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Moving forward with new election maps wasn’t surprised that the maps were tossed. “I look at other states across the country where Republicans have complained there have been so many legal that the new congressional dis- fights with this,” Lafazan said, trict maps drawn by “so I knew New Democrats are York wouldn’t be an unconstitutional exception.” and reek of gerrySeveral outmandering. And comes stemming the New York Court from the decision of Appeals agreed are still uncertain. with them, rejectLafazan and others ing the maps on running for ConApril 27. g ress have cam“Gerrymanderpaigned in areas ing is as old as the that may not be country,” said Bill part of the newly Biamonte, a former drawn maps. The Democratic comnew maps are to be missioner for the submitted by May Nassau County 20, after being Board of Elections. redrawn by a court“It was started by appointed special JAMES E l b r i d g e G e r r y, master, Jonathan who signed the bill SCHEUERMAN Cervas. In the creating redistrict- Nassau County meantime, Senate ing [in Massachuand congressional Democratic election setts] in 1812. State p r i m a r i e s h ave legislation didn’t commissioner been moved back exist before to prefrom June 28 to vent this from happening until a Aug. 23. couple of years ago.”

Cervas’s map may be set aside Nassau County Legislator as well. That’s what happened in Joshua Lafazan, who is one of 1994, when the Nassau County six candidates running for U.S. Legislature was formed. A speRep. Tom Suozzi’s 3rd Congres- cial master was appointed, but sional District seat, said he CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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Let’s play ball!

Little League and Oyster Bay High School baseball players got the chance to learn from former Major League baseball stars, including Art Shamsky of the Mets. More photos, Page 19.

Opening week for O.B. Market Event kicked off its third season last Sunday

By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com

The first Oyster Bay Market of 2022 drew a crowd last Sunday. Locals and visitors from across Nassau County lingered at stands offering fresh produce, craft goods and artisanal foods.

The market, which will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every other Sunday through Nov. 13, has been a fixture in town from spring to fall since its inception in July 2020. The event was the brainchild of Laura Escobar, an Oyster Bay resident and the

event’s organizer.

Escobar is the owner of the Hive Market & Maker’s Space, a local gift shop that also offers classes for adults and children. She explained after the event that she really became motivated to create the market after seeing how the Oyster Bay business community suffered during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

“The idea to bring a food-driven market to the hamlet was my passion project,” Escobar said.

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By Laura Lane

MARK EISENBERG

COLLETTE FOLEY

MARGARET MARCHAND

There are six candidates in this race, but both Thomas Einhorn and Michele Schaefer chose not to participate in this Q&A.

The 62-year-old semi-retired certified financial planner lives in Brookville.

He's married with one child.

The 55-year-old self-employed pastry chef lives in Bayville. She is widowed with two children.

The 52-year-old works with her husband in the family business, and lives in Bayville. They have three kids.

The 65-year-old licensed associate broker lives in Bayville. She is married, a mother and grandmother.

Why should people vote for you?

I have a master's in business and could help with the finances and the budget. I look at the school community as a sports team with great players, but it's not unified. I have a unifying plan for the board, teachers and the community.

I was a school facilities director for a decade working as an executive assistant to an engineer in the city. I was the first contact for teachers and anyone in the building with building concerns.

As a sitting member of the education board, I have made my dedication, work ethic, knowledge, love and commitment to this district abdundantly clear.

I am the 'OG' — incredibly exceptional and authentic — of the school district. I have attended education board meetings since 1995, budget reviews, committees galore.

The board has become too political. Certain people are using their position as a political platform. It's OK to let people know if there's a bill in the state about students rights, for example. But we shouldn't tell people how to vote. If you have an opinion, show both sides. It should be all about the students.

Did you support spending taxpayer money to fight the mask mandate?

No. I don't know how much was spent, but it became too political.

I think there were better avenues to fight over than masks. I would have explored alternatives.

There are civil ways to speak to local politicians if you are against masks. But this really wasn't about wearing masks.

People compared it to wearing the Jewish Star of David. They'd say, 'I'm a Trump person.'

What issues are most important to you?

I have a firm grasp on issues surrounding facilities, and am one of the few community members that attends subcommitte meetings, which includes capital planning.

No, I didn't. The vitriol was hard for me in those rooms with people yelling that Covid-19 isn't real. And I felt we didn't get all the information the board had from the lawyers.

We knew the mandates carried with them laws which our board and administration understood, and that any number of actions could happen if we didn't comply with the state education department.

It wasn't, 'Do we need the masks at this time?'

Massapequa was already engaged in a lawsuit, and the outcome would have affected us.

To put students first and keep out of politics. My beliefs are in the middle, and I want to work together to focus on student academics.

People talking to people. My concern is where our children are now and where is their learning loss. You have ninth-graders behaving like seventh-graders.

This is unprecedented.

I want to get us onto a path where we address curriculum issues and suppor students when they are using resources, including mental health. We really are a district that has been damaged by all of this. Covid-19 has caused so much discord and created an unhealthy environment for our teachers, students and community.

We have had a significant loss of teachers and administrators who retired. No one is talking about stability in the district.

I am not running for me. I'm running to help.

My scope of understanding the education board, the state education department, the state school board association, school law, policy, public relations, audit, finances, coordinated parent council, facilities and budget will allow me to continue my work on the education board on Day One.

As the only candidate to actively vote on this position, I support using budgeted legal funds to uphold the Constitutional rights of our students and staff. Our seven board members voted unanimously to uphold our oath of office.

The same legal battle eventually won in Nassau, New York City and nationwide, voiding all Covid-19 regulations and deeming them illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional. These court wins proved that regulations were circumventing the legislative process.

The past four years, the most important aspect was delivering sound budgets. We presented and passed budgets with low tax increases, while maintaining superior educational standards, increasing district services, increasing athletics, the arts, and improving facilities — including a turf field.

I bring a fiscally conservative business-minded perspective to all financial and capital improvement decisions, and an educational and education board background to the decisions of the greater district.

My 24 years of constant community service allows me to help bridge the board with the community.

LISA E. MCLOUGHLIN

I was the vice president of SEPTA, founded and co-chaired the K-5 Science Fair, site base team, and Bayville's planning board.

Because of my advocacy for free speech, last December, the board unanimously voted to reintroduce public comment to work sessions.

And people will like my commitment to lower taxes.

The mask mandate lawsuit has already been litigated. My opinion as a private citzen at the time is irrelevant.

If elected, and another legal battle arises, I will weigh the advice of legal counsel before deciding whether to support or object to litigation of any nature.

Public schools should be apolitical. Because of remote learning, the pandemic opened the eyes of many parents as to some of the partisan, social justice, and emotional propaganda being force-fed to our most vulnerable population.

We need to return to traditional academics. We need to provide a well-rounded academic foundation for children to go forth into the world, prepared with fundamentally truthful knowledge, and the skills to read, research, and report.

The district has great athletics.

But at $48,250 per student, our academics should be better than mediocre.

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Nassau County Executive Blakeman unveils a Memorial Day initiative for vets Veterans, members of the Women’s Auxiliary, active duty military, representatives of Scouts BSA and Girls Scouts were joined by Nassau County Executive Bruce A. Blakeman on Tuesday to announce a major Memorial Day initiative. Blakeman stated there would be two county-wide 50 second moments of silence on Memorial Day to honor the fallen.

The first moment of silence will be at noon, followed by the second at 6 p.m. then Fire departments, police cars and volunteer ambulance cars will sound their sirens and horns to remind residents to pause, and remember the nation’s fallen heroes.

“It would be a tremendous tribute to all those that gave their lives for America on Memorial Day,” Blakeman said.

“It is not just a weekend of fun but also a weekend of remembrance.”

Several elected officials and a veterans who attended the announcement also spoke to express their support for the initiative.

“Some of our communities are there at these ceremonies but the vast majority of our residents are not there,” Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello said, “so the County Executive’s idea and proposal will give all of our residents an opportunity to reflect — at noon and

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6 p.m. — about those we lost, the fallen heroes. It’s a wonderful way for all of us to remember.”

“Every year on Memorial Day we mark the unofficial beginning of summer, but in truth, it’s a solemn holiday, especially for the families and friends of fallen soldiers,” District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly said. “On Monday, May 30, we will honor the brave men and women in uniform who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our county.”

“Let us remember that freedom is not free, it was won on the battlefield by men and women from our armed forces who made the ultimate sacrifice,” Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said. “On Memorial Day, let us remember the fallen, their individual sacrifices and the pains they and their families endured so that we can enjoy the life and opportunities we have today.”

“We remember and as veterans especially and those who have lost a brother, sister, father or mother to a war, we remember and for us, every day is Memorial Day,” American Legion chaplain Eric Spinner said. “However, what we are going to do on Memorial Day is going to be an amazing tribute to those who have gone before. Let us remember.”

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Ready to play on Falcon Fest Day

Bright blue skies and sunshine were the backdrop to the Locust Valley Central School District’s Falcon Fest Day on April 30. The anticipated event, which connects Locust Valley High School’s varsity athletes with local youth athletic organizations, kicked off with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony to rededicate the new Fred Smith turf field.

Varsity and youth athletic teams, Locust Valley High School Principal Patrick DiClemente, coaches and community members gathered on the field where Dr. Danielle Turner, the director of health, physical education and athletics opened the morning ceremony. Youth lacrosse players Alice McLellan and Sissy Morris led the Pledge of Allegiance, which was followed by congratulatory remarks by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kenneth E. Graham.

“This is a great day and I look forward to seeing our athletes get better, compete, learn and grow through everything that we are doing here,” Graham said.

Together Graham, Turner, Board of Education president Brian Nolan, board vice-president Margaret Marchand and trustee Lauren Themis cut the celebratory ribbon to the sound of applause.

Following the ceremony, the varsity athletes, along with their coaches, went to their stations with their respective groups of young athletes. The varsity athletes practiced drills with the future falcons in the areas of baseball, softball, lacrosse and track.

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MANY OF THE teams took the time to take a photo with Locust Valley’s falcon mascot.

HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY lacrosse players worked with younger athletes from local athletic organizations.

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY UPDATE Thursday, May 12

Friday, May 6

Movies at the library Join the Locust Valley Library at 1 p.m. for an afternoon movie in the Community Room. Seating is limited. This week’s movie is “House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, rated R. For more information, please call the library at (516) 671-1837.

A Time for Kids: Baby Sharks Come to the Locust Valley Library from 10:30 to 11 a.m. and join A Time for Kids, Inc. as they introduce infants up to 18 months old to the wonderful world of library programs. Activities include music, movement, fine and gross motor development, and circle time. Focus is on early literacy, early language development, and socialization.

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Saturday, May 7 Author Claire Bellerjeau Stop by Theodore’s Books in Oyster Bay at 11 a.m. for a discussion with Long Island historian Claire Bellerjeau. Join as Bellerjeau discusses and signs copies of her book, “Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth.” The book follows the life of Revolutionary War enslaved African-American woman Elizabeth, who Bellerjeau asserts could have been the mysterious Agent 355 of the Culper Spy Ring.

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The archaeology of Central Park Bayville Free Library is offering a presentation on Central Park at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Before the grid system, before Central Park, before the Civil War, there was Seneca Village. A small town of around three hundred people, Seneca Village was the home of free African-Americans and recent immigrants from Germany and Ireland. It was a center of diversity, political activism, and an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Then, in 1857, it was violently razed to make way for the future Central Park.

Come to this program and find out all its secrets. Presented by Archaeologist Patty Hamrick. Register on their website for the Zoom link..

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Sunday, May 8 Mother’s Day Brunch Head over to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sea Cliff from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a Mother’s Day brunch. A special coffee hour for all the moms. Dads and children are encouraged to help serve.

Monday, May 9 Game Time Come to the Locust Valley Library from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to the MNA Community Room for individual groups to play games. Please bring your own set. Tables and chairs will be provided. For more information contact the library at (516) 671-1837.

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Visit the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library at 6:30 p.m. to make necklaces.

Ofra Levin of Ofra Jewels will teach visitors how to make their own beautiful necklace using freshwater pearls and/ or semiprecious stones. Registration now for OB-EN residents, and on May 2 for non-residents, space permitting.

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Come to the Bayville Free Library at 7 p.m. for a discussion about osteoporosis, what it is and how to treat it. Osteoporosis is a condition characterized by bone loss and bone fragility that can lead to fractures. It affects over 50 million Americans and is a leading cause of disability in the elderly. The objectives of this program are to educate the public on the risk factors, symptoms, screening tools, prevention, and treatment of osteoporosis. Presented by Dr. Nina Kello, specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine with Northwell Health.

Tuesday, May 10 Witchcraft Legacy Head to the Glen Cove Library from 2 to 3 p.m. as Richard Brewster discusses his book, “Witchcraft Legacy: Stories from the Big Attic.” The discussion begins with a fearful discovery by the author and his brother when, as children, they were exploring the big attic in their childhood home in Glen Cove. They found a steamer trunk filled with old family books and papers, and unearthed an ancient book once owned by the chief judge of the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, William Stoughton. “Witchcraft Legacy” collects family stories of love, death and life’s surprising turns as the generations who possessed Stoughton’s book live out the curse of the evil spirits.

Pop into Glen Cove Public Library’s Zoom discussion on joint replacement therapy from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., hosted by the Hillside Library. Dr. Sreevathsa Boraiah, an orthopedic surgeon from Northwell Health will discuss joint replacement surgery. Boraiah specializes in hip and knee replacement, utilizing the latest techniques and approaches. He is also trained in the use of robotic surgery for hip and knee replacements. He is highly trained in a number of areas, having received postgraduate fellowship training in adult reconstruction surgery, hip surgery, and hip preservation.

Ceramic gnome painting Come to the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library at 6:30 p.m. and paint your very own ceramic gnome. Instructed by Rosemarie Attard, this gnome is too cute to miss. Registration ongoing for OB-EN residents, and May 3 for non-residents, space permitting.

Wednesday, May 11 A Time for Kids Stop by the Gold Coast Public Library at 10 a.m. for an event for parents and children ages 18 months to 5 years. Time for Kids presents a fun interactive adult and child educational experience that helps children to gain very important school readiness and developmental growth skills.

The Village of Sea Cliff will be holding a Board meeting on May 9 at 7 p.m.

The Town of Oyster Bay will be holding a meeting on May 10 at 7 p.m.

The Village of Sea Cliff Architectural Review Bard will be meeting on May 10 at 7 p.m.

The Glen Cove IDA/LEAC will be having a Joint Board meeting on May 10 at 7 p.m.

The City of Glen Cove will be holding a City Council meeting on May 10 at 7:30 p.m.

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Alison Steindler and her boyfriend, Michael Schlitz, offered market-goers fresh food, like their seven-layer heirloom zucchini lasagna and blueberry bourbon dark chocolate brownies. The couple ran Chicken’s Coop in Huntington from March 2020 to October 2021, and are now looking to buy and run a food truck business that will be called the Grandma’s Table.

“We love the spirit of the event and the craft of what people do, and everything about the culture,” Steindler said. “So it’s a great way to just network with people and be surrounded by people you enjoy being surrounded by.”

One regular seller, Chris Marzuk, of Greenlawn, a woodworker who makes chairs, lazy Susan table centerpieces and cutting boards, was unable to make it to Sunday’s opening. A member of the Oyster Bay High School class of 1968, Marzuk said he would be at all of the future markets, as he has been since 2020.

A former attorney, Marzuk said that all of the money he has made at the markets has gone to Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank. “I’ve met people from Northport, Locust Valley, Syosset — all over the area — at the market,” Marzuk said after the event. “It’s great for the town — and it’s a great town — and there are more people every week there to promote it. It’s a win-win.”

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CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE outdoors during that, you know, very questionable time was just amazing.”

Escobar asked Meredith Maus, executive director of the Oyster Bay Main Street Association, to help her get the event going. Maus and Main Street have sponsored the Sunday market for the past two years. The association, Maus said, was happy to get involved in an event that helps the community.

“It’s a way to support our local businesses and local individuals who don’t have brick-and-mortar shops,” she said.

“It brings the community together and walking around the downtown.”

The market is set up in the municipal parking lot on Audrey Avenue across the street from Billy Joel’s 20th Century Cycle, near Town Hall. Stands offer foods and services from Oyster Bay and neighboring communities, from oysters to eggs to honey to artisanal crafts.

Beagan Gooth, who operates the produce company Hegemans Farm in Old Brookville, manned one stand. Gooth is a member of the Young family, and grows crops on the family farm and sells them on his own.

The Hegemans Farm stand had tomatoes, squash, beets and carrots for sale.

Gooth said he had been coming to the Oyster Bay market since it opened.

“There’s a nice community involved with the market,” he said after the event.

Courtesy/Oyster Bay Main Street Association

SMALL BUSINESSES FROM the hamlet, some brick-and-mortar stores and some individual artisans, had stands in the parking lot near Town Hall.

“A lot of the locals like what I sell because it’s local, too.”

One stand was occupied not by a business, but by the nonprofit Oyster Bay Historical Society, which is now in its second year at the market. It offered books from its gift shop and collectibles made by the stand manager, Elizabeth Roosevelt.

Denice Sheppard, executive director

of the Historical Society, said that the market showed the hamlet its own potential, in addition to helping the society raise its profile. “It brings a sense of pride and understanding to see what others in the community have to offer,” Sheppard said. “And it gives the community an opportunity to learn more about us, who we are, and our exhibits, pro-

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Herald wins 17 state newspaper awards STAFF REPORT It was a big showing for Herald Community Newspapers at the New York Press Association spring conference last weekend in Saratoga Springs, with the group from Richner Communications winning 17 state awards, including top honors for in-depth reporting, column writing and spot news.

The team of Nakeem Grant, Scott Brinton, Peter Belfiore, Sue Grieco and Jim Bernstein won the Thomas G. Butson Award for the Malverne/West Hempstead Herald following an April 2021 shooting at a West Hempstead Stop & Shop that killed one person, and injured two others.

“Incredible local coverage of a local trauma,” judges from the Nebraska Press Association shared.

“The spectrum of pieces — hard Courtesy of New York Press Association news, editorial, column, etc. — to HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS was well-represented at the New York Press Association’s spring conference in Saratoga Springs last widen the context and learning weekend, where the group won a total of 28 state awards. From left, reporters Will Sheeline and Tom Carrozza; senior reporter Mallory Wilson; from this event and its impact on publisher emeritus Cliff Richner; senior editor Laura Lane; senior reporter Karina Kovac; sales/marketing associate Jessica Kleiman; digital the community was exemplary.”

The team also earned top honors sales manager Lori Berger; sales vice president Rhonda Glickman; executive editor Michael Hinman; senior reporter Jordan Vallone; Riverdale for spot news for their coverage of Press editor Gary Larkin; and deputy editor Jeffrey Bessen. the shooting, that ultimately led to Community Newspapers. “I am so proud murder charges for Gabriel DeWitt to be a part of this team.”

Wilson, who reportedly worked as a cart Other runner-up wins included: collector at the supermarket.

■ Coverage of religion for Andrew GarSenior editor Laura Lane finished as a cia and Jordan Vallone for the Merrick runner-up in the in-depth news category Herald with stories described by judges as as well for her coverage of speed enforce“very strongly worded and political” filled ment on the roads around schools for the with “lots of good quotes.”

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“Really solid reporting on a local issue ■ Best obituaries for Jeffrey Bessen, prithat may not have seemed particularly marily on his remembrance of Jim Steinnewsworthy, but after research, was demman. “The lede made me want to keep onstrated to be a looming safety issue that reading,” according to one judge. “The — unchecked — could have had tragic more I read, the more I wanted to read.” consequences,” the judges said. “And Ms. Lane’s reporting had an actual impact, ■ Best editorials for Brinton in the Merwith changes to speed zone and enforcerick Herald, praised for putting “faces” on ment.” editorials. “Each editorial led off with a That coverage also earned Lane a runnarrative lead paragraph about someone ner-up spot for community leadership affected, which helped readers relate to behind a team of reporters from The Postthe issue.”

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■ Daly was recognized for her feature Brinton also won first place for his colphoto in the East Meadow Herald, where umn writing that would appear on the readers are drawn in, forcing them to Herald opinion pages. “look at it longer and longer.”

“I am immensely proud of our team for once again being recognized for the The Heralds also received honorable tremendous work they do serving our mentions for a news story from Andrew Christina Daly/Herald file Garcia, and for best special section-advercommunities week in and week out,” said FORMER HERALD STAFF photographer Christina Daly was honored as a runner-up for Stuart Richner, publisher of Herald Comtising for Negrin’s graduation issue that munity Newspapers. “Never has local Photographer of the Year by the New York Press Association for photos like this one, which appeared in the Rockville Centre Herald. journalism been more important than originally appeared on the cover of Living in Franklin Square/Elmont.

The Riverdale Press in the Bronx during the past two years. Throughout earned 11 awards, including top honors the entire pandemic, our team of essen- excellent work” where Daly “caught more brook/East Rockaway Herald, after for general excellence, overall design, editial workers has been in the communities that the action” with her photographs. prompting one judge to “almost feel the torial page and newsprint special sectelling the stories of our neighbors., busiFormer reporters Kate Nalepinski, pain” in an athletic play. tions. That paper was led up until earlier nesses and institutions.

Herald creative director Jeffrey Negrin this year by Michael Hinman, who is now Brian Stieglitz and Stephanie Banat were “Our company is proudly family- recognized for their education coverage and features/special sections editor executive editor of Herald Community owned, which allows us to impartially inside the pages of the Wantagh Herald. Karen Bloom were runners-up for best Newspapers. report the facts. From critical health Judges praised them for the “balance of large space ad for Lynbrook/East RockaOverall, the publications from Herald information and school updates, to cele- hard news and features related to the way, while Negrin also earned honors for Community Newspapers won 28 state brations of life’s milestones and more, schools, keeping people informed on best house ad/ad campaign. awards, allowing it to finish in the top we’ve got you covered.”

Mona Waitzman was a runner-up for three newspaper groups and chains in mask and vaccine protocols, while also Former photo editor Christina Daly showcasing new programs and providing best small space ad.

New York. was a runner-up for the state’s Photogra- that human interest piece that is so vital.”

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The Sea Cliff Glen Head Lions Club will host a baseball game matching the Long Island Bombers, a team of visually impaired players, against the Sunset Mets of the L.I. Midweek Baseball League, to prove that you don’t need to see the ball to play the game.

The exhibition game is scheduled for May 14, at 1 p.m., in Glen Cove’s City Stadium Park, and will raise money for the Bombers organization.

The Bombers first came to the attention of the Sunset Mets — a team for those 52 and older — when the Mets’ manager, John Alutto, of Centre island, was playing in a tournament in Florida last year. Alutto, who operates an online baseball card and memorabilia business, overheard players talking about a “beep ball” team in Rockville Center.

“Right away my antennas went up, since my buddy who I play with, Joe Esposito, has a blind son,” Alutto said.

“His son is now a rookie on the team. I got to see them practice last March, and they’re just phenomenal. These guys just love baseball.”

Peter Munda, a Glen Head chiropractor who plays with Alutto, is a member of the Lions Club, and said he was proud to help organize the event. The Lions work with the visually impaired in a wide range of activities.

“To do something like this, to help a team like the Bombers, it’s amazing,” Munda said. “The determination and hustle of these guys is just phenomenal, and it’s great that we’ll be able to give them a platform.”

Former U.S. Rep. John LeBoutillier, of Westbury, will serve as the game’s

announcer. Both teams will play blindfolded, in the interest of fairness, and will be playing beep ball, a version of the game designed for blind ball players.

What is beep ball?

Ted Fass, of Rockville Center, has been blind since he was 11, when a tumor severed his optic nerve. He was a huge baseball fan, but his disability forced him to hang up his Little League cleats.

Then, thirty five years later in 1998, when Ted and his wife, Gail, were working as mobile DJs, Steve Guerra, a visually impaired stranger, approached Fass after the show. Guerra told Fass about a new game he had heard of called beep ball.

“He told me about the game and asked me if I was interested in founding a team,” Fass recounted. “And it was just really exciting to me, you know, that there was some form of baseball for the blind, ’cause I really missed it, you know.”

Fass and Guerra founded the Long Island Bombers that year, and although Guerra later left the area and Fass became the team manager, the Bombers have continued to grow over the years.

They’ve played at both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, and in tournaments from Boston to Philadelphia.

In beep baseball, or beep ball, a larger ball, similar to a softball, contains an electronic device that emits a beeping sound so players can hear it as it comes their way.

There are just two bases, first and third, and instead of traditional bases, they are 5-foot-tall foam-filled columns containing buzzing mechanisms. When a batter hits the ball, either first or third base is randomly activated and starts CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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By Laura Lane

Why should people vote for you?

What issues do you believe are most important? Why?

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The 56-year-old lives in Oyster Bay, and is a human resources director in the health care industry. She is married with three children.

The 57-year-old lives in Oyster Bay, and is an attorney specializing in municipal finance. She is married and has four children.

I have been on the school board for the past four years — the last two as vice president — and I also worked in human resources for the past 35 years, with compensation, negotiations, conflict resolution and financial services.

I have lived in Oyster Bay for 23 years, and my four children have been educated in the district. I'm a certified public accountant, MBA, an attorney, and a municipal finance professional.

MIA SCHWARTZ The 56-year-old lives in Oyster Bay, and is a teacher. She is married with two adult children.

I have been a teacher for more than 30 years in public schools. I was a middle school health teacher, and taught elementary education. I'm retiring this fall.

One thing people say is I'm very open to hearing both sides. Maybe that's because of the work I do. I'm open to weighing both sides in an issue. I'm not reactionary, and I like to make thoughtful decisions.

I've served two very successful terms as a school board member, where I led the committee to develop a reopening plan, successfully demonstrated by minimal disruption to in-person learning and extracurricular activties.

Having someone with an education background is beneficial because I have more of an understanding of the programs, the way kids learn, and how schools function. I worked under a union contract and understand how collective bargaining works.

I always do see the best in what we can be, and what we can do. During all these volunteer opportunities, I think, 'How can we make this the best experience for our children?' I don't spend time on what's negative.

I also added crew, sailing, performing arts at the elementary level; Mandarin, strings to orchestra and AP classes. I increased graduation rates, and an expansion of technology and four-year college attendance.

I am looking to stay involved with children and schools. I think it can be valuable to keep programs for students, and not just for top-tier kids, but for kids in the middle.

Being financially responsible with our spending within our tax cap. I also want to look for ways to increase academic results.

I think we can do better and provide more research opportunities.

Our education methods are not keeping up with 21st centiury demands. Expansion of technology is critical if we are to succeed in the 21st century. We must change the way our children learn.

To get kids back on track academically in a fiscally responsible way. We need to use state and federal funds without overtaxing the community.

We've done well with technology for our kids, but need to stay out front with it. I've come to learn the process that gets kids into college. Research opportunities are important in high school. We have some in our science and social studies departments, but we need to expand them for our students.

Managing our budget during this inflationary period is important. Our goal as a board has been focused on improving results. While I'm so impressed with the strives we made, our work is just getting started.

We need to use the funds for programs, new technology, and staff development remediation.

What colleges look for is research in high school.

Where do you stand on masking in schools?

We will follow what New York state and the government mandate. My personal feeling is we have responsibility as a board to keep everyone as safe as possible.

My priority was — and is — to keep the school doors open for our students. Our schools were built with a limited ability for student separation, therefore contact tracing during peak Covid-19 periods would have resulted in large numbers of maskless students and teachers being quarantined.

Remote learning was a failure. This is supported by the data that test scores plummeted. Socially and emotionally, our students need — and want — to be in our buildings. I am thrilled that, today, this can be accomplished with a mask-optional policy.

I stand with health regulations.

I'm not saying kids need to wear masks when the numbers don't require it — like now — but I will go with what the government requires.

As a teacher, I don't feel the need to wear a mask. I'm not health-compromised, and I'm vaccinated.

Two primaries will cost taxpayers plenty ■ March 31: The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court rules against the maps and orders that new ones be drawn.

■ April 21: A state appeals court in Rochester upholds the lower court’s ruling, and sets April 30 as the deadline for the State Legislature to adopt new maps.

■ April 27: The New York Court of Appeals affirms the lower court ruling invalidating the maps.

■ April 29: State Judge Patrick McAllister, from Steuben County, extends the deadline for the new maps to May 20. ing our communities,” he said. “This is the most defining election for our nation since the Civil War. Our democracy is under assault.”

Holding two primaries will cost millions of additional dollars, James Scheuerman, Nassau County’s Democratic election commissioner, said.

Each primary costs between $2.3 million and $2.5 million.

“The work for the board will increase,” Scheuerman said. “The petition process will have to take place again [for statewide offices], which will be a burden on the board, and then there are the objections.

We’ll have to find pollsters in the summer, which we’ve never done before, and inspec-

tors will need to be hired, too.”

Polling places are usually in schools, he added, where there is traditionally a concern about the presence of children. In the summer, the schools will be empty, but some may have summer recreation programs. “It’s the unknown,” Scheuerman said. “All of the county commissioners are concerned about the money, resources and venues that will be needed for polling sites.”

Although Lafazan has spent a lot of money campaigning in Westchester, Queens and the Bronx, he said it’s important not to focus on what can’t be controlled. “As soon as we get the new lines,” he said, “we will campaign just as hard.”

Anyone can play beep ball, regardless of vision CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 buzzing, and the batter runs toward the buzz. If a fielder from the opposing team picks up the beeping ball before the batter reaches the buzzing base, that’s an out. If the batter reaches the base first, the batting team scores a run.

The team in the field has six fielders, but the pitcher and catcher are sighted members of the team that’s at bat. There are also two sighted “spotters” who call out to the fielders where the ball is headed. Because there are varying

levels of vision among the players, all batters and fielders wear blindfolds.

According to Fass, events like next week’s game are essential to the Bombers, not just as a way to raise money, but also as a way to educate the public about blindness.

“I really enjoy this, because the reaction that people have when they watch us is just unbelievable,” Fass said. “We’re just educating people that, you know, with persistence you can really do anything.”

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ing access to affordable healthcare and Democrats and Republicans compro- housing,” Biaggi wrote in an email. “I am the most experienced, qualified, and commised so their maps were used instead.

The gubernatorial Democratic primary, mitted candidate in NY-3.”

Regardless of what areas between Gov. Kathy Hochul, are included in the new Suozzi and New York public map, Biaggi can run, Biaadvocate Jumanne Wilmonte said. “You have to liams, will be held on June live in the state, not the dis28, as planned. But because trict,” he said. “But there is the federal primaries are no rationale for her to run being delayed, if Suozzi if her entire area isn’t loses the primary, he could included in the new map.” run for re-election to ConSuozzi said that voters gress, according to his camhave had enough of gerrypaign manager, Mike Florio. mandered maps, with disIn an interview on Tuestrict lines drawn to favor day on NY 1’s Mornings on one party or the other. “The 1, however, Suozzi said he idea of crossing the Throgs was planning to run for govNeck Bridge from Queens ernor and winning the up into the Bronx and WestD e m o c r a t i c p r i m a r y. U.S. REP. chester, that’s what people “That’s what I’m focused are sick of in politics,” he TOM SUOZZI on,” he said. When pushed said. “They are sick of the about a possible congressiogames, of people fighting all nal re-election bid, he said, “I’m not runthe time instead of actually solving the ning for Congress.” problems.

Let’s work together to actually State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, of the solve the problems people are facing these Bronx, who is running for Suozzi’s congressional seat, plans to stay in the race. “I days.”

Robert Zimmerman, another contender entered this race because I am deeply comfor Suozzi’s seat, said he, too, was running mitted to fighting for the people of NY-3 regardless of how the new map is drawn. and protecting abortion and voting rights, combating the climate crisis, and expand- “I’m in this fight because of the issues facCONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

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Regardless of the entertainment, placed on DVR I will not hesitate to go whether a blockbuster movie, book, show, back (even a few times) to catch a sentelevision or streaming series, it has tence spoken or a gesture expressed — becoming increasingly harder to sepa- much to the frustration of my family. It’s rate my emotions from the ones seen on almost as if I don’t want to miss anything — the symbols, the writthe page or screen. Coning, the choreography stantly reminded that it’s between actors. “just a story”, and not I feel bad for the mom always a true one at that, who hasn’t yet learned I can’t stop my sudden her family’s issues – one reaction and unexpected teen is depressed, one relationship to the chardaughter is expressing acters and problems they their non-binary identity face. and one young adult has Is this a function of gone through an aborgetting older, understandtion. All I want her to do ing more having witis to find out soon and not nessed more? (Or maybe forget to close the front it’s more like understanddoor when she runs outing less than ever, despite side. witnessing more.) So auren ev Maybe it’s the human many creative people are condition, maybe it’s not surprised when their so much the medium as work is designed to connect with a younger age group or demo- the message. After all I am just as congraphic yet is completely embraced and nected to a “feel good” feature story on the local news as I am for an underdog cherished by an older audience.

Lately, the tears come to me so quick- turned triumphant in sports. Cartoon ly or the surprise is so intense when I character, cherished celebrity, it doesn’t give my focus to a television show. Not seem to matter. I’m suddenly with them that everything on network is worthy of all, if not live and in person, then in spirany attention, but if the show has been it.

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LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA, VOTO PRESUPUESTARIO Y ELECCIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE LOCUST VALLEY, LOCUST VALLEY, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK POR LA PRESENTE SE HACE AVISO, que una audiencia pública de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley, condado de Nassau, Locust Valley, Nueva York se llevará a cabo en el Auditorio de Locust Valley Middle School/High School, 99 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York, en dicho distrito escolar el 5 de mayo de 2022 a las 7:30 pm tiempo vigente, para la transacción de negocios según lo autorizado por la Ley de Educación, incluidos los siguientes elementos: 1. Para presentar a los votantes una declaración detallada (proyecto de presupuesto) de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año fiscal 2022-2023.

2. Discutir todos los puntos que se establecen a continuación para ser sometidos a votación por máquinas de votación en la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto que se llevará a cabo el martes 17 de mayo de 2022.

3. Tramitar cualquier otro asunto que venga debidamente antes de la reunión de conformidad con la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York y leyes que la modifiquen.

Se pondrá a disposición de los residentes del distrito escolar una copia del presupuesto propuesto, previa solicitud, a partir del 26 de abril de 2022. entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p.

m., hora predominante, excepto sábados, domingos o feriados, en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito, Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560.

Y AVISO ADICIONAL SE OTORGA POR LA PRESENTE que dicho Voto y Elección del Presupuesto se llevará a cabo el martes 17 de mayo de 2022, entre las 6:00 am y las 9:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, en los tres (3) Distritos Electorales, descritos a continuación, en cuyo momento las urnas estarán abiertas para votar por máquina de votación sobre los siguientes elementos: 1.

Proposición Uno (1): Adoptar el presupuesto anual del Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 2022-2023 y autorizar la porción requerida del mismo para ser recaudado por impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito.

2. Solo para residentes del área de servicio de la biblioteca de Locust Valley - Vote por la propuesta dos (2): Adoptar la resolución para la asignación de la biblioteca de Locust Valley presentada para el año fiscal 2022-2023, por la cantidad de $1,512,909 que aparecerá en las máquinas de votación en mayo 17, 2022, y que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley esté autorizada a cobrar el impuesto necesario, por lo tanto, sobre la propiedad sujeta a impuestos únicamente del antiguo Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 4, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York.

3.

Elegir dos (2) miembros de la Junta de Educación de la siguiente manera: a) un (1) miembro por un período de tres años que comienza el 1 de julio de 2022 y termina el 30 de junio de 2025; y b) miembro de un (1) para llenar el resto del plazo de un asiento vacante al 30 de junio 2022 y luego un plazo total de tres años del 1 de julio, 2022 y expira el 30 de junio, 2025.

Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran cargos específicos separados; los candidatos se presentan en general. Hay un asiento disponible que está vacante debido a la renuncia del anterior miembro de la Junta de Educación. El candidato que reciba el mayor número de votos se considerará elegido para ocupar el resto del período del puesto vacante hasta el 30 de junio de 2022 y luego un período completo de tres años que comienza el 1 de julio de 2022 y vence

el 30 de junio de 2025.

Y NUEVO AVISO SE DA POR MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE, que una copia de la declaración de la Cualquier residente del Distrito puede obtener la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para financiar el presupuesto del Distrito Escolar y el presupuesto de la Biblioteca de Locust Valley para 2022-2023, sin incluir el dinero público, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm a partir del 26 de abril de 2022, excepto los sábados, domingos o feriados, en la oficina del distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560 y en cada escuela del distrito.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con el Capítulo 258 de las Leyes de 2008, la Sección 495 se agregó a la Ley del Impuesto sobre la Propiedad Inmobiliaria, y requiere que el Distrito Escolar adjunte a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención.

Dicho informe de exención, que también pasará a formar parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cuánto está exento de impuestos el valor total tasado en la lista de tasación final utilizada en el proceso presupuestario, enumerará todos los tipos de exenciones otorgadas, identificadas por la autoridad estatutaria, y mostrar: (a) el impacto acumulativo de cada tipo de exención expresado ya sea como una cantidad en dólares del valor tasado o como un porcentaje del valor tasado total en la lista; (b) el monto acumulado que se espera recibir de los beneficiarios de cada tipo de exención como pagos en lugar de impuestos u otros pagos por servicios municipales; y (c) el impacto acumulativo de todas las exenciones otorgadas. El informe de exención se publicará en cualquier tablero de anuncios mantenido por el Distrito para avisos públicos y en cualquier sitio web mantenido por el Distrito.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que las peticiones que nominan candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación deberán presentarse ante el Secretario de dicho Distrito Escolar en su oficina en el Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560, a más tardar el 18 de abril de 2022, entre las 9:00 am y las 5:00 pm, hora prevaleciente.

Peticiones de nominación no describe ninguna vacante específica en la Junta para la cual el candidato está nominado; debe ser dirigido al Secretario del Distrito; debe estar firmado por al menos 27 votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el

mayor de 25 votantes calificados o el 2% del número de votantes que votaron en la previa elección anual; debe indicar el nombre y la residencia de cada firmante, y debe indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se requiere el registro personal de votantes de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación o de conformidad con el Artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones. Si un votante se ha registrado hasta ahora de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación y ha votado en una reunión anual o especial de distrito dentro de los últimos cuatro (4) años calendario, él o ella es elegible para votar en esta elección. Si un votante está registrado y es elegible para votar bajo el Artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones, él o ella también es elegible para votar en esta elección. Todas las demás personas que deseen votar deben registrarse.

La Junta de Registro se reunirá con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación en cada uno de los tres distritos electorales, el 7 de mayo de 2022, entre las 9:00 am y la 1:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, en la Oficina del Secretario de Distrito, para agregar cualquier nombre adicional al Registro que se utilizará en la elección antes mencionada, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que su nombre se coloque en dicho Registro, siempre que en dicha reunión de la Junta de Registro se sabe o se prueba a satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro que tiene derecho a votar en esa elección para la cual se prepara el registro. Además, el registro se llevará a cabo con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación hasta el 10 de mayo de 2022, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, en todos los días regulares durante los cuales la oficina del Secretario de Distrito está en funcionamiento, ubicada en 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho registro, siempre que en el momento en que se sepa o se pruebe a satisfacción de dicho Secretario de Distrito que tiene derecho a votar en ese momento o en el futuro en la elección para la que se prepara el registro. El registro así preparado de conformidad con §2014

de la Ley de Educación se archivará en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560 y estará abierto para la inspección de cualquier votante calificado del Distrito a partir del jueves, 12 de mayo de 2022, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm, hora predominante, los días laborables y todos los días anteriores al día fijado para la elección, excepto los domingos, y los sábados entre las 9:00 am y 1:00 pm, y en los lugares de votación el día de la votación.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que los votantes militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley solicitando y devolviendo una solicitud de registro al Secretario del Distrito en persona, por correo a la Oficina de la Secretario de distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, por correo electrónico a shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us o por fax al 516 277-5098.

La solicitud de la solicitud de registro puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar de recibir la solicitud de registro por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

Los formularios de solicitud de registro de votantes militares deben recibirse en la oficina del secretario de distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 21 de abril de 2022 para poder emitir una boleta para la votación y la elección del presupuesto de 2022.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, aquellos votantes militares que son votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley, pueden solicitar una solicitud para una boleta militar al secretario del distrito en persona, por correo a Oficina del Secretario de Distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, por correo electrónico a shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us, o por fax al 516 277-5098. En dicha solicitud, el votante militar puede indicar su preferencia de recibir la solicitud por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Un votante militar debe devolver la solicitud de boleta militar original por correo o en persona a la Oficina del Secretario de Distrito al 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Para que un votante militar reciba una boleta militar, se debe recibir una solicitud de boleta militar válida en la oficina del secretario de distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 21 de abril de 2022.

Las solicitudes de boleta militar recibidas de acuerdo con lo anterior se

procesarán de la misma manera que una solicitud de boleta no militar según la Sección 2018-a de la Ley de Educación.

La solicitud de boleta militar puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar de recibir la boleta militar por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, la boleta militar original de un votante militar debe ser devuelta por correo o en persona a la oficina del Secretario de Distrito en 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560.

Las boletas militares serán escrutadas si son recibidas por el secretario de distrito antes del cierre de las urnas el 17 de mayo de 2022 mostrando una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o mostrando un endoso fechado de recibo por otra agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 17 de mayo de 2022 y firmado y fechado por el votante militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se determina que es no más tarde del día anterior a la elección.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York, la Junta de Registro se reunirá el martes 17 de mayo de 2022, entre las 6:00 am y las 9:00 pm , tiempo prevaleciente, en cada uno de los tres (3) distritos electorales separados para preparar el Registro del Distrito Escolar que se usará en la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto que se llevará a cabo en 2022, y cualquier reunión especial del distrito que pueda realizarse después de la preparación de dicho Registro, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho Registro siempre que en dicha reunión de dicha Junta de Registro se conozca o se pruebe a satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro que es o posteriormente con derecho a votar en la elección de la escuela para la cual se prepara dicho Registro, o en cualquier reunión especial del distrito que se lleve a cabo después del 17 de mayo de 2022.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA UN AVISO ADICIONAL, las solicitudes para boletas de voto ausente se podrán obtener durante el horario escolar de la escuela. Secretario de distrito a partir del 1 de abril de 2022. De acuerdo con la Ley de educación § 2018-a, el Secretario de distrito no puede recibir las solicitudes completadas antes del 18 de abril de 2022 y dichas solicitudes deben ser

recibidas por el Secretario de distrito al menos siete (7) días antes de la elección si la boleta se enviará por correo al votante, o el día antes de la elección, si la boleta se entregará personalmente al votante o al agente nombrado en la solicitud de boleta de votante ausente. Al recibir una solicitud oportuna de una boleta de voto en ausencia enviada por correo, el Secretario del Distrito enviará la boleta por correo a la dirección establecida en la solicitud a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la votación. El secretario de distrito debe recibir las boletas de voto ausente a más tardar a las 5:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, el martes 17 de mayo de 2022.

Una lista de las personas a las que se emiten las boletas de voto ausente estará disponible para su inspección para los votantes calificados del Distrito en la oficina del secretario de distrito el jueves 12 de mayo de 2022 y después de esa fecha, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm los días de semana antes del día establecido para la elección anual y el 17 de mayo de 2022, el día establecido para la elección.

Cualquier votante calificado puede, al examinar dicha lista, presentar una impugnación por escrito de las calificaciones como votante de cualquier persona cuyo nombre aparezca en dicha lista, indicando las razones de dicha impugnación.

Cualquier impugnación por escrito será transmitida por el Secretario del Distrito o una persona designada por la Junta de Educación a los inspectores de la elección el Día de la Elección.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con una regla adoptada por la Junta de Educación de acuerdo con la sección 2035 de la Ley de Educación, cualquier referéndum o propuesta para enmendar el presupuesto, o de otra manera que se someta a votación en dicha elección, debe ser presentada ante el Secretario del Distrito, la Junta de Educación en el Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley con tiempo suficiente para permitir que la notificación de la propuesta se incluya con el Aviso de Audiencia Pública, Voto de Presupuesto y Elección requeridos por la Sección 2004 de la Ley de Educación, pero a más tardar el 3 de marzo de 2022, a las 4:30 pm, hora vigente; debe estar mecanografiado o impreso en el idioma inglés; debe ser dirigido al Secretario del Distrito Escolar; debe estar firmado por al menos 67

votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el 5% del número de votantes que votaron en la elección anual anterior); y debe indicar de manera legible el nombre de cada firmante.

Sin embargo, la Junta Escolar no considerará ninguna petición para presentar a los votantes ninguna proposición cuyo propósito no esté dentro del poder de los votantes determinar, que sea ilegal o cualquier proposición que no incluya una apropiación específica donde el gasto de dinero es requerido por la propuesta, o cuando exista otra razón válida para excluir la propuesta de la boleta.

DISTRITOS DE ELECCIÓN ESCOLAR Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se han establecido Distritos Electorales en el Distrito Escolar.

Los límites de los Distritos Electorales, adoptados por resolución de la Junta de Educación, y el lugar en cada distrito electoral para votar serán los siguientes: Distrito Electoral Escuela Intermedia de Bayville, 50 Mountain Avenue, Bayville (descripción del distrito electoral: anterior Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 6, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York) Distrito Electoral de Brookville: Salón Comunitario de la Iglesia Reformada Brookville, 2 Brookville Road, Brookville (descripción del distrito electoral: antiguo Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 3, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York) Distrito Electoral de Locust Valley Escuela Primaria Ann MacArthur, 100 Ryefield Road, Locust Valley (descripción del distrito electoral: antiguo Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 4, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York) Fecha: 22 de marzo de 2022 Locust Valley, Nueva York Por orden de la JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE LOCUST VALLEY Susan Hammerschmidt, Secretaria de Distrito 130419 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LOCUST VALLEY, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Locust Valley Central School District, Nassau County, Locust Valley, New York will be held in the Auditorium of the Locust Valley Middle School/High School, 99 Horse Hollow

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Road, Locust Valley, New York, in said school district on May 5, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1.

To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money which will be required for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.

2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available, upon request, to residents of the school district beginning April 26, 2022 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the office of the District Clerk, Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that said Budget Vote and Election will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the three (3) Election Districts, described below, at which time the polls will be open to vote by voting machine upon the following items: 1.

Proposition One (1): To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2022-2023 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

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Locust Valley Library Service Area Residents Only - Vote for Proposition Two (2): To adopt the resolution for the Locust Valley Library appropriation submitted for the fiscal year 2022-2023, in the amount of $1,512,909 to appear on the voting machines on May 17, 2022, and that the Board of Education of the Locust Valley Central School District be authorized to levy the necessary tax therefore on the taxable property only of former Union Free School District No. 4, Town of Oyster Bay, New York.

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To elect two (2) members of the Board of Education as follows: a) one (1) member for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2022 and expiring on June 30, 2025; and b) one (1) member to fill the remainder of the term of a vacant seat until June

30, 2022 and then a full three-year term commencing July 1, 2022 and expiring on June 30, 2025.

Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large.

There is a seat available which is vacant due to the resignation of a prior Board of Education member. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed elected to fill the remainder of the term of the vacant seat until June 30, 2022 and then a full three year term commencing July 1, 2022 and expiring on June 30, 2025.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget and the Locust Valley Library’s budget for 2022-2023, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. beginning April 26, 2022, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the District Office, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560 and at each school house in the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of 2008, Section 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law, and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted, identified by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received from recipients of each type of exemption as payments in lieu of taxes or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any website maintained by the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with the Clerk of said School District at her office in the Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road,

Locust Valley, New York 11560, not later than April 18, 2022, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time.

Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Clerk of the District; must be signed by at least 27 qualified voters of the District (representing the greater of 25 qualified voters or 2% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election); must state the name and residence of each signer, and must state the name and residence of the candidate.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election. If a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register.

The Board of Registration will meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law in each of the three election districts, on May 7, 2022, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., prevailing time, at the Office of the District Clerk, to add any additional names to the Register to be used at the aforesaid election, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared.

Additionally, registration shall be conducted for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law through May 10, 2022, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on all regular days during which the office of the District Clerk is in operation, located at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such register, provided that at such time he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said District Clerk to be then or thereafter entitled to

vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The register so prepared pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560 and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District beginning on Thursday, May 12, 2022, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on weekdays, and each day prior to the day set for the election, except Sunday, and on Saturday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the Locust Valley Central School District by requesting and returning a registration application to the District Clerk in person, by mail to Office of the District Clerk, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, by email to shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us or fax sent to 516 277-5098.

The request for the registration application may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the registration application by either mail, fax or email. Military voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 21, 2022 in order to be issued a ballot for the 2022 Budget Vote and Election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, those military voters who are qualified voters of the Locust Valley Central School District, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk in person, by mail to Office of the District Clerk, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, by email to shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us, or fax sent to 516 277-5098. In such request, the military voter may indicate their preference for receiving the application by mail, fax or email. A military voter must return the original military ballot application by mail or in person to the Office of the District Clerk at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560.

In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on April 21, 2022.

Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military

ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, a military voter’s original military ballot must be returned by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before the close of polls on May 17, 2022 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on May 17, 2022 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York, the Board of Registration will meet on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, at each of the three (3) separate election districts to prepare the Register of the School District to be used at the Budget Vote and Election to be held in 2022, and any special district meetings that may be held after the preparation of said Register, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register provided that at such meeting of said Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school election for which said Register is prepared, or any special district meeting held after May 17, 2022.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable during school business hours from the District Clerk beginning April 1, 2022. In accordance with Education Law § 2018-a, completed applications may not be received by the District Clerk earlier than April 18, 2022 and such applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or the agent named in the absentee ballot application.

Upon receiving a timely request

for a mailed absentee ballot, the District Clerk will mail the ballot to the address set forth in the application by no later than six (6) days before the vote. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

A list of persons to whom absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the office of the District Clerk on and after Thursday, May 12, 2022, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays prior to the day set for the annual election and on May 17, 2022, the day set for the election. Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Any such written challenge shall be transmitted by the District Clerk or a designee of the Board of Education to the inspectors of election on Election Day. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the District Clerk, Board of Education at the Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley in sufficient time to permit notice of the proposition to be included with the Notice of the Public Hearing, Budget Vote and Election required by Section 2004 of the Education Law but no later than March 3, 2022, at 4:30 p.m., prevailing time; must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least 67 qualified voters of the District (representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election); and must legibly state the name of each signer.

However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot.

SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the School District.

The boundaries of the Election Districts, as adopted by resolution of the Board of Education, and the place in each election district for voting shall be as follows: Bayville Election District Bayville Intermediate School, 50 Mountain Avenue, Bayville (description of election district: former Union Free School District No. 6, Town of Oyster Bay, New York) Brookville Election District: Community Hall of the Brookville Reformed Church, 2 Brookville Road, Brookville (description of election district: former Union Free School District No. 3, Town of Oyster Bay, New York) Locust Valley Election District Ann MacArthur Primary School, 100 Ryefield Road, Locust Valley (description of election district: former Union Free School District No. 4, Town of Oyster Bay, New York) Dated: March 22, 2022 Locust Valley, New York

By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Susan Hammerschmidt, District Clerk 130417 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, HOME EQUITY MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004-KS7, V. BART SESSA, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 20, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, HOME EQUITY MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004-KS7 is the Plaintiff and BART SESSA, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will

sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on May 17, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 26 ADAMS STREET, OYSTER BAY, NY 11771: Section 27, Block 14, Lot 227: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT OYSTER BAY, TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 003221/2015. Jane P. Shrenkel, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 130723 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE In the Matter of the Application of Beacon Wind LLC for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need for the Construction of Approximately 124 Miles of Transmission Lines from the Boundary of New York State Territorial Waters to a Point of Interconnection in Astoria, Queens, New York Pursuant to Article VII of the Public Service Law of the State of New York, Beacon Wind LLC (Applicant) is providing public notice of its intent to file an Application for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (Certificate) for the proposed construction and operation of the portion of the transmission system for the Beacon Wind 1 offshore wind generating facility located in New York State (the Project).

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on or about May 13, 2022, the Applicant will file an application (Application) in the above-entitled matter with the New York State Public Service Commission (Commission) for a Certificate pursuant to Article VII of the Public Service Law to construct, operate, and maintain the Project, which is the New York State portion of a transmission facility that will connect the offshore wind farm to be located in the Bureau of Ocean

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Young sluggers play with the pros

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yster Bay Little League teams were treated to a practice last Saturday with none other than two former Major League baseball players. Fred Cambria, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Art Shamsky, of the New York Mets, taught boys and girls from kindergarten to high school different tricks and tips to improve their game. They also shared stories and anecdotes from their years of playing in the pros. The event was sponsored by several businesses, including Chick-fil-A of Syosset, Bodyarmor and New York Life Insurance.

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Energy Management designated Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A 0520 within federal waters (Lease Area) to the existing mainland electrical grid in Astoria, Queens, New York. The Project is necessary in order to transmit renewable energy from the Lease Area to the downstate area and to assist New York State in achieving its clean energy mandates under the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. During the course of the Article VII proceedings, alternative routes not included in the Application or affected by the proposed primary route may be offered without further notice by publication. In addition, the Commission may ultimately approve an alternative route for the Project that traverses municipalities not presently affected by the Project or included in the Application.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT The Project includes: (i) 320-kilovolt (kV) highvoltage direct current (HVDC) submarine export cables within an approximately 115 nautical mile-long submarine export cable corridor, extending from the boundary of New York State waters (3

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y any measure, this winter was one of the coldest and wettest ones I can recall. Quite a few bone-chilling days made you want to crawl into bed and stay there.

Many of my friends chose to travel to Florida for vacations and some have talked about moving there for good, complaining about our weather, high taxes, crime and the cost of living.

The national media hasn’t helped, either, with periodic stories about the number of New Yorkers who are JERRY fleeing the state.

With the help KREMER of the United Van Lines, the U.S. Movers Association and a variety of other sources, I was able to get a better picture of who is moving and why they’re moving. The states that lost the largest numbers of residents in 2021, in order of loss, were New Jersey, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, California, Michigan, Minnesota,

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Louisiana, Ohio and Nebraska. The states gaining in population, in order of growth, were Vermont, South Dakota, South Carolina, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, Idaho and Rhode Island.

New Jersey had the dubious distinction of losing the most residents.

Roughly 69 percent of moves in the state were outbound. The vast majority of those people who left were retirees, followed by those wishing to live closer to other family members.

Thanks to remote work, New Jersey also lost residents to jobs in warmer climates with lower housing costs.

New York State came in at No. 3, for a variety of reasons. Why are New Yorkers leaving at a record pace? As of late, the state is burdened with high taxes and a lack of affordable housing. Income and property taxes are a major irritant.

Brutal winters add to the discomfort.

Major tech companies are enticing our younger population to leave the state for locations that are less crowded. Just like

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New Jersey, New Yorkers have family members all over the country, and as we age, there’s a desire to live closer to them. A separate category of now exNew Yorkers are upstate residents who continue to leave in alarming numbers.

An interesting statistical footnote is that Vermont was the No. 1 state for population growth in 2021.

Roughly 68 percent of all moves in the state were inbound. Most of Vermont’s new residents came from nearby states, apparently looking for a quieter life that’s not far from the urban centers of the Northeast. Vermont has a number of highly rated colleges and the lowest crime rate in the country. While I wouldn’t rush to move there, I have met a number of people over the years who like living in the woods, but brag about being able to get to a Broadway show in three hours.

I understand why Vermont did so well, but why does South Dakota rank second in growth? I reached out to a former state senator who explained to me that South Dakota has a 3.5 percent

hy are New Yorkers leaving at a record pace? Let me count the ways.

unemployment rate and a number of national companies constantly looking for skilled workers. It’s also considered the second-best state for female entrepreneurs. I also learned that many of its new residents are from California, anxious to get away from the dense population and quality-of-life issues.

Pondering all these statistics is a head-spinning experience, but there are a number of clear trends. Six of the states at the top of the losing-population list have colder climates and large urban areas that are no longer desirable. Many of those residents have family members in warmer and lower-tax states, which is a major inducement to leave.

Despite all of the pros and cons of living in New York, I can easily argue why the good features far outweigh the bad ones. I was born here, and am determined to be a part of the New York experience for as long as possible.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years.

He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

The pandemic may be evolving, but it’s not over

may be dead right.

Nearly two years ago, I wrote a column suggesting that, in the fight against Covid-19, our elders would be sacrificed. Last week, The Washington Post reported that we are seeing a rise in deaths among the vaccinated elderly.

According to the Post, “Nearly two-thirds of the people who died during the recent Omicron surge were 75 and older.” During the Delta wave, only one-third of deaths were among the elders.

To date, more than 700,000 peoRANDI ple over 65 have KREISS died of Covid in the U.S. The irony is that most older people are vaccinated; it’s their age and other medical problems that contribute to mortality. I take no pleasure in being right. But the new rising deaths among our elders remind us that the pandemic is still a threat.

Every pandemic protocol has evolved over time. Americans, who are not great at nuance, are being forced to take a nuanced approach to fighting coronavirus.

Two years ago, schools were closed, and children were socially isolated. We

did what we could do with what we knew then. If then President Donald Trump had followed the advice of his medical team early on, some 30,000 lives might have been saved, according to Deborah Birx, former White House coordinator for coronavirus response.

The availability of good testing kits was problematic into the Biden administration. Even today, access to anti-viral drugs is challenging in many communities. Covid produced no heroes.

There has been enough suffering to go around. Two and a half years into this plague, our teens are experiencing unprecedented mental health issues, our young parents are trying to keep their infants and toddlers safe until a vaccine is fully available, and working people are figuring out how and where to move forward with their careers.

I don’t think older folks have it worst, and I speak with some authority. Many of us have full and rich lives, but we all hoped that after a lifetime of working, we might have more years in the bank.

Everyone has experienced loss. I see, with my own grandkids, a kind of resignation to endless disappointments. No dates, no proms, no football games and,

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for way too long, no school. I see, with my nieces and nephew, the mix of joy and terror that attends raising infants in a pandemic.

I have seen people’s dreams evaporate as longtime businesses succumbed to the pandemic, as it surged from weeks to months to years.

Two years ago, I wrote that children need to get educated, and they need to get out of the house to play and meet friends. If not, we will have a generation of pandemic kids growing up with unique psychological problems. That, too, has come to pass.

So the opening of schools and camps and sports events and travel is all good, but not good for all. Then, as now, the needs of the children are in conflict with the need to protect our older people. The children must come first, but it isn’t an either/or situation. The problem can be addressed reasonably well. Nuance, again.

As the epidemiologists have told us, widespread testing, universal protections like masks and respect for medical guidelines can allow our kids and grandkids the social freedom they need and still help keep older people safe.

This isn’t perfect, but it isn’t rocket

am not prepared to trust my health to the kindness of strangers.

Masks work.

science, either.

Today in America, older people and immuno-compromised people, our mothers and fathers, our grandparents and our neighbors, would be safer if we all wore masks in common inside places.

Why is it such a big ask to do a simple thing to protect someone else?

I get the relief of not having to wear a face covering, but I do not get the refusal to help keep others’ safe from serious illness and death.

I wrote two years ago about senicide, the practice, acceptable in some cultures, of killing older people or abandoning them to certain death. Has Covid become the 21st-century version of the ice floe?

That doesn’t have to be the deal. There is another way to move without stepping over bodies. Masks work. Social distancing is effective. Vaccines and boosters protect against the virus.

But I am not prepared to trust my health to the kindness of strangers. For my boomer brothers and sisters, we need to take care of ourselves, and that means making our own rules. We need our masks and, right now, we need to be extra careful about gathering indoors. Stop shaking hands! Carry hand sanitizer.

We need to find our lives again and renew our connections, but we must proceed with caution.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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orry, Al Gore. You didn’t invent the internet. That was Tim Berners-Lee. The London-born computer scientist developed a way to network different computers with different operating systems among scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, and in the process, he created the building blocks that would become the World Wide Web in 1989.

Networking computers wasn’t a new concept. The U.S. Defense Department had established the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network — or ARPANet — which was a data packet-switching system. But in 1989, what would become the internet was commercialized, with a huge boost from Berners-Lee, who created the first web browser in 1990.

Berners-Lee had grand ideas of what instant access to and exchange of information could do for society. Any information would be at any person’s fingertips, no matter where they were. The physical borders and oceans that separated us would be effectively erased, creating a sort of utopia mankind could only dream of before.

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LETTERS Free speech isn’t an absolute To the Editor: Re Ronald Rosenberg’s column last week, “When so-called free speech is censored”: Mr. Rosenberg’s claim of censorship fails on several points, mainly in its absolutist position. The claim that “The First Amendment is the immovable cornerstone of our nation” is poetic, but simplistically ignores the numerous limitations of law, custom and civility we navigate daily. “Free speech” is thus neither absolute nor “indivisible.”

A l l e g i n g a n “ u n e q u ivo c a l defense of our freedom [to speak], regardless of where, when or how we choose” is to recreate Babel.

In praising his tolerance of speech by “repugnant,” “antisemitic” “socialists” Mr. Rosenberg overlooks the relevant fact

borders were indeed wiped away — at least virtually — it wasn’t harmony and bliss that resulted.

In fact, on the eve of his creation’s 30th anniversary, Berners-Lee told The Guardian that while he was still an optimist, he was an “optimist standing at the top of the hill with a nasty storm blowing in my face, hanging onto a fence.”

That sentiment has been expressed in a variety of ways in the past few weeks, since Tesla electric car company founder Elon Musk launched what is now looking like a successful hostile takeover of Twitter. There are many who fear that Musk’s past aversion to filtering out content others might deem harmful to society could begin a further slide for social media down the mountain of civility.

The internet — especially social media — has been nothing short of revolutionary, facilitating the sharing of a diversity of ideas. But it has also created polarization we’ve never seen before.

And not just with big-ticket issues like Donald Trump or Israel or reproductive rights, but even with the smallest things, like what baseball team you like, or the joke about the former vice president inventing the internet.

Elizabeth Niedbala, a post-doctoral

researcher with the U.S. Defense Department, blames the echo chambers created by social media. We can take to Facebook or Twitter and repeat our ideas over and over, creating what Niedbala calls “attitude clarity,” she told the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Even more, social media gives us an instant audience of others — many likeminded — who will agree with us, giving us more of a sense that we’re right and creating what Niedbala called “attitude correctness.”

Our opinion could be spot-on, or it could be very wrong. Yet, either way, if someone challenges our position, it’s not just a disagreement. It’s war.

Sadly, that’s what many disagreements have come to. Instead of simply sharing opinions and respecting disagreements, we take offense to anyone disagreeing with us. And we never find common ground.

But we don’t need to be hanging onto a fence in a nasty storm. We can take a step back and just listen. We can even disagree still, and stick to our opinions.

We don’t need to hate each other. We just need to remember that, in the end, we’re all in this together. And disagreement is the start of a good conversation — not the end.

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hy do small businesses matter? There are more answers to that question than there are streetlamps on your local Main Street, but the best reasons may be, well, the smallest.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses account for about 44 percent of our national economic activity. On Long Island, they are our economic backbone. Roughly 90 percent of the businesses here are small or medium-sized.

While these are JOHN strong arguments, let’s zoom in a litKEATING tle further: Personally, small businesses are the center of our everyday lives. You probably know exactly what shop in your town serves the best slice of pizza; the only dentist gentle enough to keep your panicky spouse coming back for regular cleanings; the bakery that makes the only red velvet cake your sister will eat; the day care center that helped your kids learn their ABCs.

These are all small businesses, and during National Small Business Week 2022, which began last Sunday and ends on Saturday, PSEG Long Island celebrates their importance. We couldn’t imagine life without them, and we recognize the blood, sweat and tears that local entrepreneurs pour into their small businesses to overcome endless challenges and find success in an ever-changing economic climate.

PSEG Long Island has been supporting small businesses since 2018 with economic development grants and other incentives that keep local commercial districts thriving.

When the coronavirus pandemic struck, small businesses faced their greatest challenge in at least a decade, amid diminished foot traffic and new safety measures. We increased our support efforts with targeted grants, supporting local chambers of commerce and business improvement districts in their efforts to provide outdoor seating and signage to create a safe shopping and dining experience for their customers.

In the past four years, our company committed more than $2 million to eco-

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LETTERS that the speech at issue respected our norms of polite discourse, as he does in his essay.

Alleging “suppression” by Facebook ignores Facebook’s right to establish “house rules” for discourse, much like that for a debate, our Congress or a courtroom. This isn’t censorship; the First Amendment doesn’t apply. Mr. Rosenberg’s opinion, as written, wouldn’t be incarcerated in “Facebook jail,” but a troll’s or hatemonger’s version might be, one hopes.

And while I share Mr. Rosenberg’s concerns about speech intolerance on college campuses, it must be noted that it isn’t limited to conservative students.

It seems that a key element of the “enterprise of liberal education” Mr. Rosenberg cites has been undermined, partly, I think, by the dogmatic examples of its elders. Missing from this claim of “lethal threat,” and more relevant than Facebook, are the actions of various gover nment entities to ban books and ideas from places like schools — that is censorship.

Mr. Rosenberg presents Facebook as the chief arbiter, somehow the gatekeeper to free speech land when hundreds of newspapers, including the Herald, and dozens of magazine exist in which he is free to write. Radio and TV remain available as free speech venues, though all have house rules. Websites galore and new social media plat-

nomic development grants and incentives across Long Island and the Rockaways. To learn more, you can visit www. psegliny.com/inthecommunity/revitalization.

You can see the results of these grants in communities all across Nassau County: thriving small businesses like Rosario’s Pizzeria in Seaford, K-Fit Studio in Valley Stream, Noble Savage Brewing in Glen Cove, and Bright Eye Beer Company in Long Beach.

More than 100 businesses received “vacant space” discounts for opening up in previously empty storefronts in their communities. Some received Main Street Revitalization grants for making major upgrades that increase foot traffic in their commercial districts. And many businesses have received a much-needed bump from the outdoor dining and shopping improvements made possible by the dozens of grants we have provided to local chambers of commerce. All of these grants help optimize the use of the energy grid in these commercial districts.

We have also given beautification

grants of up to $2,000 to many local chambers to enhance the visual appeal of shopping districts, and you can see these results, too. The Glen Cove Downtown Business Improvement District used the money to string lights through downtown to make it more inviting for residents and visitors to walk around in the evening. The Baldwin chamber used its grant for a “Welcome to Baldwin” sign.

The East Meadow chamber purchased American flags to line the business district.

So, this week, we encourage you to celebrate National Small Business Week in the simplest, realest way possible: Do the little things that make life worth living in your community. Buy a pie from that pizzeria. Make a dental appointment for your spouse. Bring your sister a slice of that red velvet cake. Bring home a “growler” of beer from the local craft brewery.

Enjoy the vibrancy of your community, and PSEG Long Island will be there to provide the programs and support that will continue to make your Main Street a destination for years to come.

John Keating is the manager of economic and community Development at PSEG Long Island.

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forms appear frequently, so speech has never been more free.

BRIAN KELLY Rockville Centre

Has the Herald thought through ‘Please say gay’?

To the Editor: Re the Herald editorial “Please do say ‘gay’” (March 24-30): Aside from the title, which was misleading and deceptive, the issue comes down to two questions. Do we really want to sexualize K-through-third-graders? Why should we be upset that schools don’t introduce topics of sexuality to 5- to 8-year-olds?

Children at that age can’t possibly process the kinds of information opponents of Florida’s bill seek to give them.

Why not let them be kids and seek, instead, to protect their innocence? You refer to the bill as “anti LGBTQ,” but not presenting kids with information they are not mature enough to handle isn’t anti anything. It’s pro-kids.

The second question is, should taxpayer-funded schools be the ones to present this information. If parents want to introduce these topics to their children, that is their prerogative and their right. Public schools represent the public, and public opinion on these mat-

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ters is far from settled.

Why should schools wade into topics that have the potential to polarize and divide? Schools should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic. They would be far better able to handle those topics if they weren’t veering off into social experiments.

THE REV. PHILIP PRESTAMO Pastor, Cornerstone Church Freeport

CORRECTION In “For mer S.C. mayor Francis Deegan dies at 83,” [April 28-May 4] we should have said that Mary Deegan Haff is an emergency room pediatric doctor at Winthrop Hospital.

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