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RVC set to commemorate 9/11 anniversary an invocation from the Rev. Michael Duffy, of St. Agnes. Those who lost loved ones on Rockville Centre has hosted a Sept. 11 will also be invited to ceremony to commemorate the speak, and the names of those events of Sept. 11, 2001, every who died in the attacks will be year since the terrorist attacks, read. but organizers are planning an Rabbi Michael Cohen, of Ceneven more special tral Synagogue-Beth ceremony this year Emeth, will also to mark the 20th speak, and the cereanniversary. mony will include The village is set the lighting of to host a 20th Year of remembrance canRemembrance ceredles and, for the first mony on Sunday on time, a 21-gun salute. the Village Green, at Music will include the corner of Lee the national anthem, and Maple avenues. “America the BeautiBefore the ceremony, ful” and taps. Boy a special Mass will Scout and Girl Scout be held at St. Agnes troops will take part Ro m a n C a t h o l i c FRANCIS X. as well, along with Church, at 29 Quealy members of the vilMURRAY Place, at 5 p.m. lage police and fire “The ceremony Mayor, departments. Deputy this year is the 20th Rockville Centre M ayo r K a t h l e e n Year of RememBaxley will offer the brance, as we’re callclosing remarks. ing it, in honor of Judge William those murdered on 9/11,” Mayor Croutier Jr. has arranged the Francis X. Murray said, “and remembrance ceremony over the those people who have died since past two decades, Murray noted. then who were brave people Croutier helped establish Rockworking on the pile, trying to res- ville Centre’s We Care Commitcue people.” tee, which has raised more than Murray will offer the opening $1 million for families of Sept. 11 remarks at the event, followed by CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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SOUTH SIDE HIGH School girls’ varsity soccer coach Jude Massillon resigned on Monday after just one week on the job. The team won the Nassau County Class A title last year.
New girls’ soccer coach resigns Condemns ‘racially derogatory’ messages By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
South Side High School’s girls’ soccer coaching saga took yet another tur n on Monday when the Board of Education accepted the resignation of the team’s new coach, Jude Massillon, after just one week. In his resignation letter to the board, Massillon, who is Black, said he received numerous anony-
mous phone calls, many of which were “racially derogatory.” “While the Board of Education has no way of verifying these claims, we also have no reason to disbelieve Mr. Massillon,” the school board wrote in a letter to district parents. “The board has encouraged Mr. Massillon to bring these instances of harassment to the attention of law enforcement. Mr. Mas-
sillon has the full support of the Board of Education if he should choose to move forward with a formal investigation.” At a special meeting on Monday, the board replaced Massillon with Judi Croutier, a district teacher and a former highly successful coach of the soccer team. Massillon held what turned out to be a final practice Monday mornCONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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MLK Center Community Day returns By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
On Saturday, N. Centre Avenue played host to what felt like a long-lost sight: a block party as The MLK Community Center hosted its annual Community Day after last year’s event was cancelled amid the pandemic. The 2021 Community Day marked the 20h anniversary for the event. “This is one of the things that I wanted to see in place because there are other things like the St. Patrick’s Day Parade where they shut down the street, and I wanted that same type of vision for this Community Day,” Director Patrick Morris said. “We could have had it at the park because we have a nice park, but the park is hidden. I wanted to bring it to everyone so they could see what goes on.” Inflatable amusements dotted the block, along with lawn games, and a spot for kids and parents to dance in front of the live DJ, which gave local youth a final sendoff to summer. Tables set up by the Rockville Centre Police Department, Project HOPE, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin and local parents provided attendees with gifts, trinkets and household items. Members of the Fire Department came by with their mini ice cream truck and provided free ice cream for the children as well. “This is a chance to spotlight and showcase this community,” Morris said. “I just wanted to shine a light on all the good people and the good things on this side of town.” Morris added that the day acts as a sendoff to the summer and the center’s summer programs as the back to school initiatives kick off. The RVC Friends of MLK helps to run some of the programs, including studentdesigned and painted clay masks from the center’s summer program, which were
showcased in the center’s lobby during the day. Board member Iris Levin and board Secretary Jeanie O’Sullivan taught the program and lauded the children for being creative and engaged despite the pandemic’s restrictions. “The beauty of working with children is you put the materials out and they have a vision and they go with it,” Levin said. “It makes you just say, ‘Here is the future.’“ Emma Travers, president of the board for the Friends of MLK, said that her favorite part of Community Day is seeing the friendships that the groups have created with the community. “We can see everybody and reconnect with kids we’ve known for years,” Travers said. “It’s a real privilege to be able to come along and meet people and enjoy getting to know everyone.” The group was formed in 2020, with their first meeting being cancelled right at the start of the shutdowns due to Covid-19. Now, the group is an official nonprofit, which raises money to help the center continue to provide programs. The center also showed off its adult and teen programs, with dance companies from both age groups putting on a show for the crowd, with Morris even showing off his moves with the adult company, the Long Island Soul Sliders. Throughout the day, Assistant Director Sharon Sheppard and members of the center’s staff cooked hot dogs and hamburgers for the large crowd. Sheppard is known in the community for providing food for others, as she runs Sharon’s Food Pantry, which provides meals and ingredients for families in need every Friday morning. Sheppard has kept the pantry running even through a battle with cancer
through the help of her sister Karen and Rockville Centre-based non-profit The Anti-Racism Project. Sheppard said what started as about 20 families has skyrocketed to more than 70 that line up outside the center each Friday for assistance. At one point, Sheppard said, they even serviced 90 families in a week during the pandemic. Sheppard said her favorite part of the Community Day is “the community coming together and coming out and just fellowshipping together.”
PATRICK MORRIS AND assistant director Sharon Sheppard hit the dance floor, above. MLK CENTER DIRECTOR Patrick Morris celebrated the strong turnout at the center’s Community Day, at right.
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THE FRIENDS OF MLK President Emma Travers, left, board member Iris Levin and Secretary Jeanie O’Sullivan displayed their summer program’s art projects.
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NEIGHBORS IN THE NEWS Foundation hosts a fundraiser The Ryan Patrick O’Shea Foundation hosted a fundraising event on Aug. 5 at Kasey’s Kitchen & Cocktails. The foundation serves to increase mental health awareness and education to prevent suicide, as well as provide support for those in crisis in an effort to put an end to self-destructive behavior. The foundation was formed shortly after 2018 South Side High School gradu-
ate Ryan O’Shea died by suicide at age 18 on Jan. 11, 2019. His parents, Mary and John O’Shea, are the foundation’s president and vice president, and they, along with nine other board members, have worked to foster a dialog about a subject that makes most people uncomfortable. Courtesy Town of Hempstead; compiled by Mike Smollins
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CHRISTOPHER RAKEMAN, SECOND from left, was recognized by, from left, Hempstead Town Councilman Tom Muscarella, Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Town Clerk Kate Murray for becoming an Eagle Scout.
RVC Eagle Scout soars to success Rockville Centre resident Christopher Rakeman recently reached the highest rank in scouting when he became an Eagle Scout. For his accomplishment, Rakeman was recognized by Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin, Councilman Tom Muscarella and Town Clerk Kate Murray. He was honored as par t of the town’s Scout Recognition Ceremony on Aug. 12 at Nor man J. Levy Park
and Preserve in Merrick. Much like the Girl Scouts Gold Award, the Eagle Scout honor is the highest rank a Boy Scout can reach, and they must complete an Eagle Scout project that benefits the community as a whole in order to ear n the rank. Courtesy Town of Hempstead; compiled by Mike Smollins
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THE RYAN PATRICK O’Shea Foundation hosted a fundraiser on Aug. 5.
Have a great story? ROCKVILLE CENTRE RESIDENT Catherine Cooper, left, was greeted by Hempstead Town Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby during the Senior Summer Beach Program, which ended on Sept. 3.
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RVC senior soaks up summer program The Town of Hempstead’s Summer Beach Program recently wrapped after 10 weeks of providing free activities for seniors. The program ran Monday through Friday at Lido Beach Town Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Organized activities included line dancing, games and presentations, as well as live entertainment under
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Dr. Adhi Sharma took over as president at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside on Sept. 1 after previously serving as its chief medical officer and its executive vice president for clinical and professional affairs. Sharma succeeds Dr. Richard Murphy, who was president for nine years and had worked in health-care leadership roles for more than four decades. Sharma was chosen by the hospital’s board of directors after a six-month search and will be the hospital’s first physician leader, as the presidency has typically been a chief executive officer role led by those with business backgrounds. As he prepared to take over the role, Sharma sat down for a question-and-answer session with the Herald.
Herald: What are your thoughts and feelings on taking on a new role? Sharma: There are a lot of emotions. Specifically, I’m cer-
tainly humbled by the trust that’s been put in me, and the staff that we have here has been so amazing. I’m excited to take on the role and eager to continue the momentum that we have built up this year to keep going forward. When we came out of the pandemic, a lot of hospitals came out not as strong as they went in, and we actually came out stronger. That was because of our ability to respond and the close-knit group of staff we have that really stepped up to the plate. Everybody worked side by side, so we came out with a lot of momentum, and we’re very eager to keep that momentum going forward.
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ON SEPT. 1, Dr. Adhi Sharma, left, took over as president of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, at left, from Richard Murphy.
Herald: Can you describe your roles and duties and how they compare to what you were doing previously? Sharma: My role [before Sept. 1], I was chief medical offi-
cer and executive vice president [of the hospital], so I had a number of areas that I provided oversight for, including [information technology]. I worked closely with nursing, all of the quality and regulatory components, as well as patient experience components, so there were a lot of areas that I oversaw. It will be an interesting transition to let go of everything that I’ve been involved with at the level that I’ve been involved . . . I will have to backfill my current role, and once I do that, that’s when that transition will occur. As long as I’m serving two roles, I’ll end up staying closer to the projects that I’m involved with now. [This role] reflects where health care is today. We are much more focused on quality of care, clinical programming and population health, and much less focused on contracting and all the business elements of health care.
Herald: What are some of your major goals going forward? Sharma: The main goal is in three parts. The first is to
keep that forward momentum, so all of the projects we have going come to fruition, and to see them to completion and any hiccups or obstacles, we have to make sure we overcome those. The second is to steward the integration with the system [that comes with the planned $400 million expansion], that’s a very high priority for us . . . The third is to continue to provide the care we’re known for to keep our staff engaged through this process and make sure their wellness is being minded. Because of the pandemic, there’s a lot of fatigue setting in for our staff . . . Getting our staff and our community to whatever the next phase of this is . . . will be the third priority — to see us through the pandemic.
Herald: What are your thoughts on your predecessor Richard Murphy, and has he given you any advice? Sharma: He’s been mentoring me for this role for the last six years. I’ve been working very closely with him. I first started working with him in 2007, so I’ve known him a
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long time . . . While I’ve been here, he’s been working very closely with me. He’s an excellent role model for any hospital leadership. It’s easy to oversimplify this sentence, but the gravity of it cannot be underestimated: He gets it. I’ve worked with a lot of CEOs, and he’s a CEO that gets it . . . It’s so easy for . . . a non-clinical CEO to just look at numbers, look at volumes, look at budget reports, things like that. He doesn’t just do that. He always sees the big picture, and he always sees the totality of that picture.
Herald: What specific challenges do you face taking on this new role during a pandemic, especially with the Delta variant? Sharma: There are going to be interesting challenges
related to this [vaccine] mandate [for health care workers] and what that’s going to mean for health care. I support that mandate. I think it’s the right thing to do for health care. It’s the right thing to do for our patients, it’s the right thing to do for our staff, so it was great that we were able to get that mandate in New York state. There are staff that may find it so objectionable that they leave health care, so we may see a concern with staffing as it relates to people who just opt to not get vaccinated.
That’s going to be a challenge. I think that Delta has shown us that even when you think you’re out of the woods, you’re really not.
Herald: Community outreach has always been a part of the hospital. What plans do you have to continue that? Sharma: Community outreach is more important than ever. Getting information to people, that’s been a high priority for us. Our Truth in Medicine polls have been a great vehicle for us to really just assess what the pulse is of the community . . . We’re very eager to partner with our communities, partner with our elected officials to get education to our communities. The most important thing in health care is that people are educated . . . If we have food deserts in our community, if we have access issues in our community, we want to see how we can solve those problems. The [Covid-19] ‘Vaxmobile’ is a great example of solving an issue of access to vaccines. We’ve learned a lot about our community through this pandemic, and we want to put all that knowledge to work. There are some silver linings in this pandemic, and our relationship with the community has never been tighter.
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RVC Board of Trustees Briefing Meeting
Craft Chat with Shelley Leibson
The Rockville Centre Village board of trustees meets at Village Hall for a briefing meeting at 6 p.m.
Calling crafters, knitters, and crocheters! Come together via Zoom through the RVC library. Register at the library website. Starts at 1 p.m.
Three Generations of Wyeth Artists Professor Thomas Germano leads a discussion of the Wyeth family and their impact on American art. This is a hybrid class with Zoom and in-person options atthe RVC library. Register online at the library website for both virtual and inperson options. Starts at 1 p.m.
Evening Yoga with Maryclare Certified yoga and meditation instructor MaryClare Chiofalo leads this traditional format yoga class. Discover the health and wellness benefits of practicing yoga. Register online at the RVC library website. Starts at 7 p.m.
Summer Wrap Up Title Swap Join Eileen McCarthy and Sarah Siegel either in-person or online and share the books you have enjoyed over the summer. Register online at the RVC library website. In-person space is limited. Starts at 3 p.m.
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Saturday, Sept. 18 Third Annual Jamison Novello Bake Sale
Friday, Sept. 10 Poetry Workshop with Mindy Mangot Mindy Mangot leads this interactive poetry workshop which includes a study of poetic works and composing original works. This program will take place on Zoom through the RVC library. Registration required. Starts at 1 p.m.
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9/11 vigil at St. Agnes and Village Green The 9/11 candlelight vigil starts at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 12 and is followed by a ceremony at the Village Green at 6:30 p.m. monthly meeting at 4 p.m at Village Hall.
Tricia’s Flicks The Rockville Centre library hosts a screening of In The Heights -- based on the Broadway musical. Attendees must wear masks. Seating is limited. Starts at 2 p.m.
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Book Chats with Anna Katsavos
September 11th Candlelight Vigil St. Agnes Cathedral hosts a mass at 5 p.m. in honor of those lost on 9/11, followed by a 6:30 p.m. ceremony on the Village Green.
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Come to 35 Burtis Avenue at 9:30 a.m. for the bake sale. All funds raised will benefit the Jamison Novello Scholarship Fund at Broadway Dance Center. Rain date is Sept. 19 at 9:30 a.m.
Join Eileen McCarthy at the RVC library for a discussion of I Found You by Lisa Jewell. This program takes place on Zoom and requires registration on the library website. Starts at 12 p.m.
Read and discuss The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins. This program will take place on Zoom through the RVC library website. Starts at 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 14 Chi Gong with Marianna Farina Farina returns in person to the Rockville Centre library with her exercise class. Register at the library website for the
session that runs from Sept. 7 to Nov. 9. Starts at 10:30 a.m.
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Certified yoga instructor Joe Climi leads the class designed to accommodate the needs of people who may have difficulty with more traditional appraoches. This class is hybrid, with in-person and Zoom options. Register online at the RVC library website. Starts at 12 p.m.
What to Watch? Join moderator Michael Matuszewski and library staff member Rob Siegel in a discussion about what everyone is currently watching on television, through the Rockville Centre Public Library. The discussion will take place in-person. Starts at 7:30 p.m.
Certified instructor Marilyn Bunger leads this exercise class to enhance strength and flexibility. Starts at 9:30 a.m.
Chef Rob Chef Rob prepares Granny Smith Apple Fritter Bread. Register online at the RVC library website to receive the Zoom link to this virtual class. Starts at 10 a.m.
Current Events discussion Stay up-to-date with current affairs and discuss what’s on your mind with facilitator Richard Skolnik, through the Rockville Centre Public Library. The discussion will take place over Zoom and reg-
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The SSHS Athletic Booster Club meets on Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. at the high school. South Side High School hosts the ACT Exam on Sept. 11 The Covert Pasta Sale begins on Sept. 13. The RVC library hosts a play date day in the Helen Kraus Room on Sept. 14 at 10:20 a.m. The RVC library hosts a guide to their digital magazine collection on Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.m.
Former soccer coach returns to Cyclones named Newsday’s Girls’ Soccer Coach of the Year. Chang resigned shortly after the board voted not to ing before tendering his resignation. Croutier will coach the Cyclones when they visit Wantagh High rehire the coaches, noting that after “much reflection” School on Thursday, and remain in the job through the and talking with his family, he decided to sever his fiveend of this season, after which the school board will year contract. He will leave the district in May. Croutier guided the girls’ soccer team to eight Long begin a search for a new coach. Island championships and five state titles in Massillon declined to comment on his eight years before her retirement in 2010. decision. Reached by phone Monday, board She played for the Cyclones when she President John O’Shea said only that the attended South Side, graduating in 1985, board stood by its letter. and was an assistant coach for five years “Those who would engage in the harassbefore becoming the head coach. ment of a school employee demean themIn its letter, the board lauded Croutier for selves and poorly represent our communiher willingness to step into the job on such ty,” the letter read. “Worse, they send a tershort notice, and asked the community to rible message to our girls’ varsity soccer greet her warmly. “For the sake of all of our team and, indeed, all of our student athstudent athletes — and especially our girls’ letes. Civility, respect, accountability and varsity soccer team — we ask that she be character are foundational aspects of our given the community’s full support to exerathletic program and our school district cise her demonstrable professionalism,” the ethos. We expect nothing less from our comtrustees wrote. munity.” Though O’Shea did not comment on the Trustees added that they appreciated controversy, he said he was pleased that Massillon’s service. Croutier had accepted the job, and noted the Massillon succeeded head coach Jennifer RVC BOARD OF importance of making sure the team feels Abgarian and assistant head coach Chris EDUCATION supported amid a contentious few months. Aliosi last week. Despite being approved to “She has a great history with this soccer return by district Superintendent June program and school district, and we’re so Chang and Carol Roseto, Rockville Centre’s director of physical education, health and athletics, the grateful she decided to step up and help out,” O’Shea coaches were not brought back by the board in a contro- said. “We really just want to make sure that the girls’ versial decision in July that has sparked an outcry, and tryouts, practices and games will be consistent and protests, from some residents. Abgarian and Aliosi led keep going. We’re trying to afford them the experience the Cyclones to their first Nassau County Class A cham- that they deserve to have in RVC.” pionship since 2014 last season, and Abgarian was
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THE ROCKVILLE CENTRE Board of Education appointed former Cyclones coach Judi Croutier as Jude Massillon’s replacement. Croutier led the team to eight county championships and five state titles before retiring as head coach in 2010.
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A veteran-laden Hofstra women’s soccer team is fueled for a return to the NCAA Tournament this fall after its abridged spring season ended in heartbreak. Hofstra, which entered September ranked 25th in the national coaches poll, returned nearly every starter from a 7-1-1 team where the Pride led the nation in scoring per game, but were denied a chance to compete on the sport’s biggest stage following a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Elon in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) semifinals. The rare spring season due to the pandemic created a far shorter than normal offseason. “Last season came to an abrupt end and were deeply disappointed, but the fortunate thing this year was it was a quick turnaround,” said 16-year head coach Simon Riddiough, MAtthEW VOWiNkEL LED the Pride with 6 whose team opened with a 4-1 start goals and 5 assists on the way to earning Allafter wins against Stony Book, Alba- CAA First Team honors. ny, Brown and Columbia along with a “She is a supreme athlete,” said Riddinear upset of seventh-ranked Penn State in 2-1 defeat. “It is good to get back ough of Pearse. “We’re excited about her future.” at it.” Another backyard product that RiddiThe Pride were tabbed as the unanimous CAA favorite with three players ough hopes makes strides this fall is junior forward Cailey Welch, a former earning pre-season conference player of the year accolades including senior for- standout at North Shore High School who ward Miri Taylor, fifth-year midfielder has battled back from injuries. Lucy Porter and junior defender Anja Suttner. Forward Lucy Sheppard and mid- Pride men eye CAA crown The Hofstra men’s soccer team will fielder Jordan Littleboy, who like Porter are using an extra year of eligibility look to get over the hump this fall of allowed because of last year’s shortened achieving its NCAA Tournament aspiseason, received preseason All-CAA hon- rations following three years of near misses. orable mention nods. The Pride were knocked off in the Porter, a reigning First Team-All American, notched her first goal in a 3-0 CAA finals by James Madison in penalty win at Columbia Sept. 2. Heavy defensive kicks last April making the third season a focus on Porter has paved way for seven row its season ended in a shootout to the different scorers led by four goals apiece Dukes on the conference tournament from Taylor and Sheppard. Freshmen stage. “It is tough to take, but it makes you Georgia Brown and Ellen Halseth have stronger,” said 33-year head coach Richboth notched two goals. Brown, a freshman from England, pro- ard Nuttall. “I feel like we have a well-balvides Hofstra with a bright future along anced team this season.” Hofstra returns 10 starters from last with local newcomers Leah Iglesias (Carle Place) and Olivia Pearse (Seaford), who season’s 5-2-3 team including preseason scored her first career goal in Hofstra’s 4-0 All-CAA selections Matthew Vowinkel, George O’Malley, Storm Strongin and win against Brown on Aug., 27.
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LuCy PORtER RANks third on Hofstra’s all-time goal-scoring list with 41 and is considered one of the top 15 collegiate players in the nation according to Top Drawer. Wessel Speel. Vowinkel enters his final collegiate season as a graduate student ranked sixth in program history with 29 career goals and was drafted in the third round of 2021 Major League Soccer SuperDraft by FC Cincinnati. The Chaminade High School graduate headed in a goal off a cross from Strongin in Hofstra’s season-opening victory at Rhode Island on Aug. 26. Strongin, a fellow grad student who began the season with 15 career assists, will be another key facet of the offense along with Stefan Mason, Ryan Carmichael and Jason Ramirez. Mason tallied the lone goal in Hofstra’s 1-0 win at Stony Brook on a penalty kick.
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RemembeRing the Fallen: Sept. 11, 2001 ANDREW ROSENBLUM
VINCENT KANE
EDWARD W. SCHUNK
THOMAS MCHALE
GEOFFREY E. GUJA
STEVEN GELLER
JAMES G. GEYER
MICHAEL H. SEAMAN
On that blue morning...
ANDREW STERN
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... after students were let out we stayed under my kitchen table. That at least I remember: paisley tablecloth covering everything, the safest cave made of linen. Every TV set had it on that day, and so we hid hoping not to see those silver things
bow in fire and fall. But we still did. We curled there for hours, questioning: Will moms and dads come back? America, are you still ours? Then the front door creaked and I stood up, my brother next to me. –John Maher
Rockville Centre's annual candlelight commemoration at the Village Green memorial for those lost on Sept. 11 will be held on Sept. 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Green on Maple Avenue.
The Herald’s best efforts went in to compiling this list of the lost. Please let us know if we’ve missed anyone by contacting RVCEditor@liherald. com.
CHRISTOPHER PANATIER
PAUL TALTY
JAMES F. MURPHY IV
DAVID LEISTMAN
MICHAEL HANNAN
ROBERT FAZIO
JAMES COVE
JOSEPH HUNTER
FRANK H. BRENNAN
JACQUELINE DON0VAN
ELIZABETH CLAIRE LOGLER
RALPH MERCURIO
EDWARD F. GERAGHTY
TIMOTHY O’BRIEN
NOELL MAERZ
PETER GENCO
TERENCE MANNING
KAREN NAVARRO
JAMES HARAN
JOHN A. SHERRY
JANICE ASHLEY
JAMES J. KELLY
DONALD McINTYRE
THOMAS HOBBS
STEPHEN SILLER
JOHN WRIGHT
JAMES BARBELLA
STEPHEN TIGHE
MAUREEN OLSON
MARY LENZ WEIMAN
MATTHEW BURKE
THOMAS CROTTY
MATTHEW GRZYMALSKI
MICHAEL MULLAN
JUHN J. MURRAY
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ROCKVILLE CENTRE WILL honor the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, by marking the 20th anniversary of the attacks with a ceremony on Sunday, which for the first time will include a 21-gun salute. Above, Mayor Francis X. Murray spoke at a previous year’s event.
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LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Public Hearing Village of Rockville Centre Nassau County, New York Meeting Date: September 13, 2021 Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 330 Rockville Centre Village Code NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Exterior Design Review Board of the Village of Rockville Centre will have a Public Hearing at the Eugene Murray Village Hall, 1 College Place, Rockville Centre LEGAL NOTICE September 13, 2021 at 4:00 PM Case No. 08-2021 Darren & Michelle Yulfo 5 Woodgreen Place Rockville Centre, New York 11570 Description: Addition and renovation of existing single-family dwelling. Premises known as: 5 Woodgreen Place Case No. 09-2021 Evergreen Land Group LLC 28 Jefferson Avenue Rockville Centre, New York 11570 Description:
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victims, and was instrumental in getting the 9/11 memorial built on the Village Green in 2012, with help from the late Anthony Brunetta, the longtime recreation superintendent, and Murray’s father, the late former Mayor Eugene Murray. “Mr. Brunetta and I had promised the families that we would never forget,” Croutier said in 2019. “You want to make sure that the younger ones coming up now . . . understand how devastating it was.” Murray said there would be several distinguished guests at the event, including State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Hempstead Town Supervi-
sor Don Clavin and Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito. When the attacks took place, Eugene Murray was the village’s mayor. Fortynine of the more than 2,600 people who died in Lower Manhattan were from Rockville Centre, and several more residents have died since then of illnesses related to their work at ground zero. Mayor Murray said it was vital to keep the tradition of the ceremony alive. “It’s very important that our next generation of Americans never forgets, and some of the people who will be there weren’t even born yet,” he said. “It’s very important we teach them what happened. It was a horrific day, and our community suffered one of the most losses on Long Island.”
NEWS BRIEF Hollywood Health coming to the Five Towns After successfully launching Hollywood Health Club in Long Beach, club owners, including Steve Diamond, got a call from a real estate agent suggesting a “perfect location” for their next fitness facility. Diamond said expanding this quickly was the last thing on their minds, but when we saw the location, they could not pass it up. “We were blown away by the reception and reviews form the Long Beach community and felt it will be easier to repeat what we have already done once,” he said. The Hollywood Health Club in the Five Towns will make its home at the former site of Retro Fitness at 1255 Hewlett Plaza in Hewlett. The gym did not reopen after the Covid restrictions were lifted. The 13,000-square-foot building has two levels of parking, already set up as a fitness club, but will undergo what Diamond called “a major transformation.”
He is returning to a market he served 25 years ago with the Hollywood Atrium club in Lawrence, which Diamond sold. The Hollywood owners said they would renovate the Hewlett facility as they did in Long Beach and make it a premier fitness club. All new strength equipment will be brought in, and private smart rooms will be built that include the Mirror and spin bikes. A classroom for women-only classes, a childcare nursery (when permitted) and fully renovated locker rooms will also be part of the Hollywood Health Club in Hewlett. A pre-sale began in June with charter memberships being offered to the first 500 members. The anticipated grand opening is in mid-September. For more information, call (516) 348-6377 or go to Hollywoodhealthclub.com. –Jeffrey Bessen
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Q. We noticed a chip in our porcelain bathtub, made by the tile guy when our bathroom was renovated about three months ago. The tile company sent someone to repair it, because we didn’t want to replace it, which costs much more. We had kept the old tub, which was fine, so we didn’t have to replace the plumbing. We aren’t satisfied with the repair because, even though the color matches, the texture is slightly different, and we still notice it. Guests may not say anything, but we see it and don’t like it. What would you do?
That’s what should be done. Don’t waste time, just recover the tub and move on. Good luck.
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A. We had just such a problem when the guy who caused the chip dropped a power tool while putting in a towel bar. He didn’t want to admit it at first, but then finally agreed to “fix” it, because otherwise everything would have needed to come out, again, and be completely redone, from the tub to the tile to the onte eeper plumbing. The tile was never going to be a perfect match, either. So the same guy who dropped the tool dabbed a matching primer on the spot, waited until it cured, buffed it out just like the instructions said, then brushed on the final coat with a little eye-dropper brush. It looked like a repair, and was very obvious and disappointing. After much wasted discussion and time, when the guy tried his best to convince us “nobody would see it, it was hardly noticeable,” we decided to call a bathtub refitting company. The estimate wasn’t bad and the tile company agreed to pay for the repair. I was impressed at how much simpler the process was than I anticipated. I had doubts that the tub wouldn’t look as substantial as the porcelain tub finish and wouldn’t last. Putting in a bathtub can affect the waterproofing of the bathroom if it isn’t installed with redundant materials to prevent water from getting into the walls. Typically, the lipped edges of the back of a wall-to-wall tub go up against the surrounding waterproofed walls before the tile is installed, so the tile overlaps the raised tub edge. This prevents water from flowing against gravity into the wall, especially after the sealant is installed. With the original tub still in place, the junction of the tub and tile isn’t disturbed, and the new tub covering joins at the tiled wall edge and is then resealed to actually reinforce the original waterproofing. The bathtub replacement took one trip to thoroughly measure and a second trip to install. Because the new tub is an exact match with the shape of the original one, there are no air pockets between the old and new tub. The tub fixture looks perfect, and was not only an exact fit, but has been there for eight years and still looks brand new.
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complex agency, and needs a level-headed leader. Hochul has not been reluctant to wade into controversial areas. She has signed an executive order to require masks in all schools, and is pushing hard to get unvaccinated New Yorkers to get their shots as soon as possible. She called a special session of the Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium and also to move forward on the legalization of marijuana. Up to this point, the state had done a miserable job of distributing federal funds to New Yorkers who are behind on their rent. Like many appointed public officials who plan to seek election to their new positions, she has a short time to establish herself as a strong governor, in the hope that she can ward off a 2022 primary challenge. The legislative leaders are making a sincere attempt to work with her, many out of relief that the Cuomo era is over. But time will tell whether they can work as an effective team, because Albany is a place where egos can collide on a moment’s notice.
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While many of us were lounging on a beach or escaping on a golf course, politicians around the country were doing loads of mischief. Despite the fact that at least six states were all but drowning in Covid cases thanks to the Delta variant, their governors were busy banning mask mandates and telling everyone to make believe the disease had disappeared. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state is racking up new cases, is actively battling school districts and cruise lines, who are just trying to keep people of all ages from getting sick. The so-called red state governors are having a field day passing laws intended to restrict people from voting and to ban virtually all abortions. To date, over 400 laws have been introduced in 38 states to restrict the general public’s, and especially minorities’, opportunities to vote. The Texas legislature has passed a law banning abortions six weeks after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Having four daughters, I’ve learned that most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage. In June, a number of states with
ed state governors are having a field day passing restrictive voting laws.
Republican governors decided that people were declining to go to work because they were getting an extra $300 in federal unemployment benefits. Assuming that those people were all a bunch of slackers, state officials decided to stop giving out the federal dollars, assuming that this would force the recipients to leave home and go back to work. Their judgment has proven wrong, as unemployment statistics haven’t changed, and the people who were staying home continued to do so. A final note about who’s running for public office these days. It seems that during the past year, there were 23 new people elected to the State Legislature. Only six had any government experience, and four had held a job in the private sector. That left 13 who came into public office with few if any credentials. There’s no moral to this story. It’s just circumstantial evidence that it’s hard to find experienced people to run for office, and that’s a big loss for all of us. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.
A dog’s tale: the view from inside the canine carry-on
can’t stretch out, I can hardy breathe, but even inside this dog carrier, the air is better than the smoke out in Lake Tahoe. As the family pet, I went along on the summer vacation out West. Think of me as your four-legged eyewitness to one family’s encounter with environmental disaster. As my human reported last week, we headed to Tahoe last month to visit kids and grandkids. We expected a month of R&R on the Truckee River. My human dad, superanxious about the RANDI trip, fixated on my KREISS food and my, um, movements. I’m not talking Beethoven. He carried blue New York Times plastic bags across the country because those are his favorite disposables. We flew to Denver and drove 16 hours to Tahoe. A different hotel every night, weird hallway smells, walks on scorching asphalt and very super-sized people not wearing masks, which I resent because if something happens to my humans, I’m toast. In Tahoe, we stayed at my sister’s house and at a rental house in the moun-
tains. My sister has a new, irritating puppy. He ate my food and chewed up my travel bed. He sneaked up on me and jumped on my back for reasons I don’t understand. The rental house was worse. At night I walked outside in blackout conditions, the heavy musk of bear in the air. Then smoke from the fires swept into Tahoe and smothered our air. People have no idea how ash and the absence of any poopworthy grass can affect a dog. Then the humans started to misbehave. Tensions escalated into tiffs, and sniping ensued. Someone growled, “Who’s idea was it to come out here, anyway?” And, “Who peed in the kitchen?” The humans clearly had no idea what to do. Some knucklehead decided that an escape to San Francisco would work. Did I have a say? New hotel room, new “pet relief ” area. So stressful. My human dad brought along the blue plastic Times bags because sometimes even humans need comfort toys. The San Francisco air was clear and in the “healthy” range on www.airnow.com. While I cooled my paws in the hotel, my people walked the Embarcadero and
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toured the Botanical Gardens. But it was all an illusion of relief. Back in Tahoe, air quality misery was now compounded by “extremely high and dangerous risk of fire.” CalFire texted that news to people’s phones every few hours. We moved yet again, from the rental house back to my sister’s house, just for safety, to be under one roof. That meant back to the devil dog. Family tensions erupted again. Light the grill or don’t risk a spark? Walk me around the block or let me roam the yard? Take the kids to town or hide from the smoke? Everyone was supercharged, and displaying all the symptoms of loving but dysfunctional families everywhere. Lots of shouting, some crying, endless couldhave, should-have, and who’s feeding the dogs? I’m here to tell you that either no one fed me or everyone fed me. I hate when the humans become unreliable. After a few days of simmering under one roof, my humans decided to leave, give up the rental house a month early, return our car to the wrong location (Reno instead of Denver) fly out of Reno ASAP, and then home. So I’m writing on the RNO-to-DEN leg.
ither no one fed me or everyone fed me. I hate when the humans become unreliable.
I heard news of hurricane-remnant flooding in New York, but we’re homeward bound, escaping the fires and ready for the wind and rain. A leg up to my compatriots splashing through flooded streets. Tomorrow we fly back to the God-blessAmerica-I-hope-I-never-travel-again-better-than-a-mound-of-peanut-butter-glorious East Coast. We worry about the family we left in Tahoe, and yeah, even the new puppy. How’s a little guy supposed to feel safe outside and comfortable inside when Noah’s Ark is burning? My humans’ grandkids just sent a photo of a bear looming at the edge of their property. Who’s going to tell the little guy to stay away? The kids have several plans in play while hoping for shifting winds. Meanwhile, we fly east. It is undignified to travel inside a “doggie carry-on” bag, but I fell for the old peanut butter trick. She who shall not be named tossed a peanut butter cookie into the bag, and I dived for it. Again. Over the past three weeks I have slept in nine different beds. Now we’re cruising at 34,000 feet and I’m in a canvas tote, stuffed under the seat of some overstuffed dude. Nothing seems quite right, even in a dog’s world. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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Reflecting on the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years later
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he Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many other terrorist attacks, in multiple countries. September 2001 seems like a lifetime ago, but for those old enough to remember that terrible year, it remains a haunting memory, a fever dream that we try to lock in the backs of our brains but is ever-present. For those of us in Nassau County that day, we could only watch in horror as grayblack smoke plumes spiraled out of the twisted, shattered remains of the twin towers upward into an otherwise perfect azure sky. The plumes were visible from points across the county. Shortly after the attacks, people started to gather on the beach in Lido and at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick — the highest point on the South Shore — to watch the billowing smoke, staring silently in stunned disbelief. The United States homeland was under attack for the first time since World War II, and at that moment, we had no idea who the invader was, or the future suffering in distant lands that the attacks would bring. It was all incomprehensibly terrifying. In a front-page story in the Heralds’ Sept. 13-19 issue, “Terror at the Towers,” reported by Scott Brinton, Carrie James, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, Larry Maier and Cindy Roth, this is how we described the scene: “A wave of fear and despair raced across [Nassau County] Tuesday morning
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’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really, really scared. ROLLEN CAJOLES after terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, sending the Twin Towers crumbling into Lower Manhattan. “In the afternoon, surviving victims of the attack filtered into Nassau by Long Island Rail Road, like refugees from a war zone. Many, who were still shaking dusty, white debris from their clothes, were not from the area but had taken the first train they could out of the city and gotten off at the first possible stop.” We sent our reporters to the train stations to meet the survivors of the attacks. Sylvia Melendez, who worked in Lower Manhattan, described the chaos after the towers crashed to the ground. “The rush of clouds of debris forced everyone out into the streets,” she said. “Everyone was running away.” Here in Nassau, people were glued to their TVs and radios, watching and listening, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. “I’ve been listening all morning,” Luisa DeGirolamo, who worked at La Margherita Pastry Shop in Bellmore Village, said. “I’m devastated. I can’t get over it.” Rollen Cagoles, of East Meadow, said, “I’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really,
LETTERS A letter to Governor Hochul To the Editor: Congratulations and good luck to Gov. Kathy Hochul. She has been thrust into a role that is critical to the 19.45 million people who live, work and play in the Empire State. Here on Long Island, we are especially hopeful for her good work. The challenges on Long Island are many. Our aging infrastructure needs serious attention. As the nation’s first suburb, we are living with an antiquated system that requires an upgrade. Our increasingly overburdened roadways, bridges and tunnels are dismal. The environmental infrastructure is failing. Drinking water has challenges, including the quality and quantity. Surface water contamination is rampant from nitrogen and other pollutants entering our creeks, bays, harbors and the Long Island Sound. Our air is polluted with toxins too small to see with the naked eye. We are vulnerable to sea level rise, climate change and the inevitable next big storm. The fact is, we aren’t ready. Our environment is too important for the noaction tendencies of the past to continue. Our
really scared.” Many parents rushed to their children’s schools to pick them up and take them home, fearful of further attacks. “A lot of people came and pulled their kids out because they didn’t want them to be in a place with a large group of people,” said Pat Brace, PTA president of Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow. “They thought they would be a target.” Nassau police doubled patrols around municipal buildings, schools, houses of worship and transportation lines. Police also diverted westbound traffic away from New York City. Motorists who had to travel major thoroughfares were advised to stay home. The military closed down the airspace over Long Island, with unlighted F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead above John F. Kennedy International Airport into the night of Sept. 11 to 12. Nearly 500 Long Islanders died in the attacks at the World Trade Center or later succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses. Each one was a life extinguished too soon. We must remember all of them — their essential goodness, their essential humanity. In the coming days, there will be solemn ceremonies in remembrance of the dead. Consider attending one to show your support for the victims, or stop and pause for a moment at 8:46 and 9:04 a.m. on Saturday and reflect on or say a prayer for the victims. In this way, you will help to keep their memories alive for generations to come. “Never forget” should never become a trite slogan. It should be a motto by which we live.
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hen talking with my grandkids about returning to school this fall — to the building, with other kids, not the dining room table — I was reminded of a school day of my own years ago. “Bobby.” I heard my name called on the second-floor landing of A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The caller was Mr. Leone, Joseph Leone, my biology teacher and college adviser. “Why haven’t you signed up for ALAN the SATs?” he asked. SINGER Neither of my parents had attended college, my mother had died eight years earlier, and my father, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had his hands full with two active kids. When I think about the controversies surrounding school openings this fall, I think, too, of the critical role of teachers in the lives of their students. That certainly was the case for me. Mr. Leone wasn’t alone in affecting my life for the better. I was going to drop out of college after my first year not only because of the cost, but also because I
questioned why I was there. I entered to be a minister, but had become disillusioned with organized religion. My college adviser, Mildred Martin, helped me sort through the financial and philosophical questions and urged me to appeal my financial aid award, and I continued as her student. Other teachers stand out as well. Miss Calabrese and Miss King, in elementary school, “Pop” Phillips in high school, Mark Ebersole in college, and Kay Moore and Robin Williams in graduate school. The past year of living and learning with Covid in our path and in our shadows revealed the inequalities of access to teachers like the ones I’ve known. When teachers are diverted from their main responsibilities, teaching and advising, they can’t fulfill their roles to the fullest. It is especially difficult for them to be effective when students lack access to broadband and Wi-Fi, a quiet place to study, and supportive adults to help them with difficult assignments. A distinguished psychologist once said that we human beings are the “teaching species.” All species must learn enough to leave the nest, but humans turned teaching into a “calling,” a vocation dedicated to preparing the next generation
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was going to drop out of college after my first year. I questioned why I was there.
LETTERS looming issues need real solutions, not lip service. We need to address the Island’s solid-waste crisis, illegal dumping and the associated increases in disposal costs. Hochul hasn’t been handed the reins of the state at our finest hour. New Yorkers suffer with an unsustainable tax burden that’s accelerating the exodus of high-net-worth people, employers and job creators. The growing disparity in income and wealth, an increasing immigrant population and the associated educational and health care challenges are monumental. And our young workforce and empty-nesters are leaving because of a lack of affordable housing. Leaders in the past have forsaken us in favor of book deals, their own selfish agendas and their next election. Indeed, some are in prison for their bad behavior, but the reality is, the good people of New York have been sold out, and that’s why we require Hochul’s earnest leadership. We have hope in her vision, fortitude and ability to make the really tough decisions. We’re counting on her. Most important, please know that we are here for you, governor. Long Island and the state of New York have immense resources, none greater than their residents. There will be vocal naysayers who attempt to stop Hochul from addressing these vexing challenges. There are people who talk a lot, and there are people who get stuff done. To Hochul, I say this:
with knowledge, skills and values. As a result, teachers have a moral, social, civic and historical responsibility for not only educating each new generation but also, in this way, creating the future. We must remember the vocation, the calling, of teaching. As the historian Jacques Barzun said, “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” At the beginning of our nation, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stated that public education was at the heart of democracy. “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.” Jefferson expressed similar sentiments. It is unfortunate, therefore, that some local school boards see teachers simply as employees, instead of as those who inspire discovery and awaken students’ imaginations, as Mark Van Doren and Robert Frost said. But while the Founders argued that schooling was a local responsibility, they were adamant about the public benefits
to the nation. They believed that education should be public; is critical to democracy because it prepares an informed citizenry, able to ask questions; is important because it prevents aristocracy and promotes meritocracy; should be free from religion and ideology; should be equal and equally available to all citizens; and is a public investment that is worth the cost. While the ideals of the Founders foundered on the compromises made to create a republic, they nevertheless created within the Constitution the mechanisms for correcting early mistakes and providing the means for continuing the pursuit of a “more perfect union,” which we have shown the ability to do. As we help our kids and grandkids, or relatives or neighbors’ kids, prepare for a new school year, let us acknowledge the noble profession of teaching, perhaps by remembering our own teachers, and do what we can to fulfill the Founders’ aspirations for true equality of education in America. Robert A. Scott, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Adelphi University; the author of, or contributor to, 18 books and monographs; and the author of hundreds of articles on higher education and social issues. His latest book is “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Prize awardee, 2019).
FRAMEWORK by Christina Daly
Please be the latter. Be bold. We heard you say you’d “fight like hell for New York,” and that’s exactly what Long Island needs. WILL FLOWER Bayville
Cuomo should be impeached To the Editor: Re Robert Rosenberg’s column “History repeats itself in Albany — again and again” (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): I agree with Rosenberg’s opinions, and would add that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo would indeed get the last hurrah and make “the State Legislature and state government look like a ship of fools” if it gave him a free pass on the nursing home deaths scandal and his subsequent cooking of the books to make it appear less egregious than he would have had us believe. Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed immediately that these deaths were undercounted by some 12,000. By ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients, Cuomo, threatening owners with penalty if they did not comply, exposed many more confined elderly to the virus, potentially causing their deaths. With all due respect, I consider manslaughter to be an even more serious
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crime than the sexual harassment charges that forced Cuomo’s resignation. Given the present state of affairs, it is now the State Legislature (and, ultimately, the State Senate) that is on trial, and it remains to be seen whether playing politics will take precedence over what must be done in the name of justice. How can
anyone trust Cuomo now? He contends that he will not seek future political office, but only impeachment would close the book on that possibility, definitively and conclusively. ROBERT RUBALSKY East Rockaway
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