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Vol. 10, No. 28

SCHOOLS & EDUCATION

SUOZZI ENDORSES LAFAZAN

MANGANO SENTENCING DELAYED

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Butera bids farewell to Manhasset community Violated school district’s sexual harrassment policy, findings say

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Monday marked the end of Manhasset Superintendent Vincent Butera’s five-year tenure at the helm, following a 2020 investigation that found he violated the school district’s sexual harassment policy.

A Shelter Rock Elementary School teacher who later left the school district filed a complaint against Butera in September 2020 that he made her feel uncomfortable after hugging her twice in school and frequently visiting her classroom to “just stand in the back and stare,” according to NBC News.

Butera, in a statement through

Jamie Moss of newsPRos (a public relations firm working on his behalf), reflected on his tenure leading the district and said he looks forward to what lies ahead.

“It has been a privilege and an honor to serve the students and community of Manhasset and I am most grateful for the support that I have received throughout,” Butera said. “I look forward to my next chapter and the opportunity to positively impact and improve the lives of students.”

Butera, who will be replaced by acting Superintendent Gaurav Passi, did not expand on what his professional plans are. District officials

declined to comment on the matter.

Following Butera’s voluntary leave, the district hired the law office of Shaw, Perelson, May & Lambert to investigate the allegations, according to reports.

Two months later, the firm found that Butera’s actions were perceived as unwelcome by the teacher and deemed them a violation of the school district’s policy.

Blank Slate Media tried to obtain a document outlining the law firm’s findings through a public-records request in May, but Rosemary Johnson, deputy superintendent for business and operations, declined Continued on Page 11

DeSena requests audit of town’s building department Considering ‘every possible way’ to remedy issues PHOTO COURTESY OF SHOP MANHASSET

Ballet was on full display during the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce’s Al Fresco event.

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena announced Monday that she has sent a letter requesting an audit into the town’s “broken” Building Department to Nassau Comptroller Elaine Philips.

“The Building Department has been an ineffectual mess for more

than 15 years now,” DeSena said Monday at a news conference in front of the town’s Building Department. “It’s time we finally stopped paying lip service to the problem.

Instead, we must be willing to consider every possible way to fix the problem.”

DeSena, elected as a Republican, was joined by Democratic Council-

members Mariann Dalimonte and Veronica Lurvey, who voiced their support for fixing and reviewing the Building Department.

“I welcome the county comptroller’s fiscal audit and look forward to the fiscal audit team’s financial findings,” Lurvey said.

On July 8, DeSena sent a letter Continued on Page 39

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Officials bash planned LIRR schedule changes Port line may see longer travel times into NYC

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

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Sandra Lindsay receiving her Medal of Honor from President Joe Biden. Lindsay was the first American to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

LIJ nurse awarded Medal of Freedom

Local officials throughout North Hempstead bashed proposed schedule changes from the Long Island Rail Road’s Port Washington line, claiming they will reduce express service into Grand Central Madison Terminal.

The proposed changes, published by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in June, are part of the agency’s $11.2 billion East Side Access Project and will go into effect in December.

Stops on the Port Washington Line, which also includes the Great Neck, Manhasset and Plandome stations, would increase by more than 20% during morning peak hours, according to the schedule While Long Island Rail Road officials said a majority of Port Washington line commuters would benefit from the updated schedule, saying that there will be a 70% increase in service during the morning and 43% increase during the evening, local officials and town residents said the agency should prioritize the travel time of its daily commuters.

“It’s vital that our communities make their voices heard about our displeasure with the loss of peak express service,” Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said during a Tuesday press confer-

ence. “As a Manhasset resident for 22 years whose family has relied on the Port Washington branch daily, I believe that these recently announced proposed changes are totally unacceptable.”

“If there is one thing we need to remember is this: there’s always room for compromise,” Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey said. “We must work with the MTA towards a pragmatic solution that serves the residents’ best interests — this isn’t about the government agencies involved, but it’s about the residents who reside in these communities.”

Port Washington resident Ian Rasmussen said adding three additional stations to the line is “adding insult to injury.”

“Considering how many more people commute to the easterly stations and that before now express and local trains were roughly full to the same extent, it’s obvious that Port Washington trains will be terribly overcrowded if express service is eliminated,” Rasmussen said in a letter to state Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Port Washington).

Rasmussen also said the commutes, which could add up to eight minutes on some trains could impact the Port Washington area property values. Town Councilman Peter Continued on Page 38

Port’s Sandra Lindsay was first to be vaxxed in U.S.

BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R Sandra Lindsay, a Northwell Health nurse and Port Washington resident, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday.

Lindsay was the first American to receive the FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 14, 2020, at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

At the White House ceremony, President Joe Biden praised her efforts throughout the pandemic.

“Sandra, as I told you before, if there are any angels in heaven, they are all nurses,” he said. “Sandra’s

vaccination card, hospital scrubs and badge are part of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibit on COVID-19 and today she receives our nation’s highest civilian honor.”

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the greatest honor a citizen can receive. The president gives the medal to those whose accomplishments uphold the prosperity and principles of the United States.

“At 18 years old, Sandra Lindsay immigrated to Queens from Jamaica to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse,” said Biden. “During the height

of the pandemic, she poured her heart into helping patients fight for their lives and to keep her fellow nurses safe. And when the time came, she was the first American to become fully vaccinated outside of clinical trials.”

She worked at a grocery store and did babysitting to pay the bills while attending classes at Manhattan Community College to earn her first nursing degree. In the end, Lindsay got a nursing degree in 1994, and three years later she earned U.S. citizenship.

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Local officials gathered for a press conference to discuss the potential changes to the Port Washington LIRR branch on Tuesday.

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Suozzi endorses Lafazan for Congress Current 3rd District representative lauds county legislator for being a ‘common sense Democrat’

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) endorsed Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan (D-Woodbury) to fill his seat in Congress in a video published Monday.

Suozzi, the current representative for the state’s 3rd Congressional District, praised Lafazan for being a “common-sense Democrat” in the video, saying that Congress is in need of someone who will use the resources at their disposal to aid their constituents.

“We need someone who has a proven record of getting things done, someone who will stand up to people who say they want to defund the police, someone who will use common sense to get things done on behalf of the people they serve,” Suozzi said in the video. “That’s why I would like to see Josh Lafsazan as a member of Congress representing the Third Congressional district.”

At the age of 23, Lafazan became Nassau County’s youngest-ever legislator upon his election to the Nassau County Legislature in November 2017. In previous elections, Lafazan ran as an independent who caucused with the Democrats. He has since reenrolled as a Democrat for his congressional run.

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Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan was endorsed by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) on Monday.

Lafazan said Suozzi’s endorsement is the “highlight” of his campaigning so far. The legislator said he understands the “big shoes” that need to be filled and he greatly appreciated Suozzi’s backing.

“Tom Suozzi has served this district with distinction and common sense,” Lafazan said. “Time and time again he has delivered for his constituents and they will expect nothing less from the next member of Con-

gress who will represent them. I am deeply humbled by Tom’s confidence in me. His endorsement is the most consequential of the election and it means the world to me.”

Suozzi is coming off a failed run

in the gubernatorial primary, losing to Gov. Kathy Hochul in late June, and will not be running to retain his seat in Congress. New district maps were submitted recently by a courtappointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by the state Appeals Court several weeks ago.

While the 3rd Congressional District under the new proposal does not extend as far west as the Bronx or Westchester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa.

The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

Also running for the Democratic nomination in the district are Robert Zimmerman of Great Neck, Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington, Reema Rasool of Oyster Bay, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman of Great Neck.

The Republican nomination is being sought by George Santos.

Former NYC City Council Member and labor activist I. Daneek Miller, along with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Locals 1056 and Continued on Page 38

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New ownership saves Hildebrandt’s in W.P.

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The threat for Hildebrandt’s Restaurant in Williston Park to close has ended with the recent purchase of the famed eatery by Spencer Singer and Randy Sarf, Singer announced in an instagram post.

“Established in 1927 and family-owned since 1974. I am honored to be part of such an iconic establishment,” Singer partly said in his post on Thursday. “I look forward to sharing this special place with you and your families.

Singer and Sarf, friends from growing up in Great Neck, told Newsday they negotiated a 10-year lease and secured assurances from the current staff they will stay on for at least a year.

On Feb. 2, the restaurant’s Facebook page posted an update saying that the new landlord is looking to increase monthly rent from $4,500 to $6,700.

With nearly 100 years in business, the business has urged all former and current village residents to help the store gain landmark status and preserve the Hildebrandt’s name.

“Even if our current ownership has to release their control, we would like to keep the sign and store open to the public so future generations can enjoy the purity of our store,” the post read.

The post, so far, has been shared more than 300 times and features more than 160 comments from residents sharing memories and expressing their support to help protect the restaurant.

First opened by Henry Hildebrandt in the late 1920s, the restaurant was sold to Alma Steffens in the 1950s. Steffens then sold it to Helen Baum in 1974, and Baum sold it to Alfred and Joanne Strano in 1975.

The Stranos later sold it to their daughter

Susan, who owned and operated it with her husband, Bryan Acosta, from 2007 until her death in 2015. Since then, Acosta has kept the store going with his and Susan’s daughter, Hunter.

Films like “The Book of Henry,” starring Naomi Watts, and, most notably, Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” have used the shop’s frozenin-time interiors to evoke a cozy soda fountain aesthetic.

In 2011, the restaurant was featured on the Food Network program “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” with manager Tom Bauman showing host and chef Guy Fieri a process for making butter pecan ice cream. Former owner Joanne Strano also appeared, making sauce and fried mozzarella with the chef. Fieri praised the location as “timeless.”

The 14-table candy confectionery and ice cream shop said in a post on its Facebook page in July 2020 that it would “no longer be in business within the next few months.” The statement said that the closing was due to the building’s landlords deciding to sell it, and the new owners “creating something different,” and explicitly stated that the closure was “unrelated to COVID-19.”

Another post in October 2020 said that “the new landlords cannot evict us till the end of the year.” A comment on that replying to a customer’s inquiry if the store would be able to move stated that moving would not be an option “because of the large expense.”

Local preservationist Andrew Cronson created an online petition in 2020 that more than 15,000 people have signed so far. Cronson, in a Feb. 3 update, said he has reached out to a variety of historical societies and other organizations to help proceed with landmarking, but has heard virtually nothing from any.

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The iconic Hildebrandt’s eatery in Williston Parkkwill remain open after purchase by two men from Great Neck.

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Town appoints four to tree committee DeSena okays despite ‘flawed resolution’ claiming Democratic council negotiated in bad faith

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The North Hempstead Town Board unanimously appointed four members to the town’s tree advisory committee Thursday night despite Republican Supervisor Jennifer DeSena calling the resolution “flawed” and saying Democratic majority members negotiated in bad faith.

“This is another example of the majority agreeing to work on this together and once they became impatient, they decided to forge ahead no matter how flawed the legislation is that they’re trying to pass,” DeSena said.

Despite her criticism of the resolution, DeSena joined the other six members of the Town Board to name the four new delegates to the tree committee.

The town board also delayed a public hearing on bipartisan legislation for the Building Department and set a hearing date to consider amendments to the town’s tree policy, which governs the planting and removal of trees and saplings in town-owned public places.

In 2021, the town amended its tree code to include a combination of town staff, a certified arborist, and seven members of the public who will provide input and advise the town board on tree-related matters.

Democratic Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey said the town board has been working toward the committee’s creation for eight months and that it will serve in an advisory role.

“This committee makes recommendations as an advisory committee, it does not set policy and it does not dictate how money is spent,” Lurvey said in response to DeSena’s comments. “When

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JENNIFER DESENA AND JANELLE CLAUSEN

North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena (left) and Town Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey (right). the committee is formed, it will help advise amendments to the town code.”

Responsibilities for the committee include the drafting of an annual report, ensuring the town remains a Tree City USA, recommending how funds in the Tree Preservation Fund are used in consultation with the comptroller, and providing recommendations about trees in the town, among other things.

Lurvey said in a statement to Blank Slate Media that town residents helped the board reach this point.

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“After a long seven-month process, I’m excited that the Town Board appointed resident members of the Tree Advisory Committee (TAC) last night.

The TAC is an integral part of the amended Town Code and tree policy that was passed by the Town Board in November 2021,” Lurvey said. “Residents played an important part in that process, as advocates for practical local laws and policies designed to improve the town’s ability to maintain and grow our tree canopy. It will be great to continue to make use of resident knowledge through the TAC as we continue to improve the

ways that we interact with trees. We know that there are some amendments that are needed, and the TAC can give advice on those amendments.”

Each of the seven members of the town board can appoint one member to the committee.

Councilmembers Peter Zuckerman, Dennis Walsh, Veronica Lurvey and Mariann Dalimonte appointed Jonathan Cohen, Matthew Miller, Sihua Prior and Patricia Wood, respectively.

DeSena, Councilman Troiano and David Adhami currently do not have appointments on the board, although Lurvey said Troiano’s appointment will be Peter Gaffney.

Future members to the board can be appointed by a letter request to the town board, which DeSena said is a change in procedure from appointments being voted on by the town board during a public meeting.

DeSena said the board is still “working on language” for bipartisan legislation aimed at improving the Building Department before motioning to continue the public hearing at the Aug. 4 meeting.

Earlier this year, DeSena and Lurvey brought forward two different resolutions which they have since said they intend to combine when the legislation is ready.

The town board said in June that the work is not completely done, with DeSena saying last month “they represent a similar effort to accomplish the same goal of initiating reforms in our Building Department.”

The next North Hempstead Town Board meeting will be Thursday, Aug. 4.

A previous version of this story was published.

It has since been updated.

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Gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) received the endorsements of two Nassau County police unions on Friday.

Presidents of the Nassau County Police Detectives Association and Superior Officers Association announced their support for the Republican candidate running against Gov. Kathy Hochul for governor in November.

The Detectives Association is the collective bargaining unit for all of the Nassau County Police Department’s sworn detectives, while the Superior Officers Assocation is the collective bargaining unit for all of the department’s sworn members from the rank of sergeant up to and including assistant chief.

Jeff Gross, the president of the Detectives Association, lauded Zeldin for his commitment to law enforcement officials and criticized state officials for their “dangerous and reckless leadership,” which he said has put Nassau’s public safety at risk.

“We need a new voice and leadership in Albany,” Gross said. “Lee Zeldin is a leader who will reverse the dangerous legislation passed by the current administration. Our law enforcement unions believe strongly that a vote for Lee Zeldin is the first and most important step in restoring public safety and economic prosperity throughout New York state.”

Superior Officers President Ricky Frassetti echoed Gross’ points and praised Zeldin for his support of police officers as an elected official.

“Lee Zeldin has the experience and commitment to make changes in Albany that will protect citizens, support police and give victims the justice they deserve,” Frassetti said. “He will stop the revolving door justice system in our state and hold district attorneys accountable if they side on behalf of criminals instead of victims.”

Zeldin expressed his gratitude for their support and said he will ensure that state lawmakers will have their mutual support, if elected as governor.

“We are joined here today by exceptional men and women of law enforcement from Nassau County who have selflessly dedicated their lives to make our communities safer, Zeldin said.

“They should know that those elected to positions of trust and government on all levels have

their back.”

Both police unions endorsed former County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat, in last year’s election. Curran was ultimately defeated

by Republican Bruce Blakeman.

Zeldin gained the support of Blakeman and the Nassau County Republican Committee in February.

“We’ve got to come out of darkness,” Blakeman said. “We’ve got to bring light back to New York State. We have to bring common sense back to New York State. And Lee Zeldin is the one to do that.”

After defeating a slate of Republican candidates in the gubernatorial primary June 28, Zeldin is the lone opponent to Hochul, who was promoted from lieutenant governor following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation last August.

Following the results, Zeldin said Hochul’s job is at stake following his primary victory.

“Kathy Hochul has now been warned that NYers are coming for her job at the ballot box this November,” Zeldin tweeted. “We will secure our streets. We will make NY more affordable again. We will fight for our kids & our schools.

We will fight to preserve freedom. We are ALL IN!” In Nassau, Zeldin secured 57.49% of 49,254 total votes. Republican challengers Rob Astorino, Andrew Giuliani and Harry Wilson earned 9.87%, 24.82% and 6.61% of the votes, respectively.

Zeldin, who was elected to Congress in 2014, has served in various capacities throughout the military and spent four years in active duty. Prior to representing New York’s 1st Congressional District, Zeldin was elected to represent the state’s 3rd Senate District and did so for four years.

Zeldin has been a supporter of Donald Trump, voting against a resolution that claimed the former president “incited an insurrection against the government of the United States” with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

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He also said the Jan. 6 event was a “preplanned attack,” citing pipe bombs that were discovered and saying the Capitol’s perimeter was breached while Trump was speaking.

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Mangano’s sentencing date moved: report Ex-county executive guilty of corruption will serve 12 years in prison starting on July 27

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The start of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s 12-year prison sentence was delayed by two weeks on Tuesday, according to a published report.

Mangano, who was found guilty of corruption charges along with his wife Linda in March 2019, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison in April by U.S. District Court Judge Joan Azrack.

On Tuesday, according to Newsday, Azrack pushed Mangano’s sentencing date back two weeks to July 27, the same date his wife will start her 15-month sentencing.

Azrack is reportedly considering a motion by Mangano’s legal team to have him remain free while he appeals his conviction on the corruption charges, according to Newsday. Efforts to reach Mangano’s attorney, Kevin Keating or Azrack for comment on the matter were unavailing.

Mangano’s conviction is based on a deal he made with Harendra Singh, a restaurateur on Long Island and a star witness in the trial, in which Singh kicked back money and personal benefits in return for

pushing the Town of Oyster Bay to authorize loans for Singh, according to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office.

Prosecutors said that several weeks after Mangano took office, he used his political influence to have the Town of Oyster Bay “indirectly guarantee” $20 million worth of personal loans to Singh for improvements to improve Tobay Beach and the town’s golf course.

Mangano and his wife obstructed justice by conspiring with Singh to fabricate work Linda Mangano supposedly performed at Singh’s restaurant to prevent a grand jury investigation, the news release said.

Singh in turn paid for five vacations, hardwood flooring, a custom office chair, watch and a “no-show” job worth $450,000 for Linda Mangano as a marketing director for Singh, prosecutors said.

Mangano was confirmed to be working at Hungtington’s Oheka Castle in 2020, Owner Gary Melius told Newsday.

Prosecutors previously said Mangano “led a culture of corruption that permeated throughout his administration: it rotted from

the top down.”

Prosecutors initially sought to have Mangano serve a 17.5-year sentence for accepting the bribes and kickbacks for governmental action. Mangano’s actions were far from one mistake and his “criminal conduct began the moment he was elected as Nassau County Executive and continued for years” prosecutors said.

Mangano recently received pushback from federal prosecutors for his attempt to stay free on bail while pursuing an appeal of his conviction, calling it a “last-ditch effort” to avoid time in prison. Mangano’s sentencing will begin July 13, with federal prosecutors noting that Azrack had denied arguments for bail pending appeal, according to a Newsday report.

U.S. District Joan Azrack, according to Newsday. Prosecutors from the Eastern District U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a letter that they and Mangano’s attorney, John Carman, agreed to the change.

Carman previously told Newsday that Linga Mangano is scheduled to be incarcerated at a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

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Harbor Links not par for the course Residential concerns about accessibility persist; some greens said to be closed to public most days

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y A second resident has expressed concerns with the taxpayer-funded Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington for being closed to the public on most weekdays from May through September.

Jack Genicoff told the board on Thursday the course, which is owned by the Town of North Hempstead, will be partially closed to the public on 66 of the 109 weekdays from May 1 to Sept. 30 — 61% of the time.

Genicoff said he and a group of friends like to play on Wednesdays, which is only fully open on six of the 26 Wednesdays from May through October.

“Maybe it is time to change the name of the golf course to ‘Harbor Links: yes, we are open to the public but only less than half the time,” Genicoff said.

Built in 1998, Harbor Links is owned by the Town of North Hempstead and operated by Arnold Palmer Golf Management.

It features an 18-hole championship course, 9-hole executive course that is not closed off to the public during private events, a driving range, pro shop, athletic fields and a full-service banquet hall and restaurant.

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An aerial view of Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington.

James Viras, general manager at Harbor Links, confirmed the championship course is closed when outings are taking place and reopened to the

public following the event the same day.

In the town’s $156.6 million budget for 2022, expenses for Harbor

Links amounted to $6,416,575.

Genicoff was present at the June meeting when William Hohauser, a Port Washington resident and Nas-

sau County District Court judge originally brought up issues with the course, but he was not allowed to speak since Hohauser used the allotted three minutes allowed per public comment.

Hohauser had also complained that Habor Links was more expensive to play for a resident than Bethpage Black, which is a U.S. Open course, and indicated that the town course was not maintained in optimal condition.

“When Harbor Links was in a good condition, you could at least defend it, but now you can’t” he said.

For North Hempstead residents, a round of golf on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays on Harbor Links’ championship course costs $100 from open to 8 a.m., $95 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and $90 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with prices dropping to $75 and lower throughout the end of the day.

At Bethpage State Park Golf Course in Farmingdale, the Black Course costs $85 for a round of golf for state residents.

Since 2000, Bethpage State Park’s Black Course has hosted three men’s major golf championships, including the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009 and the PGA Championship in 2019.

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Manhasset divided over Franchetti’s fight up replacing Indian mascot for local Emmy

BY N I T YA W A N C H O O The Manhasset mascot has been the “Indians” for nearly the last century. Now, in the wake of political awareness, many are pushing for a change in Manhasset.

The history of the American Indian mascot is rooted in the Matinecock Indian tribe, which used to occupy most of the North Hempstead region. They were forcibly removed from the land, but the Indian name made a footing in this town, where it has remained the mascot ever since.

This name has been worn with pride throughout town, with residents often sporting Manhasset gear with the orange “M” logo, which has a feather attached, indicating Indians in support of the celebrated school district.

Even the Manhasset High School’s newspaper is called “Indian Ink.” Many students have attempted to lobby for change while more conservative residents are steadfast in their goal of keeping the American Indian mascot as a timeless show of town spirit.

Rising junior Bernadette Holms offers her two cents. “My opinion of the Manhasset current mascot is that it is extremely racist and offensive,” she said. “It’s a caricature of indigenous people and it needs to be changed.”

She concedes that it is part of Manhasset’s history, but she contends that doesn’t make it any less offensive to Native Americans today.

The reasons for change are the same ones under discussion on the national level, as seen with sports teams like the Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, and Washington Redskins.

People argue that mascots are traditionally animals and to use a minority group of people that have been forced off their land time and time again is blatantly racist.

To counter that, however, many others claim that an Indian mascot honors the culture of those who lived here before Manhasset residents.

The Manhasset Secondary School, in particular, is the target of pressure to change the town mascot in an effort to shy away from the American Indian name. Options such as a school districtwide vote for a change have been brought up and discussed, only to be ultimately shut down.

In the meanwhile, many are hoping for the addition of an indigenous peoples’ unit to the social studies curriculum, especially in the elementary schools, so that children are aware of the history of Manhasset.

The mascot debate has been on everyone’s radar since 2020, when a change.org petition was started in the midst of the pandemic.

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BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y An investigative series on PIX11 detailing the fight by New York mothers, including Manhasset’s Jacqueline Franchetti, to reform the state’s family court system was nominated for a New York Emmy.

“Kyra & Autumn: Family Court Casualties”

by Mary Murphy was nominated in the Best Crime News Category, according to a release from Kyra’s Champions, Franchetti’s foundation that she created following her daughter’s murder.

“Mary highlighted many of the children who were murdered due to the failures of New York’s broken divorce/family court system,” Kyra’s Champions posted on Facebook. She shared their names, photos, and stories, as well as our efforts here at Kyra’s Champions to change laws to better protect other children from similar horrific fates.

Franchetti has led a fight to reform the New York justice system that let her daughter slip through the cracks.

On July 27, 2016, 2-year-old Kyra’s father shot her twice in the back while she was sleeping at his Fairfax, Va., home on an unsupervised, court-sanctioned visit. He then set the house on fire and shot himself to death.

After Kyra was killed, Franchetti founded

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Jacqueline Franchetti of Manhasset with her daughter Kyra at the Mary Jane Davies Continued on Page 39 Green in an undated photo.

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Butera calls time ‘a privilege and honor’

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Outgoing Manhasset Superintendent Vincent Butera. He said it was ‘a privilege and an honor’ to serve the as he prepared for his last day on Monday.

Continued from Page 1 to release it, citing the district’s attorney-client privilege and saying the record’s disclosure would “result in an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

The Manhasset Board of Education unanimously approved a separation agreement with Butera during a special meeting in February.

Butera will receive the full remainder of his annual pay, $286,844, until his contract expires on June 30, 2023, according to the agreement.

Butera’s benefits will not be paid for by the district after July, according to the agreement.

Butera, in April, wrote to Blank Slate Media an op-ed giving his perspective on the complaint involving sexual harassment and the subsequent investigation that ended in his resignation from the district.

“It has always been my intent to demonstrate care and kindness in my personal and professional interactions,” Butera said. “Those who know me know that had I been made aware, I would have responded immediately

and appropriately.”

According to court documents featured in ongoing litigation between the district and Newsday, the state Education Department launched its own investigation into Butera in late November.

The “law enforcement investigation,” as it was described in court documents, directed Passi to provide the department’s Office of School Personnel Review and Accountability with “documentary evidence,” including “current and past incident report(s), notes taken, evidence gathered, interview notes, video, audio, photographs, complaint and witness statements and contacts,” among others pertaining to Butera.

Court documents showed that the Office of School Personnel Review and Accountability’s investigation was pending as of April 19, but department officials said in a May statement to Blank Slate Media that they do not “confirm or deny the existence of investigations.” Documents show that the office’s investigation is in accordance with Part 83 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations.

Officials said Part 83 permits the department to conduct an investigation into allegations of “lack of good moral character” against “certified educators.”

“An educator facing charges in accordance with Part 83 is afforded the opportunity for a full due process hearing,” the statement from department officials said. “At issue when the Department initiates a Part 83 proceeding is whether the certified educator has the ‘good moral character’ to retain the certificate they hold.”

Board of Education President Pat Aitken previously acknowledged the “heated reaction in the school community” as a result of the investigation but said some of the claims against Butera by those urging that he be removed from his position were “uninformed.”

Aitken said Butera helped navigate the district through the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic and prioritized the mental health and well-being of students, staff and families during his four-year tenure as superintendent.

“With the passage of time, both Dr. Butera and the district have mutually agreed that it is now best to put this chapter behind us,” Aitken previously said. “This understandably has been a difficult time for the Manhasset school community, Dr. Butera, and everyone involved in this matter. We remain hopeful this resolution will enable all to move forward.”

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Flower Hill crime up 300% in ‘22: Begis

BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R Between January and July 1, 2022, major crimes in Flower Hill increased by 300% from the same period last year, according to police.

At the village’s Board of Trustees meeting Monday night, officers from the 6th Precinct provided a safety briefing. Commanding Officer Hodge Begis and Ed Vilchez spoke and took audience questions about recent crime increases.

Begis said the village saw an increase in major crime from eight incidents to 32 over the seven-month period.

“Do you know what analogy I use? I like to fish. If I go to this spot by the Wantagh Bridge, I’m going to keep going there until I can’t,” said Begis.

“If I go there and I get fish every single time, I’m gonna keep going there.”

Murder, rape, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, commercial robberies, assault felonies, residential burglaries, stolen vehicles and grand larceny are all considered major crimes.

Begis said that the number of stolen cars in Flower Hill increased from one last year to 13 this year up until July 1, the most in the precinct. He also said larcenies from auto, a misdemeanor, increased by 500% from two to 12. He added residential burglaries went up from zero to two.

This increase fits a pattern seen throughout Nassau County. Countywide crime was up 75% this year from

PHOTO BY STEVEN KEEHNER

Officers Ed Vilchez and Hodge Begis addressed and answered questions from the crowd regarding recent spikes in crime at a Flower Hill Board of Trustee meeting on Monday night,

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January through March 2022 compared to 2021.

Inside the Manhasset-based Sixth Precinct, which serves the communities of East Hills, Flower Hill Great Neck Plaza, Harbor Hills, Manorhaven, Munsey Park, North Hills, Plandome, Plandome Manor, Plandome Heights, Roslyn, Roslyn Estates, Roslyn Harbor, Russell Gardens, Saddle Rock, Sea Cliff, Thomaston, Glen Head, Glenwood Landing, Great Neck, Greenvale, Manhasset, Roslyn Heights and University Gardens, there is a similar trend.

A county crime report revealed crimes inside the precinct were also up about 160% for the first three months of the year, going from 81 incidents a year earlier to 210. Stolen vehicles were up 750%, rising from six to 51. Residential burglaries also increased from eight to 20 — a 150% gain. Larceny from auto numbers were not specified.

Both officers at the Monday meeting blamed statewide bail reform as the cause of the rise in crimes.

“There’s no fear [for criminals],” said Vilchez, “because what happens is when I get arrested for stealing a car, I get bail and leave two hours later to come right back.”

Under the new bail reform legislation, most misdemeanors and nonviolent offenses are exempt from bail.

Judges can still set bail for serious and violent offenses, however.

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3 shot at Glen Cove hotel during party Shooter who crashed event remains at large following attack at former mansion

BY ST E V E N KEEHNER Three people were shot at theMansion at Glen Cove at 200 Dosoris Lane late Sunday afternoon during a private event.

The incident happened at around 5 p.m. at the “Big Fendi Celebrity Pool Party,” according to Glen Cove Police Department spokesman Det. Lt. John Nagle, He said on Sunday that the incident sparked from a fight. Shots were fired as one of the security guards on duty sought to escort a partygoer outside.

“It was a very chaotic situation,” said Nagle. “Once we arrived here, we had between 150 and 200 partygoers, so it was a very chaotic, chaotic scene.”

Upon police arrival, they located the three victims — a security guard and two partygoers — and transported them to a local hospital. He said their injuries are not life-threatening.

The lone shooter escaped before responders could arrive. Nagle said he remains on the loose.

The mansion’s director, Helen Whitehead, spoke at a news conference on Tuesday to discuss the incident.

“We will go to every length to make sure that the residents of Glen Cove know an incident like this will never happen again,” she said.

Whitehead said the alleged shooter attempted to get into the party but was turned away at the door. It’s unclear how he eventually got in. She said that the venue went above and beyond to ensure the party’s safety.

“We had a team of 20 security guards staffed for the event,” she said. “In the hours leading up to the event, we were in communication with the police.”

Officials from the mansion said they are cooperating with the authorities to resolve the issue.

Police said the pool party did not have the required authorization from City Hall. The mansion’s lawyers declined to comment on the subject because of the ongoing investigation.

According to Glen Cove Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck, none of the victims were from the city. She said this would be the city’s last event of this nature.

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Put public back in public golf course

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arbor Links’ website calls itself “Long Island’s premier daily fee public golf course and catering facility.”

But just how public the Town of North Hempstead-owned course is has been called into question in recent weeks.

Residents in two consecutive town meetings have complained that the 18-hole championship golf course will be partially closed to the public on 66 of the 109 weekdays from May 1 to Sept. 30 — 61% of the time.

“Maybe it is time to change the name of the golf course to ‘Harbor Links: yes, we are open to the public but only less than half the time,” resident Jack Genicoff told the Town Board last week.

Good point.

Why is the course closed to the public?

To accommodate “golf outings” by private groups which pay for extensive food and beverage packages as well as use of the course. Among the offerings is a “full beverage cart” for $18 per person and “dinner enhancements,” such as a sushi platter for 40 people at $185 and a cold seafood platter at $15 per person.

James Viras, general manager at Harbor Links, said the prices for outings are determined by the number of people attending and the food package chosen. Outings also vary in start times ranging from 7:30 a.m. to noon.

Presumably, this private country club experience is more profitable for Arnold Palmer Golf Management, the private company that operates Harbor Hills under a contract with the town.

Residents think so.

“We have a situation where Harbor Links is not a public course; it is being run for the benefit of certain outings to maximize income,” said William Hohauser, a Port Washington resident and Nassau County District Court judge, who raised objections at an earlier town meeting.“The question for this board is what is the purpose of Harbor Links? Is it to serve the public or is it to serve outings and maximize revenue?”

Good question. We would also like to know if the town shares in the extra revenue generated by these private outings at a private course and if Harbor Hills is operating at a profit.

In the town’s $156.6 million budget for 2022, expenses for Harbor Links amounted to $6,416,575.

“If Harbor Links management benefits financially from all these outings, then shame on the town for allowing this excess,” Genicoff said. “If the town benefits from this revenue at the expense of residents, taxpayers and players, then shame on them.”

Hohauser also said the Port Washington golf course, once a hidden gem, has since deteriorated as prices have gone up.

“Harbor Links is more expensive to play for a resident than Bethpage Black, which is a U.S. Open course,” Hohauser said. “When Harbor Links was in a good condition, you could at least defend it, but now you can’t.”

For North Hempstead residents, a round of golf on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays on Harbor Links’ championship course costs $100 from the time it opens to 8 a.m., $95 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and $90 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with prices dropping to $75 and lower throughout the end of the day.

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This is much more affordable than the dues and fees required by many private country clubs in the area, which are often subject to acceptance standards that don’t make diversity a priority, to put it politely.

But it is not cheap.

At Bethpage State Park Golf Course in Farmingdale, the Black Course costs $85 for a round of golf for state residents.

Since 2000, Bethpage State Park’s Black Course has hosted three men’s major golf championships, including the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009 and the PGA Championship in 2019.

All of which begs the question of who is overseeing Harbor Links, which also includes a 9-hole Executive Course, a “world-class” instructional program, miniature golf and banquet facilities?

Hohauser said he served on a

golf advisory board, but it has not had a meeting in years.

“What I’d like to do is ask this board to consider reworking the contract with Harbor Links,” Hohauser said. “Right now Harbor Links is an overpriced course that you cannot have access to.”

Taxpayers might wonder whether the town should use the many acres of prime real estate occupied

by Harbor Links — which would fetch millions of dollars on the open market — to operate a world-class golf course and banquet facility.

Would the land be better used to provide housing for first-time homebuyers including the children of current residents?

Or to create a town park along the lines of Central Park with baseball fields, basketball and tennis courts, a band shell for music and paths to walk. Such a park would

serve more people than a golf course.

Yes, some of those facilities would draw more traffic. But people living outside Central Park, which includes some of the most expensive housing in the city, have somehow managed to cope.

If the town does want to use taxpayer money to fund a championship golf course with banquet facilities, then it should be well-run, well-supervised and open to the public.

Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said the concerns raised by Hohauser and Genicoff would be considered when the town’s current contract with the golf course expires this December.

That’s not enough.

A committee should be formed to review the existing contact and determine what changes are needed to make Harbor Links a public golf course in more than name only.

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Summer 2022 reading for political junkies

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ere are books I recommend political junkies read while vacationing: “Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower and the World They Forged” by Robert O’Connell.

In “Team America,” Dr. Robert O’Connell, a military historian and former professor at the Naval postgraduate school, has written an informative overview of the lives of the nation’s greatest World War II leaders. What I found most interesting is how these four men interacted with one another during military careers that began in the early 20th century. Needless to say, there were ego clashes—over war-time strategy, over promotions.

But, as O’Connell concludes, the key ingredients to the success of Team America was “mental agility, a gravitas that masked their intensity, and an almost intuitive understanding of how armies in the millions actually functioned and fought.” Were it not for their leadership in time of war and peace—“the world we know would be vastly different.”

“The War on the West” by Douglas

Murray.

The associate editor of the British journal, “The Spectator” is an accomplished commentator on the human condition. He argues that the collapse of religion and political philosophy as guides for our day-to-day existence has been replaced with identity politics whose aim is to “politicize absolutely everything … to turn every human relationship into a political power celebration.”

The result, “in public and private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant.”

Murray laments in “The War on the West” that students “are offered a story of the West’s failings without spending anything like a corresponding time on its glories.”

They will never understand, he concludes, that it is Western culture “that gave the world life-saving advances in science and medicine and a free market that has raised billions of people around the world out of poverty and offered the greatest glowing of thought anywhere in the world….”

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right “Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960”

by Dr. Irwin F. Gellman.

The presidential campaign of 1960 between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Nixon was one of the most exciting in the nation’s history. The two candidates, both World War II Navy veterans and in their 40s, vied to be the first leader of the nation born in the 20th century.

The coverage of that campaign and the subsequent Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The Making of the President 1960” by Theodore H. White, cast Kennedy as a knight in shining armor and Nixon as a black knight.

That narrative, which has been perpetuated for over 60 years, has been challenged by Gellman.

His outstanding work is based on previous unused sources. The result, Kennedy does not “come out as a saint” because “his campaign was far more corrupt and ruthless than has been presented.” And Nixon does not “come out as the villain or the foil; he ran a far cleaner operation than has been described.”

“The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson” by David S. Brown.

For most of its history, the Democratic Party revered its founder, Andrew Jackson. But not anymore. He has been dismissed by the WOKE crowd as a white supremacist. Brown, the author of an excellent biography of historian Richard Hofstadter, attempts to place the nation’s seventh president in the context of his times—something

contemporary leftists are incapable of doing.

Jackson was the nation’s first populist president. His political code could be summed up in four words: honor, self-reliance, equality and individualism.

Living by that code in the early 19th century, Brown points out Jackson “became the defining figure of his era, variously a hero, a sometime scoundrel, and to his enemies, a second Caesar.”

“Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War 1931-1945” by Richard Overy.

This distinguished British military historian attempts to recast the origins of the Second World War. He postulates that the conflict was “the last imperial war, with almost a century-long leadup of global imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the territorial ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history—and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.

“Blood and Ruins,” at 1,000 pages, is a long read—but worth the effort.

Happy reading on your vacations this summer.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Hitting the road again—for better or worse Now that folks are traveling again, I am ready to join the fun. In fact, I’m planning a trip.

I can’t wait till I’m in a hotel again, with clean towels I didn’t have to launder and enough washcloths. I go out for a walk and almost trip over the same uneven part of the driveway that I always almost-trip over. I won’t miss that.

I come back in and realize, darn, we really must get that living room light fixed. I make myself a cup of coffee and realize — I have just used the very last clean spoon in the house to stir the coffee. Even fast-food plastic silverware would at least be clean.

At last, we are heading down the New Jersey Turnpike to our hotel in Maryland. I can’t wait to get there.

Except…is it possible the distance has grown longer since I’ve been away?

I wished for fast-food plasticware, but I don’t even use it — now with the pandemic still a factor, we eat everything while sitting in the car, and pretty soon I am wearing a Jackson Pollack of ketchup, mustard, and whatever drips out of a taco, down the front of my shirt. I can’t wait till we reach the hotel and I can change.

Ah! The hotel. At last, enough room to stretch out on a king-sized bed, with crisp fresh linens and puffy pillows, not the almost-bricks that our pillows at home have somehow be-

come.

And an actual bedside lamp for each of us, attached to the wall so I can’t knock it over. This is the life.

We pull closed the curtains — they actually close! — and sleep like babies.

As our week-long visit wears on, things become slightly less magical. It turns out the nightstand has only one outlet, so I must choose between charging my phone or running the CPAP machine, which keeps my breathing uninterrupted all night. I must give a slight edge to breathing. How do I have both at home anyway? Oh, yes, that extension cord my husband ran under our bed. Hmm. I’m missing it now.

At home, we have two bathrooms, but in this hotel room, my husband and I must take turns. When I finally get my turn, I notice — there is no trash can in here. Who designs a bathroom without a trash can? (The answer, of course, is: men. Men who can think of nothing more urgent than throwing away a Kleenex.) So we must argue over whether the room’s single trash can should live in the bathroom or out by the desk.

“What if I have to throw away a tea bag? Or a Kleenex?” asks my beloved.

It’s two more days of bickering before it occurs to either one of us to just ask for a second trash can.

Thanks to the pandemic, we must request any housekeeping visit at least

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A Look on the Lighter Side 24 hours in advance. Which leaves us with the problem of recycling our towels. There are just not enough hooks for all the towels that need to dry in this place. I sit in the armchair and lean back — into a damp towel.

“Who put that here?” I demand crossly.

“You did,” says my husband, gleefully. He’s only happy because he’s off the hook — literally.

We have people to visit — the whole reason we came — but I can never remember where the car is parked. “Kind of makes me homesick for having a driveway,” I grumble.

“What? The one you keep tripping on?”

“It’s a case of two evils,” I grump.

“Don’t make me choose!”

By the end of a week, we have grown very tired of bickering over where to put wet towels, and the trash can and the extension cord.

“I can’t wait to get out of here and get home,” I say to my husband one day.

“You’re in luck, because we’re scheduled to go home tomorrow,” he replies.

At last, we walk back in the door

of our lovely home. I turn on the living room light. It sputters, and goes out.

“Damn that thing!” I yell. “I hate it!

Why are we even here?”

We go upstairs and flop on our bed. “Ouch, you just hit me in the eye,” my husband complains.

“I’m sorry, I got used to flopping onto a king size bed.”

“In one week?”

“No. I got used to it in the first hour. But these pillows — can’t we call the front desk for new ones?” I ask, before remembering where we are.

“At least there are enough trash cans,” my beloved points out.

“And enough hooks for towels,” I reply.

At that exact moment, the hook falls off the wall, towel and all hitting the floor.

“Think of it this way, Judy,” counsels my life’s partner. “It’s just our house’s way of saying, ‘Welcome Home!’ ”

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THE BACK ROAD

Cleanup tips for toddlers and Trump

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uring her June 28 bombshell testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson disclosed that then President Donald Trump threw a porcelain plate of ketchup-drenched food against the wall.

The President’s Dining Room is situated in the northwest corner of the second floor of the White House and offers a splendid a view of the North Lawn. Meals are served by a dumbwaiter, not to be confused with former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

According to Hutchinson, whose office was in close proximity to the Oval Office and dining room, the former president had a particularly florid meltdown while watching then Attorney General William Barr on TV. Barr revealed that he found no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

A valet invited Ms. Hutchinson into the dining room following the election-challenged Trump’s temper

tantrum. Valets assigned to the Oval Office are on call to provide whatever the president requests such as food, drink or anything else he might require, including cleanups on aisle 45.

Hutchinson testified that she proceeded to assist the valet by wiping up the “ketchup dripping down the wall.”

Despite my research, I was unable to find evidence of any other U.S. presidents who threw plates of food when angered. All that came up (no pun intended) in my search, was an incident on Jan. 8, 1992 at a banquet hosted by the Prime Minister of Japan.

President George H.W. Bush vomited in the PM’s lap. It appears to have been involuntary and not an expression of acute anger.

There has been growing interest about what Trump was eating that was so covered in ketchup. Some have speculated that it was tater tots. However, it was more likely a hamburger, meatloaf sandwich or well-done steak saturated in the former president’s favorite condiment.

“It’s no secret that the fast-foodloving ex-president’s condiment of

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choice is ketchup,” reports Washingtonian magazine reporter Jessica Sidman. “Lesser known,” Sidman added, “Trump may, possibly, be a distant relative of the Heinz family.”

According to a “Standard Operating Procedure” document obtained by the Washingtonian, “the president’s server was to open mini glass bottles of Heinz in front of him, taking care to ensure he could hear the seal make

the “pop” sound.”

Of greater concern than his choice of food, though, is what Trump does with it when angered.

On the TEAM 4 Kids Pediatric Therapy dashboard, a blog post addresses the issue of throwing food and offers tips for a “less stressful meal and cleanup.”

The blog begins by explaining that as toddlers grow they will take steps toward asserting their independence.

And as a result of their limited communication skills, throwing their food may be one way of saying something that they cannot yet effectively articulate.

The blog goes on to offer three tips that White House valets might jot down in the event that man child Trump returns to the White House in 2025. Following are the slightly annotated tips: (1). Pick a designated plastic bowl to serve as a “done bowl.” Plastic might be a better choice than porcelain for Mr. Trump. Place this close to the mealtime plate or tray and allow him the opportunity to determine

when he is done with food by placing it into the “done bowl” rather than throwing it against the wall.

(2). To stop the entire plate of food from hitting the floor or wall, use a toddler suction plate or bowl that will adhere to the table top. This, of course, will require dispensing with the customary White House tablecloth in order to optimize suction.

(3). Managing portion size on the plate will not only eliminate the size of the mess that could end up on the floor or wall, but by offering small and manageable serving sizes you will help him to not be overwhelmed by the task at hand. Even a Big Mac, for instance, is less visually threatening when it is cut into smaller sections.

I might add to these useful tips that Mr. Trump keep the TV switched off during mealtimes. Especially the news. Stress can cause gastrointestinal discomfort, which could lead to bowel urgency and food hurling hissy fits.

If watching TV is a non-starter, lighter fare such as reruns of “The Golden Girls” is highly recommended.

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SCOTUS eyes separation of church vs. state

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hat happens when separation of church and state is dissolved, when the church becomes the state?

We don’t have to wonder because history has centuries of experience with monarchs and despots claiming divine rights and demanding that all under their thumb adhere to their “faith” and hordes willing to kill or die to keep that faith. But only a couple of hundred years have passed in which citizens have had the freedom to follow their own faith or no faith.

I’m thinking that Thomas Jefferson might have been recalling the Salem witch trials when he coined the phrase “Separation of Church and State” and when George Washington wrote to the congregation of Touro Synagogue in 1790: “to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance — but generously affording to all Liberty of conscience, and immunities of Citizenship: deeming every one, of whatever Nation, tongue, or language equal parts of the great governmental Machine.”

The chipping away of the wall separating church and state was obvious with the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, which basically allowed a soulless corporation to claim a religious conscience in order to be waived from its obligation to subsidize a woman’s contraception, as required under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). This court has been more brazen in requiring the state of Maine to spend public money on parochial school and then to defend a coach who prayed on the field.

The decision paved the way for teachers, coaches and others to lead their impres-

sionable charges and use their power and authority, in Christian prayer, overturning decades of rulings prohibiting school prayer.

I just got back from Europe where nations have histories going back more than 1,000 years, not 250 years. We are an infant nation in comparison. What is notable is Europe’s constant state of war, mainly over religion or rather that was the justification, with monarchs claiming their divine right to have life-anddeath control over their subjects. And the sheeple fell for it!

Turning everything into a religious war was recognized as a great tactic to keep political power 50 years ago in our ostensibly “We the people” democracy, too. That was the first time that women’s reproductive freedom (and antagonism to the Equal Rights Amendment) was adopted by the Religious Right to strip away voters from the Democratic Party.

(What is common to fundamentalism of all stripes is oppression of women.)

White Supremacists used Christianity to justify slavery and Indian genocide (heathens are savages, nonhumans, after all).

Immigration and labor policies were turned into religious wars – have you noticed that the only immigrants Attorney General Andrew Palmer deported in the 1920s were Jews (like Emma Goldman), notably because Jews were leading the fight for unions and workers’ rights? It’s why the revered auto industrialist Henry Ford was such a rabid anti-Semite, using his newspaper to publish the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which fomented the myth of a Jewish cabal taking over the world. That screed has resurfaced

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in QAnon (Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Jewish lasers). You can see the tactics of religious bigotry as an instrument of political power in the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s new exhibit, “The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do.” It’s why capitalists and evangelists made common cause to turn climate change into a religious crusade, similarly with masks and vaccinations to mitigate a deadly pandemic: to use blind faith and unquestioning acceptance to keep their own economic power and political control.

Orthodoxy is used to perpetuate caste systems and inequity. Karl Marx (a German Jew) hit it on the head when he called religion the “opiate of the masses”– the means by which people are supposed to be content with their miserable lot, expecting to claim their reward in the after-life.

Former President Trump overturned

the law that kept tax-exempt religious centers from using their power over congregants to politicize the pulpit (while also cozying up to Neo- Nazis and giving permission and legitimacy to political terrorism). So you have evangelicals basically equating Democrats with Satanists and threatening their congregants with damnation.

“You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation,” declared Global Vision Bible Church Pastor Greg Locke, who called Hillary Clinton “a high priestess in the Satanic church,“ The Tennessean reported May 20. Evangelical Christian Pastor Perry Stone claimed Democratic lawmakers “have demons in them,” Newsweek reported.

If anyone doubts America’s slide to White Christo Fascism, consider this: In Tennessee, a court ruled in favor of a tax-supported Holston United Methodist Home for Children, which deemed a Jewish couple unfit to foster a child.

Why unfit? Because they were Jewish.

“In January 2020, Republican Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a bill effectively allowing Christians the ‘religious freedom’ to discriminate against whomever they deemed non-Christians,” Daily Kos reported July 7. “The bill was designed most obviously to allow Christian organizations to discriminate against LBGTQ+ parents but had the added bonus, in Holston United Methodists’ eyes to discriminate against other religions as well.”

Ohio State Rep. Sarah Fowler Arthur (R-Ashtabula) advanced a bill that would require teaching “both sides” to the Holocaust. (In case you forget, the “Final Solution” was state-sponsored

mass-murder on an industrial scale.

What would be the “other side”?)

Meanwhile, the Jewish Federation of San Antonio had to suspend all formal Jewish gatherings following a warning by the FBI, the Express News reported.

“A new wave of right-wing candidates is explicitly aiming to promote Christian power in America, with many mixing religious fervor with conspiracy theories, and even calling for the end of separation of church and state,” The New York Times reported. (See: The FarRight Christian Quest for Power: “We Are Seeing Them Emboldened,” July 8) The separation of church and state was a “myth,” Doug Mastriano, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, declared. “In November we are going to take our state back, my God will make it so.”

And the radical, extremist, reactionary Christo Fascist Supreme Court majority seems eager to comply.

How long before employers and universities are again allowed to exclude non-Christians from jobs, college, housing, country clubs? It wasn’t too long ago that was A-OK and if the Christo Fascists Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have their way, they will selectively pick that history to justify religious “preference.”

“Like all Americans, American Jews rely on the separation of church and state to ensure our freedom of religion and our freedom from government involvement or coercion in our religious practice. Separation of church and state is essential to our democracy and to the well-being of our society,” said Temple Bethel of Great Neck’s new senior rabbi, Brian Stoller, in an email response.

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OUR TOWN

ABT reflects our changing world in dance

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e went in to Lincoln Center to see the American Ballet Theater during its summer season to watch “ZigZag,” the new ballet by Jessica Lang with music by Tony Bennett. Little did I know that I would be confronted with a lesson about the world’s shifting zeitgeist.

The ABT program included Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations” created in 1947 and with music by Tchaikovsky, followed by Alonzo King’s “Single Eye” made in 2022 and with music by Jason Moran and then “ZigZag,” which had its world premiere nine months ago.

I should have realized I was about to witness a clash of paradigms. Balanchine created “Theme and Variations” in 1947, before the onslaught of post-modernism. Fast forward 70 years to 2022 where we live in a world of confusion, loneliness and narcissism. The ABT program exemplified that change with remarkable clarity.

Let us begin by describing “Theme and Variations” by George Balanchine, the genius of geometry. Balanchine was a Russian immigrant, who trained in classical music and dance at the Imperial Theater Ballet School in St. Petersburg Russia, settled in New York City and founded the New York City Ballet. His “Theme and Variations”

evokes the great period of classical ballet and like his masterpieces, “Concerto Barocco” and “Serenade,” it shows us dancers who embody cooperation.

Balanchine subordinated star power to teamwork and devotion to the music. Throughout the piece you see his dancers holding hands, on pointe and moving as an intertwining chain of jewels. The impact is moving.

Add to this the music, “Suite #3 for Orchestra” by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and dancers like Herman Cornejo, and you have a thing of beauty from the soul of George Balanchine.

Balanchine will eventually be known as one of the greatest artists of the last 1,000 years, comparable to a Leonardo Da Vinci, a Rembrandt or a Bach or Beethoven. But, alas, greatness is a tough act to follow and the next group is forced in another direction. So, in art after Rembrandt you get Picasso. Yes, Picasso is a wonderfully creative artist, but he’s not Rembrandt.

And in the field of choreography, after George Balanchine, you get William Forsythe, Pina Bausch and Twyla Tharp. Yes, they are all wonderfully creative artists, but they are not George Balanchine. Great artists create a paradigm, which then becomes rigid and in turn the field breaks away into a new realm.

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Thanks to television, computers and social media we now live in a world of narcissism, confusion and loneliness. We are more alienated from each other than ever before. And the next two pieces on the program were perfect exemplars of this state of mind. They both demonstrated the paradigm shift in dance and also serve to reflect who we are in 2022.

“Single Eye” by Alonzo King was a perfect expression of the world we live in today. In the kingdom of the blind, the man with one eye is king.

And this is what I saw in this piece.

You had either dancers moving alone and unaware of each other or you had duets that were in antagonistic relationwith each other. Welcome

to today’s world filled with isolation and aggression. And just as Tharp and Bausch and Forsythe are wildly creative, so is Alonzo King.

Which takes us to the last piece, “ZigZag,” by Jessica Lang. How can you not love a piece choreographed to the music of Tony Bennett? This is a new arrival to the dance world, but by using the music of Tony Bennet, it was an attempt to embrace the 1950s when he was young and a king. The costumes by Wes Gordon for Carolina Herrera were worth the price of admission with luscious dresses of bright yellow, bright red and bright blue.

It’s difficult for a choreographer and dancer to compete with words from the pens of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and sung by Bennett. Who’s on top in that scenario, the choreographer, the dancer, the lyricist or the singer? The mind gets confused and you wind up giving into Tony Bennett and listening to his sweet voice while ignoring the dancers.

The entire dance was saved, however, by the last movement to the tune “How do you keep the music playing”

by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. This song was a poignant lament about how things like love and music fade away. It starts with the line “How do you keep the music playing? How do you make it last?”

This song was danced by the en-

tire cast and was a lovely plea that we all ask ourselves as we age. How do we keep the spark alive and how to we keep having fun? Who could have guessed we could learn so much from three dance pieces at American Ballet Theater?

We who live near Manhattan are lucky to be witness to many miracles.

The miracle of Lincoln Center, George Balanchine, Peter Tchaikovsky, the orchestra in the pit, all those world class dancers with the slim and perfect bodies and straight backs who have been trained to move their hands and arms in the air just so.

Thank you ABT for a glorious summer season in NYC. After the show we strolled through Central Park and had dinner at Tavern on the Green. It’s good to be a New Yorker.

Perfection at ABT

E A R T H M AT T E R S

The most dangerous species on Earth

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ave you ever thought about humans in relation to the natural world? We are but one of over 8 million different species, and in terms of the dry weight of carbon in our bodies, humans are equal to one ten-thousandth of all biomass on Earth, while plants, including trees, account for more than 82%.

But this is not the way we usually think of ourselves. Our human-centric way of thinking is that we are the most important and influential species on Earth. Most of us are pretty disconnected from the natural world around us and go about our daily lives in our cars or our built environment, utilizing technology to do our work, communicate with each other and perform basic tasks like shopping, banking and checking the news or weather.

The natural world is a place we may visit on vacation or engage with when camping or hiking, but for most of us nature is the row of trees on our property line or the grass and shrubs that surround our houses. (Do we at least select native species that may provide habitat or food for local fauna? We absolutely should.)

But what if things were different— what if we humans understood that we are part of the natural world instead of in control of it? Those tiny species that we never see that live underground in forests or in the depths of the oceans could

teach us something about the interconnectedness of every living thing on this planet. Some, almost microscopic in size, have an amazing and intricate system of communicating and working to make sure they and their symbiotic partners get the nutrients they need for survival.

Scientists have recently found, for example, that trees can actually warn each other of impending danger from drought and disease and even insect attacks.

Because humans have a clear and unambiguous stake in the survival of the honeybee, some of us are more familiar with this species and their amazing navigational skills, their brilliant division of tasks and their focus on collecting food in the form of nectar and pollen and providing pollinating services for all flowering plants. We harvest their honey and enjoy the fruits and vegetables that grow because bees have pollinated them, at the same time devastating their numbers with the use of toxic pesticides. According to the United Nations Environment Program, of the 100 crop varieties that provide 90% of the world’s food, 71 are pollinated by bees.

Another species that gets our attention is the monarch butterfly—a beautiful insect that has an incredible life cycle and migration story, but whose habitat is being reduced by human activity with drastic impacts. Kindergarten students watch the wondrous metamorphosis of this butterfly inside a plastic tent in their

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classrooms. Hopefully, this will not be their only experience with nature.

I have always felt that if children don’t spend time outdoors in nature, they will never understand why it is worth protecting, and as adults, they won’t pass along to their children the reverence we need to have for the natural world.

There are so many examples of our disrespect for the natural world, it would take a book to discuss them all. But simply put, many of us engage with the natural world to extract from it, to destroy it, to genetically modify it and pollute it, all in the name of “progress” or “economic gain.” We are the only species on Earth that intentionally destroys its own

life-sustaining air, water and food supply.

And in the process, we also destroy it for untold number of other species.

Fossil fuel extraction, refining and burning is the No. 1 cause of global warming, affecting all living things on the planet, even though this phenomenon is caused entirely by humans. Despite international outcry and attempts at treaties, we are still engaged in this assault on our Earth.

Many of our new technologies require the use of rare metals which are extracted from the ground in some of the poorest countries on earth, often using children to labor in unhealthy and dangerous conditions. These metals are often laced with radioactive thorium and uranium — harmful not only to humans but every other living thing.

When we talk about destroying the Earth, CO2-absorbing rainforests are perhaps the most egregious example.

Humans have destroyed nearly half of the world’s original forest cover and continue to clear swaths the size of 40 football fields each minute. Tropical rainforests are home to more than half of the terrestrial animal species on Earth. Why are humans destroying this increasingly important eco-system?

Supplying the demand for tropical hardwoods is one reason. The main activities conducted on cleared rainforest lands include grazing cattle for fast-food restaurants, mining and palm oil and soya

plantations.

Our hubris even leads us to “improve” on nature by genetically engineering plants and animals for the traits we prefer, as if we’re smarter than nature. This hubris have led us down many blind alleys, as we discover – often too late – that there was a reason for the way nature has designed things.

It wasn’t always like this with our species. Indigenous people who inhabited North America before white men arrived knew how to live in perfect harmony and balance with nature. They could have taught us something, but we were too smart to listen.

Eskimos and other tribes living above the Arctic Circle have also spent generations learning to live and even thrive in extreme circumstances, again in harmony and balance with nature.

Now our industrial chemicals are polluting their bodies. (Due to worldwide wind currents, sea currents and their traditional diets, people living in this region have more man-made toxic chemicals in their bodies than the rest of us.)

This article was inspired by a recent conversation about how we humans put so little value on the natural world.

The person I was speaking with told me about a museum in London that had an exhibit behind a door that was labeled “Beware! The Most Dangerous Species on the Planet.” When you opened the door, there was a mirror.

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READERS WRITE

More delays for Traffic expert, Trump stooge electric trains H

ow sad that our, otherwise erudite, resident tran- lives in Great Neck and would do best to ‘stay in his lane. sit curmudgeon has veered somewhat unintelligibly into the nether world of Trumplican nonsense.

Eric Cashdan I would posit that the genuine stooge now Sands Point

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he most recently announced additional delays associated with the LIRR $734 million procurement of 202 new M9 electric replacement cars contract originally awarded in 2013 is nothing new. When has there ever been any MTA LIRR, Metro North or NYC Transit Federal Transit Administration or locally funded commuter rail or subway car procurement ever completed on time, within budget and without contract change orders?

Ongoing problems with this purchase have continued for years. In 2020, the MTA’s own independent engineering consultant forecast an October 2022 completion date. The LIRR was more optimistic about meeting an earlier date.

Over time, both were proven wrong.

The LIRR now promises that all of the 202 cars will be delivered by September 2023. This new 17-month delay on top of the previous delays will result in completion for all deliveries three years later than promised. Who can guarantee that the vendor will meet this latest proj-

ect recovery schedule’s September 2023 date?

The oldest M3 cars scheduled to be replaced will continue in service far longer than planned before all new cars arrive and are ready for commuters to board. As a result, the LIRR will incur additional maintenance and operating costs, keeping this outdated equipment beyond its intended useful service life.

Instead of being retired, too many M3 cars will continue operating beyond the opening of East Side Access to Grand Central Madison in December 2022, one additional year to December 2023. When it comes to this project, the LIRR 1960s motto “Line of the Dashing Dan” in 2022 should be changed to “Line of the Slow Moving Sloth.” .

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.)

Jones Beach All day there’s the radiant sun…

There’s the pounding surf and foaming undertow that kindle the imagination with their energetic poetry.

Off to a side colorful serpents chased blue puffs of air above us.

I discerned my soul on a sunbeam, and held onto the string so delicately that I started to glide with winged flight.

The depth of this primeval beauty is license to cherish what we love.

I feel its rhythms like blossoms that suddenly burst open from beginning to end.

The essential din of being.

Beyond our passion lies meticulous life with its scores of tasks broad as the horizon, but not now. Today bore neither tedium nor worry.

We sat and watched the cadence of day, shadow, sound, silence, and mystery…

Oh, that incredible sound. What bliss!

We immersed ourselves in the currents, and tread the warm sand into the long evening, taking them home in our depths.

The vision kept shimmering, aided by reflection.

The rhythm never stops. The dream rushes past, I exist weightless.

I hope I never come down from the heights.

In the end we left footprints in the sand.

What a sunset!

Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

Thanks to G.N. school voters

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write in my personal capacity to acknowledge with gratitude my re-election to a second one-year term as president of the Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education.

I thank my colleagues, who, like me, each volunteer to serve hundreds of uncompensated hours in prep time, executive session, events, committee meetings, and public action meetings per year, for the nomination and unanimous election. I also thank Superintendent of Schools Teresa Prendergast and her administration, as well as the entire GNPS staff for another safe and productive year of growth and learning, including both social-emotional and academic, of thousands of students, both public and non-public, and of staff.

This past school year, which was

marked by a return to in-person schooling during an ongoing mask mandate, as well as some controversies regarding curriculum, resulted in a number of contentious public action meetings of the board. It was also the first year that Great Neck Board of Education meetings were livestreamed and recorded.

I thank the members of the public who took the time to write to the Board and/or speak on the record at meetings to address their concerns.

Each was heard and considered.

To me, Great Neck remains a fascinating and exciting place to live and engage in public service. A microcosm of the nation, Great Neck is pluralistic and diverse in many respects, including ideological, socio-economical, ethnic, religious, ability, and gender.

This kaleidoscopic pluralism is

evident at the uplifting and joyous culminating end-of-year events such as Faculty Recital, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Adult Learning Center, Village School, North and South High School graduations which I felt privileged to attend.

Simultaneously, amidst this pluralism, a unifying common denominator is Great Neck’s historic and continuing support for education.

It is reassuring that, this past May, our budget passage rate increased over the prior year’s by over nine per cent, indicating that voter support for Great Neck Public Schools remains steadfast. May it continue!

Hoping everyone has a wonderful, restorative summer.

Rebecca Sassouni Great Neck

Columnist’s ‘woke intolerance’

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our liberal “newspaper” and its far-left Minister of Disinformation, Karen Rubin, reached a new low with the publication of her latest diatribe of July 8.

Her opinion piece illustrates perfectly the complete lack of journalistic integrity and impartiality of your paper, while at the same time allowing leftists to engage in hate speech and not including a conservative or moderate rebuttal to even out the playing field.

Her repeated (and derisive) references to “white Christo Fascists” and “extremist Christo-Fascists” shows how it’s “acceptable” in liberal circles to attack white people in general, and specifically white, Christian males in particular, while anyone who disagrees with leftists, LGBTQ, minorities and other “protected” classes of people is not to be tolerated. I will tell you that people have had enough of this nonsense. We refuse to allow Rubin and her ilk to impose their “woke” intolerance on people with her hysterical hyperbole. It’s not OK to use phrases like “Christian indoctrination” and ” extremist Christo-Fascist” justices. It’s hate speech, pure and

simple.

And while I’m at it, let me give Rubin a little history about this nation.

Over 350,000 white men died to free slaves, end that despicable practice and preserve the Union. You know, the “evil white men” who upheld the “evil patriarchy” while Rubin’s own Democratic Party supported slavery, lynching and Jim Crowe laws for decades and decades. And her party will lose big in the upcoming November elections, despite their recent failed attempts to gerrymandering election districts to their advantage in New York state.

The judge presiding over the case ruled their controversial redistricting plan to be illegal. But Rubin makes no mention of that flawed and reckless Democratic attempt to influence the vote. She claims that pundits “mistakenly” blame Joe Biden and the Democrats. On what planet does Rubin live?

Biden is the worst president in U.S. history and Kamala Harris is a political joke who couldn’t even earn 1% of the Democratic vote in the Democratic primary.

But that doesn’t matter to Rubin,

who is a hard-core, leftwing partisan oblivious to the good of this nation and its people. People like her would attack parents who attend school board meetings and raise legitimate objections to the leftist, anti-American, pro-gay agenda that the teacher’s unions have been trying to ram down the throats of innocent and impressionable children. That’s the REAL intolerance here. Parents complaining about these agendas are engaging in their Democratic prerogative, and no amount of “shaming tactics” by Rubin and her fellow leftists will silence them.

So Blank Slate Media and all its local “newspapers” should issue an apology to its readers for all the racist and sexist hate speech that Karen Rubin regularly employs in her columns.

I would also add that I will challenge her to a debate anyplace, anytime to defend my statements against her disinformation, either in person or by article in your publication.

Paul Giarmo Carle Place Letters Continued on Page 30

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WEBSITE LAUNCHED OF HISTORIC ARTIST SITES The website is an online guide to discover the living and working environments of some of America’s The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation and grant recipient The Heckscher Museum of Art announce the launch of the new website Historic Artists’ Sites of Long Island, www.lihistoricartistssites.org most influential artists. Visitors to the site can explore these homes and studios, experience the surroundings that inspired the artists, and gain insights into their creative processes. Many of these locations are developed by Graphic Image Group, Inc. From the 19th century to present times, Long Island has held a special place in the creative imagi- listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Arthur Dove and Helen Torr Cottage, Centerport — The Heckscher Museum of Art nation. From native landscape and genre painters William Sidney Mount and his family to modernist Arts Center at Duck Creek (artist John Little), East Hampton transplants like Arthur Dove and Helen Torr and the abstract expressionists who clustered on the East D’Amico Institute (The Art Barge) (artists Victor D’Amico and Mabel Birckhead D’Amico), Amagansett End, artists working in various styles and media, from traditional to experimental, have found common Dan Flavin Art Institute at Dia Bridgehampton ground here.

Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton Kathryn M. Curran, executive director of The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation describes the Leiber Museum (designer Judith Leiber and artist Gerson Leiber), East Hampton importance of these locations, “Long Island has a proud place in American art history.

LongHouse Reserve (artist Jack Lenor Larsen), East Hampton Offering exceptional light and air, along with inspirational vistas, artists have always flocked here Pollock-Krasner House (Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner), East Hampton — Stony Brook University to live and work. This website links the studios and homes of some of America’s greatest artists over Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, East Hampton centuries. It offers a historic view into another aspect of our region’s rich creative and cultural heritage. I Watermill Center (artist Robert Wilson), Watermill strongly urge you to explore these places and support the stewards who are dedicated to their oversight William Sidney Mount House, Stony Brook — Long Island Museum and promote their legacy.”

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Temple presents ‘How Sweet It Is!’ virtual concert On Sunday, July 17 at 3:00 p.m., Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present a virtual concert, “How Sweet It Is!” — Steve Leslie sings James Taylor.

Grammy Award-winning recording artist Steve Leslie performs the music of James Taylor in How Sweet it is! — an authentic and spellbinding concert event!

Steve’s warm baritone and exceptional guitar technique (not to mention his uncanny resemblance) will have you singing along to such classics as “Carolina In My Mind,” “Shower the People,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Fire and Rain,” “Up On the Roof,” and many more.

Steve Leslie has been playing guitar and singing onstage since he was 15 years

old. Recently, Steve has joined some of the best players in Nashville in presenting How Sweet It Is! Steve Leslie Sings James Taylor.

As a recording artist Steve has released three CDs, as well as written the music and book for the full-length musical, Umbrella. • Steve has had a professional songwriting career spanning more than twenty-five years with songs recorded by Kenny Rogers, Mark Chesnutt, George Strait, Darryl Worley, Rhonda Vincent, Neal McCoy, Ricky Skaggs, Darius Rucker, and more.

A multiple BMI Award-winner, Steve received a Grammy for the title cut to Ricky Skaggs’ 2004 Best Bluegrass Album

of the Year Brand New Strings.

This program is funded by Michael Dorfman & Family in honor of Talia, the 18th addition to their family, and daughter of Rachel & Justin Weis.

Registration for this virtual event is $10.

For further information, to register and purchase a ticket online, go to:https://www.scwculturalarts.org/sunday-series After July 17 at 2:00 PM, call 516.482.5701 to purchase a ticket. Video is available for viewing thru July 31, 2022.

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Nine safety tips for families active outdoors

n summer, overnight and day camps provide an abundance of opportunities for kids to find their voice, build resilience and develop the confidence to fend for themselves.

Being physically active outdoors can reduce stress and anxiety, support sleep habits and help maintain a healthy body mass index, among many other physical and mental health benefits. Children who spend time in the great outdoors can solidify their connection to the natural world, enliven their senses, and even produce a physiological relaxation effect.

While there are many documented health benefits of summer camp, sending kids to a new location this summer can worry parents.

What if their children don’t drink enough water? What if they have a run-in with

poison oak or mosquitos? What if they get a sunburn?

As the lead pediatrician at Cohen Children’s Northwell-GoHealth-GoHealth Urgent Care, Dr. Lynda Gerberg offers nine tips to keeping young campers safe so that they can enjoy their summer activities: 1. Confirm COVID-19 safety protocols and vaccine and testing requirements.

2. Pack medications.

3. Apply sunscreen.

4. Use bug spray.

5. Give a crash course on plant safety.

6. Book swimming lessons ahead of time.

7. Keep the kids hydrated.

8. Speak with camp and medical directors about other concerns such as allergies.

9. Shop for a camp with on-site healthcare.

Young athletes’ offseason training options S

ummer vacation and holidays from school present opportunities for young athletes to take well-deserved breaks from their sports. However, staying in shape during the offseason can help athletes maintain their performance when a new season begins.

Many sports have clearly defined offseasons, while others are a bit more vague.

Complicating the issue even further is that some athletes play in multiple leagues. That means they be committed to play for school teams, all-star teams or even travel teams.

This can shorten, if not eliminate, traditional offseasons.

According to the fitness experts at the International Youth Conditioning Association, all young athletes should have some form of an offseason. Time

away from competition can be used to focus on improving movement patterns, building general strength and conditioning and recovery. Time off also gives the body and mind a break from the stress of competition.

But athletes need not spend an entire offseason resting on their laurels. Here are some offseason training tips that can ensure athletes recover without compromising their ability to perform once a new season begins.

Emphasize new activities to avoid overuse injuries. Josh Adams, a certified strength and conditioning specialist with Children’s Health Andrews Institute Sports Performance, says focusing on one sport all year can lead to overuse injuries. Opt for a new workout that’s different from your in-season workout routine. Doing so can strengthen other areas of the body and reduce risk for overuse injuries.

Focus on new interests to avoid mental burnout. Young athletes can get stuck in a competitive groove, feeling that they have to win to be successful. The offseason can be used to provide a mental rest during which athletes can focus on interests other than sports.

Emphasize aerobic training. The IYCA reports that most young athletes do not realize the vital role aerobics play in building the stamina that powers high-intensity work intervals sports play often requires.

Taxing the cardiovascular system helps deliver oxygen to working muscles and boosts performance. Athletes can spend the offseason cycling, running and swimming to benefit their bodies and give some muscles a break.

When it is time to return to competitive play, athletes won’t need as much time to return to in-season status if they continue training during the offseason. According to Sports Fitness Advisor, when a training stimulus is removed, physiological adaptations begin to revert to pre-training levels. By maintaining a fitness level training schedule that’s between 50 and 60 percent of their in-season regimen, athletes can return to their sports with much less effort than if they were to start from scratch.

The offseason gives athletes a chance to back off of intense competition and training, but continue a fitness regimen that helps them get back into game shape more quickly when play resumes.

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Strategies that can improve reading comprehension

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trong reading comprehension skills are one of the foundations of a successful academic career. According to the Institute of Reading Development, students with strong reading comprehension skills get a big boost in all subjects, including math and science.

Though the benefits of reading comprehension are well documented, many students are struggling in this area of their academics. Officials with the National Center for Education Statistics note that, over the last decade, students have made no progress in reading performance. That likely comes as no surprise to seasoned educators, as data indicates students are reading less outside of school than they have in years past. Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicates the percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day declined by 4 percent between 2017 and 2019, dipping below 50 percent overall in the latter year.

There’s likely a multitude of reasons why students now read less than they used to.

Parents concerned about their children’s reading comprehension can try these strategies to bolster this highly valuable skill.

Let kids read what they like. The tutoring professionals at Oxford Learning® report that 73 percent of students indicate they would read more if they found books they liked.

Parents can address this issue by taking children to their local libraries and letting them choose which books to check out. The more practice kids get with reading, the more their comprehension skills develop.

Read aloud to children. Various studies have found that reading aloud to children significantly benefits literacy development.

One study from the National Association for the Education of Young Children found that listening to others read helps children develop key understanding and skills, including how stories are written. In addition, the Reading Rockets project, which aspires to bring reading research to life in the hopes of helping young children develop into strong, confident readers, notes that children can listen on a higher language level than they can read. That makes complex ideas more accessible.

Ask questions when reading to children.

When reading to children, parents can compound the benefits of this activity by asking youngsters questions about the book.

Asking what, when, where, why, and how can encourage children to look for answers to these questions while they’re being read to. As students advance and then read more on their own, parents can encourage them to ask these questions of themselves (if they’re not already doing so on their own). Asking and answering these questions is a great way to strengthen reading comprehension skills.

Strong reading comprehension skills can help students reach their academic potential. Parents can employ various strategies to help children bolster those skills.

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What are advanced placement classes?

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n recent years, many school districts have diversified their course offerings for high school students. In addition to core education classes in key subjects required of most high schoolers, students now have electives that may rival college course offerings as well as classes that set interested students on career paths after high school. Indeed, it’s not uncommon for high schoolers to enroll in classes in business administration, teacher/education or STEM. In addition to these newer class options, many high school students have access to more advanced classes. Despite the prevalence of the Advanced Placement program, some students and their parents may be largely unfamiliar with what the program entails.

The College Board, which oversees the Advanced Placement Program as well as the SAT, defines AP courses as “rigorous, college-level classes in a variety of subjects that give students the opportunity to earn college credit while in high school.” Students who enroll in AP classes are not guaranteed those credits, however. Rather, after taking the courses, they must then pass an AP exam in each subject for which they have taken an AP class and score at least a three out of five on that exam. That passing grade may entitle them to earn college credits, although some schools have limits on which AP exams they will accept.

The AP program began in the 1950s as a way to teach introductory level courses in high school. By taking such courses, students can experience the rigor of potential

college classes and challenge themselves beyond standard and honor courses. AP classes were not initially widespread, and there were only 11 subjects in the pilot program. However, today there are nearly 40 AP courses available, though not every high school offers every course.

Students eager to land coveted spots at top colleges and universities often take AP classes to provide that extra edge against the competition. Most academic advisors now recommend that students take these types of courses, not only as a way to later save money by eliminating the need to pay for certain college classes, but also to set themselves apart from other students during the application process. Many colleges consider AP classes in their decisions to award scholarships as well.

The College Board reports that, as of 2019, about 2.8 million students take AP exams every year. It’s quite common for high schoolers to take multiple AP classes during their time in high school.

It is possible to take an AP exam without having taken the coordinating class prior, but it is strongly recommended that students take the corresponding class to prepare for the test.

Students and their families can learn about the Advanced Placement program by visiting https://ap.collegeboard.org/ or speaking with a high school guidance counselor.

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How learning a foreign language benefits students

dults undoubtedly recall their school days when schedules included a class devoted to foreign languages. Some students embrace foreign language classes, while others may question their value. Those in the latter camp may be surprised to learn just how much they benefit from studying a foreign language.

Foreign languages and long-term cognitive health

Dementia might not be foremost on the minds of school-aged youngsters, but their foreign language class could be delaying its onset by a significant margin. A 2010 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Neurology found that bilingual patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease reported the onset of symptoms 5.1 years later than monolingual patients. Authors of the study concluded that lifelong bilingualism confers protection against the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, which underscores the value of learning a foreign language as a young person and maintaining that knowledge throughout adulthood.

Foreign languages and attention span

A recent study from Microsoft found that the average attention span is now eight seconds, which marks a significant decline since 2000, when the average attention span was 12 seconds. Researchers behind the

report suggest the prevalence of screens, particularly the use of multiple screens at once, has led to that decline. But bilingual individuals may be able to buck that trend.

Researchers at the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham suggest that bilingualism could lead to better sustained attention and attentional monitoring, thus improving students’ ability to remain focused and block out distractions.

Foreign languages and multi-tasking

Most adults likely need no reminder that the current world is one that requires an ability to multi-task. Learning a foreign language can make it easier to navigate that world. A 2012 study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that bilingual children had a greater ability to multi-task than monolingual children. The NIH study utilized a switching task to gauge monolingual and bilingual children’s ability to pay attention, plan, organize, and strategize. Bilingual children were faster at switching than their monolingual counterparts, which could set them up to be more successful in a world that has increasingly valued the ability to multitask.

Foreign language courses do more than teach kids how to speak a non-native tongue.

The benefits of such courses on students’ brains is well-documented and can produce some immediate and long-lasting results.

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Pierrot Chamber Music Festival concert series The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 41st Summer Season this July with a series of concerts on July 15, 20, 21 and 22 at 8 PM each evening at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Avenue in Garden City, New York.

The festival concert series is presented in conjunction with the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center and Department of Music.

The Pierrot Consort will present a chamber music concert on Friday, July 15. Festival participants will present chamber music concerts on Wednesday, July 20 and Thursday, July 21 and the afternoon of Friday, July 22 at 4 PM. A final concert with the Festival Chamber Orchestra and all Festival participants will be presented on the evening of Friday, July 22.

The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival is an intensive, two-week program that focuses on the study and the performance of the standard and new chamber music repertoire. The Festival Concert Series has performances this July at Adelphi University Performing Arts Center featuring The Pierrot Consort with special guests and festival participants. Concerts during the first week of the Festival at July 12 and July 15. The final concerts of the Festival July 20 through July 22 will feature Festival participants in performances of chamber music and in the Precollege Chamber Orchestra and the Festival Chamber Orchestra. Further information may be found through the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival’s website at: www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com.

The Pierrot Consort, the faculty ensemble at the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival, has been called “A cohesive ensemble with real affinity for the music consistently interesting ” by Newsday. The ensemble includes: Susan Deaver, flute; Dale Stuckenbruck, violin; Veronica Salas, viola; Maureen Hynes, cello and Heawon Kim, piano. The Pierrot Consort has performed at Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Bartok Society at Saranac Lake, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., BOCES, the Stockbridge Chamber Concerts in Great Barrington, Mass., the St. Paul Chapel Series at Columbia University and the Islip Arts Council. The artist members of the ensemble, Susan Deaver, flute; Dale Stuckenbruck, violin; Veronica Salas, viola; Maureen Hynes, cello; and Heawon Kim, piano, are actively involved in the musical life of New York City and have a commitment to the cultural enrichment of Long Island. Visit them at https://www.pierrotchambermusicfestival.com/welcome-1.

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Don’t look now but inflation is deflating

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hile the news media serves up heaping helpings of negative news, there’s something happening to our inflation story. It’s actually deflating.

First, oil prices have slipped below $100 a barrel. But the price of oil wasn’t behind the spike in gasoline prices: refining costs are. The “crack spread,” that is, the price difference between the cost of a barrel of oil and the retail price of a gallon of gas, is usually around 30 cents a gallon.

Recently, it’s been as high as $1.50 a gallon. The reason? Oil companies have been shutting down refineries for some time, and new ones are not being built because they reason demand will lessen over the coming years, and these facilities are built to last decades. No one wants to be left with a “stranded asset” that costs billions to build and little consumer demand to keep it running.

In the meantime, the gas price issue was always overbaked. Sure, people hate paying more, especially if the price spikes in a short time frame as opposed to over time, but the fact is it was more of a nuisance than an economic millstone for most

people.

With employment still robust and consumers packing showrooms and airports, people’s actions aren’t matching what they tell pollsters.

This holds for gasoline prices. The last time a price spike hit, there were lines out the door to buy economical compact cars while Cadillacs collected dust on showroom floors. That isn’t happening now, and it looks like

consumers are accepting it as a mere inconvenience to endure.

What else is down? Wheat has retraced in price almost down to preUkraine invasion levels. Corn and soy prices are weakening as well. So too have a slew of industrial metals like copper, which many use the price of as an economic barometer. All of these declines will put a dent in the CPI data in a couple of months when

the fresh data is factored in.

But wait, there’s more! Lumber prices have cratered precipitously, which some homebuilders have expressed as a tailwind to their business and a solid offset against rising wages in the construction field.

What this means is the Fed may not have to tighten as much as originally thought and they may achieve the “soft landing,” which is the goal

of every central banker after an economic run-up.

What to make of all this? Well, one of the smartest financial minds I know stated the following after someone pointed out last week that the price of oil had dropped 10% overnight despite their being no change in either inventory or demand: “Can’t underscore this enough.

The financialization of commodities made speculation the dominant driver in the short and often medium term. Doesn’t stop people from trying to extract fundamental interpretations from every move, but it’s typically about positioning and risk appetite.”

In other words, it’s the trading action that’s driving these wild price swings, and while supplies of gas and oil have certainly tightened globally, I’m sure you’ll all notice there is plenty of product out there and no one has waited on a line to tank up.

There’s plenty for everyone.

Look for further deflation as traders close out their positions, leaving the bag holders behind.

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Many variables affect housing market Now that the real estate market in some locations has softened or severely slowed, and inventory is increasing, the question is “should I buy now or wait until prices decrease or just maybe crash like in 2008?

This will probably not occur as inventory is less than two months—in 2008 inventory was around 11 months.

However, housing construction has slowed on the fear that companies don’t want to get stuck with inventory in the future. It’s a really tough question to give an exact answer to due to all the conflicting signs and events that are going on here in the United States and around the globe.

Interest rates doubled in the last eight months (although rates were down the previous week (4.90%) and are up this week for a 15-year fixed APR to 4.97% and the 30-year fixed is 5.75% APR (previous week 5.30%, but still historically low). The continued fear of inflation, which has been the highest in 40 years (not 8.6% as the Fed conveys to us, but when you add back food and energy 18%).

Most amazing is the increase in job creation (non-farm) of 372,000 jobs in June was reported last week with a 384,000 rate in May, showing businesses are still hiring and the economy

still very strong but high inflation still is not controlled. The uncertainty of the Ukraine situation as to what the final outcome might be is also a factor, but oil prices are finally coming down below $100 a barrel (I think there is oil company gouging).

There are contradicting signs, but my professional opinion is that we are just a speck above a recession as GDP (Gross Domestic Product) decreased anywhere from 1.4%- 1.6% in the first quarter of 2022 (down from a positive increase of 6.9% from the fourth quarter of 2021). But whether we will have a soft or a much more challenging harder landing will be determined as we move forward and see the numbers that come about over the next six months.

Could we go into a depression? I hope not! This could have a potentially huge effect on housing purchases and other commodities that make our economy as 70% based on consumer spending. Housing is a huge integral segment of the U.S. economy and when a home isn’t purchased, there is a domino effect as everything else that is bought for that home tends to follow suit and people slow or stop spending on those items.

Another variable that could affect our economy and housing has been raising its ugly head as the new variants of

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

the Covid-19 pandemic, the new BA.1BA.5 all first detected in South Africa.

With all these variables in the mix, determining where housing will go is a somewhat of a crapshoot. So far inflation has not been controlled, so everything is costing more and there is less disposable income.

But if you are going to potentially live in your home for at least 7-10 years, then purchasing will still be a better bet as opposed to renting, unless you are a fantastic stock picker and can earn more

playing the investment game. Rents will be escalating as more look to rent, competing for the limited current inventory.

Many will be waiting on the sidelines to save more money for a down payment and to see where the market will go before jumping back in to purchase.

This winter could present some opportunities to purchase depending on the weather and if we have a substantial amount of snow, some sellers may be more motivated to leave sooner for warmer climates. They just might be a bit more negotiable in selling their homes. Inventory is still tight in the Long Island area as well as many other locations (out West it has increased twoand three fold over the last year, as buying has slowed drastically, especially in overvalued areas).

Although more jobs than expected have been created, you have to look at your personal finances and situation to determine will your purchase be the best decision to make for you and your family’s future. Can you consider an apartment instead of a house? Will your job or income be there in the future to support your expenditures? Can you afford the total monthly payments plus have a little extra on the side for emergencies?

You can always refinance in the future, assuming rates will come down

and it will make sense in the pocketbook. If the market slows excessively, then the banks will be forced to lower their rates. Consumers have less disposable income to spend at the moment, due to food and energy costs causing store inventories to increase so you will see sales occurring and wait until the pre-holiday sales begin, I know I can’t wait until that day comes.

Bottom line, you have to decide very carefully about home ownership, but as history has shown, it has been the number one way to build wealth in the U.S., grow roots in the community and gain life-long friendships and connections.

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Keys to business succession planning

BY J O S E P H G .

MILIZIO, ESQ. As an exit planner, I don’t start from the beginning. I start from the end.

Studies indicate that over 70% of former business owners are unhappy with the results of their exit plan.

Why? A major part is insufficient proceeds. Without proper planning, you won’t know if the proceeds of sale will meet your financial needs. And those needs start with your objectives after leaving the business.

This requires an analysis of the business. Do you know what the business is worth? Will the cash flow be sufficient to support you and your family after you leave it? Do you know what you can expect to receive from your non-business investments?

The aim of a business succession plan is to increase value, over a period of time, so that when the exit takes place your objectives are met.

Although each exit plan is unique, they share common characteristics.

There must be a written plan, so that progress can be measured. Exit planning is not a short-term process. It takes preparation and time to implement. Without a written plan, it may never be carried out and will certainly take longer to achieve.

Many business owners do not set

clear objectives and, therefore, cannot put an exit plan into place. The following three questions are a good start: When do I want to move on from my business? What annual income will I need during retirement? Whom do I want to transfer my business to?

(The latter can include family members, key employees, co-owners, third parties, and employee stock ownership plans.)

Once the framework is put into writing, the focus will be on maintaining and increasing business value. There are many ways to maxi-

mize value, including increasing cash flow, implementing efficient systems and procedures, making sure that key employees are retained, and minimizing income tax liability.

The choice to sell to a third party or to transfer to insiders (whether coowners, family members, or key employees) requires different planning.

A sale to a third party will focus on maximizing value, since you’ll effectively be paid at the closing.

A transfer to insiders will focus on minimizing income tax consequences, to both you and the buyer, and minimize your risk of not being

paid in full. Let’s face it—insiders will most likely not have the cash to purchase the business. You’ll be paid from earnings generated by the business. As such, you will be receiving installment and other payments from the company over an extended period of time. If there is an insufficient cash flow, your exit plan could fail.

Keep in mind that there will always be two income tax obligations on the sale of a business. The first is the income tax charged to the buyer, when they receive income from the business. The second is the capital gains tax assessed against the seller.

So the goal is to obtain the lowest defensible evaluation for the ownership interest in order to protect those hard-earned dollars from being subjected to double taxation. The best way to do that? Create unfunded obligations to yourself from the business long before the actual transfer takes place. These may consist of deferred compensation, leasing of real estate, and distribution of Subchapter S dividends.

The best way you can receive dividends and maintain control until you’re paid in full is to retain a controlling ownership interest in the business until financial security is assured. This may entail a purchase in phases, whereby insider third parties purchase a minority interest in the

business until it satisfies its obligations to you. This method can also create valuation discounts, allowing insiders to buy-in at a lower price.

Of course, selling over time requires a contingency plan in the event of your death or disability. Otherwise, a business can be left with a sharp upswing in value, but also extremely vulnerable from a continuity perspective. As a business owner, you must have adequate agreements in place to protect the business from catastrophe. For example, a buy/sell agreement with a co-owner or incentive stock options.

Successful business owners often develop strategies based on experience, but the typical business owner cannot afford to learn from mistakes after they’ve already implemented their succession plan. A team of skilled and experienced advisors will help you prepare an exit plan that meets your objectives and allows you to have a successful business exit.

Joseph Milizio is the Managing Partner of Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP. He leads the firm’s Business and Transactional Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate, Exit & Succession Planning for Business Owners, and LGBTQ Representation practices. He can be reached at jmilizio@vmmlegal.com and 516.437.4385 x108.

Guidance Center names New medical society officers new board member North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, the preeminent not-forprofit children’s mental health agency on Long Island, is pleased to announce that Michael Schnepper has joined its board of directors.

Schnepper, a Partner in Rivkin Radler’s Commercial Litigation, Insurance Coverage and Insurance Fraud Practice Groups, is a longtime supporter of the Guidance Center’s mission to bring hope and healing to children and families facing mental health challenges.

For nearly a decade, Schnepper has served as co-chair of one of the most important of the Guidance Cen-

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“We feel extremely fortunate to have Michael joining us,” said Paul Vitale, president of the Guidance Center’s Board of Directors. “He has been a vital force in making the Krevat Cup a huge success year after year, and he approaches the role with enthusiasm, creativity and a wonderful sense of humor. We have no doubts that he will bring that spirit to his work on our Board.”

“It’s a real privilege to become part of the dynamic team at the Guidance Center,” said Schnepper. “The past few years have been an enormous challenge for the kids and families of Long Island, making the need for compassionate, expert mental health services more important than ever before.

I look forward to working with the dedicated board members who give so much of their time and devotion to this amazing organization.”

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The Nassau County Medical Society would like to congratulate its new officers for 2022-2023. Through their leadership and service to all Nassau County and New York State physicians, we are progressing the art and science of medicine.

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3 bd, 3 ba, 2,484 sqft, Sold On: 5/10/22, Sold Price: $1,545,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Manhasset

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Flower Officials bash proposed LIRR changes Hill major crime up Continued from Page 12 The law aims to reduce the number of prisoners who are incarcerated because of their inability to pay bail.

Its supporters claim it reduces unnecessary imprisonment.

“The bail reform is causing increases in crime,” said Begis. “We can talk about that all you want. We can try a lot of things, but it’s not going to change. It will feel good talking about it. It’s not gonna change anything.”

Several area officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, are adamant opponents of the law.

“Unfortunately, with the new bail reform, [criminals] get released,” said Vilchez. “So we can arrest these guys a thousand times, but they’ll come back a thousand times because guess what?

It’s easy.”

Both officers pleaded for residents to always lock their vehicles and never leave their keys inside. Begis said how this recent wave of criminals avoids conflict.

“The good news is we don’t have many instances where bad guys want to have any kind of interaction with us,” he said. “The problem with that is if you saw the video of that house where they were trying the doors, it’s scary. It scared me. I’ve been doing this for a long time.”

He urged residents to contact the police if they notice anything unusual, noting that nobody reported the incident until nearly nine hours had passed.

“I’m not going to point fingers or anything, but they were so concerned they rolled over, went back to bed and called at 9 o’clock in the morning,” said Begis. “We can’t do anything at that point.”

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Continued from Page 2 Zuckerman said many individuals move to the area because of the accessibility individuals have to New York City while maintaining a suburban lifestyle.

“As someone who commuted into the city for many years, I understand how upsetting it can be that the previous schedule has been changed,” Zuckerman said. “Many of my constituents have relied on this schedule for a number of years and have moved to our community because of the convenience of the LIRR to New York City.”

State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills) and Sillitti said more than 2,200 responses were submitted in a survey conducted over the past three weeks, with an “overwhelming majority” being in opposition to the draft schedule, Sillitti said.

“The proposed schedule changes and elimination of peak services will negatively impact thousands of commuters who rely on the Long Island Rail Road for their daily commute,” the assemblywoman said. “We’ve heard from countless residents who decided to move to North Hempstead because of the fast and easy commute to Manhattan, which is why we’ve seen such an overwhelming response to these proposed changes.”

“At a time when we’re trying to get people safely back to the office and using mass transportation, we should be working to make commutes easier, but this proposal by the Long Island railroad does the opposite, and we’re not going to accept it,” Kaplan said.

MTA spokeswoman Joanna Flores said in a statement the agency is “prepared to work with the Town” to “provide even more service” on the Port Washington branch, noting that improvements would rely on the town supporting efforts to expand train storage along the line.

Pocket tracks, typically located at or near stations, are a place for trains to pull over and park without using the main tracks.

Thomaston Mayor Steven Weinberg said village residents and others who rely on the Great Neck station should not have to “shoulder the burden” of providing the LIRR with a pocket

PHOTO COURTESY OF SEN. KAPLAN’S OFFICE

Local officials gathered for a press conference to discuss the potential changes to the Port Washington LIRR branch on Tuesday. track built to allow LIRR trains to turn around and then face fare hikes in exchange for longer commutes.

Weinberg and Kensington Mayor Susan Lopatkin said express service into New York City has been a longstanding part of LIRR service that Great Neck should not have to be deprived of.

“Currently there are six trains to New York between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. Under the

proposed schedule there would be only two,” Lopatkin said. “This is totally unacceptable.

Likewise, reducing the off-peak service to Penn station to hourly only is equally problematic to our residents.”

The MTA is holding a virtual meeting on Wednesday at 6 p.m. to discuss the draft schedule and hear residential concerns. More information, including the meeting link, will be available at www.mta.info.

Suozzi endorses Lafazan for CD3 Continued from Page 3 1179, expressed their support for Kaiman last week.

“As the former City Council member from the 27th Council District and co-chair of its progressive Caucus, Daneek commands respect from his colleagues and is well known as a strong advocate on the issues that matter for working families,” said Kaiman. “This includes transit equity, housing, jobs, education and justice at all levels of government.”

Kaiman ran North Hempstead from 2004 to 2013. He has served as Suffolk County’s deputy executive since 2017.

Mark Henry, the president of ATU 1056, described him as a defender of their common values and principles.

“Jon Kaiman best understands the pressing needs of the working families and working people of District 3 and Queens,” he said, “where our members work and many also live and which remains primarily bus dependent more than reliant on subways and rails.”

Kaiman said he is running to restore the Democratic Party’s founding principles. Following his meetings with the union boards, he reaffirmed his dedication to northeast Queens.

“Improvement to transit infrastructure, especially bus service in northeast Queens, is essential to a recovering economy,” he said. “As a

representative in Congress, I pledge to advocate for the need for major transit projects and the funding necessary to ensure the safety of our public transportation employees.”

His most notable endorsement is Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone. Bellone has called Kaiman one of the most effective politicians in the state.

Zimmerman’s campaign recently announced an endorsement from the New York State AFL-CIO as he runs in the Democratic primary for the 3rd CD. The union is a federation of 3,000 affiliated public sector, private sector and building trades unions throughout the state, representing 2.5 million members, retirees and their families. In their announcement of the 2022 endorsement slate, the union said they “carefully researched candidates before making these recommendations as the best choices for working people in New York State.”

Zimmerman has referred to himself as the candidate of organized labor in the primary race.

“I’m honored and proud to announce that I’ve been endorsed by the New York State AFLCIO. Union values are core American values and organized labor is the backbone of our country and our communities here in NY-03. I am proud to be the candidate of organized labor in this

race. Labor will always be my partner and have a seat at the table for as long as I serve in Congress, and I am ready to be a tireless advocate and fighter for working families. From fighting to pass the PRO Act to advocating for fair pay, safe workplace conditions, and better benefits – protecting working families will be my priority in DC.” Additional unions to endorse Zimmerman include New York State United Teachers, Retail Wholesale & Department Store Union, Retail Wholesale & Department Store Union Local 338, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, District Council 9, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades, National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 300 and the American Federation of Government Employees District 2 Zimmerman is co-president of ZE Creative Communications on Bond Street in Great Neck, a public relations firm he started 33 years ago with Ron Edelson.

If elected, Zimmerman would become the first openly gay member of Congress from Long Island and Queens. Other endorsements for Zimmerman’s campaign have come from former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Assemblyman Charles Lavine and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

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DeSena requests building dept. audit Continued from Page 1 to Philips asking for a full audit of the Building Department.

“I believe that the results of this audit will deliver us a roadmap detailing what is ailing the department and the best way forward to implement meaningful change,” DeSena wrote.

Philips’ office confirmed receipt of the letter in a statement.

“The Comptroller’s Office has a process in place for the independent review of requests for audits and has commenced this process,” the office said.

DeSena said whether the audit is financial or operational, its scope if conducted is determined by the Comptroller’s Office.

In 2017, Nassau Supreme Court Justice Roy Mahon ruled that then Comptroller George Maragos exceeded his authority when seeking to conduct a performance audit in the Hempstead Town Animal Shelter, Newsday reported.

Maragos issued subpoenas that went beyond the shelter’s budget and financials and were quashed, Newsday reported.

The town’s Building Department has been a focal point for the town and was one of the major issues DeSena campaigned on last year.

In April, DeSena proposed a resolution

mandating the town’s Building Department commissioner, John Niewender, to make a decision on expedited permits within seven days and removing the Town Board’s ability to override the department’s decisions. The reform was initially blocked by Democrats and reintroduced at a later meeting following changes in wording that avoided potential legal obstacles.

Lurvey also submitted a similar resolution aimed at the Building Department that would “make modifications to the procedure on requests for expedited permit application review.”

Both officials acknowledged that the pieces of legislation focused on similar goals and the Town Board has been working over the summer to introduce a bipartisan piece of legislation at an upcoming board meeting.

The Town Board also unanimously passed a resolution this year that requires monthly reports from the Building Department be given to the Town Board as opposed to annually.

Lurvey has continued to detail the improvements the Building Department has seen since she was elected over three years ago, including more staff hires, offering extended hours to employees and installing the Citizenserve software platform.

North Hempstead was the first munici-

pality in the state to use Citizenserve, which provides online Building Department services for residents and can be accessed at www.mytonh.com.

Dalimonte echoed Lurvey’s remarks, welcoming an audit from Philips and her team while touting the importance of the monthly reports.

“It’s important that any strategies or reforms are based on factual information and not simply reacting to anecdotal accounts that may not necessarily tell the whole story,” Dalimonte said. “I also believe we should have a complete and thorough examination of the Building Department.

DeSena called the department “scandalplagued” In 2007, five Building Department officials were indicted after a 16-month investigation by then Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice for receiving favors and payments in exchange for granting permits without inspections.

All five were later convicted, including former Commissioner David Wasserman, who was sentenced to one year in jail in 2008 after pleading guilty to grand larceny and falsifying business records.

LIJ nurse, Port resident honored by Biden Continued from Page 2 ple received this accolade, including Olympic champions Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe.

Lindsay is the first Jamaican-American who was born in Jamaica to get the medal.

“During the pandemic, while working with my fellow nurses and colleagues on the frontlines, we waited for that sliver of hope – a vaccine – to help keep us going,” said Lindsay. “It was an honor to raise my hand and volunteer to take the vaccine.”

Additionally, she has fought to refute medical myths and fight for global access to quality healthcare.

“I am beyond thankful to President Biden for recognizing that momentous day and my continued efforts to end vaccine hesitancy and promote health care for everyone, no matter where you live, who you are, or the color of your skin,” she said.

Lindsay has now met with President Biden twice on trips to the White House. Last July, he presented her with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Outstanding Americans by Choice recognition in a ceremony.

Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, said she embodies courage.

“That small brave act of getting the vaccine

PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH

Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse from Northwell Health, was honored at the White House where President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to her. has rippled across the world and continues to leave a lasting impact,” he said. “We are proud

of Sandra and what she represents to our Northwell family and beyond.”

Course concerns persist Continued from Page 10 Viras said the final prices for outings are determined by the number of people attending and the food and beverage package chosen. Outings also vary in start times ranging from 7:30 a.m. to noon.

Harbor Hills offers an extensive menu of packages that includes a “full beverage cart” for $18 per person and “dinner enhancements” such as a sushi platter for 40 people at $185 and a cold seafood platter at $15 per person.

In the month of June, Harbor Links had private outings on June 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 22, 27 and 29.

In July, Harbor Links has private outings scheduled for July 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 22, 25 and 28.

Viras said for August there are scheduled outings for Aug. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23 and 29, which are subject to change.

Genicoff questioned whether or not the golf course bargained hard to have the power to schedule as many outings as they want or if the town just ceded it to them while asking who enjoys the increased revenue.

“If Harbor Links management benefits financially from all these outings then shame on the town for allowing this excess,” Genicoff said. “If the town benefits this revenue at the expense of residents, taxpayers and players then shame on them.”

Supervisor Jennifer DeSena thanked both Hohauser and Genicoff for bringing up their concerns and they will be considered when the town’s current contract with the golf course expires this December.

Since at least 2013, the town has had a management agreement with the golf course, according to a financial and operational review released in 2016.

The 2016 report said participation and revenues for the sport were down throughout the country. Between 2003 to 2018, the sport saw a decline of over 6.8 million players and over 1,200 course closures, according to financial data and software company FactSet.

Manhasset mom’s fight up for Emmy Continued from Page 10 Kyra’s Champions and the Kyra Franchetti Foundation, whose mission is to protect children in custody cases from being ordered by a court into the home of an abusive parent.

One of the bills Franchetti has pushed for recently went to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for her signature after it cleared both legislative chambers.

That measure, Senate Bill S6385, requires court-ordered forensic evaluations involving child custody and visitation by a licensed psychologist, social worker or psychiatrist who has

completed a training program developed by the state’s Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

In May, Senate Bill S8578B, which prohibits certain forensic child custody evaluators from appearing as expert witnesses in Family Court, passed the Senate. It must now pass the Assembly before reaching Hochul’s desk to be signed.

Murphy’s series also discussed the story of Zoey Pereira, a Queens 3-year-old who died in a burning car after her father Martin allegedly doused the car with gasoline and locked the doors shut with chains in May 2019.

Martin died in the hospital months later

from injuries sustained in the incident, according to multiple reports.

Martin Pereira and Cherone Coleman, Zoey’s mother, were in the middle of a child custody battle during the tragedy, He was charged with murder, arson and reckless endangerment but never faced a judge because of his wounds, according to the Daily News.

Murphy won her 30th Emmy Award in 2020 for her coverage of “The Junior Files” on the bodega murder of 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior Guzman Feliz.

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Many claim that following legislative acts, the switch to a different mascot should have occurred by now.

The American Psychological Association had recommended the retiring of mascots depicting Native Americans back in 2005.

During the same year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association had adopted a policy forbidding col-

leges and universities from displaying “hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/ national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery at any of the 88 NCAA championships.” Due to that, the Syracuse Saltine Warriors changed to the Orangemen and the St. John’s University Red Men became the Red Storm, among others.

When the Board of Education held a zoom meeting, there was overwhelming support for a change.

Of the 29 community speakers at one meeting, only five were against changing the mascot. Manhasset alumni, current students, and parents were among those who decided to take part. Ethnic Indians in the Manhasset community also voiced

their support for a different mascot.

As far as student support is concerned, at the end of the 2020-2021 school year, 35 Manhasset High School seniors co-signed a letter which indicated their support for keeping the Manhasset mascot as the Indians and called for an annual school day reserved for Indian tribal members to come in and educate the community.

“We propose an Indian Appreciation Day in Manhasset, where community members are invited to educate and immerse themselves in Indian culture at Mary Jane Davies Park,” the letter said.

Tribal members don’t seem to agree with that, however. Sadanyah FlowingWater of the Montaukett tribe

and Jeremy Dennis of the Shinnecock Indian Nation both formally asked the school to change the mascot.

Along the same lines, representatives from the Montaukett, Shinnecock, Ungechauk, and Matinecock nations urged the district to change the mascot at a different Board of Education meeting. Although their efforts did not sway the minds of many, Helen Sells of the Setalcott Nation considered the meeting an opportunity to “educate” the general public on the matter.

The mascot will certainly continue to be an ongoing controversy in the Manhasset community since people are still generally divided on the issue.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

American Cancer 2022 Women’s Roll of Honor Society fundraiser Turn Key Real Estate is sponsoring its first annual Fund Raiser for the American Cancer Society on August 11, 2022, at Governor’s Comedy Club at 90 Division Ave Levittown.

We need to fund the R & D to further continue to make inroads to irradicate this insidious disease. With everyone’s help, this will be accomplished. Please join us in this worthy, crucial, and critically important event.

There will be a multitude of wellknown and surprise guest comedians for your entertainment. Also, a number of valuable raffles will be available to bid on. Tickets must be purchased in ad-

vance and no ticket purchases or walkins will be allowed on Thursday, August 11, 2022.

Call Philip A. Raices for more details: (516) 647-4289.

EAC Network, L.I. Ducks work together EAC Network has announced a collaboration with the Long Island Ducks for the July 28 game at 6:35 p.m. at the Long Island Ducks Stadium in Central Islip.

A portion of the ticket sales (purchased via EAC Network) will go directly to supporting the Children’s Center at Cohalan Court.

The Children’s Center at Cohalan Court in Suffolk County, established in 1996, provides a safe and free environment where children engage in fund and educational activities while caregivers attend to court business.

EAC Network and the Long Island Ducks are devoted to the Long Island community. These funds will allow the Children’s Center to continue to offer an alternative to crowded courtrooms and waiting areas and enable children to receive great care while their parents or caregivers are attending to court obligations.

Chris Kelly, development and grants

manager at EAC stated: “EAC Network is grateful to partner with the Long Island Ducks to support EAC’s Children’s Center at Cohalan Court. At EAC, we believe in equity, and the Children’s Center is a great representation of that. We encourage Long Island families to come out and enjoy an evening at a Long Island Ducks game with us!”

This collaboration between EAC Network and the Long Island Ducks occurs at a time when the agency is doubling down on its efforts to raise money in order to continue to serve the Long Island community. While this particular event will raise funds to protect children, EAC assists people at all stages in life. EAC protects children & youth, promotes healthy families & communities, supports seniors, and empowers individuals to gain control of their lives.

To purchase your ticket of $20.22 and support the Children’s Center, please visit: https://givebutter.com/MoreToDo

N.Y. Tech program ranked top 5 in state New York Institute of Technology’s M.B.A. program was ranked No. 45 out of 2,523 graduate business programs in the U.S. in “The Most Popular Degree Pays Off: Ranking the Economic Value of 5,500 Business Programs at More Than 1,700 Colleges,” Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW).

In determining the economic value of a total of 5,500 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the CEW study looked at ROI metrics, including earnings, debt payments, and earnings net of debt payments.

It used data from the 2022 U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, which showed monthly earnings

for New York Tech M.B.A. graduates of $8,000, monthly debt payments of $450, and annual earnings net of debt payments of $91,200. The latter figure places New York Tech fifth in New York State, just $1,200 less than No. 4 Fordham. The CEW’s top 3 M.B.A. programs in the state were Columbia, Cornell, and New York University.

Overall, the CEW noted: “Majoring in business typically pays off. While graduates’ earnings and federal student loan debt vary by institution and degree level, the majority of business programs lead to median earnings that are roughly 10 times graduates’ debt payments two years after program completion.”

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Town Clerk Ragini Srivastava were proud to recognize the honorees for the Annual May W. Newburger Women’s Roll of Honor. The gathering was held to celebrate the achievements of this year’s extraordinary women.

Event chairperson Ragini Srivastava said, “I am proud we could continue the long-standing tradition of the Town of North Hempstead to recognize the achievements of extraordinary women and to thank them on behalf of a grateful community.”

“It was an honor to induct this year’s class to the Women’s Roll of Honor. The Town is so proud to celebrate these exceptional women who have helped make our communities a better place,” said Supervisor DeSena.

The breakfast began with the Nassau County Police Department Color Guard presenting the colors and Nassau County Police Inspector Leslie Mould Olsen leading the Pledge of Allegiance. Soprano Christine Birke, Director of the Herricks High School Chamber Ensemble, delivered a beautiful rendition of our National Anthem.

Generous sponsors Flushing Bank, Americana Manhasset, Castagna Realty, and the Castagna Family helped make the event possible.

Since 1994, North Hempstead has held the Women’s Roll of Honor to honor women who have contributed to their community or have accomplished a significant achievement through public or private efforts. The Wom-

en’s Roll of Honor is named after the late May W. Newburger who served as North Hempstead Supervisor from 1994 to 2003.

Stay tuned for video footage from the event which will premiere on NHTV channel 18 or 65 on Cablevision and channel 46 on Verizon FIOS and on the Town’s YouTube page: www.youtube.com/townofnorthhempstead. The schedule can be found on www.mynhtv.com The 2022 Honorees: Moriah Adamo, Roslyn Heights Janice Chew, Great Neck Dr. Judith B. Esterquest, Manhasset Prabha Golia, Manhasset Marylou Grady, Albertson Denise Heckelman, Mineola Arezou Hariri Tolou, Kings Point Diane Venezia Livingston, Port Washington Carmen Lloyd, Westbury Dr. Tess Ma, Roslyn Heights Maryann McDermott, Williston Park Dr. Subhadra Nori, Old Westbury Dr. Cynthia Orellana, Westbury Maria ‘Cina’ Agostinho Palumbo, Mineola Moji Pourmoradi, Great Neck Lily Soo, New Hyde Park Nazarie Williams, Westbury Desiree Woodson, Manhasset

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

North Hempstead Town officials along with New York State and Nassau County representatives honor the inductees for the 2022 Women’s Roll of Honor.

Baby shower for military moms The Islanders Children’s Foundation and Operation Shower joined forces on Wednesday, July 6, to host a baby shower for 25 military moms-to-be at the UBS Club at UBS Arena. The shower was also supported by Islanders partner Ryan.

The 25 expectant moms are all active duty service members or the spouses or partners of deployed members of local military bases. The shower was hockeythemed and shared a catered lunch, raffle prizes, and the distribution of Operation Shower’s signature “Showers in a Box” — gifts of high-quality products for mothers and babies that have been generously donated by companies including Delta Children, Playtex and Skip Hop. “We’re thrilled to be a part of today’s event with Operation Shower and the New York Islanders Children’s Foundation to make sure these new and expecting moms have everything they need,” said Joseph Shamie, preside Is of Delta Children. “We acknowledge their service and the sacrifices they have made and hope this donation stands as a small token of our appreciation.”

All of the moms received Islanders’ baby onesies so that their little ones can

rep their new favorite sports team. Shannon Hogan of MSG Network served as the event’s emcee.

“The Islanders are proud to partner with Operation Shower as we express our appreciation to these courageous military moms-to-be for their service and sacrifice on behalf of our country,” said Islanders Senior Director of Community Relations Ann Rina. “We are delighted to welcome these new little “rookies” into the Islanders family.”

“For women who are expecting a baby and whose spouses are deployed, and especially for expectant moms who

are active duty, the impending arrival of a child can be both exciting and stressful,” said Operation Shower Founder and Chief Shower Officer LeAnn Morrissey. “Operation Shower was created because typically military moms are the ones who hold it all together at home. These moms deserve our support, our appreciation, and an opportunity to celebrate this wonderful milestone together.”

This event was the second time the organization have collaborated to host the event and are looking forward to partnering again in the future to bring more help and recognition for these moms.

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Manhasset varsity lacrosse bought home two state championship cups this season and they’re not stopping just yet. It comes as no surprise to any Long Island resident to hear that Manhasset lacrosse stars have bright futures as Manhasset consistently churns out Division One lacrosse commits. The burning question is: How do they do it?

A lot of residents like to joke that lacrosse players in Manhasset are born with sticks in their hands, but that’s not as much of a joke as it is an anecdote.

As soon as these kids can walk, they’re learning to cradle a lacrosse ball in their own miniature stick.

By the time they’ve learned their ABCs, they’ve also made their first successful passes. But in reality, this extra time spent mastering the fundamentals of this game is crucial to setting these young stars apart from other players.

This extra time and stronger groundwork in a sport that these kids continue to play throughout high school, and for some, throughout college, goes a long way. Overall, having those small successes at a young age leaves so much time and room for improvement and by the time fourth grade club lacrosse tryouts roll around, little Manhasset laxers are more than ready to take on their competition.

Making the A teams only secures their spot as the best of the best.

In fact, not only is P.A.L. lacrosse the beginning of the athletic journey of many, but it’s also where many children start to make their first friends. Varsity player and state champion Ava Malysa describes it as a cycle where “you make friends because of lacrosse and you want to keep playing lacrosse because you’re playing with your friends.” She recalls hanging out with teammates who she has known since she was young and she considers it a great benefit for them all to have been able to grow up as a team together.

The Manhasset community is indubitably a leading contributor to the overall success of Manhasset lacrosse. It’s a really tight-knit community and it’s fairly common for the lacrosse teams to host pasta parties on the night before games or for them to go into town and grab breakfast together every so often. A major part of this support system is the general community.

Whether it be parents, siblings, or future lacrosse players, everyone shows up for big games to cheer on the local athletes. The players only egg on these fans, with elaborate goal celebrations like a bowling set up. These players are an inspiration to the younger fans and they remember being those little fans who used to watch the varsity players win a game, and now they’re the varsity players themselves.

This acts as motivation for much of the team

and resonates with all these Manhasset lacrosse celebrities who signed many balls once they returned back home after winning the state championship this year. This support system would not be complete without the coaches and athletic trainers.

Manhasset has several coaches for each lacrosse team who are super enthusiastic about the game.

They cheer their players on, pick them up, and push them to reach their full potential.

A crucial ingredient in this recipe for success is adequate practice. The school team practiced everyday except for Sunday for at least two hours and conditioned at the end of the week. Coaches would teach the athletes how to hone the skills they most needed. For instance, defense would work on footwork and attackers would work on shots. There were focused one vs. one and two vs. two drills which forced players to go up and improve their coordination and their confidence.

To be the best of the best, however, the hard work doesn’t stop there. The varsity teams had an optional additional draw training before practice started on Saturdays. Moreover, most Manhasset Lacrosse athletes also play club lacrosse for top teams such as Top Gun Lacrosse and the Long Island Yellow Jackets to stay in shape during the off-season.

During winter, most Manhasset athletes spend their time at gyms such as P10, which have specialized trainers who keep lacrosse players in shape through intense workouts so that these athletes come back onto the field stronger and faster.

During the summer, there are a multitude of club lacrosse tournaments which serve as a perfect opportunity for those looking to get recruited to get noticed by scouts.

As far as recruiting is concerned, Manhasset is a spotlight for a lot of lacrosse websites. Companies like Long Island Lacrosse Journal and The New York FaceOff Academy are often highlighting Manhasset lacrosse athletes and helping them through their commitment journey to D1 teams. Long Island Lacrosse Journal specifically streams box lacrosse and writes articles on the best players as well as the best moves of the season.

These brands stay up to date with all the most talented players to keep a lookout for and the season statistics of all the teams on Long Island. Through these exposure opportunities, Manhasset athletes have the chance to become partners for and make athletic deals with associations such as STX Lacrosse and Lacrosse Unlimited. From there, a lot of student athletes make highlight reel videos to feature their best moves and send it out to colleges for recruitment opportunities.

Ava Malysa summed it up best when she said, “Being so passionate about lacrosse is the ‘secret sauce’ and why we as Manhasset lacrosse are so successful.”

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