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To the delight of about 100 people in attendance on Tuesday, it was announced that famed Brookhaven groundhog Holtsville Hal did not see his shadow, indicating spring would come early this year. Hal made his yearly Groundhog Day appearance at Brookhaven Town’s Holtsville Wildlife and Ecology center at about 7:30 a.m., before a crowd with fresh memories of being walloped with more than 2 feet
of snow in a recent blizzard. Tradition says that if Hal — or, as he’s known in the Town of Brookhaven as a throwback to the classic Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day,” the Great Prognosticator of Prognosticators — sees his shadow when he wakes from hibernation on Groundhog Day, the community is in for six more weeks of winter. “As I stood by my burrow and looked to the ground, there was no shadow for me to be found,” town Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R) read from a
large scroll as Hal was presented to the mass of onlookers. “So kids and their families, put away your sleds and snow blowers.” There were raucous cheers. Holtsville Hal was handled by Greg Drossel as he posed for photos with Master of Ceremonies Wayne Carrington, Councilmembers Valerie Cartwright (D-Port Jefferson Station), Dan Panico (R-Manorville) and Neil Foley (R-Blue Point), Holtsville Fire Department volunteers and many others.
He even posed for a selfie with one young admirer. Last year, Hal also predicted an early spring. This time he might be right, if only just for Tuesday, as those who woke up early to attend were treated to a mild, sunny morning by the time the groundhog made his much-anticipated appearance. With the viewers in good spirits, Carrington reminded the crowd to donate whatever they could to the ecology center to support its programs.
Bellone visits SBU as students buddy up By Giselle Barkley
Mentors are making a new mark on Stony Brook University thanks to a county program. Working alongside Mentor New York, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) rolled out the county’s newest mentoring program at Stony Brook University’s Center for Molecular Medicine on Jan. 29. In the company of students and staff, Bellone said the county kicked off the mentoring program to help area newcomers navigate their way through county politics and education. While the program is in
its early stages, its public announcement came in light of National Mentoring Month in January. Bellone met with six students, mentors, and faculty on Friday to also discuss the importance of mentors for the young adults majoring in science related fields. “The benefits of [mentoring] are absolutely amazing,” Bellone said during the meeting. “From a better academic performance, better economic prospects, better statistics ... the list goes on and on.” Mentors were key to the success of Michelle Olakkengil, a junior at Stony Brook who said MENTORS continued on page A5
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Bellone meets students and their mentors at stony Brook University.
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THREE VILLAGE SCHOOL EVENTS Thursday, Feb. 4
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• Arrowhead’s got talent show, 7 p.m., Arrowhead Elementary School • Guys and dolls cupid dance, 7 p.m., Minnesauke Elementary School
• Winter social, 7 p.m., Setauket Elementary School • Math/science/technology night, 6 p.m., w.S. Mount Elementary School
Tuesday, Feb. 9
• PTA meeting, 7 p.m., Minnesauke Elementary School • PTO meeting, 7 p.m., R.C. Murphy Junior High School
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Town helps transform toxic chemical bill By Giselle Barkley
After four decades the government is finally updating the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 with partial thanks to Brookhaven Town officials. President Gerald Ford signed the act decades ago to regulate the introduction of new chemicals into society, excluding those found in food, pesticides, tobacco, firearms, drugs and cosmetics. The act gave the United States Environmental Protection Agency the authority to require documentation of chemical substances to determine if the chemical is hazardous to humans. The 62,000 chemicals that existed before 1976 were grandfathered into the act and deemed safe for humans and the act wasn’t updated until last year. The government amended the act with Toxic Substances Control Modernization Act of 2015. Its bill, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act updates the act and requires the EPA to establish a risk-based screening process for new chemicals. Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) and his fellow town board officials proposed the bill, which states the EPA must determine if a certain amount of old or new chemicals are safe for humans by a certain deadline. The EPA will reprimand manufacturers who don’t comply with safety requirements by restricting or prohibiting the
creation, processing, distribution and disposal of new chemicals. The EPA did not return requests seeking comment by press time. According to Romaine, the uptick in cancer cases, particularly breast cancer on the North Shore, over the years was troubling. With advancements in science and technology scientists have found that some of the chemicals previously deemed as safe actually pose potential health risks for humans. This includes development of cancers and endocrine and immune systemrelated complications among other issues. “We have a concern about the high rates of cancer in children and we’re concerned because people are trying to get answers,” Romaine said. There were around 142.7 cases of cancer in Suffolk County between 2000 and 2004 according to the National Cancer Institute. The cases increased to around 528 per 100,000 people between 2008 and 2012 according to the cancer institute’s State Cancer Profiles. County Legislator Sarah Anker (DMount Sinai), who has focused on the environment and its health effects for more than a decade, said these chemicals could be particularly harmful to children and their health. “When you’re exposed to something when you’re growing up ... it stays in your body,” Anker said. “As you get older
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something may set off the cancer...It takes decades sometimes for cancer to evolve.” In a 2008-2009 study from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, scientists found 300 pollutants in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies. According to the study, children are more vulnerable to chemical pollutants in the environment because of their size and poorer immune systems. According to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) these chemicals are found in everyday products like soaps and toothpastes among other items used on a daily basis.
There are around 85,000 chemicals that are currently in use. But Zeldin said “the flaws in TSCA have left many of these new chemicals untested and unregulated.” While Zeldin said the government should update important bills like TSCA, it’s common for some acts to go untouched for several years while others are updated almost annually. “There are certainly examples of both extremes,” Zeldin said. “TSCA happens to be an example of one of those bills that really should have been updated many years ago, if not decades ago.”
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iTunes ransom Between Jan. 27 and 30, someone called an older woman saying that her son was involved in a car crash in the Dominican Republic and arrested. The men on the phone demanded money from her. Police said the woman was in a Stony Brook Rite Aid when she received the call and even though Rite Aid employees told the lady it was a scam, she paid the men $12,000 in iTunes gift cards. Not too saintly An unidentified person stole several bank cards from someone at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson on Jan. 28. Fit for a criminal On Jan. 28, between 2:45 and 3 p.m., someone stole a woman’s car keys from her jacket at LA Fitness on Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station. Overlooking jail A 27-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station was arrested for criminal possession of stolen property on Jan. 25, after he stole a cell phone on Overlook Pass Road in Port Jefferson. He was nabbed at the scene. Bank crank Police arrested a man from Centereach for identity theft for allegedly using another man’s identification to open three Bank of America accounts between Aug. 18 and 31 of last year. Police arrested the 54-year-old suspect at his own residence on Jan. 28. Out of control On Jan. 27 at 1 p.m., police arrested a 31-year-old man from Centereach for criminal possession of a controlled substance. Authorities said the man was in the front passenger seat of a 2006 Honda when police saw him conduct a drug transaction. He was arrested on Middle Country Road. Police arrested a woman from Wading River on Jan. 27 for criminal possession of controlled substances after pulling over her 1996 Ford Thunderbird on Prince Road in Rocky Point. The 30-year-old was found in possession of cocaine. She was arrested at the scene.
Headphone heist A man from Shirley was arrested on Jan. 26 for petit larceny after police said the 46-year-old stole three sets of headphones from a store on Horseblock Road in Selden on Jan. 7 and 9. Police arrested him on Middle Country Road. Targeted Police arrested a 64-year-old man from Queens for petit larceny when he stole merchandise from the Target on Pond Path in South Setauket on Jan. 30. Jamaica me crazy On Jan. 29, police arrested a man from Jamaica for driving while ability impaired. Police had pulled over the 21-year-old after he failed to maintain his lane while driving west on Smithtown Bypass in a 2004 Hyundai. Fraud is a full-time job A 53-year-old woman from Port Jefferson Station was arrested for fraud, a few years after her alleged crime. Between May 23, 2011, and June 3, 2012, police said, she was collecting unemployment even while she had a job. Police arrested her on Jan. 27 at the Walmart on Nesconset Highway in Setauket. Put a ring on it Between Jan. 24 and 26, someone entered a residence on Sweetgum Lane in Miller Place and stole a ring. Cab crime On Jan. 29 at 10:15 p.m., someone took money from a drawer at the Islandwide taxi stand on Main Street in Port Jefferson. Leafing the scene Someone stole two leaf blowers from a residence on Kings Walk in Rocky Point. Police said the incident happened between Jan. 27 and 29. When push comes to shove On Jan. 29, two unidentified men got into a verbal and physical fight, pushing and shoving one another on Route 25A in East Shoreham. Police said both men decided not to press charges — Compiled by Giselle barkley
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MENTORS Continued from page A1
she discovered her passions with a mentor’s help. Olakkengil shifted from conducting research in obstetrics and gynecology to pursuing her passion for public speaking by working hand-in-hand with a more experienced peer. “Having these mentors can really boost a student’s personal development,” Olakkengil said. “I was able to find out more about myself.” She is currently applying for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, which supports graduates and the development of students like Olakkengil, who are committed to public service leadership through mentoring. While sophomore Amna Haider is more science-minded, she said her mentors helped her tackle different machinery and tools that helped her to better understand engineering. She said that applying past knowledge was key for her area of study and that lesson was only learned via mentorship. For 32-year-old Daniel Irizarry, the university’s mentorship program hit home. Irizarry left his family business in construction to attend Stony Brook University and will pursue his doctorate in genetics after he graduates this summer.
But he said the reality of leaving a family-run business made it more stressful to adapt to life as a student. “If it hadn’t been for the mentorship, I don’t think I’d be able to succeed,” said Irizarry about his mentor Jennie Williams. “It can be pretty difficult navigating these kinds of things, especially when you have a family.” The mentorship program at the university is an example of what Bellone said he hopes to do in his office in the coming months. According to Maureen Lagarde, special events and donor management specialist at Mentor New York, Bellone’s office contacted her organization with hopes of finding ways to participate in January’s mentoring awareness month. She added that Bellone’s initiative sets “an example for other government departments and businesses alike.” Currently, Mentor New York is helping around 57,000 youths with its more than 400 programs. Organizations or individuals can contact Mentor New York to either create a mentoring program or to find a program that best suits their needs. “When you’re growing up, you don’t want to listen to adults,” Bellone said. “[But] to get where you want to be [you have] to talk to people who’ve been down that road before. That’s why this [mentorship program] is so wonderful.”
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Bellone, right, and Mentor New York representative Maureen Lagarde, left, with mentors.
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Valentine’s Day history in Three Village BY BeverLY C. TYLer
The tradition of sending messages, gifts and expressions of love on Valentine’s Day goes back to at least the 15th century. In 1477, in Britain, John Paston wrote to his future wife, “Unto my ryght wele belovyd Voluntyn - John Paston Squyer.” The celebration of Feb. 14 began as an ancient Roman ceremony called the Feast of the Lupercalia, held each year on the eve of Feb. 15. It was on the eve of the Feast of the Lupercalia in the year 270 that Valentinus, a Roman priest, was executed. According to a 1493 article in the Nuremberg Chronicle, “Valentinus was said to have performed valiant service in assisting Christian Martyrs during their persecution under Emperor Claudius II.” Giving aid and comfort to Christians at that time was considered a crime, and for his actions, Valentinus was clubbed, stoned and beheaded. The Roman pagan festivals were spread all over the world as the Romans conquered various lands. It is thought that when the early Christian church reorganized the calendar of festival, they substituted the names of Christian Saints for the pagan names and allocated Feb. 14 to St. Valentine. By the 17th century, Valentine’s Day was well established as an occasion for sending cards, notes or drawings to loved ones. An early British Valentine dated 1684 was signed by Edward Sangon, Tower Hill, London. “Good morrow Vallentine, God send you ever to keep your promise and bee constant ever.”
In America, the earliest known valentines date to the middle of the 18th century. These handmade greetings were often very artistically done and included a heart or a lover’s knot. Like letters of the period they were folded, sealed and addressed without the use of an envelope. Until the 1840s, the postal rate was determined by the distance to be traveled and the number of sheets included, so an envelope would have doubled the cost. In 1840, Nichols Smith Hawkins of Stony Brook sent a valentine to his cousin Mary Cordelia Bayles. The original does not exist, but her reply, written two days after Valentine’s Day, says a great deal. “I now take this opportunity to write a few lines to you to let you know that I received your letter last evening. I was very happy to hear from you and to hear that you hadent forgot me and thought enough of me to send me a Valentine. I havent got anything now to present to you but I will not forget you as quick as I can make it conveinant I will get something for you to remember me by. You wrote that you wanted me to make you happy by becoming yourn. I should like to comfort you but I must say that I cannot for particular reasons. It isn’t because I don’t respect you nor do I think that I ever shall find anyone that will do any better by me. I sincerely think that you will do as well by me as anyone. I am very sorry to hear that it would make you the most miserable wretch on earth if I refused you for I cannot give you any encouragement. I beg to be excused for keeping you in suspense so long and then deny you. Believe me my friend I wouldn’t if I thought of
denying you of my heart and hand. I think just as much of you now as ever I did. I cannot forget a one that I do so highly respect. You will think it very strange then why I do refuse you. I will tell you although I am very sorry to say so it is on the account of the family. They do oppose me very much. They say so much that I half to refuse you. It is all on their account that I do refuse so good an offer.” Four days later, Mary again replied to a letter from Nichols. “Dear Cousin - I received your letter yesterday morning. I was very sorry to hear that you was so troubled in mind. I don’t doubt but what you do feel very bad for I think that I can judge you by my own feelings but we must get reconciled to our fate ... Keep your mind from it as much as you can and be cheerful for I must tell you as I have told you before that I cannot relieve you by becoming your bride, therefore I beg and entreat on you not to think of me anymore as a companion through life for if you make yourself unhappy by it, you will make me the most miserable creature in the world to think that I made you so unhappy.“ At least two other letters, written the following year, were sent to Nichols from Mary. The letters continued to express the friendship that existed between them. The story does not end at this point. Mary’s father died in 1836 and her mother in 1838, and it is possible that she lived for a time with her aunt Elizabeth and uncle William Hawkins — Nichols’ parents. Whatever the circumstances that brought them together, their love for each other continued to bloom.
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valentine postcard sent in 1909 from Canada to east Setauket and rerouted to Brooklyn.
On Feb. 11, 1849, Nichols Smith Hawkins, age 34 married Mary Cordelia Bayles, age 27. Nichols and Mary raised three children who lived beyond childhood — two others died in 1865 within a month. Nichols was a farmer and the family lived in Stony Brook. Mary died in 1888 at the age of 66 and Nichols died in 1903, at the age of 88. They are buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Stony Brook. Valentines became fancier and more elaborate through the second half of the 19th century. After 1850 the valentine slowly became a more general greeting rather than a message sent to just one special person. The advent of the picture postal card in 1907, which allowed messages to be written on one half of the side reserved for the address, started a national craze that saw every holiday become a reason for sending a postcard and Valentine’s Day the occasion for a flood of one cent expressions of love. Beverly Tyler is Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the Three Village Historical Society.
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PEOPLE Gelinas speller advances
P.J. Gelinas Junior High School seventh-grader Emily Bussa has been named the winner of the schoolwide spelling bee and will now compete at the regional contest at Hofstra University. Emily emerged as the winner during the sixth round of the contest after correctly spelling the word “pharaoh.”
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Navy Commander Dom Pastorin, commanding officer of NOSC Long Island, Mr. Stone and Congressman Zeldin at the ceremony on Sunday.
Zeldin delivers Purple Heart to Stone Emily Bussa is a student at P.J. Gelinas Junior High School.
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On Sunday, Jan. 31, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) presented World War II veteran Frederick C. Stone of Stony Brook with the Purple Heart Medal. The Purple Heart Medal was established by General George Washington at Newburgh, New York, in 1782, during the Revolutionary War. It was re-established by the president of the United States per War Department General Orders in 1932. The Purple Heart is limited to members of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving, were wounded, killed or have since died due to wounds received during battle. It is awarded in the name of the president of the United States.
In August of 2015, Congressman Zeldin presented Mr. Stone with the Bronze Star Medal. On April 28-29, 1945, while overseas aboard the U.S.S. Butler gunship in Okinawa, Mr. Stone was engaged in a battle with the enemy, in which he was wounded. Stone’s Bronze Star Medal citation specifically states, “Although wounded during action with the enemy he helped to remove a more seriously wounded man to safety and returned to his gun…” Based upon this citation, the Congressman’s office inquired with the Navy as to his additional entitlement to the Purple Heart Medal and the Navy agreed.
WMHS alum is teacher of the year
Julie Arasi, a 2003 graduate of Ward Melville High School, has been named Teacher of the Year-2016, for Leon County, Florida. After receiving the 2015 Teacher of the Year Award for Kate Sullivan Elementary School in Tallahassee, she became one of five finalists for the countywide award. In her eight years at Kate Sullivan, Julie has fostered a spirit of learning in her students through a series of engagement activities, including a monthly book club for students and parents, as well as developing Genius Hour, which connects students to research projects and gives them the chance to interact with experts. Julie is also a member of the Leon County School District Advisory Council and a graduate of the annual Superintendent’s Leadership Academy. In December, Julie graduates with an additional master’s degree in educational leadership from Florida State University.
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Patriots fall to Commack in final quarter Commack . . . . . . . . . 56 Ward Melville . . . . . . 45 By Bill landon
With two games left to play in the regular season, the Ward Melville boys’ basketball team, at 6-5 in League I, was playing for its postseason life when the team hit the road to take on Commack Tuesday. The game was close through three quarters, but Commack, also at 6-5 at the start of the game, slowly edged ahead in a game largely decided at the freethrow line, to win 56-45. The Patriots led by two points after the first eight minutes of play, and Commack enjoyed a one-point lead at the halftime break. Ward Melville senior Mathew O’Hea had the hot hand in the first half, netting four field goals in the first quarter and nine more in the second. O’Hea said it’s a hostile environment whenever his team travels to Commack. “It’s always tough to play here — they’ve got a really great fan base,” O’Hea said. “I thought we played hard — we gave it a great effort — but we just didn’t come out with a win tonight.” With the game tied at 30-30, Ward Melville senior Tim Specht went to the
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line shooting two and swished both for the lead at the 6:53 mark of the third. “Commack’s known for their crowd, and getting in our faces when we make mistakes,” Specht said. “So we knew that was coming, and we fell into that trap at the end.” It was Specht with the hot hand in the second half though. With his Patriots team up by two points, he went to the charity stripe and nailed both opportunities to help his team edge ahead, 38-34, with 1:55 left to go in the third period. Commack battled back and retook the lead 40-38 to begin the final quarter, and the Patriots would not see a lead the rest of the way. The game, infested with fouls, sent Ward Melville junior Noah Kepes to the line, where he netted both to retie the game at 40-40, but that’s as close as the team would come. Commack slowly edged ahead, point by point, and outscored the Patriots 10-3 at the charity stripe in the final minutes to win the game. O’Hea led all scorers with 19, while Specht was next in line for the Patriots with 13 points. Ward Melville head coach Alexander
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Clockwise from top left, Mathew o’Hea shoots; Tim Specht reaches for the rim from inside the paint; and noah Kepes drives the lane.
Piccirillo said his team played without a let-up for all 32 minutes. “We just couldn’t get some shots to fall and we struggled to get stops down the stretch,” he said. “We hit all of our free throws today, we boxed out, we were able to rebound with them, but we turned it over in key spots and when we needed a big shot, we just couldn’t get it to fall.” Ward Melville takes on William Floyd at home in a must-win game Friday, Feb. 5, at 6:15 p.m., before facing undefeated
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powerhouse Brentwood on Monday to wrap up the regular season. To prepare for Friday’s game against Floyd, Piccirillo said his team will prepare like it would for any other game, adding that his players will have two good practices to be fully prepared for the last home game. “We’ll just mentally prepare — we’ll watch film because its senior night and we need that win,” Specht said. “We will not leave the gym without that win.”
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REED & BARTON Silver Plated Tea Service. Largest server has 2576, 7, Design PAT’D April 18, 1871 on bottom. Seven pieces in excellent shape. $750 (EBay price $975). Photos available. Port Jefferson area. 631-871-1640.
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Wanted To Buy WE BUY MID CENTURY FURNITURE. 1950’s thru 1970’s Danish, Italian, French, American modern. Herman Miller, Knoll, France and Sons, Fritz Hansen. Eames, Wegner, Nakashima, Gio Ponti, Finn Juhl. 718.383.6465 info@openairmodern.com WANTED! Guns - Stamps - Coins Licensed dealer will buy modern and antique rifles, pistols, swords. Also buying stamps, coins, beer steins, military souvenirs, trains and antiques. B&C SPORTING 631-751-5662
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CLASSICAL LPs. New Year’s Sale! 107 nearly mint collectible, pristine disks. 1960’s prices. Mostly chamber music. 12 for $49.49. 631-473-8770, (after 10am)
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PIANO - GUITAR - BASS All levels and styles. Many local references. Recommended by area schools. Tony Mann 631-473-3443
BAKER SHEET; Size 80. Navy/tan horse, $50. 631-751-3869.
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AIRLINE CAREERS Start here! Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information, 866-296-7093
FT/PT VETERINARY ASSISTANT. Experience preferred, but will train. Fax resume to: 631-757-3973 or come in to fill out an application. Fort Salonga Animal Hospital, 10-1B Fort Salonga Rd. Fort Salonga, NY 11768 631-261-0610
RN PLASTIC SURGERY Practice. Monday, Tuesday & Thursday. 25-30 hours per week, 2 evenings. Please call Dawn at 631-473-7070
ARE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN SALES AND WANT TO WORK CLOSER TO HOME? *Excellent opportunity *Well established Account Base *North Shore Market for the right energetic salesperson selling display and online advertising for successful media group. Our position offers satisfying roots in the community in a job that pays well. All inquiries and resumes confidential. Email: kjm@ tbrnewappers.com “CAN YOU DIG IT?” Heavy Equipment Operator Career! We offer training and certifications running Bulldozers, Backhoes and Excavators. Lifetime Job Placement. VA Benefits Eligible. 866-362-6497 CHIROPRACTIC & ACUPUNCTURE OFFICE E. Setauket Office Assistant. PT MWF 9am-5pm. Healthcare office experience required. Call Dr. Karl George 1pm-3pm 631-751-0900. Fax Resume: 631-751-0901 or email DoctorKGeorge@msn.com
MEDICAL ASSISTANT WITH RECEPTION DUTIES. FT position. Three years of surgical experience a must. Email resume to: kim@ diehlplasticsurgery.com
SUNY STONY BROOK seeks Sr. Software Engineer to lead development of end-to-end software systems and conduct systems analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of realworld applications. For more details see ad in Employment Section.
MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST with computer skills. Part-Time. Pediatric Office, Setauket. 9am-1pm M-T-Th-Fri. Occassional Saturday. Call 631-751-7676 or fax resume to 631-751-1152 NEW YEAR NEW AIRLINE CAREERS Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Overnight classes available. Call AIM, 866-296-7093 P/T VILLAGE CLERK Village of Old Field. Mon-TuesThur, 9am-3pm. Experience of govt operations, procedures, recordkeeping in government or comparable private-sector. Send resume to Lynda Howell at villageclerk@oldfieldny.org.
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ASSISTANT STORE OPERATIONS MANAGER The Veterans Canteen Service located at the Northport, NY, VA Medical Center is seeking a dynamic, energetic and customer centric Operations Manager to join our management team. The ideal candidate will possess decisive leadership, strong verbal and written communica-
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$40,000 TO START EAST NORTHPORT Westy is the finest self storage in America. We have a career opportunity at our new East Northport Center. Salary, bonuses & commissions. Medical & 401k benefits. E-mail resume to: BECKY@WESTY.COM SEE OUR AD IN EMPLOYMENT DISPLAY FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
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February 25, 2016
To be published at the beginning of the spring semester, Bridges will be distributed to the doctors and healthcare professionals at the hospital and faculty and administrators on campus, as well as inserted into the full run of six Times Beacon Record Newspapers and published with an interactive fully searchable online version on our web site, tbrnewsmedia.com. Included will be hospital updates on the future of healthcare, clinical programs, technologies and healthcare reform as well as university events, exhibits and the schedule of SBU games for the sports season. In town, our north shore business community will have the opportunity to reach SBU professionals with their products and services.
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Electricians SOUNDVIEW ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING Prompt * Reliable * Professional Residential/Commercial Free Estimates Ins/Lic#41579-ME Owner Operator 631-828-4675 See our Display Ad in the Home Services Directory
Furniture/Restoration Repairs REFINISHING & RESTORATION Antiques restored, repairing recane, reupholstery, touch-ups kitchen, front doors, 40yrs exp, SAVE$$$, free estimates. Vincent Alfano 631-286-1407 REFINISHING & REUPHOLSTERING Dunwell Furniture Repair & Upholstering Workshop. Repairs, Caning, Rebuild, Stripping, Refinishing. 427 Rt. 25A, Rocky Point 631-744-7442
Handyman Services JOHN’S A-1 HANDYMAN SERVICE Crown moldings, Wainscoting, raised panels. Kitchen/Bathroom Specialist. Painting windows, finished basements, ceramic tile. All types repairs. Dependable craftsmanship. Reasonable/rates. Lic/Ins.#19136-H. 631-744-0976 cell 631 697-3518
Home Improvement *BluStar Construction The North Shore’s Most Trusted Renovation Experts. 631-751-0751 Suffolk Lic. #48714-H, Ins. See Our Display Ad
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MEIGEL HOME IMPROVEMENT Extensions, dormers, roofing, windows, siding, decks, kitchens, baths, tile, etc. 631-737-8794 Licensed in Suffolk 26547-H and Nassau H18F5030000. Insured. NPC CARPENTRY, INC. Kitchen/Bathroom Alterations Additions/Extensions Fine Interior Millwork Nick Chepinskas www.npccarpentry.com nick@npccarpentry.com 516-658-8523 Lic#39386 /Ins. BBB PRS CARPENTRY No job too small. Hanging a door, building a house, everything in-between. Formica kitchens/baths, roofing/siding/decks. POWER WASHING. Serving North Shore 40 years. Lic/Ins. 631-744-9741 THREE VILLAGE HOME IMPROVEMENT Serving the community for over 30 years. See ad in Home Service Directory. Rich Beresford, 631-689-3169
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AMAZING BATHROOM REMODELING 30 year’s experience. Expert Workmanship. Free estimates. No subcontracting. Partial repairs or full upgrades. Lic.# 52720-H/Ins. 631-579-2740
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LUX LANDSCAPING Offering Fall Cleanup Specials throughout Suffolk County. Family owned and operated, OnSite Manager, new equipment. Call 631-283-2266 or email: Luxorganization@gmail.com
Lawn & Landscaping CLOVIS AXIOM, INC. Expert Tree Removal,Pruning, Planting & Transplanting. *Insect & Disease Management. *Personalized healthy edible gardens and chicken coops. 631-751-4880 clovisaxiom@gmail.com
GOT BAMBOO?? Bamboo containment and removal with guaranteed results! Landscape Architecture/Arborist Services. Property restoration/landscape design & installation. Free Estimates. 631-316-4023 Groundbreakers Development Group Inc., Commack NY LANDSCAPES UNLIMITED SPRING CLEAN-UPS Property Clean-ups, Tree Removal, Pruning, Landscape Construction, Maintenance, Thatching & Aeration. Call now to reserve for SNOW REMOVAL Commercial/Residential Steven Long, Lic.36715-H/Ins. 631-675-6685 SETAUKET LANDSCAPE & DESIGN Stone Driveways/Walkways, Walls/Stairs/Patios/Masonry, Brickwork/Repairs & Land Clearing/Drainage, Grading/Excavating. Plantings/Mulch Steve Antos, 631-689-6082 www.setauketlandscape.com Serving Three Villages
SWAN COVE LANDSCAPING Lawn Maintenance, Clean-ups, Shrub/Tree Pruning, Removals. Landscape Design/Installation, Ponds/Waterfalls, Stone Walls. Firewood. Free estimates. Lic/Ins. 631-689-8089
Masonry Carl Bongiorno Landscape/Mason Contractor All phases masonry work: stone walls, patios, poolscapes. All phases of Landscaping Design. Theme Gardens. Residential & Commercial. Lic/Ins. 631-928-2110
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Out Of County MANHATTAN APARTMENT FOR RENT Nicely furnished (or unfurnished.) Quiet, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, living room, dining room, exceptionally clean, upper East Side pre-war residential building with high ceilings and elevator, washer/dryer, A/C. 4 blocks to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park, 3 blocks to East River and Carl Schurz Park. 4 blocks to express subway stop, P/T doorman. No smoking. Wired for internet and cable. $6600/mo. Call Ann: (days) 631-751-5454 (eves) 631-751-2030.
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Time to plan
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Suffolk County Police Acting Commissioner Tim Sini speaks at a press conference to announce a new police initiative focused on cracking down on drug dealing.
New drug initiative long overdue The Suffolk County Police Department announced it will be cracking down on the movement of drugs through our neighborhoods. Given the consistent rise in opioid addiction and overdoses across the county, as well as drug-related crime, we say an initiative like this is long overdue. Over the past several weeks, investigators have executed nine search warrants and seized about $300,000 in cash; 2,672 grams of cocaine, 464 grams of heroin and 80 grams of oxycodone; seven guns; and drug paraphernalia. While we applaud the police department for its efforts, more could have been accomplished if cops used their resources to crack down on these problem areas much sooner. Police said their new initiative to target houses of known drug activity is, in part, fueled by resident complaints. Maybe they couldn’t hear as well as we could, but residents have always been complaining and reporting about this issue — not just recently. The Special Operations Team detectives who are now being utilized in each precinct to work with residents to obtain information on who is dealing what and where — and to execute search warrants on these locations and make arrests — will cost money. That money is well worth it. While the police department has used a limited budget as an excuse for why actions like these sometimes can’t be taken, if Suffolk County wants to bust up drug activity, police resources should be made a bigger priority. One would be hard-pressed to find a resident who disagrees. For now though, we are pleased to see the police department being responsive to community concerns about known problem drug locations.
To The ediTor: on Jan. 14, 2016, the Town Board passed a resolution to approve a corridor study, intended to assess current land use, safety, traffic impact along the route 25A corridor from the Smithtown town line eastward to Nicolls road. This will be Phase one of a continuing study that will eventually run eastward to the Port Jefferson Village line. This study is intended to have a large input from Three Village residents through public meetings open to all, with much of the preparation of local zoning maps, statistics, etc. needed for these meetings done by staff of the division of Planning, environment, and Land Use. The resolution to initiate this Phase one study was jointly sponsored by 1st district Councilwoman Valerie Cartright and Supervisor ed romaine, and unanimously passed by the Town Board. it was publicly backed at the Town Board meeting by the leadership of the Civic Association of the Setaukets and Stony Brook, the Three Village Chamber of Commerce, and the Three Village Community Trust. Why? These organizations have felt the need for an updated use plan for much of the past decade and some preliminary groundwork was laid years ago. The last Comprehensive Master Plan for Brookhaven was adopted 20 years ago, in 1996, when none of this year’s graduating high school students were yet born. Many things have changed since then, including a nearly complete “build out” of residentially zoned land in the Three Villages that implies a relatively stable population over coming years. This has been counterbalanced
Scholarship shot To The ediTor: The scholarship committee at Ward Melville high School invites anyone in the Three Village community to initiate a scholarship to honor a relative, a coach, a boy scout troop leader, teacher, etc. The honoree of the scholarship
by a large expansion of Stony Brook University, a significant increase in commuters using the Stony Brook station, a significant increase of traffic on 25A, the rise of internet shopping with impacts on local merchants that have yet to be fully felt, and the development of additional large and convenient shopping centers serving the large South Setauket neighborhoods that were still under development 20 years ago. one thing also seems certain: the continued growth of the University will not leave it physically and perpetually isolated from the commerce of the surrounding community. Most of the commercial uses and structures along 25A in the Phase one study area date from past eras when the University was much smaller or even non-existent. The question is not whether present or future owners and developers will seek zoning and use changes during the next 20-30 years in response to current or future needs, but rather whether these changes will be haphazard or guided by any overall plan, such as a special “overlay district” with incentives for positive development that follows guidelines for coordinated parking, pedestrian accessibility, mixed uses, building size and architectural styles that avoid any “big box” aspects, etc., and disincentives for proposed changes that don’t. Many other areas within Brookhaven have already finished or are now completing townsponsored “hamlet” or “Corridor” studies. These are replacing the older concept of a single overall “Comprehensive Land Use Plan” for Brookhaven’s 240 square miles – always rather impractical for such a large and diverse town. The new, localized studies and resulting use plans are intended
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to be shaped by large amounts of community input and discussion, so that they become reflective of local ideas, needs, and standards. The Three Village Community Trust has been calling for, and planning toward, a corridor study for the past several years. The local organizations, including the Trust, that are now backing the Three Village route 25A corridor study hope that there will be plenty of resident-input over the coming months, at yet to be arranged times and local meeting places, for any and all ideas and opinions to be heard and no one feels left out. Working together, local businesses, property owners, residents, Lirr commuters, The Community Trust, the Civic Association of the Setaukets and Stony Brook, the Three Village Chamber of Commerce, the Planning division of Brookhaven Town, the State doT and Stony Brook University can all help shape and insure that a better, safer, more attractive, and more useful route 25A corridor over the coming years.
can be alive and active in the community or memorialized through the scholarship opportunity. The amount can range from $100 to any amount of your choosing. This is a wonderful way to honor someone who has had a positive influence on your life or the life of your student. our awards night is held in
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early June and our selection of recipients begins in mid-March and ends May 1. Please feel free to contact Nell Bassett in the guidance office at (631) 730-4940 if you have any questions or ideas. Ward Melville Scholarship Cmte. Three Village School district
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FEBRUARY 04, 2016 • THE VILLAGE TIMES HERALD • PAGE A19
Learning lessons from the midterm exams
D. None of the above by DaNiel DuNaief
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idterms are nothing short of a mental battlefield. Our sleepdeprived children step out of the house, their hoodies raised over their ears like helmets, covering hair they didn’t have time to comb while also keeping inside their overburdened heads the Latin words for “seize the day.”
They clutch their swords — their No. 2 pencils and erasable pens; and grasp their tiny shields — the one-page sheets filled with the equations for photosynthesis and the description of the domain Archaea. When the kids arrive at school, they don’t look left and right because they don’t have much time to chat with friends, avoid enemies or wonder what fashion statement the popular students are making. They are bracing for battle and they have to climb the mountain in front of them without allowing too many mistakes to slow them down. We adults have been through these moments before, just as we have had shots, skinned our knees and struck out in a big game. And yet watching our kids go through all these challenges brings a whole new level of anxiety, butterflies and, like Pandora’s box, rays of hope. Might this be the time when
they succeed just as they feel they are about to succumb? Could this be just the confidence boost they need to help them relax and attack these tests with the equivalent of the light side of the force on future tests? While the kids write about epiphanies, rarely, as those of us who have gone through this know, do they happen in the middle of an exam. Sure, there might be a moment when they say, “Oh, right, of course, I know this. The answer is ‘0’ because it can’t be anything else.” But more often, even if they figure that one out, they still have another six pages of mysterious questions, such as “What king believed in absolutism?” [Louis XIV of France]; and how did Dante know what my world would be like on test day when he wrote “The Divine Comedy”? There are all kinds of lessons that await them, some of which apply to the material itself,
while others relate to the best test-taking strategy. I recall a test many years ago in which the teacher urged everyone to read all the instructions first before starting. Few of the students did that because they didn’t want to lose time and because any sound outside their heads competed with the pneumonics they were repeating inside their brains like lines in a play. As the tests arrive on their desks, their legs might start shaking involuntarily, trying to get their minds moving, the way Olympic runners take short, quick jogs before crouching down in the starting blocks. They go through whatever lucky rituals they might have, thinking about the words of a friend or relative, taking a few deep breaths or looking up at the clock, knowing that — one way or another — the hands that slowly circumnavigate those 12 numbers all day, every day,
That was the week that was
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his week is bracketed on both ends by a “Super Bowl,” the real one coming up in Santa Clara, Calif., between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers and the one we just witnessed in Iowa. The NFL game is a lot easier to understand, what with there being only two opponents and a final victory. The Iowa contest, despite tons of publicity and seemingly endless buildup, is only the first polling in
what remains a nine-month marathon to elect the next president of the United States. In fact, the politicking and the campaigning have been going on for the better part of a year already. Never mind the arguments over whether baseball or football is the national pastime. Based on airtime, print and social media, the answer to the question of which is the most popular spectator sport is clearly politics. It’s the only game that goes on for two years. Politics also has its own way of scoring that defies logic. The results for the three main GOP contenders were Ted Cruz, 28 percent; Donald Trump, 24 percent; and third-placed Marco Rubio, 23 percent. Now if four points won a football game, we would call it a close game. So Cruz is the acknowledged winner at only a quarter of the total, and Trump is only a little behind. Yet everyone talks of Trump’s poor showing — except him. And Rubio is somehow congratulated for coming in even a whisker behind Trump.
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This is a game where absolute numbers don’t seem to count; it’s a contest of expectations. Better the pols should set themselves up the way they do on the stock market: Put out poor expectations of future earnings and when your results rise above that lowly level, the value of the stock goes up. But we always knew the guys on Wall Street were smarter than the presidential aspirants. That’s why the politicians hate the market makers so much. Anyway, back to the Iowa caucus. Besides being the first in the country, how important is it in history? The answer is tepid at best. In contested caucuses, where there was no sitting president running for re-election, Iowa Dems chose the eventual presidential nominee five out of eight times, according to the Des Moines Register. And twice that winner has gone on to become president: Barack Obama and, before him, Jimmy Carter — with a miniscule number of voters who showed up at the polls. In 1992,
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by the way, Bill Clinton finished fourth with only 3 percent of the caucus vote, and we all know what happened after that. Iowa Republicans in contested elections chose the eventual nominee three out of six times. Twice that winner went on to the presidency: Gerald Ford and George W. Bush. In 1980, father George H. W. Bush beat Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucus but Reagan went on to represent the GOP and then won the national election. In 1988 Bob Dole beat George H. W. Bush in Iowa but Bush went on to triumph, no thanks to Iowa. Maybe they would be better off if candidates hoped to lose Iowa. As to the Dems, Hillary Clinton beat out Bernie Sanders in a contest so close that different groups were flipping a coin to decide which candidate their representatives would support. Yes Clinton won, like a runner who wins a race by a fraction of a second, but her enthusiasm was nothing compared to that
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We adults have been through these moments before. will move them toward their uncertain future. Maybe they chuckle to themselves at the higher dose of perfume than normal from the girl to their right or the stronger scent of Axe deodorant from the boy to their left. Maybe these other students didn’t take showers that morning because they got up too late or because they sat on the edge of their beds cramming through those last few facts. Few of them will emerge from the battle completely unscathed. Hopefully, next time around, they’ll remember their earlier wounds and will learn how to avoid making the same mistakes. That, in any context, constitutes progress.
We always knew the guys on Wall Street were smarter than the presidential aspirants. of Sanders, who considered his results fabulous. It’s the expectations thing again. Better to leave this discussion of politics and talk about something noncontroversial that happened this week. In fact it probably is the biggest story of the week: the weather. Maybe we have El Niño to thank, but any time I can walk the dog in February wearing light clothes — on me, not him — I consider myself wonderfully lucky. I’m not going to go on about this because I don’t want to run the risk of hexing us, but I’ll take a winter where the temperature bounces around in the 40s and even flirts with 60s on a few days, and the blizzard comes on Saturday and Sunday. I’ll consider us in the Northeast the real winners this week.
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