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July 21, 2022

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Gloria Rocchio, Ward Melville Heritage Organization president, gives the keys to the Educational and Cultural Center to Ernie Canadeo, the chairman of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. Photo from WMHO

LI music hall of fame gets keys to first physical facility

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame has received the keys to The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational and Cultural Center, which will house the nonprofit organization’s first physical facility, according to a press release from WMHO. The 8,800 square foot resource is located in Stony Brook Village Center. The official ribbon cutting and public opening of the completed space is scheduled to take place this November.

There will be a permanent hall of fame with plaques and exhibits recognizing the more than 100 and growing inductees, as well as areas for a library, classrooms for educational programs and master classes, also a theater. The main exhibit space will contain a rotating exhibit theme, and the layout and first exhibit, “Long Island’s Legendary Club Scene: 1960s-1980s” is currently being designed by world-renowned visual designer Kevin O’Callaghan.

The space where the center is located was

once the site of Dogwood Hollow built by businessman and philanthropist Ward Melville in honor of his mother Jennie Melville. The outdoor amphitheater, with over 2,000 seats, hosted greats such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Liberace, Tony Bennett and more between 1955 and 1970.

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Born and raised in Virginia, Griffith comes to Setauket from Redondo Beach, California, where he had been rector of Christ Church since 2016.

Joining him is his wife, the Rev. Yein Esther Kim, an Episcopal priest in The Episcopal Diocese of New York where she serves as a priest for Congregational Life at Trinity Church Wall Street.

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His years of competitive swimming led him to coaching positions on the university and national levels. After completing college, he went on to a career in fundraising and resource development, working for nonprofits in the arts, youth and professional athletics as well as the fishing industry.

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Three Village board of ed is ready for a new school year. Front row, Vincent Vizzo, vice president, and Susan Megroz Rosenzweig, president. Back row, Irene Gische, Jeffrey Kerman, Superintendent Kevin Scanlon, Deanna Bavlnka, Shaorui Li and Jennifer Solomon Photo by Three Village Central School District

Three Village BOE commences new year with new leadership

The Three Village Central School District welcomed the start of the 2022-2023 school year during the board of education’s annual organizational meeting on July 6.

During the meeting, Susan Megroz Rosenzweig and Vincent Vizzo were sworn in as the board’s new president and vice president, respectively,

while Deanna Bavlnka was named district clerk pro-tem. New board of education trustee Jennifer Solomon and Vizzo, who was reelected, were sworn into their new, three-year terms of office.

In addition, Kevin Scanlon took his official oath of office as the district’s new superintendent of schools.

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Setauket resident has his eyes on top county seat

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Background

Calone grew up in Mount Sinai and graduated from Port Jefferson high school.

He went on to achieve his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard. He and his wife, Presbyterian minister Kate Jones Calone, have three children and moved to Setauket 10 years ago when Jones Calone joined Setauket Presbyterian Church.

While a federal prosecutor, his focus was terrorism and international corporate fraud.

As a state prosecutor, he fought health care fraud, and won a case that, at the time, was one of the biggest returns of taxpayer money — more than $70 million, according to him.

He is president and CEO of Jove Equity Partners LLC, which helps to start companies and works with owners to build their businesses.

A former congressional primary candidate is aiming for Suffolk County’s executive seat.

Last week, Setauket’s David Calone announced his intention to run for county executive on the Democratic ticket in 2023. Due to term limits, Steve Bellone (D) will not be running.

“I would bring a lot of different perspectives and a lot of backgrounds to the regional leadership of the county executive position,” Calone said in a phone interview.

Running for the office is something he has been thinking about for a few months. The candidate said he became more committed to his goal after conversations with many who provided strong moral support, such as John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket), County issues Calone listed protecting the environment, county Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) and Town of Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan improving transportation and economic development among his biggest concerns.

Kornreich (D-Stony Brook).

Working in the private sector and being Without any formal fundraisers, Calone has already raised nearly a million dollars for his involved in various businesses for more than 15 years, he said experience has provided campaign, he said. him with a good deal of Currently, Calone, a regarding former federal and state ‘I’m looking forward knowledge economic development. prosecutor, is the only one The candidate said he who has thrown his hat in to meeting with believes in supporting the ring, but candidates small businesses and people across have until early next year providing workforce to submit their petitions. If Suffolk County development to make other candidates decide to sure “people get the skills run for county executive over this next year they need for the next on the Democratic ticket, a of jobs.” primary would be held. and hearing their generation “I think it is going to The candidate said he critically important, too, wanted to start campaigning ideas and issues, be because we live in a very early because Suffolk high cost area,” he said. “We County is a vast area to and then we can need to have people getting cover.

“I’m looking forward to work to solve those good paying jobs to be able to afford to live here.” meeting with people across challenges.’

His company also Suffolk County over this created the Long Island next year and hearing their —David Calone Emerging Technologies ideas and issues, and then Fund to help launch we can work to solve those businesses coming out challenges,” he said.

When he ran in the Democratic primary of local research labs, which in turn creates for Congress in 2016 in the 1st Congressional local jobs.

As board chair of Patriot Boot Camp, District, he lost to former Town of Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst by a slim margin which was recently acquired by Disabled of slightly more than 300 votes. He said from the American Veterans, Calone has played a part experience he learned how to run an extensive in helping veterans, active military members and their spouses start their own businesses. campaign.

“I was able to learn about all the issues He said while the U.S. Department of Veterans affecting people across Suffolk County,” he said. Affairs holds job fairs, they don’t focus “Many issues are common across the whole on entrepreneurship, which many military area, but there were also some very specific local members may be well suited for due to being issues,” adding while some may worry about disciplined and hardworking environmental issues, in contrast others are trying He also feels there are different ways to to make ends meet. bring town governments together to address

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David Calone, left, with state Assemblyman Steve Englebright. The assemblyman is one of the local leaders who encouraged Calone to run for county executive. Photos from Calone’s campaign

similar problems.

When he was chair for eight years of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, the group worked on streamlining solar panel permits throughout the county as each town had a different set of rules, which caused headaches for solar panel companies. The towns came together and agreed on one form, which made the process more streamlined, and the committee received the National Association of Counties 2012 National Achievement Award for the effort.

Calone said he would also like to improve transportation in the county, pointing out that many of the buses are empty or nearly empty and therefore a waste of fuel. He said he would like to see the pilot program that county Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Noyac) started in Southampton expanded to the whole county. When someone needs transportation, they use a cellphone app and smaller buses are used. He said requesting a bus would be similar to using Uber or Lyft and the service overall would be more efficient.

Regarding development in the county, he said developing near major roadways and travel hubs such as Ronkonkoma train station, as other elected officials have suggested in the past, makes sense. He also said it’s important to create more affordable housing.

“We need to have more housing that works for people at different times of their lives,” he said. “One of the key things is if young people move away, because they can’t find housing here, they’re more likely to stay away and not come

back. But if we can keep them here because we have the kind of housing that they need, and the good-paying jobs that they need, they’re more likely to stay here and be the buyers of those single-family homes in the future.”

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Summer program for LGBTQIA+ kids is all about joy

BY LEAH CHIAPPINO DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It’s called The Kid’s Hangout.

Last week LGBTQIA+ children from across Suffolk County spent their days at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook to connect with each other, develop friendships and most importantly — feel safe. That’s a rarity in today’s polarized climate and culture debates in schools.

“I’d rather be here than Disney World,” one child said.

“This has been the best week of my life,” said another.

“I’ve been honored to be here,” said a third.

The program was open to students going into seventh to ninth grades and was free to attend.

On Monday, July 11, it was drag queen story hour. Tuesday was a mock “Chopped” challenge — the young people made an appetizer and lunch, with adults judging. The tables were then turned — the kids judged the cupcakes made for them. Then they did “Cupcake Wars” where the judges then had to be judged by the young teens. Wednesday marked meditation, yoga and a labyrinth walk, with the children writing how the experience made them feel.

The day also included a lesson on the vocabulary that surrounds the LGBTQIA+ community.

By Thursday, they were walking the runway, dressing up so the kids could express their feelings, giving them a space to wear whatever they wanted.

On Friday, Juli Grey-Owens, a transgender woman and the executive director and board president of Gender Equality New York came to teach the children how to self-advocate, showing them how to send emails to their local elected representatives urging them to pass S369, a state Senate bill ensuring schools treat students in accordance with their chosen gender identity and expression.

Grey-Owens began the session by asking the kids what they felt was important to fight for.

“Trans rights,” one said.

“Women’s rights,” said another.

“Gay marriage,” said a third.

“Fighting for your rights doesn’t mean you’ll win,” Grey-Owens said.

She added the fact that it is now illegal to kick transgender people out of restaurants, Uber taxis or housing is because people advocated to pass laws.

One child expressed that if a restaurant kicked them out, they wouldn’t want to be where they weren’t wanted.

“What if you stay and don’t cause any problems,” another asked.

Unfortunately, Grey-Owens said, that wasn’t how it worked for trans people in the past.

Juli Grey-Owens, above, stopped by The Kids’ Hangout on July 15 to teach the young participants how to advocate for themselves. A drag queen story hour, below, took place on July 11. Photos from Proud Parents Group

Now, she told them, one can sue for a civil space to talk and to not be judged,” Obernauer rights violation and file a complaint with the said. “There’s not a lot of support in the middle New York State Division of Human Rights. school areas for kids that are coming out, and “Would that make you feel good?” one there’s a lot of bullying and so forth going on.” child asked.

The members met at the Proud Parents “Yes,” Grey-Owens said. “Because we live Group, a support group at the Setauket in the United States, and here money is boss.”

Presbyterian Church.

By the end of the Little is also a staff session, each child had member at the Unitarian written an email to their Universalist Fellowship. state representative.

The Setauket church Several children provided the funding, and said they would take the fellowship allowed the advocacy tools they for the use of the space. learned and apply them to “Kim Richardson said their school communities to me, ‘If you build it, through their gay-straight they will come and that’s alliance clubs. stuck to me,’” Obernauer Attendees brought a said. “I’m like, if we food item to donate and build it, they will come.” then voted on where to “The parents are place the items. Each day, thrilled, they want to around seven to eight offer their own space,” —Linda Obernauer she continued. children attended the program, some rotating in The group plans to and out. continue the program next summer and is Program founders The program was developed by three local planning on offering monthly meetups for moms — Kim Richardson, Linda Obernauer the kids, who are already constantly texting and Deborah Little — all of whom have young in a group chat they made on the first day of or adult children in the LGBTQIA+ community. the program and are planning pool parties.

“I’m sure that they’ll probably reach out “It’s pure joy,” Little said. “The first day you could just see the relaxation in their to each other during the school year during bodies and weight lifted off their shoulders.” good times and bad times,” Grey-Owens “This is something that is needed in the said. “You can’t really measure it. It’s pretty area, and this is where people can have a safe incredible.”

‘There’s not a lot of support in the middle school areas for kids that are coming out, and there’s a lot of bullying and so forth going on.’

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Homelessness: A national disgrace and a thorny local issue

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

After serving out a 17-year state prison sentence, Devon Toney returned to society unprepared for the challenges ahead.

Toney described parole as just another pressurized situation in a string of highpressure environments that he has experienced since childhood. Parole, he said, only aggravated his post-traumatic stress disorder, stymying any opportunities for upward growth.

He soon entered the shelter system in Suffolk County, traveling between homeless shelters and health care facilities, his most recent stay at The Linkage Center in Huntington. Eventually, feeling suffocated in the shelters and unable to sleep among strangers, he left that system for a life on the streets. By night, he slept in train stations, bus stations, dugouts and public parks. By day, he stole, often reselling juices and water just to get by.

Without adequate resources and a lack of attention, Toney said those experiencing homelessness “have to steal,” that life on the streets “causes clean people — healthy people — to become addicts because that’s all they’re around.”

Toney remains homeless to the present day, currently residing near Ross Memorial Park in Brentwood. His story is one of countless examples of how easily one can become homeless after giving up on shelter, falling through the cracks with few opportunities to rise above these dire circumstances.

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A startling trend

Mike Giuffrida, associate director of the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit that works throughout Long Island to determine better strategies and policies to address homelessness, said he has noticed a recent trend of others fleeing from shelters.

“Although emergency shelter is available to the majority of people who present as having nowhere else to go, we are seeing an increased rate of individuals who are presenting as unsheltered and are living on the street,” he said.

Motivating this shelter shock, Giuffrida sees two principal factors: “The greatest commonality of people that experience homelessness is … significant trauma, likely throughout the majority — if not all — of their lives,” he said. The second factor is the structure of the shelter system, which is constrained by strict guidelines from New York State and “can be retraumatizing for people or the shelter settings do not meet their needs.”

An aversion to communal living is commonplace among those requesting

Latoya Bazmore and Devon Toney, co-founders of All Included ’N’ Treated (A.I.N.T.), near Ross Memorial Park in Brentwood.

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emergency shelter. In addition, occupants of these shelters are often asked to give up considerable portions of their income for shelter payments. “They pay, in some cases, almost all of their income in order to stay in that undesirable location,” Giuffrida said.

Clusters of homeless encampments can be found in areas throughout Suffolk County. Brookhaven Town Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) says there are likely dozens of individuals experiencing homelessness in his council district alone, concentrated primarily in Port Jefferson Station.

Kornreich complained about how he is limited in his capacity to help, saying he wishes that he could do more. “It’s probably one of the most difficult and complex moral and legal issues that I deal with,” he said.

“The Town of Brookhaven doesn’t have any functions with respect to social services or enforcement, but because this is an area of concern to me, I try to identify people who might be in need of services and try to either talk to people myself or put them in touch with services.”

Those services are provided through the Suffolk County Department of Social Services. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson affiliated with DSS outlined the array of options that are available through the department.

“The Suffolk County Department of Social Services offers temporary housing assistance, in shelter settings, to eligible

individuals and families experiencing homelessness,” the spokesperson said.

“We contract with nonprofit agencies that provide case management services to each client based on their individual needs, with a focus on housing support. Services may include referrals to community agencies, mental health programs, as well as medical services. These services, with the support and encouragement of shelter staff, work in concert to transition those experiencing homelessness to appropriate permanent housing resources.”

In an interview, County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide economic challenges have only exacerbated the conditions of homelessness throughout the county. Despite external barriers, he holds that there is room for improvement.

“More could always be done, of course,” he said. “We are — as I’ve said many times before — coming out of COVID and grappling with impacts and effects that we’re going to be dealing with for years to come and that we don’t fully understand yet.” He added, “The Department of Social Services has, throughout COVID, and as we’ve started to move out of that now, worked very hard to fulfill its mission and will continue to do that.”

Accepting services: A two-way street Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker

(D-Mount Sinai) detailed the decades-long history of homelessness in Coram. She argues that it is closely tied to other pressing matters facing county government: public safety, access to health care, the opioid epidemic and inadequate compensation for social workers.

The county legislator also blamed stringent state guidelines that handicap DSS’s outreach efforts. “The frustrating part is that we are limited,” Anker said.

“We are limited in forcing a person to get medical treatment.”

Legislator Nick Caracappa (C-Selden), the majority leader of the county Legislature, voiced similar frustrations. He said he is concerned by the growing number of people that reject services from DSS. “Even though you offer them help, you offer them shelter, and you offer them medical [assistance], they often turn it down,” he said. “They’d rather be out in the cold, alone, in the dark — whatever it is — than seek help. And that’s concerning.”

Emily Murphy, a licensed social worker who wrote a thesis paper investigating homelessness in Port Jefferson Station, said another significant problem is the lack of assistance for undocumented immigrants, whose immigration status bars them from applying for services.

“It’s not a DSS decision, but it comes from higher up, that if you don’t have documentation you can’t receive SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits or shelter,” Murphy said.

This changes during the colder months, according to Murphy, as shelters open their doors to all. Murphy also observed how a lack of political mobilization hampers the homeless community from receiving adequate government representation.

“That was the main thing,” Murphy said, referring to the homeless population. “It was a voice that was so often unheard and unlistened to.”

The gradual downward slope

Joel Blau, professor emeritus of the School of Social Welfare at Stony Brook University, has followed trends in homelessness for decades. He attributes rising homelessness in the United States since the 1970s to the stagnation of wages across that time frame coupled with the rising cost of housing.

“The notion of somebody with a high school education maintaining a decent standard of living is becoming ever more elusive,” he said. “Housing prices, particularly in cities, have escalated a lot, so unless you have two professionals in the family or one person who makes a lot of money, it’s increasingly difficult to get HOMELESSNESS CONTINUED ON A9

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in Centereach reported a shoplifter on July 15. A woman allegedly hid five items of clothing and accessories in a black backpack and fled the store. The merchandise was valued at $128.

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Commack reported a shoplifter on July 14. A man allegedly stole assorted items of clothing valued at $73.

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of ripped jeans from the American Eagle at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove on July 15. The merchandise was valued at $950.

Miller Place ■ The Bigger Bagel on Route 25A in Miller

Place was burglarized on July 16. Unknown suspects threw a brick through the front glass door to gain entry and stole a register containing cash.

Selden Lake Grove ■ CVS on Middle Country Road in Selden ■ Macy’s at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake reported a shoplifter on July 13. A woman Grove reported a petit larceny on July 14.

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Two men allegedly stole assorted groceries valued at over $225 from Target, located at 307 Independence Plaza, on July 1 at approximately 7:10 p.m.

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Being matched with a service dog can sometimes feel like hitting the jackpot.

That’s certainly how Jamie Sileo, of Setauket, feels. Her daughter Drew, 10, and “best friend” Dasha, a pure yellow lab, were paired in October 2021.

“I always say we’ve won the doggy lottery,” Sileo said. “She’s just amazing.”

Drew has global developmental delays, executive function issues and ADHD. The pairing was made possible through Canine Companions, whose northeast location is based in Medford. The organization is the nation’s largest provider of service dogs, at no cost to the recipient.

When Sileo first started looking for a dog, she first contacted the Guide Dog Foundation of Smithtown.

“I knew that with her needs, getting a puppy would be very hard,” the mother said. “So I called the Guide Dog Foundation and asked them about it. And they said that we don’t do it, but you can call Canine Companions. It took one month shy of two years to get the call to join team training and get matched with a dog. It took a long time, but we were patient.”

When they finally got Dasha, she integrated into their lives immediately.

“I think it’s better than we thought it would be,” Sileo said. “I didn’t realize how highly trained these dogs are, and how they’re bred to be such amazing, kind animals. They’re very routine based, so the dog just kind of fell right in with everything that we do.”

These dogs spend 18 months with a puppy raiser and then graduate to formal training at the Medford center. Training focuses not only on commands but also behavior. These dogs have a job to do, and they take it very seriously.

“She really knows when her vest is on that she’s working,” the mother said. “If we’re going to a restaurant, most people will tell us, ‘We didn’t even know there was a dog in the restaurant,’ because she’s quiet. She just lays under the table. They’re trained to not touch anything off the floor, So they don’t touch a single piece of food or anything. We take her with us, even if we just run into the grocery store.”

All Canine Companions service dogs learn the same commands, including retrieving dropped items as small as a dime, pulling a manual wheelchair, and turning light switches on and off. Certain commands are more useful for Drew and Dasha than others.

Dasha helps with Drew’s sensory needs and

keeps her safe.

“She does cover, which is basically like laying across her lap to apply pressure and fulfill her sensory needs,” Sileo said. “We also use the push command. If we’re upstairs getting dressed, and she’s got her drawers open, the dog will help push things closed.

Drew has a tendency to get up and then not realize that it’s the middle of the night. So, if she does get up, the dog stays with her.”

For anyone considering raising a puppy for Canine Companions, Debra Dougherty, executive director of the Northeast region, emphasizes commitment over experience.

“We’re looking for someone that’s committed,” Dougherty said. “Someone that wants to give back. It’s a great experience raising a puppy and then watching it go on to help someone.”

There is an extensive support system for puppy raisers to draw from, and previous dog experience is not required.

“We go through a process with them,” she said. “They apply, and then we do a phone interview with them. Then we have them come to a couple of classes on our Medford campus to observe and maybe talk to some of the other raisers. At that point, if they’re still interested, then they go on the waitlist. When they get a puppy we have a pretty structured program for them. We try to pair people up with a mentor if they want, someone who has more experience so that they have someone to go to. So it’s not necessary for someone to have raised a dog before, because we support them.”

Dougherty also wants people to be mindful of the future recipient, and the weight and emotion attached to their decision to raise a puppy.

“Be open to new things and have a big heart to share with that puppy as well as with the recipient,” she said. “It is a commitment because these dogs are bred for a very special purpose and you know the end purpose, you know the end goal being to be matched with a person with a disability to help them. So we want them to be serious about it.”

As the family of a Canine Companions service dog, Sileo is thankful.

“I’m forever grateful for all the puppy raisers out there,” the mother said. “We can’t thank Canine Companions enough for this opportunity. Because of the puppy raisers, trainers, and the generosity of the donors and everyone in between, my daughter was able to receive this beautiful and extremely smart dog named Dasha. Dasha has improved Drew’s life in so many ways from daily routines and her speech to social interactions and anxiety control. Dasha is such a welcome part of our family, and everyone who meets her just falls in love.”

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LI shark bites prompt drone and police boat patrols

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

After four confirmed shark bites in the last three weeks on the south shore of Long Island, state and local authorities are actively monitoring swimming areas for these apex predators, with lifeguards, helicopters and drones on the lookout for a variety of sharks.

“As New Yorkers and visitors alike head to our beautiful Long Island beaches to enjoy the summer, our top priority is their safety,” Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said in a statement.

“We are taking action to expand patrols for sharks and protect beachgoers from potentially dangerous situations.”

Earlier this month, a lifeguard was engaged in a safety exercise at Smith Point beach when a shark bit him in the chest. A paddle boarder, meanwhile, was bitten by a shark in Smith Bay on Fire Island.

Responding to the potential threat of interactions between swimmers and sharks, Hochul added several safety measures.

Park Police boats will patrol waters around the island, while federal, state and county partnerships will share resources and information about shark sightings and better support to identify sharks in the area.

State park safety guidelines will suspend swimming after a shark sighting so the shoreline can be monitored with drones.

Swimming may resume at least an hour after the last sighting.

Shark researchers said these predatory fish have always been around Long Island.

The southern side of Long Island likely has more species of shark than the north.

“The Atlantic Ocean, on the south shore of Long Island, has seen a notable increase in shark activity and sightings over the last two years,” a spokesman for Gov. Hochul explained in an email. The Long Island

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Sound, on the north shore, “has sharks but not this level of activity.”

The three most common sharks around Long Island are the sandbar shark, the dusky shark and the sand tiger shark, said Christopher Paparo, Southampton Marine Science Center manager at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Conservation success

The increase in shark populations around the island is a “conservation success story,” particularly because sharks around the world are on the decline.

“We have something special in New York,” Paparo said.

From the 1950s until the 1970s, sharks around the area were heavily fished to the point where the populations declined precipitously.

At the same time, cleaning up the waters around Long Island by reducing ocean dumping and enforcing regulations has made it possible for the sharks and the fish they hunt, such as bunker, to recover.

“The habitat has improved and it can house more sharks in the summertime” than earlier, said Dr. Robert Hueter, chief scientist at OCEARCH, a global nonprofit organization collecting unprecedented data on sharks to help return the oceans to balance and abundance.

“Finally, a good story in marine conservation and a return of our oceans to health and abundance,” Hueter added.

While shark attacks generate considerable headlines, the threat from these marine fish is considerably less than it is for other dangers, such as driving to the beach, which produces far more injuries due to car accidents.

Last year, Paparo said, fewer than 100 shark attacks occurred throughout the world.

“I understand the fear of sharks,” driven in part by movies about them, Paparo said.

Shark expert Dr. Robert Hueter and his team, above, tagging and gathering data on great white sharks in 2021 in Nova Scotia.

A spinner shark swims among a school of bunker, below. Photo above from OCEARCH/ Chris Ross; below photo from Chris Paparo

But “people aren’t afraid of their cars” and they aren’t as focused on drownings, even though about 4,000 people drown in a typical year in the United States.

Hueter said he typically cringes around the Fourth of July holiday because that week is often the height of the beach season, when the larger number of people in habitats where sharks live can lead to bites.

More often than not, the damage sharks around Long Island inflict on humans involves bites, rather than attacks.

“Long Island is becoming the new Florida,” Hueter said. In Florida, people are bitten on their ankles or hands, as small to mid-sized sharks are not interested in people, he added.

While sharks have increased in numbers around Long Island, so have marine mammals, such as whales. On a recent morning last week, Paparo saw three humpback whales before he came to work.

People hunted whales, just as they did sharks, through the 70s, causing their numbers to decline.

menhaden, should avoid the area, as sharks might mistake a person as a larger and slower swimming part of such a school.

Sea birds hovering over an area may be an indication of schooling bunker, a Hochul spokesman explained.

While it’s less likely here than in Cape Cod, seal colonies are a potential threat, as they can attract adult great white sharks.

Long Island has become home to some juvenile great white sharks, which are about 4 feet in length.

The governor’s office also encouraged people to swim in lifeguarded areas and with a buddy.

If a shark bites, experts suggest getting out of the water. A swimmer can try to fend off a shark by hitting it in the nose. People should also avoid swimming near areas where others are fishing.

Shark bites, Hueter said, require medical attention because of the damaged skin and the bacteria from shark teeth.

“You want to get good medical help to clean the wound” if a shark bites, Hueter said.

People concerned about sharks can take several steps to reduce the risk of coming into contact with them.

Residents and guests should try not to swim at dawn and dusk when sharks typically feed more often.

Additionally, swimmers who encounter a school of bunker, also known as Atlantic

Hueter and Paparo added that the number of sharks still hasn’t reached the same levels as they had been decades ago.

“We do have some healthy shark populations,” Hueter said. “Others are still rebuilding. We are not even close to what they used to be if you go back before the overfishing in the 1950s and 1960s.”

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Learning about investing through Zoom

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMDIA.COM For many in the area, Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. is a time they put aside to talk about stocks and investing.

Through the pandemic, Steven Kelman, of Port Jefferson Station, and Bill Greenbaum, of Fort Salonga, have been offering the Bates House Investment Group through Zoom. The workshop provides those interested in learning about investing with a weekly discussion and learning experience. Members discuss different investments such as stocks, bonds and more.

They also talk about how current events affect portfolios, and the workshop leaders share insights into investing, investment resources and analyzing the stock market.

“We had some people that started with absolutely no knowledge at all, and they’re presenting reports like they’ve been doing it for 20 years now,” Kelman said.

The workshops initially were offered through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, better known as OLLI. Before the pandemic, the class was moved from SBU to the Bates House in Setauket. When COVID-19 hit, and the pandemic lockdowns began, Zoom enabled Kelman and Greenbaum to reach more people, even those who don’t live in the Three Village area or on Long Island.

Kelman said with non-OLLI members interested in participating, the workshop leaders decided to make it available to anyone interested and no longer offered the class through OLLI. Greenbaum said Zoom has worked out well for them.

“During the pandemic, it’s really been wonderful that it was a connection point for everyone,” he said.

Greenbaum, who was a global controller in the finance department of Disney before

he retired, said when he was younger, he would look over his grandfather’s shoulder when he read stock reports.

Kelman, who for 42 years worked for the Federal Aviation Administration after serving in the U.S. Air Force, said he’s been interested in investing on and off for 30 years.

The approximately two dozen workshop members are nonprofessionals, Kelman said, and they range in experience from advanced to beginners. He added that a few have lost a spouse and weren’t sure what to do regarding investments, and the workshop has provided a good starting point.

Greenbaum said it’s impressive to see newcomers who sometimes might sit back at first, but as they begin to learn become more experienced. The two have also learned from the members, Kelman said.

“The diversity of the group is quite amazing, people from all walks of life,” Greenbaum said.

Members attend for free, and no money is actually invested in the market. Each individual picks a stock and researches it.

They each then present their choice to the class and the group will discuss and then virtually buy it if they all agree on it. The members keep track of how the stock does and have a mock portfolio. After investing in a particular stock, they will also discuss if they made the right decision.

Kelman said they track about 35 to 40 stocks. He said it constantly changes as

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decent housing.”

Today, a growing number of people are just one step away from losing their homes.

“Whether it be an accident or an illness or the loss of a job, all of a sudden they’re plummeting downward and onto the street,” he said.

Evaluating long-term projections of homelessness, Blau said there have been “periods where it plateaus and periods where it gets worse.” On the whole, he said, “the general trend is downward.”

Blau believes the way to remedy the issue is to change the ways in which society is organized. “It would require social housing, decommodifying it so that housing is a right, not something sold for profit,” he said. “And that’s probably, under the present political circumstances, a bridge too far.”

In other words, problems associated with homelessness in this country have grown for many years and are likely to continue.

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they set up a fictitious figure of $250,000.

Once they get to that amount, they have to sell something to buy additional stocks, which also teaches when to sell.

Even though the group doesn’t actually invest, many take what they learn and invest on their own.

Greenbaum added that with the market going down recently, the group also provides a form of moral support.

“It’s nice to have a group of people that you could share that with,” he said.

“Normally you can’t. This topic is not for everybody.”

For more information, contact Steven Kelman at 631-473-0012.

Toney has partnered with Latoya Bazmore, also of Brentwood, to create A.I.N.T. (All Included ’N’ Treated), a grassroots organization to combat homelessness in the community.

Toney said his primary goal is to access adequate housing. After that, he intends to galvanize his peers in the community, serving as a beacon for those who are also going through the struggle of homelessness. As someone who has experienced homelessness firsthand and who can relate to the plight, Toney believes he is uniquely situated to be an agent of change and a force of good.

“I need to be the one that interacts with these gang members, these addicts … they need somebody to articulate things to them,” he said.

“We need to comfort them. We need to let them know that we love and we care about them.”

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Communities are held together by norms of civility and an overriding spirit of goodwill.

Right now those norms are withering away, supplanted by foul behavior and disrespect. In communities throughout this area, there has been an observable decline in civility, a dangerous trend that jeopardizes the community’s long-term prospects.

At Stony Brook University, members of the campus community have expressed growing concerns about the frequency of hostile encounters taking place in nearby communities. Students and staff members have become targets of scorn and prejudice, a phenomenon that should disturb our residents deeply.

In addition, elected officials and business owners are dismayed by the recent spike in vandalism and destruction of public and private property. Perhaps most alarmingly, police have investigated the July 5 burning of a sign at a Ronkonkoma mosque as a possible hate crime.

While destroying property and desecrating houses of worship surely violates several of our laws, these actions also tear at the fabric of our community. After two years of lockdowns and separation, community members now seem more estranged from one another than ever before.

The immediate consequence of all of this is that our community is less safe and less congenial than it once was.

People will be less likely to spend their time and money in our local downtown areas, creating more vacant storefronts. But in the long run, people may soon flee this area in search of that community feeling that they couldn’t find here.

Since ancient antiquity, scholars have understood that people of a community cannot be held together by laws alone. Laws create a system of rules and keep communities orderly and regulated, but they cannot inspire neighborliness or tolerance.

Aristotle contended that “friendship” was the necessary ingredient for a community to thrive.

We must cultivate the bonds of friendship that once existed among our community members. As citizens of this area, we must recognize that each person is entitled to our respect, regardless of religion, race, ethnic background or politics.

The people of Long Island are fortunate to have a superb public research institution right in their backyard, a place that offers jobs to our residents and a talented pool of students and staff who are eager to change the world for the better. We must welcome them as our own, deserving of our friendship and respect. We want them to stay right here on Long Island, where they can help us build upon and strengthen this community.

In a similar vein, we cannot tolerate the destruction of public or private property. Budgets are tight enough in our county, towns and villages, and taxpayers should not be forced to absorb these preventable costs. Moreover, small businesses are struggling enough amid nationwide economic challenges and the ongoing public health emergency. We should not compound their hardships and expenses either.

Progress requires a reassessment and realignment of our system of values. Let’s rediscover what it means to be civil and respectful to one another. Let’s foster that sense of civic friendliness and community cohesion that existed before. We must learn to respect our neighbors again, for without respect this community will not endure. As Aretha Franklin sang, “Just a little bit, a little respect.”

Letters to the Editor Qualifications before diversity

I was going to write about some of the content in a letter from Lisa Pius on May 19 [“What a wonderful world this would be”]. Minds which possess common sense think alike.

Instead, I will expand upon what she touched on regarding any “bright parent” (parents) involvement with their children’s curriculum — a curriculum of learning through life’s experiences.

To be sure, parents should be involved with their children’s school education, and expect straight answers from their school board, especially when the board is questioned about the implementation of leftist/socialist/ Marxist teachings such as critical race theory. There are plenty of other issues forming our children’s minds outside of the hours spent in school as well and it starts at home, and the young minds are being influenced by what’s trickling down from the top. For example, if they grow into adulthood believing that it’s O.K. for someone who was installed to the highest office in the land to be rescued by the Easter Bunny for spouting nonsense and witness his wife saying, “Wave … wave,” without denunciation from their parents or the media, then that becomes their norm. How will they, both parents and children, learn the truth without transparency? They are “maturing” with censorship and they’ll never realize it.

When puppeteers who control President Joe Biden [D] pick Kamala Harris for vice president only because of gender and race instead of qualifications, how are our children perceiving that?

When that same puppet appoints a transgender person as assistant secretary for health because he/she claims to be an expert on mental health and food disorders, what does that tell our children?

When our children become aware that our Department of Homeland Security chief, under the direction of the White House, is responsible for allowing more fentanyl than ever before to flow over an unsecured border, how will that affect them?

As more churches are becoming more “woke” in their one-sided leftist agenda, our children are being affected in a negative way. I have yet to be convinced that God has personally told anyone that murdering a human being in the womb is O.K., but murder in any other form is not.

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you’re part of the woke “fake news” cult, you can obviously see the truth for yourselves.

I can envision a dystopian not-so”Wonderful World” where today’s children (future parents) had been systematically indoctrinated and, trying to explain away the actions of the aforementioned fools, say to their kids, “Well, we needed ‘equity.’”

The song “Wonderful World” by Sam Cooke that Ms. Pius mentioned, and her wonderful analogy 62 years later to the present, is a great recording for another reason. What really makes the record is the fact that it’s R&B vocal group harmony — commonly referred to as doo-wop today. Three guys, with different singing backgrounds who happened to be in the studio that day [including a young Lou Rawls], formed the ad hoc vocal group that backed Mr. Cooke. Now that’s a positive thing coming out of “diversity.”

Art Billadello East Setauket

Response to ‘Evaluating the Biden presidency’

George Altemose, in his letter to the editor [“Evaluating the Biden presidency,” June 30] evaluates the progress of the Biden administration and comes to an unclear conclusion.

Its accomplishments may be attributed, in his words, “to simple incompetence, or to an intentional effort to bring about fundamental changes to this great country.” (Great country, indeed, sir. No need for MAGA, mission accomplished. Thank you.)

The issues of concern to Altemose in the order he presents them are the rate of inflation, the price of gasoline, where President Joe Biden [D] places the blame for them and the president’s attacks on the gas industry, especially ExxonMobil. The latter, Altemose suggests, “emphatically ended our short but welcome period of energy independence that was bequeathed to us by his much-maligned predecessor.” (“Bequeathed,” handed down by a president?)

I believe most economists think presidents and their administrations have little influence on the price of gasoline.

In the eight years of the George W. Bush [R] presidency the cost for a barrel of imported oil fluctuated between $15.95 (2001) and $127.77 (2008). The Obama [D] presidency fared similarly with the cost fluctuating between $26.66 (2016) and $113.02 (2011).

Every president must deal with events beyond his control. For Bush they included, among others, the attack on 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and both a banking and financial crisis. The Obama presidency faced a great recession, Iranian threats to oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the rise and fall of the dollar’s value and a dramatic increase in U.S. shale oil production.

The Biden years have already included a pandemic, a war in Ukraine and attacks on democracy at home.

Have the Biden efforts to combat the economic and social costs of the pandemic contributed to inflation?

Likely so. The primary cause of inflation, likely not.

It never occurred to me, as it has to Altemose, that “a nasty group of sneaky Bidenists may view the imposition of general inflation and stifling gas prices as an underhand means” to compel us to “forsake our gasoline-powered automobiles in favor of electric cars, thereby socking it to the evil big oil companies” while “mollifying the green zealots of climate change.” Colorful language. Strong is the conspiracy brew. Don’t drink it.

Altemose closes his letter with “no doubt” we will “in good time … see a proliferation of clean, safe, zeroemission nuclear power plants, which will easily provide for all the electric cars Elon Musk can build, plus more.”

Add solar, wind, thermal and tidal energy; subtract the burning of fossil fuels. And hope that “in good time” is in time.

Forest McMullen South Setauket

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The grass is always greener, even on a birthday

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was born in March, so, of course, I wished I were born in the summer.

My brothers were both born in the heat of the summer, which means they could go to a warm beach on their birthdays, sail across some waterway around Long Island, and celebrate the passage of another year without a midterm on their big day or, even worse, the day after their birthday.

But, the real reason I wished my birthday came during the summer was so that I could attend a Yankees D. None game.

When my birthday of the above rolled around, pitchers

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF and catchers were often reporting to spring training, getting ready for the

marathon of each baseball season.

When my son was born in July, sandwiched between a host of other family birthdays on both sides of the family, I figured he would have the chance to pursue the kind of unfulfilled baseball fantasy that I could only imagine as I was memorizing facts, figures and formulas for another set of tests before, during and immediately after my annual rite of passage.

Recently, we celebrated his birthday by going to one of the last few Yankees games before the All-Star break.

We had the privilege of attending a weekend game, when neither of us felt the need to work or meet a deadline.

My son is taking a summer course for which he was supposed to have a virtual test the day before we went to a game. The computer system crashed that day, and the professor suggested everyone take it the next day.

The system, however, continued not to work, perhaps obeying a secret wish my son made

over his customized birthday cake, giving him the opportunity to enjoy the entire day with little to no responsibility other than to reply to all the well wishers and to compliment them on their melodic singing.

The game itself became a blowout early, as the Yankees scored run after run, and the Red Sox seemed to retreat to the safety of the dugout soon after coming up to bat.

Both of us ate more than we normally do in a day, celebrating the outing and reveling in the moment, high-fiving each other and the reveling strangers in Yankees jerseys in front of us.

While the packed stadium started to clear out when the game seemed out of reach for the visitors, we remained in our seats until the last pitch, soaking up the sun, predicting the outcomes of each pitcher-hitter match up and observing the small games-within-a-game that comes from watching the defense change its positioning for each hitter.

It still confounds me that a team could leave

the third base line completely open, shift all the infielders towards right field, and still, the hitter won’t push the ball in a place where he could get a single or double. After all, if they heeded the advice of Hall of Famer Willie Keeler who suggested they “hit it where they ain’t,” these batters could get a hit, raise their batting average and contribute to a rally just by pushing the ball to a huge expanse of open and unprotected grass in fair territory.

Amid the many relaxing and enjoyable moments of connection with my son, he shared that he kind of wished he had born in the winter.

After all, he said, he loves hockey and always imagined going to an NHL game on his birthday.

I suppose the grass is always greener, even on your birthday.

To be fair, though, he did add that wasn’t a genuine wish, as he was thrilled to attend baseball games on his actual birthday, and he was pleased that, in every other year, he didn’t have to worry about exams.

Could Putin’s plans be like the Russian doll, each aspect fitting within another?

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ncredibly, one man has altered the world.

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his troops into neighboring Ukraine, and the killing began.

Ukrainians, Russian soldiers, mercenaries, sympathetic foreign fighters, civilians — all shot each other. Eastern Ukrainians were deported into Russia by the thousands, cities throughout Ukraine were destroyed, families were ripped apart, millions of Ukrainians fled to other countries, schools stopped, medical services halted, commerce and cultural activities were squelched, random bombings put lives in Between a lottery. Those are just you and me some of the horrific

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF consequences of Putin’s order against one country.

But the repercussions of that one act are being felt around the globe. Countries that depended

on wheat and other agricultural supplies grown and shipped from Ukraine and Russia, are now frantically seeking alternate sources, if they can afford them. Oil and gas, primarily piped from Russia and Ukraine, have been cut off. Exports of hundreds of other products from these two countries have stopped. Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed, leading the way to global inflation.

Nations have realigned geopolitically and militarily or strengthened their defense pacts by sending troops and weapons to allies. And other campaigns, to control climate change and suppress the coronavirus, have diminished as national budgets are modified.

What does Putin want?

There has been much speculation about his goals and his fears. They may have crystalized during these ensuing months, or Kremlin watchers may have caught on. One such scholar, who writes about Russia’s politics, foreign policy and, for a score of years, has studied Putin’s behavior, has put forth a cogent scenario in this past Tuesday’s The New York Times.

Tatiana Stanovaya believes that Putin has a grand scheme whose goals are threefold.

The first is the most pragmatic: the securing

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of a land bridge through the Donbas region of the southeast to Crimea. Russian troops seem to have already captured Luhansk, which is part of the Donbas. Apparently, Putin believes the West will accept that Russian troops cannot be dislodged from there and will not cross any red lines to directly engage in such a military effort, eventually abandoning the idea and the territory to Russia.

The second goal is to force Kyiv and the Zelensky government to capitulate from exhaustion and demoralization after one or two years. Russia would then launch a “Russification” of the country, erasing Ukrainian culture and nationhood and imposing Russian language, culture and education. Thus Russia would have expanded its territory and stopped NATO from reaching Russia’s current borders.

The third goal is the most ambitious: Putin wants to build a new world order. “We are used to thinking that Mr. Putin views the West as a hostile force that aims to destroy Russia,” according to writer Stanovaya. “But I believe that for Mr. Putin there are two Wests: a bad one and a good one.”

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and led by elites who are “narrow-minded slaves of their electoral cycles who overlook genuine national interests and are incapable of strategic thinking.” And the “good West”? He believes that “these are ordinary Europeans and Americans who want to have normal relations with Russia and businesses who are eager to profit from close cooperation with their Russian counterparts.”

Today, Putin is convinced, the bad West is declining while the good West is challenging the status quo with nationally oriented leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary, Marine Le Pen in France, and Donald Trump, “ready to break with the old order and fashion a new one.”

The war against Ukraine, with its undesirable consequences like high inflation and soaring energy prices, “will encourage the people to rise up and overthrow the traditional political establishment.” This fundamental shift will then bring about a more-friendly West that will meet the security demands of Russia.

If that has a familiar echo, it is not so different from the Communist expectation that the proletariat will rise up and embrace Marx and Lenin. We know how that turned out.

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Historian explores Three Village and Brookhaven’s late 18th century history

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Town of Brookhaven and the Three Village area have a rich history, with a population dating back more than 8,000 years. This chronology, 17501799, of important events in Setauket’s (Brookhaven’s) past will give old and new residents alike a place to begin understanding our long history. The previous chronology article, 1700-1749, was published on May 19 in The Village Times Herald.

The second half of the 18th century was pivotal for America. The residents of Long Island, including those from Setauket and Stony Brook, played an important part in determining the direction that the English colonies would take. Throwing off the mantle of British rule was only the first step, Americans would then have to learn to govern themselves.

1750: Abraham Woodhull was born in Setauket. His father Richard was a Brookhaven Town judge and farmed 80 acres between Little Bay and Conscience Bay. 1751: A new mill was built in Stony Brook after the 1699 mill was destroyed. This new mill was of strong Dutch barn construction and served the community in continuous operation until 1947.

1752: On Sept. 2, the Julian calendar was dropped in favor of the new Gregorian calendar. The next day became Sept. 14, 1752, and the new year started on Jan. 1, instead of March 26.

1754: Benjamin Tallmadge was born in Setauket. His father Benjamin was minister of the Setauket Presbyterian Church.

1760: By order of the Town Trustees, smallpox inoculations were discontinued since “ye lives of ye inhabitants are much endangered thereby ...” Inoculations resumed again under controlled conditions in January 1765 using a pox house (quarantine) for those receiving the live vaccine.

1775: The New York Provincial Congress met for the first time on May 22. Selah Strong, then living in Mount Misery (now Belle Terre), was a delegate. A majority of Brookhaven men signed the “General Association” calling for a preservation of the “rights and liberties of America ...”

1776: The Suffolk County Militia formed its first regiment of Minute Men, commanded by Colonel Josiah Smith and Captains Samuel L’Hommedieu and Selah Strong. Brookhaven furnished more Patriot commissioned officers than any other town on Long Island which came under the control of British troops after the Battle of Long Island in August. Residents were required to swear allegiance to the crown, a process that took more than two years. More than 5,000 Suffolk County residents fled to Connecticut

History Close at Hand

Painting by Patricia Windrow, above, shows President George Washington at the Roe Tavern. The Stony Brook home of shipbuilder Jonas Smith, below, is now the Three Village Inn. Images from Beverly C. Tyler

to escape the harsh British rule.

1777: Tory troops under Loyalist Colonel Richard Hewlett fortified and desecrated the Setauket Presbyterian Church. Patriot troops from Connecticut, including Setauket’s Caleb Brewster, attacked the fort on August 22. The fort was not taken, however the Loyalist troops were reassigned before the end of the year and the fort was abandoned.

1778: The Culper Spy Ring with Abraham Woodhull as leader was organized by General George Washington’s Intelligence Chief, Major Benjamin Tallmadge. Members also included Austin Roe and Caleb Brewster.

The ring operated during the remainder of the war carrying messages to Washington about activities of British and Loyalists in New York City and on Long Island.

1784: Setauket celebrated victory over Great Britain with an ox roast on the Setauket Village Green. Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, Revolutionary War hero, was the honored master of ceremonies for the day.

1785: The New York Legislature set a policy for the gradual abolition of slavery.

1788: On July 26, the New York Convention voted to ratify the American Constitution. It became the law of the land when the ninth state, New Hampshire, ratified it on June 21.

1789: The seat of Brookhaven Town government moved, for the first time, from Setauket to Coram. Brookhaven was growing and expanding and Setauket was no longer the center of, nor the fastest growing part of, Brookhaven.

1790: President George Washington made a four-day tour of Long Island to thank the spies who lived under British occupation.

He spent the night of April 22 at the Roe Tavern in Setauket. In his diary, Washington described the accommodations as “tolerably decent with obliging people in it.”

1794: Jonas Smith was born in Stony Brook. He became the wealthiest shipbuilder in the area with offices at Stony Brook and South Street Seaport in New York City.

1797: John Willse, shipbuilder, launched ships on the east side of Setauket Harbor. He was Setauket’s first major shipbuilder.

1799: The Act of Manumission in New York provided the formula for the gradual freeing of enslaved families by the year 1827.

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.