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Huge turnout at Soldier Ride

By CAROLYN JAMES cjames@liherald.com

More than 1,200 bikers gathered at Babylon Town Hall on Friday, July 19, for the annual Soldier Ride, a 25-mile journey that raised more than $200,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP).

The event, now in its 18th year, has generated more than $1.8 million to support wounded U.S. military veterans. The festivities also spotlights other veteran-support organizations, including Paws of War, which rescues and trains service dogs for veterans.

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Babylon educators ban student cellphones during school day

By ALENA BERENBLATT Correspondent

Students in the Babylon School District will no longer be permitted to use cellphones during the school day, under a new policy adopted by the Board of Education at its July meeting.

The policy bars student use of internet-enabled devices during all parts of the school day, including clas-ses, homeroom, lunch, recess, study halls and passing time, while on school grounds.

The move aligns with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed “bellto-bell” ban on smartphones in New York’s K-12 schools, announced in May. The state initiative encourages school

districts to create local enforcement plans and methods for storing personal devices. The goal, according to the state, is to reduce classroom distractions and help students refocus on learning, creativity and inperson interaction.

“It will be interesting to see how the cell phone ban will be implemented,” said Babylon Parent Teachers Student Association, PTSA, President Fumi Otomo. “I am confident that the district is working on a plan to ensure that cell phones will be kept secure, and parents will be able to reach out to their children in the event of an emergency.”

Otomo, who has two high

I am confident that the district is working on a plan to ensure that cell phones will be kept secure, and parents will be able to reach out to their children in the event of an emergency.

FUMI OTOMO, Babylon PTSA President

school-age children, added, “In the end, we all want our kids to be prepared for life socially and emotionally, and the hope is that this will help achieve that.” Babylon’s policy includes

several exceptions, mirroring the state’s guidance. Students may use internet-enabled devices if outlined in an Individualized Education Program (IEP), Section 504 plan, or if required by law. Other permitted uses include managing a health condition, using translation services, or caring for a family member, with the latter determined on a case-by-case basis.

While the policy emphasizes

strict enforcement, it also states that students cannot be suspended solely for using a device in violation of the rule. Disciplinary actions may include detention, in-school suspension or exclusion from extracurricular activities.

“The goal is for our kids to be more engaged socially, and not so isolated in their devices,” Otomo concluded.

Carolyn James/Herald photos

Wounded Warriors gather at the steps of Babylon Town Hall for opening ceremonies before the ride to Overlook Beach.

Farmingdale H.S. seniors mark graduation with pride, purpose

More than 500 Farmingdale High School seniors marked the end of their high school journey on June 17 with a graduation ceremony filled with pride and reflection.

The event ,at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at Hofstra University, was led by Principal Jed Herman and Superintendent of Schools Paul Defendini, and honored the Class of 2025 for its academic accomplishments, resilience and contributions to the school community.

“This class has led with heart, intellect and purpose,” Herman said during his opening remarks. “They are prepared not only to face the future, but to shape it.”

Defendini praised the graduates and the broader Farmingdale community for their collective support and perseverance.

“This is a moment of celebration not just for these students, but for all who have supported them — teachers, parents and peers,” he said. “The Class of 2025 has made us proud every step of the way.”

The ceremony included speeches from Valedictorian Shea Hiotidis and Salutatorian Jaylyn Umana, who reflected on their experiences and encouraged classmates to embrace the opportunities ahead. Members of the Farmingdale Board of Education presented diplomas as families and friends applauded from the stands.

The evening concluded with the traditional turning of the tassels, marking the beginning of a new chapter for the graduates as they head off to colleges, careers and other post-graduation paths.

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BSHS hosting J.K. Hodge

The Bay Shore Historical Society will host J.K. Hodge, who will speak on sports patents, inventors and inventions and discuss how America’s favorite pastimes came to be what they are today.

The event will be held Thurs., Aug. 21, 7 p.m. at Bay Shore - Brightwaters Public Library, 1 South Country Rd., Brightwaters.

During the lecture. Hodge will play live on piano to Buster Keaton’s siletfilm comedy “College.” The lecture will be followed by a silent film that portrays Buster Keaton in numerous sporting events.

The meeting is free. Refreshments will be served. Learn more at: bayshorehistoricalsociety.org/

Courtesy Farmingdale school district

Salutatorian Jayln Umana

Valedictorian Shea Hiotidis

Courtesy / Bay Shore Historical Society

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Crowds greet 1,200 bikers at annual Soldier Ride

“These are the men and women who put their lives on the line, who experienced trauma, physical injuries—all in the name of democracy and for the United States of America,” said Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer, drawing loud applause from the crowd.

As the ride kicked off, veterans served by the Wounded Warrior Project were cheered on by the crowd as they moved to the front of Town Hall to begin the 25-mile journey to Overlook Beach.

The ride, which passed through Amityville Village, Copiague and Babylon Village before heading over the Robert Moses Bridge and on to Ocean Parkway, was as much a celebration of resilience as it was a fundraiser.

“The Soldier Ride exemplifies our community’s commitment to honoring and supporting our veterans,” Schaffer said during the opening ceremony. “Each year, we come together to help these brave individuals find strength and healing through camaraderie and shared experience.”

Babylon Councilman and Veterans Advisory Council Chair DuWayne Gregory echoed those sentiments, calling the event “a celebration of resilience and community spirit.”

“Our veterans deserve our unwavering support, and the Soldier Ride provides a platform for that,” he said.

WWP CEO Walt Piatt addressed the crowd before the ride began, standing in front of the sea of flags and bicycles.

“This is what a grateful nation looks like,” he said, gesturing to the cheering crowd. “This is why you ride.”

Piatt reaffirmed the organization’s mission to support every warrior in mind, body and spirit.

“It should never be harder to come home from war than go to war,” he said.

One of the ride’s most emotional moments came from U.S. Army veteran Bill Geiger, who shared his personal journey of recovery.

Geiger returned home after serving two tours in the Iraq and said he believed everything was fine until he saw an email his wife, Sara, had left open on their family’s computer. It was to their pastor and said, in part: ‘‘If I had known Bill was going to be like this, I never would have married him.’’

It was then that Geiger realized everything was not fine and that he needed help. Instead of submitting to the volatility of his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), he finally surrendered.

‘‘I wasn’t going to lose my wife,’’ said Geiger. ‘‘I knew I needed help to learn how to fix this thing.’’

He sought help at the Vet Center and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) before finding the WWP. His first breakthrough came during a multi-day mental health workshop.

‘‘Engaging with other wounded service members who understood how I felt without saying a word, who could relate to the struggles I was facing, and who struggled with similar demons was comforting and enlightening,’’ said Geiger. ‘‘I realized if other warriors can learn to live with and control their PTSD, or at least learn to find and accept their ‘new me,’ then so can I.’’

He ended by telling the crowd at Town Hall that he and Sara just celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary, drawing a round of enthusiastic applause .

This year’s event honored the late Suffolk Homicide Detective John (Jackie) Miller who has been an integral part of organizing the ride since its inception. He died this year.

The support for the Warriors didn’t end at Town Hall. As the riders made their way along the route, residents stood by the roadside, offering cheers and bottles of water.

“Everyone was cheering us on, which made the ride easier,” said Ben Scelza of West Babylon, an eight-year participant.

“And this year, the weather was beautiful.”

He said he particularly looks forward to the stretch across the Robert Moses Bridge, where panoramic water views energize the ride toward the finish line at Overlook Beach.

Another rider, Jeff Jacobson, of Bellport has been part of the Soldier Ride for 14 years.

“ I do it to support veterans I know, including my good friend Chris McElgun,” he said pointing to McElgun who was standing nearby at Town Hall.

“It’s wonderful what they do; it’s awesome,” added McElgun commenting on the large show of support at the event.

Michelle Rossetti, who was with a group from Northwell’s South Shore University Hospital, said the event provided these caretakers with the chance to care for people outside of the hospital setting.

“We care for our community not only in the hospital but out in the community as well,” she said, noting the importance of the event.

At the beach, riders, families and supporters were treated to a celebratory barbecue.

As the sun set on the beach, the event stood as a testament to the power of community, healing and gratitude — and the unbreakable bond between warriors and those who ride for them.

Members of the Wounded Warriors

Above: Team from Amityville Acupuncture at the event included Kindra Nehring, Kathy Guadarrama , Tom Guadarrama, Sean Mahon, Kirk Hurme, Erin Hurme, Emily Santosus and Tim Lozier.

Right: Rider Jeff Jacobson of Bellport with Chris McElgun of Lindenhurst.

Bruce Pescitelli of Amityville was making his 12th Soldier Ride.

CRIME WATCH

The following incidents have been reported by the Suffolk County and Amityville police departments and other law enforcement and emergency service units:

RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT

Amityville: Amityville police arrested a Copiague man July 17 on charges of reckless endangerment and obstruction of Governmental Administration following an incident that occurred at approximately 6 a.m.

Police gave this account: The defendant, Plasencia Canela Reymundo, 58, of 200 Lafayette St., Copiague, was operating a motorcycle along Broadway. Police attempted to make a traffic stop of the vehicle in front of 237 Broadway when the defendant stopped momentarily. When the officer exited his vehicle, Reymundo reportedly took off, south on Broadway on the east sidewalk. The officer lost visual contact of the vehicle momentarily but upon a canvass of the area, he was in front of 9 Elm Place. The driver attempted to flee and struck the officer who was able to restrain him and place him under arrest.

MVA/LEAVING THE SCENE

Amityville: The owner of S&P Used Furniture, at 14 W. Oak Street, called police shortly after 8 a.m., July 20 to report that someone had broken a window at the store in what was described as an attempt to break in. When police arrived, they determined that a motor vehicle had jumped the curb and struck the front door of the business. Tire marks were observed along the curb leading to the front door, which was also damaged. The incident occurred between 2 and 7 a.m., that day.

GRAND LARCENY

West Islip: Someone went into an unlocked vehicle that was parked on Skipper Drive July 15 and stole the owner’s driver’s license and some other personal property. That incident was reported

at 3 a.m.

•In a similar incident on Skipper Drive, police report that an unidentified person or persons went into an unlocked vehicle July15 and stole bank cards that were left within.

•Jewelry and other personal items were stolen from inside a vehicle that was parked on Pace Drive.

North Amityville: A motorized bike, another bike, a power washer and lawnmower were stolen from a home on Adrian Court July 14. The theft was reported at 5:30 a.m.

PETIT LARCENY

Deer Park: Two unidentified males walked into Home Depot at 475 Commack Road July 17, shortly after 8 a.m., and left with a shopping cart full of lumber without paying for the items.

BURGLARY

Amityville: Someone broke a lock on a garage door at 25 Brefni Street July 17 and took a golf cart and two iPads.

ARRESTS

Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired: Douglas Graves, 42, of 22 Henry St., Wyandanch; Mario Hernandez, 37, of 170 Town Lawn Ave., Brentwood; Jose Abrego, 23, of 132 Pear St., Brentwood; Hemraj Singh, 26, of 1115 Liberty Ave. South Richmond Hill; Darwin Arguetareyez, 32, of 48 Date St., Central Islip; Jose Fuentes, 36, of 581 Broadway, Brentwood; Joseph Hentschel, 42, of 126 Leo Lane, Deer Park.

Criminal Mischief: Maurice Saylor, 49, of 181 Parkway Blvd., Wyandanch; Victor Tineo, 32, of 19 Decker St., Copiague; Abdiel Felix Santago, 27, of 1549 Ohio Ave., Bay Shore.

Grand Larceny: Kyle Caudill, 29, of 238 Wildwood Rd., Ronkonkoma. Petit Larceny: Milton Arguetaparada, 38, of 55 Hillard Ave., Central Islip; Alex Vasquez, 23, of 499 Wicks Rd., Brentwood.

Burglary: Cherika Sampenlarosa, 20, of 2705 Heather Ave., Medford.

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law.

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Double Victory: How one Amityville Marine helped break the segregation line in WW II

By JOHN BYRNE Guest Writer

During World War II, the United States and its allies fought against the ideologies of racial supremacy embodied by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. Yet, even as the nation waged war in the name of democracy abroad, it maintained racial segregation at home — including within its own armed forces.

Blacks faced widespread discrimination in the military, often barred from many roles and units. Despite these challenges, they played vital roles in the war effort and championed the “Double V” campaign — victory against fascism overseas and victory against racism at home. Their service laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement and challenged long-held assumptions about race and equality in America.

One such figure was Richard Clinton Mayhew, a native of the Amityville area, which has long been home to a vibrant Black community. Mayhew became one of the first Blacks to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps and later gained national recognition as a painter and civil rights activist.

Born April 3, 1924, in West Amityville (now East Massapequa), Mayhew was of mixed African American and Native American heritage — his father was of

Shinnecock descent, while his mother was of Cherokee and Lumbee ancestry. Raised in part by his grandmother, Sara Steele Mayhew, in North Amityville, he was introduced to art at a young age. Inspired by landscape artists visiting Long Island, Mayhew developed a lifelong passion for painting.

Following the United States’ entry into World War II, Mayhew enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves on Dec. 3, 1942. At the time, the Marines had only just begun to accept Black recruits, under pressure from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Prior to that, the branch had excluded Blacks entirely.

Mayhew trained at Montford Point in North Carolina, the segregated facility for Black Marines. He became part of a historic group now known as the Montford Point Marines. He initially served in the 51st Defense Battalion before being promoted to sergeant in April 1944 and transferred to the 52nd Defense Battalion’s Heavy AntiAircraft Group.

That September, Mayhew’s unit deployed to the Pacific aboard the USS Winged Arrow, eventually arriving at the Marshall Islands to defend airfields from Japanese attacks. In spring 1945, the unit was relocated to Guam, where they patrolled against Japanese holdouts. Though they were later considered for deployment to Okinawa,

that plan was scrapped — a decision that left many Marines frustrated over their limited combat roles. To help boost morale, Mayhew painted pin-up images on tanks.

Mayhew returned to the United States in April 1946 and received an honorable discharge. He soon moved to New York City to pursue a career in art. By the 1960s, he had co-founded “Spiral,” a collective of Black artists focused on exploring the intersection of art, civil rights and politics.

His artwork — a blend of abstraction, impressionism and expressionism — focused on emotional, atmospheric landscapes he referred to as “mindscapes” and “moodscapes.” Today, his pieces are in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.

Mayhew died on Sept. 26, 2024, in California at age 100.

In a 2020 interview, Mayhew said he did not strongly identify with his military service but proudly displayed the Congressional Gold Medal awarded in 2012 to the Montford Point Marines. His complex view of his service mirrored the broader experiences of Blacks in the military — a mix of pride and painful recog-nition of the inequalities they faced.

Still, Mayhew’s time in the Marines helped shape his identity as an activist and artist. His service is part of the legacy of

roughly 20,000 Montford Point Marines who trained between 1942 and 1949, paving the way for President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9981 in 1948, which ordered the desegregation of the U.S. military. Mayhew’s life and legacy reflect the dual fight African Americans faced during World War II — against foreign enemies and domestic injustice. Through his service, art and activism, he helped move the country closer to its democratic ideals of equality and justice.

The Suffolk County Police Department handed out 162 doses of Narcan during Babylon’s Summer Block Par ty on July 17, while The Purple Rock Project helped attendees memorialize loved ones lost to overdose by writing their names on commemorative rocks. Training on Narcan, which reverses opioid overdoses, was provided by Suffolk County Police Emergency Medical Service Officers Jason By ron and Alex Trzepizur, who work closely with the department’s Behav ioral Health Section and Community Relations Bureau. Byron explained to party attendees how accidental opi oid exposures can affect individuals of any age, emphasizing that simply having Narcan at home is not a sign of substance abuse, but a measure of preparedness and care for loved ones. Carole Trottere, who lost her son Alex to fentanyl, met with several families affected by overdose. She helped them create memorial rocks and distributed resources from the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

SCPD deploys Narcan training at Babylon summer party

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Bethpage Black preps for Ryder Cup

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

The Ryder Cup is coming to Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale Sept. 26 to 28 and preparations are in full swing for one of golf’s premier international events.

After three years of planning, work to install viewing stands, including two triple-deckers and eight double-deckers, with some flanking the first and 18th fairways, bleachers, hospitality tents and a large merchandise area began May 19 and will continue up until the first practice round Sept. 23.

“We’re expecting 50,000 fans per day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” 2025 Ryder Cup Director Bryan Karns said during a press conference held at Bethpage Black July 24. “Living in New York for the past few years and attending Jets, Yankees and Mets games, it’s an incredibly passionate fan base. Any time a major championship has come to Bethpage, the crowds have been remarkable. Fans are going to understand this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and they’re really going to value what it means to attend a Ryder Cup.”

Half a million fans registered for a lottery system used to purchase tickets said Evan Crowder, PGA of America Operations Manager. Tickets for the three scoring rounds of the tournament are sold out, though a handful remain for the Sept. 23 and 24 practice rounds.

Renowned for its degree of difficulty and rich history that includes hosting the U.S. Open (2002 and 2009) and PGA Championship (2019), Bethpage Black will have a slightly different look for the Ryder Cup with the tee box of the first hole — a 430-yard, par-4 — moving 30 yards closer to the pin and about 20 yards to the north for a clearer path to the green.

“The five most important holes at the Ryder Cup are the first, and 15 through 18 where the majority of matches are decided is set up incredibly well,” Karns said.

Added Kenny Kurzendoerfer, 2025 Ryder Cup Operations Manager: “This is where you want to be as a fan, where the first tee box and 18th green are in close proximity. It’s definitely a bucketlist moment to experience the first tee at a Ryder Cup. It’s truly unlike anything you’ve seen before in golf. I’ve been lucky to be a part of a few of them now and it still gives me chills.”

In terms of transportation to and from the course for fans, Jones Beach lots 4 and 5 will serve as the main public parking areas where shuttle service will be provided to Bethpage. Shuttles will also run from both the north and south side of the Farmingdale LIRR station, Crowder said. There will also be a ride-

share lot on site at Yellow Course No. 11.

The Ryder Cup dates back to 1927, when the inaugural matchup was held at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts. Initially a contest between the United States and Great Britain, the format expanded in 1979 to include players from continental Europe. The U.S. played host to the event in 2016 and most recently in 2021.

The event features 28 matches across three formats – foursomes, fourballs, and singles. Teamwork and strategy are essential to winning.

Although the 12-player rosters for both teams have yet to be announced,

some of the top U.S. players include Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Bryson DeChambeau, and Collin Morikawa, with Europe featuring Rory McIlroy, Rasmus Hojgaard, Matt Wallace and Tyrrell Hatton.

The U.S. team selection is based on a points system, where points are awarded based on performance in PGA Tour events and major championships. Automatic qualifiers, with Scheffler already being one, will be the top six in points after the BMW Championship on Aug. 17. Captain Keegan Bradley will select the remainder of the roster Aug. 27, Karns noted.

Jeff Bessen/Herald Evan Crowder, 2025 Ryder Cup Operations manager at PGA of America, explains tournament ground operations at Bethpage State Park on July 24.

The new first tee box created for the 2025 Ryder Cup match.

Tony Bellissimo/Herald photos Building the grandstand by the first tee and behind the 18th green on the Bethpage Black is in full swing.

Durso presents scholarship to West Islip H.S. senior

NYS Assemblyman Michael Durso, who represents the 9th District, recently presented West Islip High School senior Nils Haugen with the Senator John J. Marchi Memorial Athletic Scholarship.

The $3,000 award is granted by the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators and recognizes students for academic excellence, athletic ability, community service, financial need and leadership potential.

“Nils exemplifies the attributes we look for in a scholarship recipient,” Durso said. “He has demonstrated excellence not only in his academic pursuits, but also in extracurricular activities and community service.”

Nils credits his success to a strong connection with his family, the West Islip community and his own self-motivation. With a cumulative GPA of 95.0, he has completed multiple Advanced Placement and STEM courses and has made the Principal’s List every quarter of his high school career.

A four-year member of both the West Islip football and lacrosse teams, he is also part of the National Honor Society and the National Math Honor Society. This year, he received the Jack Braddish Scholar Athlete Award, which recognizes students who excel academically while participating in athletics. His commitment to the community includes organizing a food drive for a local pantry, volunteering for Holiday

Adopt-a-Family and Wreaths Across America, and participating in beautification efforts through the West Islip Library. He also volunteers with West Islip Lacrosse PAL.

He holds certifications as a CNC mill basic operator and in CPR/AED life-

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guarding. He works as a lifeguard for the Town of Babylon during the summer.

He plans to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the fall, where he will major in mechanical engineering and play on the school’s lacrosse team.

“These scholarships are a token of

our commitment to supporting the next generation of leaders in their future endeavors,” Durso said. “On behalf of the Italian-American Conference of State Legislators, myself, President Angelo Morinello, Vice President Mario Mattera, and Treasurer Ed Ra, congratula-

Copiague Middle School students win honors in global video contest

Copiague Middle School seventh graders Juliette Peralta and Gabriela Salgado-Mejia have earned New York State honors in the international World of 8 Billion student video contest for their submission, “How Kids Education Affects the Population.”

Sponsored by Population Education, a program of the nonprofit Population Connection, the contest invites young people to explore the challenges of population growth and propose sustainable solutions.

For the World of 8 Billion video project, students create a one-minute video that addresses one of this year’s global topics, suggests a sustainable solution and connects how human population growth impacts that topic.

Now in its 14th year, the World of 8 Billion contest has engaged more than 32,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Each year, topics are updated to reflect current global trends and challenges.

The 2025 judging panel included 51 experts from around the world.

“We hope the contest helps amplify student voices on the complex issues of our growing world,” said Pam Wasserman, senior vice president for education at Population Connection. “The winning videos really celebrate the students’ exemplary research, creativity and problem-solving skills.”

Juliette Peralta

Gabriela Salgado-Mejia

Shown are West Islip School District Superintendent Dr. Paul Romanelli, Nils Haugen, Assemblyman Michael Durso, and West Islip High School Principal Andrew O’Farrell

Please meet some of our local scholars...

The following students were recently recognized for academic achievements and graduation at their respective colleges:

•The following students were recently named to the President’s List at SUNY Cortland: Dina Bartolotta of Babylon, majoring in Physical Education K-12; Shannon Batjiaka of Lindenhurst, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Alexa Belotti of Deer Park, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Daniella Belotti of Deer Park, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Michael Bloom of West Babylon, majoring in Sport Management; Riley Byrnes of Lindenhurst, majoring in Speech & Hearing Science; Michael Camier of North Babylon, majoring in Physical Education K-12; Miranda Campion of Lindenhurst, majoring in Inclusive Education Childhood; Vanessa Danese of Lindenhurst, majoring in Teaching

Do you have a scholar in your home? If so, send us information on their achievements and we will publish it. Send items to cjames@liherald.com. Include your full name and phone number.

English as a Second Language; Samantha Fahey of West Islip, majoring in Inclusive Education Childhood; Tyler Ferragamo of West Babylon, majoring in Sport Management; Rachael Galante of West Babylon, majoring in Psychology; Alexandra Geosits of Deer Park, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Anna Heaton of North Babylon, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Alyssa Howe of Deer Park, majoring in Inclusive Education Childhood; Arianna Jordan of Babylon, majoring in Psychology; Demitra Kalodimos of Lindenhurst, majoring in Psychology; Nicole Kaywood of Deer Park, majoring in Business Economics; Isabella Martone of West Islip, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Daniel Nicolosi of West Islip, majoring in Physical Education K-12; Cristina Pascarella of West Islip, majoring in Early Childhood and

Childhood Education B-6; Kayleigh Pellicano of Deer Park, majoring in Adolescence Education: Social Studies; Lilly Perotto of Babylon, majoring in Inclusive Education Childhood; Joseph Piropato of West Islip, majoring in Physical Education K-12; Taylor Quinones of Deer Park, majoring in Physical Education K-12; Jacob Ricciardone of Babylon, majoring in Adolescence Education: Social Studies; Brianna Seibert of West Babylon, majoring in Inclusive Education Childhood; Ryan Suib of Lindenhurst, majoring in Speech and Hearing Science; Antonina

Ugalde of Deer Park, majoring in Early Childhood and Childhood Education B-6; Jose Voyard of Wheatley Heights, majoring in Economics; and Michael Womble of Wheatley Heights, majoring in Physical Education K-12.

•The following students were recently named to the Dean’s List at Genesee Community College: Anthony Madonia of North Babylon; Alex Romagnesi of Babylon.

•Dominick Lasorsa of Babylon recently graduated from Roger Williams University with a B.S. in Construction Management.

Country music festival on Aug. 9

The Lindenhurst Fire Department, Fire Police Squad will be hosting a country music festival on Aug. 9 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Lindenhurst Fireman’s Memorial Park. Gates open at 4 p.m.

The event will feature Long Island’s own Southbound Band and will take place rain or shine. There will be food trucks, a cash bar, $5 Miller Lites and $2 for soda and water.

The cost is $20 per person. Children 12 and under are free. Chairs in a bag and blankets are encouraged.

For more information, call (516) 3986674 or (917) 446-0262.

Lindenhurst Fireman’s Memorial Park is located at 555 Heling Blvd., Lindenhurst.

New pool hours in Babylon Village

Village residents, note that the Gilbert C. Hanse pool hours have now changed to 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. w until Labor Day.

For more information, call (631) 669-1500.

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LI Public Arts fest ‘draws’ a welcoming crowd

By CHRISTIE LEIGH BABIRAD cbabirad@liherald.com

A refreshing breeze swept through Phelps Lane Park as art lovers gathered for the opening of the second annual open air Long Island Public Arts Festival recently.

Hosted by the Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts (BACCA) in collaboration with Colored Colors, the more than 50 artists submitted work, with with 24 selected for display.

The artwork will remain on display at Phelps Lane Park, 281 Phelps Lane, North Babylon, through Sept. 2, and is open to hte public without charge.

“It’s a big accomplishment to even be chosen, and I’m looking forward to everyone’s reactions to the art we selected,” said Tricia Messeroux, executive director of BACCA. “It’s very creative, very beautiful, and I hope everyone has a good time.”

Colored Colors, a creative platform for artists, designers and musicians, partnered with BACCA to curate the show. Founder and Executive Director José Tutiven said the festival’s strength lies in showcasing talent from across Long Island.

“We wanted to create something unique for people to engage with,” Tutiven said. “Someone might not consider themselves an art enthusiast, but when they see the variety of work here, I hope they’ll realize art is everywhere—and for everyone.”

An artist himself, Tutiven said he launched Colored Colors to create opportunities he didn’t see when first starting out. His goal is to expand the organization’s projects while staying true to its grassroots mission.

BACCA Director Jason Jenkins said he hopes artists feel celebrated and supported.

“Working with Colored Colors has felt like working with a family,” Jenkins said. “To find another organization that serves the community in the same way means a lot.”

Jenkins said the selected artwork challenges typical regional themes, such as seascapes and lighthouses.

“This show redefines what people expect from Long Island art,” he said. “There’s a variety here, and a unifying drive of expression.”

BACCA Board President Ron Becker, also an artist, called the festival “a celebration of the arts

in the Babylon community.”

With a playground nearby, many children joined the event after noticing the art displays.

“We were at the playground and saw this going on, and the kids like art,” said attendee Habeeb Arije, who was there with his children, Isa and Aya. Aya was especially drawn to a digital photo titled “Silk at Blursday NYC” by Talus Pinto and posed with her brother, mimicking the artwork.

Eight-year-old aspiring artist Jasmine Zencir was captivated by the work of Quiana Lewis, who exhibited her art at the festival for the first time.

“I’m an artist too, and it looks so pretty,” Jasmine said. “I like nature and the ocean.”

Lewis, a North Babylon High School graduate, said many of her pieces feature the beach because “it’s where I feel most free.”

“I love drawing portraits,” she said. “I’m happiest when I’m drawing people.”

Louise Stephenson, a retired elementary art teacher from West Islip, said the park setting was perfect for the exhibit.

“It’s a beautiful place to sit and see the artwork,” said Stephenson, who takes BACCA art classes. Her watercolor, titled “Changes,” reflects her transition into retirement. She also noted the excitement of seeing art from one of her former students on display.

The event included live art by Lindsay Lange, who painted a mural onsite. The piece will be auctioned by BACCA to support next year’s festival.

“I do a lot of live painting across Long Island, and I’m excited to be here in Babylon for the first time,” Lange said.

Jamine Allen of Evolve hosted a community banner project where attendees traced handprints onto upcycled fabric to contribute to a collaborative installation.

Live music was also part of the celebration, with Courtney Fleming of Lost Island Arts performing hits such as “Tennessee Whiskey.”

“They were playing on the playground and heard the music, and that drew them to the show,” said Alexa Hoffman, who attended with her children and friends. “My son loves singing and dancing.”

For more information, visit longislandpublicartsfest.com.

Artist Louise Stephenson with her work “Changes”

Artist Quiana Lewis and Jasmine Zencir

Aya and Isa Arije posing in front of “Silk at Blursday NYC” by Talus Pinto.

West Islip educators hold annual board reorganization

The West Islip Union Free School District held its annual board of education reorganization meeting in the auditorium of Beach Street Middle School on July 2.

Newly elected board of education trustees Grace Kelly, Christina Marks and Peter McCann were sworn in to begin their terms by the school dis-

trict’s attorney. McCann and Anthony Tussie were elected and sworn in as president and vice president of the board, respectively. In addition, Marks was presented with a certificate for her continuing education as a school board member by the New York State School Boards Association.

Newly elected trustees Grace Kelly, left, Christina Marks, above and Peter McCann, at right are sworn in. McCann was elected as president, and Anthony Tussie will serve as vice president for the 2025-2026 school year.

Ear Works Audiology: Your Guide to Hearing Health

If you’ve been turning up the TV or struggling in noisy conversations, it might be time for a hearing test— and Ear Works Audiolo gy is here to help. With 11 Long Island locations and a team led by Dr. Victoria Kopec and Dr. Toni Zanetti, Ear Works provides compassionate, personalized hearing care for every step of your journey.

According to audiologist Dr. Meredith Moore, common signs of hearing loss include increasing the TV volume, difficulty understanding speech, and avoiding group conversations. Loved ones often notice these issues first, and Dr. Moore recommends a

Dr. Meredith Moore

no-pressure approach to encourage that first appointment—even if it’s just to establish a baseline.

At your appointment, you can expect a comfor table, non-invasive visit that includes questions about your hearing history, an ear exam, and a 10- to 15-minute test involving tones and word reco gnition in both quiet and noisy settings.

If hearing aids are recommended, patients can try them out immediately in-office. Today’s devices are discreet, Bluetooth-enabled, and even offer tinnitus relief through pro grams like those from Widex. While over-the-

counter devices may seem convenient, they often lack customization and effective noise management.

What truly sets Ear Works Audiolo gy apar t is their commitment to tailored solutions and ongoing support. Whether you’re ready to act or just gathering infor mation, their team is here to guide you toward better hearing health.

Throughout Long Island

Courtesy/West Islip school district

The event began with greetings from Superintendent Paul Defendini and Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Olsen, promoting collaboration and practice enhancement among educational coaches.

Farmingdale hosts coaching collaborative for LI educators

The Farmingdale School District welcomed more than 100 instructional coaches from 28 school districts across Long Island, when it recently hosted the Long Island Coaching Collaborative at Weldon E. Howitt Middle School.

The collaborative serves as a professional development opportunity for educational coaches to network, share strategies and strengthen their instructional practices. The May 30 event opened with remarks from Farmingdale Superintendent of Schools Paul Defendini and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Jennifer Olsen.

“These workshops offered us an opportunity to share some of the great work happening in Farmingdale and collaborate with peers from over 25 districts who are doing fantastic work across the island,” Defendini said. “I

am incredibly grateful for the team of leaders we have here in Farmingdale for organizing today’s enriching and energizing workshops.”

Participants attended breakout sessions on a variety of topics, including access in mathematics instruction and the science of reading. Sessions were led by Farmingdale educators and emphasized active engagement and open dialogue.

In addition to formal sessions, the event included time for networking, giving coaches the opportunity to exchange ideas and build professional relationships. Attendees praised the supportive and collaborative atmosphere.

District officials said they were proud to contribute to the growth of this regional initiative and support ongoing development among instructional coaches.

Courtesy Farmingdale school district

THURSDAY, JULY 31

•Town of Babylon Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting: 6 p.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, call (631) 957-3012.

• The Long Island Dahlia Society: 9 a.m., Bayard Cutting Arboretum, 440 Montauk Highway, Great River. All are welcome. Come and learn how to care for your dahlias. For more information call (631) 972-8829 (leave message) or visit longislanddahlia.org.

•Church Attic Thrift Shop: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway, Amityville. For information, call (631) 264-0152 or email amitychurch1792@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1

•Simpson United Methodist Church Thrift Shop: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 30 Locust Ave., Amityville. For more information, call (631) 789-2569.

•St. Mary’s Thrift Shop: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., 175 Broadway, Amityville, enter from rear parking lot. Lots of collectibles, glassware, clothing and other gently used items. For information, call (631) 464-4899.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2

•Amityville Village Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway, Amityville. For more information, call (631) 264-6000.

•Church Attic Thrift Shop: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway, Amityville. For informa-

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tion, call (631) 264-0152 or email amitychurch1792@gmail.com.

•St. Mary’s Thrift Shop: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., 175 Broadway, Amityville, enter from rear parking lot. Lots of collectibles, glassware, clothing and other gently used items. For information, call (631) 464-4899.

MONDAY, AUGUST 4

•Town of Babylon Planning Board Meeting: 7 p.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, call (631) 957-4434.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5

•Town of Babylon Accessory Apartment Review Board Meeting: 6 p.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, call (631) 957-7468.

• Village of Babylon Board of Trustees work session: 6 p.m.; Village Hall, upstairs conference room, 153 W. Main St., Babylon. For additional information, call 631-669-1500; or email: info@villageofbabylonny.gov; or visit the web site @https://www.villageofbabylonny.gov.

• Lindenhurst Village Board of Trustees meeting: 7:30 p.m. public meeting,

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Community-wide garage sale returns to Amityville Sept. 13

The Village of Amityville’s second annual community garage sale will take place Sat.,, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Residents looking to ‘clean up and clean out’ can also cash in, as the event offers an opportunity to earn some extra money. The sale will not count toward the village’s two-sale-per-year limit per household, and the garage sale permit fee will be waived.

Nearly 100 homes participated in last year’s event, turning Amityville into a shopper’s paradise. Bargain hunters can expect to find a wide range of items, including clothing, decorative and craft goods, books, novelties, tools, sports gear, kitchen and boating equipment, furniture and other household merchandise.

“This event attracts more visitors to the village than a single sale would,” said Mayor Michael O’Neill. “We’re excited to support our residents and hopefully also generate additional traffic to our retail shops, restaurants and many services in

Lindenhurst Village Hall, 430 S. Wellwood Ave., Lindenhurst. For updated meeting info., call 631-957-7500; or visit their web site @ https://villageoflindenhurstny.gov.

•Emotional Health Recovery and Support Group: 7:30 to 9 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9592, 55 Hickory Lane, Levittown. Free weekly, in-person meeting of Emotions Anonymous, a 12step support group for anyone experiencing emotional difficulties. For more information, call Steve at (631) 332-0552 or Jill at (516) 220-7808. All calls are confidential.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6

•Town of Babylon Town Board Meeting: 10 a.m., Town Board Room, Babylon Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst. For more information, call (631) 957-4292.

•Town of Babylon Town Board meeting: 3 p.m., Town Board Room, 200 E. Sunrise Hwy., Lindenhurst. For additional information, call 631-957-3100.

•Emotional Health Recovery and Support Group: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Free weekly, virtual meeting of Emotions Anonymous, a 12-step support group for anyone experiencing emotional difficulties. For more information, call Steve at (631) 332-0552 or Jill at (516) 220-7808. All calls are confidential.

•The Long Island Dahlia Society: 9 a.m., Bayard Cutting Arboretum, 440 Montauk Highway., Great River. All are welcome. Come and learn how to care for your dahlias. For more information call (631) 972-8829 (leave message) or visit longislanddahlia.org.

Freestyle Festival at Tanger Outlets Aug. 3

Ronnie Reality’s Freestyle Festival will be held at Tanger Outlets at the Arches, 152 Artists Circle, Deer Park Sun., Aug 3 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Get ready for a wild day with a freestyle motocross, and individual free style shows. The event is for the whole family with incredible performances and interactive experiences and celebrity spotlights. Part of the proceeds will go toward

the Wounded Warriors Project, St. Jude Children’s Hospital and the Raymond Downey Scholarship foundation.

Tickets start at $25.18. There will be food trucks, vendor booths, raffles, gift basket giveaways and more.

This is the first show of its kind on Long Island. To purchase tickets or for more information go. to https://shorturl.at/G4aS4

the village.”

The garage sale will span neighborhoods from south of Sunrise Highway to the Great South Bay, and from County Line Road on the west to the areas off Bayview and South Bayview avenues on the east.

Shoppers are reminded to drive carefully and follow all traffic rules and parking regulations, especially in residential areas.

To sign up, Amityville residents cancontact Village Hall at 631-264-6000 or email Mayor@amityville.com with the subject line “Garage Sale.”

A list of participating homes and an interactive map will be available in August on the village website and at Village Hall, located at 21 Ireland Place, during the week leading up to the sale. For updates and information, visit Amityville.com. In case of rain, the event will be held Sunday, Sept. 14.

HERALD BEACON

By Christie Leigh Babirad

Dolores Freeze

(With her puppy, Luna)

West Babylon

I love walking, and everything on Long Island in the summer is beautiful. Sometimes we get too busy that we don’t enjoy it.

What is your favorite part of summer on Long Island?

Tess LaMorte Lindenhurst

Going to the beach with a good book.

Russell Jr. Hurd 4 years old North Babylon.

Attending MGV Elementary September 2025 UPK program. My favorite part is going to the beach to build sand castles and fly kites, and going to Geiger spray park!

Elizabeth Morales Bay Shore I like the beach, and going around the town of Amityville because everything is close.

Katie Cannamela (With her daughter, Brooke) West Islip I like going to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, walking around and looking at the flowers. I also like to go to Captree and fish with the kids.

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Celebrate culture and community at the Gold Coast Dance Festival

By Roksana Amid

As sundown takes hold at Morgan Memorial Park on Aug. 2, artists representing a rich spectrum of dance styles — from classical ballet and folklorico to tap, contemporary and hip-hop — take to a stage. The ﬁfth annual Gold Coast Dance Festival — set against the backdrop of the Long Island Sound — is a grand celebration of culture, movement and community connection.

Hosted by New York Dance Theatre, the free event attracts folks to see a varied lineup of dancers from Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York City Ballet, Broadway, and more. This year’s edition also includes Ballet Nepantla, a returning favorite known for blending traditional Mexican folklorico with contemporary dance.

“Ballet Nepantla are an astounding company,” Festival Executive Producer Nicole Loizides Albruzzese says. “They’ve been noted as embodying the in-between-ness of those who live on the borderland, mixing in cultures and gaining a little bit from either side.”

Founded in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, this began as an informal gathering of dancers organized by Albruzzese, a professional performer and Glen Cove resident. She invited a few colleagues to Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay as a way to decompress from the emotional toll of the lockdown. This experience inspired her to bring a professional dance festival to Glen Cove the following year.

“Because the world just stopped talking to one another, stopped dining together, we wanted to create something that brought people together without the need for words,” Albruzzese says. “Dance can do that.”

Since then, the festival has grown to involve dozens of performers and companies, including John Manzari, a renowned Broadway tap dancer and featured artist from “So You Think You Can Dance,” and MorDance, a contemporary ballet company based in Yonkers. This will be MorDance’s ﬁrst appearance here.

For those inspired to dance themselves, join Jamie Shannon of Kilowatt Dance Theater for an introductory Lindy Hop class on the beach at 4:30 p.m., open to all ages and skill levels, before performances begin.

“Lindy Hop is one of America’s beloved early social dances, stemming from jazz and Harlem and a beautiful social era,” Albruzzese explains. “Bring your dinner down, enjoy a class, and go see a show. You get a more intimate look at the artists beforehand, and then you get to see them on stage.”

New York Dance Theatre, which is celebrating its 51st year, produces the festival through its nonproﬁt mission to make high-level dance accessible to all audiences.

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The company also runs the Développé program, a a scholarship initiative that provides free yearlong dance education to atrisk youth, foster families and English-language learners across Long Island.

Développé partners with community organizations, including Options for Community Living, which supports families experiencing homelessness and ﬁnancial hardship. One of the newest scholarship recipients is an 11-year-old girl who had never taken a dance class before this summer.

“She leaves the studio glowing,” Albruzzese says. “She’s one of the most graceful dancers in the class. Starting classical dance between the ages of 11 and 14 can be intimidating, but she’s handling it so beautifully.”

A suggested festival donation of $20 supports the Développé program. Contributions help fund workshops, lectures, performances and scholarships provided by NYDT throughout the year.

Albruzzese says the festival is designed to be inclusive, welcoming people of all backgrounds and abilities.

“A woman came up to me last year and said, ‘It’s not so often I ﬁnd something to do with my mom or my grandmother,’” she recalls. “Her grandmother was 92 and squealing with excitement watching the performances. That’s what this is about. You can just grab a park bench, sit on the grass and stay for ﬁve minutes or the entire evening.”

‘So in love with you am I’

Last year’s featured performers represented Haiti, China, Iraq, and Mexico. Each year’s lineup is curated to reﬂect global traditions and storytelling through movement, according to Albruzzese.

“I think because we offer such a huge, diverse array of cultural programming, everyone leaves loving something. We birthed a star, and it’s shining everywhere. It’s beneﬁting the artists, the audience and our local cultural institutions,” she adds enthusiastically.

Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, beach chairs and picnic dinners.

Check out a stylized concert version of the classic golden age musical. Egotistical leading man-directorproducer Fred Graham (Broadway’s Charlie Marcus) is reunited with his ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi (Broadway talent Christina DeCicco, of Rockville Centre) when the two are forced to play opposite one another in a new production of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.” The battle of the sexes continues onstage and off, as it becomes clear that, as much as this couple profess to hate each other, they are also still in love. Throw in a number of cases of mistaken identity, the mob, and comedic routines into the mix and you get “Kiss Me, Kate” — a dazzling Broadway classic that earned the very ﬁrst Tony award for Best Musical. A cast of 30 brings this “concert” production to life with limited costumes and scenic elements. The dynamic performers include Molloy’s renowned CAP21 Musical Theatre Conservatory students and also alumni.

Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-3, 3 p.m. Molloy University, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. Tickets available at madisontheatreny.org or call (516) 323-4444.

Magic Rocks!

Illusionist Leon Etienne has sold out venues all over the world with his blockbuster performances of Magic Rocks! Now he arrives here with his jaw-dropping, critically acclaimed hit show. You’ve seen him on “America’s Got Talent,” “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon, “Masters of Illusion,” and “Penn & Teller: Fool Us!” Hailed by critics as “America’s Rock Illusionist,” Leon is a worldwide hit with audiences, critics and producers. He’s recognized for his onstage charisma, a fast-paced, high energy, rock n’ roll performance style — and his no-nonsense approach to magic. This interactive, family-friendly spectacular showcases mind-blowing tricks, award-winning sleight of hand and non-stop laughter. Perfect for audiences of all ages, it’s an immersive experience ﬁlled with wonder, laughter and jaw-dropping moments you won’t soon forget. Etienne’s performance style attracts worldwide attention; join in this unforgettable night of magic and you’ll see why.

Sunday, Aug. 3, 7 p.m. $71.75, $60.25, $49.25,

• Saturday, Aug. 2, 6 p.m.; rain date is Aug.

Morgan Memorial Park, Germaine Street, Glen Cove

Festival updates and class announcements available on New York Dance Theatre’s social media platforms

Photos courtesy Nicole Albruzzese

Last year, Wendi Weng, a Chinese immigrant and resident of Huntington, wowed the festival audience.

Graceanne Pierce, a Queens resident and New York Dance Theatre artist, takes the stage this year.

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JULY

31 Vendor applications open for Argyle Park Annual Fair

The annual Argyle Fair takes place on Sept. 7 and vendor applications are now open. Participants will be notified by email when their application has been approved.

•Contact: babylonbeautification.org. or info@babylonbbs.org

BACCA TV

Join the launch of BACCA TV. The Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts, BACCA, is assembling a team of visionary content creators and video producers for their new digital platform. It’s free to join. Tackle fresh creative challenges, premiere your work on their online channel and be honored at the inaugural BACCA TV Video Awards. Put “BACCA TV” as the subject line in your email.

•Contact: info@babylonarts.org

Fishing Fridays

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Village residents can take part in Fishing Fridays at the Main Dock. Rgister through the “Remind App” as should there be any cancellations or changes in the program, it will be communicated through this app. Register with the following code: @h8gghek.

•Where: Main Dock, Babylon Village

•Time: 8:30 9:30 a.m.

•Contact: (631) 669-1500

Summer tunes

The Village of Babylon Summer Concert Series continues with Sweet Ride LI. Enjoy rock and country at the gazebo.

•Where: 244 W. Main St., Babylon

•Time: 8 p.m.

•Contact: (631) 669-1500

Sounds of summer

Vanderbilt Museum welcomes everyone to enjoy internationally renowned Alex Torres and his Latin Orchestra in the Celebration Tent. A perennial favorite, the orchestra performs annually to sold-out audiences at the Vanderbilt, playing its original blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms – including salsa, merengue, cha-cha, bomba, plena, and Latin jazz. Pack a cooler and a picnic dinner. No food or beverage will be available for purchase. Individual tickets are $65.

‘The Rocketman Show’

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Family movie night

The Town of Babylon’s Free Summer Movie Series continues with “Freaky Friday” at Tanner Park in Copiague. In the event of inclement weather, check the Town of Babylon Parks Facebook page for status.

•Where: 400 Baylawn Ave., Copiague

•Time: 8:25 p.m.

•Contact: (631) 893-2100

The Three B’s: Bob, Beatles and the Byrds

Join Keith Crocker at North Babylon Public Library as he traces the creation of the folkrock movement. He analyzes the influence of Bob Dylan on the Beatles and the Beatles’ effect on the electronic sound of the Byrds. Registration is required.

•Where: 815 Deer Park Ave., North Babylon.

•Time: 6-7:30 p.m.

•Contact: northbabylonpl.org or call (631) 669-4020

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•Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington

• Time: 8 p.m.

Remember when rock was young? You will after this enthralling show, on the Paramount stage. Blast off into the stratosphere with this electrifying tribute to the Rocketman himself. With a nostalgic setlist that’ll take you right back to when rock was young, this is a must-see for Elton John fans — of all generations. Rus Anderson, Elton John’s official body double for his Farewell Yellow Brick Road world tour launch, recreates an early Elton concert complete with flamboyant costumes actually worn by Elton himself. Elton’s greatest hits, wildest outfits and outrageous stage antics come to life again as Anderson recreates the magic and live persona of a young Elton like no other. He storms around the stage with a fun-loving sense of flamboyance; part diva, part soccer player, killer vocalist, fierce piano player, all rock ‘n roller. This is a detailed re-creation of Elton John’s ‘70s shows that’s not to be missed. Anderson’s painstaking attention to detail includes wearing gorgeous, colorful and spectacular costumes, including Elton’s iconic boots, glasses and jumpsuits from 1973, as well as a sparkly Swarovski tuxedo from 1984. $82, $71.75, $60.25, $49.25, $37.25, $35.

•Where: Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport

•Time: Grounds open at 6 p.m.; performance runs 7-10 p.m.

•Contact: vanderbiltmuseum. org or call (631) 854-5579

Shakespeare in the Courtyard

The Carriage House Players perform “Othello,” in the Vanderbilt Mansion’s beautiful Spanish Revival Courtyard. Enjoy theater under the stars. $20, $15, seniors and children under 12.

•Where: Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport.

•Time: 8 p.m., also Sunday and Wednesday, through Aug. 3

•Contact: vanderbiltmuseum. org or call (631) 854-5579

Westbury House Tour

For many years visitors to Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens asked what was beyond the first floor corridor. Now go beyond the door and discover “secrets of the service wing,” during a 60-minute guided tour. Be introduced to the intensive labor required to create the lifestyle experienced by the Phipps family and their guests; tour the many rooms that were “behind the scenes” to create

the formal dining experiences of early 20th century. Go along the corridors to the butler’s pantry and silver cleaning room then descend the 17 steps to the kitchen, scullery, and wine storage rooms located on the ground floor. Reservations required.

•Where: 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury

•Time: Noon-1 p.m. and 3-4 p.m.; also Aug, 3-4 and Aug. 6-7

•Contact: oldwestburygardens. org or call (516) 333-0048

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Babylon Beautification Society’s Starlit Soirée

The Babylon Beautification Society hosts their Starlit Soirée. Enjoy an evening under the stars set in the gardens of the historic Conklin House. With music by 1 Step Ahead Entertainment, unlimited beer, wine, seasonal cocktails, delicious food and dessert. For ages 21 and over. $45.Advance purchase is required. Held rain or shine.

•Where: 280 Deer Park Ave., Babylon

•Time: 6-10 p.m.

•Contact: babylonbeautification. org/conklin-nights/

•Contact: ticketmaster.com or paramountny.com

Storybook Stroll

Bring the kids to Old Westbury Gardens for another storybook adventure Stroll the gardens and enjoy a telling of Eva Moore’s “Lucky Ducklings.” With a take-home craft. For ages 3-5. Storybook Strolls start at the Beech Tree (next to Westbury House), and end at the Thatched Cottage.

•Where: 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury

•Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m.

•Contact: oldwestburygardens. org or call (516) 333-0048

Farmers Market

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The Babylon Village Farmers Market is open every Sunday into October. Three farms bring in fresh produce, plenty of goodies, delicious breads, natural and wholesome foods and much more.

•Where: Babylon Village Gazebo, 244 W. Main St., Babylon

•Time: 8 a.m.-noon

•Contact: (631) 669-1500 or longislandfarmersmkts@gmail.com

Yoga at the pool

Take part in yoga on the Village of Babylon pool deck.

•Where: Gilbert C. Hanse Pool, 640 Fire Island Ave., Babylon

•Time: 11:15 a.m.-noon

•Contact: (631) 669-1500

Summertime sounds

The Town of Babylon welcomes JD Leonard’s Decades of Country to Tanner Park. In the event of inclement weather, check the Town of Babylon Parks Facebook page for concert status.

•Where: 400 Baylawn Ave., Copiague

•Time: 7:30 p.m.

•Contact: (631) 893-2100

Character

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Meet-and-Greet

Babylon Public Library and the Village of Babylon invites families with children up to grade 5 for a character meet-and-greet, followed by a family movie night at Babylon Village Gazebo. Snacks are provided.

•Where: 244 W. Main St., Babylon

• Time: 7-8 p.m.

•Contact: (631) 669-1624

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SCPD deploys Narcan training at Babylon summer party

Training on Narcan, which reverses opioid overdoses, was provided by Suffolk County Police Emergency Medical Service Officers Jason Byron and Alex Trzepizur, who work closely with the department’s Behavioral Health Section and Community Relations Bureau. Byron explained to party attendees how accidental opioid exposures can affect individuals of any age, emphasizing that simply having Narcan at home is not a sign of substance abuse, but a measure of preparedness and care for loved ones.

Carole Trottere, who lost her son Alex to fentanyl, met with several families affected by overdose. She helped them create memorial rocks and distributed resources from the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

For more information about the Purple Rock Project, email catrottere@gmail.com.

For details about SCPD’s Narcan training opportunities, call 631-8537067 or email jason.byron@suffolkcounty.gov.

Look for the SCPD Narcan training table and Purple Rock Project at upcoming community events this summer including the following:

•Tuesday, August 12, Alive by the Bay in Bay Shore, Main Street, 5 to 9 p.m.

•Thursday, August 21, Babylon Summer Block party, Main Street, 5 to 9

SCPD Emergency Medical Service Officer Jason Byron tells Luke Cipriano, 8, how Narcan works and the importance of calling 9-1-1 in emergencies.

Above: SCPD Emergency Medical Service Officers Alex Trzepizur and Jason Byron; Suffolk County Police Officers Tyana Kurz; Vincent Maio and Sgt, Ashley Dormer distributed Narcan to Summer Block party attendees.

Right: Attendees created memorial rocks for family members and friends who had died from a substance overdose.

Courtesy/Carole Trottere

Different tips for finding lost inside and outside cats

Losing a pet is a gutwrenching experience However, when it comes to public awareness, dogs garner far more attention than cats. Most passersby will take note—or even attempt to rescue—a wandering Cockapoo. In contrast, a calico darting across the road is often ignored. This disparity stems from the perception of cats as independent. Their tendency to wander unnoticed contrasts with the nowuncommon sight of a stray dog. Gone are the days when Long Island residents casually let their dogs out to explore the neighborhood.

Pets, Pets, Pets...

JOANNE ANDERSON

New York State law reflects these beliefs. The law mandates that stray dogs must be held for at least five days before being put up for adoption, giving owners time for a reunion. Cats, however, are legally regarded as “free roaming” and are not picked up by animal control unless distressed. Historically, most Long Island town shelters declined to accept adult stray cats unless extraordinary circumstances, to avoid nusance disputes with neighbors. In over 35 years of weekly visits to Babylon Animal Shelter, I only witnessed two cats reunited with their owners; but hundreds of dogs reclaimed by their families. Notably, North Hempstead Town Shelter has never housed cats or kittens for adoption— despite all other Long Island town shelters

compassionately doing so, without a legal requirement. Identification further complicates feline recoveries. Cats rarely wear collars, and breakaway designs often fall off, taking ID tags with them. Thankfully, microchipping of cats became common about a decade ago. Today, all Long Island shelters scan cats and dogs for chips upon intake. Babylon Shelter even extends this practice to domestic rabbits, routinely microchipping the bunnies they adopt out after spaying or neutering them.

DIFFERENT TIPS ON HOW TO RECOVER YOUR LOST CAT.

INSIDE SCOOP ON LOST INSIDE CATS:

Most indoor-only cats stay nearby if they slip out. But first, make sure the cat really escaped. Cats are adept at finding hideaways inside the house and will ignore the can opener sound if sleeping soundly or not famished. A lost cat may have been spooked by a move, change in routine, or a new “intruder”. Indoor cats lack confidence and familiarity in the great outdoors. They often hover somewhere close to home like under bushes unless something else such as menacing dogs, teasing kids, or thunder scares them further away.

Besides hanging numerous LOST flyers, it is best to center the search around your home. Ask neighbors if you can look inside sheds, garages, and cellar entrances where

a cat may be accidentally trapped. Leave food and a blanket with your scent on your stoop; set humane traps with tantalizing bait like sardines or Kentucky Fried Original Recipe nearby. (Be forewarned you may catch a raccoon or opossum.) If possible, keep your door propped open slightly, in case your cat returns in the middle of the night.

INDOOR/OUTSIDE FELINE FUGITIVES:

Adventurous indoor/outdoor cats are more likely to roam. If they don’t return at their usual time, start to search right away. Leave food and familiar items just as you would for a missing indoor cat. Canvas the neighborhood carrying treats. List your lost cat with a good photo on all local social media pages.

Flyers need a photo, color, and the word “LOST” large enough to see from a moving car. Check shelters in person. Ask if any cats are in the isolation, at the hospital, or on a dead-on-arrival list. Advertise in newspapers. Follow up on every plausible lead. (It is true that seriously ill cats may wander off to die.)

Outdoor cats may have a desire to explore. A friend in Middle Island adopted Fred an orange cat years ago. Her property is extremely secure for rescued cats. When Fred vanished, she launched a massive search. Someone answered her newspaper ad. He had been feeding a new cat outside the Farmingville post office that fit his description. It was Fred who must have slipped into a visitor’s car and that person’s next stop was that post office. Months later Fred disappeared again but was never

found.

BABYLON ANIMAL SHELTER: KITTENS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

Located at 80 New Highway, North Amityville, NY 11701, Babylon Animal Shelter offers adoptable kittens who are FeLV/FIV negative, up to date on vaccinations and parasite prevention, spayed/neutered, and microchipped. Contact them at 631-643-9270.

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

• Alex (#5-280): Male, mostly white with gray tabby markings, 3 months old.

• Zeus (#5-314): Male, orange tabby, 4 months old.

Babylon Animal Shelter

Poster Cats for Adoption:

ZEUS- 4 Month

Male Old Orange Tabby

Notice of formation of FUERTE FUTURO STRATEGIES LLC

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/29/2025

Office location, County of Suffolk. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a process served to: The LLC, 88108 CIRCLE DR, CENTRAL ISLIP, NY 11722 Purpose: any lawful act

25-342. 6/26, 7/3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Notice of Formation of Makkawi PA Services, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on January 7, 2025. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 20 Copeland Place, Farmingdale NY 11735 Purpose: any lawful purpose. 25-379. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7, 14, 21

Notice is hereby given that a license, Application ID: NA-0341-25120640 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 755 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976, County of Suffolk, for on premises consumption at Zoe Hospitality LLC. 25-389 7/24, 31

Notice of formation of Three M Collective LLC

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/23/2025 Office location, County of Suffolk.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a process served to:

Three M Collective LLC, 1512 6th st West Babylon NY 11704

Purpose: any lawful act.

25-359. 7/3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 8/7

Notice is hereby given that a license, Application ID: NA-0340-25120540 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 354 Larkfield Road, E. Northport, NY 11732, County of Suffolk, for on premises consumption at Alma Cocina Mexican Dream Corp. 25-387 7/24, 31

Notice is hereby given that a license, Application ID: NA-0340-25120529 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 100 S Main St, Sayville, NY 11782, County of Suffolk, for on premises consumption at Buteras Sayville Inc.

25-388. 7/24, 31

SUFFOLK - INDEX NO.: 625633/2023–SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Plaintiff designates SUFFOLK COUNTY as the place of trial based upon the location of the premises herein described having tax map District 0400, Section 284.00, Block 01.00, Lot 145.000, DIX HILLS, NY, County of SUFFOLK – U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE NRZ PASSTHROUGH TRUST XVIII, PLAINTIFF, -against- CAROL ANN NUZZI, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ANGELA MANETTA; CELESTA M. MANETTA, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ANGELA MANETTA;GINA M. GAGLIARDI AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ANGELA MANETTA; ANTHONY NICHOLAS MANETTA, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ANGELA MANETTA; Any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs-at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of ANGELA MANETTA, deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them and their respective wives, wid-

Public Notices

ows, husbands, widowers, heirs-at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; AMERICAN EXPRESS CENTURION BANK; CLERK OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT COURT; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC DOING BUSINESS IN NEW YORK AS MIDLAND FUNDING OF DELAWARE LLC; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

MANGANO FUNERAL HOME INC; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF NRZ PASS-THROUGH TRUST XIV

SUFFOLK COUNTY

CLERK; CHRISTINE NUZZI; CAROL NUZZI; JERRY NUZZI; GABRIELLA SEDITA; ISABELLA SEDITA; VICTORIA SEDITA; SOPHIE SEDITA; “JOHN DOE #8” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, DEFENDANTS. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance

on the Plaintiff's Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE

YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered against you and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.

Dated: Syosset, New York, June 6, 2025. Roach & Lin, P.C., attorney for Plaintiff, 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 185, Syosset, NY 11791. Tel: 516-9383100. To the abovenamed defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. THOMAS

F. WFIELAN, a Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New York, dated April 29, 2025 and filed with the SUFFOLK County Clerk together with the supporting papers thereon. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage held by Plaintiff on the premises known as District 0400, Section 284.00, Block 01.00, Lot 145.000, DIX HILLS, NY, County of SUFFOLK as described in the complaint on file and commonly known as 15 GLEASON DRIVE, DIX HILLS, NY 11746. 25-362 7/10, 17, 24, 31

Notice of Formation Notice of Formation of Lashley Enterprise Group LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 10, 2025. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: Lashley Enterprise Group LLC, 33 Washington Ave, Deer Park, NY 11729.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 25-370. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7, 14, 21

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Suffolk, US Bank Trust National Association, not in its Individual Capacity but Solely as Owner Trustee for VRMTG Asset Trust, Plaintiff, vs. Jenny Martinez, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on May 20, 2025, I,

the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 19, 2025 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 343 Alfred Street, North Babylon, NY 11703. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0100, Section 108.00, Block 02.00 and Lot 013.000. Approximate amount of judgment is $350,460.47 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #605685/2023.

Scott H. Siller, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Firm File No.: 240898-1 25-371 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. WISDOM EQUITIES LLC, Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK PREMIER INC., et al., Defendants. Index No. 607934/2023

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale granted herein on February 16, 2024, I the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, County of SUFFOLK, State of New York on August 19, 2025 at 2:00 pm of that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein

described as follows:

Said premises being known as and by street address 177 Baylawn Avenue, Copiague, NY 11726

District 0100 Section 191.00 Block 01.00 Lot 003.000

Said premises are sold subject to the terms and conditions of the filed Judgment and the Terms of Sale. Approximate amount of Judgment $332,320.00.

Dated: Garden City, New York June 13, 2025

SCOTT SILLER, ESQ, Referee

Adam E. Mikolay, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff

400 Garden City Plaza Suite 405 Garden City, New York 11530

516-222-2050

25-373 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7

Notice of Formation of Woltmann Capital LLC

Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 7/07/2025].

The office of the LLC is located in Suffolk County, NY. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: James Woltmann, 138 Anchorage Drive, West Islip, NY 11795.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

25-382. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7, 14, 21

July 31, 2025

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Index No. 627597/2024

Date filed: SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS

Premises being foreclosed: 12 Homestead Drive Wheatley Heights, NY 1 1798

ACTION To FORECLOSE MORTGAGE ON PROPERTY SITUATED IN SUFFOLK COUNTY Safeguard Credit Counseling, Inc., Plaintiff, -againstPhilomena Magrath as distributee, heir at law, next of kin, and devisee of the Estate of John A. Magrath, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance-Tax Compliance DivisionC.O.-ATC, United States of America Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service, and All the heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest and the creditors, assignees and successors in interest thereof of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff Defendant(s).

TO THE ABOVE DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiffs attorneys within twenty (20)

days after the service of the Summons exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. In case of your failure to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in this Complaint.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFEN-

DANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Thomas F. Whelan, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, entered May 27, 2025 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office.

THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on July 29, 2009 in Liber 21842, Page 541, covering premises k/a 12 Homestead Drive, Wheatley Heights, NY 11798 a/k/a Section 010.00, Block 02.00, Lot 041.000, District 0100.

Plaintiff designates Suffolk County as the place for trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or

go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.

Dated: June 19, 2025 Westbury, New York

Karen B. Migdal, Esq. Stein, Wiener & Roth, LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 315 Westbury, NY 1 1590 (516)-742-1212 #102422 25-376. 7/17, 24, 8/7, 14

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT SUFFOLK COUNTY

HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff against HECTOR ARISTY, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered February 11, 2020, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Babylon Townhall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM. Premises known as 30 Park Circle North, Farmingdale, NY 11735. District 0100

Sec 047.00 Block 03.00 Lot 086.000. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land,

Public Notices

with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at East Farmingdale, in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk, State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $403,296.21 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 603157/2018. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District's Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. Joseph Fritz, Esq., Referee File # FSLNY006 25-378. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE TOWN OF BABYLON ACCESSORY APARTMENT

REVIEW BOARD

Pursuant to provisions of Local Law # 9 of the Babylon Town Code, notice is hereby given that the Town of Babylon Accessory Apartment Review Board will hold a public hearing in the Town Board Meeting Room in the East Wing of Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York on Tuesday eve, August 05, 2025. Public hearings begin 6:00pm. NEW

APPLICATIONS:

•Sayed Haque 19 Toysome Lane Deer Park, NY 11729

SCTM#0100-66-366

•Gregory & Jennifer Pablo

56 Wilson Ave Amityville, NY 11701

SCTM#0100-1822-48

•Erika Soiman 5 Denton Place Farmingdale, NY 11735

SCTM#0100-46-114

•Nicholas Pooran & Pooja Mohess 113 Hughes Lane North Babylon, NY 11703

SCTM#0100-1083-20

Printing Instructions: RENEWALS BY AFFIDAVIT APPLICANTS, ARE NOT REQUIRED TO APPEAR. ALL NEW CASES WILL BE HEARD IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE ADVERTISED. All interested persons should appear at the above time and place by order of Sandra Thomas, Chairperson, Accessory Apartment Review Board, Town of Babylon, North Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York. Babylon Beacon: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 25-405. 7/31

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF BABYLON 153 WEST MAIN STREET BABYLON, NEW YORK 11702

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Babylon will hold Three (3) Public Hearings on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at Babylon Village Hall, 153 West Main Street, New York 11702, or as soon thereafter as can be

heard, to consider the following applications for a Special Use Permit:

•The application of Jamie Winkler, representing Insomnia Cookies Operators. LLC to open a late-night retail bakery to be located at 55 Deer Park Avenue, Village of Babylon.

•The application of Robert Mathews, of Millie’s Mimosa House & Eatery to open a brunch and mimosa restaurant to be located at 94 E. Main Street, Village of Babylon.

•The application of Isaura Sanchez, of My Play Space, LLC to allow school field trips at her playcenter located at 105 W. Main Street, Village of Babylon, Copy of application and plans may be examined at the office of the Village Clerk, between the hours of 9:00am and 4:00pm, Monday through Friday. All interested persons should appear at the above time and place and they will be given the opportunity to be heard. All applicants and their duly appointed representatives must appear in person at the above hearing.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Jean Marie Parker, Village Clerk Date: July 22, 2025 Babylon, New York 35-406 7/31, 8/7

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AND/OR INFORMATIONAL HEARINGS BY THE TOWN OF BABYLON PLANNING BOARD

Pursuant to Chapter 186, Site Plan Review, and Chapter

213, Zoning, of the Babylon Town Code and Section 276 of the Town Law, notice is hereby given that the Town of Babylon Planning Board will hold public and/ or informational hearings(s) at the Babylon Town Hall, Town Board Room, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York, on the Monday, August 4, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. prevailing time or as soon thereafter as can be heard to consider the following application(s): PUBLIC HEARING/BAR/ RESTAURANT

JOB# 25-24F; Quickway Japanese Hibachi: SCTM# 0100-071-01004.003: Zone – G Industry: SEQRA – Type II Action: Applicant proposes a change of tenancy to an existing restaurant space in order to operate a Quickway Japanese Hibachi restaurant.: Property is located on the east side of Route 110 (Broad Hollow Road), 1,122’ north of Route 109, E. Farmingdale, Suffolk County, Town of Babylon, New York

PUBLIC HEARING/ MODIFIED SITE PLAN

JOB# 22-23A; Educational Bus Transportation, Inc. - Modified: SCTM# 0100-10101-002: Zone – A Residence: SEQRA – Unlisted Action, Uncoordinated Review: Applicant proposes to construct a 1,456sf addition to the 1,456sf dispatch office that was reviewed and approved as part of the original site plan review application.: Property is located on

the southwest corner of Straight Path and Edison Avenue, West Babylon, Suffolk County, Town of Babylon, New York All interested persons should appear at the above time and place by order of Patrick Halpin, Chairperson of the Planning Board, Town of Babylon, North Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS

Babylon Beacon: 7/31/25 25-411. 7/31

Notice is hereby given that a license, Application ID: NA-0340-25122189 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 230 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, NY 11746, County of Suffolk, for on premises consumption at Gastronomy Inc. 25-413. 7/31, 8/7

NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Suffolk County Public Administrator, as Limited Administrator of the Estate of Michael H. Gisonna; et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered July 22, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 8, 2025, at 1:00PM, premises known as 22 William Street, Copiague, NY 11726-3714. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk, State of New York, District 0100 Section 180.00 Block 04.00 Lot 075.000. Approximate amount of judgment $689,864.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 021316/2013.

Francesco P. Tini, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC

Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792

Dated: June 25, 2025 25-361 7/10, 17, 24, 31

NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. WISDOM

VENTURES, LLC, Plaintiff, v. SUPERIOR DEVELOPMENT GROUP, INC., et al., Defendants. Index

No. 607761/2021

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale granted herein on December 12, 2024, I the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, County of SUFFOLK, State of New York on August 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm of that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows:

Said premises being known as and by street address 92 Glenmalure Street, Amityville, NY 11701

District 0100 Section 172.00 Block 03.00 Lot 031.000

Said premises are sold subject to the terms and conditions of the filed Judgment and the Terms of Sale. Approximate amount of Judgment $362,600.00.

Dated: Garden City, New York June 13, 2025

THOMAS G. TERESKY, ESQ., Referee

Adam E. Mikolay, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 400 Garden City Plaza Suite 405 Garden City, New York 11530 (516) 222-2050 25-363 7/10, 17, 24, 31

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK - BABYLON. U.S. BANK TRUST

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST

2020-GS3, Plaintiff -against- GUERLENE

PIERRE-LOUIS, IBSEN PIERRE-LOUIS, SANDY MICHEL PIERRE-LOUIS

A/K/A SANDY M. PIERRE-LOUIS, et al

Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated on August 23, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps of the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst, NY on August 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm premises situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as District 0100 Section 015.00 Block 07.00 Lot 015.000. Said premises known as 65 LANDSCAPE DRIVE, WHEATLEY HEIGHTS, NY 11798

Approximate amount of lien $635,664.58 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 626401/2023.

IAN SACK, ESQ., Referee

DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC

Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590

DLG# 39509

25-374. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7

NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT

COUNTY OF SUF-

FOLK

Public Notices

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Asset Backed Funding Corporation Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-NC1, Plaintiff AGAINST Shirley Smith; et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered December 18, 2015, amended August 11, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York 11757 on August 19, 2025, at 11:00AM, premises known as 41 South 32nd Street, Wyandanch, NY 11798. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk, State of New York, District 0100 Section 054.00 Block 04.00 Lot 002.000. Approximate amount of judgment $371,382.29 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 012198/2012.

Robert J. Cava, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792

Dated: July 1, 2025 For sale information, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2831 25-372. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7

Notice of formation of Feral Fiber Society LLC

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/01/2025

Office location, County of Suffolk. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a process served to: The LLC, 42 Westchester Avenue, West Babylon NY 11704 Purpose: any lawful act.

25-360. 7/3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 8/7

Notice is hereby given that a license, Application ID: NA-0340-25120521 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 8 3rd Ave, Bay Shore, NY 11706, County of Suffolk, for on premises consumption at Buteras Bay Shore Inc. 25-404. 7/24,31

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE F/K/A NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RENAISSANCE HEL TRUST 2004-2 Plaintiff, Against LESTON DOUGLAS AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN TO GRESMORE BLACKMAN

DOUGLAS A/K/A GRESMORE BLACKMAN A/K/A GRESMORE B. DOUGLAS

A/K/A G.J. BLACK-

MAN DOUGLAS

A/K/A G.J. BLACKMAN-DOUGLAS

A/K/A GRESMORE J. BLACKMAN DOUGLAS A/K/A GRESMORE JESMA BLACKMAN-DOUGLAS; LENESHIA DOUGLAS AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN TO GRESMORE BLACKMAN

DOUGLAS A/K/A GRESMORE BLACKMAN A/K/A GRESMORE B. DOUGLAS

A/K/A G.J. BLACKMAN DOUGLAS

A/K/A G.J. BLACKMAN-DOUGLAS

A/K/A GRESMORE

J. BLACKMAN

DOUGLAS A/K/A GRESMORE JESMA BLACKMANDOUGLAS; et al Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 12/03/2024, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, on 8/25/2025 at 12:00PM, premises known as 580 Albany Avenue, Amityville, New York 11701, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at North Amityville, in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York. District 0100 Section 173.00 Block 02.00 Lot 005.031

The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $218,310.48 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 619557/2023

Brooke J. Breen, Esq., Referee. MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY,

LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573

Dated: 6/12/2025 File Number: 22-301172 CA

25-397. 7/24, 31m 8/7, 14

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK WILIMINGTON TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007HE2, -againstMITCHELL WESSELY, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on September 26, 2019, wherein WILIMINGTON TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE2, is the Plaintiff and MITCHELL WESSELY, ET AL., are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the BABYLON TOWN HALL, 200 EAST SUNRISE HIGHWAY, NORTH LINDENHURST, NY 11757, on August 27, 2025 at 9:00AM, the premises known as 1020 NORTH WELLWOOD AVENUE, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704 and the following tax map identification 0100-130.0003.00-029.001. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF WEST BABYLON, SUFFOLK COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 612966/2015; Sabita Hajaree-Ramsaran, Esq., as Referee; Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/ CLERK DIRECTIVES. 25-398. 7/24, 31, 8/7, 14

Notice is hereby given that a license, Application ID: NA-0240-25121596 for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 240 E. Main Street, Patchogue, NY 11772, County of Suffolk, for on premises consumption at Lola's Cuisine LLC. 25-412. 7/31, 8/7

July 31,

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR CARLSBAD FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST, Plaintiff AGAINST MICHAEL ALVAREZ, NELSON ALVAREZ, JR., ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered March 22, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM, premises known as 34 Monroe Street, Farmingdale, NY 11735. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk, State of New York, District 0100, Section 121.00, Block 03.00, Lot 071.000. Approximate amount of judgment $665,354.08 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #612397/2017.

Brian J. Davis, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 17-000311 86394

COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.

25-401. 7/24, 31, 8/7, 14

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF SUFFOLK

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR

RCF2 ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, AGAINST BRENDA EGNER, JOHN EGNER, et al.

Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on May 30, 2025. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM premises known as 14 Chevy Chase, Amityville, NY 11701.

Please take notice that this foreclosure auction shall be conducted in compliance with the Foreclosure Auction Rules for Suffolk County, and the COVID 19 Health Emergency Rules, including proper use of masks and social distancing. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Amityville, Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Section 174.00, Block 03.00 and Lot 034.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $648,978.86 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #203973/2022.

Pamela J. Greene, Esq., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLPAttorneys for Plaintiff - 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 25-395. 7/24, 31, 8/7, 14

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT SUFFOLK COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against LISA WILLIAMS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF THEODORE

WILLIAMS, et al

Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered July 13, 2023, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Babylon Townhall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM. Premises known as 10 South 30th Street, Wyandanch, NY 11798. District 0100 Sec 079.00 Block 01.00 Lot 051.000. All those certain lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $85,305.17 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 623300/2018. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District's Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing.

Erin McTiernan, Esq., Referee File # CHNY1465 25-393. 7/24, 31, 8/7,14

NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT, Plaintiff AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF SUF-

Public Notices

FOLK COUNTY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF CATHLEEN NAUGHTON, KIMBERLY NAUGHTON AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF CATHLEEN NAUGHTON AND HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF SEAN

S. NAUGHTON, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered April 25, 2025, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM, premises known as 75 Erlanger Boulevard, North Babylon, NY 11703. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0100, Section 086.00, Block 03.00, Lot 009.000. Approximate amount of judgment $515,244.23 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #038732/2012. Robert A. Macedonio, Esq, Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 16-003151 86238

COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.

25-400. 7/24, 31, 8/7, 14

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007HE3 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH

CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE3, -againstSONIA JACKSON, ET AL.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on August 5, 2024, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007HE3 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE3 is the Plaintiff and SONIA JACKSON, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the BABYLON TOWN HALL, 200 EAST SUNRISE HIGHWAY, NORTH LINDENHURST, NY 11757, on August 27, 2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 320 COMMACK ROAD, DEER PARK, NY 11729; and the following tax map identification: 0100091.00-01.00-061.002. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE HAMLET OF DEER PARK, TOWN OF BABYLON, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND STATE OF NEW YORK

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 611567/2021. Peter Kramer, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines

including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/ CLERK DIRECTIVES.

COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 25-399. 7/24, 31, 8/7, 14

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the fiscal affairs of the WEST BABYLON FIRE DISTRICT for the period beginning January 1, 2024 and ending on December 31, 2024 have been examined by an independent public accountant and that the report of the external audit by the independent public accountant has been filed in my office where it is available as public record for inspection by all interested persons. Pursuant to Section 181-b of the Town Law and Section 35 of the General Municipal Law, the governing board of the WEST BABYLON FIRE DISTRICT shall prepare a written response and corrective action plan to the report of the external audit prepared by independent public accountant and file any such response/ plan in my office as a public record for inspection by all interested persons not later than ninety (90) days from the date hereof.

DATED: July 21, 2025 Ellen McArdle, Secretary

WEST BABYLON FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BABYLON 25-407. 7/31

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Suffolk, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its Individual Capacity, but Solely as Trustee of LSF9 Mas-

ter Participation Trust, Plaintiff, vs. Daniel Doering a/k/a Daniel M. Doering a/k/a Dan Doering, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on January 8, 2024 and an Order Extending the Sale Deadline duly entered on June 30, 2025, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on September 4, 2025 at 1:30 p.m., premises known as 249 47th Street, Lindenhurst, NY 11757. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0100, Section 205.00, Block 02.00 and Lot 088.000. Approximate amount of judgment is $497,819.95 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #612519/2022. Robert A. Macedonio, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Firm File No.: 220053-1 25-408 7/31, 8/7, 14, 21

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 2007-2, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2,

Plaintiff, Against NIKKI SHEREE

LANCLOS A/K/A NIKKI LANCLOS A/K/A NIKKI S. LANCLOS; et al, Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 6/27/2024, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, on 9/3/2025 at 4:00PM, premises known as 165 Fulton Street, West Babylon, New York 11704 and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York. District 0100 Section 105.00 Block 02.00 Lot 042.000

The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $468,921.55 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 603410/2023

Joshua P. Blumberg, Esq., Referee. MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573

Dated: 7/3/2025 File Number: 22-301278 CA

25-409. 7/31, 8/7, 14, 21

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC Plaintiff, Against JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF GERTRUDE CABARRUS, WHO WAS BORN IN 1946 AND DIED ON MARCH 18, 2021, A RESIDENT OF SUFFOLK COUNTY WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS 109 N. 19TH STREET, WHEATLEY HEIGHTS, NEW YORK 11798, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES, ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, et al Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 04/08/2025, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, on 8/13/2025 at 1:30PM, premises known as 109 N. 19th Street, Wheatley Heights, NY 11798, and described as follows:

ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York.

District 0100 Section 039.00 Block 02.00 Lot 077.000

The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $373,895.78 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 622857/2021

Arthur J. Burdette, Esq., Referee. MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573

Dated: 6/4/2025 File Number: 21-300506 CA

25-364. 7/10, 17, 24, 31

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2007-4 MORTGAGEBACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4, -againstJOSEPH OWENS, ET AL.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on November 13, 2019, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 20074 MORTGAGE-

BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4 is the Plaintiff and JOSEPH OWENS, ET AL., are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the BABYLON TOWN HALL, 200 EAST SUNRISE HIGHWAY, NORTH LINDENHURST, NY 11757, on August 13, 2025 at 9:00AM, the premises known as 64 LOCUST DRIVE, AMITYVILLE, NY 11701, tax map identification 0101-001.0002.00-011.000, and description:

ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF AMITYVILLE, TOWN OF BABYLON, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND STATE OF NEW YORK . . .

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 006061/2011; Marie Elaina Knapp, Esq., as Referee; Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 25-365. 7/10, 17, 24, 31

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Public Notices

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSETBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-RP2, -againstWINSTON ROSE, JR, ET AL.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on November 28, 2022, wherein THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-RP2 is the Plaintiff and WINSTON ROSE, JR, ET AL., are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the BABYLON TOWN HALL, 200 EAST SUNRISE HIGHWAY, NORTH LINDENHURST, NY 11757, on August 13, 2025 at 3:00PM, the premises known as 65 CROWN STREET, DEER PARK, NY 11729, tax map identification 0100-090.0001.00-086.000, and description:

ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF BABYLON, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND STATE OF NEW YORK . . .

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 604462/2018; Scott Lockwood, Esq., as Referee; Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.

25-366. 7/10, 17, 24, 31

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST FED DUMERVILLE, CARMELLE R. DUMERVILLE A/K/A CARMELLE RENE DUMERVILLE, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered October 18, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 on August 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 75 Fillmore Avenue, Deer Park, NY 11729. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with

the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District: 0100 Section: 093.00 Block: 01.00 Lot: 146.000. Approximate amount of judgment $518,114.59 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #069384/2014. For sale information, please visit Auction. com at www.Auction. com or call (800) 2802832. Scott C. Lockwood, Esq., Referee Tromberg, Morris & Partners, PLLC 39 Broadway, Suite 1250 New York, NY 10006 25-000982 85918 25-368. 7/10, 17, 24, 31

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Suffolk, LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. ALI BEAUBRUN, ET AL., Defendant (s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on April 3, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, on August 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM, premises known as 63 SCHENECTADY AVENUE, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District: 0100, Section: 081.00, Block: 01.00, Lot: 088.000. Approximate amount of judgment is $413,736.65 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #

604964/2020.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee's attorney, or the Referee.

For Sale information, please visit Auction. com at www.Auction. com or call (800) 2802832.

ROBERT J. CAVA, Esq., Referee Roach & Lin, P.C., 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 185, Syosset, New York 11791, Attorneys for Plaintiff 25-369. 7/10, 17, 2,4 ,31

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR NOMURA HOME EQUITY LOAN, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FM2, -againstCHRISTINE PANNAMAN, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on May 12, 2025, wherein HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR NOMURA HOME EQUITY LOAN, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FM2 is the Plaintiff and CHRISTINE PANNAMAN, ET AL., are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the BABYLON TOWN HALL, 200 EAST SUNRISE HIGHWAY, NORTH

LINDENHURST, NY 11757, on August 14, 2025 at 9:30AM, the premises known as 26 CLINTON STREET, BABYLON, NY 11702, tax map identification 0102003.00-02.00-016.000, and description: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF CLINTON STREET IN THE VILLAGE OF BABYLON, TOWN OF BABYLON, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND STATE OF NEW YORK . . . Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 620057/2018; Frank M. Maffei Jr., Esq., as Referee; Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 25-375. 7/17, 24, 31, 8/7

Farmingdale Students Celebrate Milestone as School Year Ends

As the 2024–25 school year came to a close, the Farmingdale School District marked a significant milestone for its students with a series of moving-up ceremonies.

Fifth graders from Albany Avenue, Northside, Saltzman East Memorial and Woodward Parkway elementary schools, as well as eighth graders from Howitt Middle School, were honored in celebrations that captured the Daler

spirit — full of pride, tradition and community.

The events were a heartfelt tribute to the students’ hard work, resilience and growth throughout their academic journeys. Smiles, laughter and a few joyful tears filled the air as students reflected on their accomplishments and looked ahead to the next chapter.

Parents, teachers and peers gathered to applaud the young graduates, with

speeches from educators highlighting each student’s unique strengths and achievements. Musical performances by school choirs and orchestras added a festive touch to the ceremonies.

Students received certificates symbolizing both the conclusion of one chapter and the beginning of another. Before officially starting their new school experiences in September, they will attend

orientation sessions in August to get acquainted with their new environments and meet their principals.

“With the support of the entire Farmingdale community, these students are ready to embrace the future with confidence and enthusiasm — fueled by green pride, the heart of a lion and the strength of a Daler,” said School Superintendent Paul Defendini.

Public Notices

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Suffolk, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. MICHAEL ZATKOWSKI AS ADMINISTRATOR AND DISTRIBUTEE FOR THE ESTATE OF BRIAN M. ZATKOWSKI A/K/A BRIAN ZATKOWSKI, ET AL., Defendant (s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on June 11, 2025, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Town of Babylon, Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757, on September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 27 OLD FARMINGDALE

ROAD, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon

erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York District: 0100, Section: 157.00 , Block: 02.00, Lot: 129.000. Approximate amount of judgment is $611,221.79 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #600410/2021. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee's attorney, or the Referee.

BROOKE BREEN, Esq., Referee Roach & Lin, P.C., 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 185, Syosset, New York 11791, Attorneys for Plaintiff 25-410. 7/31, 8/7, 14, 21

All Pictures courtesy of the Farmingdale school district

Saltzman East Memorial’s Fifth Grade Moving Up Ceremony, held on June 25, 2025.

Howitt Middle School’s Eighth Grade Moving Up Ceremony, held on June 26, 2025.

Albany Avenue’s Fifth Grade Moving Up Ceremony, held on June 23, 2025

Left: Woodward Parkway’s Fifth Grade Moving Up Ceremony, held on June 25, 2025

Right: Howitt Middle School’s Eighth Grade Moving Up Ceremony, held on June 26

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Q. We have a doorbell camera, and understand that it’s a deterrent to would-be burglars, but as we’re renovating our home, are there other ways we can “design” in ways to keep people from robbing it? We keep seeing reports on the neighbor app of our door camera about people checking out houses in the area, and we’re very concerned. Any ideas would are appreciated.

A. People often plan the latest technology items into renovations, and I learn from my clients, all the time, about ideas they’ve researched, from locations for hidden cameras to sensor devices that tell them when people are approaching. Some clients ask about electronically controlled driveway gates, and I advise them that unless the fencing is also monitored, all they’re stopping is a vehicle.

When you have a very long driveway to the house, gates make sense, even if just to give the impression that the property is more secure, but when you can see the entrance from the street from the front door or windows, it’s a moot point to have a controlled driveway gate, because 80 percent of the time, burglars approach a home on foot, slipping around a gate, or over a short fence, to get to a more secluded spot to enter without being seen. With that in mind, outside areas of buildings that create hidden corners should be planned out of the design.

According to the National Center for Policing Innovation, the average burglar will spend no more than 60 seconds breaking in. If you can delay a break-in for 90 seconds or longer, a burglar may get nervous and leave. A hiding spot gives them extra time.

Fortify exterior doors with deadbolts that extend at least an inch and a half into the door frame. Glass doors in the front or back of a dwelling can be fortified by installing “hurricane”-strength glass instead of standard glazed doors, and sliding doors with a metal track rod can be effective. Hurricaneglass windows are much more costly than regular windows, but protect your home from burglars as well as storms.

Remember that even with an alarm system, which can be a deterrent, if a burglar has already had a look at the interior of your home and knows where to go, they will be in and out before any law enforcement gets there.

I was impressed that the police came to my home quickly when a door accidentally blew open, and checked every closet and potential hiding place before pronouncing the home secure. So if you come home to an open door or window, it’s advisable not to enter without calling the police for a safety check. It could save you from injury or worse, confronting a burglar.

Pet doors measuring more than six inches across should be avoided. Silly as it sounds, some burglars actually use a child to squeeze through a pet door and open the doors from the inside. More to come.

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The Long Island Pine Barrens Society has embarked on an initiative titled the Best of the Rest — an effort to protect 3,800 acres of Pine Barrens, an addition to one of the great environmental achievements for Long Island. That’s the state’s Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act of 1993, through which some 106,000 acres of Pine Barrens have been protected.

The 3,800 additional acres involve a diversity of Pine Barrens land.

Diversity has been a hallmark of how saving the Pine Barrens has come about. It has involved bipartisan political leadership — notably former Assemblyman Steve Englebright, of East Setauket, a Democrat and a former chairman of the Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee; ex-State Sen. Kenneth LaValle, of Port Jefferson, a Republican; former Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., of Sag Harbor, then a Republican; former Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli, of Great Neck Plaza, a Democrat, another former Environmental Conservation Committee chairman and now the state comp-

troller; and the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, a Queens Democrat.

Environmental activists were, of course, critical, too, led by the Pine Barrens society and its longtime executive director, Richard Amper, of Ridge. Also deeply involved was a leader of the Long Island business community, the late Edwin M. (Buzz) Schwenk, of Southampton, executive director of the Long Island Builders Institute and a former chairman of the Suffolk County Republican Party.

GEnglebright, who’s now back in the Suffolk County Legislature, was and is central. A geologist, he had been curator of geology at Stony Brook University and founder of its Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences. Its first exhibit was on the Pine Barrens, focusing on a lost stretch on which the Hauppauge Industrial Park was built.

ecosystem” with this exhibit, so he entered politics, running for the Suffolk Legislature in 1982, and won.

In the 1970s and early ’80s, hardly anyone else in this area understood the vital importance of the Pine Barrens, other than Pine Barrens Society founders John Cryan, John Turner and Robert McGrath. The Pine Barrens were seen as scrub — not important, like land along the shoreline or farmland.

reat stretches of green that one activist called ‘Long Island’s reservoir.’

Englebright would take people, one at a time — including me — up a hill in Manorville topped with a fire lookout tower. From it, you could see Long Island Sound to the north, bays and Atlantic Ocean to the south, and to the west and east, great stretches of green Pine Barrens. We were looking, Englebright, would say, at “Long Island’s reservoir.”

oversee the plan.

But as the Pine Barrens Society relates, at pinebarrens.org/the-best-ofthe-rest, “the Pine Barrens has not reached its full ecological, hydrological, or recreational potential. There are still thousands of acres of undeveloped properties in and adjacent to both the Core Preservation and Compatible Growth Areas whose protection would safeguard our drinking water resources.”

Some funds for the additional acreage are expected to come from the State Environmental Bond Act of 2022, which authorized $4.2 billion for environmental projects, among them for clean drinking water.

Englebright was thoroughly knowledgeable about the purity of the water beneath the Pine Barrens, and how its sandy, porous soil allows rainwater to percolate cleanly down to the aquifer below, on which Long Islanders depend as their sole source of potable water.

And Englebright decided, as he later told me, that it “was basically unethical to simply document the passing of an

IThe Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act is multi-faceted. It designated a “core preservation area” of more than 50,000 acres in which development is severely restricted; the use of a transferof-development-rights mechanism allowing landowners in it to develop at other locations; and a “compatible growth area” where some development is allowed if environmentally sound; and it created a Pine Barrens Commission to

The Pine Barrens Society is funding the Best of the Rest campaign with help from a $20,000 grant from the New York Community Trust-Long Island. As Nina Leonhardt, acting executive director of the Wading River-based Pine Barrens Society, and Amper, now its executive director emeritus, wrote in a recent appeal for tax-deductible contributions, “The Society’s greatest success was reaching our long-sought goal of successfully preserving more than 100,000 acres of Pine Barrens … We can’t thank Long Islanders enough!”

Karl Grossman is an author, TV program host and professor of journalism at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.

How will the summer of ’25 be remembered?

t is said that each of us, if we’re lucky, gets 80 summers. Some folks prefer winter or the rebirth vibe of spring, but for most, it is summer, the short season of our years, that seems sweetest.

Summers have telescoped lives of their own. Whatever our age, summer begins in our minds as hopes and expectations, is realized in the days from June 21 to Sept. 21 and is remembered ever after.

The very first summer I remember was 1951, at Rockaway Beach, where we rented a bungalow on 54th Street. That was the Summer of My Sister, who had recently been born and, for some reason, expected to come along on our vacation. The fireworks on the boardwalk every Wednesday night were my big-sister treat, and best memory. There was the Summer of New Hampshire, when our parents took us on a much-hyped car trip to the Granite State. I was 8, my sister was 4 and our

grandmother, who sat in the back seat, was ancient, I guess in her 50s. My father had made all the arrangements via mail, writing to Stonybrook Farms to set up our holiday.

We drove 10 hours, pumped with excitement. When we drove through the broken gates, the moment collapsed on itself like a black hole. The cabins were like chicken coops. My mother started to sob. But Dad had a plan. We stayed one night, skipped out in the predawn hours and drove all the way to Canada. That summer I learned to have a Plan B, and how to skip out under cover of darkness.

I lived through the Summer of Love, but this summer is not feeling like love.

The Summer of Robert English was a doozie. I was about 15, living in Cedarhurst, and my mother’s best friend invited her nephew, 16, to visit for the summer from New Mexico. I fell wildly in love with Robert the second I saw him. Which was also how he felt when I introduced him to my best friend, Jackie. I barely survived their romance.

The Summer of Working for Dad was like pinning a golden moment in time. My dad was a dentist, and after my

freshman year in college, I worked in his office in Brooklyn. Chairside assistant. Holder of hands. But it wasn’t the work that made the summer remarkable; it was getting to know my father. We went out to lunch every day and we talked. Without the context of our regular family life, he became a real person to me.

Also, one of his patients gave me a $10 tip.

I remember the Summer of the Diet Doctor, when I answered an ad for an assistant in a diet-pill practice. The doctor was 48 and his wife was 18, my age. I remember that summer because I lied to get the job, not revealing that I was going back to college in the fall.

By July I couldn’t stand it; I told them the truth. They asked me to stay on.

That was the good part. The bad part was that the doctor was a groper. Quite a few life lessons were learned.

Our best summers were the Montana Summers, the five years we traveled the state, from Missoula to Glacier Park, from Flathead Lake to White Fish to Helena. We hiked and learned to fly fish and, as a family and for the first time,

leaped out of our comfort zone and found footing in new terrain.

More recently, the Summer of Covid was, for us, not deadly, but frightening. We stayed at our place in Florida through the summer, hidden away inside, except for late afternoon, when we went down to the beach and into the Gulf. Every day, the same routine. We didn’t see our children and grandchildren for months. We think of that summer with gratitude, for our family surviving, and even for the endless open expanses of time to think and read and test ourselves against the unknown.

What will the Summer of ’25 be remembered for? I lived through the Summer of Love in 1967, high on freedom and music and just being young. We protested the war in Vietnam and sat in on sit-ins and danced to the Dead. But this summer is not feeling like love. Political strife ramped up by bad actors has supercharged the atmosphere.

I’ll keep calling out the threats to our freedoms and democracy, but that’s not a full-time job. I will also find the joyful moments, hold on to them and try not to let go.

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t happened in an instant. One moment, 9-year-old Robbie Levine, of Merrick, was rounding the bases in a 2005 Little League game; the next, he collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest.

Teammates, coaches and parents could only watch in horror. There was no automated external defibrillator available on the field, no trained bystander able to keep the boy’s heart beating until help arrived. Robbie never made it home.

Sudden cardiac arrest doesn’t wait — not for an ambulance, and not for advanced age. It strikes without warning, even in children and young athletes who seem perfectly healthy. That’s why learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and ensuring rapid access to an AED, can mean the difference between life and death.

Every minute without intervention in a cardiac emergency decreases survival by 10 percent, according to the American Heart Association, yet far too many public athletic fields — so many of them used by kids — remain unprepared for the worst.

Nassau County is taking a critical step with the proposed Robbie’s Law, legislation that would require AEDs at all county-run athletic fields. Named in memory of Robbie Levine, the measure underscores the urgent need to equip public spaces with lifesaving tools. It is unclear when the Legislature will vote on it.

This effort shouldn’t be controversial: AEDs are relatively easy to use, with clear voice instructions, designed for anyone — even those without medical training — to operate. When paired with immediate CPR, a defibrillator can increase a victim’s survival rate by more than 70 percent, according to the American Red Cross.

The American Heart Association estimates that nearly 90 percent of cardiac arrests that occur outside hospitals are fatal, often because bystanders don’t act quickly enough. Every second matters, because emergency medical services often take six to eight minutes to arrive in heavily populated areas. Brain death begins in as little as four minutes. Those first critical minutes belong to those on the scene and whatever tools they have on hand. Without AEDs, families lose loved ones not because paramedics were late, but because no one nearby was ready.

The AHA’s Nation of Lifesavers campaign aims to change that by making CPR training a more regular part of American life. Members of Duke University’s men’s basketball and football teams were recently trained in handsonly CPR — a streamlined method that doesn’t involve mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and can be mastered in under an hour. If elite college athletes can take the time to learn this lifesaving skill, so can

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Nassau County is showing signs of becoming a police state

Editors’ note: This letter was sent on Monday to the Nassau County Legislature.

Nassau County’s government structure mirrors that of the federal government, with three equal branches: the county executive, the Legislature and the judicial branch. Like Congress, the Nassau Legislature crafts laws, controls the county’s purse strings, and oversees the county executive and various government entities. Therefore, it’s up to you to hold the reins on a county executive who overspends and writes policies that put your constituents in danger.

A police state is characterized by an overwhelming government control that permeates civil society and liberties. There is typically little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive, and the deployment of internal security and police forces play a heightened role in governance. A police state is a characteristic of an authoritarian government, typically in one-party governments. Nassau County is showing signs of becoming such a state.

County Executive Bruce Blakeman took the safest county in the nation, with a police force that is beyond reproach, and decided that it is not good

the rest of us.

Nassau’s Robbie’s Law must be just the beginning. CPR training should be as universal as learning to swim, or drive. Schools should make it a part of health class curriculums. Community centers, youth sports leagues and workplaces can host free or low-cost training sessions. The more people who know what to do when a heart stops, the more likely it is that bystanders will become confident rescuers.

AEDs should be as common as fire extinguishers — not just in gyms and schools, but also in parks, libraries, shopping centers and other places where people gather. They must be easy to locate, clearly marked, and regularly maintained. Nassau should follow the lead of Suffolk County, where at least 135 AEDs have been deployed across the county. The cost is modest; the value of a saved life is immeasurable.

We teach children to look both ways before crossing the street, to buckle their seat belts and to wear helmets when they ride bikes. CPR and AED familiarity deserve the same emphasis. No family should endure the heartbreak the Levines carry to this day.

Call your county legislator and tell them to support Robbie’s Law. To find your legislator, go to NassauCountyNy. gov/489/County-Legislature. And to find out where you can be trained in CPR and the use of an AED, go to RedCross.org.

enough. With the establishment of a personal militia, Blakeman’s authoritarian tendencies have raised significant concerns about public safety and accountability.

It is imperative for the Legislature to illuminate the financial implications of this decision, not only in terms of direct costs associated with maintaining such a force, but also the potential

Sayville complex should consider two-family housing

once again, we see a developer proposing the construction of a large housing complex on Long Island and local civic associations coming out against it.

I’m referring to the proposal for 890 units to be built on the 114-acre site of the former Island Hills golf and country club in Sayville. The project calls for 576 of the units for homeownership and the remaining 314 for rentals.

This proposal has been languishing for about a decade.

The original mammoth plans have been scaled back a bit, but residents still feel that the size and scope of the project is too much for the local roads and schools to bear.

It’s a constant refrain across Long Island. But most of us agree that there’s a need for more housing, especially the type that would help our young people in their 20s get a foothold on the Island.

Each side has legitimate concerns. That hasn’t changed much over the past few decades. It’s why, as Suffolk County executive, I proposed adopting a new paradigm when it comes to housing construction.

wWherever developers are going to be constructing new self-contained housing developments, I recommended that they be encouraged to build twofamily housing. That would provide the same number of units sought by the developers, but with a smaller footprint. More important, it would help accomplish several goals at the same time.

sorely lacking on Long Island.

The nearby New York City suburb of Westchester has rental stock comprising 38 percent of all the county’s housing. Here on Long Island it’s about 15 percent. That’s why our rents have soared into the stratosphere.

e need more rental units, and a way for more people to afford mortgages.

The first is that it would open the door to homeownership for those who might otherwise be shut out because they couldn’t afford a mortgage. Showing a bank that they’ll have an additional $2,000 a month coming in from a rental apartment could help potential homeowners qualify for the loan they would otherwise be denied.

And, of course, it would provide needed rental housing, which we are

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human and monetary liabilities that could arise from trigger-happy citizens who enjoy playing cop. The community deserves transparency regarding how taxpayer dollars are being allocated, especially when it comes to the exorbitant fees paid to politically connected attorneys defending unconstitutional policies. And the Legislature must investigate whether using our tax dollars to pay outside attorneys has been the purpose all along.

The Nassau County Police Department has long been regarded as a model of integrity and excellence in law enforcement, earning the trust and respect of the community it serves. However, there is a shortage of detectives on our streets. Knowing this, it is unconscionable that the Legislature permitted Blakeman to reassign 10 detectives from their vital roles to serve as ICE officers, compromising the safety of your constituents.

How much is this costing taxpayers? When will our Legislature take the initiative to hold hearings and investigate the repercussions of such decisions on our community’s safety? It is imperative that we prioritize the well-being of our neighborhoods and ensure that our law enforcement resources are effectively deployed to protect and serve all residents.

The NCPD’s mission statement promises to “strengthen and expand the partnerships between the police and the communities we serve.” Yet Blakeman’s cozy collaboration with ICE has thrown

a wrench into the NCPD partnership with the communities it serves. Parents are gripped by fear, hesitating to send their children to school or venture out for basic necessities like food or health care. The irony is inescapable: The very people who are supposed to protect us are now viewed with suspicion. Immigrants are hesitant to call for help in times of need.

Your constituents need to know where the money is going from the 1,400 immigrants detained in Blakeman’s mini-internment camp. With each staying for three days at $195 a day, Nassau is reaping profits from the deportation of primarily hardworking, taxpaying residents, many of whom have been contributing to the community for years and have no criminal record. If you intended to go into the prison business, shouldn’t it have been brought to a vote? The county should not be making money off deporting our immigrant neighbors and then turning a blind eye to the needs of the families left behind. Out of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, only 3 percent have criminal records, with 20 percent of those records consisting of minor traffic violations. Immigrants contribute 21 percent to the overall economy. Yet amid their tireless efforts as house cleaners, landscapers and restaurant workers, many are being suddenly swept away while their children — who may or may not be citizens — are left in school, wondering where their parents have gone.

But homeowners are understandably concerned that allowing all of the homes in their neighborhood to have rentals could dramatically change the concept of the neighborhoods into which they originally moved.

That’s not what we’re talking about here. In this case, we’re referring to a self-contained, gated community that doesn’t currently exist. Why not allow for 450 units of these two-family homes on the premises rather than 900 sought by the developer?

Concerns about renters not having a stake in the property would be unfounded given the fact that the owner of a home would have to live on the premises if they rented out the apartment unit. No homeowner is

going to allow their renter to engage in improper activities or to allow the premises to degrade when they themselves are living on the site.

This concept can reserve more buffer and open space in the community and create a good mix of the young and the old. I get it that people don’t want two-family housing in their existing single-family neighborhoods, but when it’s new construction, why not encourage two-family housing? It’s a win-win for all.

I tried to get such a project passed in Yaphank during my tenure as county executive. We would’ve had 1,000 units of two-family homes with a nice community center and possibly a convention center and a small soccer stadium for sports and entertainment. Unfortunately, “not in my backyard” legislators killed the project.

It’s not too late to try it now. A smart developer would latch on to it, and so would a smart town board. And residents would have places where their 25-year-olds could go rather than their basements.

Steve Levy is an attorney who served as the seventh county executive in Suffolk from 2004 to 2011.

Framework by Tim Baker

This is happening in Nassau County.

The Bellmore Merrick Democratic Club is calling on the Legislature to fulfill its responsibilities of oversight and hold the reins on Blakeman’s authoritarian tendencies for a police state; investigate whether forming a private militia, taking detectives off the street, creating an internment camp and

masking law enforcement make us safer. Further, the Legislature must disclose to the public how tax dollars are being allocated to fund these unconstitutional initiatives and their defense.

CLAUDIA BOrECKY President, Bellmore Merrick Democratic Club

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