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A lot has happened since the start of 2021, only two weeks ago.

Shortly before the insurrection at the United States Capitol Jan. 6, Long Island sent four Republicans to the New York State Senate to kick off the new legislative session.

Two of those are newly elected Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) and Sen. Mario Mattera (R-St. James), both local to the North Shore.

On top of their swearing-in and preparation for the new year ahead, various local and national elected officials released statements surrounding the horrors Americans witnessed that Wednesday.

The two state lawmakers, Palumbo and Mattera, are not condoning what happened Jan. 6.

“Most, if not all, New Yorkers were happy to put the year 2020 behind them and are looking forward to the promise of a better 2021,” Palumbo said. “Sadly, last Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol using acts of violence does not help any cause and instead leads to incarceration.”

Palumbo said he will condemn all lawless attacks on America’s institutions and cities.

“I fully support our men and women in law enforcement who continue to find themselves in ever more dangerous situations,” he said. “I appeal to everyone’s better angels, both on the right and left. We must all focus on important issues like public health and economic recovery, not stoking division from the political extremes.”

Mattera said that he supports the right to peaceful protests.

“The right to express views peacefully is a fundamental freedom for all Americans and it is essential to who we are,” he said. “But when the events become violent or unlawful, as they did last week and have in the recent past, those responsible must be held accountable and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Mattera said that what was witnessed must not be condoned or excused.

“There can be no acceptance of these actions regardless of motivations,” he said.

“They attacked our men and women in blue, and their actions insulted all who support the First Amendment.”

But he said that through it all and at the end of the day, Americans must work together.

“We must now join together as Americans to show we are stronger when we stand together,” the state senator said. “This nation has stood for over 240 years and we must work together to ensure its future.”

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Notorious pro-Trump group, the Setauket Patriots — who have headed several marches and caravans across the North Shore of Long Island in support of President Donald Trump (R) — have lost their Facebook page and are now operating under a private group account.

James Robitsek, founder of the group, said that last week 200 members of his group gathered on four charter buses to visit the Capitol on Jan. 6, with an extra 100 members driving themselves to the rally.

“The actions by those storming the Capitol building [Jan. 6] should not be tolerated, are condemned, and were not conducted by any of the members that came on our busses to attend a peaceful protest.”

He said the Setauket Patriots page, that holds more than 20,000 members, was taken down by Facebook. The private group is still online.

“The group will remain, and we will continue to hold community events like we have in the past,” he said.

James Robitsek, and Setauket Patriot supporters, rally outside Village Hall in Port Jefferson in November.

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Robitsek added that “false information that is being disseminated on social media, mischaracterizing members of our group is hateful and vengeful and just plain wrong. Just as violence and domestic terrorism will not be tolerated, we also will not allow other groups to violate and slander good-hearted citizens that love our America.”

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Protesters Petition to Get Congressman Zeldin Out of Office

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Groups gathered outside local congressional offices demanding that President Donald Trump (R) be impeached and convicted, and that Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) to be expelled from Congress following his vote against the certification of Electoral College ballots.

On Monday, Jan. 11, the group Suffolk Progressives organized the protest and created a petition, demanding Zeldin leave his position.

Shoshana Hershkowitz, from South Setauket, who founded the group, said they are against the congressman’s vote challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election — even after the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.

“He continued to talk about his feelings despite the evidence from the country,” Hershkowitz said. “On Jan. 2, he put a tweet out saying this is a lie. … Those words unfortunately they came to fruition on Jan. 6.”

After the mass attack on the Capitol by proTrump extremists, Zeldin still voted to object the election of President-elect Joe Biden (D), and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (D).

“The combination of all of it, and then going back into the chamber after all of this violence and death, refusing to accept those results, trying to overturn the people … it was mind-blowing,” she said.

Upon Zeldin’s vote, Hershkowitz and her group penned a petition that is now up to nearly 2,000 signatures, calling for his expulsion.

“I was hoping that after all this he would change his tune,” she said.

On Monday, Jan. 11, a group of more than 100 people gathered outside of Zeldin’s Patchogue office. A smaller group of counterprotesters stood across the street.

The day of the insurrection, Zeldin released a statement.

“This should never be the scene at the U.S. Capitol,” he said. “This is not the America we all love. We can debate, and we can disagree, even on a January 6th following a presidential election. We can all passionately love our country, but in our republic, we elect people to represent us to voice our objections in the House and Senate on this day.”

He added that there must be “zero tolerance for violence in any form.”

Hershkowitz said she will be sending the petition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“I believe that these people shouldn’t be sitting in Congress,” the group organizer said.

Members further west rallied outside Rep. Tom Suozzi’s (D-NY3) Huntington office, asking him to demand that Zeldin be accountable.

Suozzi supports the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment or impeachment.

Last week, Suozzi shared his experience being in the chamber of the Capitol during a press call.

He said he was in the chamber when it was breached by Trump supporters who stormed the building. He said he and others were ushered to a safe place.

The congressman said he was more saddened than scared by the siege.

Suozzi said there was a Republican congress member objecting to the certification of the

Shoshana Hershkowitz, founder of the group Suffolk Progressives, joined others outside Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Patchogue office, asking for him to leave his position. Photo by Steven Zaitz

electoral results, when the representatives were notified the building had been breached. They were told to reach under their chairs and get the gas masks that were under them. According to the congressman, tear gas at that point already had been used in areas of the building.

“And then there started to be some people banging at the doors,” he said. “Capitol Police drew their weapons.”

Suozzi added that something broke through the main door, and he heard a popping noise.

He said he was up in the gallery with other members of Congress. At one point, there were concerns they couldn’t exit and 30 were still remaining, waiting to see if protesters would break through the doors. After determining what door to use to leave, they finally were able to exit the chambers.

He said when he left the room, there were several protesters on the floor surrounded by Capitol Police.

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Huntington Town Supervisor Chad Lupinacci, above at podium, speaks at a Jan. 8 press conference at the archaeological dig at the Peter Crippen House, above right. One of the items discovered during the dig, photos below right, was a Vaseline jar dating back to the turn of the last century.

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Huntington Archaeological Dig Kicks Off Black History Month Early at Crippen House

On Jan. 8, Town of Huntington Supervisor Chad Lupinacci (R), Councilwoman Joan Cergol (D) and Councilman Ed Smyth (R) were joined by Dr. Harvey Manes of the Manes Peace Prize Foundation, archaeologist Allison McGovern of VHB Engineering who is overseeing the dig, town officials and members of the community during the second day of the archaeological dig taking place at the Peter Crippen House, 61 Creek Road, Halesite, a site significant to the town’s African American history.

“The long-term plan is to relocate the restored structure, if it is feasible to do so, to a more suitable site to serve as a museum or use any salvageable timbers in some educational capacity dedicated to Huntington’s African American history,” Lupinacci said.

The supervisor’s office has been working closely with the Town Historian Robert Hughes, Engineering Department and the Town’s African American Historic Designation Council to ensure that the Peter Crippen House, which is in severe

disrepair and is set to be demolished, can be properly preserved, as the site is integral to Huntington’s African American history. The supervisor said there will be a follow-up regarding what is found during the dig.

In September 2020, Lupinacci and Hughes were able to secure an $8,500 donation from the Manes Peace Prize Foundation to conduct an archaeological study on-site before any demolition occurs at the Crippen House.

“African-Americans made an important contribution to the history of Huntington which needs to be recognized,” Mane said.

The town also applied for $4,000 in Preservation League of New York State grant funding for a structural assessment of the house to determine to what extent the building, or its timbers, can be preserved for reconstruction at another site, the location of which has yet to be determined. In November 2020, the State Historic Preservation Office determined that the house is eligible for listing on the National Register

of Historic Places, which makes the property eligible for state grant funds. The town is currently awaiting for the decision on the grant funding.

According to the town, the north wing of the Peter Crippen House is believed to be Huntington’s first mill building built in 1658. In 1864, the home was purchased by Peter Crippen, an African American who was born a free person in 1809 on a plantation in Virginia and came to Huntington in the 1830s. Crippen was a prominent member of Huntington’s African American community, and in 1843, he was a founding member of the African Methodist Ebenezer Church in Huntington (currently the Bethel AME Church).

McGovern at the Jan. 8 press conference, said some of her early findings at the site included pieces of ceramics and glass, including a glass Vaseline jar dating back to the turn of the last century.

The archaeological study resumed Jan. 13, and pending weather conditions, will last approximately 4-5 days total, according to the town.

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Printed Forms & Mailers Will be received by the Purchasing Department, Huntington Union Free School District, Huntington, New York, at the Purchasing Office, Jack Abrams School, 50 Tower Street, Huntington Station, New York 11746 by 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, and then at said time and place publicly opened and read aloud. Information to bidders and bid forms may be obtained at the Purchasing Department Office, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The Board of Education, Huntington Union Free School District, Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, reserves the right to waive any informalities in or to reject any or all bids.

Joanne Miranda, District Clerk Board of Education Huntington Union Free School District Huntington, New York 030 1/14 1x thn LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF EDUCATION NORTHPORT – EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT 158 LAUREL AVENUE P.O. BOX 210 NORTHPORT, NEW YORK 11768 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District, Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk, New York, in accordance with Section 103 of Article 5-A of the General Municipal Law, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids from reputable and qualified companies for:

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General Instructions for Bidders, Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained at the same office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. beginning January 14, 2021 excluding weekends and holidays.

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All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope, clearly marked: BID # 21-113 – ART SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT. The Board of Education of the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District reserves the right to waive any informalities in or to reject any or all bids, or to accept that bid which, in the Board of Education’s judgment, is in the best interest of the School District.

Dated 01/14/21 Beth Nystrom District Clerk 033 1/14 1x thn BOARD OF EDUCATION NORTHPORT – EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT 158 LAUREL AVENUE P.O. BOX 210 NORTHPORT, NEW YORK 11768

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eral Municipal Law, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids from reputable and qualified companies for: BID # 21-110 ATHLETIC SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., prevailing time, Thursday, February 11, 2021 at the Administrative Offices, Purchasing Department, Room 215, 158 Laurel Avenue, Northport, New York, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

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General Instructions for Bidders, Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained at the same office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. beginning January 14, 2021 excluding weekends and holidays.

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All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope, clearly marked: BID # 21-110 – ATHLETIC SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT. The Board of Education of the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District reserves the right to waive any informalities in or to reject any or all bids, or to accept that bid which, in the Board of Education’s judgment, is in the best interest of the School District.

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P.O. BOX 210 NORTHPORT, NEW YORK 11768 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District, Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk, New York, in accordance with Section 103 of Article 5-A of the General Municipal Law, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids from reputable and qualified companies for: BID # 21-112 PHYSICAL EDUCATION SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., prevailing time, Thursday, February 11, 2021, at the Administrative Offices, Purchasing Department, Room 215, 158 Laurel Avenue, Northport, New York, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. If the Northport-East Northport UFSD is closed on the date of the scheduled bid opening due to inclement weather or other conditions, the bid opening will be held at the same time the next business day that the Northport-East Northport UFSD is open.

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Gardiner Foundation Awards Tide Mill Sanctuary Nearly $100,000 Van Wyck-Lefferts Mill is one of many local mills that dot this Island, each representing commerce, community devolvement and technology.”

According to the tide mill sanctuary, the grant will help to restore the earthen dam.

The nonprofit will also be able to install a new roof on the mill building and do interior structural repairs. This work is expected to be completed in the middle of this year.

“The mill is considered one of the best preserved 18th-century tide mills in the United States and is one of only 10 surviving examples of tide mills in the northeast from Virginia to Maine,” said Robert Hughes, tide mill sanctuary board member and Town of Huntington historian. “The funding from the Gardiner Foundation will help to ensure the continued preservation of this remarkable structure, which was built in 1797 and continued to serve local farmers for the next three-quarters of a century.”

In the future, the nonprofit also hopes to shore up the bulkhead, which protects the mill’s stone foundation, and to restore the bridge over the spillway that connects the north and south sections of the dam.

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM One of the oldest industrial buildings on Long Island is about to get an upgrade.

The Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill Sanctuary recently announced in a press release that the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation awarded it a grant of more than $97,000. The matching grant will go toward the restoration of the 223-year-old Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill in Lloyd Harbor and the dam where it is located.

The tide mill sanctuary is a nonprofit established to preserve and promote public access to the three and one-half story 18thcentury tide gristmill. Both the timber-frame wood tide mill and the 400-foot long earthen dam are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

“The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation’s mission is to advance Long Island’s regional history,” said Kathryn Curran, executive director of RDLGF. “All projects chosen to receive RDLGF funding each have their own individual impact, but mark a shared place in a larger story. The

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Obituaries Lucille Barretta Troll

Lucille Troll, 86, formerly of Elwood, died Dec. 6 at Gilchrist Center hospice in Howard County, Maryland, from complications of cancer.

Lucille, the only child of Millie and Thomas Barretta, was raised in Ozone Park where she studied classical piano but preferred playing popular music. At age 9, Lucille developed spinal meningitis and spent two and a half months in a coma. She was the only child in her grammar school to recover from the illness.

While attending John Adams High School, Lucille met her future husband, Frederick Troll, on a blind date. The couple enjoyed spending time with friends, going to Rockaway Beach and movie dates to receive free dishes on “dish night.” After high school, Lucille and her lifelong “sister,” Angelina (DeCecilia) Levi, worked as secretaries for the treasurer of National Railway Publication Co. in Manhattan. They remained close throughout their lives.

Fred and Lucille married in 1954 and moved to Elwood in 1958, where they raised four children Kathleen, Thomas, John and Richard. While her children were growing up, Lucille served as classroom and field trip mother, prom chaperone, Cub Scout den mother, Little League supporter, treasurer for the Ladies Auxiliary for Boy Scout Troop 125 Commack and served for 23 consecutive years on the Elwood Parent Teacher Association.

A proud Elwood citizen, Lucille served in a number of leadership positions in the Elwood Taxpayers Association, including multiple terms as president. Lucille represented the ETA in placing the annual Memorial Day wreath at the veterans monument at Elwood John H. Glenn High School. Lucille served as a key player in designing and erecting the “Elwood, the Heart of Huntington” sign that stands at the corner of Elwood and Cuba Hill roads. Lucille also supported her community by serving 35 years as an election official for primary elections votes, school budget votes and general elections. A devout Roman Catholic,

she never missed Mass, belonged to the Ladies Rosary Society and taught catechism.

Once her children were grown, Lucille served as a teacher’s aide at United Cerebral Palsy schools for 15 years before retiring to care for her mother. After her mother’s passing, Lucille joined Fred in becoming active participants at the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center (JASA) in Commack, where they published the JASA newsletter, Golden Times, and led a number of programs, such as the current events discussion group and organized events such as having the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation’s summer delegation entertain the seniors at the Y. For her many contributions, she was honored in 2007 as the Commack Y’s Woman of the Year.

Until their relocation to Maryland to be closer to their children last year, Lucille and Fred resided in Elwood for over 60 years.

They were active participants and longtime supporters in many facets of the Boy Scouts of America in Nassau and Suffolk counties and were frequently recognized for their many contributions. Avid travelers, Lucille and Fred enjoyed simple day trips, overnights in Atlantic City, visited Italy, Germany and England, cruised to Hawaii, Alaska, Nova Scotia and sailed the Mississippi on a riverboat.

Holy Mass of the Resurrection was held at St. Matthew R.C. Church, Dix Hills, Dec. 18 followed by internment at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Lucille is survived by her daughter Kathleen and her husband, Albert Free; their son John and his wife, Nancy; and grandchildren Christopher, Jennifer, Matthew, Emily and Jacquelina. Sons Richard and Thomas predeceased Lucille. Her loving husband of 66 years, Frederick, died Jan. 1. An obituary will be published in a future issue.

In lieu of flowers, the family asked that donations are made in Lucille’s memory to a favorite charity, to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Thomas Frederick Troll

Thomas Frederick Troll, the eldest son of Frederick and Lucille Troll, died Nov. 29 in Columbia, Maryland, at the age of 60 from

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Tom spent his childhood in Elwood and graduated from John H. Glenn High School.

Shortly after graduation, Tom enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he spent the majority of his service stationed at Hurlburt Field, Florida. After serving his country, Tom earned a Bachelor of Science degree in public accounting from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. Tom invested his career with multiple service industries and most recently as comptroller for Cloverland Farms in Baltimore, Maryland.

Tom was active in the Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved the rank of Life Scout in Troop 125 Commack and was an active member of the Order of the Arrow (Scouting’s National Honor Society). He completed his Wood Badge adult leader training as a member of the Owl Patrol in 1982. Tom continued to serve local youths as an adult Boy Scout leader while in the Air Force, and later on with his sons, throughout their time in Scouting.

An avid sports enthusiast, Tom enjoyed rooting for his favorite teams including the New York Mets, the New York Rangers, the Baltimore Orioles, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Washington Capitals.

Holy Mass of the Resurrection was held at St. Matthews R.C. Church, Dix Hills, Dec. 18, followed by internment at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Tom is survived by his sons Christopher Troll (Eagle Scout) of Dallas, Texas, and Matthew Troll of Durham North Carolina; their mother, Elizabeth MacLennan Troll of Durham, North Carolina; and daughter Jacquelina Troll and her mother (Tom’s fiancée and partner of 12 years) Jeannine Dunn of Columbia, Maryland. He is also survived by his sister Kathleen Free and her husband Albert Free of Ellicott City, Maryland; brother John Troll, his wife Nancy and their daughters Jennifer and Emily of Danbury, Connecticut. Tom passed away just days before his mother Lucille Troll and was preceded in death by his brother Richard Troll. His father, Frederick, died Jan. 1. An obituary will be

published in a future issue

Frank S. Cavagnaro, Jr.

Frank S. Cavagnaro, Jr., of Northport, died Dec. 10. He was 82.

Frank was the loving husband of Justine Cavagnaro. He was also the beloved father of Anna Cavagnaro, Angelina (Holger) Breckling, Andrew (Heidi) Cavagnaro and Victoria (Mark) Pozza; cherished grandfather of Sean (Meaghan) Travis, Casey Travis, Aimee Arreguin, Erica Breckling, Andrew Cavagnaro Jr., Marni Huffman, Devin Pozza, Noah Pozza, Jake and Jessica; and dear great-grandfather of Max Arreguin and Kyle Gleason. He was also loved by many nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Nolan Funeral Home in Northport. Visitation was held Dec. 14, and the funeral procession drove down Main Street in Frank’s beloved Northport Village toward Woodbine Avenue Dec. 15. All other services were private.

A. William Bozsnyak

A. William Bozsnyak of Huntington died Dec. 23.

He was a retired investment banker with Drexel Burnham and head of corporate bond trading with Goldman Sachs. He was also a proud United States Marine Corps Korean War Veteran.

William was the beloved husband of Jean. He was also the loving father of Lisa (the late Brian) Zydel, William (Beverly) and Stephen (the late Pamela); cherished grandfather of Christopher (Kelly), Taylor, the late Alex, Ian, Zachary and Nicholas; and devoted great-grandfather of Amelia.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Nolan Funeral Home in Northport. Visitation was held Dec. 27 and a funeral Mass Dec. 28 at St. Philip Neri Church, Northport. Interment followed with USMC Military Honors at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale. Donations to the National Kidney Foundation, www.kidney.org , in his memory, would be appreciated by the family.

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Two teams representing Thomas J. Lahey Elementary School achieved Highest Honors in the 2020-2021 “WordMasters Challenge,” a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually. The school’s fifth grade team scored an impressive 171 points out of a possible 200 in the first of three meets this year, placing third in the nation. In addition, the fourth grade team scored 186 points to finish fourth nationwide.

Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the challenge were TJL fourth grade students Dylan Basile, Claire Bernstein, Sophie Clayton, Aaron Hardy, Abigail Kelly, Elise Larson, Nora McCloskey, Charlotte Storm, Ariel Tripp and Emma Waldren. Each achieved outstanding results in the meet.

Fifth graders Pasquale Buffolino, Peyton McQuade, Rebecca Pashman and Lorelei Tripp were in the top 2% nationwide.

Additionally, fifth graders Ben Cammarota, Olivia Drew, Lucy Meindel, A.J. Mercuri, Michael Palermo, Belen Ramos, Annabelle Saylor and Charlie Smith achieved outstanding results, contributing to the team’s success.

The students were coached in preparation for the challenge by TJL Enrichment teacher Christine Mayr.

Each year, the WordMasters Challenge exercises students’ critical thinking skills and

Above, Dillon Heinzman; below, Maxwell DeBrino Photos from NENUFSD

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From left, Pasquale Buffolino, Lorelei Tripp, Rebecca Pashman and Peyton McQuade, pictured on the smartboard. Photo from HCSD

encourages contestants to become familiar with a set of interesting new words, considerably harder than their grade level. Participants are then challenged to use those words to complete analogies, expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.

“Having worked with these students before, and knowing full well their commitment to excellence, along with our work in the classroom, they were well prepared,” Ms. Mayr said. “As you can see from the results, they excelled and should be proud of their efforts.”

Both teams have already begun preparing for the second challenge scheduled for Feb. 22 and 26.

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Elwood senior named 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar Congratulations to ElwoodJohn H. Glenn High School senior Rithika Narayan who has been selected as a 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar, with her project titled “Machine Learning on CrowdSourced Data to Highlight Coral Disease.” Rithika is among 300 high school seniors who were selected as scholars from 1,760 applications.

The Regeneron Science Talent Search provides students with an opportunity to present their research on a national stage while celebrating the hard work of young scientists.

Rithika researched how machine learning, which focuses on the development of computer programs and artificial intelligence, can be

used to address environmental concerns. In this case she modified the Facebook algorithm, Mask R-CNN, to detect the presence of different coral diseases.

Her dedication to the project, which she began researching in summer 2019, has since earned her several noteworthy accolades. She recently won first place in Environmental Science in the 2020 Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, was named a 2020 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair finalist as well as a national delegate to the Junior Science Humanities Symposia Program.

Her project has also been recognized by the Journal of Emerging Investigators.

Rithika Narayan Photo from EUFSD

Rithika hopes that her research, which she is currently expanding upon to recognize other infectious diseases, can lead to industry advancements with the help of institutions like the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration.

Forty of the 300 scholars will be chosen as finalists later this month. Finalists will then compete for more than $1.8 million in awards from Regeneron.

This month, Northport High School senior Dillon Heinzman was honored with the Technology and Engineering Student of the Month award and fellow senior Maxwell DeBrino was honored as Science Student of the Month. Both students showed incredible passion for their respective courses and will be recognized during the Jan. 21 board of education meeting.

Dillon’s commitment to his technology and engineering courses was apparent throughout high school, having taken both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes as well as Project Lead the Way engineering courses. District Chairperson for Science, Technology and Engineering David Storch said, “Dillon’s diligence and tenacity in all his STEM courses exemplify his determination to comprehend complex and highly specialized concepts along with outstanding computer science and technological skills.”

Similarly, Maxwell DeBrino has had an impressive educational career, starting the school’s Trout Team and a co-captain of the school’s Science Olympiad team.

When describing Maxwell, Mr. Storch said, “he is a creative and inquisitive scientist who possesses a passion, commitment and sense of wonder when he is conducting experimental research.”

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Sports

Smithtown Rallies in Third Game

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Section XI in concert with the New York State Public High School Athletic Association approved the return of moderate to low-risk high school varsity competition which has been dormant since mid-March.

The Smithtown boys bowling team opened their season on the road against Northport in varsity bowling action at Larkfield Lanes Jan 12, and despite being edged out by the Tigers in the first two games, rallied in the third to squeak out a 17.5 to 15.5 victory.

Smithtown coach Rob Aplin said his boys never gave up — after dropping the first two games. He added that he was “very proud of the

way (his team) performed and is looking forward to a great season.”

Northport coach Chris Cascone liked what he saw with returning senior captain Jack Maldavir, pictured bottom center, who has averaged over 200 so far, along with teammate Andrew Becker, left center, who rolled a 251 in game two. Sophomore Aidan Kolbe rolled a 245 in the first game for a 670 triple along with junior Chris Lageraaen, lower right and top left, who finished with a 619-series complemented by a solid performance by 11th grader Justin Marques. Also pictured top right, Smithtown’s Kyle Perillo.

Northport who beat Half Hollow Hills the day before drop to 1-1 in the early going as Smithtown opens at 1-0 in League III. — Photos by Bill Landon

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Editorial

Letters to the Editor

An Open Letter to U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin

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Community Journalism Matters More than Ever

Not every publication out there is “Fake News.”

During last week’s insurgence at the U.S. Capitol, a photo — taken by a journalist — has made its way around social media, memorializing the words “Murder the Media” written on a wall inside The People’s House.

That’s disheartening to say the least.

Now more than ever, facts are important — whether you like us or not.

The fact that journalists, reporters and photographers down in D.C. are now sharing their stories about that Wednesday’s events — how they were attacked, name called, hurt and threatened — is a terrifying thought.

The media has always had a rocky relationship with readers. A lot of the time, many people don’t like what is being reported on or how it’s being said. That is something this field has dealt with since the first newsletter came out centuries ago.

But the last four years are on a different level. It’s a whole new battle.

There have been many times that reporters at TBR News Media were harassed on assignment, also being called “fake.”

We are your local paper. We are the ones who cover the issues in your backyard, who tell the stories of your neighbors that you live beside, and we showcase your children, whom you love, playing their favorite sports.

We aren’t commentators or analyzers, except on our opinions pages that are clearly labeled.

We are the eyes and ears of our community, and we do the heavy lifting when you have questions. We interview your elected officials and bring awareness to issues other larger papers or TV stations forget to research or mention.

How is that fake?

Now more than ever, we ask you to support what we have put our hearts and our livelihoods into.

Next time you might think that the media had it coming to them, just remember that those reporters who have been hurt and humiliated don’t come into your workplaces, breaking your equipment and ridiculing you for what you do.

We serve all the public and are proud to do so.

Letters … We welcome your letters. They should be no longer than 400 words and may be edited for length, libel, style and good taste. We do not publish anonymous letters. Please include a phone number and address for confirmation. Email letters to rita@tbrnewsmedia.com or mail them to The Times of Huntington and Northport, P.O. Box 707, Setauket, NY 11733.

Thank you for the revisionist email sent Saturday evening to your constituents (of whom I am one).

You wrote in response to last week’s President Donald Trump [R] planned and inspired insurrection. You tried to wrap yourself in the flag and to feign victimhood. You sought to shield yourself from your responsibility for what took place.

I, as a lifelong Republican — and a conservative one at that — hold you accountable for enabling, endorsing and abetting the president’s assault on our democracy. I hold you accountable for this last four years of Trump-led attack on the truth, and his Joseph Goebbels class promulgation of lies.

I hold you complicit in holding hands with ignorance and disregard of science in a march into darkness.

It is ironic that you may have found yourself in harm’s way during the assault on the Capitol. It is even more ironic that the systematic assault, supported by you, on the truth and our

democratic processes, however flawed, has driven America into the arms of the Democrats, who will now control the Congress and the executive branch of our government. I’m not at ease with that, but I am way more at ease with the Democrats’ stewardship than I have been of these last four years of demagoguery, totalitarianism and Trump’s attempt to destroy faith in the truth.

You say in your email that we have big challenges and “real disagreement.”

There are real disagreements to be sure.

Economic policy, defense policy, health care, social security, environmental policy, education and many others.

These are things about which reasonable people can differ. What is not a real disagreement is the outcome of the presidential election in which voters rejected Donald Trump while electing many Republican candidates, including yourself.

That Trump won is nonsense that no informed person can reasonably believe. You must renounce this lie.

Its persistence is a cancer on the body politic that will eat away at America and at democracy itself for years to come.

If we survive this — you acknowledge the future of our republic is precarious — it will be because our free press sheds light powerful enough to blot out the shadows cast by the president and his cronies, you among them. There is bias in the news media, sure enough, but there are many sources and, across the board, you can take the average and divine the truth. Your inexplicable adherence to the Trump narrative has increased the threat to our democracy.

One of the mantras of the last week has been, “This is not who we are.”

Unfortunately, it may well be who we are, gone from the worldwide promise of democracy and equal treatment to a bigoted, parochial and incendiary banana republic. Mr. Zeldin, answer the question: “Is that who you are?”

Timothy Glynn Setauket

Decision Time for Republicans My Republican fellow citizens, the time has come to finally choose for yourself between two mutually exclusive views of reality.

The first is that there was a nationwide conspiracy to steal the election from President Donald Trump [R], presumably involving hundreds of state and local election officials and workers, voting machine manufacturers and contractors, with 60-plus judges — many Republican or even Trumpappointed — inexplicably disregarding evidence of fraud in courts around the country. (And that despite successfully stealing the election for Biden, Democrats lost seats in the House and failed to avoid Senate runoffs in Georgia.)

That there was a conspiracy to accuse the Trump campaign of involvement with the Russian effort to influence the election, and that the 140-plus contacts with Russian nationals by Trump and 18 of his associates — which included

sharing internal campaign polling data — were innocuous. And that the investigation into those contacts, led by a Republican former FBI director, which indicted and convicted seven of those associates, was baseless.

That Trump didn’t withhold military aid to Ukraine to force an investigation into a domestic political rival, or threaten a Republican Georgia election official with prosecution if he didn’t falsify votes to change the outcome of an election — transcripts and tapes of these conversations notwithstanding.

That former President Barack Obama [D] wasn’t born in the United States and was able to run for president only thanks to a conspiracy to falsify his early history in Hawaii and Washington state, presumably involving state officials, schoolteachers and friends, dating all the way back to a fake birth announcement placed in a Honolulu newspaper in 1961.

The second view is that Trump was simply lying to you all along.

Not spinning, shading or selectively arguing the truth — which all public figures do — but outright lying to your face about nearly everything, big (COVID-19, election fraud) and small (his inauguration crowd, his wealth).

He told you things that felt good to hear, to feed his ego with your approval, and to benefit himself financially and politically. He never cared about you or any part of his constituency — rich or poor — or the country or even the Republican party.

To be healthy, American politics needs a viable, national conservative party made up of reality-based, true conservatives arguing in good faith for a principled agenda, not crackpot conspiracy-weaving Confederate cultists devoted to one individual. Last week clearly illustrated the predictable consequences of trying to have it both ways. The time has come to make a choice.

John Hover East Setauket

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper.

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Opinion

Comparing Life Now to the Beginning of the Pandemic

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or my family and me, the pandemictriggered life change started almost exactly 10 months ago, on March 13.

How different is the life we lead now from the one we led way back in March?

Comparing answers to the same questions then and now can offer a perspective on the time that’s passed and our current position.

Question: What do we do?

March 2020: Shut businesses down, encourage people to D. None stay home and track of the above everything. Talk about

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF where we are “on the curve” and hope that we can “flatten the curve” and reach the other side, allowing us to return to the lives and habits we used to know.

January 2021: Try to keep infection rates down and take measured chances in public places, while hoping officials allow schools, restaurants and other businesses to remain open.

Question: What do we eat?

March 2020: Pick up take out food whenever we can. Go to the grocery store and cook. Baking rapidly became a release and relief for parents and children, who enjoyed the sweet smell of the house and the familiar, reassuring and restorative taste of cookies and cakes.

January 2021: In some places, we can eat indoors. Many people still order take out or cook their own food.

Question: What do we do with our children?

March 2020: Overburdened parents, who are conducting zoom calls, conference calls and staring for hours at computer screens, face the reality of needing to educate their children in subjects they either forgot or never learned.

January 2021: Many students continue to go to school, even as the threat of closing, particularly in hot spots, continues.

Question: What do we do for exercise?

March 2020: People take to the streets,

order exercise equipment or circle the inside or outside of their house countless times, hoping to break free from their blinking, beeping and demanding electronic devices.

January 2021: Gyms have reopened, with some people heading to fitness centers and others continuing their own version of counting the number of times they’ve circled the neighborhood, with and without their dogs.

Question: What can we do about work?

March 2020: Many businesses close, asking employees to work from home.

January 2021: Many businesses are trying to stay open, even as others have continued to ask their employees to work from home, where they can talk on computer screens in mismatched outfits, with nice blouses and shirts on top and gym shorts or pajamas.

Question: What can we plan for?

March 2020: We cancel weddings, parties, family gatherings and all manner of events that involve crowds.

January 2021: We have learned not to make plans that are set in stone, because the calendar has become stone intolerant. We make plans

Freedom of Speech or Unlawful Speech

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t may have been the start of a new year last week, but life certainly hasn’t calmed down much. We are witnessing history in the making. Demonstrators who had traveled from all over the United States to Washington, DC last Wednesday turned from listening to President Trump rage to marching on the Capitol.

Once there, many broke into the building and caused vandalism, chaos and death. Thanks to instantaneous news flashes, we heard it and saw it Between happen, and now we are living through you and me the consequences.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF One of the consequences is bans of certain accounts by social media, led by Twitter and Facebook.

Is that censorship? Is that an assault on our Freedom of Speech enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution?

A simple way to offer an answer is to take you into the world in which community newspapers and media operate. As you know, we are the ones who report on the news closest to our daily lives, the events and issues that concern us here in the villages and towns where we live, send our children to school and most of us work. We report comprehensively on local people, local politicians and local businesses that would otherwise be overlooked by the bigger dailies and networks. We are the watchdogs on behalf of the local citizenry.

Here are the rules by which we must publish: While we print opinions as well as facts, opinions must be clearly labelled as such and are usually confined to two or three pages specifically designated for Letters to the Editor and Editorials. We also publish pieces called “Your Turn,” or “Our Turn,” again as opinion or analysis. Everyone has a right to their opinion, and the publisher has a right to its policies about those articles and letters. Our policy is to publish opinions in as balanced a way as we are sent submissions, subject to libel and good taste.

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Libel rules are more straightforward than good taste, which is, of course, subjective.

But here is the bottom line: publishers have the final say in what they publish because they are private, not governmental enterprises.

Freedom of Speech, which specifically prohibits censorship by the government, does not apply to us. Decisions made by private businesses on what to publish are not First Amendment issues. And those decisions may reflect any number of concerns that may affect the company: financial considerations, the environment in which the publisher operates and whether the publication is an avowed partisan or an independent one.

We, for example, are an independent news media company, supporting neither major party unilaterally but rather our own sense of merit.

We are responsible for the accuracy of the facts in our stories. Do we sometimes err? Of course. When we make a mistake, our policy is to print a correction in the same place that we ran the error, even if that’s on the front page.

When we run ads, by the way, we are also responsible for the facts in them — although not the advertiser’s opinions, which still are subject to considerations of libel and good

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuise MANAGING EDITOR Rita J. Egan EDITOR Rita J. Egan

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

and contingency plans.

Question: What do we do for entertainment?

March 2020: We secretly binge watch TV shows, although we don’t share our indulgences.

January 2021: After we ask how everyone is doing, we regularly interject questions about the latest TV shows or movies.

Question: What do we notice in the supermarkets?

March 2020: Toilet paper and paper towels are hard to find.

January 2021: Toilet paper and paper towels are generally available, but we may only be allowed to buy two packages. The cost of paper goods and other items seems to have risen.

Question: Do we let our children play sports?

March 2020: Almost every league in every sport shut down, following the lead of professional teams.

January 2021: Youth leagues have restarted.

Question: What’s a cause for optimism?

March 2020: We believe in flattening the curve.

January 2021: The vaccine offers hope for a return to a life we used to know.

taste. And when we run political ads, we must print who paid for the ad in the ad itself. When it is a group under a generic name rather than an individual, we must have on file the names of the executive officers of that group and those must be subject to review by any member of the public.

Do we have the legal right to refuse an ad or an opinion or a misstatement of facts?

As a private company, we do. Further, just as it is against the law to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there is none because that is not protected free speech, we have the civic responsibility to vet misstatements and untruths. And while we consider our papers safety valves for community members to let off steam with their strongly held opinions, we do not publish just to add fuel to a fire.

Twitter and Facebook and the rest who consider themselves publishers of news and not just telephone companies also have a responsibility to the public.

That, of course, raises another issue. Do we want so much power in the hands of a few high tech moguls, whose messages instantly circle the world? Or should they, like us, be subject to regulatory control?

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