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LVHS grads socially distanced By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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Locust Valley High School g raduates experienced a unique graduation on Monday, but some components of the day remained the same. Seniors wore caps and gowns and were accompanied by their families, though this year guests were limited, and as the graduates made their way to their seats outside the high school they did so socially distanced. There were four graduation ceremonies, and each included speeches, praise for the gradu-
GRADUATES SAT WITH their guests at the Locust Valley High School graduation, next to lawn signs that they were invited to take home.
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Town RFP could cause shakeup in bay hatcheries By MIKE CONN mconn@liherald.com
The Town of Oyster Bay sent out a request for proposals last month that could cause some major changes in the ways shellfish are grown and harvested in town-owned areas on the bottom of Oyster Bay. Currently, commercial shellfishing company Frank M. Flower & Sons Inc. leases 1,500 acres in the Long Island Sound in which it farms clams and oysters. The lease is set to end in 2024. Under the town’s RFP, only 800 acres would be available for private firms, with a provision
that no single bidder can lease more than 700 acres. One hundred of the 800 acres would be reserved for smaller operations, said George Baptista, the town’s deputy commissioner for the environment. Baptista said what happens to the 700 acres would be determined by the Town Board. The town, he explained, currently charges $40 per acre each year, and the RFP would increase that to $200. The RFP, he said, was sent on June 12, and responses are requested by July 26. “The opportunity is now to look at different methods to foster competition,” Baptista said,
“and we wanted to find a licensee that can accomplish a friendly, environmental method of aquaculture in the bay and get a more sustainable fee for the town.” James Cammarata, an attorney with Frank M. Flower & Sons, said the firm was examining the RFP, and planned to respond to it. He declined to comment further. The area around the acres Flower has leased is available to those who have shellfishing licenses, if the waters are certified to be clean enough for harvesting. Among these fishermen are members of the North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association,
who have been in a dispute with Flower & Sons for years. Bill Painter, president of the association, said he was most concerned with the environmental impact of Flower & Sons’ harvesting methods. The company’s main means of harvesting clams, Painter said, is hydraulic dredging, which involves shoot-
ing water at high pressure into the bottom of the Sound to break it up, so a mechanical dredge can move through it and gather the clams. This kind of dredging, Painter added, is not safe for the environment. It causes excess sediment to blow out onto the surCONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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The Bristal Assisted Living and the Long Island Alzheimer’s & Dementia Center are teaming up to hold the “Virtual Flower Pot Planting Program” for Seniors Across Long Island. The crafting program will be held via Zoom and it will be open to all Long Island seniors and their caregivers from 1 to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1 and Wednesday, July 8. This two-part class is intended for older adults and individuals with dementia or memory-related cognitive disorders to participate along with their family members and/or caregivers. The free program will be led by Casey Drum, the Bristal at North Hills director of recreation. “The Bristal is very excited to showcase how we are using technology to support the senior population with creative arts programming for our residents, as well as seniors in the community during times like these,” Drum said. Julie Wexler, the director of business development for The Bristal, said she recognizes that today’s caregivers face many challenges, including isolation. “These programs offer a chance for caregivers to connect with others, while offering their loved ones an engaging activity,” she said. The Bristal Assisted Living and the Long Island Alzheimer’s & Dementia Center will guide participants through this fun craft and planting project. All the sup-
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THE BRISTAL ASSISTED Living and the Long Island Alzheimer’s & Dementia Center are teaming up to hold the “Virtual Flower Pot Planting Program.” plies needed for the project will be delivered or mailed to participant’s homes a few days before the first session. The Zoom class will also be recorded so participants can take part according to their own schedule. Those interested were asked to register by June 23rd by calling Kristen Kupfer at (516) 506-2298 or emailing her at kkupfer@ thebristal.com. When registering include name, phone number, home address, special delivery instructions and an email to receive the Zoom log-in information. The program is limited to the first 100 people who register.
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CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE ates’ achievements and advice to help them meet their goals. Many traditional events had to be eliminated this year when the coronavirus pandemic caused schools to abruptly close. The seniors were contacted by the district, and asked what their top three priorities were for the end of the year. The majority said graduation, prom and Flags For Freedom. The annual Flags for Freedom ceremony is usually held during an assembly. The district included the tradition of giving each senior a flag during the graduation ceremony when they received their diploma. “When the school called a month and a half ago, I was shocked,” said Kaye Weninger, president of Operation Democracy, which promotes freedom and peace through education aimed at young people. Weninger is in charge of Flags for Freedom at LVHS each year. “They told me that the seniors included Flags for Freedom as the top three things they would like to have this year. I felt like after five years of doing it, the students realized how important it was that they got their own flag.” Veterans Terry Price and Joe Rydzewski, from Locust Valley American Legion Howard Van Wagner Post 962, attended the graduation. Usually veterans hand out the flags, but this year both sat nearby. Rydzewski said that he had participated in Flags for Freedom since it began five years ago, and added that he thought the district did a good job, considering the challenges it faced with the pandemic. “I was surprised the kids wanted this,” he said. “It’s important for them to receive the American flag, because a lot of them don’t know what went on in my era. I was 10 when World War II broke out. When I graduated high school, I had to sign up for the draft. Life was hard back then.” Price said he missed handing the flags to the graduates, and having one folded during the assembly by an active-duty military member and a veteran. “It was more personal,” he said. “But the only problem for me during graduation was that many parents were not wearing masks, and half of the kids weren’t either. But overall, being there was a great experience.” Salutatorian Julia Forte addressed her classmates at each ceremony. “We are made up of a class unlike any other,” she told them. “A class of allaround amazing people: brilliant, athletic, artistic, kind.” Valedictorian Michelle Hsu shared memories of school as well as advice for her classmates. “High school was a special time that cannot be replicated,” she said. “But the emotions, the relationships, the community, they don’t end here, and neither does the learning. If you immerse and invest
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ENJOYING A RITE of passage, graduates celebrated one last time. yourself, you will feel joy and pride in whatever you do and build close friendships wherever you go.” Principal Patrick DiClemente led the ceremonies. Later, he offered his thoughts to the seniors. “Graduates, as a parent shared with me this week, ‘The wind is not always at our back and the tide sometimes pulls us away from the safety of the shoreline,’” he said. “As Walt Whitman writes, ‘If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.’ Keep trying, adapt, fail, try again, get a little better with every experience, be a lifelong learner.” Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Thomas P. Dolan reached out to the kindergarten teachers who taught the class of 2020 in the year 2007. He shared advice from those teachers, which included reminding the graduates of some of the same lessons they were taught as 5-year-olds. One kindergarten lesson reminded students that “one act of kindness changes everything for a person.” While members of the class of 2020 had a senior year they will no doubt always remember for its unique circumstances, graduation focused on hope and the opportunities waiting for each of them in the future.
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Independently audited financial results indicate that the Town of Oyster Bay administration and its Town Board produced a net $19.2 million budgetary surplus for town coffers in 2019. This is the third-straight surplus produced by the Saladino administration. As a result, the town now has $27.4 million in reserves, the highest level since 2008. In 2020 there will be no borrowing for cash-flow purposes for the second year straight, even with the declining and delayed revenues due to the global public health pandemic. Earlier this year, certified public accountants Cullen & Danowski, LLP conducted an annual audit of town finances to close out the 2019 fiscal year. They confirmed the $19.2 million surplus produced by the 2019 Town of Oyster Bay management team. These audited financial statements, available for public review, will be utilized by Wall Street when determining the Town of Oyster Bay's bond rating in the coming weeks. "I have restored fiscal accountability and moved beyond the financial problems of the past,” Saladino said. “Our overall success has been recognized by Wall Street through bond rating upgrades which help save money for taxpayers. We look forward to more positive reviews from Wall Street in the weeks ahead." Since taking office in 2017, Saladino and the town board have cut property taxes while reducing debt and the operational budget deficit. In fact, the 2020 Town Budget sustained the $1.3 million property tax cut first approved by the Town Board for 2018 and maintained in 2019. As a result, $3.9 million is in the pockets of taxpayers rather than the coffers of government. While fiscally-conservative monitoring limits new spending, costs not under the town's control will continue to rise due to unfunded state-mandated expenses, such as employee healthcare costs, pension contributions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Payroll Tax. "The 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is available at www.oysterbaytown.com/wp-content/ uploads/2019-CAFR-Final.pdf.
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AMVETS — North Shore Veterans Memorial Post 21 has decided to cancel the July Fourth parade this year due to the coronavirus. Even though Nassau County and the hamlet have been in Phase Three, which has allowed for restaurants to open as well as other types of businesses there still remains a limit on public gatherings of 50 people. This would be difficult to manage at a parade. Members of AMVETS, who
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THE JOY WAS evident on the face of Marlo Knox when she graduated from Vernon.
One last moment of fun at Vernon before high school The OBEN Elementary PTA coordinated a 6th grade moving-up drive through at James H. Vernon School on June 15 that the students will likely never forget. With the thumping rhythm of party music playing in the background, students and their families drove in a designated route through the school’s parking lot in purple and gold decorated cars. They were greeted by their teachers and staff holding signs and purple and gold pom-poms which they shook as they cheered and waved to students. Horns honked and sirens from fire engines from local fire departments sounded as PTA members handed each student a gift- wrapped school T-shirt and blanket as a moving-up gift. Congratulations Vernon 6th graders and best of luck at Oyster Bay High School!
EVEN THE SCHOOL’S mascot came to the moving-up drive through to wish graduating sixth graders luck. THE CELEBRATORY MOOD of the day included pom poms. TURNING A PAGE in their educational history, sixth graders and their parents were sure to thank those who helped them along throughout the years.
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RESTAURANTS FOUND A variety of ways to reopen outdoors. Café Al Dente was able to utilize the parking lot outside its restaurant. opened outdoor seating for guests. At Café Al Dente, where tables and couches were arranged in the parking lot to accommodate spacing, diners waved to one another from afar, which some said restored a sense of community that’s been absent over the last several months. One of those diners, Alexis Irizarry of Oyster Bay, who was out with her mother and grandmother, said returning to in-person dining feels very different but noted that she’s happy to see the restaurant reopen effectively after months of solely take-out. “This has been very hard on business owners,” Irizarry said, “so they’ve done a good job accommodating, even
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Glasses clinking, plates of food arriving at tables, diners enjoying each other’s company. These relics of a not so distant past were a welcome sight to many on the North Shore, including Alex Cherepanov, who traveled from Brooklyn with his wife, Marina, to experience inperson dining again at the Crescent Beach Club’s restaurant, Ocean, in Bayville. “We’re just happy that we can go to a restaurant and start getting things back to normal since most of us have just been in our houses,” Cherepanov said. “It feels great to be next to and with people again.” On June 10, Long Island entered “Phase 2” of the state’s reopening plan, which allowed restaurants to open outdoor dining as long as certain measures, including distanced tables and masked employees, were implemented. Over two dozen customers dining in both downtown Oyster Bay and Bayville said they were excited to see restaurants begin in-person service again, and many were confident that restaurants were taking the necessary precautions to keep people safe. At the Crescent Beach Club, chief operating officer Matt Silver said he was looking to make the dining experience as “touch free as possible” for guests by including amenities like disposable menus, sealed silverware, wrapped pens and hand sanitizer stations at entrances. Grateful for those efforts to keep guests safe, Renee Sieveri, from Bayville, said she now feels less concerned about going out to eat. “We didn’t really know what to expect but they did a really great job,” Sieveri said. In downtown Oyster Bay, staples of the community including 2 Spring, Wild Honey and Café Al Dente all
with very little income over the last few months.” According to a survey by the New York State Restaurant Association conducted in April, New York’s food service industry lost a combined $3.6 billion in April alone, leading to lost jobs for over 500,000 restaurant employees across the state. Seeing an obligation to sustain local small businesses, other diners viewed going out to eat as a positive way to help the community in these difficult times. Daryl Katz, a Mill Neck resident who went to 2 Spring with her son, said they have always tried to shop and eat local, but doing so now as areas like the hamlet transition back to normal life is as important as ever. Katz added that for now, both restaurants and guests seem to be taking safety measures seriously. “I think everyone’s being careful and only going to places they are familiar and comfortable with,” Katz said. “We have to take precautions and still live.” Other diners, including Michael Marder from Plainview, who was eating at Wild Honey with his wife Barbara, echoed that sentiment and said they felt safe as long as social distancing is enforced. “As long as everyone is vigilant and doing the right thing I think it’s fine,” Michael said. Bill Miller of Oyster Bay, who was dining at 2 Spring after picking up a beer at Oyster Bay Brewing Company down the street, said he decided to eat out to support his favorite restaurant. Miller added that he is excited to see the town close down Audrey Avenue on the weekends for outdoor dining moving forward, a plan originally announced by Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino in late May that has yet to take effect. “This has been a long time coming,” Miller said. “We really want these small businesses to survive and thrive, they’re such an asset to the community.”
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LAUREN THEMIS, FROM Meals for Glen Cove Hospital and Support Professionals, handed out ice cream to thank health care workers for their efforts during the pandemic.
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he members of Meals for Glen Cove Hospital and Support Professionals, which raised $22,000 to feed hospital workers and the United Cerebral Palsy center in Bayville during the coronavirus, ended its service to the community in June. But before returning to their former lives the Bayville volunteers held one more event on June 15 to show their appreciation to the health care workers at Glen Cove Hospital — an ice cream party.
NICOLE LOW, A registered nurse, above left, brought ice cream back for her co-workers. EILEEN MURRAY, A physical therapist, far left, appreciated the kind gesture. PETA GAY DEPASS, a physical therapist at GCH, left, brought ice cream back for her co-workers.
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THE NORTH OYSTER Bay Baymen’s Association claims that hydraulic dredging by boats owned by Frank M. Flower & Sons disrupts Oyster Bay’s ecosystem.
Concerns about environmental impact CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE rounding sea floor, he said, smothering other marine life. Then only clams survive and nearly everything else dies. Cammarata said the issues raised by the Baymen’s Association have been thoroughly reviewed by the Army Corps of Engineers, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the state Department of State, all of which have said there is no lasting negative impact on the environment from the technology used by Flower & Sons. He also said that studies conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reached the same conclusions. “The results of these studies are always the same,” Cammarata said, “that there is no lasting negative impact whatsoever from the type of harvesting equipment Frank M. Flower & Sons uses.” State Sen. Jim Gaughran, a Democrat from Northport, has received funding to conduct a study on the effects of hydraulic dredging in the area. Painter said he did not “feel good” about the RFP, and that the town needed to wait for the results of Gaughran’s study before making a decision on how to proceed with leasing. Gaughran said he has provided the Department of Environmental Conservation with $75,000 in grant funding, and that the department contracted researchers at Stony Brook University to conduct the study. The beginning of the study was delayed due to the coronavirus
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out fixing this problem for many years, this is what they came out with, although it doesn’t surprise me.” Bill Bleyer, the president of Friends of the Bay, said the health of the bay is of the utmost importance to him. He said he supports the RFP’s reducing of acreage when it comes to allowing commercial harvesting, granting more public access to underwater land. He said the population of clams in the bay has dropped dramatically and that oysters are very hard to come by, so much so that they had to be imported from Connecticut for last year’s Oyster Fest. Shellfish are a vital part of the North Shore, Bleyer said. Not only do they provide jobs and food, but they are also a critical part of the ecosystem, as clams and oysters filter pollutants in the water. Bleyer said the town agreed with Friends of the Bay’s suggestion to create a bay management plan that would examine the entire bay’s ecosystem, which he said is a huge victory. This would determine, Bleyer said, what should be going on in the bay in terms of dredging and seeding, while looking at the long-term health of the bay. “Our feeling is the status quo isn’t working because the shellfish population has dropped significantly,” Bleyer said, “so we need to look at other ways to do things.” The town has indicated a willingness to work with potential bidders to allow for them to get the best possible licensing, a commitment that Friends of the Bay approves.
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The task of entering the workforce is inherently daunting, but the effects of the coronavirus pandemic are adding new obstacles to this already difficult process. For many recent college graduates, the internships that held the potential to kick-start their careers have been canceled, blurring their notions of the coming summer and even the next few years. Sea Cliff resident Miranda Purcell, 22, said she was looking forward to an internship with the 52nd Street Project in Manhattan after graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio this spring, but her plans were abruptly erased when the pandemic ushered in a new way of life. “I was a part of a cohort for students to get paid internships for the summer, and with Covid, the funding was pulled,” Purcell said. “That was kind of a tough loss to take, especially since I had applied and been selected for the class, but the benefits of it were pulled away. That was difficult.” Purcell, who double-majored in English and creative writing with a concentration in theater, explained that, while she is still reaching out to potential employers online, in-person networking is particularly beneficial for building her prospective career in arts nonprofit work. She said the pandemic is making progress somewhat unfeasible for now. “I’m now just applying to jobs and putting feelers out there,” Purcell said. “When it’s actually possible again, I want to engage in more networking events that we can do in person and things like that to get a better feel for the industry I want to go into and meet more people in it.” Susan Peterson, president of A-1 Résumés in Oyster Bay, said college graduates should use this time to prepare for future career opportunities and think about the skills that are becoming increasingly important.
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MIRANDA PURCELL, OF Sea Cliff, had an internship in Manhattan set for the summer, but the coronavirus pandemic canceled her plans. “Get your wardrobe ready for when you finally do have a one-on-one interview with an employer, and maybe do some YouTube research on how to do Skype interviews and telephone interviews,” Peterson said. “Get your résumé together, and by all means, get a professional company to do it. If you get your résumé together and start going on the job websites soon, that’s probably the best thing you can do.”
Peterson, who is also the board president of the Life Enrichment Center in Oyster Bay and a philosophy professor at Nassau Community College, said many job opportunities are already emerging for graduates. “Former jobs will open up,” she said, “and a good percentage of the people who held them won’t be in them because they’ve taken unemployment, which has a federal addition of money such that they won’t be going back to their jobs right away. There are also new jobs based on the difficult social requirements we have now.” Even for graduates who were able to hold on to their summer plans, the experience they will have in the coming months is likely to be different from what they initially expected. Cecilia Nelson, 22, is a recent graduate of Elon University in Elon, N.C. with a double major in arts administration and theatrical design and technology, as well as a minor in business administration. The Glen Head native said she anticipates some changes in her experience at Disney World, where she will start a costuming position on Aug. 3. “I think Disney will definitely be open by then, but how everything is operating will be different — reduced crowds, less shows, anything that involves people being in the same space,” Nelson said. “I’ll still be doing the same things that I was going to be doing; it’s just going to look a lot different because of changes that society has to make with the pandemic.” Nelson said she is interested in going into event management and experiential public relations as a career. However, she said she has to consider potential changes that the pandemic may have on her career in the long term. “That all kind of operates on having crowds, so I’m worried about that,” Nelson said. “How will society look at being in a crowd in the future? Are people still going to be wary of that even when the pandemic is over? We just don’t know yet if that’s going to be a lingering fear for people.”
Glen Cove Hospital visitation reopens with new guidelines Glen Cove Hospital has resumed visitation hours with guidelines to keep employees, patients and visitors safe. ■ Visitation is from 2 to 6 p.m. ■ Only one visitor at a time will be permitted at a patient’s bedside. ■ Total time for all visitors cannot exceed the fourhour maximum. ■ Visitors must undergo symptom and temperature checks upon entering the facility. ■ A hospital issued mask must be worn by the visitor at all times ■ Visitors must wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for isolation rooms as recommended by the Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ■ All visitors are required to sign-in at the front desk and check in at the nursing station on the unit. Badges must be returned to front desk upon departure. No exceptions. ■ No one under 18 years of age will be permitted to visit. ■ The visitor must wash their hands or use hand sanitizer upon arrival to the patient’s room and upon departure. ■ The visitor must avoid physical contact, such as hugging, with the patient.
■ Visitors are not to be permitted to wear personal gloves upon entry into the facility. ■ Visitors will not be permitted access to hospital pantries. Instead, they should ask staff for assistance. ■ No visitors will be permitted in the Emergency Department or Peri-Op Area. ■ Visitors will not be permitted to visit with patients who are COVID positive. ■ Visitors must remain in the patient’s room throughout the visit except when directed by hospital staff to leave for procedures.
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Anyone who visits a patient with an isolation sign on the door should stop at the nursing station before entering the patient’s room. Isolation precautions create barriers that help prevent the spread of germs in the hospital and are needed to protect the visitor and the patient they are visiting. The precautions are also needed to protect other patients in the hospital. When a patient is in isolation visitors may need to wear PPE (gloves, gown, mask). They cannot touch the patient and may not be allowed into a patient’s room at all. Visitors who are ill will not be permitted to enter the hospital. Glen Cove Hospital encourages visitors to remain closely connected to their loved ones through virtual visual means such as Skype or FaceTime.
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Pittsburgh, PA 15219 T e l e p h o n e : (412) 261-5555 Andrew F. Szefi, County Solicitor Lilian A. Akin, Attorney at Law Children, Youth and Families 445 Ft. Pitt Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (412) 350-4720; Lilian.Akin@AlleghenyCo unty.US Attorneys for Petitioner NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO I N V O L U N TA R I LY TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS In Re: Courtney Gutt, a minor, No. CP-02-AP-064-2020, in the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. To: Justo Cruz and The Unknown Father, alleged fathers of Courtney Gutt, a minor born on February 20, 2008, in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York. A Petition has been filed asking the court to put an end to all rights you have to your child, Courtney Gutt. The court has set a hearing to consider ending your rights to your child. That hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at 9:00 a.m., prevailing time, before the Honorable Jennifer S. McCrady. This hearing will not take place in the courthouse, but will be proceeding via telephone or video conferencing. In order for you to virtually participate in this hearing, it is important that you contact the assigned caseworker, Cassie McIlwain, at (412) 473-2300, or your legal counsel/attorney to obtain information for how to participate by telephone or video conference. The aforementioned caseworker and/or your attorney may be able to provide you with a phone number or link to the virtual hearing. You are warned that even if you fail to participate in the scheduled hearing, the hearing will go on without you and your rights to your child may be ended by the court without your being present. You have a right to be represented at the hearing by a lawyer. You should contact your lawyer at once. If you do not have a lawyer or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the office set forth below to find out where you can get legal help. This is also to inform you of an important option that may be available to you under Pennsylvania law. Act 101 of 2010 allows for an enforceable voluntary agreement for continuing contact or communication following an adoption between an adoptive parent, a child, a birth parent, and/or a birth relative of the child,
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LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF UPPER BROOKVILLE BOARD OF APPEALS PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing and meeting will be held before and by the Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Upper Brookville, Nassau County, New York, at the Planting Fields Arboretum Carriage House on Planting Fields Road in said Village, on July 16, 2020 at 6:30 P.M. The hearing will be on the appeal of Debbie and Scott Fein, owners of a 5-acre parcel of land located at 14 Chestnut Hill Drive in the Village, designated as Section 24, Block E, Lot 1055 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, and located within the Village=s OP-1 (5-acre) zoning district The Appellants seek a variance to permit the construction of additions and alterations to the existing dwelling, which will increase the total cubic volume of the dwelling from the existing 213,504 cubic feet to 217,241 cubic feet, rather than the maximum permitted 150,000 cubic feet. The above application is on file at the office of Humes & Wagner, LLP, attorneys for the Village, 147 Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, New York where it may be seen by appointment during the regular hours of the usual business days until the time of the hearing. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at said time and place. If any individual requires special assistance to attend, please notify the Village Attorney at 516-676-4600 at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Philip H. Wachtler Chairman Z-428 July 1, 2020 July 3, 2020 122265
LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF UPPER BROOKVILLE BOARD OF APPEALS PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing and meeting will be held before and by the Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Upper Brookville, Nassau County, New York, at the Planting Fields Arboretum Carriage House on Planting Fields Road in said Village, on July 16, 2020 at 6:30 P.M. The hearing will be on the appeal of Ira Gross, owner of a 2-acre parcel of land located at 21 Winding Lane in the Village, designated as Section 18, Block A, Lot 1021 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, and located within the Village=s R-1 (2-acre) zoning district The Appellant seeks to permit the construction of a second-floor addition and a two-story addition to the existing dwelling, which will require the following variances: 1. To allow the enlarged dwelling to have a cubic volume of 116,449 cubic feet rather than the maximum permitted 90,000 cubic feet; 2. To allow a total flat roof area of 26.3% rather than the maximum permitted 20% of roof area. The Appellant also seeks variances to maintain the following existing structures: 1. Shed which has an easterly rear yard setback of 31.2 feet rather than the required 50 feet; 2. Pond filtration equipment which has a rear yard setback of 39.6 feet rather than the required 50 feet. The above application is on file at the office of Humes & Wagner, LLP, attorneys for the Village, 147 Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, New York where it may be seen by appointment during the regular hours of the usual business days until the time of the hearing. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at said time and place. If any individual requires special assistance to attend, please notify the Village Attorney at 516-676-4600 at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Philip H. Wachtler Chairman Z-430 July 1, 2020 July 3, 2020 122264 LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF UPPER BROOKVILLE BOARD OF APPEALS PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing and meeting will be held before and by the Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Upper Brookville, Nassau County, New York, at the Planting Fields Arboretum
Carriage House on Planting Fields Road in said Village, on July 16, 2020 at 6:30 P.M. The hearing will be on the appeal of Peter J. Pappas, Jr., owner of a 5-acre parcel of land located at 39 Chestnut Hill Drive in the Village, designated as Section 24, Block E, Lot 1048 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, and located within the Village=s OP-1 (5-acre) zoning district The Appellant seeks a variance to permit the construction of a detached garage which would have a southerly side yard setback of 24 feet rather than the required 75 feet. The Appellant also seeks approval from the Board of Zoning Appeals to allow two cupolas to be installed on the detached garage, which cupolas will extend beyond the maximum permitted height of 22 feet for an accessory building. The above application is on file at the office of Humes & Wagner, LLP, attorneys for the Village, 147 Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, New York where it may be seen by appointment during the regular hours of the usual business days until the time of the hearing. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at said time and place. If any individual requires special assistance to attend, please notify the Village Attorney at 516-676-4600 at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Philip H. Wachtler Chairman Z-427 July 1, 2020 July 3, 2020 122263 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.mypublicnotices.com TO PLACE AN AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. Search by publication name at: www.mypublicnotices.com
LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 29th day of May, 2020, bearing Index Number 000285-20, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, NY grants me the right to assume the name Leo DaLynx. The city and state of my present address are East Norwich, NY; the month and year of my birth are October, 1980; the place of my birth is Paris, France; my present name is John Noah Pertew. 122266
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here’s an old saying (with many variations): “Beware what you wish for, because you might just get it.” That fits the current rush to judgment against police forces across America. Calls to reform the police have been replaced by demands to “defund” or even “abolish” the police by the most radical political elements. In Seattle, that’s led to the outrageous abdication of responsibility by elected state and local officials, who cowered before a mob that took over a whole city neighborhood. ALFONSE The occupiers D’AMATO of the city’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone stormed a local police headquarters and forcibly expelled the officers stationed there. They set up barricades and have established their own tumultuous version of an open society. no cops, no discernible rules of behavior. The result: a spiraling decline into lawlessness and disorder. Armed thugs roam the zone, dispensing their own version of justice. Fueled by drugs and alcohol, this has inevitably led to late-night shooting, and at least one death. But Seattle’s mayor and Washington’s governor have sat on
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their hands, making apologies for the mob. No one should make excuses for bad cops or accept criminal behavior from those sworn to protect us. Police forces do need to reform, to be much better trained, to opt for de-escalation rather than confrontation. Bad cops should be weeded out and expelled from their forces. Police must win the trust of communities they serve, not see themselves as occupying forces, especially in communities of color. But just imagine what will happen if police withdraw from patrolling highcrime neighborhoods. Think crime will magically go down? Think the killing will stop? Think again, because the summer killing season has already entered full swing in a number of America’s cities. In Minneapolis, where the tragic death of George Floyd sparked a national awakening to the need to stop inexcusable police violence, recent murders of young black men have brought the tragedy full circle. But most of these murders weren’t committed by police. They were committed by criminals. In Chicago, the death toll has been staggering. More than 250 people have been murdered so far this year. At the current death rate, Chicago could exceed last year’s 510 murders.
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Recently the New York City Police Department unilaterally declared a withdrawal from undercover policing aimed at the most violent drug gangs. The law-abiding citizens of areas where those thugs roam can only hide — they can’t run from their neighborhoods. Unlike New York’s wealthy, who can and will abandon the city for safer environs if the level of crime returns to that of the bad old days, those who live in its poorest neighborhoods will be trapped amid the violence and death. They’ll absorb the brunt of the drive-by shootings, the stray bullets, the revenge killings. We may forget that at the height of the last crime wave, New York was terrorized by a high of over 2,600 murders in a single year. Last year there were just over 300 murders. That’s 2,300 fewer dead, fewer funerals, fewer grieving parents, widows and orphans. Good policing had a lot to do with that dramatic drop in deaths. Constructive police engagement in communities plagued by high crime helped reduce the death toll. That’s why it’s all the more damnable that a few terrible cops have defamed the reputation of their police brothers and sisters, and damaged relationships between police and minority communities. This damage must be repaired. Our
e need to offer more, not less, support for better law enforcement.
police forces must not retreat from our most vulnerable communities. They must not lose heart or commitment to the tough work they signed up for. We need to offer more, not less, support for better law enforcement, especially to encourage positive community engagement. If that means creating specialized teams of social workers, medics, mental health professionals and others to help police respond to the calls they get, so be it. So many 911 calls today are domesticabuse calls, child-abuse calls, drug- and alcohol-abuse calls. They require more than law enforcement intervention. They require all the skills the public sector and the community can muster. I certainly get it that policing needs to change and grow to serve our modern and all too often dysfunctional society. We should look at policing with eyes wide open. Let’s figure out what works and follow it. Let’s make public safety a No. 1 priority. Let’s not throw in the towel on better policing, safer communities and fewer deaths, especially in our minority communities, which suffer the worst from criminal violence. Because black lives matter. Every single one. 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.
Marriage in the time of Covid-19
esterday morning, my partner, my husband of 52 years, my onetime Lawrence High School sweetheart, turned his head on the pillow and whispered: “What are you making for dinner tonight?” My eyes weren’t open yet, but I whispered back, “Grilled scallops over buckwheat noodles and yakitori vegetables.” We sighed. I opened my eyes and got rolling. There were scallops to defrost. This is life for us during the coronavirus pandemic. Do you enjoy irony? All I ever wanted was for RANDI him to retire so we KREISS could spend more time together. This winter he retired. Three days later, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, the world took a timeout, and here we are, with more togetherness than human beings were ever designed for. True, when we married on July 3,1968, we promised to stick together through the usual storms that blow through lives, but this? It definitely requires a codicil.
We are rigorously avoiding outside social contact, and not dining out or bringing in food. What that means for me is that I have cooked three meals a day for these many weeks since the pandemic hit. As I heard my husband confide to a friend on the phone, “I’m so lucky she’s a good cook.” How priorities change. Believe me, when we were 21 his mind wasn’t on my chicken fricassee. He’s thrilled with my meals, and I’m happy to slice and dice and sauté and bake, because what else is there to do in this crazy time? It’s a simple equation. Our marital quid pro quo: I prepare a complex seafood and rice dish with saffron and exotic mushrooms. We sit down together and enjoy. It works particularly well because he is happy to share the work by cleaning up. But . . . but . . . how did this get to be our lives? At least once a day I have a moment of being totally flabbergasted at the surreal turn of events. When we got married, who could have imagined that in our 52nd year together, we’d be isolated in semi-quarantine? Who could have envisioned all these hours and days and weeks spent alone after lifetimes
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of individual careers and outside friendships that nourished our lives and created healthy separation? Everyone is writing their own survival manual during the pandemic, especially because the federal government’s leadership has been so inadequate, so late and so confused. My kids are raising teenagers who no longer go to school or get to hang out with friends. My nieces and nephews are entertaining their toddlers all day and welcoming newborns. Some friends are living through all of this on their own. Others are going to work and keeping as safe as possible, whatever that means. For me, the first month was the worst, when I realized this wasn’t going to be a two-week deal, when I realized how vulnerable we are as over-65 seniors, when I saw the medical experts doing quiet battle with the federal government. I did what I could for myself, meditating and yoga and talking to friends on the phone. My husband and I carved out space for ourselves within our home, separating for some part of each day. Still, there are moments that feel close to panic. How will we get through this time
ho could have imagined that in our 52nd year together, we’d be in quarantine?
of not seeing our children and grandchildren? How will young people make sense of this in the arc of their lives? Here at home base, the journey is fraught. From another room, I can hear my husband preparing his hourly glass of water, violently shaking ice for what seems like 20 minutes, creating an avalanche of sound that shakes the dishes in the cupboard. I hear it from upstairs. Hell, you could hear it from another state. You wouldn’t think that would make you want to kill someone, but you’d be wrong. It’s the little things that drive you mad. But then, somehow, things settle. We find the light. We never had breakfast together because he went to work before 7. Now we do. Yes, it’s true he does get testy when I leave crumbs from my toast on the table, but we’re coping. We have faith in us. When we got married that July 3 in Woodmere, we promised to stick together. As fragile as life has become, as much as we’ve changed, grown apart and together again, I’m still in. We got married on that date so we’d always have the Fourth of July to celebrate. Alas, no fireworks this year, but I do have a nice whole snapper marinating in the fridge. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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hen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. e has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at
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He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. e, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor.
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hile commenting on the chants and signs proclaiming “Black Lives Matter,” a white colleague said, “All lives matter.” Yes, I replied, all lives matter, but we need to be reminded that black lives matter because it is black lives that are being eliminated by police violence. And we know only about those killed by bullets and bullies. What about the others who are “killed” behind closed doors and by Covid-19, toxic water, lead paint, failing schools, a roBert a. privatized prison system and job sCott discrimination, among other ills visited upon black people. I asked my colleague if he ever worried when his son goes to a mall with friends. Imagine you’re black, I said. Would you be concerned then, since we know that black people are harassed more often than whites and are killed in their homes and suburban neighbor-
hoods by white police. How many times have we heard of black professionals being mistaken for maintenance staff ? How often have we read about black students being asked why they’re in a university lounge, as if they don’t belong there? We hear the protests of the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others, but do we hear the cries of anguish of those who suffer the malignancy of daily slights and sights? The slights of having one’s name questioned because it seems foreign. The sights of statues honoring generals who wanted to maintain the slave system. To solve a problem or cure an addiction, we must first name it and frame it. We must own up to it, even if it takes time. We must acknowledge it and understand its causes and effects. This is true of racism in all its guises, whether individual or institutional. I was fortunate to grow up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where I had black friends in every grade of school. Even in college, although it was majority white, I had black friends — even one who today is a raving libertarian. But even with these experiences, I have to remind myself of white supremacy, of the many ways in
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To the Editor: Thank you for the June 26-July 2 edition of the Oyster Bay Herald Guardian. And thank you so much for doing the story on the Oyster Bay Preschool, “Oyster Bay Preschool celebrates 40 years in the hamlet,” which appeared in that edition. Beverly Zembko is wonderful, as is Judy Wasilchuk, and the two are Rotarians and have worked with the Oyster Festival since the beginning. Your Letisha Dass, who wrote the article, did a wonderful job. I can’t thank you enough. And, as a topping on the cake, I loved Laura Lane’s story about the wedding in the gazebo in Oyster Bay, “Wedding bells for an O.B. Couple amidst the coronavirus. The gazebo is actually called the Derby-Hall Bandstand and is a replica of the original one from which Theodore Roosevelt gave his speeches. I loved the information about Town Clerk Richard LaMarca in that article, another Oyster Bay favorite. Thank you for bringing Oyster Bay stories to the public.
To the Editor: The State of Mississippi did not ratify the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery until 1995. Yes 1995, not 1895. It took them 130 years to accomplish this, the amendment having been passed by Congress in 1865. Now Mississippi has decided to eliminate the Confederate symbol from their state flag. We may deplore the snail’s pace at which the state acted, but it apparently took them that long to become accustomed to what was the right thing to do. And so too, Princeton has gotten used to the realization that President Woodrow Wilson had done harm in having resegregated federal agencies after a difficult struggle over a period of years in getting those agencies desegregated in the first place. Progress does not always come easy.
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which I have been advantaged in life, despite the fact that my mother died when I was 9 and my father went bankrupt due to the medical bills. We were poor but white, and even that gave us advantages. Racism is endemic. We must speak out against it, not in a patronizing way but as a patriotic act. For if we do not correct our nation’s original sin, this country whose ideals I admire will soon perish from its rotten core. The sin of slavery and the dehumanization of black people was codified in our Constitution, written into law, condoned by churches and confirmed by courts. Through theology, political protocols, economic priorities and educational practices, black individuals, families and communities have been disadvantaged in American society. These are the sources of white supremacy and relative wealth. It’s time for white people to acknowledge these injustices. It’s time for white Americans to acknowledge the justification for affirmative action. It’s time for white Americans to care about equal access to health care, education, job opportunities and justice for all Americans without regard for race, gender or background. To care about others is to care about the ideals on which this coun-
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