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BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Even as the newer omicron subvariant of COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Long Island, hospitalizations and infections have been lower. Hospitalizations, which had risen to 490 in mid-May from about 130 in early April, have been “slowly declining for the past week or two,” according to Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Service. Area health care professionals suggested that the severity of symptoms also had eased up. “COVID hospitalization rates are lower than in prior COVID waves,” Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of infection control at Huntington Hospital, explained in an email. Most of the patients have mild to moderate illnesses, although Huntington Hospital still does have some severe cases and/ or a COVID-related death. The average number of positive tests per 100,000 people in Suffolk County has declined from recent peaks. As of June 3, the 7-day average number of positive PCR and rapid tests per 100,000 people was 33, which is down from 52 on May 27 and 67.7 on May 20, according to New York State Department of Health data. “If anything, Suffolk County rates are dropping,” said Dr. Michel Khlat, chief medical officer at St. Catherine of Siena in Smithtown. “We’re seeing a drop in inpatient cases.” Many of the cases St. Catherine is finding are incidental, as the hospital tests for the virus in connection with other procedures. At this point, the newer subvariant of omicron, called BA 2.12.1, accounted for 78.1% of the positive samples collected between May 22 and May 28 in New York, which is up from 593% in the prior two weeks, according to figures from the New York State Department of Health. “Preliminary data suggest that Omicron may cause more mild disease, although some people may still have severe disease, need hospitalization, and could die from the infection with this variant,” Pigott added in an email. Khlat suggested that hospitals aren’t tracking the type of variant. Even if they did, it wouldn’t alter the way they treated patients.

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“It doesn’t make a difference” whether someone has one or another subtype of omicron, Khlat said. The treatment is identical. Area doctors and medical care professionals continue to recommend that residents over 50 receive a second booster, particularly if they are immunocompromised or have other health complications. “People over 50 should get the booster — it decreases the severity of COVID,” explained Popp. Like much of the rest of the country, some Long Islanders have also contracted COVID more than once. The reinfection rate per 100,000 is currently 7.3%, according to New York State Department of Health figures. “We are certainly seeing symptomatic COVID infections in persons who report having COVID at the beginning of this year or last year,” Dr. Susan Donelan, medical director of the Healthcare Epidemiology Department at Stony Brook Medicine, explained in an email. Popp explained that natural immunity from a COVID infection generally lasts about two to three months. Vaccine-related immunity generally lasts twice that duration, for about four to six months. Doctors continue to urge caution during larger, poorly-ventilated indoor gatherings. “Close crowds without masks, in an indoor setting with poor air flow, would be one version of a scenario with potential superspreader potential,” Donelan explained. Donelan said Stony Brook encouraged staff and patients to consider receiving boosters when they are eligible. Popp believes wearing masks indoors while in a large gathering is a “reasonable” measure. That includes theaters, airplanes, buses and trains. At Huntington Hospital, meetings continue to take place online. “We decided as an organization that the risk of transmission is high enough to continue these measures,” Popp wrote. “We cannot afford to lose team members to COVID since it can negatively impact our operation.” Even though the current infection rate is dropping, Khlat said he also continues to remain cautious, wearing a mask when he goes indoors.

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Elected officials, community leaders rally for electrification of LIRR’s Port Jeff line BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM During the late morning hours of June 7, people gathered at the Stony Brook train station but not to board a train. They were there to call out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Rail Road for not getting on board with modernizing the Port Jefferson Branch line. Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) asked state and local officials to join him at a press conference at the station to urge the MTA and the LIRR to extend electrification on the Port Jefferson Branch. In addition to the elected officials in attendance, civic, chamber, business and environmental leaders were also on hand to show their support. Many in attendance have vocalized the need for years, including during a December 2019 press conference at the train station. However, plans were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. East of Huntington the 24 miles or so of railroad tracks are not electrified, and the LIRR uses dual-mode trains that can switch from electric to diesel. Those in attendance addressed concerns such as air pollution from the diesel trains

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Leadership and Community Protection legislation was passed on the state level in 2019, it included the call for electrification across all sectors — transportation, residential, commercial and more. He said the same year the legislation passed, the MTA purchased 55 diesel engines. “Maybe they haven’t figured it out yet but diesels are, as the supervisor indicated, antique technology, and we need to move toward technology that doesn’t pollute the air,” Englebright said. Town of Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) said that the diesel engines not only are harmful to air quality, but also when they arrive at a station the vibration can be felt in nearby neighborhoods. Kornreich said there are people in Port Jefferson Station who “have State Assemblyman Steve Englebright, at podium above, joined by state Sen. Mario Mattera and officials from the Town of to listen to the sound of diesel throbbing all Brookhaven during a press conference calling for the MTA/LIRR to electrify trains beyond Huntington. Photo by Rita J. Egan night.” and traffic congestion from residents driving fuel “some of the most polluting fuel that we Mitch Pally, CEO of the Long Island south to take trains on the Ronkonkoma have.” He added that Suffolk County and Builders Institute and a former MTA board Branch. They also said electrification Brookhaven “have been shortchanged by the member, called on the state Climate Action would benefit the area, including efficient MTA.” Council to mandate the MTA to have He said that with the passage of President Joe responsibility in electrifying train lines experiences for passengers, more business drawn to the area, increased enrollment Biden’s (D) $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure across Long Island. at Stony Brook University and real estate bill and more than $10 billion estimated to go “Only in that way will the mass transit to the MTA, it was time for Suffolk County system that we have not only transport our values increasing. Romaine said the Port Jeff Branch was residents to see improvements on the railroad people, but do it in an environmentally “That is supposed to help rebuild our sensitive manner,” Pally said. the busiest line of the LIRR. He called diesel infrastructure,” the supervisor said. “We’re Anthony Figliola, who is running in asking for a 20th-century technology — the Republican primary for Congressional electrification. Diesel is a 19th-century District 1, said after the press conference technology. We haven’t even asked for 21st- he was encouraged by the bipartisan century technology.” support. He added that State Sen. Mario Smithtown Supervisor Mattera (R-St. Ed Wehrheim (R) is James) also called also supportive of for infrastructure electrification. money to be spent in Figliola and Charlie the area. Regarding Lefkowitz, president North Shore of the Three Village residents traveling Chamber of Commerce, to stations along were part of the North the Ronkonkoma Shore Business Alliance Branch, he said formed in 2017 that everyone needed worked on a feasibility to come together to study for electrification ensure that those in of the branch. The MTA the area could drive included $4 million in to a nearby station their five-year 2015without changing 19 capital plan to pay trains to get to New for a feasibility study —Steve Englebright York City. He added on electrification of the with a feasibility Port Jefferson Branch study that was Figliola said if started in the 1980s, elected to Congress the time had come for change. he will be committed “to helping fund “We need to make sure that we’re here for this critical economic development and the commuters,” Mattera said. “Mass transit environmental project.” is so important for our future, and MTA “The next step is for the MTA to complete shortchanges us all the time.” the study,” he said. “My hope is the MTA will State Assemblyman Steve Englebright think twice before spending any additional (D-Setauket) said when the Climate dollars on more diesel trains.”

‘Maybe they haven’t figured it out yet but diesels are, as the supervisor indicated, antique technology, and we need to move toward technology that doesn’t pollute the air.’

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PSEGLI is prepared for summer As the approaching 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy reminds us of the effects weather can have on the electric system, PSEG Long Island is announcing that it is prepared for hurricane season and to meet peak demand during extreme heat situations this summer. The company’s ongoing electric infrastructure and storm hardening improvements help provide electric reliability to Long Island and the Rockaways throughout the year. PSEG Long Island has incorporated numerous enhancements and upgrades to the electric grid, its systems and its storm processes, including its contingency procedures. “We are committed to providing reliable electric service every day, regardless of the conditions,” said Michael Sullivan, vice president of Electric Operations, PSEG Long Island. “The improvements we have made over the past eight years will help us deliver consistent, resilient power to our customers, today and in the future.”

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Electric Infrastructure Improvements

Across Long Island and the Rockaways, PSEG Long Island has prepared the electric infrastructure by focusing on substation, and transmission and distribution improvements, as well as by performing circuit and equipment inspections using drones, helicopters and infrared technology.

PSEG Long Island’s infrastructure improvements for summer 2022 include: - New or upgraded transformers installed in Round Swamp, Navy Road, Ronkonkoma, Riverhead and Brightwaters substations to provide additional capacity during peak demand - 12 new distribution feeder lines installed in Ocean Beach, Far Rockaway, Round Swamp, Ronkonkoma, Brightwaters and Southampton areas to accommodate load growth - 4 kilovolt (kV) feeder converted to a 13.8 kV feeder line in Montauk area to provide additional feeder capacity - Overhead line replacement in Eastport to supply new load addition - New Round Swamp Road substation constructed with two new 69 kV transmission lines installed from Ruland Road and Plainview substations to serve new load additions in the area - Robert Moses to Captree 23 kV transmission cable replacement to improve reliability on Fire Island - MTA Beach 67th Street 33 kV transmission circuit relocation to support MTA station upgrades in Far Rockaway

Storm Hardening Programs Completed

Since the implementation of the FEMAfunded storm-hardening program funded in 2014, PSEG Long Island has completed storm hardening and reliability work on

that could potentially cause outages during or after a storm. Since 2014, PSEG Long Island removed more than 88,500 hazardous trees and/or large limbs along the distribution and transmission system and trimmed more than 21,000 miles of distribution and transmission line clearance in accordance with the industry best practice clearance standard. This standard preserves the health of the tree and directs future growth away from power lines. In addition, a new vine mitigation program identified, cut and treated more than 14,000 vine locations across Long Island and the Rockaways. PSEG Long Island also prepares its dedicated workforce for summer by conducting annual hurricane and tropical storm drills and employee training; by developing emergency summer operating plans; and by performing summer-peak reliability analyses to ensure there is sufficient capacity to meet electric demand on high-heat days.

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The following incidents have been reported by Suffolk County Police: Calverton Rocky Point ■ A resident on Hill Court in Calverton ■. Stop & Shop on Route 25A in Rocky Point

called the police on June 2 to report that someone stole a blue 2016 Can-Am Outlander ATV from their backyard. The vehicle had a value of $9,000.

reported a shoplifter on June 2. A man allegedly put $630 worth of assorted food items in his cart and walked out without paying.

Road in Centereach reported the theft of merchandise on May 31. Two women allegedly stole miscellaneous women’s clothing worth $286.

rims and tires had been removed from a customer’s 2017 Ram 150 by an unknown person while it was parked in front of the auto repair shop on June 2. The parts were valued at approximately $940.

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Beach Road in Mount Sinai on May 31 reported that someone entered her vehicle and stole her purse from the front passenger seat containing her cell phone and wallet.

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reported that someone entered her unlocked vehicle parked in her driveway on June 1 and stole a wallet containing credit cards.

from a residence on Deepwells Lane in Head of the Harbor on May 30. The vehicle, which was valued at $50,000, had been left unlocked with the key fob inside.

■ A resident on Clymer Street in Port Jefferson Station reported that someone entered two of his vehicles on June 1 and stole a Chromebook, backpack, cash, wallet and credit cards.

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■ A resident on Kew Drive in Sound Beach called the police to report that someone had entered his unlocked vehicle parked in the driveway on June 2 and stole a wallet containing debit and credit cards which were later used for online purchases. Stony Brook ■ A woman shopping at Marshalls/

HomeGoods on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook on June 4 reported that her pocketbook containing cash, credit cards and a cellphone had been stolen from her shopping cart. The cards were later used at various stores at the Smith Haven Mall.

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Part II: Focusing on the mental health of medical workers BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

to restaurants and returning to patterns and activities that are reminiscent of life in 2019, health care workers have increasingly needed mental health support.

The second in a two-part series, this article highlights the strain COVID-19 has placed Employee Assistance on a mental health care Over the last several months, Stony system that was already Brook University, which has an Employee resource-constrained. Mental Assistance Program, has seen a rise in the health care workers, from social workers to number of staff reaching out for help. psychologists, psychiatrists and emergency During the pandemic, Stony Brook launched medical teams, have responded to the increasing an employee helpline for those who need mental need for their services, cutting back on vacation health support, including psychotherapy and/or times and dealing with patients who threaten medication management. Compared to last year, violence against themselves and others. During Stony Brook is seeing a two-folded increase, or the pandemic, health care workers who focused triple, the number of employees reaching out on the emotional well-being of patients also for services, according to Dr. Adam Gonzalez, sought balance in their own director of Behavioral Health lives. To borrow from the TV and associate professor of show “Law & Order,” these Psychiatry & Behavioral are their stories. Health at Stony University For some, running half Renaissance School of marathons, spending time Medicine. with family, meditating and “There are high concerns communing with nature about employee burnout, helps. For others, staying resignations and departures connected and reaching out from health care,” Gonzalez to the kinds of services they wrote in an email. “Most themselves provide also concerning is the risk for offsets the growing strains suicide — the ultimate in their work. consequence of burnout.” Health care workers have Stony Brook has an shouldered the burden of employee support team the COVID-19 pandemic that implements wellness for more than two years, initiatives, including daily reaching out well beyond mindfulness meditation their job description to sessions, yoga and stretching, help patients amid a period and confidential one-on-one of intense uncertainty that support by a faculty and threatened their physical staff care team and employee and emotional health. assistance program. —Dr. Adam Gonzalez The cost to health care Dr. Poonamdeep Gill, diworkers, including those who rector of the Comprehensive work in behavioral or mental Psychiatric Emergency Prohealth, has been considerable, gram at Stony Brook Hospias time at the hospital and speaking with tal, said the mental health team is “seeing more patients remotely cut into their personal lives patients who are sicker from a mental health and threatened their own sense of balance. standpoint. People are really struggling. It does “It was very difficult to be a doctor take a toll on you.” through the storms of COVID,” said Dr. Gill said Stony Brook is proactive with Stacy Eagle, director of Psychiatry at Port staff, making sure they can access services. The Jefferson-based St. Charles Hospital. Health university also encourages staff to check in with care workers had to “deal with a lot of mental their leadership team if they are feeling burned health issues” during the last few years. out or struggling. Indeed, hospitals throughout the Dr. Michel Khlat, director of St. Catherine area offered varying levels of support of Siena in Smithtown, said he has seen some while their staff were on-site, including of the same health care fatigue that has beset meditation rooms and aroma therapy. They hospitals and other health care facilities also suggested personal health checks and throughout the country. provided on-call services for employees who “Staff members have gotten overwhelmed might be struggling amid concerns about with the volumes,” Khlat said. “Some their health and the well-being of family are altering their occupations to see more outpatients. Some are reverting to partmembers and their patients. While the general public has tried to time and per diem work.” He has had a few push COVID into the back of their minds, friends in Florida who are seeing the same attending sporting events and movies, going phenomenon, with health care workers

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quitting or cutting back on hospital time and going into private practices.

Bounce forward

The Northwell Health System has been working on the support of all health care workers, including in mental health, said Dr. Vera Feuer, associate vice president in School Mental Health. Northwell has adopted a stress first aid response, peer support, and a resilience model to recover from stress and trauma. The military developed stress first aid to deal with situations like the pandemic, in which there is ongoing stress with an uncertain ending. That, Feuer said, differs from a single event, like 9/11, where something traumatic occurs and survivors build back from it. The pandemic has involved over two years of continuous stress and this feeling of uncertainty, she added. Stress first aid teaches people to support each other in resilience and to “bounce forward,” Feuer said. “It is difficult to maintain in a busy, stressful environment.”

Finding balance

Doctors suggested they engaged in a wide range of activities to help with their own mental health. A believer in the value of nutraceuticals and supplements, Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler, the director of the Emergency Room at St. Charles Hospital said he also works on

focused breathing. Eagle, his colleague at St. Charles, urges people to pursue some of their hobbies, such as reading or painting. She also recommends staying off of or limiting social media, particularly for younger children who might find the information and the reaction to postings unnerving. Stony Brook’s Gill believes in physical activity and exercise. She ran a half marathon a few weeks ago on Long Island. “I make sure I stay active,” she said. “We need to take care of ourselves before we can take care of other people.” Stony Brook’s Gonzalez stays closely connected to family, friends and work colleagues. “I also try to stay active and explore nature,” Gonzalez said. “I regularly practice mindfulness [which is] tuning into the present moment in a nonjudgmental way.” Gonzalez enjoys a good TV show or movie to disconnect and unwind as well. Northwell’s Feuer said she’s worked harder than she ever had, but, at the same time, she feels fulfilled by the hope and meaning in her work. For Feuer, the silver lining is the attention to mental health, which “we know has been a problem for a long time. I’m hoping the right resources and interventions” will help those who need it. To read the first of this two-part series, “Mental health strain for Long Islanders,” visit tbrnewsmedia.com.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Formation of Box Car Brewing Company LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 3/18/2022 Office located in Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated for Service. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to (43 Halsey St. Port Jefferson station NY 11776). Purpose: Any lawful purpose

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 18, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST 2006-3 is the Plaintiff and PAUL HART A/K/A PAUL W. HART, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the BROOKHAVEN TOWN HALL, 1 INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738, on July 6, 2022 at 11:00AM, premises known as 9 ISIS ROAD, ROCKY POINT, NY 11778: District 0200, Section 035.00, Block 05.00, Lot 047.001:

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Notice of formation of Surgyad LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on April 26, 2022. 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 the process to the LLC at 1339 Stony Brook Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11790. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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A growing divide has emerged between the people of the North Shore and the Long Island Rail Road, and it is time for the local community to bridge this gap. In board rooms and public meetings throughout this area, local officials today express similar frustrations about their various dealings with this public railroad company. On Monday night, Port Jefferson Village trustee Bruce Miller described the complications that arose during a recent meeting with LIRR reps as neither party could agree on a common path forward. A day later, Brookhaven and state officials traveled to Stony Brook train station, echoing the decades-old call for the electrification of the Port Jefferson Branch line. Local elected officials are most familiar and best equipped to handle the plights of their constituents. Yet in communities throughout this area, our leaders are meeting resistance with LIRR, whose leadership changes too often. While LIRR rightly devotes much of its energies to the more heavily traveled Ronkonkoma Branch, the residents of the North Shore pay taxes and have an interest in this company, too. LIRR officials should be aware of the frequency of riders who travel inland to the main line in the center of the Island. This suggests residents here are rejecting the railways in their own backyard for a longer drive to the train station — albeit a faster and more direct commute into Manhattan. The unintended consequences of this are greater congestion on our roadways and more pollution generated by cars. This burdensome commute impairs our quality of life, costing us more energy and placing unnecessary strain on our physical and mental health. For decades, the people of this area have asked LIRR to electrify the Port Jefferson Branch. Today, as the cost of diesel fuel surges exponentially due to inflation, this transition is more necessary than ever before. Despite the preponderance of evidence that electrification will reduce air and noise pollution, that it will cut costs for the railroad and the taxpayer, and that it will deliver a better ride for the people of this community, electrification has been nothing more than a pipedream. There is no better time than right now to electrify the line. With a flood of infrastructure stimulus cash from the federal government, the opportunity is ripe for the taking. We must thank our representatives who are fighting to secure a better ride and remind them to keep applying the pressure. At some point, LIRR must soon give in and when it does, it will be for the better.

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In October of this past year, when the nation’s focus was on public health, there was a deadly threat being overlooked by the media and ignored by the Democratic Biden administration. It was our wide-open Southern Border. Back then, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted the “rate of illness” for those illegally crossing the U.S.Mexico border was “approximately 20 percent.” Referencing the September surge of 15,000 Haitians, he said, “I do not know whether anyone was sick with COVID.” It’s only gotten worse. The Biden administration, and Mayorkas’ DHS, perhaps distracted by the threat of passionate parents showing up at PTA meetings, or slandering Border Patrol agents, have been AWOL to the point of complicity. Illegal migrant encounters at the border soared to a new record 234,088 in April, dwarfing March’s all-time high by 5.8%. Border Patrol holding areas are already at 203% capacity, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are at 68.5%. Almost half of April’s crush was not from Mexico or the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The latter mentioned creates a whole different threat dynamic. An ISIS plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush [R] was uncovered. Iraqi citizen Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab planned to infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico border and get as many as seven or so coconspirators in from other countries, including Egypt and Denmark. That’s not all. Since January 2021, Border Patrol apprehended 42 illegal aliens, whose names are on the terror watchlist. When Mayorkas was asked if any of those were released into American communities, he could not say for certain. Remember how we’d “Never Forget 9/11”? This hapless Homeland Security bureaucrat looks like he’s already forgotten. Then there are the drugs. Fueled by deadly fentanyl being trafficked from Mexico, the U.S. had a recordshattering, more than 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021. That poison was the biggest killer of those aged 18-45. In 2020, 29,000 Americans aged 15-34 died of drug overdoses. Between 2019 and 2021, OD mortality for drug users aged 14 to 18 appears to have risen by over 100%, likely because the drugs

have gotten deadlier. Fentanyl is estimated to be up to 50 times more potent than heroin by weight. Quick and easy to make, it’s the perfect drug for producers and dealers. Making it even better for the cartels is the “surge” Biden called for during the ABC Democratic debate. While border enforcement personnel are busily processing some 2 million illegal crossings, smugglers are moving easily transportable fentanyl through areas left unprotected and into the hands of local gangs terrorizing many minority communities. If you thought Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris [D], and Mayorkas would be moved by skyrocketing American deaths and ongoing existential threats you’d be wrong. Rather than securing the border and saving lives they’ve chosen to hide behind a shamefully mum media. It worked for them last fall, but for us, not so much. Jim Soviero East Setauket

MTA and LIRR give and take away service

Gov. Kathy Hochul [D] and MTA Chair/CEO Janno Lieber’s recent announcement concerning significant service improvements upon the initiation of the LIRR East Side Access service to Grand Central Terminal, promised to start in December 2022, was less than candid. Only MTA vice president Jolyan Handler was completely honest when he said, “Upon completion of East Side Access, a significant number of trains will be removed from Penn Station.” The LIRR has promised to increase the number of Manhattan-bound peak morning trains from 113 to 159 and Long Island-bound peak afternoon trains from 98 to 158. What it omitted to say is that there will continue to be no room to run additional trains into or out of Penn Station during rush hours via the East River Tunnels with connections to Long Island. This has been the case for decades. Three of four tunnels running inbound mornings and outbound evening rush hours have tight spacing between trains. One tunnel is shared by the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak for reverse train movements with equally tight spacing during rush hours. There is no platform capacity at Penn Station to accommodate additional trains during rush hour. Penn Station operates at 100%

capacity. If one of the four tunnels is temporarily out of service, the result is numerous delays and cancellation of trains. Amtrak plans on removing one tunnel from service at a time. This will start in 2025 for major repairs. Work to bring all four of the East River Tunnels back to a state of good repair will take three to four years. The LIRR will have to cancel and combine numerous trains to and from Penn Station during this time while Amtrak performs major reconstruction. While the MTA and LIRR give Penn Station-bound commuters added service one year, they will take away another year. So much for truth in advertising. Larry Penner Great Neck

Time to pass environmentally responsible bill

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright [D-Setauket] is an environmental champion. He has been for his entire career in public service. He was way ahead of his time taking on the plastics industry when he was a Suffolk County legislator and is continuing that important work in Albany today. Englebright has introduced a bill to expand New York’s successful bottle bill to require deposits on noncarbonated beverages, liquor and wine bottles. These are all major sources of litter in Suffolk County and will be reduced when deposits are added. Second, he has introduced the most comprehensive packaging reduction bill in the nation which will not only protect the environment, especially the marine environment — but which will also save taxpayer dollars. His Extended Producer Responsibility bill (Assembly bill 10185), requires big companies like McDonald’s and Amazon to pay for the disposal of packaging rather than taxpayers. It is time to pass these sensible environmental proposals in Albany. Save the environment and save tax dollars — all at the same time. Judith Enck, President, Beyond Plastics Former EPA Regional Administrator Poestenkil

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Opinion

The dos and don’ts of 2022 weddings

e’re finally here. These poor couples have had to wait for days, months and years to tie the knot in front of family and friends. It’s such a relief that we can all gather again, celebrating the love that binds two people forever and that may, if it hasn’t already, lead to children. It seems that the list of dos and don’ts for weddings has changed, just as so many other D. None parts of modern reality of the above have altered the way we BY DANIEL DUNAIEF go about our lives. Here are a few of the dos and don’ts, starting with the don’ts. — Cough. Ever. If you have to cough, swallow it or make it sound like a strange laugh.

No one wants to hear a cough, least of all at a wedding. Go outside to cough. Cough in the car. Cough into your hand like you’re saying something private and being discrete. Go to the edge of the parking lot and cough. — Chew with your mouth open. No one wants to see the food you’re eating, especially not in the third year of COVID-19. — Point to the food and say how much better you could make it. Look, we know that you’ve lost a step on your social graces from being home so often. We know that you’ve spent a great deal of time cooking meals to your satisfaction. We know that you are a great admirer of your own food, your own voice, and your own way of doing things. Appreciate that someone else has made the food and will clean it up and that they do things differently than you do. You can have food you know you love as soon as you walk back into your fortress of solitude. — Talk about politics. You’re not going to convince anyone who doesn’t agree with you already of your views. So, why bring it up?

This isn’t the time to try to make a reasoned argument with relatives who only share genes and nothing else. Smile if they bring something up you find disagreeable. — Complain about the weather. The bride, groom and the extended family have no control over the weather. If it’s too hot, get a drink. If it’s too cold, shift back and forth from one foot to the other or bring a sweater. The weather is either perfect, dramatic, lovely or dynamic. — Talk about your own wedding. If people were there, they remember. If not, they don’t need you to compare what’s going on to what you did. Your wedding may have been lovely, but you’re not there right now. — Point to someone else’s mask and ask them why they’re wearing it. Do whatever is comfortable for you. Don’t tell anyone else what to do because, well, that doesn’t work and it gets people angry. They do their thing, you do yours. — Binge watch shows while you’re waiting for the ceremony to start. Yes, the invitation said the party would start at 7 p.m. and it’s now

7:18 p.m. So what? You’re there to celebrate other people and to witness this lovely moment. Netflix and other shows can wait. Live your life. — Show pictures of your pet. Many of us added dogs, cats and fish, particularly during the pandemic. Okay, so, here is a short list of dos: — Give other people a chance to talk. Silence, periodically, is okay. You don’t need to fill every quiet moment, if there are any, with your opinions, thoughts and experiences. — Ask someone to dance who seems eager for a partner. Grab your mother-in-law, your brother-in-law, or your something-in-law by the hand, lead him or her to the floor, smile, and appreciate the chance to dance. — Remember that you won’t have to see many of these people until the next blessed event, whenever that is. — Thank the bride, groom and their families for a lovely event. Even if you hated it, you’ve got some good stories to share and you gave your wonderful pets a short break from you.

Rectal cancer cured but too late for my father Medical scientists released fantastic news Sunday that made me think of my father and weep. In a small trial of 18 patients with rectal cancer, who took a particular drug, the cancer totally vanished. My dad died of rectal cancer in 1975. Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr of Memorial Sloan Cancer Center was an author of the paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine explaining Between the results, according to The New York you and me Times. He said he BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF knew of no other study in which a treatment completely obliterated a cancer in every patient. “I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” the NYT quotes Diaz as saying. The trial was sponsored

by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline. My dad and all these other patients faced chemotherapy, radiation and surgery with possible colostomy bags as treatment for their cancer. Unlike my dad, with the benefit of the new drug, dostarlimab, 47 years later, they all seem to be cured, although only time will tell. So far, it has been three years. And none of the patients had “clinically significant complications.” The medicine was taken every three weeks for six months and cost $11,000 per dose. “It unmasks cancer cells, allowing the immune system to identify and destroy them,” according to the NYT. I guess we are thinking of our dads this month in particular since Father’s Day is coming quickly, and we need a gift for the occasion. This incredible breakthrough seems like the ultimate present for any fathers suffering from this disease, and of course for anyone else, too. But it has come too late for my adored dad. My father, born in 1904, came to the City from the family’s Catskill dairy farm when he

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was 13. One of 9 children, “the middle child,” he would like to distinguish himself by saying he was sent off by his father to build his life since he was now considered an adult. He liked to tell us stories about his total ignorance of urban life. A favorite concerned the boarding house in which he first rented a room. It was in a brownstone a block away from where his next older brother lived in Brooklyn. He had only shortly before arrived, had dutifully sat down to write a letter home explaining his new circumstances and had gone out as instructed by his landlady to mail the letter in the mailbox on the corner. Deed done, he turned around to return, only to discover that each building looked the same. He had no idea which held his room. Ultimately someone came out to find him. He quickly found a job delivering packages to various parts of the city. But that proved a puzzle. He had a map and was able to figure out his destination for each delivery. He rode the buses so as not to lose his sense of navigation. But he could not understand why one time the

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bus would go where he wanted but other times would turn off and head in a different direction. So to be sure of winding up where he needed to go, he ran. He ran all over the city until he was fired. He was deemed to be too slow. Another early instance of having arrived in an alien world happened when he followed his brother into a tiny room in a tall building. Surprised when the doors slid closed behind, he could feel the floor drop beneath his feet. Bending into a crouch, he prepared to cushion the shock of the landing when he realized the others in the space were staring at him. He was in his first encounter with an elevator. Of course, he was the constant victim of teasing in the next office in which he worked. He still remembered when the office manager gave him a folder to bring to the stationery store down the block. Wise now, he retorted, “I’m surprised you would try to trick me, Miss Murphy. I know every store is stationary.” My dad went on to become a successful businessman in Manhattan. But that’s a story for a different day.

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SWR students showcase creativity with Post-it notes Throughout the school year, students in Samantha Shepard’s drawing and painting classes at Shoreham-Wading River High School created mini works of art on Post-it notes. They kept it on display in the main lobby as sort of a working gallery and every few weeks Ms. Shepard would add more Post-it note drawings to it. “It is a great place for students to experiment with various art making processes and materials, as

well as develop their artistic style and voice,” she said. Ms. Shepard got the idea from Giant Robot Store, in Los Angeles, California, where they invite top artists worldwide to sell their artwork on a Post-it note for $25, making their art more accessible to all people. SWR students charged $5 per sticky note and the money went toward the art department’s Senior Scholarship. They raised just under $300.

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Shoreham-Wading River High School sophomore Cali Krause surrounded by mini works of art on Post-it notes. Photo courtesy of SWRCSD

SWR Wildcats take Suffolk County title From left, Shoreham-Wading River’s boys tennis seniors Carlo Minneci, Jayden Alvarado, Jake Field, Jason Lutz, Erik Epp, William DeMaio, Liam McGuire and Craig Jablonski. Photo courtesy of SWRCSD

The Shoreham-Wading River varsity boys tennis team won the Small School Suffolk County championship on May 24. The senior studentathletes – Jayden Alvarado, William DeMaio, Erik Epp, Jake Field, Craig Jablonski, Jason Lutz, Liam McGuire and Carlo Minneci – were also celebrated at a senior day event in their honor.

Shoreham-Wading River’s boys tennis team. Photo courtesy of SWRCSD

Miller Place

Miller Place School District seeks nominations for its Athletic Hall of Fame – Deadline: June 27 New class will be inducted during Homecoming weekend

A new group of talented athletes who have made a lasting impact on their community and beyond will be inducted into the Miller Place School District Athletic Hall of Fame during this year’s Homecoming weekend, from September 16 to 18. First, inductees must be chosen from a pool of nominees. The MPSD Athletic Hall of Fame Committee is currently accepting nominations for graduates through the Class of 2000 and invites anyone with a candidate in mind to apply. Forms for new applicants, or any updates to

current nominees, must be postmarked by June 27. No verbal nominations will be considered. The Committee will finalize its voting process by July 15 and immediately begin notifying selected candidates. Categories for submission include athletes, coaches/administrators, and honorary members. Honorary members are those individuals who though they were not athletes or coaches or district administrators, have supported or made a significant contribution to the Miller Place School District athletic program.

Athletes will be considered based on their athletic accomplishments and/or impact on an athletic program in high school and/or after graduation. Nominees must have character, leadership and citizenship that is representative of the Hall of Fame honor. Coaches and administrators will be considered if they have made an outstanding contribution, shown leadership, reached an accomplishment and/or made an impact on Miller Place Athletic programs. Coaches still employed by the district are eligible for three

years after separating from the sport. Retired coaches/administrators are immediately eligible after retirement. Nomination forms are available on various social media platforms, including the MPHS Athletic Hall of Fame Facebook page, @mphs_ athletic_hof Instagram page, MPSD Facebook page and MPSD Athletics Website. Good luck to all the candidates and thank you to everyone who have already submitted a nomination.