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Port Jefferson Station athlete earns first place in skeleton World Cup race in Lake Placid BY Daniel Dunaief

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at top, annie o’shea practices in lake Placid prior to the World Cup race. above, o’shea flaunts her new gold medal.

Everything started turning around for Port Jefferson Station’s Annie O’Shea this past summer. A veteran of the high-speed world of skeleton racing, O’Shea had a reputation for her extraordinary sprinting speed. She just had to put it all together. In skeleton, where racers use the same tracks as bobsled, competitors clad in aerodynamic suits and helmets, sprint at top speed with their hands on their sleds for five seconds, until they dive on top of the sled, steering through treacherous turns at speeds faster than 80 miles per hour by shifting their body weight. “For years, she’s been known for having one of the fastest starts in the world, and then losing that on the way down,” said Tuffy Latour, the head coach of

the United States skeleton team. But not anymore. At an International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation World Cup race last week, O’Shea was poised to do something she’d never done on her home track in Lake Placid: collect a medal. Behind the leaders by a tenth of a second after the first of two heats, she visited with her skeleton coaches and her conditioning coach, Brett Willmott, who is also the associate head track and field coach at the University of Vermont. “Her first run, she was a little sloppy” with her sprint, Willmott said. “I told her to be aggressive in the last four steps. That’s all she needed to know.” With a physical game plan, O’Shea, 28, stood at the starting gate, waiting her turn to dig her SKELETON continued on page A11

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If all goes according to plan, Port Jefferson school district residents will pay almost the same in taxes next year. Between those taxes, state aid and other revenues, the total budget for 201617 could actually go down, according to a presentation from Assistant Superintendent for Business Sean Leister at the school board meeting on Tuesday night. That’s largely because the district would not spend as much on capital projects next year, with the new high school elevator being one big-ticket item that will not be repeated, and because the district will see a drop in its debt repayments. Those two significant decreases would offset increases in health insurance payments and transportation costs, among others. The proposed $41.3 million plan would maintain all academic programs and staffing levels, despite the 2.5 percent decrease in spending as compared to the 2015-16 budget. But Leister noted that the tax levy would go in the opposite direction — residents would see a slight increase of 0.11 percent. That levy bump would come in just below the state-mandated cap on how much it could increase next year, which Leister

estimates at 0.16 percent. Leister’s estimate for next year’s increase in state aid is larger: He’s putting that at 6 percent, a number he called “conservative,” especially in light of the recent discussion between state officials about the Gap Elimination Adjustment. The adjustment, a deduction taken out of each New York school district’s state aid, was enacted several years ago to help get the state government out of a fiscal crisis. The deduction has been decreasing lately, and there is talk that it could be removed completely in the coming cycle. Leister is not as optimistic. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” he said. If, however, Port Jefferson receives more state aid than it allots for in the budget, Leister said school officials would decide together how to spend it. And Superintendent Ken Bossert assured the school board that the district also has a plan in the event of receiving less state aid than estimated in the budget proposal. There are “still a lot of moving parts” in the budget planning process, Leister said. In addition to the question about state aid totals, school districts are still waiting on final numbers for their tax levy caps.

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Bringing pay up to code Contract with officers’ union includes more per hour By Elana Glowatz

Code enforcement officers in Port Jefferson will get a raise for the first time in several years once their union contract is finalized. At the Jan. 4 village board of trustees meeting, the board approved the new agreement, settled upon a couple of years after negotiations began. The Port Jefferson Constable Association union was scheduled to ratify the contract this week. However, the result of the membership’s vote was not available by press time. The new agreement will be retroactive to June 2014 and run through the end of May 2018, Trustee Bruce D’Abramo said in a phone interview. With part of the contract being retroactive, so is part of the pay increase — the union members will receive an extra $1.50 for each hour they worked between June 2014 and the end of May 2015, and another $1.75 per hour worked from June 2015 and onward. Moving forward, the officers from the Code Enforcement Bureau will receive an hourly bump of $0.25 each new year of the contract, meaning they will get a

raise in June 2016 and June 2017. The few dozen staff members covered under the contract includes code enforcement officers and sergeants as well as appearance ticket officers, D’Abramo said. The union does not include code Chief Wally Tomaszewski or three lieutenants in the bureau. According to both village officials and the union, it has been a while since the officers received a raise. Port Jefferson Constable Association President Tom Grimaldi has been a code officer for more than seven years, he said, and the last salary increase was “way before I got there. Probably at least 10 years ago.” D’Abramo noted that before the raises kick in, the pay for code enforcement officers is $16 per hour. For sergeants, the pay is $18.25 per hour, and appearance ticket officers currently get $13.50 per hour. The contract is “a long time coming,” Grimaldi said. And D’Abramo said village officials are happy to put the negotiations behind them so they can finally “give the code officers, who do such a good job for the village, the kind of remunera-

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officers James Murdocco, left, and Paul Barbato, right, have been recently noted for their work with the code enforcement bureau.

tion” that is comparable to such officers in other villages. The constables have been particularly visible recently with some high-profile incidents in Port Jefferson Village. In mid-December, a Belle Terre man was killed when he lost control of his Lamborghini while driving up a steep East Broadway hill and crashed into a pole near High Street. Officer Paul Barbato was the first on the scene, finding a “horribly mangled vehicle with a person still alive inside,” Trustee Larry LaPointe

reported at a board meeting shortly after the crash. Barbato got inside the car and attempted CPR on 48-year-old Glen Nelson, but the driver later died. “You can only imagine the scene he came upon,” Mayor Margot Garant said on Jan. 4. In a phone interview, Tomaszewski said that Barbato “tried desperately to save his life. Believe me, his boots were filled with blood.” A couple of weeks later, on New Year’s CODE continued on page A9

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supervisor ed romaine, at left, and Highway superintendent Dan losquadro, above, are sworn in as their families watch. By Giselle Barkley

Brookhaven is back in business. Elected officials, their family members and other residents packed into the Town of Brookhaven auditorium in Farmingville on Jan. 7 to witness Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) being sworn into his second full term in office alongside fellow recently elected and re-elected board members, including board newcomer Councilman Michael Loguercio (R-Middle Island) and other town officials. Back in November, Loguercio won the

race for the 4th District — a position previously held by former Councilwoman Connie Kepert, a Democrat. Valerie Cartright, the councilwoman from Port Jefferson Station, is now the only Democrat on the seven-member board. Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) said last week’s ceremony was a day of celebration that helped validate how residents voted during the 2015 elections. In light of the board’s past work, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) highlighted Romaine’s performance as the supervisor, saying that he has always

been one of the fiercest and most passionate advocates for what he believes in. Although residents saw the supervisor and Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R) officially sworn into their terms on Jan. 7, other elected officials recently elected to the board were officially sworn in at a previous event two days earlier. While several councilmembers were no strangers to the ceremony, the swearing in process still never gets boring, one North Shore lawmaker said. “I’m really excited to get started again,”

Councilman Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) said before the ceremony. “It was a great first two years — we accomplished a great deal. I’m really looking forward to the next two years.” Romaine was sworn in last by Judge Judith Pascale. “I pledge to work with my town board to find common purpose,” Romaine said in his speech following his oath. “To address these challenges head on and to make decisions necessary for a prosperous future and one that serves all the residents of this town.”

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Students explore state of education with film By Alex Petroski

Comsewogue kids got another view of their education system this week. “Beyond Measure,” a documentary by director Vicki Abeles about “America’s troubled education system,” was screened on Tuesday in the high school auditorium, in an event hosted by TASK, Comsewogue High School’s student government. The film is a follow-up to Abeles’ 2010

documentary “Race to Nowhere,” which provided a close-up look at the pressures placed on young students in America. “In ‘Beyond Measure,’ we find a revolution brewing in public schools across the country,” according to a description on the film’s official website. “From rural Kentucky to New York City, schools that are breaking away from an outmoded, test-driven education are shaping a new vision for our classrooms.” Comsewogue school district and its

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Incidents and arrests from Jan. 2-10 Ale House to Jailhouse A 20-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station was arrested on Jan. 8 for robbery. Police said the man approached another person with a silver semi-automatic handgun and stole cash and a cellphone from the victim outside Miller’s Commack Ale House on Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack. Police arrested the man that day around 1:15 p.m. at his residence. Double the trouble Police arrested a 24-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman from Coram for loitering and unlawful possession of a controlled substance on Jan. 5. The man allegedly injected himself with heroin before throwing the needle into the woods near Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Port Jefferson Station and was also found to be in possession of marijuana.

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after receiving a call about the 45-yearold woman sitting in a 2010 red Toyota Prius outside the Applebee’s on Route 25A in Miller Place. Police said the engine was running when officials arrested the woman on Jan. 4 at 9:40 p.m. Stopped in a flash Police arrested a 26-year-old man from Setauket on Jan. 7 at 12:23 a.m. for driving while ability impaired in a 2006 Honda Civic. According to police, officials pulled the man over on Route 25A in East Setauket for speeding and discovered he was intoxicated. Path to prison A 35-year-old man from Centereach was arrested for driving while ability impaired in a 2008 Jeep on Jan. 5. He was heading west on North Bicycle Path in Selden when he got into a car crash. Police discovered the man was impaired by drugs and he was arrested at the scene. License to steal On Jan. 7 at 1:35 a.m., a 47-year-old Holbrook man was arrested for stealing two license plates from a 1998 Ford Explorer on South Coleman Road in Selden. And between Jan. 6 at 5:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the following day, an unknown person stole license plates from a car parked on Old Town Road in Port Jefferson Station. It was not clear whether the two incidents were related. A safe decision On Jan. 8 between 6 and 8 p.m., an unknown person broke into Old Coach Motors in Mount Sinai and stole a safe that stored money and papers. Hickory dickory smash An unknown person broke a window of a residence on Hickory Street in Mount Sinai on Jan. 4 at 2:56 p.m. Mad for music On Jan. 10, an unknown person stole headphones and batteries from the Walmart on Nesconset Highway in East Setauket. The incident happened around 12:25 p.m. Lost and found Someone stole a 2000 Honda Civic from a residence in Lake Grove on Jan. 9. Police said the owner of the car didn’t know it was stolen until after the car was recovered on Elwood Road in Centereach on Jan. 10, around 1 a.m. Shell game According to police, just past midnight on Jan. 10 someone stole a television from a shed at a residence on Shell Road in Rocky Point. — Compiled by Giselle barkley

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Supervisor Romaine calls for SBU fire safety reforms By Phil Corso

A serious dormitory blaze at Stony Brook University has Brookhaven Town’s supervisor calling for fire safety reforms. The fire broke out on Saturday, Nov. 21, in a student’s room on the second floor of O’Neill College — one of four residential buildings in Mendelsohn Quad — forcing about 115 students to relocate to temporary housing, the university said in a statement. Setauket Fire Department responded to the call and received mutual aid from Stony Brook, St. James and Port Jefferson departments, but officials soon discovered that they had to carry hoses up to the second floor because there were no standpipes there to connect to due to the building’s decades-old architecture, the Setauket Fire Department said in a statement. While the flames were eventually tamed, the incident still sparked Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) to call on the university to upgrade its fire protection systems and to contribute to the cost of fire protection. In a statement provided to Times Beacon Record Newspapers, Romaine said that O’Neill College was built more than five decades ago and was outfitted with a fire alarm system that only warns of a fire, without a sprinkler system to combat it. He said the university lacked necessary fire-prevention measures, like a standpipe system in the building, to allow firefighters to access water for their hoses. Romaine also noted that the most recently built dormitories at SBU include fire alarms and sprinkler systems, which he said would have prevented the size and magnitude of the fire at O’Neill. “Two lessons emerge from this fire,” Romaine said. “First, Stony Brook University needs to upgrade the system in the dormitories that lack these essential fire protection systems. Second, New York State and the university should contribute to the cost of fire protection; it should not be borne by the taxpayers of Stony Brook and Setauket Fire Districts alone.” A spokesman for the Setauket Fire Department said the cause of the fire was still under investigation and there were no reported injuries. The SBU campus resides within the Setauket, Stony Brook and St. James fire districts, the university’s environmental health and safety department said. Lauren Sheprow, a spokeswoman for Stony Brook University, said the university was operating in full compliance with state building code requirements and that all campus residence halls were equipped with “state-of-the-art fire alarm systems that are monitored 24/7 at university police headquarters.” Over recent years, Sheprow said, SBU has taken administrative, engineering and educational steps to reduce fire alarms, minimize the impact on nearby fire departments and facilitate its own emergency response. “At Stony Brook, student safety is a top priority and we take that responsibility very seriously,” she said in a statement. “The university has implemented numerous initiatives over the years to enhance fire safety and prevention and to reduce unnecessary response by community fire departments to the campus. The university has a great deal of respect for the community volunteers who dedicate their time to fire emergencies — in fact many of these volunteers work at Stony Brook University — and we are grateful for the swift response in November.” The university’s most recent annual fire report and statistics reported eight fires throughout 2014, across all on-campus residence halls, resulting in a total of $20 worth of property damage. Most of the incidents were reported as grease fires, and none of the eight occurred at O’Neill College, where the most recent reported incident before this dated back to two trash can fires in 2013.

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Day, patrolling code officers James Murdocco and John Vinicombe responded to an overdose at the Islandwide Taxi stand near the Port Jefferson Long Island Rail Road station. The victim did not have a pulse. LaPointe said at the board meeting on Jan. 4 that Murdocco administered the anti-overdose medication Narcan and

“saved the person’s life by doing so.” Tomaszewski described another recent incident in which officer Gina Savoie “thwarted a burglary” on Crystal Brook Hollow Road. He said after Savoie took action and called for police assistance, the two suspects, who are from Coram, were arrested for loitering. “My hat goes off to the code enforcement bureau,” Garant said at the most recent board meeting. “They’re out there handling things that are unimaginable for us to even contemplate.”

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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on the 11 day of December, 2015, bearing Index Number 15-18371, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 310 Center Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901 grants the infant NATALIA CAMILLE CARRION-BUXO the right to assume the name NATALIA CAMILLE CARRION. Present address is 48 Meadow Ponds Circle; infant’s date of birth is February 13, 2012; infant’s place of birth is Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, New York.

THE OBJECT of the above caption is for the foreclosure of: Mortgagor, to Premier Mortgage Corp., d/b/a PMC Mortgage Co., as Mortgage, to secure the sum $100,153.00 which Mortgage was duly recorded in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on Aug. 18, 1997 in Reel 19233 at Page 251 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF

Dated: Elmsford, New York December 1, 2015 Respectfully submitted, KNUCKLES, KOMOSINSKI & ELLIOTT, LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590 Elmsford, NY 10523 (914)-345-3020- #87200 514 12/24 4x ptr

549 1/14 1x ptr LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERV-

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on the 11 day of December, 2015, bearing Index Number 15-18371, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 310 Center Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901 grants the infant FAVIOLA ZOE CARRION-BUXO the right to assume the name FAVIOLA ZOE CARRION. Present address is 48 Meadow Ponds Circle; infant’s date of birth is August 22, 2007; infant’s place of birth is Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, New York. 550 1/14 1x ptr

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Legals Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Suffolk Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Suffolk ---------------------------------------------------------------X Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff, vs. Karen J. matz if living, and if he/ she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to Plaintiff; Michael J. Matz, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Capital One Bank USA NA, Danielle Matz, People of the State of New York, United States of America Acting Through the IRS; John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, person orcorporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the proper t y described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.) Defendants. ---------------------------------------------------------------X Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index No.: 607543/2015 Mortgaged Premises: 3 Andrew Street Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 DSBL #: 0200 - 284.00 - 01.00 002.000 To the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Suffolk. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of

the Mortgaged Premises. To: Karen J. Matz, Defendants In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. ANDREW G. TARANTINO, JR. of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the First day of December, 2015 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, in the City of Riverhead. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Michael J. Matz and Karen J. Matz dated August 21, 2006, to secure the sum of $365,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Book 21382, Page 631 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk, on the September 14, 2006. Said Mortgage was subsequently modified by a Loan Modification Agreement executed by Michael J. Matz and Karen J. Matz on August 22, 2014 and recorded February 11, 2015 in Book 22566, Page 59 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk. The property in question is described as follows: 3 ANDREW STREET, PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NY 11776 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACTAN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and nonprofit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1877-226-5697) or the Foreclosure Relief Hotline 1-800-2690990 or visit the department’s website at WWW.DFS.NY.GOV. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform

and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: December 9, 2015 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose 523 12/24 4x ptr NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007AHL1, Plaintiff, vs. LORNA MESSINA, STEVEN MESSINA, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on January 19, 2011, Order Appointing Substitute Referee filed August 11, 2014 and the Order Amending Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed on December 2, 2014, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on February 09, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 8 Brayton Court South, South Setauket, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0200, Section 389.00, Block 01.00 and Lot 041.010.Approximate amount of judgment is $912,070.69 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 27728/07. Donna England, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC, 1775 Wherle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, New York 14221, Attorneys for Plaintiff 553 1/8 4x vth

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on the 11 day of December, 2015, bearing Index Number 15-18371, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 310 Center Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901 grants the infant SOFIA VIKTORIA CARRION-BUXO the right to assume the name SOFIA VIKTORIA CARRION. Present address is 48 Meadow Ponds Circle; infant’s date of birth is September 10, 2009; infant’s place of birth is Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, New York.

RFP Packages can be obtained from the Village Administrator/ Clerk’s office at Village Hall

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The complete Bidding Package and report can be obtained at Port Jefferson Village Hall, 121 West Broadway, Port Jefferson, NY between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Bank of America, National Association as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-H1, Plaintiff, Against Index # 27802/08 Robert S. Sciortino, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on 3/30/2010, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on 2/18/2016 at 9:30 am, premises known as 204 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson, NY 11776 a/k/a Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776, described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Suffolk County Treasurer as Section 181.00, Block 7 and Lot 24. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $545,782.84 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment; Index # 27802/08. John Ciarelli, Esq., Referee. Law Office of Daniel H. Richland, PLLC, 152 West Hoffman Ave, Suite 11, LINDENHURST, NY 11757 Dated: 12/30/2015 CN 560 1/14 4x ptr Request for Proposal VILLAGE OF PORT JEFFERSON Fertilizer, Chemical and Seed to be used at Port Jefferson Country Club at Harbor Hills Bid #0069-2016 Request for proposal, invited by the Village of Port Jefferson, will be received by the Village Administrator/Clerk Robert Juliano, in the Village Hall located at 121 West Broadway, Port Jefferson, NY, 11777 on or before 3:00 PM prevailing time on Thursday February 4, 2016 at which time they will be opened and read.

INTENTION: The Village of Port Jefferson requests proposals for suppliers of Seed, Fertilizer, and Chemicals to be used at the Port Jefferson Country Club at Harbor Hills. All bids must be received promptly by 3:00 pm February 4, 2016, and placed in a sealed envelope clearly labeled “PJCC Seed and Fertilizer”- Bid # 0069-2016

The Inc. Village of Port Jefferson reserves the right to reject any/ all submitted proposals or any part of the submitted Bid received. Robert J. Juliano Village Administrator/Clerk Inc. Village of Port Jefferson 562 1/14 1x ptr INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF PORT JEFFERSON REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Construction of Rocketship Park The Village of Port Jefferson is seeking proposals for a professional contractor firm in connection with the reconstruction and renovation of Rocketship Park located in Kip Lee Park, Port Jefferson, NY. Beginning on January 15, 2016, a description of the planned work and required content of the proposal may be obtained at the office of the Village Clerk between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm daily, except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. Proposals will be received by the Village of Port Jefferson, at Village Hall until 3:00 PM on Thursday, February 11, 2016, at which time they shall be publicly opened and read aloud. Please take note that the existing Rocketship Park is accessible to any potential bidder for evaluation. Send proposal package to: Robert Juliano, Village Administrator/ Clerk 121 West Broadway Port Jefferson, N.Y. 11777 All bids must be received by February 11, 2016, 3:00 pm, placed in a sealed envelope and addressed to the Village Administrator/Clerk, clearly marked – ROCKETSHIP PARK PROJECT BID # 0070-2016 The Inc. Village of Port Jefferson reserves the right to reject any and all bids received.

Town of Brookhaven RFP 16-04 Request for Proposals (RFP) The Division of Purchasing on Behalf of the Department of Parks is Seeking Qualified Proposals for Concession Franchise Agreement at Cedar Beach, Mount Sinai, NY Proposal Due Date: February 16, 2016 (Advertised: January 14, 2016) SCOPE OF WORK: The Town of Brookhaven is seeking proposals from qualified entities or individuals who are financially, technically and otherwise knowledgeable and capable of operating and maintaining a concession franchise that includes one or more concession building facility(ies) and one (1) mobile ice-cream truck at Cedar Beach, Mt. Sinai, NY. The specifications for this RFP are available beginning January 14, 2016 and may be obtained by: • Preferred Method: Accessing website: www.brookhaven.org: Register and Download the documents Timeline • Ad Date: January 14, 2016 • Mandatory Site Visit: January 21, 2016 at 10:00 AM  Attendance at Proposer Conference Must be Confirmed by email to:  kkoppenhoefer@ brookhaven.org Cc: gmanzolillo@ brookhaven.org •Technical questions due by: January 25, 2016 by 3:30 PM •Q&A Addenda issued no later than: January 29, 2016 Must be in writing: email to:  KKoppenhoefer@ Brookhaven.org  cc: gmanzolillo@ brookhaven.org  Contact number: 631451-6252 •Proposals due: February 16, 2016 by 4:30 PM  Submitted to: Town of Brookhaven Purchasing Division One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York 11738 The Town of Brookhaven reserves the right to reject and declare invalid any or all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the proposals received, all in the best interests of the Town. The Town of Brookhaven welcomes and encourages minorities and women-owned businesses and HUD Section 3 businesses to participate in the bidding process. LATE PROPOSALS WILL BE REJECTED 564 1/14 1x ptr

Robert J. Juliano Village Administrator/Clerk Inc. Village of Port Jefferson Dated: January 8, 2016 563 1/14 1x ptr

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Skeleton

heat, making up for her tenth-of-a-second deficit and putting the heat on the only Continued from page A1 two racers who could catch her. O’Shea stood at the bottom of the track with a spikes into the ice and fly down the moun- nervous grin on her face as she watched tain on a sled she’d purchased before the her competition try to beat her combined start of the new season. Thus far, the vet- time of 1 minute, 50.34 seconds. eran slider, as skeleton racers are known, Even before the race ended, she knew was a respectable 11th on the World Cup she would have a medal. At that point, she tour, competing against the best other just wasn’t sure what color it would be. countries had to offer. A Swiss athlete, Marina Gilardoni, Her mental approach before her second was ahead of O’Shea through much of heat was noticeably different to Latour, the race. At the very end, O’Shea’s time who knew O’Shea had “potential that was was just enough, by 0.09 seconds, to keep through the roof.” Last Friday, looking her in first, ensuring her the color of the down her home track in front of a raucous medallion that would soon be hanging crowd that included school children ring- around her neck would be, at the very ing cowbells and screaming her name, least, silver. O’Shea had earned a silO’Shea looked “relaxed and composed,” ver medal before, in 2011 in La Plagne, the head coach said. She’s a France, and this time, she “changed person.” ‘She did a lot of stuff wanted gold. Part of that change came The next competitor, this summer that’s from hiring a life coach. Laura Deas of Great Brit“I used to take [every] starting to pay off. ain, was also ahead during problem I was having to the second run but she too This is her time.’ the track,” O’Shea said. “[I] fell back. Assistant Coach — Tuffy LaTour Zach Lund, who was holdneeded to get everything else off my mind. I feel like ing O’Shea’s hand while she I’ve never been so strong on the inside.” awaited her fate, assured her she’d won That strength, and the physical adjust- the gold before Deas’ run had ended. ment, helped her relax on a course where “I couldn’t even react until she crossed she had always felt extra pressure, espe- the finish line,” O’Shea said. “Then, the cially after years of training that started moment it showed red,” meaning Deas when she attended SUNY Plattsburgh. was behind O’Shea, “I lost it. I couldn’t True to form, O’Shea had a strong start believe it.” in her second heat, igniting a ride along a O’Shea screeched, jumped in the air track where she and her sled sounded like and gave Lund, among others, a hug. a freight train as she flew past spectators Standing on the highest rung of the platcamped out at their favorite turns. form, O’Shea had finally earned gold, and “She held the corner in turn 14 well,” what made it even sweeter was that it was Latour said. “If you nail that corner well on her home track. on this track, you’ll be very fast.” Back home where she works at the Latour said O’Shea tied a track record Comsewogue School District offices, her with her 55.08-second finish in her second mother, Linda O’Shea, was cheering so

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Annie O’Shea, center, claimed a first-place finish behind Marina Gilardoni from Switzerland, left, and Laura Deas from Great Britain, right, in the World Cup skeleton race in Lake Placid.

loudly that teachers from down the hall came flickering to her desk to see what all of the commotion was about. “I’m so proud of her,” Linda O’Shea said. “It was just nice to see how happy she was. When she realized she was going to get any medal, she was really excited.” O’Shea and her other three daughters spent the better part of the morning exchanging emails. The mother has her daughter’s silver medal at home on a shelf, and is looking forward to adding the gold to the collection. After the medal ceremony, Annie O’Shea signed autographs for some of her

enthusiastic young fans. For years, she was too focused on where she finished. Now that she’s keeping her approach much simpler, O’Shea and Latour hope this is just the beginning. “If she sticks with it and stays focused, she can do anything,” Latour said. While she’s pleased with her first World Cup gold medal, O’Shea has her sights set on a bigger prize: the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. “This is her time,” Latour said. On the immediate horizon, O’Shea will compete in the next World Cup race in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 15 and 16.

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PEOPLE

Vaianella Volunteers are recognized at a school board meeting last week.

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Students raise money for sick kids

A group of fifth-grade students from Boyle Road Elementary School in Port Jefferson Station were recognized at a Comsewogue board of education meeting on Jan. 7 for raising $550 and donating it to Friends of Karen, a Port Jeffersonbased organization dedicated to providing financial and emotional support for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

The students, who are called Vaianella Volunteers, after their teacher Linda Vaianella, presented the check to a representative from Friends of Karen to raucous applause from the dozens of parents in attendance. They raised the money by volunteering after school at a holiday craft fair and at the school store. — Alex Petroski

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OBITUARIES Mike Laffey Mike Laffey died unexpectedly on Dec. 19. He was born on Aug. 28, 1931, in Galway, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States at age 16 and had been a resident of Port Jefferson for the past 45 years. Mike was a Korean War veteran. He was a retired electrician from Local 25 and a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He had five younger siblings — Mary, Tommy, Joe, Willy and Kathleen — whom he cherished to no end. He was a loving family man who put his family before all things in life. He would often say, “If you don’t have family, you have nothing.” Mike touched the lives of not only his family but everyone he met. He leaves behind his devoted wife of 56 years, Nora; five loving children, Michael, John, Kevin, Eileen and Jimmy;

and 12 loving grandchildren. He will be missed by all. Arrangements were entrusted to Maloney Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station and he was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Port Jefferson.

Cezar Capulong Cezar M. Capulong, 70, of Port Jefferson Station, died on Dec. 21. He was born on March 7, 1945, in the Philippines, the son of Vicente and Natividad Capulong. Cezar was a retired plant manager for Tabachnick Fine Foods. Left to cherish his memory are his

sons, Orlando and Sherwin; daughter, Shirley Ann Geanopulos; three grandchildren; and many other family members and friends. Arrangements were entrusted to Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket, where services were held. Committal services were private. An online guest book is available at www.bryantfh.com.

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One year after his Long Island colleague Tim Bishop, left, was ousted, Congressman Steve Israel has announced he will not seek re-election.

EDITORIAL

Big shift coming U.S. Rep. Steve Israel is stepping aside at the end of the year, declining to run for another term in the House this November, after what will be 16 years as the Democratic representative for the Huntington and Smithtown areas. But his departure will affect more than just western Suffolk County. Long Island residents in general should be paying attention to the 3rd Congressional District seat in the coming year. Our officials at the federal and state levels work with their neighboring colleagues to get things done that benefit Long Island — sometimes in a quid pro quo sort of way. That means that no matter the elected body or who our representative is, the priorities and the character of the person who is elected in the next district over from us are important. And with Israel gone, no matter who is elected to replace him, Suffolk County will have two longtime congressman exiting in two years, after Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) unseated Democrat Tim Bishop in 2014. That’s not to say that new blood is a bad thing. Zeldin kept himself busy during his first year in the House, authoring several bills. Most recently, he introduced the Earnings Contingent Education Loans (ExCEL) Act of 2015, which aims to help young people manage their federal student loan debt by making the repayment system more flexible, with payment amounts based on the borrower’s salary. And in interviews with this newspaper, Zeldin has called being a newcomer a positive — party leadership supports their freshmen, he said, because they want to help them retain their seats. We appreciate Israel’s long service to our community. That being said, electing a new point of view to Congress has the potential to be a good thing for Long Island, which is in a state of flux as we try to plan our economic and environmental future. 3rd District candidates, all eyes are on you.

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Differences between the sexes in tall stories

D. None of the above by DaNiel DuNaief

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e started, “Once upon a time, three little brown bears.” “No, no, that’s not right!” she shouted, interrupting him before he could get to the action. “They weren’t little, there weren’t three of them and they weren’t brown.” “Wait!” he protested, putting up a finger. “Who is telling this

story, you or me?” “No, well, if you’re going to tell it, tell it right,” she argued. “But it’s a children’s story,” he snapped. “Can’t we just tell the story?” “You want him to go to school with the wrong details? You want him to come home with a bloody nose because someone punched him when he argued about whether they were little brown bears or mediumsized, endangered polar bears?” “You think our kid is going to get into a fight because I might have used the wrong details in a story? Weren’t we trying to put the kid to sleep? Look at him now. He’s crawling all over the bed, putting everything he can reach into his mouth,” he said. “Yeah, well, get the details right next time,” she huffed, storming out of the room. What is it about storytelling that divides the sexes? Why is it that a man remembers a story

one way and a woman seems so much better at remembering the details? Is it fair to generalize? Well, like every generalization, yes and no. A friend recently shared his observation that his girlfriend, whom he thinks is absolutely one of the best people he’s ever known, has only one small problem — she tends to take all the momentum out of his stories by correcting him. Is she wrong, I wondered? And even if she’s not wrong, do the details matter? When I thought about all the couples I’ve known over the years, it seemed to me, in my nonscientific recollections, that the women were more likely than the men to halt a story to fix a detail. “So, there were we were, in the middle of a fire alarm scare in Boston, and we were standing at the window ledge, eight stories up,” he might be saying. “No! No! We were in San

Francisco, not Boston, and we were on the 11th floor,” she might suggest. A glare and bad body language often follows, as the man loses the thread of his story while he grinds his teeth, wondering whether he can or should confront the love of his life in front of other people. Is this one of those differences between the sexes that reflect the fact that men are from Mars and women are from Venus? I suspect it is. The way I see it, the details we share about our lives in stories are like the fish we might collect if we were standing at the edge of a pier in Stony Brook, dropping nets into the water to catch fish — or story details — as they swim by. The holes in a man’s net are larger, letting the small fish swim through, while the holes in the women’s nets are smaller. The women pull up their nets and notice and count

No! No! We were in San Francisco, not Boston, and we were on the11th floor. the large and small fish, paying meticulous attention to everything, cataloging the variety of fish in their nets. The men look at the fish and wonder: (a) “Is this enough for dinner?” (b) “Should I take a picture of it?” and most importantly (c) “Did I catch more fish than my brother or the stranger at the end of the pier who kept bragging about all the fish he caught?” The next time a man’s story goes off track because of specific details, maybe he can suggest he’s focusing on the “bigger fish.” Then again, a woman might rightfully reply that he’s just telling another “fish” story.

Rapturously waiting for a customized diet

between you and me by leah S. DuNaief

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ere is some new information for those struggling with their New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Not all of us metabolize the same foods in the same way. How we metabolize is unique for each of us and depends on different factors such as genetic makeup, gut bacteria, body type and chemical exposures. Further complicating the picture is the variability of response by the same individual, depending on stress and one’s environment at

any given day or week. Now we know that we are all different in what we can eat. I remember when I was in seventh grade and a good friend asked me to join her every day after school at the nearby Schrafft’s, the ladies genteel luncheon restaurant, for an ice cream sundae. Slender and yet to have need of a bra during our puberty years, she thought she could hurry such development along with some more poundage — her straightforward goal was to gain weight. The year was 1952 and if you can believe it females generally did not go into restaurants alone, although Schrafft’s was known to cater to women. So being a good pal, I went with her each afternoon for a month, and we rapturously enjoyed hot fudge sundaes with vanilla ice cream in chilled metal cups. At the end, she got on the scale and to her disgust she had not gained an ounce. I, on the other hand, although having changed nothing else in my ordinary diet during that time, had gained five pounds,

which I subsequently worked hard — alone — to take off. Moral of story: Different bodies digest differently. Now if we were in the caveman days, as a physician once told me, I would have a better chance of survival in times of starvation rations because I can store reserves better than she. But to this day she is reed slender … and I am not. How do bodies absorb and metabolize differently? If we could figure that out, people like us would be more successful following diets — a notoriously difficult thing to do. The same dietary advice does not work for everyone. A recent study published in the prestigious journal, Cell, “found a startling variation in the glucose responses of 800 subjects fed the same foods,” according to an article in Science Times, a section of the Tuesday New York Times. “Some participants had sharp increases in blood sugar when they ate ice cream and chocolate, while others showed only a flat or moderate response.” They could have been talking about my junior

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high school friend and me. “Each person’s capacity to extract energy [calories] from foods differs, it appears,” the article continued. The researchers went further with their study. Using today’s high tech tools, they combined glucose responses of each participant with identification of gut bacteria, medications, family histories and lifestyles, and devised a formula that correctly predicted blood sugar responses to foods not yet eaten in the study. Once they could do that, the scientists could then modify diets and boost good gut bacteria according to whatever the goal might be for better health; for example, how to lose weight and/or prevent diabetes. The study is titled, “We Just Do It with Food,” and is coauthored by Dr. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The study is based mainly on genetic testing, according to The Times, but scientists have only begun to explore the links between DNA and good nutrition. The answers for each person are not simple because there are the many variables previously LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton SPORTS EDITOR Desirée Keegan ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ellen Recker ONLINE EDITOR Elana Glowatz

Not all of us metabolize the same foods in the same way. mentioned: those same genes, microbes, diet, environment and lifestyle on any given day. To date, 38 different genes have been linked to nutrient metabolism, and the technology in the form of sophisticated computers exists to analyze big data issues. Meanwhile, until these studies produce customized diets for us, keep eating whole grains, lean meats, and lots of fruits and vegetables, especially the green leafy kind. Interestingly when I was a kid, I remember people who were fat blaming their weight on their “genes.” Most of us didn’t even know what genes were, and all of us scoffed at that idea. Obesity was considered a failure of willpower then, pure and simple. Little did we know how right those people turned out to be.

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Photos by Bill Landon

Clockwise from above, the Comsewogue cheerleading squad leaps in the air during sectionals; a pose is struck for the judges; the Warriors team gets down on the mat; and senior captain Brooke Piligian gets the crowd going.

Comsewogue claims first place at sectionals Cheerleading By Bill landon

Cheerleading squads from all over Suffolk County converged on the mats of

Rocky Point High School Sunday for the Suffolk County cheerleading sectionals, where Comsewogue ran away with a firstplace finish in Small School Division I-B. Cheerleading officially became a recognized sport in the 2015-16 school year, making this sectional event the first time that the competition is overseen and sanctioned by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. Rocky Point was the first of 31 teams to take to the mat in Small School Division I-A, and the squad wowed the crowd with a two-and-a-half minute routine, despite head coach Anna Spallina feeling less impressed by her Eagles. “You have two and a half minutes to prove yourself out on the mat — if you don’t prove yourself in those two and a half minutes, you don’t get a second chance,” Spallina said. “You can’t go to

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the net again with a ball, or throw that pass one more time, so one little slip, an inch this way or an inch that way, and you can throw it away.” Pleased or not, Spallina’s squad earned first place in the division. Comsewogue hit the mat in the second session, and the Warriors put on a flawless performance as the crowd exploded in applause with their finish. But head coach Stefanie Breitfeller was just relieved that the routine was behind her, as the team had yet another hurdle to jump prior to a competition. “We had a major change this morning as I found out last night one of the girls came down with pink eye,” Breitfeller said. “We had to replace a starter, so we came into this thinking this could go badly or it could go very well.” Comsewogue senior Samantha Donlon was thrilled with her team’s firstplace finish.

“We have worked so hard for this day and I’m really proud,” she said. “I’m so happy and this will make us perform even harder next week.” Comsewogue senior Rachel Steck said she thought her team also performed well, but thinks that, like always, there is room for improvement. “It could’ve been a little tighter, but I’m just so proud of my team,” she said. “We did our best today. We’ll practice our routine; we’ll make it harder and we’ll make it cleaner.” Comsewogue junior Brittany Dein thought her team performed beyond its expectations with the last-minute change. “All week we’ve been running the routine a whole bunch of times and I can’t fault any part of our performance,” Dein said. The teams will reconvene on Sunday Jan. 24 at Hauppauge High School for the second round of competition.