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Success in the days of Covid Freeport students piled up achievements during pandemic By REINE BEthANY rbethany@liherald.com
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mEmBERs oF FREEPoRt High School’s class of 2021 were all smiles after receiving their diplomas during the school’s 128th commencement on June 18. More than 500 graduates took part in a majestic graduation ceremony in Hofstra University’s James M. Shuart stadium.
Students, teachers, administrators and the Board of Education of Freeport Public Schools confronted the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic over the past 15 months and, by all accounts, overcame them. Students lost months of sports, socializing and in-class learning. Yet they and their teachers mastered the technology required to keep up with c o u r s ewo rk , a n d e a r n e d national recognition for their accomplishments.
“It was the entire school community of students, parents and staff coming together,” district Superintendent Dr. K i s h o r e Ku n c h a m s a i d , “ensuring the developing of our kids in all respects.” At the annual Superintendent’s Conference Day last Sept. 1, held remotely due to the pandemic, late school board President Ernest J. Kight welcomed administrators, teachers and school staff, saying, “As our students return, we will socially, emotionally and educationally carry out our misContinued on page 9
Freeport students’ success linked to summer reading By REINE BEthANY rbethany@liherald.com
Every schoolteacher knows how critical reading is to a successful education, and at the same time, how intensive the work of learning to read can be. The website #FreeportReads fosters children’s reading in two major ways: by helping children enjoy their reading experiences, and by helping their parents understand their role in the learn-to-read process. “We launched #Freeport Reads as a community literacy initiative,” said Gloria Engel, the district’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruc-
tion. “A very important part of students’ academic achievement is linked to the number of books they have in their home before they even come to school.” For parents who may have trouble building a home library, the teachers who administer #FreeportReads have a multipronged solution. They distribute books free, they educate parents using the #FreeportReads website, and they provide material in both English and Spanish. “One of our major goals is to get books in the hands of our kids to keep at home in their home libraries, as well as a variety of titles that they can be
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Assistant superintendent reading,” Engel said. She and her colleagues want to “separate reading from being associated so much with schoolwork, and just make it something fun and exciting for the kids.” The book distribution hap-
pens in a number of ways. Parents and children can freely take books from house-shaped boxes mounted on poles outside several of the elementary schools. Families may keep the books, or bring them back and take another — or even exchange them for books they don’t need anymore. Another method is having a table full of books at community
events like the annual Peace Walk. When all events went virtual at the start of the school year, Engel, Director of English Language Arts Mary LaMotta and others got creative. Several times throughout the school year, when students went to get the grab-and-go lunches supplied by the district, the book table Continued on page 4
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MeMBeRs of the Freeport School District Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kishore Kuncham posed with the Freeport High School’s Class of 2021 valedictorian Shyann Gardner (seated, right) and salutatorian Mia Sorrentino (seated, left) .
Freeport schools’ joyful closing ceremonies By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com)
This year, Freeport’s end-ofschool ceremonies naturally got compared to those that capped the 2020-2021 school season. The pandemic caused last year’s ceremonies to fall short of a jubilee. They were characterized by social distancing and uncertainty about where the COVID-19 pandemic was headed. Freeport High School’s graduation ceremony was held drive-in movie style. Students sat with their families in their separate cars in the parking lot of Nassau Coliseum, watching individual prerecordings of each student receiving a diploma while their names were called out over a Coliseum loudspeaker. In the other Freeport schools, the 2020 moving-up ceremonies – kindergarten to first grade, fourth to fifth grade, sixth to seventh grade, and eighth to ninth grade – were similarly handled like driveby parades. Administrative and staff year’s-end events were completely virtual. The in-person presence of everyone attending this year’s ceremonies posed a joyful contrast. Masks still covered faces (except for some vaccinated persons), social distance was incorporated into seating, and the moving-up ceremonies all occurred outdoors. But at least people were together.
“The key to all of this is hope,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kishore Kuncham. “With the COVID cases so low in our region, the arrival of the vaccination, and the vaccination reaching herd immunity – it’s a promise of hope for our youngsters and our families. These events of coming together give a sense of normalcy as we move forward into summer and beyond.”
fReepoRt BoaRd of Education accepted a $30,000 donation from the Freeport Educational Foundation at the June 9 meeting. Standing from left to right were Freeport Board of Education trustees Mr. Ronald Ellerbe and Ms. Gabriela Castillo, Freeport Board President Vilma I. Lancaster, Freeport Educational Foundation Directors Patricia FultonLawrence and Debra Mulé, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kishore Kuncham, and Board of Education trustees Maria Jordan-Awalom and Sunday Coward. ColuMBus avenue sChool kindergartners performed several songs during their moving-up ceremony on June 22.
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Courtesy Freeport-Merrick Director or English Language Arts Mary LaMotta, left, and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Gloria Engel stand with a mouse named Lilly, created by author Kevin Henkes for “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.” Lilly came to visit the #FreeportReads participants in 2018-2019, the second year for #FreeportReads. Courtesy Freeport Public Schools
oUtGoING FREEPoRt-mERRICk RotARY Club President Florence Marc-Charles passed the traditional gavel to incoming President Marc Rigueur to mark the change in leadership for the 2021-22 fiscal year.
FreeportReads makes New Rotary Club president continues the good work reading fun for families By REINE BEthANY
CoNtINUED FRom FRoNt PAGE was there, loaded with enticing titles and colorful illustrations. “We don’t want them to just read assignments,” LaMotta said. “We want them to choose their books and select them so they have input into what they read.” Students are more likely to read books they choose on their own. Once the books make their way into homes, parents can get involved. About 100 families regularly attend online sessions of Parent University, like the Summer Reading Kickoff session, broadcast on June 7. “Nowadays it’s a lot more challenging for families to motivate their kids to read because there are so many other distractions,” LaMotta said, but she pointed out to parents several sobering facts: One, children who don’t read over the summer lose up to three months of reading skills; two, children who do read over the summer often gain a month of reading skills;
and three, children who read four or more books during the summer do better on reading tests in the fall. Equipped with such important information, and with books that their children love, parents can access online learning with their children and enjoy the adventures that books open up. The books can be accessed as e-books or through read-aloud videos on the #FreeportReads website. “Everything we do,” Engel said, “we do in Spanish and in English,” enabling parents to learn along with their children in a manner as diverting as it is beneficial. A youngster at New Visions School, one of Freeport’s elementary schools, even commented on how the pandemic contributed to his reading. “I started to read more books,” Fadei Tsarevskii said, “which made me a stronger reader.”
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On June 24, Freeport-Merrick Rotary Club President Florence Marc-Charles officially stepped down and incoming President Marc Rigueur stepped up. Rigueur confessed that, when first elected, he felt somewhat intimidated because he saw how Marc-Charles fulfilled her duties. “As president,” he said, “the role is making sure you are continuing to inspire club members regarding their responsibility to uphold Rotarian principals. The president finds ways to connect with the members, and have the members connect with each other and with the community.” Rotary International’s mission is serving communities, locally and worldwide. Its 1.2 million members, distributed among its 35,000-plus clubs, are people who “unite and take action to create lasting change,” according to the RI website. The Freeport-Merrick Rotary Club is
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more than 75 years old. Its current 16 members have provided service far beyond their numbers, from donating quantities of food and thousands of face masks to Freeport Village and local charities, to funding a much-needed well for a rural Haitian village. Under the leadership of Marc-Charles, the club last year also contributed $4,000 to the Gyaboland Liberia School Furniture Project to outfit underserved classrooms. “I’m inspired,” said Rigueur. He and the club’s officers and members, who meet twice a month on Zoom and once a month in person, will examine the service possibilities that will fit their 2021-2022 fiscal budget. They will continue food pantry donations, and support for the Cedarmore Corporation farmer’s market, which actively employs local youth. “Our main priority,” said Rigueur, “has always been finding ways to help the local community.”
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On the morning of June 22, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital celebrated the groundbreaking for its J-Wing on its Oceanside campus. The wing will serve as the cornerstone of the hospital’s $400 million capital expansion to increase healthcare services. Projected to open in 2023, the $130 million J-Wing will stand at four stories and 100,000 square feet. The chairman of Mount Sinai’s board of directors, Joe Fennessy, said the board re-evaluated old plans for the facility, updating the infrastructure to match the evolving trends in health care. “We began to re-imagine what this hospital should be, and we realized to best serve the needs of our community, we had to be something different,” Fennessy said. “And that’s an entity that really focuses on more advanced and tertiary type services.” The expansion wing will feature larger operating rooms that can fit the stateof-the-art equipment needed to perform advanced cardiac surgery. The ground floor of the J-Wing will expand the emergency department by 12,000 square feet. Combined with the renovations currently being done on the existing department, the improved ED is designed to serve 80,000 patients a year, which will more than double the current
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Board memBers and local officials broke ground on the future home of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s J-Wing June 22. 36,000. One person who was excited to see the proposed expansion of the emergency department is Rockville Centre resident Larry Ferazani. In December 2019, the cardiac emergency team conducted lifesaving surgery on Ferazani after tests in the emergency room revealed he had had a widow-maker heart attack. “If I was not in this emergency room with this team of
incredible folks, I would not be here today,” Ferazani said. “I do feel like an expecting father and you’re all my cousins and family here today,” said Andrew Triolo, the vice president of design, development and construction. He outlined plans for a threestory parking structure and a utility plant to provide heating, cooling and emergency power for the hospital. An $89 million
Federal Emergency Management Agencyfunded project, the utility building will also provide storm resiliency. “The last 18 months have been very hard all around the world, and that makes days like today that much more special,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, Mount Sinai’s chief medical officer, “because we should appreciate that tomorrow is not guaranteed.” Sharma lauded the board and design team for their efforts to adjust plans for the structure to account for Covid-19 issues. “What we learned during Covid, we wanted to apply to the design,” he said. New features include redone air handling to keep the environment clean, focusing on single-care spaces to limit contact with other patients, and a streamlined system of oxygen delivery. The J-wing’s expanded intensive care unit will help in the oxygen transportation process and in critical care and specialized services. “It’s a core value that we find a way,” Dr. Ken Davis, chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, said. Nine new operating suites for the surgical field will also expand the hospital’s advances in surgical technologies and equipment. “It’s amazing what the team has done,” Sharma said. “I think health care in general has shown our resilience, our ability to think on our feet and our ability to roll up our sleeves.”
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The Town of Hempstead pledged to distribute 10,000 opioid antidote kits by the end of 2021 and announced increased funding and revamped programs at a news conference last Wednesday as part of a new effort to counter the rise in opioid-related deaths amid the coronavirus pandemic. Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito spoke on the town’s new goal to distribute 10,000 kits of Narcan, a commonly used version of the medicine naloxone that blocks the brain’s opioid receptors and quickly reverses the symptoms of opioid overdoses. “Hempstead Town has an established record of fighting the opioid epidemic,” Clavin said, pledging to continue the town’s effort to end the opioid crisis. In a statement, the town reaffirmed its commitment to “winning the war against opioid addiction.” Opioid-related deaths have spiked amid the pandemic. According to the Town of Hempstead, opioid overdoses rose 34 percent between 2019 and 2020 in Nassau County for a total of 287 opioid-related overdoses. The pandemic has caused high levels of stress and loneliness for those who struggle with opioid addiction, which often leads to depression, anxiety and low selfesteem, according to local experts. In fact, a July 2020 study found that 75,000 so-called “deaths of despair” — caused by drug misuse, alcohol and suicide — can be attributed to the high levels of stress, isolation and unemployment brought by the coronavirus pandemic. “The effects of the opioid epidemic are tragic, and we are committed to increasing our efforts to beat the disease of drug addiction,” Clavin said. “I have confronted the results of opioid addiction first-
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the new goal was announced at a news conference last Wednesday by Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito. hand, and the consequences of heroin and other opioid use are alarming and tragic,” said D’Esposito, a former NYPD Detective who has led the town’s public education and training initiative in the fight against opioid addiction. In 2017, Hempstead launched a Narcan distribution and training program that had distributed more than 6,500 Narcan kits as of this June. “I am pleased that we have made a positive difference in the opioid battle by presenting Narcan training and drug abuse awareness programs. I am prepared to increase our efforts to address the increase in opioid overdoses,” D’Esposito said, committing to further work to beat back the opioid crisis in Hempstead. The town’s new naloxone training programs will be
held by the town on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. at Town Park Point Lookout throughout July and August. The first sessions will take place on Saturday, July 10 and Sunday, July 11. Clavin and D’Esposito also announced additional funding to fight the opioid epidemic, which has devastated Long Island since the mid-2010s, killing nearly 200 people in Nassau in 2017 and 2018 alone. A portion of the town’s federal coronavirus pandemic relief funding will be directed toward drug awareness and treatment programs, officials said. “We’re going to redouble our efforts in the face of increased opioid overdoses during the Covid pandemic, and we are dedicated to winning the battle against opioids,” Clavin said.
Senator Kaminsky announces for district attorney By James BeRnstein Jbernstein@liherald.com
Todd Kaminsky, who was re-elected last November to a third two-year term in the State Senate, announced his candidacy for Nassau County district attorney Tuesday. Appearing in a dark blue suit despite the high heat, the 42-year-old Kaminsky stood outside the Nassau D.A.’s office in Mineola, flanked by his wife, the lawyer Ellen Tobin, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, and a host of other state and county officials, retired police officers, his parents and supporters from his hometown of Long Beach. Kaminsky was endorsed by the Nassau County Democratic Party late Friday afternoon. Nassau’s outgoing D.A., Madeline Singas, was confirmed as a judge on New York’s highest court this month, triggering an election in November. Joyce Smith is Nassau’s acting D.A. currently. “We begin our campaign for Nassau County district attorney today,” said Kaminsky, to cheers from a crowd of about 100 people. “We need steady, experience leaders” in the D.A.’s office, he said. Kaminsky, who was a state assemblyman before winning a seat in the State Senate in 2016, emphasized his law-enforcement experience in his speech. He has been criticized by Republicans for his support of a bail reform law that freed defendants awaiting trial who could not afford bail by limiting the number of crimes for which judges could set bail. The
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state sen. todd Kaminsky and his wife, Ellen Tobin, were surrounded by supporters as Kaminsky announced his candidacy for district attorney Monday. issue was raised in Kaminsky’s most recent election. He said he has since made adjustments to the law, adding several more crimes for which judges can set bail. “I will stack my record fighting violent crime against anybody’s,” Kaminsky said in answer to a question about the issue. Kaminsky worked as an assistant district attorney in the Queens County district attorney’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, as an assistant U.S. attorney, where he worked for six years.
There, he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section, prosecuting elected officials, including State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care network that he ran; Assemblyman Jimmy Meng for wire fraud for offering to bribe prosecutors to obtain a lower sentence for a businessman charged with tax fraud; and U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, for felony tax fraud. Kaminsky noted that he had also prosecuted drug dealer James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, securing an indictment after Rosemond was captured by agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Agen-
cy after remaining a fugitive for a month. Two retired police officers, Tom Wilson, who served with the New York Police Department and Suffolk County Police Department, and Chris O’Connor, who was also with the NYPD and Rockville Centre Police Department, were on hand to endorse Kaminsky. They thanked Kaminsky for his bill that provides sick time to people who worked on the rescue, recovery and cleanup following the World Trade Center attacks. Kaminsky was also endorsed by Curran, who said he would be “a trusted partner in fighting street crime and political corruption” in Nassau. The three-term state senator is chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee. He is likely to run on his environmental record, as well as his law-enforcement background. Kaminsky has pushed for reforms to the NY Rising system, licensing for mold removal companies and implementation of an information-sharing database in Nassau to help track abandoned properties. Kaminsky is a familiar figure at events in Long Beach. He is often accompanied by one or both of his children, Rafe and Rory. His wife mentioned that Kaminsky announced his candidacy for D.A. on Rory’s third birthday. Born and raised in Long Beach, Kaminsky attended local schools. He succeeded Harvey Weisenberg in the State Assembly in 2014. Weisenberg, 86, was on hand for Kaminsky’s announcement.
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Friday, July 2
Yoga for adults Yoga really is for anyone, regardless of age, flexibility, or disability. Please join us from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Prepare yourself by hydrating fully with water and eating lightly no less than 30 minutes before class. The event will be held via the online platform, GoToMeeting, at https://global.gotomeeting.com/ join/596979125. The access code is 596979125. For more information, contact Maryellen Cantanno at (516) 379-3274 or email at mcantanno@ freeportlibrary.info.
Sunny storytime fun Enjoy the balmy weather from 2-3 p.m., sitting outside on the front lawn of the library. Listen to fascinating stories and sing fun songs. This program takes place at the library, so please remember to wear a mask. Limited registration is necessary. For children ages 4 to 6 and an accompanying adult. Weather permitting. Contact the Youth Services Department at (516) 379-3274 or email youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.
This story time is bananas! Grades 2 to 4 can join online, 4-4:30 p.m., to hear tales of monkeys, gorillas, and other rainforest animals Contact the Youth Services Department at 516379-3274, or email youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info.
Origami art online Origami is the art of paper folding. Come 4-4:30 p.m. and learn how to make different animals such as a turtle and a bird! For students in grades 2 to 4. Please join on Global Go To Meeting from your computer, tablet, or smartphone, at https://global.gotomeeting. com/join/750800653. The access code is 750-800-653. Contact the Youth Services Department at (516) 379-3274 or email youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info.
Saturday, July 3 Tai Chi Enjoy a Saturday morning Tai Chi session with the Freeport Memorial Library on June 26 at 10-11 a.m. The traditional Chinese exercise form is renowned for improving health and enhancing the skill of meditation. Please wear comfortable clothing with sneakers and bring your own water. The event will be held on GoToMeeting at https://global. gotomeeting.com/join/509229173. The access code is 509229173. For more information, contact Maryellen Cantanno at (516) 379-3274 or email at mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info
Long Island Parks with stories to tell! Join us 10 a.m. to 12 noon for a presentation by savvy sightseer Jeanne Schnupp. Long Island has at least 70,000 acres of recreational and wooded parkland spread across it, from Queens to Montauk. This new series
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Don’t miss Freeport’s fireworks Freeport’s Independence Day fireworks will send brilliant explosions of color over Sea Breeze Park, foot of Woodcleft Avenue, at 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 1. starts by visiting five very different parks and preserves: Alley Pond in Queens, Christopher Morley in Nassau, and Connetquot River, Caleb Smith, and David Weld in Suffolk. Each park has a unique story to tell. Available on the Freeport Memorial Library website for the month of July. To watch, go to the community calendar at freeportlibrary.info and click on https://drive. google.com/file/d/1SNDDxNNaPV9_ XjcVViRW_6PaZeqAXcMl/ view?usp=sharing. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, 379-3274, or email mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.
Sunday, July 4 Grace on the Green The Freeport Community Church of the Nazarene and its pastor, Oral Walcott, will kick off the summer with Blue Jeans and Barbecue, a 1:00 p.m. festival of food and fellowship that is open to the
public. The address is 301 Atlantic Avenue, near the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue and Atlantic. Participants need not bring anything except themselves, as the church is providing all the food and utensils. .
Tuesday, July 6 A very buggy story time Ages 2 to 4 are invited to join Miss Rose, 10-10:30 a.m., online, for some buggy stories and songs and then a special craft. The materials for this craft may be picked up in the Children’s Room. Access the Zoom meeting at https://zoom.us/j/94626194897 ?pwd=a3BkRmZYLzJmWktPR3A5O Dh1UW1tUT09, Meeting ID 6 2619 4897, Passcode 812848. Contact the Youth Services Department at 516379-3274, or email youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info.
From 5:15-6:00 p.m., librarians will be playing videogames for the first time – games like Among Us, League of Legends, and Roblox.Come give us tips, or even play with us. Meet us via GoToMeeting at https://global.gotomeeting. com/join/813293221. The access code is 813293221. Register ahead of time. Spaces available: 20. Contact the Youth Services Department (516) 379-3274 or email youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info.
Wednesday, July 7 Nature Prints Come paint with nature, 2:30-3:00 p.m., grades 1 through 6. We will gather nature items from around the library front lawn and then use them to create beautiful artwork. Registration is necessary. The rain date is Thursday, July 8, at 2:30 p.m. Contact the Youth Services Department (516) 379-3274 or email youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.
Teddy Bear Story Time From 6-6:30 p.m., children ages 3 to 6 are invited to wear their pajamas and cuddle their favorite teddy bear during this story program. Join our Zoom meeting at https://zoom.us/j/99058864 625?pwd=VURWWTc0Z2I4VkhPS2lVW
HliUHpUQT09, Meeting ID 990 5886 4625, Passcode 955066. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at 516-379-3274, or email youthservices@freeportlibrary. info.
Home composting Learn home composting from a presentation created by the Cornell Compost Committee Master Gardeners. Topics include what to compost, how the process works, the importance of Heat, oxygen, and moisture, composting systems, and the uses of compost and its benefits. Contact the ASK Department, 516-379-3274, or email ask@ freeportlibrary.info.
Thursday, July 8 I Spy! Leap into an online adventure of I Spy from 4-4:30 p.m. Can you guess which object in the background I am thinking of? I’ll give you some clues until your guess or give up! For grades 1 through 4. Join us on Zoom at https://zoom. us/j/97375551272?pwd=KzhjNi9UU GFiZjlJa3hlWnVVVzFLUT09, Meeting ID 973 7555 1272, passcode 312171. Contact: Youth Svcs., 516-379-3274; yor outhservices@freeportlibrary.info.
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Guy Lombardo built his house on Grove Street after seeing the property from Otto’s Sea Grill. Freeport Public Schools received a Best Communities for Music Education Award. Sea Breeze Park is a designated stopover on the South Shore Blueway Kayak Trail. Freeport residents drink naturally purified water drawn from Freeport’s own fresh-water aquifer. Get an application for NY State’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program through freeportny.gov.
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Continued froM front page sion.” Much had already been done to make that mission possible. In the prior halfdecade, the district had incorporated Chromebooks into classrooms starting in fifth grade. Teachers and staff, too, developed electronic communication skills that helped them negotiate the abrupt transition to remote-only learning in March 2020. By September, all grades — even pre-K — had age-appropriate Chromebooks. “Both the students and staff have optimized and excelled,” Kuncham said. “We actually accelerated the speed at which we all had to become par or beyond par.” This school year, students wore masks, sat behind partitions and lived with limited sports and sharply reduced face-to-face contact, with virtual club meetings, workshops, choir practice, art displays and guidance sessions. Only 60 percent of secondary students attended school in person, and 70 percent of elementary school students, but whether remotely or on campus, they kept up with their schoolwork and stayed involved in activities. Students in kindergarten through eighth went full STEAM ahead in science, technology, engineering, arts and math. They produced projects ranging from functional sun shelters for Play-Doh pumpkins in Eileen Moloney’s kindergarten class at Giblyn Elementary School, to a K-through-12 science initiative that was one of five finalists in Career and Technical Education’s nationwide CubeSat contest. “We are truly on a path towards bringing space missions out of the clouds and into the classroom,” said the district’s director of science, Dr. Vincent Pereira. Team members will learn whether they won the contest during the upcoming school year. Students also excelled in music. The high school’s Select Chorale, directed by Monique Campbell Retzlaff, was selected to virtually perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a Boston Celtics-Washington
Wizards NBA game. “It was my goal to give this fine ensemble an opportunity to experience what a virtual performance entails, as well as continuing to share their talents with our audiences,” said Retzlaff. This spring, the district received a Best Communities for Music Education Award from the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation. Students also took on community service projects like collecting 700 pounds of food for needy families — an effort organized by PeaceJam Juniors at Bayview Avenue Elementary School. The school community grieved when Kight died in February, and then celebrated with new school board President Vilma Lancaster at the district’s 53rd annual Scholarship and Honors Program on June 7. The Freeport community donated $93,000 in scholarships to deserving members of the class of 2021. “These students being honored have persisted and stayed focused on their goals to achieve academic excellence,” Lancaster said. In addition to the community scholarships, students like Valedictorian Shyann Gardner, Salutatorian Mia Sorrentino, and News12 Scholar-Athlete Enyero Omokeni earned more than $8 million in college and other scholarships, Kuncham said. Students and staff noted the ways in which they had become stronger during a challenging year. “The pandemic brought us closer to our families,” said Noel Aguilar, a fourth-grader at Archer Street School. “I’ve managed to not only overcome the struggles I’ve had, but I’ve also been able to thrive in spite of them,” Gardner said. “This gave me a newfound sense of confidence.” “The pandemic made everyone stronger, not just me,” said Michelle Cabrera, a Caroline G. Atkinson School fifth-grader. “The only way we did it was by coming together.”
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OBITUARIES Obituary of Arline Davidson-Thompson Arline Davidson-Thompson of Freeport died on June 27, 2021, at the age of 43. She was the beloved wife of Kerry, the loving mother of Maya and Katiana, and the cherished sister of Sonia, Devon and Domonique Davidson, Alecia White, and Michael Campbell. She is also survived by many loving family members and friends. Arline will be reposed at Hungerford & Clark Inc. Funeral Home on Friday, July 2, 2021, 4 p.m.-8 p.m. A
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the loving mother of Marisa Hroncich, and the dear grandmother of Sandra Horan, Joseph, Karyn Razeq, and Marc. She is also survived by 10 great-grandchildren. She will be reposed at Hungerford & Clark Inc. Funeral Home on Thursday, July 1, 2021, 4-8 p.m. The funeral will take place on Friday, July 2, 9:30 a.m. at Our Holy Redeemer R.C. Church, with interment in Holy Rood Cemetery.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS 2021 NASSAU AVENUE GRADE RAISE PROJECT THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK Notice is hereby given that the Purchasing Agent of the Incorporated Village of Freeport, New York will receive sealed proposals for “2021 NASSAU AVENUE GRADE RAISE PROJECT” until 11:00 A.M. on July 20, 2021 in the Main Conference Room of the Municipal Building, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520, at which time and place they will be opened publicly and read aloud. Specifications, proposal and proposed contracts may be obtained by visiting the Village website at www.freeportny.gov or at the Office of the Purchasing Agent, Municipal Building, 1st Floor, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520, from 9:00 A.M. on July 6, 2021 until 4:00 P.M. July 16, 2021. There is no fee for a set of contract documents. Each bid must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond in the amount of not less than five (5%) percent of the bid insuring to the benefit of the Village of Freeport, or a certified check of not less than five (5%) percent of the bid, made payable to the Village of Freeport, to assure the entering of the successful bidder into an acceptable contract. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bid proposals received and subject to these reservations, shall award the contract to the lowest qualified and responsible bidder. Bids which in the opinion of the Board, are unbalanced, shall be rejected. In submitting a bid, bidders agree not to withdraw their bid within forty five (45) days after the date for the opening thereof. Kim Weltner Purchasing Agent Village of Freeport VILLAGE OF FREEPORT Issue Date - July 1, 2021 126600
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS INSTALLATION OF FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEM FOR THE FREEPORT ARMORY BUILDING RE BID for THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK Notice is hereby given that the Purchasing Agent of the Incorporated Village of Freeport, New York will receive sealed proposals for “INSTALLATION OF FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEM FOR THE FREEPORT ARMORY BUILDING RE BID” until 11:00 A.M. on July 20, 2021 in the Main Conference Room of the Municipal Building, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520, at which time and place they will be opened publicly and read aloud. Specifications, proposal and proposed contracts may be obtained by visiting the Village website at www.freeportny.gov or at the Office of the Purchasing Agent, Municipal Building, 1st Floor, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520, from 9:00 A.M. on July 6, 2021 until 4:00 P.M. July 16, 2021. There is no fee for a set of contract documents. Each bid must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond in the amount of not less than five (5%) percent of the bid insuring to the benefit of the Village of Freeport, or a certified check of not less than five (5%) percent of the bid, made payable to the Village of Freeport, to assure the entering of the successful bidder into an acceptable contract. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bid proposals received and subject to these reservations, shall award the contract to the lowest qualified and responsible bidder. Bids which in the opinion of the Board, are unbalanced, shall be rejected. In submitting a bid, bidders agree not to withdraw their bid within forty five (45) days after the date for the opening thereof. Kim Weltner Purchasing Agent Village of Freeport VILLAGE OF FREEPORT Issue Date - July 1, 2021 126599
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, NASSAU County. LIMA ONE CAPITAL, LLC, Plaintiff, against- NEW ISLAND DEVELOPMENT, LLC; DAVE ALEXANDRE; FARZANA HAQUE; JUSTIN FRENCH; THOMAS DEBONIS, Index No. 609785/2018. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, August 23, 2019 and entered with the Nassau County Clerk on August 28, 2019, Fay
Mattana, Esq., the Court Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 538 Archer Street, Freeport, New York 11520 at public auction on the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York 11501, on July 19, 2021 at 2:30 P.M. The auction will occur, rain or shine. Please note, Nassau County’s new auction rules and procedures along with all applicable COVID-19 Health and Safety protocols will be in effect at the auction. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained, or if there are other health concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the foreclosure auction. For additional information please visit: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/ COURTS/10JD/nassau/fore closure.shtml All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Freeport, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York known as Section: 54; Block: 197; Lots: 121 & 320 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 609785/2018. The approximate amount of judgment is $387,439.54 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 126390
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF MAYOR’S VETERANS ADVISORY COUNCIL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the regularly scheduled meetings of the Veterans Council are scheduled for the 4th Wednesday in January, April, July and October at 7:00 P.M. at the American Legion Post 342, 925 S. Ocean Avenue Freeport, New York. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk DATED:Freeport, New York July 1, 2021 126597 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ELECTRICIANS BOARD MEETING CANCELLATION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the regularly scheduled Meeting of the Electricians License Board scheduled for the first Tuesday of July and August have been CANCELLED; meetings will resume the first Tuesday of September at 6:00 P.M., 220 West Sunrise Highway, Freeport, New York. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk DATED:Freeport, New York July 1, 2021 126601
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF EXAMINING BOARD OF PLUMBERS MEETING CANCELLATION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the regularly scheduled Meeting of the Examining Board of Plumbers scheduled for the second Wednesday of July and August have been CANCELLED; meetings will resume the second Wednesday of September at 8:00 P.M., 46 N. Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, in the Board of Trustees Conference Room, adjacent to the Mayor’s office. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk DATED:Freeport, New York July 1, 2021 126598
LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on June 28, 2021 the Board of Trustees of the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, adopted a resolution amending the bond resolution adopted by said Board of Trustees on August 20, 2018, which bond resolution, as amended, is entitled: “Bond Resolution of the Village of Freeport, New York, adopted August 20, 2018 and amended June 28, 2021, authorizing installation of flood proofing dam doors at the Village Recreation Center and Department of Public Works facility, stating the estimated maximum cost thereof is $320,000, appropriating said amount for such purpose, and authorizing the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of $320,000 to finance said appropriation,” an abstract of such bond resolution, concisely stating the purpose and effect thereof, being as follows: FIRST: AUTHORIZING said Village to install flood proofing dam doors at the Village Recreation Center and Department of Public Works facility ; STATING the estimated maximum cost thereof, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and the financing thereof, is $320,000; APPROPRIATING said amount for such purpose; STATING the plan of financing includes the issuance of bonds or notes of the Village in the principal amount of not to exceed $320,000 to finance said appropriation, and the levy of a tax upon all the taxable real property within the Village to pay the principal of said bonds and interest thereon; SECOND: AUTHORIZING the issuance of not to exceed $320,000 bonds of the Village pursuant to the Local Finance Law of the State of New York (the “Law”) to finance said appropriation;
THIRD: DETERMINING and STATING the period of probable usefulness applicable to the purpose for which said bonds are authorized to be issued is fifteen (15) years; the temporary use of available funds of the Village, not immediately required for the purpose or purposes for which the same were borrowed, raised or otherwise created, is hereby authorized pursuant to Section 165.10 of the Law, for the capital purposes described in this resolution and the proceeds of said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation thereof may be applied to reimburse the Village for expenditures made after the effective date of this bond resolution for the purpose for which said bonds are authorized; and the proposed maturity of said bonds will exceed five (5) years; FOURTH: DETERMINING that said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds and the renewals of said bond anticipation notes shall be general obligations of the Village; and PLEDGING to their payment the faith and credit of the Village; FIFTH: DELEGATING to the Village Treasurer the powers and duties as to the issuance of said bonds, and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds, or the renewals thereof; and SIXTH: DETERMINING that the bond resolution is subject to a permissive referendum. DATED: June 28, 2021 Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk 126602 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com
LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on June 28, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, adopted a bond resolution entitled: “Bond Resolution of the Village of Freeport, New York, adopted June 28, 2021, authorizing the construction of various sanitary sewer improvements, stating the estimated maximum cost thereof is $1,700,000, appropriating said amount for such purpose, and authorizing the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of $1,700,000 to finance said appropriation,” an abstract of such bond resolution, concisely stating the purpose and effect thereof, being as follows: FIRST: AUTHORIZING said Village to construction of various sanitary sewer improvements; STATING
the estimated maximum cost thereof, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and the financing thereof, is $1,700,000; APPROPRIATING said amount for such purpose; STATING the plan of financing includes the issuance of bonds or notes of the Village in the principal amount of not to exceed $1,700,000 to finance said appropriation, and the levy of a tax upon all the taxable real property within the Village to pay the principal of said bonds and interest thereon; SECOND: AUTHORIZING the issuance of not to exceed $1,700,000 bonds of the Village pursuant to the Local Finance Law of the State of New York (the “Law”) to finance said appropriation; THIRD: DETERMINING and STATING the period of probable usefulness applicable to the purpose for which said bonds are authorized to be issued is forty (40) years; the temporary use of available funds of the Village, not immediately required for the purpose or purposes for which the same were borrowed, raised or otherwise created, is hereby authorized pursuant to Section 165.10 of the Law, for the capital purposes described in this resolution and the proceeds of said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation thereof may be applied to reimburse the Village for expenditures made after the effective date of this bond resolution for the purpose for which said bonds are authorized; and the proposed maturity of said bonds will exceed five (5) years; FOURTH: DETERMINING that said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds and the renewals of said bond anticipation notes shall be general obligations of the Village; and PLEDGING to their payment the faith and credit of the Village; FIFTH: DELEGATING to the Village Treasurer the powers and duties as to the issuance of said bonds, and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds, or the renewals thereof; and SIXTH: DETERMINING that the bond resolution is subject to a permissive referendum. DATED: June 28, 2021 Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk 126603 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com
LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF NASSAU Quiet title action
under Article 15 of N.Y. Real Prop. Act. Law; INDEX NO.: 607224/2020, CURTIS BARRY PROPERTY MGMT LLC, Plaintiff, vs. JIMMIE DYSART A/K/A JIMMIE E. DYSART A/K/A JIM DYSART A/K/A JIM E DYSART A/K/A JAMES DYSART A/K/A JAMES E DYSART; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, LEGATEES, DEVISEES AND/OR REPRESENTATIVES OF MABEL TEMPLETON A/K/A MABEL WALLACE A/K/A MABEL T. TEMPLETON A/K/A MABEL T. WALLACE AND ALL PERSONS THAT MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY REFERRED TO IN THE COMPLAINT BY, THROUGH OR UNDER ANY OF THE FOREGOING (THE AFORESAID UNKNOWN HEIRS, LEGATEES, DEVISEES AND/OR REPRESENTATIVES BEING ALL SUCH HEIRS, LEGATEES, DEVISEES AND/OR REPRESENTATIVES OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFICALLY NAMED AS A DEFENDANT HEREINTHE IDENTITY AND ADDRESSES OF ALL THE FOREGOING NOT BEING KNOWN TO PLAINTIFF), Defendants. PREMISES SUBJECT TO Quiet Title Action: 54 Sagamore Street, Freeport, NY, SBL# 55, 376, 1215-1216. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action, to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with the summons, to serve notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exc1usive of the date of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York), and in case of failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiff designates Nassau County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject property. Dated: June 1, 2021. Michael Ehrenreich, Attorney for Plaintiff, 483 Chestnut Street, Second Floor, Cedarhurst, NY 11516, 516-942- 4216. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. JULIANNE T. CAPETOLA of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated May 19, 2021. Such order and the Complaint in this action are filed in the office of the Nassau County Clerk, in Mineola, NY. The object of this action is to Quiet title to the premises identified above under
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LEGAL NOTICE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS PUBLIC HEARING - July 15, 2021 NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a Public Hearing with the Zoning Board of Appeals is scheduled for Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:00 P.M. in the Incorporated Village of Freeport, Main Conference Room, 46 N. Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York on the appeals and applications of cases as they appear on the calendar; residential applications that do not extend their prior nonconforming status may be called first; public comment invited. It is anticipated that the Board will adjourn the legislative session and enter into Executive Session until 6:30 P.M. INTERESTED PROPERTY OWNERS and other persons should appear at the above time and place to have questions answered and to voice opinions. All applications are nonconforming with zoning regulations herein specified for the districts in which they are located. Application #2021-9 435 Guy Lombardo Ave. Residence A - Section 62/Block 088/Lot 62 Parkville Rental Corp. Proposed two family residence 2,500 sq. ft. Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-38 Prohibited uses, §210-39 Sky exposure plane. Application #2021-11 109 Fairview Pl., Residence A - Section 62/Block 087/Lot 233 Alphonse Riche Construct new 435.84 sq. ft. three-story rear addition. Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-39A Sky exposure plane. Application #2021-12 19 W. First St., Residence A - Section 62/Block 061/Lot 223 - James Schmiemann - Maintain a 345.7 sq. ft. rear deck. Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-41 Lot Coverage, §210-43 Rear yard setback. Application #2021-13 27A W. Merrick Rd., Business B - Section 62/Block 53/Lot 363 Francisco Martinez Construct new 593 sq. ft. 1st floor rear addition and 1,610 sq. ft. 2nd floor addition. Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-80(A) Permitted uses, §210-172(A) Required parking. BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Pamela Walsh Boening, Village Clerk 126592 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com
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our milestones were reached in June on the road to racial equity. They recognize progress while underscoring the distance yet to be traveled. They came at the federal, state and county levels, and all have significant implications for Long Island. One was the designation of Juneteenth, June 19, as a national holiday. As the White House Proclamation states, “On Juneteenth, we recommit ourselves to the work of equity, equality and justice.” ERASE Racism is eLaine dedicated to that work, and the Gross nation still has a great deal to accomplish. In another milestone, the Biden administration acted decisively to advance fair housing when it announced on June 1 that it was taking steps to address racial discrimination in the housing market. Those steps include forwarding to Congress the administration’s proposed interim final rule on the legal duty to affirmatively further fair housing. In the words of the White House, the steps will “align federal enforce-
ment practice with the congressional promise in the Fair Housing Act to end discrimination in housing and will collectively provide the legal framework for [the Department of Housing and Urban Development] to require private and public entities alike to rethink established practices that contribute to or perpetuate inequities.” The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing by actively proposing policies and practices to eliminate housing discrimination is contained in the Fair Housing Act of 1968. But the federal government’s commitment to that mandate was undermined substantially by the Trump administration. President Biden is undoing that damage, but the federal government’s commitment to fair housing should not vary from one administration to another. That commitment is core to addressing racial inequity. As the Center for American Progress states, “For centuries, structural racism in the U.S. housing system has contributed to stark and persistent racial disparities in wealth and financial well-being, especially between Black and white households. In fact, these differences are so entrenched that if current trends continue, it could
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Letters Vigilance is essential in fair-housing fight To the Editor: I applaud the State Assembly for overwhelmingly voting June 8 to approve legislation to confront the scourge of housing discrimination. Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre sponsored and secured passage of a measure that would both increase fines against those who commit discrimination and reinvest those funds into equity-boosting causes. Under her innovative approach, the statewide anti-housing discrimination fund would support local housing nonprofits, human rights commissions and the state attorney general’s office as it conducts fairhousing challenges to identify and eliminate this pernicious behavior. This recent action by the state is one of many important actions consistent with our shared mission to ensure that everyone has fair and equal opportunities to take part in New York’s housing market. As part of Nassau County’s response to the publication of Newsday’s “Long Island Divided” housing discrimination exposé, I sponsored and secured passage of legislation that created the county’s Housing Discrimination Hotline in 2019. If you or your loved ones ever experience illegal discrimination in Nassau, I urge you to call (888) 4120474 and file a report immediately. The phone lines are open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Brian Kavanagh, James Skoufis and Kevin Thomas — all committee chairs — following an extensive inquiry and two public hearings, at which I was invited twice to testify. All three senators deserve great credit for leading this initiative. Enactment and implementation of the legislation will ultimately determine its impact. Long Island remains one of the 10 most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the U.S., and Suffolk County has taken an important step to address that. Its Fair Housing Task Force, of which I was a member, presented its report to the County Legislature on June 16. The report recommends new protections in Suffolk County human rights law; increased support for the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission, including funding for fair housing testing and increased funding for administrative law judges; and other recommendations, findings and determinations, including the creation of an advisory rating system for real estate licensees. These are important developments at all levels of government. Further action is needed to implement these changes, and with time we can measure their impact. The United States, New York and Long Island still have a long way to go to achieve racial equity. Elaine Gross is president of the Syosset-based civil rights organization ERASE Racism.
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I remain committed to doing all I can to eliminate the pervasive segregation that has been allowed to fester on Long Island for generations, and invite you to join me in this effort. ARNOLD W. DRUCKER Nassau County legislator Plainview
Brinton knows his local wild places To the Editor: Re Scott Brinton’s column “Suburban Long Island getting wilder by the day” (June 17-23): I enjoyed and was encouraged by this terrific and informative column covering what is wild on Long Island. What was wonderful was how Brinton made the column personal. I enjoyed the history of people and places that have made the Island a destination, and was thrilled with Brinton’s inclusion of the many talented folks who continue their good work to preserve its environment. My wife, Karen, an actress, and I, a musician, have been involved with the Seatuck Environmental Association from its beginning in the 1980s. Karen facilitates the Long Island Nature Writers there. Enrico Nardone, Seatuck’s executive director, is the very gift the place needs to survive. Wildlife biologist Mike Bottini, Seatuck conservation policy analyst Emily Hall and state wildlife biologist Kelly Hamil-
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ton, all mentioned in Brinton’s column, are fabulous about using their time, energy and talents. Long Islanders should know them. The Island is blessed with an abundance of natural resources that deserve to be saved and protected. I believe Brinton’s column served to highlight that. I volunteer with the North Shore Land Alliance, which, through stewardship, manages 15 nature preserves on the North Shore. Humes Preserve, where you
can find blue birds, Iselin Preserve, where there are owls, and Cushman Woods are home to the wild. The Herald should each week highlight not just Garvies Point Museum and Preserve in Glen Cove or Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, but also celebrate the many other beautiful places with an article of the quality of Brinton’s column. KEN KRUMENACKER Sea Cliff
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hen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. e has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at
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places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Government: For suspending our own legislature, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. e, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor.
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The Declaration was signed first by John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, and then by 55 others representing the 13 original states.
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irds have fascinated me since I was a boy growing up in Yaphank, in Suffolk County, in the 1970s. My parents spread birdfeed on our slate-covered cement patio in winter, and we would sit — my mother, father, brother and I — and watch the show from our kitchen as cardinals and house sparrows and blue jays descended en masse, scurrying to snatch the feed out from under one another’s beaks. I kept a journal, counting the different birds that landed. sCott My wife and I continued the traBrinton dition with our two kids at our Merrick home, spending many Sunday morning breakfasts watching from our dining room as birds landed on our wooden deck, scurrying for breakfast before it was depleted. At one point, we joined the National Audubon Society, among other environmental groups. Now I’m ashamed to say that I had signed us up for the society, despite believing deeply in its mission to protect and preserve birds. The Audubon Society has done nothing nefarious. It is a top-rated nonprofit environmental organization with a worldwide reach. The trouble, I recently
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learned, is this: The organization’s namesake, John James Audubon (1785-1851), was an unabashed racist who owned slaves. On June 13, The Washington Post published an article that blew my mind — “The racist legacy many birds carry” — examining the racism that was pervasive among many 19th-century ornithologists and noting the slave-holding past of Audubon, the most famous of all bird lovers. The largely self-taught artist is renowned for his masterfully rendered paintings of North American birds, which he compiled into his world-renowned tome, “The Birds of America,” published in 1827. His objective was to catalog all the birds of North America, which made him famous enough that his name is now synonymous around the globe with environmentalism. For goodness’ sake, there’s a city in Tennessee named for him. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police last July, the Audubon Society published a series of articles on its website that looked critically at the organization’s namesake and his slave-holding past. In “The Myth of John James Audubon,” Audubon Magazine contributor Gregory Nobles wrote, “Audubon was . . . a slaveholder, a point that many people don’t know or, if they do, tend to ignore or excuse.”
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To be clear, Audubon did not found the organization that bears his name. Harriet Hemenway and Minna B. Hall, of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, formed the national group in 1896 following the slaughter of millions of waterbirds, in particular egrets and waders, for their fine plumage, which was often used to adorn women’s hats. Only within the past year, however, has the organization really acknowledged the slaveholder that Audubon was. In the November-December 2004 issue of Audubon Magazine, Frank Graham Jr. examined the life of the society’s namesake in “Audubon’s Legacy: Where It All Began,” never mentioning that Audubon had held as many as nine slaves at one point in the early 1800s. Graham did note, however, that Audubon’s father, Jean Audubon, captained a French cargo ship that traded in rum, sugar and slaves on its “rounds from France to various Caribbean and U.S. ports.” The article contained one additional slavery reference. Alan Gehret, whom the piece described as a “walking encyclopedia of Auduboniana,” was quoted as saying, “Slave revolts threatened the planters in Haiti, and Jean Audubon wanted to take his children to France and raise them as French citizens.” That was it. If Gehret, a former museum curator
he first high-profile lover of birds was also an unapologetic slaveholder.
with the Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Pa., was such an encyclopedia of all things Audubon, how did he miss the fact that John James Audubon was a slaveholder? And imagine that — Gehret spoke of potential slave revolts as threatening white people — but failed to acknowledge the daily existential threats faced by Black slaves, who could have been flogged or hanged from a tree at a moment’s notice. Gehret’s statement is racist, intentional or not. There have been calls for the Audubon Society to change its name. I agree. It should be changed. That would be the only way I might consider rejoining in the future. Only through a name change could the group disassociate itself with its racist namesake, who, according to Nobles, dismissed the abolitionist movement in the United States and Great Britain. Why does all this matter? Simply put, we mustn’t worship racists and slaveholders. We mustn’t place them on pedestals. We must confront the twisted, demonic history that they represent. Confronting our nation’s racist past is not cancel culture. It’s the start of the healing process. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.
Five-day tour of the Big Apple’s thrills and chills
f you’re going to jump in, then jump. That was my thinking during these post-vaccine weeks when I suggested a five-day stay in Manhattan to my California kid and her kid. We hadn’t seen each other in many months. On one hand, it was counterintuitive to stay in the Big Apple amid reports of untidy streets, menacing street people and closed venues. It made sense, though, to throw support and money to the city we love, and also benefit from lower hotel rates. We would pick a hotel and do all the ranDi sites we could fit in kreiss to the time we had. She would fly into JFK. A foreversuburbanite, I would actually sleep in the city that never sleeps, which makes sense because I never sleep anymore. We did it, last week, and I’m here to tell you that we took a big bite of the Big Apple, and it is still delicious. We saw the city, not as longtime New Yorkers, or commuters, which we have always been, but as visitors. In midtown, the tourists were
surging. The Empire State Building, which had a line around the block by day, looked brilliant at sundown, its spire blazing into the sky. Restaurants in Tribeca and Soho featured blocks and blocks of outdoor seating. The romance of the city felt real and familiar. My main impression: It’s a dog’s life. Our four-legged friends are everywhere, from the Bowery to Brooklyn, on the streets, in restaurants and in our hotel. I expect every city across America is experiencing the all-dogs-all-the-time phenomenon following the worst of the pandemic, when we craved the comfort of fluffy fur and puppy breath. We stayed at Hotel 50 Bowery, with views of the Manhattan Bridge, and it was perfect, since we’re kind of downtown people. I know the Chinese community suffered during Covid, but the area is surging back, street markets are open, with piles of mangoes and cherries and every variety of lichi and bok choy on display. Everyone wears masks, and although masks were optional in our hotel, most travelers chose to stay safer.
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We walked many miles every day. We trekked over the Brooklyn Bridge to Dumbo, walked through Tribeca, strolled through Little Italy every night for dessert, and ate outside nearly every meal because we were blessed with early-June balmy days and nights. We took the subway uptown to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, where people are coming back in droves. More than the art itself, being part of going to a museum, and sharing the viewing experience, was uplifting and restorative. This is who we are, I thought, not denizens of lonely and isolated places. The city is coming alive again, but it isn’t there yet. All the boarded-up restaurants and stores, from downtown to uptown, offer testament to the suffering of this past year and a half. The eateries that have opened are packed, but most of them still have a way to go. Service is uneven, everyone is “newly hired” and most places still need more help. Many are only semi-open. But there’s a new and hopefully enduring spirit of generosity for those who are learning the
e took a big bite of a city that’s coming alive again, but isn’t quite there yet.
business and those who are slowly bringing their businesses back to life. We went to the immersive Van Gogh experience downtown on Vesey Street. It was stunning and dreamy and felt completely safe. We wore masks and lay on the floor and let the flickering projected images of Van Gogh’s paintings wash over us. The next day we saw “Starry Night” at MOMA. We walked around the Battery for hours, with thousands of other visitors. The Statue of Liberty and the Verrazzano and the sails of boats in the Hudson offered the perfect backdrop. The greenery of the Battery and the benches throughout the trails offer a peaceful place for a walk or a timeout. Of course, it was a dog show as well, with every size and shape pup walking their humans along the paths. Strolling toward our hotel from the Battery, we stopped at the 9/11 Memorial. It has been 19 years, and I have never been able to bring myself to the site. But something is changed now. We are emerging from a season of epic suffering, and it felt cathartic to honor the memory of others who were lost in our great city. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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