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Smithtown Bay Constables Save Two Distressed Fishermen Two friends learned that an old car part may not make the best anchor after a day of fishing in the Long Island Sound turned into a potentially dangerous situation. On Aug. 18, at approximately 7 p.m., Smithtown Public Safety Bay Constables David Rosenberg, Blake Gifford and Carmine Aro were on patrol, exiting the mouth of the Nissequogue River, when Rosenberg noticed what appeared to be two individuals floating at least a mile off the shore of Sunken Meadow State Park, according to a press release from the Town of Smithtown. As the airboat got closer, the bay constables could see two gentlemen waving and yelling for help next to an overturned canoe. Jose Flores and Franklin Bonilla, of Brentwood, were pulled aboard the airboat by Gifford and Aro, where they were quickly evaluated

for injuries. The bay constables then removed the submerged canoe from the Sound. Constables said Flores informed his rescuers that he and his friend were fishing, using an old car part for an anchor. About an hour into fishing, they realized that the makeshift anchor had broken from the canoe, and they had drifted a great distance from the shore. The two friends flipped the vessel in the process of attempting to paddle back to Sunken Meadow. Neither man knew how to swim, but they were both wearing personal floatation devices. The Smithtown Bay Constables returned Flores, Bonilla and their canoe to Sunken Meadow State Park. There were no reported injuries.

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Stony Brook University Facing a $109 Million Deficit BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The COVID-19 crisis has exacted a heavy toll on Stony Brook University’s finances, creating a $109.6 million deficit on the academic and research side. The pandemic cost the hospital and clinic an estimated $58 million, while it also cost the academic and research campus over $74.6 million in the past financial year, which includes $35 million in refunded fees, $12 million in lost revenue from cultural programs and facilities rentals, and $8.5 million in extra expenses, including cleaning and supplies, student quarantine costs and technology costs, according to message from new Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis published on her SBU president web page Aug. 12. Through a number of steps, including hiring freezes, the university has attempted to offset these costs, but that won’t be enough. The school is tapping into its central reserve fund, essentially the university’s rainy day pool, reducing it by over 50% in one year. McInnis, in an open letter on her web page, said this “is completely unsustainable.” Starting today, McInnis will hold a series of virtual campus conversations to provide more details and address questions, while she and university leaders search for long-term solutions to address a host of challenges that have presented a serious headwind to the school’s future budget. In disclosing detailed information, McInnis wrote that she believes such disclosures will help the campus work together towards solutions. “I believe that it is only by being open and candid and providing clear information that we can come together as a community to tackle our shared challenges,” she wrote in her letter. In her letter to the campus, McInnis detailed specific costs, while she also outlined the steps Stony Brook has taken to offset some of these financial challenges.

When SBU students left campus in March, many didn’t know what would happen in the future. Now that the campus nears the start of the semester, many students have decided they will not be returning. Photo by Kyle Barr

For starters, she wrote that the university has been “told to expect a 20-30% cut in state funding this year, or $25 million.” The school also had its allocation for last year retroactively cut by $19 million. “It is unclear when, if ever, our funding will return to current levels, let alone the levels of support we ideally receive as a top research institution in the region,” she wrote in her letter. Federal government restrictions on travel and visas, along with COVID impacts, have created a 17.5 percent drop in out-of-state and international students, which not only reduces diversity but also creates a $20 million drop in revenue. The number of campus residents will also decline by 40% for next semester, from 10,000 to 6,000, creating an estimated $38.9 million revenue loss. The bottom line, she explained, is that the $109.6 million deficit on the academic and research side. This she predicts, could become significantly worse. The measures the university has taken

offset some of that decline, saving the school an estimated $55 million, but the measures still do not close the budget gap and are not sustainable. A hiring freeze for new positions and for those that become open from staff and faculty attrition will save $20 million. Student housing refinancing will save $31.1 million in fiscal year 2021. An ongoing freeze on expenses covering costs for service contracts, supplies and equipment and travel will save about $2.3 million A cut to the athletic budget will save $2 million. Senior campus leadership, meanwhile, has voluntarily taken a 10% pay cut along with a permanent hold back of any 2% raise for all Management Confidential employees. At the same time, the university faces longer-term financial challenges. State support has declined since 2008, from $190.4 million to $147.7 million last year.

That will be even lower this year. On a perstudent basis, state support in 2020 was $6,995, compared with $9,570. This year’s expected increase in tuition and the Academic Excellence fee have not been approved by the SUNY Board. The multi-year contracts that govern faculty and staff pay have not been fully funded, McInnis wrote in her president’s message. That has created an additional cost of $10 million for the 2020 fiscal year. Over the next five years, that compounds to $54 million. The rainy day fund is picking up $9.7 million of that scheduled contractual salary increase raise. The Tuition Assistance Program has been set at 2010 tuition levels, which creates a $9 million financial gap in fiscal year 2020. That is expected to rise in 2021. Stony Brook also recently learned, according to McInnis’s letter, that TAP will be funded at 80 percent of what the school awards to New York State students who rely on the program to access higher education. At the same time, the Excelsior Program, which began in the fall of 2017 and allows students from families making up to $125,000 to attend school tuition free, may not accept new students this year. McInnis concluded with her hope that the university will come together in the same way it did during the worst of the pandemic in New York to address these financial challenges. “I fully recognize that you are operating in one of the most difficult environments any of us has experienced,” she wrote. “And, we are going to have to bring the same level of collaboration and innovation that you brought at the height of the COVID-19 response to our systemic budget challenges.” McInnis urged the staff to “work together, share the best ideas, challenge assumptions, and build on the excellence of Stony Brook University in order to continue to move this great institution forward.”

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History

Smithtown Oyster Sloop Rests at Mystic Seaport BY DON HAWKINS DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, is a popular day trip destination via ferry for Long Islanders. It is the largest maritime museum in the United States. Most of the historic buildings were brought there from the New England area to recreate a seaport village. Mystic Seaport is well known for its large collection of 19th century sailing vessels. One of these vessels is the oyster sloop, Nellie, which was built in Smithtown in 1891 and is prominently displayed in the water alongside the historic Thomas Oyster Co. shucking house. The following is Nellie’s story. Franklin Darling Hawkins (1847-1933) was a lifelong Smithtown resident, whose paternal and maternal ancestors had deep ties to the Nissequogue River area. He is the acknowledged builder and documented first owner of Nellie (Dec. 19, 1891 to Jan. 17, 1897). Capt. Frank built several small sloops and schooners at his residence on the east bank of the Nissequogue River, including Nellie. Hawkins’ house, built by his grandfather, Gilbert Hawkins, was located on River Road in what is now the Village of Nissequogue. His boat building yard was along the riverfront. During the seven years that Hawkins owned and captained Nellie, she was based at Port Jefferson Harbor. It is reported that he also moored her in the river at his property. The sloop dredged oysters in the Long Island Sound off the North Shore of the Island using steel basket-like dredges that were hauled onto the deck when full.

Hawkins sold Nellie Jan. 17, 1897, to Josiah Stamps of Central Islip. Stamps moved Nellie over to the oyster-rich Great South Bay off the South Shore of Long Island and based her in Patchogue. Nellie only remained with Stamps for about 3 1/2 years, after which he sold it to James A. Ryle of Stamford, Connecticut, on June 1, 1900. Ryle renamed the oyster sloop the Nellie A. Ryle and operated her for many years in the Long Island Sound off the Connecticut shoreline. In 1914, Ryle removed Nellie A. Ryle’s mast and rigging, equipped her with an engine and dredged oysters in his private oyster beds. A maritime law, in effect from the 1880s through 1969 prohibited motor power vessels from harvesting oysters in natural growth oyster beds. It was only on privately owned, seeded oyster beds where motorized vessels could be used. The then current document on Ryle’s ownership of Nellie A. Ryle expired July 26, 1926, when it was surrendered at Bridgeport, Connecticut. The vessel, however, was still documented in the 1963 edition of “Merchant Vessels of the United States.” It is assumed that the oyster sloop remained with the Ryle family until it was purchased for Mystic Seaport by the Society for the Preservation of the Nellie A. Ryle. The sloop was still seaworthy and operating as a powerboat when Mystic Seaport Museum acquired it in 1964. The history of Nellie or Nellie A. Ryle brought forward to her new home port at Mystic Seaport was that she was built in Smithtown in 1818 by Slope and Scudder. This information

The Nellie, above and below, was built in Smithtown in 1891 by Franklin Darling Hawkins. Photos from Mystic Seaport Museum

was proved incorrect. The New York Times archival articles from 1964 perpetuated this wrong information, which probably lingered from inaccurate, early Smithtown historical accounts of the oyster sloop. Not long after Mystic Seaport acquired Nellie A. Ryle, the museum staff questioned her 1818 date. Furthermore, no record existed for a Slope and Scudder shipbuilding firm in Smithtown. The curator of the museum at the time, John Leavitt, contacted the National Archives for the documentation on the oyster sloop. The National Archives did not have the record of the vessel’s builder, but it did verify Frank Hawkins as the first documented owner in 1891. Hawkins is the presumed but undocumented builder of the Nellie. The Mystic Seaport Museum renamed the oyster sloop the original name of Nellie, acknowledging her origin in Smithtown. The name Nellie appears on both sides of the bow, while the stern has the lettering Nellie-Stamford, CT as a tribute to Nellie’s last home port before arriving at Mystic in 1964. In 1965 Mystic Seaport replaced Nellie’s missing mast and rigging, based on plans from similar sized oyster sloops. The museum did a restoration on Nellie in 1972 and a second one in 2001. Nellie’s entire deck, most of the ribs and some of the hull planks were replaced in the two restorations. It is estimated that about 40% of Nellie is original, which is remarkable for a vessel that is almost 120 years old. Hawkins would have spent many months

building Nellie. The boards he used were probably cut at the sawmill at the Head of the River in Smithtown. Hand tools such as planes, chisels, adzes and saws were used to shape the boards used for Nellie. Nellie was obviously well constructed to have endured almost 120 years in the water. The length of the deck is 32 feet, 7 inches with a maximum width of 12 feet, 9 inches. It has a low-sided hull with a distinctive curved stern. Of the hundreds of oyster sloops that once plied the waters off Long Island, there are only three that still remain afloat: Nellie (1891) at Mystic Seaport; Christeen (1883) at Oyster Bay and Priscilla (1888) at the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville. Each has had extensive restorations. The question remains as to why Hawkins named his oyster sloop, Nellie. There is the likely possibility that he named the sloop in honor of his father, (Capt.) Edward Nelson Hawkins (1810-1865), who may have had the nickname of Nellie. Don Hawkins lives in Wading River, and Franklin Darling Hawkins is his great, great uncle. The author would like to thank Caren Zatyk at the Long Island Room of the Smithtown Library, who provided him with information on Hawkins’ residence and boat building activity at the Nissequogue River. Also, Maribeth Quinlan at the Mystic Seaport Collections and Research Room for providing him with the museum’s file on Nellie, including National Archives information.

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Hauppauge School District Choses In-Person Reopening Plan BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM While the majority of students in Smithtown township will experience a hybrid model of study when they return to schools in September, all those in the Hauppauge school district will be able to attend classes in person. According to the district’s reopening plan posted on its website, the schedules for the 2020-21 academic year were designed “with in-person instruction in mind, but are fluid enough to transition easily to a hybrid and/or distance-learning model, if needed.” Parents who choose not to send their children to school in-person will be able to select a distance learning option. Some of the buildings in the district will need overflow rooms, including in elementary schools, to allow for proper social distancing, while other classrooms have enough space to accommodate COVID-19 prevention guidelines, according to the district’s plan.. Technology will be used to keep students in overflow classrooms connected to their teachers, and children in the overflow rooms will be alternated. Students studying remotely will be required to use Google Meet for specific portions of

instruction. Classroom and distance-learning students will follow the same schedule depending on their grade level. Elementary students will follow a timeblock schedule. “Structure and consistency are key elements to the 2020-21 elementary schedule,” the plan reads. “Whether school is in-person or on distance learning and whether an individual student is attending in-school or from home, students and parents will have a time-block schedule they can expect to follow for the duration of the year.” Middle school students will still follow a traditional nine-period day. The district will also utilize cohorting “to minimize contact and sharing of desks.” Students will remain in one classroom for the majority of their classes and travel to other locations for courses such as physical education and music. High school students will follow a block schedule to reduce transitions in hallways. The schedule takes the traditional nine-period day and spreads it out over two days and will also provide increased instruction time per class, according to the district. Students will still be able to attend career and technical education programs at Eastern Suffolk BOCES.

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FAST PACED THREE VILLAGE OPTICAL STORE seeks F/T CSR/Sales associate capable of multi-tasking and working with public. Hours will vary between 9am and 7pm. Saturday availability is non-negotiable. Hourly pay rate is dependent upon experience, must have a reliable source of transportation. Email resume to StonyBrookVision@aol.com. SEE DISPLAY AD FOR MORE INFORMATION. JOB OPPORTUNITY $18.50 P/H NYC $16 P/H LI Up to $13.50 P/H UPSTATE NY CDPAP Caregiver Hourly Pay Rate! Under NYS CDPAP Medicaid program you can hire your family or friends for your care. Phone: 347-713-3553 ROCKY POINT UFSD Available Openings: FT/PT Licensed Security, FT Teacher Aide, PT Lunch Monitor, Substitutes for Custodians, Groundskeeper, Licensed Security, Food Service Workers. See Display Ad for more information. SMITHTOWN LIBRARY, PT GROUNDSKEEPER I. Applicants must possess and maintain a valid license to operate a motor vehicle in NYS. Email resume to: smithjob@smithlib.org. See Display Ad for more info.

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Who uses the post office? In 2019, 143 billion pieces of mail were sent to 160 million delivery addresses, with more than 31,000 offices being operated. Baby boomers and those who live in rural areas rely on the USPS to receive prescriptions and social security checks as well as pay bills more so than other demographic groups. But in a presidential election year, especially one during a pandemic where many are hesitant to cast their votes in person, mail-in voting could be what allows so many the chance to participate in democracy. Perhaps more importantly, it could possibly show just how amazing democracy can be if even more people are enfranchised. It’s been evidenced at the very local level. Residents were sent ballots for their school district budgets and trustee elections directly in the mail. What we saw was a massive increase in the numbers of ballots cast amongst all our local districts. The Smithtown school district, for example, saw over 8,000 more people cast votes compared to 2019 numbers. This is an example of how granting easier access to voting will result in more votes cast. How important is this? In 2016, only 58.1% of the voting age population cast their ballots, and that was during a presidential election year. Despite fears that mail-in ballots will somehow lead to voter fraud, experts have consistently said that states that have mail-in voting systems have not experienced notable numbers of fake or false ballots more than states lacking such systems.. It is in everyone’s interest to have more people participating in democracy. And with the White House’s constant refrain that voter fraud could occur if mail-in ballots are widely used, and with the administration having threatened to withhold funds from the USPS, it’s necessary to cast a critical eye on the controversial changes made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. His decisions have led to overtime cuts, reduced post office hours, changes to delivery policies and the removal of some sorting machines. The changes have already led to mail delays, including on Long Island, according to the Letter Carriers Local 6000, a L.I. and Queens-based postal union. Though DeJoy announced Aug. 18 he would be “suspending these initiatives” until after the election, we must remain alert. The postal agency itself has said delivering an estimated 80 million ballots nationwide will be difficult. Instead we should now focus on making sure the process runs as smoothly as possible. It’s true that the New York and California Democratic primaries were hurt by an inefficient infrastructure that was not made to handle the mass influx of votes. Reports say that thousands of such votes had to be discounted because of flaws by the people who cast them. The goal of the Suffolk County Board of Elections should be to increase its capability to handle what will likely be a mass influx of both mail-in and absentee ballots. Better yet, it should be incumbent on the federal government to supply local municipalities the capability to handle the new influx of votes. We agree with Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY3), who at a press conference Aug. 17 said we needed an “urgent call to arms to break through all the noise and focus on protecting not only the security of our elections, but the integrity and reliability of the United States Postal Service. Lives, livelihoods and our democracy are at stake.” We need to extend this thought process to the efficacy of our democracy itself. Improving people’s ability to vote should be a no-brainer in a society such as ours. We must cut through partisanship and remember just how important it is that every person should have a voice in government, despite — or more so, because of — the ongoing pandemic.

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Can the USPS Survive New Postmaster General It’s easy to criticize the U.S. Postal Service, as an Aug. 13 letter (“Post office should consider other options”) to this newspaper does, by just making stuff up. First, about the price of stamps. The letter writer demands the “price of stamps should be tied to the rate of inflation.” The fact is, it already is — by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. The writer wants the USPS to sell advertising space on mailboxes, post offices and trucks to raise money. What’s next? Putting up a gigantic ad on the Washington Monument to reduce the national debt? The writer leaves out the main reason why the USPS is running in the red. It’s because of the same 2006 law, which forces the Postal Service to pay in advance for the health and retirement benefits of all its employees up to 75 years in the future. This is an obligation required of no other government entity or private corporation. In addition, these funds must be invested in special Treasury bonds which yield almost nothing. This is far more restrictive than the Thrift Savings Plan, the standard federal employee retirement plan. If these crippling restrictions of the 2006 law were removed, almost all of the so-called USPS deficit would disappear. Earlier this year, Feb. 5, the House of

Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bi-partisan USPS Fairness Act, which would do precisely that. Unfortunately, the Senate, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [R], blocked this legislation. The Senate inaction is one reason for the artificial post office “crisis.” Another and even more damaging reason is President Donald Trump’s [R] overt efforts to do everything he can to destroy it. Part of this stems from petty vindictiveness against Jeff Bezos, of Amazon and The Washington Post, which he hates because it tracks his falsehoods. Trump wants the Postal Service to exorbitantly hike rates on all of our mailed packages, because he thinks this would damage Amazon’s business model. But even worse, Trump wants to sabotage the post office so as to render it incapable of handling voting by mail, to further his scheme of voter suppression in the upcoming election. To do this, he’s appointed Louis DeJoy as postmaster general. His main qualification is he contributed millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign. DeJoy holds major financial interests In XPO Logistics ($30 million), a USPS contractor, and in trucking company J.B. Hunt, a USPS competitor. In addition, immediately after his appointment as postmaster general, he

bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of Amazon stock options, another USPS competitor, which would allow him to make a quick killing in the stock market if the price of Amazon stock rises. The main actions DeJoy has taken as postmaster general are banning overtime and decommissioning high-speed sorting machines critical to processing the mail, particularly to processing a deluge of mail-in ballots. Coincidence? This already has had a drastic effect in slowing down delivery times and ending the Postal Service’s historic commitment to prompt mail service throughout the country in all sorts of conditions. I don’t think it’s just me who’s noticed the effect: Mail I’ve sent out recently has taken much longer than usual to be received, and no mail was delivered to our house for several days. The United States Postal Service survived the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II, and continued to function without a hitch. The question is can it survive the presidency of Donald Trump? Note: I have no connection to the USPS and worked in the private sector my entire career. David Friedman St. James

Time for Outside Firm to Assess Gyrodyne is Now I read with some entertainment in last week’s paper, Aug. 13, the comments of well-paid consultant John Cameron Jr. pronouncing the Gyrodyne project environmentally safe. That’s sort of like a shark inviting a swimmer to “c’mon in, the water’s fine.” We Long Islanders live among a litany of toxic waste sites and they were all deemed to be “completely safe” by their consultants, too. There’s a toxic plume below the old Grumman site in Bethpage. They told us it was safe, but they knew it wasn’t. Lawrence Aviation in Port Jefferson Station billed themselves as a good neighbor — they left us a cesspool of chemicals. The Northville Industries location in East Setauket was just fine, until they left a plume of gasoline in our drinking water. So, forgive me if I don’t take Mr. Cameron, the developer’s consultant-for-hire, at his word.

What do we know about Gyrodyne? We know it was a defense manufacturer. We know they operated quietly behind a big fence, on lots of land. We know the 1950s and ’60s were “go go” years, when magazines drew diagrams showing how to ”safely” dispose of waste oil in the ground. Why isn’t it reasonable to assume Gyrodyne operated the same way their peers did? Given the stakes and what’s occurred here on Long Island, shouldn’t we assume the worst and work backward? That’s why We Are Smithtown and a coalition of citizens groups have called for a forensic environmental audit of the Gyrodyne property. When a heralded environmental leader like Assemblyman Steve Englebright [D-Setauket] cites how Gyrodyne will pollute our groundwater and endanger Stony Brook Harbor, we take that heck of a lot more seriously than the rosy claims of a company looking to

make a quick buck before it goes out of business. Smithtown Town Hall says “no” to such an audit. Why? What do they fear, and whose side are they on? Steve Englebright’s right, John Cameron’s wrong. Gyrodyne’s profit-atany-cost megadevelopment poses a huge risk to our waterways, a potential traffic nightmare and a change for the worse for the character of our town. Gyrodyne’s “one last payday before we go” management cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Nor can we rely on the words of their hired gun. It’s time for Supervisor Ed Wehrheim [R] and Smithtown Town Board to bring in an outside firm to assess the land at Gyrodyne to protect the people of Smithtown — and time to do it is now. James Bouklas President We Are Smithtown civic group

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Opinion

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y mother often describes family rituals in her columns, whether they are the way we play baseball, the way we argue (remember the pancakes on my then teenage brother’s cantankerous head?) or the way we celebrate victories and help each other rise off the mat after defeats. Ever the driven optimist, my mother can turn the most lemony lemons into something much more palatable, often, as Julie Andrews did in “My Favorite Things” with a spoonful, or D. None two, of sugar. of the above It would be easy BY DANIEL DUNAIEF this week to lament the fact that, for the first time in decades, my family can’t see my mother on her birthday because of

the danger from bringing the virus to her home. We recognize that so many people are enduring so much more challenging disruptions to their routines and that we are fortunate to have each other and can share the events of the week with her through Zoom. So, instead of being disappointed by the distance, I will share ways in which my mother, who will celebrate this birthday with my brothers and not me, my wife and our children, has cast a long shadow, all the way to our doorstep. Well, for starters, my children and I can be, and often are, serious when the moment demands. And yet, a part of us can’t help imagining uproariously funny images or interruptions to a somber and important speech at just the wrong moment. I’m sure part of what was so familiar about my wife’s similarly mischievous nature comes from recognizing the moment when one of us feels compelled to answer a rhetorical question or to laugh during a silence.

My mother also has a keen ear for the words people choose to use or that immortalize them, much the way my children and I do. Of the many Winston Churchill quotes, she has, on occasion, shared this one: “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” I suppose that one isn’t too surprising, given her appreciation for animals which likely comes from her father, who grew up lactose intolerant on a dairy farm. Hmm, maybe that’s where she gets her sense of humor? Moving along, my family revels in our senses. We smell something wonderful, like baking cookies or the scent of new flowers in the spring, and we take a moment to appreciate the gift of the scent and our senses, which enable us to perceive and process it. My mother also has a spectacular appreciation for nature. A sudden dark sky isn’t cause for concern or disappointment, but is a chance to appreciate the variety of

weather that makes the coldest day warmer and the warmest day cooler. Now, given the times in which we live, I see my mother in both of our children as they handle the ever-changing rules and realities of a world that hasn’t yet conquered the virus. Our daughter could rue the inequities that are robbing her of a “normal” college education. Instead, she and her resilient friends are staying in touch, supporting each other, and looking forward, as my mother would, to the day when they can return to a campus they might have otherwise taken for granted. As for our son, despite his dedication and passion for baseball, which is a rite of passage each spring, he kept his head up and took time to train on his own, waiting for the moment when he could return, stronger and faster, to his field of dreams. We can’t wait to sing to you this year, mom, and to let you know that, even though we haven’t traveled to see each other, we are enjoying the echoes of your joie de vivre in the halls of our home.

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to the economy the pandemic has caused; recognition of systemic racism in our nation and the protests that has engendered; attitudes toward the police; the growing crisis in the postal service alarming voters; the announcement of explicit diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without first a settlement of the Palestinian question; the immigration issue again in focus with the selection of Kamala Harris as Biden’s vice presidential ticket mate; the changing face of America that nomination reflects; the reopening of schools; the reevaluation of a college degree vs. its costs precipitated by the prospect of Zoom classes and of course the Democratic National Convention held primarily via the internet. Notice I didn’t even list the damage caused by Isaias; the increasingly troubling relationship between the United States and China; the windstorms that wrecked Iowa’s coming harvest; the abdication of Congress in the face of public desperation for fiscal stimuli; the grand centennial celebration of the 19th amendment concerning women’s right to vote; the defiance of the current recession by the stock market;

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and the rush of New York City residents to buy houses in the suburbs and settle in for the long haul. And that’s just some issues. Almost all of these themes to some degree directly affect us here on Long Island. The one I would like to expand on, perhaps because it is the least confrontational and we have had enough confrontation for now, is the rapid change in American demographics. The last big wave of immigrants, who arrived at the turn of the 20th century, was largely from Eastern and Southern Europe. This time, the surge is made up of second generation Americans — the children of immigrants who came from around the world. In California, for example, almost half of the children are from immigrant homes of Asians, Hispanics and those who are biracial. For the first time in our country’s history, whites make up less than half under the age of 16, according to the Brookings Institute. According to The New York Times, more than a quarter of all Americans are immigrants or the American-born children of immigrants, the latter representing “about 10 percent of the adult population.” About 42

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million adults, or one in six of the country’s 250 million adults, are foreign-born. What are the consequences of this shift in population? This is nothing short of a transformation of this country’s identity “from a mostly white baby-boomer society into a multiethnic and racial patchwork,” according to The Times. “Boomers are 71.6 percent white, Millennials are 55 percent white, and post-Gen Z, those born after 2012 are 49.6 percent white … The parents of these modern children are from the Caribbean, China, Central America and Mexico” as well as India, Korea and more. They often came with higher education, mainly as a result of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, but it’s their children who are moving into public life. They tend to feel “very patriotic about America,” according to Suhas Subramanyam, born of Indian parents who became the first Indian-American to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. This mix of immigrants brings cultural richness and energy to our society, not to mention great new foods.

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APR=Annual Percentage Rate. Rate accurate as of 8/17/2020; subject to change. 1 Rate featured is the lowest for the product. Variable rate; maximum rate of 16%. May be offered credit at a higher rate and other terms; subject to credit approval. After introductory rate, APR varies based on prime rate plus a margin; margin disclosed at account opening. Current prime rate 3.25%. Hazard insurance required on all loans. 2 Must maintain minimum balance requirements for first 12 months for introductory rate and 36 months to avoid payment of closing costs. No closing costs option only available for limits up to $500,000 for a primary residence located in Nassau or Suffolk County. Other terms and conditions apply. Membership eligibility applies. *

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