The Times of Smithtown - February 25, 2015

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Volume 28, No. 52

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The Smithtown school board voted to close Branch Brook Elementary School at a board of education meeting Tuesday, effective June 30, 2017. Five board members, including President Christopher Alcure, were in favor of the closure. Gladys Waldron, the board’s longest tenured member, was responsible for the lone “no” vote. “For four years we’ve made cuts to the program, and it is not a proposition that I would like to continue,” Alcure said following the meeting. “We have declining enrollment. We have space in other buildings. Due to the fact that Branch Brook is one of the smaller buildings, and in my mindset we needed to close a building, and if we kept that open and closed one of the other ones and we had a sudden, unexpected uptick in enrollment, Branch Brook could not accommodate being one of seven schools. If we have an uptick in enrollment in two or three years when Branch Brook is closed, we’ll be able to absorb about 1,200 kids, and that was my deciding factor.” Closing at least one elementary school has been an intensely

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Smithtown votes to close school Members of the board of education just prior to the vote Tuesday.

debated issue between the community, the school board and district administration since the middle of November when Superintendent James Grossane presented the findings of a housing committee that was assembled earlier in 2015. Grossane presented the board with five options as cost saving measures. Closing Branch Brook was a part of four of the five options. Tuesday’s vote sealed the fate of Branch Brook, though Grossane will take his time in selected one

of the four options from his November proposal, he said. More debate is still to come about what happens to students in the seven elementary schools that are not closing to make room for those leaving Branch Brook. With emotions running high and a filled-to-capacity auditorium in the New York Avenue building that serves as district headquarters in Smithtown, the vote was received with anger and sadness from the community. Katie Healy has been one of the

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most outspoken Branch Brook parents throughout the process. “If I choose to stay, I will hold each and every one of you accountable and likely pushing one of you out,” Healy said to the five board members who voted yes. “I will be okay, and I will fight for those that will have a tough time but I will be there to show you that your losses are greater than your gains. If I choose to stay in this state I will hold you SCHOOL continued on page A3

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Smithtown Bulls are eliminated after battle with Brentwood

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Police are combing through the region where Port Jefferson Harbor and Setauket Harbor meet, near Poquott, after a small plane crashed there late Saturday night, authorities said. The small plane, which police said was a Piper PA28 carrying four people, went down shortly after 11 p.m. near the vicinity of 108 Van Brunt Manor Rd., Poquott Mayor Dee Parrish said. An extensive response from emergency personnel followed, during which three people were recovered from the water — but one remained missing, and that search was ongoing through the beginning of this week, officials said.

Emergency responders prepare to remove the airplane from the harbor.

Police said on Sunday that a student pilot, 25-yearold Bronx resident Austricio Ramirez was flying the plane when the problems arose and turned the controls over to his instructor, 36-year-old Queens

resident Nelson Gomez, who landed the plane in the harbor. All the passengers in the four-seater plane were able to exit into the water, after which Ramirez, Nelson and passenger Wady Perez, a 25-year-old

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from Queens, were rescued by police. But Suffolk County Police Commissioner Tim Sini said the search and rescue operation remained in effect for CRASH continued on page A8


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accountable…shame on you.” School board meetings and public work sessions had taken on some added emotion leading up to Tuesday, though emotions boiled over following the vote. One parent was removed by security after the meeting was over after yelling at members of the board. One was warned twice by Grossane for using profanity during her allotted public comment time. Peter Troiano was one of the parents responsible for the Save Branch Brook movement on Facebook and an Internet petition. “I’ll keep this quick,” Troiano said Tuesday as he addressed the board. “You’re all incompetent. You shouldn’t have signed up for this job if you couldn’t do it right. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. I don’t know how you sleep at night. You disgust me. And rest assured, this isn’t over. We plan on taking further action so get ready.” Troiano dropped the microphone to the ground and exited following his comments. He did not immediately respond to a request to elaborate about his future plans. Waldron defended her position to oppose closing Branch Brook to applause from the hundreds in attendance. The idea of selling the administration building on New York Avenue has been a rallying cry for the Save Branch Brook com-

munity members, though little progress has been made. “The only reason why I am not in favor of closing a school, whether it be Branch Brook or any other school, is that I think our energies and effort of administration and board should be placed right now on the selling of this building,” Waldron said. The necessity to close a school, according to Grossane and his administration, can be attributed to declining enrollment and revenue. Andrew Tobin, the district’s assistant superintendent for finance and operations, has said in the past that a deficit is on the horizon for the district. “I can’t tell you that 2017-18 will be the deficit year, but it’s becoming more and more likely as we look out ahead that 201718, maybe 2018-19, if we don’t get those type of increases, we know our expenses are going to go up, we’re going to certainly be facing it at some point,” Tobin said at a public work session on Jan. 19. Grossane responded following the meeting to claims from some community members that the decision to close Branch Brook has been inevitable since his presentation in November. “This decision wasn’t made months ago,” he said. “It was very careful. It was very measured. The committee did a lot of work. They brought the material. I reviewed it.” Grossane said that a lot of time and work went into the decision, and that it bothered him that some in the community perceived it differently.

Grossane’s November report estimated that closing an elementary school would save the district about $725,000 annually. Tobin said that Tuesday’s decision should relieve some of the financial trouble that the district is anticipating in the future, though their work is not done. School board meetings since November have been well attended by parents wearing blue Save Branch Brook T-shirts. They submitted their own sixth option for the board’s consideration, which was assembled by parents in the statistical analysis field. Option 6 concluded that Branch Brook made the least sense for closure of the eight elementary schools, based on projected enrollment decrease over the next 10 years, building occupancy, square foot per student, students per usable classroom and utility cost. Grossane defended his suggestion that Branch Brook made the most sense for closure at the Jan. 19 work session. Closing Branch Brook would do the least damage to the discrepancy of elementary students being on track to attend either High School East or High School West when they reach ninth grade, according to Grossane’s data. Additionally, because Branch Brook is the smallest of the eight schools in terms of capacity, its closure would leave the district least vulnerable to overcrowding if there were a future increase in enrollment. Closing Branch Brook should increase average class size, though Grossane called

instances where any classes would reach a district implemented maximum of 28 students “outliers,” on Jan. 19. “Every school has a grade level that runs almost to maximum,” Grossane said. “If we close a building and we operate with seven, those outliers would smooth out. They’d shift. There would still be an outlier occasionally in every building. I’m not going to tell you there isn’t going to be a class in fifth grade that doesn’t have a 28 at some point within the next six years after we close a building, because there definitely will be. But it’s usually one grade per building. Most times, the class averages even out across the district.” School board member Grace Plourde presented discussions on Feb. 9 from an earlier business affairs meeting regarding the budget for 2016-17. The deficit that Tobin suggested to be on the horizon was not expected to occur for the 2016-17 school year, mainly due to a low number of retirement payments. Tobin said Tuesday that the district is in “golden years for pension reprieve,” though he expects that to change in the near future. “We may find that we’re not in the kind of trouble that we have been in in prior years,” Plourde said. “Our preliminary budget is looking pretty stable. We’re anticipating that at this point we’re not going to have to make the kinds of painful cuts that we’ve had to make in prior years, but again it’s not because we’re getting the kinds of revenue we need to get.”

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The site of the former Steck-Philbin Landfill on Old Northport Road in Kings Park will finally receive an overdue facelift after 30 years of tax delinquency. The Suffolk County Landbank Corp., which is a not-for-profit entity that works with the county to redevelop tax-delinquent properties, issued a request for proposals to revitalize eight brownfields, including the one in Kings Park, in a press release from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) in late January. “We are working to partner with the private sector to revitalize brownfields sites which have been blights on communities for nearly two decades,” Bellone said in the release. A property is classified as a brownfield if there are complications in expansion or redevelopment based on the possible presence of pollutants or hazardous materials, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The site on Old Northport Road is still owned by Richard and Roslyn Steck of Steck & Philbin Development Co., though penalties and interest bring the total owed in property tax on the roughly 25 acres of land to nearly $1.5 million. The property has been tax delinquent since SteckPhilbin Development Co. was found to be using the site to dispose of waste that they did not have a permit for in 1986. It is located less than a half mile east of the Sunken Meadow Parkway and about a half mile west of Indian Head Road. “This has been a long time coming and creating policies and procedures for the Landbank has been an arduous task,

but I’m beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel,” Suffolk County Legislator Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore) said in the release. Cilmi is a member of the board of the Landbank. “Hopefully, soon we’ll see the remediation of this and other properties, which benefits our environment. We’ll put the properties back on the tax rolls, which means millions of dollars of savings for taxpayers.” The Suffolk County Landbank was established in 2013 after their application was approved by the New York State Empire State Development Corporation, according to the release. “This program represents a tremendous opportunity that will help remediate these contaminated and blighted properties, transforming community burdens into community assets,” Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Basil Seggos said. The property in Kings Park is next to the future location of a multisport complex being developed by Prospect Sports Partners LLC. The $33 million plan for the 44-acre site was approved in July 2015. Some of the other brownfields included in the request for proposals include Hubbard Power and Light and a gas station on Brentwood Road in Bay Shore, Lawrence Junkyard in Islip and Liberty Industrial Finishing in Brentwood, among others. Cumulatively, the eight properties owe more than $11 million in delinquent taxes. Proposals for the eight sites are due by March 18 and should be sent to the Suffolk County Landbank office on Veterans Memorial Highway in Hauppauge.


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Officials oppose 30-year dredging plan By Giselle Barkley

It’s been about six months and North Shore leaders are still fighting against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to continue dumping dredge spoils into the Long Island Sound. Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) stood alongside fellow county Legislators Al Krupski (D-Cutchogue) and Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) on Tuesday at the William H. Rogers Legislature Building in Hauppauge to voice their opposition to the plan and ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and New York Secretary of State Cesar Perales to reject the proposal. George Hoffman of the Setauket Harbor Task Force and Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, were also among the leaders who voiced their opposition to the plan. The Army Corps has dumped dredge spoils into waterways leading to the Sound for decades. Its final proposal, known as the Long Island Sound Dredged Material Management Plan, was completed on Jan. 11 and suggested dumping 30 to 50 million cubic yards of dredge material cleared out from Connecticut waterways over the course of another 30 years. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has supported the Army Corps’ proposal. Stephen Perkins, a member of the EPA’s dredging team, said the spoils

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adrienne esposito speaks against a plan to dump dredge spoils in the sound as county legislators sarah anker, kara Hahn and al krupski look on.

are tested before being dumped to ensure they meet certain safety standards. But critics say the state can reject the plan under the federal Clean Water Act. Dredge dumping has caused toxic chemicals to be dispersed throughout the Sound over the years, affecting the ecosystem and many water-dwelling species, including fish and lobsters. “If this was private industry doing this, I don’t think they’d go very far,” Krupski

said. “They’d probably end up in jail.” Over the past 11 years, the local government has spent $7 million to address environmental issues in the Sound, a fragile body of water, according to Anker. Some of that went toward creating a Long Island Sound study. According to Esposito, New York State rejected a similar plan that the Army Corps proposed in 2005, and ordered that group and the EPA to slowly reduce the

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amount of dredge spoils being dumped into the Sound. She called for the plan to go back to the drawing board. “We’ve committed so much resources, money, time and energy to protecting this water body,” Hahn said. “And then to just dump potential harmful and toxic waste spoils into our waters is a darn shame.” Anker agreed, saying that the Sound creates upward of $36 billion of economic value on the Island. Instead of dumping dredge spoils into the Long Island Sound, Esposito suggested using it to restore wetlands, rebuild beaches and cap landfills, among other methods of disposal. “The Sound is dying and what they’re trying to do now is bury it in dredge spoil,” Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) said at the press conference. The local leaders also criticized the EPA for supporting the Army Corps. “On one hand, they are advancing a nitrogen-reduction plan,” Esposito said. “And on the other, they’re turning a blind eye to the disposal of the large quantities of dredge materials which cause significant nitrogen loading into the Sound.” A public hearing on the dredging plan will be held on Tuesday, March 1, at the Port Jefferson Free Library, at the corner of Thompson and East Main streets. That event runs from 5 to 7 p.m., with registration for public speakers starting at 4:30 p.m.

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Legals Notice of Formation of UNCOMMON MARKETS LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/2016. Office: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 33 Bacon Rd., St. James, NY 11780. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure up to the principal sum of $220,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of SUFFOLK on October 30, 2007, in Liber 21627, Page 598, covering premises known as 296 Rose Lane, Smithtown, NY 11787.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Bank of America, N.A. Plaintiff, INDEX NO.: 605444/2015 Filed: 5/22/2015 -againstJames Henderson a/k/a James F. Henderson, Margaret Henderson a/k/a Margaret M. Henderson, Georgette Misa, United States of America, Clerk of the Suffolk County District Court, People of the State of New York, Credit Acceptance Corporation, Isidra Henderson, Willie Y. Terrell, American General Financial Services Inc., New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #10”, the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to the plaintiff, the person or parties intended being the persons or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the Complaint, Defendants. SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Suffolk County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE DEFENDANT(S):

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York April 30, 2015

TO: James Henderson a/k/a James F. Henderson 296 Rose Lane, Smithtown, NY 11787

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Margaret Henderson a/k/a Margaret M. Henderson 296 Rose Lane, Smithtown, NY 11787 Georgette Misa 296 Rose Lane Smithtown, NY 11787 United States of America Clerk of the Suffolk County District Court 400 Carleton Avenue, Central Islip, NY 11722 People of the State of New York Cohalan Court Complex 400 Carleton Avenue Central Islip, NY 11722 Credit Acceptance Corporation 25505 Twelve Mile Road Southfield, MI 48034 643 2/18 4x ts NOTICE OF FORMATION of LFCFS of New York LLC Art. of Org filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/9/16. Office location: Suffolk Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2450 North Wading River Rd, Wading River, NY 11792. Purpose: any lawful activities. 651 2/18 6x ts NOTICE OF FORMATION of LFCFS Holding LLC Art. of Org filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/9/16. Office location: Suffolk Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2450 North Wading River Rd, Wading River, NY 11792. Purpose: any lawful activities. 650 2/18 6x ts

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Get out A 47-year-old man from Laughlin, Nevada, was arrested on Feb. 21 for entering a home on Otsego Place in Commack just before midnight, police said. He was charged with criminal trespassing. Unlicensed driver On Feb. 20 at about 9:30 p.m., a 32-year-old man from Medford was driving a 2015 GMC on Middle Country Road in Nesconset without a license, police said. He was charged with second degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle. Dude, where’s my car? Between Jan. 2 and Feb. 20, a 28-yearold woman from Sound Beach drove a 2015 GMC despite being 50 days beyond the return date set by the car’s owner, police said. She also ignored notices by certified mail to return the car, according to police. She was arrested on Feb. 20 in Nesconset and charged with operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent. Drugs in the park A 22-year-old man from Bohemia had heroin and marijuana on him in the parking lot of Lakeland County Park in Islandia at about 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 17, according to police. He was charged with two counts of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Traffic stop yields pot Just before 8 p.m. on Feb. 17, a 29-year old woman from Smithtown was stopped for a traffic violation in Smithtown, and was found to have marijuana on her, police said. She was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.

Egghead, cannon arm An unknown person threw eggs at a 2016 Subaru and a 2005 Acura, both parked in the driveway of a home on New Highway in Commack, at around midnight on Feb. 21, police said. The eggs caused scratches, dents and some discoloration to the two cars, according to police. Shades swiped Police said an unknown person stole 17 pairs of sunglasses from Macy’s at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove at about 5 p.m. on Feb. 20. Off-road escape A snow blower and two all-terrain vehicles were stolen from a shed outside a home on Wood Road in Centereach around midnight on Jan. 25, police said. Broken window An unknown person damaged the rear window of a home on Havemeyer Lane in Commack at about 3 p.m. on Feb. 18, according to police. Wallet walks off in the night A wallet with cash was stolen from an unlocked 1999 Toyota that was parked in front of a home on New Highway in Commack at about 3 a.m. on Feb. 18, police said. Subway smash and grab At about 11 p.m. on Feb. 19, an unknown person smashed the window of Subway restaurant on Hawkins Avenue in Lake Grove and stole a cash register containing money, according to police. — Compiled by Giselle barkley


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Lawmakers stand behind Cuomo’s clean water plans By Phil Corso

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CRASH Continued from page A1

Top and bottom photos from Margo Arceri, middle photo from Nancy F. Soloman

Search and rescue operations continue in the waters off Strong’s Neck and Poquott, where a plane crashed into the harbor Saturday night.

one missing person, who was identified as 23-year-old Queens resident Gerson Salmon-Negron, with assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard. “We’re going to do everything we can to find that individual,” he said. The three people pulled from the water were being treated at Stony Brook University Hospital, officials said. They have since been released. Peter Stubberfield of Poquott said he and his wife heard the plane flying immediately above their house, off the harbor, Saturday night immediately followed by the sound of emergency vehicles. “Within minutes of hearing the plane, there were about 15 to 20 emergency vehicles right in front of our private drive,” he said. “There were two helicopters flying around continually, so we assumed something was going on in the water.” Margo Arceri, who lives on the Strong’s Neck side of the water where the plane crashed, said she and her neighbors jumped into action as soon as they noticed emergency vehicles making their way into the small North Shore community. Upon stepping outside Saturday night, Arceri said she watched emergency personnel pull survivors out of the water, wrap them in blankets and remove them to the nearby hospital. As the incident unfolded, Arceri said everyone living along the shoreline did something to help, whether that meant picking up a telephone, making way for emergency responders, or even offering up their personal kayaks for rescuers to use to lift the survivors out to safety.

“Where this occurred, there are only a few homes, but instantly, the neighbors pulled together,” she said. “They say, ‘it takes a village,’ and these neighbors showed a real sense of community. We all pulled together immediately. I just wish it had a happier ending.” One eyewitness who did not want to be named said she called the police Saturday night after watching the plane fly over her Poquott home and into the water. Seconds after hitting the water, the resident said she heard the survivors in the water yelling to each other. “It sounded like they were talking to each other — not calling out for assistance. I yelled to them to ask if they needed help, but they didn’t hear me at all,” she said. “Within seconds, I saw a large helicopter overhead.” Police arrived soon after, the woman said, and she and her husband offered up their three personal kayaks to rescuers, who used the boats to retrieve the survivors. “I just wish I had put the phone down and run down to the beach,” the witness said. “I just watched. I saw the lights on the plane go out. I’m having a really horrible time with this whole thing.” A spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday that the plane was en route to Long Island MacArthur Airport, after taking off from Fitchburg, Mass., but the pilot was reporting engine issues before attempting a forced landing. Both the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene of the crash from Saturday night into the beginning of this week to help with the search efforts, authorities said. Also helping the Suffolk County Police Department and the Coast Guard were local fire departments and the town harbormaster.


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Photo from Smithtown Central School District

Smithtown school district’s robotics team, the Mechanical Bulls, celebrate John T. Mather Memorial Hospital’s High School Robotics Club competition on Jan. 30.

Smithtown school district’s robotics team, the Mechanical Bulls, competed in John T. Mather Memorial Hospital’s fifth annual High School Robotics Club competition at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove on Jan. 30. For the

Robotics team builds on first-place win

fourth consecutive year, the Bulls won the competition, edging out Longwood school district’s team by just 0.28 points. The competition is part of Mather’s annual Interactive Community Health Fair, which features the da Vinci surgi-

cal robot demonstration. Teams of seven students compete using the da Vinci surgical robot simulation. Each member of the team uses the simulator to complete a series of tasks and is awarded points based on how well they

use the robot. The Mechanical Bulls are continuing to build on their 2016 FIRST Stronghold robot, with which they will compete at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Hofstra University.

OBITUARIES Smithtown, where a religious service was celebrated. Interment followed at Long Island National Cemetery with full military honors. An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.

Angela Zielinski David Ruland David Ruland, of South Setauket, died on Feb. 9, at the age of 67. He was a proud veteran of the U.S. Army who served in the Vietnam War. He was the beloved husband of Eloise Soblick and cherished father of David, Matthew, Jamie DeCesare and the late Lori and Heather Ruland. He is survived by many other family members and friends. Arrangements entrusted to Branch Funeral Home of

ing grandmother of Melissa Barbera and Meredith Rutsky; and dear great-grandmother of Saverio and Nicholas Barbera. She is survived by many other family members and friends. Arrangements entrusted to Branch Funeral Home of Smithtown. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s R. C. Church in Smithtown and interment followed at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury. An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.

tian and Yvonne Tortorello. She is survived by many loving nieces, nephews and friends. Arrangements were entrusted to Branch Funeral Home of Smithtown. A religious service was celebrated at St. Thomas of Canterbury in Smithtown and interment followed at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn. An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.

Loretta Tierney

Patricia Christian

Angela Zielinski, 93, of Smithtown, passed away peacefully on Feb. 3. She was the beloved wife of the late Leonard; cherished mother of Leonard Jr.; lov-

Patricia Ann Christian, 72, of Albrightsville, Pa., passed away peacefully on Feb. 11. She was the cherished mother of Laura (Robert) Churchill; loving grandmother of Nicole (Michael), Brett (Sabrina) and Victoria; dear great-grandmother of Damien Loretta M. Tierney, 80, of and two boys on the way; and Kings Park, died on Feb. 6. adored sister of Tommy Chris-

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She was the beloved wife of Raymond; cherished mother of Kathleen, Loretta TierneyWelsh, Regina (Theodore) Santo, Joann (Joseph) Varello and Raymond (Erica) Tierney, III; loving grandmother of Brittany, Robert, Theo, Christopher, Nicholas, Kathleen, Joseph, Danny, Kaitlin, Raymond Tierney IV, Sean and Patrick. She is survived by many other family members and friends. Arrangements were entrusted to Branch Funeral Home of Smithtown. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s R. C. Church in Smithtown and interment followed in Calverton National Cemetery. An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.


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Brentwood bests Smithtown West in semis boys’ basketball

Brentwood . . . . . . . . 61 Smithtown West . . . 49 By Desirée Keegan

“There’s no reason we can’t win this game,” Smithtown West senior Matt English told his team during warm-ups. “What do we have to lose? Nothing.” So with that, the No. 4 Smithtown West boys’ basketball team battled on the boards and hung in there with a tough No. 1-seeded Brentwood team during the Suffolk County Class AA semifinals at Stony Brook University Sunday night. The team’s efforts may not have been enough, as the Bulls fell 61-49 to the Indians, but in head coach Mike Agostino’s eyes, the team did everything it needed to. “We did everything that we usually do — we played our butts off, we executed on offense, we moved the ball, set screens, we did all of the things necessary to win the game,” he said. “In terms of what we can control and what we did, they did everything I wanted them to.” Senior Nick Grande started the game off strong for the Bulls, stealing a pass and converting the opportunity for points with a breakaway layup just 13 seconds into the game. Brentwood countered with two field goals of its own before senior Doug Levy tied it up with a layup of his own, and tied it up again with an offensive rebound on the Bulls’ next possession, to bring the score to 6-6. Levy tapped in another offensive rebound and sophomore Chris Crespo added a put-in and two free-throw points, but at the end of the eight minutes, the Bulls found themselves down 20-12. The two teams continued to trade points in the second stanza, but the Bulls’ deficit grew to 10 points, with a 29-19 halftime score. Crespo started off the third like Grande did the first, stealing the ball and converting a layup at the 7:12 mark, and added a field goal and a 3-point play to go alone with junior Greg Giordano’s field goal early on to help Smithtown West close the gap to 35-28, but that was as close as the team would come. English finished with a team-high 14 points, Giordano netted 11, Crespo tacked on seven and Levy and junior Kyle LaGuardia added seven points apiece. The Bulls may have lost, but the boys kept up with the No. 1-ranked team in the county, and never stopped hustling. “It’s nothing new; it doesn’t’ surprise

me,” Agostino said of the team’s commitment to never quitting. “That’s the expectation. It doesn’t surprise me, but it fills me with a lot of pride each time I see them put forth that effort. I never felt choked up after losing a game, but I did with them. The emotion comes from how hard they tried and how much effort they put in, and that’s what makes me really happy.” Some of the teammates took to Twitter after the game to express their gratitude and feelings on being a part of the program. “Thanks to everyone who came out to support,” Giordano wrote. “I wouldn’t have wanted to go to battle with any other group of guys these past four years. I love all of you.” Despite also playing baseball, and choosing to play it in college, Grande wrote about how glad he was to have had the opportunity to play for his hoops team. “Loved this game since I first picked up a basketball,” he said. “Gonna miss it like hell, but I couldn’t have asked for a better last ride.”

The smithtown West Bulls battle Brentwood in the semifinals.

Photos by Desirée Keegan


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File photos left and below right; photo above by Alex Petroski; photo below left from the University of Ohio

Clockwise from left, Frank Romeo coaches a previous Comsewogue boys’ basketball team; Combs, Downey and Cimini were announced as 2016 inductees at a recent press conference; Richie LoNigro is one of six to receive the Rawlings Silver Glove Award; and Jill Byers competed for Notre Dame University.

North Shore natives will be in 2016 Hall of Fame class By ALex PetRoSki

The Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame announced on Feb. 17 that it will be inducting eight new members in 2016. The class includes Setauket resident Rich Cimini, the New York Jets beat reporter for ESPN; Commack resident Chuck Downey, the first Stony Brook University athlete to sign a professional sports contract; and Setauket resident Tom Combs, the athletic director at Patchogue-Medford High School and a standout football star for Smithtown, among others.

Television and radio host David Weiss introduced the inductees at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Hauppauge during the press conference. “It’s an honor to be associated with such great inductees, great athletes and coaches,” Cimini said during the press conference after he was introduced. “I’m just a guy who got cut from his varsity baseball team by Bill Batewell. At least he’s a [Suffolk] hall of famer, so I can say that I got cut by a hall of fame coach.” Cimini graduated from Sachem High School in 1981. He has covered the Jets for Newsday, the Daily News and now ESPN during his long career as a reporter. “It has been such a great ride that I have a fear that I’m going to wake up one day and realize it’s just been a dream, and that I actually have to go out and get a real job,” Cimini said. Downey, who is currently a battalion chief for the FDNY, credited his parents for instilling values of hard work that led him to be successful in life. His father Raymond, who was also an FDNY firefighter, was killed in the line of duty on September 11, 2001. “Suffolk is very special, and to be here today with these other inductees — thank you very much,” Downey said during the press conference. He was a three-sport athlete at Deer Park High School, before playing football at Stony Brook University, and ultimately signing an NFL contract with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1988. Combs has played, coached and been an athletic director in Suffolk County dating back to the 1970s. He is also a member of the hall’s board of trustees.

“This is quite a talented class,” Combs said. “I’ve been involved with the hall of fame for the last five years and I can honestly say this is a very intimidating group with some amazing accomplishments.” The other inductees are Jill Byers, a three-sport standout from Northport who went on to become a four-time AllAmerican in lacrosse; Frank Romeo, a longtime boys’ basketball coach at Comsewogue High School who was inducted into the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame last year; and Laura Gentile, Maria

Michta-Coffey and Isaac Ramaswamy, all of whom went to Sachem. Richie LoNigro, owner of Port Jefferson Sporting Goods, will also receive a special recognition award for his dedication to the athletes of Suffolk County. He is one of only six people in the country to receive the Rawlings Silver Glove Award, which has been given to some of the most respected people in the sporting goods industry. The ceremony for the 2016 inductees will take place on May 6, also at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Hauppauge.


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Congressman Lee Zeldin

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Serving those who served us

People who come home after serving our country overseas should not have to cope with mental illnesses stemming from their experiences, but the sad reality is that most veterans have seen or dealt with traumatic things. That means we have to do everything we can for those who return home with post-traumatic stress disorder. U.S. rep. Lee Zeldin (r-Shirley), an iraq war veteran, is on the right track in addressing this. When he was in the state legislature, he established a peer program in which veterans could help one another battle mental issues, and now he is working to take that initiative to the national level. Part of the reason this program is important is that it addresses the stigma surrounding mental illness. The shame people feel deters the average citizen from getting help, but think of how those feelings must be compounded in people who carry the weight of a reputation as one of our country’s bravest and strongest. And even without the fear of appearing weak, veterans have experienced many things others cannot truly understand if they have not served in the military. They need and deserve the support of people who have been in their shoes — people who know what they are going through. Mental illness is often woefully misunderstood as it is, so we must mitigate that as much as possible. Ultimately, we would prefer more resources for military psychiatrists to better identify and treat issues with active servicemen, so they leave their PTSd or other mental or emotional problems overseas, but we will gladly support a national veterans’ peer program to assist those we have so far failed to help.

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Combating Zika To The ediTor: The mosquito borne Zika virus has spread at rapid rates across South America, Central America and the Caribbean — infecting individuals in more than 25 countries. Zika has caused widespread alarm across the global community after Brazil reported a rise in the number of cases of microcephaly, a disease that leads tragically to a baby being born with an unusually small head and brain damage, affecting thousands of small children in Latin America. The awful birth defects associated with the virus, and the lack of preventative treatments, have resulted in authorities taking drastic measures in several Latin American countries, including el Salvador, Colombia and ecuador, where women are being urged to stop having kids altogether. What is so concerning about the Zika virus is how easily it can spread. The virus is spread not only through a mosquito bite, but also by contact with infected blood or sexual contact. Furthermore, there is currently no vaccine to prevent, or any medicine to treat, the virus. All of these factors have led the World health organization to declare the Zika virus a public health emergency. Confirmed cases of the Zika

virus have been popping up across the U.S., including at least 3 confirmed cases here in Suffolk County. recent estimates show that 200 million Americans live in areas that could see Zika spread through mosquitoes during the warmer months. With the recent outbreaks and the number of Zika cases among travelers visiting or returning to the United States, it’s only a matter of time before this becomes a widespread epidemic right here at home. As evidenced with the ebola virus epidemic in 2013, which decimated populations across Western Africa, if the proper infrastructure and funding is not put into place before an outbreak hits, the consequences can be truly devastating. That is why we must act now. i recently introduced legislation, the Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016, h.r. 4314, which passed the house Foreign Affairs Committee with bipartisan support on Jan. 7, 2016. one critical aspect of this legislation is that the bill would put in place a monitoring system that would screen for infectious diseases abroad in order to contain and prevent any potential outbreaks. The bill also helps quarantine viruses, authorizing the Secretary of homeland Security to provide the necessary equipment and supplies

to mitigate the risk or threat of infectious diseases, such as Zika. in addition to screening for infectious diseases, my bill would also establish a plan to close security gaps that currently exist that allow terrorists and foreign fighters to travel internationally, as well as establish international border security standards. Furthermore, a reporting system would be established to monitor efforts of foreign governments to combat terrorism and foreign fighter travel and to suspend foreign assistance to countries not making significant efforts to comply. Moreover, U.S. surplus equipment and supplies would be sent abroad to boost security. The Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016 is a measure that is long overdue to not only protect our homeland from terrorism, but also ensure the U.S. is always prepared to combat the spread of any infectious diseases. i will continue to push for the full passage of my Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act in the house, and urge my colleagues to bring this bipartisan bill to the house floor for a vote. Protecting America’s security at home and abroad remains one of my highest priorities in Congress.

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ecent headlines, displayed prominently on news sites around the world, were alarming, such as: “150,000 Adélie penguins killed by iceberg.” The stories suggested our flightless blackand-white friends were cut off by a Rhode Island-sized iceberg from their food supply. It was too late to save the “Happy Feet” characters. But the reality was anything but black and white.

“These headlines, while eye-popping, are not necessarily true,” said Heather Lynch, an assistant professor in the Stony Brook University Department of Ecology and Evolution. The stories came from a recent study, published in Antarctic Science. Lynch did not participate in the study, but is involved in monitoring penguin populations from satellites. “This idea that [these] penguins have perished doesn’t reflect the biology in hand,” she said. It will take “many years” before scientists are able to sort out the effect of this iceberg on penguin survivorship. That’s because penguins can take a year or two off from breeding during unfavorable environmental conditions, which means that penguins displaced from breeding by an iceberg aren’t likely dead. The scientists in the original study were linking the change in the breeding penguin population at Cape Denison — the site of a research station for

famous Australian geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson about a century earlier — with the number of nesting pairs recorded after the arrival of iceberg B09B in 2010. “There was some concern that there were dead chicks or frozen eggs at the site,” Lynch said. “We need to be cautious about interpreting that as evidence of some kind of catastrophic mortality event. There’s extremely high chick mortality rate under normal circumstances. That is the cycle of life.” Reports about penguins losing habitat, breeding grounds or access to food typically lead to the kind of questions that were central to the “Happy Feet” story: What role do humans have in the process and what action, if any, is necessary to save the birds? Kerry-Jayne Wilson, the lead author on the study and the chairperson of the West Coast Penguin Trust in New Zealand, offered some perspective. “We did not suggest adult penguins had died,” she said

in response to an email request for comment. “Some media outlet started” this rumor. She said she believes most of the missing penguins are probably “out at sea, having assessed conditions as unsuitable for breeding.” The authors sent out a clarifying press release in response to the stories: “It is unlikely many, if any, adult penguins have died as a result of this stranding event. This iceberg stranding event only affects Adélie penguins in the Commonwealth Bay area; the millions of Adélie penguins breeding around the rest of Antarctica are not affected.” So, where did the story go wrong? For starters, a press release announcing the study used the headline: “Giant iceberg decimates Adélie penguin colonies.” The statement suggests that breeding has declined in the area, without indicating that 150,000 of Mr. Popper’s pals perished. I turned to a representative at SBU’s Alan Alda Center for

Be crystal clear about your findings. Communicating Science, which teaches scientists to make their research accessible to the public, to see if there are any lessons from this communication misfire. Elizabeth Bass, director emerita of the center, suggested scientists needed to know their audience when sharing their research. “Be crystal clear about your findings,” she advised. In all the courses the center teaches, the message is to stress characterizing the work in a way that’s “not going to be misunderstood.” Lynch is concerned that these type of stories, taken out of context, make it more difficult to share well-grounded science from future studies with policymakers. “At some point, people stop listening and that’s what concerns me,” she said. “Real science whispers, it doesn’t shout.”

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changed society in America and around the world. Friedan based the book on a survey she did of her classmates at their 15th reunion in 1957, at which she asked her telling question. At that time women were assumed to be content with their lives if they had a husband, a home and children. The answers she received proved otherwise. For this sample of women, that was resoundingly not enough, and from those answers and her own experience she began to advocate that women be educated not to get a husband but to be an individual. To women today, this thesis seems obvious, but at the time of her book, Friedan’s message was greeted with astonishment. She was overturning the role of women in society that had existed for pretty much all of recorded history. The same week Friedan’s

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book came out, my husband and I were married in a beautiful wedding that my parents made for us in New York. That night, we flew to Chicago where my husband was finishing school. I immediately got a job to support us until he graduated and we returned to New York. Were Friedan’s words ringing in my ears? Hardly, for I had recently graduated from a college whose president had repeatedly delivered that same message. These were Barnard College President Millicent McIntosh’s words: “Don’t make your goal in life simply to find a husband. You cannot know what lies ahead for you. You may not find that special person, you may get divorced or be widowed. Prepare yourself for the future by getting a good education.” How true! I was able to support us in those early years

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because of my education and was able to carry on and care for my family after my husband died at an early age because of my solid identity. All widows eventually do this. It certainly helped to be prepared. When the youngest of my three children started first grade in 1976, I launched my own business. It was the hometown newspaper you are now reading 40 years later. Within five years after I stepped back into the workplace, women had indeed “left their kitchens,” as Republican presidential candidate John Kasich controversially said this week, to get jobs outside the home. Some started businesses of their own. Some of those women, wives and mothers, helped me immeasurably to grow my business. Women were hungry for a creative role and an individual existence outside the home in addition to their meaningful work

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Don’t make your goal in life simply to find a husband. maintaining the family. When more women began to work and the idea of wives earning salaries became more acceptable, the two-paycheck families became the norm. This in turn brought forth all sorts of new issues: latchkey children, gender equality in the workplace, redefinition of roles within marriage, glass ceilings, higher divorce rates, balancing work and family for women and men, the child care industry. All are familiar themes to us now. In a way, my life and those of my contemporaries span the dramatic changes Friedan’s book and McIntosh spoke of, for we are living examples of those truths.

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