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Reflecting on injustices in Oyster Bay once carried enslaved Africans before they broke free. The goal of operating this replica, accordIt was a solemn weekend in ing to its website, is to provide a Oyster Bay, as the replica slave floating classroom, educating s h i p s c h o o n e r, people from port to Amistad, docked at port about the Amisthe western end of tad Revolt and its lesTheodore Roosevelt sons of unity, the Memorial Park from enduring fight for July 11 to July 13. freedom and the legOn the Saturday acy of the Transatthat the ship was lantic slave trade. open for tours, a “We are grateful raising of the Black for the warm welLives Matter flag folcome we received lowed after a cerefrom the Oyster Bay mony led by the Rev. community,” Beth Dr. Marcus Tillery, Robinson, the capsenior pastor at the tain of Amistad, Community Church said, noting her gratof East Williston. itude to Dawn Riley Ravin Chetram, vice of Oakcliff Sailing president of the for help in organizOyster Bay-East ing the dockside Norwich Chamber ARIANNA events. of Commerce, then “The Amistad’s CHETRAM led a crowd to Oysstory has never been ter Bay Town Hall Oyster Bay more relevant,” Robfor a Black Lives inson added. “As we Matter rally and vigil. teach this history at sea, empowDiscovering Amistad is an ering people with leadership educational, non-profit organiza- skills they can transfer to their tion based in New Haven, Conn., daily lives ashore, we are mindthat owns and operates the tradi- ful of the continuing struggle for tional wooden schooner called equality. It has been especially Amistad, a replica of the ship, La Amistad (see sidebar), that CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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OYSTER BAY’S RAYNHAM Hall Museum will soon offer the outdoor program “Hanging Out With a Historian” in its garden.
Most North Shore museums remain closed during Phase 4 By LAURA LANE and SCOTT BRINTON llane@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com
Long Island began Phase 4 reopening of the economy on July 8, including universities and colleges. The governor said all 700 public school districts have been directed to develop reopening plans, but he is taking a wait-and-see approach whether students will head back to their school buildings
in September. In addition to higher education, industries that are now open include: ■ Film and music production. ■ Low-risk indoor arts and entertainment. ■ Low-risk outdoor arts and entertainment. ■ Professional sports without fans.
Low-risk indoor entertainment includes museums, historical sites and aquariums. Examples of low-risk outdoor enter tainment are zoos, botanical gardens and nature parks. Sue Sarna, the museum curator at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, said a plan of how they would open the grounds and restrooms safely was sent recently to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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Slave ship replica docks in Oyster Bay powerful to visit Oyster Bay, sailing in the wake of the Amistad Africans.” When Chetram went up to speak at the microphone placed in front of the ship docked in his Town of Oyster Bay, he asked onlookers to just take a moment to look at the Amistad. “I wanted them to understand what is was [representing], the ship itself,” he said. “It wasn’t a slave ship. It was a ship that brought whatever it needed to bring: objects, property, whatever it was.” One day Africans were kidnapped Africans, he added. “And there they were, stacked at the bottom,” Chetram said. “But they were able to get out.” The history of slavery and the period of segregation that followed still lingers in American society today, he said, and it took a movement like Black Lives Matter and the events that brought it on, to bring this history to the forefront again. And in order to not forget, the Chetrams, along with other community leaders like Hope Taglich, 21, have been holding rallies about once a week. Chetram said he is not against the police; rather, he is against police brutality. He then thanked Nassau County Police Department officers for blocking off the road to keep demonstrators safe. “Black lives still matter even though Breonna Taylor’s name is no longer trending on Twitter,” Taglich told the crowd at the rally in front of Town Hall. “Black lives still matter even though your [social media] feed went back to normal. Black lives still matter even though the protests are getting smaller and smaller.” Other community members also took to the microphone to describe their experiences with racism, prejudice and discourse on the matter before participating in a vigil to remember the names of police brutality victims like Taylor, George Floyd, Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin, Elijah McClain, Tamir Rice, among other victims. Arianna Chetram, the president of education and community reform nonprofit PWR N Noise, said she hoped that when Oyster Bay residents and visitors saw Amistad, along with the rally taking place down the block, that they would not forget the message. “I want people to know that [injustice] has been going on forever and even though it hasn’t always been on the news, it’s happening,” she said. “I hope people will have an open heart to it and try to see where we’re coming from, especially since Oyster Bay is known for [slavery.]” On Monday, July 13, the Amistad replica sailed away from the town that in 1790 had 381 enslaved men and women living there.
Why La Amistad is remembered According to archival content from Cornell University, 53 African natives were kidnapped in 1836 from Sierra Leone and were sold into the Spanish slave trade, were placed on a Spanish slave ship bound for Havana, Cuba. Once there, they were classified as native Cuban slaves and were purchased at an auction by Don Jose Ruiz and Don Pedro Montez, with plans to move the enslaved to another part of Cuba. Shackled, the Africans were brought onto the ship called “Amistad.” Three days into the journey, however, a 25-year-old man named Sengbe Pieh broke out of his shackles and freed the other captives. The Africans then revolted, killed crew members and demanded that Montez and Ruiz return the ship to Africa. The ship, though, ultimately ended up grounding on Long Island, near Montauk.
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AMISTAD, THE REPLICA of the slave slip La Amistad, docked in Oyster Bay from July 11 to July 13.
After the U.S. government seized the ship and charged the 53 Africans with piracy and murder, sending them to prison to await their trial, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Africans because they were never citizens of Spain, were illegally taken from Africa and were free men under the law. Once their freedom was affirmed, the men sailed back home on the ship called “Gentleman.”
About the schooner Amistad The designers of the replica schooner, Tri-Coastal Marine of Richmond, Calif., used computer technology to recreate the vessel, following the plan of the Baltimore clipper ships that were unique for the period in both design and proportion.
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Type: Baltimore Clipper Launched: March 2000 Operator: Amistad America Inc. Displacement: 136 tons Length overall: 129 feet Length at water line: 78 feet Beam: 23 feet Draft: 10.6 feet Height of masts: 100 feet Sail area: 5,200 square feet Engines: 2x CAT3304 Diesel 135HP each
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The Locust Valley Library would like to remind library cardholders to continue to use contactless curbside pick-up for books and DVD’s. Submit a request and the library will be in touch to make an appointment for pick-up.
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The 2020 Locust Valley Library Tennis Classic will take place on Saturday, July 25 (rain date Sunday, July 26) and the library is asking for everyone to come to this fundraising event, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. (8:30 a.m. warm-up) and support. The mixed up doubles tournament will be led by tournament director Steve Abbondondelo. And because of the round robin format, no partners are needed for participants. Additionally, there will be prizes for top scorers, caps for all, refreshments and tons of fun. Entry fee is $75 a person.
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Summer reading programs
While things may be a bit different this summer, the Locust Valley Library will be going forward with the summer read-
Library links Locust Valley Library website: https://www.locustvalleylibrary.org/ Curbside pickup request form: https://www.locustvalleylibrary.org/ curbside/ 2020 Locust Valley Tennis Classic: https://www.locustvalleylibrary.org/ tennis-classic/ READsquared: http://lvlibny05.readsquared.com/ ing programs designed for all ages. The adult program will be online only this year, but the basics are the same: participants can read anything they like, post a review, and be entered to win one of the library’s weekly raffle prizes. And of course, there’s always something happening in the summer for children and teens! Spring into Summer Reading for children started May 4 and will end on Aug. 7. Parents can track their child’s reading through an online program called READsquared. And the kids will be able to record their accomplishments and earn virtual badges and library pins. Teens also get to join in the fun. They can easily record their reading and for every book read they earn 20 points and a raffle ticket. Comic book series equal one book and the library is asking teens to write a review. To learn about all the Locust Valley Library programs and events, please visit https://www.locustvalleylibrary.org/.
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Trustees Brian Nolan and Margaret Marchand were elected as the Locust Valley Board of Education’s president and vice president for the 2020-21 school year respectively, during the board’s meeting on July 14. Both were elected unanimously. New Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Gra-
ham was also sworn in. During the meeting, 2019-20 Board President Jennifer Maselli announced that she was resigning from the board entirely. According to district Director of Communications Pam Kaplan, the board will discuss how to proceed with adjustments to be made due to Maselli’s resignation. As of press time, no decision was made.
The new president and vice president
Nolan, 40, a Locust Valley resident, is entering his sixth year on the board, having served as president during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. He has been an educator on many different levels for 18 years, currently serving as an assistant principal at Munsey Park Elementary School in Manhasset. He is also the third assistant chief in the Locust Valley Fire Department after having served as chief
for eight years in the past. He said he feels privileged to be elected president. “I’ve been president before, but I’m really, truly humbled,” Nolan said. “It’s exciting to be able to start with a new superintendent and I’m looking forward to working closely with the board and bringing my experience in education to the table.” Nolan said the board will focus on CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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LOCUST VALLEY BOARD of Education President Brian Nolan, left, and Vice President Margaret Marchand look forward to guiding the district into a safe 2020-21 school year.
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County reopens 60 fields, permits most sports By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
Young athletes were busy at Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, on Monday for the start of Express Lacrosse’s youth training clinic. During their practice, Nassau County Executive Laura Cur ran announced the reopening of county batting cages and 60 athletic fields and the resumption of moderate-risk sports like baseball, softball and non-contact lacrosse. Starting Monday, the county’s parks department prepared 10 baseball fields, 37 softball fields and 13 multi-purpose fields. Leagues of all ages were permitted to resume play and sports summer camps were also authorized to reopen. “It’s so important for young people . . . learning how to lose is a great thing [and] learning how to win graciously is a good thing,” Curran said. “These are all taught on the sports field. It’s not just for kids; it’s also really important for our adults and for our seniors.” According to the county’s reopening website, moderate-risk sports are described as having a “limited ability to maintain physical distance and/or be done individually” and require that athletes avoid sharing equipment or disinfect equipment between uses. Sports under this category also include field hockey, gymnastics, water polo, doubles tennis, relay swimming, racket games, crew, rafting, paintball and soccer. Leagues have also established their own rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Jack Moran, one of the directors of Express Lacrosse, explained
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THERE IS A softball field at Christopher Morley Park, which is county-owned. that practices would not entail competitive play and only include drills that allow for social distancing. Joe Ditaranto and Bernie Rosen, both representing the New York Senior Softball Association, were also at Curran’s news conference and announced that their season will begin on July 27. Ditaranto said that NYSSA created a list of 12 safety measures to protect their athletes, the oldest of whom is 93. Players must bring their own bats, wear a mask while not playing and refrain from highfiving or hugging each other, among other measures.
Curran also announced that, over the holiday weekend, the county received 1,281 calls alerting them of fireworks. Nassau’s fire service responded to 616 calls, police made seven arrests and there was one accident, in which a 20-year old Levittown man was hospitalized after a firework went off in his hand. Regarding social-distancing violations, the county received 68 complaints over the holiday weekend, issued 16 warnings and gave three appearance tickets. Curran also gave an update on the coronavirus pandemic in Nassau, announcing that there were 42,031 total
positive cases, 2,186 total deaths, 49 hospitalizations, four patients in intensive care and one patient on a ventilator. On Monday, there were no new patients on ventilators and seven patients had been discharged. Curran said that the statistics “tell us that when we’re smart, we could reopen.” “They tell us that this is the key to an intelligent and safe reopening,” she added. “They also tell us that, by and large, people are doing the right thing and continue to do the right thing in Nassau County.”
Plans to repeal SALT cap in coronavirus legislation Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove, joined local families at a press conference on July 14 to unveil a plan to fully repeal the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction in the upcoming federal COVID-4 stimulus package, which is currently being negotiated in the Senate. Suozzi, who passed legislation to restore the SALT deduction in the House-passed Heroes Act, has been pushing to restore the SALT deduction since it was uprooted from Long Island and other middle-class communities in the 2017 GOP tax bill. Schumer said he is committed to helping Suozzi. “When it comes to SALT, if you think Long Islanders needed and deserved this money before the coronavirus took hold, the stakes are even higher now because the cap is costing this community tens-of-thousands of dollars they could be using amid the crisis,” Schumer said. “That is why . . . I will push to insert language the House passed, and Rep. Suozzi here authored, to restore our full SALT deduction in the upcoming coronavirus legislation under negotiation right now.” Under the pre-Trump tax code, taxpayers who itemized deductions on their federal income tax returns could deduct state and local real estate and personal property taxes, as well as either income taxes or general sales taxes. State and
local income and real estate taxes had made up approximately 60 percent of local and state tax deductions, while sales tax and personal property taxes made up the remainder. According to the Tax Policy Center, approximately one-third of tax filers had itemized deductions on their federal income tax returns. In District 3, which includes the North Shore, 43 percent of people using SALT deductions were able to deduct on the average $18,386, which Schumer said was critical to Long Island homeowners. We need to bring our federal dollars back home and cushion the blow [that] this virus, and this harmful SALT cap, has dealt so many homeowners and families locally,” Schumer said. Kyle Strober, executive director, of the Association for a Better Long Island, a regional advocacy organization, said he supports Suozzi and Schumer’s commitment. “Long Island’s middle class was gutted when they lost the crucial and full SALT deduction,” Strober said. ”Without the full SALT deduction, the next generation of Long Islanders will struggle to purchase their first homes and others will be driven to relocate out of state.” Suozzi agreed, adding that without the full SALT deduction families will leave New York. “That is the last thing we need in the midst of the health and economic devastation of coronavirus,” he said. “The full SALT deduction must be restored.”
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SENATE MINORITY LEADER Charles E. Schumer, left, and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi are joining forces to include a repeal on the state and local tax deduction in the upcoming federal COVID-4 stimulus package.
Oyster Bay schools prepare for a possible reentry llane@liherald.com
The Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District will start off the school year in the fall with a new president and vice president on its School Board. Todd Cronin, the former board president, decided not to run again, but he will continue to serve as a trustee. He nominated his vice president, Laurie Kowalski, for president, at the July 14 Board of Education meeting. Trustee Nancy Castrogiovanni, was elected as vice president. Both received a unanimous vote from the board. They appeared together in the virtual meeting, suggesting that they have already have a positive working relationship. Dr. Laura Seinfeld, superintendent of schools, said she is hopeful that students will return in person to school in the fall. A reentry plan needs to be submitted by July 31. Then based on the coronavirus infection rate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will make a decision on whether schools in New York state can open. “We have a survey going out to the community by the end of the week,” Seinfeld said. “One aspect will be transportation, which is a critical issue. There will be a question that asks whether to use it or forego it.” The district is working to sanitize its schools, said Michael Cipriani, the assistant superintendent for finance and opera-
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY students may return in the fall. The district is ready if they do. tions. “All of the products that we use are EPA approved,” he said. “We use on hard surfaces a cleaner that kills 99.9 percent of germs and viruses. Comet is used in the restrooms. We also clean the walls and floors, really any surfaces that are touched.” If students return this fall they will find Purell dispensers and alcohol wipes in every classroom. “We are working on making sure areas are as safe and clean as possible,” Cipriani said. “And we have ordered masks and N95 masks and face shields for
situations where they might be needed.” Student’s desks will also be separated by dividers. “We are in good shape at Vernon,” Seinfeld said, “and at Roosevelt. At the high school we think we can use various spaces.” There will be some consequences, she said. Not all programs will be the same, like clubs for example. “It will not be traditional education within and beyond the school day as we know it,” Seinfeld said. “We believe the majority want students in school in the fall.”
Seinfeld said there are three scenarios for the student’s return: All in, a hybrid model to reduce density in the schools or a return to digital learning. Trustee John McEvoy asked what the plan would be if the district does have to return to digital learning. Seinfeld said the plan would be more specific than it was in the past. “It will look like a traditional school day compared to what it was like in the spring,” she said. “All of the constituent groups felt that following a more traditional day was what people want most.” Kowalsky asked how the class that has both a classroom and satellite classroom will work. Seinfeld said that the staff would be leveraged where one classroom would have a teacher and the other that had a screen broadcasting what was going on in the classroom would have an aid. “We will probably need more staff,” she said. The Academic Committee has met four times, Seinfeld said. They are focusing on how to give students the best learning opportunity in school. In other news… Cipriani said the turf fields are progressing with the soil being tested and drainage around the field being added as well. The turf field and new bleachers should be complete in September. The high school’s cafeteria lighting and ceiling project is also moving along, he said.
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Things may feel out of control right now. Stay connected Students are facing a lot of unknowns and √ Connect and check in with classmates; hold disruptions as they prepare for the new each other accountable for task and work semester. Try to be patient with yourself, your updates. classmates, and your instructors during this √ Use Zoom and other video platforms to talk time. Take care of your well-being first. Making to your classmates about the shared worka plan and adjusting your studying may help load. you feel even a little sense of control. √ Utilize your professors at this time! Don’t be No one knows yet how the new school afraid to ask them questions about assigned year will play out, but there’s certain to be work or tell them about your circumstances. some form of in-class and online learning. Adapting to online learning may take some Create a work-only space re-thinking of your academic strategies. √ If possible, find a space where you won’t be distracted. Get organized √ Try and keep a similar schedule as if you √ Get a planner/calendar to keep up with were heading to class (like waking up at assignments and due dates. 8:30 a.m., eating breakfast, and starting your √ Syllabuses have changed a great deal work at 9:30 a.m.). because of the transition to online courses, √ Be consistent with your work but don’t forso be attentive to shorter deadlines. get to take a break. √ Set reminders on your phone and computer for all assignments. If you experience any challenges with your academics, connect with your instrucStay on point tors. They are best prepared to respond to the √ Try to limit your distractions (Put your phone curriculum, class assignments and learning on Do Not Disturb). expectations — and it’s very likely they have √ Get a jump start on assignments by reading just helped one of your fellow students with ahead and taking notes. the same question. n √ Set a daily checklist of goals you would like to accomplish.
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Higher Education ENABLING A BRIGHTER FUTURE
Campus essentials
Returning to campus will have a decidedly different feel this fall.
Heading off to school Adjusting to the new realities of college life in the ‘new normal’
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lastly, if your school is online, or in a mixed format, then create peer study groups via a conferencing app as an alternative. Get involved This is advice you hear over and over, but it will make a difference. Make connections through clubs, activities, events, student government, or consider joining a sorority or fraternity. Consider intramural sports, or meet new people while volunteering for a worthwhile cause on campus, or in the community. If being online is your only option, find like-minded peers in an online club just as you would on campus. Don’t see one that fits you? Start your own club and recruit members! Come together Getting along with roommates (whatever that may resemble this fall) is essential, especially during this unsettling time. Sit down together and set expectations for your shared space. Determine how to respect each other’s property and need for quiet time. Agree on what times are acceptable for visitors and consider making a cleaning schedule to make sure everyone is pulling their weight. If you’re doing school online you might need to give your family members heads up for times when you need it quiet for an exam or the Wi-Fi bandwidth for an online class discussion. Maintain a healthy lifestyle No matter where you are be sure to exercise, eat healthy, and get regular sleep as much as you can. Consider meditation or practice finding mindfulness throughout the day. Find a balance in your life by not neglecting either academics or your personal life. ■
Back-to-school has changed this fall. Students will need to consider how to best prepare for incorporating online learning into their college experience, in addition to staying healthy while on campus. Add these items to your traditional back-to-school checklist. √ Face coverings: Those all-important masks are a must in the Covid environment. Keep covered when you are among others protect the people around you in case you are infected but do not have symptoms. √ Multi-port USB charger: Spring 2020 taught us that classes can quickly be converted from in-person to online. Make sure you’re prepared for online learning by bringing a USB charger with multiple ports to keep your phone, tablet, laptop, etc. fully charged. √ Hand sanitizer: Alcohol-based hand sanitizers will help when you’re on the go and not able to wash your hands. Look for a brand that contains at least 60 percent alcohol. √ Noise-cancelling headphones: Invest in a good pair of headphones to drown out your roommate’s music or online class lectures. If you find it hard to study while listening to music, try downloading white-noise tracks from Spotify. √ A noise-cancelling app: If you need to participle in a virtual class discussion, download a noise-cancelling app to reduce the background noise caused by your roommate, pets, air conditioner, etc. √ Disinfecting wipes: Use disinfecting wipes to easily sanitize surfaces, including your phone and computer. Own a MacBook or iPhone? According to Apple’s website , it is ok to use disinfectant on the exterior surfaces of Apple products as long as you “avoid getting moisture in any opening, and don’t submerge your Apple product in any cleaning agents.” √ Webcam: Your phone or computer may already have a webcam, but if you’re unsatisfied with the quality or looking to upgrade for virtual class sessions, consider adding an external web camera to the mix. √ Blue light blocking glasses: Staring at digital screens like your computer, phone, tablet, and even TV may cause eye fatigue or other macular issues from the blue light emitted. Blue light blocking lenses are available for glasses of all types, from prescription to non-Rx. √ Electronic notepad and stylus: Using a digital notepad makes sharing your handwritten work on a math equation a breeze. √ Adjustable laptop stand: Whether you use your laptop from your bed, couch, or desk, investing in an adjustable laptop stand can help support your wrists and improve your posture while studying or working on an assignment. Look for a stand that can be raised upwards to turn your workstation into a standing desk. ■
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Outdoor activities planned at North Shore museums CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE state regional office. But although she would like to open the Old Orchard Museum — once Ted Roosevelt Jr.’s home — Sarna would like some help with how to do so safely, she said, which is in currently in short supply. Aside from Sarna, there is only one person in charge at Sagamore Hill because a superintendent still has not been chosen and the chiefs of interpretation and maintenance are no longer there either. She said that there may be a way to open the Old Orchard in future but President Theodore Roosevelt’s house, once the Summer White House, will remain closed for a variety of reasons. “The openings to some of the rooms are only 36 inches so people can’t safely distance,” Sarna said. “And even if we gave a tour to only a family, the walls are covered in historic fabric so if someone touched it or the railing on the staircase I can’t use bleach to clean it.” She added that she has heard that companies are working on different cleaning fluids for house museums like Sagamore Hill but none have a product yet. Another reason why it would be difficult to offer tours in the house is that the volunteers are over age 60 and Sarna said they are not comfortable coming back. Plans for Sagamore Hill will eventually include a tent outside on the grounds with rangers who will share some general information on the site’s history. She hopes other outdoor programs will follow later this summer. Right now, the trails remain open and Sarna said she is hopeful that the beach will open soon. “We have been told by the Park Service that we are not allowed to force anyone to wear a mask,” she said. “We are run by the federal government.” Denice Evans-Sheppard, the executive director at the Oyster Bay Historical Society, said preparations for a reopening are being discussed. She predicted that the opening would begin outside. “We are planning different things that will make the community comfortable,” she said. “We are considering an Antique Roadshow or an afterhours social mixer to utilize our lawn between the Earl Wightman House and the Koenig Center. We would put historical photos out to spark conversation. We want to start out slow to keep everyone safe and to follow the protocols from the government.” The society’s walking tours will continue, which Evans-Sheppard will lead. An hour and a half in length, she said the tours will focus on whatever people are interested in. Those who wish to take a tour can sign up on the society’s website, unlike before, when they could pay in cash. “This pandemic gave us time to reassess how to do things and it gave me insight into what’s lacking,” she said. “We need to be more proactive to the community.” People want to do research and utilize the society’s collection, which includes many historical documents. Evans-Sheppard said she is working on making the collection more accessible by digitalizing it. “We don’t want to put people on hold if
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MUSEUM MEMBER ARI Rubin and his children were the first to visit the Whaling Museum and Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor when it reopened on July 14. there is, God forbid, a second wave,” she said. Raynham Hall, the former home of Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring member Robert Townsend, is hoping to begin a program called “Hanging Out With the Historian” soon. Claire Bellerjeau, the house museum’s education director and historian will meet visitors outside in the garden and tell the story of the house. “We have so many great stories from Raynham Hall and have the benefit of a lovely garden where we can all social distance,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to chew the fat with a historian.” It would be difficult to allow visitors to safely come into the museum, said Theresa Skvarla, the director of public relations. The people who work there would have to wear personal protective equipment, she said, and it would be impossible to sanitize all of the rooms. “We don’t want to rope off the upstairs and it is hard to keep 6 feet apart in the house,” she said. “We will reevaluate in September to see the infection rate.” The Whaling Museum and Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor reopened on July 14. The hours are shorter, from noon to 4 p.m., but the museum is open seven days a week. Cindy Grimm, the assistant director, said that to ensure a contactless experience visitors are required to purchase their tickets online. Precautionary measure have been added, including arrows on the floor to assist visitors in following a one way self guided walk. Everyone is required to wear a mask and the front desk is protected by plexiglass, she said. Children love the crafts at the museum so a decision was made to keep them. The crafts are now self-serve and only 15 people can be in the craft area at one time.
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PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S house will remain closed. There are three separate tables that are disinfected in between visitors. “We also have a sign on our water fountains,” Grimm said. “No one can use them during the coronavirus.” No more than 50 people will be permitted to enter the museum at one time, meaning sometimes people may have to wait outside, she said. Noting that a few people had come in the early afternoon when they first opened, Grimm said she is encouraged. The governor praised New Yorkers for their vigilance and resilience throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. He said, though, that he worried people might become apathetic and arrogant, believing they had beaten the virus. He noted that the infection rate
remains just below 1 percent statewide — down from nearly 17 percent on Long Island and more than 20 percent in New York City at the height of the pandemic in April. More than 54,000 New Yorkers were tested for the coronavirus on July 5, and 518 of them were positive for the disease. “The numbers have actually declined since we started reopening” eight weeks ago, Cuomo said. He also said there were fewer than 10 deaths statewide overnight from July 5 to 6. But he said, the virus is still out there, so people must continue to wear masks and maintain social distancing in public spaces, according to state law. He implored local police departments to enforce the law.
Public Safety Department offers lightning safety tips
To ensure safety over the course of the summer season as more people spend time outdoors, the following is recommended.
that each year about 25 million lightning strikes occur in the United States, and over the last 30 years, the United States has averaged 51 lightning fatalities per year,” Saladino said. “While direct lightning strikes may not be common, when they do occur, over 90 percent of victims will cope with varying degrees of discomfort and disability; sometimes for the rest of their lives. So, quite simply, when thunder roars, it’s best to go indoors.”
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THE TOWN OF Oyster Bay Public Safety Department and Supervisor Joseph Saladino have issued recommendations to stay safe when lightning strikes.
■ If one can hear thunder, they are within striking distance. They should seek shelter immediately. ■ The safest location during a thunderstorm is inside a large enclosed structure with plumbing and electrical wiring. If no buildings are available, then an enclosed metal vehicle would be a suitable alternative. ■ Most type of buildings or vehicles are safe during thunderstorms, although buildings with exposed sides are NOT safe.
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■ When inside a building during a thunderstorm, do not use corded phones, as it is one of the leading causes of indoor lightning injuries. ■ Stay away from windows and doors, as it is best to be in an interior room during a thunderstorms. ■ Don’t touch electrical equipment or cords, as any device that uses electricity is susceptible to a lightning strike. Consider unplugging certain appliances or electronics before the storm arrives, as a typical surge protector will do little to protect the device or user if lightning should strike.
■ Refrain from touching concrete surfaces; lightning can travel through metal wires or bars in concrete walls and flooring. ■ If inside a vehicle, roll up the windows and avoid contact with any conducting paths. “While lightning may receive less attention than other weather phenomena because it does not result in mass casualty or destruction like tornadoes, floods, or hurricanes, it is important to remember
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As summertime across the Town of Oyster Bay goes into full swing, Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino and the Town’s Department of Public Safety has partnered up to issue important safety tips to residents regarding one of the nation’s deadliest weather phenomena – lightning.
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When the pandemic first shuttered schools in mid-March, students and teachers were forced to adapt to a virtual learning environment laden with challenges. But for all the hardship that came with learning from home, meaningful work was still produced by students across Long Island, including Nina Ballone, 11, of the James H. Vernon School in East Norwich. Nina was one of 142 students across five different school districts on the Island to submit an energy efficiency themed video to PSEG Long Island, as part of the company’s new PSA initiative. For Nina, who created her 40-second PSA on phantom electricity, or the electricity consumed by devices while they are powered off, she said completing the PSA inspired changes in her own life when it comes to saving energy around the house. “My family always keeps our coffee machine plugged in, so now sometimes I go and unplug it,” she said. “And my mom, she’ll curl her hair sometimes and she’ll turn it off but then she won’t unplug it, so then I’ll go and put that away. Or at night when my phone is mostly charged, if it’s at like 90 percent, I won’t plug it in because I know that it’ll use a lot of energy.” The PSA initiative, which was originally meant to be a contest in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and worked on in the classroom, was altered once the pandemic hit. Adjusting to the home environment, students including Nina had their parents film them and then edited the videos down using iMovie to create the final product. Diana Hauser, a fifth-grade teacher at
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NINA BALLONE, 11, said the creating an energy efficiency themed video to PSEG Long Island PSA inspired changes in her own life when it comes to saving energy. Vernon, said the contest was meant to be the culminating activity of an “ecology and resources” unit, and prior to the pandemic, students worked in groups to select a topic ranging from energy conservation to nonrenewable resources. Once out of the classroom setting, students were given a choice of either completing the PSA individually or doing an alternative project, but Hauser said many stu-
dents still chose to complete the PSA alone. Hauser said PSEG did a great job providing students and teachers with a curriculum to follow for the videos, and said she was happy with the PSAs students turned in despite the challenges of working from home. “I think it became extremely challenging for the students, but I was so happy
that they continued to be motivated even though there wasn’t a contest,” Hauser said. “They were really genuinely excited about it and I thought they did a really good job.” George Coburn, manager of PSEG’s community partnership program, said the company was planning to have the PSA contest serve as just one part of a slate of educational programming in April in honor of Earth Day. First looking to suspend the contest when schools closed down due to the lack of classroom access, Coburn said feedback from teachers noting that the project could be a useful online activity led to “modifications” that would make the project fully virtual. Coburn noted that there was an amazing turnout under the circumstances and said he was pleasantly surprised with the continued interest of students and teachers to see their projects through. “Originally we had some reservations, we thought that it might be overwhelming for the teachers and in particular parents,” Coburn said. “But it actually was just the opposite, it wound up being a bonding experience with the students and their family members and that was probably one of the best outcomes from this.” Coburn said by having students take the lead on the project and getting family members involved, it only further helped inspire valuable lessons about energy consumption and protecting the environment. Cobur n added that PSEG plans to relaunch the program again next year, a prospect that teachers like Hauser would welcome. “I think it’s just a wonderful program,” Hauser said. “Anytime the students are highly motivated like that, and they get so much out of it, certainly it’s a win-win for everyone.”
Maselli resignes for family reasons but will remain active CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 remaining transparent in the future and being receptive to the community’s needs. He said the biggest issue facing the district is the reopening of schools following the coronavirus pandemic. No matter the conclusion on whether or not schools will open, Nolan said students’ wellbeing and education will be at the forefront of any decisions the board makes. Marchand, 50, lives in Bayville and was elected to the board in 2018, serving initially as a leave replacement but winning a full term the following year. She has a long history of parenting Locust Valley students, as her twin sons, Ronnie and Vinnie, graduated from Locust Valley High School in June and are on their way to the University of Wyoming in the fall. She also has a daughter, Mia, who is entering fourth grade at Bayville Intermediate. Marchand said she was honored to have won the vice presidency and looks forward to working alongside the rest of the board to help the district succeed. “We all have equal weight on the
board,” Marchand said. “It feels nice to have the support of the other board members, but I’m a team player and we all like to work together as one governing body.” Moving forward, Marchand said she hopes to help Graham and the rest of the administration go through a seamless reopening of school in the fall, following safety protocols, while providing students with the best education possible.
she has children who are entering their senior and junior years of high school, as well as a middle schooler preparing to transition into LVHS. She said she is also pursuing several new professional opportunities. Nonetheless, Maselli said her resignation is not a sign of her no longer being active in the district. “[My resignation] does not mean I will stop advocating for our youth,” she said. “Creating a safe, welcoming environment for all students is a core belief Maselli’s resignation that I hold dear. I will conIn a statement to the tinue to advocate for incluboard, Maselli said that, JENNIFER MASELLI sion and diversity in our while she is proud of the Former Locust Valley district.” work she and her fellow Board of Education Maselli said she has b o a r d m e m b e r s h ave served as a leader for the accomplished over the president district’s Special Education years, it is in the best interest of her family that she step down. That Parent Teacher Association for 11 years, is where she is most needed, she said, as something which she said she intends to
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do once more with the hiring of new Special Education Director Michael Saidens. Maselli thanked the community for being given the opportunity to serve as president of the board. She said it is important for people in positions of leadership to uphold their oaths of office “without personal or political agendas, especially in this hyper-partisan era in which we live.” Advocating for students within an objective and responsible framework is what makes a school board successful, she said. “I encourage the community to use their voices,” Maselli said. “Speak up, stand up, get involved. You too can make a difference. I look forward to supporting Dr. Graham as a parent, citizen and advocate. “ “I extend my deepest thanks to Mrs. Maselli for all of her work this past year as our board president and her past two years on the Board of Education,” Nolan said. “Her spirit, dedication to community and love of education has always been evident in her work. I am grateful to have worked with her for the past two years.”
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BRADEN COSGROVE, OF Locust Valley loves playing the trumpet. more uplifting endnote and titling it “Song of Hope.” Ten-year-old Ryniker was musically enlightened by the song. “Originally, I thought it was a song that my teacher wanted me to play but then I learned it was for the movie,” he said. “I was surprised because I thought I was too young
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Peter Meechan’s melodious “Song of Hope” filled the homes and hearts of six young enthusiastic trumpeters when they recorded themselves playing their brass instruments before a camera. John Eisenberg of Bayville, Matias Buschfrers of Glenwood Landing, Lucas Ginestra and Braden Cosgrove from Locust Valley, Sara Nearenberg of Upper Brookville, and Teagan Ryniker of Sea Cliff were given a lifetime opportunity to remotely perform in the film company, Orange Robot, “World Band” project and documentary called “A Song for Hope” by their music instructor Nick Montello. “I have been involved in music education in well over 50 years and I am a strong believer in students expressing themselves creatively,” said Mondello. “It is great for these students to see their performances being integrated with literally world class musicians.” “A Song for Hope,” memorializes the life of Ryan Anthony, the illustrious principal trumpeter of the Dallas Symphony and founder of the nonprofit organization, Cancer Blows, who was diagnosed with the terminal blood cancer Multiple Myeloma in 2012. He died on June 23, at the age of 51, leaving behind his two children, a wife and a world of fans who looked up to him for inspiration. The release of the project will potentially be later this summer. Anthony, who was involved in production, was able before he died to see the “World Band,” a compilation of audio and video of Meechan’s “Song of Hope” recorded by about 1,400 musicians around the world including Mondello’s six students. Meechan’s “Song of Hope” was specifically written for his dear friend Anthony back in 2015. According to Peter Meechan’s website, after hearing the song, Anthony changed the heart-wrenching composition ending to a
to be doing any of this stuff. It makes me feel like I don’t have to be really old and that I can do it at any age.” Each performers’ love for the trumpet and music was expressed in the making of this film. “I picked it up in second or third grade and I kind of just stuck with it because I really like playing the trumpet,” Buschfrers, 15, said. “It is in my opinion an easy instrument to play because it only had three valves,” Cosgrove, 11, said. “I like playing all kinds of music.” Mondello recognized his students’ passion and gave them a chance to publicly perform their skills, since NYSSMA, New York’s school music festival, was cancelled for the spring due to the coronavirus. “Every one of the students just were so thrilled to participate,” Mondello said. Nearenberg, 12, was given a chance to perform with professional trumpeters like her grandfather. “Sara has always been interested in sociable and charitable causes, so it appealed to her,” said her father, Mark Nearenberg. “She is quite good, but my father was a professional trumpeter while he was still in his teens and I think that appealed to her. She’s playing one of his trumpets.” Parents like Michele Eisenberg, mother of 11-year-old Eisenberg, saw “Song for Hope” as a way for her son to create connections. “Our experience with “Song for Hope” was wonderful and it was especially nice to feel connected to other musicians during the quarantine when everyone felt so isolated,” Michele said. Ginestra’s mother, Andrea Urioste Ginestra said she felt the significance of the project from the beginning for her ten-year-old son. “This was an opportunity to be a part of something together and a way to bring the community together,” Andrea said. “Trying to explain this to a 10-yearold is difficult but I think he loves the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than just his local neighborhood and just his local community and feel like he is helping in some way.”
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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TAX SALE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF BAYVILLE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to the provisions of Real Property Tax Law Section 1452 of the State of New York, Maria Alfano-Hardy, Village Clerk-Treasurer of the Incorporated Village of Bayville, will sell at public auction in the manner provided by law on the 28th day of July 2020 at 11:00 o’clock in the forenoon at the Village Hall, 34 School Street in said Incorporated Village of Bayville, County of Nassau, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which sale shall continue the same from day to day until the sale shall be completed. The purchaser or purchasers at such sale will be required to pay 10% of his or her respective bid to the undersigned Village Clerk-Treasurer, and the remaining 90% by certified check, within ten days after the sale and upon such payment shall receive a written certificate of sale describing the real estate purchase and the sum paid thereof. The following is a list of the parcels of real estate to be sold together with a statement in the amount of the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF BAYVILLE Maria Alfano-Hardy, Village Clerk-Treasurer Section/Block/Lot 28-004-0007 28-004-0045 28-004-0046 28-004-0238 28-029-0005 28-029-0007 28-029-0009 28-034-0296 28-038-0122 28-039-0140 28-041-0165 28-047-0187 28-070-0019 28-074-0014 29-009-0053 29-012-0083 29-012-0163 29-013-0256 29-021-0192 29-028-0025 29-054-0358 29-062-0078 29-062-0579 29-062-0582 29-065-0029 29-065-0034 29-073-0021 29-075-0025 29-075-0026 29-077-0002 29-082-0002 29-082-0014 29-083-0032 29-093-0027 29-100-0003 29-101-0002 29-104-0034 29-D00-0010 29-D00-0030 29-D00-0031 29-D00-0040 29-D00-0047 29-D00-0049 29-D00-0050 29-D00-0059 29-D00-0088 29-D00-0095 29-D00-0097 29-D00-0112 29-D00-0113 29-D00-0114 29-D00-0118 29-D00-0123 29-D00-0219 29-D00-0305 29-D00-0331 29-D00-0412 29-D06-0007 29-D08-0007 29-D12-0001 29-G00-0018 29-G00-0023 1096326 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO CONFIRM CONSENT TO ADOPTION AND TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS In Re: Adoption of 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.
Name RISMAN, FLORENCE MUZIO, R. PEKICH, PETER MUZIO, J. & T. WHAM, JESSIE WHAM, J. TRAMONTANO, VINCENT ELINITSA, LLC TRI-K REALTY CORP. LAGHEZZA, FR. P.V. VELLA, MAUREEN VALDERRAMA, R. 33 HILARY LLC TESORIERO, JOHN LEWIS, JOHN GELFMAN, S. GELFMAN, S. CASTRIOTA, GEORGE MARCARIO, F. PUDERBACH, BRENDAN PORRELLO, MARY KEEFER, PAMELA DALIS, BRUCE DECESARE, ANGELA VUDRAG, DELLA GOVONI, M. CANDAN, RITA CARNEVALE, KEN BHARAT, TINA VITALE, DANIEL GROSS, LEONARD GROSS, LEONARD STRECKER, DAVID R. PUMA, JOHN RUGGIERO, FRANK DELANEY, HENRY GIANNETTI, JOHN 22 BAYVILLE AVE LLC RONZETTI, PETER L & L ASSOCIATES RONZETTI, PETER RONZETTI, PETER RONZETTI, PETER ROSS, P. PEKICH, PETER RONZETTI, PETER RONZETTI, PETER RONZETTI, PETER FINLEY, DONALD J. D.R. FINLEY BAYVILLE LAND HLDG LLC D.R. FINLEY GROSS, LEONARD FINLEY, DONALD J. YYA HOLDINGS LLC FINLEY, DONALD J. WILLETT, G.E. RUDOWSKY, SHELDON DEMARCO, ANNE GROSS, LEONARD REISIGER, G. ARCHAMBAULT, S. 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 Patrika Gutt has to your child, Courtney Gutt. The court has set a hearing to consider ending her rights to your child. That hearing will be held on
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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, if all parties agree and the voluntary agreement is approved by the court. If you are interested in learning more about this option for a voluntary agreement, contact your attorney or: Lawyer Referral Service The Allegheny County Bar Association Koppers Building, 4th Floor 436 Seventh Avenue 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,
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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, if all parties agree and the voluntary agreement is approved by the court. If you are interested in learning more about this option for a voluntary agreement, contact your attorney or: Lawyer Referral Service The Allegheny County Bar Association
Koppers Building, 4th Floor 436 Seventh Avenue 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 122218
LEGAL NOTICE HEARING NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF BAYVILLE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Bayville will hold a Public Hearing at the Village Hall, 34 School Street, Bayville, Nassau County, New York, on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following application: #Z-04-20, Joint Application: Ordioni Residence and 140 N. Wellwood LLC (“Wellwood”) Residence ORDIONI APPLICATION to maintain a greenhouse/utility shed. W E L L W O O D APPLICATION to maintain a portion (corner) of the Ordioni greenhouse/utility shed encroaching beyond the property line. Sec 80-24 Detached Garages, Accessory buildings and Structures. (D) Each detached garage, accessory building and structure shall be located at least 70 feet from any street line; provided, however, that with respect to any corner lot, any accessory building, structure or detached garage shall be located only on the corner of the lot farthest removed from the abutting streets, and at
least three feet from the two nearest property lines, and so that the two nearest property lines do not abut any street. The shed is located 45 feet from the street. Sec 80-60 Supplementary area and Height provisions. (G) A greenhouse or utility shed may be erected in a rear yard, provided that such shed or greenhouse does not exceed 120 square feet of floor area, does not exceed nine feet in height, including any exposed portions of the foundation above grade, and shall be located at least three feet from any lot line, and at least 10 feet from the primary residence. A shed shall not be used for the storage of any items other than normal household goods and gardening equipment. A greenhouse shall not be used for any use other than the cultivating of plants. No lot shall contain more than one shed. No lot shall contain more than one greenhouse. The existing shed is 147 square feet of floor area, 11 ft., 8 inches in height, 0 inches from the East lot line, and 5.2 feet from the primary residence. The Variance required if for the portion of the structure that encroaches onto 12 Leeward Cove by 1.0 ft. The Ordioni Residence is known as 10 Leeward Cove, Bayville, Section 29, Block 80, Lot 3; the Wellwood LLC Property is known as 12 Leeward Cove, Bayville, New York and designated as Section 29, Block 80, Lot 4; both properties located in the Residential C District on the Land and Tax Map of Nassau County. ********** #Z-05-20, Suzanne Sgueglia, Village Church Application to replace an existing storage shed that requires the following variances:
Sec 80-24 Detached Garages, Accessory buildings and Structures. Sec 80-60 Supplementary area and height provisions. (G) A greenhouse or utility shed may be erected in a rear yard, provided that such shed or greenhouse does not exceed 120 sq. ft. of floor area, does not exceed nine feet in height, including any exposed portions of the foundation above grade, and shall be located at least three feet from any lot line, and at least 10 feet from the primary residence. A shed shall not be used for the storage of any items other than normal household goods and gardening equipment. A greenhouse shall not be used for any use other than the cultivating of plants. No lot shall contain more than one shed. No lot shall contain more than one greenhouse. Your proposed shed is 525 sq. ft. and this will create more than one shed (preexisting 19.6’ x 24.3” in SE corner.) This property is known on the Land and Tax Maps of Nassau County as Section 29, Block 102, Lot 37 in the Residential C District. It is also known as 9 Mountain Avenue, Bayville, NY ********* Persons who may suffer from a disability, which would prevent them from participating in said hearing, should notify Maria Alfano-Hardy, Village Clerk-Treasurer, at (516) 628-1439 in sufficient time to permit such arrangements to be made to enable such persons to participate in said hearing. BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Georgia Giaccone, Clerk July 10, 2020 122380
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OPINIONS
t seems like this is the summer of America’s discontent. No one is happy about the prospect of being locked down again by the coronavirus. All are dismayed by the indefensible killings of unarmed citizens at the hands of law enforcement officers. And everyone is horrified by the endless, senseless killings of young men, women and children of color in many of our cities, not by police, but by one another. If Black lives matter, then all Black lives must matter. So where does America go from here? Do we stew in our own disconALFONSE tent, lash out at D’AMATO one another and generally make ourselves more unhappy? Or instead, do we commit ourselves to making things better? Or maybe at least not making things worse? One thing that won’t heal our nation is flailing away blindly to erase its past. Some historically challenged young people seem to have discovered that our founders — like all of us — were deeply flawed human beings who failed to live up to the virtues and ideals they espoused
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be next. Can’t we all agree that taking down statues of Confederate generals who betrayed the nation and fought for slavery isn’t the same as taking down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant just because they don’t meet our 21st century sensibilities about race? Wasn’t winning the Civil War and ending slavery enough to redeem them? Is Teddy Roosevelt — the most progressive president of his era, the “trust-buster” who won both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor — to be exiled from history because he too was racially biased and “imperialist”? Wasn’t his brave charge up San Juan Hill enough to help save his historic site at Sagamore Hill? Is FDR, who led America out of the Great Depression, created the New Deal and defeated Hitler and Nazism, to be dumped in the ashbin of history because he interred Japanese and failed to end Jim Crow laws and stem racial segregation? Do Presidents Kennedy, Clinton and even Obama get pilloried because they failed to do enough to end racial injustice? Where do recrimination and historical revisionism end? Was the Rev. Dr. Martin
oes anyone not newly ‘woke’ to injustice fail to meet impossible standards?
Luther King Jr.’s devotion to nonviolence too timid to be honored? Does anyone not newly “woke” to prejudice, privilege and injustice fail to meet the left fringe’s impossible standards? If so, we’re all lost. We all come up way short. But there is another path. We can revisit history, but let’s not revile it. We can and should take a hard, cleareyed look at racism and economic deprivation in our own time. We should invest in our poorest neighborhoods, improve our poorest-performing schools, and help create better economic opportunities for minority communities. I’d like to see us fight hard to right the wrongs of America’s past. But we can only succeed if we build on the solid foundations of that past. In a few weeks, Congress will return to Washington to consider another historic round of support for America’s struggling economy. This year, a pandemic has forced our leaders to drop partisan differences to pass legislation to keep our economy afloat. Let’s hope and pray they build on this cooperative spirit to earn a place of honor in our nation’s history. 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.
Unspoken conspiracy to sacrifice elders
eally, I am trying not to take this personally, but it seems clearer every day that our federal government is choosing to open the economy at the expense of older Americans. When I say “expense” I’m not talking dollars; I’m talking survival. A few indisputable facts:
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and should have followed. The founders’ ideal of liberty for all clashed starkly with the horrible reality of their support for the slavery of many. But if the good they did and the good we do can be swept away by the sins they committed and the sins we commit, then there is little hope for redemption. If every American leader up to the present day is judged too flawed to honor, if all of American history before today is judged irredeemable, then we are doomed, for those who erase history will surely find themselves bound to replaying it. The intolerance of today’s mobs toward everything and everyone who went before us will eventually turn on all of us and those who come after us. History shows it’s just a few short steps from the French Revolution’s cry for fraternity and equality to the Reign of Terror, the Star Chamber and the guillotine; from the heady days of the Russian Revolution to the horror of the Soviet purge, the gulag prisons and the Berlin Wall. So the next time a former president’s monument is defaced or his statue is torn down, let’s think for a moment who will
■ America has an agonizing challenge ahead. Covid-19 cases are surging in many states, and many hospitals are once again in danger of being overwhelmed.
■ Ninety-five percent of coronavirus deaths occur in people over 60 years of age. A crushing number of people have died in elder-care facilities across the country. ■ We are months away from any breakthrough treatment, and possibly longer than that for a viable vaccine. ■ Children need to get educated, and they need to get out of the house to play and meet friends. If not, we will have a generation of kids growing up with their own unique psychological problems as a
result of living through a pandemic. Clearly, the needs of the children are in direct conflict with the need to protect our older people. The children always have to come first, but it isn’t an either/or situation. The problem can be addressed reasonably well. As the epidemiologists have told us, widespread testing, universal protections, like masks and shields, and respect for medical guidelines, to maintain social distance, can allow our kids and grandkids some of the social freedom they need and still help keep older people safe from contagion. This isn’t perfect, but it isn’t rocket science, either. We need a coordinated effort to put in place safety measures so our economy can stumble forward and our children can return to some kind of schooling. None of this is happening now. We don’t just have a vacuum of leadership, we have a toxic message spewing from President Trump and his minions that undermines medical advice and seems indifferent to the threat to older folks. There is a receptive audience for this message. Sacrificing Grandma and Grandpa seems to be the price many are willing to
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pay in order sit at a bar, attend a rally or party with friends. Senicide (a word I just learned) is the killing of older people or abandoning them to certain death. It is a practice that took a while to gain traction in America, but apparently we are cozying up to the idea. Senicide has been practiced since ancient times by cultures around the world. Though illegal in India, thalaikoothal is still practiced in some remote villages as a form of “mercy killing.” In ancient Nordic cultures, attestupa was the custom of old people jumping or being pushed off high cliffs. In rural China, among the Inuit, helping people to their final destination was an acceptable way to conserve resources for the young. And now, in the United States of America, the bean counters are accepting a certain number of deaths in exchange for opening the local tattoo parlors. I never imagined senicide as part of the American experience. Until now. I see Trump humphing and pfumphing about pushing kids back into school and opening “Main Street,” and I hear the unspoken calculus that a boost to the economy will require a culling of the over-60 population. That doesn’t have to be the deal. There
never imagined senicide as part of the American experience. Until now.
is another way to move forward without stepping over the bodies of our elders. Masks really work. Social distancing is effective. To me, it follows that people who gather in groups without masks are willfully putting their older loved ones at great risk. Since the president has abdicated leadership over the pandemic, it is up to the governors and mayors to find their backbone and their moral conscience and make masks and distancing the law of the land. For my baby boomer brothers and sisters, we need to take care of ourselves, and that means staying relatively isolated, so our grown children won’t have the additional burden of caring for us. That means not connecting physically with our grandkids, as we did before the pandemic. No hugs and kisses for the moment. We can welcome one another with open arms as soon as it’s safe to embrace; in the meantime, this is what we must do. My friends and I joke darkly that if Covid-19 rages on, tens of thousands of the older generation will die sooner rather than later, Medicare will have fewer claims, younger people will inherit ahead of schedule, and it will all be just dandy. If you can live with it. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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Why the Herald will now capitalize Black
his week, the Herald Community Newspapers are making a seemingly small, but we believe critical, change to our Style Guide. Going forward, the Herald will use a capital B when writing about Black people. Our choice was motivated by the Associated Press’s decision to do the same. The Herald generally follows AP style in its writing, only occasionally veering from it, as is the case with hundreds of newspapers across the United States. After the AP’s decision — and a similar one by The New York Times, which has style guidelines of its own — we began considering whether our policy on the use of the lower-case b required reconsideration, culminating with a group discussion with our editorial staff. We wanted to reach a consensus based on sound reasoning. We concluded that the capital B is about more than skin color. It represents a shared history and culture among a traditionally marginalized group of people in our society. We had, for many years, used African-American when referring to Black people, but many Black people do not describe themselves as African-American, having lost their ties to Africa centuries ago. The Black Lives Matter movement, which exploded into the American consciousness after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis
police officer on Memorial Day, crystallized in our minds the importance of the capital B. Black, in this case, not only represents a movement toward social justice, but also a shared identity. We are making one exception to the new rule. We will not capitalize black in Crime Watch items, where black speaks only of a person’s physical description. In keeping with our longtime policy, no person can be described in Crime Watch solely by the color of his or her skin. A physical description must also include height, weight, clothing and any distinguishing features, such as a beard. Many will ask why the AP, The Times — and now the Herald — will not capitalize white. First, and most important, white does not represent a shared sociocultural identity. It is simply a physical description. Most white Americans can, and do, trace their roots back to Europe. They know what countries their ancestors came from, with stories of grandparents and great-great-grandparents passed down in family trees and oral histories. These histories help white Americans feel a sense of cultural heritage, a connection to their past, whether they are Irish-American, Italian-American or Polish-American. Most Black people in America had their familial and cultural ties ripped away from them because of slavery. In the nation’s earliest census at the end of the 18th century, Blacks accounted for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population, with nearly all brought here as slaves
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LETTERS Keep New York moving forward To the Editor: As of last Friday, coronavirus hospitalizations dropped below 800 for the first time since March 18, and the three-day average death toll — seven — was the lowest since March 16. The number of new cases, the percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny. gov. Throughout this pandemic, we have made progress by recognizing that state and local governments cannot fight the virus on their own. The efforts of everyday New Yorkers to socially distance, wear masks and wash their hands are central to our ability to slow the spread and save lives. As we allow ourselves to celebrate some good news, I urge residents to stay “New York tough” and not give up the ground we have worked so hard to gain together, particularly in the face of rising cases throughout the country and compliance issues here at home. Last Friday’s data are summarized briefly below: ■ Patient hospitalizations: 799
from Africa, according to the Pew Research Center. Today, most of the nation’s 40 million U.S.-born Black people are descended from this original population. Enslaved Blacks were forced to start over, developing a shared socio-cultural identity in this new and terrifying land. To write Black, as opposed to black, is to recognize this identity. Changing a newspaper’s style will do nothing to alter the social and economic conditions that Black people face in America. It will not reverse the evils of systemic racism, which has oppressed them since they were forcibly brought to this land. When all of us commit to and work toward ending racism, in all its forms, we will at last eradicate it. To write Black is a sign of respect for a people who have, for too long, been castigated and downtrodden. The Herald has long been committed to reporting on the issues that matter to the Black community. In 2014 we took on a yearlong investigative series, “Living on the Edge,” about the challenges that people face making ends meet in Nassau County. Issues of poverty, we found, disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic people. Last year, we took on another yearlong series, “The Racism Around Us,” examining myriad examples of systemic racism throughout society. In choosing Black instead of black in our Style Guide, we are committing to continuing such reporting in the future.
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p to now, President Trump has been lucky enough to avoid catching Covid-19. He is tested two times a day, along with all of the White House staff. Despite these tests, a number of staffers have contracted the virus, including members of the Secret Service detail. But there’s no doubt that even if the president escapes the bug, there’s a strong likelihood that the pandemic will be his undoing come Election Day, Nov. 3. At the beginning of the year, Trump was an odds-on favorite to be re-elected. The JERRY economy was KREMER humming along and unemployment was at an alltime low. But in early January, China reported its first cases of the new coronavirus. The president called for a halt to immigration from China, but in the weeks after the declaration, it’s estimated that over 20,000 Chinese citizens traveled to America without hindrance. For the entire month of February, the president downplayed the reports of the
virus, predicting that it would quickly go away. He said that the few reported cases in the U.S. would dwindle down to zero, so there was no need to worry. Fearful that any reports that the virus was spreading would harm his re-election campaign, he lost precious weeks in which he could have alerted the nation to take any and all precautions. Well into March, Trump ignored the growing death toll and was determined to get the economy going again at all costs. His pressure on Republican governors to reopen has now turned into a massive debacle, with Florida, Texas, Arizona, South Carolina and Arkansas, among others, reporting record numbers of infections. Blindly loyal to the president, they have exposed millions of their people to the possibility of death or serious health problems. Now, as their hospitals reach capacity with Covid-19 patients, these governors are backtracking from their stupid political decisions and calling for the wearing of masks and renewed lockdowns. When New York state was hit with the virus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo sprang into
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action, directing the state’s millions of citizens to stay at home, to wear masks and to follow social-distancing protocols. At Cuomo’s urging, the federal government provided lifesaving equipment and set up numerous temporary shelters, but thousands of people still died in overcrowded hospitals and nursing homes. The state’s struggle to reduce the caseload, and its eventual success, should have been a warning sign to the nation that no one was safe from this silent killer. Every day, Trump is digging the nation deeper and deeper into another tragedy. A vast majority of people want our schools to reopen, and there’s no doubt that parents are especially anxious to get their children back to learning in school buildings and not at the kitchen table. But just like the president’s blind effort to get businesses to reopen, he is pushing hard for schools to open, threatening the health of millions of teachers and students. The federal government hasn’t provided one cent of funding for sanitizing classrooms or for testing school personnel. Teachers are being told that they must provide their own protective equip-
very day, he’s digging the nation deeper and deeper into another tragedy.
LETTERS ■ Newly admitted patients: 75 ■ Counties with hospitalized patients: 28 of 62 ■ Number of patients in intensive care units: 177 ■ Number of ICU patients who were intubated: 100 ■ Total number of hospital discharges: 71,477 ■ Deaths over a 24-hour period: 6 ■ Total number of deaths: 24,974 Of the 69,203 tests conducted in New York state on July 9, 730, or 1.05 percent, were positive. There were also 730 additional cases of Covid-19, bringing the statewide total to 401,029 confirmed cases in New York. After consulting with the state health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, and local stakeholders, we decided that concessions at state ocean and lakefront beaches would be allowed to open with restrictions beginning last Sunday. That included concessions at popular destinations such as Jones Beach, Robert Moses, Sunken Meadow and Lake Welch in Harriman State Park. We made this decision based on facts and science, and in recognition that these concessions are largely outdoors and are similar to other businesses we have allowed to open with precautions as part of NY Forward. As always, New Yorkers and visitors must adhere to social-distancing guidelines and wear facemasks as appropriate, and local governments will be actively monitoring to
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ment in order to make their classrooms t se safe. At the same time that a number of Am states are reporting their highest numha loc bers of infected citizens, Trump is threatening that any school that fails to reopen rus. Al will lose federal aid — even though they killing don’t get aid directly from Washington. of law During previous national health crises,one is h the nation has been comforted by public- killing health officials who have provided guidance on how to stay alive and safe. But this time around, every time guidelines have been issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, Trump has countermanded them, insisting on his own standards. Every step taken by this president has been and continues to be a recipe for disaster. As the days go by, he could accidently expose himself to the virus. I don’t wish it on him. I’m content to wait until November, when the virus wipes away the possibility of his re-election. unhapp Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for selves 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways at least One and Means Committee for 12 years. He now flailing heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strat- Some h ple see egy firm. Comments about this column? founde JKremer@liherald.com. flawed to the v
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To the Editor: Construction will finally begin on the Belmont Arena Long Island Rail Road station in Elmont. Completion of the eastbound platform is promised by 2021. There is no news, however, as to who will purchase, operate and maintain a fleet of shuttle buses to connect the station with the Islanders arena. Bus manufacturers have a backlog of up to two years for orders already placed by transit agencies. Who will build a facility for maintenance, storage and powering of electric shuttle buses? Building a facility can take two years. What will the capacity of these electric buses be? They could range from 20 to 60 riders. Will they comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act? Who can guarantee all of this will be available to support the first hockey puck hitting the ice in October 2021? Don’t be surprised if the Islanders play their 2021-22 season at Nassau Coliseum.
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