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Smithtown Announces Tentative Budget, Residents Respond with Concerns BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Smithtown town officials presented its 2021 tentative budget of $107.6 million to residents last week during a virtual public town hall meeting. A budget vote is scheduled for November. “2020 has certainly been a whirlwind throwing challenges our way that are expected to continue throughout 2021,” Town Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) said during the meeting. “It has made our jobs as municipal managers much more difficult in both overseeing the operating results for 2020 and projecting the budget for 2021.” He said that early on in the pandemic, the town “weathered the storm” and created adequate reserves to keep things intact and continued to complete advantageous projects including the Lake Avenue Business District, among others. “The economic benefits of these projects will last long into the future, allowing for generations to come benefit greatly,” he said. Wehrheim added that this year the town decreased overtime and decided to cut discretionary spending by 15%. The upcoming budget claims it will maintain municipal services while trimming payroll and increasing property taxes on the typical nonvillage home less than 1%. “In 2020, we looked to reducing expenditures by reinventing our own ways of doing business and created new opportunities to make up for the pandemic-related shortfall,” the supervisor said. “This enabled me to deliver a budget it stays within a mandated allowable New York state tax cap limitation this year of 1.5%, which is becoming increasingly more difficult for municipal managers.”

Some highlights included an overall decrease in salaries accounting for a little over $600,000. “Due to the retirement incentive we instituted during the pandemic, we did not utilize any fund balance to balance this budget,” he said. “It is a structurally balanced budget.” Wehrheim said that overall taxes increased by less than 1% with the exception of residents within the St. James water district who experienced a slightly greater increase due to the water mains along Lake Avenue. The Lake Avenue Project cost $8 million, and includes a dry sewer line that officials home could connect to a sewage treatment plant at the Gyrodyne site near the town’s Brookhaven border. The 2021 tentative budget meeting broke down expenses by type. The bulk of expenses at 34% goes towards salaries, 30% to contractual agreements, 29% to employee benefits, 5% to debt service and 2% to equipment. It also states the Town’s General fund will see an increase of $22.57 for a home assessed at $5,500 or 3.74%. The same residence will see a reduction in their highway taxes of $4.51 or 3.61% for a net increase of $18.06 per residence valued at $5,500 or 2.48% increase. Residents not within village boundaries will see taxes increase by $10.48 for a home assessed at $5,500 or 0.81% higher. Wehrheim said no use of fund balance in any of those funds were used to balance the budget. After officials broke down the plan, residents voiced their concerns. Members from the civic group We Are Smithtown brought up issues surrounding the Lake Avenue Project, the Master Plan and questions involving the town’s School Age Child Care Program. The group criticized that the budget

The Town of Smithtown released its 2021 tentative budget last week. File photo.

seemed to show the town was profiting off of the program with the tentative budget showing revenue exceeded expenses by $548,264 in 2019. However, it shows that the program is expected to operate at a $226,846 loss this year, and that revenue is expected to exceed costs by $100,000 in 2021. James Bouklas, president of the group, argued that the Town of Smithtown brings in $1.413 million in revenue for the program each year, yet the budget shows the program’s cost is $828,000 – a profit of almost $600,000 yearly. “If you look at the cost, you can see it’s pretty comprehensive,” he said. “This is not its own fund, it’s part of the general fund … In my opinion, it’s pretty comprehensive. There’s not a lot of shared services.” He added that the group called for an accounting for every dollar coming into the

program. “All profits should be refunded to the families of the program,” Bouklas said. Patty Stoddard, a Nesconset resident and board member of the group, said this program is essential to working parents and should be accounted for. “This is a program that is a lifeline for working parents often work long hours to be able to afford to live in Smithtown and send their kids to excellence,” she said at the meeting. “This is not the first time we’ve addressed issues with this program. It came to our attention earlier this year that many childcare workers in the towns program were earning less than minimum wage. We pressured the town into doing the right thing and the town agreed to increase wages.” However, Town Comptroller Donald Musgnug said the budget does not break down the program’s cost provided by other town departments including payroll, insurance, accounting and Parks and Recreation. “If you add them to the direct costs, would greatly diminish what you’re perceiving to be, quote, a profit,” he said. “We don’t measure profit and losses within a governmental entity. We’re not viewing it as a business per say. We’re not trying to make money off of that, and the fact of the matter is between 2020, because of the diminished revenues, we’re anticipating a loss of $227,000.” Despite the problems 2020 caused for everyone locally and across the country, Wehrheim said he hopes the town will never have to witness circumstances like this again. “If we should experience this again, we can promise you that town board, myself and our town employees will be ready after all the town endures,” he said.

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Nature Preserves/Parks See Increase in Visitors Since Pandemic’s Start currently chairs the state Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation, has seen more people stopping by on Gnarled Hollow Road to use the Setauket to Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail. “Our investment in local parks and the environment seems to be paying off,” he said. “I think [these parks] will continue to be used at a much higher level than before.” Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) is the chair of the Environment, Parks & Agriculture committee. She said county parks usage is definitely up, though there are many parks and trails that have no way to record the number of visitors. However, at the same time, outdoor activities also seem to be on the rise, as permits for activities like archery are up close to 30%.

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If one is looking hard for the silver linings about the ongoing pandemic, it may be that residents seem to be returning to nature, filling up Long Island’s public parks and preserves in droves. The Nature Conservancy, a global environmental nonprofit that has offices in Cold Spring Harbor, helps protect hundreds of nature preserves around the world. The organization has many on Long Island, including six on the North Shore such as Uplands Farm Nature Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor, the David Weld Sanctuary in Nissequogue and Wading River Marsh Preserve in Wading River. Those acres of protected land, according to conservancy officials, have seen a huge uptick in visitors over the past several months. Mat Levine, the director of stewardship for the conservancy’s New York state branch, said that in a normal year, they could have somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 visitors annually statewide. Since the start of spring into summer, they saw a jump of three times as many people visiting their nature preserves. While that has slowed down as of late, partially because of incoming cool weather and a slackening of COVID-19 restrictions, Levine said the number of visitors could say something about people’s desire to relieve stress using their own local natural environment. “It was, it still is a tough time for a lot of people,” the New York stewardship director said. “People use nature to get a real mental and physical benefit.” Jeremy Samuelson, director of the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island, also run by the conservancy, said the 2,000-acre parcel normally receives around 30,000 visitors a year. With the pandemic, they were seeing two to three times their normal load. Employees on preserves were deemed essential workers back when everything started to close down in mid-March. The increased visitorship also meant the preserve and its employees had to work more toward managing the flow of people, giving them access and information, and maintaining the trails, all while trying to keep people safe. “The challenge is in keeping our team members and visitors safe,” Samuelson said. “The way I describe it we are running a public interfacing institution, so we’ve had to like everybody else think about what we need to put more resources in this time, so we can be of service.” Even with the new flow of visitors, the preserve director said they didn’t try to keep anyone away. “Our goal is to get people to fall in love with nature, so as long as we can offer these facilities that balances welcoming people with making sure we’re taking care of natural

For many of these places that were relatively underutilized, the increased attention can be a boon. However, for other outdoor environments that already see heavy use, there have been issues. McAllister County Park in Belle Terre has had residents complaining as the number of cars looking to park in the small lot on Anchorage Road has far exceeded the space available for them. Other more widely used parks have experienced an increase in parking problems and litter. But for those who champion local parks and the environment, seeing this move toward nature can only be a positive in the future. “There’s no question, people have been looking for places to escape stress, places that are safe, distanced and outdoors,” Hahn said.

The Wading River Marsh Preserve is just one of several Long Island habitats protected and maintained by teh Nature Conservancy. Photo by Kyle Barr

resources, we should be throwing the door open wide,” he said. In March, once theaters, restaurants, concert halls bars and so many other places for entertainment were closing down, Levine said people started coming by as the preserves were “one of the few places left open.” The hope, he said, is that more people are turning their attention to their local environment, and even larger environmental goals. Avalon Nature Preserve in Stony Brook also saw an increase in visitors at the start of the pandemic, according to Park Director Katharine Griffiths. Many of those were people who had never come through before. Many people simply had nowhere else to go but visit their local parks, and Griffiths was glad to see new interest in the preserve. However, since things have opened up, she said the number of visitors are declining back down to where they were before the pandemic. Griffiths said she has always argued for people to go back to nature, to get off their devices and experience the outdoors, but for her it’s hard to tell if the pandemic will be this large change in people’s attitudes. “I guess we’ll see,” she said. “I do think this situation has given some people the opportunity to do something they normally wouldn’t have done.” Back in June, The Nature Conservancy, along with Los Angeles-based public opinion research firm FM3, did a survey of 600 New York voters where 70% said the pandemic recovery offers an opportunity to better plan for climate change. Even more said they would want to give more New Yorkers easier access to public parks and preserves. State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) said state parks and preserves have also seen a “widespread pattern” of increased usage. Even in the local area, Englebright, who

The new officers had a small ceremony in front of family and friends through Facebook Live. “You should all feel a sense of pride in the job that you do, and the community which you serve,” said Public Safety Director Tom Lohmann Jr. Photo from Town of Smithtown

Five New Public Safety Officers Sworn In, Four Promoted in Smithtown

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The Town of Smithtown welcomed five new officers to the Department of Public Safety on Oct. 20 in a swearing in ceremony. Town Supervisor Ed Wehrheim administered the oath of office for five new members and four promoted officers, in the Victor T. Liss Boardroom at Smithtown Town Hall. The swearing in ceremony was also made available virtually, via Facebook live, for friends and family to safely participate from afar. Daniel Shannon, Bay Constable #305, Blake Gifford, Bay Constable #307, Zakary Griffin, Fire Marshal #4046, Patrick Lentini, Park Ranger #375, and Investigator Scott Basantes #792 took the oath to serve and protect the people of Smithtown, in front of family and town officials. “You guys stood front and center through the pandemic, when a lot of

people in the town and throughout the state and county were home in their house, sheltering in place, which was the right thing to do,” Councilman Tom Lohmann said. “But you folks were out there, and that’s not lost on me. I truly appreciate everything you’ve done.” Promotional certificates were also presented by Director Tom Lohmann Jr. “We have been through civil unrest, we have been through a terrible tropical storm, we have been through COVID-19, and this department is vital in helping us get through these disasters,” Wehrheim said. “You’ve done an admirable job, and on behalf of the Board and the 118,000 residents, we want to thank you for your service.” In an effort to maintain safety during the coronavirus pandemic, social distancing and a restricted number of guests were permitted in the boardroom. All participants and guests were required to wear masks.

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School News

Science experiment tests structures

During a recent Project Lead the Way lesson, students in Mrs. Amato’s class at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in Smithtown Central School District learned about structure and function in science. Each student designed and built his/her own strong and sturdy house for the characters in the “Three Little Pigs” story. They all watched to see if their homes held up when the Big Bad Wolf tried to blow them down.

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Smithtown High School East’s Foster recognized as Scholar Artist

Smithtown High School East student Gabriella Foster has received an Award of Merit for music as part of the 2020-2021 Scholar Artist Program. The Long Island Arts Alliance’s Scholar Artist program recognizes students who excel academically and in the areas of either music, visual arts, dance, theater or media arts. As one of 20 selected Award of Merit recipients from across Long Island, Foster was recognized in Newsday last month. She will also be celebrated at a reception in the spring at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. All photos courtesy of SCSD

Pictured are the Smithtown High School West InvenTeam with Principal John Coady (left), Smithtown High School West science research teacher Dr. Joanne Figueiredo, (second from left) and Smithtown Central School District’s Director of Science Laura Snell (right).

Smithtown HS West team awarded invention grant

Smithtown High School West was one of just 13 high schools nationwide to be selected as an InvenTeam this year. As an award winner, Smithtown High School West will receive a grant for $10,000 by LemelsonMIT InvenTeam® to create their invention, a personal space monitor to help autistic children improve their social interactions. InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers and mentors that receive grants to invent technological solutions to realworld problems. This initiative of the LemelsonMIT Program aims to inspire a new generation of inventors. “The InvenTeams program represents the future,” said Leigh Estabrooks, invention education officer from the LemelsonMIT Program. “We place an emphasis on STEM-focused projects to develop interest in these fields among youth. With InvenTeams, our primary goal is to foster high school students’ passion for invention, in turn inspiring them to consider careers in science, technology, engineering or math,” she added. Led by Smithtown High School West science research teacher Dr. Joanne Figueiredo, the application process began last spring. She worked with her team of students – Sinead Doyle, Jensen Herbst, Liza Lleshaj, Rehan Mian, Tyler Nagosky, Patrick Noto, Eric Pentecoste, Madeline Raeihle and Aaquib Syed – during the summer to prepare the final proposal. A panel of judges composed of educators, researchers, staff and alumni from MIT, as well as representatives from industry and former Lemelson-MIT Award winners, assembled virtually this fall and selected this year’s InvenTeam grantees. Autism Spectrum Disorder affects approximately one in every 59 children in the United States. “These children sometimes exhibit difficulties understanding the idea

of interpersonal space,” said Dr. Figueiredo. “Our invention, the Personal Distance Monitor (PDM), is a cost-effective solution to this problem. It uses an IR sensor to alert the user when they are getting too close to another person. It also reports to an app that can help a teacher or parent to monitor progress.” The Smithtown High School West InvenTeam will also work with Glen Meyerowitz, a graduate student at UCLA and former engineer at SpaceX, who will guide the students through the development of their invention.

“This is a remarkable group of students who have come together to solve an important problem faced by their peers in our school and other students across the country; we are eager to support them,” said Principal John Coady. During the next nine months, the Smithtown High School West InvenTeam will develop its PDM. The team will build a working prototype of their invention that is showcased at a technical review within the local community in February, and then again as a final prototype at EurekaFest, an invention celebration in June 2021.

Mt. Pleasant pumpkin writers get creative

Second graders in Ms. Gabriel’s and Mrs. Chester’s classes at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in the Smithtown Central School District created jack-o’-lanterns and worked on a writing element on how to carve a pumpkin. They used transition words and adjectives to improve their writing.

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Gaughran Looks to Retain Senate Seat in NY’s 5th District also vote on aid too. “It’s not solely one person calling all the shots in Washington, D.C.,” Smyth said.

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Town of Huntington Councilman Ed Smyth (R) is looking to unseat state Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northport) in the 5th District. Smyth is currently serving his second term on the Town Board, while Gaughran is completing his first term as state senator. The two participated in an Oct. 16 Zoom debate with the TBR News Media editorial staff to discuss their strategies regarding issues on the forefront of constituents’ minds, including the state’s actions during the pandemic, bail reform, water quality and more.

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Both the councilman and senator agreed that the state’s response to the pandemic was appropriate, and the decision to give Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) executive authority was warranted. “There was no road map for this,” Gaughran said. “Everyone got hit over the head with this.” The senator said he still remembers when he and his colleagues being briefed by Dr. Howard Zucker, New York State commissioner of health, back in March about the virus and how there was a need to move forward quickly and give Cuomo the power to make decisions quickly. “We went through a lot of pain, and now we’re climbing back,” Gaughran said. While the senator doesn’t feel businesses should open up fully all at once, he does want them to open as quickly as possible while remaining safe. Smyth said he wants to help businesses open up quicker as he feels the emergency has now passed regarding the coronavirus and medical professionals have a better grasp on it. He said it needs to be recognized that every type of business has a different need, and that every person can decide to enter a business based on their own health conditions and fears. “An electrical contractor has a very different need than a restaurant or bowling alley,” Smyth said. Gaughran said his office has been working closely with businesses to identify their needs and wants. He has seen many working well with the new public health guidelines, “I’m working every day with businesses in my district trying to help them reopen fully but safely,” he said. “But these decisions shouldn’t be made by politicians, they should be made by health officials.” Smyth agreed that legislators need to

From left to right: Town of Huntington Councilman Ed Smyth (R) is going against State Senator Jim Gaughran (D) for a seat in NY’s 5th District. File Photos.

sit down with health officials and let them weigh in. He said during the pandemic, some of the guidelines were applied unfairly and unevenly, and he said he didn’t understand why a person could go on a plane but not go to church or a gym. “The quarantine is being applied unequally, while one size doesn’t fit all,” Smyth said. “The logic behind this, to me, doesn’t pass a common sense test.” Gaughran said he has seen some unfairness, but he said with slight upticks in the infection rate, “we need to be safe.”

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A hot topic in the district has been the Long Island Power Authority’s Northport power plant. For years, many local residents have been waiting for a settlement with LIPA. The Northport power plant was taxed at $86 million, which LIPA said was overassessed, and the entity was seeking a court-order reduction which could have led to a 90% cut of taxes for the company. This in turn would have led the Town of Huntington being responsible for an $800 million refund to LIPA and school taxes would have been raised. A recently proposed settlement, agreed on by the Northport-East Northport school district and the town, will cut LIPA’s taxes to $46 million from $86 million over the next seven years, lessening the burden a courtordered reduction would have imposed. Gaughran said the town should be obligated to make the final agreement accessible to residents. “Until you get the final agreement, you don’t know exactly what it is,” he said. Smyth said while the details of the settlement are still being worked out, all

information so far has been made public. He said looking over the case, “it was begging to settle,” adding the power plant had been overly assessed and calling it “a dinosaur.” “It would be great if it could be redeveloped into a far more efficient plant,” he said, adding that would be up to LIPA. Education Smyth said by nature he is a “debt hawk” and doesn’t believe in any government going into debt, but regarding school funding and with the COVID-19 impact, he said it may be appropriate to accrue some debt to ensure schools are funded properly. He said it’s also important to comb through the budget to find any abuse, citing a recent audit by New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (D) that found millions of dollars of abuse from the Medicaid program. “Every line item has to earn its way into the budget, but school funding should not be a negotiable item,” Smyth said. Gaughran said he was behind a bill that made the 2% tax cap permanent in New York state, adding that he thought the new permanent law would be a “game changer.” He said he was also proud that he brought more school aid to his district than ever before during his first year in office. The state senator said if President Donald Trump (R) gets reelected he is concerned that the state won’t receive the federal funding it needs. Without the proper federal and state funding, it will add to the property tax burden and more people will leave the state. “This is a very slippery slope,” Gaughran said. Smyth pointed out that whether or not New York receives federal aid is not solely Trump’s decision, as the house and senate

Smyth said the bail reform bill that was passed in 2019 needs to be repealed, saying the results of the bill have been “disastrous.” “No one should ever spend a night in jail for an expired registration, but low-level crimes were a Trojan horse that carried far more serious crimes into the bail reform bill,” Smyth said. Gaughran said the bill was originally presented on its own merits but was blocked by many legislators which led to the governor inserting it into the budget. Gaughran said it was important to get passed the permanent 2 percent tax cap, which was also in the same budget, and he wasn’t going to walk away from schools. “At the end of the day when you get to Albany you have to make some tough choices sometimes, and when you’re making those decisions you have to decide whether or not you’re going to vote on a budget based on what’s in it,” the senator said. He added that he met with colleagues and law enforcement representatives after the bail reform bill was passed, and he and others immediately filed a bill to restore some violent offences back to allowing judges to set terms of bail. Smyth said Gaughran should have been standing on his desk arguing the bail reform law. He calling any changes made to the reform “window dressing.”

Protecting Waterways

Both candidates discussed the importance of protecting the health of local waterways. Smyth said he is a big proponent of homeowners being allowed to demolish debilitated homes and rebuilding a new one while keeping the current tax assessment as long as it is the same size. He said in doing so septic tanks and heating systems would be updated. He pointed out that what goes into the ground we eventually drink or wash into the harbors and bays. Providing an incentive to update septic systems would help to secure the health of local waters. Gaughran said he recommends that the New York State Department of Conservation cracks down on New York City storm runoffs, which eventually flows into the Long Island Sound. He also is in favor of updating septic systems and working on ways to install sewer systems, water filtration systems and rain gardens. If he gets reelected, he said he has a plan to provide funding to municipalities to do just that.

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Fitzpatrick and Rice Duel for Assembly District 8

rodyne project that would not only handle the Lake Avenue area but downtown Smithtown as well. That potential site depends on proceeds from the Environmental Bond Act which was postponed because of COVID. “Gyrodyne is private property and they have private property rights,” he said. “If they no longer produce drone helicopters, they are looking to liquidate their entire portfolio, distribute it to the shareholders and go out of business. And what they are proposing is not an overuse of the property. … We remain hopeful that maybe we can find funding to be able to [look into that southern Smithtown parcel].”

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A seven-year Republican incumbent is being challenged for the District 8 Assembly seat by a young Democrat and first-time candidate. State Assemblyman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Smithtown), a past financial services representative and Town of Smithtown councilman, is facing off against Democrat Dylan Rice, a recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, member of the SUNY Student Assembly and Smithtown Democrats. Fitzpatrick, who has lived in the district all his life and went through the Hauppauge school district, said as we are living in “unprecedented times” with the pandemic causing a whole range of issues, he is running again to work across the aisle to get the economy up and running again and prepare for the post-COVID era. “I know what I bring to the table is a number of years of experience, both in Albany and locally,” the assemblyman said. “I understand very, very well, what the pressures are not only on families — my own family, my daughter, my son, their families — but on our town and on our state, and there will be a lot of work to be done.” Rice, who also went to Hauppauge, said he first got interested in state politics with his work with the SUNY Student Assembly and thought about pursuing a career in public service in the town he’s lived in his entire life. He announced his campaign just before COVID hit, and said the pandemic has only exacerbated issues with class disparity. “New York state’s economy is not working for working people in the middle class, the tax system is unjust, unfairly biased to the ultrawealthy in the state,” he said. “I’m willing to fight for these issues in Albany, and to really push New York forward rather than hold us back as to where we are right now.”

COVID Response

Fitzpatrick said he has largely supported the initial response to the pandemic by both the state and federal government. “It’s very easy to be a Monday morning quarterback,” he said. “Are there things we know today that we didn’t know then? If we knew then, would we do some things differently? Absolutely. But I think the response has been good at the federal and state level.” He said now the pandemic has died down, the state Legislature should look to take back the emergency powers granted to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and that New York should look to get all businesses back on track and students back in school five days a week. He said that big box stores like Walmart were allowed to be open, while a jeweler who sells some of the same product was kept closed was unfair.

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Democrat Dylan Rice, left, is facing off against Republican Mike Fitzpatrick, right, for Assembly District 8. Left, photo from Rice campaign; right, file photo

“The lockdowns are having a devastating effect on families, our seniors, especially nursing home residents, but it is not healthy,” the assemblyman said. “To keep people cooped up, and especially children. They are falling behind academically, especially children and underserved communities.” Rice agreed with Fitzpatrick that the state’s initial response had been positive, but disagreed with his assessment of the federal response, calling it “laughable, and it led to generally the entire nation being hit to an extent that it didn’t need to be.” He said there were times when the state was lenient when it needed to be stricter and with recent incidents such as the so-called superspreader event at the Miller Place Inn, there needs to be careful thought put into reopening. “New York State really has an obligation to both increase its response to it by assisting businesses that were forced to shut down and mandate, and also making sure that PPE and other resources available to New York residents across the board,” he said. The young Democrat added the state should be taxing the ultrawealthy at a higher rate, such as taxes on secondary luxury homes, in order to facilitate buoying the lagging state economy. “They’re rushing kids to get back to the school, because our economy is not working for working families,” he said. “There’s no way to really be able to operate unless ‘my kids are at school, and I’m working.’ So it’s really highlighting these issues that exist.”

Gyrodyne

The Gyrodyne project has become very

controversial within the last few months, with people on one side saying it’s going to improve the local infrastructure and revitalize St. James downtown, while the other side worries about the impact on local waterways. Rice said the state needs to do its due diligence regarding the project, referencing issues like the Grumman plume in Nassau County and the pollution of aquifers under the ground. He said the state also needs to look at all future infrastructure projects in terms of climate change, saying if they don’t, “it’s going to bankrupt us.” “Projects like Gyrodyne and sewage treatment are necessary, but we have to make sure we do it in a smart way that’s environmentally conscious, and doesn’t put both the health of citizens at risk,” the young Democrat said. “New York State does have an obligation to take a pretty strong hand in this and go in and say, ‘This is a big project, this is a chance to really impact the environment. What are you doing to make sure this is safe in regards to placement?’” Fitzpatrick said the fact that there is the ongoing issue of antiquated septic systems leaching nitrogen and other chemicals into the groundwater, the plant has concerned residents of both Smithtown and Brookhaven. “We all share a concern about keeping [Stony Brook] harbor as clean as possible,” he said. The property owners are currently proposing they can do ‘as of right’ under the zoning code, the assemblyman said, and it still has to finish the SEQRA process. Fitzpatrick said there is work already looking at another site in Smithtown south of the Gy-

Another project for Smithtown that has long been on the docket is the Nissequogue River State Park, Kings Park, renovation plans, part of which were derailed even before the pandemic. Fitzpatrick said the main issue was that there are close to 200 properties around New York that the state parks department handles with only a $310 million capital budget, which doesn’t give much room for new upgrades. The state, he said, preserved the northern part of the property as the Nissequogue River State Park, with an additional 3 acres preserved for every acre developed. Now, he said the main issue remains the old mental hospital buildings that young people are constantly found breaking into. There is some movement on the state Department of Environmental Conservation putting a marine lab in that location, so there is some investment. “It’s a safety issue,” he said. “The park police and the Suffolk police are putting a lot of time up there to try and keep people out of there. We’ve appropriated money to remove some of the buildings, but obviously more needs to be done. Unfortunately, the money isn’t there. And it’s not high enough on the priority list for the parks department.” Rice agreed that it’s a shame there has not been much movement on the project and called the situation “a joke” for how long the state and local governments have talked about remediating the property. He said there is a real need to preserve land for recreation and environmental protection, and agreed putting the DEC building there would be a great benefit. “There’s very useful land here, we shouldn’t just throw it away for no reason,” Rice said. “I think utilizing the space, considering the state owns it, in a way that both doesn’t have a detrimental effect on the community and benefits the state as a whole is the best way to go.”

Police Reform

Rice, who said multiple members of his family have worked law enforcement from NYPD to a Nassau County corrections officer, said it’s a shame the issue of police has become politicized. He argued for common-sense reforms, RICE/FITZPATRICK Continued on A19

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Zeldin and Goroff Make Their Case for Congressional Seat original House assistance bill. In response, the congressman said that bill was “known to be dead on arrival once it passed the House,” as a “one house messaging bill.” He said there were several so-called “poison pills” included in that bill that would never get broad support.

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM In a race as hotly contested as that for the House of Representatives’ 1st Congressional District seat, much of the actual policy and positions of candidates is often buried under disinformation and a slate of attack ads. Still underneath all that rigamarole is a decision that goes beyond a question of red or blue. U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1), who has held the seat for the past five years, is squaring off against Democrat Nancy Goroff, a scientist from Stony Brook who has worked in multiple executive positions at Stony Brook University. TBR News Media hosted a debate Oct. 23 with both candidates via Zoom, asking them their stances beyond the attack ads on issues from the environment to health care to the COVID-19 response on the federal level. Zeldin is looking to retake his seat based on his work in getting masks and other PPE to his home county, the money he helped steer to protecting the Long Island Sound and his help getting the Electron-Ion Collider to Brookhaven National Laboratory. “When the coronavirus first hit us, I worked with elected officials on both sides of the aisle and all levels of government to secure ventilators, PPE, funding, access to the municipal liquidity facility and so much more,” he said. “We have more work to do.” Goroff is running on her experience as a scientist, particularly in helping to combat climate change and continue the fight against COVID-19, as well as her administrative work at Stony Brook University working in a department with a multimillion-dollar budget. “I want our kids to live in a world where the government is trying to make people’s lives better, and where policy decisions are based on facts and reality,” she said. “I’m going to bring all these experiences to Washington, to be there for the people of this district no matter what.”

COVID-19 Response

The candidates differ greatly in how they see the pandemic was handled at the federal level. While Goroff lambasted the federal government for a “lack of leadership,” Zeldin emphasized the work getting pandemic resources to folks at home. Goroff said while New York may have been able to dig in its heels early in the face of the virus, the federal government dropped the ball. She cited reports that President Donald Trump (R), and by extension other federal officials, knew early on in January how bad the virus was but misled the public on how dangerous and severe the virus would be in the early 2020 months. She said the government did not work early enough to get PPE into the hands of those

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Stony Brook Democrat Nancy Goroff, left, and Shirley Republican Lee Zeldin, right, are both seaking election for New York’s first congressional district. Left, photo from campaign; right, file photo

who need it, and that the president still resists promoting the wearing of masks, contact tracing and testing. “We should have had national action to make sure every community had the PPE they needed, not just whoever makes a phone call to [the president’s son-in-law] Jared Kushner on a Saturday night,” she said. “Here in New York we have no borders, no walls between us and other states, and as long as the numbers are going up elsewhere, we are in danger here.” Zeldin said the key to dealing with the ongoing pandemic is the same now as it was before, with bipartisan effort. He cited the USNS Comfort coming to New York as well as the Javits Center being converted into a temporary hospital, as well as his connection with the executive officials to secure needed ventilators, testing and finances for New York. “We were approaching it not as Republicans first or Democrats first, but as Long Islanders, New Yorkers and Americans first,” he said. Currently, Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said the Senate will be in recess until Nov. 9 after the election, which means there will likely be no deal on a stimulus bill for now. In terms of economic stimulus for New York, the congressman said

it’s “extremely likely” there will be a bill within the next few weeks, which would include money for families, additional Paycheck Protection Program funding, money for state and local governments, food assistance and testing. “From all conversations I’m hearing, all these pots of money are quite robust, hovering around the $2 trillion number,” he said. “I don’t think we can have this money fast enough, of course it will take both Republicans and Democrats to agree.” Goroff said it is imperative we receive assistance from the federal government, both in state and local aid. The problem is though the Democrats in the House have put forward a relief bill that has been rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate, and McConnell has instead focused on rushing the process of the now-installed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. “We are in an economic crisis that will require significant investment in infrastructure, and particularly clean energy infrastructure so that as we rebuild our economy, we can build the future we want for ourselves and our kids,” Goroff said. She criticized Zeldin for voting against that

While Zeldin touted his bipartisan support of local environmental initiatives such as the Long Island Sound Stewardship Act, Goroff said more work is needed, especially regarding the response to climate change. Zeldin cochairs the Long Island Sound Caucus, and said as the one Republican voice in the caucus they need to increase the investment into the Long Island Sound Program. He said there is room in the stewardship act to increase the appropriation as well as the National Estuary Program and Sea Grant. The congressman added he has worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers so that two-thirds of their budget was for projects in the 1st Congressional District. Goroff said the work done so far to impact the Long Island Sound has been “helpful,” but more needs to be done with not only cleaning the water, especially with creating sewering and providing funds for projects to help reduce the amount of nitrogen going into the water from aging cesspools and septic systems. She also spoke on the need for more coastal resilience. “We should be restoring wetlands to make sure we have as much resilience as possible, but we must be investing in our coastlines because they are so important to tourism, our economy and our way of life here,” she said. However, Goroff said there’s an even bigger challenge with climate change. She said her office could be a “resource for every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican” about information related to climate change. She said the U.S. should aim to be carbon neutral in energy production by 2035. The scientist added the county should invest more heavily in clean technologies from transportation to infrastructure, as well as invest in research currently going on at BNL and SBU. Such innovations could be exported to other heavy polluter countries so they can better reduce their carbon footprint. Zeldin said he serves on the House Climate Solutions Caucus, and has cosponsored the Carbon Capture Improvement Act to provide financial incentives to invest in carbon capture equipment. “The way to achieve results on this is to talk to each other, not past each other and ZELDIN/GOROFF Continued on A19

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Santos Goes Against Suozzi for Congressional District 3 Seat BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Longtime politician and two-term congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) is in the race against newcomer Queens Republican George Santos over the 3rd Congressional District seat. TBR News Media spoke with Santos about why he is running and what he can bring to the table. Suozzi did not respond to several requests for either an online debate or a phone interview. The second-term Democrat from Glen Cove has been in politics for almost three decades. From 1994 through 2001 he served as mayor of Glen Cove and was elected Nassau County Executive from 2002 to 2009. Suozzi, 58, is battling Santos, 32 from Whitestone, on the race to be the Western Long Island voice in Washington. This is Santos’ first run at office and he said he wants to bring his experience in the finance world to congress. Santos is a first-generation born to immigrant parents. Born and raised in Queens, he said he comes from a humble beginning. He started off as an entry-level asset manager and an associate at Citi

Group, as well as worked with several fortune 500 companies, including Goldman Sachs. He has worked in the private equity space for 11 years. “I’m very proud of the work I’ve accomplished in the private sector,” he said. “And I think it’s that kind of work ethic and knowledge that I want to bring into public service, especially now following a crisis, we’re going to need more people who understand business more so than lawyers.” Santos said he wants to reduce unemployment numbers and bring them back to before the pandemic. “I’ve created north of 500 jobs myself, I know how to do it. I know the skills,” he said. He added that he would work hard to change school funding to be derived from one’s income tax, not property tax. “That would solve a lot of the heartache for millions of Americans who are taxed with property taxes and feel unfair,” he said. Santos also noted that he does not support the Green New Deal and would look to restore respect for law enforcement while encouraging community cooperation to re-establish public safety. Suozzi’s record shows his investment in the environment. serves on the House Ways

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Two New Candidates on the Ballot for State Senate District 2 livelihoods. There are people here that have been here for generations that won’t be able to weather the pandemic.” Mattera also said he feels it’s important for all students to return to school ﬁve days a week for in-person education. “These kids need their educators,” he said. “They need the interaction with their fellow students.”

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM After former state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) decided to end his political career this summer, leaving his seat in the 2nd District empty for a job with Northwell Health, two contenders emerged for Election Day 2020. Former state trooper Michael Siderakis, of Nesconset, is running on the Democratic ticket and plumber union ofﬁcial Mario Mattera, of St. James, received the Republican nomination. Siderakis spent nearly 30 years as a New York State Police trooper and was a second vice president for the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association. Mattera is the business agent for Plumbers Local 200 and a board member of the Suffolk County Water Authority. He —Mario also sits on Smithtown’s advisory board for new construction projects where he has been active with the Lake Avenue Revitalization project. Both candidates are longtime residents and have raised their families in Smithtown hamlets, where their children have attended schools in the Smithtown Central School District. In a Sept. 28 Zoom debate with TBR News Media, the two candidates discussed the state’s response to COVID-19, school budgets and more. While the two agreed on ways to resolve most issues, they differed regarding bail reform.

Siderakis said he’s familiar with the problems young people on Long Island face economically with his oldest daughter trying to make it ‘There are people on her own with having an here who have been apartment in Port Jefferson. here for generations “I think our small communities have a great adwho won’t be able vantage to attract businesses here where we can offer to weather the the distancing and the safety for workers,” he said. pandemic.’ He added we need to Mattera —Mike Siderakis look at traffic patterns to avoid congestions on the Mario Mattera, left, and Mike Siderakis, right, are both political newcomers running for State Senate District 2. roadways. Photos fromn campaigns “We’re going to have to look for alternatives, our law enforcement.” and businesses are going to have to look outside COVID Response Education Both candidates said New York’s response of the box,” he said. Mattera said in addition to young people, With talks of a projected 20 to 30 percent was appropriate at the beginning of the cut to state aid for schools, both candidates said COVID-19 crisis but agreed that business he’s also concerned about keeping people of all they would fight to send money back to schools needed to be opened up sooner. They said ages in the area. He said the Long Island Innovain the 2nd state Senate District. wearing masks, social distancing and tion Park at Hauppauge is something he worked “We have to make sure we have someone handwashing are important to keep the virus at on with Smithtown officials to make sure it becomes the premier pharmaceutical area not only up there fighting for our education system bay and businesses alive. down here on Long Island,” Siderakis said, Mattera said that unused beds in field of the state but in the country providing good adding it’s important to keep good teachers on hospitals such as the ones at Stony Brook jobs, health care and pensions for the future. He said he also sees the potential of the former Long Island. University, the Javits Center and the USNS Mattera said with 70 percent of residents’ Comfort should have been considered to decide Kings Park Psychiatric Center and said its future taxes going to education, it was important to when a region was reopened. He noted the use should be planned carefully. “We have such great talent that can work make sure local school districts receive their beds were barely used. Adhering to the public right here in the Second District,” Mattera said. fair share. health guidelines are key, he said, as he pointed The Republican candidate pointed to the “Our children are our futures for all of to the 1,300 members of the plumbers union Amazon facility project that was lost to New us,” he said. “For Long Island, we need to where only one person contracted the virus. York City. He said it would have been ideal on make sure they’re part of the workforce and He said he feels people have been educated the grounds of the former Pilgrim Psychiatric stay here.” about the virus and businesses can enforce the Center in Brentwood due to its proximity to Mattera added that many local schools public health guidelines. He added that the State parkways and the Long Island Rail Road. need updating and the state aid is desperately Liquor Authority has done a good job where it “It’s a shame that politics lost a project that needed. follows up a complaint with an inspection visit would have had 25,000 people working there,” Siderakis said the state also needs to stop to a restaurant. Mattera said. “I just can’t understand how relying on local property taxes and receive “We need to open up,” Mattera said. “We politics lost that.” more aid from the state to ensure everyone need to be safe and the businesses need to Siderakis said he feels the governor has done across New York has a fair and equal education. enforce their own business.” a great job in attracting businesses to the state He said several districts don’t have the same Siderakis said in addition to the state’s response and believes the wave of the future is going to income base, and the state should step up to he thought the federal government overall did well be green energy jobs. with providing businesses with loans through the provide the help needed for equal education. “We have to make sure that we make Suffolk Mattera said if elected he would take a good Paycheck Protection Program, but he feels small County known as the technology center, or look at the budget to see why cutting state aid businesses need even more help. Silicon Valley here, of New York state, and make “We have to make sure local stores are sure we have enough incentives for companies to education is on the table. “It shouldn’t even be part of the treated equally, not just the big box stores,” he to come here and start up small businesses and conversation,” he said. said. “People have felt the pain and lost their have the jobs for the future,” he said.

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While Siderakis feels the 2019 bail reform bill that limited the number of crimes judges could set bail for needs to be looked at again and revised, Mattera said it should be repealed. “Our bail system is not a fair system, where somebody who has $500 available to them for the same crime can go home, while somebody who may not have $500 in the bank for no other reason than the fact that he doesn’t have $500 has to go to jail,” Siderakis said. The Democrat added bail reform should have been put in as a stand-alone bill and not included in the state budget vote. He said he also feels that legislators shouldn’t decide on what crimes require bail, and judges should be able to decide on a case-by-case basis. Mattera said the bail system needs to go back to the way it was, especially with cases where people have been arrested for looting, robbing, selling drugs and then released only to commit the same crime again. “It needs to go back to the way it was,” he said. “It’s not working now. I’m very frightened. We need to give the tools back to

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Island to halt the exodus. Goroff said the SALT deduction is something she would see reinstated in full instead of being capped. “You don’t need to have a very large house here to have a $10,000 tax bill,” she said. She said while working as associate provost at SBU she developed entrepreneurial programs for students and heard from local business leaders whether their kids could stay here. “The way we deal with it is to make sure we have good jobs for people,” she said, adding that SBU is a resource which should be tapped to help with new business concepts. She added new green technologies like upcoming offshore wind projects will help keep more people on Long Island. She also criticized her opponent for voting “no” on a bill that would have brought back the SALT deductions introduced by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3). Zeldin said he has introduced several bills to restore the SALT deductions. Suozzi’s bill, which the local congressman said he “would have voted for,” had “required an additional tax increase to be named later” to pay for the deduction’s reinstatement. Besides that, he argued the people who benefited the most from the deductions were already relatively wealthy, and those who could already afford to stay. “Creating more jobs, job growth, bringing down electric costs, controlling tax increases, there’s a lot more that goes into the discussion why for a very long time why we’re losing members of our family to North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida,” he said.

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such as increased training for police officers and a more rigorous implicit bias program. “It’s extremely important duty, that to take on that type of civil responsibility is huge,” he said. “And to have the lives of people and your community in your hands to an extent needs to be something that is earned, not just kind of taken for granted.” In terms of recently passed crime bills, Rice said such legislation like the repeal of section 50-a, which allows people to see complaints lodged against police officers and public servants who “are able to be held accountable to make sure that the taxpayers are getting the answers that they need.” Fitzpatrick said he supported the ban on chokeholds passed in the wake of large-scale protests against police violence. The assemblyman, who said he also comes from a family of police officers and state troopers, said the problem with 50-a is that it allows for unsubstantiated charges to become public. “And the reality is that it’s not partisan, but there are people in the Legislature who are hostile to the police,” he said. “And that is a fact. And it’s indisputable.” Speaking of that, he said there is general agreement on the Republican side that there is need for reform of some sort. The problem with getting rid of bad cops is partially due to the “the grip that the unions have on the Legislature, both parties.” On bail reform, Rice said the idea is sound, in that it makes it so people who cannot afford to pay bail are not locked up in jail even though they have not been convicted of a crime. That said, “we have to make sure that folks that are a risk to their society are not able to be released into their society, we need to be safe with it.” He pointed to New Jersey and how they implemented bail reform, and said New York should base further action off that state. Fitzpatrick agreed that if New York had taken up New Jersey’s methods of slowly introducing the bill and allowing for more judge discretion, it would have ended out much better. “New Jersey took their time, they did it over two years, and the judges were part of the process,” the Republican said. “The police and the judiciary were totally excluded from the process in New York.

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Editorial

Knowing what’s at stake in this year’s election, TBR News Media endorses Nancy Goroff (D) for the NY1 House seat. Goroff has a strong understanding of the issues, especially regarding climate change and the ongoing pandemic. In this time, it’s especially important to have experts not just in advisory roles but in the driver’s seat. We

Endorsements 2020 Goroff The Right Choice for NY1 only need to look at places like New Zealand or Germany, both with leaders who have science backgrounds, who have handled the pandemic far better than the U.S. has just in terms of the numbers of new or past infected, and how their economies have also already reopened. We appreciate Goroff’s answers especially regarding health care and think her concept for Medicare could be a good middle ground amongst all the partisanship surrounding the issue. Also knowing just how cutthroat working as an official in a place like Stony Brook University can be, we feel she has cultivated good interpersonal and administrative skills that will be useful in Washington. The two instruments of U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s public life strike a discordant note. At home, he comes off as a soft-spoken team player willing to work together with both Democrats and Republicans in local office. On the national stage, he has supported the

president without question, and has only helped broaden the political divide and partisanship overall through his misleading conversations, both on Fox television network and in his Twitter page. One can support a candidate while not kowtowing to their every whim, but Zeldin has volunteered to defend President Donald Trump (R) during the impeachment. He attended a Trump rally back in June, with a pandemic raging across the country, without wearing a mask. He went in front of the Republican National Convention to proclaim how great the president’s handling of the pandemic has been, despite experts’ assertions that if the president had acted earlier, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved. Zeldin claims he disagrees with the president on such things as the tax bill, on several cabinet nominations and offshore drilling, but when do those disagreements turn into action? These two sides to Zeldin do sometimes combine, such as when he attended a rally in

Port Jefferson where he lambasted the mayor for a controversy over a pro-Trump sign. Why he didn’t ﬁrst try to communicate with a local government in his home district to get the issue resolved attests to the purpose of such an appearance: To drum up even more division in an already divided time. While we appreciate Zeldin’s work bringing masks and other PPE to us at home during the height of the pandemic, doing the expected is no longer enough. We need someone to actively work to bring back the state and local tax deductions instead of putting forward bills that never get any traction. We need someone in Congress who does not split their attention between acting on behalf of the president and doing good by their constituents. As we hope to come out of this pandemic, we will need a scientist’s expertise to help us get out of the social and economic hole we lay in. We hope whoever takes up the seat can help move both the country and New York’s 1st Congressional District forward.

2nd Senate District Too Close to Call We feel the race for the state Senate in the 2nd District, between Republican Mario Mattera and Democrat Michael Siderakis, is going to be a close one. Based on our virtual debate, we are not endorsing a candidate in this race. We feel both candidates have their ﬁngers on the pulse of the area, recognizing the importance of providing local students with the same excellent education they have received in the past and keeping residents on Long Island. Most importantly, during the pandemic, both understand the importance of strictly following public health guidelines while also assisting businesses to fully operate once again.

Siderakis’ background as a state trooper and representative for the troopers’ PBA would be an asset during the current conflicting views regarding law enforcement, while Mattera’s work with the Town of Smithtown on its advisory board is a plus regarding bringing new businesses to an area while not overwhelming its infrastructure. Either will be a freshman senator if they win, and we urge them to partner with their colleagues to learn the intricacies of the office. Republican former Sen. John Flanagan held the seat for 18 years, and either candidate will have big shoes to fill.

Fitzpatrick a Strong Choice for AD8 In the race for Assembly District 8, TBR News Media is looking for somebody with a history of bipartisan activity and deep knowledge of Smithtown’s issues, and that somebody is Mike Fitzpatrick (R). He has a good depth of knowledge of issues such as Gyrodyne, and seems to be working toward some kind of compromise

that could make both environmentalists and proponents of downtown revitalization happy. The Kings Park state park issue is something Fitzpatrick has a deep knowledge on, in particular, and we hope he may be able to move forward with some kind of funding source to finally remediate that property. Rice has a good head on his shoulders

and his enthusiasm and comprehension of the issues makes him a strong future candidate for public office once he gets a few years’ experience under his belt. We hope he continues in public service in some way, shape or form.

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Opinion Fortune Cookie Messages to Capture 2020

s we trudge through the last quarter of a year ﬁlled with challenges, I wanted to share some light hearted, ridiculous and truly 2020 fortune cookie message ideas. Enjoy! • A vaccine may be in your future. Whether you take it is up to you. • You will Zoom again some time soon. • You will continue to see toilet paper in a whole new light. • You will have another opportunity to learn an academic lesson you missed years ago. • You don’t have to look hard to ﬁnd heroes. D. None • The four walls of the above around you will look BY DANIEL DUNAIEF better at some point. • You will save money on gas this year. • The election will end, hopefully.

• If you get off the couch and do some push ups, your body will thank you. • This is the only 2020 you have. Make the most of it. • It’s okay to lose track of the day: don’t lose track of your goals. • Watch one fewer episode. You can make better use of your time. • Use a shower to wash away your cares, and your stench. • Don’t use a mask to hide from the truth. • One person’s monster is another person’s savior. • Feel free to pat yourself on the back. Don’t break your arm doing it. • Petting the dog will bring you relief. Taking him out will bring him relief. • Sometimes being odd is the only way to get even. • Keep your enemies at bay. Six feet should work. • Even while social distancing, do your best to stay connected. • Love conquers hate, but hate can’t defeat love. • Don’t forget to ﬂoss. Your periodontist will thank you.

• Lock your doors at night, but open your heart. • Mythology occurs when we dare to dream. • Take chances, but make sure you wash your hands. • Consider what the younger version of yourself would do. • Your children are not a younger version of you. • Remember which days your kids are in school and make the most of them. • Mute your computer before the dog starts barking. Your colleagues will thank you. • Our editor is quarantined because he started coughing, so the gloves are off. • When people calm down, they are better at solving their problems. • When people stop telling other people what to do, they become more tolerable. • Don’t expect a fortune cookie to change your life. • Wow, you’re going off the rails there, George. Are we allowed to do that? • Yes, Alissa, our editor is gone and we have to ﬁll these cookies with something. • Love has no statute of limitations. • What, so you’re now a lawyer?

• I could have been, Alissa. • Did you read about the shower? That one was for you. • Perfect effort means giving 110 percent. • You can’t give 110 percent. It’s not possible. • Then why do these athletes say it? • They’re talking about how hard they’re working. It’s an exaggeration. • Your intelligence is an exaggeration. • Get us out of here. They don’t even let us order Chinese food. • Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. • You got that from the Airplane sequel. You can’t put it in a fortune cookie. • In a fortune cookie? I don’t think someone from Airplane the Sequel is going to ﬁnd us. • That’s your problem. You don’t think. • Thinking alone never cured anything. • You’re wrong and you never tried thinking. • I have to get out of here. That’s not the voice in your head. That’s me, George. • Stop whining and start winning. • You’re not a victim, you’re a survivor. • That’s not bad, Alissa. • How about ordering Italian next time?

The Candidates: What They Said & What We Think

inally, we are in the home stretch, with Election Day soon upon us. Of course this has been no ordinary election experience for Americans. In addition to the usual barrage of electioneering from local and national candidates, we are forced to work around COVID-19 in deciding how to vote. Some residents, in record numbers, have chosen to mail in their ballots, some have decided to vote early inperson, a novel situation forced Between into existence by you and me the virus to spread out the voting BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF population and avoid crowds. And some will just show up at their normal polling places at their usual time and do what they always do to cast their ballots.

Whatever you may think of our president, Donald Trump has certainly supercharged the electorate. Voters are out in record numbers, whether to vote for or against him. Joe Biden has not pulled any punches. His main goal in running is to keep President Trump from a second term. And that also seems to be the goal of the voters: either for the man or against him. I have to confess that I would feel a little envious when I would see pictures of residents, in countries newly emerging from dictatorships, who lined up for hours and miles to cast their votes in their ﬁrst exercise of democracy. Many in the United States were generally uninspired to vote, often letting the minority who came to the polls decide who would govern us. We were often apathetic about voting and about politics in general. But not this year. So that’s a good thing. A not so good thing is that we stand in red vs. blue partisan formation, aggressively shouting our views and often disparaging the other side’s beliefs. Dialogue is one matter, screaming matches are something else, something totally unproductive and ultimately injurious to those

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others with whom we are otherwise proudly united into one country. In an attempt to simplify the positions of the local candidates, we are dedicating much of this issue to their views. We as journalists are in the unique and privileged position of having access to them. We invite them, individually for each race with their opponent(s), to a Zoom meeting to answer questions put to them by our editorial board. This typically takes about an hour and a half. We then write up their answers as informational articles, passing on what we have learned. Those stories can be found in a separate section elsewhere in this paper. In our usual end pages for opinion, we offer our endorsements of the candidates. These can be found on the page opposite this column and are based on the interviews and whatever else we might know about them after following them as we covered the news. Of course, these are only our opinions, and we urge you to learn about the candidates and make your own decisions as to whom you will give your vote. We merely share our impressions with you, feeling it our duty since we have personally interviewed them.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Kyle Barr EDITOR Kyle Barr

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The following is a list of local races for which we have held interviews with the candidates: 1st Congressional District Nancy S. Goroff (D) & Lee M. Zeldin (R) 3rd Congressional District Thomas R. Suozzi (D) & George A.D. Santos (R) State Senator 1st Senatorial District Laura A. Ahearn (D) & Anthony H. Palumbo (R) State Senator 2nd Senatorial District Mike Siderakis (D) & Mario R. Mattera (R) State Senator 5th Senatorial District James F. Gaughran (D) & Edmund J. Smyth (R) 2nd Assembly District Laura Jens-Smith (D) & Jodi Giglio (R) 4th Assembly District Steven Englebright (D) & Michael S. Ross (R) 8th Assembly District Dylan G. Rice (D) & Michael J. Fitzpatrick (R) 10th Assembly District Steve Stern (D) & Jamie R. Silvestri (R) 12th Assembly District Keith Brown (R) & Michael Marcantonio (D) We hope we have helped. Whatever you decide, please vote.

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