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Vol. 46, No. 51

February 10, 2022

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Town blasts Hochul’s plan Brookhaven and state reps dispute potential changes to single family zoning

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Over the course of the last year, North Shore residents have gotten relaxed or forgetful when it comes to locking their car doors.

For example, Fred Leute, chief of Port Jefferson’s code enforcement, said that over the past month, village code has been receiving calls about people rummaging through open vehicles.

He said that right now, thanks to Ring camera footage, they have seen three separate people on camera trying to open car doors.

“They’re looking for loose change or cash,” he said. “They’re checking for open doors — not even looking inside.”

Leute said this can be prevented.

“Lock your doors,” he said. “Double check.”

And while the village experienced these incidents over the last few weeks, he said that this problem isn’t confined to just one area.

“We’re aware of what’s going on,” Leute said. “It’s happening all over.”

A spokesperson from the Suffolk County Police Department said several North Shore hamlets have reported thefts from motor vehicles. These numbers cannot verify if a

car was unlocked or not.

From January 2021 until this Jan. 22, there have been 111 reported thefts from a motor vehicle in Old Field, Poquott, Port Jefferson, Rocky Point, Selden, Setauket and Stony Brook.

Old Field and Poquott had the least amount, with just two each in the fall, while Selden experienced 46 thefts — the most happening in July, August and December of last year.

Port Jefferson reported 10, 13 for Rocky Point, 17 for Setauket and 21 for Stony Brook.

These numbers also do not include thefts of parts from the vehicle like tires or catalytic converters.

But along with small thefts from inside easy-to-reach cars, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said during a recent press conference that eight cars were stolen across Suffolk County in one week — Dec. 19 through Dec. 23.

“Many victims of vehicle theft not only leave their cars unlocked, but they leave key fobs in plain sight, either on the passenger seat, the driver’s seat or in the cup holder,” Bellone said during the Dec. 23 Hauppauge press event. “This allows car thieves to easily enter the vehicle and take off.”

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Brookhaven officials slam Gov. Hochul’s accessory apartment proposal

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Elected officials from local, state and the federal government recently voiced their anger and concern over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) plans to eliminate certain single-family zoning laws across New York state.

The comprehensive five-year housing plan would potentially invest $25 billion to create and preserve 100,000 affordable homes and tackle inequities in the housing market.

Last month, the governor announced the plan to make housing more affordable as part of the 2022 State of the State.

“In the wake of the pandemic, it’s crucial that we tackle the housing crisis and make New York a more affordable place for all,” Hochul said. “These bold steps are a major step forward in transforming our housing market, protecting affordability and increasing the housing supply.”

But on Feb. 3, local representatives in the Town of Brookhaven held a press conference blasting a major component of the proposal — changing zoning laws to allow more accessory apartments on premises, effectively eliminating single-family zoning.

Officials argued that under this plan, “the state would take zoning control away from local governments, eliminating local residents’ ability to voice objections to these apartments in their neighborhoods.”

They added that the bill would prohibit imposing parking requirements for these new apartments, which they said would result in cars clogging residential streets.

“Under Governor Hochul’s plan, every town, village and county overnight would lose the important zoning protections that keep them from looking like the crowded neighborhoods of the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn,” said town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R). “That’s not what the residents of Brookhaven Town want. This

Above: Supervisor Ed Romaine speaks during the Feb. 3 press conference at Town Hall; Councilwoman Jane Bonner, below, discusses how Hochul’s plan could impact her district of Rocky Point. Photos by Julianne Mosher

wrongheaded plan will not solve our affordable housing plan, but it will devalue the homes and quality of life in our neighborhoods.”

According to Hochul, legislation will be proposed to require municipalities to allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit, known as an ADU, on owner-occupied residentially zoned lots. This legislation will allow for municipalities to set size requirements and safety standards for these dwellings.

Currently the town allows accessory apartments on premises with specific regulations, including the owner of the lot upon which the accessory apartment is located must reside within the dwelling that contains the accessory apartment, and only one accessory apartment is permitted on the premises.

According to the town, the minimum habitable area for an accessory apartment shall be 300 square feet and a maximum of 650 square feet, and in no case should it exceed 40% of the habitable area of the dwelling building in which it is located. The law states that in no event may there be more than one bedroom per accessory apartment.

Brookhaven officials — in bipartisan agreement — said that the plan and change to the law would force apartments into every home, utilizing basements, garages, rear yard sheds and buildings.

Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point) said that this proposal can have a significant impact on all of Long Island — not just the town.

“Yes, we do need affordable housing

choices, but we don’t need a broad stroke across the state to change the very character of the communities that we live in,” she said.

“We need to maintain local control, and this takes away that control. If the governor really wants to help Long Islanders, she should do something about the ridiculously high property taxes.”

Bruce Sander, president of Stony Brook Concerned Homeowners, said that he and his neighbors bought their homes in single-family neighborhoods “so we could raise our children and grow out in our family community.”

“The ability for unscrupulous landlords to not be accountable to the local officials is just plain outrageous and dangerous,” he added.

“We have seen basement apartments with illegal occupants catch fire and create unsafe environments throughout the community. If we lose control, we lose our communities. What is being proposed could lead to the destruction of the suburbs.”

Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) said that while he “appreciates” that the governor is trying to address the question of affordability, taking away the power of local zoning can lead to “chaotic development that may in the end undermine the very fabric of our communities and property values we’re trying to protect.”

“Zoning helps maintain the character of neighborhoods,” he added. “Zoning also provides tools to address these questions of affordability, however, and I don’t want that power to be taken away.”

In attendance with the Town Board was state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) who said this change in legislation could result in “greater density for communities and place tremendous strains on every conceivable local service from the water we drink, to traffic and emergency services.”

“This one size fits all approach is not the answer to Long Island nor the state’s affordable housing crisis,” he added.

While not in attendance during Thursday’s press event, local U.S. Reps. Lee Zeldin (RNY1) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) both opposed Hochul’s plan.

“This blatant attack on suburban communities will end single-family housing as we know it, strip local control away from the New Yorkers who live there, tank the value of their homes, overcrowd their previously quiet streets, and on top of it all not do anything to solve our affordable housing problem,” said Zeldin, who is running on the Republican ticket for the governor’s seat.

Suozzi, who is also campaigning for governor, said, “Governor Hochul’s radical housing proposal would ‘require’ all municipalities to allow accessory dwelling units on all residential properties and would end single-family housing as we know it.”

Hochul outlined more of her plan during her State of the State address last month, with another reason being to help municipalities rezone to foster multifamily housing near commuter rail stations in the New York City suburbs, including Long Island.

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Long Island artists demand to be recognized

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Long Island Arts Alliance is asking artists, performers and creators to share their stories amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lauren Wagner, executive director of LIAA, said that over the last two years, the group has been asking creatives to share the experiences pre-pandemic and onward in hopes that new legislation will be created to further help the art and culture sector locally.

“The percentage of job losses in the arts is three times worse than other nonprofit organizations,” she said.

LIAA serves as an alliance of and for the region’s not-for-profit arts, cultural and arts education organizations.

LIAA promotes awareness of and participation in Long Island’s world-class arts and cultural institutions in both Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Formed in 2003, LIAA offers leadership and diverse support services to arts organizations, serves as an advocate for arts education in our schools and collaborates on strategies for economic development and community revitalization.

An advocate for artists, painters, sculptors, dancers, performers and musicians, Wagner added that when things were shut down two years ago, LIAA decided it wanted to reach out to its community to find out how people were handling the stressful changes.

That’s when LIAA came up with surveys to give a platform for creators to explain what’s going on in their lives.

“The surveys are to poll everyone’s status,” Wagner said. “Then, we use those numbers to go back to our new legislators and say, ‘Hey, this is what’s going on and we need help.’”

Most recently, a 2022 update has been posted to the LIAA website. This is the third survey to make its way around the arts community.

The survey states, “As COVID-19 extends into 2022, it is important to secure updated information about the continuing impact of the pandemic on the creative sector and creative workers. The information you provide is critical to advocacy efforts for the arts and culture sector across Long Island.”

Wagner said the more creatives who participate, the better.

“Artists/creatives were — and remain — among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce,” she said. “The arts are a formidable industry in the U.S. — $919.7 billion (pre-COVID) that supported 5.2 million jobs and represented 4.3% of the nation’s economy.”

She added that they have not seen significant relief funding earmarked for the arts from the local government despite the impact the sector has on the local economy.

“The American Rescue Plan provided $385,003,440 to Nassau County, $286,812,434 to Suffolk County, and an additional $170

Thomas Manuel inside The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook. Photo by Julianne Mosher

million to our local townships,” she said.

But when it comes to the higher levels of government, Wagner said that things often get “skewed” because of the Island’s proximity to New York City.

“I hate to say compete with the city, but we do,” she said. “We’re a great economic driver on Long Island and we get forgotten about.”

She said the surveys could “paint a real picture of what it’s like to be an artist on Long Island.”

The artists

Patty Eljaiek, a visual artist from Huntington Station, said that many people might not realize the impact art has on the community — especially financially.

“I think it’s part of the perception that art is not a business,” she said. “Art is a business.”

Elijaiek added that if an artist is looking to share their expertise with the world, they are, in fact, a business.

“Art has been something that people appreciate but they don’t know how to put value to it,” she said.

Wagner agreed. She said that early on during the pandemic, people looked to the arts for solace.

“Artists are second responders,” she said.

“First responders save lives, but artists put everything back together.”

Alex Alexander, a musician in Rocky Point, said that people who work in the arts — such as being a working musician — don’t have the typical 9-to-5 routine.

“You can plan with a 9-to-5,” he said. “I can’t plan my life as other people would.”

And Tom Manuel, executive director of The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook and a musician himself, said that his venue was shut down for 15 months throughout the pandemic, but still continued to serve its community with outdoor shows despite the lack of revenue coming in.

Manuel said that while big industries were being saved by the federal government, the nonprofit sector was “left out” and they had to look to their sponsors to help save them.

“We were really blessed in that we had a lot of our donors and sponsors step up and say, ‘Hey, we know that you’re closed, but we’re going to

still give our sponsorship and don’t worry about programming, just stay open,’” he said.

Board members at The Jazz Loft began raising money themselves for other artists who were struggling, raising nearly $20,000 worth of assistance.

But the pain and struggle were still there as they helped their peers.

“The statistics show of all the things that could close and not reopen, the most unlikely place to reopen after being shuttered is a performing arts venue,” he said. “That’s the data.”

Manuel said that jazz is all about improvisation — which is what musicians did — and to work through the blues.

“I think that one of the beautiful things that did come out of the pandemic is people realized how important the arts were to them,” he said.

“I think there was a reconnection that was established, which is a beautiful thing.”

Artists can participate in LIAA’s survey until Feb. 16 online now at longislandartsalliance.org.

“People don’t realize this is their livelihood on the line,” Wagner said.

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County

Local Leaders: Lawrence Aviation presents real potential for LIRR electrification

Town, county and state reps all declare new push for PJ line

BY KYLE BARR DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Discussions have dragged on and on, and even as years turned to decades the dream of an electrified northern line of the Long Island Rail Road has shuddered along, like a train limping forward on little to no steam.

Though local leaders now say the time is ripe.

With state reps championing the cause in Albany, local leaders are holding up a plum location for the necessary rail yard: Lawrence Aviation.

The 126-acre superfund site in Port Jefferson Station has sat vacant since 2000, after the airplane parts company was accused of leaching chemicals into the ground. Ground cleanup was completed in 2009, and asbestos was removed from some of the buildings in 2015, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Various sources confirmed that late last year, local civic leaders as well as representatives from Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington townships, joined Suffolk County and state leaders on the superfund site property to identify where such a rail yard could be built. The latest update

on the property by the EPA, dated October 2021, stated that the site consists of 10 buildings, a drum crushing site, and a vacant lagoon and woods.

Yet officials across both parties have long supported the project, which has been talked about for over four decades. It’s a project the environmental and economics-minded people have been on board with. Both previous state Sens. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) and John Flanagan (R-East Northport) were proponents, and many electeds like Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) have long called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to move the project forward.

What’s different now? Charlie Lefkowitz, president of Three Village Chamber of Commerce, said the most recent change in state leadership has resulted in a “newfound focus” on electrification.

He agreed that Lawrence Aviation, which is tucked far enough away from residential houses to be not detrimental to homeowners, would be an optimal place for a yard.

The chamber leader also cited how much of a beneficial impact electrifying the line would have on the surrounding economy, especially

Local representatives gathered at the Lawrence Aviation property last year to identify where a rail yard could be built.

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with how Stony Brook students can use the train to traverse to hotspots like Port Jefferson or Huntington villages.

“Creating viable, sustainable public transportation really has to be looked at hard here,” Lefkowitz said.

In a written statement, state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) further put his support behind the project.

“There is broad and bipartisan support to turn the site into a new rail yard to provide greater service to the region,” he wrote. “It is also a crucial component in the plan to electrify the

Port Jefferson line. With the state and federal government investing billions of dollars in infrastructure there is no excuse not to get these projects completed now.”

Suffolk County officials said they have had this property in mind for civic development since at least 2015. Deputy County Executive Peter Scully, known as the county’s water quality czar, said that there’s a current $860,000 annual cost to taxpayers due to a number of liens on the property, and the federal government is also looking to make up costs on the $150 million cleanup.

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Kindergarten Registration for the 2022-2023 School Year The Three Village Central School District offers a full-day kindergarten program for district residents. In order to be admitted to Kindergarten in September, a child must be five years of age, on or before December 1st, during the school year in which they enter kindergarten.

A proof of residency (a lease, deed, tax bill or signed contract) must be provided, along with the child’s original birth certificate, and a copy of their immunization records at the time of registration.

Children must be registered with the Registrar’s Office at the North Country Administration Center prior to Kindergarten screening.

The registration process has been moved online and can be started at the Student Registration page of the Three Village website.

Choose Student Registration under the “District” drop down menu, or type the following address into a browser: https://sites.google.com/3villagecsd.org/registration/home.

Additional information can be obtained by calling the Registrar’s office at 631–730–4555.

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■ A resident on Huntsman Lane in Commack reported that a catalytic converter was stolen from a 2004 Honda on Feb. 2.

■ A resident on Atlas Way in Commack reported that his car was broken into on Feb. 1 and a ski jacket, ski goggles and speakers were stolen. The value of the items was approximately $850.

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Port Jefferson Station

■ Two snowblowers were stolen from the back of a truck parked on South Columbia Street in Port Jefferson Station on Jan. 31. Total value of the items was $600.

■ A petit larceny was reported at Markay’s Wine & Liquor on Nesconset Highway in Port Jefferson Station on Feb. 3. A man allegedly stole a bottle of whiskey valued at $35.

Selden

■ Bob’s Stores on Middle Country Road in Selden called police to report a shoplifter on Feb. 4. A man allegedly loaded a shopping cart with items of clothing, stuffed the items into a backpack in a dressing room and walked out of the store. The value of the items was approximately $250.

Smithtown

■ Two pair of sunglasses valued at $400 were stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked on Hallock Avenue in Smithtown on Jan. 31.

St. James

■ A resident on Northern Blvd. in St. James reported the theft of tools from his property on Jan. 30. Assorted items, including a screw gun, drills, and a sawzall were taken with a value of approximately $2500.

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Sixth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate two women who allegedly stole merchandise from Target, located at 265 Pond Path in South Setauket, on Dec. 12, 2021 at approximately 1 p.m. They may have fled in a grey Mazda.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest.

Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS.

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Pastry decorator creates works of art in East Setauket

Carter has been working for the bakery, which is owned by David Dombroff, for 13 of the nearly 27 years it has been open. The decorator said as each holiday approaches she looks for inspiration by searching on the internet. She said each cookie takes a different amount of time to create. Making the sweet treats involves a few steps, from first baking them to then cutting them into different shapes. She then creates backgrounds for

each cookie by dipping it in a color she has chosen. After the background is ready, she creates the outline for the cookie and fills it in freehand.

“It takes practice and there has to be the right consistency of the icing,” Carter said.

“If not, it will be running or too soft or too hard to squeeze.”

In addition to cookies, Carter decorates cakes, too. Before she started working

for Rolling Pin, she worked for various bakeries and has 20 years of experience in the field. Carter’s decorating talent is one that naturally came to her.

“Since I was a kid I just liked art,” she said. “Then, one day, I said, ‘Hey, I can decorate a cake. I see people doing it. I can do it.’”

Her favorite holiday cookies are the ones she makes for Easter, Halloween and Christmas, and the decorator said she feels bad during Father’s Day because it’s one of the holidays that’s difficult to come up with themes that would be fitting for a cookie.

The bakery also takes custom orders for parties and showers. Sometimes, Carter said, the shapes are unique, and she creates a temporary cookie cutter out of tin until she can find one to buy.

Haegele said her favorite cookies since she started working at the bakery are the Halloween and Christmas cookies, including one that was shaped like a snow globe with sugar that looked like glass.

“What she did was amazing,” Haegele said.

The Rolling Pin bakery is located at 1387 Route 25A, East Setauket.

Waiting on the MTA

who have confirmed the feasibility study is ongoing, though he and other civic leaders have not seen it yet. He added he’s spoken to the NYS Senate transportation committee leader, and that the local state electeds are on board.

“We’re on the radar as far as Albany is concerned,” Figliola said. “These are big capital projects that take a lot of time and planning. So while you know, while it may not happen right now, we need to start planning for this for the future, because COVID will be over, and life will get back to normal.”

Some transportation advocates say the silence is a bad sign. Larry Penner, a self-described transportation historian and writer from Great Neck, spent 31 years in the U.S. Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office. In a phone interview, he said riders should not expect anything on electrification until 2034, at least.

He pointed to the Feb. 8 public hearing from the MTA which did not include mention of Port Jeff electrification. He also mentioned that there’s no money for the project in the MTA’s 2020-24 five-year capital plan. After the feasibility study is released, the MTA will then need to do the EPA’s environmental review process, which will allow for further FTA funding. The same amount of lead up time to acquiring a rail yard is likely to be the same.

“It’s a package deal,” Penner said. “You can’t build a storage without electrification and Federal Transit Administration funding. With this requirement that you fund a transportation improvement project, it has to go to beneficial use. So you couldn’t build a yard and have it sit

there for 15 years.”

Scully said they have been in communication with MTA board members, but emphasized that timing is important for the MTA to start making moves on both electrification and Lawrence Aviation. Lansdale said the county is tasked with disposing all parts of the property, and without an agreement they may have to move on.

But another piece of the puzzle remains whether riders will return to the LIRR, especially as the pandemic continues. Many workers have realized the benefits of working from home, and many city offices remain in remote work. Though it had increased marginally in October of last year, weekday ridership on the LIRR continues to be about 50% of what it was in 2019, before the pandemic.

Penner said that problem likely overshadows any attempt to add more services on existing lines.

The existing MTA projects like the ongoing $11.2 billion East Side Access to Grand Central Station promised tens of thousands of new riders when originally proposed, but with the ongoing pandemic he remains skeptical. “You want to protect and maintain the existing service before you expand service,” the transportation historian said.

Still, locals like Lefkowitz and Figliola remain optimistic about ridership bouncing back.

“As a New Yorker who lived through tragedies like 9/11 and others, I think there will be people going back from the trains,” Lefkowitz said. “I do believe that at some point, these things will get back to whatever the next transition of our future is, but I believe people will be riding the trains.”

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM During the pandemic, small business owners have been looking for ways to get customers’ attention. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, a local bakery is providing an option that stands out from the average box of chocolates.

When people first walk into Rolling Pin bakery in East Setauket they’ll spy on the shelves colorful cookies wrapped in individual clear bags. The works of art are created by Kim Carter, the bakery’s decorator, who is currently busy preparing cookies for Valentine’s Day featuring cute couples, colorful lovebirds, adorable animals and more. Every holiday for about eight years, Carter said she comes up with novelty cookies for customers to purchase to give away as gifts and Feb. 14 is no different.

When Evelyn Haegele began working at the bakery a few months ago, she was floored by her new co-worker’s talents. Her cookies are “just incredible,” she said. “Each one is a work of art. I felt like, ‘Kim, you really deserve to be noticed.’”

LIRR

Continued from A5 The county has already received legislative approval to settle with all the lien claimants, and execution on those settlements will likely happen in the next six to eight weeks, according to the deputy county executive.

“We have developed a cooperative working relationship with the state and federal governments to process those liens,” Scully said during a Zoom interview.

The Suffolk County Landbank put out a request for proposal in July of last year for companies to develop the Lawrence Aviation site. Early concepts of the site detail a portion of the property zoned for light industrial, while another section on the eastern end will be preserved as open space. Notably, the north end of the property conceptualizes an MTA railyard. The study also mentions potential plans to reroute the train tracks and potentially moving the Port Jefferson train station onto the Lawrence Aviation site as well, which would eliminate the crossing on Route 112.

Sarah Lansdale, president of the landbank and the county’s planning and environment director, said that and other concepts are on the table.

She confirmed the county received one bid back on the RFP for a solar farm on the industrial part of the property, though she did not offer further details as negotiations are ongoing.

Kim Carter, decorator at Rolling Pin bakery, holds a cookie she decorated. Photo by Rita J. Egan

With those claims out of the way, all that’s left is for the MTA to make a decision regarding electrification, but the transportation entity has been notoriously tight-lipped regarding this and other projects. The MTA included $4 million in their five-year 2015-19 capital plan to pay for a feasibility study on electrification of the Port Jefferson Branch, and while the transportation entity confirmed the study is in motion, there is no word on when it will be completed.

Dave Steckel, a spokesperson for the MTA, said in a statement that a feasibility study is one “among a variety of transit proposals throughout the region” and that “the authority will assess the study and other regional proposals using consistent metrics — such as cost, ridership, etc. — so that they can be comparatively evaluated.”

The analysis will also be used in MTA’s 20-year needs assessment, which is due next year.

That’s not to say the project is unknown to transportation officials. Kevin Law, past president of the Long Island Association who just recently stepped down from the MTA board, offered his support to two Island-based projects, according to Newsday. One was to finish the Yaphank station and the other to finish Port Jeff line electrification.

Law is moving on to be the new director of Empire State Development.

Anthony Figliola, a civic leader in the Three Village area who is running for the New York District 1 congressional seat on the Republican ticket, said that he has talked to railroad officials

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LEGALS Notice of Formation of JLW Accounting and Tax Services LLC Articles of Organization files with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/9/2021. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 690 Route 25A Suite 1, East Setauket, NY 11733. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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VILLAGE OF POQUOTT ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF VARIANCE HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on February 16, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. the Village of Poquott Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at Village Hall, 45 Birchwood Avenue, Village of Poquott. This hearing will also be available virtually by GoTo meeting. Dial-in info is found below.

Variances requested by John Cunniffe, the agent representing residents, at 8 Cedar Avenue, Village of Poquott, is as follows; (1) Seeking a variance for lot area of 2,906 sq ft. whereas Zoning Code 18313(D) states minimum lot area per dwelling is 10,000 sq ft. in Zone C1 and the applicant proposes a lot size of 7,094 sq ft.

(2) Seeking total side yard variance of 3 ft. 5 in. whereas Zoning Code 18313(D) states minimum total

To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com side yard is 25 ft. in Zone C1 and the applicant proposes a total side yard setback of 21 ft. 7 in.

Anyone interested in commenting on said variances may do so at this hearing.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE IV, SEC. 85-55 (B) OF THE BUILDING ZONE ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS WILL HOLD A WORKSESSION ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022 (BZA CONFERENCE ROOM – 1ST FLOOR) AT 3:00 P.M. AND A PUBLIC HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 (2ND FLOOR AUDITORIUM) COMMENCING AT 2:00 P.M. AT ONE INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH OPEN

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Over the last month, the pandemic trends continue to improve in Suffolk County and in the country.

After a rocky start to the New Year, brought on by an omicron variant that was more contagious than either the original strain of the virus or the delta variant, the percentage of positive tests in Suffolk County continues to decline.

As of Feb. 7, the percentage of positive tests over a seven-day average in Suffolk County was 4.9%, according to the New York State Department of Health. That is down from 14% on Jan. 21 and 27% on Jan. 7.

The trends on Long Island are following similar patterns in other parts of the world that experienced the omicron infection earlier.

South Africa “experienced the omicron wave first,” Dr. Gregson Pigott, health commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, wrote in an email. “Almost as steeply as cases rose, they fell.”

Indeed, at Port Jefferson’s St. Charles Hospital, Dr. Sunil Dhuper, chief medical officer, said there has been a “significant” drop in the number of patients hospitalized and in the number of Emergency Room visits, while the use of monoclonal antibodies to treat patients in the early stages of an infection has also dropped dramatically.

“We are not seeing the kind of volume we were seeing a few weeks ago,” Dhuper added.

The Department of Health for the country reported that the reinfection rate, which reached a peak in the last week of December and first week of January, has also been declining.

The number of hospitalizations throughout the country has fallen enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joseph Biden (D), recently said in an interview with the Financial Times that the country is almost past the “full-blown” pandemic phase.

While he didn’t offer a specific timetable, he suggested that virus restrictions could be lifted within a matter of months.

Area doctors suggested that vaccinations and more mild symptoms among those who contracted the virus helped alleviate the strain on the health care community.

“The vast majority of those hospitalized for respiratory or other COVID-type illnesses have not been vaccinated,” Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, explained in an email.

While the overall number continues to decline, the county, and the country, need to make continued progress in reducing the overall infection rate before the all-clear signal.

Sean Clouston, associate professor in the Program in Public Health and the Department

of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, suggested that the current number of infections still leaves room for improvement.

A positivity rate above 5% which was the figure earlier this week, is “still extremely high,” Clouston explained in an email. “Currently, the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] would recommend that no one in the globe travel to Long Island, which doesn’t seem like we ourselves see this as safe objectively.”

Health care providers highlighted the difference between the reported and the actual infection numbers.

When the pandemic started in March of 2020, Dhuper estimates that the ratio of reported to actual cases was close to 1 to 10. With Delta, that number likely dropped to closer to 1 to 5, and with omicron, that’s probably about 1 to 3 or 4.

With the increase in at-home testing, the numbers “we see are more of a sampling, showing the approximate prevalence of COVID-19 virus circulating in the population,” Pigott explained.

Nachman added that Stony Brook is following guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when it comes to vaccinations for people who tested positive for COVID-19.

These public health authorities generally recommend a booster dose after people feel well, which is usually 10 days to two weeks after an illness.

Doctors said they are monitoring a new version of the omicron variant, called BA.2 The new variant seems a “bit more” contagious” than the original omicron, Dhuper said. Vaccines, however, have a “reasonable level of protection to prevent hospitalizations and death.”

Dhuper said he continues to “keep an eye” on that variant.

Nachman suggested that the available vaccines continue to help.

“Right now, the [two omicron variants] do not seem to be radically different,” she suggested, as both have a short incubation period and people are protected by the vaccine.

With the number of people contracting the virus and developing more severe symptoms declining, Dhuper said the demand for the effective monoclonal antibody treatment continues to fall.

Dhuper said a recent New England Journal of Medicine study indicated that the antiviral treatment remdesivir, manufactured by Gilead Sciences, was effective at treating mild to moderate illnesses on an outpatient basis over a three-day period.

“Given under controlled conditions, (remdesivir) could be one of the best alternatives that we have,” Dhuper said.

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Editorial

Helping people: It’s an art

When people look back to spring 2020, they remember how the COVID-19 pandemic shut things down. Zoom became a regular form of communication, visits to grandparents were done in a drive-thru fashion and many people anxiously awaited their stimulus checks.

While those checks from the U.S. government were sent, some people needed the money more than others.

Many people lost their jobs, their businesses and their livelihoods. In fact, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in February 2020 — just before the pandemic hit the States — unemployment was at 3.5%. Just two months later, as the virus began to spread rapidly, unemployment rates skyrocketed to nearly 15%.

But what many people might not realize is how impacted the local arts were during this time.

We as a society leaned on our first responders out in the trenches. We listened to our elected officials on the news every day hoping to hear something good. We shopped locally to help our business-owning neighbors.

However, something that we all enjoy one way or another — the arts — was shattered and not much was being done to help our local artists, performers and creators.

According to Johns Hopkins University research, as of December 2021, the percentage of job losses at nonprofit arts organizations remained more than three times worse than the average of all nonprofits.

Artists/creatives were — and remain — among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce. The arts are a formidable industry in the U.S. — $919.7 billion (preCOVID) that supported 5.2 million jobs and represented 4.3% of the nation’s economy.

And now, nearing two years since the 2020 shutdowns, artists on Long Island are voicing how it felt. Many believe that significant relief funding was not given to the arts and related nonprofits despite the impact they have on Long Island’s economy.

Think about it. How many of us love to see a show at the local theater? How many of us hang artwork from nearby artists on our walls? How many of us enjoy live music as we dine at our favorite eateries?

Those people had jobs, too.

Sometimes we forget that the people working after a typical 9-to-5 shift are working, too. What some may call a hobby is a way of life for thousands of people.

We still have a way to go, and unfortunately COVID will haunt us for a very long time in more ways than one. But the next time you’re out to dinner with a friend, drop a tip in the guitar player’s case. Splurge on a drawing from a local artist and support your neighborhood theater.

The arts helped us during the pandemic. We found solace in other people’s creations. Now it’s time to pay back the artists and show them how much they are needed, wanted and loved.

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own.

They do not speak for the newspaper.

Letters to the Editor A second ‘big lie’

In Jim Soviero’s recent letter [“Cheering informed parents voting for change,” Village Times Herald, Jan. 20] he appears to push a second “big lie”: Communists, disguised as competent, dedicated if Democratic-leaning educators — who wish our children harm — have stolen our schools to inculcate Marxism and race hatred.

Soviero’s “informed” parents have not astutely uncovered secret lists.

They — and countless Republican legislators — have received slanted extracts of public documents, usually featuring Toni Morrison, Alice Waters and James Baldwin, from the usual deeppocketed right-wing sources like the Koch brothers. In his long letter, Soviero does not name a single author, title or targeted age group. With some chutzpah, he cites one school board that introduced a Marxist attack on the nuclear family even as it rejected “uplifting stories from Condoleezza Rice [R]” and none other than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Trumpers have called the children’s book, “Heather Has Two Mommies” by Lesléa Newman with illustrations by Diana Souza, an attack on the nuclear family. God knows what King story Soviero meant. This MLK Day, Jan. 17, Republicans gave much lip service to one hopeful King comment that people be judged on their character not color.

Yet during his lifetime, King was vilified as a Communist by the entire right wing for forcefully opposing the Vietnam war and promoting workers rights as well as human rights — he was murdered in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting striking sanitation workers. King advocated nonviolence but, like Gandhi, it was a disruptive, civil disobedience nonviolence. I don’t think Soviero had in mind King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” On MLK Day, King’s son was marching in Washington, D.C., pleading publicly with Sens. Joe Manchin [D-WV] and Kyrsten Sinema [D-AZ] to support the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, knowing that not a single Republican would vote for the acts.

“Condoleezza Rice” is a nice curveball, Jim. She’s the talented, whipsmart adviser and then secretary of state to President George W. Bush [R].

But it would be dishonest to omit her crowning achievement: She conspired with Vice President Dick Cheney [R] and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [R] to get the United States to attack Iraq in 2003 on the basis of totally false claims that Iraq president, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass

destruction. (The poison gas and other weapons the U.S. gave our then-favorite dictator for his almost eight-year war against Iran — and the Kurds — were long gone after Desert Storm, as our government well knew and as the U.N.’s Scott Ritter and Hans Blix told the rest of us.) The war cost thousands of American lives, thousands with PTSD and at least $1 trillion so far. We didn’t count Iraqis — we left Iraq at the mercy of the Islamic State group. An ironic coda, the Rice-Cheney-Rumsfeld trio induced Gen. Colin Powell (R), the first Black secretary of state, to humiliate himself in a U.N. speech in which he repeated the lies, some of them disproved overnight. As he told the British newspaper, The Guardian, two years later, it was a still-painful blot on his career. Not too “uplifting.”

Finally, the “informed” people Soviero has in mind, no doubt, include “The Long Island Loud Majority” and “Save Our Schools” Trumpers of Smithtown, who vociferously oppose both COVID-19 mitigating policies (“mask tyranny!”) and any mention of Black Lives Matter.

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

The American crisis

“These are the times that try men’s souls” opening sentence from “The American Crisis” written by Thomas Paine, and first printed in pamphlet form in December of 1776. In a later writing by Paine, he described that he wrote that first and subsequent pamphlets in what he called “a passion of patriotism” after “seeing the deplorable and melancholy condition the people were in, afraid to speak and almost to think, the public presses stopped, and nothing in circulation but fears and falsehoods.”

Fast forward to today, bringing Paine — who had previously authored “Common Sense” — in a time machine to the present. He would so eloquently describe the “American crisis” which we are experiencing today with history repeating itself: People “afraid to speak” for fear of repercussions; “and almost to think” (for themselves); “the public presses stopped” (censorship); “and nothing in circulation but fears and falsehoods” (media suppression of the truth).

He would surely have noted that most Americans possess the “common sense” to realize that today’s lamestream media doesn’t cover the facts — they cover them up. He would also be visibly upset, I’m certain, by the lack of “a passion of patriotism” by the so-called progressive (leftist/ Marxist) movement, for example, and be utterly confused as to why they chose that name when their agenda is anything but progressive.

Paine would be totally baffled as to why modern religious organizations among our midst would elevate their martyred alleged criminal (George Floyd) to hero status, while not protesting the senseless murders of police officers (real heroes) with the same vigor. In his time, all known facts from both sides of a conflict were communicated from the pulpit to a mostly illiterate congregation. Several members of church congregations today are blinded from the truth due to the spewing of disinformation and outright lies from the media, touting “racism” based on an incurable case of Trump Derangement Disorder (unfortunately, a terminal mental condition).

Paine wouldn’t be able to comprehend the fact that so many Americans reelect politicians who do nothing for their constituents, instead enriching themselves and their families with American citizen taxpayer dollars.

He would be absolutely livid that today’s Department Of “Justice,” the Supreme Court and others in our government aren’t looking into the facts regarding the real “insurrection” which took place on Nov. 3, 2020. A treacherous act which subsequently placed a puppet king, one of the aforementioned career politicians, in our White House and one who is worse than King George III. Paine was with the Continental Army when he witnessed the extreme suffering and ultimate sacrifices of those who helped to create our country.

He would be in a state of disbelief while witnessing those who are attempting to destroy our country today.

Once again, “these are the times that try men’s souls” indeed. Let “common sense” raise your awareness.

Art Billadello East Setauket

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Opinion Eat chocolate, float off the ground and other advertisement observations

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Sometimes, the ad is such a loss for me that I figure I couldn’t possibly be the target audience.

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Then there are all the ads for medical products that could cure something, but that have such severe side effects that the risks may not be worth the cure.

“We might cure your hiccups,” the ad suggests, “or we might cause you to have such trouble breathing that you should stop taking our medicine and see a doctor.”

That brings me to the ad for Truist.

Have you seen their ads, with the pile of soft stuff that looks like an old collection of the stuffed animals my children used to win at boardwalk games or receive for birthday presents?

This pile of soft things rolls along, helping people by recovering hats that blow off at the beach, bringing a spare tire to a man stuck on the side of the road, or delivering a flower to a

girl waiting on a bench with her mother.

Being the OCD parent that I am, I would probably say to my daughter, “Don’t take anything from a blob that’s been rolling on the filthy street!”

I imagine the idea for the rolling blob that cares could have originated in a number of ways.

“George” might have forgotten that he needed to come up with an ad while he was racing to wake his daughter for school. Seeing the pile of stuffed animals he was supposed to help clean up in her room, he thought, “Hmmm, if I throw this in my car, it’ll look like I cleaned up and maybe I can use it as a part of my work.”

Once he arrived at the office, he threw the stuffed animals on the table, hoping he wouldn’t get fired and, just as importantly, that he didn’t lose any of her treasured toys.

Or, perhaps, “Andrea” couldn’t sleep the night before she had to present an idea. At

3:21 a.m. she watched an old western. There, in between the John Wayne dialog and the crescendo to a gunfight, she found inspiration.

Rolling across the screen was the ubiquitous tumbleweed.

“That’s it!” she thought, as she imagined Tumbleweed 2.0, the modern version of an iconic image of the Old West. Instead of a collection of dried out grass, the modern Truist Tumbleweed (at that hour, alliteration is awesome!) is composed of soft, plush stuffed animals. And, instead of being indifferent to the plight of the people it passes, the Truist Tumbleweed cares, lending a stuffed animal hand.

“George” and “Andrea” may have moved on to other jobs. Or, thinking outside the box, they may have gotten a promotion. They could use some of that extra money to buy risky remedies or trippy chocolate. And, hey, if they have any problems, the Truist Tumbleweed is ready to show it cares.

and social media this week. We certainly love our pets, maybe because they can’t talk. And they are unfailingly loyal and forgiving. Well, dogs, are. I’m not so sure about cats. In some cases, we regard them almost as our children.

A carpenter of undetermined ethnicity, who was doing some work in our house, once pointed to our golden retriever and proclaimed, “In my next life, I want to come back as an American dog.”

We love our true friends, those who are there to prop us up when we fall as well as those who share our good times. We can also genuinely love our teachers. A caring teacher can make a profound difference in the direction of a child’s life. For example, my sixth grade teacher, in an unexceptional neighborhood elementary school in New York City, stayed after hours, for a few weeks, to coach half-adozen of us so that we might pass a citywide test for an exceptional junior high school. Two of us did, and to this day I love that woman, though after that year, I never saw her again.

We can love members of our clergy, who are predictably there for us with advice at critical times and with solace at times of

deep loss. Yes, that is their job, but some do their jobs beyond measure. We can love our doctors, who take an oath to watch over our health, but again, some are deeply caring. For these people, we are more than grateful. They love us, and we love them back.

We can love the natural world around us, a world that is filled with songbirds and butterflies, squirrels and foxes, wild turkeys and seagulls to delight the senses. We love the first sight of crocuses announcing the beginning of spring and the early flowering magnolia trees.

If we are lucky, we can truly love our jobs. For us, they are more than a source of livelihood, more even than a career. They are a calling. They propel us out of bed in the morning and often are the subject of our last thoughts as we go to sleep at night. They coax out the best in us and provide us with unique satisfaction.

Finally, we need to love our lives.

Sometimes to do so takes re-contexting and perhaps re-adjustment. That love seems like a worthy goal.

The many loves of our lives

M

aybe it is a Hallmark holiday, but with St. Valentine’s Day approaching, love is definitely in the air. Perhaps Chaucer started it with his poetry about Valentine’s Day in the 14th century.

There have been many iterations since. At the least, it’s a time to reflect on the loves in our lives. And there are many. Let us count them together.

Saint Valentine’s Day has traditionally been associated with romantic love, as Between you and me people—give each other

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF material declarations of their affections.

These start with cards, some of them originally composed and handwritten, others store bought and ceremoniously delivered. Red roses are the usual accompaniment and perhaps even generous amounts of chocolate. All of that helps to endure a cold winter’s day and night. It certainly helps

the local economy.

So many other loves exist, some of them deeply in our hearts. The love we bear for our children makes for family bonding. It has been said that if children loved their parents as much as parents love their children, the human race would end because the children would never leave their homes. From the marvel at first sight of those tiny fingers and toes to the day we walk them down the aisle to start their own families, we love them, disregarding all the aggravations that happen in between. For most, this is an indissoluble love.

And yes, most of us truly love our parents, the mother who taught us to read, the father who taught us to swim. We go from thinking they are all-knowing demigods to wondering if they are the stupidest humans on earth, and ultimately to respecting them for all they have given us despite their various shortcomings.

We are awed by their indestructible love for us and at the same time acknowledge that they are but human.

We have been impressed with the number of entries for our Love My Pet section that is running in the newspapers and on the website

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History Close at Hand

Celebrating local history through stories of the past

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM “HISTORIAN! you who celebrate bygones!

Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races — the life that has exhibited itself, You have treated man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers, and priests; But now I also, arriving, contribute something: I, an habitue of the Alleghanies, treat man as he is in the influences of Nature, in himself, in his own inalienable rights, Advancing, to give the spirit and the traits of new Democratic ages, myself, personally, I do not tell the usual facts, proved by records and documents, What I tell, requires no further proof than he or she who will hear me, will furnish, by silent meditating alone; Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself;) I illuminate feelings, faults, yearnings, hopes — I have come at last, no more ashamed nor afraid; Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.”

(Walt Whitman - 1860) This week I am beginning a series looking at the history of Setauket/Brookhaven. I hope that you will let me introduce you, usually every other week, to the stories of the people who have lived here, the homes and communities in which they lived, and the events that surrounded them. There is no limit to the depth and breadth of our history. It is reflected in the indigenous people who left the remains of their stone tools, and in the Native Americans who are listed in Madam Martha Smith’s records of the off-shore whaling operation she and her husband William “Tangier” Smith ran from their manor homes in Setauket and Mastic between 1696 and 1708.

It is reflected in the letters and correspondence

between George Washington, Benjamin Tallmadge, Abraham Woodhull, and the rest of the Revolutionary War spies as they fought to establish and preserve American freedoms.

It is reflected in the journals of Mary Satterly Rowland who spent 20 years at sea with her ship captain husband, raising four children and burying one on shore in the midst of a bombardment during the American Civil War. It is reflected in the Victorian homes built by ship captains who took their locally built and financed ships up and down the Atlantic coast and around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to China and Japan.

It is reflected in the photographs of school children in the 1890s, some dressed in the clothing of recent Eastern European immigrants and pictured together with children of both African and Western European heritage. It is reflected in the Stony Brook Rehabilitation Shopping Center and the Frank Melville Memorial Park which were designed and built due to the philanthropy of the Melville family who settled in Setauket in the first decade of the 20th century.

It is reflected in the historic churches throughout Brookhaven from the 1729 Caroline Episcopal Church in Setauket; to the 1892 Congregational Church of Patchogue, established in 1793; to the 1853 United Methodist Church of Lake Ronkonkoma, in Lake Grove, founded in 1796. It is reflected in the Historic Districts in the Town of Brookhaven from Miller Place established in 1978, which is also a National register Historic District, the first in the Town of Brookhaven, to the Eastport and Moriches Historic Districts, the farthest to the southeast, established in 2000 and the Bethel Christian Ave., Laurel Hill Historic District, in Setauket, established in 2005 to preserve African American and Native American culture.

It is reflected in the State University at Stony Brook and the housing developments constructed by builder William Levitt in the 1960s. It is also reflected in the trees planted along Route 25A, with funds raised by school children in the six Three Village elementary schools, in 1976, for the celebration of the Bicentennial of American Independence.

Around 13,000 years ago the first humans entered the continent of North America, coming across the land bridge from Asia. These huntergatherers found many animals strange to them including mammoths and mastodons in a climate significantly colder than we experience today.

We know this from the discovered remains of their activity here and the plant life remains preserved in the earth. These indigenous people hunted these giants to extinction with a new weapon, a weapon they did not bring with them from Asia, as there are no examples of it found there. This weapon was the Clovis point, a large spear point that was used by hunters until the

The Fischetti site, above, during excavation in 1981. This was a site for manufacturing stone tools and weapons, located along West Meadow Creek and excavated in 1980 through 81. Below right, The Stony Brook site, a shell midden at Aunt Amy’s Creek excavated in1955 by New York State archaeologist William Richie, shown in white hat. Below left, a stone tool found at the Fischetti site. Above, Three Village Historical Society photo; below right from Bulletin 372 New York State Museum by William A. Richie; and below left from Three Village Historical Society collection

beasts they hunted were gone. A number of these points were found on Long Island and are preserved in collections from the Garvies Point Museum in Glen Cove to the Southold Indian Museum. In Brookhaven, two of the Clovis points are in the Sachem Public Library.

I wish to acknowledge that we are sitting on the land of the Setalcott and Unkechaug indigenous people in the Town of Brookhaven, and we pay respect to the Setalcott and Unkechaug people whose land is where we live, work and explore.

Over the next 10,000 years, these indigenous people settled into village life — often highly mobile villages — across North America. The first settlers on Long Island, Algonquian in language, culture and appearance, left many records including archaeological remains of villages such as the Stony Brook Site (Richie 1959) and remains of tool manufacturing sites such as the Fischetti Site along Stony Brook Creek (Three Village Historical Society 1980).

When the first European explorers came to America, they recorded details about the Native Americans they met. These documents provided the first written records we have. As Long Island was settled by new immigrants during the 17th century, more and more written records were produced. The interpretation of these artifacts, such as stone tools and weapons, the remains of English settler’s homes, and the archival materials, such as deeds, town records, letters,

journals, and other written materials, have provided the basis for the stories of our history I will be pleased to relate.

Beverly C. Tyler is a Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-7513730. or visit www.tvhs.org.