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created in February by a handful of Merrick residents. The orga nization doesn’t necessarily want to restore the forests Long Island once had, but rather save what is Municipalitiesleft. across the Island have tree ordinances, and some are very strict, according

Long Island Sound Study, an organization specializing in the restoration and protection of the Sound, also provides some data about tree loss on Long Island. During the earliest stages of its settlement in the 1620s, the Island was 95 per cent forest. In 1998, that number was below 60 percent.

According to a statement on the theater’s web site, the lease for the property is expiring, and the

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an abundance of trees, including the neighborhood of Merrick Woods. Merrick resident Andrea Martone told the Herald earlier this year that she counted 27 trees taken down in just a fiveblock radius.

Merrick Cinemas V, on Broadcast Plaza in Mer rick, has closed, just five years after it opened.

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At the Bellmore Fire Department’s annual Sept. 11 memorial ceremony, wreathes in honor of vol unteer and New York City firefighters Kevin Prior and Adam Rand, who died on 9/11, were placed in front of the department’s memorial. Bellmore firefighter Sean McCarthy, who died in 2008 of a 9/11-related cancer, was also honored. Story, more photos, page 3. used to be where we are now.

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The movie theater, at 15 Fisher Ave. — at the entrance to the plaza — has been in operation there for about 20 years. It reopened under its most recent owner, Dean Theodorous, in October 2017.

Joe Baker, a Merrick Chamber of Commerce board member, said that at one point there were three movie theaters in town. Baker used to own the maroon-colored house, where he had a coffee shop in the 1980s and ’90s, next to what was then a catering business, before it became a movie the ater.When Merrick Cinemas V closed suddenly, it came as a shock to many — including Baker. “It’s interesting,” he said. “Sad, but interesting.”

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building is to be sold. “Despite our efforts to keep the theater open, the new buyers were unwilling to provide us with a new lease,” the statement said.

Movie theater shuts down amid property ownership changes

At the end of August, its signage and movie posters were taken down, and replaced by a simple message: “Theater closed. Goodbye, Merrick.”

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trees left very soon.”

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Remembering the fallen, 21 years later

“If we continue at this rate,” Martone said, “there will be no

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Many rising freshmen including Emma Santiago were part of BMB’s mock broadcast of a Mepham football practice.

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Sophomore Matthew Natof said he enjoyed the opportunity to get back to the studio and get reacquainted with the equipment and with friends he made last year.“I got to be a part of the STN team to work with the upperclassmen last year as a freshman, so I was excited to get back into the studio with everyone and to start sharing some of the things I learned last year with the new freshmen,” he added.

returned to the stu dio, before the start of the school year, for its first BMB Boot Camp.

Courtesy Bellmore-Merrick Broadcasting Bellmore-merrick Broadcasting students returned to the studio before the start of school for the program’s first ever BMB Boot Camp.

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“The upperclassmen made me feel so welcome and I couldn’t believe I got the chance to be on camera for a few minutes on my first day,” Santiago said.

Last year, BMB received national rec ognition winning a Student Television Network Broadcast Excellence Award along with sweeping the regional Broad cast Awards for Senior High at Stony Brook.“This year, we are expecting a lot from our seniors,” Kalish explained. “For the first time ever each of our seniors will be responsible to produce their own live event. Being a part of Boot Camp gave them the opportunity to start practicing some of the leadership skills they’ll need to be successful throughout the year.”

One of the highlights of the week for all the students was creating “BMB Goes Back to School,” a 20-minute special fea turing many of BMB’s familiar faces highlighting the new things that people can expect when they return to school thisTheweek.show can be viewed on the pro gram’s YouTube channel, BMBroadcast ing.“This has been a great week for all of us,” McQuillan said. “People are going to have to tune in all year to keep track of all the great things we’re going to be creat ing.”The first BMB Morning Announce ments aired on Sept. 9 and BMB launched its fall sports season by covering the Mepham Boys varsity soccer match ver sus Wantagh on Sept. 14.

Bellmore-Merrick Broadcasting prepares for another great year

Fire departments remember Sept. 11 attacks

Two separate ceremonies take place annually — in Bellmore, with the Bell more and North Bellmore Fire Depart ments, and in Merrick, with the Merrick and North Merrick Fire Departments.

Each year, wreathes are laid for exchief Ronnie Gies, and ex-captain Bryan Sweeney, who gave their lives that day. Gies’s three sons are all members of the department, and his son, Ronnie, is now the department’s chief.

County Legislator Steve Rhoads, a vol unteer firefighter himself in Wantagh,

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“We pray that bravery and unselfish heroism continues,” he said, “in the daily deeds of those who respond to disaster.”

at the BellMore Fire Department’s Sept. 11 memorial ceremony on Sunday, membersdepartmentfromboth the Bellmore and North Bellmore departments stood in salute to honor and remember the fallen.

Musical arrangements for the ceremo

At the Bellmore ceremony in front of the Bellmore Fire Department’s head quarters on Pettit Avenue, the department remembered its two volunteers and New York City firefighters Kevin Prior and Adam Rand, who died while performing rescue operations on the day of the attacks. In 2008, the department also lost volunteer firefighter Sean McCarthy, who responded to Ground Zero, and suc cumbed to a 9/11-related cancer.

FireFighters in Merrick lined up, with their caps across their hearts, to commemorate the solemn day.

ny in Merrick were provided by Sanford H. Calhoun High School Senior, Julianna Belbol.Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, a former chief of the Island Park Fire Deparment, attended the cere mony, and shared some remarks about the department’s late ex-chief on Facebook.

Wreathes in honor of the Merrick department’s ex-chief Ronnie Gies and ex-captain Bryan Sweeney are laid out every year.

In Merrick, the ceremony is perhaps best known for the massive American Flag, that is hung parallel to Sunrise Highway, often grabbing the attention of many passerby, who honk in support of theThedepartment.Merrick memorial is at the corner of Sunrise and Merrick Avenue, along side a steel girder from one of the tower’s. A portion of Merrick Avenue was closed, so ceremony attendees could gather in the street for the service.

“The novelist William Faulker wrote ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past,’” Rich recited. “This profound insight is certainly true of 9/11, twentyone years ago. Over 3,000 died that day. The death toll mounts. The evil continues.

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At the Bellmore ceremony, the depart ment’s Chaplain Dennis Rich shared a message with the ceremony’s attendees.

“My message to my neighbors in Mer rick was simple,” D’Esposito wrote. “Be kinder, promote peace and love (the) com munity — that’s exactly what heroes like Ronnie Gies would have wanted.”

Following the playing of the National Anthem, and a few speeches, three wreathes in their names were walked out to the department’s Sept. 11 memorial by members. The families of Prior, Rand and McCarthy also took part in the ceremony, by placing flower bouquets in front of the wreathes, in their honor and memory.

“He was a great person — he’s all of our heroes,” Gies said last year. “He was amazing. He makes it tough every year because we miss him a lot.”

he grey clouds and light drizzle of rain did not mask the solemn mood felt across Bellmore-Merrick on Sunday, as the community and first responders commemorated the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

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often attends the Merrick ceremony. Last year, Rhoads remarked the enduring lesson from Sept. 11 is, “that we must never be afraid to recognize evil for what it is, to call it by name and to be united in our standing against it.”

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McLaughlin said, when large species of trees were planted, it was not taken into account the amount of space they’d need to grow. This causes uprooting and soil com paction, which can cause a tree to deteriorate and fall in the case of a Man-madestorm.solutions, such as structural soil, are porous and allow ample room for roots to grow. McLaughlin said the area a tree was planted can also be made“Yoularger.canexpand it, and dig around the root system, even if the tree has been planted for 20 years,” she explained. “You get a little bit of movement, a little bit of oxygen in there, and that will help cultivate the soil and help the tree reestablish itself in a healthy way, and to stay hardened even in storms.”

Christina McLaughlin of the Cornell Cooperative Extension in East Meadow, provided insight to updating tree“Withordinances.ourLong Island environment, we know what the problem is — we see the numbers and pictures of where we used to be to where we are now,” McLaughlin said. “You have to make sure, that with what you’re talking about, you’re organized, and it’s a topic that you care about.”Inthe Town of Hempstead, according to guidelines under its Highway Department, if a property owner wishes to hire a contractor to remove a tree, or remove a tree themselves, they must apply for a $25 Tree Permit. Permits are not grant ed for healthy or growing trees. Permits, if approved, are mailed to the applicant.

there are a number of neighborhoods of concern, including Merrick Woods, an area known for its abundance of trees.

The ordinance states if a tree with a diameter of 6 inches or greater, at 4½ feet, is removed, the property owner is subject to tree replacement guidelines, which means one to three trees must be replanted within 90 days of the previous tree’s removal, between April 1 and

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Educating youth, and preserving what’s left

In the interim, the group is working with local school districts to implement workshops and programs that encourage students to learn about trees and tree mainte nance.Tolearn more about the greater-Wild Ones organiza tion, visit WildOnes.org, and to reach the Long Island chapter, contact wildoneslongisland@gmail.com.

Nass said Wild Ones contacted Tricia Moriates, Coun sel to the Town’s Comptroller. In an email correspon dence from early August, Moriates informed the organi zation the town was preparing a newly drafted tree pres

According to Wild Ones, a strict tree ordinance in the neighboring Town of North Hempstead passed last year. There are many factors when determining if a tree can be cut down, including its size, the rarity of the species, and the historical value of the tree.

to Fred Nass, the group’s president. What the group hopes to eventually accomplish, in working with the Town of Hempstead, is to have the town’s tree removal guidelines changed and encourage residents to learn and care about their trees.

Dec.Wild1. Ones hopes to see a similar ordinance created in the Town of Weather-relatedHempstead.questions were raised about storms potentially causing a tree to fall on a house as reason homeowners may want trees removed. McLaughlin said trees fall when they are not properly cared for and there are ways to preserve their life, without chopping them down.“Most of the time, trees that are ripped up, fall, or cause damage, have more to do with being in the wrong place to begin with,” she said.

ervation code, to be completed likely sometime in Sep tember. The town is open to meeting with the group, to hear its recommendations and opinions, before the ordi nance moved onto official hearings.

Thelessons.highest honor offered by the air patrol for cadets is the Spaatz Award, which is similar to reaching Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts. Named for Gen. Carl Spaatz, the award consists of a number of prerequisites, a physical fitness exam, a character essay, and a written exam.

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Shortly after its inception, the Civil Air Patrol sank two U-boats off the coasts of Long Island and Delaware.

The Civil Air Patrol offers much more to cadets than community service and flight lessons. Meetings include history, robotic, aeronautical, and airplane struc ture

This process repeats itself numerous times, before the cadets are ready to get their pilot’s license through the air patrol.

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The air patrol also participates in “Legislative Day,” when cadets from all 50 states meet with members of Congress to

“At the start, the professional pilot takes the controls,” he said. “Once they’re at a safe altitude, the cadet takes control and flies for about an hour before the pilot

Wantagh’s Civil Air Patrol has a num ber of noteworthy graduates, including Jared Del Orfano, originally from Mer rick and currently a lieutenant in the United States Air Force, who had achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Wantagh Gomez-NietoSquadron.saidhe feels the air patrol is the most well rounded path for Long Island youth interested in aviation.

takes control again.”

WAntAgH CIvIL AIr Patrol Lt. Lauren Gomez-Nieto receives the Commanders’ Commendation Wing from Commander Colonel Jones.

“I believe we teach the most,” he said. “BOCES is great, but we teach them more than just flying; we teach them the four core values of integrity, volunteer service, excellence, and respect.”

Island, it’s more about teaching the cadets how to fly, and this includes aerospace education as well as community service.”

or teens interested in a career as a pilot, joining the Civil Air Patrol could be the fastest route to those aspirations.

of the cadet program is based at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church in Wantagh. According to Rick Gomez-Nieto, the program leader, the Civil Air Patrol conducts up to 90 percent of search and rescue operations in the continental Unit ed States, but thanks to Long Island’s stel lar volunteer services, the program is largely a training program.

Courtesy Rick Gomez-Nieto

“In an area like ours, our search and rescue missions are pretty limited,” Gomez-Nieto said. “So here on Long

Gill Robb Wilson and then-New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia created the Civil Air Patrol in 1941, recognizing the threat of German U-boats to the main land United States and the potential of aviation to combat them.

discuss funding for the patrol. Gomez-Nie to’s daughter, Lauren, a lieutenant in the air patrol, has represented New York numerous times for this.

National program promises its many participants a bright future in flight industry

St. Jude’s has a mission center in Sea ford, and part of the air patrol’s commu nity service is going to supermarkets and asking people if they could pick up items to donate to the mission center.

Civil Air Patrol’s a training ground for pilots

The squadron uses Cessna airplanes, and it begins with an observation flight, Gomez-Nieto said.

After World War II, the air patrol creat ed its cadet program, which was intended for teenagers who were interested in avia tion. The air patrol was eventually claimed by the newly created Air Force as its Oneauxiliary.squadron

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t’s been just over two decades since the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was attacked, and a plane full of heroes stopped even more attacks over Pennsylvania.

Bob Beckwith, a Long Beach resi dent who stood next to President George W. Bush when he spoke at the ruins of the World Trade Center in the days following the attacks, led with the Pledge of Allegiance. After that, Chris Macchio performed “Ave Maria.”After the ceremony, roses were placed by loved ones near the names of those lost on the memorial located near the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre.

Just last year, a new monument was added to the memorial that already has salvaged beams from the former World

“Thank you to everyone who gath ered at Point Lookout for this morning’s

Visitors came from all over to remember loved ones who lost their lives 21 years ago. Tears were shed and people embraced as more than 300 names were read aloud so that they will never be forgotten. County Executive Bruce Blakeman also heard a name he recognized — Thomas Jurgens, a New York state court officer, and his nephew.

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ach name was read, one-byone. Shared. Remembered.

sunrise memorial to remember and pray for the ones we lost — their fami lies, and our heroic first responders,” he wrote. “God bless America.”

Town Supervisor Don Clavin thanked those who attended on social media.

More than 3,000 lives were lost that day, including 200 from the Town of Hemp stead.Hundreds gathered at Point Lookout Park at Lido Beach last weekend for the town’s 9-11 Sunrise Memo rial service. Point Look out’s beach is remembered as a location where people assembled to watch the World Trade Center as it burned, sending high clouds of smoke up in the air — visible despite its great distance.

Trade Center, and a wall with names of county residents who died. A 6,500-pound red granite monument was erected to honor first responders who have died from illnesses since rushing to help at the site of the attacks in Manhattan.

names etched on the memorial, with pencils and paper provided by the town.

Nassau County remembers those we lost

thE mEmorial at Eisenhower Park remembering those lost during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks features salvaged beams from the World Trade Center, a wall filled with names, and a red granite monument that honors first responders who have died from illnesses related to their rescue and recovery efforts on Sept. 11, and beyond.

Courtesy Town Councilman Christopher Carini

hEmpstEad towN board members joined Supervisor Don Clavin to pay homage to the 200 town residents who perished in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, during a sunrise memorial service at Point Lookout Park at Lido Beach.

A permanent memorial to the victims was dedicat ed at the park in 2017, fea turing the names of more than 3,000 people, etched on granite plaques. It also includes a rusted 30-foot long steel beam from the twinManytowers.first responders to the attacks have battled and died from 9-11-related illnesses, and their names have been added to the memorial since its erection — and will continue to be added in the future.

Year after year, visitors take part in the town’s ceremony, tossing hundreds of white carnations into the ocean as a symbol of the many lives lost. Loved ones of those deceased also have the opportunity to make rubbings of the

–Mallory Wilson

It was part of Nassau County’s commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks during a Sunday evening gathering at Eisenhower Park.

Town of Hempstead honors Sept. 11 victims

Katrina O’Brien/Herald photos Nassau CouNty ExECutivE Bruce Blakeman spoke at the county’s recitation ceremony and musical tribute dedicated to victims of 9/11.

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“Restricting access affects overall safety, as well as men tal and physical health,” she said.Mehra believes access to abortion is crucial to the overall wellbeing of a woman’s health.

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“The reassurance of access cultivates a relationship of honesty between health care professionals and the public,” she added.Abortion restrictions in the Town of North Hempstead were adopted in late 1971, a year after the state senate legalized abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy, and two years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade.

Some are urging lawmakers repeal of restrictive abortion statutes found in five Long Island municipalities. They suggest these restrictive laws set a precedent for future restrictions to abortion access. Those who violate these laws could face jail time and fines.

Ashna Mehra, a resident physician from North Hemp stead, stressed that reproduc tive health care is a major aspect of health care.

these draconian restrictions to the dust bin of history where they belong.”

Abortion laws uncovered in town codes

Officials urge local leaders to remove them

“We should stand up for women by repealing these unjust barriers to abor tion care,” Kaplan said, “and finally send

Deanna Drury Oyster Bay resident

With the repeal of Roe v. Wade still fresh in many minds, restrictions on abor tions found in local municipal codes are being rediscovered again across several Long Island municipalities — laws some fear could create blueprints for future restrictions.Thelaws — written before the famous 1973 decision that rendered them moot — have turned up in the towns of Hemp stead, Oyster Bay and Huntington, as well as the villages of Freeport and Wil liston Park. The laws restrict abortion access of any kind — including medica tion-based, non-surgical procedures — and require abortions to occur only in a hospitalThosesetting.foundviolating these laws could have been subject to jail time and fines. While state law is in place protecting pro cedures to end pregnancies, some local officials say these old restrictions would have effectively outlawed abortion clinics like those run by Planned Parenthood while adding barriers to women accessing specific kinds of health care.

from the Town of North Hempstead.

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Drury, a mother to two young boys, says she refuses to raise her children where access to reproductive health care is restricted.“Nowwith abortion rights under attack, we need to keep New York a safe place for reproductive care and get rid of these draconian laws.”

“Thererules.are those running for office right now trying to repeal these efforts,” Stilliti said. “As a proud pro-choice elected official, we have to make sure every loop hole is closed, and closed tight.”Kaplan expressed her con cerns over what she described as the U.S. Supreme Court’s reckless decision to hinder constitutional rights. She believes it’s the responsibility of legislators like her to fight for rights at every level of gov ernment, stressing that there are people who will use politi cal discourse to restrict the rights of women.

At a news conference in front of the Nassau County Courthouse last week, local officials joined pro-abortion activists to condemn these laws. State Sen. Anna Kaplan and Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti were joined by Sen. John Brooks, Assem blywomen Judy Griffin and Taylor Dar ling, as well as some council members

“I was disgusted to know that these abortion restrictions were still on the books,” said Deanna Drury, who lives in Oyster Bay. “Laws cannot exist criminaliz ing reproductive health care.”

Stilliti did reassure the crowd, however, the state legislature has ensured a wom an’s right to choose was protected, and encouraged local municipalities to pass similar

Williams believes for and against abortion have been very harsh to women, and refuse to provide an adequate sup port system for mothers and children after birth.

Coyle believes children not wanted by their mothers should be placed in adoptive care so their potential for life isn’t squan dered.There are also others who, believe it or not, don’t have a strong opinion one way or the other on the controversial topic.

Yet, there are many who believe over turning Roe was the right decision. Some, like anti-abortion advocate Marie Coyle of Glen Cove believed abortion simply dis missed the potential and value for human life.“I think we’re tampering in areas that we should not,” Coyle said. “You can con trol your body before, but once you have a child within you, you can’t control that, it’s left to God.”

The Rev. Roger Williams of First Bap tist Church of Glen Cove believes in the sanctity of life, but is politically proabortion. Williams is not in favor of the atmosphere surrounding Roe, however, believing the movement too politically motivated.“Idon’t want to sound like I’m making a judgment against individuals who are pro-life and anti-abortion, but I don’t see that movement being completely con cerned with life all together,” he said.

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“It’s shocking that over a million people on Long Island currently live in a community where there are still abortion restrictions on the books,” Kaplan said. “We know that these laws were enacted with the sole purpose of getting between women and their right to choose.”Thestate senator also believes officials in affected communities should follow the lead of the Town of North Hempstead.

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The new state-of-the-art showroom has stunning vehicles on display at this dealership. They are a frequent winner of the prestigious Pride of Jaguar award. Enjoy fresh coffee, continental breakfast and wifi in their waiting room, or if you’re in need of a service, visit their climate controlled service drive thru. Financing options are also available so you can drive away with the car you desire.

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Girls Soccer: Mepham at South Side 11 a.m.

CoMiNg oFF aN All-County campaign that saw him post six shutouts and allow more than one goal just once in 15 games while helping the Bruins to a first-place regular-season finish, Ascencio Cueva was the Nassau Conference AA Goalkeeper of the Year. He’s a third-year starter with eight career shutouts and Baldwin’s biggest asset and director of traffic in the defensive zone.

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Football: Plainedge at Carey 2 p.m.

Team captain Karousis (two goals, eight assists) becomes a fourth-year starter, heading a Mepham midfield that includes All-Conference senior Kyle Persaud (three goals, three assists), first-yearstarting junior Isayah Contre ras and six-foot-three senior newcomer Gianmarco Priola. “Konstantinos is a great play maker who not only gets us started but creates opportuni ties” Gosse said. “And our two new midfielders are great additions.”Honorable Mention AllCounty senior wingback Dimi tri Gogas leads Mepham’s defense, with starters Jeffrey Decina (senior) and Mark Die ner (sophomore) also return ing from the league’s secondstingiest unit. A three-way bat tle at goalkeeper has seen last year’s platoon tandem of Julian Murcia (35 saves) and Ncholas Parisi (42 saves) –both seniors – emerge as conumber ones, with junior Gavin Mehlhaff also increas ingly making a case. “At goalie it would be nice to see one player emerge as the sure starter,” Gosse said. “But if we have to split time like last year, that would probably be okay too.”Mepham kicks off its A East schedule Sept. 12 hosting Island“ThisTrees.team definitely has a

lot to prove,” Gosse said. “These kids realize that this is it. They had high expectations last year and weren’t happy

saturday, sept. 17

Boys Soccer: Mepham at MacArthur 5 p.m.

Ron Manfredi/Herald seNioR FoRWaRD DeshaUN Maitland, who was Conference A1’s leader last season with nine goals and 14 points, is one of the Pirates’ catalysts.

Talent-rich Mepham eyes prize

Not only will the Pirates boys’ soccer team welcome the return of its All-County trio of forwards – chief co-cre ators, as juniors last season, of Nassau Conference A1 cochampion Mepham’s leagueleading offense – as well as that of All-State senior mid fielder Konstantinos Karousis, but the club will also enter its Conference A East season pos sessing a most valuable intan gible: a very, very big chip.

Boys Soccer: Hewlett at Calhoun 5 p.m.

Football: Roosevelt at Hewlett 6 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: West Hemp. at East Meadow 11:45 a.m.

Football: Freeport at East Meadow 2 p.m.

Friday, sept. 16

Boys Soccer: V.S. South at Lynbrook 4:30 p.m.

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Football: Sewanhaka at Long Beach 2 p.m.

Field Hockey: Seafrod at East Meadow 5 p.m.

Football: MacArthur at Mepham 2 p.m.

t can hardly be missed that 2022 presents the ideal conditions for a Mepham moment.

five assists) and Dominic Sara ceni (five goals, two assists), a left-footer and key component of Mepham’s signature attack. “All three forwards are incred ibly fast,” Gosse said. “And they all change directions well. Dominic’s left foot gives us an edge, from either side. On the left he can serve a great cross, and on the right he can cut in for shots.”

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Football: Seaford at V.S. South 2 p.m.

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Football: Uniondale at Baldwin 2 p.m.

Seeing instant dividends flow last autumn from its switch to a three-forward front, Mepham – which fin ished 8-0-4 in league, 12-1-4 overall – would suffer its first and only defeat in a triple overtime loss to Roosevelt, 7-6, in the Class A quarterfinals.

Seventh-year coach Zach Gosse – whose club returned to form last fall after back-toback .500 seasons on the heels of its 2018 county Class A championship – said Mepham will use last year’s heartbreak as a lesson and as fuel for its drive this season.

Girls Soccer: Sewanhaka at Elmont 4:30 p.m.

Football: Garden City at South Side 6 p.m.

Boys Soccer: South Side at Lawrence 4:30 p.m.

“The motto of this season is ‘Be relentless,’” said Gosse. “Our playoff loss was devas tating. The guys recognize that this year we can’t take our foot off the gas. We found the formula with our three for wards, and we need to score and continue to attack.”

with how it ended. Now with 12 seniors, they know this may be our last chance, for a while, to return to the county final.”

Boys Soccer: Freeport at Oceanside 5 p.m.

Football: Elmont at Kennedy 4:15 p.m.

Pirates catalyst Deshaun Maitland, A1’s leader last sea son with nine goals and 14 points (five assists), is back along with fellow senior for wards Sean Scott (six goals,

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Football: Farmingdale at Oceanside 6 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Hewlett at V.S. North 4:45 p.m.

Girls Soccer: East Meadow at Baldwin 5 p.m.

“We’re in a far different place than we had been,” Hochul said. “We are seeing major declines in hospital izations. We have to restore some normalcy to our lives.”

It’s a health provision that, according to spokesman Tim Minton, the MTA has fortified.

Masks now encouraged, but not required

Michael Hinman/Herald file

After more than two years, Long Island Rail Road com muters can now decide for themselves when — and where — to mask up while riding the rails. At least, officially.

instituting their own mask mandate, but as of early this week, haven’t taken any such steps. Instead, they pointed to a 2020 study conducted for the American Public Trans portation Association that found no inflated risk of virus

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

MTA officials wouldn’t say if they would consider

“Please wear a mask, out of courtesy and in solidarity with those people whose health is immune-compro mised.”

Despite Hochul’s change, free masks will continue to be available to anyone who requests one, Minton said. The MTA says it’s distributed 56 million free masks since the beginning of the pandemic — more than 60,000 per day on Hirschaverage.says

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it’s important, however, for riders to remember they aren’t the only ones traveling.

GOv. KAthy hOchUL announced last week the end of the mask mandate on public transportation — including busses and subways in New York City, as well as the Long Island Rail Road — shedding a requirement first instituted at the height of the coronavirus pandemic more than two years ago, which has been largely ignored over the last several months anyway.

But some public health experts — like Dr. Bruce Hirsch of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra and Northwell — are concerned the call to make masks optional may have come too soon. Especially as winter approaches.Whilethe spread of the virus has stabilized, one omi cron subvariant considered the virus’ most contagious strain to date, “is pretty good at sidestepping from immu nity and causing infection, even in people who have been infected before and vaccinated,” Hirsch said. “And I think that this will increase the amount of transmission and increase the amount of Covid infection in our area if large numbers of us are going without a mask.”

Where health officials once considered mask-wearing a must for those traveling in densely ridden, close-con tact spaces like trains, buses and subways to curb the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19, Hochul argued her policy shift keeps in step with the latest health data, and high vaccination rates.

Gov. Kathy Hochul lifted the state-imposed mask man date last week, which was put in place by her predeces sor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at the height of the coronavi rus pandemic in early 2020. The move affects not only the LIRR, but also the rest of the Metropolitan Transporta tion Authority, including New York City buses and sub ways, as well as the Metro-North Railroad.

“I’m imploring people to remember that there are friends, neighbors and loved ones in our immediate vicinity who may be older, who may have a weakened immune system, who may be required to take medica tions that diminish their immune response,” he said.

transmission on public transportation, “especially where specific safeguards are in place — such as face coverings, well-functioning ventilation systems, and minimal talking by riders.”

At least one of three safeguards are currently in the MTA’s control: ventilation. It’s by no means a cure-all for stopping the spread of Covid-19, but high-quality ventila tion reduces the concentration of coronavirus particles in the air.

“Fresh air replaces the air in LIRR train cars once every five minutes,” Minton said, in a statement. “Air fil ters are in the process of being upgraded,” said Minton in aRoughlystatement.athird of the air traveling through the car is fresh air pulled from above the roof of each car where two units of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems are mounted. A key advantage of the LIRR is its many stations — 124 in total — that allows for cars to reg ularly slide open doors and let in fresh air.

The unanimous vote, on Sept. 7, raised the income cap from $34,000 to $58,400 for the lowest percentage of exemption, and from $20,000 to $50,000 for the 50 percent exemption.Aspokesman for County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that he would sign theThebill. change in the law came after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed state legislation on Aug. 8 authorizing counties like Nassau to opt into the new, higher-income eligibility levels. The county legislation would give Nassau County the same income caps as New York City.

Under the current income require ments, 9,000 households are benefiting from exemptions, according to Abrahams, who added that that number could double once the new income caps are put in place.

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

County Legislator Tom McKevitt said it was only fair that Nassau seniors and those with disabilities get the same relief as those in New York City. “We found that especially with the cost of liv ing in Nassau County, especially with higher property taxes in Nassau as com pared to New York City, “ McKevitt said, “it would only be fair if there was equity between the taxpayers in Nassau and those in New York City. Especially for those seniors trying to get relief in order to keep theirMcKevitthomes.”said that he had some constit uents who benefited from the maximum exemptions.“Iamproud to sign these bills to put money back in the pockets of New York homeowners and help seniors and families stay in their homes,” Hochul said in a statement on Aug. 8. “With inflation and rising costs putting a strain on families nationwide, this legislation will help to ensure that New Yorkers — from seniors to first-time homebuyers — get some muchneeded relief. I thank the bill sponsors for getting this legislation over the finish line, and for their partnership in our mission to keep New York affordable.”

State Legislature voted for the new income eligibility, Democratic Sen. Kevin Thomas said at the news conference. “This is some thing that both sides agree on,” he said. “Failing to adopt these measures in Nas sau County will leave vulnerable residents without the crucial relief they are entitled to andRepublicandeserve.”

Legislature votes to expand tax exemptions

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ON Sept. 7, the County Legislature’s minority leader, Democrat Kevan Abrahams, urged his Republican colleagues to expand the income caps for seniors and the disabled that would allow them to be partially exempt from their property tax assessments. Later that day, the Legislature voted to approve the increased income caps.

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According to tax-rates.org, the median property tax bill in Nassau County is $8,711 per year, for a home with the coun ty’s median value of $487,900. Nassau col lects, on average, 1.79 percent of a proper ty’s assessed fair market value as property tax.The website also states that the average yearly property tax paid by Nassau resi dents is just over 8 percent of their annual income.Both Republicans and Democrats in the

After a vote in the County Legislature, Nassau seniors and disabled people who earn up to $58,400 can expect to be exempt from at least 5 percent of their property tax assessments. Those who earn less, a maximum of $50,000 annually, can antici pate being 50 percent exempt.

There are two bills that allow the exemptions, one for those who are disabled and earn up to $58,400, and one for seniors who meet the income requirements.

At a news conference on Sept. 7, the Legislature’s minority leader, Democrat Kevan Abrahams, urged his Republican colleagues to expand the income caps, say ing that the legislation was more impor tant than ever, with people still struggling and still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. “Nassau County is one of the

highest-taxing counties in the nation,” Abrahams said. “And we thought this would be the perfect time to be able to pro videLaterrelief.”that day, during a legislative meet ing, the two pieces of legislation got the votes they needed.

• 3 pounds apples, to yield 2 pounds peeled, cored, and sliced apples; about 9 cups

• 2 tablespoons (28g) butter, melted

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Topping:

oven to 350° F. Grease a 9-by9-inch square cake pan, or similar-size casserole pan.

Addpowder.thecold butter, working it in to make an unevenly crumbly mixture. Stir in the nuts, if you’re using them.

• 1 1/2 teaspoons apple pie spice, or 1 teaspoon cinnamon + 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg + 1/4 teaspoon ginger

• 2/3 cup (142g) light brown sugar or dark brown sugar, packed

Slice the apples about 1/4-inch thick. Toss them with the remaining ﬁlling ingredients, and spread them in the pan.

Remove to cool for at least 20 minutes before serving. If you serve the crisp hot/ warm, it may be quite soft; you wait till it’s completely cool, it’ll ﬁrm up nicely.

Note: To make individual crisps, grease eight 8-ounce capacity baking dishes, and proceed with the recipe accordingly

• 2 tablespoons (43g) boiled cider, optional but good

• 2 cups fresh cranberries

Classic Apple Crisp

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• 1/2 cup (45g) quick-cooking oats

• 3 tablespoons (20g) unbleached allpurpose ﬂour or tapioca ﬂour

• 8 tablespoons (113g) butter, cold, cut in pats

browning

• 4 cups sliced, pared tart apples (thickly sliced)

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• Pastry for a 2 crust deep-dish 9-inch pie

• 1/4 to 3/4 cup (53g to 159g) light brown sugar or 1/4 cup (53g) dark brown sugar, depending on the sweetness/tartness of your apples

Filling:

• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder

Spread the topping over the apples in the Setpan.the pan on a parchment or foillined cookie sheet, to catch any potential drips. Bake for about 60 minutes, until bubbling and top is golden brown.

• 3/4 cup brown sugar • 1/4 cup sugar • 1/3 cup all-purpose ﬂour • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 2 tablespoons butter

The Nassau County Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians once again welcomes fall with its annual AOH Feis & Festival. You don’t need to be Irish to enjoy this most traditional celebration of Irish dance, music, piping, drumming, language and athletics. The 18th century tradition lives on in Nassau County, with competitions of dance and piping, Gaelic games for children, and much more, including a performance by Harpers Ferry. Bring a picnic lunch and settle in for the day, ready to experience the age-old traditions that are showcased at this fascinating event.

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Apple season is peaking now, but there’s still time to pick through mid October, according to area growers. Growers are producing more of the varieties that everyone loves — including the classics McIntosh and Empire, returning favorites Gala and Honeycrisp, and other popular choices: Zestar, Jonamac and Macoun. Zestar is an early-season apple that’s juicy, with a light and crisp texture.

the smaller crisps for 45 to 55 minutes.

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To make the topping, whisk together the ﬂour, oats, salt, sugar, cinnamon and baking

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Also consider newer varieties such as RubyFrost, SnapDragon and SweeTango. The RubyFrost’s blend of sweet and tart flavors and its crisp texture make it a great choice for eating as-is, and for use in baking salads and sauces. The sweet juicy SnapDragon is characterized by a “monster crunch.” One of its parents is the Honeycrisp, and you’ll love the spicy/sweet flavor. Honeycrisp has also given us SweeTango, characterized by its crunchy sweet flavor.

• 1/4 cup (57g) rum, apple cider or juice, or water

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Those short-lived delights of the season have arrived: juicy, crisp apples, sweet cider, harvest fairs — and, of course, some pumpkins along the way. Apple picking awaits, and is well underway at Long Island’s “u-pick” orchards.

• 1/2 cup (57g) diced pecans or walnuts,

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Sunday, Sept. 18, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. $10 per person; children younder than 16 free. Nickerson Beach, Lido Boulevard, Lido Beach. For more information, visit NassauAOH Feis.com.

Once you get home with your bounty, make some delicious apple treats.

Fall’s Best Apple Cranberry Pie

Preheat oven to 425° F. Prepare pastry. In large bowl, combine sugars, ﬂour and cinnamon.Addapples and cranberries. Mix to coat well. Turn into prepared pie pan. Dot with butter. Cover with second crust and seal to bottom crust edge by pressing edges together, then ﬂute. Cut slits in top crust. Bake 40 to 45 minutes until crust is lightly browned. Cover edge of crust with if crust is too quickly.

• 3/4 cup (90g) unbleached all-purpose ﬂour

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The Merrick Fall Festival is back this year, from Oct. 21 through Oct. 23. Rides and games for the carnival will be open on Friday night, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Food and craft vendors will line Merrick village, starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The festival will take place at the Merrick Train Station off of Sunrise Highway, and along Merrick Avenue. For information, visit MerrickChamber.org.

Step back to the ‘60s at NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury, with the energetic band who bring you their Sixties Show, Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. These dynamic musicians are known for re-creating spot on, note for note re-creations of the hits, B-sides and deep album cuts from the greatest songs of the era that defined a generation. The concert experience includes a full multi-media production with time travel special effects, narration, 60s archival audio and newsreel footage and a light show. For information/tickets, visit TheTheatreAtWestbury.com or LiveNation.com or call (516) 247-5200.

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The groovy Woodstock era comes alive when Retro69 performs their Woodstock Revival show, Sunday, Sept. 18, noon-3 p.m., at Crossroads Farm at Grossmans, 480 Hempstead Ave., Malverne. A tribute to the 53rd anniversary of the famed festival, the band covers all the music, including, Richie Havens, Sweetwater, Bert Sommer, Tim Hardin, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Keef Hartley Band, Santana, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Mountain, CCR, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and so much more. The free event will be under a tent, rain or shine. For information, contact (516) 881-7900.

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Eggs, honey, and fresh vegetables are sold every Sunday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Garden at St. Francis. outside the church or in the church hall. Visit 1692 Bellmore Ave., North Bellmore. Local produce is available through late October. Leftover produce is donated to local charities in Bellmore-Merrick.

Want to brush up on your farming techniques, and contribute to a community garden? Every Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m., and every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, visit the Garden at St. Francis, 1692 Bellmore Ave., North Bellmore, to help with garden tasks. Open to everyone, regardless of physical abilities. For more information, call (516) 679-1184.

Grab your lunch and join Nassau County Museum of Art Docent Riva Ettus for her popular “Brown Bag Lecture” live, via Zoom, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1 p.m. She’ll discuss the current exhibition, “Other Worlds than This: The Supernatural in Art.” Participants are invited to ask questions at the end of the program. Register at least 24 hours in advance to receive the program Zoom link. Also Oct. 13. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

‘Couple of Guys’ Fundraiser at Bellmore Movies

Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé is hosting a series of tax exemption workshops for Fifth Legislative District residents. During the workshops, Department of Assessment staff will assist residents with filing for veteran, senior citizen, volunteer firefighter and ambulance worker, limited-income disability and/or home improvement exemptions. Enhanced STAR applications will also be processed for homeowners already enrolled in the STAR program prior to Jan. 2, 2015. A workshop will take place, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1-2:30 p.m., at the North Merrick Public Library, 1691 Meadowbrook Road, N. Merrick. For more information, contact (516) 571-4214.

Tax Exemption Workshop

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Bellmore Family Street Festival

SEPT. 19

Visit the historic Bellmore Movies on Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. for a fundraiser for “Couple of Guys,” a series by Merokean Debra Markowitz. Episode 1 will be streamed, as well as the world premier of Episode 2. $20 donations can be made via PayPal, Venmo or Cash App. For more information, please Debra.Markowitz@gmail.com.email

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The Bellmore Chamber of Commerce’s weekly car show takes place every Friday through Oct. 7. Admission is free for pedestrians, and entry fees for cars are $5 per vehicle. It runs from 6-10 p.m., in the Bellmore LIRR parking lot.

The Merrick Fire Department will hosts the 2022 Sixth Batallion Parade and Old Fashioned Drill on Sept 24. Many local departments will be taking part. Head down to the streets of Merrick to support the department and enjoy the post-parade festival. Various streets will be impacted for a few hours due to the parade. More details to be announced in the coming weeks. The parade concludes on Merrick Avenue.

The Bellmore Family Street Festival is returning for its 36th year, between Sept. 22 and Sept. 25. The carnival in the Bellmore Long Island Rail Road parking lot, with rides and games, opens on Thursday at 6 p.m. Craft and food vendors will line the streets of Bellmore village on Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival will take place on Bedford and Pettit avenues, Broadway, and in the train station lot. For more information, contact the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores at (516) 809-5892.

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Art has access to worlds beyond the one we know. Explore the next dimension as seen through eyes of artists throughout the centuries, at Nassau County Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Other Worlds than This: The Supernatural in Art,” now through Nov. 6. The exhibit summons a celestial realm of demons, ghosts and extra-sensory phenomena as conjured by such Surrealists as Dalí, photographers who specialize in the occult, Old Masters including Goya, contemporary talents including Betye Saar, Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans and many others. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

Enjoy “A League of Their Own,” the 1992 comedy drama starring Geena Davis, Madonna and Tom Hanks, about the World War II-era All-American professional women’s baseball league, Friday, Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.; movie 7 p.m. The fundraising event, at Adelphi University’s parking lot 5, 1 South Ave., Garden City, supports Adelphi’s Breast Cancer Hotline. Admission is $45 per car; advance purchase required. Light refreshments with the ticket. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit fundraiser-baseballBreast-Cancer.Adelphi.edu/au_event/movie-night-orbit.ly/3zOlDu5.

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It’s a tradition dating back to some of the earliest days of modern construction. When a building is almost completed, the builders celebrate its construction by placing the last steel beam at the highest point in what’s known as a “topping out” ceremony.Mount Sinai South Nassau upheld this custom with its own topping out ceremo ny last week, celebrating the completion of the four-story J Wing Patient Pavilion at Oceanside’s One Healthy Way. More than 40 people — including board mem bers, construction workers and other staff members — gathered for photos with the final steel beam of the building’s construction.Attendees — clad with white hard hats — signed their names onto the beam, and cheered when it was hooked to a crane and hoisted up to the top of the building, where it was placed securely.

The patient pavilion’s construction is part of a Federal Emergency Manage ment Agency project as a result of the

The hospital has learned many new techniques to optimize exposure and infection prevention within the hospital following the pandemic, Sharma said. For example, all emergency treatment areas are now built as single rooms with hard walls — instead of curtains — to prevent the spread of disease. The air filtration system is designed such that each patient has clean air coming in from the outside in their rooms, while hospital air is fil tered

“When we partnered with Mount Sinai in 2018, we shared our goal to grow our cardiac program at this hospital,” Shar ma said. “In supporting that goal, they’ve worked with us toward expanding cardiac services at the hospital including — openheart surgery, expanded structural heart programs and electrophysiology.”

Theout.pandemic did slow the pavilion’s construction, however, thanks to both ill ness and supply chain issues. What was supposed to have been opened by now is now expected to start serving South Shore patients in 2024.

Dr. Adhi Sharma, president Mount Sinai South Nassau, said planning for the J Wing Patient Pavilion began in 2018 after learning neighbors in and around Oceanside were seeking cardiac proce dures over the river in Manhattan.

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Mount Sinai places one last steel beam

The patient pavilion will feature an extended emergency department, add 40 new beds for critical care patients, and nine modern surgical suites under one roof. Joe Calderone, a spokesman for Mount Sinai, said the operating rooms would be large enough to potentially pro

CoNstRuCtIoN woRkERs saL Gustella and Curran Digney sign their names onto the final beam steel beam of the J Wing Patient Pavilion as part of its topping out ceremony last week at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside. The pavilion will open in 2024.

vide open-heart surgery and other cardi ac services — if approved.

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The beam was placed up past the fourth floor and toward the back, said Mark Brundage, a sales and operations worker for JC Steel, who created the beam. Even so, its tree was still visible from Nassau Road.

“Currently we need a certificate of need from the New York State Depart ment of Health,” Calderone said. “But providing open-heart surgery to our patients is the goal.”

flooding and damage that occurred at the Long Beach Medical Center following Hurricane Sandy. In all, FEMA is provid ing $113 million to the project — part of an overall $158 million in funding that also includes the Long Beach Medical Center.“We used some of the FEMA money in the Long Beach Medical Center, and some of it here to strengthen our campus,” Calderone said.

“The challenge for us as board mem bers was to figure out how we’d be rele vant in the new world of health care,” Fennessy said. “We realized we need to be an institution that performs more tertia ry-type work — like open-heart surgery — things that are more complex, to meet the needs of South Shore residents.”

This building would make Mount Sinai the only hospital on the South Shore to offer cardiac services, Sharma added, assuming it’s approved by the health department. The pavilion would also be a boon for the hospital if another global pandemic were to occur in the future.

New patient pavilion includes 40 beds for critical care

The steel beam was adorned with an American flag on one end, a small tree on the other, and a large Mount Sinai banner draped in the middle. Damian Becker, Mount Sinai South Nassau’s public rela tions manager, said the tree represents the fact there were no injuries or acci dents on the job site, and traditionally, is supposed to stay in place.

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Joseph Fennessy, immediate past chair of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s board of directors, says the medical group needed to consider where the health care industry was going. A lot of what hospitals traditionally provided was becoming part of services now taking place in the offices of physicians and ambulatory surgery centers.

Mount Sinai’s operating rooms are fully functional and viable facilities, the spokesman added, but open-heart surgery and other cardiac procedures require larger rooms to accommodate all neces sary equipment — which the new patient pavilion will provide. Standard operating rooms of this scale require 250 square feet, but the J Wing Pavilion will provide operating rooms of up to 600 square feet.

It was a celebration at the new J Wing Patient Pavilion at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside last week as hospital and construction leaders gathered to celebrate the raising of the final steel beam. The $113 million facility is expected to welcome its first patients in 2024.

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Hempstead, Baker said, to ensure that there is ample parking.

plaza, because most people attend movies in the evening or on weekends. Broadcast Plaza intersects Merrick Avenue, where most of Merrick’s local shops are located. There is additional parking behind the cinema, on Fisher Avenue, for shoppers and, until now, theatergoers.

The theater was known for its low pric es, and as a go-to location for private events, such as birthday parties.

He added that he was guessing he could not say for sure, that a developer might seek to replace the theater with a multistory property, with businesses on the ground floor and living quarters aboveThereit.

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Theodorous thanked Merrick, and nearby communities, for their support over the last five years. He said he was “deeply saddened” that the community would lose its local theater. “Our amazing employees,” he added, “will be part of our family forever.”

have been two notable proposals for apartment complexes in Bellmore over the past year: one to replace a closed Citibank branch on Bedford Avenue, and the other to replace the former Temple Beth El on Bellmore Road. A question raised repeatedly by residents is where apartment dwellers would park their vehicles if the existing lot space in both locations proves inadequate.

Baker said he saw movie seats being moved into a tractor-trailer behind the theater on Fisher Avenue, likely indicat ing that whoever is acquiring the proper ty would no longer operate it as a cinema.

Yvette Novo-Scamardella wrote that she thought the property “may be rezoned for residential use.” “Honestly, I am saddened by this,” she added of the theater’s clo sure. “It was a nice place to take your kids to.”Others in the area said they hoped Cin emas V’s demise wasn’t an indication that other nearby theaters may also be shut ting down. “It’s sad,” Wendy Shatz said. “I hope that doesn’t happen to the Bellmore Playhouse.”Withmany people watching movies nowadays on streaming services, like Net flix and Disney+, Shatz added, “it can’t help the movie theaters” stay open.

If an apartment proposal is in the works for the closed cinema, it would need to be approved by the Town of

According to Loop Net, an online mar ketplace for commercial properties, the cinema is for sale, listed at $2.2 million by Cresa, a commercial real estate company.

The cinema, he added, was in a good spot. Even though the lots in front of it are designated for commuter parking dur ing weekday work hours, the town allowed the theater to operate in the

Jordan Vallone/Herald Merrick cineMas V closed last month. The business, under its most recent ownership, has been open since 2017.

“It was terribly shocking,” Vicki Fer retti wrote the Herald in a message on Facebook. “We had been there just a few weeks ago, and there were no indications that they were closing. It’s a shame really — the prices were great and they had just redone the theater, adding in reclining seats.”Some agreed with Baker that an apart ment complex may be in site’s future.

Second grade teacher at Martin Avenue Elementary School Antonietta Fischetti read a heroes poem along with her students.

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students learned how many acts of brav ery and heroism took place in the after math of the attacks. Children learned how ordinary people can be heroes by doing kind deeds for others. They read a heroes poem and identified words that represent the traits of a hero.

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Partial finished basement with rec room. Gourmet eat-in kitchen and pantry. Grand formal living room with fireplace. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office.

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Lake End Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms 2.5 bathrooms. New eat-in kitchen with shaker cabinets, granite countertops high-end appliances. Open concept layout. Formal dining room. Den/family room with fireplace. Ensuite master bed room with spa bathroom and 2 oversized walk-in closets. Patio doors open to serene backyard. Many updates, including oversized windows, wainscoting and crown mold ings. Convenient location near LIRR, library, shopping, din ing, park, marina and beach.

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Pennsylvania Avenue. Contemporary. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath rooms. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops and stain less steel appliances. Open layout with cathedral ceiling. Front porch and deck with amazing bay views. First floor bedroom. Closed to beach, shopping, dining.

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Q. Our new home is pretty old, from 1920. We want to update it and have a lot of concerns, with taxes if we enlarge it, cost if we get rid of walls, widen ing our driveway to park more cars and what you think about getting rid of our garage for more room instead of building up. It’s a one-story with low ceil ings on the second floor that are really too small for bedrooms. My parents have been reading your column for many years and suggested you could help. What can you tell us?

A. It’s hard for me not to feel as old as your house when you put it that way, but after writing this column for 33 years, I’m often doing work for children of former cli ents, and have gotten your question thousands of times. First, almost any thing you do that adds space to your home also adds value, and value increases taxes. Cosmetic changes like siding, win dows or an asphalt or con crete driveway generally don’t affect the value, but luxury materials, such as stone facing or interlocking pavers, will.

Package all this to be reviewed by building officials and receive permission to build — sounds simpler than it is, especially when workers leave details out or change something and we start adjusting all over again, only after much discussion, time and money. That’s also part of the age-old process. Avoid chang es once you decide, save money doing so and your old house will be like new again.

You’ll need your property survey, which is a map of your lot, house size and location, but you’ll also discover that surveyors generally don’t provide the dimensions of porches, sidewalks, driveways or steps. Get out a tape measure and accurately docu ment the property’s hard surfaces if you’re in a community that requires impervious-area informa tion. When you hire an architect or engineer, that’s what we have to do.

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Most of the time, people complain about taxa tion but rarely, if ever, do they collectively attempt to do anything about it. The methods for deciding value, or even using value as a gauge for tax increases, are questionable, especially because we used to be taxed based on square feet. As we transi tion into not leaving our homes, communicating digitally, the tax system perpetuates without chal lenge.Inmany villages and towns, garages are required, and hard surfaces for any kind of paving are considered “impervious,” not replenishing groundwater. There are limits on how much of your total property you can cover. You will need to investigate your specific jurisdiction’s require ments. Sidewalks, patios and driveways are all impervious, but pools and decks generally are not.

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But when you take the oath of office as president, and swear: “I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, pro tect and defend the Consti tution of the United States,” you need to follow all the rules for keeping state secrets secure. When you leave office, you don’t get to take classified souvenirs.

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You can see proof of this in his law yers’ rolling defense of keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. It went from calling the dis covery of top-secret papers a hoax, to saying the FBI planted the papers, to claim ing he “declassified” them before he snatched them, to insisting he was in the pro cess of giving them back. There wasn’t one moment of concern for the yearslong work that might be undone. Not a single gesture of contrition for possibly endangering our assets overseas. I think even Aunt Maddie would have grasped the sobering consequences of such careless handling of top secrets.

A number of prominent historians are now asking whether we are close to Civil War 2. “Civil War” is now a rallying cry by some Americans who wear the slogan on T-shirts. Others train in rural areas with assault weapons. Since the Mar-a-Lago search, media sites including Gab and Telegram use phrases such as “lock and load” and “civil war.”

a “mistress . . . I mean the harlot, slavery.” Sumner staggered around the Senate floor, so badly beaten that his recovery took months. Brooks simply walked out of the chambers without being stopped. He was eventually censured by the House andTheresigned.country seemed to be splitting in half, as it eventually did with the advent of the Civil War.

I don’t think he had a plan. I don’t think there was some nefarious plot in the works. Like you and the rest of Amer ica, I have observed Trump moving through his days and weeks and years in a reckless and reactive mode in which he does and says stuff and then sees what

Why all this history?

loosey-goosey and you don’t want to pro tect your private documents, it’s all good — as long as you don’t hold the highest office in the land.

Robert Reich, the U.S. labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, has said he believes a second Civil War has already begun, but less of a “war” than “a kind of benign separation analogous to unhappily married people who don’t want to go through the trauma of a for mal divorce.” Reich sees a situation in America similar to Europe’s Brexit, “a lumbering, mutual decision to go sepa rate ways on most things but remain con nected on a few big things.”

From my point of view, for what it’s worth, we have been ahead of Europe in many ways since the American Revolu tion.Let’s not begin following the continent now.

James Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald.

he leadingperiodup to the Civil War has parallels.present-daynumerous

In the two years since President Biden’s election, the divisions have become wider, and more violent. There was Jan. 6; Charlottesville, Virginia; and now the threats against FBI agents after the court-backed raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where he had stashed clas sified documents.

Nina Silber, an American history pro fessor and the president of the Society of Civil War Historians, who has written several books on the subject, said in a Boston University interview that she saw similarities between the Civil War era and now, particularly in “the tendency toward heated and extreme political rhetoric” and “the inability to find politi cal middle ground.”

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work for the FBI or the CIA. No living human being was threatened by her slip shod record-keeping. She lived alone, and could be as messy as she wanted to be with absolutely no consequences. There are lots of people like her, who don’t much like detail work and abhor filing systems of any kind — virtual, real-time or digital.Again, live and let live. If your mind is

hen I learned that Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago desk looks a lot like my Aunt Maddie’s, I wasn’t surprised. Auntie M, the unfortunate product of a disordered mind, compounded by an instinct to hoard, further complicated by a sweeping disregard for others’ opinions, dumped all her paperwork, from utility bills to MRIs of her brain, in her “junk” drawer. That was the generic term for all of her drawers and closets, which were stuffed tight with papers and States.ofwasn’tAuntfolders.Fortunately,MaddiepresidenttheUnitedShedidn’t

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“stolen” election were, and are, B.S.

When I thought about Aunt Maddie, I realized what makes Trump tick. Nothing. Nothing is ticking. I see him as 100 percent reactive and zero percent con templative. I believe that he indiscrimi nately grabbed whatever paperwork looked of possible interest at the White House and later shoved it in the drawers at his golf club.

Does it seem likely that Trump pored over these documents, achieving a sophis ticated level of comprehension? No. Nah. Never. He just grabbed the stuff like a hyped-up teen robber sweeping the money out of the till at a 7-Eleven on his way out. He didn’t stop to count the bills.

guests might be that nefarious person who looks for breaks in security and seiz es the moment to do harm to the United States.Ignorance, though, is not a defense. We still don’t know if Trump will be held legally accountable for flouting the laws of the country that apply to every other citizen. We don’t know how this will end, but the entire affair speaks to the man’s fantasy that he is somehow above thoseI’mlaws.thinking about this as our friends the Brits mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 72 years and died last week at her summer home at Balmoral. She ascended the throne when she was 25 and stayed for seven decades. She was the living, breathing essence of duty to country and service to her citi zens. Propriety was the guiding principle of her reign, and she won the loyalty and love of her people by elevating civility and democracy and stepping back from any personal fanfare or glory.

Just last month, Sen. Lindsey Gra ham, a Republican from South Carolina, said there would be “riots in the street” if Trump were prosecuted for taking the classified documents from the White House.And only months ago, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a North Carolina Republican, insisted that the U.S. elections system is “rigged,” and, he added, that would “lead to one place, and that’s bloodshed.”

He is not a thinker. I don’t believe he ever worried that unfriendly eyes might fall on these protected documents, or that someone in the crowds of Mar-a-Lago

But the bumbling president at the time, James Buchanan, did little to cool tensions. In his inaugural address in 1957, Buchanan described the sectional ism between North and South as “happi ly a matter of but little practical impor tance.” The U.S. Supreme Court, he said, would settle the matter “speedily and finally.”Thehigh court did, with the Dred Scott decision, which held that Congress had no constitutional power to deprive slavehold ers of their property rights. And Black slaves were property.Theseeds of the Civil War were sprouting.

From the queen to the U.S. jester-in-chief

sticks, and then does the next thing. He deals with an issue in the moment and deals with any consequences later.

“I’m troubled too by the role the (for mer) president plays in contributing to this atmosphere,” Silber said.

Will there be more canings in the Senate chamber?

n the mid-1800s, there were scorch ing debates taking place in the U.S. Congress between politicians in the North, who opposed slavery, and those in the South, who favored the insti tution.In1856, things got so heated that one U.S. senator, Charles Sumner, an antislavery Massachusetts Republican, was brutally beaten with a cane PrestonCongressmanbyBrooks, a South Butlerremoved,cousinBrooks’sAndrewCarolinainsultedSumnerbeforeDemocrat.CarolinaJusttheattack,hadSouthSen.Butler,firstoncesayinghadtaken

Because the period leading up to the War Between the States has numerous paral lels to what is taking place today.

o ne was the living, essencebreathingof duty to country. The other? Well . . .

It isn’t even Democrats and Republi cans who are so completely at odds, as it is MAGA supporters and the rest of the country. The supporters of Donald Trump continue to deny the results of the 2020 election, despite any number of recounts, decisions by judges tossing out claims of fraud, and the public pro nouncements of Trump’s former attor ney general, Bill Barr, that the clams of a

We, on the other hand, have been blighted in recent years by a showboating president without a moral center, a man who holds nothing sacred aside from his own endless push for power. A jester who never leaves the stage.

New York City has completely done away with snow days, but the city should follow Long Island’s lead. Sure, there are fewer snow days than there were before the pandemic, but our dis tricts are working hard to balance the need to educate with their students’ need to just live sometimes. And they are doing the right thing with a hybrid model that essentially splits the differ ence.Keep the snow days. At least some of them. They’re not just a thing of won der, but a chance to create lasting mem ories, and a fresh appreciation of the value of an unexpected breather.

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Sorry, but those are things kids sim ply can’t do if they are required to sit in front of their computers all day. And let’s not forget that virtual classrooms are no longer the norm — imagine all the wasted time that will be spent get

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I found Ilana Greenberg’s op-ed, “Scientists grapple with meaning of life. Why should judges?” (Aug. 18-24) extremely thoughtful and well written. She showed her willingness to research all sides of an issue.

But as part of the “new normal” cre ated by the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed the snow day was becoming a relic of the past. Lockdowns closed schools, forcing millions of students across the country — and around the world — to turn to technology. Thanks to computers, web cams and the inter net, lessons could continue without the need to step inside a classroom.

Schools are right to resurrect the snow day

And what other severe weather event could kids enjoy more than freshly fall en snow — and a lot of it? Sledding, for example, is a pastime no one young or old should be denied. Or building snow men. Or constructing snow forts. Or cre ating snow angels.

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That meant no more snow days — a concept that, at least for several school districts in Nassau County, was shortlived. While not ignoring the benefits of remote learning, these districts decided to keep at least some snow days in place, believing that there’s a benefit to pro viding that unexpected day off for their students and teachers.

It’s difficult to determine how — and when — the modern snow day came into being, except that it likely required the means to communicate a delay or can cellation — telephones or radios. Today, such alerts are spread through more direct means, like text messages and email.But the excitement those alerts gen erate is almost certainly no different in 2022 than it was in 1922.

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In today’s climate, that is very rare. It is clear she has searched much for answers concerning the science and the exploration of the age-old question of when life begins, and I hope she continues to do so.

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It’s not that education isn’t important — it is. But a snow day isn’t a lost day. It’s a delayed day. Any class missed because of snow in the winter months is made up in the spring. And if Mother Nature is kind and doesn’t interfere with classes, those spring days become time off for students and teachers any way.All of us deserve a pleasant surprise, like a snow day, once in a while. And all of us deserve a chance to enjoy the world around us, even if it’s just for a day here and there.

How about Biden as a failed presi dent? Inflation has skyrocketed, but so has job growth. The economy screams recession, but if it’s out there, no one has quite found it.

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So how will Trump frame 2024? Can he recapture any of his 2016 anti-estab lishment magic? That’s doubtful, because he and many of his acolytes are the establishment.Maybethistime he can get Biden-as-asocialist to stick. Biden is hardly the poster child of anything too hard left. And even his more progressive, Sandersesque agenda items have been torn apart in Congress — with little argument from Biden himself. The late President Lyn don Johnson is rolling in his grave at how passive-aggressive Biden is with the

Trump apparently feared the idea of Clinton even considering the Ver mont senator as her run ning mate, calling Sanders “the only one I didn’t want her to pick” — perhaps aware of how much Sand ers could have disrupted Trump’s campaign mes sage.But everything changed in 2020. How could Trump run against the establish ment when he was now the establishment? So he tried a different approach. The entrenched elite wasn’t the boogeyman this time around; it was socialism. And as far as Trump and his supporters were concerned, “Democrat” and “socialist” were interchangeable terms.Trump was almost gleeful when Sand ers — a self-described “democratic socialist” — was winning the early pri maries in 2020. Trump strategist Michael Caputo even said that “the only thing better for Trump than Bernie getting screwed out of the nomination (is) if Bernie wins the nomination.”

both major parties for some time. That was what allowed him to blitz through a field of respected Republican politicians like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio.

ty’s nomination of Clinton for president, however, played right into Trump’s cam paign message: As the anti-establish ment candidate, who was a better repre sentation of the establishment — and the perfect villain — than Hillary Clinton?

he likelihood that former presi dent Donald Trump will run again in 2024 seems to increase by the day. Unless the Mar-a-Lago raid turns up something that leads to a criminal indictment, it would be some what anticlimactic for Trump to have hyped up the imagined grand announce ment, only to conclude with, “I’m not acrossbeentimentestablishmentizedOne.2016HillarySecretaryagainstrunis,running.”So,thequestionwhowouldheagainst?TrumpranformerofStateClintoninfromDayHecapitalonananti-senthathadpercolatingAmericain

Who and what would Trump run against in 2024?

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vs. Sanders, Democrats ultimately went a different route. The anti-Bernie route. The Joe Biden route.

O’Connell asked a great question

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this is true in all areas of science and philosophy, and prevents better under standing and clarification of many “truths” that no longer stand up in our ever-changing world.

Outside of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Biden was the only candidate who never aligned with Sanders. So, in nomi nating Biden, Democrats went against Trump’s wish es.

I hope Greeberg continues to research and look for answers on the Roe v. Wade ruling. I would also suggest that she Google “A lifelong connection that starts in the womb.” It was written on Aug. 7, 2017, and adds a whole new dimension to what we know about cells in utero. Our technology, showing how life begins and grows from conception, gets better every day. She might want to read “Unplanned,” by Abby Johnson, about what she came to know, and how.

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Essentially, Trump was always running against “crooked” Hillary Clinton and the pre-Trump estab lishment — even when Clinton wasn’t in the race and the establishment was Trump’s own.

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Answers may not be found, but at the right time and in the right place, the truth will find the person who is looking for them. And please don’t leave out Gen esis 1:27 and Isaiah 49. It’s my hope that Greenberg will be rewarded with the continued gifts in the goodness and kind ness that she has shown in her writing.

Michael Malaszczyk is a Herald reporter covering Wantagh and Seaford. Com ments about this column? mmalaszczyk@ liherald.com.

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John O’Connell for his op-ed in the Sept. 1-7 issue, “Where has all the competence gone?” He precisely voiced my sentiments and, I’m sure, those of many Americans around us. It is indeed very sad that we are amazed when we witness something being done competently, on time and without fuss. It is even more distressing that the pros pects of any improvement are quite dim.

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Trump repeatedly singled out Bush — the one-time frontrunner who counts both a father and a brother as one-time occupants of the Oval Office — in a move that signified that Trump was going against the Republican Party of old. Sen. Bernie Sanders had similar suc cess against Clinton in 2016, albeit not quite as successful. The Democratic Par

While there was a brief time in which it seemed that it would indeed be Trump

But how will the former president present his message? Biden isn’t exactly a great president, but he’s not a failed one, either. If Trump gets past his legal troubles to make another run for the Oval Office, his only chance to come out on top could very well require changing his playbook completely.

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That didn’t stop the then president from trying to link Biden with socialism anyway, but no one was buying it. At least not enough to swing the gener al election in Trump’s favor.

And Biden has been on a bit of a roll lately. Some key measures he has cham pioned, tackling inflation and the envi ronment, have been signed into law, and he just took out a key terrorist in the MiddleBidenEast.may have led a disastrous pullout from Afghanistan last year, but now he has finessed the war in Ukraine to make Russian dictator Vladimir Putin look like the monster he is without put ting a single pair of American boots on the ground there.

Former President Trump will have to run against President Biden, and run ning against an incumbent president ain’t easy: Only 10 presidents in Ameri can history have lost re-election — and one of them was Trump.

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