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Vol. 33, No. 46

October 8, 2020

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Officials concerned over MTA’s plans for new diesel trains A3 Local group tracks health of Port Jeff harbor, gets A grade A6 Offshore wind training center could be on North Shore A10

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Transportation

Officials Say New Diesel Engines on PJ Line Will Set Back Electrification MTA: All Projects on Standby, All Contracts in Jeopardy Without Federal Aid

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

As the MTA prepares its budget for the next few years, potentially reducing a massive amount of service due to the pandemic, local officials are saying some of that money earmarked for the Port Jefferson Branch line can get put to better use.

Though the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a $12 billion cash shortfall in its 2021 budget, its 2020-24 capital plan still includes plans to purchase new dual-mode (electric/diesel) trains for $150 million to replace older locomotives on several Long Island Rail Road lines, including Port Jeff.

is also a Dix Hills-based A representative of the transportation consultant MTA could not give any and has worked with Port fresh updates on these Jefferson Village before. new trains or other iniHe said purchasing new tiatives as all of them are diesel trains was “a very on hold due to economic foolish thing to do.� uncertainty, but whether Back in December of or not the $16.7 billion 2018, Horn published a annual-expenditure enreport on behalf of Port tity gets the aid it needs Jefferson about the North in time, officials are still Shore rail line which deagainst any new diesel scribed a general lack of trains without electrificafull-time direct service tion first.

The MTA has planned for additional diesel trains between Port Jeff and For years, area of- on the LIRR, including the the Port Jeff line, but Penn Station, and how ficials from all levels because of COVID, nothing is certain. File photo current dual-mode could of government have been promoting electrifying the Port Jeff rail be used to provide such service now.

Village trustee Bruce Miller, who has also long line, transforming it into a system like that of Ronkonkoma for faster, greener public trans- advocated for electrifying the Port Jeff line, said report. That initiative has been ongoing for years. placing the diesel engines was “anathema� to what In March this year, the environmental advo- has long been proposed. It would effectively make cacy group Sierra Club Long Island held a kick- it that much harder to argue for modern technology off event for its green transportation initiative, if the old line suddenly had new trains.

Miller has often used the refrain that people holding one of its events at the Stony Brook train station. Village, town and county officials all across the North Shore, even as far east as Calverton and as west as Greenlawn, take the have stood behind them at this and past events.

Sierra Club Green Issues chair, Mayer Horn, longer drive to places like Ronkonkoma rather

than catch the closer train, only because it is both less reliable and efficient. “Basically, you’re not entirely eliminating vehicles or cars when you have these two diesel lines on the North Shore and South Shore,� Miller said. “People aren’t factoring in pollution.�

On Sept. 17, the MTA put out a press release saying all its contracts are in jeopardy if it does not receive the $12 billion stimulus from the federal government. Some of these multibillion-dollar contracts are for companies that create and sell train and rail parts.

The September 2019 presentation of the LIRR’s capital improvement plan had included 160 new electric cars, nearly 20 coach cars and over 10 new locomotives.

Plans have changed due to the pandemic, as the MTA looks to close a $5.8 billion budget gap for 2021. Rail lines like Port Jefferson to Huntington will still run hourly at peak periods, but others with lower ridership will not likely be so lucky. Fares are also expected to increase beyond the anticipated 4% for 2021 through 2024, and riders who are taking trips to the city will feel it in their wallets the most.

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Village of Port Jefferson Vape Shop’s Move to Chandler Square Will Turn It into Smoke Store

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Questions over Port Jeff’s handling of hookah and vape products has become inflamed once again, though the outcome might just be the loss of one vape shop and the opening of a new smoke store.

Locals have noticed smoke and hookah products moving into a space in Chandler Square next to where The Soap Box resides. Officials said Sanjay Bakshi, the owner of Hookah City, which was located on Main Street, had planned to move from its space there to that new spot but, upon learning of the move, village officials quickly moved in to explain current code requirements.

Village trustee Kathianne Snaden said the village was alerted after residents spotted vaping paraphernalia in the front window. Deputy village attorney, Richard Harris, spoke to owner and is working on getting the issue resolved.

Village code restricts any new vaping stores from opening up in anything but light industrial zoning. All new vape shops or hookah parlors must also be granted a special-use permit by the board of trustees.

Snaden said Bakshi, has agreed to comply

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Residents were concerned to see vape and hookah merch being set up in an empty store in Chandler Square, but both the village and shop owner say the new location will focus on tobacco product. Photo by Julianne Mosher

with village code and is continuing his work opening in the new space, though now as a smoke shop selling cigars, pipes, tobacco and other products. Harris said the owner understands the code and has moved about 90% of all the vape or hookah-type products from the premises.

The Port Jeff fire marshal, Ryan Klimar, has also been to the location and has recommended

a few minor changes to the sprinklers and fire extinguisher placements.

“He understands very clearly what he needs to do,” Harris said.

Bakshi said the owner of the previous location did not renew his Main Street lease, requiring the move. The new space, he said, is going to be part smoke shop, part “convenience

store” that sells candies and soda. He is getting rid of the name Hookah City and is just going with Smoke Shop, displayed in small letters on the front window.

Bakshi confirmed he does not plan to display any smoking product in the window and that he doesn’t plan to sell any kind of electronic tobacco products like the old vapes and hookahs.

Before the move Hookah City had been able to continue despite the code change, having been grandfathered in under old requirements.

In 2019, when the shop was cited by Suffolk County police for allegedly selling a vape product to a minor, village trustees openly talked about what could be done to the shop but village attorney, Brian Egan, said that officials could not impact a business in any major way unless the code was violated.

In the past, Port Jeff constables have sent Suffolk police details of what they said were examples of the store allegedly selling to minors, according to past interviews with Fred Leute, code enforcement chief.

Though more and more smoke and vape shops have reported an incredible decline in sales since New York State officially banned the sale VAPE SHOP MOVE Continued on A14

Brookhaven Unveils Budget, Shows an Average $9 Increase for Town Residents

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Lacking any kind of financial aid from county, state or federal sources, Brookhaven town is having to do a lot of the heavy lifting themselves in its 2021 budget, despite the pandemic.

Under the new budget, the average resident could be paying just under $8.93 more than they did in 2020 in town taxes, though that may not include the taxes from those living in special districts, and it is likely less for those living in an incorporated village. That includes an increase of around $14 in regular town expenses but is offset by $4.75 for highway-related property taxes. Town taxes represent approximately 5.67% of a resident’s own total tax bill. The highest percentage, at over 70%, remains local school districts.

The state’s stay at home order resulted in residents producing 13% more garbage than last year, town officials said. The new budget has an annual fee for a single-family home of $365 a year.

The Town of Brookhaven’s $307,089,636 spending plan is contending with a loss of funds from landfill revenues, building department revenues, fire marshal revenues, just to name a few. The town also has to deal with a reduction in state aid, an example being a 20% cut to the

$1 million Citizens Empowerment Tax Credit, equivalent to $200,000.

The only positive this year, it seems, is that mortgage taxes have increased more than normal thanks to an influx of new residents from New York City.

Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said during a budget briefing Thursday, Oct. 1, that despite everything, they are staying within the New York State tax cap of 1.56%. He also boasted that the 2021 planned budget is not using any fund balance, or the town’s rainy day funds, to balance the budget. The town will likely have to dip into the fund balance this year, according to town Director of Operation Matt Miner, due to expenses not just from COVID-19 and subsequent shutdowns, but from Tropical Storm Isaias.

Through an incentive program and other staffing cuts, the town is less 42 full-time employees compared to 2020, as well as several part timers, many of whom were in summer programs which never came online due to the pandemic. The exit incentive program offered full-time staff the opportunity to retire early with $700 in their pocket for every year they worked for the town. Though because of benefits increases, the town is only saving $700,000 from staffing cuts.

“The one thing that I can’t do that the federal

Supervisor Ed Romaine said the town was unable to receive any federal aid in the CARES Act due to the population of the town. File photo by Erika Karp

government can is I can’t spend money I don’t have,” Romaine said. “When you can’t do that, we could see our revenues were going down precipitously … their retirement at this time in a very difficult year for us was very helpful.”

The town is making the assumption that COVID-19 will be here to stay for the next several months and has set the tentative date for services and recreation spots, such as the Centereach pool complex.

“It does allow for some return to nor-

malcy with some of our summer programs,” Miner said.

In terms of the highway department, Isaias did a number to their finances to the tune of approximately $5 million, including around $3 million in overtime payments, as well as contractor payments and equipment rentals. The town had offered all town residents the opportunity to get rid of their plant storm debris, but more residents also used it as an opportunity to get rid of plant debris that had not come down from the storm.

The town will have to eat those costs, Romaine said, as they have received no Federal Emergency Management Agency funding, and they do not expect any to be coming their way.

The reduction in highway property taxes are due to a decline in the 2021 snow removal budget, having not spent all the money budgeted for the past several years and carrying over a $5.4 million snow reserve. Road resurfacing, Miner said, is remaining fully funded in the capital budget at around $15 million. The town does anticipate a 20% loss in state CHIPS funding, which helps with local road repair, so the overall road repair budget is likely much less than last year.

“If anyone did that to the state budget, I’d figure they’d have problems, but I guess they BROOKHAVEN BUDGET Continued on A14

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Environment

Port Jeff Harbor Health Scores Well Among 50 Bordering Long Island Sound

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A new report by a regional environmental nonprofit says a little under half of all bays on either side of the Long Island Sound were given a poor-to-failing grade. It’s a continuing problem, but more and more local groups are stepping up to dedicate their time and energy to trying to maintain the water as a strong habitat.

At a press conference Tuesday, Oct. 6, Save the Sound, a Connecticut-based environmental nonprofit funded by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant, released its biennial 2020 Long Island Sound Report Card that described the general health of 50 bays from Long Island and Connecticut based on the previous year’s data.

Officials and experts revealed that, of those monitored, Suffolk County North Shore harbors were largely better off than those in Connecticut, Volunteers for the Setauket Harbor Task Force have monitored the health of Port Jefferson Harbor for the past three years. Photo by Kyle Barr but several still had issues. Port Jefferson, at least October. The study also looks at the general health state the outer and middle portions of the harbor, was ranked in the top 10 most healthy, with experts saying it of the Sound itself. It’s long been clear that the closer most likely has to do with how well the harbor flushes daily. one is to New York City, the less healthy the water is.

Meanwhile sites like Northport and Centerport har- The Western Narrows portion of the Sound received an bors were ranked C- and C respectively. Northport Har- F grade on all marks, while the Eastern Narrows, which bor received a F grade for its excess of chlorophyll, a runs from Northport to the edge of Hempstead Bay, remeasurement of how much microalgae is in the water, ceived a C grade overall. Areas to the east were reported and its low level of dissolved oxygen, an important factor as much healthier in general.

BY KYLE BARR Jamie Vaudrey, an assistant research professor of mafor the health of fish. Centerport had similar difficulties, rine science at the University of Connecticut, said likely but also had issues of excessive seaweed accumulation.

KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Perhaps the most concerning of North Shore Suffolk the biggest factor for the health of bays in a modern enWhat does it take to monitor the health of your local waterways? For County’s waterways was the innermost part of Cold vironment is how well the water flushes in and out of the people who month after month do just that, all it takes is a love for the Spring Harbor which received F grades in chlorophyll, the harbor. Water like that trapped into the southernmost place one lives. tip of Cold Spring Harbor is more impacted by any real seaweed and dissolved oxygen.

The Setauket Harbor Task Force was one of the most active of the 22 groups U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) and Lee Zeldin (R- increase in nitrogen. involved with Save the Sound and its bay water recording initiative. The im“They just have this large nitrogen burden coming in NY1) were both present to offer their support of bipartimense amount of work is taken up by a squad of volunteers, some of whom have san funding for this and future studies as well as initia- that’s not being flushed out,” she said. “In systems like been active during the May through October months of the last three years. tives to keep local bays clean. Suozzi said in the past four that, really pushing down that nitrogen load is important.”

The Setauket Harbor Task Force originated as a way to monitor the health Nitrogen has been called public enemy No. 1 for years, the Long Island Sound Caucus has extended the of what they considered the lone “orphaned” bay on the North Shore, but EPA Long Island Sound program to 2023 and increased coastal waters as it’s the leading cause of hypoxia, nametheir activities eventually spread over the border into Port Jefferson as well. the $4 million appropriated to the Sound to $21 million. ly low or depleted oxygen causing major problems for While the task force originated in 2015 to help maintain the local waterways’ The House has already passed a bill to up that to $30 mil- marine life. This can cause fish or other sea creatures to wellbeing, in 2018 the group joined the United Water Study program under die off and lead to an excess of seaweed or algae. Some lion, but has not yet been taken up by the Senate. the EPA’s Long Island Sound Study, and since then has done monitoring in Zeldin said the low grades of so many bays only em- of these algal blooms have even been dangerous to ani10 different locations in Port Jeff and Setauket harbors. phasizes the need for more federal funding for further mals or humans.

Hoffman, of the task force, said they have dedicated much of their time Though Port Jefferson Harbor’s general health was studies and additional relief. and energy to the project, especially maintaining rigorous scientific stan“Working across the aisle and across the Sound, rated high, it too has experienced its share of dangerous dards. They have gone out in foggy mornings where you could barely see a we’ve made great progress in preserving this critical wa- algal blooms, including a so-called rust tide back in 2018. few feet in front of the boat. Once, their craft’s engine stopped working, and terway, but with nearly half of the waterways measured Though this specific bloom doesn’t present a threat to huthey had to be towed back to harbor. There have been times their small craft in this report as receiving a D grade or below, there’s still man beings, it kills fish quite rapidly. Those who study has rolled in early morning swells, but they keep on going. water quality have become very concerned with how ofwork to do,” he said.

“With climate and environment, there’s so little that most people can George Hoffman, a co-founder of the Setauket Har- ten these blooms have appeared since the early 2000s. do,” he said. “Every day you read about a new thing — ice shelves melting, For some of the struggling bays in the Town of Hunbor Task Force that monitors Port Jeff, also acknowlwhales being beached … I find when I talk to volunteers, it’s just being able edged a great deal of why the bay has done compara- tington, New York State Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northto do something.” tively well is because of its flushing capacity. Another port) called for a funding stream from the federal govEvery participating organization must take readings of the water twice a factor, he said, may be the hundreds of thousands of ernment on down that can really start to make a dent in month, no less than 10 days apart. Because monitoring must be performed three oysters and shellfish the Town of Brookhaven seeds Suffolk County’s lack of sewage treatment facilities and hours before sunrise, volunteers are up well before dawn, getting into the small into the bay. The shellfish do a great job of filtering get the ball rolling on nitrogen-reducing septic systems, craft and wading out into the harbors. Their recording instrument, a sonde meter which individually can cost a homeowner $10,000 to organic particulates from the water. that records all manor of water quality metrics, costs close to $20,000.

Save The Sound’s Unified Water Study program in- $15,000 apiece without government funding.

Steve Antos, one of the task force board members, also owns Setauket “People can’t do that on their own — we need tax cludes 22 organizations covering 50 harbors on both sides PJ HARBOR MONITORING Continued on A14 of the waterway. Monitoring begins in May and ends in credits, we need funding,” he said.

Volunteers Do the Hard Work to Monitor the Health of PJ Harbor

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LEGALS Cre8tiv Action Flow LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/13/20. Office: Sufflok County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Registered Agents Inc. at 5302 Towne Woods Road Coram, NY 11727. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

833 9/17 6x ptr NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a virtual public hearing will be held by the Brookhaven Town Planning Board on Monday, October 19, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. to consider the application of Christina & Randy Werner to repeal Restrictive Covenant for property known as Port Woods, Lot 18. Covenant relief being requested on the above-described premises is as follows: Increase in clearing from 46% to 97% Notice is hereby given that the Town of Brookhaven Planning Board will hold a virtual public hearing streamed live over the internet at BrookhavenNY.gov/ meeting on Monday, October 19, 2020 at 4:00 P.M..

Adjacent property owners and/or others interested in any way in the proposal may communicate with the Planning Board during this time via chat at BrookhavenNY. gov/join. Anyone interested in submitting written comments to the Board may also do so via email at emccallion@brookhavenny.gov.

Vincent E. Pascale, Chairman Dated: September 10, 2020 839 10/8 1x ptr Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Action to Foreclose a Mortgage US BANK TRUST, N.A., NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPAC-

To Place A Legal Notice

Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com ITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR VRMTG ASSET TRUST Plaintiff, Vs PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF SUFFOLK COUNTY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF PETER R. GORCZYNSKI, MARYALYCE MCDONOUGH AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF PETER R. GORCZYNSKI IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, CLAIMING, OR WHO MAY CLAIM TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN, OR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC LIEN UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS ACTION; SUCH UNKNOWN PERSONS BEING HEREIN GENERALLY DESCRIBED AND INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN WIFE, WIDOW, HUSBAND, WIDOWER, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF SUCH DECEASED, ANY AND ALL PERSONS DERIVING INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON, OR TITLE TO SAID REAL PROPERTY BY, THROUGH OR UNDER THEM, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE WIVES, WIDOWS, HUSBANDS, WIDOWERS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNS, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES, EXCEPT AS STATED,ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH THE IRS JOHN DOE (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.)

Defendant(s).

INDEX #: 624044/2019 MORTGAGED PREMISES: 288 MAGNOLIA DRIVE SELDEN, NY 11784

DSBL #: 0200 - 368.00 03.00 - 009.000 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie.

Trial to be held in the County of Suffolk.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.

TO Maryalyce McDonough as Heir to the Estate of Peter R. Gorzynski Defendant In this Action.

The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. John H. Rouse of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Seventeenth day of September, 2020 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, in the City of Riverhead.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Peter R. Gorczynski (who died on October 26, 2013, a resident of the County of Suffolk, State of New York) dated the April 10, 1998, to secure the sum of $108,750.00 and recorded at Instrument No. Book 19350, Page 249 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk, on the June 12, 1998. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed October 7, 2019 and recorded on October 15, 2019, in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book M00023069, Page 841; The

property in question is described as follows: 288 MAGNOLIA DRIVE, SELDEN, NY 11784 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: September 21, 2020 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.

855 10/1 4x ptr PORT JEFFERSON FREE LIBRARY TRUSTEE POSITIONS The Library Trustees have announced that two five-year seats and a one-year seat on the Board are expiring in January 2021. These seats will be filled by an election during the Annual Meeting on Wednesday, January 13, 2021.

Interested persons are invited to apply. Applications are available at the Library Circulation Desk. A completed application must include a resume, a written statement of interest, and a written petition signed by at least twenty-five (25) members of the Port Jefferson Free Library Association.

Voting will be by paper ballot at the Annual Meeting on WEDNESDAY, January 13, 2021 from 10:00 AM-9:00 PM. Absentee ballots will be available at the Library Circulation Desk from 12/11/2020 to 1/12/2021.

To be eligible for consideration as a candidate or to vote in the election, a person must be a member of the Port Jefferson Free Library Association; that is, she or he must be a resident of Union Free School District #6, and have a library card in good standing. In addition, he or she must be at least 18 years old.

Please address all correspondence to: Election Committee Port Jefferson Free Library 100 Thompson Street Port Jefferson, NY 11777 All applications must be received by 9:00 PM on Friday, November 13, 2020.

856 10/8 3x ptr SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS–SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK – REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., Pl a in t i f f,-a g a in s t-T E R E S A CROMWELL, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED; THOMAS RUPP, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED; ROBERT WARREN RUPP, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED; SUSAN RUPP AKA SUZANNE CAPRIOTTI, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED, if he be living and if he be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributes, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien

or inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; RICHARD RUPP, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED; JENNIFER KOHNEN, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED; CHRISTOPHER KOHNEN, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR J. RUPP, DECEASED, Defendants-Index No. 624203/2019 Plaintiff Designates Suffolk County as the Place of Trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Suffolk County. To the above named Defendants–YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 days of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. That this Supplemental Summons is being filed pursuant to an order of the court dated March 11, 2020. NOTICE-YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME – If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 7 mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE; New York State law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this Foreclosure Action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney of your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs. ny.gov. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. We are attempting to collect a debt. Any infor-

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com mation obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable John H. Rouse, J.S.C. dated September 11, 2020.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage and covering the premises known as 35 Pequot Lane, East Islip, NY 11730 located at District 0500 Section 373.00 Block 03.00 and Lot 050.000 Dated: September 21, 2020 Filed: September 22, 2020 Greenspoon Marder LLP, Attorney for Plaintiff, By: Raspreet Bhatia, Esq. 590 Madison Avenue, Suite 1800, New York, NY 10022 (212) 524-5000 Please respond to Cypress Creek office: Trade Centre South, 100 W. Cypress Creek Road, Suite 700 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 (888) 491-1120 858 10/1 4x ptr NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held 7:30 p.m., (prevailing time) on Tuesday the 13th day of October, 2020, at the Vincent Bove Belle Terre Community Center, 55 Cliff Road, to consider the following application for a variance from Village Codes.

Applicant: Mr. & Mrs. Emanuel Vickers Location: 25 Cliffside Drive Applicant requests relief from Section 170-10A which states no structure less than 20 feet from a side lot line, for an existing tennis court.

A copy of the application is available for inspection by contacting the Village Office, during regular business hours.

BY ORDER OF DAVE McANANEY, Chairman Zoning Board of Appeals Inc. Village of Belle Terre Dated: October 1, 2020 Joanne Raso, Village Clerk-Treasurer 870 10/8 1x ptr NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PORT JEFFERSON FIRE DISTRICT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Public Hearing will be held on October 20, 2020 at 7:00 PM (prevailing time) on Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 5799553032?pwd=S2RmYlh DZmFkQ1UyQmt2Y1ZFVDd1 QT09 Meeting ID: 579 955 3032 Passcode: budget2021 The purpose of the Public Hearing will be to permit public review of the proposed Budget for the Port Jefferson Fire District for the calendar year 2021.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of the proposed budget has been filed with the Town Clerk and is available for review and is also available for review at the Office of the Board of Fire Commissioners between the hours of 8 AM to 9 PM. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that time permitting, a Special Meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners will be held immediately following the conclusion of the public hearing for the purpose of adopting the final budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE PORT JEFFERSON FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, New York.

Barbara Cassidy District Secretary 872 10/8 1x ptr Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson 88 North Country Rd. Port Jefferson, N.Y. 11777 Ph. (631) 473-4744 Fax (631) 473-2049 www.portjeff.com PUBLIC NOTICE Inc. Village of Port Jefferson Zoning Board PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS of Article XI, Section 250-50 of the Code of Village

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verely question if they are still coming when so much service is getting cut.

In the MTA’s July preliminary budget presentation, it stated that a reduction or delay in the 2020-24 capital program will have a limited impact on the operating budget because, for one, the MTA’s portion is back ended, having already been funded from several tax sources. Using those sources to fund the operating budget instead would “consume cash and reduce liquidity.”

Still, there has been talk of removing some parts of the capital plan. Newsday has reported the MTA has plans to put the $230 million north/ south link between the Ronkonkoma and Babylon branches on pause.

There is no money in that capital plan for Port Jeff electrification either.

The 2018 Port Jeff report by Horn notes that the Ronkonkoma line, once the LIRR expanded electrification from Hicksville to Ronkonkoma in 1987, jumped daily trips from 6,200 to 16,000 by 2007, a result of people no longer taking the Port Jeff or Montauk branches to both north and south. Less local traffic also meant a decline in the economic vitality of Upper Port.

These new diesel trains are just another factor of what Horn calls “a real lack of planning.”

He lamented why the MTA, or America in general, doesn’t try to learn from countries with much better, faster and more efficient train systems like South Korea or Japan.

The greatest need, however, has been the addition of a third rail for the Port Jeff line, something that has been trumpeted and sometimes praised to be coming soon.

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) has long been a proponent of electrification. As the chair of the Assembly environmental conservation committee, he said he, along with his state Senate counterpart Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Centre), met with Phil Eng, the head of the LIRR, late last year to talk about these new trains.

“Quite frankly, he was not able to give us any assurance he was going to do anything but plow ahead,” Englebright said. “That was a couple months before COVID crisis basically created a whole new set of distractions.”

New York State, in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, has set the lofty goal to limit statewide greenhouse gases to 40% of 1990 levels by 2030, and 85% by 2050.

“It looks to me like LIRR is basically telling us that they are going to proceed as if exempt from CLCPA, which is outrageous,” the local assemblyman said. He added these trains could have a lifespan of 50 years.

In a letter sent to Englebright in March 2019, MTA president, Patrick Foye, said that the LIRR had been reviewing proposals for a $4 million study on Port Jeff electrification and other projects, and that it could be awarding a contract for the electrification study in early summer 2019.

That study has not yet materialized and, with the MTA saying it has no updates, it’s likely it won’t any time soon.

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LEGALS of Port Jefferson, please take notice that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson will hold a Public Hearing via ZOOM posted live on Thursday 10/22/20 at 7:30PM. (A pre-hearing work session will begin at 7:00PM) Below is a link to watch a live video of the meeting and public hearing. Public comments may be posted on the link during the public hearing portion of the meeting at 7:30PM. Public comment will

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com be permitted during the public hearing portion of the meeting only. Please include your full name when commenting. www.portjeff.com/ virtualmeetings 727 PINE TREE COURT Appeal No. #558-20 Location: Off Jefferson Landing Circle SCTM: Sec.14, Blk.2, Lot 2 Zoning: RB-2 Residential Property Owner: John and Jody Dennehy Applicant: John and Jody

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Applicant requests an area variance to maintain an existing 8 ft. x 10 ft. shed located 1.8 ft. from the eastern property line where Village code section 250-28A(1)(b) requires the minimum setback of an accessory structure to be 5 feet from the property line.

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Local Districts Respond to Potential School Aid Cuts

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OCTOBER 08, 2020 • THE PORT TIMES RECORD • PAGE A9

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Schools are staring down the barrel of funding cuts because of the COVID-19 crisis.

While students have been returning to their new normal of hybrid classes, remote learning and plastic barriers between desks, school districts across New York state are concerned about the news surrounding a potential 20% state funding cut.

According to New York State Education Department, the State Division of the Budget has begun withholding 20% of most local aid payments, forcing reductions in some payments to school districts across the state. The reductions in aid, combined with increased costs during pandemic times, could affect not only students, but community members too.

“All public schools throughout New York state will have to make deep and painful cuts if federal assistance in the form of school aid is not secured,” said Ken Bossert, superintendent of Elwood school district. “The governor’s proposal of reducing aid by 20% will impact districts that rely heavily on aid in a devastating way. Not only will programs and staffing be redacted, the gap between the ‘haves and the have-nots’ will widen.”

Mark Secaur, superintendent of Smithtown school district, noted that during the height of the pandemic in New York last spring, the state adopted a budget that contained three review periods, in which local aid distributions might be reduced on a rolling basis, based on the revenues the state received.

“On August 18, districts throughout New York state received a state aid payment for the 2019-2020 school year that withheld 20% of the expected payment,” he said. “Also included was a note that all future payments would be reduced by 20% in the absence of federal relief.”

Secaur added that for Smithtown, this equates to a potential loss of upward of $9 million in state aid.

“When developing our 2020-2021 school budget, the district took into consideration the potential loss of state aid and made adjustments,” he said. “However, these losses, coupled with the unfunded expenditures required for the safe return of students, will likely force the district to significantly utilize the fund balance and reserves to balance the budget.”

In addition, the budget doesn’t cover the costs that are protecting children returning to their classrooms.

“Cleaning supplies, dividers for rooms … the cost is close to $4 million,” said Roberta Gerold, superintendent of Middle Country school district.

Michael Ehrlich, left, is walking more than 100 miles to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His daughter Rachael, right, was diagnosed with the condition in 2016. Photo from Michael Ehrlich

Three Village Father Set to Walk More Than 100 Miles for Fundraising Effort

School districts all over the North Shore are dreading the day when a loss of funding could force some hard choices. Stock photo

That sum didn’t include the cost to keeping the schools operational — even when students weren’t in them when the pandemic hit.

“There was still a cost to keep the schools running,” Gerold added. “It was a rough couple of months.”

Gerard Poole, superintendent of Shoreham-Wading River school district, agreed.

“In a time when students need more, we won’t be able to provide that,” he said.

While Poole and his peers are trying to stay optimistic, and are pleased to have students back, he wonders if it will be sustainable. “It’s an uncertain time — it won’t be the easiest thing for districts to put a budget together this year,” he said. “We just have to take it day by day.”

While each district is different on the Island, they can all agree that continuing to plan during an uncertain time is very difficult.

“We’re trying to plan for a budget without knowing what’s going to happen,” Gerold said.

“If we have the info, we can figure that out. …

It’s a scary time for sure.”

Miller Place school district declined to comment but did release a letter Sept. 3 penned to elected officials, asking for their support.

“As our elected officials we implore you act quickly to stop any and all federal and state reductions regarding payments to New York state school districts,” the letter said. “As district leaders we remain focused on the mission of returning students to our classrooms, and providing them with the social, emotional and academic supports they need in order to achieve their 2020-21 instructional goals.”

The letter continued, “Please recognize any reductions in federal or state aid payments would dramatically reduce our ability to sustain our district’s fiscal health, as well as maintain the support needed to ensure our students and staff physical health.”

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Last Friday, a South Setauket resident started walking, heading east on Route 347 with the hopes of possibly making it to Riverhead.

He wasn’t worried about the distance, as the long journey wasn’t his first.

Michael Ehrlich, 49, is in training to walk 107 miles Columbus Day weekend with the goal of raising $50,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The nonprofit funds Type 1 diabetes research, provides community services to T1D patients and advocates for them. Ehrlich will walk from the Manhattan side of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge to Orient Point beginning Sunday, Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. He estimates that it will take roughly 50 hours.

The T1D battle is a personal one for him, as his 16-year-old daughter Rachael was diagnosed with the condition in 2016. At first his family had to wait for the insurance company to approve a much-needed insulin pump for her, and a couple of years ago she was finally able to get it. With the pump and continuous glucose monitoring, the Ward Melville High School student is doing well.

Ehrlich has raised money for the foundation before by walking more than 100 miles. In 2017, the father, who was featured in a TBR News Media article for his effort, garnered nearly $35,000 by walking from Manhattan’s Times Square to Montauk Point. He had hoped to participate in other events to raise money for JDRF, and in 2018 walked from his house to Manhattan and was training to run in the New York City Marathon to represent JDRF, but an ankle injury acted up. Despite the injury, he raised an additional $32,000 with smaller events.

The injury is one he has suffered with on and off since his 2017 walk, but he knew it was important to get back out there walking to raise money for the foundation.

“It must be really hard to fundraise as a

nonprofit when they can’t have their balls and charity events,” he said. “You really have to retool how you fundraise, and I was like, ‘You know what, it’s my calling. I need to go on another walk.’”

To deal with his injury he wears Hoka sneakers, which he said aren’t the most attractive but provide good support, and he utilizes Chi walking when his foot hurts.

He learned the method, which uses the core principles of T’ai Chi, before his 2017 walk.

“It’s not the most intuitive walking style but it’s definitely the most pain-free way to do it,” he said. “It’s just having the discipline because you do have to think about a whole bunch of things at the same time.”

To get ready for the trek, Ehrlich has been walking for hours at a time, sometimes late at night or in the early morning hours which will prepare him for walking overnight. When he’s done with his practice walks, he’ll either call his wife to pick him up, or if it’s late, he’ll use Uber to get home.

During his first fundraising venture in 2017, Ehrlich said he chose the South Shore because it had less of an elevation increase than the North Shore. But this time, he wanted to travel through places such as the Three VIllage area.

“It’s not like you’re hiking a mountain, but there are a lot of hills,” he said Another change from his 2017 walk is that Ehrlich won’t be carrying a backpack with several essentials. He said he plans on having a waist belt with water, an energy bar and batteries. To eat and drink along the way he’ll rely on friends and anyone who hears about his journey. A couple of friends have also offered to walk part of the distance with him.

Ehrlich has raised nearly $35,000 already, he said, from 291 donors toward this year’s $50,000 goal. The father said many have donated through his professional network in the mortgage industry, as well as previous donors Three Village Dads members.

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Wind-Power Project Cements Plans for Home Base/Training Center on North Shore

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A potentially huge economic boost for Port Jefferson, Setauket and the whole North Shore could soon be down the pike as more details of a regional wind-power project takes shape.

Sunrise Wind, a combined venture with U.S.-based Eversource and Denmarkbased Ørsted, plans to create a 110-turbine, 880-megawatt wind farm 30 miles off the coast of Montauk. Announced back in 2019, project managers and local officials touted Port Jefferson as the new home base for the project, with offices located nearby and a repair ship to be stationed within the harbor itself.

Things are moving forward in a big way, according to Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), who confirmed in a phone interview that Eversource has landed a new office space, specifically at a 59,525-squarefoot office/warehouse located at 22 Research Way in East Setauket.

Romaine, who recently was on a Zoom call with company representatives, said while the front part of the space is likely to be an office, the back portion of the property is to be a training center for the people who will go out on the ship to work on and repair the massive turbines in the ocean. What’s more, since these offshore wind projects are still progressing with an ever-increasing demand for renewable energy, the supervisor suggested such a facility could gain national significance.

“You’re seeing offshore wind energy far more accepted, particularly with this crisis of climate change,” Romaine said. “This is a shot in the arm to the area, and wind energy will benefit the economics of all northern Brookhaven.”

Sunrise Wind reps have previously talked about their plans to work with Suffolk County Community College for a training program, but in response to questions Eversource and Ørsted reps said in a statement they will have more details in the coming weeks about this new property.

“This facility will serve a major role in our plans to make New York a leader in the U.S. offshore wind industry,” the statement read.

What those in the facility would be training for is to go out on a new 260-plus foot service operations vessel. The ship is planned to hold 60 passengers, and then take trained technicians back and forth to take care of the turbines on the basis of two weeks on and two weeks off.

Sunrise Wind is also boasting that the chartered vessel is Jones Act compliant, a law that mandates new ships be manufactured in the U.S. The point, company reps said in an email to Romaine, is that offshore wind projects “can drive domestic jobs,

‘You’re seeing offshore wind energy far more accepted, particularly with this crisis of climate change’

— Ed Romaine

manufacturing and investment growth.”

Port Jefferson Mayor Margot Garant said she has a meeting scheduled with Sunrise Wind representatives Thursday, but that the idea of the area becoming a nationally recognized hub for such technology would be a “home run.”

To help operate this vessel, Eversource and Ørsted reps have previously stated they would come into Port Jefferson Harbor for a 24-hour period in order to take on crew and resupply.

The Town of Brookhaven has also sent letters of support for both the facility improvements in Port Jefferson Harbor as well as for any grant for a training facility that could be of national significance.

Garant said there are multiple benefits for some kind of update to the pier, which is owned by the town. Such improvements could also, in effect, make the Port Jeff power plant property more valuable, something village officials have been aggressively arguing with the Long Island Power Authority, which owns the plant.

She said project managers have already done work to try and minimize the impact to the surrounding community, as the vessel will only be offloading people and resources once every two weeks.

“It’s a win-win for so many reasons: Our harbor is being utilized, and wind power is where I think we have to go on a global national scale,” the mayor said.

The project was originally slated to finish in 2024, but company reps have experienced some degree of opposition from those on the South Fork regarding, among other things, where the company can place the high-voltage cables. Instead of having the cables come in through that area, Romaine has proposed the cables come in at Smith Point, come up through Shirley and north up William Floyd Parkway. The town, he said, wouldn’t have the same hiccups as the South Fork had since major cables already run underneath the length of William Floyd, and there are existing buildings that Sunrise Wind can use as substations.

Negotiations are still ongoing, though the Brookhaven supervisor said there will be a hosting fee that will go toward benefiting the local community.

This empty building located at 22 Research Way in East Setauket could be Sunrise Wind’s new office site, as well as a training center for those meant to go out on boats to work on the offshore wind project. Photo by Kyle Barr

County

SC Legislators join Dr. David Fiorella, fourth from right, in congratulating the Mobile Stroke Unit’s efforts after it was launched last year. Photo from William Spencer’s office

Legislators Laud Mobile Stroke Unit

In March of last year, Dr. David Fiorella went before the Suffolk County Health Committee chaired by Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) and announced the launch of Long Island’s first Mobile Stroke Unit program aimed at reducing death of stroke victims. Fast forward 18 months and Fiorella has reported to the same committee Oct. 1 that since deployment, the MSU has been on over 1000 total calls. Findings during the first-year show Stony Brook Medicine’s units have successfully facilitated the diagnosis and rapid delivery of time-critical therapies to stroke patients at the point of care resulting in substantially improved outcomes.

“We are also very grateful to all of the members for the Suffolk County Legislature for their help in promoting the program’s success and look forward to further improving upon these outcomes and expanding this program to service even more residents of Suffolk County in the future,” said Fiorella, a neurointerventionalist and Director of the Stony Brook Cerebrovascular Center and Co-Director of the Stony Brook Cerebrovascular and Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Fiorella also mentioned their intent to locate two more stroke units to add to the current slate located at Long Island Expressway Exits 57 and 68. Each unit is equipped with telehealth capa-

bility to communicate with physicians at Stony Brook University Hospital. When a suspected stroke call comes in, the mobile stroke unit is dispatched and the team works quickly to determine the type of stroke the patient is experiencing using the features on board including a CT scanner and CT angiogram. Once that is determined, first responders in the unit can begin administering time-sensitive stroke treatments.

Data from the program further shows stroke patients transported by the MSU had much greater rates of discharges directly from the hospital to home after treatment, higher rates of independent clinical outcomes after stroke and much lower rates of death from stroke when compared to national averages, county average, and Stony Brook’s own data preceding the MSU program.

“The work that Dr. Fiorella and his team are doing is extraordinary,” Spencer said.

“The reduced time it takes their units to reach and care for stroke victims is yielding measurable improvements to the lives they touch.”

Spencer also noted the legislature’s goal in expanding the program.

Strokes are a major public health concern nationwide. Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke and every four minutes someone dies on one, according to the American heart Association.

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Long Island Catering Halls Rally For 50% Capacity

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Brides, business owners and elected officials all stood together outside the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge Oct. 2 begging Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to increase the capacity of events like weddings, Sweet 16s and other catered parties.

Right now, restaurants have been allowed to operate at a 50% capacity, while catering venues are still capped at just 50 people.

Those at the rally said desperate families, who have waited their whole lives to celebrate their special day, are more likely to host events elsewhere, instead of safely inside their chosen venue.

“These events haven’t stopped, these events moved,” said Gennaro Tallarico, manager of The Inn at Fox Hollow in Woodbury.

“They moved into people’s homes, to their backyards. They moved into event spaces where they don’t have liquor licenses and who are not afraid to open up and break the rules. … By limiting us, it’s creating a more dangerous situation.”

Kiran Wadhwa and Indu Kaur of Port Jefferson Station’s The Meadow Club also showed their support, especially since their venue has three separate ballrooms. After having to close due to a fire in 2018, the club has been under renovation for more than two years, and then had to delay its reopening because of the pandemic.

“Not being able to open at 50% capacity would be devasting to our family business,” Wadhwa said. “We need to be able to recover the loss of two years of income, and we won’t be able to break even with 50-person events.”

Friday’s event was headed by Riverhead Town Councilwoman Jodi Giglio (R), who is also a candidate for New York State Assembly. She said the current 50-person limit these events are allowed is detrimental to not only anxious brides and grooms, but to the Long Island economy.

“Facilities with the capacity for 300, 500 and 700 guests are being forced to operate as if they were all the same size,” Giglio said. “They are going bankrupt and need to feed their families. We need the governor to let them safely serve their customers, put their employees back to work and pay their bills.”

Caterers across the state have filed a class-action lawsuit against Cuomo saying their businesses can be just as safe, if not safer. They argue that with many venues being able to hold more than 300 people, a 50% cap would still allow social distancing, with guests still being able to celebrate.

With the wedding industry on Long Island generating an estimated $6 million a year in sales tax, according to a representative from Scotto Brothers, as well as being one of the state’s largest employers, no one has made a profit this year thanks to COVID-19, and many businesses are on the brink of closure.

“An industry that is supposed to be happy is losing hope,” Giglio said. “It’s crushing the dreams of a fairytale wedding. … All of our local businesses have suffered. Our message to the governor is we can do this safely, we can adjust — and flexibility is a must.”

Along with the maximum-person cap, mingling and dancing are also prohibited under the state’s executive order.

Heather Cunningham, founder of the website and online-based bridal group Brides of Long Island, said she is just seeking fairness.

“I’m not asking for a packed dance floor,” she said. “I’m asking CATERING HALLS RALLY Continued on A14

Elected officials stand with brides, business owners and concerned community members asking Albany to change the executive order from 50-person events to 50% capacity. Photo by Julianne Mosher

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New York City PBA President Patrick Lynch addresses the crowd in Hauppauge Oct. 4. Photo by Steven Zaitz; more photos available at tbrnewsmedia.com

Cindy Court (left) from Mather and Susanne Igneri (right) from Lustgarten accepted the donations from Yacht Club members Gary Passavia, Chuck Chiaramonte and Karl Janhsen. Photo from Mather Hospital

PJ Regatta Raises $40K Despite Pandemic

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The Port Jefferson Yacht Club, just by the nature of their craft, know how to navigate turbulent times.

It’s why even despite the pandemic and setbacks to its 11th annual Village Cup Regatta, the group still managed to raise $40,000 which is split between Mather Hospital and the Lustgarten Foundation, which funds pancreatic cancer research.

Normally held in September, the regatta is a competition between teams for the Village of Port Jefferson and Mather Hospital.

Whichever team wins gains the coveted trophy and bragging rights for the year, but the real purpose is to generate funds for pancreatic cancer research and cancer treatment. Last year the function raised $91,000 Chuck Chiaramonte, a past commodore for the yacht club who helps head the annual regatta, said they were pleasantly surprised to see just how many people still donated even in a time where many are experiencing financial hardship.

While the event is two-fold, one being the club’s outreach to the community to share their love of sailing and the other being its fundraising efforts, only one of those could be focused on this year because of the pandemic, Chiaramonte said.

“When COVID hit, there was no way we could ask club members to have a lot of people crammed into the cockpit of their boats, and so we thought

we would have to cancel,” Chiaramonte said. “But then later on we were thinking, pancreatic cancer is as bad as ever, we thought we could still hold the charitable portion.”

The regatta still happened this year, but in a smaller capacity. Instead of boats crowded with people, each sailing craft was only allowed a max of two persons. Normally the event has Mather racing against the village, just using club members’ boats. Calling it the Village Cup “COVID Race” this year, club members still raced carrying banners of sponsors and others who donated to the event, though the village/ hospital competition was dropped.

Though it may have raised less than previous years, and even in the midst of so much tragedy due to the pandemic, cancer and specifically pancreatic cancer still weighs heavy on so many club members’ minds, with so many friends and family having been lost to the disease. And this year, with COVID-19, club members knew they had to do as much as they could to help the hospital that went through hell during the pandemic’s height.

Kenneth Roberts, the president of Mather Hospital, thanked the yacht club for its support.

“We are grateful to the Port Jefferson Yacht Club and their continuing commitment to Mather Hospital, even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Roberts said in a statement. “This is a wonderful example of how we will get through this, together.”

Chiaramonte said the yacht club plans to return for the 12th annual regatta in 2021, this time, hopefully, back to its normal self.

Thousands Attend Back the Blue Rally in Hauppauge

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The H. Lee Dennison Building lawn in Hauppauge was a sea of flags Oct. 4 as participants showed support for law enforcement officers across the state.

A few thousand people gathered around the war monuments in front of the Suffolk County building waving American, thin blue line and Trump 2020 flags at the “Back the Blue” rally organized by law enforcement associations and unions representing more than 80,000 law enforcement officers from the New York metropolitan region.

Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association President Noel DiGerolamo, Nassau County Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott, New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-NY2), family members of fallen officers and more were on hand to address the crowd during the two-hour rally.

Genesis Familia Villella, of the Bronx, was one of the first speakers and was visibly emotional. Her mother, New York Police Department Detective Miosotis Familia, was killed July 5, 2017, by a gunman while she sat in her mobile police command post in the Bronx.

The 12-year veteran was 48 years old.

“Ever since that night, my life has been somewhat of a living nightmare,” the daughter said. “My mother was targeted for her blue uniform that she proudly wore for over a decade.”

The daughter remembered the last time she saw her mother alive when she asked her for another hug before saying goodbye. She said after her mother’s murder she has helped raise her younger brother and sister. Officers like her mother at times sacrifice time with their families to protect all New Yorkers, she said, and she wanted to remind everyone that police officers

are “human beings with families and loved ones who need them to come home, just like I needed my mom to come home to me that night.”

Kathy Vigiano, president of Survivors of the Shield, an advocate group for fallen police officers’ widows and children, had a plea for the press to report the “real numbers” regarding crime. Vigiano is a retired police officer and the widow of Joseph Vigiano, a police officer who died in the line of duty on 9/11.

“How many times do police officers put their lives on the line to take illegal guns off the street?” she asked. “New York City police officers took 607 guns off the street in the month of September alone without incident.”

She said officers put their lives in danger every time they stop someone.

“He doesn’t know who he’s stopping,” Vigiano said. “He doesn’t know when he pulls you over for a broken light who you are, but we all know who he is. It’s his job to ensure our safety. It’s his job to come home to his family.

To the criminals I say, ‘How dare you? How dare you put his life in danger resisting whether passively or violently.’”

According to a press release from Suffolk PBA, crime is up in the state. It cites national numbers as of mid-July where the number of cops killed in the line of duty was 32, an increase of 28% compared to the previous year’s numbers. It also cites the murder rate in New York City which was up by 50% in August, according to NYPD data.

“The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has surged 28% nationally, as anti-police rhetoric, protesting and riots continue across the nation,” the local PBA said in the release.

During the rally, attendees would sporadically chant, “Back the blue,” and play sirens and blow horns, while drivers passing by on Veterans Highway could be heard honking and shouting words of encouragement.

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‘A Touch of Holiday Cheer’ to Replace Dicken’s Festival for 2020

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The 25th annual Charles Dickens Festival may be quarantined until next year, but Santa himself may be coming down from the North Pole for some socially distanced festivities come December.

Village and chamber officials both confirmed the annual Dickens fest is moving to next year, skipping this year to host their quarter-century event. Though Charles Dickens won’t appear on any of the taglines or advertising, there will still be holiday-based events.

The village is hosting what’s been dubbed A Touch of Holiday Cheer on the three Saturdays before Christmas.

“What we really would like to see happen is on the Saturday’s through December, we can find some small ways for having people come down and celebrate the holiday season,” Mayor Margot Garant said.

Although Garant said that not hosting the festival’s 25th anniversary is “gut-wrenching,” they do not want to create an atmosphere that could become unsafe, since the festival normally brings in thousands of people Down Port.

“We want to give reasons for people to come down here, celebrate the day, do some local shopping, support our local markets,” she said.

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“Before the walk, during the walk or after the walk, I really want to get that $50,000,” he said. “I think I will. People are pretty generous.”

Maureen Fitzgerald, executive director of JDRF’s Greater New York City chapter, said the foundation was started 50 years ago by volunteers who wanted to see a world without T1D for their children. She said Ehrlich is one of the people who carries on that vision and in a “highly unique” way.

“When Michael walked from Times Square

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for that moment where a father can dance with his little girl.”

“We need to look at things differently,” Suffolk County Legislator Kevin McCaffrey (R-Lindenhurst) said at the event. “They are responsible business owners. They know how to keep their customers safe.”

John Salkowsky, owner of Lindenhurst-

“That’s the underlying reason we do Dickens, after all, to be together and hopefully we have something to celebrate come December.”

A full list of happenings are still being determined, but the chamber has set several events already for the three December Saturdays before Christmas. Barbara Ransome, the executive director of the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, said they still plan to do Cookie Land for kids to decorate cookies by appointment at the Village Center. The chamber will host a photo opportunity with Santa on his big red sleigh from 1 to 4 p.m. Children will be staged in front of the sleigh instead of their usual position on his lap so there will be no direct contact. People are also asked for a $5 donation to the chamber.

Garant added the Festival of Tress – with social distancing – is planned on the third floor of the village center, some outdoor concert and plays, as well as a performance from Setauket resident and singer Carolyn Benson. A belle choir is also scheduled for Dec. 5.

“It’s going to be an interesting season,” Garant said. “But I think the one thing that brings everyone together is the holidays, and I think we can all agree on that.”

More information on chamber events can be found at portjeffchamber.com Additional reporting by Kyle Barr to Montauk in 2017 to bring attention to JDRF and to the daily struggle that his daughter Rachael faces as she manages her Type 1 diabetes, we marveled — not only at his stamina, but at his clear love for his daughter and his willingness to raise awareness and funds, whatever it took,” Fitzgerald said. “Today, as Michael prepares to embark on this journey for a second time, our JDRF team marvels all over again — at his energy, his enthusiasm, his love for Rachael, and his power to teach many about what the 1.6 million Americans living with T1D face every day.”

For more info on the fundraiser and Ehrlich’s arrival times for the walk visit his Facebook page, Manhattan2Montauk. based Silverfox, said that “catering halls are the heart and soul of our community.” Businesses, like his photography and videography service, then follow. “I hope this shines a bright light,” he said. “I hope this makes a change.”

The general feeling among owners is if things continue this way, many of them might have to close for good.

“We hope Governor Cuomo has heard our industry’s plea because we are suffering and cannot go on like this for any longer,” Wadhwa said.

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of flavored electronic cigarettes back in May, and that’s in addition to the wider economic impact of the COVID-19 shutdowns.

Schools in recent years have complained about the number of vape products getting into minors’ hands, despite age restrictions.

Though the science is not conclusive, studies have shown the harmful and addictive

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figure they can do it to towns and villages … it’s too bad,” Romaine said.

This year, elected officials’ salaries are staying the same.

Suffolk County officials, meanwhile, have been frantically urging the federal government to provide additional aid to local municipalities. Though Suffolk received $283 million in CARES Act funding, Romaine said the county did not relinquish any to help town

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Landscape Design. Though he and others in his group have lived in the area for decades, the idea of water quality has really taken a hold on many of its participants. Antos enjoys constructing rain gardens in his regular job, which are critical for preventing water runoff flowing from people’s yards down toward the Sound.

“In the past, everyone tried to get their properties to drain onto the road … and eventually it just runs into our bays and takes all the pollution and dog waste with it,” Antos said. “A lot of it is way beyond our control, but whatever we can do, just little things, it all adds up.”

Before working with the task force, many of the 10 or so volunteers wouldn’t have known what most of the readings, from the chlorophyll levels or turbidity (the water clarity) meant, but now have become a kind of citizen scientist, able to comprehend measurements using a very technical device.

Their backgrounds range from a retired veterinarian to retired teachers, but what brings them together is their long time proximity to the bays and waterways of the North Shore.

It’s what drove them to want to make sure the water was being maintained.

Tom Lyon, of Mount Sinai, and Mark Smith, of East Setauket, are the boat captains, and have lent their experience and water crafts to the project. They are small runabouts, one an 18-foot and the other 16.

Nancy Goldstein, herself a trained scuba diver, got into the project thanks to a friend and has been active for three years.

nature of nicotine-based products. The U.S. Federal Drug Administration guidelines are still evolving, but the FDA considers vaping medically unsafe for young people, pregnant women and adult smokers who are not using it to quit the habit.

Still, for village officials like Snaden, seeing the last remaining vape shop go is a clear victory for the local community.

“Anything keeping vape products out of the hands of our children is better for our schools, parents and kids,” she said. governments despite their pleas. Brookhaven itself did not receive any aid because it did not meet the minimum resident population to qualify.

Whether or not Republicans and Democrats on the federal level will come together to pass a new aid package, which the supervisor did not hold out much hope for, how it may impact the budget comes down to how much they get. Top of the list for Romaine, however, could be paying down debt.

“I’m not going to be supervisor forever, and I want to keep reducing the amount of debt the town has,” he said.

“I took marine biology in high school, but I’m totally not a scientist,” Goldstein said. “I care about the earth, and the marine — it’s all one.”

Bert Conover, a retired veterinarian from Port Jeff, said he has always been on the water “from Delaware River to Ocean City.”

Long ago, he majored in chemistry and biology, but went to grad school for zoology and then went on to veterinarian school.

“Now that I’m retired it gives me a chance to give back,” he said. “And hopefully the data will redirect how to approach a healthy harbor.”

Alice Leser has lived in Stony Brook for 49 years, and is a life-long Long Islander.

She has taught programs about Long Island waters as a teacher and alongside fellow environmentalists at the Long Island Museum.

When three years ago the task force offered her a training program at the Village Center, she snapped up the opportunity.

“I’ve been surrounded by water my entire life,” she said. “I’ve canoeed all the rivers, and I’ve taught programs about Long Island waters, so I really care about the purity of the water.”

Laurie Vetere, the fellow co-founder of the task force, said they have not had anyone drop out in three years.

“When we first started this program, we found that we had more volunteers than we needed,” Vetere said. “People are attracted to the water.”

Hoffman agreed, saying there is something about Long Islanders and their connection to their coasts.

“Long Islanders are coastal people,” he said. “I think what keeps us on Long Island is we all have a love for the water.”

Obituaries

Michael Shannon Davis

Michael (Mike) Shannon Davis, of Port Jefferson, passed away unexpectedly Sept. 29.

He was 71.

Born June 3, 1949, in Columbia, Missouri, he was the son of Gordon F. Davis and the late Rose Marie Davis. A longtime resident of Port Jefferson, Mike was the president and owner of the family business, Long Island Comfort.

Though Mike’s biggest accomplishment was being a father. The bulk of his life and time were devoted to raising his daughter, Shannon, who was his pride and joy.

Mike is survived by his daughter, Shannon Christine Franz; father Gordon and stepmother Helen, of Georgia; and his brother Daniel and his wife Estine of Florida.

In addition to his mother, Michael is preceded in death by his brother, Kenneth.

A private memorial and celebration of life will be scheduled at a later date.

Jason Brubaker

Jason Kurt Brubaker, 51, of Tampa, Florida, died in April. He always looked on the bright side. Jason loved his daughter, his family, and his music.

Jason grew up in Setauket. His family moved to Connecticut, where he graduated from Mitchell College and received his Bachelor of Science at Central Connecticut State University.

Jason was a Senior Exstream Developer for TEKsystems. Known for his “Go get it attitude,” he was able to speak computer talk to all.

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His love was his daughter Melissa Concolino, of Tampa. He loved his siblings, sister Gail and Jeff Lebert of Glastonbury, Connecticut; brothers John Brubaker and his wife Jane of Wethersfield, Connecticut, Jim Brubaker and Nancy of Bridgewater New Jersey, and Chris Brubaker and Christine of Tampa, Florida. He enjoyed gatherings with the Concolino family in Setauket.

Recently, he revisited his love of playing the drums. He joined Comin’ Home The Band and began writing and performing. Before his death the band recorded a CD titled “All In.” A Celebration of Jason’s Life will be held at Bryant Funeral Home on 411 Old Town Road in Setauket on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please purchase the CD “All In” to support Comin’ Home The Band.

Barbara Kinzie

Barbara A. Kinzie, of Stony Brook, passed Aug. 11. She was 80.

She was the beloved daughter of the late John and Janet Burke and sister of the late John “Skipper” Burke; the loving mother and best friend of Tracey Mingrone and her husband Joseph; beloved grandmother, Mimi, and best friend of Ava and Christopher. Mimi devoted her life to her grandchildren.

In addition, she was the cherished friend of Terry Sotelo. She is loved and missed by her Mahjong buddies and her friends Sharon, Lil, and many more.

Barbara was a voracious book reader, loved chocolate and adored her Westie, McDuff.

We remember Barbara for the kind words she had for everyone she encountered; always happy and upbeat, very funny, and she always enjoyed a good-laugh.

Services were held at St. James R.C. Church, Aug. 16. Interment followed in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Port Jefferson.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. Please visit www. bryantfh.com to sign the online guestbook.

The National Shrine of St. Jude was an important facet of Barbara’s life. In lieu of flowers please consider donating by clicking on the link found at the bottom of the Tribute page.

John Lionetti Jr.

John Patrick Lionetti Jr., of Farmingville, died Aug. 17. He was 31.

John was born Oct. 31, 1988 in Smithtown, and was the son of Phyllis and John Lionetti.

He was a sheet metal fabricator for Local 28. In life he enjoyed Lacrosse and Soccer, and in school was very popular, having been voted Prom King. He was always the “life of the party” and made people smile.

“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”

Left to cherish his memory are his parents; his sister, Danielle; brothers, Anthony and Michael; grandparents, John and Phyllis Faye; along with so many other family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Guy. Services were held at St. Gerard R.C. Majella Church in Terryville Aug. 22. Committal services were in held in private.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guestbook.

Coast Guard at age 17 to serve his country during World War II. Betty was a tireless volunteer who always tried to make a positive difference in peoples’ lives. She helped to bring Meals on Wheels to the Three Village community, she served for many years on the Board of Directors of Stony Brook Hospital’s auxiliary and Betty volunteered at the Long Island State Veterans Home with her husband Joe from the day it opened on the Stony Brook University campus.

Betty was a devoted Eucharistic Minister who practiced Christianity at Saint James Roman Catholic Church in Setauket. Betty started each morning praying that her day would be filled with “peace, joy, patience and love.”

For those who loved Betty, we know that her prayers were granted uninterrupted for more than 94 years. Beloved by Joe, her adoring husband for more than 63 years, Betty was the loving mother of Hugh, Thomas, John and Joseph, as well as daughters-in-laws Suzanne, Lee and Claudia. She was the cherished grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of nine.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Long Island State Veterans Home.

Graveside service was held and St. James Churchyard Cemetery with interment following.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guestbook.

Contributions made to the Long Island State Veteran Home in memory of her would be appreciated.

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Elizabeth Cassidy

Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Cassidy, a longtime resident of Stony Brook, died peacefully at the Long Island State Veterans Home Aug. 14. She was 94.

Betty shared her love and wisdom generously with her family, friends, neighbors, and especially with her late husband Hugh (Joe) Cassidy. Betty first met Joe in kindergarten at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn and they remained friends until Joe enlisted in the

Alexander Kozikowski, of Setauket, died Aug. 11. He was 86.

He was born June 4, 1934 in Port Jefferson, and was the son of Sophie and Julian Kozikowski.

Alexander was an Army Veteran of the Vietnam War and had retired from North Shore Crane.

Left to cherish his memory are his daughter, Patricia; sons, Mark, Andrew, Bruce, Christopher and Scott; nine grandchildren; along with many other family and friends.

Committal services were held in private along with full military honors.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guestbook.

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Letters to the Editor

Wedding Industry Needs President’s Dog Whistles for Violence Room to Recover

We weren’t surprised when business owners in the wedding industry held a press conference Oct. 2 to appeal to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). For months, while restaurants have been able to operate at 50% capacity, reception locations can only allow 50 guests at an event.

The 50-guest cap and arbitrary state guidelines have been concerns of several business owners in the wedding and party industry. These locals have shared their experiences with TBR News Media for articles in the last few months, and vendors weren’t quite sure what they could do or not do, as they have had little direct communication with the state.

While we understand the need for Cuomo’s administration to keep gatherings down to a minimum, there needs to be more continuity and empathy in the guidelines. With the support of legislators, a class-action lawsuit is being filed by caterers. Business owners at the press conference said they feel they can provide a safer party than those being thrown in homes and backyards since they have more space to social distance and need to follow higher cleanliness standards. Owners said they realize following the guidelines is imperative for not only safety but to keep their licenses — something a homeowner doesn’t need to entertain.

The business owners may have a chance. This summer a federal judge issued a temporary injunction to allow an upstate golf club to operate at 50% capacity for two weddings after the couples and co-owner of the club sued New York State. That owner said his restaurant had the capacity to seat 438 people, but while operating as a restaurant one night he could have more than 200 people, on a wedding night he could only have 50.

This example may leave one wondering how a person visiting a restaurant could potentially be around more than 50 strangers, but cannot sit with more than 50 family members, friends and acquaintances at a party, especially since many wedding venues are committed to following current public health guidelines, including discouraging dancing.

Like so many businesses, COVID-19 has had a tremendous negative financial effect on the wedding industry and many are hoping to get back on track or else they may have to close their doors forever. During the shutdowns, venues had no money coming in while still needing to pay rent and utility bills. This has had a trickle-down effect where photographers, videographers, DJs and bands are called for less work, and while bakeries may have made some wedding and other celebratory cakes, the orders are smaller in size than usual.

If venues get their way, it’s imperative that owners and employees follow public-health guidelines such as 50% occupancy, social distancing, banning dancing and enforcing mask wearing when people are not seated. Seeing how restaurants in our coverage areas have been able to come up with creative ways to serve their patrons safely, including turning parking lots into outdoor dining areas, using tents — even small ones for individual parties — we believe wedding venue owners will do the same.

Of course, keeping our local businesses open works both ways.

It will take more than residents signing a petition to help these businesses stay afloat, it will also require people to follow public health guidelines. So, we implore individuals to be responsible as well. It’s up to all of us to stay 6 feet away from each other, wear a mask, wash our hands regularly and stay home when we are feeling ill.

There’s a certain positive energy in the air when people come together to celebrate, and even if they can’t hug, kiss or show off their moves on the dance floor, we’re sure the majority will appreciate being there for their loved ones just as much as having dinner at their favorite restaurant.

The letter to the editor in the Oct. 1 edition of the Port Times Record (“Republicans Won’t be Rioting”) is dead wrong in claiming that Democrats are rioting.

According to the FBI, most of the violence has been perpetrated by right wing zealots and white supremacists. At the

presidential debate Sept. 29, Mr. Trump told the Proud Boys, a violent, white supremacist group, to “stand by.” That dog whistle is clearly meant to permit and even encourage violence.

I hope that there is no violence after the election and that every vote including

mail-in ballots (which are not at all fraudulent despite what Mr. Trump claims) is counted. If, God forbid, there is violence, past incidents would indicate that it is most likely to come from far right zealots.

Adam D. Fisher Port Jefferson Station

“Give me your tired, your poor” concluding with “your huddled masses yearning to breath free, / the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these

the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Do you think the 70,000 migrant children in U.S. detention centers will

appreciate what the Statue of Liberty stands for. History books will not be kind to us.

Mary Stevenson Mount Sinai

We in Congressional District NY-1 have an important vote coming up, between incumbent Lee Zeldin [R] and Nancy Goroff [D].

Zeldin gets full points for his efforts on behalf of veterans and military families. On other subjects I find him disappointing and misleading.

I waited in vain for Zeldin to join Republican colleagues in criticizing President Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacy in the Sept. 29 debate.

And while he has stated that the police officers responsible for the death of George Floyd acted wrongly, he shows no understanding that Black people die at the hands of law enforcement in heartbreaking, unconscionable numbers.

Relatedly, Zeldin’s ads falsely link his opponent Nancy Goroff with violent protest (there is no record of her involvement in violent protest) and “defunding the police,” although Goroff

states on her website, “I do not support defunding the police.” A voiceover refers to her as a “radical scientist.” Is “scientist” here supposed to be scary?

The accompanying photo shows her responsibly wearing personal protection equipment while presumably working with a hazardous substance.

Fortunately, voters know not to get information on a candidate from the other side’s attack ads.

Scientists work to understand our world. They develop ways to answer questions, double- and triple-check the answers, and submit their conclusions to peer review. Scientists are trained to look for the truth, even if they don’t like it.

I fervently wish the president a quick and full recovery. At the same time, we need to face the fact that he has based policy and behavior on wishful thinking, not facts. In February he said COVID-19 would go away one day, “like a miracle.”

In March he said the virus would go away

by Easter, and in September he told a rally the virus “affects virtually nobody.”

Sadly, none of these statements were true.

Meanwhile, Zeldin’s coronavirus information page makes no mention of the most basic scientific recommendations to avoid spreading COVID-19, masks and social distancing. You probably saw the photo of him flouting these guidelines, smiling in the packed maskless crowd in the VIP section of President Trump’s Tulsa rally — which Tulsa city officials link to a surge in infections.

We need scientists to get out of this situation. President Trump, the First Lady, and his colleagues all depend on scientists to recover. We need leaders who listen to scientists. Who better than a scientist? Thankfully we can vote for Nancy Goroff.

Teresa Dybvig Stony Brook

Vox Populi Please leave your politics at the door. Enter with logic, math and honest opinions only. Thank you.

The Constitution provides that the Senate shall have the power to accept or reject presidential appointees to the judicial branch.

Former President Barack Obama [D], having 11 months remaining in office, was denied the process by the Republicans President Donald Trump [R], having 30 remaining days in office, was approved by the Republicans to proceed

with the process.

We have 100 senators, each with a sixyear term.

Unlike congresspeople, only one third of the senators are up for election in November.

Majority Leader, Mitch McDonnell [R] explained, “Americans re-elected our majority in 2016 … because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary.” He went on to explain that the people voted and that their opinions must be honored.

The fact is — if facts still matter — is that the 30 Senators who are up for reelection were voted in six years ago, in 2014, two years before Trump’s election.

So ask yourself this, if one truly wants to get the preferences of the voters, would one go back six years to see how the voters felt then, or go forward 30 days to see how the voters feel now?

Which would be the most accurate and up to date reading of voter preference?

Be honest.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

History Books Will Not Be Kind to Us

Vote for Facts Over Wishful Thinking

Finding an Accurate Reading of Voter Preference

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Opinion Life On A Block With the Remodelers, the Revvers and the Adorables

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Every so often, my dog gets on one of his benders where the entire neighborhood has to hear him. He races into the backyard and barks at shadows that my eyes, and the eyes of my son, who runs to the back door and turns on the D. None light, can’t see either.

Every neighbor of the above presents his or her

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF unique challenges to a block where we continue to spend a large percentage of our

time. There’s the guy who drives too fast.

We all glare at him, but he doesn’t seem to notice. He probably can’t see us because he’s moving too quickly and exists in a different space-time continuum. Don’t you love a word like continuum that dares to have two “u’s” in a row?

Then there’s the neighbor whose house is under constant construction. No matter what season, time of the month, or time of day, construction people are always there, digging, pulling, pushing, installing, removing, re-laying, resurfacing, ripping up, putting back down.

Who needs all that continuous fixing?

I don’t even live in their house and I’m exhausted by the constant change. Sure, it’d be nice if that bulb above my wife’s head in our bedroom actually worked, but my arms are too short on the ladder and the bed is in the wrong place. I put my son on my shoulders and he reached up and turned, but the bulb and the fixture kept spinning.

On the other side, we have a lovely neighbor who is so nice that even the people who frown at the bunnies and deer, which prance through our neighborhood as if they were responding to a cue from a Disney director, smile at her. Her smile and laughter seem like a starter’s gun, waiting for a small cue to explode to the surface.

Anyway, the rest of her family is friendly enough, but doesn’t share her ebullience.

They do, however, love their cars. The louder the sound, the more impressive the car, or so it seems. Their driveway hosts regular revving contests. Okay, how many columns have words with two consecutive “u’s” and two consecutive “v’s” in them? Revving continuum, anyone?

Somehow, despite the constant cacophony from the driveway, their house attracts an abundance of magnificent birds, even when they use the leaf blower to keep their immaculate backyard free of the few leaves with the temerity to fall on their property.

Then there is the talker. She’s incredibly sweet, insightful and intelligent. The two

challenges are that the polite banter doesn’t seem to have a natural end, and she is so soft spoken that I find myself nodding and raising my eyebrows, hoping I’m offering the proper response to questions I can’t hear. I can’t move closer to her because we react to people as if they were porcupines, with six foot quills.

Then there are the adorables. These are the families that have young children who giggle, laugh and play, blissfully unfocused on the pandemic and thrilled that they are out on a bike or that they can identify a bird that passed overhead. They race each other on tiny bikes, ask me why I’m wearing the same sweatshirt again, and skip to the sound of music I can’t hear. They also see the nonstop trucks delivering materials to the construction house as a source of entertainment. One of our young neighbors was on her way to school on a recent morning.

Her mother stopped her car and rolled down the window so she could tell me about Mrs. Cathy and Ms. Mary. Those happy adorables are the block winners.

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Her story, a “panoramic account of espionage from Weimar Germany through the Cold War is, above all, a woman’s story.” It is based on Sonya’s own journals, in which she captures “the stressful balancing act of spymaster, mother and lover of several men during the most dangerous decades of the 20th century.

Like many supremely successful women, Sonya benefited from men underestimating her.” And by the way, the name, Sonya, means dormouse in Russian.

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The scene shifts from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists to Japanese-occupied Manchuria, to the bucolic Cotswolds of England, where she lived during much of WWII as a housewife and mother. In

addition to caring for a husband (who was himself a lower level spy with no idea of his wife’s top level position) and two children, she managed spy drops and transmitted coded messages as an expert radio operator and in Morse code, all the while eluding the German, British and American secret services hunting for her.

Without ever wearing a military uniform, she held the rank of colonel in the Soviet army. “Domesticity was the perfect cover,” according to reviewer Marton.

Sonya was right up there at the top of intelligence gathering. She was the spymaster to pass along secrets about the atom bomb from brilliant German theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs worked in Britain and Canada and ultimately at Los Alamos, and she was his handler, sending critical information to Stalin and the Soviet Union. Throughout the war, Fuchs played a seminal role in helping to develop the powerful new weapon. He ultimately confessed to the British to having spied for the Soviets and served a nine-year sentence there, then promptly emigrated to East Germany.

The reviewer delights in descriptions of

the flat-footedness and sexism of the British secret services as revealed in the book. Only one member of British M15 “smelled a rat” regarding the Cotswolds “housewife,” another woman, Millicent Bagot. “But her less shrewd (male) colleagues prevented [Bagot] from bagging her prey.” Sonya was interrogated twice inconclusively in 1947

by British intelligence agents. Years later, she was dubbed by the media as “Stalin’s best spy.”

Sonya too spent the Cold War years in East Germany, leaving England the day before Fuch’s trial began. He did eventually unmask her. And this is the part that tickles me the most. She became an author, assumed the pseudonym of Ruth Werner, and wrote knowingly about spy adventures. Her books became best sellers.

She died in Berlin in 2000 at age 93.

Almost all the spies she worked with were caught at some point, but she survived two intense decades, the 1940s and 50s.

She led a fascinating life and was clearly exceptionally intelligent. The only pity is that she worked on the wrong side of history, believing in an ideology that was made up of lies.

Balancing a Life as Wife, Mother, Homemaker, Lover ... & Spy

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or some reason, this book tickles me, maybe because of the ending. And maybe because I am always interested in how women manage to balance being a wife, mother, housekeeper and cook with a demanding job outside the home. I haven’t read the book yet, only the review, but that was enough to hook me.

The book is, Agent Sonya, by Ben Macintyre, and yes, it is a spy story. The reviewer, Kati Marton, writing in the Book Review section of Between the Sunday New you and me York Times, calls

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF the author “John le Carre’s nonfiction counterpart.” The main character in the book, Sonya, is based on a real person, Ursula Kuczynski. Born in a prosperous, bourgeois German family, she suffered a

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