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Rotary donates supplies to schools

2022 Backpack Project Chair Rekha Gupta, Past RCHS President Roopam Maini, RCHS President Rizwan Qureshi, Hicksville Public Schools Director of Curriculum and Instruction Melissa Corbett, RCHS Secretary Dr. Neeru Bhambri. Photo courtesy of Hicksville Public Schools

Hicksville Public Schools was the recipient of 72 backpacks and school supplies from donations collected through the Rotary Club of Hicksville South. The presentation of backpacks and school supplies took place at the organization’s closing ceremony of the “Bright Beginnings” 2022 backpack project on Aug. 31. The program was supported by community leaders, representatives of community organizations and Rotary leadership.

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Two arrests in Levittown burglary

Nassau County Police arrested two people for burglary after a home on Violet Lane was burglarized on Wednesday, August 31.

According to police, at 1:56 p.m., a homeowner returned home to find her front door open and an unknown woman walking out carrying some of the homeowner's personal property. The unknown woman walked across the street, entered the passenger side of a white four door sedan occupied by an unknown male driver; the two fled the scene south on Violet Lane. Police say they determined that the proceeds had been sold, but detectives were able to recover the victim’s property and that

September 11th

Hicksville Fire Department Chief Christopher Moskos has announced that the Hicksville Fire Department will commemorate the anniversary the tragic events that took place on September 11, 2001. This year’s ceremony will take place Sunday, September 11, at the Strong Street Fire Station memorial. This memorial was erected in memory of Ex-Chief Terrence Farrell and Honorary Chief George Howard, both who lost their lives while performing rescue efforts on September 11, 2001. Ex Chief Farrell, a member of Citizens Engine Company 3 and elite member of FDNY’s Rescue 4 and Honorary Chief Howard was an Ex-Captain of Emergency Company 5 and member of the Port Authority Police Department working out of JFK Airport in the Emergency Services Bureau.

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led to the arrest of both suspects.

On Thursday, September 1, at 6:08 p.m., detectives located two suspects in Westbury and arrested Cristina L. Carella, 31, of Levittown and Kyle Howell, 28, of Westbury. Each is charged with Burglary 2nd Degree and Grand Larceny 3rd Degree. Carella is additionally charged with Burglary 2nd Degree and Criminal Mischief for a crime that occurred on Arrow Lane, Hicksville on January 7, 2022.

In addition, Carella had a prior charge of Criminal Mischief on January 4, 2022; she was released without bail and no monitoring device.

commemoration

of the Hicksville Fire Department will honor the memory of Ex-Chief Farrell and Honorary Chief Howard along with those who once called Hicksville their home, who were taken from us as a result of those tragic events that occurred on September 11.

This year ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. This ceremony allows the Department and community to come together in prayer and in gratitude for the strength that has fortified all of us over these past 21 years. The Hicksville Fire Department invites the families of those who once called Hicksville home to participate in the program. If any family members are interested, they should contact the Hicksville Fire Dept. at 931-6444, Give your contact info and someone will get back to you.

Free waterfront festival, concert September 10

The Town of Oyster Bay has announced a Free Family-Fun Waterfront Festival and Concert will take place on Saturday, September 10, at TOBAY Beach Marina. In addition to the free concert featuring Jimmy Kenny and the Pirate Beach Band, the ultimate beach party tribute band to Jimmy Buffet, Kenny Chesney, and the Zac Brown Band, the day of free family fun will feature marine and outdoor exhibits, a children’s snapper derby, police boat demonstrations and much more! The festival will run from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

“The Town is thrilled to host this free family-fun Waterfront Festival and concert at beautiful TOBAY Beach Marina. This event is the perfect blend of family fun and entertainment, as it will not only feature educational exhibits for our young -

er residents, but also represents an opportunity to enjoy some live music at the beach before the summer season concludes,” Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said. “This free event also provides a great opportunity to introduce children to the wonderful recreational sport of fishing, as the event is free, and all equipment will be provided, as well as assistance and guidance.”

The Town of Oyster Bay Free Waterfront Festival and Concert is presented by Contour Mortgage and made possible through the following sponsors; Friendly’s, News12, Long Island Press, K-Joy 98.3, WHLI 1100 AM and Nassau Country Police Department.

For more information about the Waterfront Festival and Free Concert, call (516) 797-4121 or visit www.oysterbaytown.com

Casino bus trip

The Glen Cove - Hicksville - Syosset League of Mercy Hospital will be hosting a bus trip to the Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, September 27.

Cost will be $45 per person, which includes the driver’s tip and a $35 give back for slots play.

Please arrive by 8:30 a.m. Return will be approximately 8:30 p.m.

Parking is at #999 South Oyster Bay Road (dead end).

Please make checks payable to “Mercy League.” For reservations please call Barbara at 516-935-5576.

Walk for Recovery planned for September 18

The Town of Oyster Bay recently announced that it is partnering with Long Island United for Recovery to host its 7th annual walk, taking place on Sunday, September 18, at Marjorie Post Park in Massapequa. Check-in begins at 10:30 a.m. for an 11 a.m. walk start time. The event will be held rain or shine.

“We invite all residents to join us at this event, which will honor those who have lost their battle, encourage advocacy and awareness to create change, support those in the flight, and celebrate those in recovery,” said Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino. “We thank Long Island United for Recovery for all of their efforts to bring resources together to support those in need.”

Participants in the walk will be supporting those struggling with the disease of addiction, and celebrating those

in recovery and their family members. The event will have a resource fair, banner signing, recovery speakers as well as a DJ, free raffles, giveaways, activities for children, and refreshments.

“We thank Long Island United for Recovery and Drug Free Long Island for their partnership in bringing such important programs like this to the Town of Oyster Bay, helping to raise awareness and provide support for those who need it most,” said Councilwoman Maier.

To register or donate, visit https://7thannualliunitedwalk.ezregister.com. Any questions or inquiries about how to volunteer, can be directed to jtalento@drugfreeli.org. For more information, visit facebook.com/uniteforrecovery.

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Larceny arrest in Levittown

Nassau County Police arrested a Seaford man on Tuesday, August 30,for auto stripping and possession on burglar tools.

According to police, officers responded to a Newbridge Road address at 5:08 a.m. for a larceny in progress. Police say that when they confronted Scott Raba, 51, of Seaford, he fled northbound on Newbridge Road into a wooded area. He was apprehended and arrested there. Raba is charged with Auto Stripping in the 3rd Degree, Possession of Burglar Tools, Grand Larceny in the 4th Degree, and Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree. According to police, Raba was previously arrested March 12, 2021, for Criminal Possession in the 7th Degree and was issued a Desk Appearance Ticket with No Bail. They say he was also previously arrested on August 8, 2022 for a Larceny and was issued a Desk Appearance Ticket for which he was then release on his own recognizance.

TOBAY Beach season extended

The Town of Oyster Bay has extended the season at TOBAY Beach through Sunday, September 11. Lifeguards will be on duty to protect residents as they enjoy the nice weather and swim in the ocean – and for no charge on September 10 and 11.

“Residents are invited to savor the last of the summer season by visiting our beautiful TOBAY Beach for one more weekend this September,” Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino stated. “Not only will TOBAY remain open, but admission into the beach will also be free, making a visit to this staycation destination even more convenient and enticing.”

Residents visiting the beach on

Saturday, September 10, can also enjoy the Town’s free, family fun Waterfront Festival at TOBAY Marina. In addition to a free concert featuring Jimmy Kenny and the Pirate Beach Band, the ultimate beach party tribute band to Jimmy Buffet, Kenny Chesney, and the Zac Brown Band, the day of free family fun will feature marine and outdoor exhibits, a children’s snapper derby, police boat demonstrations and much more! The festival will run from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

For more information about this and other Town programs, visit the Town’s website at www.oysterbaytown.com.

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Property tax exemption workshops scheduled

Nassau County Legislators Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview) and Josh Lafazan (D-Woodbury), in in conjunction with the Nassau County Department of Assessment, announces the 2022 series of Property Tax Exemption Workshops for local residents.

During the workshops, Department of Assessment staff will assist residents with filing for veteran, senior citizen, Cold War veteran, volunteer firefighter and ambulance worker, limited-income disability and/or home improvement exemptions. Enhanced STAR applications will also be processed for homeowners already enrolled in the STAR program prior to Jan. 2, 2015.

All workshops are from 1 – 2:30 p.m. Participants should bring copies of their 2021 federal and state income tax returns and other required documentation with them to workshops; for a complete list, visit https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/3575/ Exemption-Forms or call the Nassau County Department of Assessment at 516571-1500.

Upcoming local workshops include:

• Monday, October 3: Syosset Public Library, 225 S. Oyster Bay Road, Syosset

• Thursday, October 6: Hicksville Public Library, 169 Jerusalem Ave., Hicksville

• Thursday, October 20: Plainview Jewish Center, 95 Floral Drive, Plainview

Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan

Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker

Bethpage Schools welcome three new administrators

The Bethpage Union Free School District recently welcomed three new administrators. Alyssa White was appointed as the director of fine and performing arts, a newly created position in the district, while Dominique Siebert and Julianne Inghilterra were named the new principal and assistant principal, respectively, of Central Boulevard Elementary School.

Prior to joining the Bethpage community, Mrs. White was deeply involved in the growth of Lynbrook Public Schools’ music program as the Lynbrook High School orchestra director for the past 13 years. During that time, she also taught music theory and directed extracurricular ensembles such as chamber orchestra and pit orchestra.

Mrs. White spent seven years as adviser of the Lynbrook High School chapter of the Tri-M Music Honor Society and directed the color guard for the Lynbrook High School Marching Band for 12 years. She coordinated yearly large-scale performance trips and special events for upwards of 250 students and served as an administrative intern at Lynbrook High School and districtwide in the 2018-19 school year. She has also taught at Lynbrook North and South middle schools, as well as the Lynbrook Kindergarten Center. In addition to Lynbrook, Mrs. White also gained inspiration from her three summers spent working at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.

She received her Bachelor of Music in music education from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford and her Master of Music in music education from Five Towns College. In addition, Mrs. White holds certificates of advanced study in both school building leader and school district leader from

Alyssa White was named Bethpage Union Free School District’s director of fine and performing arts.

the College of St. Rose.

Mrs. Siebert has been a school administrator for 16 years. For the past 10 years, she served as an assistant principal in the Floral Park-Bellerose School District. Other administrative experiences include director of ELA, assistant principal and interim principal. Prior to that, she taught grades one, three and four and served as a reading teacher in New York City and in the Three Village School District.

Mrs. Siebert’s journey as an administrator began as a literacy coach in the Three Village School District, in which she worked closely with teachers and students and was able to be in the classroom every day. She received her

School Board September meetings

The Bethpage Board of Education will hold two meetings during September:

• Agenda Meeting: Tuesday, September 13, at 7:30 p.m.

• Regular Meeting: Tuesday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m.

Both meetings will be held in the conference room in the District Administration Building, 10 Cherry Ave., Bethpage.

Bereavement support group

A bereavement support group will be held on Mondays, 2:30–3:30 p.m. at Manetto Hill Jewish Center, 244 Manetto Hill Road, Plainview. Sessions are free. Please call (516) 935-5454 for information or to register.

Julianne Inghilterra is the new assistant principal of Central Boulevard Elementary School.

Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education administration from the University of Scranton. Mrs. Siebert continued her education at Fordham University where she earned her Master of Science degree in education, reading and then her reading recovery certification from NYU. She also received her certification in literacy from Lesley University and her administration certificate from Stony Brook University.

Mrs. Inghilterra is no stranger to the Bethpage Union Free School District. Since 2015, she has served as a special education teacher at Central Boulevard and Charles Champagne elementary schools and John F. Kennedy Middle School. Mrs. Inghilterra was also an

Dominique Siebert is the new principal of Central Boulevard Elementary School.

administrative intern in the district for a year and was the elementary/special education chairperson since 2020. In addition, she has been the Extended School Year principal since 2021 and has held various coaching roles throughout her time in Bethpage. She holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in both child study and mathematics from St. Joseph’s College. Mrs. Inghilterra then received her Master of Arts degree in literacy and cognition from St. Joseph’s College and completed the School Building/District Leadership Program through the College of St. Rose (CITE), School Leadership Cohort.

Back to school in Bethpage

Students throughout the Bethpage Union Free School District eagerly entered their school buildings for the 2022–2023 school year on Sept. 1. They received a warm welcome from administrators, teachers and faculty members as they walked to their classrooms with their backpacks filled with new

supplies. The day consisted of learning and getting to know their teachers and peers. Students who were new to their school became acclimated to their new environment. It was a great day filled with lots of smiles and excitement for the year ahead.

Photos courtesy of the

Kramer Lane students enjoyed the sunshine on the first day of school.

Fourth graders from Charles Campagne Elementary School were all smiles on the first day of school.

Kindergarten students from Central Boulevard Elementary School enjoyed music class on the first day of school.

Central Boulevard’s new principal Dominique Siebert (left) and new assistant principal Julianne Inghilterra (right) greeted students on the first day of school.

Kindergartners from Kramer Lane Elementary School made their own hats in honor of the first day of school.

Students from Charles Campagne Elementary School received a warm welcome back to school from Principal Erin Lindsay-DiFiglia.

Bethpage Union Free School District

This Week at the Syosset Public Library

Friday, September 9, at 2:00 p.m.

Hollywood Goes to the Library (VIRTUAL)

Presenter: Dr. Annette Bochenek, Ph.D., president, Backlot Chicago Chapter, Turner Classic Movies, and writer for Classic Movie Hub and other outlets

Librarians and libraries have been portrayed through classic films, spanning many genres. Join film historian Dr. Annette Bochenek as she presents depictions of librarians and libraries in classic films as well as the influence of special real-life librarians upon the film industry. The program will include a multimedia presentation consisting of photos, video clips and captivating stories. No registration needed. For Zoom link, go to syossetlibrary.org.

Saturday, September 10, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

SY-CON LITE (IN PERSON)

Sy-Con, a pop culture event, returns with Sy-Con Lite. There will be displays of amazing LEGO sculptures and contraptions brought to you by the LEGO user group I LUG NY, opportunities to meet and take photos with favorite superheroes and other science fiction characters, costume competitions, and more. Something for everyone. Join us for a fun-filled day. For more information, go to syossetlibrary.org.

Monday, September 12, at 9:15 a.m.

Line Dancing (IN-PERSON)

Instructor: Carol Rodriguez

It’s not just country and you don’t need a partner. You will be learning all styles of line dancing. Wear sneakers or flat sole shoes. Eight sessions. Fee: $32. Register at syossetlibrary.org.

Tuesday, September 13, at 10:45 a.m.

Yoga for Energy (In-person)

Instructor: Jenny Lu

This class combines the ancient wisdom of Qi energy with modern techniques to maximize the brain’s functions. Each class includes stretching, core strengthening, breathing exercises, meditation and relaxation. Ten sessions. Fee: $40. Register at syossetlibrary.org.

Wednesday, September 14, at 11:15 a.m.

Tai Chi (IN-PERSON)

Instructor: Jenny Lu

Practice mindful, gentle and flowing movements to improve balance, strength and stability. Wear sneakers or soft sole shoes. Chairs are available as an optional prop. Nine sessions. Fee: $36. Register at syossetlibrary.org.

Thursday, September 15, at 11:00 a.m.

Qi Gong (IN-PERSON)

Instructor: Jenny Lu

Qi gong is an ancient Asian healing mind-body practice that means energy work. Each class includes gentle stretching, guided breathing, energy meditation and mindful movements to improve balance, strength and immune function. Ten sessions. Fee: $40. Register at syossetlibrary.org.

Thursday, September 15, at 2:00 p.m.

Stephen T. Mather: Saving America’s Scenic Wonders (VIRTUAL)

Presenter: R.J. Lindsey, historical dramatist, researcher and writer

Stephen T. Mather was the founding director of the National Park Service, RJ Lindsey will tell the dramatic story of saving the parks from congressional neglect, ruthless loggers and greedy developers. Mather made millions in the Borax business. Learn about the first national park, Yellowstone, and about other parklands he saved. No Registration needed. For Zoom link, go to syossetlibrary.org.

Thursday, September 15, at 7:00 p.m.

Gangsters Vs. Nazis (IN-PERSON)

Presenter: Michael Benson, organized crime writer

The incredible, true story of Jewish mobsters enlisted by American lawmakers to intimidate and fight the German-American Bund and other Nazi organizations in the lead-up to World War II. From Long Island to Los Angeles, Murder Inc. took on the Nazis, disrupting rallies, thwarting their plans, and halting the plague of hate -without firing a single shot. No registration needed.

Friday, September 16, at 2:00 p.m.

Friday Movie at the Library (IN-PERSON)

Join us for an afternoon movie at the library. Check our website for the movie that will be shown. Go to syossetlibrary. org.

Town offers classes in drawing, painting, knitting

The Town of Oyster Bay has announced that the Department of Community and Youth Services, Cultural and Performing Arts Division (CAPA) will be once again offering exciting cultural enrichment programs for the fall 2022 season, and registration for all applications is now open.

“I am pleased to announce that the Town’s Cultural Enrichment Program will return once again this fall, as these enrichment programs offer residents the opportunity to develop a new skill while having fun in the process,” Town Councilwoman Vicki Walsh said. “Whether you’re an emerging artist or a resident looking for a new hobby, these classes offer a wonderful opportunity to broaden your horizons, and provide not only education but enjoyment as well.”

Classes will be held at either the Syosset-Woodbury Community Center, located at 7800 Jericho Turnpike in Woodbury or the North Massapequa Community Center, located at 214 N. Albany Avenue in North Massapequa depending on the workshop. Classes fill up quickly and are available on a first come, first served basis. Registration forms can be found at www.oysterbaytown. com/CAPA. Workshop schedules are as follows:

• Watercolor Painting I

– 10 weekly sessions on Mondays, 9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. at the SyossetWoodbury Community Center, beginning on September 12.

• Watercolor Painting II – 10 weekly sessions on Mondays, 12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. at the Syosset-

Woodbury Community Center, beginning on September 12.

• Oil Painting I (Beginners) – 10 weekly sessions on Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. at the SyossetWoodbury Community Center, beginning on September 13.

• Oil Painting II (Intermediate) – 10 weekly sessions on Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. at the SyossetWoodbury Community Center, beginning on September 13.

• Drawing Fundamentals –10 weekly sessions on Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. at the SyossetWoodbury Community Center, beginning on September 14.

• Sumi-e Painting – 10 weekly sessions on Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. at the Syosset-Woodbury Community Center, beginning on September 15.

• Painting with Acrylics –10 weekly sessions on Fridays from 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at the SyossetWoodbury Community Center, beginning on September 16.

• *NEW* Chunky Hand Knit Blanket – Choice of two workshops held on Thursday, November 17, from 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. OR Monday, November 28, from 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. at the North Massapequa Community Center.

To obtain an Enrichment Program flyer or obtain additional information on classes and registration, please visit www.oysterbaytown.com/ CAPA or call the Town’s Department of Community and Youth Services at (516) 797-7925.

Emotional health recovery support groups

An Emotions Anonymous 12 step program is held each Tuesday from 7:30-9 p.m. at the VFW, 55 Hickory Lane, Levittown. The sessions are also available virtually at the same time on Wednesday evenings.These

Attention students!

groups are geared to anyone experiencing emotional difficulties, such as anxiety or depression. For more information please call Steve at 631332-0552 or Jill at 516-220-7808. All calls are confidential.

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2022 WALK

3RD ANNUAL 5K WALK

September 17th, 2022

Start: Laurelton Entrance of LB boardwalk to support Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research! 2022 WALK

September 17th, 2022

Start: Laurelton Entrance of LB boardwalk to support Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research! 2022 WALK

Long Beach, NY @ 10 AM

Start: Laurelton Entrance of LB boardwalk to support Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research!

ForAllWhoFight.org / @ForAllWhoFight 3rd Annual 5k walk

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Proceeds to benefit Memorial Sloan Kettering Young Women with Breast Cancer Program and NYU Langone Ovarian Cancer Research.

BRUCE A. BLAKEMAN

NASSAU COUNTY EXECUTIVE

cordially invites you to attend Nassau County’s

Remembrance Ceremony and Musical Tribute 9/11

SUNDAY

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Recitation of names 6:15pm musical presentation 7:00pm

At Division Avenue HS, a warm welcome for freshmen

Ninth graders beginning their high school careers were welcomed to Division Avenue High School in the Levittown Public School District on Aug. 25.

Building administrators, staff and volunteer seniors ushered the new high schoolers into the auditorium, where tips and expectations for the upcoming year were shared. Students were introduced to the team of guidance counselors who will assistant them in navigating the start of this exciting chapter and

throughout their remaining time at Division Avenue.

Students were then taken on a tour of the school to a club fair, classrooms, their lockers and to the cafeteria. Volunteer seniors guided groups of freshmen while sharing their experiences getting involved in the Division Avenue community. The orientation helped students be prepared for the first day of school on Sept. 6.

Photos courtesy of Levittown Public Schools

Freshmen got a glimpse at Division’s clubs thanks to student volunteers.

Fitness classes for fall 2022

The Town of Oyster Bay has announced announced that residents who are interested in maintaining or improving their levels of fitness will be able to register for the Town’s popular Co-Ed Fitness Classes at the Hicksville Athletic Center. Classes run for 10 weeks and are offered to individuals 18 years of age or older.

“The Town’s fall co-ed recreational programs have consistently proven to be one of the most popular programs the Town offers each year, as they provide a terrific outlet for our residents to exercise and stay in shape,” said Town Councilwoman Laura Maier. “The Town’s Parks Department has done

an amazing job offering residents the opportunity to take advantage of these classes and stay physically active, creating an optimal environment for fitness and forging new friendships!”

This fall, residents can participate in a variety of fitness classes that will be held at the Hicksville Athletic Center:

• Ballroom Dancing: Saturdays, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., beginning October 1.

• Cardio KickBoxing: Thursdays, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., beginning October 6.

• Pilates: Mondays, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., beginning October 3rd.

• Yoga: Residents can choose their session from the following:

Saturdays (beginning October 1 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.), Sundays (beginning October 2 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.), Mondays (beginning October 3 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. *This class will be held at the Bethpage Ice Rink Community Room*), and Tuesdays (beginning October 4 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.).

• *NEW* Tai Chi: Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., beginning October 1.

• Zumba: Mondays (beginning October 3 from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.) or Wednesdays (beginning October 5 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.).

Registration will be available at the Hicksville Athletic Center, locat-

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ed at 167 S. Broadway in Hicksville, on September 12, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and September 13 and 14, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The schedule is subject to change. If a session is cancelled, make-up day(s) will be attempted. Class fees are $60 for residents and $70 for non-residents (checks or money orders only). Proof of residency/age required when registering, with TOB residents given first preference. Participants must bring their own mat to yoga and pilates. For more information, or to inquire about special holiday scheduling, please visit call (516) 797-7945 or email tobparks@oysterbay-ny.gov.

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At the start of the day, students were welcomed by Principal John Coscia and Assistant Principals Daniel Fazio and Sam McElroy.

Freshmen were welcomed to Division Avenue High School during orientation on Aug. 25.

Town offers sports programs for fall 2022

The Town of Oyster Bay invites residents to take part in Fall Athletic Programs for basketball, badminton, and volleyball, beginning on October 1 at the Hicksville Athletic Center. All athletic programs run for 10 weeks, are co-ed, and open to individuals 18 and over.

“The Town’s athletic programs offer a great opportunity for residents to take to the court, improve their skills and make new friends,” said Town Councilman Steve Labriola. “These recreational programs are a great way to have fun and stay active, and I encourage residents to take advantage of these Town programs.”

Basketball will be held on Thursdays from 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Saturdays from 8:15 a.m. to

10:00 a.m., and Sundays from 8:15 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., beginning on October 2, 2022. The basketball program is 10-weeks long and costs $25 for residents and $40 for non-residents. Registration will be held at the Hicksville Athletic (167 Broadway, Hicksville) on September 12, 13 and 14 between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Badminton will feature two sessions available for registrants to choose from. The first session consists of Tuesdays from 8:45 p.m. to 10:05 p.m., Fridays from 8:45 p.m. to 10:05 p.m., and Sundays from 6:10 p.m. to 8:10 p.m. Session 2 consists of Tuesdays from 10:15 p.m. to 11:35 p.m., Fridays from 10:15 p.m. to 11:35 p.m., and Sundays from 8:30 p.m.

to 10:30 p.m. The badminton program is 10 weeks long and costs $75 for residents and $100 for non-residents, with the program scheduled to begin on October 2, 2022. Registration will be held at the Hicksville Athletic (167 Broadway, Hicksville) on September 12 from 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. and on September 13 & 14 between the hours of 5:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m..

Volleyball will also feature two available sessions to choose from. The first session will be held on Mondays from 8:45 p.m. to 10:05 p.m.; Wednesdays from 8:45 p.m. to 10:05 p.m.; and Saturdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The second session will take place on Mondays from 10:15 p.m. to 11:35 p.m., Wednesdays

from 10:15 p.m. to 11:35 p.m., and Saturdays from 8:20 p.m. to 10:20 p.m. The volleyball program is 10 weeks long, costs residents $75 and $100 for non-residents, and is scheduled to begin on October 1, 2022. Registration will be held at the Hicksville Athletic (167 Broadway, Hicksville) on September 12 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and on September 13 and 14 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.'

Proof of residency is required for the resident discount. The schedule is subject to change. If a session is cancelled, make-up day(s) will be attempted. For more information, or to inquire about special holiday scheduling, please call (516) 797-7945 or email tobparks@oysterbay-ny.gov.

September 9, 2022

36 Hours in Amsterdam: Time-Traveling in the Jewish Quarter

BY KAREN RUBIN

TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE

I have cleverly arranged an extra day in Amsterdam after the eight-day BoatBikeTours Bruges-to Amsterdam bike trip, and I can’t afford to miss a minute. So after checking into my five-star luxury historic hotel, Sofitel Legend the Grand Amsterdam Hotel, marveling at my room (actually a suite), and having the concierge help purchase a timed ticket to the Rijksmuseum, I immediately set out.

Myfirststopismostremarkable: The Rembrandt House (Jodenbreestraat 4-6). This is Rembrandt van Rijn’s actual townhouse, which may surprise people to learn is on a street that used to be in the center of Jewish life in Amsterdam. Although Rembrandt was not Jewish, his paintings often reflect his life among the Jews in the city - scenes from the Old Testament and many portraits of the Jewish people who lived around him. But what is most remarkable are the insights into this master’s life and work and even his creative process as you go around the house, essentially restored and furnished in the way it was, when he lived here. The Rembrandthuis presents Rembrandt’s life, his epoch, an interesting collection of paintings by his contemporaries and his prints.

Rembrandt was doing well when he bought this townhouse, but when his fortunes turned and the house was sold, his possessions were inventoried – the museum recreates the house from that inventory as well as Rembrandt’s drawings, so they knew what was in specific rooms; the audio tour notes the objects (and you can get even more detail on many of the objects).

It is utterly fascinating to be in this space – his bedroom, his printing room (where you can lift leather coverings and see original etchings), his studio, his salon (actually a sales room). I learned that Rembrandt was an art dealer, and would have entertained clients in this parlor where there are a number of paintings on the wall as there would have been.

Rembrandt “would receive his clients with a glass of chilled wine from a marble wine cooler. On the walls hung dozens of paintings from which the client could choose. Rembrandt sold his own works and works by his many pupils. He also dealt in paintings by other masters. This was common practice among artists at this time. Rembrandt had Flemish and Italian works in stock, but most of the paintings were by Dutch masters.”

You walk through with your own audio device which gives a really excellent tour (allocate at least an hour), and notes the personal aspects, and you can point the sensor to a num-

Rembrandt van Rijn’s was doing well when he bought this townhouse, which may surprise people to learn is on a street that used to be in the center of Jewish life in Amsterdam © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com

ber and hear more details, like about the painting of an old man with bears, which was by one of his students).

“We know from paintings his wife was lying on the bed – she died at 29 giving birth to their son.”

In the kitchen, we see a stove which would have been an innovation in his day.

Rembrandt was ‘a ground-breaking etcher” and my favorite room is his print shop where we can see original etchings (they are put under leather covers in a darkened room to best preserve them, and are rotated every three months ). It is absolutely thrilling to see.

We go into a studio where Rembrandt taught art students – you could have been a Rembrandt pupil for 50 guilders a month (he had 40 students). “They would already have had a basis in art.”

Rembrandt had two mistresses after his wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh, died at the age of 29, giving birth to their son.

Rembrandt had 16 children but only three - a son and two daughterssurvived to adulthood. His son became an art dealer, and after Rembrandt’s bankruptcy, rented a house for himself and father and his mistress, Hendrickje Stoffels. His son died one year before Rembrandt.

I ask how Rembrandt went bankrupt. “He spent too much. Also, ‘Nightwatch’ – the three people who paid the most for the painting were not well represented in the painting; it went around that Rembrandt wasn’t a good portrait painter and he lost commissions (100G, equivalent to yearly salary). With commissions down, he went bankrupt.” [Later, I get to ask the docent at the Rijksmuseum when I visit “Nightwatch” who disputes this account.]

The Rembrandt House museum has a broad collection of Rembrandt’s works, but only a small portion is on view at any one time (they rotate to preserve the art).

t 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam, +31 (0)20 520 0400 museum@rembrandthuis.nl, https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/

It’s Saturday and just near the Rembrandthuis there is a regular – and massive - Waterlooplein (Waterloo square) flea market, started ages ago by Jewish peddlers (one of the few occupations allowed to Jews) and today is the largest flea market in Amsterdam. It’s definitely fun to visit (www.amsterdam.info/markets/ waterlooplein/)

Peering Back at 350 Years in the Jewish Quarter

The Jodenbuurt (Jewish Quarter) was inhabited by the Jewish community for 350 years, from the late 16th

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century up to the Holocaust.

Jewish people, culture and religion became an important element of life in Amsterdam from the early 1600s. Several countries in Europe guided by the Catholic Church, starting from the 13th C, had laws aimed at expelling Jews. During the counter-reformation in the 16th C, persecutions of Jews increased. While subject to many restrictions, Jews were permitted to settle in Amsterdam and peacefully observe their religion.

In 1593, a century after the Spanish Inquisition, Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain settled in this neighborhood of Amsterdam. In the course of the 17th century Ashkenazi Jews from Central, Eastern, and parts of Western Europe also moved into the district. By 1602, the Jews started to build their first synagogues. And in the centuries that followed, many more synagogues opened.

The absolutely best place to start my odyssey is the Jewish Museum (previously known as the Jewish Historical Museum) The Jewish Museum is the only museum in the Netherlands that focuses on Jewish history, religion and culture. The museum is set in a group of four 17th and 18th century Ashkenazi synagogues at the heart of the former Jewish quarter in the centre of Amsterdam. The permanent exhibition follows several themes: the role of religion and tradition, the links with Israel, the persecution of Jews during the Second World War, personal life stories and the mutual influence of Jewish and Dutch culture.

The main part of the museum is housed in the stunning Great Synagogue, the Ashkenazi “Gathering Place” that dates from 1671. The exhibits here are enlightening and inspiring.

BY JEFF RUGG

Q: I am a Master Gardener trained through my state university’s extension service. The instructors said during my training that the information was based on research and not marketing. I want to plant a large area of grass seed in my yard, but I am having trouble finding what I need. The Master Gardener training said that for my area, grass seed is best planted in the fall, so why isn’t grass seed sold in the fall? It seems all the stores had plenty in the spring and none or very little now. What is left seems to be left over from spring. Are the seeds still any good at this point?

A: Congratulations on becoming a Master Gardener! It is an excellent program that I recommend to anyone who can take the class. (If you can’t take the class, read my book and watch my videos by going to greenerview.com.)

Here I find some of the original Rembrandt etchings of his Jewish neighbors – but with uncanny personal information.

Jewish Museum is more focused on the 350-year long history of Jews in Amsterdam. it’s about their migration and integration into Holland, though the period from 1900 to present is also on display in a very moving way, how they integrated into Dutch society, and how they thrived and contributed to the community when restrictions were lifted.

It’s a museum of stories and surprises – it’s uncanny how much personal information they have to connect with the portraits and personal effects on view – so much more meaningful than looking at paintings and artifacts. I especially loved seeing these gorgeous portraits of Jewish Amsterdamers from the 17th and 18th centuries, – how they looked like any other Amsterdamer of the time, a testament to how secular and assimilated people can come when they are free to interact in the broader society.

Here you see Rembrandt etchings of his Jewish neighbors (that weren’t on display in Rembrandthuis), and here, there is uncanny personal detail. So attached to Rembrandt’s etching of a distinguished looking man, we learn, “This is the Sephardi doctor Ephraim Bueno (15991665). When he was a child, he and his parents fled Portugal to Bordeaux where studied medicine, then later settled in Amsterdam. Father and son gained a good reputation as doctors, both in Jewish and non-jewish circles. Ephraim Bueno lived near Rembrandt, who etched his likeness.”

Amsterdam, a legendarily liberal city for sex, drugs (as today), was also comparatively liberal for Jews back in the day. William of Orange fought a revolu-

tion for religious freedom from Catholic Spain. Jews won comparative emancipation in the Netherlands in 1796.

The combination of economic success and a relatively tolerant religious environment - unusual in Europe - made Amsterdam attractive to foreigners.

Portuguese “New Christians” –descendents from the Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert but practiced secretly – found that here in Amsterdam, Jews could practice without having to wear distinguishing marks or live in ghetto. We meet several (in portraits) who took up again their Jewish lives once they settled in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam at the start of 18th C developed into the biggest, most important Jewish city in world. No other city had the synagogues of the size and majesty of the Great Synagogue and Portuguese Synagogue (the largest synagogue in the world) – which served as a symbol of liberation enjoyed by Jews here.

You walk through to another building, also a former synagogue, where the exhibit basically tells the “modern” story of Jews here, from 1900 to the present, and especially, the horrifying history of what happened to real people before, during and after the Holocaust.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, there were 80,000 Jews living in Amsterdam (- approximately 10% of the city population. Throughout the years of German occupation not many survived. Almost all were deported and exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.

When the Nazis came, Jews tried to hide in basements, attics, secret rooms. Anne Frank is best known because of her diary.

Some 25,000 Jews went into hiding, of whom 18,000 survived, the rest were

Fall Grass Seed

You are right that the training is science based and not based on the marketing of products, old wives’ tales or internet memes. Unfortunately, many gardening products are sold through marketing to people who don’t really know what they are doing. For instance, because of advertising in the spring, many tons of grub-control and weed-control products are applied to lawns that have neither problem.

As for grass seed, it is sold in the spring because most people think that is when it should be planted. They look at their lawn just after the snow melts, and they see bare spots and dormant grass. They don’t like what they see, even if it is normal for that time of year. In a couple of months, the grass will look fine, even if they do nothing.

The stores stock grass seed in the spring because they stock all their other gardening plants and hardgoods in the

discovered or betrayed. ”Those in hiding often received help from non-Jewish acquaintances. Later on, resistance organizations set up a system: besides hiding places, they supplied ration cards and forged identity papers and arranged means of transport.

Hiding places ranged from back rooms and converted cupboards to sheds and ditches and carefully concealed holes in the ground. Jewish children were sometimes given new identities and assimilated into non-Jewish foster families.” Some were successful, most found out, betrayed, or gave up. On average, Jews in hiding paid 100 guilders a month for protection.

Some 30,000 Dutch Jews out of 140,000 survived the war, most of them by going into hiding. After the war ended only 5,200 Jews returned to Amsterdam from the camps, and the life of the city changed forever.

Today Jewish Amsterdam community numbers 20,000 persons, is well organized, has a rich religious and cultural life, nevertheless the old Jewish Amsterdam belongs to history.

At the Jewish Museum, I pick up a sheet describing a walking tour through the Jewish Cultural Quarter. I go off to follow much of the list. It is like a mystery tour, peeking back in time to people’s lives.

Jewish Museum, Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, www.amsterdam.info/museums/jewish_historical_museum/. More information and to purchase tickets online, at www.jck.nl/en

spring. In the fall when it is the best time to plant grass seed, the stores are stocking Halloween and Christmas items. There are not enough trained people like you that are asking for grass seed at the proper time of year for the stores to change their ways.

For northern lawns, grass seed is best planted in the fall because you are planting cool-season grass that is then going to go through three consecutive cool seasons before the heat of next summer. If you plant cool-season grass in the spring, it immediately goes into the hot, dry dormant season without a strong root system to get water from the ground. If you water it and try to keep it growing, the hot weather works against you and the plant. You will spend too much time and money trying to keep the grass growing when it wants to go dormant in the heat.

In the spring there are a lot of weeds, and they will last all summer. Fall plant-

ing invites many fewer weeds. The weeds that do come up are mostly annuals that will die as the weather turns cold without any weed-control efforts. The weeds

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A GREENER VIEW

A Reflection on the 9/11 Tragedy: The Acorn and the Weirs

BY FRANCIS X. SWEENEY

Act III: A bill was passed into law, named for one of the cleanup responders - Zadroga - insuring health benefits for their, many of them, shortened lifetimes.

The fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack featured the annual reading of the names of the some 2,700 people who died in the collapse of the Twin Towers. The Freedom Tower, their commercial replacement, a concrete bunker by design, is completed with an antenna on top. More striking is the completed memorial, which now covers most of the former sixteen acre superblock. A documentary on PBS covered the planning , engineering and construction of this stunning park. Literally, an army of experts and normal “joes” accomplished the cleanup of debris on the “mound” after the collapse.

Regarding the park, which could be called “Resurrection Park,” a similar army of experts and ordinary “joes” brought life back to a place of death. In this program, a highlight was the planning and execution of the two reflecting pools covering the footprints of the towers, square in design, 208 feet by 208 feet. After many ideas and concepts were tried and failed, a group of engineers came up with something that can be found in the Liffey River, northwest of Dublin, before the stream flows through the city to the sea. Often described as a young girl, this part of the river dances over rocks, down hills, through trees, flowers and holly bushes. Along the way, the water flows over small dams called weirs. Engineers replicated the weirs in the way the water would flow over the walls of the reflecting ponds. It actually would not flow over the walls at all. Behind the slanted name-holding rock rectangles is a trough of water, which runs over weirs made of metal. Brilliant in it simplicity, it answered the many problems involved with flowing water over the walls themselves.

A more recent program called “Treasures of New York” highlighted the magnificent trees in the memorial park. A teacher-like, middle-aged woman leads tours of the park. As they walk around, she asks them to pick up an acorn which has fallen from the trees, take it home and bury it in the ground. This woman then relates her personal story. On the morning of September 11th she heard her husband’s voice on her answering machine. He was a fireman attached to Squad 41 which was stationed near Yankee Stadium. The squad had been called to the Trade Center. Early in the morning of the next day, the phone rang. No one from Squad 41 could

be accounted for. She and her small daughter had lost their husband and father. This widow now showed her tour group a picture of her husband wearing his helmet with 41 on the front, as well as a second picture of him, belted to a tree, trimming limbs from it. He had worked a second job as an arborist.

The second part of the program highlighted a skinny young man with glasses in jeans and a polo shirt, feeling the bark of one of those trees and then later showing his wife and kids the trees in the park. He had worked for Bartlett Tree Surgeons overseeing the delivery and planting of trees in this beautiful park. Another ordinary “joe.”

Act II: On the morning of September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda hijackers flew two Boeing 767 jets into the complex, beginning with the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. and then the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. After burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. and 29 minutes later, at 10:28 a.m. (102 minutes after being struck by the plane), the North Tower collapsed. The attacks on the World Trade Center killed 2,606 people.

The planes, supposed to fly from Boston’s Logan Airport to California were loaded with 10,000 of fuel. The impact, with the fire that followed, caused the upper floors to collapse and, like a stack of pancakes, collapse floor to floor to bottom, grinding everything in between into dust-like powder.

Act I: The Twin Towers - did you ever wonder why there were two? When asked why two 110 story buildings instead of one 220 story building, the architect Minoru Yamasaki, with tongue in cheek, replied, “I didn’t want to lose the human scale.” Wags, at the time would have chuckled, “Symbols for David and Nelson Rockefeller.”

“Human Scale:” The site for the WTC complex was a thirteen square block area comprising what was called “Radio Row,” home to hundreds of commercial and industrial tenants, property owners, small electronics businesses and some hundred residences. These would be demolished for the sixteen acre superblock.

Louis Mumford, in his book “The Pentagon of Power,” denounced the center as an “Example of the purposeless giantism and technological exhibitionism, that are now eviscerating the living tissue of every great city.” His description of the towers later on: “just glass and metal filing cases.” Jane Jacobs weighed in with “the waterfront should be kept open for all New Yorkers to enjoy!” The Twin Towers

were described as looking similar to “the boxes the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building came in.”

“Personal Symbols:” In the 1960s and 1970s David Rockefeller was the Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank. He had erected a “superblock” in the financial district called 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza. Packages, meant for delivery to this site, were returned for a lack of address. In 1961 he introduced the idea of a large complex to the Port Authority as part of an “urban renewal” project on the lower west side of Manhattan. During this same period, his brother, Nelson Rockefeller, was governor of the state of New York. Financial power and political power resided in the two brothers. The WTC would be created and owned by the Port Authority of NY and NJ. The governor of New Jersey demurred at first, but an agreement to take over the Hudson transit system, which would now be called the PATH (Port Authority Hudson Tubes) and place the WTC over the Hudson terminal for the PATH train, brought him aboard.

Yamasaki’s plan called for a square, 208 feet on each side. The buildings were designed with narrow office windows, 18 inches wide, which reflceted Yamasaki’s fear of heights. He originally called for the towers to be 80 stories tall, but to meet the Port Authority’s requirement for 10 million square feet of office space, the buildings would each have to be 110 stories tall. To create the most open floor space the plan called for an inner core for stairways, elevators, and restrooms. Steel pillars would enclose the core. The exterior walls would enclose pre-fab columns and trusses. The trusses would be connected to the floors, which would be load-bearing. The “tube-frame” engineering designed brought about column-free space between the perimeter and the core.

The “tube frame” system created a relatively lightweight structure that would sway more in response to the wind compared to traditional structures such as the Empire State Building, that had thick, heavy masonry for the fireproofing of steel structural elements. The exterior walls would be sheathed in light aluminum ally.

There would be 95 express and local elevators in the WTC. The system would be based on the NYC subway system, with two “sky lobbies” on the 44th and 78th floors, where people could switch from a large capacity express elevator to a local elevator that went to each floor in the system.

The soil dug up for the foundation of the Trade Center was dumped next door into the Hudson River, for the construction of Battery Park City - 1.2

million yards of landfill.

At the base of these buildings would be a huge concrete “pedestrian” plaza, much like a concrete desert. At one point because of the wind sheer, “the “Venturi Effect” that at the base ropes were installed for the pedestrians. The streetscape was non-existent.

Over the years, more fully tenanted, the Towers would be humanized. Fifty thousand people would be working here. The concourse below, with the PATH station, a shopping mall and restaurants, would have some 200,000 people go through it on a daily basis. In 1981 a 22 story hotel, the Vista, was built south of the towers. This hotel was a great convenience for those, coming from all over the world, to do business in the Towers.

In 1975, there was a fire on the 8th floor. It was discovered that there were no fire sprinklers. In 1993, a bomb exploded in the basement. Smoke filtered up to the 93rd floor. It would take over two hours for people to come down the stairs to exit the building. On this occasion, it was discovered that there were no exit lights in the stairways. It was said that the buildings could withstand a 727 jet crash into it. But later it seemed that the amount of fuel in the plane at the time was not considered.

Fade Out: Water flowing over those weirs, and wind whistling through those oak trees, dropping acorns: the two symbols of life.

The Social Security Earnings Penalty for Self-Employed People

BY TOM MARGENAU

“Well, Tom, you see, I’m a farmer. I got me about 100 acres of beans, and I really only work two months a year. I plant those beans in April and I harvest them in October. The rest of the time, I’m pretty much sitting on my butt. Oh, I mend a fence or two and work on my equipment. But that don’t take no 45 hours, so I want my Social Security check for the other 10 months of the year.”

What’s that all about? I’ll get back to the bean farmer in just a bit. But first, I’ve got to tell you all about the Social Security “retirement test,” and especially how it applies to self-employed people.

I’ve written many times in this column about how I despise this part of Social Security law. It causes headaches for Social Security Administration employees, and heartaches and overpayments for Social Security recipients. It’s a terrible law, and ought to be eliminated. But it’s been a law for almost as long as Social Security has been around -- meaning for about 80 years now. And it’s probably not going away anytime soon, so we’re stuck with it. And I’m stuck with having to explain it to you.

Once you reach your full retirement age, these antiquated rules go away. But if you are under your full retirement age, and if you are still working, the retirement test law says this: “For every $2 you earn above a yearly limit (that is currently $19,560 per year), $1 must be withheld from any Social Security benefits you are due.” The law is called a retirement test because it’s intended to “test” whether you are retired and therefore whether you are eligible for retirement benefits.

Going back to the very beginnings of Social Security, the law always said you had to be “retired” to get “retirement” benefits. And those rules used to apply to everyone. But over the years, Congress gradually lessened the effect of this onerous law. At first, they said the retirement test would not apply to people over age 72. Then they lowered that to 70. And then they eventually lowered that to full retirement age. So, in other words, if you have reached your full retirement age, you could make a million dollars a year and you could still get your Social Security checks.

But Congress never changed the law for people under full retirement age, so they’re stuck with the “retirement test,” which I more appropriately called the “earnings penalty” because if you are under your full retirement age and on Social Security, you are penalized if you start making more than $19,560 per year. Now, on the surface the law seems pretty cut and dried. So, you may be wondering, “What’s the big deal? Why is this law such a problem?”

As with so many things, the devil is in the details. For example, let’s say you are 63 years old and getting Social Secu-

rity, and you take a part-time job that’s going to pay you $25,000 per year. So, you report that to the Social Security Administration, and they withhold $2,720 from your next couple Social Security checks. (That’s one-half of what you plan to make over $19,560.) But then you get laid off after making only $20,000, so now the SSA owes you some money back. But then a couple months later, you find another job and now the SSA must start withholding some of your benefits again. And then later in the year, you get a big bonus and the SSA has to withhold even more. But then the following year, you quit that job and now the SSA owes you money. It just becomes a vicious cycle of overpayments and underpayments. As I said, it’s an administrative nightmare for the SSA and a big hassle for the Social Security beneficiary.

And I haven’t even gotten into the special rules that apply in the first year you start getting benefits and in the year you reach your full retirement age. And for the purposes of this column, I’ll only explain the former. In the first year you start drawing Social Security checks, a special monthly earnings test can apply. That test says that even if your yearly earnings exceed the annual earnings limit, you are due a Social Security check for any month you earn less than a monthly limit -- which is always one-twelfth of the yearly amount.

A quick example will explain this. Let’s say Bob is turning 63 in September 2022, and that’s when he wants his benefits to start. But he is working through the end of August and will make $80,000 from January through August. That is well above the annual earnings threshold of $19,560, so you might think Bob can’t get any benefits for 2022. But because it’s his first year getting benefits, a special monthly rule kicks in. And that rule says that even though Bob is making way more than $19,560 in 2022, he can get a Social Security check for any month he is making less than $1,630 (or one-twelfth of $19,560). Because he won’t be working from September through December (in other words, he’ll be making less than $1,630 in those months), he is due a Social Security check for September through December.

What a mess. And this mess gets compounded even more if you are self-employed. An extra stipulation is added for these folks. It says that in addition to keeping your income under the yearly or monthly limit, you also must not be performing substantial services in the business. And the rules say if you are working 45 hours or more in a month, then you are performing substantial services in the business.

As an example, let’s go back to Bob again who wants his Social Security to start in September 2022 when he will be 63 years old. But instead of working for wages, let’s say Bob owns a little mom-

and-pop motel. And he says when he turns 63, he is going to turn the business over to mom (his wife). But then he says that starting in September, he’s going to keep working “a couple hours a day just to help my wife out.” Well, that comes out to 60 hours per month -- and that’s more than the 45-hour limit, which means Bob will technically still be performing substantial services in his business. And

according to this dumb earnings penalty law, it means Bob won’t be due any Social Security benefits.

And that gets me back to the farmer I mentioned at the beginning of this column. When I first started working for the SSA in 1973 in a small farming community in central Illinois, these

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REAL ESTATE WATCH

How will inflation affect the value of real estate?

Inflation is here and probably will be staying with us much longer than we expect or want. The excessive printing of money from 2020-2022 was greater than all the money printed in the past 200+ years and was the major cause of the excessive increase over the last year. The excessive availability of money in the market with the historically low-interest rates, with the over the top demand, created a buying frenzy diminishing housing inventory as well as the limited availability of consumer goods and services.

According to https://whitehouse.gov back in Sept 2021, the Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index had risen 18.6% from Sept 20-Sept 21 and the greatest increase since the inception of the Case-Shiller index.

Rental prices have now also increased wildly up 10.1% higher in 2021 than 2020 increasing 5 times faster than in 2020 according to Realtor.com’s monthly Rental Report. By the end of 2021 national rents were up double digits for the previous 6 months. The national median rent for a 1 bedroom at that time was $1651. up 19.3% over the previous year. Rents are the highest in NYC. However, rent increases have slowed and so far in 2022 are up 7.2% compared to 14.8% at the same time last year according to apartmentlist. com. Year-over-year rent increases have slowed to 10% compared to the high of 18% at the beginning of 2022.

The only solution in the past was to raise interest rates as all the Fed Chairs over the past 42 years have done. But timing is the key and the truth is, no one, not even the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, hasn’t been able to accomplish this feat. So far, the old solution has not been as successful so far and in the short and near term or longer, we will have greater economic pain.

Moreover, Biden’s plan forgives $10,000 of student debt from loans that had been fully dispersed by June 30, 2022, only if your income is less than $125,000 and less than $250,000 for cou-

BY PHILIP A. RAICES

ples filing a joint federal tax return. However, this may be a slight benefit for those in debt but this unfortunately will also continue to add to our inflation problems. More importantly, the forgiveness program will continue to add to our future inflation, as many now have and will continue borrowing making an assumption that in the future a portion will also be forgiven, which is not necessarily the case according to the current rules but never say never.

Inflation was increasing in 2021 to 4.7% but by December 2021 increased to 7% and has continued to increase through August 2022. Knowing this information, I have stated in a previous column that I believed increased rates should have been implemented early in 2021, but for whatever reason, Jerome Powell waited until March 2022. He didn’t want to shut the economy down, but kicking the can down the road only put off the inevitable that we are currently experiencing. He allowed a multitude of new homeowners and moveup buyers to purchase at the lowest rates in history, which you would surmise would be a benefit to the economy, but at the expense of increasing inflation. With all that cheap money, stocks really became inflated, but many are now down from 20-50% and real estate is softening. Real Estate has decelerated and moderated and is taking longer for offers and sales to occur.

According to many sources, there supposedly will be another 3/4 point increase this month, so that will most likely further cool off the local and national real estate market. Demand will decrease and slow further, but the cost of housing will continue to increase at a more moderate rate, due to still very low inventory, until it becomes more normalized at 5-6 months. This will then favor neither seller nor pur-

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guys figured out how to circumvent this dumb law (which had slightly different rules back then). They told me they only worked over 45 hours per month on the farm in April (when they planted crops) and October (when they harvested crops), meaning they supposedly were not performing substantial services on their farm the other 10 months of the year. And that meant they could get Social Security checks for those months each year.

I knew they were lying. They knew they were lying. But because we obviously didn’t have the staff to spend time investigating all the farmers in the two counties we serviced, there was really nothing I could do about it. I can’t repeat often enough: It’s a dumb law and a mess to administer!

If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has a book with all the answers. It’s called “Social Security: Simple and Smart.” You can find the book at www.creators.com/books, or look for it on Amazon or other book outlets.

chaser. However, prices will eventually soften further in 2023 and potentially become more of a buyer’s market.

Rental properties and real estate have generally always been an excellent hedge against inflation as a hard asset. Also, wellrun profitable businesses in energy and food staples are other entities in strong positions to weather the storm and become more valuable. As long as tenants pay their rent and your expenses of ownership, then those values will increase as the cost of replacement escalates with inflation. However, one must be smart and prudent especially if you are a new investor when purchasing properties for cash flow or fixing and flipping. One needs to crunch the numbers, watching interest rates and the price you pay, to make sure there is an adequate ROI and cushion to earn sufficient income. We are in a housing recession with respect to slowing sales and construction, as fewer permits are being applied for according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. Although rent increases have slowed, affordability becomes a serious question, and residing where you are for now might be your best solution; while waiting and hoping rates will decrease while also saving more for a down payment.

We all see our world in such tremendous turmoil financially and politically. The big question is will history continue to repeat itself as real estate and certain hard assets have always been an excellent hedge and safer haven for wealth creation due to inflation? Or will our shaky house of cards continue to erode as our debts continue to mount; territorial conflicts aren’t resolved with no end in sight? Will our fiat currency become even more diluted and morph into something more

hybrid? Will real estate lose its’ value? Or maybe, somehow and someway we’ll come out of this economic and tumultuous and turbulent situation stronger and smarter? Readers, what are your thoughts?

Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 40 years experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S.) and in 2022 has earned his National Association of Realtors “Green Industry designation for eco-friendly construction. He will provide you with “free” regular updates of sold and new homes in your town via the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island (MLSLI) or go to http://WWW. Li-RealEstate.Com and you can “do it yourself (DYI) and search on your own. For a “FREE” `15 minute consultation, as well as well as a “FREE printout or digital value analysis of what your home might sell for in today’s market without any obligation or “strings” attached. He can also provide a copy of “Unlocking the Secrets of Real Estate’s New Market Reality, and our Seller’s and Buyer’s Guides for “Things to Consider when Selling, investing or Purchasing your Home.

You can email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your request or ideas, suggestions or interview you for a specific topic and a Q & A for a future column with your name, email and cell number. He will email or call you back and respond to your request ASAP as long as he has your complete name, cell, email and/or full home or business address. Again, for a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, he can also be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com to answer any of your questions and concerns in selling, investing, purchasing, or leasing residential or commercial property.

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won’t last long enough to produce any seeds. The fall-planted grass will need a lot less water to keep it growing.

If you can find any grass seed for sale, it will probably be OK if it was stored in a cool, dry location this summer. Each label will tell you in which planting year that package was meant to be sold and installed. Grass seed can last for several years if it is stored properly. Remember: cool and dry. If it was left outside in a hot

storage area or if it was in high humidity where the bag became damp, don’t buy it.

The grass will grow best if it is planted a month or two before your area’s first killing freeze. The later it is planted, the smaller the root system and the less chance of surviving a dry winter that dries out the soil.

Email questions to Jeff Rugg at info@ greenerview.com. T.

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BY DENNIS MAMMANA

Week of September 11-17, 2022

Remember a few years back when Pluto was deemed to be no longer a planet? The internet erupted with protests. “Why isn’t Pluto a planet?” people cried. “It was a planet when I went to school and, as far as I’m concerned, it still is!”

Well, scientists are in the business of classifying everything, and when new data or understanding becomes available, they must reclassify objects to make them better fit the scheme. So, it should have come as no surprise to anyone who follows science that astronomers reclassified Pluto, a tiny ice ball near the edge of our planetary system, as a “dwarf planet.”

And that means that Pluto’s reclassification out of official planethood gives the honor of being the most distant planet from the sun to Neptune.

Neptune was discovered after astronomers learned that the planet Uranus, which William Herschel had found six and a half decades earlier, didn’t keep to the precise path skywatchers had expected.

A young English astronomer named John Couch Adams calculated that the motion of Uranus was apparently being affected by another world that lay beyond and its gravitation was tugging on it. Adams even calculated where this unknown planet might be found; unfortunately, no one in England ever bothered to search for it.

Searching for Neptune After Dark

The same was true in France where Urbain Le Verrier independently made the same calculations. Again, no one seemed to care.

But Le Verrier didn’t give up. He showed his calculations to the German astronomer Johann Galle, who aimed his telescope skyward and found the new planet -- eventually named Neptune -- on his very first night of searching!

That was in 1846 and, since then, few beginning stargazers have ever even looked for this distant world.

Well, now’s a good time to change that because, this week, Neptune reaches its opposition point where it not only lies at its nearest to Earth -- about 2.69 billion miles -- but also shines at its brightest.

Finding Neptune among the faint stars of Aquarius isn’t easy, however, and since this distant world is invisible to the unaided eye, you’ll need to use “star-hopping” techniques and have a very dark rural sky, binoculars and lots of patience to spot it.

First, find brilliant Jupiter in the eastern sky, and the faint star Phi Aquarii to its west; that star forms a nice little “arrow” that aims at right angles to Jupiter. Aim your binoculars about two-thirds of the way between Jupiter and Phi. There, you might spot Neptune as a faint bluish “star.” A small telescope aimed in this direction will show a distinctive bluish-green hue that distinguishes it from neighboring stars.

If you’re not sure you’ve found it, sketch the area, being careful to mark every star in its exact position. Then, a week or two later, check out this same region of the sky and see which of the faint objects has changed its position. That’s Neptune!

If needed, you can visit theskylive. com/neptune-info for a more detailed finder chart for the planet.

As challenging as Neptune might be to find, there’s something really special about seeing with our own eyes the farthest planet of our solar system!

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Old Yeller

Finding Neptune among the faint stars of Aquarius isn’t easy, and since this distant world is invisible to the unaided eye, you’ll need to use “star-hopping” techniques and have a very dark rural sky, binoculars and lots of patience to spot it.

BY TRACY BECKERMAN

I come from a family of yellers. We wouldn’t yell at one another; we would yell to one another. Specifically, from one end of the house to the other. These were the days before texting, when you couldn’t just message someone to find out where they were. No, back in the day, if you wanted to find someone, you needed a good hearty holler across the house to locate the missing person. This was especially true in my family. It may have been genetic because my grandparents were yellers, and their parents before them. Apparently, there was a lot of yelling back in the old country. Or maybe my family was just hard of hearing and didn’t know it. Or it could have just been the fact that we were from New York... not the most genteel state in the union.

So, on any given day, my mother would yell:

“HARVEY, WHERE ARE YOU?”

From across the house he’d yell, “I’M IN THE BATHROOM!”

Then she’d yell back, “OH. DON’T FORGET TO PUT THE TOILET SEAT DOWN!”

Obviously, at this point, everyone in the house, in the neighborhood and in the state knew my father was in the bathroom and usually left the toilet seat up. Naturally, because of the way I grew up, I thought everybody yelled like this. So, one day after my husband and I first got married, we were in the house, and I yelled:

“JOEL, WHERE ARE YOU?”

But there was no reply. So, I yelled again:

“JOEL, WHERE ARE YOU?”

No reply.

I was concerned, so I went to look for him and discovered that the bathroom door was closed.

I knocked and asked him if he was in there.

“Yes,” came the muffled reply.

“Is everything all right?” I said, because that was another thing my family would do if someone was in the bathroom longer than five minutes. I have no idea why we did this. What was likely to happen in the bathroom that would be an emergency and possibly necessitate a call to 911? “Hello, operator, I need an ambulance. My husband is constipated.”

It defied explanation, yet every time my dad went to the bathroom and lingered, my mother would yell:

“HARVEY, IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT IN THERE?”

And every time, my dad would yell back:

“YES!”

And she’d respond, “OK. DON’T FORGET TO PUT THE TOILET SEAT DOWN!”

When my husband finally came out of the bathroom, he looked very annoyed.

“What’s the matter?” I asked him.

“I don’t like it when you yell across the house for me, and I especially don’t like it when I’m in the bathroom and you ask if everything is all right.”

I frowned. But I’m flexible. I could change. I nodded.

“OK,” I said. “I won’t yell for you anymore. But don’t forget to put the toilet seat down.”

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1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar

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2 teaspoons chopped garlic

2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh ginger root

1 1/2 cups baby corn

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1/2 cup frozen tiny peas

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NASSAU COUNTY NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, WILMINGTON

SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE

ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs ANNE MANNING AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JAMES HOPKINS, HEIR AT LAW TO HOWARD J. HOPKINS, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Granting Nunc Pro Tunc Relief, Discharging the Guardian Ad Litem and Military Attorney, Amending the Caption, Default Judgment and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on November 6, 2019 and an Order Appointing Successor Referee duly entered on April 4, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on October 5, 2022at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 89 Sherman Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 46, Block 19 and Lots 1 and 2. Approximate amount of judgment is $358,584.87 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 000323/2015. Cash will not be accepted. This foreclosure sale will be held on the North Side Steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. Peter James Mastaglio, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff

Notice of Formation of Hard Bean Merrick LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 2022-05-27. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY should mail process to SeongChan Victor Kim: 4 Scott Place Plainview NY 11803. Purpose: Any lawful purpose

NASSAU COUNTY

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU FREEDOM MORTGAGE

CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST RICHARD GREIG, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered November 26, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on September 20, 2022 at 2:00PM, premises known as 54 S 1ST STREET, BETHPAGE, NY 11714. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Bethpage, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 46, Block 5, Lot 46, 47, and 48. Approximate amount of judgment $407,811.10 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #003518/2016. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held "Rain or Shine". Robert G. Litt, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 18-007130 72499

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NASSAU COUNTY

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs ANNE MANNING AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JAMES HOPKINS, HEIR AT LAW TO HOWARD J. HOPKINS, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Granting Nunc Pro Tunc Relief, Discharging the Guardian Ad Litem and Military Attorney, Amending the Caption, Default Judgment and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on November 6, 2019 and an Order Appointing Successor Referee duly entered on April 4, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on October 5, 2022at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 89 Sherman Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 46, Block 19 and Lots 1 and 2. Approximate amount of judgment is $358,584.87 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 000323/2015. Cash will not be accepted. This foreclosure sale will be held on the North Side Steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. Peter James Mastaglio, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff

NASSAU COUNTY NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST RICHARD GREIG, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered November 26, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on September 20, 2022 at 2:00PM, premises known as 54 S 1ST STREET, BETHPAGE, NY 11714. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Bethpage, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 46, Block 5, Lot 46, 47, and 48. Approximate amount of judgment $407,811.10 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #003518/2016. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held "Rain or Shine". Robert G. Litt, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 18-007130 72499

NOTICE OF FORMATION Shay’s Infuzions LLC Arts. of Org.Filed with the SSNY on 2/22/22. Office:Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC,100 Duffy Ave, Suite 510,Hicksville,NY 11801.Purpose:Any lawful purpose.

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The University of Rhode Island celebrated more than 4,000 of its newest alumni during the University’s 136th Commencement on May 20-22. The following local students received degrees:

Bryan Lane Matusow of Syosset

Joy Chanhee Woo of Syosset

Rachel L Baer of Old Bethpage

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The following students have been named to the dean’s list for the spring 2022 semester at Washington University in St. Louis:

Jericho

Luke Blair is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Dylan Levy is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Peter Ochalek is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Plainview

Briana Garil graduated in May from the university’s Olin Business School.

Sophia Marlin is enrolled in the university’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Zach Meyer graduated in May from the university’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Jared Phillips is enrolled in the university’s Olin Business School.

Syosset

Jonah Brody graduated in May from the university’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Sam Kanterman is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Faith Liang is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences. n

More than 900 students received degrees from New York Institute of Technology as spring graduates of the Class of 2022, including:

Suyog Sanklecha, from Jericho, who studied Management and received a Master of Business Admin degree.

Charon Hu, from Syosset, who studied Architecture and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Joshua Collet, from Woodbury, who studied Life Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Sayyada Dewji, from Syosset, who studied Life Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Thomas Goldrick, from Syosset, who studied Life Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Santiago Granda Alvera, from Syosset, who studied Engineering Management and received a Bachelor

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of Science degree.

James Goldrick, from Syosset, who studied Physical Therapy and received a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.

Michelle Canarick, from Woodbury, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Stephanie Coundouris, from Syosset, who studied Bioengineering and received a Master of Science degree.

Robert Doxey, from Syosset, who studied Computer Science and received a Master of Science degree.

Samiha Gaffar, from Syosset, who studied Computer Science and received a Master of Science degree.

Ryan Rahman, of Jericho, was named the recipient of CRC Press - First Year Prize in Chemistry at Hamilton College’s annual Convocation ceremony on August 24. Rahman, a sophomore, is a graduate of Jericho High School.

Members of the administration welcomed students and new faculty, and academic achievement prizes were awarded to students at the ceremony officially marking the beginning of Hamilton’s 211th academic year.

The CRC Press - First-Year Prize in Chemistry, donated by CRC Press, is awarded to a rising sophomore who has demonstrated excellence in chemistry.

More than 900 students received degrees from New York Institute of Technology as spring graduates of the Class of 2022, including the following local residents:

Bethpage

Anjali Nair, who studied Health and Wellness and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Jake Samler, who studied Political Science and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Marissa Angelo, who studied Early Childhood Education and received a Master of Science degree.

Rebecca Schmidt, who studied Occupational Therapy and received a Master of Science degree.

Julia Siriodis, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Hicksville

Pooja Mehulkumar Desai, who studied Health Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Daniella Jean, who studied Health and Wellness and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Zarmina Khan, who studied Health

Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Raghav Khurana, who studied Computer Science and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Sabrina Popal, who studied Psychology and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Nabiya Qureshi, who studied Health Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Cristina Romanelli, who studied Nursing and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Gurpreet Singh, who studied Mechanical Engineering and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Zijie Yan, who studied Computer Science and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Ananta Garnapudi, who studied Cybersecurity and received a Master of Science degree.

Mustapha Gharib, who studied Mechanical Engineering and received a Master of Science degree.

Eleni Giannopoulos, who studied Occupational Therapy and received a Master of Science degree.

Yancey McCoury, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Saralda Ortiz-Howard, who studied Instructional Technology and received a Master of Science degree.

Bryan Purcell, who studied Environmental Technology and Sustainability and received a Master of Science degree.

Jennifer Rollins, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Jericho

Suyog Sanklecha, who studied Management and received a Master of Business Admin degree.

Levittown

Jessica Budrewicz, who studied Interdisciplinary Studies and received a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Ashley Budrewicz, who studied Interdisciplinary Studies and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Rav Dhillon, who studied Mechanical Engineering and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Jessica Fusaro, who studied Nursing and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Timothy Konovitch, who studied Computer Science and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

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Daniella Nanous, who studied Health Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Juliette Strahan, who studied Nursing and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Mohammed Aldalali, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Nicholas LaRocca, who studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and received a Master of Science degree.

Stephanie Martello, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Syosset

Charon Hu, who studied Architecture and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Sayyada Dewji, who studied Life Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Thomas Goldrick, who studied Life Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Santiago Granda Alvera, who studied Engineering Management and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

James Goldrick, who studied Physical Therapy and received a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.

Stephanie Coundouris, who studied Bioengineering and received a Master of Science degree.

Robert Doxey, who studied Computer Science and received a Master of Science degree.

Samiha Gaffar, who studied Computer Science and received a Master of Science degree.

Stanley Chow, who studied Information Technology and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Plainview

Morgan Sher, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Stanley Chow, who studied Information Technology and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Morgan Sher, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

Woodbury

Joshua Collet, who studied Life Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Michelle Canarick, who studied Physician Assistant Studies and received a Master of Science degree.

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