The Port Times Record - October 6, 2022

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Port Jeff village board addresses PJCC, public safety, Station Street and East Beach bluff

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The Port Jefferson Village Board met on Monday, Oct. 3, for an afternoon packed with important business.

Business meeting

For its first order of business, the board unanimously approved a bond anticipation note to finance construction for improvements at the Old Homestead/Oakwood Road recharge basin. The BAN will enable construction to begin without the village having to draw from its operating budget.

This project, according to Mayor Margot Garant, is primarily subsidized through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Administration.

“We’re still waiting for the grant to come in from FEMA, but we have to pay the bill,” Garant said. “Hopefully, that money comes in before the end of the year.”

The board approved Garant’s appointment of Shane Henry to the Architectural Review Committee.

Deputy Mayor Kathianne Snaden, trustee liaison to ARC, anticipated Henry’s expected contributions to the committee.

“He’s young, enthusiastic, and he wants to get more involved,” Snaden said. “I think he will be a great addition.” Garant added that she is looking forward to drawing from Henry’s contracting and historic preservation background.

With trustee Lauren Sheprow voting “no,” the village board approved a 4-1 resolution for the 2023 rate increases for the Port Jefferson Country Club. Stan Loucks, trustee liaison to the country club, said these rate increases are based upon a unanimous recommendation from the Country Club Management Advisory Committee.

The rate increases, according to Loucks, will enable the country club to make renovations to bunkers, improvements to cart paths and cover other unforeseen expenses.

Top to bottom: Mayor Margot Garant, Deputy Mayor Kathianne Snaden, trustee Stan Loucks, trustee Rebecca Kassay, and trustee Lauren Sheprow. Photos from the

“The rates that have been presented will increase our revenue by $100,000,” Loucks said. “That is an ... increase in the overall budget, which I feel — I hope — is adequate.”

Defending her vote against the resolution, Sheprow expressed uneasiness about membership rate increases. She advocated exploring and exhausting other options for raising revenue before placing added costs on members.

“When I was the chair of the CCMAC, I did not agree with raising membership rates because I felt like there was an opportunity to find new revenue … without putting the revenue on the backs of the members,” Sheprow said. “We’re playing on this product that isn’t the A-plus product that it’s been.

It’s kind of a C-level product, and we’re asking our members to come back next year and pay more for something that they don’t have yet.”

General meeting

After a brief interim for an executive session, the trustees moved upstairs for the general meeting. During that time frame, there were several exchanges between the public and the village government.

Chief of code enforcement Fred Leute reminded residents to drive carefully on village streets as schools are again in session. He also reported a speeding issue on Brook Road near the high school. “Brook Road is not a road you want to go fast on,” he said. “When you go down that hill, slow down.”

A Suffolk County Police Department representative told Port Jefferson residents to remain alert to the ongoing crime trends of catalytic converter thefts and phone call scams.

During her report, Sheprow announced that she would present findings from her internal communications audit at a future meeting. She also reported that the Country Club Social/ Hospitality Task Force has already met several times and is working with the restaurant management of The Waterview to “create a more welcoming, accessible and fun environment up at the country club.”

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Brookhaven town board unanimously adopts new map, concludes redistricting process

BY RAYMOND JANIS

EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The Town of Brookhaven’s controversial redistricting process concluded on Thursday, Sept. 29, after the Town Board voted unanimously

approve the latest proposed map.

The Town Board, which has a 6-1 Republican majority, took over the redistricting process after an appointed redistricting committee failed to find agreement on a draft proposal.

Days after the committee formally disbanded, Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) presented his own map. For more on this story, see “Brookhaven officials react to latest redistricting proposal” (TBR News Media website).

Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) kicked off the public hearing with a forceful line of questioning of the town’s designated mapmaker, David Schaefer of Schenectady-based firm Skyline Consulting.

Kornreich pressed Schaefer on a range of subjects, such as his familiarity with the hamlets throughout the town. He also inquired about how Schaefer arrived at an original determination to split Port Jefferson Station and Terryville between Council Districts 1 and 2, and why he decided to move most of Ridge into CD4.

Responding, Schaefer said that he created the

initial maps solely to bring the six council districts into roughly equal populations. “The first draft that I submitted is all population driven,” he said.

Following Kornreich’s line of questioning, residents pressed their representatives on the Town Board repeatedly over concerns that arose throughout the redistricting process and the alleged inequities in drawing the district lines.

Ira Costell, a resident of Port Jefferson Station, argued Schaefer’s approach was unproductive, reducing redistricting to an analytic method while ignoring its impact on communities of interest.

“There’s more than just standard deviations and numbers at play here,” Costell said. “There’s people, there’s communities, there’s interests,

and there’s fairness at stake here, and I don’t see a lot of it in what the mapmaker initially did.”

Costell further railed against the committee process, saying, “The hearings were poorly advertised, they were chaotic, they were confusing, they were marked by a lack of support information from the town, which resulted in maps that just appeared out of thin air.” He continued, “What does seem transparent, however, is the majority on this board seems poised to ignore the clear will and desires of the voters who did speak out.”

Terryville resident Lou Antoniello suggested Schaefer was not being truthful during his remarks. He added that tampering with district boundaries may affect future redistricting procedures.

“While the map that this board put together is light-years better than the original map, which cut out a huge chunk [of Terryville from CD1], it’s still cutting — cracking — Council District 1,” he said. “That sets a dangerous precedent for the future.”

Members of the redistricting committee also attended the public hearing. Among them was Gail Lynch-Bailey, who had served this year and in 2012. She referred to the two initial maps which split Port Jefferson Station and Terryville as a ploy to divert the public’s attention away from alleged gerrymandering in Council District 4. This district includes the racially and ethnically diverse communities of Coram, Gordon Heights and North Bellport.

“Once the public realized the commission

had had no input into them, the maps were readily recognized by many for what they were: diversions, bait-and-switch tactics, ‘pay-noattention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain’ maps intended to focus attention on the northern CDs instead of what was going on for CD4,” she said. “This ruse was, and still is, unconscionable.”

Also making an appearance was Ali Nazir, the Republican co-chair on the redistricting committee. He defended the movement of mostly white Ridge into CD4, citing the hamlet’s longstanding ties to the Longwood community.

“Despite rhetoric of the contrary, Ridge has always been in Council District 4,” Nazir said. “Ridge has a long history with the Longwood community, and to arbitrarily excommunicate them from the Longwood community is quite frankly wrong.”

Port Jefferson Station and Terryville, however, remain mostly united within the boundaries of Council District 1. Kornreich, who voted with the majority, justified his vote, saying this map would not split minority communities or dilute their votes.

“We negotiated in good faith, and the supervisor fulfilled his promise to keep Gordon Heights and North Bellport together, not to dilute the minority vote, and in good faith, I will support the agreement we made,” Kornreich said. “Is it an ideal map? No. Is it a

Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) questions the town’s mapmaker during a public hearing on Thursday, Sept. 29. Screenshot from the town website

REDISTRICTING

SBU’s Brown Clarke named chair of National Fitness Foundation

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Judith Brown Clarke, a silver medal winner in the 400 meter hurdles at the 1984 Olympics, is taking a prominent role at the National Fitness Foundation.

Clarke, who is vice president for Equity & Inclusion and chief diversity officer at Stony Brook University, will become the chair from 2022 to 2024 of the only nonprofit organization established by Congress to support youth sport, health and fitness initiatives. She will serve on the board until 2028.

The White House held a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Clarke said her goal after that conference as chair is to “take that call to action, look at what our role is in lifting some or those things off the page, and improving nutrition and physical activity, food insecurity and ending hunger.”

Tackling a number of challenges, such as the obesity epidemic, access and affordability of healthier foods, the lower rate of participation in youth sports among girls, and a need to increase physical activity, will involve working with numerous partners and taking a multidimensional approach.

“Some of the things that complement what happens at home” such as the expectations in gym class and the overall approach to health and nutrition “need to be strengthened,” Clarke said.

Lower levels of activity among some children stem from concerns about safety. Children may not play in the park, ride a bike, jump rope or go outside because areas where they might engage in these activities could involve some risk.

The foundation will partner with parents, teachers and corporations.

“How often do you find within the ingredients [of popular foods and condiments] where there’s sugar and salt?” she asked rhetorically. Numerous foods have supplemental ingredients that may be for taste, but that are above the daily allowance. People start to crave foods with high levels of salt and sugar.

Working with companies that manufacture food products, the foundation hopes to encourage the kind of decision-making that helps their customers and their workers.

“Unhealthy people” who have eating habits that include high levels of carbohydrates, sugar and salt have “higher levels of absenteeism” within a corporation, Clarke said. “It actually is a financial model for organizations and corporations to lean into this. There’s a return on investment as it relates to their organization’s enterprise model.”

Conference pillars

The foundation plans to use the five White House Conference Pillars to guide their efforts and assessment of their effectiveness.

The White House conference is focused on improving food access and affordability. This includes expanding eligibility for an increase participation in food assistance programs and improving transportation to places where food is available.

Another pillar is to integrate nutrition and health. By prioritizing the role of nutrition and food security in overall health, the conference hopes to address the nutrition needs of all people.

The third pillar is to empower consumers to make and have access to healthy choices.

Fourth, officials would like to support physical activity for people, in part by ensuring that people have access to safe places to be active. The conference also hopes to increase the awareness of the benefits of physical activity.

Fifth, the conference plans to improve nutrition metrics, data collection and research to inform nutrition and food security policy, particularly regarding issues of equity, access and disparities.

Xavier Becerra, Health and Human Services secretary, expressed confidence in the ability of the board to reach its goals. “This experienced group of advisors will enable the National Fitness Foundation to take the next steps in advancing the health of our nation through fitness and nutrition,” Becerra said in a statement.

In addition to serving as a role model through her success as an athlete, during which Clarke was a four-time national collegiate champion and 1987 Sports Illustrated Woman of the Year, she also hopes to encourage girls and their families to learn about the benefit of ongoing participation in athletics.

According to the National Fitness Foundation website, 30% of girls aged six to 12 participate in sports, compared with 39% of their male peers. The foundation supports organizations committed to providing equal opportunity for girls to play sports.

In addition to leading healthy lives, women who participate in sports are often successful in the workplace, taking their disciplined approach to training, their ability to work together, and their recognition for how to handle fluid situations into a wide range of professional settings, Clarke said.

Ultimately, the effectiveness of some of these efforts may depend on the ability of people in communities to access these programs.

Judith Brown Clarke. Photo by John Griffin/SBU

Whale sightings on the rise in local waters

BY DONNA DEEDY DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

While boating alone just outside of Port Jefferson Harbor last month, South Setauket resident Bill Doherty had what he called a oncein-a-lifetime thrill. First, a big splash caught his eye. Then, another.

“I kept my eye on the water thinking it could be a boat accident or something,” he said. “I undid the anchor to get a little closer — but not too close — and realized it was a whale.”

For 15 to 20 minutes, Doherty watched in amazement as the whale put on a show spouting and breaching in the water about a mile off Old Field Point. He recorded it on a cellphone video just so he could prove to his friends this was no joke.

A big yacht and another passing boat, he said, cut their engines nearby so the passengers could enjoy the spectacle.

Whale sightings, as unlikely as it might seem, are becoming more regular events in the New York area, including the Long Island Sound.

Barrett Christie is director of animal husbandry at The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Conn. His team has been tracking whale activity in the Sound since the museum opened in 1988.

Almost every year since 2009, Christie said, more and more yachters and fishermen are seeing marine mammals in local waters.

Since 2015 whale counts, predominantly humpbacks but also minke whales, have been ramping up. The aquarium’s annual whale counts range from no sightings at all, to one per year, up to as many as a half dozen or more.

The aquarium’s observations, he noted, are consistent with the findings of other researchers. A Staten Island-based research organization Gotham Whale, for instance, documented in 2011 three whales and five sightings. Recently, the number was up to more than 260. The whale population has become so bountiful around the mouth of New York Harbor, Gotham Whale now coordinates research expeditions with the public in conjunction with five commercial whale watching vessels.

Healthier ecosystems

Scientists praise the Clean Water Act for improving water quality to protect marine habitats. The landmark environmental law, passed in 1972, regulates pollutants from agriculture, industry and wastewater to prevent or limit discharges into waterways.

“It’s taken fish populations more than 30 and up to 50 years to rebound,” Christie said. “We’re seeing not only more whales, but also more Atlantic white-sided dolphin, more seals, more sharks and further down the food chain more sand eels and herring.”

After a long history of decline, Christie explained that forage fish such as menhaden or bunker and alewife, both in the herring family, have returned to spawn in the many freshwater

tributaries that flow into the Sound.

“The turnaround is miraculous,” Christie said.

Maxine Montello is a wildlife ecologist and the rescue program director at the New York Marine Rescue Center. She teaches a marine mammal and sea turtle course at Stony Brook University.

After viewing Doherty’s cellphone video, she quickly identified that whale as a humpback. Its huge pectoral fins, visible as the creature leaped out of the sea, made it easy to distinguish.

Humpbacks, she said, are baleen whales — they have no teeth. To capture its prey, it swallows and strains seawater through the long and narrow strips of fingernail-like material called baleen that grows out of its jaw. Through this feeding process, it consumes krill, plankton and small fish, such as menhaden.

A flourishing menhaden population in the food chain, researchers are noticing, attracts whales.

In fact, researchers from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, when conducting aerial surveys, track whales by following menhaden movement.

Some 15 years ago, they saw few clusters or bait balls of menhaden along Long Island’s southern coastline. Today, Rob DiGiovanni, the society’s chief scientist, said a continuous

stream of bunker stretches from Montauk to the New York Bight. Consequently, whales are more abundant there and traveling closer to shore and staying in the area longer.

Montello and DiGiovanni also praise the Clean Water Act for improving marine habitats. But, with humpbacks near extinction in 1972, another bold act of Congress that year also deserves credit for reviving the whale population.

“I would say that the Marine Mammal Protection Act has really changed the game for marine mammals,” Montello said. “This act has provided great protection and awareness of these charismatic species.”

This law prohibits hunting, capturing, collecting, harassing or killing marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, seals and manatees.

Whaling once was one of Long Island’s most important commercial industries, according to the Cold Spring Harbor-based Whaling Museum with Cold Spring Harbor, Greenport and Sag Harbor serving as the Island’s three whaling ports.

Today, people are armed with cameras and spreadsheets instead of harpoons, and more interested in spearheading marine restoration projects that aim to protect rather than slaughter these giant marine mammals.

If you are lucky enough to spot a whale, scientists want to hear from you with photos. Like human fingerprints, whales bear distinct characteristics on their tails. Gotham Whale has an extensive and growing archive of these tail shots. Through such photos, researchers there have been able to identify and track the activities of 269 individual whales, according to Paul Sieswerda, Gotham Whale’s executive director.

“It would be interesting to find out if whales — our New York City whales — are the same ones traveling through the Sound,” he said.

To report whale sightings, contact: Atlantic Marine Conservation Society at www.amseas. org/reportsighting; Gotham Whale at www. gothamwhale.org/citizen-science; The Maritime Aquarium, Norwalk at 203-852-0700.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration advises boaters to stay 300 feet away from any large whales. That’s so you don’t hit them, but also so they don’t breach onto your boat. Best thing to do if you see a whale is to cut your engine, get out your camera and enjoy.

Humpbacks, above, devour sea life during a recent whale watching expedition. Researchers attribute more whale sightings to a thriving menhaden or bunker fish population. Bill Doherty’s video footage is available on tbrnewsmedia.com. Search for ‘Whale sightings on the rise in local waters.’ Photo by Artie Raslich/Gotham Whale

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am highly recommending that the village looks into investing into a study, which can be anywhere between $30,000 and $80,000,” Kassay said. “This would be something that benefits all residents. It would assess how to make the village more walkable and potentially more bikeable as well.”

Loucks gave an update from the parks department regarding removing vessels from village racks. “The vessels need to be removed by November 1,” he said.

Snaden announced her effort to coordinate more closely with the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce and the Port Jefferson Business Improvement District.

“We’re going to have quarterly meetings moving forward just to make sure that everyone is on the same page with their activities and their events,” the deputy mayor said. “We can all collaborate and bounce ideas off each other, let each other know what we’re all doing.”

Garant gave a detailed report on several significant initiatives within the village government. There are ongoing discussions about giving a proper name to Station Street, a block in Upper Port opening later this month.

“There will be a conversation about what we should call this new street as the new gateway to Port Jefferson,” the mayor said.

“We do have a ribbon-cutting on the calendar for October 26 … It will be a great new start to a total revitalization of Upper Port.”

Bids for an upper wall to stabilize the East Beach bluff are due this Friday, Oct. 7. Garant announced that once the board has the final cost estimates, it will decide whether to approve the upper wall or retreat inland. For more on this local issue, see The Port Times Record’s story, “Port Jeff mayor estimates $3M for upper wall, trustees debate erosion mitigation strategy at village country club,” Sept. 29 edition, also tbrnewsmedia.com.

During the public comment portion at the end of the meeting, village resident Michael Mart advised the board to consider the future instead of the past when deciding upon the East Beach bluff.

“Rather than put all of our efforts into saving the past, please look forward to creating the future that we might want here,” he said. “And in doing that, I think it’s important the residents have an opportunity to express their views on the final decision, and maybe even, like with the school board [proposed capital bond projects], have an opportunity to vote on the final decision.”

To watch the full video of the general meeting, visit the village’s official YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bwpxXtRxmA

Palumbo and Johnson face off in state Senate debate

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The Republican and Democratic Party nominees for New York’s 1st State Senate District took to the debate stage on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Hampton Bays Senior Center.

Hosted by the Hampton Bays Civic Association, incumbent state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) and Democratic challenger Skyler Johnson, a Mount Sinai native, tackled various pressing issues in Albany. Questions were submitted by members of the civic, as well as some in the audience.

Abortion

Palumbo described himself as a libertarian concerning abortion law but raised objections to the practice of late-term abortions. “Women have a right to choose and should have a right to choose,” he said. “My only objection is to late-term abortion.”

On the other hand, Johnson referred to himself as pro-choice and said he supported a woman’s right to choose. He accused Palumbo of not supporting exceptions for the life of a mother. He also called objections to late-term abortions “a myth.”

“If someone is getting an abortion past six months, it is because their life is in danger,” he said. “Late-term abortions aren’t actually a thing. They are a thing that happens when someone’s life is in danger. There is no data, no statistics to indicate that people are getting abortions because they are changing their minds past the sixth month of pregnancy.”

Renewable energy

Johnson said that he would not like to see the expansion of nuclear power on Long Island. For him, the risks imposed by nuclear power plants are not worth the

rewards. However, he does foresee ways to promote alternative forms of green energy.

“I do think New York has a great opportunity to invest in green energy, to invest in better transportation,” he said.

“That gets more cars off the road, that keeps our air clean, and that lowers the burden on our critical infrastructure.”

Palumbo offered his support behind renewable energy, and said the transition to these novel energy sources should be done “smartly and reliably.”

“The technology is getting there, and we’re pushing,” the state senator said. He added that continued funding for environmental initiatives will be critical to Long Island’s overall health. “We’re a very different animal on Long Island, and the environment is critical. All of the renewables are certainly a part of that whole package.”

Guns in schools

Palumbo said schools should consider having school resource officers, or trained and armed police officers designated to secure schools.

“The people who should be handling guns are not teachers, but people who are trained,” Palumbo said. “Guns in schools should be with school resource officers.”

Johnson agreed that teachers should not be armed, referring to this as a “commonsense policy.”

“I want to make sure that we’re doing everything that we can to improve gun safety in New York because there’s a lot that we can mostly all agree on,” Johnson said.

This debate marks the first of several encounters between the two candidates in the coming weeks. Voters will make their picks on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Early voting begins later this month.

Incumbent state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk), left, and Democratic Party challenger Skyler Johnson, right, during a Meet the Candidates forum at Comsewogue Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

File photos by Raymond Janis

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Comsewogue HS and Chick-Fil-A partner up to create a leadership academy

BY DENIZ YILDIRIM

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Comsewogue High School’s business education department has teamed up with the local Port Jefferson Station Chick-fil-A to launch a leadership academy.

Stan Abrahamsen, owner of the local Chick-fil-A, sponsored this program. He coordinated with the high school’s Business Honor Society, attending one of its first meetings and working closely with its student members. School administrators participated in the launch as well. Principal Mike Mosca, assistant principals Amanda Prinz and Chris Cherouvis, and district administrators Michelle Lautato and Don Heberer all partook in the event.

Leading by example, Abrahamsen brought delicious Chickfil-A meals for students and shared a powerful message about the importance of giving back. To show its appreciation and enthusiasm for the partnership, Comsewogue awarded Abrahmsen a Certificate of Appreciation.

Business Honor Society advisors Anthony Ketterer and Anthony Rovello and business teachers Trevor Ozonkowski and Rami Joudeh assisted the students with a service project. This effort bundles new books provided by Chick-fil-A with notes of support and encouragement for younger students in the district.

“It’s important to practice what we preach,” Ketterer said. “We want to show the students that this place is great because of what we do.” These reading packages will be delivered to students in the

district’s elementary schools.

The honor society is encouraged about this work and looks forward to this year-long relationship with Chick-fil-A. “We are excited about this program as it will help our students develop realworld leadership skills while also engaging in community-based service projects,” Prinz said.

While the Chick-fil-A Leadership Academy isn’t about creating a product, these efforts will surely help produce an enthusiastic crop of student leaders in the Greater Comsewogue community.

Deniz Yildirim is a librarian at Comsewogue High School.

Port Jefferson elementary school students promote peace

Edna Louise Spear Elementary School students continue to strengthen social connections throughout the school and across the country. Through a recent library project, they will help make a difference in the world.

Students worked with librarian Margaret Hoon to learn about the Peace Crane Project. Hoon read the book “Peace Train,” based on

a song written by Cat Stevens more than 50 years ago and recently illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. The book shares a message of hope and love, celebrating all cultures and identities. The students learned how to create origami – peaceful puppies for the younger students and folded cranes for the older students. They then wrote messages of peace and hope

to exchange with students at Cucamonga Elementary School, a school in California similar in student size to Port Jefferson’s elementary school.

First grade teacher Laura Kelly worked with fifth graders last year and wanted to bring the program schoolwide, so she teamed up with Hoon to reach more

students. Hoon received creative assistance from fourth grader Joowon Bak, a skilled origami artist.

The Peace Crane Project is known internationally and helps to strengthen writing skills and hand-eye coordination, encourages friendships, teaches geography, and exposes students to new languages and cultures.

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Students present their peace projects. Photos courtesy PJSD

Top row (left to right): Christopher Cherouvis, Riley Hughes, Anthony Ketterer, Amanda Prinz, Michelle Lautato, Don Heberer, Stan Abrahamsen, Anthony Rovello, and Michael Mosca. Bottom row (left to right): Kenny Arroyo, Thomas Hueber, Steven Henriquez, Joao Ferreira, Damien Gregorio, Pat Brideson, Luigi Cinicola, and Ethan Nosenchuk. Photo courtesy CSD

Edna Louise Spear Elementary School librarian Margaret Hoon and fourth grade student Joowon Bak.

Sea shanty singers wash ashore for Port Jeff music festival

BY AIDAN JOHNSON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Sea shanty singers from around the globe were called from the briny deep to perform at the 2nd annual Port Jefferson Sea Shanty & Maritime Music Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1.

While the event was due to be held outside at Harborfront Park, it was moved to inside the Village Center due to inclement weather. Yet this was no issue for the singers, as they still gave delightful and entertaining performances.

Amy Tuttle, program director for the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council and creator of the festival, wanted to give sea shanty singers a place to share their talent.

“Last year, there were some sea shanty singers from Mystic Seaport [Connecticut], and Mystic

had discontinued their sea shanty [festival], so those shanty singers were distressed and sad that they had no place to play,” Tuttle shared. “And I said Port Jefferson has a very rich and interesting shipbuilding history — come here.”

Over a matter of a couple of months, GPJAC was able to put together the inaugural Port Jeff sea shanty festival. After seeing that the event was successful, the arts council decided to hold it annually.

Shanty singers came from afar to participate in the festival, including Connecticut, New Jersey and England. “They’ve come from all over to perform in this festival,” Tuttle said.

The performers aren’t the only ones excited about sea shanties. TikTok has thrown the genre into the spotlight amongst the youth, especially with the song “The Wellerman.”

Brookhaven Redistricting

map that I were to draw? Of course not. But when you’ve got one Democrat and a row of Republicans, you tell me what level of political power you have.”

In concluding his remarks, the CD1 councilmember said the final map reflects a series of compromises. “Despite the hideously flawed process that

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led here, I think in the end we’ve created a map that’s got some compromises, and it’s got a little something for everyone to be unhappy about,” he said, adding, “I hope that we can get to work and solve the real problems that face our town.”

No other board member spoke during the hearing.

Following the vote, a droning cry rained from some in the audience, the dissidents shouting, “Shame on you, shame on you.”

It remains unclear whether the map will face challenges in court or whether those challenges could hold up given the bipartisan outcome.

“I know during the pandemic it was a thing on TikTok, and a lot of the kids were experimenting with different things and writing their own music, which was fabulous,” Tuttle said. “We thought, how fun would it be to get some of the [original] singers to come and do sea shanties here.”

Many of the performers have had several decades of experience with sea shanties under their belt. Maria Fairchild started off playing the piano as a child before moving on to the guitar and eventually the banjo. She also has performed in multiple bands for more than 30 years. Adam Becherer, with whom Fairchild performed, grew up with the bluegrass scene in South Street Seaport in Manhattan thanks to his father being in a bluegrass band.

Both Fairchild and Becherer feel an attraction toward folk music. “I like the history of it,”

Fairchild said. “I also like that the melodies are … different from modern music, and there’s something really ancient that I’m attracted to.” Becherer added, “I love the collaborative nature of it. I love getting together with people who you don’t necessarily know, but there’s like a common language of tunes that people can get together and play.”

Despite the weather, the music festival went off without a hitch. Tuttle, along with GPJAC, is planning on having a tavern setting next year, in which people can learn how to sing and play the songs.

Currently, the arts council is presenting its Port Jefferson Documentary Series, with screenings taking place throughout the fall. For more information, visit www.gpjac.org.

— Photos by Aidan Johnson

Performers Adam Becherer and Maria Fairchild.

Performers Bob Conroy and Bill Grau of “Stout.”

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‘Tis the season of precaution

Once again, Suffolk County residents find themselves in the midst of hurricane season.

Hurricanes Fiona and Ian recently reared their ugly heads. While Long Island was spared, the headlines featuring the wreckage left behind in places such as Puerto Rico and Florida remind us of how devastating these storms can be.

In the Atlantic and Caribbean, hurricane season officially begins June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30. The height of the season is typically August, September and October.

Many Long Island residents remember the wrath of Gloria in 1985, and while it was downgraded to a superstorm once it hit our shores nearly 10 years ago, Sandy started as a hurricane, leaving damage and death behind, from the Caribbean to Canada.

Though we are well into hurricane season, it’s never too late to take precautionary measures.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends preparing before a storm hits by programming all emergency phone numbers into cellphones, writing down the numbers and placing them on the refrigerator or near home phones. CDC officials also advise locating the nearest shelter and researching different routes to get there. Pet owners should also find pet-friendly shelters and hotels or an out-of-town friend or relative who can take in pets during the case of an evacuation.

The CDC suggests having emergency supplies handy in case of a weather emergency. People should keep in mind that water and electricity could be cut off, and it’s imperative to have a supply of items such as batteries, bottled water, flashlights, medications and important documents that are easily accessible.

All family members should know where the fire extinguishers are in the home and how to use them. And, most importantly, families should go over their emergency plan regularly.

When a storm is predicted, the CDC says to clean up any items outside of the house that could potentially blow around and cause damage. Installing storm shutters or putting plywood on windows can prevent shattered glass coming into a home. Carbon monoxide detectors should be checked to prevent CO poisoning.

The most important tip various agencies give is to follow the advice of government officials and first responders regarding evacuating or sheltering in place at home. When evacuating, take only what you need as well as your emergency kit. Drivers should travel on roads they are instructed to use even if there is traffic, and avoid any downed wires.

Those staying at home need to remember not to go outside, even if it seems calm, until news that the hurricane has finally passed. Also, stay away from windows and, of course, always be prepared to leave if responders tell you that it’s necessary.

For those who have a trip planned, AAA cautions travelers to be proactive when a storm is predicted to hit by monitoring weather conditions of one’s departure city and destination before leaving. When traveling after a weather event such as a hurricane, it’s imperative to call hotels to get an update on the storm’s impact and to confirm if flights are scheduled to leave on time. Remember that even if an area wasn’t directly hit by a storm, it could still be negatively impacted.

A bit of preparation and caution can help a person and families navigate most storms. Hopefully, Long Islanders won’t need the advice this season.

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Healthy forest, healthy humans

I am saddened that in my community, a mile away from my home, 2 of the 9 acres remaining of the Harbor Hill glacial moraine second-growth forest was cleared in mid-September for a parking lot. Joni Mitchell and her fans cried out in song in “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970) how tragic it is to “pave paradise, put up a parking lot.” We are still crying out as we get news every day about climate change causing health crises and deaths caused by manmade environmental disasters.

I was appalled by Mather Hospital and Northwell Health’s response to The Port Times Record journalist Aidan Johnson’s report on Sept. 22, as they downplayed the importance of the mature forest they destroyed, by stating “the hospital has committed $25,000 to the Village of Port Jefferson to plant trees as compensation for the removal of the trees.”

A 60-year-old forest with native trees, plants and wildlife is priceless and irreplaceable. The forest filters rainwater into our Long Island aquifer as well as preventing runoff, well described in the PTR article, “Protesters assemble outside Mather, condemn forest clearing.” I was there protesting that day.

In Mather’s proposal, more than a third of the catalog of “native species” proposed to “landscape” after their destruction includes invasive aliens. For example, Nandina shrubs (native to Asia) are invasive, but are gorgeous to us humans for their fall color, but will only feed deer if at all. Or spreading Euonymus (also native to Asia) is so highly invasive that a warning is legally required for each sale of the plant in New York state. Those shrubs have no use even to deer, attract birds for their seeds which are not digested, but rather spread into the wild through droppings. Most of the invasive plants will not support native bugs who will then feed local birds. Yet these species will support the spotted lanternfly (also native to Asia) and other invasive insects that are not eaten by local birds and at times prove to be toxic to local wild life.

The $25,000 payment from Mather went into discretionary spending. I would like to see a detailed proposal that shows how a $25,000 donation can possibly replace 2 full acres of mature forest habitat, consisting of native mammals, birds, reptiles, invertebrates and plants.

Healthy forests lead to healthy humans.

Janice Fleischman-Eaton Port Jefferson

Flood’s dangerous rhetoric on prescription drugs

Thank you for the coverage of the Meet the Candidates Night held on Sept. 20 at the Port Jeff Station/Terryville Civic Association [The Port Times Record, Sept. 22]. The evening was marked by a wide-ranging discussion about issues facing the 4th Assembly District, served presently by Steve Englebright [D-Setauket]. In particular, the conversation touched on issues of mental health and addiction services, a policy area of deep concern and involvement to me personally which impacts the lives of many families around Suffolk County.

At one point, Republican challenger Ed Flood proposed dealing with the high cost of prescription drugs by advancing ideas I found extremely distressing and at odds with the values and beliefs which would represent us well in Albany. First, he proposed capping judgments awarded in lawsuits by those seeking redress from the harms inflicted on them by dangerous drugs, and compounded this by advocating a reduction in the regulatory oversight Big Pharma goes through to bring drugs to market. Costs of medications have more to do with the enormous expenditures funding the largest lobbying entity in the entire country as well as the ubiquitous advertising found on TV.

The insensitivity and ignorance of this position adds to the pain and suffering many Suffolk families and society endured at the hands of Purdue Pharma which pushed OxyContin (heroin in a pill) on an unsuspecting public. The hundreds of millions of dollars Big Pharma is paying in judgments and settlements obtained by New York Attorney General Letitia James [D] and others is of little solace to those who lost loved ones like my family, but at least will go to education, prevention and treatment programs to fight back the tide of this scourge.

Were it up to Mr. Flood, these companies would not be accountable for their egregious actions and would unleash more drugs with less oversight, ravaging more families across our state. I, for one, plan on saying a big “no thank you” to him on Nov. 8.

Ira Costell

Port Jefferson Station

5th County Legislative District kept intact through compromise

In a refreshing and much-needed show of bipartisan compromise, the previously deadlocked Suffolk County Reapportionment Commission on Sept. 28 unanimously approved a new county

legislative district map that keeps the 5th Legislative District intact and creates four majority-minority districts in Suffolk County.

The eight-member Reapportionment Commission was previously deadlocked on party lines over two competing map proposals and had until Sept. 30 to adopt a map to submit to the county Legislature for approval. The Republican map would have split the 5th Legislative District and the Three Village school district into three different county legislative districts, diminishing our votes and undermining the influence our communities have in the Legislature. The Democratic map did not split the 5th District but instead kept intact its shared historic, economic, social, policy, legislative, scientific, educational and environmental values and interests — better ensuring effective and fair representation.

Two days before the deadline, the Reapportionment Commission approved a new “Map C” compromise map which maintains an average population of about 85,000 for all 18 county legislative districts. The new map creates four majority-minority districts, where minority groups comprise a majority of the district’s total population, thus giving them an opportunity to have their voices heard, and their communities represented.

With a nation divided over so many issues, it is promising to see that the county Reapportionment Commission, both Democratic and Republican members, were willing to work together to come up with maps that are fair to both sides. Although there are new state mandates that require counties and localities to comply with redistricting standards to avoid gerrymandering, this commission could have stubbornly maintained partisan positions which would have likely ended in a courtroom battle. Voters win when the people we vote into office are willing to employ a bipartisan approach to problem-solving that benefits the communities they represent and serve.

The recommended Map C will be assigned to a legislative committee and a hearing date or dates set for public comment. If all goes well, Map C will be approved by the Legislature. The hearing date will be made available on the Suffolk County Legislature’s website accessible at www.scnylegislature.us/.

Thank you to all who sent in comments and participated in the process — working together we can and did make a difference.

Laura Ahearn Port Jefferson

The 10 commandments of cellphone usage and etiquette for our kids

You’re

meeting with your boss, and you can feel your phone vibrating in your pocket with a new text message, an incoming email or a good old-fashioned phone call.

What do you do?

You’d be on pins and needles if someone you knew, your spouse or partner, perhaps, were expecting a baby. Or, perhaps, someone was traveling a great distance through a storm and you were eager to hear that your friend or family member had arrived safely.

So, when we are talking to our boss, we generally realize that responding to our demanding electronics probably isn’t a great idea.

But what about when we are talking to a parent, a friend, a child or a neighbor?

Given the frequency with which I have seen the tops of people’s heads as they look down at their phones instead of in their eyes, it seems people have concluded that eye contact is so 20th century.

Since when did people outside the room become so much more important and demanding than the ones with whom we are interacting? If we can’t find people who are as interesting in person as the ones far away, perhaps it is time to move to interact with some of those fascinating folks.

first phone.

We can address not only how to handle an incoming text while in the middle of a conversation, but also how to unplug ourselves and our lives from endless messages, games, movies and TV shows.

If I could go back to the time when we handed phones to our children, ensuring that the phone would eventually replace bedtime stories, dinnertime conversation and eye contact, I would consider establishing our own “Ten Commandments” of phone ownership and usage.

These might be:

you can’t use your name or stand behind what you write, you shouldn’t have written it in the first place.

6. Don’t take embarrassing pictures of your parents and share them with your friends. Older people don’t tend to look as glamorous in digital pictures as younger people, so be kind.

5. Internet fame is not a life goal.

4. When you become better at using your phone than your parents (which occurs in a surprisingly short time), share your wisdom and skills with them. Think of it as familial community service.

D. None of the above

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF

But most of the time, the stakes aren’t quite as high with incoming information. In fact, some of the time, we’re getting spam that seeks our attention.

I understand that people online don’t have bad breath and messy hair and aren’t wearing the same clashing outfit that they wore last week, and that continues to threaten to give us a migraine.

Maybe we ought to consider classes in electronic etiquette that teachers can share with students or with people who are receiving their

10. Limit the time each day when you use your phone, with only extraordinarily limited exceptions. If you need to use your phone for schoolwork for two or three hours, that still counts as phone usage.

9. Leave the phone in another room when you’re not using it.

8. If you can’t say something supportive or pleasant on social media, don’t say anything.

7. No anonymous messages or criticism. If

3. Don’t assume everything you find online is true. In fact, at least once a week, or even once a day, find something on the internet that you think is false. Use trusted sources to contradict what you think an internet provider got wrong.

2. If it looks like everyone else is having a better time than you, put your phone down. They aren’t.

1. If you can tell your parents to wait while you respond to a text or call from a friend, make sure you tell your friends the same thing when your parents reach out to you.

Let’s share disturbing thoughts in the night. We’ll both feel better

Haveyou been waking up thinking at night? There is so much to think about, even to be deeply concerned about. There is COVID-19, of course. No one wants to get the disease, and if you already had it, you don’t want to get it again, as some people reportedly have. You also don’t want any of the long-hauler symptoms to afflict you: fatigue, brain fog, aches and pains, trouble breathing, dizziness, headache, and at least nine more on a reported list. In fact, the list is so comprehensive, it’s enough to give you anxiety, especially if you already have had the illness. Oh yes, and anxiety is also one of the symptoms. Then there is the Ukraine. Normally

a country that was somewhere in Eastern Europe, in the same general area as “Fiddler on the Roof,” now its whereabouts as Russia’s western neighbor are known around the world.

We watched as Putin sent more than 100,000 soldiers to overrun its borders. Poor little Ukraine, horrid bully Russia. We are sending them an unprecedented amount of money and military aid, and we have lowered our national oil and gas supplies. Will we have enough resources if we are attacked? Even as we cheer the valiant resistance and success of the victims of naked aggression, we worry about Putin’s possible use of nuclear arms. He has over 2000 small such weapons, apparently, and it’s the Cold War all over again.

as well as a challenge for areas in need of Help Wanted. Indeed, I am now reading that some of the immigrants are put to work cleaning up the devastation wrought by hurricane Ian in Florida. They are even being sent back down there to help. Who knows what to believe?

hurricanes, some with even legendary force, the prospect of more and stronger blasts due to climate change has prompted scary instruction about emergency bags and escape routes.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF

The problem of immigration was brought right to our door with the arrival of immigrants sent by southern governors of border states. They have been literally deposited here by the thousands via buses, and they have been humanely received, if we are to accept what we are told by the media. As I have written in this column before, they can represent an opportunity

If you are going into New York City, how likely are you to ride the subway? The reports of incidents underground are frightening. So are horrible, unprovoked attacks on the streets. Now, I grew up in the city, and I am used to all sorts of miserable statistics concerning crime there, but I somehow never felt fearful. With some eight million people, crime is unfortunately inevitable. And NYC isn’t even statistically the worst. New Orleans is. But somehow, these recent incidents seem more violent.

Climate change has finally penetrated national conversation. The destruction and deaths in Puerto Rico and now in Florida and the Carolinas caused by the last two hurricanes have made those of us who live on islands and along the shores more conscious of future threats. While there have always been

Inflation and its direction are also of grave concern. Going to the supermarket now seems to net about half as many bags of groceries for the usual food budget. Restaurants have decidedly become more expensive, as they have to pay more to function. And home values seem to have stopped rising and begun to cool. The stock market, while it is not the economy, has dropped like a rock. That negates the “wealth effect” homeowners and investors feel that encourages them to spend more freely.

Heck, I even worry about the New York Yankees. Yes, they have won their division, and you might say, “handily.” That’s exactly the problem. The last time they won by a big margin, they lost their competitive edge, along with the series, remember? It even happened this year right after the All-Star break. Teams do better when they have to fight until the last minute.

Awww, forgeddaboutit! Go back to sleep.