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Historic firehouses exhibit at the PJVC Also: Festival of One Act Plays at Theatre Three, ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ at the SCPA

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Going bald for St. Baldrick’s

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the Centereach Civic association kicked off the St. Patrick’s day holiday season on March 6 by raising nearly $30,000 for children’s cancer research. above, damien dickson, 7, of Centereach, breaks out into laugh as his head is shaved.

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Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn’s parkland legislation approved

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Romaine shifts focus to the environment Supervisor advocates for a sustainable town By erika karP

In his third State of the Town address, Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine went green, focusing on making Brookhaven a more environmentallyfriendly place to live. The emphasis on creating a more sustainable town deviated from past addresses in which Romaine (R) focused on the town’s fiscal stability. Romaine said that while the town’s efforts to boost its financial standing are far from finished,

there have still been improvements — like ending 2014 with a surplus — and now the town must do its part to address climate change. “In fact, protecting the environment and being fiscally prudent are not mutually exclusive,” he said Monday at Town Hall in Farmingville. In the coming weeks, Romaine said he would be putting forward an Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Initiative, as part of a five-year capital plan, with ROMAINE continued on page A9

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Brookhaven Supervisor ed romaine speaks about his stronger focus on protecting the local environment during his March 9 State of the Town address.

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Town officials go after illegal STAR exemptions By Erika karp

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Brookhaven’s tax assessor Jim ryan speaks about fraudulent STar exemptions at a press conference on March 10, flanked by Deputy Town attorney Dave Moran, Councilman Neil Foley and Tony Derosa of the Stony Brook Concerned Homeowners.

A 2012 state comptroller audit, which examined 731 mailing addresses with a STAR exemption, estimated that almost 19,000 improper exemptions could have been granted in 2010-11 statewide. According to Jim Ryan, Brookhaven’s tax assessor, property owners found to have an illegal exemption are subject to penalties such as a $500 processing fee to remove exemption, and the town can recapture any tax savings that the property owner benefited from. The monies would be returned to the school districts. In addition, interest charges can be applied to the money owed at a minimum

of 12 percent per year, and there is a protocol to forward complaints to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution. About 30 to 35 cases have been referred to the district attorney’s office over the years. “At the direction of the supervisor and in cooperation of all departments in the town, the assessor’s office will investigate and vigorously pursue all of these penalties to the maximum extent provided by law,” Ryan said. While officials said the crackdown is townwide, leaders from the Stony Brook Concerned Homeowners group, which advocates against illegal rental homes,

were present at the meeting. The 2-yearold group has been fighting overcrowded boarding homes, which are often occupied by Stony Brook University students, in the Three Village community. According to Romaine, the town has identified at least a dozen homes in the Stony Brook area that are receiving fraudulent STAR exemptions. Even though town officials are focusing on STAR exemptions, Ryan said the town wouldn’t ignore other improperly granted tax cuts if they are discovered. “As we find those, we will aggressively investigate and take whatever action is appropriate.”

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Town of Brookhaven officials announced on Tuesday that they are taking down property owners who are receiving illegal tax exemptions. At the forefront of the issue are School Tax Relief, or STAR, exemptions. The popular state program’s standard level, known as Basic STAR, is available to residents who have a household income of $500,000 or less. The home must be owner-occupied in order to qualify. However, according to Brookhaven officials, there are dozens of — if not more than 100 — homes in the town that receive the exemption even though the owners rent them out. “We are going to send a very strong message because everyone else who is entitled is paying their fair share,” Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said at a press conference. In May 2014, the town enacted a law that requires all entities, including banks, to notify the Brookhaven tax assessor after it takes over ownership of a property and is therefore no longer eligible for a tax exemption the previous owner received. If the entities don’t comply within 30 days of taking ownership, they could be fined up to $5,000. Shortly after Brookhaven passed the law, New York State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) introduced legislation that would require banks and financial institutions to notify local tax assessors about acquired properties if the previous owners qualified for a STAR exemption. The state administers funding to offset the exemptions. LaValle’s legislation, which is supported by Assemblyman Fred Thiele (D-Sag Harbor) in the state Assembly and has yet to go to a vote, does not address other exemptions, like veterans exemptions.

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Suffolk county Legislator Kara Hahn (d-Setauket) is hosting a free narcan training seminar later this month, with the goal of teaching local residents how to administer the drug that reverses opioid overdoses. at the comsewogue Public Library on March 31, starting at 7 p.m., community members will also learn how to identify an overdose and administer the lifesaving medication. The seminar will take place in the

community room of the library, located on Terryville road in Port Jefferson Station, and participants must be 18 years or older. Hahn said in a press release that the training is important “because it is often the family and friends of a victim who are first on the scene when someone is overdosing.” Those who wish to attend must preregister by calling the legislator’s office at 631-854-1650.

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State Senate strengthens sex offender laws By BarBara Donlon

Nine bills that aim to close loopholes in state laws protecting children and communities from sex offenders currently await action from the State Assembly, as the State Senate approved the bills last month. State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) sponsored seven of the nine bills that address critical issues regarding the safety of children. One of the bills would require the schools to notify parents about sex offenders living within the district. Another bill co-sponsored by Senator Michael Venditto (R-Massapequa) addresses a New York State Court of Appeals ruling relating to Nassau County. In that case, the court sided with a sex offender who completed his parole and moved within 500 feet of a Nassau County school. His actions complied with state law but violated a local residency restriction. The new bill enables local municipalities to respond to the needs of their community and create laws relating to sex offenders. Communities would be allowed to put additional restrictions in place, as long as they are not less restrictive than state laws. “I think the timing on this is important, we don’t want gaps,”

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Flanagan said in a phone interview. Another bill reduces the amount of time it takes to determine a convicted sex offender’s risk level, in an effort to make sure they are not released into the community without being designated, among other requirements. An offender can be labeled a level one, two or three. It is important for a risk determination to be made, as it determines if

the offender has a low, moderate or high risk of repeating the offense again, and it dictates how many years an offender must register with the state. Also, some laws apply to certain levels of offenders but not others. According to the New York Sate Sex Offender Registry, as of March 9, Suffolk County is home to 535 level-one, 305 level-two and 170 level-three offenders. There are currently 12 offenders without any risk

designation. In Suffolk County, the sex offender recidivism rate dropped 100 percent from six cases in 2011 and 2012 to zero cases to date. Another bill would fix a loophole that allowed sex offenders to spend significant periods of time at a residence other than the primary one registered with the state. The bill amends the definition of a residence and requires the offender to register any location at which he or

she spends two or more days a week. Assemblyman Chad Lupinacci (R-Melville) also signed on to sponsor the State Assembly version of the bill that prohibits levels one, two and three sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of any school in the state. The Senate has already approved the bill. Lupinacci said he is pushing for not only this bill but all of them to be approved, as the safety of children is what matters most. “I will continue to fight to keep our communities safe and our children out of harm’s way,” Lupinacci said in a press release. “I will urge my colleagues in the Assembly to pass this legislation so parents can rest with ease knowing their children are safer while at school.” Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) said if the Assembly endorses the bills, he would also support them. He continued to say he has been a long-time supporter of any bills that stem from Megan’s law, an informal name for national laws that require enforcement authorities to notify the community regarding the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders. “There’s no reason to wait,” Flanagan said. “We passed legislation in our house. Let’s just get this done.”

Closed case for open space money By Elana Glowatz

What happens in parkland will stay in parkland. The Suffolk County Legislature has approved a new rule that will require the county to funnel money it receives in exchange for its open space into a fund used only for acquiring and preserving such land. Currently, when New York State takes control of local land through eminent domain and compensates the county for the loss, those dollars go into the general fund and could be used on any number of expenses. But the bill, which was sponsored by Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), will make sure the money is “deposited in a new or existing capital project account which is dedicated to the acquisition of parkland,” according to the legislation. The legislation is still waiting on the county executive’s signature before it

becomes law. The new rule will bring the exchange in line with the procedure for when dollars flow in the other direction — when Suffolk County buys parkland, it uses money from a fund that is fed with sales tax revenues and is specifically set aside for land acquisition. “I just want to make sure any money we are reimbursed gets put back toward its original intended purpose of saving open space and protecting drinking water,” Hahn said in a press release. The legislator introduced the bill in December, and the Legislature’s Parks and Recreation Committee discussed the issue in late February. The Legislature unanimously approved the measure last week. Suffolk County manages more than 46,000 acres of parkland, making it the largest county-owned park system in the nation, Hahn’s office said.

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rested on March 1 for allegedly driving while intoxicated. Police said he was pulled over at 4:25 a.m. as he was heading southbound on Nichols Road in Stony Brook, where he was arrested. Reality checks Police said a 25-year-old Centereach man was arrested in South Setauket and charged with fourthdegree grand larceny of an amount greater than $1,000 on March 2. The man deposited fraud checks and then withdrew funds from TD Bank between Nov. 25, 2013 and Dec. 6, 2013. He was arrested at his Segatogue Lane home at 4:10 p.m. Groceries on the go A 20-year-old Centereach woman was arrested and charged with petit larceny on March 7 at 10:30 p.m. Police said she stole assorted grocery items from a location on Ponds Path in Setauket. Double the drugs A 32-year-old Coram man was arrested on Jayne Boulevard in Port Jefferson Station on March 6 at around 11 p.m. for possessing cocaine and heroin. Throwing punches in the dark A March 7 disagreement between known males on Locust Drive in Rocky Point ended with one in the hospital. Police said the complainant was punched in the face several times during the altercation, which occurred at around 1:50 a.m. Man deposits fist into car On March 6, a complainant reported being harassed at a Rocky Point Chase bank. According to police, the individual was at the drive-thru ATM when an unknown person came up to him, started yelling and reached through the car and hit him. The person didn’t steal anything. Needless to say A 27-year-old Rocky Point woman was arrested in Shoreham on March 6 for possession of three hypodermic needles.

Cracked A 60-year-old Selden man was charged with criminal mischief in a road rage incident on March 5. Police said the man exited his 1995 Buick at the intersection of Horseblock Road and College Road in Farmingville and approached a 2015 Altima. He then punched the windshield, causing it to crack.

Scratched A 2015 BMW’s paint job was ruined on March 2, after an unknown person scratched the vehicle in the driveway of a home on Sweetgum Lane in Miller Place. The incident took place between 5 p.m. on March 2 and 11 a.m. the following day.

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Legals ANNUAL BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Special District Meeting of the qualified/registered voters of the Middle Country Central School District at Centereach, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be held in the Centereach Building of the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York, on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at 9:30 A.M. prevailing time, for the purpose of voting upon the following items: (1) To adopt the Annual Library Budget for the fiscal year 20152016 and to authorize that the requisite portion thereof be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the Middle Country Central School District; and (2) To elect one (1) Trustee to the Middle Country Public Library to fill a five (5) year term commencing July 1, 2015, and ending on June 30, 2020, as a result of the expiration of the term of office presently held by Jacqueline Schott.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of a statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for the Middle Country Public Library’s purposes, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding said vote/election except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from the Library, located at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York during the hours of 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. prevailing time and; FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the Office of Trustee of the Middle Country Public Library are available from the Office of the Election Clerk (designated Election Officer) located in the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York. Petitions may be filed on any weekday between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time not later than Monday, March 16, 2015. Each petition must be directed to the Election Clerk and must designate the office sought, the name and residence of the candidate and must be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the District setting forth their addresses; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at any Annual or Special District Meeting within the past four (4) years, such vot-

ning Board for a change of use from a bank to a restaurant within tenant space in Centereach Mall shopping center, requiring a special use permit. This proposal is known as Moe’s Southwest Grill, located on the N/E corner Middle Country Road & Mark Tree Road, Centereach, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York and described as follows:

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots for the election of Trustee of the Library, and for the adoption of the annual budget may be applied for at the office of the Election Clerk, 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York during regular business hours. Such application must be received by the Election Clerk no later than 5 pm seven (7) days prior to the vote/election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by 5 pm on April 13, 2015 if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it shall have been received in the office of the Election Clerk not later than 5 pm on the day of the vote/election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the Election Clerk’s office during regular business hours on each of the five days prior to April 14, 2015 except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

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Dated: Centereach, New York December 22, 2014 BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY

NORTH: School Street and land n/f of Town of Brookhaven; WEST: Mark Tree Road; SOUTH: Middle Country Road; EAST: by land n/f of Centereach Commons Realty LLC and map of Eastwood Village, Section 1. Notice is hereby given that the Town of Brookhaven Planning Board will hold a public hearing in the Town Office Building 2nd floor auditorium, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York on Monday, March 23, 2015 @ 4:00 P.M., when adjacent property owners and/or others interested in any way in the proposed special use permit may appear before the Board to be heard. This notice is advertised in accordance with the requirements of Town law. DATED: February 24, 2015

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held by the Brookhaven Town Planning Board on Monday, March 23, 2015, at 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium at Brookhaven Town Hall, One Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 to consider the application of Ronald & Patricia Traube, 9 Winmar Way, Centereach, NY 11720 to repeal Restrictive Covenant for property known as Country Manor, Lot 5 @ Centereach. Covenant relief being requested on the abovedescribed premises is as follows: Increase in clearing from 43% to 80% Eliminate the 50 foot natural and undisturbed buffer The application and diagram of the subject property are on file in the Planning Division and may be examined during regular business hours. At the time of the public hearing all interested parties will be given the opportunity to speak. Vincent E. Pascale, Chairman Dated: March 2, 2015

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FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for the purpose of voting at such meeting on April 14, 2015 the polls will open between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, and voting will be held in the Middle Country Public Library (Centereach Building), 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York; and

er is eligible to vote at this vote/ election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. The Board of Registration will meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law on Tuesday , April 7, 2015 between the hours of 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm, prevailing time at the Library Building, 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York and at the election/ vote, at which time any person will be entitled to have his/her name placed on such register, providing that at the meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known, or proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Registration, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such Special District Meeting or Annual District Meeting for which the register is prepared, and that the register so prepared pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York and the registration list prepared by the Board of Elections of Suffolk County will be filed in the office of the Election Clerk, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on each of the five (5) days prior to April 14, 2015 excluding Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm prevailing time; and

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NOTICE OF AMENDMENT & HEARING Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Town Board at Brookhaven Town Office Complex, Town Auditorium, One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York on 03/26/2015 at 6:30 pm, to consider enacting the following proposed amendment(s) to the Uniform Code of Traffic Ordinances of the Town of Brookhaven. Article VII Section 26 entitled STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS is hereby amended by

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OPINION

Team up to starve New York’s testing machine Your turn BY ALI GORDON

This is my fourth year serving as a trustee of the Comsewogue Board of Education. I love every minute of it, because I love my community and I take very seriously the responsibility entrusted to me. The thoughts expressed here are my own. I do not speak for the Comsewogue School District or the Board of Education. We have been warned that a trustee who speaks out could be removed by the state education commissioner. But our schools and our children depend on those of us who were elected to represent the best interests of our community. I cannot stay quiet for fear of retribution from the New York State Education Department anymore. There has been tremendous criticism of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent decision to withhold state aid and extort legislators into passing his education reforms. Our state legislators are stuck between agreeing to terrible reforms or refusing, leading to a late state budget and a potential loss of millions of dollars for schools. Cuomo’s proposals include measures

such as increasing the time to earn tenure from three to five years and evaluating teachers based upon half of their students’ state test scores. The reforms Cuomo is pushing are disingenuous and dangerous; he works out of the privatization handbook and uses inflammatory statistics. He cannot think of another way to move forward in education except through obsessive testing. Cuomo and the Board of Regents use a one-size-fits-all answer that will never work for every community, while an entire generation of students is being sacrificed for testing data. Each of Cuomo’s education policies reflect a desire to remove local control. He insists that NYSED investigate the teacher evaluations procedures of Long Island school districts, thinking the system is skewed. Those local evaluation plans were approved by the very same entity, NYSED. Here is what Cuomo cannot fathom: Teachers on Long Island were rated highly effective or effective because they are. If Long Island was a state, we would rank near the top in high school graduation rates, Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists and Siemens Competition semifinalists. Cuomo prefers to ignore these statistics because they do not fit his narrative.

‘It is time to work together to elevate public education without destroying things that are already working.’

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Long Island has high graduation rates and many Intel finalists each year.

There are several ways to stop the destruction of public schools: Cuomo must separate his education reforms from his executive budget proposal. If he believes in these reforms, he should let them stand alone as legislation, allow a healthy debate and not circumvent the separation of powers established by our Constitution.

The Legislature should ensure that new Board of Regents appointees have public education experience — they establish state education policies, and interviews are now being held for four appointees. Parents must educate themselves and make a decision regarding testing in grades three through eight. This will be the third year my children have refused to take the state exams. This is the strongest weapon we have in the fight to save public education. As the number of test refusals grows, the reforms dependent upon those numbers will falter. We will starve the testing machine. It is time to work together to elevate public education without destroying things that are already working. I cannot sit by quietly anymore and wait for someone else to stand up. I have a sworn duty to represent the interests of my community, including speaking out against policies that endanger the well-being of our students and faculty.

OBITUARIES Bertha Buehl Bertha M. Buehl, 92, of Lake Grove, died on Feb. 9. Bertha was the loving aunt of Timothy and Walter Cox. Arrangements were entrusted to Moloney’s Lake Funeral Home in Lake Ronkonkoma, where a religious service was held. Interment followed in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn. An online guest book is available at www.moloneyfh.com.

Elizabeth Magnussen Elizabeth Ann Magnussen, 68, of Centereach, died on Feb. 8. Elizabeth was the beloved wife of Russell George; devoted mother of Russell (Barbara), Donna Kaires and Michael; loving sister of Joseph (the late Barbara) Kerkhoven, the late Thomas Kerkhoven, the late Josephine Jennings, the late Conrad Magnussen, Richard (Donna) Magnussen, Jack (Pat) Magnussen, Roye (Carmen) Swann, Gerald (the late Joan) Magnussen, George Magnussen, (John), Janice (Timothy) Howe, the late Judy Arinder, Star Golden and Harriet (the

late Robert) Harlein; cherished grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of four. Arrangements were entrusted to Moloney’s Lake Funeral Home in Lake Ronkonkoma. A funeral Mass was celebrated at Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary R.C. Church in Centereach and interment followed in Calverton National Cemetery An online guest book is available at www.moloneyfh.com.

Barbara Turano Barbara M. Turano, 59, of Selden, died on Feb. 9. Barbara was the beloved wife of Michael; devoted mother of Michael (Heather) and Paul and loving sister of Edward (Judy) Terrafirma. Arrangements were entrusted to Moloney’s Holbrook Funeral Home. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Margaret of Scotland R.C. Church in Selden. Interment was in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram. An online guest book is available at www.moloneyfh.com.

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the goal of reducing the town government’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent over the next five years. In order to reach the goal, the town is looking at three areas: its buildings and facilities, traffic controls and streetlights as well as town vehicles. The Highway Department has already installed energy-efficient LED traffic lights throughout much of the town and the Department of General Services purchased hybrid vehicles. The town has also created wind, solar and geothermal codes in an effort to promote alternative energy, and has worked to expand its single-stream recycling initiative. Later this year, the town will extend the single-stream pickup to multifamily complexes, allowing those residents to dispose of plastic and paper together. “It has been estimated that, as a nation, as much as 60 percent of the efforts to achieve environmental sustainability will needed to be addressed here on the local level, reinforcing that message: We should think not only globally, we need to act here locally,” Romaine said. Town Board minority party member Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) said she was pleased to hear the supervisor focus on the environment, and as the environmental protection liaison, is looking forward to working with him on the initiative he put forward.

Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine also spoke out against illegal rental homes.

“I think he did a great job as far as reflecting on the hard work that the town board and the supervisor together have done over the past year,” she said. Romaine also touched on making Brookhaven a little brighter in the figurative sense. Since taking office in 2012, the 70th town supervisor has made it his mission to clean up Brookhaven’s vacant and

foreclosed properties that developed out of the recession. So far, nearly 1,000 vacant buildings have been registered with the town’s vacant building registry, while the town’s newly-adopted blight restoration code is also being put to work. Under the code, home and commercial property owners must maintain and repair properties or face the town com-

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pleting the work and billing the owner. In addition, the code allows the town to condemn and demolish unsafe structures. “From Port Jefferson Station to Mastic to countless other communities, we are putting the owners of these abandoned houses on notice,” Romaine said. “If they don’t take care of these properties, we will take matters into our hands.”

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DIRECT CARE WORKERS: P/T and per diem needed to care for developmentally disabled adults in our Intermediate Care Facility in Wading River, NY. Related exp. preferred and Valid NYS Driver’s License required.

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Cleaning

CARIBBEAN CLEANING 10 years experience. Excellent references. Free estimates. Ask about our 30% off promotion. Insured. Contact Jani 631-295-7924

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Decks

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Electricians

FARRELL ELECTRIC Serving Suffolk for over 40 years All types electrical work, service changes, landscape lighting, automatic standby generators. 631-928-0684

GREENLITE ELECTRIC, INC. Residential & Industrial. Repairs, installations, renovations. Free estimates. Licensed/Insured. 631-331-3449 SOUNDVIEW ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING Prompt * Reliable * Professional Residential/Commercial Free Estimates Ins/Lic#41579-ME Owner Operator 631-828-4675 See our Display Ad in the Home Services Directory

Furniture/Restoration Repairs

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Home Improvement

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*BluStar Construction The North Shore’s Most Trusted Renovation Experts. 631-751-0751 Suffolk Lic. #48714-H, Ins. See Our Display Ad

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Handyman Services JOHN’S A-1 HANDYMAN SERVICE Crown moldings, Wainscoting, raised panels. Kitchen/bathroom specialist, painting windows, finished basements, ceramic tile. All types repairs. Dependable craftsmanship. Reasonable/rates. Lic/Ins. 631-744-0976 or cell 631 697-3518

Heating/ Cooling

GOT BAMBOO?? Bamboo removal with guaranteed results! Landscape Architecture/Arborist services. Property restoration/landscape installation. Call for a free estimate, 631-316-4023. Groundbreakers Development Group Inc., Commack NY MEIGEL HOME IMPROVEMENT Extensions, dormers, roofing, windows, siding, decks, kitchens, baths, tile, etc. 631-737-8794 Licensed in Suffolk 26547-H and Nassau H18F5030000. Insured.

PRS CARPENTRY No job too small, hanging a door, building a house, everything inbetween. Formica kitchens/baths, roofing/siding/decks. POWER WASHING. Serving North Shore 40 years. Lic/Ins. 631-744-9741

Home Repairs/ Construction

PRICES POSTED AT MTFUELS.com Save 3 cents per gallon FUEL OIL AND DIESEL Fast delivery. Discount price. 631-828-9179

BETTER HOME SERVICES & CONTRACTING Roofing, siding, windows, decks, interior/exterior carpentry, handyman services. Billy 631-821-3516, Tom 631-383-1670, Lic#49082-H/Ins

Interior Decorating/ Design

Lawn & Landscaping

ADRIENNE KESSEL INTERIOR DESIGN. Kitchen/Bath Design, Interiors, Space Planning, Lighting, Color Planning. Window Treatments, Furniture: Custom/Ready Made. 631-839-4058

Carl Bongiorno Landscape/Mason Contractor All phases masonry work: stone walls, patios, poolscapes. All phases of Landscaping Design. Theme Gardens. Residential & Commercial. Lic/Ins. 631-928-2110

Painting/ Spackling/ Wallpaper

Lawn & Landscaping LANDSCAPES UNLIMITED SPRING CLEAN-UPS Property Clean-ups, Tree Removal, Pruning, Landscape Construction, Maintenance, Thatching & Aeration. Commercial/Residential Steven Long, Lic.36715-H/Ins. 631-675-6685

PRIVACY HEDGES SPRING BLOWOUT SALE! 6ft Arborvitae (cedar). Regular $129, now $59. Beautiful nursery grown. FREE installation/FREE delivery. 518-536-1367 www.lowcosttrees.com Limited Supply! SETAUKET LANDSCAPE & DESIGN Stone Driveways/Walkways, Walls/Stairs/Patios/Masonry, Brickwork/Repairs & Land Clearing/Drainage, Grading/Excavating. Plantings/Mulch Steve Antos, 631-689-6082 www.setauketlandscape.com Serving Three Villages

SWAN COVE LANDSCAPING Lawn Maintenance, Clean-ups, Shrub/Tree Pruning, Removals. Landscape Design/Installation, Ponds/Waterfalls, Stone Walls. Firewood. Free estimates. Lic/Ins. 631-689-8089

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IF YOU USED THE BLOOD THINNER XARELTO between 2011 and the present time, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800-535-5727

Oil Burner Service DAD’S OIL SERVICE Oil fired boiler/hot water heaters. Baseboard radiant heat. Annual tune-ups, installations and repairs. Call for more information. 631-828-6959

Painting/ Spackling/ Wallpaper

ALL PRO PAINTING Interior/exterior. Free estimates. Powerwashing, staining, wallpaper removal. Lic/Ins#19604HI. NICK 631-696-8150

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Roofing/Siding ROOF SPECIAL Get Ready For Old Man Winter! 12 Month No Interest No Payments. Magic Touch Contracting Roofing Siding & Windows “We bring our showroom & professional designers to you”. John Costanza - Mike Delcollie magictouchcontractingcntr@ optonline.net 631-675-9405 Lic./Ins.

BOB’S PAINTING SERVICE 25 Years Experience Interior/Exterior Painting. *Spackling *Staining * Wallpaper Removal *Powerwashing. Free estimates Lic/Ins. #17981 631-744-8859 COUNTY-WIDE PAINTING INTERIOR/EXTERIOR Painting/Staining. Quality workmanship. Living/Serving 3 Village Area Over 25 Years. Lic#37153-H. 631-751-8280

Tree Work

Jay A. Spillmann Painting Co. Over 30 years in business. Spackling/Taping, Wallpaper removal. Quality prep work. Interior/Exterior. Lic. #17856-H/Ins. 631-331-3712, 631-525-2206 LaROTONDA PAINTING & DESIGN Interior/exterior, sheetrock repairs, taping/spackling, wallpaper removal, Faux, decorative finishings. Free estimates. Lic.#53278-H/Ins. Ross LaRotonda 631-689-5998 WORTH PAINTING “PAINTING WITH PRIDE” Interiors/exteriors. Faux finishes, power-washing, wallpaper removal, sheetrock tape/spackling, carpentry/trimwork. Lead paint certified. References. Free estimates. Lic./Ins. SINCE 1989 Ryan Southworth, 631-331-5556

Plumbing/ Heating ANDERSON ENERGY Heating, Air Conditioning and Hot Water. Oil, gas services, installations and solutions. Financing Available. Lic/Ins. Lic. #49018-H, 631-209-1100, Bill

KLB LAND SERVICES Specializing in all phases of Tree Work, Landscape Installation & Masonry. Insured/ Lic# 52839-H Michael O’Leary 631-901-2781 ARBOR-VISTA TREE CARE WINTER PRUNING AND REMOVAL RATES ARE IN EFFECT!! Get a jump on spring. winter is the optimum time to prune to avoid pest and disease entry to open cuts. Lic/Ins. Lic#18902HI. Free estimates. 631-246-5377 NORTHEAST TREE EXPERTS, INC. Expert pruning, careful removals, stump grinding, tree/shrub fertilization. Disease/insect management. Certified arborists. Insured/Lic#24,512-HI. All work guaranteed. 631-751-7800 www.northeasttree.com

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SUNBURST TREE EXPERTS Since 1974 our history of customer satisfaction is second to none. Pruning/removals/planting, plant health care. Certified Arborist on every job guaranteed. Unsplit firewood For Sale by the truckload. Bonded employees. Lic/Ins. #8864HI 631-744-1577 XTERRA TREE SERVICE 631-821-8888 Certified Arborist on Staff www.XterraTreeService.com Insured & Licensed (#54411H) ©87810

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Andrea Della Corte Intuitive Healer

Kitchen and Bath Design Interiors Space Planning • Lighting • Color Planning Window Treatments & Furniture Custom or Ready Made

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Email: jim@pc-d-o-c.com

Richard Romano

Cell 516-807-0570 Office 631-878-3400 ext 287 fax 631-878-3480 rromano@century21.com

Ask about my special programs for Veterans

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Burial/Cremation Services

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Providing solutions to all your home or office computing needs. • Software and Hardware Installation • Wireless Home and Office Networking Reasonable • PC System Upgrades and Repairs Rates, • Internet, Web, and Email Systems Dependable • System Troubleshooting Service, • Software Configuration and Training • Computer System Tune-Up Plenty of • Network Design, Setup and Support References • Backup and Power Failure Safety Systems

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Licensed R.E. Salesperson

Complete interior design services

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Bill Anderson Owner/Operator

Lic.# 49018-H, 48907-RP, 48908-RE & Insured

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All Phases of Plumbing, Boilers, Hot Water Heaters. Slab Leak Specialists. All Leaks Stopped. Drains Unclogged. 3rd Generation Plumber No Job Too Small. Lic. # 50190-MP Office 631.642.7285 Cell 631.312.4862 24/7 Emergency Service. We accept all major credit cards. Senior and Military Discounts.

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• Plant Healthcare • Organic Spray Programs • FREE Hazardous Tree Inspection

57 Years of Quality Service

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(631) 473–4242 • Fax (631) 473–3873 www.kochtreeservice.com Lic.#25598-H • Insured

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Protecting against sex offenders it’s easy to unite behind protecting our communities against sex offenders. That’s why we support recent measures in the New York State Senate to close loopholes in current laws to do just that, and we urge the Assembly to sign on to them. The package of nine bills would enact a range of measures that would allow public authorities to more closely monitor the whereabouts of registered sex offenders. one measure would, as part of their residency requirements, mandate they report not only their addresses but also any location at which they spend more than two days a week. Another law would allow local municipalities to enact their own restrictions on sex offenders, as long as they are not less restrictive than state laws already on the books. The push is a direct response to a recent New York State Court of Appeals ruling that sided with a registered sex offender who had completed his parole and moved within 500 feet of a Nassau County school — an action that complied with state law but

violated a local residency restriction. The package of laws would do other things, too, like require level two and level three sex offenders to disclose their employment and residency on the state registry and mandate that schools distribute information to parents about offenders living in the district. it would also prohibit level two and level three offenders from living within 1,500 feet of their victim’s residence. State Sen. John Flanagan (r-east Northport) put it well this week: “There’s no reason to wait.” While we realize these types of restrictions may just push out sex offenders to other communities — maybe not making us the best neighbors — we’re okay with a “not-in-my-backyard” stance on this issue. When you consider the types of crimes sex offenders commit, it’s hard to rationalize wanting to give high-risk sex offenders some breathing room. Given the number of sexual assaults that go unreported year after year, this could at least help us defend against the offenders about whom we do know.

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Eliminating the exchange at Huntington may not significantly change travel time on the Long Island Rail Road between Port Jefferson and Penn Station.

Where’s the proof? To The ediTor: in recent weeks we have seen numerous local politicians raving about the benefits that would be gained by electrifying the Port Jefferson Long island rail road line between huntington and Port Jefferson. They have stated, among other claims, that it will take thousands of cars off the Long island expressway, that it will “revitalize” downtowns from Port Jefferson to Greenlawn and that it will make Port Jefferson attractive to Stony Brook employees as a residential location. The ravings make it sound as though there is no existing train service at all, rather than just no electric service. Where are any studies to support these claims? i have yet to read one comment about how much time would be shaved off the ride between huntington and Port Jefferson, how much additional service, if any, would be provided, or how many additional trains would be added that eliminate the need to change at huntington or hicksville or make reverse com-

Why electrify? To The ediTor: While electrifying the Long island rail road’s Port Jefferson line will eliminate changing at the huntington station — a bit of an inconvenience, to be sure — the travel time will not see an appreciable change. This will only add increases to the commuter for costs associated with

muting practical. one salient fact that has been left out of the discussion is that there is only one track for most of the way between Port Jefferson and huntington. how much additional or speedier service would electrifying just this one track really create? Much of the time now, the actual train speed is far slower than the diesels are capable of operating at (i suspect because of having one track), and i don’t see how electrification alone would solve that. Finally, from a cost benefit analysis, at a time when we have crumbling roads, bridges and tunnels due to lack of funding and the MTA is struggling to fund its current capital plan, is spending close to half a billion dollars for this electrification project the best use of our limited resources? Perhaps it would be if all the politicians’ supposed benefits were realistic, but let’s make sure through meaningful independent studies before the money goes out the door. robert J. Nicols Port Jefferson

the conversion and purchase of new equipment. The real reason people prefer to drive to the ronkonkoma line is that it takes less time to get to Penn Station. Shorten the travel time and you’ll see a significant increase in ridership on Port Jefferson line. henry doll Port Jefferson

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People, can we all get along?

D. None of the above by DaNiel DuNaief

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odney King once asked, “People ... can we all get along?” That was in the days after police who had beaten him after a high-speed chase were acquitted for brutality, leading to the murderous 1992 Los Angeles riots. The answer to his question, almost 24 years later, is still “no.” Sure, we get along in some places. And yet, at the University

of Oklahoma, a group of white students on their way to a dance were chanting about how African-Americans — using a reprehensible word — would never join their fraternity. After a video surfaced, the fraternity quickly cut ties, kicking out that chapter. People marched in protest, while the university president said he couldn’t sleep. Our country is filled with contradictions. We have our first African-American president. We recently remembered the 50th anniversary of the Selma march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police brutally beat marchers determined to express their frustration with an unfair voting system. Someone forgot to tell those giddy college kids who we really are. Their chants and attitudes strike at something humans have battled throughout our history. It’s a question of who is “in” and who is “out.” What they were saying, and the racist way they said it, was that they would

never admit someone that was different from them. Why is it so important to have an “out” group — people to hate, to reject and to ridicule? On some level, I understand why the disenfranchised might hate the empowered. The people who have no say in government, who feel cut off from power, who have nothing to lose are sometimes the ones who lead a revolution. They see the unequal distribution of wealth and power and demand changes. But kids dressed in tuxedoes and gowns attending college? Maybe this speaks to our education system, not only at the University of Oklahoma but across the country. Maybe we spend too much time preparing for standardized tests and not enough time understanding who we are, where we come from and what we represent. Yes, democracy is difficult and complicated. At the same time that we are guaranteed free speech through the First

Amendment, we can’t shout “fire” in a crowded theater and we can’t urge discrimination and violence against a particular group just because it sounds funny to a group of kids on a bus on the way to a dance. Maybe technology is making these ugly moments more visible. If someone didn’t have a cellphone on that bus, those kids would have gone to the dance, had their fun, said and chanted whatever was on their minds, and gone about their lives. There’s plenty of lessons in this ugly moment. Some of the kids on that bus might not have thought it was amusing and might not have chanted. Sitting on the bus, however, and saying nothing becomes guilt by association. The short video I saw shows one particular fellow who seemed to be leading the charge, smiling, gesticulating and enjoying each use of this totally abhorrent word. Should someone have confronted him? Was there someone sitting on that bus who thought,

On some level, I understand why the disenfranchised might hate the empowered. “Wait, this is just so wrong?” Not to blame the media, but every outlet these days, including movies, pushes limits. I’m still stunned by some of the unexpected turns in the awful spy comedy movie “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” That’s not an excuse. We are what we think, how we act and what we say. Maybe it’s time children asked themselves the question our parents’ generation asked whenever we got out of line: “Who do we think we are?”

Daniel Dunaief’s recent book, “The Other Parent,” may be purchased online from northshoreoflongisland.com/ebooks.

A technological magic carpet ride to the past

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Apple has been much in the news of late, introducing its “Dick Tracy” watch along with other sophisticated new products, and we have gotten used to the idea that the tech company has revolutionized our world. But then one little incident drove home for me the miracle wrought by Apple and its Silicon Valley colleagues. We marvel anew. Here is an example.

I was chatting with a friend, who confessed that she had lots of jobs to do and was not doing any of them because she was just being lazy. Since I have known her for a long time and am secure in the belief that she will forgive my little idiosyncrasies, I began to sing the lyrics of a song her lament brought to mind. The words go like this: Lazy bones, sleepin’ in the sun, How you ’spect to get your day’s work done? You’ll never get your day’s work done, Sleepin’ in the noonday sun. She immediately perked up and asked where that song came from, a movie or a show? I thought a moment, then told her the song came from my mother, who also had a habit of just bursting into song whenever the circumstances triggered a melody. (You see where I got it — must be a special gene.) I’d heard her sing that song many times as she worked. So where did she get it, this lazy, contagious

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melody suited to a crooner like Bing Crosby or Perry Como? My friend was persistent, encouraging me to think of the song’s origin. Unable to reply, I did what I have done thousands of times when I have been stumped for a fact or reference. I turned on my cellphone and searched the Web. Not sure how to ask for information, I simply typed in “song lazy bones” in Google and to my surprise, up came fully a dozen references to the song. I learned that it was part of the Tin Pan Alley genre, written in 1933 with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael. It was a major hit by Ted Lewis and Mildred Bailey when it was released, selling over a million copies around the world at a time when a million was really a million. No wonder my mother knew it. The song, it seems, was written in 20 minutes. Carmichael related that Mercer had come over to his apartment and caught him

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“snoozin’” on the couch. Inspired by the sight, Mercer told Carmichael he was going to write a song called “Lazy Bones.” Carmichael perked right up, the two men went over to the piano, Mercer threw out the first line, Carmichael started playing a melody — and 20 minutes later the famous song had emerged. How do I know all that? It was written in Wikipedia, one of the selections offered by Google. Better yet, as I considered the other listings, I saw one from YouTube, touched the screen to pull it in, and in five seconds was listening to and watching Dorothy Dandridge and Carmichael sitting alongside each other at the piano and singing “Lazy Bones” in 1941. The song is irresistible. Mercer was a Southerner from Savannah, Ga., who resented what he called the phony southern vernacular lyrics written by those who had never been to the South. The popularity of the song has been attributed by some to the authenticity

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of those regional lyrics. That too came from Wikipedia. So in a matter of seconds, I was transported back by YouTube to my mother’s kitchen, a young child enjoying the rich smell of the roasting chicken, watching her peeling the carrots and listening to her singing “Lazy Bones” all the while. She was probably then in her 30s, her hair was still brown and a starched apron was stretched around her trim figure. Talk about “back to the future,” this was a magic carpet ride back to the past until the song ended. Looking at the iPhone in the palm of my hand, I was stunned by the power of the experience. I can hardly wait to see the technological miracles still to come.

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After amputation, bowler is almost back to form Melissa Sherwin is determined to get back to championship level after long recovery By DeSirée Keegan

After a championship year, Melissa Sherwin, a Middle Country bowler, made one of the biggest decisions of her life: to amputate her left leg below the knee. “It sounds crazy, but still to this day I don’t know how I made the decision,” she said. “I contemplated whether it was the right decision, I weighed the pros and cons and I guess I just really thought about what’s best for me. I’d been living with this foot that’s caused me so much pain, and I hadn’t been able to be fully happy or fully myself for years.” The 2013 Newfield graduate was born with a clubfoot and went through multiple surgeries to try to straighten it, but none were successful. As she grew older and became more active, she had to stop playing soccer and dancing because she could no longer run. Being that bowling runs in her family, the sport came naturally to her and was something she could do. “My husband has bowled all of his life, and my father has been a bowler all of his life, too, and her brother, my son Thomas, they’ve all been bowling for years and I’m the only outcast because I’m no good at it,” Sherwin’s mother Christine said, laughing. In the beginning, bowling was just something her daughter did for fun, but she began spending more

time at the lanes after she could no longer play soccer or dance. That time spent grew into a passion. “I picked it up and became great at it, and thank God, because it’s what I needed,” Sherwin said. “I needed a sport just to walk. I feel I was made to do that.” She began bowling more seriously in sixth grade and made the varsity team in seventh. “I didn’t think that I was going to be some crazy bowler,” she said. “I just thought it was going to be something to keep me busy.” But she was good. Middle Country girls’ bowling head coach Mandy Dominguez, who has coached Sherwin since she was in eighth grade, said she performed at a level beyond her years. Even as an eighth-grader, Sherwin was a major contributor to the team’s success, as it went on to win the county championship and finish second in the state. “To have the ability to bowl under that pressure as an eighthgrader, I was very impressed,” he said. “She was amazing in that she really never complained, she never made it an excuse. I could see it was painful at times, but she always said ‘it’s okay,’ so she was very strong-willed in that respect.” It did become painful though, and Christine Sherwin recalls her daughter calling her about how much pain she was feeling. “I felt absolutely horrible when

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Clockwise from above, Melissa Sherwin tosses the ball down the lane after amputating her left leg below the knee back in January of last year; Sherwin broke county and state records as a high school bowler; and Sherwin bowling with the Middle Country team.

there’s nothing you can do about it,” she said. “My husband and I were wondering what was in her future, and all we were seeing was pain. She always worked very hard at bowling. She’s just like everyone else and to see all that she’s accomplished, her father and I are extremely proud parents.” Sherwin shattered the record for average in both Suffolk County, which has since been broken, and the state, which still stands. She bowled a 300 in a singles/doubles tournament and in her senior year — besides helping the team win a county and state championship — she broke the state record for highest total of six games at 1,489. She considers the record one of her greatest accomplishments because it spanned both boys and girls in the sport. Despite being in a lot of pain at times, Sherwin powered through. “I’d limp home and by the time I’d get out of bed in the morning I wouldn’t be able to walk,” she recalled. “It’s just crazy how when

you do something that you love, how no matter how much pain you’re in, you can push through it.” But Sherwin finally decided it was time to get rid of what was weighing her down. After her last unsuccessful surgery in June 2013, when her doctor tried to sever her Achilles tendon to alleviate her pain, she was told it might be time for her to make that overwhelming decision. On Jan. 29, 2014, the bowler went through with the amputation, and although it did not go as smoothly as she’d hoped, as her wounds did not heal properly, therefore making the recovery process slower and longer, she feels like she’s made the right choice. “I think that’s something that makes me a better person,” she said. “It sounds cliché, but you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s taken away from you.” Since the difficult rehabilitation process, Sherwin has re-learned to bowl, a process she said was a little discouraging and challenging, as

she remembered how good she once was. However, it is clear how far she has come and how far she’ll go. Most recently, in an adult mixed league she competes in at Port Jeff Bowl, she bowled a 279 — the highest since her amputation. “I’m in a good place now and I definitely think I made the right decision,” she said. “I’m able to be myself. I’m starting to see the old Melissa.”