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State could cancel tests Educators support action as public health crisis continues In a letter to State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa dated Jan. 14, Jolene DiBrango, jbessen@liherald.com, mferremi@liherald.com NYSUT’s executive vice presiWith the coronavirus pan- dent, wrote, “Throughout this demic still coursing across the school year there has not been a country and the vaccine rollout standardized mode of instrucyet to hit its stride, tion across the state. leaders in the Five Schools have varyTowns public school ing degrees of indistricts agree with person, hybrid and the New York State remote instruction.

U n i t e d Te a ch e r s Without standardunion that this ized instructional school year’s state modes there should standardized tests not be a standardfor g rades three ized test at the end through eight of the year.” should be canceled, N YS U T re p re and possibly the sents more than state Regents exams 600,000 elementary RIC STARk as well. through collegiate The standardized President, HWFA teachers and profestests and the sors, school-related Regents were canprofessionals, health celed last year, and the Regents care employees and retirees. exams that were scheduled to be Lawrence district Superintengiven in January were called off dent Dr. Ann Pedersen sad that as well. The Regents tests are regardless of the mode of unique to New York and are instruction, teachers are meetunder the jurisdiction of the ing mandated standards and State Education Department, but educational objectives remain canceling the standardized tests the same, but she believes that requires a waiver from the feder- all the tests should be canceled. al government because of the “Because of the stressors on the Every Student Succeeds Act that students, I’m in favor of not governs public education.

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Spiky, slimy or smooth? She’s deciding.

Kindergarten students at the Brandeis School in Lawrence learned about texture in art class with teacher Kristen Conaty. Mikah Piade, above, and her classmates listened to the story “Spiky, Slimy, Smooth,” by Jane Brocket.

Synagogues keeping members connected during pandemic

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

Whether it’s regularly calling congregants, delivering goody bags on holidays or holding virtual programs ranging from educational to social, Five Towns synagogues continue to find creative ways to remain connected with their membership.

To discuss how best to reopen

their buildings and restart events such as fundraisers and parties when the coronavirus pandemic ends, executive directors of 55 synagogues in 13 states and three Canadian provinces joined officials from the Orthodox Union for a Zoom conference on Jan. 18. The participants represented shuls in New York, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri,

New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia as well as Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver.

The Orthodox Union, the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, led a discussion that focused on the impact the pandemic has had on the synaContinued on page 14

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After previous complaints of trucks parking along Nassau Expressway before the road was renovated, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky sent a letter to the state’s Department of Transportation in early January asking for a resolution to trucks parking on the side of a road in Inwood.

According to Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the Five Towns, trucks are now parking along Incinerator Road in Inwood, a two-lane road located near the expressway also known as State Route 878.

“With parked vehicles impeding Incinerator Road’s only traffic lane, motorists are forced into the oncoming lane to pass, creating hazardous conditions, while putting both drivers and pedestrians in danger,” he said. “Currently, there are no regulations in place restricting motorists from parking on Incinerator Road, and I’m urging the DOT to add no parking signs on this road.”

Kaminsky contacted DOT expressing concerns about trucks being parked on the side of 878 between Rockaway Turnpike and Burnside Avenue, in Lawrence, in 2018 “The Department of Transportation efforts were extremely helpful in removing hazardous vehicles from 878,”

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TRuckS pARkINg AloNg Incinerator Road in Inwood is causing the two-way road to be clogged with traffic. he said. “That action has now created an equally concerning issue as trucks are now parking on the adjacent and newly paved Incinerator Road.”

A $130 million and roughly 14-month long expressway renovation project was completed in January 2020. Signs that read “No Parking” are now on the road. “878 is a major expressway connecting the Five Towns, Long Beach, JFK Airport and New York City,” Kaminsky added. “This makes the route and the surrounding roads a vital component of the

South Shore’s transportation infrastructure and it is critical for the DOT to eliminate this newly formed hazard.”

Kenneth Graham owns The Garden Gallery on Bay Boulevard in Inwood, he noted that parking on the side of Incinerator Road has been an issue since the summer and he contacted Kaminsky’s office in the fall.

“The drivers park on the side and at times flip the hood and start working on their trucks right in the street,” Graham said. “It’s a narrow two-lane road and

drivers have to go into the other lane just to avoid the trucks.”

The Garden Gallery is located off Incinerator and Graham said that the trucks parking on the side obscures the visibility of customers entering and exiting the store’s parking lot. “I called the 4th Precinct about this and they told me if there’s not a sign, there’s nothing for them to enforce,” he said. “The DOT has to put a no parking sign on the road.”

Department of Transportation officials declined to go into detail about how they plan to address the issue. “The New York State Department of Transportation is aware of the concerns raised about trucks parking along Incinerator Road,” spokesman Glenn Blain said. “We are currently reviewing potential solutions to the issue.” When asked for an update, DOT did not return a request for comment.

Graham summed up the trucks parking on the side of the road as a major safety issue. “The truck drivers treat the road as their own private road and repair place,” he said. “It’s dangerous for customers to come to my business. There’s no way to fix this without signs being put up.”

Have an opinion on trucks parked along the Nassau Expressway? Send your letter to jbessen@liherald.com.

Gas prices could rise to $3 per gallon on Long Island

By JEFFREY BESSEN

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Hewlett Bay Park resident Brenda Wilbur typically buys the gas for her car at the Sunoco station at the intersection of Mill Road and Peninsula Boulevard in Hewlett and noticed that in the past few weeks the prices have zoomed up from $2.15 per gallon for regular gas to $2.43, and the BP station on the opposite side of Peninsula Boulevard was $2.61 as of Jan. 20.

“We were told we have a big supply of gas reserve, Wilbur said, questioning why are gas prices rising now, especially during the winter when prices usually stay flat or decline. “It’s not fair to the middle class and people struggling with the pandemic.”

Earlier in January, GasBuddy, a travel and navigation app that also has people analyzing the petroleum industry, noted “that 2021 may feature a sharp rally in gas prices by year end, warning that the national average could rise to as high as $3 per gallon should the nation broadly recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.”

While that could happen the annual average could be a more moderate 27 cents per gallon increase this year.

GasBuddy’s 2021 outlook as anticipates the national average to go up as much as $1 per gallon from a low in January to a possible peak in July, as the country continues to recover from the pandemic, boosting demand as Americans slowly return to pre-pandemic behaviors.

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Major cities in California and Hawaii will spend the entire year over $3, while others, including Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Seattle could see average prices over $3 per gallon this year.

“Gas prices are not performing their normal trends since we are not in normal times,” said ,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “The last 10 months prices and demand have been greatly affected by Covid-19, and as the nation sees economic activity continue to recover, norms are tossed to the side.

“So we can blame the latest round of increases on continued recovery,” De

Haan added. “While average prices remain below year-ago levels, its likely we’ll soon exceed those year ago levels due to last year’s onset of Covid-19. Until we’re out from underneath the Covid situation, seasonal norms will have little impact.”

Other variables include global oil reproduction returning quickly to match demand. Should production lack the rebound in demand, consumers are likely to feel it at the pump. With a new president, the country could see a considerable change in oil industry policy and petroleum use.

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By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

Taking the temperature of the country after a presidential election, especially one as controversial as 2020, that saw arguably the most divisive president in the nation’s history ousted after nearly four years of vitriol, could be considered a fool’s errand.

Slicing into the issue, the Herald spoke to Woodmere resident Cindy Grosz, a politically involved activist who sought the Republican nomination for Congress last year and has now organized a grassroots group Jewish Vote GOP; Michael Turi, of North Woodmere, who leads the Five Towns Democratic Club; and Karen Levine, who along with Skylar Bader and Deanna Davoudiasl, guide Indivisible Nassau County, a progressive grassroots group with chapters across Long Island.

Grosz, an unapologetic Donald Trump supporter, is a lifetime Republican who grew up in the Five Towns and is friends with Woodsburgh resident David Friedman, the Trump Administration’s ambassador to Israel. Grosz remembers when President Ronald Reagan visited Temple Hillel in North Woodmere in 1984 and ate at the Friedman home. David’s father was temple leader Rabbi Morris Friedman.

“I believe in the policies of America First, rebuilding our economy,” Grosz said, explaining her support for Trump.

“He represented the anti-establishment in D.C., he is not a career politician. Pre-Covid the economy was good and there was a record number of jobs. She also pointed to the Abraham Accords that established relations between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

After the 2016 election that elected Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton there was much gnashing of teeth by voters, mostly Democratic, who did not want to believe that Trump was their president.

Four years later, Trump took it a few steps further. First insisting that his supporters should not vote using the mail-in ballots that became more popular because of the coronavirus pandemic. Then challenging the election results vigorously without any substantial evidence and using language that subsequently incited a breach of the Capitol building on Jan. 6.

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WoodmERE RESidENt CiNdY Grosz aims to educate potential voters through her Jewish Vote GOP group. four years, where half of a majority can believe that a scrutinized and fair election was illegitimate,” Turi said. “This would have been inconceivable just two decades ago. Locally and in New York state, however, I do not think anyone seriously questions the electoral process.”

With more than 1,400 people on Facebook and 800 active volunteers across Long Island, Indivisible Nassau County is a growing voice on the local political landscape aiming to have a larger impact.

“With the 2020 election behind us, there’s a lot more work to be done to ensure that the local, state and the federal governments are working for everyone,” Levine said. “First, we need structural democracy reforms in D.C. that ensure the power is in the hands of the people, dark money is out of politics, elections are secure, and voting rights are protected.”

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For Grosz, what the Republican Party, especially at the state, county and club levels, has to be wary of is GOP members either aligning themselves with, joining in or pooh-poohing that alternative-right and white supremacists are affecting and infecting their ranks.

“I don’t know exactly when it started,” she said about the Republican Party’s contemporary affiliation with those groups. “There is a history of extremes in both parties. When I approached certain Jewish and Republican leaders about the troubling words and actions by some Republicans, I was told don’t worry about it, nothing is going on, and instead it escalated to what happened on Jan. 6.”

The Nassau County Republican did not respond for comment.

The echo chamber that many people appear to get their news from, whether the same publications or social media

platforms needs to be avoided, Turi said.

“The single most important thing that should be done is being honest with the public and basing decisions on real evidence and not alternate facts,” he said. “I also think we need to try and listen to our neighbors who disagree with us more as opposed to only surrounding ourselves with people we agree with.”

Similarly, Levine views inaccurate information at the heart of the serious problems the country faces, including what she called the “big lie” on election fraud, adding that, “the fear and distrust that many Americans experience when consuming disinformation is very, very real.”

“Over the past four years, thousands of people across the country brought together their neighbors, their friends and their communities, many for the first time, to use the tools of democracy to move toward a gover nment that is accountable to the people,” she said. “The health of democracy itself can be measured by engagement of its citizenry and never in our history have we, as a country, been more engaged.”

To have a better informed electorate, Grosz said the key is education. “We have to educate ourselves and it won’t take a lot of effort if we do it in a team effort,” she said, noting that Jewish Vote GOP consists of Jewish people of all the different sects across the metropolitan area. “We have to educate people against who are going to call those Republicans that stand with racism and anti-Semitism.” Grosz also said that nepotism and the old boy network continues to hinder political progress.

“For those whose world view is really so tilted that extreme thinking is reasonable, only the slow process of ideas proposed, expectations properly set and eventual follow through will begin to bring these folk home,” Turi said on extremists.

Levine said Indivisible welcomes people who seek to “build stronger communities in their hometowns.” “We are strongly advocating for passage of H.R. 1 — the For The People Act of 2021 — which provides for structural democracy reform to ensure the power is in the hands of the people, dark money is out of politics, elections are secure and voting rights are protected.”

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Hewlett-based psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Sternberg wrote a book that describes the backgrounds of criminally insane people that he came across while working at a psychiatric center.

The class of 1965 Hewlett High School alum Sternberg’s first book “By Reason of Insanity: A Glimpse into the Lives and Minds of the Criminally Insane” published last August highlights four men that were acquitted of serious criminal charges by reason of insanity, or as the official statement reads, “not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.”

Sternberg encountered the individuals when he worked as a staff psychologist at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, a maximum-security forensic psychiatric center located in New York City, from 1996 to 1999.

“In my first week of working at the institution, I thought to myself that I should write a book about the people in here,” Sternberg said. “The idea stayed in the back of my head and I never worked on it while I was working there. I began writing the book about 10 years after I stopped working there.”

Sternberg keeps the identities of the individuals discussed confidential, but they are based on people he interacted with at the institution. “I came to know several hundred of the most extraordinary human beings I’ve ever met and choosing the very limited number of individuals I would portray in this book was a difficult task,” he said. “I have not necessarily selected the most lurid or sensational cases, but have instead chosen individuals whose histories, crimes, personalities and psychopathology make compelling stories.”

He does have a chapter dedicated to daily life at the institution, which he described as generally quiet. “There were 160 people there at any given time,” he said. “In certain wards, fights between patients occurred frequently; but they rarely involved serious injuries.”

Dr. Jerry Gold is a psychologist based in Great Neck who has known Sternberg for roughly 20 years. Gold described the book as being a unique read. “I was excited and enthusiastic about this book since I had worked at the same institution prior to Richard working there,” Gold said.

“There are so many TV shows about the criminal world and the psychiatric world.

I thought this would be something the average person can read that would give them an inside look to the mentally insane.”

Gold added that Sternberg’s background as a psychoanalyst makes this a great read. “When you’re reading a news article about a criminal case, the reporter isn’t able to give an in-depth background on the person and how it has gotten to the point of where they're committing crimes,” he said. “Richard gives the background on the individuals in this book.”

Steven Kunchuck, president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, is a colleague of Sternberg’s. He said that the book is unlike anything he’s ever read before.

“The stories are fascinating and sensitively rendered; the writing is as crisp, accessible and compelling as a strong piece of fiction,” Kunchuck wrote in an email. “I recommend this for anyone hungry to explore the darkest recesses of the human mind.”

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Four sessions. Feb. 3, 10, 17 & 24 at 11 a.m., through Peninsula Public Library.

Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library All-day online cooking classes. Meltdown cookies and chocolate pancake breakfast. Find the video and recipe online at https://www.hwpl.org/kids/ Access at https://www.youtube.com/ playlist?list=PLqGQ5EQ2iUdjKfZKaHkcWl0qEuzvZONM

Jim Crow Presented by New-York Historical Society, the Black Americans’ struggle for equality under the law from 1865 through World War I, including both southern and northern roles as well as Black New Yorkers’ organizing and community-building in the face of discrimination is explored. At 1 p.m., through Peninsula Public Library.

Peninsula Public Library The listed online programs are free and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Register by calling (516) 239-3262, or go to the Eventkeeper calendar on the PPL’s website: https:// www.peninsulapublic.org/ An email with login details will be sent before each program. Email Program Coordinator Janet Schneider, Program at jschneider@peninsulapublic.org for more information.

Relaxing Meditation Linda Cafiero will focus on boosting focus and efficiency, clearing the mind of clutter, and increasing confidence and well being. At 7 p.m., through Peninsula Public Library.

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Stress Express Get off the stress express with mindfulness. Join meditation teacher, Patricia Orshan for practices/techniques to calm and enhance manage emotions and relationships Contact Gural JCC Cultural Arts and Education Director Rachayle Deutsch for next session at rachayle.deutsch@guraljcc.org or (516) 569-6733 x222.

Help Needed Volunteers are needed for the Rina Shkolnik Kosher Food Pantry at The S.H.O.P. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Fridays, 111:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sign up at https://bit.ly/3m1g0j7

Thursday, Jan. 28 Meditation At 4 p.m., through Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, Lisa Wisel leads a meditation session on Zoom. Join at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8769311 8418?pwd=dmJvVGFiYy9HMnVHTjJZR2 wzOUd3UT09

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The power in community bonding Through its “Stronger Together” Bulldog apparel fundraiser the Hewlett-Woodmere School District’s Central Council PTA raised more than $1,000. From left were Superintendent Ralph Marino Jr. and PTA co-Presidents Alyssa Honig, Shana Milillo and Shari Braverman.

Monday, Feb. 1 Talking Yankees Through Peninsula Public Library at 7 p.m., Lifelong Yankees fan Bill Schulman will share the stories gathered from writing columns in Yankee Magazine, where he interviewed 120 former Yankees through the years.

ACT Prep ACT prep for grades 10 to 12. Math 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. with Dr. Keith Harrow.

Reading/Writing 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. with Ms. Ellen Karcinell. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Digital - hwpl.org

Tuesday, Feb. 2 Covid Support The Gural JCC offers a weekly Zoom

Atlantic Beach village has a board meeting on Monday, Feb. 8 at 7:45 p.m. Go to https://www.villageofatlanticbeach.com Zoom link.

Lawrence School District’s Board of Education holds a virtual meeting on Monday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m.

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support group offering empathy, compassion and coping strategies to those diagnosed with and who survived Covid-19. 9 to 10 a.m. Pre-registration required. Contact Lisa Barnett, (516) 569-6733 x 210. lisa.barnett@guraljcc. org.

Tai Chi Linda Cafiero leads a four-session tai chi series on Feb. 2, 9, 16 & 23 at 11 a.m., through Peninsula Public Library.

Improve posture, balance and focus with gentle and intentional movements.

Job Seekers Career Center Expert Nakita Vanstory will explain how to make your resume dominate the competition during the hiring process, at 6 p.m., through Peninsula Public Library.

Reclamation District At 5 p.m., the Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation District meets via a telephone conference because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Wednesday, Feb. 3 Genealogy Classes Genealogy classes I, II, III with Diane Warmsley from 11 a.m. to noon through February and March. Genealogy for beginners, intermdediate genealogy and Jewish genealogy. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83892 235162?pwd=SXhwUW96dmlxcHYxZGZ Bd2M1QXA2dz09

Gentle Yoga Paulette Silber will focus on therapeutic stretches which do not involve holding postures or sitting on mats in this Zoom

SUNY Canton health care management major Elisheva Monczyk, from Cedarhurst, was named to the President’s List that honors students who achieve a 3.75 or greater GPA on a 4.0 scale.

Woodsburgh resident David Friedman ended his ambassadorship on Jan. 20 the way he began at the Western Wall “praying for my family & for

At 2 p.m., the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Readers discuss “Monogamy” by Sue Miller, Join Zoom meeting at https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86954048727

Thursday, Feb. 4 Mah Jong Ann Seligson will explain the basics of the game and National Mah Jongg League rules. After taking the class you will be able to play online. Please have a mah jong set and a 2020 mah jong card. Feb. 4, 11 &18, at 1 p.m. through Peninsula Public Library.

Art History Art history professor Val Franco presents an illustrated lecture on a period in Spanish history from 1492-1659 and produced many outstanding works of art, including paintings by Diego Velazquez, a court painter for King Philip IV. Feb. 4 at 3 p.m., through Peninsula Public Library.

Meditation At 4 p.m., through Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, Lisa Wisel leads a meditation session on Zoom. Join at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8769311 8418?pwd=dmJvVGFiYy9HMnVHTjJZR2.

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Architect Henry Bacon, Nov. 28, 1866 to Feb. 16, 1924, who designed the Lincoln Memorial also designed the building now the Woodmere Education Center in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District.

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couple of months. A decision on the planned modified spring season is yet to be made.

That Lawrence would not take part in any athletics angered many, including the coaches and students. A protest took place in December, where roughly 40 students gathered in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park and then marched to the high school.

“Sports is huge things at Lawrence, especially for us athletes through these hard times we need sports, people are looking for as one of my classmates said, ‘the light at the end of the tunnel,’” basketball player Don Smalls III said at the protest.

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there! What would she treat herself to?

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If you neglect to take time to celebrate your big and small achievements, everyday hassles and hardships become more prominent. So tonight, before your head hits the pillow, reflect on something personal worth celebrating. Create a blow-out Zoom party for your achievement, if you wish, or launch simple words of praise for yourself. “You did it! – Good job – I’m proud of you!” Then smile, pat yourself on the back and get a good night’s sleep.

You’ve made your achievement a recognizable moment in your life.

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Could Lawrence varsity teams play winter sports?

With the lifting of the state’s prohibition against high-risk sports such as basketball and wrestling, the possibility of Lawrence schools reinstating winter sports could become a reality.

“No Nassau County school has gotten [Nassau County] Department of Health guidance,” said Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen as of press time. “We are preparing as we wait.” That includes meetings with coaches and parents on protocols. Most likely, no spectators, no locker rooms, testing and behavior pledges.

Lawrence decided not to field a relatively low-risk high school winter track team or squads for the modified fall sports season that could be in action in a

and blamed for his boss’s blunders.

Yesterday, however, was different.

John stood up for himself, determined to stop the verbal abuse. When his boss finished his tirade, he said, “I don’t deserve to be spoken to like that. When you can speak to me respectfully, you’ll find me at my desk.”

Shaking in his boots, he quickly departed from his boss’s office before anything more could be said.

An hour later, his boss came to his desk and offered an apology – a halfassed one – but still an apology. He accepted it.

That evening, he toasted apadin himself, “I did it!” He then shared his story with his wife, who promised that once Covid is no longer a threat, they’d go out to a fine restaurant to celebrate.

The day Doreen lost 10 pounds was a day worth celebrating. Not publicly, but privately. Though Doreen still wanted to lose another 10 pounds, she recognized with joy that she was halfway

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they’re important to us, we don’t let them pass without marking their significance.

Many of us, however, allow important moments to go unnoticed and uncelebrated.

Such events, whether big or small, deserve to be recognized if they have meaning to us. A big, fancy occasion to mark the celebration is unnecessary.

Indeed, you may not need to make the event public, b u t yo u d o n e e d t o acknowledge and appreciate the event for your own self-worth. Neglecting to do so means that your inda accomplishment, achievement, success remain unnamed, unnoticed, unimportant. We might even say that it ceases to exist.

Here are two examples of personal events that call for celebrations: John has a high pressured job and a demanding boss. On a typical day, he tolerates being spoken to disrespectfully, yelled at for a non-essential error,

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Life is just one damned thing after another unless we take time out to recognize and celebrate the good events that happen between the hardships and hassles. This is true for our personal lives as well as our country’s life.

A celebration is an acknowledgment, an honoring of an event. Last week, the swearing-in of our new President and Vice President was our most acclaimed celebration. Many rejoiced.

Some lamented. No matter, the celebration of the peaceful transition of power took place.

Can you imagine what would have been lost if we ignored this day? If the swearing-in took place in secret - without witnesses, without any assurance that it ever happened, without joys and smiles, without previous Presidents of both parties present to lend validity to the occasion?

Yes, we need celebrations. To acknowledge, appreciate and cherish the event. We need them as a nation, and we need them as people. That’s why we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. That’s why we celebrate national and religious holidays. If

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Here’s how to sign up for your vaccine

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

At press time Monday, the distribution of vaccines to those over 65 years old continued in New York state.

Despite the slowly unraveling process, most appointments to receive a shot will eventually need to be made through various government-run websites.

It’s no secret: Appointments for the coming weeks are booked. New York receives roughly 250,000 doses of the vaccine every week from the federal government, a portion of which is allocated to Nassau County. More than 55,000 vaccinations have been administered in the county, which has more than 1.3 million residents.

Still, it can be helpful to know what to expect when navigating the unfamiliar — and sometimes dysfunctional — websites. To eventually receive the vaccine, an appointment is required. A vaccine will not be given without an appointment.

In addition to those over 65, eligible groups include doctors, nurses and health care workers, first responders, teachers and public transit, grocery store and public safety workers. Eligibility will open to more residents in the coming weeks and months.

The New York state website, www. covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov, features an “Am I Eligible” app, which can be used by residents to check their eligibility before making an appointment.

Also available is a list of all state-run vaccination sites in New York. Nassau County is home to one at Jones Beach, although like all other sites, no appointments are currently available. There are 11 other sites shown, all with limited availability.

Nassau County has also established its own website for vaccine information, www.nassaucountyny.gov/vaccine.

Several more county-run sites are shown, including Nassau Community College in Garden City, the Yes We Can Community Center in Westbury and Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, as well as five others.

Appointments are limited here, too.

Appointments for all sites will continue to open as eligibility requirements expand and more vaccines are delivered to the state. All vaccines received by officials are required to be used, according to federal guidelines.

Residents will need to be diligent in making appointments once it’s their tur n. Problems have been reported about the New York state website, including it being inundated with heavy traffic, according to Nassau County officials. Appointments across the state were also canceled because of low vaccine supply, according to The New York Times.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, county officials operated a pop-up vaccine site at Union Baptist Church in Hempstead. Roughly 150 vaccination shots were given to pre-selected community members over age 65. Similar pop-up

Courtesy Nassau County

A NAssAu COuNty resident was vaccinated at Union Baptist Church in Hempstead on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Officials opened the pop-up site to administer more than 100 vaccine doses to those over 65.

NAssAu COuNty’s WEBsItE also lists sites run by the county, including the Yes We Can Community Center in Westbury.

Courtesy Nassau County

sites are likely to appear.

“Once we get adequate vaccine supply from the federal government, Nassau County is committed to an equitable distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine,” Executive Laura Curran said in a statement. “As part of our efforts, the county is working closely with trusted messengers to build confidence in an equitable process, and with established partners to directly increase access in the communities hardest hit by the pandemic. The county will continue to vaccinate as many residents as we can across all communities so we can definitively win this war, get our lives back and get our economy roaring.”

The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, which are being used in the county, require two doses. The state site should automatically schedule your second appointment, while county officials will reach out to residents who received their first doses at a county-run site.

Courtesy New York state website

ON thE NEW York state-run vaccination website, www.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov, a list of available state-run sites is shown. There is limited availability, but appointments will open to those eligible as more vaccines are delivered to the state.

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In so many contexts, there is a neverending repletion of the expression “never say never.”

All too often, however, we still hear folks announce, “I’ll never speak to you again,” or “I’ll never do that,” or “I’ll never go there,” though as it turns out, such is never the case.

Nevertheless, in my own situation, I can utilize the word “never” and never regret doing do. Thus, I’ve never been drunk (thought I did get somewhat dizzy when the pseudo-sophisticated parents of a girl I dated in college insisted I taste some “enchanting” wine.)

I’ve never been arrested nor given a traffic ticket (albeit in 53 years of driving, I’ve been stopped twice – poo-poo.)

I’ve never broken my word (except when its been in connection to abstinence from chocolate, though, that, as everyone who has ever encountered a Nestle Crunch Bar, seven-layer chocolate cake or chocolate chip cookies will

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agree, is forgivable), and I never broke a bone until I slipped on ice that I never slipped on before.

I’ve never missed a plane, never lost a library book and never been ungrateful.

I’ve never eaten an item prohibited by religious dietary laws, and have never lied for my own benefit or gain or to avo i d p u n i s h m e n t .

(Note: I don’t include fibbing to protect others or on to preserve the public peace, or to white lies to preserve my own private peace.)

I cannot say I’ve never been disrespectful or hurtful or just plain dopey, and no matter the circumstance, I can’t say “I’ve never been so embarrassed in my entire life,” because I probably have

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Never can tell Hebrew grammar quiz water soluble ink on my sweaty (guilty) palm. (Which proved cheaters never win.)

Regrettably, I never forgot an offense, and never forgot a face, though I never remember the name that goes with the face. I never look good in photos though I never fool myself into believing the photos aren’t accurate.

I never complain except when I do, and never admit I’m wrong except when I must and then I never hear the end of it.

I try to never mind, never look back, never give up and never have a dull moment.

Having grown up in the city that never sleeps, I’ve watched a pot that never boils, and can only hope I’m never too old to learn or to write a never-ending column.

been. I also can’t say I’ve never missed an opportunity or never wished I hadn’t said or done something.

I’ve never been disloyal and never smoked anything (except I did bur n a frozen pizza while left along when I was 12.) Though I have been a pest and annoying, I’ve never been deliberately tortured anyone (except an opponent in a college legal oldman argumentation class.)

I’ve never knocked a man when he was down or looked a gift horse in the mouth.

Perhaps because my income has never necessitated the effort, I’ve never cheated on my taxes, and on any test except an unsuccessful attempt in seventh grade to write answers to a

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Though it could take many months for the Covid-19 vaccine to reach the majority of people, a number of physicians remain optimistic about the progress made so far.

“We hope we will have enough vaccine for everybody in the next few months — that’s months plural,” said Dr. Aaron Glatt, the Department of Medicine chairman and chief of infectious diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside. “Until then, people have to make sure they’re practicing how to stay safe and healthy.”

Wearing a mask, Glatt appeared alongside MSSN Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma in a MSSN triage tent for a Jan. 14 Facebook Live session, at which the doctors updated the public about the vaccine and the latest on the coronavirus, as well as fielded viewers’ questions. They stressed that those seeking a vaccine should not call the hospital or show up and wait in line, but should check the state Department of Health’s website to set up appointments and get the latest news.

The doctors urged patience for those who are eager to get a Covid-19 vaccine, but have been unable to so far, noting that New York state only gets 300,000 doses per week, and nearly 20 million people need to be inoculated. They added

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Dr. ADhi ShArMA, left, Mount Sinai South Nassau’s chief medical officer, and Dr. Aaron Glatt, the hospital’s Department of Medicine chair and chief of infectious diseases, gave an update on the coronavirus pandemic and the Covid-19 vaccine during a Jan. 13 Facebook Live session. Above, the doctors at an event before the pandemic started. that those who get a certain vaccine for their first dose (either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) should receive the same type for their second, and they should be inoculated at the same facility each time.

Glatt cautioned that the vaccine takes 10 days to take effect, and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised people who cannot be vaccinated again in two weeks to get it as soon as

they can, but should not restart the series if more than two weeks pass.

The doctors also urged people not to act as though they are immune to the virus because they have been vaccinated, even though the two vaccines have been shown to be more than 90 percent effective in clinical trials. Glatt said the science is not there yet to determine whether someone can be vaccinated and still be

a Covid-19 carrier, so people should continue to wear masks after they have been inoculated. Research will determine the vaccines’ efficacy in time.

As of Jan. 14, MSSN had more than 100 Covid-19 patients in the hospital and was offering rapid testing, vaccinating those who were qualified and treating non-Covid patients who were in separate units of the hospital.

“We are certainly seeing a second surge relative to the holiday period from Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year’s,” Glatt said. “It looks like there were a lot of events and people were exposed.” He added that doctors believed the number of cases would decline in the coming weeks as more people return to avoiding mass gatherings and continue to mask and social distance.

Sharma said many Covid-19 patients were in critical care, and he lauded the hospital staff for its hard work. “Whatever we can do to stem this tide, we’re doing it,” he said.

The doctors also noted that the vaccines could be taken with blood thinners, and those with allergies can, for the most part, receive either of the two vaccines; however, people with a history of allergic reactions to vaccines should exercise caution. Studies are also underway to determine the vaccines’ effect on children and teenagers under 16 years old, they said.

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Inside LI to host cutting expenses webinar As the pandemic continues, the economic state of the country remains in disarray as many businesses close and many people lose their jobs. Numerous Long Islanders are struggling financially and have been left wondering how they will ever save money again.

Herald Inside LI will host a free Zoom webinar at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, titled, “Cutting Expenses,” to provide Long Islanders with information and advice about how they can reduce expenses and save money this year.

Herald Inside LI is a weekly webinar series. To register for Cutting Expenses webinar or to view a recording of a past webinar, visit liherald.com/insideli.

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Tax grievance period extended Nassau County property owners will have an extra 60 days to file their property-tax grievances because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, County Executive Laura Curran announced last week.

The grievance period will extend from March 1 through April 30.

“With many residents still struggling from the devastating repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic … this will provide additional breathing room for those who want to fight their property assessment,” Curran said. “I will continue to protect the rights of homeowners and do everything I can to ease tax burdens whenever and wherever possible. I encourage homeowners to consider the possible benefits of the grievance procedure.”

Tentative assessed property values for the 2022-23 roll for every property in the county have been finalized and are being mailed out currently. Notices of tentative assessment are also posted online at mynassauproperty.com.

Homeowners who believe their assessed values for the 2022-23 assessment roll are inaccurate can file an Application for Correction of Assessment with county’s Assessment Review Commission before the close of the grievance-filing period.

Because of the instability of Nassau’s real

estate market caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the continued economic hardships that homeowners and businesses face, Curran said she has paused property valuation updates for the 2022-23 assessment roll. Thus, unless a homeowner has since received a correction of error, an assessment reduction or physically altered an improvement, the notice of tentative assessment should reflect the same property assessment as the previous year’s roll, which, the county executive said, is intended to protect against updates based on the current chaotic real estate market.

Homeowners can find the calendar of virtual legislative meetings online at www.nassaucountyny.gov/arc and file their grievances on this site on their own. There is no fee to file an Application for Correction of Assessment with the county.

For people without internet access, the application can be obtained in person at the Assessment Review Commission, 240 Old Country Road in Mineola, or by calling the ARC at (516) 571-3214. Property owners are encouraged to check ARC’s website for up-to-date information.

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Covid could cancel state exams, again continued from front page administering the tests,” she said, pointing to the highstakes pressure the tests create for children. At the same time, she said, “We must make sure they are performing, and as school districts we all administer testing to check the growth slope, and if the students are acquiring new skills at the appropriate rate.”

Administrators and teachers, Pedersen said, are concerned about students’ mental health, in light of national studies that point to a mental health crisis brought on by the pandemic that is leading to an increase in suicides. From last March, when the pandemic began, to October, children’s visits to hospitals for mental health problems rose 31 percent for 12- to 17-year-olds and 24 percent for 5- to 11-year-olds over the same period in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lori Skonberg, president of the Lawrence Teachers Association and a teacher at the middle school, agreed that all of the tests should be canceled. “Nothing is normal right now,” she said, noting that now is not the right time to assess students. “The absentee rate is higher in many schools, and we are not seeing the same growth from students at home as in the classroom.”

Hewlett-Woodmere Deputy Superintendent David Flatley said that the district would not try to persuade parents to have their children take the standardized tests this year. “The district’s thoughts regarding NYSED’s three to eight tests have remained largely the same,” he wrote in an email. “We do feel assessment is important, and we’ll respect the decision the state makes in relation to testing this year.”

Previously, Hewlett-Woodmere district officials have said they do not place great emphasis on the state tests,

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New York state standardized tests and Regents could be canceled again because of the coronavirus pandemic. focusing instead on the Northwest Evaluation Association Measure of Academic Progress. The Portland, Ore.based organization uses research to create what it calls

“assessment solutions” that measure student growth and academic skills.

Ric Stark, a Hewlett High School science teacher who is president of the Hewlett-Woodmere Faculty Association, said that the union fully supports the suspension of standardized and Regents exams this year. “Of all years, this school year has been anything but standardized,” Stark said. “We have students attending in person every day, some attending one-half of the time, some attending the other half of the time and some who are fully remote.”

Students who are dealing with the circumstances of the pandemic outside the classroom are another reason for waiving the testing requirements, Stark said. “Some students have limited internet access at home, or are competing with siblings for a small number of devices,” he said. “Many have been quarantined, some have been ill with Covid themselves and a few have lost family members. To now expect these students to take a standardized test under these conditions and claim that it will have any validity whatsoever is beyond idiotic.”

In reaction to the letter from NYSUT, State Education Department spokeswoman Emily DeSantis released a statement that read, “No decisions have been made regarding the June and August 2021 administrations of Regents examinations or any of the other state assessment programs. That decision will be fully informed by all available and relevant public health and educational data. And as always, we will put the health and safety of students and teachers first.”

The Education Department is accepting public comments until Feb. 5. They can be submitted to essacomments@nysed.gov.

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Send a letter to jbessen@liherald.

Shuls working hard keeping members bonded continued from front page gogues’ revenues, and how the Covid-19 vaccine could help them return to normal operations in the near future.

“Once it was safe to do so, our shuls began to slowly re-open in line with local health, government and [religious] guidance,” OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer stated in a news release.

The officials also discussed the challenges created by the pandemic, such as how the synagogues’ communities, rabbis and youth program leaders were able to provide innovative programming while ensuring the safety of their membership and meeting the needs of those at risk, such as the elderly.

“With limited in-person attendance, as mandated by each state’s unique situation,” Hauer said, “these synagogues had to rapidly pivot to address their communities’ needs as well as the economic impact the pandemic had on their members and how it would affect the synagogues’ future participation and stability.”

Marvin Schenker, executive director of Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, said that the biggest challenge during the pandemic is keeping in touch with the 450 families that belong to the Cedarhurst shul.

“We have services inside and outside, Zoom meetings, frequent mailings and make lots of phone calls,” Schenker said of how the congregation has remained unified during the pandemic. “The feed-

Courtesy Orthodox Union

the orthodox UNioN’s conference on post-pandemic life for synagogues on Zoom.

Second from left at upper left is Yehuda Friedman, regional director of the OU’s Synagogue and Community Services for Long Island and Queens. back has been positive.” He missed the OU conference, but said he would review what was discussed.

Temple Beth El members received cheesecake for Shavuot last year, and goody bags for Hanukkah. Edward Edelstein, the Cedarhurst synagogue’s executive director, said that goody bags would be delivered for Purim as well.

Though he didn’t take part in the conference, Edelstein said that preparing for a

post-Covid world is “a little like a moving target. No one knows what that’s going to look like.” Though the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allow for limited gatherings, a good portion of the temple’s membership — just over 200 — are older, so services and other activities remain virtual.

“The greatest challenge is keeping everyone connected with one another,” Edelstein said, noting that the temple held

an outdoor Hanukkah candle lighting, members are sent a daily email with a positive message, the Outreach Committee regularly calls congregants and there are a variety of programs, including an online happy hour, during which members can get together. “It is a creative challenge no one would wish on anyone,” he said, “but as leadership, we were confronted with a situation and are trying to make the best of it.”

Weekly services and Torah study are virtual at Temple Israel of Lawrence.

Executive Director Alan Freedman said there are also weekly adult education programs on Wednesdays and adult social hours on Thursdays. “We’re trying to offer a wide variety of programs and events for our congregation,” Freedman said. The temple’s annual Martin Luther King Remembrance Day event took place online, and Hebrew for beginners and a tot Shabbat program are in the works, he added.

“As we look to the near future, and hopefully a period of successful and expedited vaccine administration, many of our shuls are left contemplating what’s next and how to resume their pre-Covid-19 normal operations once it’s safe to do so,” Yehuda Friedman, the OU’s regional director of its Synagogue and Community Services for Long Island and Queens, said in the news release. “It’s inspiring to see how these executive directors rose to the challenges of the moment and keep forging along during this tumultuous time.”

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North Woodmere native part of inauguration video Seth Rudetsky, a musician, actor, writer and radio host, who grew up in North Woodmere graduated Hewlett High School, was part of the Broadway video put together for the inauguration. He produced the songs and was in the band.

“There are SO many stories about how it happened!!! Will put in my Playbill column! But for those looking for who sang/ danced what, here ‘tis,! he posted on Facebook after the video with several people singing “Seasons of Love” written by Jonathan Larsen for the musical “Rent” and “Let the Sunshine In” written by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt McDermott written for the musical “Hair,” aired during the presidential inauguration celebration on Jan. 20.

Schele Williams produced and directed the video, along with Rudetsky and James Wesley. Williams “stayed up all night with Jabari Payne who was editing,” Rudetsky wrote on Facebook. The video was produced within two days. “And Shelbie Rassler who was my right hand person editing the vocals and every SPECIFIC riff placement!!!,” Rudetsky wrote. Shelbie Rassler and Matthias Winter edited the sound. In addition to Rudetsky the band included Perry Cavari, Carl Carter and Jim Hershman.

The performers “Seasons of Love” were: Chris Jackson, Laura Benanti, José Llana, BD Wong, Betty Buckley, Ruthie Ann Miles, Jessie Mueller, Beth Malone, Chandra Wilson, Jenna Ushkowitz, Olga Merediz, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Ali Stroker, Miss Peppermint, Vanessa Wil-

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SETH RudETSky liams, Fredi Walker-Browne, Wilson Heredia, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anthony Rapp, Leslie Uggams, Mandy Gonzalez, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Keala Settle, Wayne Brady, Derrick Baskin, Javier Muñoz, James Monroe Iglehart and Andy Karl/ Orfeh.

All of those people sang “Let the Sunshine In” along with, Rosie Perez, Audra McDonald, Wesley, Rudetsky, Juli Rudetsky-Wesley, Chita Rivera and Charlotte d’Amboise in the center square.

To view the video, go to https://bit. ly/2Y2oRYA. –Jeffrey Bessen

H-W names interim director of Health, Safety and Security

By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

Former member of the New York City Police Department Phillip McEneaney has been appointed as interim director of Health, Safety and Security for the Hewlett-Woodmere School District as of Jan. 25.

McEneaney succeeds Frank DeLeo, who announced his retirement. The appointment was approved by the Board of Education at their Jan. 20 regular meeting.

A member of NYPD for more than 20 years, McEneaney served his last two years on the force as the commanding officer of the CompStat Unit. He analyzed crime data, generated crime-reporting tools to expedite deployment of resources and developed analytical methods for emerging crime trends.

He also served as the commanding officer of the Strategic Analysis Section and in the Office of the Chief of Crime Control Strategies. In the latter role, McEneaney served as the special projects lieutenant and commanding officer of the

CCS Crime Analysis Unit.

McEneaney also served the NYPD in the Transit Bureau, Domestic Violence Unit, Manhattan North Grand Larceny Task Force and Manhattan South Grand Larceny Task Force.

“I look forward to serving the HewlettWoodmere Public Schools and putting my years of law enforcement experience to work for this wonderful community,” McEneaney said in a statement. “I will be dedicated to collaborating with district administrators and our security staff to ensure the safety of all students, staff, and visitors to district schools.”

His has also taken law enforcement training on investigating homicides, sex crimes, child abuse and others.

Superintendent Dr. Ralph Marino Jr said that McEneaney’s background with the NYPD would be a positive addition to the district. “School safety and security continue to be a critical component of District operations,” Marino said in a statement. “Mr. McEneaney’s background and training with the NYPD will allow us to utilize the best tools and methodologies to keep our community safe.”

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that at the general Village election to be held in the Village of Lawrence on June 15, 2021, the following offices are to be filled for the terms indicated: Office Term Trustee Two (2) Years Trustee Two (2) Years Eligible persons wishing to vote in the said election must be registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections at least ten days prior to the said election.

Ronald Goldman, Village Administrator Village of Lawrence 124498 LEGAL NOTICE 2021 five per centum INC. VILLAGE OF (5%) will be added for HEWLETT BAY PARK the first month.

LEGAL NOTICE Thereafter, the rate will NOTICE OF COLLECTION be that percentage OF TAXES determined by the TAKE NOTICE that I the Commissioner of Taxation undersigned Clerk of the and Finance of the State Village of Hewlett Bay of New York and will be Park have received the added for each month or tax roll and Warrant for fraction thereof thereafter the collection of taxes for until paid. the forthcoming fiscal MICHELLE BLANDINO year, March 1, 2021 to VILLAGE CLERK February 28, 2022, and Inc. Village of that I will attend to my Woodsburgh office from March 1st to Dated: February 1, 2021 April 1st, from 9 o’clock 124437 in the morning until 4 LEGAL NOTICE o’clock in the afternoon, INCORPORATED VILLAGE excepting Saturdays, OF CEDARHURST Sundays and holidays for LEGAL NOTICE the purpose of receiving PLEASE TAKE NOTICE such taxes; during which THAT the Board of period taxes may be paid Trustees of the Village of to me without additional Cedarhurst will hold a charge. public hearing on Checks for the payment Monday, February 1, of taxes will be received 2021, at 8:00 pm in at the Village Office, 30 Village Hall, 200 Piermont Avenue, Cedarhurst Avenue, Hewlett, New York Cedarhurst, New York for 11557.

TAKE the purpose of Amending FURTHER NOTICE, that on Section 265-86 Permitted all such taxes remaining Uses - to add a definition unpaid after April 1st, of stores.

2021, five per centum PLEASE TAKE FURTHER (5%) will be added for NOTICE THAT all the first month. interested persons will Thereafter, the rate will have an opportunity to be be that percentage heard at said hearing. determined by the Dated: Cedarhurst, New Commissioner of Taxation York and Finance of the State Salvatore Evola of New York and will be January 22, 2021 added for each month or Village Administrator fraction thereof thereafter

By Order of the Mayor, until paid.

Benjamin Weinstock and MICHELLE BLANDINO Board of Trustees VILLAGE CLERK 124502 Inc. Village of Hewlett Bay Park LEGAL NOTICE Dated: February 1, 2021 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE 124436 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will LEGAL NOTICE be held as to the NOTICE OF COLLECTION following matter: OF TAXES Agency: Board of Zoning TAKE NOTICE that I the Appeals undersigned Clerk of the Incorporated Village of Village of Woodsburgh Atlantic Beach have received the tax roll Date:February 11, 2021 and Warrant for the Time: 8:30 p.m. collection of taxes for the Place: Village Hall, 65 The forthcoming fiscal year, Plaza, Atlantic Beach, March 1, 2021 to New York 11509 February 28, 2022, and Subject: Case # 21388, that I will attend to my Frank Gargano, 101 office from March 1st to Genesee Boulevard, April 1st, from 9 o’clock Atlantic Beach, New York, in the morning until 4 11509.

The applicant o’clock in the afternoon, proposes to construct a excepting Saturdays, roof deck above the Sundays and holidays for master bedroom and is the purpose of receiving requesting a variance of such taxes; during which the Village Code section period taxes may be paid 250-108, Prohibited and to me without additional restricted uses (J) charge.

Buildings within the Checks for the payment Village of Atlantic Beach of taxes will be received shall be constructed with at the Village Office, 30 peaked or gable roofs Piermont Avenue, only. Premises are also Hewlett, New York known as Section 58, 11557.

T A K E Block 70, Lots 16-21 on FURTHER NOTICE that on the Nassau County Land all such taxes remaining and Tax Map. unpaid after April 1st,

At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the Building Department, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York, during normal business hours.

Dated: January 20, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Emily Siniscalchi, Village Clerk 124497

LEGAL NOTICE INC. VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on 02/04/2021 at 8:00 PM in the Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY for the following: Petition of POUPKO JUDAH & NICOLE Premises: 611 CARLYLE ST Sec/Blk/Lot 39/188/44 Case # 2021-003 CONSTRUCT ONE STORY GARAGE 7 KITCHEN EXTENSION IN LIEU OF EXISTING GARAGE Variance from: 265-40 A. Front yards.A front yard of 25 feet shall be required.265-42 Rear yards.A rear yard of not less than 25 feet shall be required on every plot.265-38 C. Building area.The total building area, including all accessory buildings, shall not exceed 30% of the lot area.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all interested persons will have an opportunity to be heard at said hearing.

Dated: January 27, 2021 Cedarhurst, NY Benjamin Weinstock Mayor Salvatore Evola Village Clerk-Treasurer

By Order of the Board Of Zoning Appeals 124499 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Fanboy Fighter , LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 10/29/2020.

NY Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to: 212 Randall Avenue Elmont, NY 11003 .

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

124385 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 726 BRONX LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 10/22/2020.

NY Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to: 66 Neptune Avenue, Woodmere, NY 11598 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF LAWRENCE Notice of meeting to hear complaints Grievance Day Please take notice that the assessment roll of the Incorporated Village of Lawrence for the year 2021 has been prepared and filed with the Village Clerk pursuant to Section 1406, Subdivision 1 of the Real Property Tax Law, where it may be seen and examined by any person at all times during business hours starting February 1, 2021 until February 16, 2021 (the third Tuesday in February) and on the 16th day of February, the Board of Trustees will hold a meeting pursuant to Section 1408 Subdivision 1 of the Real Property Tax Law at the Village Hall, 196 Central Ave, Lawrence, NY between the hours of 12 PM and 4 PM for the purpose of hearing and determining complaints in relation thereto and the application of any person aggrieved thereby.

Lina Fusco Deputy Clerk Treasurer Dated: January 25, 2021 124485 To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

LEGAL NOTICE A non-profit organization in Lawrence is seeking sealed bids for sales and installation of security related enhancements.

The project includes: replacing entryway and internal doors with impact resistant security doors, access control, video surveillance with DVR integration, cameras and monitors, inspect internal security components, and follow up safety protocol with members as well as security and safety training for organization members to increase awareness and preparedness in response to a threat or attack.

Selection criteria will be based on knowledge of surveillance and security, adherence to projected work schedule, prior experience, references, and cost. Specifications and bid requirements can be obtained by contacting us at BMHRFP@gmail.com All interested firms will be required to sign for the proposal documents and provide primary contact, telephone, fax, and email address. Bids will be accepted until April 30th 2021 and work is to commence by June 1st 2021 and completed by December 31st 2021.

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It took much longer to start the job, and just as we were about to begin, we noticed things we wanted changed.

We’re now told that the changes can’t be done easily, that the review will cost more and the plans cost more. The design wasn’t what we wanted or expected after having more time to think about it, so why can’t we just make the changes? We need our additions to be bigger now that we realize we may be living and working from home more, even after the pandemAsk The ic is over (someday). It doesn’t seem like the big Architect deal the architect is telling us it is. Can you explain?

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pandemic is over sooner than expected, and with minimal suffering and loss of more lives. If I understand the time you spent with the design process, the downtime when onte eeper your plans had already been reviewed and the time it would take to get into construction, there are more questions than answers.

In my experience, not everyone visualizes what they’re hoping for, and many people not only spend time asking non-experts for opinions, but the overthinking and under-communicating lead to frustration, indecisiveness and, ultimately, an undoing of good ideas and good intentions. Even though your cousin is “in the business,” or your best friends, interior designer or the contractors you’re meeting with all have interesting ideas, they may not have been given the whole scope of work you asked for, and probably have never looked at zoning or building regulation code books (now online).

I often advise clients to repeat after me: “Change is bad” when the process has reached the point of submitting for permits, the contract for construction has been signed and work is ready to begin.

Having to replan a building, which at the very minimum is like pulling apart a three-dimensional puzzle, is also the reconsideration of multiple levels of laws, including building codes, electrical codes, plumbing codes, structural re-analysis, zoning codes and potential shortfalls when quick changes take the place of well-thought-out consideration.

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very life has its inflection points, moments that can steer you in one direction or another, and that direction, as poet Robert Frost would say, makes all the difference. That is especially true for former President Barack Obama, as he makes clear in “A Promised Land,” his introspective account of his personal and political life, released by Crown in November.

Impression one of this 701-page tome: Obama is an excellent writer.

Impression two: His political idealism is heady and SCOTT infectious — inspiring — and BRINTON because he is so solidly grounded in his family and his ever-evolving faith, he is utterly relatable as a person. He’s one of us, born into the middle class, with all its attendant daily struggles and perpetual yearning for a better life — for the American dream.

Early in the book, Obama ponders a fascinating question: What if he had never left Chicago, where he was a community organizer from 1985 to 1988, and struck out for Harvard Law School? What if he had stayed, fighting, and winning, seemingly small battles to improve people’s lives, helping to repair a park or housing project or starting an after-school program?

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What if he had never run for president?

“Like many local heroes I’ve met over the years, I might have managed to build up an institution that could reshape a neighborhood or portion of the city,” he writes. “Anchored deep in a community, I might have steered money and imagination to change not the world, but just that one place or that one set of kids, doing work that touched the lives of neighbors and friends in some measurable and useful way.”

He left, however. After earning his law degree, he ran for the Illinois State Senate, and won. He ran for Congress, and lost. And he ran for U.S. Senate, and won, before seeking the presidency in 2007-08, sealing his destiny, and his place among the pantheon of truly historic American presidents, the first AfricanAmerican to lead the country.

His first run for president was an audacious undertaking, begun just about 14 years ago, on Feb. 10, 2007, on the steps of Illinois’s Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln had delivered his “House Divided” speech 149 years earlier, noting, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

Thrust onto the national stage, Obama was seemingly a natural candidate, intelligent, clear-headed, collected, indefatigable — at once esoteric yet utterly down-toearth. What we see in “A Promised Land”

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is his very human side, beyond the glare of the media spotlight. We see his occasional annoyance and anger, his wrenching self-doubt and guilt — he desperately wanted to be the excellent father that he never had as a child, but his constant campaigning pulled him away from his wife and two young daughters.

We see former first lady Michelle Obama, ever the reluctant but supportive political wife — and a magnetic draw on the campaign trail, humanizing the Obama brand while delivering arcane policy proposals in emotional terms easily understood by the electorate. No doubt, Barack and Michelle Obama make one hell of a power couple.

I could see myself in the details of “A Promised Land,” which I suspect would be the case for many people. Like Obama, I studied at Columbia University, only six years after he graduated from the school.

As was the case for Obama, my time there was spent in quiet contemplation. He lived a life of seclusion and self-improvement, without any close friends, making to-do lists, running along the Central Park Reservoir or the East River, eating cheap meals on the fly. That was pretty much my life at Columbia, only I ran along the Hudson.

While reading, Obama habitually circles words he has never seen before. It was

n which the author ponders the question, what if he’d never left Chicago?

a habit I picked up as a teen that I have never shed. I could especially relate to his description of his disorganized nature.

Referring to his 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, Obama writes, “Whereas I could be absentminded, indifferent to small details, incapable of maintaining an orderly filing system, constantly misplacing memos, pens and cell phones that had just been handed to me, Plouffe turned out to be a managerial genius.”

Like Obama — and like so many people — staying organized, on task, on point, is a constant struggle for me. I have to work at it, day after day. No manner of computerized calendar helps. I have to write it all down, and remind myself, again and again, do this, do that. Self-deprecating to a fault, Obama gives us permission to admit our foibles.

The wonderful part of “A Promised Land” isn’t the after-action report on the life and times of Barack Obama, but rather the humanizing of his political persona, which was shaped by hard times that gave him the empathy he needed to craft policy — think the Affordable Care Act of 2010 — that helped determine the individual destinies of millions of Americans.

It’s a good thing he opted for Harvard Law. 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.

Post-inauguration: So, how are we doing?

allelujah.

That says it for me. Great relief, writ small. How do we feel safe again after the anxiety of the last four years? The inauguration of Joe Biden and the restoration of a functioning government feel right, but it will take a little time to feel good. Especially while we negotiate our way through the 12th month of a savage pandemic.

I witnessed the turn from darkness to light, from crazy to sane, from chaos to civility.

Like you, I RANDI watched on TV as KREISS the president took the oath, as Lady Gaga sang and as poet Amanda Gorman sealed the deal. Still, this doesn’t feel like jubilation to me. If feels like I just stopped banging my head against the wall. The agony is ebbing, but there’s a dull pain that will take some time to resolve.

Right now, the feeling that eclipses all others is relief. Since Jan. 20, I haven’t gone to sleep watching the news or wor-

ried my way through a fitful night. Briefly, I tuned in to the news around 9 p.m. on Inauguration Day. Biden was still president. Nine hours had passed since the swearing-in, and no one had stormed the Capitol. The day went according to plans.

One wonders what the news outlets will rant about now. How will they be relevant without the sugar high of the former president?

The press lives by “if it bleeds, it leads,” and we had plenty of bleeding, from the stolen migrant children at our borders to the hundreds of thousands of friends and neighbors dying of Covid19. How do we cover a regular presidency, which makes the usual kinds of mistakes and actually functions as an administrative body? Will there be an audience for proposed infrastructure legislation and state dinners for visiting dignitaries?

The media is challenged to get past the low-hanging fruit like Kellyanne Conway weaving her awful webs, Michael Cohen spilling his secrets, Ivanka, Jared, Giuliani and Melania the Silent. Trump’s goon squad gathered all the available light. The mean-spirited tweets and corrupt actions of so many people around

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the former president provided grist for the media every minute of every day of the past four years. How do we and the news industry get accustomed to calm and quiet at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?

Admittedly, something is lost, like sensationalism and melodrama; the grinding of the wheels of respectable government may not make for bold headlines.

I hope the journalists who helped save this country with their relentless pursuit of the truth will rise to the moment and continue to expose the bad guys who always rise to the moment, and point to success where they find it.

This column, over the past four years, has strayed from usual weekly territory, which is hyper-local. To me, Trump and Covid are as local as stories can get, changing the DNA of our lives. To finesse the constraint of writing once a week, I sometimes post something especially timely on Facebook.

On the night of the inauguration, I wrote this: “So, what’s the trick here? A sane, accomplished rock-solid man elected President. A Black woman with Indian

ight now, the feeling that eclipses all others isn’t so much jubilation, but relief.

parentage elected Vice President. A heartfelt inauguration speech promising to keep us safe and true to democratic values. A blast of first-day executive orders undoing some of the malicious initiatives of the former administration. A press conference at the end of the day, a real press conference in the White House briefing room by someone who says she will tell us the truth. When can we believe this is all true? It’s so much goodness, all at once. It will take some time to accommodate to the change.”

Think of the ground shifting under our feet as Trump & Co. were swept into office, primed for action, taking axes and shovels to our country, fracturing our democracy and burying the ideals that had grounded us for 240 years. For four years, many of us have lived with serious anxiety and stress. Our president did not help us or protect us or work at his job to keep this country and its people safe.

It changed last Wednesday, but we need a moment to gather ourselves together for the serious recovery work ahead. It’s still midwinter. But, every day, there is more light. Looking forward to hallelujah, writ large.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ome 100,000 New Yorkers may face debilitating long-term health effects after falling ill to Covid-19, according to “What If You Never Get Better?” in the most recent issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Yes, 100,000.

That is a staggering number of people who may suffer from “long-haul Covid,” a seemingly inexplicable malaise with a wide range of symptoms, from general fatigue and achiness to severe joint stiffness and pain, heart palpitations and “brain fog,” described as a rush of emotion and thought, as if all the brain’s synapses were misfiring at once, leading to confusion and memory loss. Some have called it a “brain hurricane.”

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Most long-haul Covid patients are women, according to The Times. Longhaulers, it’s believed, may suffer from an extreme overreaction of the body’s immune system to the coronavirus. Testosterone acts as a mild immunosuppressant; thus, men, while they may be more likely to die of Covid-19, appear less susceptible to long-term effects.

What’s clear is this: As a society, we must prepare ourselves now to cope with Covid-19 and its after-effects long beyond the point that we have reached herd immunity against it, defined as 60 to 70 percent of the population with immunity.

There will be an ongoing psycho-social

Here’s to offshore wind for L.I.

overnor Cuomo recently announced his 2021 agenda — aptly titled “Reimagine, Rebuild, Renew” — and included in it is an ambitious $26 billion green-energy plan to continue the restructuring of the state’s power grid by building in evergreater amounts of renewable energy, particularly wind.

The E.F. Barrett Generation Station in Island Park, an aging, rusting hulk of a power plant, will serve as a connection point for an undersea electric cable that will extend from a large-scale wind farm 20 miles south of Jones Beach. The wind farm will not be visible from shore. It is one of two such projects proposed off

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We’re excited to see plans for offshore wind moving forward. Wind farms will not only provide massive amounts of carbon-free electricity, but will also help create thousands of high-paying construction jobs that will infuse Long Island’s economy with hundreds of millions of dollars.

Like state economies across the nation, New York’s has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic, with tens of thousands of people losing their jobs. It is smart of Cuomo to focus on infrastructure improvement — particularly green infrastructure. Multi-billion-dollar projects like

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There will be untold medical costs.

We must prepare ourselves now to support not only our family members and friends, but also strangers. We must accept that we are all in this together.

Precisely a year has passed since Wuhan, China, locked down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Some 2.1 million people around the globe have died of it, including more than 400,000 in the U.S. We must remain vigilant and committed to fighting this terrible illness by maintaining social distance, wearing masks, working from home when possible, limiting gatherings and getting vaccinated as soon as we are allowed and able.

letterS Expand telehealth in New York To the Editor: While New York state has been on the cutting edge of promoting telehealth for its residents, the adoption of telehealth by both patients and providers has been slow. Covid-19 has changed not only the way we live, but also the way health care providers support their patients, especially with regard to mental health. New Yorkers adapted throughout 2020, but it’s time to push telehealth to the next level in New York and fully integrate it into our health care system.

I propose comprehensive reforms to permanently adopt Covid-19-era innovations to expand access to physical health, mental health and substance-usedisorder services, including unlocking the benefits of telehealth through policy modernization. My proposal includes the following regulatory and statutory changes to allow for greater flexibility in where and when patients can use telehealth, while maintaining

wind farms will boost the economy, at the same time that they will help reduce carbon emissions to stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis, including sealevel rise and stronger hurricanes. In fact, offshore and land-based wind projects will reduce carbon emissions by 16 million metric tons per year, while creating some 17,000 jobs. Talk about a win-win.

Offshore wind has been a long time coming in the U.S. — there is only one small, five-turbine offshore wind farm in the country, off the coast of Rhode Island.

Let us hope Long Island’s offshore wind farms are finally brought to fruition in the near future. That will require all of our support.

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he events at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and the exhortations by some elected officials leading up to them got me to thinking about civic responsibility and our nation’s future. It also reminded me of a conversation I had with someone I had met while in the Navy years ago. In an exchange about the Constitution, he asked, “Which Constitution do you believe in?

At first, I didn’t understand what he meant. Then I remembered the confirmation hearing of Supreme roBerT a. Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and sCoTT her testimony on the meaning of “originalism.” So, I concluded, this is what he asked: Did I believe in the Constitution of 1787, that followed the American Revolution, or was I one of those who believe in the Constitution that followed Reconstruction and gave previously denied rights to all people?

Those who cling to the original wording of 1787 maintain that the text is authoritative and unchangeable. They seem to ignore that the Constitution was written and adopted with provision for

evolution in thinking and amendment.

Without the amendments, Barrett wouldn’t have the right to vote or serve as a judge.

I began thinking about this question, which Constitution, while pondering the events of the past few months and the rampage that took place in the halls of Congress. Why don’t we know more about our history and our form of government? Why do some people react angrily when historians offer research demonstrating that some long-held truth turns out to be incorrect? Ours is called an exceptional country, but it isn’t exceptional in the ways some espouse. They claim a moral superiority when the claim is really different.

What has become the United States is not a nation based on tribal affinity, a common land or region, or blood relations, as are some others. Instead, it is a nation unlike most because it was founded on ideas and ideals that became the founding principles of freedom, civic engagement and responsibility, and schooling for citizenship. These principles, and others, still obtain, even if they aren’t fully realized. That’s why we refer to the nation as an “experiment,” and why we strive to “create a more perfect

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union.” We recognize it is not yet perfect, but continue to strive for it to be — for all people.

Those old enough will remember junior high and high school courses in civics, including formal instruction in U.S. government, history and democracy. For the fortunate students, civics instruction wasn’t just textbooks in the classroom, but also involved activities such as writing letters to the editor of the local newspaper, attending and writing about school board meetings, and formulating proposed legislative bills and debating the merits of the ideas behind them. While all 50 states require some form of instruction in civics and government, theory-based classroom instruction isn’t sufficiently supported by experience-based learning. One consequence is that only 25 percent of American students achieve the “proficient” standard on the National Assessment of Educational Progress Civics Assessment.

According to the National Education Association, until the 1960s it was common for high school students in the U.S. to take three different classes in civics and government. Unfortunately, these courses were slashed in the early 2000s, when the federal initiative called “No Child Left

here used to be wideranging junior high and high school courses in civics.

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Behind” gave priority to “core subjects” like math and English, and to job preparation and standardized testing. In addition, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, only small proportions of teachers surveyed thought that school districts and parents would support teaching about politics in a course on government or civics.

The toxic nature of politics reflects the decline in education in civic responsibility, and promotes partisanship over patriotism. How can we fulfill our obligations to pursue the common good if we give priority to conflict over compromise? How can we discover the virtues of resolution over revolution if we don’t know the building blocks of our democracy?

In pursuit of a more perfect union, we should celebrate the four freedoms drawn from the Bill of Rights and articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. We should use them as templates when discussing national purpose, priorities and progress. These principles, together with schooling in civics and critical thinking, can help guide fulfillment of the promises contained in the Constitution to which our elected and appointed officials swear loyalty.

Robert Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University.

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So, just write off student loan debt?

To the Editor: U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer wanting the federal government to forgive the first $50,000 of outstanding college loans sounds great. Who doesn’t want free stuff from Washington? But what about the millions of American parents who saved and sacrificed to put their children through college?

What about the students who worked at part-time jobs to attend college?

Millions benefited from being able to attend college on student loans. This has given them access to the middle class.

Sadly, too many students then stuck the federal government with the bill. Despite being successfully employed for years at good-paying jobs, there are a number of former students with ample income who refuse to pay off their student loans. Taxpayers are left with the uncollected debts.

Now Schumer wants Washington to write off hundreds of billions in outstanding student loan debt. Many larger private colleges have endowment funds ranging from millions to billions. Why don’t they

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contribute to reducing their own graduating students’ debts instead of taxpayers?

Collecting some of these outstanding debts from those who can easily afford to pay would only be fair. Given that we are now burdened with a national debt of more than $27.7 trillion, attention must be paid to this scandal.

Why not start by denying federal and state tax refunds to those deadbeats who look for a free ride at our expense?

When will the White House and Congress speak up on this issue and introduce legislation to assist in collecting the outstanding debts?

LARRy PENNER Great Neck

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