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Photos by Kevin Redding

Above, Kiddie Academy of Wading River students danced during the annual Hop-A-Thon.

Below, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Campaign Specialist Alexa Landro speaks to kids.

Hopping for a cure

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com

“In dancing, and just having fun, they’re working as a team and doing this all together,” Wooley said. “Some of them are more shy, while others are outgoing, and we’re mixing them all together to have one big dance off.”

Kiddie Academy of Wading River reached out to the society last year to participate in the program to support one of its students who had been diagnosed with leukemia and is currently in remission.

Christina St. Nicholas, the director of Kiddie Academy of Wading River, said in a statement that the Hop-A-Thon was “exactly in line with our curriculum” and the center’s “strong emphasis on character education.” “[It’s] an exciting program that will engage our preschoolers and school-age children to help others in a fun, educational way,” St. Nicholas said. “Joining in this program to fight leukemia is one of the many ways we strive to model the values of community, compassion and cooperation each and every day.”

Nearly all 35 students in the school-age department participated, with each classroom collecting bags of loose change. Donations made by check or via the foundation’s website ranged from $25 to $75.

Kristin Lievre, a mother of two Kiddie Academy students from Wading River, said it’s important kids learn to give back at an early age.

“I think it’s good to see there are ways we can help people,” she said. “This makes them feel good about what they can do for others.”

Sophia, 10, one of the star dancers of the day, echoed Lievre.

“It feels good because we can raise money for the people who are sick so they can get better,” she said, “and don’t have to deal with the sickness anymore.”

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On Feb. 17, kids ages 5 through 12 turned the music up and busted a move for good reason: They helped to raise $575 for those with leukemia and those working to find a cure.

For the second year in a row, Kiddie Academy Educational Child Care in Wading River sponsored a fun-filled and awareness-driven Hop-A-Thon for the Long Island chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding research, finding cures and providing treatment access for blood cancer patients.

As part of the organization’s Student Series, which aims to involve young people in the fight against cancer through service learning and character education programs, the event is a dance celebration for kids and parents who donated to the cause. As leukemia affects more children than any other cancer, the program lets kids help kids while having fun.

But before the academy’s school-age kids took to the lobby to hop and bop to songs like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” they sat down for a brief presentation about what they donated money toward, engaging in true-or-false questionnaires about blood cancers and learning about the “honored heroes” on Long Island — students from local school districts who have beaten cancer.

“Thanks to each and every one of you helping to raise money, kids like these are 100 percent better today and happy and healthy,” Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Campaign Specialist Alexa Landro told the energetic kids. “You’re dancing for them.”

Samantha Wooley, a Kiddie Academy staff member, said the Hop-A-Thon is a reflection of compassion and community contribution.

Video: Kiddie Academy’s second Hop-A-Thon

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Bellone urges state to uphold strict sex offender law

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com In light of recent court rulings and pending lawsuits in favor of sex offenders, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) is urging the New York State Legislature to follow in the county’s footsteps and get tough on sex criminals by passing legislation that gives the county authorization to uphold its strict laws against them.

On Feb. 11, Bellone and Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) spoke with parents and residents in Miller Place about supporting and protecting the rules within the Suffolk County Community Protection Act — a private-public

partnership law developed by Bellone, victims’ rights advocates like Parents for Megan’s Law and law enforcement agencies. It ensures sex offender registration and compliance and protects residents and their children against sexual violence — much to the dismay of local sex offenders, who have been suing the county to try to put a stop to the act.

“We’re encouraging people to sign the online petition,” Bellone said. “We want to get as many signatures as we can to communicate to our partners in the state that this is a priority that we pass legislation that makes it clear Suffolk County has the right to continue doing what it’s doing to protect our community against sex offenders.”

While the county executive said Suffolk legislators have been supportive of the law, which was put in place four years ago, he wanted to make sure they’re armed with grassroots support to convince state colleagues they have substantial evidence to prove its popularity and show it’s the right thing to do.

Since it was enacted in 2013, the Community Protection Act has been the nation’s strictest sex offender enforcement, monitoring and verification program, cracking down on all three levels of offenders when it comes to their proximity to a school facility or child-friendly area, and reducing sex offender recidivism in Suffolk County by 81

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Photo from County executive Bellone’s office

Suffolk County executive Steve Bellone, above on right, urged residents with the help of Legislator Sarah Anker, below right, to sign a petition to urge the state to uphold the Community Protection Act. percent. Ninety-eight percent of Level 2 and personal to me and I think that while we’ve more than 94 percent of Level 3 registrants tried to make government more efficient and are in compliance with photograph require- reduce costs here, this is an example of the ments, what Bellone said is a significant in- kind of thing government should absolutely be spending resources on.” crease from before the law took effect.

To conduct all the monitoring and fund edThrough its partnership with Parents for Megan’s Law, the county has conducted more ucational resources offered to the community than 10,000 in-person home verification vis- by Parents for Megan’s Law — teaching parits for all levels of sex offenders, by sending ents what to look out for and how to prevent retired law enforcement to verify sex offend- their children from becoming victims — costs ers’ work and home addresses and make sure roughly $1 million a year, according to Bellone.

In addition to the residential restriction, their registry is accurate and up to date. More than 300 sex offenders have also been re- Bellone is calling on the state to authorize the county to verify the residency and job sites of moved from social media under the law.

According to the Suffolk County Police De- registered sex offenders, authorize local municpartment, the act is a critical piece of legislation. ipalities to keep a surveillance on homeless sex “The numbers don’t lie, there’s a lot of offenders, who represent less than 4 percent hard evidence and data that shows this act of the offender population in Suffolk County, has done precisely what it was designed to and require them to call their local police dedo: monitor sex offenders and make sure partment each night to confirm where they’re staying, and require an afthey’re not doing anyfirmative obligation of all thing they’re not supsex offenders to cooperate posed to be doing,” Assisand confirm information tant Commissioner Justin required as part of their sex Meyers said. “To date, I offender designation. have never met a single “If people really knew resident in this county this issue, I couldn’t see who didn’t support [it].” how they would oppose Besides the sex offendthe Community Protecers themselves, that is. tion Act, because sex ofThe act has made Suffenders are not a common folk County one of the criminal; there’s something more difficult places for fundamentally and psychoregistered sex offenders logically wrong with someto live and, since its inception, Suffolk sex offenders — Justin Meyers body who commits sexual crime and we as a society have deemed its strict level of monitoring unconstitutional, arguing, have to understand that,” said St. James resiand overall winning their cases in court that dent Peter Magistralle, who held a Protect local law is not allowed to be stricter than Children rally in the area last year. “Residents should know that the sexual abuse of children the state law.

In 2015, the state Court of Appeals de- is out of control.”

According to the Centers for Disease cided to repeal local residency restriction laws for sex offenders, claiming local governments Control and Prevention, one in four girls are “could not impose their own rules on where abused and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18. sex offenders live.”

“It is imperative that we, not only as a comIn the prospective state legislation, Bellone hopes to close the sex offender loophole munity, but as a state, make efforts to further that would allow high-level sex offenders to ensure the safety of our children from sexual be able to legally move into a home at close predators,” Anker said. “We must do everything in our power to ensure that this law is proximity to a school.

“The program has been incredibly success- upheld and that’s why I’ve joined [Bellone] in ful, which is why sex offenders don’t like it,” calling on the New York State Legislature to Bellone said. “This is what we need to do to consider an amendment to grant the county make sure we’re doing everything we can to the ability to uphold it.”

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‘The numbers don’t lie, there’s a lot of hard evidence and data that shows this act has done precisely what it was designed to do: monitor sex offenders and make sure they’re not doing anything they’re not supposed to be doing.’

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Photo left from Councilwoman Bonner; photos above and below left from Kelli Cutinella; and file photo below

Clockwise from left, kidney recipient Tom d’Antonio and Brookhaven Town Councilwoman Jane Bonner; Karen Hill, the recipient of Tom Cutinella’s heart, and his mother Kelli Cutinella; Tom Cutinella; and donate Life supporters during a rally.

State lowers organ donor registration age

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com As of Feb. 14, National Organ Donor Day, a new state law rolled out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) permits 16- and 17-year-olds to enroll in the New York State Donate Life Registry when they apply for a driver’s license, learner’s permit or nondriver ID, potentially growing enrollments in New York by thousands.

Sponsored by State Sens. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) and Kemp Hannon (RGarden City), the legislation’s altered minimum age to sign up as an organ donor, which had previously been 18, serves as a big step for New York, which currently ranks 50th out of all 50 states when it comes to the percentage of residents enrolled to be organ donors.

At just 28 percent, New York State is “way at the bottom of the pack” when it comes to enrollment, according to Flanagan, a strong advocate for organ donations because of his late friend, Assemblyman James Conte (RHuntington Station), who was the recipient of two kidney transplants before losing a battle with cancer in 2012. “[New York] has been a leader in many ways on a wide variety of issues and we should be the premiere state in terms of organ donation,” Flanagan said. “I just want to promote organ donation, and promote aware-

ness. There are thousands and thousands of her kidney to her childhood friend Tom people who are waiting for transplants here in D’Antonio, who had been diagnosed with dithe state, kidney being the primary one. We abetes at a young age, had suffered multiple don’t have enough people signing up, and it’s health issues over the years and desperately taken too long to [get here] but I think we’re needed a transplant. moving in the right direction.”

“I said ‘I’ll do it, we’re the same blood type,’ The senator said Conte is the reason he’s and I donated blood to him when he got his a donor, and after his death, he realized he first kidney transplant,” Bonner recalled. could use his own political platform to advoD’Antonio was more than grateful for the cate for this cause and encourage others to donation his longtime friend made. get involved.

“I bounced back like a rockstar and I feel Like Flanagan, Brookhaven Town Council- great, I have more energy and determinawoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) is pas- tion,” D’Antonio said, reflecting on the exsionate about organ donation and takes every perience. “It’s my belief that there is someopportunity to raise awareness about the im- thing within a human being that takes that portance of becoming a donor when speaking step and makes that heroic move to save a publicly, regardless of the event. life; it moves me beyond a place I can eas“I could be at a civic ily describe. Not only did event talking about town im[Jane] save my life but she provement projects or town enriched the lives of those issues, and I always use it as close to me, [like my wife].” a soapbox to talk about orBut D’Antonio is not a gan donation,” Bonner said. big fan of the new law, call“Roughly 125,000 people in ing it “hugely irresponsible” the United States are waitand a “grossly inadequate ing for a kidney and there response” to appease a need are 350 million people in for more donors. the United States, seemingly “Sixteen- and seventeenwith healthy kidneys. If evyear-olds have enough erybody who could donate, making a decision — Megan Fackler trouble donated one, we wouldn’t about what classes to take as have people waiting for a kidney anymore and seniors, their minds are still developing, and lives can be saved.”

I’m appalled that this is the state’s answer,” Bonner said that under the new law, 16- he said. “What the state should do instead is and 17-year-olds can make donations upon put some money and effort into organ donor their death, and it includes safeguards where awareness and make it part of the teaching their parents or legal guardians have the op- curriculum in high school.” tion to rescind the decision if the minor dies Alternatively, Kelli Cutinella, whose son before 18.

Tom died October 2014 following a head-on “Teenagers are very passionate about so collision during a high school football game, many issues and I think this legislation was spoke in Albany to help get the law passed, made because they’re employing every toy and said she’s glad to see it in effect. in the toolbox, knowing the state is dead Tom, who wanted to register when he was last,” she said.

16 at the DMV but was ultimately not allowed The councilwoman knows a thing or two at the time, donated all vital organs, such as his about saving lives this way. heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas, bones and skin.

It was last April when Bonner donated “He was a giver in life and would do any-

‘It not only ups the amount of eligible organ donors there are to sign up and save lives, but also starts a conversation at an earlier age about its importance.’

thing for anybody, and it didn’t surprise me that he wanted to register at 16, it was just in his nature,” Cutinella said.

The mother, who has an ongoing relationship with Tom’s heart recipient and pancreas and kidney recipient, was recently notified by a New York Burn Center that a 30-year-old man from Brooklyn had received Tom’s skin after suffering severe burns in a house fire.

“Tom lives on now,” Cutinella said. “He’s not here in the physical sense, but he is with the recipients as they go on to live wonderful, fulfilling lives.”

According to Megan Fackler of LiveOnNY, a federally designated organ procurement organization, the new law is exciting.

“It not only ups the amount of eligible organ donors there are to sign up and save lives, but also starts a conversation at an earlier age about its importance,” Fackler said. “Donor family and recipient meetings have been the most touching. There are lots of things 16- and 17-year-olds can’t do, like rent a car, get a tattoo, vote, join the army, but they can save lives.”

Residents can visit the New York State Health Department’s website at www.health. ny.gov/donatelife to get more information about organ donation in New York State, including how to register as a donor.

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PJ woman killed in Rocky Point crash

by Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com A motor vehicle crash Feb. 18 in Rocky Point killed a woman from Port Jefferson and seriously injured her husband. Suffolk County Police 7th Squad detectives are still investigating the incident.

Florin Tilinca was driving a 2014 Jeep on Route 25A and was preparing to stop for a red light at the intersection of Fairway Drive at about 12:20 p.m. when a 2015 Subaru traveling in the westbound lane of Route 25A crossed into the eastbound lane and struck the Jeep.

The driver of the Subaru, Lucio Costanzo, 73, of Port Jefferson, was airlifted via Suffolk County Police helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital in serious condition. His wife, Stephanie Costanzo, 73, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was transported to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, where she was pronounced dead. Tilinca and his 16-year-old son were transported to St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Incidents and arrests Feb. 14–Feb. 19

On Feb. 19, a 25-year-old man from Lake Grove stole a Bose sound bar from Target on Pond Path in South Setauket, according to police. He also possessed a hypodermic needle, police said. He was arrested and charged with petit larceny and possession of a hypodermic instrument.

Breaking the bank

A window was broken at Chase bank on Main Street in Port Jefferson at about 6:30 p.m. Feb. 17, according to police.

I already spent it

A 28-year-old man from Dix Hills stole cash from Shell gas station on Motor Parkway in Brentwood in June 2016, according to police. He was arrested Feb. 14 in Selden and charged with petit larceny.

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On Route 83 in Selden near the intersection of Route 25, an 18-year-old woman driving a 2007 Nissan was pulled over for speeding, according to police. They discovered she was driving under the influence of drugs. She also possessed crack cocaine, police said. She was arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a narcotic and first-degree operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.

Whomping on Willow

A windshield on a 2002 Ford was broken while it was parked outside of a home on Willow Pond Lane in Miller Place at about 11 p.m. Feb. 17, according to police.

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A 2010 Honda was stolen from the driveway of a home on Gaymore Road in Port Jefferson Station at about 9:30 p.m. Feb. 16, according to police.

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Nineteen boxes of razors were stolen from Rite Aid on Old Town Road in Terryville at about 5:30 p.m. Feb. 16, according to police.

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North Shore residents divided on Presidents Day

Some protestors condemn Trump’s actions and rhetoric, others sing his praises

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com North Shore residents on both sides of the political spectrum made their voices heard during a local iteration of the nationwide Not My Presidents’ Day protest Monday, Feb. 20.

Those driving down Route 25A in East Setauket between 3 and 5 p.m. on Presidents Day found themselves caught in between the country’s most heated debate.

On one side of the road, a large crowd of diverse protesters rallied against President Donald Trump (R) and his policies, holding up signs that read “Trump is toxic to humans” and “Not my President.” On the other side, a smaller but just as passionate group gathered to support the commander-in-chief, holding signs that read “Liberal Lunacy,” with an ar-

row pointed toward the group on the other side, and “Pres. Trump Will Make America Great Again.”

Not My Presidents Day rallies took place across the country including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Philadelphia, with thousands of Americans taking to the streets to denounce the president, just one month into his term.

The main group involved in East Setauket’s rally was the Long Island Activists for Democracy, an offshoot of MoveOn.org, which, according to its website, is the largest independent, progressive, digitally connected organizing group in the United States.

Activists for Democracy founder Ruth Ann Cohen, from Lake Grove, held a sign that asked “Why Is Not My President Adolf Trump in Love with Putin?” She said she started the meetup in an effort to “uphold democracy” and stand up to the president, Photos by Kevin Redding whom she called a traitor.

“He refuses to show his taxes, he’s been Protestors hold signs during the rally in monetizing the presidency left and right, he’s east Setauket Feb. 20 denigrated our country, he’s a coward, and a misogynist,” Cohen said.

Stony Brook resident Craig Evinger said.

Referring to those on the other side of the Bill McNulty, a Setauket resident and Army road, she said, “Those people don’t believe in veteran who served between 1957 and 1964, anything, their minds are full of hatred ... build said he’s been rallying on behalf of anti-war a wall? We’re for a free shake and anti-violence for decades for everybody. Everyone here but with “the coming of is the child or grandchild of a Trump, it’s much more than refugee and they want to pull that now.” up the drawbridge and keep “We have to stand in opeverybody out.” position in every way, shape Those on the anti-Trump or form,” McNulty said. “With side voiced their concerns my military background, if I of several issues regarding were serving today, I would the 45th president, including not obey this commander-inhis now overturned execuchief. I would say ‘no.’”

— Howard Ross tive order to ban those from Across the road, AmeriMuslim-majority countries, can flags waved in the wind controversial cabinet nominations and what and patriotic songs played through a speaksome called “a rise of fascism in this country.” er, as members of the North Country Patri“I think there’s a general belief the man ots — a military support group formed after [Trump] is not competent to be president and the Sept. 11 attacks that meets at the corner that’s what’s brought all these people out,” every weekend in support of soldiers young and old — stood their ground with signs that read “God Bless American Jobs” and “Trump: Build The Wall.”

The group’s founder, Howard Ross of East Setauket, said he and the group “believe in our country, believe in serving our country and doing the right things for our country.”

Ross said those on the other side of the road remind him of the people who spit on him when he returned home from serving during the Vietnam War. “I’m never giving my corner up,” he said. “I love to see that flag fly and those people don’t like that. I’ve never heard Obama in eight years get beat up like the press beats up Trump.”

A Tea Party member in the gathering, who asked not to be named, said he was there to support the current president, adding “the resistance to him is unprecedented everybody’s against him ... this is an existential threat to our democracy to not let the man perform his duties.”

‘I’ve never heard Obama in eight years get beat up like the press beats up Trump.’

Jan Williams from Nesconset, wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat and held up a sign that read “We Support The President, The Constitution, The Rule of Law.” “We’re here because it’s Presidents Day and the election’s over and this is not the way to get anything done, to get the points across,” Williams said. “You’ve got to support the president, the Constitution and rule of law. We’re here to show support, that’s all.”

The anti-Trump side chanted “this is what democracy looks like” and sang “This Land Is Your Land,” while the Trump side — Ann Cohen chanted “Build the wall” and “God bless America.”

Throughout the rally, drivers passing the groups honked their horns and hollered out their window to show support for one side or the other.

‘He refuses to show his taxes, he’s been monetizing the presidency left and right, he’s denigrated our country, he’s a coward, and a misogynist.’

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BY MERGER TO BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2005-3, ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-3; Plaintiff(s) vs. GARY GATTI; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about September 26, 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738.

On March 2, 2017 at 9:00 am.

Premises known as 108 DORADO STREET SOUTH, MIDDLE ISLAND, NY 11953 District: 0200 Section: 479.00 Block: 05.00 Lot: 115.000 ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as Lot No. 249 as shown on a certain map entitled, “Map of Balmoral at Spring Lake, Section 3”, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on December 24, 1974 as Map No. 6196 (Corrected by Certificate of Correction in Liber 10429 Page 83).

As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale.

Approximate amount of judgment $409,016.87 plus interest and costs.

INDEX NO. 20741/12 NATASHA MEYERS., Esq., Referee

BOOTH STREET, CENTEREACH, NY 11720. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, DISTRICT 0200, SECTION 419.00, BLOCK 03.00, LOT 049.000. Approximate amount of judgment $416,359.28 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 13-15109.

Pamela J. Greene Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 841 2/2 4x vbr

Notice is hereby given that an order entered into by the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on the 6th day of February, 2017, bearing Index Number 17-00147, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk located at Suffolk County, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of Mathiew Morton Mecklosky. The city and state of my present address are Stony Brook, New York; the month and year of my birth are April, 1932; the place of my birth is New York, New York; my present name is Mathiew Mecklosky.

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Notice of formation of Jessica’s Closet, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/6/2017. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC: PO Box 436, Rocky Point, NY 11778.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

The next Village Election will be held on Tuesday, June 20, 2017; and

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Cathy Donahue-Spier Village Clerk/Treasurer

Notice of formation of NY Cash 4 Keys, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/25/2017. Office location: 16 Broadway, Rocky Point.

Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: David Prokop, Esq. 131 Route 25A, Rocky Point, NY 11778 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

February 6, 2017

890 2/16 6x vbr NOTICE OF ADOPTION Notice is hereby given that the following amendment(s) to the Uniform Code of Traffic Ordinances of the Town of Brookhaven.was/were adopted by the Brookhaven Town Board on Public Hearing Date 01/24/2017 to become effective ten (10) days from this publication as required

by Section 133 of the Town Law. Article VII Section 26 entitled STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS is hereby amended by ADDITION of the following in the hamlet of MILLER PLACE 18TH ST TYLER AVE E / 18TH ST

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The Offices vacant at the end of the current official year, to be filled at the Village Election for the following terms are: Trustee - Two-year term Trustee - Two-year term

902 2/23 1x vbr PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Shoreham will hold a public hearing on the 14th day of March, 2017, at 7:30 P.M., at the Village Hall, 80 Woodville Road, Shoreham, New York, to consider the adoption of a local law entitled: A LOCAL LAW APPROVING THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF SHOREHAM This local law would approve the Code of the Village of Shoreham as the official body of law for the Village.

This is a summary. The full text of the local law is available for inspection at the Village Clerk’s office during Village office hours and is also posted on the Village web site: www.shorehamvillage.org.

All persons with an interest will be heard by the Board of Trustees at the public hearing to be held as aforesaid and may appear in person or by representative. The Village Hall is accessible to handicapped persons.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Board of Education of the Rocky Point Union Free School District at Rocky Point, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York hereby invites sealed proposals for: RFP#: R18-01 TITLE: Architectural /Engineering Services The District will receive sealed proposals on or prior to 12:00 PM on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at the Administrative Office, 90 Rocky Point-Yaphank Road, Rocky Point, NY. Proposals received after stated date will be returned to the sender, unopened. Proposals must be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside with the RFP# and Title.

Proposals will be opened on the stated date, but will not be read aloud. Any interested party may attend. There will be no discussion at the time of the opening of the proposals. The names of the proposing firms shall be available following the proposal opening.

Proposals shall be irrevocable for a minimum period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the proposal opening. Alterations to said proposals must be submitted in writing. Consideration shall be given only to those alterations, which may be caused by unforeseen circumstances beyond the control of the firm submitting said proposal. The Purchasing agent, or his/her designee, shall make such determination.

The Rocky Point Union Free School District and Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all proposals that it considers not to be in the best interest of the school district.

All documents, including specifications, may be examined and obtained between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M., Monday through Friday at the District Administrative Office, 90 Rocky Point-Yaphank Road, Rocky Point, New York, beginning Monday, February 27, 2017.

BY ORDER OF THE; Board of Education Rocky Point Union Free School District At Rocky Point, Town of Brookhaven Suffolk County, New York By: Debra Hoffman Purchasing Agent

Dated: February 14, 2017

DATED: February 23, 2017

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By: Cathy Donahue Spier, Village Clerk

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP. CSFB MORTGAGE-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-9, Plaintiff

STATE OF NEW YORK)

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I, Donna Lent, Clerk of the Town of Brookhaven in said State and County do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the Amendment(s) to the Uniform TrafficCode with the record of the original filed in my office, and that it is true and correct copy of such record and of the whole thereof.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the seal of the Town of Brookhaven on this 25th day of January, 2017 .

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court Suffolk County, on the 17 day of January, 2017, bearing Index No. 17-00254, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at The Juliette A. Kinsella building, Riverhead, N.Y. grants Aronya Das, the right, to assume the name Aronya Dey, The child’s present address is 4413 Express Dr. North Ronkonkoma, NY 11779; The child’s date of birth is 23 July 2014, The child’s present name is Aronya Das.

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AGAINST ADOLFO BAUER, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 01, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738, on March 07, 2017 at 9:15AM, premises known as 6

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Invitation to Bidders BOARD OF EDUCATION Shoreham-Wading River Central School District PUBLIC NOTICE: is hereby given for separate sealed bids for: Partial Roof Replacement at Albert Prodell Middle School. Bids will be received by the School District Purchasing Agent, on March 10, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. prevailing time at the District Office, 250B RT. 25A Shoreham, NY 11786. The District Office hours are 8AM to 4PM, Monday thru Friday. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the standard fashion at said time and place.

The Contract Documents may be examined at the Office of the Architect, BBS Architects,

Landscape Architects and Engineers, P.C., 244 East Main Street, Patchogue New York, (631-475-0349); however the Contract Documents may only be obtained thru the Office of REV, 330 Route 17A Suite #2, Goshen New York 10924 (877272-0216) beginning on February 24, 2017. Complete digital sets of Contract Documents shall be obtained online (with a free user account) as a download for a non-refundable fee of Forty-Nine ($49.00) Dollars at the following websites: www. bbsprojects.com or www.usinglesspaper.com under ‘public projects’. Optionally, in lieu of digital copies, hard copies may be obtained directly from REV upon a deposit of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars for each complete set. Checks for deposits shall be made payable to the DISTRICT, SHOREHAM-WADING RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT and may be uncertified. All bid addenda will be transmitted to registered plan holders via email and will be available at the above referenced websites. Any bidder requiring documents to be shipped shall make arrangements with the printer and pay for all packaging and shipping costs. Plan holders who have obtained hard copies of the bid documents will need to make the determination if hard copies of the addenda are required for their use, and coordinate directly with the printer for hard copies of addenda to be issued. There will be no charge for registered plan holders to obtain hard copies of the bid addenda. The bid deposit for hard copies will be returned upon receipt of plans and specifications, in good condition, within thirty days after bid date, except for the lowest responsible bidder, whose check will be forfeited upon the award of the contract.

The Contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder or the proposals will be rejected within 45 days of the date of opening proposals. Bids shall be subject, however, to the discretionary right reserved by the School District to waive any informalities, accept or reject any alternatives, reject any proposals and to advertise for new proposals, if in its opinion the best interest of the School District will thereby be promoted.

Each bidder may not withdraw his bid within 45 days after the formal opening thereof. A bidder may withdraw his bid only in writing and prior to the bid opening date.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Shoreham-Wading River C.S.D.

Janice M. Seus, District Clerk Dated: February 16, 2017 916 2/23 1x vbr NOTICE OF LEGAL POSTPONEMENT OF SALE SUPREME COURT: SUFFOLK COUNTY THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2006-3, ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3; Plaintiff(s) vs. WILLIAM BARRY, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distriubutees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said WILLIAM BARRY; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, NY 12524, 845-897-1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about September 27, 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738.

On March 8, 2017 at 10:00 am.

Premises known as 165 BERKSHIRE DR, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738 District: 0200 Section: 603.00 Block: 03.00 Lot: 043.000 ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Farmingville in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as Lot Number 835 and the Northerly One-half of Lot Number 834, on a certain map entitled, “Map of Natures Gardens, Berkshire Heights Section”, filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on July 27, 1932 as Map Number 1091.

As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale.

Approximate amount of judgment $580,423.03 plus interest and costs.

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History Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen By riCh ACritelli On April 3, 1939, with war clouds on the horizon in Europe and the Pacific, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the expansion of the Army Air Force. These national defense efforts by the government also made provisions to allow black college students the chance to enter the air wing of the military. While this presidential action sought the support of black citizens, segregationist Jim Crow laws hindered any form of equality within the United States.

Even as Roosevelt understood Americans would be fighting in the war, he had to contend with the strength of racial hatred and the political and social forces that would not allow any significant changes to the policy of separate, but equal. As Adolf Hitler conquered much of Europe and the Japanese expanded through the Pacific and Asia, many Americans at home refused to reconsider any type of equality towards black citizens who wanted to play a role in the global fight against fascism. At the time, many minorities hoped if they sacrificed like every other American, additional rights would be expanded to them by a grateful government. Black Americans were willing to join every branch of the armed forces to fight for the rights of people thousands of miles away against totalitarian dictators, when they had extremely limited rights at home.

The Tuskegee Airmen were successful pilots that supported the aerial war over the

skies of Europe. These black air recruits were told at every turn they did not hold the same leadership and technical attributes as their fellow white pilots. Although these black service members were highly decorated for their service to the United States, their greatest battle might have been against the segregationist policies designed to limit their contributions against the enemy. The military chose the Tuskegee Institute as a major training center for black service members. The educational facility was located in the South and the recruits were ordered to the school that was originally created by noted civil rights leader Booker T. Washington in 1881.

The foundations of Tuskegee were meant to provide the black trainees with an aeronautical background to enable them to become pilots, navigators and mechanics. From the start, it was a daunting task for many of them, as most of the officers running the school were white and it was expected most of the fliers at Tuskegee were bound to fail. The earliest recruits became the backbone of the allblack flying unit the 99th Pursuit Squadron.

While the pilots endured intense pressure, the men who flew over the skies of Alabama were intensely motivated to be ordered overseas to protect the bomber crews taking heavy losses against the flak guns and German Luftwaffe.

It was originally believed the training at Tuskegee was a waste of money and time by the government, and it was only a matter of time before the program was disbanded.

More than 2,000 black airmen graduated from the rigorous program. One of the most vital members of the government to visit the base was Eleanor Roosevelt. In the months before Pearl Harbor, she traveled to Tuskegee to observe the instructional conditions of the fliers. Roosevelt, a proponent of civil rights, spoke with the candidates and she ordered one of the pilots personally take her for a ride above the base. For over an hour, respected pilot Charles Alfred Anderson flew the First Lady as the entire military chain of command for Tuskegee cautiously watched.

It was a major turning point for the pilots, as their flying talents were described to all detractors within the government to keep them from closing the school.

With their training complete, the pilots were deployed to Europe to fight against the enemy over North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and Europe. The 99th Pursuit Squadron was later combined with the 100th, 301st and 302nd African-American aerial squadrons to create the 332nd Fighter Group. The men were led

by Colonel (later General) Benjamin O. Davis, who guided his “Red Tails” to carry out 1,578 combat missions. His men shot down 260 enemy aircrafts, and attacked a destroyer and numerous enemy military installations. Eventually the Luftwaffe called the Tuskegee pilots “Black Birdmen,” and white bomber crews continually relied on the black pilots to successfully and safely carry out their missions.

When the men returned home as decorat-

Photo from tuskegee Airmen website

tuskegee Airmen of the U.S. Army.

ed pilots with three Presidential citations, they returned to a victorious nation that would still not yet end segregation. Although there was a lack of confidence in the men, they evolved into a fighting force that struck fear in Hitler’s war machine. An off-Broadway play and two Hollywood films on the subject — the first starring Lawrence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding and called “The Tuskegee Airmen,” and the second a story of black pilots who were detained as prisoners of war in “Hart’s War” with Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell — depict the trailblazing men.

Rich Acritelli is a social studies teacher at Rocky Point High School and an adjunct professor of American history at Suffolk County Community College.

Nonprofit, county legislator react to county executive’s borrowing

By Alex PetroSki alex@tbrnewspapers.com Suffolk County’s current and future financial outlook has been a topic of conversation for months, and a nonprofit founded to ensure government transparency is taking notice, following County Executive Steve Bellone’s (D-West Babylon) presentation to the state Senate and Assembly representatives in Albany Feb. 14.

Bellone visited the capital last week to discuss Suffolk’s “daunting” fiscal challenges going forward. Among his eight points addressed during the presentation was a request for authority from New York State to obtain bonds for separation pay of law enforcement officers for 2017 and 2018, a point of contention raised repeatedly by Suffolk County Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga). Reclaim New York, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization established to “educate New Yorkers on issues like affordability, transparency and education,” echoed a similar sentiment to Trotta’s following the presentation.

“Suffolk County has a problem: it spends too much on its police department,” a Feb. 15 post on the organization’s blog said in part.

“Its 2,397 officers were paid an average of $161,463 last year, far more than any other county, or town police officers, or Nassau County’s police, for that matter. Spending reached this level after years of political action by the police, who spent in 2015 more

than $600,000 influencing local elections– from one PAC alone. Now, having fallen behind on those expenses … Bellone is proposing borrowing $60 million because the county doesn’t have enough cash for payouts on unused sick and vacation time, that Suffolk cops were promised years ago.”

Doug Kellogg, the organization’s communications director, said in a phone interview Reclaim New York doesn’t currently have plans to begin a project or campaign pertaining specifically to the police contract, which the county and the Police Benevolent Association agreed on and which runs from 2011 to 2018, but they do plan on monitoring Suffolk’s budget and financial outlook going forward.

“It’s really starting to get out of control,” Kellogg said. “The path can get worse.”

Trotta has said in past interviews he feels like he’s alone in calling out the county’s financial situation relating to the police department contract.

“The county finances are in total shambles,” Trotta said during an interview in his Smithtown office Nov. 15. “[The other legislators are] sticking their head in the sand.

They’re not addressing the real problems. No one wants to address the problems. You need colossal change.”

Following the meeting, Trotta said it was “typical” of Bellone to ask to borrow to pay for the retirement pay for police officers. He added he’s been in contact with Reclaim New York and plans to work with them to inform

File photo by Alex Petroski

Suffolk County’s financial situation is raising questions and concerns. the public about the county’s finances.

“I’m going to work with them because together we could get the word out to the public on how bad it really is,” Trotta said in a phone interview. “The title says it all — we need to take back New York.”

Vanessa Baird-Streeter, a spokeswoman for Bellone, said in a phone interview the request regarding bonds for separation pay was just a small part of his presentation, but if obtained the funds would improve public safety.

“In the future we’ll be able to hire more police officers to ensure our county is safe,” she said.

Bellone’s presentation also included a justification for borrowing to close the budget gap.

“Allowing for this five-year bonding will allow Suffolk County to protect taxpayers and public safety by smoothing out the expense associated with an anticipated increase in retirements,” he said. “Bonding will allow Suffolk County to retain the resources and fiscal flexibility to continue to hire new officers, which is critical to maintain public safety and save taxpayer dollars over several years.”

A look at the county budget by the legislature’s budget review office in October resulted in a warning.

“The county’s structural deficit is increasingly driving our decisions,” the office’s director Robert Lipp said in the review. “The county sets a bad precedent when paying for operating expenses with borrowing.”

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Youth council’s programs enrich community’s children

By Kevin Redding Kevin@tbrnewspapers.com At a time on Long Island when more and more young people are falling victim to substance abuse and social isolation, the North Shore provides kids of all ages with a secure environment in the form of a not-for-profit, community-based agency geared toward youth and family services, community education and, of course, plenty of fun.

The North Shore Youth Council, based in Rocky Point and formed as a grassroots organization in 1982 by local volunteers working together with the Town of Brookhaven and local school districts, has a presence in each school within the Shoreham-Wading River, Rocky Point, Miller Place and Mount Sinai districts through counseling and programs held before and after school hours.

The agency encourages those entering kindergarten to those in college to stay out of trouble and develop the skills needed to be good, successful adults.

“We provide that safe place for kids to go to,” executive director Janene Gentile said. “[For instance], the afternoon program we have is a place where kids can go instead of

going to their empty houses. As we know, youth really get in trouble more during afterschool hours. We also provide activities for parents who can’t take their kids to clubs. It’s a special place where people don’t feel intimidated ... and kids feel comfortable here.”

She said the NSYC also serves as a full life cycle in that the younger kids in kindergarten who come through the programs often become mentors once they reach middle school and high school.

The agency provides plenty of mentoring and volunteer opportunities that prepare kids for their careers and get them involved in community service, and many of them work in the summer programs offered and continue being involved well into their college years.

Last year, the agency provided about 130 kids with job opportunities.

Miller Place High School senior Treicy Wan, 17, has been involved in the organization since eighth grade and is currently a senior counselor.

“This place really helps to bring you out of your shell, helps you to interact with your community and gives you a sense of being somewhere and being part of something,” Wan said.

“I love making the other kids happy, knowing they go through hard times and that I was once there, and now I can be a mentor for them and help make a difference in their lives.”

Gentile, a drug and alcohol counselor by trade, is involved in many of the intervention and prevention programs offered through the organization, including Alateen for those who are coping with problems they didn’t cause and have no control over.

“We’re going through times of hate and discrimination and violence and suicide and substance abuse and we’re going to be here to pick up the pieces and the damages,” Gentile said. “We need to break through that and educate them that this is a safe world. This is a safe place for everyone.”

Among the many other programs offered are Big Buddy Little Buddy, a cross-age mentoring initiative that matches up a high school student with a younger student in an effort to

Photos from north Shore youth Council

Clockwise from top, members of the north Shore youth Council; members of the knitting club make garments; and children play games after school. encourage social skill development and help children make friends; Homework Helpers, where high school students volunteer their time to help others who might need extra help with their schoolwork; and School Age Child Care, which provides peace of mind to parents looking for a safe place for their elementary school children.

Dana Ellis, one of the mental health counselors who works predominantly with students with special needs, said the program is good for the Rocky Point community.

“We just want to help people,” she said.

“With mental health, it’s tough to get programs started and I think there’s a lot of freedom here to start things, get community feedback and then watch them grow.”

All of the programs are made affordable for low-income families, and every dollar the agency makes goes back to the community through scholarships, which serve to help struggling families pay for things like clothes and books.

After school, the cafeteria at Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School becomes a giant playground for elementary-aged kids. There’s a crochet club where children can learn to make accessories like earmuffs, full access to tabletop games and Legos, snacks and drinks and an area where kids can do their homework together. As staff pointed out, everybody interacts, and there’s something for every kid.

“We get to play games together and have fun, we do dodgeball in the gym, we work together and learn to be good and honest,” said 10-year-old Christian.

Marcie Wilson, assistant director at NSYC, said one of her fondest memories at the organization was when she attended the once-amonth “open mic night” for middle and high school students, whose singing, dancing and instrument playing blew her away. She said that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what’s available.

“We’re an underused resource in this community,” Wilson said. “We’re just trying to get the word out to let people know we’re there.”

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PeoPle

Exercising on wheels

Photo from Rocky Point school district

Rocky Point Middle School students took part in the workshop called “The Power of Symbols and Words.”

Rocky Point students promote positivity Nearly 40 members of Rocky Point Middle School’s Friends of Rachel Club and the Natural Helpers Club, along with advisers Sherin Shanahan and Joseph Settepani, joined together with students from 15 Long Island school districts to promote acceptance and understanding as they took part in a workshop called “The Power of Symbols and Words.”

The event, which was hosted at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, focused on the importance of understanding how words and symbols can hurt if used negatively. During the program, the students viewed a video called “Fear, Hatred and Hope: The Power of Symbols,”

listened to various speakers from different backgrounds, watched skit performances from local high school drama clubs depicting acceptance, and met in small groups to discuss different topics having to do with differences and how words and symbols are powerful.

The field trip aimed at inspiring students to bring back what they learned to their home schools and spread awareness through club activities.

The event was sponsored by the Suffolk Center on the Holocaust, Diversity and Human Understanding; the Suffolk County Interfaith Anti-Bias Task Force; and the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission.

In learning about healthy activities that they can participate in throughout their lives, Miller Avenue School students in the Shoreham-Wading River school district learned to Rollerblade within their gym classes.

Through the program, students (with the assistance of parents, grandparents and teachers) strapped on skates, helmets and padding, and began learning the basics of skating, including balance and safety.

“It is a lifetime activity that is fun and promotes cardio health,” Miller Avenue School gym teacher Katherine Carlson said.

The district has been supporting the skating program within the building for more than 10 years.

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Clockwise from above, Mount sinai wrestlers Matt Campo, Mike sabella, robert Christ, Joe O’Brien and Jason shlonsky with their suffolk County championship brackets; Campo maintains control over an opponent during a previous match; and shlonsky has his arm raised following his win.

Mustangs place five grapplers atop county podium

By Desirée Keegan Desiree@tbrnewspapers.com Robert Christ’s story is one head coach Matt Armstrong will be telling for a long time.

In the senior’s first two seasons on Mount Sinai’s wrestling team, the 285-pound grappler didn’t win a single match. Now, he’s a county champion.

Christ was one of five Mustangs to grab gold last weekend at the Suffolk County Division II championship at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood.

Christ looked to his coaches for guidance, knowing they’d been to the county and state tournaments, but according to Armstrong, his wrestler deserves all of the credit.

“We pointed to him all season as an example of what wrestling and sports are all about — through hard work you can achieve anything,” Armstrong said. “The fact that he’s doing as well as he is — it’s a great story. It shows if you don’t like where you are, just work harder and you can achieve great things.

He’s in a 285-pound weight class when he weighs 220 pounds, so he’s given up a lot, but nobody works harder than him.”

Christ won his qualifying match 1-0, edged out his semifinal competitor 1-0 and claimed a 3-0 decision over his final opponent of the tournament.

Although he’d faced his semifinal competitor before, he came out tougher than Christ expected, but the finals match was what had him on edge.

“The first match was at 9 a.m. and I had to wait until 8 p.m. that night for my finals match, thinking about it the entire time,” he said. “I remember being out there wrestling — I couldn’t believe I was on that mat. I was nervous, I didn’t want to mess up, but I tried not to let the nerves get to me. To pull away with the win was one of the best feelings I’ve ever had in sports. You put in so much time and effort into one thing and after so many months and years to finally have it pay off was awesome.”

Christ was new to the county stage, and so was teammate Mike Sabella.

A sophomore, the 182-pounder was one of the youngest on the team to take the trip upstate. Freshman Matt Campo also finished atop the podium.

Sabella was overwhelmed by the enormous crowd he was going to compete in front of, but made his way through his qualifier round and semifinal matchup with pins in the first and second period.

“Getting those pins reassured me that I was in the tournament for a reason,” he said.

“Knowing I was facing some of the best kids in the county was a confidence booster.”

Campo also came away with three pins in the tournament. For the 113-pounder, who has been on the team since seventh grade, making weight was the hardest part of the two-day tournament.

“Our team is really tough,” said Campo, who was a league champion last year. “I wrestle guys who are usually stronger than me, so I have to out-technique them. I’ve learned how to overcome my obstacles and win big matches, and that’s due in part to our great seniors who are really good role models for the underclassmen.”

Sabella can relate to that. He worked pri-

marily with one of the team’s leaders, Jason Shlonsky, who was the Champion of Champions at the tournament and had the most pins in the least amount of time.

“I usually wrestle defensively, and he’s a goon on offense, so whenever Jay would try to shoot, I would try to find a way to defend it,” Sabella said. “Knowing he was a very good wrestler — wrestling him for the last couple of months got me really ready for counties. I went in with the mindset that I should be winning.”

He credits the work he put in with Shlonsky as the reason he won his finals match — a 3-2 decision.

“I’d wrestled the kid before and he knew what I was doing, so it was hard to get the shots I wanted,” he said. “I had to switch to some different moves, which is where wrestling with Jay all year helped me.”

Shlonsky said he’s learned just as much from Sabella as his teammate did from him.

“He and I got really close throughout the season and we both helped each other out,” he said. “We have different styles, so learning how to work with those different styles was important for both of us.”

The Champion of Champions was an ideal Mustang for Sabella to pair with. Although he took a year off from wrestling his junior

year, the 170-pounder went 28-0 in his final season, with 25 wins coming from pins. Although he said he tries not to focus on winning or losing, he said that did play a factor in his first qualifying match, which earned him his 100th career win.

“I tried to keep a level head and focus on what I do best, rather than my opponent,” he said. “I go in telling myself that I need to worry about my own offense, and I’m constantly looking to score points. When I do that, things turn out in my favor.”

Joe O’Brien, at 132 pounds, also came away a county champion. In the finals, he wrestled Port Jefferson’s Vin Miceli, a yearround, accomplished wrestler.

“He really dominated,” Armstrong said of O’Brien. “Joe is really peaking at the right time. He looked very good and I’m excited to see what he can do at states this weekend.”

The Mustangs will be competing at the Times Union Center in Albany Feb. 24 and 25.

It’s already been a season to remember for Mount Sinai, but the boys are hoping to show New York what Suffolk County is made of.

“It’s a fairytale ending,” Shlonsky said of his season so far. “Coming back not being on the mat much was an unbelievable feeling. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

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Clockwise from above, nick Rose with a jump shot; Harrison Bak reached for the rim; dan decker muscles his way up to the basket; and John Clark moves the ball.

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By Bill landon The Tornadoes are already beginning to blow through the bracket.

The eyes of the storm, seniors Alex Merhige and Kyle Stolba, racked up 29 points each as the No. 1-seeded Harborfields boys’ basketball team, which totaled a lucky 13 3-pointers in the win, knocked out No. 8 Mount Sinai, 86-53, in the Class A quarterfinals Feb. 17.

Harborfields 86 Mount Sinai 53

Fresh off a thrilling overtime win the night before, a 70-63 win over No. 9 Comsewogue, the Mustangs’ season comes to an abrupt end.

From opening tipoff, the game was never in question. The Tornadoes flexed their muscles, racking up point after point — draining six 3-pointers in the first quarter alone.

Merhige, who finished the game with 12 rebound and five blocks, awakened the crowd with his second dunk of the game in the second stanza. Stolba, who had a triple double with 10 assists and 10 rebounds, hit his fourth trey of the game, and the Tornadoes took a 30-point lead into the halftime break, 56-26.

“They’re always good competitors — they work hard even when they got down in the first quarter they never gave up on us,” Stolba said of Mount Sinai. “The coach had to wake us up a little in the second just to keep going, we caught fire and I think we showed why we’re the No. 1 seed.”

Stolba started the scoring for the second half with a pair of field goals, senior Joe Kelly hit a 3-pointer and Merhige drained his fourth trey for a 73-37 advantage heading into the final eight minutes of play.

“We played great — we moved the ball really well, our defense in the first half was unbelievable,” Merhige said. “We only missed like two three’s in the first half, but our next game definitely won’t be so easy.”

Harborfields head coach John Tampori pulled his starters and the bench took the team to the finish line.

Senior David Maitre answered the call

with a field goal and a shot from beyond the arc to help put the win in the record book.

Mount Sinai head coach Ryan McNeely said he was proud to see his boys make it as far as they did.

“Some people counted us out when we were 3-6 in the league, but then we won five out of six before this game,” he said.

“We knew they were an excellent team and they shot the ball much better than we saw watching tape, but I’m very proud of our guys in how we finished the season.”

Senior Harrison Bak led Mount Sinai with 13 points, and classmate Nick Rose followed close behind with 11.

Senior Shane Wagner made a pair of field goals and three triples to place him second in scoring behind Stolba and Merhige with 13 points.

Harborfields head coach Jon Tampori said he liked what he saw from his team, and hopes that the boys can keep up the good work.

“Mount Sinai is well coaches and they’re a scrappy team that put forth a great effort,” he said. “We’re not that much better than they are, it’s just that tonight was our night.

They had a tough overtime win last night and come here the next day and played us hard and that’s a credit to them.”

Harborfields played No. 5 Wyandanch at home Feb. 21. Wagner said following the win over Harborfields if his team plays like it did against Mount Sinai, they’ll be ready.

“They came out hot, but we came out hotter,” Wagner said of Mount Sinai. “We were hitting shots.”

Keeping score Mount Sinai 68, Sayville 54 The No. 1 Mount Sinai girls basketball team hosted No. 4 Sayville Feb. 21 and edged out its competition. The Mustangs will face No. 2 Harborfields in the Class A finals Feb. 24 at Riverhead High School.

Harborfields 49, Shoreham-Wading River 35 The No. 3 Shoreham-Wading River girls basketball team traveled to No. 2 Harborfields Feb. 21 and were knocked out of the postseason in the Class A semifinals.

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By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com In celebration of Presidents Day, local elected officials weighed in on the occupants of the Oval Office who inspired them to do what they do.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) — Harry S. Truman

“Harry Truman’s my favorite president. He was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things and demonstrated that you can reach the highest levels of our government while maintaining your integrity.

More than 20 years ago, I read David McCullough’s book “Truman” and it was one of the best political biographies I’ve ever read. When I served on active duty in the U.S. Army, I was based in Missouri — which is the home state of Truman — and I visited his home and library in Independence.

What was inspiring to me, and it really represents what our country is about, was that anyone can be president and that you can reach the highest levels of our government and really maintain your integrity. Truman’s honesty really impressed me.”

Brookhaven Town Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) — John F. Kennedy

“His presidency changed America. I think so many presidents bring so many different skill sets, and Kennedy believed in America, was passionate about America, put people

to work, held the line on taxes and was a compassionate person. Then there’s the whole history of Kennedy and how he was raised and groomed, and how his life was tragically cut short, and I think that adds an air to his [legacy] as well.”

Brookhaven Town Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) — Barack Obama

“I think Obama, who was a law school professor, intimately understood how to use the law to help others and he actually worked his way up through government, so he took all the steps and is a bottom-up leader. Obama being an activist and community organizer really impressed me. I think it’s important that we [as elected officials] are in the community, and talk to people face-toface about their issues. I think that he is, arguably, the most eloquent, dignified and diplomatic president of my time and I try to emulate his qualities.”

State Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) — Abraham Lincoln

“If you were in my office, whether in Albany or here in the district, you would see lots of pictures of Abraham Lincoln. When you’re growing up and you’re reading about different presidents, the idea of Lincoln being kind of a frontiersman and the way he grew up and the stories about him are very exciting. As you get older and you start looking into Lincoln’s life, you see

the kind of person that he is. He cared very deeply about people and if you look at photos of Lincoln, you could see the deep lines, as some people call ‘worry lines,’ because he cared so much. During the Civil War, he visited wounded soldiers and was very touched by their lives.

I have great concern for people and try to be very helpful to people, and I think Lincoln certainly reinforces those goals.”

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright — A Secretary of the Interior

“My inspiration came not from the Oval Office, but from Interior Secretary James Watt, who served under President Ronald Reagan. Watt wanted to sell our national parks, starting with Jamaica Bay at the Gateway National Recreation Area.

“I think it was a brilliant concept to bring the national parks on both coasts together. Although it didn’t fit the wilderness model, it was an innovation that was already in place.

So the Secretary of the Interior was proposing to sell one of the parks.

That upset me a lot.

“We don’t have many national parks in New York State and there are only two on Long Island — and he wanted to sell one. It was a life-changing experience for me. It seems like only yesterday, but it was years ago.

“And it didn’t happen. There were a lot of people in Congress at that time who cared about the environment. Despite his intent, thoughtful people opposed the idea and prevailed.

“The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Ref-

uge became the number one place in the U.S. for spotting bird species.

It is located right on the Atlantic flyway and people have continued to enjoy the coastal environment in our own urban national park. It is probably the only wildlife preserve in existence with its own subway stop.”

spoke against getting involved. It was sad to see him go, because in going, the policies changed dramatically, and when we changed leaders, we committed an entire generation to war and turned a lot of people into cynics against their government.

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) — John F. Kennedy

Suffolk County Legislator William “Doc” Spencer — Barack Obama

“Kennedy had a sense of humor, had a sense of history and he learned from his mistakes. His mistake early in the administration was to follow through with Eisenhower’s decision that he did not execute well, with the Bay of Pigs invasion, and he learned from that.

I think that’s why he was so successful thereafter when, in 1962, a yearand-a-half after, we had the Cuban missile crisis, and he was able to diffuse that despite the urging that we invade or bomb Cuba. He avoided that and avoided a crisis and potentially a world war.

I was also extremely impressed with his June 1963 speech at American University about how we all live on one planet and about peace being a much nobler goal, while we were in the middle of the Cold War. He could see beyond that, so I think he had vision.

Obviously as a person, he had a lot of shortcomings, which a lot of people have dwelled on since the time of his death, but I think as a man and as a leader, people wanted to follow him and I think he was a good president. I know if he had lived, we would not have been in the Vietnam War. He

“I’ve been in the Legislature for six years, and got elected in 2011, which was then-president Obama’s third year in office. I had been a physician and I was a big participant in getting involved in the hope and change … Obama being the first Black American president was inspirational for me as one of the few Black American elected officials.

I appreciated the fact that he started out working in the community, was someone that had all the education and training, and was a community organizer. I believe he exhibited the qualities of service and compassion for our fellow man and for those who have the smallest voice, and I believe in hard work and education as well. He had a very clear message that resonated and it got a lot of people involved, and I think that was transformative.

I don’t want it to appear that just because he was black, he encouraged me because I’m black. That had some significance but what I appreciated most was his character.

He was a slow and steady hand and he brought qualities of dignity and respect … I also admired the way he conducted himself personally with his family.”

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OpiniOn Editorial

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Letters to the editor

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Black history deserves more than lip service It’s time we pay more attention to African-American history.

Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D., a son of former slaves born in 1875 near New Canton, Virginia, is referred to as the father of Black History Month.

Although he got a late educational start, beginning high school in his late teens, he proved an excellent student and completed high school in less than two years. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and, in 1912, was the second African-American to be awarded a doctorate by Harvard University.

In 1926 Woodson led an effort to establish an annual observance of Negro History Week. He chose to anchor the weeklong celebration in the second week of February in honor of the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14.) Since the accomplishments of African-Americans were largely absent from recorded history in the United States, Woodson dedicated his career to black history and worked to ensure it was taught in schools and studied by scholars.

Woodson died in 1950, 26 years before President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976.

Americans of all shades now know the names of the iconic figures: Douglass and Nat Turner, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. But of course, there are so many more.

African-American history is filled with the stories of “regular people engaged in positive activities,” wrote Setauket resident Geral Lee in a “Your Turn” on Black History Month that appeared in The Village Times Herald Feb. 16.

African-Americans have served this country heroically in battles on U.S. soil and abroad, oftentimes defending people who would not accept them as equals. They have advanced science and transportation, as evidenced recently in Margot Lee Shetterly’s book “Hidden Figures”, about the formerly unheralded mathematicians behind the scenes at NASA. Rocky Point High School social studies teacher Rich Acritelli wrote a story this week about the Tuskegee Airmen, a division of the U.S. Army created for African-Americans who wanted to fight for a country where they weren’t afforded basic human rights.

Isn’t it time, after more than 40 years of Black History Month observances, for all Americans to take notice of the remarkable achievements of the countless regular folk engaged in positive pursuits who populate African-American history?

In the words of Lee, “If [Black History Month] can fill in the gaps, identify injustice, encourage positive dialogue and provide a platform for people to work toward understanding one another, it is a valuable ongoing process.”

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Rep. Zeldin: Please meet with your constituents As a constituent of Lee Zeldin’s in the first congressional district, I am dismayed that our congressman has refused to hold a town hall meeting to answer his constituents’ concerns regarding his recent votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his vote to roll back existing environmental and gun safety regulations, as well as his vote against women’s health care access. These votes are of concern to many Long Islanders, and we have a right to ask our elected official why he is not

representing the diverse views of the first congressional district.

I had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Zeldin and his district director last week. While our differences in philosophy were readily apparent, we had a good conversation. I encouraged the congressman to allow all of his constituents the same access that I was given, and hold a public forum where an exchange of concerns and ideas could happen. I think it is crucial that those of us who

disagree with the congressman should not be dismissed as the “radical and fringe left,” as many elected officials on the right have taken to calling us. We deserve to have our concerns addressed, and it is our elected leaders’ obligation to serve all of their constituents. I hope that Congressman Zeldin will live up to the legitimate expectations of those whom he represents.

Shoshanna Hershkowitz South Setauket

Political distruption is not productive If a portion of one political party chooses to act like a group of petulant schoolchildren, is a group from another party obligated to behave in the same manner?

The Tea Party, a subset of my Republican Party, did much that I found objectionable and I was very vocal about my dissatisfaction. Now we have a subset of the Democratic Party behaving in much the same way.

Perhaps, if the dissatisfied Democrats had put as much effort into getting their candidates elected as they appear to be putting into developing disruptive tactics, there would be a different president in the White House.

One of my ancestors, Benjamin Franklin, was well known

for his position that our fledgling country could only succeed if its leaders put aside their differences and worked together.

Yes, the party that is out of power is obligated to critique the actions of the party that is in power. This out-of-power party is often referred to as the “loyal opposition” and its criticisms must be constructive, not destructive.

Is it possible the current leaders of the Democratic Party don’t understand what happened? Don’t they understand it is the dysfunction in Washington that made it possible for Donald Trump to become president? Do they really believe that more dysfunction is good for either their party or the country?

Politics is based in nego-

tiation and compromise. In the world of negotiation and compromise, no party gets everything they want. A reasonable modicum of civility must be maintained, because tomorrow you will have to negotiate with the very same people with whom you negotiate today and anger does not help that process.

The political leaders in our country need to understand that if they continue to follow the path they have followed for much of this century, very few of them will be in power eight years from now.

But, as always, that is just one man’s opinion.

Francis Gibbons Terryville

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OpiniOn A case for knowledge instead of fear

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hen we were young, we used to think he was hiding under our beds, in our closets or around the corner.

Thoughts of this terrifying person kept us up at night, prevented us from closing our eyes and made us insist that our parents search every corner of our room, investigate each sound around us and make sure we were safe.

Before I was born, the boogie man was the Soviet Union, spying on us from overhead in a satellite launched in October 1957.

He was watchBy Daniel Dunaief ing us from above, monitoring our trips to the supermarket, listening to our conversations with our neighbors about the Brook-

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lyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles or studying our driving routes to work.

Today, of course, we have plenty of reasons to fear. Terrorists have made death and destruction their business. They appear bent on the idea that killing us somehow helps them.

It’s horrifying and we need to protect ourselves. The manner in which we do that is up for debate, particularly as President Trump and his staff make a point of reminding us of all the events around the world that we should fear.

We need a strong response, a readiness to act and a careful screening process, keeping out the undesirable elements. President Obama seemed intent on protecting the populace, albeit without the same level of directed rhetoric and without policies of exclusion.

No president wants to be in the White House as the griever-inchief when he knows he could act through policies he has the power to write.

But is there a way to look into the human soul beyond religious stereotypes and beyond geographic boundaries to know what someone may intend to do? Is this boogie man exclusively one religion? Surely, there are plenty of people who grew up in different countries and follow other religions who commit horrible acts.

Do we understand our enemy or do we just want to push those people, whoever they are — perhaps away?

It’s never been clear to me how we can protect ourselves completely from any motivated aggressor, short of living in a concrete bunker deep in the ground, with admission limited to those with a thorough psychological and DNA profile.

We don’t understand many of the mass murderers in our country. We interview their neighbors, family members and classmates after they’ve committed horrible acts. No one could possibly foresee that this unstable person was capable of these atrocities. And, if their associates

could have seen it coming, they are almost admitting culpability. If they say, “Of course, I wrote in my diary two months ago that he might be a killer,” they may feel that they share some responsibility for not preventing these acts.

We need to understand each other and the way the human mind strays off track into a realm of darkness where relief and success are measured in bullets and body counts. We need to know our enemy. I don’t believe we can truly see our enemy in the color of their skin or their passport.

Our mental health system will likely receive fewer dollars in the months and years ahead, so we can focus on building walls and keeping people out. Perhaps a better investment would be to understand the people we fear. Yes, we need to defend ourselves, but we can also build a mental health system that encourages people to find ways to heal instead of hurt. Who knows? Helping the boogie man could turn him into an ally instead of a sworn enemy.

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Fake news and readership clues

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ake news is in the spotlight.

Websites, blogs and social media are populated with it and even print can be. The goal of its perpetrators is to misinform and to destroy readers’ trust in what they read. This calls into question the real work of traditional journalists doing their jobs.

Disinformation campaigns make all news suspect: What’s real and what’s fake?

How can a free press properly be the watchdog of the people, the fourth estate of our democracy, if readers can’t believe what they read?

In an effort to

By Leah S. Dunaief sort out the real from the fake, especially in advance of key European elections in Germany, Holland and France, the European Union had created an 10-member team called East StratCom. These overworked diplomats, journalists and bureaucrats pore

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through hundreds of stories a day on Facebook and Twitter, according to The New York Times, attempting to sort out truth from fiction. Of course, they are only partially successful. The load is overwhelming. But perhaps they do serve to make readers pause for a moment to consider and check if they read something surprising.

The subject of fake news is deeply concerning to those of us in the news business. Please be assured, as I have noted in this column before, that our papers have no fake news. Mistakes?

Of course. Corrections as soon as we know? You bet. We at Times Beacon Record News Media have no hidden agenda and no dark side. Our only mission is to communicate with you the unbiased news in our communities.

Because a little humor leavens the task, I am including some sly old saws culled from the internet and sent me by a friend. I hope they give you a chuckle amid the serious business of reporting the news.

You Are What You Read (or, perhaps, it should be We Read What We Are).

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2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country, and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could find the time — and if they didn’t have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents and grandparents used to run the country.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who is run-

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LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton SPORTS EDITOR Desirée Keegan ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who used to run another country and need the U.S. baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped, minority, feminist or atheist dwarfs who have a sexual identity problem and perhaps also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at Walmart and who think that envelopes are for sending voice mail.

12. The Key West Citizen is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something to wrap it in.

13. The Appalachia Chronicle is read by people who later on make it a standard feature in their bathrooms.

ART AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Beth Heller Mason INTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTOR Rob Alfano CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Ellen Segal

BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo

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