn located in front yard; also, height variance for existing 4.5 ft. high fencing located in front yard around said pole barn.

(0200 44100 0400 030000)

37. Steven & Lori Giannitelli, 6 Bellewood Ave., Centereach, NY. Location: West side of Bellewood Ave. 212’ North of Lynn St., Centereach. Applicant requests rear yard, minimum and total side yard variances for proposed one story residence addition attaching existing detached

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of land, situpiece or parcel being in the of Carol Dodge ate, lying and of the Estate and Village of Lake Anne Dodge subject to zon-, n, Incorporated AKA Carol will be sold of Brookhave Under the s, covenants Grove, Town of filed Judgof Specific Devisee and State ing restriction resTestament to provisions conditions, County of Suffolk of Sale.

Last Will and al., known as Diseasement s, ment and Terms Dodge, et agreements, York. of New York Carol Anne known as 30 ervations and to any state Section: 013.00; Said premises Coram, N.Y. trict: 0208; 20096/2012.

Defendant (s) Lot: 008.004 if any; subject appear from Index Number Whitfield Lane, Block: 04.00; the of COUNTY of facts as may subject to a Judgment , 11727. survey; subject E, ESQ., will be sold Section: SUPREME COURT N.A. Pursuant to an accurate 0200, filed Judgment CIT Bank, JAMES MCELHON and Sale duly possessio n (District: provisions of OF Suffolk, 13. The N.A. Foreclosure 04.00, Lot: facts as to 2017 I, to Bank, Block: 19391/20 23, subject Referee No. and y 313.00, Index LLP f/k/a OneWest Bank, FSB, dated August ed Referee and occupanc amount of judgDorf & Nelson Plaintiff 039.000). physical condiapproximate f/k/a OneWest the undersign .23 plus for amount of lien to whatever may Public AdminAttorney(s) public auction Approxim ate ment is $714,868 Fremd as FRIEDPlaintiff, vs. will sell at of the premises Town plus interest 3 costs.

County n tion Theodore and 555 violations Suffolk $ 329,636.3 to any interest istrator of at the Brookhavence Hill, LLP 85 Broad be; subject of the Estate Avenue, and other muand costs.

MAN VARTOLO Administr ator Roberts, deHall, 1 Independe 11738, be sold subject of the zoning 501, New York, NY Rye, NY 10580 G. s and reguPremises will of filed judgStreet, Suite of Howard Farmingville, Attorneys nicipal ordinance and if the Defendant (s).

09, 2018 at to provisions New York 10004, any, ceased; ET AL., ptr on November of sale. known lations, if 883 10/4 4x of America ment and terms for Plaintiff. of 6.

11:30AM, premises SOUND United States lien, or otha Judgment DRIVE, Index No. 600294-1 Pursuant to file a tax duly as 91 UPTON that Esq., All Sale should ptr equity Araujo, 4x and 11789. to the Armand 896 10/4 SALE I, Foreclosure BEACH, NY er lien, subject of the United NOTICE OF 29, 2018, piece or parcel Referee. n filed on May ed Referee certain plot of redemptio subject the buildings COUNTY McCabe, Weisberg, the undersign auction at of land, with ents erected, SALE States of America; SUPREME COURT: NOTICE OF of any lienors & Conway, LLC Plaintiff will sell at public and improvem and being in to the rights for n Town Hall, OF OF SUFFOLK liens have Attorney(s) the Brookhave MANAGERS n, COUNTY situate, lying Street of record whose herein, nce Hill, FarmBOARD OF of Brookhave 145 Huguenot SUPREME COURT CONDOMIN1 Independe the Township not been foreclosed and State on November ARTIST LAKE against RNS to the rights Suite 210 OF SUFFOLK ingville, NY County of Suffolk New York if any; subject fixNew York MelIUM, Plaintiff, ROBERT M. 1:00 p.m., premDISTRICT 0200, security in New Rochelle, The Bank of 08, 2018 at of New York, BLOCK of holders of Bank of New as 635 Jayne CAPITAL, LLC; REby the Uni10801 lon FKA The ises known PLATINUM SECTION 029.00, for the tures as defined Port Jefferson 034.000. ApSERRANO; ial Code; sub, INC.; (914) 636-8900 York, as Trustee of the Boulevard, 03.00, LOT of judgform Commerc assessme nts All that certain COVERY SERVICES Certificate holders AND “JANE Station, NY. proximate amount ptr ject to taxes, Asset-Backed are plus interparcel of land, “JOHN DOE” 878 10/4 4x $49,412.6 8 rates which CWABS, Inc., s. plot, piece or imment 2006will water and Defendant and the Series Premises of DOE”, premises at Certificate s, a judgment with the buildings est and costs. to provisions inliens on the thereon erectPursuant to with accrued 18, Plaintiff provements - COUNTY and sale entered be sold subject Index# time of sale, lying and being foreclosure thereon.

SUPREME COURT Judgment for August 3, VEN AGAINST penalties n, filed ed, situate, or dated of al., et BROOKHA and terest LLC; of Brookhave herein 017 OF SUFFOLK 145 Carroll undersign ed in the Town 605771/2 015. and State Index No. 612469-2 2018, I, the r 26, 2018 Defendant (s) NATIONsell at public County of Suffolk Dated: Septembe Jr., Esq., Esq., District 0200, of Referee will SUFFOLK COUNTY -againstof front steps of New York, Daniel J. Panico, Vincent Messina, a Judgment Block 03.00 auction on the n Town Hall, AL BANK, Plaintiff Pursuant to Section 311.00, Referee ApproxiFRISCIA, Referee and Sale duly the Brookhave ANTHONY P. Foreclosure the and Lot 007.000. nce Hill, Farm30, 2018 I, of judgment 1 Independe Meyer & Giton Polowy, LLC dated July Warren, mate amount plus interest York, DEBORAH Gross New Referee will Cohen, ingville, .20 for PlainPlaintiff KELLY L. FRISCIA,living, and undersign ed auction at the 2018 at 11:00 be is $352,985 Attorney for 100 if ter, P.C., Attorneys November 2, Premises will Drive, Suite A. FRISCIA, Avenue, Smith1 being in sell at public and costs.

1775 Wehrle etc..., et al tiff, 80 Maple to provisions n Town Hall, of a.m. premises lle, NY 14221 a if she be dead, Town to Brookhave 11787. # Farmsold subject NY Williamsvi Island, Pursuant Hill, Index town, Middle Defendant (s). and Independe nce York, 11738 County of Sufof filed Judgment Foreclosure ptr Brookhave n, Judgment of ptr ingville, New 5, 2018 at of New York, 11, 2018 601222/2 015.

892 10/11 4x 885 10/4 4x folk and State d as November 2, Sale dated January on known designate February on Esq., known and and entered Ref2:30PM, premises 139 together Lane M. Bubka, Avenue, Lake undersign ed SALE PUBLIC Home Number FORMATIO N 2018, I, the undivided as 145 Carroll NY 11779.

Referee NOTICE OF at public aucNOTICE OF 156 West 56th with a .02953% Supreme Court eree will sell Ronkonko ma, n Town common eleBronster, LLP, AUCTION plot piece York, New York interest in York, SUFFOLK FORMATIO N, tion at the Brookhave All that certain the condominium Street, New of New at 1 Indepenof NOTICE OF land, with C LOAN for Plaintiff ments of the the NY Hall, located LLC. Articles or parcel of 10019, Attorneys improveCounty. PENNYMA Plaintiff, described as Farmingville, YUANTIAN and hereinafte r with SecLLC, Decla, dence Hill, filed the 2:00 buildings in at ion SERVICES situate, ly7, 2018 Organizat SUK A/K/A ptr same is defined of New York on November situate, lying ium herements erected, in the Town 850 10/4 4x -against- JOHN JIN YI KIM retary of State 19, 2018. Ofration of Condomin p.m. premises the Town of of ing and being to. The real OF JOHN K. SUK; in n, County (SSNY) on Sep Suffolk CounKIM; BANK inafter referred described is and being of Brookhave of NY, DisA/K/A JIN Y. County of Suf– COUNTY fice location: PEOPLE OF property above on the Plans been designatBrookhave n, Suffolk, State SUPREME COURT AMERICA, N.A.; NEW YORK; of New York, ty. SSNY has the LLC upon Section 725.00 a Home shown ium prepared OF folk and State described as of trict 0200 OF SUFFOLK THE STATE Lot 022.00. ed as agent MORTGAG E of a condomin Nelson and EXPRESS CENagainst it may bounded and of Block 02.00 amount G at a by NATIONSTAR AMERICAN whom process CHAMPIO N CITIBANK mail and certified D/B/A follows: BEGINNIN SSNY shall Approxim ate in the Office LLC, 78 plus TURION BANK; N.A.; DONG Westerly side be served.

COMPANY, Pope, and filedthe County of process to the point on the Avenue, disjudgment $529,119. PremMORTGAG E of SOUTH DAKOTA d a copy of the 1967 and costs.

YOON OUMJ of the Clerk 1974 LLC, Hempstea against KIM; 31, of to from interest Plaintiff HWAN Northerly LLC: YUANTIAN sold subject MCINTOSH; Index No. in Suffolk on January L. STE 1 #086, tant 120 feet as measured ises will be H; MARY HYANG KANG,Pursuant to 30, as defined Wehrle DR., of filed Judgas File No. A. MCINTOS et Toledo Street, 14221. Purpose: provisions of the Conside of CHARLES 19391/2013.

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Buffalo, NY Declaratio n Foreclosure the Westerly the of Index# MCINTOS Artist a along ment purpose.

CHARLES entitled a Judgment Avenue; being Any lawful (s). dominium dated, January Hempstea d ium, made by of al Defendant and Sale duly entered with Esq., feet by 120.00 a Judgment ArLake Condomin plot 100.00 ptr Terry Woodard, feet by Pursuant to enCorp., under 30, 2018 and Clerk on 888 10/4 6x and Sale by 100.00 Hall Huntley New York Real County re feet Referee Foreclosu the Suffolk & Barak, 2017, Susan 25, 2017. ticle 9-E of the dated January 120.00 feet.

Shapiro, DiCaro tered on July February 17, ed Referee Property Law, the Appointed SALE in the LLC Section: I, the undersign Saltz, Esq., NOTICE OF and recorded auction the Plaintiff 0200 the prem1974 for ) public 14, sell at Suffolk will District: and of Attorney(s will sell Clerk Referee, 05.00 Boulevard steps of the Office of the as 6 Oakwood 31, 1974 098.00 Block: 175 Mile Crossing 1 at the front ises known York York 14624 SUPREME COURT Town Hall, County on January Grove, New Lot: 006.000.

SUFFOLK Rochester, New of conveyanc Brookhave n Court, Lake COUNTY OF Hill, Farmauction at in Liber 7581 covering the (877) 430-4792 Independe nce 1 day 56, 11755 at public known as 86 on the 7th es at Page Town Hall, BANK, N.A., Said premises described. ingville, N.Y. Brookhave n r 21, 2018 AVENUE, MILLWELLS FARGO Hall, Farm, 2018 at 10:00 property thereinbeing known HEMPSTE AD Dated: Septembe of November on Independe nce Plaintiff described as Said premises Lake Drive, York 11738, ER PLACE, NY a.m. premises certain plot, ingville, New ptr 2018 at 10:00 as 139 Artist New York. that 899 10/4 4x follows: All November 8, certain plot, amount of lien AGAINST of land, with Middle Island, & Section Approxim ate piece or parceland improveA.M. All that 0200, plus interest (District As Executor $505,239.13 07.00, Lot the buildings erected, situJennifer Grady 403.00, Block costs. ments thereon being in the Said premises 035.000). ate, lying and County be sold subject n, will Premises Town of Brookhave State of New of Suffolk and SALE NOTICE OF

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Editorial

We walk with you

Last week, students nationwide walked out of their schools to stand up against gun violence and to demand stricter gun laws, including young people in the TBR News Media coverage areas.

It’s crucial for students to know that we journalists walk with you. We may not always be there physically, but we are always there in spirit. As community watchdogs, it is our duty to help educate people on what’s going on in their towns, and to let those in charge know that we are watching them too.

Parents, teachers, administrators and lawmakers must understand that young people are terrified by the headlines of the lastest mass shootings at schools. Our youth are being targeted, as our grownups stand by without solutions.

Yes, many school districts along the North Shore have several security measures in place. Visitors are often required to ring a buzzer before entering a front door, where an attendant will buzz them in. Once inside the main entrance, they cannot walk through the school without showing ID first. Often, a security guard or hall monitor will escort them to wherever they may be going.

While we applaud district administrators who have taken extra precaution to secure their buildings, protecting the lives of children and teachers goes beyond locked-door policies.

To prevent mass shootings — such as those in Uvalde, Texas; Sandy Hook, Connecticut; and Parkland, Florida — it is time for our nation to stop avoiding the deeper conversations about gun reform.

The horrifying headlines we see every day will not disappear until there are real changes.

If a parent visiting a school to see their son or daughter receive an award is required to go through a few steps just to walk through a school, then someone buying a gun of any kind needs to go through several measures. The procedures in place are simply not enough.

We know that there are some in this country hellbent on committing senseless harm who yearn to leave a mark on this world by depriving it of what is good and pure. Our nation needs stricter gun control laws so that these deranged individuals can be denied the opportunity to be remembered for the carnage they inflict upon humanity.

The fight against gun violence goes even deeper than stricter laws, though. The battle begins with making mental health services available to everyone who needs them, including our youngest citizens. Children should always know that there is someone to talk to and help them navigate whatever they are going through in life.

Sometimes one’s journey in life may feel like a deep, dark tunnel. It’s up to parents, journalists, educators, administrators and elected officials to show our young people that there is always a light at the end of any tunnel.

Most of all, students need to know that the adults in their communities are there for them. We encourage students to attend board of ed meetings and to step up and speak out. We also invite our young readers to write in and let us know how they feel about the current gun laws, school safety and whatever else may be on their minds.

We are here for you.

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Letters to the Editor Protecting schools

Regarding the school shooting in Texas, which was a terrible tragedy. I was a Suffolk County police officer for 31 years and now retired. For the last 14 years of my career, I was a D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) instructor. My fellow D.A.R.E. officers and I spent 17 weeks in the elementary schools, five days a week, teaching students about drug abuse consequences, peer pressure and many other related subjects. I was known as Officer Richie and the school administrators, teachers and children were safe.

We were in uniform and we were armed. Also the community knew we were in schools and we were a deterrent to anyone thinking about attacking our schools, knowing we were armed. We were the best police community relations for the public as well as role models for students. We served as security and educators for the schools and this was provided at no cost to the school district and therefore not a financial burden.

Unfortunately the powers to be decided that we, as police officers, were better off on the street. It’s time for the school administrators and the police department to decide how best to protect our children before a tragedy occurs on Long Island.

Richard Esopa Miller Place

Enough of classrooms being a battleground

Every child deserves a high-quality public education. Our schools should be safe, welcoming and nurturing to every student, regardless of background.

Children should see themselves reflected in the materials that they study. Schools are meant to teach truth.

On May 17, residents across Long Island and New York state’s 700 school districts affirmed their commitment to their public education and rejected the divisiveness that has permeated our communities.

School budgets were overwhelmingly supported, despite attempts to defund our public schools. Candidates for school board who supported voting down school budgets and opposed New York State Education Department’s curriculum of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives did not fare well.

For more than a year, school board meetings, which have traditionally been quiet and perhaps even a bit boring, have become reality TV. We’ve witnessed residents screaming about masks, curriculum, comparing vaccines to Nazi Germany, suing their school districts — it’s been quite a season, and it’s likely to

continue. But the overwhelming majority of residents sent a message across Long Island and the state that we do not want this to be the new normal. We believe in teaching history as it happened. We believe in a curriculum that presents diverse perspectives. We reject censorship of our teachers and the banning of books.

We believe in public health and keeping each other safe in a global pandemic that has taken over one million American lives.

It is important that we recognize and harness that power going into our November elections, where politicians have weaponized our children’s curriculum, their protection against COVID-19, and their very lives, in regards to gun safety. We need to elect leaders who value our children more than their rating from the NRA. We need to elect legislators who will take meaningful action to end gun violence in this country, including reinstating the ban on assault weapons and enacting universal background checks. As an educator and parent, I have had enough of our classrooms being a battleground, when they are intended to safely nurture all of our children, regardless of background, and teach truth. Any politician who stands in the way of this should be voted out on Nov. 8, 2022. Our children deserve better.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

Reaction to recent gun violence

Ten dead in a mass shooting in Buffalo, 21 dead in a school shooting in Texas. The shooting in Texas was actually the 27th school shooting this year in the U.S. It’s all too predictable. It’s the logical outcome of our worship of “Second Amendment rights.” We abhor the practice of human sacrifice. But how many more humans will we sacrifice on the altar of the great god of gun rights?

There’s no such thing as an individual right to gun ownership in the Constitution.

The epidemic of mayhem and death we’re now experiencing and will continue to experience is the inevitable result of the creation of such a right by the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court stacked with activist judges appointed expressly to legislate from the bench in order to achieve the political objectives of the Republican Party. A Supreme Court twisting the plain meaning of the Second Amendment. “A well-regulated militia” – is that phrase so hard to understand? Not really – for more than two centuries it was understood to mean exactly what it said.

We’re living in a cloud of delusions.

What do we expect if buying a semiautomatic weapon is easier than being licensed to drive? What do we expect if

there are more guns than people in our country? You don’t have to be a gambling genius to figure out the odds. How many lives is it worth to make buying a gun so easy? 10,000? 100? 1?

Spare me talk of mental illness. The truth is there will always be people with psychological problems. Devoting more resources to treating psychological problems is a great idea, although our politicians seem in no hurry to actually spend the money to do this. But if we think that will eliminate or even significantly reduce gun violence, we’re living in a dream world. The Buffalo killer openly stated his intention to kill.

He then disclaimed that as a “joke.”

You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out that he should not have been allowed to have a gun, much less a semiautomatic weapon.

Spare me the talk of “a good guy with a gun.” The fact is that the police, who were well-armed and specifically trained in how to respond to school shooters, failed miserably in the Texas shooting. The armed security guard who tried to stop the Buffalo killer was shot dead when he confronted him. The truth is that a determined and suicidal killer armed with the “best” of today’s easily obtained weapons and the “best” tactical gear can wreak havoc and death no matter how many teachers are forced to double as armed security guards. Or maybe we should be arming 10-yearolds to defend themselves.

Spare me talk of making schools “the single hardest target,” heard at the recent NRA convention. What kind of insanity is this? Are we all to go to school, shop, go to the movies as if we’re at war, liable to be attacked at any time, just because some among us can’t put up with the inconvenience of delays, background checks, and licensing and training requirements when they decide to get a gun?

Above all, spare me the talk of “evil.”

It’s so easy to denounce and condemn the killer after yet another all-too-predictable incident of someone with a gun run amok.

The simple fact is that there will always be disturbed or angry individuals among us. But there’s no law of nature that says they need to be armed with easily obtained weapons of mass death. That’s our own decision, as citizens of the only country in the world that has this problem. We have to live, or in some cases die, with the consequences. The fault, as has been said, is not in our stars but in ourselves.

David Friedman St. James

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Opinion Seeing teachers through the eyes of an appreciative child

O

nce upon a time, a girl named Fiona read the book “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

She thought it was funny and charming that a child could see what no one else admitted.

But then, something strange happened: she thought she could also see things that no one else could.

“That’s sweet, Fiona, but focus on your school work and let your imagination run wild at other times,” her father told her that night.

D. None Fiona did as she was told because she wanted of the above to please her parents

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF and her teachers. It was her teachers that caused problems for her.

It started with Mrs. Butler in her third grade class. A tall, thin woman with white hair and glasses, Mrs. Butler always wore high-heeled

shoes. She looked directly in the eyes of every student. One day, her friend Simona fell and hit her head. When Mrs. Butler bent down and checked on her friend, Fiona saw the kind of coat doctors and nurses wear appear around her shoulders. Fiona rubbed her eyes, but the coat was still there. Mrs. Butler calmly told the class to go to their seats, sent Bill to get the nurse and kneeled on the floor near Simona.

When the nurse left with Simona, Mrs. Butler’s white coat disappeared.

The next day, Jeff couldn’t understand a math problem. He wrote numbers all over the paper, but he didn’t have the answer.

Fiona noticed a change again in Mrs. Butler’s clothing. Instead of her powder blue blouse, she had an orange vest and white gloves. With numbers on the smartboard, she directed Jeff away from all the dead ends.

When he got closer to the answer, Jeff smiled. Fiona looked back at Mrs. Butler, whose orange vest and white gloves disappeared.

Later, Doug and Andrew got into an argument near the stack of books at the back of

the room. When Doug swung his arm to make a point, he knocked over several books.

Fiona saw Mrs. Butler’s clothing change again, this time into the kind of black and white stripes that referees wear in football games.

She could even see a whistle dangling from her teacher’s neck.

The next morning, Jill and Amanda couldn’t agree on how to do a class project. Jill marched to the front of the classroom to complain.

Amanda followed closely.

While Fiona couldn’t hear everything, she saw a black robe form around Mrs. Butler.

When the conversation ended, Mrs. Butler said something that made both girls happy. They shook hands and walked back to their desks, where they returned to work on their project.

One day, Fiona arrived early to class. She and her teacher were alone and she felt like she had to say something.

“Mrs. Butler?” Fiona asked.

“Yes?” Her teacher replied.

“I see all the clothing you wear,” Fiona said.

“I don’t think anyone else sees it.”

Mrs. Butler narrowed her eyes and looked carefully at her student.

“What do you see?” Mrs. Butler asked.

She described the medical jacket, the orange vest, the referee’s coat and the judge’s robe.

“What do you think of all that?” Mrs. Butler asked.

“Is it real?” Fiona asked.

“Thank you for seeing,” Mrs. Butler grinned. Other students walked into the room and class started.

Just then, Fiona heard an alarm. Mrs. Butler reacted immediately. She held up a shield and directed everyone to the back of the room.

While they waited, Mrs. Butler told everyone to remain quiet. The class waited for the all clear.

“It was a drill,” Mrs. Butler said. “You can return to your desks.”

Fiona was the last to leave the classroom that day.

“Fiona?” Mrs. Butler asked. “Is everything okay?”

“Yes,” she said. “Thanks for … everything.”

A book that lets us consider what might have been said

“

What if,” is always an intriguing question.

This is true for our personal lives, as well as for history. And one way to consider many historic “what ifs” is through a newly published book by Jeffrey Nussbaum, one of President Biden’s speechwriters, called, “Undelivered.”

This is a compilation of speeches, never given, by historical figures, whose words Nussbaum tracked down over 20 years.

These speeches include, among others, Between the draft of apology you and me that was prepared

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF for General Dwight Eisenhower, had D-Day ended in failure, and Hillary Clinton’s victory speech.

Civil rights leader John Lewis’ original speech for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, in which Martin Luther King Jr.

spoke his iconic “I’ve got a dream” words, is also revealing of the tension among the civil rights leadership. PBS, the television news hour, interviewed Nussbaum this past Monday, and he said that Lewis had originally intended to declare, “We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did. We shall pursue our own scorched-earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground — non-violently” but was dissuaded from those words. The sponsors of the March, who feared looking too extreme and harming the chances of passing the civil rights bill, begged him to withdraw that particular rhetoric Lewis, with his back to the wall, most reluctantly changed his words that night, writing and rewriting his draft at the base of the Lincoln Memorial until it was acceptable, but the earlier text is in the book.

One of the most fascinating speeches never given was the one awaiting the arrival of President John F. Kennedy on the lectern in Dallas on November 22, 1963. In that text was Kennedy’s warning of the existence of “a rise in the far-right wing camp of voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality.” He

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would have said that “we are the watchmen on the wall of world freedom looking outside and INSIDE. [Capital letters are mine.]”

The subtitle of Nussbaum’s book reads, “The never-heard speeches that would have rewritten history,” suggests that had Kennedy’s words been heard, history might indeed have been altered. As it is, people who read it after the assassination just regarded that speech as generally one of foreign policy.

These speeches demonstrate how outcomes rest on the razor’s edge of history. Fascinating are “those warnings made in their moment of time,” according to Nussbaum, “that resonate even more clearly today.”

Another historic instance mentioned by Nussbaum was of the three speeches written for Al Gore in the 2000 election. Gore was to give none of them that night. One was a victory speech, the second was a concession, and the third was in the event Gore won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote — prescient of the 2016 election. Nussbaum was one of those speechwriters, and that experience inspired him to write the book about other undelivered speeches.

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Not all the speeches included in the book are about politicians and policy. There is the one

by Barry Jenkins, the director behind the 2017 award-winning movie, “Moonlight.” Some of you may remember the flub that night, in which the wrong picture was initially announced as the winner and the wrong cast mounted the stage at the Academy Awards before the correction was made. In the chaos, Jenkins never got to say what winning that award meant for him. But here, in Nussbaum’s book, he does get to tell what he would have said.

“They were filming in Liberty City, Miami,” explained Nussbaum, “and as in many poorer neighborhoods, there wasn’t sufficient lighting.

They had to bring in lights, which attracted children to the set. At one point during the filming, [Jenkins] looks over to Video Village, where all the monitors and editing equipment were, and he sees a young man wearing his [Jenkins’] headset who’s just planted himself in [Jenkins’] chair.”

“And in that moment, I saw in this child the possibility which I hadn’t believed I could ever see for myself,” Jenkins, who is Black, would have read. How poignant. And missed.

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