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Vol. 33, No. 40

August 27, 2020

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Roosters abandoned in Heritage Park show potential issue with town code A6 New SBU President McInnis speaks on upcoming school year A11

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Port Jeff’s new contactless parking system allows people to use their phones, either through an app or by tapping to pay. Photo by Kevin Wood

Village Sees Worth of Mobile Parking Payment vs. Meters

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Port Jefferson officials say the village’s new contactless parking kiosks have already shown increased usage in the short time the program has been active.

Port Jeff has been using Honk, a contactless parking payment company, since July 1. The company allows customers to pay for parking in two ways, one by downloading the phone app and the other by tapping their phone or scanning a barcode on a HonkTAP station.

People are able to access the touch-free parking payment at every village meter.

In a release, the app company said that last week, 1,227 people tapped to pay for parking.

Kevin Wood, the village’s parking and mobility administrator, said the tap action accounted for 43% of total parking sessions last week as well. Wood added that the amount of growth they’ve seen so far was primarily because an app is not needed to pay.

“The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the need for digitized, touchfree parking payments,” he said. “Usage has skyrocketed and our help center has received very positive feedback.”

The technology also allows an option for drivers to receive text reminders when their

parking session is set to expire and to add more time to their spot remotely.

“We’re proud to partner with Port Jefferson, and to help provide a safe, welcoming experience for visitor parking,” said Michael Back, Honk president and CEO in a release. “It’s never been more important for tourist destinations like Port Jefferson to offer easy, touch-free parking payments.”

Wood said the previous application company the village was using, MobileNOW!, went bankrupt and functionally disappeared before moving to this new company. The village has decreased the number of active meters from 23 at its height to 14 today. The nine decommissioned meters are now digital kiosks.

Meters themselves, he said, are incredibly expensive compared to digital options, as there’s not only paying for the meters but there’s insurance, maintenance, parts and even for every time the modem calls out after a transaction. As the marketplace for new technologies for cash-free parking blooms, he said he anticipates the village will have no functional need for any kind of meter as soon as 2023.

“Why buy a meter for $10- to $15,000 when you can just buy it digitally?” Wood said. “There’s nine different categories of cost per meter, with this company, it’s just a onetime cost.”

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Starting a farm at a young age is certainly not common, especially for two people whose families have no recent history or experience with extensive agriculture.

The pair are both 2015 graduates of Port Jefferson high school, though it would have been hard for either of them to say five years later they would find themselves knees in the dirt and their hands in the earth.

In high school, Burke was engendered to environmental issues. Later, when attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he started working at an urban farm, which helped grow local products in the so-called food deserts, or the places in poorer urban areas that have no local access to a supermarket or any kind of fresh food. Coming back to Long Island, he knew that’s something he would want to continue but on a larger scale.

Fortier, like her father Andrew, was interested in music but did enjoy working with her father outside in his carpentry business. After graduating with Burke in 2015 she went to The New School in New York City to study theater. Missing wide open spaces and looking to find work she could really enjoy, she returned to Long Island and “fell into” the agriculture industry more on the education and market side of things. Gradually, she grew to love the farmer’s life.

“If you had asked me in high school if James and I would own a farm together, I would have said, ‘What are you talking about?’” she said.

The two worked at Amber Waves Farm Market & Kitchen in Amagansett for just a few years when in 2019 the owners of the Nick and Toni’s restaurant in East Hampton asked for somebody to clean up the establishment’s backyard garden.

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Boots squelching in the morning dew of the roughly shorn grass in East Hampton, James Burke and Andie Fortier together know they have a long day ahead of them.

In the land known for its mansions and rich flavoring from Southampton to Montauk, nothing comes easy to those who work the land. The farmers, both just 23 years old, have many vegetables to grow, their winter squash, the hot peppers, watermelons and many others in the small plot of land behind the restaurant they work for. After working a full day there, it’s over to another patch of land they farm in Amagansett where they grow produce for their stand at the Port Jefferson Farmers Market. They will be working from early morning until the sun kisses the horizon, but they will return to their small Amagansett apartment proud of what they’ve done, because everything they have, has been built with their own hands.

The pair effectively operate two small farms far out on the South Fork. One provides the food for a multitude of local restaurants, the other is for all their produce sold at the PJ Farmers Market, where they hold their stand as Sand and Soil Farm.

To them, nurturing things, whether it’s any one plant or an entire garden and farm, is only natural.

“It’s really satisfying to see something from start to finish, from when you put a seed in the ground then take care of it and harvest from it — watching things come full circle,” Fortier said.

Burke said he relishes watching the way customers react to their food. At their farmers market stand, customers come and say what they used the farm’s produce for. Others look for something they haven’t cooked with before, then they come back the following week and “they’re hooked on it,” Burke said.

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Village of Belle Terre

Three Newcomers Take on Longtime Incumbents in Belle Terre

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With two trustee seats and the mayoral position up for election in the Village of Belle Terre, three individuals have thrown their hats into the ring along with the three incumbents.

This year, incumbent Mayor Bob Sandak is joined by Deputy Mayor Sheila Knapp and Trustee Jacquelyn Gernaey. Opposing them are newcomers Enrico Scarda, who’s running for mayor, along with trustee candidates Peter Colucci and Lou Bove.

The mayoral race has already started to heat up in anticipation for the Sept. 15 voting date.

Ballots can be cast at the Belle Terre Village Hall from 12 to 9 p.m.

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Enrico Scarda Scarda, the president and founder of the Crest Group development agency, said he is running to help bolster local property values and update how the village communicates with residents.

“We’re all getting up in age and want to sell our homes to downsize, and I believe we could do much better with property values than our [competing villages],” Scarda said. “The village has the opportunity here to get an attorney who has experience in the community for free.”

The Crest Group owns multiple properties around the Port Jeff area, including Danford’s Hotel & Marina and The Waterview at the Port Jefferson Country Club. Scarda is a 20-year resident of the village, having moved there with his wife to help raise his three children. With his two sons having already graduated from college they are helping him run the business, and with his daughter also graduating soon as well, he said he has more time to spend caring about local issues.

The village, he said, could do better with its communications efforts, including buffing up its website. He suggested Belle Terre should create a ticket system for things like road repair that can be submitted electronically, such as he has in his business. The village would give updates through the system for when a ticket has been accepted and when a project is complete.

He added there could be small additions that would make the beach program more attractive, including more renovations to the beach pavilion.

All these small changes, he said, would go to making the village more attractive, and thereby increasing everyone’s property values.

His home on Seaside Drive is only one of several Sound-facing homes which are facing issues

with eroding bluffs. Scarda said though he has already received permits from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to begin revetment of those bluffs, the village should work with all property owners along that road to shore up the bluffs, especially because fixing one residents’ bluffs will still leave an issue for others all along the shore. It’s not to benefit him or any one person but creating some kind of initiative to do bluff repair would go a long way.

“If one home falls into the sound, the property values of the rest of the village are going to go down,” he said. “If we all did the work at the same time, we could protect that bluff, we would all be safe.”

Similar houses in Belle Terre compared to Old Field are going for a worse rate than their counterparts, he claimed, saying it’s because of small things that are leaving the village in the past.

Other issues for the candidate include safety, as he calls for more cameras including one by the village gate. He also said the village should do more to beautify the roads, including repair and garbage pickup.

Overall, he said his experience would make him a great pick to lead Belle Terre.

“The village is getting an experienced developer who has built communities as large as Belle Terre from the ground up,” he said.

Bob Sandak Four-year Mayor Sandak has been a village official since he became trustee in 2004.

He came on as trustee during Vincent Bove’s 25-year reign, and originally ran unopposed in 2016.

Sandak said he and fellow trustees have already made many strides since the time he’s sat on the board. The mayor is a former school administrator, having worked in districts such as Hicksville, Half Hollow Hills and William Floyd at times overseeing millions of dollars’ worth in construction along with other administrative tasks over 38 years. He said this work has translated well into administrating a small village like Belle Terre.

“We’ve tried to pass codes that make this a nice place to live for everybody,” he said.

“Noise is something we deal with — there’s no construction on Saturday and Sunday — we try to make it a nice place to live.”

The village, he said, has done well in creating public/private partnerships to create municipal projects that are partly funded by both residents and Belle Terre. These include the restoration of the gatehouse and entrance wall, the design and construction of the children’s playground, the installation of the walking/cycling track, the reconstruction of the “Circle” at the end of Cliff

Road, and most recently the reconstruction of the bathhouse pavilion at Knapp Beach. The latter was originally built in the 1930s and needed to be made handicap accessible. That project, which he said started in concept around two years ago, was done with volunteered architectural designs by a resident and donations from the community.

The community also donated their time and money to help construct kayak and canoe racks at Knapp Beach. These proved so popular that the village plans to help construct additional racks in the future, along with some mats that people may walk down onto the beach.

In the future, Sandak said Belle Terre needs to be readier to handle potential storms. He said he wants to propose the community center should be turned into a shelter for residents, especially those who lose power in a storm. This would require backup generators for people to use the location as a refuge.

“We’ve really noticed a real change in weather patterns — we’ve been hit by nor’easters — they really batter us,” he said. “It leads to a lot of road reconstruction.”

In terms of property values, the Belle Terre mayor said the noticeable loss in property values was due to a large number of people who inherited their homes from longtime residents all started putting homes on the market at once, many of whom had not been fixed up since the 1960s. To his knowledge, there are only four houses up for sale in the community, and he expects property values to increase up to levels comparable with similarly sized villages on the North Shore.

Sandak also agreed that erosion around homes on the edge of the Sound was a major issue, though he said he had two years ago proposed to property owners a special taxation area that could help pay back a bond that would be used to fix the erosion issues, but only two of 11 homeowners were interested in that.

“We certainly want to try and help stop the erosion there,” he said.

Trustees

Sheila Knapp Knapp, who has spent a lifetime amongst the Belle Terre community, said she is running again to continue to make the village live up to her memories of spending time there as a child.

“A year before I was born my parents bought our home in Belle Terre.

It was the most wonderful place to grow up,” she said in an email response to questions. “The beach, the friends, the belonging to a community that was like family … I want everybody to love this place as I do.”

Knapp has been beach commissioner since 1977, trustee since 1997 and deputy mayor since

2004. She said the best part of the village is the natural beauty and peacefulness, and that every board she has served on has had the goal “to keep everybody’s quality of life here at it’s best.”

Close to 70 years ago, when Harbor Hills Country Club was built, she said her father got the land for what is now the current beach, which she has long worked to take care of. Otherwise, she said the village has passed noise and construction ordinances to keep the village serene on the weekends. She said the new wall along the beach parking lot is a “dream come true” and their recently installed cell tower has allowed more reception range throughout the village.

The 43-year beach commissioner said that in the future she would continue on with Belle Terre’s current trajectory.

“Things are not broken here,” she said. “We improved communication and do our best to keep residents informed with the website, meetings, emails and letters. All of the trustees and mayor publish our private phone numbers. We want to be accessible.”

Peter Colucci Colucci, who has lived in Belle Terre along with his wife for 12 years, said he is running because he deeply cares about the community and believes he can improve several aspects of the village.

Two things he’s running on are security and modernizing the village’s communication systems. In 2017 he and his wife were victims of a home invasion and burglary where police at the time said the perpetrators got away with several hundred thousand dollars in cash and jewelry.

“I would like to see modernization in all areas,” Colucci said in an email response to questions. “Simple things are easily done such as upgrading security cameras and increasing communication to all residents especially during times of weather-related emergencies.”

He said he would like to continue with current efforts to keep the beauty and quaintness of the village going, but he said he would also look forward to working on a plan to alleviate the issues with Anchorage Road, where people park all along the road making it dangerous for both cars and pedestrians looking to access McAllister County Park.

Jacquelyn Gernaey Gernaey, who has been on the board of trustees for six years after she was originally appointed to the board, said the best part of being on a board like that in Belle Terre is that “trustees really don’t have a personal agenda, and I like being part of a group that can make changes BELLE TERRE ELECTION Continued on A12

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LEGALS AVISO DE ELECCIÓN ANUAL Y VOTO DE PRESUPUESTO DE LA Biblioteca Pública DE COMSEWOGUE CIUDAD DE BROOKHAVEN, CONDADO DE SUFFOLK, NEW YORK POR LA PRESENTE SE AVISA de que se llevará a cabo la reunión anual de elección y voto del presupuesto para los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Sin Sindicato de Comsewogue, ciudad de Brookhaven, condado de Suffolk, New York, en la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, el 15 de septiembre de 2020, entre las 9:30 am y las 9:00 pm, hora local, con el propósito de votar en papeleta de votación sobre los siguientes puntos*: (1) Adoptar el Presupuesto Anual con el propósito de apoyar y mantener a la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue para el año fiscal 2020-2021 y autorizar que la porción requerida del mismo se aumente mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad sujeta a impuestos en el Distrito Escolar Sin Sindicato de BrookhavenComsewogue; y (2) Elegir un (1) miembro de la junta directiva de Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue para llenar una plaza de cinco años que comienza el 1° de julio de 2020 y finaliza el 30 de junio de 2025, como resultado de la expiración del término de oficina que actualmente ocupa Corinne DeStefano; y POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA, de que cualquier residente del Distrito Escolar puede obtener una copia de una declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para los fines de la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue durante los catorce (14) días inmediatamente antes de dicha reunión excepto los sábados, domingos y días feriados en la Biblioteca ubicada en 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, durante el horario regular cuando la biblioteca está abierta y en línea en www.cplib.org, si está abierta al público. De lo contrario, la declaración solo se

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com proporcionará en el sitio web de la biblioteca; y POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA que la Junta Directiva de Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue llevará a cabo una Audiencia de Información del Presupuesto con el fin de presentar el presupuesto propuesto de la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue el 8 de septiembre de 2020 en la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776 a las 6:00 p. m., sujeto a que dicha reunión se lleve a cabo a través del servicio de transmisión de la Biblioteca como se cita en el sitio web de la biblioteca; y POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA, de que las solicitudes para postular candidatos para la oficina de Miembro de la Junta de Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue se deben enviar por correo o entregarse en la oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca en 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, entre las 9:30 am and 4:00 pm, hora local de lunes a viernes, pero a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del lunes, 17 de agosto de 2020, dicha petición también se puede presentar de forma remota con el Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca (debolsen@cplib.org) si lo permite la Orden Ejecutiva. Cada solicitud debe ser dirigida a la Oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca y debe estar firmada por al menos dieciocho (18) votantes calificados del Distrito, y debe indicar la residencia de cada signatario y el nombre y residencia del candidato; y POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA, que la inscripción personal de los votantes es un requisito de acuerdo a § 2014 de la Ley de Educación o según el artículo 5 de la ley Electoral. Si un votante se ha inscrito según § 2014 de la Ley de Educación y ha votado en alguna reunión anual o especial del distrito en los últimos cuatro (4) años, dicho votante es elegible para votar en esta elección; si un votante está inscrito y es elegible para votar de acuerdo con el artículo 5 de la Ley Electoral, dicho votante es también elegible para votar en esta

elección. Todas las demás personas que deseen votar deben inscribirse. Aquellos que deseen inscribirse pueden enviar por correo los formularios de inscripción completados a la Junta Electoral del Condado de Suffolk (formularios disponibles para descargar en su sitio web; o pueden obtenerse en una oficina de correos de los EE.UU.; o visitando https:// www.dmv.ny.gov/more-info/ electronic-voter-registrationapplication para hacerlo en línea). *; y POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA, de conformidad con las disposiciones de 2018-a de la Ley de Educación, las boletas de votación en ausencia para la elección del Miembro Directivo de la Biblioteca y para la adopción del presupuesto anual pueden solicitarse en la Oficina del Secretario Electoral de Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue en el horario regular de oficina.

Las solicitudes completadas deben ser recibidas por la Oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue siete (7) días antes del voto/elección si la boleta se envía por correo al votante o a más tardar las 5:00 p. m. del día antes del voto/elección si la boleta se entrega personalmente al votante. No se contará ninguna boleta de votación en ausencia a menos que se haya recibido en la Oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. del día de la elección. El listado de todas las personas a las cuales se han emitido boletas de voto en ausencia estará disponible en la oficina de dicho Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue cada uno de los cinco (5) días previo al 15 septiembre de 2020, excepto los domingos y días feriados (sujeto a que la Biblioteca esté abierta al público durante dichos días); y POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA, que los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Sin Sindicato de Comsewogue pueden pedir una solicitud de boleta militar al Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca por correo LEGALS con’t on pg. 7

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Unknown Person Abandons Roosters in Heritage Park Playground

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Four roosters, two adults and two young birds, were found abandoned in Mount Sinai’s Heritage Park playground Aug. 21. Town of Brookhaven workers, police and animal rescue groups responded to take the animals away and give them sanctuary outside the town.

Visitors to Heritage Park reported on social media finding the roosters Friday morning. Suffolk County police were notified, and upon calling the Sound Beach-based Strong Island Rescue League around 10 a.m., a town worker was able to corral the birds into a corner of the playground while Frankie Floridia, president of Strong Island, picked them up, put them in cages and transported them away.

Floridia said the birds will either go to an animal sanctuary or to families who wish to take care of them in townships where it is legal to own roosters.

The animal rescuer said there is a ma- A Brookhaven town worker holds a fence up as animal rescuer jor issue in the town with people illegal- Frankie Floridia takes them away. Photo from Floridia ly abandoning animals such as domestic ducks in local ponds, but especially 95-degree weather. roosters. Mail order chickens have become an “Anyone who knows us, knows if it’s in our increasingly popular business, though some do capabilities to be able to take hens off somenot specify whether the chickens are male or fe- one’s hands or help where we can,” Niegocki male. The animal rescuer said his organization said. “By dumping them on us it was a three-day has answered calls for several abandoned roost- ordeal in trying to catch them and pen them — ers in Brookhaven over the past few years. we had to rush to get ready for them.”

“What the people do, rather than get a fine, Though the farm is often asked personally to is they go ahead and dump them,” Florid- look after chickens, especially roosters, another ia said. “The problem is dumping them, they major issue with dumping roosters is the risk of can’t survive on their own in the wild. They disease spreading amongst a flock. This is espeare easy prey for predators, they get hit by cars, cially concerning for a farm which depends on they have no food source. It’s a slow torturous those chickens as part of their livelihood, though death for them.” leaving the birds to fend for themselves would Town code allows residents to have up to a only invite predators. max of six of any combination of poultry whethThe farmer said the town code is partly to er it’s female chickens or ducks, unless they ob- blame for the number of people who abandon tain a permit. these animals.

Some online questioned whether the birds “A person’s dog can bark all day and night were runaways from the small farm just around but a rooster is unacceptable?” she said. “I think the corner from The Wedge, aka Heritage Park. the laws need to change to be more accommoThe roosters indeed did not come from Niegocki dating. If COVID-19 has taught us anything, Farms, off of Mount Sinai-Coram Road, but that having the ability to feed your family is very imsmall little taste of agricultural life on the North portant and chickens provide not only eggs but Shore has had major issues with people dump- also a source of meat.” ing chickens onto their property.

Strong Island Animal Rescue League can be Tricia Niegocki, of Niegocki Farms, said that contacted at strongislandrescue@gmail.com or they have had six occasions in the past few years through its Facebook page. where they found roosters dumped on their To donate to Strong Island visit: strongislanproperty. This includes an incident where an danimalrescueleague.org/pages/donate-today. unknown individual dumped 26 hens over their For more on the Mount Sinai farm, visit fence “in the dead heat of summer” in about www.niegockifarms.com.

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 6 a la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 , por correo electrónico a debolsen@cplib. org o por fax al 631-9286307. En dicha solicitud, el votante militar puede indicar su preferencia para recibir la solicitud por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

Un votante militar debe devolver la solicitud de boleta militar original por correo a la oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca de la Biblioteca Pública de Comsewogue, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776. Para que un votante militar reciba una boleta militar, una la solicitud de boleta militar válida debe recibirse en la oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. el 21 de agosto de 2020. Las solicitudes de boleta militar recibidas de acuerdo con lo anterior se procesarán de la misma manera que una solicitud de boleta no militar según la Sección 2018-b de la Ley de Educación. La solicitud de una boleta militar debe incluir la preferencia del votante militar para recibir la boleta militar por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA, que la boleta militar original de un votante militar debe ser devuelta por correo a la oficina del Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca, 170 Terryville Road.

Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776. Las boletas militares se contarán si son recibidas por el Secretario Electoral de la Biblioteca antes de las 5 p. m. el 15 de septiembre de 2020 y que muestre una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los EE.UU. o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o que muestre un endoso fechado de recepción por otra agencia del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. del 15 de septiembre de 2020 y firmada y fechada por el votante militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se determina que no sea después del día anterior a la elección/votación.

POR LA PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE AVISA de que un votante calificado cuya

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com capacidad de comparecer personalmente en el lugar de votación se ve sustancialmente afectado por una enfermedad permanente o una discapacidad física y cuyo expediente de inscripción ha sido marcado como “permanentemente discapacitado” por la Junta Electoral de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley Electoral tendrá derecho a recibir una boleta de voto en ausencia por correo de acuerdo con lo dispuesto en la Ley Electoral sin tener que hacer una solicitud por separado para dicha boleta de voto en ausencia.

Nota al pie: * Dicha votación “en persona” dependerá de la Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador de Nueva York que prescriba el uso de boletas en ausencia exclusivas para dicha votación/elección.

Todas las disposiciones anteriores estarán sujetas a órdenes ejecutivas que dispongan lo contrario.

Fechado: Port Jefferson Station,NY 22 de julio de 2020 POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA DE LA BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA DE COMSEWOGUE CORINNE DeSTEFANO, PRESIDENTE 729 7/30 4x ptr NOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTION AND BUDGET VOTE OF THE COMSEWOGUE PUBLIC LIBRARY TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Annual Election and Budget Vote of the qualified voters of the Comsewogue Union Free School District, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be held at the Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, on September 15, 2020, between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. prevailing time, for the purpose of voting, by paper ballot, upon the following items*: (1) Proposition to adopt the Annual Budget for the support and maintenance of the Comse-

wogue Public Library for the 2020-2021 fiscal year and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free School District; and (2) Election of one (1) Trustee to the Board of Trustees of the Comsewogue Public Library to fill a five-year term commencing July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2025, as a result of the expiration of the term of office presently held by Corinne DeStefano; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing fiscal year for the Comsewogue Public Library’s purposes, may be obtained by any resident in the School District during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding and on the day of said meeting, except Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, from the Library, located at 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, during the hours in which the Library is regularly open for business and online at www. cplib.org, if open for business. Otherwise the statement will only be provided on the library website; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Trustees of the Comsewogue Public Library will conduct a Budget Information Hearing for the purpose of presenting the proposed budget of the Comsewogue Public Library on September 8, 2020 at the Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776 at 6:00 p.m., subject to such meeting being conducted by way of the Library streaming service as cited on the library’s website; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the Office of Trustee of the Comsewogue Public Library shall be mailed to or filed in the Office of the Election Clerk of the Library, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, Monday through Friday, but not later than 5:00

p.m., Monday, August 17, 2020, such petition may also be filed remotely with the Library Election Clerk (debolsen@cplib.org) if permitted

by Executive Order. Each petition must be directed to the Office of the Election Clerk of the Library, must be signed by at least eighteen (18) qualified voters of the District and must state the residence of each signer and the name and residence of the candidate; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to section 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to section 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at any annual or special district meeting within the past four (4) years, such voter is eligible to vote at this election; if the voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. Those wishing to register may mail in completed registration forms to the Suffolk County Board of Elections (forms available to be downloaded at its website; or may be obtained at a U.S. Post Office; or by way of visiting https:// www.dmv.ny.gov/more-info/ electronic-voter-registrationapplication in order to do so online).*; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to the provisions of 2018-a of the Education Law, absentee ballots for the election of Trustee of the Library and for the adoption of the annual budget may be applied for at the Office of the Election Clerk of the Comsewogue Public Library during regular business hours.

Such application must be received by the Office of the Election Clerk of the Comsewogue Public Library seven (7) days prior to the vote/election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the vote/election if the ballot is to be personally delivered to the voter. No absentee voter’s ballot shall be canvassed, unless it shall have been received in the Office of the Election Clerk

of the Comsewogue Public Library no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the election.

A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the said Office of the Election Clerk of the Comsewogue Public Library on each of the five (5) days prior to September 15, 2020 except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, (subject to the Library being open to the public during such days); and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Comsewogue Union Free School District may request an application for a military ballot from the Library Election Clerk by mail to Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776, by email to debolsen@cplib.org or by fax to 631-928-6307. In such request, the military voter may indicate his/her preference for receiving the application by mail, fax or email. A military voter must return the original military ballot application by mail to the office of the Library Election Clerk at Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776. In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the Library Election Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 2020. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a nonmilitary ballot application under Section 2018-b of the Education Law. The application for a military ballot should include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, a military voter’s original military ballot must be returned by mail to the office to the Library Election Clerk, 170 Terryville Road. Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776. Military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the Library Election Clerk before 5 p.m. on September 15, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or show-

ing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on September 15, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election/ vote.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a qualified voter whose ability to appear personally at the polling place is substantially impaired by reason of permanent illness or physical disability and whose registration record has been marked “permanently disabled” by the Board of Elections pursuant to the provisions of the Election Law shall be entitled to receive an absentee ballot pursuant to the provisions of the Election Law without making separate application for such absentee ballot.

Footnote: *Such “in person” voting to be dependent upon Executive Order of the NY Governor prescribing to use of absentee ballots exclusive for such vote/ election.

All of the above provisions will be subject to Executive Orders providing otherwise.

Dated: Port Jefferson Station,NY July 22, 2020

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE COMSEWOGUE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORINNE DeSTEFANO, PRESIDENT 730 7/30 4x ptr ACCESSORY APARTMENT REVIEW BOARD TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN Pursuant to the provisions of section §85-258 of the Building Ordinance of the Town of Brookhaven, notice is hereby given that the Accessory Apartment Review Board of the Town of Brookhaven will hold a virtual public hearing streamed live over the internet at BrookhavenNY. gov/join at 6:00 pm on 09/03/2020. Adjacent property owners and/or others interested in any way in the proposal may make public LEGALS con’t on pg. 8

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 7 comments to the Accessory Apartment Review Board via the “Q&A” feature during this time at BrookhavenNY. gov/join. Anyone interested in submitting written comments to the Board may also do so via email at AARB@ BrookhavenNY.gov AA019215 BIRK RAYMOND 3 HALLOCK CT PATCHOGUE NY 11772 AA019425 RODRIGUEZ ELVIA VALENCIA & VEINTIMILLA DIEGO W 8 CAROLINE ST MEDFORD NY 11763 AA019555 NACLERIO ANTHONY 4 KNICKERBOCKER AVE HOLBROOK NY 11741 AA019562 JOSEPH P HANSON & ALEXANDRIA V HANSON FAMILY TRUST CHRISTOPHER J 10 APPLE CIDER LN CENTER MORICHES NY 11934 AA019590 PIERRE JOSEPH 275 WEST END AVE SHIRLEY NY 11967 AA019657 AKHTAR MUHAMMAD QASIM & SARAH SAJJAD 46 PATRICIA LN CENTEREACH NY 11720 AA019666 GALLO CYNTHIA & KLEINMAN CHARLES 49 OREGON AVE MEDFORD NY 11763 AA019687 KING THOMAS & EILEEN 6 DOUGLAS ST PORT JEFF STA NY 11776 AA019693 KELLY SONY PENA & PETROZZO LISA 91 BRUNSWICK RD RONKONKOMA NY 11779 AA019705 ROBERT SERRANO & SYLVIA DEL VALLE 35 SOUTH SWEZEYTOWN RD. MIDDLE ISLAND NY 11953 AA17497 ZEA FERNEY & CRUZ ELENA 1139 WILLIAM FLOYD PKWY SHIRLEY NY 11967 Irene D’Abramo Accessory Apartment Review Board

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com Town of Brookhaven 788 8/27 1x ptr NOTICE OF ADOPTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that after a public hearing was held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Belle Terre on August 18, 2020, the Board of Trustees, at the same meeting, adopted LOCAL LAW NO. 2 of 2020, as follows: entitled “A LOCAL LAW amending Chapter 170 of the Village Code of Belle Terre by declaring that, except for enumerated reasons, the use of helicopters or seaplanes for landing or taking off within the Village of Belle Terre, is prohibited.

Copies of the proposed law, sponsored by Mayor Sandak, are on file in the Village Clerk’s office, Monday through Friday, from 9 am to 4:30 pm.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VILLAGE OF BELLE TERRE JOANNE RASO, VILLAGE CLERK Dated: August 18, 2020 789 8/27 1x ptr NOTICE OF ADOPTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that after a public hearing was held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Belle Terre on August 18, 2020, the Board of Trustees, at the same meeting, adopted LOCAL LAW NO. 3 of 2020, as follows: entitled “A LOCAL LAW amending Chapter 161 of the Village Code of Belle Terre to clarify the imposition of late penalties for failure to answer a summons.

Copies of the proposed law, sponsored by Mayor Sandak, are on file in the Village Clerk’s office, Monday through Friday, from 9 am to 4:30 pm.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VILLAGE OF BELLE TERRE JOANNE RASO, VILLAGE CLERK Dated: August 18, 2020 790 8/27 1x ptr

Village of Port Jefferson

Fideicomisario dos (2) años

Resolved, please take notice that the next General Election of the Inc. Village of Port Jefferson will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101A East Broadway, Port Jefferson.

Por favor, tenga en cuenta que las siguientes personas han presentado peticiones en mi oficina y han aceptado la nominación y designación como candidato para buscar la oficina junto a su nombre:

At this election, the following offices are to be filled for the terms set opposite such offices.

Office Trustee

Term Two (2) Years

Office Trustee

Term Two (2) Years

Please take further notice that the following persons have filed petitions in my office and have accepted the nomination and designation as a candidate to seek the office set opposite their name: Candidate Rebecca Kassay 1037 Main Street Port Jefferson, NY Office Trustee Candidate Bruce Miller 109 Scraggy Hill Rd Port Jefferson, NY Office Trustee Barbara Sakovich Clerk Inc. Village of Port Jefferson August 27, 2020 792 8/27 1x ptr Aviso a los votantes Aviso de elección Pueblo de Port Jefferson Resuelto, tenga en cuenta que la próxima Elección General de Inc. Village of Port Jefferson se llevará a cabo el martes 15 de septiembre de 2020 de 6:00 a.m. a 9:00 p.m. en el Port Jefferson Village Center, 101A East Broadway, Port Jefferson.

En esta elección, los siguientes cargos se cubrirán por los términos establecidos frente a dichos cargos.

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Notice to Voters Notice of Election

Fideicomisario dos (2) años

Oficina candidata Fideicomisario Rebecca Kassay 1037 calle principal Port Jefferson, Nueva York Fideicomisario de Bruce Miller 109 Scraggy Hill Rd Port Jefferson, Nueva York Barbara Sakovich Empleado Inc. Pueblo de Port Jefferson 27 de agosto de 2020 793 8/27 1x ptr Town of Brookhaven RFP 20-15 Request for Proposals (RFP) The Division of Purchasing on Behalf of the Department of Parks & Recreation is seeking proposals from qualified Engineering firms to provide professional services, including construction administration and monitoring for Parks & Recreation to finalize a conceptual plan and produce constructions plans for the Middle Country Athletic Complex.

Proposal Due Date: September 24, 2020 by 4:30 PM (Advertised: August 27, 2020) SCOPE OF WORK: The Town of Brookhaven, Parks & Recreation is seeking proposals from qualified Engineering firms to provide professional services, including construction administration and monitoring for Parks & Recreation to finalize a conceptual plan and produce construction plans for the Middle Country Athletic Complex.

The specifications for this RFP are available beginning August 27, 2020 and may be obtained by: • Preferred Method:

□ Accessing website: brookhavenNY.gov/ Purchasing : Register and Download the documents Timeline • Ad Date: August 27, 2020 • Technical questions due by: September 10, 2020 by 4:30 PM o Must be in writing: email to:

□ KKoppenhoefer@ Brookhavenny.gov

□ cc: gmanzolillo@ brookhavenny.gov

□ pmazzei@ brookhavenny.gov

□cschroder@ brookhavenny.gov o Contact number: 631-451-6252 • Q&A Addendum Issued: No later than September 15, 2020 • Proposals due: September 24, 2020 by 4:30 PM o Submitted to Town of Brookhaven Purchasing Division o 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 795 8/27 1x ptr NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed Bids will be received, publicly opened and read aloud at 11:00 a.m. in the Division of Purchasing of the Town of Brookhaven, One Independence Hill, Third Floor, Farmingville, NY 11738, for the following item(s) on the dates indicated: BID #20047 – PRECAST CONCRETE DRAINAGE STURCTURES SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 BID #20050 – BLADES & EDGES FOR GRADERS, DOZERS (REBID) SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

BID #20049 – COLLECTION/ DISPOSAL OF REFUSE/RECYCLABLES, DAVIS PARK GARBAGE DISTRICT SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 BID #20051 – COLLECTION/ DISPOSAL OF REFUSE/RECYCLABLES, FIRE ISLAND PINES GARBAGE DISTRICT SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 Specifications for the abovereferenced bids will be available beginning August 27, 2020.

Preferred Method • Access website: brookhavenNY.gov/Purchasing: click on link for Bids.

• Follow directions to register and download document.

• Questions must be submitted in writing to the following e-mail: PurchasingGroup@ brookhavenny.gov 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.

Further information can be obtained by calling (631) 451-6252 Kathleen C. Koppenhoefer Deputy Commissioner TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN 796 8/27 1x ptr

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Turtle Island: A Your Turn Series

Environmental Racism Exacerbated by Coronavirus People of low-income, and especially mi- the latter’s communities are being subjected to norities, constantly struggle with the financial the greater amounts of air pollution, toxic waste and social hardships that arise from racism. sites, landfills, lead poisoning and flooding.

The health effects from environmental racWhile the financial disparities and social injustices are well known, many are still unaware of ism are extremely harmful and lethal. Most the environmental racism that many people and often, people of low income communities who are subjected to environmencommunities endure, and how tal racism will see increases in deadly it actually is. Currentobesity, asthma, diabetes and ly, the COVID-19 pandemic is many different cancers because making this issue more apparthey are living amongst indusent and is increasing the need trial toxic chemicals and toxic for awareness about environwaste. mental justice.

One example that demonEnvironmental racism is strates the harmful effects of a form of systemic racism environmental racism is the sowhere people of color are discalled Cancer Alley in Louisiproportionately impacted by ana along the Mississippi Rivenvironmental hazards through er. In 1987, African Americans policies and practices. It has of low-income neighborhoods existed in America ever since started noticing an abundance the Europeans made contact Sapphire Perera of cancer cases within their with the Native Americans, and community. People began makit has progressively worsened ing the connection between with the Industrial Revolution and the increasing amount of toxic waste and cancer cases and the 85-mile-long stretch of oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The petronew technology that is being created.

The working populations that lives in low-in- chemical plants are extremely harmful to human come communities aren’t given the power to health because petrochemicals can be absorbed have their voices heard regarding environmen- through the skin or ingested and will accumulate tal laws. Moreover, the land in these areas is in tissues and organs. They can then cause brain, cheaper for industrial actors to acquire. This is nerve and liver damage, birth defects, cancer why about 70% of contaminated waste sites are and asthma. This is why living in Cancer Allocated in low income communities. With such ley increases one’s chance of getting cancer by a great imbalance of political power between the 50%. Currently, Cancer Alley is also experiencupper class, less diverse neighborhoods and the ing a highest rate of coronavirus deaths.

Another community that is a target of envilow-income African American neighborhoods,

PJ FARMERS

Continued from A3 months the half an acre became overgrown with weeds that reached up to chest height.

“It was kind of a blank canvas, so we just started seeding,” Fortier said. “It’s just grown and grown over the past couple of months.”

Practically by themselves, Fortier and Burke transformed it into a thriving garden, adding more onto it since they started handling it full time last September.

So much has been built by hand. Using excess wood found in a pile on the property, the pair built a 10-foot wide toolshed. Elsewhere in the garden, they found old half-moon metal rails buried in the weeds, and taking those they constructed their own greenhouse. The only items of those two projects they purchased was the roof for the shed and the canvas for the greenhouse.

During the winter months, especially at the edge of March during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two had to keep seedlings warm in the greenhouse though they lacked a space heater. That’s when the

pair started to get innovative, where they buried crockpots in the ground to keep the seeds warm at 75 degrees before being taken out in the mornings to receive light.

“We had to work with what we got,” Burke said. “We had to get creative.”

Growing Something New

The work was enough to keep anybody busy, but the pair wanted something more, something they could call their own. Working with the Peconic Land Trust’s Farms for the Future Initiative, a program that aims to protect land that could be potentially developed and keep it for agriculture, they hit the books, literally. The PJ natives trawled through pages at the local library along with online articles about how they would set everything up — from creating a business plan, to figuring out how many seeds they would need to buy, to what equipment they would need at the start. In Amagansett, they managed to procure a 1-acre plot of land, a piece of a larger property owned by the Peconic Land Trust where portions are run by a number of other small-scale farmers. They moved in this March.

Through a winding dirt road cutting through

‘Environmental racism is a form of system racism where people of color are disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards through policies and practices.’

ronmental racism is the African American community of Uniontown, Alabama. On Dec. 22, 2008, an impoundment burst and spilled more than a billion gallons of highly toxic coal ash into the Emory River. The coal ash contained various pollutants such as arsenic, mercury, and lead, which can penetrate deeply into the lungs.

Two years after the spill, the Tennessee Valley Authority moved four million cubic yards of coal ash from the Kingston spill to Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown Alabama. The workers who were sent to clean up the coal ash suffered from brain cancer, lung cancer and leukemia due to exposure. The people of Uniontown Alabama, a low-income African American community, saw similar health effects to that of the workers. Unfortunately, the people of Uniontown did not have any recourse because the Resource Conservation Recovery Act classified the ash as non-hazardous in Uniontown.

There are hundreds of examples of environmental racism, but we are currently witnessing one of the largest impacts of environmental racism. With the COVID-19 pandemic, we are

seeing that African American and other minority communities are being hit hardest by the pandemic all across the country. With a lack of available resources and preexisting conditions that already arise from environmental racism, people of these communities are more susceptible to catching COVID-19. African Americans not only have environmental racism to worry about during this pandemic, but also mass incarcerations for minor misdemeanors, overcrowded housing, and under-funded public transport, which all have been increasing the COVID-19 infection rates. Unfortunately, this connection between pandemics and low-income neighborhoods isn’t new because in the 1990s there were higher mortality rates among communities of color for the HIV pandemic as well.

Different policies and laws set forth by our government have placed African Americans and minorities in these neighborhoods which are subjected to environmental racism. We need to stop hearing news stories of the unbreathable South Bronx air, the North Carolina hog farm raw sewage lakes enveloping African American farmland and lead in the Flint river in Michigan.

The environmental justice movement is one way to achieve equity for the African American and disadvantaged neighborhoods because it focuses on fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens.

Sapphire Perera is a rising senior at Port Jefferson high school. The “Turtle Island,” as the name for this ongoing column refers to the Native American mythology about North America existing on the back of a great turtle that bears every living being on its spine.

fields, Fortier’s well-used van bounces along the uneven path until they reach their little patch of dirt in the northwest corner of the property, a place bursting with sunflowers, tomatoes, Malabar spinach and daikon radishes.

They didn’t have anything to start. They didn’t have a tractor or any heavy machinery to speak of, knowing that would be the biggest expense for any farm starting out. When plants needed water, they filled up a giant tub at home, stuck it in the back of a trailer and lugged the gallons down to the parched land in the spring and early summer when there was very little rain. So much of the heavy lifting was done by hand, and it was especially hard at first digging in each trough and seeding every ridge. The young farmers finally got an irrigation system going in early July, but they had to come up with solutions on the fly, like netting around the tomatoes to protect them from crows.

The families of the PJ natives have also noticed just how much the two care for their new farm. The Burkes and Fortiers often come out on Saturday to help with harvest and packing, getting everything loaded into vehicles so the two can set up their stand at the Port Jefferson Farm-

ers Market on Sundays. During the pandemic, such escapades to the pastoral landscape were especially nice getaways for the families being stuck quarantined in their homes.

Burke’s sister Kyleen Burke said in an email that she was amazed, too, at the innovative means through which the pair have created so much from so little.

“I don’t think anyone is surprised that James has made his own way, but it is still amazing to see what he and Andie have been able to do and how quickly they have made the farm grow,” she said.

Now with summer starting to wrap up, the verdant field and garden are now what they have to show for their work. When they speak of their bounty, it’s with a sort of reverence one could reserve for one’s children. The two have even sectioned off a small part of their apartment where they keep vegetables in with the air conditioning on to help them avoid the oppressive heat of the late summer. They are still working out the logistics of owning a walk-in cooler.

“It doesn’t feel like work a lot of the time,” Fortier said. “It’s a real start of life now, sleeping next to the tomatoes.”

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County

SBU President Discusses Hopes for Fall

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University will not let the actions of some students derail the on-campus living and learning experience for the majority.

This past weekend, days before the start of an unusual fall semester Aug. 24 amid ongoing concerns about the pandemic, the university found a “small number of violations” of the university’s COVID-19 health policy. Several students have been put on interim housing suspension for violations pending the conclusion of a conduct case, Maurie McInnis, who became the sixth president of SBU in July, said in an interview. The students in question have not been suspended from their academic studies.

McInnis said the school would suspend other students “if that is necessary.” She added that it is “very important that we give the students who are acting responsibly the opportunity for the in-person residential experience that they are working hard to protect.”

The school’s disciplinary actions follow similar measures taken by other universities such as Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut, which are trying to provide students with an opportunity to benefit from an on-campus experience while protecting faculty, staff and students from the spread of COVID-19.

McInnis added she appreciated the chance to be a part of the excitement that comes from the first day of what is likely to be one of the most challenging in the school’s 63-year history.

“It feels so great to have students back on our campus,” she said. “While, yes, it is under circumstances that are different than we’re used to, the same energy and excitement is there.”

The new university president said she enjoyed meeting students and their families as they moved onto the campus prior to the first day of classes.

The new president, who is a cultural historian and author of “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade,” said she feels confident in the school’s ability to navigate through the challenges of on-campus living and learning.

Students “understand that the way we are all going to have a great semester” is to act “personally responsible, wearing our masks and being socially distant,” she said.

SBU has created a dashboard that will track the number of tests the school is conducting on campus and the number of positive cases, if there are any. So far, the school has only had negative tests.

The dashboard is available at: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/irpe/covid-19.phpleadership. It shows that the hour in the week in

which the number of students registered for in-person classes is the highest is Tuesday, between 11 a.m. and noon, when 2,721 students were registered for in-person classes. In that same hour in the fall of 2019, 13,836 students took in-person classes.

The university will monitor its dashboard closely and will alter its policies as necessary to protect the campus community.

McInnis said the school was preparing for a possible second wave of the pandemic in the fall, as well as the possibility of the coincident timing of an outbreak of the flu.

“We are watching and monitoring all that carefully,” she said, which includes having enough personal protective equipment and a plan in place for health care personnel, among other measures.

McInnis said it is “too soon to speculate on” what the university policy might be if and when researchers develop a vaccine for COVID-19.

“As a part of SUNY and a public institution, we would be working with state partners and the [New York] Department of Health in making any sort of decision” about a vaccination for students or faculty, she said.

McInnis, who shared a detailed and open letter with the community and the public about the university’s difficult financial condition, said the budget remains a “fluid situation.” She

so hard to receive a reimbursement? Who is funding those reimbursements?”

Indeed, Rhodes, of the Public Service Commission, said he wanted answers from numerous utilities throughout the state and that the commission was not going to leave “any tool on the table.”

That proved small consolation for politicians and their constituents, some of whom were without power for over a week and many of whom had to throw out the entire contents of their powerless refrigerators and freezers. That is an especially problematic proposition in the aftermath of the pandemic, when budgets are tight and the recession caused by the lockdown has cut jobs in numerous industries.

Englebright questioned why PSEG is reimbursing customers for food spoilage only if their power was out for at least 72 hours.

The reimbursed amount totaled $150 if the customers didn’t have receipts and could be as high as $250 if they had receipts, photographs, a canceled check or a credit card bill.

Englebright suggested the timeframe should allow for food spoiled after about 48 hours and wondered why the utilities had not settled on a longer time frame. The Setauket

assemblyman wondered whether PSEG believed food “spoils more slowly on Long Island than any other place.”

Eichhorn said the 72 hour threshold defined numerous factors in a storm and “aligns with some of our processes.” The three day time frame “triggers certain things.”

Falcone added that the 72 hours defined a major storm.

“That’s not a health definition,” Englebright countered, but, rather was a “storm definition.

That doesn’t necessarily reflect what somebody’s suffering from if their refrigerator is out for perhaps even half of that length of time.”

PSEG’s Eichhorn acknowledged that the company’s response to the storm was “not in line with our expectations.” He said the company is conducting its own reports to figure out what went wrong and to make changes and improvements.

“I’m not here to make excuses,” Eichhorn said. “We own the experience our customers had and we are committed to fixing it.”

Kaminsky asked whether PSEG had tested its system prior to the storm. Eichhorn responded that the company did a simulation in June and that PSEG passed that test.

Maurie McInnis was named SBU’s sixth president.

Photo from SBU

added that the university “needs to get to work straight away as a community” in an “open and collaborative fashion to bring the best ideas for collaborating and working together better for leveraging opportunities, for efficiencies on our campus” and to develop ways to generate new revenue.

Meanwhile, the university has spent the summer “significantly improving” the quality of the remote and distance learning for students engaged with the online platform, she said.

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Politicians Express Outage Outrage, Demand Improvement from Utilities

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Politicians with long memories and short fuses demanded answers from PSEG and LIPA for the communications problems and the slow restoration of power after Tropical Storm Isaias, even as they lamented how this wasn’t supposed to happen again after the long recovery from Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

In a full-day hearing of the combined New York State Assembly and Senate, local politicians including Assemblymen Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) and Doug Smith (R-Holbrook) and Senators James Gaughran (D) and Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Center) questioned everyone from the chairman of the Public Service Commission, John Rhodes, to the President of PSEG Long Island, Daniel Eichhorn, and the CEO of LIPA, Thomas Falcone.

“We were told after Superstorm Sandy that things would change, but they did not,” Kaminsky said. “Why do we pay some of the highest electric and internet bills in the country when we couldn’t reach a provider, when the information we got was inaccurate? Why is it

That passing grade, despite the performance a few months later, will be a focus of PSEG’s own review, as well as a review conducted by LIPA. “The most relevant stress test was theBY LIAM COO storm and [the PSEG system] was obviouslyDESK@TBRN inadequate,” Falcone said. The systems were “not robust enough” to allow customers to Port J report power failures to PSEG. inside hu On behalf of their constituents, politicianslong hiatu also lamented the shifting timeline for restoring Startin power. In several cases, representatives at thethroughou virtual meeting recounted how residents spokeat 50% th with people in utility trucks or representativesis now op from PSEG who told them their power was on The b when their constituents were still strugglingto follow through the ongoing outage.

COVID-1 In an interview, Gaughran expressed hiswear mas frustration with the utility arrangement on Longalley and Island, where LIPA oversees PSEG, whilepossible, a the Public Service Commission has no direct “Peopl authority or recourse. rate, so it “The Public Service Commission cannotBob Such fine them or sanction them,” Gaughran said.Bowl. “W “They’re totally out of the loop.” further ap As we PSEG VS. POLITICIANS Continued on A12machines,

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Continued from A11 In addition to being the new university president, McInnis is also a parent of a college-age son. Her son’s school was going entirely nonresidential and remote, so he decided to take a gap year.

At Stony Brook, the total number of students registered is 26,130, which is about 200 fewer than last year, suggesting that deferrals haven’t affected the matriculation rate much this fall.

McInnis said she appreciated the ongoing

PSEG VS. POLITICIANS Continued from A11

Reflecting the concerns of his fellow senators and assemblymen and assemblywomen, Gaughran wondered what the utilities would do to protect Long Islanders in the event that another storm, with potentially stronger winds and heavier rain, impacted the region.

Gaughran said he would like to ensure that PSEG and LIPA don’t tap into a storm reserve fund, which is a collection of money set aside with rate payers money.

“The language in that fund is clear: they can’t access that for any part of the cost” from mismanagement or inadequate storm response, Gaughran said. “If you have an out-of-town crew sitting at the side of the road for hours waiting for instructions … those extra costs are costs of incompetence.”

Gaughran introduced a bill that would give the Public Service Commission the authority to

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Instead of its annual festivities, the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Port Jefferson went the way of many during the pandemic and hosted a drive through Greek food takeout the weekend of Aug. 21 through 23. Locals could get their hands on classic mouth watering gyros or scrumptous Baklava. Funds went to supporting the church and its future activities.

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BY LIAM COOPER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Port Jeff Bowl is ready to see people inside hunting for strikes once again after a long hiatus.

Starting Aug. 17, bowling alleys all throughout New York were allowed to open at 50% their normal capacity. Port Jeff Bowl is now open at 50%.

The bowling alley has strict guidelines to follow in accordance with New York’s COVID-19 response plan. All patrons must wear masks at all times within the bowling alley and musttry to stay as socially distant as possible, as well.

“People have been coming in at a slower rate, so it’s easier to socially distance,” said Bob Suchan, the general manager at Port Jeff Bowl. “We put people in every other lane or further apart.”

As well as the bowling lanes, the vending ued on A12machines, games, and snack bar are also open.

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Port Jeff Bowl came back online Aug. 17 and is already planning multiple leagues. Photo by Kyle Barr

Before COVID, bowlers could come up to the snack bar to order food. Now, however, they must wait at their lanes and have a waiter or waitress come take their orders.

“People have to be served at the lanes,” Suchan said.

To remain safe, every bowling ball, shoe, vending machine, and game are sanitized. All balls are kept behind closed doors to better protect and sanitize them.

“Everything gets sanitized after every use,” Suchan said. “Any touchable surface is sanitized.”

The alley is also looking forward to restarting a few leagues, with competitive, mixed, ladies and kids leagues all starting in September. Port Jeff Bowl has published a list of league dates and times to its Facebook page.

Bowling alleys are just one form of recreational activity reopening in New York.

Monday, Aug. 24 marked the day when city museums, aquariums, and other low-risk indoor cultural arts were able to reopen at 25% capacity.

for the village not personally focused.”

The trustee has lived in the village for 25 years, originally hailing from Kings Park. She said she came to love the community feel of Belle Terre, especially since it emphasized keeping trees and nature serene.

As the fiscal officer in the village, Gernaey said one of the big issues she said is that village residents will be losing out in taxes due to the settlement over the Long Island Power Authority power plant tax certiorari case.

Over a 10-year glide path, LIPA’s property taxes will decline, which will necessitate village residents pay more in Port Jefferson School District taxes over time.

“We want to continue to get state grants, something we’ve been very successful in doing,” she said, adding they have gotten several hundred thousand for roads from the state and $800,000 in FEMA aid for storm damage.

In addition, she said she wants to keep the

support of the university and surrounding communities.

“What we have been hearing, again and again, is, ‘How can we help?’” she said. “It is so great as president to be part of the community that clearly has the devotion of so many people.”

As for the transition to Long Island from Texas, where she was provost at The University of Texas at Austin prior to her arrival, McInnis said she and her family are enjoying the area.

“We all love the water and have enjoyed walking along the beach, kayaking and exploring Flax Pond, especially watching all the fiddler crabs,” she said. investigate and sanction and fine the company and force them to take corrective action.

To prevent this kind of communication failure from happening again, Eichhorn said the company was conducting reviews of its computer system, which includes its outage management system and the telephone and digital experiences.

“We have made interim changes during and since the storm,” Eichhorn said. “We are continuing to do an after-action review to identify additional short and long term changes to ensure we’re ready for the next storm.”

Falcone added that LIPA would “go back and see why the system failed. We are hiring independent people to redo the stress test.”

Assemblyman Smith asked whether PSEG knew that National Grid employees weren’t a part of the storm response crews, even though people with experience were on Long Island.

“National Grid [employees] were not used during the storm,” Eichhorn said. “That will be included in the review.” pressure on Suffolk County to remediate the parking issues with McAllister Park on Anchorage Road. She said they have been working with more county park officers to deter any more parking along that road.

Erosion issues for houses along the sound are also a major issue. While the village has received a small $100,000 grant towards stabilizing the beach, the issue may be in the near future the whole cliff could start to go, making the homes along the bluff structurally unsound.

“In the last since we applied, we lost 30 feet,” she said. “That’s something we’re really working on.”

As a founder and CEO of two companies, one a human resource outsourcing company and a small business consulting firm, she jokingly said “she certainly doesn’t need this to keep me busy,” but that “she was always taught to give back.”

“We work hard for the village — all about the village, not about us,” she said.

Lou Bove Bove is the president and CEO of East Setauket-based contractor Bove Industries and is now seeking a seat on the Belle Terre village board.

The candidate did not return several requests for comment through his company. If he does respond in time for the election, his comments will be put on the website version of this article at tbrnewsmedia.com.

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Need for Universal Empathy U.S. Rep. Zeldin and the USPS We’re a small paper, really a small company, and just like so many small companies, the pandemic has done a number on us, except for an explosive growth on the internet. That’s how it is, and if you’re reading this, we cannot fully express how much we appreciate your support, even if it is just picking up this paper to read it.

It’s such a little thing, but knowing somebody is there holding our words in your hands is the reason we get up every morning to do this. To know we might be impacting somebody on a weekly basis is enough, or it should be enough.

We write about the small things. The small town government — towns, villages, school districts. We include the small donations to local nonprofits or our libraries, veterans groups, and on and on.

It’s easy to say we just report on what’s happening, that we exist to regurgitate the facts of what somebody said at a meeting, or give you statistics about who is running for what public office.

But more is needed. Humanity can’t subsist off of data points. Democracy can’t continue without somebody to put facts in context.

That is why we enjoy giving you profiles of people doing extraordinary things, from young people fresh out of college working on their own farm seven days a week to a financial adviser who supports the art community on the North Shore..

Because those stories do more than offer interest and escape from day-to-day drudgery, they offer something much deeper, a shared sense of empathy and community.

If we can break through the veil into each other’s lives, understand the hardships of other people, find that they have so much more in common than they don’t have in common, then that helps bridge divides, builds upon that universal sense that humanity itself is a sacred thing.

We cannot let partisanship craft our belief systems for us.

Something that should be as universally understood as the need for the means for people to vote outside of polling places has become yet another red or blue issue. What does it matter if not what political aisle you shop for your beliefs, the end result should always be to at least attempt the betterment of the biggest number of people, and to add support for those who fall through the cracks like water drops through and open hand.

We cannot and should look at something like the COVID-19 pandemic without noticing how it disproportionately impacts people with fewer resources. Those with jobs in service industries, those that pay little and are staffed mostly by those of limited means, were much likelier to get the virus during the height of its spread through New York. It impacted communities of color such as Brentwood and Central Islip, whose school districts are largely Black and Latino, and had many more cases, even considering size, compared to our North Shore communities.

You can argue what is best for people, but really there is no mistaking empathy. Empathy is when local soup kitchens and food pantries along with many, many volunteers worked to feed people unable to provide for their family and themselves in the past few months.

Empathy is when a local volunteer animal rescuer takes away some abandoned roosters knowing the only other likely fate for the birds is to be hit by a car or eaten by a predator.

It’s not enough to know why these people do what they do.

We must look at both them and at their shining hearts as well as the social reasons those things happen. That is what we do, and as we fight to keep reporting amidst a backdrop of decline for the entire newspaper industry, we hope that our readers will find that a communal sense of empathy is the best, and perhaps the only way to survive in times like these.

U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) trumpets himself as a supporter of veteran’s but this “ain’t necessarily so.” Last Saturday night he voted against a bipartisan bill to fund the post office. In voting against support for the post office he risks our veterans’ access to prescription drugs, threatens the lifeline of social security checks and medication for seniors and hurts small

businesses during a deadly pandemic.

Truly the emperor has no clothes.

Further, there is an old saying that a person is known by the company he or she keeps. This week Steve Bannon was indicted for stealing $1 million from donations to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Quite aside from the idea that the wall is ridiculous, our

current Congressman Lee Zeldin invited Bannon to speak at a fundraiser. His association with Bannon casts a dark shadow over Zeldin.

Clearly, Zeldin has already overstayed his welcome. We need and deserve someone else.

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Early Voting in Suffolk County Still Falls Short In 2019, early voting was signed into law in New York state. Each county is responsible for implementing the law, which requires a minimum of 60 hours of early voting hours and recommends one early voting polling location for every 50,000 registered voters. Our early voting implementation in Suffolk County fell short of other counties’ efforts. For example, Nassau County has 75 hours of early voting, and more locations than we do, even though Suffolk’s population is greater than Nassau’s. Additionally, when originally implemented, Suffolk residents could only vote in the one polling place in the township they reside in.

These glaring inequities galvanized a group of grassroots organizers, including myself, to lobby for a more equitable implementation of the new law. We had three demands: being able to vote at any early voting location in Suffolk County, more polling places — particularly in higher populated towns like Brookhaven, Huntington and Islip — and more early voting hours. In fall 2019, we won the victory of being able to vote at any early voting location in the county.

In December 2019, our group of early voting advocates returned to the Suffolk County Legislature to lobby for more hours and locations for early voting. We stressed that this is not a partisan issue, that every registered voter deserves equal opportunity to make their voice heard,

and that our democracy is stronger when it is easier to vote. I’m pleased to share that our voices were heard and three new additional polling locations were added, including one in Brookhaven.

Our work is not done. We will not stop until the Suffolk County Board of Elections provides one polling location per 50,000 registered voters, until our hours of early voting match Nassau County’s and until it is easier for every registered voter to make their voice heard at the ballot box.

I encourage you to vote early this year.

You can vote at any early voting location in Suffolk County in the nine days of early voting prior to Election Day. It is a way that you can vote in person with fewer people present, and make your voice heard in our democracy, even as we grapple with a global pandemic. The right to vote has been a hard-won fight, and I implore you to use your voice to push our democracy further on the path to a more perfect union.

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and Meg Whitman (former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard).

Biden promised, if elected president, to have the most diverse cabinet and administration in history, representing the gorgeous American mosaic. He also promised to appoint the first female African American Supreme Court justice.

He promised a female African American running mate for vice president and delivered California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Republicans represent a significant portion of America. How many will be invited to serve in his cabinet and administration? Will any of these five Republicans be offered a job in a Biden presidency? Will Biden make a public commitment on this issue of inclusion for Republicans prior to Election Day? Voters want to know.

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Will Republicans Be Part of Biden’s American Mosaic At the Democratic Party Convention, five Republicans crossed the aisle to speak and endorse Joe Biden for president.

They were John Kasich (former Ohio congressman, House Budget Committee chairman and Ohio governor), Susan Molinari (former Staten Island Congress member), Colin Powell (former Secretary of State), Christine Todd Whitman (former federal EPA administrator and New Jersey governor)

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ext week, I invite you to the virtual and completely imaginary People’s National Convention, or PNC. It’s not a Democratic Convention or a Republican Convention. It’s just a fake gathering, virtually and invisibly, in which real people can stop worrying about partisan politics and enjoy the chance to live each day.

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BY DANIEL DUNAIEF in this extraordinarily challenging year.

We’ll keep the speeches to a minimum because we don’t think people listen to most

of what others say at these things anyway. Our first speaker will come up with a mask and will start by rolling her large and expressive eyes.

She’ll try to convey, without using her mouth or her cheeks, which will be hidden behind her mask, a wide range of emotions. In fact, we might have a “guess-her-expression” game and the person who wins will receive absolutely nothing in the mail.

After that, we’ll launch into a rage presentation. Our speaker will bark, growl, throw himself around the room and urge you, with his arm motions, to get off your sofa and join him. He’ll work his way up to a fevered snarl and then he’ll bang his fists so hard against the TV set that he’ll shatter the screen. You’ll see the cracks on the TV, but don’t worry, the cracks and the blood — we won’t use real blood — are all on the PNC end. Your TV is fine. At the end of his speech, he’ll take a 2020 sign, or one of those 2020 New Year’s glasses with the holes for the eyes in the zeroes, put them on the floor and stomp on them.

After our rage speaker, we’ll have a fear speaker. He, too, won’t use words. He’ll move from left to right, then right to left and then, you guessed it, left to right again, on your screen, afraid of something over his shoulder. He might see a shadow. He’ll be frightened because, as the other conventions suggested, we must feel the need to fear something. He’ll run towards the letters PNC and will smile with relief, knowing that the PNC will protect him.

To offset this potentially overwhelming programming, we’ll offer a counterbalance of kids and pets accompanied by light-hearted music on a harpsichord. We call this portion of the programming the “Awwwww” segment.

We’ll show images of toddlers laughing, baby bunnies hopping around a flower-strewn meadow and dolphins cutting in and out of the surface of the water.

We’ll have the icon room, where you can stand up, or not, as you see fit when you see the images. We’ll start with the Statue of Liberty

and Ellis Island, where the ancestors of so many modern Americans arrived. We’ll add the Grand Canyon, the California coastline, Yellowstone National Park and Niagara Falls.

Then, we’ll have people trip and fall and try to juggle cell phones ineffectively. When the phones land, their screens, which might or might not have images of familiar faces, will crack. Will the entire segment be funny? Not necessarily. No one is always funny, but they promise to try because laughter might be our best medicine.

We’ll have a few actual speakers who use words, who tell inspirational stories about triumph over impossible odds. We’ll talk about people who were told many times that they couldn’t do something, until they went out and did it.

At the conclusion of the PNC, we’ll celebrate our friends and neighbors and the people who enhance every day and we’ll promise each other we’ll be better to them, and to ourselves.

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onsider this a big Thank You card.

First, thank you to the New York Press Association for awarding us 17 prizes in their annual Better Newspaper Contest for 2019.

Please check them out in the Arts and Lifestyles section of today’s paper or read about it on the web. These awards are normally given out at the spring convention up in Saratoga Springs in March for work done during the preceding year.

But we know that there is nothing normal about 2020, and so the good news arrived this Between past week via — you and me you guessed it — the internet. The

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF physical prizes, wood plaques and certificates, will follow at some future time, but the news of the winners was flashed to us digitally.

The purpose of the contest is twofold: to honor the winners and to help improve the more than 400 weekly and small daily newspapers across the state with examples of good work for the membership to view. It is indeed an honor to be selected by our peers, who are the judges, and we deeply appreciate the recognition.

There is a third consequence of the awards: bragging rights. We are able to share with our communities, whom we serve, the peer-reviewed quality of our efforts. We can do our jobs because you, our readers and advertisers, support us. So please accept this as a report card of sorts, along with our deepest appreciation for your continuing faith in us. We do our best to bring you the latest news and issues in the towns and villages we cover in an honest and unbiased fashion.

We also serve as a sounding board for opinions and analyses, clearly labelled as such. We enable others to have bragging rights too, for their family members and community groups and even pets, by proudly printing their accomplishments. And we like to amuse and entertain you with contests, beautiful photos and interesting stories just for the fun of it. The bottom line there is, Thank You to our communities.

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I would like to call your attention to the nature of our awards. We consider our job to be publishing both editorial and advertising content, the two together making up the news and our primary focus. So I am pleased to note that half of our prizes are for editorial excellence and the other half for advertising effectiveness. And for this distinction, I thank our talented staff and salute their commitment, especially during these times of few numbers both in the newsroom and in the art, production and sales departments.

And of course, we have to have the support of the business office to maintain our company and the circulation people to pick up the papers in the middle of the night and get them to the post offices and the newsstands in time for you to read them with the rest of your mail on publishing day.

But even as our staff numbers have shrunk, their work has increased. For we are no longer a weekly newspaper group but a daily and hourly news source, thanks to the internet.

We have brought you daily briefings and news stories about the various aspects of COVID-19 since March, along with other news scoops,

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Kyle Barr EDITOR Kyle Barr

LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathleen Gobos ART AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Beth Heller Mason

breaking news and advertising — all for the most part in addition to the content in the newspapers — on our website and also on our social media platforms. This enormous effort was made possible by our overworked and underpaid staff.

So a heartfelt and deeply appreciated Thank You to the following, by departments: Kyle Barr, Rita J. Egan, Heidi Sutton, David Luces, Donna Deedy, John Broven, Ernestine Franco, Bea Ruberto and Daniel Dunaief in Editorial.

To Kathleen Gobos, Kathryn Mandracchia, Elizabeth Bongiorno, Robin Lemkin, Minnie Yancy, Jackie Pickle and Katherine Yamaguchi in display sales.

To Sheila Murray, Ellen Segal and Joann Brady in Classifieds. To Beth Heller-Mason, Janet Fortuna, Sharon Nicholson and Lauren Vohrer in Art and Production, and to Courtney Biondo in Legals and her team in Circulation.

To Sandi Gross, Meg Malangone, Diane Wattecamps and Cathie Kitz in Business. To Sheila Murray again in Business and Subscriptions. To Rob Alfano, for Internet Strategy. And to Johness Kuisel, our General Manager, who is everywhere.

Please all take a bow.

INTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTOR Rob Alfano CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Sheila Murray BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross

CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Sheila Murray

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