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Crisis means nonstop work for Tom Suozzi or have died. He has donated masks and other personal protective equipBy his own account, U.S. ment to a variety of hospitals, Rep. Tom Suozzi is extremely including Glen Cove Hospital. busy. There’s his work in Wash- He has helped hand out donated ington, where he fights for food to families in the communifunding for New York, and his ty, and at the Glen Cove High many local responsibilities in School Food Pantry. He even had Glen Cove, too. his reading of the children’s During the corobook “Children of navirus pandemic, the Forest,” by Elsa there is another Beskow, recorded for level of urgency to local libraries, constituents’ including the Oyster requests. Some need Bay Library. Suozzi’s help comHe is an effective pleting applications leader during the for small-business coronavirus panloans. Others aren’t d e m i c, h e s a i d , re c e iv i n g t h e i r because his life expeunemployment riences have prechecks. One constitpared him for the uent said he had an challenge. Suozzi is idea for a drug, and an accountant and wanted help reach- TOM SUOZZI an attorney, and was ing the Federal Drug Glen Cove’s mayor A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . U.S. Representative and Nassau County Another was stuck executive. He also on a cruise ship and asked ran unsuccessfully for governor, Suozzi to help him get home. losing by a large margin, but no His family, another important matter. A self-described optimist, part of Suozzi’s life, has been he said the experience was a touched by Covid-19. His father- good one, because he learned in-law, Michael Wrotniak Jr., how the state works. died of the virus last month, and Asked if his life is difficult, his mother-in-law, Carol, had it, Suozzi said he has always worked too, but survived. Suozzi said he knows many people who are sick CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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Taking a break for a tune-up Sunny skies and warm weather in recent days led residents of the hamlet to head for one of their favorite spots, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. Whether they poked their toes in the Sound or took a bike ride, there was plenty to enjoy. More photos, Page 10.
North Shore college students wrap up their spring semester BY JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
Many college students could not have imagined finishing their semester behind computer screens at home, let alone graduating there. “To be able to walk across that stage and shake your professor’s hand, shake the dean of your college’s hand . . . it’s a real-
ly big thing,” said Danielle Sugar, 22, a University of Delaware graduate from East Norwich. “Yes, the university is trying to do a virtual celebration, and families are trying to make a big deal out of it, but it stinks. It will never be the same feeling of having your name called and actually feeling like I did this.” Sugar, like many other students, had lots of plans for her
spring semester. A pre-physician assistant major, she had enrolled in an elective anatomy course in which she would be able to dissect cadavers. Her extracurricular activities included a membership in the Pi Beta Phi sorority and her role as the Pre Physician Assistant Club president. In early March, the coronavirus pandemic forced students to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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Tom Suozzi: working around the clock amid crisis hard, but he acknowledged that there is one difference now. “It’s harder to turn everything off because now I’m in the same place,” he said. “Usually I’m taking a train or plane home and I come back to my house and I’m like, ‘Ahh,’ and I can relax. But now it’s like home and work are the same thing.” But a lot of people are experiencing this now, he added. “I recognize that this is a moment in history, and it’s a great honor to have this responsibility, and I’m getting some big things done,” he said. “My whole objective during the coronavirus has been about getting money for New York.” In the wake of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, in which $2 trillion was divided among the states based on their population, Suozzi said that relief funding should instead be based on infection rates and deaths. “We’re getting crushed by this virus compared to other places in the country,” he said. “Why should the Texas hospitals get more money than the New York hospitals? When [the act was passed], New York had 35 percent of the cases, and Texas had 2½ percent of the cases.” On April 14, Suozzi said, he considered it a victory when he persuaded every member of Congress from New York and New Jersey — Democrats and Republicans — to sign a letter, sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
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McConnell, stating that a special $40 billion fund needed to be created for states based on their rates of infection. The House passed the Heroes Act, a $3 trillion relief plan, last Friday. Suozzi said he was proud that it included a $49 billion fund for states based on those rates of
infection, $9 billion more than what he had asked for. Some $12 billion would go to New York state. One provision of the measure, which the Republican-led Senate rejected, would eliminate the cap on state and local tax deductions for 2020 and 2021, which Suozzi has been fighting for.
He is one of only 10 Democrats in the House who were appointed to President Trump’s commission on reopening the country. “I did it to fight for New York — to make New York’s voice heard,” Suozzi said. “The president has really botched his job.”
College students feel sorrow and frustration CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE return home and continue their studies remotely. Sugar has had to work from home for the first time since high school, which wasn’t too much of a hardship, since she plans to continue her studies at Hofstra University this fall. Pi Beta Phi has continued to hold events remotely, such as digital movie nights. “Overall, I think a lot of my friends and I have accepted it, and we’re trying to make the best of the situation,” Sugar said, “but it stinks. It’s sad.” To celebrate her graduation, she posed for photos in her cap and gown, and she plans to take part in a live-stream ceremony. She added that there might be some in-person celebrations once it’s safe to do so. In Glen Cove, Pamela Marie Young Osman, 59, plans to celebrate her graduation from Nassau Community College. “I guess I’m OK with it,” she said. “We’re going to do a Zoom family party, and we’ll do something later on.” In the past, going to school was a challenge for Young Osman because she is hearing impaired. In 2015 she got a cochlear implant, an electronic device that simulates the nerve for hearing. “NCC college has a wonderful disabilities center, a specific person who is a counselor for the hearing impaired,” she said. A mother of three adult children and a part-time employee at the North Shore School District, she finished her last semester of disability studies online. She has taken online classes in the past, but learning math from a distance wasn’t as easy for her. She planned to continue her studies at SUNY-Old Westbury’s Public Health program. North Shore Senior High School alumna Sydney
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DANIELLE SUGAR, 22, of East Norwich, will graduate from the University of Delaware with a pre-physician assistant degree. Zaremba, 20, also had her challenges as she finished up her sophomore year at Hofstra. She lives at home in Sea Cliff, but the state stay-at-home order freed up
more of her time than she was used to. And, she said, using that free time productively was a challenge for her at first. “When I was attending school there were clubs. I’m part of a sorority,” Zaremba said. “There were other things to do.” The schoolwork is harder, she said, because she can’t ask questions, but taking exams is easier. “It’s also a lot less stressful taking your exams at home, because the professor isn’t there to stress you out,” she said. “It does make it a lot harder to concentrate.” Zaremba said she hoped she would be able to return to Hofstra’s classrooms in the fall. Glen Cove resident Nikki Franklin, 20, who just finished her sophomore year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, said she was nervous about what lies ahead. She found out that Lehigh was closing for the rest of the semester while she was home on spring break. Along with not being able to say goodbye to her friends, she lost her chance to play the piccolo in the marching band at graduation. Instead she had to drive back to school, pack up her belongings and head back to a region that has been hammered by the pandemic — Long Island. Franklin, who has been studying computer science and engineering at home, said that many of her professors have been flexible, making their lectures available at all times of the day. “It’s definitely weird,” she said. “My parents have never seen me at this level of stress before.” Some people think working at home is a vacation for students, she said, but it isn’t. “People say that this is supposed to be the best four years of your life,” she said, “and I just lost a quarter of a year.”
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ON MONDAY, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, second from left, delivered personal protection equipment to the Glen Cove Senior Center, where he spoke with Christine Rice, the center’s director, far left, Kathie Flynn, the director of the Glen Cove Library, and Mayor Tim Tenke.
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Daniel Gale Sotheby’s gives virtual real estate tours By MIKE CONN mconn@liherald.com
The real estate market has been greatly affected by the Covid-19 crisis since March. With most people not leaving their homes, buying a new one can be very difficult, especially given the need to physically see homes and properties before investing large amounts of money into them. However, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, based in Cold Spring Harbor, one of the largest real estate firms on Long Island, decided to take matters into its own hands. On May 3, the company marketed over 100 properties with a live event over the course of the day, virtually hosting open houses via Zoom. Brokers and agents were physically in the homes, using phones attached to Gimbal stabilizing support sticks to show houses to dozens of viewers who were able to ask questions in real time using Zoom’s chat feature. Chief Operating Officer Deborah Hauser said that this was the first effort of its kind on Long Island. “We have so many buyers inquiring about properties,” Hauser said. “We can’t take the buyer into the house — we can’t take the buyers into the properties. We thought we would bring the properties to the public virtually.” Daniel Gale Sotheby’s number one concern is for safety, she added, for clients, employees, agents and customers. “But we realize there is a need to do business, so we’re innovative enough to work on solutions,” she said. The company took to social media the week prior, inviting consumers to sign up for virtual tours. The average home had between eight and 12 viewers, although some reached over 25, adding up to thousands of potential buyers taking part. Hauser said that many consumers went on more than one tour. Associate broker Peggy Moriarty has been with Daniel Gale Sotheby’s for over 20 years, helping sell properties
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DANIEL GALE SOTHEBY’S Associate Broker Ann Hance said using her phone to perform virtual Zoom tours of properties was a success. across the North Shore, anywhere from Huntington in the east to Manhasset in the west. During her virtual tours, she said she walked through the homes, explaining their most intricate details, as well as the surrounding property and locations. She also had two helpers with her — one to operate the camera and the other to monitor the chat. At a typical open house, Moriarty said she would see anywhere from three to 10 potential buyers in a day. However, she had well over 20 people watching virtual tours on Sunday, effectively doubling the number of consumers.
The virtual tours, she said, proved to be another useful tool in exposing the public to new properties. “I think people are so anxious to see houses in any way they can,” Moriarty said. “This just gave them a new perspective on how they can do it.” Ann Hance, a Daniel Gale Sotheby’s associate broker for over eight years, said she sells homes anywhere between Manhasset and Cold Spring Harbor. The attendance in her two virtual Zoom tours was tremendous, she said, with one house having 40 viewers at one time. People are frustrated with their inability to move into a new home because of the pandemic, she said, and these virtual tours gave them an avenue to move in the right direction. “We’re living in this world of uncertainty,” Hance said, “and I think the buying public wants someone to take them by the hand, give them guidance, let them know that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and that we’ll return to some sort of normalcy.” Moriarty and Hance agreed that virtual tours such as these will still prove beneficial, even when normal open houses can resume. Although she admits to not being incredibly tech-savvy, Moriarty said Daniel Gale Sotheby’s has done an excellent job of educating its employees on how to further their business virtually. In a business where brokers and agents are looking for any available tools to help others buy property, she said knowing how to show off properties remotely will be very helpful in the future. “It’s just a different style of business,” Moriarty said. “We just keep praying and hoping for the best so that we can open things up for [the public], help them get their houses sold and help them to buy things.” “I’m very proud of our agents and the company for being the first ones to do it,” Hauser said. “I think it’s going to be something that’s going to become normal in our business.”
Town of Oyster Bay and Bayville beaches to reopen By SCOTT BRINTON and LAURA LANE
Residents from the Town of Oyster Bay have been able to enjoy the beaches in a limited capacity, walking or exercising while socially distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but that will soon change. New York state will allow beaches to open on Friday, May 22, in time for the Memorial Day weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his daily briefing on May 15. Bayville's beaches have already been filled with residents enjoying the sunshine and beauty of the Long Island Sound but before the gover nor's announcement there were no plans to
have them officially open until June. David Wright, the deputy mayor said the beaches will be opened this weekend for the holiday and probably will have lifeguards. "There will be gate attendants to be sure to maintain our residents only policy," he said. "The village constable has been at the beaches to be sure only residents are there. He usually just tells people that it is a resident only beach but we've instructed him to give out tickets if necessary." Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino said lifeguards will begin their work for the summer on May 22. “We will ask residents to socially dis-
tance and wear face coverings, which is a smart way to go to the beach,” Saladino said. “And games will not be permitted on the beach.” The reopening of beaches will take place in tandem with New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut, which has already reopened certain of its beaches. The new order came one day after a bipartisan group of state senators called on the governor to create a plan for safe reopening of the beaches. Part of Cuomo’s order includes a requirement that parking lots close after reaching 50 percent capacity and gatherings are also discouraged.
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Nominations to honor vets for Memorial Day Wi t h M e m o r i a l D ay eve n t s throughout the region being cancelled due to Covid-19, the Town of Oyster Bay is seeking to honor veterans in a special way at a future event. The town typically hosts a “Salute to America” ceremony as part of its Music Under the Stars Concert Series, at which time honorees are celebrated with Veterans of the Year Awards. With uncertainty from New York state surrounding summer events, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino is inviting residents to submit nominations in three veteran-related categories. Recipients will be honored at a future town event. Nominations are being accepted in three different categories of recognition: Veterans Volunteer of the Year (awarded to a veteran), Friend of Veterans Volunteer of the Year (awarded to a non-veteran) and Lifetime Achievement Award (awarded to a veteran or a non-veteran). All entries must include a supporting narrative describing the nominee’s on-going veterans related activities and all nominees must be town residents. “In these uncertain times, I wanted to make sure we found an especially meaningful way to recognize those who bravely and selflessly served our nation,” Saladino said. “This holds
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TOWN OF OYSTER Bay seeking a way to honor veterans during Covid-19. special significance this year, as most Memorial Day activities are cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The Town of Oyster Bay invites residents to nominate extraordinary individuals who have made a difference in our veteran communities. An important part of the celebration includes the town’s Veteran Volunteer Awards, which honors our veterans and those who advocate on their behalf.” To obtain a nomination form for the Veterans Awards, go to www.oysterbaytown.com/honorvets or call (516) 797-7925 for an application. All nominations must be submitted or postmarked no later than June 12.
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Because the senior citizen community has been a high-risk environment since the beginning of this pandemic, State Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Democrat from Glen Cove, has worked to make sure that local assisted living facilities in Glen Cove received muchneeded masks. Lavine donated the masks to three local assisted living facilities, including Emerge Nursing and Rehabilitation At Glen Cove, the Regency Assisted Living and Glengariff Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. “Assemblyman Chuck Lavine has been a lifelong friend of The Regency and we appreciate everything he has done for the facility,” said Stella Shank, the Regency’s special events manager. Shank has been with the facility for 25 years out of 27 years it has been in Glen Cove. “Glen Cove has some of the best assisted living facilities and they house some of the most vulnerable people in Glen Cove,” Lavine said. “We need to do whatever we can to make sure these facilities are safe and healthy.”
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The Locust Valley Central School District Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the $88.7 million budget for the upcoming 2020-21 school year during its virtual meeting on May 19. The budget would be an increase of roughly $1.4 million, or 1.6 percent, from this school year’s. The maximum tax levy increase — the maximum amount of property taxes brought into the district — allowed by New York state is 2.6 percent. However, the 2020-21 Locust Valley Schools budget proposes a substantially lower tax levy increase of 1.8 percent. While every new school year poses its share of unknowns, interim superintendent Dr. Thomas Dolan said the Covid-19 pandemic presents issues which many districts have never seen before. Although schools are closed for the rest of the school year, he said the district should assume that buildings will be open to students and faculty come September. If so, he said there may be specific requirements or services to do so which cannot be factored into the budget at this time. Dolan said there is also the looming possibility of potential mid-year state aid reductions, which could also come down as a fallout from the pandemic. Depending on if that reduction comes and how much money the district could miss out on, Dolan said there may need to be considerable adjustments in the future. Nonetheless, the budget has proposed several program enhancements
Over half of the 2020-21 proposed school budget comes from its Total Instruction component, coming in at roughly $49.9 million. It covers most aspects of how the district addresses education. Here is how it breaks down. ■ Instruction (includes salaries, equipment, supplies and materials, textbooks, contract services and BOCES services) — $26 million
■ Health services — $826,835
■ Individual needs — $11.2 million
■ Occupational education — $350,000
■ Supervision — $3.2 million
■ Curriculum development — $150,000
■ Technology — $1.4 million
■ In-service training — $150,000
■ Athletics — $1.3 million
■ Television studio — $118,344
■ Curriculum instruction — $1.3 million
■ Social work services — $97,820
■ Library and media — $1.2 million
■ Attendance — $60,886
■ Co-curricular activities — $386,600 ■ Special needs supervision — $359,722
■ Guidance — $1.1 million ■ Psychological services — $885,686
going into the next school year. At the elementary level, the district could see an addition of a school counselor, an instructional technology coach and a comprehensive coding initiative, the final of which would also be at the middle school level. The budget also proposed significant library upgrades including Promethean boards and 3-D
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printers, as well as the institution of American Sign Language and Virtual Enterprise courses. Voting will be done entirely through absentee ballots, which the district will send out to residents by the end of May. There will be a public budget hearing on June 1 and ballots are due back to the district by June 9.
A brief budget summary There are three chief categories which go into the construction of the proposed $88.7 million budget. Here is a look at their individual costs. ■ Program Budget: $68.8 million, representing expenses such as instruction, psychological and health services, cocurricular activities, athletics, transportation, community service and transfers to school lunch and special aid ■ Capital Budget: $11 million, representing expenses related to the operation, maintenance and repair of facilities, cost of construction, utilities, judgment and claims, school bus purchases and annual debt services ■ Administration Budget: $9 million, representing expenses for the Board of Education, administration, financial, auditing, legal, insurance, personnel, registrar, records management, split properties, supervision and conferences
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Small celebrations on Memorial Day during Covid-19 By LAURA LANE and SCOTT BRINTON llane@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com
Although Governor Andrew said at his daily briefing on Tuesday that Memorial Day ceremonies can now take place this coming weekend decisions not to hold a parade will not change in Oyster Bay, Locust Valley or in Bayville. Probably because, as the governor said, ceremonies must be limited to 10 or fewer people, and social distancing — standing six feet apart — must be maintained to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. It would be difficult to hold a parade under those conditions. “We usually have 300 to 400 kids march in our Memorial Day parade each year so we can’t do the parade,” said Reginald Butt, former commander of Oyster Bay’s Quentin Roosevelt Post 4. “And the veterans that would go are too old. I don’t want to expose them to the virus.” Bayville’s commander, Vincent Libertini, said they were going to have two World War II veterans serve as their Grand Marshals in this year’s parade, which usually includes 1,500 marchers. The Robert H. Spittel Post 1285 also pays to transport members of the Navy and Marine Corps., who travel to Manhattan for Fleet Week each year. They march in the parade and the legion serves them breakfast
and lunch too. The active duty servicemen and woman are a welcome addition each year to Bayville’s Memorial Day Parade which attracts many residents, Libertini said. “This year we were supposed to have Merchant Marine Cadets too but Fleet Week was cancelled,” he said. “We’ve been doing this for 15 years. We’ll bring them back next year.” There will also not be a Field of Flags in the village green, which is popular. But Libertini said the veterans did flag Bayville’s cemetery. Locust Valley’s Howard A. Van Wagner, NY Post 962 will also not be hosting its traditional parade. “It’s a fun day for everyone,” said American Legion member Tony Bliss. “We usually have picnic lunches on the grounds of the schools.” This year the post will fire rounds to honor those that died from the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country and then go to the memorial in front of Oyster Bay’s WaterFront Center. The legion has already prepared the hamlet visually for the holiday placing flags all through the main part of town. Cuomo also encouraged car parades to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, which will be marked officially on Monday, May 25. It isn’t clear yet if there will be any in Oyster Bay, Bayville or Locust Valley.
Where the celebrations will be Bayville 10:30 a.m. – small ceremony at Bayville’s cemetery, followed by a short ceremony at the monument in front of Robert H. Spittel Post 1285 — 45 Bayville Ave. 11:45 a.m. – small ceremony at Bayville Village Hall — 34 School Street Oyster Bay 9 a.m. — small ceremony at Derby-Hall Bandstand on Audrey Ave. — members of AMVETS, Quentin Roosevelt Post 4 American Legion and New York 11th Regiment. It will include a five man rifle squad and bugler. Locust Valley 9 a.m. — small ceremony at Weir Lane and Forest Ave. at the monument. Three rounds fired there. Then at the Locust Valley Library one round will be fired. The veterans will go to the Locust Valley Fire Dept. next. The final stop will be at Oyster Bay’s WaterFront Center where there is a memorial that honors James Harrington. The public in invited to all of the ceremonies but must practice social distancing and wear masks.
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This story was updated on May 28 at 6 p.m. Mike Kennedy, 57, a bayman, was found dead on Sunday at 8:20 a.m. in the Long Island Sound of f Centre Island. A call was received by Centre Island Police that morning from a fisherman that saw a clam boat adrift in a popular area for clamming. The Nassau Marine Unit found the boat one mile north of Centre Island in the vicinity of Rocky Point. And the Nassau County Aviation Unit spotted Kennedy, who was floating in the water a quarter of a mile away from his boat. A rescue boat with members of the Bayville Fire Company and a bay constable searched for Kennedy as did two members of Atlantic Steamer who were on jet skis. “We pulled up and got him out,” said Joe Rodgers, Bayville’s fire chief, who is also a bay constable. “It was kind of difficult, which is why we got help from Atlantic Steamer and the bay constable.” Rodgers added that there was a Town of Oyster Bay medic on the boat as well as an emergency medical technician. “My son, James, jumped into the water off one of the jet skis to help retrieve the body,” said Atlantic Steamer Fire Chief James Ceglia, add-
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THE NASSAU COUNTY Marine Bureau brought Kennedy’s boat back to the marina. ing that this is the first incident of t h i s t y p e t h at h i s f i re c o m p a ny responded to in 2020. “We’ve been out for overturned sailboats this year but this was the first recovery we’ve done.” When Kennedy’s body was retrieved Ceglia said there was a gash on his head. A Bayville resident, Kennedy was a member of the North Oyster Bay Baymen's Association, a non-profit that
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supports the efforts of non-commercial clammers. William Painter, the organization’s president said the fact that Kennedy’s body was found floating implied that he wasn't in the water long. Kennedy, Painter said, was popular. "Mike was a good guy, liked by everyone," Painter said. "He was friendly to everyone, even those who weren't a member of our association." Pa i n t e r s a i d h i s s o n Wi l l h a d
received a text from Kennedy at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday saying that he was going out clamming. "I'm not sure how this happened," Painter said. "Did he slip, have a medical issue? I just don't know." Ceglia said that weather conditions could have been a factor. There were gusty winds and the water was choppy when his dive team responded, he said. “It was a rescue effort when we went out but it ended up being a recovery,” Rodgers said. “It was super sad. I knew him, saw him on the water all the time. He was fun to be around, someone everyone knew.” Jamie Dick, 57, of Oyster Bay, Kenn e dy ’s c o m p a n i o n f o r 1 5 ye a r s, described him as a bear of a man with a big smile, which is what she said first attracted her to him. “He was 6’3” and 275 pounds with arms and calves like Popeye,” Dick said. “And he had a heart as big as you could ever find.” The couple had broken up five years ago but remained close friends, Dick said. Kennedy had owned the Locust Valley business Mike Kennedy Masonry until 10 years ago. Then he became a clammer. Dick said Kennedy loved history and was an excellent cook, able to take any ingredients, regardless of how limited, and create a gourmet meal. The Nassau County Police Dept. and the United States Coast Guard also responded.
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The launch of Coach Meeting House, a new restaurant in Oyster Bay, didn’t go as expected. And then during the pandemic, the eatery went from a restaurant and bar to a drive-thru restaurant and bar, along with a drive-in movie theater. In fact, the Monday that restaurants were ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to serve take-out food and drinks only was just days after the restaurant officially opened. “We were packed [the weekend prior] with people coming in to see the place, even that Monday,” said Coach Meeting House owner Rustan Lundstrum of his last day as a dine-in restaurant, March 16. “At Monday 8 p.m., this place was packed. We were pushing people out the door.” Lundstrum, an Oyster Bay dad who owns sister restaurant Cooper’s Bluff, said he was terrified. His wife, Kelley Lundstrum, had spent much time crafting and decorating Coach Meeting House so it would be cozy and welcoming. Rustan had spent months investing and building upon the restaurant. His business model would simply not work in a socially distanced environment and his restaurant was too new to receive any funds from the state and federal government. So, he had to improvise. Lundstrum started by offering take-out menu items ranging from scallops to roasted chicken, which his community in Oyster Bay enjoyed by way of curbside pickup. Business was good but it was his introduction of frozen slushies that was as game changer Lundstrum and his staff. “I started doing a ‘frozen drink of the day,’” Lundstrum said. “I brought in my wait staff and we started doing a separate
To make a reservation, visit www. coachgrillandtavernoysterbay.com. Friday, May 22: “Jurassic Park” Saturday, May 23: “Guardians of the Galaxy” Thursday, May 28: “Overboard” Friday, May 29: “Anchorman” Saturday, May 30: “Point Break” Sunday, May 31: “The Office” marathon
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THE TEAM AT Coach Meeting House has been busy serving slushies, to-go food and even drive-in movies to the community in Oyster Bay and beyond. station where you pull up, grab your drink then park and get your food. With the U shaped drive way it naturally evolved into a drive thru.” It evolved into a drive-in movie too. On May 16, Coach Meeting House became the self-proclaimed “first pop-up drive in theater with car-hop dining in New York,” with the showing of ‘The Goonies.” “It’s a night out, but still being safe,” Lundstrum said. “ It’s really kind of special that we’re able to give people that sense of normalcy.” The team at Coach Meeting House has
offered some food relief to the community too. On April 25, Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan teamed up with Lundstrum to host the fundraiser, “Frozen Drinks for a Cause.” Lundstrum said that Lafazan is among his favorite people and that he was happy to team up with him. Twenty percent of the proceeds from frozen drinks sold that day from noon to 3 p.m., which amounted to $1,000, was donated to The People’s Pantry in Oyster Bay, a local food bank. “Rustan has been one of my friends
and he’s such an important business owner in the community,” Lafazan said. “We wanted to tackle food insecurity in our district.” As for future plans, Lundstrum is planning on launching a delivery service for alcoholic and non-alcoholic slushies, delivered by a “slushy truck.” “Everything is changing every single day,” said Morgan Follett, an employee and the marketing coordinator. “We’re an everyday experiment and we’re coming up with new stuff every day and the ideas are changing everyday.” When Coach Meeting House can open as a dine-in restaurant again, Lundstrum said that while alcoholic slushies were not part of the initial plan, its now part of the brand. “Our customer response is off the charts and now we’re known for our frozen drinks,” he said. For more information, visit www. coachgrillandtavernoysterbay.com.
North Shore food supplier keeping customers healthy BY MIKE CONN mconn@liherald.com
When Finest Foods owner Don DeLillo started growing microgreens, sprouts and wheatgrass at a Huntington farm in 2016, he did so with a mission to help Long Islanders eat healthy while sustaining the practice of locally grown food. While eating healthy has always been an important part of people’s lives, he said, it is even more so the case during the Covid-19 pandemic. “We’re hearing a lot of things on the news,” DeLillo, 27, said, “but one thing that we’re not hearing is the aspect of nutrition and healthy food in our bodies. That is really our best way to be resilient against something like a virus or a pathogen.” Luckily, DeLillo said not much has changed about his business since the pandemic struck. The sanitary conditions of the farm were already near perfect, he said, with the only new addition being that employees must now wear masks on premises. He said he is still working with the Rising Tides market in Glen Cove and the Sea Cliff Market, both of which he has serviced for the last two years. Amy Peters, organizer and manager of the Sea Cliff Market, said it is easy to trust the cleanliness and reliability of DeLillo’s food. This is especially important now, she said, his foods could play a good role in help-
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DON DELILLO HAS sold his microgreens and other healthy foods at the Sea Cliff Market for the last two years. ing people stay healthy during the pandemic. “Having a healthy lifestyle and having a healthy diet is certainly going to go a long way in keeping your
immune system operating on a high level,” Peters said. Finest Foods also continues to offer free delivery to households who order at least $20 of products per week, DeLillo said. Employee Dana Mansbart takes care of most of those deliveries, and while she said not much has changed other than her needing to wear a mask during deliveries, she said customers are always happy to see her. “People are also a little extra excited to see me because they don’t get a lot of human interaction, which is nice,” Mansbart, 23, said. “I’m very grateful that everyone is still ordering and that they’re ordering great foods that will help them take care of themselves.” This direct producer to consumer relationship is a strong indicator of quality, Peters said. She said food can often go through many steps as it goes from producers to distributers, trucks, warehouses and shelves. By giving consumers products directly from his farm, whether it be through delivery or a farmers market, she said DeLillo ensures that his food is of the highest possible quality. “That creates a higher level of safety in this day and age of Covid,” Peters said, “but also just in general freshness.” DeLillo said he has always been motivated to help customers develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle using his products, and the pandemic has only exacerbated that passion.
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THE ZARKADAS FAMILY, left, found a nice spot to enjoy their lunch at the beach. THE PLAYGROUNDS ARE still closed so Penny Ennis, above, did laps around the park on her bike. SAFE ON THE shore, 5½ month-old Millie Stomber, and her mother Michelle took a stroll through the park.
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Walk-up tax payment windows coming to Oyster Bay Town Hall throughout the state, most local governments have restricted or fully suspended in-person interactions at their facilities. These new walk-up windows will offer residents a safe option within which to make their payments in-person during this public health crisis. “The safety and well-being of our residents has been the town's top priority throughout all this, and that is why my office will be offering a safe option to make in-person tax payments with our new walk-up win-
dows, where strict social distancing will be enforced.,” Receiver of Taxes Jeffrey Pravato said. “For those who wish to avoid making an in-person payment, I remind residents to take advantage of the ability to pay online by eCheck for a reduced fee, which my office negotiated to help mitigate in-person interaction during this pandemic." Residents looking to mitigate inperson interactions are encouraged to make payments online at www.oysterbaytown.com/departments/receiv-
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The Town of Oyster Bay is opening up walk-up windows for those who wish to make their tax payments in-person ahead of the June 1st deadline for school property tax payments on Friday, May 8 at Town Hall North in Oyster Bay and on Wednesday, May 13 at Town Hall South in Massapequa. Residents can visit these sites from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, Monday through Friday and pay their second half school taxes by check or money order. With the Covid-19 pandemic having a negative effect on residents
er-of-taxes/, to pay via eCheck at a reduced fee. The fee for eCheck is now only 75 cents, reduced from a previous high of $6. Additionally, residents can alternatively pay via credit card online, where a third-party vendor charges a much larger processing fee as authorized by New York State, or mail their payments (made payable to Jeffrey P. Pravato, Receiver of Taxes) to 74 Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay, NY 11771. The office can be reached by phone at (516) 624-6400.
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Food for THoUGHT Local restauranteurs & chefs adjust to C-19 Crisis Jesse Schenker - Chef, co-creator 2 Spring oyster Bay “I’m so grateful to be in Oyster Bay and not Manhattan right now,” Jesse Schenker, the chef at 2 Spring in Oyster Bay, said. “I think it will take a vaccine, consumer confidence and security to fully reopen the restaurant industry. When things open, 25 percent of people will not come out. They will say they are a high-risk person, and 25 percent will come out because they were forced to do so. They will be nervous and be wearing gloves and will watch the staff and everything they do. Fifty percent of people won’t care. “Cubicles have already been built at 2 Spring, and we are getting all of the cleaning supplies,” Schenker continued. “I’m also working on getting the lights that kill things in the air. Our staff will have to take their temperature before coming to work and then will have it taken again at the back door. They will wear masks, and the bartender will wear gloves that he will discard after he makes each drink. We will definitely be following all of the [Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention] guidelines. “We are planning for a post-closure interview when people call to make their reservation. We will ask them how they feel sitting in a space with other people. It’s less about what [Governor] Cuomo says and more about what our consumers say. We are here to serve and make people happy. “I think the restaurant industry will struggle to come back. You will lose a lot of them. But I truly believe this is temporary. We need proper working capital to get everything started again. The best restaurants have two weeks of cash flow. If you have a bad weekend, you won’t be able to pay your bills on Monday.”
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“Stay safe, and if anyone chooses to go out, follow the protocols,” Tuo said. “Masks, gloves, all the nine yards. We want to protect not only ourselves, but everyone else in the town and the area.”
The team at Cactus Café in Glen Cove mostly served their tacos, burritos, quesadillas and other menu items through takeout prior to the pandemic. “We’ve been doing all right,” Lucas Tuo of Cactus Café said. “We were mainly takeout to begin with, so when Covid-19 hit, it was an adjustment period for everyone because a lot of the customers did not want to go outside, but as things kind of progressed and the weather was getting nicer, the fear factor of the virus has kind of slowed down.” Cactus Café delivers food to their customers through in-house delivery and delivery service DoorDash. With customers staying home, he said the restaurant has delivered more than ever. When asked what Cactus Café will do when the coronavirus restrictions begin to evaporate in the region, he said there wasn’t a plan yet, and that the team is taking it day by day.
Bill Long - owner Metropolitan Bistro Sea Cliff “Listening to Governor Cuomo and [Nassau County Executive] Laura Curran,” said Bill Long, owner of Metropolitan Bistro in Sea Cliff, “it sounds like it has to be 14 days of no increase in the number of new cases of the virus. We’re sort of just sitting here waiting for guidelines, so I think that is the main obstacle. “It seems like we’re going to have to follow their guidelines and prepare for this reopening,” he said, “putting distancing and occupancy limits into place and maybe have outdoor dining increase. But, boy, all the people I know in the restaurant business are sitting around, waiting to hear what’s going to happen.
thank me for being open. I’m helping out and I’m thinking I’m just trying to stay alive here. “Whatever this is, it’s not the restaurant business. We’re really looking forward to this ending, but at least we have wonderful outside dining and patio garden space in the back that we might or might not be able to use to when we’re allowed to reopen. But the overwhelming thing is how good the people of Sea Cliff are. They all say the same thing and thank us. It’s quite a great feeling.”
“We just finished up 68 straight days of work; we’ve been open for takeout and curbside pickup seven days a week since it started. It feels like the movie ‘Groundhog Day,’ but the people of Sea Cliff have been phenomenal to us. Everybody who orders and comes in
Matt Silver - Coo, GM Crescent Beach Club Bayville All restaurants need assistance. We need another stimulus package geared toward restaurants. I feel like no one is addressing us. There are thousands of people who were going to get married in July and August at the Crescent Beach Club. Every day we deal with 10 to 15 brides and grooms who want to know what’s going to happen with most postponing till later this year or 2021. People really wanted to get married in 2020. Before Covid, this year would have been our best year. I think the demand for dining will be there once we open. But the government needs to set the guidelines. Will we be using disposable menus, spacing our tables, only filling our restaurants to 50 percent capacity and having everyone wear gloves? There are other restaurants that are open in other parts of the country. In Florida restaurants are packed. People have to make reservations or they won’t get in.
I think New York will be more sensitive to restaurants openings. The difference in bringing people back is we will have to make sure they know we are doing the right thing to keep them safe. For example, they may need to see the waitress give the menus back to the hostess and see her shred them. We may need to sanitize the chairs after a customer gets up to leave. Today we put the palm trees on the beach and we are planting the flowers. We have to be ready when we open. We haven’t been open for pick-up because I didn’t want to take away from the smaller restaurants in Bayville. But we will be offering Mr. Lee’s sushi for curbside pickup beginning on June 2. He is our sous chef and has been with us for 10 years. People come from all over for his sushi. No one near here is doing sushi. We will offer this on a limited basis until we open to bring some life into the restaurant. A few of our signature cocktails will also be offered. People will order by calling or going to our online portal. Then they will drive through our main carpool and pick up the food. We can’t open for happy hour until we open the restaurant but we may offer some promotions.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF LIBRARY BUDGET HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Hearing on the Oyster Bay – East Norwich Public Library Budget for 2020-2021 will be held virtually on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Michele Vaccarelli Library Director POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA, que la reunión de consideración para el presupuesto bibliotecario 2019-2020, se realizará virtualmente en Oyster Bay-East Norwich el martes, 7 de mayo de 2019 a las 7:00 de la n o c h e . Michele Vaccarelli Directora de la Biblioteca 121792
LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF BAYVILLE COLLECTION OF TAXES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I, Maria AlfanoH a r d y , A d m i n i s t r a t o r / Vi l l a g e Clerk-Treasurer of the Incorporated Village of Bayville, County of Nassau, State of New York have received the tax roll and warrant of the Incorporated Village of Bayville for the collection of taxes therein levied, and that I designate the Bayville Village Hall, 34 School Street, Bayville, New York 11709 as the place where I will receive taxes from June 1, 2020 to and including July 1, 2020 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, excepting Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays and that for said period of time taxes may be paid without additional charge, and that on all such taxes remaining unpaid after July 1, 2020 five percent (5%) shall be added for the month of July and an additional one percentum for each month until paid pursuant to Real Property Tax Law § 1432. MARIA ALFANO-HARDY VILLAGE CLERKTREASURER DATED: May 13, 2020 121951 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 MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE, se NOTIFICA de conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26 del Gobernador del Estado de Nueva York (en adelante, “Orden Ejecutiva”), que una Audiencia Pública de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley, Condado de Nassau, Locust Valley, New York se llevará a cabo de forma remota el 1 de junio de 2020 a las 7:30 p.m. tiempo prevaleciente, para la
transacción de negocios autorizada por la Ley de Educación, incluidos los siguientes elementos: 1. Presentar a los votantes una declaración detallada (presupuesto propuesto) de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año fiscal 2020-2021. 2. Discutir todos los puntos de aquí en adelante establecidos para ser votados por votación en ausencia, de conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26 en la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto que se celebrará el martes 9 de junio de 2020. 3. Para tramitar cualquier otro negocio que pueda venir adecuadamente antes de la reunión de conformidad con la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York y los actos complementarios de la misma. Una copia del presupuesto propuesto se pondrá a disposición de los residentes del Distrito Escolar a partir del 26 de mayo de 2020 en el sitio web del Distrito en www.lvcsd.k12.ny.us. Si bien la Sección 1716 (2) de la Ley de Educación requiere que el presupuesto también esté disponible en las oficinas del distrito escolar, cualquier biblioteca pública/biblioteca de asociación gratuita dentro del distrito y el lugar de votación, este año esto no será posible debido a la Orden Ejecutiva y la prevalencia del virus COVID-19 y el potencial de propagación a través de la interacción personal. Y ADEMÁS SE OTORGA AVISO de que de conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26, dicha votación de presupuesto y elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación se llevará a cabo el martes 9 de junio de 2020. La Orden Ejecutiva ordena que la votación y elección del presupuesto se realice mediante un proceso de votación en ausencia en lugar de una votación en persona. Por lo tanto, no habrá votación en las urnas para la votación y elección anual de presupuesto de este año. El Distrito enviará por correo las boletas en ausencia con un sobre con franqueo pagado a los votantes calificados. Para ser contados, las boletas en ausencia deben recibirse en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito antes de las 5:00 pm del 9 de junio de 2020. Por lo tanto, cada votante calificado deberá votar por boleta en ausencia en los siguientes artículos: 1. Proposición Uno (1): Adoptar el presupuesto anual del Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 2020-2021 y autorizar que la porción requerida del mismo se recaude
mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito. 2. Elegir a tres (3) miembros de la Junta de Educación por períodos de tres años a partir del 1 de julio de 2020 y que vencen el 30 de junio de 2023. Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran oficinas separadas y específicas; Los candidatos se postulan en libertad. 3) Solo residentes del área de servicio de la biblioteca de Locust Valley - Vote por la Proposición Dos (2): Adoptar la resolución para la asignación de la Biblioteca de Locust Valley presentada para el año fiscal 2020-2021, por un monto de $ 1,472,775, para aparecer en las boletas de votación en ausencia el 9 de junio , 2020, y que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley esté autorizada a recaudar el impuesto necesario, por lo tanto, sobre la propiedad imponible sólo del antiguo Distrito Escolar Libre Unión 4, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York. Y SE OTORGA AVISO ADEMÁS, que de conformidad con el Capítulo 258 de las Leyes de 2008, la Sección 495 se agregó a la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles y requiere que el Distrito Escolar adjunte a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención. Dicho informe de exención, que también se convertirá en parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cuánto está exento de impuestos el valor tasado total en el rollo de evaluación final utilizado en el proceso presupuestario, enumere cada tipo de exención otorgada, identificada por la autoridad legal, y mostrar: (a) el impacto acumulativo de cada tipo de exención expresado como un monto 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 destinatarios 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 tablón de anuncios mantenido por el Distrito para avisos públicos y en cualquier sitio web mantenido por el Distrito. Y SE OTORGA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26, las solicitudes de nominación de candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación deberán presentarse ante el Secretario del Distrito en su oficina en el Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York
11560, a más tardar el 11 de mayo de 2020, a las 5:00 p.m., hora vigente. La petición puede ser presentada enviando la petición al Secretario del Distrito en su oficina en 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, y/o escanear la petición y enviarla por correo electrónico al Secretario del Distrito a shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us La solicitud debe ser recibida por el secretario del distrito a más tardar el lunes 11 de mayo de 2020 a las 5:00 p.m. Cada petición se dirigirá al secretario del distrito escolar y deberá indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran oficinas separadas y específicas; Los candidatos se postulan en libertad. Según la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26, no hay un número mínimo de firmas requeridas en la petición para la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto del 9 de junio de 2020. Y ADEMÁS SE OTORGA AVISO, que los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley, pueden hacer una solicitud de boleta militar al Secretario del Distrito por correo a Oficina del secretario del distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, por correo electrónico a shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us En dicha solicitud, el votante militar puede indicar su preferencia por recibir la solicitud por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Un votante militar debe devolver la solicitud de boleta militar original por correo a la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito en 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 del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 14 de mayo, 2020. Las solicitudes de boletas militares recibidas de acuerdo con lo anterior se procesarán de la misma manera que las solicitudes de boletas no militares según §2018-a de la Ley de Educación. La solicitud de boletas militares puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar para recibir la boleta militar por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Y AQUÍ SE OTORGA AVISO, la boleta militar original de un votante militar debe devolverse por correo a la oficina del Secretario del Distrito en 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Las papeletas militares serán escritas si son recibidas por el Secretario del Distrito antes de las 5:00 pm del 9 de junio de 2020 mostrando una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los
Estados Unidos o el servicio postal de un país extranjero , o mostrando un endoso de recepción fechado por otra agencia del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. el 9 de junio de 2020 y firmado y fechado por el votante militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se determine a más tardar el día antes de la elección. Y ADEMÁS SE OTORGA AVISO, que de conformidad con una regla adoptada por la Junta de Educación de conformidad con §2035 de la Ley de Educación, cualquier referéndum o propuesta para enmendar el presupuesto, o de otra manera para ser sometido a votación en dicha elección, debe ser presentado ante el Secretario del Distrito, Junta de Educación en el Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley con tiempo suficiente para permitir que el aviso de la propuesta se incluya en el Aviso de Audiencia Pública, Voto de Presupuesto y Elección requerido por la Sección 2004 de la Ley de Educación, pero a más tardar el 26 de marzo de 2020, a las 4:30 p.m., hora vigente; debe estar escrito o impreso en el idioma inglés; debe ser dirigido al secretario del distrito escolar; debe estar firmado por al menos 91 votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el 5% del número de votantes que votaron en las elecciones anuales anteriores); y debe indicar legiblemente el nombre de cada firmante. Sin embargo, la Junta Escolar no aceptará ninguna petición para presentar ante los votantes ninguna proposición cuyo propósito no esté dentro de los poderes de los votantes para determinar, que es ilegal o cualquier proposición que no incluya una apropiación específica donde el gasto de dinero es requerido por la proposición, o cuando existe otra razón válida para excluir la proposición de la boleta. Fecha: Locust Valley, Nueva York 4 de mayo de 2020 Por orden de la JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE LOCUST VALLEY Locust Valley, Nueva York Susan Hammerschmidt, Secretaria del Distrit 121842 LEGAL NOTICE NOTIFICACIóN DE A U D I E N C I A PRESUPUESTARIA Y ELECCIóN ANUAL DE MIEMBROS DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIóN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE OYSTER BAY-EAST NORWICH Y
DE LA BIBLIOTECA PúBLICA DE OYSTER BAYEAST NORWICH A CELEBRARSE EL 9 DE JUNIO DE 2020 POR MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE SE HACE SABER, que la Elección Anual del Distrito Escolar Central de Oyster BayEast se llevará a cabo a distancia el martes 9 de junio de 2020, mediante boleta de votación en ausencia a los fines siguientes: 1. Someter a votación la apropiación de los fondos necesarios para cubrir los gastos estimados del Distrito para el año escolar que comienza el 1º de Julio de 2020, lo cual estará identificado en la boleta como Propuesta No. 1. 2. Someter a votación las siguientes propuestas: PROPUESTA NO. 2 (Inversión del Fondo de Reserva de Capital Tecnológico): SE RESUELVE, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito de Oyster BayEast Norwich (“Distrito”) queda autorizada mediante la presente para utilizar y gastar $265,000 del Fondo de Reserva de Inversión de Capital Tecnológico establecido el 15 de mayo de 2018 con el propósito de ejecutar los siguientes proyectos: la iniciativa 1:1 a lo largo del distrito (grados 6, 7, 11 y 12); lo anterior incluirá mano de obra, materiales, equipos, aparatos y costos incidentales relacionados a la misma, así como los costos preliminares e incidentales relacionados a su financiamiento; siempre y cuando los costos de los componentes de los Proyectos y Compras detallados en el informe puedan ser reasignados entre tales componentes si la Junta de Educación determinara que dicha reasignación es lo mejor para el Distrito y esta no representa un cambio significativo en el ámbito de los Proyectos y Compras. PROPUESTA NO. 3 (Inversión del Fondo de Reserva de Capital): SE RESUELVE, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito de Oyster BayEast Norwich (“Distrito”) queda autorizada mediante la presente para utilizar y gastar (a) $665,000 del Fondo de Reserva de Inversión de Capital establecido el 16 de mayo de 2006 y enmendado el 17 de mayo de 2011 y el 21 de mayo de 2013 y el 16 de mayo de 2017 con el propósito de ejecutar los siguientes proyectos: aire acondicionado en el gimnasio de la Escuela Secundaria Oyster Bay; reemplazo de las superficies del patio de recreo de la Escuela Primaria Vernon; lo anterior incluirá mano de obra, materiales, equipos, aparatos y costos incidentales relacionados a la misma, así como los
costos preliminares e incidentales relacionados a su financiamiento; siempre y cuando los costos de los componentes de los Proyectos y Compras detallados en el informe puedan ser reasignados entre tales componentes si la Junta de Educación determinase que dicha reasignación es lo mejor para el Distrito y esta no representa un cambio significativo en el ámbito de los Proyectos y Compras. PROPUESTA NO. 4 (Transporte): SE RESUELVE, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito de Oyster BayEast Norwich (“Distrito”) queda autorizada mediante la presente a modificar la elegibilidad para el transporte de las escuelas públicas, efectivo al comienzo del año escolar 2020-2021, para (a) alumnos de Kinder hasta 6º Grado, pasa del límite actual de una milla y cuarto (1.25) a no tener límite para estudiantes en los grados de kinder hasta 6º, y (b) alumnos de los grados 7-12, pasa del límite actual de una milla y cuarto (1.25) al límite de media milla (.5), a un costo para el Distrito de $160,063.00 para el año escolar 2020-2021. 3. Elegir un miembro de la Junta de Educación por un período de cuatro (4) años, a partir del 1º de julio de 2020 y hasta el 30 de junio de 2024. 4. Someter a votación cualquier otra propuesta que pueda presentarse adecuadamente antes de la reunión. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que la audiencia pública presupuestaria a los fines de discutir el presupuesto propuesto para los gastos del año escolar 2020-2021 se celebrará a distancia el 26 de mayo de 2020 a las 7:30 PM. Se preparará una forma resumida de la propuesta presupuestaria, y se incluirán el texto de todas las demás propuestas que aparecerán en la máquina de votación y una declaración detallada por escrito de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año escolar 2020-2021 para fines escolares, especificando los propósitos y las cantidades para cada uno, y copias de estos estarán disponibles en la página de internet del Distrito durante los 14 días inmediatamente anteriores a dicha elección del 9 de junio de 2020. Se hace saber además, que de conformidad con la Sección 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, el distrito escolar debe adjuntar a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención. Dicho informe de exención, que también formará parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cómo el valor total evaluado del record
de evaluación final utilizado en el proceso presupuestario está exento de impuestos, enumerará todos los tipos de exenciones otorgadas por la autoridad estatutaria y mostrará el impacto acumulado de cada tipo de exención, la cantidad acumulada que se espera recibir como pagos en lugar de impuestos y el impacto acumulado de todas las exenciones otorgadas. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que la Elección Anual de la Biblioteca Pública de Oyster-Bay Norwich se celebrará mediante boleta de votación en ausencia, el martes 9 de junio de 2020, a los fines siguientes: 1. Someter a votación la apropiación de los fondos necesarios para cubrir los gastos estimados de la Biblioteca Pública para el año escolar que comienza el 1º de Julio de 2020. 2. Elegir un miembro de la Junta de Administradores de la Biblioteca por un período de cinco (5) años, a partir del 1º de julio de 2020 y hasta el 30 de junio de 2025, a fin de llenar la vacante creada al finalizar el período de Frank Murdock. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que las copias del presupuesto propuesto para la biblioteca estarán disponibles en la página de Internet de la Biblioteca durante los 14 días inmediatamente anteriores a dicha elección del 9 de junio de 2020. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que las nominaciones para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación y el cargo de Administrador en la Junta de Administradores de la Biblioteca se harán por petición suscrita y presentada al Secretario del Distrito a más tardar el 11 de Mayo de 2020 a las 5:00 PM. Dicha petición debe indicar el nombre y la residencia de cada firmante y debe indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Los dos candidatos que reciban la mayoría de los votos serán considerados electos para sus cargos respectivos. Sin embargo, la Junta de Educación puede rechazar una nominación si el candidato no es elegible para el cargo o declara que no está dispuesto a servir. Se aceptarán peticiones de nominación presentadas por correo electrónico, fax o correo. La dirección de correo electrónico del secretario del distrito es† mnolan@obenschools.org . No hay un número mínimo de firmas requeridas en la petición de nominación. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que cualquier residente del distrito escolar que desee ser un votante registrado para esta elección puede registrarse en la junta electoral mediante la presentación
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de una solicitud en línea para el registro de votantes con el Departamento de Vehículos y Motores en https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que el Secretario del Distrito enviará la boleta de votación en ausencia por correo a todos los votantes calificados a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la votación. La boleta de votación en ausencia debe ser recibida en la Oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito a más tardar el 9 de junio de 2020, a las 5:00 de la tarde. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que los votantes militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del distrito escolar pueden presentar una solicitud para una boleta militar. Los votantes militares pueden escoger recibir en dicha solicitud de registro, un registro de militar votante, una solicitud de boleta militar o una boleta militar, y escoger recibirlos por correo, por transmisión de fax o por correo electrónico. La planilla de registro de militar votante debe ser recibida en la Oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito a más tardar a las 5 p.m. del 14 de Mayo de 2020. No se escrutará las boletas militares recibidas en la Oficina de la Secretaría del Distrito después de las 5:00 PM el día de las elecciones. SE NOTIFICA ADEMáS, que esta Junta de Educación ha convenido en celebrar una reunión especial de la misma dentro de las veinticuatro horas posteriores a la presentación ante el Secretario del Distrito de un informe escrito de los resultados de la boleta con el fin de examinar la tabulación de dichos informes del resultado de la boleta y declarar el resultados de la boleta; y que la Junta por este medio se designa a sí misma como un conjunto de funcionarios de votación para emitir y escrutinar las boletas electorales de conformidad con la Ley de Educación, Sección 2019-a(2b), en dicha reunión especial de la Junta de Educación. Fechado: 4 de mayo de 2020 por orden de la junta de educación del distrito escolar central de Oyster Bay-East Norwich Condado de Nassau, New York Margaret Nolan Secretaria del distrito 121791 LEGAL NOTICE AVISO APLAZADO DE A U D I E N C I A PRESUPUESTARIA Y ELECCIÓN ANUAL, BIBLIOTECA DE COLD SPRING HARBOR
SE DA AVISO POR LA PRESENTE que la votación sobre el presupuesto de la Biblioteca y la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca de Cold Spring Harbor se realizará junto con la del Distrito Escolar Central de Cold Spring Harbor y tendrá lugar a las 5:00 p.m. el martes 9 de junio de 2020. La votación será estrictamente por boleta en ausencia. Las formas de las proposiciónes de votación serán las siguientes: PROPOSICIÓN NO. 1 SE RESUELVE, que la Junta de Educación deberá contratar con la Biblioteca Cold Spring Harbor de conformidad con la Ley de Educación § 256 para proporcionar servicios de biblioteca a los residentes del Distrito Escolar y los fondos apropiados por un monto de $3,017,694 que respaldan el pago de capital e intereses en el bono de ;a construcción y el Presupuesto Operativo 2020-21 de la Biblioteca Cold Spring Harbor, con la p o r c i ó n requerida de la misma que se recaudará por impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito Escolar Central de Cold Spring Harbor. SE DA AVISO POR LA PRESENTE que cualquier residente del Distrito puede ver una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año fiscal 2020-21 para los propósitos de la Biblioteca Cold Spring Harbor durante los catorce (14) días inmediatamente antes de dicha Votación/Elección y el día de la elección en el sitio web de la Biblioteca en www.cshlibrary.org. SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con la Ley de Educación §2018-d, cualquier persona que sirva en el ejército, incluyendo cónyuges y dependientes, puede registrarse para votar en la próxima elección del distrito escolar. Un votante militar que sea un votante calificado del Distrito puede obtener un formulario de registro contactando al Secretario del Distrito, James Stucchio, A la atención de: Lisa Spahn por teléfono (631-367-5907), facsímil (631-367-5998), correo electrónico (lspahn@csh.k12.ny.us), correo (75 Goose Hill Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724). Un votante militar debidamente registrado puede solicitar una boleta militar solicitando una aplicación al Secretario del Distrito. Las solicitudes completas deben enviarse por correo a el secretario del distrito y recibirse a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 14 de mayo de 2020. Las boletas militares deben
recibirse antes de las 5:00 p.m. el 9 de junio de 2020 si está firmado y fechado por el votante militar y un testigo con una fecha que no sea posterior al día anterior a la elección, o no posterior a las 5:00 p.m. el 9 de junio de 2020 si está matasellado o respaldado por una agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Un votante militar puede designar una preferencia para recibir un formulario de registro de votante militar, solicitud de boleta militar o boleta militar por correo, facsímil o correo electrónico en la solicitud de dicho registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL que las peticiones de nominación de candidatos para el cargo de Fideicomisario de la Junta de la Biblioteca se pueden presentar ante el Secretario del Distrito por correo o correo e l e c t r ó n i c o (jstucchio@csh.k12.ny.us) a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. 11 de mayo de 2020. Se deben completar dos términos de tres años (es decir, 1 de julio de 2020 a 30 de junio de 2023) y dos de dos años (es decir, 1 de julio de 2020 a 30 de junio de 2022). Las nominaciones para el cargo de Fideicomisario de la Junta de la Biblioteca se harán por carta o completando y devolviendo la parte superior de la petición de candidato. Dicha carta o petición debe establecer, como mínimo, el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Los individuos pueden declararse candidatos para el Consejo de la Biblioteca, siempre que cumplan con todos los demás requisitos legales para ser candidatos. SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL que debido a las preocupaciones de salud y seguridad asociadas con la pandemia de COVID-19, el potencial de contracción de COVID-19 se considera una enfermedad temporal. Como tal, cada votante elegible tiene derecho a que se le envíe una boleta en ausencia con un sobre con franqueo pagado. Además, debido al cierre ordenado resultante de las escuelas, el registro en persona en el distrito escolar no tendrá lugar para las elecciones del 9 de junio de 2020. En lugar de dicho registro, las personas pueden registrarse a través del sitio web de registro de votantes del Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados del Estado de Nueva York (https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application) y ser elegibles para recibir una boleta de votación en ausencia para la elección aplazada del 9 de junio de 2020, siempre que los
individuos se registren antes del 4 de junio de 2020. SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL que todos los votantes calificados que estén registrados y voten en cualquier elección general o escolar el 1 de enero de 2016 o después recibirán automáticamente una boleta de votación en ausencia. Las personas que no estén seguras de si son votantes calificados y/o recibirán una boleta de votación ausente pueden verificar su estado en https://es.findmypollplace .com/coldspringharborcsd /AmIRegistered o contactar al Secretario del Distrito, James Stucchio, Attn: Lisa Spahn por teléfono (631-367-5907) o correo electrónico (lspahn@csh.k12.ny.us) con preguntas o para confirmar si están registradas. SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL que todas las boletas en ausencia deben recibirse por correo a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 9 de junio de 2020 para ser encuestados. SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL que la Junta de Educación se designará a sí misma o a sus empleados, según lo considere apropiado como un conjunto de secretarios electorales para emitir y escrutar las boletas y certificar los resultados de las elecciones del 9 de junio de 2020 dentro de los diez días de dicha elección de conformidad con la Ley de Educación §2019-a.2.b. Fecha: 5 de mayo de 2020 POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE Cold Spring Harbor, NY EDUCACIÓN, DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE COLD SPRING HARBOR CIUDADES DE HUNTINGTON, CONDADO DE SUFFOLK Y OYSTER BAY, CONDADO DE NASSAU, N.Y. James J. Stucchio Secretario del Distrito 121949
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 pursuant to the Governor of the State of New York’s Executive Order 202.26 (hereinafter, “Executive Order”), a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Locust Valley Central School District, Nassau County, Locust Valley, New York will be held remotely on June 1, 2020 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 2020-2021 fiscal year. 2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by absentee ballot, pursuant to Executive Order 202.26 at the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. 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 to residents of the School District beginning on May 26, 2020 on the District’s website at w w w. l v c s d . k 1 2 . n y. u s. While Education Law Section 1716(2) requires the budget also be made available at school district offices, any public library/free association library within the district and the polling place, this year that will not be possible due to the Executive Order and the prevalence of the COVID-19 virus and potential for spread through personal interaction. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, said Budget Vote and Election of Board of Education members will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. The Executive Order directs that the budget vote and election be conducted by an absentee ballot process in lieu of in-person voting. Therefore, there will be no voting at the polls for this year’s annual Budget Vote and Election. The District will mail absentee ballots with a postage paid return envelope to qualified voters. In order to be counted, absentee ballots must be received in the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020. Thus, every qualified voter shall vote by absentee ballot on the following items: 1. Proposition One (1): To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2020-2021 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District. 2. To elect three (3) members of the Board of Education for three-year terms commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring on June 30, 2023. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large. 3. 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 2020-2021, in the amount of $1,472,775, to appear on the absentee
ballots on June 9, 2020, 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. 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 pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with the District Clerk at their office in the Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560, not later than May 11, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing time. The petition may be filed by: mailing the petition to the District Clerk at her office at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, and/or scanning the petition and emailing it to the District Clerk at shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us. The petition must be received by the District Clerk no later than Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Each petition shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District and shall state the name and residence of the candidate. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large. As per Executive Order 202.26, there is no minimum number of signatures required on the petition for the June 9, 2020 Budget Vote and Election.
AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that 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 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. 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 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 May 14, 2020. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under §2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballots 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 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 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 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 June 9, 2020 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 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 26, 2020, 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 91 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. Dated: Locust Valley, New York May 4, 2020 By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Locust Valley, New York Susan Hammerschmidt, District Clerk 121771 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADJOURNED BUDGET HEARING AND ANNUAL ELECTION, COLD SPRING HARBOR LIBRARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that voting on the Library budget and election of members of the Library Board of Trustees of the Cold Spring Harbor Library will be in conjunction with that of the Cold Spring Harbor Central School District and will take place at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Voting will be strictly by absentee ballot. Forms of ballot propositions will be as follows: PROPOSITION NO. 1 R E S O LV E D, that the Board of Education shall contract with the Cold Spring Harbor Library pursuant to Education Law § 256 for the providing of library services to the residents of the School District and appropriate funds in the amount of $3,017,694 supporting principal and interest payments on the construction bond and the 2020-21 Operating Budget of the Cold Spring Harbor Library, with the requisite portion thereof to be raised by tax on the taxable property of the Cold Spring Harbor Central School District. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the 2020-21 fiscal year for the Cold Spring Harbor Library
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purposes may be viewed by any resident of the District during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding said Vote/Election and on the day of the election on the Library website at www.cshlibrary.org. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Education Law §2018-d, any person serving in the military, including spouses and dependents, may register to vote in the upcoming school district election. A military voter who is a qualified voter of the District may obtain a registration form by contacting the District Clerk, James Stucchio, Attn: Lisa Spahn by t e l e p h o n e (631-367-5907), facsimile (631-367-5998), email (lspahn@csh.k12.ny.us), mail (75 Goose Hill Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724). A military voter who is duly registered may apply for a military ballot by requesting an application from the District Clerk. Completed applications must be mailed to the District Clerk and received no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. Military ballots must be received by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 if signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto with a date which is not later than the day before the election, or not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 if postmarked or endorsed by an agency of the United States government. A military voter may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration form, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile or electronic mail in the request for such registration, ballot application, or ballot. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that petitions nominating candidates for office of Trustee of the Library Board may be filed with the District Clerk by mail or email (jstucchio@csh.k12.ny.us) no later than 5:00 p.m. May 11, 2020. Two threeyear terms (i.e., July 1, 2020-June 30, 2023) and two two-year (i.e., July 1, 2020-June 30, 2022) are to be filled. Nominations for the office of Trustee of the Library Board shall be made by letter or by completing and returning the top portion of the candidate petition. Such letter or petition is required to set forth, at a minimum, the candidate’s name and residence. Individuals may declare themselves to be candidate(s) for Library Board, provided that they meet all other legal requirements to be a candidate. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that due to the health and safety concerns associated with
the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential for contraction of COVID-19 is deemed a temporary illness. As such, every eligible voter is entitled to be sent an absentee ballot with a postage paid return envelope. Further, due to the resulting ordered closure of schools, in person registration with the school district will not take place for the June 9, 2020 elections. In lieu of such registration, individuals can register through the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles’ voter registration website (https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application ), and be eligible to receive an absentee ballot for the adjourned June 9, 2020 election provided that the individual registers before June 4, 2020. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all qualified voters who are registered and voted in any general or school election on or after January 1, 2016 will automatically receive an absentee ballot. Individuals who are unsure whether they are qualified voters and/or will receive an absentee ballot can check their status at https://es.findmypollplace .com/coldspringharborcsd /AmIRegistered or contact the District Clerk, James Stucchio, Attn: Lisa Spahn by telephone (631-367-5907) or email (lspahn@csh.k12.ny.us) with questions or to confirm if they are registered. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all absentee ballots must be received by mail no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 in order to be canvassed. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Education shall designate itself or such of its employees as it shall deem appropriate as a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots and certify the results of the June 9, 2020 election within ten days of such election pursuant to Education Law §2019-a.2.b. Dated: May 5, 2020 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF Cold Spring Harbor, NY EDUCATION, COLD SPRING HARBOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, TOWNS OF HUNTINGTON, SUFFOLK COUNTY, AND OYSTER BAY, NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. James J. Stucchio District Clerk 121789 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING AND ANNUAL DISTRICT ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE OYSTER BAYEAST NORWICH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AND
THE OYSTER BAY-EAST NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY TO BE HELD ON JUNE 9, 2020 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Election of the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District will be held remotely on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 by absentee ballot voting for the following purposes: 1. To vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the District for the school year beginning July 1, 2020 which shall be identified on the ballot as Proposition No. 1. 2. To vote on the following propositions: PROPOSITION NO. 2 (Technology Capital Reserve Fund Expenditure): RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District (“District”) is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend $265,000 from the Technology Capital Reserve Fund established on May 15, 2018 for the purpose of performing the following projects; district-wide 1:1 initiative (grades 6, 7, 11, and 12), all of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus and incidental costs related thereto as well as preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof; provided that the detailed costs of the components of the Projects and Purchases as set forth in the report may be reallocated among such components if the Board of Education shall determine that such reallocation is in the best interests of the District and no material change shall be made in the scope of the Projects and Purchases. PROPOSITION NO. 3 (Capital Reserve Fund Expenditure) RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District (“District”) is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend(a) $665,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 16, 2006 and amended on May 17, 2011 and May 21, 2013 and May 16, 2017 for the purpose of performing the following projects: gymnasium air conditioning at Oyster Bay High School; replacement of playground surfaces at Vernon Elementary School; all of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus and incidental costs related thereto as well as preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof; provided that the detailed costs of the components of the Projects and Purchases as
set forth in the report may be reallocated among such components if the Board of Education shall determine that such reallocation is in the best interests of the District and no material change shall be made in the scope of the Projects and Purchases. PROPOSITION NO. 4 (Transportation): RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District (“District”) is hereby authorized to modify its public school transportation eligibility effective at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year for (a) Kindergarten pupils through Grade 6 from the existing one and one quarter (1.25) mile limit to no limit for students in Grades Kindergarten through 6 and (b) Grades 7-12 pupils from the existing one and one quarter (1.25) mile limit to a half mile (.5) limit, at a cost of $160,063.00 to the District for the 2020-2021 School Year. 3. To elect one member of the Board of Education for a term of four (4) years beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2024. 4. To vote upon such other propositions as may properly come before the meeting. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the public budget hearing for the purpose of discussing the proposed budget of expenditure of funds for the school year 2020-2021 will be held remotely on May 26, 2020 at 7:30 PM. The condensed form of the budget proposition and the text of all other propositions to appear on the voting machine and a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the school year 2020-2021 for school purposes, specifying the purposes and the amount for each, will be prepared and copies thereof will be made available for viewing on the District’s website during the period of the 14 days immediately preceding said election for June 9, 2020. Notice is further given that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by the statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of
Robert S. Bilé
Courtesy Oyster Bay Funeral Home
ROBERT S. BILÉ, 86, of Mill Neck died on May 15. He served in the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division and was a proud member of the New York City Fire Department for 38 years, retiring as a Battalion Chief in 1997.
Robert S. Bilé, 86, of Mill Neck died on May 15. Beloved husband of Eileen; adored father of Robert W., Linda, Daniel, Patrick and Christine (Matthew); treasured “pop pop” to Dillon, Christina and Sean. Bob honorably served in the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division. He was a proud member of the New York City Fire Department for 38 years, retiring as a Battalion Chief in 1997. He enjoyed spending time with his family, traveling extensively with his wife, reading, boating, and fishing. Donations in his memory can be made to Uniformed Firefighters Association, 204 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010, in care of The UFA Widows and Children’s Fund would be appreciated. Please make checks payable to The UFA Widows and Children’s Fund. In light of the current circumstances, the immediate funeral services are private. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.
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taxes and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the Annual Election of the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library will be held by absentee ballot voting on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 for the following purposes: 1. To vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the Public Library for the school year beginning July 1, 2020. 2. To elect one member of the Board of Library Trustees for a term of five (5) years beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2025, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of Frank Murdock. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the copies of the proposed library budget will be made available on the Library’s website during the period of the 14 days immediately preceding said election of June 9, 2020. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the nominations for the Board of Education member and Board of Library trustee shall be made by petition and filed with the District Clerk no later than Monday, May 11, 2020 by 5:00 PM. Such petition shall state the name and residence of the candidate. The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes shall be considered elected to office. However, a nomination may be rejected by the
Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for the office or declares his or her unwillingness to serve. Nominating petitions filed by email, fax or mail will be accepted. The District Clerk’s email address is mnolan@obenschools.org . There is no minimum number of signatures required on the nominating petition. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any resident of the school district who is not a previously registered voter and who wishes to be a registered voter for this election may register with the board of elections by submitting an on-line application for voter registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles at https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the District Clerk will mail the absentee ballot to all identified qualified voters by no later than six (6) days before the vote. The absentee ballot must be filed in the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 PM on June 9, 2020. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application
or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk of the school district no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received by the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within 24 hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot, at the lobby of the gymnasium of Oyster Bay High School for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law §2019-a(2b) at said special meeting of the Board. Dated: May 4, 2020 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, OYSTER BAY-EAST NORWICH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK MARGARET NOLAN DISTRICT CLERK 121772
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f there’s one overarching economic lesson the coronavirus pandemic is teaching us, it’s that the United States has become over-reliant on other nations for critical manufacturing capacity. It’s time we brought this production home. As the pandemic struck here, U.S. authorities found themselves scrambling for all sorts of medical supplies that are mostly produced overseas. From surgical masks to ventilators to pharmaceuticals, America’s hospitals and ALFONSE health care workers were left at the D’AMATO mercy of foreign companies. But those companies often had other priorities. When the pandemic began in Wuhan, China, Chinese authorities mandated that production of critical health care supplies be channeled to domestic use. This “China first” policy left the American health care system short of the items we need to fight the virus here. The U.S. has scrambled valiantly to make up these deficiencies, with our companies converting their production to make these critical medical supplies. In the best example of this, General Motors, in a
matter of weeks, converted an auto parts manufacturing facility in Indiana to the manufacture of ventilators. Now, as the demand for ventilators is subsiding in the U.S., these machines can be exported to other nations that need them. American enterprise and inventiveness will come to the rescue of sick patients around the globe. That model of self-sufficiency should guide American manufacturing policy from now on. The entire supply chain should be examined for all of our critical industries, to incentivize bringing production back home. Health care workers shouldn’t be left short of masks and gowns. Patients shouldn’t be deprived of life-saving equipment and medicine. One thing Congress should immediately reinstate is a tax incentive that for years helped keep production of pharmaceuticals much closer to home. It made Puerto Rico a major manufacturing center for critical drug supplies. But when it was allowed to expire, the production of these drugs moved mostly to Asia. Bringing this production nearer to home again is in America’s national security interest, and could help revive Puerto Rico’s moribund economy. That’s not the only manufacturing that
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should be brought home. The world economy runs on computer chips. They’re in everything we use. And America has a great chip industry. But other nations heavily support their production of computer chips, and then dump them in the U.S. at below true cost. The Trump administration is wisely reviewing U.S. trade policy in this area, and there is great promise that much of the world’s future computer chip production could take place right here. New York is particularly well positioned to take advantage of this new manufacturing surge, because we have some of the world’s premier computer chip research, development and manufacturing capability. There are other areas where this clearer-eyed trade and manufacturing policy should prevail. In the most recent financial rescue package, U.S. airlines were given substantial relief, totaling some $25 billion. That’s understandable, because they are suffering dramatic declines in passengers through no fault of their own. But when these airlines start flying again, it would be reasonable to require that as they buy new planes in the future, they buy American. They’ll be surviving on taxpayer dollars, and we should be flying on American-built planes.
ur health care workers shouldn’t be left short of masks and gowns.
The same goes for other major U.S. manufacturing. American auto manufacturers have received substantial federal government support during hard times. They should bring supply-chain production back to the U.S. The parts that go into American cars should be made here, not overseas. And for years, Asian nations have been dumping solar panels to the U.S. at below cost. That should stop. We can and should make solar panels. That means jobs for workers who produce and install them. Other American energy sectors deserve support, too. The dumping of oil by Saudi Arabian and Russian despots during the pandemic has severely wounded U.S. oil producers. While cheap gas right now may be a welcome boost to our economy, losing our domestic oil and gas production to this unfair foreign oil dumping isn’t in our longterm national interest. A national energy policy that helps stabilize the world oil market and keeps U.S. production alive is. The next decade will be a challenging time for American companies and workers. We will be emerging from near Depression-era levels of economic carnage and job loss. Bringing jobs home and helping our economy to recover is America’s No. 1 job. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.
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e’re all caught in the password paradox: We need passwords that we can remember but that are odd and complex enough not to be memorable. As we get older, this is challenging. This week, for example, I stepped into the credit card quicksand and began sinking fast. It actually started last month, with an email from a major credit card company (name withheld, because I’m not that stupid) with which I’ve been doing business for many years. The note said that I would be getting a brand new card, just because. I was perfectly happy with my old card; RANDI there were no KREISS issues; my bills got paid; but they wanted to share the “great news” that a new card was on its way. I proceeded to file that great news in the area of my brain reserved for stuff like remembering to book a colonoscopy. Then, a few days ago, the card arrived. Immediately, Inspector Clouseau (a.k.a. my husband) said, “How do you know who sent the card? Why should you get a new card
you didn’t ask for? Maybe it’s just a scam.” Man, life is hard enough these days. A deadly pandemic is sweeping the globe. We haven’t been out of the house in days. Do I really think people are out there trying to trick me into accepting a new credit card? Very possibly. Still I proceeded. I looked over the card and did what it said, which was to go to the company’s website and verify the card, thereby authenticating my existence. Suddenly, the shoe was on the other foot. The company was fine, but I had to prove who I am. Shouldn’t be a problem. I called the number indicated and got a young man with a foreign accent who might have been wearing a mask, because I could barely hear him. Also, I may be hard of hearing. He was definitely working from home, unless he brings his screaming toddlers to his office somewhere on the subcontinent. He asked me my name. “I want to ask you some questions, Randi,” he said, quickly getting very familiar. It was past my bedtime, and I just wanted to be done with this nonsense. “Please verify your address,” he said. Check. “Please verify your earlier address.”
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Check. “What is your mother’s maiden name?” I told him. I was starting to sweat. “What was your first car?” Thank heavens I remembered that my parents gave me a 1965 Mustang, which they later took away from me and gave to my sister, who sold it at quite a profit 15 years later. But where was I? “What is the name of your favorite pet?” I looked at Lillybee and wondered, did I give them dog No. 1 or dog No. 2 or Lillybee? I took a shot, and guessed right. We were good. Now the inquisitor asked, “What is your verbal password?” “I don’t have one,” I said. “Apparently you do,” he responded. “I don’t remember it,” I said, now desperate to be done with the interrogation. “You need to tell me your verbal password,” he said, “or I can’t authenticate your card.” “Pomegranate,” I snapped, figuring I’d take a shot. “No, madam,” he said. “But I can give you a hint.” “What is this, ‘Jeopardy’?” I asked him. “I need to be done with this call. You have my name and my address and the last digits of
hank heavens I remembered that my parents gave me a 1965 Mustang.
my Social Security. You know more about me than my husband. Can’t you OK the card?” “No, madam,” he said. “But the verbal password starts with ‘e.’” Look, I said, we could be here all night before I come up with the right word. Then I whispered, “OK,” totally defeated. “Elephant?” “No,” he said, but then countered, “We can accept the last four digits of your checking account.” I yelled for Inspector Clouseau, who was in the next room, wearing headphones, bingeing “Homeland” and also fast asleep. “I need our checking account number!” I screamed. The inspector was not pleased. “Who would need our checking account number and why?” he asked. “Clearly it’s a scam. Someone is phishing.” But we had no choice. We’ve become those gullible old folks who sign over their home to any friendly felon on the phone. Reluctantly, Clouseau got the number, and the credit card guy was finally mollified. He said he would authorize my account. He said I had to create a new verbal password. I did, and I recorded it someplace very safe … but I already forgot where that is. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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Cuomo criticism wrong To the Editor: The letter “Cuomo has a friend in Jerry Kremer,” [May 14-20] that criticizes Gov. Andrew Cuomo was another effort by Republicans to smear a governor who reached national fame successfully managing the Covid-19 crisis and, in the process, highlighted the incompetence and petulance of President Donald Trump. Laughably, the letter writer believes Trump is being generous in “bailing” out the mismanaged “blue states.” The writer is apparently unaware that New York is second only to Connecticut in paying more in federal taxes per capita than it receives, to the tune of roughly $1,792 per person annually. Our money is then taken to subsidize the underfinanced “red states” annually through the pork barrel process in Congress. Far from doing us a favor, the federal government owes this money to New York for supporting all of the president’s welfare state supporters. Maybe
Last Friday, the House of Representatives included the measure in its $3 trillion fiscal stimulus plan. That, in part, owed to strong lobbying by Governor Cuomo and the Long Island congressional delegation. We implore the Senate to negotiate in good faith on the House stimulus bill — and nix the SALT cap. nite self-isolation at home is among their worst nightmares. Now, at least, they will have the chance to head to the beach. Spending late spring and summer days on Long Island’s white-sand beaches is a rite of passage for many teens, particularly high school seniors who want to kick back for a few weeks or months after finishing school. They deserve to be able to do so, but they must do so responsibly. We all must. That means staying six feet apart from others, wearing a mask in public, washing your hands frequently for at least 30 seconds and not touching your face. If we follow these simple rules, we stand a much better chance of reopening New York safely, with minimal risk of a second infection wave. Otherwise, we could be South Korea. After the super spreader infected dozens in Seoul, Mayor Park Won-soon ordered all bars and clubs closed indefinitely. “Carelessness can lead to an explosion of infections,” he said. Remember those words this Memorial Day weekend if you are heading to the beach — or anywhere else.
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y most recent column, “Medicare for all could cost you a bundle,” was published in the March 6-12 issue. So much has transpired since then. For one, the world turned upside down. Two, the subject of that column, Bernie Sanders, ended his presidential bid and endorsed Joe Biden. So, you could argue, that column is no longer relevant. We no longer need to discuss Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal, a single-payer health insurance system controlled by the federal government. SCOTT Maybe. But I BRINTON fear not. In that column, I wrote that Medicare for All would likely dramatically raise federal taxes for most Americans to fund health insurance for everyone, whereas our current insurance system costs us less because our employers pick up the lion’s share of our premiums. I compared the United States with Canada. The U.S., I noted, spends $13,722 per person on health care annually, compared with $6,448 in Canada. The average American family, though, pays $8,200 a year for health insurance, compared with $9,200 per individual in Canada. From a purely economic standpoint, there is thus no incentive to move to a Canadian-style single-payer system — if you have health insurance through your
employer, which 91 percent of Americans do, or at least did (I’ll get to that in a minute). Biden has said he would expand the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, if elected president, to make sure that a greater number of uninsured Americans are covered, with an eventual goal of insuring everyone. Democratic presidential primary voters have overwhelmingly voted for Biden, effectively endorsing his centrist approach to solving the nation’s health insurance crisis — and, yes, there is a crisis, and it’s only getting worse by the day. From 2010, the first year of the ACA, to 2016, the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency, the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans dropped from 46.5 million to just under 27 million, a decrease of nearly 42 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health issues. In 2017 and 2018, however, the number of uninsured people increased by about 500,000 per year, as the Trump administration sought to limit enrollment in Obamacare as it worked to dismantle the ACA. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck. Now an additional 27 million Americans could lose their employer-based insurance because they are out of work, according to KFF. No job, no insurance. It is, as Sanders points out, a fundamental flaw of our employer-based system. In Canada, if you’re out of work, you keep your government-sponsored insur-
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ance. And during a pandemic, you really don’t want people running around without insurance. Sick people need to see a doctor. Period. The question is, how do we balance the clear economic benefit of employer-based insurance with making sure everyone is covered? The public option. Essentially, it would work like this: The federal government would create an insurance program that all Americans could buy into, which would compete with private insurers. Government subsidies would ensure that anyone, regardless of income or job status, could buy into the program. It would be much like Obamacare, but rather than allowing states to control their own insurance exchanges, which has caused something of a hodgepodge system, there would be one program, run by the federal government, similar to Medicare. Pete Buttigieg proposed the plan during his presidential primary bid. It is not, however, a new idea. Obama touted it during his 2008 presidential campaign. Obamacare was a compromise between what the president wanted and what Republican congressional leaders were willing to accept. Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans hated it, but it appealed to centrists in both parties — at least at first. As the so-called bases of both parties came to hold greater sway in the years after the ACA’s enactment, it became the
ure, I love Norway, but the U.S. isn’t Norway, and won’t be anytime soon.
LETTERS New York should just withhold its federal taxes this year. The writer attacks the governor for planning to close a 60-year-old nuclear power plant that in its last year of full functioning had seven major malfunctions. In 2016 it was confirmed that radioactive tritium had seeped into the water supply from this site. Would anyone like to live in that community? Mr. Cuomo is also criticized for not allowing fracking, which polls confirm is opposed by an overwhelming number of New Yorkers and which is one of the least sustainable means of energy production. The fracking industry is collapsing not only because of drops in oil prices but because the model is one of continuously diminishing retur ns, environmental destruction and financial failure. As a bonus, it is also dangerous. Sustainable energy now produces 17 percent of our country’s electricity, despite the best efforts of the petroleum industry to stop it. It’s the future. And no matter how badly you want to tarnish the governor, he is consistently doing the right thing for the health and future of this state. CYNTHIA LOVECCHIO Glen Cove
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target of increased derision among far-left f th les liberals and far-right conservatives. tea Which brings me to this year’s presiha dential race. nations Biden is an Obama-era centrist. Berty. It’s t niecrats despise centrism. I get it. They have embraced an ideal version of what a home. As t socialized state might look like — they bring up Norway again and again. Don’t get me wrong, I love everything about Norway, but the U.S. isn’t Norway, and won’t be anytime soon. The U.S. is a vast, diverse, populous, socially fractured nation, with no political consensus save for a dogmatic belief in capitalism, even among many liberals. Try passing Sanders’s plan for socialized insurance through Congress right now. It would never happen. So, what are Berniecrats to do? Do they, as so many did in 2016, sit out the election, or even vote for President Trump, as a protest? They’ll have to vote their consciences. They should try this thought experiment, panies however: Imagine if our entire insurance pandem system were currently under the purview author of Trump — who labeled the coronavirus critical to dom pandemic a “hoax” and suggested (perhaps sarcastically) that we inject people left the of the i with disinfectant and shine ultraviolet The light inside them to cure the disease. Let that thought sink in. Then, come make u panies November, vote. make t best ex Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.
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To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “Cuomo puts the other guy from Queens to shame” (April 30-May 6): Yes, President Trump is brash, vulgar and rude, but Governor Cuomo’s remarks and presentations receive universal praise, with some pundits floating him as a possible replacement for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee. Little is made of the fact that New York has the most Covid-19 deaths of any state in the nation — 28,168 as of Monday. By contrast, California had recorded 3,290, despite having more than twice New York’s population. Very little prominence is given to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, compared wit Cuomo. I’m glad we live in a country where we have the right to express our opinions. PHILIP KIRK Sea Cliff
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