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Vol. 94, No. 4

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VGN zoning proposal online BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Proposed zoning changes for portions of Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road in the Village of Great Neck, posted on the village’s website last week, put a premium on projects the board determines to be of “community benefit.” The proposed changes would amend Chapter 575 of the village code and come in the wake of a study from VHB, the village’s consultant, which plans to present findings at the village’s next trustees meeting on Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. The changes seek to encourage “revitalization and growth of business activities deemed to be in public interest.” The move would rename the Middle Neck Road Multifamily Incentive Overlay District as the Corridor Incentive Overlay District and expand its borders. It would include the western portion of 720 Middle Neck Road, the properties of 700 Middle Neck Continued on Page 66

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A variety of students from around Great Neck worked together to assemble meals for people in need at Temple Israel’s Waxman center on Monday, in honor of the late Martin Luther King Jr. See story on page 20.

Great Neck Library director resigns Trustees receive letter; reason for Denise Corcoran leaving unclear BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Great Neck Library Direc-

tor Denise Corcoran is resigning from her position, the library said! Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of changes in the top job. Corcoran, who oversaw 20 community libraries in Queens in her last position, was appointed last January and oﬃcially started on Feb. 1. She replaced Kathy

Giotsas, who was fired in spring 2017. “The Great Neck Library Board of Trustees has received the resignation of Denise Corcoran as Director of the Great Neck Library,” the library said in a statement. “We thank Ms. Corcoran for her service and all she has achieved while here. We also wish her the best in her future

endeavors.” Robert Schaufeld, the president of the library board, said he could not comment on the reason for her planned departure. “All I can say is that we’re going to be going through a transitional period and the board will work very closely with the outgoing director and the interim actContinued on Page 77

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The Great Neck News, Friday, January 25, 2019

Plaza budget pushes G.N. energy grid for infrastructure being strengthened

Trustees pass $7.3M spending plan for 2019-2020 PSEG taking on circuit resilience work BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

Great Neck Plaza approved a $7.3 million budget last Wednesday that stays under the tax cap and would invest more than $1 million in infrastructure, including a transportation enhancement project and increased investment in road paving. The budget is 2.29 percent higher than the previous budget, rising $163,871 from $7.14 million. Great Neck Plaza, however, only spent $4.55 million in 2018, according to the budget and $6.14 million in 2017. Property tax revenue is expected to go up from $3.01 million to $3.13 million, or by $121,679, making up most of the village’s income. This is also a 4.03 percent overall increase. Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said the increase is under the tax cap because the village was able to carry over some balance from previous years when it stayed under the tax cap. Overall, the village expects a $241,092 increase in aid, up from $1.3 million to $1.54 million based on obtaining $300,000 in community development funds and a $100,000 multi-modal grant from the state. The village is also budgeting nearly $1.1 million worth of revenue from permits and meters —! or about $15,000 more than the $1.08 million budgeted in 2018. The next largest revenue source would be fines and forfeited bail at $700,000, which is unchanged from 2018. The biggest line item on the budget is the village’s transportation enhancement project for Welwyn and Shoreward roads that will feature a mid-block raised crosswalk, circular inter-

PSEG Long Island began another circuit reliability project in the Great Neck area this month that hopes to strengthen the energy grid and its resilience to avoid power outages. The two-mile project, slated to last about five months, will replace electrical wires, install new durable poles, and install and replace switching equipment in the Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza and Thomaston area. The project is tackling parts of Shore Cliﬀ Place, Parkwood Drive, Shore Drive, Cedar Drive, Bayview Avenue, Knightsbridge Road, Pont Street, South Middle Neck Road, Shoreward Drive and the Reverend M.L.K. Jr. Avenue. “Outstanding electric reliability is one of PSEG Long Island’s top priorities,” John O’Connell, the utility’s vice

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The Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees passed a $7.3 million budget on Wednesday night, which features money for road paving and infrastructure upgrades. section, a plaza near the post office, and other features. The village budgeted about $1.04 million for it in 2019 — it spent $50,220.39 last year on the project. Celender said oﬃcials now hope the project, to be done by J. Anthony Enterprises for $993,674.40, will be done in June. Great Neck Plaza must first spend the money to be mostly reimbursed via a federal transportation enhancement grant, village oﬃcials previously said. The village, which budgeted receiving $726,160 from the federal grant in 2018, is now budgeted to receive $675,940. As part of the village’s state of good repair project, it plans to spend $568,000 this year to repave roads. The $230,000 planned increase from the $347,000 budgeted in 2018 stems from the receipt of state grants, Celender said. “So we’ve got a lot of roadwork being done,” she said. The budget also allocates money for the continued upgrade of lights to LED, Celender said, as the village has a goal of

reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Celender said that the budget currently operates under the assumption that Great Neck Plaza will still receive about $65,000 in aid to municipalities — or AIM – funding from the state. While it seems like a small amount, she said the village officials plan to fight to retain it so they do not have to look at areas to cut in the budget. “We try really hard to stay under the tax cap,” Celender said. The village is also budgeting $250,000 in building permit fees rather than $350,000 because 5-9 Grace Ave. is complete, a residential dwelling at 15 Bond St. is under construction, and there is uncertainty on the applications the village will get, Celender said. “We do have a number of developers that are interested, but we don’t know where these processes will take us,” Celender said. In unrelated village business, Great Neck Plaza trustees authorized the purchase of a Continued on Page 67

president of transmission and distribution operations, said in a statement. “This infrastructure improvement project in Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza and Thomaston is just one of hundreds of FEMA-funded upgrades we have been making at no additional cost to our customers.” According to PSEG’s website, there are four other ongoing projects in the Great Neck area. Among the areas aﬀected are Great Neck Gardens, Kings Point, Great Neck, Thomaston, University Gardens, Lake Success, Great Neck Plaza, Great Neck Estates and Kensington. The project is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program, which aims to strengthen electrical distribution infrastructure against storms. More than $729 million in federal funds was secured for the Long Island Power Authority in 2014.

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PSEG Long Island is undertaking a number of circuit reliability projects in Great Neck.

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L.I. senators to LIRR: get back on track In letter to LIRR prez and MTA, state legislators denounce performance, announce hearings BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N State Senate Democrats intend to hold hearings on the state of the Long Island Rail Road, according to a letter sent to LIRR President Phillip Eng and the MTA, in response to a litany of transit woes faced by commuters. The letter, signed by the state Senate chairs of the Corporations, Authorities and Commissions and Transportation committees and six Long Island Democrats, put Eng and the MTA on notice about pending hearings and their oversight authority over the agency. “Statistics reveal what commuters know quite well — that the LIRR’s recent performance is subpar and in desperate need of thorough review and revamping,” the letter states. “In light of the legislature’s role in funding the MTA’s budget, as well as fulfilling our role as representatives of the riders who rely on your service, we intend to exercise our oversight authority in an eﬀort to seek collaborative solutions to remedy an unsustainable situation.” The letter was signed by all six of Long Island’s Democratic state senators, including Anna Kaplan, who represents North Hempstead, Elmont and part of Hicksville for District 7. “We’re all fed up with the status quo, and we want to find solutions to get the job done,” Kaplan, of Great Neck, said. “That’s why we’re bringing together stakeholders, transit experts, and most importantly, riders, to identify causes of our current problems, and make a plan for real improvements going forward.”

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Democratic State Senators sent a letter to the MTA and LIRR president Phillip Eng notifying them about their intent to hold hearings on the LIRR’s performance.

Exact dates for the hearings were not immediately clear. “I welcome the opportunity to continue the discussions we’ve been having with the senators, and to share information about the LIRR Forward plan and the initiatives underway to improve service for our customers,” Eng said in a statement. “The hearings will complement the unprecedented outreach we’ve been having with the public in the past year, including more than 100 meetings with civic groups and associations and weekly Meet Your Manager events at stations.” The LIRR had an on-time rating of 90.4 percent last year, according to statistics released by the agency. This was below 2017’s on-time rate of 91.4 percent, according to the state comptroller’s office, and made it “the lowest level since 1999 and well below the [94 percent] target set by the LIRR.” A train is considered on time if it arrives within 5 minutes and 59 seconds of its scheduled arrival time. It also comes as the MTA, which oversees the agency, plans to implement fare hikes of about 4 percent in March to make up for a revenue shortfall. MTA and LIRR officials have attributed some past delays to weather conditions and an abundance of wet leaves, which can create travel hazards and wheel-damaging slippery rail conditions. At a previous LIRR committee meeting, Eng said the railroad has not seen “the same spike or lengthy duration of impacts” as was seen in 2017 and vowed to “triple [its] efforts” to contain delays and improve safety.

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Villages could lose out on state aid Governor’s proposal would gut aid to municipalities; only 2 area villages would keep it BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N

The vast majority of villages in Nassau County and statewide could lose funding from the state’s Aid to Municipalities program, according to the governor’s latest budget proposal, raising concerns among some current and former village oﬃcials about taxation and budget stress. Only two of 29 area villages would retain any so-called AIM – or aid to municipalities – funding, according to the governor’s proposal. This would mean that $1.39 million of funding would decrease to $267,457 – the product of Manorhaven’s $96,120 and Williston Park’s $171,337. The aid would make up more than 2 percent of Manorhaven’s and Williston Park’s respective budgets, according to the state. The average across area villages was 0.67 percent. Ralph Kreitzman, the executive director of the Nassau County Village Oﬃcials Association and a former mayor of Great Neck, said that number may seem small. But villages are “limited severely” in how they can raise revenue and facing drastically increasing costs, he said, while the $19.7 million all villages statewide received last fiscal year would only be one one-hundredth of 1 percent of the pro-

posed $172 billion budget. “Our hope is that when we can give these facts to our state legislators that they will realize that this, although a small amount of the state budget, is very very important to the villages,” Kreitzman said. Peter Baynes, the executive director of the New York Conference of Mayors, also urged the governor to reverse course and for state legislators to fight the changes.

“When it comes to local governments and the property tax reform, the Governor’s budget fails to abide by its theme of ‘justice,’ as it would eliminate state aid for the vast majority of New York’s smallest local governments,” Baynes said. “If the goal this legislative session is to enact progressive tax reform, it will not be achieved by cutting local aid and removing municipalities’ ability to follow through on their goal to reduce the re-

gressive property tax burden.” Three villages made up more than half the losses in the area: Floral Park, Mineola and New Hyde Park. Floral Park would no longer get $270,822 in help, worth 0.93 percent of its 2017 expenditures, according to the state. Mineola would lose $264,145 in funding, which equals about 1.21 percent of its $21.88 million of spending in 2017. New Hyde Park, meanwhile, would lose $148,904 – worth 1.85 percent of its 2017 expenditures of $8.06 million. “Any cut, anywhere makes spending diﬃcult for any government,” Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi said. “Right now the village is absolutely barebones. The Village of Floral Park will experience a major loss of revenue as a result of the cut and will have to look very hard at services it provides to make sure residents don’t receive a tax raise.” The New Hyde Park’s village trustees and mayor are also opposed to the proposal to eliminate state aid, village Clerk Janet Bevers said. In Nassau County, only five of 64 villages would keep getting state help. The AIM funding for the county’s villages would drop from $5.64 million to $754,184. Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar said Continued on Page 67

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Curran tax plan in Cuomo’s budget Would phase in changes resulting from residential property reassessment over five years BY J ES S I C A PA R K S Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s Taxpayer Protection Plan has made its way into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2019-20 state budget proposal. The plan would allow for a five-year phase-in of tax increases or decreases that Nassau County property owners will see from the recent countywide reassessment of homes’ market values. The tax impact notices that were mailed to residents in November included two hypothetical values for the 2020-21 tax roll; one was their expected value without a transitional cap and the other incorporated a transitional cap. If the phase-in is approved in the state budget, taxpayers will pay the value under the transitional cap, which means their! taxes will increase

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or decrease incrementally each year for a five-year period until each taxpayer is paying the full tax value or has received the full savings. A news release from Curran’s oﬃce gives an example of a home that went from $300,000 to $500,000 in market value when reassessed. Using a 0.10 percent level of assessment, the home’s assessment value went from $300 to $500. Therefore, the $200 increase would be subject to the transitional cap. The taxpayer’s assessed value would increase by 20 percent of the diﬀerence each year for five years until he or she is paying taxes for the full assessed value. In the example, the homeowner would see the assessed value increase by 20 percent of $200, or $40, each year for five years. Curran’s reassessment came after the tax roll had

been frozen for nearly 10 years. Comparative homes had stark diﬀerences in values and it was found that some taxpayers were paying more than their fair share of taxes and others were paying less. “For nearly a decade, during the frozen assessment roll, half of! taxpayers were subsidizing the other half,” Curran said. “I promised to do a reassessment to bring back fairness and accuracy.” For full approval of the Taxpayer Protection Plan, Cuomo’s budget will need to be approved and a local law must be adopted to implement the plan in Nassau County. “I will continue to work with members of the state Senate and Assembly to respond to any questions they may have and ensure bipartisan support from our legislators to protect taxpayers,” Curran said.

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Curran announces Quality Assurance Unit Organization will oversee property tax assessment issues, implement policies for improvements metrics and review,” according to a news release. The department is also currently being Nassau County Executive Laura Curran audited by Nassau County Comptroller Jack announced the formation of a unit to oversee Schnirman’s office. property tax assessment issues last Thursday. Robin Laveman," chairwoman of the The Quality Assurance Unit will superAssessment Review Commission, said in a vise the implementation and creation of statement, “With the county’s new quality policies and procedures at the Department assurance unit in place, I’m confident that of Assessment, the Assessment Review Comwe’ll be able to fully address their"concerns.” mission and the Small Claims Assessment The county is also significantly investReview unit. ing in the Small Claims Assessment Review In a statement, Curran said the new unit unit, which is a part of the Department of will provide “a meaningful and thorough inAssessment and allows residents to contest ternal review of policy and procedures that an assessment after the Assessment Review will ensure the best practices of our departCommission’s review period concludes. ments.” With an increase in staff, the county Ana Sousa, the director of audits and expects that each case will be given more grants in the Office of Management and attention and take less time to resolve. The Budget, has been selected to head the unit PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS county would also like to ensure that the and will report to Ray Orlando, the deputy unit has the resources it needs to defend the county executive for finance. county in court proceedings and decrease The Quality" Assurance Unit will assist Nassau County Executive Laura Curran held a news conference at a taxthe chance of the county having to pay out the Department of Assessment in the for- payer’s home to address residents’’ concerns over reassessment. a refund. mation of procedures and policies that will The Quality Assurance Unit will help the work to make the department capable of new quality appraisal and real estate profes“The DOA will apply the lessons of the withstanding the changes of each assessment sionals employed by the county will benefit recently completed reassessment for the new Small Claims Assessment Review unit idenyear and be self-supportive. greatly from “written procedures and other year,” she said. “Quality assurance will help tify policies and procedures that will help it work more efficiently for the county. The Department of Assessment relied recommendations from the QAU.” us get the job done.” “We will be diligent and transparent, on two outside vendors, Standard Valuation While the Assessment Review ComCurran described the assessment as an Services and Michael Haberman Associates, “ongoing, fluid process” that requires updat- mission adds new staff to “ensure seamless and we will do this right,” Sousa said in a to complete the reassessment for the 2020- ing all the information available on Nassau operations that will ultimately protect the statement. “After almost a decade of a frozen 21 tax roll. County’s more than 400,000 parcels with County’s interests,” the Quality Assurance roll, there is a lot of work to do on developCounty Assessor David Moog said that each assessment year. Unit will provide needed “quality assurance ing updated written protocols.”

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Schools could see $10.3M aid boost

Gov. Cuomo’s proposal offers aid increase aimed at buildings, BOCES and transportation BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Area school districts could see a $10.39 million increase in state aid, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2019-20 budget proposal, with financial assistance rising from $101.71 million to $112.1 million. Overall, the total aid to area districts would increase 10.22 percent. An injection of building and reorganization aid drives most of that increase, with foundation aid staying largely the same in area school districts. Sewanhaka Central High School District, home to more than 8,000 students, with a third of them considered “economically disadvantaged” by the state, would see the largest overall increase under the proposal, going from $36.83 million to $41.9 million. Building aid drives most of this increase, as it would rise $3 million from $2.08 million to $5.47 million under the proposal. Foundation aid would go up slightly from $25.32 million to $25.44 million. Without the building aid, the increase is $1.67 million, or 4.82 percent, according to the state.

Sewanhaka Superintendent Ralph Ferrie declined to comment at a Tuesday night board meeting on the proposal. In terms of percentages, Roslyn would see the largest increase. Its total state aid would rise from $5.89 million to $7.26 million – or 23.18 percent – if building aid is included. Building and building re-

organization incentives would rise from $434,739 to $1.29 million while transportation aid would go from $591,767 to $827,404. Without the building incentives, Roslyn’s increase is more than halved to 10.34 percent – or $559,713. Port Washington Union Free School District’s aid would go up

17.43 percent from $9.66 million to $11.35 million, or $1.36 million, according to the state. State assistance for special services would go up from $71,832 to $454,330 and transportation aid would increase from $806,021 to $1.05 million, while building and building reorganization incentives would go up nearly $1 million

from $965,181 to $1.91 million. Without incorporating building and reorganization aid, the increase would be $740,019, or 8.5 percent, according to the state. Great Neck’s total state aid would be $10.35 million under the governor’s proposal, up $608,574, or 6.24 percent, from $9.75 million. Without building or reorganization aid, which would rise from $138,565 to $448,340, the diﬀerence would be more than halved to $298,799, or 3.11 percent. State aid for Herricks would go up $604,262, or 4.92 percent, from $12.27 million to $12.87 million under the proposal. BOCES assistance would go up from $1.12 million to $1.32 million, while transportation aid would increase from $1.05 million to $1.24 million. Without factoring in building aid, that increase would be 5.12 percent. Manhasset’s total aid would go up $215,175, or 4.54 percent, from $4.73 million to $4.95 million. Building aid is slated to go up from $240,386 to $342,443, while BOCES aid would go up from $506,011 to $634,654. Without building aid factored Continued on Page 60

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Herz bringing heart to Jewish group Port Washington resident to head American Jewish Committee chapter with ‘open mind’ BY J E S S I C A PA R K S As president of the Long Island region of the American Jewish Committee, Port Washington resident and lawyer Arnie Herz plans to further the mission of the organization through forming relationships. He said he brings to! the table a true commitment to his own personal growth and vows to look beyond his own biases and remain open-minded. Herz said he is “constantly challenging [his] assumptions and rethinking things,” which he cites as one of the reasons that the organization is a good fit for him. The American Jewish Committee does not only advocate for Jewish people but also Jewish values which recognize an infringement of human rights against one person as an infringement on the rights of all people, Herz said. “We do this by building coalitions … meaningful and longterm relationships that endure for years and many cases decades,” he said. “We work with another group to show that their

ductive to the advancement of ferences because he often has to work with people who are “very, human rights,” he said. He billed the initiative as very dug into their perspective and their vantage point.” “classic AJC.” That is not the only experience he brings to the position. “ e get together His experience in interfaith relations began shortly after he finto jointly fight ished college when he studied at such hatred that is an ashram in rural India. there for two counterproductive to years,Afterhestudying traveled and taught the advancement of meditation where he, “a Jewish kid from Long Island,” was achuman rights.” companied by a group of four men: a Christian, a Muslim, a Arnie Herz PHOTO COURTESY OF ARNIE HERZ PRESIDENT OF THE LONG ISLAND Hindu and a Sikh. REGION OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH “I see everything in my life Arnie Herz, pictured here with U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, began COMMITTEE, PORT WASHINGTON as building blocks,” he said. “And RESIDENT AND LAWYER as president of the American Jewish Committee’s Long that experience in India has reIsland region on Jan. 1. When meeting people, Herz ally dictated my whole approach said, it is important to keep in to people and relationship.” interests are our interests and 1960s. While he serves as president, mind that those who hold difMost recently, the committee then our interests become their ferent beliefs are human beings Herz said he will work to garner formed a Muslim-Jewish coaliinterests.” “who may just see the world in more visibility for the American Herz said members of the tion led by Farooq Kathari, the Jewish Committee on Long Isfundamentally diﬀerent ways.” group marched with Martin CEO and president of Ethan AlOvercoming that barrier is land and engage more people in Luther King Jr. during the civil len, and Stanley Bergman, the key to opening up communica- the organization’s work. rights movement and the orga- head of Henry Shein Inc. Herz has been involved with tion, he said. This coalition comes at a nization was at the front line of Herz said his experience the American Jewish Committee improving Christian and Jewish time of Islamophobia and growhandling complex conflicts as a for about 10 years and served on relations with the “Nostra aeta- ing anti-Semitism, Herz said. lawyer and court-appointed me- its board for the last five years. te,” a doctrine adopted by the “We get together to jointly fight He began as president on diator has nurtured his ability to Roman Catholic Church in the such hatred that is counterproreach people despite their dif- Jan 1.

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Opinion

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Fairness delayed in county reassessment

ov. Andrew Cuomo last week backed a proposal to phase in any changes resulting from the first countywide reassessment in nearly a decade. The proposal, which was made by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran with strong backing on both sides of the aisle in the county Legislature, is called the Taxpayer Protection Plan. But the name is a misnomer. It should really be called the Taxpayer Protection Plan for the 52 percent of Homeowners Who Have Underpaid Their Taxes for Up to Eight Years. The 52 percent, who are generally among the county’s more affluent taxpayers, got to!underpay their property taxes by challenging the county’s totally inaccurate assessment system under Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano. They did this with the encouragement of town and county officials, Democrats and Republicans, often with the assistance of firms specializing in tax challenges. Not so coincidentally, perhaps, the firms challenging the taxes were the largest campaign contributors to county!officeholders. Those who underpaid their taxes would get to continue to underpay their taxes for the next five years under the proposal backed by the governor. Just by a declining percentage. For the other 48 percent, less affluent homeowners who have been overpaying their taxes, they will receive no protection or compensation for overpaying their taxes in past years. In fact, they will continue to

overpay their taxes for the next five years. Just by a declining percentage. The phase-in appears to be politically popular with elected officials on both sides of the political aisle who have rushed to the aid of homeowners facing sharp jumps in their tax bills. This is, in some ways, an understandable response to homeowners shocked by the actual cost of government in Nassau – including the county, school districts and special districts. Left unsaid is that those receiving the greatest increases saved the most money by underpaying their taxes by the greatest amount in previous years. Those facing large increases now were the big winners under the county’s broken system. And now they continue to win. Where was the elected officials’ concern the past eight years when the county’s broken assessment system resulted in many people overpaying their taxes? Where is it now? County legislators encouraged the tax challenges while doing little or nothing to fix the county’s broken county assessment system. Mangano never even hired a certified tax assessor during his eight years in office – at a time when the county’s!finances were being overwhelmed by the cost of tax challenges. Where was the outrage then? The Mangano administration’s practice of granting thousands of reductions to homeowners who grieved their taxes shifted “$2.2 billion in taxes from generally more affluent property own-

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ers who successfully appealed their property taxes over their values over seven years to generally less affluent owners who did not.” Who said this? Not the county legislators. Not the county comptroller. No, it took a newspaper, Newsday, to investigate the impact of the county’s assessment system. The question that should be asked is whether continuing to allow generally more affluent homeowners to underpay their taxes while less affluent overpay their taxes is fair. We don’t think so. This unfairness is compounded by the fact that less affluent homeowners generally send their children to schools that spend well less per pupil than children of more affluent homeowners. And by overpaying their property taxes, they are, in effect, subsidizing that disparity, which can be $10,000 per pupil or more. So much for a level playing field for all children. Even the 2 percent cap on tax increases!initiated by Cuomo with strong support in Nassau County

works against children attending schools that spend well below the top schools in the county. The tax cap creates an additional hurdle for school districts seeking to narrow the gap with higher spending schools by requiring approval by 60 percent of the vote — rather than 50 percent — for budgets that exceed the cap. Good luck with that. As President Donald Trump’s tax plan limiting federal tax deductions for state and local taxes to $10,000 goes into eﬀect, school districts will face greater diﬃculty in getting budgets approved with 50 percent of the vote let alone 60 percent. Cuomo increased the likelihood that the proposed! phase-in of changes caused by the county reassessment will be approved by tucking it into his 2019-20 state budget proposal. That means state lawmakers wouldn’t have to vote on it as a stand-alone piece of legislation but rather as one component of a $175 billion plan to fund schools, hospitals and other programs.

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The next step would be the adoption of a local law by the Nassau County Legislature. “The time frame works for a lot of people,” Curran spokeswoman Christine Geed was quoted by Newsday as saying of the phase-in, adding that the phased-in tax adjustments were “more palatable for our residents.” Curran deserves a great deal of credit for taking the steps necessary to fix the disgraceful assessment system left by Mangano. This began with the hiring of a certified tax assessor, initiating a countywide reassessment, the appointment last week of a watchdog to oversee the process and the scheduling of 57 public forums by Curran to explain the reassessment. We are confident that these efforts will lead to a system in which people will eventually pay their fair share of taxes. But we think that should start now – not five years from now. That might not be the most politically palatable solution, but it would be the fairest.

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KREMER’S CORNER

Putin gets 2-year achievement award

he year 2018 was a great year for many people and many organizations. The Philadelphia Eagles football team defeated the mighty New England Patriots. The Red Sox easily beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to become baseball’s champions. In addition, the mighty Golden State Warriors became the NBA champions. As for individuals, Russia’s Vladimir Putin broke all records for having two consecutive years of success in all categories. Putin has won more victories than any other world leader, without ever having to leave the Kremlin. Let’s start with bi-lateral agreements. The American withdrawal from the TransPacific Partnership Agreement was a major setback for U.S. businesses and gave China a clear field to dominate commerce in the Asian region. President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord made America the only

country in the world to refuse to be part of the eﬀort to control climate challenges. Even Syria is a signatory. In the category of most insults to our long-term allies, Putin was again a winner. Trump went out of his way to alienate England, Germany, France and Canada. He cheered for the failure of the Brexit exit, encouraged Angela Merkel’s right-wing foes to undermine her government and insulted France’s Prime Minister Macron on more than one occasion. If all of the insults were put on a scale, the winner in greatest slaps in the face is Canada. Going back as far as World War II, and probably earlier, America has had no stronger ally than Canada. During that war, we kept many of our airplanes on Canadian soil to make the Atlantic Ocean trips shorter and save fuel. Many Canadians joined us in fighting our enemies and for its size as a country, lost more of its own people than any nation other than the

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United States. In 2018, Trump imposed tariﬀs on Canada using a provision of the law that is connected to countries that are a threat to our national safety. After a strong pushback from Prime Minister Trudeau, Trump sat mute. Putin must have fallen oﬀ his couch laughing. Trump boasts that he has been “tougher on Russia than any other president in recent memory.” He cites a number of sanctions against a hand-

ful of Russian oligarchs. This past week, he recommended that sanctions against a Putin friendly company be lifted and it appears that Congress will not be able to block it. Add to that are Trump’s constant defenses of Russia’s actions during the 2016 elections, claiming that he believes Russia and not his CIA, FBI and Homeland Security departments. I believe that Putin did a victory dance when Trump announced that the United States would pull its troops out of Syria. By removing the 2,500 soldiers, Syria is then in the hands of Iran, Russia and Syria’s murderous leader, Bashar al-Assad. Our president decided that the war against ISIS is over and we won. Two weeks later ISIS kills four innocent Americans. ISIS is still alive and well in Syria and they too are rejoicing at the fact that America is pulling out. To add to the muddled picture, once we are gone from Syria, the allied Kurdish forces face sure slaughter at

the hands of Turkey’s President Erdogan. On these issues alone, you could write volumes, but there is only one more prize that has eluded Putin. That prize is American withdrawal from NATO. Trump has been a sharp critic of NATO member defense spending and all of those countries have increased their spending as a response. Now the President wants to take 70 years of history and throw this organization into the wastebasket. Without the allies that helped us win World War II, Desert Storm and other conflicts, our current defense system would be in tatters. This Atlantic alliance was the first place we turned to when the 9/11 disaster occurred. We are now in the early stages of 2019. There is no way of knowing what else Trump will do to make Putin the happiest man on the planet. Two years of success for the Russian leader equals two years of failure of our democracy.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

When challenged to get out the door

any years ago, I watched a movie about people at a fancy dinner party who for some mysterious reason could not manage to exit the house once the party was over. The film was black and white, in a foreign language; and everyone in it seemed irredeemably stupid, because what’s so hard about leaving a house? The doors weren’t locked, the windows were open — and yet somehow, inexplicably, people just stayed inside… for days! The film — “The Exterminating Angel,” by surrealist Luis Buñuel — was named one of the 1,000 best films ever by the New York Times. But if it had a message, it escaped me. Or rather, I escaped it, finding an exit door and going through it, myself — long before the point, if there was one, arrived. I was young then, unencumbered by husband or children. Years later I had acquired them all; and I re-lived that film ev-

ery day, just trying to get out the door. There was always something. You’d get one boy dressed while the other got something all over himself, only to have it happen again in reverse. Then you can’t find someone’s coat. Or shoes. Or hat. Or your own coat, shoes, or hat. Or you’d get to the car and realize you’d forgotten the car keys; or a bottle; or the diaper bag; or your own purse, with directions to the doctor’s oﬃce… any one of a million things. Because no matter how obsessively you try to control every factor, life with small children is just out of control. It’s like living inside a small hurricane, 24/7. At one point, my allergies were getting the best of me, and I needed to get to my own doctor’s oﬃce for allergy shots, once a week. One day, I’d had an exceptionally hard time getting us all out the door… but I made it. “Ta daa!” I said, triumphantly, wheeling the double

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A Look on the Lighter Side stroller into the reception area at 2:55 p.m. We were all three of us clean, and dressed, and in the appointed spot — with five whole minutes to spare! “So tell me,” said the doctor, with a plaintive look toward his own hat and coat on a hook. “All you’ve had to do, all day, was get here by 3 o’clock. Is this really the best you can do?” “Do you have kids?” I asked him. “Well, yes, my wife and I

just had a baby.” “And where is it?” “He’s home with my wife, of course.” I changed doctors. It was that or kill him, and I didn’t have the time. Perhaps the actor William H. Macy could have explained it to him. Macy was on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” recently, recounting a time when he’d tried to take his daughters, then 8 and 10, for a day of skiing. “It was a disaster.” “In what way?” asked Colbert. The actor’s face filled with fury. “By my watch, it took four hours and 26 minutes to get out of the house the first day! It… it was like shoveling cats! It was awful! By the time we were in the car they said ‘I’m hungry’ and we had to stop for lunch!” My husband and I had a trip like that, too. It was a family outing at a pricey lodge — none of which we ever got to see. It took us all day just to get one parent and one small boy out-

fitted, suited up and ready for takeoﬀ near the top of a very small slope. That’s when the staﬀer in charge yelled, “We’re closing up! Time to go home!” We told our boy he’d been “skiing” so he wouldn’t realize the day’d been a total bust. But I don’t think he ever really touched a ski slope till years later, in college. In those early days, we were late for everything. Our standard operating procedure for every family event was to book a hotel room there for the night before, and just try like hell to get to whatever it was before it was cleaned up and over. Now the kids are in college or beyond, and I am still late for everything. It is sadly obvious just who’s been the problem all along. So it’s time for me to admit that that movie wasn’t so surreal, after all. It turns out, I have more in common with the folks in that doomed dinner party than I ever would have believed!

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VIEW POINT

Worrisome economic outlook for 2019

oosed by the Republican tax scam, 2018 was the best possible for stocks and dividends – between low unemployment, impact of tax cut giving more cash, strong consumer confidence – and yet, the year ended in negative territory, largely due to Trump’s tariﬀs and trade wars. The impact of shutting the government had not even manifest yet. Trump has wielded his America First fist by riding the historically long bull market business cycle, largely due to the slow, steady and sustainable initiatives of the Obama Administration (yes, presidential policies can impact the economy), not the least were the trade agreements, regulation, incentives to transition the economy to clean, renewable energy, a rational immigration policy, getting health care costs under some control. But all has been undone by Trump.

The government shutdown, which is costing $1 billion a week (before the ripple eﬀect that multiples impacts fourfold), does something more: it halts the supply of money that pays people’s salaries, contractors their fees (Trump is very good at stiﬃng), so they can’t pay people, hire people, buy supplies. Federal workers missing paychecks are barely able to pay mortgage or rent, car loans, doctor bills and food (food pantries are doing a thriving business), let alone buy a new washing machine to replace a broken one. These 800,000 people who are having to raid their college and retirement funds rack up credit card debt, perhaps take payday loans at exorbitant interest, will never recover because the hit to their equity compounds over time. Many will see their credit rating hurt, which they will have to pay for Trump’s malevolence for the rest of their lives.

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The American Dream of owning a home. Forget about it. That sets oﬀ a chain reaction. With the economy already slowing and no “sugar high” tax cut to goose it – can’t cut taxes anymore, no money to invest in infrastructure, let alone a “Green New Deal” – even Trump’s economic advisors (an oxymoron), are now saying the impact is double what they originally projected, shaving 0.1 percent from Gross National

Product every week. That rosy 4 percent annual growth in GDP that Trump’s tax scam was supposed to produce? The IMF back in October was projecting the U.S. economy would grow only 2.5 percent in 2019. We will be lucky to get by with any growth at all. (The U.S. did not even bother to attend the Davos Economic Forum.) The Washington Post quotes Tina Fordham, chief global political analyst at Citigroup, saying “The number one question in the mind of leaders in Davos now is what on earth is Donald Trump up to? We’ve very clearly moved in terms of investor sentiment from the Trump bump euphoria surrounding tax cuts and deregulation to fears of a Trump slump.” Chief executives from around the world now rank a global recession as their top concern according to a Conference Board survey, when a year ago, global recession was an af-

ter-thought, ranked 19th. Global trade threats rank second. And what of the US credit rating? The dysfunction of the federal government when Republicans threatened to default on debt during Obama’s administration caused rating agencies to threaten to downgrade the nation’s heretofore unshakably stellar ratings. The dysfunction is that much worse when you have Senate Republicans refusing to pass spending bills they had already passed unless spiteful, fickle Trump gives his okay. And China, which is seeing its own slowdown to only 6.7 percent growth (largely because of Trump’s trade war), is unlikely to continue to buy US debt, which is exploding by nearly $1 trillion, thanks to the Republican tax scam and the Trump slowdown. Trump’s policies, directed at cutting food stamps, making health care more expensive, cutting Social Security, MediContinued on Page 76

E A R T H M AT T E R S

Suffering from nature-deficit disorder?

friend of mine claims that we experience more sickness and flu in winter, not because it’s cold outside, but because we spend more time inside sharing germs. Her comment got me thinking about a recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency that states Americans spend over 90 percent of their time inside. Even exercise is now largely practiced indoors. The harmful eﬀects of indoor pollution are well documented. An average American household is contaminated by pollen, mold, residual household products, aerosol spray products, and room air fresheners. Extreme cases of indoor pollution include asbestos, formaldehyde and lead, radon and carbon monoxide. An EPA indoor air study suggests “concentrations of some pollutants are often two to five times higher than typical outdoor concentrations.” How often do you air out your home in winter? We’re not defined by the ele-

ments in the same way our ancestors were. We crank up the heat when it’s cold outside and plug in electric lights when it’s dark. With modern technology cushioning our existence, are we evolving to become an indoor species? What’s even more concerning is what we are doing while we’re inside. Screens of all shapes and sizes entertain all ages into the night. Our ancestors depended on each other for their livelihood and spent time together sharing stories by the fire; they knew each other deeply. In “Paleolithic Legacy,” the author describes a group of hunter-gatherers who “are of necessity attuned to natural signs far more subtle than those that trigger the awareness of most people today. And because of the closeness and interdependence of life in small bands you would know the people with whom you lived almost as intimately as you know yourself.” With the comforts of modern lifestyle and thrill of screen

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entertainment, how well do we know each other? How well do we know ourselves? In extreme examples, some may even feel they know their favorite sitcom character better than family members. In her book, “The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age,” clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair states, “The digital world is here to stay, but what are families losing with technology’s gain?”

Scientists are in the early stages of gathering evidence on the eﬀect of screen time on the developing brain and it is clearly not healthy for emotional intelligence and communication skills. Violent games like Fortnite have taken roots in the cultural consciousness and now create the social environment for our youngsters. I thought “the floss” movement was cute until I learned it came from Fortnite. When questioning this trend, I’ve heard parents claim that “at least my kid is socializing,” referring to kid-to-kid screen conversations about the game. Each kid in the comfort of their own home is commenting online on the onscreen obstacle course. I have never played computer games, so I am quite puzzled by the gaming craze… I just don’t get it! Turns out gaming addiction is now a recognized mental health disorder according to the World Health Organization. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that kids ages 5 to 8 spend nearly three hours per day and children ages 8 to 10

spend an average of six hours per day with screen media. The older the kids, the more time they spend online. I wonder how screen time and behaviors linked to technology will be encoded in the evolution of human DNA? How will this newly adapted behavioral trait aﬀect human evolution? How will our indoor screen time activities sculpt our DNA? Human beings used to live every day at the mercy of the elements. We’ve long defied natural selection in the classic Darwinian sense with technological advances shielding us from selection pressure. It turns out spending time outside is linked to better moods and a better view on life. Cutting-edge studies claim that direct experiences in nature are essential for healthy emotional and physical development. I’m thankful for my dogs and our daily walks to Inspiration Wharf. Standing at the water’s edge watching the tides feels grounding while liberating. Continued on Page 63

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ALL THINGS POLITICAL

Ending the shutdown immediately

he U.S. Constitution requires all spending of federal funds be authorized by Congress, with final approval of the President of the United States. Every Sept. 30, when the federal government is running smoothly, Congress appropriates funds for the next fiscal year. If it’s not running smoothly, continuous funding resolutions are necessary; and, when these resolutions aren’t agreed upon, it forces a shutdown. While President Obama had one shutdown in eight years, we are currently in the middle of the third government shutdown of the Trump administration, and it’s only two years since his inauguration. Also worth noting, this is the longest shutdown in history. Some of the negative eﬀects of a shutdown include the closing of national parks and museums, a skeleton crew at the IRS, diminished state department services, and decreased environmental and food inspections. In addition, air travel, which is already diﬃcult, is seeing in-

creased wait times at TSA checkpoints, as many TSA workers are not showing up because they aren’t getting paid. If the shutdown continues, by the end of February, food stamps may stop being issued, and new applicants for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will face a longer wait. In total, 800,000 Federal employees are now working without pay. There are also roughly 4.1 million federal contractors, and nobody knows for sure how many of them are being aﬀected. Even when the shutdown is over, some federal contractors may not receive back pay. It’s clear, there are a growing number of Americans negatively impacted by this shutdown. In May 2018, several business journals reported 40 percent of Americans would be unable to cover a $400 emergency expense. In other words, because of the shutdown, several hundred thousand federal employees and contractors are having trouble feeding their families, and are likely in jeopardy of losing their homes.

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All Things Political Our leadership must oﬀer a solution to this Trump-made crisis of our time. To that end, here’s one: pay everyone. Congress should quickly pass legislation giving all federal employees and contractors, loans equivalent to their loss of pay at zero percent interest. These loans would immediately convert to income when the shutdown is over, ensuring everyone would remain whole. Regarding the wall, here are

several options: Meet in the middle: In negotiation, whenever there is a stalemate, it’s common to meet in the middle to find what’s called an indiﬀerence point. President Trump wants $5.7 billion to fund the wall, yet the Democrats want to give him nothing. Financially, they could agree to meet in the middle at $2.85 billion. In return, Democrats could accept permanent residence with a path to citizenship for half of the 300,000 recipients of the Temporary Protected Status program and children known as Dreamers (those aﬀected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, DACA). Fully fund the wall: in exchange for a path to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants and refugees. Federal tax revenue would go up as the underground cash economy serving non-citizens would diminish. Declare a national emergency: The President could call a national emergency to build the wall and lift the shutdown.

This would end in a long legal battle because he would be subverting the legislative branch and acting on his own to get what he wants without giving anything up in negotiation. It would also set precedence for a dangerous abuse of power in declaring a national emergency in the future. In any case, the President needs to show leadership by lifting the shutdown with a promise to negotiate in good faith on all points. Also, any scenario should include billions in disaster relief for Puerto Rico, who is still struggling. If the shutdown continues, it will further drag down our economy and the deficit will continue to spiral upwards at an alarming rate. If the federal government does not reopen soon, the number of people who are negatively aﬀected will increase dramatically, and, as is typical in government, there will be a more expensive reactive solution instead of a less expensive proactive one, that would have avoided all this nonsense in the first place.

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You should support American Legion

’m a member of the American Legion and I believe it’s a good organization to join or support the many good things the American Legion does to help our veterans. Let me explain about the American Legion. The Queens County committee is as old as the American Legion. They were founded in 1919 and have provided leadership and guidance to the posts of Queens County and have been welcoming veterans from all branches of our armed forces.

The Queens County American Legion consists of 26 posts with 1,760 members. Additionally, they have auxiliary units and Sons of the Legion squadrons. Their primary focus is to serve veterans and their families. They support the St. Albans Veteran’s Hospital and the New York State Nursing Veterans Home through posts and individual eﬀorts. They continue to support active service veterans currently serving in combat situa-

tions as well as those in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. They have a variety of educational programs for school-age children on Americanism and Flag awareness. The American Legion has over 2 million members — men and women — in 13,000 posts worldwide. These posts are organized into 55 departments-one each for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto, France, Mexico and the Philippines. Furthermore, they help wounded service

members adjust to life-altering injuries. They also help severely wounded soldiers during their long hospitals stays in military centers and help veterans transition to civilian life when they come home connecting them to support services in their hometowns. So please join or support the American Legion. For more information, go to www. legion.org. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

GOP now a party of old white men

want to thank Paul Giarmo of Carle Place for mentioning me in his Letter to the Editor which appeared on Jan. 11. I realize that it wasn’t a complimentary reference since to quote Giarmo: “Liberal Hal Sobel refers to Republicans as the party of old white men.” First, let me respond to the use of “liberal” as a pejorative. The best argument I can make is to quote Aaron Sorkin who penned the following in a script for the brilliant TV show,#“The West Wing.” Republicans have tried to turn liberal into a bad word. Well, liberals ended slavery. Liberals got women the right to vote.

Liberals created Social Security. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. What did conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of these things. So when you hurl that label at my feet, I will pick it up and wear it as a badge of honor. I will attempt to refute Giarmo’s other charge that the Republican party is not the party of old white men. I wish I could claim credit for introducing that phrase into our political lexicon, but someone beat me to it. He was the Republican senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul.

He stated that his party ran the risk of turning into “the old white man’s party.” He went on to say: “If anything, one of the faults of the Republican party is we’re not diverse enough.” In a similar vein, Ed Rollins, a senior Republican strategist, is quoted in the Guardian pointing out that his party “is made up of old white guys who are ignoring the way the country is heading… We need to basically broaden the base. We need to have more women, we need to have more Latinos, we need to have more AfricanAmericans.” For further proof, one need only to look

at the results of the recent oﬀ-year elections. The Democrats won a majority of seats in the House and elected Nancy Pelosi Speaker. What is important for my argument is that among the victors were 89 women, 51 blacks, 13 Latinos, two Native Americans and eight LGBTQ members. The Republican numbers in each of these categories are paltry; 89 percent of House Republicans are precisely “old white men.” Three cheers for diversity! Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

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Rush to marijuana: dollars before safety

alifornia brought in around $74.2 million in marijuana tax industry tax revenue during the second quarter, up 22 percent from the first three months of the year, in what the government said was a growing “trend toward complying with regulations.” But the figures continued to show a much slower than expected start for what is expected to be the world’s largest pot market. Recreational marijuana sales became legal in California at the beginning of 2018, but medical marijuana is exempt from the state’s sales tax if the customer has a working medical marijuana ID card. California became the first state to make marijuana legal, medical use only, in 1996, after statewide elections. Investor’s Business Daily, a very respected business newspaper, in an article by Bill Peters reported last August that on Jan. 1, the U.S.’s largest and most populated state, California, oversaw the legalization of recreational marijuana. Recreational marijuana in California has a 15 percent statewide tax on all recreational and medical cannabis products and additional local taxes and fees. Michigan legalized marijuana for medical use in 2008 and Arizona did the same in 2010. Since then, these two states have recorded over $600 million and $400 million in cannabis sales respectively. DiPietro shows how legalization of cannabis for recreational use has opened a door to a massive, new source of revenue for state governments.

Not to be outdone by so many other states, New York state in 2014 passed the Compassionate Care Act legalizing marijuana for medical use. Legislation to legalize adult marijuana use, the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, has been reintroduced in each subsequent legislative session. In his Executive Budget for State Fiscal Year 20182019, Gov. Cuomo proposed a study of the economic impacts of legalization and the implications of continuing to prohibit use while other nearby states move to legalize. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, in a report issued in May of 2018, estimates that the legal adult use marijuana market at some $1.3 billion total at the state and city levels. That is billion with a B. Stringer claims that the decriminalization of marijuana use has clear human and societal benefits. He claims there has been a decline in teenage usage of marijuana. I have not seen any such reports. He claims public health and safety concerns have been addressed. Again, what reports is he talking about? Stringer argues that legalization of marijuana would eliminate criminal problems. The state would collect its taxes, marijuana users would be happy, and all’s well with everybody. A pharmacist, Robert Mabee writing in March of 2018 stated that “legalization of marijuana has ramifications beyond the individual’s decision to smoke an occasional joint.” Not really. As with alcohol, the poten-

tial for creating costs in excess of the taxes collected, Mabee argues, such as costs associated with treatment, injuries, loss of work, damages to property are likely to run millions more than the income collected. Mabee writes that while we spend so many millions of dollars trying to stop people from smoking cigarettes, we now, for all the “money the state will take in” tax wise, will encourage the smoking of pot with all of its medical issues such as indirect smoke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Lung cancer, etc., all present and accounted for. “Studies” have disclosed, Mabee writes, that the recreational use of pot can lead to long-term mental problems and harmful neurological eﬀects.” Alex Berenson, writing in the New York Times, that New York and New Jersey, are racing to join the ten other states that already allow recreational use of marijuana. We are told that some 65 percent of Americans candidates for president support ending federal prohibitions on it. Paul Armentano, the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, in an article published in Drug Topics, a pharmacy trade journal, just one week later, makes the case for regulating marijuana. He argues that regulated statewide marijuana markets have provided an economic boost to numerous cities and states. He states that marijuana poses a low risk of dependence to other controlled substances and is not a gateway drug to harder

drug use and it has been consistently shown to be a safer substitute to deadly opioids. The National Academy of Sciences says an estimated 9 percent of those exposed to cannabis ever exhibit symptoms of dependence, almost the same dependence liability associated with caffeine and far lower than the abuse potential associated with alcohol, tobacco and opioids. While I do favor medical use of marijuana, I am watching the list of indications given approval for its use increase continuously, as advocates for its legalization find new “medical uses” for the drug, a schedule one narcotic under federal law. That means it is more potent than opioids. As a pharmacist, I have seen upfront the methadone customer come into my pharmacy seeking methadone as a substitute for the opioids he/she was taking in place of opioids. A very sad picture. The argument that one in five Americans live in a jurisdiction where the adult use of cannabis is legal does not make me want to have such a situation exist where my family would live. If everybody is jumping off the roof, does it make sense to follow them. I do not think so. If I may quote Alex Berenson, “Marijuana’s risks are different from opioids; but they are no less real. Let’s remember that hard truth as we listen to promises that allowing the use of this drug will do no harm.” Bertram Drachtman Great Neck

I am not going to G.N. school board needs be a strawman more public oversight

trawman (noun): A weak or"false argument you make" up so you look good when" you cleverly knock it down."" First, although I believe that illegal immigration is a big problem on multiple levels, there is no sudden national crisis that justifies closing the government, rushing federal troops to the border, and anesthetizing the constitution. There is, however, a personal crisis driving one person (Person One) into a fitful panic to change the subject. Bigly. Second, there is virtually no one except a handful on the extreme fringe who advocate open borders before the Messiah arrives. Saying one party wants open borders is is a political contrivance from the imagination of

the extreme fringe of the other party. They are, for some reason, concerned that they are incapable of competing in the era of America’s constantly changing demographics. Most of us, liberals and progressives included, assuredly insist on secure and controlled borders, oppose illegal immigration, believe in providing asylum to legitimate law abiding vetted refugees, and will be forever proud to be a nation of immigrants. That anyone would""seek to nationalize their legal problems or political or personal insecurity by crying “national security crisis,”""is a sad commentary. Your premise is contrived and flawed. Find another patsy. Gary Ackerman Roslyn

he Great Neck Board of Education’s announcement of the repayment of damages incurred during the summer’s roofing work on North High School is concerning. There was water leakage through the roof during a rainstorm because the contractor did not cover the roof with tarpaulin." Wouldn’t any roofer think to cover an incomplete job at the end of day while construction work is going on?" This is a basic procedure; not doing so is substandard." What type of vetting process did the Board of Ed do to select this contractor?" What does this suggest about all of the other vendors that the Board of Ed selects?" This selection process should be discussed and have greater public oversight." Going forward, we need to be concerned about who the board

will select to do the construction on the planned student parking lot at the North High School." This lot is on a steep hill with significant flooding already occurring on the surrounding streets and into neighboring properties over the years." When the neighbors asked the board and its architect for details about the drainage planned for this lot, all that was provided was a verbal assurance from the architect that they are experts and the drainage will be adequate." The architect also admitted that he had never visited the site during arrival and dismissal times or during storms. Given the North High roofing debacle and the school’s history of drainage onto neighboring properties from the upper lot as well as street flooding, this is little comfort to the neighbors."

The board has not provided a detailed plan about the proposed drainage to the public so that its adequacy can be assessed by others." The board’s past performance indicates that future work on this ill-conceived lot would not be done correctly." Is the school district prepared to pay for ongoing costs for damage that will be caused to the aﬀected properties onto which their water will be drained?" It would be more appropriate to abandon the construction of what is really an unneeded and costly lot." Why exacerbate neighborhood flooding for an unnecessary project? Robert Mendelson Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 62

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Sears fate in Lake Success now unclear BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON Sears Holdings Chairman and former CEO Eddie Lampert has won a bankruptcy auction, preventing liquidation of the company for now, but the future of the retailer’s Lake Success Shopping Center location is unclear. The company announced last Thursday and filed a notice on Friday that ESL Investments won the bidding auction in bankruptcy court with a $5.2 billion oﬀer that includes the acquisition of all Sears’ assets. Lampert is the founder, chairman and CEO of ESL. “We are pleased to have reached a deal that would provide a path for Sears to emerge from the chapter 11 process,” the Restructuring Committee of the company’s board of directors said in a statement. “Importantly, the consummation of the transaction would preserve employment for tens of thousands of associates, as well as the relationships with

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The Sears located at the Lake Success Shopping Center. many vendors and suppliers who provide Sears with goods and services.” The status of the Sears store at the Lake Success Shopping Center in New Hyde Park is" not known.

The winning bid posted by Lampert, if approved at a scheduled bankruptcy hearing Feb. 1, would keep nearly 400 stores in business and preserve 45,000 jobs, but no details have been provided

as to which stores would continue operating. Eﬀorts to reach Sears representatives for comment on the location were unavailing. According to members of the Lakeville Estates Civic Association of New Hyde Park, as well as a recent Facebook post from the group, there are preliminary talks that the large retail store may become a Target, though there is no signed deal or announcement. Kenneth Schuckman, president of Schuckman Realty, represents the private family partnership that owns the Lake Success property. Schuckman has said that multiple national brand tenants were interested in filling the location. Eﬀorts to reach Schuckman Realty were unavailing. Sears, the 126-year-old retail giant, has faced profitability issues over the last decade. Sears sales have fallen from $53 billion in 2006 to $17 billion in 2017.

Thomaston OKs budget, hires building official BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N The Village of Thomaston approved a $2.17 million budget for 2019-20 without a tax increase, which is slightly lower than the current $2.31 million budget, and appointed a new Building Department consultant at a special meeting last Tuesday night. This budget marks the 10th year in a PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN row without a tax increase, with a property tax rate of 34.495 per $100 of assessed A group of teens work together to assemble bags of goods for the Interfaith value. Thomaston expects to bring in about $1.45 million from property taxes, Nutrition Network as part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service. with the rest of its revenue – $618,865 – coming from other sources. The fire tax rate, which pays for fire services, is 13.211 per $100 of assessed value, which amounts to $46,670. “This is the 10th year without a property tax increase; the tax rate is the same,” Mayor Steven Weinberg said. “Our budget and revenue from permits and other sources is suﬃcient to meet our operational and for our future capital needs.” Among those future capital needs

Shared humanity, mission on MLK Day Great Neck teens mobilize for ‘day on’ of service, learning, acceptance of others

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N For at least 60 teenagers at Temple Israel’s Waxman Youth House in Great Neck, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not a day oﬀ, but “a day on” for public service and learning to embrace each other despite having diﬀerent identities. Middle and high schoolers from across Great Neck mobilized on Monday, engaging in small workshops with Anti-Defamation League facilitators to discuss identity and bias and working together to assemble more than 300 lunches to be given to the

Interfaith Nutrition Network. While the event was part of the UJA Federation of New York’s third regionwide MLK Day of Service, the event was a first for Great Neck, organizers said, especially in the way it brought so many groups together for a cause. Among the core group of organizers were Rebecca Sassouni of Sephardic Heritage Alliance Inc., Veronica Lurvey of Temple Israel, Jordana Levine of Temple Beth-El, and Tiﬀanie Gentles and Adrienne Vaultz of the First Baptist Church. Continued on Page 77

could be a drainage project for Windsor, Crescent and Lincoln roads, Weinberg said, depending on whether or not grants come through. It would cost about $200,000. “What happens is the water actually runs underneath the road and that’s what causes the premature cracking of the road,” Weinberg said. “We can continuously repair that, but it would be a good investment to improve the drainage under the road so we don’t have to do as much crack repair on the surface of the road.” Additionally, there could be improvements for Village Hall such as the repaving of the parking lot, upgrading its electrical panel, and converting the lighting there and in other village facilities to LED, according to a budget memorandum. “That’s always on our agenda,” Weinberg said of the energy eﬃciency improvements for Village Hall. General government support costs are slated to rise from $524,721 to $593,025, while transportation costs would go down from $792,500 to $579,500 – marking the Continued on Page 60

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Thomaston trustees approved a budget last week and appointed a building official at a meeting on Tuesday.

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BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON The retrial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda, began Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Central Islip. Edward Mangano once again faces charges of extortion, conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice, totaling seven counts. Linda Mangano is facing five counts of obstruction of justice and false statements. The opening statements of the prosecution and defense painted two diﬀerent pictures of the relationship between Mangano and restaurateur turned government witness Harendra Singh, according to Newsday. “This is a case about corruption and greed at the highest level of county government,” Assistant U.S. Attorney"Lara Treinis Gatz" told jurors, according to Newsday. Federal prosecutors said that Mangano capitalized on his relationship with Singh to enrich himself at taxpayers’ expense, according to Newsday.

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Suozzi, Problem Solvers meet with Trump BY J E S S I C A PA R K S U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), along with other Democratic and Republican members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, met with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and cabinet members in the White House’s Situation Room last Wednesday. They were reaching out in an effort to end the partial government shutdown, according to a news release from the congressman’s office. A tweet from White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders described the meeting as “constructive” and said that both parties now understand what the other wants. According to the news website Vox, members of the caucus said they were not trying to negotiate on behalf of the Democrats but instead wanted to inspire the president to move forward with a negotiation. Democrats from the bipartisan group reiterated the sentiments of the Democratic leadership that the president must reopen the government before any negotiations on border security are conducted, according to the news release from Suozzi’s office.

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Congressman Tom Suozzi (left) with campaign manager Kim Devlin at Blank Slate Media’s offices in Williston Park. The release also said that the congressman supports border security measures such as more physical barriers at borders, radar, increased patrols and strengthening ports of entry.

County reviewing impact of federal shutdown BY T E R I W EST

Since the shutdown began Dec. 22, about 800,000 such employees nationNassau County departments will wide have gone without pay, she said. “I will work tirelessly to protect our evaluate the potential impacts the federal government’s partial shutdown could most vulnerable as the president’s dehave on the county as it persists indefi- mand for a wall threatens daily lives,” nitely, County Executive Laura Curran Curran said. New Yorkers who receive Supplesaid Tuesday. mental Nutrition Assistance Program More than 14,000 federal employees out of work are Long Islanders, said U.S. (SNAP) benefits normally receive a full Rep. Kathleen Rice (D–Garden City), ac- month’s worth of benefits during the first two weeks of the month, according to the cording to a county news release. U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for the program. Most, however, already got their February benefits on Jan. 17. “New Yorkers receiving their February SNAP benefits early need to carefully plan their food budgets as this will need to last through the entire month,” Samuel D. Roberts, the commissioner of New York’s Oﬃce of Temporary and Disability Assistance, said in a news release. Island Harvest Food Bank is helping Long Islanders apply for SNAP benefits and plans on “providing supplemental WIKIMEDIA COMMONS food support,” the organization’s CEO, Randi Dresner, said. “It’s important for those impacted President Donald Trump camby the shutdown to know that there’s no paigned on the promise of building shame in asking for help and we want to a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border. reassure people facing a potential crisis A stalemate over the funding has that Island Harvest Food Bank, along caused a month-long federal govwith our community partners, can be the helping hand they need,” she said. ernment shutdown.

In return for additional border security, Suozzi supports further protections for “those immigrants currently with temporary legal status under DACA and the Temporary Protected Status pro-

gram” as well as their families. DACA is the Obama-era Deferred#Action for Childhood Arrivals policy under which those who were# brought into the country illegally as children were eligible for a two-year period where they were protected from deportation and could apply for a work permit. Trump moved to end the DACA program in September 2017. Temporary Protected Status is when an immigrant from a designated country, typically those experiencing a natural disaster or armed conflict, is allowed to live and work in the country for a time. “When I was elected to Congress, I promised to work with anyone, regardless of party, to tackle serious problems facing our country,” Suozzi said. “Although I strongly disagree with the President’s strategy of holding federal employees hostage over these negotiations, it is my job to govern and I agree with the Democratic leadership that the government must be reopened immediately and then we can work on a border security agreement.” At the time of the meeting, the government had been shut for 26 days. It remained closed this week.

Schnirman touts record as comptroller BY J E S S I C A PA R K S On the campaign trail, Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman laid out four main goals for his office if he was elected. At a year-end# review last Thursday, Schnirman gave a report on the progress he has made on each of them in his first term. The four promises were to open and modernize county finances, conduct smart audits that ask tough questions, reform the county contracting process and encourage residents to reports any acts of wrongdoing they may be aware of. Schnirman’s first key issue focuses on improving the transparency of county finances and increasing the efficiency of financial processes. In the past#year, he has standardized all reports that are issued by his office by using the nationally recognized GAAP standard whenever available and has began a multiyear project to update the county’s financial software, which dates to the 1980s. “We are doing this so we can reinvest time and dollars into programs that matter to you,” Schnirman said. “Instead of it being spent on hundreds of staff hours trying to hold together a broken financial system.” Additionally, he is the first comptroller in 10 years to release the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report on time, he said. Six audits were completed by Schnirman’s office in 2018 and seven audits were launched.

The audits added up to “more than $16.5 million that we found in wasted, lost, or recovered taxpayer dollars … in just our first year,” he said. Part of the identified funds is $7.6 million in recovered PILOT amounts, which are payments from developers and commercial property owners in place of tax payments. The comptroller’s oﬃce also discovered over $200,000 in missing wages to employees of county vendors who were not paid a living wage. With his smart audits, the comptroller “follows the money” by checking into the operations of the Assessment Review Commission in the handling of tax grievances, the Industrial Development Agency in how it hands out tax breaks to developers, and the hiring of county employees with the institution of a nepotism audit, which is the first of its kind but has yet to be completed, according to a news release. “This is not about playing ‘gotcha’ with our audits, it is about getting real work done,” Schnirman said. “It isn’t about doing the audit, it’s about making the change as a result of the audit.” The third goal that Schnirman discussed was cleaning up and reforming county contracting in which he announced that eﬃciencies set forth by his team led to bills being paid to vendors and nonprofits 12 percent faster than before. Continued on Page 68

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Trio Solisti to play Adelphi

arking its 14th year as ensemble-in-residence at Adelphi University, Trio Solisti will perform works by Shubert, Brahms and Beethoven on Saturday, Feb. 2. The program includes Schubert’s Notturno in E-flat major, Op. 148, D. 897, Beethoven’s Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost” and Brahms’ Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87. Trio Solisti’s reputation as “the most exciting piano trio in America,” according to The New Yorker, is reaﬃrmed season after season. Noted Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout proclaimed that Trio Solisti is “the group that to my mind has now succeeded the Beaux Arts Trio as the outstanding chamber music ensemble of its kind.” The New Yorker also called Trio Solisti “probably the finest American piano trio currently on the field,” and The Washington Post praised them for a “transcendent performance.” Founded in 2001, Trio Solisti is comprised of violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Fabio Bidini. " They perform regularly at the country’s major venues and series, including Great Performers at Lincoln Center, People’s Symphony Concerts at Town Hall in New York, Washington Performing Arts Society at Kennedy Center, Seattle’s Meany Hall and La Jolla’s Revelle Series. Trio Solisti has presented 13 seasons as the founding ensemble of the Telluride MusicFest, an annual summer chamber music

festival in Telluride, Colo. The group’s collaborations with many preeminent composers of our time have produced such works as Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio No. 2 (2017), Adelphi Professor Paul Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy, which won the Pulitzer in 2004, Lowell Liebermann’s Trio No. 3 (2012) and Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts’ Living Frescoes (2012). Trio Solisti’s Feb. 2 show will begin at 2 p.m. on the Westermann Stage in Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, 1 South Ave. in Garden City. Tickets are $35, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m and the box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances. Ticket sales and additional information are available online. Trio Solisti will also host a Composition Workshop to play through original works by Adelphi student composers and offer feedback. The Composition Workshop will be on Friday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information about this and other upcoming Adelphi PAC offerings, go to pac.adelphi.edu.

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Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist Tim Reynolds is known as both a solo artist and a lead guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. Together with bass player Mick Vaughn and drummer Dan Martier, Reynolds has resurrected his power trio, TR3 (Tim Reynolds Trio), an electric fusion of funk, rock, and jazz.

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Theatre Production: ‘The Supporting Cast’

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Four Seasons in Music — 2019 Series

Saturday, Feb. 2, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy is hosting a new concert series that celebrates the four seasons. This concert, Winter Love: An Evening of String Quartet, Baritone & Percussion in Hempstead House’s Winter Living Room, will be preceded by cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and followed by dinner and dessert at 8 p.m. Where: Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Hempstead House 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info & Tickets: 516-571-7901 • sandspointpreserveconservancy.org

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Saturday, Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 3 at 11:30 a.m. (ongoing performances through Feb. 24)

The evil witch Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora’s guardian fairies, she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss from her betrothed, Prince Phillip. Find out if Phillip delivers the magical kiss in time in this fairy tale classic.

Where: Broadhollow Theatre, 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont Info & Tickets: 516-775-4420 or broadhollow.org

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Gold Coast, Hofstra host 2nd film day Hofstra University and the Gold Coast International Film Festival will present the second annual Youth Film Day, a day of hands-on filmmaking workshops for teens that will take place on Saturday, March 16, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication in Hempstead. Hofstra, one of the top schools in the country for training media and entertainment professionals, is the official university partner of the Gold Coast International Film Festival and the Gold Coast Arts Center’s year-round film programs. This free event is designed for students in grades 7 through 12 who have an interest in directing, producing, editing, writing, or acting, and wish to explore careers in film and television. Attendees will participate in hands-on filmmaking workshops on visual effects (CGI) cinematography, using drones, editing, sound design, stunts and fight choreography, and more, led by industry professionals including Hofstra faculty and Gold Coast International Film Festival staff and board members. New this year are workshops in special FX makeup, where stu-

dents will learn how to create realistic special eﬀects using stage makeup, and employment opportunities in the film and television industries, which will cover the various types of jobs available in these hot industries, what training you need to work in film and TV, pay scales and more. “There has never been a more exciting and innovative time in the film and television arts,” said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra. “Young people are creating

media at ever-younger ages, and exposing them to professionallevel skills and techniques is a great experience for students and faculty alike.” Other activities include screenings, panels, and tours of the Herbert School’s fully HDequipped learning environment, which includes production studios with 4K/Ultra HD cameras; an audio production, sound mixing, and color correction suite for TV and film; editing and screening suites; a converged digital newsroom; and a new multime-

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Global observance of Kids indie rocker to Holocaust in Glen Cove play The Paramount The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County will be joining more than 150 organizations in more than 30 countries for an unprecedented global screening of the new documentary, “Who Will Write Our History,” on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sunday, Jan. 27 at 1 p.m. HMTC’s David Taub Reel Upstanders Film Series and 2G North Shore will present the screening, which will take place at The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove. “Who Will Write Our History” is written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman, executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, and based on the book of the same title by Samuel Kassow. The

film tells the story of historian Emanuel Ringelblum and the secret archive he created in the Warsaw ghetto. In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders, called Oyneg Shabes, decided to fight back. “Who Will Write our History” mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport the audience inside the ghet-

to and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters, who defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon — the truth — and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not. There is an $18 suggested donation to attend. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to 516-571-8040 or! info@ hmtcli.org. The David Taub Reel Upstanders Film Series was established in honor of David Taub (19322010), a Holocaust survivor and respected friend of the Center.

Best-selling and awardwinning children’s musician Laurie Berkner has been a longtime fixture on TV’s Nick Jr., Sprout, and NBCUniversal Kids channels. Her original songs, 12 albums, DVDs, music videos, and books leave no doubt: Berkner is the uncrowned

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What is Catholic Schools Week? Catholic Schools Week Celebrates the Rich Tradition of Catholic Education Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. It starts the last Sunday in January, which in 2019 is January 27th, and runs through February 2nd. The theme for the Catholic Schools Week 2019 is “Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.” Schools typically observe the annual celebration week with Masses, open houses and other activities for students, families, parishioners and community members. Through these events, schools focus on the value Catholic education provides to young people and its contributions to our church, our communities and our nation. On Long Island, Catholic Elementary Schools celebrate the week with Masses and open houses to thank parishioners, to welcome visitors and to introduce new families to the benefits of a Catholic education. These frequently kick oﬀ with a Mass and open house on the first. Sunday (the 27th), and a series of events designed to recognize the contributions of students, parents and faculty during the course of the week. Many schools oﬀer additional open houses and opportunities to visit during the week as well. For more information, Calendars of Events and links to the schools, visit LICatholicElementarySchools.org.

As a family considering a Catholic education, how do I learn more? Catholic Schools Week features Open Houses at the schools where parents and students can visit the school(s) they think they might be interested in and get a tour of the facility, be introduced to the teachers, meet some of the current families and children and generally learn about the academic, spiritual, social and physical development programs. As a prospective family, do I have an ‘assigned school’? One of the first diﬀerences you will notice about Catholic school is that you get to select the school that you believe your children will be most successful in. There is no direct ‘assignment’ based on where you live and most school districts provide busing to the school of your choice within a 15-mile radius. Frequently Asked Questions What is Catholic Schools Week? Catholic Schools Week is an annual event, celebrated across the country during the last week in January. The week is set aside to celebrate the unique nature of the Catholic schools in each community. In addition to the internal events (teacher and parent recognition events, school ‘spirit’ days, special assemblies, etc) it is also a week where the schools

open their doors to the families of the Parish/Parishes they serve, and to the general public who might be considering the benefits of a Catholic education. As a school family, how do I participate? Each school publishes a complete list of events and activities taking place in their school during the week. School families are encouraged to visit the web site of their school.

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Is there a diﬀerence in tuition to attend a diﬀerent school? Long Island’s Catholic Elementary schools set their own tuitions, so they vary slightly, but there is no penalty for choosing a school outside of your Parish or town if you are a Parishioner in the Diocese. The system of schools is an asset here on Long Island for all of the families of the Diocese and for all of the families of Long Island. Continued on Page 36

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What should parents look for during their visit? Many parents of current students tell us that their decision was emotional and based on a feeling of warmth and caring they got during their visit. Others are more analytical and make direct comparisons based on the results on standardized test scores and high school admittance history. Regardless of how you make your decision, the schools are ‘open books’ during this week, providing whatever information prospective families desire to support their decision. There is also a series of video interviews on the licatholicelementaryschools.org web site where current parents oﬀer their advice on how to get the most out of your visit. When parents select Catholic elementary school, what are the most frequently cited reasons? The reasons that are most frequently mentioned are: academic excellence, the reinforcement of the values lived at home, Catholic religious identity, a safe, nurturing environment for learning, more individualized attention to each student’s learning

needs, an outstanding extracurricular program and the level of partnership established with parents. Will attending Catholic elementary schools help my child get into a prestigious Catholic high school? Attending a Catholic elementary school isn’t the only way to get into a Catholic high school, but it is still the best way. The Catholic high schools are open to all students and typically have a very significant number of students from a public school background. Students qualify for Catholic high school through a test for 8th graders that is administered in October of each year. Typically the students from Catholic elementary schools are best prepared for the academic rigor, the integrated program of faith and values, and the service orientation of the high schools. Virtually all of the students from Catholic elementary school (99 percent) are admitted to a Catholic high school with the vast majority getting into the school that is their first choice. You can learn more about the high school entrance exam, and about the Catholic High Schools at http://CHSEE.org. How can I learn more or choose the school(s) I would like to visit? There is a resource for families on the Internet that provides a very complete picture of the Catholic elementary school experience. It features an interactive map that is your guide to each of Long island’s distinctive Catholic schools, and that lets you view the geographic options for your children at http://licatholicelementaryschools.org.

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How to overcome workout boredom other fitness-minded people. If games or competitions only take place once or twice a week, be sure to supplement your participation with more traditional workouts on off days.

ven the most ardent fitness enthusiasts sometimes lack the motivation to exercise. Various factors, including boredom with a fitness regimen, can affect one’s motivation to hit the gym. Boredom with a workout can sometimes be overcome by an especially effective workout. But for those instances when boredom is difficult to overcome, men and women who want to stay in shape can try these strategies.

Join a sports league. A workout doesn’t have to be limited to the weight room or the cardiovascular area of your local gym. If your motivation to workout is waning, consider joining a competitive sports league. Many fitness facilities even offer adults sports leagues on their premises or at nearby parks for outdoor sports. Sports such as racquetball, soccer and boxing or mixed martial arts provide great exercise and opportunities to meet

Take along your tablet. Many fitness facilities now include WiFi internet access with the cost of a membership. People bored with their workouts can take advantage of this perk and take their tablets with them to the gym, watching a favorite television show or movie while burning calories during the cardiovascular portions of their workouts. This gives people bored with their fitness regimens something to look forward to, and the chance to catch up with a popular show might be all the motivation people need to get off the couch and exercise.

Periodically change your regimen. It’s easy to get bored with a workout if you’re always doing the same repetitive exercises. Speak with a

personal trainer at your gym and ask for some advice on how to switch things up and still meet your fitness goals. There’s more than one way to get fit, and periodically changing your exercise regimen can be a great way to shake things up and reinvigorate your interest in exercise. Set new goals. Boredom with a workout regimen sometimes creeps in because people have achieved their initial fitness goals and haven’t set new ones. Whether you have lost the amount of weight you set out to lose or can now squat as much as you set out to squat, set new goals so you have a new carrot dangling on the end of your stick. Nearly everyone encounters workout boredom at one point another. Various strategies can help you overcome such a malaise and reinvigorate your enthusiasm for exercising.

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How to improve circulation disease may experience different symptoms than someone whose circulation has been compromised by diabetes. Because issues affecting the circulatory system are complex, it’s important for men and women to learn how to address such issues if they suspect their systems have been compromised.

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3 tips to overcome everyday aches & pains helps build a strong core. A strong core supports the spine and reduces the pressure on it, making it less likely people who sit for long stretches at a time will end their days with lower back pain. Routine exercise also helps other areas of the body by keeping muscles loose and flexible. Before beginning a new exercise regimen, men and women, especially those with existing aches and pains, should consult their physicians about which exercises they should do and which they might want to avoid.

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degrees in 65 majors leading to Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Professional Studies, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Science degrees. Since being named Old Westbury’s President in September 1999, Dr. Butts has reinvigorated what is among the most diverse public college campuses in America. He is determined to prepare Old Westbury students to succeed in the global marketplace while fostering in each leadership qualities that will prove valuable to both themselves and the communities in which they live. In every eﬀort, his leadership has had a pervasive impact on such wide-ranging community development initiatives as education, homelessness, senior citizen and youth empowerment, cultural awareness and ecumenical outreach. Butts earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., a Master of Divinity Degree in Church History from the Union Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry in Church and Public Policy from Drew University. Temple Emanuel is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck. For further information, please call 516.482.5701. All members of the community are invited to attend. Admission is free.

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Folk artists return to Huntington venue Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will make a return appearance for the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly First Saturday Concerts’ series on Feb. 2 at 8:30 p.m. An Americana roots, rhythm and harmony quartet, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem have toured North America for 18 years, visiting coﬀeehouses and performing at arts festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival and the California World Music Festival. The New England-based band brings fiddle, guitar, bass and junk percussion to 100 years of American music that ranges from Appalachian ballads and Georgia Sea Islands tunes to Springsteen covers, songs by contemporary writers, and incisive originals. The group’s sound is “tight, with stylish, unexpected choices” (Acoustic Guitar), a mix of New Orleans grooves, old-time gospel harmonies, bluesy swing fiddle, and fiery electric and

acoustic guitar. All four band members sing lead, with Arbo’s alto at the helm. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem have released seven CDs on Signature Sounds. Wintersong (2016) is their most recent release. “Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem dig deep into their collective souls, finding joy in the moment, peace in the harmonies, and rapture in the rhythmic drive,” said The Hartford Courant. The concert will take place at the Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive, oﬀ Route 25A, in Centerport. The performance will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, priced at $30 ($25 for FMSH members), may be purchased in advance online at fmsh.org using a credit card or at the door (cash and checks only). For more information on the featured artists and the concert, visit the www.raniarbo.com or call 631-425-2925.

On Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m., the Photo Club of Long Island will host a talk by fine art photographer Pamela Waldroup at the Port Washington Library. In her talk, “Interactions Made Visible… It’s All in the Details,” Waldroup will show viewers how she uses texture, form, dark shadows and patterns to guide viewers to see what often goes unobserved. Originally from the Midwest, Waldroup continues to document her East Coast experience with a newcomer’s fascination for detail. Of her photography, she says it is about hyper-focusing on the subject to solidify her experience and prompt a memory — real or imagined — to surface both for herself and the viewer. Working primarily in black and white, Waldroup says she has been inspired by Edward Weston, one of the masters of 20th century photography, to create images of dynamic movement that often take on a sculptural quality. The absence of color allows the viewer to become immersed in the place, mood and time depicted, but leaves room for personal interpretation and imagination as well.

Waldroup taught darkroom and digital photography, as well as fine arts, for 32 years while successfully exhibiting her work and the work of students in many local and regional venues. A member of fotofoto Gallery in Huntington and the National Association of Women Artists in New York City, Waldroup has exhibited in the metropolitan area in galleries and museums, including the Alex Ferrone Gallery, Salmagundi Art Club in NYC, 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, fotofoto Gallery, East End Arts Gallery, Patchogue Arts Council Gallery, Mills Pond House Gallery, Main Street Gallery, Art League of Long Island, Long Island Museum, the 2018 L.I. Biennial at Heckscher Museum of Art, and her photographs have been accepted for exhibit at the EXPO 38 Winners Exhibition at b.j. Spoke gallery in March. The Photography Club of Long Island, formerly known as the Port Washington Camera Club, was founded in 1975 and hosts free monthly programs at the Port Washington Public Library as a community service from September through June each year. For more information, visit www.pcliphoto.org. The Photography Club of Long Island is a 501(c)(3) art education organization.

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Port’s SOUPer Bowl Feb. 2 Chase away the winter blues at Port Washington’s SOUPer Bowl XII. ! Hosted by the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce, SOUPer Bowl will take place on Saturday,! Feb. 2, from 12 to 3 p.m., at the! Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church at! 100 Fairway Drive (near Harbor Links Golf Course) in!Port Washington. Everyone is invited to taste the delicious soups donated by

Port Washington restaurants that will vie to for the chance to win for their favorite soups. When all the ballots are tallied, the 2019 SOUPer Bowl Champ will receive the People’s Choice Award. There will also be a select judges’ panel with celebrities and culinary experts. The winner, as determined by a vote of the panel, is given the prestigious Judges’ Choice Award. The participating restau-

rants will also provide bread and crackers for the tasters. The Port Washington Chamber of Commerce will be collecting non-perishable food donations, along with a portion of proceeds, for local families in need. Admission is $10 for adults and $3 for children under 12. Parking is free. For more information, call 516-883-6566 or visit!oﬃce@ pwcoc.org.

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For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films! We will be screening the Animated Shorts on February 10th! This is your annual chance to to see the nominated films before they announce the winner on Sunday, Feb. 24th (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, do not miss this year’s selection of shorts. Special Q&A following screening with Oscar Winning Producer, Mara Kassin

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Schreiber A Cappella to open for Whiffenpoofs Schreiber A Cappella, a unique singing program funded by The Ed. Foundation, will open for the Yale University Whiﬀenpoofs on Sunday, Jan. 27 at Landmark on Main Street. The Ed. Foundation is thrilled to provide funding for Schreiber A Cappella for the third year in a row. The group, led by Matthew Gawronski, choral director at Weber Middle School, gives Port Washington high school students the opportunity to arrange and perform challenging, unaccompanied, choral repertoire in diverse venues throughout the community. This year boasts one of the largest groups to

date, with approximately 35 students from grades 9 to 12, who rehearse every Wednesday morning before school. In only its third year, the choir has sung at various school district events, performed the national anthem at a New York Mets game, and opened for the professional a cappella group VoicePlay. The Schreiber a cappella program is generously sponsored by Robin and Vernon McDermott through a grant from The Ed. Foundation. The Yale Whiﬀenpoofs is the oldest and one of best known collegiate a cappella groups. Founded in 1909, the “Whiﬀs” is comprised of

the most talented senior students and has become one of Yale’s most celebrated traditions, with over a century of musical excellence. For tickets and more information, contact Landmark on Main Street at 516767-6444 or go to www. landmarkonmainstreet.org. The Ed. Foundation is an independent, not-forprofit, community-based organization whose mission supports educational initiatives that are beyond basic educational requirements. Since 2001, The Ed. Foundation has actively raised funds and awarded grants to enhance and expand educational opportunities for all students in Port Washington public schools. Upcoming fundraising events include the Spring Fling Party on Thursday, April 4 at the Port Washington Yacht Club. To become a member, sponsor a grant, or learn more about inspiring education in Port, please visit www.TheEdFoundation.org.

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Jesuits accused of abuse spent time in Manhasset BY T E R I W EST Four men on a list released last week of Jesuits credibly accused of sexual abuse have ties to Manhasset. One of the men, Joseph Fitzpatrick, was assigned to Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church from 1971 to 1983, according to the document published last Tuesday by Jesuits USA Northeast Province. The list includes 50 men who were credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor or vulnerable adult since 1950. In 1999, someone reported that Fitzpatrick abused a minor in the 1980s. Fitzpatrick, now 85, is currently impeded, meaning he has been removed from Jesuit institutions but is being monitored by authorities within the religious order with limited access to minors, technology and travel, said Mike Gabriele, director of communications for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.

The province would not provide Fitzpatrick’s contact information. Saint Mary’s did not respond to requests for comment. “We keep them in the Jesuits as much as we can so that we can monitor them,” Gabriele said. “If we were to kick them out of the order they could technically go live anywhere they want.” Three men on the list spent years at Manhasset’s Inisfada, a mansion the Jesuit society used as a retreat house until it was sold in 2013 and then demolished to make way for a housing development. All three men – John Garvey, Edward D. Horgan and Joseph Towle – are dead. The period of the abuse that Garvey and Towle were later accused of overlaps with their time in Manhasset. Garvey left Micronesia, where he was assigned to a parish, in 1978 and came to Manhasset that year, where he stayed until 1987. The incident he was accused of is

Great Neck man allegedly stabbed Conn. man

The Inisfada, where three men accused of sexually abusing minors spent time for retreats. listed as taking place in 1978-79. Towle was at Inisfada from 1968 to 1971. In 1992, someone reported that he abused a minor in 1971. He was impeded in 2002 and died in 2016. Horgan was at Inisfada for retreats from 1983 until 1994, the year that he died. In 2007 he was accused of abuse of a minor that occurred in 1966. Jesuit retreats – which Manhasset’s Insifada was dedicated toward when Garvey, Horgan and Towle stayed there – can be as brief as a weekend, and involve spiritual exercises intended to bring Jesuits closer to God and Jesus, Gabriele said. There are seven retreat houses still operating on the East Coast, he added.

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N A man originally from Great Neck was arrested in Connecticut last Thursday for allegedly stabbing a man, according to the New London Police Department. Division Commander Brian Wright said the department received a call about a stabbing at an apartment complex at 127 Hempstead St. around 7:16 p.m. on Jan. 31. Oﬃcers found that a man over 60 years old had been stabbed multiple times, Wright said, and that “some items were taken.” The victim, who was not identified, survived because he “was able to receive immediate medical care,” Wright said. Wright said an investigation led police to arrest Kashif Ali Tariq, 26, whom police listed as being from Potters Lane in Great Neck. “It did appear as though the act was not random and after thorough investigation, Mr. Tariq was arrested for crimes associated with that incident,” Wright said. Wright said the victim knew the suspect but that because the case is ongoing he could not comment in detail how Tariq and the victim were connected. Police said Tariq faces felony charges of home invasion, first-degree burglary, first-degree robbery and assault of the elderly, as well as a misdemeanor charge of sixth-degree larceny. According to court documents, bond has been set at $250,000 and Tariq remained in custody as of Tuesday. His next court appearance is Feb. 6. A disposition is pending and a plea had not yet been entered as of Tuesday. Tariq was arrested in November for

Survivors typically do not report abuse until around age 50, said Janet Klinger, who leads a survivors support group in Plainview aﬃliated with Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. “It’s something people live with most of their lives,” said Klinger, who identified herself as a survivor of abuse within the church. “It takes a toll on their whole life.” Each of the Jesuits’ five provinces in the country has released a list of credibly accused priests, the first two of which were published Dec. 7. “At the heart of this crisis is the painful, sinful and illegal harm done to chilContinued on Page 60

Sid Jacobson JCC packs 30K meals on MLK Day BY T E R I W EST

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New London police said they arrested a Great Neck man for an alleged stabbing. alleged criminal trespass, criminal mischief, third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and possession of less than half an ounce of cannabis, court documents show. He pleaded not guilty and was released from custody with a promise to appear in that case, court documents show. He is represented by the state’s public defender’s oﬃce in the November case, according to court records. Attorney information regarding the alleged stabbing was not yet available.

A cymbal rang throughout the gym, eliciting cheers that momentarily drowned out 2016’s record of the year bopping along in the background. The 150 or so hairnet-clad volunteers had packaged 15,000 meals in under two hours and were halfway to their goal for the day. “We are ahead of schedule,” said Carol Robinson, the event’s coordinator from the Outreach Program, grinning as she strolled along a table of families positioned into an assembly line. Hosting a food-packaging event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for the second year in a row was “just natural,” for the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center in East Hills, said" Connie Wasserman, the associate executive director.

The community center engages people with special needs or disabling conditions and connects individuals to volunteer opportunities, Wasserman said. A service day is an extension of that, she said. “This is what we do.” Roslyn Heights’ David Rosenthal and Rabbi Cara Weinstein Rosenthal were at the head of

one of the eight tables, measuring and funneling oatmeal into plastic packages. Their children were a little further down the assembly line. They had specifically sought out an event they could bring their children to for the holiday to teach them the value of volunContinued on Page 67

PHOTO BY TERI WEST

This was the second year that the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center hosted a food packaging event on Martin Luther King Day.

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$10.3M state aid boost possible for schools Continued from Page 10 in, the overall increase in aid is 2.51 percent, or $113,118. The New Hyde Park-Garden City Park district would see the smallest overall increase among area schools, with aid rising only $23,389, or 0.37 percent, to $6.29 million from $6.26 million when factoring in building aid. When not factoring in building aid, the diﬀerence is $148,230, or 2.78 percent, according to state data. Building aid is slated to be $815,378, more than $100,000 less than the $940,219 in the current budget. The district will see transportation

aid increase from $270,042 to $338,516 and assistance to oﬀset high costs would increase from $189,940 to $243,023. East Williston’s state aid would go up $273,090 from $3.69 million to $3.96 million, according to the proposal, or 7.39 percent. Without factoring in building aid, that increase is $215,057, or 6.37 percent. Transportation aid would increase from $455,371 to $608,057, building aid would go up from $320,026 to $378,059, and BOCES assistance would be $776,846, up from the current $732,680. “We are, of course, appreciative of any aid we receive from New York State in support of our East Williston School

District,” East Williston Superintendent Elaine Kanas said via email. “99.75% of this increase represents expense based aid corresponding directly to BOCES, transportation, and capital improvements.” State assistance for Mineola would go up 4.89 percent, or $363,453, from $7.43 million to $7.79 million. Without factoring in state building aid, that increase is $255,369, or 3.73 percent. The increases are concentrated in BOCES, which would go up from $1.05 million to $1.13 million, transportation aid, which would go up from $518,733 to $691,822, and building and building reorganization aid, which could go from $593,556 to $701,640.

Floral Park-Bellerose schools would see aid rise $185,087, or 3.59 percent, from $5.15 million to $5.33 million. When not factoring in building and building reorganization aid, that number drops to $54,517, or 1.19 percent. Building and building reorganization aid would go up from $581,755 to $712,325, while aid to deal with high or excess cost would go up from $130,928 to $219,431. In Nassau County, aid would increase from $1.13 billion to $1.18 billion, a total of roughly $46.04 million. Without building and reorganization building aid, that number is $27.4 million.

Thomaston OKs budget, hires building official Continued from Page 20 biggest change in the budget. Public safety costs are budgeted as $99,880, down from $110,098, home and community service funding remains the same at $689,200, and employee benefits are slated to rise from $198,300 to $209,625. Thomaston, like many other

Great Neck villages, also had to budget for a bump in garbage pickup with Meadow Carting. It budgeted $376,200 for 2019-20, up more than $30,000 from the $345,000 in the current budget. “It was definitely noticeable, but it was something we could budget for,” Weinberg said. At the Tuesday night meet-

ing, trustees approved a consulting agreement with Michael McNerney, who will serve as both the village building oﬃcial – or a consultant, according to the agreement – and a building inspector. McNerney is succeeding Joe Chearmonte as the village building oﬃcial.

Accused priests in Manhasset Continued from Page 59 dren by those whom they should have been able to trust,” wrote the Rev. John J. Cecero, provincial for the Jesuits’ Northeast Province, in a letter accompanying the release of the list. “We did not know any best practices to handle these violations many decades ago and regrettably made mistakes along the way.” Publishing the lists is an attempt toward transparency and to gain back trust in the church, Gabriele said. “We talk about transparency but that in itself is a questionable term,” Klinger said. “The orders and the diocese have not been very transparent … so I question that term to begin with. I don’t know how transparent you actually are when you’ve been forced into a position.” The most recent abuse incident reported in the Northeast Province – which includes New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and northern New Jersey – happened in 1996, according to the province.

The Jesuits have a third party review board that investigates allegations of abuse, Gabriele said. The board includes professionals from mental health, law enforcement and legal fields. “If there’s a preponderance of truth to the accusation they will deem it as credible probably without the significance of evidence that law enforcement would need,” Gabriele said. Individuals who report as adults decide whether to also report to the police, he said. Nassau County police were not immediately able to say whether they received any reports about the four Jesuits who spent time in Manhasset. Praesidium Inc., which serves as a consultant for organizations that address internal abuse, accredits the Northeast Province. Survivors can receive pastoral counseling and often compensation, Gabriele said. The province also has a victim assistance coordinator. Support groups, such as the one Klinger leads monthly, are an opportunity for survivors to

speak with individuals who had similar traumatic experiences, Klinger said. “These priests usually don’t have one victim,” she said. “They have many, and there are many people out there and they need someplace to go.” The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests was founded in 1988 and has 25,000 members, according to its website. Klinger’s group is the only one on Long Island aﬃliated with the organization. Members of the organization in New York have been pushing for the state’s Child Victims Act for years, she said. The drafted legislation’s provisions, which include extending the criminal statute of limitations to 28-yearold survivors and the civil statute to 50-year-old survivors, are important since it is so common for survivors to come forward decades after the abuse occurred, she added. “It’s not a question of money, it’s a question of validation,” Klinger said. “It’s time. We’ve waited so long for this. It’s time.”

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“His firm is the consultant. He is the principal of the firm,” village Clerk Denise Knowland said. “He will be representing his firm when he does the consulting work. He is also serving as the building inspector.” McNerney will receive no

compensation for the position of building inspector, oﬃcials said. The consulting position will pay $85 an hour and not exceed 10 hours in any two-week period, although the mayor may authorize additional hours, according to the agreement.

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‘The 39 Steps’ at North High

PHOTO BY IRWIN MENDLINGER

North High will present “The 39 Steps,” Feb. 7–9. North High School will present “The 39 Steps” on Thursday, Feb. 7 and Friday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. All performances will take place in the North High School auditorium, 35 Polo Rd. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have “The 39 Steps,” a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre. This award-winning drama is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany charac-

ters, an onstage plane crash, handcuﬀs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For additional information and to purchase tickets, please call (516) 441-4743, or contact Ilana Meredith Schikler, Junior Players Theatre Director, at ischikler@ greatneck.k12.ny.us. Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door.

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Singas re-election campaign has nearly $1M BY T E R I W EST

PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas at a forum in September.

It’s round two for county District Attorney Madeline Singas. Singas is running for reelection and her campaign has announced that it already has $962,702. “Four years ago, I campaigned on a simple premise: that the Nassau DA should be an experienced prosecutor, not a politician,” Singas said in a news release. “We’ve taken on government corruption, MS13, and the heroin epidemic, and crime in Nassau County has fallen to historic lows.” The campaign raised $417,974 of its current funds in its most recent sixth-month filing period, which began in July and ended earlier this month.

Singas, a Democrat, has served as Nassau County district attorney since 2016. She has worked in the county’s district attorney office since 2006, when she was appointed to lead the Special Victims Bureau. Singas became chief assistant district attorney in 2011 and then acting district attorney in 2015, replacing Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City). In May, Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed Singas as the special prosecutor for a case investigating allegations that former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman abused several women. Singas grew up in Astoria, Queens, and lives in Manhasset, according to the Nassau County Democratic Committee.

County home prices drop slightly BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Nassau County home prices fell by 2 percent from November to December, with a reported median sales price of $515,000, according to a report released by Multiple Listing Service Long Island. Before the slight drop, the median home price for closed sales in the county was listed as $525,000 since September. December’s median home price was a 4 percent increase over the past year with the

median home price in December 2017 being $495,000. Nassau’s median home price for pending sales in December was also $515,000. The 998 homes sold in December reflected a decrease from the previous month, which recorded 1,115 homes sales. It was also a 6.6 percent drop from December 2017, when 1,069 homes were sold. Data for the last year showed that home sales peaked in August and then

began to decrease throughout the fall. Early in the year, home sales remained below 1,000 until a jump in June, when 1,302 homes were sold. There were 4,348 home options for buyers in Nassau County, an almost 13 percent drop in inventory since November, which recorded 4,978 homes for sale. December’s contracted sales, 848 homes, amounted to a 4.2 percent increase from the same month the year be-

fore, which recorded 814 homes. In November, there were 956 pending home sales reported in the county. Neighboring Suﬀolk County’s median sales price for December was $380,000, which is over 25 percent lower than Nassau’s median sales price. For Suﬀolk, it was a 5.3 increase from December 2017. Long Island as a whole, for which the report includes statistics from Queens, had a combined median sale price

of $460,000, which is a 4.5 percent increase from the year prior and a 1.1 percent increase from November. Prospective Long Islanders had 14,342 homes to choose from during the month of December, which represents a 13 percent drop in inventory since November, when 16,483 homes were available. December’s home inventory on Long Island is an increase of about 12 percent from December 2017.

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Leave MTA planning to transportation experts

ov. Andrew Cuomo’s announce- with a staging area for workers, supplies and ment that the work on the Canar- debris removal. There is little need for NYC sie L subway line tunnel scheduled Transit to provide expensive “force account” to start in April lacked critical de- (track employees)! flagging protection for tail.! You have to ask if “Is the MTA staffed construction workers.! Third rail power is turned off with no by idiots?” (Editorial — Jan. 11) applies to Cuomo and his staff.! How much longer active subway service. Forcing contractors to will it take for New York City Transit and mobilize workers prior to tunnel access eveprivate contractors to complete work with nings and weekends increases project costs.! So does having to stop work prior to reonly overnight and weekend closures than the previously announced 15-month, 24/7 suming of subway service.!!It will cost millions more to provide protection for private project duration?! MTA and NYCDOT have already spent construction employees. Several hundred million was previously millions in planning, environmental review, design and engineering, assuming a 15 provided under a Federal Transit Adminmonth, 24/7 shut down.! They normally istration Super Storm Sandy Recovery and would perform value engineering.! This Resiliency grant in 2016.! Will the MTA now have to update FTA’s looks at alternative methods for performing previously approved project Environmental work, which would result in cost savings. This work was performed by experi- Impact Statement?! It is clear that the scope enced engineers and engineering consult- of work, project schedule, completion date, ing firms. They have firsthand knowledge budget and useful life of investments will be of how the nation’s largest subway system different from the original grant! commitworks.! Cuomo’s outside experts came from ments. ! How will the MTA inform FTA of these the Columbia and Cornell University world changes when they are furloughed?! of academia.! The MTA is legally required as part the Both the MTA and NYC Transit President Andy Byford, who previously ran tran- master grant agreement with FTA to provide sit systems in London and Toronto, would monthly financial and milestone progress have discovered it under value engineering.! !!reports. This includes any changes to the The mostcost-effectivee time to do work scope of work and contract change orders is when contractors have 24/7 access. The over $100,000. This is accomplished under the FTA contractor is on site full-time, mobilized

Transit Award Management System!known as TRAMS.! ! MTA and NYCDOT provide these reports on many other active capital projects and programs worth over $12 billion.!!Has the MTA met with FTA and!its own independent engineering oversight consulting firm to! provide! a presentation on the new “design” changes?! !! MTA HQ and NYC Transit looked like deer caught in headlights by Cuomo’s announcement.! Was it designed to ingratiate himself with voters rather than serve the long-term interests of riders? !Cuomo’s Jan. 15th MTA emergency board meeting was just the opening act. MTA HQ, board members, NYC Transit, NYCDOT managers and engineers need far more time to review and comment on this “new design” and budget impacts.! Ditto for both the MTA and FTA independent oversight engineering consulting firms.! Both prepare monthly reports.! What will the the final project budget impact be?! The winning contractors Judlau and TC Electric $477 million bid was based on the original scope of work and design MTA proposal.! This included 24/7 site access to tunnels with no active subway.! This contract will have to be renegotiated. Contractors have the basis!to request additional reimbursement in the millions. These added costs will be greater than credits given the contractor for deletion of work

as a result of the new design.! Contractors claims for additional financial reimbursement can be based upon delay claims due to limited site access and change orders for design and work scope changes to the original contract.! Who covers costs for materials ordered by the contractor in preparation for initiation of work in April that may now not be needed?! How will the MTA find additional funding to supplement federal funding?! Cuomo attempts to portray himself as!the second coming of the late President Franklin!Roosevelt and master builder Robert Moses.! He is not an engineer, transportation expert or daily commuter.! Cuomo does excel at photo ops when walking the tracks without wearing either a safety vest or hardhat as required by Federal Rail Road Administration.! I doubt he is ever taken and passed the standard FRA safety training course like MTA employees or has used a Metro Card like commuters. Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked!31 years for the U.S. Department!of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.)

DiNapoli typifies weakness of As mayor officials in state government of E.W.,

r. Michael Dinnocenzo’s moist paean to Tom DiNapoli “Dr. (sic) Tom DiNapoli: man for the people” is a stunning display of blind obeisance. Contrary to his Op-Ed, there is no man who is a better representative of Nassau and Albany’s cult of corruption and mediocrity. He is the exemplar of our political dysfunction. Mr. DiNapoli got his start on a school board. This is often used an entry point for local politics, and he caught the eye of May Neuberger. Ms. Neuberger is most famously remembered for saying things in a very loud voice. She would help him further his career. Mr. DiNapoli then had an undistinguished career in the New York State Assembly. That’s not Mr. DiNapoli’s fault, as all New York State Assemblymen have undistinguished careers. The state government is purposely designed to function this way, since the leadership controls everything that goes in and out of the process. Loyalty to them got you your favors done. This system would eventually serve Tom well. With the resignation of Comptroller Alan Hevesi, New York needed someone to take over the position. As one of Sheldon Silver’s willing executioners, someone who

could be relied upon to take orders and look the other way, Mr. Silver put up Tom DiNapoli. He was interviewed by a panel of two former state comptrollers, a former New York City Comptroller and a group of legislators on Jan. 24, 2007. Mr. DiNapoli was not amongst the three finalists recommended by the review panel. Despite his complete lack of qualifications, on Feb. 7, he was elected as state comptroller by the Legislature. Thanks to Silver, who now awaits imprisonment for decades of corrupt practices which everyone in the Assembly swears to have never known of, after 20 years in elected oﬃce without evincing the slightest interest in financial matters, and with no fiscal background whatsoever, a man who didn’t even know what a spreadsheet looked like was now put in charge of the second largest pension fund in the United States of America. For Silver, Mr. DiNapoli was merely a chess piece to put on his board. And a man in that position is certainly capable of rewarding who was later to become New York State’s most famous felon. That’s how the sausage is made. Despite the advice of experienced experts, Tom DiNapoli now sat in the same chair as Arthur Levitt, who later went on to run the Securities and Exchange Commission. And as

with his years in the Assembly, Mr. DiNapoli brings no drive or imagination to his task. Mr. DiNapoli’s studied ability to avoid any “trouble,” smile, and keep a low profile as corruption and fraud swirl around him is still one of his greatest political gifts. The MTA can be exposed for wasting billions and he sees nothing, Sergeant Schultz style. The Port Authority is a fiefdom of patronage and self-dealing that would embarrass an Afghan warlord, but that’s a “no fly” zone for our wholesome little boy. But God help the East Meadow Library when good old Tom discovers a few minor vendor claims that they simply must address. There’s a reason for that. It doesn’t indict any civil service union. That would cross a line our fearless “model of integrity in a public servant” dare not cross. He knows where his bread is buttered, and so do the gushing sycophants who were heaping praise on him when he was sworn in. There is one common thread in Nassau’s political class: it is a closed cult of people driven purely by talentless ambition. And a group of useful idiots to blindly support them. Donald Davret Roslyn

I would...

recently wrote a post in the All Things East Williston Facebook Group titled “Answering the Call to Serve — East Williston Village Elections.” After such, I received an outpouring of comments and encouragement to run for mayor of East Williston. While that was not the intention of my post, it creates an opportunity to describe things I would do as mayor of East Williston. First, I believe change is needed in our village. Over the last four years, village residents have been impacted by water quality issues, an unfair tax assessment system, and public safety concerns. These challenges were created or supported by the policies, actions or inaction on the part of the incumbent board. Too many times our board has taken actions that impacted residents without proper deliberation. I’d commit to end this practice and ensure a greater level of transparency and accountability. Continued on Page 76

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Is Village of Great Neck listening?

ast night I attended the Village of Great Neck Board Meeting and listened to people’s concerns regarding reduction of traﬃc and parking on Middle Neck Road and asked myself — are people listening to what is happening to our village? The" Board of Education has approved an additional 100 car parking lot extension on the corner of Polo and Beach Roads for high school seniors $700,000" of our hard-earned tax payer dollars are being wasted on a parking lot for two percent of the student body instead of benefiting and building better STEM programs, air conditioning, security and more. Traﬃc, congestion, parking lots, and safety issues, are being disregarded by the"Great Neck Public School. Is anyone concerned? The" roundabout circular in front of Great Neck North High School has no

crossing guard" and students get let out into oncoming traﬃc and now we are adding"100 cars to the mix? There is no sidewalk on Beach Road and students have to walk in the street. How can they do so safely with 100 more cars on the block? Emergency vehicles cannot pass during arrival and dismissal times. The SEQRA study for the environmental concerns of what the eﬀect of development will do to the water and drainage issues of the block, which are already a concern, is not completed. This likely indicates that there are unresolved water drainage issues. Great Neck residents who wish to protect our environment: why are we allowing black tar on a beautiful soccer field destroying a residential street? Decrease peer pressure on students that feel they need to drive a car to school for social reasons and increase community

responsibility Most importantly there is a solution:" There is an"existing parking lot owned by the" Board of Education, namely, the Parkwood, only two blocks away, at a cost of zero dollars. Students could use it, dispersing traﬃc, enhancing safety, preserving the environment and our finances. Yet, the school board is disregarding it. Great Neck, if you value your “village feel,” value your safety on every block, value better schools, which spend each dollar on meaningful educational programs, then don’t allow this money to be wasted on a parking lot. By building the lot we are condoning waste on so many levels." Students who don’t arrive on time to get the choice 80 on-campus parking spots should be able to walk responsibly, a block past the Great Neck North Middle School, where there is security at all times." Please listen and speak up. The Board

of Education follows the parents’ mandates, but who listens to the mandates of the Village of Great Neck citizens — senior citizens, students and all residents of Great Neck, of all ages, who value where we live? Who will listen to the parents and residents of Great Neck who want to use the funds for more STEM classes, increased security and so much more? In the library election, we witnessed this past year Great Neck residents galvanized into action and spoke up for what is right. Please speak out now, write letters to the administrators, the Department of Education, your congressman, and state senators." Do so now as the beautiful village we value will forever be marred to accommodate a Walmart size parking lot. Ruth Gabay Great Neck!

The old-fashioned Residents’ concerns silenced country doctor in G.N. T

hank you for the inspiring article about the late Dr. Gary Piccone. When my family moved to Great Neck in 1949, we rented an apartment on the second floor of a building in the Great Neck Terrace apartments. The first time anyone in the family became ill, my father walked downstairs and knocked on Piccione’s door, and that’s how he became our family physician. Years later, when I married and moved back to Great Neck, I took my wife to meet him. The first thing he said

was, where is the house in case I need to make a house call? Piccione was the epitome of the oldfashioned country doctor. I assume he made a good living, but he was always more interested in his patients than in the money. When I was out of work he assured me that his oﬃce would never dun me for overdue bills. We will not see his like again. Lloyd Perell Great Neck

he sound of the Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals silence was deafening toward the over 100 concerned residents from all over Port who had shown up Tuesday night expecting to be able to voice their overwhelming opposition to the Dejana multi-story apartment complexes being built in their backyards. The concerns they hoped to voice ranged from the overcrowding it would cause to their schools, roadways and transit. The 50 street parking places it required be taken away in their already congested neighborhoods. The dangerous future out of code development precedent it would set throughout Port. The very real life-altering concerns and issues it would cause for thousands of Port residents. But the voice of the people was shut down that night. The public was told they could not speak… there would be no public comment allowed. Then the people

themselves were actually shut out and told there would be no meeting held, as the entire Board of Zoning just inexplicably stood up and walked out on them… literally and figuratively. The concerned people who came that night, and who represented so many others, came believing they should have a voice and a say in what would happen to them and to their home. But instead, the only voice the Manorhaven Board of Zoning Appeals seemed to hear, as it has in previous BZA meetings, was that of the builder and businessman, Peter Dejana. Democracy is defined as government by, of and for all the people. It is a form of government where everyone’s voice matters and everyone’s vote counts. In the village of Manorhaven residents might argue that is not the case.

Is it time for all of us to stand united against requiring American workers to work and not receive their pay or to be furloughed, locked out of their jobs," against government services being" furloughed because there are no funds available to continue" these services. To be furloughed or made to work without being paid by a president, (whose support is less than half of the of the population) who has chosen to use our friends and neighbors as hostages in his art of the deal of “my way or no way”.

While the president claims not to be a child, he certainly behaves like one, he is single handily closing down our governmental operations by refusing to fund any government operations. It’s time for all Americans to stand together to ensure that all Americans are fairly paid for their work and services are returned to normal. It’s time for this folly to end now."

Suffering from natureIt’s time to end shutdown deficit disorder? Continued from Page 16 How much time do you spend in direct contact with nature? Spending mindful time in the woods helps alleviate depression with several other health benefits. In Japan, a walk in the woods is celebrated with the formal term “forest bathing” (shinrin yoku). Forest bathing is scientifically documented as anti-inflammatory, improving immune function, decreasing the risk of heart attacks, protecting against obesity and diabetes, yielding better sleep and

beneficial to moods. Perhaps it’s not Attention-Deficit Disorder, but rather Nature-Deficit Disorder that is on the rise? In “Last Child in the Woods,” Richard Louv writes about how to save our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. He concludes, “The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.”

Lucretia Steele Manorhaven

Charles Schneider Great Neck

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Business&RealEstate

Shutdown’s impact on real estate With 800,000 government employees having to show up at work without a paycheck or being furloughed; the impact on real estate has begun with mortgages becoming unavailable through the Federal Housing Authority or the United States Department of Agriculture, which are not endorsing new loans for multifamily properties and landlords of public housing, according to Mark Zandi of Moody Analytics. The short and longer-term effects on federal workers who begin to miss loan payments and the lack of money to purchase daily needs are and will have greater financial and psychological effects that may grow as the shut down continues going forward without an end in sight. However, the one positive that has been a by-product of the slowdown is that mortgage rates have ticked down, making purchasing a little more affordable for those who are in the market, searching for a home. However, “All the fluctuations and uncertainty that is going on puts a pause on companies deciding what long-term investments to make,” Lawrence Yun, a chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, said. “Do they actively purchase a commercial

property knowing there could be further disruption in the future? They could be more hesitant or go on a more [smaller] scale.” During the shutdown, the USDA is not issuing new rural loans or closing on direct loans, according to NAR. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is still closing on single-family loans during the shutdown, but the agency could be stretched thin as many staffers are furloughed, Yun said. “All those things should occur but with a shortage of staffing you are spreading out people and you can make it much more difficult,” he said. Even those not relying on federal loans for home purchases, can get their closings delayed by the shutdown if they need a new social security number from the Social Security Administration or tax returns from the Internal Revenue Services since both agencies are operating with short staff, Zandi said. For larger property owners, HUD is not endorsing new loans for its multifamily program and loans to owners of public housing projects could be impacted as resources as stretched thin, said Heidi Learner, the chief economist at Savills Studley.

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

“Anyone who depends on FHA loans for either new mortgages of refinances are going to be put on hold,” she said. “Some loans to public housing and housing agencies across the country could potentially be delayed.” As of Jan. 12, only 337 out of 8,709 managers and staﬀers of H.U.D. (U.S. Housing and Urban Development) which runs the F.H.A. were on the job! Broadly speaking, a long shutdown could impact the overall economy of the country —which experts previously told Commercial Observer could slow investment sales and multimillion dollar condo unit buys — and impact consumer confidence to buy durable goods like cars and jewelry, according to Yun.

In addition, the eﬀects are trickling down to investment sales of multi-million dollar condo unit purchases. Vendors and local stores who depend on federal workers on a daily basis, are slowly being critically impacted by the furloughs and lack of remuneration to federal workers, who have to be able to prioritize what to do without, in their daily struggle to make ends meet! What will it be, food, car and insurance payments, gas, mortgage payments, etc. Our GDP (Gross Domestic Product) predicted to be about 3 percent, will be reduced as the shutdown weighs on people and our economy. More and more federal workers are calling in absent and at the same time many are likely looking for some kind of work (available jobs are so challenging to find (with the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years) to earn money daily to stay above water. No one thought or imagined that this would be the longest government shutdown in history and have such an eﬀect on its’ federal workers, who through who no fault of their own, are being used as scapegoats for a wall (that remember, Mexico was suppose to pay for in the beginning, right?)

Why bring our economy down and at the same time, affect federal workers who have nothing to do with whether the wall gets built or not, have their lives be severely and adversely impacted, just because our political system allows it to be controlled by one individual and neither party seems to be able to sit down like adults to hash things out in a pragmatic and logical fashion. Our government has really stopped working for us; who have been hired (elected by us); but are only concerned with their personal self-interests, who will be the winners and losers and egos. It should always be about us, not about them and their personal whims and winning, when we are all losing! Philp A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 Great Neck. He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist. Receive regular “free” updates of sold homes in your area and what your home would sell for in today’s market or search on: WWW.Li-RealEstate. Com He can be reached by email, at: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com, or by cell: (516) 647-4289.

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Arrandale Recent Real Estate 32Avenue, Great Neck Sales in Great Neck Great Neck Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $815,000 Demographics near Great Neck, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 10,143 7,535 38 3 81,778 39,915

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

Sold Price: $1,681,000 Date: 12/11/2018 5 beds, 4 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x234 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $21,869 MLS# 3050819

17 Arrandale Avenue, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,300,000 Date: 12/11/2018 4 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Victorian # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 100x313 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $22,914 MLS# 3017086

25 Old Colony Lane, Great Neck Sold Price: $872,000 Date: 12/20/2018 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 84x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $10,288 MLS# 3051888

49 Hampshire Road, Great Neck Sold Price: $925,000 Date: 12/27/2018 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 53x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $11,260 MLS# 3050687

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in Great Neck and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Zoning puts premium on ‘community benefit’ Continued from Page 1 Road and 697-705 Middle Neck Road, the west side of Middle Neck Road up to the northern boundary of 540 Middle Neck Road and include the mixed-use and waterfront development districts along East Shore Road. According to the proposal, a building could be erected or used for “any commercial, Aﬀordable Workforce Housing, or Assisted Living purpose” when identified as “a community/benefit/amenity in a particular circumstance.” It also says that the Board of Trustees, “from time to time,” may “approve adjustments” to zoning restrictions in the chapter. Factors to be considered include “improvement to the immediate neighborhood” or whole village, the scope and value of proposed amenities, and how much it would cost for the public to otherwise create the amenities. The changes to the code would con-

sider aﬀordable workforce housing, assisted living facilities, ground floor commercial development, public amenities that improve access to the incentive district and “any other similar opportunity” to be beneficial. The village could also accept one or more partial amenities and payments in lieu of community amenities, the proposal suggests. But, according to the proposal, incentives cannot be granted to townhomes that exceed 30 feet in height or 22 feet at the eaves, six units, a length of 204 feet, or feature a façade exceeding 88 feet unless under certain conditions. Generally speaking, the maximum height for a multifamily dwelling could not exceed four stories, or 42 feet, according to the proposal. If the building is “identified as a community benefit” by the Board of Trustees, the maximum height would be five stories or 52 feet. The maximum allowed density for a

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The proposed zoning change would create the Corridor Incentive Overlay District, which includes parts of Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road. multifamily dwelling would be capped at 48 units per acre, the proposal says. The proposal also offers a relaxation of parking requirements for properties adjacent to Middle Neck Road on a “case-bycase basis” and would be “favored by the Board” when infrastructure improvements like sidewalks, benches, park improvements, traffic calming measures, investment in shuttle buses, and other community amenities are offered.

These amenities cannot have a base height above 30 feet, the proposal says. The proposal would also require that all applications seeking incentive zoning bonuses would require a public hearing and five days public notice. There will be a public hearing on Feb. 19 to consider the zoning changes, as well as a six-month moratorium on small subdivisions.

Kensington OKs $3.89M budget within tax cap

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The Village of Kensington approved a $3.89 million budget last week. BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N Kensington village trustees approved a $3.89 million budget for 2019-20 last Wednesday that stays within the tax cap, rising $129,873 – or 3.4 percent – from the current $3.76 million.

The vast majority of the village’s revenue would come from property taxes, which would amount to $3.21 million. This is $37,646.64, or 1.1 percent, higher than the current $3.17 million expected from property taxes. The rest of the funding, worth $366,350, comes from a combination of permits, fines, grants, state aid and miscellaneous items. Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin said falling within the tax cap is a product of “belt tightening,” grants from the state and county, and careful monitoring of expenses. “We’re still able to stay within it at least for this fiscal year because we’ve been monitoring our expenses very closely and we had negotiated our police contract in a way that was comfortable for everyone,” Lopatkin said on Tuesday. “We’re just very, very careful.” Kensington’s public safety budget, which includes the Police Department, the fire protection contract with Vigilant Fire Company and safety inspections, is expected to rise $73,581 from $1.48 million to $1.55 million. The Police Department makes up most of the increase, with expenses slated to rise from just shy of $1.22 million to $1.29 million – or about $73,432. Salaries will increase from $984,120 to $1.05 million, according to the budget. The department is also getting a new car with equipment,

Lopatkin said, leading to the cost of cars and equipment going up from $11,000 to $58,500. Kensington’s contract with Vigilant Fire Company will decrease slightly from $232,491 to $231,540, while safety inspection costs are expected to increase from $30,900 to $32,000. Kensington employee benefits are expected to increase from $779,957 to $795,530, according to the budget. Hospitalization and medical insurance would go up from $384,136 to $391,727, while police retirement pay would stay stable at $260,000. Currently, the budget calls for $215,873 for the village’s garbage and refuse contract with Meadow Carting, which is about $30,000 higher than what the village had budgeted in its 2018-19 plan. Lopatkin said the increased costs could probably be linked to prevailing wage laws, leading to costs being pushed onto customers. What the village has budgeted might not even “be enough,” she noted. Lopatkin said she believes increases like this are “going to be endemic” to all of the villages, making it even more diﬃcult to keep budgets within the property tax cap. “This year we were able to [stay within the cap] but I think that the writing is on the wall for the future,” Lopatkin said.

Rail safety tests conducted on Port branch B Y J E S S I C A PA R K S Residents traveling on the Port Washington branch last weekend experienced some delays due to rail safety tests being conducted between the Port Washington and Great Neck stations. In an email to Blank Slate Media, the MTA’s deputy communications director, Aaron Donovan, said that as a result of the tests three subsurface problems were detected “that we immediately addressed to ensure they didn’t worsen to the point of one day leading to service issues.” He said these issues are inside the rail and are not

visible to track inspectors who walk the track every week. Travelers may have seen the Sperry Rail Car riding along the tracks on Saturday. The bright yellow vehicle is outfitted with special equipment that helps to detect internal rail issues that cannot be caught by the naked eye. LIRR President Philip Eng said in a statement: “We are increasing our use of advanced technology to identify defects in track before they have a chance to fail and cause train delays; we are making repairs in a proactive manner, rather than reactive.” Passengers riding from the Port Washington, Manhasset and Plandome stations on Saturday were able to board

buses or vans that took them to where service resumed in Great Neck. The buses left 25 minutes earlier than regularly scheduled train times. Trains on the Port Washington branch operated hourly instead of every half hour between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m and buses ran between 1 a.m. and 5 p.m. These tests will be occurring more frequently than they used to. “We’ve doubled the frequency of these ultrasonic and induction tests to four times"a year, from two, which we expect will reduce the number of instances of broken rails and ensuing delayed trains,” Eng said.

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Sid Jacobson JCC packs 30K meals Continued from Page 59 teering, Weinstein Rosenthal said. “I think that Dr. King’s legacy is meant to be ongoing,” she said. “It’s supposed to be not just something for us to learn from about the past, but it’s supposed to be a charge for us for the present and the future to make the world a better place.” Her 9-year-old daughter, Sara Rosenthal, said she was happy to be providing food to people, food that she likes too. “Martin Luther King wanted to help people because things weren’t fair to them, and it’s not fair if people don’t have the things that they need to live,” she said. The Outreach Program provides materials for organizations to package food at about 25 cents per meal. Participating groups can choose to have Outreach deliver the food across the country, or even abroad, or can distribute the food themselves within the local community.

The JCC packed tomato basil pasta and oatmeal, but Outreach also oﬀers rice and beans, macaroni and cheese and soup. This year’s meals will go to people on Long Island, Wasserman said. The majority are for Island Harvest Food Bank, but North Shore-based organizations La Fuerza Unida, Glen Cove Child Day Care Center, St. Patrick’s Church and the North Shore Sheltering Program will also get deliveries. “These are 150 people from our immediate community who so much want to give back and help,” Wasserman said. “There are hunger issues and they want to physically be able to do something to help those in need.” A trio of young artists was carefully decorating many of the sealed cardboard packages that housed stacks of meals. Esther Bloom, 5, said she’d been drawing hearts on them, but also wrote

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Eight tables of assembly line volunteers filled the gymnasium. “JCC I love you.” It was her second year in a row spent at the Jewish community center on the holiday, she said. She has learned about

King in school. “The people were being mean, so he was being nice so that they could be nice,” Esther said. “He was teaching them.”

Area villages could lose state AIM funding Continued from Page 4 the funding for his village, one of the few that would still get AIM funding, helps oﬀset expenses and keep property taxes down. “It came out in our favor this time,” Ehrbar said" of the governor’s plan to keep providing aid to Williston Park. Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said that for her village, which passed a $7.3 million budget and could lose $65,000 of state assistance, every dollar counts in trying to stay under the state tax cap. “We’re really trying and we try really hard to stay under the tax cap,” she said last Wednesday, noting ever-increasing expenses and the village’s pursuit of grants and ways to make services more eﬃcient. It was also particularly unfair for the Plaza because 2017 was when it had to begin road repairs and the budget is normally smaller, Celender said, leading to the loss of revenue almost being a penalty for efforts to improve infrastructure.

“It is an important amount because, as I said, if we knew about that [before Wednesday night’s budget vote] and didn’t want to cut somewhere else in the budget, we would’ve had to go above the cap,” Celender said in a follow-up call on Fri-

day.

The Town of North Hempstead would also lose $1.02 million in AIM funding under the proposal, which would have made up about 0.38 percent of 2017 expenditures, according to the state.

A town spokeswoman said the town did not have a comment. Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state budget oﬃce, said that the benefits of the budget like shared services programs, matching funds and grants out-

weigh the costs to affected villages. He also pointed to the budget’s “Briefing Book,” which says the average impact would amount to only 0.65 percent of expenditures and the affected villages have nearly $1.6 billion in reserves – more than 26 times the loss in revenue. The vast majority of AIM funding, which mostly goes to cities, would continue, the briefing book says."It also states that municipalities remain eligible for additional state programs and incentives, county sharing services, government efficiency grants and a Citizen Empowerment Tax Credit. “The median impacted AIM payment is only $14,000 while the budget includes $225 million to match local government savings through the shared services program and $390 million in new local sales tax revenues by eliminating the internet tax advantage,” Peters said. Jed Hendrixson contributed reporting.!

Great Neck Plaza budget pushes infrastructure Continued from Page 2 2019 Ford F350 with a plow package and lift gate from the state marketplace for $34,855.48. This is to replace a 20-year-old public works truck, they said. Trustees also moved to remove 20 parking meters in the Maple Drive parking garage and replace them with

permit parking in an eﬀort to “whittle down” a waiting list for parking there. Additionally, trustees passed a resolution applauding the Great Neck Park District’s new shuttle-sharing service Buzz for trying to reduce stress on parking lots and congestion. There was also a discussion about people fishing out

checks set to be mailed, but no action taken. A public hearing regarding regulations on telecommunication towers, antennas and related communication facilities was also continued to Feb. 6. Village Attorney Richard Gabriele said the village plans to add provisions to current telecommunication laws rather than creating a new set of laws.

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Manganos’ retrial begins, opening statements heard Continued from Page 21 “In the words of Harendra Singh, he [Edward Mangano] cost me money,” Mangano’s attorney Kevin Keating said, according to Newsday. Singh’s sentencing has been postponed on several occasions, according to court filings. On the same day as the opening statements, U.S. District Court Judge Joan Azrack granted an email request by the prosecution that prohibits all parties and counsel from making statements to the media outside of information available in public records, according to court filings. The court granted the

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motion because of the publicity surrounding the first trial and the retrial, according to the document. In jury selection, potential jurors were asked to adhere to strict guidelines for exposure to outside information related to the case, another reason for the gag order, according to the document. Last week, a request by the Manganos’ attorneys to have federal corruption charges against the couple dropped was"dismissed"by Azrack. Court documents filed last Thursday detail Azrack’s grounds for rejecting several arguments and motions prior to the corruption retrial. Most prominent of the five-page filing from the

Schnirman touts record as comptroller Continued from Page 22 “When vendors get paid on time, it means our roads get paved and our work gets done,” Schnirman said. It also increases the pool of vendors so the county gets “more bang for its buck,” he said. A new policy where prospective contractors disclose if they have any

family members in the county government or have given any gifts to county oﬃcials is also expected to cut down time, he said. The oﬃce that audits an estimated 60,000 bills per year is working to institute an electronic system to be put in place this year to replace the “endless boxes of paperwork”"workers are currently dealing with, the

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court is Azrack’s denial of a request for dismissal of the case against the Manganos, with a written decision on that motion forthcoming. According to Edward Mangano’s attorney Kevin Keating, the prosecution"knowingly withheld evidence that favored Mangano and his wife and allowed Singh to falsely testify. Eﬀorts to reach Keating were unavailing. Prosecutors denied all of the defense’s accusations earlier this month, writing that"“Mangano’s arguments are meritless once the hyperbole and accusations are stripped away.” The Manganos’ first trial, which lasted 12 weeks, ended in a mistrial.

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Nassau Comptroller Jack Schnirman announces a hotline on Thursday for workers who are being underpaid by county vendors.

comptroller said. The office’s fourth promise was fulfilled early in his term with the establishment of an anonymous tip line where those with information of any mishandled funds or wrongdoing in the county can reach out to Schnirman’s office at ReportItReformIt@NassauCountyNY.gov. In the new year, one of the plans set forth by the comptroller’s office is to establish an app where the county’s finances can be reviewed by taxpayers as easily as if they were reviewing their own personal banking. “We’re not going to take our foot off the gas in 2019; there’s work to be done to improve our local government and make living in Nassau more equitable for veterans, seniors, working families and millennials,” he said. Before serving as comptroller, Schnirman was the city manager of the City of Long Beach and the deputy town supervisor of the Town of Brookhaven.

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What the world is doing to our children The brave new world that our children have inherited provides them with some daunting challenges. We are all aware of the stress felt by the families of the middle classes thanks to flattened wages and the exorbitant cost of higher education. Matthew Stewart published a lengthy piece recently in The Atlantic entitled “The Birth of a New Aristocracy,” which describes the desperate race that families are in in order not to be left behind. He states that the real wall that is being built across America relates to the establishment of a new aristocracy made up exclusively of professionals, CEOs and financial analysts. He describes how it has now become necessary to live in “gilded” zip codes and gain entrance to the elite high schools, colleges and country clubs in order to obtain privilege and advantage and safety. He describes how the top 10 percent of income earners are investing huge amounts of money to guarantee that there kids gain entrance into this new aristocracy. I think he is absolutely correct in his assessment. The concept of “the one percenters” gained traction after the economic collapse of 2008 and this concept has morphed into the dynamic Stewart described above. As a sport psychologist who

works every day with many of Long Island’s most elite young athletes, I see firsthand the impact this pressurized social environment has. No matter how much a parent may want to shield their kids from this high pressure life, every young athlete can’t help but be aware of this stress. Private schools cost large money and so does elite level training and sports travel that’s now done all year round. Parents and child are heavily invested in success and there is much joy and much glory that is obtained but clearly for almost every child there is also a cost. Here is a syndrome I see every day. It matters not whether they play soccer, fence, golf, tennis, baseball or lacrosse. Typically the child is excelling in every area

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and better looking than the average kids and are more ethical as well. But all this eﬀort comes at the following cost: 1) They show unrelenting anxiety that comes in the form of nerves, cold hands, headaches, stomach problems, jitteriness and extreme worry. 2) They become injury prone due to overuse, fatigue or an unconscious desire to have a break. 3) They tend to get sick with colds and take a longer time to recover since their immune system gets run down over time. 4) They become depressed and often are tearful in session. 5) They show irritability at home and the parents do not know why or what to do about it. It is both ironic and sad to hear these kids who are trying so hard and doing so well in all areas also show so much upset, anxiety and despair. That is the world they have inherited from us. Way back in the early 1800s, Alexis de Tocquville wrote the classic text “Democracy in America” where he noted that America is based upon equality of opportunity which results in a nation with the task of proving their worth and never resting on their laurels. We never had a class system which provided visible levels of status so we are left with the burden of ac-

cumulating evidence of our proper place. This gives us our drive but also our constant stress. I would suggest that today things are worse than ever and why Stewart’s essay is so important. America is desperately trying to establish a class system in order to give the lucky ones a feeling of status, worth and respect. This process is clearly seen right here in Nassau County which happens to be one of the wealthiest counties in America. The wall that Trump is so anxious to build is actually an allusion to this social status wall that both the middle and the upper classes are busy building in every single town across America. It is an abstraction this social wall and it separates the haves from the have nots. This is precisely the world we have given to our children. Perhaps it has always been this way. Darwin called it the survival of the fittest. Those who work hard enough and who are lucky enough, who adapt quickly and are supported enough by family are the ones that in the end take charge. It’s amazing to see how much eﬀort and pain is required to get there and to become a member of America’s new aristocracy. All these young athletes I see each day are suﬀering and shaking but that may be the price of entrance into America’s new ruling class.

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Economic disaster in 2019 As mayor of East Williston… Continued from Page 16 care and Medicaid are literal attacks on consumers, his disdain for workers (40 percent of Americans don’t have $400 in the bank; 80 percent live paycheck to paycheck) exacerbate the already cavernous gap between rich (and politically powerful) and poor (and politically impotent). Trump has been trying to fill the holes created by his own economic policies – $12 billion to rescue farmers hurt by his own tariﬀs, now they can’t even get it because the government is shut down. Nor are there the federal workers to process loans to farmers and small businesses, IRS refunds, even the e-verify program so that employers can hire workers. Manufacturing slows in face of declining demand. And climate disasters such as the apocalyptic proportion wildfires in California, hurricanes in the Southeast that are taking an incredible bite out of the economy? Unbelievably, Trump is trying to extort the Democrats to give him the $5.7 billion for his blasted border wall in order to get $12.7 billion on hurricane and wildfire disaster relief (the number of hostages

Trump is taking is growing exponentially). Meanwhile, the government shutdown means that precious time is lost to make preparations for next year’s hurricanes and wildfires. In some ways, climate disaster is the Trump Administration’s infrastructure spending plan. On the other hand, Trump has squandered all the tools the government might use to give the economy a soft landing – adding $2 trillion to the national debt when the economy was booming (instead of having stimulus funding for infrastructure and keeping police and teachers employed to rescue the economy from recession as Obama did to turn the 2008 Recession around), interest rates already low, burning bridges from foreign investors (China), and the idiots he has surrounded himself with (“The government shutdown is like a vacation without having to take vacation days”; “Aluminum tariﬀs add maybe a few pennies to the cost of a can of Coke”; “Foreign countries are cheating the US with trade deficits”; “Tax cuts will pay for themselves.”). This is truly a disaster economy. And its name is Trump.

Continued from Page 62 Further, as mayor of East Williston, I would: 1. Establish an East Williston Village Water Committee a. The committee would be established to study the water quality issues in our Village and obligations under our water supply agreement with Williston Park. b. The goal would be to gather input and provide recommendations to address issues raised by residents including water quality and the dramatic increase in water rates. 2. Establish a Financial Advisory Committee a. The committee would be established to study the financial operations of the Village and the property tax assessment system. b. The goal would be to gather input and provide recommendations to reduce the tax levy and to put an end the unequal tax assessment which causes over half of residents to pay more taxes than they should. 3. Establish a Safety and Security Committee

a. The committee would be established to study the trends in crime and vandalism in our Village. b. The goal would be to gather input and provide recommendations for better communication with residents, the NCPD and identify ways to respond to ongoing acts of crime and vandalism. The committee would also gather input on ways to coordinate security enhancement with the EWSD. I would commit to making the process of each committee transparent, include members with a diversity of opinions and gathering public input prior to submitting any matter to the board for consideration. I am encouraged about the upcoming elections in the village of East Williston and I believe change can be a catalyst for good. Lastly, I look forward to supporting any eﬀorts to ensure that the village of East Williston continues to be a great place to live. Stephan Leccese East Williston resident since 2003

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Great Neck Library director resigning Continued from Page 1 ing director once one is appointed to have a smooth transition,” Schaufeld said. He also noted that the appointment of an interim director is on the agenda for the library’s reorganizational meeting on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library. Since 2009, there have been three hired directors and three acting library directors. Jane Marino was hired as director in 2009 and served until 2012, Laura Weir served as interim director from 2013 to 2014 before retiring, and Christine Johnson served as interim director from 2014 to 2015. Kathy Giotsas was hired in summer 2015 and fired in spring 2017, leading to Tracy Van Dyne – then known as Tracy Geiser – serving as interim library director. Corcoran was then hired in January 2018 and began Feb. 1, 2018.

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Denise Corcoran, who was appointed early last year as director of the Great Neck Library, is resigning from her position. Schaufeld said he couldn’t give a date for Corcoran’s resignation, but that it is not “eﬀective immediately.” Van Dyne and Corcoran were not immediately available for comment.

Shared humanity, mission on MLK Day Continued from Page 20 “We’re open to spreading Dr. King’s message of God, unifying each other as human beings. If we take our coverings oﬀ, we’re still human and we have to look after one another,”" Gentles said. “We’re definitely open and I believe Jordana and the other ladies are definitely open to making this something that can work in this community and others.” The program spawned from Temple Israel’s Repair the World Committee, which worked with representatives from Beth Hadassah, Temple Beth-El, Temple Israel, the First Baptist Church and the Sephardic group to apply for a $10,000 grant to make the event possible. “What made it appeal to us was the idea that the Great Neck organizations would be coming together in a way that they don’t usually come together for Martin Luther King Day to engage teens and that we would also have an opportunity to engage the First Baptist Church,” said Veronica Lurvey, the vice president for programming at Temple Israel. Keshawn Chambers, who normally would attend Temple Beth-El’s interfaith Shabbat, said he didn’t know too much about the program until he got there. Chambers thought it would be interesting though because Martin Luther King Jr. was a black man and he enjoys learning many diﬀerent things, he said. Chambers said he learned the importance of being open – to the point where he shared some of his own struggles with other students – and enjoyed being able to make sandwiches to help others. “I thought it was interesting because I feel more open now,” Chambers said. The day began with snippets from

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and remarks from religious leaders, before students gathered in classrooms for discussions on identity, religion, ethnicity and bias. After that, they gathered around tables to assemble bags of food containing sandwiches and snacks. Hanna Eshaghoff, a Great Neck North student and Temple Israel member, said the big takeaway was that “everyone is different, but also the same.” “Everyone was very open and we discussed a lot of issues that not a lot of people like to discuss,” Eshaghoff said. “We learned a lot about each other even though most of us had just met and it was really interesting to see all the different places that people come from and what their values are and what’s important in their life.” Aaron Amirian, who goes to Beth Hadassah, echoed that lesson. He learned “about how everyone has a different identity but on the inside we’re all the same and that you have to be accepting and understanding of people, no matter who they are,” Amirian said. Ultimately Sassouni, the president of Sephardic Heritage Alliance Inc., said the event went well beyond what she expected. “Planning for this event since October, I can honestly say it surpassed my best expectations: the number of students engaged during a day off from school; their level of engagement with Anti-Defamation League facilitators; their sharing of themselves with students who attend different schools, and their eagerness to prepare lunches for food insecure Long Islanders at the Interfaith Nutrition Network,” Sassouni said. “SHAI is delighted to have helped bring this event to Great Neck today.”

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Sports Herricks loses tough match to Baldwin Eliminated from qualifying for dual team playoffs on Bruin’s senior night The Herricks Highlanders (overall 3-2, conf 1-2) lost a tough dual match 42-29 to a strong Baldwin team on Bruin senior night, Friday, January 4, 2019 and were eliminated from qualifying for dual team playoﬀs. As always, Coaches Goldberg, LaMaida and Bianco had the team ready for the challenge and the Highlanders wrestled hard. Joseph Manfredi fought oﬀ his back in the first period and came back to pin his opponent in the second period at 99lbs. Joseph Mattei dominated in his match and pinned his competitor in the second period at 113lbs. Aaron Cho (120lbs), Marcus Osieczkowski (138lbs), Co-Captain Cole LaRock (152lbs) and Ash Multani (285lbs) all won their matches by decision while Co-Captain Daniel Mattei (170lbs) won by major decision. Kumel Arif (106), Kailen McCauley (126), Quinn Gilhooly (132), Justin Chin (145), Ali Shahid (160), Krish Patel (182), Syed Hasan (195), and Nate Dowd (220) all wrestled formidable opponents and lost. Herricks New Year’s Tournament On Saturday, January 5, 2019, Herricks hosted their annual New Year’s tournament in the mecca of wrestling, the Herricks Community Center. Teams that entered the tournament included Nassau squads from East Meadow, Great Neck North, Hempstead and Massapequa, Suffolk county teams Huntington, Southampton and Ward Melville and St. John the Baptist from West Islip. Coaches Goldberg, LaMaida and Bianco had their team prepared. It was a long fruitful day for all grapplers in the tournament; there were over 600 matches wrestled on three mats with each

wrestler getting four-five matches each. The Highlanders competed fiercely all day and came away with the following place winners: 99lbs (Champ)- Joseph Manfredi 113lbs (3rd)- Joseph Mattei 113lbs (7th)- Daniel Dunn 120lbs (3rd)- Quinn Gilhooly 120lbs (Champ-JV)- Aaron Cho 126lbs (5th)- Sal Puliafico 132lbs (4th)- Marcus Osieczkowski 152lbs (3rd)- Cole LaRock 160lbs (3rd)- Ali Shahid 170lbs (3rd)- Daniel Mattei 220lbs (3rd)- Nate Dowd 285lbs (3rd)-Ash Multani Long Beach The Herricks Highlanders (overall 3-3, conf 1-3) hosted the Long Beach Gladiators on January 8, 2019 in the mecca of wrestling, the Herricks Community Center. Coaches Goldberg, La-

Baldwin Tournament Placewinners: Sal Puliafico (126lbs-5th), Joe Manfredi (99lbs-1st and MOW), Joe Mattei (113lbs-2nd), Daniel Mattei (170lbs-4th)

Maida and Bianco put forth a competitive Highlander line-up, but the top five Nassau County powerhouse Gladiators were stacked and Herricks lost 67-14. The Herricks grapplers came away with three victories: Joseph Manfredi dominating his opponent 16-0 with a technical fall at 99 lbs, Joseph Mattei winning 9-6 in the last 20 seconds of the contest after controlling the match for more than two periods and Kelsey Alvarado getting a pin in the second period at 182lbs. All the Herricks wrestlers performed valiantly against a team that had almost half of its fifteen-man line-up ranked top six in Nassau County. Kumel Arif (106lbs), Quinn Gilhooly (120lbs), Aaron Cho (126lbs), Sal Puliafico (132lbs), Marcus Osieczkowski (138lbs), Ali Shahid (160lbs), Daniel Mattei (170lbs), Nate Dowd (220lbs), and Ash Multani (285lbs) all gave their best, but lost. There were also 10 JV matches with the Highlanders winning three: Rayan Abdolahzadi (132lbs) with a third period pin, Marvin Lee (160lbs) with a second period pin and Georgios Tsoumparriotis (170lbs) with a decision 8-4. Others wrestling but not successful were Daniel Fatahi (106 lbs), Ramahan Adil (113lbs), Daniel Dunn (113lbs), Kevin Chan (132lbs), Justin Chin (138lbs), Emeril Peralta (170lbs) and Krish Patel (182lbs). Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK The Herricks Highlanders (overall 3-4, conf 1-4) hosted their last conference dual match against the PlainviewOld Bethpage JFK Hawks on January 9, 2019 in the mecca of wrestling, the Herricks Community Center. The match was expected to be close and it didn’t disappoint. Coaches Goldberg, LaMaida and

Bianco strategically aligned their wrestlers against the Hawks. The Highlanders were able to win 7 of the fifteen matches, but fell short in score 45-33. Kumel Arif (106lbs) and Co-Captain Daniel Mattei (170lbs) both pinned their opponents in the third period. Joseph Mattei (113lbs), Quinn Gilhooly (120lbs), and Aaron Cho (126lbs) all won by decision while Joseph Manfredi (99lbs) and Matthew Polo (285lbs) both won by forfeit. Baldwin Tournament On Saturday, January 12, 2019, Herricks entered a very competitive Baldwin tournament along with fourteen other teams from Nassau and Suﬀolk: Baldwin, Bellmore-JFK, Carle Place, East Meadow, Lindenhurst, Locust Valley, Long Beach, MacArthur, Massapequa, Roslyn, Sewanhaka East, Valley Stream South, West Babylon, and Westhampton Beach. There were many elite and top ranked wrestlers from both counties spread throughout the brackets. Coaches Goldberg, LaMaida and Bianco entered 9 of its varsity wresters in the tournament producing 4 place winners including Joseph Manfredi winning his weight class and most outstanding wrestler of the tournament: 99lbs (Champ)- Joseph Manfredi (and Most Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament) 106lbs (DNP) – Kumel Arif 113lbs (2nd)- Joseph Mattei 126lbs (DNP)- Kailen McCauley 126lbs (5th)- Sal Puliafico 160lbs (DNP)- Ali Shahid 170lbs (4th)- Daniel Mattei 220lbs (DNP)- Matthew Polo 285lbs (DNP)-Ash Multani

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Upcoming at the Great Neck Library Tai Chi facilitated by Joseph Panico at Main Joseph Panico will facilitate a Tai Chi series at the Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave. Tai Chi is an internal form of martial art that is practiced for health and self-defense. The fee for the entire series of eight classes is $40. In-person registration only. Make payment in cash, charge card, check or money order payable to “Great Neck Library.” Call 516-4668055, ext. 254 for any further information. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Panico has won numerous awards at the U.S. Open Martial Arts Championship in Queens, has performed Tai Chi at Citi Field, and has appeared as a guest on the Project Independence Radio Show. New Beginnings Singles 50 Plus facilitated by Marla Matthews at Main New Beginnings Singles 50 Plus facilitated by Marla Matthews will meet on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. in the community room of the Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave. Join the conversation or just come and listen when Marla Matthews, social worker and television talk show host of The Relationship Journey, facilitates this growing discussion, social and support group meetup. If you are divorced, widowed, single, or an empty nester age 50 plus who would like a new beginning, come and be inspired to make new friends, network and learn new skills towards reinventing yourself. Drumming Away Stress facilitated by Robert Lawrence Friedman at Main Attend Drumming Away Stress, a unique and powerful, yet playful stress management program facilitated by Robert Lawrence Friedman on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. in the community room of the Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave. Learn specific and clinicallyproven exercises using rhythm instruments and hand drums to release internalized stress and increase energy. This program combines energetic, percussive drumming with calming guided imagery exercises to provide a lasting and powerful release of stress. Drums will be

provided. For the past 30 years, Robert Friedman — psychotherapist, author, professional speaker, and musician — has provided his dynamic and interactive rhythm-based programs to audiences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Theatre South will present “Almost, Maine,” by John Cariani, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 6, 7, 8, and 9, each evening at 7:30 p.m. All performances will take place in the South High School auditorium, 341 Lakeville Rd. “Almost, Maine” will be performed with two casts performing in repertory. On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the town’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream. Tickets for the South High production of “Almost, Maine” are available online at www.

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South High will present ‘Almost, Maine,’ Feb. 6–9. theatresouthtickets.com. For additional information, please contact Tommy Marr, South High drama teacher/Theatre South director, at (516) 441-4873, or at tmarr@greatneck.k12.ny.us.

DeSTEMber at Center Street The Herricks Public Schools’ Center Street School emphasized ingenuity, hands-on learning and collaboration this holiday season during the!annual DeSTEMber!Challenge. This event, created by teachers Rachel Brillon and Laura Leicht, invites fourth- and fifth-grade students and their parents to work together to solve design challenges. This year’s challenge was to design and build a

Matinee Film at Main The next Wednesday Matinee, “Biloxi Blues” (1988), is Neil Simon’s story about a group of young recruits who go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Miss., will be shown on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. at the Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave.

Indoor Soccer Program Children ages 3-10 years old can register for the Park District’s new UK Elite indoor soccer program, held at Great Neck South Middle School gym on Saturdays, beginning Jan. 26 (dates include Feb. 2, 9 and March 2, 9 and 16). Little Kickers, ages 3-4, meet from 2 to 3 p.m.; Middies, ages 5-6, from 3 to 4 p.m. and Super Strikers, ages 7-10, from 4 to 5 p.m. Price for residents is $155/Nonresidents $185. If interested call 516-482-0355 or register online at www.gnparks.org.

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The West Egg Book Club at Station The West Egg Book Club will discuss “Passing” by Nella Larsen on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), above Best Market, Gardens at Great Neck Plaza. Larsen’s Passing, first published in 1929, deals with the complicated intersection of race, class, and culture — and the reunion of two childhood friends. Call 516-466-8055, ext. 258.

Socrates Salon with Conversation Host Ron Gross at Main Join Ron Gross at Socrates Salon to talk about “You, The Ethicist,” on Friday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. in the large multipurpose room of the Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave. Share your life experiences, knowledge, and wisdom about topics that matter. Everyone speaks and everyone listens, because all of us are wiser than any of us. Light refreshments will be served.

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ski lift and ramp using common household materials and tools.!Students needed to use their knowledge of simple machines, energy and chain reactions when designing their solutions. Each year,! DeSTEMber! highlights the importance of collaboration and steps to the engineering design process.!It is also a valuable and enriching experience for students to share with their parents.

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Nature Program Concerned about our water? On Friday, Feb. 8 at 10 a.m., head to Great Neck’s Water Pollution Control, 236 East Shore Road (next to Santelli Garden Center). This facility will demonstrate what they do to keep our water pure. Register by Feb. 1. Held rain or shine (80 percent indoors). Register as soon as possible online at GNParks.

org or call 516-482-0355. Children under age 16 are not permitted to attend. Weekend Movie at Great Neck House “Hearts Beat Out Loud” (2018), directed by Brett Haley, will be shown at Great Neck House on Friday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 26, at 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Starring Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons and Blythe Danner, it tells the story of a father and daughter who form an unlikely songwriting

duo in the summer before she leaves for college. It is rated PG13 and runs 1h 37min. Admission with park card. nes

Sunday @ 3: The Hambo-

On Sunday, Jan. 27 at 3 p.m., the Hambones will perform at Great Neck House. The band, a favorite in Great Neck, returns to play a blend of rock and roll, country and rockabilly. Artists covered range from Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash to Tom Petty. A park card is required for admission.

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