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Town RP Rotary Supports Businesses and Local Nonprofits The Rocky Point Rotary Club, aka The Lil’ Club That Does, has ramped up its community support during the pandemic. With both local families and businesses struggling, the club instituted two separate programs. Each week the club buys $250 worth of gift certificates that are delivered to a local outreach agency for distribution. In addition, rotary club members order takeout from a selected restaurant on a designated day to bolster sales.

To support the efforts of Rocky Point Rotary or to inquire about becoming a member contact Kevin Mann at kevinmannmail@gmail.com or call 631-470-6351.

Rotary President Peter LaRosa; Deirdre DuBato, the president elect, and Vice President Jeff Davis in front of Pazzo Pizzaria. Photo from Kevin Mann

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Peter Rosa, Rocky Point Rotary President, Owner of Benten Japanese Restaurant Shoko Lee and Larry Kogel, Rocky Point Rotary Board member. Photo from Kevin Mann

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Town

Districts Congratulate 2020 Valedictorians/Salutatorians Shoreham-Wading River

Shoreham-Wading River High School announced the top scoring seniors of the Class of 2020 with Jacqueline Holden and Stephanie Searing havung been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

These two well-rounded students both have impressive achievements and interests and have taken advantage of many of the district’s courses and extracurricular activities.

Valedictorian Holden’s achievements include involvement with the Drama Club and Tri-M Music Honor Society, where she serves each club as treasurer; leadership roles as secretary for both Women in Science and Engineering and Students Against Destructive Decisions and varsity captain of Brainstormers. Outside of a busy high school career, she is a leader in St. Mark’s Teen Choir and a Girl Scout.

Holden will study molecular biology at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall. She, along with other valedictorians, were saluted by the Suffolk County School Superintendents Association this year in what would have been their 26th annual valedictorians luncheon, which was canceled due to the pandemic. Instead Superintendent Gerard Poole presented Holden with a commemorative program, congratulatory video, a certificate of achievement and a cherished childhood storybook, “Oh, the Places You’ll

Miller Place

Miller Place High School’s top two students are looking to leave their mark in both the local community and the wider world.

This year’s top students at Miller Place are valedictorian Joseph Bisiani and salutatorian Larry Davis.

Bisiani is graduating with a weighted grade point average of 101.54. In school, he was the Rubik’s Cube Club founder and president, senior class president, National Honor Society vice president, a National Merit Commended Scholar, Academic All-County varsity soccer, Natural Helpers peer leader and member of Tri-M. He said being the person behind the Rubik’s Cube Club was especially exciting, as he has been “speedcubing” since he was in eighth-grade, and now he had the opportuni-

Go!” by Dr. Seuss.

Salutatorian Searing served as vice president of the National Honor Society’s Peer Tutoring, is treasurer of Tri-Music Honor Society, represented her peers as the ex-officio student member of the Shoreham-Wading River board of education, is a member of Mathletes, the varsity track team and the varsity tennis team. Searing is principal violist of the Children’s Orchestral Society and participated in the Plum Island Animal Disease Center High School STEM Forum, a unique opportunity where she presented her findings on the organ shortage in America to scientists from Plum Island, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Suffolk County Community College and Mystic Aquarium among others.

Searing will attend Stevens Institute of Technology where she will major in biomedical engineering.

“These two students represent the exceptional programming offered at our high school,” Principal Frank Pugliese said. “Their leadership skills and well-rounded academic, athletic, extracurricular and community involvement exemplify the goals of the Shoreham-Wading River School District – providing all students the skills required to become lifelong learners in a self-sufficient manner. We look forward to hearing more about their accomplishments in the future.”

ty to show the mathematics behind a Rubik’s Cube to his peers. As class president, he said he was involved in fundraising food sales and had petitioned the board of education for a class trip, though those plans were squashed due to the pandemic.

Otherwise, he thanked his parents, his brother and sister and his Catholic faith, which he said was the backbone of his life and his efforts to “be a good person.”

“I am so grateful to have been brought up in Miller Place, due to the small-knit community and closeness we all have to one another,” he said. “I loved having a school where I could know everybody in it, and have a close relationship with all of my teachers.”

Bisani plans to attend Stony Brook UniverMP VAL/SAL Continued on A7

Rocky Point

She was selected to represent the Rocky Point school district at the New York State School Music Association’s All-County and All-State conferences as a senior, took part in the high school’s Pocket Theater Productions for three years and has been a leading character in numerous high school musical productions.

She also took on the responsibility of assistant director on the school’s most recent show “Fiddler on the Roof.”

The salutatorian intends to major in biology and minor in English at Colgate University in the fall.

“In addition to being at the top of their class, these two exceptional students are both well-rounded in their academics and interests,” Principal Jonathan Hart said.

“Their ambitions and defined goals will lead them to greater achievements and we all look forward to hearing about their successes in the future.”

Mount Sinai

His best memories from high school, along with the Ocean Bowl team, was playing saxophone with the various groups around New York and his senior trip to Disney World.

Angress plans to attend Northeastern University to study mechanical engineering and physics. He said he would enjoy being involved in scientific research, and if the stars align, his dream is to visit space as an astronaut.

Spitz finishes the year with a weighted GPA of 104.86. He spent his high school years as a student council vice president, a National AP Scholar, a member of the National Honor Society, varsity tennis captain, member of Mathletes and Future Business Leaders of America All-Sate winner. He said the best part of his extracurriculars are the memories and friends he made.

He too felt the best moment of his high school career was being able to take his senior trip despite the start of the pandemic.

The salutatorian will be attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to major in statistics and analytics in the hope of becoming an analyst at a quant in the future.

Though their years were cut short because of the pandemic, Angress said those stuMS VAL/SAL Continued on A7

Rocky Point High School is proud to announce that seniors Hope Lantz-Gefroh and Molly Lambert have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the Class of 2020.

Lantz-Gefroh’s diversified high school career includes president of the National Math Honor Society, member of the National Honor Society, a member of Compassion Without Borders, a math and science tutor, a regional team dancer and dance teacher, and is employed at a formal wear boutique in Mount Sinai.

The valedictorian will join the freshman class at Texas Christian University where she will be on the pre-med educational track.

Lambert’s list of achievements is comprehensive and includes being a member of the National Honor Society, the New York State Mathematics Honor Society, the National English Honor Society and the Thespian Society.

The two young men heading up Mount Sinai’s Class of 2020 are mathematically minded individuals hoping to reach new heights in their careers.

The top of Mount Sinai’s class this year includes salutatorian Skyler Spitz and valedictorian Sal Aaron Angress.

Angress, with a total weighted grade point average of 105.17, has been a member of the National Honor Society, the decorated Ocean Bowl Team, active in STEM ROV building and a National Merit Scholarship finalist. On the artistic side, he is a member of All-State and All-County symphonic band, a member of the pit band and mini-ensemble group.

The valedictorian said one of his favorite activities during high school was his participation in the school’s Ocean Bowl team, which participates in quiz-bowl competitions based around oceanography. The team qualified for a national competition in Washington, D.C. The graduating senior, who moved to Mount Sinai when he started fifth-grade, said growing up in the hamlet was “pretty great,” and the district “played an integral part in my process of growing up.”

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State

Town/State/County Officials Say Route 25 in Utter Need of Repair This Year

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM New York State Route 25, known as Middle Country Road, which crosses through several hamlets in the center of Brookhaven Town, has long gone without fixes to its cracked pavement and massive potholes. Civics, town officials and some state officials said the New York State Department of Transportation has reneged on promises to finally repair the broken asphalt this year.

“I have been at many meetings over the years to pave Middle Country Road, and last year they did promise us it would be done,” said town Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point).

“The issue has not been addressed for so long, this roadway now requires complete reconstruction. And you know why? Because cheap is expensive in the long run.”

The road runs parallel to its sister highway Route 25A, which just recently received repaving in Rocky Point. Route 25, on the other hand, has received only minor patches in the past several years, officials said.

Town of Brookhaven officials said the state DOT had promised it would repave the section of road from Mount Sinai-Coram Road to Wading River Hollow Road in Calverton by July.

However, officials said recent word from the state said it likely would not happen this year.

At a press conference held in Ridge June 25, state and town officials stood alongside local civic representatives and members of local fire departments calling for the road to be repaved.

Ridge Fire Department Chief Lou Keiser said the road’s uneven surface can make cars swerve and cause accidents. It also greatly impacts ambulance drivers who may be carrying injured people in the back of their vehicles.

“I have been here since 1991, and I haven’t seen it be repaved since then,” Keiser said.

State Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk), whose district partially covers a section of the state highway, said he was copied in on an email with state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) that the construction company wished to do the road in a different order, starting with a part of the road in Nassau.

The DOT is repaving Route 25B in the Town of North Hempstead and Route 107 in Oyster Bay as part of the state’s repaving project.

“My office got a response from DOT that they’ve had more complaints over in that direction in Nassau,” he said. “The only reason the complaints stopped here, which were more voluminous than anything in Nassau, is because we were told the construction was coming.”

The press conference also brought in a measure of politics, even more emphasized during

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Gail Lynch-Bailey, the president of the Middle Island Civic Association, calls on New York DOT to pave Middle Country Road, though the DOT claims it never had such plans. Photo by Kyle Barr

an election year. No local Democratic elected officials were there at the press conference.

Members of the Town Board and local state Assembly members criticized the governor for what they called a dismissive attitude to the plight of local infrastructure.

Palumbo also referenced several state officials in Nassau who are seeking reelection this year for why construction was starting on that side of the Island. Palumbo is the Republican candidate looking to take the state Senate District 1 seat once LaValle vacates it at the end of the year.

In a statement, LaValle said, “My office has worked closely with the civics and constituents for well over a year in an attempt to fix the safety issues along this stretch of Route 25. We were given a commitment by DOT that repair and paving would begin this summer and completed in the 2020 calendar year. It is unacceptable that the DOT would do an about-face and put this project off for a year, especially in light of the fact that emergency vehicles cannot safely travel this stretch of road and driver safety is a major concern.”

In response, Stephen Canzoneri, a DOT spokesperson, said the resurfacing project on Route 25 has always been the end of 2021, though there will be spot repairs on the highway for this year.

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We did what we were told — we shut How high is the hill we have yet to climb?

For the last several months we followed the down the economy — and we hope that now guidelines: We stayed home, we wore masks what we hear from the federal government when we needed to go out and we maintained isn’t, “Thank you for following the guidelines; now you pay the cost social distancing, and it of the response.” The panworked — we flattened the demic is no different than curve. The economy is reany other natural disaster, opening, and we’re all lookand the federal government ing forward to resuming our must provide the relief it lives, but from a health perwould provide during any spective and economically, it natural disaster. The state may be a long road back. and county budgets are hurtSuffolk is a populous ing, yet the message we’re county and has been severegetting from Washington is ly affected by this virus, and that there’s nothing to worry the region’s ability to recovabout and local governments er from the costs incurred should solve “their own by the pandemic depends problems.” on what happens next. As I Bea Ruberto This is a pivotal moment understand it, Suffolk Counfor the region. We need to ty is requesting $1 billion recover as soon as possible. in federal aid, a fraction of what we send to Washington in taxes. In addi- The financial impact should not be borne tion, Long Island sends more dollars to Wash- primarily by taxpayers nor should we accept ington than it receives in return. According to cuts to services provided by our first respondthe Suffolk County COVID-19 Fiscal Impact ers, police and other essential workers, but Force Final Report, for most years sales tax this is exactly what will happen: An already collections account for approximately half of fragile economy will tank without help from county revenues while an additional quarter the federal government.

To this end, the Sound Beach Civic Assocomes from property taxes. The task force is currently projecting a $329 million short- ciation is spearheading a letter-writing camfall in sales tax collections and a 4.9 percent paign reaching out to our federal representashortfall in property tax collections. And, al- tives without whose support the taxpayers of though the county is budgeted to receive $314 Suffolk County will suffer — both financially million in state aid, the State of New York has and in reduction of services. We encourage announced that, without federal reimburse- everyone to join us and contact Representaments for the COVID-19 expenses it has in- tives Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1), Thomas Suozzi curred, there will be potential cuts of 20 to (D-NY-3) and Peter King (R-NY-2) and U.S. 30 percent. According to this report, the full Senators Charles Schumer (D) and Kirsten impact of the lockdown is expected to bring Gillibrand (D). If you don’t want to write steeper decline in the economy, the GDP and your own letter, you can download one at sales tax revenues. Again, as I understand it, www.soundbeachcivic.org.

Bea Ruberto is the president of the Sound without federal aid, the recovery could be exBeach Civic Association. tended out for a decade if not longer.

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County

Restaurant Owners See Positives from Phase 3, Indoor Dining Though Many Still Prefer Safety of Outdoors

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With Long Island entering Phase 3 of reopening, businesses are looking to bounce back and recover from the shutdown. Restaurant owners are hoping to take advantage of the addition of indoor dining during the summer months. Here’s how owners reacted to the first week of Phase 3.

“It has been going really smooth really, better than I expected,” said Indu Kaur, director of operations of The Meadow Club in Port Jefferson Station.

At the family’s newest restaurant, SaGhar, on East Broadway in Port Jeff, the rooftop floor and patio has been very busy. Kaur said they plan on accommodating patrons who want indoor seating in the front room of the restaurant that is facing the water. The Curry Club, which the family also runs in Setauket, currently of-

Indu Kaur, front row on right, joins the Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Chamber of Commerce on the roof deck of the SaGhar restaurant in Port Jeff. She said that space has gotten plenty of use lately. Photo by Joan Nickeson

fers outdoor seating at its patio and will have limited indoor seating.

“We will keep them six feet apart, there will be different entrances and exits for outdoor and indoor seating,” Kaur said. “For outdoor seating you will go down different staircases when

you enter and leave. Also, we’ve placed hand sanitizers throughout the building.”

Kaur said they have gotten good feedback from customers on the outdoor dining layout at SaGhar.

“They’ve told us they like the overall ambi-

Sports Leagues/Recreational Sports for Phase 3

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Beginning July 6, certain youth and recreation sports will be allowed to restart on Long Island.

Baseball, softball, gymnastics, field hockey, cross-country, soccer, noncontact lacrosse, doubles tennis, rafting, paintball, water polo and swimming will be allowed to begin games and competitions.

Here is a list of youth sports leagues and facilities on the North Shore that will restart during July:

Baseball/Softball

• The Town of Brookhaven Baseball is tentatively set to begin its summer season on July 13. the 2020 Varsity Wood Bat Tournament in Brookhaven will run July 8-12.

• The Town of Brookhaven Fastpitch Softball League will commence its summer season in July.

• The Three Village Youth Baseball and Softball League will start its season July 8.

• North Shore Little League will not have a summer season, but its fall season will begin

son will run July 13-29.

• Huntington Tri-Village Little League will resume games July 25 with the season ending in late October

Soccer

• Brookhaven Youth Soccer League will begin its season July 18 and last until Aug. 22.

Tennis

• Port Jefferson Country Club at Harbor SWR graduating senior Elizabeth Shields was part of the team that made state Hills tennis courts are champs last year. File photo by Bill Landon open to play.

• The Town of Aug. 15 and continue through the middle of Brookhaven’s pickleball/tennis courts located October. at 286 Hawkins Road, Centereach, are open.

• The Town of Brookhaven Adult Softball At this time, the courts will only be opened to Slowpitch League will open beginning Sun Brookhaven residents.

July 12 and play through October. There will • Huntington Town tennis courts are open be no separate fall ball season. to residents and the public.

• St. James/Smithtown Little League will • The Suffolk County Junior Tennis League begin practicing July 6 and a soft opening day in Smithtown will begin summer matches will be held July 11. The baseball/softball sea- from July 13 to Aug. 20.

ance, the decoration of space and are enjoying the outdoor entertainment we are providing,” she said. “Business has started to come back.”

With the start of summer and the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, Kaur said they will look to possibly increase tables with the influx of people venturing into the village. In addition, they are in the process of training 20 new employees to add to the staff they already have.

“We will try to accommodate walk-in customers as much as possible, but we advise to make a reservation,” she said. “We want to make sure everyone is safe and feels comfortable.”

Charlie Lefkowitz, president of the Three Village Chamber of Commerce, said business owners in the area are “cautiously optimistic” about the current and next stages of reopening.

They’re hoping that they can return to normal business operations soon.

“There has been a lot of burden put on these businesses; restaurants and retail stores have had to contend with reduced volume of sales, capacity and selling space,” Lefkowitz said.

The chamber president added that while take-out orders helped bring in funds for restaurants, outdoor/indoor dining options will allow for these establishments to bounce back.

He added that the chamber will continue to assist businesses in any way it can and help them navigate and understand Phase 4.

“They are excited for the summer months and are looking forward to the business it could bring,” he said.

Lefkowitz said he thinks post-COVID we will see outdoor seating and retail space during the spring and summer time.

“I think it’s something every municipality on Long Island should consider, from what we’ve heard if given the choice, people have preferred outdoor seating,” he said.

Tommy Marzano, co-owner of Faradays in Smithtown, said customers have been apprehensive about eating indoors with the majority of them preferring the restaurant’s outdoor seating.

“They prefer being outside — some of them don’t want nothing to do with being indoors even if everyone is six feet apart,” he said.

Marazano is hopeful that customers will eventually become more comfortable eating indoors again, though he acknowledged it could be a problem in the fall/winters months if COVID is still around and outdoor dining is not an option. He said takeout and delivery options could come back into play for restaurants.

Nonetheless, the feedback from customers has been positive, many raving about the restaurant’s garden and patio area.

“They are happy to have some bit of normalcy and be able to have a dining experience again,” he said. “We’ve had people tell us that this was the first place they wanted to go eat out, it means a lot that the community wants us to succeed.”

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Continued from A4 ticipated to be completed this year,” he said.

“In addition, the department plans to make temporary repairs to sections of Route 25 ahead of this winter.”

However, that directly contradicts comments sent to local officials last year. New York State DOT sent a letter April 8, 2019, to Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) which stated that the resurfacing project on Route 25 has been “accelerated to a bid opening in early 2020” with a going out to bid in March

and a schedule to start construction in spring of 2020 for the described section of the highway.

The letter was signed by DOT Regional Planning and Program Manager Glenn Murrell. Anker said in reaching out to DOT officials, there seems to have been a mix up on their end for why she and other officials were told it was in the pipe for 2020. She added this issue has been constantly on electives’ minds, with more than a few letters being sent to the DOT over the past several years.

“I will continue to follow this intensely as this has been going on for a number of years,” she said. “Hopefully we can see the whole road done sometime soon.”

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Police said they found over two million dollars worth of narcotics, including cocaine and heroin, above, as well as close to $1.5 million in cash during the search of several homes in Suffolk County. Photo from DA’s office

Wading River Man Among Five Indicted in MultiMillion Dollar Drug Smuggling Ring

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Suffolk County district attorney, Tim Sini (D), announced three people in Suffolk and two from New Jersey were indicted in an alleged multimillion dollar drug trafficking ring, with officials saying they seized over a million in cash, 19 kilograms of drugs and numerous guns during the takedown.

Sini announced in a press release that James Sosa, 25, of Wading River, Anthony Leonardi, 46, of Coram, and Brian Sullivan, 24, of Lake Grove, and two other individuals from New Jersey allegedly helped purchase and ferry narcotics, including cocaine and heroin, from the West Coast to Long Island partially during the pandemic. The group used residential homes in Lake Grove, Wading River, Port Jefferson Station, Coram, Selden and Brentwood, the DA said.

Sini worked with Suffolk County Police Department, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.

“The magnitude of this drug distribution ring is enormous; they were responsible for peddling millions of dollars in narcotics on an almost weekly basis,” Sini said in the release. “Not only did this organization continue their illicit operation during the coronavirus pandemic, they were also exploiting the limited availability of certain narcotics during the health crisis to generate even greater profits off their sales.”

The DA, Suffolk police and DEA launched

the investigation in May 2019 investigating Sosa, Sullivan and their associates. The group allegedly used multiple methods to get the drugs to the East Coast, including cross-country trips in vehicles and airplanes and even through the mail. Police executed warrants June 27 at locations within the six hamlets, which the DA said resulted in seizing 16 kilograms of cocaine, 2 kilograms of heroin, about $1.5 million in cash, around 4,000 oxycodone pills, nine firearms, along with “numerous luxury vehicles” and equipment the DA said is used for packaging and selling drugs. The police had also seized an additional kilogram of cocaine earlier in the investigation. The cocaine had an estimated street value of $1.6 million and the heroin was worth about $520,000.

Dashawn Jones, 33, of Passaic, New Jersey, was charged with allegedly operating as a major trafficker and first-degree drug possession. Anthony Cyntje, 22, also of Passaic, was charged with first-degree drug possession and was described as being employed as a correction officer in New Jersey.

“This investigation exemplifies how drug traffickers have been impacted by the coronavirus; adapting smuggling methods, transportation routes and money laundering operations to maintain security and social distancing,” said Ray Donovan, New York DEA special agent in charge.

Sosa, who was charged with two counts as a major trafficker, among other counts, was arraigned June 28 with bail set from $7.5 million cash or bond. Sosa’s attorney, Glenn Obedin, a criminal defense lawyer in Central Islip, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sosa, Sullivan and Jones each face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of the top counts, Leonardi 12 1/2 to 25 years and Cyntje 8 1/3 to 25 years, Sini said.

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Perspective

The Days After Normandy: Fighting in France Post D-Day Landings

BY RICH ACRITELLI DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Between the invasion of France and the fall of Paris in the summer of 1944, the Allies were not prepared for the vicious fighting that ensued directly after the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his planners prepared for every type of problem before Operation Overlord, but they were shocked at the brutality of the warfare that awaited their land forces against the well-hidden German military. As more men and materials were dispatched from England to this area that was known as the “Bocage,” Eisenhower and his key subordinate General Omar N. Bradley were dismayed over the extreme losses and puzzled over how to handle this costly opening offensive campaign in France. They did not fully know how to engage an enemy who was difficult to see and was eager to make the Allies pay for their successful landings.

At a time when Eisenhower looked to push his leaders like that of Bradley and Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery to gain military results against the enemy, progress was slow.

The Germans dug in and they halted the advance of the Americans, British, and Canadians.

Whereas General George S. Patton was a talented, but controversial leadership figure, he was absent from the Normandy landings. Through the Slapping and Knutsford Incidents, Patton added to the immense pressures that was placed on Eisenhower. He was not dismissed from the service, but Eisenhower kept this feared tank commander in the dark as how he would be used within the future military campaign in France.

It was not until well after D-Day that the Third Army became operational and Patton would be its commander. He eventually directed this army that pushed the enemy across France and towards the Rhine River. And through the historic Battle of the Bulge, Patton’s armor would eventually drive back this German surprise attack to the relief of Bastogne and the paratroopers that were surrounded by Hitler’s forces.

Before D-Day, General George C. Marshall, supported Eisenhower’s threat to send Patton home in disgrace, but he also informed this figure that nothing should be done to weaken his hand in fighting the difficult German military machine. Patton was not an easy general to guide and his mouth often put him in trouble, but he was the most talented armored leader that the United States had in its ranks. There were some points during the Normandy Campaign that Eisenhower openly stated that he wished that Patton’s unyielding presence was there to fight this difficult battle, but this was wishful

General Montgomery, right, with generals George Patton, left and Omar Bradley (center). Public domain photo

thinking, as allied tanks played no pivotal role during this tenacious battle.

With the huge amount of resources that Eisenhower had at his disposal in the hedgerows, the Germans extracted some 40,000 casualties against the Allies. Through a maze of vines, bushes, and trees that seemed to be connected, there was no telling if a German was hidden within the foliage of Normandy. Several weeks after D-Day, Eisenhower and Bradley were frustrated at the lack of progress and the increase in casualties. As the Germans stymied the Allies, the Wehrmacht was unable to reinforce their own lines and they lost the immense leadership skills of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel who was seriously wounded by British fighter planes.

This was a hard time for the Allies as Montgomery was known for moving too cautiously and he lived up to this negative reputation when he failed to take the French city of Caen. Bradley lost his patience and he fired several generals through their inability to overrun the Germans.

On July 4, 1944, as American soldiers celebrated Independence Day, an intense artillery barrage of fire hit the well covered Germans.

It was a strenuous campaign that tested Allied officers and soldiers to push the Germans out of their strategic defensive positions. Although the Allies were less than a year from winning the war, there were always strains on the military relationship between the Americans and British.

Marshall believed that Montgomery received far too much credit for being an army commander that had to be prodded to move. The Army Chief of Staff wanted stability within the alliance, but not at the demise of American prestige. With our nation providing the bulk of men and materials on the Western Front and taking the recognizable direction against the Germans, Marshall

was concerned that Eisenhower favored the British a little too much and he ordered him to leave England and set up his command in Normandy, where he would take over the direction of this intense fight.

At same time when some senior German military figures tried to assassinate Hitler in East Prussia on July 20, 1944, Patton arrived in France. He was told by Bradley that a massive carpet-bombing assault was to target the stubborn German positions and break open their lines to be exploited. It was the expectation that “Operation Cobra” would create a large enough corridor to allow American armored forces to penetrate deeply within the open lands east of Normandy. After 3,400 tons of bombs were dropped, this campaign successfully developed when four American armored divisions pushed through this opening in the lines. This allowed the Americans operate south westward and take the French port of Cherbourg and to drive in a different direction to liberate the major prize of Paris.

Once Patton’s tanks were employed, the German Higher Command in France never stood a chance in defeating the sheer pressure from air and land that Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton had at their disposal. The summer of 1944 was a dangerous year for the Germans, as the immense amount of force that the Americans delivered against Hitler’s beleaguered armies.

And while Eisenhower had a difficult relationship with Patton, keeping him in command paid large dividends towards victory in Western Europe against the Nazi Regime.

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

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Miller Place Cont. sity in the Honors Program and major in math and physics on the pre-med track. He added he would like to take some politics courses while in college.

Davis is graduating with a 101.35 weighted GPA. Through his high school career, he made Eagle Scout last December, was a Metropolitan Youth Orchestra principal hornist, Scholar-Artist Merit Award, French Honor Society president, NYSSMA All-State participant, varsity badminton player and member of the Nassau-Suffolk jazz ensemble.

As part of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, he said he was able to travel to Europe, which became “one of the fondest experiences I was lucky enough to have, between making friends, performing music and appreciating foreign culture.”

As a musician, he said going to the AllState Music Festival was one of the unforgettable experiences of his high school career. Otherwise, he thanked his parents and sister for their support in his academic, musical, athletic and Scouting endeavors.

He also thanked the teachers “who have pushed me to improve myself both in my work and in my daily life.”

Davis plans to attend Columbia University and major in biomedical engineering. Beyond that, he said he wants to pursue a career in disease research to help find treatments for current and future illnesses.

The salutatorian said it’s important for students to embrace a sense that whatever happens, happens, especially considering the way this year was turned on its head due to the pandemic. “ven though this year’s situation is pretty unprecedented, it’s important to look ahead and stay on the bright side, because something absolutely astounding can come out of it,” he said.

Mount Sinai Cont. dents entering their senior year should figure out what it is they want to do and prepare for the future.

“Personally, the pandemic has taught me to take nothing for granted — I’ll certainly cherish everything much more now, even the little things,” Angress said.

Spitz said that the year had been nothing but disheartening, but he suggested students look to take advantage of their senior year to have at least some fun.

“I was looking forward to creating many more memories this year and can now only hope that I will be able to graduate alongside my friends,” he said. “Everything will work out, and you might as well enjoy your final moments in school rather than worrying about the small things in life out of your control.”

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Bernstein to Remain at SBU for 2020-21 Academic Year

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM As the 2019-2020 school year comes to a close, Stony Brook University’s recent interim president is returning to familiar territory.

Michael Bernstein will remain at SBU, even though his last day as interim president was June 30. On July 1 he returned to his former position as provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. Last August, Bernstein took on the role of interim president after the departure of former president, Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Bernstein said he decided to stay after a request from new university president, Maurie McInnis, who was appointed in March, and added that a search for his replacement may take up to a year. He plans to move to California in the future.

“I’m in a position, I think, to help Maurie as she transitions in as the new president,” he said. “Obviously, we’re very much challenged with planning through this COVID emergency and figuring out how we’re going to manage the fall semester, not to mention the whole academic year.”

While the pandemic got in the way of

Perspectives

working on some SBU goals such as strategic revisioning, strengthening a few of the business practices and revitalization of the computer system, he’s confident that McInnis, with whom he has been in constant contact since her appointment, will be prepared to take on the challenges once the 2020 fall semester can begin.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, which required colleges and universities to switch to online learning and hold events virtually since March, Bernstein said he enjoyed his time as interim president overall.

“I was surrounded by a superb senior leadership team,” he said. “We were getting a lot done in terms of managing university affairs.”

Bernstein said he realized the importance of taking precautions early on once the number of COVID-19 cases started rising in the U.S. “My sense was that we were in the midst of an emerging crisis that was going to accelerate pretty quickly and pretty dramatically,” he said. “We made a decision to shut down and start canceling major campus events pretty quickly.”

He said that the campus nearly closed earlier than it did but the school had to wait

Michael Bernstein on the Stony Brook University campus.

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for directions from the State University of New York administration to coordinate with the broader school network. Bernstein said the last

major event at the campus was the 2020 gala held at the Staller Center March 7.

“I had said at that point that we will have no more major campus events, and we were a little early when we made that decision,” he said.

While he received some pushback, he’s glad he made the decision.

“I think within a couple of weeks people were circling back to me saying, ‘That was the right decision, thank you for making it as quickly as you did.’ I think it became clear to people that we had to shut everything down.”

He added that shortly after the university cut back on public events, students were asked to head home, and spring break was extended to two weeks so the university could prepare for online learning.

He said at the last in-person university council meeting, it was realized they were all in the midst of a critical moment in their careers and that everyone would be defined by what decisions were made. While he said it was a challenging time, he remained positive.

“There’s the old saying, ‘Calm seas and blue skies do not make good sea captains,’” he said. “You’re not in a leadership position to work when things are calm. When things are calm and fine, you don’t need leaders.”

What We Can Do Beyond Protests to Create Meaningful, Lasting Change I am heartened by the over 100 peaceful protests that have occurred in Suffolk County.

We are witnessing multitudes of people standing up and rejecting the systemic racism that infects every aspect of American life.

I’d like to consider what we can do beyond the protests to create meaningful and lasting change in America.

In our classrooms, we must include minority voices and events as a part of our history, rather than a novelty one month of the year. I was unaware of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 until I watched the HBO show “Watchmen.” I didn’t learn about Juneteenth until the past few years.

Our schools need to teach Black and Native history as a part of our curriculum, so each of us grows up with the knowledge of our past.

Our literature classes must be more inclusive of the voices of communities of color in America.

Books like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” can enlighten those of us with white privilege how racism plays out in front of our eyes, while we are unaware. As a musician, I am committed to teaching and performing the music of minority voices alongside the European/Western music that often dominates music education.

As Newsday reported earlier this year, must also divert some police funds to areas like our neighborhoods are segregated by education, public health, housing and youth deliberate design, and that means our schools services, so law enforcement no longer has to handle these issues in are segregated. We need police work. to fundamentally address We can increase accountredlining in a way that changes ability for law enforcement the demographics of our through the creation of civilian neighborhoods, and reflects complaint panels, which allows the diversity that is our island. reports of police misconduct to We can no longer tolerate the be dealt with by a neutral arbisystemic racism in our housing ter. Additionally, requiring conand school systems. tinuing rigorous professional Regarding policing, it development for law enforceis time to demilitarize law ment would be useful. In public enforcement. Other nations education, this is a requirement have police forces that aren’t for K-12 teachers in New York armed to the teeth and manage State. Creating an equivalent reto address crime. We need quirement for law enforcement to hold law enforcement Shoshana Hershkowitz would be a means of addressing accountable for injuries and these issues throughout law endeaths. The time where civilian forcement officers’ careers. deaths are covered up and “bad In our legislative halls, there have been good apples” are protected must end. The blue wall of silence cannot be accepted anymore. Officers beginnings. I’m pleased that New York passed of good conscience must stand up and speak a legislative package of reforms recently. I the truth about the abuse within their ranks to now call upon our “Long Island Six” to stop maintain the integrity of their profession. We taking campaign money from police unions, so

that they can address this issue without special interests playing a role in legislation. I also call upon Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) to support the Democratic House’s proposed bill, with no amendments, false equivalencies or whataboutisms. Anything else is an injustice.

Last but not least, in our own lives, we have to examine the role we each play in systemic racism. While we may not hold specifically racist views, we are all saddled with implicit bias, and we need to reflect on how to address that. It is difficult work to become anti racist, but we are witnessing young people in the streets who can serve as a guide for us.

Systemic racism will not be solved overnight. The work of dismantling it is uncomfortable. But it is our duty as patriotic Americans to do our part to live up to the creed promised in our Constitution of equality for all.

It is a dream not yet realized, and we have our part to do in making it our nations’ reality.

Shoshana Hershkowitz is the conductor of the Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers at Stony Brook University. She is also the founder of the Suffolk Progressives Facebook page, which provides county residents the opportunity to share ideas for activism.

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County Q&A With Deputy Police Commissioner on Recent Protests/Reforms

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Risco Mention-Lewis, who has been a Deputy Police Commissioner since 2012, talked with TBR News Media about the recent protests on Long Island and about the relationship between the police and communities of color. The deputy commissioner supported the Constitutionally protected right to protest. Mention-Lewis was an assistant district attorney in Nassau County and has served as the first African American Deputy Police Commissioner in Suffolk County. In a wide-ranging interview, which is edited for space, Mention-Lewis offered her candid assessment of the civil unrest and the questions about police triggered by the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd at the end of May. TBR: What is your role in these protests?

Mention-Lewis: I’m the Deputy Police Commissioner. The way I look at it, the time we’re in is the time I was born for. My whole career has brought me to be who I am in this moment in time.

TBR: Can you offer some examples?

Mention-Lewis: All the things I’ve been doing my career are coming together. I’ve been talking about race my entire career. I’ve been talking about disparate treatment in criminal justice. [I have supported] more resources for previously incarcerated people and people of color my entire career. If we want to drive down crime, you have less reentry to do if you do more intervention.

We’re focused on the back end, when we could do much more on the front end.

TBR: What are some of the solutions on the front end?

Mention-Lewis: Police spend a lot of time in minority communities. They are learning to spend time in the community versus as an outsider. They are learning about the youth centers, resource centers. They are talking to those guys on the corner. When I first got here, I hung out on the corner more than I did anything else. I know that was weird. What is the Deputy Police Commissioner doing on the corner?

That’s where you get your connections and your influence, getting to know people.

TBR: What sorts of resources do people need?

Mention-Lewis: Part of our job is to make information accessible, to make resources accessible. That’s why I work with [County Executive Steve] Bellone and [Babylon Town Supervisor Rich] Schaffer to make sure the resource center has what is needed in a resource center. If I have to travel two to 2.5 hours on a bus, I’m not getting that resume done. Go online? What if I don’t have Internet. What if I only have a laptop or a cell phone? The resource center needs to have computers. Some communities need a Department of Labor in the neighborhood.

TBR: Have the police been effective in

making community connections?

Mention-Lewis: We’ve done a really good job of getting into our communities. It’s why we didn’t have incidents [during the over 100 protests]. We had people on bikes talking with people before the marches started.

TBR: Are the protests creating change?

Mention-Lewis: Humans navigating life in white skin have the privilege of not thinking about race, until now. However, because they have not thought about it, they often may not know how to think about it. I’m a practical person. I want resources in the community and also help the Police Department Command understand the framing in the moment.

TBR: Are African American residents skeptical of government resources?

Mention-Lewis: One of the largest things that the government and policing need to understand: because of the history of America, Black people, even if sometimes you bring the resources, [think] it’s a suspect resource. There’s the Tuskegee experiment [in which Black men with syphilis didn’t receive treatment, even when penicillin became the standard of care in 1947. The study continued until the press reported it, in 1972].

TBR: What’s the impact of the Tuskegee Experiment?

Mention-Lewis: There’s always this undercurrent of mistrust, and rightfully so.

The Tuskegee experiment went into the early 1970s. We’re talking about recent impacts on Black communities. White communities are not aware all the time. When that body was found in Huntington, people think about lynching. The police may not know, but there are six across the country that Black people are paying attention to. If you don’t know the cultural context, it’s difficult to be having the conversation.

TBR: How do you create the cultural context?

Mention-Lewis: If there are suicides or murders, it [doesn’t matter] in the sense of cultural context. People are concerned, even if the police say they are all suicides. Even if the police say they are all suicides, people of color say, ‘we know they don’t always tell us the truth, especially when we die.’

TBR: What can help develop that cultural context?

Mention-Lewis: We talk to leadership. We talk to families. We have a press conference with all of us and not just the police. When we start thinking about cultural context, how do we communicate taking into account that cultural context? It’s the same with recruitment. We have a low number of African Americans in the police department. We have to talk about the 1,000 pound invisible elephant in the room.

TBR: What’s your focus in the Police Department?

Mention-Lewis: Criminal justice and driving down violence in communities.

Risco Mention-Lewis, left, was named deputy comissioner in 2012. She said she sees today’s protests as a genuine moment for legitimate reform. File photo

TBR: How do you think Suffolk County has done in the police department?

Mention-Lewis: We are ahead of the game.

We’ve been working with the Department of Justice for many years. The DOJ is saying we have one of the best implicit bias training programs. They asked us to teach the Ferguson [Missouri Police Department, where a white police officer killed Michael Brown in 2014].

We have been doing community relations in a different way for years. We know how to work with leadership, whether that’s minority, Muslim, Black, Jewish. We know to go to leadership in churches and synagogues to get and receive information to be culturally competent.

TBR: What are you doing to improve the process?

Mention-Lewis: We are doing traffic stop data to look at whether the stops are fair and just. We are doing a community survey to ask how we are doing. How do you know unless you ask?

TBR: Why isn’t the SCPD using body cameras?

Mention-Lewis: The biggest reason is the cost. It’s millions of dollars for the cameras plus the storage. It’s a great idea. We should have them, eventually. They are going to be across the United States.

TBR: What do you think of the justice system?

Mention-Lewis: We are moving in the right direction as a county. The courts should follow suit because we know with sentencing, statistically, nationally, there are issues. All this is, is an opportunity for every aspect of society to look in the mirror and say, ‘what can I do and what knowledge do I need to do my best effort?’

TBR: How do you think the police has responded to protests?

Mention-Lewis: We don’t say we are a community response unit. We are not looking to respond when something happens. That’s not our relationship with the community. We do community relations. We want to have a relationship year-round. When something

happens, that’s not the first time you’re talking to us. Whatever community we’re in, we’re looking to be a part of the solution, working with the community to problem solve. We have people on bike patrol getting to know the protesters at every march.

TBR: Do you think people believe the police are protecting and serving them?

Mention-Lewis: There’s two cultures in policing: the warrior and the guardian. The warrior is what many departments have become.

The guardian is what is being promoted as what we should be. Those are just words. How do our actions correspond with that? Black communities in particular have had more of a warrior treatment.

How do we partner with the community to listen and deal with problems differently in those communities, effectively but differently?

TBR: Do the police serve the variety of communities effectively?

Mention-Lewis: You should be able to sit down with us and express what you feel we should have done differently. We should be willing to listen. It doesn’t mean you’re always going to walk away satisfied. We will try to figure out how to do it better.

TBR: How is the police department doing in recruiting people from all communities?

Mention-Lewis: We worked hard with the community to recruit people of color. In the last recruitment class, 34 percent of the applicants identify as people of color. That hasn’t happened in the history of the department. Right now, there are 2 percent [African Americans] in the department. We’re not perfect, but we are doing the damn thing.

TBR: What are some of the easiest things to change?

Mention-Lewis: All departments should have implicit bias training. Across the country, I didn’t know this, we banned chokeholds 30 years ago and there’s still people doing it today. We need national standards for policing so that when people across the country have other rules, they don’t affect our reputation. We’re not perfect.

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Editorial Letters to the Editor The Kids Are (Not) All Right Things We Can do Against Ticks It was the winter of 2007 to 2008 when the financial crisis hit. Years of excessive risky loans by banks (and others) and a downturn in the subprime lending market resulted in several years of economic hurt. Many lost their jobs and homes. Some say we truly have never recovered.

For the young people graduating high school or college just over a decade ago, it was walking blind toward a cliff’s edge.

They went through school with certain expectations, but the jobs once promised to be there upon graduation were gone. In the following years, young people took what was available, much of the time it was low-paying service industry jobs without a real hope of promotion. A new kind of employment, something people started to call the “gig economy,” was born. People worked freelance without a chance for receiving health insurance through an employer or have any kind of job security.

Now we face a new impending time of economic peril, and there are many thousands of young people graduating this year from high school or college on Long Island.

We as parents and residents need to ask ourselves, “What will we do for them to make sure they can make it out there in a time of wild unpredictability and economic inhospitability?”

Research indicates that people who graduate in a time of economic tension can remain in worse straits than their peers for over a decade. A 2019 study in the Journal of Labor Economics showed the pay and employment rate for people who graduated during the Great Recession have remained relatively low, even after several years. Millennials, the youngest of whom are 24 while the oldest are nearing 40, hold just 3 percent of America’s wealth compared to 21 percent that the baby boomer generation held at around the same age, according to a 2019 U.S. Federal Reserve report.

This is a pivotal time for young people entering the job market, as not only is this when they can start to accrue wealth and build up savings, but it’s a means to start grinding away at what can be tens of thousands of dollars in student loans.

Without early starts to their careers, young people will end up running in place, making enough to live but not enough to build their credit or finances (though on Long Island it’s rare they will be able to afford the rent to even the smallest apartment).

It’s time as a nation we seriously have to consider governmental action to save the future for our graduates. Yes, that includes student loan forgiveness programs, as there is potentially no worse idea than saddling a young person — who likely never even signed a check before — with thousands upon thousands in debt to either private firms or the U.S. government.

Even more people will be looking to college as a way to build their job prospects, so it’s time we look at additional subsidies for college. We should also start thinking of handing out incentives to companies willing to hire people fresh out of school.

An unregulated financial sector helped cause the 2008 economic collapse. Now with the pandemic, more research has shown if the government, both state and federal, had responded to the crisis with lockdowns sooner, we could have saved more lives and potentially restarted our economy faster and smoother.

What’s done is done, but the fact is young people had no part in causing this economic downturn. Let’s have us as parents and neighbors think about how we can still help young people get ahead in life, for the sake of their entire generation.

Letters … We welcome your letters. They should be no longer than 400 words and may be edited for length, libel, style and good taste. We do not publish anonymous letters. Please include a phone number and address for confirmation. Email letters to kyle@tbrnewsmedia.com or mail them to The Village Beacon Record, P.O. Box 707, Setauket, NY 11733.

Having had encounters with ticks in the past, I understood very well Leah Dunaief’s June 25 editorial entitled “Beastly Bedfellows.” Readers may be interested to know that such encounters can be minimized by wearing insect-repellent clothing. Such clothing may be found online by searching for “insect shield.” If you wish, you can purchase an entire outfit, including hats, scarves, shirts, slacks, and socks.

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Republican State Senate Minority Leader John Flanagan read the political tea leaves when announcing he would not run for another term and now leaves even earlier. This brings the total number of current serving GOP senators throwing in the towel to 11 out of 23. This is a first in Senate history.

Prior to the 2018 elections, the GOP had lost 10 Senate seats from New York City, the Hudson Valley and Upstate New York. After the 2018 elections, they lost six of nine Long Island-based seats.

Senate Republicans, just like their GOP Assembly colleagues, have no power as part of the minority in their respective

chambers.

Based upon the New York State Board of Elections registration figures as of Feb. 21, New York is a solid Democratic Party bastion. Out of 11,701,136 active voters, there are 5,900,507 Democrats with 2,611,227 Republicans; 2,522,036 unaffiliated; 432,943 Independence Party; 147,606 Conservative; 40,335 Working Families; 24,504 Green; 13,567 Libertarian; 348 Serve America Movement; and 8,063 other registered voters. This is why Flanagan left Albany.

There are insufficient numbers of Republican voters to support recapturing nine more seats necessary for him to

return as Senate majority leader.

The Republican Senate campaign committee historically raised millions more than its Democratic Senate counterpart.

Democrats have an overwhelming financial advantage prior to the 2020 general election.

The year 2018 went down in history as the final nail in the coffin for the last Republican center of power. A once powerful and relevant state Republican Party will remain in the minority, no longer offering voters any options.

During the recent riots, two longstanding and very well-regarded members of the law enforcement community were murdered. On June 2 David Dorn, a retired police captain with over 40 years of experience, was killed while working security at a St. Louis pawnshop. His death was live-streamed on Facebook. A few days prior to that, Federal Protective Services officer, David Underwood, was shot, in drive-by fashion, multiple times and killed while guarding the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building complex in Oakland, California. Both lawmen happened to be black.

Here are heartbroken, grieving family members, in their own words as reported in the media.

Dorn’s son, Brian Powell, said, “He couldn’t stay retired. My dad is that kind of person — he believed in black and blue. Police work ran through his veins.”

Powell’s message to the person who pulled the trigger was, “We can do things

in a peaceful, calm manner. We don’t have to go about destroying our communities like that.” Dorn’s widow, Sgt. Ann Dorn of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, said, “He dedicated his life to the City of St. Louis,” adding, “We need to come together as a community and do better. We need to teach our young people that life is very precious.”

Underwood’s sister, Angela Underwood Jacobs on Fox News recently seemed to convey both a deep sense of loss, and an inability to comprehend how the tragic story of the unprovoked murder of her federal officer brother just seemed to disappear.

“My heart and my family’s heart is broken,” she said. “It feels as though there is a difference in life. Meaning that, on one hand, George Floyd and my brother’s situations are very different. At the same time, they are both African-American men. There has been so much talk regarding George Floyd and his family,

which is fine. However, I think at the same time, my brother should be recognized as well for literally going into work every day and putting his life on the line for us.

It saddens me that he has not received the same type of — his memory hasn’t been as prevalent in the news and media as I think it should be.”

“I have not received any calls from anyone of color that are leaders in the country, and I’m wondering, why didn’t I get a phone call?” she wondered. “Why has someone not reached out to our family to see how we are doing?”

Stephan Cannon, 24, of St. Louis, has been charged with first-degree murder, and several other counts related to the killing of Capt. Dorn. As of this writing, the media remains virtually mute on the drive-by killing of Officer Underwood.

No arrests have been made. .

Jim Soviero Setauket

Mourning the Murders of Two Good Men

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Whoever wins this presidential election in this incredibly challenging year will have enormous work to do.

Even a vaccine that is tested and produced in mass quantities by the early part of next year, which seems spectacularly optimistic but is still possible, doesn’t automatically put us back on the path to the world of 2019.

After all, the flu vaccine doesn’t eradicate the illness. It comes back with a vengeance some years. Some people who receive the shot still get sick, oftentimes with less severe symptoms.

We need to recognize that the world has changed. We’ve had time to process it and to adjust, even if we’re sick of the new rules. We need to use all the space we have to turn what

seems like a nuisance and an inconvenience into a modern triumph.

The country can and should rethink everything from ways to attend sporting events to the specific needs of the home office. Maybe sports stadiums should remove seats, put picnic tables in front of patrons and make the game-time experience for fans look different because, for the foreseeable future, it will be.

Yes, I know, that will cost an incredible amount of money, but it would also give patrons a chance to enjoy their own space, instead of hoping for a time machine that brings us back to an era when we gave strangers a high five when our team scored.

Maybe waiters and waitresses can provide virtual personalized service, connecting through online services that deliver, via conveyor belt beneath those tables, contactless food to guests.

We need to renovate our homes to enjoy the new reality. Maybe we need virtual artwork we can add to our walls, that helps expand our small rooms and that changes at the flick of a

switch. Maybe we also can figure out ways to create virtual assembly lines, where workers provide their part of a mechanized process from a distance, in a basement, workspace, or outside in their enclosed yards. It may not be as efficient, because someone might have to transport those parts, but those driving opportunities also create jobs for people who become a part of a new, virtual factory.

We may want to go back to the way things were, but we need to recognize the realities, and the opportunities, that come from moving forward. Moving on will require us to develop new ideas, create new jobs, and believe in ourselves. We have survived and thrived through challenges before, by pulling together, by innovating, and by tapping into the combination of ingenuity and hard work.

People are prepared to put in the effort to earn their own version of the American Dream.

We need innovations, new businesses, and inspirations that reignite the economy, while protecting our health.

Happy Birthday to the United States of America!

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! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say, does that star-spangled Between banner yet wave O’er the land you and me of the free and the

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF home of the brave?

Yes, that is the first stanza of our national anthem, the star-spangled banner. It has been my experience, at ballgames and other public

gatherings (remember those?) where the anthem has played, that many Americans do not know all the words. In fact, not a lot of the words. In truth, not any of the words beyond the first two sentences. Confess: that’s you or your spouse or your children.

Now there is always a story behind every creation. In honor of our nation’s upcoming birthday, I thought I would tell you some of the controversial story and remind you of the words of at least the first and last of the four stanzas written by Francis Scott Key. So who was Francis Scott Key and how did he come to write these words?

Key was a good-looking, rich American lawyer, author and amateur poet who was from Frederick, Maryland. Born August 1, 1779, three years after the start of the Revolutionary War, he lived to be 63, dying at the beginning of 1843.

He was married to Mary (“Polly”) Tayloe Lloyd and they had eleven children. Incidentally, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a distant relative.

We remember that we learned of Key viewing the attack by the British on Fort McHenry from a ship outside Baltimore during the brief War of 1812, and how he

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could not tell, through the dark night, if the fort had fallen to the enemy. But at dawn, when he saw the flag still flying, he was inspired to write the poem in 1814 that was to become our national song.

His friends called him “Frank,” which often blended with Key to come out “Frankie.” He had a high profile, having been part of Andrew Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet, the unofficial advisers who were so influential. He defended a young Sam Houston in court on the latter’s trial over beating up an Ohio congressman. He was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and he prosecuted the would-be assassin of President Jackson, who by the way was a Southern slaveholder.

Key, as a youth, had almost become an Episcopal priest, helped found two seminaries and wrote about poetry’s influence on religion.

He also had a complicated and contradictory relationship with slavery. He personally owned six slaves, though he allegedly opposed the practice and eventually set them all free. Yet he did not do so for the many slaves his wife inherited and who worked the farm that provided much of the family’s income. He represented

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slaves for free in court who were trying to win their freedom, yet he was bitterly opposed to the abolitionist movement, and as U.S. district attorney, challenged its efforts. He strongly supported the colonization of former slaves in Africa, helping to found the colony of Liberia.

It is no surprise, then, that in the recent rush to tear down statues, his was toppled on Friday, June 19, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Today we have come to recognize that the imperfect Key is inseparably linked with slavery and pride in our nation.

O thus be it ever when free men shall stand Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation!

Bless’d with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Despite a Pandemic

A Reason to Celebrate

What would have been a series of students lining up all across the North Shore to accept their diplomas has become a mishmash of driveup ceremonies, displays held via video conference, slide shows or whatever means a district has come up with to celebrate the 2020 senior class while the pandemic has put a stop to in-person learning.

Some school districts, like Shoreham-Wading

River, hosted four separate graduations June 26 and 27 to meet New York State requirements to restrict ceremonies to 150 people or less. Rocky Point also hosted five separate commencement ceremonies with chairs spread out all across the lawn of the high school football field. Other districts are still watching and waiting to see if New York State will create new guidelines that could allow for more people to attend graduations.

Above, SWR senior Xavier Arline receives his diploma; left, SWR High School hosted a drive-thru celebration for seniors while teachers and administration cheered them on. Right photos clockwise from top; school staff brings student’s cap gown and yearbooks to people’s homes; High School Principal Jonathan Hart offers words of encouragement to the Class of 2020; Class of 2020 Exhortation Speaker Kiana Hammarth. Photos from SWRCSD and RPUFSD

SWR Hosts Four Graduation Ceremonies

It was a time of new beginnings as the graduates from Shoreham-Wading River High School’s Class of 2020 walked onto the football field during the school’s 44th commencement exercises, held in four separate socially distant ceremonies on June 26 and June 27.

Principal Frank Pugliese welcomed everyone before he led the students and their families in the Pledge of Allegiance, senior Raymond Colon followed and sang the national anthem assisted by American Sign Language interpreters, seniors Gianna De Luca, Abigail Korzekwinski and Alyson Mallon.

In his opening address, Pugliese cited his pride in the community and thanked the board of education, educators, administrators, staff and parents for coming together to make the event possible and thanked the graduates for all the amazing memories of the Class of 2020. Assistant Principal John Holownia then introduced salutatorian Stephanie Searing, who reflected on the friendships created, the shared memories and lifelong bonds and wished her classmates success in the future.

Student Nicolette Tingo sang “People”

from “Funny Girl” before guidance counselor Lucy Eschbach introduced valedictorian Jacqueline Holden, whose Words of Farewell thanked those who supported her efforts throughout her academic career. Holden said she would miss the school community and cherished the atmosphere of the high school.

Wildcat Athletic Club President Edward Troyano then presented the club’s annual commemorative coin before Superintendent of Schools Gerard Poole stepped up to the podium to address the students and lauded them for their academic, artistic and athletic accomplishments and words of optimism for their future.

Pugliese then recognized eight members of the class who had enlisted in the country’s military and made mention of graduate Adam Zelin for his perfect attendance throughout his K-12 academic career. Teachers Mary Hygom and Jason Malvagno served as lectors as each student was called to the podium to pick up their diploma.

Pugliese then addressed the graduates again and quoted A.A. Milne’s “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.”

Rocky Point Celebrates Five Commencements Sunny skies were a welcome backdrop for the five well-orchestrated commencement ceremonies June 26 for the Rocky Point High School Class of 2020.

The 46th commencement exercises began with a welcome from Principal Jonathan Hart, who thanked the board of education, administrators, staff and parents for making the event possible.

Speeches from valedictorian Hope Lantz-Gefroh, salutatorian Molly Lambert and exhortation speaker Kiana Hammarth

were peppered with memories, grateful words to teachers and family members, thoughts on overcoming obstacles and words of advice for their fellow graduates.

The ceremony included a number of special presentations and words of inspiration, hope and faith from among others, Hart and Superintendent of Schools Scott O’Brien, who spoke of the students’ demonstrations of perseverance, strength, flexibility and resilience and most importantly how they responded to this unprecedented time in history.