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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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“I believe that the issue of standardized testing is central to the debate about the direction of public education all over the nation, not just here. Education policies created at the federal and state level focus heavily on data collected from standardized testing, which has resulted in a huge shift away from student-centered learning.” For more information about the film, visit www.beyondmeasurefilm.com.

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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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By: HEINO J. MULLER, ESQ.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT:

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