Long Beach Herald 03-16-2023

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City schools report chronic absenteeism

By JAMES BERNSTEIN & BRENDAN CARPENTER of the Long Beach Herald

Chronic absenteeism in the Long Beach school district has reached a rate of nearly 30 percent this year, an eye-popping number that is among the highest in New York state. The sobering statistic means that more than 1,000 of the district’s 3,545 students are on track to be absent more than 10 percent of the school year.

School district officials disclosed the numbers in response to a request by the Herald last week.

In the 2020-21 school year, amid the coronavirus pandemic,

chronic absenteeism at Long Beach High School was 21 percent, or about 275 of the high school’s 1,317 students. Districtwide, the rate was about 20 percent. That year, chronic absenteeism statewide was 29 percent.

In Nassau County, Long Beach’s chronic absenteeism rate dwarfs that of many other districts, and is the highest in the county. In Rockville Centre, the rate was about 7 percent in 2020-21, the most recent figures available, according to the State Education Department, and in Garden City it was about 1 percent.

“Chronic absence has been a problem in our community for Continued on page 18

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By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com

Long Beach residents could be facing a double-digit tax hike in the coming fiscal year. The increase is primarily the result of a $5.5 million down payment on a $75 settlement with Manhattan developer Sinclair Haberman, who was thwarted in his attempt to build oceanfront condominiums decades ago.

Police and professional firefighter overtime costs are also an issue, as is rising inflation.

At a special work session last Saturday morning, city officials said the tax increase in fiscal year 2024, which beings July 1,

could be as high as 11 percent.

Comptroller Inna Reznik said that Long Beach must begin making payments to Haberman, and the first one would cost the average Long Beach homeowner about $610.

“The City Council is struggling to reduce costs to city residents, and the process is long and difficult but the job will get done,” said Acting City Manager Ron Walsh, who is also the city’s police commissioner. “We’re trying to fix things, but money has to be raised.”

The settlement with Haberman, which the City Council agreed to last April, will be paid out over the next 30 years. Next

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acting city manager fiscal year, Reznik said, the payment will be about $4.8 million.

City officials are trying to find ways to reduce the tax rate, with council members suggesting ways to cut spending.

Councilwoman Karen McInnis suggested that, for the next fiscal year only, the city forgo the

fall festival, fireworks and beach concerts, plan fewer garbage pickups on the beach in the summer — and possibly for all homes and businesses — reduce hours at the Ocean Beach Park as well as city bus routes, and speed up the implementation of parking meters.

McInnis and other council members stressed that at this point, all suggestions are little more than that, and that the council will be working on the budget for weeks before any figures are formally presented to the public.

“When I look at our residents, I say, What am I going to cut?”

McInnis said.

“We have to decide what we can do without,” Council President John Bendo said.

Councilwoman Tina Posterli suggested taxing the city’s growing number of Airbnbs.

The city’s current budget is $95.5 million, up from $93.6 million in fiscal year 2022. The current budget has a tax rate of 4.96 percent, slightly higher that last year’s 4.87 percent.

The next budget looks far different at this point, because of the Haberman levy. The developer originally sued the city for $150 million, saying Long Beach officials failed to support his bid to build oceanfront condos with Continued on page 5

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HERALD Also serving Point Lookout & East Atlantic Beach

Scouts move up the ranks

Ford won’t seek re-election

Kemins honored

by Mt. Sinai

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Vol. 34 No. 12

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City schools report chronic absenteeism

By JAMES BERNSTEIN & BRENDAN CARPENTER of the Long Beach Herald

Courtesy Long Beach Public Schools

Student performers shine, wet or dry The Long Beach High School Theatre Company staged ‘The Little Mermaid’ last weekend, with Stephania Robinson playing Sebastian, Sammie Fales as Ariel and Max Rosenzweigh as Flounder.

Chronic absenteeism in the Long Beach school district has reached a rate of nearly 30 percent this year, an eye-popping number that is among the highest in New York state. The sobering statistic means that more than 1,000 of the district’s 3,545 students are on track to be absent more than 10 percent of the school year.

School district officials disclosed the numbers in response to a request by the Herald last week.

In the 2020-21 school year, amid the coronavirus pandemic,

chronic absenteeism at Long Beach High School was 21 percent, or about 275 of the high school’s 1,317 students. Districtwide, the rate was about 20 percent. That year, chronic absenteeism statewide was 29 percent.

In Nassau County, Long Beach’s chronic absenteeism rate dwarfs that of many other districts, and is the highest in the county. In Rockville Centre, the rate was about 7 percent in 2020-21, the most recent figures available, according to the State Education Department, and in Garden City it was about 1 percent.

“Chronic absence has been a problem in our community for Continued on page 18

Long Beach residents face potential double-digit tax hike

By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com

Long Beach residents could be facing a double-digit tax hike in the coming fiscal year. The increase is primarily the result of a $5.5 million down payment on a $75 settlement with Manhattan developer Sinclair Haberman, who was thwarted in his attempt to build oceanfront condominiums decades ago.

Police and professional firefighter overtime costs are also an issue, as is rising inflation.

At a special work session last Saturday morning, city officials said the tax increase in fiscal year 2024, which beings July 1,

could be as high as 11 percent.

Comptroller Inna Reznik said that Long Beach must begin making payments to Haberman, and the first one would cost the average Long Beach homeowner about $610.

“The City Council is struggling to reduce costs to city residents, and the process is long and difficult but the job will get done,” said Acting City Manager Ron Walsh, who is also the city’s police commissioner. “We’re trying to fix things, but money has to be raised.”

The settlement with Haberman, which the City Council agreed to last April, will be paid out over the next 30 years. Next

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acting city manager fiscal year, Reznik said, the payment will be about $4.8 million.

City officials are trying to find ways to reduce the tax rate, with council members suggesting ways to cut spending.

Councilwoman Karen McInnis suggested that, for the next fiscal year only, the city forgo the

fall festival, fireworks and beach concerts, plan fewer garbage pickups on the beach in the summer — and possibly for all homes and businesses — reduce hours at the Ocean Beach Park as well as city bus routes, and speed up the implementation of parking meters.

McInnis and other council members stressed that at this point, all suggestions are little more than that, and that the council will be working on the budget for weeks before any figures are formally presented to the public.

“When I look at our residents, I say, What am I going to cut?”

McInnis said.

“We have to decide what we can do without,” Council President John Bendo said.

Councilwoman Tina Posterli suggested taxing the city’s growing number of Airbnbs.

The city’s current budget is $95.5 million, up from $93.6 million in fiscal year 2022. The current budget has a tax rate of 4.96 percent, slightly higher that last year’s 4.87 percent.

The next budget looks far different at this point, because of the Haberman levy. The developer originally sued the city for $150 million, saying Long Beach officials failed to support his bid to build oceanfront condos with Continued on page 5

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Leaders: Housing plan undermines neighborhoods

By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com

Many on Long Island already are having a tough time finding affordable places to live. The elderly are priced out of affordable homes, and younger generations are fleeing to more affordable locales — many times out of state.

Lawmakers have tried a number of ways to keep rents low, but the latest plan offered by Gov. Kathy Hochul to build 800,000 new homes across the state over the next decade isn’t meeting with a lot of support. Especially on Long Island.

“We don’t want Hochul control, we want local control,” Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin told a crowd of local elected leaders at the Port Washington Long Island Rail Road station earlier this month.

Clavin believes the governor’s proposal is a power grab and doesn’t take into consideration the differences between upstate and downstate communities. He worries Hochul’s plans will force Long Island to become the sixth borough of New York City.

While the proposal speaks to creating high-density housing, officials say it doesn’t address upgrading the existing infrastructure to accommodate the population increase — like roads and utilities. There also seems to be little attention from Albany about how such fast growth could impact schools, which might not be able to keep up.

Rents have risen 30 percent since 2015 in New York City, while home prices have grown 50 percent. The situation is even more dire outside the city where rents are up as much as 60 percent, with some existing home sales rising as high as 80 percent over the last eight years.

According to the Population Reference Bureau, more than half of the state’s renters are paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent, the second-highest rate

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HeMpSteAD tOwN SupeRvISOR Don Clavin says he’s not alone in his opposition to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to push affordable housing. Officials believe forcing development — even near transit hubs — doesn’t consider additional concerns neighbors face such as infrastructure and crime. in the nation.

Hochul wants to battle that through what she’s calling the New York Housing Compact. It’s intended to eliminate many of the barriers stopping development of affordable housing — especially around Metropolitan Transportation Authority rail stations — including plans for the state to step in if local government refuse to act.

But that’s what really have many local leaders like

Clavin fired up. The town supervisor says Hochul’s proposal eliminates the public hearing process, and will allow an “unaccountable, bureaucratic board located hundreds of miles away in Albany to make decisions over what belongs in your neighborhood.”

The governor, however, believes the state’s housing crisis requires bold actions and an all-hands-on-deck approach.

“Every community in New York must do their part to encourage housing growth to move our state forward and keep our economy strong.” Hochul said, according to a release. “The New York Housing Compact is a comprehensive plan to spur the changes needed to create more housing, meet rising demand, and make our state a more equitable, stable and affordable place to live.”

The compact, however, suggests local leaders aren’t doing enough to address the housing crisis. And that’s wrong, said Jennifer DeSena, town supervisor for North Hempstead.

“We have a hearing process,” DeSena said. “There are always projects that are being considered Nassau County is the densest suburban community in the country. We have a lot of housing, and wanting to add an arbitrary number like 3 percent every three years, it’s just not realistic.”

Pamela Panzenbeck said she’s worried about a devastating scenario for the city she leads, Glen Cove, where giving the governor the power to rezone property within a half-mile from a train station to 50 units of housing per acre will hurt more than it will help.

The mayor also believes Long Island towns and cities should be able to decide for themselves what the appropriate land use is.

“Changes such as she suggests would destroy our way of life,” Panzenbeck said, “the historic nature and beauty of Glen Cove, and our Long Island communities.”

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Students are busy in the arts and sciences

LONG BEACH HERALD — March 16, 2023

By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com

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ong Beach students have been busy over the past month putting on shows, winning awards, and completing athletic achievements in the elementary, muddle and high schools.

The Long Beach High School Theatre Company presented Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ to family and friends with three performances on March 9, 10 and 11.

The show featured 52 cast members, including the featured dance troupe and ensemble, 22 musicians and a backstage crew of 17 students.

Student Sammie Fales, who played Ariel, sang The World Above, to open the production. Several more songs such as Part of Your World, and the most famous of the show’s songs, Under the Sea, followed her.

Some characters in the cast included Ursula, played by Ava Lithgow, Flounder, played by Max Rosenzweigh, Sebastian, played by Stephania Robinson and Prince Eric, played by Jacob LoCascio. The production team included Director Jordan Hue, along with Musical Director Dr. Michael Capobianco and Choreographer Christianne Vella.

“These dedicated and talented students lit up the stage with their energy leaving the audience wanting more,” said Julia Lang-Shapiro, director of media, visual and performing arts.

Dancers and gymnastics in the district have been busy as well.

The Long Beach High School Hip Hop dancers performed before the Brooklyn Nets game against the Charlotte Hornets on March 5. The choreography was handled by past high school graduate Katherine Almeida. The varsity gymnastics team won the Nassau County Gymnastics Sportsmanship Award last week as well. The award was voted on by all the officials in Nassau County and the team received the award at the county dinner.

At the Feb. 14 Board of Education meeting, Long Beach Public Schools Director of Science Cristie Tursi and 13 Long Beach Middle School students shared an overview

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ThE LoNg BEACh High School Hip Hop dancers performed before the Brooklyn Nets game against the Charlotte Hornets on March 5, taking center court. of a new sixth grade science with members of the board.

The project — called the Microgravity Project — is part of Mission 17 of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program. The goal of the program is to provide students with an opportunity to participate in America’s Space Program. Students can become the “architects” of a project to be conducted in space by astronauts on the International Space Station.

The winning team’s proposal was “How Does Microgravity Affect the Germination of Oyster Mushroom Spawns (Pleurotus ostreatus).” There were two other finalists in Long Beach.

In the next phase of the project, Tursi and the rest of the science department will collaborate with the Long Beach Director of the Arts, Julia Lang-Shapiro, and the K-12 Art Departments on the Mission Patch Art and Design Contest. There will be two contests, one for students in elementary school and another for middle and

high school students. In June, mission patches will be launched to the International Space Station, along with the science experiment designed by the sixth-grade students, and the patches will return to Long Beach with embossed certificates after it is complete.

Finally, Lindell Elementary School held its annual Wellness Fair on Feb. 17. Students and their teachers enjoyed a day of physical activity, mindfulness, nutrition and safety.

Students and teachers alike learned techniques to ensure proper hydration, dental hygiene, bus and community safety, heart health and breathing. Yoga and dance instructors, physical therapists and fitness professionals packed the school. A series of 20-minute sessions and classes took place across the entire school, including in the auditorium, gym, libraries, art room and numerous classrooms. The students, and teachers, learned a great deal about health.

Annual Blue and Gold celebrates V.S. scouts

By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com

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lue and Gold celebrates cub scouting and their achievements. Each year, a ceremony takes place to highlight all of the requirements the scouts had to complete throughout the year before the advancements, or them moving up the ranks.

This year, Valley Stream’s Cub Scout Troop 367 held its annual Blue and Gold ceremony on March 4, when seven of its scouts moved up in the ranks. This was the 68th Blue and Gold ceremony in Pack 367’s history.

“It’s a celebration of the cub scouts,” said Carlos Caban, the committee chair of the Valley Stream scouts. “They advance which is wonderful, but they also share it with their family, which is another whole big thing.”

The seven scouts moving up were Alejandro Chungata, Colin Ho, Aiden Cort, Emanuel Estevez, Joseph Molina, Antonio Ramirez and Jacob Soto.

Cub Scouts range in age and grade level throughout elementary school and each grade corresponds to a rank. The Arrow of Light is the highest rank awarded to a cub scout and is the one in which

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VALLEy STREAm SCouTS Jacob Soto, Joseph Molina, Colin Ho, Aiden Cost, Antonio Ramirez and Alejandro Chungata during their Arrow of Light ceremony. they move up to the troop level. The fifthgrade scouts are called the “Arrow of Light” scouts.

“We go from kindergarten through

grade five,” said Caban. “We call them up and we award them their new rank. It’s a wonderful thing.”

During the Blue and Gold ceremony,

another sub-ceremony takes place as well, called Bridge Over. After achieving Arrow of Light, the scouts “bridge over” and then go into the next level, which is called Scouts BSA. There are two troops that the scouts could move to, Troop 116 and Troop 109. Both troops operate and meet in Valley Stream, but rarely combine for activities. They do every June, though, when they have a jamboree where all the units and scouts across Valley Stream come together and camp out on the Village Creek.

“Cub scouting is really the parents and the scouts together,” Caban said. “They’re always working together on advancement.

It’s a celebration of the entire program, which heavily involves the parents, and recognizes the scouts’ achievements.”

Caban said the scouts do everything close-knit so all the families can be close.

They do this, he said, because the high levels of scouts may do their own advancements in other states, so they want everyone to become close now.

For over a century, BSA has shaped its identity as a boys-only organization specializing in wilderness activities. However, in the near future, Valley Stream may be welcoming its first-ever female Eagle Scout into the community of scouts.

Ford won’t seek reelection after 2 decades Lookout, Island Park and parts of East Rockaway, Woodmere, Oceanside, Lawrence and Cedarhurst. She said her main Denise Ford, who has served as a Nas- reason for not seeking reelection is to sau County legislator for 20 years, has spend more time with her family. decided against running for reelection “I’m getting older, with grandchildren, this fall, she said last week. and there’s just some family situations The 72-year-old Ford was that I want to focus on,” she elected to the legislature in said. “I have served 20 years 2003 shortly after her husand I think that is an adeband, Harry, a 27-year veteran quate time for somebody to of the New York City Fire be in an elected position.

Department, was killed in a And so I just felt it in my gut fire in Queens on Father’s that this was it. This was the Day in 2001. She’s an enrolled year to go.”

Democrat but caucuses with Ford also currently serves the Republicans. as the chair of the Public Ford’s decision comes Safety Committee and the after much thought and durvice chair of the Governing a major redistricting proment Services & Operations cess in the county. She was Committee. She is also a one of the legislature’s bestmember on the Planning, known members. Democrats Development and the EnviDENIsE FoRD and Republicans can be ronment Committee, the Ecoexpected to wage a vigorous County Legislator nomic and Community fight for her seat.

Development and Labor “I had been considering Committee and the Minority doing this for a while and I felt that this Affairs Committee. was the best time for me to go,” Ford said.

During her term in office, she has “I will miss representing my district been honored for numerous achievebecause I really do love the people that I ments within her community. She was represent. But I think it’s time for some- named Woman of the Year by the Long body new to take over and be the guard- Beach Chamber of Commerce in recogniian of legislative district four.” tion of her leadership and by the Michael Ford’s district includes Long Beach, Valente Lodge. She was also honored as a Lido Beach, East Atlantic Beach, Point “Woman of Valor” by the Sisterhood of

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DENIsE FoRD, A Long Beach resident and 20-year veteran of the Legislature, announced she wouldn’t seek reelection in the fall.

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Ford has been a resident of the Long Beach community for over 35 years. She stepped down as the president of the West End Neighbors Civic Association in

2003 when she was elected to the Legislature. She is currently a member in a variety of organizations such as the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW and Kiwanis.

DENIsE FoRD sPENT 20 years as a legislator, assisting many communities in her district.

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Council ponders cuts to reduce residents’ tax burden continued from front page the Zoning Board of Appeals.

The city settled for $75 million, and was forced to issue bonds to raise the money. The city’s history with Haberman is long and complex, dating back 40 years, to one of Long Beach’s earliest efforts to fill the then vacant Superblock.

Corey Klein, a former corporation counsel who worked to settle the Haberman suit and is now a Long Beach city judge, declined to comment earlier this week.

The city is also dealing with rising police and professional firefighter overtime costs.

It also faces the annual challenge of funding operations in Ocean Beach Park — which costs about $5 million per year to maintain — at a time when beach attendance is declining.

Ron Paganini, a one-time candidate for City Council and a former CSEA union leader, said he was most concerned about the overtime pay for police and professional firefighters, a situation he said must be rectified in order for the city to reduce taxes.

“They have to deal with the firefighters,” Paganini said, referring to the City Council. “If we can knock off some of that overtime, we’re good.”

Sam Pinto, president of the firefighters union, said that most of the calls to the department are requests for ambulances, and added that more paramedics are needed, not fewer.

City CounCilwomAn KAren McInnis proposed a series of cuts to help ease the financial burden on taxpayers.

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Among the proposAls City Council members have discussed is shortening beach hours to save money on lifeguards and police details.

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New LIRR rollout gets mixed reviews The good, the bad, and the bumps in-between

By JUAN LASSO & KEPHERD DANIEL of the Herald

For weeks, the ideal stage had been set for the full launch of Grand Central Madison, finally connecting the Long Island Rail Road to the bedrock of Midtown Manhattan.

Or so it seemed.

Limited shuttle service between Jamaica station and Grand Central Madison gave commuters roughly four weeks to try out the new travel routes in advance of the big day, warming them to the idea of the $11 billion East Side terminal.

But as the new service rolled out, some reinforced their concerns. While a number of service lines have been expanded, others have been completely rescheduled. And there were those who worried about inadequate direct service to Penn Station and Atlantic Terminal after timed connections would be eliminated at the Queens station, as well as through direct transfers across platforms at stops like Jamaica under the new schedules.

Then, full-service started Feb. 27, and contrary to the MTA’s calculated expectations, the ensuing first days of its historic Midtown terminal turned into the most dizzying and distressful for commuters in recent memory.

Riders — coping with the rush-hour meltdowns at Jamaica station and onboard Penn Station-bound trains — poured their anger and disbelief onto social media.

Images and posts showed commuters cramming into train aisles. Others making frantic sprints to catch their connecting lines. And many finding themselves tightly jammed inside an antsy crowd of riders on waiting platforms.

By the end of the first week, MTA officials rushed to provide relief in the form of extra train cars added to roughly 30 of its busiest trains, most of them rush hour excursions on the Penn Station service routes, as well as ramping up the frequency of shuttle service between Brooklyn and Queens.

While the adjustments have managed to ease overcrowding and quell a frantic commuter flow, the fumbled full launch of Grand Central Madison has left some commuters scratching their heads — and shaking their fists — at what went wrong.

The reason, according to Long Island Rail Road interim president Catherine Rinaldi, can be chalked up to a miscalculation on how many commuters would actually shift from Penn Station to Grand Central.

The LIRR’s original service plan was designed to accommodate a “60-40” split of ridership, with most still traveling to Penn Station. So far, however, the split has been more “70-30,” although new ridership figures are still pending.

For all the initial bumps, however, Barry Kleinworm — a diamond inventory manager in Midtown Manhattan — said full service to the East Side was a “home run” decision.

“Grand Central station is only five minutes from my office, so I’m loving it,” the Woodmere commuter said.

“Before, I had to walk 20 minutes from Penn Station. So this is a benefit for me for sure.”

It’s something that should have happened 30 years ago, said Jack Halpern, who rides the Far Rockaway branch.

“I’m a lawyer, and my office is in the Grand Central area,” he said. “But of course, I don’t go all the time what with hybrid work. It would have been really helpful to have this service pre-Covid when I was going five days a week.”

Despite the benefits, however, Halpern did note that finding his way in and out of Grand Central has proven difficult.

“When exiting the station, going up the escalators is ridiculous, so I use the elevators. But they’re not all in the same area,” he said. “Entering the station, there is no clear signage on the street level to point you to what looks like a temporary construction elevator that takes you

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MEtROPOLItAN tRANSPORtAtION AUtHORIty chief executive Janno Lieber and Long Island Rail Road interim president Catherine Rinaldi are re-routing four Grand Central Madison trains back to Penn Station after higher-thanexpected ridership on the West Side. down into the station, so they have to make the signage a little clearer.”

Melvin Medina says commuting on the Babylon branch is “not so bad,” but feels the benefits tilt toward Grand Central commuters at the expense of everyone else.

“There used to be an express train straight to Penn Station,” the commuter from Bay Shore said. “Now, by around 8 a.m., I have to transfer to Wantagh to get to Penn, and the train stops at every stop.

“At the end of the day, you’ve just got to plan ahead.

But I don’t really agree with all the changes made.”

Then there are commuters like Debby Washington who say navigating the new train schedule changes has been nothing but daily stress.

“I hate it. It’s just so much confusion going on,” the Wantagh commuter said. “It’s just not organized right now. The schedule is crazy, and the trains come out of nowhere with no announcements.

“I’m paying a lot of money in taxes, and my service is not that great. In fact, it’s getting worse.”

But a lot of that might simply be a resistance to change, based on long-term familiarity to what’s already been in place — even if what’s there now wasn’t all that great.

“I think people are used to what they had before, and so if you’ve been commuting to Penn Station for decades, it definitely throws a wrench in your regular routine,” said Amy Zervas of Merrick. “I travel to both stations, but I prefer Grand Central because there are fewer people on those trains. Either way, I’ve had no issues.”

While opinions appear sharply divided, Rinaldi reassured commuters that changes are being made as needed.

“We are going to be continuously making adjustments based upon ridership and loading data. We look at it every single day,” she said. “The Long Island Rail Road team is all over the rollout in terms of looking for trends, what ridership is looking like, what trains are popular, and adjusting accordingly.”

What lawmakers have to say Assemblyman Brian Curran “Clearly the opening of Grand Central Madison is a benefit, but my office has received numerous complaints regarding schedule changes, specifically additional travel time for our commuters on the West Hempstead line where riders at Malverne and Westwood now experience an approximate hour gap in travel times from the old schedule.

Sen. Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick and myself were informed that the Long Island Rail Road would reevaluate scheduling times for the West Hempstead line if data was provided regarding commuters’ preferred changes. We decided to hand out voluntary surveys to commuters about the issue.”

Assemblyman Charles Levine “We have all known for years that the Oyster Bay line is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s biggest loss leader. With the advent of East Side Access, the MTA has had to reroute and reprogram any number of trains from the Oyster Bay line. The biggest challenge is that the OB line runs on diesel-powered trains that need to stop at Mineola where there is a transfer for riders to get on electric trains to go into the city.

We do not have express trains running directly into Penn Station as we had in the past before the new train schedules. The result is there is less availability for Oyster Bay commuters to travel than there was before, and riders are not pleased — nor should they be pleased. I’m confident, however, that the MTA leadership is aware of this issue and will be addressing it.”

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Scott Kemins grew up in Long Beach “as a nice Jewish boy” whose mom wanted him to become a lawyer or a doctor. She did not conceive of him becoming a fire fighter or a police officer.

But that’s exactly what he did.

Kemins, now 60, has been chief of the Long Beach Fire Department for more than two decades, joining the force in 1980. He was the youngest chief elected at the age of 26.

Kemins, who is also Long Beach’s Building Commissioner, will receive a Community Service Award from Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside “for his longstanding commitment to serving residents of the barrier island,” the hospital said in a statement.

Andrew Triolo, the hospital’s vice-president of facilities, design and construction, has been named honoree of the medical facility’s 39th Annual Golf Outing May 15.

Kemins was born in Queens and moved to Long Beach with his family when he was four years old. He became a Long Beach volunteer fire fighter in 1980. Four years later, he joined the New York City Police Department, serving for 11 years.

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In the late 1980s, Kemins helped rescue a patient from a burning apartment at an assistant living facility in Long Beach.

“The room was on fire,” Kemins said. The patient survived.

He was awarded the Bronze Medal of Valor for his actions in saving the patient. Kemins has also served as a lifeguard for more than 40 years.

He earned a B.A. from what was then C.W. Post in 1986, new LIU Post.

Kemins and his wife, Gayle, have twin 14-year-ol daughters, Casey and Hailey who wer born at Mount Sinai South Nassau and spent two weeks in the hospital’s Neonatal Care Unit.

“My wife and I are eternally grateful to the hospital and its staff for the expert care they provided to our twins,” Kemins said in a statement. “We will never forget the kindness and expertise we witnessed first-hand when our girls were in he NICU.” Dr. Adhi Sharma, the hospital’s president, said in a statement “Under Scott’s leadership, emergency services on the barrier island have improved significantly. He always works to better coordinate services in the field with area hospitals. He is an asset to our community and it is our pleasure to recognize his essential contributions to our community…”

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emins said he was always interested in lawenforcement and fire fighting.

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hey flocked from all over Long Island to learn from one of soccer’s greatest — Carli Lloyd. But the 400 or so young athletes who gathered at the Mitchell Athletic Complex in Uniondale this past Saturday got an added bonus, with a chance to bend it like David Beckham — with David Beckham.

The two soccer stars paid the weekend visit to talk about teamwork, sportsmanship and fitness. And, of course, to show a few moves to the kids, who ranged in age between 9 and 12.

Afterward, they broke into two sessions led by Lloyd and Beckham, teaching some soccer fundamentals and techniques, before posing for pictures with players and teams.

The visit was part of Sands Cares and its Sands Youth Empowerment Initiative — an organization active in communities where facilities owned by the Las Vegas Sands are situated.

The Sands is pursuing a massive redevelopment project at the nearby Nassau Coliseum, where it hopes to transform 80 vacant acres into an entertainment complex. It would include a hotel, restaurants, convention space and performance venues, as well as a casino.

Lloyd is a four-time Olympian, winning gold medals in 2008 and 2012. She has also won two FIFA Women’s World Cups in 2015 and 2019. She retired from the national team in 2021, but not before becoming the oldest player to score a goal for the United States in a 4-0 victory over Jamaica — a month shy of her 39th birthday.

Beckham was a soccer prodigy beginning as a teenager when he played for Manchester United who also appeared in three FIFA World Cups, and was known to be one of soccer’s best-paid players during his career.

Although retired as a player, Beckham is co-owner of Inter Miami CF, which competes in the Major Soccer League.

one might Say David Beckham has learned everything there is to learn about soccer over a long, storied career — but then again, he hasn’t had a chance to interact with some of the future soccer stars from Long Island.

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Soccer icon DaviD Beckham snaps a selfie with some of Long Island’s best up-and-coming young soccer players during a surprise visit to the Mitchell Athletic Complex on Saturday, as part of the Sands Youth Power Initiative.

Soccer StarS DaviD Beckham and Carli Lloyd took plenty of time to pose for pictures with the young soccer players and teams that traveled from across Long Island to see them at the Mitchell Athletic Complex on Saturday — but the stars also took a moment to pose with some of the adults there, too. That includes Nassau County’s labor relations director Jose Lopez, far left, and Ted Sempepos from County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s office.

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By HERNESTO GALDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com

Headaches are the worst. They come at the worst time, but can be treatable with a pop of Tylenol or Advil. But have you ever asked yourself if it could be something more?

If it is, knowing when to seek medical attention is what those who tuned in to the recent Herald Inside LI webinar were looking for as Dr. Kimon Bekelis shared his expertise on the critical differences between a brain aneurysm and a stroke — and how to treat or prevent either one.

A brain aneurysm is a weak spot in the blood vessel in the brain that can burst. An estimated 30,000 people in the United States suffer a brain aneurysm rupture each year, according to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.

“Because it’s a fairly rare disease,” Bekelis said, “I think it hasn’t been as mainstream.”

Symptoms of a brain aneurysm can be confused with a headache. If it’s allowed to rupture, it could mean everything from brain damage, to coma, or even death.

Bekelis is a certified neurosurgeon with training in invasive endovascular neurosurgery. He is also the chairman of neuro-interventional services for Catholic Health Services of Long Island, and co-director of the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital.

He’s also the director of the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island, located in Babylon. With all that experience, if Bekelis comes across someone with a stiff neck, blurred or double vision and confusion, he knows he needs to take action right away. The feeling of an aneurysm is like someone hitting you with a hammer.

“It is a very severe event when they rupture,” Bekelis

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DR. KiMON BEKELiS from the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island in Babylon, recently discussed the differences between a stroke and brain aneurysm. said. “But people do survive.”

Preventing an aneurysm varies from not smoking or using tobacco products, having a healthy diet, and checking your blood pressure and exercising regularly.

But if worrying about aneurysms aren’t enough, Bekelis also warns about strokes. They are caused when blood supply is blocked in part of the brain, or when a blood vessel bursts.

More than 795,000 people in the United States suffer a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Detecting and identifying a stroke fast is the most

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important factor in guaranteeing that somebody is not going to have a deficit,” Bekelis said The American Heart Association created an acronym it believes will help determine if someone is having a stroke. “FAST” is short for face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, and time to call 911.

The “deficit” of a stroke can vary from impaired speech, limited physical abilities, weakness or limb paralysis. But just like aneurysms, there are ways to prevent strokes, Bekelis said.

Monitor blood pressure and cholesterol. Cut cigarettes.

Monitor weight. And, of course, exercise. And there could also be a “magic” pill that might help, too.

“When it comes to aspirin, it used to be a general recommendation that if you’re over the age of 55, they would put you on a baby aspirin,” Bekelis said. “Nowadays, it’s been modified a little because aspirin has been founded to slightly increase the risk of bleeding if you don’t have any risk factors.”

Thinner blood might be good for strokes, but could be bad for other conditions. So, adding a baby aspirin regimen is something Bekelis says should be monitored by a doctor.

It’s challenging to know what the brain is trying to tell us in a headache. But when you know something doesn’t seem right, Bekelis says it will be hard to miss.

“When it comes to a stroke, the symptoms — you can’t miss them,” the neurologist said. “When it comes to a headache, things are a little bit more murky, and headache is a symptom of aneurysm rupture possibility.

“An aneurysm headache is like the worst headache of your life. If it’s one of those, seek immediate medical attention.”

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erri Scanlon knew from a young age that she was destined to be a nurse.

Her mother, Mildred O’Connor, had a successful career in the field. And she convinced her daughter to follow in her footsteps.

“Seeing her love of the career, and then seeing her in action in the facility she worked at,” Scanlon remembered, “she just had this incredible love for what she did.”

Scanlon was fortunate to receive a scholarship that allowed her to study at Columbia University. It was there she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing, and then a master’s in advanced practice nursing.

Now the executive director of Glen Cove Hospital, Scanlon celebrates her 30th year as a nurse.

For the last 25, she’s been an integral member of Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider that oversees the operations of Glen Cove Hospital. Having worked closely with Northwell’s leaders for years, when Scanlon was offered the opportunity to lead the hospital in 2019, she couldn’t turn it down.

“Glen Cove, at the time, was really a hospital in transition and needed direction,” she said. “I love Glen Cove. I love the community. I love the people. I was welcomed with great arms.”

Just months into her new role, Scanlon — and health care professionals like her around the world — would face a much different problem: the coronavirus pandemic. As early as February 2020, Scanlon told her Glen Cove team to get ready. And expect the worst.

Epidemics were nothing new for Scanlon. Her career included HIV/AIDS as well as the avian flu in the 2000s.

But the first wave of Covid-19 was something she’d never seen before. Glen Cove did all it could to offer the best possible care to its patients, collaborating and completing

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GLEN COVE HOspitAL executive director Kerri Scanlon, center, addresses a crowd of health care professionals, working in a unit converted to treat coronavirus patients. research with larger hospitals, and opening up an acute rehabilitation facility to treat patients who’d spent months in intensive care.

“It kind of defined us as the little engine that could,” Scanlon said.

The pandemic helped Scanlon identify areas of growth for the hospital, and she says it’s now better fit than ever to advance into the future.

“Is Glen Cove thriving?” she asked. “Is Glen Cove going to be here 10 years from now? Heck yes. We just celebrated our centennial, and the health system is more than ever investing in Glen Cove. We’re budgeted this year to make money, not lose money. And that’s a huge change.”

The 247-bed community hospital offers a lot, including a state-of-the-art brain injury unit, but Scanlon wants people to know the full scope of care Glen Cove provides. It has renowned doctors in the fields of gynecology, endocri-

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A geriatric-only facility is opening in Oyster Bay, she added, to offer age-friendly services to older adults.

Employee happiness is key to running a successful hospital.

“We want to continue to focus on our patients, and focus on our customers, and the only way to do that is to focus on our staff,” Scanlon said. “Because if they’re not happy, our patients aren’t going to be happy.”

A mother of two, Scanlon resides in Nissequogue. Her 26-year-old daughter also works in health care, so Scanlon is used to giving advice to young women wishing to advance in the field.

“My greatest advice always is to focus on doing the best that you can do today,” she said. “Everybody is so focused on what’s the next thing — it’s this generation. They’re constantly under so much stress. The opportunities are greater for women, but I think the level of stress is even greater.”

Women have made excellent strides in health care, Scanlon said, but there’s always work to be done.

“There’s not enough women at the table for (health care) decisions across the country,” she said. “I think its constantly focusing on that, and diversity and inclusion — ensuring that it’s all women we’re including at that table.

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NCC follows through on insurance increase

By ANDRE SILVA asilva@liherald.com

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This time around, the union is entertaining a proposal for new employees to pay about 20 percent of health care premiums, and existing staff members are willing to give roughly 2 percent of their salary toward the cost of premiums during their last negotiation sessions.

But the college has known health care premiums were rising since last December, Siminoff said, and that those costs would be passed along to employees. So why did the school wait until after the new year to notify faculty members of the change, during the open enrollment period?

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are the college’s plan, there are many faculty members who could be covered under a partner’s plan. In order for them to switch coverage plans, they have to do it during open enrollment.”

Although NCC denies the increase being nothing more than ensuring they’re good stewards of their accounts, Siminoff is convinced the health insurance increase is being used to help with the school’s negotiating position, or at the very least retaliate against and punish the union members.

“It’s really a huge pay cut,” the union president said.

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The new insurance premiums begin March 23, and simply reflect a cost increase by their carrier, NCC officials said. They were allowed to pass on the increase despite a lack of a new contract based on a past agreement that allowed the board to make such increases under an expired contract.

The insurance increases, according to union president Faren Siminoff, could effectively act like a pay cut.

“These are the actions of people with no soul,” Siminoff said. “The college was asked by Nassau County if they needed more funding, and the college told them they do not need supplemental income. Instead the college decided to bleed its faculty dry.”

The educators union and trustees board has been negotiating full-time faculty contracts since last July, hoping to work out a deal before their contracts expired a month later. The union has rallied multiple times since then, but there is still no new contract on the table between NCC and its full-time faculty.

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BALDWIN HERALD — February 9, 2023

Since the invention of the camera, photographers have been enthralled by interpreting the natural world.

We (viewers), in turn, are captivated by what their cameras reveal.

As we spring forward, we’re all eager to enjoy the landscape as it emerges from its winter “hibernation.”

It’s the subject of Heckscher Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Viewfinders: Photographers Frame Nature,” on display through April 16.

Viewfinders explores artists’s varied responses to the relationship between nature and humans. These lens-based works reveal the divergent ways in which nature continues to fuel documentation of the human experience and imagination — from images symbolizing the untamed power of nature, to those where the landscape has been abused for human consumption. The exhibit — featuring 64 works from 34 artists — traces the lure of photography through the centuries, culminating in contemporary times where every person with a smartphone has the power to “frame” nature.

Guest Curator Susan Van Scoy, associate professor of art history at St. Bloom

By Karen WHERE Joseph’s University, combed through the museum’s permanent collection to hange the world? It’s a question WHEN explore the myriad ways artists respond the landscape their responses n at thetofocus of and ourhowcollective ••Now through 16 noon-4 Saturday andApril Sunday, have shaped our perception of nature.

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••$5 suggested admission Emily Lowe Hall Gallery, always been closely intertwined. In fact, the complexities of modern life, non-members; members and South Campus, Hempstead. the world’s first automatic photograph children younger than free For information and 13 to RSVP, was a landscape and photography ath for social change is at the • Heckscher call (516) Museum 463-5672,oforArt, visit was first referred to as ‘sun pictures’ 2Hofstra.edu/museum Prime Ave., Huntington f artisticor expression. ‘drawings from nature,’” Van Scoy (631) 380-3230 or Heckscher.org says. “Artists have long used landscape as a University vehicle toMuseum explore other issues l Stand,” Hofstra of Art’s newsuch exhibition, examines as poetry, spirituality, philosophy and er of the arts in society. environmentalism.

Theassistant images director in Viewfinders are noand exception. They are exandra Giordano — the museum’s of exhibition teeming withcivic hidden meaning.“ xhibit underscores artists’ responsibility and influence.

Legendary photographers such as Edward Steichen, Larry Fink he vital role that artists have American in activating democratic values that and Berenice civic Abbott are represented, as are newly acquired photographs nd freedom, encouraging engagement, and cultivating unity,” by the Kenjicharge Nakahashi and Jeremy Vanotherwise Scoy alsobe selected a substantial rtists often lead and expose truthsDennis. that may s in this exhibition takeofaworks stand by andnotable call outLong injustices their art number Islandthrough image makers. sues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, Beyond traditional forms of landscape photography, Van Scoy was l bias, gun violence, promiseswhat unfulfi lled.

They allascombine the making takes,” which excited and to introduce she describes the “contemporary service that has a grassroots approach in the hope of mobilizing explore environmental issues such as climate changetheir and reclaiming the land. the nation to ignite movement, create awareness, and now inspire “Everyone enjoys seeing landscape, it’sothers beingto used as a background for protest,” she says. “Artists have an important role to help hich runs through July 28, is in conjunction with Hofstra’s onference on the Barack Obama presidency coming up in April. erested in the idea that the artist has a civic responsibility,” says

Patchange McGann is quickly rising as one people shape the future of the environment and our behaviors.” of the sharpest stand-ups on the Visitors will notice a “local flavor” to the exhibit, such as N. Jay Jaffee’s comedy scene. A relative latecomer photo of Lloyd Harbor’s Caumsett Park Preserve. to comedy, he began doing standAs Van Scoy explains: “The Olmsted family up landscape architectural firmwas not Willie Nile at 31 after realizing he The singer-songwriter comes to the created some of the most famous and unnatural ‘natural’ sites in the world, very good at selling packaging. including New York City’s Central Park and Caumsett Statehis Historic Park He hustled way to become the Landmark on Main Street stage for Preserve. Yet some visitors view these parks as nature its untouched house in emcee at Zanies state.

Chicago, an exciting evening of roots rock, with special guest James Maddock. he distinguished himself as Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve has been where a favorite subject of artists Nestled somewhere between especially adept at working the such as Jaffee and Neil Scholl, whose photographs capture the landscape power-pop and American folk, A husband and father of architects’s signature picturesque landscapes in crowd. the park. you will find Willie Nile strumming McGann’s “Visitors just love the Caumsett shot,” shethree says.young “Manychildren, people don’t his guitar. A true believer in appeal stems from his quick wit rock ‘n’ roll, over the years Nile realize its history.” and relatable take on family life has made admirers out of such Picturesque scenes are just one aspect of what’s on view.

From the and marriage. In 2017, McGann names as Bruce Springsteen and whimsical — such as Barbara Roux’s mise-en-scènes wooded areas with act began in touring as the opening Pete Townshend who personally frames or mirrors placed against a leafy ground, natural images that moving fortoSebastian Maniscalco, requested him to tour with The show the power of nature in Kenji Nakahashi’swith abstract take on Hurricane him from clubs to theater, Who, among others who sing Gloria — nature in all its forms is documented.to arenas, including four soldhis praises. The New York Times shows Madison Square “I want people to be able to look at theseout works andatrelate to them,” called him ‘one of the most gifted relatively she says. “I love when you can relate an imageGarden. to yourMcGann’s everyday life and short, singer-songwriters to emerge from also learn something new at the same time.” but impressive resume, includes the New York scene in years,’ Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs among the many accolades he has The takeaway from Van Scoy: “We are reminded that humans are Festival, Gilda’s LaughFest, The received. The timeless qualities of always small in relationship to the power of nature.”

Great American Comedy Festival, melodic craft, lyrical insight and and more. McGann still calls emotional engagement that have Chicago home. endeared Nile to listeners around the world throughout a three-andTop left: N. Jay Jaffee’s Long Island Sound Saturday, from Caumsett (1990) Feb. 11, 8 p.m. $40, $35,a-half-decade recording career — a gift of Paula W. Hackeling — is an example of landscape $30, $25.

The Paramount, 370 York17th Ave.,century Huntington. (800) continue to be prominent in his live photography that follows a formula used New in early 745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com or performances. paintings.

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Best of Broadway Adelphi performing arts students perform their semiannual Broadway revuew, on Adelphi University Performing Arts Center stage, Sunday, March 26, 4 p.m. Under the direction of KT Thomas and Steven Altinel, this contemporary-themed show will highlight hits from pop/ rock shows, including”Rent,” “We Will Rock You,” “School of Rock,” contemporary classics like “Wicked,” “Mamma Mia,” “The Prom” and “Next to Normal.” Tickets start at $30, with discounts available to seniors, students, Adelphi alumni and employees. Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City. (516) 877-4000 or Adelphi.edu/pac.

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The Brubeck Brothers

Jazz giant Dave Brubeck’s sons celebrate their dad’s life and career, with “The Brubeck Brothers Quartet Celebrates Dave Brubeck’s Centennial,” on the Tilles Center stage, Thursday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. Chris and Dan Brubeck bring their multimedia show to the LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville. To honor Brubeck’s legacy, the Brubecks, who performed and recorded with their father since the 1970s, curate this memorable concert with their own Brubeck Brothers Quartet. Through their stories, with music performed by the quartet, the show invites audiences to travel along the timeline of Brubeck’s extraordinary life and career. Tickets are $52; available at TillesCenter.org or (516) 299-3100.

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Long Beach Lion’s Club welcomes authors Stacy Mandel Kaplan, Scott Mandel, Kimberly Towers and Jordan Kaplan to discuss their book, “Hey, Long Island… Do U Remember?” at Billy’s Beach Café, 222 W. Park Avenue, Wednesday, March 22, 7 pm.

For more information, call (516) 889-2233.

Mets and Yankees trivia night Get set for baseball season at Long Beach Brewing Company’s New York Mets and Yankees trivia night, Thursday, March 20.

Drinks and some food will be available for purchase. It begins at 7 p.m., at 3350A Lawson Blvd. in Oceanside. For more information, visit the Facebook page or call (516) 554-0800.

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Gentle Yoga Participate yoga class for health and peace, Monday, March 20, at Long Beach Public Library, 111 W. Park Ave. The class is designed to build strength and flexibility along with a calmer mind. The class will be in the public library’s auditorium and on Zoom, for those you cannot go in person, from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m.

Poses will be a combination of standing and seated. For more information, visit LongBeachPL. LibraryCalendar.com.

Chef Patrick was influenced as a young man by his Grandmother's kitchen, and that's where he saw that cooking can feed peoples souls.

Patrick attended and excelled at the culinary schools he attended. His first stop was at Sullivan College. His journey started at the Garden City Hotel, in the La Cote d' dining room with master Chef Patrick Pino, who shaped his philosophy of cooking. Patrick then headed to New York City to expand his culinary repertoire at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. That's where he met Three Star Michelin Chef Gunther Serger. Chef Serger instilled in him the elegance of simplicity, artistry of balance and the appreciation of the ingredients. Patrick moved south to Atlanta and worked with renowned chef and author Marcella Hazan who instilled the purity and quality of the products that they used. A short stint with Chef Emeril Lagasse exposed Patrick to southern flares and flavors as well.

Patrick felt he had found his culinary voice and headed home to Long Island.

That's when he found local farms and fishermen that worked with sustainable practices. Over the years Patrick has instilled balance in the blends of ingredients in his cuisine, still striving for the fulfillment of his culinary soul.

Craft Kitchen & Taphouse are so excited to have Chef Patrick heading to the Lynbrook team. His weekly specials are a "must try" and he will be changing the seasonal menu this May, making it a great Spring or Summer destination whether you dine inside or out at Craft.

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On stage Mo Willems’ popular The Pigeon comes alive on the Long Island Children’s Museum stage, Friday March 17, 10:15 a.m. and noon; Sunday, March 19, noon.

Pigeon is eager to try anything, with the audience part of the action. LICM, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 224-5800 or LICM.org.

Passover Around the World

The Manhattan Transfer The 10-time Grammy winning vocal group celebrates their 50th anniversary, performing at The Space, Thursday, March 30, 8 p.m. The group looks back on a career that has spanned pop to jazz to rock and roll and more, in this special evening that highlights their long and dazzling career with their signature pitch-perfect vocals.Tickets are $65-$175; available at Ticketmaster.com or TheSpaceAtWestbury.com. The Space, 250 Post Ave. Westbury.

Did you know the Passover is celebrated differently around the world? Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach presents a lecture examining the many forms of celebration, Tuesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m. 455 Neptune Blvd.

For more information, call (516) 431-4060.

Got to catch them all! Long Beach Public Library is calling all Pokémon card collectors ages 8 through 16 for a club meeting and to trade, mingle and battle cards, Friday, March 17. The meeting will be in the program room, 111 W. Park Ave., starting at 4 p.m. For more information or to register, visit LongBeachPL.com or call the library at (516) 432-7201

Historical Society Book Discussion Long Beach Historical Society, 226 W. Penn St., invites everyone to a presentation by David Kenneth Garczynski, about the disappearance of Hog Island, a barrier island off the coast of Far Rockaway, Thursday, March 23, 7 p.m., with an informal chat about Superstorm Sandy following.

Refreshments will be served, donations always welcome. For more information, call (516) 4321192.

Plaza Theatrical is ready to spring forward with “Forever Plaid,” an affectionate musical homage to the close harmony guy groups that reached the height of their popularity during the ‘50s, Saturday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 19, 2:30 p.m.; Thursday, March 23, 2 p.m. The show features such hits as “Three Coins in a Fountain,” “Heart and Soul,” “Catch a Falling Star,” and “Love is A Many Splendored Thing.” It’s performed at Plaza’s stage at the Elmont Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. $49, $45 seniors. Elmont. For tickets, call (516) 599-6870 or visit PlazaTheatrical.com.

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Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 705-2434 to secure you and your baby’s spot.

Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org.

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Family theater Everyone’s favorite cat comes to mischievous life in this theatrical adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic, presented Plaza Theatrical Productions, Sunday, March 19, noon. See what goes on during that rainy day when two siblings are home alone with their pet fish while their parents are out of town, and the tall cat wearing a hat appears. Tickets are $15. Visit the Plaza stage at The Showplace at Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore. For information/ tickets, go to PlazaTheatrical.com or call (516) 599-6870.

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District is addressing chronic absenteeism continued from front page several years, particularly at the high school level,” Dr. Jennifer Gallagher, the superintendent of Long Beach schools, wrote in an email to the Herald, “and this problem was worsened by the pandemic.”

Gallagher said the issue has been discussed at a number of Board of Education, and was a focus of the district’s five-year strategic plan.

School board President Anne Conway agreed with Gallagher that the problem was attributable in part to the pandemic. Students who tested positive for the virus had to remain out of school for five to 10 days, Conway noted.

“Schools went from saying, ‘We really want you to come to school,’ to ‘please stay home if you have even a sniffle,’” Gallagher wrote.

“And the mental health challenges that were exacerbated by the pandemic years also contributed to students feeling disengaged and isolated, increasing school avoidance. This has been challenging for schools to address since some of these students need outside mental health support.”

Robin Amato, a vice president of the Long Beach PTA, declined to comment on the absentee numbers.

Roy Lester, a member of the Long City Council who served on the school board for years, said that Covid-19 was largely to blame for the absentee rate, even in a postpandemic world.

“It’s a different world,” said Lester, an attorney who added that he doesn’t have to appear in court as often as he did in the past. Students, he said, are following the example of their parents, many of whom are now working at home.

A key question, Lester said, is whether students are maintaining their grades.

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Long Beach schooLs, and specifically the high school, have a chronic absenteeism rate of nearly 30 percent.

Gallagher said that absenteeism tended to be higher among poorer students, those lacking English-speaking skills, and those with disabilities or other life challenges.

The problem is being tackled in a variety of ways, she said, including home visits and social service interventions. She said also the district has partnered with com-

munity-based organizations and churches. And it has begun a mentoring program so students can reach out to an adult in case of a crisis.

“We’ve been applying multiple strategies to re-engage students, build a relationship network amongst staff and students and nurture our family connections,” Conway wrote in an email. “The Long Beach School District offers many clubs and extracurricular activities to motivate and connect with all students.”

The district is also initiating a new busing program.

There will be a late bus and a “twilight” bus, for students who miss their buses and don’t have access to a car, as well as for those who oversleep.

“At our last meeting, I asked about our late bus that sweeps through Island Park and Long Beach to pick up any students who overslept,” Conway wrote. “Our district sent a reminder to all families about this bus. Our school district is also piloting a twilight program so students can take core classes in a smaller and more nurturing environment.”

Gallagher said there would also be enrichment programs to engage students in such areas such as business and STEM subject. At the high school, she said, the district has received state grants to renovate the library and common areas to make them more inviting.

Crystal Lake, a community leader in the North Park section, bemoaned the district’s absenteeism, but said she had seen high numbers in the past. For one thing, she said, there is a need for more minority teachers to work with children of color who are chronically absent.

Lake described the situation as “extremely alarming” and said it may become worse unless there is widespread community involvement. “How are we going to deal with children who in some cases can’t read or write?” she said. “It takes a village to raise our children.”

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, MORTGAGE ASSESTS MANAGEMENT, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. BRANDON C. WINICK A/K/A BRANDON WINICK, AS COADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF HILDA SONNER, DECEASED, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on December 15, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on March 28, 2023 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 2 Richmond Road, Unit 138 a/k/a Unit 2LL, Long Beach, NY 11561 a/k/a Lido Beach, NY 11561. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 59, Block 66 and Lot 15U Unit 138 together with an undivided 0.0108591 percent interest in the Common Elements.

Approximate amount of judgment is $1,106,463.28 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 015520/2013.

This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.

Michael B. Mirotznik, Esq., Referee Pincus Law Group, PLLC, 425 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, New York 11556, Attorneys for Plaintiff 137539

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, Against JUANITA SLADE, CLIFTON SLADE, ET AL. Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 12/22/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 4/3/2023 at 2:00 PM, premises known as 28 East Hudson Street, Long Beach, NY 11561, A.K.A. 28 Hudson Street, Long Beach, NY 11561, And Described As Follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City Of Long Beach, County Of Nassau and State of New York Section 59 Block 94 Lot 17,18, And 19 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $495,395.75 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 13-014225 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.

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McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573 Dated: 2/6/2023 File Number: 548-0119 LD 137713

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NOREEN MCCANN A/K/A NOREEN MC CANN A/K/A NOREEN CANNON, ET AL, Defendant. NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the Office of the County Clerk of Nassau County on June 21, 2018, I, Charles Casolaro, Esq. the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on March 31, 2023 at The North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, County of Nassau, State of New York, at 2:00 PM the premises described as follows: 105 Georgia Avenue Long Beach, NY 11561 SBL No: 58-093-27 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the City of Long Beach, County of Nassau, State of New York.

The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 002844/2016 in the amount of $324,649.67 plus interest and costs.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held Rain or Shine. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the foreclosure auction.

Richard S. Mullen Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 500 Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester, NY 14604 Tel.: 855-227-5072 137711

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Long Beach City School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York 11561in accordance with Section#103 of Article 5A of the General Municipal Law, hereby invites the submissions of bids for GENERAL PUMP/MOTOR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE COOPERATIVE BID # 1932-2023 for the 2023/2024 school year.

Sealed bids will be received until 3/30/23 @ 11am at the Business Office, Administration Bldg.,235 Lido Blvd., Lido Beach, NY 11561, at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

Bids and copies of the general conditions may be obtained at the Board of Education, Administration Building, 235 Lido Blvd., Lido Beach, NY 11561, requested from the purchasing agent, Ellen Stewart 516.897.2101or estewart@lbeach.org or contacting the facilities director, Donald Kramer at 516.897.2120 or dkramer@lbeach.org.

Participating Districts: Baldwin, Bellmore, Bellmore-Merrick, Bethpage, Carle Place, East Rockaway, East Williston, Floral ParkBellerose, Freeport, Garden City, Glen Cove, Great Neck, Hempstead, Herricks, HewlettWoodmere, Hicksville, Island Trees, Jericho, Levittown, Locust Valley, Long Beach, Lynbrook, Manhasset, Massapequa, Merrick, Mineola, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, North Belmore, North Merrick, North Shore CSD., Plainedge, Plainview-Old Bethpage, Port Washington, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, Seaford, Syosset, Valley Stream #24,Valley Stream #30, Wantagh, West Hempstead

The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to award bid on a total award or item by item basis, whichever, in the opinion of the Board of Education, will be in the best interest of the School Districts.

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LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF MAINE PROBATE COURT 26 WESTERN AVE OXFORD,SS. SOUTH PARIS, ME 04281 RE: Estate of Robert K. Morris Docket No. 2023-0029 It appearing that JONATHAN M. BRANDT f/k/a JONATHAN M. KURIANSKY, is an heir in the following named matter as listed in Petition for Formal Probate of Will or Appointment of Personal Representative or Both and has no known address and said address cannot be ascertained by due diligence, notice is hereby given pursuant to Maine Rules of Probate Procedure, Rule 4(e)(1).

A hearing is set for April 26, 2023 at 9:00 AM in the Oxford County Probate Court at 26 Western Ave. (POB 179) South Paris, ME 04281.

THIS ACTION OR ORDER SOUGHT IN THE REFERENCED PETITION MAY BE GRANTED IF NO INTERESTED PERSON APPEARS AT THE HEARING TO OBJECT. YOU MAY ALSO FILE WRITTEN OBJECTIONS TO THE PETITION, BUT THE FILING OF SUCH WRITTEN OBJECTIONS WILL NOT SUBSTITUTE FOR APPEARANCE AT THE HEARING UNLESS THE COURT SO ORDERS. March 13, 2023 /s/Jennifer M. Dilworth Register of ProbateJennifer M. Dilworth 138029 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE OCEAN LANDING CONDOMINUM, Plaintiff, vs. MICHAEL H. NELSON, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on January 19, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on April 19, 2023 at 3:00 p.m., premises known as 475 West Broadway, Unit A-2 a/k/a 2A, Long Beach, NY 11561. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach,

County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 59, Block 39 and Lot 150U - Unit 6 and CA 0080 together with an undivided 6.76 percent interest in the Common Elements. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 605743/2020.

This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.

Peter Kramer, Esq., Referee (516) 510-4020 Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, & Peddy, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff 138005 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK INDEX NO. 610311/2019 COUNTY OF NASSAU ___________________ U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF 2 ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs.

MARION B. SPRUILL; DONNELL BARNHILL JR., AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF DONNELL BARNHILL; JESSICA BARNHILL, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF DONNELL BARNHILL; JANETTE BARNHILL, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF DONNELL BARNHILL; JALISA BARNHILL, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF DONNELL BARNHILL, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under

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them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES TO THE ESTATE OF DONNELL BARNHILL, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; JANE DOE (REFUSED LAST NAME) AS JOHN DOE #1; JOHN DOE (REFUSED NAME) AS JOHN DOE #2 “JOHN DOE #3” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

Plaintiff designates NASSAU as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 270 WEST FULTON STREET A/K/A 270 FULTON STREET, LONG BEACH, NY 11561 Section: 59, Block: 55, Lot: 11 & 12 ___________________ To the above named Defendants

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $300,000.00 and interest, recorded on March 01, 2006, in Liber M30151 at Page 790, of the Public Records of NASSAU County, New York., covering premises known as 270 WEST FULTON STREET A/K/A 270 FULTON STREET, LONG BEACH, NY 11561.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

NASSAU County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

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

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE

ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 2, 2023 ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff Oluwatobi Adedokun, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 137989 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. ZEESHAN ZAHEER, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on January 11, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on April 18, 2023 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 265 East Pine Street a/k/a 265 Pine Street, Long Beach, NY 11561. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 59, Block 119 and Lot 42.

Approximate amount of judgment is $1,282,235.81 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 604688/2019.

This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.

Peter Rubin, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Firm File No.: 181884-2 138003

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Q. We just received a permit for our construction. The contractor asked why we also got a permit for a finished basement, which was there when we bought the house. He told us it’s just a Building Department “money grab,” and could have been avoided. We’re wondering why we had to spend money, and, since the basement was already finished, why we ended up with a second permit we didn’t need. The contractor said people call it “finished storage” all the time, and we’re wasting money to put in an expensive escape well, which we could have avoided, right?

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A. It all sounds good, even though it’s not true, but if it sounds too good … You got bad advice from yet another ”expert” who knows just enough to sound confident. Telling you how much should be done should only be from their perspective as a contractor. Advising you to skirt the law (and get the architect to go along with it) is fine for them, since onte eeper they have no responsibility if something bad happens.

A finished basement without an escape well is considered a potentially dangerous and illegal use.

Just like smoke detectors, an escape well is retroactive, required even after a permit has been issued if the use of the basement is “habitable,” such as a recreation room, exercise room, music room, hobby room or any other type of space you can occupy other than a utility room, laundry room or closet.

These are rooms where people don’t generally spend a lot of time, unless of course they really like to do laundry, listen to their boiler hum or hide in small dark spaces, but that should be discussed with a different kind of professional.

Think about it. You spend hundreds of dollars a month on home insurance you’ll never see again, in most cases. Add to that the fact that in a disaster, which we collectively experienced during two hurricanes, insurance companies, which charged increasing fees for building values, turned around and then devalued the same buildings when it came time to pay out. Insurance companies don’t just write you a big fat check — maybe a “lowball”-value check, but not the full amount — and will spend money to investigate whether your home, and the way you used it, were legal.

Illegal use is just one of many ways to challenge the payout you thought you’d receive. I wonder if that came up in your conversation about avoiding the escape well. That escape well isn’t just a child’s only way out when the interior stairway is blocked by fire; it’s also the only way into the death trap for a rescuer. Taking the advice you quoted in your question is like going into a hospital and getting your diagnosis at the information desk. If you would take that advice, then this wasn’t the kind of hospital you needed to go to. Be wise and at least ask the professional. Good luck!

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o one has given me a riddle to consider for a long time. But I can think of one. What’s the difference between U.S. Rep. George Santos and Fox News? The answer is that there is none. Neither can handle the truth.

Santos is two and a half months into his term in Congress, and even though some of his colleagues have condemned him, there seems to be no possibility that he will be removed from public office in the near future, so the lies will conJERRY tinue until the prosecutors call.

KREMER With Republicans controlling the house by a very slim margin, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is badly in need of every vote.

Even if Santos were a real-life Jack the Ripper, no effort would be made to oust him.

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The whole world knows what happened on Nov. 6, 2020, and on Jan. 6, 2021.

There was a national election, and when the final tallies were in, Joe Biden won the presidency by roughly 7 million votes. The election deniers, led by Fox, ranted and roared, but Congress certified the election. It was done, over. But faced with a potential catastrophic loss of viewers, and profits, the network knowingly and willfully lied about the results, continuing to spread the nonsense that the election had been “fraudulently” conducted.

As if the election denialism wasn’t enough, Fox’s Tucker Carlson, armed with 40,000 hours of security video, now claims that the Jan. 6 insurrection was really a peaceful protest.

There are people like former President Donald Trump who want you to believe that, but the footage that Carlson will never show tells the horrible story of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The next phase of Fox’s big lie was its promotion of the falsehood that Dominion voting machines were manip-

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ulated to change votes from Trump to Biden. Fox gave airtime to numerous people who claimed that the voting machines were controlled by the government of Venezuela and other countries, which compounded the notion that the election had been stolen.

Dominion now has a major defamation suit against Fox. The litigation has resulted in the release of hundreds of pages of sworn testimony of Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch, wherein Murdoch states that he knew Fox was falsely claiming that the election had been stolen. Also among the evidence are emails and texts exchanged between Carlson and other Fox voices, admitting they had few doubts about the election results.

It’s one thing for a member of Congress, one of 435, to lie all the way from the campaign to the Capitol. It is a much bigger thing for a federally licensed television network to knowingly spread falsehoods about an election and a subsequent riot to millions of gullible people who are willing to believe those distortions.

t’s one thing to lie your way into office.

But a network that knowingly distorts news?

It will be extremely difficult, under defamation law, for Dominion to prevail and for Fox to be punished for its deliberate conduct in its zest for profit and viewers. So, when you compare one man’s falsehoods with a television network’s commentators knowingly distorting the truth about issues of worldwide concern, there’s a big difference.

Santos will eventually meet his fate, but what will happen to Fox? Eventually, Murdoch will be forced to write a check for millions of dollars to compensate Dominion for its claimed damages. That will be considered little more than the cost of doing business, and in time the story will fade away.

But, sadly, there is no mechanism to adequately punish a network for its willful neglect of the truth. In the end, the only group that will have any say over Fox’s future is its viewers. If they fail to punish the network, it is a message to all the George Santoses of the world that blatant lying is permissible conduct.

Jerry Kremer was an Assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? jkremer@liherald.com.

The sun shivers and shudders northward ou can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

–Pablo Neruda

Don’t believe me. Don’t believe the National Weather Service. But come hell or high water (and both are coming!), you better believe the Farmers’ Almanac.

Those dudes, with their secret algorithms and witching sticks, are forecasting a challenging spring, followed by a beastly hot summer.

Spring will officially arrive next RANDI Monday at 5:24 KREISS p.m. EDT, when the sun crosses the equator, sailing north. However, the Farmers’ Almanac says cold temperatures, freezing rain and even snow may dot the northern landscape well into April. You were expecting daffodils and lilacs? You know very well that nothing rolls the way it used to, including the weather.

Eventually the lilacs will bloom and our hearts, slowed and steadied by hours and days in sedentary hibernation, will dance to a livelier beat. We will have sur-

vived, and only sunny days will lie ahead. At least, that’s what the poets say.

Have you seen any of the early signs of spring?

According to the Almanac, worms begin to emerge from the ground this month. Indeed, the March moon is called the full worm moon.

Birds are migrating northward, along the path of the sun. Apparently, the increasing sunlight inspires birdsong.

Of course, trees, shrubs and flowers are reactive to temperature and sunlight.

According to the F.A., since ancient times, people have used flora as indicators of when the time is right to plant. For example, when the crocus blooms, it’s the cue to plant radishes, parsnips and spinach.

The agonizing turn from hard winter to early spring feels hopeful. You don’t have to live on a farm to study the Farmers’ Almanac and appreciate the old-time folk tales and wisdom. Did you know, for example, that you could balance an egg on its end during the vernal equinox? It’s true. You can balance it on other days as well, but it makes a good story.

Many of us have been suffering serious winter fatigue or worse, exacerbated

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by Covid isolations. Too many older residents in our communities have been shut in all winter, hindered by the cold and the fear of falling on the ice. People have been afraid to drive. For several weeks, amid successive storms, cabin fever went viral.

I offer an it-can-alwaysbe-worse story. We have kids and grandkids out West in a small High Sierra mountain town you may be reading about. The teenage grandkids have had two days of school in the last two-plus weeks. High walls of snow line the few roads that have been plowed. The interstate that connects them to the rest of the world has been closed on and off for weeks. In the last 10 days, 12 feet of snow fell. That isn’t a typo. And last weekend they were expecting another three feet.

The kids have been entertaining themselves by jumping off the roofs into the snow. They dug a path out of the house for the dog, who would rather stay inside by the fire, thank you. My grandson’s high school closed for a time because the roof was caving in. People who live there to ski can’t ski. No hiking.

No biking. No skateboarding. Epic cabin fever abounds.

y teenage grandkids have had two days of school in the last twoplus weeks.

Even here on Long Island, you can admire the pristine mornings for just so long. Cravings for carbs have driven our meal choices. Our skin is pasty, our muscles like Jell-O. I have faith that any day now, the mercury will start rising and the sun will dry out the soggy flowerbeds where spring flowers are trying to set roots. The season may not have turned yet, but we have reason to hope, and I will predict a balmy end to April.

The Almanac agrees. They say it will be a slow and stormy warmup, but it will come. What will also come is another blast of wicked weather this summer.

According to the F.A., “Another threat of severe weather, this one more widespread, is forecast around the time of the June solstice, as a surge of very warm, humid, and unstable air triggers showers, violent thunderstorms and possibly even a twister or two” in the central and eastern parts of the country.

Let’s ground ourselves in this moment. The rule is: When the sun takes its place over the equator, it is spring in the northern hemisphere. Winter is all memory; summer is just over the horizon. It is inevitable, and it is elemental.

As Neruda says, “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

Copyright 2023 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Our fictional universe presents mornings as bright sunlight pouring through our curtains. Birds happily chirping outside our windows. The smell of freshly brewed coffee — and, if we’re lucky, a hearty breakfast of pancakes and eggs.

Reality, however, includes tightly pulled curtains. Birdsong drowned out by the 12 alarms we’ve set on our iPhones.

And by the time we get that coffee, we’re already in the car and stuck in the drivethrough.

Yet we as a society don’t truly show how much we dislike mornings until it comes to daylight saving time — when we push our clocks ahead an hour at the start of spring, with the hope of enjoying more sunlight and fewer stars.

In fact, the whole idea of daylight saving is to push more sunlight into the evenings, and less into our mornings. So, if we were hoping for more sunlight to fill our bedrooms as we wake up, we better consider sleeping in.

If your day starts at 6 a.m., then you’re experiencing what it was like at 5 a.m. just a week ago, when standard time was still in effect. And really, it is still 5 a.m.

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What good will it be if novelists and playwrights find the truth and bring it to us, if fewer and fewer people are reading?

Our media has to step up and present the truth in an unvarnished manner, and let the people be swayed by the facts. Media bias, by holding back on reporting certain stories, is the poison of our time. The media should be questioning everything and holding everyone accountable, regardless of party.

We have been plagued by censorship and the demonization of people who have alternative views. The shouting and screaming at meetings does no one any good. We must step back and put our country and its people first,

doesn’t apply — to today. In general, we come to the same conclusion: We don’t like moving our clocks back and forth twice a year.

Why do we still do it? Blame Congress.

And not just for the 1966 bill signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, but for not ending this nonsense once and for all in the decades since then.

We actually came very close to making daylight saving time permanent across the United States with a Senate bill introduced by Marco Rubio. Modeled after a similar bill that had passed in Rubio’s home state of Florida, the Sunshine Protection Act earned support on both sides of the political aisle — from Democrats like Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, to Republicans like then President Donald Trump himself.

The bill was actually passed by the Senate last year through unanimous consent, although some senators later complained that they didn’t know the bill was part of a consent package, and that if they had, they would have voted against it.

Yet all the Sunshine Protection Act needed was a thumbs-up from the House, and President Biden’s signature. It got neither, and thus, last weekend, we got to experience once again a shift in time for no other reason than to make evening daylight longer.

Is this all much ado about nothing? No, says neurologist Beth Ann Marlow, who teaches at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. She has studied clock-changing across the country for the past five years,

and found that “the transition to daylight saving time each spring affects health immediately after the clock change, and also for the nearly eight months that Americans remain on daylight saving time.”

Marlow shared these findings with TheConversation.com last year, saying that the question shouldn’t be whether to end clock changes, but whether we should stick with standard time or daylight saving. Her choice? Standard time, which is closer to geological time, when the sun is highest at noon.

While daylight saving might allow for more sports to be played in sunlight after school, it also means that many who wake up before 8 a.m. to catch a bus are doing so in the dark.

Having the sun set earlier — at least according to our clocks — could help with sleep, too. Extended light in the evening delays the brain’s release of melatonin, the hormone that promotes drowsiness. It’s even worse for teenagers in the throes of puberty, Marlow adds, when melatonin already gets a late release, meaning our young minds are getting even less sleep.

Too often, we continue to embrace practices because they’ve always existed — Black Friday, scrambling an egg, making our beds in the morning only to mess them up again at night. But there are some practices that should indeed become a remnant of the past. And changing our clocks twice a year to accommodate daylight saving time can’t be eliminated fast enough.

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t. Patrick’s “Day” is actually several weeks of events commemorating Irish culture and traditions and Irish-America’s contributions to the American mosaic.

The highlight event, of course, is the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, on the actual St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. But there are parades throughout the metropolitan area in the weeks leading up to and following the big day.

I can recall marching in numerous peter parades in communities includkinG ing Bethpage, Glen Cove, Islip, Mineola, Rockaway, Rockville Centre and Wantagh.

These were festive, upbeat events. What drew attention and controversy, however, was when, as Nassau County comptroller, I was elected by parade delegates to be grand marshal of the New

York City parade in 1985. The centuriesold struggle between the Irish and the British, euphemistically called the Troubles, was then in the 17th year of its latest manifestation in Northern Ireland, which included shootings, bombings, mass imprisonments and hunger strikes to the death.

I had visited Northern Ireland numerous times, including a fact-finding trip to Belfast with Senator Al D’Amato in December 1980, just after his election.

Then I served as a member of a tribunal in Belfast investigating abuses by the British army and observing trials of accused Irish Republican Army members in non-jury courts. From these visits, where I met with people on all sides, and from my own study and analysis, I concluded that the main cause of the violence in Northern Ireland was British oppression and denial of human rights to the Catholic community. I concluded that the only solution would be all-party talks, which would include

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n St. Patrick’s Day in 1985, I needed a police escort and a bulletproof vest.

Letters and not be scared to say that. Too many self-serving agendas must be the next balloon that has to be shot down.

TONY GIAMeTTA Oceanside

Don’t try to pin T.R. down to ‘labels’ To the editor: Re the editorial in the Feb. 23-March 1 issue, “Teddy Roosevelt: a president who defied labels”: Roosevelt didn’t defy labels; it’s we who seek the simplifying tags.

As the editorial mentions, T.R.’s “American” was an amalgam — not to be qualified by hyphen or purpose.

He also said “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”

Roosevelt’s pioneering conservationism was toward that end.

That principle could be a useful guide through the coming year — more useful than simplistic labels like “liber-

Sinn Fein, the party representing the IRA and a majority of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland.

Not surprisingly, the British government of Margaret Thatcher denounced my election as grand marshal of the 1985 parade. So, too, did the Irish government, which announced that it would boycott the parade and not allow any Irish official to march or participate in it in any way. Both governments pressured Cardinal John O’Connor to break with tradition and refuse to greet me on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the day of the parade. This led to a one-on-one meeting between the cardinal and me just days before the parade, following which O’Connor agreed to review the parade and recognize me as the duly elected grand marshal.

This incensed British officials, who increased the pressure on O’Connor, which only moved him to support me more strongly and make our public

handshake (labeled by British media as the “handshake of shame”) the centerpiece of parade coverage. A consequence of all this controversy was death threats, which made it necessary for me to wear a bulky bulletproof vest and be escorted by Nassau County Police Department detectives and NYPD undercover officers along the 40-block parade route and then the rest of the day on the reviewing stand.

Fast-forward 13 years. By then a congressman, I had worked closely with President Bill Clinton and British and Irish officials to advance the Irish peace process, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998, which brought peace to Ireland for the first time in almost 800 years. Sinn Fein had been a party to the talks, and was a key signatory to the agreement. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the prime ministers of Great Britain and Ireland, the leaders of the countries that years earlier had condemned me as grand marshal, thanked me for my efforts!

Peter King is a former congressman, and a former chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

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BRIAN KellY Rockville Centre

Long Islanders, support Bigger Better Bottle Bill To the editor: New York state is considering the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. led by Sen. Rachel May, it is intended to reduce litter and increase recycling by raising the deposit on returned cans and bottles from 5 to 10 cents.

The deposit has been 5 cents for 40 years. The bill would also expand the types of bottles that are eligible for return to include almost all beverages, including wine and liquor bottles.

Many environmental groups are advocating for the bill.

I urge our readership to contact their state legislators and urge them to support this important piece of legislation.

JOSePH M. VARON Member, Food and Water Watch, Long Island chapter, and Beyond Plastics

CorreCtion The story “long Beach to stop footing the bill for some special events,” in the March 2-8 issue, mistaken reported that the City of long Beach pays the expenses for the Michelle O’Neill Volleyball

Tour nament. The Michelle O’Neill Foundation, which benefits children with cancer and special needs, covers the cost of its annual tournament in long Beach.

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