The Village Beacon Record - September 3, 2020

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Vol. 36, No. 7

September 3, 2020

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Players in Suffolk schools will be hitting the courts and fields come the start of the September sports season … well, some will be.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Aug. 24 that certain sports are allowed to start up Sept.

21, though all leagues must stay in their home region until Oct. 19.

Sports have been divided into what are considered low or high risk. Low risk sports include soccer, tennis, cross county, track, field hockey and swimming. High risk sports would be football, wrestling, rugby, hockey and volleyball. How the distinction between the two was made was up to the New York State Department of Health.

All those sports deemed high risk will be allowed to practice starting Sept. 21 but not to play against other teams until after Dec. 31.

There are still lingering questions about how some sports were determined to be high risk while others remain medium or low. The Department of Health guidance about sports details that a low risk sport is mostly individual activities like running, swimming or golf, or any sport that maintains little cross contamination of equipment. Medium risk sports have more but still manageable interaction between shared equipment (or the ability to clean between use) but with limited ability to maintain distance, which includes sports like baseball, soccer or even flag football. Games that need to have shared contact with equipment like volleyball or games that mandate close confines like wrestling are off the table, at least for the rest of this year.

Not every region will be participating in the fall. Nassau County school officials and Section VIII, which handles Nassau high school sports, have already made the decision

this week to postpone all sports until the start of 2021. Meanwhile members of the Section XI board, which governs Suffolk sports, voted to host its sports season as described by the governor’s parameters.

What the exact guidelines for practices and games is still to be determined. Section XI wrote in a release Aug. 26 that the New York State Public High School Athletic Association has already met twice based on Cuomo’s Aug. 24 announcement. The association said it will come up with guidance for school districts to help them get started on their sports seasons.

“Over 200,000 students participate in the fall high school sports seasons and yesterday’s announcement was certainly a positive step for all those athletes,” said NYSPHSAA’s Executive Director Robert Zayas.

There will be several known restrictions for the start of the fall sports season. Indoor facilities can be at no more than 50% occupancy and districts must limit spectators to no more than two spectators per player. This is in addition to the normal masks and social distancing guidelines.

Coaches whose students will be left out of the chance for a fall sports season said it’s a hard pill to swallow. More so because of the vagaries still left for how the sports year will progress after December.

“I am in contact with the kids and I think all they want is a plan — something concrete — whether we play in the fall, or a condensed schedule starting in February,” said Mount Sinai High School Football Coach Vinnie Ammirato. “It would just be nice to get some clarity and a plan.”

Still, he understands why the decision was made.

“Everyone wants to play — with that said we need to keep the health and safety of all the players and coaches at the forefront.”

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Mount Sinai Parents Demand More Days of Instruction at School Year’s Start As the impending start to the school year closes in, some parents in districts like Mount Sinai are trying to close what they perceive as gaps in schools’ upcoming learning programs.

A small group of Mount Sinai residents consisting of parents and a few of their children protested at the school campus entrance on Route 25A Monday, Aug. 31, arguing their school district’s current reopening plans could lose students days’ worth of instruction time. Meanwhile, district officials allege plans will likely change in the future, and they are doing their best to move to a system for five-day full-time instruction for elementary students and more inschool days for secondary students.

Elle Bee, who has three students in the district — a kindergartener, elementary and middle schooler — said the district has not been communicative enough with her and other parents about their concerns, especially over what the district plans for Wednesdays. They also claimed that their questions and concerns have not been fully answered by the school administration. “We want actual distance learning,� Bee said. “We would like to return to four days or five days in school.�

Current district plans have all students out of school on Wednesdays in order for the custodians to fully sanitize each building. Teachers will be using that time to communicate with students, especially the 50-odd children per building that will be learning remotely full time, though students will still be required to log on to the school’s Google Classroom. Parents at the small protest said that if this standard lasted all year it would result in students losing upward of 40 days of learning, which would be less than New York State requirements for the total number of instruction days of 140.

Kevin Mathers, who has a seventh-grader in the middle school, said he finds it absurd that the district will not even attempt at least a true remote experience on Wednesday.

teacher livestream their classes. limited in the number of buses their contracted Brosdal said there were concerns company First Student has, and that it would amongst teachers, based on previ- cost the district upward of $80- to $90,000 to reous news reports, that people could quest that even one new one be built. Still, he is break onto these livestreams and confident that buses wouldn’t be at far less than harass both students and the teach- their max capacity. ers. Though the district is installing Some parents were especially concerned with around 160 cameras in classrooms their students receiving special education. Alexfor the purpose of broadcasting les- andria Hoehl said she had four children in Mount sons for those either creating videos Sinai who receive special services in the district, or, in some cases, livestreams. and she was concerned they would not get the Parents also complained about five days of one-on-one attention they need. plans for students on buses. They My kids “are going to miss more class time said they were originally told buses when they’re in school to meet the needs of would be at 50% capacity and only their services they get — like physical therapy, siblings could sit on the same seats. occupational therapy — which are now being They argue this was changed to now squeezed into a shortened amount of time,� she allow up to 44 seats with even nonfa- said. “With my oldest, with only being in school mily members sitting together. two days, they’re going to try and fit five days of “They’re going to have to wear services into two days.�

Parents said their kids would be losing out on many days of masks full time, even with guards Brosdal said the school is required to follow instruction with Mount Sinai’s current plans. They also questioned the around their desks, so how are you each special needs student’s individualized edudistrict’s bus and distancing strategies. Photo by Kyle Barr shoving them onto buses like sar- cation program. The special-ed students will be “Any plan that includes not teaching on dines in a can?� Bee said. receiving teaching four days a week and remote Wednesdays is a nonstarter,� he said.

Brosdal confirmed that buses could be at learning one day a week, according to the disSuperintendent Gordon Brosdal said in a more than 50% capacity, though it’s all depen- trict’s plan. phone interview there will be some instruction on dent on how students are either dropped off by MOUNT SINAI PROTEST Continued on A6 Wednesdays. Teachers are going to be construct- their parents or walk to school. The district is ing videos and lessons for both that day and for all remote days. Instructors are also supposed to T H E touch base with all the remote students whose parents chose to keep them at home. Teachers, he said, are working at the max extent that their contracts call for, and that they hope by the end of September they will be able to change it to include Wednesdays for full instruction in the elementary school and in cohorts in the high school. “When teachers teach four days a week, when are they going to do that remote learning and ask each student, ‘How are you doing?’� the superintendent said. “When can parents reach [teachers] and visit teachers during office hours?

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Suffolk and NYC Residents Finding Escapes Close to Home

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Residents of both Suffolk County and New York City have turned to local hotels and bed and breakfasts to enjoy time away from home amid limited travel options during the pandemic.

With out-of-state guests from numerous states limited in their travel to the area, corporate travel down considerably, and sports teams either shut down or playing without any fans, area hotels have still attracted guests from nearby towns and villages and from city residents disappointed with ongoing urban closures and eager to enjoy a natural setting.

“It’s very different now,” said Jamie Ladone, sales executive at the Holiday Inn Express Stony Brook. “We’re not getting as many out-of-state guests,” but the hotel is finding people who are eager for a staycation.

Indeed, Emilie Zaniello and her family recently spent a weekend at the Holiday Inn, just 20 minutes from her home in Centereach “We needed to get out of our element, to take a break from everyday life and the stresses right now,” said Zaniello, who stayed during a weekend with her husband John and their two children, 8-year-old Abigail, and 6-year-old John Robert.

The family felt “cooped up in the house” as their children didn’t have as much of an opportunity to do “normal, everyday things,” Zaniello said.

Abigail and John Robert enjoyed playing on the baseball field and the basketball court, while the family also booked time to go swimming.

“It just felt like a mini-vacation, where we didn’t have to go too far,” said Zaniello, who drove back and forth to her home to take care of the family’s two miniature dachshunds.

At the Holiday Inn, Suffolk residents have also enjoyed the indoor pool, outdoor patio, and volleyball and basketball courts, which families can use while maintaining social distancing, Ladone said. The hotel also has a putting green, horseshoes, and a baseball field and basketball court.

“We have people looking to spend quality time together like a family outdoors,” Ladone said.

The Holiday Inn has a meeting space upstairs with a seating capacity, under nonpandemic conditions, of 100. The hotel is hosting baby showers and corporate events outdoors on their patio.

The Holiday Inn has booked about 30 percent more outdoor parties than usual, Ladone said.

The Stony Brook hotel has also partnered with Spa Exotique, which offers massages or facials, and kayak packages with Stony Brook Harbor Kayak and Paddleboard.

People from as far as Manhattan and as close as Centereach have been taking their vacations on Long Island, such as at the Fox & Owl Inn in Port Jefferson, instead of other states/countries where travel restrictions make it difficult. Photo from Rebecca Kassay

Bed and Breakfast

Bed and breakfasts in the area are also attracting attention from residents of Suffolk County and New York City.

At the Fox and Owl Inn in Port Jefferson, people are booking their rooms one to three weeks before they need them, reflecting the uncertainty about plans that might need to change amid fluid infection rates.

For the past two months, the Fox and Owl has been booking about 90 to 95 percent of their capacity, with a majority of the guests coming from New York City and Long Island rather than the usual far-flung locations across the country and world.

The bed and breakfast derived its name from “The Lord of the Rings” book series, which husband and wife owners Andrew Thomas and Rebecca Kassay enjoys. They each picked an animal that was native to the area and hoped to create a place that was akin to the respite the main characters felt when they visited an inn.

Kassay said the Inn has “kept up to date as far as the recommendations for cleaning and the response to the COVID-19.”

The Fox and Owl is located in an 1850 Victorian home, which has large windows that Kassay keeps open as often as she can. Kassay and Thomas also use Lysol on surfaces regularly and ask their guests to wear masks in public.

While guests sit on sofas that are six feet apart, they have shared stories about their quarantine experiences and make predictions about what will happen next.

The Fox and Owl has three guest suites.

Some family groups have booked the entire bed and breakfast, which is “really nice for families that are coming to visit other family members,” Kassay said. Groups of friends with similar quarantine habits who feel comfortable interacting with each other have also booked the entire Inn. The Fox and Owl offers guests the use of a jacuzzi, which is complimentary with any booking. For an additional fee, the Inn provides S’Mores near the fire pit.

Kassay said she and Thomas appreciate that

they can offer people an “escape and relief from the stress that everyone is handling.”

As the owner of a bed and breakfast, she said she has reflected on the challenge of remaining personable to guests even while wearing a mask. The daughter of a Sicilian mother, Kassay was raised to speak by using body language and by communicating with her hands as well as her words.

She noticed how guests have become “more expressive,” she said. “If you stop and look at people talking, there is more physicality to American’s interaction with one another.”

A resident of midtown, Mey, who preferred to use only her first name, said she and her boyfriend came to Port Jefferson to escape from the city and enjoy nature amid all the urban closures.

They planned to visit Port Jefferson for the day and wound up spending the night at the Fox and Owl Inn when they weren’t ready to drive back to Manhattan. Mey and her boyfriend enjoyed sitting on the porch, visiting a nearby park and eating ice cream.

“Port Jefferson has a lot of nature and the feeling of a vacation,” Mey said. The experience was “very chill.”

The Manhattanite enjoys attending Broadway shows when she is in the city, which are still closed.

The urban couple traveled to Long Island because they were “looking for something peaceful” and they “found it. Seeing green is better than seeing buildings.”

Police Investigating Over a Dozen Car Thefts/Break-ins on North Shore

BY KYLE BARR AND RITA J. EGAN KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Cops said that over the past week there have been a rash of car thefts and vehicle break-ins within the Three Village area. Now several Port Jefferson residents have also reported vehicles were stolen from their property as well.

Suffolk County police provided TBR News Media a list of 16 total car thefts and break-ins. The list shows a total of four cars were stolen from residences in Stony Brook Aug. 23. Two of those vehicles, a 2020 Nissan and a 2019 Volkswagen were recovered — the former was found in Connecticut while the latter was located in the village itself. Two other cars, a 2016 Mazda and a 2009 Acura, have so far not been located, according to police.

The 12 other incidences were petit larcenies of property from cars in Stony Brook, Setauket and Old Field. Several items were electronics like laptops or earphones, while others were purses, money and car keys. All incidents took place within the 6th Precinct.

County police Detective Lt. Sean Beran said all incidents were from unlocked vehicles. The investigation is ongoing, according to Beran, though he added there are a couple of people of interest.

Uniformed and plainclothes personnel have

been patrolling the area, and the Special Operations Team has been assigned to the case.

Beran said no additional break-ins or thefts were reported after Aug. 23 in the Three Village community.

Beran said it’s important for car owners to remember to lock their vehicles, make sure they have their car key fob and remove belongings even when parking a car in a driveway.

Police confirmed that more car thefts have since been reported by locals in the Port Jefferson area as well. A man in the Harbor Hills section of the village on Landing Lane said two cars were stolen from his driveway at around 1:45 a.m. Friday, Aug. 28.

One vehicle was a 2020 Honda Accord and another was a 2016 Honda CR-V, according to the Port Jefferson man’s posts on social media. Cops also said that a 2013 Mercedes was also stolen from Sands Lane in Port Jeff. That vehicle has since been recovered nearby.

Police said it is still under investigation whether the Three Village and Port Jeff car thefts are connected.

People can contact the 6th Precinct with information at 631-854-8652 or submit an anonymous tip by calling 800-220-TIPS (8477), utilizing a mobile app which can be downloaded through the App Store or Google Play by searching P3 Tips, or online at www.p3tips.com.

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Mount Sinai Man Sentenced for Fraudulent Investment Scheme

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

A Mount Sinai man was officially sentenced in Suffolk County Supreme Court Wednesday, Aug. 26 for an alleged scheme to defraud people about a fake recycling plant in upstate New York.

Between August 2010 and November 2017, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said Joseph Prosa, 53, of Mount Sinai, operated a money-making scheme where he claimed to victims that he was seeking investments to build a recycling facility in Poughkeepsie, telling them he owned land for the facility, that he had a permit and that he was a recycling and plant construction expert for a process called “gasification,” or the process of burning garbage for use in things like boilers furnaces and gas engines. Prosecutors said none of this was true.

Through the scheme, Prosa stole around $3.6 million from a blind Poughkeepsie man in his 80s. The man has since passed away. He also allegedly stole around $250,000 from a second victim who resides in Suffolk County. Both victims were previous acquaintances of Prosa’s, the DA’s office said.

“This was a grossly deceitful scheme in which the defendant stole millions of dollars from his victims, including a senior citizen who was robbed of his life savings,” District Attor-

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ney Tim Sini (D) said. “He operated this scheme out of pure greed and callousness.”

The DA said the investigation revealed Prosa used the stolen money on personal expenses, including using more than $1.2 million in casinos and racehorse gambling. An additional amount was used to purchase a racehorse. The defendant also used the stolen funds to repay large amounts of debt incurred by gambling and to pull his house out of foreclosure.

Prosa was indicted in December 2018 and he pled guilty May 18, 2019.

Prosa was sentenced by Acting Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho for first degree grand larceny and first degree scheme to defraud. The sentence incurs 2 ½ years to 7 ½ years for the grand larceny and 1 to 3 years for the scheme to defraud. The sentences will run concurrently.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Thalia Stavrides, currently of the Conviction Integrity Bureau.

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Suffolk Exec Calls for Independent Confederate Flag Incident Investigations

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A Confederate flag displayed on the side of a Brookhaven Fire Department truck has caused outcry from multiple levels of government and many in the surrounding community.

A picture of the Confederate battle standard draped on the side of a ladder truck from Brookhaven hamlet, showed up on social media where it went viral Sunday, Aug. 30. Many who saw it complained that it was a display of racism, especially in light of recent national dialogue about its use by white supremacists and the history of the Confederacy’s promotion of slavery.

In a statement, the Brookhaven chief of department, Peter Di Pinto Jr., said the action was not authorized by the hamlet’s fire department and was done without its knowledge. The statement added that the incident involved one firefighter acting alone during a nonresponse event. Di Pinto said the matter is currently under investigation, and therefore he couldn’t release any further details.

“We can assure our community that ‘racism has no home in our firehouse,’” the statement read.

That event was reportedly a fire truck parade in Patchogue to support a firefighter with cancer. Other department vehicles were present at the event

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Though the superintendent said he wants as much in-school instruction as possible, the problem, he said, is space, especially concerning the high school. With 800 students plus staff, the superintendent said it would be impossible to have all students learning in person four days a week and keep them distanced as required by New York State.

The high school, he added, is also very problematic when students have to move from one classroom to another between periods, as the school is designed so several hallways are

though none other than the Brookhaven truck reportedly appeared with the Confederate flag.

While the Town of Brookhaven and Brookhaven Fire Department are separate entities, the town was quick to condemn the flag.

“The Town Board condemns the display of this symbol of racism and hatred in the strongest possible terms, and is calling for this fire department to launch an investigation into this matter and take immediate and serious action in response,” the town said in a statement. “Brookhaven Town has been built upon a history of inclusion and diversity. Our cemeteries contain the graves of men who gave their lives fighting against this flag. This flag is a symbol of hatred, and there is no place for it, or the racism it displays, in our town.”

While on Facebook, County Executive Steve Bellone (D) thanked the fire department for looking into the matter. He said that he was calling on the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission and New York State Division of Human Rights to also investigate the incident.

“The public also must have confidence that any review of this matter is handled independently to ensure a fair and impartial outcome,” Bellone said in a statement. “Hate and bigotry have no place in Suffolk County and we must demonstrate that we take these matters seriously.” linked by one larger hallway. Looking at pictures from schools out of state with kids flooded into hallways with minimal distancing, as well as news like SUNY Oneonta’s recent shutdown because of escalating COVID-19 cases on campus, Brosdal said the district needs to be careful if it ever wants to open up more broadly.

But for some parents, the possibility that things could change in a month’s time is not enough reassurance. Bee said that the virus infection rate in New York remains low, but “it’s never going to be zero — why shouldn’t we start off now and pull it back if the numbers increase, if they increase, because we simply don’t know.”

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After Isaias Failure, PSEG LI Returns to Earlier Reporting System

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Amid numerous investigations about its failed communication systems and inaccurate estimated time to restore power after Tropical Storm Isaias, PSEG Long Island is returning to an earlier version of outage software.

The utility, which is overseen by the Long Island Power Authority, is rolling back from version 6.7, which was installed earlier this year, to version 5.5, according to an email from LIPA in response to TBR News Media’s questions.

This is one of several steps PSEG, under LIPA’s supervision, is taking to address any future storms that might hit Long Island.

“LIPA is currently conducting an end-to-end review to understand the root causes of the communications and restoration systems issues, including the outage management system and the various feeder systems,” LIPA representatives explained in its email.

The power authority also indicated that it was closely overseeing PSEG’s immediate, corrective actions through daily calls and reports and an independent review of system modifications and testing.

Conducting Reviews

LIPA is planning to issue 30, 90 and 180day reports to the LIPA Board of Trustees and the public.

The reviews include an evaluation of prestorm readiness of the telecommunication systems, a root-causes analysis of unprocessed calls and text message, and review of the design and implementation of outage management and restoration systems and processes and actionable recommendations on storm preparedness, system and management controls and approaches to increasing system reliability and performance.

While state Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northport) welcomed the review, his primary concern, he said, was whether the utility was prepared for the next storm, particularly in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Laura, which devastated coastal regions of southwest Louisiana.

“It’s good that they’re doing an outside report,” Gaughran said in an interview. “It’s not going to help us now. This is a crisis situation and you would think that they would have an emergency task force … that would come up with changes and implement them” within days of the response to a storm that knocked out power for more than a week to parts of Long Island.

PSEG said in an emailed statement that the company is “working diligently to be prepared for the next major weather event and ensure that our response to Tropical Storm Isaias was an anomaly.”

The utility company indicated it had made configuration and capacity changes to the phone system, rolled back the outage management system to a more “stable” version and put “pro-

PSEG trucks repair wires and cut down lingering trees several days after Tropical Storm Isaias hit Long Island.

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cesses in place to continuously monitor our IT systems for capacity and bottleneck issues.”

While New York State Attorney General Letitia James (D) is conducting her own investigation into the company’s response to the storm, LIPA indicated that the state Department of Financial Services and the state Department of Public Service were also participating in a review.

Their involvement “is good,” said Gaughran, who has been a consistent critic of both LIPA and PSEG even before Tropical Storm Isaias.

“The more the merrier.”

One of the questions Gaughran and other representatives asked about LIPA’s oversight of PSEG related to the timing and effectiveness of the most recent stress test. In response to a letter Gaughran and Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) sent to LIPA, CEO Thomas Falcone indicated that the outage management system was most recently stress tested in June of this year.

“Part of LIPA’s review includes the stress-testing procedures used in the past and improvements for the future,” Falcone said in his response.

Cost of the Cleanup

Gaughran and Thiele said they are also focused on the source of any reimbursement the company receives in connection with costs related to the storm.

Long Island ratepayers “shouldn’t be paying for the cost of out-of-town crews sitting around waiting to do work and not doing work because the management failed to communicate,” Gaughran said. The costs of bringing in those

crews from out of state and feeding and housing them should be shared by shareholders of PSEG, the state senator contended.

“I believe shareholders have to be responsible for at least any portion of the additional costs related to [PSEG’s] incompetence and failure in dealing with the communication system,” he said. Had the communication system worked as it should, the time to restore power might have been cut down dramatically, Gaughran argued.

“LIPA retains a third-party auditor for storm-recovery costs where federal funds are involved, as will likely be the case for Isaias,” Falcone said in his letter to the senator and assemblyman.

LIPA estimates that the cost of restoration, which involved more than 6,000 personnel, was over $350 million, with about $260 million eligible for FEMA reimbursement. The main driver of the costs, Falcone added in the letter, was the extensive damage to the electric grid, which occurred at over 20,000 locations.

Reiterating sentiments he shared during a virtual joint hearing of the New York State Senate and Assembly, Falcone said the system PSEG designed and implemented did “not meet the standards of our contract. LIPA retains all of its contractual rights and remedies, and will

pursue the appropriate course of action after the conclusion of the various investigations.”

Gaughran said he would consider Falcone’s response to his letter and would likely respond with more questions that address additional concerns.

“There are a lot of issues I hope” LIPA addresses, the state senator said, including why the company didn’t contract with workers from National Grid, who were already on the Island.

“You had Long Islanders ready to work,” he said. “They could have been put into operation immediately.”

Gaughran doesn’t necessarily think LIPA needs to revoke its contract with PSEG. Rather, he wants to “get a system so the lights can go back on at a reasonable time.”

Still, the state senator believes the way LIPA oversees PSEG may not provide sufficient reassurance for residential and business customers.

Ultimately, he would like the state Legislature to revisit the structure of the agreement between LIPA and PSEG. “This structure isn’t working,” Gaughran said.

In his letter to the politicians, Falcone agreed that “Long Islanders deserve better” than the response they got from PSEG after Isaias. “LIPA is working to ensure they get better.”

Community News An Unusual Wedding For an Unusual Time Kelli McCarthy and Dustin Moore were supposed to marry early August on Long Island in Kelli’s home town at the St. Louis de Montfort Church in Sound Beach in front of more than 100 guests of beloved friends and family. Like many couples, their plans were derailed by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Moore, a public health researcher, and McCarthy, a health coach, both knew that it would be best for all to postpone their big day. When reality set in they knew they still wanted to find a way to honor their original wedding date, so they decided to elope on Aug. 8. They invited four guests to join them as witnesses — their parents, Kevin and Mary McCarthy as well as Steve and Kim Moore.

They scrambled to make a last-minute plan and were able to put it together with the help of Judge Bierweiler who married them on his boat, in the middle of Waneta Lake in the Finger Lakes of New York. It was a

Kelli McCarthy, a Sound Beach native, and Dustin Moore holds last-minute marriage ceremony in August despite the pandemic. Photo from McCarthy

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McCarthy attended Miller Place High School and Moore is from Corning in Upstate New York. The pair met as track athletes for SUNY Brockport in 2014. They both currently live in Albany.

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Dear North Shore Students On Black Indignities: Enough is Enough We’re not going to lie to you. We know this school year is going to be a tough one.

If the end of the 2019-20 academic year has taught us anything, it’s that getting an education during a pandemic is difficult. Watching parents rally across the North Shore has also shown that not all parents agree with their districts’ plans for the new school year. Some want more in-person learning, while others want options for keeping you home instead.

While it’s imperative for parents and school administrators to work together to provide the best education for their children, for students the most important thing on your minds should be getting that education while staying healthy.

We know some parents feel that their children may have fallen behind during the few months schools went fully remote earlier in the year. All of a sudden switching to remote learning left many districts scurrying to figure out how to best utilize this type of e-learning. While some said they excelled at it, others very much did not.

No matter how you’re returning to school, it’s important for you to raise your hand if something doesn’t make sense whether it’s regarding a lesson or even how to follow public health guidelines.

It can be hard sometimes for a student to admit they don’t know something, but now more than ever it’s important to take control of your studies and your health.

Every child has dreams for the future, and it’s the school’s responsibility to help them obtain those goals. So, to students, we say, “Speak up!” Let your parents know how you’re feeling about how things are going, or touch base with a teacher or guidance counselor.

For those who are attending in-person classes, we know you’ll have to handle new precautionary measures such as social distancing, wearing masks when it’s not possible to stand 6 feet away and having temperatures taken upon leaving the house or entering the school. We know a lot of responsibility has been put on your shoulders. What do you do if you see someone not complying? Speak up.

It’s hard, we know. Bullying is a bigger problem than ever so you may not want to call attention to yourself. But with some New York colleges open for only a week or two, we are already seeing some temporary closings, including SUNY Oneonta which at the beginning of the week reported 177 COVID-19 positive cases since the start of the fall semester with 44 students quarantining and 65 in isolation on campus.

The guidelines are to help keep you and your loved ones as healthy and safe as possible. It’s imperative to realize that someone can be infectious, even if symptoms aren’t being shown.

We know this is a lot of responsibility to put on young shoulders. But as journalists that have been fortunate enough to interview many of the students in our coverage areas, we know the depth and breadth of the intelligence and empathy of our youth.

To those who will study for hours despite not having immediate access to teachers, and to the student-athletes who continue to practice alone on the field or on the lawn with their parents, we see you. We know you got this.

Our editorial staff also wants to let our young people know that we’re here for you. If you see a persisting problem going on at your school, email us at news@tbrnewsmedia. com, and we’ll look into it. You can even share with us your feelings about navigating these new waters in a letter to the editor to be published right in this very newspaper.

It’s going to be hard, but we’ll get through this together.

There are so many issues of importance to humanity at this time. It is difficult to address all of them so I will select just one to discuss at this time.

The issue is racism. I am a white, 66-year-old woman who has lived on Long Island most of my life in communities of mostly white skinned people. It would have been better for me to have had a more diverse experience with people. But I have always tried to live by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King: “ to judge a person by the content of their character not the color of their skin.”

I have always admired the extraordinary patience of the Black community to put up with the treatment they have received for over 400 years. 400 years! 400 years! 400 years and still they wait, always hoping that around the corner, things will get better. Things have gotten better but it is at a glacial pace and in 2020, enough is

enough, is enough, it’s just got to stop.

The effects of slavery on Black persons, families and communities are long lasting and deeply ingrained in the fabric of our society. Just think about it, if your skin is dark colored you could be, in a moment, kidnapped, shipped thousands of miles from home, sold as chattel, tortured, raped, separated from your spouse, separated from your children, children torn from their mothers arms!, lynched, shot, denied an education, denied a library card, denied the use of bathroom facilities, used for medical research, ignored for service in stores, denied health care. The list of indignities goes on and on and on.

Are we surprised when Black communities unleash their rage in violence?

Rather it is amazing that they have not become more violent sooner and in much more a destructive way. The Black com-

munity has been at the receiving end of the violence of the white society for 400 years. How about the violent destruction of the Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921? White people destroyed a thriving Black community, now that’s violence and no one was held accountable for this crime. Let’s be honest with ourselves. The white community has been violent against the Black community for hundreds of years and very few have been held accountable. If you are going to talk about law and order, let’s be honest and talk about it from both sides.

America is at a crossroads right now.

Let’s make our nation the best it can be for all our fellow citizens. Let’s make changes in our institutions NOW, in our thoughts NOW, in our hearts NOW and then we will have the nation that we all desire.

Deirdre Hensen Miller Place

You keep using the adjectives like “dark, negative, extreme, dangerous, radical” when describing Democrats and Liberals. That is astonishing to me since your base — and your Republican mentor President Donald Trump’s base — have followings that include the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, extreme and radical religious leaders, racists, anti-Semites, a 17-year-old murderer of protesters and gun-toting suburbanites.

I would like to inform you of what has been happening to me, my family and my community.

On Father’s Day, a small gathering of six families, including children, held a peace and equality vigil on a corner a block from my house. A truck pulled up, and the driver starting screaming and threatening us. His verbiage included the N-word, the C-word, the B-word, rape and telling us to get out of his community (FYI, he doesn’t own a home in our community). Then he left us with these words, “I am going home to get my gun and f-ing kill you all.” Again, there were five children with us.

Now two other families and I have an order of protection against him. He also quoted Trump from his Tulsa, Oklahoma, gathering from the night before [on June 20], which you [Zeldin] were in attendance. A week after that incident, as

we stood on the corner again, this person drove his truck toward us causing us to quickly disperse. Police were called and while the police were helping us, a man walked up and assumed the police were called against us. The man walking asked the police if he could, “Stand his ground (i.e., shoot us) if we came onto his property.” This man lives in my community. Two weeks later, Lee, another stellar citizen who is a fan of your mindset, came onto my property and tore down signs. Not once, but twice. When my husband and I confronted him as he was reading a sign I put up addressing the person who was trespassing, he stated, “BLM is a terrorist organization and he is proud of his white skin.” I guess he felt his white skin allows him to destroy personal property and trespass.

The policeman, who happened to be patrolling because of the other racist, intervened. Your racist fan was told to stay away and never have contact with us. Now, we have one of these lunatics or possibly another racist dumping garbage on our property.

Lee, because of the hate, venom and lies you continue to spew to the public, these racist and hateful men feel entitled to behave in such a deplorable manner.

I have lived in my community for 20 years. This is the first time I have security

cameras and a genuine fear each time a car, especially a pickup truck, slows down in front of my house.

My stomach turns each and every time I see a Trump banner and a sign that endorses you. (By the way, is it Zeldin or “Zelden”? A lot of your peeps spell it Zelden.) I would never destroy other people’s property, and I couldn’t imagine, even on my worst day, threatening to go home and get a get a gun to kill them and their children. This is not fake news.

These events actually happened and if you choose to investigate, I will supply you with the case numbers.

These are your people, Lee. They are dark. They are negative. They are extreme. They are radical and they are most certainly dangerous. I remember when you started your hateful and vicious political journey at the Setauket Neighborhood House when the police had to be called to rein in your constituents.

Your vile conduct has unleashed the worst in people. I believe the people of Congressional District 1 have had enough and will choose justice, peace and equity for all this November, and we will vote you out. Then mercifully, we will no longer be subjected to your dark and dangerous ways.

Susan Blake East Setauket

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heaviness hovers in the air as we prepare to pack our daughter’s stuff into the car and drive her back to college, an environment fraught with new rules and anxiety. We realize this experiment in campus life, such as it is, might end in days or even a few weeks, as her school may pull the same rip chord it used in March.

While she is returning to campus, all but one of her classes is remote.

The in-person class D. None meets twice a week, of the above so she is going

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF back to a restricted college life for two hours a week of in-person learning.

Last year, with its jumble of emotions from taking her to college for the first time,

seems so wonderfully innocent and low stress by comparison.

By taking her to college this week, she is already arriving on campus three weeks after classes began and is scheduled to return home before Thanksgiving. That means she’ll be on campus, at most, for two and a half months. That is two weeks longer than summer camp.

We want her to learn, have fun, meet new people and take advantage of college opportunities. Taking these goals one at a time, I’m not convinced that remote classes in which professors record lectures students can watch at their leisure provides the ideal academic experience.

How can they ask questions? How can they turn to the person sitting next to them, or, in the modern world, six seats away, and ask to repeat what they didn’t hear or to see if the professor might have misspoken?

College learning occurs on and off campus.

In an ideal world, students not only learn from their professors and teaching assistants, but also from each other. They form study groups where

they share notes and test each other.

They could share their screens and form virtual study groups. In these small groups, however, they can and do send private chats to other people and feel freer to respond to the beep or flash of light on another electronic device, distracting them from the group exercise.

The personal connection through the computer is also limited, as people can’t slap each other on the back or chase each other around a library during a much-needed break.

We also want her to have fun, which isn’t the top priority for schools desperate to stay alive financially while keeping the campus community healthy. Even with the most active measures to protect everyone, the virus finds ways to evade detection and to spread.

The virus has become the boogeyman of our childhood nightmares, but instead of lurking under the bed or in dark corners of the closet, it waits on door knobs, in airborne particles and on banisters.

To protect everyone, the school isn’t allowing students to visit other dorms. They are limited in

social gatherings outside, where they have to be six feet apart and also need to wear masks.

In a recent email, my daughter’s school told her, “If you see something, say something.”

Those words, which became the cultural norm after 9/11, suggest that careless students are the equivalent of viral terrorists. Perhaps a better approach would be to encourage students to model safe behavior and to protect themselves and others on campus.

To facilitate safer social interactions, schools might consider putting up tents, in which they place small circles on the floor that are six feet apart. Students could visit each other in these settings, where they can talk and laugh and see each other in person and wear that great blouse or cool shirt that doesn’t look as good on zoom.

Ultimately, the opportunities they have will depend on the ability of the school, working with students, to figure out what they can do and not what they can’t or shouldn’t. We hope the challenges and adversity of the current reality somehow bring our daughter figuratively closer to her new friends, at a safe social distance.

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n old friend visited, one who had lived here many years, and we used the occasion to have a mini reunion of sorts. The half dozen or so of us wives and mothers, who had come to Long Island in our 20s and raised our children here as our husbands built their careers, are now widows together.

We gathered at the beach, then again over breakfast, then on to another beach over two days to catch Between each other up on our lives and you and me the progress of

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF our children and grandchildren. It was a moveable feast of personal histories and philosophies.

The good news is that our children and grandchildren seem to be doing pretty well.

Some of the children went into the same careers as their fathers or mothers, others went in different directions. Almost all moved off the Island, although they return for regular visits or Zoom during this unprecedented time. Watching the grandchildren grow and develop their own lives and ideas with little responsibility needed from us is a delight.

Of course, we talked about our various health issues and traded advice, but not too much since there were more interesting subjects. One theme that came up was our appreciation for what life has given us. We all treasure our families and the love among the members. We also deeply rejoice in our friendships, especially those of a lifetime. Old friends cannot be replaced. They remember our parents, they laugh with us over what seemed in the past like serious problems and they bear witness to our lives. They know us for who we are, and best of all, they don’t see us as aged, but rather essentially as we looked when we first met.

Over the years, we swam together at the apartments’ pool, we cooked for each other with late dinners — “gourmet groups,” we

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called them — after the kids were put to bed in our new homes. We skied together in Vermont, played tennis at the school courts and then in the tennis clubs, we sailed together on the Sound, we cheered as our offspring moved through elementary, junior and senior high schools, we applauded as they went off to colleges of their choice, and we began to dine out regularly with each other. We comforted each other as, one by one, we began to lose our parents. We were becoming the older generation.

Most fun of all, we began to travel with each other. Places we visited, in no particular order and with various combinations of friends, included Canada, Alaska, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Monaco, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Bali, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Grand Cayman, St. Thomas, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Italy, Italy, Italy.

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For each and every one of those destinations, we have indelible memories, and always of some combination of us together. And we have the endless number of photographs to remind us of the details.

What are we left with now? We are enormously grateful for our lives, our health, our children and grandchildren, our memories and our future, we hope, to some degree together. We are more mellow now and able to distinguish the minor irritations from the major challenges. We think of ourselves as in the autumn of our lives, grateful for all we can do and aspire to do. And interestingly, none of us has moved to live with any of our children, although some of us have moved to smaller quarters or warmer locations. If we could just get past this pandemic and go back to kicking up our heels, we would look forward to that.

The underlying theme from our gatherings is our profound gratitude and appreciation for life. One friend said she notices birds more, listens to their songs, admires their colors, enjoys nature in a deeper way now. I think she spoke for us all.

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