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February 10, 2022

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Huntington clerk to perform Valentine’s Day 2022 marriage ceremonies

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Huntington Town Clerk Andrew Raia will be performing his annual Marriage Ceremonies as the Town’s Marriage Officer on Valentine’s Day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Feb. 14, by appointment in the Town Board Room at Huntington Town Hall, 100 Main Street, Huntington.

“Love is in the air once again at Huntington Town Hall this Valentine’s Day,” Raia said, who took his marriage ceremony marathon on the road last year due to the closure of Town Hall for COVID-19. “It is an honor and a privilege to join two people in a lifetime of love and commitment and it’s the part of my job that is the most heartwarming.”

Mr. Raia will perform ceremonies from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Town Board Room by appointment; there is no charge to the couple for the ceremony and their guests are welcome to attend the reception.

To make an appointment, call the Town Clerk’s Office at 631-351-3216 or email araia@huntingtonny.gov.

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Town Clerk Andrew Raia, above, Town of Huntington Marriage Officer, at the February 2020 Valentine’s Day Marriage Ceremony Marathon. Photo from Town of Huntington

place after 24 hours issuance of a marriage licenses; vow renewals do not require a waiting period. For more information about marriage ceremonies in Huntington, visit www.huntingtonny.gov/marriage-licenses.

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Nature

Foxes don’t pose a danger to humans

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM When foxes are spotted in a neighborhood, residents may wonder if the animal poses any danger to them or their dogs and cats or if they have rabies because they’re out in the daytime.

However, experts say seeing foxes out during the day doesn’t necessarily indicate rabies.

“Generally, foxes are most active at night or during twilight, however they can be active at other times of day when food demands are higher such as needing to conduct additional foraging to feed young,” according to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials. “During the winter months, foxes may be more inclined to hunt during the day, so a sighting in daylight hours is often not an indication of a sick animal.”

The DEC added that foxes should be viewed at a distance while they are searching for their necessities.

“If foxes are being sighted near residential homes it is probably because some resource need is being met, i.e., shelter, such as under decks or sheds, access to food, where rodents or other natural forage are located.”

Janine Bendicksen, curator and director of wildlife rehabilitation for Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, said sometimes a person may see a fox circling. This is a result of people who feed them, which is not a good idea as they begin to depend on humans for food. Because of this dependency, when a fox sees a person, they begin circling in anticipation of being fed.

“The fox is definitely more afraid of you than you are of it,” she said. “Foxes have what they love to eat. They love to eat mice. They love moles, rats, and won’t necessarily go after your cat or dog. Could they? Absolutely. But chances are they’re going to be more afraid of the dog than it is of them.”

While people don’t have to worry about their dogs and cats if foxes are spotted, they do have to keep an eye on their chickens.

Bendicksen said people who find that foxes get into their chicken cages need to house the birds in an enclosure that is completely fox proof because the animal can get to the chicken easily if there are any substantially sized holes.

Fox population

Bendicksen said there hasn’t been an uptick in the fox population necessarily, but with more people at home during the pandemic, she believes more residents have noticed them than they did in the past. Even the number of calls they have received about injured wildlife, in general, have increased over the last couple of years, she said, as people are spending more time outdoors.

The fox population is a cyclical one. When it’s a good summer and they can get more than adequate amounts of food, she said, in turn, the animals have many pups.

However, this can result in overpopulation and the foxes get mites, which cause the contagious disease known as mange. The foxes can die from the disease. When another good

summer comes along, the population can grow again.

“The population does go up and down based on food and based on the disease that keeps them in check,” Bendicksen said.

Recently, the nature center saved a fox with mange when a resident found him curled up outside their front door.

“He would not have survived the winter,” the wildlife director said. “We literally got him just in the nick of time. His hair just started to fall out. His eyes were just starting to shut. He would have died Tod the fox is currently recuperating from mange at Sweetbriar of secondary infections Nature Center in Smithtown. Photo from Sweetbriar and starvation had he not come in.”

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Bendicksen said foxes are difficult to catch, shy, super careful, and so to catch a sick fox, and they have to be extremely sick for a person they have to be in pretty bad shape,” she said.

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Over the last month, the pandemic trends continue to improve in Suffolk County and in the country.

After a rocky start to the New Year, brought on by an omicron variant that was more contagious than either the original strain of the virus or the delta variant, the percentage of positive tests in Suffolk County continues to decline.

As of Feb. 7, the percentage of positive tests over a seven-day average in Suffolk County was 4.9%, according to the New York State Department of Health. That is down from 14% on Jan. 21 and 27% on Jan. 7.

The trends on Long Island are following similar patterns in other parts of the world that experienced the omicron infection earlier.

South Africa “experienced the omicron wave first,” Dr. Gregson Pigott, health commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, wrote in an email. “Almost as steeply as cases rose, they fell.”

Indeed, at Port Jefferson’s St. Charles Hospital, Dr. Sunil Dhuper, chief medical officer, said there has been a “significant” drop in the number of patients hospitalized and in the number of Emergency Room visits, while the use of monoclonal antibodies to treat patients in the early stages of an infection has also dropped dramatically.

“We are not seeing the kind of volume we were seeing a few weeks ago,” Dhuper added.

The Department of Health for the country reported that the reinfection rate, which reached a peak in the last week of December and first week of January, has also been declining.

The number of hospitalizations throughout the country has fallen enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joseph Biden (D), recently said in an interview with the Financial Times that the country is almost past the “full-blown” pandemic phase.

While he didn’t offer a specific timetable, he suggested that virus restrictions could be lifted within a matter of months.

Area doctors suggested that vaccinations and more mild symptoms among those who contracted the virus helped alleviate the strain on the health care community.

“The vast majority of those hospitalized for respiratory or other COVID-type illnesses have not been vaccinated,” Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, explained in an email.

While the overall number continues to decline, the county, and the country, need to make continued progress in reducing the overall infection rate before the all-clear signal.

Sean Clouston, associate professor in the Program in Public Health and the Department

of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, suggested that the current number of infections still leaves room for improvement.

A positivity rate above 5% which was the figure earlier this week, is “still extremely high,” Clouston explained in an email. “Currently, the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] would recommend that no one in the globe travel to Long Island, which doesn’t seem like we ourselves see this as safe objectively.”

Health care providers highlighted the difference between the reported and the actual infection numbers.

When the pandemic started in March of 2020, Dhuper estimates that the ratio of reported to actual cases was close to 1 to 10. With Delta, that number likely dropped to closer to 1 to 5, and with omicron, that’s probably about 1 to 3 or 4.

With the increase in at-home testing, the numbers “we see are more of a sampling, showing the approximate prevalence of COVID-19 virus circulating in the population,” Pigott explained.

Nachman added that Stony Brook is following guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when it comes to vaccinations for people who tested positive for COVID-19.

These public health authorities generally recommend a booster dose after people feel well, which is usually 10 days to two weeks after an illness.

Doctors said they are monitoring a new version of the omicron variant, called BA.2 The new variant seems a “bit more” contagious” than the original omicron, Dhuper said. Vaccines, however, have a “reasonable level of protection to prevent hospitalizations and death.”

Dhuper said he continues to “keep an eye” on that variant.

Nachman suggested that the available vaccines continue to help.

“Right now, the [two omicron variants] do not seem to be radically different,” she suggested, as both have a short incubation period and people are protected by the vaccine.

With the number of people contracting the virus and developing more severe symptoms declining, Dhuper said the demand for the effective monoclonal antibody treatment continues to fall.

Dhuper said a recent New England Journal of Medicine study indicated that the antiviral treatment remdesivir, manufactured by Gilead Sciences, was effective at treating mild to moderate illnesses on an outpatient basis over a three-day period.

“Given under controlled conditions, (remdesivir) could be one of the best alternatives that we have,” Dhuper said.

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County

Police, public safety urge residents to keep their car doors locked

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Over the course of the last year, North Shore residents have gotten relaxed or forgetful when it comes to locking their car doors.

For example, Fred Leute, chief of Port Jefferson’s code enforcement, said that over the past month, village code has been receiving calls about people rummaging through open vehicles.

He said that right now, thanks to Ring camera footage, they have seen three separate people on camera trying to open car doors.

“They’re looking for loose change or cash,” he said. “They’re checking for open doors — not even looking inside.”

Leute said this can be prevented.

“Lock your doors,” he said. “Double check.”

And while the village experienced these incidents over the last few weeks, he said that this problem isn’t confined to just one area.

“We’re aware of what’s going on,” Leute said. “It’s happening all over.”

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Police Department said several North Shore hamlets have reported thefts from motor vehicles. These numbers cannot verify if a car was unlocked or not.

From January 2021 until this Jan. 22, there have been 111 reported thefts from a motor vehicle in Old Field, Poquott, Port

Jefferson, Rocky Point, Selden, Setauket and Stony Brook.

Old Field and Poquott had the least amount, with just two each in the fall, while Selden experienced 46 thefts — the most happening in July, August and December of last year.

Port Jefferson reported 10, 13 for Rocky Point, 17 for Setauket and 21 for Stony Brook.

These numbers also do not include thefts of parts from the vehicle like tires or catalytic converters.

But along with small thefts from inside easy-toreach cars, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said during a recent press conference that eight cars were stolen across Suffolk County in one week — Dec. 19 through Dec. 23.

“Many victims of vehicle theft not only leave their cars unlocked, but they leave key fobs in plain sight, either on the passenger seat, the driver’s seat or in the cup holder,” Bellone said during the Dec. 23 Hauppauge press event. “This allows car thieves to easily enter the vehicle and take off.”

Huntington and Smithtown officials criticize Hochul’s accessory dwelling unit proposal

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Local elected officials are joining forces to tell Albany that their towns and villages will not lose zoning control.

During her State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) spoke of creating more affordable housing options. When the 2022 State of the State book was released, the proposed plan, found on pages 130 through 131, stated that it would require all towns and villages in New York state to allow accessory apartments, which in turn would effectively eliminate single-family zoning laws.

The proposed plan spurred Town of Brookhaven officials to call a press conference Feb. 3, while others have spoken out via statements. The proposed legislation would require municipalities to allow one accessory dwelling unit using backyard cottages, attics, garages and basements.

The plan is one that the State of the State describes as providing “an affordable multigenerational housing option that helps families live closer together.”

While local municipalities would still have a say in minimum and maximum size requirements, local zoning authorities would not be able to prevent reasonable new construction, the governor said.

Huntington

In the Town of Huntington, accessory apartments may be allowed when someone listed on the deed resides at the dwelling. The living space cannot be less than 300 square feet or more than 650 square feet and must have two bedrooms or less. The accessory apartment must be attached to the home.

Supervisor Ed Smyth (R) is against Hochul’s plan.

“This is an election year overreach by the governor that no one in their right mind should support,” Smyth said. “It has bipartisan opposition at all levels of government for good reason: It would eliminate local control of development and hand it off to extremists in Albany.”

At press time, Huntington announced they would be part of a county press conference on Feb. 10 to comment further on the issue.

Smithtown

In the Town of Smithtown legal accessory apartments with a valid mother/daughter permit from the Building Department are the only ones permitted with limited exceptions including older two-family homes that were grandfathered in.

Rules differ in the town’s villages.

Town of Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) said in a statement he fears stripping local zoning control “would only result in a mass exodus.”

“The harsh reality is that Long Island, especially Suffolk County, lacks the modern

infrastructure to handle the population increase which this proposal would create,” the supervisor said. “The environmental impacts alone should terrify every Long Islander. We have outdated wastewater systems underground, roads in major need of repair, archaic stormwater infrastructure and in the near future will have nowhere to put our trash. These are the issues that require resolution from the state, not removing local zoning control.

This proposal will create a strain on the school system, increased property taxes, amplify traffic and burden local resources which are already stressed. Furthermore, people move out to the suburbs because the perception of the American Dream is still that quaint neighborhood home, picket fence and all, where they can raise a family.

As public servants, it’s our duty to preserve and protect that dream.”

In Head of the Harbor, Mayor Doug Dahlgard echoed the sentiments.

“Taking away local zoning control with a broad brush is not acceptable and will be met by opposition claiming the character of our communities will change for the worse,” the mayor said. “Starting a conversation about how to allow generations of a family to stay together on Long Island, on the other hand, makes sense.”

Wehrheim agreed that the issue of affordable housing needs to be discussed and would welcome a task force consisting of local, county and state officials using proven studies and

incorporating successful methods that could create affordable housing options in appropriate areas such as a downtown business neighborhood near a train station.

Congressmen support local officials

Town officials have received moral support from their congressmen. U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) in a press release criticized Hochul.

Suozzi will run in the Democratic primary for governor in June against Hochul “Governor Hochul’s radical proposal would take away zoning control from municipal governments, erode local government authority and end single-family housing across New York,” Suozzi said. “Hochul’s plan to eliminate home rule is not what we need. I support affordable housing, building up around downtown train stations and helping the homeless. I oppose eliminating home rule and ending single-family housing.”

The presumptive Republican nominee for New York State governor, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (RNY1) said in a joint statement with Brookhaven officials that Hochul “isn’t focused on real solutions.”

“This blatant attack on suburban communities will end single-family housing as we know it, strip local control away from the New Yorkers who live there, tank the value of their homes, overcrowd their previously quiet streets, and on top of it all, not do anything to solve our affordable housing problem,” Zeldin said.

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The following incidents have been reported by the Suffolk County Police.

Commack

■ A resident on Tamarack Street in Commack reported that his 2019 Acura ILX was stolen from his property on Feb. 1. The vehicle was valued at $30,000.

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■ A resident on Huntsman Lane in Commack reported that a catalytic converter was stolen from a 2004 Honda on Feb. 2.

■ A resident on Atlas Way in Commack reported that their car was broken into on Feb. 1 and a ski jacket, ski goggles and speakers were stolen. The value of the items was approximately $850.

■ A resident on Tamarack Street in Commack called police on Feb. 1 to report that his 2020 Acura MDX valued at approximately $40,000 was stolen from the driveway.

Dix Hills

■ A resident on Truxton Road in Dix Hills called police on Jan. 28 to report a wallet stolen from an unlocked vehicle on their property.

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■ Suffolk County Police Major Case Unit

detectives are investigating a robbery that occurred at an Elwood bank on Feb. 4. A man entered TD Bank, located at 1941 Jericho Turnpike, at approximately 3:55 p.m., and verbally demanded money from the teller.

The teller complied and the man fled the bank on foot. The man was described as white, wearing a knit cap, dark jacket, light pants and a face covering.

Greenlawn

■ A resident on Jamaica Avenue in Greenlawn called police on Feb. 2 to report that a catalytic converter had been stolen from his 2005 Honda Accord.

Huntington Station

■ Macy’s at the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Station called police on Feb. 2 to report that a man allegedly stole a necklace valued at approximately $4100.

■ Management at Walt Whitman Mall reported a man allegedly stole a Caterpillar Skid Steer from the parking lot in the back of the mall on Jan. 31. The loader was valued at approximately $60,000.

■ Target on East Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station called police on Jan.

Do you recognize this man? Photo from SCPD

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Second Squad detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly stole approximately $4,300 worth of cash and electronics from a Cellaxs Phone Repair kiosk at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington on Jan. 23 at approximately 10 a.m. The man has a life and death tattoo on his left forearm.

31 to report that a man allegedly stole two KitchenAid stand mixers valued at approximately $860.

■ Home Depot on New York Ave. in Huntington Station reported a petit larceny on Jan. 29. Two men allegedly stole $965 worth of electrical wire.

West Hills

■ A resident on Sparrow Lane in West Hills reported that a car pulled up in front of their home at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 2 and the driver stole assorted mail from their mailbox. A resident on Sheridan Street in West Hills called police at 3:45 p.m. on Feb. 2 to report the same crime.

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS.

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LEGALS Notice of formation of Humble Healer LLC. Arts of Org. Filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 26, 2021. Office location: Suffolk County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: 14 Rasmussen Place, Melville, NY 11747.

Purpose. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of D Four Solutions LLC filed with the Secretary State of New York (SSNY) on 12/22/2021. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: PO Box 14, Commack, NY, 11725 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION: EMJAYCO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/3/2022. Office loc.: SUFFOLK COUNTY. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to LLC c/o LAW OFFICES OF JAMES P. CLARK, 256 MAIN ST., #202, NORTHPORT, NY 11768. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Madisen Belle LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/04/22.

Office: Suffolk County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to Registered Agents Inc. at 4 Dryden Way, Commack, NY 11725.

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To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED P A S S - T H R O U G H C E R T I F I C AT E S SERIES 2005-RS9,Plaintiff, -againstDIANE MAROTTI; THEODORE MAROTTI A/K/A THEODORE P. MAROTTI; NEW YORK STATE COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; CLERK OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY TRAFFIC & PARKING VIOLATIONS A G E N C Y, Index No. 611890/2018. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 20, 2020 and entered with the Suffolk County Clerk on February 26, 2020, Donna Bogursky-Loturco, Esq. the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 35 Ormond Street, Dix Hills, New York 11746 at public auction at Huntington Town Hall, 100 Main Street, Huntington, New Yo r k 11743, on February 28, 2022 at 4:00 P.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk and State of New York known as District: 0400 Section: 278.00; Block: 02.00; Lot: 125.000 & 126.000 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 611890/2018.

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Notice of formation of Matt Savoca LLC, Articles of Organization filed with SSNY 01/19/2022. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to agent for service of process, Matt Savoca, 5 Ocean Ave Northport, NY. 6619 1/27 6x thn

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, SUFFOLK County.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA THE BANK OF NEW

At an IAS, Part 33 Supreme Court, held in and for the County of Queens, at the Courthouse located at One Court Street, Riverhead,

New York 11901, on the 19th day of January, 2022.

PRESENT: HON. KATHY G. BERGMANN ------------------------------------------------------------------X Index No. 600904/2022 MARJORIE ILLUM, Petitioner, -againstCENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE, representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., Respondents.

------------------------------------------------------------------X ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Upon reading and filing the annexed Petition of MARJORIE ILLUM verified the 13th day of January, 2022, and Petitioner having duly moved for an ex parte order pursuant to CPLR Sections 315 and 316 for leave to serve the Petition in this action on Respondents, CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., upon the grounds that, after diligent search, they cannot be located, the affirmation of MICHAEL G. LEAVY, ESQ., attorney for Petitioner, together with Exhibits, and it appearing that Respondents CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., cannot be located after diligent search; AND IT APPEARING to the satisfaction of the Court that Respondents CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., cannot be located after diligent search; LET Respondents, CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., and the

Clerk of Suffolk County, SHOW CAUSE before this Court at the IAS Part 6, to be held at the Courthouse, One Court Street, Riverhead, New York on the 29th day of March, 2022 at 11:30 am in the forenoon of that day or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard why an order should not be made by this Court canceling and discharging the mortgage made by MARJORIE ILLUM in the sum of $54,300.00 dated June 30, 1987 and recorded in the office of the Suffolk County Clerk on the 30th day of July, 1987 in Liber13153, Page 267 of Mortgages; and directing the Suffolk County Clerk, in whose office the said mortgage has been recorded, to mark the same upon his records as canceled and discharged, and further ordering and directing that the debts or obligations secured by said Mortgage be canceled; NOW, on motion of Michael G. Leavy, Esq, attorney for Petitioner, it is hereby ORDERED that, pursuant to CPLR 316(a), the Petition in this action shall be served on Respondents CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.,, by publishing the same together with a notice by a brief statement of the relief sought by this action and a legal description of the subject property in the THE LONG ISLANDER and THE TIMES OF NORTHPORT, such newspapers being in the County in which such property is located and being most likely to give notice to said Respondents, once in each of four successive weeks, the first such publication to be made within thirty (30) days after the granting of this Order, and on or before the day of the first publication that the Order To Show Cause, Petition; and it is further ORDERED that proof of service shall be filed with the Clerk within sixty (60) days from the date of this Order, and it is further ORDERED, that service of a copy of this Order, together with the Petition upon which the same is based, be made upon the Suffolk County

Clerk on or before the 1st day of March, 2022 by personal service, and said service upon all the foregoing shall be deemed good and sufficient service thereof.

E N T E R __________________________ HON. KATHY G. BERMANN J.S.C. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK ------------------------------------------------------------------X Index No. 600904/2022 MARJORIE ILLUM, Petitioner, -againstCENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE, representing any unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., Respondents.

VERIFIED PETITION ------------------------------------------------------------------X To the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk: The Petition of MARJORIE ILLUM respectfully shows to this Court: 1.

Petitioner MARJORIE ILLUM was at all times hereafter mentioned a resident of the State of New York County of Suffolk, but now resides in Southbury, Connecticut.

2. Respondent, CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. was, at all relevant times herein, upon information and belief, a banking corporation authorized to do business in the State of New York.

3. Respondent, CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. was, upon information and belief, dissolved in 1998.

4. Respondents, JOHN DOE and JANE DOE are named herein as co-respondents to represent any unknown successors in interest to Re s p o n d e n t , C E N T U RY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. 5. This action is brought pursuant to Article 19 of the RPAPL, to discharge an open mortgage of record affecting the real property described in the Petition.

6. MARJORIE ILLUM was, at

all times relevant hereto, the owner of premises 235 Bellerose Avenue, East Northport, NY 11731, which property is designated on the Suffolk County Tax Map as Section 85, Block 2, Lot 40.001. Referred to herein as “the Subject Premises”.

7. Petitioner entered into a contract to sell the Subject Premises to Elizabeth A. LaPosta and James Aguirri on November 24, 2020.

8. The title report, run by Intracoastal Abstract, Title number ORT-023090MWS, in connection with said sale revealed an open mortgage with defendant, CENTURY MORTGAGE CO., INC., in the amount of $54,300.00, which mortgage was dated June 30, 1987 and recorded in the office of the Suffolk County Clerk on July 30, 1987 in Liber 13153, Page 267 of Mortgages. A copy of the relevant mortgage page of the title report is annexed hereto as Exhibit “A”.

9. At the closing of title on the sale of the subject premises held on February 4, 2021, Intracoastal Abstract held the sum of $5,000 in order to clear the open mortgage referred to hereinabove.

10. Petitioner re-financed her mortgage with CHAMPION MORTGAGE CO., INC. on June 27, 1996 and with the proceeds from that re-finance, she paid in full the outstanding principal to CENTURY MORTGAGE CO., INC. at that time. See copy of Truth In Lending Disclosure dated June 27, 1996 from said re-finance closing annexed hereto as Exhibit “B”. However, no Satisfaction of Mortgage was ever recorded.

Petitioner has been unable to obtain any paperwork from CHAMPION MORTGAGE CO., INC. as they, too, upon information and belief, are out of business.

11. It was only recently, after she entered into a Contract of Sale to sell the subject premises that Petitioner learned, by virtue of the title search, that the subject mortgage remains open of record.

12. Due to the extensive lapse of time, Petitioner has no records of the final payment of the mortgage.

13. Petitioner retained the services of FasTrax Title

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Long Island artists demand to be recognized

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Long Island Arts Alliance is asking artists, performers and creators to share their stories amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lauren Wagner, executive director of LIAA, said that over the last two years, the group has been asking creatives to share the experiences pre-pandemic and onward in hopes that new legislation will be created to further help the art and culture sector locally.

“The percentage of job losses in the arts is three times worse than other nonprofit organizations,” she said.

LIAA serves as an alliance of and for the region’s not-for-profit arts, cultural and arts education organizations.

LIAA promotes awareness of and participation in Long Island’s world-class arts and cultural institutions in both Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Formed in 2003, LIAA offers leadership and diverse support services to arts organizations, serves as an advocate for arts education in our schools and collaborates on strategies for economic development and community revitalization.

An advocate for artists, painters, sculptors, dancers, performers and musicians, Wagner added that when things were shut down two years ago, LIAA decided it wanted to reach out to its community to find out how people were handling the stressful changes.

That’s when LIAA came up with surveys to give a platform for creators to explain what’s going on in their lives.

“The surveys are to poll everyone’s status,” Wagner said. “Then, we use those numbers to go back to our new legislators and say, ‘Hey, this is what’s going on and we need help.’”

Most recently, a 2022 update has been posted to the LIAA website. This is the third survey to make its way around the arts community.

The survey states, “As COVID-19 extends into 2022, it is important to secure updated information about the continuing impact of the pandemic on the creative sector and creative workers. The information you provide is critical to advocacy efforts for the arts and culture sector across Long Island.”

Wagner said the more creatives who participate, the better.

“Artists/creatives were — and remain — among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce,” she said. “The arts are a formidable industry in the U.S. — $919.7 billion (pre-COVID) that supported 5.2 million jobs and represented 4.3% of the nation’s economy.”

She added that they have not seen significant relief funding earmarked for the arts from the local government despite the impact the sector has on the local economy.

“The American Rescue Plan provided $385,003,440 to Nassau County, $286,812,434 to Suffolk County, and an additional $170

Thomas Manuel inside The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook. Photo by Julianne Mosher

million to our local townships,” she said.

But when it comes to the higher levels of government, Wagner said that things often get “skewed” because of the Island’s proximity to New York City.

“I hate to say compete with the city, but we do,” she said. “We’re a great economic driver on Long Island and we get forgotten about.”

She said the surveys could “paint a real picture of what it’s like to be an artist on Long Island.”

The artists

Patty Eljaiek, a visual artist from Huntington Station, said that many people might not realize the impact art has on the community — especially financially.

“I think it’s part of the perception that art is not a business,” she said. “Art is a business.”

Elijaiek added that if an artist is looking to share their expertise with the world, they are, in fact, a business.

“Art has been something that people appreciate but they don’t know how to put value to it,” she said.

Wagner agreed. She said that early on during the pandemic, people looked to the arts for solace.

“Artists are second responders,” she said.

“First responders save lives, but artists put everything back together.”

Alex Alexander, a musician in Rocky Point, said that people who work in the arts — such as being a working musician — don’t have the typical 9-to-5 routine.

“You can plan with a 9-to-5,” he said. “I can’t plan my life as other people would.”

And Tom Manuel, executive director of The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook and a musician himself, said that his venue was shut down for 15 months throughout the pandemic, but still continued to serve its community with outdoor shows despite the lack of revenue coming in.

Manuel said that while big industries were being saved by the federal government, the nonprofit sector was “left out” and they had to look to their sponsors to help save them.

“We were really blessed in that we had a lot of our donors and sponsors step up and say, ‘Hey, we know that you’re closed, but we’re going to

still give our sponsorship and don’t worry about programming, just stay open,’” he said.

Board members at The Jazz Loft began raising money themselves for other artists who were struggling, raising nearly $20,000 worth of assistance.

But the pain and struggle were still there as they helped their peers.

“The statistics show of all the things that could close and not reopen, the most unlikely place to reopen after being shuttered is a performing arts venue,” he said. “That’s the data.”

Manuel said that jazz is all about improvisation — which is what musicians did — and to work through the blues.

“I think that one of the beautiful things that did come out of the pandemic is people realized how important the arts were to them,” he said.

“I think there was a reconnection that was established, which is a beautiful thing.”

Artists can participate in LIAA’s survey until Feb. 16 online now at longislandartsalliance.org.

“People don’t realize this is their livelihood on the line,” Wagner said.

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 71 Clearing, which firm specializes in locating mortgage companies or their successors in order to have mortgage satisfactions executed and recorded. After nearly 4 months of searching, FasTrax informed Petitioner’s counsel that they were unable to obtain a release of the mortgage due to the fact that “The original note holder, Century Mortgage Co., Inc. dissolved in 1998.” A copy of the letter from FasTrax dated May 21, 2021 is annexed hereto as Exhibit “C”.

14. Petitioner is unable to secure a satisfaction of mortgage due to the fact CENTURY MORTGAGE CO., INC. or its successor in interest, cannot be located.

15. No previous application for the relief prayed for herein has been made. An Order to Show Cause is requested for the reason that such an order is authorized and required under Section 1921 of the Real Proper ty Actions and Proceedings Law under which these proceedings are instituted.

W HEREFO RE, Petiti oner prays for an Order to Show Cause why an Order should not be made by this Court: (a) Directing that service of the Petition and Order To Show Cause be made pursuant to CPLR 316(a) shall be made upon Respondents, CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. and JOHN DOE and JANE DOE representing unknown successors in interest to CENTURY MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.; (b) cancelling and discharging the mortgage in favor of defendant CENTURY MORTGAGE CO., INC., its successors and assigns, in the amount of $54,300.00, which mortgage was dated June 30, 1987 and recorded in the office of the Suffolk County Clerk on July 30, 1987 in Liber 13153, Page 267 of Mortgages and directing the said Clerk of Suffolk County in whose office the said mortgage has been recorded, to mark the same upon his records as cancelled ad discharged; and (c) for such other and further relief as to this Court is deemed proper and just.

Dated: January 14, 2022

To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com Relief Sought By this Action ___________________________ MICHAEL G. LEAVY, ESQ. Attorney for Petitioner LEAVY & COOGAN-LEAVY, PLLC 70 Main Street, Suite 301 Huntington, NY 11743 (631) 673-7555 mgl@leavylaw.com

VERIFICATION STATE OF NEW YORK) ss.: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK)

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MICHAEL G. LEAVY, ESQ., an attorney duly admitted to practice law in the Courts of the State of New York, affirms the following to be true under the penalties of perjury: 1. I am the attorney for the Pe t i t i o n e r, MARJORIE ILLUM. 2. I have read the annexed Petition and know the contents thereof and the same are true to my knowledge except those matters therein which are stated to be alleged upon information and belief, and as to those matters, I believe them to be true. My belief as to those matters therein not stated upon knowledge is based on the files maintained in my offices.

3. The reason that this verification is made by your affirmant and not by the Petitioner is that Petitioner resides in a County other than that where my offices are maintained.

Dated: Huntington, New York January 14, 2022 __________________________ MICHAEL G. LEAVY, ESQ. Description of Premises: 235 Bellerose Avenue, East Northport, NY 11731 All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City and State of New York, listed on the County of Suffolk on the Suffolk County Tax Map as District 400; Section 085; Block 2.00; Lot 40.001.

Brief

Statement

of

Petitioner seeks to discharge a mortgage in the amount of $54,300.00 given to Century Mortgage Company, Inc., dated June 30, 1987, which mortgage was recorded against premises 235 Bellerose Avenue, East Northport, NY in the office of the Suffolk County Clerk on July 30, 1987 in Liber 13153, Page 267 of Mortgages.

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Notice of formation of Golden Crane LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Sectary of State of New Yo r k ( S S N Y ) o n 12/22/2021. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and is directed to forward service of process to 629 Pulaski Road, East Northport, NY, 11731. Purpose: Any lawful act.

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SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & mail process to 125 Catherine Street, East Northport NY 11731. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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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: BID # 22-110 ATHLETIC SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., prevailing time, Thursday, March 10, 2022 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.

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 February 10, 2022 excluding weekends and holidays.

Bid proposals must be presented on the standard bid form in the manner designated therein and as r e q u i r e d b y t h e specifications. All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope, clearly marked: BID # 22-110 – ATHLETIC S U P P L I E S A N D 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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LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF EDUCATION NORTHPORT – EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT 158 LAUREL AVENUE P.O. BOX 210 NORTHPORT, NEW YORK 11768 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 # 22-114 ATHLETIC APPAREL Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., prevailing time, Thursday March 10, 2022, 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.

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 February 10, 2022 excluding weekends and holidays.

Bid proposals must be presented on the standard bid form in the manner designated therein and as r e q u i r e d b y t h e specifications. All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope, clearly marked: BID # 22-114 – ATHLETIC APPAREL.

Dated 2/10/22 The Board of Education of Beth Nystrom

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Obituaries Brian Clermont

Brian Clermont, a longtime resident of Eaton’s Neck, passed away on Feb. 5 a the age of 80. He was the beloved father of Devin (Megan) Clermont, Kathleen (Mark) Bartley, Brian Clermont Jr, and the late Meredith Ann; the cherished grandfather of Michaela and Brian; and dear brother of the late Norman. Visiting hours are Feb. 10 from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Nolan Funeral Home, 5 Laurel Ave, Northport. A funeral Mass will be held on Feb. 11 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Centerport. Interment to follow the same day at St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Huntington.

Donations in Brian’s memory to National MS Society, PO Box #91891, Washington, D.C. 20090 or www.nationalmssociety.org/Donate would be greatly appreciated.

Herman Karl Kretzschmar

Photo from John W. Engeman Theater

John W. Engeman Theater donates $35,000 to local food pantry

On Feb. 8 co-owners of the John W. Engeman Theater Richard T. Dolce and Kevin J. O’Neill presented a check to the Ecumenical Lay Council Food Pantry of Northport at the First Presbyterian Church of Northport with money raised in support of the Food Pantry.

Following each performance of “White

Christmas,” cast members collected donations for the food pantry. In total, $35,000 was collected during the run of the 2021 holiday production.

Co-owner and Managing Director Kevin O’Neill stated that this fundraising effort represents an ongoing commitment to give back to the communities of Northport

Harborfields School District

Celebrating Chinese New Year at Washington Drive First graders in Marie Fenter’s class at Washington Drive Primary School in the Harborfields Central School District celebrated Chinese New Year on Feb. 1 with a visit from English as a New Language teacher Erin May, who provided a Chinese New Year lesson including a read-aloud and crafts. One of Fenter’s students, who is Chinese, wore a new dress and shared her red envelopes, explaining the meaning of both to her classmates.

“Since the children are involved in nonfiction reading and writing, this was a perfect opportunity to share the Chinese culture and customs that surround the New Year,” Fenter said.

Photo courtesy of Harborfields School District

and greater Long Island. This is the eighth year that the Engeman Theater has raised funds for the Food Pantry and the First Presbyterian Church of Northport, which hosts the Food Pantry. To date, the Theater has donated over $214,000 to the First Presbyterian Church & the Ecumenical Lay Council Food Pantry.

Herman Karl “Dutch” Kretzschmar of East Northport died on Feb. 6. He was the beloved husband of the late Helen; loving father of Karl Kretzschmar, Kurt (Patricia) Kretzschmar and Kathleen (Salvatore) Kretzschmar-Dovi; and devoted grandfather of James, Andrea, Gustavo, Karen, Michael, Steven and Julia. Funeral service was held on Feb. 9 at Nolan Funeral Home, with Rev. Msgr. Peter C. Dooley, officiating. Interment followed at Genola Rural Cemetery, East Northport.

Daniel W. Boccard

Daniel W. Boccard of East Northport passed away on Feb. 4 at the age of 74. He was the loving husband of Elizabeth F. Boccard; beloved father of Daniel (Lorraine) Boccard III, Christine (Tom) Oliva, Michael (Amy) Boccard, Bryan (Jodie) Boccard, Lori Boccard, Kathryn (Scott) Ward, Jonathan (Jenny) Boccard, Brenden (Brittany) Boccard, and the late Stephen Thomas Boccard; cherished dearly by his 18 grandchildren; and dear brother of Richard (Susie) Boccard, Fred (Sue) Boccard, Thomas (Joann) Boccard, William (Susan) Boccard, John (Maryann) Boccard, Ruth (Michael) Holt and Dianne (Patrick) Valiando.

Funeral service was held at Nolan Funeral Home, 5 Laurel Avenue, Northport on Feb. 8 with a funeral Mass held on Feb. 9 at St. Anthony of Padua Church, East Northport. Interment followed at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Huntington. Donations in Dan’s memory to Alzheimer’s Association, 300 Broadhollow Rd., Suite LL100, Melville, NY 11747 or www.alz.org are appreciated.

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Sports

Northport girls indoor track and field team takes home county championship

Northport

Northport High School’s first girls indoor track and field team county championship in over a decade was secured last weekend thanks to the combination of senior Allison’s Reid’s big wins and an overall team effort.

Allison secured championships for both the 1,000- and 1,500-meter races, inching out teammate Emily Wickard in the 1,500. Additionally, sisters Emily, Mia and Finnley Wickerd took home second in the 1,500-meter race, first in the 3000-meter race and second in the 3000-meter race, respectively.

Junior Katie Hayes has also Allison Reid. been a delight to the team and placed third in the 1,500-meter. Senior Olivia Jaworski showed her sprint skills by placing third in the 300-meter and 4x4 relay and Lianna Greenstein keeps getting better and stronger to help contribute to the team score. Teammates Karen Stehlik and

Jamie Inzerillo also helped the team score in the 4x4 relay.

“We are fortunate enough to have a small group of talented athletes who could score in the top 6 at the Large School Championship meet,” said head coach Beth Zebuth. “Coach Cantwell has done a nice job in working with the distance runners, who scored many of the points on Sunday. It was fun to watch them compete and come together as a team.”

“This is an unbelievable accomplishment,” said Director of Health, Physical Education & Athletics Mark Dantuono. “The members of our girls winter track and field teams are truly dedicated, as they are often training outside in tough climate during the winter months. Our coaches put an enormous amount of time in preparing them and that is evident in the success they have achieved this year.”

John Glenn

Elwood-John H. Glenn High School’s girls winter track team finished fifth overall in the county championships, held Feb. 6 at Suffolk Community College West Campus in Brentwood.

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Senior Sofia Condron, above, won both the 600-meter and 1,000-meter races, while junior Emily LaMena placed first in the 3,000-meter race and third in the 1,500-meter.

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Helping people: It’s an art

When people look back to spring 2020, they remember how the COVID-19 pandemic shut things down. Zoom became a regular form of communication, visits to grandparents were done in a drive-thru fashion and many people anxiously awaited their stimulus checks.

While those checks from the U.S. government were sent, some people needed the money more than others.

Many people lost their jobs, their businesses and their livelihoods. In fact, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in February 2020 — just before the pandemic hit the States — unemployment was at 3.5%. Just two months later, as the virus began to spread rapidly, unemployment rates skyrocketed to nearly 15%.

But what many people might not realize is how impacted the local arts were during this time.

We as a society leaned on our first responders out in the trenches. We listened to our elected officials on the news every day hoping to hear something good. We shopped locally to help our business-owning neighbors.

However, something that we all enjoy one way or another — the arts — was shattered and not much was being done to help our local artists, performers and creators.

According to Johns Hopkins University research, as of December 2021, the percentage of job losses at nonprofit arts organizations remained more than three times worse than the average of all nonprofits.

Artists/creatives were — and remain — among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce. The arts are a formidable industry in the U.S. — $919.7 billion (preCOVID) that supported 5.2 million jobs and represented 4.3% of the nation’s economy.

And now, nearing two years since the 2020 shutdowns, artists on Long Island are voicing how it felt. Many believe that significant relief funding was not given to the arts and related nonprofits despite the impact they have on Long Island’s economy.

Think about it. How many of us love to see a show at the local theater? How many of us hang artwork from nearby artists on our walls? How many of us enjoy live music as we dine at our favorite eateries?

Those people had jobs, too.

Sometimes we forget that the people working after a typical 9-to-5 shift are working, too. What some may call a hobby is a way of life for thousands of people.

We still have a way to go, and unfortunately COVID will haunt us for a very long time in more ways than one. But the next time you’re out to dinner with a friend, drop a tip in the guitar player’s case. Splurge on a drawing from a local artist and support your neighborhood theater.

The arts helped us during the pandemic. We found solace in other people’s creations. Now it’s time to pay back the artists and show them how much they are needed, wanted and loved.

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own.

They do not speak for the newspaper.

Letters to the Editor A second ‘big lie’

In Jim Soviero’s recent letter [“Cheering informed parents voting for change,” Village Times Herald, Jan. 20] he appears to push a second “big lie”: Communists, disguised as competent, dedicated if Democratic-leaning educators — who wish our children harm — have stolen our schools to inculcate Marxism and race hatred.

Soviero’s “informed” parents have not astutely uncovered secret lists.

They — and countless Republican legislators — have received slanted extracts of public documents, usually featuring Toni Morrison, Alice Waters and James Baldwin, from the usual deeppocketed right-wing sources like the Koch brothers. In his long letter, Soviero does not name a single author, title or targeted age group. With some chutzpah, he cites one school board that introduced a Marxist attack on the nuclear family even as it rejected “uplifting stories from Condoleezza Rice [R]” and none other than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Trumpers have called the children’s book, “Heather Has Two Mommies” by Lesléa Newman with illustrations by Diana Souza, an attack on the nuclear family. God knows what King story Soviero meant. This MLK Day, Jan. 17, Republicans gave much lip service to one hopeful King comment that people be judged on their character not color.

Yet during his lifetime, King was vilified as a Communist by the entire right wing for forcefully opposing the Vietnam war and promoting workers rights as well as human rights — he was murdered in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting striking sanitation workers. King advocated nonviolence but, like Gandhi, it was a disruptive, civil disobedience nonviolence. I don’t think Soviero had in mind King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” On MLK Day, King’s son was marching in Washington, D.C., pleading publicly with Sens. Joe Manchin [D-WV] and Kyrsten Sinema [D-AZ] to support the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, knowing that not a single Republican would vote for the acts.

“Condoleezza Rice” is a nice curveball, Jim. She’s the talented, whipsmart adviser and then secretary of state to President George W. Bush [R].

But it would be dishonest to omit her crowning achievement: She conspired with Vice President Dick Cheney [R] and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [R] to get the United States to attack Iraq in 2003 on the basis of totally false claims that Iraq president, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass

destruction. (The poison gas and other weapons the U.S. gave our then-favorite dictator for his almost eight-year war against Iran — and the Kurds — were long gone after Desert Storm, as our government well knew and as the U.N.’s Scott Ritter and Hans Blix told the rest of us.) The war cost thousands of American lives, thousands with PTSD and at least $1 trillion so far. We didn’t count Iraqis — we left Iraq at the mercy of the Islamic State group. An ironic coda, the Rice-Cheney-Rumsfeld trio induced Gen. Colin Powell (R), the first Black secretary of state, to humiliate himself in a U.N. speech in which he repeated the lies, some of them disproved overnight. As he told the British newspaper, The Guardian, two years later, it was a still-painful blot on his career. Not too “uplifting.”

Finally, the “informed” people Soviero has in mind, no doubt, include “The Long Island Loud Majority” and “Save Our Schools” Trumpers of Smithtown, who vociferously oppose both COVID-19 mitigating policies (“mask tyranny!”) and any mention of Black Lives Matter.

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

The American crisis

“These are the times that try men’s souls” opening sentence from “The American Crisis” written by Thomas Paine, and first printed in pamphlet form in December of 1776. In a later writing by Paine, he described that he wrote that first and subsequent pamphlets in what he called “a passion of patriotism” after “seeing the deplorable and melancholy condition the people were in, afraid to speak and almost to think, the public presses stopped, and nothing in circulation but fears and falsehoods.”

Fast forward to today, bringing Paine — who had previously authored “Common Sense” — in a time machine to the present. He would so eloquently describe the “American crisis” which we are experiencing today with history repeating itself: People “afraid to speak” for fear of repercussions; “and almost to think” (for themselves); “the public presses stopped” (censorship); “and nothing in circulation but fears and falsehoods” (media suppression of the truth).

He would surely have noted that most Americans possess the “common sense” to realize that today’s lamestream media doesn’t cover the facts — they cover them up. He would also be visibly upset, I’m certain, by the lack of “a passion of patriotism” by the so-called progressive (leftist/ Marxist) movement, for example, and be utterly confused as to why they chose that name when their agenda is anything but progressive.

Paine would be totally baffled as to why modern religious organizations among our midst would elevate their martyred alleged criminal (George Floyd) to hero status, while not protesting the senseless murders of police officers (real heroes) with the same vigor. In his time, all known facts from both sides of a conflict were communicated from the pulpit to a mostly illiterate congregation. Several members of church congregations today are blinded from the truth due to the spewing of disinformation and outright lies from the media, touting “racism” based on an incurable case of Trump Derangement Disorder (unfortunately, a terminal mental condition).

Paine wouldn’t be able to comprehend the fact that so many Americans reelect politicians who do nothing for their constituents, instead enriching themselves and their families with American citizen taxpayer dollars.

He would be absolutely livid that today’s Department Of “Justice,” the Supreme Court and others in our government aren’t looking into the facts regarding the real “insurrection” which took place on Nov. 3, 2020. A treacherous act which subsequently placed a puppet king, one of the aforementioned career politicians, in our White House and one who is worse than King George III. Paine was with the Continental Army when he witnessed the extreme suffering and ultimate sacrifices of those who helped to create our country.

He would be in a state of disbelief while witnessing those who are attempting to destroy our country today.

Once again, “these are the times that try men’s souls” indeed. Let “common sense” raise your awareness.

Art Billadello East Setauket

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BY DANIEL DUNAIEF incredible and floats above everyone else in the store, but the other customers see her floating.

“Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Nope, it’s just another person who ate the trippy chocolate bar that lets them float to the ceiling!”

Then there are all the ads for medical products that could cure something, but that have such severe side effects that the risks may not be worth the cure.

“We might cure your hiccups,” the ad suggests, “or we might cause you to have such trouble breathing that you should stop taking our medicine and see a doctor.”

That brings me to the ad for Truist.

Have you seen their ads, with the pile of soft stuff that looks like an old collection of the stuffed animals my children used to win at boardwalk games or receive for birthday presents?

This pile of soft things rolls along, helping people by recovering hats that blow off at the beach, bringing a spare tire to a man stuck on the side of the road, or delivering a flower to a

girl waiting on a bench with her mother.

Being the OCD parent that I am, I would probably say to my daughter, “Don’t take anything from a blob that’s been rolling on the filthy street!”

I imagine the idea for the rolling blob that cares could have originated in a number of ways.

“George” might have forgotten that he needed to come up with an ad while he was racing to wake his daughter for school. Seeing the pile of stuffed animals he was supposed to help clean up in her room, he thought, “Hmmm, if I throw this in my car, it’ll look like I cleaned up and maybe I can use it as a part of my work.”

Once he arrived at the office, he threw the stuffed animals on the table, hoping he wouldn’t get fired and, just as importantly, that he didn’t lose any of her treasured toys.

Or, perhaps, “Andrea” couldn’t sleep the night before she had to present an idea. At

3:21 a.m. she watched an old western. There, in between the John Wayne dialog and the crescendo to a gunfight, she found inspiration.

Rolling across the screen was the ubiquitous tumbleweed.

“That’s it!” she thought, as she imagined Tumbleweed 2.0, the modern version of an iconic image of the Old West. Instead of a collection of dried out grass, the modern Truist Tumbleweed (at that hour, alliteration is awesome!) is composed of soft, plush stuffed animals. And, instead of being indifferent to the plight of the people it passes, the Truist Tumbleweed cares, lending a stuffed animal hand.

“George” and “Andrea” may have moved on to other jobs. Or, thinking outside the box, they may have gotten a promotion. They could use some of that extra money to buy risky remedies or trippy chocolate. And, hey, if they have any problems, the Truist Tumbleweed is ready to show it cares.

and social media this week. We certainly love our pets, maybe because they can’t talk. And they are unfailingly loyal and forgiving. Well, dogs, are. I’m not so sure about cats. In some cases, we regard them almost as our children.

A carpenter of undetermined ethnicity, who was doing some work in our house, once pointed to our golden retriever and proclaimed, “In my next life, I want to come back as an American dog.”

We love our true friends, those who are there to prop us up when we fall as well as those who share our good times. We can also genuinely love our teachers. A caring teacher can make a profound difference in the direction of a child’s life. For example, my sixth grade teacher, in an unexceptional neighborhood elementary school in New York City, stayed after hours, for a few weeks, to coach half-adozen of us so that we might pass a citywide test for an exceptional junior high school. Two of us did, and to this day I love that woman, though after that year, I never saw her again.

We can love members of our clergy, who are predictably there for us with advice at critical times and with solace at times of

deep loss. Yes, that is their job, but some do their jobs beyond measure. We can love our doctors, who take an oath to watch over our health, but again, some are deeply caring. For these people, we are more than grateful. They love us, and we love them back.

We can love the natural world around us, a world that is filled with songbirds and butterflies, squirrels and foxes, wild turkeys and seagulls to delight the senses. We love the first sight of crocuses announcing the beginning of spring and the early flowering magnolia trees.

If we are lucky, we can truly love our jobs. For us, they are more than a source of livelihood, more even than a career. They are a calling. They propel us out of bed in the morning and often are the subject of our last thoughts as we go to sleep at night. They coax out the best in us and provide us with unique satisfaction.

Finally, we need to love our lives.

Sometimes to do so takes re-contexting and perhaps re-adjustment. That love seems like a worthy goal.

The many loves of our lives

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aybe it is a Hallmark holiday, but with St. Valentine’s Day approaching, love is definitely in the air. Perhaps Chaucer started it with his poetry about Valentine’s Day in the 14th century.

There have been many iterations since. At the least, it’s a time to reflect on the loves in our lives. And there are many. Let us count them together.

Saint Valentine’s Day has traditionally been associated with romantic love, as Between you and me people—give each other

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF material declarations of their affections.

These start with cards, some of them originally composed and handwritten, others store bought and ceremoniously delivered. Red roses are the usual accompaniment and perhaps even generous amounts of chocolate. All of that helps to endure a cold winter’s day and night. It certainly helps

the local economy.

So many other loves exist, some of them deeply in our hearts. The love we bear for our children makes for family bonding. It has been said that if children loved their parents as much as parents love their children, the human race would end because the children would never leave their homes. From the marvel at first sight of those tiny fingers and toes to the day we walk them down the aisle to start their own families, we love them, disregarding all the aggravations that happen in between. For most, this is an indissoluble love.

And yes, most of us truly love our parents, the mother who taught us to read, the father who taught us to swim. We go from thinking they are all-knowing demigods to wondering if they are the stupidest humans on earth, and ultimately to respecting them for all they have given us despite their various shortcomings.

We are awed by their indestructible love for us and at the same time acknowledge that they are but human.

We have been impressed with the number of entries for our Love My Pet section that is running in the newspapers and on the website

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