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Work Continues on Boutique Hotels in Huntington, Northport

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Plans are moving forward, adding two new boutique-style hotels to the Town of Huntington — the goal being to bring people to both Huntington village and Northport.

George Tsunis and Rosario Cassata, developers with Huntington Village Hotel Partners, worked alongside the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency to approve a plan that will remodel the old Huntington Town Hall building into a Hampton Inn & Suites.

Anthony Catapano, executive director of the IDA, said the 110-year-old historic structure has become a vacant space over the last 10 years, so utilizing the property into something that can bring business downtown, he thinks, is exciting.

“The area has a tourism aspect,” he said.

“The new owner is experienced in hotel operations and will be able to manage it. I think it will be a successful endeavor and a plus to downtown Huntington.”

Located at 227 Main St., the outside facade will not change.

“The 80-room hotel will be built in the back, and the front will be meeting rooms,” he said. “It will still keep its original look.”

Catapano added that the empty building is accruing $60,000 each year in property taxes, so the inn will bring plenty of incentives, and people, to the town.

“It will encourage visitors to use the amenities in the village,” he said. “The hotel itself will become a destination.”

A Hampton Inn will turn the old Huntington Town Hall into a boutique hotel. Rendering by Huntington Village Hotel Partners LLC

Catapano said the construction process will take about 18 months.

“Originally it was set for the second quarter of 2021, but because of COVID it’s looking like it will probably spill into 2022,” he said.

“It’s starting to gear up. Hospitality and the hotel business have been hit hard because of the pandemic.”

As of right now, workers began gutting the space and cleaning up asbestos. Catapano said the building’s developer is looking forward to bringing a change to the village.

“He’s very eager,” he said. “He’s from

Huntington and wants to make a positive impact.”

Town of Huntington Supervisor Chad Lupinnaci (R) is supportive of the boutique hotel.

“The addition of a hotel will bring a muchneeded dimension to the overall downtown Huntington experience,” he said in a statement.” With a concert venue right in the center of the village, along with the numerous shops and restaurants, visitors can now have a place to stay for a mini-vacation right here.

This is great for the local economy and will be sure to make Huntington even more vibrant in the years to come.”

A little more than five miles away in Northport, a smaller hotel is being built.

Developed by John W. Engeman Theater owners Kevin O’Neill and Richard Dolce, a 24-room hotel, Italian steakhouse and bar is being developed at 224 Main St. right across the street.

“Northport is a beautiful harbor town,” O’Neill said. “People who come and visit here will ask ‘Where is the local inn?’”

The Engeman Theater brings roughly 110,000 people to the village every year, which obviously didn’t happen in 2020 because of the COVID-19 crisis.

O’Neill said construction also needed to be halted when the pandemic hit.

“We’re building later than I wanted,” he said. “We’re hoping for a fall 2021 completion.”

At the end of 2015, he purchased the building across the street from his theater. His goal was to bring “a combination of an old beautiful building with something modern inside.”

Now that people are starting to get more comfortable, O’Neill said construction has resumed.

“The inn will be a way to get people here on a year-round basis,” he said. “We’re looking forward to it.”

Although, compared to the old Huntington Town Hall hotel, it will be built completely new, he said, but the Northport Hotel will have “real old-world charm.”

“There used to be hotels on Main Street 100, 125 years ago,” he said. “I want it to feel like it’s 100 years old, with modern amenities.”

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Report: Half of Bays in LI Sound Are Looking at Major Issues

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

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

Officials and experts revealed that, of those monitored, Suffolk County North Shore harbors were largely better off than those in Connecticut, Volunteers for the Setauket Harbor Task Force have monitored the health of Port Jefferson Harbor for the past three years. Photo by Kyle Barr but several still had issues. Port Jefferson, at least ends in October. The study also looks at the general health the outer and middle portions of the harbor, was ranked in the top 10 most healthy, with experts saying it state of the Sound itself. It’s long been clear that the most likely has to do with how well the harbor flushes daily. closer one is to New York City, the less healthy the water Meanwhile sites like Northport and Centerport is. The Western Narrows portion of the Sound received harbors were ranked C- and C respectively. Northport an F grade on all marks, while the Eastern Narrows, Harbor received a F grade for its excess of chlorophyll, which runs from Northport to the edge of Hempstead a measurement of how much microalgae is in the water, Bay, received a C grade overall. Areas to the east were and its low level of dissolved oxygen, an important factor reported as much healthier in general.

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

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

The Setauket Harbor Task Force was one of the most active of the 22 U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) and Lee Zeldin (R- increase in nitrogen. groups involved with Save the Sound and its bay water recording initiative.

“They just have this large nitrogen burden coming in NY1) were both present to offer their support of bipartisan The immense amount of work is taken up by a squad of volunteers, some funding for this and future studies as well as initiatives to that’s not being flushed out,” she said. “In systems like of whom have been active during the May through October months of the keep local bays clean. Suozzi said in the past four years, that, really pushing down that nitrogen load is important.” last three years.

Nitrogen has been called public enemy No. 1 for the Long Island Sound Caucus has extended the EPA The Setauket Harbor Task Force originated as a way to monitor the Long Island Sound program to 2023 and increased the coastal waters as it’s the leading cause of hypoxia, health of what they considered the lone “orphaned” bay on the North Shore, $4 million appropriated to the Sound to $21 million. The namely low or depleted oxygen causing major problems but their activities eventually spread over the border into Port Jefferson House has already passed a bill to up that to $30 million, for marine life. This can cause fish or other sea creatures as well. While the task force originated in 2015 to help maintain the local to die off and lead to an excess of seaweed or algae. but has not yet been taken up by the Senate. waterways’ wellbeing, in 2018 the group joined the United Water Study Zeldin said the low grades of so many bays only Some of these algal blooms have even been dangerous to program under the EPA’s Long Island Sound Study, and since then has done emphasizes the need for more federal funding for further animals or humans. monitoring in 10 different locations in Port Jeff and Setauket harbors.

Though Port Jefferson Harbor’s general health was studies and additional relief.

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

George Hoffman, a co-founder of the Setauket often these blooms have appeared since the early 2000s.

“With climate and environment, there’s so little that most people can do,” he For some of the struggling bays in the Town of Harbor Task Force that monitors Port Jeff, also said. “Every day you read about a new thing — ice shelves melting, whales being acknowledged a great deal of why the bay has done Huntington, New York State Sen. Jim Gaughran beached … I find when I talk to volunteers, it’s just being able to do something.” comparatively well is because of its flushing capacity. (D-Northport) called for a funding stream from the Every participating organization must take readings of the water twice a Another factor, he said, may be the hundreds of federal government on down that can really start to make month, no less than 10 days apart. Because monitoring must be performed thousands of oysters and shellfish the Town of a dent in Suffolk County’s lack of sewage treatment three hours before sunrise, volunteers are up well before dawn, getting into Brookhaven seeds into the bay. The shellfish do a great facilities and get the ball rolling on nitrogen-reducing the small craft and wading out into the harbors. Their recording instrument, septic systems, which individually can cost a homeowner job of filtering organic particulates from the water. a sonde meter that records all manor of water quality metrics, costs close Save The Sound’s Unified Water Study program $10,000 to $15,000 apiece without government funding. to $20,000.

“People can’t do that on their own — we need tax includes 22 organizations covering 50 harbors on both PJ HARBOR MONITORING Continued on A6 sides of the waterway. Monitoring begins in May and credits, we need funding,” he said.

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Steve Antos, one of the task force board members, also owns Setauket Landscape Design.

Though he and others in his group have lived in the area for decades, the idea of water quality has really taken a hold on many of its participants.

Antos enjoys constructing rain gardens in his regular job, which are critical for preventing water runoff flowing from people’s yards down toward the Sound.

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

Before working with the task force, many of the 10 or so volunteers wouldn’t have known what most of the readings, from the chlorophyll levels or turbidity (the water clarity) meant, but now have become a kind of citizen scientist, able to comprehend measurements using a very technical device. Their backgrounds range from a retired veterinarian to retired teachers, but what brings them together is their long time proximity to the bays and waterways of the North Shore. It’s what drove them to want to make sure the water was being maintained.

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

Nancy Goldstein, herself a trained scuba

diver, got into the project thanks to a friend and has been active for three years.

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

Bert Conover, a retired veterinarian from Port Jeff, said he has always been on the water “from Delaware River to Ocean City.” Long ago, he majored in chemistry and biology, but went to grad school for zoology and then went on to veterinarian school.

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

Alice Leser has lived in Stony Brook for 49 years, and is a life-long Long Islander. She has taught programs about Long Island waters as a teacher and alongside fellow environmentalists at the Long Island Museum. When three years ago the task force offered her a training program at the Village Center, she snapped up the opportunity.

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

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

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

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

“Long Islanders are coastal people,” he said.

“I think what keeps us on Long Island is we all have a love for the water.”

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Pink Aid Long Island’s hugely popular Annual October Celebration of Life Luncheon & Fashion Show at Mitchells of Huntington has had to move to a virtual platform.

“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot be together at Mitchells this year but our virtual event will be crammed with as much pink passion, fashion & fun, celebrity appearances, auction packages and celebrations as in years past,” said Pink Aid Long Island President Rosemary Connors. “We urge you to gather your pod

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

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

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

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

The 12-year veteran was 48 years old.

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

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

who need them to come home, just like I needed my mom to come home to me that night.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Photos by Steven Zaitz. Vist www.tbrnewsmedia.com to see more photos from the event.

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Editorial

Letters to the Editor

Wedding Industry Needs Stop for Stopped School Buses: It’s the Law Room to Recover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like most elected officials, my friend and colleague Legislator Tom Muratore had a few issues that were especially close to his heart. School bus safety was one of them. He was responsible for having April 27 declared as “Operation Safe Stop Day” in Suffolk County to increase awareness of the dangers associated with passing a school bus illegally, and he established an annual school bus safety poster contest for elementary school children. In a heartbreaking loss for the Suffolk County Legislature, Tom passed away Sept. 8, but his advocacy for bus safety lives on.

Back-to-school season is here, and I want to remind everyone of the law when it comes to school buses on the road.

Motorists must come to a full stop when approaching a school bus that is stopped with its red lights flashing and stop arm extended. It does not matter whether you are approaching the bus from the front or are behind it — you must stop, even if you are across a divided highway or on school grounds. Flashing lights mean the bus is

picking up or dropping off students, who frequently must cross the street to reach their destination.

And yet, an estimated 50,000 cars illegally pass school buses every day in New York, according to the New York Association for Pupil Transportation. I watched it happen recently when I was putting my children on the bus. As a parent, I can attest to how horrifying it is to see someone’s reckless behavior put your child’s life at risk.

School buses transport more than 2.3 million children each day. Over the course of an average school year, children board or exit a school bus approximately 1.65 billion times. That’s more than a billion accidents waiting to happen if motorists ignore the law rather than waiting for the all-clear.

To stop drivers from engaging in this dangerous behavior, some school buses in Suffolk County will soon be fitted with cameras. If a motorist is captured on camera illegally passing a school bus,

the car’s registered owner will receive an automatic ticket. The fines will be $250 for the first offense, $275 for a second offense within 18 months, and $300 for any subsequent offenses within 18 months.

This school bus photo violation monitoring initiative was made possible through state legislation allowing counties to implement the program with school districts that choose to participate. So far, 22 of the 72 school districts in Suffolk County have signed on and 18 others are expected to opt in this month. The rest of the school districts are still reviewing the program, but we expect them to be on board as well. Districts could be fully outfitted as early as next year.

Let us all take the baton from the late Tom Muratore to help protect our most cherished resource — our children. Our message is simple: Protect our children.

Stop for stopped school buses.

Rob Calarco Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer

Finding an Accurate Reading of Voter Preference Vox Populi. Please leave your politics at the door. Enter with logic, math and honest opinions only. Thank you.

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

Former President Barack Obama [D], having 11 months remaining in office, was denied the process by the Republicans President Donald Trump [R], having a few weeks remaining in office, was approved by the Republicans to proceed with the process.

We have 100 senators, each with a six-year term.

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

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

The fact is — if facts still matter — is

that the 30 Senators who are up for reelection were voted in six years ago, in 2014, two years before Trump’s election.

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

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

Be honest.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

History Books Will Not Be Kind to Us “Give me your tired, your poor” concluding with “your huddled masses yearning to breath free, / the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these

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

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

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

Mary Stevenson Mount Sinai

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

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e are one of the loudest families on the block, and there are only four of us when we’re all home. Well, five, if you count the dog, and you should definitely count the dog.

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

Every neighbor of the above presents his or her

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

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

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

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

Who needs all that continuous fixing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

blow from a policeman’s rubber truncheon when she was 16 and participating in a street demonstration in the 1920s as Nazis and Communists brawled. It was enough to cause her to sign up with the Communists, who were the only ones apparently willing to shed blood in fighting the Nazis. She was further seduced by their promise of a workers’ utopia.

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

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

Are you hooked yet?

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

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

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

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

The reviewer delights in descriptions of

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

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

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

She died in Berlin in 2000 at age 93.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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