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Sophia Turano had been writing short stories during her idle time. And the Great Hollow Middle School eighth grader decided to show her work to her teacher, Victoria Wanser.

One, slightly longer than the others, particularly caught Wanser’s eye.

“She said I really liked this one, and I could make a book out of it,” Turano recalled. “I just laughed. I said, ‘That’s not going to happen.’ But here we are.”

Fast forward and Turano is, in fact, a published author. Her paperback book, “The Quiet One,” became available on Amazon in October.

“I cried,” Turano recalled about her first time holding the printed book. “I thought I was getting pens from Amazon. And I was like, ‘What is this?’ I take it out. And my mom is on the phone.

And I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh.’”

Turano’s book is in the crime/mystery genre.

“You think you know who is doing what, but you really don’t,” she said.

Turano has been fascinated by crime-themed podcasts for a while.

“It just interests me,” she said.

Eighth-grader Sophia Turano, right, with teacher Victoria Wanser. Photo from Smithtown Central School District

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Smithtown High School East’s new assistant principal relishes serving the community in which she lives. Nicole Stech officially was appointed to the position during the board of education meeting on Nov. 9. She previously served since 2015 as an ENL teacher at Smithtown High School West.

Stech fills a position that opened when Robert Rose recently ascended to serve as Smithtown High School East’s principal.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and Italian from SUNY Albany as well as a master of arts in education from NYU and advanced certificate in school building and school district leadership from The College of Saint Rose.

“I’m super-excited to have the experience working with the community that I live in,” Stech said. “Coming from West, I’m joining a new administration team and new faculty, and I’m very excited. I know Robert Rose has been in the district for many years, and I want to work with him to build on the programming we’re doing here in Smithtown.”

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Republican lawmakers call for change in bail reform

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Suffolk County Republican lawmakers joined together last week calling on Democratic leaders in Albany to repeal the state’s cashless bail law. They argue that it has led to an uptick in violent crime.

Spearheaded by U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) — who is also the GOP’s potential nominee for governor in 2022 — he said that while on the campaign trail, he hears from people across both political parties who agree that bail reform needs to change.

“Many areas of the state that I’ve been to support repealing cashless bail,” Zeldin said during a press conference on Wednesday, Nov. 10. “They share stories about how cashless bail has eroded public safety.”

He added that the “red wave” that hit Suffolk County — including the success of newly elected Republican District Attorney Ray Tierney, could help send a message to majority

Democrats to repeal the bail reform law.

“Too many New Yorkers have already witnessed the ramifications of this dangerous law first-hand, and on Election Day 2021 they made it abundantly clear that they have had enough,” Zeldin said. “This fatally flawed law undermines New York’s men and women in blue, their morale, their efforts and, most importantly, their authority. In the courtroom, it rips away judges’ judicial discretion, ties their hands and forces them to ignore prior convictions and the risk of repeat offenders.

Instead of handcuffing criminals, this misguided law handcuffs justice, and every day New Yorkers are the ones paying the price.”

Tierney interjected and said that a package of newly enacted or proposed Democratic bills, including those that reform parole and would expunge many misdemeanor convictions and lower-level felonies, fail to keep the public safe.

“We are here to say these laws do not keep us safer,” Tierney said. “And we need to repeal some of these laws and start to think about

U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin and Republican Suffolk County lawmakers held a press conference Nov. 10 to call on Democratic leaders in Albany to repeal the state’s cashless bail law.

the victims and the victims’ families when we consider criminal justice reform.”

He added that during the most-recent election, he and his GOP colleagues saw that bail reform and criminal justice were huge issues that needed to be tackled.

“We saw suddenly our elected officials

coming to the realization that bail reform and criminal justice reform did not keep us safe and it was not an effective law,” he said.

Zeldin and Tierney were joined by members of the state Senate and Assembly. Sen. Mario Mattera (R-St. James) congratulated Tierney on his recent win.

“I’m so excited that the people spoke,” Mattera said. “They wanted to make sure we have the right people in place to keep our residents safe.”

Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) said that bail reform “needs to change — it’s dangerous.”

“The people have spoken,” he added. “They finally remember the victims who have been forgotten by the two majorities.”

Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio (R-Riverhead) agreed that victims and witnesses are currently not safe.

“It’s not right what happened, we need to repeal it,” she said. “Repeat offenders need to be behind bars and judges need that jurisdiction back.”

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Amid excitement over COVID Pfizer pill, local docs urge boosters

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM When the pandemic first hit Suffolk County in March of 2020, health care providers tried what they could to treat COVID-19.

The treatment options may be on the verge of increasing, as Pfizer recently revealed the benefit of an antiviral pill they developed to treat the virus in its early stages.

The Pfizer pill, called paxlovid, “decreased hospitalization significantly,” said Dr. Bettina Fries, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Medicine. “That’s exciting.”

The Pfizer pill, which would still need Food and Drug Administration authorization before medical care providers can administer it to patients, comes just a few weeks after Merck announced its antiviral pill molnupiravir was effective in treating people who contracted COVID-19.

Indeed, at the end of last week, Britain became the first country to approve the use of molnupiravir for people with underlying medical conditions, including heart disease and obesity.

“There is more information on molnupiravir as this drug was approved in the [United Kingdom] last Thursday,” Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of Infection Control at Huntington Hospital explained in an email. “It will be

administered as soon as possible following a positive COVID-19 test and within five days of the onset of symptoms.”

As for Pfizer, it has not yet released data about its clinical trials to the scientific community, which means independent researchers haven’t reviewed the information.

Still, the introduction of new antiviral treatments advances the battle against the virus on another front.

“They are novel medications,” Popp added.

“The speed by which they are being developed is amazing.”

Popp added that the pace at which the new Pfizer drug eliminates the virus and its symptoms is unclear because of limited data.

Fries said the Pfizer and Merck drugs were in different classes and worked differently, which means they may be most effective in combination.

In terms of side effects, Fries wouldn’t expect anything dramatic from either treatment.

Taking pills that reduce the severity of the disease also aren’t likely to reduce the body’s natural immunity to the virus.

“The immune system has already seen enough of the virus by the time you take the drug,” Fries said. Some of the patients in the trial probably had the virus for about a week, which is enough time for the immune system to recognize the invader and develop a natural resistance.

The timing of treatment with antiviral drugs determines its effectiveness. Drugs like Tamiflu, which prevents the worst symptoms of the flu, become less effective the longer the virus is in a patient.

“If you give this drug later, it will likely have less effect,” Fries said.

Additionally, Fries cautioned about overusing these drugs in future months and years, which can lead to viral resistance.

Fries believes the virus, like the flu, will continue to stick around and will return in waves.

The authorization of vaccines for children ages five to 11 will likely reduce the threat from the virus.

“A lot of parents will schlep their kids right away, especially before Thanksgiving,” Fries said. “Physicians and people who have a deeper understanding of vaccines feel comfortable” with them.

Fries recently received her third shot.

While the likelihood of children developing the worst symptoms of the disease is low, they contribute to the spread of the virus.

Additionally, the virus can mutate, which could make it “potentially a lot worse. There is [also] a low but potentially significant risk of long covid syndromes,” Fries said. “You don’t want your kid to have that. Children should be super duper healthy, not just a little bit healthy.”

Preparation for the holidays

In terms of preparing for the holiday season, Fries urged everybody over 65 to get a booster, particularly if they received their initial vaccines at least six months ago.

Stony Brook Hospital is admitting patients who have been vaccinated and are over 65, in part because their initial vaccinations were over half a year ago.

“We see more and more older people presenting with the disease again,” Fries added.

Additionally, Fries urged residents and their families to get tested before coming together, which will reduce the risk of household transmission.

Even though Pfizer and Merck have produced drugs that may improve the treatment of COVID-19, Fries urged people to continue to get vaccinated.

“This kind of drug treatment does not make us say, ‘Okay, you don’t need to get vaccinated,’ Fries said. “Absolutely not.”

Fries noted that those people unwilling to receive an mRNA vaccine might get another option before too long.

The Novavax vaccine has “performed really well” in clinical trials, Fries said. “It is more of a traditional vaccine.” The Novavax facilities have had production problems. Once they resolve those issues, the company could apply for emergency use authorization.

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After losing the first set, 23-25, to the Nassau County Division 1 champions, the Bulls of Smithtown West rallied in the second edging Massapequa, 25-23, to even the match in the Long Island Championship game at Longwood High School Nov. 11 It was a lopsided third set where the Bulls won it decisively, 25-15, looking for the win in the best of five games. The Bulls did just that with a 25-23 victory in the fourth set for a 3-1

victory and with it, punched their tickets to the state finals at the Albany Center Nov. 20.

The win lifts the Bulls to 11-4 on the season and will begin with pool play at the Albany Center at 10 a.m. followed by the NYS semifinal round of the Division 1 finals at 3 p.m.

Pictured clockwise from above, Smithtown West seniors Aaron Mangino and Frank Paccione at net; Smithtown West celebrates being Division 1 Long Island Champions; and senior Dan Shanley with a kill shot for the Bulls.

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Editorial

Deer aren’t the only road hazards in the fall. Drivers also need to be mindful of pedestrians walking along the sides of roadways. Pixabay photo

Proceed with caution

As the days get shorter and the sun sets sooner, car crashes are more common. According to the American Automobile Association, after the clocks are turned back to standard time in the fall, more incidents happen between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

AAA recently reported that in 2020 there were 33,956 animal-related crashes in the state. Suffolk County, with 1,310 animal-related incidents, was the second highest in the state, tying with Monroe and behind Orange County. After the sun sets, residents are aware that animals can dart across the street, especially deer. Their sudden appearance on roadways in the fall is a regular occurrence as it’s rutting season for the creatures. It’s the time that they mate, and they have matters on their mind other than safety.

While the last thing any driver wants to do is hit an animal, there are other dangers to look out for after dark.

Pedestrians can still be walking in the evening hours.

Many people wear dark colors and are hard to spot.

The problem is compounded when they aren’t carrying flashlights that would draw attention to them.

While pedestrians can take care to wear the appropriate clothing and take a flashlight or wear some type of reflective material on jackets or shirts, experts advise drivers to pay extra attention, especially on streets that are lit dimly or not at all.

In areas where deer signs are posted or while traveling in busy areas where people may be walking, it’s best to drive slowly, of course, and keep more distance than usual between your car and the one in front of you. The same advice can come in handy when leaves are wet and can cause dangerous road conditions that make it difficult to stop. If a driver finds a deer or a pedestrian close by, or tires slipping on leaves, the best thing is not to swerve suddenly and to brake slowly.

One last note, drivers need to make sure they stay centered in the lane. Many tend to gravitate more to the side when headlights go on; however, this can place vehicles even closer to pedestrians and animals. To make sure your car is centered in the lane, try to draw an imaginary line that goes from the asphalt to the sky.

Look at the level of the horizon to stay on course if you feel you are gravitating to one side.

Driving at night can be a little tricky, but with extra care we can keep ourselves and our neighbors safe.

Letters to the Editor Biden’s flaws overlooked

It is very easy to believe that President Joe Biden [D] is really good at heart, doing his best to save this troubled country from climate change and racism, and to open our borders to millions of unfortunate illegal aliens, since we are, after all, a nation of immigrants.

Because of these noble goals, we should overlook Biden’s shortcomings, including his apparent appearance as a blithering dunderhead. We look forward to a charming and enlightening history of the Biden family’s recent political and financial exploits in an upcoming book

by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, titled “Laptop from Hell,” as described in documentation provided

by Joe’s profligate and degenerate son, Hunter Biden.

The president is indeed fortunate to have the support of his Democratic confederates in the U.S. Congress, including socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders [I-VT] in the Senate and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY14] in the House of Representatives.

Together, they have conspired to undo many of the accomplishments of the former Trump administration, at least temporarily, and have instituted new initiatives that were not previously imagined. They have discontinued the construction of border walls, both structurally and figuratively, to allow and even encourage millions of illegal aliens to enter our country and may even pay each of them hundreds of thousands of dollars as compensation for being inconvenienced. They have reversed the Trump administration’s achievement of energy independence and transformed the United States from being an energy exporter to a nation dependent on OPEC to meet our oil requirements. As a result, the prices of gasoline and home-heating fuel oil will continue to skyrocket, with no end in sight.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are in the process of finding ways to unnecessarily spend trillions of taxpayer dollars, under the guise of “infrastructure,” which has already begun to lead to runaway inflation. They are presiding

over the spiraling supply chain fiasco, led by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg [D] from South Bend, Indiana, where he was known as “Mayor Pete.”

South Bend reportedly had several large traffic jams during Mayor Pete’s tenure, making him clearly qualified for his present task and assuring that his recent two-month paternity leave was no problem at all.

Following his imminent solution of the pesky supply chain nuisance, Buttigieg has promised to tackle a real problem, which is the existence of our racist roadways. A good start would be with the low bridges on Southern State Parkway, which may have been designed to prevent Indigenous people in double-decker buses from making the trip to Heckscher State Park. After the new infrastructure bill has been passed, the cost of replacing these racist bridges with solar-powered drawbridges will be not even a small drop in our endless bucket.

We can also thank Biden, in his capacity as commander in chief of our armed forces, for our expeditious exit from Afghanistan, although it was unfortunate that a few lives may have been lost in the process. But the best part was all the money we saved by not having to evacuate all of those heavy tanks, trucks, planes, guns and other weapons, which Biden cleverly left for the Taliban to get rid of. Well done, Mr. President.

George Altemose Setauket

Pride in party shows unfitness for office

Rob Cornicelli, the writer of a letter to the editor [“Major victory,” Nov. 11], demonstrates a very thin understanding of U.S. democracy. He speaks of capitalism which has been a great engine of our economy but he does not seem to understand how the average person has been seriously hurt by its excesses: corporations used to have the common good in mind. Today’s corporations are only concerned about the bottom line and market share.

Capitalism needs to be tempered. At present the fabulously wealthy own

most of the wealth of this country and together with large corporations exert far too much influence on government to the detriment of the common good.

Today we have more of an oligarchy than a democracy.

Cornicelli speaks about freedom.

Does he think the freedom to own a gun is more important than the freedom of those children and educators in Sandy Hook to life and their parents to have their children? Isn’t it reasonable to ban military style assault weapons and have background checks?

He says he is proud to call himself a “Conservative Republican.”

Unfortunately, there is little to be proud of in today’s Republican party. We need a responsible right of center party ready to be involved in governing.

The late Sen. John McCain [R-AZ] was one such Republican, a man of enormous integrity and of devotion to America, who has been vilified by our past president. Instead, we have Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [RKY] who tries to stand in the way of legislation that Republicans wanted — infrastructure — but now rejects because it was proposed by a Democrat.

Where are the John McCains today?

Instead we have a party that traffics in conspiracy theories, that attacks and threatens any Republican who deviates from the party line, who threatens violence against elected officials, which tries to stop the investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, that wants to limit voting, claiming voter fraud when there is practically none, that denies global warming which is the most serious threat we have ever faced, that follows former President Donald Trump [R] and his former aide Steve Bannon, and others, who lie repeatedly and either voice or tolerate racism and anti-Semitism and who perpetuate the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. This is only a partial list of the depths to which a once-proud Republican Party has sunk.

Cornicelli’s pride in belonging to such a party shows that he is unfit for office.

Adam D. Fisher Port Jefferson Station

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Opinion

A stream of consciousness from the first college parent’s weekend with our son

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lying? Are we really flying? Well, sure, why not, right? Everyone else is flying.

Wait, then again, everyone else seems to be flying. What if one of those other people is sick? Don’t think too much about it and breathe through your nose. Oh, you can’t because the two masks you’re wearing are pinching your nose?

Well, tough!

They’re serving drinks and cookies?

People have to lower their masks to eat and drink, right? So, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of D. None mandatory masks? Look away from everyone of the above who’s breathing. Yeah,

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF that’ll help.

Okay, finally, we’re on the ground.

Hey, this is a nice campus. The sidewalks are packed and filled with so much energy, not

all of which is positive.

“Why are all these $#@! parents here this weekend? I have several tests and I don’t need them all staring at me!”

That girl is sharing her academic anxiety with her friend and anyone else within 100 feet of her. Subtle, real subtle! Tempted as I am to let her know that parents, likely including her own, make this sometimes miserable experience possible, I refrain. She might be my son’s current or future friend.

I ask two students for the location of a building. The first shrugs and points me in the wrong direction and the second nearly draws a map. Okay, one for two.

I sit just in time for the start of a talk by successful alumni, who connect their careers to the lessons they learned at school. Clever marketing! Other parents chuckle at the jokes.

I imagine these parents as college students.

In my mind, the presenters onstage become Broadway performers. Each of the two men and two women, which I presume is a wellplanned balance of genders, does his or her

rendition of “how I succeeded,” with the subtext, just feet from the school president, of, “keep paying those tuitions!”

When the session ends, the phone rings. It’s my son! He’s strolling across a lawn. Wait, is that really him? Much as I want to run over and squeeze him, I play it cool, congratulating myself on my impulse control. Well done, Dan. You haven’t embarrassed him so far, but the weekend is young yet, even if you are not.

He adjusts his hair, a move I’ve seen him and almost all his friends do frequently, even while running back and forth on a basketball court.

What’s with all the hair adjustment? I quietly ask for permission to hug him. Yay! He agrees.

I wrap my arms around his shoulders and fight the urge to pick him up, which is probably best for my back.

As we head to his dorm, he tells me he hasn’t done laundry in nine days. I don’t know whether that’s a hint, as in, “Dad, while you’re here…” or a statement of fact.

We part company and I learn about the evolving world of the commercialization of

college athletes, who can use their name, image and likeness to make money. He’s listening to a psychology lecture about, who else, Sigmund Freud.

At a football game, I wonder how it can be this cold in Louisiana. Aren’t we in the deep south? We leave before it’s over, waiting in the cool air for 11 minutes for an expensive Uber — they must know it’s parents weekend — to take two families who are heading back to the same hotel.

10 pm. Who eats this late? I’m usually half way to sleep by now. My older brother is undoubtedly already in REM sleep. My stomach is going to hate this. Shut up stomach!

Looking around the table at these families, one thing is clear: these parents adore their children.

This is part of the story of how these boys got here and, hopefully, will help them continue to learn lessons, like how to dress for a cold football game and how to make reservations in advance before a busy parents weekend so we can eat earlier.

Researchers don’t know exactly how the deer get infected by humans, but they suggest it might occur when people in Iowa feed deer in their backyards, or through sewage discharges or anything partially chewed by an infected human, like a “splotch of chewing tobacco” that then might be licked by a deer.

The study of the deer was led by veterinary microbiologists from Penn State, according to an article in The New York Times on November 9, and they were able to make their analysis by examining the lymph nodes of dead deer.

But they have not yet been able to determine whether the animals were sickened by the pathogen. They also are going to examine other wild animals, especially mice, that live in close proximity to humans, to see if they too might carry the virus.

There is well established research that shows some pathogens do move back and forth between animals and humans, including those that cause yellow fever and West Nile.

And we do know our dogs and cats can get COVID-19.

Also in the news is something called epizootic hemorrhagic disease, transmitted by the EHD virus that can kill deer within 36 hours of infection. This often-fatal disease is transmitted by biting midges. We call them “no-see-ums.” Deer do not catch it from each other, nor can humans be infected by either deer or midges. But stricken deer bleed to death, especially in late summer and early fall when midges are abundant.

While there is no treatment for EHD, the first frost kills the midges, ending the outbreak. The virus was first confirmed in New York in 2007 with small outbreaks in the state’s northern counties, according to Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

By 2020, the affected deer were found in the lower Hudson Valley, in other states along the eastern United States, and also in zoos.

“The dead deer do not serve as a source of infection for other animals because the virus is not long lived in dead animals,” according to the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab. Suffolk County has 139 cases reported and 8 confirmed as of last week.

Deer in the headlines with COVID-19

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alk about mixed emotions. That’s what we feel when we are driving along and suddenly see a deer running out from among the trees. They are beautiful and graceful animals, and we stop the car and point them out to our small children in the back seat, who are thrilled at the sighting, perhaps recalling Bambi. But there is a lot more to the deer story here in suburbia.

Long Island is home to more than 20,000 white-tailed Between deer, and that number you and me has been exploding

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF because there haven’t been many threats — until now. As long as they could find enough food and survive particularly harsh winters, the occasional highway collision and the short hunting season, they were largely untroubled.

However, they have been a nuisance to residents because they devour flowers and vegetable gardens. And while they can be the innocent carriers of an infected tick, whose bite causes the miserable Lyme disease, they are gentle enough souls who leap out of sight as humans approach.

Now it turns out that they may be a more serious problem to us. A new study in Iowa found that the deer seem to be contracting the coronavirus from humans and spreading it to one another. This means the deer could become a reservoir for deadly mutations of the virus that could then possibly be passed back to humans. In that event, another vaccine would have to be developed to target the new variant in much the same way as flu shots are modified from year to year.

Researchers were astonished at how widespread the infection was among the deer population there, estimated at 80%. Deer hunters and others who handle deer (as road kill) are being urged to take precautions to avoid transmission, like wearing rubber gloves and a mask.

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