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North Shore residents return to ‘normal’ masks. Offices can resume operating at 100 percent capacity with no social distancing as well. New New York officially reached a Yorkers must wear masks on pubmilestone in the fight against the lic transportation, however, and in coronavirus last week, which has certain places like schools and Sea Cliff and Glen Head residents nursing homes, whether or not breathing a sigh of they are vaccinated. relief. As of June 15, Long Island is well 70 percent of New ahead of the vaccine Yorkers 18 and over rate threshold, with a had received at least 78 percent vaccinaone dose of a Covid-19 t i o n r at e a m o n g vaccine. As a result, adults. Sea Cliff, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo a rate of 70 percent, is announced that nearon par with New York ly all Covid restricas a whole. tions would be lifted, Residents say they including capacity are excited to see the limits, social-distancreturn of normal life ing guidelines and a f t e r n e a rly 1 6 mask requirements ROB months in virtual in commercial set- MANSFIELD lockdown to slow the tings. spread of the coronaOwner, Grassroots “Not only do we virus. have the lowest Covid “It’s great news,” positivity rate in the United States said Suzanne Cohen, founder of of America, we have hit 70 percent North Shore Women’s Support vaccination ahead of schedule,” and a mother of two. “I’m really Cuomo said. “The state mandates happy. My family is on the West that have proven right and Coast, and when we went to visit brought us through this pandemic them in California, I didn’t feel are relaxed as of today, effective anxious about traveling like I immediately.” thought I would. I’m really thrilled Now, concerts, sporting events my kids will be going to summer and nightclubs can resume nor- camp without a mask, and they’re mal operations without enforcing able to have in-person birthday capacity limits, social-distancing parties again, not just drive-bys . . . rules or vaccine passes, nor do It’s just nice to get to the point they have to make people wear CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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VALEDICTORIAN SOPHIE BLUMENTHAL addressed her fellow graduates at the commencement ceremony on June 17.

Seniors say farewell to NSHS

BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com

Fa m i ly m e m b e r s a n d friends of capped-andgowned North Shore High School seniors gathered at Hofstra University with district administrators for the school’s commencement ceremony, led by Principal Eric Contreras, on June 17.

To begin the ceremony, senior class Co-presidents Camille Gonzalez and

Audree Toner led the Pledge of Alle giance, and Julia Morrissey, accompanied by members of the North Shore High School Concert Band, sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

In his remarks to the g raduates, Contreras thanked their parents and family members for helping them overcome the challenges of a very difficult year, and told them how proud he was of all they had

accomplished.

“We began this year full of uncertainty,” Contreras said. “On the heels of a semester of schools fully closed, we opened in September and found ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic, not always knowing what the future would hold. Not knowing what each coming month would h o l d . I w a n t t o t a ke a moment to recognize all we CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Town holds July 4 decorating contest The town of Oyster Bay is inviting residents to express their patriotism and the American Spirit in advance of Independence Day by decorating their homes in red, white and blue with lights, flags or other decorations from now through July 14. To support the town’s economic recovery, residents are encouraged to make decoration purchases of at least $17.76 from small businesses.

"This contest unites our community through patriotism and love while supporting our local economy," Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said. "Buying decorations from small businesses is also an important way for us to show our support of small businesses while celebrating our American spirit."

The town will illuminate Town Hall in red, white and blue. Residents are encouraged to submit photographs of their decorated homes to the town by emailing stories@oysterbay-ny.gov.

Residents will be invited to vote for their favorite displays of patriotism and the top three homes will receive a complimentary Town of Oyster Bay Parking Sticker for the 2022 season.

"We're experiencing some trying times in our world, and bringing back our patriotic spirit can unite us as Americans," Councilwoman Laura Maier said. "We hope our residents will join us in decorating their homes as American celebrates its independence."

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RESIDENTS ARE INVITED to show their patriotism by decorating their homes for Independence Day.

Arata's Deli donates to family in need

BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

When tragedies strike, people often feel the need to pitch in and provide support – even if those in need are complete strangers. That was the case for Ron Collura, owner of Arata’s Delicatessen on Sea Cliff Avenue, after hearing about the death of New York Police Department Highway Patrol officer in April, who was struck by a drunk driver while directing traffic.

“I have two sons who are police officers,” Collura said, “and when you hear about things like this happening, it hits home.”

On April 27, NYPD Highway Officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, was struck by a drunk driver on the Long Island Expressway in Fresh Meadows while diverting traffic off of the eastbound lanes of the highway around 2 a.m. The married officer, who lived in East Northport, left behind a 6-year-old daughter and a 3-yearold son.

Collura decided to place a jug on the counter near the cash register and attached a newspaper article about the accident. Ever since, patrons have been generously supporting a family they have never met, filling up the jug with bills in varying amounts. Last week, Collura contacted the Police Benevolent Association representatives from the department and asked them to pick up the donation.

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ARATA’S DELI OWNER Ron Collura, second from right, put out a jug for donations to the family of a NYPD officer who was killed on the job. He is pictured with, from left, former mayor Ed Lieberman, Mayor Elena Villafane, and PBA delegates John Loukoupoulos and John Mantas.

“I wanted to send the money around Father’s Day, and also decided to send food,” Collura said. He made a large batch of brownies and a crumb cake to send to the family, and also sent a batch to NYPD Highway Unit 3.

Tsakos was a 14-year veteran of the NYPD. The driver who struck him was

identified as Jessica Beauvais, 32, of Hempstead, was charged with manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, among other charges. She was denied bail at a hearing at Queens Criminal Court last month and if convicted, faces 15 years in prison.

Oyster Bay Music Festival returns for its 10th year

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BY GEORGE WALLACE newsroom@liherald.com

For Oyster Bay residents who have missed the annual weeklong series of “pop-up” classical concerts by young musicians that have become a part of the cultural landscape in recent years, there’s good news.

The Oyster Bay Musical Festival is back. From June 27 through July 6 OBMF will celebrate its 10th anniversary with 12 free concerts.

The theme? Indispensably Music. And the locations? Some of the most beautiful gems along the North Shore, including Planting Fields, Chelsea Mansion, Cedarmere Estate, Raynham Hall Education Center, the Nassau County Museum of Art, Congregation L’Dor V’Dor, and the Western Waterfront in Oyster Bay. OBMF started 10 years ago, with an idea to dot the town of Oyster Bay with classical music concerts, often two or three times a day, for slightly over a week.

The first year's concerts were informal affairs, according to festival co-director Lauren Ausubel, a Huntington resident.

"That first year we had a flatbed truck with amplification and small groups of musicians more or less materialized in unusual and intimate settings in the hamlet to perform," she recalled. "We thought it would appeal to people in Oyster Bay to be able to experience classical music without going to the city.”

Since then, the festival has rapidly grown into a community institution, with each year new local venues requesting to be a stop on the OBMF concert tour.

“We’re over the moon that they’re back,” said Harriet Gerard Clark, executive director at Raynham Hall. “They always have such talented musicians and now we can host them in our new performance space. In the past they had to perform in our Victorian Room, it was a bit of a pinch. We could only fit about 20 people in there and with no A/C it could get quite warm. Now we seat 60, with the French doors open, and with A/C it’s going to be much more inviting.”

Gerard Clark was particularly pleased with the theme of the music being performed at the hall. “In this case they’re playing July 4 celebrations,” she said.

“And as an organization that interprets revolutionary war history, we’re all about that.“ The concerts feature gifted young musicians who study at Juilliard, Yale School of Music, Eastman School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, and Hofstra, among others. Audience favorites such as the Zandieh Trio from Oyster Bay, pianist Maxim Lando, winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists Competition, and award-winning flutist Matthew Ross will return this season.

New guests include sitarist Rishab Sharma, the youngest and last disciple of Ravi Shankar, and soprano Emily Donato.

When it comes to recognition for his musical talents, Charles Zandieh, a member of the Zandieh Trio, may be considered an exemplar. He has performed extensively across the tri-state area, including solo and chamber performanc-

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THE ZANDIEH TRIO, of Oyster Bay Cove, which include, from left, Cameron, Christopher and Charles Zandieh, are looking forward to performing at the Oyster Bay Music Festival. es at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Tilles Center and Steinway Hall. His press features include articles and highlights in The Daily News and News 12 Long Island, and he was headlined on Ovation TV’s original series, “Young Marvels.”

The Zandieh Trio is comprised of Charles, on cello, a Julliard graduate, who is 20, and his brothers, violinist Cameron, a Mannes graduate, 21, and 16-year-old Christopher, on piano, who is a Syosset High School student. All three are Oyster Bay Cove residents and all are products of Syosset High School.

The Zandieh brothers performed at the festival two years ago. "Last time around it certainly was an exciting experience collaborating with other artists, sharing talent and creativity,” Charles said, “and we're looking forward to it again.”

Like other participants in the festival, the trio is hard at work pulling together music that fits the theme of each concert scheduled.

“We feel there are a lot of pieces that will work with the various themes of the individual concerts. When it comes to “Music that Laughs,” for example, there's Mozart and Haydn, both of whom were like class clowns,” Charles said. “It's interesting to think about what is in our repertoire that is in sync with those themes."

For all of the concertizing, however, the core of the festival experience for students is the intense learning opportunity it provides through its Performance Intensive, an intensive “retreat” for young classical music students that includes master classes, coaching, seminars, repertoire study and more.

"The Performance Intensive is a great opportunity to share ideas on interpretation," Charles said. "Yes, we'll have some solo performances, and some with my brothers. But they like us to collaborate with each other. We'll have enough players for some larger ensemble pieces."

And for the general public? Ausubel and fellow festival director Pippa Borisy promise that “the performance talent and energy at each concert will not disappoint.”

Schedule of OBMF concerts Sunday, June 27 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. — Music that Inspires (This concert is repeated twice for social distancing) St. John’s Episcopal, Cold Spring Harbor 1670 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor Opera arias of Mozart and Puccini, instrumental solos of Debussy and Schumann, and music on the sitar from Rishab Sharma.

Monday, June 28 7 p.m. — Music that Unites (This concert requires the Excelsior Pass) Congregation L’Dor V’Dor, Oyster Bay 11 Temple Lane, Oyster Bay Soprano Emily Donato and pianist Maxim Lando perform Samuel Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915; music of Schoenfeld, Ravel, Rachmaninoff.

Tuesday, June 29 5 p.m. — Music that Questions Raynham Hall Education Center, Oyster Bay 20 West Main Street, Oyster Bay Wednesday, June 30 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. — Music that Dares (This concert is repeated twice for social distancing) St. John’s Episcopal, Cold Spring Harbor 1670 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor Thursday, July 1 7 p.m. — Music that Transcends St. John’s Episcopal Church, Huntington 12 Prospect St., Huntington Friday, July 2 (Ticketed Concert through Planting Fields) 6 p.m. — Guest Artist: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra members presents Wynton Marsalis’ A Fiddlers Tale

Planting Fields 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay Rain date: July 3 Saturday, July 3 1 p.m. — Music that Laughs Nassau County Museum of Art (in conjunction with an Andy Warhol exhibit) One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor 3:30 p.m.

Western Waterfront Center, Oyster Bay Pop-up concert 8 p.m. — Music that Transforms St. John’s Episcopal, Cold Spring Harbor 1670 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor Sunday, July 4 Noon — Music that Celebrates Raynham Hall Education Center 20 West Main Street, Oyster Bay Instrumental and vocal music to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Monday, July 5 7 p.m. — Music that Speaks A Musical Tribute to William Cullen Bryant Cedarmere Estate 225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn Words of William Cullen Bryant set to improvised music, selections from chamber music masterpieces of Mozart and Brahms.

Tuesday, July 6 7 p.m. — Music that Thrills Chelsea Mansion 34 Muttontown Lane, East Norwich Dramatic and showy musical repertoire, including vocal scenes from popular musicals and operas, and a movement of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto.

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NORTH SHORE HIGH School seniors celebrated at their commencement ceremony on June 17.

NSHS holds commencement at Hofstra CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE have found and gained. This year we have found each other’s support, we found our love for each other, and we found the strong bonds of our community, our Viking village . . . In the future, when you find that you are missing something, that something is lost, that things are not complete, remember this year forever.

That while the pandemic took many things away, we reached within. We reached to each other, and gained more that we lost.”

Other speakers included District Superintendent Dr. Peter Giarrizzo, Valedictorian Sophie Blumenthal, Salutatorian Kate WeseleyJones and Board of Education President Dave Ludmar.

Contreras declared that the seniors had fulfilled all of the state high school requirements to graduate, and wished them the best of luck in the future. Then, accompanied by applause from the crowd, the graduates tossed their mortarboards into the air.

To conclude the ceremony, graduates Fiona Colby, Christina Goslin and Andie Schoen led the singing of the North Shore alma mater. ___________

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Glen Cove’s Congregation Tifereth Israel (CTI) plans a virtual tribute to longtime congregant Bill Friedlieb to be held on Sunday, June 27 at 5 p.m. The tribute will raise funds to support the congregation’s educational programs for children and adults.

Friedlieb has filled many synagogue posts during his 33 years of membership.

He has served as the congregation’s president and treasurer, has chaired the ritual and cemetery committees and, for many years, has hosted “Torah Talk with Bill,” a weekly class devoted to discussion of topics related to Torah and Jewish thought, values and history. The June 27 tribute to Friedlieb will include a video highlighting the honoree’s life, family, career, community commitments and love of Jewish learning.

Of the many roles Friedlieb has filled at CTI, he finds “Torah Talks with Bill” to be most especially rewarding. “I enjoy teaching because it took me a long time to learn, studying with several rabbis of differing denominations,” he said. He added that having spent years learning Talmud “it is my pleasure to be able to pass on Jewish learning to others and discuss it with them.” Friedlieb also mentioned his gratifying work with others over the years, helping to move the CTI congregation toward the practices of modern-day

Judaism, bringing the congregation’s practices to more closely reflect the prevailing practices of the community.

Friedlieb retired from the New York City Police Department as a deputy inspector then went on to become chief investigator for the New York State Commission of Investigation. He and his wife, Susan, share a blended family of five children.

Many in the CTI and Glen Cove communities have come forward to offer goods, services and experiences that are on auction in connection with the tribute.

Among them are a sunset cruise on a private yacht, a wine tasting conducted by a professional sommelier, meals with prominent local officials, home décor and houseware items, art works, nutrition and financial planning counseling sessions, personal items such as jewelry and watches, a guided kayak tour through Hempstead Harbor, tutoring, travel adventures, golf getaways and many, many more.

Visit https://cti.afrogs.org/#/index or call the CTI office at (516) 676-5080 to obtain tickets to attend the June 27 virtual tribute, to bid on any of the items on auction, or to sponsor a journal ad. Tickets prices start at $18 for a single ticket and continue to a wide range of sponsorship opportunities.

Learn about new tech at Clean-Water Vendor Day The North Shore Land Alliance is hosting Long Island Clean-Water Vendor Day on Wednesday, July 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fireman’s Field, corner of Shore and Maxwell avenues in Oyster Bay. Participants will learn about new nitrogen-reducing septic system technology and the reimbursements available to homeowners and small business owners for installing these new systems.

Over the past few decades, nitrogen pollution has had a catastrophic impact on Long Island’s streams, beaches and bays. Nitrogen from outdated septic systems is the number one cause of harmful algae blooms, fish kills, thick mats of seaweed and the decline of a once-thriving shellfish industry.

Nitrogen-rich liquids in septic systems flow into surrounding groundwater, which then flows directly into bays and harbors. Rigorous testing has shown that clean-water technology can remove up to 90 percent of nitrogen pollution from wastewater.

In 2020, the North Shore Land Alliance hired a Water Quality Improve-

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ment Coordinator to help homeowners and small business owners navigate the clean-water septic system grant application and permitting process in Suffolk and Nassau counties.

The North Shore Land Alliance’s Water Quality Improvement Program aims to help jumpstart the transition to clean-water technology by removing roadblocks homeowners and small business owners may face when installing clean-water septic systems.

Long Island Clean-Water Vendor Day attendees will have the opportunity to view clean-water septic systems and their accessories as well as receive guided tours from expert distributors themselves. In addition, representatives from the newly released Nassau SEPTIC program will be available to help educate attendees about reimbursements of as much as $10,000 to replace outdated septic systems with clean-water technology.

Contact Katherine Coughlin at (516) 922-1028 or katherine@northshorelandalliance.org.

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Heralds honor Long Island’s top teachers

By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

The Herald Community Newspapers group held its first live Zoom awards show to honor Long Island teachers for their outstanding work inside and outside the classroom.

The Herald Head of the Class Long Island Teacher Awards ceremony was hosted by the Herald and RichnerLIVE, presented by Bank of America and sponsored by Geico.

Jordan Sabinsky, who teaches kindergarten at Searingtown Elementary School in the Herricks School District, won the Bank of America Rising Star Award.

Nancy Aquino, who teaches second grade in the Baldwin School District’s Steele School, took home the honor for top elementary school teacher.

Grace Dong-Janeo, who teaches at Hempstead Middle School, was the top middle school teacher.

And Rebecca Rodriguez, a foreign language teacher in the East Rockaway School District, was the top high school teacher.

Eric Feil, the Heralds’ director of business development, hosted the event, announcing the winners and interviewi n g t h e m a b o u t t h e i r a c h i e ve ments. “What a night this is going to be as we celebrate the top teachers across Long Island,” Feil told the online audience as the ceremony began. “We’ve all had a teacher in our lives who has made a lasting impact, who was truly special — whether they saw something in us that they brought out, inspired us, or gave us the confidence to go and learn something and apply something new to the world …

Now, tonight, we are here to honor them.”

Stuart Richner, president and CEO of Richner Communications, thanked viewers for joining in for the night and shared his view of the most influential teachers in students’ lives.

“Even before Covid-19 and even before teachers were declared essential workers last August, we all knew just how essential they were … It has always gone without saying that our schools are the true heart and soul of Long Island,” Richner said. “Top educators motivate students in countless ways and create atmospheres of understanding, compassion and curiosity.

The most influential teachers go above and beyond, and their impact is felt both inside and outside the classroom. The impact of a great teacher can last a lifetime.”

Richner shared how he still fondly recalls the lessons that his sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Stuart Brock, taught about being confident and taking the lead, and always sticking up for those without a voice.

When Richner first started holding discussions about the idea of honoring Long Island’s top teachers, he said he knew it would be vital to receive community input. The awards nomination process was open to the public and generated more than 300 nominees, from students, parents and teachers to local business owners.

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JordAN SABiNSky, who teaches at Searingtown Elementary School in Herricks, won the Bank of America Rising Star Award.

challenges, and they are more deserving than ever of recognition for their passion, determination and dedication,” Richner said. “Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate a teacher and for sharing the moving stories about why you felt they should be honored.”

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, of Baldwin, who served on the Baldwin Board of Education before she ran for the County Legislature, spoke directly to Long Island’s teachers at the awards ceremony. “I’ve got kids in school myself, and I know how hard you all have worked this past year and a half pivoting, learning new technology on the fly, making sure that kids got the knowledge, resources, information and preparation needed to succeed,” Curran said. “I am truly grateful for all of your work and a huge congratulations to all the winners and finalists tonight.”

NANcy AquiNo, who teaches in Baldwin, was the top elementary teacher.

GrAce doNGJANeo, who teaches in Hempstead, was the top middle school teacher. reBeccA rodriGuez, who teaches in East Rockaway, was the top high school teacher.

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY UPDATE Friday, June 25

tion with fellow community members and practitioners. Register at savethesound. org

Movie at the Library Gold Coast Public Library Annex, 50 Railroad Ave., Glen Head, 2 to 4 p.m. Watch “Soul” (2021) at the library. In the latest animated film from Pixar, Joe is a middleschool band teacher whose life hasn’t quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz -- and he’s good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul. Room A will open at 1:40 p.m.

Curator’s Corner: Harvey Milk and Reclaiming the Pink Triangle Through Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center From 12 to 1 p.m. In this virtual “Curator’s Corner”, the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center’s Museum and Programming Director, Dr. Thorin Tritter, will discuss an image of Harvey Milk that is included in the museum’s final gallery, highlighting his role as an “upstander.”

The presentation will also explore the gay right’s movement in the 1970s and its effort to reclaim the meaning of the pink triangle, which had been used to identify gay men in Nazi concentration camps.

Register at hmtcli.org.

Saturday, June 26 Deep Roots Farmers Market 100 Garvies Point Road, Glen Cove, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The weekly farmers market offers a selection of locally grown vegetables and eggs, fresh baked bread, honey, seafood and more.

Oyster Bay Railroad Museum Grand Opening Join the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum at 10 a.m. as they celebrate the Grand Openings of the Historic Presidential Station & the Landmark Turntable.

Thursday, July 1 Mini Golf Outing Photo courtesy Gold Coast Cruisers

Gold Coast Cruisers returns to Morgan Park The Gold Coast Cruisers Waterfront Car Show returns to Morgan Park on Sunday, June 27, at noon, with food courts, live entertainment and raffles. Free admission for spectators, $25 per car and no preregistration. The show will be limited to 500 cars. The Gold Coast Cruisers, Inc is a nonprofit corporation consisting of auto enthusiasts that sponsor two car shows per year, with proceeds going to charity. The car show will be at Morgan Memorial Park, Germaine and Landing Roads, Glen Cove.

Bayville Adventure Park, 8 Bayville Ave, Bayville at 6 p.m. Join the Oyster Bay Lions Club for a fun, family-friendly night of miniature golf at Bayville Adventure Park. If you arrive after 6 p.m., you will still be able to play all 18 holes with your group. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through the Oyster Bay Lions Club’s Facebook page.

Sustainability and Tech Fest From 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. At American Legion, 190 Glen Head Rd, Glen Head.

In partnership with Microsoft and the Town of Oyster Bay, the Boy Scouts of America are presenting the first Community Sustainability and Tech Fest.

This will be a fun event with music, snacks, activity stations, giveaways, and a sustainability idea competition.

Sunday, June 27 Children’s Memorial Garden Opening From 2 to 3 p.m. Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 100 Crescent Beach Road Glen Cove.

Join the HMTC for the official opening of their newly renovated Children’s Memorial Garden.

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Monday, June 28 Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act: Local Implementation of the Law Through the NS Coalition Against Substance Abuse, 7 p.m. Learn the details of the law, get informed about the opt in/opt out choice that local leaders will have to make by the end of this year, discuss how the new laws will be enforced, and learn who to contact if you want their voices heard on the matter.

Proactive Job-Hunting Strategies for Success Through the Bayville Free Library, at 7 p.m. Learn how to implement job search techniques that every savvy job seeker should know. This webinar helps job seekers create and commit to a job-hunting game plan that stimulates a more positive mindset, discovers more job

leads, and reflects the best professional version of themselves while job-hunting.

Register at bayvillefreelibrary.org.

Summer Pool Safety Seminar Through the Town of Oyster Bay, 6 to 7 p.m. at Bethpage Community Park, 1001 Stewart ave, Bethpage. Learn about healthy swimming techniques, basic first aid, drowning prevention and more. The seminar is open to both Oyster Bay residents and non-residents and is free to attend.

Tuesday, June 29 Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution Through North Shore Historical Museum, 7 p.m. Claire Bellerjeau: Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution focuses on

the intertwined lives of two fascinating people who inhabited the margins of their time: a Revolutionary War spy whose own family never knew the critical role he played in winning America’s independence and the enslaved woman whose intelligence and verve ultimately transformed the spy into an ardent abolitionist.; go to nshmgc.org to register.

Wednesday, June 30 Clean Water Rye: Community Forum with Save the Sound From 3 to 6 p.m. at Jay Heritage Center 210 Boston Post Rd., Rye. An in-person forum on water quality, stormwater management and river, marsh and coastal restoration opportunities in Rye, New York.

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Fitness in Village Square takes place every Saturday at 10 a.m. in Glen Cove.

The Oyster Bay Town Board will meet on June 29, at 10 a.m.

Glen Cove Downtown Sounds free concert series begins July 2.

The Oyster Bay Music Festival opens on June 27.

The Long Island Pride Pet Parade is on June 26 at 11 a.m. at 73 Garvies Point Rd.

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CHRISTINE RICE HAS been named chairwoman of the North Shore Soup Kitchen/ NOSH.

The board of North Shore Soup Kitchen (NSSK) and NOSH, a program of NSSK, has elected Christine Rice to lead the organization. Rice grew up with her nine siblings in Garden City and continues to reside in that community. She brings to her new role at NSSK a wealth of personal and professional experience which includes having been primary caretaker for her mother, who had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and her father, who died in 2013.

She went on to serve the Long Island Alzheimer’s and Dementia Center as director of special events and community outreach.

In 2019, Rice was named executive director of the Glen Cove Senior Center.

The mother of two adult children, Rice received a bachelor’s degree from Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and a master’s degree from Adelphi University in Garden City.

Madeline Rubenstein, chair for the past four years stated: “Christine is the perfect person to lead the next chapter in this organization’s long 32-year life. I can only imagine the wonderful things the organization will accomplish under Christine’s capable guidance.”

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"By raising oysters, residents play a direct role in working to better our environment. An adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water per day, which enhances our local marine habitat and supports a sustainable shellfish population," said Oyster Bay Councilwoman Vicki Walsh. "I thank the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee for sponsoring this program and providing residents with the training, equipment and ongoing support necessary to successfully raise these juvenile oysters on community floats."

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NSSK is a not-for-profit, volunteerbased organization established in 1989 to feed hungry people in the Glen Cove area.

Located in the First Baptist Church on Continental Place in Glen Cove, the North Shore Soup Kitchen is staffed by a group of more than 100 volunteers. These volunteers cook, serve and clean up after meals, as well as work behind the scenes ordering supplies, writing the newsletter, sorting and distributing donated clothing and more.

The food distributed by NOSH is donated by Long Island charities and local businesses, and serves approximately 500 families each week.

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primarily focus on navigating women’s health with patients getting breast reconstructive surgeries. Pre-Covid, patients could come in with a loved one, and we encouraged 24-hour visitation so someone could stay with them to provide emotional support. However, post-pandemic, it’s been a very different picture. They’re generally coming into the hospital by themselves.

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I immediately got [the illness], on March 20, 2020. My entire family go it too. I wasn’t hospitalized, but I was out for six weeks. But I didn’t get it from work. I got it from my husband, and then our girls got it.

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO spoke about the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions during a news conference at One World Trade in Manhattan on June 15.

in a car seat. Kids wouldn’t hold still, and they were crying and crying.

Emotions were crazy. The parents were happy to hear that I had had it and would ask how I handled it. I’d tell them I did great. This put them at ease. We tested the parents too because most of the time if the kid had it, the parent did too.

Now we are back at 90 percent at the office. We still have the Covid room in the back if we need it, but we haven’t had to isolate anyone.

This experience made me be a little more patient with parents. I find I take my time talking to them and am more engaging. This made me more in tune with humanity in general. Things are back to normal for me. I just planned a vacation.

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Local business owners greatly impacted by the pandemic are eager return to a sense of normalcy and pre-pandemic life.

“So far it looks like everyone is coming out again,” said Bill Long, owner of Metropolitan Bistro in Sea Cliff, “and they seem excited to be able to go out around town again.”

For restaurant owners like Long, a major change that was implemented was the limit on indoor dining capacity, which dramatically affected the number of patrons he could serve at a given time.

“The best part in lifting the Covid guidelines is we don’t have to limit our customers to outdoor tables anymore,” Long said.

“We have a much higher occupancy indoors than outdoors, and when it rains we have somewhere for everyone to go. We can now fit up to 68 people indoors as opposed to the 22 we were allowed previously.”

Businesses are free to choose to lift all or some restrictions, continue to adhere to the state’s previous guidance or implement other health precautions for their employees and patrons. Some business owners have already said they plan to continue social-distancing guidelines and other Covid era practices even after the governor’s announcement last week.

“I’ve taken Covid extremely seriously, and plan to continue to do so,” said Rob Mansfield, owner of Grassroots in Glen Head. “I think physical health also entails mental health, and people have been really freaked out about Covid. As time has gone on, there still is a lot of fear regarding everything. We’ve been staying indoors for over a year now, and it can be scary to suddenly come back outside and go back to normal.”

Mansfield continues to require his staff to wear masks and has maintained a layout in his store that allows for six feet of social distance for patrons.

“Someone may be freaking out that no one is wearing a mask anymore,” Mansfield said. “If we can give them comfort by wearing one as well, why not help our customers feel safe while they shop. We have to be really cognizant and respectful of people and our surroundings, especially in this unprecedented time.”

“New Yorkers have done an incredible job beating back the virus, and thanks to their determination, we have been able to begin getting back to normal,” Cuomo said.

“Every shot in the arm brings us a step closer to defeating Covid once and for all, and that’s why it’s so critical for everyone to get vaccinated.”

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OBITUARIES Alexander F. “Skip” Greig III Alexander F. “Skip” Greig III, 66, of Glen Head, passed away on June 16, 2021. Loving husband of Cynthia.

Beloved father of Jennifer (Daniel) Cenatiempo, Brian (Sonia) Greig, and Andrew (Samantha) Greig. Cherished grandfather of Francesco, Daniel, Charlotte, Scarlett, Ryland, Maxine, Letty, Penelope, Angus, and Thaddeus. Dearest nephew of Marjorie (Charles) Morrill Regan. Treasured son-in-law of Richard Roper. Beloved brother-in-law of Richard Roper, Jr., and Robert (Deana) Roper. Dear uncle of Robert, Daniel, and Diana. Visitation held at Whitting Funeral Home, 300 Glen Cove Avenue, Glen Head. Funeral services held at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.

Private interment. Further information at Whitting Funeral Home, www.whitting.com.

Pierre Ingram Pierre Ingram, of Sea Cliff, died on May 22, 2021. Beloved son of Annemarie L. Conti and Harold Kenneth Downes.

Son-in-law of Louis Conti. Brother of Julianna Banks. Loving father of Dominique Ingram and Christian Oglesby.

Cherished grandfather of Xavier Santiago, Mason Collins, and Mia LeMonier.

Dear nephew of Ursula Featherston.

Uncle of Shaunta, Frank, and Annamarie Banks. Further information at Whitting Funeral Home.

Patricia DiPietro Patricia DiPietro, a devoted mother, cherished wife, supportive crew chief, and accomplished get-away driver, died on May 24, 2021. She was born in 1950 in Nyack and raised in Glen Cove, where she met and married her high school sweetheart. After years of traveling the country and living everywhere her husband crashed a race bike, she landed back on Long Island in Bayville. Pat was the most supportive mother and grandmother, and an honorary mother to many. Her smile lit up a room, her generosity was humbling, and she lived her life for everyone she met. You better have been hungry if you ever stepped foot in her home. She lived a life of love.

Love for her family, love for animals, love for American Idol, The Voice and any TV show her son worked on. Pat is survived by her husband Gary DiPietro, her daughter and son-in law Lindsay and Liam Wyant; her son and daughterin-law David and Andrea DiPietro; her brothers Elton and Mike, and her grandson Grayson. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations to be made in Patricia’s honor to the American Cancer Society.

William Swift, Jr. William “Billy” Swift, Jr., “Swifty,” 72, of Sea Cliff, passed away on May 25, 2021, in Roslyn.

Billy was raised in Glenwood Landing by William and Mary Swift. He worked as a Fire District Mechanic for Syosset Fire Department for most of his career. As a 54-year life member of the Glenwood Fire Company, he dedicated his life to the fire services, most notably serving as two-time ex-Chief of the Glenwood Fire Company, several terms as past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Glenwood Fire Company, past Chairman of the Nassau County Fire Commission, past Chair man of the Fifth Battalion district, and past president of the Fifth Battalion Chiefs Association, among countless other positions of leadership and service. He is fondly remembered as having the biggest heart of gold, as one-of-a-kind, as a truly great guy, as a dedicated fixture in the fire service, and as someone you would be proud to call a friend.

Billy is survived by his wife and best friend, Sally Swift, of Sea Cliff. He is also remembered as beloved brother of Jack Swift, and Cathy (Michael) Murray, cherished father of Michael (Malerie) Swift and Melissa (Shylough) Feliciano, caring stepfather of Bobby (Courtney) Citko and devoted g randfather of Logan, Marcello, Mikey, Hayden, Bella, Emma, Madilyn and Reagan, along with many loving nieces and nephews and countless loyal friends. He is preceded in death by his parents, William Swift, Sr., and Mary (Lamberson) Swift.

It was a long-standing family joke that Grandpa Billy was better known than the mayor, and the grandkids would laugh that everywhere he went there would be friendly faces coming by to shoot the breeze with him. On behalf of Sally, Jack, Catherine, Michael, Michael, Malerie, Melissa, Shylough, Bobby, Courtney and all of Billy’s treasured grandchildren, we wish to extend our sincerest gratitude to each and every person who has touched Billy’s life over the years for your outpouring of love and support during these times of grief. To the Glenwood Fire Company and its members, the surrounding departments making up the 5th Battalion Fire District, the departments across the Nassau County Fire District, and those fire departments from even further away, your unwavering support of our family, not just today but always, has profoundly touched our hearts.

Donations may be made to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), www.JDRF.org, or Glenwood Fire Department, P.O. 403 Glenwood Landing, NY 11547. Further information at Whitting Funeral Home, Glen Head, www.whitting.com.

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According to detectives, officers responded to a 911 call at 165 Shore Road in Glenwood Landing. A male was found lying unresponsive on the ground and bleeding from his head.

The man, who was 31 years old and an employee working at a construction site, was struck on the head by

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The male was transported to an area hospital by a Nassau County Police Department helicopter. A hospital physician pronounced the male at 4:45 p.m.

Identification of the deceased is being withheld pending family notification. The investigation is ongoing.

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Starting in engineering as a main propulsion assistant, Schmidt rose to become the operations officer department head, the third-highest ranking officer aboard ship. During her threeand-a-half years aboard, Schmidt fully qualified as Surface Warfare Officer, earning the right to wear that hardearned gold insignia over her ribbons.

After seven and a half years of active duty, Schmidt transitioned to the Navy Reserve. Her Navy career continued with many commands that took her to Japan, Korea and across the country.

She served in leadership roles in reserve units based in Rhode Island, Virginia, Maryland, California, Minnesota, Hawaii and Alaska. After 28 years of active and reserve service, Schmidt retired in 2007 at the rank of Captain

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Schmidt began her 28-year career with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 1988 before retiring in 2016. In that time, she held numerous leadership positions before retiring as the chief of business operations with FHWA’s Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division. Schmidt received several FHWA Administrator’s Awards and other awards and recognition throughout her career. She was most proud of the Environmental Excellence Award in 2001 for the FHWA/ California Department of Transportation/Environmental Protection Agency Mare Island Accord.

Schmidt was known for her generosity of heart and spirit and was always there to lend a helping hand. Throughout her career, Schmidt served as a mentor and coach and took great pride in the development of young professionals, helping them to prepare for future leadership positions. In addition, she volunteered with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America organization, serving as a big sister to several young girls whom she remained in touch with even after they became adults and had their own families.

Schmidt passed away on May 30, 2021 after an incredibly brave battle with

stage four gallbladder cancer. During this time, she adopted the alter ego of Captain Marvel so she, too, could have super powers against her nemesis (gallbladder cancer) and she adopted the Captain Marvel mantra, "Fear is not a choice. What you do with it is." She fought this wicked disease courageously and until the end she remained “Superhero Tough, Navy Strong.”

Schmidt leaves an indelible mark in our hearts and minds and will be missed.

Schmidt is survived by her beloved wife Karen Pinell; her mother Barbara; brother Keith; sister Linda; and her four nephews, William (Kelly), Andrew (Jessica), Karl (Brooke) and James (Ashley).

Karen was preceded in death by her father Herbert J. Schmidt Jr. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, June 26, 2021 at noon at Fox-Bell Weddings & Events, 137 N Barr Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Military Women’s Memorial at www. womensmemorial.org. Donations may be made in memory of Karen Ann Schmidt, Honoree member ID 80633.

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Schmidt graduated from North Shore High School in 1974 and then attended the University of Colorado, where she obtained a degree in civil and environmental engineering. Upon graduation from college in 1979, she entered the U.S. Navy as an unrestricted line officer and attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI. Upon graduation and commissioning, Schmidt became an instructor at the U.S. Navy’s Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport where she taught mathematics, physics and chemistry to officers.

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he general public has little or no idea how government works. Citizens may go to a town, city council or village board meeting, but they’re usually there for a brief visit about some neighborhood issue, and after that there’s no longer any contact with the world of elected officials. Most of my service has been in state government, having spent 23 years in the State Assembly. When I contrast the State Legislature of my years to the current one, I must confess I have JERRY mixed emotions.

When I arrived KREMER in Albany in 1966, and through all the years that I was in office, the makeup of the Legislature was what I think the founding fathers would have approved. There were insurance agents, teachers, bankers, undertakers, merchants and former athletes, and there was even a legislator who drove trotting horses at night. They all had some things in common, which were either prior public service or they knew

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what it was like to make a payroll.

Almost all of my colleagues understood that being an elected official required time and patience. Many of them who were committee chairs had a deep knowledge of their assigned subject, and their expertise was obvious during floor debates. I often found myself in awe at how a particular member had mastered a very complex area and could speak with such intimate knowledge about a pending proposal.

Luckily, I had the chance to either listen to or be a part of floor debates that were challenging and sometimes combative. Because I eventually rose to be the chair of the Ways and Means Committee, I had the opportunity to learn the inside workings of state government, which was an experience that I cherish to this day.

But sadly, today’s Legislature is no longer a carbon copy of the one I experienced. On the positive side, there are still many hard-working members who have a positive influence on the legislative process. They know what they’re talking about, and their many successes in creat-

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ing new laws is proof of their effectiveness. The Long Island legislative delegation, headed by Sen. Todd Kaminsky, is a very effective group, and they display sanity and knowledge when they speak out on some important issue.

That’s the good news about today’s Albany. But there’s also a very unsettling side to the changes that are taking place. Every person has the right to run for office, and if they can get a majority of the voters to support them, they will have the exciting opportunity to serve. From time to time, some new members become a positive force in the Legislature and succeed by doing their homework.

But there are a growing number of new members who have no life experience, and are now in the public arena without a clue about what is expected of them. Some call themselves “progressive,” but their positions on vital subjects are far from progressive. New laws cost money, and there should be an understanding that the average taxpayer can afford just so much.

The newcomers focus on finding ways to tax the people that they consider

growing number in the Legislature don’t have a clue about what is expected of them.

“rich.” They advocate punishing tax measures that are a message to New Yorkers that if you can relocate, now is the time. The number of residents and businesses that leave the state is rising at a staggering rate. States like Florida are welcoming these disenchanted people with open arms.

I have had over a dozen conversations in the past six months with people who aren’t Jeff Bezos types but who are giving up on New York because they see what has happened and fully expect times to get even worse. It’s bad enough that so many people’s lives have been decimated by a year of Covid, and now they face punishing program after program that threaten their ability to survive economically.

There is no magic formula to change the direction of state politics. Maybe an aroused public will take action on Election Day, but that’s probably wishful thinking. What some people call good change I call a calamity.

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.

Covid-19 took so much, even our words

nce upon a time, a superspreader was a nifty tool for installing grout during a tiling job. Then we blinked, a virus leaped from a bat to a person and the world wobbled on its axis. Within weeks we crashed from a functioning society, with reasonable expectations for living full lives, to a dysfunctional country coping poorly with a global pandemic.

In our new reality, superspreader has been repurposed to mean a social gathering where RANDI people sick with KREISS the coronavirus infect large numbers of other people. In the old times, you could buy a super-spreader for $31.88. And chances are it wouldn’t kill you.

Covid-19 has transformed not just the way we live and go to work and school, how we shop and how we access medical care, how we travel and how we raise our children. The virus has hijacked our language.

A mask is now universally recognized as a face covering to protect people from the coronavirus. The lowly cloth worn to

cover nose and mouth can also be a charged political statement. Not wearing a mask in a place where masks are mandatory is an act of defiance.

Only two years ago, face coverings were pretty much associated with surgeons, Halloween or certain religious observances.

Now we conduct our lives by where and how we wear our masks.

We need a dictionary of the pandemic.

What about the word refresh? You may think of a splash of cold water or running a comb through your hair, but I think of spending many hours for many days in a row trying to get appointments online for our vaccines. I would go to the designated site and then begin refreshing, over and over, hoping to land a shot.

Eventually I did, after an unreasonable amount of repetitive key clicking.

Before the pandemic, when I heard the world bleach, I thought of how much clothing I’ve ruined by splashing Clorox in the wrong places. But then, at the peak of the Covid surge around the country, there was the former president suggesting that people might inject bleach into their bodies to fight the virus. It was a singular moment in presi-

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dential briefings; the lunacy of the suggestion prompted Dr. Deborah Birx, on the stage to one side of the president, to twist her face in a silent agony of disbelief. It erased for all time the notion that bleach is just bleach.

Will anyone ever hear the words refrigerator truck again and not flash back to the grim parade of trucks repurposed as morgues and lined up outside New York hospitals? Perhaps the new word associations are a kind of PTSD. I was driving on a highway recently, and when a refrigerator truck pulled alongside, I instantly recalled the dark days of New York City in the grip of the virus.

For all my life, Q has been the regal 17th letter of the alphabet. Now, Q, short for QAnon, is inextricably tied to the political fringe group that metastasized among millions of Americans, spreading false information about the pandemic and misinformation about the scientists on the front lines of fighting the disease. Not to mention that Q followers have challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election and supported the Jan. 6 insurrection at our Capitol. I cannot hear Q without feeling anxious for

ill you ever think of ‘mask,’ ‘refresh’ or ‘flatten the curve’ the same way?

our democracy and our ability to have free and safe elections.

How many of us were familiar with the term flatten the curve? And yet we heard that every day for months as scientists urged us to isolate and mask up to stop the awful surges of the pandemic.

Those three words are changed forever in my mind.

Even the word virus is heard differently. We have known viruses in our time, but this one quickly assumed Infectious Disease Hall of Fame status. We have protection from measles and polio and mumps. But for a long time, we were completely vulnerable to the Covid super bug.

Once upon a time, a pod was thought of as a covering of a pea or a storage unit. Suddenly a pod became a small, safe group of family members or friends who socially distance together to limit exposure to Covid. The word even became a verb: to pod with a friend in the interest of mutual good health.

Language is a living thing, evolving over time. The pandemic experience has co-opted our shared lexicon. It has appropriated words and led us to coin new ones to describe a time of profound loss and grief.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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So began our June 18-24 editorial last year. We were referring to a 10-bill raft of legislation that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

Among several measures, the legislation: ■ Repealed the state’s 1976 50-a statute, which shielded police officers’ disciplinary records from public view. (In the Floyd case, the Minneapolis police officer who killed him, Derek Chauvin, had 18 disciplinary infractions on his record.)

■ Banned police from using chokeholds.

■ Required state troopers to wear body cameras.

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plans that were formulated with public input. Plans had to be submitted to the state by this April. The governor gave the people a role in determining how they would be policed.

There was much talk on the right of how such measures would impede police work and endanger officers. Quite the opposite, the legislation has only increased police transparency, slowly but surely building public trust. Tens of thousands of good police officers who do their jobs without incident had no problem with the state’s reform package.

Improving police relations in communities of color could take years, if not decades. The sense of unease and fear that too many Black people feel toward police had been brewing since the creation of the nation’s first police department in New York City in 1844. It will take time to heal. New York state is, however, headed on the right path.

At the same time, Nassau County and

Juneteenth comes to Nassau County

ov. Andrew Cuomo last June signed an executive order proclaiming Juneteenth an official New York holiday, on which state employees now receive a paid day off. It was the right move.

On June 17 this year, President Biden signed a measure designating Juneteenth a federal holiday. That, too, was the right move.

On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, ending the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history, in which an estimated 498,000 soldiers died in battle. With the surrender of the South, slavery ended with the stroke of a pen.

But not quite. News of the emancipation of slaves did not reach Texas, a slaveholding state, until June 19, 1865. That day, Union forces arrived on Galveston Island to free Texas’s slaves, who rejoiced in the streets. Since then, Juneteenth — a blend of June and 19th — has been celebrated in Texas. It officially became a state holiday there in 1980, but as of 2019, only Texas had recognized it as a paid holiday for state employees.

There were, astoundingly, 14 Republican members of Congress who voted against the measure to create the national holiday, saying that they objected to the use of “Independence Day” in the legislation, or that the nation didn’t need another federal holiday. (There are now 11.)

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the Police Benevolent Association at last recently reached an agreement to require officers to wear body cameras. We wonder why it took so long, particularly given that the Village of Freeport had adopted them as early as 2015 — the first municipality in New York to do so — and why county officers will be paid $3,000 annually to wear them. Wearing a body camera, after all, requires no extra effort, no additional work, on an officer’s part.

We are pleased to see, though, that officers will be wearing them as early as this fall.

Undoubtedly, we, as a nation, have a long way to go before we finally achieve a racially just society. We have seen unarmed Black men killed by police in other parts of the country in recent months. Each death is a tragedy that we hope and pray will not be repeated.

The year since the death of George Floyd was a start toward reform.

LETTERS Ranked-choice voting is my choice To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “Ranked-choice voting? Not my choice” (June 10-16): Like Jerry Kremer, I consider myself somewhat old-fashioned in some respects, but unlike Mr. Kremer, rankedchoice voting is my choice indeed. It was hoped that the much-anticipated voting in New York City would proceed without problems or glitches, allowing the city’s primary voters to rank their choices for candidates and vote their consciences. Two RCV bills recently considered by the State Legislature would expand the system statewide and to general elections, not just primaries and special elections.

Ranked-choice voting is gaining momentum and traction.

RCV eliminates the “spoiler effect,” allowing voters to

There should have been no reason for dissent on this legislation. The United States did not truly become the “land of the free” until all of its people were free.

Until that June day in 1865, they were not.

The country should acknowledge that fact. A federal holiday forces us to confront our history.

Last weekend, it was wonderful to see people across Nassau County gathering in parks to celebrate with song and food or in the streets to march, reminding us that we have many miles to walk before we achieve the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a society in which “little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.”

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he Florida state Board of Education recently banned the teaching of critical race theory because all topics taught in Florida schools must be “factual and objective,” and CRT asserts that “racism is embedded in American society and its legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an early contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, denounced CRT because, he said, it teaches children “the country is ALAN rotten and that our institutions SINGER are illegitimate.”

Teaching CRT is also banned in Tennessee and Idaho.

In response to this assault on history, school districts across the United States are racing to report that they teach critical thinking, not critical race theory, although it is unclear whether the opponents of teaching U.S. history, with all its warts, inconsistencies and systemic racism, understand the distinction.

In a joint statement, the American Historical Association, the American Association of University Professors, the American Federation of Teachers, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Council for the Social Studies and 75 other educational organizations denounced a string of legislative propos-

als across the country that “target academic lessons, presentations, and discussions of racism and related issues in American history in schools, colleges and universities.” They charged that the bills infringe on “the right of faculty to teach and of students to learn”; “substitute political mandates for the considered judgment of professional educators”; and are designed to prevent an “honest reckoning with all aspects” of America’s past.

In some circles, vehement opposition to CRT has become the new code phrase for rallying white opposition to full rights and citizenship for AfricanAmericans. During the Civil War, white racists and anti-war Copperhead Democrats accused abolitionists and Republicans of promoting miscegenation, race-mixing leading to biracial children that would eventually replace the white race.

In a 1981 interview, Lee Atwater, a Republican consultant and confidant of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, explained how coded language worked. Because you could no longer openly use racially offense terms, “you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff,” but the people you are appealing to know exactly what you mean. When Reagan ran for president, he attacked “welfare queens” driving around in Cadillacs. A television ad for Bush associated his Democratic opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael

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e shouldn’t just think of the history of white supremacy in the past tense.

LETTERS chose the candidates they actually prefer without fear of giving an advantage to candidates who are considered totally unacceptable. The system tends to give better representation to women, ethnic minorities and other groups that are traditionally under-represented in our political system. There is less fear of splitting votes among similar candidates by gender, ethnic group or ideology.

RCV elections also tend to be more civil, producing less caustic, negative campaigning. Candidates are motivated to avoid alienating voters who might give them a ranking that might actually elect them as the votes are transferred to them from losing candidates. Rankedchoice voting is more likely to result in a deeper discussion of the actual issues rather than personal attacks.

Ranked-choice voting is not old-fashioned, though it was used in the 1930s and ’40s for City Council general elections in New York City, Yonkers and Long Beach. For many, these elections exemplify a gold standard for democratic participation in the electoral process — RCV was combined with proportional representation, giving many groups and

Dukakis, with Willie Horton, a Black man convicted of murder who committed other serious crimes after taking part in a release program.

The controversy over CRT erupted in Commack when members of a group called the Loud Majority disrupted two public meetings, interrupting Board of Education members and speakers in the audience, including students who were trying to explain how they felt slighted in a curriculum that ignored who they were. Instead of silencing the disruptors or requiring them to leave, board members and district officials kept trying to explain the curriculum to people who were not interested in listening.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, who teaches law at UCLA and Columbia University and was an early proponent of critical race theory, described it as “an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what’s in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it.”

In the 1990s, social scientists and educational researchers began to employ CRT as a lens to understand the persistence of race and racism. It became controversial when then President Trump denounced CRT as part of his response to The New York Times’s 1619 Project. To rally his supporters during his re-election campaign, Trump declared, “Critical race theory is being forced into our

children’s schools, it’s being imposed into workplace trainings, and it’s being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors and families.”

As a former high school social studies teacher, I embrace the effort by the National Council for the Social Studies to promote critical thinking based on an evaluation of evidence. I find CRT to be an important lens for engaging students as critical thinkers, and I believe it helps teachers involve students in a broader discussion.

The European Enlightenment is often known as the Age of Reason, because Enlightenment thinkers tried to apply scientific principles to understand human behavior and how societies work.

Many of the earliest Enlightenment thinkers were from England, Scotland and France, but the idea of using reason and science spread to other European countries and their colonies. In the U.S., Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are considered Enlightenment thinkers. Some historians, including me, point out that the Age of Reason in Europe was also the peak of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were transported to the Americas as enslaved laborers for plantations.

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies.

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political parties a true voice in government, proportional to their actual voting strength in their communities. The RCV/PR systems of that earlier, progressive time did much to eliminate — for a while — the entrenched bossism of political machines. The reform was unfortunately eliminated by the Red Scare movement of McCarthyism.

JIM BROWN Secretary, Green Party of Nassau County

Are we really that racist, Randi?

To the Editor: I totally disagree with Randi Kreiss’s column “Are we immune to Texas-style xenophobia?” in the June 10-16 issue.

She repeats the rubbish that America is a terrible racist nation. That is not true, and she knows it!

How could Barack Obama have been elected two times, and how could our current vice president, Kamala Harris,

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be in office if Randi is correct? She is mouthing the lies of the Democratic Party and helping them capture total power in our country.

I urge her to wake up and reconsider her position!

JAMES G. COLLINS Floral Park

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M LS # 3 3 1 8 6 3 2 . $ 5 8 5,0 0 0 Jean-Marie Stalzer, c.516.509.7564 Liz Luciano, c.516.641.4420

M LS # 3 3 20 072 . $ 92 9,00 0.

Amy Tempesta, c.617.669.8826

M LS # 3 3 1 2 2 6 4. $ 1 ,0 9 0,0 0 0.

Sheila Wenger, c.516.507.9303 PENDING SALE

H i p & U p d a t e d w i t h Eu r o p e a n V i b e 3 57 G le n Ave n u e, Sea C li ff, N Y

B r i g h t & S u n n y E n d Un i t 3 2 E d w a r d s S t r e e t # 2 A , Ro s l y n H e i g h t s , N Y

Ad o ra b l e B r i ck Tu d o r 5 H a r r i e t Co u r t , Sea C l i ff, N Y

M LS # 3 3 0 8 6 2 6. $ 6 5 0,0 0 0.

M LS # 3 247389. $ 2 89,00 0.

Vivian Parisi, c.516.236.0537

Damian Ross, c.516.369.5868

M LS # 3 3 0 6 16 2 . L P $789,0 0 0.

Jean-Marie Stalzer, c.516.509.7564 Liz Luciano, c.516.641.4420

PENDING SALE

PENDING SALE

PENDING SALE

G ra c i o u s B r i c k C o l o n i a l 6 2 C li nto n S tre e t , Sea C liff, N Y

A Tow n C h a r m e r 3 Ro o s e v e l t S t r e e t , G l e n H e a d , N Y

Fa b u l o u s N ew Or l ea n s - sty l e H o m e 137 1 2 t h Ave n u e, Sea C l i ff, N Y

M LS # 3 3 10 1 5 8. L P $ 1 , 14 9,0 0 0.

M LS # 3 3 10257. L P $ 6 89,0 0 0.

M LS # 3 3 070 8 4. L P $78 5,0 0 0.

Vivian Parisi, c.516.236.0537

Vivian Parisi, c.516.236.0537

Liz Luciano, c.516.641.4420 Jean-Marie Stalzer, c.516.509.7564 Vivian Parisi, c.516236.0537

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