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At the White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 15, 136 incoming students to the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University took their Hippocratic Oath for the first time. Photo from Stony Brook Medicine

Medical school welcomes future MDs with ceremony

The Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University welcomed its incoming 2021 class at the annual White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 15. A total of 136 students for the first time donned their white coats and took the Hippocratic Oath at a ceremony in the Staller Center. They begin their medical training during a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the school. Dr. William Wertheim, interim dean, cited the students as a unique and talented incoming class entering medicine at a challenging and

changing time in the profession. He emphasized professionalism and compassion for patients as two of the leading areas they will need to develop and build on in their medical school training years. A large portion of the class hails from New York State (69%), yet many students are from all over including 13 other U.S. states and five countries. They are among a select group, as the school received more than 5,800 applications for a position in the class. “I feel like entering the medical field during

these pandemic times will give my class a humbler perspective on medicine,” said student Jessica Kwong, who had majored in Psychology and Linguistics at Emory University. “I have no idea what I want to specialize in, but during the pandemic I worked with the elderly populations and organized a tele-volunteer initiative. I do plan on working with underserved populations, which is why I minored in Spanish so I can use it in my practice as a future physician.” To read more about the ceremony, visit tbrnewsmedia.com.

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Brookhaven officials approved a 20-year lease agreement for solar development at the Brookhaven landfill at their recent town board meeting, according to a town press release. The agreement with i.on renewables LLC for the land on top of the capped areas of the landfill will provide annual revenue of $20,500 to the town. The solar field, along with fuel cells and harvested methane gas, will be part of an energy park at the landfill, announced by Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) in 2018 as part of the plan for the town landfill when it stops accepting waste after 2024, and it is capped and closed. The 20-year lease agreement, with the option to renew for another 10 years, is anticipated to generate $180,000 in recurring annual revenue. The town currently has solar arrays at Town Hall, the Brookhaven Amphitheater, Holtsville Ecology Site, Brookhaven Calabro Airport and Manorville Compost Facility. “Brookhaven Town has been a leader in renewable energy, and establishing an energy park at the landfill after it is closed makes perfect sense,” Romaine said. “In addition to generating

Manorville Compost Facility has solar panels like the ones planned for the Brookhaven landfill. Photo from Town of Brookhaven

electric power, it will be a key component of our overall commitment to protect and preserve our environment for future generations.” In May of 2014, the town was awarded a Feed-In Tariff from PSEG Long Island for solar arrays at several town properties. The solar array sites were selected after a review was conducted by PSEG Long Island, on behalf of LIPA to determine the likelihood of a successful project. These projects are part of Romaine’s Green Initiative and PSEG’s multi-phase Clean Solar Initiative program designed to produce clean, renewable power for Long Island.

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University

SBU’s Gobler and Jang create water quality app for Long Island

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University’s Christopher Gobler, endowed chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation, and Sung-Gheel Jang, faculty director in the Geospatial Center at Stony Brook University, have created a free app that provides information on water quality on Long Island. Through the downloadable Long Island Beach and Water Quality App, also known as LIBAWQA, residents can gather information that can connect to a person’s location, indicating the health and safety of beaches, bays, estuaries or waterways near them. Gobler’s lab provides the water quality data, which comes from measures they make in 30 locations from East Hampton to Hempstead. The New York State Department of Health provides updates on about 200 beaches across the Island, while the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation offers shellfishing data for more than 500,000 acres of bays, harbors and estuaries. Jang, whose expertise is in the mapping related to geographic information systems, or

GIS, helped build a service he targeted for the general public. Instead of calling the county to find out if their favorite summer destination is open, residents can “use the app and you will know the current water quality,” Jang said. Shellfishing and bathing restrictions use different criteria to determine the safety of swimming or pulling up clams and other shellfish. “This is the beauty of the app,” Gobler said. One day last week, he noticed that a site in Center Moriches allowed swimming but not shellfishing. “The beach right next to it” allows shellfishing. “Which one would you rather go to?” The app, which is available by installing ArcGIS AppStudio Player from Google Play, the App Store or the Microsoft Store and using a QR code on a camera, can show the health history of a beach. While the system, which Gobler described as being in “version 1.0” doesn’t have text alerts, it does provide real-time information. Users can track their location on the map in the app, checking on the shellfish or bathing status of nearby waterways. The idea for this app came about a couple of

A screenshot of the app created by Christopher Gobler and Sung-Gheel Jung of Stony Book University.

years ago when Jang visited Gobler’s lab and the two Stony Brook researchers talked about collaborating. “I was impressed by [Gobler’s] work,” Jang said. “His lab collected water quality data for many, many years.” Jang suggested creating an easy-to-use mobile app. Gobler wanted to add other information beyond the water quality data his

lab collected regularly. Gobler and Jang expect to modify and enhance the information by next summer, when it could include a crowdsourcing opportunity, in which participants share updated information, including limitations on parking or beach closures. Gobler and Jang said they would need to provide a filter before posting information to ensure it contains quality data. The service isn’t available in the Google or Apple app stores yet. “By next summer we hope we can release a new version,” Jang added. “We wanted to show we have a working app first.” Scientists of any age, from primary school through postdoctoral researchers, can use the information for their own research papers or studies, Jang said. Anyone who is interested in accessing and using the data for their own research projects can contact Jang through his email at sunggheel. jang@stonybrook.edu. The scientists have received funding from the Rauch Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust. The pair will seek renewals from both sources this fall.

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Part two of a two-part article on John Brewster Mount. “[Sylvester] Hawkins while living on [Strong’s] Neck used to relate some amusing anecdotes and here is one of them. ‘One day while hitching up my team to drive around to the village I saw a man in a boat row ashore on the neck. He let something loose from the boat. The object let loose came directly up to the farmyard where I was attaching my horse to the wagon. It proved to be a gentle old pussycat that the man had decided to abandon. I picked up the cat and knowing who the man was and where he lived, I took it with me and left it at its old home.’ Mr. Hawkins said the man in the boat was the village blacksmith who never got tired of telling his patrons about the shrewdness of that old cat he put on the neck to get rid of while he went fishing, and that found its way back by the shore road and was sitting on the back stoop when he got back home in his boat.” (John Mount’s East Setauket column, Port Jefferson Times March 6, 1931) One of the most prolific local writers of past years was John Brewster Mount, nephew of genre artist William Sidney Mount. Mount wrote his column for the Port Jefferson Times until shortly before his death on May 3, 1932. As detailed in the Times on May 6, 1932, “(John Mount) is said to have never missed a week in all this time, serving his many faithful readers and the various owners of the paper equally well ... Mr. Mount’s daughter Clara B. recalls that directly after the blizzard of ‘88 Mr. Mount, unable to get his news into the times office in the regular manner of the post, walked all the way to the office here, so as not to miss the edition. None of the other correspondents from the outside towns got their news in on that occasion.” One of the contributions to the development of his talent for writing was the efforts of one of Mount’s teachers, Miss Nancy Cleaves. In a period when most regular teachers were men, Miss Cleaves stood out as a special teacher, and Mount gave her the credit for inspiring him not only to write but to observe the community and what was going on around him. “It’s a mean trick for the auto hogs to crowd a man on the street so hard as to make him run his car into the mill pond to escape being run into. At a former date when we did not have ‘auto hogs’ Isaac Satterly, the miller, had a hog pen on the edge of the pond. One moonlight night in winter some mischievous boy skaters pulled a board off and got the hogs out on ice where they were about as helpless as the car in the water. The old miller was some mad ... The boys were gone ... And the miller had to slide the pigs back into the pigstye and nail

A new book “Down The Ways — The Wooden Ship Era” takes readers back to the East Setauket shipbuilding days, a popular topic in John Mount’s columns. Photo from Beverly C. Tyler

the board on.” (P.J. Times May 8, 1930) Mount’s stories give us a look at 19th-century occupations. “Capt. Nelson of the schooner ‘Louise’ is away on a voyage for coal, to replenish the nearly empty coal yard here of Scudder M. Jayne ... Capt. Byron Hallock, who sails the schooner ‘Stephen Taber’ has started to again engage in his former occupation of transporting oysters from waters near Bridgeport to the great south bay.” Mount writes in April 1930, “It was in the spring of 1885 that Capt. Morse Hawkins of East Setauket, then captain of the schooner C. N. Newins, reached New York from Charleston, S. C. He reported it as being about the roughest period at sea he ever encountered. The vessel was driven about 300 miles off her course and lost and split sails, stove bulwarks and unshipped main boom. But our friend escaped going to ‘Davy Jones locker.’ He is still with us in the old home town.” Mount’s words on the decline of shipping in Setauket Harbor painted a picture of a community and an island in the midst of change. “As we view Setauket Harbor from one of the bluffs along its western shore and see Old Field Beach, the Sound and the New England hills in the distance we have a pretty view. But to an old resident familiar with this locality for over 70 years past, the thought strikes us forcibly that there is something left out, something blank in this view that young folks and new residents never having seen would never know was there. The several shipyards on the southern shore, the new vessels being constructed and the old and skilled mechanics employed who helped to make the village prosperous and the marine railways have all disappeared. Not a relic left. MOUNT CONTINUED ON A8

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Government

State legislators weigh in on new governor, Kathy Hochul

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM After Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced his resignation last week, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) began to draw up plans to take over the role. Her first day in the governor’s chair will be Aug. 24. She was selected by Cuomo as his running mate as lieutenant governor in the 2014 New York gubernatorial election. Hochul, who began her career as an attorney, had served as a member of the Hamburg Town Board from 1994 to 2007, Erie County clerk from 2007 to 2011 and was congresswoman in the state’s 26th District from 2011 to 2013. State senators and assemblymen in Suffolk County filled in TBR News Media on what they know about the first female governor. State Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northport) in an email described her as “competent, experienced and absolutely ready to lead New York State forward.” Freshman senator, Mario Mattera (RSt. James), wrote in an email that he only had the opportunity to meet her briefly in the past but found her to be “cordial and approachable.” State Assemblyman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-St. James) said in a phone interview he has met her a few times and said she is a nice person who he

believes is capable of doing the job ahead of her. Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) described her as a hard worker who is warm and open to learning about what people think. He said in a phone interview that while he has never had any policy interaction with her, he has met her. Both assemblymen said that Cuomo kept Hochul on the outside during his tenure. Despite the soon-to-be former governor not providing her with opportunities to demonstrate what she’s capable of, Englebright said he believes she has always known to be prepared to take on the position because she knew it was one of her responsibilities. Gaughran and Englebright commended Hochul on getting out into the state to familiarize herself with constituents’ issues. Gaughran said he was confident that New Yorkers would like her. “She has spent the past few years as lieutenant governor traveling the state and has tremendous knowledge about Long Island’s needs,” Gaughran wrote. “She has experience at every level of government — from local to state to federal — and will be able on day one to continue leading New York through the pandemic and the challenges posed by the Delta variant, as well as heal New York from this dark moment in history.” Englebright echoed the sentiments.

Kathy Hochul will take over as governor of New York Aug. 24. Photo from Hochul’s office

“She knows New York and has traveled to every county in the state as basically an envoy of the executive chamber of goodwill,” Englebright said, adding her good listening skills she demonstrated during these trips will be an asset in the role. Fitzpatrick said he believes Hochul has a hard time ahead though. “I think Governor Hochul not only has a tough job, but I think she has a very difficult path to the nomination,” he said.

He added she will need to satisfy those who are progressives in the Democratic Party while also pleasing moderates. “She’s in a difficult position,” he said. Mattera agreed. “She has a lot of work to do to overcome the issues that derailed the Cuomo administration, and I am sure the residents of New York will be keeping a keen eye on how she handles the last portion of Governor Cuomo’s term,” he said. Englebright agreed she will be tested. “But this is not her first rodeo,” he said. “She’s experienced so I think the state will be in good hands.” Gaughran and Englebright, who both believe she has a good chance of winning in 2022, said if they were to give her advice they would tell her how important it is to have a good and cooperative relationship with the state Legislature. Something they felt Cuomo didn’t have. Mattera echoed the sentiment. “There is a wealth of knowledge in the Senate and Assembly members since they closely represent those they serve in their respective districts,” Mattera said. “That can help our state move forward following this year’s crisis and the ongoing controversy surrounding Governor Cuomo and his administration.”

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SOUTH 03 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 07 SECONDS WEST 336.11 FEET; RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 85 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 38 SECONDS WEST 84.10 FEET; RUNNING THENCE NORTH 09 DEGREES 34 MINUTES 34 SECONDS WEST 270.02 FEET; RUNNING THENCE NORTH 14 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 29 SECONDS WEST 50.21 FEET TO THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF CHINA LANE; RUNNING THENCE EASTE R LY ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF CHINA LANE NORTH 80 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 52 SECONDS EAST 166.51 FEET TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED DIVISION LINE THE POINT OR PLACE OF BEGININNG.

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Applicant requests front yard setback variance and minimum side yard variance for proposed 2 story residence addition (including garage below). (0200 22500 0400 014000) THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL COMMENCE AT 4 P.M. 41. Christopher and Dorota Tomaino, c/o Andrew Malguarnera, 713 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY. Location: Northeast side of Riunite Rd. 769.52’ North of Gallo Ct., E. Setauket. Applicant requests height variance and side yard variance for proposed 18 ft. high - 1004 sq. ft. detached garage (14 ft. high - 600 sq. ft. permitted) located in the required side yard. (0200 17800 0200 004005)

VILLAGE TIMES HERALD 43. Jason & Dana Braun, c/o Mitch Brendle, Integrity Expediting, 1717 N. Ocean Ave., Ste. F, Medford, NY. Location: South side of Seville Lane 247.76’ East of Seabrook L a n e, S t o ny Brook. Applicant requests permission for proposed inground swimming pool to be located less than the required 25 ft. from overhead electric wires (14 ft. requested). (0200 27500 0400 008000)

13. Sound View Association, c/o Andrew Malguarnera, 713 Main St., Port Jefferfson, NY. Location: Northwest corner Beach Rd. & Midwood Rd. (South side Hillside Rd. - not open), Stony Brook. Applicant requests Certificate of Existing Use for one story building being used as a pavilion. (0200 10700 0300 012001)

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CASES WILL BE HEARD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD.

25. Jaclyn & Kenneth Brotherton, c/o Woodhull Expediting, 1031 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY. Location: West side Stalker Lane, 430.16’ North of Lodge Lane, East Setauket.

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BY KIMBERLY BROWN KIMBERLY@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Residents gathered outside Pentimento on Sunday to show support for the restaurant, which is set to close its doors on Sept. 30. The business has been a staple in Stony Brook Village Center for 27 years. Standing at the entrance of the restaurant with pizza boxes, cardboard strips and homemade picket signs reading “Save Penti!” and “Good Neighbors Deserve Better Treatment!” a few dozen locals made sure to exhibit their concerns for the struggling business. “I loved watching them grow,” said Sharon Goetchius, of Stony Brook. “It is such a warm place, and the food is amazing. It’s got everything, and the way this is all going down is really unfortunate.” On July 29, Pentimento posted on its Facebook page that it was unable to extend the term of its lease. Disappointed that Eagle Realty Holdings didn’t negotiate a new lease for the longstanding restaurant, locals are hoping to garner support throughout the community, making sure their voices are heard and the restaurant stays. “They should turn this around and extend

Residents rally in front of Pentimento Sunday. Photo by Kimberly Brown

their lease, that is the ethically right thing to do,” Goetchius said. “Because of all the COVID madness, the renewing of the lease kind of slipped through the cracks, although they always intended

to renew.” said Lisa Blake, of St. James. “Rather than extending some kindness and neighborliness, the landlord is saying, ‘No, you missed that little window, so you’re out of here.’”

According to Gloria Rocchio, president of Eagle Realty Holdings, along with not renewing the lease in time, the business also failed to comply with the maintenance of its septic system. However, Chelsea Gomez, a former employee of 15 years at Pentimento, said she highly disagrees with this statement. “I have firsthand knowledge of how often we had to pump the septic system, so I know that the owners were doing everything they could to maintain it,” Gomez said. “This is not a case of neglect or that they didn’t want to spend the money to fix it. They’ve always done everything they can to maintain not only the septic system but everything about this restaurant, too.” Loyal customers reflected on their fond memories of Pentimento Restaurant, from celebrating weddings, anniversaries, birthdays to just a simple night out to dinner — it seems the business has played a part in every customer’s life. “I’ve come here throughout my childhood, and it’s such an integral part of the community that I don’t want it to go away,” said Julia Lopinto, a Setauket resident. “It’s a quaint, homey place that has strong roots in this community, and us being here today is evidence of how willing we are to defend it.”

WMHO president, restaurant manager respond to residents’ cries BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Residents who have banded together to save Pentimento Restaurant in Stony Brook Village Center, before taking to the village streets Sunday to protest, started a Facebook page and petition earlier this month. The petition on Change.org, started by Patricia Kirchner, has received almost 3,300 signatures as of Aug. 18. It states that the restaurant has been refused a lease renewal by The Ward Melville Heritage Organization. Eagle Realty Holdings is the owner of the Stony Brook Village Center storefronts, which selects tenants, collects rent and maintains the shopping center property. Net proceeds are distributed to WMHO. According to Gloria Rocchio, president of Eagle Realty Holdings and WMHO, the realty company pays more than $725,000 in real estate taxes a year. Rocchio added the WMHO board of trustees are non-salaried volunteers. On the Save Pentimento Facebook page, which has more than 400 followers, the administrators have requested that, in addition to members calling and emailing WMHO’s office and Rocchio, they also contact trustees and have

listed the board members’ phone numbers and email addresses. In a phone interview Aug. 16, Rocchio said she believes many community members are acting on misinformation. “They don’t have all the facts,” she said. “They only have one side of the story.” Rocchio added that it’s not standard protocol to discuss where a tenant stands as far as a lease, rent or any other interactions between the landlord and business. Earlier this month, Pentimento owner Dennis Young told TBR News Media that last year he was required to request an extension of the lease, which expires at the end of September. He said while trying to keep the restaurant afloat during the pandemic, renewing slipped his mind. While Young is thinking about retiring in the near future, he said friends were interested in buying the business and keeping Pentimento as it is. Rocchio said in addition to not providing notice of an interest to renew the lease last year, the tenant failed “to comply with the requirement to maintain the septic system” which is described in the lease. She added the new owners that were recommended by Young were interviewed as well as other candidates.

Julia Lopinto, of Setauket, shows support for Pentimento Sunday. Photo by Kimberly Brown

Young said he has maintained the property during his 27 years of ownership. Restaurant manager Lisa Cusumano in a phone interview said she and Young have not

been part of any of the planning of the petition or the rally and have been too busy running the business to keep up with the comments on the Save Pentimento Facebook page. “The community is taking it in their own hands, and it has a life of its own,” she said. In an Aug. 6 post to the Pentimento Restaurant Facebook page, residents were asked to remember that the business isn’t a separate entity but is part of Stony Brook Village Center. Patrons were encouraged to support all the businesses in the shopping center. “The community outpouring has been overwhelming and it’s touching, but we don’t want people to go against the village center because that’s our home, and they’re all our neighbors — those businesses are just like us,” Cusumano said. Not only have Young and her been overwhelmed by the community’s response via social media and the Aug. 15 rally, they said customers come in every day asking why they are closing. “There isn’t a customer that does not walk in our restaurant every day and says, ‘What is going on, why is this happening?’” Cusumano said. According to Rocchio, no final decision has been made as far as a future tenant.

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Continued from A4 Then again in winter time the masts of vessels laid up in the channel from Skidmore’s Point to Strong’s bridge made it look like a forest. Now we gaze out on vacancy. Hardly a clam boat in sight, and docks going to decay.” (Port Jefferson Times-Nov., 23, 1927). After the death of John Mount, his daughter Clara took over the column and continued to bring the lives of the present and past people of Setauket to the attention of readers. By the time Clara died in 1943, the column had been running for more than 60 years. A new book “Down The Ways — The Wooden Ship Era” is designed to let readers discover the East Setauket shipbuilding area. Here are the stories of the shipyard bosses,

In physician practices, urgent care centers and emergency departments, doctors are seeing a “sizable number” of breakthrough cases, Dhuper continued. Adrian Popp, chair of Infection Control at Huntington Hospital/ Northwell Health, said Huntington Hospital has seen breakthrough cases, although most of them are “mild” and are “diagnosed incidentally when patients get admitted for other issues.” Dhuper urged residents to take precautions similar to the ones they took last year before vaccines were available, including social distancing, wearing masks and washing hands carefully, especially in indoor settings. At this point, boosters will likely be available for the Pfizer/ BioNTech and Moderna vaccinations. The Food and Drug Administration is still looking at data for people who received the Johnson & Johnson shot. Once the FDA provides Emergency Use Authorization for a booster for the general population, medical health experts anticipate a much smoother roll out than the initial struggle with finding vaccinations. “As all who have been vaccinated in New York State have a [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] vaccine card,” Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, said in an email, “It should be straightforward to each person to get a booster at the eight-month mark.” At the same time, parents are focused on the timing and availability of vaccines for children under the age of 12. Results from the trial are “expected in December 2020,” wrote Popp. Medical experts continue to urge residents to receive their shots. “It is hoped that the booster will cut down on these infections and thus transmissions,” Nachman said. ship captains, shipyard workers and associated trades as well as the stories of the tourism era that followed. Included are stories of the many people who worked in the homes and shipyards and contributed, often behind the scenes, to the viability of the community. This 44-page book featuring Vance Locke murals, Pat Windrow paintings, historic photographs, maps and contemporary photographs of the historic scenes by photographer and historian Beverly Tyler will be available from the Three Village Historical Society at the Setauket Farmers Market on the grounds of the Three Village Historical Society beginning on Friday, Aug. 27. This writer will be there to sign copies. 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.

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E M PL OY M E N T / C A R E E R S  Administrative Assistant Position 

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MAINTENANCE MECHANIC year round, heated shop, own tools, drivers license required, benefits, South Shore 516-458-7328. RIVERHEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT has the following positions available, school lunch monitors, special education aides, school bus drivers, substitute custodial workers, substitute special education aides & computer aides, substitute office assistants SEE THEIR DISPLAY AD FOR MORE INFORMATION.

• Initiate and create posts, announcements, flyers, and promotional materials based on content provided by ministry teams • Sort mail, send church-wide emails, monitor general voicemail The Church Administrative Assistant should be friendly and professional in all interactions and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information. Church experience a plus. Self-starter desired. All duties should be performed timely, efficiently and largely independently. The Administrative Assistant should be confident using Microsoft Office 365 and Google Docs, Sheets and Forms as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and MailChimp. Position includes 2 weeks paid vacation. Salary details to be discussed during interview process.   ©40340

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• Bus Driver, permanent $25.00/hour and substitute $20.25/hour; valid and clean NYS Driver’s License, CDL Class B preferred will train, benefits available for permanent employees • Substitute Custodial Workers; clean school buildings, able to lift up to 50 pounds $17.50/hour • Substitute Special Education Aides & Computer Lab Aides; assist students in various settings $15.00/hour • Substitute Oﬃce Assistants; answer phones and perform clerical duties $17.50/hour Requirements: High School Diploma, NYSED Fingerprint Clearance, Spanish Speaking Preferred.

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PUBLISHER’S EMPLOYMENT NOTICE: All employment advertising in this newspaper is subject to section 296 of the human rights law which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, disability, marital status, sex, age or arrest conviction record or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Title 29, U.S. Code Chap 630, excludes the Federal Gov’t. from the age discrimination provisions. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for employment which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that employment offerings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Job Title: Administrative Assistant – shared between North Shore United Methodist Church (Wading River, NY) and First United Methodist Church (Port Jefferson, NY) Reports to: Pastor and SPR team leaders  Contractor Hours: Minimum of twenty (20) hours/week. Schedule flexible/to be determined with Pastor Summary: The Administrative Assistant provides general office support services to the Pastor and the churches’ committees and Trustees. Responsibilities will ensure the smooth daily operation of both churches, with additional tasks as needed. Alternate as necessary with at least one day per week in each church office. Principal Duties and Tasks: • Prepare weekly worship bulletins and PowerPoints, also for special church services, weddings, funerals, etc. • Email Pastor’s weekly message & announcements via MailChimp • Create a robust presence for our churches on social media

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Editorial

Living together in peace Many have asked what has happened to us as a society. As we prepare to remember the victims of 9/11 in just a few weeks, we are reminded of a time 20 years ago when our communities came together to help each other. We applauded our first responders, offered our shoulders to those who were crying and all of us came together as one. The amount of empathy Americans, as well as those around the world, showed for the victims and their families was awe-inspiring. While 9/11 was a day to remember, 9/12 was just as important because it showed that we could be unified. However, the tragedies and issues caused by COVID-19 have left us more divided than ever. Many scratch their heads wondering why people won’t follow the guidance of medical professionals, who last year simply asked us to wear masks and social distance while they figured out the best line of defense against the virus. Despite the significant strides made in medicine over the last few decades, a new form of a virus can still take time to figure out. And then this year, finally the vaccine that we all were waiting for was released, but yet many have refused to get it to help the common good and themselves. It seems at times we have become selfish and selfabsorbed, not worrying about anyone but ourselves. Then again, we shouldn’t be surprised. Look at our roads. More and more drivers engage in reckless driving, whether speeding down the road, weaving in and out of traffic, not pulling over for emergency vehicles or blowing through red lights and stop signs. In the days of social media, we see too many people believing that their way is the only way and that those who think differently to them are evil or stupid to a point where we don’t respect our fellow citizens. We have become so selfish and judgmental at times that we forget when we step out our door it’s no longer about us. The world does not revolve around one person, not even one family or social circle. As we navigate through the day, while our feelings and beliefs are valid and should be respected, the same goes for respecting others. We should also listen to each other. Really listen. It can be difficult at times to balance our wants and needs with the desires of others, but it’s the only way we can live together in peace. Many have said they don’t want a new normal — they just want normal. Yet, it seems as if a new normal is needed, one where people’s actions show that they care about those around them. It’s been said that learning about our history is important, so we don’t repeat the mistakes of past generations and benefit from the good elements, too. Now, let’s remember the tragic event of 9/11 and its aftermath in order to be reminded of how we united and moved forward during one of the most difficult times in American history. We did it then and we can do it again — together.

Letters to the Editor Zeldin stayed silent during Trump’s toxic presidency

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Unlike two local Republican state senators quoted in the Aug. 12 edition of this newspaper (Sens. Anthony Palumbo [R-New Suffolk] and Mario Mattera [R-St. James]), U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY1] doesn’t even have the grace to offer a pro forma statement of goodwill and cooperation to Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul [D], the incoming governor to replace Gov. Andrew Cuomo [D]. Instead, he plunges his rhetorical knife into her, inaccurately terming her “Cuomo’s lieutenant,” and laughably accusing her of “empower[ing] Cuomo’s disgusting behavior,” being silent about “scandal after scandal” and about Cuomo’s “rampant harassment, intimidation, bullying and abuse.” This is really rich coming from somebody who’s been silent from day one about the far more disgusting behavior of former President Donald Trump [R]. If you want to talk about vile behavior toward women, Trump’s right up there near the top; he even openly bragged about it. If you want to talk about harassment, intimidation, bullying and abuse, Trump wrote the book on it. The toxic environment of the West Wing while he was president has been chronicled time and time again. His presidency unleashed an epidemic of schoolyard bullying as well as a more serious one of racial and ethnic harassment and hate crimes. And if you want scandals, he leaves President Warren Harding [R] in the dust, from Trump hotels making a killing, to trying to get Mar-a-Lago to host a G7 summit, to abusing the presidency to bully the leader of a foreign nation [Ukraine] into digging up dirt on a political opponent. To say nothing about politicizing science, which has led to thousands and thousands of needless COVID-19 deaths, and for which we are still paying the price. And to say nothing of the biggest scandal of all, namely lying about his defeat in the 2020 election, attempting to suborn state officials into overturning the results and, when that didn’t work, inciting an attack on the U.S. Capitol to prevent its legal certification. And where was Zeldin during all this disgusting behavior, bullying, scandal and lying? The answer is that not once did he stand up to Trump and

forthrightly demand that he stop. Instead, he appointed himself Trump’s wingman in a crass pursuit of political brownie points. Right up to the bitter end, Zeldin was voting on the night of Jan. 6, after the violent invasion of the Capitol by a Trump-inspired mob, to empower Trump and overturn the certified results of the 2020 election in two states, thereby nullifying the votes of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens. When presented on a silver platter with an opportunity, for once, to show some magnanimity and civic leadership what does Zeldin do? He angrily dashes the platter to the ground. I hope and pray Zeldin never becomes governor. All we would get from him is more chaos and bile. It would be far better if he would leave holding office altogether, and pursue a career on cable news or talk radio, for which he is far better suited, and where his true vocation really lies. David Friedman St. James

My government should be ashamed

Today I am ashamed of my government. I never thought military intervention in Afghanistan was a good idea. History is full of examples, going back to the Romans, that suggest it was a disastrous idea. But once we were there, we took on certain obligations that we utterly failed to fulfill in our withdrawal. Once we had decided to withdraw, the first people who should have been evacuated were the people who had helped us — as translators, guides, informants — and their families. That is, the ones who were in the greatest danger when the Taliban took over, as everyone knew would happen quickly. Insisting that they first get the proper documentation is bureaucracy at its most insane. The next people to be evacuated should be the American civilians,

ending with the embassy staff. (I’d put the ambassador at the end of the line, but that’s just me.) The last people to leave would be the military, the ones best able to protect themselves on their exit. If possible, they might take with them or destroy the military equipment they were leaving behind, rather than handing it over to the Taliban. My government should be ashamed. I am ashamed that it is not. Jane O’Sullivan Setauket

Scream for ice cream

You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream. Take a day off from worrying about cholesterol, triglycerides and your weight. Treat yourself, beat the heat and humidity by going to your favorite local ice cream parlor and order a banana split. Wednesday, Aug. 25, is National Banana Split Day. It was invented by 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist David Evan Strickler at his Latrobe, Pennsylvania store’s soda fountain in 1904. The cost for this tasty treat was 10 cents, which was twice the price of any other ice cream sundae. Why not have an all ice cream dinner? Enjoy a couple of scoops of your favorite ice cream. It should be properly served in a long dish sometimes called a boat. The banana is cut in half lengthwise with three scoops of ice cream in between. Tradition has scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry but many substitute other flavors. Add some hot fudge, whipped cream, crushed nuts, maraschino cherries and other toppings. It will put a smile on your face and bring back childhood memories of when you frequented Jahn’s ice cream parlor or other favorite ice cream emporiums. Larry and Wendy Penner Great Neck

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Opinion

Welcome to the Covid curriculum at Daniel Dunaief High School

elcome to Dan Dunaief HS or DDHS. I know it’s an odd time to start a new high school, but children need to learn, even during a pandemic. Originally, I was planning to have everyone come to a pep rally on the first day of school. After all the restrictions of last year, it only seemed fitting to bring the kids together in the gym and celebrate the chance to sit in 1950s style wooden bleachers that rock when someone walks a few steps. D. None But, then, I realized of the above we don’t have a BY DANIEL DUNAIEF basketball, football or squash team, we haven’t picked school colors, we don’t have a school song and, most importantly, we are in a

difficult spot with the pandemic. I know your kids are exhausted from dealing with the virus. Who can blame them? Aren’t we all? At first, I thought we’d avoid the whole topic and stick to the basics in school. But, then, it occurred to me that avoiding a virus that has now affected three school years wouldn’t make it better. We can try not to think about it, but that doesn’t make it go away. Information and knowledge will help these students understand the strange world that surrounds them and might empower them to feel as if they’re doing something about it, even if it’s just learning more about a time that future generations will no doubt study carefully, scrutinizing our every move as if we were some kind of early laboratory experiment. With that in mind, I gave the curriculum serious consideration. I thought about all the standard ways students have learned. Ultimately, I decided to turn toward the academic vortex. At DDHS, at least for the first year or so, we’re going to encourage students to

study the real challenges of the world around them. For starters, in our art class, we’re going to have design competitions for the front and back of masks. The winners will provide masks that the entire school will wear each week. Then, in an engineering class, we’ll work on creating masks that are more comfortable and just as effective as the ones that make our faces sweat. Maybe this class can also figure out how to provide words that flash across the mask when we talk, giving people a better idea of what we’re saying behind our masks. Maybe enterprising students can design masks that cool our faces when we sweat and warm them when we’re cold, that shave or bleach unwanted hair or that act like dry-fit shirts, covering our faces without clinging to them. In history, we’ll spend at least a semester on the Spanish Influenza. We’ll explore what leaders throughout the world did in 1918 during the last pandemic. We’ll see what worked best and what disappointed. Our psychology class will devote itself to the conflicts between people’s perceptions of

infringements on their individual freedoms and their desire to protect themselves and each other by wearing masks. Our political science course will delve into how politics became enmeshed in the response to the virus. This class will look at which side gains, politically, amid different public health scenarios. Science classes will explore why some people get incredibly sick from the virus, while others show no symptoms. We will also study the way the virus works, look at similar viruses and try to understand and track the development of variants. Math will work with the science department to understand the spread of the virus and to plot various scenarios based on human behavior. Eager students in math will have the chance to demonstrate how sicknesses spread depending on the wearing of masks, the use of vaccines, and the creation of new variants. Our language arts class will provide an outlet for students to express their hopes, dreams and concerns amid the unique challenges in their lifetime created by the pandemic.

Water, water everywhere, but will we have enough to drink?

he other day, I went to the kitchen sink for some water, and when I turned on the faucet, only a few drops came out, then nothing. Puzzled, I tried it again, shutting then opening the tap. No water. My first thought was that something might be wrong with the pipes in the house. Zipping around, I tried the bathroom sinks. Same result. The water line into the house looked intact, no leaks. This was going to be a big problem, I worried, worse than when the electricity cuts out. I had an awful feeling of deprivation. Where was our water? Between you and me It turned out that there was a major leak BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF in the underground water line to our block. Before too long, the

Suffolk County Water Authority workers arrived and began digging up the blacktop. It was during those high heat days, and soon the men were drenched in their own sweat, but I admired their work ethic. They kept at the job for a full 12 hours until the line was repaired. We deeply appreciated them and let them know. I also had a new perspective on having water. We turn the handle and expect to have water to drink, to cook, to clean, to bathe. Yes, I have traveled in other countries where I had to drink bottled water, but nonetheless, water came out of the taps. I follow the news about water shortages around the world, including in our country, but it is with a different perspective now when I see such reports on television. We feel entitled to running water, but we are so privileged. To turn on the faucet and have nothing come out, even for a few hours, is deeply unsettling. Here is an example where water is a great concern. We know there has been a drought in California for the past two years. Southern California cities have prepared for the worst

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by building aqueducts and reservoirs and storing water underground. Despite their more arid climate, the south of the state is prepared. Smaller northern California towns, located in what was a more rainy climate, and much loved by tourists, are caught short. Reservoirs there are at worrisome levels and even powergenerating dams have had to stop producing electricity because of insufficient water. These are agricultural areas too, and farmers, as well as restaurateurs and innkeepers, are afraid they may have to shut down. To truck in water costs 20 to 45 cents a gallon compared with the typical utility company rate of less than a penny a gallon. Further, the level of water in the Colorado River and Lake Mead, which is formed by the Hoover Dam, is falling, threatening the water supply for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada residents and especially Arizona’s agricultural output. Even major semiconductor manufacturers, expanding there, require a lot of water to produce their much needed product. Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir,

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is now at its lowest level ever. The $1 trillion package just passed by the Senate does include water shortage mitigation funds. Worldwide, over a billion people lack access to water and 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month a year. Countries most affected include Egypt, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, Haiti, Laos, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. The irony is that over 70 % of the earth is covered by water. Desalination, which is an expensive option, could become a solution. There is also water in the air. An Israeli company called, Watergen. pulls water from the air, as much as 6000 liters a day. that is used to support entire hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in central Africa. It also helped Australia battle bush fires in 2020. Further, harvesting the pure water from icebergs is big business along Canada’s east coast. These are all possible solutions. Perhaps most important is the care we humans must take with our precious supply, not to mindlessly pollute or overuse what we are grateful to have. I am duly reminded how lucky we are.

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