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Supporting youth sports Northwell Health Ice Center and Jovia announce partnership sponsor like Jovia,” Lombardo said. “They support our youth on Long Island, and these kids are Northwell Health Ice Center, our future, and sports play such a in Eisenhower Park, has part- huge part in developing these nered with Jovia Financial Cred- kids.” He said that sports build it Union, one of the character, and teach leading credit unions strategic thinking on Long Island. Jovia and leadership skills, will be the rink’s teamwork and goal “official credit union setting. partner.” A Jovia ATM will Chris Lombardo, be installed in the the rink’s vice presimain lobby, and at dent of partnerships, select times, Jovia said that the facility representatives will was excited about be present to interthis multi-year partact with families, nership. “They have provide information such deep roots in about the credit the community,” CHRIs union’s services and Lombardo said, “and loMBARDo promote financial having Jovia repreliteracy. sentatives available Vice President Renu Dalessanto speak to these of Partnerships, dro, the credit young kids and their Northwell Health union’s chief marparents about finanketing officer, said Ice Center cial literacy at such a that Jovia is all about young age is so investing in local important.” communities. “It’s these types of Jovia will be the presenting local partnerships that really give sponsor of the In-House Youth us a way to give back to the comHockey Programs at the Ice Cen- munity,” she said. “When this ter, which includes youth house program came to be, we knew leagues, youth summer camps that this would be a perfect fit.” and youth clinics. Each program She said that it’s important to is geared toward kids ages 5 to 13. “It means a lot to us to have a Continued on page 13

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state champion! Clarke High School senior Jordan Soriano became the school’s first-ever state wrestling champion last Saturday night in Albany, capturing the 138-pound title. Story, additional photo, page 10.

With data to back her up, Hochul lifts school mask mandate By MAlloRy WIlsoN and REINE BETHANy mwilson@liherald.com, rbethany@liherald.com

G o v. K a t h y H o c h u l announced last Sunday that the state requirement for children in school and child care to wear masks indoors would end on March 2. Hochul likened the Covid-19 pandemic to a “war that has been unfolding for the last two years, where our country has

been under siege by this unseen assailant – one that has taken thousands of lives of Americans and New Yorkers.” In defense of the mask requirement so far, Hochul said that when she was sworn into office six months ago, her priority was to get children back to school, but that wearing masks was the best guarantee for children’s safety, especially since no pediatric vaccine was available until November.

“We’re going to talk about where we came from in these last six months,” Hochul said, “and you see the spikes and the infection rates that really validated the rationale and the logic behind ensuring that we had those masks in place through those spikes, especially the Omicron variant.” On Sunday, East Meadow School District Superintendent Continued on page 12

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

East Meadow All-National musician The East Meadow School District is proud to announce that East Meadow High School Wind Ensemble senior Emma Friel was selected to take part in the 2022 AllNational Honors Ensembles Concert Band. This prestigious honor is the culmination of a high school career that included performances in NMEA AllCounty Festivals as well as the NYSSMA All-State Symphonic Band at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester. In addition to the euphonium, Friel is equally as talented on the trombone and was designated as an All-State Alternate at this year’s NYSSMA Winter Conference. Friel plans on continuing her musical studies next year at the university level as a music education major and aspires to become a high school band director.

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East mEadow music Chairman Stephen Engle, left, East Meadow School District Music and Art Director Kelly Gelfer, second from left and Principal Richard Howard, right, all congratulated Emma Friel for her accomplishments.

Supporting those striving for success The Nassau County Council of School Superintendents held their annual Dress for Success clothing drive to provide professional business attire for women planning to return to the workforce. School superintendents throughout Nassau County donated gently used ready-towear suits, jackets, dresses, skirts and blouses which will be donated to Dress for Success Brookhaven. This organization was created to empower women throughout Long Island to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the necessary development tools to enable women to thrive at work and in life. Since its inception in 1999, Dress for Success Brookhaven has assisted more than 5,000 women returning to the workforce by providing appropriate business clothing.

From lEFt, HErricks School District Superintendent of Schools and co-chairperson of the NCCSS Dress for Success clothing drive Fino Celano, Floral Park-Bellerose School District Superintendent of Schools and co-chairperson of the NCCSS Dress for Success clothing drive Kathleen Sottile and Levittown School District Superintendent of Schools and NCCSS President Tonie McDonald with some of the clothing to be donated to Dress for Success Brookhaven.

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Long Island officials and Ukrainians rally By Letisha Dass ldass@liherald.com

Love, fear, and worry resonated in the air while Ukrainian Americans from Long Island patriotically sang for their native Ukraine, as a plea for the United States to take a stand in solidarity against Russia after the nation’s invasion of Ukraine. “It is time for you to raise your voice as well and fight back together with us,” Volodymyr Tsyalkovsky, a Ukrainian American from Great Neck said on Saturday outside the Killenworth mansion in Glen Cove as he, fellow Ukrainan Americans, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), who is running for governor, and Glen Cove Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck demanded that President Joe Biden expel the Russian diplomats from the compound that is used as a holiday retreat. “We don’t need them here and let’s get this property back on the tax rolls, so the people of Nassau County and Glen Cove don’t have to finance thugs and dictators and people who invade innocent countries,” Blakeman said. “To the people inside that compound, if you are watching us: I am your mayor, I am your neighbor, please do whatever you can to stop this mad man Putin from the actions he is taking,” Panzenbeck said. “It has gone too far. It can end now.” Zeldin noted that precedent was set to possibly close the compound when former president Barack Obama seized Killenworth in 2016 as punishment for Russian interfering in that year’s presidential election. Though the U.S. has imposed several sanctions on Russia, Blakeman said blocking Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a global banking system, should be made to deny Russia the ability to transfer funds and operate their economy. “If we do not stop the Russian aggression now, [it] will flow into NATO coun-

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at 127 Dosoris Lane, Glen Cove, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman stood with Long Island Ukrainian Americans on Feb. 26. tries which we have a treaty obligation to fight,” Blakeman said. “If we do so, then American blood will be shed, so we have to stand firm and resolute.” Zeldin added that the sanctions must be powerful enough to be a deterrent for Russia to not move forward. “I believe that Russia is now a state sponsor of terror with their actions,” Zeldin said. “I believe that Russia should be cut off with secondary sanctions on their banking system.” A boycott of all Russian products was called forward by Blakeman and Zeldin. “Get rid of your Russian vodka. Do not do anything that would support the Russian

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economy,” Blakeman said. “Instead of relying on adversaries abroad, we can use domestic energy production to reduce that reliance,” Zeldin said. Diana Smykiv, a 15-year-old from Mineola, and Diana Shykula, a 16-year-old from Levittown, have family in Ukraine and are worried about their safety. “Our families are put in danger,” Shykula said. Smykiv’s aunt and cousins have been able to flee to Poland, but her grandparents are unable to travel because they do not have passports. “It’s just so scary,” Smykiv said. “You can’t do anything but think about it because you’re so scared that one day you will wake up and find out that someone has died. On Thursday night after hearing about the Russian bombings, Shykula immediately tried to contact her friends in Ukraine to find out if they were okay. She was the first to person to break the news to her friends about the attack in country’s capital Kyiv. “When I first found out, I was in pure shock,” Shykula said. “I was texting all of my friends in Ukraine, and it took them a while to get back to me and I was really scared.” Olga Tsymbalysta, of Levittown, came to the United States from Ukraine in 2004. She still has family in the country and said she wants the war to stop. “They are regular people,” Tsymbalysta said. “It is not their faults. Sleepy Joe should do something about it and politicians should start talking. It needs to end.” On Sunday, there will be a vigil in front of the gates of Killenworth mansion at 127 Dosoris Lane, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Participants are asked to bring no backpacks or coolers and to park at Glen Cove High School. “Never has a conflict played out before our eyes quite like what we’ve seen over

russia invades Ukraine ■ On Thursday, Russia began its assault on Ukraine with a series of missile strikes, reported CNN. ■ Early Friday, Ukraine’s capital was hit by a cruise or ballistic missiles, according to CNN. ■ As of Saturday, Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., said 198 Ukrainians have died, including three children, and 1,115 have been injured since the first attack. ■ On Saturday, the U. S., European Union and the United Kingdom agreed to block “selected” Russian banks from SWIFT abs to impose what they called “restrictive measures” on Russia’s central bank. ■ The French navy intercepted the Russian cargo ship, ‘Baltic Leader,’ that was heading from Rouen, France to St Petersburg, Russia, in the English Channel on Saturday, BBC reported. the past few days where average everyday Ukrainians have rose up to take courageous control of their destiny,” Zeldin said. “We want the people of Ukraine to know, that here in Nassau County, we are behind you,” Blakeman said. “And it is also a message to our president that weakness invites danger and now is the time for America to be strong and to enact further sanctions.

Carrié Solages is running for Congress

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

After Kathleen Rice said she would not seek re-election, last month, three Democrats have now announced they are running for the 4th Congressional District seat that covers central and southern Nassau County. Last week, County Legislator Siela Bynoe and former Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen announced their candidacies; now County Legislator Carrié Solages has thrown his hat into the ring. He is expected to officially announce on Tuesday. Solages, 42, an attor ney, has served as a county legislator since 2012 and represents the 3rd Legislative District, which comprises Elmont, Valley Stream, south Floral Park, Inwood and parts of Lawrence and North Woodmere. He lives in Lawrence. “I have great support,” he said and “based on my record and community service,” Solages expects to differentiate himself from his oppo-

nents he will be facing in the June 28 primary. He said he thinks that people are tired of representatives who just go to Washington to be part of what Solages called “the side show.” He said he wants to be a leader and get things done, noting that he wants to solve the Nassau County property assessment issue through a federal mandate. In his years as a county lawmakers, Solages has represented his diverse constituency with verve from overseeing the rapid deployment of Covid testing sites for residents regardless of their insurance or immigration status to serving as the watch dog to protect resident interests during major projects such as the Belmont Arena and Elmont Long Island Rail Road station. He has been a consistent, strong advocate for safer roads, especially in Elmont and pushed for the rebuilt marina and an overhaul of the soccer field at Inwood Park. The only stain on Solages is a 2017 arrest after a domestic squabble was resolved by non-criminal charges.

Both Bynoe and Gillen think they are qualified to represent the congressional district. “I am proud to announce I am running for Congress to represent the values, hopes and dreams of the extraordinary people of Nassau County’s CD-4,” Bynoe posted on Facebook. “Please join me in this grassroots campaign to make sure our community has the representation in Congress we deserve.” “As the mother of four kids, I’m running for Congress because we need a Representative who rolls up her sleeves to get things done for people back home,” Laura Gillen said in a prepared statement. “As town supervisor, I found ways to work across the aisle and deliver results, while never compromising my principles. In Congress, I’ll work to help Nassau’s middle-class families by reinstating the SALT tax deduction, defending a woman’s right to choose, and tackling tough issues like gun violence, climate change, and ensuring our national security.”

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NaSSau CouNtY LEgiSLatoR Carrié Solages has thrown his hat into the ring for the 4th Congressional District seat.

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Friday, March 4

Serene sunset Join Pinots Palette at 2557 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow to paint from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. This class is $42 per person. To register visit https://www. pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/events.

Easy exercise Join the East Meadow Public Library for virtual easy exercise at 10 a.m. Ann Rothman will lead this class. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the class. To register visit https://eastmeadow.info/.

Thursday, Mar. 10 Chess club

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Chess club meets from 1 to 4 p.m. every Thursday at the East Meadow Public Library in the conference room in the lower level.

Il Divo will be playing at the Westbury Theatre at 960 Brush Hollow Rd., in Westbury at 8 p.m. This performance will be played in the half round. The stage will not rotate. This performance will be played to sections B, C, D, E, F and G. Sections B and G are side possible obstructed view. No seat in the Theatre is more than sixty feet from the stage. Everyone needs a ticket regardless of age. For tickets visit https:// www.thetheatreatwestbury.com/ EventDetail?tmeventid=k7vGFpMeuUai&offerid=0.

Saturday, March 5 Mixology class Exotic Mixers of East Meadow at 206 East Meadow Ave., in East Meadow is having a mixology class from 7 to 11 p.m. Guests will enjoy a four hour instructor led class and make four rounds of the most popular cocktails. For tickets visit https://www.eventbrite. com/e/exotic-mixers-cocktail-designclass-tickets-274409435007.

Sunday, March 6 Sunday divine liturgy The Divine Liturgy is celebrated every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church at 369 Green Ave., in East Meadow. Those interested in the church’s ancient traditions and liturgical life welcome. Coffee hour follows. For further info email htocem@ gmail.com.

Sunday concert Join the East Meadow Library for a Sunday concert with the group Gathering Time. For over a decade, Long

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Virtual chair yoga

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Virtual book talk

Originally introduced to the fitness world as a modified version of Hatha yoga for individuals with health implications and for those of a certain age. Improving flexibility, relieving cramps and stiffness, and creating a happy mental state are a few benefits that chair yoga can provide for us. Join the East Meadow Public Library virtually for this event at 4 p.m. Register at www. eastmeadow.info.

There will be a virtual book talk on Zoom for the book “The Name Jar” by Yangsook Choi on March 8 at 7 p.m. The link to the Zoom is https://bit.ly/3H80eP3. Anyone can pick up the book at the East Meadow Public Library or find it on Sora. Island-based folk-rock/Americana/AAA trio Stuart Markus, Hillary Foxsong, and Gerry McKeveny have toured both in the US and internationally. They mix new interpretations of both ‘60s and ‘70s classics and old traditional tunes with their strong original songs. The program can either be watched in person at 2 p.m. in the community room or online. To register visit eastmeadow.info.

Bday brunch bash Jay of the Keep in Mind podcast will be having a birthday brunch bash at NK Lounge and Restaurant at 2367 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow from 12 to 3 p.m. Enjoy musical entertainment, brunch and 90 minute bottomless brunch drinks. For tickets visit https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/jay-of-keep-inmind-podcasts-b-day-brunch-bashtickets-265714337737.

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Wednesday, Mar. 9

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The East Meadow Kiwanis will be collecting food at McVey Elementary School for those in need. Stop by to donate whatever you can.

Tuesday, March 8 Kiwanis meeting The East Meadow Kiwanis will be meeting at Grand Stage Diner at 2490 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow at 7:15 p.m. For more information, contact club president Jennifer Reinhardt at (516) 351-9891.

Join the East Meadow Public Library for game day starting at 11:30 a.m.. There will be tables set up in the makers space downstairs.

Blood drive Legislator Tom McKevitt is sponsoring a blood drive to address the emergency shortage of supply on Long Island from 1 to 7 p.m. Call the library to make an appointment.

HaVInG an EVEnt? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to mwilson@liherald.com

Celtic Thunder will be singing at the NYCB Theatre in Westbury on March 13. Check out public ice skating sessions at the Northwell Health Ice Center. There will be a blood drive at the East Meadow Public Library on Mar. 9 from 1 to 7 p.m. The Runner in Red 5k will be taking place Mar. 19 at Eisenhower Park. There will be a memorial 4 mile race to Feed Long Island on March 13 in Eisenhower Park.

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Soriano is Clarke’s first state champion By ANDREW COEN sports@liherald.com

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ClARkE’s JORDAN sORiANO, top, defeated Caleb Sweet from South Seneca, by a 10-1 major decision last Saturday evening to win the NYS Division 2 138-pound title. he wouldn’t have been able to reach that goal.” Leonard said Soriano’s brother, Justin, was instrumental in his success as a workout partner. Justin Soriano (189 pounds) and Jack Forte (160), both juniors, earned All State honors by placing third. Senior John Bower (145), freshman Justin Gonzalez (152) and seventh-grader William Grassini (102 pounds) also earned trips to the states. Clarke finished fifth in the states with 67 points out of 121 schools who entered the Division II championships. Jordan Soriano, who finished his senior year at 37-1,

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will compete on the collegiate level next year at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Winning Clarke’s first state championship was a special way to cap Soriano’s high school career and Leonard hopes it lays the foundation for more Rams’ success on the mats. “He showed us, the coaches and everybody at Clarke that anything is possible through hard work and persistence,” said Leonard, who has led the program for the past 19 years. “Hopefully we can build off this to keep getting state champs and guys to work hard like he did.”

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Clarke’s Jordan Soriano culminated his high school wrestling career as a champion and made history in the process. Sorinao delivered Clarke its first state wrestling title in program history with a dominating 10-1 win last Saturday in the 138-pound finals in the New York State Championships against Caleb Sweet of South Seneca. The triumph on the mats at the MVP Arena in Albany capped an emotional five-year career filled where he battled through injuries and a pandemic. “I feel like this has been a long time coming,” Soriano said. “I have been waiting for this moment for a long time and it was finally my time to shine.” In the championship match, Soriano took control early with an earthly takedown and led 5-0 after the first period. His 6-2 semifinal bout was not decided until the final moments though when a late takedown broke a 2-2 tie. Reaching the top of the podium as a senior was achieved in Soriano’s third appearance at the state championships and first since placing fifth in 2020 just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic forced shutdowns. The 2021 season did not include any postseason tournaments and he missed out on competing in 2019 due to a broken arm one year after finishing sixth as an eighth grader. With no official championships to compete for last year, Soriano still prepared himself for the big stage by competing in the Journeymen State Championship, which was considered an unofficial state tournament. He took part in the 2021 NHSCA Junior Nationals, where he placed third. “Every step was another step toward getting the official state championship,” Clarke head coach Mike Leonard said. “Without him participating in either one of them

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Parents react positively to news on masks continued from front page Kenneth Card responded to Hochul’s announcement and announced to parents that masks will be optional starting March 2. “This, we believe, marks an end to a challenging time for our district and we thank our school community for your cooperation and patience as we work through the next two days of school and the transition to mask optional,” Card said on the phone call to parents. Using a series of large diagrams, during her announcement Hochul demonstrated her use of positivity rates, hospitalizations, CDC guidance, and consultations with “the educational community, whose voices needed to be heard – our commissioner of education, our parents, our PTAs, our school superintendents, our school administrators, and our school unions,” in the process of deciding whether or not to require masks. From a high of a seven-day average of 14,167 positive pediatric Covid cases as of Jan. 10, with 38 children hospitalized, the numbers have dropped steadily for 48 days. Now, across the state, the seven-day average of pediatric cases is 226, and only 7 children are hospitalized with Covid. Hochul said the current numbers represent “our lowest point in pediatric cases since July of 2021, and that was before the school year started. … We are in a much, much better place.” The improved statistics were con-

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rates, our hospitalizations, our strong vaccination rates, and the CDC guidance,” said Hochul, “my friends, the day has come.” Phyllis Hall, a parent of children in East Meadow Schools reacted positively to the change. “As a parent, this is all I ever wanted,” Hall said of parental choice in the matter of masks. “If you’re uncomfortable wear a mask and if you are comfortable don’t wear one.” Natalie Valdes, a parent of a fourthgrader, was happy to hear this news as

well. “We just moved back from Florida where there has not been a mandate,” Valdes said. “I am happy there is not one here for my son.” In response to Hochul’s announcement, County Executive Bruce Blakeman said, “While I believe the governor’s decision to end her unconstitutional mandate is too little too late, I am happy that parents will soon have the power to decide what is best for their kids, and our students will finally be able to return to normal and see the smiling faces of their friends again.”

Ice Center partners with Jovia credit union provide the youth of Long Island with as many opportunities to get involved in their communities, especially now post Covid. “This partnership stood out because we’re committed to providing opportunities like this for the youth,” she said. “It’s important to help them better themselves and focus on their wellness and self-confidence.” Michael Wiener, a parent from Oceanside whose son Logan, 9, plays hockey at the Center, said that he has seen Jovia representatives there and had some informative conversations with them. “They were very knowledgeable and very friendly,” Wiener said. “It seems like a natural partnership because nowadays a lot of hockey players have sponsorships from banks and since this is the official place of the Islanders it just makes sense.” As much as the Center is benefitting, Jovia benefits too when people sign up for their services. The cleanliness and the great coaches are what drew Wiener to sign up his son to play hockey at Northwell Health Ice Center. Logan learned how to skate at the Center, took one-on-one hockey lessons, participated in the house league and is now in the peewee hockey team. Northwell Health Ice Center is not only a place to ice skate but it is the official practice facility of the New York Islanders. It is also home to many youth

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Northwell health Ice Center, in Eisenhower Park, has formed a partnership with Jovia Financial Credit Union to promote financial literacy and support youth sports. travel hockey programs such as the Police Athletic League Junior Islanders, Girl’s Elite Hockey Program, and Long Island Mavericks as well as public and private local high school varsity hockey teams, Farmingdale State Men’s Hockey, Long Island University, Men & Women’s Hockey program and many adult hockey

leagues. The Center is approximately 175,000 square feet in size and offers hockey development classes, hockey skills and skating clinics, ice skating classes, freestyle figure skating sessions and public skating sessions. The state-of-the-art facility also offers

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Revving up the electric Rivian truck By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com

I’ve never driven a truck, never mind an electric truck – that is, until Rivian Automotive drove its truck, the world’s first electric pickup, to the Herald’s office in Garden City on Feb. 23, as they stump for a proposed New York state measure that could increase sales. The truck exterior of the vehicle looked smooth, shiny and futuristic, with retractable handles and cylindrical headlights. The vegan leather interior was accompanied with a new-car smell and looked alike to many trucks – except for its electric dashboard, where the gas gauge was replaced with a battery percentage, and it’s large, 15.6 inch touchscreen, where features like the backup camera picture were displayed clearer than ever. Electric vehicles could be the new norm sooner than later, as State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the 9th Senatorial District, and State Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) are sponsoring a bill that will make EVs more available in the state. In 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced finalized contracts for the state’s largest renewable energy and transmission project in 50 years, which included goals to derive 70 percent of state electricity from renewable resources by 2030. The project plans to put more EVs on

the road – in 2014, then Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed 850,000 by 2025 and two million by 2030 – as gas-powered transportation accounts for 30 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Farmingdale, Executive Director Adrienne Esposito. Switching to electric vehicles will reduce air pollution significantly. “Cars are mobile polluting machines,” Esposito said. “They produce carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, all of which pollute our air, cause an increase in asthma, heart disease and respiratory ailments. Transitioning to electric cars will be good for the earth and good for our health.” Right now, New York has achieved only 3 percent of Cuomo’s goal. This is because in 2014, a state law prohibiting the direct sale of EVs from manufacturers, specifically Tesla at the time, was passed after lobbying efforts by car dealers, banded together as the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association. Nineteen states have no cap on the number of direct-sales locations, but New York has capped direct-sales locations at five Tesla locations. Kaminsky told the Herald that E.V. manufacturers such as the Rivian should be allowed to sell its vehicles directly to the public. Removing the state direct-sales location cap could accelerate the process of New York reaching its 2030 environmental goals.

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Currently, if New Yorkers want to buy an EV. that is not a Tesla, they must go through other states, such as California, Massachusetts, Colorado and Florida, which allow EV manufacturers to directly sell and open dealerships in its state. New York still restricts sales from companies like Rivian, Tesla and Lucid, but now, with more EVs entering the market, overwhelming feedback from environmental groups statewide, and a moredeveloped vision for a sustainable future, the state is considering legislation that would remove the restriction and increase the cap on direct sales of E.V.s.

The Automobile Dealers Association is pushing back on the legislation. “This is not about the environment or an ‘old fashioned’ group stuck in its ways,” the group’s communications person Nick Crispe said in an email. “This is about livelihoods and good paying jobs with healthcare and benefits in every community on Long Island with a network to provide electric vehicles to everyone who wants one. We are thrilled an excited by electrics and welcome the companies and their amazing vehicles but just ask that they play by the same rules.”

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What happened at the BOE meeting? “Ultimately we’re going to be serving more children,” Pizzo said. “...These changes, these increases are driven by The East Meadow Board of Education really what is a great thing– that’s more meeting had their meeting virtually on children coming and being successful Feb. 15 after the Feb. 8 meeting didn’t go coming through our schools.” as planned. The next item on the agenda was The first item on the agenda to be addressing the McVey Elementary School addressed was the rough draft of the 2022- spacing challenges. Card said that all 23 school year calendar. Kenneth Card, options are still in the development prothe superintendent of the East Meadow cess. The full presentation can be found School District said that the calendar will on the East Meadow board of education be tight, with 179 student website. days and 181 teacher days. Card said that McVey said “The administration will that the enrollment is still bring those things to the below district class size board before we make any guidelines. “That’s really decisions,” Card said at the i m p o r t a n t , ” C a rd s a i d . meeting referring to any “Because there’s a difference changes to the calendar. “To between overcrowding and ensure that we’re able to maxspace challenges.” imize the number of days for Anthony Russo, assistant students to be in school and superintendent for personnel also ensure that the holidays and administration talked that are on the calendar are about enrollment numbers fully observed by our school for McVey and the entire discommunity.” trict. “What we find for the Following this discussion, district-wide class size averPatrick Pizzo, assistant superages as well as for McVey intendent for business and they clearly are within the finance, gave the second budguidelines,” Russo said. get presentation covering Some short term plans disinformation regarding board cussed were: relocating the of education expenses and CAPE summer program to administration and transporW.T. Clarke Middle School, tation expenses. finding a new location for the While the presentation McVey food pantry, returning cannot be found on the East students to the cafeteria for Meadow board of education lunch so that classrooms can website, it can be viewed in be freed up for additional supthe YouTube video of the Feb. port services, reassigning a 15 meeting. One important section of pre-kindergarten item of the budget is that the to another building until long tax levy estimated limit is Patrick Pizzo term plans are achieved, relo$146,785, 281 which is a cating SCOPE nursery pro$1,539,135 increase over the Assistant gram from Bowling Green 2021-22 levy. A tax levy is a Superintendent, Elementary School to the basis for determining the tax East Meadow Salisbury Center to accomrate for each town or village modate the pre-kindergarten School District that makes up a school dissection that would be moved trict. One factor that causes from McVey to Bowling this increase in inflation, said Pizzo. Green and adding an additional storage Other non-discretionary costs that container at McVey. were covered included salary and contracLong-term plans discussed included: tual obligations, pension contributions, reviewing space at other buildings to insurance premiums, debt service, determine if redistricting is a viable BOCES administration and capital charg- option, beginning planning for expansion es, utilities and special education. at McVey either through portable buildPizzo pointed out that the budget cost ings or classroom additions to the current drivers included salary, stipend, step structure. increases across units, transportation Lastly, there was a second reading of costs, increases in pension contributions, policy 1530 regarding smoking, vaping an integrated co-taught initiative, com- and other tobacco use on school premises. puter technologies and network mainteThe next board of education meeting nance and utility costs which all ultimate- will be on March 9. ly stem from the rise of enrollment.

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A. You’re not necessarily barking up the wrong tree to make an offer on a house like this, but it does show the age of the home. When people say, “They don’t build houses like they used to,” I usually think, thank goodness. What you’re seeing was common through the 1920s, when locust trees, known for their resistance onte eeper to decay and insects, were used as support columns. These trees have been used for structural support for many centuries. Their most well known use was for supporting the city of Venice when the swamp-dwelling inhabitants, who lived on small islands, stabilized and built the city. Using locust posts, they could conduct their marine merchant trade while protecting themselves from the regularly invading Goths, preparing for attacks by seeing them from the north from 20 miles away, long before an attack could take place. The Venetians rammed locust posts deep into the seabed and supported those beautiful Renaissance structures on them. In the James Bond film “Casino Royale,” there is an intense fight scene that takes place in a building under extensive renovation. At the end of the scene, the building, which actually was having the locust posts retrofitted, like most of Venice, collapses into the watery depths. From an architect’s perspective, knowing about the structural changes underway, this was very interesting as well as dramatic. If the locust posts aren’t split and cracked but are smooth and semi-straight, they should be fine to continue to do their job. If you see signs of weakness or are suspicious, contact a licensed architect or engineer who has experience with these conditions for a closer look. If you decide that the columns need changing, then the job requires building temporary walls in the basement on either side of the main beam to support the whole structure of the home before the columns are removed. Correctly calculated concrete foundations, called footings, will need to be installed by digging up the concrete floor where forms are set and the footings are placed. Whether steel or wood columns are installed, the anchors for them need to be properly placed and attached. The columns, when installed, should be connected, at the top and the bottom, to the footing and to the beam. This isn’t a small job, and requires an experienced company that protects the area from dust before cutting the concrete, orders the right strength of cement for placement in the formwork and knows what connectors to install top and bottom. Good luck!

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y heart bleeds for the people of Ukraine, an emerging democracy pulled between West and East, a former Soviet republic that only gained its independence from the USSR in August 1991, amid the sudden and precipitous collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Now Ukraine’s freedom is once again in jeopardy because of a war that it didn’t start. I was living in Eastern Europe in August 1991, serving in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, a six-hour drive south of Ukraine Scott along Romania’s Black Sea coast. I BRINtoN fell in love and married in Bulgaria on Nov. 9, 1991, the second anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was born and raised on Long Island, and live here now, but Eastern Europe became an adopted homeland. Many Long Islanders have ties to Eastern Europe, including close to 13,000 people of Ukrainian descent, according to census data. We can see those ties in the Eastern Orthodox churches that dot the Island — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Uniondale, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow and St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church in Sea Cliff, among others.

Eastern Europe is a conglomeration of ancient cultures, at once set in their ways but ever morphing in response to the push and pull of powerful nations — historically, Russia and Germany. Eastern Europeans are survivors. Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion, an act of war in violation of international law. The price that Ukrainians will pay for the takeover, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will be terrible, though. The impact will be felt by people across Eastern Europe. Most Americans can’t understand the fear of the old Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them during the Iron Curtain era (1945–91). They risked life and limb to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty. There was an electric unity among people across Eastern Europe in those heady days. They were afraid, but they stood in defiance of a nation that had for more than four decades tried to crush their independent spirit, their freedom of thought and religion, their very way of life. If Bulgaria had lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, as was entirely possible in the early 1990s, oldschool apparatchiks might have “cleansed” Bulgaria of any American “sympathiz-

ers.” In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me could have been in grave danger of just disappearing. This was not a wild conspiracy theory. It was a valid fear based on years of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Now, a little more than 30 years after the fall of communism, Putin, a former KGB foreign intelligence officer, threatens once again to upend stability in Eastern Europe, a region that has, through the ages, been shattered by war, including two World Wars. And, once again, Eastern Europeans fear for their future. In the U.S., war in Ukraine is far away. The images of a Stalinesque housing complex ripped apart by Russian artillery fire, repeated many times on American and European TV news networks in the first days of the war, are perceived very differently across Eastern Europe than they are here. The expansive structure, fortified by plain cement walls, could have been most anywhere in Eastern Europe. Such an attack sends a terrifying signal to people across the region — you could be next — even if the thought is a distant one. It is highly unlikely that Putin would roll tanks beyond Ukraine’s borders into NATO-allied nations, military analysts tell us. But before the war, most of them appeared uncertain that he would invade

he census counts close to 13,000 area residents who are of Ukrainian descent.

Ukraine, despite President Biden’s warnings to the contrary. In recent weeks the U.S. has sent some 14,000 troops to Germany and Eastern Europe to shore up the defenses of NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic states, bringing the total number of American troops in Europe to nearly 100,000, according to The New York Times. Thus, once again, we see a dividing line drawn between superpowers in Eastern Europe. My wife and I were listening to Bulgarian National Radio Friday night, wanting to hear how Bulgaria, a NATO ally that condemned the invasion, was reacting. The news centered on two communities — hundreds of Bulgarian expatriates living in Ukraine (who needed to be evacuated) and hundreds of Ukrainian expats living in Bulgaria (many of whom planned to drive through Romania to meet refugees fleeing Ukraine and bring them to safety). Their route would become a “humanitarian corridor.” With U.S. troops moving within firing range of invading Russian forces, and tens of thousands of war refugees fleeing across Eastern Europe, we, as Americans, must pay close attention to this conflict and do all we can to shore up Ukraine, a fledgling democracy. Scott Brinton is a special assistant professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and editor and adviser to The Long Island Advocate, a student online publication. He is a former executive editor of the Heralds.

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either Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof,” the play was set in 1905 czarist Russia in the Pale of Settlement, the lands of Eastern Europe, including what became Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands of Jews lived under the boot of the Russian Cossacks. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million Jews lived in what is now Ukraine on the eve of World War II, according to a story in The Forward last RANDI week. “Some one KREISS million of those Jews were killed in the Holocaust,” the newspaper reported, “but a 1989 census estimated that close to half a million still lived in Ukraine in 1989, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.” The story went on to say that under Soviet rule, Jews were persecuted and denied the right to emigrate, forced to hide much of their religious practice in a society “rife with anti-Semitism.” Last week, once again, with Russian tanks crossing the border, the dwindling

Jewish population was on the run. In a bizarre and nonsensical statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the invasion of Ukraine would remove Nazi influences, ignoring the fact that the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. The story of the Jewish community in Ukraine today is a minor footnote to the greater story of a nation beaten into submission by a dictator on the march. The footnote, however, resonates with me, because many of my relatives fled Ukraine and came to America in the years before World War I. My grandfather Morris Brownstein, born in 1897, left Ukraine in 1912 on the SS Zeeland. We don’t know how he managed to travel from Russia to Antwerp, but he boarded a ship in Belgium for the long crossing. He was 15 years old, and he was alone. What we do know is that he made his way to Brownsville, Brooklyn, became a tailor’s apprentice and found and married Anna, a second cousin. In 1924 he applied for naturalization, was granted citizenship and was as proud of being a “yankee” as anyone who ever escaped oppression and found freedom on our shores.

For his first decade in America, Morris lived in a tenement in Brownsville, probably without running water, possibly with dozens of other new arrivals. According to Wikipedia, Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s. An estimated 25,000 people lived there by 1900. In the early 20th century, the majority of Brownsville’s residents were immigrants. By 1920, when Morris was living there, more than 80,000 of the area’s 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville was known as “Little Jerusalem.” For decades, the Ukraine he left behind was a sovereign nation, pulled between the magnetic poles of the West and Russia. Historically, it has always been an uneasy homeland for Jewish people, from ancient persecutions to the pogroms of the 20th century. It seems unlikely that the nation has any chance of surviving the Russian invasion. I believe that if a 15-year-old boy can travel across Europe, book passage on a ship and make a new beginning in a new world, then those of us who have reaped America’s bounty must stand with the Ukrainians in their resistance to occupation in any way we can.

n 1912, Morris Brownstein, my grandfather, left Ukraine on the SS Zeeland.

We do not know yet what will be asked of us. When Grandpa Morris signed his naturalization papers, he pledged his heart and soul to the United States of America. He was a good citizen, a patriotic American, grateful to this country for blessings he never could have imagined as a child in war-torn Ukraine. The Forward added another footnote to last week’s invasion. According to Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, his staff was still looking into moving the 250 children from the three orphanages they run in Ukraine westward, away from the Russian border. His last message was that the effort was too late, and they were “hunkered down.” Of all the what-ifs we ponder in our lives, one of the most intriguing is what our lives would look like if our parents and grandparents and great-grands hadn’t left their homes and all that they knew of the world to risk dangerous ocean passages to begin new lives, learn new work and absorb new customs in a new land. The people of Ukraine will suffer mightily in the coming days and weeks, as Russia tramples their dreams of freedom. I think of the 15-year-old from Ukraine who made that harrowing trip 110 years ago, and I am so grateful. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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hese days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water. Dresses were required in Nassau County schools until 1970, when administrators finally allowed girls to wear pantsuits. It was a seemingly small change by today’s standards, but every single one mattered in the movement we celebrate every March as Women’s History Month. It was President Jimmy Carter who, in 1980, issued a presidential proclamation creating what was then National Women’s History Week. “Too often, women were unsung, and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed,” Carter said. “But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well.” By then, women were claiming their place. They were already earning more bachelor’s degrees than men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and roughly half of the master’s degrees. Four decades later, in the red-hot fields of science and engineering, women still trail men in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, according to the National Science Foundation. And women still earn just 84 cents of every dollar a man makes, according to a 2020 Pew Research study.

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letters Senator Brooks is doing great work To the Editor: Kudos to State Senator John Brooks and his staff for their work on trying to rein in the high cost of living on Long Island. Brooks has been a leader in the fight for affordable municipal water. His support for a legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority will open the door to reduced electric rates as well. If legislation creating the commission is passed, it will set out a roadmap for the “municipalization” of the electrical system. With full municipal ownership, electricity would be managed on a nonprofit basis, much like public water and public libraries. This is no far-fetched idea. Freeport and Rockville Centre have municipally operated power systems with rates 40 percent less than PSEG. If we take the profits out, electric rates will fall. Thank you, Senator Brooks. FRED HARRISON L.I. Food & Water Watch Merrick

But they have made steady, if sometimes agonizingly slow, progress. In the century since women finally earned the right to vote, they have become professionals, more financially independent, and more visible as business leaders. And women have worked their way into the leadership positions they have long deserved. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Three years later, Geraldine Ferraro became the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. Jeannette Rankin of Minnesota might have been the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, but Shirley Chisholm broke yet another notable glass ceiling in 1969, becoming the first Black woman sent to Washington. And then, of course, Kamala Harris finally put a woman one step away from the Oval Office, a feat that can be topped only by whoever eventually becomes our first female president. It seemed only logical for Congress to expand the week first set aside by Carter into something more substantial, although Capitol Hill needed a little push. Thanks to the efforts of the National Women’s History Project — a nonprofit promoting “multicultural women’s history awareness” — Congress decreed the first Women’s History Month in 1987, issuing similar proclamations each year until 1995, when Bill Clinton started the tradition of simply

having presidents issue the proclamations on their own. The last girls who were compelled to wear dresses to school would be grandparents now. Some — especially of the younger generations, who never knew differently — might even take for granted a lot of what women have achieved. But as far as they have come, there’s still a long way to go. And to finally achieve full equality, women will depend on one another to pave the way, just as the female trailblazers of the past have done — Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Susan Ahn Cuddy, Billie Holiday, Rosalind Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Richardson. Don’t recognize a name? Then Women’s History Month is the perfect time to look it up and learn more about her. Three cheers for the women who are the leaders of our nation. Our inventors. Our entrepreneurs. Those who tend to our health, and fight our battles in court. And those whose names aren’t widely known — especially those who gave birth to us, raised us, and taught us right from wrong, shaping us into the people we are today. These women, in particular, may sometimes be taken for granted, but their contributions must never be forgotten. They make their own history, every day, in the families that ensure our society remains healthy and strong.

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n addition to the world’s oldest (continuous since 1762) and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade up 5th Avenue in Manhattan on March 17, dozens of Long Island communities are looking forward to their local parades, including Mineola and Bethpage on March 6, Huntington on March 13, Rockville Centre on March 19, Glen Cove and Wantagh on March 20, and Bayside on March 26. New York state has more than 50 parades — not including other kinds of St. Patrick’s celebrations — in March. These JoHn will all be well by marcho’ConneLL attended ers and spectators, since most parades are returning after two years of Covid-caused hiatus. There are thousands of St. Patrick’s parades throughout the country, many thousands around the world, from Dublin to Tokyo. Principally a chance for Irish-Americans to show their ethnic pride, our local family-oriented events are welcome signs of spring, reasons to rejoice in the pandemically safer outdoors and great opportunities for downtown businesses, with so many people lining the streets. I’ve been watching or marching in such

wonderful events in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, for most of my long life. Sciatica and other maladies, however, have recently removed me from the line of march and sent me to the sidelines to cheer on my friends and fellow members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. While parades are fun, they say little about the important role Irish-Americans have played in the past and present of our country. I wish people knew more about the magnificent contributions Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans have made to the formation and preservation of the United States, and its ongoing exceptionalism. Science, government, education, the labor movement, the military, civil rights, justice, policing, the arts, music and literature, industry, business, journalism and many other fields would be profoundly the less but for what Irish-Americans have done and continue to do. March is Irish-American Heritage Month, a good time for all of us to learn about or remember some of the people who have made America great. Six of the last seven presidents — and half of all American chief executives — were of Irish ancestry, including Biden, Reagan, Kennedy, Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.

t's a list that goes on an on, in every field of endeavor from politics to the arts.

Letters Does Hochul have the right priorities? To the Editor: Replacement Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed legislation allowing farmers to grow marijuana in New York. That appears to be her priority over halting crime and rampant subway attacks. By permitting this bill, as well as an online betting bill, we are encouraging a generation of misfits. Is this how we develop the future leaders of our country? Perhaps our leaders in Albany, who passed the “no bail bill,” have been smoking this stuff just to test its efficacy. PAT KING Merrick

Conservatives, and individualism To the Editor: I’m a 72-year-old who already has one foot in the grave — a 1968 graduate of Mepham High School in Bell-

More than 25 percent of George Washington’s Revolutionary Army comprised Irish-Americans. Of the country that provided him with such brave soldiers, Washington said, “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.” A hero of that war, Commodore John Barry, of Ireland, was the holder of the first commission in the new United States Navy. Two hundred fifty-seven recipients of the Medal of Honor were born in Ireland. Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor for separate actions, and would have been given a third but for the fact that he already had two. Walt Disney, actor and dancer Gene Kelly, dancer Michael Flatley, playwright Eugene O’Neill and authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Malachy McCourt were/ are Irish-Americans. Bruce Springsteen is of partial Irish ancestry. John Ford has the most Academy Awards for best director, at four. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford had Ireland’s blood in his veins. The first woman to command a NASA space mission was Astronaut Col. Eileen Collins, an Irish-American. The first American woman to walk in space was

the Irish-American Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. Edward J. Flanagan was born in a wee stone cottage in County Roscommon, Ireland. He would become the Father Flanagan of Boys Town, in Omaha, Neb., and a beloved activist on behalf of children. Mary Harris, a.k.a. Mother Jones, was an advocate for child labor laws. Tough Kerryman Michael J. Quill was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union. The list of Irish America’s contributors to the greatness of our nation goes on and on. The symbols of Irish America aren’t the stereotypical leprechauns, green beer, silly plastic hats and fake freckles; Irish America’s significance is better found in Washington’s words, the names of Irish Brigade troops on Gettysburg’s gravestones, Boys Town, NASA, the American labor movement and the Medal of Honor rolls. All Americans should celebrate IrishAmerican Heritage Month. Educators should teach about the heroic influence Irish-Americans have had. Librarians should create displays. Parents should show their children how deserving IrishAmericans are of honor. Many of the notable American heroes mentioned above have surely earned their own classroom lessons, from grade school to college. I wish all Herald readers and staff a happy St. Patrick’s Day! John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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more, and a 1972 graduate of Hofstra University — but I’m really worried about what the future will be like in our society. Since 1980, I’ve watched the growth of a cold-hearted, survival-of-the-fittest Social Darwinist mentality among many Republicans in the conservative news media, on talk shows, in think tanks and policy institutes, and especially in Congress. More and more of these folks want to abolish every single federal government social program that helps the working class and middle class. I don’t think most Americans are aware of this. These people are now much more conservative than our Republican voters. What also scares the dickens out of me is the growth of an over-thetop, extreme hyper-individualism and libertarianism, in which so many of us believe that we have no responsibilities to one another, and only a concern for me-me-me and what I want to do. And we smugly and defiantly call this selfish and self-absorbed narcissism “personal choice.” STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester

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