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The coronavirus pandemic sw e p t a c r o s s t h e U n i t e d States, including Lynbrook and East Rockaway, like a wildfire over the past 18 months, killing 617,000 of our fellow Americans. We mourn each and every one of these precious lives taken too soon. In recent months, however, we have begun to emerge from this nationwide catastrophe, and because of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, we are seeing a glimmer of hope. Though the Covid-19 infection and death rates have ticked up recently, we are far better off than we were one year ago. We also learned an important lesson during this crisis: We are stronger together. Throughout the pandemic, all of us at the Herald have strived to report the news of the day swiftly and accurately. Suddenly last spring, we were no longer a weekly newspaper. We were a daily, publishing the news online at liherald. com and in our newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of people a month came to our website for the latest news.
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Village to bid farewell to ‘eyesore’ Feather factory to be razed in November By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Developers and village officials are eyeing November as the demolition date for the vacant former Mangrove Feather factory building, which will end more than a decade of attempts to repurpose the structure. In its place will be a 210-unit apartment complex, which will cost between $90 million and $100 million to complete, and will be
developed by the Garden Citybased Breslin Realty. Mayor Alan Beach said he was excited to replace the former factory, which has been dormant since 2008. “To get this done, I think it’s quite an accomplishment,” Beach said. “To develop a building that’s been vacant for almost 15 years and is an eyesore to the village, I think it’s going to be a great shot in the arm to the village, and it’s going to bring a lot of traffic downtown. How could it not be
good for our village?” Breslin is awaiting approvals from Nassau County and will then begin razing the structure, which will take six to eight months, followed by two years of construction. David Orwasher, chief development officer for Breslin, will oversee the project after years of negotiations with the village and property owner Barry Singer. CONTINUED ON PAGE 23
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Five months to the day of opening its field office in Lynbrook, Geico made it official with a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting on Aug. 10. The event had much fanfare as residents, elected officials and members of the Chamber of Commerce came to show their support for the business, which included the ceremonial ribbon cutting. The Lynbrook office, owned by Geico agent Melissa Matassa at 475 Sunrise Highway, is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. One Saturday per month, the Geico gecko can be seen frolicking outside the facility. The business offers home, auto, renters, condominium, boat and motorcycle insurances, and also has policies for identity theft and jewelry. Geico is the largest auto insurer in New York state, and Matassa’s business is licensed to sell exclusive Geico products. Notable attendees at the grand opening included Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Lynbrook Mayor Alan Beach, County Legislator Bill Gaylor and — naturally — the Geico gecko. “The support from the local community of Lynbrook along with Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is appreciated,” Matassa said. “As the agency owner of the Geico local office, the ribbon cutting made us official in the Village of Lynbrook.” The Geico office opened its doors for the first time on March 10 after several delays brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Before owning her store, Matassa worked at Geico for 33 years and had several roles, including being part of the management team and supervising sales and service departments, and she also has experience in human resources. She had to apply to open her own business and went through a rigorous interview process before being approved to bring a Geico office to Lynbrook, which now has eight employees. Matassa said she started with five associates last June and added more in December, and that she hoped to double or triple that number by 2022.
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THE NEW GEICO field office in Lynbrook hosted a grand opening ribbon cutting and celebration on Aug. 10. Mayor Alan Beach, sixth from right, County Executive Laura Curran, fifth from right, and Legislator Bill Gaylor, eighth from left, joined owner Melissa Matassa, holding scissors, Geico staff, village trustees and chamber members for the official ribbon cutting. Matassa said upon opening that one of her main goals was to be a part of the community, and that very same community welcomed her with open arms during the grand opening. She added that she hopes to expand going further. “We are looking forward to growing our of fice by assisting potential new Geico policyholders and adding staff to our team in the future,” she said. To lear n more, visit on.gei. co/3tBaM2u, or call (516) 881-3210.
MATASSA, FAR RIGHT, and Office Manager Jacqueline Lalena, far left, took part in the event with Geico professionally licensed agents and the Geico gecko. LUNA JIMINEZ, 2, and her father, Bryan, a Geico agent, met the gecko at the ribbon cutting, bottom right. CURRAN, FOURTH FROM right in bottom left photo, presented the business with a citation.
MSSN to welcome a new president Dr. Adhi Sharma will become Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside’s new president on Sept. 1, the facility’s board of directors announced. Sharma, an experienced emergency medicine physician who helped steer MSSN’s Covid-19 response as its chief medical officer, will succeed Richard Murphy, who will retire at the end of the year. Murphy has served as president for nine years and has worked in leadership roles in the health care field for more than four decades. During the past 18 months, Sharma was the clinical quarterback of MSSN’s pandemic response, while also serving as the hospital’s executive vice president for clinical and professional affairs. Under his guidance, the hospital surged capacity to 500 beds as it cared for more than 4,890 Covid-19 patients over the course of the pandemic. Sharma also helped devise a strategy to meet daily unforeseen challenges, such as redeploying staff to meet the surge in Covid patients, the shortage of equipment and caring for patients stricken by a disease for which there is no known cure. “Dr. Sharma has proven he is the kind of leader we need to continue our expansion of leading-edge clinical program growth,” said Joseph Fennessy, co-chair of the hospital’s board of directors, which conducted a formal months-long search for a new hospital president. “Mount Sinai South Nassau is posed to expand services to the South Shore so our
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MOUTN SINAI SOUTH Nassau Hospital Chief Medial Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma, left, will succeed Richard Murphy as president on Sept. 1 patients and their families don’t always have to travel into the city for the advanced care they need. Dr. Sharma shares the board’s vision to bring more top-quality care close to home.” Anthony Cancellieri, the co-chair of the hospital’s board, said Sharma “has the confidence of the board, the health system and, most importantly, the frontline staff to lead us going forward. He showed his mettle during the pandemic, every day, and we know he is the right leader for the job.”
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Sharma said he was honored to be selected and will continue to help the hospital grow into a major regional medical center for the South Shore of Long Island. “It is with great humility and appreciation for the dedicated clinical and support staff at the hospital, that I have accepted the role as president for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Sharma said. “The hospital is one of the leading facilities on Long Island, and its relationship with the Mount Sinai Health System has only enhanced its standing within the communities it serves. Together with the board and the clinical leadership, I look forward to setting a vision for the hospital that will carry it well into the 21st century.” Mur phy, who led the hospital’s response after Hurricane Sandy and during the pandemic, helped launch a $400 million capital construction building program to modernize the Oceanside hospital and helped guide the facility to an affiliation in 2019 with the world-renowned Mount Sinai Health System. Murphy
praised the selection of Sharma and said he would work during the coming months to ensure a smooth transition. “It has been my privilege to serve as CEO for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” he said. “I am appreciative of the board of directors and medical staff leadership for the support they have given me through the many challenges we have faced, including most recently the hospital’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.. . . Dr. Sharma is an excellent choice to be my successor. He has the confidence of the medical staff and the entire hospital community, including the leadership of the Mount Sinai Health System.” Murphy was praised for his work and dedication by Fennesy, Cancellieri, Kenneth Davis, the chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, and Arthur Klein, the president of the Mount Sinai Health Network. Expansion projects on the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside include a new four-story patient wing to expand the Emergency Department, add nine new operating rooms and 40 critical care beds, a three-story parking structure and a new central utility plant. Also planned is a $40 million Medical Arts Pavilion at the hospital’s Long Beach campus, and a multispecialty health care center in Wantagh that will provide an array of specialty services all in one location to South Shore residents in Eastern Nassau County. Sharma has been responsible for facilitating medical staff interactions with hospital administration and the governing board, and for assuring the effective and efficient delivery of quality medical care consistent with the hospital’s mission. He also has been instrumental in identifying opportunities for service line development and expansion, as well as the recruitment and retention of specialist physicians. Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; compiled by Mike Smollins
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Lynbrook resident Bernard ‘Bernie’ Schwam dies at 89 Longtime Lynbrook resident Bernard (Bernie) Schwam died on July 25. He was 89. Schwam was known to many as kind, generous, patient and a teacher to all, a real Mensch, and as a product of the Old World, he valued honesty and modesty. He spent 47 years with the New York City Transit Authority and was respected by his colleagues for his diligence and reliability. He was a devoted husband to his wife, Susan, for just shy of 57 years, and raised a family after moving to Long island in 1968. Bernard Upon moving, Schwam became an active member of the Malverne Jewish Center and as a trained engineer from a generation raised to value hard work and a do-ityourself mentality, Schwam could fix anything that had a wire and a power source. Though not adventurous in the traditional sense, he indulged in a motorcycle as a hobby. In addition to leaving
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Curran gears up early for fall campaign By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com
Laura Curran has apparently decided not to wait until after Labor Day, the traditional beginning of fall political campaigns, to kick-start her drive for a second term as Nassau County executive. Curran, 53, a Democrat, held a rally on a sweltering Saturday afternoon outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, where bottled water was handed out with blue campaign signs. The county executive announced her intention to run for re-election in May. After her 20-minute speech to about 100 supporters Saturday, Curran acknowledged that it is early to campaign. “The election is three months off,” she said. “But it’s important for people to know where we are going. We will be persistent to build back” after the pandemic. Curran said her fall campaign would focus on “fully funding” law enforcement, expanding access to mental health, developing multi-year plans for a balanced budget, supporting small businesses and promoting job growth. Her opponent in the fall campaign will be Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman, 65, a Republican who lives in Atlantic Beach. Blakeman has run for several offices before, including for a seat in Congress. Blakeman has said his campaign will be all about taxes. Curran, who lives in Baldwin, worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News and New York Post and as an editor at Herald Community Newspapers and was a Baldwin Board of Education member before winning a seat in the County Legislature. In 2017, she defeated Republican Jack Martins to become the first woman to be elected Nassau County exec-
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Laura Curran spoke to about 100 supporters outside county office building on a sweltering Saturday afternoon. utive. On Saturday, Curran was endorsed by John Durso, president of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor. “I’m proud to lend my support to someone who is one of us,” Durso told the crowd. He said the federation’s support for candidates has not always been unanimous. “But this time,” Durso said, “it’s Laura.” Her friend and neighbor, Naala Royale, owner of a Rockville Centre restaurant, told the crowd that Curran “lives in a normal house, walks her dog and sometimes holds press conferences on her front lawn. For us, that’s
Laura.” In her speech, Curran outlined a series of programs on which her campaign would be based. One program includes fighting crime. She noted that she, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and other officials recently broke ground on a new $54 million, 89,000-square-foot police academy on the Nassau Community College campus in Garden City. She emphasized that Nassau was recently named the safest community in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. “That doesn’t happen by accident,” Curran said. It came about as the result of work by her administration, the police department and residents. But her veto of a bill earlier this month to give first responders the right to sue under the county Human Rights Law when they face harassment disappointed police union leaders, including Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott. Curran cited a new opinion by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James questioning the constitutionality of the bill. Under her administration, Curran said, the county had received its first positive bond rating from Wall Street in 15 years. Moody’s revised its outlook on the county to positive from stable while affirming its A2 rating, citing three straight years of improved financial results. Curran also said the county had recently reached a critical milestone in the Bay Park Conveyance Project with the County Legislature’s unanimous approval of a design-build contract with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Western Bays Constructors Joint Venture. The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project is designed to restore the ecosystem and water quality in the Western Bays by conveying treated effluent from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant’s ocean outfall pipe through underground tunnels.
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COMMUNITY UPDATE Ongoing VFW Thrift Shop in East Rockaway Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3350 in East Rockaway has launched its Veterans’ Thrift Shop. The post is at 164 Main St. Due to the pandemic, the store’s schedule varies, but members are trying to open daily, including Sundays. For thrift shop information and hall rentals, call the post at (516) 887-8170, and ask for Pat, Gary, Tony or Gene.
Monday Night Car Shows in East Rockaway Have you heard? They didn’t reinvent the wheel, but East Rockaway Kiwanis has the cars rolling! Come Monday nights from June 21 to Aug. 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday nights to celebrate Car Shows. People of all ages gather together safely outdoors on Main Street at Parking Field 6. DJ Ken will spin the oldies. Many of the cars start to come at 4 p.m. from surrounding neighborhoods with some as old as 1931.
Monday, Aug. 23 Lynbrook Village Board Meeting The Lynbrook mayor and village board of trustees will host its next meeting at Village Hall, 1 Columbus Drive, at 7 p.m. It will also be streamed virtually. Visit lynbrookvillage.net or call (516) 599-8300 for more information.
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A visit for the books Author and East Rockaway resident Joe Petraro recently visited the East Rockaway Public Library. Petraro authored the book “My Best Friend Moves to a Place Called Heaven.” Joining in on the visit were Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Espostio, seated far left, East Rockaway Mayor Bruno Romano, standing fifth from left, Petraro’s parents, Ozzy and Anne, and more of his friends and family members. East Rockaway VFW Auxuliary Post 3350 will be holding a comedy fundraiser for ages 18 and up at 90 Division Avenue, Levittown at 8 p.m. Attendees are asked to make a $20 donation and arrive by 7:30 p.m.
The East Rockaway mayor and village board will host its next meeting at 7 p.m. at 376 Atlantic Ave., preceded by a work session. Vist villageofeastrockaway.net or call (516) 887-6300 for more information
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The day starts with a 9 a.m. mass at Our Lady of Lourdes in Malverne before moving to the Lynbrook Knights of Columbus at 78 Hempstead Ave. The mass and breakfast are in memory of Sgt. Christopher Christodoulou NYPD and Det. Russel Timoshenko. Contact Chris Denker at 516-5992708 or cmdenker@optonline.net for tickets.
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The East Rockaway VFW’s thrift shop is open for business. East Rockaway Kiwanis hosts summer car shows on Monday nights. The Lynbrook village board meets Aug. 23. The East Rockaway school board meets Aug. 25. East Rockaway’s VFW hosts a comedy fundraiser on Aug. 26.
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SOUTH SHORE CAMPS ran its 34th year in East Rockaway this summer.
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It was a summer of fun and learning at the 34th annual South Shore Camps in East Rockaway, where hundreds of children and teenagers participated in a month’s worth of sports and activities under the summer sun. “In all, 110 neighborhood kids took advantage of a month-long program of fun and games,” Camp Director Joe Lores said. The camp was open to children and teens ages 4 to 16 and serves East Rockaway and its surrounding areas. Lores founded the camp more than three decades ago to get children into sports and to provide them with activities to participate in while they are on summer vacation from school. Each individual camp was divided into
AJ SOUTH, ABOVE, pulled with all his might to help his team in a tug-of-war challenge on Field Day. JAMES GIANNOTTI, LEFT in bottom right photo, won the Nok-Hockey championship, while Brody Miguez was the runner-up. CHARLOTTE WEBSTER, AT right, swung for the fences at the softball camp.
weeklong sessions throughout June and July. The camps included baseball, softball, soccer, basketball and a summer playgroup. Activities in the playgroup included a talent show, arts and crafts and sports, while those who participated in the baseball and softball camps learned the fundamentals of the game, including hitting, fielding and sliding properly, and played games against one another. The basketball camp also focused on games and drills to help campers hone their skills, as did the soccer group. Lores is a former boys’ basketball coach at East Rockaway High School, and led the squad to 222 wins — more than any coach in school history — and five titles, including a Long Island championship when his son, Joseph, was on the team. In 2019, he was inducted into the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Hall of Fame
Fun under the summer sun at Greis Park
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The sound of children laughing can be heard on almost a daily basis throughout the summer at the Greis Park playground, as families enjoy some summer sun and fun. The facility, on Wilbur Street, houses the municipal pool, the playground, a basketball court and four fields, A through D, two of which recently saw the installation of artificial-turf fields. The turf areas are multiuse fields that host football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and baseball, and there is a drainage system beneath the surface. At the Greis Park playground, children can use the jungle gym, glide down the slide and soar on the swings to beat the summer heat.
THE GREIS PARK playground has been a popular destination for some summer fun. Haley King, 6, far left, soared on the swings. LORENZO ABREU, 3, center, climbed on the jungle gym. Photos by Christina Daly/Herald
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Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America Per Sempre Lodge 2344 Lynbrook, New York Hi Neighbor: The Order Sons and Daughters of Italy In America is a national organization with a local lodge - - Per Sempre Lodge #2344 - - right here in the Lynbrook community. The Per Sempre Lodge #2344 was originally founded in 1975 and the Per Sempre Ladies Lodge #2344A in 1977 in Rosedale, Queens and relocated to Lynbrook in 2001. Most recently, on May 13, 2021, the two lodges have become one coed lodge - - Per Sempre Lodge #2344. We are currently looking to increase our membership. We are a fraternal and philanthropic 501(c)3 organization supporting various charities including, but not limited to, Alzheimers, Cooley's Anemia and Autism, as well as our own New York State Gift of Sight Program, Garibaldi Meucci Museum and Commission for Social Justice. In addition to national and state level scholarships, the Per Sempre Lodge awards scholarships to qualified children and grandchildren of our members. Funds to support these programs are raised through various events such as fashion shows, golf outings, day at the racetrack and similar functions. Our Lodge meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 78 Hempstead Avenue, Lynbrook. Our dues are only $40.00 per year, with a one-time $10.00 application fee. While we are an Italian-American organization striving to preserve our culture and heritage and promote our positive image, our doors are open to all. The motto of our organization is Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
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High school football camps kick off Aug. 23 By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com
Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county will start preparing for a new season Aug. 23. All scrimmages, two regular-season games, one round of playoffs and the Long Island championships were eliminated this past spring as the 2020 season was delayed six months. It’ll be back to the eight-game grind and eight playoff teams per conference this fall. Conference IV, which has 13 teams, will begin the season one week before the rest of the county and all but three of its schools won’t have the benefit of a scrimmage. A handful of games, including West Hempstead at Malverne, are set for under the lights on Friday, Sept. 3. A full schedule will kick off the following weekend, with the majority of games taking place Saturday, Sept. 11. Garden City, which has captured five straight Conference II titles, is the only defending county champion seeded No. 1 in its respective conference. Massapequa is No. 2 in Conference I behind Oceanside, Manhasset, the reigning Rutgers Cup champ, is ranked sixth in Conference III, while Wantagh is seeded second behind Plainedge. With Wantagh’s jump to III, North Shore earned the No. 1 seed in IV.
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Garden City opens against an unfamiliar opponent. Baldwin, in Conference II for the first time, visits the Trojans on Sept. 11. Massapequa travels to East Meadow, Manhasset visits Bethpage, and Wantagh hosts Valley Stream North.
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Of the five programs taking on new conference rivals this September, more than half joined Conference II: Baldwin, Herricks and Glen Cove are seeded No. 9, 10 and 13, respectively. It’s the first time Baldwin will not play in the top conference. Wantagh is back in its longtime stomping grounds of Conference III, which includes South Side again after the
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For the first time since the late 1980s, someone other than Stephen Carroll is leading Baldwin as its head coach. Frank Chimienti, former head coach at Valley Stream Central and an assistant at Freeport for the past five seasons, has taken over the helm and is thrilled about the energy displayed by the Bruins during summer workouts. “It’s not like I’m taking over a program in need of a rebuild,” Chimienti said. “Baldwin has such a great tradition and there’s a lot of talent around.” Making their head coaching debuts in September will be Frank Baglivo at Clarke and Kevin O’Hagan at East Meadow. A former assistant under Rob Perpall at Seaford, Michael Corcoran returns to lead the Vikings.
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An apt name comes to light early light. Shoplifters are said to be “light-fingered” and though they profess to be all sweetness and light, judges are urged not to go light on them, but vigorously light into them. Commuters ride the light rail to meet friends for a light lunch, though often signal lights warn of delays due to light snow. Anyway, the status of “light” a homonym is especially significant to my friend Shneur, whose name in Hebrew means “Two Lights.” Rather than use the simple definition of two lights, that is to say, “two sources of illumination that makes things visible,” my pals sees his name as a calling to be both bright and easy; to not only light the way, but to lighten oldman the load. He strives to be both “lights,” to not only illuminate but to facilitate; to not only light up the darkness of the path, but to also shed light on the issues and bring the truth to light. His life’s goal is not simply to be leading light, but to always be lighthearted and enlightened. In light of such a calling, I guess my pal is light years ahead and can truly be considered a guiding light (s).
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A “homonym” describes two words having the same spelling and pronunciation, but with different meanings. One such word is “light.” There is a “light” as in “light as a feather” and “light” as in “light at the end of the tunnel.” There is a pilot light and light duty, while you can enjoy the light opera or fall asleep and be “out like a light.” Cops enforce traffic lights, while offenders get a light sentence. You ignite a tealight, but drink a light coffee. A headlight guides your way, but a “light head” just means you’re dizzy. A boxer and a simpleton are two different “lightweights,” while bright night light might disturb a light sleepers. The theater turns on the stage lights so dancers can trip the light fantastic, while the modest pilot makes on light of flying at the speed of light. Some ideas never the light of day, while the clumsy are never, ever described as being light on their feet. Sailors on a light cruiser appreciate the welcome beam of a lighthouse, though they’re much more grateful for a Bud light beer. Folks thrill to “The Charge of the Light Brigade” beneath the glow of a reading light, while we salute the flag waving in a light breeze in the dawn’s
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Nearly 20 years have passed since the U.S. was shaken by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This Saturday, the New York City-based nonprofit Tunnel to Towers Foundation will host a Never Forget Concert at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attacks. “We have a beautiful, patriotic opening planned for the concert,” the foundation’s founder and CEO, Frank Siller, said. “We’re going to honor our fallen soldiers in a truly reverent way . . . and remember what happened on Sept. 11, and our many great heroes including my own brother, Stephen, who paid the ultimate sacrifice that day.” The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation was created in 2001 by Frank to honor his brother, Stephen, who was a member of the New York City Fire Department. Siller strapped some 60 pounds of gear to his back and ran two miles through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) to the twin towers, where he died in the effort to save others. The organization also honors the nation’s military and first responders. The Never Forget Concert will begin at 7 p.m., and will feature performances by a variety of renowned artists and groups,
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All proceeds will benefit the foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes to injured veterans, first responders and Gold Star families with young children, as part of its Smart Home Program. It also hosts programs such as the Fallen First Responder Home Program and the Gold Star Family Home Program, as well as the annual Tunnel to Towers 5K, which retraces Stephen Siller’s final steps. And his brother is walking 500 miles through six states, from Washington, D.C., to Lower Manhattan, in the Never Forget National Walk, a special commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Stephen Siller’s daughter, Genevieve Siller, 23, who lives on Staten Island, said she appreciates that music fans will honor those who lost their lives. “It is so special to have others come together to remember my father and the many others who selflessly gave up their lives for our country,” she said. “It is comforting that even after 20 years, New Yorkers will still come together to celebrate these heroes.” Although Sept. 11 is a bittersweet day for her and her family, Genevieve said she was grateful that her father’s life and legacy have helped so many. “I truly believe my father was put on this Earth to help others,” she said, “and he has done that through both his life and death.” Tickets, starting at $121, are available for purchase online at tickets.JonesBeach. com.
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Syracuse University hoops star to host camp at Freidberg JCC Syracuse University Basketball star Eric Devendorf is coming to the Freidberg JCC in Oceanside to host a basketball camp. Fresh off the million-dollar win in The Basketball Tournament earlier this month on ESPN, Devendorf and friends will be conducting a one-week, half-day camp for 8 to 14-year-
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Mount Sinai Health System, the parent system of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, announced this week that all faculty and staff would be required to get the first shot of the vaccine by Sept. 13. Leaders of the largest health system in New York City made the decision amid increases in cases caused by the rapid spread of the Delta variant and as an added measure to protect faculty and staff. Dr. Kenneth Davis, president and CEO of Mount Sinai Health System, said in an internal message to all staff: “Over the past weeks and months, we have worked hard to encourage every member of our Mount Sinai family to get vaccinated against Covid-19 to protect you, your patients, your co-workers, your families and your communities. We are grateful for those of you who got the vaccine . . .” “As a hospital, a school and a health care provider, we have responsibilities not only to each other, but to the communities we serve. And the right thing to do for our communities—and our Mount Sinai family—is to make sure we are all vaccinated against Covid-19. Vaccines are simply the best protection we have against this virus, and our patients deserve the best.”
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Curran vetoes first responder measure On Aug. 10, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran vetoed bill 187-21 that would increase protections for all first responders, including police officers, auxiliary police officers, corrections officers, paid and volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians, by imposing civil penalties of up to $50,000 per incident against anyone who assaults, menaces or harasses current and former members of this protected class. Before her decision, Curran reached out to the Attorney General Letitia James’s office for guidance on whether the bill “strikes the proper legal balance between the government’s responsibility to protect its uniformed personnel and its duty not to interfere with the ability of the people to exercise their civil rights legally without fear of penalty.” Curran first commended first responders, including police who supported the bill. “I’m proud of the dedicated first responders who’ve made Nassau the safest county in America,” she said, “and I continue to stand firmly with the brave men and women of law enforcement, and against any efforts to ‘defund the police.’“ In her statement, Curran cited the attorney general’s advice: “The guidance provided by the New York state attorney general raises issues about the constitutionality of the proposed law, which would inhibit
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due to the dedicated efforts of community leaders, law enforcement agencies, our Health Department, healthcare professionals and others. Unfortunately, during the pandemic, opioid abuse has increased, including, tragically, overdose deaths. Obtaining these settlements and ensuring that these funds are fully dedicated toward fighting the opioid epidemic will go a long way toward winning this battle. While the recent settlement involves a number of opioid manufacturers and pharmacies, four major defendants remain, and the trial is continuing, so there may be some additional funds beyond the recent agreements. As the lawsuit moves forward in court, I will provide any further updates of significance. In the meantime, we are prepared to ensure that as soon as any settlement funds are aylor received, they will go toward funding the key programs to help address the opioid challenges we face moving forward.
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added to the district. In May, Orwasher lauded the potential positives the project could net for Lynbrook. “This is a classic transit-oriented development,” he said. “It’s literally across the street from the village train station. It’s also going to replace a derelict building that has been vacant for over a dozen years. This particular location occupies what we believe is a pivotal location within the fabric of the village downtown.” Chamber of Commerce President Cory Hirsch echoed Orwasher, noting that he believed the project would be “an enormous boon to our downtown businesses.” “Lynbrook is doing pretty well right now . . . but there still are too many vacant stores,” he said, “and I think a project like this will bring in a lot of people and a lot of specialty shops.” After it was vacated more than 13 years ago, several administrations have sought
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to develop the site, but it took many years to persuade Singer to sell the property. Orwasher said he thought the site was an ideal spot because of its proximity to the Long Island Rail Road station and to downtown shops and restaurants. Breslin negotiated with Colliers International’s Jordan Baruch and Matthew Kucker, who brokered the deal, before purchasing the property. November will mark a major milestone for the village, as it ushers in the razing of the former factory site, while it is also the target date for the 80-unit, $24 million Cornerstone at Yorkshire apartment project to open. That plan also saw the end of a neighborhood nuisance, as it is being built where the controversial Capri Lynbrook Motor Inn used to operate. The motel, which was razed last June, was the site of many arrests for drugs and alleged prostitution over the years. Developer Anthony Bartone, managing partner for the Farmingdale-based Terwilliger & Bartone Properties, said he was thrilled to see the project to come to fruition. “We couldn’t be more excited about it,” he told the Herald last month, “and hopefully it leads to other opportunities in Lynbrook. We hope that we can demonstrate to the village how lovely these buildings can be. Putting this in place of an old motel is certainly a step up.” To learn more about the project to replace the Feather factory, visit restore4347broadwaylynbrookstation.com.
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The building at 4347 Broadway has been a fixture in Lynbrook since the early 1900s. Village historian Art Mattson noted in his book, “The History of Lynbrook,” that it was originally known as the Bates Opera House, and owned by Ed Bates. According to Mattson, the opera house was sold to Max Strassner and Jesse Bettmann in 1916, and they converted the building into a knitting factory. By 1917, the Atlantic Knitting Mills became Lynbrook’s largest employer, hiring 60 men and 60 women. The property remained a source for development for many years, and eventually the Mangrove Feather Company moved into the ground floor. It produced feathers for the carnival and apparel industries. In 1982, Reuben Marin purchased the 35,000-square-foot, three-story building and manufactured men’s sportswear for his company, English Sportswear. He distributed his products to well-known outlets such as Brooks Brothers, Saks Fifth Avenue and others. In 2005, Marin was looking to close his business when he received what he described to a Herald reporter in a 2018 story as “a very compelling offer” from Barry Singer, and sold him the property. Singer purchased the property to develop it, but clashed with village officials when they did not approve his plans to redevelop the building. There was once a proposal to build a Holiday Inn Express at the site, but nothing came of it. In 2011, hotel developer Lee Browning eyed the property as a potential place to build a Courtyard by Marriott, but that project did not come to fruition, either. After failed negotiations, the relationship between Singer and village board members soured. The building was vacated in 2008, and shortly after, issues of graffiti, squatting, skateboarding and trespassing were frequently reported there. In 2017, David Orwasher, the chief development officer for Breslin Realty, began negotiating with Singer, and they reached an agreement in March to build a 210-unit apartment complex there. After two meet-and-greets between Orwasher and residents and a public hearing in May, the board unanimously voted to approve the project on June 6. In August, Mayor Alan Beach said the plan was to raze the building in November, a process that will take six to eight months. Construction of the project would then take another two years.
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East Rockaway $718,000 Grant Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated kitchen with granite countertops. Home office. Park-like backyard. Taxes: $14,820.56 Elmont $680,000 Baylis Avenue. Split Ranch. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Master bedroom with Jacuzzi tub. Den/family room. Enclosed sun room with large deck. Near shopping and transportation. Taxes: $14,563.67
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n the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches on the three cherry and two apple trees that my wife and I planted nearly 20 years ago when we first moved in. It is a glorious moment that I await each year, when I can stand and breathe in the sheer beauty of those life-sustaining flowers, all white and pink. Each is such a tiny, SCOTT seemingly insignificant thing. CollecBRINTON tively, however, these flowers constitute a powerful force. This is the natural world reborn in what was once a virtually lifeless suburban backyard. When my wife and I moved in, our yard was all lawn except for a handful of hydrangea, holly and Japanese yew bushes, two scrawny dogwood trees and one ornamental cherry around the edges. In the early years in our home, we ripped out about half of the lawn to make way for many more trees, bushes and flowers, a number of them native species. We wanted to recreate, in a sense, the back-
yards that we knew as children. I grew up in rural Yaphank, in Suffolk County, surrounded by a dense forest of white pine and oak trees. My wife was raised in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but spent many days in her family’s village of Rajdavitsa, amid cherry orchards full of wildflowers. We wanted trees through which squirrels and birds could scurry and construct their nests. We wanted a natural habitat. Two decades later, I’m proud to say that we have one. The cherries that we planted are more than 20 feet tall, and the apples, over 30 feet. All were purchased as one-foot bare-root saplings for a couple dollars each from the Arbor Day Foundation. We also planted four arborvitae, three maples, two white pines, two dwarf Alberta spruces, a Japanese maple, many more hydrangeas and hollies, boxwoods, barberries, red osier dogwoods, butterfly, raspberry and blackberry bushes, forsythias, fountain and maiden grasses, euonymuses, lilies, lilacs, hostas, black-eyed Susans, peonies and purple cone flowers, among others. Where once there was no wildlife, now we have bees and butterflies and birds — red cardinals, blue jays, European starlings, grackles, house sparrows, Baltimore orioles and my wife’s favorite, mockingbirds. We’ve even had birds build nests in
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our trees, including a robin and a mourning dove. I love that. There are also squirrels, which eat our apples and, occasionally, our tomatoes, as well as raccoons and opossums here and there. This year we certified our yard as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. We started the simple process by answering a few quick questions: Does your yard provide shelter and food for wildlife? Is there a water source from which wildlife can drink? Are you committed to natural yard maintenance, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers? Then you pay a fee — certification is a fundraiser for this nonprofit environmental organization. Finally, NWF sends you a beautiful green metal sign, which we staked in our front yard’s center bed for all our neighbors to see as they’re out walking their dogs or jogging by. The sign sends a message that our yard is a safe place for wildlife. Between 1982 and 2001, 34 million acres of open space, an area the size of Illinois, were lost to development — roughly four acres per minute, or 6,000 acres a day. More than 10 million of those acres were covered over to make way for houses, buildings, lawns and pavement between 1982 and 1997, according to the U.S. Forest Ser-
here once there was no wildlife, we now have all that we hoped for.
vice, which projects that America will lose another 26 million acres to development by 2030. Each of us has a choice: We can leave our yards as lawn and pavement, or start planting to restore at least some of what has been lost. Collectively, we could reshape suburbia from a traditionally wildlife-averse landscape to a habitat that welcomes wild creatures of all shapes and sizes. The family from which we purchased our home were the original owners of the house, which was constructed shortly after World War II. It was among the first homes built in the area. The couple, in their early 80s when we bought it from them, spoke of a time when farmland stretched from the block just north of us to Merrick Road. That plot is now a shopping center. South of our home was covered by wetlands — what people in the mid-20th century thought of as swamp. It’s now all homes, the wetlands filled in to construct row upon row of split-level ranches, many double or triple their original size. We cannot undo the past. We can, however, commit to a more sustainable future. To learn more about how you can certify your yard with the National Wildlife Federation, go to nwf.org. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.
All you can eat? Amid a tenacious virus, not so much.
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f there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-caneat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet. Now, as the Delta variant spreads, shutting down buffet venues across the country, many folks are missing the opportunity for unrestrained gorging, which is a kind of sport coast to coast. This is a small grievance, to be sure, considering the misery that Covid has wrought, but it’s one of the pandemic lifestyle changes that bite. Like not being able to see your doctor in person or having RANDI to move your book KREISS group online or canceling your plans to see friends or family. With Covid unbound, we have to carefully consider whether to dine out, unless it is a well-spaced outdoor setting. Dozens of buffet restaurants have gone belly up, and the rest are struggling to create safer dining opportunities. Not that buffets have ever been the healthy go-to choice for a meal. The basic idea is that you can abandon any reasonable eating habits you may have acquired and just shovel in as much food as you want to with-
out anyone saying “enough.” In fact, some folks have taken to competing at a few of the big buffet emporia to see if they can get kicked out for eating too much. No such thing. You. Cannot. Eat. Too. Much. No one wants to be reminded that there has always been a direct path from the buffet line to the IV line in the E.R. We Americans want our super-sized meals, damn the glucose and cholesterol readings. If you dine out at a traditional restaurant, it gets awkward to order three desserts, but a buffet makes it not only possible but easy. Now, with Covid, buffet restaurants are struggling to survive, except in the South, where Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee vie for the best attendance award. There is guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations. This limits the use of shared serving utensils, handles, buttons or touch screens and helps customers to stay seated and at least 6 feet apart from people who do not live in their household.” Right. In Florida, where masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, many buffets are
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still in business. Oh sure, there may be a server behind the dessert bar, helping you to the pie, but you’re jammed in with a million other unmasked people. Historically, Las Vegas has always offered the biggest, cheapest buffets. If you were willing to leave your life savings at the roulette table, the hotel was willing to feed you into a coma. The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace was the ultimate food experience for thousands of tourists. According to a review, it served more than 3,000 people a day across nine stations, featuring hundreds of items including nigiri sushi, dim sum, rotisserie chicken, 12-hour roasted American wagyu, paella, lobster bisque, snow crab legs, chicken and waffles, gnocchi, pizza, deviled eggs, pho, miso soup, Penang curry, cheeseburger sliders, soba noodles, poke, foie gras PB&J, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp and grits, pozole, tofu, General Tso’s chicken, avocado toast, peppercorn-crusted prime rib and more. According to its website, Caesar’s has reopened its buffet after making renovations and (one would hope) installing safety measures to avoid serving up a superspreader for dessert.
n Florida, masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, and buffets survive.
I don’t want to come off as a buffet snob. I’ve put in my time at the bacon station at many breakfast buffets. On the road, a cheap hotel buffet was an acceptable choice. You could always find something to eat. Here on Long Island, private tennis, golf and social clubs drew new members to their opulent buffets. I loved being a guest at these places, which offered delicious food and the all-you-can-eat ethos, although with more savoir faire than a Golden Corral. Buffets have been so abundant and ubiquitous that people learned to brainstorm the most effective methods of getting the best choices of expensive cuts of meat and seafood without wasting stomach space on the dinner rolls. My own son-inlaw nailed down the tactical approach to buffets years ago: Eat protein first. Don’t bulk up on salad. Go to the lobster and the shrimp and hold off on the carbs. No one ever made any profit on his buffet dinners. Now most buffets are the stuff of nostalgia. My most memorable one was a lunch for President Ronald Reagan when he and Nancy visited Temple Ohr Torah in North Woodmere. The centerpiece was a bust of the president, done in chopped liver. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier
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o the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. July had previously been the hottest month ever recorded in 2016, 2019 and 2020. What we are seeing now is climate change play out in real time, as predicted by scientists dating back to the 1960s and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. As a nation, we have largely ignored the crisis, pretending it wasn’t happening, hoping the scientists had got this one wrong. They didn’t. We can see that now. We can see it in the massive wildfires that have consumed swaths of the American West and southern Europe. California and Colorado may be on fire, but so are Italy and Greece. No fewer than nine wildfires are now ravaging California. Exacerbated by extreme drought, the Dixie Fire has burned since July 13 and scorched more than half a million acres in Plumas and Butte counties. Need we say more? The climate crisis is particularly worrisome for Long Islanders. We, after all, live on an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound, which are predicted to rise because ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the seas, causing water levels to rise, inch by inch, foot by foot, over decades. The 195-member United Nations International Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth Assessment Report, offering the consensus findings and opinions of thousands of the world’s leading climatologists. The warnings are dire. When the IPCC began its work 33 years ago, it built some small level of doubt into its reports that maybe, just maybe, humans weren’t the cause of the Earth’s rapidly rising temperatures. Not anymore. In its most recent report, issued only weeks ago, the IPCC stated, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As a result, the report continues, “Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” Climate change works like this: We humans burn fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — to generate electricity and heat our homes and businesses. We also burn gasoline — which is made from oil — to power our cars, buses and trucks. That produces lots of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, which traps infrared heat that is radiated into
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space from the Earth’s surface, warming the entirety of the planet. On average, human activities send 40 billion tons — tons — of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And here’s the thing: Despite our growing knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis, that volume of carbon continues to increase. Between 2014 and 2016, amid negotiations over the Paris Climate Agreement, carbon emissions leveled off, giving us some hope that perhaps we might be headed in the right direction. But those emissions started to rise again in 2017, the year President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and they continued to increase in 2018 and 2019, before falling last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when everyone stayed home, according to The World Counts, a website that
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tracks carbon emissions. That we could, in fact, reduce our emissions dramatically during the pandemic should be cause for hope — not celebration, but hope. We are capable of limiting, even reducing our carbon output. We can seek and find alternatives to the old ways if we resolve to do so. The continued warming of the Earth through the middle of the century is all but inevitable, according to the IPCC report. Ensuring that climate change does not continue past that point is, however, possible. “Strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would limit climate change,” the report states. Now, not later, is the time to commit to those reductions.
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he Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality. The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday. A BrainPop spokesperson responded via ALAN email that “we created the video on SINGER the Black Lives Matter protests to provide parents and educators a resource for explaining the protests and movement in kid-friendly terms. The video, which features a cartoon robot named Moby, “doesn’t call for or encourage a revolution.” BrainPop videos discuss over a thousand topics in math, science, social studies and English. They are used in almost three-quarters of U.S. school districts. Not coincidently, there were also complaints about BrainPop at a July school board
meeting in the Three Village School District. A speaker charged that the videos had “BLM all over it, along with Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.” You can watch the nine-minute offending BrainPop Black Lives Matter video on You Tube. In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried every election district in Smithtown, some by over 30 percentage points, earning Smithtown the nickname Trumptown, New York. Smithtown also returned Lee Zeldin to Congress. Zeldin, one of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, voted against establishing a commission to investigate what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, supported Trump’s claims that the election was somehow stolen from him and asked the Supreme Court to overturn the result. In May, Smithtown voters elected three conservative candidates affiliated with the pro-Trump group Long Island Loud Majority to the Board of Education. While it’s unclear whether the group represents a majority of Long Islanders, it is definitely loud when disrupting school board meetings, at which members often
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he campaign in Smithtown against diversity efforts first drew attention in January.
LETTERS People have a right to choose To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “The political losers are killing your neighbors” (Aug. 5-11): I am amazed, and want to know what planet Kremer comes from. First it was Trump derangement syndrome, and now it’s Republican derangement syndrome. He says the so-called health haters should be treated the same way as people who were arrested on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. Kremer speaks of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who flipped-flopped from day one, saying you have nothing to fear from Covid-19, starting with no masks. Then it was masks. Then it was two masks. Kremer mentioned conservative Fox host Tucker Carlson, who rails against vaccines. Last time I looked, we had freedom of speech in this country, but apparently, only if you agree with the left, according to Kremer. Then there’s Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Kremer tries to smear because he did an amazing job during the coronavirus pandemic while other governors fiddled. Notice that Kremer never mentions California, New Jersey and New York, all states controlled by Democratic administrations, which were disaster areas during the pandemic.
attack staff and student speakers. They have also been accused of propagating anti-Semitic tropes. During the school board campaign, the group circulated a newsletter attempting to connect opposition school board candidates with George Soros, a progressive and a Jew who has been targeted by anti-Semitic forces in Europe. The Smithtown campaign against Black Lives Matter and diversity efforts first drew public attention in January, when parents complained about the speaker at the district’s Family Literacy Night. Broadway actress Diamond Essence White read a children’s book called “Not Quite Snow White.” White, who is Black, is an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter. Smithtown Superintendent Mark Secaur apologized to protesting parents for the invitation to a “polarizing” personality. After the Long Island Loud Majoritybacked candidates were elected to the school board, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration, who had guided its diversity and equity efforts as a member of the district’s Equity Team, resigned. She had been criticized by parents and LILM,
which argued that diversity and equity were really subterfuge to promote critical race theory. The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies. Opposition to critical race theory has replaced opposition to the 1619 Project as the main mobilizing point for conservatives across the country. In response to the assault on CRT and the 1619 Project, the Zinn Education Project is organizing teachers to pledge to “teach the truth” and participate in Days of Action. It also provides sample lessons. In Smithtown and other Trump-supporting communities across the U.S., however, school boards and frightened administrators apparently don’t want teachers to “teach the truth.” Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.
FRAMEWORK by Christina Daly
Governor Cuomo sent elderly patients to their deaths by executive order, placing them in nursing homes while a hospital ship stood empty and the Javits Center was vacant of patients. Nor is there mention of former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash, a super-spreader event in the making, as the liberals would say. Democratic politicians and supporters flew in on private planes, causing a huge carbon footprint, but people like me are the problem. So, yes, politicians are killing your neighbors by trying to suppress people’s right to choose and make their own decisions about themselves and their families. MICHAEL APPICE Westbury
Pulling out is a mistake To the Editor: I voted for Biden with enthusiasm, but in May wrote to the Herald opposing his decision to withdraw the last remaining 2,700 American military from Afghanistan — citing the setback it would be for women and girls there. Remember that it is now 20 years without major Taliban presence. A whole new generation of Afghans has evolved, with the internet creating a more democratic environment through social communication. Afghani-
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stan has changed and policy should have changed too. Our American presence there is not for nation-building, but the Afghans have been building their own nation. They just needed what we had made available and now have pulled out from under them. For the decades since the end of World
War II, we have left tens of thousands of our military personnel in Germany and Japan. We could afford to leave 2,700 for another unspecified number of years. BOB PRAVER Glen Cove
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