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Midshipmen welcomed to the village By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com

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u.S. naVal acaDemy midshipmen carefully backed their 44-foot-long sail training craft toward the dock behind the Esplanade on the Nautical Mile on Aug. 12, as two more sailboats made their way up Hudson Canal.

Under a brilliant midday sun on Aug. 12, three sailboats carrying 24 officers-in-training from the U.S. Naval Academy completed a 280-mile journey to Freeport that started from the academy’s home in Annapolis, Md. For 22 years, the village has been one of two docking ports for the sail training block of the academy’s summer program — with the exception of last summer, when the trip was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The excursion is far more than a pleasure ride. “This trip is 100 percent about leadership in a maritime environment,” explained Carlton Brown, a retired naval doctor who is the executive officer under retired Marine Corps Col. Jim Mead, the trip’s officer in tactical command. “It allows midshipmen to experience real-world danger and stresses in a smallteam environment.” Mayor Rober t Kennedy attended the event, as did Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, state Assemblywoman Judy Griffin and other village Continued on page 14

Impeached governor starred in film made in Freeport By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com

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William SulzeR in 1911, while still in the U.S. Congress.

William Sulzer, the only New York governor to be impeached a n d re m ove d f ro m o f f i c e, brought dubious fame to Freeport by starring in “The Governor’s Boss,” a 1915 fictional film about an unjustly impeached New York governor. Sulzer himself had been removed from office only two years earlier. Freeport Memorial Library’s online History Encyclopedia recounts the film’s creation. “The Governor’s Boss” was based on a novel of the same title written by Indiana journalist and politician James

S. Barcus, who used Sulzer’s downfall as inspiration. Prominent Freeporters financed the movie. For the scenes that were filmed in Freeport, these well-known citizens also appeared in small roles and as extras. Ernest S. Randall was an extra in several mob scenes, a tongue-in-cheek role for the son of John Jay Randall, the “Father of Freeport,” for whom Randall Park is named. Ernest Randall subsequently served a term as Freeport mayor. The film was silent, so it did not make use of Sulzer’s notable speaking capability. Nonetheless, he distinguished him-

self, though not in a good way. According to the History Encyclopedia, newspaper accounts related that Sulzer “refused to attend rehearsals, objected to instructions, wasted hundreds of feet of film and drove the directors to despair a dozen times.” This description of Sulzer’s behavior accords with narra-

tives of his conduct starting in the spring of 1913, a few months after he became governor. The brilliant young lawyer and public speaker who had spent 25 years in politics prior to his impeachment had become as domineering as the Tammany Hall political bosses he was resisting. He so alienatContinued on page 11

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Drumming on the Mile uplifts, refreshes By Reine Bethany

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Near sunset on August 11, in the sheltered performing space on Woodcleft Avenue, about 25 people of diverse ages, colors, and cultures, perched in a circle on folding chairs. In front of each folding chair sat a djembe drum. The event was “Drumming on the Mile,” led by Freeport musician George Schultze and sponsored by the Freeport Memorial Library. Everyone who came to the event participated -- even the librarian who arranged it and the journalist who came to write about it. For decades, Schutze, whom everyone calls “George” or “Spirit Sky,” has engaged all ages, toddlers to nonagenarians, in the refreshing, unifying experience of djembe drumming. His Freeport-based business is called Spirit Sky Drum. As he began the “Drumming on the Mile” evening, George briefly outlined the deep, basic relationship of drumming to human culture and to the human body. Then he moved the entire circle into the music of djembe. . “Tilt your drum so you can play it,” he said, demonstrating. “If it’s like this” -drum vertical -- “you’re not going to hear it. But like this” -- tilted slightly away from the body -- “see how the sound changed.” The group followed along as George showed how to produce the three basic djembe sounds -- bass, tone, and slap. He then coached the group to produce two coordinating rhythm patterns. “Relax. Be like water when you play,” he said. “Ready?” “Yes! I love to do this!” shouted a little boy of about seven. “I love drums,” “And they love you,” responded George. “So -- alternating hands, left and right, and right and left!” He called out the rhythm: “Tone, tone, bass! Tone, tone, ta-bass!” The drumbeats filled the space, enthusiastically, at times unevenly. George guided the drummers to trust their own sense of rhythm.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic reduced George Schultze’s business temporarily, normally, he said, “I do workshops all year, all over Long Island and New Jersey, at libraries, assisted living, nursing homes, corporate businesses, recovery centers, house blessings, animal blessings, school kids, teen beat, and adult programs. I do memory classes for people with dementia, and senior programs for people without full use of their bodies.” He also gives private lessons and builds drums. His website is SpiritSkyDrum.com.

GeoRGe Schultze demonStRated placement of the djembe. “A lot of people say, George, I don’t have any rhythm,” he said. “And I disagree -always. Because if you’re alive and your heart is beating in your chest, you have rhythm -- period, end of conversation. All together, ready, go!” The participants launched into the current of sound. At one point when the rhythms became ragged, George called a halt. “Okay, what I’d like to do now is have you feel what you’re doing,” he said. “Don’t just beat the drum. Feel the other players and how they work together, how we form that rhythm together and how we flow together.” This time, with George at his djembe sending out a powerhouse stream of complex beats, the sounds coalesced into a strongly braided orchestra of drumming. Each drummer ripped off a quick solo, supported by the waves of sound from the rest of the circle. With George’s encour-

agement, the boy who loved drums, a woman participating in the circle, and Freeport Librarian Marilyn Pignataro rose to their feet for an improvised dance. The evening’s heat and humidity seemed to disappear. Only the hands and the drums and the dancers existed, with George’s voice calling, “Heeee--yah! Yes!” into the rosy golden sunset. At last, with a rapid burst on his djembe, George brought the evening to a close. “Wow, that was really on fire!” he said. “We could go another four hours, huh? I want to thank everyone for a wonderful evening together.” A chorus of thank-yous came back as the smiling drummers departed, chatting and relaxed. Twenty-six-year-old Sean Ogilvie of Seaford told how he had encountered George at a music festival, and found himself gravitating toward the djembe. “It helps you in every way of life,” he

said, “because it opens you up to having a new experience, being able to balance your energy.” He regularly takes private lessons from George Alex Penello, 25, and his sister Marie have taken djembe lessons with George for four years. “I started to think more clearly, see things differently, relieve stress, relieve anxiety,” said Marie, who is 56 but looks 20 years younger. “I got strong in my core, in my arms, and lost 30-40 pounds, not quickly but the right way.” Marie has attended a number of George’s drumming circles.“During workshops,” she said, “people get happy. It makes them think. After we’re done, they’re always smiling.” Sean Ogilvie nodded, saying, “It sparks something in them they didn’t know was there.” George often hears comments like these from his students. “Drumming can and will change your life,” he said, “if you use it properly.”

MSSN to welcome new president Sept. 1 Dr. Adhi Sharma will become president of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside on Sept. 1, the medical center’s board of directors announced Tuesday. Sharma, an emergency medicine physician who helped steer MSSN’s Covid-19 response as its chief medical officer, will succeed Richard Murphy, who will retire at the end of the year. Murphy has served as president for nine years and has worked in leadership roles in the health care field for more than four decades. Over the past 18 months, Sharma was the clinical “quarterback” of MSSN’s pandemic response, while also serving as the hospital’s executive vice president for clinical and professional affairs. Under his guidance, the hospital increased capacity to 500 beds as it cared for more than 4,890 Covid-19 patients during the pandemic. Sharma also helped devise a strategy to meet daily unforeseen challenges, such as redeploying staff to meet the surge in Covid-19 patients, an equipment shortage and care for patients stricken by a disease for which there is no known cure. “Dr. Sharma has proven he is the kind of leader we need to continue our expansion of leading-edge clinical program growth,” said Joseph Fennessy, of Wantagh, co-chair of the hospital’s board of directors, which conducted a months-long search for a new hospital president. “Mount Sinai South Nassau is poised to expand services to the South Shore so our patients and their families don’t always have to travel into the city for the advanced care they need. Dr. Sharma shares the board’s vision to bring more top-quality care close to home.” Anthony Cancellieri, of Rockville Centre, co-chair of the hospital’s board, said Sharma “has the confidence of the board, the health system and, most importantly, the front-line staff to lead us going forward. He showed his mettle during the pandemic every day, and we know he is the right leader for the job.” Sharma said he was honored to be selected and will continue to help the hospital grow into a major regional medical center on the South Shore. “It is with great humility and appreciation for the dedicated clinical and support staff at the hospital that I have accepted the role as president for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Sharma said. “The hospi-

Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital Chief Medial Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma, left, will succeed Richard Murphy as president on Sept. 1.

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tal is one of the leading facilities on Long Island, and its relationship with the Mount Sinai Health System has only enhanced its standing within the communities it serves. Together with the board and the clinical leadership, I look forward to setting a vision for the hospital that will carry it well into the 21st century.” Mur phy, who led the hospital’s response after Superstorm Sandy and during the pandemic, helped launch a $400 million capital construction program to modernize the Oceanside hospital and helped guide the facility to an affiliation in 2019 with the world-renowned Mount Sinai Health System. Murphy praised the selection of Sharma and said he would work during the coming months to ensure a smooth transition. “It has been my privilege to serve as CEO for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Murphy said. “I’m appreciative of the board of directors and medical staff leadership for the support they have given me through the many challenges we have faced, including most recently the hospital’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.. . . Dr. Sharma is an excellent choice to be my successor. He has the confidence of the medical staff and the entire hospital community, including the leadership of the

Mount Sinai Health System.” Murphy was praised for his work and dedication by Fennessy, Cancellieri, Kenneth Davis, the chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, and Arthur Klein, the president of the Mount Sinai Health Network. Expansion projects on the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside include a new four-story patient wing that will expand the Emergency Department, add nine new operating rooms and 40 critical care beds, a three-story parking structure and a new central utility plant. Also planned is a $40 million Medical Arts Pavilion at the hospital’s Long Beach campus, and a multi-specialty health care center in Wantagh that will provide an array of specialty services in one location to South Shore residents in eastern Nassau County. Sharma has been responsible for facilitating medical staff interactions with hospital administration and the governing

board, and for ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of quality medical care consistent with the hospital’s mission. He also has been instrumental in identifying opportunities for service line development and expansion, as well as the recruitment and retention of specialist physicians. Sharma is a graduate of New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi/Montefiore Medical Centers. He completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at NYU/Bellevue. He is board certified in emergency medicine and medical toxicology. He also holds a master’s degree in health care administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; compiled by Mike Smollins.

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Page Turners--Bobby Norfolk

Babytime with the Freeport Memorial Library

International storyteller and three-time Emmy Award winner Bobby Norfolk enchants listeners with tales of the mythical African trickster, Anansi the Spider. Available 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Contact Youth Services at (516) 3793274 or youthservices@freeportlibrary. info.

Join our virtual program, 10:30-11 a.m., so you and baby can meet other parents and listen to a story. Get ready by stopping into the Children’s Room to pick up our new Welcome Bag for Babies. This bag includes a bib, a rattle, a book, and a “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” welcome sheet. Contact Youth Services at (516) 3793274 or youthservices@freeportlibrary. info.

School supplies drive with Judy Griffin Assemblywoman Judy Griffin will receive donations of backpacks and school supplies at her district office, 74 North Village Avenue in Rockville Centre, from now through August 31. Call (516) 561-8216 for information.

COLUMBUS CIRCLE is back! The Long Island Council of the Arts-Freeport welcomes the Columbus Circle Band for its final show in the 2021 Summer Sunset Concert Series. The popular trio will enliven the Esplanade on the Nautical Mile, 7-8:30 p.m. Go to www.LIACFreeport. org for updates, or contact (516) 223-2522 or infoliacf@gmail.com. For a preview of the band, go to https:// www.facebook.com/LIACFreeport/videos/373205230246726/

Saturday, August 21 Time to shred! From 9 a.m. - 12 noon, watch as your documents are shredded by a AAA-certified company. Contact Mary Ellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

Bridging the Gap Field Day Come to Bishop Frank O. White Park (Northeast Park), 100 Parsons Avenue, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., for a family day of athletic games, free food and drink, a live DJ, and more surprises. A VaxxMobile will be stationed on the premises.

Monday, August 23 Page Turners: The Book from Outer Space At any time 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., join Kenny and Page at https://pageturneradventures.com/s21-1-1 for an animated musical adventure! Find the alien space slug that will save the Intergalactic Library. Contact Youth Services at (516) 379-3274 or youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info.

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From 4-4:30 p.m., read along with stories about monkeys, gorillas, and other animals that live in the rainforest. For grades K to 4. Contact Youth Services at (516) 379-3274 or youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.

Yoga for adults From 12:30-1:30 p.m., enjoy the benefits of yoga, regardless of age, flexibility, or disability. Wear comfy clothes, hydrate, and eat lightly no less than 30 minutes prior. Contact Mary Ellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274 or mcan-

Wednesday, Aug. 25 Page Turners: Illustrator Raissa Figueroa At any time 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., take a trip

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Zumba for adults From 6:30-7:30 p.m., get on Zoom and participate in this fun fitness routine that will have you moving and burning calories while mixing the dance moves! Contact Mary Ellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

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Curran gears up early for fall campaign By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Laura Curran has apparently decided not to wait until after Labor Day, the traditional beginning of fall political campaigns, to kick-start her drive for a second term as Nassau County executive. Curran, 53, a Democrat, held a rally on a sweltering Saturday afternoon outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, where bottled water was handed out with blue campaign signs. The county executive announced her intention to run for re-election in May. After her 20-minute speech to about 100 supporters Saturday, Curran acknowledged that it is early to campaign. “The election is three months off,” she said. “But it’s important for people to know where we are going. We will be persistent to build back” after the pandemic. Curran said her fall campaign would focus on “fully funding” law enforcement, expanding access to mental health, developing multi-year plans for a balanced budget, supporting small businesses and promoting job growth. Her opponent in the fall campaign will be Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman, 65, a Republican who lives in Atlantic Beach. Blakeman has run for several offices before, including for a seat in Congress. Blakeman has said his campaign will be all about taxes. Curran, who lives in Baldwin, worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News and New York Post and as an editor at Herald Community Newspapers and was a Baldwin Board of Education member before winning a seat in the County Legislature. In 2017, she defeated Republican Jack Martins to become the first woman to be elected Nassau County exec-

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Laura Curran spoke to about 100 supporters outside county office building on a sweltering Saturday afternoon. utive. On Saturday, Curran was endorsed by John Durso, president of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor. “I’m proud to lend my support to someone who is one of us,” Durso told the crowd. He said the federation’s support for candidates has not always been unanimous. “But this time,” Durso said, “it’s Laura.” Her friend and neighbor, Naala Royale, owner of a Rockville Centre restaurant, told the crowd that Curran “lives in a normal house, walks her dog and sometimes holds press conferences on her front lawn. For us, that’s

Laura.” In her speech, Curran outlined a series of programs on which her campaign would be based. One program includes fighting crime. She noted that she, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and other officials recently broke ground on a new $54 million, 89,000-square-foot police academy on the Nassau Community College campus in Garden City. She emphasized that Nassau was recently named the safest community in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. “That doesn’t happen by accident,” Curran said. It came about as the result of work by her administration, the police department and residents. But her veto of a bill earlier this month to give first responders the right to sue under the county Human Rights Law when they face harassment disappointed police union leaders, including Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott. Curran cited a new opinion by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James questioning the constitutionality of the bill. Under her administration, Curran said, the county had received its first positive bond rating from Wall Street in 15 years. Moody’s revised its outlook on the county to positive from stable while affirming its A2 rating, citing three straight years of improved financial results. Curran also said the county had recently reached a critical milestone in the Bay Park Conveyance Project with the County Legislature’s unanimous approval of a design-build contract with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Western Bays Constructors Joint Venture. The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project is designed to restore the ecosystem and water quality in the Western Bays by conveying treated effluent from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant’s ocean outfall pipe through underground tunnels.

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High school football camps kick off Aug. 23 By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county will start preparing for a new season Aug. 23. All scrimmages, two regular-season games, one round of playoffs and the Long Island championships were eliminated this past spring as the 2020 season was delayed six months. It’ll be back to the eight-game grind and eight playoff teams per conference this fall. Conference IV, which has 13 teams, will begin the season one week before the rest of the county and all but three of its schools won’t have the benefit of a scrimmage. A handful of games, including West Hempstead at Malverne, are set for under the lights on Friday, Sept. 3. A full schedule will kick off the following weekend, with the majority of games taking place Saturday, Sept. 11. Garden City, which has captured five straight Conference II titles, is the only defending county champion seeded No. 1 in its respective conference. Massapequa is No. 2 in Conference I behind Oceanside, Manhasset, the reigning Rutgers Cup champ, is ranked sixth in Conference III, while Wantagh is seeded second behind Plainedge. With Wantagh’s jump to III, North Shore earned the No. 1 seed in IV.

Cyclones were in Conference II last season.

10 Games To Watch Sept. 18 Sept. 24 Oct. 2 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 Oct. 9 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 30

Notable coaching changes

MacArthur at V.S. Central Plainedge at South Side Carey at Elmont Massapequa at Oceanside South Side at Wantagh Clarke at Seaford Carey at Baldwin MacArthur at Garden City Wantagh at Plainedge Calhoun at Mepham

Garden City opens against an unfamiliar opponent. Baldwin, in Conference II for the first time, visits the Trojans on Sept. 11. Massapequa travels to East Meadow, Manhasset visits Bethpage, and Wantagh hosts Valley Stream North.

Five teams switch conferences

Of the five programs taking on new conference rivals this September, more than half joined Conference II: Baldwin, Herricks and Glen Cove are seeded No. 9, 10 and 13, respectively. It’s the first time Baldwin will not play in the top conference. Wantagh is back in its longtime stomping grounds of Conference III, which includes South Side again after the

For the first time since the late 1980s, someone other than Stephen Carroll is leading Baldwin as its head coach. Frank Chimienti, former head coach at Valley Stream Central and an assistant at Freeport for the past five seasons, has taken over the helm and is thrilled about the energy displayed by the Bruins during summer workouts. “It’s not like I’m taking over a program in need of a rebuild,” Chimienti said. “Baldwin has such a great tradition and there’s a lot of talent around.” Making their head coaching debuts in September will be Frank Baglivo at Clarke and Kevin O’Hagan at East Meadow. A former assistant under Rob Perpall at Seaford, Michael Corcoran returns to lead the Vikings.

OcEaNSIdE quarTErBack charLIE McKee won the Thorp Award last season, given to the top player in Nassau County.

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New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to resign amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault. A number of news sources have mentioned the only other governor to have met a similar fate. In the fall of 1912, William Sulzer, a Democrat, was elected to New York’s highest office, endorsed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Ten months later, Sulzer stood accused of having laundered funds that went toward supporting his campaign. He eventually admitted to “forgetting” to declare $9,000 — about $250,000 in today’s dollars — while declaring only $5,460. Despite his claims of innocence, Sulzer’s finances were reviewed by a committee of the New York State Legislature. The committee was chaired by James Frawley, who was part of the Tammany political machine led by Charles Murphy. Sulzer himself had been aligned with Tammany, but in spring 1913 he departed from it and particularly opposed Murphy. Sulzer’s trial before the legislature began on Sept. 18, 1913. Ultimately, the legislature voted on eight articles of impeachment, and the Court of Appeals decided that Sulzer was guilty of perjury and of filing a false campaign statement. On Oct. 17, 1913, Sulzer was removed from office, making him the first and, so far, only New York governor to be impeached.

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On Aug. 10, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran vetoed bill 187-21, which would increase protections for all first responders, including police officers, auxiliary police officers, corrections officers, paid and volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians, by imposing civil penalties of up to $50,000 per incident against anyone who assaults, menaces or harasses current and former members of this protected class. Before her decision, Curran reached out to the Attorney General Letitia James’s office for guidance on whether the bill “strikes the proper legal balance between the government’s responsibility to protect its uniformed personnel and its duty not to interfere with the ability of the people to exercise their civil rights legally without fear of penalty.” Curran first commended first responders, including police who supported the bill. “I’m proud of the dedicated first responders who’ve made Nassau the safest county in America,” she said, “and I continue to stand firmly with the brave men and women of law enforcement, and against any efforts to ‘defund the police.’“ In her statement, Curran cited the attorney general’s advice: “The guidance provided by the New York state attorney general raises issues about the constitutionality of the proposed law, which would inhibit residents’ rights to free speech and protest. The proposed bill is well-intentioned, but should not come at the costs of the basic First Amendment freedoms that we all enjoy as Americans.” The attorney general’s letter, drafted by Rick Sawyer, special counsel for hate crimes, echoed County Legislator Siela Bynoe and Legislator Carrie Solages’s words when they voted against the bill on Aug. 3, saying the measure, if it were to become law, could be used to “chill protected speech.” Nassau County Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President James McDermott, who is to retire Sept. 1, issued a statement: “We are very disappointed in the actions of County Executive Curran vetoing a piece

of legislation that was created in direct response to the increase in discrimination and violence toward our membership in the last few years.” The County Legislature’s Republican majority echoed McDermott in its own statement, which read, “It’s unfortunate that the county executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders.” The county has not provided comprehensive data on the number of discriminatory or violent incidents that NCPD members have been subjected to. Both Curran and NCPD Commissioner Ryder had touted last year’s civil rights protests in the county as largely peaceful, with one officer injured. Meanwhile, according to a June county police report, this year Black people were almost three times more likely to lodge formal complaints against the NCPD than whites, as was the case during an incident of forcible arrest of three men during a June 2020 protest in East Meadow, which was referred to James for review. Civil rights groups and activists across Nassau have continued to send letters and protest the bill, as a supermajority of 13 in the Legislature could override Curran’s veto. The Aug. 3 vote in the Legislature was 12 to 6, with 11 Republican members voting for the bill, in addition to Democratic Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton. Republican Legislator William Gaylor was not present to vote. The bill’s sponsor, Legislator Joshua Lafazan, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, responded to the veto, saying, “As a lawmaker, I, of course, respect the opinion of New York Attorney General Tish James. Therefore, I respect the county executive’s decision to veto this bill based on the AG’s guidance and will not vote to override County Executive Curran.” Republican lawmakers said they would formally receive Curran’s veto at the Legislature’s next meeting Sept. 27. The majority would then have 30 days to schedule a vote, which would land about a week before the Nov. 2 election, when Curran and all 19 county legislative seats will be up for election.

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Freeport hosts Naval Academy students continued from front page officials. Kennedy, a retired Navy veteran, stood patiently watching on the dock while the midshipmen, who ranged in age from 19 to 22, got some real-world experience backing their boats into place. Kennedy caught the rope tossed from the first boat and secured the vessel to the dock cleat. When all the midshipmen had assembled on the Esplanade, Kennedy detailed the services that Freeport was offering them during their three-day stay. “Transportation to the hotel from the Esplanade and to the Recreation Center will be provided by the village, as needed,” Kennedy said. “You have unlimited use of the recreation center, having five pools, steam rooms, sauna rooms, indoor pools, outdoor pools and a brand-new fitness center, which is absolutely gorgeous. We arranged a barbecue on Saturday. That will be on the lounge in the Recreation Center, as catered by Dover Caterers.” The Freeport Chamber of Commerce handed gift bags to each midshipman. The lunch provided on the Esplanade had been prepared by members of the U.S. Naval Academy Parents Club of Long Island, a 43-year-old organization. Jim Batcher, of North Bellmore, and his wife, Trudy, were among the parents serving the meal. They had joined the parents club when their daughter Alisa entered the Naval Academy in 2011. “It was the best thing we ever did,” Batcher said, “because everyone was so supportive.” After Alisa graduated in 2015, the Batchers stayed in the club, helping host social events for midshipmen

year-round. One of the midshipmen, 20-year-old Nate Michaels, hailed from Seattle. “The Naval Academy is an officer route,” he said. “You choose a major, but [the training] is specifically about leadership.” During the four years, Michaels said, he would decide on which “community” he wanted to continue in after graduation: surface warfare and carriers, submarines, Marine Corps, aviation, explosive ordnance disposal, SEALS, medical or intelligence. Of the 24 midshipmen, six were women. Two who were interviewed, Khadijah McClean of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Emi Soldwedel of Alaska, said they experienced no sex discrimination either from their peers or their superiors. “Older females had to go through that stuff, but I don’t see it,” said McClean, who will start her fourth and final year this fall. “If they didn’t go through it at that time, I might not have been able to go to the academy now.” She said she hoped to be assigned to the intelligence community after graduating. Soldwedel agreed that the respect for female Naval Academy students felt equal to that accorded to men, calling everyone at the academy “generally good people.” Her greater concerns centered on surmounting the challenges of coursework as she started her third year. “The Naval Academy is a hard place to be,” Soldwedel said, but added, “Do your best and you’ll be OK.” The midshipmen, as a group, are highly qualified young people. Not only is a strong high school resume a necessity to

on aug. 14, the midshipmen enjoyed a barbecue at the Freeport Recreation Center. be considered for the Naval Academy, but an applicant must also obtain a nomination to enter from an official source, such as a US. congressional representative or senator or the vice president. Their annual stop in Freeport adds a bright spot to the midshipmen’s training journey.

“Here, we make [hosting them] a big deal, so it seems they like to come to Freeport,” said Victoria Dinielli, manager of the Freeport Recreation Center. “And every year, when you see those boats coming down that canal with their flags flying . . . it’s such a patriotic sight. It’s really wonderful.”

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE HOME EQUITY ASSET TRUST 2005-3, HOME EQUITY PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-3, Plaintiff against SIMBIA A. WILLIAMS, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 5, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y., on the 14th day of September, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Freeport, County of Nassau and State of New York, known and designated as and by part of Lot No. 11 on a certain map entitled, “Map of Oakhurst, situate at Freeport, Queens County, New York, surveyed and laid out by Carman Cornelius, Surveyor, Freeport, Long Island, 1888 Property of A. Pettit, Esq.” and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on December 19, 1988 as Map No. 366 and subsequently filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau as Map No. 116, which said part of lots is bounded and described as follows; BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly side of Harris Avenue (East Lincoln Place) (Lincoln Place), distant 100 feet Easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of Harris Avenue with the easterly side of Jay Street (Garfield Place); RUNNING THENCE Northerly and at right angles to Harris Avenue, 140 feet; THENCE Easterly parallel with Harris Avenue, 50 feet; THENCE Southerly and at right angles to Harris Avenue, 140 feet to the Northerly sided of Harris Avenue; THENCE Westerly along the northerly side of Harris Avenue, 50 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Premises known as 55 Harris Avenue, Freeport, N.Y. 11520. (Section: 55, Block: 255, Lot: 14). Approximate amount of lien $ 710,688.39 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 4119-08. David Lieser, Esq., Referee. Eckert Seamans Cherin &

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LEGAL NOTICE The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on July 12, 2021, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 12, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A TRUCK FOR USE BY THE VILLAGE WATER DEPARTMENT, STATING THE ESTIMATED

MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $100,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $100,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the acquisition of a truck for use by the Village Water Department, at the estimated maximum cost of $100,000. The period of usefulness is fifteen (15) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $100,000. A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, at the Village Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York. Dated: July 12, 2021 Freeport, New York 127127

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LEGAL NOTICE The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on July 12, 2021, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 12, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $350,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $350,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION

The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the construction of various stormwater improvements, at the estimated maximum cost of $350,000. The period of usefulness is forty (40) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $350,000. A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, at the Village Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York. Dated:July 12, 2021 Freeport, New York 127126 LEGAL NOTICE The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on July 12, 2021, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 12, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A TRUCK FOR USE BY THE ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $93,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $93,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the acquisition of a truck, at the estimated maximum cost of $93,000. The period of usefulness is fifteen (15) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $93,000.

Ronald “Ronnie” Wetzel, Jr. Ronald “Ronnie” Wetzel, Jr., of Bellmore, passed away suddenly on August 8 at age 44. He was the longtime general manager of the Riverhouse Grille in freeport. He was predeceased by his beloved parents, Ronald and Michelle. He was the loving brother of Jaclyn Marro (Michael) and the adored “Uncle Ronnie” of Giavanna Elizabeth and Elaina Michelle. He is survived by the Andrew family and the Wetzel family, and was a cherished friend to the

Cicardo, Pisano, Rugen and Villani families, as well as many other friends and relatives. He was the dear companion of Ashley Koutsogiannis and the adopted dog dad of Pedro “Petie” Martinez. Ronnie loved watching sports and was a hardcore Mets and Giants fan. The funeral service was held on Monday, August 8, at the Arthur F. White Funeral Home in Farmingdale, with interment at St. Charles Cemetery.

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LEGAL NOTICE The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on July 12, 2021, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 12, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST

THEREOF IS $1,200,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $1,200,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the construction of water system improvements, at the estimated maximum cost of $1,200,000. The period of usefulness is forty (40) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $1,200,000. A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, at the Village Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York. Dated: July 12, 2021 Freeport, New York 127122

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or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 12, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS ROAD IMPROVEMENTS, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $750,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $750,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the construction of various road improvements, at the estimated maximum cost of $750,000. The period of usefulness is fifteen (15) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $750,000. A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, at the Village Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York. Dated: July 12, 2021 Freeport, New York 127124 LEGAL NOTICE The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on July 12, 2021, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations

authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 12, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRIC SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $624,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $624,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the construction of electric system improvements, at the estimated maximum cost of $624,000. The period of usefulness is thirty (30) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $624,000. A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, at the Village Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York. Dated:July 12, 2021 Freeport, New York 127125

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teacher aides & teacher aide suBs (HS Diploma Required)

nysed Fingerprint clearance required for all positions.

516-295-7036

SUBSTITUTE SECURITY AIDES Salary: $15.00 per hour District Wide Candidate must have continuing possession of NYS registration as a security guard issued by the NYS Department of State. Security and/or law enforcement experience preferred.

SCHOOL HALL MONITORS

SCHOOL NURSE

1140210

FULL TIME

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Qualifications: Appropriate New York State Registered Nurse License necessary. Must have diabetic insulin pump knowledge. Elementary school nursing experience preferred but not required.

Send cover letter & resume to: hr@merrick.k12.ny.us In the email subject line please include the job title for which you are interested in applying. EOE

1139834

School Monitors Part Time $15.00/Hour. 17 ½ to 25 Hours/Week. Starting Immediately! Applications may be picked up at:

Malverne UFSD Office of Human Resources 301 Wicks Lane, Malverne, NY 11565 or Call 516-887-6419 Malverne Union Free School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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$23.41/hr.

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$500.00 for non CDL drivers. Will train qualified applicants

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H.S. Diploma or equivalent, must drive, speak and write English.

PARKING ATTENDANTS WANTED

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$18.50 NYC, $17 L.I. up to $13.50 Upstate NY! If you need care from your relative, friend/ neighbor and you have Medicaid, they may be eligible to start taking care of you as personal assistant under NYS Medicaid CDPA Program. No Certificates needed. 347-713-3553 A P P O I N T M E N T C O O R D I N AT O R WANTED for Franklin Square Dentist. Must be Friendly Customer Focused, Organized. Dentrix Knowledge Preferred. Call 516-605-8934

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516-295-7037

MERRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT

Candidates are to submit a letter of interest with resume and credentials to:

For Interview With References

Malverne UFSD Long Island, New York 1140429

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CNA’s FULL TIME UNION POSITIONS ALL SHIFTS & PART TIME POSITIONS ALL SHIFTS

Come Join Our Caring Nursing Team! We Offer An Excellent Salary & Benefits Package Great Working Environment Please Email Resume To alicem@beach-terrace.com

part-time cleaners & suBs (day and evening positions) NEED IMMEDIATELY

SUBSTITUTE MONITORS Salary: $14 per hour District Wide

LPN’s FULL TIME 7-3 & 3-11 SHIFTS, UNION POSITION

Long Term Care Experience & Knowledge Of EMR A Must

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SUBSTITUTE CLEANERS Salary: $16.00 per hour District Wide – All Shifts

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school nurse positions (2) early childhood center & high school (September start date. Retirees welcome to apply.)

SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AIDES Salary: $15.00 per hour Two years college required

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TEACHER AIDES Salary in Accordance with the East Rockaway Teacher Aides Association Agreement Two years’ college required

Ms. Jacqueline A. Scrio Assistant Superintendent for Finance & Operations East Rockaway UFSD 443 Ocean Avenue East Rockaway, NY 11518 (516) 887-8300 Ext. 1-553

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Seeking Candidates for the Following Positions:

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Eldercare Needed HOME HEALTH AIDE Needed- Rockville Centre. Monday -Saturday, 1pm-7pm, Assist Senior, Including Cooking Dinner. CNA and HHA Required. Call Hyacinth 516-476-8954.

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395 Serena Rd, NEW! 5 BR, 2 Bth Col on O/S Property. Updtd EIKs. 3 BR Main Level, 2 Upstairs with OSE. SD#14. Possible M/D with Proper Permits. Near All ................................................................................................ $799,000 1610 Hilary Ct, BA, Beautifully Gut Renovated 4600 Sq Ft Colonial in Cul de Sac. 5 BR, 3.5 Bth with Full Fin Bsmt, 2 Car Att Gar. SD#20. Tax Grievance Filed ..............................................................................REDUCED! $1,279,999 1390 Broadway #102, BA, 2 BR, 2 Bth Coop in Luxurious Hewlett Townhouse. LR/DR, Updtd Kit & Office/Den, Elevator, 24 Hr Drman, Valet Pkg, Pool. Priv Storage Area. Great Location Near Shops & Trans .........REDUCED! $349,000

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54 Rose Lane, BA, PROPERTY LOVERS DELIGHT! 3 BR, 2.5 Bth Split on Over 1/2 Acre Parklike Property in Waverly Park Area. Updtd EIK, Den/Fpl/Vaulted Ceiling, FDR & Mstr Ste/Updtd Bth & Sitting Rm. 2 Car Gar. SD#20 ..........REDUCED! $949,000

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2808 Willard Ave, BA, NEW TO MARKET! 3 BR, 2 Bth Split on 1/4 Acre in Cul De Sac. LR, FDR, EIK, Den & FBsmt. Att Gar. Low Taxes. Oceanside SD. Won’t Last............................................................................................ $629,000

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WOODMERE BA 984 Singleton Ave, NEW To Market! Expanded 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Colonial on Oversized Lot in Old Woodmere. Bsmt & 2 Car Det Gar. Near All.SD#14...$899,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

1140110

REAL ESTATE SALESPERSONS WANTED

ou’ll find lots of natural light in this center hall colonial that features an elegant entryway with a 20’ high ceiling. French doors connect the formal living room to the cozy den, which has a fireplace, bay window and more French doors that take you to the backyard retreat. The eat-in kitchen has a bay window overlooking the inground pool. There’s a formal dining room and a bonus room off the kitchen. Upstairs you’ll find the primary bedroom with en-suite bathroom and walk-in closet, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a spa bathroom. This home also boasts a new gas boiler and a new roof! Don’t miss this one!

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1141013

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1139054

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House For Sale BETHPAGE: FOR SALE BY OWNER 3 Bedroom Solid Brick Ranch With Detached Garage In Desirable Hahn Estates. Full Finished Basement, Wood Floors Throughout, Newer Roof, Boiler, A/C. 1.5 Baths, IGS, Low Taxes. $539,000. Shown By Appointment Call Bob 631-987-6707, No Brokers Please

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Long Beach $750,000 W. Walnut Street. Colonial. Westholme section. 3 bedroooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Formal dining room. Spacious backyard entertaining space. Walk to beach and boardwalk, near schools, shopping, dining, LIRR. Taxes: $9,423.93

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Hewlett Harbor $1,090,000 Wateredge Place. Split Level. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops, Cathedral ceilings. Formal dining room. Den/family room. Master bedroom suite with his and hers closets. Secluded property with water view. Security system. Taxes: $27,426.80

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East Rockaway $718,000 Grant Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated kitchen with granite countertops. Home office. Park-like backyard. Taxes: $14,820.56 Elmont $680,000 Baylis Avenue. Split Ranch. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Master bedroom with Jacuzzi tub. Den/family room. Enclosed sun room with large deck. Near shopping and transportation. Taxes: $14,563.67

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A. Living near a onte eeper shoreline, with dynamic high- and low-tide water movement, means taking greater precautions to make construction last longer and perform better. First, there’s the base, way below the floor slab, which must allow water to run through it to avoid collapse. The base is made of compacted stones that allow water to flow between so they don’t form an obstruction, working kind of like a filter. I generally design such a base with landscape filter cloth beneath it, to keep individual stones from sinking when the natural underground current of tide water rises and withdraws, pulling the ground material with it as it flows in and out. I rarely, if ever, see this done, and can assure you that if I’m not standing over the work when it’s being carried out, workers will ignore this “crazy” design, hence a reason for failure. Everyone is an expert, as I am sure you’ve come to know, but ignoring ground and soil dynamics makes it a gamble as to what you’re going to get. It isn’t reassuring when someone says they do this all the time, especially if they can’t give technical reasons for what they do. Floor slabs, just like beams, should be designed for the concentration of the loads they will carry, not just general practice, especially because the steel reinforcing is part of the formula. If the concrete or the reinforcing is undersized for the load, it will, in correct terminology, yield, or give way, not necessarily completely fail. The coating and placement of steel is extremely important. Except for major roadway and transit construction, I rarely see it done to legal standards. Most often, uncoated, rusted steel is placed randomly or tied in ways that defy the reason it was prescribed. If uncoated steel is too close to a surface, it corrodes faster as salt water gets sucked like a sponge into the concrete, allowing steel to wet and dry in a cycle guaranteed to rust. You’re right to be concerned. Good luck!

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Q. I’m wondering if our garage floor, which was completely removed and replaced with a new concrete floor, is strong enough for our cars and my pickup truck. We did it to get rid of the old floor, which was cracked and had sunk. Our mason told us he does this all the time, but it just seems like the floor is too thin and could break. Is there any way to know if it’s strong enough? It’s 4 inches thick, very flat and they put wires in, not thick Ask The rods, that crisscross in a grid. Architect Also, the wires were rusted when they went in and I wonder how long they could last, especially because we live in a development along one of the canals on the South Shore, and after what happened in Surfside, Fla., we aren’t as confident.

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n the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches on the three cherry and two apple trees that my wife and I planted nearly 20 years ago when we first moved in. It is a glorious moment that I await each year, when I can stand and breathe in the sheer beauty of those life-sustaining flowers, all white and pink. Each is such a tiny, SCoTT seemingly insignificant thing. CollecBRINToN tively, however, these flowers constitute a powerful force. This is the natural world reborn in what was once a virtually lifeless suburban backyard. When my wife and I moved in, our yard was all lawn except for a handful of hydrangea, holly and Japanese yew bushes, two scrawny dogwood trees and one ornamental cherry around the edges. In the early years in our home, we ripped out about half of the lawn to make way for many more trees, bushes and flowers, a number of them native species. We wanted to recreate, in a sense, the back-

yards that we knew as children. I grew up in rural Yaphank, in Suffolk County, surrounded by a dense forest of white pine and oak trees. My wife was raised in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but spent many days in her family’s village of Rajdavitsa, amid cherry orchards full of wildflowers. We wanted trees through which squirrels and birds could scurry and construct their nests. We wanted a natural habitat. Two decades later, I’m proud to say that we have one. The cherries that we planted are more than 20 feet tall, and the apples, over 30 feet. All were purchased as one-foot bare-root saplings for a couple dollars each from the Arbor Day Foundation. We also planted four arborvitae, three maples, two white pines, two dwarf Alberta spruces, a Japanese maple, many more hydrangeas and hollies, boxwoods, barberries, red osier dogwoods, butterfly, raspberry and blackberry bushes, forsythias, fountain and maiden grasses, euonymuses, lilies, lilacs, hostas, black-eyed Susans, peonies and purple cone flowers, among others. Where once there was no wildlife, now we have bees and butterflies and birds — red cardinals, blue jays, European starlings, grackles, house sparrows, Baltimore orioles and my wife’s favorite, mockingbirds. We’ve even had birds build nests in

our trees, including a robin and a mourning dove. I love that. There are also squirrels, which eat our apples and, occasionally, our tomatoes, as well as raccoons and opossums here and there. This year we certified our yard as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. We started the simple process by answering a few quick questions: Does your yard provide shelter and food for wildlife? Is there a water source from which wildlife can drink? Are you committed to natural yard maintenance, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers? Then you pay a fee — certification is a fundraiser for this nonprofit environmental organization. Finally, NWF sends you a beautiful green metal sign, which we staked in our front yard’s center bed for all our neighbors to see as they’re out walking their dogs or jogging by. The sign sends a message that our yard is a safe place for wildlife. Between 1982 and 2001, 34 million acres of open space, an area the size of Illinois, were lost to development — roughly four acres per minute, or 6,000 acres a day. More than 10 million of those acres were covered over to make way for houses, buildings, lawns and pavement between 1982 and 1997, according to the U.S. Forest Ser-

here once there was no wildlife, we now have all that we hoped for.

vice, which projects that America will lose another 26 million acres to development by 2030. Each of us has a choice: We can leave our yards as lawn and pavement, or start planting to restore at least some of what has been lost. Collectively, we could reshape suburbia from a traditionally wildlife-averse landscape to a habitat that welcomes wild creatures of all shapes and sizes. The family from which we purchased our home were the original owners of the house, which was constructed shortly after World War II. It was among the first homes built in the area. The couple, in their early 80s when we bought it from them, spoke of a time when farmland stretched from the block just north of us to Merrick Road. That plot is now a shopping center. South of our home was covered by wetlands — what people in the mid-20th century thought of as swamp. It’s now all homes, the wetlands filled in to construct row upon row of split-level ranches, many double or triple their original size. We cannot undo the past. We can, however, commit to a more sustainable future. To learn more about how you can certify your yard with the National Wildlife Federation, go to nwf.org. 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.

All you can eat? Amid a tenacious virus, not so much.

f there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-caneat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet. Now, as the Delta variant spreads, shutting down buffet venues across the country, many folks are missing the opportunity for unrestrained gorging, which is a kind of sport coast to coast. This is a small grievance, to be sure, considering the misery that Covid has wrought, but it’s one of the pandemic lifestyle changes that bite. Like not being able to see your doctor in person or having RANDI to move your book KREISS group online or canceling your plans to see friends or family. With Covid unbound, we have to carefully consider whether to dine out, unless it is a well-spaced outdoor setting. Dozens of buffet restaurants have gone belly up, and the rest are struggling to create safer dining opportunities. Not that buffets have ever been the healthy go-to choice for a meal. The basic idea is that you can abandon any reasonable eating habits you may have acquired and just shovel in as much food as you want to with-

out anyone saying “enough.” In fact, some folks have taken to competing at a few of the big buffet emporia to see if they can get kicked out for eating too much. No such thing. You. Cannot. Eat. Too. Much. No one wants to be reminded that there has always been a direct path from the buffet line to the IV line in the E.R. We Americans want our super-sized meals, damn the glucose and cholesterol readings. If you dine out at a traditional restaurant, it gets awkward to order three desserts, but a buffet makes it not only possible but easy. Now, with Covid, buffet restaurants are struggling to survive, except in the South, where Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee vie for the best attendance award. There is guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations. This limits the use of shared serving utensils, handles, buttons or touch screens and helps customers to stay seated and at least 6 feet apart from people who do not live in their household.” Right. In Florida, where masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, many buffets are

still in business. Oh sure, there may be a server behind the dessert bar, helping you to the pie, but you’re jammed in with a million other unmasked people. Historically, Las Vegas has always offered the biggest, cheapest buffets. If you were willing to leave your life savings at the roulette table, the hotel was willing to feed you into a coma. The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace was the ultimate food experience for thousands of tourists. According to a review, it served more than 3,000 people a day across nine stations, featuring hundreds of items including nigiri sushi, dim sum, rotisserie chicken, 12-hour roasted American wagyu, paella, lobster bisque, snow crab legs, chicken and waffles, gnocchi, pizza, deviled eggs, pho, miso soup, Penang curry, cheeseburger sliders, soba noodles, poke, foie gras PB&J, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp and grits, pozole, tofu, General Tso’s chicken, avocado toast, peppercorn-crusted prime rib and more. According to its website, Caesar’s has reopened its buffet after making renovations and (one would hope) installing safety measures to avoid serving up a superspreader for dessert.

n Florida, masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, and buffets survive.

I don’t want to come off as a buffet snob. I’ve put in my time at the bacon station at many breakfast buffets. On the road, a cheap hotel buffet was an acceptable choice. You could always find something to eat. Here on Long Island, private tennis, golf and social clubs drew new members to their opulent buffets. I loved being a guest at these places, which offered delicious food and the all-you-can-eat ethos, although with more savoir faire than a Golden Corral. Buffets have been so abundant and ubiquitous that people learned to brainstorm the most effective methods of getting the best choices of expensive cuts of meat and seafood without wasting stomach space on the dinner rolls. My own son-inlaw nailed down the tactical approach to buffets years ago: Eat protein first. Don’t bulk up on salad. Go to the lobster and the shrimp and hold off on the carbs. No one ever made any profit on his buffet dinners. Now most buffets are the stuff of nostalgia. My most memorable one was a lunch for President Ronald Reagan when he and Nancy visited Temple Ohr Torah in North Woodmere. The centerpiece was a bust of the president, done in chopped liver. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier

o the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. July had previously been the hottest month ever recorded in 2016, 2019 and 2020. What we are seeing now is climate change play out in real time, as predicted by scientists dating back to the 1960s and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. As a nation, we have largely ignored the crisis, pretending it wasn’t happening, hoping the scientists had got this one wrong. They didn’t. We can see that now. We can see it in the massive wildfires that have consumed swaths of the American West and southern Europe. California and Colorado may be on fire, but so are Italy and Greece. No fewer than nine wildfires are now ravaging California. Exacerbated by extreme drought, the Dixie Fire has burned since July 13 and scorched more than half a million acres in Plumas and Butte counties. Need we say more? The climate crisis is particularly worrisome for Long Islanders. We, after all, live on an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound, which are predicted to rise because ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the seas, causing water levels to rise, inch by inch, foot by foot, over decades. The 195-member United Nations International Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth Assessment Report, offering the consensus findings and opinions of thousands of the world’s leading climatologists. The warnings are dire. When the IPCC began its work 33 years ago, it built some small level of doubt into its reports that maybe, just maybe, humans weren’t the cause of the Earth’s rapidly rising temperatures. Not anymore. In its most recent report, issued only weeks ago, the IPCC stated, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As a result, the report continues, “Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” Climate change works like this: We humans burn fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — to generate electricity and heat our homes and businesses. We also burn gasoline — which is made from oil — to power our cars, buses and trucks. That produces lots of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, which traps infrared heat that is radiated into

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tracks carbon emissions. That we could, in fact, reduce our emissions dramatically during the pandemic should be cause for hope — not celebration, but hope. We are capable of limiting, even reducing our carbon output. We can seek and find alternatives to the old ways if we resolve to do so. The continued warming of the Earth through the middle of the century is all but inevitable, according to the IPCC report. Ensuring that climate change does not continue past that point is, however, possible. “Strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would limit climate change,” the report states. Now, not later, is the time to commit to those reductions.

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he Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality. The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday. A BrainPop spokesperson responded via ALAn email that “we created the video on sinGer the Black Lives Matter protests to provide parents and educators a resource for explaining the protests and movement in kid-friendly terms. The video, which features a cartoon robot named Moby, “doesn’t call for or encourage a revolution.” BrainPop videos discuss over a thousand topics in math, science, social studies and English. They are used in almost three-quarters of U.S. school districts. Not coincidently, there were also complaints about BrainPop at a July school board

meeting in the Three Village School District. A speaker charged that the videos had “BLM all over it, along with Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.” You can watch the nine-minute offending BrainPop Black Lives Matter video on You Tube. In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried every election district in Smithtown, some by over 30 percentage points, earning Smithtown the nickname Trumptown, New York. Smithtown also returned Lee Zeldin to Congress. Zeldin, one of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, voted against establishing a commission to investigate what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, supported Trump’s claims that the election was somehow stolen from him and asked the Supreme Court to overturn the result. In May, Smithtown voters elected three conservative candidates affiliated with the pro-Trump group Long Island Loud Majority to the Board of Education. While it’s unclear whether the group represents a majority of Long Islanders, it is definitely loud when disrupting school board meetings, at which members often

he campaign in Smithtown against diversity efforts first drew attention in January.

LeTTers People have a right to choose To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “The political losers are killing your neighbors” (Aug. 5-11): I am amazed, and want to know what planet Kremer comes from. First it was Trump derangement syndrome, and now it’s Republican derangement syndrome. He says the so-called health haters should be treated the same way as people who were arrested on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. Kremer speaks of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who flipped-flopped from day one, saying you have nothing to fear from Covid-19, starting with no masks. Then it was masks. Then it was two masks. Kremer mentioned conservative Fox host Tucker Carlson, who rails against vaccines. Last time I looked, we had freedom of speech in this country, but apparently, only if you agree with the left, according to Kremer. Then there’s Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Kremer tries to smear because he did an amazing job during the coronavirus pandemic while other governors fiddled. Notice that Kremer never mentions California, New Jersey and New York, all states controlled by Democratic administrations, which were disaster areas during the pandemic.

attack staff and student speakers. They have also been accused of propagating anti-Semitic tropes. During the school board campaign, the group circulated a newsletter attempting to connect opposition school board candidates with George Soros, a progressive and a Jew who has been targeted by anti-Semitic forces in Europe. The Smithtown campaign against Black Lives Matter and diversity efforts first drew public attention in January, when parents complained about the speaker at the district’s Family Literacy Night. Broadway actress Diamond Essence White read a children’s book called “Not Quite Snow White.” White, who is Black, is an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter. Smithtown Superintendent Mark Secaur apologized to protesting parents for the invitation to a “polarizing” personality. After the Long Island Loud Majoritybacked candidates were elected to the school board, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration, who had guided its diversity and equity efforts as a member of the district’s Equity Team, resigned. She had been criticized by parents and LILM,

which argued that diversity and equity were really subterfuge to promote critical race theory. The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies. Opposition to critical race theory has replaced opposition to the 1619 Project as the main mobilizing point for conservatives across the country. In response to the assault on CRT and the 1619 Project, the Zinn Education Project is organizing teachers to pledge to “teach the truth” and participate in Days of Action. It also provides sample lessons. In Smithtown and other Trump-supporting communities across the U.S., however, school boards and frightened administrators apparently don’t want teachers to “teach the truth.” Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

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Governor Cuomo sent elderly patients to their deaths by executive order, placing them in nursing homes while a hospital ship stood empty and the Javits Center was vacant of patients. Nor is there mention of former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash, a super-spreader event in the making, as the liberals would say. Democratic politicians and supporters flew in on private planes, causing a huge carbon footprint, but people like me are the problem. So, yes, politicians are killing your neighbors by trying to suppress people’s right to choose and make their own decisions about themselves and their families. MICHAEL APPICE Westbury

Pulling out is a mistake To the Editor: I voted for Biden with enthusiasm, but in May wrote to the Herald opposing his decision to withdraw the last remaining 2,700 American military from Afghanistan — citing the setback it would be for women and girls there. Remember that it is now 20 years without major Taliban presence. A whole new generation of Afghans has evolved, with the internet creating a more democratic environment through social communication. Afghani-

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stan has changed and policy should have changed too. Our American presence there is not for nation-building, but the Afghans have been building their own nation. They just needed what we had made available and now have pulled out from under them. For the decades since the end of World

War II, we have left tens of thousands of our military personnel in Germany and Japan. We could afford to leave 2,700 for another unspecified number of years. BOB PRAVER Glen Cove

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