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May 27, 2021

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Village TVMOW gives thanks for longtime volunteer

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Three Village Meals on Wheels longtime volunteer lead nurse and board member Mary Ann McAvoy has decided to retire. In her 35 years at TVMOW she has served in many positions. Mary Ann was one of our volunteer nurses, a driver and for the past few years a lead nurse, serving on the board and coordinating our volunteer nurses. She has devoted numerous hours sharing her professional expertise and generously giving to her community. This generosity runs in the family. Mary Ann’s late husband Ed McAvoy also served on our board and currently her daughter Eileen is a permanent driver. We know TVMOW will always be in Mary Ann’s heart and thoughts, as she will be in ours. Our heartfelt thanks, deepest admiration and best wishes for Mary Ann McAvoy.

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Mary Ann McAvoy, left, shown with her daughter Eileen, has decided to retire from Three Village Meals on Wheels.

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TBR News Media photographer Greg Catalano captured moments during Stony Brook University’s May 19 ceremony that began at 9 a.m. The commencement was one of 10 ceremonies held over the course or three days. For more graduation photos by Greg Catalano, visit tbrnewsmedia.com.

Stony Brook University holds 10 ceremonies to celebrate 2021 graduates

Stony Brook University held 10 2021 Degree Conferral Celebration ceremonies between May 19 and 21 to comply with COVID-19 restrictions, according to a press release from SBU. More than 7,700 graduates — the second largest graduating class in the university’s 61 year history — were awarded a combined total of 7,795 degrees and certificate completions. All candidates, with their families and friends using COVID-19 safety protocols, were invited to participate in-person or watch the ceremonies as they were streamed online. Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis addressed candidates saying, “Class of 2021, your unparalleled experience has given you a wisdom that was unimaginable just 18 months ago. You are leaving Stony Brook with lived, first-hand knowledge of the human condition — in all its foibles, nuances and possibilities. I submit that this commencement has unrivaled symbolic value. The world is opening up, and you are joining leaders in a new world with new possibilities. It thrills me to see the Class of 2021 embark on its next steps.” After an address by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), McInnis, Provost Paul Goldbart and university deans conferred the degrees, as the Class of 2021 officially joined the ranks of more than 200,000 Seawolves worldwide. Students from 66 countries and 36 states were represented

in the Class of 2021 and ranged in age from 19 to 69. Degrees were bestowed in the following categories: 4,645 bachelor’s degrees, the largest number of degrees awarded in a year 2,275 master’s degrees 600 doctoral and professional degrees 275 certificates The selected Class of 2021 student speaker was Kiara Arias, the director of Diversity and Inclusion Affairs for the Undergraduate Student Government who majored in Political Science and minored in journalism and media arts. She also served as a resident assistant and a digital journalism teaching assistant. Arias shared this with her fellow graduates. “Our time at Stony Brook has been filled with so many great experiences surrounded by incredible people. I encourage us all to continue finding beauty in the ordinary, little things. When you do this, all moments become memorable; you’ll find yourself smiling even on your worst day, giving your life a whole new meaning,” Arias said. As part of the ceremony, President of the Undergraduate Student Government, Asna Jamal presented the Senior Class Legacy Gift of $24,022. The Senior Class Legacy Gift will support the Student Emergency Support Fund, Stony Brook Fund for Excellence, General Scholarships, Student Life, the Staller Center and many other important parts of the University.

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Town Collaborative effort harvests bags of sugar kelp in Setauket Harbor BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Members from the Town of Brookhaven, the Setauket Harbor Task Force and other environmental groups headed out on two boats last week to harvest a potentially new aquatic crop — sugar kelp. On Thursday, May 20, after a several-monthslong process of preparing, planting and harvesting, volunteers joined Brookhaven bay constables out of Port Jefferson Harbor to head slightly west in retrieving the brown native seaweed that was brought to two labs for study. The project was spearheaded by nonprofit The Moore Family Charitable Foundation — a community involvement group that helps with projects throughout Long Island and the five boroughs. “Our main goal for this year is to spread the word about kelp and where it grows, the conditions it needs, how to process it and how it can benefit growers on Long Island,” Wendy Moore, benefactor and manager of the sugar kelp project, previously told TBR News Media. According to the foundation’s lead scientist David Berg, sugar kelp is known to be edible for both people and pets, it can be used as a fertilizer, bioplastic, biofuel, cosmetics and is a method to

help improve water quality. Collaborating with the Town of Brookhaven, the Setauket Harbor Task Force, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University and Cornell Cooperative Extension, it took a large group of different people to implement a crop that could become a big deal on Long Island. Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said that when he became supervisor, he immediately knew he wanted to lease out the town’s bays and harbors for projects like this. “Not only clams and oysters, but also for things like kelp, which is tremendous,” he said. “And seaweed. I think that we can start an industry and stimulate it to become a major industry.” In December, the task force dropped mooring anchors and set up the kelp growing field’s area in Setauket Harbor. In January, members attached the kelp seedlings to a line just under the surface of the water between buoys there. George Hoffman, a trustee of the task force which helped oversee the sugar kelp cultivation and production, said partnerships like this are critical to get stuff done. “We’re really thankful to the partnership,” he said. “Between the town and the harbor group, we wouldn’t be able to do what we’re doing if we didn’t have that partnership. It’s just a great example of how government works with

citizens groups.” Nestled in the water between Port Jefferson and Setauket, more than 200 pounds worth of sugar kelp was retrieved. Along with being a sustainable crop, sugar kelp helps take in excess nitrogen and CO2 from harbor waters, improving its chemistry. Hoffman said that excess nitrogen causes harmful algae bloom and excess CO2, resulting in ocean acidification. “Removing nitrogen and CO2 from the waterways is absolutely critical,” Romaine added. “So, [sugar kelp] shows a lot of promise — and if you worry about methane gas, cows eat this when they feed and have 80% less gas.” Town Councilman Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) joined on the boat, lifting up bags of kelp to weigh. He said that projects like this not only help the environment, but can also make positive changes in the private sector in the future. “To me this is the way that government should operate,” he said. “We make investments like this, into scientific research, or ways to develop either materials, or crops or techniques that can have a positive impact on things.” Eventually, he said, a private sector can take over and make a business out of the crop. “Government has a role in helping to get that started and making those investments in science,” he said.

stepping out of the car to examine the damage. “The residents of Suffolk County in New York pay some of the highest taxes in this country,” he added. “There are better, safer and more secure roadways than those we are currently forced to utilize on a daily basis … the lives of the hardworking commuters and their family members should not be put in peril each and every time.” The meeting came after the legislator issued a letter signed by all 17 Suffolk County Legislators to Cuomo and NYS Department of Transportation Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez. Ten town leaders also signed the letter to show their support. Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) spoke on their behalf. “Someone once said, all issues of government are issues of money. Look how the state spends its money,” Romaine began. “We have roads in atrocious conditions — I rode on the expressway to get here, and it seemed like there was more blacktop to the potholes than there was concrete for the pavement.” Romaine said this needs to change. “We need to make sure that the guys that ride bikes, the guys who drive cars, the gals that drive cars, that they’re safe, these roads are not safe,” he said. “The money is there — let’s spend it where it should be spent. Let’s spend it on our infrastructure. Let’s create jobs. Anyone that studies economics,

understands that investment in infrastructure, produces great results for the economy, and also for our citizens that have to travel.” Caracappa mentioned that repairs for these roadways are scheduled for completion by 20232024, which he said is an unacceptable time frame. At a time when the state has received unprecedented levels of federal aid, he felt the time for immediate and decisive action must be now. “New York State should be held accountable and responsible for every flat tire, automobile accident, injury or death caused by the current road conditions of these roadways, with restitution given to those who have been major under the conditions that can be likened only to a war-torn country,” Caracappa said. “We have an obligation to ensure the safety of our communities, and should make every effort to begin to do so without any further delay.” Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) said the state roadway infrastructure has been completely mismanaged. “They are spending millions of dollars unnecessarily when they should be paving our roads,” he said. “People are going to get hurt and cost this county and the state millions of dollars in lawsuits, and all for what? Because of mismanagement.” And it isn’t just for residents. Caracappa and several of the other officials mentioned that East

A closer look at sugar kelp. Photo by Julianne Mosher

Romaine said that Brookhaven has the largest waterfront of any town on the Island. In Port Jefferson, the area surrounding the harbor where the kelp was harvested goes back to the village’s original roots. “We’re looking around and asking, ‘What could be the new industry for our town? What could give it life? What could be productive? How could we help nature to save clams, oysters, seaweed, kelp?’” he said. “Those industries are the future that we have to be visionary enough to support and to put the muscle of town government behind it.”

Local legislators lead the fight to fill state road potholes BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A bipartisan group of representatives from local, state and federal elected offices, civics and the community gathered to call on the governor to repair New York state roads with federal funding. Spearheaded by Suffolk County Legislator Nick Caracappa (R-Selden), he demanded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) gives his immediate attention to the unsafe state roads, specifically in Suffolk County. Caracappa said roads like I-495 (the Long Island Expressway), Route 27 (Sunrise Highway) and Route 25 (Middle Country Road) have potholes the size of craters, that cannot just damage a vehicle, but could potentially take a life. “The current state of these roadways presents very hazardous, dangerous driving conditions to the millions of commuters who depend upon these roadways on a daily basis,” Caracappa said at the May 21 press conference outside the state building in Hauppauge. “Whether it be for work or leisure, commuters place themselves in harm’s way when entering these roadways throughout Suffolk County and beyond.” The legislator noted that the county’s roads occupy over one million commuters on a daily basis. When a driver blows out a tire on the side of a busy highway, he could be putting his life at risk,

End tourism is a multi-billion-dollar industry. But it won’t be if tourists can’t safety get out there. “We spend millions of dollars for tourism on the East End,” said Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset). “I don’t know if they are able to get there without blowing a tire.” Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy Jr. (R) added that Long Island is finally “mask free” and tourism will be back. “Let’s talk about commerce and equity of a $5 billion East End tourism industry,” he said. “People from all over the tri-state area make choices … Are they going to come down roads that are like downtown Baghdad? Or are they going to go to Jersey or up the Hudson River?” Just an hour before the 11 a.m. press conference, Cuomo sent out a statement announcing a $30.6 million investment in pavement restoration projects for Long Island roads — for five state highways in Nassau and Suffolk Counties totaling 20 miles. State Senator Mario Mattera (R) said that regardless, the roads are still a disaster. “It’s amazing that the governor heard probably about this press conference,” he said. “And now money is being released. But again, strike with numbers in solidarity. And you know what, everybody needs to be a voice. This is our safety. These are our roads.” The state restoration plans to end by 2022.

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University

After a year of firsts, Stony Brook’s medical students graduate

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Behind every stethoscope is a story. This year, the stories among the new doctors who recently graduated from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University developed against the backdrop of a pandemic and included numerous firsts for the school and for the families of graduates. Seven of the 150 graduates, which is the largest medical school class to earn a medical degree from Stony Brook, completed their training in three years, joining a small but growing trend among medical schools that are encouraging more people to consider becoming physicians while reducing the potential debt that can accrue while earning their medical degree. “This year is really going to stand out,” said Andrew Wackett, vice dean of Undergraduate Medical Education and the director of the Clinical Simulation Center. “This was a group of students that really went through an awful lot. They rose to the occasion. They didn’t complain. Rather than do that, they tried to figure out how to help. It’s a special group of physicians that will make a great impact.” Indeed, amid the worst of the pandemic, which hit Suffolk County especially hard during the spring of 2020, medical school students performed a host of important tasks, just as so many other health care professionals took on additional responsibilities and put themselves in harm’s way to protect the public. Students volunteered to help with research, assisted patients who needed to connect with clinicians through in-person or telehealth and did “a lot of work with following up to make sure [residents] were doing okay when they were discharged,” Wackett said. These students were “really important in organizing the vaccine strategy,” as a number of them trained and volunteered to give vaccines. “They doled out thousands of them.” Wackett suggested that the adversity caused by the pandemic has enabled class members to become resilient. “What they learned, more than anything, was that they could adapt to whatever the world threw at them,” Wackett said. “It made them a much tougher group of students.” Wackett said he was moved by the story of Chineze Nwebube, who described in the Graduate Address how she took the MCAT several times and had moments when she thought about giving up. With the support of her family, she persisted and was “an exceptional medical student and will be an incredible physician,” Wackett wrote in an email. Wackett said the spotlight on social injustice amid the pandemic also affected the dialog and the didactic efforts at the medical school.

“Certain populations have disparate health care, and we need to be involved to make that better,” Wackett said. That includes an analysis not just of disease or pathology, but also a consideration of how social factors impact the course of illnesses. “Courses that traditionally taught science [are also] looking at the social context,” he said. “Medicine and public health are way more interconnected than we even realized.” The graduates are preparing to venture into a world in which new lessons learned in the classroom and the clinic will prove especially valuable. At the same time, they bring a passion, dedication and conviction to the communities they plan to serve. In between graduating and taking the next steps in their medical careers, some of this year’s graduates shared their inspiring and inspired stories.

Dr. Mom

Like many of her friends in the Orthodox Jewish community, Eliana Fine got married soon after high school, at the age of 19. Within two years, she gave birth to her son Ezra and, six months ago, to her daughter Sophia. She could have dedicated herself and her time to becoming a stay-at-home mom, enveloping herself in a culture that emphasizes family and community and that keeps many women incredibly busy taking care of their often numerous children. Instead, with the valuable and necessary support of her husband, Mark Feld, Eliana decided to go a different route, not only pursuing a career as a doctor but also earning her degree in three years. “I come from a community where most of the women don’t work,” Fine said. “I honestly didn’t even know any other orthodox Jewish woman who was a physician or was a medical student or physician trainee.” Fine, however, wanted to develop her own career, particularly in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, where she felt she could help women, particularly in her community. She described how the women in her community often don’t have extensive knowledge about reproductive and sexual health education before they get married. Women often have a kallah teacher, who is usually the wife of a rabbi. “Your education is really based on the knowledge of your teacher,” Fine said, and “what they feel comfortable teaching you.” Fine wanted to give back to her community, educating women about medical and health issues that can help “empower them to make better health care decisions.” As a physician, Fine hopes to help other orthodox Jewish women understand more about women’s health and fertility. “If women are having difficulty conceiving, the peer pressure can be stressful,” she said. “All of your friends are having kids and you’re not moving forward with your family.” She wanted to give back to a community

Adam Bindelglass, Simrat Dhawilal, William Guo, Maxwell Moore, Justin Bell, Eliana Fine and Brant Lai graduated from Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University this year after three years of study. Photo from Stony Brook University

that she loves and that provides the context and framework for her life. “There’s a lot of misconceptions when it comes to contraception,” Fine said. “People think contraception causes infertility. People don’t necessarily utilize contraception because of various misconceptions about it.” To get to this point in her career, Fine said she had to overcome some of the expectations of a culture that sometimes places a stronger emphasis on family, particularly for women, than it does on developing careers. She appreciated and is grateful for the support of her husband and her grandfather, Dr. Richard Fine, who was a dean of Stony Brook medical school. When she was younger, she knew he was a physician, but wasn’t aware of his extensive career beyond that. She appreciated his regular questions to her about what she wanted to do when grew up, which allowed her to think for herself about what motivates her and how to make a difference in the world. Fine believes that her experience and background as a member of the Orthodox Jewish community will help her relate to and communicate with her patients. “Women have these family purity laws and it’s really important to go to an OB/Gyn who is very familiar with these laws. To be a part of the culture and come from the same community, you understand how to provide care.” Fine, like several of her colleagues in the inaugural three-year medical program, felt closer to the incoming class of 2018 than to the graduating class of 2021, with whom she interacted primarily

in the last six months of her medical school training. During graduation, Fine appreciated the opportunities she feels she had that others don’t always get. “I want to make sure I do something great with the opportunity I was given and make a difference in the world,” Fine said. As for her children, Fine would like them to see that they, too, can choose how they live their lives, regardless of any expectations that others place on them. “I would like to show my kids, if I can do it, they can do it,” she said. “I want them to know they have choices in life and that I will support whatever they choose. They should know they have the wings to fly, in terms of having a career and going to college.”

Early challenges

When Adam Bindelglass was five years old, the car he was in slid across black ice into oncoming traffic, which took the life of his two-year-old sister Amy. Bindelglass also sustained serious injuries, breaking both his arms, his left leg, collar bone, and fracturing his neck. During his recovery, he had to wear a halo on his head to keep his spine aligned until it healed. The halo and the injuries left numerous scars, which triggered questions from his classmates. “I have a pretty long scar from the base of my skull down my neck,” Bindelglass said. “I was self-conscious about those scars.” Additionally, he has scars on his right bicep, and he has a mark that used to stretch the entire STUDENTS CONTINUED ON A10

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VILLAGE OF POQUOTT ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF VARIANCE HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on June 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. the Village of Poquott Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing on the following variance request. The entire meeting will be conducted by GOTO MEETING. The link and information for the hearing is available on the Village of Po q u o t t website at VillageofPoquott.com and found below. Variance requested by Gary Osher representing Dr. Joseph Boglia of 25 Walnut Ave., Poquott, NY 11733 is as follows; (1) seeking front yard variance of 20.87 ft. for a detached garage whereas Zoning Code 183-13(D) states minimum front yard for accessory structures is 30 ft. in Zone C3 and the applicant proposes a detached garage with a front yard setback of 9.13 feet. Anyone interested in commenting on said variance may do so at this hearing.

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NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING AND SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF THE THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWNS OF BROOKHAVEN AND SMITHTOWN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a budget hearing of the qualified voters of the Three Village Central School District of the Towns of Brookhaven and Smithtown, Suffolk County, New will be held in the in the Board Room of the North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, in said District on June 2, 2021 prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law for the purpose of presenting the following item: To adopt the annual School District budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of said School District; FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a special district meeting to conduct a budget revote will be held on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the Five (5) Election Districts, described below, at which time the polls will be opened to vote by voting machine upon the following items: To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised

by taxation on the taxable property of the District; FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that no business shall be conducted at the special district meeting, except that which is specified in this notice; and FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the 2021-2022 school year for school purposes (the proposed budget) will be made available, upon request, to any resident of the District beginning June 1, 2021 during regular business hours at the Office of the District Clerk, North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, at each school house in the District, at school district offices, on the District’s website. FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election. If a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. Registration shall be conducted for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law through Friday June 10, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on all regular days during which the Office of the District Clerk is in operation, located in the North County Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such register, provided that at such time he or she

is known or proven to the satisfaction of said District Clerk to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The Board of Registration will also meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law on June 8, 2021, at the Office of the District Clerk at the North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. prevailing time, on weekdays, to add any additional names to the Register to be used at the aforesaid election, at which times any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The register so prepared pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk at the North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on June 10, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m, prevailing time, on weekdays, and each day prior to the day set for the election, except Sunday, and on Saturday, June 12, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and at the polling place on the day of the vote. FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable during school business hours from the District Clerk beginning May 25, 2021. In accordance with Education Law 2018-a, such completed applications for absentee ballots may not be received by the District Clerk earlier than May 17, 2021, and must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or to

the agent named in the absentee ballot application. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. A list of persons to whom absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the Office of the District Clerk on and after June 10, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., prevailing time, on weekdays prior to the day set for the vote, except Sunday, on Saturday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and during polling hours on June 15, 2021, the day set for the vote. Any qualified voter, may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Any such written challenge shall be transmitted by the District Clerk or a designee of the Board of Education to the inspectors of election on the day of the vote. FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a qualified voter whose ability to appear personally at the polling place is substantially impaired by reason of permanent illness or physical disability and whose registration record has been marked “permanently disabled” by the Board of Elections pursuant to the provisions of the Election Law, shall be entitled to receive an absentee ballot pursuant to the provisions of the Education Law without making separate application for such absentee ballot. FURTHER N OT I C E IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a military voter who received a military ballot for the annual meeting and election, shall be entitled to receive a military ballot pursuant to the provisions of the Education Law without making separate application for such military ballot. A military voter’s original military ballot must

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Setauket, NY Election District 3: Melville High School, Old Town Road, Setauket, NY Election District 4: Melville High School, Old Town Road, Setauket, NY Election District 5: Melville High School, Old Town Road, Setauket, NY

Ward 380 East Ward 380 East Ward 380 East

Dated: Setauket, New York May 21, 2021 By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Towns of Brookhaven and Smithtown Suffolk County, New York By Inger Gemano, District Clerk 2688 5/27 2x vth

llevar a cabo una revisión presupuestaria el martes 15 de junio de 2021 entre las 6:00 am y las 9:00 pm, hora predominante, en las Cinco (5) Elecciones Distritos, que se describen a continuación, en cuyo momento se abrirán las urnas para votar mediante máquinas de votación sobre los siguientes elementos: Adoptar el presupuesto anual del Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 2021-2022 y autorizar que la porción requerida del mismo se recaude mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad tributable del Distrito; POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que no se llevará a cabo ningún asunto en la reunión especial del distrito, excepto lo que se especifica en este aviso; y

SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the Three Village Central School District. The boundaries of the Election Districts are coterminous with the attendance zones of the elementary schools in the District, as adopted by resolution of the Board of Education, are as follows: Election District 1: Arrowhead Elementary School, 62 Arrowhead Lane, East Setauket, NY Election District 2: Minnesauke Elementary School, 21 Highgate Drive, East Setauket, NY Election District 3: William Sidney Mount Elementary School, 50 Dean Lane, Stony Brook, NY Election District 4: Nassakeag Elementary School, 490 Pond Path, Setauket, NY Election District 5: Setauket Elementary School, 134 Main Street, Setauket, NY and the place in each election district for voting shall be as follows: Election District 1: Melville High School, Old Town Road, Setauket, NY Election District 2: Melville High School, Old Town Road,

Ward 380 East Ward 380 East

AVISO DE AUDIENCIA DE PRESUPUESTO Y REUNIÓN ESPECIAL DE DISTRITO DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE THREE VILLAGE PUEBLOS DE BROOKHAVEN Y SMITHTOWN, CONDADO DE SUFFOLK, NUEVA YORK POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO, que una audiencia presupuestaria de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Three Village de las ciudades de Brookhaven y Smithtown, Condado de Suffolk, se llevará a cabo en la Sala de Juntas del Centro de Administración de North Country, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, Nueva York, en dicho Distrito el 2 de junio de 2021] tiempo vigente, para la transacción de negocios según lo autorizado por la Ley de Educación con el propósito de presentar el siguiente ítem: Adoptar el presupuesto anual del Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 2021-2022 y autorizar que la porción requerida del m i sm o sea r ec a ud ad a mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad gravable de dicho Distrito Escolar; POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se llevará a cabo una reunión especial de distrito para

POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que una copia de una declaración detallada por escrito de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año escolar 2021-2022 con fines escolares (el presupuesto propuesto) estará disponible, a pedido, para cualquier residente. del Distrito a partir del 1 de junio de 2021 durante el horario comercial habitual en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito, Centro de Administración de North Country, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, Nueva York, en cada escuela del Distrito, en las oficinas del distrito escolar, en el Sitio web del distrito. POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se requiere el registro personal de votantes de conformidad con la Sección 2014 de la Ley de Educación o de conformidad con el Artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones. Si un votante se ha registrado hasta ahora de conformidad con la Sección 2014 de la Ley de Educación y ha votado en una reunión anual o especial del distrito dentro de los últimos cuatro (4) años calendario, es elegible para votar en esta elección. Si un votante está registrado y es elegible para votar según el artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones, también es elegible para votar

en esta elección. Todas las demás personas que deseen votar deben registrarse. El registro se llevará a cabo con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación hasta el viernes 10 de junio de 2021, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm, hora predominante, en todos los horarios regulares. días durante los cuales la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito está en funcionamiento, ubicada en el Centro de Administración del Norte del Condado, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, Nueva York, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho registro, siempre que que en ese momento se sabe o se prueba a satisfacción de dicho secretario de distrito que tiene derecho a votar en la elección para la cual se prepara el registro, en ese momento o en el futuro. La Junta de Registro también se reunirá con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación el 8 de junio de 2021, en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito en el Centro de Administración de North Country, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, Nueva York entre las 9:00 a. M. Y las 2:00 p. M. tiempo prevaleciente, de lunes a viernes, para agregar cualquier nombre adicional al Registro que se utilizará en la elección antes mencionada, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que su nombre sea incluido en dicho Registro, siempre que en dicha reunión de la Junta de Registro se sabe o se prueba a satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro que, en ese momento o en el futuro, tiene derecho a votar en la elección para la cual se prepara el registro. El registro así preparado de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación se archivará en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito en el Centro de Administración del Norte del País, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, Nueva York, y estará abierto para la inspección de cualquier votante calificado de el Distrito el 10 de junio

de 2021, entre las 9:00 am y la 1:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, los días de semana y cada día anterior al día fijado para la elección, excepto el domingo y el sábado 12 de junio, 2021 de 9:00 am a 11:00 am, y en la mesa de votación el día de la votación. POR LA PRESENTE SE DA UN AVISO ADICIONAL, que las solicitudes de boletas de voto ausente se podrán obtener durante el horario laboral escolar del Secretario del Distrito a partir del 25 de mayo de 2021. De acuerdo con la Ley de Educación 2018-a, el Distrito no podrá recibir dichas solicitudes de boletas de voto ausente completadas durante el horario laboral escolar. Secretario antes del 17 de mayo de 2021, y debe ser recibido por el Secretario del distrito al menos siete (7) días antes de la elección si la boleta debe enviarse por correo al votante, o el día antes de la elección, si la boleta debe enviarse entregado personalmente al votante o al agente nombrado en la solicitud de boleta de voto ausente. El secretario de distrito debe recibir las boletas de voto ausente a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m., hora prevaleciente, el martes 15 de junio de 2021. Una lista de las personas a las que se les emiten las boletas de voto ausente estará disponible para su inspección para los votantes calificados del Distrito en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito a partir del 10 de junio de 2021, entre las 9:00 am y las 11:30 am y 2:15 pm a las 3:15 p. m., hora prevaleciente, los días laborables anteriores al día fijado para la votación, excepto el domingo, el sábado entre las 9:00 a. m. a las 11:00 a. m., y durante el horario de votación el 15 de junio de 2021, el día fijado para la votación. Cualquier votante calificado puede, al examinar dicha lista, presentar una impugnación por escrito de las calificaciones como votante de cualquier persona cuyo nombre aparezca en dicha lista, indicando las razones de dicha impugnación. Cualquier impugnación por

escrito será transmitida por el Secretario del Distrito o una persona designada por la Junta de Educación a los inspectores de elección el día de la votación. POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que un votante calificado cuya capacidad para comparecer personalmente en el lugar de votación está sustancialmente afectada por una enfermedad permanente o discapacidad física y cuyo registro de registro ha sido marcado como “discapacitado permanente” por la Junta Electoral de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley de Elecciones, tendrá derecho a recibir una boleta de voto ausente de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley de Educación sin presentar una solicitud por separado para dicha boleta de voto ausente. POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que un votante militar que recibió una boleta militar para la reunión anual y la elección, tendrá derecho a recibir una boleta militar de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley de Educación sin hacer una solicitud por separado para dicha boleta militar. La boleta militar original de un votante militar debe devolverse por correo o en persona a la Oficina del Secretario de Distrito en North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, Nueva York. Las boletas militares serán escrutadas si son recibidas por el secretario de distrito antes del cierre de las urnas el 15 de junio de 2021 mostrando una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o mostrando un endoso fechado de recibo por otra agencia. del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 15 de junio de 2021 y firmado y fechado por el elector militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se verifica no posterior al día anterior a la elección.

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Continued from A6 length of the long bone on his leg. Motivated by the desire to help other people, particularly in difficult medical situations, Bindelglass said that day, and the scars he now bears as a mark of his career commitment, brought him to this landmark career moment. A recent medical school graduate, Bindelglass said his experiences early in life have come up several times when he interacts with patients in high-stress situations in the hospital. He recalled one incident when he spoke with a patient who was about to undergo spinal surgery. He described how he could “live a full, fulfilling life without complications from these operations,” Bindelglass said. “I hope to continue to bring that [empathy], especially since the patients I’ll be working with [could be] in an acute situation where I’m going to see them right before one of the potentially the biggest operations or procedures of their life.” He hopes to bring comfort and peace of mind going into surgery. A three-year graduate from medical school, Bindelglass plans to continue in a residency at Stony Brook in anesthesia. Bindelglass said the pandemic showed him the importance of managing patients’ airways. Bindelglass said he thinks about his sister “all the time” and hopes she “would be proud” of his commitment to helping others with his career choice.

Here comes the married couple

Monica Lenis didn’t think Jheison Giraldo, the guy from another class who was making up a lab in undergraduate biology at Stony Brook University, was all that funny. That just made him try so much harder, prompting eye rolls from a tough audience. “His jokes were not making me laugh,” Monica recalled about that fateful science class eight years ago. “Somehow, we hit it off. We started talking after that and got to know each other.” Despite Monica’s initial resistance to his charms, the couple started spending considerable time together, where they realized how much they had in common. For starters, they were born in Colombia, five hours apart by car. Their families had moved to Long Island, his to Brentwood and hers to

Bethpage, when each of them was nine years old. Once they started to get to know each other, they appreciated each other’s strengths. Jheison, who describes himself as the more outgoing of the two, tried to compete with Monica academically. That didn’t work out too well. On a test in Biochemistry 2, in which the average was around 40, he reached the high 90s. He confidently went over to Monica, figuring he had to have beaten her. She scored a 102, getting all the questions right and adding the two extra points. “If you can’t beat them, join them,” he said. “I knew being next to her, she’s going to push me to excel in every way I could. I would do the same for her.” Monica appreciated Jheison’s pervasive and persistent positive attitude. She also appreciated how well he interacted with her parents and her family, enjoying the older brother role he took with Monica’s 15-year-old brother. After they graduated from Stony Brook, they got married. Jheison had always known he wanted to be a physician, dressing up for Halloween close to a dozen times as a doctor. Monica had other interests, including in the law. In addition to falling in love with Jheison, she also developed a deep appreciation for science in college and eventually deciding that she didn’t want to conduct research. They applied to 30 medical schools. When they decided to go to Stony Brook together, they became the first married couple to enter the medical school together. “When we first started” meeting people in the class, some of their peers “thought of us as the grown-up couple,” Monica said. Each of them, however, established their own academic and social friend groups. While in medical school, they supported each other, as they focused on becoming, as Jheison put it, “the best physicians we could.” Now that he is planning to become a resident in internal medicine and pediatrics and she plans to focus on internal medicine and cardiology, the medical couple has decided to contribute to a community they feel could use their support. “From day one, we wanted to go to a place where we could be faced with patients who need more equity and diverse doctors working with them,” Jheison said. “We always looked at strong minority areas or historically under-represented areas. Miami stood out for us.”

Former dean and senior vice president of health services Ken Kaushansky with Jheison and Monica Giraldo, the first married couple to enter and graduate from medical school at Stony Brook together. Photo from Stony Brook University

While Long Island has been her home since she arrived in the United States in 2002 and has a “special place in my heart,” Monica is excited for an opportunity for personal growth. She is also thrilled to get away from the snow and the cold. As she prepares for the next chapter in her life, she is looking forward to continuing in her journey with Jheison, who is “very positive and very uplifting. He’s always been very supportive, which is really all you could ask for in a partner.”

The magic of threes

Simrat Dhaliwal graduated from Northeastern with her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience in three years and repeated the pattern at Stony Brook’s Renaissance School of Medicine, where she recently earned her medical degree. The pattern of moving through degree programs in one fewer year is a by-product of several factors. Dhaliwal is “efficient with time,” she said. “Medicine is a very long route. I know the path I want to take.” Dhaliwal, whose mother Tejwinder Dhaliwal is a nurse practitioner at Rochester Regional and served as a health care role model, wanted to be a doctor from the time she was in kindergarten. As she attended middle school and high school, she became fascinated with science. She majored in neuroscience at Boston University. Comparing the accelerated pace of her undergraduate years to medical school, Dhaliwal said the medical education is considerably more rigorous.

“As an undergraduate, once you finish a course, you can forget [some of the material] and move on,” she said. In medical school, students build “on the foundation. If you never had that strong foundation, there’s no way to move on. You’ll be responsible for patients” someday and “you need to know as much as possible.” Indeed, the pandemic reinforced Dhaliwal’s decision to become a doctor, showing her that doctors had to “fall back on that foundation to help patients in need,” she said. “This pandemic made me want to become a physician even more because it is [a combination of] public service and critical thinking at the same time. There is no greater service to the public than helping someone, especially when it is in such high demand.” Dhaliwal, who is starting her residency in internal medicine at Stony Brook on July 1, said her parents are originally from a rural part of India. In her travels to visit family in India, she has “seen the health care disparity that exists in a non-developed nation.” For people in rural India, the nearest hospital is a 45-minute drive, which can create a dangerous delay for people who are having a heart problem or a stroke, where minutes can make the difference in a prognosis. One of the most important lessons she learned from medical school is to keep learning. The same holds true for her expectations of herself when she practices medicine. She hopes to help educate people about how “preventive medicine is as important as treatment.”

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To Place A Legal Notice Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com de asistencia de las escuelas primarias del Distrito, según lo adoptado por resolución de la Junta de Educación, son los siguientes: Distrito Electoral 1: Escuela Primaria Arrowhead, 62 Arrowhead L a n e, East Setauket, NY Distrito Electoral 2: Escuela Primaria Minnesauke, 21 Highgate Drive, East

Setauket, NY Distrito Electoral 3: Escuela Primaria William Sidney Mount, 50 Dean Lane, Stony Brook, NY Distrito Electoral 4: Escuela Primaria Nassakeag, 490 Pond Path, Setauket, NY Distrito electoral 5: Escuela primaria Setauket, 134 Main Street, Setauket, NY y el lugar en cada distrito electoral para votar será el

siguiente: Distrito electoral 1: Escuela secundaria Ward Melville, 380 Old Town Road, East Setauket, NY Distrito electoral 2: Escuela secundaria Ward Melville, 380 Old Town Road, East Setauket, NY Distrito electoral 3: Escuela secundaria Ward Melville, 380 Old Town Road, East Setauket, NY

Distrito electoral 4: Escuela secundaria Ward Melville, 380 Old Town Road, East Setauket, NY Distrito electoral 5: Escuela secundaria Ward Melville, 380 Old Town Road, East Setauket, NY Fecha: Setauket, Nueva York 21 de mayo de 2021 Por orden de la JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN

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the outpouring of support her team and the softball community displayed. “My dad’s mom died from breast cancer and so did my aunt’s mom, so it’s for all the moms,” the senior said. “You see all the balloons that the parents spent their own money on, the cups in the outfield fence, they did that for me and my mom so they always have my back.” Coach Burger said the girl’s raised nearly $1,000 to be donated to breast cancer research. Pictured clockwise from upper left, Ward Melville senior Jordi Montuori with her mom Leigh-Anne at a Strike Out Cancer fundraiser May 25; Patriots eighth-grader Sara Kropp throws the runner out at second base; and Leigh-Anne-Montuori throws out the honorary first pitch. — Photos by Bill Landon

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Memorial Day through the years in the Three Village area

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Monday, May 31, is Memorial Day, a day to honor the men and women who served our country and made the ultimate sacrifice. The Three Village area has two memorials to honor the men who did not return from World War I, World War II and Vietnam. On Sept. 1, 1919, a memorial service was conducted at the new East Setauket Memorial on the corner of Route 25A and Shore Road followed by a parade of vehicles and floats to the new memorial on the Setauket Village Green. On the Green is a boulder containing plaques honoring the two Setauket men who did not return from World War I. The boulder was placed there in 1919 to honor them. The memorial service, at the end of the parade, was reported by the Port Jefferson Times. “With the service men in uniform standing stiffly at attention and the civilians with bared heads, the entire assemblage united in singing ‘America’ ... The Rev. T.J. Elms then dedicated a rock to the memory of the Setauket boys who died in the war — Raymond Wishart and Harry Golden ... Mrs. Wishart received a medal for her son and Mr. Golden for his boy.” The massive boulder erected on the Setauket Village Green was brought from Strong’s Neck and the plaque was designed by the wellknown artist, William DeLeftwich Dodge, who painted the murals on New York history that are in the state capital in Albany. Private Raymond Wishart, son of Postmaster and Mrs. Andrew Wishart, was born Sept. 10, 1893, and he died in France on Aug. 23, 1918. His remains were returned to

this country and were buried in the Caroline Church of Brookhaven graveyard on a Sunday in July of 1921. Harry Golden is remembered by his nephew Sam Golden. “He was a Sergeant in charge of the mules,” Sam recalled. “His unit was attacked and he was killed. He was 28 years old when he died and he’s buried there in France.” On the opposite side of the rock is a plaque that was placed there after World War II. It reads, “1941-1945 — In memory of Clifford J. Darling, Henry P. Eichacker, Francis S. Hawkins, David Douglas Hunter, Orlando B. Lyons, Anthony R. Matusky, Edward A. Pfeiffer, (and) William E. Weston of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives in World War II.” A new plaque was later added to honor Chris Brunn who died in Vietnam in 1969. Each year since the 300th anniversary of Setauket and the Town of Brookhaven, the Three Village Historical Society Founders Day Committee, working with all fourthgrade students from the five Three Village elementary schools, conducted a walking tour of the original settlement area surrounding the Setauket Village Green and the Setauket Mill Pond. The walking tour includes the story of the soldiers’ memorial on the Green. At the conclusion of the tour, each student was given a booklet detailing the people, places and events discussed on the tour. Due to the pandemic, and with the cooperation of the Three Village Central School District, the tour was presented virtually this past two years. This year, without a Memorial Day parade from the Setauket Village Green to the East Setauket memorial, the Memorial

In 1919, parade vehicles travel on Shore Road, above. Below, the original East Setauket WWI memorial. Photo from Three Village Historical Society collections

Day ceremony will take place only at the East Setauket memorial at the intersection of Route 25A and Shore Road at 11 a.m. with the massed flags of the Three Village veterans and community organization as well as village and town officials and dignitaries.

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

Three Village fourth-grade students on the Founders Day Tour at the Setauket Village Green memorial in 2019. Photo by Beverly C. Tyler

New walking tour book available As an outgrowth of the Founders Day program, the Three Village Historical Society has produced a new book “A Walking Tour Guide for Families who Love Exploring and Bringing History to Life.” The book, including the “Soldiers

honored on Memorial Rock,” will be available at the Three Village Historical Society booth at the Friday farmers market located at 93 North Country Road, beginning on June 4. — Beverly C. Tyler

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P.J. Gelinas Middle School

From left, Brooke Morrison, Ella O’Connor and Owen Murphy Photos courtesy of TVCSD

Three Village writers making their mark Several Three Village students showed off their creative writing prowess in Avalon Nature Preserve’s first Winter Solstice Writing Contest. Students from all three of the district’s secondary schools were honored with top places in this inaugural competition. The following students were among the

contest winners: Owen Murphy – P.J. Gelinas Junior High School, ninth grade, “Trees”; Reyva Jamdar – Ward Melville, 10th Grade, “The Plush”; Ella O’Connor – P.J. Gelinas Junior High School, ninth grade, “A Winter Sonata”; and Brooke Morrison – R.C. Murphy Junior High School, seventh grade, “Winter’s Secrets.”

From left, Michael Retakh and Eric Zhong Photos courtesy of TVCSD

Mathematical wizards

P.J. Gelinas Junior High School students Michael Retakh and Eric Zhong were named first place winners in the individual round of the MoMathlon Tournament. The event took place over the course of one school day and students put their thinking and teamwork skills to the test with three rounds of mathematical problems: the Individual Round, Team Round, and Mix-Up Rounds.

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Following competition rounds, an expert educator leads students in a discussion of the solutions, exploring new ways of reaching the answers and inviting students to share their problem-solving strategies with their fellow budding mathematicians. Throughout the tournament day, students socialize with friends, new and old, and enjoy mathematical brain teasers and engaging warm-up activities.

Setauket FD saves choking victim in local restaurant

Above, Arrowhead Elementary School first grade students posed with the author. Photo courtesy of TVCSD

Author shares a love of literacy

Arrowhead Elementary School kindergarten and first grade students had a special treat when the school welcomed Ward Melville High School math teacher Cheryl Taborsky and newly published author as part of Ward Melville High School library’s “Author in Residence” series. During the event, Taborsky read her book

“Sarge,” a story about what it means to be a puppy raiser for a service dog. The students marveled knowing that Ms. Taborsky not only penned the book but also was the illustrator for the publication. After enjoying the story, the students helped to make dog treats for a local animal shelter.

On Monday, May 24, at 5:50 p.m., the Setauket Fire Department was dispatched to the report of a person who was choking at a local restaurant. While responding, the department was notified that the patient was unconscious and CPR had been initiated on scene, according to a SFD press release. Chiefs Richard Leute, Tim Devine and Charles Regulinski responded along with Captain Justin Kinney and Probationary Member Hunter King. District Paramedics Chris DiDonato and Ray Smith III and District EMT Joseph Sapienza along with Captain Kinney arrived within three minutes and confirmed the patient was in cardiac arrest and initiated Advanced Life Support care. After removing the blockage to the airway, an advanced airway was placed in the patient’s trachea and life sustaining compressions and ventilations were continued. Upon transport to the hospital, the patient had regained a pulse and began breathing on her own. The patient was

transported to Stony Brook Hospital where she was talking and conscious and is expected to make a full recovery. The Setauket Fire Department reminds residents that CPR significantly increases the chances of survival for a patient in cardiac arrest or who is choking. For those who are interested in becoming trained in CPR, contact the Setauket Fire Department via email at CPRTraining@setauketfd.com. The Setauket Fire Department has been providing Fire and Emergency Medical Services to the residents of the Setauket Fire District since 1909. The department responds to approximately 3,600 fire and EMS calls per year and operates five Advanced Life Support Ambulances and a 24/7 paramedic responder covering the 28-square-mile district. The Setauket Fire Department is always looking for new members. Call (631) 941-4900, ext 1029, or go to www. setauketfd.com for more information about joining the department.

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Stop Gyrodyne’s mega development now BY GEORGE HOFFMAN AND HERB MONES

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A bumpy ride toward better roads

Last week, May 21, dozens of people from all walks of life gathered in front of the state office in Hauppauge to talk about how New York needs to fix its roadways. Spearheaded by county Legislator Nick Caracappa (R-Selden), he had a bipartisan group of local and state representatives, as well as advocates for the safety of drivers, riders and walkers. The idea behind the press conference was to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) fund more money toward fixing our roadways. Ironically enough, that morning, a $30.6 million investment for resurface and repair projects was granted for Long Island state roads. But the meeting was still relevant. We heard the stories of motorcyclists, bike riders and people who choose to walk alongside state-run roads. They said how terrifying it is to navigate through the craters within the streets that are otherwise called potholes. They are dangerous, and we applaud the legislator for standing his ground demanding more. We all complain that the roads are terrible around here — some towns are better than others because they have jurisdiction over their lanes. But when it comes to state roads — roads like Route 25 which drives completely through our newspapers’ coverage area, the Long Island Expressway and the Northern State Parkway — not only is it scary when you unintentionally hit a pothole, but it can be damaging to our vehicles. Is New York State going to pay us back for the blown-out tires we’ve gotten driving to work? Are they going to repair our dented rims? No, they won’t. But the least the state can do is continuously fix up the large holes that sink into the blacktop. We know that it’s hard to keep up with. We know a lot of work goes into it. But after Friday’s conference, we know that there are many of us who want our major roadways to be safe.

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Nearly four years ago, we learned that Gyrodyne LLC, a real estate company and one of Smithtown’s biggest private landowners, announced it wanted to create a $150 million megadevelopment on the historic Flowerfield property off Route 25A in St. James. Smithtown officials have advanced the sale as economic development for the community. Gyrodyne’s been trying to sell this property for 60-plus years, over the objections of civic leaders, environmentalists, and planners. In the late 50s, a conflict between the founder of Gyrodyne and local residents over plans to establish a helicopter manufacturing facility on what was then a floral nursery was resolved by a consent decree limiting Flowerfield construction to two stories. Now Gyrodyne is ignoring the legal decree. More recently, the company’s plan to build a luxury golf-course community went belly up, blocked by environmental and quality-of-life concerns. Then in 2005, about threequarters of Flowerfield changed hands when Stony Brook University acquired 240 acres in Brookhaven via eminent domain. Gyrodyne sued and collected an additional $167 million from state taxpayers. After the sale, the bulk of Flowerfield left the tax rolls immediately, an economic loss felt acutely in the town of Brookhaven. More recently, Gyrodyne acknowledged making the lots especially

attractive to its academic neighbor. If the university does buy the property, any tax base expansion will disappear. The late Patrick Vecchio [R], long-time supervisor of the Town of Smithtown, never got behind previous Gyrodyne plans. In 2017, Edward Wehrheim [R] successfully challenged Vecchio on a platform touting economic development and sewering for downtowns. Early in his incumbency, the town began replacing the water pipes under Lake Avenue while adding a dry sewer line. Wehrheim said the new line could eventually hook up with a treatment plant “in either direction,” promising he’d talk with Gyrodyne. Whatever happened in that discussion, Smithtown officials as well as St. James civic leaders began touting Gyrodyne as St. James’ sewering solution and economic-development savior. This malarkey infuriated community leaders and conservationists. Prominent environmentalists Richard Amper and Carl Safina both railed against a plan they clearly understood would pollute the estuary’s waters, submitting detailed objections to the Town Planning Board, which ignored them. We both have submitted similar concerns and been ignored too, in clear defiance of New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act and the planning profession’s best practices. In March, Gyrodyne made a stunning concession. Not only was the proposed sewer’s 100,000-gallon daily capacity too small to service the community, but the company had never

applied for a county permit. Yet at the recent county planning commission hearings, a Gyrodyne lawyer, when asked directly, refused to acknowledge the sewer connection was impossible. Most of us have heard by now that Flowerfield is zoned light industrial, meaning it can be used only for commercial office purposes. However, Gyrodyne’s application goes beyond permitted office uses, as it includes a 125-room hotel and meeting center and a 250-unit nursing home/assisted living facility, both of which require a special use permit from the town board. Wehrheim wants you to believe that Gyrodyne will handle St. James sewage treatment needs. Gyrodyne and town officials want you to believe they have “the right” to do as they please. John Cameron, CEO of Cameron Engineering and Associates, Gyrodyne’s engineering firm, wants you to believe real environmental planning has been done, contrary to what independent experts claim. With a compliant town board seeking additional tax revenues over protecting the quality of life, better ask questions and state your objections now — or regret not doing so the rest of your days. George Hoffman is president of the Three Village Civic Association, co-chair of the 25A Citizens Advisory Committee, and chair of the Setauket Harbor Commission. Herb Mones is former president of the Three Village Civic Association, chair of its planning committee, and a retired public school teacher.

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“vulture” by some in the trade. A news conglomerate threatens independent perspectives. The acquisition highlights the importance of journalist voices in local newspapers. The strength of a society is built on independent news outlets. It is the Fourth Estate.

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Opinion Don’t brag about losing weight or your dog and other unwritten rules

few weeks ago, a Chicago White Sox player named Yermin Mercedes did what he was paid to do, hitting a ball far. His manager Tony La Russa was furious because his player broke an unwritten rule, swinging at a 3-0 pitch from an infielder for the Minnesota Twins when his team was already winning by 11 runs. The next day, La Russa seemed fine with a Minnesota pitcher throwing a pitch behind the knees of Mercedes D. None as punishment for a violation of that of the above unwritten rule. BY DANIEL DUNAIEF So, what are other possible random unwritten rules regarding life

sportsmanship and what should the potential punishments be for violating those rules? For starters, if you’ve lost a lot of weight, you don’t need to ask other people who clearly haven’t lost any weight, or perhaps have put on pandemic pounds, how they’re doing on their diet or if they’ve lost weight. They haven’t lost any weight. We know it, they know and you know it. You don’t need to contrast your success with their failure. The punishment for that kind of infraction should be that you have to eat an entire box of donuts or cookies in under a minute. If you rescued a dog from the vet or the pound or from a box beneath a bridge in the middle of an urban war zone, you don’t need to ask where I got my overpriced and poorly trained dog. We get it: you did something great rescuing a dog, while those of us with designer dogs are struggling to get them to be quiet while we repeat the few answers we get right to

the questions on “Jeopardy!” The punishment for such self-righteous dog ownership should be that you have to pick up the designer dog’s poop for a day. If you’ve been over virtuous, you also might have to compliment him on the excellent quality of his droppings and send other people a TikTok of your poop flattery. If your kid just won the chess championship, you don’t need to wear a different T-shirt each day of the week that captures the moment of her triumph. The punishment for over bragging is that you have to wear a tee shirt that says, “Your kid is just as amazing as mine and certainly has better parents.” If you’re in first class on a plane and you board first to sit in your larger, more comfortable seat, you don’t have to look away every time someone might make eye contact or, worse, through your fellow passengers. You aren’t obligated to look at everyone, but you can make periodic eye contact or provide a nod

of recognition to the plebeians from group six. The punishment for such above-it-all behavior should be that you have to echo everything the flight attendant says as others board the plane, offering a chipper “good morning” or “welcome aboard.” Finally, if you’ve taken a spectacular vacation, you don’t need to share every detail of your trip, from the type of alcohol you drank to the sweet smell of the ocean breeze to the sight of a baby bird hatching just outside your window. If you overdo the unsolicited details, you’ll have to listen to every mundane detail of the person’s life who was home doing his or her job while you were relaxing. Afterwards, you’ll have to take a test on his story. If you fail, you have to listen to more details, until you can pass. Maybe Mr. La Russa has a point: unwritten rules could be a way to enforce life sportsmanship outside the lines.

Two new trends for improving mental health

robably because of COVID-19, there has been more discussion in the media about depression, anxiety and mental health in general. CVS, the nation’s largest retail pharmacy, and the one started by local philanthropist Ward Melville by the way, is creating a new niche for its many stores. It has been hiring licensed clinical social workers for a pilot project in several cities and will offer walk-in sessions or by appointment. The social workers are trained in cognitive Between behavior therapy or you and me CBT. I believe that is BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF generally a form of short term therapy in which the immediate problem is discussed and treated using evidence-based techniques. According to an article in The New York Times, May 10,

social workers will offer assessments, referrals and counseling. They will be available during the day and also on evenings and weekends, and also by telemedicine. They will partner with the company’s nurse practitioners and pharmacists for prescriptions when needed. This will be yet another nonemergency health care service the chain is providing, as they have most recently offered coronavirus vaccines for the public. Now others beside pharmacies like Rite Aid and Walgreens, who are also planning mental health care, are seeing opportunity in the health field. Albertsons, a grocery chain, offers injectable antipsychotic drugs as well as injectable medication to help treat substance abuse. And a while ago, I got my first shingles vaccine in a drug store. What a change from the pharmacy of my childhood. I well remember walking down to the drug store five blocks away in New York City with my dad, before I was even of elementary school age, to buy ice cream. That was the only place with a freezer, and the selections were Breyer’s vanilla, or chocolate, or vanilla, chocolate and strawberry together

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in half gallon containers. They were in a freezer chest, like a foot locker, and when I leaned in to pick the selection, the cold took my breath away. The pharmacy also had a counter where we could sit and get sundaes and milkshakes. But most of the time, we carried the ice cream carton home, hurriedly so it wouldn’t melt, to eat together with the rest of the family. Another recent focus in the mental health field is on food. And sadly the foods we typically turn to when we are stressed, inevitably sugar-laden and of high fat like ice cream, pastries, pizza and hamburgers, now are on the mental wellness bad list. Nutritional psychiatry is an emerging field which looks at the relationship between diet and mental health. The idea that what we eat can affect our physical health is an accepted one, and now the same concept is extended to our mental wellbeing with the following physiological specifics thanks to research. “A healthy diet promotes a healthy gut, which communicates with the brain through what is known as the gut-brain axis. Microbes

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in the gut produce neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, which regulate our mood and emotions, and the gut microbiome has been implicated in mental health outcomes,” states The New York Times in a May 18 article by Anahad O’Connor. People who eat a lot of nutrient-dense foods, like fruits and vegetables “report less depression and greater levels of happiness and mental well-being,” according to the NYT. There is a bit of a chicken-egg conundrum here concerning which comes first? Do anxiety and depression drive people to eat unhealthy foods or are those who are happy and optimistic more likely to choose nutritious foods that further brighten their moods? Recent research has borne out that healthy foods do improve moods. “Seafood, greens, nuts and beans — and a little dark chocolate” is the basic dietary advice of Dr. Drew Ramsey, a psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His jingle comes with the message that food can be empowering.

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