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Stony Brook holiday favorite returns

BY RITA J. EGAN Hundreds filled Stony Brook Village Center Sunday, Dec. 5, for the return of an old favorite.

Last year The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Annual Holiday Festival had to be canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year the event returned for the 42nd year. From noon to 6 p.m., the shopping center was filled with activities including performances, music from WALK 97.5, a petting zoo and more.

Attendees were able to stop by Wiggs Opticians to see the holiday train display in the storefront window, and children could visit Santa sitting in

front of the post office to take photos and tell him what they wanted this holiday season. This year, Santa sat behind a plexiglass shield to protect him from getting sick.

At 2:15 p.m., a parade led by the Ward Melville High School Band featured the annual Legends & Spies Puppet Procession that included the likenesses of former prominent Three Village residents such as Ward and Dorothy Melville, Anna Smith Strong and William Sidney Mount.

Later in the day, Santa got aboard a holiday float to begin the tree-lighting ceremony and cap off the night on a festive note.

— Photos by Rita J. Egan

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County Suozzi announces nearly $3 million in matching federal grants for protection of the Sound

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM On Dec. 7, in a virtual press conference, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) announced matching federal agency grants that will bring nearly $3 million in funds to the 3rd Congressional District to help to protect and preserve the Long Island Sound.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation have all contributed funds to the grants. The organizations or agencies receiving the grants will need to match the funds.

Suozzi, who is the co-chair of the bipartisan Long Island Sound Caucus, said during the Dec. 7 press conference that the main problems environmentalists have encountered with the waterway through the years have been hypoxia, and nitrogen being released into the Sound from sewage treatment plants. He called the waterway “our national park” and said it has improved over the last few decades but still needs more care.

“If you look at the water, just look at it, it’s clearer than it used to be,” he said. “If you look at the wildlife, you see more osprey and more redtailed hawks.”

He added there has also been more bunker

fish in the water.

Also taking part in the virtual press conference were Curt Johnson, Save the Sound president; Cecilia Venosta-Wiygul, Udalls Cove Preservation Committee and Douglaston Civic Association board member; Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment; Vanessa Pino Lockel, executive director of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk; Eric Swenson, executive director of Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee; Carol DiPaolo from the Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor; and Heather Johnson, executive director of Friends of the Bay located in Oyster Bay. The groups will benefit from the grants, and Suozzi praised them for their efforts in protecting the Sound.

“It’s a constant effort by all the people on this call working together as a team,” he said.

Also, speaking during the virtual press conference, was Northport Mayor Damon McMullen. He said the village has been working on upgrading the sewer system, and doing so has made a “huge difference.” He said the village has been able to reduce its nitrogen output from 19 pounds a day to less than 2 pounds. The mayor said the village has put money in next year’s budget for stormwater control which will

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help to catch pollutants and pesticides before they enter Northport Harbor and ultimately wind up in the Sound.

There will be $105,001 made available in a program known as Green Infrastructure to Improve Water Quality in Northport Harbor and Long Island Sound. Grant money will go toward rain gardens to capture stormwater in the village which the mayor said he believes is the next step in achieving the goal of cleaner water.

The grants include $170,000 to develop a Long Island Sound Student Action Plan, and among the projects that will benefit from the funding is

the Long Island Sound Summit for High School Students, Esposito said. The project included 125 students from four schools this year, and she said they are anticipating 250 students from eight schools in the upcoming year, including Northport, Smithtown and Rocky Point. Part of the project includes students taking water samples and looking at microplastic content of the Sound, studying the effects of nitrogen on the native cordgrass along the shore and more.

Among other grants, $729,606 is earmarked for new methods to enhance coastal restoration and resilience at Centerport Harbor; and $152,314 for expanding oyster sanctuaries in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor.

When Suozzi first came into office in January of 2017, he said funding at the time for the Sound was about $4 million. This year it was more than $30 million, according to him.

While Suozzi was pleased his district will be granted money, he said any area along the Sound getting help is a plus.

“If we get money in Connecticut, if we get money for New York City’s combined sewer outfall, it helps all of us, because there’s no geographic boundaries,” he said. “There’s no congressional boundaries in the Long Island Sound. We’re all in this together.”

Some North Shore school districts experience faculty shortages

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM This year as students returned to the classrooms full time, school officials are facing problems hiring enough faculty members.

Even before the pandemic, organizations such as New York State United Teachers, known as NYSUT, addressed the decline of people enrolling in the state’s teacher education programs. According to its website, enrollment has declined by more than 53% since 2009.

Gary Dabrusky, Three Village Central School District assistant superintendent for human resources, said the district “has experienced a shortage of teachers, which is reflective of regional and state trends.”

He said there has been a general decline in “the number of employees who have chosen to seek employment in the educational field. This includes areas such as tech, family and consumer science, global languages, substitute teachers, monitors, aides and food service workers.”

Smithtown Central School District is also experiencing shortages of certified and noncertified staff members, according to Neil Katz, assistant superintendent for personnel. In the Cold Spring Harbor district, Superintendent Jill Gierasch said her schools are also among the ones facing hiring issues. The superintendent

said while they haven’t had major problems with their teaching staff, finding substitute teachers, special education and library aides has been a challenge for the district that has 1,700 students, which she added is small compared to others.

“We even increased the salaries to try to draw more folks for the first time,” she said.

Reaching out

Gierasch said while they have advertised in local publications, the district has also taken out ads in The New York Times “to try to spread our scope.”

Dabrusky said he “created a human resources Facebook page to help cast a wider net in an effort to reach a greater number of potential candidates.” The search has also led to the Three Village assistant superintendent revamping the human resources tab on the district’s website and using other sites such as the BOCES online application system, SchoolFront and Indeed.

In addition to online and social media, Katz said the Smithtown district also seeks “new and creative ideas on how to promote our vacancies in an effort to attract the most highly qualified candidates to join our staff.”

He added recommendations are also welcomed.

“While many online sources attract candidates, referrals from current staff are also very helpful,” he said. “The use of virtual

interviews has also allowed us to meet with candidates from a farther distance more easily and to interview more candidates quicker in order to expedite our onboarding process.”

Solutions

Katz said the district has been utilizing all staff members.

“Many part-time aides are working double shifts and covering various positions as lunch monitors and classroom aides,” he said. “We have hired a number of full-time aides to provide the necessary support. Teachers are covering classes during their lunch and preparation periods. Other certified staff are providing coverage in classrooms, as necessary.”

Gierasch said the Cold Spring Harbor district has put together skeleton crews to ensure each space is covered. In the past, for example, when the school librarian would go to lunch an aide would cover the break. Now, the library is closed during the librarian’s lunch period.

The superintendent said they have also looked at the IEP [individualized education program] aides for students who need them to see if they require someone for all periods or just certain ones so they can adjust who the aides work with throughout the course of the day.

Dabrusky said Three Village has been resourceful in managing the shortage as he described student instruction and supervision to

be of “paramount importance.”

“For example, in our elementary schools, every teacher volunteers for two coverage periods,” he said. “In the secondary schools, extra class coverage is offered to our teachers to cover a class during their lunch and preparation periods. In addition, we employ permanent substitute teaching staff, and human resources leadership has expended robust effort to recruit and maintain substitute teaching staff.”

Possible reasons

Gierasch said some of the faculty positions aren’t always high paying and many people take them for health insurance coverage. With COVID-19, she feels many are hesitant to take a position due to health concerns.

“I don’t think it’s just germane to school districts,” Gierasch said. “I think, in all industries, staffing is an issue.”

Dabrusky agrees that many may be reluctant to return to the field due to the health crisis.

Katz also pointed to the overall decline.

“It appears that fewer people are entering the profession and that has caused some difficulty with securing teachers in certain areas of certification,” he said. “The number of vacancies that are posted for school districts throughout NYS is much greater now than I’ve seen in years. There definitely seems to be a supply and demand issue.”

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Obituaries George L. Annino

George L. Annino, 74, of Setauket, died Oct. 6.

He was born Feb. 8, 1947, in Columbus, Georgia, and was the son of Sebastian and Evelyn Annino.

George was the owner of Chariot Collision Center in Setauket. He loved his work, as well as rebuilding and racing cars.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Joan; daughter Dawn Marie; sons George and Michael; six grandchildren; and many other family and friends.

Services were held at St. James R.C. Church on Oct. 12. Committal services followed in the St. James Churchyard in Setauket.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket.

Visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Ruth Anna (Kupka) Merz

Ruth Anna (Kupka) Merz, age 90, formerly of Stony Brook, died peacefully Tuesday, Nov. 23 at Messiah Village in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

She was born Oct. 28, 1931, in Staten Island.

Ruth was the youngest child of the late Ludwig and Gisela (Huttar) Kupka.

Ruth grew up in Ithaca, where she graduated from Ithaca High School at the age of 16. She continued her education and lifelong love of classical music by attending Houghton College, where she majored in piano. While at Houghton, she met the love of her life, Bob Merz.

Shortly after their marriage in 1954, they moved to Long Island to begin teaching at The Stony Brook School.

The town of Stony Brook would become their home for over 50 years, and it was where they raised their five children. Once the children were in school, Ruth returned to school herself, getting her master’s degree at SUNY Stony Brook, and she began teaching public school music in the Middle Country Central School District.

Upon her retirement in 1995, Ruth and Bob served as missionaries in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators for six years.

Ruth loved God, music, world missions, her family, chocolate, Boggle and having fun.

Anyone who knew her knows that she was a very loyal alumna of Houghton College.

She was also a faithful member of the New Village Congregational Church, serving for many years as choir director, Sunday School teacher and Bible study leader, among many other acts of service.

She was a dedicated wife and a loving mother and grandmother who will be deeply missed. She was also a spiritual mom to many and demonstrated hospitality not only in her home but in her heart.

Ruth was preceded in death by her husband of nearly 55 years, Robert L. Merz; her daughter and son-in-law Ann Elizabeth Merz and Roman Fedoryka; her sister and brother-in-law Helen and Paul McMillan; and her brother and sister-in-law John and Betty Kupka.

Surviving are her four children Lawrie Merz and husband John McGuire of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Mimi Mears and husband Leighton of Wading River; Bob Merz and wife Kerrie of Rochester; and Carrie Merz of Boston, Massachusetts; six grandchildren Liam, Kyra and Connor Mears, and Abby, Maisie and Bizzy Merz; three stepgrandchildren Stephen McGuire and wife Darrah; Caitlin McGuire; and Kevin McGuire and wife Vivi; as well as four great grandchildren Sadie, Cal, Bridgette and Cooper McGuire.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 12 at the New Village Congregational Church, 3 Wildwood Street, Lake Grove. The family hopes to also have a service of celebration at Messiah Village when restrictions are lifted.

As an expression of sympathy, memorial contributions may be made to Wycliffe Bible Translators or Houghton College.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket.

Visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Victoria “Vicki” Savage

Victoria “Vicki” Savage, of Port Jefferson and Chandler, Arizona, died peacefully in Arizona on Nov. 17.

She was born Dec. 15, 1960, and was the daughter of the late Carolyn and Mariano Musso. She was the beloved mother of her two children Matthew and Heather Savage; dear sister of Kerry Spillmann (Jay); devoted “Grammie” to Savannah; and loving aunt to Rebecca, Peter, Linda and Jenny. She loved her family fiercely.

She was a member of the Port Jefferson Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and worked most of her life at her family’s business, The Red Sled Christmas Shoppe.

A Celebration of Her Life will be held Dec. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon at Bryant Funeral Home, 411 Old Town Road, Setauket.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket.

Visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Community members and elected officials during the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony in Port Jefferson Dec. 4.

Photo from Kara Hahn

Port Jefferson remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

People gathered in Port Jefferson early Sunday morning to remember and pay tribute to the fallen on the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On Dec. 4, members from American Legion Wilson Ritch Post 432 of Port Jefferson Station joined elected officials including village trustee Bruce Miller, state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket), Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) and Town of Brookhaven

Councilman Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) nearly eight decades to the date of one of the worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

Each year on or around Dec. 7, ceremonies are held across the United States to honor all those who lost their lives when the U.S. Naval Base in Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.

More than 3,500 Americans lost their lives or were wounded on that solemn day.

At the monuments for all American wars, wreaths were laid by American Legion Posts 1941, 417, Setauket VFW Post 3054 and the Ward Melville H.S. Patriot League Club.

PJV adds another electric vehicle charging spot, free parking commences

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

A third parking spot for electric vehicle charging has been added to Port Jefferson village, this time in Bakers Alley.

Over the course of the last year, the village has added two other charging stations, one in the new Barnum lot and another in Rocketship Park.

“Port Jefferson is on the cutting edge of this new technology,” said Kevin Wood, the village’s parking and mobility administrator. “I think we’re ahead of any other village of this size with the amount of EV charging … It’s exciting.”

Visitors with electric cars can enjoy free charging at this particular new station in the Bakers Alley parking lot until Dec. 31.

“What’s great is that when people are charging their vehicles for two-to-four hours, they’re shopping and dining in our village while they wait,” Wood said.

He added that New York State grants were applied for and used to implement all three of the chargers.

For those without an electric vehicle, they, too, can enjoy the village with free parking for the rest of the season. Starting Dec. 6, parking

Mayor Margot Garant and trustee Kathianne Snaden pictured with the new EV charger in Bakers Alley. Photo from Kevin Wood

will be free until the springtime in all Port Jefferson lots.

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Part three: Reflections on Jefferson’s Ferry’s 20th anniversary

BY LINDA KOLAKOWSKI DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Part three of three Over its 20 years in existence, Jefferson’s Ferry has been home to a significant number of accomplished and creative older adults who have been groundbreakers, innovators, educators and artists. All were original thinkers with a desire to do something that hadn’t been done before, and many of these residents wrote books about their work, which can be found in the Jefferson’s Ferry library collection.

Bill Lockwood: ‘Hello Mrs. Lockwood, Can Billy Come Out to Play?’

As the father of an adventurous only child, and part of a far-flung family, Bill Lockwood knew that he had to write a family history if his son was ever going to know from whence he came. What was conceived as a short family history grew to encompass Lockwood’s childhood in Ridgewood, Queens, his military service, career in banking, his own artistic endeavors and his reconnection with his artistic family.

“Basically, I had opinions and wanted to express them against a backdrop of what was going on in the world at that time,” he said of his memoir. “Each chapter represents a certain period of my life.”

In addition to the writer’s particular experiences with his family, he also paints a larger picture of the times — the social and economic drivers, what Long Island was like in the 1940s and the other forces that shaped the decisions people made. Quite the raconteur, Lockwood has a razor-sharp memory for names, places and situations.

His unabashed and relatable anecdotes take the reader back to a time and place that feels as fresh as last week. While he self-identifies as someone who didn’t put much effort into schoolwork, sports and music, he clearly has a talent for recognizing and pursuing an opportunity. He’s been happily married to the girl next door for 62 years, parlayed what he called a middling talent as a drummer into a well-paid job in early adulthood and formed his own highly successful business.

Lockwood is always on the lookout for an enriching experience and life-changing experience.

In part by using this native talent, he was able to fashion a phenomenally successful career in the banking industry. Working for U.S. Trust, Lockwood became involved in the valuation of assets held in trusts and estates by the bank, predominantly closely held family businesses interests, for commission and tax purposes. This work represented a fraction of the business the

From left to right, Bill Lockwood holds his memoir; Doris Williams with her husband George’s book; and Tony Tallarico and his wife, Elvira, with his comic book ‘Lobo.’ Photos from Jefferson’s Ferry

bank did as a whole but, as his expertise grew, he exploited this niche market and formed Empire Valuation Consultants, which grew to employ 80 people. In addition to performing valuations of stocks and other hard assets, he came up with valuations for investments as diverse as partial ownerships of National Football League teams.

Lockwood started writing in the late 1980s while learning how to use his first computer.

For the next 20 years, he worked on his book as time allowed. He also discovered a talent for woodworking. Lockwood’s siblings had all gravitated to the arts. His brother, George Lockwood, was a noted painter, sculptor, wood carver and lithographer. His twin, Patricia, is a painter of botanicals.

“I always wanted to do woodworking but never took the time to find chisels or other carving tools,” Lockwood said. Fortunately, his wife, Connie, bought him his first set of chisels “to get me out of her hair and down in the basement.” Today he carves out of his light-filled studio woodshop in his sprawling Jefferson’s Ferry cottage, where Connie and he have lived since 2018.

He started carving decoys. His first carving, a Canada goose, took first prize at a show. What first intrigued Lockwood about carving decoys is their beauty, form and distinct coloration. Every mallard, for example, is exactly alike in terms of color and feathering.

In time, he expanded his repertoire and

is known throughout the Jefferson’s Ferry community for his whimsical and charming carvings of nutcrackers, athletes and other figures, which he gives to families and friends, and donates to fundraisers. He has also carved numerous personalized walking sticks, including one for his Jefferson’s Ferry neighbor, fellow writer and fellow artist Tony Tallarico.

Keeping busy is important to Lockwood.

In addition to his carving, he serves on Jefferson’s Ferry’s Resident Council, goes trap shooting with friends five days a week, dines out regularly and enjoys great discussions. He is locally famous for his homemade beer, also his rye and caraway seed bread.

George and Doris Williams: ‘Adaptation and Natural Selection’

George Williams was a fish man. That’s what he told his future wife, Doris, at their first meeting. From that statement, Doris Williams knew that he was an ichthyologist. It helps to know that the pair met at a course in marine biology at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, California. Both had studied zoology and biology.

And so began the adventure of a lifetime for George and Doris Williams. Their work took them around the United States and abroad, including twice to Reykjavik, Iceland, where in 1966, the couple and

their three daughters lived for a time. He studied cold-water plankton, and Doris taught fourth-through-sixth grades in a oneroom schoolhouse. She later earned a library science degree in 1968.

Iceland had collections of plankton going back 100 years. The Fisheries Institute the country offered George the opportunity to use its ships to collect more plankton.

The couple, along with their son and three daughters, widely traveled all around the island nation in an attempt to circumnavigate it. Doris Williams recalls fording icy streams.

While they never quite made it the whole way, there were other accomplishments to be had. He became fluent in Icelandic and published on the European and American species of eels and their potential hybrids on Iceland, further establishing himself in the scientific community.

In 1960, the Williams family moved to Stony Brook when George accepted a position in the Biology Department at the newly formed State University of New York at Stony Brook. At that time, the Stony Brook campus was being built, so he taught his classes at the Planting Fields in Oyster Bay. The Stony Brook campus opened in 1962. The university started its Ecology & Evolution Department in 1968 with George Williams as a member of the department.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Patriots of Ward Melville trailed almost the entire game, at one point down by 11 points, in a non-league road game against Sachem North. The Patriots tied the game at 41-41 with less than a minute left in regulation when Tommy Ribaudo’s threepointer at the final buzzer gave the Patriots their only lead in the game when it mattered most, a 44-41 victory in a thriller Tuesday night, Dec. 7.

The win lifts the Patriots to 3-0 with another non-league matchup before they begin league play with a road game against Connetquot Dec. 14. Game time is 6:45 p.m.

Pictured clockwise from above left, Ward Melville senior Tommy Engel from the free throw line; senior center Josh Horvath goes to the rim; senior Tommy Ribaudo gets mobbed by teammates after his buzzerbeater trey won the game for the Patriots; senior Michael Dargan drives the baseline; and Engel drives the baseline.

— Photos by Bill Landon

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Huzzah! Dickens Festival comes back to Port Jeff

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The 25th annual Charles Dickens Festival drew in hundreds with Port Jefferson village transforming into the Dickensian era last weekend.

After a halt in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the community was able to travel back in time (again) decked out in their most festive attire.

“It’s just such a wonderful destination for the holidays,” said County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket). “It’s unique, it’s special and it’s great thing for businesses.”

Characters like the dusty chimney sweeps, Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, the Town

Crier and of course, Scrooge, performed on the village streets and posed for photo ops with visitors and residents, alike.

The festivities began on Dec. 4 at 11 a.m. with a parade down East Main Street, headed by village officials and former mayor Jeanne Garant and concluded Sunday night.

“We are so proud and grateful that we can bring back this great tradition to the village,” said Mayor Margot Garant. “Not only does it bring an economic boost to our merchants and kick off the holiday season, but it brings good will and merriment to all. I am proud to carry on this tradition and keep it alive in hearts for all near and far.”

— All photos by Julianne Mosher

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for his compelling critique of group selection. Williams’ work in this area, along with a group of colleagues, led to the development of the gene-centered view of evolution in the 1960s. His most influential book, “Adaptation and Natural election,” proposed that natural selection almost always acts more directly, swiftly and strongly at the level of the gene or the individual than at the level of the group or even species. He published six other highly regarded books — both alone and with co-authors — and many influential papers.

He received two prestigious awards: the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1992; and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize, which Doris Williams likens to the Nobel Prize, in 1999.

He remained at Stony Brook University until his retirement in 1990.

The couple moved into Jefferson’s Ferry 20 years ago on the third day it was open. They had been looking for a community in which they could age in place with health care and have access to both Long Island’s waters and New York City, which they loved almost as much as the open water. George maintained an office in their apartment and Doris set up her loom, where over the years she created many beautiful garments and woven linens. The couple made many friends over the years with community residents.

George Williams died in 2010. Doris continues to live in their Jefferson’s Ferry independent living apartment.

In his obituary in Nature, former Stony Brook colleague Axel Meyer praised Williams, saying, “He would be remembered by evolutionary biologists as one of the most incisive thinkers of the 20th century. His major contribution, the theory of gene-level natural selection, left a profound and enduring stamp on fields from sociobiology and evolutionary psychology to behavioral ecology.”

Tony Tallarico: artist and illustrator

Visit the home of Jefferson’s Ferry resident Tony Tallarico, author of more than a thousand illustrated comics and children’s books and you’ll find the walls and shelves of his office replete with his own cover art and other drawings, as well as those from various cartoonists he admires. He and his wife, Elvira, moved to their spacious cottage at Jefferson’s Ferry two-and-a-half years ago when it became too much of a job for them to

maintain their former residence.

Over the course of his long and distinguished career, his genius has charmed readers of all ages and of varying interests. Comic book fans have enjoyed his work for Dell Comics and Charlton Comics, which includes the superhero comic “Blue Beetle,” also “Bewitched” and “Bobby Sherman,” modeled after the popular 1960s TV show and teen idol, respectively. Tallarico also drew Dell’s “Frankenstein” and “Dracula” superhero series and Harvey Comics’ superhero title “Jigsaw.”

Tallarico created the first Black comic book hero, “Lobo,” which was published in December 1965. Asked how he got the idea, he explained simply, “No one else was doing it.” The idea for Lobo came in part from a childhood experience that stuck with him. He was riding on a bus with his mother and a Black woman on crutches boarded. When his mother gave the woman her seat, she was criticized by some other riders. As an adult, the few Black men Tallarico saw in comic books were always the bad guys, so he decided to create a Black hero. “Lobo” didn’t do as well as he hoped, it was before its time. Several decades later, when Tony and Elvira attended an exhibit of Black cartoonists, on display was a cover of “Lobo” credited to author unknown.

“Lobo” was also considered as a movie vehicle for actor Dwayne Johnson, but that did not come to fruition.

Tallarico started writing books for children and their parents around the world in the 1960s, including “Look for Lisa,” “Hunt for Hector,” “The Big Book of Search and Find,” and countless other similar creative hunt-and-seek books.

“Adults help a child understand the world around them, expand their critical thinking and help them learn what are good questions to ask, although there are no bad questions,” Tallarico said.

During the 1960s, he was interviewed

by Walter Cronkite for “CBS Evening News” upon the publication of “The Great Society Comic Book,” which portrayed President Lyndon Johnson [D] and his cabinet as superheroes, with Lady Bird Johnson as a Wonder Womantype character. Tallarico also appeared as a guest on the television show “Romper Room” in the 1970s and was interviewed

by News 12 Long Island in the 1990s.

“Inspiration just happens when you are a part of something,” he said to explain his process. “I saw things that didn’t exist and wanted to do something about it.”

Linda Kolakowski is vice president of Residential Life at Jefferson’s Ferry Life Plan Community in South Setauket.

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A plan for reform

Last week, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) announced the county’s comprehensive police reform and reinvention plan, which was approved by the Legislature back in March.

According to Bellone, the reform plan seeks cultural change in the Suffolk County Police Department, with enhanced civilian oversight, increased accountability and transparency through the use of body cameras, and an expanded mental health crisis response among many other initiatives and policy changes.

The plan focuses on seven major points for reform: training and continuing education, recruitment and staffing, community policing, traffic stops, arrests and warrants, mental health response and police systems, accountability and body cameras.

The body camera program has been a topic of debate not just locally, but nationally. While some believe that officers should not have to wear them, many think that it would be beneficial to not only those in uniform, but also to the county — it could save us money in terms of potential lawsuits or settlements.

Right now, the county has a pilot program where a limited number of SCPD officers wear body cameras. In an effort to increase transparency and accountability, the police reform and reinvention plan proposed that body worn cameras be deployed as standard police worn equipment for all county police officers who engage with the public in the course of their professional duties.

According to Bellone, starting in 2022, body-worn cameras will be deployed for approximately 1,600 SCPD officers with an incentive of $3,000 additional pay over the course of two years to wear them. Suffolk County has included, in its capital budget, $24 million over a five-year period for the purchase of the cameras, implementation of the program and maintenance of the body-worn cameras and data systems.

Nassau County has implemented a similar program while other jurisdictions in the U.S. have already begun giving officers bonus pay, negotiated by the police unions, for wearing cameras.

While the financial incentive might seem unfair to some, it’s not the worst thing.

If an officer gets a boost for wearing something that could help accountability and trust within the local police departments, then so be it. It would then create a domino effect, resulting in other officers jumping on board until each one is armed with a camera.

If all SCPD officers eventually sport a body cam, the bad apples will be weeded out and trust could come back to those who risk their lives on the job.

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Parents should be encouraged to get more involved in their child’s education, not less

BY U.S. REP. LEE ZELDIN

Education officials are pushing the adoption of a racist, hateful curriculum, which only serves to indoctrinate our children, sow racial resentment, promote radical ideas that aim to redefine gender and teach non-age-appropriate sex education lessons to young students, and pit students against one another. Parents across the United States have good reason to be outraged about the quality of education their children are receiving, and the notion that parents should be discouraged from pushing back is ludicrous.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced it was launching an investigation to “address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel” by parents increasingly and rightfully worried about their kids’ education. We learned from Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that the basis for this investigation was a letter from the National School Boards Association, not actual crime data or evidence from any law enforcement agency.

The NSBA’s letter likened parents’ participation in school board meetings to domestic terrorism. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by Parents Defending Education, emails were obtained revealing that the NSBA coordinated with

White House officials when developing the letter. The NSBA has since apologized for the language it used in the letter, but the fact that language was used after consultation with the White House provides frightening insights into the Biden administration’s disregard for America’s parents wanting to improve the quality of their kids’ education.

Let me be clear: Concerned parents absolutely have the right to hold their elected officials and school board members accountable and make their voices heard in a nonviolent manner.

Parents know their children better than anyone, are their biggest and most persistent advocates, and have their best interests at heart. Certain politicians, at the local, state and federal levels, are peddling the idea that concern over curriculum is just a rightwing conspiracy theory and that parents having a say in the curriculum their children are taught is a threat to our schools and quality of education. That notion is patently absurd.

In one particularly alarming instance, first grade students at a New York school were being taught sex education lessons without the knowledge of the children’s parents. When parents caught wind of what was being taught, school administrators wrongly assured the parents they had simply misinterpreted the lessons. This dismissal of parents is unacceptable and is an alarming sign of how some educators view their role

versus the role of their students’ parents.

The real threats here are the erosion of the curriculum, the weaponization of the justice system and attempts to turn students against other students, not the parents who are courageously speaking out and pushing back on dangerous ideologies being taught in the classroom. One of the best ways to improve education in schools is for parents to be more actively involved, not less.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [R] recently said, “We teach the good and we teach the bad of history. But what we don’t do is make 7- and 10-year-olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We’ve been through that and we don’t need to do that again.” I couldn’t agree more. When children go to school, they need to be learning essential skills and information that will help them become productive members of society and shape their successful futures.

Pitting students against one another based on their races and genders will not help them achieve any of these goals and will cause severe damage to the learning environments in classrooms across the country. I am proud to stand with our nation’s parents in the effort to improve classrooms everywhere.

Rep. Lee Zeldin represents New York’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and is the presumptive Republican candidate for New York governor for the 2022 election.

DiNapoli’s review, the MTA has $2.6 billion worth of projects still in construction. This includes $1,964 million NYC Transit, $145 million LIRR and $399 million MetroNorth Railroad ongoing capital projects in construction. The MTA also has $1,575 million worth of projects that are not yet under way. This includes $1,209 million NYC Transit, $307 million LIRR and $44 million Metro-North Railroad. How do you make the case for Washington to increase the amount of federal funding when you can’t spend billions that you already have to complete capital projects?

The LIRR has only completed 20% of its $569 million program with 54% not yet under way. Projects still waiting to be started include $179 million for restoration of the East River Tunnels and $128 million for shops and yards. This includes resiliency measures in the West Side Yard and portals including the Long Island City Yard and the

East River Tunnels Queens entrances.

Why wasn’t this work completed prior to the impacts of COVID-19 starting in March 2020? Why weren’t contracts awarded for all those projects not underway prior to COVID-19?

Commuters, taxpayers, transportation advocates, transit reporters and local elected officials deserve a detailed explanation from the MTA on how these billions of dollars are being spent.

Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office. This included the development, review, approval and oversight for billions in capital projects and programs for the MTA, NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road, MTA Bus, Suffolk County Transit, Town of Huntington HART Bus, New Jersey Transit along with 30 other transit agencies in NY & NJ.

Problems with MTA capital program

BY LARRY PENNER State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s [D] “A Review of Capital Needs and Resilience at the MTA” (Report 14-2022 December 2021) is very informative if you want a better understanding for the current state of affairs when it comes to the MTA capital program.

After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the Federal Transit Administration provided several billion dollars in recovery and resiliency grants to the MTA. Most of the funding was approved in grants between 2012 and 2016.

It would be reasonable to assume that these critical projects would have been completed several years ago. Hurricane Sandy took place in 2012. Why nine years after Sandy is construction work still under way today for many projects? Why nine years after Sandy have some projects yet to start?

As of September 2021, according to

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efore each game, the Stony Brook University women’s basketball team meditates.

The pre-game ritual, among other changes and additions first-year Coach Ashley Langford instituted, has worked, as the team has a 7-1 record and sits first in the America East division.

Meditating “calms us and helps us visualize what we want to see in a game,” said India Pagan, a starter for Stony Brook and D. None a graduate student of the above with an extra year of

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF eligibility because of the COVID pandemic.

A standout guard for Tulane University who finished her college career first in assists, Langford appreciates how hard the team has

worked and how well they’ve come together.

“Our chemistry has been really good early on, to the point where, sometimes, [I wonder] is it November or is it March?” she said.

With five players averaging double digits in scoring, Stony Brook becomes harder to guard.

“On any given night, we’re moving and sharing the ball,” Langford said. “They are selfless. They don’t care who has the most points.”

While earning a spot in March Madness this year for just the second time in the program’s history would be rewarding, Langford focuses on each game.

“I’m a person that stays in the moment,” Langford said. “As long as we’re getting better, that puts us in a position to win the next game.

To that end, Langford would like the team to continue to improve in its transition defense.

She would like to see the team, which includes starters Earlette Scott, Gigi Gonzalez, Leighah-Amori Wool, Anastasia Warren and Pagan, continue to collect more offensive rebounds.

Langford’s assistant coaches, which includes

recruiting coordinator Shireyll Moore, have been searching for players who might join the program as student-athletes.

“We’re in the position we are today because we have pretty good players,” Langford said.

“My staff does a lot of this. They are more actively involved in the recruiting” each day.

Stony Brook has signed three current high school seniors and is focusing on juniors.

Before each game, Langford’s assistant coaches watch film of their opponents. They give her a cheat sheet before she watches film as well.

While Langford plans to stick to the team’s strengths, she will add a few wrinkles depending on the insights she gains about her opponents.

In the team’s first loss, Pagan and Warren were unavailable to play for medical reasons.

The team could have gone to Fordham feeling defeated, but the players fought to the end in a game they lost, 71-59.

“They don’t like losing, we don’t like losing,” Langford said. “They have responded

well this week.”

The start of a season as head coach has taught Langford several lessons, including pacing herself and, in particular, protecting her voice.

She drinks tea all day long and tells her staff to remind her not to yell in practice, because she shouts over the band at games.

In practice, Langford grabs a ball periodically to demonstrate what she’d like to see from her players.

As for her activity during the game, Langford sits only for about the first 30 seconds and then works the sidelines.

Pagan appreciates the work Langford puts in and the way her new coach has improved her game. While she used to get three or four rebounds a game, she’s often snagging 10 or more.

Pagan also sees herself hustling more, particularly after Langford created a drill where the players dive for loose balls.

“Before, I wouldn’t think of diving for a ball.

Now, it’s ingrained into my head,” Pagan said.

“The hustle doesn’t stop until the whistle blows.

You play until you can’t play any more.”

still trying to figure out where the hole in our defenses lies. As nearly as we can conclude, a negative test does not check for viruses in low numbers that are just beginning their infection in the nose, for example, and are still too few to register. With no symptoms, there is no way to detect their presence. It typically takes at least three days before the alarm goes off. So even weekly testing, which is so often done by institutions and employers, is not foolproof, especially if the patient is asymptomatic.

Fortunately, because my grandson was doubly vaccinated, the illness was of short duration, although he did lose his sense of taste and smell for a bit. The rest of the family members are fine. But what does that mean for all of us? The potential for infection is there, still with us despite how much we would like to leave it behind and despite all precautions. Gatherings of almost any size carry some risk, especially when we remove our masks to eat together, and we cannot be mindless of the threat.

There may be some good news, however.

Omicron, the latest variant to be identified,

seems to cause a milder version of the disease, at least so the early evidence indicates. And there are now two different pills that appear to hold back the most harmful effects of the virus if taken within five days of onset. One is from Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, called molnupiravir, that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death by 30%. It should be receiving FDA approval soon, even though it can cause serious side effects. The other is Paxlovid from Pfizer and so far appears to be 85% effective, perhaps to be authorized by year’s end. Made of a different formulation, it probably would not cause the same side effects as Merck’s but could cause others. Both pills could turn out to be a stop gap if the vaccines prove ineffective against new variants. And both may be more powerful if given together, as research against the virus that caused AIDS proved at that time. According to Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, who oversaw combination therapy for HIV years ago, such a clinical trial could be quickly done.

COVID-19 came to dinner

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mong the many preparations we made for our family Thanksgiving gathering this year, was carefully considering how to prevent any intrusion by COVID-19, a most unwelcome guest. The children and grandchildren were coming from six different states, so the potential exposure was widespread.

We agreed that everyone would have the appropriate vaccinations, two and a booster if possible.

Each member also Between bought an Abbott you and me BinaxNOW antigen

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF self test result that they took before starting out on their trips. Everyone tested negative, so we were full steam ahead.

Thanksgiving Day was filled with hugs,

laughter and love. We had not been all together in almost two years, and much conversation resulted, including how the youngest one had grown. After the traditional sumptuous dinner, we went around the table and spoke about what we were most grateful for in the past year. This is of special value to me, in addition to the lovely feelings of gratitude evoked, because it gives me a chance to catch up on their various activities.

The next day, Friday, we talked, walked, played games and ate some more. I almost didn’t register when one of my grandsons came to the dinner table a little late because he was feeling “achy.” But when he asked for an Advil the next morning, I got out the At-Home rapid test, and in 15 minutes we knew he was positive. Thinking it might be a false positive, we drove him to Stony Brook Hospital, where he was given a PCR test, the gold standard, and in four hours we had the result.

Somehow, in spite of our careful efforts, the pathogen had found us. We then went to the next step and self-quarantined, but we are

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